1982

After a sham debate, we have awarded '82 Gile Alumnus of the Year award to John "Hoe"Donahoe. John was recendy appointed worldwide managing director of the prestigious management consulting firm of Bain & Cos. He'd previously been managing Bain's West Coast office in San Francisco. Apparently his work as treasurer of Kappa Sig was a significant determinant in his selection to the position. John was quoted in the BostonHerald as saying, "Ever since Mike Donoghue got elected class president, I knew that no dream was too outrageous." The latest personal data I had on John, he and Eileen "Muffin" Chamberlain Donahoe had four children and were living in Portola Valley, Calif. In all seriousness, you find few people with John's breadth of ability who are that profoundly nice.

John's freshman-year roommate took a different career tack. Charlie Winslow spent 10 years modeling—an option open to few '82s then and even fewer now. Charlie then started paying for his clothes and went to work for Smith Barney and Andersen Consulting, where he boned up on back office systems. Emboldened by the knowledge he had gained, he joined with two partners and has founded the World Financial Exchange, which is a startup electronic trading exchange for U.S. equities. He has tapped into a good chunk of venture capital and is planning a public launch in the late third quarter. Charlie sees a lot of CortFelske and is still single but with no longterm plans to stay that way.

Next door, in the Lord basement, lurked Stan Kraska and roommate D. Jon"FatMan" Merriman. Stan just turned 40.I always suspected Stan was more mature than the majority of us—on the trips to rugby games, he wouldn't start the car until we all had our seatbelts on. He confessed that his 10-year-old son was "dating" Steve Schuh's surprisingly nice daughter. (Ponder that the next time you complain about your in-laws.) Stan is working at LaSalle Investment Management, where he has worked for four years, albeit with business cards that had different company names on them. He invests in real estate operating companies, which because of their unfortunate propensity to generate cash and earnings, find little favor with sophisticated Internet stock buyers. Stan has two boys, ages 10 and 7. Stan reminisced fondly about reading on warm spring afternoons in the adjoining cemetery in the presence of "Abigail," whose headstone served as a backrest. Stan recently dined with the aforementioned father of his son's girlfriend and fellow Lordite Senator PeterFitzgerald, Peter Rosenwald, John"Arthur" Froemming and Beth and Mike Falcone (both '83s).

In some late-breaking North Mass news, Margaret Smith reports she is an attorney with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Last summer she traveled with Joy Robertson to Hong Kong for the wedding of Hilda Wang. Joy is a child psychiatrist in New Jersey. Jamie McKenzie has been named senior vice president and general counsel of sizzling hot Internet company Vertical Net. He had previously been a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia. Jamie is a recognized industry leader in the use of "Plain English" in SEC documentation and is thus a target of much resentment by fellow securities lawyers who have profited handsomely from obfuscation and redundancy, as defined by, but by no means limited to the extent and degree to which more words, phrases or other commonly recognized symbols of written expression, are used or employed than a mutually selected adjudicator would deem requisite or necessary except in times of declared hostilities.

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Stan Kraska recalls reading in the College cemetery in the presence of Abigail," whose headstone served as a backrest. MARK SOANE '82