1992

So you say to yourself, "Why should I pass any news on to Alike? After all, my life is mundane—I get up, Igo to work, I come home, I cook dinner and watch TV. Who wants to hear about that?"

And for many of you,there is the attitude of, "I've got classmates who are out there saving the world, so who cares about my so-called life?"

If you fall into these categories, stop reading now. It's time to note a worldsaver.

It seems like every other day the AlumniMagazine people are inundated with information on Ted Ruel—and with good reason. Ted was named as one of 17 Luce scholars for the 1998-99 year. The Luce enables "young Americans of exceptional promise to live and work in Asian nations for one year." Ted is spending the year at the Mahidol University Research Institute for Emerging Viral Diseases in Salaya, Thailand. He will return to the States next year and expects to receive his degree from Yale Med School in 2000. During his time at Yale Ted has...well, I won't fill space here with all of his accomplishments and activities. But suffice to say I feel very second-rate and I will bow before him when I see him next.

Keep your eye on C-SPAN, which should be showing Boston University's "Great Debate" entitled "A Question of Trust: Can We Believe What Journalists Report as the News?" One of the people arguing in the affirmative will be none other than Richard Demerle, a current law student at BU but a Dartmouth man for life—as proof, he wore his Dartmouth tie for the debate.

The Boston Globe recently did a weeklong series entitled "A Single Year," following the ups and downs of a single woman through a year in the Boston area. One of the woman's close friends was Courtney Dickinson, who got mentioned in the front-page series at least twice (by my count). I know how the Globe piece ended, Courtney, but now I need a farther update!

Saw newlyweds Robert Delise and Lynne Schiffman quite a bit this fall, as they were in Hanover for one thing or another (including their Oct. 24 wedding at Rollins Chapel).

Heard from Casey Hagerman Bobo, who reports the addition of a new Bobo—Jake—in the world. She said he bears a lot of resemblance to Mike. Evan Frayman also has a child to report on—his wife, Ricki, gave birth to daughter Avery Ryan Frayman on Oct. 29. Three days before the birth Evan ran the Marine Corps Marathon in D.C. (his wife did NOT run with him), and he is now working for Gobelman & Love in Jacksonville, Fla.

Sara Pieri—one of my fabulous nextdoor neighbors from senior year—is doing her residency in head and neck surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. While Sara was dismissive about her own life, she was much more energetic in talking about NathalieHester, who is living in Rome, teaching, writing, and being scholarly. Apparently there's also a man in Nathalie's life that has her "speechless," to hear Sara tell it.

Janice Williams is in Austin, Texas, where she is doing graduate work in social work at UT. She sees Liz Sewell, who recently received a master's in playwriting and is working on a children's book, as well as Wendy Richard, who is going for a degree in social work—her third graduate degree (already!). As Janice would say, "Hasta la pasta" until next month.

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Local hero Cathleen Caron '92, p. 48