Wow, when I look at our picture, I can't get over how young we look!

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General Info

From Kim, 19-Jul-2003: Those who attended the reunion and some others who were not able to attend have expressed interest in keeping up to date on changes through the use of Matt’s site. To that end, please continue to forward Matt (mailto:mr_walsh@yahoo.com) updated information and pictures for posting. At the same time, it would still be nice to find some of those still among the missing and have them post updates on the site.

Some of the New England members of our class are tentatively looking at getting together for dinner in Boston on the first Saturday in October at a Japanese restaurant. If you are interested in attending, please email me (Kim) for details.

Reunion Photos

Geocaching / Heron Rookery

Herons are colonial nesters and we came upon a group of them nesting in the swamp when we were geocaching

At the ERC

A small group of us including Scott Russell, Will Pim, Jeremy, Donna, myself, my husband (Jason ) and Dave MacEwan and Spence Segalla from the class of 89 met at the ERC for dinner on Friday night before the reception. On Saturday, our small group including Will, Scott, myself Mary Page and her significant other, Brian all went Geocaching, which was lots of fun. Those are the pictures taken outside.

MattWalsh: Wow, those ERC pictures bring back memories...the Wilsonic book searching system, the little room where we could get on the internet (remember clutx.clarkson.edu?) and our graduation ceremon. But most of all, the daily college application essay tutoring Professor Craig would give me, which remains the most useful piece of teaching I received in my college career...

From Left, going around: Laurie McEwan (Wife of Dave, class of '89), Will Pim, Jason (Kim's Husband), Donna Hall (Jeremy's Wife), Jeremy Hall, Scott Russell

Mixer

Will Pim and Kate Gann

Lauren (Parker RA) and husband Michael

Jen Cook, Lauren & Jen Stoddard

Mary Waters (Page) and significant other Brian

Banquet

Matt's Memories

Here's some of Matt's memories and info: ClarksonSchool

Class of '89

See Dave MacEwan's page for the '89 Clarkson School

Life Updates

Note: for the email addresses, ignore the NOSPAM part. That's there just to thwart spam email gathering web spiders

Joe Arlinghaus

mailto:arlinghaus@ev1.net

This is a picture of Philip (5), Mary (8), and John Paul (7) Arlinghaus from Christmas 2000

I went to the University of Dallas after TCS and studied Political Philosophy which meant mostly Aristotle and Plato. My second semester I went to Rome for a semester as all sophomores there do. I met a girl named Elsy who liked me and then hated me and four years later I married. After my Junior year, I felt called to investigate becoming a Catholic priest and so I went off to Connecticut to a Marine Corps like seminary there. They sent me off to Edgerton, Wisconsin for hard labor where I lost a lot of weight shoveling horse manure in a stable. My 18 months with these guys did wonders for me physically and spiritually, but I also learned that God did not want me as a priest. I went to live with my bro in Concord, New Hampshire, where I got a job on a national Presidential campaign in the 1992 Republican primary. I reconnected with Jen Cook then and the two of us headed down to Dallas so I could finish my degree and she could drink whiskey at a bar called the Wild Turkey. She returned to the Northeast and I re-enrolled in College at UD where I graduated in 1993. In the fall of 1993 I married Elsy Korah and we moved to the country outside Houston to run a gas station. While there, we had two children, Mary and John Paul and opened a second business, a specialty beer store. Elsy was a social worker until our kids were born. In 1997 we moved to Houston to help start a small Catholic school which struggled for five years until we quit last year. While in Houston, we have had two more children, Philip and Jane. Last summer, we designed and founded a new grade school that I run called the Cardinal Newman School. It is a Catholic school that emphasizes learning the classical roots of our culture, language and history beginning in pre-K. It is very very hard, but also very satisfying. Though the work is hard, it is not physically demanding and I have regained my plutocratic physique. All I need is a cigar and a three piece suit and I could be a nineteenth century robber baron. Elsy and I hope to come to Potsdam for the Reunion, but I am so busy with the school that it will be very hard. I am praying for the time.

Lili Barouch

I am (almost) a cardiologist - I'll be finished with my fellowship training at Johns Hopkins in two months. Also, I'm married & have two amazing kids.

