1987

The last few months have brought me a bounty of correspondence from classmates and anonymous onlookers. I think this has convinced my parents that I was wildly popular at school. We certainly have them fooled. Thanks to all of the dutiful letter writers.

I received a terrific Valley News article dated last June that chronicles the recovery of Sue Murray from a debilitating 1985 train accident in France and her lasting friendship with Laurie Lopes. It is a touching tribute to an '87 I don't know personally but have heard a lot about.

Kim Klimek won a scholarship to the Jefferson Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia (got all that?) and is getting accustomed to studying in an urban environment. Kim is engaged to Bill Ruhl '86 (Thayer '88), and their wedding will take place at Rollins Chapel in August.

Cheryl Maier, meanwhile, is the youngest of 32 students enrolled in Tufts University's master's program in early childhood psychology.

Also among the ranks of studious '87s is Sarah Rosenfeld, who attends Georgetown Law School with Peter Young and SteveSalem. Sarah spent her summer counseling at Tabor Academy with Becky Bouchard. Becky is now an account executive for the Duffy Darrow advertising and public relations firm in Caribou, Maine. Before her classes started, Sarah visited Julian Okwu in Palo Alto, Calif., where he works as a case assistant for the legal firm Fenwick, David & West. Julian is considering a television contract to star in a new show, "P.A. Law."

The Alumni Association near Washington, D.C., has received a boost in membership from our class. Katie Faulkner,Meg Clapp, Lesley Barnes, and Mary Marlette live together in Georgetown, while Beth Hunt and Mary Page Michel are hard at work in Baltimore. Yves Denize works for an educational agency in Alexandria, Va. In the District itself, Tim Schmidt, BrittLimes, Drew Shagrin, and Michelle Stone live together and are a paralegal, a Georgetown student, a public law institute employee, and a job hunter, respectively (but not respectably). John Youle and B.J.Handy are a pair o' paralegals in D.C., too.

For a change of scenery, we move to New York, New York (a town so nice, they named it twice). Nancy Davis is a copy editor for the Biomedical Information Corporation. In addition to her job, Nancy has been training for regional triathlons by swimming, bicycling, and running extensively.

I talked to at least 30 of our classmates at Homecoming 1987, and they gave me heaps of stories for this column. Laura Gasser and Laura Korfmann were a little late coming up from New York on Dartmouth Night. It seems they were driving Laura K.'s pickup truck and were kicked off the parkway by police for operating a commercial vehicle there. Nancy Lomazzo, who is a legal assistant for Debevoise & Plimpton in New York, made the trip without incident, as did Nancy Lane, who is making money the oldfashioned way for Smith Barney.

A final follow-up item: I joined PeterMurane and Tim Bixby in Australia and New Zealand in November. The highlight of the trip was a three-day scuba diving trip on the Great Barrier Reef. Our driving on the left side of the roads proved to be equally dangerous.

Down under Down Under. As you can probably tell, this is a photo taken near Flynn Reef in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The scuba students—all '87s on a trip last November—are, from left, Jim Bixby, Peter Murane, Gregg Rippey.

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