1988

Hilary Justice writes to say that she is finishing her Ph.D. in English (American lit) at the University of Chicago this fall, and has just been named to the board of directors of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. (Hemingway was born in Oak Park; the foundation sponsors scholarly conferences and maintains two museums, one of which is Hemingways birthplace.) Hilary has been busy presenting papers at conferences (including the International Hemingway Conference in Provence) and is planning a trip to Cuba this fall as part of a cultural exchange with the curators of the Finca Vigia, Hemingways Cuba home.

Jane (Grussing) Lonnquist wrote to report a mini-reunion she enjoyed in Hyde Park, London, while on a recent trip to see her brother (Jon Grussing '85) and his family. Kim (Mango) Thompson lives with her husband Michael Thompson '85 in the now tourist-ridden Notting Hill neighborhood. Having made partner at her law firm in the States a few years ago, Kim is nursing a self-proclaimed "work hangover" and greatly enjoying unemployment in London. Kristen Steck recently left her job as the lone environmental officer at ARCO for an equally challenging assignment: developing a new power plant in Bulgaria. Having just returned to London from her second trip to the future plant site, she convinced the mini-reunees that one of her clients may, in fact, be a vampire. They were also joined by Cynthia (Strand) Braun and her husband, Erich, who were taking a monthlong break from their medical training in Philadelphia to experience the hospitals of Britain and the food and wine of Italy.

Christopher Lien was recently appointed to the position of chief financial officer and vice president of corporate development of BlueLight.com, an independent e-commerce company founded by Kmart and Softbank Venture Capital. Prior to joining Blue Light.com, he held the position of managing director at Evercore Partners, a New York-based merchant bank, and has worked in a variety of Internet-related projects, including Dow Jones, joint ventures with CNBC and MSNBC. Christopher earned his M.B.A. from Stanford and began his career in the mergers and acquisitions department of Morgan Stanley.

In other Internet news, Andrew Wilson has been named president and chief operating officer of Need2Buy.com, a leading business-tobusiness online marketplace for buyers and sellers of electronic components. Andrew was previously the senior vice president of Strategic Resources at Bowne Business Solutions/Don- nelley Enterprise Solutions, a provider of outsourced information management solutions to leading financial and legal institutions. Prior to Bowne and Donnelley, he was a management consultant with LEK/Alcar Consulting, and earned his M.B.A. from Harvard University.

Michael Bongiorno has been elected a senior partner at the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr, LL.P. Michael has a general commercial litigation practice, with a particular emphasis on securities matters. He received his law degree from Harvard University, and resides in Winchester, Massachusetts, with his wife, Judy, and daughter Juliana.

Kathleen Morgan was married to Trenton Webster Holliday on May 20 in New Orleans. Kathleen is an assistant professor of chemistry at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and received her doctorate from Yale University. Trenton is an assistant professor of anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Paul De Veaux has been named editor of Teleconference Magazine and e-learning, leading conferencing and e-learning publications. Paul joined Advanstar Communications, owner of the publications, in 1998 as an editor on America's Network, the company's telecommunications and business-to-business publication. Previously, he was director of editorial content and a research consultant for various Web-based businesses in southern California. He earned his law degree from Georgetown University.

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