Suanne Page

The hits just keep on rolling in! Here's Suanne Page (now Suanne Page-Tift) at her wedding in 2004 - Darcie Hayward was her Maid of Honor as well.

This is awesome, everyone - I'm amazed at the feedback, responses and how people are embracing this - makes me all warm and fuzzy... just give me a minute... I promised myself I wouldn't do this...

nick

brian strattard

After graduation I quickly realized that taking classes without knowing what field I wanted to work in sucked...I didn't feel like paying $$$ to bounce around taking classes aimlessly so I decided to join the Mighty Coast Guard until I could figure out what I wanted out of my life. It turned out that was a great move because I love my job. It's a good fit for me...the military strictness appeals to my anally retentive side and the drunken sailor part appeals to my...well...my drunken sailor side. As an electronic technician I have been all around the world, seen a lot of things...and I can retire in 12 years...I currently have a sweet job...I was accepted into an advanced education program through the CG where they are sending me back to school to complete my B.S. in Electronic Engineering. I got married 4 years ago and have an 18 month old little future heartbreaker, Alexander. The wife and I just bought a house in Rhode Island, so if anyone's ever in the area look me up...Most of the time I'm either playing paintball or at home hanging with the little monkey. That's about it for now 'eh...

Brian "Still a big dork" Strattard

nick leBel - and some thanks to the organizers

first off, thanks to jess, nab, mary, sarah and paul for getting this whole thing off the ground and rolling... this is gearing up to be a very, very good time - and we might even pull this off without scrambling at the last minute. or not, but who cares, it's going smoothly now!

as for me, i just wanted to let everyone know what i've been up to lately since i have control of the blog and nobody can stop me. (...and anyone wanting to send information to be posted, please feel free to email me at nick@glengroup.com, i'm looking forwrad to hearing from y'all!) basically, i moved to the mountains of north conway, NH in 2000 to become a copywriter, and six years later, that's what i am.

i also ski my brains out, and have become a pretty avid and unsuccessfully competitive mountain biker, mostly because that's what you do here when the snow melts. which is OK with me - as a matter of fact, here's a nice shot taken at around 1:25 in the morning at the 2006 24 hours of great glen mountain bike race in pinkham notch, NH. i swore i would never do it again last year, yet there i was last weekend, cursing in the dark...

i can't wait to hear from each and every one of you, and hope that this finds you guys well!
nick

Nabarun Dasgupta

first, if anyone else lives in the south, let me know because i am always up for a road trip. i live in chapel hill, north carolina, and the BBQ and fried chicken and hush puppies are damn good. come on down!

props to all with kids and family, but some of us aren't about to grow up anytime soon.

i am writing to you from geneva, switzerland. i am working at the world health organization (WHO) for the summer and using the excuse to binge travel throughout europe. maybe that is not surprising, but the route was anything but planned...

after greely i went off to college and had myself a great time. so great in fact, that i failed out of princeton. i ended up bumming around san diego (it was the furthest away i could get from maine without crossing an ocean), and learned some life lessons from the surfer folk at the baja california beaches. got serious and went back and finished at princeton.

i was looking for something to do after college so i typed into google the things i thought i wanted out of a career: travel international biology infectious diseases outside

thanks to the search engine, i found the public health school at yale. on my frist day of class, i show up and there is JOAN ALTMAN standing there with a big grin on her face. we both got our masters in public health there and became hommies. she lives in DC now and works for the feds.

as part of my masters work, i spent a summer in portland interviewing people with drug abuse problems (and many users without problems) and became very interested in learning about drug use from a public health perspective. i spent a lot of time on the streets talking to people and doing harm reduction interventions. i found something i was really interested in. had to go with it.

after i graduated with my masters i applied to 130 jobs, and got 2 interviews and one offer. all that education and i was broke, so i took the job. i worked for a few years in the pharmaceutical industry learning more about drug abuse and treatment for addiction. cool stuff. i was still living in new haven at the time, on the 3rd floor of a house converted to apartments. one day, we had new neighbors downstairs. turns out that MIKE HEALLY had moved in downstairs from me, eight years later and completely by coincidence. he's lawyering it up in the CT and doing well. we would go off in the mornings, bleary-eyed in our suits and ties, wave to each other.

i worked for a bit longer and got laid off with 75% of my company and decided to go back to school. i was doing some work in rural india at the time and couldn't get to a fast enough internet connection to do my applications online for grad school. luckily UNC had a paper application that i could fill out and send in. it's a fantasitc school and i am now doing a phd in epidemiology (think: epidemics) of drug use. one year down, and who knows how many more to go.

so that's the chronology. it's been a damn fun 10 years. along the way there has been lots of travel and good fortune and great friends. you can still find me in NYC and DC quite frequently. my parents left maine, so i don't make it up there so much any more. but i will trundle up for the reunion. looking forward to seeing y'all and hearing your stories and meeting your kids (none of my own for the forseeable future) and spouses (none of my own for the forseeable future).

cheers,
nab