Class Notes

1989

NOVEMBER 1996 Tom Avril
Class Notes
1989
NOVEMBER 1996 Tom Avril

You and I throw them around the back yard for kicks. Eric Zaslow throws them for competition. We're talking Frisbees, and we're talking world championships. After playing for a variety of teams with zany names (Seeds, Moo Disc, Mental Block, and Schism, to name a few), Eric joined Dogs and went with them to Jonkoping, Sweden, for the Ultimate Frisbee world championships in August. Ultimate Frisbee, which should really be called ultimate disc, because Frisbee is a trademark and they often use another brand anyway, sort of like playing soccer, except you can't run with the disc. That's a gross oversimpli-fication. But in any case, Eric and his fellow Dogs are pretty good at it, because they actually won, beating Sweden in the finals before a crowd of 2,000.

As for other class news, I have determined that the rigors of being co-class secretary are far too strenuous for me to handle on my own, so I have decided to deploy my family members in search of news. My sister Gerri, a landscape architect in Manhattan who had the misfortune of attending a lesser Ivy League institution in New Jersey, happened to meet Jen Large in New York. Jen is also an architect working in Manhattan and is apparently doing very well, my sister reports. Maybe Jen could flesh out those details.

My parents got in on the newsgathering act as well. While at a wedding in Cincinnati, they met Tauna Lockhart, who reports that she is a producer for an evening news broadcast in Denver. My parents, being new at the class-secretary game, were unable to remember which network employs Tauna.

In my last column, I referred to someone named "Bob Clark." As Rob Clark will tell you, there is no such person in our class. I have apologized profiisely to Rob for this transgression, and as penance I have decided to use his name correctly ten times. RobClarkRobClarkRobClarkRob- ClarkRobClarkRobClarkRobClarkRob- ClarkRobClarkRobClark. As for other classmates, Josh Adler reports that since graduation, he has been bouncing around the East Coast working as an actor part of the time and trying to feed himself the rest of the time. After going on the road with a children's theater group he returned to New York City. My information may be outdated, but I think he still works as an actor at the Jekyll & Hyde Club. "For seven hours a day, I walk around and make fun of all the customers," he wrote.

This one is really old, so I hope it's still accurate: Andrew Pulrang was chosen last year as executive director of the North Country Center for Independence in Plattsburgh, N.Y. The center works with disabled people and promotes their ability to live independently. Services include peer counseling, community advocacy, and disability-rights consultation.

Keri Ueberroth Thomas writes that she and her husband, Jeff Thomas, have relocated to Spokane, Wash., where Jeff is working as chief financial officer of Ambassadors International Inc. By the time this appears, their son Riley should be 21 months old.

Eric Rovick writes that he is working as a research analyst for the Madrid brokerage firm AB Asesores. On May 30 he married Raquel Arrojo. My guess is that Eric's Spanish has progressed beyond the LSA level.

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