1984

Just to make sure you all stay connected with popular culture, this column is I brought to you via the Internet. Out of some 1,000 classmates, I've heard from approximately six via e-mail. The rest of you are being left behind the times, so get that e-mail in.

I received a ten-year update from Adam Burck: "I went into marketing at Quaker Oats in Chicago and got an M.B.A. from Kellogg in 1989. While at Quaker, I met and married my lovely wife, Lori. [Adam joined Keebler and spent five years there developing new snack businesses. In 1991 one of my products was named New Product of the Year by the American Marketing Association." Adam is in London now working for United Biscuits, Keebler's parent company.

Adam writes that Frances Jones Berry was assistant counsel at PNC Bank in Louisville last he heard; Josh Mendes is attending the Kennedy School at Harvard; Mia Leuhrmann completed her Ph.D. in physics, had a baby, and is doing research at Berkeley.

I also heard electronically from Steve Compton. He's working at the University of Utah Medical Center, where he is a senior fellow in cardiology. He told me that he's "virtually assured of being overtrained and underemployed when I finish training in 1996." Steve's been traveling and teaching new cardiology techniques. "I lived in Sofia, Bulgaria, for a month last year. Ran around the national parks of Botswana in December and went white-water rafting down the Zambezi River."

Steve writes that "Al Pokorny's living near here in Park City and claims to have set up some kind of itinerant ear, nose, and throat practice, though he's also logging a suspicious (and enviable) amount of telemark time. Cam Schaeffer finished his urology training here last July and is now at Duke doing a pediatric urology fellowship, to be followed by a plastics fellowship in Kentucky. Doug Kingsley and his wife, Bones, have managed to crank out four sons in a span of 23 months, including a pair of twins. Doug's working for a venture-capital firm in Boston and clearly enjoys it. Jim Mahoney is finishing his Ph.D. at Hopkins and is now a certified glycobiologist he - has arranged a post-doc fellowship at Oxford and is heading there this summer. He managed to get himself hired on without ever speaking to his new employers - all negotiations were by e-mail and fax - very 19905."

Deborah Schupack verified via e-mail that she is, in fact, teaching a course via the Internet, but didn't give me any more information than that. Deborah, this is free advertising - send me information.

E-mail from several other fine alumni will have to wait for next month. Adam asks whether there is an e-mail directory for our class or for alumni in general. Well, there is not one for our class, but Alumni Records is now including alumni e-mail addresses in its database. If you have one, let them know at .

A quick technology-career-related note of my own: I've left Microsoft as of June 30 to produce titles in Seattle for Dreamworks Interactive. You can still reach me via until farther notice. Also, I have finally stayed in one home for longer than a year since college, but my address is still changing. The address-management department has changed the city and zip code to reach our house. New address is below.

8612 NE 10th St., Medina, WA 98039