1982

82 The mail has just been pouring in this month, so let's get right to it. Mark Weinhardt wrote an excellent summary which may have slipped to the bottom of my desk drawer. If any of this info is dated, Mark, please accept my humblest apology. Mark and Karrie Wilson (Kenyon '87) were married just over a year ago—Memorial Day 1991—in Rockford, Ill. "No '82s were in attendance (TomDaniels's absence was conspicuous) but Tom Isaacson '80 and my sister Anne Weinhardt '86 were in the wedding party, and Mark Kuoulogeorge '85 and John Ryan '81 also attended.

"Kerrie is a Rockford native. I moved there sight unseen in the summer of '88 to take a job in the State's Attorney's office as a criminal prosecutor. I did this after three years in a fairly small but prestigious law firm in Chicago, in which I did everything one can do to a lawsuit except stand up and try it. Since being a trial lawyer, I decided to turn criminal law as a way into the courtroom. It worked, and in three years I tried many cases including murders, rapes, robberies, drugs, prostitution, and a man who stole entire pay phones from the phone company in order to take them home and beat the quarters out of them.

"I also met Karrie, who, after spending three years in New York, came to spend a few months with her parents before deciding where to move next. I persuaded her to stay longer than she had planned, and a year and a half later we were married and moved to my native lowa where I am practicing law and she is adjusting to the landscape (quite nicely, I might add). I am practicing with the firm of Belin Harris Lamson McCormick in Des Moines. lam back in civil work for the most part, although I still take the occasional criminal case just to keep in touch with the ever-fascinating seamy underside of life. No children. Rented house. Hot tip: Avoid '85 Audis. Maintenance nightmare."

Here's a follow-up from Hugh Rovit, who went "from the stock market to the sock market" when he moved from Lehman Brothers to a lingerie company. "After a six-month effort to buy my own business, I have recently joined a men's hosiery company—whose business has just doubled because of its new license to design and manufacture Dockers socks for Levi Strauss—as treasurer and vice president of business development."

I recently received the latest edition of The Becca News, published by renowned newswoman Rebecca Davidson Wolf. Wolf, the four-year-old protege of Judi DavidsonWolf and husband Allen (Lehigh '82), published this issue to coincide with the birth of her sister Leah Rose. Leah is currently residing in Bartonsville, Md., and is the granddaughter of Richard Davidson '60.

Finally, Fred Konopka wrote to congratulate me on my new position with NESN and requested that I fill the 3 a.m. slot with fraternity basement sporting events. Fred has recently moved overseas to establish the first international office of his company, Kenan Systems Corporation. Fred is the branch manager in development and is "overseeing the continued development of a mnlti-dimensional database manager and programming language called ACUMEN (ACUMATE in the U.S.)." Fred has been working in the company's Cambridge headquarters and living in Somerville, Mass.

That's it for now. We'll talk again soon and until then, Fred, I'll do my best to keep Roger Clemens out of trouble.

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