Class of 1971

Larry Alquist
Email: lalquist@emh.org
As an ensemble, our kids' earth years (23, 21, 19) exceed Patii's or mine. Hmmmmmm ... does that mean we're young and carefree once again :) ??? !!! Erik is a senior physics major at Gustavus and is pondering graduate school. As a freshman at Bowdoin Ingrid tested the physics waters (never test water depth with BOTH feet). As a sophomore she feels that applied mathematics (a physicist's best friend) is a better direction. I wonder if she's aware of this quote attributed to Arnold Sommerfeld: "If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things -- FIRST, study mathematics, SECOND, study more mathematics, and THIRD, do the same." She may be back yet!! Upon graduation from Macalester Greta has moved on to the Humphrey Institue (U of M) in geography and is living the Bohemian lifestyle (with climate change and college costs we may join her). I continue working in radiation therapy physics in Bangor, although fewer hours and less mindless healthcare paperwork would be a blessing.

Class of 1973

Michael Lauterbach
Email: michael.lauterbach@lecroy.com
Phone: 203-777-7780
Address: 313 Blake Circle
Hamden, CT 06517
Margaret and I continue to live in Hamden, CT near Yale where Marg is in her third year as Dean of the Nursing School. I have cut back on my business travel schedule to two weeks per month so I can spend the other two at home. We celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary this summer with a two-week trip to Spain. It was wonderful. I am in my 27th year at LeCroy Corporation - maker of the finest digital oscilloscopes. I am planning to work there one more year, then retire and maybe do some part time consulting. We will be spending the holidays this year at our vacation home in Vermont. A lovely place in all seasons of the year and quite spectacular when we get 24" of new snow - which is what happened the last time we spent Christmas there two years ago. Hope you all are well and enjoying life. I have not decided yet if I am coming to the 35 reunion, but I am hoping that I can.

Class of 1974

Dayton Jones
Email: Dayton.L.Jones@jpl.nasa.gov
Address: 224 Starlight Crest Drive
La Canada, CA 91011
This has been an eventful year, with local wildfires keeping us on our toes and our oldest daughter Alice just starting to drive. My work at JPL changes from month to month as projects come and go in the ever turbulent NASA budget, but I have enough individual grants to provide some long-term stability. Debra ('79) is starting work on her second novel while waiting to see if anyone publishes her first one (she has an agent but not a publisher). Debra and I drove across the country last summer with our youngest daughter Ellen (13), partly to check out possible areas to retire to in a few years. Neither of us wants to stay in the LA area forever, although it is nice to see Patti and Larry Sparks ('75) on a weekly basis. Best wishes to all who read this.

Robert Nelson
Email: Rtnelson52@comcast.net
On the work front I am still employed at a small storage company called Compellent. It has been a busy year and we just went public. In fact, I see that Carleton is now one of our customers.

The biggest changes have been on the home front. After being empty nesters for a year we decided to get a puppy. Despite the work he has been a lot of fun. Also, our youngest daughter moved back in so she could attend the U of M full time. She is working towards a language degree that will take a couple of years. So far the move back has worked fine and she has helped a lot with the dog. I'm not sure if the dog is more attached to her or us.

Class of 1975

Tim Brunner
Email: brunner@snet.net
Phone: 203-431-3011
Address: 27 Westmoreland Road
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Another good year, highlighted by Sally and I spending 10 days in northern Italy for our 30th anniversary. We loved Sienna, Stresa, the Dolomites and especially Venice. The kids are doing well. Emily graduated from U Mich med school, and is starting up her first year of residency in Family Practice. I got to play some volleyball with my son Max, who helped our team win the league last spring, and he is now off to business school at UC Irvine. His little brother Theo was an All-American volleyball player at UC-Santa Barbara, which is quite an accomplishment for a kid from Connecticut. Lydia still loves college in the Big Apple, and it's so great to be able to watch some of the theatrical productions she is in. Last month, Sally, Lydia and I got a chance to see the improv troupe "Baby Wants Candy" - actually as a Carleton Alum event. A peculiar type of human intelligence is on display, as the players react to each other and jointly build a crazy reality. I still get to play a little ultimate frisbee (though we lost the semifinals of our IBM league tonight). I also am singing in a small but ambitious church choir, and will sub in for the organist every now and then. If you come to our area, look us up. We're really in a NYC exurb, only about 60 miles from Times Square.

