1982

South Mass alums have proved elusive—a significant feat given the ever-watchful eye of Blunt Hall. I was able to catch up with a few of them. After being asked to leave Hitchcock by his roommates, Andy "The Commander" Gaillard fell upon the infinite mercy of South Mass and was accepted in.Andy began a long association with the South Mass Debaters, and not because of his forensic ability but because of his outstanding performance on the Debaters hockey team. Andy is currently working hard to keep our prisons safe from hardened criminals. He is doing criminal defense work for Day, Berry & Howard in Stamford, Connecticut. He lives up the road in Fairfield with wife, Kendall, and their two children. He summers with the DuPont family on exclusive Fishers Island. Andy's roommate in later years in South Mass was Steve Lichtenauer. Steve is a managing director at Goldman Sachs in the technology investment banking group. He has recently eased out of the grind of feeding young technology companies to (formerly) ravenous public market investors to assume more management responsibilities and to occasionally see his wife and four boys. He works closely with Brad Koenig '80.

Dave "Winch" Winchester is an associate professor of surgery at Northwestern. He specializes in cancer surgery. He has four kids, ages 2, 8,10 and 12. He is living in Winnetka where he started. Id say more but Winch's pager went off. After graduating from Tuck as part of the 3/2 program, Matt Hogan spent 13 years in New York, first as a commercial banker and.then as an investment banker with Merrill Lynch. Matt is currently the CFO of a privately held medical diagnostic company and lives in Palo Alto, CA with his wife, Maureen, and 20-month-old son.

Austin Beutner is a founding partner of Evercore Partners in New York. I traded calls with Austin and, with a column deadline looming (passed, actually), I decided to see if his name would appear in a Dow Jones Newswire search. I got 74 hits for articles appearing in the last year. Most of them have to do with Austin spearheading the purchase of the parent companies of The National Enquirer, Star, Globe, National Examiner, Weekly World' News and Sun. So next time you are stuck in a grocery store line wondering why Oprah's retaining water again, jot yourself a note to follow up with Austin. I took a similar tack with John Colon, who has not energized the press corps to the same degree as Austin. He appeared three times as partner of and spokesman for Greenwich Associates. John sounded deceptively authoritative on financial services industry issues.

In other news, Martha Solis Turner gave birth to a girl in May. Mom and Sydney are doing well. Bill Banks and his wife, Willow, and kids Emily and Will have settled up in Mill Valley, California. We were lucky enough to have them out in Colorado for a couple of years. The skill level of people I ski with has dropped off significantly since he left. Bill is VP, incubator services (sort of a multi-tasking temporary CEO/advisor/father-confessor), for a high-tech incubator in SF called campsix. He gets in less mountain biking than he'd like despite his enviable location in the Marin Headlands. It was nice to hear from Jack Oakes, who apparently even reads this column. Jack is working in marketing at Red Hat. He has three kids, ages 3,7 and 9. They adopted the youngest, Anastasia, from Russia two years ago. He describes himself, in so many words, as a Yankee carpetbagger residing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Regards.

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