Betsy Alberty describes Mill Valley, Calif., as “paradise,” at least partially because she’s still enjoying growing her biotech company (check it out at www.alsbyte.com). Otherwise, she’s doing a lot of “playing with deerhounds, cooking, and entertaining.”… Lynn Glover Baronas is a contract lawyer for Day Berry & Howard, one of Hartford’s biggest firms. She has a three-day-a-week schedule managing large document reviews in complex litigation, so she’s got two weekdays free to spend with Billy (10), Katie (8), and Mary (2). Lynn keeps in touch with Pam Walch Constantine and Jane Goguen Baronas…. Dwight Bell says the three kids keep him and Karen pretty busy. Fortunately, the job front is stable — he’s working as a health actuary for Aon Consulting…. Sounds like Wendy Korjeff Bellows has a great balance of activities these days. First, she’s now a research associate at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science, looking into sulfur-gas production by marine phytoplankton. Her “extra” time goes into a small business she’s begun in “custom signs and horse equipment.” Last year she organized the only nationally recognized combined-training equestrian event in Maine…. Scott Bierman “hopes to get work done on the second edition of his games theory textbook by this summer before he takes over as president of the Carleton faculty.”… Jeff Brown will be in Maine with Mark Sorensen for three days of sea kayaking. Jeff’s looking forward to the trip because sons Matt and Nick are “intermittently cooperative, and intermittently…” what shall I say, not cooperative. Jeff continues to survive as an M.D. in public medicine (does this wonderful country still do that anymore?)…. Molly Campbell and Nils Bonde-Henriksen are well. Molly has just finished her “never-to-be-a-bestseller” book, How to Revitalize Your Day Program: A Clinical Perspective. It’s about therapeutic activities integrated into programs for developmentally disabled adults…. Gary Grieve-Carlson is now the chair of the English department at Lebanon Valley College, where he’s a full professor. Gary and Bridget were expecting a May baby — their third child, so we missed them at the Reunion…. Last year, Jane Duncan Cary and family pulled up roots, leaving Amherst and Deerfield Academy respectively. Michael’s now doing well as headmaster of Lawrenceville School, and Jane has found a 25-hour-a-week home as director of health professions advising (what we used to call pre-med advising) at Princeton…. Pam Walch Constantine disputes Newsweek (hey, someone finally had to confront them!) and reports that “there are still a few of us full-time moms around with three kids, a dog, and jobs that no one pays us to do.” Besides all this, Pam is chair of the board of a large pre-school and has also paid her dues as coordinator (and pot-scrubber) of a feeding program for the hungry in her town…. Mark Diters is now a pastoral intern at South Granby Congregational Church, all while he’s now in his second year at Yale Divinity School “working towards a long overdue master of divinity degree.”… Don Earle did the Burlington Marathon. Other forms of “relaxation” include chasing his 13- and 10-year-old daughters through extracurricular theater and sports events — and keeping his business growing and profitable…. Katherine Flom says she’s “one of the few lawyers I know who actually enjoys their work.” Kate partly attributes this satisfaction to a new office her firm opened within biking distance of her lakefront house in Minnesota. Kate’s two step-daughters will both be in college this fall, making her the first member of our class, I believe, to qualify as an “empty nester.”… David Foster is the president of his coop, and the new president of the Newsletter Publisher’s Assn., his professional association. Both he and Mina are gearing up for a half-Ironman triathlon in July…. In what appears to be another first for the class, Katherine Taylor Gamble‘s husband Paul took early retirement this winter, so he’s now a full-time dad. She’s now working about three days a week in geriatric optometry, and the family is looking into buying a camp in the mountains of central Pennsylvania…. Eva Hathorn Geddes is nearing her first anniversary since being transferred to Erie, Pa. She and Wesley are responsible for the work of the Salvation Army in that area. She’s also working in education (beginning a master’s degree in counseling this fall) and writing…. Steve Hadge is enjoying a more reasonable class load of 18 in his second year since taking on the challenge of teaching kindergarten…. In a similar challenge, Terry Mailliard Keyes is taking care of two teenage girls and her 2-1/2-year-old boy. Terry throws down the gauntlet: “Try getting one child into college and one out of diapers at the same time.”… Steve Lancor reports that he, Ann Marie, Kevin, and John are enjoying their 14th year in West Hartford. Steve is still a sales manager at Gallo Wines of Connecticut, but got a big charge when the kids basketball team he coached won the town championship with a 13-0 record, with John as the MVP!