1987
It's May, and we're drawing close to that magical time of Commencement and Reunions in Hanover... where the balmy breeze sweeps gently across the Green, which gets greener by the day (with a little help from the guys at B&G), and the seniors bear a curious expression, part excitement at their imminent departure into the big world, half nostalgia for the past four years. I can't believe it was six years ago for us!
Sandy Reeves Spears is living in Houston with husband Clay '83. After a stint with First Boston, she is now an associate with Cain Brothers, Shattuck & Company, an invesnnent bank dealing with healthcare concerns. Sandy and Clay love the relaxed lifestyle of "Texas, and they recently returned from a fabulous ski trip with a bunch of '83s in Taos. (I have to admit that I was a little jealous that Sandy answered my call breathless, having just run in from what was undoubtedly a gorgeous Southwestern morning, while here in New England we were enjoying yet another howling March nor'easter.)
Sandy rose to the formidable challenge of updating me on several other classmates. Also in the Houston area is John Randolph, working for a bond-trading firm, married, and the father of a small child, gender undisclosed. Caroline Sobota is a physician practicing in Galveston, and her husband, also a doctor, works in Houston. Cheers to John Savage, who, after slugging out the corporate haul at Merrill Lynch, is planning to open a bar in Houston! Well, he should have a ready-made constituency in local Dartmouth '87s.
Far from Houston is Japan, where two of our classmates have been spending some time. Alice Toole earned her law degree from Fordham and married an officer in the navy, a graduate of Princeton. They now live in Japan, where he is stationed. Amy Strasser was in Japan working for First Chicago, but has returned and finished up a six-month assignment assisting a professor in New York. Also abroad is Mary Bourque, who completed the SAIS program at Johns Hopkins and joined J.P. Morgan, which turned around and sent her to Brazil! We had the chance to see her for a quick drink in N.Y.C. before she left, and it sounded like her new life was going to be awfully exotic.
Esther Schrader is en route to a three-year assignment abroad as Mexico City bureau chief for Knight Ridder newspapers (the company that owns the San Jose Mercury News, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, etc.). She left in April for several months of language training in Mexico, after which she will start her new job in the "population and smog capital of the world. Yes, my office comes equipped with two air purifiers and a gas mask (really), and yes, this means I get to cover nasty Central American guerillas and Shining Path rebelsnot the most hospitable of folk." Best of luck to Esther!
Good news for all you e-mail nuts out there: the Alumni Magazine has set up a special email account so any alumni on the net can zap news about themselves and their friends to them—and thus to me! (Hint hint.) All you have to do is type out your message—bypassing pen, paper, stamp, and the U.S. Postal Service—and press "send." Then the magazine will forward it to me and, voila! You'll see yourself in print. The address is . Make a note of it, and keep in touch, even if it is the oldfashioned way. Merry May Day!
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