1988

Though it's difficult to believe, it's been six years since we arrived in Hanover as impressionable freshmen. Look out your window, as I am right now. The leaves are turning, or preparing to do so. Kids in your neighborhood are starting the new school year. Maybe you are, too. Got your pen and pencil case, your new lunchbox, your new shoes? Think about this—l was up in Hanover recently and they had shirts for the class of '95 in the window. I managed not to faint.

Unbelievably, I head back to the mailbag this month, taking sustenance from the letters you, a gracious class, have sent. First, let's finish out Larissa Roesch's letter from last issue, which is updating us on several San Francisco '88s. Laura Iseler is at Stanford, getting a degree in engines while working at NASA. Class president Dan Estabroofe has left the Putney School in Vermont and spent the summer house-sitting in S.F. and looking for a job in a school out there. Brian Storr worn at a law firm in Palo Alto. David Feldman, Jerry Godes, Edward Ives, Dan O'Connor, Dave Owens, Francis Stanback, and Peter Trump are all working for the company that enabled us to stretch a two-page paper to infinity, Apple Computers. Joel Allison is working for Digital, while Rob Combi and Bill Cummings are at Prudential.

Larissa says that the Dartmouth Club in the Bay Area is focused on older alums, so she and Mr. Estabrook are trying to encourage younger alumni in the area to get together in their own way. Larissa welcomes calls from anyone psyched for a get-together.

Rick Watson dropped a note saying that he'll be back in Hanover this fall to start two years at Tuck. Jay Henry has also been accepted, Rick said, and probably will attend after finishing up at Morgan Stanley in London. Bob Striker, Rick reports, is finishing up himself at Davis Polk in N.Y.C. ana hiked through Alaska this summer before heading either for a Washington job or law school.

Todd Zywicki wrote "to try to contribute to the magazine in a place other than the letters section." Todd just finished his master's degree in economics at Clemson and is headed for law school this fall, either UVA, Stanford, or Chicago. Todd reports that Alex Azar made law review at Yale, and that the aforementioned Mr. Watson will be living with Thayer-ite Naresh Wignaraiah and College employee Wayne Weil. Todd ran into Lou Molnar recently in Chicago, but the experience was somehow muddled. "He is working at some bank with the name 'Lincoln' in the tide, although I don't remember much more than that," Todd wrote.

A most pleasant letter from Kristin Zimmerman, who's in New York working as an account executive at Campbell-Mithun-Esty advertising, brings still more news. Judie Wilkie was spotted at various points in Southeast Asia, including in Hong Kong with Sarah Jackson ana Catherine Rainey. Lynn Currey, Kristin's roommate, is an actuarial consultant at Coopers & Lybrand.

John Replogle sent a postcard from Honolulu, where he is working, not playing. After leaving the Boston Consulting Group, he joined APC, a project management firm based in Boston, which promptly sent him to Honolulu for four months to oversee the building of a Carrier jewelers. From there, he'll go to Beverly Hills to open two more. John's move was the first of a mini-rush of '88s to this new firm. Bill Keating and Alec Frisch left their firms to join APC, "a company of 18, with three Dartmouth '88s" John said.

Finally, if you were in Chicago recently, saw 30 Donna Reed look-alikes marching down the street, and thought one looked familiar, it did—it was Rachel Dratch. Details on that, and more of your letters next month.

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