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What’s the news? We are always eager to receive your news at the Magazine, care of the Class News Editor, University of Chicago Magazine, 1313 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637, or by e-mail: uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu. No engagements, please. Items may be edited for space. As news is published in the order in which it arrives, it may not appear immediately. Please specify the year under which you would like your news to appear. Otherwise, we will list: (1) all former undergraduates (including those who later received graduate degrees) by the year of their undergraduate degree, and (2) all former students who received only graduate degrees by the year of their final degree.
 
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90 College alumni—Grace Chan, AB’90, AM’90, writes: Saralyn Mennie Cam Ang, AB’90, reports that she has “finally” finished “the formal part” of her education, “a mere seven years after graduating from the U of C.” Minnie obtained an M.A. in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School for Government and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Berkeley and works in San Francisco for a mid-sized law firm, which she is enjoying so far. Other classmates who are happy to be finally out of school are: Dominick J. Antonucci, X’90, teaches in a pre-university intensive English program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Eliot Brenner, AB’90, (embrenner@ msn.com), who received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Yale University in 1995, has returned to Chicago following a one-year clinical internship at the University of Washington. He is in independent practice as a consultant. Khang M. Bui, AB’90, lives in Vermont and works in New Hampshire as a dentist in private practice. William Chioros, AB’90, and his wife, Joanne, christened their second daughter, Taylor Melanie, in September. Celebrating with the proud parents and big sister Danna Julia was James Cuano, AB’88, with his wife, Betsy, and their children, Christopher and Claire.

Meanwhile, some other classmates are finishing medical residencies: Anna S. Mah, AB’90, is a third-year radiology resident at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. She reports that her husband, George T. Chuang, AB’90, recently started a new job as an administrative officer at Lehman Brothers. Alexis M. Demopoulos, AB’90, and Samira Shah, AB’92, AM’93, report that after meeting in Ida Noyes on Friday, October 13, 1989, they were married in a tiny ceremony there seven years later—to the day and hour! In August, they had a party at the Boathouse Café in Central Park, NY, with some of their closest U of C friends. Alexis is doing a neurology residency at Cornell, but is spending this year in research at Memorial Sloan Kettering, and Samira is finishing up her J.D. this year at Columbia.

Other classmates are enjoying globe-trotting: John F. Diener, AB’90, a consultant for the Singapore-based Monitor Co., is on an assignment in Vietnam. He owns an orchid farm in Myanmar. Darren G. Heil, AB’90, served in the Peace Corps in Nepal from 1994 through 1996 and is now attending Georgetown University Law School. While on a trip to London in 1996, Jessica A. Kidd, AB’90, saw David S. Adams, AB’90, who works for Andersen Consulting in Nice, France. Dave had just signed a modeling contract. Jessica is an equine-veterinarian intern at Peterson and Smith Hospital in Ocala, FL. She gets to spend a lot of time performing arthroscopic and abdominal surgeries on thoroughbred racehorses. She has also been in touch with Scott A. Schudy, AB’90, who works for a newspaper in Garden City, KS, and, according to Jessica, still shows a great sense of humor on e-mail.

College alumni, please send your news to: Grace P. Chan, AB’90, AM’90, 5824 S. Kimbark Avenue, Apt. 1323, Chicago, IL 60637. Phone: 773/702-2603 (h). E-mail: gpc1@midway.uchicago.edu.

Other alumni news includes: Marcia L. Balisciano, AM’90, a doctoral student in economic history at the London School of Economics, is an adviser to the U.K.’s American Chamber of Commerce and is on the steering committee of the U of C’s U.K. alumni association. Kirstin R. Wilcox, AB’90, see Helen Serebin, 1989.

91 Eric Aversa, AB’91, married Wonee Kyung Min on March 1, 1997, in Edmonds, WA. H. Eugene Sato, AB’91, was a groomsman. While working on his dissertation in Italian literature, Aversa does computer consulting for J. P. Morgan & Co. Clemente Berrios, MBA’91, develops manufacturing and packing projects for Latin America and the Caribbean with Mars, Inc., in Puerto Rico. He finds Latin America to be “one of the most exciting marketplaces within our global village.” Lorin B. Dytell, SB’91, AM’92, and Sean Leenaerts were married on November 1 in New York, and they live in Minneapolis. Seven U of C alumni attended the wedding. Kyle C. Johnson, AM’91, formerly an associate in the Norfolk, VA, office of Kaufman & Camoles, has joined the corporate section of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld as an associate. Naoko Ishibe, AB’91, graduated from Harvard last June with doctorates in environmental health and epidemiology and is now a postdoctoral fellow in cancer genetics and epidemiology at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD. She adds, “I have improved my marathon time to 2:43:38.” Eric X. Leurquin, MBA’91, a pension-fund manager for Bank Brussels Lambert, married Anne Geraets on May 4, 1996. Geraets works for the Belgian government as a health and AIDS specialist. Melissa D. McPherson, AB’91, completed a master’s in communication disorders in 1994 and is a speech-language pathologist at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, OR. Her career interests have turned to fine art, and she hopes to work someday as a full-time artist. On a trip to Alaska last fall, McPherson visited Lisa M. Matlock, AB’91, who was writing a thesis for a master’s in English. Aiko Nakane, AM’91, and Sang-yul Lee, X’91, were married on September 14 in Winnetka, IL. Pam L. Willow, AB’91, has moved to St. Thomas to work as a domestic-violence attorney with Legal Services of the Virgin Islands.

92 College alumni, please send your news to: Lesley F. Kim, AB’92, 1364 25th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122-1525. Phone: 415/242-0187 (h). E-mail: lesley@statonhughes.com.

