On March 1, Ravi Sethi *73 came to visit and took these pictures of me before we went off to an enjoyable lunch. Later that day, Mike Celia from Civil and Environmental Engineering and Bob Vanderbei from Operations Research and Financial Engineering came for chairmanly discussions. When I returned home, it was time to record my outfit with my new birthday clothes and for Meredith to try to preempt her birthday by wearing the magic hat before Ben took a few pictures of the family room and we sent Meredith out, camera in hand, to record the duckling family on the steps and the massive snow statue

in the back yard.