1983

A little while back I mentioned that a newly married Peter Ham had honeymooned in Vietnam. For those of you seeking farther travel information (my husband, for one, was very jealous—he too wanted to honeymoon in Vietnam but a certain spoilsport put her foot down about hotel rooms without Western-style toilets), Peter writes, "I guess that the Vietnamese government figured if Americans are foolish enough to come over for honeymoons it might as well agree to lift the embargo. As the customs guy at the airport said, 'You will be one of very few foreign honeymooners in our country.' Good shell collecting, though."

Peter also reports attending a "fancy—but fun—goodbye party for Reed Webster, who had moved to San Francisco for amorous reasons." Reed will continue to toil for Morgan Stanley there. Melissa Kaish recently left her job with Sara Lee in Paris and moved to London under similar motivation. I hear he's a very nice guy, who, coincidentally, also works for Morgan Stanley.

It was the opportunity of sending class notes over the Internet that lured Anne Davidson in, so I say hallelujah to technology. "First bit of news," she writes, "I just returned from a great weekend in Boston taking part in the festivities of Tricia Roberts's and Nick Winton's wedding on May 14 in Cambridge. It was beautiful, and a great party." But that's to be expected from Tricia. According to Anne, other '83s there included JulieCochran, Theresa Fogarty Stevens, MarySachsse, Kim Steele, and Laura Vail Wooster, as well as untold legions from other classes and Tuck. Jim Wooster '84's band, The Courage Brothers, played.

Anne also had her own wedding to report. She married one Doug Barr the week after Reunion last year and moved from Boston to Dallas. The company she was working for, Cambridge Technology Partners, which Anne describes as "a consulting and system-integration company focusing on rapid application development in client-server technologies" (and they say this stuff is supposed to simplify your life), transferred her there to open a Southwest regional office. "We see Tom Oppenheim a bit," she writes, "since he moved to Dallas from Oklahoma City and previously, Boston. He's selling muni bonds for Dean Witter here."

Paul Gignac has moved too, from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, where he's now a lawyer with the firm Capello Foley and Bezek, doing class-action work.

And Kevin Jones has switched jobs. He recently resigned from his position as head basketball coach at Alfred University to become the manager of basketball programs for NBA Europe. Very impressive, Kevin-and very lucky, as he gets to work out of Geneva, Switzerland. It's the perfect job for Kevin, who was also a professor of French at Alfred.

I want to thank James Collins and Lisa Pisano for their very cute birth announcement. Their first child, Christopher Collins Pisano, was born on April 30.

I should have mentioned this months ago when I first got the letter, and I'm not sure if it's too late, but two former editors of The Dartmouth, Christopher Johnson and David Herszenhorn, both '94s, are putting together a repository of historical information about the paper, including a library of taped interviews with past staff members. So if you worked at The D and have any good stories about madcap late nights or nail-biting, under-the-wire deadlines, jot them down and send them to The Dartmouth Historical Archives Project, 6175 Robinson Hall, Hanover, NH 03755.

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Kevin Jones is manager of basketball programs for NBA Europe. DEBORAH M. ROSGH '8.