ALUMNI NOTES FOR CALTECH CLASS OF 1995

Alright. Time to start sending me some news. Haven't heard anything in a long time from most of you.
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January, 2000: Albert Ratner writes to say he is doing well, and is getting married in May of 2000. He hopes to defend his PhD in Aero at University of Michigan in June.

August, 1999: Well, i finally have a LITTLE bit of news. Remy Hathaway was married on June 19th of 1998 to Kara, whom many of you probably know, at Descanso Gardens in La Canada. They are now living in San Francisco. Remy works for a municipal investment bank. Mikey Ng is living in Hawaii working at CompUSA and teaching physics at Heald College. Joey Beheler moved to New York to become a Day Trader. =) And, last but not least, Mike Ichiriu just got married. Now, you just have to check out: www.mike-n-yuki.com.

July, 1999:
Sonny Arcilla is about to take a position in New York with a law firm. He's been doing network and email administration for Novell networks.
Joe Long has moved from Tampa, FL to Atlanta. He is a research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

May, 1999:
Matt Metz is still in grad school at Berkeley, and is beginning to doubt that an end exists to the grad student experience. But, on an important note, he adds that his Halloween party has become infamous in the plant biology department. I'm sure that means he's planning on extending an invitation to all of us, this coming October.

Ben McCall is also in grad school. He's working on a joint Ph.D. between the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics. His research involves astronomical observations of molecules using infrared and visible spectroscopy, as well as laboratory research on molecular ions using infrared laser spectroscopy.

Patrick Yue just finished med school, and is going to Boston for a residency in internal medicine. He adds that Joe Lee is still in school in St. Louis and wants to specialize in ears, noses, and throats. (o.k... so that's not exactly how he put it...something about ENT). AND, according to Pat, Eddy Vataru left med school last year, and just completed his first year of his MBA at Wash U. Mike Zeineh is now in the PhD portion of his MD/PhD program at UCLA.
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April, 1999:

Steve Jilcott sent greetings from Virginia. He is about a year away from finishing his Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics at Virginia Tech.

David Park is finishing his first year of law school at UCLA. He went back to school after working in industry for three years. He'll be getting married this December. David also adds that he is rooming with Michael Kim.

Grant Templin is working on his PhD at Santa Barbara.

Stacy Fox-Myers is working as a mechanical engineer for Galgon Industries in Fremont, CA, designing enclosures for routers and other telecommunication products. She got married May 16th, 1998 to Glayde Myers (class of 1985).

Lanny Hsieh is graduating from NYU School of Medicine in May, 1999. She will be sarting a residency in internal medicine at UC Irvine. She will be getting married in June, 1999 to William Liu.

Virginie Leenknecht just started a new job as an environmental engineer at CH2M Hill in Santa Ana, Orange County, and says she loves it.

Jenny Cormack is finishing her second year of med school at UCSF. She can be reached at jlc@alumni.caltech.edu.

Mike Debar is also in the SF Bay area. He is in grad school at Berkeley, and is hoping to be done in May of 2000. His email address is mdebar@me.berkeley.edu.

Mark Nelson is working as an engineer at the U.S. Army Research Labs of the White Sands Missile range, while also conducting research on a potentially more efficient electrodialysis process at New Mexico State University. He reports that for fun, he travels to Mexico, and goes running or mountian biking in the desert.

Erica Alliston is living in Greenwich Village, Manhatten, working on her PhD in Neuroscience at NYU. She says she's finally found a decent thesis topic, so it shouldn't be too much longer.

Mike Pawson is about a year away from a PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He is getting married next month to Rachel Weathers (Lloyd, BS 97).

Eddy Vataru is in St Louis, and will be there for another year. His email is special@alumni.caltech.edu.

Michelin Aldrige Sloneker and Fred Sloneker (class of 1992) announce the birth of Whitney Walela Sloneker on February 23, 1999. The happy family is living in Novato California and can be reached via e-mail at either freds@alumni.caltech.edu or michelin@alumni.caltech.edu.

Daniel Chang reports from the East Coast: "Since graduating, I've been at Duke for medical school. We should have won in St. Pete, and even with Brand and Avery heading to the pros, we'll be in the Final Four again next year. But I digress... Duke Med allocates the third year for research, and I spent the year figuring out how better to cut the cornea with a laser so that we can all throw our glasses away. Because I didn't quite get it done, I decided to stay on for an extra year. In the mean time (and more importantly), I married Lisa Ngo (Class of '98) last June 20th. We've enjoyed married life and are both looking forward to our one-year anniversary (the cake's in the freezer)!"

And, finally, since I'm sure you're interested, I too am aiming to be done within a year. ---------------------------------------------------------------
November, 1998:
Not much news to share, since no one bothers to write me. Rumor has it that Todd Gottula recently got married after holding his bachelor party in Las Vegas. Grant Templin is still at work as a grad student in Santa Barbara. Amit Mehra is working on his PhD at MIT, and plans to be done sometime in the forseeable future. AACK. (meanwhile, i'm still looking at another two years!) Dean Haritos is at HP in the bay area. Virginia Garcia is working for a small techer-based company called Synaptics. Hmmmm...what else. Supposedly the alumni soccer game just took place, so lots of people returned to Pasadena for that. Schuyler Cullen and Jason Kumar are working on their PhD's here at Stanford, along with lots of other folks. I'm still hopelessly entrenched in my formation flying research. Anyway, that's it for my rumor-spreading. WRITE ME!!!

And for the official news:
June Fujimoto recently spent two months in africa where she had the opportunity to see the mountain gorillas in the congo. She came back broke so she went back into science. She is working at a startup biotech company called clinical micro sensors in pasadena that a couple of grad students from tech started. on the side, she still pursues an acting career. if anyone saw the "brimstone" episode about a chinese vampire, she had one line in it.

