1984

It's the dog days of summer here in the center of the United States and it is too hot to do much of anything—which includes tracking down news for the Class Notes column. So you get what I've got—and it's pretty slim pickings.

The big news of the summer is the election of our own Karen Francis to the board of trustees in June. Congratulations, Karen! (No, you haven't forgotten voting for her—as a charter trustee she was named by the board rather than the alumni.) When not in Hanover hobnobbing with that august body, Karen lives in San Francisco, where she is managing director and chief marketing officer of Internet Capital Group.

Somewhat belated work-related congratulations are also in order to a number of us laboring in the fields of commerce and investment. In vaguely chronological order they are: Susie Huang became a managing director of Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter back in the winter and Joseph Banks did the same, although not necessarily in investment banking, at Goldman Sachs. What else they are getting up to in the Big Apple was not covered by The New York Times ads the alumni office sent me. I guess it must be true if it was printed in the NYT!

Further on up the East Coast, John Isaacson was named CEO of Lee Auto Malls earlier this year. John actually did an internship with the same company as a student—talk about employee loyalty! John and his wife, Linda, have two children and live in Cumberland, Maine. Chris Huff's more varied work experience has now led him to become VP of sales and marketing for North America at TeleKnowledge. The press release says that TeleKnowledge makes telecom software that "uses object-oriented technology and plug-and-play architecture to set new performance standards for new service creation and deployment!" Avirtual lollipop to whomever wrote that copy! Last, but no means least, Amy Folbe was elected partner at her law firm Marx Layne in Detroit.

And now for the rest of the news that's fit to print...we will be having another mini-reunion this fall in Hanover at Homecoming. Postcards with more details are coming but I can tell you that in addition to participating in the homecoming parade and the "younger classes" party at the Top of the Hop after the game, we'll have a class tailgate party before the game. So come one, come all and join your classmates in cheering on the Big Green. By the way, if you would like to host a mini-reunion for your neck of the woods, the class would like to help. Just give a holler to one of the class officers.

The class Web page is up and running at

www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/84. It's designed to be a way for our class to stay in touch—but it needs your touch! For example, we're considering posting interim Class Notes columns there now that the Alumni Magazine is dropping to bimonthly publication. What do you think? For it to work you will have to...send news!

One last gasp of information: my email is not kkrause@umkc.edu as reported in the class newsletter but rather krausek@umkc. edu (first initial after the last name). I wouldn't want anything to get in the way of you sending news to me!

4821 Roanoke Parkway, Apt.802, Kansas City, MO 64112-1822; krausek@umkc.edu; 6310 Cherry TreeLane, Atlanta, GA 30328; (404) 256-1853;mymy@mmdspring.com