Other alumni news includes: The Modern Language Association awarded Richard A. Heinemann, PhD’92, and Bruce Krajewski its second Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione prize for their translation of Gadamer on Celan: “Who Am I and Who Are You?” and Other Essays, by Hans-George Gadamer (SUNY). “After trying law and other sundry occupations,” James H. Polsky, JD’92, opened a jazz club in Manhattan, drawing attention from the New York Times and New York Magazine. The Jazz Standard, at 116 E. 27th St., has in its basement a 150-seat club with a kitchen and bar, and on its main floor, a 110-seat restaurant. “In those moments when I get a respite from all the chaos, I’m really excited about it,” writes Polsky, who adds, “I’d love to see old friends at the club.”

93 The Class of 1993 celebrates its 5th reunion on June 5–7, 1998.

College alumni—Norman Yung, AB’93, writes: Thomas Sang Bai Byun, AB’93, a second-year student at Harvard Business School, plans to work in the telecom industry when he graduates. Sharon Y. Chang, AB’93, graduated in May 1997 from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. She works in a busy animal hospital in Rhode Island. She would love to hear from any of her classmates in the New England area. Her e-mail is syc17@aol.com. Nicholas D. Clemente, AB’91, has left his position as assistant vice president on the asset-backed securities trading desk at Paine Webber. A first-year student at Harvard Business School, he would love to hear from classmates in the area. E-mail him at nclemente@ mba1999.hbs.edu. Julekha Dash, AB’93, a staff writer with a software magazine, is moving to Birmingham, AL, with her fiancé, a physician. W. Clarke Hudson, AB’93, married Su Yi Kui, of the city of Heng-yang in the province of Hunan, China, on a warm summer evening last July. They held their wedding in a royal pleasure hall turned restaurant at the Old Summer Palace in Beijing. Sarah H. Imm, AB’93, formerly with Piper Jaffray as an equity research associate, and later an analyst in Morgan Stanley’s corporate treasury department, now works in the insurance group at Centre Solutions, a division of Zurich Re, where she designs risk-management products for corporations. Imm is training to Rollerblade in the NYC Marathon in 4:03 or better. Stanley K. Kim, AB’93, is in his second year at NYU’s Stern School of Business. A former intern with American Express’s strategic operations group, he will work for Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group when he graduates in the fall. Leonie E. Sherman, AB’93, is trekking with a friend in Nepal’s Annapurna Range.

College alumni, please send your news to: Norman C. W. Yung, AB’93, 1725 Orrington Ave., Evanston, IL 60201. Phone: 847/332-8860 (h). E-mail: nyung@nwu.edu.

94 Robert G. Cimo, AB’94, an aide to U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, is in his second year of night school at Georgetown University’s law school. Jacqueline E. Knowles, AB’94, has received a Jewish-studies diploma from the University of Oxford.

96 College alumni—Asha Banker, AB’96, writes: Joseph D. Chan, AB’96, reports, “California and consulting are really great.” Mei-Lynn Destouche, AB’96, a student in the M.F. A. creative-writing program for fiction at the University of Pittsburgh, is writing a novel about a girl named Gigi and her midget dad. She writes that she is doing well and is “very hap-hap-happy!” Alison M. Bell, AB’96, has joined the graduate group in population biology at the University of California, Davis. Julianne L. Dunn, AB’96, is working at a law firm in Philadelphia and applying for graduate school. She is still dating Dennis J. Brennan, AB’95, who will graduate from the law school of the University of Pennsylvania this spring. Julie recently visited Alexandra S. Gadzo, AB’96, who is enjoying law school in San Francisco, and also keeps in close touch with Mara A. Wallack, AB’96, who is finishing her M.A. at the U of C, and Leigh J. Rubinstein, AB’96, who is “loving BU Law.” John R. Wise, AB’96, returned to Washington, DC, last June from a Fulbright scholarship in Budapest, where he studied defense and security policy for nine months at the Hungarian Institute for International Affairs. He now works as a research associate in the Washington office of the Open Society Institute.

College alumni, please send your news to: Asha Banker, AB’96, 140 W. 69th Street, New York, NY 10023. Phone: 212/724-6844 (h). E-mail: asha.banker@gs.com.

Other alumni news includes: Mark A. Luz, AM’96, spent the 1996–97 academic year in Budapest, where he taught political science at Central European University through the Civic Education Project, also visiting Belgrade, Ka-zakhstan, and Uzbekistan. He then spent the summer traveling through the Balkans, visiting Croatia, Bosnia, Romania, Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Yugoslavia. Luz is back in school this year, studying law at McGill University in Montreal. Willard A. McLane, MBA’96, and Katherine Kwun were married on June 14 at St. Charles Borromeo in Toluca Lake, CA. Guests at the reception included former Secretary of State Warren Christopher and his wife. The newlyweds honeymooned in Spain and Portugal before moving to Hong Kong. McLane is in the corporate-finance division of Morgan Stanley and Katherine, having completed a master’s in international finance at Columbia University, joined the mergers-and-acquisitions group at Merrill Lynch. In their free time, they frequent dim-sum shops, browse for Chinese antiques, and travel throughout Southeast Asia collecting objets d’art. Scott A. Neitzel, MBA’96, was elected assistant vice president of gas rates and fuels at Madison (WI) Gas & Electric. Pamela J. Stewart, AM’96, an anthropology research associate at the University of Pittsburgh and an adjunct lecturer at James Cook University in North Queensland, Australia, has coedited a collection of essays, Millennial Makers, on religious ideas of the world’s end. In her ongoing research in Scotland and Papua New Guinea, Stewart examines issues of religious, political, and social change.

97 Omar R. Allam, AB’97, is an investment-banking financial analyst with baird, a Northwestern Mutual Company, in Tampa, FL. John J. Smetanka, SM’91, PhD’97, joined St. Vincent College in Latrobe, PA, as an assistant professor of physics.