1990

Scene: A red-velvet bedecked soundstage, a desk, and two chairs. Me: Lately, I've been receiving mail from and meeting people whom I had never known as a student. Despite the fact that we're really strangers, somehow there's no need for long and awkward introductions. Just being from the same school is reason enough to feel instantly comfortable. Church Lady: Now isn't that special?

Bill Wilson sent me an e-mail way back in November to let me know that he married Kimberly Minor last June. The two met while getting M.B.A.s at the University of Maryland.

Friends Ed Exson and his wife, DawnGenerals-Smith and her husband Victor '89, A1 Rosier '91, Malik Franklin '92, Donnell Thompson '93, Kleatos Johson '93, and Jeff Baynes '9l were in attendance. Bill lives in Princeton, N.J., and works for Chase Manhattan bank as an investment and risk management product development manager.

Rob Stewart is currently "on loan" at the Congressional Budget Office, although by the time you read this, he should be heading back to his regular job at the Department of Flealth and Human Services, where he spent much of the last two years opposing cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. Rob received a master's in public policy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was also a presidential management intern, an award given to top students in public policy schools, before accepting his D.H.H.S. assignment.

At a January birthday dinner for a friend, Betsy Barnett 'B9, I was seated opposite Nicole DuPont. Since my column was due in less than 24 hours, I shared an appetizer with her while not-sosubtly demanding class information. Nicole graduated from the University of Michigan's business school and now specializes in healthcare in 1.8.M.'s benefits department. Last December she attended the wedding of Greg Dorr to a fellow history Ph.D candidate from the University of Virginia. Greg Gilbert, GusConrades, and David "Dewey"Winebrenner were also there. David and his wife were expecting their child very, very shortly thereafter.

The Portland Press Herald of Maine did a "close-up" on Ted Halstead last October. Ted is the executive director of Redefining Progress, a San Francisco think-tank that he founded more than three years ago to find better ways of measuring our economic progress. You may be familiar with this raging debate occurring among our business leaders and economic advisers on whether the Gross Domestic Product actually measures how productive we are as a nation.

Ted believes the GDP isn't adequate and impressively proposes an alternative that combines 24 different indicators including crime, environmental breakdown, and the value of housework and volunteer work.

With all the economics-, business-, and government policy-minded people in our class (not to mention the lawyers, who'd love a debate, any debate), I'm sure we could get a lively discussion going on this topic. Any takers?

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