MIT Class of 1967

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MIT Class of 1967

MIT Class of 1967
40th Reunion Profile Book
Last Names A to J
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Acevedo, John..................................................................................................................................................... 3
Banks, Larry........................................................................................................................................................ 5
Bayer, Sheldon.................................................................................................................................................... 7
Belfer, Warren................................................................................................................................................... 10
Berger, Steven................................................................................................................................................... 11
Berrian, David................................................................................................................................................... 12
Bermudez, Vic .................................................................................................................................................. 15
Bodnar, Jack...................................................................................................................................................... 17
Bosler, Robert ................................................................................................................................................... 19
Boulay, Richard ................................................................................................................................................ 21
Carlton Foss, John............................................................................................................................................. 23
Chan, Yupo ....................................................................................................................................................... 26
Chandler, Elaine Ackles.................................................................................................................................... 27
Collins, Terry .................................................................................................................................................... 30
Constantine, Larry L. ........................................................................................................................................ 32
Cunningham, Richard H.G. .............................................................................................................................. 34
Daney, Charles.................................................................................................................................................. 36
Davis, Don ........................................................................................................................................................ 37
Dawson (Klitzke), Cheryl ................................................................................................................................ 39
Denton, Peter..................................................................................................................................................... 41
DeWitte, Gordon J. ........................................................................................................................................... 43
Ditzler, Rodney W. ........................................................................................................................................... 45
Dix, M. William Jr. ........................................................................................................................................... 47
Dubin, Alan P.................................................................................................................................................... 48
Ebert, John ........................................................................................................................................................ 49
Falco, Al............................................................................................................................................................ 50
Ferrara, Raymond ............................................................................................................................................. 52
Ferrara, Robert .................................................................................................................................................. 53
Fineman, Mark.................................................................................................................................................. 55
Flaum, Steve ..................................................................................................................................................... 56
Franz, Joseph M. ............................................................................................................................................... 57
Gamse, Roy....................................................................................................................................................... 58
Garbin, David A................................................................................................................................................ 60
Geltman, Edward M.......................................................................................................................................... 62
Gerstle, Robert S. M.D. .................................................................................................................................... 64
Giglio, Raymond J. ........................................................................................................................................... 66
Gilchrest (Desmond), Barbara A. M.D............................................................................................................. 68
Golomb, Harvey................................................................................................................................................ 69
Gorenstein, David ............................................................................................................................................. 71
Gottleib, Allen................................................................................................................................................... 73
Grossman, Mark................................................................................................................................................ 75
Grove, Tom ....................................................................................................................................................... 77
Hayward, Paul................................................................................................................................................... 79
Hespenheide, Erich J......................................................................................................................................... 81
Howard, Bob ..................................................................................................................................................... 83
Iuzzolino, Carlyn Voss...................................................................................................................................... 85
Iuzzolino, Harold .............................................................................................................................................. 87
Jensen, Erik M. ................................................................................................................................................. 89
Johnson, Eric C. ................................................................................................................................................ 91
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Acevedo, John
Course: 8
Home Address:
PO Box 423
Home City: Simpsonville
Home Phone
Email:
410-730-9255
[email protected]
Business Name:
State: MD
ZIP: 21150-0423
Mobile:
Web Page:
Title:
Business Address:
Business City:
Business Phone
State:
ZIP:
Business Email:
Your Activities/Interests:
After working for 38 years at Westinghouse Electric Corporation Electronic Systems, which was purchased by
Northrop Grumman Corporation, I have finally called it quits from a regular daily job. Since October 2006 I
have now the option to enjoy each day individually. I have kept myself technically savvy and have changed
with the opportunities available to me. In the last few years I have been dealing with computer systems,
software and the Internet. Now at my own pace I still continue working in those fields.
Children’s Name(s) & Interests:
My adult son graduated from Boston University in 1990. He continually delves in poetry
Most Vivid MIT Memory(ies):
I basically remember my days in East Campus as having to study continuously. In the mornings it was
convenient to go by Walker Memorial in case I needed coffee and then get inside the institute by the music
library. I really did not have to spend much time in the outside weather. Since I was close to the dormitory,
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every chance I got, I would go to my room, to exchange books and notebooks for the next classes. Every time I
returned to East Campus I would check my mailbox – sometimes 4-6 times a day. Remember that even though
those were the days before the Internet, I still checked my mailbox multiple times a day. I was always
expecting something, even as we all knew, mail was distributed only once a day.
I always enjoyed the letters from my relatives and friends which I answered immediately. I also looked forward
to the 2-4 telephone calls per year I had from my family – remember that long-distance calls were relatively
expensive and so we only spoke for a few minutes.
Every weekday the East Campus Hispanic (Latino) group would have dinner around 6pm in a front round table
in Walker Memorial dinning hall. The 89 cent and the 99 cent specials were our favorites, since that amount
avoided paying for the “old age” tax which would make our meals more expensive. Our round table was
adjacent to the Middle Eastern students’ round table (I do not think they had problems with money). I vaguely
remember there were other students partaking of the delicious meals.
In the last two years, immediately after the quick dinner, I had the luxury of a half-hour to watch Walter
Cronkite for the evening news in our East Campus communal TV room. The war was not going well. Those
were the days!
Fondest hope for MIT’s future:
I hope there are discoveries and cures for many of the devastating diseases. I have always though that progress
will only come from places like MIT. Initiatives from MIT should help alleviate world poverty and educational
inequalities. The OpenCourseWare and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiatives are specially satisfying.
Let us all hope the energy problems are handled appropriately. Geothermal power is particularly attractive. Let
us use corn for tacos and tortillas and reserve the use of hydrogen for rocket fuel and dirigibles. We already had
our turn with nuclear energy – the bombs were not well appreciated and the penny electricity that was promised
never came to fruition.
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Banks, Larry
Course:
VI
Home Address: 33 Blueberry Hill Road
Home City:
Woburn
Home Phone:
State:
781-932-3328
Mobile:
Email: [email protected]
Business Name
MA ZIP: 01801-5258
Web Page:
(Consultant)
http://www.qsl.net/w1dyj/
Title:
Learning Technologies Consultant
Business Address: (my home)
Business City:
State:
Business Phone
ZIP:
Business Email:
Working part-time as a Learning Technologies consultant out of my house. (Learning Management Systems,
eLearning, etc.) “Retired” after 37 years at Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Technologies.
Avocations: Amateur Radio (W1DYJ); designing & building sets for the Winchester Players, a community
theater group; woodworking; tennis; African drumming
Spouse’s Name & Interests:
Maren Judd
Reading, gardening, collecting art, traveling
Emily – High School Science teacher
Kate – New England Aquarium Senior Aquarist
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Grandchildren’s Name(s) & Interests:
Will – one-year old; walking into trouble; testing the law of gravity with his toys
Additional Narrative:
In 1993, after 17 years in R&D Management, I became tired of management and decided to be an individual
contributor again – one of my smartest decisions. As the program manager responsible for the technical
education of all R&D engineers at HP Andover, I had to attend the classes I managed. It was like being back at
MIT, as I learned all kinds of stuff that I never would have been exposed to in my previous job. This led to a
position as the Program Manager for Agilent’s new Learning Management System which kept keep track of all
training that happened worldwide in Agilent. One of the best roles I ever had, it included all of the best parts of
R&D management, large-system implementation, interfacing with customers and vendors, and human-interface
design issues. This led to my current professional life as a semi-retired Learning Technologies Consultant.
Most Vivid MIT Memory(ies)
Friday Freshman quizzes
Concert Band and Kresge
Winter rides to the ‘tute from my Brookline Apt on my motorbike
Working with Prof. Cam Searle on my SB Thesis
Best example of MIT helping career.
I’ve never had to apply for a job – positions have always found me.
That MIT will solve the energy crisis
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Bayer, Sheldon
Course:VI
Home Address:218 Lilac Drive
Home City:Mount Vernon State: WA ZIP: 98273
Home Phone: (360)848-6848 Mobile:
Email:sb msg [email protected] Web Page:
Business Name:Retired but looking around still Title:
Business Address:
Business City:
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We are living in probably one of the most beautiful areas of the country among the many in which I have been
fortunate enough to live. We used to vacation often up here in the Northwest before deciding to live here. I am
still interested in golf, tennis and skiing, but occasional part breakdowns often slow that down a bit. I also still
would like to get into some serious woodworking that I have delayed for what seems forever. Hiking and
fishing are also great activities in this area. I have yet to boat my first salmon from local waters but the chase is
certainly fun.
My wife Jackie has taken up painting again. Since switching from watercolors to pastels she has really
blossomed as the consummate artist and her interest level has increased accordingly. Some of her paintings
were recently sold at auction to support the new cancer wing at the community hospital. Many friends have
begged pictures from her and she tries to oblige. I’m not sure yet we have enough wall space to support all this
passion and production. She is also quite the consummate cook and likes to experiment with new dishes and
flavors. It is sometimes hard to revisit an old favorite since she wants to try something new but there are several
favorite dishes we do manage to make fairly often. I, of course, am the consummate Grillmeister.
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Our oldest son, Matt, likes to hunt and fish but has not had much chance to do that lately. He once started into
some taxidermy but had to set that aside for awhile. He is also a very good artist himself but has not had the
time to pursue it as much as he might like. He has his hands full with a special needs daughter that gets most of
her daddy’s attention right now.
Our youngest son, Jess, has just enlarged his family with his first daughter. She is definitely daddy’s girl and he
doesn’t disappoint her with any lack of attention. Jess and his wife have bought an older home in a historic
downtown Dallas area. The house has great bones but needs some TLC. Jess has gone from all-thumbs to quite
the home handyman. He has tackled, often with Dad’s help, several home improvement projects that once
seemed beyond him. He put up with his dad for longer than I want to admit while I stayed with him and rebuilt
his master bath shower that incorporated his own custom designed craftsman tiling patterns. He has gotten to be
quite skilled at some of the woodwork projects he has undertaken. I maybe hard pressed to stay ahead of him.
I have a lot of great memories of times and friends at MIT and East Campus. One of the most vivid was the
great fire in, I think 1964, that burned off the end of the upper floors at the west end of the north wing of East
Campus. It had an interesting origin that we don’t need to get into. So while this great conflagration is
progressing and Cambridge’s finest have shown up to diligently fight the fire, the other East Campus residents
responded in a show of heartfelt but perverse support that only a true Techie could appreciate. Several East
Campus residents placed their hi-fi speakers in opened windows, turned the volume way up and spurred on the
firefighters with unforgettable musical selections like the one I most remember, Wagner’s “The Flight of the
Valkyries”. The music reverberated loudly between the two East Campus wings as the firemen noisily
clambered up ladders and hoses sprayed. It was a marvelous juxtaposition that smacked of Mash done East
Campus style. The overwhelming sensitivity of it all in the midst of this potential disaster almost brought tears
to one’s eyes.
Another story dovetails into this. After the burned end of the East Campus dorm was rebuilt, the dorm was
refitted with a lounge area that had a stove. One evening, I decided to finally take advantage of the area and to
make myself dinner. One of the things I wanted to make was battered onion rings using a recipe one of by dorm
buddies had shared with me. I had no idea until then what a ridiculous number of onion rings for one person that
one large onion can produce. Anyway, I worked at figuring out the workings of the stove and started the onion
rings. I got a few done and think I had it all under control when all of a sudden the stove goes off and so do the
lights. I figured, “Oh boy”, I’ve done it now.” Then I looked out of the back window over Cambridge and
noticed that all of Cambridge was dark too. No more Necco Wafer candies for awhile. I now figured my
personal predicament had significantly enlarged and there was going to be hell to pay regardless of how well the
onion rings might have turned out. It wasn’t too much longer before reality set in that I had just witnessed first
hand and up close the beginnings of the great Northeast Blackout of 1965. So, as it turned out, my onion rings
and me were not to blame.
I also have fond memories of the great MIT Lecture Series Committee concerts and talks, one being with Henry
Cabot Lodge. I also remember a get-together with Doc Edgerton just after the Russians had posted pictures of a
space walk that many thought were faked where he was questioned about it. Then there was the time when a
zillion rubber superballs were dumped en-masse from the balcony in the Great Dome.
And how can you not remember the great enthusiasm and technical ingenuity admiration we Techmen had for
Wily Coyote and the Roadrunner cartoons. What I wouldn’t give to enjoy a few episodes of Wily Coyote before
current fliks instead of the endless trivia questions about people I don’t know and don’t care to know and the
endless loop of candy and popcorn ads.
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As an MIT grad, I often got a better look from people that wanted to add top technical talent into their
organization. One well-regarded telecom company I joined and with whom I stayed for many years had several
older MIT grads in very senior positions. Each was making important engineering contributions to key products
and I worked closely with each of them. Rubbing shoulders with MIT grads from previous generations was
always a joy and reinforced the quality and competency of the MIT student that has persisted generation after
generation. I also often found people coming to me to talk about technical issues and to get some critical
analysis just because they trusted the abilities and critical thinking of an MIT grad.
