1990

"Like a woman out of a Hemingway novel, Melanie Schneeberger fly-fishes arid skis; she beats most of her friends at pool; she drinks bourbon on the rocks." So began an article in the September 1 New York Times "Weddings" section featuring Mel's betrothal to Chris Robbins, a UVM graduate.

According to the aritcle, Mel, a lawyer for the Legal Aid Society in New York, met Chris at a black-tie party at the Puck Building a year and a half ago. She was standing at the bar, drinking bourbon, when Chris walked up and said, "That looks good. I think I'll have one, too." They both knew by their third date that they were meant for each other. The wedding ceremony took place on the tennis court at Mel's family home on Bear Lake in North Muskegon, Mich. "a match made in heaven," proclaimed the minister. Mel and Chris share a love of the outdoors and adventure and spent their honeymoon fly-fishing in Montana.

News of another nature nuptual: Bruce Sacerdote is engaged to Michelle Verni and apparently wants her to hike in her wedding dress to the top of Mt. Sunapee, where Ted Carleton will theoretically perform the ceremony. Michelle would prefer to take the lift. In training for the mountain marriage, Ted works at EMS (Eastern Mountain Sports) in Manhattan. Less claustrophobic than he used to be, Ted lives in the dark room of high-school friend.

Ted reports that Gary Katz, a prosecutor in the D.A.'s office for Middlesex County in Massachusetts, is engaged to Diane Laskin of Rockville, Md.; Mike Uram is in his first year at Mt. Sinai Medical School and is "no fun anymore"; and Jamie Hooper works in advertising at The New Yorker. Ted has also spotted Celso Sanchez in a coat and tie walking by Rockefeller Center.

This summer Mike Kanarick left his law firm in New Jersey to be the comptroller of the state Democratic Party in New Jersey, and at the time of writing, Julie Alperin was working for the Clinton campaign in D.C. If you need a house or an addition designed, call on Mila Chun, who graduated from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard last spring and is now freelancing. Mila married Dave Clark '88 on August 31 in Gloucester, Mass. They continue to live happily in Cambridge with their two cats. According to Mila, Berna Lee left the HIV Law Project in N.Y.C. and began Georgetown Law School this fall, and Steve Cosson had been interviewing for graduate programs in New York.

Rob Adams, Becky Barendrick, John Carroll, and Bob Teree have donned backpacks and notebooks once again as first-year students at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern. John is married to Kelly (Donahue) Carroll, a UVM graduate whose family lives in White River Junction, Vt. Between classes, Rob commutes into downtown Chicago to visit his fiancee, Lauren Girard of Norwich, Vt., who attends Northwestern's Law School; Becky plays soccer with classmates of her athletic caliber (mostly South American men); and Bob spends most of his time being mistaken for his twin brother Dan, who is a second-year student at Kellogg.

Bob told me that Kim Walsh is in her second year at M.I.T., and Mike Brandt is a lawyer and lives with his wife, whom he met in law school, in Hamden, Conn. John and Kelly informed me that Mike Lee is a lawyer in Chicago, Mike Kennealy worked in venture capital in Chicago over the summer and is now in his second year at Harvard Business School, and Michaiel Keller works for Andersen Consulting. John has one friend whose name is not Mike, and that is Ted O'Donahue, who is working on his post-doctorate in economics at Kellogg.

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