your name and class year:  William E. Aydelott '72

people know you as:  Bill Aydelott – from years of doing daybreak news on WDCR

where you lived first year:  Topliff North

Dartmouth person(s) who had a major influence on you, and how:  Blair Watson and Maury Rapf. In the early '70s there was no formal film studies program, but these two mentors pieced together a curriculum under the English and Drama Departments whereby I could become Dartmouth's first special major in film theory and production, and subsequently I was able to parlay that into a senior fellowship. Today of course there's a dedicated department
one of your most memorable Dartmouth moments:  Covering the Parkhurst takeover for WDCR while simultaneously shooting film footage for CBS and NBC. And staying awake for six days as the host of a radio marathon to raise money for WDCR's "Let's Help" campaign

where's home:  Boston area

what you do for work:  Writer, producer, director, cinematographer, working on episodic TV, commercials, Internet features, and independent films

you could talk for hours about:  Well, as a registered, passionate independent who really does consider candidate over party: politics
something you learned yesterday:  When the gauge says rock-bottom empty, there's still a good 30 miles in the tank

favorite spot in your home:  Leather recliner, watching a live Red Sox game in hi def

web site you love to go to:  Redsox.com

biggest one-eighty of your life:  Switching from on-camera talent to producer/director

a trait you love about someone dear to you:  Empathy you've been meaning to get to it for years:  Returning to talk radio as host/personality

historical figure who fascinates you and why:  Director Frank Capra, who helped define a new, highly original American art form by telling important, appealing, character-driven stories with great comic timing and memorable imagery

you blow off steam by:  Lifting weights, yelling at the Yankees, watching the news on TV

reading on the bedside table:  Time, Newsweek, PC World, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

tops on tomorrow's to-do list:  Pack for a summer vacation with my four kids