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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81College alumni-Lonnie Stonitsch, AB'82, writes: Dear classmates: Since taking the (somewhat ephemeral) duties of class correspondent, I've since received five or six written responses to a query postcard sent out by the alumni office. Others of you talk, but mostly off the record. And the rest? Dog-whistle silence. Is the concept of updating former chums/chummettes just too immodest, or insignificant, or frightening, or humiliating? Perhaps you simply can't be bothered. Perhaps you haven't morphed your way up the corporate rock face, or aren't navigating the cult of parenthood, so you don't have the usual assortment of promotion or birth announcements. I understand. I feel your ennui. E-mail me anyway with your thoughts, large or small. Remember: nostalgia is viral. Fondly, sweetly, Lonnie Stonitsch.

College alumni, please send your news to: Lonnie Stonitsch, AB'82, 1821 South Peoria St., Apt. 2R, Chicago, IL 60608. E-mail: missmaam@bigfoot.com. Phone: 312/226-9712 (h).

Other alumni news includes: Gary L. Downey, AM'77, PhD'81, directs the Center for Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech. Frank W. Hughes, AM'81, is a lecturer in New Testament studies at Codrington College in Barbados. Morris I. Liberman, AM'81, is an investment executive with Richard L. Stockness at R. J. Steichen & Co. in Stillwater, MN.

82College alumni-Karen Kapner Hyman, AB'82, AM'88, writes: Richard A. Kaye, AB'82, recently completed his Ph.D. in English literature at Princeton University. He is now an assistant professor of English at Davidson College in Davidson, NC. Martin P. Starr, AB'81, X'82, delivered the inaugural lecture in conjunction with the filmmaker Kenneth Anger at the first posthumous exhibit of the paintings of Aleister Crowley, held at October Gallery in London on April 7.

College alumni, please send your news to: Karen Kapner Hyman, AB'82, AM'88, 2219 Shefflin Court, Baltimore, MD 21209. Other alumni news includes: After teaching at Columbia College Chicago for 20 years, Fred L. Gardaphe, AM'82, joined SUNY-Stony Brook as professor of Italian-American studies. His most recent book, Moustache Pete is Dead! Italian/American Oral Tradition Preserved in Print, was published by Bordighera in 1997. Allan L. McCutcheon, AM'77, PhD'82, was invited to be the keynote speaker at the 1998 meeting of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioural Sciences, held in July at Catholic University of Leuven in Leuven, Belgium. He has been appointed to the scientific advisory board of the German Center for Survey Research and Methodologies in Mannheim, Germany.

83 College alumni-Nick Varsam, AB'83, writes: W. Kenneth Davis, AB'83, recently joined the Chicago law firm of Katten Muchin & Zavis as a partner in the firm's health-care and corporate departments. For the past three years, Ken was the general counsel for Princeps Inc., a physician practice management company based in Nashville, TN. Stacy M. Dutton, AB'83, reports that she started managing the Warburg Pincus U.S. Equity Fund, a large-cap "blended" fund, on April 1. It "has been an exciting challenge for me, in addition to my regular responsibilities covering large-cap technology stock," she writes. Marla A. Fera, AB'83, is leaving the fresh air and green trees of upstate New York for the fresh air and green trees of Chapel Hill, NC, with her 2-year-old daughter, Hanna. She will continue her career in advertising, having paid her dues in Manhattan and started her own ad agency in Rochester, NY. Eleanor Leyden, AB'83, writes that since graduating from the U of C, she has received an M.A. in French from Middlebury College; worked as a legal translator for New York-based law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton in Paris; and relocated to Ecuador to teach ESL, French, and English literature. Most recently, she has settled in Bangladesh to teach French at the American International School of Dhaka, where she met up with alums Leonard M. Jornlin, AM'89, and Kevin R. Downey, AM'93, a Ph.D. candidate in South Asian studies, in "beautiful downtown Dhaka." Eleanor can be reached at eleyden@ais-dhaka.net. Elizabeth E. Puscheck, AB'83, SM'85, is one of 20 physicians selected from across the U.S. for the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics/ Solvay Pharmaceuticals educational scholars development program, a first-ever comprehensive educational curriculum designed to help obstetrics and gynecology professors teach women's health more effectively. Diane L. Schirf, AB'83, is a consultant in the human-resource advisory group of Price Waterhouse Coopers (formerly Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.), where she now focuses primarily on employee benefits communications. She celebrated 15 years at Coopers in September. Women in the Arts published one of Diane's "depressing" poems, "You," in Spring Fantasy 1997. Diane, a.k.a. Chief, also writes for, edits, and designs the Lincoln Park Zoo docent newsletter, The Ark, (http://www. lpzoo.com/ark) and can be reached in a variety of ways, including 5519 Everett Ave., #1S, Chicago, IL 60637-1957, 312/701-5777, Slywy@mindspring.com, Slywy@aol.com, D1schirf@aol.com, and Diane.Schirf@us.coopers.com.

