1989

I was heading toward my table at a Parkinsons fundraising dinner in Washington, D.C., when a familiar face looked up at me. I took the empty seat next to his and wondered where we'd previously crossed paths. We quickly established our Hanover connection and I spent an interesting evening chatting with Chuck Berwick as we listened to emcee Sam Donaldson and special guest Michael J. Fox. Chuck has worked for several members of Congress including former U.S. Senator Slade Gorton 49. He's currently back in Washington after getting his masters in business administration at Vanderbilt's Owen School of Management. These days he's working for the House budget committee and its Republican chairman Jim Nussle of lowa.

I was attending the dinner with Zach Levine (otherwise known as your class secretary's spouse), who has a number of patients with Parkinsons disease. He's currently the only neurosurgeon in the D.C. area who performs a procedure called deep brain stimulation.The surgery helps patients regain mobility and reduces tremors, and was recently featured on 60 Minutes. Zach has been named to the board of the Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area and is on the scientific review committee reponsible for giving out around a million dollars worth of research grants.

As the two items above prove, a good way to get in the column is to have dinner with yours truly. Jeanne De Sa was a welcome surprise guest at a dinner with another old friend back in May. We were high school classmates as well as college ones, so we had plenty of catching up to do after an absence of almost 10 years. Jeanne currently works for the Congressional Budget Office in the area of health care allocation and lives on Capitol Hill.

Lisa Gail Collins is an assistant professor in art history and Africana studies at Vassar College and the author of The Art of History.-African American Women Artists Engage the Past, which was published in 2002 by Rutgers University Press. Heather Kiilebrew Cowdery got her law degree this past spring from Seattle University School of Law.

Laura Fitch Mattson is the only classmate who actually got in touch to share news. She and her husband, Jon, live in Rye, New York, with their sons, Jack and Charlie, ages 4 and 2. She's been at home with the boys but recently started work- ing part-time doing brand management at Guin- ness Bass Import Cos. She's says "I'm marketing beer, so my college friends prepared me well." She sees Kristen von Summer, Robbi Smith and Tracy Benchley Turner in New York City. Laurie Fanger Reed comes from Seattle for quick visits. And Laura is in touch with Kate Chanin, who visits from Mystic, Connecticut, and "should go on Survivor and be discovered—it's her calling." Laura also says she'd love to see more of Nicole Conte in Vermont and she's looking forward to Tom Palmer's September wedding on Nantucket. She'd love to hear from Anne Moellering, Laurie Sammis, Dan Rivers and Jeff Hawkings. Her e-mail is mattson2ooi(a)earthlink.net. Or, classmates, you could just write to me and I'll share all. Until next time.

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