This Guy is Dialed In

To lower their phone bills, most people switch phone companies. Jeremy Katz '95 went one better. He started his own phone company. He bought phone time in bulk and resold it to professors and students at Dartmouth and five other colleges. Within a month, his company, Saetecnamed after his fraternity. Sigma Epsilon had scores of satisfied customers.

Today Saetec has thousands of customers and is still growing. "If Saetec has $6 to 7 million in billing by January 1996, I would consider ourselves a first-year success,"says Katz. Katz has plans to increase sales by five times that amount. He's got aninternational work force, Many of them Dartmouth students. "Working with Saetec is a lucrative leave-term opportunity," he says.

Not surprisingly, Katz's professional success has put his academic plans on hold. The triple major (government, religion, and classical archaeology) has been accepted by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard as a Kennedy Fellow, a distinction awarded to only the top ten percent of JFK School students. He's trying to defer his graduate studies for a year or so. After all, he can't hang up on Saetec just yet. He's got too many calls wai ting.