1988

Several of our classmates ran for election this pastyear. Scott Evans ran for election to the Colorado State Senate this past November, losing a hard-fought race to the Republican Senate minority leader. During his campaign Scott highlighted transportation and congestion as key issues. Scott attended the University of Virginia law school, interned for Colorado's U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell and managed a campaign for school board in Massachusetts. He is an attorney and a member of the Colorado State Grievance Board, is married and has a son and daughter.

Stephen F. Smith ran for election to the Virginia House of Delegates to represent his district of Falls Church. Holding his J.D. from the University of Virginia, and employed as an attorney with the firm of Sidley & Austin, Stephen ran as a Republican. He has a full resume, having clerked for the U.S. Supreme Court and served as a member of the Fairfax County school board advisory committee on human relations and the board of regents of the Congressional Schools of Virginia. Stephen is married and has four children. In other election news, J. Kirby Fowler has just been elected chair of the Maryland Consumer Council, and was also recently named a fellow of the Maryland Bar Association. He graduated from New York University School of Law and is now a principal in Ober/Kaler's Labor and Employment Group. The Maryland Consumer Council was formed in 1974 and is charged with investigating consumer issues and advising the state office of the attorney general on consumer matters. Under Kirby s leadership, the council will address whether patient care is being adversely affected by the practice of some HMOs of rewarding physicians for keeping costs low.

Chris Schons is the international affairs coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Florida Department of State (FDOS). Chris helps manage the many international initiatives of the FDOS that relate to the Western Hemisphere.

In 1999 Stephen Davidson served on a government committee drafting Bermudas Electronic Transactions Act and saw the opportunity to enable digital signatures that are based in an offshore jurisdiction. He took the entrepreneurial plunge at the beginning of 2000 by co-founding QuoVadis Limited, a digital certificate authority based in Bermuda and serving the offshore world. QuoVadis is backed by e-Venture-Centre—an offshore e-commerce incubator that is partof the Zurich Financial Services Groupand is closely affiliated with Baltimore Technologies, a public key infrastructure company on the FTSE 100. Stephens company was the first of its kind offshore and has led a wave of related entities in other jurisdictions.

After 12 years, Lizzo Laszlo finally found time to write to us with news of her life. While at Disneyworld in Florida she met her husband, Brian Burn. They were married on July 24,1999, on her family's ranch in Ennis, Montana (once visited by your correspondent and Quentin Cote in 1987—its a beautiful placed Attending the wedding were fellow alums Julie Sanders, Townley Slack and Lizzo's brother Andy Laszlo '84. Lizzo and Brian have two golden retrievers, and on April 24,2000, they became the proud parents of Caitlyn Elizabeth Burn. Lizzo has decided to be a stay-at-home mom, and just recently resigned her position as director of public affairs for the National Cable Television Association in Washington.

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