1963

A new twist on the fall mini in Hanover. It will not be Homecoming. Instead it will be the weekend of October 8-10 to give us the opportunity to participate with other classes that graduated in our era, namely 1959, i960 and 1961. Mini chair Rick Hashhagen is working on an exciting program to run from Friday morning through possibly Sunday, including a class meeting and Yale football game on Saturday. You'll be hearing more soon. We've moved our class accommodations this year to the Comfort Inn in White River, (802) 295-3051. Tell them you're class of '63 and you get the special $159 rate (plus tax) that includes continental breakfast. But we only have 15 reserved, so act fast. To get there, take exit 11 off Route 91, it's right behind McDonald's.

Jack Rose has been named Hartford, Connecticut's first full-time corporation counsel and is the first African American to hold that position. He had been a partner at Levy & Droney in Farmington since 1985 and holds the distinction of handling Hartford County's longest divorce proceeding, with 38 court dates.

Rick Braddock has stepped down as chairman of Priceline.com, which he has been running in different capacities since 1998. "It is now time to move on," he said. Priceline, a dot-com pioneer whose niche was bargain hunters willing to bid online for airline tickets, has recently adopted more conventional methods to compete with Travelocity and others. Rick helped Priceline survive the dot-com implosion and recently brought in fresh capital from Hong Kong investors. Priceline netted $11.9 million last year. Rick was formerly president of Citicorp.

Chuck Wessendorf is the new vice president, investor relations and corporate communications, at United Rentals in Greenwich, Connecticut, the largest equipment rental company in North America. Chuck had been doing the same job for Imagistics International, a spin-off from Pitney Bowes, and Xerox. He is a Tuck M.B.A. Ken Novack, who was vice chairman of AOL and then Time Warner until his retirement, has been named special advisor to General Catalyst Partners, Cambridge, Massachusetts, a private equity firm for emerging technology companies. Ken headed AOL's legal department and was a key in the AOL/Time Warner merger. He was managing partner of Mintz Levin, a Boston-based law firm.

Following Kens example is Tom Holzel, whose Boston marketing firm, Velocity Associates, has been retained by Coneteq, an advanced search engine in development in Beirut, Lebanon, that one day hopes to overtake Google. Coneteq's difference is a multi-parameter search engine that provides fewer results, all of which meet exact specifications of users. "The problem with Google is that it gives very fast and nearly useless results," asserts Tom, who conducted a test Google search for a sleeping bag that produced 1.25 million results in 0.18 seconds. "Fast search is not fast find," he says. Coneteq is patented and expected to launch in the fourth quarter.

David Bowman's new book Sewanee in Stone, an architectural tour of a Southern college, is out. Bruce Baggaley has co-authored Practical Lean Accounting, due in December.

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