Class of 1990

Charles Bagley
Email: chbagley@gmail.com
Phone: 206-285-7922
Address: 2540 1/2 Queen Anne Ave N.
Seattle, WA 98109

This is the year I became the husband of Tanya McLaughlin, the lovely and wise Seattle native who married me in August. She is a long-time Seattle Public Library staffer and passionate public servant, music lover, dancer, and caring guardian of her (now our) cat Simon Sez, so named for his habit of following her every step.
I have been a software engineer at Amazon.com now for almost three years, which has been and continues to be a great learning experience. Oh, and I'm an uncle as well, by my brother David ('93) and his wife Kate who also live in town: Metta will soon be two years old and comes to story time at the Queen Anne library where Tanya just started.

Brian Risch
Email: brian.g.risch@hp.com
Phone: 541-753-0107
Address: 5638 Northwest Fair Oaks Drive
Corvallis, OR 97330

I’m still living in Oregon and working for HP. I’ve been spending a lot of time running around in the woods, and I still haven’t seen a big foot. I have seen lots of other critters however. We have a new addition to our family. We adopted Sadie a Chihuahua in August. She was originally less than 2 pounds but now she is a whopping 5 pounds. She provides us with endless entertainment.

Mick Veum
Email: Mick.veum@uwsp.edu

As ever, it's been a busy year. Nina and the girls are doing well. Yena has started preschool, and it's Edie's last hurrah before starting kindergarten. Stevens Point keeps treating me better than I probably deserve. I was granted tenure last year, and I'm applying for promotion to full professor this year. I've also moved out of the Physics Department and into the Office of Academic Affairs. Some say I've crossed over to the dark side, but I prefer to think that I've infiltrated it. I'll just keep thinking that and maybe some day I'll believe it. I hope you and yours are thriving. Cheers!

Class of 1991

Lori Adams DuRussel
Email: lduruss@yahoo.com
Phone: 608-833-4211
Address: 21 North Harwood Circle Madison, WI 53717

I’ve had a great year enjoying the status quo. My main job is being at home with the kids (now ages 8, 6, and 4), and in my spare time I’m a jack-of-all trades for a local adoption agency. I get to teach parenting and adoption related classes, maintain the website, and help with administrative work. It’s great to have a flexible, part-time job that I can work around my family schedule. And it’s just so much fun to see the kids grow into interesting little people! I missed the reunion this summer; hopefully I’ll make the next one.

Andrea Lommen
URL: www.fandm.edu/x5225.xml

Greetings from Down Under! My family and I all moved to Sydney, Australia for the academic year. I'm on research leave at the Australia Telescope National Facility and Steve takes care of Rose and Xyla (now 2). We are gearing up for a hot summer; it was 45 degrees Centigrade on Jan 1 this year (temperature conversion is left as an exercise for the reader).

Dan Prince
Email: Dan.prince@alumni.carleton.edu

Not much has changed with me in the past year. Still married to the lovely and talented Laura Johansson, still living in South Minneapolis with our two kids, Theo (3.5) and Grace (5). I still love my work at Integral7, a Minneapolis software company with an absurdly high percentage of Carleton grads on the payroll. I still enjoy running and biking, and this year I added swimming to the mix and finished my first triathlon.
I had a wonderful time at reunion, hanging out with several of you while soaking up some Goodsell ambiance. I also enjoyed sending Bruce into retirement sporting my "Bruce Thomas Rocks!" t-shirt, which I will treasure forever.

