Greetings! I apologize for missing last month's print deadline; those on the email list did get two separate columns, so email me if you'd like to be added to the email list.
This month's list of people to please send news is: Jessie Dotson, Terrence Donahue, James Kosloski, Michelle Quinton, Michael Romero, and Eric Wong. What are y'all up to? If anyone knows about any of these people or anyone else, please write in.
Joan (Fand) Spiegel was married in April 95, and is now living in San Francisco. Joan recently graduated from the University of Michigan medical school and is currently a resident at UCSF.
Jeff Applebaum reports that "All is going well out here in California." Jeff was married last year, and his marketing business is growing extrememly well. He and his wife Johanna are expecting their first child in April 96.
Last March, Alice Paquette transferred to David Anderson's lab at Caltech to continue her graduate work in Biology. Alice was previously in the Neurosciences Program at UC San Diego, but will now be receiving her PhD from Caltech.
Mike Fincke has been reassigned to Japan to "flight test the brand spanky new Japanese FS-X fighter airplane." Mike will report on his experiences in an upcoming issue...
Nick Newman has moved to the metro-Detroit area to do his 3rd & 4th years of medical school. "I'm on general surgery this month and I've been very busy (14-17 hrs/day), but I'm learning a lot and I'm actually having fun for the first time in a long time. Medical school has been long in coming but it's been worth the wait (so far). After living out in the Midwest now for over 2 years, I'm starting to get homesick for New England (and even MIT if you can believe it)," Nick writes. Nick joined a local master's swim team and hopes to compete in some meets this winter. Nick is beginning to feel a "strong yearning to replace my aging Honda Accord (American-built, I might add) with something from the Big Three -- maybe then I'll stop getting funny looks, but maybe not..."
Nick also passed along news of some Phi Bete's: Gary Gruberth has resumed his graduate work at Cornell after a leave of absence to Indiana where his wife, Corie Gocchicoa (Wellesley '89) is finishing her graduate work...Peter Wong '89 has finished his MBA and MArch degrees at Wash U in St Louis and is working in St Louis for HOKC. Moshin Lee '88 & Christina Yun (Wellesley '87) are living in Ann Arbor. Moshin works for Ford and has been doing his very best to sell Nick a new car, while Christina is finishing her last year of a Rehab Residency at Detroit Medical Center.
After graduation, Ed Tan worked for Toshiba in Kawasaki, Japan, then moved to Singapore where he worked for the EDB, the government investment promotional body. Ed is now working as an analyst on the semiconductor industry for Dataquest, a company of Dun & Bradstreet. Ed visited Madison, WI, recently, where his wife is working on her PhD.
Last May, Lori Tsuruda was selected by the the Boston Junior Chamber of Commerce selected as one of the 1995 Ten Outstanding Young Leaders "for making a life out of volunteerism and showing the way to many others." Past outstanding young leaders have included Robert F. Kennedy, Leonard Bernstein, Mortimer Zuckerman, and William O. Taylor. The purpose of the Ten Outstnading Young Leaders (TOYL) awards is to recognize and promote outstanding leadership and community commitment by honoring people for their outstanding professional accomplishments, personal development, and community service.
Muriel Medard finished her Ph.D. in EE at MIT in September, and is now working at Lincoln Labs. Her husband John Simmons '90 is working on his MBA at Sloan. Muriel writes that their daughter Vivian "is a lot of fun. She thinks I work with Lincoln Logs. Work is good and it's nice to have weekends to make Halloween outfits and the such."
Tom Urban is a full time staff member at the Applied Physics Laboratory, a division of the Johns Hopkins University. "It is very similar to Lincoln Labs at MIT," writes John. "I came to JHU/APL because I wanted to get some pratical work experience before getting a Ph.D. but my education benefits are such that I am also now pursuing a PhD in EE at the University of MD. School and work can be a lot a times, but hopefully I will manage. UofMD is not like MIT though, but I bought a house a few years back so I can not go back to school full time."
Marisa Eleanor Tucci-Berube was born, September 14th to Michael Berube and wife Michele. Marisa weighed in at 7 pounds, 12 ounces. Mike writes that "The labor went as well as labor can go (easy for me to say).... We are very excited that Marisa has finally arrived and we are quickly settling into the realities of being parents. It is absolutely wonderful."
Nancy Gilman and Jeff Bigler '87 were engaged recently. Nancy is working as a Product Manager for Network Security at Cygnus in the Davis Square office. Nancy and Jeff will be married this upcoming October in the Boston area.
Well, that's it again for this month. Many more members of the class have home pages, so be sure to check out the '89 home page at http://www.tns.lcs.mit.edu/mit89/ and send your URL if you have some info. Please send in news!
Henry Houh, secretary, 4 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02142. phone: (617) 225-6680. FAX: (617) 253-2673. e-mail: hhh@mit.edu or henry_houh@mit.edu