After the Clarkson School, I went on to major in biochemistry at Harvard (started over as a freshman) graduating in 1992, followed by medical school at Johns Hopkins. I got my MD in 1996 and stayed at Hopkins for internship and residency in internal medicine (3 more years) followed by a fellowship in cardiology (another 4 years), which I will be finishing in June of this year. Do I have the record for the greatest number of years of consecutive school/training? I am finally in the process of negotiating my first (real) job. I subspecialized in heart failure and have also been doing some basic science research during my fellowship.

Meanwhile, I married Francis (whom I first met during the summer of 1988, right after Clarkson School) in 1996, and we now have two wonderful children - Ariel, who will be 3 in a few weeks, and Isaac, who is 7.5 months old. I'm not sure if we'll make it to the reunion, but we're going to try!

16-Jul-2003 Update: I have just started on the Cardiology faculty here at Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor of Medicine, subspecializing in heart failure and heart transplant. 75% of my time is spent doing research in heart failure, (mostly lab research, but some clinical research too). The other 25% is divided between seeing patients (both inpatient and outpatient) and some teaching. things are going well so far. It's kind of neat to finally be doing what I have spent the last 11 years in training for.

Harry Beatty

mailto:hlbeatty001@hawaii.rr.com

Harry's living happily in Hawaii with his wife and daughter.

Jeff Clark

mailto:clarkj@lawrence.edu I am on the faculty here at Lawrence University in the Geology Department. I will be unable to make the reunion, but would be happy to share information about myself for the scrapbook. I am married to a woman named Kim who is a swimmer! She actually swims with a guy in Madison, WI who is married to none other than Kate Gann. Small world man, small world

Jen Cook

mailto:cookout70@yahoo.com Great to get your email this morning. I am thrilled to hear about the Reunion, and I plan on attending. I forwarded your message to Jen (Stoddard) Klenzak, so you may be hearing from her as well. I expect that she'll forward the message to Lisa (Andolina) Grimit. Thanks for sending out the notices, and I look forward to seeing everyone!

I guess I should have included more of my bio in my email to you. I live in Western Massachusetts, and I am a doctoral candidate at UMass Amherst in English teacher education. I was a high school English teacher for 5 years prior to entering my doctoral program. I am nearly finished--am currently working on my dissertation study. I am married to a blacksmith/environmentalist, Martin, and have an awesome dog, Sunny. We bought a house 4 years ago, and we spend most of our free time fishing in Long Island Sound, off Point Judith, RI, and hiking the beautiful Holyoke Range. I recently started a non-profit organization, with a colleague from school, which provides professional support to beginning teachers in the Pioneer Valley of Western Mass. Looking forward to seeing folks in July

Carolyn Drexler

mailto:iverson_scott@comcast.net Things with me are pretty good. Lots of changes in 15 years, that’s for sure. I got out of computer science and wound up with a bachelor’s in U.S. History from SUNY Oneonta where I spent most of time there being more of an activist than a student. I finally came out of the closet when I was 20 and did a lot of state-wide student activist stuff and continued for a little bit after college—including a couple of months in Mississippi. Fell in love, moved to Michigan, had a commitment ceremony, relationship fell apart back in September after 6 years, but c’est la vie. I am a Human Resources Information Systems analyst/manager at a 300+ employee “research & innovation” institute in Ann Arbor And when I’m not studying for my HR certification exam, I’m trying to finish a novel I’ve been working on for a few years. Have had some short stories and poetry published, but this is my first novel.

I’ve got plenty of vacation time saved up, so I’ll try to make it out. The reunion is in the middle of a lot of stuff going on so it’s a matter of being able to break away (evaluation period, new HR system I’m trying to implement, some M&A activity, the list goes on).

I think the scrapbook idea is great if you can manage the time. I’d love to find out what everyone else is up to! Will try to get a new pic of me to send. Nothing I have is all that recent….

-Carolyn

a.k.a. “Fangz”

John & Lisa Dumoulin

(Lisa) mailto:Lmdumoulin@hotmail.com
(John) mailto:jdumoulin@newboldbmw.com

John and Lisa are living in Granite City Illinois with their three sons, Jack - 8, Connor and Mitchell - twins 7. Lisa is going back to school in the fall for a degree in education to allow her to be a teacher. She also has a degree from Russell Sage college, where she went after the Clarkson School. John attended RPI after Clarkson and is now the Service Manager at a BMW dealership.

