Class Notes Archives
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March/Arpil 2000 Hello Everyone! Here are the class notes for the Mar/Apr 2000 issue of Technology Review. Please note that my home address is changing once again. I am now finished with my internship at Compaq Computer Corporation, so I am returning to Boston for my last semester in the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at Sloan/MIT. If you'd like to send me any pictures or anything, make sure they go to this new address. Thanks!! Happy holidays and best wishes for a fun and safe new year...! Ranjini Srikantiah Hi Everyone! First off, reunion planning is well underway. Our gift chairs Jahnavi Swamy and Evelyn Kao are putting together a gift committee and organizing mailing. Our reunion chair Katie Leo has held a couple of conference calls to organize activities for the weekend. If you would like to help in any way, contact Amy Koo (amykoo@alum.mit.edu) or me (ranjini@alum.mit.edu). Remember, reunion is June 1-4, 2000. Save the dates!! Now on with the news... Josh Abrams is living in Brooklyn, doing his PhD in Theatre Studies at CUNY. If all goes well, he'll have two terms of classes and then "the dissertation" (Insert ominous music here). He's the managing editor for the journal "Western European Stages." Anyone in NY, feel free to get in touch at (718)965-0604 or email josh_abrams@alum.mit.edu. Andrew Kraft is starting a new startup dotcom called Executivity, based in NYC, but with global reach. They are currently in the angel investor fundraising round. In about 3 weeks, his 2nd child should be making an appearance. Warren Marcus would like to send a hearty congratulations out to Chris Chiu and Tony Sebro for passing the New York Bar exam! After four years of working in NYC, first in management consulting, then in the media industry with EMI Music and Time Inc., Nancy Ho is now at Tuck Business School at Dartmouth. She's having a blast being back in school, living in the woods of New Hampshire, and taking part in the Tuck tradition of playing ice hockey. Richard Davis, employee number 14 at Virtual Ink Corporation in the Boston area, reports that his company just started shipping its product, "mimio," and it's really making a splash! At the World Kuk Sool Won (Korean Martial Art) Tournament in October, Diane Hodges won 6 gold metals in the 7 events she competed in to win the overall women's 1st degree black belt grand championship. "Now what am I going to do with a 6 foot trophy?" she asks. Saul Nuccitelli '92 (black belt) and Thayne Coffman '91 (soon to be black belt) also competed and won a variety of medals in their respective divisions against people from across the USA, Canada, England, and Venezuela. After a couple years at LucasArts making starwars games, Stephen Hwang left last December to join a startup computer games company in Berkeley called Infinite Machine. For the past year he has been designing levels for their first game, a third person shooter based in China, using the unreal engine. Last he heard, Arley Kim was still studying architecture at the ETH in Switzerland and was on the verge of taking a qualifying test. Fawn (Davenport) Ferguson moved to Nashville to help her husband start a chiropractic clinic. Stephen saw Trina Gavieres in May, when she said she was planning to move up to the Bay area next year. One of her scripts was recently used on the Young and the Restless. Stephen attended Jeanne Thienprasit and Scott Kesapradist's wedding in Minnesota, along with Erika Schutte and Meghan Bowser. He also reports that Dave Frohman is doing his MBA at the Sloan school and Jim Gouldstone is a web developer at Webivore. Yeh-Jiun Tung is at UC Berkeley working on his PHD in EE, doing research in flat panel displays and thin film transistors. He hopes to graduate in December 2000. Brian Blatnik graduated from Kellogg in June and recently started a new position at Cisco Systems in San Jose. He is on a business analysis team in the cable and wireless division. Arun Thomas finished one year with Andersen Consulting in September and decided to pursue an opportunity with an Internet startup called IPIN in San Francisco. Wynne Kwan is still in Singapore working for a local firm and can't believe she has been there for 2 years. She will probably be leaving at the end of April 2000, after which she hopes to find a job in South America. Her Industrial Development Strategy Consulting Project has kept her travelling back and forth to Dubai from Singapore. She was in the States for a vacation/business trip, stopping in London and Dubai for work on the way to and from NY. She was able to see many friends from MIT. Outside of work, she is involved with flystep dance classes, batik painting classes, the MIT and Columbia Alum Clubs in Singapore, (she serves on both exec. committees), various expat functions and music and art performances. Currently, she is helping with Singapore's first Ivy Ball with some members from the UPenn, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Dartmouth Alum Clubs. It's sure to be a grand event. Unfortunately she will not be able to make it Stateside for the holidays, but she will be celebrating the turn of the century in Hong Kong with her sister. Michele Lombardi is applying to Business Schools, a process that he says has revealed itself as far more boring than expected. "Let's hope for the best: "In bocca al lupo!" as we say in Italy!" Derek Cedillo and his wife Nancy are expecting their third child in April 2000, meaning they have graduated to minivan-dom. Derek still coaches little league, soccer, and football for their oldest, Theo. Their soccer team went undefeated in the regular season, and swept through the regional tournament to qualify for the Ohio State S.A.Y. Tournament (Soccer Association for Youth) in the fall of 1999. The youngest Cedillo, Nicholas (at least until April!), is 1.5 years old and is walking and talking. He loves music like his mother and already can dance better than his father! Derek is still working for GE Aircraft Engines in Cincinnati, where he is a Mission Analyst for military engine programs. He received his Master's in Engineering Management from the University of Dayton in 1999. He has lost his first "role model" in the passing of Walter Payton in 1999. He hopes that his passing reminds many people out there of how to be a great athlete, scholar, or anything they want to be while maintaining humility, civility and the work ethic of a champion. Jonathan Hardy is in Austin, TX, "workin' my butt off" for Trilogy. He worked on some customer management tools for carOrder.com for about 5 weeks, and was working on some similar tools for applianceOrder.com. Both are spin-offs of Trilogy, so they get the benefit of free slave labor from new Trilogy recruits. Not bad, overall, but he's looking forward to getting into more consulting work in the near future. Jesse Hull has embarked on a journey around the world. Catch all the latest details on his homepage: http://chemhomebase.union.edu. I will be returning to Boston after having enjoyed myself in Houston for the past 6 months. During my stay here I played flag football with Fred Hernandez and his wife Jen, I ran into Sheila Jhawar at an Indian dance studio, and I hung out with Isitri Modak, who is doing her residency in internal medicine. I sure will miss the place and its people! One more semester at MIT and then who knows?? I'll be sure to update you all. See you at reunion!
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