1989

I think it's no accident that the notoriously cruelest month also plays host to Valentine's Day—the most charming or the most callous of holidays, depending of your amorous vantage point. In any case, I wish you all warmth and protection from dreariness, sleet, and sludge. You're on your own with Cupid's arrows.

Guanagato, Mexico, is definitely in a key climate zone for February, but Mateo Romero concerns himself solely with artistic climate. The recipient of a Dartmouth Reynolds Grant to pursue mural art in Mexico, Mateo has already established himself as a bold force in Southwestern painting with successful shows in Aspen and Santa Fe.

A fellow Reynolds scholar who will feel the chill is Imi Hwangbo, funded for her post as a visiting artist in Scotland. At last notice, Imi was honing her talents for sculpture at Stanford, which supports my theory that endowments delight in sending students off to a cooler climate. The University of Arizona awarded Emilio Millan a three-month scholarship to study the Russian and Kazakh languages in Alma-Ata, the capital of Kazakhstan.

Seasonal change cannot touch Kay Guillette, who spends most of his waking hours in the Bregman Electronic Music studio in the Hopkins Center. A second-year student in Dartmouth's electro-acoustic music graduate program, Ray garnered first prize in the competition sponsored by the Nordic Computer Music Festival and the Stockholm Electronic Music Festival XIII for his composition "Homage a Pollock." The premiere performance of his work received a national broadcast on Swedish Radio.

Robin Buzby can share the best and worst of February with her permanent Valentine, husband John Peter Galambos, as they brave the snow drifts in Minneapolis. Married since August, Robin plans to complement her psychology major with a B.S. in nursing from the University of Minnesota.

A Cupid clad in Dartmouth green must have been present at the July nuptials of Ellie Mahoney and Phil Loughlin. The following '89 women attended the bride: maid of honor Missy Neubert, who works for J.P. Morgan in New York; Susan Kendrick Kaufman, a Laura Ashley representative in Boston; Kristen Daly, a paralegal for Pillsbury, Madison, Sutzo, in D.C.; and Betsy Johnston and Julie McColl McKenna, both employed by Mercer, a human resources consulting firm in Boston. Congratulations to Julie and Dave McKenna, who were married on October 20.

Groomsmen flanking Phil were Neil Abramson. in his third year at LSU Law; Paul Mahoney, anticipating next year with the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall, and Stewart; Tom Murtagh, aloan officer with Fleet Bank in Providence; Doug Sheehy, a first-year at American Law School in Washington; and Tom Beecher, Boston moving entrepreneur. Employed by Bear Stearns and Bain & Cos., respectively, Ellie and Phil shall spend their Valentine's Day (and the rest of the time) in Boston.

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