1974

We have a new Webmaster! Angus Scott-Fleming has very graciously agreed to take on the task of designing and upgrading our class Web site, which can be viewed at www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/74/. Please be patient with us as we gradually build the site up. If you have any questions, suggestions, content or willingness to help, please contact Angus at an angussf@goeapps.com. We're trying to determine how best to use this site and are very interested in your ideas.

In the meantime, here's the story on Angus:

"After completing my A. B. in geology in '74, I worked for Asarco (formerly American Smelting and Refining Cos.) for the rest of the year. I decided I didn't want to be a geologic-sample mule for the next few years and went back to school at the U. of Arizona. I completed an M.S. in geophysics at the UofA in 1980.1 worked for my thesis advisor's geophysical consulting and contracting company all over the world (throughout the western United States and in Ireland, in South Africa and twice in Brazil) for the next four years. I left the company to manage the field geophysics program for St Joe American Corp., and while at St. Joe I completed an M.B.A. I worked for St. Joe all over the western United States, including the next valley east from Death Valley. In the summer, of course, it was 121 degrees Fahrenheit at Furnace Creek the day I last worked there, and in northern Ontario during winter, of course, it was minus-40 degrees the last morning I left there. In 1987 St. Joe was bought by an Australian financier, so I took the buyout they had offered us to keep us from quitting while St. Joe was for sale and founded GeoApplications to write geophysical software.

Now I am a computer consultant, pure and simple. Since the explosion of the Internet my work has become more and more connecting those LANs to the Internet and interfacing the databases with Web sites. Most recently GeoApps has moved into Web site hosting and development services, and when the Webmaster '74 position was advertised I thought it would be a good time to get active with Dartmouth again. I still have peripheral contact with the geology business as my wife, Janis, is a retreaded exploration-geologist-turned-hydrogeologist working for a local hydrogeology consulting company.

My daughter Gillian is a senior in high school and active in the local high school music scene. Her high-school marching band (www.sabinoband.com) is one of the best in the state and she is a member of the Tucson Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (www.tpyo.org), which performed in Carnegie Hall in June of 2000. My son Colin is in seventh grade, a band nerd like his sister and a computer nerd like his father, and very interested in Dartmouth as a result of our visit there two summers ago. We live on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, in a 46-year- old burnt-adobe house, with one dog, one cat and many geckos resident on the property. I play golf as often as I can (work is for people who can't golf) and hike in the desert and nearby mountains when I can't golf. You can find GeoApps on the Web at www.geoapps.com/; my personal Web site will soon be up at sf.tucson.az.us."

Any questions?

Charlie Bass was re-elected in November as congressman for the 2nd District in New Hampshire. I managed to hear Charlie quiz Alan Greenspan on C-SPAN radio during recent House budget committee hearings over the fed chairs intentions to lower interest rates, pay down the national debt and support President Bush's tax-cut efforts.

Me? I've decided to throw in the towel and have asked my dear girlfriend, Lisa Kim, to marry me. No date yet, but I hope you'll all welcome her into the Dartmouth '74 Family.

Best to all.

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