1989

Tired of facing that skimpy towel after you get out of the shower?

Ashley Chadowitz responded to my desperate plea for news with a sales pitch of sorts. He wrote, "I make bathrobes. Yes, I went to Dartmouth and law school and all I have to show for it is a bathrobe company." Ashley let on that he's actually running the company and they're even profitable.The modest executive says they're "the best bathrobes and towels you can buy!" You can check out their site online at cottonpalace.com. For you alums in the hotel business, their wholesale site is monarchrobe.com. Ashley lives on New York's Upper West Side with his wife and 3-year-old daughter Zoe. He recently ran into Mike Eberstadt, who has two kids and owns restaurants in Manhattan, including in Harlem. Ashley also reports that Karla Olivier and Steve Lehman are both working as corporate lawyers in New York City, both married (although not to each other) and that Steve has three kids.

Adrian Block is seeing double. But it has nothing to do with flashbacks to his days at Bones Gate. He and his wife, Helen, welcomed identical twin daughters Isabella and Alexandra on May 2. They were 18 days short of full-term and by the time they were 3 months old the loving dad described them as "a couple of porkers," weighing 101/2 and 111/2 pounds. Adrian had hoped to double his paternity leave of three days but was told by his firm that if he was giving birth to one of the twins, then he could go ahead and take six days. Better luck next time, Adrian.

Naomi Nagy certainly can't be accused of rushing into romance. She recently married David Boas, 12 years after their first ski date. David beamed his proposal via palm pilot on Nantucket last summer and the two celebrated in their backyard in Newmarket, New Hamp- shire, before heading off for six weeks in France. David does biomedical research and Naomi runs the linguistics program at UNH. She recently published a book that she tells us will probably NOT make Amazons Top 10. It's a linguistic description of Faetar, a Francoprovencal dialect spoken in two tiny mountaintop villages in southern Italy.

Chris and Deanna (Emberley) Bailey recently moved with their sons Solon and Liam to Ithaca, New York, where Chris is enrolled in the M.B.A. program at Cornell's Johnson School of Management. Deanna sends word that David and Beth (Wood) Frey had a third daughter named Katie who joins big sisters Anna and Sophie.

Elsewhere in babyland, Kerry Kisiel Jones and her husband, Peter, welcomed Eryk Wyman Jones on April 22. Dawn Green MacLaren had a daughter, Emma Grace, on May 16. She and her husband, Gregg, built a house and moved to Princeton, New Jersey. She also forwarded the news that Sarah Nilsen recently had a boy named Joshua.

Linda Salzhauer Swenberg and her husband, Johanes, had their third child on July 21. Charlotte Swenberg joins brother Jacob and sister Nadine at home in Los Gatos, California. They were taking their first outing as a family of five to see the circus in San Jose when they ran into Erik Bierwagen, his wife, Laura McEntee Bierwagen '91, and their I-year-old son. They live in Redwood City. Linda also keeps track of Seth Rosenblatt, who recently left Pocketscience and started at a company in San Francisco called Bluefish Wireless. According to Seth, Bluefish "is in the business of providing access and applications to handheld devices through a network of infrared stations that will be deployed in various enterprises, events, and other locations." Impressive. I'm just grateful when I can get my computer to cooperate enough to send in this column.

Finally, classmates: thanks to those of you who responded to my pleas. As a result, you've been spared another installment in the life and baby times of Julia Levine. Keep the news coming.

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