I hope that MIT remains a guiding light for the advancement of innovative technologies for the benefit of the
Earth and the great humanity that depends on its survival. MIT also needs to remain an encouraging and
nurturing environment for critical thinking and early student involvement in exciting new technology
developments and entrepreneurial activities. MIT needs to always be the incubating birthplace for new ideas
and ways to stimulate and teach them to the best and the brightest that choose to pursue these studies and
careers. Being an MIT grad must always mean something very special.
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Belfer, Warren
Course:
Home Address:
2521 Middlefield Road
Home City: Palo Alto
Home Phone:
VIII
State: CA
650 325-6344
ZIP: 94301
Mobile: 650 814-4343
Web Page: http://home.pacbell.net/wbelfer/
Business Name: Sun Microsystems
Title: Lead Operations Engineer
Business Address: 18 Network Circle
Business City: Menlo Park
State: CA
Business Phone 650 786-9693
Business Email:
ZIP: 94025
[email protected]
Outside of work, my main interest is in dog training. I am a member of the board of directors of an AKC
licensed training club. (Deep Peninsula Dog Training Club http://www.deeppeninsuladtc.org/ )
I am also s puppy raiser and puppy raising leader for Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael, CA
(http://guidedogs.com/ ) Our puppy raising group web site is http://www.midpeninsulapuppyguides.org/
In my spare time, I do a fair amount of audio and video playing around on my home computers.
Robin Levy. Teacher and Guide Dog puppy raiser.
Evan Tep Belfer; Doctor
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Berger, Steven
Course: 8
Home Address:
Home City:
New York
Home Phone:
Email:
State:
(718)-939-7072
NY
ZIP:
Mobile:
[email protected]
Business Name:
Web Page:
Title:
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Playing tennis in “the bubble” on Briggs Field
Networking with fellow alumni
An increased endowment
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Berrian, David
Course: XVI
3105 – 30th Avenue S.
Home Address:
Home City: Seattle
State:
Home Phone: 425-482-3026
Email:
WA
ZIP:
98144
[email protected]
Business Name:
City of Seattle
Business Address:
Seattle Municipal Tower, 700 – 5th Avenue, Suite 5800
Business City:
Seattle
Business Phone
206-733-9409
Title:
State: WA
Grants & Contracts Manager
ZIP: 98124
Business Email:
[email protected]
Nonviolence Education and Peacekeeping; Development of the Nonviolent Peaceforce; Member of Buddhist
Peace Fellowship and Fellowship of Reconciliation; Nonviolent Communication; Photography; Hiking.
Garland Minor – Primary Grade Teacher; New Mother
Seth Snapp – Bar Manager
Saul Snapp – Elder Care
Sean Snapp – Manages Equestrian Center
Stacia Snapp – Microsoft Technical Writer
Sieglinde Snapp – Associate Professor, Vegetable Crops, Michigan State University
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Rolland Minor (4 months)
Athena Snapp (6)
Shanelle Snapp (18)
Cory Snapp (2)
Niall Snapp (6)
Tynor Fujimoto (12)
Kellen Fujimoto (17)
Dante Snapp (9)
Jordan Snapp (10)
Tori Sorrone (9)
Laly Sorrone (9)
We attended MIT at a time in our country’s history that was challenging. The Civil Rights movement was
active throughout our time there. The War on Poverty and the War in Vietnam were dominating our country’s
agenda by the time we graduated. Every one of us was called on to make important personal and political
choices, if not when we were undergraduates, then shortly thereafter.
For me these choices were central to my life since, and I credit MIT, in part, for my being able to face these
challenges to the extent that I have. I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. I taught junior and
senior high school science and math on the Makah Indian reservation (and was assistant football coach). I did
community organizing in welfare rights and community development. My political involvement tended to
come and go with changes in jobs, in raising a family, and in getting more education (Community Planning at
the University of Cincinnati and Economics at Cornell).
Today the role of our country in the world is even more challenging than it was when we were undergraduates.
My own political involvement has increased. I traveled to Iraq just prior to the US invasion in 2003. I’ve
served as an international elections monitor in Sri Lanka. I’m not very interested in denouncing our current
government, as much as I disagree with many of its policies. I do want to see a fundamental change, however.
I want to help develop institutions that operate from principles of partnership and participation. I support the
Nonviolent Peaceforce, an international organization that is developing a corps of professional, unarmed,
civilian peacekeepers able to intervene at the request of local organizations in conflict areas throughout the
world (see www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org). It is a practical alternative to military intervention.
I am hopeful that men and women graduating from MIT are facing today’s challenges and making fundamental
decisions about the directions for their own contributions to themselves and to our world. I hope we will all do
our best to lend our presence and support to them.
Volunteering through the Technology Community Association and the Social Action Committee: Tutoring in
the Cambridge Settlement Houses; Tuesday nights in the long-term care ward of the Mattapan State Hospital (a
mental hospital); Friday nights in the Emergency Room of Boston City Hospital; and Saturdays at the New
England Home for Little Wanderers (a residence for emotionally disturbed children).
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Best example of MIT helping career:
By providing a learning environment that fostered attitudes of respect and excellence MIT helped reinforce selfconfidence and an approach to problem solving the cut through boundaries of authority and intellectual
discipline. Even now I am struck by how often co-workers start out from the position of “We can’t possibly do
that. They [those in authority] wouldn’t like it.” I ask, “Why not? Let’s do the best we know how. How will
we know what they’ll like or not like until we ask them?”
May MIT maintain a learning environment that values mutual respect and excellence. May MIT embrace
inclusion across social divisions of race, class, and gender. May MIT acknowledge that problem solving and
creativity are social acts that are not fostered by how clever we are as individuals, but by how we strengthen the
relationships among us so that each of us can contribute to our full ability.
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Bermudez, Vic
Course: V
Home Address: 7584 Vogels Way
Home City: Springfield
Home Phone: 703-455-2896
State: VA
ZIP: 22153
Mobile:
Web Page:
Business Name: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Title: Research Physicist
Business Address: Code 6876; 4555 Overlook Ave., S.W.
Business City: Washington
Business Phone 202-767-6728
State: DC
Business Email:
ZIP: 20375
[email protected]
Work: Physical Chemistry of Surfaces - experimental and theoretical studies of the interaction of molecules
with surfaces; electronic structure and properties of oxide and semiconductor surfaces
Non-Work: Fishing, Jazz, Outdoor Activities
Catherine H. Bulmer-Bermudez - World Affairs, Travel, Outdoor Activities, Literature (she reads books with no
pictures !)
No kids, alas.
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After MIT I went straight to Princeton for graduate school (a culture shock after 4 years at the Institute !). Grad
school was interrupted by military service from June 1969 to Sept. 1972. I went through Navy OCS in
Newport, RI, where my Company Commander for a time was Don Bellenger '67 and my roommate was Tom
Mattson (OE '69). From there I had the good fortune to go to the Naval Research Lab, where two of my
"shipmates" were LT Steve Metz '67 and LT Ray Petit '66. (Ray is since deceased, I'm very sorry to say.) At
the end of my uniformed service I became a civilian employee of NRL, returned to grad. school and finished up
with a PhD in Physics and Physical Chemistry in 1976. I've been full-time at NRL ever since. I met Catherine
when she came to NRL in 1977 (with a PhD in Electronic Engineering from University College London) for
what was supposed to be a one-year visit. One year became a lifetime, and the rest is history.
Walking across the Harvard Bridge for the very first time in Sept. 1963 (never having seen MIT before);
Freshman Year (gradually realizing that I might actually not flunk out, all appearances to the contrary); The
Other Three Years (feeling at home at the Institute; lots of obstacles, but they can be overcome, and there's fun
to be had !)
After 4 years at MIT, I'm not afraid of anything in the realm of research work. Also, my 4 years left me with a
sense of what it means to be surrounded by good people doing good work and having great fun in the process.
It's good for the soul to be exposed, at least once in one's life, to true excellence.
Keep on doing it like you always have. Be happy in the knowledge that you're a very special place.
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Bodnar, Jack
Course:
1935 NE 59th Avenue
Home Address:
Home City: Portland
Home Phone:
XVIII
State: OR
503-241-1529
Mobile:
ZIP: 97213
971-275-2007
Web Page:
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I am currently assisting my partner Ann Cason in her pioneering work with the elderly. See her book “Circles
of Care: How to Set Up Quality Home Care for Our Elders” (Shambhala Publications). Related to that, I’m also
helping out my parents, who are still active at the ages of 88 & 89!
I am also very active (have been since 1974) with Shambhala (www.shambhala.org), which is a global network
of meditation centers, headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, having been Director of the Shambhala Center in
Portland, Oregon and currently being the Resident Director in Portland for Shambhala Training, which is the
study and practice of Shambhala warriorship—the tradition of human bravery and leadership. Shambhala is a
profound path of personal and societal enlightenment, rooted in the Buddhist tradition.
Other than that, I have recently become an avid (though inexperienced!) gardener.
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Ann Cason (www.anncason.com), besides the activities listed above, is also a teacher and meditation instructor
in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition. She has a 26 year-old son Eric who also lives in Portland, Oregon.
Over the years, I’ve lived in a number of different places. After graduating from M.I.T., I moved to the S.F.
Bay Area, where I attended U.C. Berkeley, dropped out in 1970 during the period of social turmoil connected
with the Vietnam War, worked with Cesar Chavez during the California Grape Boycott, met Chogyam Trungpa
in 1974, a seminal figure in transplanting Buddhism to the West who encouraged me to go back to school,
graduated with an M.S. in Computer Science and worked at Varian Associates. In 1980, so that I could work
more closely with Trungpa, I moved to Boulder, Colorado, where I worked in the Shambhala Training National
Office and also worked with Rela Associates as a software engineer. In 1989, motivated by the profound
societal vision of Trungpa as well as my personal love for the place, I immigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada,
where Shambhala is now headquartered. There I worked at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography for a number
of years. In 1999, I moved back to my home town of Portland, Oregon although I am now a dual U.S. &
Canadian citizen.
I suppose my most vivid and fond memories are connected with Senior House and the friendships (which I
haven’t been very good at keeping up) that I made in our section (I just realized I don’t remember its name!) of
the house. Especially, I remember weekends when we went as a group to Durgin Park and also played touch
football on the adjacent green strip.
Needless to say, in general it has been an excellent credential to have.
While I appreciate very much MIT’s concern with the societal impacts of technology and promoting research
which is beneficial to society, I am also concerned that MIT, like many other schools, does not divulge how
their endowment funds are invested. I think that investment decisions need to be made public, and that money
should be invested in institutions that promote sustainable development and are really concerned with the
human impacts of their activities. Then MIT will really be a force for good in the world.
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Bosler, Robert
Course: XVI
Home Address:
Home City:
2126 Calaveras Ave
Davis
Home Phone:
State: CA
ZIP:
Mobile:
530-902-2592
530-758-5131
95616
Web Page:
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I now work at UC Davis on behalf of Caltrans. I garden, run the dogs, and help with aged parents. And
wonder what I should do next.
Paula is an LCSW with a private practice in therapy and senior care, with trips to Europe to provide help
to soldiers. After a career in prisons and senior care management.
Silas teaches special ed students in San Diego. Caleb is a third year medical student at Yale.
None at present. But, soon.
I have had many adventures starting and running small businesses of various kinds: cut-and-sew to bio-tech to
software. Now I think about highways. Before moving to Davis, we had lived in 13 places in 14 years. To my
surprise, we have now lived in one place for 18 years. I have been married to Paula for 32 years, a constant
source of joy and happiness, especially since we are so different. Our two boys have turned out great and are
having their own adventures in places and countries I had only imagined. Paula and I hope for one more
adventure, although we don't yet know what it will be.
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No one memory, except a general sense of the energy and joy of a life of both intellect and action. Nothing
in my background had even hinted at such possibilities. What a shock! What joy! What feelings of
liberation!
I was able to get jobs in a wide variety of places and found myself doing things I had no idea I could do. MIT
provided skills that I did not know at the time would be so important or valuable.
Mind and hands: people with intellectual and physical energy combined with a passion for helping others.
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Boulay, Richard
Course: XVI
Home Address: 7415 Sandia Glow CT NE
Home City: Albuquerque
State: NM
ZIP:
Home Phone: 505-823-1692
Mobile: 505-400-1032
Web Page:
Business Name: Washington Group International
87122
Title: Consulting Engineer
Business Address: 7800 E. Union Ave., Suite 100
Business City: Denver
State: CO
ZIP: 80237
Business Email: [email protected]
Skiing, woodworking, and old cars. Old car interest is waning; in May 2007 sold a 1971 Datsun 240Z that I had
owned since 1974
Barbara. Barbara is an artist and a docent at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History
Sorry for not attending the reunion, but health issues keep that from happening
Remember pulling an all-night study session in preparation for a final in dynamics of rigid body motion. About
midnight my buddy and I decided to take a break and go shoot some pool at the student center.
One of the questions on the final was how high should you strike the cueball so that its spin matches its
velocity, i.e., no topspin or backspin. I did the calculus, and came up with a height of 7/5*Radius above the
table surface. I said “that looks about right”, and went on to the rest of the exam without checking that problem,
and my answer was correct!
