Class of 1980

Richard Garner

Email: richard.garneralum.mit.edu

Address: 4 Menotomy Rocks Dr, Arlington, MA 02476

Phone: 781-646-7523

Dear Carleton physics community, the end of 2002 finds me still working (six years now!) in the research division of Osram Sylvania, the lighting company. I investigate low pressure gas discharges, with emphasis on the discharge/electrode interface. The work is applied to the company's fluorescent lamp products. Although the field is scientifically fairly mature, there are still plenty of things that are not known, or not known well enough. So, I am definitely kept busy.

On the personal front, I still live (nine years now!) in Arlington, MA, a close-in suburb of Boston. My wife, Jennifer, is a researcher on human auditory system related things at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, a well-known Boston Hospital with close links to academia here.

Best wishes to all for a happy and successful year to come.

Dave Rapp

Email: mailto:rappattbi.com

Phone: (206) 525-3625

Living in Seattle with beautiful wife Marci and beautiful boy Shai, writing and testing software (java). We are very excited to meet our second child, due in about 1 month. I loved Seattle when I first moved here, but we are thinking of moving soon to escape the more urban feel.

Ken Young

E-mail: rtmcfa.harvard.edu

Dear physics folks, I'm in Cambridge, MA, working at the Center for Astrophysics. We're completing a radio interferometer working at the highest radio frequencies that reach the earth's surface: 200 to 950 GHz. I spend about 1/5 of my time our on Mauna Kea pounding away on this beast. It should be completed about 1 year from now; just in time for the project's 20th anniversary!

Class of 1981

Elizabeth Beise

Email: beisephysics.umd.edu

I'm still at the University of Maryland, and still doing electron scattering experiments to study the quark structure of nucleons at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, VA. Anyone interested in graduate school? Think of Maryland! I'd love to see a few Carleton grads in our program.

Ray Bunkofske

Email: rbunkofsus.ibm.com

I don't really have much to say for the Christmas newsletter. My group is trying to retrench after IBM's layoffs and keep everything running at the same time. What I was hoping though, was that one of your junior or senior majors might be willing to help the Cub Scouts by designing a timing system for pinewood derby cars. Ideally the system would be four independent timers (display to 0.01 seconds) that would all be started by a single input, stopped individually with some sort of photo-cell/infrared LED arrangement and of course reset by a common input.

I went looking for chips we used when I was in your electronics class and they don't seem to be available anymore, I guess that's not too big of a surprise. There are many Cub Scout packs looking for something that would do 4-6 lanes which could be built for less that $100 or so. Whoever could help and publish plans on the Internet would have lots of customers.

Thanks for the help; I trust everyone is doing well.

Thomas Carroll

Email: Thomas.L.Carrollnrl.navy.mil

URL: http://chaos-mac.nrl.navy.mil

Phone: (202) 767-6242

Another year gone by, and I am still working on the same log cabin project. We are building a cabin to 21st century standards using 19th century tools, so progress is slow. Still, if I weren't working on this project, I would have to find some other project out in the woods to keep me busy. The social aspect of the trail club is also fun, since I get to work with people ranging from left-wing tree huggers to NRA life members.

Dave Wiesler ('83) sent me a copy of his new CD this year, and I enjoyed listening to it. All of my former roommates have had great musical talent, but none of it seems to have rubbed off on me.

I am still studying chaos and nonlinear dynamics at work. I have started looking at how electromagnetic interference causes nonlinear effects in electronic circuits, a project which is both simple and applied. I am told that these effects were first noticed in the 70's, when turning on the radar in an airplane caused the bomb to drop--not a desirable effect. I have found some bizarre nonlinear effects in a simple transistor amplifier (taken straight from my junior level electronics course textbook) and I am recruiting a theoretical postdoc to help me explain what I see.

Bob Shively

Email: rshivelyenerdynamics.com

URL: http://www.enerdynamics.com

I am back working full-time at Enerdynamics, which is an energy education and consulting firm in which I am a partner. In the past year or so I discovered that the world of VC-backed firms is cut-throat and not especially fun. So now I'm happy to be back at a self-funded enterprise. My family is doing well--the kids are now in kindergarten and second grade--lots of fun and we continue to love living in Colorado!

Liz (Elizabeth) Wolff

Email: lizwolffacornmail.net

Address: 4314 Trellis Ct., Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: (214) 828-2697

Hello from Dallas. It's been a great year--mostly because unlike last year, I got to spend most of it at home. I've become the national research director working mostly for ACORN, which is less about science than what does the new education law really say and things like that. I also dug up most of the front and the back yards and put in native plants, so I hope not to have to ever do so much digging again. My personal highlight for the year was spending two and a half weeks in China on a tour put together by Heifer Project International, which meant that in addition to some of the regular tourist activities we got to talk to the Chinese staff and go with them to visit the rural villages where they are working on development projects. Everyone seemed quite sure things were looking up. Most people have only been able to earn money for the past 17 years and they think their children will do better than they will. Hope everyone has had a good year and look me up if you are ever in Dallas.

