1993

Brewing beer, biking with the Washington State University team, hiking and backpacking in remote areas near Sun Valley Idaho, lounging in nearby natural hot springs, and...oh yeah, working on an M.S. in igneous petrology has kept Todd Mitchell busy over the last two years. En route to his back-country paradise, he worked a year doing environmental planning and G.I.S. computer mapping at his Indian reservation in Washington, and then off to WSU to begin a M.S. program in geology, originally focusing on a hydrology thesis. Late nights with his homebrews (and a year's worth of course work) led to the revelation that he was well on the road to becoming a "pseudo-civil engineer...not what I ever wanted to be," and his resultant change in emphasis to granites. Another victory for the elucidatory power of fine homemade beer.

Todd reports that his former film-studies co-director and '93 recluse Derek"Penalty Box" Geary has apprenticehimself to "famous" composer and conductor Gunther Schuller. Derek's been living in Newton Center, Mass., and, aside from his music, has chosen to commit himself to a more complete understanding of the game of backgammon. "Given ample time, I feel I will be able to master the nuances of backgammon. I will be one with the game." After competing in the open division of the national championships last spring in Dallas, Derek was named the Most Promising Beginner and ranked among the top 50 players in the United States.

Shannon Robards is continuing her association with director Ken Burns and is presently working with Burns on a new film on Thomas Jefferson. Shannon also worked on Burns' PBS series, Baseball. She has been purportedly attempting to link Jefferson's heirs with the Black Sox scandal and is close to signing a deal with Oliver Stone.

Now firmly enmeshed in his second year at Georgetown Law, Doug Chia returned to China during the past summer. Primarily he worked at a law firm in Beijing, but he also spent considerable time doing free-lance investigation for a women's conference of his own making. On his return voyage, Doug detoured through Venezuela to visit Dave "Bass"Krause. Since receiving his A.B/B.E from Thayer, working for four months in Florida as a pilot, and volunteering at a Southern Brazilian orphanage, Bass has been mooching off his folks and living high on the hog. Evidently Doug didn't impress Dave's friends, who must have very high standards to reject our esteemed former president.

Having reached a moment of supreme clarity in her exhaustive, investigative research on Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) for the Valley News, SuzanneSpencer found time in her work to investigate her own bull and engage Jay Rendell '9l. Jay has been teaching middle-school English in Hartford for the past two years and they live together in Norwich. Their wedding is planned for this May.

Jeremy Cram returned to Dartmouth first class, after completing his first term of a dual-degree program in business (MBA) and engineering (MS) at MIT. He flew in from Vermont on one of New England's fastest helicopters and was delivered directly to his room, where he was provided with "...24-hour room service and spectacular views of campus. All of this courtesy of a bike accident in Vermont, a big concussion, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital." Jeremy wrote from Cambridge, which leads me to believe that perhaps the knock on the head wasn't quite hard enough.

Till the cows come home...

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