1990

Robin Plager Lapre sends classmates a quick note from Franklin, Tennessee, where she and husband Michael live: "I am working part time as a physician at Vanderbilt University, but most of the time I am just chasing after my son [Luke], who is inevitably causing some sort of lovable mischief."

Ed Callaway works in Nashville too, as an environmental lawyer at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis. Ed and wife Melissa—a fellow graduate of Vermont Law School—live in Brentwood. With 5-year-old son Caleb and daughter Elizabeth, who turned 3 in February, the main audience for Ed's mandolin stylings has changed from his days in the Upper Valley. Ed plays in a local hockey league, has coached Caleb and other "termite-league" skaters and gets to stay in touch with law partner and fellow returned-Tennesseean Rob Harris.

Transplanted New Yorker David Roth also practices law in the South, at Birmingham's Bradley, Arant, Rose & White. David and wife Kathleen, a public-affairs officer with a local hospital, have welcomed son James, now 2 years old. David writes that while Kathleen "is off to aconference in Houston this weekend to learn about new medical developments, James and I will be at the Sesame Street Stage Show, which should be much more fun." Leave it to an English major to get his kids to the theater so early in life!

A note from Andy Williams Affleck builds on the trend of '9os heading southward: After spending six years working for Dartmouth after graduation, Andy moved to the technology corridor near Boston. He writes that, "In 2000 I left my job at WebCT and began doing contract work for an Arlington, Virginia, company named devlS. My main project was a complete re-do of the old www.disability.gov Web site, the central federal clearinghouse for all things disability-related. The new site, www.disabilitydirect.gov, is now up and running, and I have been working on it as well as on a number of other projects. In September I accepted a full-time position with devlS, and then took a long time to actually relocate," staying with Chris Kagy '89 and Anne Marie Lund Kagy '91 while in Washington, but making lots of trips between to Rhode Island, where wife Ann and their son stayed. "At the end of February," he reports, "we closed on a townhouse in Herndon, and my family and I are finally reunited." Andy spent "two weeks in Hanover [last] July helping teach at the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth (SEAD) program run by JayDavis," which Andy describes as "one of the most rewarding experiences I have had in a long time. On top of that, it was fantastic to be in Hanover again and to see some old friends who are still hanging around up there."

Each year the Dartmouth Club of Washington holds its Daniel Webster dinner, where an alumnus receives an award for public service: This year '9os figured prominently, as the dinner honored Ted Halstead for his policy entrepreneurship at the New America Foundation, and club vice president Jon Sullivan helped mastermind the event. David Sherwood missed the dinner, but I think you'll agree that he had a valid excuse: "My wife Karen and I have two children—Trip, 2 years, and Will," born the week before the Webster dinner. David reports that he and Karen "are enjoying the newfound challenges of dying to keep up with two children." He adds that he's "enjoying a nice stretch of time away from a full-time job after almost a decade in high tech, bearing front-row witness to the inflation and burst of the high-tech bubble."

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