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Strong background in fundamentals makes it easy to change the focus of one’s career. My career has
progressed (regressed?) from aircraft jet engines to industrial gas turbines to gas turbine/steam turbine
combined cycle power plants to coal-fired power generation.
Keep costs and financial aid under control to allow access to less privileged students.
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Carlton Foss, John
Home Address: 338 Conant Road
Home City:
Weston
State: MA
Home Phone: 781-899-8313
ZIP:
02493
Mobile:
Web Page:
Business Name: FallWare / Strategic Energy Systems
Title:
CEO / COO
Business Address: c/o Box 263
Business City: Wayland
State: MA
ZIP: 01778
Business Phone 781-642-9622 / 781-891-8050 Business Email: [email protected] /
[email protected]
Technology, organizations, and people. Energy and global warming. Falls and the elderly. Electronics applied
to human challenges. Problem solving. Entrepreneurship. Making a better world. Church and spiritual work
including contemplative prayer. Family. “Athletics” such as tennis, platform tennis, swimming, bicycling,
playing cello. As a former rock climber, my goal for this summer is to get back to the White Mountains to hike
at least one 4000 footer. I have also initiated a project to get a large wind turbine installed adjacent to the
Massachusetts Turnpike in Weston near the Route 128 tolls.
Consider joining me at two mailing lists and one discussion group:
Name
elderly
Title
Elderly, Independence, Monitoring, and e-Linkage
Enabling independent elderly by maintaining communications through such
media as the Internet, use of such aids as in-home or wearable medical
Description
monitoring to extend useful and/or independent lifespan, reduce risk
associated with such events as falls, and leverage caretaker effort.
Address
[email protected]
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Name
cleantech
Title
Clean Technology and Renewable Energy
Description
A list for alumni interested in furthering and working in the Clean
Technology Industry
Address
[email protected]
Energy Initiative
Share ideas and insights about global energy issues
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Rhona. Using math to teach students. Making a better world. Church and spiritual work including
contemplative prayer. Family. Tennis, swimming.
Margaret. Majoring at MIT in Political Science, with a minor in Nuclear Engineering. Currently interning at
the Federation of American Scientists in nuclear non-proliferation and worldwide small arms sales.
None
I recently left my previous hi-tech company, AWare Technologies, and am currently founding FallWare.
FallWare started with a need followed by development of a solution. The technology is a monitor that
automatically detects falls and calls for help. I am currently looking for investors to make the transition from
prototype to finished product, and then do the rollout. In some contrast, AWare started out as a product,
wearable computers, searching for a market. I led it into the sports market and a relationship with the Canadian
Olympic ski team, and also into the elderly market with an Activity Monitor which fits in the area of
Telemedicine. We also did a number of contracts for the Army, Air Force and DARPA. Work included a very
localized personal area network (localized in that the enemy cannot detect the RF signature from a distance) and
development of a classifier that was almost perfect in recognizing whether a soldier was standing, walking,
running, or sitting in a moving vehicle.
I have also been involved with MIT students as a mentor and advisor. This is particularly rewarding because of
the upside potential of the investment, and often because of the realized potential. I have been mentoring an
individual student from the Third World, which is challenging and rewarding because such people are at the
same time so talented and also have to go through such an immense cultural adaptation. Bagazo, one of the
teams I was mentoring for the MIT $100K competition, won 1st prize for the Development Track. The other
team I was advising captured one of the two runner-up positions. In both cases my role was to work with them
on business issues. In particular I pushed in the direction of their creating self-sustaining, profitable, scaleable
businesses. Now that the two teams have won $30K and $10K respectively, the next issue is how they can get a
little more money to get properly jump started. The good news below suggests that Bagazo may be OK, but
Saafwater (which provides affordable means for people to purify their water, largely eliminating dysentery that
causes a lot of deaths) has the problem that it needs another $30K to fund its pilot in Pakistan. Any money they
use will be leveraged to an awesome extent, as the plan is to scale up to all of the Asian cities with populations
greater than 10 million. I talked the day before yesterday with an MIT administrator about the idea of creating a
fund for Development Track finalists. It might even be formulated as a revolving fund, because the amounts of
money would be small, and could be paid back over time.
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Most Vivid MIT Memory(ies). Being at last in heaven. Being enabled and challenged rather than frustrated.
Friendships with many people. Walker staff. Physics lecture with such luminaries as Francis Low, Ken
Johnson, and Kerson Huang. Junior physics lab. Senior thesis and first publication on search for quarks. (We
actually found quarks, by the experimental criteria set up in the beginning of that work.) The grinding
ambiguities and pressure of graduate school in physics after my world had opened up even more during time
spent at Harvard. The exquisite beauty of physics and math. Doing laundry. Falling in love. Playing in the
line in touch football, and getting repeatedly run over by an opponent who was about 80-100 lbs bigger.
Creating the MIT Folk Dance Club, starting with a handful of roommates and friends in room 409 of the
Student Center. Sunset from the west-facing upper windows of the Student Center.
Best example of MIT helping career
There have been a number of things. A sample: One was being part of the leadership of the MIT Club of Route
128, making it fun for quite a group, and making it cash net positive. Another was participating in the
committee that set up the Infinite Connection. Another more recent involvement has been mentoring for the
$100K Competition. This has confirmed once again my sense that alum involvement is very valuable for all
concerned.
MIT has already become a great university, and a number of us think it has passed Harvard in offering an
electric environment to switch on students and faculty. I think that part of this has been its openness to
including alumni in interaction with students in areas where it is useful. Our world’s future brings many
important opportunities for international outreach. President Hockfield has said that she wants people in all
nations of the world to think of MIT when they think of technology in relation to efforts to solve their
challenges. Part of that is outreach in the domains of energy and of alternative technology. In the domain of
energy and global warming, Sherman Teichman (Director of the Institute for Global Leadership at the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts) told me that he thinks that the US will have to end up giving technology
to other nations to minimize global warming. Rather than doing this merely as a backbreaking dole, there is no
better way to do this than to stimulate learning and enterprise in all nations, something at which MIT can play a
key role. At the same time, the Iraq War has projected an image of the US as a global power embracing hard
diplomacy. It is incumbent upon all of us now, if for no other reason than our own sakes, to project a balancing
image of the US as embracing soft diplomacy. In serving its own purposes, MIT also has become part of the tip
of leadership in that effort. Students and faculty right now are in Third World nations commercializing
appropriate technology to ameliorate or solve the most profound problems of developing nations. This is an
important strand in MIT’s mission as it also contributes its part in building our own society to greater heights.
Because I think this is important for the future of MIT, America and the world, I am thinking about collecting
ideas, thoughts, and perhaps contributions together in an alum-controlled fund to support prototypes and pilot
projects for such development efforts. I am interested in your thoughts.
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Chan, Yupo
Course:I
Home Address:
5313 Scenic Drive
Home City:
Little Rock
Home Phone:
Email:
501-603-9148
[email protected]
Business Name:
State:
AR
ZIP:
72207
Mobile:
Web Page:
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
www.ualr.edu/yxchan
Title: Professor & Founding Chair
Business Address: Department of Systems Engineering, University of Arkansas at Little Rock,
Business City: Little Rock
Business Phone
501-569-8926
State:
AR
Business Email:
ZIP: 72204-1099
[email protected]
Your Activities/Interests: Swimming, eating
Spouse’s Name & Interests: Susan - reading, gardening
Children’s Name(s) & Interests: (none) – Both Susan and I married for the first time in our mid-forties, which
does not lend itself to raising a traditional family.
Additional Narrative: Been teaching pretty much all my career, except for a couple years in industry and one
year on sabbatical as a “Congressional Fellow.”
Most Vivid MIT Memory(ies): Graduation after completing a PhD
Best example of MIT helping career: The three degrees from MIT—SB, SM, and PhD—do carry weight
Fondest hope for MIT’s future: Continue the diversification that appears to be taking place in recent years,
including a wider range of majors and extracurricular activities for undergrads.
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Chandler, Elaine Ackles
Course: VII
Home Address: 710 Hilldale Ave
Home City: Berkeley State CA ZIP 94708
Home:510 527-8831
Business Name: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: (Dr Elaine Chandler), Deputy, Helios Project
Business Address: 1 Cyclotron Rd
Business City: Berkeley State: CA
ZIP: 94720
Business Phone 510 486-6854 Business Email: [email protected]
Recently my professional focus has changed from theoretical physics to building large, interdisciplinary science
projects, and I have played a large role in assembling the scientists and organizing LBNL’s new Helios Project.
More generally, my interests are in projects in the area of new materials and new physics applications. For
many years I worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and was engaged in developing their
Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship Program in the 1990’s. I am the chair of the Physics Advisory Board at
the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I received my Ph. D. and I serve on review committees for
the NNSA.
In my leisure moments, I like to entertain and travel, and spend time with my family—husband, daughters,
grandchildren, sisters, and old friends from high school, college, and across the country. I like to read novels,
and that is a part of my MIT education that I cherish—the focus on literature. I have studied French and Russian
since I left MIT (I took a couple of French literature courses at MIT), but I am not fluent in either. Recently,
after visiting the Isle of Skye, I worked at learning a bit of Gaelic; the pronunciation was a challenge. I share a
love of music with my husband, David, and we go to many concerts. We hike, and I swim and do Pilates in fits
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and starts. We have had a vacation house in New Hampshire, since 2000, because we miss the East Coast
woods and lakes.
My husband is David Chandler, ’66 Course V, and Harvard Ph. D. His is a Professor of Chemistry at UC
Berkeley. David was a tennis player in high school, at MIT, and then for 13 years in Illinois where we—
children and parents--passed summers playing in tennis tournaments and vacationing in New Hampshire on the
hill where we finally bought a place. We like to get in touch with David’s beloved MIT Tennis Coach, Ed
Crocker, when we are in New Hampshire. David still plays tennis, at the Berkeley Tennis Club, and he is the
faculty advisor for the UC Berkeley Tennis Team. His other interest is music. You coeds may remember him
playing the piano in McCormick Hall; he used to play the piano every morning while our kids would get ready
for school. He still plays, but he is listening more. And he has taken up cooking as a hobby. Which is nice—I
cooked for the first 30 years of our marriage almost solo. He is quite the gourmet and enjoys the abundance and
variety of the Berkeley-San Francisco area for this hobby!
We have two daughters: Phoebe, our oldest, graduated from Rutgers in cultural geography and has a teaching
certificate in science and math. However, she left teaching for other pursuits, and she now works at an allwoman garage, Grandma’s, a Berkeley institution. She is a great athlete, and played tennis on the Rutgers tennis
team. She is very active in the Berkeley Tennis Club, softball, basketball, etc.
Cynthia, our younger daughter, who attended Berkeley, Cambridge, and Harvard Law School is an attorney
and founder of Justice Now! in Oakland, Ca. Her efforts are focused on improving the health care and general
incarceration conditions of women in prisons in California. She is an expert on prison “theory” and practice,
and on comparative criminology.
We have two granddaughters, ages 21 months and 5 1/2 years. Their interests are in playing, singing, eating and
listening to stories. The 5 1/2 year old has decided she will kill no living thing, and has become the first
vegetarian in the family. She also loves math games. The girls love to have sleep-overs with their Grandma and
Grandpa. It is an amazing fact that two aging adults, a child, and a dog can actually sleep well together in a
queen-size bed.
I remember every detail of McCormick Hall—it was beautiful. I remember many things, good and bad, about
the experiences there. One sad memory is of the day I left my room to go to class, and at the elevator, Norma
(who eventually replaced Ms. Luttman-Johnson as house director) told me that President Kennedy had been
shot. MIT was a total culture shock for me because I came from a very small Connecticut town, and my
friends there were mostly interested in arts. My high school science teacher came to visit one day in the autumn
of freshman year. As I walked him to his car on Memorial Drive he seemed upset and worried, and he asked
me,“What is a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?” I never forgot those words. They made me
determined to succeed. A nice girl like me can try to do whatever she choses. I made good friends in
McCormick, and remember fondly the tutorials that Scotty McVicar gave and the study breaks at our
Housmaster’s apartment. I remember my frustration in getting C’s in first semester Freshman physics
(mechanics) and in Freshman Humanities. That never happened again—I got an A in graduate Theoretical
Mechanics my Senior year, and loved my humanities courses. I was married in my Junior Year, and my Senior
Year is when I learned to focus on science and when I discovered that I had a gift for mathematical science. I
liked my thesis on configuration interactions in carbon (electronic structure) which I worked on in the Spring
with Prof. George Koster in the Physics Department. Prof. Koster was very supportive of me and didn’t write
me off because of my motherhood, for which I have always been grateful. I also remember how nice it was that
Barbara Desmond Gilchrist babysat for Phoebe, so I could go with my parents and David to graduation. These
acts of support and generosity are instances that I carry with me always and have used as a basis to form my
own actions.
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I couldn’t have gone to MIT without scholarship support, so most of my giving is to scholarships.
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Collins, Terry
Course: VI
Home Address: 6713 Bellamy Ave.
