It was great to see so many '91s at Homecoming! I spent half die weekend wishing I had a tape recorder to keep track of where you're all doing whatever it is that you're doing. I have been receiving a lot of news since then.
I recently ran into Kendel Fesenmyer in the basement of the U-Chicago Divinity School (where I'm studying). She had been skiing in Jackson Hole but now is writing for a newspaper and teaching an art class in Missoula, Mont., and is thinking about applying to divinity school. "I would have gotten tired of skiing all year 'round," claims Kendel. She was staying with Christy Rabke, who is working for the Chicago Tribune. Jin Kim is a first-year law student here at the University of Chicago, and he filled me in on some other '91s. "Keith Dangleis is having fun with cadavers as a med student at the University of Colorado. Mike Tsao couldn't keep away from the 'LA Law' mentality and is hard at work at UCLA law. Brian Daucher is also training to be a lawyer down in a warmer climate at Duke."
It has come to my attention, via John Goodchild, that the Penn Law contingency was upset at not having appeared in the Class Notes yet. My apologies to Lance D'Amico, Barry Hurwitz, and Marc Jordan, although to be honest, I wouldn't have known all of you were there if John hadn't written (hint hint). Also at law school in the Pennsylvania area is Amy Winebrake, who is at Temple.
Ohn Park is nearby at Perkiomen School teaching history and psychology, as well as coaching baseball and soccer and being a dorm parent. Alitder further north, in Princeton, N.J., Sanjay Mathew is working at Princeton's version of Dick's House. He was recendy published in the New York Times's op-ed page, extolling the virtue of college as a four-year experience. Another former "D" editor, Diana Goldberg, is in N.Y.C. working for "Good Morning America."
Brett Haber is also active in the media world. He quit his job at Showtime prior to Homecoming to become the sports anchor at the CBS affiliate in Burlington, Vt. That brings back memories from sophomore year, when he was the sports anchor at WNNE. Ashley Mattoon is a little farther south in Keene, N.H., where she is working in environmental consulting for the Cadmus Group Inc.
Congratulations to Linnea Alvord, who wrote in about her engagement to Steve Pantelick, Tuck '9l! She left/quit her corporate-recruiting job for "a better position at U.S. Surgical in New Haven, Conn., to both live with Steve and double my salary and responsibility. The wedding will be next fall."
Alan Seem writes, "I am currently working in Kaiping County, Guandong Province, P.R. China, as a quality control inspector detector of vulcanized shoe factories. It's like a dream come true! (Not! But actually I'm enjoying it.) Plus it lets me put to use the Chinese I studied so diligendy at Dartmouth. I have a two-year deferred acceptance at Columbia Law." He's desperate for mail, so get in touch with me if you need Alan's address. Vicki Weinberg would also love mail from the U.S. She's in Israel, and has just started teaching English at Kanot, a youth aliyah village near Ashdod. Aside from English, Vicki's considering teaching the techniques she picked up in ballroom dancing at Dartmouth, as well as her famed jewelry making. In December, she traveled to Kenya to visit Chris Haber and John Scully, but because of the delay in time before publishing, I don't have current news on them.
Well, that's more than the room I have for this month, so if your news didn t make it in, you'll see it soon. I hope everyone is having a very Happy New Year! Wow, this is easier than sending out holiday cards.
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