I had lunch with George Estabrook in Ann Arbor on his birthday last fall. All children are now off to college and he somehow finds time to combine teaching here at U-Michigan (Botany), singing in a choir, competing in triathlons, consulting with a biotech company (using his computing skills), and spending time as a visiting professor at Portugal's Coimbra University. One of his papers is being republished in an anthropology text on ethnobotany. I'm amazed he found time to have a celebratory lunch.

Fred Levin has written that his research is receiving increased attention. His new book Psyche and Brain: The Biology of Talking Cures will come out next year and his previous book (Mapping the Mind) has just been translated into Japanese.

Bob Engelman writes that he couldn't make the reunion because he and Lynn and their two children, Jamie (11) and Lian (5), were getting ready to leave Chicago for Scottsdale AZ; soon they'll be building a new home near Phoenix. Bob has stepped down as an executive officer of MB Financial, but will remain Chairman. He wants to spend 1/3rd of his time on business stuff ("I sit on a couple of other Boards and would like to find one or two more") 1/3 on non-profit work and working with kids and schools on entrepreneurship programs and 1/3 learning how to play golf, climb mountains, and other things that he hasn't had the time to do in the past. They're on the "vacation circuit" so hope to see 64's, Chicago friends, and sundry others as the winter progresses.

Kevin O'Gorman has written to say that he earned a Masters in Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara in November of 1998. "I was having so much fun I couldn't stop, so I'm working towards a Ph.D. now. This makes up for the fact that there were no Computer Science curricula per se in 1964."

The Plain Dealer has announced that Ken Lapine was made a Partner in the Cleveland office of Roetzel & Andress. According to the Keene Sentinel, Bob Merrill has been made vice-president of sales and marketing for a division of Fibremark in Brattleboro VT. Rick Isaacson continues to enjoy hobnobbing with famous sports and entertainment figures (Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, among others) who are represented by IMG Licensing, where Rick is the senior staff vice president. Finally, Jim Bell was recently profiled in Forbes in an article with the intriguing title, "Java in jeopardy" - Jim's company, Hewlett Packard, is promoting its own version of the programming language, Java, which has the potential of challenging Microsoft's Windows monopoly. Jim is general manager of HP's embedded software operation (the programs that run printers, cell phones etc).

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Gus Buchtel, 2861 Gladstone Ave., Ann Arbor MI 48104-6432; gusb@umich.edu