1988

Pretty soon you will buy or receive a 1993 calendar. What better time to seize the days of June 15, 16, and 17 for our Fifth Reunion? Let that be the first thing you enter on those pristine sheets of paper, before birthdays, anniversaries, and other lesser commitments infringe on the space. Go on, get a big red marker, clear those dates right now, then come back to the column. I'll wait.

Welcome back. As promised last month, a letter from Quave Burton, who like so many of us has plunged back into school. Quave's working on her M.B.A. at Duke after four successful years with Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. In fact, Quave's intensity on the job (and in applying to business schools) earned her a promotion to second vice president last June, one month before she resigned.

Quave reports these news items: GaleBeckles has graduated from Penn Law and is now at the Philadelphia bar; Allison Corbie is in her last year at Brooklyn Law; LisaGetter lives in Los Angeles (no word on what she does there other than awaiting earthquakes); Johnita Simmons has moved to Grindelwald, Switzerland, and is "happy as a lark, I'm told," Quave writes. Kristen Reid has left a banking job and is working in the Teach For America program, a noble endeavor.

Also, we must note the steadily climbing star of Lanei Chapman, who keeps turning up on both the small and large screen. She had a role in the movie "White Men Can't Jump" and has been on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "The Wonder Years" as well.

Recently I found two pieces of mail tucked in my desk that should have run months ago. My apologies to both correspondents. First, Kris Petterson checked in from Orlando, Fla., where she is the director of publications for the National Test Preparation Center. If you're getting ready to take the Air Traffic Controller Exam, Civil Service Exam, Postal Exam, or Law Enforcement Exam, Kris helps publish your study guides. Also, Kris is one of the few '88s we've heard from who have purchased a house, where she says you're welcome to call when you seek a Mickeey fix."

Happy couple Pam (Crisafulli) and JohnHomraeyer have found their way to Japan, where they plan to be for two or three years. John is on an international assignment with Proctor & Gamble as a brand manager, and they're living outside Osaka. Pam, meanwhile, has "the opportunity to explore the Far East and learn Japanese, as jobs for foreign women are not easy to come by." Bruce McDonald stopped by to see the Hommeyers, and Pam says "his Japanese puts the rest of us to shame."

Finally, a mystery solved. Our unsigned postcard-sender was Eben Haber, who now has the opportunity to squeeze two cards worth of news into this column at once. Since graduating, Eben has spent a year in England working on his horseback riding with British Olympic team members, completed a master's in computer science at the University of Wisconsin, started work toward a Ph.D., moved his horse (Roy) from Hanover to Wisconsin, done research at a big lab in Princeton, and attended the wedding of IndiaWood and Paul Mandel last July in Massachusetts. Eben has been joined in Wisconsin by Scott Abernathy, who is teaching junior high and working toward an education degree.

Don't forget—clear your calendar now. More Fifth Reunion news in February.

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