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CULTURE-Simple Gestures: A Cultural Journey into the Middle
East
BYLINE: Torstrick, Rebecca.
Rebecca Torstrick, Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University South Bend
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[...] they were defeated not by actions within Pakistan, but by the American
government's decision to suddenly suspend assistance to Pakistan. A similar effort
to develop appropriate educational curricula in Afghanistan, spearheaded by UN
Children's Fund (UNICEF), also ended in complete disaster when USAID pulled rank with
Afghan officials to keep books developed by the University of Nebraska in the 1980s
in Afghan schools.
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CULTURE-Simple Gestures: A Cultural Journey into the Middle East, by Andrea B. Rugh.
Washington, DC: Potomac Books, Inc., 2009. xiii + 311 pages. $29.95.
Reviewed by Rebecca Torstrick
First as a diplomat's wife and mother of three sons, and later as a professional
anthropologist, Andrea Rugh spent her adult life coming to know the people and
cultures of various Middle Eastern countries. She socialized with the elite as an
ambassador's wife and worked among the very poor as an anthropologist on various
development projects. She vividly shares her own painstaking journey to knowledge
as she negotiated varying roles and relationships across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen,
Syria, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
They show her interest and willingness to learn more about local culture and move
outside of the comfortable expatriate circle. In time, this curiosity led her to
enroll in and complete her doctorate in anthropology while home between her husband's
diplomatic postings.
They show her interest and willingness to learn more about local culture and move
outside of the comfortable expatriate circle. In time, this curiosity led her to
enroll in and complete her doctorate in anthropology while home between her husband's
diplomatic postings.
After completing her PhD and back in Egypt, she applied to the US Agency for
International Development (USAID) for contract work so that she could put her training
to good use. Her first contract work there focused on the educational system and led
her to become an expert on educational development. Her descriptions of the vagaries
of development in the region are some of the best - and most tragic - parts of this

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work. In Egypt, a need for big and costly projects led to a plan to build schools
and provide materials for "basic" education (i.e., teaching home economics,
carpentry, electricity, or agriculture). The schools that were built ended up costing
more and were often poorly constructed; over time, they were not maintained and so
began to fall apart. The "practical education" courses were ill-conceived; parents
wanted their children to gain an education that would lead to a good job.
Rugh's descriptions of her work on educational reform in Pakistan and Afghanistan
are compelling. In Pakistan, she details the painstaking work of beginning a major
reform in basic education in the North-West Frontier Province and Balochistan.
Slowly, she and her colleagues were able to introduce a focus on actual student
learning into the schools where they were working. We share in their struggles to
create meaningful textbooks, to transform the teacher training process, to change
classroom pedagogy, to develop a culture of evaluation of what students were learning.
We also learn of the numerous abuses they uncovered and the fine line they had to
tread in order to keep their program moving forward. In the end, they were defeated
not by actions within Pakistan, but by the American government's decision to suddenly
suspend assistance to Pakistan. The program, which should have continued for six more
years in order to be fully realized, ended abruptly four years after it began, and
as Dr. Rugh notes, " in the space of a year everything was gone" (p. 244).
A similar effort to develop appropriate educational curricula in Afghanistan,
spearheaded by UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), also ended in complete disaster when USAID
pulled rank with Afghan officials to keep books developed by the University of
Nebraska in the 1980s in Afghan schools. The Nebraska books were not very effective
for student learning, filled as they were with militaristic images. Working with
international curriculum experts and Afghan teachers and staff members, UNICEF had
developed an appropriate Afghan curriculum that addressed the particular cir-cumstances
facing their system. The books included instructions for teachers and
lesson formats that could be used by a literate person anywhere in the country to
teach students. Just as the UNICEF books were ready for publication, USAID intervened.
A photo of Laura Bush standing in front of a display of the Nebraska books had appeared
in American newspapers with the announcement that USAID would pay for textbooks for
Afghan students. No compromises could be reached; both the UNICEF books and the
Nebraska books were sent to Afghan schools. Within a short time, the UNICEF books
were dropped from the public schools and used only informally. Once again, an
opportunity to provide quality education to children was aborted.
This work could easily be used in a number of different courses. It is rich with details
about women's lives and struggles, contains concrete examples of the ins and outs
of government-sponsored development, and vividly paints a portrait of life in the
Middle East through the eyes of a sympathetic outsider who came to understand so much
more about her own culture because of her experiences there.
