Winter '97 News

I'm in Milan, Italy now... just finished my MBA (here at SDA Bocconi) and am now job searching in the 'booming' Italian economy. I saw Barrie Rosenberg in NYC and Tara Burke, Rob Ryan '92 and Dave Kim '92 in Chicago when I was back in the US over X-mas. Last July, Melissa Ferguson came to see me here in Milan between leaving her post at Chase in London and starting B-school at Michigan. That's about it...not much in the exciting life of an unemployed MBA grad!

Alex Kaplan writes:

In January of 1997, I moved back to Memphis to pursue life as a writer. Right before coming back, I went with my family to Israel. I saw Chad Dick in Jerusalm on a trip with other students at Wharton. I returned to Memphis, got a job at a bookstore and started graduate classes in fiction writing. In June, Seth Alpert also returned to Memphis, starting his surgical residency at the University of Tennessee. We got a cool townhouse in midtown, the hip happening place to be. In July, I hiked the Appalachian Trail for a week with some friends from work. Also, Sam Cook stopped in to see me on a work trip through the south. He's actually living in the Upper Valley these days. In August of 97, I journeyed north to Orchard Park, NY, to watch my old pal Kate Cudney tie the knot. Also in attendance were Heather Dunn, Denison Howse, and Lisa Sylvester. About a month ago, I journeyed to Chile, where my sister now lives. Two weeks in the South American summer sun, seeing the sights in Santiago, Tierra Del Fuego, and the Straits of Magellan can do wonders for the soul.

Somewhere in there, I managed to get promoted twice, stay in touch with just a handful of people, and decide to apply to fulltime Master of Fine Arts schools in creative writing. Now, I'm waiting to hear from the 10 places I applied. Sometime in March, they tell me.

Seth rotates from hospital to hospital every month, and some months I hardly see him. February, however, is his month for plastic surgery. Now he'll be sleeping late, fitting in a round of golf before work, and generally sunning himself by the pool. He'll be tanned and rested for reunion, which we are both planning to attend.

I gave up on the whole class email list thing. Too many people were moving and not updating me, and I didn't have the energy for it. Now that we have the Dartmouth permanent addresses, maybe we can all stay more in touch.

Kelly Copper writes:

A play of mine is going up at Performance Space 122 in New York City this April 2-19. My husband Pavol Liska (95) is the director and designer for the show (called Terminal Juncture) which has its own website at: www.ps122.org/pavol. I'll be assistant directing as well. This is the third show Pavol and I have put up in New York, but the first for me as a writer. The picture on the website is a miniature of the poster/postcard for the show and I took the picture and well...it's of Pavol and I, naked, wearing Zorro masks. Should perk up the 93 website, eh -- or turn everyone away, screaming. Anyone interested in tickets can contact me at cdas@cdas.com.

Serena Bucknam Varley writes:

Paul Varley '97 and I have a baby girl who is now 11 months old. Alana Finn Varley was born January 31, 1997. I even have a picture for you to post! I just returned to BU Law School - I have three semesters to go, so Alana had to start day care this month. We bought a new house last April in North Reading, MA. And Paul started a new job with Kenan Systems as their Internet Product Manager in the fall.

Kate Wheeler writes:

I graduated from Columbia Medical School last year and have begun my residency in internal medicine at University of Alabama at Birmingham, a much needed change from New York although I do miss the city. I got married on Sept 6 this year to Andy Snell; he is still running the family business out of Atlanta but doing some work from home in Birmingham.

At the wedding were 93s: Dana Maclaurin who is getting married in June to Jake Nunn '92 and is in her second year in a PhD program at Stanford in Business; Terri Tarrant who just got married in June to Don Hegland and is back in Gainesville, FL as a 3rd year in medical school after a 2 year hiatus at the NIH doing research (Don is also in medical school with her); Sabrina Pagani who just moved to Cambridge to start at Harvard Architecture School and is working her butt off and living with sister Ariana who is applying to medical school; Carolyn Riley Chapman with husband Pete '91, she is continuing in the PhD program at Harvard in biology and he is finishing up Tuck Business School; Janet Staab who is still in Boston working and considering the business school option; Meredith Bryant who is doing a clerkship with a judge in Pennsylvania and she is living in nearby town in New Jersey; Heidi Smith who is at Columbia Business School and is getting married in June to John Daileader (I think its spelled right); Dan Subin who is London working for Merill Lynch (we just visited him there and he is having a wonderful time and is a tireless host); Christinal Maistrellis who after finishing a clerkship with a judge in Macon, GA is back in Atlanta working at one of the big firms there; Jeff Edwards is in Austin, TX in his second to last year of a combined law degree and public policy degree doing very well and trying to figure out if he can ever leave texas; Sean Riley who is doing well still working in NYC; Ben Broehm in Milwaukee finishing business school and doing very well; Andy Willis who also graduated from Columbia Med last year with me and is doing his residency in Ortho at the NY Hospital for special surgery; Michael Demelis who is a second year at Columbia Medicine and keeping his sense of humor; Michael Holobitz who got married in May 1997 and is expecting his first child very soon; Todd Sisitsky who just started Stanford Business School.

Other news: Jenn Messina Sayre had a baby boy - William - this fall. She and her husband Bill (a resident in medicine at Duke) and baby are all doing well. Chris Clancy is a third year in Medical school at University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Bill Lapcevic writes: