1997

My wife, Faye, and I rang in the season by attending the annual holiday party at the Dartmouth Club of New York. The Cords performed a rousing rendition of the alma mater and a quietly moving version of Billy Joel's 'And So It Goes." I won a badly needed session with a personal trainer as a door prize. I can already feel myself getting into better shape for our upcoming trip to Maui.

At the party I ran into Jennifer Merzon and Zoe Langsten. Jen recently moved to New York from Washington, D.C. She and Zoe are both associates at the same law firm, O'Melveny & Myers. Jen is engaged to Chris Evans, a fellow lawyer she met during law school at Duke. Jen and I reminisced about our junior year London history FSP. It's hard to believe that was more than 10 years ago.

While working in Boston I was pleasantly surprised to hear the voice of Lynne Campbell Soutter on a conference call. She later sent me the following news: "Morgan Soutter and I were married in July 2001 in my hometown of Rochester, New York. After getting his M.B.A. at Cornell's Johnson School, Morgan made a very satisfying career change by entering teaching. He now teaches math and computer science at BC High in Boston. I am a litigator at Wilmer Hale, where I get to work on both securities cases, commercial disputes and some interesting pro bono work. For the last year and a half we've challenged the military's authority to hold our clients, six detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, without charges. After obtaining requisite security clearance, I was able to go to Guantanamo (while five months pregnant!) to meet my clients for the first time in August. Hard to sum up the experience, but I am very glad to have made the trip."

I am happy to report that on December 17 Lynne and Morgan welcomed their son Colby. He weighed 9 pounds, 5 ounces and was 211/2 inches long. Lynne wrote that" he's big and beautiful!" Congratulations to the new parents!

Lynne also had the following news about our fellow '97s:

"Katherine Hankins and Amanda Ruscitto made lovely bridesmaids in Kathy Miller's wedding on a sunny September day in Pennsylvania. Kathy looked happy and beautiful as she married a fellow MIT Ph.D. candidate with a mischievous smile, Kyle Jensen.

"Sariya Sharp just had her second child, Freddie, in October. She will soon be starting a residency in radiology."

Michael Glatze is making his mark in the publishing world as editor-in-chief of a new magazine called YGA (Young Gay America). He was quoted throughout an October 2005 Time cover story called the "Battle Over Gay Teens."

In Hollywood news Chris Miller and Phil Lord are co-executive producers of CBS' How IMetYour Mother, one of the seasons best new shows. The ensemble cast includes Josh Radnor, Alyson Hannigan and Neil Patrick Harris, whom Entertainment Weekly named this seasons top breakout star for his role as Barney. You never know what he's going to say, but you can always count on it to be wildly inappropriate and hysterical. Chris and Phil also wrote "Sweet Taste of Liberty," the episode where Barney fulfilled his dream of licking the Liberty Bell. Keep up the great work, guys!

In a performance The New York Times called reserved and confident," Amanda Jones portrayed the lead in Candida, George Bernard Shaw's classic comedy, at New York's Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre through January 2 9.

Take care, everyone!

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