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Afghan studies center is its own hot spot; Critics say the Nebraska academic institute
has gone too far in its cooperation with the U.S. military and even the Taliban. Los
Angeles Times March 28, 2010 Sunday
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Afghan studies center is its own hot spot;
Critics say the Nebraska academic institute has gone too far
in its cooperation with the U.S. military and even the
Taliban.
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On the dusty plains of Afghanistan, a surprising number of people are said to know
the word "Nebraska."
It began as a fluke in the early 1970s, when administrators at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha launched the Center for Afghanistan Studies. They wanted to
distinguish the school as an international institution, and no other university was
studying the then-peaceful nation half a world away.
As Afghanistan became a central battleground in the Cold War and then in the war
against terrorism, the center -- and its gregarious, well-connected director, Thomas
Gouttierre -- were fortuitously poised.
Equal parts research institute, development agency and consulting firm, the center
has collected tens of millions of dollars from the U.S. military, the State Department
and private contractors for its programs at home and in Afghanistan.
Like much of America's involvement in that nation, it has not been without con-troversy.
The center has come under fire from some academics who say it has not generated the
kind of scholarly research needed to help solve Afghanistan's problems. It has also
been criticized by women's rights groups for its dealings with the Taliban.
Most frequently it has been targeted by peace activists, who say the center's past
and current collaborations with U.S. war efforts in Afghanistan are unethical.
"I don't think the University of Nebraska has any business teaching kids anywhere
in the world how to be killers," said Paul Olson, president of Nebraskans for Peace,
an activist group that has been calling on the university to close the center for
the last decade.
As evidence, Olson points to the center's $60-million contract with the U.S.
government in the 1980s to educate Afghan refugees who were living in Pakistan during
the Soviet occupation.

It printed millions of textbooks that featured material developed by the mujahedin
resistance groups -- including images of machine guns and calls for jihad against
the Soviets.
Gouttierre says criticisms of the center are "revisionist" and fail to acknowledge
the challenges of working in a society that has been at war for three decades. The
center's aim, he says, has been to build cultural understanding and empower the Afghan
people.
"Our interest is humanitarian," he said. "They are victims who lost years of their
lives on earth."
Few Americans know more about Afghanistan than Gouttierre, who fell in love with the
country as a Peace Corps volunteer there in the 1960s.
He and his wife, Mary Lou, arrived during the "golden age" of Afghanistan, a time
before the Soviet invasion, the rise of the Taliban and the widespread production
of opium.
In a mud house in Kabul, he wrote love poems in the Afghan language of Dari. At the
high school where he taught English, he built a basketball court (he later coached
the Afghan national basketball team).
And he met a collection of people who would later figure largely in Afghanistan's
history -- future Marxists, anti-Soviets and ministers of the current government of
Hamid Karzai.
In 1973, after nearly 10 years in Afghanistan, Gouttierre was invited by the
University of Nebraska to lead the newly launched Afghanistan program, with the title
dean of international studies.
Gouttierre moved to Omaha and set up an exchange program with Kabul University. He
recruited Afghans to come teach and helped organize a large library of donated Afghan
materials.
The U.S. funded its educational projects in Afghanistan and Pakistan until the 1990s,
when the Taliban took power and the contracts dried up.
That left the center to do "whatever was necessary" to continue its programs,
Gouttierre said.
In 1997, that meant signing a contract to train workers for Unocal, a California
company that was trying to build a natural gas pipeline in Afghanistan. That year,
several Taliban ministers came to Nebraska for a tour of the campus. Several women's
groups, angry over the Taliban's repressive policies against women, protested.
It was the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that launched Gouttierre -- and the center
-- onto the international stage.
The morning of the attacks, Gouttierre showed up to teach his Introduction to
International Studies lecture and found half a dozen reporters sitting in the center
aisle.
Over the next 10 months, he said, he gave more than 2,000 interviews to journalists
from around the globe who wanted to learn about the rise of the Taliban and about
Osama bin Laden, whom Gouttierre had researched while on a United Nations peacekeeping
mission to Afghanistan in the 1990s.
The center's newfound prominence helped garner more funding.
In 2002, the State Department gave the center a $6.5-million contract to print 15
million textbooks. Images of AK-47s were absent in these books, but they included
phrases from the Koran, prompting criticism that U.S. funds were inappropriately

being used to print religious material. The following year, the government did not
renew the book contract.
The university has defended the center. Terry Hynes, senior vice chancellor for
academic and student affairs, called it "a superb asset" to the school.
