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2002

Chen, Ho-Chyuan: has moved from the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Economics, Tamkang University, to a new position of Associate Professor, Department of Finance, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, which is located in south Taiwan and closer to his home town.

Diamond, Charles: has left the Department of Economics at American University in Cairo to become a Senior Associate of Analysis Group/Economics in New York.

Frentrup, Chris: has a new address, though he still has the same job.

Mora, Marie: I received a very good offer from UT-Pan American last year, so I left New Mexico State; Kiseok Nam and I both started here last semester.

Oh, Wankeun: has been promoted to an associate professor effective September, 2002. His wife gave a birth to twin sons on Aug. 20, 2002. He also has a paper, "Causal relationship between energy consumption and GDP revisited: The case of Korea 1970-1999," forthcoming in Energy Economics.

Saurman, David: This is a sad news. Professor Auernheimer reports

We are saddened and stunned by the untimely death of our friend and former student, Dave Saurman. Dave passed away on the evening of Monday, October 21, victim of sudden and totally unexpected massive heart attack. His wife Marcia reports that at the time he was at his home, enjoying a drink while preparing tomato soup and singing "I say tomato, you say tomatoe...".

After graduating from Albion College in December, 1973, Dave worked unloading railroad cars and loading trucks, as a roofer, and briefly as a stagehand/setup/gopher for Jimmy Buffett's (then largely unknown) Coral Reefer Band in New Orleans. In May 1974 he married Marcia L. Youngdahl, and in September came to the Economics department at A&M, where he received his Ph.D. in May of 1979. In the same year he joined the Economics department at Auburn University, and in 1987 joined the Economics faculty at San José State University where he was promoted to Professor of Economics in 1999. He published in such journals as the Journal of Law and Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Inquiry, Public Choice, Applied Economics, the Southern Economic Journal, the Journal of Forensic Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. His pastimes include sitting on the beach with his friends and cooking.

Dave was 51 years old, and is survived by his young wife of 28 years and an innumerable number of friends who will always miss his warmth, his wit and his sense of humor.