1992

Vox clamantis in Facebook—and you answered!

Thanks to all of you who responded to my last-minute Facebook plea for news. So many people, such a little word count. Be on the lookout over the next several issues.

I’m going to try and show love to our DAM newcomers, starting with Kevin Frank’s excellent 17-years-in-one-sentence approach: “After graduation I moved to Vail, Colorado, where I taught skiing for three seasons; moved in 1995 to Chicago, where I worked at various ad agencies; moved in 1999 to San Francisco, where I worked at more various ad agencies and won a bunch of awards that you wouldn’t care about unless you work in advertising; got married a year and a half ago in what was probably the first surprise-seder-wedding on record; recently took a job with Apple as creative director of the Apple Stores; and have seen various ’92s over that time including but not limited to Nick Mourlas, Christine Blanchet, Kate Aiken, Charlie Vestner, Josh Howell, Melissa Rich, Joe Young, Dan Frank, Phil Kerr, Michael Pence, Eric Hester, Jim Covington, Ajeya Joshi and Andrew Tolson.”

Another newbie is Gretchen Schweitzer: “I realize I have never sent you news so it is high time. I have been living in Munich, Germany, since late 2001. I moved here with my husband, Holger, three days after our whirlwind wedding. I worked at a small biotech company until the birth of our son Paul—now 4—and since then have been an independent consultant. I am looking forward to seeing Christine Vanden Beukel and her husband, Bill, in a few weeks when they come to visit from London. I haven’t seen them since their beautiful wedding in France some time ago, when I caught up with our friend Carina Wong and other Dartmouth folk. Speaking of which I had a chance to see Lillian Guerra a year or so ago; she is a professor at Yale. She and husband Rolando welcomed their son Elias earlier this year. Jin Cheung Keudel is not too far away in Korbach, Germany, but I have seen her just twice since living here. It is a crime. Lynne Schiffman Delise and husband Bob came to visit this past summer and we had a wonderful time except for the fact that their son Will was horribly sick and they couldn’t fly home as planned! In general ex-pat life is grand, Munich is a great city and I am very grateful for Facebook—mostly because I get to read Val Worthington’s posts!”

Another note from Deutschland, courtesy of Rebecca Sullivan Voelker (married to Stefan Th’93): “We are still living in Moers, Germany, just north of Dusseldorf. Daily victories include not offending the neighbors with my mediocre German and navigating the intricacies of the German school system. The good news—I still really like it here!”

I’m going to end with another quick note, this one from Brian Gordon before he writes in to DAM: “Well I guess this could be a class note. I’ve taken time off from writing letters to publications after last fall’s ‘double coup’ of being published in the letters section of Sports Illustrated as well as the ‘Etiquette at Work’ section of the Boston Sunday Globe.”

What will come next? Will it be Aisha Tyler’s missive on the ins and outs of her glamorous life? Travel life courtesy of Christine Coons Cunningham? Lurid details from Kristen Marks of her ’92 Girls Weekend in Vegas? (See, you’re interested now, aren’t you?)

See you in two months!

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