1978

This is the last of three roundups about '78s in the computer field (which several respondents referred to in e-mail notes with such shorthand as "Techno-weenie News" and "Computer Nerd Update").

Steve Damron recently celebrated his tenth anniversary at Sun Microsystems, where he's the business manager for SunSoft's Support Services. "Outside work is where the real stuff happens these days," Steven reports. "I'm split between major activities: "First, I've been helping some friends start the Moab (Utah) Music Festival. The high point of this year's festival was taking a Baldwin grand piano (plug for a sponsor) down the Colorado River to a grotto in Canyonland National Forest. One hundred concert goers followed down the river for an acoustic treat—even The New York Times was there! (Check out page 18 of the Sunday, Oct. 9, magazine. Way cool.) My personal achievement: I made my gamelan debut in Moab playing a piece by Lou Harrison. Who woulda thought?

"My other major outside work endeavor has been acting. Most of the plays I've worked on are contemporary American. I'm hoping to produce Actor's Nightmare and Little Red RidingHood early this year with some friends. I've also used acting as a medium for organizational development with my management team lately—who knows where that might lead as a new career path?

"Anyone who wants more info on Moab and the festival or anything else, for that matter, can find me on the Internet at ."

Jim Ancona, who recently got his master's in computer science at Worcester Tech, is a senior systems analyst at Dunn & Bradstreet Software in Framingham, Mass. Jim and Anne, a home-health-care nurse, have two boys, Thomas 10 and Mark 8.

Marc San Soucie spent about nine years at Wang Laboratories in Lowell, Mass., building word-processing and office-automation software. In 1990 he married his longtime sweetheart, Kathryn Harrington, and moved to Portland, Ore., where she's an R&D manager at Intel and he's a senior software engineer for the Servio Corporation, building application-development tools for an object database. "But," says Marc, "the computer industry is really just a means to an end, which is living in a place where the Great Outdoors starts right outside the door. We spend our not-quite-voluminous free time bicycling, climbing, hiking, and skiing all over the state of Oregon."

We hear a similar message from the Seattle home of Gardis Meergans and her husband, estate-tax lawyer Livingston Wernecke. They both enjoy the skiing and recreation in and around Seattle—as well as in Europe, where Gardis, the director of European business for Digital Systems, spends much of her time. She's been working parttime since the arrival of baby Nicola about a year ago, but before that she'd set up operations of Digital's call-management system in the U.K., which will lead to other European markets later on.

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