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Subject:Census
From:Matthew Pollard
Date:Tue, 5 Jun 2001 12:20:17 -0700

here is my info:
Matthew Pollard
Male
dob: 2/25/75
born: mountain view california
currently: moscow ID
married: yep. just under 3 years. Jen.
family: starting one in early october :-)  jen is due 10/6.

hobbies: climbing. big stuff. been up el cap and 1/2 dome 30+ times....
vegetable garden, beekeeping, brewing, hiking, photography, canoeing,
stained glass windows, woodworking...

occupations: paper boy in 6th grade for the san jose mercury news... then
in 9th grade i worked at Claravale Guernesy Farms (a dairy in Los Gatos
CA). Worked there through high school. Man oh man i was in shape.  During
college i interned at Space Systems Loral in Palo Alto. After my BS i
worked for a pharmaceutical company (which is now bankrumpt). They paid
for my MS in chem @ stanford. Now while in grad school i make $ by
teaching chem classes and by, well, slave labor, pretty much.

Education: yep. bs chem and physics at Cal Poly SLO. ms in chem and now
working on phd in chem at the U of Idaho.

past vw's: lots of 60's bugs, a few splitties, a bay window, a 59 ghia, 70
bug, 71 ghia.

current cars: 84 vanagon, 70 ford truck, 90 honda accord, 67 bug that my
dad drives in New Mexico. (i love it- he is a big CEO, makes lots of $$$
and he drives a cherry 67 to work every non-snowy day. In snow he drives
a ford exploder). I am eyeing a 87 syncro to replace my 84.

Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu