1984

Hello fellow 19845. I hope that everyone is doing well. Once again I bring you news of classmates and I remind you to drop me an e-mail to update me on what you (or other '84s) are up to.

From Lana Shane: "Just a little note for our column in the Alumni Magazine. Lets see, my work/education history—l have been a research chemist in Albany, New York, working with PCBs and dioxins in the environment; gotten an M.A. in environmental biology at the University of California at Santa Barbara; worked as a project manager in an environmental consulting firm (assessing contaminants in soil and groundwater) in Santa Barbara; and been office manager at a veterinary clinic in Buellton, California. Two years ago I moved to my dream property in Bend, Oregon, am working and volunteering in the theater community and am busy living and loving life!" Sounds like Lana has been very busy!

Kudos to Nigel Jaquiss. He won a Pulitzer Prize for the small alternative weekly newspaper that he writes for in Portland, Oregon, WillametteWeek. Nigel won the award for an investigative piece reporting that the former mayor of Portland and governor of Oregon sexually abused a 14- year-old girl in the mid-19705. He has been writing for Willamette Week for the last seven years. This is a big change from his former job, trading oil in New York and Singapore. He enjoyed the job, but after Nigel and his wife, Meg Remsen, had their first child, he realized that life was passing him by and he decided to pursue his real interest, writing. He took the advice of another classmate, Viva Hardigg, and went to journalism school (so he would have a trade in case he did not sell his novel). After that, he and Meg moved to Portland and Nigel took a job working at a paper that "values investigative reporting and local news and is owned by people who sit in the newsroom." Nigel has found the work enormously rewarding. Meg is currently taking care of their three children, ages 9,6 and 3 (which Nigel acknowledges is "far more work than anything I've ever done").

Paris, France. Lisa does enjoy the occasional business trip to Paris. She has been with Arkema for about ayear now and is really enjoying the job.She and her husband have three daughters, Emily (12), Sara (8) and Olivia (6).

Congratulations to Ingeborg Sacksen, who is a general physician practicing in very rural Salida, Colorado, on the birth in December of her daughter, Analiese Charlotte.

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