Policy Studies Guest Book

Recent Messages from the E-Mail Bag. . .

Jennifer Craig ('94)

I wanted to give you an update of what I have been up to since Dickinson. I'm currently working with Dyncorp as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy in the Office of the Chief Information Officer. Working on e government issues, I am developing policies related to information technology privacy and accessibility issues.

I have also just received a Masters in Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia.

I credit the Policy & Management Studies program and the opportunity to attended the Washington Semester program for my interest in planning and my desire to move to Washington, D.C. minutes after graduation.  I would highly recommend Dickinson's PMS program!

Thank you!

Paul Yater ('94)

Professor Hoefler: I would also add that I am currently enrolled in the part-time/evening MBA program at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.? I am nearly 2 years into the 3 year program.? I know this was a decision I was considering when I graduated in 1994 and some that current students may be contemplating.? However, I am glad that I waited and had 4+ years of work experience to draw on in my course work.? Policy and Management Studies (I never was in favor of the name change!) and Dickinson prepared me well for the work environment and for graduate school.

Jessica Cichy ('97)

I work for Boston University's Washington Internship program. I've been in DC about 6 months. I'm the Assistant Director for BU's building. It's a great job. Stressful at times, but usually a lot of fun. There are 150 students in the building from a bunch of schools including BU, MSU, UNC, UPenn, Hamilton, Notre Dame, etc. Since we are a small campus, I basically do everything associated with Res Life (check-in and out, damage billing, judicial cases, programming).

 Before DC I lived in Paris for a year and a half. I worked for a French company that sells gourmet pizza to large hotel chains and supermarkets called La Cigale, then I worked for a study abroad program called Accent. It was a great experience but I am glad to be back in the US for now. I would like to work in London or Japan at some point in the future. I am going back to Europe on vacation this summer. I am spending a week in Mijas, Spain (just west of Malaga) with my family and have been taking Spanish from the USDA to prepare. I am also going to take my family on a tour of Paris for a few days and visit my family who lives in Luxembourg.

 I hope that you are doing well. You can reach me at jcichy@bu.edu

 Take care,

 Jessica

Gretchen Glick Mazziotti ('91)
University of Missouri
Health Management and Informatics
324 Clark Hall
Columbia, MO  65211
Phone 201-346-1517

Hi Jim

I hope this email finds you and your family well. You can post this on the message board at Policy (PMS) Studies. My family has moved from Missouri to Fort Lee, NJ due to my husband's (Mark) training in Pediatric Surgery at Columbia.  Our daughter, Kristine turned one year this week! Time certainly does fly. She is very enjoyable and very happy and so smart!

There was a D'son event in NYC in November and I had an opportunity to meet William Durden and hang out with some D'son friends. I know he will be a successful president- very dynamic and willing to go to bat for what he believes in.

I am currently telecommuting for the University of Missouri as a contractor of the Missouri Department of Health.  We had another year of generous funding through the CDC and I am happy for this because I get to keep my job.

We had a revised law go into effect for newly diagnosed cancer cases in Missouri, and I have been working on the "Proposed Rule" for this law.  It is sometimes difficult to please all parties, but I am very excited to be a part of this. I also assisted with 2 grant apps. this past year as well.  My main position entails quality control of submitted cancer cases in our main database.  I use remote access and dial in- very cool. (Lots of firewalls in place)  We have a great system, which was designed by the Epidemiology Division at UC Irvine.

Please tell Dr Greg Lewis that I said hello.  Over the years my Bio-Medical Ethics internship has benefited me immensely.

Take care and Happy Holidays!!!!!!!

Gretchen

Melissa Novak ('97) -- I trust this e-mail finds you happy and healthly. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a Great New Year. Things here are moving along, I've been travelling a lot mostly to London. My responsabilities are growing as the days go by and soon I'll be officially co-managing $700 million... quite a scary and stressful thought, but I am looking forward to the challenge. Well not much else is new, things are good personally and professionally and I guess that is all I can ask for : ) Melissa

From Kelly Reynolds ('98) . . . . Hi Prof. Hoefler,

The page looks good! My company was acquired over the summer by New mail from "Sterling Fritz" <twofritz@netrax.net>S. My contact regarding Fw: cute joke

New mail for hoefler@alpha.dickinson.edu has arrived:terviewing for ----S. It was interesting being on the other side of the questions! My company will be accepting applications throughout the year so feel free to encourage the majors to send along resumes.