Erik Elstrodt

mailto:vennegarean@yahoo.com

Eric is currently living in Ransomville, New York and states that since attending the Clarkson School, he has journeyed the length and breadth of the employment experience. While he did return to college after his schoolie year he found that it was most irrelevant to life and after leaving school chose instead to create his own path.

Tom Emerson

mailto:tree@basistech.com

Here's an updated update that is a little more conversationals and sounds less like a bio for a conference.

After the Clarkson School I spent another year at Tech, then transferred (for reasons not worth getting into) to the University of Vermont, where I eventually dropped out (a polite euphemism for being asked to leave) due to an inability to attend class while doing various computer science research activities and TAing CS classes. At UVM I majored in Psychology with minors in German and Early British Literature (and I mean early: Edmund Spencer is late for me!)

I was married in 1992 on the day after my 22nd birthday. I was able to get a job at Symantec's Macintosh Development Tools group just outside of Boston, so we moved down to Massachusetts. At Symantec I started in developer technical support but moved to the engineering staff after a year where I worked on bunch of cool things. After Symantec I had a short stint at Thinking Machines working on a compiler for their parallel computer then moved to Apple's Cambridge R&D group to work on a future (and eventually unreleased) operating system. After Apple killed the lab and laid us off I spent almost three years at a company named Spyglass where I worked on sundry Internet related technologys for TV settop boxes, cellphones, and the like. For the last three years I've been working at Basis Technology on linguistic analysis software for Chinese, Korean, and Arabic. I'm definitely the happiest I've ever been unifying my love of languages with my love of programming. Plus I get to go to Asia all the time! Since 9/11 (I was in California at a conference when that happened) we've been doing a lot with the US Government (hence the Arabic), and I'm in the process of getting my security clearance. Fun fun.

Heather (my wife) and I were blessed with fraternal twin girls (the grrlz, as I call them) in January 1997. I'll post pictures once I have a chance to scan some in.

My other great interest now is photography: if I could I'd stop the whole computer thing and travel the world taking pictures. If there are any other photographers out there, let me know! I love to talk shop. I am one of the moderators of the Travel Photography forum on photo.net, and have a small number of photos online there on Community page there.

We now live in Belmont, Massachusetts, just outside of Cambridge.

Unfortunately I won't be able to come to the reunion: I will be in Japan at a conference. And believe it or not I won't have a chance to see Keiko because I won't be going through Tokyo! D'oh.

Thanks for reading. Peace.

tree
www.dreamersrealm.net/tree

Tim Greene

Tim is working in South Carolina with his brother building hand crafted canoes and he has his own hand crafted wooden bowls which are beautiful. You can check out some of what he is up to by logging on to http://www.woodsongcanoes.com and clicking on bowls. Tim is not sure if he will be able to attend the reunion.

Tim Gregory

mailto:tgregorymd@hotmail.com

Wow, its been a long time since I've heard from anyone at the Clarkson School. Just wanted to let you know I received your email and that, unfortunately, I will not be at the reunion (instead, I'll be getting married!). Best of luck with the planning!

After TCS I went to Cornell. I graduated in 1992 with a BA in biology. From there I went to Upstate Medical School in Syracuse. I received my M.D. in 1996 and then moved to Tacoma, WA to do an intern year at Madigan Army Medical Center (yes, the Army paid for med school). After that year I was sent to Germany to work as a flight surgeon for 2 years with an Apache attack helicopter squadron. Fun stuff...got to go live all that stuff you see on t.v. (did a stint in Bosnia, then later in Kosovo during Operation Allied Force). Returned to Madigan in 1999 to do a residency in emergency medicine. I graduated last summer and moved to Hawaii with the Army. I still owe 2 more years. The biggest news I have is that I'm getting married this summer! Karin is an orthopaedic surgeon, also in the Army. We'll be moving to Ft Hood, Texas next summer

Tim

Jeremy Hall

mailto:Jdhall55@aol.com

Wow, it’s really been 15 years since we all left the Clarkson School. Here’s my life since then in a nutshell:

