Class of 1980

Paul Conklin
Email: martonklin@alumni.duke.edu
I'm still farming and teaching Geography part time. What's new is an addition to our family. We adopted Li, a five-year-old boy from China, in June. The process included a two-week trip to China, and we can now claim to speak a little Mandarin. A five-year-old missing most of his front teeth is not the ideal language coach, so we may have our own dialect, but it works. And now that he is in kindergarten his ability in English will soon surpass ours in Chinese.

David Rapp
Email: rapp.david@comcast.net
Phone: (206) 525-3625
Address: 6004 27th Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98115
I am still in Seattle with my wonderful wife and 2 wonderful kids (6 and 2 years old). I just did a brief gig designing software for a consultancy in the wind energy industry, and was very excited to read about Carleton's wind turbine.

Class of 1981

Elizabeth Beise
Email: beise@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-6109
Hello from Maryland. I'm taking a part-time break, last year and this one, from the U Maryland Physics Dept to work as a Program Director for Nuclear Physics at the National Science Foundation. The work is very interesting and I'm learning a lot, both about how the government work and about other areas of physics. We also had an interesting result this year on our experiment ("G0") at Jefferson Lab (www.jlab.org), in which we use the weak interaction to better understand the strong interaction between quarks and gluons in protons and neutrons. We even got a write-up in the “Economist" magazine. On the personal front, my nephew, Seth Bahrenfuse, is now a sophomore at Carleton -- he's spending a year abroad in Japan, so far having a great time according to his mom. Anyone interested in graduate school in physics? There are lots of opportunities at Maryland; feel free to contact me at beise@umd.edu.

Raymond Bunkofske
Email: Raymond.j.bunkofske@intel.com
I've pulled up roots and moved from the Northeast to the Northwest in sunny Oregon. I am now doing pretty much the same job--quality control & fault detection--but for Intel Corporation instead of IBM. A lot of things played into the move but better opportunities for the kids and a more challenging job were the big ones. I am currently investigating such things as optimizing maintenance schedules, coming up with automated ways to classify detected faults and using data from the process equipment to predict the device characteristics of the chips. I'm using mostly phenomenological models and the trick is to get one to work while you are still making that product! There are lots of techniques out there but finding ones that "learn" fairly quickly is always a challenge. I'm always looking for sharp fault detection or run-to-run control interns so if you have any likely students please let me know.
Mary has taken to the area well as there are stained glass stores a few minutes from the house and my older son Alex is finishing up his Eagle for Boy Scouts and thinking about where to go to college. Carleton is high on the list, because he likes the idea of camping out in the Arb! Christian has taken up violin lessons and practices with only minimal reminders so I guess that's good. A wonderful holiday to all and feel free to let me know if you're going to be in the area.

Tom Carroll
Email: Thomas.L.Carroll@nrl.navy.mil
Phone: (202) 767-6242
Address: Code 6362
Naval Research Lab
Washington, DC 20375
URL: http://chaos-mac.nrl.navy.mil
I'm still working with chaos, and still finding how hard it is to move from basic to applied research. I got tired of waiting for someone with radar equipment to work with me on experiments, so I set my own $20 sonar system with cheap Radio Shack parts. The system works well enough to let me simulate some of the radar ideas that would require $200,000 or more worth of equipment to do.
I'm working on a variety of projects with the trail club, mostly involving fixing up old cabins so they can be rented out to club members. The most interesting project is working on a frame house built in 1917, so far back in the mountains that they had to haul in a sawmill in order to build it.

Bob Shively
Email: rshively@enerdynamics.com
Address: PO Box 1067
Laporte, CO 80535
URL: www.enerdynamics.com
I continue to be busy running Enerdynamics - an energy education company that provides services to professionals in the energy industry - and being a Dad to two elementary aged kids. On the family level I've been spending a lot of time on things like Cub Scouts, robot club, soccer etc. Work wise I've been focusing on developing a library of online training products and have discovered that this opens up the global marketplace - we now have a large corporate client located in Bangalore, India. Hope to make it out to reunion next summer.

