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Feel like getting away from it all? Call Maury Lawrence, who's sure to have some travel advice for you. She and her companion John, spent most of 1996 on the road and logged a lot of miles. They started by packing up their apartment and storing all their stuff, then drove from California to New Jersey, visiting friends and relatives along the way.

They flew back to San Francisco to pick up their bikes and tent, and then departed for New Zealand. Maury and John spent four months bicycling and hitchhiking around that country, eating fish and chips, and meeting many hospitable Kiwis. Then it was off to Singapore and a nearby island to get acclimated to the heat of South East Asia. Bangkok was the next stop, followed by Chiang Mai (where Maury took a course on Thai massage) and a month in Burma. Then they headed south to the islands, where Maury learned to scuba dive, followed by two weeks in Malaysia. Maury writes, "By this time, I was ready to come home, and although it is a nice country, I mostly remember the dreaded skin infection (impetigo, I was told) which erupted like mini volcanoes all over my body. Even my lymph nodes became sore and swollen. I am thankful that I was able to find an English doctor who gave me strong antibiotics." After returning to the U.S., they made yet another trek across the country before settling into a new apartment in Berkeley, where Maury is selfemployed as a massage therapist. What an adventure!

Maury also passed along some news about other classmates: Mich and RustyGardner were expecting their third child in July. Sue Conroy has left the insurance business and is busy translating and publishing works, including a book about Saint Therese of Lisieux. You may remember that when we were undergraduates, Sue spent time in Calcutta working with Mother Teresa. Now Sue has received permission from Mother Teresa to write a book about those experiences.

Finally, Maury reports that BethamyAronow Landeck has established an ob- gyn practice in Stamford, Conn.

A few months ago I mentioned an anonymous e-mail I received about Michael Kong and his magazine, ChicagoSocial. Since then, Michael has been the subject of an article in Grain's ChicagoBusiness. He started the magazine in 1994 with just $6,000, and now it boasts an audited circulation of 50,000 and will generate about $2 million in revenues this year.

The publication has grown from a 24-page black-and-white tabloid with a handful of advertisements to a 100-page glossy- color magazine with advertisers such as Absolut, BMW, Cartier, Chanel, Gucci, and Tiffany. As for the magazine's founder, he's described in the article as "an Oriental Cary Grant. He has more of a high-society demeanor than the people he covers." Who knew?

Michael Levine sent the following e-mail: "My wife Melissa and I had our first child on August 26, 1996. He was 7 lb. 4 oz., and his name is Benjamin lan. I am currently a cardiology fellow at the University of Connecticut and recently presented papers at the American College of Cardiology in Anaheim and at the International Convention of Nuclear Cardiology in Florence, Italy."

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