As we approach the 37th anniversary of our first Winter Carnival, my focus shifts to those fun-loving fellows who entertained their dates in the rooms of Hitchcock Hall. Leading off, we have a couple of classmates that are president and CEO of their respective family businesses. Bill Barnet (Spartanburg, South Carolina is at the helm of the family-owned textile processing company and Max Blumberg (Fisher Island, Florida) heads Blumberg Industries, a manufacturer of fine art lamps and lighting products. Tom Botsford (Alexandria, Virginia) emailed me with the news that he is now retired after 31+ years with the Federal Government, most recently as a computer scientist with the Defense Information Systems Agency. He now spends his time SCUBA diving and is learning to fly. Tom raises and interesting question. How many of you have activated the alumni email address that is provided by the College? (See end of this column) It’s the only thing you ever got from them for free and it is very useful since you can forward your email from this address to whatever address you are currently using. The big advantage is that if you change your email provider, all you have to do is notify the College via the homepage (www.dartmouth.edu) and they will forward your messages to the new address. Check it out!

Continuing alphabetically, Bill Brislin (Rutland, Vermont) is a senior systems analyst with Pluess Staufer Industries and George Bunting has just relocated to Midland, Texas where he continues to work for Aero Express, a firm that markets surplus airplane parts. Alan Campbell (Auburndale, Massachusetts) is senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at Unitrode Corporation. When not working, Alan is a trustee of Outward Bound USA and has traveled to Antarctica, the Galapagos Islands and taken several whitewater rafting trips down rivers in Utah and Colorado. (Alan’s Hitchcock roommate, Mike Dancik passed away in 1982) Pete Carney (Liverpool, New York) answered my questionnaire and reported that he is managing a sales agency selling plastic and metal parts. He happily reports that all of his four children are educated and self-supporting in the country’s two main growth industries–consulting and therapy! However, he also reports that the unsolicited advice that they now give to their parents still does not compare favorably to that which he received from the "sages around the Chi Phi tap." Jerry Dorros, is a physician and recently moved to Scottsdale, Arizona from Milwaukee, while another Hitchcock physician, Alfred Horowitz (Glencoe, Illinois) is a diagnostic radiologist at a community hospital in Chicago.

Tune in next month to learn about the exploits of Brad Evans, Jim Hall and Hugh Savage. In the meantime, make a hotel reservation in Hanover for the 35th reunion on October 8-10, book transportation, and tell your unsuspecting partner about all of the wonderful things that make a fall weekend in Hanover, "a special treat."

--Tom Parkinson, 8240 Peach Lane, Fogelsville, PA 18051 <Thomas.L.Parkinson.64@alum.dartmouth.org>