1992

OK, some old correspondences to get to. I'd like to apologize to these people for being late with their news...all of a sudden I was swamped!

Ashley Roberts (now Ashley Ise) lives in Tampa with husband Jon, wondering how she survived winter in Hanover while working for the Investment Bank at Raymond James. By the time you read this she might also be a mom—she was expecting in late May. Also at Raymond James: KentNelson, who works on the syndicate desk. He and his wife, Vicki, have a son, Thomas, who is a little more than a year old. Ashley expects the children, future Dartmouth students of course, to be very good friends.

Ashley also reported on Cindy Long, who is recently married and works as an ob/gyn in Seattle.

Got an email with no last name, but using my deductive powers I am assuming it to be Kristin Smith. Am I right? Axe you the person who rang in the new millennium in London with Melissa Apfelbaum,Donna Butterfield and Kelly Daughtry . drinking the nights away and sleeping the days away (a tradition as old as Dartmouth itself)? Kristin is at the Kennedy School of Government, getting a master's in public policy and urban planning. Melissa is in N.Y.C. working for a startup company that creates day-trading software. Donna is with Andersen, living in N.Y.C. but being sent to locales such as Columbus, Ohio. And Kelly (I defer to Kristin here) "is defending murderers and sexual deviants (among others) in Smithfield, N.C. She relies on her dog Buster to defend her against similar characters."

Kristin also reported on Maria VeniardBeariault, who moved to San Francisco with husband Mark and is now working for a startup that combines management training with Hollywood; Tung Chan, who left a lawyer job in N.Y.C. (for now) to work on constitutional law issues in South Africa; and Joy Dwyer Straugher, who moved to Springfield with her husband, Patrick, and their two sons after a stint in the South.

Chris Wall, like me an unabashed English major, has obviously not beaten them—and thus joined them. After a few years as a technical writer, correcting the grammar of computer programmers, he acknowledged defeat (saw the light?) and is now "feeding at the high-tech trough" as a programmer himself. He is still fulfilling his creative jones, though—he has written a play, "Some Other Place," that will be produced in April and May at the D.C. Arts Center. This is the fourth year in a row he has had a play produced in the capital. And he is just now telling me this?

Former intramural hockey wonder McShane Jones filled me in on his life postDartmouth. Here's a quickie version: he finished his degree at McGill; taught English (poorly, or so he says) in Greece; moved to Russia, where he worked with the Canadian government in St. Petersburg; returned to Canada to get his J.D./M.B.A. from McGill; and now works as an immigration lawyer for the Canadian government in Montreal. Oh, one more thing—he married a Russian woman, Elena, and they have a daughter (Alexandra, born 1996) and a son (Vladislav, born in September).

Another first-time writer, Bill Sushon, reported the birth of daughter Catherine Joseph to him and his wife Kimberly. They reside in Cos Cob, Conn., and Bill is working as a lawyer at Skadden, Arps in N.Y.C.

Next month (I promise, AnitaReithoffer)...your new class agents! Don't worry, though. I ain't goin' anywhere.

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