1998

This June brings the graduation of the class of 2001, who were freshmen when we were seniors. Lots of young lawyers from our class will be graduating as well. Jeff Beyer departs Cornell Law School headed for the antitrust department at Skadden in New York City. After taking the bar in July Jeff is heading for Europe for August and September before starting at "the firm."

Mariam Malik plans to start school, leaving Salomon Smith Barney for Harvard Business School this September. A West Coast source tells me Christine DuRocher is leaving sunny L.A. for snowy Chicago as she heads to an art history masters program at the University of Chicago.

Matthew Tarver-Wahlquist was just accepted into the Teach for America program. After training in Houston for two months this summer, TW will be teaching a middle or high school grade in math and science at an Oakland school starting in September. He is living in Berkeley with four New Zealand emigrants in a two-bedroom apartment and writes that he sees Mark Zanatta, who is still talking about moving back to his Motherland—Canada. Mark is a quality engineer at I-drive.com. Justin Carrino resides in Los Angeles, where he is pitching screenplays. TW also runs into Andrew Fritts, who works for on24.com and runs an epicurean food club in his spare time.

Eric Paley writes that he and his partners have relaunched their Web site Abstract Edge, which you can find at www.abstractedge.com. He mentioned that fiancee Shirley Sperling is about to graduate from NYU law school and take the bar and is looking forward to starting her clerkship this August.

Mark Brousseau is still living in Philadelphia and is finishing up his M.F.A. in painting at Penn. "I've had a solo show of prints and one of paintings and will be having my thesis exhibition in May. I just found out this week that I have been awarded a Fulbright! I found out in January that I had made it to the second round and was hopeful about the final round and received word Wednesday that I am a Fulbright Scholar. I'll be painting and making prints in Reykjavik, Iceland, from August 2001 to May 2002.1 chose Iceland because I wanted a place that exists in a bizarre sort of twilight for a significant portion of the year and also because the dualistic tendencies of Iceland literature and folklore are similar to what I want to achieve in my paintings. I'll be in Vermont for a bit of the summer hiking the Long Trail for a few weeks and taking off for Reykjavik at the end of July. I expect some visitors!"

Allison Cuff writes from England that she has resigned her consulting job at LEK to "move onto newer (and greener?) pastures. As of tomorrow I will officially be unemployed." She is moving to Edinburgh and for those tracking her exact whereabouts, you can reach her at her alum account.

For those of you who read People closely,you might have noticed a picture of Jeff Wadlow, "film student," in the front celebrity section of an early March issue, posing with his aunt Katie Couric at an awards ceremony.

Our class Web site is up—you can enter your contact info in the database, look up someone up, read the last batch of Class Notes or the newsletter or check out electronic photos www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/98/index.html. Josh Mooney and Liz Gerber are our Web'sters—e-mail them with your contributions and suggestions.

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