Class of 1982

Vinaya Chepuri

E-mail: vchepuriaol.com

Address: 5335 Eagle Bluff Lane, Mukilteo, WA 98275

Phone: (425) 355-2625

Greetings to everyone, I am doing well in the Pacific Northwest. I am still a practicing cardiologist here in Everett, WA. My wife (Melanie Field '82), my children, and I enjoyed visiting Carleton and seeing some of the old gang during the reunion weekend last summer. Our kids loved staying in Musser (hard to believe). In spite of the hot and humid weather, we had a good time.

I spent my last couple of months studying for Cardiology Board Exams. It is amazing that twenty years after leaving Carleton, I'm still studying for exams (the last week before exams was like finals week). It gets harder each time. Pretty soon I will be studying with my kids. Fortunately, they have few years before they catch up to me.

Hope everyone has Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!!! Maybe I'll see some of you during the next year.

Dan McCreary

E-mail: dmccrearyattbi.com

Address: 1751 James Road, Mendota Heights, MN 55118

Phone: (651) 456-9085

I am still in living in Mendota Heights, MN, and chasing my three daughters (Sasha--a sophomore at Macalester, Laura 11, and Mary 9). After riding the dot-com wave for several years, I humbly crash-landed as a business strategy consultant. My focus is leadership, change management and dealing with the impact of advanced technology on organizations large and small. I also dabble in IT strategy development when I can't get enough leadership consulting projects. I fell in love with XML a few years ago, and last year the w3c finalized their format scalable vector graphics (SVG). I have tried to combine my love for computer graphics and teaching kids with an innovative way to teach science and math to kids: I trick them into thinking they are just learning to write video games. I am now working on writing a grant to develop a new high school curriculum for at-risk teens based around teaching math and science through video game design. I am also still playing around with digital photography and hope to upgrade to the new Nikon D-100 next spring. Although stock portfolio is about 10% of what it used to be, my optimism for life is as strong as ever. Keep in touch everyone and chat or e-mail me often!

Class of 1983

Azin Adjoudani

Email: adjoudaniearthlink.net

I live in Minneapolis with my partner Joe. I recently saw Pete Bronsted who was one of my main anchors and close friend at Carleton. It was great to see him after so many years. Got to see pictures of his beautiful family. Have also heard from other Carls that has been a surprise and a treat. My current work mainly involves IT Project Management that I have been involved with for over 7 years.

As I write this it has been a very tragic weekend with the death of Senator Wellstone. I remember having classes with him at Carleton and, like so many others in the state and the country mourn the loss of such a great human being. Hope all is well with you.

Bob Clark-Phelps

Email: clarkphelpsvalue.net

Address: 939 Lanewood Drive, San Jose, CA 95125

Phone: (408) 445-2116

Greetings from Silicon Valley, soon to be known as Software/Biotech Valley once all the silicon processing moves somewhere else. I just finished my first year at AMD. I am still working on high-k gate dielectrics for high-performance transistors. Most of my work focuses on process development, development of deposition equipment, and metrology. I've begun using JMP for designed experiments and statistical analysis. Does the Carleton curriculum include DOE? JMP is relatively user-friendly and might be a good choice.

Marie is tackling the day-to-day challenges of raising our two sons, Brendan (4) and Thomas (1). Brendan started pre-school this fall. His teacher suspected that he might have some kind of problem with motor-skills, especially hand-eye coordination and gross motor skills. We've taken him to a developmental pediatrician, and he agrees there seems to be a problem but needs to do further testing to attempt a diagnosis. We're concerned, but we're also hopeful that with early detection and intervention we can help Brendan do his best in school. At this young age, it's sometimes difficult discerning what's a developmental delay and what's typical behavior.

Thomas is walking now and enjoys roughhousing with his big brother. We're grateful that they can now expend some of their abundant energy on each other and not only on their sleep-deprived parents! Anyone passing through the Bay Area should feel free to give me a call. I always enjoy hearing from other Carleton alums.

Don Hill

We moved back to Corvallis in June after nearly two and a half years in Ireland. Coming home was a bittersweet experience for us all; we were happy to see old friends and familiar places again but sad to leave our new friends and favorite places. The transition back has been long and sometimes difficult. Although we'd lived here for seven years before moving to Ireland, in some ways we're starting over again. The kids are in new schools, I'm in a new job, and we're all trying to remember how things are done here.

I'm starting my tenth year at HP, now managing an R&D product development team for the next generation Inkjet printers. Alex is looking for biology work and volunteering at the kids' schools. Alyssa is in 8th grade this year, still in a bit of shock transitioning from St. Joseph's Presentation Convent School to Hormone Central AKA Cheldelin Middle School. Nick and Andy are in fourth grade and wish the teachers yelled more, like they did in Ireland. "Kid's get away with too much here," they say. Curiously, this opinion had not been expressed while we were in Ireland.

Highlights of the last year include a family trip to Scotland and the Isle of Skye, where we enjoyed an amazing four days of uninterrupted sunshine, castles and haggis. Unfortunately our planned trip to Amsterdam was canceled due to an airline strike. Other travel included the boy's rugby team's first "International" in Wales in April, when we to took the Ferry from Dublin to Holyhead to play Ruthin RFC. Our U-9 boys bravely played their U-10's (http://www.ruthinminirfc.freeuk.com/u10.htm) to a tie, thanks to my brilliant coaching and a very kind referee. The Ruthin club hosted a party for us afterwards, and everything was wonderful until the extremely rough ferry crossing back to Dublin when it wasn't.

I suppose the best news of the year for us is that we finally found a house to buy after four months of searching. We were looking for a bit of land and space, and will finally get it December 2nd. The price was an interior that looks like the Museum for Hideous Wallpaper and a kitchen designed for the minotaur. December 3rd is the day we start renovating, and we should be done in two years. Pictures of this and other family news can be found at http://home.attbi.com/~vincenthill/.

Hope the New Year brings you all peace and happiness.

Mariellen Perugini

Email: perugini4netzero.com

Hi Everyone! I have been enjoying my opportunity to be a "stay at home mom" for over a year now, and I often have these two thoughts: 1) How did I ever manage to work while juggling all this other stuff? 2) Will I really have to go back to work?--I don't want to!

After 18 years of driving a relatively staid company car, I'm loving my new wheels: a bright yellow sporty SUV!! Anyone who might want to go for a spin, give me a holler.

Dave Pier

Email: davidpierearthlink.net

Address: 9352 Zelzah Ave., Northridge, CA 91325

Phone: (818) 886-5197

It's been years since I've written, so here's a brief recap of my last decade. I continued work at the research group of Siemens Solar (previously ARCO Solar, now Shell Solar) through mid-1992, working on developing manufacturable CuInSe2-based thin film photovoltaics (semiconductor sunlight-to-electricity converter panels).

The solar energy work was high-paced, exciting and very rewarding, but in '92 I felt I needed to take a break for a year to study music (I had remained active in my music and community arts activities since college). I took a year to enroll in an intensive music arranging and composing program at the now defunct Grove School of Music. Had a great time at Grove and learned a great deal. Over the course of that year, I applied to the M.B.A. program at UCLA and was accepted, so I decided to take the next two years studies at UCLA, focussing in the area of Arts Management.

In 1995, I graduated from UCLA and took a position at California State University, Northridge as manager/director of a newly built theatre at the student center on campus. This I launched as a community "Performing Arts Center" which, over the next 7 years, became a very active hub of arts activity serving the campus and greater Los Angeles community and was the driving force behind creation of a new "Center for the Visual and Performing Arts" on the campus. Last summer we completed feasibility on construction of a new, larger arts center for the campus with a targeted completion date of around 2010.

Last summer I was also recruited for, and ultimately accepted, a position as Director of a different venue in Los Angeles, the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, which is the little (1250-seat) sister of the Hollywood Bowl. I started work there in September and am having a ball.

Besides the above, throughout the years I have maintained my music activities and still regularly pull orchestras together for musical theatre shows, as well as perform concerts with my own 17-piece jazz orchestra.

On the domestic front, just a couple of weeks ago I became engaged, with a yet-to-be-determined wedding date within the next year or two. In general, having a great time, but am amazed at how the years fly by.

Terry Sauer

Email: RTSaueroptonline.net

Address: 4 Scot Alan Lane, Westport, CT 06880

Phone: (203) 221-1906

I've recently moved back to Connecticut where we are close to my in-laws. I've left Mettler-Toledo to become Director of Product Development for SensIR Technologies. This is the evolution of the company I was with in CT. We are now making FTIR based portable analyzers, which among other things, are being used to identify mysterious white powders found in post offices.

We're renting a house from my in-laws while we try to get used to the housing prices here in Fairfield County. We are enjoying being back in the Northeast, and closer to family. My two boys, 4 and 2, are learning about inertia and momentum. The older one particularly enjoys experiments involving string and pulleys.

Steele Stewart

Address: 2301 Main, Lenexa, KS 66216

Phone: (913) 248-8616

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Dave Wiesler

E-mail: dave.wiesleralumni.carleton.edu

Address: 1008 Glendale Road, Charlottesville, VA 22901-4014

Phone: ( 434) 979-3283

Hi! I'm now in my fourth year in Charlottesville, working as a folk musician and part-time carpenter. My music work this year took me out to California twice, up to Massachusetts, and all over the mid-Atlantic area playing for dances and concerts. One of my bands cut a CD, and I'm working on another right now. About the time this newsletter comes out, I should be in the Galapagos Islands, playing music for a tour of dancers out there. My wife Julie will be coming with me on this one, since it's sufficiently exotic for her to blow some precious vacation time. Julie will be finishing up her residency in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the end of June 2003, and we'll likely be moving then to wherever she wants to set up practice. She's applying, however, for a fellowship that would keep her traveling around on trips to third world countries, repairing cleft palates and birth defects, etc. If she gets this, we'll stick around in Charlottesville for another year. Maybe by then I will have finished up all the repairs I still need to do on the house.

Class of 1984

Jeff Duryea

Greetings, I have switched coasts from San Francisco to Boston to take a faculty position at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Professionally I am continuing my work in quantitative radiographic assessment of arthritis. Clinically it's a hot area but has received little attention from the medical physics community. I am a bit short on colleagues in my field (physics and bioengineering), but I like it.

I am enjoying Boston. In many ways it is very similar to San Francisco, weather and driving stress being the main differences. I miss the mountains though.

Molly O'Dell Coulter

Email: coulterscorecom.net

Address: 20346 New England Drive, Eagle River, AK 99577

Phone: (907) 696-4689

Another year has passed by with speed. Gary, Scott and I continue to love living in Alaska. Scott is a big 6th grader this year, and we are beginning to think of the transition to junior high. It's a big change for all parents, but especially for us as junior high kids need to be so much alike, and Scott is quite different with his many challenges in life. We continue to struggle with health issues, but he is doing well now. I'm still teaching math at Chugiak High School. It's a wonderful career for me as I get so energized by my students and their enthusiasm for life and learning. Watching their expressions when imaginary numbers are introduced is quite fulfilling. Gary continues to love his new position as environmental coordinator for the Red Dog Mine. He hopes to have the environmental ISO 14001 Standards implemented by early 2003, and that will be a major accomplishment for him! Life here is good. We're blessed to be surrounded by good friends and each other. Come visit!

Dan Schroeder

Email: dschroederweber.edu

URL: http://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/

Address: Physics Department, Weber State University,Ogden, UT 84408-2508

I'm on leave from teaching this fall, working on a couple of writing projects and trying to learn one or two programming languages that aren't already obsolete. Check the URL above to see whether I've accomplished anything by the time you read this! I'm also still chairing the Ogden Sierra Club, which will celebrate loudly when our congressman finally retires at the end of this year.

Jay Waldera

E-mail: walderajyahoo.com

Folks, in July I finished a year-long sabbatical, during which I ran a marathon, performed the role of Orsino in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," and wrote a novel. Now I'm back at a real job, working as a Technical Marketing Manager for Agere Systems, doing long-term semiconductor product planning for data channels used in hard disk drives. I still manage to see a few Carls around the Twin Cities, and am looking forward to getting back to Northfield soon. Best regards.

Class of 1985

Tom Albrecht

Email: albrechtalmaden.ibm.com

Address: Alte Landstrasse 18b, 8804 Au, Switzerland

Grüetzi! My family and I are currently living near Zurich, Switzerland, while I work as an international assignee at IBM's Zurich Research Lab. The project that I am managing here is the "Millipede" micromechanical data storage project. It's an ambitious attempt to use a large array of atomic force microscope tips to record data as small (nanometer scale) indentations in a thin polymer film. We still have a long way to go, but the technology is beginning to receive serious consideration as a possible product technology that could ship in several years. We'll be here at least until April; perhaps longer.

Back in San Jose at the IBM Almaden Lab where my "permanent" job sits, there have been big changes. IBM is in the process of selling its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Disk drives have devolved into commodity (= no profit) items, so the business looks less attractive to IBM than it has for the past 50 years. Anyway, this means I need to make some changes in what I work on, and this assignment in Zurich may end up being part of my transition into a new technology area.

Catherine and I now have three daughters: Laura (3 years old in January), Christine (2 years old in March), and Sarah (born here in Switzerland last July). Catherine is taking time off from work while we are here in Switzerland, and will likely remain at home for at least a few years while our kids are very young.

