1982

The intimacy of the Pentagon. The coziness of Co-Op City. Ah, Topliff More of our classmates started here than any other dorm. For one day a year, Topliff also boasted the second largest ice rink on campus when the fourth-floor residents would open all the windows, flood the hallway, and play a local derivative of hockey. One Topliff alum was Sarah Melcher, the newly christened 1982 webmaster. Sarah is a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she is building the firm's knowledge management practice. She stills sings classical music although no longer professionally as she did as a sidelight for 12 years. She has recently taken on a fixer-upper project in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., where she lives with her two cats. Sarah encourages everyone to check out the class of '82 website, and if you have any suggestions or updates for the website, please e-mail them to Sarah at .

I had the pleasure of catching up on the thriving Catholic diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., with Father Michael "Keeney"Jones, its vice-chancellor. Keeney manages the operational and administrative functions of the diocese, comprising 88 parishes, five high schools, and two nursing homes. Prior to taking up the cloth, Keeney worked in the Reagan administration with Don Regan and Bill Bennett. He then moved on to the Bush campaign in 1988 but has since left politics behind. He commented that he is probably the only one, in our class to have married three Dartmouth alums.

Beth Nachison posts the most apocryphal update. She is a technical writer employed by Yale University's "Project X". She spent six years as a history professor at Southern Connecticut State and was happy to get out of the "academic snakepit". She is just completing her first novel. Still in accademia, as the dean of student affairs at Bowdoin College, is Craig Bradley. Craig is married to Elizabeth Webb '85 and has two daughters, ages four and one. He reminisces about Topliff hockey and is proud to say he still plays with the Bowdoin Faculty/Staff team. Following a similar calling is MikeDickens, who is currently the faculty officer for Arts at Brunei University in London. He lives with his significant other, Markus, and spends his time reading, clubbing, pubbing, and getting out to the English countryside. Topliff spawned yet one more fan of academic environs; Deb Rollins is the reference librarian at the University of Maine where, among other things, she reviews reference materials, Internet sites, and videos for several publications. For fun she dances-tap, swing, ballroom, country western. She started dancing to fulfill her P.E. requirement freshman year. She reminisced about playing an excessive number of backgammon games with fellow dormmate Lance Phox.

Steve Berger has the pleasure of handling J.P. Morgan's investment banking activities in Indonesia and Brunei (enough said). In a replay of the Year of LivingDangerously he nervously watched the May riots from atop a hotel in downtown Jakarta. He's been in Asia since 1985 and enjoys golf, sailing, and tennis. As deputy treasurer for Bank of America, Steve "Dips" Dixon is buffeted by similar storms. He has 150 people reporting to him and manages interest rates and trading risks around the globe for this little community bank. He has two kids, three and nine, and lives in Berkeley. He predicts only the three-year-old will share his affection for chlorinated water. Up the street, Derek Webb is minding the shop for the AIM Family of Funds. He manages all of their sector mutual funds as well as their very successful Canadian fund. He's busy, but life's not all bad; he called me while en route to go cat-skiing in Alberta. He also manages to get in some mountain biking on Mt. Tamalpais, which looms over his new home in Ross. Dave "Plek" Plekenpol hails from the Netherlands, where he is working in optical networking for Lucent. He has a girl and a boy, three and one, respectively. He spends his free time fixing up houses, traveling, and playing computer games with the kids. He implies that he's not going through a lot of sunblock. More on Toplif to come.

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