1982

For this column I have cast my net far and wide by trying to track down some of my FSP Toulouse buddies. Armed with our Eurail passes, our guide books and our gumption, we escaped every chance we got and hit such notable spots as Nice during Mardi Gras, Lourdes, Biarritz and even managed to ski in Andorra.

Not surprisingly a few of us are still at it, settling in places far, far away while others are continuing to enjoy the travel bug that bit them all those years ago in Dartmouth's foreign study programs. Davin MacKenzie is now living and working in China. He and wife Leslie and their two children just moved into a newly constructed home only a 15-minute commute from his office in Beijing.Though his children are begging to take French, it is Chinese they must master first, according to dad. Davin, however, had the opportunity to use his French this past February, when he brought over to Quebec the first-ever local, junior all-star hockey team, including son Alec, to participate in the biggest ice hockey tournament in the world. Chinas national sports channel was sending a two-camera crew that will be traveling with the team to do a documentary.

Jenny Chandler Hauge was also in my group and, of course, was the guidebook guru. She has continued in this guise with her own family. Last year her family spent Thanksgiving in Paris. In March it was four days in Sorrento, where she attended cooking school and then it was off to Rome. Jenny followed that up by scuba diving with her teenage daughter, who was attending the Island School in the Bahamas for a semester of marine biology (alas, her son, a freshman at Deerfield, was unable to make that trip). In between international jaunts Jenny, a lawyer, works in Newark, where she runs a legal services program that provides pro bono assistance to charities throughout New Jersey and also in New York and Connecticut.

Hank Malin, yet another fellow Francophile, was working at Dartmouth as director of admissions at Tuck. He left in 1996 to join General Mills in Minneapolis in human resources. He has recently moved to Toronto and is now vice president of human resources. He is married to Sue (Smith 78) and has two sons, Andrew (12) and Patrick (8). Hank tells me he gets to use his French skills occasionally when working with the sales office in Montreal. Though not on my FSP trip, I have heard from my long-lost pal Chris Caravette, who has his own law practice in Chicago that concentrates in small business, estate planning and real estate. He recently passed the bar in Florida as well and is currently building a second practice in Orlando, where he has another home.

I tracked down Dave Howard, who actually lives in the next town. Dave is now executive vice president of business operations for the New York Mets. He also serves on the boards of his local Little League, his church and Baseball Chapel Inc. In addition he was recently named to the board of trustees of Malloy College in Rockville Centre. In his spare time (?) he coaches his three sons (ages 15,14,12) in baseball (what else?) and is thinking about coaching his daughter (age 8) in softball. No brainer. Dave sent me news about his bud John Idzik, who is now the senior director of football operations for the Arizona Cardinals following 11 years and a Super Bowl championship with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

I just want to remind all of you that our 25th reunion will be held on June 14-17,2007.

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