Class of 1992

Peter Gunn

Hi folks, sorry to be silent in this forum for so long. No excuses. I'll do the broad brush version. My wife Lee-Anne and I moved out to Portland, Oregon from Ithaca a few years back. After finding work, we somehow wandered into the suburbs, and moved into a hundred-year old farmhouse packed in tight between ten-year old ticky-tacky box houses. It's a cute old house, far enough out that we can be in rural territory in short order, but also a reasonable public transit commute to my office. There's also room for guests, so if you're passing through, get in touch.
For the last five years or so I've doing computer support for the Beaverton School District, a big District covering the suburbs immediately west of Portland, where Nike and Intel are the major employers. High tech all around, but I'm still firmly planted in education, as my bank balance will attest. Now and again, when I'm not terrified by the prospect of further student debt, I entertain the notion of going back to school myself and picking up a degree in urban planning. I'd welcome advice from any other physics folks (or their friends) who've passed through that career landscape.
As I was geeking for a living, Lee-Anne picked up her Master's in Library Science from the distance program of Emporia State University in Kansas (currently the only MLS program in Oregon -- and really pretty good). She's recently left a position as a reference librarian in Forest Grove (a small college town that reminds me of Northfield) to become manager of Interlibrary Loan at the regional library system up in Vancouver, Washington.
Because we'd always hoped to live closer to our friends in Portland, we've formed a cohousing group with some of them, and are exploring our options. I'll keep you posted on what comes of it. Our other major effort to modify our household is that Lee-Anne and I have been trying to "start a family" (hurrah for euphemisms) for the last couple years. No news yet on that front, but, trust me, when there is something I'll be shouting the word from the rooftops. I'm optimistic that, one way or another, I'll be a stay-at-home dad in the next couple of years.
I look forward to seeing many of you at Reunion in June. Best to all!

Larry Margulies
Email: margulie@esrf.fr
Address: 3 place des tilleuls
38000 Grenoble, France

Just a few changes in my life since I last contributed to the newsletter. I'm still in the same job, working at the European Synchrotron Radiation Source in Grenoble, France and I still don't own a car. However, a fellow physics alum recently visited me here. She decided to quit her job, sell her car, move in with me, and marry me. Other than that, not much else to report. Hope all is well with you.

Jane Olson
Email: Wholesome_olson@yahoo.com
Address: 3 place des Tilleuls
38000 Grenoble, France

Just a few changes in my life since I last contributed to the newsletter: I quit my job, sold my car, rented out my condo and moved to France to live with a fellow physics major who convinced me to marry him. Other than that, not much else to report. Hope all is well with you.

Class of 1993

Marcia Franklin
Email: mrfranklin@etmeli.us

Last year I let everyone know that Steve (WRIGHT, studio art, '90) and I were expecting our first child in May. Little did we know our second child would come so soon after. Two minutes, to be exact... Hazel Katherine Franklin WRIGHT and Violet Essabel Franklin WRIGHT were born on April 13, 2006, and have occupied pretty much every minute of every day since then. Although I continued my position as a librarian until December and taught a couple sections of introductory astronomy at a local career college from January through March, working "outside the home" has become a thing of the past for me. I may venture back to it at some point, but for now it's all babies all the time. Still happy to have adult conversation, though, so feel free to write, call, etc. If you're really interested, I'll point you to the site where we post pictures.

Class of 1994

Reed Busse
Email: Reed.busse@med.ge.com

Hello all. The last year and a half has been quite eventful for my family and me. At the end of 2005 we moved from San Mateo, CA to Madison, WI. I'm still working as a physicist for GE Healthcare developing MRI technologies, but now "embedded" with the medical physics and radiology research faculty at the University of Wisconsin, a great opportunity for me to have one leg in academia and the other in industry. Sarah has published a book "Banjo Granny" which is getting starred reviews. Owen started kindergarten this year and -- with the exception of having to wait in line far more than he'd like -- seems to be having a good time with the new experience. Evelyn, who turns two in February, is keeping us all smiling with her incredible energy and eagerness to be a full-fledged member of the family. Hope all is well with you.

Rik Gran
Email: rgran@d.umn.edu
Phone: 218-525-4432
Address: 815 N 40th Ave E
Duluth, MN 55804

I have completed my first full year as a physics professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Woke up to a classic "beautiful first snow covering the branches" morning, deer prints in the lawn, and walked Alex (now 3 years old) down the street to day care. I have NOT received a Ph.D. in Geology, as a recent Carleton voice says, but you may imagine that new distinction goes to Dr. Karen Gran. In addition, Alex has become the family expert on Volcanos. Vacation ideas are centered on Iceland and Hawaii, which as far as I can tell are conveniently right next to each other. I'm surrounded by geology.
Professionally things are going well. I've completed the transition from two Japanese neutrino experiments (one of which is completely ended) to two neutrino experiments hosted in the U.S. I'm a sub-group leader for near detector non-oscillation physics studies for MINOS, and in charge of a test beam calibration for the MINERvA experiment. That’s plenty to keep several students and me busy for the upcoming years.
Last year I taught the sophomore level Modern Physics course, which I still enjoy. This semester I've been developing an interesting class: an advanced course called Data Analysis Methods. It has been a fun challenge to find data sets that are intrinsically interesting and offer a good illustration of some analysis technique. This week we're working on the post-Halloween "Skittles" data set.

