Ann Marie - thanks for the stuff from Beloit College - I usually run across that each year - and it really puts time in perspective. As Richard notes below with bridging the gap - I have done it twice. In my own family with 5 kids - being the oldest and having more than a 16 year gap from top to bottom - my younger sisters and brothers think they have doscovered Billy Joel, Elton John and Bob Dylan - they were stunned a few years back when I pulled out the vinyl records of those three -- then when I told them I saw Harry Chapin at King's College - you would have thought a meteor struck. The second gap is with my kids - I cannot imagine what it will will like when they get older and into their teens - my oldest (9) is getting trendy with her clothes - will only wear bell bottoms! Oh well, we are old!!!!

Lee - I guess us "high finance" people have fooled you "engineers" all these years -- we just get to see the real story (not the marketing spin) of how bad things are -- and realize it might have been better to get laid off when money was available for the severance packages!

How disappointing,Helen, with the e address - I think we all had all kinds of illusions/delusions on what HOTC39 stood for!

Thanks to all who have jumped in - I have come to enjoy checking this space daily - and am looking forward to the reunion