1990

First this month, some news from our class officers. For those of you who have yet to pay your 1991 class dues, please do so. Two freshpersons who might not otherwise have been able to go on freshman trips last fall were able to go thanks to our class's sponsorship.

Your dues also pay for tilings such as mini-reunions on Homecoming Weekend and your subscription to this magazine. If you don't pay your dues, that means other members of the class are subsidizing your subscription. Send your check for $19.90, made payable to the Dartmouth College Class of 1990, to Treasurer Brian Urkowitz, 215 West 84th St., #612, New York, NY 10024.

Finally, the class is always looking for interesting fundraising and community service opportunities in your area. How do you want us to spend our money? Please direct any ideas you may have to Vice President Laurilyn Goettsch, 2001 Crown Flair Dr., West Des Moines, LA 50265.

Adrian Owens is working as a faculty assistant at Sterling College in Craftsbury Commons, Vt. Sterling is a two-year college that combines in-class academics with general confidence-building outdoor activities. Adrian helps teach courses in areas such as conserva- tion skills, first aid, forestry, and mathematics.

Congratulations to Jill Kroner and Jason Wolter, recently engaged. And they're certainly not alone. Also engaged is Retinoids Ostrom, to second-year Pepperdine Law student Anita Spinetta, a Wellesley '90 and a transfer at Dartmouth during our junior year. The wedding is set for December of this year in the San Francisco area. Retinoids is living in Calabasas and working at the USC School of Pharmacy with a start-up company that's engaged in animal behavioral research for a new drug they hope will get approved by the F.D. A. He's applying to med schools for next year.

But wait, there's more. Mark Sowa will marry another Wellesley '90, Emily Lustig, who was also a transfer at Dartmouth during junior year. Their wedding will take place at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Brooklyn, N.Y., on March 7. Naturally, many '90s will be in attendance.

Leading league scorer for '91, Vladdy Stanojevic, wrote that he and his new wife, Tessa Sanchez, are expecting their first child in early March. Vladdy has spent two years with the New Mexico Chiles soccer team. He's now working towards an MA in education at the University of New Mexico and coaching two boys' soccer teams at Albuquerque Academy, where he also substitute teaches.

More details on what Carrie Tower's doing: Carrie graduated, with distinction I might add, from Sotheby's in London. The "Works of Art" course she took along with Medill Higgins was a nine-month program that trained them to learn to appraise fine and decorative works of art. She's now working (as previously reported) for KPMG Peat Marwick in the tax department's appraisal and valuation group. Liz Portland lives with Carrie and works for William Arrow & Cos., a publishing company.

In U-Conn Med School is Kim Guida. She says it was tough opening a book after not having done so for a year, when she lived in Los Angeles and worked at a hospital there, but Kim says she s "dealing." Other news from Kim: Jim Spotts is at Cal Tech pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry and was awarded an NSF grant, and Penny Howards is earning her Ph.D. at Penn State in geography. Marnie Hill is working for All-State Insurance in Philadelphia and applying to grad school in psychology, and Steven Gumbs is going into the Peace Corps.

A captive audience of about 1,000 upwardly mobile overachievers, who turn to the '90 Notes first after opening their Alumni Magazines, wants to hear from you. Don't turn them down! See you next month.

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