1988

A short column this month, for a couple of reasons. One, the mail isn't exactly flowing in rapidly—for that, you have no one to blame but yourselves. Two, I rarely write a short column. Some have suggested I'm incapable of it; to prove the naysavers wrong, I present a break from my Brobdignagian locutions.

Sarah Jackson writes from Hong Kong-after finishing her master's degree m Renaissance English at Cambridge last September, Sarah flew to the soon-to-be- non-British colony "with three suitcases and no job." It didn't take long to find one, though; she's features editor for a trade magazine.

Back in the Upper Valley, Diane De Priest is working at radio station Q-106 as a disc jockey and promotions coordinator. You can tune her in when you're up for a visit. Diane reports that Kristin Marshall is back on campus as an undergrad, taking pre-med classes. After graduating as an English major, Kristin decided what she really wanted to be was a doctor. Hey, two degrees are better than one, right?

Steff McCusker nee Solms and Dave are enjoying married life, says Diane; Steff is teaching English at her old high school near Manchester, and Dave is "playing a lot of hockey and looking for a job."

A photo and note arrived from another new '88 couple, Kathie and Gill Watt. Eighty-eights in attendance included Holly Krueger, Heather VanBlarcom, Rachel Sexton, Brent Wilkes, and Angela Cross. Several '89s also attended. Kathie says she's looking forward to her toaster, which is tied up because President Freedman wants to deliver it personally but has been busy.

Dave Carter was also on hand for the Watt nuptials; he sent a nice Christmas card, reporting that he sees a lot of Joan Pepin when he visits Harvard Law School. Joan is a student there, as is Dave's girlfriend. The threesome reportedly had something to do with the painting of John Harvard before the football game this year (Yes! That tradition returned!)

Got word from Dave Nitkin, who's laboring at the Herald Statesman newspaper in Yonkers, N.Y. He has a "standard municipal beat" covering the villages of Has tings-on-Hudson and Dobbs Ferry; he also makes frequent trips back to the Granite State to see his new love interest, who is a reporter at the Keene Sentinel.

Lastly, saw several happy faces at Cambridge recently when the men's basketball team beat Harvard. Mike Smith is working at Prudential in Boston; just go to the big building downtown and ask for him. Dave McConnell is an editor at a textbook publishing firm in Norwell, Mass., and he had a nifty business card. And former Big Green hoopstar Jason Lobo '89 reports that Larissa Roesch is happy working as an events coordinator at a San Francisco art museum.

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