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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80 David L. Skelding, AB’80, see 1979, William J. Sanders.

81 College alumni—Lonnie Stonitsch, AB’82, writes: In 1995, Wendy B. Oliver, AB’81, returned to full-time law practice. In 1997, she became general counsel and secretary of Southern Pacific Funding Corporation, a public specialty finance company headquartered in Lake Oswego, OR. “This proves that you can get back into the fast track after jumping off, which may not be a good thing,” says Oliver, who adds that she’d rather be traveling in South America. Charles Schilke, AB’81, wrote this past fall, “Just got back from the second-annual Chicago Leadership Caucus—so great to have these events. While in Chicago, I had dinner with my old friends from the Chicago Debating Society—Joseph F. Griffin, AB’79, JD’82, and Cindy Lawson Griffin—and lunched with former student Jeremy Bates. I’m in my final year as president of the U of C Club of Washington, DC—one of the great learning experiences of my life.” Elizabeth Vila Rogan, AB’81, and her family have relocated from Atlanta to Connecticut. After taking two and a half years off to be at home with daughters Carolyn, 3, and Jenny, 2, she is slowly resuming her career and consulting for the Capital Defender in Hartford, CT, on death-penalty litigation.

Thanks to all those who responded to the October column’s plea for contact. I’m flattered to have heard from so many old boyfriends, though it may have more to do with their recurrent nightmares than with anything else. I’m planning a small phone blitz in early 1999, and those of you whom I knew personally, as enemy or friend, will be first up.

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.

82 College alumni—Karen Kapner Hyman, AB’82, AM’88, writes: George J. Hoffman, AB’82, married Stephanie Cohen in August. He also published a book this past year, Montaigne’s Career (Oxford, Clarendon Press). David Hollowell, AB’82, married Kimberly Muck in Los Alamos in October. Three U of C alums were present. Vivienne (“Jane”) Kattapong, AB’82, AM’84, is doing health services consulting after five years as an academic neurologist. She has three children—Ione, 5; Yon, 3; and Chaiyo, 6 months—and lives in the Tucson, AZ, area. She would love to hear from any classmates in the area. Kelly A. McDonald, AB’82, is a shareholder in the law firm Davis and Wilkerson in Austin, TX, and practices health law. She has been married to Stuart Simons since 1995: “We have two beautiful children, Erin Marie, 22 months, and Sean Thomas, 20 months.” Vincent Katz, AB’82, is the author of three works: Charm (1995, Sun and Moon Press), which contains translations from Latin of Sextus Propertius; Pearl (1998, powerHouse Books), poems with paintings by Tabboo; and Rudy Burckhardt (1998, IVAM), an exhibition catalogue. In November, David D. McCluskey, AB’84, was elected to the Connecticut General Assembly as a state representative from the 20th District (Hartford/West Hartford) and thanks all the U of C alums who supported his candidacy. Linda M. Lowd, AB’82, has been initiated into a Native-American spiritual society. In 1996, Scott A. Monsma, AB’82; his wife, Elizabeth Morrison; and their son, Owen, 3, moved from Ithaca, NY, to Madison, WI, where he is a senior research scientist with Novagen, Inc. They are enjoying Madison and welcome e-mail from old Chicago friends at samonsma@mailbag.com, Scott’s e-mail address, or at aem@mailbag.com, Elizabeth’s e-mail address. Timothy G. Lynch, AB’82, is a partner at Robins, Kaplan, Miller, and Ciresi LLP and recently won the largest wrongful death suit in Massachusetts history in the case of Ward v. Trusted Health Resources, Inc. Daniel S. Levy, AB’82, PhD’91, was admitted as a partner to the Chicago office of Arthur Andersen LLP in August, where he directs the economics practice. Bart A. Lazar, AB’82; wife Lydia; and daughters Rachel, 5, and Naomi, 3, visited numerous alums this past summer in East Hampton, NY, including Peter G. Hirsch, AB’82, MBA’85; Bridgette Salyer Hirsch, AB’82; Gregg S. Sodini, AB’82; Andrew S. Rothman, AB’82; and Barry J. Friedberg, AB’82, plus Suzan Friedberg. Bart is a partner in the Chicago office of Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather, and Geraldson, where he specializes in intellectual-property and Internet law.

