1997

Once again, thanks '97s for sending in lots of news. If something you sent takes a while to appear, it's just because I have lots of messages.

Big news! I think the class of '97 has its first baby, officially known from here to eternity as the Class Baby. Congratulations to Elizabeth Fuller Boone and her husband Michael on their new baby Emma Grace, born June 12. She weighed in at six pounds, 14.5 ounces. Mom describes the baby as a "perfect angel." The family is living in Annapolis, Md., where Michael (Elizabeth's husband since Dec. '96) is stationed at his alma mater, the Naval Academy. He just completed his master's and is a company officer there, but his real job with the navy is on submarines. Elizabeth said she plans to take off two years before going back to school for her M.F.A.

Congratulations to Ben Sweetser, who wrote recently that he and Michelle Gregg '99 were married June 26 at the Aquinas House in Hanover. Dartmouth guests included Jennifer Bassett 'B6; Sam Stoddard '94; Josh Marks '96; '97s TimRedl (best man), Joseph Curtis (best man), Padraic Malinowski (soloist), DaveColeman, Josh Mills, Craig Allen,Dawn Lawrie, Mark Landis, PatrickHansen, Tony Field, Karin Chesebro,Karen Wenner and Rusty Young; Lauren Newton '98, Adam Weinstein '98; and '99s Anna Miller (bridesmaid), Sean Parr (soloist), Michael Bruno (groomsman), Pauline Christo (reader), Dave Dookeeram (reader), Kevin Findlan, Karen Meteyer, Emily Ruiz (Cornell), Cesar Ruiz, Emily Copeland. Whew. Break for the millennium. Lastly, 'oos Mark Hill, Allison Mac Donald, Amelia Thrall; '01s Erica Frankenberg (pianist), Alfred Valrie (reader), Patrick Francis; and Lisa Jason '02 attended. Ben wrote that he and Michelle traveled to Arizona for a while and now they are living in Lebanon. Ben is working for a small software company in Hanover called Chicago-Soft Ltd. and dj-ing on the side.

In the spring Sam Bonderoff sent me a great message, fall of information on '97s. Sam had recently been accepted to both NYU and Columbia law schools for admission this fall. I'm not sure where he decided to go. Sam wrote, "I hear from and visit with Adam Ruedig frequently, who toils away in a basement studio in his first year at Yale Architecture School. He's cute as ever, natch. Brooks Weaver intermittently sends me long e-mails from China—he recently spent three weeks traveling in a province whose name I won't even attempt to butcher here. Gretchen Hagelow is in Chicago these days, working in an office, frequenting art galleries, and studying Faulkner at Northwestern, often simultaneously, she tells me. Sarah Ezzy and Dave McDowell, having exhausted the resources of Seattle, San Francisco, and Arizona, are now living it up in Washington, D.C., where Dave starts as a first-year law student at Georgetown in the fall. Sarah, I am sure, will be playing a central role in the next big Presidential scandal. Nick Gunia is first in his class at University of Miami law school, where he also interns at the Organization of American States, and generally advances his plans for world domination. Robbie Ashe is consolidating his power as well, working for the government in Atlanta. I hear from some people in San Francisco—HeatherBrubaker, Xantha Bruso, Amy Stein. They seem content, but then again, the West Coast does make you soft."

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'97s Amy Thomas and i.T. Smithat Skunk Hollow Tavern, p. 34