1997
One recent Sunday evening, I was watching TV when suddenly, there was Sashi Bach being interviewed by NBCNews. Sashi, a Harvard Law student, headed a committee that petitioned the administration to offer a class on animal law. The effort was successful and the interview was right before the first class. Sashi writes, "The enrollment in the class is large and, I'm happy to say, it's going very well so far." Way to go, Sashi!
It sounds like Will Taylor has been up to some pretty cool things. Eran Bendavid writes that he has recently heard from Will, who has finally settled down in L.A. after spending time in Hong Kong working for JP Morgan. Eran continued, "Between hanging out in Italy and France, he spent most of 1999 climbing Acconcagua in Argentina, Kilimanjaro in Africa and Mt. McKinley in Alaska. Deprived of sunshine and rusty with his swing, he recently decided to try his luck in Hollywood, where he is currently the assistant to the chairman of Phoenix, which apparently means lots of getting coffee, answering calls and chatting with Marlon Brando." Soon-to-be law school graduate Robert Abrams wrote in with this news: "I'll be graduating from University of Michigan Law School in May 2000, then will be off to Delaware for a clerkship at the Court of Chancery. I'm also getting married August 12 to Nate Jamison, whom I met in law school. We both have jobs in law firms in Milwaukee and will settle there after my clerkship."
And now for a correction and some other news. Diane Whitmer wrote in recently from San Francisco, where she has been working since graduation. "Just recently, I took a job as a user-experience architect with an Internet start-up in San Francisco called Bigstep.com. Bigstep offers a suite of online service that enable small businesses to become 'e-businesses.' " She said the CEO and founder of the company is a Dartmouth alumnus and former Student Assembly president Andrew Beebe '93. Chris Kiernan '96 is also a software engineer with Bigstep.com. (See a story on the firm in the April 2000 issue of DAM.) Outside of work Diane has been taking some math classes at Berkeley and San Francisco State and ballet classes at a neighborhood dance studio. Diane said there are a number of Dartmouth alumni in the Bay area.
Victoria McEvoy is working at an Internet start-up and Sea Lonergan is in his first year of medical school at University of California at San Francisco. John Mowat lives just across Golden Gate Park and is often seeing hanging out with ScottArmstrong, who is now a platinum blond and rides around town on a motorcycle.
Diane said Scott has been working as a software engineer for a consulting firm that specializes in e-commerce. He's been in touch frequently with a number of Chi Gam '97s, including Ryan Deford, who is the proud father of perhaps die very first class baby (contrary to my recent Class Notes). She said Ryan and his wife, Anya, gave birth to a beautiful boy named Nicholas Ruslan deFord on December 26, 1998, in Russia. Ryan met Anya Smirnova in St. Petersburg on a Dartmouth FSP a few years back. They have recently moved back to the United States from St. Petersburg and are living in New York City.
Diane writes, "I have been in touch quite a bit with Eliana Marcenaro, who is doing very well back in her hometown of Lima. Eli is working as a high school teacher and is filling out applications for doctoral programs in education for the fall of 2000. I was fortunate enough to visit Eliana in Peru last August and hear her perform one of her weekly gigs at a local bar in the Miraflores neighborhood of Lima. It brought back all kinds of memories of the Lone Pine Tavern! Eli and I traveled all over Peru, visiting the lost city of Kuelap, the Nazca lines, the Incan fortress of Machu Picchu and the city of Cusco, which has fascinating architecture that mixes the style of the Quechuan culture with Spanish colonial style. The most incredible leg of our journey was visiting the 'FloatingIslands' on Lake Titicaca. We visited a tiny island that was entirely man-made. The floor of the island, as well as all of the houses and boats were made entirely out of lake reeds. About 10 families live there, intentionally isolated from the rest of modern civilization, subsisting only on what the lake provides and what they trade by boat. It was truly mind-blowing!"
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