1998

News has slowed to the occasional drizzle...let me know what you are up to or I am forced to start spinning wild tales about you all.

I caught up recently with an old classmate whom I ran across purely by accident. While I was toiling at "This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts," Cokie's assistant was transcribing tapes for Cokie's new book. Cokie and her husband, Steve, interviewed several of Steve's outstanding students at George Washington University for their book. One of them mentioned that she attended Dartmouth before finishing up her degree at GWU "Do you know Tobi Edwards?" Cokie's assistant asked me. I managed to track her down after fruitlessly trying to look her up several months before.

After moving to D.C. several years ago when Rep. J.C. Watts offered her a position as his press secretary, Tobi finished her degree at GWU. She left Watt's office and moved to Rep. Jerry Moran's office in March 1999 to become Moran's communications director. After several failed attempts, we met up for dinner when BenHill and Colleen O'Connor popped through D.C. in mid-December. Ben is teaching impressionable ninth- and 10th-grade high school students English literature at a private school in Charlotte.

Chris Atwood writes that he is loving life in his second year (well, except for the exams) at UVA law school. He and classmate Kristin Terry both accepted jobs at the same Boston law firm for next summer!

Pieter Ott started a new job in late 1999 at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in the communications and public affairs office. At night he compares work stories with roommate Matt Girard who just started a new job at an Internet startup, E-mode, developing content for the company. Pieter writes that Anne Kanyusik took a short reprieve from her Peace Corps assignment in Bangledesh over the winter holidays and met up with him, Will Scarborough and other friends to celebrate New Year's Eve. As I write this a few days before Christmas, several '98s are journeying to the Second College Grant to greet the new millennium from a cabin. The group may include CarolynKerner Austyn Fudge, Christy Utter,Wendy Lee, Anat Levtov, Meg Hiers,Julie McGuire and many more.

Carrie Spring left the wilds of Minneapolis and the perils of the advertising agency for the sun and seawater of Cape Cod for the summer. What was supposed to be a week or two stay turned into all summer as the sassiest cocktail waitress on the Cape. When summer ended, Carrie picked up and moved to New York City, veering into the business side of advertising doing ad sales for City Search.com and Mamboing in dance class twice a week.

Eric Paley left his consulting job at Monitor for the leap into entrepreneurialism to found Abstract Edge, a Web solutions company that "offers a complete line of Internet services to help medium and small businesses generate profits." Eric wrote me that, "Leaving my stable and boring job and starting Abstract Edge is probably the best decision I have ever made. Time will tell, but to date I don't regret that decision one bit." Best of luck. Find out more by e-mailing underradar@ alum.dartmouth.org. That's all for this writing. Let me know what you are up to by post, pigeon or email.

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