Happy New Year, fellow ’72s! Early alert: Our next reunion will be in spring 2016, only one and a half years away.


Ted Brown is now a neighbor of mine in the soggy Northwest: “I just moved from Dallas. I got my master’s from the University of Chicago in interdisciplinary social science. It focused on method and policy. One of my profs there sent me to UT Austin for a doctorate in anthropology. If only I had known better! It took decades to discover my true calling, marketing analytics! I’ve worked at Omnicom agencies and now telecommute for Infogroup, a.k.a. Yes Lifecycle Marketing. Rather dull work building response models for a cooperative database but, hey, I now live where I want! The majority of my Omnicom work was for AT&T—from campaign tracking to media-mix modeling. Lots of variety, a few moments of terror and occasional great fun.”


From Ragnvald “Rags” Bratz: “I have been away some time, but am now back in Oslo. My health is generally okay, apart from my slight heart problem, which I just have to live with. Kristin and I have been married for more than 38 years (not bad) and our four boys are all active in Oslo. Jens is a lawyer—he also has a degree from University of Miami in philosophy but he did not want to teach—so he went onto law school here in Oslo; Christian, an architect; Peder, a graphic designer; and Christopher, who is working in hotel management. We have two grandchildren, Leah and Fillip, from Line and Christopher. The other three seem to be a little slow on the draw! I enjoy my part-time retirement and spend some time helping out with a biography on Trygve Lie, the first general secretary to the UN. The author is a Norwegian historian named Guri Hjeltnes. Trygve Lie also happens to be my grandfather. He passed away in 1968. I have a little contact with Jan Opsahl, who lives in Switzerland and Erik Jebsen ’73.” 


An update from Andy Harrison: “Our daughter, Rachel, was married over July 4 weekend to Aldo Pinotti. It was a great wedding at New York’s Central Park Boathouse, with my brother, Walter Harrison ’66, and my cousin, Robert Sinsheimer ’75, in attendance. On a more whimsical note, Adrienne and I were out for a bike ride in our Larchmont, New York, area this past Labor Day Saturday morning. We came across a tag sale and a promotional shirt for BMW. It was mine for $1. When we got home Adrienne transformed it into a Dartmouth class of ’72 shirt by sewing on the patch from our 40th reunion fedoras.” 


Finally, my youngest daughter, Rachel Price, is Columbia’s nominee for the Rhodes Scholarship; by now we’ll now if she’ll be at Oxford next fall or will remain at Columbia, where she’s been accepted into the M.S. program in mechanical engineering.


Keep me posted!


—Bill Price, 12 Lummi Key, Bellevue, WA 98006; bill@drivasolutions.com