1990

It seems Lori Brockway majored in geography at Dartmouth just so that she could choose the ideal wedding site: rumor rate it that she was seen on Orcas Island this past September in a wedding dress and a big hat.

Fellow geography major the Rev. LauraVan Wie McGrory presided over the ceremony. Lori and husband Rob Newman met in an emergency room a year ago during their residencies. The wedding guests spent the week before the big day sea kayaking, hiking, eating salmon, and "playing fluffy bunny around the campfire." (Hmmm. Must be a geography thing.)

Rita Patel was spotted in The Hill newspaper in May. For three and a half years Rita has been a legislative assistant to Jim McDermott, a congressman for Washington State and a member of the Ways and Means Committee.

Rita has taken responsibility for domestic and foreign affairs and women's issues. Rita is from Yakima, Wash., and majored in psychology and education at Dartmouth.

Becky Barendrick reports from Evanston, Ill., that Heidi Julavits's story titled "Penny Dreadfuls" has been published in a book called Writers Harvest 2 (Harcourt Brace, 1996). All proceeds from the book benefit Share Our Strength's Anti-hunger Programs.

Tania Stasiuk Rawlinson writes, "Call me the next time you're in London and we'll hear some fabulous music." Tania married her long-time Oxford sweetheart, Nick Rawlinson, in May with a sprinkling of Dartmouth folks present, including bridesmaid Jenny Goldberg (and KevinStone, not a woman, but a '9O nevertheless). Tania is currently fundraising (or is that funraising?) for the English National Opera and looking for a flat. (She didn't say a flat what.)

The unofficial '90 Woman of the Year Award goes to Donna Markland. Donna is a successful O.P.N.P.O. (one-person non-profit organization) specializing in animals and kids in Los Angeles. Having mastered classroom drive-by shooting drills, Donna left her South Central kindergarten class for the Los Angeles Zoo, where she is a currently a docent and a volunteer zookeeper. To attain her current position, she completed a six-month course, and in order to become a certified zookeeper she must spend each week with a different animal, starting with the warthogs.

Donna wants to work her way up to elephants and reptiles. Elephants, she explains, are sensitive to human personalities, and the perceptive pachyderms at her zoo recently trampled a zookeeper they did not like. Donna also substitute teaches at various schools in the L.A. area, where she singlehandedly tames the most unruly classrooms and is begged to return by awed teachers.

On the biannual Californian earthquake drill day, Donna happened to have a classroom of variously challenged young children. How does one teach emergency earthquake procedures to three-year-olds climbing on tricycles and trying to bite one another? Just ask Donna Markland. Donna also plays rugby for UCLA and takes evening classes in preparation for vet school in the fall of '98.

Liz Portland, who works at the Museum of Natural History in N.Y.C., and Carrie Tower, who works at Christie's auction house in N.Y.C., report that Alison Scholten Latta is pregnant with her third child, which they believe makes her a frontrunner.

But doesn't Kristin Kelly Karas already have three, two of which are twins? If this is true, then we believe Kristin is in first place for number of children and Alison leads for number of labors. Who would you rather be? Dial 1-847-492-9724 and place your vote now. The lines are open.

Quiz of the month: which fellow '90 recently shared a revolving door with Yasser Arafat? (Hint: he's not a woman, his initials are T.E., and his apartment was decorated by Kyle Blood.)

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DonnaMarkland isworking her wayup through the warthough tobecome a certifiedzookeeper. Anna Cathcaet '90