1993

Hello, campers. Just a few short months remain before we reconvene in Hanover. Until then, you'll have to suffer through a few more months of news shuffled through me! Hold the cheers, hey! No throwing things. The overriding dilemma collectively staring all of us in the face remains: What do we do until then?

Tip number one, go to NYC and then proceed directly to PS 122 and check out Kelly Copper's play.

"I'm having one of my plays produced in New York this April, and I'd like to invite anyone in the area or just passing through to come and see it. It's called Terminal Juncture, it's directed by my husband, pavol Liska '95, and it's running at PS122 for three weeks, April 2-19. It's a sort of spring pageant/western/road trip extravaganza. (If that sounds interesting.) There's also a web site for the show at (just go to the category 'new stuff and look up their springshows) and a thumbnail of the promotional postcard which features Pavol and me naked wearing Zorro masks. I kid you not. I don't think that makes us very good alumni, but it is funny."

Tip mumber two: stop mailing e-mail address to Alex Kaplan and pay him a visit in Memphis instead. "In January of 1997 I moved back to Memphis to prusue life as a witer. Right before coming back, I went with my family to Isael. I saw Chad Dick in Jerusalem on a trip with other students at Wharton. I returned to Memphis, got a job at the bookstore, and started graduate classes in fiction writing. In June Seth Alpert also returned to Memphis, starting his surgical residency at the University of Tennessee. We got a cool townhouse in midtown the hip happening place to be. In July I hiked the Appalachian Trail for a week with some friends from work. Also, Sam Cook stopped in to see me on a work trip through the south. He's actually living in the Upper Valley these days. In August of '97 I journeyed north to Orchard Park, N.Y., to watch my old pal Kate Cudney tie the knot. Also in attendance were Heather Dunn,Denison Howse, and Lisa Sylvester. About a month ago I journeyed to Chile, where my sister now lives. Two weeks in the South American summer sun, seeing the sights in Santiago, Tierra Del and the Straits of Magellan can do wonders for the soul. Somewhere in there, I managed to get promoted twice, stay in touch with just a handful of people, and decide to apply to fulltime master of fine arts schools in creative writing. Now I'm waiting to hear from the ten places I applied. Sometime in March, they tell me. Seth rotates from hospital to hospital every month, and some months I hardly see him. February, however, is his month for plastic surgery. Now he'll be sleeping late, fitting in a round of golf before work, and generally sunning himself by the pool. He'll be tanned and rested for reunion, which we are both planning to attend. I gave up on the whole class e-mail list thing. Too many people were moving and not updating me, and I didn't have the energy for it. Now that we have the Dartmouth permanent addresses, maybe we can all stay in touch more."

Tip number three: get to the Amato Opera Company in NYC to see conductor Rick Owen. Last July Rick "orchestrated and then conducted a concert of the Festival Symphony incorporating a major East German Rock group in Altenburg, Germany, for an audience of 4,000. He followed that by conducting the orchestra with his father, Richard Owen '45, as the composer." Now in his second season with the Amato Company, Rick has conducted the music of Puccini, Rossini, Mozart, and Johann Strauss in recitals.

Christopher K. Onken, Brunswick School, Greenwich, CT; (203) 625-5800 (home); (203) 625-5889 (fax);

Come Back to the Big Green Dartmouth Class of 1993 5th Reunion June 19-21 1998