1997

Happy, happy winter, classmates. As for news, I've definitely got a lot this month. Let's start with Jason Casell. After graduation he got his master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and is now in his second year at University of Texas School of Law. That left me to wonder: Did Jason want to be a journalist who writes about law OR a lawyer who defends the media? So I asked him. He replied that he is interested in media and entertainment law. And he had an internship this past summer in the office of the general counsel of Time Inc. Very cool.

When Cat MacDonald e-mailed in the spring, she was living in San Francisco and working as a construction coordinator for Fisher Development, contractors for Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy stores, among others. Her e-mail is cmacdon@fisherinc. com. She said she keeps in touch with AlexScheibe, who is nearing the end of law school at Fordham. And she said ZoeLangsten seems to be liking Cornell Law. "I feel that I may be the only '97 around who didn't become a lawyer!" Well, there are at least TWO of us!

Camille Masini moved back home to Toronto after graduation and attended the University of Toronto as a visiting student in order to finish up some pre-med requirements. Camille wrote, "After all that extra work, I decided against going back to school for another decade and decided to find a job in the IT industry." Camille works as a sales representative at Hewlett-Packard, as a member of the Nortel Networks Account Team. She said she looks forward to doing an M.B.A. abroad after a few years of sales experience.

"On a completely different note," Camille writes, "I have become a total scuba diving junkie and spend all of my vacations abroad diving the deep blue sea! I recently finished my PADI rescue diver certification and have almost finished my master scuba diver levels. I am always looking for buddies to dive with so if anyone feels like traveling to far corners of the world tell them to give me a call!"

liana Liebert wrote earlier this year to send word of yet another '97 wedding. In April Elizabeth Larsen and Michael Kim '95 were married in Connecticut. liana said other '97s in attendance included MelissaStrafford, Sarah Johnston, MichaelEllenberg, Drew Kevorkian, and JeremyStackawitz.

As for liana, she had been working in a geochemistry lab out in Berkeley, Calif., since graduation. This fall she moved back to Boston to enter the Ph.D. program in geology at MIT. liana said she was looking forward to living near all the Dartmouth alums in Boston. Aditya Dutt sent this message while traveling abroad: "Tim Fitzgibbons met me in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a few weeks ago while he was on a mini-vacation. We hit the town, went north to Penang Island, and acted like tourists for a couple of days. We didn't, however, run into any other Dartmouth grads!"

Congratulations to Sophie Billekens, who wrote recently that she had been living in the Netherlands for the past year, teaching math and statistics at an economics college in Rotterdam. She wrote, "It's wonderful to be back home, with all my family on the same continent. The teaching has been good fan as well, although I'm getting a little bit tired of being in school all the time. I've been living with a wonderful man named Bart (the three-dimensional kind, though), whom I'll marry in May 2000. We're really looking forward to it! Some Dartmouth people have already told me they'll be there, so more news then." I'll be waiting with bells on!

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'97s Jon Aljancic and Eric Mortonscore a Top Ten football game , p. 24