1986

Most business travelers' pleasure is limited to remote-control TV, a nibble of chocolate left on the pillow, and room service. If a traveler is super lucky he or she might enjoy a sun lamp and telephone in the bathroom. All too often frequent flyers have nothing to look foward to but an evening with the Gideon Bible. This wasn't exciting enough for Janie Gentry. She has found better ways to mix business with pleasure. Janie's job with American Express sent her far from her New York home to London where, faced with long evenings of BBC reruns, she decided to get out and socialize with the natives. One thing lead to another and Janie is now engaged to a Brit named Geoff Bates. They plan to settle in N.Y.C. after their fall wedding.

Jim Gill is enduring business travel of a different sort as a Peace Corp volunteer. Forget sunlamps and frequent-flyer points. Jim will be bouncing around Cameroon on a motorcycle teaching rural residents how to fish farm.

Don't be surprised to see a familiar face staring back at you next time you leaf through Vogue. Irene Suchta has left her business suit behind on Wall Street to don a Bill Blass bathing suit in the modeling world of New York City. Perhaps Thayer Dining Hall will want to feature her in their next advertising campaign.

Bergie Howard has recently made a big career change, leaving the fashion world at G. Fox to become an assistant director of Alumni Affairs at Dartmouth. One of Bergie's last acts at G. Fox was to use his employee discount to replenish his wardrobe with green socks and long underwear. Bergie's new responsibilities will include young alumni activities and class reunions.

Dennis McCooie may be able to help out other '86s interested in career changes. Dennis is working in Princeton as a "personnel management consultant and executive recruiter," i.e., headhunter. He invites all discontented young scientists, reasearch and development professionals, and chemical engineers to give him a call.

On the wedding front: Lali Jayasanker and Jay Haines '87 are planning an August 1989 wedding. Lali is at Columbia Medical School and Jay is at NYU Law. Craig Saltzgaber and Kelly Robertson are also engaged.

There is no such couple as Bob andDolly Rech, as reported in a previous article. No, they weren't recently divorced, but a sneaky misinformation campaign, perhaps craftecl by enemy spies, fooled me into thinking that Bob actually had enough guts to ask Dolly to marry him.

Dina Bloom has no official wedding plans yet, but after catching Terry Perkin's bridal bouquet, she is doomed to walk down the aisle. [Details on Terry's marriage to Doug Martin will appear in a later issue.] Dina is a first-year student at Boston College Law School. She lives with MarthaMolumphy, who is pursuing her Ph.D. in English at B.C.

Lynne Ten Hoopen is the director of the direct marketing division of Product Movers in New York; she is also the company's top rookie salesperson.

Julie Barker will be attending Cornell Business School this fall. Lynn van Ummersen is at U. Mass Medical School. Lauri Goodman is at NYU Law School. In December Paul Asel will be leaving for a trip around the world. Mike Collins is with TA Associates, a venture capital firm in Boston. Paul Whitely is with an energy-issues consulting firm in D.C. Ben Ginsburg is in his third year at the University of Michigan School of Law.

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