1982

Rolan Young reports that Betsy Kingsbury Dowd is in law school in New York and has "a few kids," with twins on the way. After hearing the news, husband Eddie was heard to exclaim, "Oh my God, you are not kidding!"

Tom Burack and wife Emilie welcomed their first child, Thomas "Larsen" Burack, last September. Rumor has it the little tyke can already spin an amusing yarn and does great accents. Tom is still practicing law and doing lots of storytelling as well. He recently performed as John James Audubon for the NH Humanities Council's summer Chautauqua.

Bobby Charles and wife Marina recently had their second child and are moving to Gaithersburg, Maryland. Bobby is in the Navy Reserves and completed a 60-day call-up just three days before his daughters birth.

Carol Rauch recently married Steve Henschel in Connecticut. Kate Ringe was matron of honor. Class of '82s attending included Kim Davis, Bill Prescott, Ted Trabue and Mary Conway.

Steve Whitely teaches high school earth science and oceanography in York, Pennsylvania. He and wife Sharon have two kids, 12 and 9. Steve reports that Rob Ford, Jon Merriman and Jack Blunt are all with RateXChange in San Francisco. Rob is COO, Jon is CEO and Jack is senior VP of finance. Rob has an M.A. in international diplomacy from Tufts. He and wife Lindsey have two sons. Barry Schweitzer is director of R&D for Protometrix, biotech startup, in New Haven. After a Yale Ph.D. and a professorship in Florida, Barry joined the biotech world and moved north with wife Lisa and two kids. Dickson Cunningham is a professor of geology at Leicester University in the UK. He got his Ph.D. at UT-Austin.

Grant Reeher teaches political science at Syracuse University, where one of his recent students just won a Rhodes Scholarship. Grant writes, "As a teacher it doesn't get any more gratifying than that."

Charles Crane would like to hear more about what our classmates are doing in the not-for-profit world. Charlie serves on the boards of The Health Care Chaplaincy (in NYC) and Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland, Maine. He also raises money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and serves as an informal adviser to Housing Works (in NYC).

Bill Johnson won the Emmy award this year in the category of single-camera editing for a series for the season finale of The West Wing. Bill also directed an episode of the show last spring.

Will Polik has been teaching physical chem- istry and doing laser research at Hope College in Michigan since 1988. He was recently named the Edward and Elizabeth Hofma Professor of Chemistry. Will also founded a company specializing in Internet discussion board software (discusware.com).

Jim McKee, wife Amy Cummings and kids aged 1 and 3 are bi-coastal. Although Jims hedge fund consulting work at Callan Associates brings him to New York frequently, their primary roots are taking hold in Lafayette, California, close to where Jim grew up.

Diane Rusanowski is a fishery biologist in habitat conservation for the U.S. Department of Commerce. The job entails environmental analysis and regional policy activities in the U.S. coastal zone. Diane is working on a Ph.D. dissertation in environmental studies at Antioch.

I regret to report that John Gaudioso informed me that comedian, author and radio and TV personality Monteria Ivey passed away on December 13. After graduation Ivey began doing stand-up comedy. Together with long-time comedy partner Stephan Dweck, Monteria co-authored several books—including Snaps, DoubleSnaps and Triple Snaps—that traced the development of African-American humor from slavery to contemporary urban comedy. Ivey and Dweck also co-hosted a popular New York sports radio show.

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