1984

This denizens of this column divide into two groups: movers and stayers. Among the movers we find John Corbett who is relocating with his family—spouse Jeanne and their children Rebecca (12), Rose (11) and Jack (8) to Basel, Switzerland, in November. John will work mainly with the knowledge management group of Syngenta Crop Protection, as head of customer relations and global spatial information systems. Fit that on a business card! He is also president of a software company Mud Springs Geographers. John and family are looking forward to being back in the international scene and to their first foray to a European country. Got recommendations about hot spots in Basel? Need some global spatial information? Contact John at johncorbett@mudsprings.com.

Another family on the move, in size not lo- cation, are Roy Forbes and his wife. Roy sends a quick update to say that he and Samantha had their first child, a healthy baby girl named Mer- ryn Gabrielle, on July 3. "Mercifully, she began sleeping through the night after the first five weeks." Congratulations! Another moving target, Geoff Berlin, wrote earlier this summer to announce a temporary move to London, to lead First Tuesday, a networking organization for folks in the IT sector, through an ownership transition. Geoff is such a mover, however, that by time you read this he may well have migrated to yet another European capital!

In the stayers category, we find John DeVaro, who, after moving from Penn to Pitt to Duke for his medical training, remains a pediatric ophthalmologist in Savannah, Georgia. John married a med school classmate, Josepha Bueno, now a dermatologist. ''We have two kids who keep us busy. The ocean is a half hour away, and the weather is great." John, this involuntary Midwesterner will be there for Spring Break! John shares a few patients with another '84 ophthalmologist, Steve Brooks, who practices in Augusta, Georgia.

Jayne (DeCubellis) Donegan wins the prize for staying the closest to Dartmouth—and for the most '84s in her e-mail. She, Matt Lopes and Bruce Bagdasarian have all ended up as partners of the same law firm, Brown Rudnick Freed & Gesmer. Matt and Jayne are in Providence while Bruce is in the firms Boston office. Another lawyer and '84, Jayne's husband, Michael Donegan, has his own practice, focusing on environmental law. Plus, there are two more future wearers of the green in the family, Jack (5) and Jessica (3). The whole family had a brush with fame recently when Hillary Clinton held a fundraiser at a neighbor's house. "The kids had a lemonade stand for the Secret Service agents and news media and got to meet and have pictures taken with the Clintons. It was pretty funny." Jayne and Michael have seen or talked to a number of other '84s and she has passed on some tantalizing tidbits. Caia Brooks lives in San Francisco, working in IT at GATX Capital, a leasing and finance company. Caia enjoys singing in an a capella group called Flying Without Instruments. Judith Turner and her husband, Cliff Rust '86, run a music store and live in downtown Boston. Kaya Kazmirci, now living in Istanbul, Turkey, works at Arthur Andersen Consulting; he and his wife, Evin, have a

2-year-old little boy. And Eric Taylor is now a judge in Los Angeles, married with two daughters. Jaynes e-mail ends: "That's about all I can think of. Thanks for taking the time to do this; it's really fun to hear what different people are up to." WOW, all that news and a thank you—je suis comblée!

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