1998

Summer has finally arrived in Boston—you can tell because the ambient air temperature and the humidity level are both hovering in the 80s and the Red Sox have taken up their usual place behind the Yankees in the A.L. East standings. And so it goes for another year.

Speaking of the Red Sox, Dan Godfrey received some much-deserved praise (both from the guys in the booth and in the Globe the following day) for making a spectacular stab of a line-drive smash that surely would have decapitated the unsuspecting fan at whose head the baseball was rocketing. Johnny Damon, center fielder for the hometown team, was quoted as saying "That was a damn good play...hopefully the Red Sox won't offer him a contract to play center field." I don't think that Johnny is in any danger of losing his spot in the starting lineup, but chalk one up for Dartmouth baseball.

Adam Dietz dropped us a line to let us know that, after graduating from The George Washington University School of Medicine last year, he is living in Baltimore's Federal Hill while he completes a residency in orthopedic surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Despite being in the midst of a very challenging residency, Adam found time this past winter to go skiing and boarding in Lake Tahoe with Ryan Gilfoil and Chad Trexler and reports that a good time was had by all.

Aaron Klein was recently spotted on the Hanover plain to bear witness to the union of two Dartmouth souls—Meg Cashion '99 and David Lysy '99. Rumor has it that Aaron is working as an economist for the Senate Banking Committee under the tutelage of Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, distinguished gentlemen from Maryland and co-sponsor of the ever-popular (at least among public company lawyers) Sarbanes-OxleyAct of 2002, and may be mulling a run for office in 2006. No word as to what office Aaron might at this time covet—but I've heard that if I miss another column there might be a certain class secretary position open sooner than 2006.

Tracy Van Dorpe has recently taken a position as a fundraiser at Harvard Business School—now that sounds like a tough gig—after having spent the last year working in Dartmouth's development office (and the year before that getting her master's in comparative literature from the College).

We're told that Terry Bradshaw, Jordan Richards and Will Harper, all recent Tuck grads, have dispersed across the country to put their hardearned M.B.A.S to work: Terry has (as do all Dartmouth grads at one time or another, it seems) come to Boston and taken a position with The Parthenon Group; Jordan has returned to San Francisco to work for the Citadel Investment Group, a Chicago-based hedge fund; and Will (who will marry Texas sweetheart Connally Davis this summer) has joined an undisclosed real estate development firm in Houston.

Finally, husband and wife team Jonathan and Rachel Bogardus Drew recently hosted a mini-reunion in Boston attended by Amie Harper, EmilyMellor, Juan Carlos Serna and Jennifer Leahy. Bowling was the order of the night, but rumors of a perfect game from Juan Carlos seem a bit far-fetched.

That's all for now. As for news—if you want to see it printed in these pages, send it along.

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