1989

In a few hours I'll be sending our older daughter off to her first day of kindergarten, where she'll be joined by the son of our classmate Jeremy Rider. So as I read through all of your much-needed e-mails, my thoughts are with old friends and new beginnings.

Charlie Williams joined us for dinner one night in Bethesda and filled us in on his move from Illinois to North Carolina and Duke's Fuqua School of Business, where he teaches organization design and strategy. Charlie, wife Erin, 6-year-old Maddy and 3-year-old Oscar try to take advantage of the outdoors in North Carolina, canoeing, camping and biking when they can. Their summer trip to Ontario, canoeing the Sand River with children in tow, involved 60 miles, 20 rapids, three waterfalls, swarms of mosquitoes, black flies and horseflies and a couple hellish portages to Lake Superior. Charlie says it was madness, and a blast. In other summer adventures Tim Tremblay, Jeanne Shea and their 2-year-old daughter Linden headed out to Cape Cod to visit the baby belugas and the tidal pools and to meet up with Susan McCormack and her husband, Patrick Harty, and their 21/2-year-old daughter Eleanor.

Kris Moller Henley writes, "Received your e-mail in the relative safety and movie-set New England perfection of Lakeville, Connecticut, where I.Andrew, Olivia (nearly 8) and Victoria (4) are spending a fewweeks visiting my parents. We flew out of Heathrow on August 10, a rather unnerving day to travel! After one security queue after another, we were finally allowed on board with a small, clear plastic bag containing wallet, passports, tickets, Kleenex, tampons and children's aspirin. If only I'd known all these years how few carry-on items we actually needed!" Kris was looking forward to visiting Lisa Colby Crawford, husband Tom and new baby Malcolm before returning to England. Margo Miller reports that after six years in London they've bought a house in Hampstead to share with daughters 4-yearold Chelsea and i-year-old Eliza. Margo is chair of Democrats Abroad UK, the official U.S. Democratic Party's presence in the United Kingdom. She is also one of the creators of www.votefromabroad.org, along with fellow alum Jon Cooper '72. The Web site is designed to make it simpler for Americans living outside the United States to register to vote. Margo and family paid a summer visit to Karen (Goettsche) Lubell and her husband and two daughters in Vermont. According to Margo, they are in the process of moving from their idyllic life in Vermont back to D.C.

Karen Sprole and husband Mike Boydston recently welcomed their first child, Erik Finn Boydston, who will be wearing green, courtesy of the onesie sent by KK Lam. Karen is practicing commercial litigation at the Dallas law firm of Diamond McCarthy.

Finally, Kathy Burge and husband Rich Barolow '81 now have a son, Kieran, who is a rambunctious 15-month-old, despite entering the world a month early. According to Kathy, he has his fathers curly hair and is "dizzy with the excitment of walking" and creating general toddler mayhem. They've lived for sixyears in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Kathy is a reporter for the Boston Globe.

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