Class Notes

1980

MAY 1996 Wade Herring
Class Notes
1980
MAY 1996 Wade Herring

(Dartmouth songs play mournfully, yet not without hope, throughout. The instruments and arrangements are traditional, as is only fitting. The pictures are primarily stills, although some film footage is intercut. The tones are sepia, because the world is not so simple as black and. white. The narrator is a measured baritone, but almost bass, either John Chancellor or Garrison Keillor, although it is hard to tell.)

(Instantly identifiable, a bearded James Booker looks out, wide-eyed and wondering, almost surprised. The heavy beard is dark, but the hair has started to gray noticeably at the temples.) Three articles by Dr. James Booker of Alfred University recently appeared in a special issue of Water Resources Bulletin. Booker is an assistant professor of economics and environmental studies. The bulletin is considered the leading journal in the field. Booker s papers attempt to anticipate the impacts of a severe, multi-year drought in the southwestern United States. Booker has degrees from Cornell and Colorado State University, as well as Dartmouth.

(He stares straight ahead, arms crossed,guarded but confident. Bruce Judson looks thesame as in College, only more so.) BruceJudson, who started Time Inc.'s new media division in 1993, has made good on the company's potential for delivering entertaining and meaningful interactive products with the development of its lauded Pathfinder Web site (). Judson proclaims himself an Internet evangelist. Still more energetic than most, Judson swims every morning and reads two novels a week. After Dartmouth, Judson earned a J.D. and a M.B.A. from Yale, where he started the Yale Journal on Regulation.

(Slim, muscular, and balding, Craig Feibelpresents profile to the camera -while he intentlystudies some notes.) According to Craig Feibel's wife, Marsha Smith, "Craig can get more information out of a pile of dirt than anyone I know." Feibel is a member of the team headed by Meave Leakey involved in a major discovery, a new species of an early human ancestor culled from the East African desert shedding light on important questions of human development. When not in East Africa, where he has worked annually for the past 14 years, Feibel teaches at Rutgers University. After geology degrees at Dartmouth and lowa State University, Feibel headed to Utah for his doctorate to study under the renowned scientist Frank Brown.

(Sometimes bearded, sometimes not, RobertSanborn smiles as if sitting on a big pile ofmoney.) Robert Sanborn has been manager of the Oakmark Fund since its inception in 1991. Sanborn's value-oriented style of stock picking has racked up incredible returns while keeping its risk profile unusually low. Sanborn likes to stick to basics: "I like to own a business that a monkey could run because ultimately a monkey is going to run it." Sanborn has a master's degree from the University of Chicago.

(Balding, smiling, eyes bright, David "Doc'O'Connor appears to be the nice guy, cool fir,atboy the Hollywood press makes him out to be.) According to the show business press, when Michael Ovitz departed Creative Artists Agency for Disney, he left a host of "dangling alliances and hungry Young Turks vying to succeed him. The oldest and most affable of the Young Turks is David O'Connor, an ancient 37. O'Connor began his career at CAA 12 years ago, not long after graduating from Dartmouth. His clients include Robert Redford and Sean Connery. (Roll credits. Music fades.)

515 E. 51st St., Savannah, GA 31405; (912) 232-0209