NEUTRON NEWS 2006

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Some Family News:

Rita  continues to enjoy retirement and seems to find enough projects to keep herself busy.  She is also very active in our church and volunteers her time on many fronts.  She continues helping with the PADS homeless program and as a Literacy volunteer.  Her latest student is a young Hispanic woman.  She also has an active social calendar with bridge groups, church groups, retired teacher activities and more.

Michelle and Wayne are living in Marshalltown, IA and busy with work.   They are working on several remodeling projects and enjoying their hot tub.  Michelle enjoys her appointment as the head of her department at work.  It is more responsibility, a pay raise and opportunities to travel (annual trip to Washington, DC) and expand her leadership skills. Michelle made a presentation at a National Conference held in Chicago in Oct (2005) so she stayed with us for a few days.  Wayne is spending time on home projects and clearing the bush off their 4 acre home.  He is also working part-time at a greenhouse/nursery in Marshalltown.

Mary (2003 student teacher picture)  is living in Carmel, IN and she will be teaching in Indianapolis for the third year.  She has taught third and fifth grades and was in a Title 1 classroom and had additional responsibilities for testing students from that program.  During the summer of 2005 she taught kindergarten.  For the fall of 2006-07 she is moving to a new school, still in INDY, and will be teaching third grade full time.  She has a dog, a carin terrier, named Murphy.  He is very cute but does not get along with our Husky....actually our Husky is afraid of the little guy.  She worked full time at Best Buy during the summer 2006 as customer service manager but is back to part-time for the fall.

I (my 2003 yearbook picture)  [July] spent the 4th holiday weekend in Indiana going to Rita's 40th year HS reunion and with family.  Bought a new 50" wide screen DLP HDTV after giving our 20 year old set to Michelle and Wayne. Took a short trip to Galena and also continued our sailing on Lake Michigan (took Tasso Kaper '81 and his wife one evening). Meet Kristin Mitchell '01 and Jon Stancel '98 for ice cream and conversation.  I had just a wee bit of Alumni Picnic withdrawal on that Saturday but survived.  It was nice to hear from so many of you during that month. 

[Aug] Attended an Alan Jackson concert (country singer), went sailing with Emil Martinec '76 and his wife, spent two days in Arkansas reviewing retirement properties, spent 4 days at a condo with Michelle and Wayne in the Lake of the Ozarks (very nice) and finished that week with a family reunion in Indiana (about 60 members for Rita's family).  I was a presenter for a mentor program at Lyons Township HS and Jon Schaefer '98 was one of the new math teachers.  Finished up the month with a 6 day visit to NYC (our first visit to the BIG APPLE).  We saw the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Empire State Building, Times Square, WTC, the UN, the TODAY show and studios, bridges, the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" show-were in the audience and passed the test to be a contestant!!! but did not get selected to be on the show, tall buildings, a Broadway play, the subway, lots of traffic and our hotel.  The entire trip was fun but NYC will not be our retirement choice.  Also visited with Kristina Wilson ('97) and Roy Goodman ('80) while there.

[Sept] I can't believe school has started again without me.  I will be working as a Mentor again for Golden Apple helping new teachers in the Chicago Public Schools.  I have six interns this year and am looking forward to another challenging experience.  On Sept. 8th we had a Japanese teacher arrive at our house for a seven week stay.  Her name is Saori and she stayed with us as she took English classes at Dominican University in Oak Park/River Forest.  She taught us some Japanese and how to eat with chopsticks. 

[Oct]  We had a great time with Saori...showing her all the tourist points of Chicago and getting exposed to the Japanese culture.  Her parents flew over from Japan for a weekend visit!!!!  What a treat having them here.  She was so excited about everything in the US, especially the food, the White Sox and the shopping.  We took Saori to see the Wisconsin Dells and all the fall colors.  It was a bit cool and raining but she still had a good time.  Saori returned to Japan on Oct 28th and invited us to come visit and stay with her.  We intend to take advantage of that opportunity within the next 18 months.  Happy Mole Day - As you know I almost forgot it this year.  Happy Halloween!!! We had over 250 kids at our house...so much candy!!! 

[Nov] A relaxing month - played cards with friends, I continued working with my intern teachers in Chicago (they are all doing great), had a new oven installed, enjoyed Thanksgiving with family, did some chemistry tutoring and helped run a chess tourney. 

[Dec] Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays and whatever other greeting fits your situation.  We are downplaying the gift giving this year and plan on giving more money to the funds supporting Katrina and other disaster victims.  We are planning on spending Christmas at home with Mary and then a couple days with Michelle and Wayne in Iowa.  We did get to see the play "Wicked" in Chicago (very good production) and afterwards drove the streets of Chicago in a snowstorm looking at the holiday lights.  I also had an angiogram in mid December due to some chest pains.  The results came back ALL CLEAR...no problem with my heart at all and I had a clear stress test in July.  So I think the "old retired guy" was just stressed about Santa coming.  Mary was in DG on Christmas eve and we all traveled to Iowa to spend Christmas day with Michelle and Wayne.   It was a wonderful visit and we are all thankful for a healthy year - 2005. 

[Jan 2006]  Continued mentoring, helping with chess tourneys and playing bridge.  The big event was a week long sailboat charter to the British Virgin Islands (BVI).  We chartered a 40' sailboat and went with 29 sailors from our summer timeshare group.  Altogether there were 9 boats in our group.  Michelle and Wayne went with us.  Although the weather was a bit rough a couple of days (winds 25-40 and seas 8 feet) we had a GREAT time. 

[Feb]  Attended the sailboat show in Chicago and picked out our "dream yacht" - of course we couldn't afford it!!!  I helped with 3 chess tourneys, including the IHSA state tourney.  The DGS team had a good tourney and it was fun to watch them and not be their coach.  I lost some money on the Super Bowl and had another birthday - 57 this year....almost a mole!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[Mar] This was an uneventful month other than my mentoring. 

[Apr]  I concluded my mentoring activities and all my interns were successful this year and plan on returning to teaching next fall.  Mary came home for spring break - always good to have her home.  We attended the retirement dinner for my friends leaving teaching this year.  It is always a great party and so nice to see old friends and so many smiling faces.  At the end of the month we started a 10 day vacation (I know--everyday is vacation when you are retired) to Arizona.  It was a great trip.  See TOO MANY pictures by clicking here. 

[May]  We saw "Spamalot", a spoof play in the theme of Monty Python, in Chicago - it was so funny.  Our bridge season concluded and our sailing season began.  We took another vacation (7days), this time to South Carolina and Georgia.  It was actually more of a search for the perfect retirement site since we are planning on moving.  We want someplace warmer and on a lake so we can have our own boat.  We didn't find the "perfect site" but some contenders. 

[June] We had some friends from Oregon visit us and we learned a few things about genealogy and civil war soldiers.  I had my GATE interns to our house for a picnic and end of school year party.  They were a great group of teachers.  Finally at the end of the month we spent two weeks in Hot Springs, Arkansas.  We rented a house for 9 days and a houseboat for 4 days.  Family members joined us for most of the time.  It was great fun but we have ruled out Arkansas as a retirement home.  See pics of our Arkansas trip by clicking HERE.   

[July] Went to Dar-Lon Cheng's ('93 alum) wedding (very nice).  Spent several days sailing on lake Michigan.  We had our house stained....in retirement you really can sit and watch paint dry!!!..Especially when someone else is doing the painting!!!!  We entertained friends from my wife's HS class of 1965 for a weekend and had a great time.  Heidi Applegate ('85) stopped in town and had lunch with us and showed pictures of her trips to Peru and Alaska.  But the BIG NEWS is that the search for the perfect retirement site is over!!!!  There is no perfect site, but we have found one that is pretty close to perfect.  On July 26th we bought a lot in South Carolina near Columbia and on Lake Murray.  It is in a gated community about 4 years old (not a "retirement-55+ community") with lots of nice houses, a community center, pool, exercise room, tennis courts and a 50,000 acre lake in our front yard.  We will have our OWN boat slip about a 5 minute walk from our front door where we will park our new sailboat.  Of course a few things have to happen first.  We have to build a house there, sell a house here, buy a boat and move.  That process will take a year or more to transpire.  We are happy to have found such a nice place and are excited about the change in our lives but I am also sad to be leaving DG and my life for the past 34 years....too many friends and fond memories here.  To see the latest pictures of our new homesite click here.

[August] Joined the TALL SHIPS as they came to Chicago.  The day was rainy and miserable but the tall ships are so awesome.  Spent a few days with my mom in Indiana and traveled to Missouri to see my dad.  I have been more involved with chess activities this month and trying to get back in shape to play in tournaments.   We celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary by attending a Dixie Chicks concert in Chicago.  They put on a great show. 

[September] We spent a few days sailing.  Visited friends in Galena for a long weekend.  Our Japanese friend, Saori, made a return visit to stay with us for a week and our kids came home for a weekend to see her.  Michelle and Wayne came to Chicago for a conference and spent a few days with us.  I spent most of the month rebuilding my deck and it looks great and is VERY STRONG now.  At the end of the month my extended family all met at Grand Bear Lodge in Utica, IL to celebrate my mother's 80th birthday.  It was a great weekend and I went on my very first water slide...what a rush.  I will admit I enjoyed the "lazy river" much better!!!!  I also started tutoring some new chem students and worked at DGS as a sub for three days. 

[October] What a month!!!!  Some of you might remember Mr. Mortensen from DGS.  He is now teaching at a charter school, ACT, in Chicago and recently received a Fulbright trip to Japan.  He asked me to sub for him for three weeks while he was gone.  I said yes in a weak moment....giving up retirement to WORK again...what was I thinking.  From 10/2-10/20 I taught physics and a general science course to juniors and seniors at an inner city school.  The experience and challenge was wonderful.  It was SO DIFFERENT from teaching AP Chem at DGS.  The kids were great and responded well to my teaching style.  We had fun and learned some science too.  The days were long and the work demanding for me but I felt really good when I finished.  TODAY is MOLE DAY as I write this update and an email will be going out to you soon.

[November]  Spent 6 days visiting South Carolina and talking to builders about our new home in Lexington, SC.  So many decisions to make....it will be a slow process.  I had a nice lunch with Rob Plotke ('79) and caught up on all his travels.  Spent T'giving with family in IN eating WAY TOO MUCH.

[December]  My favorite month...still a kid at heart and can't wait for SANTA to come visit my house.  Already have the "mole cookies" baked (they never get stale) and my list is ready and I have been a VERY GOOD boy!!!!

