From DSmith2361@aol.com Wed May 21 19:29:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: from research.research.bell-labs.com by drmail.dr.lucent.com (4.1/EMS-L SunOS) id AA26745 for neal; Wed, 21 May 97 19:29:03 MDT Received: from dusty.research.bell-labs.com ([135.104.2.7]) by research; Wed May 21 21:27:35 EDT 1997 Received: from emout05.mail.aol.com ([198.81.11.96]) by dusty; Wed May 21 21:27:33 EDT 1997 Received: (from root@localhost) by emout05.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id VAA11997; Wed, 21 May 1997 21:23:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 21:23:05 -0400 (EDT) From: DSmith2361@aol.com Message-Id: <970521212210_-1331263041@emout05.mail.aol.com> To: calebb@teleport.com, crayton_berner@ccm.co.intel.com, dbergman@evolvnet.com, Gestaltt@aol.com, KKrause105@aol.com, lfred@pps.k12.or.us, lhowe@smartstuff.com, lintobey@juno.com, marshas@canby.com, mulan@ix.netcom.com, nancy_stueber@omsi.edu, nealmcb@bell-labs.com, roconnor@pps.k12.or.us, skoch@teleport.com, stand@straight-on.com, stephen.thompson@mci.com, sue_ridge@class.orednet.org, tbakke@informationage.com, viacalx@europa.com, vmegler@vnet.ibm.com, wbean@pcc.edu Subject: Tech & Biz Minutes X-Zm-Priority: D Status: OR Minutes Business and Tech Committee May 8, 1997 by dick o'connor The meeting was promptly called to disorder by Dunky Smith at 7:49 a.m. Dunky provided the icebreaker. Interview the person next to you with his or hers life history, but do in one minute and then report back to the group. dick on Linda Spent life running away from Bakersfield, California. To Berkeley to Oregon, back to California. Math and MBA. Worked for big oil in finance. Back to Berkeley. Software company. Left and went to Europe. Fell in love with an Irishman, worst mistake in her life ( Had I only known!) Left Europe for Portland. Getting itchy again, move may be imminent. Kurt on Cynthia Born and raised in Florida. Father was a pilot. Family moved a lot. Loves to swim. Time in New England, but Arkansas beckoned. Loves psychology and dancing. Has practice. Sue on Larry Stay calm and share your bananas. Life is a journey from coast to coast with no goal in between (the journey is the path). Became liberated at Berkeley.Loves kids, has three, and fast food and building things. Kids focus of life. (Is wife out of focus?) Let go of the bananas! Neil on Joell First memory a goldfish and a sardine sandwich. Thought the two were the same. Confusion at Christmas party. As a young Jewish woman, wondering why everyone was talking about cheese's bithday. (Too many mozzarellas in the celebrietion?) Charlotte's Web. 5 brothers. A life of travel, learning and culture. Cynthia on Kurt Born and raised in Portland. Father wanted him to become an engineer, but did psychology instead. Cut his teeth in human resources in the Silicon valley (ouch!) On to LA and then back to Portland. Is our liaison with the Program Committee. Larry on Sue Wanted to be an astronaut and travel to the comets. Did travel around the world, with stays in Fiji and Australia. Came to know the Aborigines. Climbed Canadian Rockies but needed sea change and came to Portland. Had coffee with Jon Ross, the Pope, and our peerless former co-chair. Joell on Neil Born in upstate New York, but family with southern history. School and career path science and computers. On to Berkeley. Moved to Boulder, learned Esperanto, but no one else in the world can speak it. Met beautiful maiden and married. Lived happily ever after, so far. Dunky on Dunky (no one wanted to interview him) Peaked (or was it piqued) in kindergarten,and never returned to form. After undistinguished educational effort at Prineton, graduated last in his class at Yale Law School. Wants to write children stories. Lawyered in NYC for Chemical Bank. Clerked for Oregon Supreme Court justice. No children, but six grandchildren. Linda on dick One of ten children. Oldest boy of five bothers. Set an example no one else followed. Believed all the Catholic Church taught him. Very depressed. Went to Notre Dame, where he graduated sine laude, got even more depressed. Slept alot in Library. Wanted to teach, did business instead. Got still even more depressed. Came to Porland and joined City Club. Is now chronically happy. Business Kurt suggested the following for Friday programs; Intel's new chip; Fujitsu's tax status; impact of high tech companies coming into Portland. Sue suggested a business - type series, special to Northwest; e.g. Coffee. microbrewies, high-tech. Neil suggested energy deregulation. Duncan stated that if the Committee could do one big series per year, continue its website effort, have occasional lunches/and or breakfasts, it would be a good effort. Richard O'Connor Portland Public Schools roconnor@pps.k12.or.us Professional Technical Education +1 503-916-5858x401 2508 N.E. Everett St. FAX: +1 503-916-2709 Portland, OR 97232