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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81 College alumni—Lonnie Stonitsch, AB’82, writes: Lee A. Banaszak, AB’81, reports: “Hi! I am an associate professor in political science at Penn State University and wanted to let my old U of C friends know about the birth of my son, Isaac Banaszak Plutzer. He just turned 9 months old (so it is a little late for a birth announcement) and is into the crawling and exploring stage. He is a big fan of the U of C alumni magazine, but largely because it tastes so good and makes a great sound when you tear the pages into small pieces.”

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

Other alumni news includes: In April, Douglas E. Markham, JD’81, was re-elected leader of the southern region of Hostelling International, a nonprofit organization that licenses hostels for travelers and provides information about budget travel. In 1997, Anne M. Nordhaus-Bike, AB’81, was named to the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY, for her investigative journalism. This year she won her third Apex Award from Communications Concepts, a communications think tank, for a magazine article on world-champion ultrarunner Sue Ellen Hamilton. In addition to writing, she has launched a second career as an artist and has an art agent who represents her. Also this year, her watercolor, gouache, and X-ray art was displayed in two group shows in Chicago, one at Church of the Epiphany and one at Excalibur nightclub. In November she showed at the Chicago Art Open, the largest non-juried display of work by Chicago artists since the 1950s.

82 College alumni—Karen Kapner Hyman, AB’82, AM’88, writes: Layth C. Alwan, AB’82, MBA’85, PhD’89, an associate professor of business statistics and operations management at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, received a 1998–99 Fulbright fellowship to lecture and research at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco. The all-U-of-C-alum company where I work, Neustadt Creative Marketing—headed by Mark S. Neustadt, AB’80—recently had a project selected for inclusion in Communication Arts’ graphic design annual. The project was a redesign of the St. John’s College viewbook, a reassuring indication that the Great Books still have the power to raise an eyebrow or two.

College alumni, please send your news to: Karen Kapner Hyman, AB’82, AM’88, 2219 Shefflin Court, Baltimore, MD 21209.

83 College alumni—Nick Varsam, AB’83, writes: Send info. Stop. Even if it’s only your name, quest, favorite color, etc. Stop. I’m beginning to feel like the Maytag repairman. Stop. Don’t stop writing. Stop.

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

Other alumni news includes: The Juvenile Protective Association appointed Edgrick C. Johnson, MBA’83, to its board of directors. He is senior executive vice president of Highland Community Bank in Chicago. Margaret Peil, PhD’83, retired from Birmingham University in 1986. Between extreme gardening—she takes part in the national Open Garden Scheme—and extensive traveling to Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, and South Africa, she volunteers for the Citizens Advice Bureau. The Illinois CPA Society appointed Vincent E. Villinski, MBA’83, a partner at Coopers & Lybrand LLP, to its board of directors. A member of the Illinois CPA Society since 1970, he now serves as its treasurer.

84 The Class of 1984 celebrates its 15th reunion June 4–6, 1999.

William J. Clark, AB’84, reports that he and his wife, Jo Ellis, had another son, Gunnar. “Jo and I often have to rescue him from the hugs and kisses of his two older siblings, Arthur, 4, and Ursula, 2. He is already under the care of our Korean nanny, and I’m sure that his first words will be Korean, as his siblings’ were. If anyone from my era is in the Bay Area, stop by and experience chaos firsthand!” R. R. Donnelley & Sons named Isabelle M. Day, MBA’84, the vice president and division director of the company’s South Daytona, FL, division. She joined the company in 1996 as vice president of marketing for magazine publishing services business at the corporate headquarters in Chicago. Deloitte & Touche admitted James A. Schriner, MBA’84, to partnership in the firm.

85 On September 3, Ross F. Bagby, AM’85, received a Ph.D. in history from Ohio State University. His dissertation, “The Randolph Slave Saga: Communities in Collision,” traces the history of an Ohio free black community. The law firm Freeborn & Peters elected Michael T. Novak, AB’85, a partner in the Chicago office. A former assistant attorney general for the state of Illinois, he practices in insurance coverage litigation for policy holders and other commercial litigation. The National Science Foundation awarded a $33,600 grant to Samuel A. Rebelsky, SB’85, SM’87, PhD’93, an assistant professor of computer science at Grinnell College; John D. Stone, AB’72, a Grinnell mathematics lecturer; and colleague Henry M. Walker to support innovative multimedia exercises in introductory computer-science classes.

