1986

The Claim to Fame was an easy award to give this month, as I received the following on a postcard recently: "After standing by, i.e. understudying, for two months, I made my Broadway debut opposite Carol Burnett and Philip Bosco in Moon Over Buffalo on November 9, 1995. The show is a fast-paced farce with lots of doors slamming, guns shooting etc., so it was pretty nerve-wracking, but I managed to get through the night without soiling my costume and was dragged out to take a bow with Carol and Phil." Congratulations David Beach!

Liz Musser Spurr was blessed with a baby boy named Benjamin in January. Liz lives in Mill Valley, Calif., and works for GQ. Michael Poloukhine lives in Hamden, Conn., with wife and two children. Mike currently works at an architectural firm Weber and Associates in Stamford, Conn. He earned his architectural license in 1993 and does residential freelance work...hint...hint!

Andy McKenna was recently featured in the Detroit Free Press as a "well-rounded" graduate-to-be of the Tauber Manufacturing Institute, where he earned an M.B.A. in manufacturing in May. JimBennett has a Ph.D. in finance and moved to Hong Kong at the end of August 1994, where he had a visiting position in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He and his family have now moved to Dunedin, New Zealand, where he works at the University of Otago. They are expecting another child (they have two already) in late June.

Linda Rhines works for an international non-profit organization based in Montpelier, Vt., that does environmental and democracy building work in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. She commutes several times a year from Vermont to places like Nizhnii Tagil, Russia, and Plock, Poland. Linda's family consists of an officially registered "domestic partner" and a dog Peggy-O, named after a Bob Dylan song.

Bonnie Austin works for Skadden Arps in Washington, D.C., and, at night, studies for her master's in public health. MartySims lives north of Toronto with his wife and daughter and was expecting a second child in February. (How about an update Marty?) He is a stockbroker with Canada's largest independent, publically traded investment dealer, Midland Walwyn Capital Inc.

News from Liza Henriquez, who lives in Panama with her three children, ages 8, 6, and 3. She is the vice president of strategic planning for a company that owns the franchises KFC, Dairy Queen, and, the newest acquisition, Pizza Pizza. She hopes to make it to Reunion! Mindy Meade had a busy 1995. She got married, moved three times, and built a new house with her husband, an architect.

Kelley Ellsworth is married to an artist and musician, and is living in Washington, D.C., with her family (two sons). Kelley owns a film and video production company currently producing a feature film scheduled to begin shooting in the summer for in theaters in 1996. She is also directing and producing a documentary about Millie Jeffrey.

Ellen Sorsby lives in Atlanta with her husband and son. She writes for a magazine in Washington called the Foreign Service Journal. Rachel Fineberg Oser finished her fellowship in interventional radiology in June of 1995, and is now on staff in the radiology department at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. She works parttime so she can also stay home with her young son. Lynn Chickering Oser, Rachel's sister-in-law and college roommate, had a second baby boy in May. In other small-world coincidences, SusanMosley Hamman is in the same residency program where Rachel is on staff.

This is your last chance to read one of my columns before our Reunion! Try your best to get to our tenth, June 14-16. And if you are flying to Reunion you may bump into Phil Burrow, who is now a pilot with United!

142 Presidio Ave., San Francisco, CA94115;

Who can forget those hoursthat passed like a dream?