1989

Responses to my last column's request have been heartening. A voice crying out in the wilderness is Siobhan Wescott, who sends greetings from Eagle River, Alaska. Siobhan has recently co-edited a book, Fantastic Antone Succeeds! Experiences in Educating Children with Fetal AlcoholSy?idrmne. She will be working on another book about adolescents with fetal alcohol syndrome and will be in Boston next summer to plan a reunion of the Sanborn Tea crowd. Also in the wilderness is Cathy Atwell, who will be spending the next year inIaroslobl, Russia (300 miles northwest of Moscow), doing research for her Stanford dissertation on Russian 19th century history.

On the international scene, Kris MollerHenley lives in London doing writing and public relations with her new husband, Andrew Henley, a London barrister. They were married last April in Connecticut.

Gregory Hawes has been appointed to the post of writer in residence at Blair Academy in Blairstown, N.J. He graduated from the American Film Institute in L.A., wrote several television documentaries for the Institute of Media Arts in Washington, and worked on the Hill for Senator Wyche Fowler. He recently was a screenwriter for Schneid and Michelman Productions in L.A. At Blair he will be working on a piece of autobiographical fiction. Los Angeles-based filmmakers JilannSpitzmiller and Hank Rogerson made a documentary on Native American elders for the National Indian Council On Aging and shot footage in Arizona, Mexico, and South Dakota. Rumor has it that Tom Flanigan will be leaving the consulting field to run a lobster business in New Hampshire.

Eighty-nines have also been working hard in the public sector. Casey Engleman writes from Springfield, I11., where she works for the Illinois government in health-care policy, and where she met her fiance, Tom Livingston. I saw Chuck Berwick, still flush from the recent Republican victory, at a Tom Skilton bipartisan holiday brunch. Chuck is a senior legislative aide for Congressman Wally Herger (R-Calif.) and will be rather busy for the first 100 days of '95. I would enjoy hearing about any '89 Democrats around the country it's lonely and bleak for us in this city now.

Julie Livingston, in her third year at Harvard Medical School, cryptically reports that she is taking a yearlong sabbatical to torture rats. She also wrote that Allison Moir will have a piece on fly-fishing published next year in a collection of essays by women about fishing. I have heard that Eric Schlezinger, pursuing a joint degree in law and Asian studies at Washington University in St. Louis, also is making strides to be the world's expert on Sino-Albanian relations. Sign him up for Jeopardy! Heidi Briggs is emphatically in transition—"quitting her job to be with the man she loves," betrothed Bernie Buonanno, in Providence, R.I. They will wed in April. She would appreciate hearing from any other '89s in the Providence area.

Many other '89s are starting families. JeffThomas and Keri Ueberroth Thomas, now residents of the Bay Area and owners of a border collie puppy, gave birth to ten-pound (!) Riley Peter last December. Jeff just got a new job as director at Adia Personnel Services. Congratulations are also due to Marty Mooney, an English teacher at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., and his wife, Danielle, who are the proud new parents of Baby New Year '95,Katherine Claire. Fred Miner and his wife, Sue, just welcomed baby Hannah.

Tom Avril and I are eager to hear more from '89s, in whatever wilderness, outback, suburb, metropolis, desert, or beachfront property you may inhabit.

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Jilann Spitzmiller and Hank Rogerson made a documentary on Native American elders. Jeanne DeSa '89