We've enjoyed traveling around Europe. It's a lot of fun, even with three very small children who aren't always interested in Roman ruins or historic churches. We just have to add playgrounds to the list of tourist attractions we seek out. Tschüss.

Bob Goldman

Email: bobgexopoint.com

Alive and well in Portland, OR. I am married now; my wife Kathi and son James are well. Her family is 'Beavers' to the core. Work has changed; we have a new chief of surgery. This change has allowed me to spend more time with research (wrote my first grant! got my first grant turned down...but, all is moving in the right direction and my collaborators are a fun group) and more time for home. Less call; more sleep; change can have a good side, indeed. From the Carleton standpoint, I had the good fortune to attend the celebration of Mike Casper's Reunion weekend. It was great catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. It was a weekend that I look back upon with great fondness.

Sarah Jamieson Shrum

Email: kw_sj_shrumatt.net

Address: 4255 Fall River Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80526

Greetings all! Daughters Emma (8) and Anne (4) fill up much of our time. I'm steadily "growing" my position at DOE / Western by taking on more responsibilities and learning new stuff while still getting to do the fun things that convinced me to take the original job. This "learning new stuff" led me to take an evening class in computer programming at the local community college. Have to admit I was shocked to think that the kids who are there for their college experience WERE NOT BORN when I headed off to Carleton. Not that I'm getting old or anything. Hope all is well with everyone.

David Keith Wilson

Address: P.O. Box 264, Lyme, NH 03768

It has been a very eventful year for my family and me. In August, we left the DC area for Hanover, NH (home of Dartmouth College), where I began a new job as Research Physical Scientist at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. I haven't lived this far north since Carleton, but it is a great place and we hope to settle in for a while. Our family also grew through the adoption of Abigail Sang-Ah, from Korea, meaning that my wife Nancy and I now have our hands full with four active young ones. Professionally, I'm doing much the same thing as before: research on sound propagation in the atmosphere and boundary-layer (near-ground) meteorology. I also recently became associate editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America for the topical area "Noise: Its Effects and Control." A couple very enjoyable trips to conferences in Wageningen, Netherlands and Grenoble, France rounded out the year. Best wishes to all! Class of 1986

David Bruhwiler

Email: bruhwiletxcorp.com

Hi all, the most exciting event for us during 2002 was the birth of our daughter, Natalie Joan Bruhwiler, on April 12. Kevin is now in kindergarten, which was a big step for him, despite his years in preschool. Lori is doing well. My personal achievement of the year was climbing Long's Peak for the first time.

At work, I'm simulating particle accelerator concepts based on laser-plasma and beam-plasma interactions, as well as the cooling of relativistic heavy ion beams via thermal transfer to a co-propagating electron beam. Most of my code development is in C++, with an emphasis on distributed parallel processing, and some work on graphical user interfaces and data visualization.

I wish you all the best and peace in 2003.
Steve Cederbloom

Email: cederbsemuc.edu

Hello! The big news this year is that Stacey and I are expecting our first child in February. Ultrasounds are very cool! I am in my 2nd year as chair of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Mount Union College, busy with teaching, planning for our new science facility and the move into it next summer, and trying to figure out how to recruit more majors. Turning a spare room into a nursery has also become a priority. During the summer, I went on an NSF Chautauqua Short Course to the Haystack Radio Observatory in Massachusetts. Peace.

David Gerdes

Email: gerdesumich.edu

URL: http://cdfrh0.grid.umich.edu/~gerdes/

Greetings! I got tenure in the physics department at the University of Michigan this past year. Now life here, which has always been happy, is secure as well. I continue to study high-energy proton-antiproton collisions with the Fermilab Tevatron accelerator. Looking to the future, I'm involved with R&D towards a possible electron-positron linear collider, and have recently begun a new research effort on SNAP, the Supernova Acceleration Probe. The latter is a satellite that will measure the redshifts of supernovae in distant galaxies, and trace the expansion history of the universe. Probable launch is sometime around 2010.

Sons Paul (9) and Graham (7) bring us both joy and challenges. Blair is still working part-time as a trademark attorney for Harley-Davidson. Inexplicably, I have begun playing ice hockey in the local over-30 league, and will even skate backwards if forced to do so. Best wishes to everyone.

Doug Kenshol

Email: mezzotarahotmail.com

Address: 3651 North Racine Ave, #2, Chicago, IL 60613

Phone: (773) 665-9690

To survive the downturn, I merged the Urban Enterprise Fund with the Resurrection Project. I am now the director of operations of the combined organizations.

