Class Notes, July/August 2002

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There’ve been so few news leaks this month I can’t help wondering if our entire class works for the Bush White House. And tempting though it is not to let facts get in the way of a good story, I guess it would be a tiny bit suspect if suddenly the column was full of news of moves to Tuscan villas, marriages to, say, Jennifer Connelly or Heath Ledger, and collections of giant Lotto prizes. So, please, telephone, telegraph, telegram–send news. Forget scraping the bottom of the barrel–we’re getting so low we can see clear through to the ground. Help!

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming: In case you’ve been picked for the new cast of “Survivor” and have somehow missed the zillion news reports, Stephan Paternot published his memoir of the best and worst of times in the dot-com (or dot-bomb) rush. Paternot, a co-founder of theglobe.com (the other was Todd Krizelman), published A Very Public Offering: A Rebel’s Story of Business Excess, Success, and Reckoning, which recounts his Globe history, from the company’s stock jumping 606 percent on its first day of trading (a Wall Street record) to the site’s shut-down after losing millions of dollars. Speaking of millions–kidding, we’re kidding, but you try making any sort of transition between piles of mostly unrelated items–Mick Merritt moved from San Francisco to NYC, where he’s (still) working as a management consultant. He reports, “I have settled into Manhattan quite nicely, but I am missing California weather and good coffee.” Other news from the City (and the suburbs): Suzanne Epstein is working in the Jersey City office of Hartfield, Titus & Donnelly, a municipal securities brokerage firm; and Marion Vetter graduated from Einstein med school. Next up: a residency in internal medicine at NYU.

Ami Gadhia graduated from the U. of Connecticut School of Law in May of 2002. She’s spending the summer studying for the Bar exam. In September, she’ll spend a year as the Esther Peterson Fellow at Consumers Union in Washington , DC. If you’re in DC, she says, feel free to look her up. Peter Harwood moved from New York to London to join the corporate finance team of Jones Lang LaSalle, an international real estate firm. He’s an associate director at the company, where he’s worked for the past five years.

And finally, Wedding Watch, courtesy of the New York Times: Katie Weinberg married Patrick Schumacher on Dec. 22, ‘01 at the W hotel, NYC. Until recently, the bride worked for Dolce & Gabbana in NYC. She quit her job to follow her now-husband to London, where he’s on a two-year assignment for Lehman Brothers. That’s it, folks. Please write!

—Courtney Rubin, Class Columnist