1983

This has been the most prolific month ever for' 83 news! I haven't had to resort to any cold calling or bullying of old friends or desperate late night exchanges with co-columnist Jim Sterling (three hours later for him). Thanks! Here's what I got with very little effort on my part:

Leighton Chan writes: "I have not been a contributor to your regular column, but I returned to Hanover this summer for the first time in many years and feel I need to crow' a bit. My father, LoYi Chan '54, received an honorary degree from Dartmouth in June. He has a long history of service to the College, including designing Rockefeller Hall and presiding as "college architect" for as many years as I can remember. Our whole family was there, including brother Chris '80 and sister Leicia '89.1 brought my wife, Beth, and son Josh, 2, along. We stayed at the Hanover Inn and were wined and dined by the administration. The celebration was all the more sweet as my grand- father, professor Wing-Tsit Chan, was also a Dartmouth honorary degree recipient, in 1980. He was dean of humanities for several years and started the Chinese department. My father and grandfather are the only father/son Dartmouth honorary degree recipients in recent memory. Alas, I do not think that I will ever join their ranks. I am a lowly physician and associate professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. But I could not be prouder of my father and my family's service to the College." Leighton and I discovered that our fathers were fellow architecture majors in the class of 1954 and have the additional commonality of having designed residences for a Mr. Robert DeNiro, one in Tribeca and one in East Hampton. Our class president, Reed "Webby" Webster, corresponds with Peter Kilmarx, director of the Botswana program for the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Among other things, he is in charge of implementing the U.S. president's emergency plan for AIDS relief in Botswana. The HIV prevalence there is 37 percent—about the highest in the world. The family camps at the Kutse Game Reserve, where they recently spotted 12 lions at the local waterhole. Apparently, if you keep your tent zipped up they don't bother you. I wish I could print pictures in the column so you could see the one he forwarded of his boys stalking lions in the bush.

Roxanne Okun Gray writes with a belated but very happy birth announcement and attached a picture of the most adorable twin boys. Jason and Morris ("Morrie") were born on July 26,2003. Roxy is an organizational psychologist in Oakland, California (www.okunconsulting.com). She's an executive coach and also conducts management training and leadership development programs. She and husband jonathan Gray(an '83 from Brown) live near me in Oakland and I hope to meet up with her next time I work over that way.

The former Amy Kavanaugh, now Amy Saffian by reason of her marriage to Jim Saffian, writes: "We live in Cumberland, Maine. Jim is a partner at the law firm of Pierce Atwood in Portland. I am at home caring for our five kids— Eleanor (12), Luke (10), Joe (9), Jack (6) and Charlie (4). We're swamped with kids' activities, but we wouldn't change a thing. We are very lucky, too, to have the Rev. Jim Nadeau in our area. He is a favorite of our kids, and baptized most of them."

Love getting these newsy e-mails. Thanks again.

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