Tara O'Brien Pride

Email: mezzotarahotmail.com

My education continues. This past year, it seems, has me well on the way to becoming a veterinary technician, between my dog injuring his feet thus requiring multiple bandagings and my cat experiencing renal failure thus requiring massive amounts of fluid injections. (She's still alive and purring.) My husband, too, acquired an injury to his toe, but he takes care of that himself. My daughter is fine and loving kindergarten in the public school Spanish Immersion Program. I'm still trying to decide how much more education I want for myself in that language. In the meantime I keep my personal time occupied with music, singing in a chorale and its subset chamber chorus. We're in the process of recording a top quality CD, which is pretty exciting. I'll let you all know when you can buy it. ;) Best wishes to all!

Brian Potter

Email: potterbmsu.edu

I've had an incredibly busy year. Work-wise, my office has gained a much higher national profile with or research on forest fire-atmosphere interactions. We have added two scientists to our unit (thereby doubling its size!), and now have our own Beowulf cluster to run our fire-weather forecast model. I've focused my efforts on taking the long history of statistics based fire-weather correlation studies and putting some physics behind it. The sad part is, much of it doesn't bear out under even modest physical scrutiny. The good part, it's like unmapped territory, plenty of room to stake one's claim.

Work also has me running about the country. I averaged at least one trip per month last year, about triple the rate of previous years. I even got to spend a week in Moscow, working with meteorologists there and trying out my Russian from sophomore year. I was told my accent was OK, my vocabulary excellent, my grammar passable, but that I was not understandable because I spoke too fast, of all things!

Personally, I've kept too busy with raising Alex, now 9; playing on a Masters' Division ultimate team; working in various roles at the local Unitarian Universalist Church. Alex is into Cub Scouts, and that takes a few nights each month. Add to that the obligatory school-related activities, and all else a 9-year old wants to do, and it's quite a load. (I guess I'm lucky he really has no interest in soccer or anything else that would commit us to more running around!)

The Masters' team I was on this season, Grey Area, was an interesting experience. Before every practice, we would all sit on the side, discuss various physical afflictions, and debate how much ibuprofen was best for the state we were in. We didn't do as well as we'd hoped, and many team members viewed it as a building year. I think it was my last competitive year, as one knee seems to complain loudly after practices. I'd rather walk when I'm 80 than play ultimate when I'm 38, so I'll hang up my cleats. (Masters' Division, for those unaware is NOT about skill&endash;it's about being 34 or older.)

Last year I was asked to help teach at the UU church, working with the middle school kids. The curriculum was about sexuality and relationships, and I wasn't sure what I would think once it started. I have to say, however, that I was thrilled with the presentation of the material and the attitude of the kids. I'm now going to work on a similar program being taught to the high school kids, but this time I'm more the teaching-team leader. I never would've thought this would feel like such a "calling"! I'm also in the church choir, with a fantastic director who makes it sound like we work much harder than we really do.

I hope everyone is doing well, and I hope to get back to Carleton before too much longer. As always, anyone in the Lansing area, look me up!

John Robinson

Email: John.Robinsonkla-tencor.com

Phone: (512) 342-0029

Another year of bumping along the bottom of the semiconductor industry's longest ever downturn... I've been invloved in various new advanced optical metrology techniques, as well as in creating some new data analysis software. Anna (almost 8) and Sydney (almost 6) are both in grade school and are on soccer teams, which keeps Andrea (also class of '86) and I as busy as ever. We really enjoyed seeing some of y'all at the 15th year reunion.

Daniel A. Tysver

Email: dtysverbitlaw.com

Address: 2900 Thomas Ave. South, #100, Minneapolis, MN 55416

Phone: (612) 915-9634

I still am working as a patent attorney in my own law firm near Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis. Our firm has three other attorneys, and we have worked hard to create a casual, "non-traditional" firm with the non-traditional dogs, reggae, and sailboarding equipment in the offices. Jennifer Stoos and I have been keeping busy with Ben, our 2 1/2-year-old son, who is MUCH cuter than all of those other kids out there. Jen has also started a new interim pastor position with Mayflower UCC in Minneapolis.

Class of 1987

Martha Anderson

Email: mcandersfacstaff.wisc.edu

Howdy! Christopher told you most of what's gone on this year (see below). I went to a meeting on satellite estimation of evapotranspiration on Capri in April, which was a quite excellent time. I spent the month of June living in the Ames, IA Microtel (micro is right), where I was leading up the vegetation sampling for a passive microwave soil moisture mapping field experiment. I'm not sure how my Ph.D. in Astrophysics qualified me to be identifying the phenological stages of the soybean plant, but life takes interesting twists. Today we bought new linoleum to replace the kitchen floor I scorched last Halloween in a minor flaming fabric incident. That's about what's happened out this way. C and I really enjoyed seeing Joel and his wonderful wife and child at our reunion last summer&endash;thanks Joel for coming to so many of the events! Take care!