To see the log of our travels click the car

Some Alumni News:

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The '70s

Arnold Walker (73) -- works for Northrop-Grumman as a software developer; still playing chess competitively as well as tennis, racquetball, and badminton with his kids; wrote a computer program for playing chess in '80; has 2 daughters Katy '90 and Tricia '93; married to Jeri; grad UIUC '77. [10/23/05]

Barb (Armaroli) Butler (74) -- she found me being retired at the Cold Stone Creamery eating TOO much ice cream '05; full-time mom and part-time free lance writer '05; married with two sons; worked for Argonne, U of C Med center and Arthur Andersen; grad from Drake in journalism and biochem. [06/11/05]

Martha Gerrity (74) -- talked with her during my trip to Oregon '05; works at the School of Medicine for Oregon Health Science Univ; co-editor of the Journal of General Internal Medicine; married to Joe (who is rehabbing a house to become rental property) and sons Elliot '93 and Winston '99; MPH in Epidemiology and PhD in Education; 8 yrs research at Chapel Hill, NC; residency in Vermont; grad NWU - 6 yr med, M.D. '80. [06/11/05]

Norm Newberger (74) -- married to Debbie (an RN/Nurse Practitioner); two kids Ashley '84 and Shane '86; currently at Schenck running the global business of building test equipment for ground vehicles (cars, trucks, tractors, ATV's...); worked for GM, EDS, Tandem, BINN (Billion Invested iN Nothing- actually my one shot at a computer start up as a joint venture between Intel and Siemens), Vickers, and SDRC; grad U of Detroit- Mercy with MEE '83; grad GMI (now known as Kettering Institute) with BSEE and minor in Business Administration '79. [09/25/05]

Ted Stelling (74) -- got the "old-timers" award at the 2004 picnic; married with two kids; computer science career in DG.  [07/15/04]

Mark Reid (74) -- sales rep for several chemical companies over the years; fascinated by the products and processes used by his customers, as well as the companies by whom he has been employed-sold basic chemicals (caustic and chlorine), commodity chemicals (titanium dioxide as a pigment in paint) and specialty chemistry (chemicals for DeNOx catalysts, nanoclay for use in plastic compounding, specialty silanes and silicones for a variety of end-uses); grad UIUC chemical eng '78. [07/07/04]

Mike Vogler (74) -- has a pediatric private practice in Woburn, MA; married '84 to a nurse and has two daughters '89 and '92; Harvard grad. [06/27/04]

Ron Corn (75) -- works for Chevron-Phillips Chemical in Texas; met Rich Narta and David Dolle Molle at a chemical industry golf tournament in '03.  Ron says "Everyone commented that we must have had outstanding science teachers.  Some also speculated on the local water supply, but we did give the credit to the teaching staff.  Rich (ExxonMobil) and I (ChevronPhillips) were both in the Olefins area, David was in styrene for BP.  While Rich has moved onto another role, at one time your alumni were responsible for about 1/3 of the ethylene and propylene markets in the U.S."; married '82 to Deanne; three children; grad UIUC '79 in chem eng. [05/01/04]

Cyndi (Brown) Cuppernell (75) -- working with a team of hospital staff to computerize patient medical records-massive project requiring many people and several years-taking a break from ICU to apply her experience to the project-very excited about the work and potential of the system; works at Carle Hospital in cardiovascular ICU and does recoveries for heart surgeries and teaches Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS); married to Tom '83; two daughters-Rebecca '86 and Victoria '90; grad Parkland College '93 in nursing; grad UIUC '84 in home ec. [07/29/06]

Paul Pomes (75) -- accepted to U of I Veterinary school '03; retired from Qualcomm in CA; married to Martha Beatriz Pomes of San Diego; kids=Dylan '88, Alanna '91, Andrew, Ben, and Joshua; grad UIUC in CS '80. [12/19/03]

Mike Sass (75) -- Medical Director of Pathology Associates of Central Illinois, a 23-member group of subspecialty pathologists based largely in Springfield and Decatur, IL; has tried to teach, acting as an external faculty member of the Midwest Institute for Medical Education from 1995-2000 and authoring occasional papers-currently developing diagnostic laboratory software with an associate and still working on that great American novel for children. Although the book may never be published and the software may never pass FDA muster, at nearly age 47 at least he has not lost the yearning to learn, the ability to try new things, or the courage to dream; married to Judy '90 (retired medical technologist who works as "mom"); kids: Katelyn '95 and Aaron '98; grad U of I med school. [07/06/04]

Karen Ulloth (75) -- talked with her during my trip to Oregon '05; stopped in DG 12/02 and toured the old DGS with me; visited Hong Kong '97; private surgical practice in Oregon; kids Allison '93; William '91; married to Dr. Keith Cheng; Loma Linda Med Sch; Andrews U. in Mich. ( see pics ) [06/11/05]

Michael Berzanski (76) -- living in Chicago and works as a negotiator for AT&T. [07/01/04]

Alma Bicknese (76) -- rehabbing a 100 yr old home; recently gave up research on brain development and stem cells to spend more time with her first daughter Jessalyn '03; Associate Professor in Neurology and Pediatrics at SLU; faculty at SUNY at Stony Brook '92-98; Washington U- post doc in developmental neuroscience '92, fellowship in child neurology '90 & peds residency '87; MS and MD from UIUC '85; grad SIU '80. [07/06/06]

Steve Carnes (76) -- married to Cindi 9/04 (see pics); MSEE from UC San Diego '96; worked in Japan (90-93); MME from NU '90; MBA from Kellogg '89; BSChE from NU '84.  [07/15/04]

Jim Cimera (76) -- a physician in FL; married with kids - Dylan '94 and Carson '03; MD from UIUC '84; grad UIUC '80. [07/10/06]

Elizabeth Eklund (76) -- currently doing cancer research at Northwestern Hosp and Lakeside VA in Chicago; granted tenure at NWU '05; serves on committees for the VA and NIH regarding grants for research; worked at Univ of Alabama, Indiana Univ and Mayo Clinic; grad med school from Rush '83; grad UIUC in Bio '80.  [12/29/05]

Emil Martinec (76) -- teaching at U of Chicago (Quantum Mechanics, Electrodynamics or Quantum Field Theory) and does research in string theory; went to Paris, Amsterdam, Beijing, and Aspen summer ’01 (on business?!); traveled to Galapagos and the Amazon ’99; married to Joann ’89; full professor at U of C ’89; postdoc at Princeton; PhD from Cornell ’84.    website      [07/15/04]

Gary Murakami (76) -- working for Skarven Enterprises, LLC as a computer R&D engineer; very active in their local church and youth ministry "Young Life"; married '97 to Linnea; living in NJ; worked for AT&T Labs as a programmer for 22 years (www.nobell.org); PhD UIUC '91; MS from USC in comp science '81; grad in comp science/bio Northwestern '80.    www.nobell.org     Christmas letter 2004  [07/10/06]

Lyle Pai (76) -- owns AIDA Electronics in Shanghai, China that imports automotive components and assembles automotive wires for export to Japan and USA; might finally use the chem he learned in my class working with cellulose bioconversion to ethanol; worked in the financial markets in China; worked in banking in NYC till '86 when he moved to Hong Kong; has a daughter in the states; BA in business from U of C '80.   recent pic   [07/10/06]

Paul Pomes (76) -- 4th yr vet med student at U of I Veterinary school '06; retired from Qualcomm in CA; married to Martha Lachmayr Pomes of San Diego; kids=Dylan '88, Alanna '91, Andrew, Ben, and Joshua; Dr of Veterinary Medicine '07; grad UIUC in CS '80. [07/10/06]

Bruce Wehrle (76) -- working for Chevron in Houston in IT; married to Meridith; worked for Texaco then Chevron as Chem Eng and switched to IT '90; worked in Indonesia, Kuwait and Kazakhstan; MS in MIS from Houston Baptist U '90; BS from UIUC Chem Eng '80. [07/10/06]

Marcia (Lacy) Dettloff (77) -- took a great family vacation to Hawaii '05; Doctor of Optometry since '85 and has had her own office since '87; Kids-Scott '83 (college at NCSU in zoology), Holly (college at Mary Washington University in Fredericksburg, VA) '86, Michelle (HS frosh) '90-all swimmers; married Wayne '80 who is working for Rambus; very busy with family vacations to Costa Rica '00 , Yucatan '01 and Alaska '03.  Hawaii Travel Log 1    Hawaii Travel Log 2   Christmas letter 2004      Old pic of Scott   [06/11/05]

John Kall (77) -- working in private practice at Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village '04; specialty is cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmia management-characterized several specific arrhythmias and developed several tools to facilitate the ablation (elimination with intravascular radiofrequency cautery or surgical excision) of several types of cardiac arrhythmias; worked as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago; married to a nurse '01 and has a son Joey '03; races a Porsche 996 for fun and restores old cars; grad Loyola University Chicago Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology '92; grad Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine '88; medical school '84; Loyola University Chicago undergrad in chemistry '81. [08/28/04]

Steve Vogler (77) -- a general pediatrician at a commuity health center in Denver, CO since '89; works with a great bunch of people and finds satisfaction helping the less fortunate; wishes he had studied Spanish in high school instead of French however; grad U of Colorado med school '89; grad NWU med school 86; grad Brown Univ '81. [06/28/04]

Bill White (77) -- he has finished writing his first Sci-fi book "On a Higher Hill" about the Mormons colonizing Mars and is working on his next book; doing some sailing and playing chess online; law practice in DG; married to Karen '90; two kids: Kelsey '93 and Kyle '00; Law degree from Loyola; grad U of C '81.  [06/17/05]

Joe Bularzik (78) -- taught at Purdue extension, Notre Dame, Arizona and in Pennsylvania; worked for Inland Steel several years; PhD from Berkley in chem; married to Lenny; kids-Kristin '88 and Nicholas '84; visited China and Japan in '94.       Christmas letter 2004    [12/25/04]

Raju Chandra (78) -- marketing product manager for EDO Reconnaissance and Surveillance Systems; married with children(Nishant '89 + others); lives in San Jose,CA; grad '82 from UIC in MSEE..[08/18/03]

Sam Meyer (78) -- living in San Francisco and states that "endless sunshine, starting in March or April, and lasting to mid November, during which the only difference is what time of day the fog rolls in is a little boring. I miss thunderstorms and the occasional tornado warning."; started his own company, Sourdough Painting, in San Fran, CA (contractor/painting houses); went to Prague and Berlin in '03, Budapest '99 and '03, Ireland, England, and France in '01; grad with MS from UC Davis in community development '96; volunteered with Native Americans in CA in the early '90s.[12/25/05]

