1971

On the fourth of July Dan Clouse was "standing in line at the Korean-owned and operated Home Store, in Home, Wash., (home of a short-lived-and failed, of course—Utopian colony experiment in the 1890s on Mayo Cove in the southern part of Puget Sound), die only person not buying beer, candy, and cigarettes, when a fairly distinguished (especially in contrast to the customers queued up with me) fellow in fashionable wirerims and a polo shirt about my age pokes his head in the door and asks if anyone knows where the cemetery is. A Dead Head? No, but he looks familiar, and when he says, 'You know, where the anarchist colonists would be buried,' I start thinking, 'Good question. Where is the Home Cemetery?' About one check-out later, it hits me, and I step over to the door and tell the guy that it's just up the road, tarn left, and down about a hundred yards. He nods and turns to the rest of the group, which includes a woman who obviously recognizes me. She says, 'Hey, Dan, is that you?' Turns out it's Julie Neff, ex-colleague at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma and the wife of the distinguished question-asker John Lippman, our '71 classmate, who's a big-shot in L.A. TV and media."

Small world/chance meeting stories seem to dominate the mail this month, to wit: Roger Prince "and wife Noelle were having lunch with our five-year-old daughter Isabelle at The Top of Europe, the restaurant at the top of the Jungfrau in Switzerland at about 11,500 feet. Note that I did not hike to that altitude. We rode the cog railway up through the Eiger tunnel. I was feeling a bit light-headed at that altitude, but I was not hallucinating. I was wearing the new Dartmouth sweatshirt from the Co-op that Noelle had gotten me for Father's Day. A woman came over and asked if I really went to Dartmouth. She turned out to be Tom Hanna's sister Kate, I believe she said her name was. We only chatted long enough to establish that I 'knew' (remembered would be more accurate) her brother."

Roger was also in "Luanda, Angola, earlier this spring overseeing installation of Unix workstations in an office building that Chevron has just built. I was surprised to see how rapidly things are improving in the capitol. I understand the situation in the countryside is still pretty grim. From the existing older buildings, it is easy to see that Luanda was a beautifal city when it was the capitol of the Portuguese colony of Angola. If they can just keep the peace, I think they have the kind of populace (predominantly young, ambitious and eager to learn) and natural resource base to make them a real powerhouse in Africa."

Tim Dreisbach "has taken a new position as president and CEO of Metricom Inc. following a major investment in the company several months ago by MicroSoft cofounder Paul Allen. Metricom complements Paul's vision of a highly networked world by offering wireless data network access on a wide-area basis. People in San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., can today have seamless, continuous mobile access to the internet or to their corporate LANs through the company's Ricochet service and wireless modems. We are engaged over the next year in building a higher-speed version and preparing to deploy on a nationwide basis. 'Though 'round the girdled earth we roam,' Dartmouth alums will need to be untethered from classmate Glenn Britt's Time Warner cable modems."

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