1976

Class President Jerry Daly sent a very polite fax ("hey, dummy") to tell me that he does not work at a private school, as previously reported. Jerry lives "right next to a prep school" but has been in the golf business since graduating from Tuck in 1979. Jerry went to Hanover this spring for the Class Officers Weekend and reports that "things are rather uneventful at the moment." Others present were Merrill Kraines, Brewer Doran, and Bill Schillhammer.

Jerry says that our class scholarship fund is growing steadily. It was buoyed, no doubt, by May's French-vacation sweepstakes, in which Corey Bock was the big winner. Seventeen classmates plan on staying at Corey's apartment in Paris this summer, along with spouses and children. Corey, your only hope is to send a big check to the scholarship fund real fast! Otherwise, put clean sheets on the hide-a-bed.

Bye-Maas Taal is working on a United Nations forestry project based in Nairobi, Kenya. A slightly jealous classmate told me

that Bye-Maas and spouse Derba travel around Africa and Europe "all of the time." Augi Schaeter married another architect, Nicole Mronz, in December 1992. They live in Cologne, Germany, where Augi "shares in the replannig of sections of major German cities in the East still not recovered from WW II destruction." Congrats are in order: their first child, Ava Augusta, arrived on February 7.

Gary Rogers and family have moved to Valbonne, France, where Gary "oversees a fastgrowing sales, marketing, and service organization covering the whole of Europe" for Wellfleet Communications. This courtesy of Jim Slaby '83, who reports diat his older and wiser brother, John Slaby, directs software development for Telematics in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. John and spouse Karen have a two-year-old son and are expecting a second child.

James Newman was recently reported to be Dartmouth's first astronaut. According to Dartmouth Life, James Newman '76 went up in the space shuttle Discovery last September, took a space walk and had a great time, all in the name of science. Well, maybe. It seems that was James Newman '78. Our classmate is a radiologist in Cleveland, Ohio, and had his feet firmly on the ground while the other guy was in orbit.

Also on Earth is former space cadet and present lounge lizard Dave Davenport, who has moved from Florida to Tarrytown N.Y. Dave still has no visible means of support but is "doing just fine."

Karen Louise Erdrich has published yet another fine book, The Bingo Palace. This novel returns to the Northern Plains and follows the saga of Lipsha Morrisey, one of the many likable characters from her earlier novels. I managed to snag a copy before it sold out at the Juneau bookstore and have been enjoying it very much. So far, no mention of red licorice—but I'm only on page 135.

Class Vice President Ken Monteiro reports that he did NOT see Sandy Helve, RichNichols, Tom McConnell, or Adrien Mally at an alumni dinner in San Francisco last month. This is not surprising, as the good Dr. Monteiro forgot to go to the dinner, despite having bought tickets several weeks in advance. Ken has been in e-mail contact with SteveShmanske, who teaches economics at U.C. Berkeley and Hayward (a.k.a. "Wayward") State. Steve reports that all is well in California academia—aside from a few minor budget cuts. ("Classrooms? Who needs classrooms?")

That's it for this month. To all those who wrote and sent faxes, my thanks; to those who didn't, please do!

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