Class of 1970

Bill Egbert
Email: wcegbert@mmm.com
Phone: (651) 733-6379
I am still at 3M, still working on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) with about half my time spent on system development, and the other half on the interesting physics (RF and electromagnetics, wave guiding, magnetics) and electrical engineering aspects of the problem. It is probably just as well that I am still working, since we now have two Carls: Dan ('07) is an English major, with special interests in creative writing and music. Liz ('09) is taking in life as a freshman, leaning toward biology and dance. Linda's work as Director of Quality for three medical clinics serving the working poor in north Minneapolis is a continuing challenge in the current budget climate.

Class of 1971

Larry Alquist
Email: lalquist@emh.org
Phone: (207) 973-8196
Peace and joy to all!! Just realized that my 3 kids (collectively) have lived more years on earth than me. Is this something to feel good about, or place in the emotional denial pile?? Greta (21) is a geography major at Macalester. Erik (19) is pursuing a physics major (yeah!) at Gustavus (hopefully he'll exit E&M this semester relatively unscathed). Ingrid (17) had an 800 in SAT II math exam & is finishing college applications. Patti (ageless) continues to amaze us all as she returns to college coursework in pursuing another degree. This fall I managed to briefly break away from my work in radiation therapy in Bangor to attend the Nobel conference at Gustavus on "The Legacy of Einstein". Physicists treated like rock stars!! I actually shook the hand of a Nobel Prize winner!! Can life be any more blessed than this??

Class of 1972

Ken Bowen
Email: kbowen314@earthlink.net
Phone: (708) 524-9095
Address: 411 North Lombard Ave
Oak Park, IL 60302
I find myself designing a production of "Skin of our Teeth" by Thornton Wider for the first time since I did the play in-the-round at Carleton (Unco). The show concerns a few modest issues like war, global climate change, absolute evil, the perseverance of the human race, and whether the tomato is edible.... fluff... It was written in 1939 as war simmered on the horizon and if one substitutes all the script reference to "Ice age" with "global warming" it could have been written in America last year. The next project will be "One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest” Photos of recent productions are at: http://www.latinschool.org/studentlife/perform_arts/pa00_05.html Last night I did a refraction lab with my 9th grade son on the dining room table, life is good.

Class of 1973

Michael Lauterbach
Email: Michael.lauterbach@lecroy.com
Address: 313 Blake Circle
Hamden, CT 06517
My wife, Margaret, and I continue to enjoy our new home in Hamden, Connecticut. She has a 12-minute commute on local streets to Yale where she is the newly appointed Dean of the Yale School of Nursing. That is our big news for the year. The search process for a new dean started a year ago and finally culminated with the position going to Margaret. She has been the associate dean for research at Yale for the last 12 years. I have spent a lot of time on the road in 2005. In the most recent four weeks, for example, I have been to Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Boston, Baltimore, Phoenix, LA. In the two weeks after Thanksgiving I will be in Ft Lauderdale, Orlando, Austin, Houston and Dallas. Unfortunately almost all the travel is for business so I don't get much time to enjoy theselocales. But I am looking to change things starting in January. I will be cutting back from a 100% work/travel schedule to 50%. I hope the holidays find all of you with friends and family and that the coming year is a happy one for all.

Class of 1974

Dayton Jones
Email: dj@sgra.jpl.nasa.gov
Greetings. This has been an interesting year, with both good and bad aspects. The good part includes the health and happiness of my family and lots of progress at work, and the bad is going through months of chemotherapy to get rid of some cancer. Fortunately that is now over, and I'm rapidly recovering from the effects. I have been involved in several interesting projects at JPL earlier this year, in addition to continuing work on large arrays of small antennas for the Deep Space Network and the Square Kilometer Array. The new projects are proposals for missions to fly balloons in the atmosphere of Venus, to map the sky at very low radio frequencies (where Earth's ionosphere becomes opaque), and to expand the frequency range of SETI programs by an order of magnitude. It's fun stuff, and I look forward to getting back to it. Hope you have all had a good year, and that 2006 is even better. Cheers!

Class of 1975

Tim Brunner
Email; brunner@snet.net
A new family milestone for Sally and I: "Empty Nesters"! Our youngest daughter left for college about a month ago, and loves it. Alas, she was our last chance to have a Carleton Kid, but we're grateful she's close by in New York City. We look forward to another milestone in four years – namely "Zero Tuition-ers"!
I was able to get out to the Carleton Reunion this year, which was awesome. I got to hang out with Mark Jaeger, Patti Sparks, Sally Mills and other friends for a couple days. I got to talk with Profs. Titus, Noer and Thomas. I got to play the big organ in the chapel. I got to climb the rock wall in the new rec center. Even with all the new buildings and stuff, it somehow felt essentially the same. Regards to all.

