1988

In the middle of another cold Upper Valley winter, it's really great to be getting so much mail from all of you. Some of it comes in the form of nifty press releases. In this category, we learn that Barb Turley has joined Delia Femina, McNamee WCRS, Inc., advertising agency in Boston as an assistant account manager. The release notes that "her responsibilities include the Parker Brothers account," and adds a list of prominent clients such as Nestle's, FootJoy, and Stouffer foods. So, if you're playing "Risk" while wearing golf shoes and munching a french bread pizza with a "Crunch" bar, you have Barb to thank.

Another press release announces that Kathryn Beams is in Cameroon, starting a two-year stint as a Peace Corps volunteer. Kathy will be serving in maternal and child health care programs, working with the local government on infant survival problems.

Writing from picturesque Le Lac d'Annecy is Bill Davis, who has been working as a teaching assistant in Zermatt, Switzerland, in a program for American high school sophomores. "It's a sweet job. I even got to go on a helicopter-assisted guided climb on a 14,000 foot peak." By now, if Bill's prediction is correct, he's "traveling in Central America."

Here in America, Francis Stanbach,David Owens, and David Feldman write that they are all with Apple Computer in California, working on either networking or system software. Sounds like they have adapted well to the California life style; they're "playing ultimate frisbee and video games, swimming in the pool, and driving through the hills." Meanwhile, I'm scraping ice off my car every morning.

Steve Yung writes to let us know that he spent the summer working on an Aztec archaeological dig with the Anthropology Department. They upturned an obsidian workshop as well as a wall from an Aztec house to highlight the trip.

Someday, someone may dig up the wall of a house sold by Julie Clyma. Julie is in Hanover working at the real estate firm of Webster Associates and getting her real estate license. She also marshaled the corps of football program sellers during the fall. She's so conscientious, she wrote me to tell me this even though I see her at least once a week. Thanks, Julie!

Someone else who's reading a lot of mail these days is Jon Danziger. He's working at Time magazine in New York in the Letters to the Editor department. "I have a Rolodex full of lunatics," Jon says. "We have to respond to every letter, and we keep all the addresses on file." It takes 25 people to handle all of Time's mail. Jon recently bumped into Nipsey Russell on a lunchtime stroll, and Nipsey, ever the ham, did a poem for Jon right smack dab on Fifth Avenue. "He'd just gotten done with a taping of 'The $25,000 Pyramid,' " Jon said. "Only in New York could this happen."

Writing on a different level is Andy Lerner. He's working at Mickey Mouse magazine, a children's publication (to state the obvious), and word is his latest project was constructing a "Which of these is not like the other?" puzzle. All his experience editing the editorial page of The D is coming in handy, I guess.

Katie Lilienthal is working for two magazines in San Francisco. One is called Soma, which stands for "South of Market," the other is Mother Jones, which covers "the creative, offbeat pulse of the city." That must take some doing, given the creativity and offbeat-ness of the City by the Bay.

Class president Dan Estabrook is currently at the Putney School, just down the road from Hanover, working in fundraising and development.

A Dartmouth reunion was held recently in, would you believe, Hong Kong? It seems that David Downie, Colin Stewart, and Dana Beard, all of whom are working in that city, got together and relived Margarita Night at Bentley's. David is a legal assistant with Paul, Weiss, Colin is with Morgan Stanley, and Dana is working with a Chinese data entry services company.

On a more somber note, trees have been planted in Hanover in memory of our late classmates Stacey Coverdale and CraigWasha. The Coverdale tree was planted at the NAD house in a traditional ceremony in October. A Coverdale memorial scholarship fund is presently being constructed, and we'll keep you posted on its progress. The tree in memory of Craig is near French dormitory in the River Cluster.

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