spend all my tim e taking my older kids to activities and preve nting my youngest one from destroying the house, I do in fact maintain a private piano studi o! Do keep the news co ming; you never know when you wiU cross path s with a Trini ty alum! The Trini ty Alumn i O ffi ce reports: Eric Rosow co-fo unded Premi se Corporation after he reenginee red the patient Aow software systems at Hartfo rd Hospital in 2000 . The software runs so me of the largest hos pitals in the world , includ ing Singapore Ge neral and Cleveland Clinic.
Alumni l=und Goal: $65,000 Class Secretary: Doug Kim, 708 Union Valley Road, Malopac, NY 10541-3973 e- mail: douglas.kim.1987@lrincoll.edu
Time marches on, but apparentl y it's marching very, very slowly for so me of us. I rece ntl y had th e pleasure of dining with several class mates at Betsy Smith Mash's home in Rye, NY, and couldn't help but notice how people seated around the table had hardly changed since their days 'Nea th the Elms. (Apparently, ew Yorkers live an ave rage of nine months longe r than the national average. Could it be tl1e fresh air and relaxed pace of Manhattan that has tlu s dewy effect?) Among tl1e age-defying mat evening we re hosts Betsy and Steve, Lynne Sawyer and husband Peter, Austin Keyes with Anne Ternes (who might as weU have attended Trinity) , fellow Rye residents Laura and Kirk Brett '88, my college roommates Bill Match and John Dalsheim (O kay, not everyone looked so youth ful). and Tracy Killoren Chadwell with her husband, Phill ip. Tracy left her caree r in inves tm ent banking not long ago and neve r looked back. She holds degrees in law and business but has chose n to be a full -time mother to her two boys and is clearl y very happy. Co nve rsation and wine Aowed freely in every possible direction with topics ranging from Trinity's th ankfuUy unchanged curriculum to speculation about the whereabouts of Nate Allen and Lisa Kenney Allen '88, who were unable to attend th at eve ning. Special thanks to our gracious hosts that eve ning, as well as to all spouses who pati entl y endured an entire eve ning ofTrin -ce ntric talk. A few weeks later, my wife and son indulged me by acco mpanying me up to H artfo rd for Ho mecoming, where we had a fantas tic tim e despite a paucity of alumni from 1987 Ir was good to see Dave Mughes and Ri ck Cleary '85 that day; if only briefl y. And certainl y, it's fai r to say that seeing tl1 e Long Walk undergoing an ambi ti ous renovati on and covered in scaffolding was a once- in-a-lifetime sight. A personal highlight of the weekend was the celebration of the 7o tl1 anni ve rsary of the College's a cappella group, the Pipes. It made my weekend to see form er group head and dear fri end Jon Potter and to meet his wife, Julie. Jon and l made a valiant attempt to squeeze 20 years of news into half an hour. He and Juli e are raising their two daughters in southeastern Ve rmo nt where Jon is the art and entertainment edito r of the Brattleboro Reformer. You can read his excellent blog at brattleblogs.com/ harriedpotter. Also at tl1 e party was fellow Pipe and class mate Sharon Larson Schmidt, who is living in H arvard, MA. with her two boys and husband who is tl1 e
Monica Grewal, Class of 1987 Mission to Space As a little girl growing up in India , Monica Grewal had big aspirations for he r future. She imagined herself a docto r, helping attend to the varied medical needs of her country. To this end, she dedicated herself to her studies and intensely pursued the rigorous path. Never, in all of those formative years, did she see the (literally) astronomical heights to which he r career would soar. Through a series of serendipitous happenings, Grewal found herself not only on the other side of the world, but, eventually, part of America's space program as an engineer working on NASA programs. Grewal's story begins in New Delhi, Ind ia , where she was reared by her Punjabi father and mother. Although she was born in Washington, D.C ., they hod returned to Indio, and she planned to pursue a medical degree in the state of Punjab, near the border with Pakistan. However, political unrest in the region forced her to reconsider her options. And so, not for the lost time, serendipity stepped in. The family decid e d to call Grewol's great uncle and beloved Trinity Professor of Political Science E;:meritus, Ronbir Vohra, who advised the budding doctor to come to Hartford . And thus it happened : the New Delhi native , armed with her old-world upbring ing and on indefatigable thirst for knowledge of the new, e mbarked on one of many new paths in her life, with a focus in biomedical e ngineering. Intellectually, Trinity fulfill e d Grewal 's high-leveled curiosity, but she increasingly become discouraged by the amount of time it would take her to get through medical school. Therefore, she instead began to focus her efforts solely on engineering and, ofter a fifth year at Rennseloer Polytechnic Institute, received not only her bachelor's degree from Trinity but also her master's in electrical engineering from RPI. She then landed a job down the rood as a systems engineer for United Technologies Corporation (UTC), Hamilton Sundstrand, and quickly earned her way onto the industry's, and perhaps the world 's, most exciting and dynamic project of the late '80s: the international space station.
grams, including the advanced testing of the NASA spacesuit and shuttle environment control systems. But Grewol's insa tiable intrigue with the intellectual world prompted her to seek out yet a new career path. In 1992, she enrolled at UConn Law School's night program, subsequently leaving the space program in 1995 to accelerate her low school studies. When she graduate d in 1997, she served for a short time a s in-house counsel for UTC/Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, and was a member of the Potent Group, open only to lawyers with a background in engineering. Since then, Grewal hos continued to practice a s on intelle ctual property attorney, and as of January lst, 2008, she become a partne r at the Boston -based firm WilmerHole, where her clie nts range from small startups to l=ortune 500 companies. l=rom the beginn ing , Grewol's work hos always been on the cutting edge, not only from a technology point of view, but also as a woman in fields where there ore few. Although she fondly recalls her days a s on engineer working on the space program, she soys she hos never been as satisfied with he r career as she is at present. Her path is one she perhaps never could hove plotted out bock in New Delhi in the early 1980s, but for Grewal , a woman whose instinct for d iscovery is as keen as any, she wouldn't have it any other way.
In her eight years at Hamilton, she was involved in a variety of memorable pro-
pastor of tl1e town's Protes tant church. Sharon is a full -time mother, but she still finds time to share her gifted voice with others through the church choir. She noted tl1at Trini ty recently came back into her busy life when she attended a musical theater rew1ion last year. I must commend two classmates for sending
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in their news to share in these pages. First, Paul Deslandes writes that he has taken a position on the faculty of the Univ. of VT in their history department after teaching at Texas Tech Univ. for the past five years. In 2005, he published a book entitled Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850-1920. He lives in T RI N ITY RE PORTER
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