Keith Rose (78) -- planning a trip to Hawaii '07; took a two week trip to Alaska '03 - saw whales, fished/caught salmon, loved Denali; builds high performance computer systems for fun (email him if you want one); working for CITGO Petroleum Corp. in Cicero, IL since ’87; presently QC Laboratory Manager and LAN Administrator; still plays some chess; coaches youth football and assists at wrestling in spare time; kids Jennifer '89, Eric '91, Matthew '95; married to Sandy '87 (she is a '77 DGS grad and is assist. manager at OSCO in Lisle); worked for Amoco; grad Cornell college. [12/28/05]

Pam (Marrs) Simon (78) -- teaching part-time at Uof I school of Phar.and being a full-time mom, kids= Stacia Marie '90 & Chris '93; married to Matt Simon '86; PhD in pharmacy '86 UIC.     Christmast letter 2004   [12/25/04]

Timothy Bryant (79) -- partner in a law firm in Mombasa, Kenya; married with 4 children; farmed and attended law school in Kenya; did community work in CA and NY '79-'84; attended Reed College in OR '80; foreign exchange student from Kenya at DGS '79.[07/01/04]

Dave Dallemolle (79) -- vacationed in Badlands, Black Hills, Yellowstone, and Grand Tetons '06; working for BP in their aromatics division in Naperville; was the Product Manager for the North American Styrene Business (Moving moles of styrene around the country as cheaply as possible) - he encourages everyone to buy more cars, computers, and plastic toys; works with Corey Correnti '80; married with 2 kids Bryan '93 and Marie Elise '95; grad U of Texas for Masters and PhD; grad UIUC in Chem Eng. [08/01/06]

Darrilyn (Albright) Fraser (79) -- living in Athens, Georgia '03; working for Merial which is co-owned by the human pharmaceutical companies Merck and Aventis, with their primary location being in Lyon, France. Merial is one of the two leading companies (the other being Pfizer) producing anti-parasite, anti-helminth and vaccines for both production and companion animals. Their best known products to the general public are probably FRONTLINE (flea and tick), and also HEARTGUARD (heartworm) for dogs and cats, She is happy to be working in the science research field again; spent '01-02 as a postdoc at WSU in Pullman, WA; working on equine virus similar to human AIDS; PhD '98 and MS '89 from U of Kentucky; spent yr in Eng '94; worked at Smithsonian Instit. (pics) [06/11/05]

Bob Hayden (79) -- spent 12 days on an Alaska cruise due to his wife being "Teacher of the Year" for her district-Congrats to her- '03; had dinner with Bob on our spring break trip to CA...great time '02; being "Mr. Mom" while making some career changes; married '96 to Kathe and with a son Steven '99 and a daughter Brenna '03; grad of UIUC in EE '83. (see pics) [07/15/04]

Rob Plotke (79) -- living in Chicago in a semi-retired state (sailing, ran in Chicago marathon, volunteer work-helped with Katrina clean-up); thinking about becoming a teacher; attempted Mt. McKinley in May '04, but the weather was too bad; climbed the tallest mount in Europe (Mt. Elbrus in Russia) in July '03; climbed Mt. Everest in May '02; extensive travel-ALL seven continents; 7 years in SE Asia '91-98; grad UIUC '83 and '85. [10/23/06]

Katherine (Kampwirth) Presswood (79) -- living in Atlanta and a stay-at-home mom; married '88; has 2 kids '89 and '92; grad UIUC with B.S. in Foods and Nutrition. [07/08/04]

Mary (Plotkowski) Skibinski (79) -- graduated from nursing school '06 with her RN and working at Mercy Hospital in Aurora; worked for Lucent; enjoys yoga, dancing, piano and gardening; two girls Kimberly and Caroline; grad North Central in CS '83. [09/01/06]

Vince Versaci (79) -- dentist in Western Springs since '89; married '85 to a nurse (Jean) at Good Sam; kids-Vince Jr '87, Mary Beth '90, Joseph '93, Theresa '95 and ???;D.D.S from UIC '87; BS in bio from UIUC '83. [06/24/04]

Sara (Bush) White (79) --  lives in Charleston, SC and is working at Eckerd pharmacy part-time; married to Roy '86 who works for MBT international; sons  Daniel '90 and Andrew '94; grad from Purdue in pharmacy '84.   Family pics     Christmas letter 2004    [12/24/04]

The '80s

Dolly (Chandra) Goel (80) -- Medical Director of the County hospital and clinics in Santa Clara County (San Jose); active in Tae Kwon Do (martial arts); married with one son, two dogs, two cats; med school at USC grad.'88; graduated California State University, Hayward '84.[01/02/04]

Roy Goodman (80) -- working for Axioma in NYC; living in Greenwich Village; worked for Instinet and Digital; two daughters - Rose '00 and Isabelle '98 - have worked on Kodak commericals, the Maury show and in local plays; his wife Catherine Alise Boursier is an actress (has roles in computer games, commericals, shakesspeare plays); grad from Grinnell '84. ( Axioma );( see Isabelle on Kodak commercials );( family photo page ) [11/06/06]

Amy Person (80) -- pediatrician in Milwaukee. [07/11/04]

Benita Walker (80) -- coordinates mental health workshops for the Wisconsin National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.; walked a marathon (26.2 miles) in Durango, Colorado '03 and planning a repeat in Columbus, OH in '04; married Joe Senulis '89, no kids but one very fat cat; Masters in Social Work '99 and BS in Political Science and Environmental Studies '89 from University of Wisconsin-Madison. [07/15/04]

Tom Dusek (81) -- nuclear reactor operator at LaSalle for Exelon; served in the Navy on a missile; cruiser. [07/15/04]

Jon Grussing (81) -- working in London for Credit Suisse First Boston Bank; Easter '04 flew around the world with all four kids and his wife - made stops in LA, Auckland, Christchurch NZ and Sydney-(Tim Danielson, a DGS 81, lives in Melbourne and he flew over to join us for a day)-great trip-saw every movie more than once; has four kids; married to Kathleen '91; grad Dartmouth '85 in Econ. [06/18/04]

Tasso Kaper (81) -- currently working with his dad (now 67) on math models for chemical reactions in a joint effort with Argonne chemists; also playing in the yard until dinner, and a video and books after dinner until bedtime with the weekends filled with soccer practice, t-ball, tiny tumbler gymnastics (can you tell he is a DAD); prof at Boston U.; married to Antonella Cucchetti `93, kids: Julia '02 & Marco '99; grad Caltech with PhD '92; grad U of C '86 in math. [06/20/05]

Kathy (White) Rheintgen (81) -- has a new husky (she doesn't know what she is in for-at 9 years old my husky still thinks he is a pup!!!); attention all inventors: Kathy does patent law and would be happy to help you with your invention--email her; equity partner with Welsh&Katz law firm in Chicago doing patent and trademark law; two kids: Matthew '94 and Christine '96; grad Loyola Law School; Biochem grad from UIUC '85.   [06/14/05]

Chris White (81) -- made tenure at IITand is working on the MENOS project shooting neutrinos at Minnesota; voted "Teacher of the Year" at IIT '03; prof at IIT in Chicago; works at Fermi in particle physics; spoke to my classes in fall '00; married '89 to Kathleen; kids = Kimberly '95, David '99 and Brendan '02; spent summer '93 in Japan; post-doc in Columbus; PhD in particle phys '90 from U of Minn; grad UIUC in physic eng '85.  [06/19/05]

Steve Diebold (82) -- lives in Evansville, WI and works in Beloit, WI in Emergency Medicine; married fellow U of C grad Cecile David in '90; one son (Alexander '98) and one daughter (Gabrielle '02); 3 years in residency at the UIC; grad U of Chicago with a B.A. in Biology in '86 and M.D. in '90 (along with Lynn Smith and Edith Tzeng, both DGS '82 grads).     pics   [07/15/04]

Ken Kus (82) -- working in USFilter, HPD Products, a division of Veolia Environment - VE; in charge of the engineering group at HPD in Plainfield, IL -been working there since '86; been doing lots of international work and been traveling the globe overseeing the project managers working on the various projects we have sold; recently went to Beijing, Shanghai, Paris, Sydney and Bangkok. Had the chance to see the Bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand, rode a train on the death railway near the Burma/Thai border (WW II), and hiked the Great Wall of China in July. saw a concert in the Sydney Opera House and went to Tiananmen Square. (Claims he did a lot of work during these trips too!!); other travels have included trips to Kuala Lumpur, Sao Paulo, Rio De Janeiro, Santiago, London, Manchester, Paris and Tokyo (lots of frequent flyer miles!!!); kids: Aaron ’00, Bradley ’97; Married to Ellen ’90; grad UIUC in Chem Eng ’86. [10/23/06]

Roger Lo (82) -- working on a MBA; living in CA near LA; working on a startup company to bring GPS systems to market; PhD from UCLA in MEMS apps for EE '00; grad UIUC in EE '86.[07/01/04]

Mary McDowell (82) -- living in CT and working for Nokia running their enterprise unit and based in NY-her unit makes both high-end mobile devices (voice plus data) as well as infrastructure products (firewall, vpn, etc.); makes monthly trips to Finland and the rest of her time in her NY office; worked for Compaq/HP in Houston, TX for 17 years; married to a southerner (Kevin-a fine arts photographer); grad from UIUC in CS. [12/11/04]

Dennis Marr (82) -- married to Pamela '05; working for ThermoGenesis Corporation as Vice President of Research & Development in Sacramento, CA '05; also CEO of his own startup company, First Line Ventures, Inc, since '02 (check his website and buy some stuff!!!!); grad PhD U of Wisc-Madison '93; visited China in 86; grad UIUC in chem engineering '86. www.firstlinev.com    [06/15/05]

Sreela Nandi (82) -- a regional finalist for the 2004-2005 Class of White House Fellows; works for NOAA in Boulder, CO; grad U of C in chem '87. [04/03/04]

Sumita Nandi (82) -- works at JPL in radio tracking and spacecraft navigation
(processed some of the data used to deliver MER to Mars and to locate it on the surface); married to Charles Dunn (also a physicist); two daughters (Corina '03, Maya '95); PhD from Cornell in physics '91; U of C physics grad '86. [ her current project   (click on  Stardust: The Risk Factor )]   [06/14/05]

Maria Person (82) -- mass spectrometrist/core facility director at the College of Pharmacy, U of Tex. in Austin '04; 2 daughters Anita '99 & Maya '97;  married Vishy '95;  PhD from U of C in PChem '91; grad from Carleton in Chem '86. [07/15/04]

Rich Stoltenberg (82) -- general surgeon with the All Saints Medical Group in Racine, WI; married Anne (a ICU nurse) '97; kids Hailey '01 and Devin '04; Internship at U of Wisc; grad UIC Med School; grad UIUC '86.  ( see pic ) [12/25/04]

