1993

There is nothing wrong with your Alumni Magazine. Do not attempt to adjust the text. Indeed, the name you are most familiar with at the bottom of this set of notes has suddenly changed, but this is no cause for alarm. Relax. We have changed the transmission of class information. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to…the Class Notes.

Indeed, Chris and I have swapped responsibilities—and therefore you will soon receive super-cool newsletters with the trusted Onken wit and flair. I, meanwhile, have shifted over to the Class Notes side and hope to bring you joy with every DAM issue. Relay your news to both of us at once (as well as Olaf Minge for the class Web site and Anne Tisi as communications queen) by sending an e-mail to dartmouth93@ gmail.com and we will all disburse your news to the appropriate channels.

Myrna Laine wrote to say that she had a baby boy, Philippe Nicolas, on October 17. He joins his 4-year-old big sister Aryanna. Myrna is still in corporate planning at Office Depot and has been enjoying sunny Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the last eight years.

From all the way across Montgomery County from me, Mike Pevzner has a lot of news: “My wife, Masha, and I had a son this year—our first. Daniel Nicholas Kravkov Pevzner was born on August 9, just as the Russian invasion of Georgia was hitting the headlines. He will certainly have a New York Times front page from his birthday that is memorable! We have been living for the last four years in Bethesda, Maryland, and are almost reconciled to calling Washington our hometown, but hope to still have an overseas stint or two in our future.” Mike worked for Chuck Hagel until his retirement in January and now works as Senator Evan Bayh’s national security advisor and liaison to the Senate Intelligence Committee. He continues, “Masha just returned after a fourmonth hiatus to her job at the International Finance Corp., so we are very much looking forward to the delicate task of juggling jobs and caring for Daniel.”

David Krause talks about a funny thing that happened on the way to the Forum: “I emailed Alyce Henness to tell her that I would be in Rome in early November to plan for my company’s solar projects in Italy. She replied that she would not be in Rome, but that she would be pleased if I could make it to her Italian reception in Courmayeur on November 8. I decided to make the sacrifice needed to support a fellow ’93 in her celebratory occasion, without quite knowing what I would encounter. I found out that Courmayeur is an absolute fairy-tale place, an old Roman settlement containingma medieval stone roads surrounded by the fabulous Italian Alps. Alyce’s husband trains the Italian ski team and Alyce needs to spend only part of her time in Milan, so Courmayeur is an absolutely incredible place for them to live. I was thrilled to join Alyce’s parents and brother and 150 of their italian friends in wishing Alyce and Lucca a very prosperous future.”

Finally, Benson McGrath reminds us how old we really are: “I was an out-of-state travel coordinator for the Obama campaign and helped Californians get to key battleground states. I also coordinated phone banks and had the lovely opportunity to speak to an undecided 74-year-old actuary about taxes on dividends and the economy. Good times.”

With that I promise no more references to The Outer Limits—as long as you send me your news.

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