1983

Congratulations to David Stern on his new and very impressive position as senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Dallas. (The son and grandson of rabbis, David decided he wanted to be one at age 5.) Charles Arnstein '43, a member of Temple Emanu-El, writes, "The congregation of 2,700 families is the fourth largest Jewish Reform congregation in the country. We are extremely enthusiastic and delighted with our new rabbi." Also, congratulations to David and wife, Rabbi Nancy Kasten, on the birth (since last they appeared in these pages) of Nina Kasten Stern, a little sister for Jacob.

Sally Kahler Phillips once told me she'd kill me if I put her in Class Notes, but I can't resist. Anyhow, it seems the media has already discovered her. Sally, who lives in L.A. with her husband, Hunter, has left Disney Channel marketing far behind and is now designing spectacular outdoor furniture: witty takes on Adirondack chairs, some neo-gothic, others shaped like cushy armchairs and handpainted (by Sally, of course) to look upholstered. Check out the April issue of House Beautiful, page 38.

I received an article by Richard Jaenicke which I understood not at all. It was published in that fine journal, Electronic Design, and was about standard interconnects speed app throughput. I wouldn't have gotten even that much out of it had it not been the article's title. Fortunately, I could make sense of the author's note at the end and so can inform you that Richard is director of marketing at SKY Computers.

Matthew Liddle is an expert in bookmaking the library kind as opposed to the track kind, in case you were getting excited. After graduating from Dartmouth, Dr. Liddle worked in fine press printing in New York, then came back to the College library and worked for two years in exhibition design and book restoration. He got his M.F.A. from Philadelphia College of Art and Design, and is now an assistant professor at WCU in North Carolina (at least I think that's where it is).

This clearly is doctors' month: Julie Patterson was recently named physician and director of geriatric programs for Kendal at Hanover. She was previously director of geriatric education in the general internal medicine section at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Another doctor in the College vicinity, Bruce Andrus, has been elected a fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is an internist at Lahey Hitchcock ClinicKeene, and lives in Swanzey with his wife, Stephanie, and their two children.

Mike Zaragoza was inducted into the American College of Surgeons. Following in his father's footsteps (not to mention his father's practice, which he joined), he is a urologist, and lives in Dover, Del., with his wife, Sandra, and sons Brian and Justin.

And then there's the dashing John Sontich, now, I hear, an orthopaedic surgeon, living who knows where with whom or what. Class, I'll do my best to find out more! Apologies to a fifth doctor, Peter Kilmarx. I mistakenly wrote that Peter was doing AIDS research involving Thai sex workers. He informs me that he is, in fact, doing Thailand (at least I got something right), focusing more on the general population. And for those of you who were wondering, Peter's eldest is named Benjamin and he is 3.

As long as we're on the subject of the medical profession and research, I might as well add that my mother, Vicki Michel (a bioethicist) is working on a book (with my indispensible help, of course) on pregnancy and the impacts of technology, looking at how women's experience of pregnancy has changed generationally. She'd love to hear from mother-daughter pairs with pertinent stories. You can contact me at the below addresses. (Doesn't this remind you of The New York Times Review of Books? I'm sure the DAM really appreciates it, too.)

Deborah Michel Rosch, 7 Berenda Way, Portola Valley, CA 94028;

Player Monica Cahilty '83, p. 64