Mark Jaeger
It was so great to see everyone in June – Tim, Sally, Patti – everyone looks great. I enjoyed the updates from Bill Titus, and reminiscing about balloons in his office. To Rich Noer – sorry to alarm you while we were admiring your bushes. Life here goes on as normal, just an empty nest. I’m looking forward to the next reunion.

Sally Mills
Email: sfmills@sbcglobal.net
Life is full and busy and happy, well maybe a bit too full! I still work at Schaum Publications (piano music), sing in 3 choirs, keep remodeling my house of 2 years, and try to keep up with my kids. Leslie is a senior at Beloit College in Creative Writing. Her big news is that she is engaged, with a target date in Spring of 2007. Am I really old enough to be mother of the bride? Kelly and Kyle are still busy with band and choir and theater, and are finding that Junior year in high school is a lot more work. In addition to researching colleges and psyching up for the SATs, Kyle is starting to prepare voice and acting auditions.
I had a great time at our 30th Reunion in June. We had quite a Physics contingent there from '75 - and I enjoyed meeting physics grads from other years as well!

Class of 1977

Mary Brenner
Email: maryhibbsbrenner@comcast.net
Phone: (763) 550-1191
Address: 4275 Deerwood Lane N
Plymouth, MN 55441
Things have come full circle, as we sent our oldest son off to Carleton this fall. I noticed better dorm security, phones in the rooms, lots of new and renovated buildings, but it still felt like Carleton. He is definitely leaning toward math and science. Our youngest is a junior in high school, so we will soon be empty nesters. He is very interested in architecture. My husband continues to work at Honeywell on GPS systems.
I'm into the second year of being a start-up business owner. The first year required a lot of faith. This year still does, but things are looking up. MYTeK has won some R&D contracts, sublet some office space, has test equipment (it is amazing what you can buy on E-Bay), and was able to bring one of the other founders on as a full time employee. (A St. Olaf grad!) We have a part time student aid, and a couple of other founders who invest some of their spare time. We also have some real potential customers evaluating our lasers.
You may be surprised to hear how widely read this newsletter is. I was visiting a potential customer in Japan, and he started to tell me the things he knew about me. I was startled and a little spooked until I realized that he had "Googled" me, and found this newsletter among other things. So...be careful what you say about your employer, etc.!

Roger Johnston
Email: rogerj@lanl.gov
Phone: (505) 667-7414
Address: 2462 36th Street
Los Alamos, NM 87544
Greetings! Another year of learning new things and staying entertained at 7200ft in the mountains of Northern New Mexico. There is considerable consternation at Los Alamos about who will be chosen to run the Lab. The loss of direct affiliation with the University of California that will occur on June 1 (regardless of who wins the contract) has very serious repercussions for R&D, intellectual freedom, and employment. Many long-time LANL scientists and engineers are considering retiring or taking positions elsewhere, as am I.
This was my year for giving talks: business risk management (Virginia), pharmaceuticals (DC & Princeton), physical security (Phoenix, Orlando, & Las Vegas), nuclear decommissioning (U.K.), and an Internet Virtual Forum. The latter was really strange. I talked over phone lines to 1300 invisible people at 77 sites in 8 countries, while they watched my PowerPoint slides live over the Internet. (Apparently some countries are so boring that it’s worth getting up at 2 AM local time to hear a live technical talk.) Attendees could phone in questions, or else type inquiries and insults via the Internet.
Janie and I continue to push for childcare at LANL, even though we are well past having any personal need for it. (LANL remains the only major DOE facility without a childcare center.) We’ve been busy rabble rousing in other ways as well.
Janie’s daughter is starting her 2nd year at St. Andrews University in Scotland, which she is enjoying very much. She is majoring in Modern History, with a minor in Pub Crawling. I find Scotland to be a truly amazing place with lots of castles, history, and gory battles (and not just after the pubs close). I’m either Scottish or Irish, depending on how you want to look at it. The Scots originally came from Ireland, but a bunch of Johnstons moved from Scotland back to Ulster around 1609 for the sole purpose of hassling the Irish. They were successful at doing this setting off 400 years of civil unrest--but then proceeded to become even more Irish than the true Irish. Maybe you instead buy into the legend surrounding the Scots (rather frumpy) Stone of Destiny--sort of a Scottish version of Schiller’s bust. In that case, the Scots (along with the stone) originally came from Egypt via Spain, which would, I guess, make me Egyptian (or perhaps Martian). Have a great 2006!

Elaine McCluskey
Email: aemccluskey@cs.com
Phone: (630) 653-7430
Address: 27W116 Bolles Avenue
Winfield, IL 60190
What a year of wonderful opportunities! I was able to complete a master’s degree in project management and got a professional certification in that field. I decided to downsize my housing situation to an older home that should be fun and comfortable. A grandson came into my life, and I traveled to northern Russia with my church mission team. Still at Fermilab – Stop by!

