CLASS NOTES REUNION YEAR


1976 Paul Dorsey returned to campus in March to give the talk “Building Applications in Developing Nations,” which focused on his


Paul Dorsey ’76


experiences working on a financial infrastructure for the country of Ethiopia. His company, Dulcian, was hired by the Finance Ministry of Ethiopia to build a system that would allow the country to qualify for more international aid. The country is now reviewing the infrastruc- ture. Paul and his team developed architecture that solved practical local challenges, such as access to and limitations of network and Internet infrastructure, particularly in rural areas. By providing insight about the current issues and trends in software architecture, Paul helped HMC students to better un- derstand the challenges, as well as opportunities, in today’s field.


Paul is the founder and president of Dulcian, Inc., an Oracle con-


sulting firm specializing in business rules and web based application development. He is the chief architect of Dulcian’s Business Rules In- formation Manager (BRIM®


) tool. Paul is the co-author of seven Oracle


Press books, which have been translated into nine languages, as well as the Wiley Press book PL/SQL for Dummies. He is president emeri- tus of NYOUG and the associate editor of the International Oracle User Group’s SELECT Journal. Paul was honored in 2001 by Oracle as one of the six initial honorary Oracle 9i Certified Masters. Paul is also the founder and chair of the ODTUG Symposium, currently in its eleventh year. His submission of a Survey Generator built to collect data for The Preeclampsia Foundation was the winner of the 2007 Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer Challenge and Oracle selected him as the 2007 PL/SQL Developer of the Year.


Mark Young is retired, as of March 1, after working for over 30 years at Chemeketa Community College. He plans to pursue some local volunteer opportunities that he wasn’t able to do while working.


1978 Chris Marble, system administrator in Computing Informa-


tion Services at HMC, retired on April 4. Chris received his engineering degree from Mudd then worked at General Dynamics before returning to HMC in February 1993. The cam- pus community celebrated his HMC


Chris Marble ’78


career on March 31. Chris and his wife will get back to traveling, mostly domestic, but they want to return to Japan and the United Kingdom.


1980 Tom Smith visited the Department of Physics in December to discuss “Technology and Modern Winemaking.” Tom is the vice president in charge of


wine growing at E&J Gallo Winery in Modesto, Calif. His seminar introduced students to the topic of flavor chemistry.


1983 Amanda Simpson, America’s first openly transgender presidential appointee


Amanda Simpson ’83


to the U.S. Commerce Department, was the keynote speaker at the third Annual OUT for Work LGBTQA College Student Career Confer- ence at The Claremont Colleges. Out for Work functions as a complimentary component in the total educational experience of LGBT stu- dents, primarily in the development, evalua- tion, initiation and implementation of career plans and opportunities.


1988 Steve Haddock, along with colleague Casey Dunn, has written the book, Practical Computing for Biologists. The book tries to teach a general


set of problem-solving skills to scientists, somewhat like an education at Harvey Mudd College. Former Biology Department Chair Bill Purves was a key influencer as he introduced Steve to the publisher Sinauer Associates.


1989 Regina Neiman was named a Maitland P. Simmons Fellow in the 2010 National Science


Teachers Association New Science Teacher Acad- emy. She is an Upper School science teacher at Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child in Summit, N.J. She has been participating in a year-long profes- sional development program to help promote qual- ity science teaching. Regina, who teaches AP phys- ics and grade nine physics, joined the Oak Knoll faculty in 2009.


Regina Neiman ’89


Kyle Roesler (Muddraker columnist 1985–1989 using the pseudonym Mary Jane) has self published a second novel Saba. To get the word out about this book, he’s decided to take a radical approach to marketing: he’s giving the e-book away to Mudders. He says, “This deal is valid for faculty, staff, current students and alumni. Just go to www.smashwords.com, type ‘Saba Mary Jane’ in the search window and use coupon code DE85S when you check out. If you don’t want to create an account, e-mail me instead (mj_the_au- thor@yahoo.com) specifying what format you want and I’ll send you a copy.” Kyle describes the book as a “funny, fast-paced story about late twenty-


somethings abandoning the big city to live on the tiny Caribbean island of Saba where they had a great 24-hour mini-cation.”


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