NMH Notes Archive for NMH '93 by Peter Christopher class secretary

September 1999

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*Chrystel Romero * is still acting and hopes to move to LA in the next year. She asks, "Has *Letty Diaz * fallen off the planet? Any of us know where that woman went?" (You can let Chrystel know at chrystel -- AT -- hotmail.com.)

*Nina Alturi * is doing well in Atlanta. *Danita Parrish * is also doing well at home and is done with school for now. *Celeste Wilhelm * is a teacher in New Hampshire.

*Oliver Cohen * ventured west of the Mississippi for the first time, for a trip to Las Vegas... Judging from his email, his colorful humor continues to blossom, ie: "Every single lobby in Las Vegas smelled like an old lung." (Leave it to Ollie to visit every last lobby in Vegas - for the full text of his adventure, email Oliver at oliver.cohen -- AT -- spke.com or find him in the big apple.)

*Kingman Brewster * has been living in Seattle, working full-time in social work with Russian immigrants. He eats fish weekly at his potlucks with *Cully Thomas *.

*Erika Collins * wrote with a timely report of the Taiwan earthquake. By late winter it will be dated, but I think she's a great writer and has a great story: "It is Friday Sept. 24th in Taipei, and I have just spent the past 3 1/2 days dealing with the huge 7.6 Earthquake that hit Taiwan... At 1:45am Tuesday morning I was jarred awake by the violent shaking of my hotel. Being from NH and not well-versed in Earthquake protocol, I simply thought, "Oh, so this is an earthquake." It wasn't until I heard people running out of the building and realized that the power was NOT coming back on that I started to wonder... After about an hour I decided that I should just go to sleep. 45 min. later I was awoken by a frantic telephone call from my boss back in DC. She was practically screaming into the phone and finally said to me, ‘Erika do you realize you were just in an Earthquake!’. A huge aftershock rolled through while I was on the phone with her and so I quickly made my way outside where I spent the remainder of the night... My boss has insisted that I get out of Taipei now and although I wouldn't be uncomfortable staying I also have to admit that I don't mind leaving for a few days... I was here when President Lee made his ‘Two States’ declaration, I was here in the end of July during the mysterious island-wide black-out (feared preliminary attack from mainland China), and now I am here during the BIG earthquake." For the full text, email Erika at erikac -- AT -- usasia.com.

*Carrie McColgan * is still living in DC and hangs out with *Hannah Lord *('94) and *Erika Collins * all the time. Carrie is working at Radio Free Asia and hosts unofficial NMH reunions on her roof. Hannah is teaching at a charter school.

*Ali Wicks * is in Amherst, MA, *Sarah Bixby * is in medical school, and *Jed Byrom * is in Japan.

*Makiko Harada * is doing an internship at the United Nations Development Program in New York: "It's been giving me a valuable experience! President Clinton was here at the UN yesterday and the securities were extremely tight!! I did not get a chance to see him, but I saw Kofi Anan on stage. If anyone from NHM is working for UN or in NYC, please contact me!” (mh472 -- AT -- columbia.edu)

*Jake Posell-Wilson * is still in Northern California in Sonoma County -- the land of redwoods and grapes. He works at a software company developing software for special education and collect records like its a disease: "I spin reggae, funk, soul, hip-ho and jazz twice a week at local spots and am still on a six-year hunt for Alonzo Mourning, my old roommate. I'm about to hire Inspector Gadget AND Encyclopedia Brown to find him."

*Molly Goggins Talbot * was married on May 29th and reports that "it was absolutely incredible and SUCH A BLAST!!" Something everyone should try (at least) once I gather. "We took a 2 1/2 week honeymoon to Northern Italy. So now we are starting our happily ever after and I am very very happy. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream!!!” Reports indicate that her husband is engaged in the legal profession while Molly continues to trade bonds.

*Anne McCasland-Pexton * has also gotten married and is currently living down under!

*Niki Berry * is living on the upper east side in Manhattan, running into NMHers literally every other day: "I am keeping myself way too busy working for Tommy Hilfiger. I spend summer weekends cooling off in Connecticut and wish everyone my best." She also wanted to know where to contact Aaron DiRusso... I was getting kind of curious myself but just then I received some news in Erica Steckler's email...

*Erica Steckler * has been back from Yaroslavl, Russia where she was working for Middlebury College last winter and spring. She spent the summer working at a camp in Maine, and is now in Boston getting an MBA at the Simmons School of Management: "I bumped into Aaron DiRusso one day while he was on his lunch break, and recently met an intern who had worked for him... No other nmh news though, except that I was back on campus several weekends ago and it looks as beautiful as ever. I'd love to get together with everyone who has congregated in Boston!"

*Justin Heckman * is living on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC: "I am now a coffee trader. I ran my own company for about a year in the music biz right after college, but it just didn't quite work out, so I opted for a career change. Oddly enough I work with two NMHer's (class of '83 I think)."

*Tim Pfeiffer * has built a 8' x 12' bungalow in Weed, California (100 square feet or over requires zoning). But despite the small footprint, it has no shortage of living space -- I have a picture of the spire, standing a good three stories tall.

Since quitting Amazon.com last spring, I have been hanging out in Olympia, Washington on an organic farm. I just bought a 1977 GMC conversion van so now I'm ready to roll again. Once I sell my Range Rover, I'll be headed out East to help start a real estate company with a college friend in Cleveland. Beyond that, I have a feeling I may be in California by the time this News rolls to press. If you have an email address, please send it to me so I can keep a record of it at peter -- AT -- peterchristopher.com. And please keep in touch with all your latest tales so I can put them in the Notes. I promise not to edit your submissions beyond recognition.