Lara
(laradopa@hotmail.com)
Lara completed her first year of family practice residency at Forest Park Hospital in St. Louis.
It has been hard work, but also fun to establish life in a new spot.
Besides rotations and on-call nights and clinics and loan payments,
Lara also got to her 5 year Carleton College reunion,
visited us in San Francisco for Mothers Day and spent several weekends in Chicago.
We visited her in November for an early Thanksgiving and she will be joining the family for a brief Christmas trip.
Chris
(freeform@bianca.com)
After three years of hard work, Chris was laid off from Bigstep.com
in October as part of Bigstep's year long process of downsizing from
a high of 175 employees to its current size of 20.
Chris can now proudly say
he has witnessed all phases of the dot-com boom/bust cycle;
and oh what a wonderfully strange trip it has been.
Chris is now part of the growing legions of unemployeed high-tech workers
in the bay area, and loving every minute of it! :)
Other than the layoff, 2001 was an excellent year for Chris,
and found him working on various projects for his house,
and spending great times with his girlfriend Anna
experiencing the wonderful joys of Life.
Rick
(richard.miller@hok.com)
Rick continues his day job at Hellmuth, Obata & Kasselbaum as Chief Electrical Engineer.
With downsizing, he has been even busier than ever.
Completion of several office complexes, jails/prisons and start of the Oakland Airport expansion have made for a year of travel and long hours.
In his off-hours, Rick continues to take piano lessons and manage a future home building project (for us) in San Luis Obispo county. Started as an 'anniversary gift' for Jo Anne last year, Rick found his beard was fun and got lots of compliments, so it stays!!
JoAnne
(JoAnne.Miller@GluonNetworks.com,
JoAnne_Miller@msn.com)
The start of the year found Jo Anne at Cisco helping merge another company,
followed by 'how to down-size' the Cisco-way.
Then came an opportunity to lead an existing start-up company, Gluon Networks.
The only issue was the state of the financing.
Knowing it would be tough, but with the assurance of the existing investors,
JoAnne signed up and started pitching the deal.
What a challenge!! After 7 months, we finally have a closing date.
Not much time for anything else, but the calendar says I'm 55!
In addition to watching our tech-heavy portfolio shrink, this year's adventures included a trip to Istanbul and Mediterranean cruise to Rome, celebrating my dad(Norman's) 80th birthday, a few hospital trips for my mom(Lydia) and continued visits with family and friends for food and fun. Watching the sudden death of a dear friend, along with the events of September 11, reinforced the importance of good health, loved ones, and living in the moment for our whole family.
May this season of Love and Light find all of you well and may 2002 be a blessed year for us all!