Christopher P. Carlson

Email: carlscdnr.state.wi.

As the cold weather rolls in this fall, I am nearing the end of my seventh year working on the permitting process for a proposed zinc-copper mine in northeastern Wisconsin. I know I have indicated this before to many others, but I think the process will either move forward with a draft environmental impact statement or the permit applications will be withdrawn by this time next year. We are finally nearing completion of the final sets of analysis to produce the EIS. The applicant is also looking to sell the site as soon as possible. This large multinational mining company has been working to get out of mineral production in North America. At this point, I hope we get the opportunity to bring the process through to a permit decision, whether it is approved or not.

In the last year my wife Martha Anderson (physics '87) and I have done a fair amount of international travel. In November, we spent a long Thanksgiving weekend in Queretaro, Mexico, at a friend's wedding. In April, we spent almost two weeks in southern Italy and Rome, where Martha had a conference. Then in August, we spent a week and a half in London and Edinburgh. Hopefully, we will be able to keep it up in future years.

We also were able to attend our 15th reunion, where we were able to catch up a little with Joel Weisberg and his family as well as several of our physics classmates.

Take care and have a great '03!

Terry Kucera

Email: tkuceraari.net

Hi there, I am still in Greenbelt, MD, working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. I'm a solar physicist with the SOHO spacecraft and getting involved in the new Living with a Star program. I did move a couple of years ago to my own townhouse about three block from where I used to live, and am now honing my gardening and decorating skills with mixed success. Things are generally going pretty well. Happy New Year to all,

Laura Ruetsche

Email: ruetschepitt.edu

Address: 4 WSV #16L, New York, NY 10012

Phone: (212) 614 2330

This year I'm living, with Gordon, Honus, and Stargell, in New York City (COME VISIT!), where I eagerly wait for it to snow a lot, so that I can take the subway to Central Park to ski. I have the year off because somebody with money to burn decided that the best way to burn it was to give it to assistant professors in the humanities, to enable them to write more books. I've been too astonished by this train of events to make much progress on mine, which is about the philosophy of quantum field theory. In other astonishing news, the Pitt philosophy department has decided to tenure me. This has done nothing to dislodge my conviction that I'm a nincompoop who doesn't work hard enough, but it does mean that I can stop interpreting every utterance made by my colleagues as a signal that I'll be fired.

Class of 1988

Craig Osborn

Email: cosborndeloitte.com

Phone: (916) 498-7191

Sons Kyle and Nathan are now 5 and 4 and Kyle has started kindergarten. Still living in Sacramento, laughing at the "winters" which mean temps in the 40s and 50s with rain once in a while. Still with Deloitte & Touche, dealing with the corporate upheaval resulting from the scandals you have read about. Wife Jennifer is still working as a doctor. Making plans for reunion next summer&endash;will be our first time back in Northfield in 14 years! Would like to catch up with other physics majors while there, especially '88 and nearby classes. Are you going? Send me an email...

Class of 1989

Mark K. Anderson

E-mail: mark.anderson85verizon.net

URL: http://www.MarkKAnderson.com

One of the highlights of the past year for me has been interviewing and corresponding with Roger Penrose for an article I've been working on for Wired magazine. Ideally, the article will find its way to the newsstands someday soon. I'm told it should be both in print and on the web (wired.com) by March. The story is about Penrose's most controversial theory to date. He begins by proposing a mass-based mechanism for quantum state reduction (determined by the uncertainty principle) and then proceeds to locate this phenomenon in action en masse within the neural networks in the brain. It's that latter part, I've found, that really gets physicists' hackles up. And yet the evidence, I've also found, is still pretty compelling. Please check out the article, fellow alums, if you get the chance.

Other than that, I landed my first book contract in August for Gotham Books on a totally different subject: (cf. www.shakespearefellowship.org). The book has been dominating my days, nights and weekends of late. But it's great fun, so the workload isn't much of a chore.

My partner Penny Leveritt and I had the pleasure of visiting fellow physics co-conspirator Jon Alberts ('89) along with his wife Sara Jackson ('90) and their daughter Gladys Kathryn ('23?) out in their home digs of Seattle in July. The following month, Mick Veum (physics '90) and his wife Nina Mairs ('90) and their daughter Edith Alexandra ('23?) made the trek up to Northampton. Penny and I and Penny's cat (named Mouse) played host as best we could which included making a trek up to the local lookout spot and almost making it to Indian Orchard, Mass. to check out the Titanic Historical Society Museum. Still unclear as to why a sunken cruise liner's memorial would be found in landlocked western Mass. Perhaps something to put on the itinerary for next summer.

