1992

It was with great joy that I received an e-mail from a woman I still hold to the highest standard of coolness, Christina Flavell.The female half of the River Cluster hockey dynasty's Canadian terror tandem (along with McShane Jones) has taken the year off since the birth of her son, Matthew, last February 16 (coincidental!/, Christina, that is also my birthday!) and traveled all over the world—with the kid! Wow. Her husband, Mike, works for the Canadian Olympic Committee, so he is already starting to gear up for Vancouver 2010; he got a nice head start by spending much of the summer in Athens. When they're not jet-setting, the family still lives in Toronto, where Christina works for Cossette Communications.

Another February 2004 baby, Katerina, was born to Bill Kipp and Krista Klein, who are part of a nice pipeline our class has in San Francisco. They see Pete Chung and Andrea Higgins quite a bit; they had a daughter, Paget, in March. Charlie Vestner works at Google with Bill, and Krista reports seeing a lot of Maria Veniard Beariault, who lives in Berkeley with her husband, Mark, and their children, Isabel and Thomas.

"I had a reunion at Lake Sunapee with all my housemates over the summer to celebrate Megan Eliassen's wedding to Patrick Sankovitz," Krista wrote. "Steph Haddad, Mai Tran Hunt, Pam Zachar, Nina Kemppel and Katie Proctor were all in attendance. Other summer reunions included a trip to the Oregon coast with Matt Semler, Ashley Campion '90 and their baby, Anna, as well as Andre Gauri, his wife, Kristen, and their daughters, Maya and Caroline. It was quite a baby-fest!"

Jeff Lewis wrote in with news that he and his wife, Sarah, are the proud parents of three kids- Jessica, Rebecca and, most recently, Eli (born in September). "Needless to say," he wrote, "there is much chaos in the house and neither of us are getting much sleep." Jeff reported talking recently with Will Ignatoff, an ER doctor in Phoenix, and also saw Lali Otterness Gasparov in Chicago last year. Both Will and Lali are parents these days, as well.

The Alumni Mag passed on a note from Peter DeBalli about his experience on Jeopardy! Yup, that was him you saw on your TVs December 3 and 6. Pete was fortunate enough not to be on the rails while the runaway freight train that was Ken Jennings was around (and lets face it, if you don't know who Ken Jennings is you are SO out of the loop!). In fact, Pete actually saw Jennings dethroned, then saw a woman beat the woman who beat Jennings, and then Pete beat that woman to play a second episode with Alex Trebek. So by the transitive property, I believe Pete might be the smartest man in the whole wide world. However, arithmetic was never my forte, as anyone who took Math 1 with me can attest.

Finally, I end these notes with an update from Hugo Restall, who was recently appointed editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review (a regional weekly in Asia). After 10 years in Hong Kong, Hugo and his wife,Xiaohui, moved to New York for all of 10 months before he got the assignment, and so they have moved back to the Far East, this time to Beijing. Hugo is releasing the magazine as an opinion monthly.

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