1988

While I have lots of news from classmates in the education field, I'm barely making the deadline; I apologize for this abbreviated set of notes. Jessica Seessel is living in Astoria Queens with her husband, Richard Larson, and son Samuel Seessel Larson, born October 18, 2002. "I'm currently teaching at the International High School at Laguardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens. It's a New York City public high school for recent immigrants (they have to have been in the country four years or less). We have kids from 40 language groups. I teach 11th-and 12th-grade English/literature (it's an immersion program and not ESL). I got my Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1996 in modern thought and literature and returned to New York City that summer. After four years in the classical music business as an agent and sales director, I began teaching in N.Y.C. public schools three years ago."

The "spell of Dartmouth" definitely remains with F. Jon Kull: he is back in Hanover as an assistant professor in the chemistry department. "After leaving Dartmouth I took a year off, and then spent eight years in San Francisco, six and a half as a biochemistry graduate student at UCSF, and then another one and a half years as a post-doc. After that I moved to Heidelberg, Germany, where I worked as an X-ray crystallographer at the Max-Planck Institute." While in Heidelberg, he married Angela, a classmate from graduate school. They returned to Hanover last winter and moved into a post-and-beam house they built in Enfield, New Hampshire.

Bennett Schwartz has been an associate professor of psychology at Florida International University, in Miami for the past 10 years. His wife, Leslie Frazier, holds the same position at FIU. They have one daughter, Sarina, almost 3 years old. "Probably the most unique aspect of my life right now is one of my research areas, primate memory and cognition. I am currently engaged in a project on gorilla memory. My subject in these studies is King, a 450-pound silverback male gorilla. King has spent a lot of time around humans and is thus a good subject for studies of cognition. My research with him was recently featured on the Discovery Canada channel (March '02)."

Keep the news coming!

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