Janet Stoneking (82) -- worked at Vysis/Amoco/BP as a software project leader involved with genetic disease detection; grad North Central in CS and chem '87. [07/15/04]

John Svoboda (82) -- Director of Information Services for Compass Consolidators in Lemont since '01 - manages all the computers and phones; married to Donna '91; kids: Joe '85, Brittany '96, and JJ '98. [07/05/04]

Joe Wang (82) -- gastroenterologist in Jefferson City, MO; part of a thriving practice looking to add more Chicago doctors (www.jcmg.org); tried to teach his 3 yr old about moles and 6.02 x 10^23 - didn't work-yet!!; married to Tricia; one daughter (Ella '03) and two sons (David '99 and Michael '00) plus 3 more step-kids from Tricia; med school at Washington U-gastroenterology; grad Northwestern. [07/25/06]

Dave Applegate (83) -- trip to Nashville '06; had recent trips to Peru, Poland and Japan; started Tai Chi '01 and attended a U2 concert (somehow those seem in conflict); has a new bike and cycles A LOT (biked British Isle '00 and Cabo San Lucas '01); works at an aerospace company managing a group of engineers and technicians who test components for helicopters, airplanes, and rockets; grad Penn State '92 and UIUC '89 in ceramic eng. (Pics) [10/23/06]

Linda (Hu) Chan (83) -- very involved in her church - runs a Bible Club, composes songs, sings in Chinese, sings in a Chinese worship band at her church, and so far in '04, gave 4 concerts while on the road - this, on top of being wife and mother, but she enjoys it, and it's socially and spiritually fulfilling - and teaches church school kids in English; married to Tim a senior minister at a Chinese church in MD; has three kids (Wesley, Stephanie, Esther); worked for Pepsi for 11 yrs as analytical chemist; grad UIUC '87 chem major. (Christmas news letter 2003) (Christmas news letter 2004) (Christmas news letter 2005)  [12/25/05]

Sreekanth Ravi (83) -- working on his third startup company, called Code Green Networks, with his brother; his second startup was SonicWALL and with his brother built the company to $150M per year in sales, 600 employees, took it public on Nasdaq and then left after 12 years of running it as the Chairman and CEO; started his first company (graphics chips and cards) shortly after graduation and sold it in ‘90; married in ’97 and has two kids and lives in Atherton, CA; grad from UIUC with BS in EE '86 and CE '87 degrees.  www.codegreennetworks.com     [11/09/06]

Brad Smith (83) -- working for UOP in Des Plaines as a process control chemical engineer starting up refineries and chemical plants - traveled to China, Korea, Japan, Texas, Kansas, England, Netherlands, Portugal, Turkey and even Joliet, IL!!!; married to Kathy Griesheim (DGS grad) with two girls '96 and '99; grad UMASS in chem eng '87. [12/19/03]

Helena Wang (83) -- spent Christmas '03 in CA with parents and brother Tony; part-time pathologist in Jefferson City, MO; two boys; med school at Washington U-Pathology; grad Northwestern. ( family pics ) [06/11/05]

Sue (Farrands) Weiger (83) -- a part-time adjunct faculty for Aurora University (Lake Geneva Campus) teaching technology and is working on her masters in Linguistics - intrigued by the language of technology; works with Elderhostels and says I am just the right age (55) to join in the fun (just a polite way of calling me OLD); has lived in Baltimore, Washington, New York, Chicago; is married to a Coast Guard husband Andreas and has 2 kids - son Chris '90 and daughter Hannah '92; grad Syracuse University in Public Relations/Logic '86.

Bob Zitko (83) -- made partner in ’00 at Kirkland & Ellis, one of Chicago's top law firms, and practice in the employee benefits law area; moving to Lake Forest in fall ’01; kids: new baby gril '06, Chris ’01 and Bradley ’98; married to Christine; grad UIUC law school; grad UIUC in accounting ’88. [07/08/06]

Julie (Snivley) Little (84) -- went to China in July '01 to adopt a daughter - Jacie Lin(photo1, photo2);also saw the Great Wall, Tiannnmen Square, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Beijing; worked for Resort Condos International in Indianapolis; MBA from Indiana U '95; Married to John Little '91 and has one son Jeremy '94; grad UIUC '89. [07/11/04]

Nancy Person (84) -- living in Silicon Valley '98 & working for the Palo Alto City Library as a circulation clerk. Fun, but very busy & noisy (jr. high school kids hang out after school & play games on the pcs); grad UIUC '88. [07/15/04]

Linda Winke (84) -- taking a summer '03 pharmacology class in my nurse practitioner program, and hears "moles" from her instructor just as often as she heard it from me!; a Clinical Practitioner for the Cardiology Unit at Evanston Hospital doing some patient education projects but mostly staff education, structuring the nurses orientation period and following up with continuing education and new technology; started grad school at Rush U., working toward a Master's in Nursing and certification as an Adult Nurse Practitioner; volunteer docent for the Chicago Architecture Foundation; certified to give several walking tours: Historic Skyscrapers, Modern Skyscrapers (both downtown), and neighborhood tours of Uptown, Edgewater, and Lakewood-Balmoral; trips to London, Paris, Newport, RI, bike trip in SW Utah near Bryce and Zion Canyons, San Francisco/Silicon Valley and SW Arizona and Joshua Tree National Park; trying to transfer all her tapes and records to CD’s; married to Ken, a Certified Orthotist, at Rush/St. Lukes Hospital. [07/15/04]

Heidi Applegate (85) -- trip to Nashville '06; trip to Alaska '06 and met with Mike Dilger('85) to hike and see some grizzley bears; trip to Peru '05 with her brother; met with her and her brother for pierogis at a little polish restaurant in Chicago '04; living and working for the gov't in Virginia; stationed at the US Embassy in Warsaw, Poland '02-04-busy with gov't functions and travel-visited Germany and several cities in Poland; took a bike trip with her brother to Ireland; has raised thousands of $$$ for Leukemia Society since '01; did a cross-state bike ride in Wisconsin '01; PhD from Penn State '96; spent 87-90 in Europe; Fulbright winner; grad Michigan State U '89.  Pics   [10/23/06]

Kelly (Cross) Brask (85) -- visited our house 7/06 and is expecting first child 9/06 (see pic); visited Chicago 5/05 and went sailing with us on a cold and windy evening (see pic); married to Michael, an engineer, 9/25/04 after getting engaged in Paris (see pic); working for a Christian Mission organization and living in Sweden; traveled across the Arctic Circle '01-got to see some Northern lights; did mission work in south pacific; grad UIUC '90. (See pic of Kelly, Paul and Jerry)  [07/17/06]

Liggy Chien (85) -- taught math at New Trier HS '03; living in California; married '98; has a son James and a daughter Anna '02; taught English in Taiwan '91; grad from Rice '89.[05/24/05]

Jerry Karlin (85) -- completed a year-long course in improvisational comedy at The Second City in Chicago '03; Director of Finance for the e-commerce division for United Airlines since '99; worked for American Airlines in Dallas for 5 yrs; MBA from Cornell '93; grad UIUC '89. (See pic of Kelly, Paul and Jerry) [07/17/06]

Tony Kim (85) -- working for Credit Suisse, in Asset Management, VP of US Equities; moved to San Francisco '03; married Rita '00; worked 7 yr in NYC and San Fran in investment banking; MBA from Columbia '94; worked 2 yr at Rockwell; grad UIUC '89 in eng. [08/15/03]

Kirk Nelson (85) -- working in Kenosha, WI; married to Shelly (also a doctor); two kids; worked at Rockford Hospital '95; grad med school UIUC '96; grad IBC '90. [07/15/04]

Karen (Hospodar) Scott (85) -- a staff neonatologist working St. Paul Children's Hospital in St. Paul, MN; kids: William '05 and Erin '02; married in October '00 to Colin Scott; passed pediatric boards in '99; Grad MD/PhD '96; Northwestern BA Micro-Bio '88. [12/25/05]

Paul Sternenberg (85) -- living in Oregon and is an orthopedic surgeon-specializes in hand and upper extremity problems and passed his CAQ tests '05; helping coach chess at an elementary school; married to Darcie ('92); she is a nephrologist he met in med school who now stays home with the kids and studies digital photography; has a daughter Leah '01 and a son Nathan '03; took a trip to Sweden in '03; MD '93 from Washington U in St. Louis; BS from Wheaton Coll. '89 in Biochem. (See pic of Kelly, Paul and Jerry).[07/17/06]

Jeff Bulmahn (86) -- working for the Bank of America as a webmaster/developer; grad Penn State '97; grad UIUC '91 physics major. [07/14/04]

Moses Cheng (86) -- assistant principal at Hinsdale South; worked in West Aurora schools for 13 years as a science teacher, volleyball coach, dean and elementary principal-loved the little kids; has 4 daughters ?? '01, ?? '99, ?? '97, ?? '96, but wants a male puppy to help balance the gender bias at home; loves to fish for fun; married to Anne '94; PhD from ?? 'xx and MS from ?? 'xx; grad UIUC '90.[07/26/06]

Kevin Kremeyer (86) -- graduated from Urbana with a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering and an M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, and then received his PhD in Physics in Arizona, writing his dissertation and "post-doc"ing in Applied Mathematics. This works out perfectly for his work at PM&AM Research, which happens to stand for (yes, you guessed it) Physics, Materials, and Applied Mathematics Research (www.physics-math.com). He still keeps in touch with Moses Cheng, through whom he vicariously enjoys the wonders of family life ;-). [12/07/04]

Carol Rohl (86) -- living in CA and an assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz; worked at the University of Washington doing computational biology stuff, mostly protein structure determination and other things related to structural genomics and proteomics; PhD from Stanford in biochem; grad Rice in biochem ’90. [10/05/03]

Jim Tung (86) -- teaching high school chemistry in a private military school in VA; married in ’96 to Cynthia with two daughters (’97 and ’99); Ph.D - Dartmouth College (physical chemistry); BS - Truman State, MO.  [08/27/06]

Bruce Berger (87) -- published in Nature magazine on July 28, 2005; doing research at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in CA - research focuses on neutrinos in an experiment called KamLAND, a neutrino oscillation experiment located underground in a mine in central Japan; married '99 to Francesca Pardo - met in graduate school at Cornell ; PhD from Cornell in physics; grad from Princeton in physics '91. (PDF version of Nature article) (Kamland website) ( Wedding picture: Pictured are Farhan Younus '87, Eric Rynes '87, Mimi Bhattacharyya '87, Vijay Jaswal '87, Roy Flint '87, Francesca, and Bruce) [11/04/05]

Mimi Bhattacharyya (87) -- works as a writer, editor, and communications professional; currently lives in Chicago; grad University of Virginia in ' 95 with an M.A. in English Literature; grad in Eng. Lit/Narrative Rhetoric UIUC '91.  [06/11/05]

