1990

Here's why I love e-mail: Logon obsessively and the surprises are endless. Maybe a thoughtful pal has sent a chain e-mail promising a pair of Gap cargo pants and eternal good luck (if you forward it as many times as your age multiplied by 11), or perhaps Martha Stewart has personally invited you to visit her web site, or maybe, if you're a new co-class-secretary, a '90 has forwarded some juicy news about themselves. (Please send me news!) Or, maybe they've forwarded some juicy news about you....

Drawn by a love of the sun (or fog), the Pacific Ocean, or the Internet hullabaloo, '90s are populating the West Coast. JennieWadsworth lives in Brentwood and teaches English and ethics at Malibu High School. San Francisco is home to Debbie BluntCollard, who is a physical therapist, and her husband, Hal; Steve Linde, who is riding the Internet wave; and Parker and MiquetteKosse Karnan, who have a new baby and "a really great apartment" (according to '90 class friend Brian Bone '89).

In the heart of the country, LisaLanman, is working toward a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Lisa's spending the year in Lawrence, Kans., with her husband, Nick Billings '9l (who is there doing a clerkship), and their daughter Maddie (who, at 14 months, is too young for a clerkship). "Kara Finnigan recently moved with her husband, Kelly, from Ann Arbor, Mich., to Madison, Wis., to begin a Ph.D. in the field of education.

Here in New York, Kendall Genre, in her second year at Cornell Medical School, recently joined me with her husband, Sander Connolly '87, for a night of disco-dancing at Lincoln Center. Doing the Hustle along with us were Katie Jones and her husband, Dan Schreibman 'B6 (brother of TamarSchreibman). Katie is in her last year of residency at Long Island Jewish Hospital in ob/gyn and lives in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Tamar (who is less passionate about disco than her sibling) is a writer and lives in Brooklyn Heights. At her gym she occasionally sees Hillary Tomkins, a lawyer, playing basketball. Adam Bookbinder married Dara Brodsky (Cornell '88) in July in Bethpage, N.Y. In attendance were MichaelReynolds, Tracy Gleason, Dave Kaiser '93, and Matt Mosk '92. Dara is a neonatologist (specializing in newborn medicine) at Children's Hospital in Boston, where Adam is joining the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's Office. He writes, "Still goingafter the bad guys, just now with a little help from the FBI."

From Seattle a classmate writes that s/he "went out with a few '90 folk who will remain anonymous" and they came up with the following "mix-and-match" game. Though I don't encourage "anonymous" news, I've been assured that the each activity is true of one person on the list and it was so clever that I had to include at least an abbreviated version. Each riveting sound-byte that follows pertains to someone on this list: Kendall Genre, Lindsay Latimore, HeidiJulavitz, Chris Hogan, Jeanhee Kim,Sanda Lwin, Karen Eurler, Jill Waller,Jessica Wilson, Curt Fish, Steve Cossen,Rachel Atkins, Melissa Parkerton. Activities include: "summered with Gwyneth Paltrow," "appears nightly on MTV," "bought first Gaultier outfit," "read aloud The Owl and the Pussycat at a recent wedding," and "moving to a chateau in France." Mix and Match.

By the way, congratulations to new mom Lindsay Latimore, who gave birth in August to Harper Elizabeth Cosby!

I may appear above but here's a decidedly-less-glamorous account of what I've been up to: This fall I begin a one-year position as a visiting professor in American studies at the Five Colleges (that's Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Hampshire, Amherst, and U. Mass). The week after I submit this column, I have to move from Manhattan to Northampton, prepare syllabi for the courses I am teaching, order books, oh, and I almost forgot, finish my dissertation. The next time you hear from me I am looking forward to joining the ranks of other '90 Ph.D.s such as Dan Posner, who is a professor of political science at UCLA, and SusanHirt, who has recently finished and defended her dissertation in classics at the University of Nebraska. (Congratulations, Susan!).

To the bevy of '90s whose photo with a member of the class of '40 appeared in the June issue of the Alumni Magazine (LaurenGreenberg, Julie Urda, Anne Gattiker,Ellen Poleshuck, Liana Loh, and KimBuresh), a plea from Jack Faunce, class of '40 secretary (and me): Please send news on what you're now doing!

Finally, I'm saddened to report that JasonGreer and his wife, Lucy, died in an accident in Alaska. A formal obituary will follow in a future issue of the Alumni Magazine.

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