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If you subscribe to Time magazine, you probably also occasionally receive Time Digital, a guide to the hottest trends and trendsetters in our hightech world. Helping lead us through the maze is Anita Hamilton, one of the magazine's associate editors. In the October issue, she edited items on everything from a new soundrecording format for CDs to the problem of disposing millions of obsolete computers, to the complex technology being used in the upcoming animated movie Toy, Story 2. Anita also sometimes writes the personal technology column in Time. Last September she gave parents her top picks for reference software available to help kids do their homework. And she filled us in on the latest high-tech dolls for children, including a figure based on World Championship Wrestling performers and a blonde-haired girl who loves having tea parties and playing ballerina. Anita wrote, "In case you're in any doubt about how far we still have to go before toys for boys and girls find a happy gender-free middle ground, take a look at the latest high-tech d0115... So they're not role models, but they can still be fun." Chris Rorke is the new head football coach at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire, which boasts the best national record for a Division 111 football program. Chris was an assistant football coach at Georgia Tech following graduation, returned to Dartmouth as receivers and tight ends coach from 1991-93, and has been the offensive coordinator at Illinois Wesleyan since 1994. He also served there as the men's golf coach and the athletic recruiting coordinator for all sports. Plymouth State Athletic Director Steve Bamford told a local newspaper last summer that the selection process was tough, but that Rorke is a "players' coach.... The players absolutely loved this guy. Their voice was loud and clear. Chris made an immediate impact. Whatever he said, it hit home."

Sarah Nilsen is teaching at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh in the department of radio, TV and film, while she finishes her doctorate at the University of Southern California's School for Cinema and Television. Her dissertation, called Films at the World's Fair, looks at the use of films at public exhibitions, such as Walt Disney's fair projects for the Ford Motor Co. Sarah spent the 1998-99 academic year at the University of Toronto as the recipient of a Fulbright grant, and as part of her doctoral studies, conducted research involving the Montreal Expo of 1967. She also got married over the summer to Alike Ashooh, who is getting his Ph.D. in philosophy. Sarah reports that Julie Minkow Forstner is a radiation oncologist in Grand Rapids, Mich., and has a three-year-old son Sam.

Finally, a golf tournament held at reunion last June, raised over $6,000 for the EstebanOyenque '89 Memorial Scholarship Fund. More than 40 people helped make the day a success, including Andrew Erlichson, SteveSavage, Kevin Fitzgerald and LiseLeCaud Fitzgerald, John Mitcham and John Van Hooser. Peter Kong, AndyThompson, Bill Balliette and Dan Toal '9O won the "scramble" competition. Other prize-winners included Evan Gewirtz, ErinJohns and Ben Kaufman. Este's mom, Carmen, and sister Elena also attended the tournament, which was held at a country club in Windsor, Vt. Ross Waller, who organized the event along with Tom Flanigan, says it was "a fitting tribute to a terrific person who we all still miss tremendously." The scholarship fund currently provides assistance to an undergraduate from Ohio. Anyone who wants to contribute should contact Melanie Norten at Blunt (melanie.norten@dartmouth.edu).

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