1991

Finally, all the snow has melted and spring has sprung. Keep your ears open for news about the new National League West team, the Colorado Rockies. Sources inform us that Brad Ausmus should be playing for the expansion team. We wish him luck.

Spring is also a good season for the greeting card business (Easter, Mother's Day, etc.). Entrepreneur Tony Evans formed a local greeting-card company in his hometown of Baltimore. He and his two partners are doing well, with a growing clientele of stores and mail-order business. Tres-Star Enterprises specializes in cards reflecting African-American life, serving to promote black awareness and provide African-American consumers with images they can relate to. Evans, who personally claims, "I don't really purchase greeting cards," supplements his income by teaching at a day-care center.

Romance often blossoms in the springtime. At least Steve Haftier, a business analyst at the Marketing Corporation of America in Westport, Conn., hopes so. He was recently written up in a New Haven, Conn., paper as Bachelor of the Month, under the title "Tasty Texan Treat!" He described the type he's looking for as "a very, very intelligent woman with looks to match." The paper included an address for correspondence for those inter- ested in meeting Steve.

"Score," an international volunteer program started by American athletes, sends volunteers to public schools in South Africa. CarrieHellriegel is a volunteer in the fourth group sent to Cape Town. She will spend six months teaching physical education and setting up after-school sports programs in elementary schools in the black township of Khayelitsha. For many of the schoolchildren they work with, this is the first such opportunity to learn and participate in organized sports.

Ron Whitmore is nearby (well, closer than we are) in Cameroon, in West Central Africa. He completed an intensive fisheries training course in South Carolina, then traveled to Cameroon in December of 1991. He was sworn in as a Peace Corps volunteer in February of 1992. Ron's official title is Fisheries Extension Agent, a position which entails riding around on a Yamaha motocross motorcycle in order to visit farmers who are interested in fish, building ponds, etc. He spends most of his time hanging out with the farmers (whom he describes as being "generally really cool people"), drinking palm wine, and having a positive impact on people's lives. Well, that's all the news for now, because that's all the news I have! We wish the class of 1993 good luck and welcome them to the wonderful world of Dartmouth Alumni!

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