1984

Greetings classmates.Time for another scintillating column about the lives of fellow '84s.

In the last column I wrote that Daniel Becker was publishing a book in August. The book, ThisMean Disease, was the result of five years of hard work. I was able to get in touch with Daniel to find out what else he has been up to. Daniel lives in Seattle with his wife, Annette. He recently returned to school to get a master's in teaching from Stanford. He is teaching history in a Bellevue, Washington, high school.

Jonna Kirschner says that she has the best job in Oklahoma! She works for the secretary of commerce, Kathy Taylor, as her general counsel. She has the opportunity to travel all over Oklahoma and the states promoting Oklahoma as a great place to live and grow a business. On a recent business trip to Los Angeles Jonna and her colleagues dined at the home of Chrissy and Randy (Burnley) Bucklin in Manhattan Beach. They also tried to meet up with Amy lorio and Ralph Barton, while Amy was directing her film, but were not in the same place at the same time. Now Amy and Ralph are busy with a new baby boy! Even with all the business travel Jonna and her husband, Bruce Scambler, had time to take their boys Jay (age 11, a sixth-grader) and Winston (4, soon to be preK) to Cape Cod for an idyllic Fourth of July on the beach at Brewster, complete with a beach campfire for roasting marshmallows and fireworks across the bay.

Kathy Zug was recently installed as the president of the American Contact Dermatitis Society. The mission of the American Contact Dermatitis Society is to promote, support, develop and stimulate information about contact dermatitis and occupational skin disease for improved patient care. Kathy is a dermatologist and associate professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. She is working three days a week to try and balance work and family. Kathy and her husband have three children, Eliza (7), Briland (5) and Will (4). Her children are learning to swim in Storrs Pond. In the fall her daughter Eliza will start a pilot Rassias program in French at the Ray School offered for second-graders. My only question for Kathy is why French and not Spanish? (Kathy and I enjoyed our LSA together in Granada, Spain.)

Joseph DiBrigida has been elected president and managing director of the law firm Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green. Joe, who is currently the chairman of the firm's corporate department, will assume his new role on January 1. Joes practice concentrates on all stages of business representation, from formation to financing, syndication and venture capital, to business planning and advising, to sales, acquisitions and mergers. He has a particular concentration in the communications and broadcast industries. Joe has been with the firm since 1988, right after receiving his J.D. from Boston College. He is president of the Bedford Regional Economic Development Corp., a member of the board of directors of Child Health Services in Manchester and past-president of the Catholic Lawyers Guild of New Hampshire. Joe lives in Bedford with his wife, Lisa, and their children Sarah and Joey.

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