1984

What's marble and gray and green all over? The spiffy new (offices of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C. On the cutting edge of so-called "green buildings," NRDC's offices in Washington and New York are super energy efficient, use eco-friendly materials, non-toxic paints, and reusable materials. Why do you Philistines care? Because they are not just green, they're Dartmouth Green: they were designed by our very own Rob Watson. Rob is director of NRDC's International Energy Project and co-chair of the U.S. Green Buildings Council. I ran into him on the street in Washington, and he gave me a great tour of the office and a very good cup of Peruvian coffee. (Fortunately, he did not notice the '81 Chevy Suburban I had just parallel-docked using one-and-a-half parking spaces and several gallons of non-recoverable processed hydrocarbon.) Recent events in Rob's boring life include travel to East Asia and Latin America, a middle-of-the-night meeting with Fidel Castro and one of the Kennedys, his picture in The NewYork Times with the aforementioned El Jefe, and his recent marriage to New York architect Peg Howard.

As you may have noticed, running into people on the street is my backup to the usual making-things-up strategy for this column. Marianne McCarroll happened to be on the street in Park City, Utah, a few weeks ago and recognized me despite my radical snowboarding uni. Marianne ditched her Florida job last year, bought a motor home, and has been cruising the continent on blue highways. So far stops have included Montreal, Nashville, New Orleans, San Antonio, a bunch of national parks, and Park City. She reports that Anniken Kloster is living in Montreal with her husband, Salah, and 1-year-old boy Yahia, and that Willa Ridinger lives in New Haven, Conn., and teaches second grade. Marianne will of course be at reunion, and she won't even need a dorm room. To find out when she will next be touring a city near you, contact her via cellular e-mail at . As we radical snowboarders like to say, Marianne's the bomb.

In further roaming-the-girdled-earth news, Debbie Logan lives in London with her husband, Mark Evans, and two children Emily and Ben. But even as I write, they are winging their way to South Africa to enjoy some rest and relaxation in the beautiful wine country of the western Cape. Debbie reports that she regularly sees Stuart Fiertz and his wife, Tina, as well as Bill Bannister-Parker and his wife, Charlotte. Debbie works for a Paris-based design and consulting agency which specializes in color (truly assimilated, she spelled it "colour") and style prediction for product development.

If you have just taken this magazine out of your mailbox (turning directly to the '84 Class Notes section as usual) and you still have not registered for reunion, you should immediately go back into your house and look in the mirror because you have probably also forgotten to wear clothes. Once you have established that you are in fact in your own home and have not left the gas on, call Dartmouth at (603) 646-1110, ask for the Alumni Relations Office, and beg them to let you come to reunion. You will probably have to endow a chair or something, but with a fine meal from Line 4 under your belt and one good whiff of the AD basement, you will know that it was worth it.

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'84 15TH REUNION JUNE 19-JUNE 21,1998