1993

News! You've sent news! Excellent. Please keep the news rolling, even when it starts to seem like it's taking me too long and I've ignored you, keep it coming. I'll do my best to get it all in. There's quite a bit of lag time between you sending it to me and me getting it published. But it will, it will, it will. Honest.

Baby call gets top billing this month. Jessica and Doug Chia welcomed Brendan and Madeline into the world; Brendan edging out Madeline by a scant 23 minutes, on the 29th of January. A pair of lightweights, at 4 pounds, 11 ounces and 5 pounds, 5 ounces, respectively, Doug and Jessica will indubitably have already gone to work on beefing them up. Apparently Doug and Jessica have already placed Brendan and Madeline on the waiting list for Bolliteris Tennis Preschool in Boca Raton, using mixed doubles as their in, having first secured a guaranteed spot with the Child Prodigy Montessori School of Manhattan. They're keeping their options open at press time, but a decision is pending.

The next day, Christen Kaczorowski Lacey and husband John welcomed their first child on the 30th. Christen claims to have begun grooming Niamh Louise for enjoying Hop films in utero, and now, half a year on, Niamh has no doubt seen her first films and begun compiling her personal list of favorites. She probably has some suggestions for a few directors as well and might be just the thing the movie industry needs, in 20 years or so. Christen, aside from mothering, has been working in Boston in investment banking.

Next up, wedding bells. Deborah Bernstein married David Miller '92 on the 2nd of November in Atlanta. As the story goes, the couple (who now live in San Francisco, she working as a senior vice president at Pequot Ventures in Menlo Park, and he as a group manager at Siebel Systems in San Mateo) met at Phi Reds Fall term in '90. Eight years later they were reunited in the Hamptons. All told, it was a 12-year journey to marriage. Dana MacLaurin Nunn, Roberta DiGiorgio, David Pichler '92, David Friedman '92, Matt Ahrens '92 Jeff Gaillard '92 and Andy Han '92 were in the wedding party. Hilary Brooke, Alyssa Cohen Tablada, Chris '92 and Sara (Freed) Ehrlich, Sandra Mitre, Tracy Welch, Christy Neumann Richardson, Chad and Cathleen (Millet) Thomas and Carine Tischmann Beer were all there to start off the marriage in style.

Beth Krakower wrote of Angela Lee's marriage to Peter Harris. Angela has recently graduated from medical school and is now a resident, living in marital bliss in Buffalo. Beth works as a marketing and public relations consultant in the music industry in N.Y.C. Her company celebrated its fifth anniversary in January.

And that's about it for this month. News from Africa? Well, since you asked: My wife and I competed in the Two Oceans Half Marathon in Cape Town last April. Neither of us have run much since, but we loved every step of the 13.1 miles (and every step we spent surrounded by modern conveniences while in Cape Townit's amazing how something simple, like ice in a cup, can strike reverie after just a short time away from it all). My greatest success thus far has been to inspire a minor green revolution among my neighbors. I built a low greenhouse out of available materials and have been enjoying fresh greens long after they were frozen in outdoor gardens and disappeared from the grocers. Eyeing my contraption, a half dozen similar winter gardens have sprung up. It's a good start.

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