1979

The e-mails and phone inquiries have been storming in and the answer is, "Yes, that was Stephen Godchaux '81 cross-dressed on top of the Mardi Gras float that aired on '20/20' in March." This has been a public service announcement.

Speaking of Mardi Gras, the news of Buddy Teevens' demise is greatly exaggerated. Our favorite football coach went from the Big Bender (Tulane University in New Orleans) to the Big 10 (or is it 12 now?) as offensive coordinator for the University of Illinois. I saw a few of Tulane's games on TV this year and Buddy's team certainly reflected his toughness and creative offense.

Dave Brown checked in from Greenville, S.C., where he is president of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce. Dave was recently in Arlington, Tex., tipping a few (beers, not cows) with David"Stoney" Stone, Curtis Rooks, and AndyKline. Stoney is a successful software entrepreneur in Dallas (due mostly to Trina's influence, no doubt). Curtis is living in California and consulting all over the county. And Andy is in Hanover as the pastor of the local Episcopal Church (was it God's calling or Moe's?),

After nine years in Houston working for IBM and now a company called Auspex, JoeGiammarco has moved to corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. Joe writes, "As a former geologist, I should know better than to live in northern California, where the ground shakes, the houses cost a halfmillion dollars, and the women like to say 'like.'" No wife or kids (no pets, no plants, just an occasional fungus).

News of another "rock hound" has surfaced. After ten years of international iron ore sales activities, Ed Jaicks has assumed the position of V.P.—marketing and sales of Heckett MultiServ West based in Butler, Penn. Eddy's press release states that Heckett is a world leader in "slag handling." I guess that about says it all. Congrats Ed!

One of our class of '79 authors, Josh Nossiter, sent word from Utah apre ski trip that if you were tuned into a feature film called Sunday that premiered at the Sundance Festival on January 16th, you might have gotten a glimpse of his son and daughter eating ice cream in a Queens diner and a great shot of the back of his head (15 minutes of fame). Josh's latest books are on the shelves, nail-biting thrillers about Word, Excel, and WordPerfect. One of them, Using Word '97, claims that the author graduated from Dartmouth University. I guess it's time to boycott Macmillan Publishing.

Somebody forwarded to me a magazine article with the face of Tim Schoonmaker emblazoned on the middle of the page. Tim is the chief executive of Emap Radio, one of the fastest growing radio groups in the UK (he clearly has a great face for radio). Emap has control of 12 radio stations. This expose really characterized Tim as quite a deal maker and well respected in his industry, dubbed as the "master of using the least amount of words' (English 5 training).

It was very kind of Bruce Smoller's dad to write us to say that his son, "the doctor," was recently promoted to full professor of pathology and dermatology at the Stanford University Medical School. Dr. Smoller specializes in the diagnosis of systemic disease based on dermatologic manifestations and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and lymphocyte abnormalities in inflammatory skin diseases (fancy way of saying acne control for corpses).

Last but not least, my 'ole roommate, Dave "Emmett" Hall, is alive and hitting the slopes as much as possible with his new wife, Rinda. Emmett met Rinda on a ski trip to British Columbia, fell in love, and is making her an honest Cubs fan. After ten years as a commodities trader, working for Libby Roberts' big brother, Emmett decided to trade commodities out of his home in Chicago but rumors have it that he may be bound back to the East Coast. Be good. E-mail us.

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As professor ofpatkology anddermatology atStanfordUniversity, BruceSmollerspecializes inacne control forcorpses. JIM WASZ '79