1980

Twenty years ago we were anxiously self-assured sophomores, beginning our Dplans, preparing for FSA or LSA, and trying to decide on a major. Today, we are the 1997 Class of the Year, cited among other things for our record 10th Reunion Alumni Fund, our still-growing camaraderie, our generous support of freshman trips, and our "widely read communication network" (emphasis added). Class will tell.

The Sunday Monitor (Concord, N.H.) highlighted Judy Reardon in an article about advisers to N.H. Governor Jeanne Shaheen. Judy serves as legal counsel and oversees the other policy advisers for the governor. With a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Judy is a former public defender and former public affairs director of Planned Parenthood. See if you can guess Judy's party affiliation. Sounds like Judy is the one to know if you want to tell something to the governor.

Mark Sonnenfeld is working on a Ph.D. in geology, with a minor in petroleum engineering, at the Colorado School of Mines. Mark's research and consulting emphasis involves the application of highresolution sequence stratigraphy to issues of reservoir exploitation. Mark will tell us what this means when we see him next, but somehow I don't think anything called "exploitation" is something the Sierra Club is real happy about.

Mike Giovia tells me that he married his high-school sweetheart, Adele, in 1980. They have three children: Nicole, Michele, and Stephanie. Mike has spent his time since graduation in the telecommunications or computer industry. He is in New Jersey with Bellcore, trying to market and sell Internet software. Mike keeps up with Chuck Nagle '78, and class of '79 members Chris Haydon, Tom Smith, and Dave Kelley, all of whom are doing well. Mike can tell you more if you e-mail him at .

Kevin Ryan was appointed to the San Francisco Municipal Court by Governor Pete Wilson in January 1996. After graduating from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1984, Kevin served as an Alameda County deputy district attorney from 1984 until he was appointed to the bench. Judge Ryan works hard during the day so he can go home and be with his wife, Anne, and their two sons. San Francisco attorneys attest to Ryan's hard work ethic and his extremely good grasp of the law.

If you get in trouble in the City by the Bay, you can tell it to the judge and see if his reputation for setting high bail for nonviolent offenders is justified. Imagine a former prosecutor setting high bail.

Joan von Herrmann and her husband, Mitchell Block, are the proud parents of twins Anja Gabriele and Pieter Albert, born in May of 1996. Joan and Mitchell also work together at their documentary distribution company, Direct Cinema Limited, in Santa Monica, Calif. Since Joan teaches parttime at the California Institute of Arts in the film department, maybe she can tell us the difference between a movie and a film.

I can tell you that all of Savannah eagerly awaits the latest Clint Eastwood project, starring John Cusack and Kevin Spacey, and based upon The New York Times' bestseller by John Berendt, Midnight in. the Garden of Good and Evil. Let's wait until the release, and then I'll say whether or not it's a film, and more importantly, whether Savannah is still proud to be a part of it. So far, however, Eastwood and company have received higher marks from the locals than did Tom Hanks and company when they were here for Forrest Gump. That's all I can tell you for now.

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