1978

All those all-night sessions at Kiewit and 3 a.m. runs to Dunkin' Donuts have proven their value over the years, as a sizeable number of '78s have taken their places on the front lines of the Information Revolution. Stephen Preston recently left the semi-controlled chaos of Microsoft to research some ideas of his own. He and Laurel BatesPreston and their kids Jason 10, Hillary 7, and Conrad 3 live in Bellevue, Wash. Ty Hilkert, who's at Texas Instruments in San Mateo, just came off a year-long project at United Airlines, cooking up software for a new Indianapolis maintenance facility.

Anne Gunn is vice president of product management and one of the founders of Tally Systems, a Lebanon, N.H., software compa- ny (not named after the chili-serving restau- rant). Tally's flagship product is Net Census, which is what everybody uses to take inven- tory of their hardware and software on PCs and LANs to make sure everybody is properly licensed. Anne and husband Mark Rapf, an engineer, have two kids, Elizabeth 6 and Rebecca 3.

Bernard du Breuil lives in Hanover with his wife, Susan Keil 'B5, and their cat Jeremiah. Bernard is making the transition from fulltime programming work to the world of consulting, and he's interested in hearing from anyone who might have some experience in making that transition. His e-mail address is .

Marilyn Lattin is director of investor relations for Silicon Graphics, the high-tech special-effects company that created the running dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, and husband JimLattin has been kind enough to pass along hysterical e-mail materials. In the world of reality, Jim Lattin's office building at Stanford Business School, along with the rest of the campus, was severely shaken in the last earthquake, and repairs ran into the tens of millions. Jim, Marilyn and four-year-old Alex live in a great house in Menlo Park, not too far from Amy and Jeff Crowe and their daughters Laura 8, Katherine 6, and Molly 2. Jeff is president of Edify Corporation in Santa Clara.

Paul Heising is with Data General Corp. in Westborough, Mass. Lap-Yiu Ho is with Digital Equipment Corporation in Hong Kong. Nat Goodspeed designs and implements software with Computer Corporation of America in Cambridge, Mass. Nat telecommutes from Rochester, N.H., where his wife, Renee Laurion Goodspeed, is a dentist. They have three kids: Peter 10, Melanie 8, and Paul 3.

We have two pioneers of innovation at AT&T Bell Labs in New Jersey: Mark Lampson (in Whippany) and Albert Greenberg (in New Providence). And we have a total of 11 stalwarts at IBM. I'll save eight for next month and mention Christine SimpsonBrent (a client exec in San Francisco); DavidHathaway (an electrical engineer in Essex Junction, Vt.); and Lou Duff (marketing rep in Arlington, Va.). Lou and Debra HarmonDuff recently celebrated their 13 th wedding anniversary, and Debbie—who's been at home with Madeline 3 and six-month-old Benjamin Harmon Duff—is ready to start freelance writing and editing.

While I make my living freelance writing and editing, my wife, Karen Clark, is a part- ner in a software consulting firm, Ross Young Applications, here in Knoxville. Karen could trade stories with Bob Gross, who manages software for Systems Consulting, a small but-growing startup company in Portland, Maine. Bob and Cindy have three kidsHilary 7, Jack 5, and Matt 3.

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