Class of 1982

Doug Walker and Mary Sullivan Walker
Email: walkerdoug@comcast.net
Our newest development is the launch of our own company, Placeways, last spring. It's a small software company specializing in CommunityViz and other geographic decision-making tools. It's a family affair with Doug at the helm and Mary covering the back office, with a small team of others who make up in talent and energy what they lack in number. We're extremely busy and not necessarily profitable, but it's great fun and very gratifying. You can visit us at www.placeways.com if you're wondering what "geographic decision-making" is. Meanwhile we are still enjoying family life here in Boulder, Colorado with our kids, Lisa (13) and Eric (10), though we are noticing how little time a parent has with a child between birth and college.

Class of 1983

Bob Clark-Phelps
Email: clarkphelps@verizon.net
Phone: (508) 393-8150
Address: 17 Mohawk Drive
Northborough, Ma 01532
Greetings from Massachusetts! It's been a busy, happy year. In April we welcomed our daughter Teresa Patricia. Now seven months old, she is sitting up, starting to figure out how to scoot backwards, and is providing lots of entertainment for Mom and Dad and her big brothers. Together with Brendan (7) and Thomas (4), she is keeping Marie in a state of nearly perpetual motion on the homefront. Brendan is in 1st grade, is taking Tae Kwon Do and just finished a theater workshop. Thomas is in pre-school, loves jigsaw puzzles, and is always eager to lend a hand in the kitchen.
I am into my third year at Evergreen Solar and am enjoying my work more than ever. Evergreen has partnered with a leading German solar cell maker known as Q-Cells to form a joint venture named EverQ. The EverQ factory is under construction next to Q-Cells' campus in Thalheim, Germany, and you can see pictures of the building at www.evergreensolar.com. This factory will triple our output and is expected to enable us to reach profitability. I am working on improving the efficiency of our cells through improvements in our nitride anti-reflection coating, contact firing, and rear contact design and processing.
The outlook for renewable energy has never been better, thanks to rising costs of fossil fuels and growing awareness of global warming. To help spread the word, I created a PowerPoint presentation on global climate change for a local high school science enrichment group. One of the facts I learned preparing for the talk is that the ratio of the cumulative federal funds spent on photovoltaics to those spent on NASA is 1:100. I told the students that they shouldn't listen to skeptics who say, "solar power is too expensive" because we (as a country) haven't even begun to mount a serious research effort to see how cheap we can make it. We clearly need the equivalent of the Apollo project or the Manhattan project in the areas of energy efficiency and sustainable energy. And since CO2 resides in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, we need it now!
To any Carleton physics alums in or passing through the Boston area, please feel free to call. Best wishes to all for a healthy and fulfilling year ahead.

Mark Hibbs
Email: mhibbs@barr.com
Phone: (952) 943-0853
Address: 9613 Wyoming Circle
Bloomington, MN 55438
Some things change; some things stay the same. I continue to work for Barr Engineering Co. as an environmental management consultant. Twenty years and counting with the same employer. We still live in Bloomington but moved to a new home this past summer. I was reelected to the Bloomington Board of Education and I and finishing my first year as chair. I have a vested interest with Matthew (9th grade), Michael (6th grade), and Sarah (3rd grade). I watch lots of youth soccer and hockey.

