1983

I recently finished rereading Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons, Shirley ("The Lottery") Jackson's very funny books about raising children, and have decided that the reason I haven't finished my own book is that I don't have enough children (Jackson had four). Women writers are different from men writers. Look at Balzac, who after having his way with the kitchen maid, exclaimed (apocryphally?), "There goes another novel!"

This is, of course, all a little beside the point, which is that Lucretia Grindle has two mysteries under her belt and is at work on a new book, not a mystery, about one Colonel John Walsh, who I for some reason want to say has some ancestral connection to Lucretia, but who most certainly was a good friend of Sitting Bull. I also understand that Lucretia has a horse that took part in the Olympics, representing Canada, alas although none of this is from the horse's mouth. Lucretia and steed live in Virginia, outside Washington, D.C. I'm a little behind in the triumphant return-to-the-U.S. department. Welcome back, Will Cattail, who after three years in Saudi Arabia has returned to the States with his family—wife of 11 years Elizabeth, who didn't go to Dartmouth but who was (I just know I'm not getting this right) resident counselor to Kappa Alpha Theta sorority; sons John 5 and Henry 3. Will is a lawyer, and this past February switched firms to Latham and Watkins in New York, to which he commutes from Pelham Manor. Will says that he has (understandably) been a bit out of touch, but he did recently see Peter Cholnoky, who has left Apple to start his own company in the online field.

Michelle Ott has already been back from Prague for something like two years, but I'm not going to let that stop me. The real question is how long she'll be staying in New York where she's living now (on the West Side) doing "this and that" in the venture capital new media arena. Michelle was being a little cagey and vague about her life, which is, she says, in flux. She is "talking to some folks in London." Something to do, perhaps, with her longtime, long-distance, off-again, on-again British boyfriend? Michelle tried to put me and my nosey-parker, former pseudo gossip columnist (it was a very small, unrespected publication) ways off with news about other classmates. And, you know, for the most part, it worked. Shelly Drake, Michelle reports, had her second child (and second boy) recently, as did Eileen Lynch. And Michelle recently went skiing with Wendy Wasson in Telluride, where Wendy, her husband, and their by now one-year-old twins have one of numerous residences. In New York Michelle keeps up with Melanie Law and Elizabeth Augustin. Melanie is working for Lehman Bros., and Liz for Morgan Bank, where she's been since we graduated.

A lovely postcard of the White Mountains informs me that Chris Rademacher (who was writing from the summit of Mt. Washington) has, after 13 years with Motorola in information systems, left his job to hike one-half the Appalachian Trail, from Virginia to Maine. As he puts it, "It's sort of like a hike up Moosilauke with a 900-mile approach walk." Chris graduated from Kellogg in June and by the time you read this will already be ensconced in his new job with Diamond Technology Partners, a two-year-old management consulting firm specializing in telecommunications, in Chicago.

Final bits and pieces: Eliza Deery, M.D. (she's a pulmonary/critical care specialist), husband Dr. Troy Schrupp (a dentist), and son Jack, who's not quite one, recently moved to the Lakes Region of New Hampshire from Portland, Maine. And Peter Lindholm was not too long ago (by my standards anyhow) elected president and C.O.O. at Bank of Maple Plain in Minneapolis.

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Author Jean Hanff Korelitz '83, p 46