These days, the center leads a Department of Defense-funded literacy training program
for the Afghan army. It also hosts a program for social scientists who are being
trained to accompany U.S. military teams in Afghanistan to help facilitate cultural
understanding. Eighteen such groups, known as "human terrain teams," have come to
Omaha over two years before shipping overseas.
Gouttierre stood before a cramped class of trainees one morning this winter. In a
lecture that lasted several hours, he talked about the history of Afghanistan and
about U.S. involvement there since Sept. 11.
"We under-sourced the military and we outsourced redevelopment," Gouttierre said,
his voice rising. What Afghanistan needs, he said, is rebuilding. And the stakes could
not be higher.
"If we succeed, it's going to be seen as an American success," Gouttierre said. "And
if we fail, it's going to be an American failure."
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Organizer of foreign U.S. Military Academy speaks Athens Daily Review (Texas)
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Sept. 10--ATHENS -- There's nothing like being given a seemingly impossible task with
no money to get it gone.
Retired U.S. Army Reserve Col. James Wilhite, Tuesday, described to the Athens Kiwanis
how he was recalled to active duty and stationed in Afghanistan where he drew the
task of building a military university, patterned after the U.S. Military Academy
at West Point.
Drawing on his more than 30 years in the military, and decades in education, Wilhite
and his colleges established the school, which celebrated its first graduating class
in 2009.
Wilhite was able to negotiate a spot for the school, then began to whittle the list
of 2,000 names down to the number needed for the academy.
"We interviewed 200 people for 25 positions," Wilhite said. "There were primarily
two places where the Afghans were educated. One was Russia, and the other was the
University of Nebraska at Omaha."
Of the original list of student applicants, 115 were chosen for the first class. Then,
Wilhite was faced with the task of getting textbooks, which he found at a price of
about $30 per student, a fraction of what they would cost in the U.S.
"So I did an adopt an Afghan," Wilhite said. "I told them at the base that I didn't
want their money. I just want their pledge"
Wilhite took the list of soldiers pledging $30 dollars per student to the Afghan
minister of finance.
"I said you should be paying for these books," Wilhite said.
Wilhite left the office with about the Afghani equivalent of more than $3,000 U.S.
dollars.
Wilhite said the task of funding the academy took a lot of salesmanship.
"I had to sell a dream," Wilhite said. "I went to the engineers, because they have
all the money. Chief Petty Officer Clint Rainey just went nuts. He just thought
it was fantastic.
"With Rainey's help, the Afghan Military was built for $3.7 million, instead of the
projected $65 million."

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On Jan. 24, 2009, 84 cadets graduated, and were commissioned as second lieutenants,
each with a 10-year service obligations. The enrollment has increased each year, and
the academy now has women among the ranks of cadets.
Wilhite tells the story of the academy project in his book, "We Answered the Call:
Building the Crown Jewel of Afghanistan." The book is available through Tate
Publishing.
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9/11 ANALYSIS: From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War to George W Bush and
September 11, 2001 LiberalPro September 10, 2010 Friday 10:55 PM EST
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9/11 ANALYSIS: From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War
to George W Bush and September 11, 2001
BYLINE: Timothy V. Gatto
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Sep. 10, 2010 (LiberalPro delivered by Newstex) --
September 11, 2001
By Michel Chossudovsky
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20958
Global Research, September 9, 2010
This article summarizes earlier writings by the author on 9/11 and the role of Al
Qaeda in US foreign policy. For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, America's
"War on Terrorism", Global Research, 2005
"The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with
textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings....The primers,
which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers
and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even
the Taliban used the American-produced books,..", (Washington Post, 23 March 2002)
"Advertisements, paid for from CIA funds, were placed in newspapers and newsletters
around the world offering inducements and motivations to join the [Islamic] Jihad."
(Pervez Hoodbhoy, Peace Research, 1 May 2005)
"Bin Laden recruited 4,000 volunteers from his own country and developed close
relations with the most radical mujahideen leaders. He also worked closely with the
CIA, ... Since September 11, [2001] CIA officials have been claiming they had no direct
link to bin Laden." (Phil Gasper, International Socialist Review, November-December
2001)
-Osama bin Laden, America's bogyman, was recruited by the CIA in 1979 at the very
outset of the US sponsored jihad. He was 22 years old and was trained in a CIA sponsored
guerilla training camp.
-The architects of the covert operation in support of "Islamic fundamentalism"
launched during the Reagan presidency played a key role in launching the "Global War
on Terrorism" in the wake of 9/11.

