Class Notes, July/August 1997
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In this installment of “Class Notes,” we learn that there is more to life in sunny California than “Baywatch” and tofu. Several classmates from the West Coast wrote me about their current activities and future aspirations. When Josh G. Fruhlinger and Phillip Geissler aren’t busy contemplating David Hasselhoff’s subtly nuanced acting techniques,they attend graduate school at the U. of California, Berkeley. Josh “is still slowly crawling along the seven-year path leading to a PhD in ancient history. He is in the process of becoming a naturalized citizen of California and has jury duty in June.” Phillip is “working day and night to obtain a PhD in chemical physics that will allow him to work day and night in pursuit of rare academic job openings that will likely abandon him to an embittered postdoctoral stupor. He is yet to see why all of the fuss about California girls.” Josh informs me that Jennifer C. Foster is working for CALPIRG (California Public Interest Research Group ) as a full-time employee, recruiting Cal students to help fight environmental abuses and political corruption, and Freda S. Kirkham is currently mooching off some inherited loot and writing a murder mystery. She lives in lovely Sebastapol, CA—home of the Apple Blossom Festival (April 26-27)—but is planning on becoming more urban soon.
Dominique Lazanski and Michael Eichberg also reside in the San Francisco Bay area. Dominique does book conservation for the California State Archives, while Michael is a chemistry graduate student at U. of California, Berkeley. She reports that Alexander L. Khislavsky is working on his MSW at the U. of Chicago, Dorian F. Bell had just returned from a three-week stay with his grandparents in France and was applying for the Americorps program next year, and Kenneth Kao has an appointment with the Peace Corps on the Ivory Coast. Jeffrey E. Harrington and Daniel R. Adinolfi, both of whom are working for A lied Theory Communications (a computer network and Internet provider company) live in Syracuse. Finally, Laura A. Maloney works for Montgomery Securities as a statistical analyst in San Francisco. She tells me that she has been in touch with Jennifer A. Conwell.
Many thanks to Edie Marshall who sent in a very informative update via e-mail: “I’m a vet student at Washington State U., but I haven’t decided yet what I want to focus on. I received a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation to do research on paravets and yaks in Nepal this summer. I’m so excited to go! (It’s basically ethnoveterinary research with some disease testing thrown in, for anyone interested.) Also, I attended the 1997 Student American Veterinary Medical Assn. (SAVMA) sym osium at Purdue and ran into a bunch of Cornell eo le: MaryRuth Harbeck ‘95, Jennifer . Adams, Grad (now a vet student at Cornell), Lisa Polazzi ‘95 (now a vet student at Purdue), and Jim Dunlap ‘95.”
In California, Navy Ens. David R. Markle completed the Navy’s Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training at Naval Special Warfare, San Diego. Back on the East Coast, Nathan C. Henderson recently graduated from The Basic School at Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, VA. Nathan joined the Marine Corps in May 1996. Congratulations to both David and Nathan.
Refusing to be discouraged by tuition bills and long-term research, Michael S. Wisz and Michael. Karpinski are studying biophysics at Duke and Yale, respectively, Alan Man is attending medical school at SUNY, Stonybrook, and Karen A. Szczepanski is continuing her education at the Philadelphia College of Osteo athic Medicine. Christopher A. Pennya and Robert A. Feld, however, have decided to brave the working world in the fabulous and exciting entertainment industry. Robert, who resides in wacky NYC, has just been retained by a Hollywood production com any (not studio) to write a screenplay based on a classic Western film. Christopher makes video games at the Nintendo-sponsored school in Digipen in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
For the now-you-know department (better known as random tidbits): Eva Silvestre ‘97 is in Las Vegas working with low-income housing … Matt Heberger and Karen Ausejo are in the Peace Corps, Matt in Africa and Karen in Ecuador … and Holly Hertel is back in Ithaca, working for our beloved alma mater in alumni affairs and development. Please keep sending your news and Courtney, Sheryl, and I, addresses below, will be sure to get to your correspondence in a somewhat timely manner. Please note that I live in Brooklyn, NY, now, so send all of your lovely thoughts to my apartment or convenient e-mail address.
—Allie Cahill, Class Columnist