Jennifer Ashton Worwa

We enlarged our family by one bouncing baby boy--Joshua will be a year old in January. Three-year-old Grace enjoys the big sister role, most of the time. Still holding onto my career by working part-time in veterinary practice. I miss those carefree Carleton days!

Eve Fillenbaum

E-mail: fillenbaumearthlink.net

Hi folks, I'm now working at Retek (a company that does software for big retail stores) again, this time in environment support--mostly database stuff. We went through some rather major layoffs last week, so I'm somewhat surprised to still have a job.

The big news is that we're expecting a baby in February. This is very exciting and very scary.

Paul Grossi

E-mail: paulraft.net; pgrossi@aol.com

After 10 years of teaching high school physics and an interesting foray into the dot.com world here in Silicon Valley, I have settled into the position of Director of Education for the Resource Area for Teachers (RAFT; http://www.raft.net). RAFT is a remarkable place; we take in unwanted materials from local business and make those materials available to teachers. My job is to coordinate the educational efforts we make around the materials, including inventing ways to use cast-off stuff to teach science, math and art. We offer teacher workshops and generally work very hard to enable teachers to do more hands-on activities at very low cost (A grocery bag full of stuff typically costs $1).

My daughter Isabel is almost 4 and is very happy in her co-op preschool. My second job is to coordinate and plan the science activities for her class--interestingly enough, 4-year olds have as much interest and fascination with physics as I do; they just avoid the fancy words and equations. One recent project involved making spectroscopes using cast-off diffraction grating and cardboard cones that were originally used to hold Lipton tea-bag string (these spectroscopes are a RAFT invention).

For recreation, I play ultimate; I'm captain for a local winter league team and also make the local lunchtime pick-up game whenever time permits. There are always a few Carls on the fields! Greetings to the rest of the class of '89!

Doug Kenshol

Address: 3651 N. Racine Ave, #2, Chicago, IL 60613

Phone: (773) 665-9690

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To survive the downturn, I merged the Urban Enterprise Fund with the Resurrection Project. I am now the director of operations of the combined organizations.
Mark D. Lagerquist

Email: lagerquius.ibm.com

Phone: (802) 655-2004

I am still in Burlington, Vermont, working for IBM Microelectronics, surviving the layoffs and working hard on improving manufacturing capabilities on 0.13um STI, Gate, and Contact Reactive Ion Etch processes. There is never a dull moment in the semiconductor business, being in the 2nd year of the largest downturn in history while trying to jump to the next level for the recovery. However, I am optimistic about our future.

This is my 10th year in Vermont. Where has the time gone? Our kids continue to be the center of our lives. Erik is now 5, Megan 2 1/2. We had a great summer swimming, hiking, and biking, and a little camping. Pretty soon I will try to teach my son to ski (so probably by March he will be better than me). Feel free to email or call if in the area.

Mark Mulhern

Hello all, I am presently living in Connecticut and working for Zygo as an Opto-Mechanical Engineer. (We make interferometers). It's a pretty neat job where I get to work on special engineering requests (if our standard equipment doesn't do the trick, we'll fix something up for you that will). I am presently designing the world's largest wavelength shifting interferometer (two of them actually), one to stay here at Zygo, and another to go to Canon in Japan. Looks like I'll be eating a fair amount of sushi next year.

My family is well. My eldest daughter Kate is in kindergarten and eating it up. Loves to read, but her progress in multi-variable calculus is still a bit slow. I'm sure she will come around. My second daughter (Heather) is two, and naturally wants to do everything that older sister does. She has taken on a new persona, and has declared herself "Super Baby", complete with a blankey for a cape. I will take this more seriously when she completes her potty training.

The latest ultrasound says that our latest addition is also most likely a girl. Some of my friends have been muttering something about a Chinese curse. I am trying to store up some sleep now. Come April, there will be none. My wife Nancy (class of '90) is well, and slowly settling in to the Connecticut way of life (how come you never hear about Yankee hospitality?)

Hope that all my former classmates and teachers are well. I plan to see you all at our 15-year reunion.

Rachel Pildis

Email: mailto:rachelpildis.com

Phone: (773) 509-1844

The biggest news of the year is that Don and I went on a trip to Lithuania with my extended family (many pictures and commentary on my web site). It was far more fun than I expected, and I enjoyed learning about the ubiquitous "snacks for beer". I'm still working in the same office on the same projects (and liking VB.NET even if it does come from Micro$oft), although my employer has morphed from Leo Burnett to the now defunct B|com3 to Publicis Groupe&endash;I've learned way too much about the economies of scale in advertising holding companies. Fortunately I still have enough time outside of work to decimate the Chicago Public Library's holdings, indulge in spousal cooking creations, and volunteer at the shelter where we found our latest cat.