1998

Congratulations to DennisBergeron, who will have wed Laurie Bernard by the time you read this. On April 17 Rick Fasani '96 will stand up for Dennis, and Dan Mazzucco will also be in the wedding party.

Katie Milligan writes in that Lisa Core,Tara McDowell, Suzanne Michaels,Angela Scott, and Selassie Atadika gathered for dinner to catch up on each other's lives before a Stand Up Eight show. Angela, Tara, and Sarah Suzuki all cohabit on the Upper West Side. Angela is soon trading Manhattan for Haiti when she heads to the Caribbean to teach in the Peace Corps. Katie, a fellow D.C. resident, just switched jobs. She now toils for the Center for a New American Dream, a nonprofit organization that focuses on resource consumption and sustainable growth issues.

Also in the non-profit arena, CarlineDorcena works for the Food Project, an organization which brings together youth from urban and suburban Boston on organic homeless shelters and sold at a nearby farmers' market. Carline, known among her cohorts as the 'Ivy League Farmer," was the recent guest speaker at the local Boys and Girls Club New Women Leadership Awards planning banquet in Boston.

Kate Rice writes from Cambridge that she, Emily Zarins, Phil Currier '97, and Mike Kim periodically lunch together at their company cafeteria at Kenan Systems. She caught me up on the doings of the elusive Kerry Vance, who is in Denver working at the Denver Boys and Girls Club. Nearby, Mackenzie Hurd is doing some golf-related activity in Colorado Springs. Fellow Coloradoan Jen Moeller "probably has the most exciting job she's working as an usher in a Denver theater that only shows nude plays...but the ushers get to wear clothes."

Spencer Doyle will soon be heading west to join classmates Marisa Howe,Doug Young, Jason Hsiao, JessSilversmith, Ron Jeromy, AmyFeldmann, Mona Gupta, DanielleFlanders, Andrew Fritts, and SimonHolmes a Court, who all reside in the San Francisco area. Doug writes that he, Jason, Marisa, Jess, and Ron get together on occasional Tuesdays for "Game Night." According to him, it "started when we stumbled upon Trivia Night at The Bitter End Bar and Grill and got hooked on cheap drinks, dumbass questions, and Delilah the Shetland pony. After a couple grueling weeks working our way to the top, we jacked the SF trivia world, beating a couple of delicious ex-botanists from Taipei who make a living on the bar trivia circuit." Marisa notes that along with The Bitter End, alums have managed to find other essentials including "a place to play pong (although they're always insisting on mopping the floor) and a 24-hour Cala Foods with a selection rivaling Food Stop." In December she and Mona hosted New Yorkers Hae-Seon Seung and Di Bullen and Los Angelean Sif Hall. AmyFeldmann could not make the minireunion because she was in Hawaii running the Honolulu marathon. Amy leaves soon for the Dominican Republic, where she is volunteering with Dartmouth undergrads for the next four months.

Rachel Bogardus journeyed to campus for Winter Carnival to stay with Hanover denizens Jon Drew, Sarah Mullin, and Wendy Lee, who all reside over Murphy's. Despite the fact that Stand Up Eight was not playing the party, a bunch of '98s from all over hung out including Rob Nutt, StuDavidson, Molly Hershey, MarcLewinstein, John Yalcin, MichelleKraemer, Dave Ware, Karen Rose, MattWakeman, Matt Peterson, Gabe Galetti,Emily Trinks, Chrissy Alvarado, AndySmith, and Liam Krehbiel. Liam must have traveled the farthest for Carnival, flying in from London. Rachel mentioned that the following weekend, during a jaunt to New York City with ChristieBuschmann to visit Joan Ai, the girls ran into Jon Luisi and Zach Walz (the latter on break from playing with the Arizona Cardinals).

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