Martine Kalke
Email: kalke@gis.net

In the past two years many things have changed, and much is the same. The wiring and plumbing in our house is now up to 21st century standards, all the floors have been redone, and we have gotten rid of all the terrible carpet and wallpaper we inherited with our house. We have refinished the third floor and moved the bathroom into the smallest bedroom (creating a very large, nice bathroom). All that work took a long time, and our house was almost uninhabitable for six months, but it is so nice now! Still have a few things to do, but our wish list is much smaller now. Our town is even better than it was when we moved in. We now have two bookstores within a few blocks of our house as well as lots of restaurants, grocery stores, the library, post office, and the best toy store within easy walking distance. It is pretty nice to have all this in a suburb of Boston. I’ve been at MIT Lincoln Laboratory for almost three and a half years now, and it is also better than ever. Lincoln encourages its staff to develop a broad background rather than specialize, so I’ve been learning about different areas of ballistic missile defense, which has kept me busy. I’m giving more presentations and leading more projects that I had expected, but I’m getting better at both and having a blast at the same time. Among the things I’ve learned is that there are three essentials for presentations: the illusion of competence, the illusion of comprehensiveness, and the illusion of objectivity (note: the easiest and best way to carry off these illusions is to be competent, comprehensive, and objective).

Tom Pearl
Email: tppearl@ncsu.edu
Phone: 919-513-7360
Address: Department of Physics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7518

We are entering our 4th year of being in North Carolina and all has gone very well! Our two children, Ellie (7) and Nathaniel (3), are growing at a rate faster than we can truly measure. Cori and I are slowly adjusting to southern livin' even though we're really surrounded by a bunch of relocated northerners anyway. I definitely feel that NCSU has been a great fit for me, afforded all the opportunities I have wanted, but big university life can get a little tiresome and reminds me of how much I enjoyed Carleton. My goal of course is to try to lure our department's fantastic students to graduate school here with barbeque and fried food!

Becky Roy Lien
Email: beckylien@comcast.net

Hello! I’m finishing up a public health master’s in Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota. My husband and I live in St. Paul and have a two-year-old son. I’m still active in the sport of curling, at least in the winter months. I hope all of you ’94 folks are well!

Deborah Salon
Email: ds2593@columbia.edu

Hello all, I finally graduated (in May) with a PhD in Ag and Resource Economics from UC Davis and I moved to NYC to do a two-year post doc at Columbia’s Earth Institute. I’m working on transport planning issues in New York and in Nairobi, Kenya, and I totally love it! Feel free to contact me about it if you’re interested, and if you actually know me, give me a call if you are in NYC!

Class of 1995

Kareem Kazkaz

This time last year I was newly married to Helene Wecker and working on my dissertation. This year I'm pleased to announce that I'm still married and no longer working on my dissertation. I graduated from the University of Washington this past summer, and am now very happily ensconced in a postdoc position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. I'm working in the Physics and Advanced Technologies Directorate, focusing on both dark matter and neutrino studies. My work at LLNL is satisfyingly diverse, as it involves not only basic research, but applicability to issues such as nuclear nonproliferation and reactor monitoring--issues that take into account not only technical merits but environmental safety and international concerns.
I have finally started studying Aikido again on a regular basis, this time at the Enbukan in Mountain View. My wife and I are still putting the apartment together (we got rid of the last of our boxes from the move just a couple weeks ago), but overall I'm much happier living in the SF Bay area rather than Manhattan.
I will be attending the reunion this coming June, and look forward to seeing anybody who might be around!

Susan Thysell Rodgers
Email: susanerodgers@yahoo.com
Phone: 847-352-4657
Address: 2405 Kenmore Court
Schaumburg, IL 60193

We hope the past year has treated you well. I have been (barely) keeping up with Alex, who is now 2 1/2 years old. He loves to run, climb, and test out everything; he also knows a few songs and it is fun for us to hear him “sing”. Scott has a couple of new challenging projects at IBM. We are all glad he is working from home again, after two months in North Carolina this summer. I visited him there one weekend in Raleigh-Durham which was lovely.

