1995

Some exciting news with an international twist to report. First, news about AlisonMountz. Ali will be beginning a doctoral program in geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada. This program will continue her work, studying the relationship between geography and immigration, initially begun in high school and continuing beyond Dartmouth. Since graduating she earned a master's degree from Hunter College where she studied American policy toward Salvadoran refugees, focusing upon a community in New Jersey. While at Dartmouth Ali wrote about the experience of Mexican immigrants living in her hometown of Poughkeepsie and the links they have maintained between their ancestral home in Oaxaca, Mexico, and their new home in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Next, Nicole Palczer wrote to say that she will be moving to Houston, Texas, and working for a company called Enron. Here's where the international "stuff" comes in—Enron is a large, international energy company and Nicole will be participating in their "rotational" program. For this first year Nicole will be working and living in Houston. Afterwards she hopes to move to the London office and work with Enron's Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union project groups. This all fits in with her academic interest in Russian and her desire to work abroad for a while. After jetsetting around Eastern Europe, Nicole says that she will return to the United States-for business school.

The last piece of news does not have anyinternational feel to it—thought I would be three for three. The news comes from Cynthia Kelmenson, writing from med school at UPenn. She says that she joined the all-university mountain bike team to take up all her "spare time." Apparently she had enough spare time to become the co-captain of the team and qualify for collegiate nationals held in Reno, Nev., this past November. Unfortunately, the race site was snowed out, but they rode in the blizzard anyway. Aside from mountain bike racing, Cynthia has played host to other '95s. Jenna McCarthy, who is currently living in San Diego, Calif., came to visit and to interview for med school at UPenn. Jenna is currently working toward a mas- ter's in biology. Susanna Schlichter was also a Philly visitor. She is about to graduate from med school in North Carolina and came to interview at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for a pediatrics residency. Cynthia also wrote to say that she went skiing with Wendy Jastremski who is planning to start an environmental engineering master's program this fall. Cynthia's other ski-mate included AbbeyNeisius, who is living and working in Stamford, Conn. Just in case we were concerned that Cynthia was ignoring her academics, she assures us that she not. In fact, she spent the fall working to help create a new course at UPenn called "Wilderness Medicine." The trial run was in January and it was a success. You can read more about this class in the April issue of OutsideMagazine.

Well, that's all. Keep e-mailing or snailmailing. Thanks to the Poughkeepsie Journal for the news about Ali Mountz.

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