Home City: Springfield
State: VA
Home Phone: 703-451-3621
Mobile:
ZIP: 22152
Web Page: N/A
Business Name: Argon ST
Title: CEO
Business Address: 12701 Fair Lakes Cir
Business City: Fairfax
State: VA
ZIP: 22033
Alisann (Alexander) Collins has interest in fiber arts, gardens, reading
Katherine (Collins) Lucas—ex-lawyer and current stay at home mother of our 18 month old grandson, Evan.
She likes cooking, bicycling, and reading and traveling. We are hoping that more children are of interest to her
too
Evan Lucas is 18 months old and likes to vacuum and play with trucks. He seems interested in almost anything
new and very much likes to just run around and explore.
My wife, Alisann, and I have traveled a lot and enjoy travel very much. We have done a number or trips to
England and stayed in the B&B’s in small towns as well as cruises in the eastern Mediterranean and a trip up
the Danube River in recent years. We did lots of skiing when we were younger (mostly in the west). We have
been married for 35 years and have spent the entire time living in Northern Virginia including 30 years in our
current house. We vacation now to Kiawah Island where we love the nature, the beach, and I like the golf.
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My most vivid memories are of the first few weeks at MIT. I had not been east of the Mississippi River or
flown on an airplane before I left home to enroll at MIT. So much was new and I met so many new people that
I felt like I was in a different country. Joining a fraternity, having dinner with my freshman advisor in
Marblehead overlooking the harbor on a beautiful September evening, and going to my first week of classes
was a total shock. I remember that I had had a year of calculus and thought that I would be ahead of everyone
else but everyone else had a year (or more) also. We had a class in calculus at nine the first day and my ten
o’clock class in physics assumed we learned to differentiate in the calculus class. Later that day in humanities
we were assigned to read the Odyssey and write a paper in one week. Not at all like high school!! I also
remember circuit theory (6.01) with Bose and how new material was introduced during the exams.
I have way too many good memories about the friends I made at Kappa Sigma and what I learned about
growing up to list all of those but it taught me many things that I have leaned on the rest of my life.
What I learned at MIT has helped me succeed in my career for many years but my first and probably most
critical help happened the year I graduated (that was ’67). I enrolled at the University of Wisconsin to work on
a graduate degree but had no financial aid. When I arrived, I started wandering around talking to people in the
EE department to see if there were any potential jobs that I might get to help pay for the year as I only had
enough money for part of the first semester. I was referred to Prof. Fontaine. Prof. Fontaine said that a
Stanford student had just elected to not come to Wisconsin and that he had an open research assistant fellowship
that paid tuition, room, board, books, and $200 per month spending money for working on research that was of
interest to the sponsoring company but that the scholarship required a 3.9 GPA (out of 4.0). I was no where
near that! However, Prof Fontaine was a MIT alum and he told me that we wanted to help MIT students if he
could. His challenge was that he would need to seek approval from the company, Oak Electronetics, since I
was outside of their requirements. By some chance, the CEO of Oak Electronetics also happened to be an MIT
and approved the assistantship. So, my time at Wisconsin got much easier!
That MIT can continue to be the leading institution in the world to stimulate and educate a community of
engineers, scientists, and leaders that are focused on the development of innovative solutions to the problems of
poverty, health care, and resource conservation that can lead to a more peaceful world.
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Constantine, Larry L.
Course:
XV
Home Address: 58 Kathleen Circle
Home City: Rowley
State: MA
Home Phone: 978 948 5144
ZIP: 01969
Mobile:
Web Page: www.foruse.com
Business Name: Constantine & Lockwood Ltd
Title:
Business Address: 58 Kathleen Circle
Business City: Rowley
Business Phone 978 948 5012
State: MA
ZIP: 01969
Being a father of young children again (both a great joy and a great challenge); writing for pleasure (just
finished a novel in which MIT figures prominently); singing with the Zamir Chorale of Boston and Zachor
Choral Ensemble whenever I can (and promising myself to someday return to composing).
Professionally, I teach and head a research and development lab at the University of Madeira (yes, Portugal!)
and supervise a joint master’s program in HCI with Carnegie-Mellon, teaching a new generation of designers
and developers how to create technology that truly enables and empowers people. As a consulting designer and
design methodologist I specialize understanding complex human activity and in interaction design for
interaction-critical systems, like medical informatics and industrial automation.
Lucy Lockwood: science and education (K-12), gardening, camping, raising two beautiful children
Devan Lockwood (9): competitive swimming, soccer, science, history, music, debate
Tovah Lockwood (6): reading, math, storytelling, singing, learning
Joy Constantine (38): animals, poetry, environmental issues
Heather Constantine Reardon (36): speech pathology, music, raising two beautiful children
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Samantha Reardon (4): singing, storytelling, gymnastics
Audrey Reardon (3 mo.): eating, sleeping, learning what’s what
I was and am in many respects a disconnected outlier. I entered as part of the class of ’65, dropped out before
being kicked out, and returned--married and somewhat more mature--after two years, having lost touch with
most of my original classmates and feeling significantly out of synch with my new ones. Before I graduated, I
was already teaching in post-graduate programs at the Wharton School, had started a business, and had a list of
professional publications. Were I to do it all over again I might strive to be more serious on the first go and less
so the second time. But, then, we do what we can at the time and, in retrospect, a certain logic emerges, a
pattern that we recognize as ourselves and our lives. At the outset, I would never have guessed that I would
leave the computer field to become a psychotherapist any more than I could have predicted that late in life I
would come back to software from another angle. Theme and variation. What I learned at MIT became the
figured bass, the ground, over which the contrapuntal lines of contrasting careers were laid.
Of course, too many to recount: spelunking with MITOC in Scoharie County, New York, and Mouth of Seneca
West Virginia; late night debugging on the PDP-1 in the basement of Building 26, discovering that accounting
was not boring but advanced calculus for engineers could be brutal; singing “Han Skal Leve” with the Burtones
in the All-Tech Sing; becoming mesmerized by Hans Lucas Teuber’s vivid 9.00 lectures. Teuber was
unfailingly erudite and engaging but most amazing was the packed lecture hall for an added post-semester
lecture he scheduled during finals period. He seduced me into a lifelong fascination with the human side of
technology.
No one professor or course stands out so much as the way that systems thinking and systems theory were
pervasive subtexts of almost everything at MIT in those years. The systems perspective I absorbed from MIT
and the Sloan School in particular has been my steadfast companion through three distinct but connected careers
in software development, in family psychotherapy, and finally in interaction design.
I would hope there will always be room for outliers, for unconventional students and faculty who, whether they
have the formal credentials or all the official qualifications, have something valuable to contribute to MIT and
something worthwhile to gain from it.
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Cunningham, Richard H.G.
Name: Richard H.G. Cunningham
Home Address:
12 Kenilworth Drive East
Home City:
Stamford
Home Phone:
(203) 348-9958
Email:
Course: 17
[email protected]
State:
Business City:
Business Phone
ZIP:
06902
Mobile: (203) 219-2024
Web Page:
Business Name: Atty. Richard H.G. Cunningham
Business Address:
CT
Title:
12 Kenilworth Drive East
Stamford
(203) 348-9958
State: CT
ZIP:
06902
Business Email:
Writing
Linda C. Cunningham: Family
Richard E.B. Cunningham - Linda C. Daniel - Patricia C. Kenny - Catherine C. Avigdor - Carolyn G.
Cunningham - Robert T.B. Cunningham - John A. Cunningham - James A. Cunningham - Rebecca S.
Cunningham - Rachel L. Cunningham - Sarah P. Cunningham - Mary J. Cunningham
Jonathon, Anna, Sylvia, Emily, Marylynn, Lucy, Everett, Laura, Luke, Grace, Eva. Michael, Clara, Abigail,
Stephanie, and Timothy..
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As one can see we are busy with birthdays, graduations, etc. Rachel is getting married on July 19th. She is the
eighth of our children to marry. I am writing a book about a serial killer which should be on the best seller list
later this year.
I applied my learning in dynamics in legislative bills to reduce crime.
The opportunity of lectures at MIT.
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Daney, Charles
Course: 18
Home Address: 2831 Sloat Rd.
Home City: Pebble Beach
State: CA
Home Phone: (831) 643-2115
ZIP: 93953
Mobile:
Web Page: http://scienceandreason.blogspot.com
Business Name:
Title:
Business Address:
Business City:
Business Phone
State:
ZIP:
Business Email:
Science writing, photography
Jeanne M. Daney
Meghan K. Daney
Professors, such as Michael Artin, I. M. Singer, Marvin Minsky, Jerry Lettvin
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Davis, Don
Course: 18
Home Address: 1926 Paul Ave.
Home City: Bethlehem State: PA ZIP: 18018
Home Phone: 610-865-9058
Email: [email protected] Web Page: www.lehigh.edu/~dmd1
Business Name: Lehigh University Title: Professor of Mathematics
Business Address: 14 E Packer Ave, Department of Mathematics
Business City: Bethlehem State: PA ZIP: 18015
Business Phone 610-758-3756 Business Email: [email protected]
Long distance running. Have won ultramarathon races in 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, and 2000’s. Represented
US in major international 100 km race in Italy in 1994.
Coaching high school math team. My team won national championship in 2005 in American Regions Math
League.
Jean Grosz Davis. She works as a nurse in a doctor’s office.
Joelle Davis Michaels. She is a survey statistician for the U.S. Department of Energy.
Grandson Kenneth Michaels was born in 2005.
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Met my wife there through Conner Third social activities.
Wrote rock’n roll column, Talking Rock, for The Tech. Met some rock singers through that.
MIT is the most popular choice of school for the top people on the high school math team that I coach.
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Dawson (Klitzke), Cheryl
Course: XVIII
Home Address: 393 Waters Road
Home City:
York
Home Phone: 717-846-1225
State: PA
Mobile:
ZIP: 17403
717-887-1110
Email: Cheryl [email protected] or [email protected] (Underline between “Cheryl” and
“Dawson” in alum address.) Web Page:
Business Name:
Title:
Business Address:
Business City:
Business Phone
State:
ZIP:
Business Email:
Since finishing as managing editor of Kurt Gödel’s Collected Works, Vol’s I—V, in 2003, I have gone to the
dogs completely. I am on the boards of two Siberian Husky rescue organizations, have three Siberian Huskies
and am involved in training for obedience and dabbling in agility, as well as therapy dog work. I am also having
a lot of fun with fiber arts, mostly quilting and knitting, with the spinning of Siberian Husky hair as well in
relation to one of the rescue groups. I also share an interest in my husband’s amateur mycology and we both
enjoy amateur photography and travel. I still do a little flute teaching in addition.
John W. Dawson, Jr. MIT ’66. John just retired in July of 2006 from teaching mathematics at Penn State/York.
His research interest is primarily the history of symbolic logic and we continue to attend related conferences,
getting to travel thereby to places we’ve wanted to visit. He enjoys travel, photography, practicing flute and
especially mycology. He is president of the local mycological association and spends a great deal of time doing
photomicrography with his digital camera.
Children’s Name(s) & Interests: The closest we have are our Siberian Huskies: Tula, Polya and Ivana. Their
primary interests are chasing squirrels and other small game, and digging up our yard. I try to interest them in
obedience work, agility and therapy dog work.
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But there are so many: The Great Dome and 77 Mass Ave looming over you as you walked to and from classes,
late nights studying in the lounge on top of McCormick Hall, warm late spring nights under the blooming trees
(sneezing, choking and sniffling from allergies all the while), slipping and sliding on the icy winter sidewalks.
And throughout it all, a pride that you were at one of the country’s great universities.
Drinking from the fire hose taught me to prioritize at times when my whole life seemed like an exercise in
triage. It taught me to manage many demands at once and to approach any problem in a logical and organized
way. There was no one specific example, just a general approach to handling one’s efforts.
Fondest hope for MIT’s future: That is will continue to set standards for education in science and engineering
and provide opportunities to the brightest young people that deserve the stimulation and encouragement of a
vibrant and dynamic place to learn.
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Denton, Peter
Course: VI-EE
Home Address:
103 South, Beach Point, 2660 South Ocean Blvd.
Home City: Palm Beach
State: Florida
Zip: 33480
Home Phone:
Mobile: 609-304-9624
Business Name:
Denton Vacuum
Title: Chairman
Business Address:
1259 North Church Street
Business City: Moorestown State: New Jersey
Zip: 08057
Business Phone:
856-380-5202 Business Email: [email protected]
In 1998 I retired as CEO of Denton Vacuum, Inc., where I have worked since 1977. My wife and I founded
Excellent Education for Everyone, Inc. (E3), a non-profit focused on reforming urban public education in New
Jersey through the vehicle of parental school choice. Kudos to Joe Levange for coming up with the name. E3
is one of the country’s largest urban school choice advocacy groups with a budget of over $2 million/yr and a
dozen staff members. While I am the non-Executive Chairman of E3, it is almost a full time job dealing with
urban and minority Democrats in New Jersey. When I’m not dealing with E3 or business issues, I spend as
much time sailing and playing squash as possible. I race a Lightening (19’) in New Jersey, and a 30’ one design
“Shields” in Newport, Rhode Island, where we have a summer home. All of this and serving on the Boards of
other non-profits keeps me very busy.