Most of you probably know that I stayed on at Clarkson. I graduated from there with a B.S. in Mathematics, and so, in the Fall of 1991, it was off to grad school at Penn State to begin my pursuit of a Ph.D. I didn’t have any sort of assistantship, but was reasonably certain I would be able to land one by the end of my first year there. You can probably guess where this is going: two a half years later, and still without an assistantship, I had pretty much come to the realization that perhaps grad school wasn’t where I should have been at that point in my life. It basically came down to the fact that the only reason I had stuck with it for so long was to continue my work as a graduate student advisor for Alpha Phi Omega, the fraternity I had joined while at Clarkson. Sure, it was a worthwhile effort, but not the main reason I should have been at PSU. Looking back now, the most significant thing about my time at Penn State was taking up the sport of broomball; you’ll see why later.

So, I left PSU officially in early 1994, and moved back home to the Syracuse area. I took a job with an insurance company that I had worked at over previous summers. Not a great job by any means, and over the next few years, I moved from department to department within the company, trying to find something more interesting. During this time, Syracuse landed an American Hockey League team, and being an avid hockey fan, I followed it quite closely. Eventually, I joined the team’s booster club. I had been thinking about joining anyway, but what convinced me was the fact that they had a broomball team (see, I told you that was significant). I didn’t know it at the time, but this one decision would change my life completely. In September 1998, I went to the AHL Booster Club Convention, where I met the woman who would become my wife (Donna was there with the Philadelphia Phantoms boosters). I proposed to her at the Convention in 1999, and we were married in October 2000. At that time, I also found a job in the actuarial department of an insurance company in the Philly area. I’ve been here in the City of Brotherly Love ever since. No kids yet, but Donna & I have 2 rather hyper dogs and a cat. We’re both still quite involved in the Phantoms booster club, where I just finished serving as the club President.

So, that’s about it for me. I really hope I can make it to Potsdam for the Reunion; Donna and I do have another commitment that weekend, but it’s near Watertown, so we might just be able to make it into town for at least part of the weekend.

Rich Hung

mailto:rhung@tidalwave.net

After TCS, I went to Cornell and got a BS and MEng in electrical engineering. Moved to Annapolis, MD after graduation - designing and developing air traffic control workstations for the federal government. Stayed there almost 5 years - recruited Liana to the company.. left a month later (I swear these events were completely independent ... besides they liked her better anyway...) Tried the consulting world for about a year... hated it. Since 1998, I've been at the U.S. General Accounting Office - reviewing federal IT and technology issues in government.

I haven't been in touch with any of the other schoolies for years besides Liana. The North Country is just a bit remote for me to get to for reunion. Say hello to everyone for me!

Howard Kleinmartin

mailto:hfk@acsu.buffalo.edu is finishing up his PhD in Archaeology in Buffalo, N.Y. He has been married since 1992 and his wife is expecting their first child in late July. Given the expected child birth, he does not anticipate that he will be attending the reunion.

Update: 30-July-2003:

We had our son (Galvan Durant Madox Kleinmartin) last Tuesday (7/22) at 7:55 pm. He wighed 8# 3oz, and was 20.5" long. Everybody is healthy (he got 9 on both his AGPAR tests), and pictures are available at http://www.buffalo.edu/~hfk/galvan . It is, of course, a busy time.

- Hex

Jen Klenzak (Stoddard)

mailto:jklenzak@maine.rr.com Hi all!. It was great reading your updates - everybody is so interesting - and I don't think there was one engineer! (Sorry, Jenn, at least one, MattWalsh just could not give it up) I am on my way to being a nephrologist (kidney doctor); I live in Portland, Maine, with my husband, Scott, a child psychiatrist, and our two daughters, ages 7 and 2. I am hoping to come to the reunion - (it's either drag the kids up to Potsdam, or go to Huntsville, Alabama in the middle of July for a wedding) . . . pls keep in touch!

Keiko Kondo

mailto:kkondo@m5.people.or.jp

Kimberly

Kim, thank you for forwarding information about the reunion. It's been also fun reading about what everyone has been doing. Giving an update on my side looks appropriate.

