1987

Chris Schutz Brownell has been named head squash coach at Wellesley College. Chris is a member of the Dartmouth Athletic Hall of Fame and has been coaching intercollegiate squash since 1990, including stints at Harvard and the Big Green.

George Farmer has won the 1999 Young Investigators Cap-Cure Award for his research in prostate cancer and for his outstanding academic record. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Sloan Kettering Research Laboratories in New York.

I heard from Allison Bleyler over the holidays. She had just moved, for the third time in two and a half years. She now resides in Brookline, Mass., and works for Polaroid in the global consumer division. Alii tells me she has already made contact with some local banjo and guitar players, and plans to continue the hobby she picked up during her time in the Midwest.

Anne-Marie LaMarche Valencia is the proud mom of son Drake, who turned 1 on St. Patrick's Day. He and his half-sister Blythe are terrific playmates.

Here's a great story from StephanieLosee: "As of 18 months ago, my husband, Tom, was a miserable Wall Street lawyer who logged 90-hour weeks while I wrote freelance articles for magazines like The LosAngeles Times and Family Money, ran marathons and took care of our daughter Olivia pretty much by myself. We lived in Manhattan and dreamed about that quality-of-life thing, which we imagined we would find elsewhere, as in anywhere elsewhere. So Tom and I decided to take a chance, chuck it all, and live in our dream city—San Francisco—where we had gotten engaged in 1990.

"We called every tech contact we had and Tom got an offer to become COO of Autonomy Inc., a software company in SF, and we piled sleeping bags, clothes and a VCR into the back of our SUV and drove cross-country with Olivia in tow a year ago, stopping at places like the Mitchell Corn* Palace, a building in South Dakota that's covered entirely with corn. Now that we've been here a year it's hard to believe what our life was like in 1998. Tom is now home every night for dinner and on weekends we drive to places like Yosemite and Mendocino like those happy-happy families in TV commercials. In May I ran my fifth marathon up in rural northern California redwood country—slowly, but hey, nobody ever accused me of being Uta Pippig. We bought a house in August near the beach and we're expecting our second child in March. I'll write again then to tell you the baby's name and sex—we don't know the latter yet because we're in the mood for a mystery."

Amy Strasser Kistulinec and husband Mark welcomed their first child, Grace Elizabeth, on November 27.

Janet Raiffa has a new job. In October she joined Goldman Sachs as an associate in campus recruiting. She oversees M.B.A. recruiting at Harvard Business School and Stern School of Business. Janet is also putting her many years of graduate study to use, by finally getting published in Columbia's upcoming volume on American short-story writers.

If your kids will be attending first grade in Newton, Mass., perhaps they will be lucky enough to have Tom Daniels as their teacher. Tom has been a teacher for 10 years, and recently received national board certification, the teaching profession's highest standards.

Finally, Kirsten Dwyer Huber has joined ChamberBiz as vice president of human resources. The company is building a business-to-business Internet portal with the endorsement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. You can check it out at www. chamberbiz.com.

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