Don Hill
Email: don@Vincent-hill.com
Hmmm. Looking back it seems that the last time I wrote in was 2002, when I'd just moved back to Corvallis from Ireland, bought a house to renovate, and started managing an HP inkjet R&D project. I'm still here, still rebuilding, and still working on the next generation of inkjet products.
The family is fine, although I am startled to report that Alyssa is a junior in high school. She is co-captain of the debate team and taking her first physics class this year. Nick and Andy are in 7th grade and shaving. Nick has a mohawk; Andy has sworn never to cut his hair. They all are doing well in school and enjoy music, playing in various bands and orchestras. Alex keeps busy volunteering at the schools, sewing, and learning new construction techniques.
My work is going well, although HP continues to "refocus" and reduce staffing. We did, after an extended development period, release the first product in the new inkjet technology this summer, the HP Photosmart 8250. It's a brilliant printer and I encourage each of you to buy one. My team is working on various extensions, cost reductions and improvements that should keep us busy for the next few years. I'm working with groups in San Diego, Singapore and Ireland, so it looks like I'll have more opportunities to travel soon.
The renovation of Bad Manor (we named it after the kids) occupies most of my spare time. Last year at this time we were eating out of the laundry room and could look through the kitchen floor into the basement. Things are much better now. We even had time to put in a garden this year, although it required a 9-foot high fence to keep the deer out. The last of the summer vegetables are coming in now, but the freezer is full of pesto and tomato sauce. Life is good.

Stewart Steele
Email: steele.stewart@yahoo.com
Phone: (913) 248-8616
Address: 13915 West 76th Circle
Lenexa, KS 66216
Ciloue, Steele A and I are all loving Kansas City. Ciloue's family therapy practice is growing strong and she just glows with joy after helping couples, parents and kids find wisdom and grow in their relationships. Steele A. is in second grade, has a great teacher and is reading all the time when he's not playing soccer, piano or learning to read Chinese. (He's completely fluent since Ciloue has for the most part only spoken Chinese to him since he was born.)
I've had a full and fun year, coaching soccer, assisting with the American Academy of Actuaries work group on the uninsured - an update to the 2003 paper should be out soon, managing a staff of three actuaries at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City. In the summer, I traveled to Taiwan for almost three weeks with my wife and son, and upon return, Steele A and I joined my Dad, brother and two nephews on a Lewis & Clark bus tour from St. Louis to the Oregon coast!

Dave Wiesler
Email: daveweisler@earthlink.net
Phone: (302) 369-3218
Address: 28 Blue Jay Drive
Newark, DE 19713
URL:www.azaleacityrecordings.com/davewiesler
Hi. My wife Julie and I had a son (our first child), Samuel MacRae Wiesler, on October 1. I'm deep in the midst of sleep-deprivation but enjoying fatherhood, more so when he doesn't stay awake all night. I'll obviously be cutting back my music performance schedule substantially, since I'll be the stay-at-home dad once Julie goes back to her surgery practice in December. I approach that prospect with both anxiety and great anticipation!

Class of 1984

Eickhoff, Steve
Email: steve.eickhoff@adelphia.net or
steve.eickhoff@hypertherm.com
Phone: (603) 643-1253
Address: 6 Barrymore Road
Hanover, NH 03755
Greetings to all from Hanover, NH! I’ve been with Hypertherm, Inc. for 10 years now designing plasma-arc cutting touches and managing engineering projects. Check us out at www.hyperthem.com. We cut metal with electricity and compressed gasses. Linda and I are raising 3 daughters: Leah and Emily are 12 years old 7th graders and Miriam is 8 years old in 3rd grade. All three are in various athletic pursuits (soccer, hockey, x-country skiing). My spare time is spent bicycling, woodworking, motorcycling, and fixing the house. My very best wishes to Professor Thomas in his last year at Carleton.

Jay Waldera
Email: walderaj@yahoo.com
I'm a marketing manager in the storage division of Agere Systems -- working on products to boost the data density for hard disk drives. It's interesting technology, and a fast-moving business. I'm staying busy outside of work too -- I just ran the Twin Cities' Marathon, and serve on the board of a professional theater company based in Minneapolis.

