1990

This month's column is called Four Weddings and an Engagement. Like the film from which I've loosely borrowed the title, there is connective tissue between each of these events, some very obvious, such as that each wedding couple includes a member of our class, and some very obscure, which I will explain at the very end. However, in this telling of the story, there is no heartache, no goopy, mascararunning, melodramatic declaration of love during a downpour, and best of all, no one dies. That's not to say no thing dies, however, and here I allude to Greg Goldberg's career as a break dancer. But alas, I've gotten ahead of myself! Let's start at the beginning.

On Memorial Day Howie Willson, a doctor specializing in emergency medicine, married Laurie Jacobson, a dermatologist he met at the University of Illinois Medical School, in Chicago. Rob Grossberg was the best man, Greg Goldberg and AdamLichstein were groomsmen, and TekeDillender, Andrea Higgins '92, and David Irwin '89 were guests. As Adam describes it, the reception was totally normal and fun, with the dj playing all different kinds of music. Howie and Laurie had taken swing lessons and for their first dance as husband and wife performed an excellent swing routine.

As the evening wore on, however, the dj began playing hip hop music. "People were clapping, and sort of in a circle, with no one knowing what to do," Adam recounts. "When suddenly, Greg burst into the middle, break dancing, and finished his routine by spinning oil his back, not successfully." And thus, the clapping people were all witnesses to the takeoff and the landing of Greg's break-dancing career.

Professor John Rassias led the ceremonies, and many '90s were lucky to witness this beautiful event. Kevin Stone, who roasted the groom with an undergraduate story of Moosilauke trailblazing au naturel, calls Schenectady, N.Y., home but travels all over the world as engineer and manager for General Electric Power Generation. Megan Ryan (who happened to cross trails with Kevin and Mark on

Moosilauke that jolly day) had just received her joint master's from the School of Business Management and the School of Forestry at Yale. Jennifer HuskaMerriman is a trial consultant who develops jury profiles and strategies for a company in San Francisco and lives in Alameda, Calif. Ben Silverfarb is working on his master's at the School of Forestry at Yale, and Tracy Gleason recently began her professorship at Wellesley. DebsHahn is finishing her doctorate in French at Brown, while Mark Zeren just started a new job in the Boston area doing some high tech programming stuff. Parker Doig came up from North Carolina to attend the wedding. Kathy Fallon Lambert, also in attendance, coordinates the coalition of schools who manage the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest as written up in an earlier issue of this magazine.

Last September Adam Lichstein himself married Becky Friedman in New Jersey. Becky is a producer for advertising agency BBDO, and Adam is an attorney of counsel to that cool downtown internet design shop, Razorfish, in New York. His groomsmen included Howie, Greg, and Rob, while Tamar Schreibman, KaraFinnegan, and Lauren Beiley were guests. Among the other alums were '89s Tim Brody, Peter Lurie, and Phil Ginsburg. Becky said the wedding was wonderful and that guests like Rob helped to give it that "high school prom" atmosphere by getting caught in the backseat of a limo with another wedding guest.

The very next month. Pam Behne married Glen Bannister Gentry. Pam is an associate engineer for Ball Aerospace in Colorado, where Glen is earning a computer information systems degree at Metropolitan State College. I was honored to serve as a bridesmaid at their Connecticut wedding. The heel-kicking, rousing reception was in a hilltop mansion that has been converted into a museum. Katie Reeves, Rita Patel, honorary bridesmaid Beth (Lafortune) and Mark Gies '86 were guests.

And not to forget our last event, Greg Goldberg is engaged to Vikki Pitter. The couple live in Denver, where Greg is an attorney at Arnold & Porter.

Now, the six degrees of separation: Anna went to high school with Rob; and Phil Ginsburg's wife, Emily, and I worked together once, and Phil and Emily set Adam and Becky up on their first date.

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