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Speaking of New York (I live for delicate segues, as well), this spring I ventured down to New York City for a surprise birthday parry for JAY AKASIE, given at a shockingly seedy bar not far from Jay's former Columbia ] -School stomping grounds. My fellow Boston travelers, DAN SCANLAN and Prasant Sar, and I found out we were the ones who received the surprise when it turned out that Jay had been let in on our secret arrival by a leak from a secret source. To protect the innocent, let's call the source "Cassie." Other partygoers included SUSAN OLSEN, LYNN WOLFF, ASHLYN HILEY, CASSIE BURNS, all New York dwellers, and late arrival from Washington DC, WILL MACON. The next day, a beautiful spring afternoon, we all trooped over to Yankee Stadium to undergo a rite of passage called "the bleachers." We were immediately heckled by many thousands of terrifying fans as we looked around for seats, and Lynn astounded us all by answering the crowd with an appropriate, if nor creative, hand gesrure. Luckily, the adventure concluded with no notable injuries. BRIAN JOHNSON has just finished his second full year of teaching high school English in West Hartford, after having obtained the requisite master's degree. The year, according to Brian, was rough, but so far the summer has been beautiful, affording him the time to get back to his first loves, writing and drawing. Luckily for us, it also afforded him the time to write to me, and to report on a few cohorts. I will borrow from his note: "The annual Academy Awards night wager took place again this year between movie buffs ALEX SHAPIRO, CHRIS BODKIN, ANDY BRICK, and me. Last year we all mer at Alex's apartment in Manhattan (now on West 56th, perhaps rivaling the one-bedroom apartment of JAMIE MURPHY), but mis year we had geographical difficulties. Alex managed to adjust his SAT mroring schedule and came up to my apartment in Windsor, CT for the event, but Chris decided nor to hop a flight from L.A., where he currently works for NBC. Word has it that he will soon be transferring back to N.Y. C. Andy was stuck in his 'burb of Philadelphia, and had to work early Tuesday at Brick-Kyle, where he is a financial consultant of sorts. By the way, Alex copied Entertainment Week!js picks and won the wager.
"With that, I skip a nice weekend in Boston with JON TREVISAN, CLIVE BARD, and JAMIE GAILLARD, and segue into a little Trinity reunion at Andy Brick's family's beach house on the New Jersey shore. Jon, Clive, Jamie, Alex, Andy and I were all present for that one. And it is true: Jon will be getting married in October of this year in Orleans, MA on Cape Cod. Mr. Brick is also engaged and plans a wedding in 1998. Jamie is living in Manhattan, also doing financial consulting, and Jon is in Beantown, managing group insurance policies for companies or something like that. Clive has copurchased a lovely apartment building in Boston and has renovated it for rental. He is still doing computer consulting, but will be entering Boston University School of Law as part of the class of 2000." JULIE MASON became Hillary Rodham Clinton's deputy press secretary in the spring, and her first assignment was an official visit to Mexico. Julie was recruited from her post as assistant to White House press secretary Mike . McCurry. She has been working at the White House for more than two years. Julie wrote to me with some derails on those in her orbit: "KAREN REGAN, JENNIFER LEACH '92, and I lived together for three years after college. Karen started law school last fall at U .N.C.-Chapel Hill, and she will begin her second year there this fall, after spending the summer in DC at a law firm. She is regaining her NC/sourhern accent fairly quickly. "DAVID LYNCH was living here working for a sports marketing firm, but has moved to N.Y.C. COURTNEY PATTISON MAGNUS has married and still lives in DC. She works at the same sports firm from which Dave recently departed. "Both Karen and I have had a surprisingly large number of STEVE TO BIN sightings around DC since we moved here in '93. We usually see him out walking when we're cruising by in a car. I have no clue what he is doing, but we CAN confirm that he is living in DC. "CHRISSY YOO is engaged, and has just finished an M .B.A. program at University of Michigan. "MANDY VINEYARD will begin her second year at Dartmouth's Tuck School!M.B.A. program this fall. TINA HANSEN is moving to New Haven, CT and hopes to work in a local high school. She just completed her mas-
