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Hot, lukewarm and cool from the e-mail files: Jeff Garten s wife, Ina, is getting increasing attention as the "Barefoot Contessa" on the Food Network. Jeff and Ina bought a "pieda-terre" in Paris several years ago, where they try to spend two months a year, and where Ina can concentrate on honing her French cooking. But food has been part of her life for three decades. It started in the 19705, when Jeff was in the State Department and she a White House budget analyst. Needing something besides $20 billion budgets to manage, she longed for something different and found it in a specialty catering business on Long Island. This in turn led to four books on cooking, most recently Barefoot in Paris. Jeff and Ina met at Dartmouth, when he was a freshman and she a 15-year-old visiting her older brother (cradle robber?). Jeff is dean at the Yale School of Management. I had a nice phone call with Alex Conn, who is doing independent consulting with a focus on usage-centered systems. Check his Web site at apconnsulting.com. He has a passion for improving technology's usability; examples include digital watches when they first came out and, more recently, adapting technology for lawyers to enter their time usage on their blackberries. After a master's at Thayer and time in the Air Force, Alex got his Ph.D. at Berkeley. Three years of teaching at the University of Maryland were next, and he joined Digital Equipment Co. in 1980. Since 2000 it has been startup endeavors and consulting. Wife Ileen is a physical therapist in the Methuen, Massachusetts, schools, providing sensory integration services to special ed kids. Daughters Julia and Nina both went to the University of Richmond, in good part due to its synchronized swimming program. Nina is a senior there, and Julia is now at BU Law School in her second year. Alex keeps in e-mail touch with Cedric Kam and Charlie Woodhouse. And the class dance card is filling up. At a recent executive committee meeting, a variety of events were penciled in for all of us (grab your pencils). By the time you read this, the annual ski event to Big Sky, Montana, will be in the books. Ed Heald will lead the second annual class micro (not quite yet a mini) golf reunion to Scotland at the end of July. And to warm up, there will be class golf open during the weekend of July 16-17 in Hanover. Later in the fall, on the weekend of October 22, we'll have our fall mini-reunion in Hanover, for the Columbia game. Buddy Teevens back at the helm—should be an interesting season. Further ahead, September 14 through 17,2006, will be our collective class 60th birthday, headquarters at the Silverado Hotel in Napa Valley. Ed Schneider and Bill Adler doing some of the early leg work.

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