Spouse’s Name & Interest:
My bride’s name is Audrey. This January we celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary. Audrey is a retired
interior designer, who now seems to be acquiring antiques most of the time. Audrey philanthropic efforts are
focused on our church and more specifically on Habitat for Humanity in Camden, New Jersey. She has been
heavily involved in Habitat’s Family Partnership Committee, which recruits and mentors potential owners of
Habitat homes. She also serves on the Camden area Habitat Board.
Our daughter, Tracey is 32 and a lawyer in New York City. She is very active in Democracy for New York, a
spin off of Howard Dean’s presidential campaign efforts. Tracey is engaged to be married to a wonderful
Dutchman, Eelco Keij, at the end of May, 2008.
Our son Keith is a fishing nut. He spent five years after college guiding in a salmon fishing camp in Alaska and
traveling in central and South America hiking, camping and mostly fishing. Keith is engaged to a wonderful
young lady, Lauren Candia and will be married in September of this year in Seattle. He is about two thirds of
his way through his Masters Degree program in Fisheries Science at the University of Washington.
Both children plan to travel extensively after they are married before they settle down for real careers. Audrey
and I cannot complain since we quit our jobs and traveled for six months after we were married 35 years ago!
There are no grandchildren; there are only gleams in our children’s eyes (we hope).
Learning of the existence of squash, which has become a life long passion. Being woefully unprepared for MIT
by my supposedly top notch high school, but finding out that survival was possible; numerous fraternity
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activities that balanced the academic pressure; watching the campus revolution of the 60’s building just a year
or two behind us; access, even as an undergraduate, to world class professors and staff; the flooding rain and
“non-show” of the Beach Boys at our Spring Weekend; and many, many more.
The academic and mental discipline required to succeed at MIT has stood me well through my entire career;
MIT, and the activities in which I was able to participate clearly got me into the Harvard Business School.
Developing a solid technical education which became very important when I became involved in the technical
family business ten years after graduation. The MIT name follows us for the rest of our lives.
Don’t fall into the Ivy League trap of being “politically correct”. Continue to be unique in the world, and to
build unique, creative, and expressive campus facilities of all types.
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DeWitte, Gordon J.
Course: VI
Home Address: 160 Abbott Dr
Home City: Austin
Home Phone: 512-301-8945
Email: gordon [email protected]
Business Name: Verigy US Inc.
State: TX
ZIP: 78737-4534
Mobile: 512-217-8866
Web Page:
Title: Specialist
Business Address: 12401 Research Blvd., Bldg. 1, Suite 100
Business City: Austin
State: TX
ZIP: 78759
Business Phone: 512-257-5809
Contemplating/preparing for retirement; exercise (mainly rowing machine and biking—it’s a requirement in
Austin); computers; woodworking, reading, and photography.
Dorothy (Dot); currently volunteering in a local emergency room three days a week while pondering
retirement vs. getting a Texas nursing license (she’s a Mass. General RN). Other interests include swimming
and other exercise, loading her new iPod with favorites, knitting, crocheting, reading, and church.
Sharon; received her Ph.D. from Penn. St. in Dec. 2006; now an Assistant Prof. of Anthropology (physical and
biological) at SUNY Albany. Jennifer; working at various high-end restaurants in the Scottsdale/Phoenix area.
Been in Austin since March 2006. Moved here as a result of Agilent Technologies spinning off their
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semiconductor test group to a new company, Verigy. This is the second “spin off” for me in the last few years:
I started with HP (sometime last century!), which then spun off Agilent, which has now spun off Verigy. Not
sure if I should be worried about this trend.
Track team, walking across that damn Harvard Bridge in the wintertime, Doc Edgerton, Student House,
Kenmore Square, roast beef sandwiches at Elsie’s (?) in Harvard Square, Dr. Bose in 6.01
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Ditzler, Rodney W.
Course: 8
Home Address:
1130 N. Mono Court
Home City:
Ridgecrest
State: CA
Home Phone:
760-446-2622
Mobile:
Email:
[email protected]
ZIP:
93555
Web Page:
Business Name: Naval Air Warfare Center (Weapons Div.)
Title: Physicist
Business Address:
Business City: China Lake
State: CA
Business Phone
Business Email:
760-939-8776
ZIP: 93555
[email protected]
Still some interesting technical work at China Lake; 4 years ‘til retirement.
Supporting spouse in local community theater—set design and construction.
Garden railway and British sports car hobbies on back burner.
Judith F. Ditzler, married May 1983.
Office manager of C & L Construction, Ridgecrest.
Very active in local community theater group and Grace Lutheran Church.
Volunteer worker at local animal shelter.
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Children’s Name(s) & Interests: N/A
[Judy says these are really our kids, so here are Nelson and Kiko…]
N/A
Ph.D. from MIT in 1972—the Kendall-Friedman inelastic scattering experiment at SLAC (1990 Nobel Prize).
Finance crunch in research—worked part-time at ERC and taught at Commonwealth School 1972-75.
Postdoc at Purdue—last unsuccessful charm search 1975-78. Research staff at Argonne Nat. Lab. 1978-84.
Passed over for tenure and switched to applied physics; went to China Lake thanks to Packard Commission
report and NYTimes want-ad in 1984.
Vicky Weisskopf extracting the height of Mt. Everest from quantum mechanics.
East Campus Day when the Goldwater biplane got flak.
Friday night bull (and sherry) sessions in East Campus about “what we’d do if we ruled the world.”
The night our bubble chamber blew up the Cambridge Electron Accelerator.
Marty Breidenbach screaming, “It’s flat—it’s flat!!” when we found the quarks.
Almost nobody at China Lake seems to have learned analytical problem solving (or is suppressing it by reason
of working for DoD), so I stand out by comparison.
Get the kids working on an active engineering solution to global warming (such as covering Antarctica and
Greenland with aluminum foil - ?) and sell it to the U.N.
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Dix, M. William Jr.
Home Address:
5791 South Beech Court
Home City: Greenwood Village
Home Phone:
State:
303-740-8434
CO
ZIP:
Mobile: 303-667-0457
Web Page:
Business Name:
Title:
Business Address:
Business City:
State:
Business Phone
Business Email:
ZIP:
I retired effective May 31 after 33 years with Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Company. P&M is a whollyowned subsidiary of Chevron Corp.
Karen
My most vivid MIT memories are living in the SAE house, playing on the MIT baseball team, snd seeing the
reaction to the John Kennedy assassination..
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Dubin, Alan P.
Course: II
Melanie (then 2 & 1/2) with Grandpa Alan
Home Address: 14771 Attboro Place
Home City:
Home: Phone
Email:
Tustin
State: CA
(714) 838-5062
[email protected]
ZIP: 92780
Mobile:
Web Page:
Business Name: The Aerospace Corp
Title: Senior Project Engineer
Business Address: 2350 El Segundo Blvd
Business City: El Segundo
State: CA
Business Phone (310) 336-3398
ZIP: 90245
Career: Systems Engineering – Military Communications Satellites
Personal: Grandfathering & retirement planning
Meredith Dubin – Boston University School of Nursing, 1968. Retired RN
Elizabeth Dubin – University of California, Irvine, BA – Political Science, 1992. Was a technical recruiter for
Deloitte Consulting. Now a full time mom with three toddlers!
Melanie (age 4 yrs) – all things Cinderella!
Madeline & Joshua (twins, age 18 mos)
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Ebert, John
Course: VI-2A
Home Address:
Home City:
1715 Coachway
Hazelwood
Home Phone:
MO
ZIP: 63042
Mobile:
Email:
Business Name:
State:
Web Page:
Boeing
Title:
Sr. Prin. Engr.
Business Address:
Business City:
Business Phone
State:
ZIP:
Business Email:
Scouting, fitness, travel.
Gloria
Austin – Scouting, soccer, swimming, pets.
Seth – Scouting, soccer, baseball, football
Field Day victories, freshman water fights, intramural sports, being there when the Cities Service sign changed
to the now-famous Citgo sign, spotting Charles River whitefish when rowing, Professors David Frisch and
Amar Bose, a trip to the Kresge roof, new friends who are now old friends, and GRADUATION!!
My MIT education opened a lot of doors.
I hope that MIT and its students and faculty continue to make major contributions toward solving the world’s
toughest technological challenges.
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Falco, Al
Course: XVI
Home Address: 12111 Marine View Drive SW
Home City: Burien
State: WA
Home Phone: 206-242-6557
ZIP: 98146
Mobile:
Web Page:
Business Name:
Title:
Business Address:
Business City:
Business Phone
State:
ZIP:
Business Email:
Woodworking, RVing, Canoeing
Colleen Webster: Traveling, Gardening
Alfonso Falco: Model building
Julie Brecht: Sewing, Gardening, Baking
Chris Falco: Traveling, Fishing, Hunting, Camping
Clayton Webster: Computers, Sports, On-line Games, Music
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Andrew Brecht (16): Reading, Computer Games,
Katherine “The Creator” Brecht (13): Outdoor Activities, Music, Art, Math, Just about everything.
Monica Webster (12): Reading, Music
Anastasia Webster (4): Playing with her toys, Computers
Leon Falco (8 Months): Eating, Clean diapers
I retired in May of 2000, and was Colleen’s caregiver while she went through chemotherapy, a stem cell
transplant, and radiation. That battle is not yet over, but, after 17 years, Colleen definitely has the upper hand.
I spent the best two years of my life attending community college earning a degree in Cabinetmaking and
Furniture Building.
Each summer we take our grandchildren RVing throughout the Northwest. The downside to this is that the
girls, who outnumber the boys, have kicked Andrew and I out of the RV. We have to sleep on the cold, hard
ground, which is pretty tough on my old bones.
Originally we planned to move out of Seattle and retire to the country. During the last few years, we have
become so involved with our children and grandchildren that we have put the move on hold, putting our
etirement plans on hold for at least five more years. I have returned to my old job at Boeing where I was an
aircraft structures engineer. The opportunity to participate in one more project was two good to pass up.
My life at MIT was mostly a blur. Two things stand out. The first was sitting in a Statics class, 16.01 I think,
next to Janeane Knopf. She took the most detailed notes anyone could imagine. Her printing was precise, and
she was able to produce the professor’s graphs and illustrations better than a photocopier. Oh yes, she used
multiple colors. I developed such an inferiority complex.
The second was a Physics lecture covering the energy stored in an electric capacitor. The idea was to charge
the capacitor and then discharge it across a metallic wire or bar. While the Professor was deriving the amount
of energy stored in the capacitor and the result to be expected while it was being discharged, he was distracted
by a student’s question and lost track of the time. The capacitor was “over charged” and when the circuit was
closed, the metallic bar exploded like a fireworks display. I can still see the professor, hands over his head,
ducking for cover.
That they continue to remain independent of governmental control.
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Ferrara, Raymond
Course:
15
Home Address:
307 Main St.
Home City:
Concord
State: MA
Home Phone:
(978) 371-7311 Mobile: 978-828-5591
Web Page:
Business Name:
RBM Technologies, Inc.
Business Address: 25 Mount Auburn St..
Business City:
Cambridge
State: MA
Business Phone (617)-576-1234
Title:
ZIP:
01742-2320
COO
ZIP: 02138
My family, some sports (but not like we used to……), computers and especially data base technology
Mary – our family, our house, our friends
Christopher – a 3-sport varsity athlete who just graduated from Williams and will be working in New York City
for Alliance Bernstein
Gabriel – going into third year at Trinity – likes rowing and weightlifting and art and Asian studies
Katrina – going into junior year in high school – likes soccer and music and more soccer
It was a lot more work than I thought putting this reunion book together. I hope you like it!
And if you ever want to discuss the next generation of database technology that will take off where relational
and object technology left off, please give me a call.
All the fun we had at Theta Chi fraternity, including the parties and “flaming rat splats”
Going to Europe with the basketball team in the summer of 1966
Going back to MIT for all our reunions – especially the 25th and the 40th
Because I went to MIT, I have to come to believe that there is no problem that is too tough to solve if you just
put your mind to it and your effort into it.
Fondest hope for MIT’s future.
Continued excellence and leadership in science and technology
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Ferrara, Robert
Course:
Home Address:
Home City:
10 Wachusett Drive
Acton
Home Phone:
2
978-263-8642
State:
MA
Mobile:
ZIP:
01720
617-513-9355
Web Page: http://web.mit.edu/rferrara/www/
Business Name: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Title: Director, FSILG Alumni Relations
Business Address: 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building W59-200
Business City:
Business Phone
Cambridge
617-253-7495
State:
MA
Business Email:
ZIP: 02139
[email protected]
It’s great being at MIT in an interesting job at an interesting time. College campuses, especially one like MIT’s,
are vital places, full of activity not just for the students, but for people of all ages. At MIT my major role
involves working with alumni and active members of MIT's fraternities, sororities, and independent living
groups, or the FSILG community as it is known here. I still have a partial appointment with my previous
department, Information Systems, since I’m Treasurer and board member of the Northeast Regional Computing
Program (NERCOMP), a dynamic consortium of over 230 higher ed institutions in the Northeast. Being in
Cambridge permits a whole host of other MIT-related activities, like the MIT Club of Boston.
