last updated January 14, 1996| last updated January 14, 1996 |
News from January 1996I'm in New York working for CBS (in distribution & marketing). Hey there -
Munir (whom I saw Saturday at a Radiators concert) magically forgot about
Clara Rankin's roommate TARA BURKE and me. Tara is in her third year of
Northwestern Law School and loving every minute of it. She somehow finds
time to work in the law firm where she'll be working next year (Gardner
Cartin & Douglas), coach a girls basketball team of fifth and sixth graders and still
have time to go out and make a serious dent in the Chicago social scene. I
have been working for Infomation Resources Inc., in our international
division for 2+ years now. Last year for business I was in Holland and also
Milan for a month (and going back in March). After doing Improv for 1 1/2
years, I'm on hiatus from the Improv scene....good thing, the travel would
present a problem for weekly shows. Oh...and I saw CATHY ROESTEL when she
came to the St. Louis airport when I was flying through on my way back to
Chicago over Christmas. She was home for Christmas though is living in
Atlanta. One more thing....Jenn Schneider and Mike Hommeyer (also engaged)
are in Chicago. I'm at Georgetown law school along with John Stanton, Jay Gonzalez, Sharon Tomao,
Brian Heberlig, Mick Stawacz, Michele Dauphanis and Anne Clark. My
e-mail address is douglas.chia@law.georgetown.edu. Also, I'm been
drafted to be the Young Alumni Coordinator for the DC Alumni Club.
Please let me know if you are in town and want to get together for
drinks or something. (202) 387-4334 I'm living in a small apartment on Saint Mark's (in the East Village) with Pavol Liska (95) and our cat, Kokot (which translates into something unprintable in Slovak). I've been working at my present job now (as a legal secretary) for almost a year after a spate of other menial work as a horticulturalist/plant whore in office buildings, a nanny for two todler boys (that was a SHORT job), and an assistant puppeteer for a really awful children's reading program staring a giant stoned dragon (the guy behind the dragon was stoned, not the draggon). The last job offer before the secretary job was as a sound assistant for a porno starring Marilyn Chambers...I passed, but I must say sometimes this job makes me wish I hadn't. In June this year Pavol and I are getting married in our apartment with the
cat as best man and Brian Cremmins (95) as the Right Reverend Brian
(halelujah! can I get an amen!). It's a fourth floor walkup so I'm hoping my
grandma will make it up. If not it might happen on a floor in between.
Soon after that we hope to put up a production of Pavol's first New York
play (right now we are just desperately trying to find money to do it...the
wedding might be a sort of benefit performance to raise funds...who knows???
Maybe my relatives will buy that...) Anyway. Life is good. The reception
will be in a place in Little Italy with a lot of salami. i live in new york
city and work with catherine kim '93. i help make
fx and money market trading software, and Cathy helps people install and
use it. My question of the week is: Are there any other '93's in Kansas City?
I think I'm the only one. I'm working in Kansas City as a Geographic
Information Systems Specialist for M.J. Harden Associates. I recently
got promoted to a supervisor position, which is good; but I'm thinking
of going to grad school next fall. I saw Chris Morse '93 and Erik
Schneiderhahn '93 at Christmas. Chris is getting his PhD in Chemistry
at MIT and Erik is the Finance Manager for John Rauh's U.S. Senate
campaign in New Hampshire. Believe it or not, those guys are the only
two '93's I've seen since graduation! If anyone finds themselves in the
K.C. area, drop me a line. It's lonely out here! I have been living in San Francisco since graduation, where I work for Booz
Allen & Hamilton, a management consulting firm. There are plenty of '93s in
the Bay Area: Christy Neumann works for a money management firm in Palo Alto
and is getting married this summer. I see Dennis Durkin all the time as we
played on a softball team together this winter--he works for Alex Brown, an
SF investment bank. Chad Thomas also works in i-banking, and his girlfriend
Cathleen Millett recently left advertising for a new job in Palo Alto. I am
sure that there are others that I am forgetting... Right now I'm in my second year living in Portland, OR, where I live and
teach in a boarding school. Portland is an AWESOME city -- I think it's
got all the best parts of Boston and Hanover with a better arts scene and
better beer and wine to top it off! We're an hour from the beautiful
rocky coast, an hour to three from awesome skiing, sit on a beautiful
river at the end of the spectacular Columbia gorge, and are surrounded by
great places to backpack and white-water raft (which I've been doing alot
of!) SO, while I haven't loved my job, I love where I live. My job: I
teach freshman Ecology and two senior electives -- Human Anatomy and Phys
and Environmental Science/Geology. We live on 20 acres of wetlands and
woods, so it's a pretty spectacular place for a Biology teacher to be.
