1981

This is the last column before we head north for reunion, and so I must plug some highlights ofitfor you, to entice those sitting on the fence to attend. Jeffrey Jeff on Friday night—you know that already. Well, Keith Hammonds is brokering a deal with Greg Folkers' band The Golden Daggers, so that Greg and his crew can get you to pogo at the tent Saturday evening. Never heard of them? Neither had I, until Nick Carr, manager of the Dags' fan club and translator of their lyrics, told me they "are huge in Finland." "Greg's a teen idol in northern cities such as Kemi and Rovaniemi," Nick told me. "I can barely keep Daggers Beanie Babies in stock." Now, if that does not work out—Keith's not sure he can get enough markka to pay the band—there's much more happening that weekend, even without the chance to hear a Finnish cover of "My Sharona." On Saturday morning Ellen Brout will host a symposium called "The Internet and Community: Does Technology Unite or Divide Us?" while that afternoon, Anne Putney Swire will help put on a reception in tribute to important women from our time at the College—coaches, professors, administrators—a sort of sequel to the recent Celebration of Coeducation. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, 'cause you know the rest: swims in the river, something to quaff at Five Olde, a climb up the library's bell tower, a rocking-chair on the Inn's porch, breakfast at Lou's, a peek in the bookstore, a walk across the Green holding someone's hand. And classmates, classmates, classmates. North Palm Beach denizen Phil Gildan will come to Hanover this June to escape hot, wet Florida.

"I'm doing corporate and mergers and acquisitions work these days," he wrote in an e-mail, "with a side of resort and country club representation. That helps the golf game."

When not lounging with clients at the Breakers, Phil coaches his boys' basketball and baseball teams (Ty is 9, while Jake is 6), and the whole family skis their brains out in Deer Valley, Utah, where they have a home.

Andy Bramante told me that RickCavanaugh is now living in Colorado with his wife, Ann, and kids Caidin (9), Kevin (7) and Cara (2). "I joined Sycamore Networks last summer," wrote Rick, "and am having a great time running business development for the west. We plan on ultimately moving back to Massachusetts (Cape Cod)." Sycamore Networks, headquartered in Chelmsford, Mass., develops the transport, switching and management products that are required to create a flexible, intelligent optical network. "Life is good," continued Rick. "The work is fascinating, the pace demanding. I want to retire in a couple of years and coach my kids, play golf, stay out of Ann's hair and make a go at the oil painting and music hobbies I've developed on weekends."

Ted Hibben's got a new kid and a new job. First, the kid: Charles Ehret Hibben joined sis Sophie on January 29. "He edged out the arrival of Etienne Boillot's first child," said Ted, "Aramis Boillot, who was born on February 2." (Etienne and wife Lisa Gagnum live in South Salem, N.Y. That's where the witches all sound like Ted Turner.) And the new job: at the start of March, Ted began as vice president of marketing and business development—employee No. 2—at a Cambridge, Mass.-based skin delivery biotechnology start-up called Pericor. All of this has kept our classmate off the roads.

"These new parental and professional responsibilities may require me to skip marathon training this year, as well as triathlon training, too," finished Ted, after he'd achieved 1999 honorable mention All American ranking. Ted will be at Reunion, by the way; he's gonna stick his newborn in one of those big-wheeled tricycles and jog to Hanover from Boston.

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