1989

Remember when quarterback Chris Rorke dropped back and handed off to junior Dave Clark in 1988 for a 97-yard touchdownat the time the longest one in Dartmouth history? Well, Chris is still making strides in the football world. After several years as the receivers coach for the Big Green, he has taken a job as the offensive coordinator at Illinois Wesleyan. In the off-season he also serves as the College's golf coach. In the meantime, his cribbage game has reportedly gotten rusty.

I hadn't heard much from Audrienne Walters Jordan since our FSP trip to Toulouse junior fall, so it was a nice surprise to hear about her burgeoning music career. She and husband Damien have just released an upbeat new gospel album entitled Willing to Go. When they're not making music the Jordans have been working on other projects, namely Joshua Alexander (born in November 1992) and Chantelle Elizabeth (born last August). If you want a copy of the tape, send $9.98 plus $1.00 for shipping to: Jamm International, P.O. Box 5020, West Lebanon, NH 03784.

Strange as it may seem, after spending the better part of five years in an oblong underwater object, Rob Eleveld has had enough. Until October Rob was stationed aboard the U.S.S. Batfish, which is the same kind as one of the submarines Tom Clancy wrote about in The Hunt For Red October. Now he's hoping to use his engineering talents in the business world and is applying to several graduate programs with that goal in mind. But first, Rob plans to travel across the country in search of a cure for male pattern baldness.

Hot pink is the wedding color for DerekEmous and his bride-to-be, Dawn Karr. That means cummerbunds, bowties, bridesmaids dresses, and the wedding gown. Well, actually it's more like a "dark pink," Derek says. At least he knew how to get my attention. Derek's fiancee teaches English at a high school in Chattanooga, and Derek works across the border in Dalton, Ga., as a computer programmer-analyst for Shaw Industries. Shaw is one of the many carpet manufacturers located in Dal**ton, apparendy because the area gets a Jot of rain. "They need a LOT of rain to make carpets," Derek explained. Frankly, I'm still in the dark on that one. Derek recently went whitewater rafting down the Tennessee's Ocoee River, the site of the 1996 Olympic whitewater kayaking event.

Derek Kamper is close to wrapping up his doctorate in biomedical engineering at Ohio State, though he currendy lives in Cleveland. His dissertation will likely involve building a computer-controlled "tilt table" which would be able to help disabled people learn to drive cars. What I found more interesting, however, was Derek's recent trip to a street festival in Cleveland's Little Italy. There were $10 blackjack tables in a church basement, and a nun and policeman were spinning one of the gambling wheels.

Paul Sorensen reports that Lee Okurowski, having graduated from Dartmouth Medical School last' June, has begun his internship at a hospital in Providence, R.I. For his part, Paul just won a four-year Javits Fellowship to help him continue his doctoral work in geography at UC Santa Barbara.

The perceptive reader may notice that everyone mentioned in this column is one of my acquaintances. Though I like to give free PR to my friends, this is not what I'm suppose to do as a class secretary. In other words, send me news! Or send it to Jeanne De Sa, at the address printed in the last issue. We'll print anything within the bounds of good taste, and then some.

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