1984

Last year I looked up those people I had spent my freshman fall with; this year 11 tried to remember sophomore fall, when I managed the varsity football team along with Rhonda Albright. (My class list says Rhonda is in New York, but I wasn't able to reach her. Any news about Rhonda would be great.) This was the first year classmates of ours could play on the varsity or JV team since previously they were on the freshman squad.

I tracked down Jack Daly. It shouldn't have been as hard as it was because Jack has been teaching at Willsboro Central School in Willsboro, N.Y., for the last ten years. He's teaching American history in junior and senior high school. He's also been coaching basketball and football. Jack and his wife, Ann, have a girl, a boy, and a baby girl all under five years of age. The first person Jack mentioned in the 'B4 class is the person I think of when I think of Jack on the football field, FrankPolsinello. Frank is living with his wife, Lisa, and their year-and-a-half-year-old inMechanicville, N.Y. Frank and a friend started a contracting business, but Jack thinks they may have moved into something new by now. Frank, an update?

Bill Connolly and Steve Karol are both living outside of Boston. (I think Jack saw Bill last at Steve's wedding—it's all interconnected.) Bill is working atMerrill Lynch Capital Markets in Boston. (Bill and Jack may be the only two alumni actually working where Alumni Records thinks they are.)

I tried to reach Matt Lopes. According to my directory he is working in Providence. The firm's name sounds like a law firm, so I'm going to take a leap of faith here and tell you that Matty (as I remember him) or Matthew (as his voice mail suggests) is practicing law.

I received word that Chuck Goss recently earned a certificate in real-estate finance through The Real Estate Finance Association and Boston University, and that we was working at Whittier Partners. By the time I tracked him down, though, Chuck said that after ten years in real estate he wanted to get out on his own. He's working with a colleague comanaging Internet commerce and communications. Since his business is at home, he's taking care of his two-year-old daughter, Katharine. His wife, Katharine, is an investment broker at HC Cartwright.

My sophomore Thanksgiving, my first with my husband (then boyfriend), Ralph Barton, I returned home and tried to explain to my parents why dropping organic chemistry and instead setting up blocking dummies, making Gatorade, and monitoring time trials for the football team was the right decision. Here's hoping your Thanksgiving entails making (and justifying) decisions that are as much fan as that one was!

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