On the wedding beat

Usually, because of our curmudgeonly nature, we ignore all mentions of weddings, babies, puppies, sailboats, and Magic Shell ice-cream topping.
For example, back when Joe Holmgren (‘93) tied the knot, we spoke not a word. And last summer, when Phil Hawkins (‘94) went to a park in Dallas on a Saturday afternoon and had a single [...]

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Time’s Person of the Year

Okay–not yet. But Tom Wilkening (‘97) has made it into the magazine. And that’s got to be a start, right?
Hot on the heels of those Freakonomics guys, Tom is at MIT doing all kinds of economic theorizing about antiquities (that’s the one noted in Time), knife fights, The Internets, and other stuff, all toward collecting [...]

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Hey professor, why’d I get a B?

Hey, we’ve been there… standing in front of the professor’s closed office door, hearing Philip Glass’s “Orphee Suite” playing on the other side, wondering whether to knock–even though it’s definitely during office hours–and wondering whether our complaint about a D- on a quiz will make said professor hate us forever…
But of course there’s another side [...]

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End-of-2007 Superlatives

Considering that 2008 has already begun for the farthest-flung Scholars and alums, we’d better hurry up with some year-end awards. Let’s get right to it:
Most Likely to Catch You if You Start Spilling Trade Secrets: Keith Schon (‘92). Keith is a senior software engineer for Cataphora, which conducts investigations on very large data sets, mostly [...]

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Meanwhile, back at The Farm

We don’t want to imply that other classes of Scholars are slacking, but there’s no denying: That Class of 1997 has it going on.
While Jason Baer (‘87) was asking in forlorn tones what happened to the mega-reunions of Scholars that he remembered from Holidays Past, Kimberlly Chhor (‘97) was plunging ahead, hatching a Facebook-powered plan [...]

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The esq. ledger, international edition

Mary Fan (‘97), following law school and an MPhil courtesy of the Gates Cambridge people, is working for a year as an Associate Legal Officer for Judge O-Gon Kwon in the Hague.
Judge Kwon is presiding over the “Srebrenica Seven” trial, which involves seven Bosnian Serbs alleged to be responsible for genocidal atrocities committed in 1995 [...]

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So, you put the E. coli in here… but, uh, don’t eat it!

We’re brave, but not Jeremy Babendure (‘97) brave.
Now that he’s finished his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences at UC San Deigo, Jeremy is directing the university’s BioBridge program, which brings cutting-edge science to high-school classrooms around San Diego. Which is, to say the least, a courageous thing to do.
Of course, from all reports, it’s a [...]

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But it’s a dry heat…

Robin Mead (‘97) has been teaching economics at the Dubai American Academy. We asked her if Dubai’s as crazy as the photo essay in this month’s Harper’s makes it look, and she said, Um, yeah.
It’s as hot as Phoenix (but with less rain), skyscrapers are going up round the clock, and they’re putting the finishing [...]

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The esq. ledger: Osborn Maledon v. Fennemore Craig edition

Whether he knew it or not, Sharad Desai (‘99) has been chasing Shelley Detwiller DiGiacomo (‘91) all across the country for, I don’t know, something like eight decades.
Like Shelley, Sharad went to high school in the Valley. Like Shelley, he stayed in Arizona as an undergrad. Like Shelley, he went to law school in New [...]

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Conquering CCC, one department at a time

Tim (‘97) and Esther (‘98 ) Ellsworth Bowers are staying busy these days sustaining the science offerings at Coconino Community College in Flagstaff.
Tim is teaching half of CCC’s physics sections this fall, while Esther is teaching a section of anatomy and piloting an online bio course, a key addition for a college serving a geographic [...]

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