Class of 1985

Tom Albrecht
Email: Thomas.Albrecht@HitachiGST.com
Address: 6469 Oberlin Way
San Jose, CA 95123
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to my fellow Carleton Physics alums and faculty! I'm continuing my work at the Hitachi San Jose Research Center (formerly part of the IBM Almaden Research Center, until IBM sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi a couple of years ago). I'm leading Hitachi's research efforts in patterned media -- a challenging new technology that we in the disk drive industry are pursuing to move the infamous "brick wall" back another five or ten years. If the project succeeds and is adopted by the industry, it will be the toughest transition our industry has ever made. If it doesn't make it -- well, it will be a scientifically interesting ride nonetheless.
My work keeps me traveling overseas frequently, to Japan as usual and this year also to England, where we are pursuing an advanced electron beam lithography system with Lieca Microsystems in Cambridge.
On the home front, our oldest daughter started kindergarten this year and is really having a blast. Her younger sisters can't wait until they too are old enough for school. We had a nice vacation this summer in the Lake Okanagan region of British Columbia, where there are lots of nice lakes for swimming as well as fun agricultural attractions (orchards, berry farms, miniature horse farms, etc.) that are fun for kids. Catherine has bounced back very well from the cancer treatment she had last year, and has plenty of energy for chasing kids and running occasional races.
Now that gas prices are rising, I'm enjoying my Toyota Prius hybrid car more than ever. I toured the factory in Japan on one of my visits there (also managed to get a chance to go to the World's Fair in Nagoya on the same trip). Also starting to take a close look at installing a photovoltaic system on our house and exporting electricity instead of buying it from the friendly utility.
I still try to entertain myself with things musical, and restoration of antique radios and televisions.
Best wishes to Bruce Thomas as he completes his final year teaching physics at Carleton. I very much enjoyed taking his electronics course a few years ago.

Robert Goldman
Email: goldmanr@ohsu.edu
Our family is doing well. James, now 8, is doing well in second grade. He probably has inherited Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism, from his father. We are seeing exciting results from a relatively new behavioral/developmental therapy, "RDI." Natalie, now 2, is also doing great. When I get home she wants to play in my car. Both kids love the outdoors.
A couple years ago I switched focus from Trauma surgery at the University to General surgery at our VA hospital in Portland,OR. This has allowed my to focus some more time on research. I am working with one of our Physiologists on cardiovascular system regulation. Unfortunately, our grant application to investigate control of the venous system during bleeding did not get funded. For multiple reasons I have shifted my focus in the lab. We just received a small local grant that should help out.

Jamie White
Email: white@juniata.edu
Address: RR2 Box 356a
Huntingdon, PA 16652
URL: http://departments.juniata.edu/physics/
My family and I have returned from an incredible year in Australia. (I'm sorry I didn't know Joel Weisberg was there...but then...it is a big continent.) My daughters, Sara 9 and Joanna 6, attended a wonderful little primary school in Melbourne. In addition to all the regular topics, student took one of five different languages. Laura spent much of her year volunteering at the school and exploring the city. I was on sabbatical from Juniata College, and was working in a laser and atom optics laboratory at the University of Melbourne. It was certainly my most productive year (for research and publications) since graduate school, and twice as much fun. We took many long weekends and school holidays to explore the southern and eastern section of Australia and we got over to Tasmania for a week over Christmas (summer holidays).
I had hoped to make it to our 20th reunion this past summer, but when I realized it was a week after our move back to central Pennsylvania (after 35 hours...one van taxi, three planes, another van and then a short 2 hour car drive back home), we decided that we could wait for the 25th reunion. But if you are passing through PA, look us up!

Class of 1986

David Gerdes
Email: gerdes@umich.edu
Phone: (734) 647-3807
URL: http://cdfrh0.grid.umich.edu/~gerdes
I'm still on the faculty at the University of Michigan. I'm making a transition in my research focus from high-energy physics, which I have pursued with the CDF experiment at Fermilab for the past 15 years, into astrophysics and cosmology. I'm involved with several experiments, still in the planning phase, that will make precision measurements of the expansion history of the universe and help us understand the mysterious "dark energy" that is responsible for the universe’s accelerating expansion. I spent part of my 2004-05 sabbatical in Marseille and Berkeley working with our collaborators, and have recently made trips to observatories in Arizona and Chile. We are keeping our fingers crossed for the Department of Energy to turn these proposals into approved projects, but are encouraged that this area of research is becoming a high priority. Blair's and my boys are growing up fast; Paul is now 12 and in sixth grade, and Graham is 10 and in fourth. Both of them are in new schools this year and really love the change. I also managed a good year of running--ran a 3:19 marathon last May and will be training hard over the winter for Boston in April. Hope to see many of my classmates at our 20th reunion next summer. Best wishes to all.

