1976

This month started out with an enjoyable series of notes to and from southern California. Paul Lazarus released his first feature film, "Seven Girlfriends," and kindly arranged a screening for the Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles at the Creative Artists Agency in Beverly Hills. Even more kindly, and even more courageously, Paul invited all the '76ers in the area to attend.

By press time I hadn't received any reviews from the attendees or read any reports of food fights at the CAA screening room in the national press. I did get some news: Greg Payne was moving to Santa Barbara that weekend, and, he regrets, had to attend to packing rather than the screening. The Paynes will remain parttime Angelenos: "Same e-mail address since we are keeping the house down in L.A. as our office. We will do Tuesday-Friday in L.A. and Saturday-Monday in Santa Barbara." Jamie Angell is teaching at Occidental College, and had heard about the show from a few sources by the time my e-mail reached him. Brewer Doran wasn't able to attend, although she was in San Francisco a few days later. Brewer's professorial trips this year include presenting papers in Australia, Singapore, New Zealand and China, not to mention "Santa Fe in February for the Renaissance Weekend there. Don't ask me how I got on that list of luminaries, but I wouldn't miss it for the world!"

In other news, Jim Crawford writes from Gainesville, Fla., that he has taken the position of chairman of the department of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Jim's children are undergraduates at Duke and Princeton, and spouse Aleta is working on her M.B.A. "For a former Dartmouth skier, Gainesville is a long way away from the mountains. But the opportunity to build an outstanding department was too good to pass up. I find that Gainesville provides the best rollerblading I've ever seen: no potholes in the pavement!" Dr. Jim can be reached at arcjmc@freewwweb.com.

Craig Triplett is "alive and doing well in Atlanta with my family—two daughters aged 14 and 11, my wife, Leslie Cadoo (Smith 77), and about 20 goldfish that live in a pond I installed in the back yard last year. Gardening has become a major passion of mine. When I can carve out a little spare time, I spend it cultivating." Craig has been in the telecommunications and human resources fields since graduating from Harvard Business School, most recently in human resource management positions at Morehouse College and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. He is planning on moving into the executive search business"Please feel free to contact me if you need the services of a headhunter!" Craig can be reached at atltrips@aol.com or, if you're changing planes and have a minute, at (404) 636-0095.

Judy and Noel Kropf are the proud parents of their first child, Sophie Lia, who came into the world accompanied by last Fourth of July's fireworks. Noel writes that he is "one happy daddy." Noel remains "CTO of Datacap Inc., where I have worked since 1989 designing and creating software for scanning paper documents and capturing images and data." Judy, Noel and Sophie "can often be found at ethnic music and dance events ranging from Cajun and Zydeco to Macedonian, Albanian, Norwegian, etc." If you want the latest Hudson Valley dance schedule, contact Noel at noel@datacap.com.

Thanks very much to those who wrote! Please send news of yourself and classmates.

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Paul Lazarusinvited area '76s to aprivate screening of hisfirst feature film,"Seven Girlfriends. DICK MONKMAN '76