1994

As I turned the dog-eared pages of my well-loved Schmenu I was pleased to recognize lots of familiar faces from this months column. I hope you will too, so dig out your face books and get ready to read along.

Justin Sadrian was promoted to managing director of Warburg Pincus a leading private equity investor. Justin has been working in the company's technology, media and telecommunications group since 2000. Previously he was at JPMrgan Securities' investment banking division and merchant banking group after earning his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Benjamin Dean also wrote to say he had a great year last year. "I've been practicing technology and outsourcing law at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington, D.C., since 1998 and at the end of 2006 the firm promoted me to the position of counsel. Not exactly what I ever thought I'd be doing, but the work is incredible and very timely. I also got married this past summer in Louisville, Kentucky, to Kim Taylor, whom I met in Washington. She is working on Capitol Hill as the legislative director for her U.S. senator from Kentucky, Jim Bunning (he also happens to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame—very cool!)." Benjamin and his wife had a wonderful wedding weekend, including a Day at the Races rehearsal brunch at Churchill Downs (home of the Kentucky Derby), with a huge Dartmouth turnout, including (get those Schmenus ready!) Steve Norall Mike Sanzone Melissa Kopff Dan Lukas Jason Siegal John Steiner Scott McElhaney '89, Ben Mitchell '96 and Kevin Robbins '98. Benjamin and his wife are now enjoying married life in Georgetown in Washington, where they are "contemplating how to try and fit a St. Bernard dog in our tiny house." If anyone has any suggestions, I'm sure Benjamin would be happy to hear from you.

Thanks to the lunacy of the Internet, I also received an e-mail from a young woman claiming to be a childhood friend of Ben Park. Feeling a tremendous responsibility as the keeper of the '94 contact list, I forwarded her e-mail on to Ben rather than just reply to hers—which, of course, also gave me an opportunity to grovel for news. Ben was kind enough to oblige. "Things are going well. I live in Atlanta with my wife, Allison Loudermilk, and our pooch. We're expecting our first kid this June—pretty exciting! We moved here after I completed my residency in internal medicine at the University of Michigan so that I could start in the CDC s epidemic intelligence service (EIS), a program where you investigate outbreaks and perform other aspects related to public health. It is a pretty exciting place." Ben, who reports that Susan Manning was also in his EIS class, has remained there as a staff member working on the epidemiology of infectious diseases. He has worked on such outbreaks and projects as SARS, avian flu, Hurricane Katrina and contact lens solution-related eye infections.

I'll end with one quick correction. Last year I wrote that Leland Gershell and his wife, Lauren, announced the birth of their first child, Caroline Fox—only apparently I decided to name every female in the Gershell household Caroline. Oops. The actual Caroline is doing very well, as are her parents. Leland works in New York as an analyst covering the Biotech sector at Cowen and Cos.

So come on, write in. Hey, at the very least, you can see what I decide to change your spouses name to. It'll be fun!

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