College alumni, please send your class news to: Nick Varsam, AB'83, 832 Castle Pines Drive, Ballwin, MO 63021. E-mail: VarsamNick@aol.com. Phone: 314/207-1672 (h).

Other alumni news includes: Centre College appointed Beth Glazier-McDonald, AM'75, PhD'83, to a distinguished professorship designated for outstanding junior faculty and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. A scholar of the Hebrew Bible and biblical literature, she has taught at the university since 1988. In addition to being a contributing author to The Eerdman Bible Dictionary, she has co-authored articles that appeared in Atiquot and The Journal of Roman Archaeology. Rand McNally and Company recently named Lawrence A. Gyenes, MBA'83, its senior vice president and CEO. Chicago's Women's Theatre Alliance's 6th Annual New Plays Festival, held in June, included Maharaja's Leftovers, a play by Margaret G. Waterstreet, MBA'83. In the comic drama, a young woman checks into a multiracial psychiatric ward. Her comedy Stranger at My Gate, about a senior citizen stopping a burglar who turns out to be her former HMO doctor, was performed in April by LA's First Stage.

84The Class of 1984 celebrates its 25 reunion June 4-6, 1999. Talvi Laev, AB'84, and her husband, Stephen Hatem, announce the February 6 birth of their first child, son Andrus Laev Hatem. She writes that he is "getting the usual New York baby's training for life by taking daily stroller rides amid the honks, sirens, loud conversations, and general cacophony of city streets. So far this hasn't ruined his easygoing disposition." In September, Alexander D. Reyes, AB'84, joined the faculty of the Center for Neural Science at New York University. He writes, "Because I have been in Germany for the past three years, I've lost touch with my friends from the U of C. I ask that they e-mail me at Reyes@sunny.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de so that we may be reacquainted." Aaron Schwabach, X'84, has been given tenure at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. He and his wife, Xiao Zhou, have a 1-year-old daughter, Veronica Yixuan.

85 Michelle Neubauer Cummings, MBA'85, and Stephen T. Cummings, MBA'89, announce the June 2 birth of son Beckett Andrew Cummings. Karen E. Donovan, AM'85, and her husband, David Reibel, announce the December 28 birth of son Lucius Donovan Reibel in London. She would be happy to hear from old Chicago friends passing through London. E-mail her at k_donovan@compuserve.com. Elise Eisenberg Forier, AB'85, won a fellowship from the National Playwright's Conference and was invited to develop her play, La Llorona and Other Tales of the American Southwest, at the Eugene O'Neil Theatre Center in Waterford, CT, last summer. Janice Brand Kaylor, AB'85, and Randall A. Kaylor, AB'85, announce the February 23 birth of Daniel Adair Kaylor, who joins Errol Brand and Robert Alexander. Ronald L. Rubin, MBA'85, was promoted to senior counsel in the enforcement division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He is currently stationed in the commission's southeast regional office in Miami. Rubin received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and was a criminal prosecutor for five years before joining the SEC in 1996. Herbert W. Silverman, AB'85, is manager of donor recruitment for LifeSouth Community Blood Centers, a nonprofit blood bank. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Karen, and their cat, Cosmo. Michelle C. Tan, MBA'85, and her husband, Sandy Chian, announce the April 18 birth of their second son, Samuel, who joins brother David, 2. Tan is head of equity research at J.P. Morgan Investment Management's Singapore office. E-mail her at tan_michelle@jpmorgan.com.

86College alumni-Martha A. Schulman, AB'86, writes: David B. Burke, AB'86, the British editor of The White Dot, the anti-television magazine founded by Jean Lyons Lotus, AB'88, says the book they co-authored has been getting great reviews in England. One reviewer called it "explosive," "exciting," and "one of the finest rants available between hard covers." Dave lives in Brighton with his wife, Karen Robinson, a human-resources administrator for American Express, and their daughter, Emily Ondine Robinson Burke, born April 30. Abigail M. Asher, AB'86, is an art book editor at Abbeville Press (she says she never runs across U of C people who work in publishing, and wonders if there are any). After four years in Milan, she moved to New York in 1992 with her husband, Marco De Martino, the U. S. correspondent for an Italian newsmagazine. They have a 2-year-old daughter, Susanna. Barbara A. Sebek, AB'86, an assistant professor of English at Colorado State University, teaches English renaissance drama and women's studies. She recently took a six-week research trip to London. Corey G. Seeman, AB'86, and his wife, Pamela Holland Seeman, AB'84, AM'85, live in Cooperstown, NY, where Corey is director of technical services at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library. They have two sons: Jeremy, 5, and Christopher, 3. Lisa A. Reynolds, AB'86, participated in the wedding of Julie E. Rechter, AB'86, to Vena Kostroun on March 20. Also attending were the bride's sister, Sarah M. Rechter, AB'86, JD'90; Sarah's husband, Bruce Rothstein, AB'84; and Jeffrey D. Miller, AB'85. Lisa says, "The wedding was wonderful and a good time was had by all." Julie and Vena met while earning their Ph.D.s in history from the University of California, Berkeley. Julie got her Ph.D. this past July, was a fellow at Berkeley's Office for the History of Science, and worked at the Bancroft Library. Vena, who has been working in Silicon Valley, will finish his dissertation this fall. David J. Powell, AB'86, has lived in Seattle for five years. After several years as a feature writer for Seattle Weekly and a short stint at Microsoft's Slate magazine, he's finally putting his law degree to use, working at a small real-estate law firm. He can be reached at dpowell@rcflegal. com. Daniel E. L. Promislow, AB'86, is an assistant professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Georgia. He studies Drosophila (fruit flies), trying to determine how females select mates and if there is a genetic basis for why some flies live longer. He hopes to find out if "choosy females have kids that live longer." Daniel can be reached at promislow@bscr.uga.edu.