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Unfortunately, I was very late in receiving and posting the following email message, so I apologize!
Fabienne A Robin (madien name Breton) was married.

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Steven Jilcott, a master's student in statistics, received Virginia Tech's highly competitive Cunningham Fellowship, which recognizes students' outstanding credentials and potential as doctoral degree candidates. He was among ten students receiving the fellowship.

Brian Cooper is working at Applied Materials as a process engineer in the Epitaxy Division. He's been working there for about three years. He's living with Steve Greenberg and Chris Buchner as well as '94 grad Forrest Long.

Matt Clapp has also been living in the Bay area, working in San Jose at Synaptics for about two years. Unlike those of us stuck in grad school, he's actually designed REAL products, and reports that his initials are on about 600,000 pieces of silicon. This fall he will be attending Johns Hopkins University for graduate school in EE. (uh-oh...return to vapor-ware). He'll be studying analog chip design.

Grant Templin is at Santa Barbara, working on his PhD in Chemical Engineering. (Gee, Grant. Lots to say, huh??)

Mike Jarvis emailed me from Chile, where he has been trying to collect data for his thesis. (he's in the astronomy department at University of Michigan.) Apparantly the weather has been a little less than cooperative.

Hootan Hidaji got married last year to his highschool sweetheart, Monica. He's been working as a process engineer for ICI Acrylics in Memphis since April 1996, and reports that he's happy as a clam!

Nicky Impert is working at Boeing in Seattle, and for awhile, he was working with Nathan Scandella (96) on reengineering the AWACS software. In his spare time (yikes! what exactly is THAT??!) he's learning Mandarin and running an Amway business. He plans on moving to Taiwan in September.

Sarah Neugebauer started grad school. She is working on her MBA, and is also working in a gene therapy lab. She's currently living in San Diego.

Monica and Charles Sharman are in the Bay Area. Monica is working at Gemfire Corporation in Palo Alto, while Charles is at Synergy Semiconductor in Santa Clara. Monica gave birth to Derek Noah Sharman on May 7th. Mom and baby are reported to be doing well.

After three years freezing in Boston at the "Caltech of the East", Rohit Khare is back in SoCal pursuing a PhD in Web protocol design at UC Irvine. He worked on web standards and other research at the World Wide Web Consortium, and later at MCI Internet Architecture. In addition to grad school and consulting, he's been editing the World Wide Web Journal. To catch up on his travels and other adventures, check out his online diary and cocktail party, Friends of Rohit Khare, at http://xent.ics.uci.edu/FoRK

Joey Beheler graduated with a MS in Computer Science from Stanford, and is working at Sun Microsystems.

Serge Belongie reports:

" I'm in my third year of grad school in EECS at Berkeley, and I just received my MS at the end of last semester. I also spend part of each week working at a startup company named Digital Persona, Inc., for which Vance Bjorn ('95) and I were co-founders. We have a website at www.digitalpersona.com that has some pictures and information on the fingerprint recognition peripheral we are developing. Last month, I got to go to Bombay, India, for a conference with a few other people from my group at Berkeley. I was sick with one thing or another basically the whole time, but it still turned out to be pretty fun. While at the conference, I bumped into an old TA of mine from CS/EE4! (His name is Subrata Rakshit -- perhaps that will ring a bell with some of the other EE/CS folks.)"

(yes, i'm lazy, and don't feel like retyping all of that!)

Sonny Arcilla is working as a network services manager at Team One Advertising. (He also adds that they do the lexus advertisements) For all those of you who would like to call him but have been too cheap to fork over the money, his 1-800 number is: 1-800-272-4552.

Craig Tibbets was in a verbose mode when he wrote, so once again, i'm going to go for the cut and paste action:

" The bare bones information is that I am now married and living in Tokyo working on a master's degree in M.E. at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The story of how I ended up here is a little bit longer, but I will try to make it short.

During my senior year at Caltech, I was dating a Japanese exchange student attending a small community college in Upland. After graduating, I wanted a break from academia, and in the end I decided to come to Japan for a year to teach English at a Christian church near Tokyo. I had a great experience serving as a teacher/missionary in this church, although it was difficult being so far from Sachiko (the girl I was dating) since she was still finishing up her last year of college. My one year term of service the with church finished at just the same time that she came back to Japan. I didn't want to be separated by an ocean again and also wanted to spend more time in Japan, so I applied to the international program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. After finishing my first year, Sachiko and I got married near her hometown of Osaka. It was very small, but pleasant wedding and my parents and grandmother were able to make the trip to Japan to attend.

Now, she is working as a secretary at a small engineering company while I finish up my last year. I'm planning to graduate in September - after that, who knows. We're really struggling to decide whether we should stay in Japan or move back to the U.S. At any rate, I need to find a job somewhere.

Although Tokyo is too crowded for me, I've enjoyed my time in Japan. It's really been a good experience for me and has also definitely deepened my understanding and appreciation of my wife's home country. I've been able to learn quite a bit of conversational Japanese, but I'm still basically illiterate, and technical language is mostly incomprehensible to me. Fortunately, students in the international course here are allowed to complete most of their coursework in English so I should be able to graduate. "


SEE? now you guys all need to take some serious hints from Craig as to the length of your correspondance with me!! WELL, that's all the news I've received. I'd be happy to spread gossip about the people I've seen recently (Ginger Garcia, Schuyler Cullen, Dean Haritos, Flora (Ho) Brewington, June Fujimoto..) BUT, i suppose i'll give you all a chance to write me officially, before i resort to gossip.