I still love the job, I'm working on the McNeil/J&J account, but have done some projects recently for Neutrogena, Colgate Palmolive, Reckitt and Colman, and now i'm doing a project for Nabisco. The work is constantly changing which is one of the best things about the job. I've been on some client visits also to Colagte, Bayer, J&J; they are always interesting and a nice change of pace. Sometimes i feel like i'm not really a professional though since i wear sweats and jeans to work everyday. I get to test out a lot of the products we test before they hit the market which is pretty cool too! But the job is tough sometimes, I still have so much to learn about the industry and our proprietary technologies for forecasting. The only downside about everything is living in North Jersey...not my favorite place in the world.

I hope everything is going well, take care!

Kelly Reynolds

From Vicky Lake ('98) . . .

To all those I graduated with in 98 and who may even be wondering what the hell happened to me!-

I hope that the 98 season has brought forth everything you hoped and expected it to; may the New Year bring you happiness, prosperity (yeah right!) and new and exciting challenges to be accomplished. If any of you are in NY and would like some help getting around, give me a call @ work (212) 264-0679 or email me @ victoria.lake@usdoj.gov Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year! Vicky

My job at the Antitrust Division of the Dept. of Justice in NY has definitely been a worthwhile experience. At first I was skeptical because I didn't think this position could be as prestigious as a job at a big law firm in NY. I originally had an offer made to me by Shearman & Sterling in NY (a prestigious law firm in NY) before this opportunity came along. The paralegal job I have now was originally offered to me in DC; but when I told them I wanted to stay in the NY/NJ area, they informed me that they were interviewing in NY also. I got the last interview slot in NY (it was on a Friday) and was called the same day with an offer. I was impressed!

I think part of the reason why I was called back so soon was bc I told the interviewer that I had to respond Shearman & Sterling's offer by the following Monday. It turns out that my job as a "Paralgeal Specialist" was the more meaningful job choice. I have my hands in everything basically- research, document control, attorney meetings, note-taking, etc. I hardly collate or copy documents (which was a BIG part of the job @ Shearman & Sterlling!) I am also the office's Vicitm/Witness coordinator and the office's Outreach Program Co coordinator. My writing skills and my organization skills have been fine tuned, that is for sure!

The best part of the job I have to say is that I have a non-hierarchial office. Meaning, I have personal contact with the attorney on a daily basis. I actually work WITH them on the cases! The one case I am working on is in the investigative stage, and I have actually found clues and put pieces of the "puzzle" together for the case, enabling us to further narrow our investigation- it is such a good feeling to hear from the attorney, "good job, Vicky, keep up the good work!" It's so exciting. I explained this to you in so much detail with the hope that you will pass this message onto any senior/junior you know that is interested in getting a worthwhile legal experience before attending law school.

Please feel free to post this message onto the Policy Studies alumni homepage for other Policy Studies majors to galnce at. You may want to add that the job was given to me through the Outstanding Scholar Program, where you enter into a 2yr contract with the Dept, knowing that you may have future intentions of going to law school or graduate school. You must have a 3.4 or 3.45 GPA to be considered. Thant's is all for now- please keep in touch with me if you are not too busy and let me know what's doing with the major. I'll be more than happy to contribute in any way I can. I'll update you on whether I get into one of my top three law school choices. Also, I am going to be making a trip to Carlisle in March or April, so I will look for you!

Take care! Vicky

From eThAn Roberts ('98) . . . .Greetings all,

Sorry straight away about the bulk message. I recognize this is not a replacement for an individual email, but for the moment, that's about all I can manage(I'm finally getting into the swing of things so I should become a better correspondent again--if I have ever been).

Anyway, I haven't talk to some of you in ages, others (very few), not too long ago. But I just wanted to give a quick "Ethan's still alive, and this is what he's up to message". After spending most of my last year of college searching for my own personal meaning and not particularly realizing it, I applied late to a few graduate schools in England. Somehow (not of my own doing), I got into the University of London's School of Public Policy. But, getting in too late to get much aid and not feeling especially prepared to begin the program, I deferred my acceptance to at least next fall (it's on a year to year basis).

After spending a summer of being aggravated by and growing attached to eight nerdy and loveable kids (letters from eight year olds are awesome) as a counselor for Dickinson's PEER program, I spent three weeks still searching for myself, but this time out West and with my friend Brian (Hey Brian). I could write a book on our adventures, but I'll keep it to two sentences and leave the details for when I talk to you personally (have to filter things, of course): 1) Don't overheat your car while driving through the vacant land called Wyoming 2) When hitch hiking, get out of the car and start walking when the guys you are driving with start pick cannibus from the side of the road in Iowa (or Missouri)...

Around late July, Jason and Shawn (Machowski and Quill for those of you who know them and don't know my current status) asked me if I wanted to live with them in D.C. (Shawn's going to Grad school at American University and Jason works at the Census Bureau). Within a couple weeks of having been asked it was official; I was moving to Arlington at the beginning of September (why not?). Giving myself a week or so to "settle in", I began my job search, and today I completed my first day on the job (I left this till late as I don't write looking for congratulations--everyone gets their "first real job" at some point or another; not a big deal).

