Class Notes 1960s Barbara Carter-Moffett, '61 Nurs, Vallejo, Calif., attended the Butte Community Memorial Hospital Nursing Class Reunion that was held in September in Bozeman. Mark Hannah, '62 ChE, '67 PhD, Port Angeles, Wash., retired as paper mill manager from Daishowa America in August 2001. Warren "Butch" Bailey, '66 Math, and wife Sandy have retired to idyllic Vancouver Island. Warren is a full-time salmon fisherman and boater, part-time golfer and curler (the Olympic ice sport, not a hair stylist!). "It doesn't get any better than this." James Jaffe, '66 Acctg, Findlay, Ohio, retired from the practice of environmental law in San Francisco in 2000 and became a visiting professor at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio, where he teaches in the Environment, Health and Safety master's degree program. He also had the good fortune to meet a lady in Findlay who had been to Bozeman (and liked it). He married her this past summer. He gets to stay with friends in Butte each fall so they can swap stories and chase deer and elk up and down the hills. "The hills seem to get steeper every year." Don McLaughlin, '67 Arch, Bozeman, is principal of Place Architecture, which was awarded two Honor Awards in November by the Montana Chapter of the American Institute of Architects at the Montana AIA Fall conference held at MSU. The Honor Award is the highest recognition AIA chapters offer. Place Architecture received awards for the Montana Technology Development Center in Missoula and the Dry Creek residence located in the Gallatin Valley. Craig Miller, '97 Arch, project manager at Place Architecture, was a team member of the Montana Technology Development Center project, and Doug Minarik, '01 Arch, an intern at Place Architecture, was a team member of the Dry Creek residence project. Mark Brown, '67 Ag, Benton, Mich., is retiring after 27 years with Chinet Co. He continues running a beef and horse farm and is a town official. Julie Katana, '68 Art, Stockton, Calif., who spent her freshman and sophomore years at MSU, sends greetings "to all my Kappa Delta sisters from 1964-1966, and to all my crazy Bobcat friends of that time from 'Banjo.'" She's in her 22nd year at the University of the Pacific where she was just appointed Director of Development for the School of International Studies. In her spare time, she makes, repairs and restores instruments of the violin family in her full-service violin shop. "That art education is finally being put to use. Go Bobcats!" Fred Jessett, '68 M ApSci, Sammamish, Wash., is a writer and a retired Episcopal minister. He has three short true stories in an anthology, "Country Congregations," published by the South Dakota Humanities Foundation in 2002. Gregg, '69 Ag Pr, '83 M, and Ruth (Gumprecht) Carlson, '70 Music, live in Havre. Their daughter, Heather Wheeler, recently began practicing family medicine in the Bozeman Clinic. She is the granddaughter of Dr. Donald, '42, and Dr. Jane (Doering) Gumprecht, '43, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Ann (Roseberry) Christensen, '69 Edu, Great Falls, has joined Intracorp, a disability management company, as a vocational counselor/case manager. Christensen is a nationally certified rehabilitation counselor (CRC) and a member of the Rehabilitation Association of Montana. Intracorp, founded in 1973, is a pioneer in disability management services and a division of Cigna Healthcare. Robert Peccia, '65 CE, of Helena, is founder of Robert Peccia and Associates. CE News has named the firm the fifth top firm to work for in the United States in their second annual CE News Best Civil Engineering Firm to Work for Contest. The judges commended the company's "attractive perks...and strong, caring culture." A 10-person juding panel ranked the top six firms after interviewing staff members, evaluating 15 essays completed by nine staff members at each firm and considering the 47-question entry form each company completed. The firm is featured in the October 2002 issue of CE News. A copy of the article and links to the top 50 firms across the nation is available online at www.cenews.com/edbestfirmmain.html Class Notes are complied by Ruth Austin. If you would like to submit information, please drop a line to the MSU Alumni Association, PO Box 172740, Bozeman, MT 59717-2740. You can also submit them to her via email at raustin@montana.edu