Like others, I am looking forward to being at the reunion, my first since graduation. It'll be fun to learn how everyone's lives have developed over the last 50 (?!) years.

After AHS, I graduated from Reed College in Portland, OR with a BA in Mathematics and then to Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh for an MBA. On to the Big Apple for work, first at Hoechst-Celanese and then American Express.

I met and married Cathy in 1968 and we have been married ever since, with son Eric coming along in 1971. We became grandparents of Nils three and a half years ago.

We moved to Dallas in 1986 to work for a Republic Bank before it failed and was taken over by NCNB (now B of A). We moved back in 1994 and since then I have been CFO of Venture Investment Associates, a venture capital fund of funds - although now only 3 days a week. It's nice to have the free time to play golf and spend some long weekends flying off to Portland to visit our grandson.