1976

More news this month than last, thanks to the miracle of e-mail and a few who actually put pen to paper and wrote. Stefanie Yalar has been promoted to major gifts officer at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. Any classmates travelling through the Amish country are welcome to stop in and make a small, but meaningful, donation. Stefanie can be reached at .

Melanie Matte dropped a note to let me know that John Hagelin is running for president again ("At least, we saw him on TV earlier this spring making a speech.") If memory serves me correctly, John is the choice of a political party affiliated with the transcendental meditation movement. This is his second try for the job.

Myron Allen, who is lucky enough to live in Laramie, Wyo., has been running around the Rockies with a variety of classmates. yron and Adele "skied and overate with Chris Davis" last March at Colorado's Keystone ski area, where Chris was attending a legal conference. In June, Dick and Nancy Bennum and their two sons George and Russell visited Laramie, "seeking relief from the heat during their grand tour of the West." In July, the Aliens spent a week with Paul and Missy Stockton in Nevada's Jarbridge Wilderness.

I think our class has a disproportionate number of astronomers. The latest to send a note is Kathy Degioia Eastwood, who is a tenured professor of physics and astronomy at Northern Arizona University. Kathy spent last year working on sabbatical at Lowell Observatory, but is now back in the saddle teaching. Kathy has two teenage daughters, and wishes she had more time to explore the nearby Grand Canyon. Her new e-mail address is .

Noel Kropf manages to combine rural life "on an historic dirt road on a small lake in Garrison, N.Y.," with the successful development of a cutting-edge software company, Datacap Inc., which he cofounded in 1988. The company has grown to 30 employees and is riding a wave of growth in the document imaging industry. In his spare time, Noel still dances up a storm. He has been in touch with Hal Franklin, Willy Hirama, Jordan Young, and Chip Elliott. Noel can be reached at or RFD 31, Box 356, Garrison, NY 10524.

Our class newsletter editor, Bill Schillhammer, has moved to Acton, Mass., to work for Digital Vision, which manufacures video capture boards for PCs and Macs and video output devices. Bill has remarried and now has a blended family of two nine-year-olds, an 11-year-old and a 12-year-old.

He reports that Hal Franklin is working for NetRights in Lebanon, N.H., and is "heavy into beta site development" involving sales via the Internet—"very cool technology; virgin market." Ted Scheu, according to Bill, is happy teaching fourthand fifth-graders in Middlebury, Vt., after "bagging the corporate advertising world." The Hammer would very much like someone else to take over the reins as class newsletter editor. Any volunteers? Bill can be reached at .

Professor Joel Goldfield has established the Rassias Institute for Language and Cultural Studies at Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn. Our esteemed if only honorary classmate, John Rassias, will be teaching his second foreign language methodology workshop at Fairfield this October. Dr. Joel is hosting language teaching and technology seminars on a regular basis—any '76ers interested in the subject should contact Joel at or visit .

That's it for this month. Thanks again to all who wrote. Best regards for the holidays, and don't forget to send a card or drop a note for the column!

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John Hagelin is running lor U.S. president With the backing of a political party affiliated with the transcendental meditation movement. Dick Monkman '76

Author Louise Erdrich '76, p 46