1977

Visitors who enjoyed the Whitney Museum's new multimedia tour of its "American Century" exhibition this summer can thank 3-year-old Chase Anderson. Using a clipboard-sized computer, a visitor to the exhibition can access audio, text, and high-resolution color video and film programmed to accompany specific pieces of art.

The system will eventually be able to pull information from die museum's web site dirough an internal wireless network. With the help of Chase's counseling, Whitney director and technology curmudgeon Max Anderson was able to overcome his aversion to gallery gadgetry. "This is more of a generational issue for me," Max told the press as he demonstrated the new device. "My 3-year-old son grew up playing video games. I need to think about how he's going to experience an art museum, not old duffers like me." Maybe Chase can help me figure out how to program my VCR.

Gary Rogers "hefted a few Hefeweizen with Don 'The Duke of Ugly' Thomas" during a visit to Atlanta in mid-August. Gary, his wife, Jill '78, and their boys Jake and Grant headed west the next week to spend a long weekend in the Colorado Rockies. They looked forward to seeing Charley Adams and family while there. Gary runs sales and marketing for Sonus Networks, which he describes for all you day traders as "a very hot start-up developing telecommunications systems in Massachusetts."

Mark Pruner recently spoke on "Tribes, the Internet, and Education," at the recent Native American Golf Tour seminar in Shawnee, Okla. There he met Bernard Kahrahrah, who is now working with Mark's tribe, the Western Delawares, and was with the Native American Program at Dartmouth back in the early seventies. Interested readers can obtain both Mark's lecture outline and his score in the golf tournament at the Potawatomi Tribe's web site. Mark says his team shot a 59 and was in a four-way tie for fifth. Any one who confirms this should contact Bob Leach for the next newsletter.

Steve Rooks reports "all is going well as I now enter my fourth year on the faculty at Vassar College. My wife, Desiree, and I have just bought a new home and are the proud parents of our second daughter Ariana Elise Rooks, who was born on Feb. 8. She and big sister Kirstin Sarai are doing fine, and, unlike their father, have no aspirations of becoming dancers!" Steve would love to hear from classmates and can be reached at strooks@vassar.edu. Fred Matheson was recently named director of procurement for All Seasons Services, a provider of dining, vending, and office refreshment services based in Braintree, Mass. Bill Saufley has joined Coastal Bank of Portland, Maine, as senior vice president of human resources and legal affairs.

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