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

Other alumni news include: After 11 years in private practice in Orange County, CA, Jun Ihara, MD’82, joined Kaiser Permanente, a large nonprofit HMO multispecialty medical group, in southern California. He enjoys working with residents from Loma Linda University and having the support of many colleagues. With more free time, he enjoys boating and skiing, and learned to windsurf. Paul J. Kinyon, MBA’82, vice president at aegon usa Realty Advisors, Inc., joined the board of Technisource, Inc., a national provider of information technology services.

83 College alumni—Nick Varsam, AB’83, writes: Donna Camloh Bond, AB’83, AM’84, and Jeffrey M. Bond, AM’81, PhD’92, announce the November birth of their seventh (that’s right, seventh) child, Paul Ignatius. Paul joins his four brothers and two sisters, whose father teaches classics at Mountain Lakes High School and whose mother home schools the four oldest kids in Rockaway, NJ. Richard E. Ehrlich, AB’83, is practicing law in Coral Springs, FL, and provided more details in a letter, which has mysteriously disappeared (please write again). Thomas J. Nolan, AB’83, MBA’89, is working for Micro Modeling, an information technology consulting firm that specializes in the financial world. When not spending time with his wife, Laura, and kids Ross, 6, and Kristina, 3, he can be found telling children’s stories at libraries, parks, and festivals in or around Mokena, IL, or reached by e-mail at nolant@micromodeling.com.
I am a partner of Bryan Cave LLP, specializing in securities offerings, particularly in the telecommunications industry. I occasionally manage to see my wife, Portia, and children Harris, 5, and Anna, 3.

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: Lawrence A. Gyenes, MBA’83, has returned to Chicago after a two-year stint at CompuServe in Columbus, OH, where he was executive vice president and CFO. He is now senior vice president and chief financial officer for Rand McNally, headquartered in Skokie, IL. He writes, “It is a pleasure to work with a company that’s such a huge brand and has such outstanding technology. ” Paul G. Neilan, JD’83, joined Dykema Gossett as counsel to the corporate and finance practice group. He concentrates on corporate and commercial transactions, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, creditors’ rights, workouts, and credit restructurings.

84 The Class of 1984 celebrates its 15th reunion June 4–6, 1999.
Dawn Dobyns Harvey, AB’84, announces the September 8 birth of her second child, Jacob Carrick Harvey. He joins big sister Brynne, 3. They live in Norman, OK, where Dawn is in her second year as a “SAHM (stay-at-home Mom).” Her husband, Craig, is an assistant professor of industrial engineering at the University of Oklahoma. She writes, “Question du jour: Are any other U of C alums here on the windy plains?”

85 Thomas J. Derdak, PhD’85, is executive director of Global Alliance for Africa, where he travels regularly in the course of his work, developing health-care programs. In November, Veronica J. Drake, AB’85; Eleanor R. Smith, AB’85; and Anthony S. Mendiola, AB’86, celebrated a reunion in Chicago. Drake notes that the reunion was 14 years in the making. In December, Mendiola graduated with a master’s in organizational development from Loyola University Chicago. Smith has spent eight years in Dallas. Her career has moved from stand-up comedian to therapist to clinical outcomes researcher, and has perpetually included adjunct college teaching. Smith’s husband, Paul, is currently vice president of systems integration for Chase Bank of Texas. The couple celebrated their 12th anniversary this past year.

