1970

Slim pickins, fellow classmates. If you don't send news of your or your kins exploits, epiphanies or musings, Scott and I will he obliged to bore you with ours. With that warning, here goes:

As of this writing Scott is still basking in the warmth of Thailand and praying for the stock market to generate a little heat of its own. Yours truly is about to depart, extended family in tow, for Switzerland to visit my daughter, Ellen, who's there on a Rotary Youth Exchange year between high school and college; she starts at Davidson the "other DC"—in August.

OK, now relax. You are all spared the written equivalent of our home movies by the evervigilant Alumni Relations Office, which has provided news, albeit not all welcome, of five classmates.

In February Wellington Management announced the appointment of Earl McEvoy as portfolio manager for its high yield plus fund (NYSE: HYP, for those who are following it). Earl is Wellingtons senior high-yield investment professional. Scott, perhaps a call to Earl is in order upon your return.

T.J. Rodgers is in the news again, but while the article I saw in the Silicon Valley Business Ink talks more about his oenological than technological prowess, it's clear that T.J. is bringing to bear the same intensity in his winemaking that served him so well in his chipmaking pursuits. His winery, Clos de la Tech (what else!), produced its first wine in '96, and by all reports was quite palatable. T.J.'s reaction: "I was as lucky as a drunk staggering across Highway 101 at 10 o'clock at night and not getting smacked by a car." Somehow I suspect luck had little to do with it.

NYC attorney/professor/author Wally Ford's article "Techno Us" appeared in a recent issue of Turning Point magazine. In it Wally waxes philosophical about the benefits of cell phones and computers, but laments that "in too many black communities...technological competence is not even on the agenda. Basic literacy has yet to be attained. Academic excellence is nowhere near as valued...as a dunk shot or a rap album." He makes a convincing argument for realignment of a value system gone haywire.

In a similar vein, Dr. John Chittick continues walking the world in his grass-roots effort to teach young people how to protect themselves from AIDS. In February John returned to Hanover to lead a Collis Community Hour discussion on AIDS awareness, at which he noted that he would "be honored to be accompanied by students from Dartmouth" on his next walk.

Finally, tragically, comes the unwelcome news of the death of Michael Molony and his wife, Mary-Clare, in an auto accident a few days before Christmas.

On that note, there seems nothing more to say.

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