- President Ronald Reagan met the leaders of the Islamic Jihad at the White House
in 1983
-Under the Reagan adminstration, US foreign policy evolved towards the unconditional
support and endorsement of the Islamic "freedom fighters". In today's World, the
"freedom fighters" are labelled "Islamic terrorists".
-In the Pashtun language, the word "Taliban" means "Students", or graduates of the
madrasahs (places of learning or coranic schools) set up by the Wahhabi missions ffrom
Saudi Arabia, with the support of the CIA. Education in the years preceding the
Soviet-Afghan war war largely secular in Afghanistan. The number of CIA sponsored
religious schools (madrasahs) increased from 2,500 in 1980 to over 39,000.
The Soviet-Afghan war was part of a CIA covert agenda initiated during the Carter
administration, which consisted in actively supporting and financing the Islamic
brigades, later known as Al Qaeda. The Pakistani military regime played from the
outset in the late 1970s, a key role in the US sponsored military and intelligence
operations in Afghanistan. in the post-Cold war era, this central role of Pakistan
in US intelligence operations was extended to the broader Central Asia- Middle East
region.
From the outset of the Soviet Afghan war in 1979, Pakistan under military rule actively
supported the Islamic brigades. In close liaison with the CIA, Pakistan's military
intelligence, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), became a powerful organization,
a parallel government, wielding tremendous power and influence.
America's covert war in Afghanistan, using Pakistan as a launch pad, was initiated
during the Carter administration prior to the Soviet "invasion":
"According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during
1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But
the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July
3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the
opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to
the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to
induce a Soviet military intervention." (Former National Security adviser Zbigniew
Brzezinski, Interview with Le Nouvel Observateur, 15-21 January 1998)
In the published memoirs of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who held the position
of deputy CIA Director at the height of the Soviet Afghan war, US intelligence was
directly involved from the outset, prior to the Soviet invasion, in channeling aid
to the Islamic brigades.
With CIA backing and the funneling of massive amounts of U.S. military aid, the
Pakistani ISI had developed into a "parallel structure wielding enormous power over
all aspects of government". (Dipankar Banerjee, "Possible Connection of ISI With Drug
Industry", India Abroad, 2 December 1994). The ISI had a staff composed of military
and intelligence officers, bureaucrats, undercover agents and informers, estimated
at 150,000. (Ibid)
Meanwhile, CIA operations had also reinforced the Pakistani military regime led by
General Zia Ul Haq:
"Relations between the CIA and the ISI had grown increasingly warm following [General]
Zia's ouster of Bhutto and the advent of the military regime... During most of the
Afghan war, Pakistan was more aggressively anti-Soviet than even the United States.

Soon after the Soviet military invaded Afghanistan in 1980, Zia [ul Haq] sent his
ISI chief to destabilize the Soviet Central Asian states. The CIA only agreed to this
plan in October 1984." (Ibid)
The ISI operating virtually as an affiliate of the CIA, played a central role in
channeling support to Islamic paramilitary groups in Afghanistan and subsequently
in the Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union.
Acting on behalf of the CIA, the ISI was also involved in the recruitment and training
of the Mujahideen. In the ten year period from 1982 to 1992, some 35,000 Muslims from
43 Islamic countries were recruited to fight in the Afghan jihad. The madrassas in
Pakistan, financed by Saudi charities, were also set up with US support with a view
to "inculcating Islamic values". "The camps became virtual universities for future
Islamic radicalism," (Ahmed Rashid, The Taliban). Guerilla training under CIA-ISI
auspices included targeted assassinations and car bomb attacks.
"Weapons' shipments "were sent by the Pakistani army and the ISI to rebel camps in
the North West Frontier Province near the Afghanistan border. The governor of the
province is Lieutenant General Fazle Haq, who [according to Alfred McCoy] . allowed
"hundreds of heroin refineries to set up in his province." Beginning around 1982,
Pakistani army trucks carrying CIA weapons from Karachi often pick up heroin in Haq's
province and return loaded with heroin. They are protected from police search by ISI
papers."(1982-1989: US Turns Blind Eye to BCCI and Pakistani Government Involvement
in Heroin Trade See also McCoy, 2003, p. 477) .
Front row, from left: Major Gen. Hamid Gul, director general of Pakistan's
Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), Director of Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA)
Willian Webster; Deputy Director for Operations Clair George; an ISI colonel; and
senior CIA official,
Milt Bearden at a mujahedeen training camp in North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan
in 1987.
