1987

Although spring is in the air as you read this, it's Valentine's Day as I write this column, and I'm feeling like playing matchmaker. It's not the holiday that has inspired me, but rather some news I've received regarding two of our classmates. First of all, I was sent an article recently about Deborah Stone. Did any of you catch a recent ABC News broadcast titled Junk Science? If so, you may have noticed Debbie, who is a producer for that network, playing the role of a patient in order to expose physicians who are allegedly diagnosing healthy people with all types of environmentally induced diseases. Well, before the story aired, the doctor in question accused Debbie, reporter John Stossel, and several others with recording conversations without permission. If convicted, they could have faced five years in prison. Instead, the charges were later dropped, and the program aired.

Just a week or so after reading that article, I heard from Dave Wachen, who wrote to say that he had just recently joined the First Amendment/media law group at Baker & Hostetler in D.C. He represents newspapers, television and radio stations, publishers, and other journalists in libel and invasion of privacy lawsuits, as well as counseling them on potentially controversial pieces prior to publication and broadcast. If there was ever a match made in heaven, I think this is it. Debbie, maybe you should give Dave a call before your next undercover assignment.

I was also sent a news clipping about Doug Green. He has joined the radiology department at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital in Vermont.

Ever the avid skier, Doug has managed to stay in close proximity to the slopes over the years. After finishing medical school at the University of Vermont, he completed his internship at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont and residency programs at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

My very first international e-mail came from Laura Kennedy. She has recently moved from Bogota, Colombia, to Santiago, Chile, where she is the English coordinator at a bilingual school. Laura spent last summer in the United States catching up with old friends, and plans a return trip this spring to attend the weddings of Dave Foster and Debbie Jayne. (That's weddings, plural. They're not martying each other.)

From an anonymous contributor came the following tidbit: "I was glancing through the Hollywood Reporter, when I happened upon an article that mentioned our classmate Michael Kong. Apparently, Mike is the publisher and editor of Chicago Social, a magazine that has done quite well over the last three years. Mike was attending the opening of the new Spago in Chicago with his fiancee, documentary maker Stacey Twilley. Mike was not only mentioned in George Christy's column, 'The Great Life,' but also had his mug pictured along with other Chicago influentials."

Jackie Reich wrote in for the first time ever: "I received my Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1994 and am now an assistant professor in the department of French and Italian at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Although I missed the reunion (I was in Italy doing research) I have been back up to Dartmouth to participate in a symposium organized by the French and Italian department. It was a fantastic (and also strange) experience to be up there on the podium with my old professors. I'm engaged to Matthew de Ganon, president of an interactive advertising agency in New York."

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