1987

Di Doran took time out recently to send me some news about herself and some of her pals. Di lives in Quincy, Mass., where she is an administrator at a special-education school for children. Her desire to work in human services has outlasted the local budget cuts that have eliminated her two previous positions, including a job that involved recruiting foster parents.

In August, Di went to the Newport Jazz Festival and saw Ken Block. Ken is still enjoying his work as a software consultant in Newport. Speaking of software, Steve Slanec works as a software engineer on director George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in San Francisco. I assume that means he works on special effects technology for the film industry.

Di also reports that Chris DiGiovanni has begun his residency now that he has finished the Dartmouth/Brown medical school program. He is working at the Brown University hospital. I remember Chris as being very committed actually, I remember thinking he should BE committed! But that's another story...

Kent Zehner and Al Woolley have both earned degrees this year as well. Kent graduated from Yale Business School, and Al re ceived his law degree from Duke. In fact, Al has taken a job with a corporate law firm here in Denver and just barely missed a chance to help me move into my new house in October. I know he's awfully disappointed to have missed such fun. Meanwhile, newlywed Steve Conlin is back in the Hanover area attending Tuck.

Paul Christensen and Nancy Robar were married earlier this year, and the couple has settled in Ithaca, N.Y., where Paul is attending Cornell Business School and Nancy is a teacher. The two met during junior year when Nancy spent a year at Dartmouth before graduating from Mount Holyoke. They were inseparable even then.

Rounding out the cast of thousands that Di keeps in touch with, Kathy Carr is studying maritime law at Tulane after spending six weeks in Greece over the summer; Matt Glendmning is earning a Ph.D. in classics at the University of North Carolina; and Frank Miele is a design engineer at Hewlett Packard near Boston, where he desians ultrasound equipment.

WEINTERRUPT THIS COLUMN FOR AN IMPORTANT REUNION UPDATE: By now, you should have received at least one notice regarding our upcoming Fifth Reunion taking place June 19-21, 1992. If you have not, drop everything, spring to your phone, feverishly call the Blunt Alumni Center, and set the record straight so that these notices will reach you!

The Reunion Tip of the Month is as follows: It's never too late to brush up on the lyrics to the various school songs that tend to be sung at reunion time. Let's say, for example, the alma mater, "Dartmouth Undying," or my personal favorite, "For He's a J oily Good Class Secretary." I'm sure that last one is somewhere in the freshman book.

All right, let's get back to the news. Esther Schrader is back at home in Monterey, Calif., where she runs that city's bureau for the San Jose Mercury News, following three trips in two years to the Soviet Union (or, Soviet Bunch of Places that Don't Like Each Other Anymore). Esther met her husband, Zahre Papian, on the first of those trips (he's from Armenia). Zahre is hard at work preparing for a showing of his oil paintings in California this year, and Esther spends her time studying Russian and traveling locally for news stories. She reports that her most recent Soviet trip, covering the coup attempt and its aftermath, was a phenomenal and emotional experience.

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Steve Slanec works as a software engineer on director George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch. Gregg Rippey '87