Celebrate
Reunion at Thurtene Carnival will be packed with events on campus and around St. Louis, but there are a few signature Reunion experiences you won’t want to miss, like the Welcome Back Party, the Alumni BBQ on the East End of Danforth Campus, and your Class of 1990 Party! We’re busy working on a full schedule, so check back in early 2025 to read about all of the receptions, tours, and events we have planned.
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Class memories
Class notes
Rob Goldsteen, AB ’90, an internal medicine physician, transitioned from military medicine and as a flight surgeon at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to a 12-year stint as a professor at University of Texas Southwestern.
Jason Kravitz, AB ’90, a partner at Nixon Peabody, led the team of attorneys that successfully defended W.B. Mason and its use of the word “Blizzard” against a suit from Dairy Queen.
Karen Markel, BSBA ’90, started as dean of the College of Business at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, last June.
Brian Gilbert, AB ’90, was hired by Village Roadshow Entertainment Group (VREG) to oversee newly launched Village Roadshow Sports.
Looking back at 1990
Commencement to feature poet Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn, a winner of the National Book Award in poetry in 1971 for her book of poems To See, To Take, will be the Commencement speaker. Van Duyn, who will read from her work, is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a
member of the prestigious American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
The messy middle
Award-winning journalist Laura Meckler, AB ’90, has decades of experience reporting on social and political issues. She began her journalism career at WashU’s Student Life before graduating to a newspaper job in Canton, Ohio. Then came stints at the Associated Press in Canton, Ohio, and in Washington, D.C.; at The Wall Street Journal; and her current job as national education reporter for The Washington Post.
NASA names WashU site of chief geoscience data facility
WashU has been designated the lead Geoscience Node of NASA’s Planetary Data System, NASA has announced. The designation makes the University the site of the chief facility for storing and distributing NASA data collected for the surfaces and interiors of Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars and the larger satellites of the outer planets.
W.I.L.D. performers
Spring 1990 – The BoDeans
Fall 1989 – The Romantics