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90 "At school, I was alone with my disease, and aware that another relapse would likely kill me. At weekend parties, I joined my friends as they gyrated to deafening music, but I would find myself wondering, 'How can I celebrate and act as if everything is OK when I don't even know if I will live long enough to graduate?"— Brian Hayes, in a 1991 New York Times Magazine article he wrote about his struggle with testicular cancer. Brian died August 9 in his home in Melrose, Mass.

Brian, a government major, was a very active participant in the Dartmouth community as a reporter, photographer, and editor for The D, a big brother, and a David's House volunteer, where he spoke to families with children with cancer. He was a manager of the baseball team, an intern for Sports Information, and a Rufiis Choate Scholar.

Having spent a great deal of time with Brian at The D, I can say Brian was a quiet and intensely thoughtful person who was fall of an energy that belied the mental and physical suffering going on inside him. He was superdependable, at one point in his career chasing down the news with a police radio on one hip, a cancer treatment device on the other, and a camera around his neck. With all honesty, I can say his work was never less than top-rate. This intensity led him to his jobs at The Times and an internship with the Washington, D.C., bureau of The Wall Street Journal, which he was never able to take.

Brian's main aim in life, after beginning to battle his cancer, was to graduate from Dartmouth. His studies were continually interrupted by his illness, but he persisted, sometimes making weekly trips to Boston for treatments while keeping up with his studies in Hanover. He was only five courses short of his goal when he died. Brian's determination to live and succeed will surely serve as an inspiration to all whose lives he touched.

And now for other class news: AndyTucker is in his third year at Georgetown Med. Jon Slavet has set up Atlantic Ventures, a company that produces college-targeted items, like the Over the Hill book at Dartmouth.

Eve Kushner married Haroon Chaudhri, Thayer '92, in April at the Claremont Hotel in Oakland, Calif. She works for a Buddhist press and Haroon is an electrical engineer. They live in Oakland.

Katie Jones is in Philadelphia at Jefferson Medical College. She had previously been teaching chemistry at the Lawrenceville School, N.J. Jane Blum was headed to Taiwan last July. Emily Hill is at Yale, pursuing a Ph.D. in history.

Recently transferred from New York to Atlanta is Bernardine Wu, who works for Andersen Consulting and is looking to hook up with Dartmouth people in her new location. In N.Y.C. she lived with Mara Leventhal, who is now in her second year at NYU Law and worked for the New York Prosecutor's office this summer. Barbara Harper was recently leading bike trips in France, and she was joined for a month by Maudalison Long.Elizabeth Kahl is in North Carolina studying medicine at UNC Chapel Hill and living with Andrea Follman. Another North Carolina resident is Greg Depiedro, working in the admissions office at Duke.

Anthony Vale is pursuing a joint J.D./ M.B.A. at Albany Law School. His new address is 149 S. Knox St., Apt. 2, Albany, NY 12208.

Martin Stephan and Virginia Maffei are engaged and will marry next August.

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