Brian Potter
Email: bpotter@fs.fed.us
I’m sitting in Sayles-Hill as I write this, stopping by campus on what I’ve decided to call my “Great Homecoming Journey”. I’m driving from Lansing, MI to Seattle (where I went to grad school), stopping in Kankakee, IL (where I grew up) and Northfield en route. This is all because of 1 of 2 big events in my year. In June, my girlfriend of two years, Lori, proposed to me – I accepted. The drive to Seattle is so that I can take a three month temporary assignment with the Forest Service’s fire-weather research team there. If I like it and they like me, it’ll become permanent, and Lori and I will move out there this winter. The research part of my work is still an exciting challenge. We’re digging into the physics of fire-atmosphere interactions at many scales, seeing new, unexpected processes. I’d say “stop by”, but I don’t know where I’ll be in four months. The best way to reach me in my Forest Service email address

Tara O’Brien Pride
Email: mezzotara@hotmail.com
Phone: (425) 957-0596
Every day is an adventure, but some days are bigger adventures than others. One of our bigger adventures was a family trip to Israel last August. Despite searingly hot weather, we had a great time visiting museums, archeological sites, beaches, etc. One of my favorite places was Ceasarea, on the Meditterranean coast. King Herod built the city and harbor. He included the usual Roman amenities like a theater, a circus, and a bathhouse. Some of the structures were of course buried and built over by later people, but some of them are still around and the public can walk in them and touch them. In fact, big-name performers still give concerts in the theater. What a thrill to feel so close to 2000+ years of history!
Now that we're home and in the thick of the school year, I am again volunteering with the PTA at my daughter's school. Much of what I do involves creating informative displays or presentations and then encouraging kids to try a related project. I do this with geography and with art. Sometimes, when I just can't help myself, I sneak in a teeny bit of science, too.
I continue to devote some of my time to music. Currently my choral group is preparing a program of "iconic" music from various cultures. We'll be performing pieces from the Baltic states, Mongolia, Russia, and Australia, among others, and singing in eight different languages. We're not usually this ethnographically broad, so this program feels like an exotic treat. (It helps to like tongue twisters.) Here's wishing everyone a happy and prosperous new year.

John Robinson
I'm continuing to explore the challenges and opportunities in semiconductor photolithography and metrology at KLA-Tencor Corp. from the vantage point of sunny Austin, TX. There's never a dull moment, much less a spare one. Andrea Abel ('86) and I continue to enjoy raising Anna (now 11) and Sydney (now 9). My favorite part is taking the kids on adventures, whether that means something close to home or going around the world. The new arrivals this year were 5 chickens, which we're raising in our back yard for entertainment and eggs. In my "spare" time I enjoy biking, kayaking, listening to music, and taking pictures.

Daniel A. Tysver
Email: dtysver@bitlaw.com
Phone: (612) 926-2734
Address: 4129 Brookside Avenue
St. Louis Park, MN 55416
Dan plays at his house with Ben and Sam. Ben says “hi” to Swampy Man David Glick.

