1989

Some of my favorite e-mails come from overseas. Don Eggert dropped a few lines from an Internet cafe in Sarajevo named Club Bill Gates. He was working in Kosovo during the spring with his wife and son, and planning to head next to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

Don saw Wendy Zug in Montana over Christmas. She lives with her family in Mammoth (Yellowstone Park) and recently traveled to Kazakhstan to adopt a child. Don also recently heard from Andy Wells, who is living in Portland, Oregon, and was planning to travel to Japan with his family for work.

Brooks Entwistle writes from Hong Kong that he and his wife, Laura, are parents for the second time. Daughter Kayla Lauren was born on January 19, joining 2-year-old Bryanna Grace, who has been, "thanks to a few selective gifts/bribes, very welcoming of the latest member of our family." Brooks wrote in April at the height of the SARS outbreak and the "surgical mask fashion craze" in Hong Kong, but said the region is as exciting and intellectually stimulating as ever. He's at Goldman Sachs as the COO for the Asia Ex-Japan region and travels frequently to New York and San Francisco. Brooks and his family hope to make it to Hanover for our 15th reunion next June (hint, hint everyone—if he can travel from Hong Kong, you can make it too). Meanwhile, he welcomes any '89s to look him up if they're in town. Other '89s in Hong Kong include Gesine Albrecht, who works as a lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb.

Russell Wolff says you can go home again. He lives less than a mile from the house where he grew up in Mamaroneck, New York, with his wife, Patty, and their2o-month-old son, Michael. He returned from Asia almost three years ago and works for ESPN International. He reports that Mike Herzig and his wife, JoJo, had their third child Robbie, joining Gabrielle and David. They live in Manhattan, where Mike works for Merrill Lynch.

Adrianne Adomeit Bajtay and her Hungarian husband, Andras, work for Hewlett Packard in Vancouver, Washington. She married Andras when she was getting her M.B.A. from Cornell, but they met while Adrianne was on the Karl Marx University program in Budapest while we were undergrads. They have two children, Mark, 6, and Victoria, 3.

Jilann Spitzmiller and Hank Rogerson welcomed their daughter, Isabel Sargent Rogerson, on March 28. Jilann writes that she was born in the water with the help of some very cool midwives. Among their other productions, Hank and Jilann are working on their documentary Shakespeare Behind Bars, about a group of inmates in Kentucky who are preparing to perform TheTempest. "The text of the great bard," writes Jilann, "helps these men examine their own crimes and characters as they act out the crimes in the play." They also had a project in the Sundance Film Festival in January—a Web site (pbs.org/circleofstories) about Native American cultural preservations and storytelling.

Little Lucas Giersch can do some storytelling of his own someday, about the day he was born. Parents Anne and Pat Giersch had quite a memorable ride to the hospital in Boston from their home in Natick, Massachusetts, on January 3, during one of the many snowstorms that buried the East Coast this past winter. Lucas joins big brother Connor, now almost 3. Pat teaches history at Wellesley College.

Lots more news to come from all of you who wrote me in the spring.

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