1990

Just this past weekend (mid-I November), I was in Hanover to attend to business regarding this magazine. The drive was horrible (thankfully, I didn't actually have to take the wheel myself), as we were caught in the East Coast's first snowstorm. But, as we all know so well, the rewards were absolutely wonderful. Pristine white snow glittered like a crystal blanket on the Green.

A slushy, wet reality intruded by the next day, as I wandered about on Main Street. Suddenly I remembered how the winters could get so cold that when I pinched my nose it would stay that way as frozen hairs formed an ice-weave in my nostrils (Yes, of COURSE my mother would be appalled that I just wrote that!). So much for warm and fuzzy reminiscences of Hanover winters! And I'm not the only one in our class to have visited, or moved, to Hanover lately. Last April Gamal Abouali conducted a War and Peace seminar for the faculty and made a public address on Middle East peace. Gamal got a law degree from Yale, where his thesis won the Raphael Lemkin prize as best paper in international human rights. At that time, Gamal had been in the midst of a year at the Human Rights Watch in Washington, D.C. Ted Halstead spoke at the College, explaining how current measures of economic progress count social and environmental breakdown as gains. Ellen Doane, who also attended Dartmouth Medical, is now an attending physician at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

John Banks wrote to me from Rochester, N.Y., where he works as a financial consultant at AG. Edwards & Sons. He and Sarah (Harvard '90) had twins a boy, Parker, and a girl, Alison on September 4. John writes, "Everyone is doing great, even myself on half the sleep!"

Sharif Mahdavian married Stacy Frigerio last September in Westfield, N.J., as reported in The New York Times. The feature article described how Sharif carries his wife through the snowy streets of Brooklyn Heights, where they live. Eight years ago Stacy was paralyzed in a car accident but now walks with canes. Her goal, she says, is to walk unassisted so that she can carry the luggage when they travel. The couple met when they were both Brooklyn assistant district attorneys. Sharif is now an attorney at Wilfred T. Friedman, a New York law firm.

Ray Sozzi was named one of Tomorrow's Chief Executives in an article in ChiefExecutive Magazine last August. President, CEO, and founder of Boston-based Student Advantage, a membership organization serving the U.S. college community, Sozzi was included in the list of "young rising stars whose particular combination of gumption and business smarts are priming them for future corporate leadership."

Cathryn Griffin became an associate of the Cleveland law firm Thompson, Hine & Flory. She got her law degree from Case Western Reserve. Tony Jones was ordained in the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches last September. He is a graduate of Fuller Seminary in California and will be in the clergy of Colonial Church, in Edina, Minn., where he grew up.

Mark Johnson was traded to the cinncinnati Reds' triple-A Indianapolis farm team, with a strong chance of becoming a back-up first baseman with the Reds. In a Cincinnati Post article, Mike Remlinger '87, a Reds relief pitcher, was quoted as saying, "...the one thing [Mark's] always had is desire, which is something that doesn't show up in the statistics."

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