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having an interesting time learning the subtle art of proper potty etiquette. E is for the environment, something which we know ANNMARIE FINI cares about . . . She is now working for a chemical company. F is for FERNANDO CACELA, who was spotted at a Johnny Walker Scotch tasting party in New York, admiring the subtle yet complex flavors of free whiskey. Gosh .. .I'd never go to a party like that. Unless they had cigars, as well. G is for Gladiator, as in American, the alter ego of otherwise mild-mannered political science graduate student, WILL MACON, at Washington, D.C.'s American University. H is for hectic, the pace at which NICOLE D'AVIRRO's Ph.D . program in genetics at Tufts pniversity will be moving for the next few years. I is for insane, which would have been a good word to describe JAY AKASIE's idea of finding an apartment in New York over Labor Day weekend. Luckily, he got a place in the dorms to begin his stint at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, after a summer of intensive training for the rigors of newspaper life at the Nantucket Inquirer and M irror. J is for Jonathan. Just wanted to point that out. (Some things never change ... ) K is for Kape Kod, where I spotted SUSAN OLSEN (everything on track at CitiBank!) at a hip, tented bash on a cool summer night at the waterfront digs of Trinity party regular (but not student), Eileen Ward. Remember having a great time , but that's about it. Perhaps that is for the best. .. L is for Larry, just because. L is also for the library, a place in which Kate Schafer finds herself spending a lot of time, considering she is working toward a master's in library science at the University of Alabama. Susan Olsen recently visited Kate and beau, Kevin "Wevie" Crunch , at Duck, N.C. for a week, and had a restful reunion with her former cellmate and future Miss Twentysomething Alabamian Librarian. M is for marriage, which is what rumor has it has befallen STEVE F. CLUNE . N is for NOONAN, TIM, who writes that he is leaving Union College after two years as residence life coordinator to begin a master's degree at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. 0 is for Oh Captain, my Cap'tain, as our own LEANA SCHUSHEIM has become engaged
to a captain in the U.S. Air Force. Pis for PAM O'KANE FOSTER, who reported that she and CHRIS FOSTER '92 were married April 16 in Massachusetts, and are now living in New Jersey, from which Pam commutes to work at the Rockefeller Foundation. She writes that NICOLE MAUTER is working for Harper Collins Publishers, and got married in August to Jorge Eckhardt. Also , HEDY KLEIN received her master's in public policy from the University of Connecticut. Q is for quadriceps, allegedly some kind of muscle in your body, which undoubtedly could be thoroughly identified and repaired by RACHEL SCHREIER, who has graduated from Hahnemann University with a master's of physical therapy degree, and soon, by ANGELA DENICOLA, who will receive her degree in 1996. R is for reception, which is the event which followed directly the marriage of KIMBERLY FULLER to Paul Sweet at St. Augustine's Church in Hartford. KRISTIN VANTY was asked to be the maid of honor, but was not in vi ted along for the honeymoon to St. Maarten. Kimberly is now an active substitute teacher, pondering a stab at her teaching certificate. S is for Sazarac Grove, the young alumni-operated bar and grill in Cambridge, which hosted a young alumni reception some months ago, at which denizens of the Gallows Hill nation hobnobbed, while the masses stared in awed wonder. BLAIR KELLER lamented the repeal of rent control in the PRC (C not being for China, in this case). HARRY COHEN, CLIVE BARD and a host of other local personalities dotted the festive midsummer occasion. T is for tan, which is a convenient byproduct of CANDY CALON's tenure at medical school in Dominica. U is for uvula, or even U of Connecticut, at which MATT PETERSON has started law school. V is for vehicular homicide someone bet me that I couldn't work that into the class notes. W is for William, the name which falls between THOMAS and REUTER on the aforementioned's birth certificate. Thomas has settled down as a trader for Yamaichi Bank in Geneva, Switzerland, after a suitable post-collegiate stint as a tennis instructor and job-searching in Budapest. X marks the spot. X stands for danger. Two straight lines crossing over in the middle, saying, "Here's the railroad crossing." X has little
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to do with ALLEN KATZ, who writes that he is, "currently studying the properties of liquid fat while managing the famous Triplets Roumanian Steakhouse in SOHO." Y is for your own cartilage, which is what DAVID RIKER's new employer, Genzyme Tissue Repair, uses to strengthen your knee. David's jobl He gets to convince insurance companies that they ought to pay for the operation, and once in a while gets to hold an actual severed (and bloody!) knee. Z is for Zzzzzzzz, the sound you are most likely making as you snore through this gimmicky little set of class notes. Please don't let this grasping column deter you, but rather let it inspire you; keep in touch with your school and your friends. Call! E-mail! Write (no unabombs, please!)! It is easy to stay in touch, but unfortunately, easier still to let people fade away. The alumni office has learned that: KIMBERLY LOUNDER is a seventh-grade Spanish teacher in the Wallingford, Conn. school system and reports that she "loves it. " JENNIFER SAUNDERS has been appointed the public affairs graduate intern at the Dartmouth News Service. DICK STOCKTON '60 tells us
that JUSTIN MCCARTHY has written three or four pieces that were published in the USAir inflight magazine. GORDON WISBACH completed Officer Indoctrination School at the Naval Education and Training Center in Newport, R.I., and CARLOS VALLEJO graduated from the Basic School at Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, Va. Jonathan Heuser 39 South St. #6 Brighton, Mass. 02135 Class Agents: Maureen A. Duff Rachel E. Schreier Prescott D. Stewart Clifford H . Swain, Jr.
Hello, everyone! I hope that this edition of the R eporter finds everyone happy and healthy. It is early fall as I am writing this, so remember the time gap if some of the news sounds outdated, but that's the way it goes. Lots of you have written either to me or to the alumni office, and I really appreciate it because it makes my job easier and my phone bill lower! Anyway, keep the letters coming,