1994

I received an email from Ken Davis a while ago updating (me on life down South. At the time, Ken was finishing up his M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke, while his wife, Laura (Hardegree) Davis, was building a new career as an admissions associate with the Fuqua admissions office. Laura quit her consulting job with William M. Mercer last fall and "decided to start using her psych/education degree." If all went as planned (which I'm sure it did), Ken graduated in the spring, and he and Laura did their "Summer of Beach" tour, traveling to various beaches up and down the East Coast and the Caribbean. "After getting one awesome tan, we are moving to Atlanta, Ga., where we are building a house in the Vinings area." At the end of the summer Ken was planning to start as an associate with McKinsey and Cos., and Laura was planning to look for a job at one of the local colleges. "We see fellow '94s Jill Feldman and Matt Hergott all the time," writes Ken. Jill was planning to return to her job at Deloitte and Touche Consulting in Chicago, and as I mentioned in a previous column, Matt was planning to get a job in investment banking. Greg Johnson writes from Texas, where he is completing medical school. "I get to the hospital by 5 and leave whenever my attending feels like I have been punished enough," writes Greg. "In 16 months someone's going to call me Dr. Johnson, and I'll be responsible for someone else's life." I guess that kind of quote confirms that we are officially becoming grown-ups after all. Maybe some of us more than others. Greg sees a few '95s now and then. He has had the honor of serving on the Texas Medical Association Medical Student Section Executive Council with Jennifer Rodriguez '95, and at some of his AMA meetings he runs into Nicole Haig and Nanda Kamath, also '95s. As a result of a fellowship with the CDC on violence prevention, Greg co-wrote a paper on suicide among adolescents and young adults which should be published soon. Jay Torian is back in touch after a three-year hiatus from alumni news publication. "The last alumni magazine/class newsletter I was in, I was about to graduate from Americorps in 1995." A lot has changed since then. After traveling around the country in his pick-up truck, Jay finally returned to Boston and took "the only job I could really get with no applicable skills except being competitive, argumentative, and having no tolerance for bad beer and bad coffee. I was a telephone operator for a software company in Waltham, Mass." But through a lot of good luck and hard work, Jay managed to work his way up to a position as the webmaster/internet project technical manager. Now he is working hard for a small company in Needham called Virtual Knowledge, which produced CD-ROMs that allow parents to test their kids' cognitive skills at home—a real hot trend in the new realm of distance learning and the role of the internet in education. "Aside from that, I just got a new Martin and Les Paul guitar and am attempting to rekindle the old flame and start playing some in Boston this year." Well, good luck in all your creative endeavors, Jay—maybe you could use some teleconferencing software to let your classmates in on some distance jamming sessions with you and your guitar on the internet. We'll be looking out for a link to your website on the '94 home page some day! Okay, more news next month. Take care and keep writing!

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Nancy Coffee '94 is the poster girl for Generation Global, p. 63