Bill Fick (87) -- assistant federal public defender in Boston; married to Olga Galkina with a stepdaugher Marina, daughter Lydia '00, and another expected in August '03; spent 6 years in Russia connecting things to the Internet, first for a U.S. non-profit and then with a consulting company founded with his wife (http://www.samovar.com); Law degree from Yale in '01; BA from Yale '92. [07/06/06]

Kannan Manickam (87) -- had a one year fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Female Urology; married to Amita and has twin boys Neil and Nikhil '05; living in Valparaiso, IN; grad UIC med school in Urology; grad UIUC in Electrical Engineering '91. family pic.  [01/20/06]

Mary (Kriz) O'Daniel (87) -- an Architecture Strategy Engineer for GM in Detroit area; bought a hard-side camper for camping trips - Utah '05; kids: Timothy '02; Patrick Joesph '00 has hydronephrosis (a kidney condition); married to Greg '96, he also works for GM doing engine calibration work for our future truck products; MS in Stats from Iowa State '98; MS from MIT '92; IIT grad in engineering '90. ( family pics ) [06/16/2005]

Barb Pickett (87) -- working as a CADD Drafter at Jones and Brown; completed Computer-Aided Design Certificate '02; grad '94 from Purdue in materials eng.[07/15/04]

Nick Tilbrook (87) -- Lt. Commander in the US Navy -- 3rd in command of the USS Houston; married to Erin with a daughter Reilly and a son Aleck. [0913/03]

Eric Weeks (87) -- spending summer '05 at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland doing physics research; married Christina '04-chem alum Linas Buntinas '89 (my best man) and Jenny (Gaspar) Lew '89 attended the wedding; tenured Associate Professor of Physics at Emory Univ in Atlanta and won a couple of awards; teaching physics to pre-med students and continuing his research in Confocal Microscopy of Colloidal Glass Transition along with squishy stuff like shaving cream and mayonnaise; did a post doc at U of Penn in Philly; grad U of Texas (Austin) with PhD in physics '97; grad UIUC Eng Physics '92.   wedding pics     award1     award2  [10/25/05]

Scott Bulmahn (88) -- reports that business ( www.objectivetech.net ) is great and that he was in Chicago and met with Andy Szymulanski '89 who is also doing well; started a company to develop embedded software running on point of sale terminals '04; he reports that business has been phenomenal and considers himself extremely blessed; working on a Master’s program at SMU for Applied Economics; resigned as Chief Technology Officer for a payment processing company (E-Chex) in Dallas '04; lived in Dallas since '94; worked in NYC for JP Morgan; grad UIUC '93. [10/23/05]

Jason Hulst (88) -- lives in DeKalb working working as a Financial Advisor for H&R Block Financial Advisors; also works for H&R Block Tax as a Tax Specialist with the designation, EA (Enrolled Agent) which permits him to practice before the IRS; still keeping the rental properties going as a landlord; recently enrolled in school again to earn a MAFM (Masters in Accounting and Financial Management); grad NIU '94 in Pol Sci/Philos; married Diana Wuchich '94; served in Army '91. dog pic  [09/15/05]

Johnny Lee (88) -- living in Barrington and in private practice at Good Shepherd Hospital as a Cardiac Anesthesiologist; married Jane (also a doctor of internal medicine) '97; two kids-Olivia '01 and Matthew '03; spent 4 yrs at Cook County Hospital-helped establish a Molecular Pathology Laboratory-developing assays utilizing PCR to test for tuberculosis and HIV viral burden.; Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine; grad Northwestern '93 in bio with an emphasis in Molecular and Cellular Biology. [11/09/06]

Sabira Rahman (88) -- has a medical practice (Radiology) in the western suburbs; married with two kids; grad medical school at Northwestern.  [07/05/04]

Tracy Sides (88) -- starting a new job at the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota '06; worked as an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Minnesota Department of Health mainly focusing on HIV/AIDS ('01-06); had abstract accepted at and attended the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand '04; still quite active - XC skiing in the winter and triathlons in the summer with hiking and canoeing too; working on PhD at the U of MN; MPH (epidemiology) from U of MN '95; BS (biology) from U of Miami '93. Some fun stuff about Tracy: the same summer Frank Karbarz (85) was racing his bicycle across America ('98) I rode mine at a more leisurely pace from Seattle to Washington, DC for the American Lung Association. I celebrated the millennium as a 'stowaway' aboard a ship at the international dateline - then we crossed the dateline and had another party the next night! It was quite the adventure.[03/25/06]

Jill (Fitzgerald) Stowers (88) -- new daughter Rachel '05; taking a year off from teaching to be a mom; went to Japan for 3 weeks with her husband Phil on a self-organized mission trip - part of Grace Mission International Partnership - summer '03; teaching AP chem at Fenton HS since '96; married to Phil (also a teacher); worked with disabled people summer '92, spent summer '93 in Japan teaching English; grad from Bradley with chem/sec ed major '93.  (baby pics)   Christmas letter 2004 pg 1  pg2  [06/11/05]

Mike Swartout (88) -- assistant professor in aerospace engineering at Wash U working on building and flying satellites and space experiments; one child Noah '01 ( noah.swartwout.org ); married to Leah '99; PhD Stanford '99; MSAE UIUC '92; BSAE UIUC '91. [06/18/04]

Szu Wang (88) -- Assistant Professor at UC Irvine in the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science department and in the process of starting up her lab; son, Daniel '03; living in CA '04; married Jon Feng 6/98 (he is tenured Physics facultly at UC Irvine '04); PhD from Stanford '98 in 2D protein crystallization; MS grad Stanford '93; BS grad UIUC in chem '92.[06/09/04]

Melanie (Coppage) Young (88) -- living in Livermore, CA and very instrumental in starting one of the largest charter schools, Livermore Valley Charter School; an activist for better education and actually doing something about it; works with the Girl Scouts as a leader and coordinator; helps with ICAN-a reading program for disadvantaged kids; plays tennis; married to Alastair '93; kids: Max '04, Duncan '99, Kristen '95, Emmy '94; grad U of C '98 in anthropology.        family pics        Christmas letter 2004      Charter School website   [01/18/06]

Erik Brandenburg (89) -- back in DG '04 and hoping to do some tutoring; grad of Grinnell College, IA in math '93. [10/20/05]

Sara (Bergman) Forster (89) -- married to Eric Forster in October 2006 at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle and currently living in Oak Park; has been working on a contract basis in environmental litigation and antitrust cases since '05; passed the IL bar exam 11/04; worked for Pharmacia in Skokie as a Radiation Safety person and Research Biochemist; JD from University of Minnesota '04; MS from UIUC '96 in chem; grad St. Olaf '94.  website for wedding pics [11/10/06]

Greg Klabish (89) -- living near Boston and working for Groove Networks as a software engineer since '00; grad UIUC '93. [06/11/05]

Jin Lee (89) -- medical director of a group in the Los Angeles area '04; grad UIC medical school and finished an Internal Medicine Residency at Rush Medical center in '99; grad UIUC '93. [07/05/04]

Julie (Munday) Killacky (89) -- playing chess and doing chem experiments with her kids who say "hey, what will happen if I just throw this in too?" or "why do we have to measure, let's just throw it all in!!!" (GO JULIE!!); getting ready to join the professional world again after being a stay-home-mom; living in Naperville '05; married '94 to John Killacky( Navy); kids= Joshua '03, Jake '01, Justin '96; grad UIUC '93.  [01/06/06]

Jenny (Gaspar) Lew (89) -- living in Geneva, IL; kids: Zachary '02, William '01; an Ob/Gyn in private practice with DuKane and working at Delnor Hospital; inducted into Fellows of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in '04; married George Lew - Assist. Prof. at Loyala Univ in Chicago and works in ER; med school grad '97; grad UIUC biochem '93. (pics: Zachary, Christmas 2005)  [12/01/05]

Evan Rynes (89) -- playing with the "Komische Oper Berlin" , one of the finest opera orchestras in Berlin and living with his wife and family; had a one year appointment in the Orchester der Beethovenhalle in Bonn, Germany; violin student in Lubeck, Germany '97; Fulbright in Germany for 1994-95; grad Indiana U-music. http://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/  [06/11/05]

Jennifer Sebestl (89) -- working for Pfizer Animal Health (drugs for animals instead of humans) in Kalamazoo, MI - involves travel to England, India, and...Nebraska; served as assoc. director of pharmaceutical science/analytical chem for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals till '06; active in leadership of youth groups in her church; PhD from Wayne State in organometallics; Hope College grad '93.. [11/16/05]

Sameer Talsania (89) -- moved to Evansville, IN in 2005; his sister Seema was married in Nov '02; recent travels: Spain, Puerto Rico; visited INDIA '98; PhD from U of Houston '97; grad UIUC '93 in chem eng. [11/04/05]

The '90s

Melinda Koelling (90) -- living in Kalamazoo, MI and a tenure track Math prof at Michigan; married 8/03 to David Richter; postdoc at NYU till 8/04 in Computational Neuroscience; postdoc ('02) at Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute in math in Troy, NY; PhD from U of Mich (Ann Arbor) in '01; plays in several bands and like to knit; grad U of C in math '95. [03/25/06]

Esther Lim (90) -- working for Citigroup in NYC as a Compliance Officer for the technology department; married to Adrian McLean, an attorney, in ’02; biochem grad U of Chicago ’95. [06/18/04]

Iris (Huang) McCormick (90) -- has been involved in leading the Children's Church program for preschoolers at her church. She's also been working on some writing projects; living in Ft. Collins, CO; two kids Elliot '01 and Grace '03; married to Jim '94 - he works for INTEL designing processors; currently a stay at home mom '03; worked for Warren Analytical Laboratory (ConAgra) for 3 years, doing Sales and Marketing; worked at Keebler in R&D; grad UIUC with BS '94 and MS '97 in Food Science. (family pics) (Christmas 2005 letter)    [12/25/05]

David Wu (90) -- finished year 1 of residency training in Pathology '04; finally finished PhD ("Effects of Cellular and Tissue Pharmacokinetics on Control-Released Growth Factors') at MIT '00; now working towards MD at Harvard; happily married '00; Getting hands dirty in new gardening hobby. [06/14/04]

Anuja Dharkar (91) -- married to Landon 9/10/06 in Portland, ME; working for Marcomedia and manages/develops curriculum/training for teachers in web design; published her first book "Digital Design: Foundations of Web Design" '03; took a summer ’01 trip to Spain; grad ’01 from Stanford with Masters in Learning, Design, and Technology; BS from NWU ’96.  Wedding Pics     [10/23/06]