After the TCS, I went to Boston U. and majored in Hotel/Food Admin. During the internship which was a required part of the degree program, I already knew that was not the industry for me. Yet, I was too close to finishing up the program to change my major, so decided to graduate anyway. After receiving a MS in 1990, I stayed in BOston and worked for the Westin Hotel while applying to enter a B-School. Afterall, I chose BU's program since it was easy to just stay in the same city, and receivied my MBA in 1992.

I then returned to Japan and started working for Merril Lynch in operations. About a year later, I wasn't happy and thought about quitting. But, I found another job within Merrill, in equity research, and this was finally a place for me to stay. I worked my way up to become a strategist covering Japanese equities. In summer 2000, I decided to leave Merrill to join JP Morgan to be a senior strategist -- a bad choice!!! A merger of Chase and JP Morgan was announced shortly after I went there, and things started to look tough for me. So, I moved to Sanwa Securities (a subsidiary of the Sanwa Bank) and for the first time in my life started to work for a Japanese firm. This company also has gone through a series of mergers since then, and is now called UFJ Tsubasa Securities. The difference is that I have survived through those mergers, and am still working there as an equity strategist.

Unfortunately, the upstate NY is not an easy place for me to get to from Tokyo. So, please say hello to everyone for me. Also, if anyone comes to this side of the world, please look me up! (I live in the central part of Tokyo, only two stations away from the Tokyo station by a local train.)

Keiko Kondo

Alyssa Leverich (Mowry ) and Walden Leverich.

mailto: alyssal@techsoftinc.com Walden and I are doing well. We now have 3 children - Samantha 6, Christopher 4 and Michelle 1 1/2. Unfortunately Walden and I will not be able to make it to the reunion this year. Walden has a conference in Los Vegas that weekend.

Kate Liu (Gann)

mailto:kgliu@wisc.edu

I stayed at Clarkson for my undergrad degree- a BS in Chemistry. I decided for some odd reason that I wanted to get a PhD in Chemistry, so I landed in Madison, Wisconsin at the UW. After one semester, discovering that I was both vastly unprepared (and consequently flunking,) and completely uninterested in doing research, I thought perhaps grad school might not be for me. I worked for a couple of years as a food chemist and had an epiphany of sorts while doing volunteer literacy tutoring- that what I really wanted to do was be a high school teacher. Over the next few years I went to school at the UW part time and supported myself by working at various part time jobs- including being a TA for the chemistry department. I met my husband at the UW, while we were both being teaching assistants (but not grad students) in chemistry. We got married in January of 1996, I got my teaching license in January of 1997, and got a teaching job in September of 1997. Over the summer before I started work, we bought a house- which immediately made my biological clock start ticking REALLY LOUDLY. Our daughter Katherine was born in September of 1999, and son Aaron followed in September of 2001. Teaching had not been going incredibly well- teaching is a lot like parenting and I was running out of that kind of energy- so the addition of Aaron to the family seemed like a good time to quit. I am now working for a research center on campus in the college of engineering- the Applied Superconductivity Center- doing financial and program related work part time. It's a nice balance now to have work I enjoy (so it provides an escape from mommy-dom) but can leave it at the door when the day is over. So- that's my life in a nutshell. I'll attach a picture of the four of us for you. See you soon- Kate

Vivek Narayanan

mailto:naravive@bu.edu

I was working on a Ph.D. in cultural anthro and was lecturing for a while in South Africa; now I take a long break from that, write freelance and finish a second master's (MFA) - in creative writing, at Boston University. I don't know if I'll be able to make it to the reunion yet - my plans for the summer are still very much up in the air (don't know if I'll be in the country) but I'll keep you posted. Last year some of my work appeared in an anthology called, "Reasons For Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets" (Penguin India, 2002) in which one of the poems was called "Learning To Drown". Guess what it's about A few of my poems/reviews/stories can also be found on the web.

Jeremy Osner

mailto:jeremy@xyris.com

Since I went to Clarkson, I have: gone to Columbia University for 2 years majoring in German lang and lit, dropped out, gone to cooking school at The Natural Gourmet Culinary School for 6 months, graduated, worked as a loaf shaper at Amy's Bread (midtown manhattan) for 2 years, gotten married to Ellen Kahaner, gone to night school at Brooklyn College majoring in CIS for 2 years, graduated, worked as a programmer at Xyris Software for 7 years, adopted a daughter (Sylvia Osner), worked as a programmer at BNP Paribas for 6 months, worked as a programmer at CIBC World Markets for 1 year, bought a house in New Jersey. My main hobbies are guitar playing (blues and ragtime) and woodworking. I am secretary of the Centra Jersey Woodworkers Association (http://www.cjwa.org ).

