1979

If you happened to be tuned into CNBC on August 29, you may have caught UCONN English professor and author of a number of books on women's issues, Regina Barreca, duking it out with Bay Buchanan on the TV show, Equal Time.

The topics of the show were feminism on college campuses, road rage, and prenupoal agreements. Having read the transcript, there were lots of fireworks and some memorable dialogue. By the way, Regina has a brand new website (), a fan club, and a chat group devoted to the discussion of women's humor. I wonder if she stall finds certain "sink night" activities amusing.

Weathercaster (I guess that's politically correct for weather man) and Alpha Chi mystery bro Dave Frankel, one of the Philadelphia market's most popular broadcast news personalities, has joined KYW-3's news team as the 6 and 11 p.m. weather stud along with a wide range of news responsibilities (such as reporting whether or not the groundhog saw his shadow). Dave has been working for a competitor in Philadelphia since 1984, first as an investigative reporter and later as a weather dude. It's amazing what a government major can do these days. Dave and his wife have a daughter and twin boys and make their home in the Philly suburbs.

And now to catch up on some somewhat aging e-mail correspondences. My friend Tom Bird sent me some news before my brain surgery, and it hasn't gotten into the column yet. T. Bird writes, "I was lucky enough to participate in a rare doubleheader: Meatloaf at my place in Concord, with Pete Roby and family, and then BBQ (after a long plane ride) with John Saer and family in La Quinta, Calif. Also, I had a chance to talk with Bill Swenson, who just moved to a new place/same town (Chappaqua, N.Y.) to make room for the arrival of son number four. The Swensons are into hockey now (need one more defenseman, Swenny), and chances are when the kids are a bit older and all the hockey equipment is gamy, his basement will develop a cousin of that horrifying smell that could be found as one headed downstairs in most Dartmouth fraternity houses. I remain unable to explain why that smell still makes me smile (I'm with ya, T. Bird)."

C&G bro Johnny Harris checked in and said that he was recuperating from a dislocated and fractured shoulder incurred last April while bodysurfing on vacation in the USVI John manages a group of about 200 engineers, technicians, and programmers for IBM in Burlington, Vt. John lives about 150 yards from Eve Pratt Hoar and, when healthy, coaches U-10 soccer with Eve s husband, Sam '78 (Sorry John. I was short on "fodder.") Before his accident, John and his son went to a Canadiens/Flyers game with Jim Stein. Steiner, his wife, Eli, and sons Eirik and Tor are enjoying the ice and power outages of Montreal after many years in Oslo. Norwegian is the language in the Stein household, and Jim tells me it s not unusual for his 4-year-old son to correct dad's "foreigner's" accent.

I pulled up an old e-mail from my South Mass dorrranate Brice Buchanan which said that he had just finished proofing a long message which contained all kinds of info on himself and other classmates, but his AOL crashed and lost it all. Try again, Brice. And that goes for the rest of you, too.

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As weather stud lor KYW-3 Dave Frankel is responsible lor reporting whether the groudhog saw his shadow. Jim "Wazoo" Wasz '79