TIGGERS: The number of '88ers bringing kids to Reunions is growing every day. The first photo is of Justin Wenig (fashionably clad in the Princeton T-shirt), the son of CINDY HOROWITZ WENIG and her husband Devin. Justin was born on Jan. 16. The second photo is of Fleming Caroline Peck, the daughter of BOB PECK and wife Ellen. Fleming was born on July 31.
CHAMPION: DAVID VAUDREUIL played a key role in DC United's victory in October's Major League Soccer Cup '97 before 57,000 fans and a national TV audience David's D.C. team defeated the Colorado Rapids by a 2-1 score. In the November expansion draft, David -- one of the league's top defenders -- was selected in the first round by the Miami Fusion.
ROUNDUP: KATHERINE WHITE is a law professor at Wayne State Univ. Law School in Detroit, where she teaches contracts, patent law, and copyright law. DAVID KLEIN finishes his orthopedic residency at SUNY-Downstate/Kings County Hospital this year. Next August, he heads south to start a hand surgery fellowship at Tampa General Hospital. Also practicing medicine is AMY STEPHENS, who has joined an OB/GYN group near Cleveland. Finally, ELIZABETH MCLEAN has left the legal profession after five years and decided to become a different kind of advocate. She's back in Princeton as a student at the Theological Seminary, training to become a Presbyterian minister.
TEN YEARS AGO: SAM MITRA is killed in an auto accident. Suspicious fire causes severe damage to Terrace Club. NCAA investigates women's gymnastics for alleged recruiting violation. William Bowen steps down as university president. December 3, 1997 Column (with photos)
BABY FACES: The next generation of Princetonians keeps getting bigger and bigger. The first photo is of LUIS CASTRO holding his daughter Olivia Gabrielle, born on March 7 to Luis and wife Jenny. Dad is finishing his residency in family practice at St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y. The second photo is of Elias Sean Abilheira, born to ELIAS ABILHEIRA and wife Mariola on Aug. 31.
And there are more. Other first-time parents include ROBERT MACIEJKO and wife Ania, whose daughter Maria Monica is enjoying Warsaw, Poland, where dad works for McKinsey & Co. DON BERTHIAUME became a father on June 2, when daughter Kendra Grace entered the world.
Other '88ers are becoming parents for the second time. LISA HERMAN and husband Dr. Ian Tofler are the proud parents of daughter Leora Batsheva, who was born on Aug. 14. Leora joins her older sister, Yael Ben-Avi, who celebrated her sixth birthday the next day. KIMBERLY WEIGEL COBURN and husband Tad '87 are enjoying life in the Pacific Northwest with their two sons, Nathan (age three) and Charles (born on July 1). Finally, CHRIS BORMANN has a new addition to his family. Daughter Kathryn Mae was born on July 28, 1996 and is quite fond of her big brother Bradford. November 3, 1997 Column
SPOTLIGHT ON DEAN: For those of you who don't read entertainment magazines, a lot has been happening to DEAN CAIN. Although Dean's ABC-TV show "Lois and Clark" was canceled after four years, he is staying busy. This fall, Dean comes to your neighborhood theater in the film "Best Men," which co-stars Drew Barrymore. The comedy-drama is about a trip to a wedding that gets interrupted by a bank robbery. Dean also will appear in the Showtime cable movie, "Dog Boys," in which he plays an incarcerated, ex-Marine boxer. And for those who can't get enough of Dean as Superman, TNT is showing reruns of "Lois and Clark" six days a week.
In his personal life, Dean has also been busy. He recently became engaged to 21-year-old country singer, Mindy McCready, whose debut album "Ten Thousand Angels" has already gone platinum. Dean met his future bride through his mom, Sharon Cain, who spotted Mindy at the Country Music Awards earlier this year and decided to set them up. When Dean proposed to Mindy, he gave her a twisted circle of bread, instead of a ring, to symbolize "an unbreakable bond." And what did Mindy think of the bread tie (which was green, her favorite color)? "I started crying," she said. "I'll show it to my kids -- your Dad was such a dork he gave me a bread tie! But it's perfect for me. I could care less about traditional stuff like getting the ring first." The couple plans to wed next year.
As for Dean's future acting plans, there is talk that he may play Andrew Cunanan in one of the many film projects about slain fashion designer Gianni Versace. Other actors whose names have been mentioned for the high-profile role are Robert Downey, Jr., Keanu Reeves and Brad Pitt. Dean has also said he wants to portray legendary Hawaiian surfer Duke Kahanamoku.
