James "Sam" Vivian

Profile Updated: May 6, 2009
Residing In: Colorado Springs, CO USA
Spouse/Partner: Kelley
Occupation: Specialist, pharmaceutical & chemistry databases
Children: Finn, born 2004...we still don't know who the mother is!

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Post-DHS, I attended Michigan State Univ. (BS, Chemistry), then moved to Boulder, CO, then on to Bozeman, MT (MS, Physical Chem., Montana State), then to Reno (Ph.D., Chemical Physics, UNR), then to California, then back to Bozeman, then to Boston, then to Princeton, NJ...then finally to Colorado Springs in 2007 where I spent a brief period with New England Securities / MetLife as a broker before joining Elsevier, Inc. Never bothered to unpack. Met Kelley when she was one of my students in Boulder in 1990, married in 2004. We'd stayed in touch by letters, pre-Email era, for a dozen years, and she was great friends with one of my climbing partners...so things just kind of worked out.

Finn arrived and changed the whole picture. Looking forward to sharing a rope with him someday. For now, he's a Handful.

I'm pretty sure I owe Chris Thiry a plane ticket...
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Posted: Mar 07, 2014 at 12:00 AM
THEN: Graduation Day, DHS 1984, Sangre de Cristo Mtns, New Mexico, about to hit the lip on "The Book", A3+/5.10. Skipped graduation, left Michigan in May, went climbing for 3 months. Photo by the late David Paisley (died May 31, 2000, Mt. Bona, 16,421', Wrangell-St. Elias Range, Alaska).
Posted: Mar 07, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Finn, ~2 weeks. A rare event: napping.
Posted: Mar 07, 2014 at 12:00 AM
(from Left): Kelley, Sam, and Finn (2 months old, inside Kangaroo Sling), December 2004. New Jersey.
Posted: Mar 07, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Top of the first and nobody out...peering up the off-width slot on the first ascent of "Kelley's Crack", The Nose, Humbug Spires, MT. 6/20/04. Twenty years later and still too dumb to quit.
Photo by Terry Kennedy.
Posted: Mar 07, 2014 at 12:00 AM
NOW: Finn at the Library, early 2008.
Posted: Dec 16, 2013 at 11:29 PM
Finn...backstage.
Posted: Dec 16, 2013 at 11:29 PM
Amazing alpine wall in the San Juans...almost have to see it to believe it.




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