1990

As the requirements or publishing the DAM would have it, I've written this column about six weeks before our class reunion, and you should receive it right around the time that alumni begin to converge on the Hanover Plain. But if you couldn't make it to reunion, or if seeing some of your classmates just whets your appetite for more, here's a coast-to-coast roundup of '90 news.

A good deal of reunion chatter might focus on the increase in interest rates expected from the Federal Reserve this summer, especially among current or prospective homeowners. For a professional cut on the issue, look to Anthony Adiutori, who practices real estate law in Rochester, New York, at Underberg & Kessler. Tony and his wife, Cheryl, live in Brighton, along with their 2-yearold daughter, Lucy. Complementing his practice, he serves on the board of a local nonprofit working to revitalize Rochester's South Wedge neighborhood, and he handled the acquisition of the groups new headquarters. In a recent interview for Rochester's Daily Record, Tony reflected: "It's so satisfying to help a family through the process of buying a home, especially when it's their first."

If our move into midlife doesn't startle enough, have you noticed that you find yourself thinking about insurance these days? Not surprisingly, even the insurers need insurance, and that calls for Michael Hoag. Mike's hometown Sun Chronicle (Attleboro, Massachusetts) reports his appointment as director of risk management for Aegon Insurance Group's institutional markets division in Louisville, Kentucky, as he makes the move from Swiss Re. Mike followed his math major at Dartmouth with a master's degree in operations research at Stanford. In addition to demonstrating his facility with complex systems, this also means that Mike probably enjoys the most efficient visits to the supermarket imaginable.

Finally, from news about one classmate trained in Northern California to a new book from another '90 living and working in Silicon Valley: Keeping in touch, expanding music collections, buying practically anything and maintaining accounts over networked computers means that demands for data storage have only just begun to increase geometrically. How will people keep track of this flood of facts? In IP Storage Networking:Straight to the Core, Gary Orenstein offers what one reviewer has called "an in-depth, comprehensive, superbly organized guide covering current options and future trends of enterprise storage." The emerging innovation in data storage involves connecting data and its users over the Internet, radically expanding the range of places where an organization can store its information. Gary works as director of marketing at Nishan Systems in San Jose.

That exhausts the mailbag for now. Whether your summer travels have taken you down the street, to Hanover, across the country or 'round the girdled Earth, we'd all like to hear about it: Take good care, and keep in touch.

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