1984

All I can say is, thank goodness Dartmouth sends me press releases. I'll start with those. Beth O'Neill Maloney rejoins Peabody & Brown after serving as counsel to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee for the Whitewater investigation. Cool! The press release from Peabody & Brown says that Beth rejoined the firm as a senior associate in the litigation department and that she left to serve on the Whitewater investigation. It goes on to explain what the Whitewater investigation was, but I'll leave it up to you individually to figure that out. (Hint: Read the newspaper.)

Tom McDougal wrote in to ask my e-mail address (see below), but he also mentioned that he had fulfilled a lifelong dream by getting his helicopter-pilot license. (That's a great lifelong dream. We need more notes like Tom's sent to me.) He will be filling in occasionally in the traffic-reporting chopper to keep his flying skills honed.

Speaking of e-mail, I read on my computer screen that Tracey Banks Newsome moved to Connecticut and is now working in marketing for Microsoft. She and her husband, Tony, have a new baby, Andrew, born last June. Since Tracey didn't give me very much information, I pulled her name up in my Microsoft directory. It was very useful: I'm happy to report that the division Tracey works in is USFG HQ-Org and the department is USOR SP & SMORGS Mgmt. (who says technology companies use too many acronyms?). She has spoken to Kelly Freeman

Wilson, who is busy being a mom of two and is very involved with community service in L. A. (If you tell me what you're involved in, Kelly, maybe we'll get some Dartmouth alumni in L.A. hooked up with you. Hmmm, maybe that's what you are avoiding.)

The funniest tiling happened a couple of months ago. I got a phone call from a fellow '84 whose name I recognized and who was coming to Microsoft to interview. Being a concerned classmate, I was trying to figure out who she might want to talk to in her job search. Well, it turns out that she was indeed coming to interview, but she was coming to interview the vice president of my division for her magazine, Working Woman. I love that magazine, and I love that I now know someone on the editorial staff there LaurieKretchmar. Laurie even sent me information for the column over e-mail.

She and Lori Glaser ran into each other on the street in front of Grand Central at 3 p.m. a couple of months ago (after having not seen each other for a while) then ran into each other again at Angels in America Part II that night. I thought you New Yorkers were always singing about how big your city is. My mother sent me an article from The New York Times on an '83 (Jamie McKensie), and Lori was quoted there. That Lori, she's all over New York.

Laurie was also kind enough to tell me that Mark Montgomery and his wife are living in Hong Kong, and that Deborah Schupack is teaching fiction over the Internet. Deborah, can you verify that this is true by sending me e-mail and telling us where we can find you on the information superhighway?

Laurie's last big piece of news was that a classmate had founded TouchSoft, a developer and manufacturer of affordable personal electronic organizers for the consumer market. (Ok, I got the wording for that sentence from from yet another press release.) Stay tuned next month to find out who that classmate is and what other small bits of gossip I got from Laurie.

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Deborah Shupack is teaching fiction over the Internet. AMY IORIO '84