1987

Even though we have entered a new decade, I still receive news from '87s who helped the eighties go out with a roar. What are we going to call the eighties now that they have passed? The Me Decade? The Sue Me Decade? How about, Trump: the Decade?

Anyway, Holly Taylor spent the end of last year shaking, rattling, and rolling during the San Francisco earthquake. Holly seems to have survived in good enough shape to continue her pursuit of a Ph.D. in psychology at Stanford, but her prized Macintosh computer tumbled to the floor of her room during the quake.

Back in me seismically more stable environs of Madison, Wis., John Harpole has been working for the State of Wisconsin Investment Board screening various investment deals. Mary Beth Meys, on the other hand, has gotten her own piece of the rock with Prudential Insurance in New Jersey where she works in customer service.

From the international desk, we have news that Maria Nisi will be teaching mathematics in Nairobi as part of a Peace Corps tour in Africa. Austin Wiehe attends the Fletcher School of International Relations in Boston, and he is sure to be in need of a passport soon. Speaking of passports, they say that if you look as bad as your passport photo, you need the trip. Finally, DianaWheeler let more than her fingers do the walking earlier this year when she left her job at Bell South to teach English in Costa Rica for a group called World Teach.

I hear that Sandy Reeves has been on assignment in New York as a commodities trader, and Frank Miele designs ultrasound equipment in Andover, Mass. MichaelKong is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Chicago and is said to be dabbling in real estate. Liz Spear has a chance at a welcomed eight-week assignment in California as part of her job with Digital Equipment Corp.

On the academic side, Robert Flanigan will have to adapt to being called a '91 at Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Dodd Griffith is on the verge of receiving his law degree from Vanderbilt, but third-year jitters didn't keep him from marrying Misty Webb in January. The ceremony took place in Tupelo, Miss., which used to be best known as Elvis Presley's birthplace. Dodd and Misty plan to move to Concord, N.H., where Dodd has accepted a position at a law firm and Misty will finish her law studies.

Sharon Holland wrote recently from Urbana (as opposed to Rurala), Ill. She earned a master's in journalism from North-western and is now a reporter and anchor for WICD-TV in Champaign. Sharon reports the marriage of Jennifer Smith to Bryce Lambert '83 in Glen Ellyn, Ill., last November. The wedding party included New York fashion guru Clare Killeen, first-year law student Wendy Chronister, and former roommate Colleen Reid. In addition, Lauren Schwartz was on hand to sing at the ceremony.

In Zephyrhills, Fla., Erin Fagan and Dale Parker were married just two days short of the new year. Steffie Mullins and Jim Ellis were there, and I was quite jealous to find out just how warm it stays in Florida, even in December.

Last but not least, Scott Rodrick spent much of the winter organizing a Dartmouth-United Nations Regional Conference in San Francisco, and Brian Foley has returned to work as a staff writer for the Keene Sentinel in New Hampshire.

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