1985

Hi. Feast or famine, as they say. After more than a year of gleaning into tidbits from wherever we can get them, including fabrication, we have been deluged of late by letters from our fellow classmates. Therefore, don't look for long vapid segments this month. We will be unable to wax prophetic, wasting space in a vain attempt at filling the column. Oops, I think we're already screwing up ... So hang on tight, I've only got six hundred words, and a hell of a lot of information to pack into them ...

In the wedding department: Janine Wollis married Robert Tabas on May 11. Thanks for enclosing a copy of your marriage certificate, Janine. Fact checking to guard against false marriage notices can get pretty tedious. August weddings are planned for KathleenLyons (to Harvard grad David Fanikos) and Gayle Gilman (to Richard Ellenton).

Birth department: June Palumbo-Meyer and husband Jim had a daughter, Hannah Hughes (7 lbs., 1 oz.), on June 10.

Career advancement department: AmyBrout has been upped to a vice president at Citibank in New York. Tiger Shaw, U.S. Ski Team member and winner of numerous slalom titles, will be hanging up the skis to work for the Mount Mansfield company in Stowe, Vt. Adam Seessel, a reporter for The Independent Weekly in Durham, N.C., won a Polk Award last March for his report on governmental cover-up at a hazardous waste plant. The award is one of the most prestigious in journalism. Mike Clarkin and his wife are moving to Herrenberg, Germany, where they will be working for Hewlett-Packard. Finally, Lauren Sonstrom has joined Purdom Public relations in San Francisco as an account manager.

Becoming a neurologist department: looking for a snappy retort to the oft-asked "What are you, some kind of brain surgeon?", KirkRoberts writes that he will be entering Columbia next year to begin training in neurology. Kirk also wrote that he and his wife, Patty, plan to stay in New York for at least another four years and in that time would like to get a house in the suburbs, 1.5 pets and 1.34 kids. Glad to see that you've still got that nutty spontaneous edge, Kirk.

Gilbert and Sullivan department: JoelThayer adapted and directed The Mikado in Taunton, Mass., this past spring. Joel is the artistic director of the Star Players of faunton and a graduate of Yale Drama.

Man and Superman department: PatrickByrne wrote us an amazing and almost unbelievable letter documenting the things he has been doing since graduation. Listen up, couch potatoes . . . Patrick fought and won a two-and-a-half-year bout with cancer. Bicycled across the U.S. twice. Got a master's in philosophy from Stanford. Got a second master's from Cambridge University in political philosophy. Learned French and German (in addition to the Thai, Chinese, and Spanish he already knows). Will be published by Sun Publishers of Santa Fe this summer. Presendy, Patrick is pursuing a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford and has aimed his sights (no joke) on fulfilling his lifelong ambition of being a pro heavyweight boxer, or of enlisting in the Navy SEAL program.

Shameless self-promotion department: go see "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" this summer... as many times as you can... with some friends ... and don't forget to buy the action figures this Christmas (in stores every where!).

Well, that about wraps it up for the summer and, hey look, 17 words to spare!

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