1987

I received a wonderful article from the Concord (N.H.) Monitor about Linda Williams, who opened a pediatrics praclice there last year. Linda had little experience with children while growing up, but in medical school she befriended an 11year-old patient with cystic fibrosis. The child's spirit and optimism inspired Linda to pursue pediatrics. She admires the capacity that children have to keep their spirits up even when they are sick, and knows well the impact that adults can have on the lives of children. Linda moved to New Hampshire from D.C., where she attended medical school at George Washington University and completed her internship and residency at Children's National Medical Center.

Evan Azrilant has merged onto the information superhighway and I was the recipient of one of his very first e-mails. He is practicing law in New York as well as working on a master's in law at NYU. Evan's plans for the summer included golfing "non-stop."

If brevity is the soul of wit, then I received a terribly witty update from BobCumming: "I've moved to Melbourne for a teaching job." If any of you happen to be Down Under, perhaps you can wrestle a little bit more information out of Bob.

Debbie Rowe Marchiony is my best Boston news source. She writes that MartinMcCarter was in Beantown in April to run the Boston Marathon, and Deb joined him for a pre-race carbo-load. Martin finished in 593rd place. Any other Boston Marathoners from our class out there? Deb also attended the Big Apple Circus in April with the Dartmouth Club of Greater Boston. Other '87s under the big top included Greg andAnne Schnader Jones and Kevin andGinny Wise Wilkins, all with children in tow.

A fascinating update came from JamesRobertson. He writes: "In early 1993, I slipped behind the wheel of my overloaded car and headed west, leaving behind Boston's cruel winters in eager anticipation of San Francisco's cruel summers. From September 1993 until this past April, I worked for the NAMES Project Foundation, the San Francisco-based sponsor of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. At the NAMES Project, I directed the Archive, a multi-year project to photograph and digitally preserve the quilt's more than 40,000 memorial panels, each remembering someone lost to AIDS. The digital resource created by the Archive serves as a valuable tool in the NAMES Project's AIDS education efforts in communities both in the United States and around the world. Last October, after more than two years of planning, we displayed the entire quilt in Washington, D.C., covering the National Mall from the Capitol to the Washington Monument. More than 1.2 million people, including President and Mrs. Clinton, visited the quilt during this three-day event. Needless to say, working at the NAMES Project was a deeply enriching, exciting, and often taxing experience. In addition to my responsibilities there, I also served on the board of directors of the Harvey Milk Institute, a non-profit organization which provides continuing education to gay and lesbian people in the Bay Area. After more than four years in San Francisco, however, other opportunities have beckoned. Until August I will be in Hania, Crete, working on the World Monuments Fund-sponsored restoration of Etz Hayyim Synagogue, the only surviving Jewish monument on the island. In the fall, I begin classes at the Yale School of Management."

Finally, Stacey Wolff reports that Brianand Elaine Millar Rowles welcomed their second child in February, named Jackson Christopher Rowles. The Dartmouth class of 2019 keeps growing!

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