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Class of 1970

David Goldsmith has spent nearly 30 years trying to understand the economics of the health care industry. For the past decade or so he has been a venture capitalist investing in early stage health care and health care related investments. David has worked for Robertson Stephens and Company in San Francisco for nearly twenty years watching the firm grow from a small partnership to a major investment bank. David and his wife Diane have a son at Pomona College and a daughter completing high school. (2000)

Reed Johnson recently was appointed RTI Fellow at Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina in addition to his appointment as Principal Economist in health and environmental economics. This theoretically means he now has time for reflection and pursuit of interesting, abstract, and completely impractical research ideas. Somehow it hasn't worked out that way. All those urgent, practical problems keep getting in the way. (2002)

For two years following graduation Gordon Paine managed a business office for Pacific Telephone Co. and then turned to his passion, music. After earning Masters and Doctoral degrees in choral conducting and literature from the University of Colorado, he began a 25-year academic career at Cal State Fullerton, punctuated by sabbaticals to perform, work, and study in Germany. He retired in 2003 and currently lives on a hill overlooking the mouth of the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon with Sherry, his wife of 30 years. Contacts from old friends, lost over the years, are welcome. (2004)