last updated May 21, 1997|
last updated May 21, 1997 |
Spring '97 NewsI have been working at Shearman & Sterling for 7 months as an associate in the corporate finance department. Andy Perloff was here when I started but he has since left to start writing (I think). It's been good so far but busy considering that I am (and mostly my mother) also planning an august wedding (which Heidi Smith wrote about).I just saw Pam Bliss and Daphne Howard - Pam just finished the Boston Marathan and Daphne is working for a startup adventure/lifestyle magazine which will be issuing its first issue soon - look for "Blue." I just saw Steve Largay in a dress rehearsal for "Last Night of Ballyhoo" which is on Broadway and which is great. Carrie Cantor is producing two plays downtown which I hope to see soon, maybe I can drag Daphne, and/or Jen Odgen and Julie Detraglia who I get to see every so often. Marc and Kira (Thomas) Steifman are in Chicago (he's at business school and she's at law school) but fortunately they're coming back to New York and getting a dog at the end of May.
News from out west: Jen Cohn is in Jackson Hole and she just opened a
knitting store with Rachel Mancol and Stacey Frieder is becoming a
master chef in Vail. That's pretty much it if anyone out there is in
law school and will be or is thinking about coming to Shearman as an
associate or a summer associate, let me know.
A lot has happened in the past year. In April '96 I finished a
north-to-south walk across America in New Orleans where I received the
wonderful hospitality of Aran Kadar. After five relaxing days, the walk
continued north to St. Louis, my hometown. Making it home took
everything I had, both physically and emotionally. 27 days after
leaving Aran's place and on my mother's birthday, I walked across the
MLK Bridge into downtown St. Louis. The feelings were indescribable.
At the same time, a big decision was looming. On July 16, roughly 3000
miles from West Quoddy Head, Maine, I stopped walking in McKittrick,
Missouri. It was the right decision, one made by the same heart that
started this journey. From that decision onward, an amazing sequence of
events began. For six weeks I crisscrossed the country hitchhiking,
learning more than I ever thought possible about the trucking world, and
of course hitting everyone's couches again. Two of my stops were for
weddings. On August 3rd in Winston-Salem, NC, Todd Brady married Andrea
Darling '94. On Labor Day weekend Jeff Allen married longtime
girlfriend Beth Bailey in San Antonio. Both events were festive and
reunion-like. After Jeff's wedding I hitched back to San Fran. A
former work associate invited me to work on an ongoing project,
ironically, in San Antonio. As it turned out, I spent two intense
months living and working there as part of the technical support staff
for attorneys handling a highly sensitive major litigation. At this
time, others on the staff discovered the incredible CD-Rom game "You
Don't Know Jack," an irreverent high culture meets pop culture
interactive trivia game. After the case ended, I moved to Chicago.
Upon later discovering the writing for DKJ was done in Chicago, I knew I
had to work there. In short order I found myself in the midst of a
grueling three-month audition process for a round of writer hiring. As
of April 15, I'm proud to be a creative writer for Jellyvision, having
accomplished a lifelong dream of being a paid smart-ass. DKJ Volume 3
will be released later this year. To play the game for free, go to
"www.bezerk.com" and follow the instructions (feel free to email me if
you have any trouble or just want to volunteer feedback). I had an amazing time at two 93 weddings last year. Jenn Schneider married Mike Hommeyer '92 in a beautiful seaside ceremony in Falmouth last June, and Jen Campbell and TJ Whalen had a gorgeous wedding outside of Chicago in September. They all seem to be loving married life and have made the rest of us a little less nervous about the big step, including.... Jenny Richlin and Jay Gonzalez are getting married in May in Maryland. Plenty of 93's are also marrying non Big Green (but equally terrific) people: Beth Beshear is marrying Mark Toft in June in Alabama, Pam Kunen is marrying Jon Henes in August, and Grant Gregory is engaged to his long-time girlfriend Kim. Finally, I'll be getting married in June of 98 to John Daileader. Luckily I've been getting tips from all those above who have already planned some pretty amazing weddings! In other news, the time seems to be right for grad school. Both Amanda Brown (1st year) and Grant Gregory (2nd year) are at Harvard Business School. Beth Beshear is studying for a degree in social work in St. Louis and Jenny Richlin is getting her masters in both social work and non-profit management at Case Western. I'm finishing up my first year at Columbia Business School and will work for the Gaming, Lodging and Leisure equity analyst at Schroder Wertheim this summer. I actually ran into B McConnaughey at SW's annual conference as he covers the same industries (among others) for Fidelity in Boston. He is also preparing for his big day: he's getting married in July.
I'm anxiously awaiting Kathie Hahn's return from the peace corps in
June. Although she is done with her commitment, she's been travelling
for a few months in India, China, Korea, etc. I'm hoping that once
she's home I'll also have an easier time tracking down Cathy Kim who has
been travelling all over the world as an independent computer
consultant. The last I heard, she was on her way to San Francisco after
spending 5 months snowboarding in Switzerland. I ran into (almost
literally) Dann Angeloff in October at a 20 mile road race in DC. He
was training for the Marine Corps Marathon and I was training for the
NYC marathon. It sounds like there were tons of Dartmouth people
running both, and I have to say that wearing my Dartmouth t-shirt
certainly helped me get through those 26 miles! I'm sure there is plenty more news, but I'll leave it for another time.
Hope everyone else is doing well. I've spent my time working with Schlumberger, putting fancy tools down oil wells to try to find the black ooze. In May I went on a training course to Egypt. After two months in Northern Egypt, literally surrounded by sand and camels, my group took a couple of days to go Scuba diving in the Red Sea. We rented a boat and chose a diving spot alongside a boatload of Saudi Arabians. It was pretty weird to see the mother decked out in black drapes, with only her eyes showing, and to see her daughter next to her, wearing nothing but a tiny bikini.
In early August I went to Ecuador to visit
Michelle Rebosi '97 (yay! weve been dating over a year now- dont ask me
how, but we have!) We rented a jeep and drove around the country. The
mountains were beautiful, and after a couple of days we got really good at
talking our way out of Army checkpoints (I guess it wasnt too smart to
leave my passport in Quito!.) I then came to the oilfields here in Southern
Mexico. The island that our base is on makes Hanover look like a
metropolis, and it is far south enough that I might run across
sub-comandante Marcos some day. A couple of days after arriving there was a
barbecue at the base, and I guess the staff wanted to see what the new
engineer was made of. They chose the method: a beer chug-off against their
pot-bellied best. Lets just say that my years at Dartmouth paid off, and I
now am, in a twisted sort of way, a highly respected member of the
community. So I now work the offshore rigs, and there are times, when Im
jumping off the helicopter onto the offshore platform, that I think of my
suit-clad ivory-tower classmates (apologies to Sean Quinn, among others),
and wonder just how the hell I got here. (By the way, Sean, if you somehow
take a wrong turn and wind up in Mexico, you're more than welcome to my couch.) |