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April 1996 This episode of class notes begins with a report on our class gift. The first recipient of the Class of 1995 UROP Fund is Dora Farkas, '98, who will work with Professor Mario Molina, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, on developing a computer program to calculate future changes in the earth's ozone level. Thanks go to Jahnavi Swamy, who works for Procter and Gamble, and to the entire Class Gift Committee for such a successful effort, and to everyone who has contributed to the fund (including our buddy dass of 1970). We have made a difference. Remember to mail in your pledge if you have not yet done so - you're helping a very worthy cause. Some marriage notices: Bryn Mowry (who works for MIT's Information Systems) married David Oh, '91 (who is one more year away from a PhD), in Los Angeles last June. Attending the reception on a yacht in Marina del Rey were other ex-Chorallaries directors and members-Jake Yara, '93, and Bill Lin, '94 (both working in Boston), and Rich Damaso (now in Chicago)--so you may imagine several rounds of the Engineers' Drinking Song. Others joining the festivities were Franis Zane, '93?, and Doma Bell, '91, (who live together in San Diego), Jeremy Brown, '94, Marc Horowitz, '96, Michael Oh, Jessica Zimerman, '96, Loretta Vidos (who is engaged to Nick Pioch, '94, and is currently in the Course VI MNG program), Stacy Schlutsmeyer, '96, and Rosemary Tietge, '92, and David Smith (who split their time between New York and Boston). You can see Bryn and Dave's wedding album at <http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/bryn/ Wedding-Book/title.html>. . . . Wedding bells also sounded for Lynetta Frasure and Doub Newton, '91, on June 26, 1995. Julie Stephens was in the wedding, and then joined the engineering rotational program at Motorola Semiconductor in Phoenix, Ariz. Loreli Cadapan is here in Cambridge working on an MNG in Course VI, and I hear she teaches aerobics for the MIT athletic department. . . . After finishing a master's in Course III in February, Lan Hoang goes to National Semiconductor in Silicon Valley. . . . Ivan Oei is doing an MNG thesis with Professor Steve Leeb on flexible manufacturing, and is "looking for a job--excuse me, a career--no actually, a lifel" He lives with Sumit Basu, also a Course VI graduate student, and Raj Sarkar in Tang. . . . Sahana Sarma finished an internship with Motorola in Japan, and after working in Schaumberg, Ill., on her VI-A master's thesis, she will return to MIT to finish her degree. . . . Anthony David Patire worked with Ford last summer, and is now in the MNG program. . . . Keith Jackson joined the Leaders for Manufacturing Program. . . . Jason Sachs is doing an MNG in Course VI with Professor King of the physics department. . . . Lee Zamir spent his summer doing freelance graphic design and photography, and is currently in the MNG program. . . . Hemraj Sodhi is finishing a VI-A internship with Motorola SPS and will be interviewing for a job in EE. . . . Nadir Rahman, Matt Becker, and Edward Baik are all in the Course VI MNG program. . . . Phil Tracadas is a grad student in the EAPS Department, but still finds time for about "24 units a week" on renovations of his new apartment. Also at MIT, are Jim Gouldstone, who is getting a second SB in Course 11, Sherry Wu in her first year of a five-year nuclear engineering program, and Charles Chen-Cheng, pursuing a master's and finishing up a biology degree. . . . After finishing a VI-3 master's in January, Steve Steiner plans to join his fiance, Amber Dudley, in Austin, where she is in a master's program in architecture at the University of Texas, Austin. They have set a wedding date of December 26. . . . Best wishes also to Tammy Stoops, who plans to marry Samuel Lee Carson (Carnegie-Mellon University '94) of Pittsburgh, Pa., in the fall, after finishing a five-year SB/SM program in nuclear engineering. Several of our classmates have stayed in Cambridge, though now "up the river": Henry Cohn is a graduate student in the Harvard mathematics department. . . . Scott Lazerwith pursues a PhD in chemistry at Harvard. . . . Nancy-Lorena Torres attends Harvard Medical School. . . . Alice Lin is in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, studying science and technology policy, and enjoying "this side of Cambridge, oh so much more!" . . . Carrie Miller is in the Harvard Master of Public Policy program; her future plans include paying off loans. Also in Cambridge, is Howard Pan, who works for National Economics Research Associates, an economics consulting firm, which is a subsidiary of Marsh and McLennan and is a member of the Mercer Consulting Group. Although he is quite busy there, he also does research for his old advisor on a part-time basis, and studies Japanese at Harvard Extension School. . . . Ben Serridge worked at DEC Cambridge Research Lab until Christmas, and then planned to travel for six months in South America with friends. He will then return to complete an MNG in VI-3. . . . Teresa Esser is working as an acquisitions editor for Kluwer Academic Publishers <http://www. wkap.nl> in Cambridge. Any environmental engineers with