1983

"I haven't read any news about me recently," complains Ted Demopoulos. Well, Ted, that's about to change, but I have a bone to pick with you. You wrote, "I have become fairly bored with work, running a small (emphasis on small) high-tech consulting company called Demopoulos Associates. I've set my associates free, placed my company in suspended animation, and am going to the Middle East. I'm trading in my suit and tie for a 20-pound backpack and the traveling life."

But what should I read in that august publication, the class newsletter, but that you were already in semi-retirement in the South Pacific with side trips to Florida? Which is it, Ted? Or is it neither? You also mentioned that you're keeping your listing in the Portsmouth, N.H., phonebook "so if anyone passes through they can give me a call." Ted, Ted, I think a few of us should do just that, and reassure you that there's no need to make up journeys to exotic climes to impress us.

Martha Viehmann gave birth May 2 to her first child, Nathan James Boyce—at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, no less. "He did me the favor," Martha writes, "of arriving a week early so that I could follow the Connecticut River south and attend my graduation. I received my Ph.D. in American studies on May 23 while wearing my son as an addition to the academic gown. We made the cover of Yale Alumni Magazine."

During her stay in Hanover—husband Rick Boyce (Williams '81) had a post-doc research position at Dartmouth—Martha was delighted to renew acquaintance with Sanborn House tea, as well as with Diana Wright, who is living in Norwich, Vt. Not only did she participate in Diana's Quaker wedding to Steve Hoffman, but was able to pass along baby clothes. (Diana was due in November.)

Martha also had a chance to see SuzanneLong. She and husband Tim Sanford run an organic farm and are leaders in the Upper Valley community farmers movement. NelliePennington, husband Nate Hine '78 (Thayer '80), and sons Calen and Amos live in South Strafford on land communally owned by a group that includes other alums, and they can vouch for their produce. The Viehmann-Boyces, on the other hand, will now have to settle for supermarket bins like the rest of us. Academia has taken them to the suburban Philadelphia area, and Martha would love to hear from anyone who knows of any openings for college English professors.

Wrong field and wrong state for Martha, but John McNeill recently took a job as assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Mark Flessel e-mails that he, wife Laura Buchnell '84, and 18-month-old Alexander have returned to the Bay Area after three years in Chicago. Mark is still with Oracle, a software company he joined after Wharton, and is now director of business development for interactive media products. "Our free time," Mark writes, "is currently spent driving around looking for a house we can afford to buy (this is what people do for fun in Northern California, since no one can actually afford to buy anything)." Mark also hobnobs with AlanEagle, who recently took a job heading up marketing for a video-compression start-up called Minerva Systems and lives in Palo Alto "with two giant wolveser, dogs." When he wrote, Mark was looking forward to Mark Stein's (last) October wedding in Boston. Mr. Stein, Mr. Flessel reports, is running the internationaltrade office for the state of Massachusetts.

I also want to pass on Mark Flessel's suggestion that we collect alumni e-mail addresses and publish them for alumni use. Sounds like a grand idea to me, then again I've never laid eyes on the Internet and wouldn't recognize it if it up and bit me (which, with my luck with computers, it probably would do). Perhaps this is the sort of project to lure Ted Demopoulos out of his (heh-heh) retirement.

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