Cake 1: Three cakes were prepared for the Pi's 25th Anniversary General Meeting and party. Not only were three cakes required to handle the crowd, but each cake represented an era: the past, the present, and the future. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters, taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 digital camera.)Cake 2: Three cakes were prepared for the Pi's 25th Anniversary General Meeting and party. Not only were three cakes required to handle the crowd, but each cake represented an era: the past, the present, and the future. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters, taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 digital camera.)Cake 3: Three cakes were prepared for the Pi's 25th Anniversary General Meeting and party. Not only were three cakes required to handle the crowd, but each cake represented an era: the past, the present, and the future. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters, taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 digital camera.)As usual, there was a wealth of stuff to give away for the 25th Anniversary Party. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters, taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 digital camera.)Chris Bastian handled the registration desk at the 25th Anniversary Party. This was highly entertaining, since Chris was a guest: he lives in New York City. But as a former Pi officer, he knows how to lend a hand. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters, taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 digital camera.)Colleen and Mary O'Brien pose behind the rainbow balloon arch in front of the 25th Anniversary cakes. Mary and Colleen were also at the Pi's 20th Anniversary party in 1999, and we still can't tell them apart. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters, taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 digital camera.)Former Pi Secretary Dana Schwartz (left), former Pi President Lorin Evans (center) and Pi Founder Gena Urban look over some material before the start of the 25th Anniversary meeting. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters, taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 digital camera.)Grant Peacock sets up some professional-quality digital video gear prior to the start of the 25th Anniversary general meeting. Grant probably could have set things up faster were it not for the crowd of onlookers and barrage of questions. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters, taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 digital camera.)Maria's parents probably agree: she is wildly innovative, stunning, cunning, always running, and purrrrfection. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters, taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 digital camera.)Members of the crew that takes care of the Pi's telecommunications infrastructure are called “penguins,” in memory of a time long ago when a water-cooled air conditioner struggled to keep a closet full of Apple II computers cool, summer and winter. TCS Software Architect Jon Thomason holds a tiny penguin made by a member and given to him at the 25th Anniversary meeting. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters, taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 digital camera.)While computers may have brought people together for the 25th Anniversary Party, food certainly helped. It looked like a church picnic. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters, taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 digital camera.)While the adults found the presentations and the food more than enough to keep them entertained at the 25th Anniversary meeting, some visitors preferred to explore other venues. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters, taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 digital camera.)25th Anniversary Washington Apple Pi clocks were presented to some present and former Pi leaders (elected and volunteer) for their contributions to the organization over the past quarter century. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters, taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 digital camera.)
