1986

John de Papp and his wife, Gabrielle, had their second child, Alastair Zsolt, in May. Their first son, Fergus, is now four. The de Papps moved to Needham, Mass., in the summer. John has been working as a field applications engineer for Xilinx (a San Jose-based semiconductor manufacturer) for one and a halfyears. abrielle is the fashion editor at Boston Magazine.

Another suit and tie tossed away for a com startup—John Paterson is giving it a shot at 6 FigureJobs.com, an executive targeted career resource and placement site. Its tagline: "Promote Yourself." This seen in the Boston Globe on June 12, 1999: "Local writer and actress Melinda Lopez and theatre director Betsy Carpenter are celebrating the news that Lopez's play 'God Smells Like a Roast Pig' was chosen by the New York Theatre Workshop for its summer development program at Dartmouth College." The play, in which Lopez deals with her own college-age political awakening, was performed on Aug. 21. If you happened to glance at Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine in August, you might have come across a pretty cool article about the origins and development of the successful Janus family of funds. Laurence Chang co-manages the Janus Overseas, which shows you what one can do with a religion and philosophy major. Did you know that 444 members of our class contributed a total of $81,776 to the 1999 Alumni Fund? That boils down to a superb 43 percent participation. Overall, the fund raised $20,031,975 in cash, a 9.5 percent increase over 1998. What say we raise that participation figure to at least 50 percent in 2000? Susan Smith Sambrook relayed Ellen Stein's stint at the World Olympic Distance Triatholon Championships in Montreal on Sept. 11 and 12. Ellen was one of ten USA Team members in her age category (women 35-39) competing in the amateur event. Overall, there were 80 countries represented, several hundred Americans, and about 2,000 competitors overall. The course included a 1.5k swim in the Olympic Basin (where the rowing event was in 1976), a 40k bike event on the Gilles Villeneuve Formula-1 racetrack, and a 10k run along the canal next to the St. Lawrence River. Congratulations to Ellen, who had a great race and finished tenth in her category at two hours and 14 minutes, and was the fourth American to cross the finish line in Montreal. Next for Ellen is training for the Ironman event at Lake Placid next year. Susan loves living in Montreal with her family (including two girls, Samantha 1 and Carley 4). She also works at W.L. Gore and Associates, which helps keep her closet full of great Gore-Tex toys. Lynn Anders took the opportunity to take a breather from the legal world to explore Australia with Ellen Stein in the fall. Watch your e-mail box for an announcement about the class of '86 listserv to facilitate official class information more efficiently. This will be quite beneficial come reunion time (#15 is in 2001!). Speaking of reunions, John Marchiony had a neat idea: setting a goal of having 86 minireunions before our 15th. Mini-reunions can be of any size, in any location, and for any reason. To qualify, they have to be scheduled and promoted. One thought is coffee and dinner connections in major cities, such as Boston, L.A., Chicago, N.Y., San Fran, Seattle, Denver, Philly, Princeton, and D.C. People could meet for coffee on the first Wednesday morning of every month and for drinks/dinner at a selected restaurant on one weekend evening per month. We'd alternate these two activities every few months for 18 or so months and voilà. Feel free to let me know if you'd like to initiate one in your city, and I'll pass it along.

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