Class of 1996

Keith Johnson
Email: klorentzj@yahoo.com
Phone: 206-323-7671
Address: 415 10th Ave E, #7
Seattle, WA 98102

I have been out here in Seattle for 8 years now. I am having fun at the Boeing Company, working in the flight simulation group for the 787 Dreamliner. In my spare time, I dream of writing the next Great American Video Game.

Kris Poduska
Email: kris@physics.mun.ca
URL http://www.physics.mun.ca/~kris

Life in Newfoundland is treating me well, both in and out of work. Erika and I are both a year away from submitting our tenure applications, so research efforts have been pretty intense over the last few months. I'm really enjoying the flexibility of being an academic researcher: my lab's studies of thin film and crystal growth have already led us into investigations of magnetic materials, transparent semiconductors, and bone-like calcium phosphate coatings. It's great fun!
In true Carleton style, I'm still very active with Ultimate. I'm helping to coach the province's first-ever traveling team (co-ed), and there are a healthy share of physics undergrads, grads, and staff that have discovered the fun of our city's summer league. Perhaps we'll soon be able to manage Atlantic Canada's answer to Physbee...

Class of 1997

Peter Czoschke
Phone: 952-835-1931
Address: 5217 Heritage Hills Drive Bloomington, MN 55437

So the big news on my front is that we have two new members of the family since last year: Lila Marie and Nora Ann were born on April 20, 2006. There were some minor complications that resulted in Becky being hospitalized for 3 weeks before they took the twins 6 weeks early. 4 1/2 more weeks in the NICU and everyone was home at last - then the real work began! Everyone made it through the ordeal healthy and sane (so far), though, so we are thankful for that. It's been a major adjustment, especially for Meredith (who'll be 3 the end of January 2007), but it's been a lot of fun, too.
I am still working at Seagate Technology (a hard drive manufacturer) in their transducer design R&D organization. I love being back in the Twin Cities and am looking forward to seeing everyone in June at reunion. Hope you all are doing well.

Karen Griffith-Dieterich
Email: Karen@dtrick.org

Our biggest news this year is that we are now the parents of 2 great kids! Our daughter, Leah Evelyn Griffith Dieterich, was born on April 30. She's a happy, healthy little girl who loves to watch her big brother, who is now 3.

Erika Hansen
Email: Hansen.Erika@gmail.com

Not much new here in the last year or so, but since I don't recall writing in last year, I can report on the goings-on for the last 2 years... I finished my M.S. in civil engineering at the University of California at Davis in the spring of 2005. Shortly thereafter, I started working for a structural engineering firm in Santa Rosa, where I've been happily ensconced ever since. I'm designing houses, retaining walls, and post-tensioned elevated concrete and foundation slabs. (Some people I talk to think this sounds like a bore, but perhaps this audience will find it as interesting as I do.) I'm also starting to think about studying for the P.E. exam (no, not actually studying for it yet, just starting to think about studying for it), playing indoor soccer on the weekends, and taking classes at the junior college (fun stuff like knitting and art so far, but this spring, I may have to break down and take a class in surveying so I'll have a shot at that part of the exam). That's about it from here. Hope this finds you all well (and planning to attend Reunion this summer...?)

Class of 1998

Amanda Babson
Email: babsona@ocean.wahington.edu

Hey everyone, by the time this comes out I should finally be done with grad school. I'll be defending my PhD in Oceanography entitled "Modeling Circulation Variability in Puget Sound, Washington" on Nov. 20. My big plan for what to do next is to kayak the Inside Passage (from here to Glacier Bay, Alaska) next spring and summer, so I'll be sticking around Seattle and working for the winter. Happy paddling!

Steven Furlanetto
Email: Steven.furlanetto@yale.edu
Address: 3223 Avalon Haven Drive
North Haven, CT 06473

Greetings, everyone! It's been a busy year for me since the last newsletter! First, I started a new job as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Yale University in January. It's been an adjustment - starting to teach, beginning the grant-writing process, and of course moving back to the northeast. But I'm enjoying being on the "other side" of the desk and looking forward to working more with students! As if moving and starting a new job weren't enough, by the time you read this I'll also be married (though it's still three weeks away as I write this)! My fiance, Kristie, is an occupational therapist from southern California - so those chilly New England winters may be a bit of a shock to her. Anyway, wedding planning has been a lot of work, but we're really looking forward to the big day, and to our honeymoon in New Zealand!

