1989

Think back to our senior year in Hanover. Perhaps late one night you were walking past Casque & Gauntlet, and you saw someone mowing the lawn with a paper bag over his head. Or, perhaps one day in the Hopkins Center you went to rub Warner Bentley's nose and noticed that his whole head was strangely shiny. Rumors abounded that, under cover of darkness, a mysterious figure had assaulted the statue with a power tool, equipped with a buffer. Would it surprise you to know that the man famous for making mischief at Dartmouth spends his days at Mattel Toys? Ned Ward works on "male action marketing" or as he calls it, toys for boys. He recently returned to the company after stints at two smaller toy companies marketing everything from yoyos to Power Rangers to Ninja Turdes to Star Trek. He lives near the ocean in Manhattan Beach, Calif., with his new bride, Noriko Sato, a Smith '88. They were married in April.

Fiona Bailey is working in the department of Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum after seven years with the New York Road Runner's Club. She writes that she's still a runner and triathalete, sponsored this year by Power Bar. Although her work at the Met is only temporary, she says it reminds her that "it is time to get back to my beloved theater," and she wishes to alert any Dartmouth connections in stage or screen.

Jennifer Byrnes Brower bravely walked across the Brooklyn Bridge in January for pizza at Patsy's, which is definitely worth the effort. She neglected to mention the sounds of Frank Sinatra on the jukebox, but she did say that she made the trek with Robbi Smith, Kate Chanin and NicoleConte, who was visiting from Vermont where she's an environmental education professional at the Vermont Institute of Natural Sciences. Jennifer has two childern 2-year-old Jacob and 8-month-old Cecilia. Nancy Bernard Felix is doing financial consulting for non-profit organizations. She and her husband, Mark, live in Glen Ridge, N.J., with their children 5- year-old Will and 1-and-a-half-year-old Hank. She recently caught up with KeriUeberroth Thomas, who was visiting New York from Southern California and has two boys of her own.

Sean Wright says, "Though I vowed never to return after I was paroledescaped-moved out of New Jersey in 1995, I am heading back, as I have taken a job with Bristol-Myers Squibb in Princeton. Look for the guy in green amidst the orange at Dartmouth/Princeton games." He also writes that he plans to marry his girlfriend of two years, Paula Crosby, in October, but "we'll see how that goes after she spends six months in central Jersey." Keep us posted, Sean.

Edward Nelson is working at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City, doing venture capital financing for information technology and Internet companies. He and his wife have a 2-year-old son Richard. He sends news about Joshua Eisenthal, who is a computer programmer at Innovative Systems Techniques in Boston; Stephen Kaplitt, who is on leave from his law firm to work in Washington, D.C., for the World Bank; and Carolyne Allen, who is about to graduate from law school in New York and plans to enter the field of entertainment law. Ed also tells us that Russell Wolff, last seen in this column on a boat in Hong Kong harbor, has "finally learned a civilized sport—cricket." Russell oversees ESPN's Asian programming, which includes the cricket-crazed nations of India, Pakistan and Australia.

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Ned Ward markets Mattel's toys for toys. JENNIFER AVELLINO '89