Well, I hope that everyone had a chance to ring in the New Year in style, and that Y2K didn’t turn out to be the menace that everyone thought it would be. If nothing else, it did give us something to talk about for months on end. So, now we can finally turn to the battle over the recommendations to the Trustees regarding the residential and social initiative. But we’ll save that discussion for next month.
Before I get into the news, let me share a little personal story with you all. I recently had the opportunity to fly back to Hanover with Alli Brugg to serve on a panel of "experts" at the second annual Career Services Super Saturday where we were asked to talk about how to establish a career in public policy. Other recent grads went back to Hanover as well, providing their own bits of expertise in the fields of journalism and marketing, while also planting alleged seeds of knowledge into the heads of the wide-eyed senior class. So there I was at 8:30 am Saturday morning with a tie on, looking out at all these people who I had been playing pong with in a basement three months earlier, thinking, "How incredibly SCREWED UP is this?" Alli probably would have told me the same thing had she not been struck down with a mutation of the itchy-rash virus which is still lingering from its campus-wide attack during our sophomore year.
In my absence, Chris Warren, a born-again intellectual teaching English in his old high school, has been busy digging up dirt on some of his friends. He blitzed me to share a few of the notes he has received. "Robert Isaacs writes that his internship at an organic farm outside of Hong Kong is going swimmingly. ‘I just can’t wait until harvest,’ he said in his recent note." Also, "Matthew Stembridge tells us that he is more than content at his programming job at Microsoft in Seattle. He was slightly dismayed by the recent court opinion, but feels that Microsoft’s superior technological product will win out in the end. ‘I bet you never thought I’d make good like this,’ he jokes." Thanks for the update, Chris.
Out in San Francisco, Jaclyn Lewin writes that she is living with Tami Anderson, Angie Kim, and Margaret Kim. "We recently went to Lake Tahoe with Adam Jacobstein, Jason Hsiao ’98, Gabe Levy, and Corby Kelly to see a play Schuyler Hedstrom put on with local kids. We’ve also had visits from Brandon Garcia and Scout Dallison and are expecting visits from Carlos Osorio and Sarah Dinwoodey," Jaclyn writes. Well, it sounds like a good time. Let me know how things go!
During the Thanksgiving break, Caroline Kaufman ran into former Tridelta sister and neighbor in the river apartments, Sarah Anderson, and actually ended up sitting next to her on the flight from Philadelphia to Chicago. Caroline then had a chance to hang out with former rowing teammates Kristin Heist and Kathleen Eibl ’98 at home. The trio took some time to walk around downtown Chicago to check out all the holiday decorations before returning to their day jobs.
Well, that’s about it for now. I look forward to seeing you all back in Hanover for Winter Carnival. And, unless you are hovering on the edge of your seat waiting for another little story about how I can’t deal with getting old, please take a minute to let me know what’s going on with you and your friends.
Seth Kelly,
seth.kelly.99@alum.dartmouth.org