1989
It sounds like an assignment dreamed up by Joseph Heller: write a Class Notes column based on letters people have mailed to you—which they haven't, since the address wasn't listed in the last Alumni Magazine. That's just one of the two drawbacks that Jeanne DeSa and I face as your brand-new co-class secretaries. The other one is, we have to fill the very creative shoes of outgoing secretary Carrie Luft and her sometime replacement Dan Parish.
In the meantime, I have ample fodder from which to write a column, since our outstanding Fifth Reunion is still fresh in my mind. A huge thank you to organizer Pam Peedin and her crew, as it was the most fun I've had in a long time.
Speaking of our all-too-brief return to Hanover, one of our classmates will soon be making a longer stay at the College—and this is not a misprint—as a professor. Eric Zaslow will be teaching a graduate-level physics course in quantum statistical mechanics, as a visiting assistant professor for the winter term. At the moment he is wrapping up his physics Ph.D. at a certain less-prestigious institution in Cambridge, Mass.
During the reunion, I caught up with lots of people I hadn't seen for oh, about five years. One of those was the ever-energetic Andy Camp, who has now worked on the production of two animated Disney feature films: The Lion King and the soon-to-be-released Hercules. Another was Paul Sorensen who is working toward his master's in geography at UC Santa Barbara, in addition to serving as an apprentice to a woodworker.
Carl Walker graduated from Rutgers Law School this June in Camden, N .J., and is busy studying for the New York and New Jersey bar exams. Carl starts work at a Newark law firm this fall, but has spent the summer playing lots of golf and tennis. From personal experience, I know that attempting to return his first serve is not for the faint-of-heart.
Ed Barker is, as I write this column from hot, sweaty Philadelphia, traveling around France in order to hone his French abilities. That's because this fall he is teaching French at the Chewonki Foundation in Wiscasset, Maine. It's a semester-long environmental program for high-schoolers, who spend time milking cows, growing vegetables, and studying ecology, in addition to taking the regular academic subjects.
In May Ed went to the Preakness horse races, where he was one of the least rowdy people in attendance. That's not saying much. Also there was Adrian Block, whose banker s touch didn't keep him from losing vast sums of money on the ponies. Adrian lives in New York's Upper East Side and works at a Dutch bank called ABN Amor. Mike Parrot had a
more successful day at the races by correctly picking Tabasco Cat to win. He's working for a small New York advertising firm which has Fisher Price toys as one of its clients.
Linda Kelly started a new job this summer as a congressional liaison-lobbyist for Ryder, the people who lease those nice yellow trucks for moving purposes. But Linda tells me that represents just a fraction of their business.
Linda gave me news of two other classmates, including the unrelated but similarly named Kara Kelly. Kara spent the summer on the island of Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands. She is working for Visions, a volunteer program for high-school students who work on community-improvement projects. Linda also told me that Zach Levine has completed his internship at George Washington University Hospital and is now a neurosurgery resident.
That's about all I can muster for the moment. Now that you have our addresses listed below, please send '89 news to Jeanne and me. We will take turns writing die class column, so your news will wind up in the magazine no matter whom you send it to.
332 Lombard St., Apt. 1-F, Philadelphia, PA 19147; Jeanne DeSa, 106 Myrtle St. # 8, Boston, MA 02114-4347
Eric Zaslow will be teaching a graduate-level physics course as a visiting professor at Dartmouth. TOM ARIL '89
