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Using her PDA phone as a modem tor her laptop, Kathleen Bartels can finally surf the Internet from home: "I live on five acres in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, with Steve, my 'life mate' (as he calls himself) of 14 years. We haven't had a phone line since one of our dogs chewed it up some years ago; no cable or DSL service either, since most of our neighbors are farm animals (or 'the candy store,' as the dogs like to refer to it). I'm an architect and principal in a firm in Providence, but my main 'news' is that we are about to open what we think is the world's largest indoor rock climbing gym in New Bedford, Massachusetts. After five years of design and construction, we are looking forward to opening. If no one comes, we're going to have to move in ourselves and maybe we'll end up on the Extreme Homes show: 'There's the communal bathroom, and your bed is 60 feet up on that port-a-ledge. Go ahead, just free climb on up there.' " Check out her Web site at www.carabiners.com

Rich Schneiders wife, Donna, showed how well she knows her husband with this e-mail: "If I don't do the e-mailing, no one will ever know that Rich is still alive and well. Rich manages performance and marketing analytics teams for a company called Asurion, a provider of specialty insurance and other marketing services to the wireless telecommunications industry in Nashville, Tennessee. What Rich remembers most about Dartmouth is how utterly irresponsible he could be without any huge consequences attached to it. That is, of course, in stark contrast to his life now with a high-maintenance wife, three high-octane sons and a job that keeps him sprinting from the moment he arrives in the morning until he comes home. I stay home raising our three boys, Matthew (5), Patrick (2) and Brian (5 months)." To his wife's note, Rich added, "We moved down to Nashville after living in the Connectivut/new York area for several years. We've been here for two and a half years and absolutely love it. Everybody is so nice down here that the attitude is somewhat infectious: I haven't flipped anyone off or beeped my horn in over two years."

Kevan Jackson announces the birth of his first daughter, Dylan Shannon Jackson, born August 26,2004. "My wife, Karla, and I live in the meatpacking district in N.Y.C. We met 10 years ago at Columbia Business School and were married in Aspen, Colorado, in January 2003.1 am currently working at Fox Cable Networks as director of pricing and planning. I still keep in touch with Jonathan Hunt, Tyler Goldman, Ogden Morse, Brad Auer and a bunch of others from the Tabard.

After traveling north to new adventures, Luke Smith writes, 'After 15 years, it's time to check in with news. Back in May I became the senior editor of Alaska Magazine. My dog and I left Ketchum, Idaho, just as Wendy Pabich was arriving. I'm living in Anchorage which, as the saying goes, is only 20 minutes from Alaska, and I'm ecstatic to have finally made the move I started to make 12 years ago (better late than never, I suppose). I saw Dave and Steff (Solms) McCusker, John and Bridget (Mahoney) Jenkins as well as Steve Huettner at our 20th reunion at St. Paul's School in early June. Tom McLaughlin is still in Salt Lake but probably not for long as he and his wife, Deanna, are looking to relocate somewhere in northern California."

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