1988

Where else should I start my first Class Notes but at the very beginning of my Dartmouth experience, with my freshman year roommates from the first floor of McLane. Quentin Cote is in Acton, Mass., with his wife, Kelly, and their daughter Claire. By the time this is in print, their second bundle of joy should already have arrived. Quent works for Renaissance Solutions, a management consulting and systems integration firm in Lincoln, Mass. (with Co-consultant Sean Hogan), and is looking forward to burning brush in his yard this spring. Earnest Wotring moved to Texas after law school, first to clerk for the state supreme court and now to practice law in Houston where he is using his legendary bull-terrier tactics to grill opposing witnesses in court.

He spent three years consulting for the international energy industry with McKinsey in San Francisco, but now Jonathan Risch has traded in his garment bag for cowboy boots. He is in Dallas, making the world a safer place for Fritos and Doritos as Frito-Lay's planning and finance manager for non-supermarket sales. Tom Molnar is back from Geneva and living in Boston, working for Cargill trading petroleum products.

After years with Apple Computer and several months exploring Baja, Calif., and Rio de Janiero, Pete Trump has landed at Web TV. You've probably seen their ads recently, as Pete and his fellow Web-heads try to bring the Internet to the masses through normal television sets. The last of my hall-mates was Steve Gaffney, but I haven't heard from him in years Steve, if you're out there, drop me a line!

Sarah Jackson Han and her husband, Ed Han, are the proud parents of Gillian Jackson Han, born in January, "who has long legs and hazel eyes and weighs in at eight pounds, three ounces." Sarah and Ed live in D.C.'s Maryland suburbs, and will be taking Gillian to Taiwan and Hong Kong over the summer. Speaking of Sarah and Hong Kong,

Amy Lafferty Hsieh and Bill Hsieh have just moved back from Hong Kong to New York City. Bill still works for Bear Stearns and is now doing high-tech investment banking. Their daughter Hannah is two years old, and they expect their second in the fall. They held a mini-reunion in New York recently at Sarah Jackson-Flan's baby shower/30th birthday, where they were joined by Jack Steinberg, Jon Danziger, Cynthia Marshall, Kerry Lippincott Borska, Chuck Young, and Karen Avenoso.

Class President Rowland Wu is serving our country as an anesthesiologist for the U.S. Navy. He is just finishing his residency at Mass General. After six weeks of officer training in Newport this summer, he'll move to Bethesda, Md., for a three-year stint at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Next time the President needs knee surgery, Rowland just might be the guy in the scrubsuit controlling the gas.

And now for news of your scribe: After a few years with the International Trade Administration in Washington, I joined Advanced Paradigms Inc., a small start-up software consulting firm in Alexandria, Va. We have grown rapidly, and in November my partners and I accepted an acquisition offer from Wang. We are now a wholly owned subsidiary, where I run our consulting division and try to hire every good systems engineer and programmer I can find. My wife, Elizabeth, and I live in a small brick house in Arlington, Va, with two often-disobedient cats.

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