… Joren Madsen just moved into his first “real” house in the Back Bay, and says of his medical work: “I’m still fixing hearts and developing ways to transplant pig hearts (xenotransplantation) into humans who would otherwise die.”… Also in medicine, Dervilla McCann has her private solo medical practice up and running, though she’s frustrated by “the adversarial relationship between insurance companies and physicians.” Overall, she rates “starting a private practice as the steepest learning curve I’ve faced since Bates.”… Laura deFrancesco McLaughlin got married May 10! Leslie Mortimer, Nancy Witherell and Sherry Knutsen were at the wedding. Leslie says that “despite all my efforts to the contrary I’m becoming a techno-geek,” largely due to her installation of Internet research stations at her library. The technology is offset by two book discussion groups, season tickets for the New Jersey Symphony, and two courses in music appreciation…. Mary Beth Pope Salama sends her best to “David, Emily, Jacquie, Quan, Anders, Sue, Laura, Bob … you know who you are.” Mary Beth’s family practice residency is in its inaugural year, so she’s teaching there and trying to keep ends together in an office practice that has tripled in two years. Naomi is 11, and Alexander is 5…. After dominating the Oklahoma radio scene, Steve “Ace” Powers has taken a new job as morning anchor and news director at WOFU-AM 690 in Jacksonville, the “Bold New City of the South.” He says he “covered tornadoes in Tulsa — now maybe I can hook up with a hurricane.”… Dan Quinn is coming up on his 20th anniversary with Mobil, but his major challenge is lots of coaching: “In Massachusetts, ice hockey is the endless season.” His sons are now 5 and 7… It’s the boating season along the Maine islands, so things are pretty good for Sandra Karpela Radis. She’s quit her job as a family therapist to devote more time to friends and family. She keeps in touch with Gina Chase and Jeanne Cleary…. Tom Ryan is struggling with the “standard lament of new parents: no free time” as Chloe comes up on her first birthday. New Trustee Deb Thyng Schmidt has worked out a pretty ideal work-at-home situation: She’s a free-lance writer of college admissions and financial-aid materials. The work allows her to focus on Sarah (6) and Amy (3), “take summers off,” and enjoy their life
in Colorado…. Paul and Barbara Braman Sklarew now share three kids, two dogs, two rats, one rabbit, one mouse, an old house with a big yard in West Barnstable, and a busy practice…. Lydia Brown Soule‘s oldest son is getting his learner’s permit soon, so she sends warnings to classmates in the South Portland area…. In Florida, Stuart Strahl has been receiving a lot of press attention as director of the National Audubon Society’s Everglades campaign. He says the South Florida battle puts him “back in the big time” after a few years in rural Maryland. Melissa and the three kids are doing well…. Cynthia Smallwood Sullivan owns a structured settlement firm with her husband with offices attached to their home in Foxborough, making it a little easier to be around and about for their “five wonderful children, ages 11 to 16.”… Jennifer Malia Takahashi passed her doctoral comps and has completed her course work, so she’s now embarking on the last leg: a one-year internship in the psychology department at Queens Hospital in Honolulu. Hang in there with the dissertation. Like most of us, she thanks her family for putting up “a lot.” Jennifer was visited by Cindy Rockwood Wang during a recent trip to Hawaii. Christine Kaminski Tolen has “a long commute to anywhere,” but loves Larkspur, Colo. She’s surviving as the chief accounting officer at a public company — and running bumps and gates in the master’s program at the local ski area….James Tonrey continues as managing partner of Tonrey Means, the business insurance agency, and he’s also become a partner in Boston Asset Management, an investment advisory firm. Several of the stars of the current Bates soccer team (the best team in many decades) trace their interest in Bates to working with Jim in Boston-area leagues…. Jackie Wolfe recently got divorced, so it hasn’t been the best of times. She says she’s entering a period where her “spiritual inquisitiveness is resurfacing.” The good news is that Jackie is doing tons of Bates stuff — she was up at the huge Bates Campaign celebration in May — and her massage practice is steadily growing. If it keeps doing as well, Jackie hopes to leave the NYPD in a few years…. Linda Greason Yates is now the vice president of human resources at Milford Hospital in Massachusetts. Anyone with HR experience will immediately understand what she means when she says “after 20 years, nothing surprises me anymore. I could write a book.” Linda and family spend as much time as possible in South Bristol, Maine (Rutherfords Island), kayaking and relaxing: “It’s my favorite place.”