Melissa Ahlborg Uppgren, Trae Andersen and Lauren Schreiner Woods (all '86) in Seattle in July. Melissa and Lauren made the trek to the northwest to help Trae celebrate his wedding.

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The big news is that one of the more eligible bachelors of our class has decided to give up the joys of take-out, canned and frozen food to join the ranks of the happily wed. Trae Andersen married Amy Ford on July 29. Lauren Schreiner Woods and Melissa Ahlborg Uppgren were among those that made the cut to attend the event. This is how Trae sums up the recent developments: "Change has come in clumps. In December I took a new job with DaVita, a national dialysis provider. I asked Amy to marry me during my first week of work. We bought a house in West Seattle in June. In July we sold my house, leased her condo and got married. I'm tired. It was grand having Melissa and Lauren in Seattle for the wedding weekend. Thursday cookout at the new home, cruise around Lake Union and Lake Washington on Friday, and the wedding festivities on Saturday. Did I say I'm tired?"

Don't worry, Trae. You will have the rest of your life to catch up on sleep. Ha!

Dorothy Block, Trae Andersen '86, Melissa Ahlborg Uppgren '86 and Lauren Schreiner Woods '86 at Trae's July wedding.

Lauren Schreiner Woods, Cammie Marsden and Vail Janet Sedlock (all '86) goofing off at Marshall Fields the day before the reunion.

Charlie and Lauren Baker went on a four-day, four-night rafting/camping trip down the Green River in Utah. Apparently, the children enjoyed not having to bathe, shower or change their clothes. The younger part of the family enjoyed setting up a tent each night (or watching Dad do it) and sleeping outside. Mom and Dad are considering Camp Hyatt next summer. Not sure where the kids will go. They have also spent time watching the Red Sox finish in second place and out of playoffs. Charlie took his daughter to see the musical "Wicked" and their review was that it was wickedly wonderful.

Earl Enzer provided a brief recap of the past 20 years. He joined Goldman after graduation and is still there. He has been living and working in Los Angles since 1987. He has worked in several positions, but has mainly focused on private wealth management. He and I have nothing to talk about, but I'm sure he could do wonders for many of you. He sees David Tenney on a regular basis, since David is at Goldman too, starting in Chicago and New York before moving to Los Angeles to head Goldman's equity research department. Last summer, the whole family went to visit Christian Langaard at his horse farm outside of London. Christian operates his own private equity firm and splits his time between homes in the United Kingdom and Argentina, enjoying endless summer and lots of spoiled milk. Christian met his wife Christele in Argentina and they have two beautiful daughters (4 and 2, respectively). Another one of the notorious Norwegians, Oyvand Solvang and the normal Susan Lubar Solvang skied in Utah last season and spent some time with Kevin Damon and his family.

Brad Kime reports that his bank, Irwin Union, was named one of the top 10 "Best Places to Work in Indiana" by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. Brad has been there 20 years and he is very proud to be the president of a company that receives such recognition. My company is a great place to work too, but only when I am on vacation. Brad was also featured in a recent edition of the Southwest Airlines in-flight magazine, Spirit. He was the featured passenger of the month.

I read in Advertising Age that Bob Gamgort is involved in improving the sales at Mars. I guess sales of Snickers bars have taken a downturn. Sorry I went on that diet, Bob. Consider it over. I encourage all non-diabetic classmates to eat at least one Snickers bar a week. Diabetics can have one a month.

Dan Lambert was able to get enough sand out of his laptop to send an update. Dan and his two sons (Sterling and Sean) visited Dan's brother's shack in Telluride, Colo. Everybody had an awesome time fly fishing, hiking, moto-cross riding, camping, shooting, barbecuing, etc. One of the highlights was watching approximately 100 elk cross a meadow at 2 a.m. in full moonlight — something you never get to see in Hawaii.

Nelson Jacobson '86 was recently elected president and CEO of JSJ Corp., a manufacturing company based in Grand Haven, Mich.

Martin Suter had a short but exciting summer. The entire family went to Greece and, in three days, were able to get their international diving organization license. Martin recommends that all families scuba dive together. It is great fun and exercise. Also, while on the vacation, one evening they noticed a little puppy running around their resort. The resort owner mentioned that people dump dogs there all the time. It is unclear whether the children (12 and 10) adopted the puppy or the puppy adopted the children, but either way, the puppy now resides in Switzerland.

I spent my summer playing lots of bad golf and watching the Brewers win at home. I did visit John Baumann '85 twice, once for a golf outing, where I won season tickets for the Badger football games and the next time for the Cheese Days festival. I am still teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and found out that one of the deans reads this column — hello, Janice!