Get "Youngest" Record in Child Table ?

Hi - I've got a table which records 'events' in the life of it's parent. Like this ...

create table t1_Person (id number(1),name varchar2(10)); create table t2_PersonEvents (perid number(1),evt_type varchar2(12),evt_date date);

--
insert into t1_Person values (1,'Fred');
insert into t1_Person values (2,'Mary');
--
insert into t2_PersonEvents values (1,


'Birth',to_date('1950-1-1','YYYY-MM-DD'));

insert into t2_PersonEvents values (1,


'Graduation',to_date('1971-1-1','YYYY-MM-DD'));

insert into t2_PersonEvents values (1,


'Marriage',to_date('1973-1-1','YYYY-MM-DD'));

insert into t2_PersonEvents values (2,


'Birth',to_date('1970-1-1','YYYY-MM-DD'));

insert into t2_PersonEvents values (2,


'Graduation',to_date('1991-1-1','YYYY-MM-DD'));

commit;
--

What I'm interested to know is a good efficient way to join the tables
so that I can view the most recent event for each person (based upon
evt_date) alongside the columns of t1_Person.

I've got a number of ways I'm doing it but in real life the parent
tables are considerably larger than shown here and I would appreciate
some 'best practice' advice.

In case it matters in my real world situation the ratio of Children to
Parents is something like 10-20:1 (ie the parents don't have terribly
eventful lives ;-).

Just to summarise I would like output that looked like this ...

Name             Latest Event
====             ============
Fred             Marriage
Mary             Graduation

Thanks

Richard.