1973

A 21-gun salute to those who phoned or wrote during the past month with news of themselves and classmates. Remember: you need not have just won a Nobel Prize. And unless it's an environmental violation or income tax evasion, selfreporting is easy.

Now the news. Jim Rogers was elected a vice president of A.T. Kearney, a global management consulting firm. Jim joined the Kearney organization in 1995 when it was acquired by EDS Management Consulting Services, where he was a principal. After getting an M.B.A. from Tuck, Jim worked in N.Y.C. for General Foods, Citicorp, and Marketing Corp. of America before EDS. Jim and wife Katy reside in Newton, Conn.

Thinking of relocating your business to the Upper Valley region of Vermont or New Hampshire? Bob Haynes, our minireunion chairman, is a commercial and investment real estate broker whose firm, R. E. Haynes Cos. Inc., is in West Lebanon, N.H. Bob also coaches seasonal youth sports programs, particularly hockey. Bob, wife Brenda, and their young blade runners live in Norwich, Vt.

John Roberts has every reason to be proud. His second daughter, Elizabeth, has been accepted for Dartmouth's class of 2000. Double proud, actually, because Elizabeth will join her older sister, who is a '97.1 think John may have the best suggestion for the class of 2000 motto: "Just D'OO it!" He also admits that the prospect of paying two tuitions at the College gives a new meaning to the expression "Big Green." I hope his job as a senior vice president at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (my favorite form of legalized gambling) will keep John from moonlighting on the graveyard shift at the local "7-11" to support the Roberts' girls in Hanover. John, spouse Mardie, Elizabeth, and a third daughter, Caitie (11), live in Naperville, 111., where Mardie is a director at the local YMCA.

In Hollywood Bob Ryan is getting closer to quitting his day job. Bob appeared several times during pro-football season in his persona as a network executive ("the nerd from programming") in short skits he writes for Fox NFL Sunday with Terry Bradshaw and company.

Bob appears in a new Fox network show Night Stand with Dick Dietrich, a parody of daytime talk shows. Dick Dietrich is a rather dense talk show host whose homeowners' association president (Bob) appears on the air to cite him for jacuzzi violations. Bob is writing for The Film Syndicate, a company that specializes in short spots and one-minute promotional films called "interstitials" (your "Hollyword-of-the-month"). A recent sample of Bob's work is a TV ad for Sprint Cellular promoting cellular phones for desert travel. Only audiences in the West will see this one.

Dan Chodos appeared early in the Dustin Hoffman film Outbreak as the pet shop owner who dies from a monkey bite that infects him with a deadly strain of ebola virus. Monkeys will never be quite so cute again.

The Benevolent Protective Order of Former Class Secretaries blessed me this month in the form of a letter from MarkHarty. Mark sent me a number of items that space limitations will require holding over until the next issue. But FOMs (Friends of Mark) will want to know that he is busy practicing law in Boston and helping Sally raise their two sons, Liam (13) and Brendan (10). Sally is working as an admissions officer at Harvard (Can this marriage be saved?) and Mark is helping to raise money for an indoor tennis center at Dartmouth.

Until August, vacation aggressively.

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John Robertssays payingtwo tuitions givesnew meaning to"Big Green." BOB CONWAY '73