86 College alumni—Martha A. Schulman, AB’86, writes: Timothy C. Swanson, AB’86, reports: “After spending my last 50 days in the Peace Corps as a hostage of the New People’s Army (Philippines, 1990), I spent several years in jobs that led nowhere. On the plus side, my wife, Merle, and I had Michael, 7, and Angela, 2.” In 1996, Tim earned an M.I.M. from the American Graduate School of International Management. Now in the Foreign Service, he’s moving to Seoul in February, where friends can find him at the consulate. LeAnn Morgan, AB’86, has moved to Seattle, M.B.A. in hand, to work for DMR Consulting Group, Inc., which provides information technology consulting to Fortune 500 companies. LeAnn can be reached at leannmorgan@ hotmail.com and “expects to hear from long-lost pals now that I’ve left Kansas for the Emerald City.” Jane K. Burke, AB’86, has an M.S. in health policy and is the research analyst for the Chicago consortium of the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS). She recently presented her work on patient satisfaction at the 12th World AIDS Conference in Geneva. Her cat, Trevor, “is fine and turned 14 in September!”

Katharine Walsh Harless, AB’86, has lived in the Bay Area more than ten years and married Mike Harless in 1994. “We just had our first baby, McKeegan (Mickey, for short),” she writes. “Thankfully, he’s been very patient with us so far. I’m back at work as director of production at ZDTV—a 24-hour cable channel about computers. We launched in early May (just before we launched our little family addition), so things have been quite hectic.” She can be reached at katie_walsh@zd.com. Michael F. Fitzgerald, AB’86, says he’s “learning to like change.” On October 25, 1997, he married Lark D. Kerr in Framingham, MA. Attendees included best man J. Lorand Matory, AB’86, AM’91, PhD’91, and groomsmen Andrew E. Wrobel, AB’85, MBA’87, and Stewart L. Winger, AB’85, AM’93. Seven other alumni attended the wedding. Four months later, the couple headed to San Francisco, where Mike is senior news producer at ZDNet News (www.zdnn.com). Contact him at michael_fitzgerald@zd.com. Edward F. Malone, AB’86, has practiced criminal and civil litigation at Jenner & Block for six years and says, “I’ve stayed because I like my job, not because I’ve been unable to overcome inertia. After Benjamin C. Weinberg, AB’86, followed me to Jenner & Block, I followed him to Oak Park. On May 1, Kristina and I had a daughter, Hannah Sophie Entner. She’ll attend school with Leo Weinberg, who lives a few blocks away.”

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: In May, Teresa A. Gorno-Reid, AM’86, earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology with honors. She also announces the July 2 birth of her second daughter, Alice Cecilia Reid. Alice is named for her father’s maternal grandmother. Randall D. Smith, SB’86, and his wife, Lori Kenschaft, gave 10 percent of their take-home pay this year in grants to assist 14 mostly inner-city elementary-school classrooms in Boston. The money provided supplies ranging from textbooks to a karaoke machine to help students learn English. Smith, a computer programmer, and Kenschaft, a Boston University graduate student, were featured in the July 5 Boston Globe. Harvey M. Teres, AM’82, PhD’86, associate professor of English at Syracuse University, has received a Fulbright scholarship, which he will use to travel to China to teach American literature and literary theory at the Beijing Foreign Studies Institute this spring.

87 College alumni—Alison L. Inafuku, AB’87, writes: William L. Florida, AB’87, AM’87, reports that he “currently markets toothpaste to the Japanese.” He has lived in Tokyo for the past seven years and plans to move to Lausanne, Switzerland, at the new year. He recently ran into Jonathan M. Herskovitz, AB’88, who has been in Japan for many years and is now writing for Reuters. Florida also studied Japanese with Paul A. Consalvi, AB’87. Bill and his fiancée, Tomoko, would love to meet U of C alumni in either Tokyo or Lausanne. For those who were wondering, he confirmed that he no longer wears green pants. E-mail him at william.florida@ ibm.net. Jonathan Q. Tritter, AB’87, was inspired to write in by the recent news of Jay D. Woldenberg, AB’87, MBA’89, noting that “Jay’s inherent modesty has changed little in the last decade.” You probably remember Jonathan as Jonathan Evans: “...the joys of growing up in a divorced family led to a new name at the grand old age of 21.” Jonathan received a Ph.D. in sociology from Oxford University and is now an associate professor of sociology at the University of Warwick. He still swims and participates in the occasional triathlon and “even managed to finish the London Marathon a few years ago.” Jonathan also reported that he saw David B. Goldenberg, AB’87, in New York City in August. David is a psychiatrist at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and, according to Jonathan, “still crazy as ever, and still a sharp dresser.” E-mail Jonathan at sysbh@ice.csv.warwick.ac.uk.

