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Home of our fellow graduates have offspring old enough to begin thinking about college.Tell them about Michele Hernandez, a former assistant director of admissions for Dartmouth and now the co-author of Don't Worry, You'llGet In:100 Winning Tips for Stress-Free College Admissions. Michele is a best-selling author who's been quoted in Newsweek, The New York Times, TheWall Street Journal and Atlantic Monthly and appeared on NBC's Today show, MSNBC and CNN. She is the president and founder of Hernandez College Consulting and lives with her family outside Portland, Oregon.

Many of us learned about the amazing career of Pamela Wheeler in a recent issue of this magazine. Now the sports lawyer who is director of operations for the Women's National Basketball Players Association, she has been named one of the 50 most powerful blacks in sports by Black Enterprise Magazine. According to the magazine, the WNBPA serves as a labor union for the players in fact, Wheeler developed the first collective bargaining agreement in women's professional sports, back in 1999.

Alex Simpson has just started his own corporate and securities practice based in N.Y.C. (www.alexsimpsonlaw.com). He would love to hear from classmates with news, reminiscences and, of course, referrals. Alex lives in New York City with his wife, Lisa, 3-year-old daughter Shae and 1-year-old son Austin.

Katie Willards novel,Raising Hope, was scheduled to be published by Warner Books in May. She writes, "It's a story that explores the complicated love between mothers and daughters, the power of female friendships and the crazy beauty that can ensue when we're open to life's surprises." Booklist Magazine calls the novel a "heartrending and heartwarming novel" that is "enhanced by Willards uncanny ability to cross generational lines, instilling all her characters with unique and believable voices." Katie invites classmates to visit her Web site, www.katiewillard.com and drop her a note in the comments section.

Some other news, courtesy of our class copresident, Laura Fitch Mattson.

Todd Timmerman has a new baby daughter— Audrey Kei Timmerman.

Liz Eilender is engaged to Jeffrey Chester, a lawyer in New York "with fabulous blue eyes." Liz says he's a BU grad, but she's marrying him anyway! Her daughter, Sydney, who just turned 8, gives her stamp of approval.

Sid Williams recently moved back from London and added a baby boy to the family. He's living in Greenwich, Connecticut, with his wife and three children. According to Laura, Sidney doesn't have a British accent and didn't do yoga with Madonna.

Brett Divers has been named one of "Florida's Legal Elite" by Florida Trend Magazine. Brett's law firm is Mills Paskert Divers, based in Tampa.

Technology innovator Peter Monaco has joined the Nuasis Corp. as vice president of engineering. Peter holds three patents in the area of voice processing and speech recognition and previously worked at Nuance Communications, which he founded. Before his nine years at Nuance, he was a research engineer with SRI International.

Finally, our class has beat the giving record for the 16th year out—congratulations to our class agents Bobby Jaffe and Todd Timmerman and thanks to the rest of us who contributed.

But of course money is far from the only way you can participate. Check out our new class Web site at www.dartmouth.org/classes/89/index. htm and the accompanying bulletin board where you can share your thoughts with our class online.

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