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ter's in classics. "DUFFY McDERMOTT is living in Annapolis, MD and working at Aetna/US Health Care." Jay Akasie, Forbes Magazine reporter, still basking in the glory ~f his interview with Donald Trump, also checked in with some updates: "Let's start with, um, well, ME. Last week I was a guest - along with the other reporters - of the Forbes clan on tl1eir yacht, The Highlander. We cruised around the southern rip of Manhattan for the afternoon. I guess this is to say that I'm settling into the job quite comforrably. I haven't been doing much else outside of work except jetting out to Nantucket each weekend to see my fishing cronies and to beat the horrible heat here in the city. "The first few Wednesday night clubs at the Trinity Pub (my brainchild) have brought out a good number of'93 rypes. Over the course of first Wednesdays we have seen CHRIS DROS, Ashlyn Hiley, Lynn Wolff, Cassie Burns, Susan Olsen, SCOTT WELKIS, and CHRIS BLOOM. "Recently I talked with Greg Creamer, who is a research associate at Smith Barney. When Creamer talks, everyone listens. Wait, wrong firm. He and his apartment-mate, Matt McCabe, send their regards to the Class. "I nearly saw Will Macon when I was passing through DC recently, on my way to Charlottesville. He is newly employed at the Advisory Group. His office is in the swank - and world-famous -Watergate complex, and his window overlooks the Saudi Arabian embassy." Other reports: KATE SHAFFER is busy planning her Memorial Day 1998 wedding and NICOLE CRISCIONE is considering a bid for political office in Albany, NY. DAVID RIKER, with whom I had lunch early in the sununer, is enjoying his new Stan1ford residence, and is thrilled to say that his new business, an Internet-based ventme capital resource, is developing more quickly than he had ever imagined. JAWANZA GROSS '94 reports that she and YUSSUF KHAN are partners in an N.Y.C. production company, and that they have organized numerous events throughout the N.Y. nightclub scene. Yussuf is the assistant treasurer at Chase Bank. JIM HAZELTON is working at an investment firm in Boston and living with LEXI RICE and SUSAN ROST. They see a lor of JAY MONAHAN, who lives with CHUNG OH '92.
AUDREY BRASHICH, after finishing her master's in American civilization at Brown University in June 1996, spent the year working at Do Something, a nonprofit organization that funds and supports young people's community service efforts. She will be spending the 1997-98 academic year in France on a Fulbright Fellowship. The alumni office has heard from LISA GUREVICH SABIN (see Wedding photos), who is an Equity actress in San Francisco. She and her husband, Marc, planned to move to New York C ity this fall to "try to make it in the theater there. " ASHLEY HIMES received a J.D. degree from The Dickinson School of Law in May. PRESCOTT STEWART has been appointed a major gifts officer in the development office at Trinity. MARLO MARTIN sends informarion on several classmates: "DAWN HINES is a programmer/analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co.; SHONDA GIBSON got married in December; TASHONNA SMITH is a digital facilities quality center manager for NYNEX; and QUANTI DAVIS is associate director of admissions and assistant director of financial aid at LoomisChaffee School. " Marlo returned from vacation in Brazil and was promoted to national director of promotions at Mercury Records. As for me, I am still with Fritz Companies, Inc., working in the Boston office, and have moved, of all things, into the information sysrems side of my strange corner of the international trade world. I have moved into a beautiful apartment just outside of Harvard Square, and am trying to enjoy the summer despite this persistent New England humidity. You can take the boy out of California, but you can't rake the California out of the boy. Or something like that. Have a great fall, and keep me informed. Jonathan E. Heuser 26 Garden St., #5 Cambridge, MA 02138 e-mail: jonatha.n.heuser@fritz.com fax: 617-887-0443 Class Agents: Katherine K. Hubbard Joseph Monahan IV Rachel E. Schreier Prescott D. Stewart Clifford H. Swain, Jr.
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