1984

Thanks to the wonders of electronic mail, this month's (column winds its way to the Alumni Magazine offices in Hanover from the sunny shores of Lyon, France (this summer that should read the rainy river banks of Lyon), where I am directing a foreign-study program for my university—a program which I set up, making up for not getting to go LSA here as a student. In other international news Sean O'Neal is using the know-how he gained as a Pentagon analyst of Asian affairs in a unique manner: he is now proprietor of Uncle Bubba's Southern Fried Chicken. No, I don't think that the South is a foreign country; the restaurant is in Taipei, Taiwan! Apparently the idea must not be as amusing as it sounds for Sean was able to tap into the Alumni Association to secure investors, and Dartmouth alums have a quite a business reputation, as we all know.

In fact, our classmates' business reputation is such that several sit now on boards of directors of various major companies. (You know we have graduated to "serious" adulthood when you start hearing that classmates are board members.) Thus James J. Barnes was recently elected to the board of Tollgrade Communications. As for his day job, he is an attorney with Buchanan Ingersoll in Pittsburgh. MollyHale Carter not only is on the boards of Archer Daniels and Lyons Manufacturing (no connection I suppose with Lyon, France?) she was also elected chairman of the board of directors of Sunflower Bank in Great Bend, Kans. Not that Molly lives anywhere near that great Kansas institution, for she is senior investment officer at John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. and lives in Boston. In other business and Boston news, Molly Wender ran into Richard Sullivan in Atlanta, and reports that he too is living in Boston, working with mortgages and, when time permits, enjoying a new house on Cape Cod.

If in a few years Sean needs business partners who know Southern cooking, he can turn to Laura Poppo Lockwood, who is now a professor at the B-school at Virginia Tech, for some names of recent grads. Laura is also the mother of a 10- month-old daughter, Molly Rae, with her husband, Will, a chiropractor. She says she is happy to be back on the East Coast, and in the mountains nearby, hiking and biking, and kayaking, particularly after five years in St. Louis, teaching at Washington University. She passed on news of other happy parents: Kristin Hege has a girl as well, Kelsey, born in November of 1995 and Nanny Linneman Gotsis just had her first, Alexander, this winter.

Also in the baby business are Rick Low and his wife, Gail, who had a baby girl, Jill Sarah, on December 12th. Rick works for Image Builder Software where he, in his words, "designs and writes content for games and educational software." Other than being proud of their new addition to the family, Rick adds that he and Gail spend their time watching it rain in Portland. Of course as Rick communicated with us back in January (sorry!) it may no longer be raining up in the Northwest and thus this news bite rather inaccurate—but not totally, as I'm sure that they are indeed still proud proud parents.

Another mea culpa, and this time I did get it totally wrong: in my last column I announced that Laurie Bickart was living in Madison, Wise., with her husband, "Steve." Well, she and her husband, David, not Steve, have left Madison and moved to San Jose with their two children, Stephen 3 and Amy 5. My apologies are not terribly sincere however, as the error caused Laurie to call me in order to set things straight— an outcome greatly to be desired by any class secretary. In fact, now that the novelty of having our Class Notes column back in circulation has worn off the information flow has slowed to a trickle. Please have pity upon Tom and I, your humble scribes, and send us your news. Otherwise we will be forced to use such underhanded tactics as those I used with Laurie, or even worse, start calling you for solicitations during the dinner hour!

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David Hooke '84makes Dartmouth Dartmouth, p. 47