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will be plenty more “Webisodes” to come in 2009.
Bill Allen (H) 919-781-0805 (O) 919-716-2195 williamwallen@gmail.com 15th Reunion: June 2012
Since not as many of you wrote back to me this time, I will simply have to live up to my promise of fabricating a good portion of the Class of 1997’s happenings. I’m grateful for the opportunity, but all I can say is that you’ve done it to yourselves. You had your chance, and now it’s my turn. My guess is that little has changed since the last time I called out for responses (I admit that I feel like my deadlines are coming one on top of the other, so I completely understand). There’s not much to report this time, so if you’re at all curious to find out what other members of our class are doing, please reference past editions, or Facebook, which I discussed ad nauseum in the last issue. I was fortunate in early January to take part in a mini-Reunion down in Charleston for Jim Goodwin’s wedding. In attendance, in no particular order, were Jim Goodwin, Jennings Morrow, J.W. Perry, Joe Segrave, Paul Mashburn, Nick Carosi, Peyton Grubbs, Bill Goodwin ’95, Bennett White, Elizabeth Hoster, a bunch of other people that I didn’t know, and a few tools from Woodberry. The wedding was a blast, and it was so great to have the old crew together. It’s remarkable how we can go such long stretches without seeing each other, yet snap right back into place without skipping a beat. Jim and his new bride, Courtney, were naturally in high spirits, and after a ton of eating, drinking, talking, sitting, dancing, and then more drinking, talking, and sitting, Jim and Courtney rode off in a classic MG on their way to a honeymoon in South Africa. The weekend was incredible, and I was thrilled to see everyone.
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Left to right: Jessica Allen, Bill Allen ’97, Devie Perry, and J.W. Perry ’97 celebrating the wedding of Jim Goodwin ’97.
More friends at Jim Goodwin’s wedding. Left to right: Bill Allen ’97, Nick Carosi ’97, Peyton Grubbs ’97, and Bennett White ’97.
Paul Mashburn and his wife, Allison, are in Atlanta, where he has his own accounting practice, and they are enjoying life with their new son and their Widespread Panic-inspired dog, Greta. J.W. Perry is doing well, despite getting worked like an indentured servant for a New York law firm. He got married last spring, and he and his wife, Devie, are both attorneys up there. You know things are off to a great start when J.W. says, “I really liked George Bush. In fact, if he could run for a third term, I’d vote for him,” and the look on Devie’s face suggests that J.W. has just admitted to a string of serial murders. I couldn’t quite tell if that comment was designed to elicit that particular response,
or if it was actually genuine, but either way, it was extremely funny. Nick Carosi is doing great these days. Work and chasing after three kids keeps him busy, but not too busy to lose 50 pounds in the last year! It was very impressive to see half of the Nick we saw at our reunion in 2007. I’m impressed, but somehow unmotivated to follow his lead. In the last edition, I mentioned that Tyler Gilbert has appeared in a series of Web videos that you could find by searching YouTube. Since that post, he actually has a Web site now, so I encourage all of you to check out www.sportshorts.tv. Please support T-bone by checking out the Web site; he told me there
Once again, Caldwell Clarke took time out of his busy schedule to tell me that he isn’t doing anything. Actually, he’s been out of work for 14 weeks due to a nasty hand injury he suffered on the job. I can’t even begin to describe it without throwing up in my mouth a little bit, so all you need to know is that it was serious enough to require several surgeries, and he is still out of work and off the golf course because of it. Let’s hope that his hand recovers soon. Lucy Whittle Goldstein was sorry to miss Jim’s wedding, but with a 6-month-old daughter at home and a long trip from Rhode Island, it is certainly understandable. She wrote in to stroke my ego and tell me how gifted a writer I am, but also to tell me that life with baby Jane has been great. Lucy has taken a year off from teaching to be at home with her, and she’s enjoyed every bit of it. Perhaps more importantly, Lucy noticed, as I did, that I was the victim of intellectual thievery in the last issue of the alumni magazine. If you care at all about this misdeed, you may feel free to peruse back-issues and see for yourself. I’ll have to do a better job in the future of protecting my intellectual property. Sarah Ravenel Dollens and family recently moved back to San Francisco. She said the adjustment has gone well. She and Grant are running a halfway house for burned-out hippies. Margaret Smoot Stonehouse just moved with her husband, Bryan, to Dubai. She said that she runs into Julie Erwin Kurka and her husband, James, quite a bit over there, and would love to rendezvous with any other EHSers who happen to be there. Shriti Patel is still working towards becoming a fully boarded psychiatrist after another year and a half of work. After that, she’ll
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