Jenny Fick (91) -- going into the third year of a three year small animal surgery residency at the U of MN '04; spent '01 doing an internship in small animal medicine and surgery at Michigan State University; grad from Veterinary School at the University of Minnesota ’01; Carleton grad in biology ’95. [06/06/04]

Jon Furino (91) -- died on 01/22/02...condolences to his friends and family ( I don't know any details).[08/13/03]

Arthur Huen (91) -- completed his PhD from Northwestern '04 in cancer biology - studying a structure called the desmosome which is responsible for intercellular adhesion in epithelial cells, primarily skin cells; married Luisa Hiller in Ohio in '04. [06/14/04]

Kristin Huizinga (91) -- finished her PhD in biology and is working for Monsanto in St. Louis; maid of honor in a friend's wedding in a beautiful Polish Chicago Church 7/04; PhD from Michigan State '06; grad of Purdue-Biology '94. [11/10/06]

Mike Jorda (91) -- working for Broadcom in CA; bought a house in the bay area '06; worked for a couple of Internet startup companies after college; married to Rumi Bhattacharyya (DGS '92 and has her PhD from Northwestern and working on a postdoc at Stanford '06) '03 in Maui (Roman Litwinski '92 was his groomsman); was a groomsman for Roman Litwinski's wedding in '01; grad UIUC in EE '96. [11/10/06]

Mike Mendoza (91) -- daughter, Elena '05; bought a house in the South Loop; accepted a faculty position at U of Chicago in the Department of Family Medicine and working at Brandon Family Health Center-a clinic on the south side; sailed the Chicago-Mackinac race (4th time) aboard Elusive (a J-120) '05; married Lisa Vargish (fellowship in geriatrics at U of C '05) in Chicago in October '03 - chem alum, David Lim and Joyce (Berroya) Dieter were members of the bridal party; grad U of C med school ’01 and from UIC Public Health School ’01 with MPH; grad U of C '96. .   family pics     sailing website       [06/14/05]

Janice (Moy) Chen (92) -- living in Vancouver, WA; first child, Evelynn Moy Chen '04; married Wayne Chen '01; worked for KPMG in Chicago; MA from UIUC in taxation '99; BA from UIUC '96 in accounting. (baby photos) (family pics).[01/04/05]

Joyce (Berroya) Dieter (92) -- working for Dean Health Plan as an EDI Specialist/Team Lead in Madison, WI; married to Steve with sons Joshua '04 and Brenden '02; worked for Berbee; worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Tampa, Detroit and Houston for 5 years; grad UIUC '96.(family pics) (www.dieterfamily.com) [06/15/04]

Sina (Soneji) Fong (92) -- moved to a house in Naperville; expecting 2nd son 8/04; last semester of law school; had a surprise shower/b-day party where Mr. Mayfield was the first guest to arrive and let the "mole" out of the bag; had first son, Vasant '02 ; worked for the Office of Legal Counsel at Univ of Illinois '03; married Vlad Fong; on wheel of fortune and won $$ in '97; MBA and MPH from UIUC '98; grad U of C '96 in bio/south asian studies.[07/15/04]

Roman Litwinski (92) -- Starting a two year vascular surgery fellowship at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Southern California June ’04 – the fellows there get a tremendous experience in endovascular surgery (fixing diseased vessels from the inside); finishing his chief resident year in general surgery at SUNY-Buffalo ’03; met Judith Lin ’88 during an interview and discovered that they both had AP chem at DGS; married to Sheryl Chow ’01 (a PharmD who works as a clinical pharmacist with internal medicine)(Mike Jorda '91 was a groomsman); grad Johns Hopkins and Northwestern. [04/03/04]

Wei Xiong (92) -- working on a PhD at Stanford full time in the fall '05; toured Europe by convertible '05; doing so Hobie Cat sailing in San Diago; visited New Zealand '04; spent 5 weeks in China and 10 days in Peru '03; I had dinner with Wei on a spring break trip to CA '01; traveled to London and Prague in '01; worked on putting digital TV on cell phones for Qualcomm in CA; grad UIUC '96 in EE.    website: http://weibear.topcities.com    trip pics: http://www.imagestation.com/members/wei_bear      New Zealand '04 pics; [11/07/05]

Dar-Lon Chang (93) -- married to Michelle '06; living in Houston and working for Exxon-Mobile in liquefied natural gas research; grad UIUC with PhD '03; big fan of swing dancing; grad UIUC '98 in Mech Eng. Wedding pics. Wedding invitation flashy and simple.  [07/17/06]

Jonathan Day (93) -- in the Navy designing Nuclear Reactor Plants for aircraft carriers and submarines-gets out 7/30/04; working on PhD in Aerospace Engineering at UMD-College Park; coaching 2 girls travel soccer teams; married Cheri in '01; has made 2 films; grad Ohio U major in Eng. Physics and Mechanical Engineering '99. [07/15/04]

Andrew Hwang (93) -- living in San Jose and working for Kaiser; started a faith-based medical clinic for uninsured and homeless individuals '04; finished residency in Internal Medicine in San Jose, CA '04; grad NWU med school '01; went to Asia in summer of '97; grad Northwestern '97.  [06/21/05]

Shannon Kirkpatrick (93) -- in a Master of Public Health Program in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Washington '06; considering her options - public health degree, the RD certification or a PhD program; worked for the U of Washington in Seattle and received the department's "Distinguished Staff Award" '04; attended a conference in Chicago 5/04 and had time for breakfast with Mr. M; loves living on the west coast; grad Seattle U '00 with BA in liberal studies. [07/08/06]

Shauna Mazzulla (93) -- enjoys living in Seattle, WA (away from the ice and snow) and is working with two other doctors of optometry in a private practice; grad from optometry school '01; grad from Augustana '97 biology/math. [12/06/04]

Glenn Merkel (93) -- engaged to Hope in Nov '05 and planning a July '06 wedding; working at Frito Lay near Atlanta, GA as a maintenance supervisor '05; headed to Kenya July '05 on a 10 day mission trip with a safari excursion as well; took a 10 day mission trip to Brazil '02; worked in Ireland for 2.5 years; took a Mediterranean cruise summer '00; grad of U of Minn '98 in chem eng. Engagement picture. [07/08/06]

Katharine Miao (93) -- spent summer '04 in Lake Como and Tuscany(wonderful!!); first child- Alexander Hwang '05; living in Manhattan on the upper west side; an attending physician in New York at a branch of Albert Einstein in the Emergency Medicine department; spent some time in Provence, France tasting wine and cheese '03; married Hyunseok Hwang '01 (investment banker for Morgan Stanley after graduating with his MBA from Yale in '98 and his JD from Harvard in '01); grad med school UIC '01; grad Yale in Biology '97. [09/19/05]

Frank Owen (93) -- he moved back to Chicago in July 2000 and is working as a Database and Systems consultant for a large real-estate firm. He spends his free time scuba diving, recently returning from trips to Mexico and Belize and will be diving Bonaire fall '03. [07/15/04]

Samir Soneji (93) -- separating from active duty in the Air Force '04; going to Princeton fall '04 for graduate school (PhD in Demography); taking his aunt and uncle on a road trip north from San Diego to San Francisco and over to yosemite (summer '04); grad U of C '98 in math.  [07/15/04]

Feng Xiong (93) -- working in Boston '05; hobby is working with anime; grad UIUC '98 in CS; trip to China summer '95. [09/25/2005]

Dan Bailey (94) -- starting a PhD in materials/inorganic chemistry (he says “I cannot escape chemistry. (Must be the strong nuclear force!)” at Northwestern fall ’05 in nanotech; worked as a contract proofreader for the American Nuclear Society in La Grange, and at Molex, Inc. in Lisle; actively involved in Oak Park Vineyard Christian Fellowship and continue to do writing of various sorts on the side; grad UIUC chem '04. [06/28/05]

Anthony Chan (94) -- attended Dar-Lon Chang's wedding '06 (see pic); student teaching in Chicago '06 and looking for a job as a HS math teacher; MS in education and MS in computer science from DePaul; grad from DePaul in Accounting '98 and Mathematics '96. [07/15/06]

Mark Karbarz (94) -- postdoctoral fellow at UCSD (San Diego) studying deuterium exchange with cytosolic and calcium independent phospholipase A2 by qTOF Mass Spec-project goal is to identify novel antiinflammatory drugs like Vioxx and Celebrex; PhD from Duke '04 in biochem cloning Lipid A phosphatase (IpxE); teaching chemistry/biology at Mirarmar Community College and remembers my helpful hints in Lewis Structure and VESPR theory (that is scary!!!); traveled to Europe/Cent. America/CA/Mexico/East Coast; started playing guitar in his spare time; grad UIUC in BioChem '97. [12/07/04]

William Woo (94) -- living and working in Shanghai '04 and playing some golf and trying to avoid SARS; working for a company that manufactures semiconductor processing equipment and is based in Boston area; worked in Silicon Valley '99-01; spent summer '99 in Hong Kong; grad Stanford '99 with MS in Engineering-Econ. Systems and Operations Research; BS UIUC in EE '97.[07/15/04]

Kirsten Chan (95) -- performing in a comedy troupe called "stir friday night" starting a not-for-profit company called Project: VISION, Inc.; working for an engineering firm in Chicago; worked for a diamond dealer; worked at a child care facility for Motorola in Deerfield '03; certified teacher for infants to age 2; living in Chicago '03; finished a year of training at Second City; an extra in Spiderman 2 and Mean Girls; had a huge part in a play in Chicago '03; got to go backstage at three Incubus concerts as well as Oasis and Jane's Addition; grad UIUC '00. [06/14/04]

Alicia Giet (95) -- engaged to Matt Singer and will be married 5/07; in Chicago working at Kraft foods as an Associate Brand Manager on the Velveeta brand (a food product that has seen a lot of chemical engineering in its day!); received an MBA from Duke '04; grad U of Chicago '99. [10/29/06]

Vivien Ho (95) -- married to Adam in May '04; finishing internship in Family Practice at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn in '05; still playing a bit of chess; grad U of Chicago med school '04; grad UIUC with double-majors in Chemistry and Biochem '99.   [06/14/05]

Alexia Koelling (95) -- living in her condo in Chicago and learning TOO MUCH about home ownership and repair; ran her first 50K race '05; working for a media company and is assist. Media Director; had internship with Newberry Library '98; spent spring of '98 in France; grad U of C '99. [03/25/06]

Robert Szczesniak (95) -- working for UOP as a Process Design Engineer and actually using his degree to help make gasoline '06; worked for Huff & Huff doing remediation projects using reduction reactions on chlorinated solvents; enjoys whitewater rafting for fun; married to Beth ‘03 in MN; grad IIT '00 with double major - Chemical and Environmental Eng. [07/18/06]

