1977

My offer to exchange news for Clinton jokes proved irresistible to many of you and yielded a variety of interesting reports. Barry Harwick proved once again that he hasn't lost a step. The 1995 masters world champion in the 5,000-meter track race as well as Dartmouth's track and cross-country coach, Barry recendy broke the New Hampshire masters record for five kilometers with a time of 15 minutes, 25 seconds, a pace of less than five minutes per mile. He finished 11th overall among a field of 5,000-plus runners.

After an 11-year absence, Max Anderson will return home to Manhattan in September, as the new director of New York's Whitney Museum of American Art. Max has spent the last three years as director of the Art Gallery of Ontario, where he increased its collections, expanded its special exhibitions program, and increased revenues during a period of government cutbacks. When his new appointment to the Whitney was announced this past July, Max described his mission as "to help define the character of American art in a more international arena" and "to get great works of art in front of the public and help them understand what they are seeing." Before his stint in Toronto, Max directed the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University for eight years. Max and his wife, Jacqueline, have a 2 1/2-year-old son Chase and are looking forward to their return to the wilds of Manhattan.

Thomas Beebee continues as an associate professor of comparative literature and German at Penn State University, where he was recently elected as a term fellow of the Institute for Arts and Humanistic Studies. A legitimate Renaissance man, Thomas's third book, Epistolary Fiction in Europe 1500-1850, will be published in early 1999.

Another recent author is Bill Hammett, whose technical book Radio Frequency Radiation was published by McGraw Hill in 1997. Bill is the president of Hammett & Edison Inc., consulting engineers for radio and television in Sonoma, Calif. Bill and his wife, Sara '81, have three sons, Toby (8), Sean (6), and Reed (2). Bill is active in educational activities, presently serving as president of both the Children's Cross-Cultural Communications Foundation, which he founded in 1995, and the Sonoma Valley Education Foundation, which will raise over $200,000 in 1998 for support of the local public schools.

Former DOC honcho Tom Carter, his wife, Dee Dee, and daughter Kate escaped the 105-degree Oklahoma summer for white-water rafting on the Rio Grande near Taos, N.M. Not, surprisingly, it was not as "brisk" as the canoe trips Tom liked to take in the snow melt on the White River.

Helen Conroy and her two sons recently visited Jim Danaher in Santa Cruz. Jim lives a few blocks from the beach and has his own law practice to keep himself busy when he's not surfing. Helen's own law practice in technology and general business litigation is keeping her busy. "I'm a partner in the newly combined firm of Thelen Reid & Priest, LL.P., which resulted from the merger of Thelen, Marrin, based in San Francisco, and Reid & Priest, based in New York. My life seems to be one jury trial after another—a lot of fun, too."

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