In our home town of Acton, west of Boston, my wife and I are active in the Town Library, in our local
synagogue Congregation Beth Elohim, and the Town Democratic Committee. I also try to stay active
physically. The major sport these days is racquetball. With various partners, I have won my age group 3 times
in New England doubles, and last April finished second in New England in the 60-65 age group. There are not
as many people playing racquetball like in its heyday of the 1970s, but it is still a great sport, one of the few that
one can play even into advancing years.
My wife Deena (Baram) is from Natick. Because of its schools, she wanted us to move to Acton when our two
children were very young, so thirty years ago we did and have really liked the town. She currently works at the
specialty market at the end of our street, and before that was a local nursery school, which she really loved. She
also still tutors Latin. Her life revolves family – especially now that we are expecting our first grandchild, the
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town, and the local synagogue, where she has been a member of the (very good) choir for 23 years. She loves
New England, as I do also.
Our daughter Elizabeth is an Associate Admissions Officer at Smith, my wife’s alma mater. She is in charge of
multicultural admissions. A year ago, her husband Andrew obtained a graduate degree from Smith in education
and now teaches at the Dexter School in Brookline. Consequently, when we all get together – which is quite
frequently since they live just one town over in Concord, where my brother Ray ’67 also lives – I am
completely outvoted (3-1) by Smithies. They even point out that Smith envelops MIT, thusly sMITh. We are
very happy that Liz is pregnant with our first grandchild, due in October.
Our son Michael has had a much tougher life, and has since his late teens experienced a continuing battle with
schizophrenia. Currently he lives in Minnesota, which has perhaps the best mental health system in the country.
We visit him regularly and talk almost daily. Of course dealing with our son’s mental illness has changed our
family’s life immensely. There is some silver lining. It helps you appreciate simple things much more and it’s
very hard to be judgmental after these experiences.
None yet, one on the way
Since I’m based at MIT and workl closely with the Alumni Association, I get too see quite few classmates!
It was a crowning achievement when our fraternity, Theta Chi, hacked the soon-to-be-opened Green Building.
After several scouting expeditions to determine floor plans of the 18 story tower, one Friday night a group lit up
the south face with our fraternity’s letters, masking selected windows to achieve the desired effect. Most of the
rest of us were back on the roof of 528 Beacon St, howling with glee as the letters took shape, a sight visible
that entire weekend on the Charles River basin.
The very good basketball team we had also provided a host of great memories, including the victory over
Harvard our junior year – and the European trip in the summer of 1966.
Physics Professor Lee Grodzins sauntered in to physics class one day, sat on his desk, scanned the class, and
opened his lecture on entropy with the words “You know this concept is really philosophical ..”. This stopped
me cold. Just the night before, the same thought struck me as I first learned about this phenomenon.
Best example of MIT helping career:
MIT connections led directly to landing two jobs. After graduate school, I had what I felt was an unsatisfying
and routine interview with a human relations officer. Upon leaving Boston’s Prudential Tower, I ran into an
older fraternity brother who had graduated several years before and, it turned out, worked for the same firm.
“Oh, you don’t want to talk to them”, Bill Jessiman said, “come and I’ll introduce you around”. And I wound up
getting a job there after all.
Mostly though, I’m grateful to MIT for the rigor, values, and plain love of learning that infused the place then and now. It was my first immersion in a truly academic environment.
I really do continue to expect great things – increasing knowledge, making new discoveries, contributing to life
in this country and the world – from the MIT community. The kids I meet today through my job can do it, too.
They give me hope ☺
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Fineman, Mark
Course: 18
Home Address:
Home City: Ardsley
Home Phone:
State: NY
ZIP:
Mobile:
Web Page:
Business Name: (retired)
Title:
Business Address:
Business City:
Business Phone
State:
ZIP:
Business Email:
Reading science fiction, playing with computers
-After graduation I went to Syracuse University and got an MS in Systems and Information Science in 1969. I
continued on at Syracuse, working on various projects, mainly discovering what other people later called Btrees. The software for this was part of SULIRS, one of the earliest library circulation and acquisition systems.
-From about 1976 to 1979 I worked on a CODASYL DBMS at Digital Equipment Corporation.
-From 1980 to 1995 I played with toys (i.e., computers) to be used for chip CAD at Intel.
-I retired in 1995.
Construction noises from the Green Building.
Northeast power failure of 1965.
Visiting the campus early on a Saturday morning in the 1980s, walking up the building 10 to the engineering
library, wondering if Doc Edgerton was still around and then seeing him walking up the stairs just ahead of me
as I went around the next turn in the stairway.
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Flaum, Steve
Course:
2
Home Address:
Home City:
State:
ZIP:
Home Phone: 203-221-7693
Business Name: Flaum Technologies Inc.
Mobile:
Web Page:
www.flauminc.com
Title: Principal
Business Address: 348 Wilton Rd.
Business City: Westport
State CT
Business Email:
ZIP 06880
[email protected]
Stone masonry, history, poker
Jo Ann, music
Russell
Rivka
Yosef Aryeh
Avraham
Miriam
Sarah
My wife and I have a small business based on some software I wrote, and we’re in the process of trying to
expand that business.
none
It wasn’t much help
none
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Franz, Joseph M.
Course: 8
Home Address: 172 Woods Hollow Rd. City: Westford State: Vermont
Home Phone: 802 879 4589
ZIP:05494
Mobile:
Web Page:
Business Name: Racquet Sports Unlimited
Title: President
Business Address:
Business City:
State:
ZIP:
Business Email: [email protected].
Your Activities/Interests
Golf, Tennis, Bow Hunting, Hiking, Fishing, Camping, Coaching
Sheila Franz Aerobics, Hiking, Working, Raising Children, Reading,
Susan, Jenifer, Eric Ingrid, Alexander
Ben, Jacob, Ella, Sydney
Hope is a good companion but a poor strategy. So get out and get it done!
All night work on my PhD thesis
Gets you in the door anywhere
Continue to live up to your reputation
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Gamse, Roy
Course: XIV (14)
Home Address: 3615 N. Kenilworth Street
Home City: Arlington
Home Phone: 703-532-5648
Business Name: Imagine Schools
State: VA
ZIP:22207-1321
Mobile:
Web Page:
Title: EVP
Business Address: 1005 N. Glebe Road
Business City: Arlington
State: VA
ZIP:22201
sports, music, youth programs, political issues, our children
Joyce Garber Gamse education (reading, literature), music, our children and extended family
Nick, 24, works at Cap Gemini as a media consultant, interested in sports, music
Laura, 22, graduating from Pomona College, interested in media for social change, punk and indie music
Since MIT, I’ve gone to Harvard Business School and pursued a varied career in government (EPA), business
(MCI, LCI, Qwest), and nonprofits (Earth Force [founder], Stargazer [with Art Bushkin ‘64], Youth Venture,
and now Imagine Schools, a national nonprofit public charter school company. I married Joyce Garber in 1977
– we met while swimming in Washington, DC. We’ve had two wonderful kids, Nick and Laura, who have
graduated from the University of Virginia and (by the time you see this) Pomona College respectively. Much of
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our life has been focused on raising Nick and Laura with all the associated activities, so now we’re grappling
with the empty nest syndrome.
Late nights schmoozing at AEPi, late nights meeting Technique deadlines, late nights cramming in the Student
Center Library. Getting caught by the Campus Police when trying to break into the garage with the Class of
‘66’s Field Day chariot. The day Technique came out. Helping Mel Snyder get over his homesickness
freshman year.
I got a job in the EPA Economic Analysis Division because they thought I was an economist, just because I had
an S.B. in Course 14.
Continue to be a place with the flexibility to allow and help students to pursue their interests without getting
caught up in bureaucratic requirements.
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Garbin, David A.
Course:
VI
Home Address: 11990 Market St Unit 403
Home City: Reston
Home Phone: 703.437.2824
State: VA
ZIP: 20190
Mobile: 703.795.6010
Web Page: homepage.mac.com/dgarbin
Business Name: Noblis, Inc
Title: Senior Fellow
Business Address: 3150 Fairview Park Dr
Business City: Falls Church
Business Phone 703.610.2050
State: VA
Business Email:
ZIP: 22042
[email protected]
Photography, film, opera, ballet. Traveling and eating in fine restaurants. Doting on grandchildren.
Linda Garbin, concert violinist and teacher. Same interests as mine after 40 years of marriage.
Leslie Garbin Guilfoyle, ballet teacher to young children in Reston, VA.
Lisa Garbin Patnoe, Makeup artist to opera, ballet, and theater companies in San Francisco, CA.
Alexander David Patnoe (4) and Sophie Rose Guilfoyle (2). The apples of my eye.
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Was forced to leave MIT while in graduate school in 1968 after losing deferment. Joined the Air Force and
was sent back to MIT for a Masters and EE degree. My last assignment was in the Washington DC area where
I left the Air Force and worked for the next 30 years in various aspects of the telecommunications industry,
specializing in mathematical network models and optimization algorithms.
Wter fights in the dorm every spring, the blaring music on Beethoven’s birthday, leaving card decks at the
computer center late at night. Spring Weekends, A-Ball.
Was always a recognized calling card in the highly technical industry where I worked. Fellow graduates always
recognized each other via the “brass rat” and formed instant bonds.
Fondest hope for MIT’s future
Continue to attract and motivate the best scientific and engineering minds. I worry about the dwindling supply
of qualified young people going into engineering at a time when our whole society is depending on technology
to survive in so many areas. Will we get to the time when “the machines stop”? Only places like MIT can
show the way to a brighter future.
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Geltman, Edward M.
Course:
VII
Home Address: 15 Crosswinds Drive
Home City: Olivette
Home Phone: 314-997-1759
State: Mo.
ZIP: 63132
Mobile: 314-750-1209
Web Page:
Business Name: Washington University School of Medicine
Title: Professor of Medicine
Business Address: Cardiology Division, Campus Box 8086, 660 S. Euclid Ave.
Business City: St. Louis
State: Mo.
ZIP: 63110
I am involved in patient care, teaching and clinical investigation. I am the medical director of the Heart FailureTransplant section of the Cardiology Division at Washington University in St. Louis. I am involved in clinical
trials of new medications for the management of patients with congestive heart failure, and who have received
heart transplants. We are working with new mechanical devices to assist the failing hearts, new pacemakers
and defibrillators and a version of the total artificial heart.
On the non-academic front, I am playing as much golf as my schedule allows, and am an active photographer. I
have exhibited at local juried shows. I rowed with the St. Louis Rowing Club for about a decade, but have had
to give that up because of my schedule. My wife, my son and I have traveled as much as our schedules allow.
Nancy M. Geltman. Nancy and I met back at the Institute in sophomore year and married the year after
graduation. Nancy earned Masters degrees in Counselor Education at NYU and an MSW at Washington
University in St. Louis. She worked as a social worker for many years, and retired when our son was one year
old. She has been an active community volunteer for a variety of organizations since then. She is most active
in the alumni association of the George Warren Brown School of Social work.
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We have one son, Joshua, who is now an undergraduate at the Institute, class of 2008. He is majoring in
Political Science with minors in Biology and Urban Studies. His is currently the President of Chi Phi. He
rowed for four years in St. Louis and his freshman year at the Institute. He is very committed to social action
and was in charge of the pre-orientation program the “Freshman Urban Program” this past summer. He is also
an accomplished photographer and golfer. He will be interning at the World Bank this summer working on
programs to deliver improved nutrition and health care to children in developing countries through their
schools.
I will never forget September 28th 1964, the day that I met Nancy at MIT Hillel. Rowing my freshman and
sophomore years were an incredible experience, and put me into the best physical condition of my life. Baker
House parties were “AWESOME”. Preparing for Field Day sophomore year, and all of the intrigue involved in
hiding the stage coach at my parents garage in Newton will never be forgotten. The reading period beer blasts
in the Baker dining room are emblazoned in my memory (at least the parts that I can remember). Seeing Sam
the Sham and the Pharaohs our sophomore year and the Beach Boys our senior year will always be special
memories. I do remember some of education as well, particularly Professors Letvin and Luria in the Biology
Department and Professor Anderson in the Visual Arts.
The education I received at MIT obviously prepared me wonderfully for Medical School. My selection for
cardiology fellowship was greatly influenced by the undergraduate research I did at MIT on enzymology, since
the focus of much of the research at Washington University at that time was based on enzymology.
Subsequently the direction of some of my research was enhanced by my strong basic science training. In fact
my first faculty position was offered to me at a medical meeting in January 1977 after hearing a lecture about a
new cardiac imaging technique. My Boss, the director of the Cardiology Division at Washington University,
asked me to get that technique up and running at our University specifically because of my training at MIT, and
presumed knowledge of physics. That request came along with an invitation to join the faculty. The focus of
my research at Washington University was related to radionuclide imaging for more than a decade.
It is exciting to see the growth of the biomedical sciences at MIT, along with the growth of the humanities and
social science. I have every expectation that MIT will remain plastic and be able to evolve to serve the
scientific needs of the nation and the world as conditions change.
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Gerstle, Robert S. M.D.
