2001

Late summer-y greetings to you all! I'm changing things up a bit this goround. I am simply overwhelmed with the depth and breadth of''01 comings and goings so I have, unbeknownst to you, instituted a first-come, first served" policy to temporarily end the suffering associated with attempting to cram the news of more than 150 people into a 600-word column. Please forgive me if I have failed to do your news, or that of the 11 tequila-toting friends with whom you wreaked havoc in the streets of a small Cen- tral American country, the justice it so deserves! (I apologize for the hint of sarcasm. Really, I do).

All kidding aside, wonderful things have been happening in the lives of our classmates around the globe. Lindsay Reich, Jenn Gill, Lisa Emerson and Luisa Capasso visited Kat Kempf in May in Tokyo, where Kat has been all year on a Princeton fellowship. They also visited Maribel Florez (teaching in a town outside of Tokyo) and Mitsu Aoyama (working in Tokyo) and managed to pull off the best karaoke version of "What's Love Got to Do with It?" ever seen that side of the Pacific.

Overseas and involved in a more serious pursuit, Shazia Ahmed was in Durban, South Africa, this past spring, making a film about AIDS orphans at an orphanage called Agape. Contact her for some amazing details.

In recent graduate school developments, Rob Hallenbeck is studying chemical engineering at Cornell, Kevin Smith is at the University of Michigan for French Literature, and Edward Kim is at William & Mary Law School in Virginia (apparently he recently appeared on American Idol as a dancer in a music video). Carla Torrielli is at Boston College for a master's of higher education administration, Lily Mac Lean is at Stanford's School of Business and Dan Braden is pursuing a master's in environmental science at Yale. Congratulations!

In some of the latest but coolest wedding news yet, Robbie Barbero and Megan Beck were married last December at sunset on the beach in Naples, Florida; Megan is at Stanford Law and Robbie works in nanotech. The cool part is that they started dating one week before Megan transferred to Harvard, and Robbie "figured that if the relationship could survive that travesty we were meant to be together, so I asked her to marry me on a stormy day at the Pacific Ocean in December of 2002." I approve.

Running aclose second is Christine Campbell's spontaneous wedding to Jorge Pino in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Botanical Gardens in May. Christine reports: "On a canoe trip down the Cahaba River, over a gourmet picnic and the shy blooms of the rare Cahaba lily, he asked me to marry him." When they're not posing for the cover of Martha Stewart Weddings they have been known to play Ultimate and steal beers from each other (that's how they met!).

In other good news Ashley Zeilinger is engaged to high school sweetheart Matt McMahon, a med student at UVA, where Ashley has just finished law school. Emily Schoonmaker, studying law at the University of Oregon, is engaged to Tim Sands and will be married next spring. Emily is also singing in the very prestigious Over-the-Counter Jug Band in Eugene, Oregon. You have to check it out: www.otcjug.com.

Finally: please, please, please pay your class dues when you are asked so that you can continue to receive these unparalleled-in-wonderfulness '01 updates (and other good things)! Take care and enjoy the last days of summer.

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