Finally, for all you trivia buffs out there, Dean played Superman longer than any other actor, including George Reeves who starred in the 1950's TV series.
HOME PAGE: If you haven't already done so, be sure to check out the class' home page at http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/5001. October 22, 1997 Column (with photo)
A group of Princetonians made the trek to Honolulu for JIM KAWASHIMA'S wedding on July 12. Pictured here are (l-r): (front) Tom Affinito '87, Jim's bride Elaine, Jim, SHI-TZE LU (back) JIM BURKE and CHAD HENDERSON. Jim is an attorney in Honolulu; his wife works for Coopers & Lybrand.
PENELOPE MIHALAP KRUMM married Reinhard Krumm in Norfolk, VA, in May 1996. MOLLY MARKERT and Holland Cole Detke '87 were in attendance. The couple lives in Moscow, where Penelope teaches English and Reinhard is a correspondent for the German newsweekly, Der Spiegel.
NEELY HOLT MCNULTY and husband Richard (Penn '86) have a new member of their family. Lillian Mason McNulty was born on Easter Sunday (March 20, 1997). Mom writes that Mason spends her time "napping, cooing and doing the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle." Wow, smart child! JENNY VALENTINE DAVENPORT and husband James have three girls, Gigi (age 3), Mia (age 2) and Imani (5 months). For several years, Jenny worked for Honda in Japan and had the proud distinction of being Honda headquarters' first non-Japanese female employee and first African American employee. She is now back in the States and is a grad student in English curriculum and instruction.
Although BOB BRADFORD lives in Savannah, he's hardly living the life of a genteel aristocrat. Bob's still in the Army and stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia, where he commands a field artillery battery in the 3d Infantry Division, which specializes in mechanized rapid deployment. October 8, 1997 Column (with photo)
HIGHER CALLING: After five years of seminary study, PABLO GADENZ was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest on May 18, 1996, and now works at the Church of St. Ann in Keansburg, N.J. Pictured here at Pablo's ordination are (l-r): (back) JEAN-PAUL FAGUET, LLOYD MARTINSON, RICH APLENC, NICK BELDECOS, DAVE WILSON (front) Rev. Ray Harris '89, Rev. John Barres '82, Pablo, STEFANIE SMITH and Rev. Thomas Mullelly (the chaplain for Catholic students at Princeton). After graduating from Princeton, Pablo worked at AT&T for three years in computer engineering and then quit his job to prepare for the priesthood.
HIGHER LOVE: VALESKA STUPAK married Rory O'Neill (N.C. State '85) on April 26 in Amenia, N.Y. Princetonians in attendance included (l-r): Charley Harmar '71, EMILY FRANKLIN HARMAR, JOHAN ELIASSON, MARA SMITH-BURPEAU, Valeska, Rory, BRENT MILEY, and SYLVIA QUESADA. The bride works at the public relations firm of Burson-Marsteller in NYC, where she directs an internal and international training and orientation program. The groom is the president of Cybersites, a multimedia company, and an adjunct assistant professor of architecture at Columbia.
INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY: Be sure to check out all the latest Tenth Reunion news on the class homepage at http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/5001.
September 10, 1997 Column (with photo)
MOTHER AND CHILD: Pictured here are Judy Snyder Kastenberg and daughter Abigail Miriam, who was born on March 7, 1997. Judy is in the last year of her residency in psychiatry at Penn. Husband Stephen Kastenberg is a litigation associate at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia. Mom writes that while she is "on call" with Abigail every day, "it's still nicer than being on call during my internship."
KUDOS: Daniel Castor was one of 24 Americans awarded a prestigious Rome Prize fellowship to live and work at the American Academy in Rome. He will study architecture there.
UPDATES: Joe Cassels has been transferred by his company Micromedex from Denver to Stamford, CT. Joe lives with old Princeton roommate Greg Kuzma, who is an actuary at Oxford Health Plans. Mark Feuerer is living in Tempe, AZ, and working as a manufacturer's representative for NPK Construction Equipment. He is getting married next fall to Jackie Burg (UW-Milwaukee '96). In July, Kevin Jones started an orthopedic residency program in Jamaica.
TEN YEARS AGO: Steve Tosches takes over as football coach following the unexpected death of Coach Ron Rogerson. T.I. severs ties to the university in order to avoid going coed. Only seven freshman show up for the fourth annual Clapper Hunt, conceived as a way to discourage freshman from scaling the outside of Nassau Hall.
HOMEPAGE: I have recently created a homepage for class news. You can access it through the Alumni Council's homepage: http://www.princeton.edu/~alco/classhome.html
July 1997 Column
With all this talk about the information superhighway, I decided to surf the 'Net to check out some homepages that our classmates have created.
