Barnhart, Scott (Florida Atlantic University): I left TAMU for Univ. of New Orleans for 4 years, then Clemson in the Finance department for 10 years and now down back here to home at FAU where the ocean, scuba diving, sailing, the bahamas and hurricanes are king.

Beuchot, Alejandro (Mexican Investment Board):Just a brief note to say hello. I was a M.S. student class of 1983. I am from Mexico. And I did my major with Dr: Basmann. I am Executive Vice President for Europe with the Mexican Investment Board in Mexico City. The MIB is responsible for the promotion of Mexico as a major foreign investment destination and is engaged in the facilitation of investment projects into the country. I created this organization 9 years ago. Keep in touch, please. I want to send my deepest condolences for Chuck Maurice's very unfortunate death. I was also his student and liked him very much. But this is something everybody has to go through.

Boner (Hearne), Linda (LECG): I'm glad that you were able to track me down. I think the last time I had contact with department I was at a different firm. My life is an interesting mix of antitrust/energy litigation and potty-training a 2.75 year old. I keep reminding myself that stubborness, independence, a strong-will and not being fazed by failure are all long-term life skills that will serve Ekaterina well as an adult. If only they weren't so irritating in someone 3 feet tall! Cheers!

Bolton, Craig J. (Greenberg Traurig, P.A): What a delightful resource!! I now have the addresses of many old friends that I had lost contact with over the years. Thank you. My only recent "news" is my change in firm affiliations. My old law firm, O'Connor Cavanagh, dissolved. I am, fortuitiously, now a Member of a much larger national firm. Practice specializations have remained the same: Chapter 11 reorganizations, commercial litigation, and forfeiture defense.

Chopin, Mark (Louisiana Tech): The only real "news" that I have to report is my recent appointment to the position of Interim Director of the Division of Business and Economic Research here at Louisiana Tech.

Crain, Mark (George Mason University): I have an article just published in the October Journal of Law and Economics, "Districts, Diversity and Fiscal Biases: Evidence from the American States." The link to the Journal issue is http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JLE/v42n2toc.html.

Gonzalez, Fernando (Manager, Pricewaterhouse Coopers): I am a manager in Financial Advisory Services for PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Dominican Republic. My practice includes corporate valuations, value-based management, mergers & acquisitions, and financial modeling and forecasting. In this position, I leveraged financial accounting against my training in industrial organization and econometrics to address the most complex issues corporations face today. It is truly exciting to translate economic foundations into concrete answers to vexing business problems. Finally, I sincerely hope that you are proud of the above professional career, for I am forever grateful to the department' commitment to a enlightening yet rigorous academic training. Needless to say, you may contact me at your convenience. Please give my regards to everyone in the department.
P.S. Please note that the above address is my private P.O. Box in the US, from where I get all my mail forwarded by a private courier to the Dominican Republic. It is both faster and safer.

High (Hobson), Jane (Fidelity Management): Has returned to the States after 14 years of teaching Finance and Economics in South Africa (twice), New Zealand, and London. Appointed Director of Fund Performance for Fidelity in June 1999, overseeing the measurement & reporting of the performance of Fidelity's $850 billion in assets under management worldwide. (Please don't contact me if you're unhappy with your 401(k)!) Awarded the CFA designation in June 1997, and try to keep up with trends and developments in micoeconomics, industrial organization, and financial economics in my spare time.

The tribute to Dr. Maurice was lovely; I look forward to receiving the letter regarding the scholarship.

Hite, Arnold (Charleston Southern University): I'm at a small college where I have many duties. Teaching excellence and community service are highly valued here. Professional publications are welcome, but receive a low priority. Thus I am not publishing at the present. I have been a discussant at a couple of meetings, do a little consulting work, and I attend a couple of conferences each year in an effort to stay current. I am asked to speak around town on occasion, and I run the Economic Education Center here which is an outreach to area k-12 schools.

I have been Department Chair for 8 years, and this year I am also Acting Dean. I have also been President of Faculty Senate, and chair of many key university committees. I am very active with the Southern Association (SACS), and I get selected for one or two re-affirmation committee visits each year.

Karafiath, Imre (University of North Texas): Served as Interim Department Chair in 1994/95 and 95/96, and has been the Department Chair since the fall semester, 1996.

Kemmsies, Walter (Warburg Dillon Read): I left Memphis State in May of 93 (having been denied tenure the year before) and joined O'Connor & Associates - a proprietary option trading firm. I was the second person they had ever hired who didn't have a math, statistics, engineering, or physics degree. The other guy was a Chicago PhD in Economics. I had to relearn everything I knew about Black Scholes and option modeling. We can talk about that sometime, but it turns out that the vast majority of stuff written on options is not right. The O'Connor guys made a lot of money from trading. I worked in the education department - there were four of us there, all ex-college profs. I spent 5 weeks on the Chicago Board Options Exchange as a clerk and learned trading from the inside. Then I had to go teach al the new guys. It was very rough - I had to teach myself stochastic calculus and other such things since back then there was very little written on this. I am no expert, just know enough to know when someone is talking nonsense.

