1989

Mateo Romero continues to get plenty of attention for his artwork, which was featured recently at the Washington, D.C. .Arts Center in a show called 'American Icons Through Indigenous Eyes." Among the work by Native American artists was Mateo's War Painting Prelude. According to The Washington Post, it is a "foggy photo-transfer with mixed media depicting the artists nephews harrowing duty in Ramadi, Iraq."

Kerry Kisiel Jones writes that after two babies and five long years she finally completed her degree in educational leadership and certification to become a school administrator in Connecticut. She's been teaching sixth-grade language, writing, reading and social studies and has served as a mentor to new teachers in Farmington. Her son Eryk just completed kindergarten and her daughter Molly, age 31/2, is a full-time preschooler.

Courtney Nemeroff marked 14years in the Foreign Service when she arrived last summer at her new post, the U.S. mission to the EU in Brussels, Belgium. During her last assignment to the UN in New York she kept in close touch with Barb Kraufhamer, Kristen "K.J." Roth-Ey and Andy Fields.

Rani Sellers has left the pharmaceutical industry and is now an associate professor and the scientific director of the histopathology facility for the cancer center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. Her son Spencer is 31/2. Rani ran into Alex Selby in December at the holiday party for the advertising company where both Alex and Rani's husband work. Alex is a VP copy supervisor at AgencyRX.

Siobhan Wescott completed a 5,400-mile cross-country drive from Boston to Anchorage last summer on her way to Alaska for a pediatrics rotation, part of what she calls her "late-in-life education detour." Siobhan was in her final year at Harvard Medical School this past year and hopes to go into pediatric oncology.

Clay Nichols writes that life is great in Austin, Texas, where he's trying to find time to write more children's plays while living in the middle of one with his own three children, Wilson, 9, Riley, 6, and Cooper, 3. He's hard at work on a successful new business called dadlabs.com, a media company with a Web site for expecting/new dads, containing fun blogs, podcasts and more than 60 videos. Their second DVD, Due Dads: The Man'sGuide to Labor and Delivery, hit the site on Father's Day. You can get a copy on their Web site or on Amazon or put it on your Netflix list. Clay wants to hear from '89 parents on the Web site!

Naomi Mandel is now a tenured associate professor of marketing at Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. from Wharton in 2000. Her husband, Cezar Horovitz, an IT professional, is originally from Romania, and they have a 3 year-old daughter, Miranda.

Jim White reported last summer on Tom Shakeshaft s wedding up in Manchester, Vermont. Jim, who was the best man, says Tom married a fabulous Dartmouth woman named Jen Evers '95, who is several years his junior. Rick Bartlett and Stan Green were also in the wedding party.

Anne Boardman Pohnert and her husband, Steve, moved to Vienna, Virginia, last summer from Durham, North Carolina. Anne is the manager of operations for Minute Clinic Inc. for the D.C.-suburban Maryland metro area. Steve is a biology/genetics patent examiner with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Anne says she's happy to be back in the D.C. area again, even with the exponential change in traffic since she was a high schooler in Bethesda years ago.