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190 AN T I OC H CO L L E G E C L A S S O F 19 6 5 5 0 t h A N N I V E R S A R Y B O O K W E I S S WEISS KENNETH M. THEN AND NOW 4 B.A. Economics 4 M.A., Economics, Claremont Graduate School ADDRESS 4 5101 North Main St. P.O. Box 71 North Rose, NY 14516 CONTACT 315 587-4732 kmweiss@me.com T H E B A S I C I N F O R M A T I O N is the easy part. Describing the last 50 years is much more difficult. My life since leaving Antioch has been an extended co-op program. After graduation with a B.A. in economics, I enrolled in the Ph.D. program at Claremont Graduate School and University Center in Claremont, Calif.. After completing the obligatory two years of course- work, I managed to pass the writ- ten and oral qualifying exams which qualified me for an M.A. in econom- ics.A year or so later while half-heart- edly (or maybe even less heartedly) working on my dissertation, I started working part time as a research as- sistant and, a bit later on, teaching statistics. In 1969, I met the woman who has shared the rest of my life and started thinking as seriously as I could about the future. (Pause for reflection.) In August 1971 I packed up wife, child and two cats in a 1964 Dodge Dart and headed for my first full-time teaching job at Phillips University in Enid,Okla., having pre- viously shipped our worldly posses- sions.That lasted three years during which one more child joined the family and one cat was almost lost but miraculously recovered.My great revelation after three years was that I was not destined to be a teacher or even much of a scholar. In November, 1974 with wife driving two children in the same Dodge Dart and me driving two cats in a U-Haul truck, we migrated to Newark, Del., where I took on the somewhat magical title of econom- ics and statistical consultant in the University of Delaware computing center. During the subsequent ten years, I was promoted (in a manner of speaking) to the less magical ti- tle of project leader doing exactly the same work. As I recall, three or four of my co-workers also became project leaders at the same time. I suppose we all led various projects, each of which were one-person projects. In late 1984 I was approached by the former director of the com- puting center (who had formed his own company) to join University Computing Systems Corporation (UCSC) working in Washington, D.C., at the offices of their client, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). I officially started work in February 1985 first as a commuter from Delaware working during the week and house-hunting on weekends. By June we had moved the fam- ily into a cooperative townhouse that was an easy bus commute to work and close enough to our sons’ schools.The work evolved into sys- tem programming which I really enjoyed. Both sons graduated from D.C. public high schools and both cats died, one more peacefully than the other. Living in a cooperative was a challenge after home ownership. I was invited to serve on several committees and enjoyed the expe- rience. I served alternately on the property and administration com- mittee and the finance commit- tee for several years, both of which helped to formulate the budget for the cooperative. After UCSC and IMF parted ways, I remained in D.C. and eventu- ally was picked up by the accounting office in the Treasury Department. I fell into a job that was perfect for me since it allowed me to do the programming I enjoyed while pro- viding computer assistance as they upgraded slowly into the 21st cen- tury. In September 2001 Washington became a much less enjoyable expe- rience.The increased prevalence of security measures and the constant presence of color coded threat lev- els became too much for us.When the Treasury Department essentially contracted out the work I was do- ing, it was time for me to leave. As a result of my wife’s interest A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z