1986

Lots of great news this month! William Babash has been living and working in Reston, Virginia, since graduation! He got married five years ago to Whitney (Smith College '84). Earlier in the year, they took a threeweek vacation to China and Tibet. "Tibet was incredible—fantastic scenery, fascinating culture and delicious yak meat at the Hard Yak Cafe. Fortunately, the 12,000-foot altitude didn't bother us too much. On the other hand, the smell of hundreds of yak butter candles burning in the monasteries was memorable. We cruised down the Yangtze River through the Three Gorges for four days. A highlight was seeing the colossal construction site of the Three Gorges Dam. We were in Shanghai at the same time as the APEC conference and saw the prime minister of Thailand at our hotel."

Joy Turnheim got married on October 13 to Doug Smith in Fort Wayne. They met a year ago at a Presbytery retreat called Cursillo. Classmates in attendance were Howie Hayes and Shantha Gona Farris. Shantha is at Price Waterhouse Cooper in Manhattan, living in New Jersey. Her husband, Brad Farris '83, and her daughter, Kira, were with her. Howie did yeoman's work making the threehour-trip from Chicago.

Laura Gillespie saw David Beach perform in the Broadway hit, Unnetown. Laura said that the play displays an impressive arsenal of inspiration, skill and chutzpah that has not been seen on a New York stage in quite some time. Karin Rosemblatt is an assistant professor of history in The College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She recently won the 2000 First Book Prize of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for her book Gendered Compromises: Political Culturesand the State in Chile, 1920-1950. Phil Burrow and his wife, Sarah, welcomed twin boys in September. The Burrow family resides in San Diego. Heather (Spaulding) Sugg, her husband, Will, and son, William "Rusty," moved back to her native Maine about two years ago. Heather always had an interest in issues regarding the environment and she got involved with the Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener Association when she returned to the state. Soon after her arrival Heather found herself getting involved with the states largest organic country fair, The Common Ground Country Fair, and became the fair's chief coordinator and organizer. Heidi Erdrich is an assistant professor of English at the University of St. Katherines College in St. Paul Minnesota. She was recently awarded an 18-month fellowship by the Bush Foundation so she can get paid to think deep thoughts and write more poeticvisions. She will also use her fellowship funds to study Ojibwe language and literature. Vivian Johnson and husband, Darrell, had a baby girl named Tatiana Vaughn on July 23,2001. Vivian has pushed the pause button on her many careers as bush pilot, health program administrator andyupik of all trades to focus on her family. Andre Crambiit is the operations director of the Northern California Indian Development Council, which serves the 105 federally recognized tribes in California and the more than 600,000 Native peoples in California from tribes throughout the country. He and wife Wendy have a son, Kyle Carleton-Walker Brown. Elisa Rush Port is a cancer surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She and her husband, Jeff, have a 3-year-old son, Zachary, and an 11-month-old daughter, Lauren Rose. David Kotz wrote that his favorite place on campus was Room 13, Robinson Hall. He wrote, "When I was an undergrad I was very active in the DOC, a Chubber. Room 13 was a great place to hang out, to meet friends and generally survey the campus passing by. It was grungy and often rowdy but always a source of friendship. Not to mention a place to nap."

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