1984

Hello fellow' 84s. In my classic last-minute style I am once again composing on the eve of the deadline. My mind is buzzing due to the excessive consumption of holiday sweets ( I am writing this on December 28)—but it is just not helping my creativity. If you are one of the lucky people who received a last-minute call and plea for information about yourself or fellow classmates, please call or e-mail me to give me an update.

West Coast is the theme for tonight (because it was too late to call anyone else). PeterMaretz is enjoying the wonderful climate in San Diego. He is an attorney running his firm's employment practice for the western United States. His wife, Heidi is an attorney also. She works for a real estate developer. Peter and Heidi have two sons, ages 14 and 12, and two daughters, ages 3 and 11/2. He keeps busy with their activitiesacting, Little League, etc. Peter keeps in contact with Linda Fenn Brill. She is teaching and living in Purchase, New York.

Lauren Woodhouse Mathews is living in San Rafael, California. She and her husband, Brian, have a 3-year-old son, Cole. Lauren is currently retired from the travel industry to focus on caring for Cole and Brian is a software architect. Lauren and Brian have started the process of adopting a daughter from Guatemala. They are currently in the initial stages of completing paper work, but hope to add to their family in the next six to 12 months. Buena suerte (see, that major in Spanish pays off).

And now, breaking with the West Coastdweller theme and heading to London. Gig Faux has been living in London for 41/2 years, after living in Singapore for six. He is married to a woman from Kathmandu, and they have a 3-yearold son named Jared. Gig keeps in touch with lots of fellow classmates. He sees Ed Tolley, Ben Giess and Peter Herzig in N.Y.C.; Heather and Chris Huff, Charlie Hoban, Andy Pierce, Rich Durante and John Penrose in Boston; caught up with Mike Sill and Dwayne Gathers on a Deerfield trip to Jordan this past summer; and still catches up with any number of traveling alums (such as Tom Callahan) on his quarterly trips to Hanover for the Phi DelCorp. Gig has really been instrumental in helping Phi Delt get back on its feet.

He still spends an appreciable amount of time on the road, running two businesses for Citigroup across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific-He is also involved in a project to build a new boarding school in the Middle East, "an academically elite but needs-blind coed institution. Breaking a lot of barriers all at once, but it is an essential step forward for education and cross-cultural understanding there." Can this be the same Gig we knew at Dartmouth? But even this new Gig admits that he still can be occasionally found in the Phi basement in the wee hours.

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