1971

Aryeh Burnham (whom you'll remember as "Dick," and who, incidently, survived sophomore year as my roommate) got hold of my e-mail address and suddenly appeared on my radar screen after an absence of more than 20 years. "We are finishing up our sixth year in Jerusalem, where I have been teaching," he says. "I am pretty happy to be doing what I am doing. I also like living here in Israel, despite the neighbors."

John Wason reports that he joined an "alternative mini-reunion" last June at the home of Mark Howard in Lebanon, together with Jon Frost and Bill Taylor. "Bill encouraged and motivated us with his reunion theme: to 'think about ways we can change our lives, so that the next 25 years will be better and more productive than the last 25 have been.'

"Bill," writes John, "lives in Knoxville, where he is a videographer, working with cutting-edge digital editing equipment, and doing research on "wearable computers." He dreams of documenting a hike of the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, and broadcasting it live on the World Wide Web. Bill's wife, Sally, with whom he has two children, Lee Jon and Sally Kate, teaches psychiatric nursing at the University of Tennessee.

"Jon Frost is completing work on his first children's book, for which he did both the narrative and the illustrations. It's a dynamite book, and is due to be published by a New York City publisher. Jon is married to a lovely woman, appropriately named Desiree, who teaches school in Plainfield, VT.

"Mark Howard continues to sell real estate in the Upper Valley from his office in Lebanon, and dotes on his five-year-old daughter, Tara. Mark, too, is rumored to be doing some serious writing for publication.

"Finally, I continue to slog along in law school here at the University of Illinois. If all goes well, this should be my final year. I still retain my ideals of fighting on behalf of the 'little guy,' and now is the time, I'd say, for my lawyer-classmates to begin sending me job offers."

And Tim Dreisbach, our "class projects czar" offers these comments: "At our 25th Reunion I was powerfully reminded of how four short years at Dartmouth were such an incredibly special time and could have such lifetime impact, no matter how far afield we have travelled or out of touch we have grown. It is time to give back, and to give so others can be as privileged."

"When Mike Maynard twisted my arm to do 'special projects' (which wasn't very hard!), we discussed a two-part charter: First, tap the considerable talent pool of '71 classmates, bringing to bear our areas of individual expertise to a host of projects the college is looking to have done. Eleazar needs you! and I will be calling after we review the list and determine which we may wish to tackle.

"The second part is for our class to contribute one major project to the College by our Year 2001 30th Reunion. My 'vision' is a truly significant and memorable 'gift,' not a mere bench or some other little-used artifact with a plaque on it. Get me your ideas...we should contribute something that is as visible in the daily life on campus as the Baker bells are audible. A '71 project completed by 2001 should have presence for the next 100 years. By 'presence,' I mean an awareness of our class analogous to what that certain room in Baker has created for the class of 1902.

"Whatever we do will likely take a reasonable amount of money. But here's the fun part, unlike most requests for your time and cash, all I want (for now, at least), are your ideas on how to spend it." Note: Tim's e-mail address is or you can write to him at 180 Greenoaks Drive, Atherton, CA 94027.

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Bill Taylor researches "wearable computers" and dreams of documenting a hike of the Appalachian Trail for the Web. Don O'neill '71