1990

Because no one had my address yet to let me know what they are doing, here I am passing on as much first- and second-hand information about our classmates as possible in 600 words. So here we go.

Mary Bachman is in her second year of grad school in international relations at Georgetown. Laura Gaylord, who was recently photographed next to Jean-Baptiste Aristide, is working in Haiti for the Organization of American States. Laura and Jean-Baptiste tried to contact Ted Carleton, lobbyist for the Virgin Islands, to be in the photo shoot, but Ted's pager was tied up with calls from Bruce Sacerdote, a distressed analyst for Bear, Stearns.

After a critically acclaimed appearance on E.R., newlywed Brad Drazen continues his acting and is attending business school in California. Also recently married are Roger Freeman and Andy Mottaz (though not to each other). Mike Lowenthal co-edited a book called Friends and Lovers: Gay Men Write About the Families They Create and traveled around the country on a speaking and publicity tour. He is also working on a novel of his own.

In N.Y.C. Heidi Julavits is earning a creative writing master's of fine arts at Columbia and waiting on tables at the hip Merc Bar, a restaurant with bouncers, while Steve Linde is pursuing a degree in computer science at Columbia and getting bounced from the hip Merc Bar.

Robin Plager returned from an experiment in Big Apple urban living to complete her studies at Dartmouth Medical School. sidhu Gangadharan is also in his last year at DMS (and has been seen tearing up the soccer fields of the Upper Valley). Jehanna Peerzada is in her third year at the Med School (and has been seen tearing her hair out around the Upper Valley). Ben Forbush graduated from DMS in June, and Joe Szekely is currently in med school at Tulane in New Orleans.

Dan Girard is synthesizing new drugs for Merck Pharmaceuticals, Kevin Roon is developing databases for Rytech International in Stamford, Conn., and Kevin Stone is living in Schenectady, N.Y., and working for General Electric's power generation division. The three have reportedly been discussing ways to combine their jobs into one so that each would only have to work for a third of the week.

Jen Huska is still entrenched in Bloomington, Ind., where she is in a doctoral program in clinical and neuropsychology, while Tracy Gleason is working on her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Minnesota. Recent lawyers include Sally Horton, who is clerking for a judge in New Hampshire, and Cindy Johnson, who graduated from Duke and is working in New York, reportedly as a trademark and intellectual property lawyer.

Turning to our sports page, Scottie Eliassen was spotted at mile 21 running the Boston Marathon with her sister Megan '92. Mark Johnson is the starting first baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates and had 13 homeruns at last count. Walter Palmer left his professional German team and is in Salt Lake City training to join another professional team in Europe. Chris Schmidt is coaching freshman heavyweight crew at Dartmouth and is building his own house in Thetford, Vt. Before he cuts down each tree, he consults Kathy Fallon, who works for the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, and Brooks Preston, who is on the staff of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and works for Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont.

Many thanks to Mark Schiffrnan and Rob Crawford, who flew to Switzerland to help me write this column. Please do write to me!

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