I have a web site you can look at, http://www.readin.com, and a web log, http://www.readin.com/blog/blog.asp -- it is not linked to from anywhere on the site as it is not quite ready for prime time yet; but feel free to browse it. I will be linking it up soon.

Some pictures of my family are in http://www.readin.com/graphics/album.asp -- the organization of this page is poor but scroll down to "(2003)" for links to recent pictures. One of my favorite pictures of Sylvia, with her friend Nadia, is: here

Regards, Jeremy

Mary Waters (Page)

mailto:barnmouse@celticcrow.com

I went to The University of Massachusetts, Amherst after graduation from TCS. I started out in the Pre-Veterinary program but finished out my four years in Animal Industries; which covers everything from dairy farming to managing laboratory mice. Quite a series of jobs followed. I have been fortunate to have always found work doing what I love most. I have worked at an animal shelter. I have milked LOTS of cows on LOTS of farms. I was the first female "Large-Animal-Technician" at Charles River Pharmservices. I took some time off in the mid-nineties to have a family- but even then, we were striving to operate our own dairy farm. Now I work at the GTC Biotheraputics production facility- on third shift as a herdsman to many, many, many goats. http://www.transgenics.com/science/production.html

I have three children: a daughter who is 7, a son who is 6 and another son who is 3. We live with my significant other, Brian, in Worcester, MA.

from Matt: Mary, just as I got over my (Jimmy) Page fixation, you embrace my (Roger) Waters fixation!

Mark Pfohl

mailto:mpfohl@cox.net

Hi Kim,

Has it really been 15 years? WOW! A lot has happened in that time.

When I left Clarkson, I went to RPI with the intention of transferring to MIT. I believe I was enrolled in the Aerospace Engineering program at RPI. Harry Beatty joined me at RPI in the Spring semester and we had a blast! I accomplished my goal and transferred to MIT the next fall. I have since lost touch with Harry, though I believe he went to California for a while and then to HAWAII. I haven't been very good about keeping in touch with anyone.

By the time I got to MIT, I was pretty burned out from two years of insane effort hitting the books. So, I joined a fraternity and spent the next 6 years drinking while attending the occasional class. I went through a few majors and finally earned a degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Along the way I got involved with DJ's and night clubs. I worked for a while as a lighting technician for a club in Cambridge MA called Man Ray and I co-owned a couple of different Mobile DJ outfits. We had a lot of fun but never struck it rich. We DJ'ed college parties all over New England. I could possibly hold the TCS record for the number of different colleges I have partied at. Not something my classmates from TCS would have expected I am sure!

I also became an avid Poker player while at MIT. During one of my leaves of absence, I supported myself for about six months by playing Poker at the Foxwoods Casino and in home games in the Boston area. I still play online Poker and make occasional trips to Atlantic City. I lose more than I win nowadays though. There's nothing like knowing the rent is due to keep you focused!

I have been living in Virginia Beach, VA for the past 5 years. I am an IT Manager for ValueOptions Inc. We are the largest privately held managed behavioral healthcare company in the US. (That's a mouthful, isn't it?) I head up the Decision Support Team. My team basically takes care of the reporting systems for the company and sets the standards and trains the reporting staff in all of the offices around the country. I enjoy it and I have been able to travel all over the US visiting our offices.

My time at the Clarkson School was really a life changing experience on many levels. Some of my fondest memories are from my time in Potsdam and of the people I met while at TCS. I will not be attending the reunion, but I wish everyone a good time. You all deserve it!

I hope you are doing well. I read your update and it sounds like you are happy.

Cheers!

William Pim

[This] is a photo of Nathan, my 7 year old son and I sailing on a friend's boat on Lake Minnetonka (one of Minnesota's 10,000 lakes) this summer.

Looks like a little more info about me would be in order.

