1963

A few years ago, when most of us couldn't tell a bit from a byte (I still can't) or take the Internet seriously, Tom Alartin, Syracuse computer prof, was helping the U.S. government (and us) try to grasp the long-range effects of the "information highway." Lately Tom's shifted his focus to training telecommunications people to cope with the digitizing of our telephone wires. (Have you tried calling information recently?) He's acting director of a program at Syracuse which gives master's degrees for advanced studies in telecommunications including wireless, local area networks, and satellites. Tom earned a law degree at Berkeley and then a doctorate in communications research at Stanford. Anne is director of the English-as-a-second-language program at Clarkson. Their son Chris is earning a Ph.D. in computational physics at University of California. What does Tom foresee this time? Watch for all sorts of new telecommunications services in two or three years when the dust settles from the big consolidations. As for high-definition TV, the jury is still out.

Tom Martin was a lawyer before plunging into the computer world. Bill Green began his cyberspace journey in the Sanborn House. An English major and later an editor for Cambridge University Press (management guru Deming was one of his authors), Bill has been for the past 10 years computer communications coordinator for the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York. He got his start collaborating on a book on desktop publishing and leveraged that into becoming a Webmaster. By the way, Bill is still a Mets fan. His daughter Elizabeth is in Portland, Ore.; Nicole is in Fairfield, Conn.

By now, you should have gotten plenty of information on our big 35 th Reunion in June. Chairman Bob Bysshe asks that you please send your reply cards back as soon as possible so he can make an accurate estimate as to the turnout. Steve Jacobstein, Rochester, N.Y., plans to celebrate his first wedding anniversary with Key Edwards at the Reunion. The couple together has seven kids, including Steve's son Adam, a junior at Dartmouth. Also from Pi Lam, Marty Mintz, Peter Stern, and BillAdelaar expect to show. Marty and Dominique are in the import business in Strafford, Vt. They have two children. Peter and Lil live in Philadelphia, where he is a labor consultant and she a radiologist. Son Dan works in employee benefits with Hewlett and daughter Karen in direct marketing with the Franklin Mint. Bill Adelaar, a private investor in New York, is active in navy veteran organizations and endows several scholarships at Dartmouth. New York lawyer Jerry Uram hopes to find time. He's celebrating the marriage of his med student son Michael '90 with Wendy Cohen, Brown '89. His daughter Alison teaches at Horace Mann School, and stepdaughter Caroline studies at Riverdale School.

The class of 2001 has six children of '63s. They are Christopher Boies (Steve), Clay and David Floren (Doug), Caroline Kovas (John), Jocelyn Leavitt (Jim), and Carla Prior (Ron). They join 17 other 1963 progeny still on campus.

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