1991

This month brings all sorts of reports on weddings and babies five years after graduation, I guess that's expected as well as one very random, but very entertaining, vignette abouta '91 connection to Atlanta's 1996 Olympic Games.

Amy Arlin and Dan Foster '93 welcomed their second daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, into the world on June 17. Big sister Robin starts preschool in the fall. Amy and Dan live in Seattle, and they often see Sean and Lara Dilg Nolan, who live in the area with their daughter Alex.

Peter "Puneet" Sagar married Dawn Haney in June. They make their home in San Francisco, where Peter is doing software equity research at Montgomery Securities. Vasiliki Alexopoulos, who works for U.S. Senator Judd Gregg in Washington, D.C., dropped me an e-mail about Rob Kornblum and Suzie King's wedding up at the Big Green in July. Vas and Bari Anhalt Arlichson did readings, Audrey Price and Tracey Rous Hoke were bridesmaids, and Matt Dunning was an usher. From the University of Minnesota, Ken Abrams tells me he's starting his second year in the Ph.D. clinical psychology program, and he reports that Tip Coffin and his wife Denise are expecting their first child in December. "Tip's already bought the little guy his first slam pong paddle," writes Ken. ChadAnderson and his fiancee Eileen are set to get married in November in Louisville, Ky. Unengaged, unmarried Rob Andrade is still aboard the USS California, somewhere in the waters around Hong Kong.

Kristin Savilia married Scott Rubenstein on August 25 and then spent two glorious weeks honeymooning in Italy. Kristin is a buyer of children's clothing at Macy's and lives in close proximity to Manhattan's Central Park so she can train for the Corporate Challenge running races that she helps organize for her company.

Finally, having nothing to do with marriages or births, comes this tale from MattJohnson: "The event is the Olympics, on NBC. The sport is synchronized swimming. The announcer is some fellow who has probably never swum in a competition, let alone in a synchronized-swimming competition. "In the midst of the broadcast, the announcer fellow makes a comment that I roughly remember being as follows: To get an idea of how conditioned these athletes are, let me tell you that P.H. Mullen, a world-class marathon swimmer who has one of the fastest times for crossing the English Channel, jumped in the pool with these women for a workout and was only able to keep up for an hour. Now, at the time I heard this comment, I was watching the Olympics at Possum Mike's, a biker bar in Willits, Calif., and I literally fell off my stool. When my friend Cooter picked me up off the floor and asked what was wrong, I explained that I knew P.H. Mullen. That P.H. Mullen was a classmate and a personal friend. Apparently I said it loudly because the whole bar got quiet. At first I was afraid for my life, thinking that the bikers would pick on me because I knew the guy who couldn't keep up with the girls. But I was way off. Every biker in the bar had seen the amazing things those athletes were doing: throwing themselves out of the water, holding their breath forever, smiling for like eight minutes straight. And they were impressed, just as I was. So rather than beat me up, those bikers ordered up a round of pitchers for the house, and I proceeded to get shnockered on the strength of my association with P.H. I tell you, I truly felt the Olympic spirit in that bar."

Kara Skruck, 3300 S. Tamarac Drive, Apt. A 302, Denver, CO 80231;