1989

September always puts me in a school supplies mood. (Pencils, pink gum erasers, a ruler, Pritt glue stick, a plastic pencil sharpener shaped like an Indy 500 race car, all nestled shiny-new inside a crisp, bright circus box. Trapper Keeper, Eraser Mate, protractor, Magic Markers in six different festive fruit scents. No ink pens until sixth grade. But what do we need now as we enter our junior year of Life?

Rocks whiz Fox Tilghman will sport a cer- tain form of carbon as she weds Peter Cholnoky 'B3 this month. Fellow D.C.-area residents Tom Flanigan, Craig Rau, PeteMcDonald, Matt Malaney, Erin Johns,Bonnie Kramer, and Lindsey Brace will be on hand to celebrate the nuptials. Lindsey, an environmental consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, can assess the effects of the reception's aftermath (Fox mentioned "upsidedown beer shots"), while Fox shall escape by relocating to Connecticut.

Connie Womack and John Britton were starry-eyed and carbon-bound earlier this summer at a gala bash in honor of their engagement. The couple plans to remain in New York, where John writes for financial journals and Connie, a graduate of Neighborhood Playhouse, pursues an acting career. While making merry, I also made the secretarial rounds. Eric Berlin and Laura Hartwig were back from Wisconsin, where Eric starts his third year at U. Wisconsin Law, and Laura studies angiogenesis in a research laboratory. Also taking a break from the Midwest was Nicole Waldbaum, in New York for the summer before returning to U. Michigan Law. Californian Ted Weicker was engineering his way back east to look at Cornell's graduate program.

Jeanne DeSa works for a human rights organization devoted to settling political refugees safely in this country. Kelley Busby captures the moment for Time magazine with her documentary work, and Gesine Albrecht hopes to trade banking for building, with plans to attend architectural school. Speaking of school supplies, she's one woman who could use a compass and protractor. A calculator might benefit Matt Holleran, who will join Scott Sims and Ted Henderson at Harvard Business School this fall.

Between cha-cha and rhumba, Adam Glick imparted his plans to attend USC Law School, noting future aspirations toward entertainment law and production. He made special mention of Mike Addis's bronze star, awarded for bravery in the Gulf War. (I think Adam was able to convey so much because I was leading.)

Patrons of the arts Dave Gluck and Barbara Krauthamer witnessed my temporarily orange hair in a production by the Playwrights' Collective, a young theater company composed of NYU graduate writers, of which I am one. Bitten by the back-to-school bug, Dave begins work on a master's in American civilization at NYU this month. Barbara, too, hopes to embark on NYU graduate work in the semesters to come, perhaps in women's studies. We three made plans to found a school of thought, with contributors defined by Dartmouth, NYU, and Germanic surnames.

Also returning to academia is Pat Giersch, pursuing a Ph.D. in Chinese history at Yale after teaching English at the University of Beijing for the past year or so. Intercontinental instruction has taken Mary KayMcGeown to Botswana, where she teaches ancient, European, and African history to students of over thirty different nationalities. Just in time to begin her second year at Columbia Law, Karla Olivier will return from Zimbabwe, where she has spent the summer working for an organization which provides legal education and services to rural poor.

So. "Schools supplies" for this coming year seem to involve diamonds, advanced degrees, and dedication to the mind and spirit. If you've anything to add, please write and let me know. You needn't detail a particular accomplishment —perhaps a trip you've taken or a book you've just finished sparks a thought. (Or perhaps you wish to answer my biggest back-toschool question: why does loose-leaf notebook paper have five holes?)

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