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Class of 1966

Randy Bartlett is currently a Professor of Economics at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Before coming to Smith he taught at Williams and the University of Washington and also spent two years working for the Federal Trade Commission. He has three children--one just out of college, one just in, and the youngest starting to look. (2001)

John B. Doolittle retired from SBC in 2000 as VP Wholesale Wireless Services. Since that time he and his wife, Nora (class of '67) have been busy trying to get their handicaps down in golf, traveling, boating, and skiing. John served as Ski Patrol Director at Homewood Mountain Resort until 2002. He is currently the Assistant Regional Director for Eastern Sierra Region. John loves ski patrolling almost as much as his two grandsons. His son and wife have a one year old, while his daughter has a 3 month old. Next year, he will be drawing his Air Force pension resulting from his retirement as a Colonel from the reserves. Life is good and OXY's foundation helped to make retirement a breeze. (2003, j_ndoolitt@onemain.com)

Last year, Dave Milam was published indirectly as "Dave Writes ...." in Writing Out the Storm, a book by Barbara Abercrombie based on a Wellness Center cancer writing group. Look for more writing from Dave - "The right side of stubborn" and "SELF MENTORING for mastery, meaning, mystery and joy at work". Organizational mentoring is his continued professional focus as founder of CAUSAE CORP. A recent major client, ALARIS MEDICAL SYSTEMS, has dramatically transformed their product development capability and is now listed on the New York Stock exchange. (2003, davidemilam@causaecorp.com)

Barbara Miles continues to work at the Congressional Research Service where she recently stepped down from the position of Head of the Banking, Insurance, Securities and Macroeconomic Policy group. She divides her time between direct work for Congress on issues relating to government-sponsored enterprises and reviewing work of the other economists in the Government and Finance Division. She is anticipating retirement within the next 15-20 months. (2006)

Stephen Overturf, the Douglas Ferguson chair in International Economics at Whittier College, just had the second edition of his book on monetary union in Europe published. The book is Money and European Union, St. Martin's Press in the US and Macmillan in the UK and Europe, and the first edition was very favorably reviewed by the Journal of Economic Literature, Economic Journal, Library Journal, and The Wall Street Journal among others. It has led to Steve's appearing on the Jim Lehrer News Hour twice, associated with various events in the development of the new euro currency. (2000)