However (surprise, surprise,) am going nuts with the constraints of
boarding-school-teacher-life, and resigned before Christmas; I will work
through June, and then I move OUT! I've been teaching three years, and
it's time to go back to school, but first I have to decide whether that's
going to be med school or environmental science, so I plan to work in a
hospital in Portland next year to help me decide. Anyone who's chosen
either path have any advice/regrets/comments on their choice? Any of you
are welcome to visit if you're ever in the NW! I'll be in Portland at
least through June '97... Had a great New Year's at a party in Boston,
and though it wasn't an all Dartmouth party, ARAN KADAR, DAN WEINTRAUB,
LUKE McINNIS, JEFF EDWARDS and I did chug for Dartmouth... Hope everyone
is well. I'm living in Seattle, in the first year of a PhD program in
oceanography at the Univ. of Washington. Despite that everything they say
about rain in Seattle is true, it`s a wonderful city and I'm having a great
time. I've met several Dartmouth folks, including 2 in my program, but they're
91's and 92's. Any 93`s out here? (the picture in the gallery) is of me celebrating
during graduation week at The University of Chicago's Graduate School of
Business where I earned my MBA in June. I am now back in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
(am I the only '93 in the state??... I seem to get a disproportionate number
of requests to do alumni interviews for highschoolers) working for Griffith,
Ballard and Company, a small consulting firm which specializes in doing
actuarial and market/investment analyses for insurance companies--allowing me
to utilize my finance background from the U of C. The job is great: small
firm, country-clubbish atmosphere and hours, trust and respect eminate from
the top down... a place I would like to stay for quite a while (and might
have to considering the long and rigorous exam schedule on must endure to
become a certified actuary; I passed two more exams last fall, and have a
good four years to reach the *first* plateau). The rest of my spare time I
spend with friends, trying to keep electronically connected to those from
Dartmouth and grad school. I also will make my stage debut (something I
passed up at Dartmouth for the Symphony Orchestra) in Tennessee Williams'"The Glass Menagerie" at the city theater, playing Jim, the gentleman caller
whose impending visit the plot swirls around. It's exciting--though might
not be able to compare to those Wednesday nights perfoming the infamous
Oompah-Loompah dance for the demanding crowd at Zete... Living in Hanover with Dave (husband), Sam (baby) and Ozmo (dog) is great! Sam is 4 months old now. Thanks to a Christmas backpack and a Hanukah pulk
provided by grandparents we've been able to play outside with Sam in the snow.
So far he has enjoyed snowshoeing and cross-country skiing with us. Indoors
Sam and I spend our time napping, nursing and reading. I am in my second year living in Boulder and have just finished my first semester at CU law. Dave Vanderhoff '93 lives about four houses down from me, and Kirsten Ames is also in the neighborhood. Bear Christensen is a second year law student here, and there are a bunch of other 93's floating around town who I occasionally bump into. Also saw Jimmy Young and Pete Clark up in Vail one weekend.
One last thing Chris Pollack is going to be married this Summer(July 4th)
in San Francisco to his girlfriend of the past 2 yrs Pam (don't know her
last name) George Roumanis, Doug Roeder, and Matt McGinnes are all part
of the wedding party.
right now i'm getting my phd in biology at harvard medical school;
i am very happily married (its been 6 months so far!)...
no other news i can think of... except that i can't believe cindy davis
has a baby! wow! I'm in my second year here at Harvard Law School. It's been a great
time, aside from the spells of intense work last year. I'll be working
in New York this summer, and probably after graduation. Since graduation I've been living in various places all over Silicon
Valley. Right now I'm in the quiet town of Cupertino, CA. After
working at Apple Computer for 2 years, I left to join Netscape
Communications. I've been working there on the latest version of the
Macintosh WWW-browser. It's a very exciting place to work, though
I've come to a new appreciation of a good night's sleep. If we ever
get some snow in the Sierras this winter I'll be taking off for a
month or so to live and ski in the Lake Tahoe area. At this point I
intend on coming back, but the temptation to become a ski-bum is
ever-growing. Hi! This is Adam Persson and Melinda Soule writing from Hong Kong. We've been living in Hong Kong for two years minus 5 days. We've had shocking amounts of beer for shocking amounts of money ... in fact, Adam is working for a South African trading company importing two beers and five wines. I am working for a public relations consultancy wining and dining journalists and clients. It's a tough life.
We are getting married on November 2, 1996 at Disney World in Florida -
but this will be no Mickey Mouse wedding. Cash in lieu of gifts or
flowers will be accepted gratefully at the following address:
Obscene calls can be placed at the following number:
P.S. Anyone coming out to Hong Kong should contact us as we are the
Dartmouth Club of Hong Kong contact people. Adam is Pres and I am
Secretary. We'll be back in Hanover for Homecoming '96. Hope to see some of you
there! I am living in New York City, still, and after two years free-lance
theatre directing I am now in a MA/PhD program in Performance Studies at
NYU. I am also assistant editor of a journal called The Drama Review.
Katherine Switz is working for the IFC(International Finance
Corporation?) with the World Bank in the former Soviet Union. She works
long weeks on land privatization in rural Nijnyi(I am misspelling this),
and spends her weekends in Moscow. It's a hell of a commute, but she is
very engaged by her work and her social life with other ex-patriots in
the city.
Misha Strauss is in a PhD program in Philosophy at Georgetown (2nd year).
She is focusing on bioethics, and is publishing some work she has done
Johns Hopkins and the NIH. Unfortunately, her dog Graham could not join
her in D.C.; he happily lives with her mom in Cleveland.
Ian Haft has moved to New York City, where he is working for one of those
big investment banking firms that I always mix up.
Dave Spurr's 1997 just got moved up to 1996! Dec. 29, his mom tells me.
And, again, I am still in NYC, studying and editing my brains out, while
still trying to balance a professional theatre career and social life.
Look me up if you come to the Big Apple!
Chicago has a pretty good showing of '93's others to include in the list
of Windy City denizens are Sarah Olsen at University of Chicago, Pete
Deininger, Brian Wolf, Trey Seitz, S. Kelly Hull, Todd Brady, Mike Brock,
Forrest Bagely, Clara Rankin, Jim Keating, Julie Gordon, Kelly Begg, T.J.
Whalen and Jen Campbell (who are engaged, see Alumni Notes in the DAM).
Brian actually organized tickets to the Dartmouth vs. University of
Illinois-Chicago hockey game about a month ago and we had a pretty solid
turn out.
I am in Boston working for Fidelity Investments as a stock
analyst.
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