1990

Greg Gilbert and Greg Dorr report that about 750 people attended a memorial service for Gus Conrades in Connecticut: Classmates there included Karen Buchsbaum, Mark Curnin, Pete Dammann, Gillian Doyle, Brad Drazen, Jason Lichtenstein, Elizabeth Maringer, Jim Murphy, Bart Osman, Sarah Otis and Ted Whittemore. An obituary for Gus appears at the end of this issue.

In more cheerful Theta Delt news, Nicolas Brown sends word of his travels and work: Since majoring in drama, Nick has circled the globe and made films in places from the Gobi Desert to Americas Big Sky country. In March you may have seen the premiere for the series FrontierHouse on PBS: The series follows an experiment with three "modern families going to Montana to live as pioneers would have in the year 1883...[A]fter training, they arrived on wagons, built cabins and had a sometimes grueling, sometimes joyous summer uncovering the realities of life on the frontier." Describing the films as "similar to a Ken Burns series," Nick observes that, "the six films—three of which I directed and produced—are experimental television, and mix elements that are at once dramatic and historic."

We always enjoyed John Aronsohn's writing for The D, and even a quick note from our onetime secretary reminds you of his good-natured wit: 'After reading Class Notes, I decided that if I didn't get up right away and send an e-mail, I'd just end up putting it off like I've done since about 1995. Meg Devine Aronsohn and I live in Darien, Connecticut, with our daughter, Grace Rebecca," bom last August. John adds that for the past fewyears, he's "worked for GE Capital, providing financing to telecom companies," and that Meg "split[s] her time between being a mommy and a freelance strategy consultant."

Steve Dollinger expresses amazement about how the years have passed since fall 1989, when he and I joined scores of others in the basement of Silsby Hall for Professor Starzinger's course on "The Supreme Court and Constitutional Development:" Steve must have enjoyed fitting all of those issues and cases together, as he's become a partner in Houston's Preston & Cowan: "My practice is civil litigation, primarily healthcare defense. On September 6,2000, my wife, Dawn, and I celebrated the birth of our third child, Hannah Elizabeth. Six-year-old Rebekah and 3-year-old lan are very proud of their little sister."

Steve writes that he's kept in touch with Seattle-area classmates Clara Lee and Jim McCutcheon, adding that he also hears from Bill Levin, who works in the administration of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary near Boston. Closer to home, Steve has discovered that the recently married Lauren Kares Harrison practices law at Vinson & Elkins, with Laurens office in the same building as his.

Appropriately enough, I can follow news about lawyers with an item from the March issue of Esquire. If Heidi Julavits had her druthers, those of us buying gifts for women this past Valentines Day would swear off frilly undergarments: In "10 Things You Don't Know About Women," Heidi counsels that "[w]omen hate it when men buy them lingerie," and argues that actress Elizabeth Hurley has become the epitome of 21st-century womanhood "because she remains gorgeous and saucy while looking uncannily like a man in drag."

Take a look at the article, or perhaps Heidi's novel The Mineral Palace, and then drop a line.

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