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From Beantown Josh Bers wrote in that be and his wife, Marina Umaschi Bers (who won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for her work with virtual environment for children with solid organ transplants—and ran into Julia Hammer at the award ceremony), are enjoying "our growing academic family with our oldest, Tali, now in first grade, Alan in pre-pre-K and Nico in nursery school. I am working at BBN Technologies, where I recently won a National Science Foundation grant to build a wireless sensor network to monitor the environment and pollution in Cambridge, Massachusetts." Josh attended the wedding of Allison Kornet '94 to Juan Ruiz-Hau in Cohasset Massachusetts. Owen Donnelley and his wife, Laura Mans, were present. Owen and Laura are living in San Francisco; she works as an architect and they both dance for a hiphop/swing dance group, Loose Change. They put on a sizzling lindy-hop display at the reception that had all eyes popping.

And lastly, news that all of us are welcome to visit Matt Bonaiuto in Jakarta! "After a bunch of years with consulting firms (PwC and IBM) I've got a new career. I became a Foreign Service officer (a.k.a. diplomat) in March. My first overseas assignment will be at the embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. I'll be in Jakarta for two years starting in mid-November (2006 to 2008). I'm not alone in this career shift: I joined just six months or so after Jeff Allen. Jeff had already had plenty of time to adjust to the diplomat lifestyle because his wife joined four years ago. In 2003 I visited them in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. I know that Melanie Bowen and her husband were also both diplomats, but she's ducked out to take care of their kids."

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REUNION June 15-17 2007