1993

"So, today [April 2] I leave the U.S. to start working with Schlumberger, a French oil services company," writes David Krause. "I'll train in Egypt and then work somewhere in South America I do not yet know where!" Send a postcard.

And now, introducing a new feature to these hallowed pages, it's a bird...it's a plane...it's...it's...NEWS FROM THE CYBER WORLD!!!

From Brad Simanek (coompahbs@aol.com>): Brad spent much of the winter alienating his friends in and around Cedar Rapids, lowa, by insisting that they help him run lines for his role as Jim, the gentleman caller, in Tennessee Williams' TheGlass Menagerie. While toiling away the hours preparing for his actuarial exams and throwing in some honest hours of work too, Brad managed to fund an office lunch party, pick up a season pass at the golf course (in his never ending quest to avoid a Normanesque failure), and buy a Kentucky baseball cap from the proceeds of the office NCAA pool. Brad passed on news of unparalled Bachanalian excesses at a PeteDeininger hosted Theta Delt Chicago reunion in February.

Also on the thespian front, BillLapcevic () fulfilled a life-long goal of being Judas when he acted in a Greenwich production of Godspell in April. While off stage Bill created a Spontaneous Combustion web page . Also, he's unemployed. He refused to comment on whether or not it had anything to do with Judas.

Newfound freedom did give him time to participate in the the second yearly Spontaneous Combustion California Tour! Bill, Dave "don't call me ditchboy"Kaiser, and Ted "Flash" Wallace, reunited with Californians Lew "Beachbum"Cirne and Jeff Cobb. Carl Seglem, JeffBird, Sara Burbine, Pete Voshall, ChrisBingham, Jeff Whitley, and Whitney something or other (didn't make a big enough impression on Bill for him to remember her name) were all spotted in the SpoCo gallery.

Ted is working in Portland for Cybersight and carries a beeper (to check sports scores). Lew works for Apple, carries a beeper (to get pages from his girlfriend). Dave () is at Harvahd and still feels slighted that his name didn't turn up on any of Theodore Kaczynski's "To Do" lists. He also adds, "I've enjoyed my first semester of teaching, or, as I like to call it, 'sculpting young minds.' I'm determined, by the end of the term, to have all of my students pose as poster children for Dartmouth, with the caption, 'lf we'd gone to Dartmouth, we wouldn't have been taught by this jerky graduate student.' " Jeff Cobb practices his freeway-shooting evasion skills at a mini race car track where he consistently outraced Bill. Jeff Bird has transported his silky voice back to the Pacific Northwest, where he is a sports announcer for a radio station in Roseburg, Roseville, Rosewood, or something like that, which, according to Bill, is in either Oregon or Washington. Sara reads the Economist but refuses to be any more specific about her job as an economist. "Pete and Chris are in a band called New Red Sand (or something to that effect). They are very good, but really need to play in a section of town where rooms don't rent by the h0ur...."

The culmination of SpoCo's West Coast tour was at a winery, where the hostess informed them "that the wine we had just purchased was best 'over ice cream or your favorite person.' "

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Musicians PeteVoshall and ChrisBingham are verygood, but reallyneed to play in asection of townwhere roomsdon't rent by thehour. Sara Burbine '93