1988

Ed Gray and Tim Claman send their greetings from Palo Alto, Calif., where both work at Digidesign, a company that develops digital audio production systems. Both got their start in this career by working on the Synclavier in Dartmouth's Bregman Studio with Jon Appleton. Now Tim manages Digidesign's post production products and Ed manages the development platform. "I made it up to the reunion, but most would not know it because I've gone totally bald," laments Ed. "If you asked me, that Rogaine stuff is a big scam."

Ed is our class newsletter editor, which gives me an opportunity to clear up a longstanding misconception about the roles of the class secretary and the class newsletter editor: the truth is, we are both shameless plagiarists! It is perfectly acceptable to send your news to both of us at the same time in fact, we encourage it. Our production schedules and formats are vastly different (this column is more frequent; the newsletter has more room, and space for pictures), so it can't hurt to cover your bases and publish your news early and often. Send us both all the news you can. My e-mail address is at the end of this column; Ed can be reached at dearclassmates@yahoo.com.

Scott "Sabes" Sabol is happy to report that he is leaving the University of Delaware, where he has been director of the Delaware Transportation Institute for about three years, to return to his home state of Vermont. He will be a professor in tharchitectural and building engineering technology department at Vermont Technical College, where he will educate students in V.T.C.'s bachelor's degree program on the subjects of steel design, structural analysis, structural engineering, project and construction management, and contract law. He also plans to start a consulting business on the side, which he hopes is not too successful (so that he can use his free summers to ride cross-country on his '98 Harley-Davidson Heritage Springer). He can be reached at ssabol@vtc.vsc.edu.

Scott's news of other '88s is limited to Rich Howe, who works for Xerox and just purchased a minivan (Rich's wife, two children, and one child pending contributed to that vehicle choice...). Rich and Scott had their annual golf outing recently in Binghamton, N.Y., where they left the forests considerably more filled with golf balls, and the bars considerably more empty of beer.

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