FIRST, A MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: The great Dartmouth Class of 1964 will be holding its 35th reunion the weekend of OCTOBER 8-10, 1999. The reunion will be headquartered at The Hanover Inn and is expected to be the "last great reunion of the 20th century." So mark those dates on your calendar, get in touch with your roommates and make sure they are coming, alert your partner and most importantly, plan now to be there! And now the rest of the story, focusing on the former residents of South Mass. Leading off with JOHN BEGLEY (Bolinas, CA) who checked in via the internet to say that he has retired from the practice of law to spend time homeschooling his younger children when he is not mowing weeds, playing the guitar or running through the surrounding countryside. He is joined in Northern California by CHUCK MARSH (Saratoga), TED PARKER (Atherton) and TAYLOR WASHBURN (Menlo Park). Chuck is president of an investment management company focusing on shopping center development and management. He proudly reports that he is still married to Barbara, his house parties date for all four years back in the good old days (when students had dates!), and reports that he frequently sees his former roommate, Ted, who is a vice-president of a software company that writes and markets software for use in manufacturing and financial applications.

This group of Californians are joined on the west Coast by BILL STREITZ who is an orthopedic surgeon in Roseburg, Oregon. The rest of the South Mass contingent is living East of the Mississippi. Starting up North, JAMES GRAY (Minneapolis, MN) and his wife have recently retired as president and vice-president of their office furniture manufacturing business, but Jim has kept active in the community serving on several not-for-profit boards and as the president-elect of the Minneapolis Rotary Club. KEN RICHIE and BOB STEPP are in Tennessee. Ken lives in Knoxville and is counsel to the coal mining and coke manufacturing subsidiary of Sun Company, while Bob is from Kingsport, but has just left for Madrid, Spain where he will be overseeing a project for Eastern Chemical Company. Further East in Virginia I found STAN GEMBORYS and BUD SCHULER. Bud is a plastic surgeon in Newport News while Stan is a popular professor of biology at Hampden-Sidney College in Hampden Sidney, Virginia. Stan has recently been recognized by the his college for his work providing field experiences in eco-biology for his students. During the past 23 years, Stan has accompanied over 400 students to 30 different locations around the world.

Four more classmates currently live in and around New York City. DON MUTTERPERL (Scarsdale, NY) is a salesperson in the fixed-income department with Paine-Webber and WARD WHITT (Basking Ridge, NJ) is in the research department at AT&T Labs where he investigates probability and queuing models with applications in the telecommunications industry. Out on Long Island, DAVID HANSON (Stony Brook, NY) is a professor of Chemistry at SUNY at Stony Brook while JOHN LANE (Garden City, NY) is keeping active after retiring as a managing director with J. P. Morgan by serving on several for-profit and nor-for-profit boards. I found the final three South Mass alumni back in my native Massachusetts. SCOTT CREELMAN (Deerfield) is now executive vice-president of Spalding Sports Worldwide while JIM LATHAM (Tewkesbury) is senior vice-president and general counsel for ITT Sheraton. Hotels. Jim is joined in the Boston suburbs by JAY EVANS (Wayland) who is senior vice-president at Fleet Investment Advisors overseeing a family of mutual funds. Unfortunately, I was not able to reach CHARLIE CARR (Chagrin Falls, Ohio) or TAYLOR WASHBURN, but it is never too late to let me know what you are up to.