1982

Think back to September 1978. You were more apprehensive than excited. Everybody looked a little weird, and no one resembled their Freshman Book picture. Like Steve "Doute" Douty, perhaps you had just told your surprisingly mature-looking roommate (Rob Olse" Olsson) that you were looking forward to rooming with his son. You wondered what the real criteria for dorm assignments were. You questioned what characteristics on your housing application matched you up with a Latin major and a drug dealer. You asked yourself if you should have sprung for the "Gold Coast." Well, you got over it. You had a great time. But as the years passed, you lost touch with many of your freshman dormmates.

Well, over the next few years, we hope to rectify that. Each month we will high-light a dorm. Some dorms will require more than one column. This column will be Russell Sage Part I. The next issue will be French. These dorms were chosen because when we polled the current class secretaries, they unanimously agreed they had produced the most fascinating alumni. They know—they were in those dorms. Anyone who would like to volunteer to contact their freshman dormmates would be incredibly welcome. It is actually fun to contact old friends and not have to ask them for money. Please contact Rick or me if you would like to help.

Russell Sage—Part I. Most of us fabricate stories and spin yarns because that's what we are paid to do. Tom Burack does it on his own time. Our class historian has hung out his own shingle and is practicing environmental law in Dunbarton, N.H. He keeps busy serving on non-profit boards and regularly hikes and skis. Sharing the hallway with Tom in those final days of disco was John "Tex" Strawn. John blames not making it to the 15th Reunion on poor family planning. He added a daughter, bringing the Texas-sized brood to three. John has refocused his professional efforts from defending inept doctors to working with inept corporations. Another hallmate was Larry Hessney, who hails from Rochester, N.Y. In the last year he has left the arms of Mother Kodak and joined Arthur Andersen as a consultant, where he works on ERP implementation. He has a seven-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son.

David Dinnage reports from London that he is CEO of Tele-Publishing UK Ltd. They do voice personal ads and have a web site so if you're looking for a SWF smoker who's into martial arts, this is the place. He's recently divorced and spends his time traveling, skiing, cooking, playing music, and producing CDs (note the correlation between number of activities and number of children). Bruce "Zev" Weissberg met his future business partner in Russell Sage. He and Mike Sapers founded and built a commercial real estate company and currently track 34 markets across the U.S. Zev has two daughters and a son, ages three to eight. He also points out that the Yankees ain't doing badly. Brad Brown is doing deals as a senior partner with Applied Value Corp., including purchasing Tom Tom Tap, where classmate Curt Zimmerman is currently general manager. He has three girls aged from two months to eight years. For fun he chases kids, fishes in his pond, roller blades, skis, and chases golf balls. He keeps in touch with fellow Bones Gaters via the web site "The Virtual Basement" and is happy to see the house has not yet met the fate of Beta.

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