(Continued from p. 36) Susan Huntley is working on her master’s degree in social anthropology at Brandeis University in Boston. Brett Kopay is working in corporate sales at Tiffany & Company. She is living with Tim Reardon ’96 in Arlington, VA. Tim is with the Independent Petroleum Association in Washington, D.C. “We’d love to hear from anyone! E-mail us at ausable2@aol.com.” Tyler McCarthy is working as an assistant treasurer for Bank Austria Creditanstalt. He lives in Greenwich, CT, and can be reached at TMCCAR2278@aol.com. Matt Murray and his wife, Sharla Ponder Murray ’95, toasted both George Washington and Washington College on the embassy compound in New Dehli, India. They offered explanations all around about WC’s proud history and celebrated with patrons the “toast heard ’round the world!” on February 22, 1999. Michelle Sheppard is living in Smyrna, DE, and is a therapist at the Delaware State Psychiatric Hospital. 1996 Will Hobbs resides in Jackson, WY, where he is pursuing graduate education in trout fishing guide

school. “Come visit!” Elizabeth MacDonald is working for Senator Blanche Lincoln’s (D-AR) office after working for a year at Emily’s List. Robyn Shaw bought a house in Bethesda, MD, with her sister, Amy. She is halfway through the master’s program in biotechnology at Johns Hopkins University. Melanie Stoer is living in Chevy Chase, MD, with Meghan Brumby ’98 and works in marketing for an environmental engineering firm. She spent the month of March traveling in Argentina and Chile. Amy Tingle was promoted to senior marketing manager at Eagle Book Clubs, Inc. She is living in Chevy Chase, MD. 1997 Kelly Eakin is a house counselor for Target, Inc. She is completing a two-year master’s program, and is working part-time as a behavior therapist. She is looking for doctoral programs. John Guchemand is serving in the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan teaching English to fifth- and sixth-grade students. He has been learning the Uzbek language and is living with a host family in Syr Dayria. Matt Mullin is the manager of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Karen Noonan

Paul O’Hearn ’97 returned from a trip to Key West, FL, where he visited his brother, John ’96. Paul spent the week “hanging out with a number of fellow alumni” (Jim “Ice Lord” Czarniak ’98, Tim “Dr. Cosmetics” Hoffacker ’98, Tom “Non-Alum” O’Hearn, Erika “Ketchup” Ford ’98, Kurt “Not-Pictured” Sommer ’98, and John “Flatty McGhee” O’Hearn ’96) and eating conch fritters, a local specialty that, he says, “burn like the truth when you eat them. To all alums with whom I’ve lost contact, give me a call and buy my taffy!”

Center where he teaches environmental education. He manages one of the Foundation’s four island residential centers on the bay and loves it. Bart Jaeger ’96, Will Smiley ’96, and Scott Culpepper ’96 are also on staff teaching environmental education. “We all raise our beers to say yeah WC! Save the Bay!” Amy Rizzitello, a second-year doctoral student of molecular biology at Princeton University, won the C. E. McClung Award for the best research paper published in Bios this year. Her paper, titled “The

Homeotic Transformation of Tails-into-Limbs in Amphibians Treated with Retinol Palmitate,” was published in Bios. The award is given each year to a Tribetan in honor of Dr. C. E. McClung, the second president of Beta Beta Beta, who was a strong advocate of undergraduate research as a teaching method. Andrew Van Ogtrop is enjoying a career at Paine Webber and is still putting up with the antics of his roommate, Brian Dorst ’97. They say they have found an establishment in New York that rivals Newt’s.

Carey Hargrove ’96, of Hargrove, Inc., was the man behind the scenes of the 50th-anniversary summit meeting of NATO. What was meant to be a celebratory affair for the largest gathering of foreign leaders turned somber as the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia raged on. As NATO’s 19 heads of government gathered to consider their next moves, they met around a massive diplomatic table spanning 145 feet in circumference, built in Hargrove’s headquarters in Lanham, MD. Later, they were joined by the leaders of 23 partner countries, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council.

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