College alumni, please send your news to: Martha A. Schulman, AB'86, 70 W. 95th St., New York, NY 10025. Phone: 212/666-7370 (h). E-mail: nibbs@mindspring.com.

Other alumni news includes: Washington University in St. Louis named Daniel L. Keating, JD'86, the dean of its law school. He has been associate dean since 1993. Capital University in Columbus, OH, awarded humanities professor Cheryl L. Ney, PhD'86, the 1998 Praestantia Award, its highest honor for teaching excellence. Gregg R. Pavitt, AM'86, is beginning a master's program at Columbia in economic-policy management, a program run in affiliation with the World Bank. He has been finance director for the town of Orangetown, NY. Rayman L. Solomon, AM'72, JD'76, PhD'86, was named dean of the Rutgers University School of Law in Camden. Previously, he was associate dean for academic affairs and administration at Northwestern University's School of Law.

87College alumni-Alison L. Inafuku, AB'87, writes: Great news from Myra LaVenue, AB'87, who reports: "My latest news since the tenth-year reunion is purchasing a house. I am a single homeowner of a 1927 English Tudor home in north Portland, OR. My life is consumed by fix-up projects, from painting to building screens to cutting down laurel hedges. In sports, I have recruited a number of U of C alums for my women's soccer team. I am the goalkeeper; Elizabeth J. Hart, AB'93; plays defense; Jill Skrezyna, AB'88, plays forward; and Sarah J. Geenen, AB'90, should return in the fall as forward. On the publishing front, I have a second story, Learning to Swim, coming out in June in an anthology from Alyson Publications, the leading publisher of gay and lesbian fiction. My first story was published about 1 1/2 years ago by Alyson in a book called Early Embraces. By day, I am still writing multimedia training programs delivered over CD-ROM or the Internet." Amelia L. Gallitano-Mendel, AB'88, biked the west coast of Ireland in June 1997 and climbed Mount Rainier the year before. She continues to bike, rock climb, and run. Hope everyone had a great summer of 1998...be sure to let me know of your interesting (or not so interesting) adventures for future class notes!

College alumni, please send your news to: Alison L. Inafuku, AB'87, Alliance Capital Management Corporation, 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10105. E-mail: Alison_Inafu- ku@acml.com.

Other alumni news includes: Christopher A. Chronis, MBA'87, has been named manager of marketing for Output Technologies in Boston. Alison R. Holmes, AM'87, general election planning manager of the Liberal Democrats political party in England, wrote an article titled "Advertising Democracy: Designer Hype or a Closing Down Sale?" for the summer 1996 issue of The Reformer.

88College alumni, please send your news to: Matthew Lay, AB'88, 1726 Hobart St., NW, Washington, DC 20009. E-mail: HobartDC@aol.com.

89The Class of 1989 celebrates its 10th reunion June 4-6, 1999. Stephen T. Cummings, MBA'89, see 1985, Michelle Neubauer Cummings. Rachel Cunningham, AB'89, is the executive director of the Civil War Soldiers Museum in Pensacola, FL. She is working on her M.A. in public history at the University of West Florida and expects to graduate in 1999. After working at Goldman Sachs International Ltd. in London for a few years, she is pleased to be back in the States, connecting with old friends. E-mail her at rach@pen.net. Hope J. Lafferty, AM'89, recently founded Working Environments, an organizational consulting firm in Austin, TX. On May 9, Todd H. Mintz, AB'89, married Danika Snyder in Salem, OR. The couple lives in Tigrand, OR. Mintz remains the director of apartment information services and database manager for Marathon Management, Inc., a property management, development, and consulting firm in Portland. E-mail him at t@marathon-man.com. Michael B. O'Connor, AB'89, has been living in San Francisco for five of the last seven years and received his M.A. in philosophy from Boston University. He writes, "I've been teaching philosophy here at way too many different colleges and universities." He is moving to Austin to begin work on a Ph.D. in American studies at the University of Texas. E-mail him at ahidell@mindspring.com. Bruce I. A. Rigal, MBA'89, and Lisa Tedeschini announce the May 24 birth of their first child, Joseph Dov William Rigal, in London, where Rigal covers emerging European capital markets for Deutsche Bank and Tedeschini is a solicitor with Linklaters.