Kathleen Rempel Krafft
Email: ddraft@sciencenter.org
Phone: 607-273-0675
Address: 10 Snyder Hill Court
Ithaca, NY 14850
Greetings from Ithaca! Many Carleton treats came my way this past year:

1. Sally Fairman Mills and her daughter Kelly came thru Ithaca when they visited Syracuse University last spring, then Sally was back again in August when she and her older daughter Leslie drove Kelly out to start college-- Leslie works at a science center in Illinois that I’ve collaborated with so it was fun to show her around our Sciencenter, and we snuck in picnics too. It was great fun to see them and catch up.

2. I had a wonderful long weekend at Carleton when my middle daughter, Caroline, graduated last June. She loved Carleton, and excelled there, but was ready for the challenges of the real world. She did an unpaid internship with a non-profit last spring that she found really helped solidify her interest in working in the non-profit sector; that included learning about domestic violence issues, grant-writing, visiting prisons, website work, .... She's now working in Minneapolis with the "Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library" assisting with "Development" (fund-raising).

3. There are a lot of recent Carleton physics grads here: I see Andrew Noble and Emily Riddle (both '2000) occasionally on Cornell's campus at folk music events. And there was a herd of Carleton physicists here last summer, including a number of current students doing REU projects—we all got together and it was fun to meet such an energetic and interesting group!

My youngest daughter is a sophomore now who is still loving Carleton- she's a Japanese & Linguistics major. She's home for December which will be lots of fun. I'm hoping I’ll get to go visit her in Japan next fall when she'll likely be studying there.

Work-wise, I’m way too busy as we continue to develop new traveling exhibitions; they are at small and large museums all over the country (Eugene, Oregon & Spokane & Wichita & Austin & Asheville, NC at the moment), and are touring a few other exhibitions for other small museums. There's a lot of work and details involved in keeping everything running smoothly. Attendance has been great here and growing, as we strive to keep new things happening for visitors.

Class of 1976

George Jelatis
It was the winter of despair. I lost my dad at the very start of the year, without much warning, and lost some of myself as a result. Physicist, photographer, sailor, cyclist, poet, musician, much more. It was almost unbearable. Then came the spring of hope, as I watched his namesake turn two and begin to explore the world through familiar-looking eyes. This exploration shows no sign of slowing down as we enter fall, and produces amazing moments on a regular basis. And so the cycling continues. I wish the finest of holiday seasons to my classmates, friends and former students. As with my father, I so appreciate everything you taught and did with me.

Randall Ohman
Email: Rohman1@juno.com
Phone: 210-829-5278
Address: 1208 Wiltshire Avenue
San Antonio, TX 78209
Over the last few years I have weened myself of design engineering as my predominant employment and am now a science and math teacher. I am in my third year in the profession, currently introducing high school freshmen to algebra. These are not tuition-paying, aspiring mathematicians when they start my course but, rather, inner-city, at-risk kids, there only because it is on their schedule during a day where the real draw is free food and social interaction. So, when I can, I try to merge the former with the latter, at least the mathematician part. If I can do that, their heritage guarantees that they won't ever have to pay tuition.

Class of 1977

Mary Hibbs-Brenner
Email: maryhibbsbrenner@comcast.net
Phone: 763-550-1191
Address: 4275 Deerwood Lane North
Plymouth, MN 55441
This fall we became empty nesters, as we sent our second son, Eric, off to join his brother, Tom at Carleton. I didn’t pressure either of them to go to Carleton – honest! However, I am glad they are there. Even better (or worse) Tom declared a physics major last spring.