Iwona Wyka (95) -- doing grad work at U of Iowa in biochem; grad UIUC in Biochem '99.[12/25/03]

Patrick Chen (96) -- a professional choreographer/dancer; teaching in over 15 countries each year and the founder and CEO of a International Dance Company called Dance2xs.http://www.dance2xs.com         see flyer http://community.webshots.com/user/patyeechen  [12/10/04]

Jessica (Franciose) King (96) -- working in Zion, IL for Cancer Treatment Centers of America as a nutritionist with cancer patients; MS in dietetics at Univ of Utah '02;  grad BYU '00 with BS in biochemistry. [07/15/04]

Prab Koppera (96) -- living in Ann Arbor and in his second year of residency in Anesthesiology at the U of Michigan Hospital '06; his first year was spent in Chicago as an intern at St. Joe's Hospital; engaged in Feb.'06 to a teacher/dancer/actress he met as an undergrad at Northwestern and will be getting married in August 07; loves Anesthesiology, it uses loads of chemistry and physics and keeping people alive tends to keep him on my toes!; spent summer '02 in Tokyo studying Neuroradiology at Kyorin Uni. Hosp; grad Northwestern '00.  [11/07/06]

Puja (Sahni) Sethi (96) -- had a baby girl Saanvi which means Goddess Lakshmi '05; married to Aman Sethi; spent a great 5 years at Indira Gandhi Medical College in a city called Shimla, in the state of Himachal Pradesh in the Himalaya mountains in India; finished her medical degree; may return to India to practice. see baby pics [11/07/05]

Nirali Shah (96) -- grad from UIC medical school '04; matched into the Harvard Combined med/peds program and will be moving to Boston in June '04; grad UIC with BS in Chem and HS education '00. [04/02/04]

Alan Bailey (97) -- worked in the Computer Science Division at Argonne '02; MS in computer science from UW-Madison '04; grad UIUC '01 in Computer Science. [07/11/04]

Alan Hsieh (97) -- going to NIU in Mech Engineering.[09/04/03]

Michele ( Ruta) Ktistou (97) -- teaching in an English Language school in Greece where her husband is playing professional basketball; married Greg Ktistou (DGS grad) 7/1/04 in GREECE; taught 6th grade science in Darien; studied in Granada, Spain summer '00; grad as an elementary education major with chemistry concentration from UIUC '02.   wedding pictures. [09/07/05]

Dave Laitar (97) -- third year PhD student in organic chemistry at MIT '04; worked for Exxon/Mobil in New Jersey for summer '01; grad as a Chem major at Notre Dame '01. [06/14/04]

Linda (Prendergast) McCleish (97) -- living in Chicago (condo in Wrigleyville) and has a residency at Northwestern to be an anesthesiologist '05; married to Ian '03 (also a grad from UIUC in finance and economics-is an investment analyst) ; grad from Georgetown med school '05; grad UIUC '01 bio major, chem minor, pre-med. [06/14/05]

Sameet Sheth (97) -- Going to NYU dental school (3rd yr '03); living in NYC.[12/19/03]

Mike Strelecky (97) -- working as a financial analyst at Newport News Shipbuiling, Inc.- a maker of nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers; going for his MBA '03; married Jessica '98; daughters Madelyn '95, Ainsley '02 and Ellanor '04; grad College of William and Mary ’01 in finance. [06/14/04]

Kristina Wilson (97) -- "starring" in an infomercial for the George Forman grill (even though she is a vegetarian!!!!); had dinner with us when we visited NYC in 8/05; living and working in NYC; working for Morgan Stanley and continuing her acting career on/off Broadway; worked in Naples, FL at a dinner theater '02; played Cinderella in a tour group '01; grad New York U '01 in music.  [09/02/05]

Brendan Banaszak (98) -- living in DC; working for National Public Radio (NPR) with the talk show "Talk of the Nation"; grad as a mass communication major from IL State '02.[09/26/03]

Kevin Gualano (98) -- will be starting law school in fall '04 and wants to be a patent attorney by '07; worked for UOP Des Plaines, IL on improving catalysts for the production of xylene and ethylbenzene along with replacing the additive MTBE in gasoline '02; BS in Chem Eng from U-Wisc '03.[04/03/04]

Balaji (Viswanathan) Iyer (98) -- working on his PhD in computer engineering at NC State University; visited India '04; became a US citizen in '02; changed his name to maintain his native culture; only Balaji could be so precise in his view of life and I quote "2 Degrees + "Going to PhD" + limit as Geek goes to Nerd -> No Hunny :( *hehe* + Definitely No Kiddies :))" ; MS in EE in NC A&T State University (branch of UNC) '03; grad Purdue '02 in computer engineering. [06/15/04]

Kathy Jorda (98) -- finished her first year of med school at Mt. Sinai, in New York'04; spent her spring break '04 in Peru, at Macchu Picchu; spending the summer '04 in Minnesota, doing research at the Mayo Clinic; grad from Columbia '03.[06/12/04]

Aimee Mayuga (98) -- working at her parent's clinic summer '04; did a presentation on Infant Cognition research at the ICIS (International Conference on Infancy Studies) in 5/04; heading up Northwestern Med School's choir group, the "Hamstrings"; going to med school at Northwestern '04; attended a National Youth Leadership Conference on Medicine in Houston during July 98; grad Summa Cum Laude Northwestern '03. [07/11/04]

Lawton Moy (98) -- third year student at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria; studied abroad in Guangzhou, China in Traditional Chinese Medicine '02; grad UIC in Biochemistry '02. (see pic)  [07/15/04]

Mark Muellner (98) -- working on PhD in Env. Tox. investigating Drinking Water Disinfection Byproducts for their genetic toxicity till '07; married '04; kids-Nolan '04 (loves being a father); living in Urbana; working as a TA and enjoys the teaching aspect; attended conference in Miami for Environmental Mutagen Society in '03; received the Bentley Undergraduate Research award for top undergraduate research; MS in Environmental Toxicology from UIUC '04; BS in animal science from UIUC ’02. [12/07/04]

Jon Schaefer (98) -- teaching math at Lyons Township HS; taught math at Plainfield HS '04; a member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus (third season '05)-performed in Ravinia '03 and 14 concerts in December downtown in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center; got his teaching certificate in math '03 from NIU; summer internship with USGS EROS data center in South Dakota '01; grad '02 from Valparaiso University with a double degree (B.S. and B.A.) with a triple major in geography, mathematics, and music.  [12/25/05]

Sanjay Sood (98) -- working on PhD at NWU focusing on frictionless information systems (mix between AI and data aggregation); currently a researcher for the intelligent information laboratory; grad NWU in computer science '02.  [07/15/04]

Jon Stancel (98) -- staff sargent in the Marines stationed in the DC area and works with base security; tours of duty in Japan and Europe; married to Ann Marie '02; 3 kids Morgan '90, Sean '93, Kali "03.  [07/21/05]

Mark Wu (98) -- Mark is still working as an IT Project Manager for General Electric. He just moved back to the US (Louisville, KY) after living and working in Hyderabad, India for over half a year, at one of GE's "global innovation centers". Mark is now working on deploying RFID tracking tags on GE products for the consumer products business (think appliances and light bulbs). He plans on being with GE for the next three years, and sees returning to school for an MBA in the years after; grad UIUC in Electrical Eng. '02. [06/11/05]

Jason Farrer (99) -- attending Loyola med school; grad from Kalamazoo College in chem '03.[07/15/04]

Meghan Goldenstein (99) -- working full time at the DG library summer '04; will spend fall '04 teaching English in France; spent '03 in Chambana subbing, waitressing, and teaching world studies to a seventh grader; grad UIUC in '03 with a history/secondary ed major. [06/15/04]

John Krauklis (99) -- working for Aegon Institutional Markets in Louisville, KY in risk management; grad UIUC in actuarial science '04. [07/05/04]

Leia ( Blumenthal) Stirling (99) -- married '05; will start PhD research at MIT in the fall '05 working in the Manned Vehicle Lab modeling human movement, specifically in microgravity; helped with aerospace camp at UIUC summer '03; MS from UIUC in Aerospace Engineering '05; grad UIUC '03 in Aerospace Engineering and a minor in Math. [06/14/05]

Jessica Taibl (99) -- working full time at vet med back in necropsy; having a lot of fun- helps out the pathologists and students with the gross exam, trims biosies, does some stuff in the histo lab, and with sample submission; taking a couple years off before vet school; grad UIUC in biology '04. [06/14/04]

Lionel Tan (99) -- doing medical rotations at Christ Hospital in Chicago '05 and thinking about internal medicine; passed his boards in '05; attending med school at UIC; worked at Hinsdale Hospital summer '00; grad UIC '03 in psychology and minor in economics. [11/07/05]

Jon Ulrich (99) -- going to grad school at Purdue in math 8/04; grad UIUC in Computer Engineering '03.  [07/15/04]

Genica Zdenek (99) -- working at Good Samaritan Hospital as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist '05;
worked at Packer Engineering '03; received summer research grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute '02 and '03; grad from Nuclear Medicine Technology Program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital '05; grad with a BS in chemistry from Benedictine University '04. [12/25/05]

The '00s

Marissa Alcantara (00) -- doing DNA research projects at UIUC; resident hall advisor; active in student government; pre-pharm with a chem major at UICU. [11/09/04]

Lauren Anderson (00) -- doing research at Wash U in the ophthalmology dept summer '05; going to med school at Wash U in St. Louis; grad NWU summa cum laude in biomedical engineering '04.  [07/21/05]

Melissa Auriene (00) -- teaching Chem & physical science at York HS '06 and VERY excited about having 30% hydrogen peroxide and her own personal vacuum system; student taught in Rantoul and Champaign in Chem, Physics and Earth Science; ;MS UIUC Chem and Education '06; grad UIUC '04 with BS in chemistry.  [06/06/06]

Michelle Ehlert (00) -- grad from NWU in May '04 in engineering; will be working for Quaker Oats, technically QFB or Quaker Foods & Beverages (part of the PepsiCo family of companies). Her job title is Senior Associate with the Integrated Purchasing and Logistics team. [12/20/03]

Alex Picel (00) -- at UIUC in computer engineering '04; hopefully going to graduate school in computer science (maybe Columbia); summer job programming at Argonne '04; National Merit '00. [07/15/04]

Dan Perlin (00) -- works for Sargent & Lundy in downtown Chicago in the Fossil Power Technologies division, mainly working on scrubber retrofits and new power plant designs. he finds the work very interesting, mainly because he still gets to be a true engineer; lives in Wicker Park with two friends from DGS and am loving the city; studied in Singapore spring '06 - traveled to Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Australia - absolutely spectacular, unforgettable experience; grad from UIUC in Mech. Eng '06. [11/09/06]

