1988

After five years writing the Class Notes, Mike Freidberg has decided it's time to move on. As an officer in the Naval Reserve, he was put on alert last autumn for a year-long deployment overseas. As events unfolded, the deployment was postponed and finally canceled, but the scramble to prepare his family for his absence led to a reevaluation of the many demands on his family's time. They are "paring down a bit" in order to find a few more evenings and weekends to spend together. His wife, Elizabeth, and sons Jackson and Bennett, are happy to see a little more of him. Having remembered an offer to help I made years ago, Mike passed the torch on to me. There is much to report, so I'll save my own update for later.

As international affairs coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean, Chris Schons planned and participated in the Florida Department of States July 2001 diplomatic and cultural mission to Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. This mission helped advance several initiatives, including the signing of a wide-ranging cooperative agreement with Argentina's Province of Buenos Aires and the promotion of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).

Elizabeth Pike has been happily living a Boulder lifestyle: mountain biking, rock climbing, trail running, yoga, telemark skiing, etc. She recently finished her Ph.D. in geography. In her words, "I am still gainfully underemployed by the University of Colorado, which leaves me plenty of time to pursue various Boulder-type activities, such as selecting aromatherapy candles and driving my Honda to the natural food store while wearing Birkenstocks. My most exciting out of Boulder experiences have included 31/2 weeks in Norway last summer (filled with more outdoor sports activities, of course) and road trips to various scenic western sports venues such as West Yellowstone, Montana and Utah." She, also attended Bryan James' Lake Tahoe wedding last fall, where she caught up with Steve Gutmann and Tom Stasz.

In a recent electronic Green Card, Sue Cote '87 wrote: "I've always had something of an inferiority complex when it comes to Green Cards. Everyone always seemed to be having kids, receiving promotions, starting companies or having weddings with bunches of classmates flying in from all over the world. Finally, a Green Card I can feel proud of! I'm leaving the field of consulting environmental engineering, and joined the Peace Corps. After a seven-month application/interview/waiting process (phew!), I was recently invited to serve as a high school English teacher in Mongolia. I'll be teaching some classes and helping to improve the ESL program in a local school district. While I won't know my exact assignment/location until midway through training, I'm hoping to live someplace rural and agricultural, with lots of yaks and camels around."

After four and a half years with the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board in Vienna, Robert Adachi will be headed to the other side of the Alps in Geneva at the end of March as a legal officer dealing with investment issues at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. His wife, Yoko, is already there and also works for the UN.

Carlos Plummer '59 proves that alums are found 'round the girdled earth. While trekking in Nepal last November, he ran into and photographed an '88 wearing a Dartmouth T-shirt. It was our own Dave Magilner, now a pediatrician in Seattle.

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