An awful lot of living has occurred in the last 15 years. After Clarkson I spent a year at the University of Iowa (studying music??!) before moving on to Lincoln, Nebraska. There I attended the University of Nebraska and soon married Liz, the same young lady I was chasing while a schoolie. (she is from Omaha). After an extended undergraduate career I graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering and a Master electrician's license. (I worked for an electrical contractor to pay the bills) During the same time period she finished school and started her teaching career. My first professional position was with a geotechnical engineering firm in Omaha.

To escape Nebraska corn fields, blistering hot summers, and her relatives (and find better canoeing and fishing opportunities) we moved to Minnesota. The choice was based primarily on a successful job interview.

We have been here for about 6 years. I have worked as a civil engineer for a consulting engineering firm and for the state highway department. Currently, I am a project manager for a small highway and specialty construction firm. I passed the PE exam a few years ago and have recently completed a Master's Degree in Infrastructure Systems Engineering at the University of Minnesota. As usual, I am looking for a new job.

Liz is teaching violin and cello in the public schools. We have two boys, Nathan 7 and Benjamin 13 months.

I plan to attend the reunion. It would be really nice to see everyone again.

William, Elizabeth, Nathan and Benjamin Pim 12010 101st Avenue North Maple Grove, MN 55369

pimx0001@attbi.com

Scott Russell

mailto:SWRussell@aol.com

Kim, While I was planning to be in the Baltimore/Washington DC area this summer for an internship, that appears less and less likely everyday. Consequently, I will be in Boston for the summer, plan on attending our 15th reunion, and look forward to seeing you there.

In your letter you mentioned trying to organize a kayak/canoe trip. That is definitely something I would be interested in. Also or alternatively some sort of short hike in the area for those who aren't so comfortable with the water might also be an idea. I'm not particularly avid or an expert at any of the above, but I've done them all and enjoy anything outside. Of course hopefully the weather will cooperate.

I've just finished my second year's work on a Ph.D. in computer science (focusing on cryptography) at Boston University. Before starting that I spent a year living in Japan where I taught English conversation. It was great to get back to Japan having spent a semester there as an undergrad. My students were a lot of fun and I made a few good friends there who I still keep in touch with. I also met Masako, my girlfriend of 2 years, there. She is planningto come to Boston for a year starting this fall to study English while I continue to work on my degree. I'm very much looking forward to it. (I'll try to send a more complete post TCS bio. sometime before the reunion.)

Scott Russell

Wendell Sexon III

jws92407@msn.com

Werner Sharp

mailto:wsharp@macromedia.com

Kimberly Shoen

mailto:shoenesq@ttlc.net Living in Southern New Hampshire right near the Maine border. I married a guy who works as forester for the U.S. Forest Service in 1994 and we purchased a rambling Victorian home in 1997. Shortly before we bought the house, I opened my own law practice which focuses on criminal defense and family law. My job provides endless hours of entertainment as I try to stop the state from putting clients with names like Elvis in jail for crimes ranging from DWI to attempted murder. I spend most of my days either in court or traveling to various jails in the state meeting with my clients. When not working, my husband and I are restoring our home, kayaking, hiking or camping.

Jon Sokowlowski

mailto:docsocko@inil.com.

After graduating from Clarkson, and having exhausted most of the majors that it offered, I ended up in graduate school at the University of Connecticut. I got my Ph.D in Behavioral Neuroscience in 1996, ballooned up to a good 320 pounds, and had obscenely long hair. One week after defending my dissertation (which I was still analyzing data for the week prior to my defense) I was in Chicago doing post-doctoral research at the University of Chicago.

I've been in Chicago since then, although things have changed a lot over the seven years I've spent here. I've been married and, as of about a month ago, divorced. I've gone from 320 pounds of blubber to 185 pounds of...well, something. And there is absolutely no way I could ever have long hair again. Oh, and I decided that academia and research sucked. So I left. Now I'm an editor at McDougal Littell, an educational publishing company in Evanston.

I will try to come back to Potsdam for the reunion, but I can't promise anything.

Liana Suantak

Hi Kim,

Good job on the emails and the letters for the reunion. Unfortunately, I won't make it to the reunion. Right about that time, I will be rushing to finish my dissertation as well as moving to Germany for the next couple of years. Here's the summary:

Clarkson, Cornell BSEE, U of AZ MS Sys. Engr., and almost U of AZ PhD ECE (Fall 2003 if all goes well). Worked for a year in tech support after Cornell, three years as a programmer and some researchy jobs here and there when I could find 'em. Along the way, I have acquired a husband, a dog, and a big screen TV (it came with the husband). Like everyone else, I'm shocked every year that it's possible for me to be yet another year older.

