1989

I'm poised over my new Macbook, when I notice an icon for a time machine. If only my computer could do that. I'd spend a few moments wandering over the landscape of the 1980s, back on the airwaves reading the news at WDCR/FRD, listening to one of my favorite professors talk about American history or walking in my duck boots across the boards on the Green avoiding the mud. Despite the intervening decades the images are vivid. Perhaps I don't need the time machine after all. But I still love days spent back on campus, wandering through our collective college memories, exploring new buildings and hearing about the lives of todays students.

Reunion registration begins March 1. A couple of days in Hanover sound just about right. You can find all the information you need on our class Web site, www.dartmouth89.org Click on the link for reunion, view the list of who is planning to attend and make your own arrangements to join us on June 19-21.

I received a nice e-mail the other day from my old radio friend Peter Delano, who says he keeps in touch with some of the DCR/FRD crew—Mark Wachen, Seth Rosenblatt, Seth Skolnik and Jeff Gerst. Peter says it's been quite a year working at the TowerGroup, a research firm that advises the financial services industry on technology issues. He and his wife, Laurie, have boys Justin, 10, and Ryan, 7; and live about 20 miles south of Boston, near where both of them grew up. Around the time this column appears Pete and his family will be enjoying a visit to Red Sox spring training camp in Florida.

Harmeet K. Dhillon writes from aboard a sailboat anchored off the coast of Panama during a much-needed vacation, after running a tough race in San Francisco as the Republican candidate for State Assembly District 13. Harmeet campaigned on a platform of smaller government, lower taxes and individual liberties, no surprise to many of us who remember her days as editor-in- chief of The Dartmouth Review. Despite losing the race she won more votes than any other Republican candidate in San Francisco and plans to continue her political career. She is a civil rights activist in the areas of religious freedom and racial profiling, and lastyearwas named one of the best lawyers in the country under 40 by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. She is also the current chair of the civil rights committee of the South Asian Bar Association of Northern California. Harmeet is the managing partner of Dhillon & Smith LLP, a corporate litigation boutique in Union Square, and she lives on the crooked block of Lombard Street in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood.

Paul Cachion writes from Arlington, Virginia, where he lives with his wife, Sylvie, and daughters Zoe, 6, and Mia, 4. He says, "Life has been good. A couple years ago our whole family took a sabbatical year, and spent the year in Boulder, Colorado, hiking, running, traveling, etc. We swapped our house there for one outside of Paris and spent the summer there. This past year I've taken off to be a stay-at-home dad, which has been awesome. Unfortunately, I think I'll be going back to work in the next few weeks. I'm pretty certain I'll end up giving someone a timeout by accident."

Our Facebook numbers are up to 183 for the class of '89. Please join our virtual gathering online and our real life one in June. Looking forward to seeing many of you in Hanover.

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REUNIONJune 19-21