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I went and looked at Doug Simpson's daughter's web site and wrote to tell him how great I thought it was. This is his response: "She is 12, is selftaught, teaches me tricks about web design, and understands web community better than 99 percent of the adults in the world. And she is not unusual. These kids are our competition. And our salvation. I have seen the future, and it works." Amen.

I was particularly pleased to hear from Carl Strathmeyer, , who writes: "I had been a marketing guy at Digital Equipment for a zillion years and the company had decided to discontinue our (successful, innovative) product line. So we negotiated the intellectual rights to the product and took it out. I've been the marketing director for a division of Dialogic Corp. for the past four years.

We have three teenage boys. The oldest, Eric, is off to Dartmouth this year. Youngest son Marc is finally in a good special-needs placement in a collaborative program run by several Boston-area school districts. They emphasize a lot of life skills and community activities, which is exactly what he needs. So we're resting a bit more easily regarding his education and future.

Apparently Kim Cannon has been tapped for a role in the Pierce Brosnan/Rene Russo remake of The ThomasCrowne Affair being shot in New York. Reportedly he plays a computer nerd who helps Rene break into someone's apartment. He is not giving up his day job as a cowboy lawyer in Wyoming yet.

Warren Barrash : "I am a research professor at Boise State University. Recently several others and I received a $2 million grant to develop a research site for investigating aquifer permeability with geophysical methods. We are pleased that Bill Clement '79 has joined our group on this project. On the home front, my wife, Kris, designs LaserJet printers for H-P and bird-attracting landscaping for us. Our son Nick, almost 7, loves soccer, Legos, and cookies."

Walter Hinton writes, "In 1993 we moved to Greenville, S.C., where I am practicing commercial law and Carol is with the legal department at Bowater Inc. Daughter Kathryn, a junior, is in the midst of the college tour routine, very undecided but leans toward Virginia, which her mom attended. Her brother Alex is a fifth grader and into soccer. Last month I helped local alums Roger Stone '79 and David Brown '79 organize a welcome for the Green women's basketball team, who passed through on their way to play against Clemson. I'm enjoying volunteer work with Christ Church Episcopal School, the local Chamber of Commerce, and American Leprosy Missions Inc., and an occasional interview for the College. Classmates passing by on the Charlotte-Atlanta corridor can give me a shout at !"

Peter Van Demark says, "With the big five oh comes thoughts of eventual retirement. Ack! I just sent a membership check to AARP! Kate and I are enjoying the Boston area, and especially Cape Ann. We bought a small cottage in Lanesville, in the northern part of Gloucester, with a view of the whole New Hampshire coast (all 15 miles), and think that Cape Ann will be our home once work is over and it is time again to play full time."

So, where's Paul Gambaccini? Well, he's still a major personality in London, broadcasting on two big-time radio outlets, one of them national.

More on Paul later.

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