1997

Congratulations to Adam Nelson, who recently won the bronze medal in shotput at the Goodwill Games! EllenWilderman wrote that she is living in Boulder, Colo., and working as a financial analyst for a fixed-income money management firm called Smith Breeden Associates.

Brian Patel has spent the last year in Worcester at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He wrote that Greg Piazza and Nathan Somers also go to school there. This summer Brian traveled in France with Sara Clark (who is at Albany Med) and then went to the University of Edinburgh to do some research before going back to Worcester.

Lisa O'Brien recently finished a year working in Shichigahama, Japan, the sister city for Plymouth, Mass. This fall she begins a doctoral program in modern Japanese history at Columbia University. Her fiance, Kenji Hosokawa '98, will be starting law school at Columbia at the same time. They are planning a summer of '99 wedding. She said Daphne Chen also was in Japan, also on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program. Lisa's roommate of three years at Dartmouth, Rebecca Haines, is working for a New York pharmaceutical advertising agency called Lally, McFarland, and Pantello. She recently got promoted to the position of account manager for the arthritis drug Lodine.

Cara Abercrombie returned from a year in Finland at the end of the summer. In Finland she went to school at Tampere University and spent the summer working at the U.S. embassy. She said the highlight of her year was being elected to the student union, which has many of the same functions as the administration at Dartmouth. The organization, she said, resembles closely the parliament system at the national level with political parties and backroom negotiations, etc. She said she learned a lot about the Finnish political system and improved her language skills. She planned to meet with Prime Minister Lipponen before leaving. Cara ended her message with "Cheers (or 'Kippis,' as they say in Finland)."

For the next two years David Markham will be attending Vanderbilt University for a master's of arts in teaching degree in physics, with an option to go into a Ph.D. program. Once he graduates, he plans to teach high school or college physics in North Carolina or Virginia.

Kaia Greene wrote that she made it back to Dartmouth for Green Key. She wrote, "I caught up with several familiar faces—my sorors and former roommates Taja-Nia Henderson and Tiffany West. They are both well. Taj has finished her internship with the Smithsonian Institute and will be starting her Ph.D. program at NYU in the fall. Another roomie, LlezlieGreen, who is living and working in the nation's capital, was up for the weekend. Taj and I managed to stop Nii Sai Sai as he was hurrying past Ben & Jerry's and to congratulate Wayne Burwell, who made his debut appearance at the Alpha Phi Alpha step show as their newest member. As for me, I will only be a stone's throw away from the Big Green in the fall as I start my master's program at U Mass Amherst in sports management. Until then I am working with Knoxville Sports Corp., which recently won the bid for the Women's National Basketball Hall of Fame!"

Angie Rutherford wrote this past spring that she had spent the past eight weeks in Ohio at law enforcement training and will be "packing heat this summer in Glacier National Park as a ranger. I expect visitors (but don't speed, or I'll have to arrest you)." So, did you arrest anyone, Angie?

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