1998

Flipping through the March 8 copy of the National Review, I ran across the familiar name of James Panero, bylining a book review of Brett Easton Ellis' Glamorama. A glance at the masthead told me nothing about whether editorial associate Panero was our old prolific Dartmouth Review editor-in-chief. Indeed it was, as J. Ryan Gilfoil confirmed by email, adding that Mr. Panero had just returned from Gstaad, Switzerland, where he was helping Mr. William F. Buckley research his next book and dining with the European jet set. That is, Mr. Buckley's book, though we may see a book from Mr. Panero at some point, as he is retiring to Block Island to write fiction after he returns from a jaunt to Florence.

Up in Beantown, Andy Smith has been rallying classmates for Thursday night soccer games. JC Serna tells me that RyanBroderick, Steve Zrike, Josh Freeman,Mike Carey, Andrea Korber, MaryHollendoner, Noah Ruin-Schneiderman,Gretchen Gudmundsen, ElizabethGerber, and Chris Saccardi '97 have all kicked the ball around. JC has been working at the Joslin Diabetes Center along with Colleen O'Connor. Colleen is departing the center for the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, where she is launching her medical career at Vanderbilt. Also headed to grad school in warmer climates are MeghanPound and Charles Davant, who will be classmates at Duke Law School in August.

Abbie Roberts was also in the Boston area this summer instructing English at Phillips Andover. She notes that this past school year at St. Paul's was busy balancing teaching with coaching the ski and track teams. In mid-August Abbie decamps from Boston headed for Chattanooga, Tenn., and a teaching gig at McCallie School, the alma mater of Jason Jones.

Onieka Fraser also plans to leave New England for the south, heading to Atlanta, Ga., in the fall. Currendy she is working as an Ameri Corps VISTA member at a community technical college in Manchester as a community service and volunteer coordinator. Onieka is now engaged to Adimu Sutton, now training as a naval officer. The couple is planning on a late summer of 2000 wedding.

Aaron Russo hailed me from a ranch in El Paso, Texas, where he is raising emus "for people who are allergic to beef, but love meat." He commented that he has "discovered that my singing promotes reproduction in the older birds. Emus are very interesting and nasty. Not unlike camels."

A long missive from overseas landed in my inbox updating me on 2nd Lieutenant Rob Fasani's shenanigans. Rob graduated successfully from Airborne School at Fort Benning, Ga., where he mastered feats that included the "slam dunk where you jump from a 12-foot platform with a mock parachute harness connected to anchored straps. You swing back and forth depending on which way the instructors tell you the wind is blowing. You have to pull the proper riesers for a correct landing. He then drops you from about four feet in the air to see how you do. The backward landing sucks the worst because if you don't turn your feet enough, you hit feet-butt-head and have a serious headache." 2LT Fasani is now living in the Netherlands in Maastricht, which he verifies has "a different pub for every day."

Somewhat more sedately, Jaime Bedrin and Stephanie Feldman are sharing an apartment on the Upper West Side in NYC. Jaime hones her writing skills at a daily newspaper in New Jersey while Stephanie scurries between law classes at Fordham and her job at the U.S. Attorney's Office. Not only have they run into some of the many Dartmouth grads in Manhattan but they have also espied Kim Basinger, Alex Baldwin, and Nicole Kidman.

In another borough, Brooklynite TedHuang just switched from MSNBC to CNBC.com. As a production associate for CNBC he develops content for the new site, launching in June, and exhorts all the Dartmouth alums in investment banking to give him a holler if they want their company covered. Publicity hounds can reach him at his alum address.

Pass on the gossip, the random sightings of Dartmouth people (Kristin Kelly and Wendy Simon blitzed in to tell me that JonHurst was last seen at Foxwoods eyeing the dice with Kevin Walsh), and your own news. E-mail or write me.

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