Course: VII
Home Address:
Home City:
35 New South Street
Northampton
Home Phone:
Email:
State: MA
Business Address:
Web Page:
Baystate General Pediatrics
Title:
3300 Main Street
Business City:
Business Phone
01060-4087
Mobile:
[email protected]
Business Name:
ZIP:
Springfield
413-794-7341
State: MA
ZIP:
01199
Business Email:
Susan Gerstle – mostly interested in me (and reading)
Michael Gerstle (Living in Seattle, WA; engaged to be remarried; working in the pharmaceutical research field;
one child - Jakob) & Amy Gerstle (Living in Holden MA, Married, working in special education resource
development field, no children)
Jakob Gerstle 5 years… interested in everything
Divorced and Remarried in 2006 to Susan (nee Fivars), to whom I was briefly pinned while I was at MIT (PLP),
and for which I was thrown into the Charles River (PLP tradition). Certainly a big disincentive to getting
pinned!
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Some great friendships; some Great Parties; some of the best and some of the worst courses imaginable.
Walking across the bridge from Boston counting Smoots. Vietnam War. assassination of JFK. Lottery numbers
for the draft. Cleaning the frat house Saturday mornings… camaraderie.
I got into Medical School (during the height of the Vietnam War)!
That students still get as much from their years at MIT (and Boston/Cambridge) as I did and will continue to
look fondly and support MIT in the future.
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Giglio, Raymond J.
Course:
Home Address:
II
96 Innes Ridge Rd
Home City: Wayne
State:
Maine
Home Phone 207-685-4231
Mobile:
Email:
Web Page:
[email protected]
ZIP:
04284
Business Name:
RETIRED!
Title: Formerly Principal Mechanical Engineer at Central Maine
Power Co. (28 yrs) and E/PRO Engineering & Environmental Consulting (6 yrs).
Business Address:
Business City:
State:
Business Phone
Business Email:
ZIP:
Bicycling & travel, especially combined.
Volunteer work related to trails, land preservation, and our local church
Gardening and other summer activities in Maine, and when the snow flies, winter activities.
Jane (Wing) Giglio – her interests are much the same, plus she is a docent at an art museum and she does
volunteer teaching of various types (she’s a retired primary school teacher).
(Step) Children’s Name(s) & Interests:
Julie –39, an artist, currently living in Barcelona, Spain
Ben – 34, a manager of a small business, currently living in N. Conway, NH
Jane and I live in a small town (winter pop. 1,100) in the ‘lakes district’ to the west of Augusta, Maine. We
were married in 1988. We enjoy all the Maine summer activities, plus many of the winter ones, too. We do
leave the state for foreign and U.S. travel, especially centered around cycling trips or other active vacations.
Visiting far-flung children is another great incentive to travel. (In the 1990s, while we were both working, we
managed to take two, two-month trips one to Asia and the other to New Zealand.)
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Problem sets, especially 6.01, which I took as a Mechanical Engineering major.
Friends at Sig Ep
Crew (Lightweight)
Trying to draft tractor-trailers when cycling across the bridge – if you could stay with them until the high point
in the middle, the second half of the ride was a blast.
The MIT reputation opened a door to a job in Maine in a field in which I had no experience.
To continue evolving and teaching the core of subjects that future citizens and entrepreneurs will need.
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Gilchrest (Desmond), Barbara A. M.D.
Course: XVIII
Home Address: Union Wharf #27
Home City: Boston
Home Phone:
State: MA
ZIP: 02109
Mobile:
Web Page:
Business Name: Boston University School of Medicine Title: Chair, Dermatology
Business Address: 609 Albany Street
Business City: Boston
State: MA
ZIP: 02118
Work, work, work and loving it. Tennis, travel, reading, drawing and pastels.
John Parrish, M.D., Director of the Center for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT),
Partners Hospitals and Harvard Medical School
Emerson- finance, investing
Zachary- old building restoration
Tyler- pre-law, politics
Sailing on the Charles, studying in Killian Court before finals, many things I cannot enter in the Reunion Book.
Seeing how it’s done, learning I could do it.
Susan Hockfield
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Golomb, Harvey
Home Address: 4677 Palmer Court
Home City: Boulder
Home Phone:
State: CO
ZIP:
80503
Mobile: 301-461-7879
Web Page:
Business Name:
Title:
Business Address:
Business City:
State:
Business Phone
Business Email:
ZIP:
Triathlon
Skiing
Investing
Joani Golomb
Tennis
Skiing
Jason (37) – Adult Hockey, Boating
Bob (40) – Adult Hockey, Golf, Boating
Chuck (36) – Adult Hockey
Jordan (10) – Softball, acting, swimming
Reed (7) – Ice Hockey, swimming
Brady (4)
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Charley (4) – Puzzles
Josephine (2) – Dolls
I recently wound up an entrepreneurial career with the sale of my last (I think) company. I now focus on
staying fit, helping out with my grandchildren, and contemplating next steps.
Walking across the Harvard Bridge in mid-winter
Seeing MIT go dark (from the Boston side) during the blackout of 1965
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Gorenstein, David
Course: V
Home Address: 3922 Crown Ridge Court
Home City: Houston
State: TX
Home Phone: 281 286 3991
ZIP: 77059
Mobile: 281 851 7785
Web Page: http://nmr.utmb.edu/pubs/dggpubs.html
Business Name: U Texas Medical Branch
Title: Associate Dean for Research
Business Address: 301 University Blvd.
Business City: Galveston
Business Phone 409 747 6801
State: TX
ZIP: 77555
Have several startup companies AptaMed and AM Biotechnologies and with my research group and
administrative duties in the School of Medicine, not much spare time - Golf when I have time…
Deborah, for the past 13 years, very active in Houston Symphony League and arts and local charities
Children’s Name(s) & Interests: Jennifer, currently in graduate school at UT Austin LBJ School of Public
Affairs and part-time job as administrator at UT Austin
I am Associate Dean for Research, School of Medicine, UTMB and the Charles Marc Pomerat Distinguished
Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Neurosciences & Cell Biology. I am
also Associate Director of a new Center for Clinical and Translational Research. I previously served as the
founding Director of the Sealy Center for Structural Biology, UTMB. My research area is in drug design,
protein chemistry (and more recently proteomics and nanomedicine) as well as the development of biophysical
applications of NMR spectroscopy with over 240 publications.
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After my bachelors in chemistry from MIT, I obtained a masters degree and doctorate in chemistry from
Harvard University in 1969. Before coming to UTMB, I held faculty positions in the Departments of Chemistry
at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Purdue University. I also spent time at UCSF (on a Guggenheim
fellowship) and Oxford U., England (on a senior Fulbright fellowship). I am an elected fellow of the AAAS. I
hold over 3 dozen patents (awarded and pending), many of which have been licensed to AptaMed and AM
Biotechnologies, Houston area companies I founded. I have been more recently supported on NIH and DARPAfunded projects which provided for the development of thioaptamer technologies as countermeasures and
diagnostics in biodefense and emerging infectious diseases.
Great memories of AEPi living group and old friends over the years.
Gave me a great start in my academic career.
Continue the great job of training future leaders.
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Gottleib, Allen
Home Address: 51 Twin Lakes Road
Home City: South Salem
Home Phone: 914 763 3872
Email:
[email protected]
State: NY
Web Page: http://cs.nyu.edu/~gottlieb
Title: Prof. Computer Science
715 Broadway, Room 712
Business City: New York
Business Phone
10590
Mobile:
Business Name: New York University
Business Address:
ZIP:
212-998-3344
State: NY
ZIP: 10003
Puzzle Corner Editor for Technology Review (40+ years!)
Journal Editor
Playing with our dog, Molly
Traveling with my wife, Alice
Exercising
Sports
Alice B. Gottlieb
Head/Chief Dermatology at Tufts Medical School / Tufts-New England Med Ctr
Traveling
Photography
David Gottlieb, Information Technology Consultant, Married to Sarah Simmons
Michael Gottlieb, Graduating from Syracuse University
None
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Nearly winning intramural ping pong.
Throwing to first baseman John Rudy from shortstop.
Once beating Bert Marvin in ping pong with no spot.
Miserable performance in Baker House pinball tournament.
Living in a Baker quad for one semester
Good education.
Continued excellence
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Grossman, Mark
Course:
18
Home Address: 29412 Deerview Court
Home City: Agoura Hills
State: California
Home Phone: 818-991-7474
Email:
Mobile:
[email protected]
ZIP:
91301
818-406-9881
Web Page:
Business Name: M. Grossman & Company, Inc.
Title: President
Business Address: 29412 Deerview Court
Business City: Agoura Hills
State: CA
Business Email:
ZIP:
91301
[email protected]
Fitness/exercise: I completed 3 NY Marathons in my younger days.
Reading: all genres, novels, science, business and public affairs, etc.
Music: My iPod is my constant companion and my two grandchildren, of course
My wife Susan’s interests include, of course, the grandchildren as well as cooking, gardening, reading and
Exercise.
Jennifer, 34, is a very busy teacher, wife and mother of 2. Jonathan, 32, is a physician currently in a fellowship
program. He’s very much into fitness and also climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro this past winter.
Jaclyn , 29, is a very hard-working, competitive, litigation attorney.
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Bobby, almost 3, like to have fun. Allison, almost 1, eats, sleeps and smiles.
My consulting practice brought me to California in 1982, and my family has become totally Californian.
Although we often get back to the east coast for business and family reasons, we always look forward to
getting back to Southern California. We were actually going to come to the reunion this year until I realized
that my son is graduating from his residency program at the same time. Well, maybe next time……..
I will never forget the tent caving in from the rain at the beach at Spring Weekend ’65 and the Beach Boys
returning to perform for us on campus, because they never made it to the beach before we had to leave.
One of my most supportive mentors (and a great friend) throughout my career is a man that graduated from
MIT in ’55. I will always believe that one of the reasons he first hired me was because we were both MIT
alums.
That it continues to grow and thrive as it changes to meet the changing world we live in. Its success is based
Largely on its ability to meet and deal with change in all aspects of the world we live in.
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Grove, Tom
Course: VI-A
Home Address: 227 South Stanley Drive
Home City: Beverly Hills
Home Phone:
Email:
State: CA
310-657-1127
ZIP: 90211
Mobile:
[email protected]
Web Page:
Business Name: Dept of Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Title: Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
Business City: Los Angeles
Business Phone
310-825-3555
Business Address: 10833 Le Conte Avenue
State: CA
Business Email:
ZIP: 90095-1778
[email protected]
Coordinator of Clinical Anesthesia Services at UCLA Hospitals, Teaching of
Anesthesia Residents
Beverley - Raising Chihuahuas and flowers
Lloyd, age 31 – Police officer, City of Berkeley, CA, getting married in fall
Allen, age 24 – will be starting law school in August
After completion of SB & SM in Dec 1968, entered Air Force. Spent 4 years at AF Flight Test Center, Edwards
AFB, CA, where I met my wife, Beverley. Completed Ph.D. in Biomedical engineering at USC in 1977, the
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entered 2 yr Ph.D. to M.D. program at University of Miami where I received M.D. in 1980. Completed
Anesthesiology Residency at UC San Francisco in 1983 and have been on faculty at UCLA ever since.
I am sure that my MIT experience played a major part in my being accepted into the Miami PhD. to M.D.
Program.
That it continues its role as the world leader in science and technology education and research.
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Hayward, Paul
Course: 8
Home Address: 2830 Timber Lane
Home City: Blairsville State: GA ZIP: 30512
Home Phone: 404-373-7684 Mobile: 404-373-7684
Business Name: Paideia School Title: High School Principal
Business Address: 1509 Ponce de Leon Ave.
Business City: Atlanta State: GA ZIP 30512
Business Phone 404-377-3491 x385 Business Email: [email protected]
Running, woodworking, cooking, canoeing
Bonnie Hayward – runs a bed and breakfast in North Georgia; crocheting, plays piano and organ
Children’s Names & Interests:
Heidi – an accountant
Laura – a real estate agent
Cynthia – a former teacher, now a homemaker with foster children
Grandchildren’s Names:
Nathan (20)
Layla (14)
Nichole (9)
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Ethan (8)
Giovanni (5)
Graham (3)
Isabella (2)
Zachary (almost 1)
I have just completed my 35th year as High School Principal at the Paideia School, a progressive, private,
college preparatory school in Atlanta, Georgia. I still teach occasionally, including courses in physics, water
quality, and ethics. I also lead wilderness backpacking and canoeing trips with student and adult groups. Being
with high school students keeps me young.
My wife and I own and operate Your Home in the Woods Bed & Breakfast in Blairsville, Georgia. We enjoy
meeting and talking with guests from all over the world.
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Hespenheide, Erich J.
Course: VI
Home Address:
11 Mc Intosh Drive
Home City: Poughkeepsie
Home Phone: (845) 452-3241
Business Name:
State:
NY
ZIP: 12603
Mobile:
Web Page:
(Retired)
Title:
Business Address:
Business City:
Business Phone
State:
ZIP:
Business Email:
Digital Photography, Travel, Science Fiction, Personal computers, Singing, Home maintenance, Church
activities (St. John’s Lutheran; Tres Dias).
Spouse’s Name & Interests: Barbara (41st anniversary this year). Travel, Quilting, Travel planning, Church.
