Ma'an Nasir and Maria Manwaring-Melikian
If you're Sleepless in Seattle, you might want to give Jayne Meier a call. She's gotten heavily into the Northwest lifestyle, eating healthy foods and wearing out her Birkenstocks at a furious pace hiking all over the Olympic Peninsula. Jayne followed an interesting path to get to the Great Northwest.
She attended the Hun School in Princeton, NJ with fellow Brats Basil Abul-Hamayel, JoAnn Rodriguez and Tarek Lughod. She then headed north to Queen's University in Ottowa, Ontario, and got her BA in Political Science. After graduating she moved west, landing at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. There she attended law school, graduating in 1990. While in law school she spent a summer in London, taking courses in European Community Law.
Finding that she loved the rain but couldn't stand lawyers, Jayne left San Francisco and moved to Seattle. She's been in residential real estate for the last six years and does some consulting for law firms on the side. She still plays quite a bit of tennis and racquetball. She also loves to travel. She spent two weeks in Germany and Portugal two years ago and enjoyed a week in Florida last Spring.
Congratulations go out to Kim Reid-Seals who had twins, Nicholas and Philip, on January 7. I'm sorry to report that Kim's husband, Carrol, passed away in October of last year.
After St. Stephen's, Kim went on to Vanderbilt, where she got her BA in French and met Carrol. They were married in 1986.
The following year Carrol and Kim welcomed son Alex to the world and moved to Knoxville, where Carrol went to law school. Kim worked as a travel agent for American Express while Carrol was in school. In 1990 they moved to Franklin, which is about twenty miles south of Memphis. For the last several years Kim worked in banking, but now has her hands full with the twins.
They then moved to Japan, teaching English in Shinono Saki, a small town at the southern tip of the Big Island. After two years they returned, and John joined a consulting firm. After deciding that the country did not have enough lawyers, John started law school at SMU and graduated in 1995. He went to work in private practice for a year before landing a position as a Briefing Attorney at the State Court of Appeals in Dallas. He drafts opinions and writes briefs for The Southwestern Reporter, a prestigious legal journal.
Zeba Mohammed is enjoying life in the Big Apple after a year in Washington, D.C. She loves visiting the museums and botanical gardens, going to the theater and rollerblading in the park. Zeba's father retired from Aramco when we graduated and the family moved to Dhaka, Bangladesh, where Zeba attended Maple Leaf International. She went on to study computer science in college, and ended up teaching for the next few years.
In 1990 she joined the World Bank Resident Mission in Dhaka. In 1993, Zeba moved to Washington, where she studied at Mt. Vernon College. The following year she moved to New York and re-joined the U.N., where she works on population programs. Zeba finds it to be an interesting cultural environment. She bumps into U.N. Chief Kofi Annan from time to time.
She sees Monica Roppel frequently and had dinner with
John O'Mara not long ago. Zeba has visited Trinidad and
Tobago three times in the last two years and spent several weeks in
England in the summer of '97.
