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"After five and a half years I am finally leaving Viant, taking a break from the high-tech industry," writes Ed Kerrigan. "My company was purchased by a Chicagobased outfit called divine (that's right, lowercase "D"), which I am legally forbidden to disparage, according to my severance agreement. I'm serious. Anyway, that will enable me to keep this brief. Man, am I looking forward to getting some time away from the rat race. My current plan is to be a full time dad for six to nine months while preparing for a career change to teaching. The goal is to be behind a different kind of desk by next fall, teaching math and technology to middle-school kids. I figure that will give me the proper forum for my frequent pedantic rants." Ed, wife Michelle Brownlee '90 and 1-year old son Colin live in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Wendell and Stephanie Rouzee Pendleton are holding down the fort in Charlotte, North Carolina. They adopted son Christopher last spring and he turned 2 in December. Stephanie reports that he greatly enjoyed his first Halloween replete with a green threeeyed monster costume. Unfortunately, mom and dad didn't let him keep any of his sweet sugary loot (not even the rare gummi Venus de Milo) thinking that a 2-year-old hopped up on glucose wasn't the best of ideas. Don't worry, Christopher, there's always next year. Steph provided a new births update: Andrew '89 and Bari Anhalt Erlichson's son, Matthew Allen, arrived on October 5 of last year, and Trey and Eileen McAlister welcomed son Landon James on Halloween.

Elizabeth Day lives in Menlo Park, California, and is a partner at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, where she specializes in patent infringement litigation. Home improvement, traveling, culinary skills enhancement and wine collection occupy her time outside of work.

Rob Mairs checked in from the Land of 10,000 Lakes. He and his wife of three years, Aimee, had their first child last March. Rob reports that fortunately young Joseph Robert looks more like his mother than his father. He recently completed a two-year stint as president of the Dartmouth Club of the Midwest and among the highlights were the women's hockey team's trip to the Final Four in Minneapolis and the men's hoops team beating the spread against the University of Minnesota. Rob is a trusts and estates lawyer with Gray Plant Mooty.

Vanessa and Jay Wilkins welcomed Skylar Dora into the world in October of last year. Mom, dad and daughter are doing well in Portland, Oregon.

"Well, it turns out that Darwin was WRONG, as I continue to populate the earth," writes Steve Fried from the land of the pregnant chad. "Jill, big sister Samantha and I welcomed Molly Eloise Fried to town on October 25. Everyone is doing great, though Dad feels more than slightly outnumbered." The Frieds call Jupiter (Florida, not the planet) home and, aside from experiencing on a daily basis the truth to the old adage "the women are smarter," he works for Oxbow Corp. and enjoys a little car racing on the side.

P.H. Mullen is our newsletter editor and every day he waits by the e-mailbox for news of your triumphs, adventures, and musings. He lives in San Jose, California, with wife Karen Pike '90 and 2-year-old daughter Audrey and works at Netflix while writing his second book (the first, Gold in the Water, had great reviews). Kid No. 2 is due in March. E-mail him at phmullen@usa.net. No update too small!

That's all for this installment.

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