1990

As I write this column (it's February), the Republican presidential candidates Bob Dole, Pat Buchanan, Lamar Alexander, Steve Forbes, Richard Lugar, Alan Keyes, Bob Dornan (who?), and Morry Taylor (?) are all campaigning in New Hampshire. Those of you who read The Sunday New York Times regularly may have been as amused—bemused?- and incredulous as I was when I saw a frontpage photograph of Bob Dole on the steps of Alpha Delta fraternity (you know, Animal House). The leading Republican candidate's big line: "It's time to vote heavily." Gee, do you think he was wearing a toga under that pin-striped suit?

Fellow '90 Bart Osman, who attends Tuck, was quoted in the Times piece as a Dole supporter, with a very pragmatic ifyou-can't-beat-'em,-join-'em philosophy in response to criticisms of Dole as a Washington insider.

Meanwhile, you may remember I announced in a past column that KyleBlood would campaign for Steve Forbes if the multimillionaire decided to run. Well, Kyle was turned down for a position in the organization but he is now breathing a sigh of relief. A few days after the lowa caucus, Kyle told me that he is "thoroughly disgusted with Steve Forbes," and he thinks his former employer is running "a meanspirited campaign that stands for everything that I thought he didn't."

Kyle is also unhappy about Forbes sidestepping the issue of homosexuality, no doubt because Kyle fights against negative attitudes toward gays as a member of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. An organizer of its annual media awards dinner, he is recruiting and coaxing celebrities like Barbara Walters to attend or present awards at the spring event. Kyle left his position at Forbes Magazine and is now an assistant account executive in public relations at Spring, O'Brien & Co. in New York.

Moving away from politics, I talked to Celso Sanchez the other day. OK, I admit it, I called him, desperate for news to add to the column. He researches Latin American investment opportunities for Paine Webber and he has an M.B.A. from Columbia University, where he met and married his wife, Trish, two years ago. Celso and I were envious that his friends Derrick Searby and Henry Todd both have jobs that enable them to fly around the world.

Frederick, as Derrick is now known, works for Oppenheimer & Co. and conducts research firsthand in Latin America. Henry works for the family import business and visits exotic locales around the girdled earth.

Speaking of globetrotters, Ching Tao is only briefly residing in New York. By May she will have finished her M.B.A. at Columbia and has accepted a job from Goldman Sachs, which will send her to Hong Kong within the year. She said her job title falls under the heading, "general slavery," (big sigh) which is otherwise known as "corporate finance." Having already participated in a Hong Kong exchange program through Columbia last year, she welcomes any inquiries from classmates interested in working in China or Hong Kong. You can reach her at her email address through May: .

One last thing: anyone interested in having the class organize a Moosilauke hike to celebrate the tenth anniversary of our freshman week contact class vice president Kyle Blood at (212) 627-6462 as soon as possible.

Signing off from the plain 01' U.S. of A.

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I was incredulouswhen I saw aphoto of BobDole on the stepsof Alpha Deltafraternity—doyou think he waswearing a togaunder that pinstriped suit? JEANHEE KIM '90