86 College alumni—Martha A. Schulman, AB’86, writes: Ruth Pennington Paget, AB’86, and her daughter, Florence, spent August in France with Ruth’s in-laws. They “attended two weddings and generally had a great time eating and drinking wine.” Last year the family relocated to Norfolk, VA, which they love, in part because “we’re all Civil War buffs, including my French husband.” Benjamin Rodman, AB’86, MBA’93, is a director of mergers and acquisitions at Nesbitt Burns. Wife Mimi Lee Rodman, AB’85, left Kirkland & Ellis after making partner to work three days a weeks as a lawyer for the Tribune Company. Children Sam and Carolyn are 5 and 3 and, Ben says, “have not yet declared undying allegiance to U of C. Go figure!” Over the summer, Ben and Mimi saw Roger M. Raichelson, AB’86, and Stefanie Grossman Raichelson, AB’86, when Roger was running a triathlon in Chicago. He reports that “Dr. and Dr. Raichelson are doing well, living in upstate New York, and have two great boys, Ryan and Austin.” Joel R. Zand, AB’86, is a lawyer in New York City whose practice is devoted to representing pets and their owners. His Web site, (www.doglaw.com,) features late-breaking canine legal news, as well as the dog run and water fountain information so important to local dog owners. He’s also forming a partnership and Web site (www.cooplaw.com) for the other part of his legal practice: representing co-op buyers, sellers, and boards in litigation and transactions. Joel and his wife, Renee Ghert-Zand, “keep busy raising our rambunctious boys, 2 and 4 years old.” In August, Steven R. Penn, AB’86, opened his law office, Stachyra & Penn. Located in Chicago’s Loop, the firm concentrates on occupational exposure injury, personal injury, civil litigation, and estate matters. Despite the strains of starting a business, he does have a personal life. He’s married to “the love of my life and the greatest thing to ever happen to me, my wife, Paula, a financial consultant at Solomon Smith Barney,” and “runs marathons, performs at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and occasionally gets a little sleep!” Steven can be reached at pslawright@altavista.net.

Steven M. Eick, AB’86, received an M.B.A. from Columbia University in 1992. He lives in New York City and is the managing partner of a merger-arbitrage hedge fund he cofounded in 1997. Steve bikes and runs competitively and misses Harold’s Chicken. Wendy Parshall Witt, AB’86, AM’87, and her husband, David Witt, AB’87, welcomed the first addition to their family, Kurt Nicolaus Witt, on November 10. Wendy says, “We brought him home to South Elgin on Friday the 13th...our lucky day!” She’s taken a short leave from flying at American Airlines, but plans to return to work by mid-March. Dave’s still working away at the family machine shop. Robert J. Garisto, AB’87, got a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from the University of Michigan in 1992 and married Jennifer Greene the same year. They then packed up and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, “which is like heaven, only cloudier,” Robert says. Following his postdoc and the demise of the Superconducting Super Collider, they moved back across the continent when he became an editor at Physical Review Letters (garisto@aps.org). He still does some research and has also tried his hand at science writing. “Long Island is a challenge for progressives such as ourselves,” he writes, “and there aren’t nearly enough places for people to interact. But we have been involved with various causes and we’re also busy fixing up our house and playing with our wonderful, amazing, 5-year-old son, Daniel.” Lisa A. Reynolds, AB’86, and her husband, David Sanders, had a baby boy, Jack Lewis Sanders, in Portland, OR, on November 14. Jack is “a wonderful (and cute) addition to our lives,” Lisa says. She’ll be on maternity leave until February and will then return part time to her pediatrics practice.

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: Anthony S. Mendiola, AB’86, see 1985, Veronica J. Drake.

