1978

I hope to see many of you at our upcoming reunion. Whenever I have the opportunity to spend time with an old classmate, even one with whom I haven't been in touch or didn't even know well, I am amazed at the connections that still exist. The past six years have flown by. Just think, our next reunion is only four years away and it will be our 30th!

On to news: Jim Bassett sent me a long e-mail about his adventures. "I am presently writing from our home in the woods of Canterbury, New Hampshire, where it is cold and very snowy. I am on a brief sabbatical from my sabbatical. With the blessings of my wonderful wife (Ellen Adams Bassett, DMS '82), with whom I left our two teenage boys, our 11-year-old daughter, Hannah, and I spent November and December, the first two months of my four-and-a-half-month sabbatical, backpacking through Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. We happily spent both New Years' Eve and Christmas Eve on overnight trains in Vietnam. It was a unique and remarkable experience for both of us. In January I returned to New Hampshire for two months, in part because of work responsibilities, and also because I am a selectman in our town and I need to be around for the lead up to our town meeting. Two days after town meeting in March, Hannah and I will again hit the road for the remaining two and a half months of my sabbatical. This time we will visit Scotland, India, Thailand, Laos, Brunei, Australia and New Zealand.The prospect of war during our travels is a bit disconcerting, but we'll not be deterred. We return to the States in early June, just in time for our 25th, and I look forward to seeing everyone in Hanover."

I also heard from Jim Friedlich, who is a venture capitalist investing in music and media properties. His partnership recently bought the Savoy Jazz label, home to the music of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Jim, his wife, Melissa, and son Max split their time between their loft in New York City and a 400-acre family farm in Woodstock, New York. Jim is in close touch with classmates Jim Wiggin, an attorney in Ohio; Ross Eatman, a TV and radio agent in New York; and John Hill, a musician and political activist living in Boston.

Meanwhile, I just returned from a week of family skiing in Jackson, wherel saw Kim Emerson Morris, who lives in New Jerseywith her husband, Arnie, son Robert (14) and daughter Sally (5). Kim is a principal in an event-driven hedge fund. Her focus is distressed debt, while her partners concentrate on M & A and spinoffs. Kim was an engineer until 1986, when she graduated from NYU with an M.B.A. in finance and switched over to investing. Kims spare time is spent training for her first marathon, which she hopes to run this fall. Her goal is a sub-four-hour marathon to qualify for Boston. Kim keeps in touch with Paul Kadue, who often joins them for skiing at Jackson Hole and sometimes interviews with Kristen Yost McChesney.

That's all for this month. Please keep in touch.

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REUNION June 12-15 2003