1994

As I write this month's column I can't help but feel that "Back to School" void I each time I inhale this robust New England autumn air. But many of you pea-green grad students don't feel that void this year, as you start your post-Dartmouth schooling. Dan Williams, for example, wrote that "after spending a year at Stanford working at the hospital and coaching lacrosse, I've packed my bags and moved to New York, where shortly I'll start med school at Columbia." After spending last summer teaching African-American literature for a summer program at Indiana University and working the rest of the year as a compliance analyst for Physician Corp. of America in Miami, Fla., Greg Johnson has started med school at the University of Texas in Houston. "I am back in Texas where I belong, and am loving every minute of the torture I am taking." Dave Maclndoe recently sent me an e-mail from Washington and Lee University in Virginia, where he is a first-year law student. He comments that life and work there are pretty comparable to Hanover. True to Dartmouth standards, he is trying not to let his work get in the way of his social life! IrisChiu wrote in just before she began her first year at Yale Law. She deferred for a year and spent it living in Boston with Becky Davis and interning at Boston Lyric Opera. KimGantcher is also among the first-years at NYU Law this fall, after spending a pretty interesting year doing a little bit of just about everything! "The week after graduation, I began working for the Council on Foreign Relations on the Middle East/South African Economic Summit." She was able to attend the summit in Casablanca, Morocco, for two weeks. From there she moved to Telluride, Colo., to write for the Telluride Daily Planet. And just before school, she worked at Paul Newman's "Hole in the Wall Gang Camp" for terminally ill children.

Now on to those who are not going back to school but whose autumn "voids" have been filled by other exciting life pursuits. The ever-popular life pursuit of marriage will be occupying many autumns to come for Juliette Bianco and sweetheart David Green '89. "We spent our entire ten-month engagement apart," writes Juliette. "I was getting a master's degree in art history at the University of Chicago and Dave was in Vermont finishing up a software project." After honeymooning in England and Scotland, the newlyweds are now living in Vermont, enjoying the foliage without a hint of back-to-school pangs, I'm sure. Mark Giordono will be seeing neither foliage nor textbooks this fall as he joins the Peace Corps for the next twoand-a-quarter years, working in water resources in Mali. "I always expected to return west," writes Mark, "but I didn't plan on West Africa." If you need to reach Mark in Mali, let me know. In the meantime, study hard all you diligent grad students—and to the rest of you, read a book soon before your brain turns to mush OR write to me! Take care.

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