1979

As I compose this column, the Red Sox are in first place. As you read this column, I'm sure that this is no longer the case. The last Dartmouth class of the millennium just graduated. I can remember a time when I thought 1999 was so far off into the future. But that was when I put Rolling Rock on my cornflakes. Enough of these musings.

I sent out a shameless mass e-mailing and got responses from a few voices crying in the wilderness. Darcy Prendeville Lawes is keeping busy at home in New Jersey with her two pre-teen children and lots of volunteer work. Darcy is the Girl Scout service unit manager for two towns, a Girl Scout leader, the Dartmouth enrollment director for two towns, and a PTO trustee (I guess that's what they call a PTO member they can't get rid of).

For those of you who keep the February issue of Sports Illustrated under your bed, take a look at the masthead and you'll see that Stanley Weil was recently promoted to director of new product development. Stanley has been at SI for about eight years. In his current role he handles most ancillary products licensing the SI name for retail sales. The most visible products Stanley works on are the SI swimsuit calendars, of which there are about half a dozen at this point. Vimen of Dartmouth, please forgive him. Somebody's got to do it. When he's not slaving at work, Stanley soaks up the country living in Katonah, N.Y., and shares the sports program shuttle service for his three kids, ages 6 to 10, with his wife, Mindy.

Heard from Custis Spencer Glover from across the pond. Custis and family dog, Julep, are tiptoeing through the tulips in Holland. Husband John got a job at BOLS Royal Distilleries, a Dutch company that has been making booze since 1575 (that's older than the stuff in the mung corner at Alpha Chi). Custis' children are in an American school and the Glovers are in the process of buying a house, which sounds like we'll be lucky to see you all at our 20th (or 21st) Reunion next June.

From elsewhere 'round the girdled earth, my favorite retiree, Rick Reno, checked in from the wilds of Central America. Rats#!%'s been teaching diving and related topics for the past few years, and he has a video studio that's a lot of fun doing mostly underwater stuff for tourists but some public interest and educational titles. Rats#!% writes, "Retirement is a relative thing, and I often think I work harder now than I did when I worked for a living. But then I just go diving or go home to play with the dogs, or wander across the road and sit on die dock with a couple of ice cold beers, and the feeling of malaise passes quickly! If anybody asks, you can tell them that early retirement in the tropics doesn't suck at all." Catch a wave...

Phil Odence, mini-reunion meister, invites us all to this fall's Homecoming Oct. 22-23 to attempt to get in partying shape for the big one next June. Make plans. Take it slow.

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