1985

An exchange I overheard recently between a man and a woman on an uptown subway train: "...Oh, you mean you didn't get my e-mail?"

"No, I wasn't in my office and I didn't boot up my portable."

"Well, I sent you a note and a voice-mail message yesterday."

"Oh really—but I couldn't get into my voice-mail with my cell phone from the road and my beeper transmitted an incorrect phone number; so I didn't grab any of those messages. So what's up?"

"Oh, I just wondered if you were free for dinner tonight?"

Ah, the information age. I know dating was never simple but this is a new level. I have a colleague who no longer has long- distance telephone service from her home. No, it's not a protest statement on her part against the endless phone companies' service solicitations. Rather, it's relief from the $3,000/ month phone bills her 15-year old-daughter racked up communicating with a guy she'd met—on the Internet. Boy, has life gone global!

Elise Miller married Dan Neumeyer in an inspirational cliffside ceremony at the Commonweal in Bolinas, Calif., on July 19th. Several classmates witnessed this beautiful event with yours truly, including Jenny Archibald Williams (Dartmouth Alumni Fund director), Mark Inkster (Bain Consulting), Missy Reinkemeyer Student (home managing Victoria, Madeleine, Jack), Ellen Jennings (soon- to-be-ordained minister), Philip Kalfas '83 (prep school teacher in New Haven), Valerie Hartman-Levy (assistant chief counsel for CNN), Ann Schoenfeld (involved with environmentally sound pesticides), and Allison Shutz Moskow (South Shore Art Museum programs director). Arid this month will witness the nuptials of Donna Fraser to Peter Gordeau, a Bowdoin grad. Donna's with the Bank of Boston and she and Peter plan to continue living in the Boston area. Please forward all details on this blessed event.

Other noteworthy sightings: Keith Goggin in Princeton, N.J., with his fiancee, Elisabeth; Aaron Hill cutting up a rug at a Metropolitan Museum of Art Spring Gala; Eric and Rachel Spielman Seder in Israel with their children Sam and Talia. Details on these newsworthy items, please?!?!

Ron denßroeder and wife Courtney report the birth of Helen (Lena) Joan denBroeder January 3, weighing 7 lbs., 15 oz. along with the 'birth" of"their new company, Group 121, providing consulting services to major performing arts organizations throughout the West Coast. And George and Mimi Reilly Eldridge welcomed second baby Matthew George on June 27th, weighing in at 9 1/2 lbs(!), joining 3-year-old sister Caroline in Wellesley, Mass. When not co-heading our class Alumni Fund-raising effort, George is vp—finance at Ontogeny in Cambridge, Mass.

That's all on the news that made it's way to me. Whatever you've got, pass it along—voice-mail, e-mail, fax-mail—they tell me it all works. As for me, I really do prefer the thrill of opening that mailbox. My address below is new; but the mailman hasn't let me down yet, no matter where I've roamed. Hope to hear from you.

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