O'Connor was bought by Swiss Bank Corporation and I got sent to Zurich because I could bluff in German. While there I got sent to Asia, Chicago, and London a lot. I always took my family with me and we would escape on vacation jaunts to places like Bali, Phuket, etc. I managed to escape going to Tokyo - never had any interest in traveling to such an inconvenient place.

By 97 I was spending over half the year in London. So I got moved here. Meantime I got promoted a bit from nothing to exeutive director (equivalent to executive vice president). But my department is in the human resources area of the bank. But recently I got asked to join the business area working in equity research in a department called global sector research. So, finally I am becoming a real investment banker.

Locke, Pete: This year, I am a visiting Associate Professor of Finance at George Washington University, teaching 2 MBA courses each semester. Too many students, but, the experience is pretty nice. Fits in well with my publication record. Everyone seems to think that record is pretty good, especially for a bureaucrat. So, what else is happening? I still waste a lot of time playing the piano, and gardening, and we just had a hurricane. I come to this office (CFTC) for research, since the data is here, etc., and they let me keep the office for 9 months while I teach 3 blocks away. Pretty good deal, nice hours, etc.

Moreno, James:I received a PHD in Econ from Texas A&M in 1981. My fields were econometrics (Professor Basmann), spatial economics (Professor Greenhut), industrial organization (Professor Smithson), and mathematical modeling/optimization (Professor Hogg - IE Department).My dissertation was: "A Study and Extention of the Integrating Model of the Mid Range Energy Forecasting System," and I received the 1981-82 Alfred Chalk Award.

Since that time I have continued my Army career with teaching and manpower analysis work in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, during 1981-84. I taught basic ecomonics, ecomometrics and engineering economoics to cadets. During that tour of duty I was also assigned to the Army's Office of Manpower and Economic Analysis. I performed enlisted manpower policy analysis for the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel and the Army's Vice Chief of Staff. I presented a paper entitled "The Army Planning Model" with my supervisor at the May 1984 ORSA-TIMS conference in San Francisco.

In 1984 my family and I returned to the "field" and I had several assignments with troops in Germany (divison ammunition officer, battalion executive officer, corps ammunition officer). I returned to the US in 1989 and was assigned as commander of an Ordnance battalion in Fort Bliss (El Paso), Texas. In 1990, I deployed with my battalion to Saudi Arabia for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

During 1991-92 I served as an Army Senior Service College Fellow at the Ridgway Center for International Security Studies, University of Pittsburgh, PA. During this tour I completed an internal Army paper: "Future United States Role in European Security" in 1992.

In 1992 I was assigned to the Progam Analysis and Evaluation Directorate, Office of the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, in the Pentagon, Washington DC. In this capacity, I applied my past ecomonics, operations research and Army field experience to assist the Army's senior leaders in deciding how to allocate scarce resources across a myriad of competing needs to help ensure that the nation's defense requirements were being met. During 1992-1995 I was a key contributor to developing the Army's Program Objective Memorandum (POM), which lays out the Army's major programs (personnel, equipment, training, logistics, etc.) and funding resources over future years. In fact, my division developed and published (within the Department of Defense only) the following POM volumes:
"Readiness and Sustainment Volume, POM 99-03," in August 1993,
"Readiness and Sustainment Volume, POM 00-05," in May 1994, and
"Readiness and Sustainment Volume, POM 01-05," in May 1995.

In 1995 I was assigned to the Army Concepts Analysis Agency in Bethesda, MD. The agency has since moved to Fort Belvoir, VA and has been renamed the Center for Army Analysis. While at CAA I was chief first of the Value Added Analysis Division and later the Logistics Analysis Division. I have overseen operations research and ecomonic analysis work concerned with determining the optimal cost-effective mix of Army weapons and equipment systems to procure in the future (Value Added Analysis) and determining future Army forces required to accomplish National Defense Planning Guidance (Total Army Analysis). My division recently completed and is in the process of publishing (internal Army only): "Support Force Requirement Analysis 2007."

If all goes well, I will complete 30 years of Army service in September 2000, will retire from the Army, and, if accepted, will return with my wife to Texas A&M and study graduate level meteorology. Professor Basmann has provided a recommendation to the Department of Meteorology. I hope to apply my background in econometrics, statistics, probability, large scale simulation, and mechanical engineering to this new endeavor.

My son graduated from Texas A&M in 1996 (political science) and is assigned as an Army officer in Kosovo. My daughter will graduate from A&M this December (nutrition). I very much look forward to returning to A&M and Bryan-College Station.

Schansberg, D. Eric (Indiana University - Southeast): You asked about news items. In a word, life is treating me well-- and for the most part, I'm treating it pretty well too. As for big events: the biggest is my (adopted) son's first birthday tomorrow. Zach is big and beautiful and has the best disposition I've ever seen in a child. Aside from wanting him to be a strong Christian, we're aiming for him to be a scholar/musician/athlete...but no pressure!

Shughart, William F. (University of Mississippi): Named the Frederick A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ole Miss and also appointed as the first holder of the Robert M. Hearin Chair in Business Administration.

Slottje, Daniel (Southern Methodist University): Ranked third in the world in publications in applied econometrics (based on articles published in an article by Badi Baltagi). I am also the Chief Economist and a partner in the firm of KPMG.