1989

Years ago the previous '89 secretary reported erroneously that Rob Eleveld was engaged. (Thanks again, Ted Young, for instigating that bit of hilarity.) Now we're going to report it again, but this time it's for real. Rob plans to marry Julita Liauw a classmate from the Stanford University business/engineering program. Julita is working in brand management for Nestle USA, while Rob is working for Onyx, a hot software firm started by Brent Frei '88. Word has it that Julita has already signed up for that little-known self-help program, "Learn to Love the Michigan Wolverines and Hate the Dallas Cowboys in 12 Easy Steps."

Brooks Entwistle wrote with an extraordinary account of the recent election in the African nation of Liberia. Brooks was one of a 40-person observation team led by former President Jimmy Carter. The race was won by Charles Taylor, the Liberian warlord credited with starting that country's devastating civil war in 1989. In the recent elections the Liberians started lining up at midnight before the polls opened at 7 a.m., Brooks wrote. People voted by marking their ballots with a red "X" or a thumbprint.

This isn't the first time Brooks has joined an international team of election observers. He did the same in Cambodia several years ago. When he's not crisscrossing the globe, Brooks works in Manhattan for Goldman Sachs.

The U.S. job market may have rebounded, but it's still tough to land a tenure-track teaching position at a university. It's all the more impressive, then, that Eric Zaslow recently was hired for a such a job in Northwestern University's math department. For the past several years Eric has been studying string theory at Harvard. I'd

try to explain it to you, but there are limitations both on the space in this magazine and on my intellectual capacity.

Other news from the Chicago area: I imagine the job market is pretty tough for playwrights as well, but that didn't stop Carrie Luft, whose play Goodbye, Stranger was recently produced by Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater, to glowing reviews.

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