2001

The Olympics will be a distant memory and Green Key just around the corner by the time this reaches you. However, I was impressed to hear that several '01s made it to Salt Lake back in February: Fran Anderson, Jess Webster and Jen Taylor as spectators and Scott Macartney as a member of the U.S. ski team; he placed 29th in the downhill. In other '01 winter news:

Murphy Stein blitzed from a cafe in Qiaotou, a sleepy valley town in China, where he was eating egg chow fun and listening to the shrieks of a cow greeting its slaughter" outside. He has been traveling and learning Chinese and hoping to figure out what he really wants to do before his money runs out. Pete Leckerling was joined in Dalian, China, by Alex Pennock (working in Beijing this year) and 50,000 local residents for a mammoth Chinese New Year's fireworks display.

Meanwhile, over in the Federated States of Micronesia, Richard Sherman wrote from a surf camp in Yap, where he was waiting for the monthly boat to the "out islands," a spot described by Lonely Planet as the most isolated place on earth. Several oceans away, David Gates dropped me a line from Santiago de Chile upon his return from a bike trip through the Chilean and Argentine Patagonia. His travels took him through "everything from temperate rainforest to desert in less than a week."

Louisa Sadler reports that way back over MLK Jr. weekend she headed to England with Megan Hitchner, Jay Krehbiel and Jason Byun to sightsee and hit the London club scene with Meg Smoot, Phillip Saumweber, Will Hughes and Hilke De Smedt. Kelly Finckand Alex Waters will be settled in that general area of the world by the time you read this. They moved to Geneva, Switzerland, from Stamford, Connecticut, in March with less than a months notice—but not without an appropriate Panda House send-off over Winter Carnival, complete with scorpion bowls and fat chips, with Tom Avery, Shialing Kwa,Mariha Gibbs, Jess Webster, Dominic Germana, Matt Deninger and myself. (Secretary's Note: This is the first time that I have shamelessly babbled about my friends—my sincerest apologies).

Pat Leslie is tracking wolves for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service in Jackson, Wyoming, and is expecting a visit from Nicho Dankers and Kate Knight for skiing and country dancing purposes. Michelle Chui is in LA working for Neighbor to Neighbor, a non-profit organization that "politically empowers low-income and communities of color through electoral and grassroots action." Back East, Jess Grabarz is now working for Nickelodeon in NYC, Allison Murray is an editorial assistant for a small book publisher in SoHo and Andy Hoey recently starred in an off-off-Broadway show. Matt Deninger, celebrated High School, is still kvelling over his girls' basketball teams 16-1 record and his snazzy new parking spot.

As usual, congratulations are in order for a number of bis on the major life events front. Jim Irwin will marry Elizabeth League, a UNC Chapel Hill graduate, on August 10; Peter Pasho will be married to Jamie Fan '02 in December; Thomas Song and Jane Joo are also happy to announce their recent engagement. Finally, congratulations to Esther Freeman on her Marshall Scholarship! She will begin study of public health issues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the fall.

I hope that all of your springs are off to a lovely start. Please let me know about your summer plans!

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