Class of 1987

Martha Anderson
Email: manderson@hydrolab.arsusda.gov
Phone: (301) 504-6616
Address: USDA-ARS-Hydrology and
Remote Sensing Lab
Bldg. 007, BARC-WEST,
Rm 104
Beltsville, MD 20725
As Christopher notes, in June we left the paradise that is Madison, WI for the insanely high housing prices and poor driving habits of The District. We're both USDA employees now -- I'm a scientist in the Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory with the Agricultural Research Service, headquartered in Beltsville, MD. The day before I signed my papers, we found out I was "with child" -- our first at age 40. "Little Esbjorn" (not his real name) is due Christmas Day. 2006 should make for an interesting year, trying to balance a full-time research position with motherhood. Right now I'm just wondering how far human skin can actually stretch before rupturing.
I'm working on mapping drought, soil moisture and land-surface evaporative fluxes at continental scales using thermal remote sensing imagery collected by satellite. The ultimate goal is an operational global-scale product, which would be useful for hydrologic, atmospheric, and crop yield forecasting. That's the plan, anyways. Merry Christmas...

Bob Benjamin
Email: Benjamin@wisp.physics.wisc.edu
I’ve fallen in love, again, twice this year. I suppose that one big piece of news is, depending upon where you make the measurement; I’m engaged to be married. If you make the measurement in Canada or Massachusetts, my wave function collapses to engaged; elsewhere, not engaged. John Fields and I are booked to get married in City Hall in Toronto in May. (The instructions indicate in boldface that weddings take place every half hour and that we are to bring cash.)
My other great love affair (and John does know) is with the Galaxy. I’m part of a team that used the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope for 400 hours to map the Galactic plane. The data are gorgeous, and I’ve been using them to (re)map Galactic structure. My first paper on the Milky Way bar (now 30% longer, same low price) got worldwide press coverage. The title of my next paper? “The Case of the Milky Way’s Missing Spiral Arm”.

Christopher Carlson
Email: ccarlson@fs.fed.us
Phone: (703) 605-4634
Address: 1601 North Kent Street,
Suite 500
Arlington, VA 22209
The past year has been one of major change for us. Both my wife, Martha Anderson '87, and I took new jobs, relocated from Madison, WI, to the Washington, DC, area, purchased a house more than 3x more costly than our old house, and are trying to ready the place in advance of the arrival of our first child toward the end of December. The way we figured it, we might as well get a bunch of change taken care of this year.
In June, I began working for the US Forest Service as the first national ground water program leader. With the help of several long-term USFS employees, it is my responsibility to finalize internal agency policy on ground water resource management and introduce that policy to the regions and forests/grasslands. The primary goal is to convince technical staff and decision makers that ground water deserves consideration along with the other recognized resources during project and permit evaluations. This may seem a bit odd in an agency that was created in part to manage water on national forest lands, but to date the USFS has focused its water management activities on surface waters. In fact, much of the agency has no concept of the importance of ground water for maintenance of surface water across much of the landscape. With luck and perseverance, the agency will come to recognize the importance of the ground-water resource to other more traditional resources that the agency has long managed.

Randy Ellingson
Email: toozie@yahoo.com
Almost done with my one-year assignment in D.C. with DOE, and looking forward to returning to NREL and life in Colorado. I helped with a big workshop on Basic Research for Solar Energy Utilization. Now we hope Congress will see the light in solar energy research. Maria and I had a few hours to check out Carleton’s wind turbine and the campus on Homecoming Saturday and we had lunch and a “Leinies” at Grundy’s. Parenthood estimated to begin Jan 27, 2006!

Class of 1989

Johannes Adams
Email: jadams@punahou.edu
Phone: (808) 734-6426
Address: 4155 Sierra Drive
Honolulu, HI 96816
Just a bit of news to share with the Physics community: The biggest item I would want to share is my gratitude to the entire faculty and staff of the Carleton Physics department. With this being Bruce Thomas' last year, I would especially like to thank Bruce. To initiate a trend, perhaps we could all write down three reasons to be thankful to Bruce on the back of a large bill, and send it directly to Bruce.
Personal news includes starting a family with Maria Paula. Our daughter Sofia is 6. We have a sign up sheet for anyone who would like to check out our 3-year-old son Timothy, so the parents can rest a bit. Physics is everywhere, and so I am currently instructing Physics at the high school level in Honolulu. Otherwise, soccer is a big part of my life, and I am happily playing and coaching. Finally, I want to send an open invitation to any Carleton Physics alum, faculty, or staff to stay at our place if they are ever in Honolulu.