Nirav Shah (00) -- starting med school at UIC in the fall '04; went to "Medicine Camp" at Indiana State U in summer '00; grad from UIC '04. [07/15/04]

Elaine Abasolo (01) -- currently a PS-1 at the Chicago College of Pharmacy at MidWestern Univ in a 4 yr program; grad UIUC '06 with BS in chem and a minor in Food Science. [11/09/06]

Peter Abasolo (01) -- 2nd year med school at Loma Linda University Medical School (in California) '06; used to think that AP CHEM was so hard.... and now thinks AP CHEM wasn't that bad... compared to pharmacology, pathophysiology, etc, etc; grad UIUC '05.  [11/09/06]

William Green (01) -- at UIUC working on a PhD in math; won awards in both physics and math at Albion; presented a paper "Men, a Monkey, and Some Coconuts" - you will have to ask him!!!!; grad Albion College in Michigan (math/physics major and chem minor) '05. [04/11/06]

Nileena Job (01) -- doing grad research in analytical chemistry at Michigan State Univ summer '05; enrolling in the doctoral program in analytical chem and doing a masters in forensics--dual degree in 5 years; grad as a chem major from Grinnell College '05. [06/20/05]

Andrew Kim (01) -- thinking about becoming a HS teacher; grad UIUC in comp science '06;  National Merit '02.[08/22/06]

Tom Klumpner (01) -- going to Washington U in St. Louis; major, Biomedical Engineering with a focus on Biomolecular Systems; working at Tweeter Center in Tinley Park summer '04; doing computer analysis of data from Psychoanalytic transcripts for his grandfather; presented at a poster session for the American Psychoanalytic Association held in New York City in January -poster = "Qualitative Textual Analysis of Psychoanalytic Transcripts that Can Be Shared Without Compromising Confidentiality".  National Merit '02 [07/15/04]

Pierre Miller (01) -- getting ready to start his concert piano career; studying piano with Steven Hesla at Univ of Montana, Missoula--finding Missoula a little "laid back" compared to being at the "zoo"; grad from Kalamazoo College with a B.A. in Chemistry and Music '05. website: http://cc.kzoo.edu/~k01pm02/pfolio/   [06/20/05]

Kristin Mitchell (01) -- editorial intern at Sourcebooks, Inc. in Naperville summer '05; climbs rocks, practices Shotokan style of karate and scuba dives for fun; English-writing major and chemistry minor at Illinois Wesleyan University.  [07/21/05]

Narissa Nonzee (01) -- interned at Hospital Clinic (Barcelona's central hospital) in cardiovascular surgery and echocardiography ’04-liability was slim to none, so they let her do whatever she wanted - was elbow-to-elbow with the surgeons and learned so much; worked for Latino migrant farm worker rights and at the United Farm Workers Union for two years; trip to Spain summer '04, '03 & '01 with Kristen Scoville '01; grad UIUC with honors – dual majors in Molecular/Cellular Bio and Spanish ‘05. [10/24/05]

Odell Ordonez (01) -- becoming JAVA certified for his new job doing technical consulting with Crowe Chizek in Oakbrook; grad UIUC math and CS majors '04. [06/19/05]

Bryan Prendergast (01) -- applying to med school and hoping for U of C; grad UIUC chem major '05.  [06/14/05]

Allison Quatrini (01) -- going to Seton Hall University studing International Relations and Spanish; also taking Spanish and Chinese and working on a certificate from the University Honors Program; elected President of the Student Government Association '03. [08/22/03]

Pushpa Samuel (01) -- working in St. Louis at a biotech company called Stereotaxis-small start-up company that focuses on R&D with magnets that are placed into heart catheters--next step is to work on using the magnets in catheters going to the heart and kidneys '05; summer trip to India '01; biomedical engineering at Wash U. [07/21/05]

Mike Scalfani (01) -- in the honors program at Andrews University and will graduate '06 with majors in behavioral neuroscience and history and with a minor in chemistry; did well on the MCAT and hopes to attend med school in Loma Linda, CA for an MD/PhD; Currently doing research at Loyola University: Stritch School of Medicine - working on a model for patients who have aortic arch surgery to prevent paralysis in the lower back and working on a model for a disease called Guillain-Barrι syndrome. This disease is very similar to MS, but MS attacks the CNS while GBS attacks the PNS. And in his spare time he is working on HIV drugs - looking at chemokines and their relationship to HIV. (if you want to know more email me and I will send you his email address)  [09/09/05]

Kristen Scoville (01) -- trip to Spain summer '04, '03 & '01 with Narissa Nonzee '01; going to UIUC. [07/15/04]

Jameel Shihadeh (01) -- going to UIUC. [07/15/04]

Gergana Slavova (01) -- studying in France for the summer '04; going to UIUC with a comp science major. [06/15/04]

Georgia Tetteh-Gikunoo (01) -- going to Ill. Wesleyan. [07/15/04]

Jeff Asavalertpanich (02) -- engineering at Brown.[12/25/03]

Neha Datt (02) -- a film major at NU and having the best time of her life; produced the largest film at NU this year '04 (20,000 dollar budget) and is moving out to LA '04 to work at a production company; knows how to speak Italian and everything about film history before the 1930's.[05/04/04]

Clayton Luedtke (02) -- living in Portage, IN and working for MonoSol Rx as an analytical chemist doing QC work as well as R&D; grad in chemistry from Carroll College '06.  [11/08/06]

Madhur Merchant (02) -- molecular bio/biochem at IIT.[12/25/03]

Harsha Mudrakola (02) -- took the MCAT and did very well on it; good enough that Kaplan Test Prep hired him as an instructor for their MCAT prep class; doing research on Neuropeptidal patterns of feeding rats - summer '05 and close to publishing--even threatened to send me a copy when it is done; attending UIC and majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; got the top score on the qual scheme '02 at DGS. [12/0704]

Katie Picel (02) -- working for American Fidelity Mortgage summer '04; human development major at U of Chicago. [07/15/04]

Josh Reynolds (02) -- working on Electro-Mechanical Technologies (AAS Degree) at COD and intends to go into Industrial Engineering or Maintenance. [07/05/04]

Katarina Ruscic (02) -- started UofC's MD/PhD program (MSTP training grant)-the PhD is in computational neuroscience '06; won several undergrad awards - Goldwater Scholarship (the premier award in the nation for undergrad science majors) and the prestigious PCBio fellowship; works for Steve Goldstein, the chairman of pediatrics at UofC who researches the biophysics of ion channels in the heart and brain and is going to Baltimore '07 to present her work on ion channels at the Biophysical Society meeting; worked at Argonne making batteries '03; grad UofC in chemistry (BS), biochemistry (BS), and biology (BA) '06.   [11/06/06]

Steve Weiss (02) -- has taken up world travel as his new major; he has visited Rome '06, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ,Thailand (Bangkok, Phitsinuluk, and Chaing Mai), Singapore (New Years eve '05), Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi) '05; spent summer '05 at the Hiroshima Institute of Technology in Japan; going to UIUC in Nuclear Engineering. [12/30/05]

Asad Ahmed (03) -- attending Benedictine U in Lisle and had to interview an "elderly person" for one of his classes and he chose ME!!!! At least he got an "A" on the paper. [10/25/05]

Karisa Chin (03) -- going to UIUC '03. [08/18/03]

Zak Gates (03) -- moved into an apartment on Lakeshore Drive '05; beginning a one-year paid research fellowship (PCBio) with Kent Labs at U of C--research focus: protein bonding; Katarina Rucsic ('02) also received same fellowship (2 DGS alum out of 10 fellowships); attending U of Chicago.   PCBio program    [06/20/05]

Jon Haughton (03) -- continues to play chess, getting in shape for the Chicago Marathon in '07 and enjoying his chem classes; summer internship at Nalco Chemical (automation and boiler research group) in Naperville '06; finished his math minor; joined a service fraternity and volunteers lots; going to UIUC in chemical engineering. [11/09/06]

Mike Janicek (03) -- going to UIUC in mech engineering. [07/15/04]

Kira Johns (03) -- working at Country Curtains summer '05; going to Mich State in computer science and working toward becoming a Systems Analyst or somehow dealing with Information Systems '05.  [06/22/05]

Vineet Kumar (03) -- going to UIUC in biochem. [07/15/04]

Ryan Lahey (03) -- going to Wash U in St. Louis and double majoring in biomedical engineering and applied mathematics; conducting medical research as a part time job at the Wash U Med School. [12/18/04]

Michelle Li (03) -- interned with an investment bank (UBS) summer '05; going to Harvard and majoring in econ. [08/25/05]

Mike Montani (03) -- going to UIUC in chem engineering. [07/15/04]

Brian Oca (03) -- going to UIC in pharmacy. [07/15/04]

Kristin Taibl (03) -- working at American Fidelity Mortgage summer '04; going to UIUC in gen curriculum. [07/15/04]

Cindy Wang (03) -- working in the UC hospitals doing clinical research with a Thoracic Oncologist '05; going to U of Chicago in biology.

[10/25/05]

Karmen Wong (03) -- spending the summer '05 in Beijing, China studying Mandarin, China's public health policy and traditional Chinese medicine; going to Northwestern as an English major. China trip pic [12/29/05]

Dennis Cha (04) -- working at Target as a pharmacy technician and attending UIC studying to be a pharmacist. [10/25/05]

Bryce Harrop (04) -- attending UIUC and majoring in Nuclear Engineering (if that doesn't work out he will continue to make "Jewel" movies!!!!). [05/31/04]

Kristina Henry (04) -- going to Ohio Northern U with a major in bio/forensics/french. [07/15/04]

Carolina Kalita (04) -- summer '04 trip to Poland; going to U of Chicago and majoring in chemistry/biology. (pic of Krakow) [05/30/04]

Nikhil Kamat (04) -- still at DGS 2004-2005. [05/31/04]

Eileen Lapeta (04) -- majoring in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. [10/25/05]

Jessica Lin (04) -- still at DGS 2004-2005. [06/16/04]

Jeff Picel (04) -- still at DGS 2004-2005. [07/15/04]

Kevin Rafacz (04) -- going to UIC and majoring in Chemical Engineering. [05/30/04]

Laura Ryan (04) -- going to IL Wesleyan in biology/spanish and maybe chem. [07/30/04]

Fadi Shihadeh (04) -- still at DGS for 2004-2005. [05/30/04]

David Xu (04) -- going to Loyola in pre-med.[05/30/04]

Sybil Zachariah (04) -- going to UIUC in biochem. [07/15/04]

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