1982

In the last few months, you've probably read more about Dartmouth in the popular press than you have in a year's worth of this magazine. If you haven't yet expressed your opinions regarding the"New Social Initiative" to its authors, send an e-mail or two to President Wright and and Alumni Relations VP Stan Colla at and . You can also log on to and select "New Social Initiative" to leave comments. Regardless of whether you cheer or abhor this decision, the changes contemplated will have a major effect on College life. As an alumnus and, to some degree, a product of the social system currently in question, you should have input into the decision.

We left off two months ago somewhere in the recesses of Topliff Hall. Twenty years ago, you might have run into Kate RingeWelch. Today, she is living in Westerly, R. 1., and just had her second child in January to join her three-year-old boy. She continues to do energy conservation planning for utilities and plays tennis and paddle tennis. Scott"Moans" Simmons is the chief operating officer of exotic travel company Abercrombie & Kent in Vero Beach, Fla. He takes paychecks to float down the Nile, chase penguins in Antarctica, and toodle around the Scottish highlands. On these ordeals, Scott is occasionally joined by wife Stephanie.

Crist Vial, J.D., is in Dallas haggling and dealing to wring profits out of a beaten and battered oil patch. Crist has stayed plugged into politics. He worked as a legislative aide in the Department of Agriculture. He also helped on the Bush and Dole presidential campaigns. He expects to get hooked up with the next Bush's campaign soon. More fearsome than the specter of nuclear winter and global warming is the realization that Eben Jones's genes have been passed on to a daughter and son. The clean-shaven head that once barked only the "Na's" and "Who's" of "Whale's Tails" now shouts the "Buy's" and "Sell's" of bond trading for Chase Manhattan Bank. Eben has transferred some of the energy that made him a perennial Iron Man contender and, arguably, the top amateur triathlete in the world, into a newfound passion for golf. For giggles he still runs the occasional marathon. Doug "Hedgehog" Thomas lives in Wilmette, Ill. He has kids aged 8, 4 and 1. He is the regional manager for People magazine. He keeps in touch with an ever-dwindling group of '82s in Chicago. When he's not playing chauffeur, he gets in a little golf. Seth "Meister" Brewster is a commercial litigator in Portland, Maine. Once content to trade on his laurels as the male "10" of Hanover, Seth has resigned himself to working for a living (he did not welcome the news that I could not guarantee him a cover in return for this information). He takes some time to ski with his wife, Helene, and children, ages 6, 5 and 1. He is planning to compete in the "Escape from Alcatraz" triathlon this spring. Matt Eckel is a lawyer working for the FDA in Maryland.

Errata: I have caused Tom Burack a great deal of distress by reporting that he had hung out his own shingle. This was not, is not, and, for the foreseeable future, will not be true. It was my misinterpretation of what he meant by his going into "private practice."

Other Nevis-. Jason Klein has been appointed executive vice president of Times Mirror Magazines. He has recently had responsibility for overseeing Field & Stream,Outdoor Life, and the soon to be launched Outdoor Explorer. He was credited with turning around the profits of TMM's Outdoor Cos. Nick Lawrence recently exhibited his new mixed media on linen at his gallery in Provincetown (DNA Gallery). Nick, who studied at the Skowhegan School of Art and at Oxford and has received numerous grants and fellowships, including one from the NEA, blends primitive symbols with abstract expressionist sensibility. He claims influence by Australian aboriginal painting, which also expresses a concern with the relationship between man and nature. Peter Moran recently moved from Seattle to Marin County to take a web job at Autodesk. He attributes the rediscovered firmness in his waisdine to more time on his bike and less time in dark Seattle brewpubs. He's hoping to run into classmate Mike Mitchell, rumored to live in Fremont.

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