I look forward to the pictures of the reunion.

Take care, Liana

Update, 29-Jul-2003

Our move is progressing on schedule, with a bit of stress but much anticipation. We'll be moving to Germany next week! Our old address and phone number are no longer ours, so please update your address books to:

Liana Suantak Randy Cumberworth PSC 2 Box 6095 APO, AE 09012

Please note that this is a US address, but the mail will arrive to Germany via the military, so postage rates are the same as for domestic mail. We don't have a phone number yet.

Our email addresses will stay the same: mailto: LS70@cornell.edu

Matt Walsh

My memories chronicled here!

mailto:mr_walsh@yahoo.com

I live in the Bay Area of California now (evidenced by my socks with sandals, which is actually useful since it gets cold at night as soon as the sun goes down), got married last year to the most wonderful woman Jennifer, working for Intel, and studying (and trying to obey!) the Bible. I joined Bible Study Fellowship (and I'm sure there's one near you) and it was the best thing I ever did. Met my wife there even.

I came out to Silicon Valley righ before the .com bust in '99 and it was fun to watch. Visit the rest of this site to see everything you ever wanted to know about me. I gave up Mech Eng after 3 years when I realized I love computers and electronic product design. Now I know why I envied the freshman year vending machine project all you other guys were working on!

Got lucky in that my old company got bought by Intel and I survived the layoffs. Before that I lived in Ohio and Illinois. I ended up going to U of Illinois in Urbana for my last 2 years. My wife is a 5th grade teacher at Highlands Christian School and I met her out here - she's from Salinas. It'd be fun to bring her up there. Also would want to make a quick run up to Montreal; oh, how I enjoyed that city!

Pete Weimann

pweimann@ofsoptics.com (work)

Hi Kim,

You have the right person. Sorry to take so long to get back to you. It's been a little crazy around here, I've been working 12-hour days and this weekend my wife and I had to move stuff out of a storage locker and into the newly renovated part of out home.

So:

I've lived in Atlanta for almost 5 years now; I've been married to Amy Bruckman, a professor of computer science at Georgia Tech, for a little over 2 years now (hence the gatech.edu e-mail address). I work for OFS, formerly the optical fiber division of Lucent. We got sold to Furukawa Electric in 2001. I'm a senior engineer in the optical cable research & development department. focused almost exclusively on new product development. Thus far I've managed to avoid 7 rounds of downsizing. Telecom is an interesting field to work in.

We live in the city of Atlanta in a circa-1935 bungalow we just finished renovating; no kids, at least not yet. We both came south for jobs (Amy's from New York City) but I think we've decided to stay.

After TCS I went off to Penn, and I graduated in '92 with degrees in materials engineering and management. I surprised even myself by deciding to go to graduate school; I went to the University of Minnesota, and got my Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in '98. After that, I came down here.

When is the reunion? I look forward to hearing where people are in life; I kind of got lost in the Midwest for a few years.

Take care, Pete

Contact info:

(MattWalsh: For anticipatory privacy reasons I decided not to post Pete's home address he sent to Kim)

Steve Zellers

I never went made it back to school after leaving Clarkson in '88.
I've worked as software engineer since then, for Symantec, Sun and
Apple. (I was actually hired at Sun to work on Oak (which was later
renamed Java) by Patrick Naughton, whom some of you may remember from
Clarkson; he used to buy us alcohol. This was before he got arrested
back in 1997.) I left Apple after 10 years to join a startup near
Santa Cruz - I once again live in wooded splendor, with my beautiful
wife, Elise, my constant companion and best friend since 2004.  We've
got two kids from my former marriage.

photos

mailto:stevezellers@gmail.com

Beloved Staff from '88

mailto:gary.kelly@clarkson.edu mailto:ddmills@tidewater.net mailto:dsvro@twcny.rr.com mailto:rwatkins@POMADM.POMONA.EDU

-- MattWalsh - 26 Apr 2003

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