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As many of us struggle with the winter winds, we can dream of Hal Sandstedt's wedding in Hawaii. He writes that he was married last July to Hatsuyo Fukui in a beautiful chapel on Maui, with the reception overlooking the 18th green of the Makena Country Club and views of the sun setting over the ocean. Hal, who had been working for the Inso Corp. in Tokyo, recently accepted a position with the computer company Unisys, where he worked during his Dartmouth summers. He says it's funny to be going back 10 years later. He'll initially be stationed in Philadelphia but plans to head back to Tokyo as the company's strategic marketing program manager. Hal's groomsmen included Jeff Green '88 and Andy Kim. Andy recently returned to San Francisco from Manhattan, where he's working for a "venture capital-funded firm doing e-commerce stuff." Hal continued the computer theme by reporting that he recently ran into ClifF Bernstein at an internet-related event. Cliff is a lawyer living in the coastal town of Kamakura, southwest of Tokyo.

Rick Spalding spent his own two weeks in Hawaii last October, honeymooning with wife Trish Mellon. They married in Lake Placid and when not vacationing on tropical isles, they live in New buryport, Mass., where Rick is a senior consultant for The Hale Group, Ltd., which provides growth strategies for Fortune 500 companies in the food industry. Dartmouth folk attending the nuptials included groomsman Chris Maher, along with Adrian Block, Mike Parrott,Jean Vendice, Leslie Bonnyman, DanRivers and Rick's large contingent of Dartmouth relatives.

I'm starting to think that I'm going to need a computer consultant to explain all the e-mails I'm getting from the technologically advanced among us. Perhaps LauraBordewieck Rippy will volunteer, but first she'll have to explain what she wrote in her last note. I'll pass on what I can decipher. After more than six years at Microsoft, Laura sounds very excited to be taking on a new challenge in the Lone Star State. She's been recruited to be the CEO of a dotcom company near Fort Worth, Texas, which she says is a startup with less than 20 employees. She writes that they have a "vision to be the leading marketplace for everything to do with handheld devices—hardware, software, accessories and services for the palm, ce, symbian, and future mobile platforms like web phones." She says, "Guess that means those cowboy boots in the closet are for real! We're enjoying the Texas sunshine, and hope y'all come visit us sometime soon."

Finally, a few notes about our classmates in colder climes. Wendy Zug Brown writes that she and husband Jeff have been in Yellowstone National Park since 1997, living year-round at the headquarters in Mammoth Hot Springs. Jeff runs an educa tional organization called the Yellowstone Institute and Wendy spends some of her time with ministry work, and more of her time with Becca, age 3, and Sarah, who is 1 year old. She says her parenting work largely consists of keeping them out of geysers and away from grizzlies. She says she had a pretty good track record until recently, when die family cat permanently joined the food chain in Yellowstone, courtesy of a coyote. She stays in touch with Tina RichardsonMiller, who is a hydrologist in Anchorage, Alaska, where she has lived for 10 years with husband Dan, and their three children, 5-year-old Anna, 3-year-old Madeline and 1-year-old Bob.

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