1989

So, you're one year out of college. Got a life yet? Are you sailing on a sure course to personal fulfillment and career happiness, or are you carrying around a moth-eaten Dartmouth sweatshirt like an overgrown Linus? San Francisco statistician Jessy Berg sends word that over half the Dartmouth guests at a recent Bay Area bash were unemployed. The jobless wonders were in a group which included Todd Heesch, Kim Hall, Karin Willinsky, John Shaw, Brian Ross, Jim Lancaster, Jeff Hawkins, Willemijn deClerq,Erik Murphy, Jenney Schofield, and KenWhitney. Also present was Anne Gazzaniga, who has since returned home to Long Island, but spent California days hanging out with Aerosmith band members while working for a concert promoter. Anne's San Diego housemate Christine Burns is still "lovin' life" in Mission Beach, where her jobs in the local music scene have included stage managing a day-long Earth Day production at Balboa Park. Avid boogie boarder Alike Schwerin lives ten minutes away in Ocean Beach and works for an environmental consulting company downtown. Christine reports that Amelia Duggan's employment status isn't known, but her tan's impressive. And a visit from Joe Dever featured not only a trip to Zsa Zsa's Bel Air home, but also an encounter with HeidiReich and Dave Gluck in Palo Alto.

Migration could be the solution to life in limbo. Lara Porzak left London, SonyaOoten fled water-logged Seattle, JilannSpitzmiller coughed ner way out of New York City, and the trio regrouped in Santa Fe, where, on the set of "Young Guns II," they watched filming, schmoozed with stars, built props, and aged extras' costumes.

Literally sailing on a course to personal fulfillment, Jay Lott spent seven weeks last summer crewing a 58-foot yacht in the North and Baltic Seas. Then he Eurailed from Germany to Portugal with Cindy Peterson, who has been teaching English in Lisbon with Victoria Dalgliesh and Christine Whalen. Amy Herrick was also in Lisbon, Jay reports, and Mary Beth Basile is studying "English lit or something" at Oxford. Once home in Wisconsin, negotiations paid off for Jay, who is now the proud half-owner of Windsurf Door County, Inc.

Have you taken up new and creative vices over the past year? Hostess products for breakfast, or perhaps chain-smoking to stay awake? Not so for Bill Englelbach and Chris Kennedy, who get together in Austin, Tex., for "rice, good beans, ripe fruit, and dairy." None for Mark Goldman either, who is using the White House gym to "get more buff by the day," writes fellow Washington, D.C., resident Laurie Wingate. Laurie works for the House Budget Committee as assistant counsel, whereas housemate Karen Goettsche explores mysteries of the unknown at Time-Life Books. Debbi Wilgoren forges new journalistic frontiers as a news aid at the Washington Post; rumor has it that romantic frontiers are reserved for a Midwestern senator. For true romance, see Blin Latta and Alison Scholten '90, married in June.

Eric Potoker is working for the Health Care Advisory Board and training for a Washington, D.C., 10K. Bob Reetz is becoming a big fish at Fresh Pond and working for a Boston financial services company on the side. Dave Aman splits his time between a legal software company in Wellesley and an unnamed female '88 track star. Stretching the hamstrings of the mind are BC students Emily Silver and Brian Lenihan, pursuing degrees in education and law, respectively.

Leaving her job at the California AfiroAmerican museum, Robin Byrd will embark on graduate study in architecture at either Harvard, Columbia, or Yale. FionaBayly makes her entrance at SUNY Plattsburgn for an M.F.A. in theater in September, and I, Carrie Luft, expect to burn the midnight Mac in the Dramatic Writing Program at NYU. Also New York-bound is Stacy Higgins, who plans to attend medical school after talcing courses at Queens College. Demetrius Eudell has received a Mellon Grant Fellowship for graduate study.

Curtain call: Clay Nichols's senior fellowship play The Speaker Speaks won the Texas Playwrights Festival and was to receive a full professional production in Houston, opening on July 5. He'll be teaching English this fall at the Baylor School in Chattanooga.

Congratulations to the class of 1990: we, the one-year veterans of life in limbo, wish you luck, low phone bills, challenging entry-level jobs, and personal fortitude. Welcome to the wide, wide world!

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