1979

During some recent excursions in our nation's Capitol, I ran into several classmates and heard their confessions in the hallways of the Senate. For the past few years Norm Richter has been tax counsel to the Senate Finance Committee. A 1983 graduate of Penn Law School, Norm was anticipating Senator Bentsen's appointment, and a corresponding change of venue for his own office.

Newlyweds Bill and Diana Conway are living in Silver Spring, Md. Bill, who in his own words has "accepted the bit" and adjusted to "the spurs," has served as counsel to the Senate Energy Committee for some five years. One of his major projects was the Energy Policy Act of 1992, which Congress finally enacted two days before the Conways exchanged vows. The new law, among other things, opens the nation's electric transmission lines and removes impediments to competitive electric generation. Bill expects to explore opportunities in the private sector or with the Clinton Administration. Diane will continue in her position as a research analyst for the Wisconsin Project for Nuclear Arms Control.

Dan Willey, assistant professor of physics at Allegheney College, has received a Young Investigators Award from the National Science Foundation. He was one of 202 faculty members selected to receive the award from a pool of more than 1,600 applicants. The awards are intended to highlight and enhance the research and teaching careers of outstanding beginning faculty and to foster cooperation between academia and industry. Research supported by Dan's grant will focus on studies of collisions and energy transfer in molecular systems at very low energy. It employs a novel technique, collisional cooling, which Dan helped develop while he was pursuing his Ph.D. at Duke.

UNC has accepted Chip Debelius's program proposal for the 1993-94 academic year's Master of Science in Architecture Program. Entitled "Modern Architecture and the Cult of the Machine," the program will include field studies in San Francisco and L. A. But far more importantly, anticipating the post-Zoe glut in unemployed nannies, Chip and Carol became the proud parents of their third daughter, Megan Carothers, on May 8. Keep in touch.

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