1982

I intended to do a Ripley Woodward-Smith retrospective this column but in deference to a cryptic but confident assertion by Mary Conway that a significant bounty of Woodward material would spring forth shortly, we will save it for later.

Doug Brown reports from Tenafly, New Jersey, where he and his wife, Laura, are raising three "great kids," ages 6,3 and nil (by the way, I'm planning to devote a column solely to '82s who have "lousy kids"—if you'd like to be profiled please send me an e-mail). Doug is a partner in ZS Fund, a private equity firm in NYC. He keeps up with John Idzik and Dave Parker. John, who as I recall was a split end for the Big Green, is now the assistant manager for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. John and his wife, Carol, have three kids, ages 11,9 and 6. Dave Parker, who I remember from my freshman trip as the kid who had to be rescued on Day 3 because of an attack of food poisoning/Ebola, is living in Del Mar, California, where he moved from Boston about five years ago. He is running the West Coast office of Ampersand Ventures. Within three years of the coastal switch, he landed his biggest deal to date, closing the Althea Lee (UCSD '86) transaction. He is into biking, hiking and sea kayaking. Bill Kinnard is also a Denver area resident. He is a physician at Kaiser Permanente. Andy Hutchinson is working as a marketing manager for Teradyne in the assembly test division. He lives in Dunstable, Massachusetts, with his wife, Sarah, and daughters ages 7 and 4. He keeps in touch with dorm mates Ray Kelly, Jim Morgan and John Nicholson.

Peter Feer is married to Alyssa, who is a Montessori schoolteacher. They live in Boulder with their son Whitton. As an investment banker at McDonald Investments/Wallach Cos., Peter finds financing for Colorado's most promising companies, as well as some of the ones I'm invested in. He just returned from an 85-mile rafting trip with Sandy Kelsey in Utah. Before the statute of limitations expires, he wants to make sure that Sandy and Ozzie Harris pay their debts to all of the Woodward residents caught in the crossfire of the Ripley-Smith water fights.

Todd Morrill, "in the spirit of obscure causes," contributed a wealth of information. He lives in Walnut Creek, California, with two kids, 8 and 4 He is married to Roxu Wolosenko '83. He works at Venture Merchant Group, a small merchant bank focused on biotech and pharma companies. Todd teaches a course at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business called "Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology," He asks for any information on fellow Ripley basement dwellers Rich Gombosi, Joe Ranzini, John Carrington, Shaun Teevens and Herbie Hardwick (ditto from us). Charles Crane and his wife, Leisa, split their time between homes in NYC and Biddeford Pool, Maine. He is co-chief investment officer for Victory SBSF Capital Management. He gardens, cooks, golfs and sea kayaks. He shamelessly plugs his investment in Maine Cottage Furniture www.mainecottage.com.

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In other news, I recently read a press release on classmate and U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald. It credited Peter with the courage to stand by his principles in fighting pork and machine politics that permeates both parties in his home state of Illinois. It also suggested he might be an interesting presidential candidate. I remember a speech Peter gave in the introductory speech class sophomore year. His thesis was that politicians should vote their consciences even if doing so appears to contradict the popular will. Obviously, he is concerned that Peter Roberts and I might remember it and hold him to it.

Cheers, Mark.

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