1998

Scads of news this month, mainly lots of people getting or just got married, lots of people still in grad school. And I'm writing this yet again from a lonely Internet cafe in a forsaken town in the middle of nowhere. Thanks to everyone who wrote in!

Karen Lefrak wed Dr. Jonathan Salvin on May 5. She graduated in June from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and has started an emergency medical residency at MCP-Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia. Her husband, also an M.D. grad from Jefferson, is a resident in opthamalogy.

Nita Farahany just finished her first year at Duke Law School but she's not just getting her J.D.—her combined degree program includes studying interdisciplinary genomics. She and fiance Rick McFarland are planning to marry this September. They met at Monitor Cos. in Boston, where Nita spent her first three years after graduation. Kelley Sidley, Gareth Schweizer and Meghan Pound should all be walking down the aisle with Nita in September. Molli Hammermesh is also engaged and marries this August. Kelley Sidley and Adam Wallowick '96 plan towed this October. Katie Kenney is heading to NYU for her M.B.A. this fall and Meghan Pound, recent Duke Law grad, is studying for the bar this summer.

Betsy Lewis and Anne Kanyusik wrote in with some news: Miriam Marcum, still in M.D. school at University of Kentucky, married Jeff Tuttle last June in Lexington, Kentucky, with Joan Ai, Christina Campo, Kathleen Barry and Anne Kanyusik in attendance. And Christina Campo also married last summer. She's continuing M.D./Ph.D. work at University of Maryland. Kathleen Barry graduated from the University of Illinois. Now a resident of Grand Rapids, she is clerking for a federal District Court judge in the western district of Michigan. Chris Houpt just finished studying abroad in Beijing and enters Harvard Law this fall. Christine Lin completed her masters in international relations at Columbia, traveled to Guatemala to complete a human rights report for the United Nations and starts at AU Law School here in D.C. this fall. Pieter Ott left his Cambridge job at Kennedy School of Government to start a master's program at Syracuse this fall. Will Scarbrough, still in Cambridge, is toiling at FIRST Place, a foundation that promotes interest in science and technology in Manchester, New Hampshire. Paulina Troicka just finished her firstyear of B-school at U.C. Davis. Erica Ryu is still doing Ph.D. work in sociology at U Mich. And Daniel Shaw, a new master's music grad from Emory, is now residing in Pittsburgh with Jason Hendrickson. Dan is conducting two local choirs and was just hired as an adjunct professor of music at Dusquene University. And at the end, Betsy added a tidbit about herself: She and Khalid Osbourne-Roberts got engaged in April and are now planning the wedding...but no news from Anne about herself. Simon and Katrina Holmes a Court moved back to Australia after several years in San Francisco, and Katrina just gave birth to their second child. Allegra Katalin Courage came bouncing into the world at the end of May, right on Simon's 30th birthday. And one more wedding announcement came in just as I was writing this: Jennie Jacobs and Sequoyah Simermeyer '97 are engaged with a wedding planned for 2003. The happy couple and their black lab, Bear, currently live in Ithaca, where Sequoyah is starting his second year at Cornell Law and Jennie is putting her master's in museum education to good use at the Johnson Museum of Art. And I've moved. No longer living in the 'burbs but in Burleith, a tiny strip of a neighborhood wedged between Georgetown and Glover Park in D.C. Megan Crosby and Drew Hunter, both here at med school are neighbors...sort of. New address (for those of you that prefer snail mail) is below.

Simone Swink, 3722 TSt., NW, Washington, DC20007; ssmnk@natgeochanneL com