1987

7048 South Cook Court Littleton, CO 80122

Good evening, folks. This is Robin Leach, and welcome to "Lifestyles of the Recently Graduated." Tonight, we'll begin a journey across the country on the coattails of that chic elite, the class of 1987.

We begin our odyssey at the source by dropping in on some '87s who have yet to escape the comforting environs of quaint Hanover, N.H. On the rickety third floor of Robinson Hall, we find Russell Kemp hard at work for radio stations WDCR/FRD. Russ is spending his fifth year at the stations, and he anchored the broadcast of Dartmouth Night in October, a flammable phenomenon of Hollywood proportions.

In the nearby Hopkins Center, DevonDavis labors as a set technician in preparation for the center's 25th anniversary. Down the street, John Flaherty takes refuge from the corporate world as manager/head bartender at Peter Christian's Tavern. Christen Fitzpatrick, recently engaged to Dan O'Connor '88, works at John's culinary competitor, Molly's Balloon.

Across the surging Connecticut in the humble hamlet of Norwich, Gerry Russo and Mark Segal share a flat and reminisce about their Streeter Hall days. Gerry, a selfdescribed "American Success Story," has parlayed his major in English into a managerial position at The Cool Moose Ice Cream Company in West Lebanon, while Mark conducts research at the Dartmouth Medical School involving cat dung (a topic that I dare not pursue). The pair are joined on occasion by Cynthia Dukich, bottling beer for the Catamount Brewery. Comments Gerry: "Our Dartmouth diplomas make packing the cases that much easier." How intriguing.

At the Thayer School we find a number of our classmates in feverish pursuit of a bachelor of engineering degree (B.E. to those in the know). James Runstadler,Chris Behrens, and Doug Fifolt are hard at work doing, well, engineering kinds of things, and their labor should be rewarded by springtime.

Doug Green spent the year after his 1986 graduation teaching skiing, and biking 4,000 miles through the northwest. With his taste for adventure satiated, Doug has settled in at the UVM Medical School in Burlington, a town he describes as "a big Hanover."

About 130 miles to the south lies Boston, the Beantown on the bay. Here, within comfortable visiting range of Dartmouth, many '87s are hard at work. Kathy Carr is hoping to continue working for a boating company whose summer schedule put her in roles varying from skipper to swab hand. She plans to apply to the Peace Corps in June.

Wendy Helm defected to the Harvard Graduate School of Education after a teaching stint at Andover's summer session. Her one-year sentence will result in a master's degree and, she hopes, a teaching job in Boston. She informs me that Clyfe Beckwith, who taught with her in Andover, is now in a graduate physics program at Boston College. Kathy Foley, on the other hand, conducts market research for the Hill, Holliday advertising agency in town. JenTisdel works in consulting for Bain & Co. with some other '87s whose names were not released. When she is not logging long hours at the office, Jen rooms with KKG pal Caroline Sobota.

Shanta Puchtler and Rob Shen live together on Beacon Hill within walking distance of their consulting jobs. Shanta remarks that the best part of having a job is being able to leave work at the office over the weekend, a luxury few could afford at school.

My word. I seem to have run out of time (read word limit). Be sure to tune in next month as the voyage continues.