Mark Anderson
Address: P.O. Box 1652
Northampton, MA 01061
URL: http://shakespearebyanothername.com
It's been quite a year. A book I've been working on for the past 10 years (cf. previous newsletters) saw publication in August. The book, published by Gotham Books/Penguin, is titled "Shakespeare" By Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, The Man Who Was Shakespeare. Won't repeat myself in this space on the subject -- lots of information, sample chapters, audios, etc. on the website. Did a book tour this fall in the Midwest and along the west coast, a tour that pulled in to Carleton for a reading and book signing in September. Cindy Blaha attended the event and bought an extra copy of the book for the department library. (Thanks, Cindy!) Also enjoyed dinner with Joel Weisberg beforehand. The Madison tour stop included a fun stopover visit in Stevens Point, Wis. at the home of Mick Veum ('90), and the Seattle tour stop was courtesy of the kind hospitality of Jonanthan Alberts ('89). And now that the book is out there in the world (although the publicity campaign has, it seems, only just begun...) a new fun awaits: My wife Penny Leveritt and I are expecting our first child in January. Happy '06, one and all. May it be slightly more peaceful and sane than the 365 that just went by.

Joanna Bare
Email: jbare@comcast.net
Phone: (301) 530-2665
Address: 8515 Hazelwood Drive
Bethesda, MD 20814
Hello fellow alums! I hope all is well with you. It has been an interesting few years. Life has settled down and looks very different that it did a few years ago. Helen and I separated after Liana was born in 2003, and finalized our divorce in January 2005. Liana was the New Year’s baby for the DC area in 2003, which added to the excitement. Helen and I have joint custody. Liana is a healthy, happy, very energetic and very active almost 3-year old. She enjoyed her trip to the 15th reunion last year. Life is good, work is rewarding, my home is comforting, and my love life is coming back from the dead. A very positive time all in all.

Eve Fillenbaum
Email: fillenbaum@earthlink.net
Phone: (612) 789-1608
Address: 2543 Cleveland St NE
Minneapolis, MN 55418
I'm now working at the same job at a different company--Oracle took over Retek in July. It has not been a change for the better, and the group I work in has shrunk to the point of being drastically understaffed, so I really need to figure out what's next.
Apart from work, life is good. We went on a long-awaited trip to the NC Outer Banks in June. I'm still playing flute in a community band. Amethyst (2 1/2) is talking in ever-longer sentences and varies between being demonic and angelic. It's so much fun watching her grow.

Kent Lindquist
Email: kent@lindquistconsulting.com
Phone: (907) 488-0557
Address: P.O. Box 83142
Fairbanks, AK 99708
I hope the year has treated you well! I had a great time this April returning to Carleton to give a Physics 123 “What Physicists Do” lecture, talking about my experiences opening a consulting business. Never had I imagined that 17 years ago as I sat in the same course, nor that I’d be living in Alaska with a bunch of moose!

Kevin Pettit
Email: Kevin.pettit@colorado.edu
Phone: (720) 565-0858
Address: 1782 Yaupon Ave
Boulder, CO 80304
As I approach the 7th anniversary of the accident which changed my life so greatly, I am happy. I am happy that I am alive. I am happy that I live in Boulder, CO near my son. I am happy that I still make attempts to teach others and learn from them too. I have started school at Iliff School of Theology because I hope to become a chaplain at a hospital and help others as they try to deal with trauma and adjustment. This is a subject that I am well versed in. I also continue to speak at conferences, etc. for those who are injured. I continue to sell my book "Rambling Down Life's Road... with a brain injury”, which is for sale on Amazon and at www.xlibris.com, although I'm not waiting with breathless expectation for a Pulitzer Prize.