1984

As you probably already realized this is the athletics issue and we secretaries have been asked to cooperate with the theme in our columns. In a bit of serendipitous timing one of our classmates received major athletic recognition just a few weeks before my deadline but I will leave that story for the end as anything which followed would have been anticlimactic, to say the least.

The '84 medal for rhythmic gymnastics goes to...(DA dum) Elizabeth Miles, who has recently published a book which explains how to flip your performance and health into high gear by listening to the right music. Titled Tune Your Brain: Using Musicto Manage Your Mind, Body, and Mood, Elizabeth has already spun off a CD and hosts daily sound bites on California radio. In addition she has a brain-tuning hotline and web site; all of which leads her to claim that she is "starting to feel like the Martha Stewart of ethnomusicology."

And the medal for platform diving is awarded to Deenya Rabius for her remarkable plunge off the corporate food-industry career track and into the world of business ownership. Last year Deenya began her own marketing/communications firm, which specializes in high tech clients. In addition Elizabeth and Deenya jointly earn the "snitch" award for nearly simultaneously informing on each other and for providing sightings of a number of other classmates. They spent a spa weekend this past summer in Arizona with friends including DebbieLogan, Karen Plafker, and Carol Walker. Elizabeth also noted that her old roommate Juliet Aires-Giglio and husband Keith took time off from screen writing this past year to welcome their second daughter, Ava into their lives, and their new home.

The 100-yard dash field was fall of short and sweet tidbits: Scott Lutender lives with his wife Lisa in northern Virginia and they should have recently had their first child. Mark Lange is senior officer of a medical information company in Palo Alto, as his dad, class of '57, informs us. MichaelMitchell joined the medical staff at hampstead (Mass.) hospital this past summer as a geriatric psychiatrist. And Jonathan Nossiter directed, co-screenwrote, and coproduced the film Sunday, which was released to much critical acclaim, including the 1997 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Film.

I myself had the pleasure of an unexpected meeting with a classmate at the local party to watch the Harvard game. Mollie HaleCarter, her husband Larry, and new daughter Libby (born last spring) have moved from Boston back to her home town of Kansas City and so she wins the medal for cross country, of course.

Finally, and seriously, our winner of real Olympic gold, Diana Golden Brosniban was inducted into the Women's Sports Foundation's Hall of Fame in NY on October 13. This honor was in fact the second special event in Diana's year, for back in August she married Steve Brosnihan '83. This recognition of Diana's contributions and talent caps a remarkable skiing career in which she won not only the Olympic gold but also 19 U.S. and ten world gold medals. Speaking of her feelings about skiing, and the credibility problem faced by both women's and disabled sports to The NewYork Times, Diana concluded, "You always wanted to say, 'This is about passion and fire.'" It is that drive that has brought her this far, for Diana is once again fighting the foe, which led her to disabled skiing in the first place. I think I can speak for all of us when I say we that we are proud and honored that she is class of '84.

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Diana Golden Brosnihan was inductedinto the Women's Sports Foundation's Hall of Fame.KATHY KRAUSE '82