1993

News from the other side of the world: You know, I was just thinking about how inherently cool it is that you all are writing me letters about people all over the world and I'm gathering and rephrasing here and there and then sending all of this back to Hanover and then it goes out in magazine form. All pretty cool if you ask me.

I'm freshly back from safari in Zambia, you know, the usual stuff elephants, hippos, lions, Victoria Falls. Back in Lesotho we awoke to the majesty of all of the mountain peaks around us capped in snow. Brilliant, but I am eagerly looking forward to warmer weather and summertime. Should be around by the time you get this edition and decide to mail me your news.

John M. Dusza (jdsoundview@snet.net) listed his recent accomplishments as receiving his M.B.A. from Yale, a new job as a poitfolio manager at a start-up asset management company in Connecticut, and engagement to Alicia Bromfield, Johns Hopkins '96, in no particular order. John also reports that he's spent time with Betsy Cregger and David Silverman skiing at Tahoe and surfing at Santa Cruz, but things might be different since their daughter, Sarah Grace, arrived February 24. Living in Menlo Park, Betsy is well prepared as a child psychiatrist at Stanford while David is a partner at a venture capital firm.

Despite Munir's warning, "Hide your chilren Memphis," since January 2003, Memphis has allowed Alex Kaplan to teach writing and nthgrade English at a private school. Alex passed the summer at the University of Memphis taking education classes—and powering his way through Moby Dick "because I (stupidly) assigned it as summer reading." Alex sent word that Seth Alpert completed a fellowship in pediatric urology in Chicago and (as of this writing) was returning to Memphis in October for his wedding. Although she is a lawyer from Penn, Alex suggests that we not "hold that against her." We hope Seth will send in the details. Alex also said, "Pete Essig came through town, and he was living out of his car on an interminable road trip after getting his M.B.A. from the University of Texas. He literally has no address, God bless him." Before moving to Memphis, Alex was in L. A., where he saw Kate Madigan, who is a doctor working on oncology at USC, and Michele Pauporte, who is a dermatologist in San Francisco. He closes his note with,"I don't think I know anything else." Maybe Memphis should hide her children.

Sharon Cox figures she has the jump on all of us as perhaps "the first member of our class to send a child to college—yikes!" She is the guardian for her cousin, who graduated from high school this spring and is hitting the big time this fall. Bravo. Sharon continues to work for Merck, sing in church, share a house with her sister and enjoy "the great life we have been blessed with." Sharon passed on news of Keenya Warner who is playing and traveling with the U.S. National Rugby team and who has become "famous in the world of rugby." Keenya, in addition to crunching ball carriers, works for the U.S. Tennis Association in Westchester and visited Eastern Europe last spring on a mission trip with her church.

And that's the news. Please send along your details. If nothing else we could always use more fire-starters up here in the mountains. It's cold in Africa.

P.O. Box 71, Thaba Tseka 550, Lesotho, Southern Africa; chrisonken@hotmail.com