PhDs who have academic transcripts can pass them along to her. Working our way south, Scott Kesapradist is in Connecticut working for Southern New England Telephone on the software part of their video-on-demand product. . . . In New York, Uday Jhunjhunwala works in mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, Evelyn Kao works for Bloomberg, and Jayanth Kumar has a management consulting position with Booz-Allen and Hamilton. . . . Wynne Kwan is in the city planning master's program at Columbia. . . . After spending his summer bartending in Cancun, Jonathan Lai started working for Deloitte and Touche in New York City. . . . Tracy Back and Matt Edstrom both work for Colgate-Palmolive in New Jersey. . . . At the University of Pennsylvania, Joyce Espiritu has started her graduate studies in materials science. She lives on campus without a roommate, but she does "have a kitchen and bath, which means more surface area to clean." . . . Sheila Jhawar is in the electrical engineering graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. . . . After traveling in Europe for four weeks, Laura Vojvodich began working for Air Products and Chemicals in Allentown. . . . In Washington, D.C., Jenny Lee is a first-year medical student at George Washington University, as is Bobby Wunnava, who has joined the Air Force Medical Service Corps (reserve) and will be a second lieutenant until he graduates. . . . At Duke University, Rahol Garg attends medical school. . . . Cynthia Liu is at the Medical College of Georgia, in Augusta. . . . Down in Pensacola, Fla., Brad Brewer attends the U.S. Navy flight school. Heading west of Boston, Catherine Mangion is at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. . . . Stephanie Ford and Astrid Richter both work for Timken Research in Ohio. . . . Joe Veys attends medical school at Ohio State University. . . . At Ford Motor Co. in Michigan, Caroline Pan is in a two-year rotation program, and is excited about joining the Explorer/Bronco/Ranger Design Studio, where she will do studio engineering work directly with the designer-artists who make sketches and clay models of concepts envisioned for the next four years. Also at Ford are Ty Hudson, who lives in a building near Caroline, Jen Wozniak, and Andy Laures. . . . Congratulations to Felicia Moss, who got engaged to Ari Trachtenberg, '94, last summer. She is working on a PhD in statistics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. . . . Tom Lawrence is doing his master'sin mechanical engineering at Carnegie- Mellon University. . . . Seth McGinnis is in the geophysics graduate program at the University of Colorado. . . . Way out west in Oregon, Mark Story is doing his VI-A internship at Tektronix. He plans to go to graduate school for a PhD. Out in California, Jesse Hull works for Xerox PARC as part of the VI-A program. . . . Eric Fong, Cerwin Ma, and Warren Sze are all working on their master's degrees in mechanical engineering at Stanford. Also at Stanford are Kristen Lohman and Wayne Pitcher, who is a first-year graduate student in the chemistry department enjoying the California weather. . . . Amy Koo works for Andersen Consulting in San Francisco. . . . Nicole Wainwright entered the MS in environmental engineering program at UC Berkeley and hopes to earn a PhD in engineering ecology. Also at Berkeley are Lisa Bailey, pursuing a master's in mechanical engineering, and Roderick Diaz, in the city planning program. . . . Douglas Shieh has a VI-A internship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and will be finishing up his MEng in VI-3. . . . Fawn Davenport works for an architect in Pleasanton, Calif., and lives with her fiance in Fremont. . . . Steve Hwang is in San Francisco, working for William Turnbull Associates (known for their design of Sea Ranch), a firm mainly doing residential design work, with Arley Kim. He hears that Trina Gavieres is in Hawaii but plans to move to LA. . . . Jiuntow Lin works for Pei, Cobb, and Freid (known for their designs of the Louvre Pyramid, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Hancock Tower, and many MIT buildings). Sarah Keightley is in Arizona working in a biochemistry laboratory at the Mayo Clinic, and she says it's nice to have a workday schedule but definitely misses the people and Boston. She hopes to apply to medical schools next year. . . . After taking a long trip to Korea and Hong Kong, Sookyung Lee started working at Motorola in Austin, Tex. . . . At the University of Texas in Austin is Karen Schmitt, who is doing graduate work in civil engineering, with both an NSF Fellowship and a fellowship from the University of Texas College of Engineering. She misses Boston, her friends, and the intensity and quality of the MIT education, but is enjoying her research and hopes not to spend too many more 100-degree summers. . . . Isitri Modak is in medical school at the University of Texas in Houston, and is happy that she's surviving. . . . Chitra Viswanathan is at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. That wraps up another Class Notes. Remember to pass the word along to your friends, and don't forget to send me information. 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