1989

It is with deep regret that I note that three of our classmates, Paul Gould,Josh Hanes, and TimOlguin have passed away this year. On behalf of the class, Tom Avril and I would like to convey our sympathy to the families and friends of our classmates.

Mateo Romero, an artist of NativeAmerican origin, held an exhibition of his paintings, drawings and monotypes, Tales ofOrdinary Violence, in Santa Fe this past spring. His work addresses the "social land scape"—domestic violence, alcoholism, and the breakdown of family structure.

His work also speaks to the dismantling of romantic stereotypes of Native Americans. After graduation from Dartmouth, Mateo studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He then received a Reynolds Fellowship to paint and print in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He received a master of fine arts in from the University of New Mexico. He currently lives with his wife and children in San Juan Pueblo in Colorado.

Several of our classmates do not appear content with one career or set of inter-est ests—Andrew Shue, known to Fox T.V.watchers as a Melrose Place star, has recently joined the Los Angeles Galaxy, one of the newly established ten Major League Soccer teams. Classmates will remember him as a standout player during Dartmouth games—and from his post-grad tenure with a professional soccer team in Zimbabwe. Andrew is also a co-founder of "Do Something," a non-profit that spon sors leadership training and community development programs in several cities.

When last I mentioned Laura Bedford, she had just returned from a five-year stint in Paris where she worked for Bank of America and pursued a business degree. Although Laura now works primarily in real-estate finance in the Bay Area, she also is involved in the restaurant business and in the sale of modern art. She is proof that a multiple careers can be done LaurieSammis also pursuing numerous careersshe is a helicopter pilot and freelance writer. She is currently working on a threebook contract writing trail guides for the San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and Lake Tahoe areas. Her writing, often about adventurous outdoor activities such as helicopter skiing, ice climbing, and flying with the Blue Angels, appear regularly in men's outdoor magazines. Catherine Elsworth, a landscape architect with a degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, is currently working overseas in Jordan at an archeological site.

Melvin Yawu Miller has been named managing editor of the Bay State Banner in Massachusetts, New England's longest running black newspaper. At Dartmouth Melvin was a senior editor at The D. Last summer he won an award from the National Association for Black Journalists for an article on disparate funding of minority-operated day care centers in the state. Eric Schlezinger, a graduate of Washington University Law School, serves as counsel for Syntax, a pharmaceutical firm in the Bay Area. Jessie Burgh, also in the Bay Area, works for Oracle.

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