1993

I promised you two things in my last column: (1) to finish Andy Mac Donald's news, and (2) to include the news that didn't make it in the last column because I ran out of space. So here you go!

Elise (Sheftel) Warhaftig wrote in several months ago with the wonderful news of the birth of her son Andrew Benjamin. Elise and her husband, Jeremy Warhaftig '94, are proud first-time parents enjoying every minute with Andrew. Jeremy is finishing a pediatric residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Elise is working as a marketing manager at Gillette. After prodding from yours truly, Elise wrote back to fill me in on my old roommate Meredith (Hersch) Yusen, who is living with her husband, Jon Yusen '92, in Minnesota. Meri and Jon have a 2-year-old son Alex, and Meri was due in June with a second baby boy. Meri, please fill us in on your new baby.

Brett Allison proved to be a true romantic and got engaged on Valentines Day to Robyn Karagavoorian (Boston U. '96). The wedding is scheduled for June 2002 in San Francisco. Brett completed his Ph.D. in chemistry at Harvard this past June. He has relocated with his fiancee to San Diego, where Brett will be working at the R.W.Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute in sunny La Jolla.

Haven't you always dreamed of owning your own company and doing something that you don't consider "work?" Well we can all envy Kathryn (Kass) Savarese Lazerow who started GolfServ with her husband, Mike Lazerow '97, in Chicago. Kass and Mike got married in October 1999. Their company, Golf Serve, provides interactive golf content and services to 275-plus leading Web sites such as AOL, CNNSI.com, CNBC.com and Golf Digest.com. The golf services allow users to better manage and track their game. Kass describes the best part of her job as "working with Mike and bringing our Bernese Mountain dog named Cookie to work everyday." Tough life, eh?

As promised, I conclude with the end of Andy's news in his own words: "For non-'93S, I'm always in touch with my brother Owen Mac Donald '97, Deke Schultze '92, Steve Fox '92 (his wife is due any day now with their first kid), Sal Scirette '92, Cliff McDonald "92, Mark Selvitelli '90 (his wife is also due in the summertime with a girl) and, of course, my buddy Jimmy McGeehan '94. This will come as a surprise to most, but Jimmy is moving to Singapore the first week in June 2001 until December 2002 for work. First he moves to Connecticut, now overseas. You're killin' me buddy! All kidding aside, Jimmy is climbing the ladder at ÜBS Warburg as a currency trader and his two recent relocations are associated with his tremendous success. Jimmy and his wife, Jen, also just had a baby boy, Casey Richard, and all are well. As Casey's Honorary Uncle (Jimmy, please clear this title with Jen), I'm looking forward to teaching Jimmy's son all the things I taught Jimmy about resource allocation and reconnaissance missions down in Key West in the spring of 1993"

I can't believe I can actually say that there was additional news that didn't fit in this month's column. Stay tuned for the next column if your news did not make it in this month.

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