Timothy A. Wicks, AB’88, and Brenda, his wife of 8 years, have three children and “a legitimately good reason to be missing sleep.” After working at Northwest Airlines and acquiring an M.B.A. from Harvard while working at Bain & Co., Tim started Great Northern Capital in St. Paul, MN, with two partners. He writes that his new firm is a “quantitative-oriented investment-management firm focusing primarily on the major institutional marketplace.” E-mail him at twicks@gnci.com. Kenneth R. Holston, AB’87, was appointed a visiting assistant professor of European history at Amherst College. Ken earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and has been a lecturer at Penn as well as Suffolk University.

In September, I spent six days on a Backroads trip hiking, biking, and kayaking around the breathtaking San Juan Islands of Washington state. I met a U of C alum on the trip: James E. Mann, JD’68, who still lives in Hyde Park and is one helluva bicyclist! Hope to hear from you all soon!

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_Ina- fuku@acml.com.

Other alumni news includes: Deborah A. Campana, AM’87, was appointed conservatory librarian at Oberlin College. For the past 11 years, she had been the music public-services librarian at Northwestern University. She had also been acting head of the music library and assistant dean for undergraduate studies in the School of Music. A performing member of the Chicago ensemble Kapture and a founding member of New Music Chicago, she currently focuses her research on the life and work of John Cage. A past editor of the Music Library Association Index and Bibliography Series, she serves on the MLA’s board of directors. On August 21, Karyl A. Kinsey, AM’79, PhD’87, married Jim Polk, “an old friend since sixth grade.” Lord, Bissel & Brook elected Donald J. Manikas, JD’87, a real-estate lawyer, to partner. Commonwealth Edison Company appointed Robert K. McDonald, MBA’87, as vice president of strategic planning.

88 College alumni—Matthew Lay, AB’88, writes: Lisa D. Magnas, AB’88, your class reunion chair, would like to salute all ’88 classmates and their families who were in attendance at Reunion ’98—they all helped to make the event a great success! She also recognizes many of those who could not attend yet participated in other ways (Thanks for the congratulatory notes and life updates!). Last but not least, she thanks those classmates who helped her chair the reunion planning committee and gave their time throughout the year. Lisa adds: “Chicago was in full bloom and the campus was in great shape for staging our memorable ten-year reunion. It was truly thrilling to catch up and renew friendships. Wonderful news, achievements, and life changes were shared by all and proved to be very inspirational. The only real daunting aspect for me was when I realized that, come September, my youngest sister (Talia, Class of 2002!), who had been in diapers during our freshman year, would be starting her first year at our great institution! I am looking forward to everyone kicking in for the next reunion and helping the next chair—any takers?!” Jeffrey M. Carey, AB’88, has earned an M.B.A. at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Jeffrey and his wife, Jackie, had their second daughter, Josephine Michelle, on August 18. Their other daughter, Jessica Marie, is four. Frederic C. Marton, AB’88, recently defended his Ph.D. dissertation at Northwestern University and will conduct postdoctoral research at the geophysical laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, DC. Samuel C. Blackman, AB’90, recently held a dinner party with a whole new slew of U of C teaching assistants, including Steven M. Minaglia, AB’95; Karrie V. Kohlhaas, AB’96; and Christopher M. Straus, AB’88, MD’92, son of professors Lorna Puttkammer Straus, X’53, SM’60, PhD’62, and Francis H. Straus II, MD’57, SM’64.

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

Other alumni news includes: Lord, Bissel & Brook elected John E. Hrebec, JD’88, who concentrates in corporate insurance, a partner in the firm. William B. Hunt, MBA’88, is now general manager of Brambles Industrial Services in Sydney, Australia, where he is looking forward to the 2000 Olympics.

89 The Class of 1989 celebrates its 10th reunion June 4–6, 1999.

Marjorie Warner Dorr, MBA’89, head of Anthem Inc. pharmacy benefit management subsidiary, was named chief operating officer of Anthem East. Lawrence G. Friedman, AM’89, CEO of The Go-To-Market Institute, a market and channel strategy firm, has completed his second book, The Channel Advantage, to be published in February. He lives in Reston, VA, with his girlfriend and two cats. Sam D. Miller, AB’89, announces the July 21 birth of son Satchel Owen Miller. He recently began working in the communications department of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City.