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May 2003

  • Bill Welch ‘86 (BWelch@fvc.com) sent in his contact information and says hi to everybody from the ‘82 - ‘88 era.
  • Chuck Doucette is seeking a software engineering job in Massachusetts … and also a roommate. He is currently working for Soft Pro (http://www.softpro.com).
  • Paul and Colleen Zajac had their second child, Dylan Anthony, on April 25th. It is a good reason to miss alumni weekend.
  • Special thanks to Dave Pabst, Fred Co, John Scapaticci, and John Hockenberry for sending in donations.
  • Gene Nelson has been in the Seattle area with his family of four for about twenty years, and with NOAA for about thirteen years. He attends an annual Mariners game with a local Pi Lam chapter. The Yankees beat the Mariners in Seattle 16-5 just last week. That was great. Hideki Matsui hit a homerun. Ichiro Suzuki hit no homeruns.
  • Alumni weekend 2003 report:

Despite the weather, the attendance was very good and everybody had a good time. I personally thank “Wed Wocket,” the Freshman who gave me his forty-ounce Piels. Well, I stole it, but he was gracious about it.

I forgot to circulate a simple alumni update sheet. For 364 days a year, I think this is a good idea. Then, on alumni weekend, I always forget to do it. I can report that most of the usual folks were there, with special appearances by Brian Blum and John Scapaticci.

Next year, we will formalize the Sunday morning breakfast. It had been discontinued due to lack of interest, but now there seems to be interest in it once again.

April 2003

  • Jason King threw a Welcome Spring party at his farmhouse near Salem, New Hampshire. Chris Blain also lives there. Many Pi Lams were in attendance. Steve Chopelas lives nearby and he won the fantasy hockey league, as if I didn’t update you enough about Choppa. Jason Mele did not win the fantasy hockey league.
  • Ed Klein is engaged to Cristene. They met in Charlotte, NC. She moved to NC from Pittsburgh, Ed moved there about six years ago after working in Albany for a while.
  • Dave Roe sent his contact information and remembers painting the house red (so do I): “I was a transplanted brother from the chapter at Ricker College in Maine that is long since folded when the college was closed and merged in the U of Maine system. Having attended college at the College of St Rose I was shipped over to Toy to continue my Pi Lam experience. (Yes it was an enjoyable time being one of the first males to attend St Rose when it began accepting men.)”

March 2003

  • Thanks to Bruce Friday ‘66 for contacting me and sending me a Pentagon from 1973 and a family tree from the same period. The Pentagon was very interesting. Some things are different (8-cent postage, rush rules, parties — Saturnalia and drive-in movie parties?) and some things are the same (apparent difficulties maintaining the address lists, budget crunches). If a pledge wants a bonus, the rex at the time was Chrisopher P. Day and the scribe who wrote most of the Pentagon was Bill Rutherford.
  • Single females in New England grieved as Florin Neamtu announed his engagement to Danielle. Smoovie Luv says he’ll got to alumni weekend … but only if Mele goes.

February 2003

  • Via Bob Novo, Rick Tinsley ‘86 is the CEO of Turnstone Systems.
  • Adam James Chopelas was born to Steve and Felicia on Jan. 30th, 2003. He is their third child and first boy.