1978

You might have seen some of Sally Davies's dancing buddies in the video of Mary-Chapin Carpenter's "Down at the Twist and Shout." Sally, an intense practitioner of Cajun and zydeco dancing, was a regular at the Bethesda watering hole immortalized in the song up until it was closed for operating without a liquor license. Now Sally dances to bands from Louisianne at a place called Tornado Alley. When she's not birdwatching and masters' swimming, Sally who got her Ph.D. in economics at Wisconsin in 1986 does policy work related to bank regulation for the Federal Reserve Board in Washington.

In January Laura and Duane Peterson flew from Sacramento to D.C. and stayed with Jeff Petrich, Congress's expert on things Alaskan, for the Presidential Inaugural. Duane is the chief of staff to Tom Hayden, who won his election as a California state senator. Says Duane, "I managed his campaign, which saw the polluters ponying up $980,000 in an effort to silence his voice of environmental protection and political reform. The people spoke, so we'll continue raising hell on behalf of nature in California."

In the past year Mark Hartmaii has been promoted to tenure-track assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia Medical School and appointed associate director of his department's clinical laboratory. In September of '92 he won a large grant from the National Institute on Aging to study the effects of growth hormone treatment and exercise training on men and women over the age of 60. Mark's wife, Laurie (Komornik) '80, has gone back to school to get a master's in counseling. Says Mark, "We keep busy with three wonderful children: David 7m, Marian 5, and Lisa1½."

Mark Lennon has retired from the realm of environmental consulting to a 40-acre estate in central New Hampshire, where he resides, in his words, "with the beautiful Mary Mead (Wisconsin '84, Boston Museum School '89), the gracious Edgar, Jack the four-legged idiot, and three goats. I am renovating the 200-yearold manor house and making an occasional dollar as recycling coordinator for the state of New Hampshire."

Frances Hellman, an assistant professor of physics at the University of California at San Diego, was invited by the American Physical Society to give a talk on her research into experimental solid-state physics at the society's annual meeting in March. "It's basically the physics of solids," says Frances, "and this talk was specifically on amorphous (that is, noncrystalline) magnetic materials. The gist of that work is that those materials are anisotropic, and I'm investigating why they're anisotropic. I come up for tenure in a year, and I'm a complete basket case already."

In December Steve Taylor, who has been teaching English at Penncrest (Pa.) High School for some 13 years, received the 1992 Achievement in Education Award from the Rose Tree Media Optimist Club. In addition to his load as a teacher, Steve is completing his doctoral studies in reading, writing, and literacy at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School and is a fellow of the Pennsylvania Writing Project.

Sharon Cowan recently joined the staff of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, as a liaison officer in the Office of External Relations. Eventually she'll be a specialist in inter-agency affairs in the UN system. "Right now," writes Sharon, "we're getting ready to host BoutrosGhali and all the other executive heads of United Nations bodies for a big meeting at FAO in April. It's fun so far."

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