1980

No humorous theme this time, and I am up against my deadline. Just do it. Chaos is the natural order of things. Won't be the first time Dartmouth classmates have accused me of being random.

Speaking of random, Jeff Demers sent me an e-mail asking, "When did you start the class column?" So much for pride of authorship. Jeff is in his third year in Seattle as a system engineer manager for Siemens Business Communications. Over the Christmas holidays, Jeff was stranded at home due to snow, then flooded streets. Otherwise, he complains that he travels too much.

As for authors, Marc Feldman is coeditor of the book The Spectrum ofFactitious Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Press. This is the exciting sequel to Patient or Pretender:Inside the Strange World of FactitiousDisorders. (I had a previous neighbor whom some suspected of Munchausen by proxy, but then again, maybe the kid was just sick a lot.)

Chris Sellers is the author of Hazards ofthe Job: From Industrial Disease toEnvironmental Health Science published by the University of North Carolina Press. If God's not a Tarheel, then why is the sky Carolina blue? A lot of people now retire to the Chapel Hill area, including Tom Chapin's parents, Hugh and Joan Chapin. As for Chris's book, it explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early twentieth century United States workplace. Chris, with an M.D. as well as a Ph.D. in American Studies ("That's Doctor-Doctor to you"), is an assistant professor of history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University. Growing up, Chris was neighbors with my now law partner, Jason D'Cruz, back in Hendersonville, N.C. It's a small and random world.

Bruce Judson is the author of Netmarketing: How Your Business Can Profitfrom the Online Revolution. Bruce has been hailed as the "marketer's marketer" by Advertising Age. If you had been at Barnes & Noble in the Citicorp Building in New York on September 20, 1996, you too could have heard Bruce discuss his book, while he hoped that you would buy a copy, or maybe more, even if you did go to school with him, only that was so long ago, and he really didn't know you very well anyway, so what makes you think you can just waltz in here and get the book for free!

Merle Adelman is the author of a lot of memoranda that seek to remind me to remind you to give to the Alumni Fund so that people who were born when we were in college for God's sake can still have a quality Dartmouth experience. I think Merle should make a television commercial, kind of like Sally Struthers. Only Merle would be filmed walking down Webster Avenue, plastic cups littering the ground, hung over teenagers trailing behind her, while Merle cries, "Give generously, or they will go sober! Randomness aside, the College needs our help, and if you haven't given yet, you're not doing very good tax planning.

Josiah Stevenson was the project manager and architect for the Blue Hill Avenue Boys & Girls Club, the recent winner of the Harelston Parker Award for the "most beautiful piece of architecture" within the greater Boston area. The award is given annually by the City of Boston and the Boston Society of Architects. All buildings built within the last ten years are eligible for the award. Josiah is with Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects Inc. What I want to know is where did the Boys & Girls Club get its funding? Also, how many new buildings, other than McDonalds, are built in Boston in a given year? Still, it must be a very great honor to build something new that even Bostonians find beautiful.

Finally, if you find yourself back in Hanover or environs with a hankering to learn how to dance to country music, then boy o' boy howdy are you ever in luck. Jamie Orr '83 and Faye Grearson are among the best country swing dancers in the country. The winners of the Western Regional Dance Competition in 1995, they have been sharing their expertise (for a $30 fee per person per session) at the Jazzercise Studio and at Cactus Jack's, both locations in White River Junction. Remember to carry in clean-soled shoes to protect the floating, hardwood floor. The dancing duo welcomed little Colton Orr back in July of 1996. That's what can happen if you dance too close.

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