1987

I trust you've all registered for reunion and already have your bags packed and the No-Doz ready. If not, you've still got time, but don't miss out on what promises to be a great weekend.

Reunion giving chairs Pam Haering and Kevin Wilkins have asked me to issue a gentle reminder about the Alumni Fund. We are shooting for record-setting participation this reunion year, and every gift helps, so send your check (credit cards work too) by June 30.

We are actively recruiting volunteers who would like to serve as class officers beginning in June through our next reunion in 2006. Available offices are president, treasurer, secretary, newsletter editor, mini-reunion chair, head agents and Webmaster. If you are interested in finding out more or throwing your hat in the ring, contact Joe Voves or myself as soon as possible. The nominating committee will soon be assembling a slate of candidates to be voted on at reunion.

Now on to the good stuff:

Wedding bells rang last year for a few more classmates. Harold Ambler married Kimberly Edge last August in Wickford, Rhode Island. The bride graduated from Parsons School of Design and works for Brown University. Hal has a graduate degree from Columbia and works for the Providence Journal. The newlyweds live in Narragansett. Louise Matthews is a new bride, having married Thomas Flickinger at the Princeton University chapel last November. Dr. Matthews is an obgyn, and her husband is a senior vice president for business development at Information Human Resources in Chicago.

Diana Doran Sinagra recently joined the staff of Hospice of the North Shore in Danvers, Massachusetts, where she supervises bereavement programs for children. Diana holds a masters in social work from Boston College and has been working with families and children for the past decade.

I recently heard from Susannah Drake Culhane, who has had occasion to make a few visits to Hanover recently. She is an architect and landscape architect with Rogers Marvel Architects (founded by Jonathan Marvel '82) and since last fall has been working on plans for an expansion of the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum at Dartmouth. Susannah and husband Stephen live in Brooklyn Heights with their children Veronica 4 and Charles 2.

Two classmates have been named partners at their respective law firms. David Wachen specializes in litigation as well as First Amendment and media law with Baker & Hostetler in Washington, D.C. David received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and was a clerk forjudge Jay C. Waldman of the U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania. Jim Benjamin has left the U.S. attorneys office in New York to become a partner with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. As a prosecutor, Jim handled cases of securities fraud, obstruction of justice, insider trading, mail and wire fraud, money laundering, and narcotics charges. In his new position he'll be focusing on white -ollar criminal defense and civil litigation. Jim attended the University of Virginia School of Law, and clerked forjudge J. Frederick Motz in Maryland and Justice Lewis F. Powell of the U.S. Supreme Court. As an assistant U.S. attorney, he received an award for superior performance from then Attorney General Janet Reno in 2000.

I picked up the Boston Globe recently and saw Mary Hartman's name in the "Names & Faces" column. Mary is the director of education programs for Shakespeare & Company, which recently received a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The grant will support Marys program Creative Links: Positive Alternatives for. Youths for a project called the Berkshire Juvenile Court Project. Mary and other teaching artists will lead the after school, performance-based Shakespeare program for adjudicated youths aged 14-16 in Berkshire County.

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REUNION June 15-17 2001