Mats continues at Honeywell as he has for the past 20+ years, ensuring the reliability of navigation systems for commercial aviation. As I think I’ve reported previously, I’m in business with an Ole in a start-up company, making VCSELs, a type of semiconductor laser. It is white-knuckle fun. (As in roller-coasters.) Check out our web site if you are curious: www.vixarinc.com

I attended my first Carleton reunion this summer. I don’t know what my excuse was for not going before: kids and jobs, I suppose. It was a lot of fun to see Gail, Amy, Elaine, and Steve, as well as Tom Polgreen from ‘76. (All the women were there, where were you guys?) The subject of why there are so many women science majors at Carleton came up, and it was credited to the presence of women science professors. Back then, though, there weren’t that many women science professors. However, we commented on how much we appreciated the supportive environment provided by Professors Reitz, Noer, Thomas, Titus and Casper (I hope I didn’t forget somebody!) as well as our fellow physics majors.

Roger Johnston
Email: rogerj@anl.gov
Phone: 630-252-6168
Address: Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Ave.
Building 206
Argonne, Il 60439
After 12 and 24 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, respectively, and after many bruises (figuratively and literally), Janie and I have relocated to Illinois. A good chunk of the Vulnerability Assessment Team is also joining me at Argonne National Laboratory. Janie is thinking about going back to high school teaching, which she has been missing. It's great to be back in the Midwest where people are friendly, straightforward, and hard working, and tornados are there to remind you that heat and fluid problems are really nasty. I will, nevertheless, miss New Mexico (but not LANL).

I'm still doing an assortment of really interesting R&D projects on physical security and nuclear safeguards, but now with renewed energy from a fresh change of scenery, culture, and bureaucracy. Hopefully, we'll soon also have a fresh batch of students.

Janie and I managed to get all our junk, 4 horses, and a dog up to Oswego, Illinois without major incident. After living in New Mexico, the horses nearly went into shock when they saw all the green, and the dog is in dog heaven in terms of having lots of squirrels to futilely chase. We've even made some progress in understanding the Chicago accent. So life is good. I was able to use my liberal arts background this fall--I knew I would someday--to give a talk in San Francisco concerning Oscar Wilde, Method Acting, and what they can teach us about security. Wilde and San Fran have had a strange relationship ever since his visit in 1882 provoked a near riot.

Elaine McCluskey
Email: emccluskey@sbcglobal.net
Phone: 630 840-2193
Address: 0N427 Sunset Ave
West Chicago, IL 60185
I was pleased to be able to connect up with some of you at the 2007 Reunion. My professional life remains at Fermilab, but has moved from working on facilities to a project for upgrading the accelerator and NuMI beamline for the NOvA experiment (who thought I'd ever be part of a high energy physics collaboration?). Our project should receive DOE approval this year, and we'll be sending more neutrinos to a new Minnesota detector in the years to come. Learning about how accelerators work and what it takes to make them more powerful has stretched my technical knowledge, but working in the project management office, I'm glad to leave the nuts and bolts to the real physicists!

Mark Schneider
Address: 1710 Spring Street
Grinnell, IA 50112-2646
This year marks the start of my third decade teaching physics at Grinnell College. My son Woody is a senior physics major at Brown University; daughter Cleo is in her first year at Mount Holyoke College.

Class of 1978

David Johnson
Email: Ds-johnson@tx.rr.com
Phone: 817-795-5089
Address: 2018 Stone Canyon Court
Arlington, TX 76012
2007 has been a very busy year. My company, Carter & Burgess, Inc. was purchased by Jacobs Engineering, Inc. on November 2nd. The year has flown by with me being consumed by negotiations and due diligence activities. Having it all completed is wonderful, but now I am totally consumed with integration activities. I really need a break and I am looking forward to a brief escape to Telluride next weekend. My wife Ysleta and I went to visit the three kids that are all in college at Oklahoma University. We went to the OU football game with Texas A&M and watched the Aggies get stomped. It was fun! All of the kids work for ARAMark at the stadium so we had a bit of the royal treatment. IT was very nice. Hopefully, life will settle down soon. I would like to do some traveling and have some fun again. I am looking forward to being back for the 30th reunion next June. I hope to see some of you there.