1986

[APPLAUSE]...and we're back to The Classof '86. We have a few interesting guests today. Our first is Jim Cisneros, who has been quite a busy man. In 1991 Jim earned his master's in architecture from the Univ. of Illinois. A couple of years later, he married a Northwestern University lady, Jennifer Dore. This past January they had their first child, a boy named William Aras. Jim and his family are currently living in Garden City, N.J., where he works at Gruntal & Cos. Inc. as a project manager for real estate and facilities management. Even with a family, two cats, and two Great Danes, he is pursuing his M.B.A.

Our second guest is in San Francisco, Liz Babb Fanlo. She missed Reunion due to the birth of her second child, a little boy named Sutton, on May 20. Liz works for Charles Schwab & Cos. in its Institutional Technology Group. I would like to extend a big thank you to Liz for her great work as class secretary during the past five years.

Now I'd like to introduce Erik Roskes' new daughter, Elana Sara, who was born in June. Three-year-old big brother Jeffrey Seth loves his baby sister. Erik and his family reside in Baltimore, where he juggles a challenging schedule, including working as medical director of psychiatric urgent care at the Univ. of Maryland Hospital, running a private practice, and holding an assistant professorship at the Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine. "I go home to work and go to work to rest at least at work I can sit!" says Erik.

John Meier, our entrepreneurial guest, has recently started his own software company, called Freshwater Software, which builds tools for monitoring Web sites. Learn more about this venture on the Web at .

This brings me to our last guest, a fairly recent addition to our class. It helped us find out information about the Reunion and is a great vehicle to communicate with our classmates. Give up? It's our class Web site. The address is . People have been updating the e-mail, as well as linking their own business Web sites. Help us make this site more complete by sending me your e-mail and any other appropriate links.

If you have any suggestions, comments, or ideas, you may contact me at the address below.

Just a reminder that Homecoming is Friday and Saturday, October 18 and 19, when we'll be playing the Yale Elis. Our class will be sponsoring a post-game reception for the classes of '73-'86 at the Top of the Hop on Saturday afternoon immediately following the game. Hope to see you there!

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