This month’s Class Notes question had two parts: a) In five words or less summarize what your motto was when you were a college freshman (at age 17 or 18); and b) in five words or less summarize what your motto is today (at age 41 or 42). From Robin LaPre: a) Anything you can chug, I can chug faster; b) Are there any hidden carbs in that? From Troivoi Hicks: a) I need a job making six figures; b) The less I own the more I have. From Toi (Blount) Hightower: a) I refuse to be beaten by inanimate objects; b) If it can’t outthink me it can’t defeat me. From Jeanhee Kim, who is managing editor of the NYU School of Law alumni magazine and mother of daughters Chiara (5) and Jemma (2): a) Life is too short, why sleep? b) Neeeeed more szzzllleeeeppp! From Ali “M.A.” Long, who lives in Mill Valley, California, runs a small family foundation, rows for the Marin Rowing Association crew team and is raising boys Quincy (6) and Zack (2): a) Friends, fun and minimal work! b) Be selfish about your giving! From Mike Lindgren: a) I’ll sleep when I’m dead; b) Be kind, be kind, be kind. From Michael Cohenuram: a) It’s not a party unless something gets broken; b) Oy, my back hurts! From Karen Euler, who became a mother for the first time in April (welcome, Zachary Abusheleih!) and is enjoying leave from her marketing job at CRJA (landscape architects) in Boston: a) Adopt all of the arts; b) Simplify with style. From Scott Facher: a) Don’t miss a good party; b) Simplify, saunter, speak your truth. From poet Polly Geller, whose work was just published in Slake Literary Journal and who is a language instructor at a charter school focused on performing arts in Los Angeles: a) Be unique; b) Do the work and show up. From Jay Davis: a) Try to do everything. Quickly. b) Try to do some things well. From Paul Haffner: a) Expand your mind; b) Respect the process. From Julie Urda: a) Try not. Do or do not. There is no try [Yoda]. b) Don’t do today what can be put off until tomorrow. (“As you can see, I’ve mellowed a lot!”) From Karen Pike, who is an emergency room doctor in San Jose, California: a) Work your hardest, keep all options open (dad is paying); b) Always be nice to everyone. From Jonathan Sullivan: I don’t remember having a motto when I was a freshman, and if I had to pick a motto today, I would say, “Be someone you can count on.” From Wendy Cue: a) Carpe diem; b) Stop bitching, start a revolution (although, on a day-to-day basis, it’s more like “get up, dress up and show up”). From marketing executive and youth soccer coach Amit Malhotra, who, along with his wife, freelance writer Jane Varner Malhotra, and their four children (Zoe, 13, Helen, 11, Mabel, 9, and Albert, 5), lives in Washington, D.C.: a) Will save the world for my children; b) For my children, will save the world. I also received an update from Jeff Wolf: “I just returned from working 16 days at the University Hospital in Port au Prince, Haiti. (I have been practicing pulmonary and critical care medicine on Long Island for the past 10 years). At first I was questioning what kind of impact I could make with the limited resources, but I can honestly say that I saved more lives in 16 days than I do in a year at home.”


—Rob Crawford, 27 Roberts Road, Wellesley, MA 02481; robertlcrawford@yahoo.com; Walter Palmer, 87 South St., Rockport, MA 01966; palmerwalter@mac.com