1988

There has been a terrific response from our c assmates working in education; keep the e-mails coming! Lara Baker Whelan is in her fourth year of a tenure-track job at Berry College, a small private college in northwest Georgia. "I like it here, and, should the tenure gods see fit to grant my request, I plan to stay. In addition to teaching (Victorian literature, advanced writing and women's studies), I also serve as director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, which involves organizing various activities, such as workshops and seminars, to support teaching. Those who once knew me well maybe surprised to learn I've taken up several 'homemaker' crafts and activities —last year I transformed most of our backyard into garden space, including a 200-square-foot medicinal herb garden. I've also begun sewing and making soap. Next thing you know, it'll be chickens out back and a goat in the frontyard!"

Sonja Kuftinec writes: I have a book coming out in May called Staging America—it's about a theater company in Los Angeles that works with various urban and rural communities making theater, often adaptations of classic plays (example: a Wild West version of Hamlet set in North Dakota). I'm up for tenure this year at the University of Minnesota, where I teach theater and flit away most summers to continue my theater work with Balkan youth. Barring any unforeseen obstacles I'll stay in Minneapolis for a few years with my new husband, Andy Arsham (we'll be married in August in Maine). After finishing his Ph.D. at Penn, he'll come out to Minneapolis. After a few months of settling in, we'll leave for an eight-month pseudo-sabbatical trip around the world with, I hope, a project stopover in the Middle East."

Kathy (Corbett) Brooks has been teaching on and off since '88, including fifth/sixth-grade bilingual Spanish, third/fourth-grade and second grade for seven years. Her first years of teaching were in California, where her husband, Tim Brooks, was in law school at UCLA. The Brookses moved to Indianapolis after getting married in 1991, where Kathy worked as a corporate trainer at a student loan servicer. They lived in Germany for a year (2001-02), where Kathy substituted at the international school in Hamburg, and their two children attended German schools. "It was a terrific year of traveling in Europe. Now we are living in Scituate, Massachusetts, and I am teaching seventh/eighth-grade Spanish in Weymouth."

Following graduation Sarina Schrager went to the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. After a family medicine residency and a fellowship in primary care women's health, she is currendy on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin department of family medicine teaching medical students and researching osteoporosis prevention. She married Ken Loving (North-western '87), who is also a family physician; they have two boys, Sam (3) and Caleb (11/2). They love Madison, where they have run into Beth Burnside (a radiologist at the University of Wisconsin hospital—married with one son who is about 2) and Chad Speight (who owns his own carpentry business).

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