Amy Rogers
Email: AMYR@gateway.aps.k12.co.us
I'm still teaching physics at Gateway high school. I still can't believe that they actually pay me to do this, messing around with kids and equipment, what could be more fun! I'm up to 3 sections of general physics and one of AP. My other class is a sheltered physical science (for students who are learning English) All three challenge me and keep me on my toes!
We're finally empty nesters, Kristin is a senior at Bradley University in environmental engineering, looking at grad schools now. Craig is a freshman at University of New Mexico possibly in mechanical engineering (or music or whatever...) Jim and I are having a great time being on our own again. Hiking a little, traveling a little, working a lot. Cheers, and happy holidays to all!

Richard Snodgrass
Email: rts@cs.Arizona.edu
Phone: (502) 742-0594
Address: 701 East Camino Alberca
Tucson, AZ 85718
URL: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/rts
I guess I've come full circle, because my son Eric is now in 12th grade Physics, and finds it easy going. I greatly enjoyed the recent PBS show on E = mc^2. And I fondly recall the positron annihilation experiments that Bruce Thomas helped me with in my senior year. Thanks, Bruce, for all the time you gave me then. We start college visits soon. Eric wants to major in marine biology, so unfortunately that rules Carleton out.

Bryan H. Suits
Email: suits@mtu.edu
I spent some time last year researching the history of my physics department at Michigan Tech (formerly known as the Michigan College of Mines). I learned that our faculty of 1901/2 did some interesting studies in the local mine shafts. Included where the use of masses on strings, which were over 1.3 km long, roughly, three times the height of the Sears Tower in Chicago. I also learned that the plural of pendulum is pendulums, and not pendula -- check your dictionaries. The long pendulums are now listed by Guinness World Records as setting the record for the World's longest pendula.

Jonathan Thron
Email: thron@lanl.gov
Phone: (505) 606 0587
Address: 170 La Cueva
Los Alamos, NM 87544
Well, what a difference a year makes! We moved from the plains of Illinois to the mountains of New Mexico. I switched from working on esoteric neutrino research at Argonne National Lab to radiation detection for nuclear safeguards and nonproliferation at Los Alamos National Lab. We were welcomed, and helped in our transition, by Duncan and Nancy MacArthur, as well as my sister in Santa Fe. So now we are getting used to spectacular scenery, trails that start within blocks of our front door, less humidity and rain, less population, and less air. (How do you make a proper cup of tea when water boils at 190F? Use a pressure cooker, super-heat the water in the microwave, raise the boiling point by dissolving salt in it? None are very satisfactory!)

Bob Weinstock-Collins
Email; chrisandstock@aol.com
Address: 911 Susquehannock Drive
Holtwood, PA 17532
After graduating from seminary two plus years ago, I am back to teaching chemistry at Millersville University and at Harrisburg Area Community College. Last spring I did teach a course looking at the relationships between science and religion, and hope to do more of that in the future. Our children (8th, 6th, and 2nd grades) continue to keep our lives full, rich, enjoyable, and full of surprises.

Class of 1978

David Johnson
Email: ds-johnson@comcast.net
Phone: (817) 735-5089
Address: 2018 Stone Canyon Court
Arlington, TX 76012
Hello for 2005! I've been living in Fort Worth Texas since 1996. I am still the Chief Financial Officer for Carter & Burgess, an architectural/engineering firm. I have been the CFO there for almost 8 years. I got married on Oct. 2nd, 2004 and moved into a new house last year (that is why you never heard from me last year). We finally took our honeymoon in the Virgin Islands on our first anniversary in early October. Other than that, I have been working hard as usual as the economy has improved and business has really started to take-off. Combined we have 4 children ages 23, 21, 18, and 16. Having three children in college is really interesting and challenging financially. The two oldest are at Oklahoma University studying physical therapy and Jessica, the 18 year-old, is in Chicago at Westwood College in a game and art design program. All is well. Happy Holidays to everyone!

Class of 1979

Rand Swanson
Email: swanson@resonon.com
Life on this end remains full on entertaining; although it is a bit embarrassing to admit to how much time I spend healing up from a variety of indiscretions. I’m still working at my second start-up in Bozeman, MT, where we develop small hyperspectral instrumentation and have grown to the huge number of 6. By focusing on biomedicine, mining, and uninhabited aerial vehicles (plus anything else that looks fun), we’ve been able to apply the technology in some new ways, in odd places, and enjoy doing it. This year my wife (same one as last year) started a climbing gym, and that has been a major time sink. Otherwise I’m still spending some time rock climbing, getting into the mountains, fly fishing (but not much), and I travel a little, but I had to give up ultimate Frisbee, as I’m working up to my third knee operation. I hope the year has treated you well and Happy Holidays!