1998

By the time you read this, its a few months past reunion. I drove out of Hanover with one last look at Baker Tower, speeding to Boston to catch up with Kristin Terry and then on to Logan to catch my plane. After switching flights and getting my boarding pass for seat 9B, I found that seat 9C was HeatherCharles. Like many people I talked with at the reunion, she and I never knew each other well in college but had a wonderful chat for the time we were in the air.

Lani Sipe, now Lani Sipe Curtis, married, in her words, her most adorable childhood friend (and sometimes sweetheart) Joe Curtis on May 10. Though they now live in San Francisco, their long-distance relationship spanned three continents. After completing his term in the Peace Corps in Benin in West Africa, where Katie Milligan was also working, Joe moved to San Francisco while Lani was working in London, where they became engaged last year. The happy couple wed near Lani's hometown in La Jolla, California, joined by friends who traveled to the wedding from around the world including Sara Burch, Dara Denberg, Kate Frias, Caroline Langsdorf, Kelley Moohr, Kelly Wardwell, Sara Lugaric '96, Tully Pruden '99 and Kirk Spahn '99. Both now reside in San Francisco.

Danielle Flanders married Peter Jensen the weekend of the reunion. I heard about the wedding from several people at the reunion but confess that my real source is The New YorkTimes wedding page from June 15. In August Danielle starts her career as a math teacher at the Menlo School in Atherton, California.

Katherine Brown asserts she will definitely make it up to the 10-year reunion. After graduating from Columbia's Teachers' College last year, Katherine just finished up her first full year of teaching at a New York City school and xabsolutely loves her job.

Several people emailed me about Project Winnebago, an undertaking by Dong Shen, Josh Freeman, Noah Schneiderman, Ryan Broderick, Dave Pichler and a few other comrades are embarking cross-country 3,000 miles to drive Steve Zrike to his new home in Spokane. Calling it the "road trip to end all road trips," they're not just ripping off the Master Card slogan on their Web site ("40 soft chicken tacos by the roadside: $28; Winnebago rental: $2:500; Spending seven days with some of your best friends crammed into said Winnebago: Priceless"), they're also throwing a big party on July 12 to raise money for charity. Specifically, they're raising money for Teach for America in honor of Steves devotion to his Ph.D. in education. By the time this issue hits your mailbox, the eight guys will have finished their version of the Grand Tour from Boston via Columbus, Chicago, Minneapolis, Fargo, Spokane, ending in Seattle.

Kyle Anoowitz and Carter Jackson missed the reunion at the last minute due to the overwhelming success of their theatre run. In a wonderful review of the Blue Coyote Theatre Groups current run, Busted Jesus Comix, and three more plays, New York critic Martin Denton wrote: "I love it when a play knocks me out or blows me away (or both); Johnston and his Blue Coyote colleagues go four-for-four." With demands for tickets high, they extended performances right through reunion weekend.

A few weeks after reunion, Dominic Seiterle rowed 80 miles across Lake Ontario from Rochester, New York, to Kingston, Canada, raising money for cancer. It's just a warm-up for his training for the Canadian Olympic team tryouts in the fall. And, also just before reunion, Kevin Arista and Molly Hershey became engaged in New York City.

That's the news from here.

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