1988

One of the beauties of the class newsletter, put out by my good friend JackSteinberg, is that it's great column fodder for a couple of months. See, only '88s get the newsletter, which is its purpose—to keep our class together. However, all alumni see this column, so what may not be news to you is news to the others whose eyes fall on this space. That's also the most compelling reason for you to write me.

The other thread tying this column together is the NCAA basketball tournament, which I have been watching for about 13 hours straight. Bear with me. It's a difficult time.

If you saw the Princeton basketball team's second straight near-miss in the NCAAs you were probably thinking, what '88s are now sporting Tiger stripes? Mary Rieth,Steve Carlotti, Michael Friedberg, DaveHorwich, and Matt Lansburgh are all in Jersey these days. Mary just got back from a Rotary scholarship tour of Bogota, Columbia, where she studied economics at La Universidad Nocimal. She's at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Government as are Steve and Michael. What the other guys are studying, I can't say.

Another NCAA bid winner was Virginia and several of us are on the lovely Charlottesville campus. Dean Dietrich is about to finish his master's in English, but he's sticking around for a doctorate. Ty Hoffman and Rosemary Gould are also in the English department. Brian Corcoran is nearing the end of his second year at the law school and three swinging guys—PaulWlodkowski, Dave Hamilton, SteveHuettner—are all in the engineering program.

A man who's not at UVA but who loves the Cays is Jay Sotos. Jay's left Arthur Andersen in D.C. and has joined up with an independent money-handling firm, Mulroney Associates. Details of just what Jay does are sketchy, but it sounds like a medium-risk, high-return kind of deal. Jay says if he makes the Big Score, he's headed for Borneo.

The big story in the East this year was the Huskies of U. Conn., where Bill Storo and Jim Ouellette are chugging toward medical degrees. Bill recently did five weeks of missionary work in Mexico and Jim is planning to join the '88 wedding march in June. He'll wed Kelly Aldrich in Rollins Chapel.

Okay, enough hoop talk. Pam Codispoti helped me impress my whole apartment building (note my new address) by writing me on Bain and Company stationery; she reports that Katie Kellogg and Alan Moss have been accepted to Harvard Business School and plan to attend next fall. Pam added that Steve Hochman recently left Bain to start up a mountain-bike touring company that he hopes to station, eventually, in Australia. Pam also gave me the hot new way to make your Alumni Fund pledge: dial toll free 1/800/228-1709.

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