87 College alumni—Alison L. Inafuku, AB’87, writes: Paul Y. Song, AB’87, is a radiation oncologist at the Cancer Center at Fairfax Hospital in northern Virginia. He recently opened D.C. Coast, which the Washington Post just named as one of the city s top restaurants. You won’t catch Paul doing dishes, however: “I don’t handle any day-to-day restaurant stuff, but I eat there often.” Ieda Victorino Troup, AB’87, wrote from Novato, CA, that she has lived in the bay area since November 1997. Ieda and her husband, Thomas L. Troup, celebrated the birth of their first child, Nathaniel, on September 15. Harold H. Tsai, AB’87, lives in Manhattan and is a urologic-oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Harold, who finished his residency in 1997 at Albert Einstein/Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, plans to go into practice on his own in July 1999. Kim L. Shively, AB’87, completed her master’s of theology at Harvard Divinity School in 1991. After working in human services in Boston for two years, Kim entered the doctoral program in anthropology at Brandeis University. Now midway through her fieldwork project in Turkey, she hopes to finish her dissertation next year. She and her husband, Deniz Erta, have a 2-year-old son, Emre. James A. Graf, AB’87, last seen in Hong Kong, has resurfaced in Singapore! Jamie e-mailed to say that he is now a managing director of corporate finance at Merrill Lynch. “Before joining Merrill,” he writes, “I took the summer off to travel and sit on beaches around the world, and then led a short-lived quixotic effort to raise money for an Asian vulture fund.” E-mail him at james_graf@sg.ml.com. Timothy G. Hansen, AB’87, says, “I’ve enjoyed reading about our classmates and thought it was about time to report in myself.” Tim graduated from Rutgers Law School in 1993 and is a litigator at Lowenstein Sandler in Roseland, NJ. He and his wife, Nola, have two sons, Nicholas, 4, and Matthew, 2, who had a great time in Chicago at the 10th reunion in 1997. E-mail him at thansen@lowenstein.com. Daniel J. Abrams, AB’87, reminded me that we last saw each other in summer 1990 when we bumped into each other not only in Egypt, but also in Israel! Dan married Sharon Pincus this past June and they live in Phoenix. After medical school at Vanderbilt, a fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and a residency at the University of Connecticut, Dan is a neurosurgeon in private practice. He notes that he has recently been in contact with Amir H. Wolfe, AB’87, and Paul D. Revsine, AB’88. E-mail Dan at DanJAbrams@aol.com. James R. Quayle, AB’87, and wife Nora have been married since 1990. On September 17, they received the final adoption papers for their son, Adam, 9, who has been with them since he was 6. Jim is an actuary for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Washington, DC. He, Nora, and Adam live happily in Fairfax, VA.

It was great to hear from so many of you this time. I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful holiday season and that 1999 is treating you well!

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. No job inquiries, please.

Other alumni news includes: Paladin Staffing Services promoted Edward M. Rylko, MBA’87, to vice president, controller. Before joining Paladin, he was managing principal of his own firm, which provided accounting and tax services to Chicago businesses.

88 College alumni—Matthew Lay, AB’88, writes: John M. Boland, AB’88, recently returned from an extended trip to England and France. John, a regional manager for IDX Systems Corporation, and his wife, Jill, live in Naperville, IL, with their dog, Aiko. Mary E. Brady, AB’88, MBA’97, works in Chicago as a marketing manager for Baxters Renal Division. Michael A. Schwartz, AB’88, MBA’93, and his wife, Kathy, announce the September 23 birth of their son, Alexander Michael. Erin Kelly Wolfe, AB’88, and her husband, P. Devon Wolfe, AB’86, celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary this past August. She stays home with their “three great kids”: Michael, 6; Christopher, 5; and Emily, 1. Erin and Devon recently got together with Terry T. Gong, AB’88, and “had a nice time reliving” their U of C experiences.

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: The Chicago office of Arthur Andersen LLP admitted James W. McAveeney, MBA’88, to the partnership. He has been with the firm’s Chicago business consulting practice for the past 10 years, most recently as a senior manager specializing in financial markets. Robert D. Sellers, MBA’88, see 1989, Sharon D. Greenstein.

89 The Class of 1989 celebrates its 10th reunion June 4–6, 1999.
Sharon D. Greenstein, MBA’89, and Robert D. Sellers, MBA’88, announce the June 21 birth of their second son, Daniel Michael Sellers. Their 3-year-old, Bryan, is taking the new addition “relatively well.” Sharon is the director of managed care at the Pediatric Faculty Foundation of Children’s Memorial Hospital; Robert is director of managed care at Westlake Community Hospital and executive director of Oak West Physicians Association. Charles J. Press, AB’89, an attorney who represented Death Row prisoners in California for the past five years, has moved to Jackson, MS, to help create the Mississippi Post-Conviction Counsel Project, which will provide direct representation of death-sentenced prisoners in Mississippi. To learn more about the project, write to him at 1007 Poplar Blvd., Jackson, MS, 39202 or e-mail charliepress@netscape.net.