1983

"Carmine lannaccone? I love Carmine!" cried my bestfnend-from-growing-up, Susan Kandel, now editor of the LA-based art magazine, Art/Text. (By happy coincidence, a press release had informed me our classmate writes for that publication.) "He's a great writer," she added. When not writing, Carmine teaches art theory and criticism at USC having received his M.F.A. from Otis Institute. Susan also reports he is married with, she believes, a couple children. "And they're old," she adds, with the awe of those whose first child has yet to start preschool. If writing for brilliant, influential, but admittedly not terribly widely read contemporary art magazines isn't power enough for you, take Tim Geithner. When last seen in these pages, he was working across the hall from Dan Zelikow at the State Department. I don't know about his present office situation, but he has been nominated by President Clinton to be assistant secretary for international affairs at the Department of the Treasury. Before that he was senior deputy assistant secretary. I am clearly not a Beltway insider. If I hadn't been told otherwise I would have thought the lowlier tide sounded more impressive. Tim no doubt has that sort of thing figured out by now. He's been at the Treasury Department for nine years, after receiving an M. A. in international economics and East Asian studies from John Hopkins.

Have you all noticed I've moved again? Twice in six months, packing boxes each time with a child on each hip and nary a free hand to wipe the sweat from my brow. I'm hoping we'll stay put for a while, although the fact that we're only halfway unpacked and already overflowing the closets is not a good sign. I have to ask myself: would more closets really make me a happier person? In a cosmic sense? But I'm not the only one grappling with these questions. I recently received a change of address note from Sueand Bill Scoville but they one-upped me by enclosing it with a birth announcement. Sarah Scoville joined siblings Katie and Michael in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 13.

By yet another happy, cosmic coincidence, Jeff Stanton and his wife, Judy, moved t0...0hi0 even as little Sarah entered this world. Jeff finished his Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Connecticut this past April, and will be teaching in the department of psychology at Bowling Green State University. Jeff has also been elected as a fellow of the Society for Values in Higher Education.

Is it any wonder, then, that I give Jeffs opinion weight? "On a different note," he writes (uh-oh, I think to myself), "I must comment on your continuing conflict with Ted Demopoulos." (I know it's all my fault, but hasn't this gone on long enough?) As I recall," Jess goes on, "the initial issue with Mr. Demopoulos was that you found some of his reports less than credible. I have known Ted since high school and I can attest that he actually does those unusual things he reports. Other classmates and I enjoy hearing about his fly-fishing adventures around the globe as well as his diplomatic efforts in the world's trouble spots. I look forward to reading more of them in future columns." Fine. Next month an entire column devoted to Ted.

Until then, don't forget that our 15th Reunion is just around the corner: June 1921,1998.

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