1986

Taimi Strehlow blushes a lot at work. She is protecting you and me and all the other corruptible minds in the nation—from further moral degradation. Apparently the French are trying to destroy our society by broadcasting French programs on public radio. Fortunately Taimi is listening to these programs before they ripple the airwaves; she censors out the corrupting parts before they bombard our eardrums. I always thought America was a permissive society—heck, we invented freedom of speech.Taimi, what do you do with the outtakes?

Pamela Taylor has a lot to be happy about. She has been married to Arif Cahlid (a Ph.D. student at MIT) since October 1988 (obviously Pam's letter informing the class about this event was lost in the mail) and in June she will be giving birth to her first child. Shortly after graduation she spent a year in Beijing studying Chinese. Her next stop was Vancouver, where she studied classical Chinese (do the Canadians speak classical Chinese better than the Chinese?). In 1988 she enrolled at the Harvard Divinity School. Someplace along the line she converted to Moslem; she is active in Moslem affairs.

Doug and Terry Perkins Mitman decided to do the opposite of Pam. Rather than learning Chinese, they decided to help the Chinese learn English. Good idea!! Why bother to learn their language when they are fully capable of learning ours? If each American taught four Chinese to speak English there would be no need for a single American to speak Chinese (sorry Pam, you might have wasted your time mastering Chinese). Terry and Doug are instructors at South China Normal University in Guangzhou. They will return to America in time for Doug to begin business school at Cornell, where Terry will complete law school after having done her first two years at Harvard.

Lali Jayasankar Haines sent me a letter (imagine that!). Since it is getting late, I thought I would repeat it directly. Too bad I threw out Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement, because now I don't know how to properly cite her letter. Lali, I owe you a few footnotes: "... I got married to Jay Haines 'B7 last August. He's graduating from NYU Law and I from Columbia Medical School in May, and we're moving to Boston. He'll be working at Ropes and Gray. I'll be doing my residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Leslie Paulson and LaurenGeddes also graduate from medical school and are going into internal medicine and pediatrics, respectively. Janet Friday and Jenny Heath graduate with me here at Columbia. Jenny's going to Utah for pediatrics, Janet to Boston for pediatrics, and MarkProctor is going into neurosurgery (also from Columbia).

"Lauren Geddes and Doug Rothstein are getting married in June, as are DebbieBerfee and Kevin Williams. Janie GentryBates is at UCLA B School. Janeen StoneDaly married Bill Daly last December and now lives in New Jersey. Bill graduates with my hubby, Jay ... and will work in N.Y.C. for Skadden Arps. Janeen works as a risk analyst for Toys-Я-Us.

"Amy Kazanjian Spence is married to Tom Spence '83 and they now live in Dutchess County, New York. Their son, Kenneth, is two years old and they have another one on the way. Thom and LizShea Fries live in Boston. Thom is at graduate school and Liz is a lawyer at Goodwin, Proctor, and Hoar."

Thanks, Lali.

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