1976

First this month is the class email list. Rick San Soucie kindly put together the list of email addresses that appears on the College's webpage. The list is now woefully out of date. If you have an e-mail address, please send me a note at . I'll forward the changes to the College.

Anesthesiologist Jeff Reiker finished his term as medical staff president at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center in Southern California. Jeff and Paula have three children, Jenna 13, Emily 11, and RJ. 9. They live down the street from another '76, Dan Pulvers, who married Amy Radunskaya, a math professor from Pomoma College. Jeff reports that Amy's specialty "is chaos theory. Anyone who knows Dan will appreciate the irony of that." Jeff can be reached at .

Tim Beasley went down from Ottawa to Norwich for Paul Hoisington's wedding in August. Sounds like it was a good time as of the column's deadline Tim had not reported the details ("I don't even have the bride's name"). Maybe more next month.

Closer to home (my home, anyway) is Chuck Hostnik, who practices law in the second-most scenic state capital, Olympia, Wash. Chuck says he was lured to the Northwest by Jamey Hampton, who promptly decamped for Connecticut. (Jamey is now back in Portland, Ore., where Chuck met him for lunch recently.) Chuck is married with two children a daughter age 15 and a son age 12.

Chuck has made a name for himself in the field of Native law: "I have had the opportunity to travel to many Indian reservations as both a trial and appellate judge in tribal courts. I have worked as a judge for tribes from Alaska to California and Nevada, and as far east as Wisconsin. I have also had an opportunity to work on national Indian law issues. Being a true transplanted North-westerner, my main hobby is drinking Starbucks coffee. Once, on an out-of-town trip, when I inquired of a waitress whether they had espresso, I was told 'Sir, you are not in Seattle anymore this is Nebraska.'"

Chuck sends a challenge to any number of classmates ("slugs," I think, was his term) who have not sent in notes to this column. "I haven't heard or read anything about the '76 Tabard crew of Steve Askey, Frank Tezak, Peter Brooks, and Kevin Keyes. I vaguely recall something about a bet that the first of us to get married owed the others a case of beer—or was it a keg? Where is Peter Gergely? And Mel Treadway? And why hasn't my sister, Heidi Hostnik '80 a.k.a. Jaeger, written anything in her Class Notes section? If she is waiting to read something about me, she is out of luck—now the pressure is on her!" Chuck can be reached in the green and caffeinated environs of Olympia at .

Melinda Harder is working at Bates College in Maine as a lecturer in mathematics. She has been in the math department since 1990 teaching statistics, probability, and modeling courses. Melinda saw Mary Heller Osgood and Chris Osgood '75 recendy when their son Brayton interviewed at Bates. The Heller-Osgoods are living in Putney, Vt., and still enjoy x-c ski racing. Mary has her own business making ski uniforms, and Chris teaches in the Putney Day School.

Melinda has been in touch with Buffy Boogusch, who is now practicing medicine in Camden, Maine, after spending many years as a physician in France. She occassionally sees John Eldredge, the most recent occasion being the "Beach to Beacon 10K Race" in mid-summer, and organized a conference for the"New England Isolated Statisticians" with Middlebury math professor Bill Peterson '79. Melinda can be reached at .

Thanks to all those who wrote and sent e-mails! Please drop a line with any news of yourself and classmates to:

957 Gold Belt Ave., Juneau, AK 99801, (907) 586-4000,

Chuck Hostnik has traveled to many Indian reservations as a trial and appellate judge in tribal courts. DICK MONKMAN '76