Christopher Heffernan
Email: Cj_Heffernan@yahoo.com

I’m in the Navy, stationed at Pearl Harbor, HI, on the USS Cheyenne, SSN-773. I’ve been stationed here for the last 24 months. If you come this way and want a little information, let me know.

Nicholas Larsen
Email: larsen@crystal.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-792-4184
Address: 31 Hammond Pond Parkway Apt # 4
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

I am still doing my postdoc in protein x-ray crystallography at Harvard Medical School. I’ve been lucky to work with brilliant colleagues, and have enjoyed myself. Winter in Boston is dismal, almost as bad as Northfield. For fun I go to concerts and visit historical sites. Nerdy stuff, it’s so ingrained I can’t help it! Happy Holidays to everyone!

Jeremy Wahl
Email: Jawahl7@gmail.com

Greetings once again. It's been another busy year for me. My fiancee, Yvonne, moved in during August and my independent contract work ended at the end of September because we're moving out to California soon. She's going to do a program in interior design and architecture at Berkeley and I'm going to get whatever job I can. I've already had an interview with Sandia-Livermore for a postdoc that I didn't get because I didn't have any formal chemistry training. Just yesterday I got back from an interview with Spansion for a device technology engineering position that I might not get because I don't have enough formal device physics training. A couple more positions opened up at Sandia in nanosensors so we'll see how that goes. I hope everything is well with everyone else.

Alisa Walz-Flannigan
Email: alisaiw@gmail.com
Phone:
Address: 443-421-2555
403 8 1/2 Avenue Northwest
Rochester, MN 55901

We're back in Minnesota! After living a year and a half in Owings Mills, MD so that I could do a postdoc in nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins University we've returned to the Midwest. I started a residency in diagnostic medical physics at the Mayo Clinic this August. Despite living four years in Northfield, I'd never gotten over to Rochester before this year. So far we really like it here and have been pleasantly surprised by much. It's great to be able to walk to work again, and we're enjoying the parks and trails. My husband Chris and son Ellak are having fun with the early childhood family education classes and with Mayo's benefit of backup child care, Chris gets time off every now and then from being a stay at home dad so he can continue a project he's working on with his former postdoc advisor. I'm enjoying my work, Mayo is a great place to learn on just about every tool or technique you could imagine. I'm finding the work environment to be a lot more conducive to sane living that the Hopkins hospital. It's great to be near family again, especially now that Ellak can no longer fly for free (he turned two in October). I've also been able to get together with friends from Carleton, many of whom still live in Minnesota or have recently moved back. I'm hoping to get back to visit Carleton one of these weeks (I haven't been there since graduation).

Alisa, Chris & Ellak

John Weiss
Email: weissj@ciclops.org
URL: http://origins.colorado.edu~weissj

Hello from Pasadena! No, I'm not living here; I'm still working and living in Boulder. I'm just here for two weeks for a series of meetings, including the planning of the Cassini Extended Mission. Loads of science, politics, and people not getting what they desperately want. To quote Bender, "The laws of physics be a harsh mistress." Yet, it's still exciting to be actually planning such a massively cool mission.
Anyway, I'm still working at CICLOPS for Carolyn Porco, mostly doing research on images hot off the Cassini spacecraft. So far, I've worked out a more accurate mass for a new ring moon, looked into how moons form inside of rings, developed a very nifty code to predict ring brightness from the outputs of N-body simulations and thus shown that the B ring of Saturn is most likely only a few meters thick, shown that features we see near Enceladus are probably direct observations of that moon actively supplying particles to the E ring (looks, it's exciting if you're a ring scientist, OK?), and helped with the data analysis showing that there's most likely liquid water on Enceladus. Oh, and I was a co-author on a Nature paper about observations of small moonlets in the A ring. A pretty exciting year, although we should probably publish more of that stuff. Also, I've spent countless hours in telecons arguing about changes to observations and what we need to do for the Cassini Extended Mission, including a memorable 1 AM telecon where everyone else was in France and a half-hour digression about someone's dead cat. Needless to say, I've considered smashing my phone.
Apart from that, life is pretty status quo. I should probably find some major life milestone to achieve this next year so I have something more interesting to report. Either that, or I'll just make something up.