Well it’s a new year and my co-secretary, Juliet Aires Giglio,has asked that I make a few changes to my columns. She has asked that I include more truthful anecdotes about our classmates. She also asked that I pay a bit more attention to the facts.

While I will disregard Juliet’s crazy-person suggestions, I have decided to make a few changes to the column, in an attempt to stay current. I’ve decided to go totally high tech with this column. You know, harness the power of the interweb. Become cool, like my millennial children. I have decided to ditch the ol’ Smith-Corona Selectric and create this column electronically. In addition, I will liberally reference the Google and that YouTube place. There will be links to websites. Unfortunately, most of you are probably reading the paper version of this magazine, so cutting and pasting the links will still require the use of actual scissors and glue. Also, the act of cutting will irreparably damage part of class of 1978 column, which sits on the other side of this page. Well, you wanna make omelets, you gotta break a few eggs.

I recently heard from Liam Shannon, after I sent him a message on the facebook of people. Liam, who was busy posting pictures of his cats, informed me that he recently finished five years as the global executive creative director at Vistaprint. While there, he produced a video that won some giant award. I can’t really remember the name of the award. I think it was “best video in the world” or something. You can watch it for yourself at lshannon.com/brandspot. If you can’t find it, head for the googles and search “postcard commercial.”

Geoff Berlin is currently in Atlanta, where he founded Retrofit America. The goal is to make U.S. homes energy efficient. Geoff asked me to mention his company in the column. I pointed out that the word “retro” doesn’t really fit in my high-tech column motif and I would be unable to talk much about his company.

I did speak with someone who roomed with Susanne Stewart Cambern. She asked to not be mentioned in this column and I am good to my word. Susanne lives in London, where she is busy uncoupling the British economy from the rest of Europe. Okay, I may have made most of that last sentence up. But she does live in England, which is very old, and decidely not high tech. So, enough about her.

Katie Tongue lives in Alaska, in a town called Kasilof. Katie will be visiting Susanne this summer. Summer in Kasilof lasts a grand total of about 17 minutes, so it will likely be a really short trip. The remaining 548 people in Kasilof will just sit tight while Katie is gone.

Well, that’s it for this month. I’m happy with how the column turned out. And, Karen McCarthy, I’m good to my word. Never used your name. Not even once.

—Eric Grubman, 2 Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT 06525; (203) 710-7933; grubman@sbcglobal.net; Juliet Aires Giglio,4915 Bentbrook Drive, Manlius, NY 13104; julietgiglio@gmail.com