DINA KRAVETS goes for the personal touch on her page (http://www.cs.njit.edu/dina), which has cute photos of her children (along with amusing quotes from her son Gersh). You can also view an extensive family tree on her page. Dina is an assistant professor in the computer science dept. at the N.J. Institute of Technology. NADAV CAINE provides a sight and sound experience on his page (http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~nadav/), which features some of his favorite music and art works. Nadav is a doctoral student in religious studies at Stanford. BILL GEHRIS opts for a more local feel (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/williamgehris), displaying a recipe for Maryland steamed crabs and photos of his native Baltimore. No word on what Bill is doing except for the fact that he recently got engaged.
Like Bill, MAHBOUD ZABETIAN provides no news on his employment status, but his page (http://www.aggroup.com/mz/) contains an interesting account of his lawsuit against Mercedes Benz. Apparently, Mahboud has had some problems with a defective car that he purchased. I was visitor #5670, so I guess there are either a lot of disgruntled Mercedes owners out there or Mahboud has a lot of friends. ED RUTHAZER's page (http://www.keck.ucsf.edu/~edhazer) does tell us what he's doing -- he's in the graduate neuroscience program at UCSF -- but I didn't really understand anything else on his page. However, there is a nice baby picture of Ed.
FUTURE GRIDIRON STAR: This little tiger, Josiah Brownell Harmar, was born Aug. 31, 1996 to EMILY FRANKLIN HARMAR and husband Charley Harmar '71. Mom is the director of communications at Friends' Central School in Wynnewood, PA. Dad is the vice president of the health care capital group at Progress Realty Advisors, L.P. in Bluebell, PA. Emily writes that Josiah is a big Princeton sports fan and has already seen football and hockey games on campus. Another new class baby is Matthew Thomas Miklus, who arrived on Dec. 5, 1996, to parents Steve and WENDY ADAMS MIKLUS.
D.C. FOLKS: At a recent Princeton Club of Washington event to welcome incoming freshman, I ran into two '88ers: CONNIE BETTERTON and PETER REILLY. Connie is a policy analyst at the National Association of Student Financial Aid. She lives in Arlington, VA, with husband Chris Salotti. Peter, who edits the Princeton Club's newsletter, is an attorney-advisor at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Also in D.C. are class treasurer KIMBERLY CONLIFFE STEPHENS and husband REED STEPHENS. Kim is a manager at Andersen Consulting, and Reed is a civil trial attorney at the Dept. of Justice.
TEN YEARS AGO ON CAMPUS: The director of the N.J. Division on Civil Rights orders Ivy and T.I. to admit women; clubs announce they will appeal. Students circulate petition opposing reappointment of Dean of Students Eugene Lowe. Hoops coach Pete Carril modestly calls his recruiting class "decent"; the team will go on to capture four straight Ivy titles. Men's lacrosse finishes a disappointing 3-12; five years later, the team will win its first of three national championships.
May 1997 Column (with photo)
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: Samantha Aldred and Harry DeMott recently sent in this photo from their wedding four years ago on May 15, 1993, in Manhattan. Pictured here are (l-r): (front) Robert Eaton, Rick Grimes, Lee Blyler �61, Rob Taliercio �90, Adam Grace, Greg Aldrete, (back) Martin Trautschold �87, Anjani Shah, Julie Johnson Trautschold, Ruth Caswell, Jessica Goldstein, Samantha, Harry, Jay Weiss, Ed Glaeser, Alicia Nowicki, Allison Blyler, and Mona Gabbay. Samantha is in the final months of her residency in radiology at Mt. Sinai Hospital in N.Y.C. Harry is a media analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston.
ROUND-UP: Aki Carabases and his wife recently had their second child, a girl named Renna Despina. Jonathan Hettinger has moved to Miami Beach and spends a great deal of time traveling around Latin America, for work and fun. After several years working in publishing, Antonia Jameson has made a major life change. She is now in a joint D.V.M.-Ph.D. program at Cornell, where she splits her time between learning veterinary medicine and doing research in molecular cell biology. Antonia married Phil Jordan GS �85 in July 1994. Charles Norton is a National Research Council postdoctoral research associate in the supercomputing group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His work involves new programming techniques for simulation of fusion energy plasmas and related scientific computations. Doug Weston is an actor and lives in both L.A. and N.Y.C.
ONE MORE YEAR: Don't forget that our Ninth Reunion is set for May 29 to June 1. Hope you can make it.
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