Hello my dears. Thank you all for continuing to contribute to Class Notes.

Without much further ado, here's more gossip: Shan Shan Huang was recently in San Francisco for a conference and met up with Nisha Shukla. Shan Shan returned to school in 2003, and is in her second year of Ph. D. studies for Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Nisha, after having worked for Intel since graduation, is looking forward to quitting her job, traveling in the summer, and starting business school at Wharton this fall. They are happy that their plan to take over the world is running perfectly on schedule.

Aisha Stroman laments the timing of our 5th year Reunion, but for good cause. She will be getting married in June 2005. Her fiancee, Don Taylor, III proposed to her on Christmas Eve morning at a restaurant in front of their family (and the other folks at the restaurant). "He got down on one knee and the whole nine!" Aisha and Don will be getting married in Norfolk, VA. They have the proposal on video and are hoping to add it to their web page soon (www.aishaandon.com). All you other people who do not have weddings are, of course, obligated to attend Reunion.

Of course, with all the weddings over the past few years, we have to expect that babies will be on the way. I'm happy to announce two of the first MIT babies to make it into Class Notes! Yevgeniya Nusinovich '01 and Aaron Ucko would like to announce the birth of their baby boy, Solomon (Solly), born on Dec. 22, 2004. Solly arrived a couple of months early, which came as quite a surprise for everyone, but he is doing well now after spending more than a month at the hospital.

Solomon (Solly) Ucko, born to Yevgeniya Nusinovich '01 and Aaron Ucko on December 22, 2004.

Ophelia Goatson-James and hubby Jason James would also like to announce the birth of their son, Memphis Nataani James, born on January 31, 2005, at 2:21 a.m. He weighed in at 7 lbs., 9 oz. and measured 20 inches. Both Ophelia and Jason are enjoying their new status as parents. They have finally decided to make their parents happy and "had the kids already." The whole James family is doing great and Ophelia is enjoying her time off to spend with Memphis.

Meanwhile, after making my way to the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area, I had the opportunity to witness first-hand the huge number of MIT alums in the area. In fact, at my housewarming bash, it seemed that half of MIT was there. Some of those in attendance: Aaron Bornstein '02, Ben Chambers '01, Carolyn Dunbar, Madhulika Jain, Esther Y. Lee, David Ratajczak, Sarah Sohm '99, Carl Steinbach '01, and David Wang '01. Forgive me if I forgot anyone, but I was busy attending to the half of Lower Haight who decided to show up and pacifying my neighbor who claimed that someone had peed off my fire escape and onto their window. (Sorry, neighbor.) You know it's a good party when someone pees off the fire escape. - Mimi Yang, secretary, 1100 Fulton St. #1, San Francisco, CA 94117; tel: 415-370-1297; e-mail: galaxie@alum.mit.edu.