1981

In the past few weeks, I have been inundated with Dartmouth, beginning with the Wearers of the Green event in Boston to honor Dartmouth athletes. There, I had drinks with Julie Koeninger and a few other fellow alumni afterwards. The following week I was at the Alumni Council, where the 'Bis are a major force. Granted, a few are on the payroll, but we still have power, or at least we can pretend we do. Over the Alumni Council weekend I had the pleasure of touring the Rauner Library, which houses the special collections. Memories of The Graduate and my call to a career in "plastics" were sparked as I stood in the reading room of the former Webster Hall Auditorium. More interestingly, however, was the revelation that our very own Julie Wallin Kaewert has set her latest Alex Plumtree mystery Uncatalogued, at Dartmouth and in the Special Collections Library. I've just started reading the book, but I've no doubt it will live up to my expectations. By the way, Plumtree '86 is returning for his Dartmouth reunion, and while he makes special arrangements to visit the Rauner Library,you can plan to visit during our 25 th reunion without any special arrangements, other than those made by the reunion committee. So plan ahead! (And drop me an e-mail if you want to be on the committee.) Elsewhere on the globe, Lydia Herman Lazar writes that she was in Trento, Italy, teaching at the university there. Lydia is an assistant dean in international law and policy development at Chicago-Kent College of Law. She was going to try to connect with Steve Quatrano, who is on an extended stay in Italy with his family, after selling his business to Cisco several years ago. Steve and Lydia had gone to Italy on LSA during sophomore fall, and Lydia mused in her e-mail that they had both managed to get back there. More information on Steve and his family at www.quatrano.com. Closer to home, Greg Federspiei was just up for reappointment as the town manager in Lenox, Massachusetts, where he's lived with wife Susan and two children since 1999, after serving as town managerof Stowe, Vermont, for 10 years. Greg got a master's degree in administration and resource management at Antioch College, and he has been in the town planning and management business ever since. While for most, the image Lenox conjures is that of the luxurious "Canyon Ranch," it sounds like Greg is busy managing roads, sewers, buses and the other mundane background noise that we forget about in a high-end tourist destination. Good luck, Greg. Rebecca Brackett reports from Waldeboro, Maine, where the primary topic is children. Her oldest, Stephen, graduated from the U. of Rochesterwith thoughts of grad school, with brothers Ethan at Lawrence University and Anthony at Susquehanna. Her youngest son, Nathaniel, is in first grade and loves to read. More tuition ahead. Heather King is in San Francisco, having switched from the high-tech world into producing media projects which support charity. Look for A Day in the Life of Africa on DVD. She runs into Sue Moon Paik and Bob Brown 'BO, Laura Robertson 'BO, Kim Young and John Mott. Finally, Tom Reynolds reports from Mercer Island, Washington, where he works with Zymo Genetics, a Seattle biotech firm as a senior medical director. Wife Mariluz, daughter Roxanne (13) and son Joe (12) join him for lots of camping, backpacking and sea kayaking in the San Juan Islands, where they have a cabin. Sounds like fun!

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