1989

Wandering through the Folk Life Festival on the Mall in Washington, D.C., one steamy summer day, we found ourselves visiting "New Hamphire," one of three cultures being celebrated. Past the maple sugaring display, the political buttons, and the life-sized covered bridge, we stepped into the hiking tent filled with photos of the White Mountains and artifacts of life on the trail. Hanging inside was a large wooden packboard, with the name Chuck Wooster carved into it. Chuck later filled me in on the details, amazed that his very own trail artifact "hadn't already succumbed to fire, rodents, mold, or neglect." Fie says the packboard, used for carrying food and supplies to the backcountry huts, must have been the one he used when he worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club between 1985 and 1991. Chuck also writes that he hasn't given up the rural life. Last summer he married Sue Kirincich '92, and they bought an old farm in White River Junction which they hope to bring back into veggie production over the next few years. In his free time, he's the business manager and assistant editor for a Vermont-based magazine called Northern Woodland that promotes sustainable forestry practices in the Northeast.

Jan Brzeski e-mails from Los Angeles where he and Jeff Gerst are the co-founders of a company called STV, which helps clients add high-quality audio and video to their web sites. For example, he says, if the Cartoon Network wanted to put the Flintstones cartoons online, STV would encode the cartoons and host them from their "distributed streaming media server network." Jan passes on news about other Californians like Bob Bennett, who recently graduated from UCLA business school and is now working for a venture capital firm in San Diego. Anton Anderson has a computer consulting company. Eric Bunting is the West Coast guy for a private equity firm based in New York. Bob Jaffe is making movies for a new production company and recendy took a "cool" kayaking trip.

Kathy Burge honeymooned in Italy following her May 29 wedding at Aquinas House to Rich Barlow '81, the Sunday writer for the Valley News. Her matron of honor was Stephanie Assimon Nelson. Kathy is a fulltime freelance writer who has done pieces for the Boston Globe, Life, Ms., and The New York Times. Mike Parrott is also enjoying the free-lancing life, working for various advertising agencies in New York City.

Adrian Block and his wife, Helen, bought a house in Crestwood, N.Y., just north of New York City and planned an August move following some renovations. Adrian is a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, currently working on a Y2K project, assessing readiness in the securities industry. He reports that Eddie Barker is beginning his second year at the Kennedy School after spending the summer working in Rocky Mountain National Park as part of a government program to assist national parks with business planning and budgeting.

The class of '89 is doing some planning and budgeting of its own, taking over a scholarship from the class of 1939, called the senior scholars program. Seniors working on a thesis or independent study project apply for funds to cover expenses and in return, present their final project in a residence hall. Jennifer Downs O'Shaughnessy says our class will fully fund the program beginning this year and that a committee will be neede d to review applications.

Finally, take a minute this October to close your eyes and remember those crisp fall days in Hanover when brilliant reds, oranges, and yellows replaced the green of summer and the snowfall of winter lay ahead. Homecoming is Oct. 22-23 for anyone who wants to make the trip.

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the Folk Life Festival on the Mall in Wash ington. D.C., I found a wooden packboard with tlie name Chuck Wooster carved into it. JENNIFER AVELLINO '89