The Fam

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		Joan, Rich & Marge at SGI, our winter dolphin therapy
		A family portrait painted by Les Bell in 1994.  Jason (lower left), Joan (in the clouds), Jess (center), Marge (topsy-turvy) and Rich (right)
		Marge became the second Leg(g)--get it? YUK!--in '72.   She's occupied here with her idea of aerobic exercise on a drawing trip to the Canyonlands region of eastern Utah.
		Marge and our "boy" Doc doing some agility training.
		Doc (officially Moonsetter's Derring-do, Ph.D. - that's MD, PhD and hence the nickname Doc), our present Gordon Setter monster in one of his rare moments of repose with his buddy lamby
		A running quartet: Joan, p.t. barnum (aka "pete"), Coco (both now chasing rabbits in the sky) & Rich after Doggie Dash
		Rich, Joan and our tandem - beats the bejabbers out of watching television
		Marge, and statistics-boy, Jason, not speaking mathematically for a moment
		Marge and Joan at the cut of SGI
		Jason and Rich on the edge of Scorpion Flat in the Escalante
		Jason (no.2) squeezing through "Peek-A-Boo Canyon" in the Escalante.  Peek-A-Boo is one of several slot canyons running into the Dry Fork of Coyote Gulch.  Jason is originally a Grinnellian and holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Iowa State.  He is currently a Biostatistics Manager for Amgen, a human therapeutics biotechnology firm in sunny California.
		Jessi and Matt (yeah, he's only an in-law, but we still think of him as fam).  J (no. 1, a.k.a Aurora) holds a BFA in Dance Performance from the Jordan College of Fine Arts at Butler University; After dancing professionally in North Carolina and Tennessee, Jessi has returned to her roots and is now Director of Dance programs at the Bettendorf Family Museum.  Matt has a BA in Biology from Butler University, an MS in biotechnology from UNC-Greensboro., and a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University.  Matt is a member of the Biology faculty at SAU.
		Matt plays second fiddle to a transgenic canola with a fluorescent jellyfish gene as pictured in the April 2002 National Geographic article about transgenic plants.