1989

Most of my news this month has been gained by walking around Dupont Circle in D.C. I don't want this to turn into the Beltway Column, but '89s are all over this part of the town. In front of the metro I ran into Dave Cully, in full-suited lawyer regalia, on his first day of work at the law firm of Akin Gump. Larry Miller appeared the next day at exacdy the same spot. He told me he has just moved here from the Great State of New Hampshire, where he was clerking for a judge, and had just started working at a law firm. Several other classmates who have joined the legal profession have flocked to D.C. I saw Margot Miller while dining at a Lebanese restaurant. She has also just moved here and is working for the Department of Justice. TomSkilton, with whom I played a mean game of pool a few weeks ago (SAE brothers would be proud of him), is working at the law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. Julia Powell has been living here for the last few years and is in her second year at Catholic University Law School, where she has made Law Review.

From outside of D.C., our reliable Francophile and Maine correspondent, EddieBarker, has provided me with some good news. Brian Cooper has recently become engaged to a woman from Cleveland. Congratulations, Brian! John Shaw and his wife, Elizabeth, are now the proud parents of one John Holmes Shaw III, a.k.a. Jack. (Great name. Sounds like the kid will grow up in Madras shorts, have a golden retriever, and be a future Bones Gate pledge!) The baby was born on August 19, weighed 6 pounds 8.5 ounces, and will be sure to distract John from his finance case studies.

In response to reunion inquiries, I thought I would report on two delayed birth announcements. Shari Warren, dedicated New Englander, poet, and store manager for a jewelry company in Maine, has given birth to two children, Forrest and Amber, since graduation.

Beth Wood is in her third year of teaching at Scarsdale High School, where she has just taken on a challenging position in the school's alternative-education program. Russel Wolf, our enthusiastic new class president and recent Tuck graduate, has taken on a position at MTV, where his creative energy will undoubtedly prove valuable. Media talents have also put another '89 in the spotlight: Barbara Elliot Dunleavy is the editor-in-chief of Firehouse Magazine, a publication of the PTL Publishing Company, and is the mother of two-year-old Megan.

Gauging from recent news reports, with our legal-minded classmates having already seized the day, it seems that we are now entering the business-school era as more and more of our classmates are choosing to trod down the number-crunching entrepreneurial path. Elizabeth Whittmore has left CSIS, where she has been doing policy work since graduation, and is now embarking on a new adventure toiling away at Harvard Business School. She joins many of our classmates, including WendyMorgan and Andy Thompson. DennisMorgan also made the move this year and is a student at the University of Virginia busi ness school. I hear grumbling from others about GMATs and B-school applications, but no confirmed reports yet.

After reading the Alumni Magazine article last spring on all the different kinds of inventions and accomplishments by Dartmouth alumni (shorts being the most peculiar), I thought it would be interesting to hear about some of the paths less trodden, adventures embarked upon, and successful entrepreneurial or creative efforts by our classmates. Has anyone invented anything or started a business? Been published or trying to publish or to produce a movie? Has anyone gotten involved in or started an interesting volunteer or charity program? What exotic locales have people traveled to? What is going on with '89s on the West Coast and in Alaska? Send me your tales.

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