Well, sorry to disappoint some of you but i'm not going to be replacing our Commander n' Chief anytime soon, but instead I settled for a job with McKinsey and Company (we're only 4 blocks form the Whitehouse on Penn Ave though!) as a Resource Assistant in the Resource and Information Department. No, it's not a Presidential job --I declined the internship opportunity :) -- but it's a foot, perhaps even a leg, in the door to "bigger" opportunities in the future (as I'm told). Indeed I'm young yet, but I'm not getting any younger to "settle myself" below my potential and destiny (I'm not really that Calvinistic), but hopefully this will give me a little insight into what that may be.

Well, until my book is published, you'll have to be satisfied at that for insight into the past couple/few/several(depending on who you are as you read this) months of my life (though I'll say more if inquired, of course, as this is not a sign-off of correspondence but a sign-on). But for now I will end as I must get some reading in before work tomorrow,and I must try to get to bed at a "mature" hour, and besides, most of you are probably annoyed at how long this diatribe has been. So, for the time being, I sign off and pray that this finds you all well

still,

eThAn

p.s. Please send this along to anyone you know who I know who wasn't on the list and you think would like to hear from me, as this decrepit system only allows 50 recipients at a time, and I haven't everyone's email that I'd like to have yet (as I leave the most poorly structured sentence for the postscript).

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1240 North Rolfe Street Apartment #301

Arlington, VA 22209 (703)812-9009

ethan_daniel@hotmail.com

ethan_roberts@mckinsey.com

From Amy Norgren Salfi ('88). . . Hi, I am also a 1988 "PMS" grad, like Ted Long (Hi Ted, how come I never see you around Washington?). Ted and I were in the same group that worked on a policy analysis of the AIDS epidemic, back in 1986 -- I often think about how the AIDS problem has changed since then. Anyway, I went on to get an MA in Environmental Policy and am managing an EPA contract for a consulting firm (Booz^UAllen & Hamilton). We perform regulatory research and analysis regarding RCRA, Superfund and EPCRA, and I WELCOME resumes from Dickinson graduates. Ten years after graduation, I can still say that Dickinson's Policy Major (and Candie Wilderman's environmental studies program) provided an excellent foundation for a career in government policy. On a personal note, I married fellow Dickinson grad (and PMS major) Paul Salfi in 1994, and we just had our first child in October -- a beautiful boy named Nathaniel.

My name is James E. (Ted) Long, Jr. ('88) I am a 1988 graduate of the PMS program. After college I became involved in politics, eventually ending up in Washington, DC, as a political fundraiser. After a couple of years of campaign work, I embarked on an evening J.D. program at George Mason University in Arlington, VA. After my first years in law school I became Chief of Staff to Congressman Rob Andrews (D-NJ-1.) After two years of work in Congressman Andrews office, I moved to the same position in the Office of Congressman Jack Reed (D-RI-2.) At the time, Congressman Reed was involved in a campaign for U.S. Senate. I managed the Washington Office during the successful campaign.

I graduated from law school in 1996, and passed the RI bar in February of this year. Currently I serve as Counsel to the Senator, handling legal issues in general and campaign finance, labor, telecommunications, judiciary, and commerce issues specifically.

I credit much of my success in successfully fulfilling my responsibilities in campaigns and in goverment to the liberal arts education I received at Dickinson College, and most specifically, the experience I gained through the Policy Management Studies Program. I can not think of a better program by which to provide people with an understanding of how to apply basic economic, philosophical, and political science theories to the real world. But, more importantly, I do not know of anyother program that forces an individual to encounter the most important real-world experience: dealing with members of a group to arrive at a policy.

Greg Morris ('88) Company: Morris Technologies, Inc. (MTI) -- MTI is a rapid prototyping and engineering firm located in Cincinnati, OH. We employ high technology machines and 3D CAD to help develop a variety of products for a myriad of industries including aerospace/automotive/consumer goods/medical/etc. I'm most available via E-mail.

Rebecca Muia ('96)-- I thought I would check out the web page in progress. Looks good! I am currently working with a training and development firm. If I can be of any assistance to students, in terms of value of the major or career alternatives, please feel free to contact me.

Mark Lagunowich ('85) Living in Acton, MA and working as a Territory Sales Manager for Allergan Surgical Products. Best to contact my work phonemail (800-669-6890 ext.7186) and let me know when I could reach you.

David M. Strouse Class of 1989 -- OK to contact. I received the letter a few weeks ago about this page. In commercial real estate for 8 years. Happy to speak with anyone. Why is the major now called Polcy Studies instead of Policy and Management Studies?