February 2005

Erik Roskes was appointed as one of the two Court Monitors in the case Brad H. et al v. City of New York et al., a case involving discharge planning for inmates with mental illness being released from jails in NYC.  The case is very large, involving at least 10 or 12 thousand individuals per year, and there are numerous services they are due under the court settlement, including mental health care, medications, benefits, Medicaid, housing. Erik continues to do forensic psychiatric work both in a state hospital in Maryland and in an outpatient clinic in Baltimore.  But the real pride and joy of Erik, and his wife, Ellen’s, life are their two children:  Heshy (11) and Lani (8).  Anne Hayes is knee deep in an addition/renovation project which they are general contracting ourselves, just for the added stress it offers. In the meantime, she stays home with her three kids:  Cassie (8), Meaghan (6) and Mikey (3).  They're wondering where their real mom has gone since the construction started, but they’ll be glad with the end results, if they can muddle through.  Anne feels like she’s doing all those classic "soccer mom" things, including having two of her three actually playing soccer.  Their life is full of Girl Scout meetings, piano lessons, soccer games and gymnastics.  Anne said, “The taxi driver aspect of the whole thing is becoming really clear to me now.” Richard Morell proudly wrote (as well he should), “I lost more than 112 pounds in 2003- a whole person!  Life is very different now that I'm height-weight-proportionate. Last year, I went to a function for D-GALA at a bar here in Manhattan.  I had to reintroduce myself to people I knew way back when.  You should have seen their faces!” This past June Kirk LeCompte spent a wild, men-only weekend in Vermont with J. J. Jamieson, Andrew Getraer, Alex Rossides and Chris Brown. Said Kirk, “It's amazing how quickly and convincingly we regressed back to our twenties. JJ is still producing TV films and juggling triplets in Santa Monica. Alex is in NYC launching a nonprofit that will assist other nonprofits to expand dramatically. Chris is litigating in Florida where one of his specialties is election law. I'm running a creative marketing & design firm with my wife outside Princeton.” Professor Bjong Yeigh is the Dean of Parks College of Engineering & Aviation at Saint Louis University, after prior ivory tower stints at Yale, Oklahoma State. He still enjoys the academic life though isn't enthralled by the endless fund-raising part of his job description. Jason Keyes is wrapping up his final year of law school and will then be joining a firm specializing in energy law.  Jason lives in Seattle with his wife, Clarissa, and their daughters, Alexandra, Hillary and Elspeth.  Despite the rigors of fatherhood, Jason's pong and pool skills remain undiminished with age (yes, that may be damning with faint praise) as he recently demonstrated to Tony Steams following his 40th birthday party in October. Krista Thomas Corr and husband, Bart, welcomed Julia Helen Corr, on December 2nd, 2003.  Krista wrote, “The bad news is that she was born with a congenital heart defect known as Tetrology of Fallot and, by the age of 7 months, had already gone through one open heart surgery and two angioplasties. The good news is that we live in Newton, Massachusetts, a mere 8 miles from Children's Hospital, and all of the doctors there have done a fantastic job.  Julia is the happiest, easiest baby you can imagine.  She has other surgeries ahead of her but her condition is completely manageable and she will live a normal, active life.  Other than the craziness that goes along with a new baby, everything else is about the same.  I just hit my 15 year anniversary with the FBI and continue to work Public Corruption and Government Fraud investigations.”

 ¾ Davida Dinerman, 12 Kings Row, Ashland, Mass. 01721; 508-231-8813;

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