Journaling
Amy Lynn Hespenheide: Travel, Singing, Guitar Hero, Reading, Gourmet dining. Amy is a 1990 graduate of
Wellesley College and 1998 of U. C. Berkeley Boalt Law School.
Mark Andrew Hespenheide: Hiking, Photography (see WWW.MarkHespenheide.com), Camping, Running
(including marathons), Geology, Writing and cycling. Mark is a 1995 graduate of Pomona College, and earned
a Masters in Geology from the University of Wyoming in 2003.
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Retired from IBM at 30 years (10 years ago). Loving it! And, no, I don’t color my hair (what there is left of it)!
Programming on IBM 1620 and 7094s, and the PDP-1. MIT Student House. The 1965 Northeast Blackout.
1108 Westgate. The East Campus Songbook (I have a copy). The Great Pumpkin (I started with class of ’66).
14” of snow in April ’67.
An expanded Co-op Program. Mandatory course on Project Management (schedule, budget, and manpower).
Sane architecture for any future construction.
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Howard, Bob
Course: Management
Home Address:
Home City:
12981 SW 117 street
Miami
Home Phone:
State:
Fl
Mobile:
Business Name:
ZIP: 33186
Web Page:
Besman Hospitality
Title:
Business Address: 5108 SW 72 Ave
Business City:
Miami
State:
Fl
ZIP:
33155
MIT Club of South Florida, digital photography, swimming, art collecting, venture investing
Rachel Camber -Attorney representing art galleries & artists, sailing, biking
Max – learning to walk, talk, use potty, music
Jacob – learning to walk, talk, use potty, dancing
It was a great surprise to have twin boys as my 60th birthday present! It is a really fun experience raising these
guys. They are endlessly entertaining.
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I remember being the dissenting opinion in a very heated MIT Athletic Association Board meeting in 1966
when the then long time director of MIT athletics rejected all notions of allowing MIT coeds to participate in
inter collegiate sports. In an ironic twist of fate now the president of MIT, the director of athletics, and half the
student body are women. He is probably rolling in his grave.
Got my first job from an MIT alumni thru the MIT placement office
Hope MIT’s tuition costs are not a million dollars in 2023 when my guys will be ready for college.
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Iuzzolino, Carlyn Voss
Course:
18 (Math)
Home Address: 2920 Tahiti St. NE
Home City: Albuquerque
State: NM
Home Phone: (505) 296-7005
ZIP: 87112
Mobile: Ask me
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Business Name: NumerEx
Web Page:
Title: Computer Scientist
Business Address: 2309 Renard Place SE Suite 220
Business City: Albuquerque
Business Phone
State: NM
ZIP: 87106
Attend daily Mass. Afterwards I talk to my friend, Virginia Frohlick, who is a Joan of Arc historian. Together
we have put together the web site, www.stjoan-center.com. She wrote a book about St. Joan which I edited.
I work part time for a small consulting firm, NumerEx, as a Jack-of-all-trades computer scientist, taking care of
a computer Linux and Windows network, working on physics programs and porting programs to 64 bit Fedora
operating system.
We went to Hawaii in August 2005 and came away from there with a real love for the gentle Hawaiian music
by KealiÌ Reichel, Israel Kamakawiwoòle, Hapa, Cazimero Brothers, and many others.
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Harold is also an MIT graduate, Course 8. In addition to his regular job, he works part time with me for
NumerEx.. He does the hardware side and I do the software side of building/configuring new Linux machines
for a cluster.
We do the music for a Catholic Charismatic Prayer meeting. He plays the keyboard and I play the guitar.
Our daughter, Terri, also an MIT graduate, Bachelors degrees in Course 6 (Computer Science) and 2
(Mechanical) and a Masters of Engineering in 1996 and 1998. When Harold and I took her to MIT in 1989 as a
Freshman, we thought she might be the first daughter of two MIT graduates to go to MIT. After doing some
research at the Alumni office, we figured out that she was the 5th.
Following in her parents’ footsteps, she also married an MIT graduate, Nicholas Matsakis, Course 6-3 (1998)
on July 22, 2000.
Our son, Mark, is also doing computer programming.
Nick and Terri have a son, Peter , born two days before my birthday, in 2004. We also have another grandson
due in mid June 2007 who will arrive while we are in Boston for our 41st wedding anniversary and our 40th MIT
reunion.
During Freshman orientation, some other coeds and I climbed over Kresge auditorium along the edge.
Harold took the pictures when I entered the Catholic Church, Easter Vigil of my Sophomore year. It took him a
long time to develop and print the pictures… and we got to know each other very well. We got married at the
end of my Junior year.
All Tech Sing. The Coeds used to win regularly. One of the songs had the line “49 fellows and me.” I enjoyed
being an MIT coed and the fact that there were so few women.
Harold was in ROTC Air Force and Albuquerque was where they shipped him. I applied to Sandia Laboratories
shortly after we arrived. Even in 1969, Sandia had the policy that in order to be hired as a Staff Member, you
had to have a Master’s Degree. Dr. Don Morrison, the Division Manager who hired me, fought with his boss,
Burford, the Department Manager, saying, “A Bachelor’s from MIT is worth a Master’s from UNM (University
of New Mexico).” He won and I was hired as a Staff Member. While I was at Sandia, I also went down to UNM
and in 1973 I received a Master’s Degree in Math.
My current boss, Dr. Mike Frese, the owner of NumerEx, received his PhD from MIT in Math.
Perhaps one or both of our grandsons will make us a 3 generation MIT family.
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Iuzzolino, Harold
Course: 8 (Physics)
Home Address:
Home City:
Home Phone:
2920 Tahiti St NE
Albuquerque
(505) 296-7005
State:
NM
ZIP:
87112
Mobile: Ask me
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Business Name: Gram, Inc.
Web Page:
Title: Physicist
Business Address: 8500 Menaul Blvd. NE
Business City: Albuquerque
State:
NM
ZIP:
87112
Business Phone (505) 998-0048
Listening to some very beautiful contemporary Hawaiian music by Kealiì Reichel, the Brothers Cazimero,
Israel Kamakawiwoòle (a.k.a. Iz), Hapa, Makaha Sons, and others. The melodies and harmonies are often
awe-inspiring.
Learning the Hawaiian language.
Playing the piano: classical (Brahms, Schumann, Rachmaninoff) at home, and traditional Christian at Catholic
Charismatic prayer meetings (with Carlyn playing the guitar).
Travel to scenic USA locations – Our 40th Anniversary Grand Tetons/Yosemite trip was wonderful! Hawaiì
and Oahu were nice, but I wish we had visited Maui and Kauiì also (Hawaiì pictures can be seen at
peter.matsakis.net).
Sci Fi: Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Doctor Who (new episodes for 3 years now!, 9th and 10th doctors!)
Carlyn Voss Iuzzolino (MIT class of 1967) -- music: playing guitar and piano, listening to contemporary
Hawaiian music, learning the Hawaiian language
Theresa (Terri) Iuzzolino Matsakis (MIT class of 1993) – music, computer programming
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Mark Iuzzolino -- computer game and system programming
Peter Elias Matsakis (age 3) -- just having fun -- web site: peter.matsakis.net
As-yet-unnamed Matsakis grandson due mid June 2007
The years have been very good – much better that I deserve:
41 years of marriage: the first 10 were difficult (my fault – I didn’t realize that women have emotional needs),
then 31 good years, getting better each year.
38 years in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (Catholic Pentecostal movement): interacting with God up close
and personal, life changing, glorious!
36 & 32 years with two great kids – Terri and Mark
15 years working on performance assessment/safety studies for nuclear waste repositories – WIPP in New
Mexico and Yucca Mountain in Nevada -- I believe that my work counts for something.
6 Christmases being a part of my son-in-law’s wonderful Greek-American family reunions (includes 4 other
MIT graduates – Nick, Terri, Niko, and Demetrios Matsakis).
2 years of listening to very beautiful contemporary Hawaiian music (not all of it is beautiful, you have to do
some hunting).
And now, as old age starts to set in, the inevitable health problems: backaches and joint pains, a chronic heart
problem (not immediately life threatening). Still, my life is full of joy.
Getting boo’ed in my Ordinary Differential Equations course (18.04?) when I mentioned that I learned a partial
fraction shortcut in high school.
Spending Christmas vacation in the National Magnet Lab working on my junior physics lab project (a
Bainbridge-type mass spectrograph).
Meeting an astonishingly beautiful MIT coed at a mixer.
Cooking lasagna in the McCormick Hall basement with my girlfriend. Carlyn was the first visitor attracted by
the smell wafting up the elevator shaft who came to see what was cooking.
The day when I starting using black ink on my finals instead of pencil with eraser.
Getting an A+++ on a computer science course (6.251) project.
At our 15th reunion, when my thesis advisor (Harald Enge) told me that the spectrometer that I helped to design
as my senior thesis had been built and was in operation at Brookhaven.
I can’t tell exactly where MIT helped my career, but I am certain that it did. I have noticed that the most
competent people I ever worked with were almost always MIT graduates, giving MIT a good reputation.
"Live long and prosper.”
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Jensen, Erik M.
Course: 17
Home Address: 3215 Warrington Road
Home City: Shaker Heights State: OH ZIP: 44120
Home: Phone (216) 283-9394 Mobile:
Email:
Web Page:
Business Name: Case Western Reserve University School of Law Title: David L. Brennan Professor of Law
Business Address: 11075 East Blvd.
Business City: Cleveland State: OH ZIP: 44120
Business Phone (216) 368-3613 Business Email: [email protected]
Reading history; attending Cleveland Orchestra concerts; carrying the Cleveland Indians and the Cleveland
Cavaliers to championships
Helen B. Jensen: Helen is an employee benefits specialist at Squire Sanders & Dempsey, an international law
firm. When not working on legal matters, she’s working on illegal—no, that’s not right—she’s in the yard and
garden, moving plants from one place to another.
Addie Grace Jensen, age 14 (on June 2), loves music, reading, sports, and Johnny Depp.
None for quite a while yet (I hope)
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After MIT, I spent several years in graduate school in political science at the University of Chicago (1967-68,
1971-75; M.A. 1972, and, of course, ABD), with time in the army (in Germany) dividing the Chicago tenure.
Deciding that employment was better than the lack thereof, I went off to Cornell for law school, receiving a J.D.
in 1979 (and meeting Helen along the way). I then clerked for a federal judge in Utah in 1979-80; practiced tax
law in New York at Sullivan & Cromwell from 1980 until 1983; and joined the law faculty at Case Western
Reserve in 1983. (I also taught at Cornell as a visiting professor in 1999.) I have written the normal complement
of articles and books; won a few honors; and otherwise led a generally boring life, which is the kind I prefer.
Most Vivid MIT memory:
The most vivid memory has to be of November 22, 1963, and the days thereafter. I doubt that anyone else was
really an innocent in 1963, but I was. Nothing was the same after the Kennedy assassination. (November 22
didn’t begin well either. I flunked the quiz in 8.01 and, when Christmas break came, I was sure that I was a
goner at the Institute.)
Beyond flunking freshman quizzes, I vividly remember MIT baseball (five- and six-win seasons, but we
regularly crushed Brandeis) and coach Jack Barry, with his stories about Jackie Robinson in the International
League in 1946; the Baker House dining staff (a great group of guys serving Stouffer’s spinach soufflé, washing
dishes, and handling garbage cans full of spinach soufflé); music, with wonderful concerts at MIT and at
Symphony Hall; and the Boston sports scene—especially watching the terrific MIT basketball teams of the
1960s (“e to the u, du/dx . . .”), listening to Johnny Most broadcasting Celtics games (“Havlicek stole the
ball!”—I heard that live), and feeling in the spring of 1967 that something special was happening at Fenway
Park. (That last sentence is out of control. Sorry. I should have paid more attention in 21.01.) Before 1967, I
would listen to Sox games and, at the right time, head across the river to occupy one of the otherwise empty
30,000 seats (free!) for the last four innings. (I’ve been told you can’t do that anymore.)
How MIT Helped Career:
Saying I’m an MIT grad makes people think I’m smart. It usually helps to have people think that.
Hopes for MIT:
NCAA baseball championship
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Johnson, Eric C.
Course:
III
Home Address: 2617C W Holcombe Blvd #501
Home City: Houston
State: TX ZIP: 77025-1601
Home Phone: 713-664-9930 Mobile: 713-504-1981
Email:
[email protected]
Web Page:
Business Name: Retired (as of 6/30/07)
Title:
Business Address:
Business City:
Business Phone
State:
ZIP:
Business Email:
Kathleen Minadeo Johnson—we will be married 39 years in July.
Two children—Marcus (married) Mari (about to be married)
Max
After 35 years in university fundraising, I am retiring at the end of June as vice president for resource
development at Rice. I was eight years at Rice; seven years as vice president of Carnegie Mellon; preceded by
20 years on the staff of MIT. We plan to remain in Houston for the coming year, and then re-locate to either
Boston or Washington to be closer to our children. I will use this year off to decide what I want to do next,
taking to heart the new aphorism that 60 is the new 40. We leave July 1 to drive from Houston to Alaska and
back, re-living our youth and camping much of the time. Home around Labor Day.
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