(source RAWA)
Osama Bin Laden
Osama bin Laden, America's bogyman, was recruited by the CIA in 1979 at the very outset
of the US sponsored jihad. He was 22 years old and was trained in a CIA sponsored
guerilla training camp.
During the Reagan administration, Osama, who belonged to the wealthy Saudi Bin Laden
family was put in charge of raising money for the Islamic brigades. Numerous charities
and foundations were created. The operation was coordinated by Saudi intelligence,
headed by Prince Turki al-Faisal, in close liaison with the CIA. The money derived
from the various charities were used to finance the recruitment of Mujahieen
volunteers. Al Qaeda, the base in Arabic was a data bank of volunteers who had enlisted
to fight in the Afghan jihad. That data base was initially held by Osama bi n Laden.
The Reagan Administration supports "Islamic Fundamentalism"
Pakistan's ISI was used as a "go-between". CIA covert support to the Mujahideen in
Afghanistan operated indirectly through the Pakistani ISI, --i.e. the CIA did not
channel its support directly to the Mujahideen. In other words, for these covert
operations to be "successful", Washington was careful not to reveal the ultimate
objective of the "jihad", which consisted in destroying the Soviet Union.

In December 1984, the Sharia Law (Islamic jurisprudence) was established in Pakistan
following a rigged referendum launched by President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. Barely a
few months later, in March 1985, President Ronald Reagan issued National Security
Decision Directive 166 (NSDD 166), which authorized "stepped-up covert military aid
to the Mujahideen" as well a support to religious indoctrination.
The imposition of The Sharia in Pakistan and the promotion of "radical Islam" was
a deliberate US policy serving American geopolitical interests in South Asia, Central
Asia and the Middle East. Many present-day "Islamic fundamentalist organizations"
in the Middle East and Central Asia, were directly or indirectly the product of US
covert support and financing, often channeled through foundations from Saudi Arabia
and the Gulf States. Missions from the Wahhabi sect of conservative Islam in Saudi
Arabia were put in charge of running the CIA sponsored madrassas in Northern Pakistan.
Under NSDD 166, a series of covert CIA-ISI operations was launched.
The US supplied weapons to the Islamic brigades through the ISI. CIA and ISI officials
would meet at ISI headquarters in Rawalpindi to coordinate US support to the
Mujahideen. Under NSDD 166, the procurement of US weapons to the Islamic insurgents
increased from 10,000 tons of arms and ammunition in 1983 to 65,000 tons annually
by 1987. "In addition to arms, training, extensive military equipment including
military satellite maps and state-of-the-art communications equipment" (University
Wire, 7 May 2002).
Ronald Reagan meets Afghan Mujahideen Commanders at the White House in 1985 (Reagan
Archives)
VIDEO (30 Sec.)
With William Casey as director of the CIA, NSDD 166 was described as the largest covert
operation in US history:
The U.S. supplied support package had three essential components-organization and
logistics, military technology, and ideological support for sustaining and en-couraging
the Afghan resistance....
U.S. counterinsurgency experts worked closely with the Pakistan's Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI) in organizing Mujahideen groups and in planning operations inside
Afghanistan.
... But the most important contribution of the U.S. was to ... bring in men and material
from around the Arab world and beyond. The most hardened and ideologically dedicated
men were sought on the logic that they would be the best fighters. Advertisements,
paid for from CIA funds, were placed in newspapers and newsletters around the world
offering inducements and motivations to join the Jihad. (Pervez Hoodbhoy, Afghanistan
and the Genesis of the Global Jihad, Peace Research, 1 May 2005)
Religious Indoctrination
Under NSDD 166, US assistance to the Islamic brigades channeled through Pakistan was
not limited to bona fide military aid. Washington also supported and financed by the
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the process of religious in-doctrination,
largely to secure the demise of secular institutions:

... the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with
textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert
attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation.
The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns,
bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's
core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books,..
The White House defends the religious content, saying that Islamic principles
permeate Afghan culture and that the books "are fully in compliance with U.S. law
and policy." Legal experts, however, question whether the books violate a con-stitutional
ban on using tax dollars to promote religion.
... AID officials said in interviews that they left the Islamic materials intact
because they feared Afghan educators would reject books lacking a strong dose of
Muslim thought. The agency removed its logo and any mention of the U.S. government
from the religious texts, AID spokeswoman Kathryn Stratos said.
"It's not AID's policy to support religious instruction," Stratos said. "But we went
ahead with this project because the primary purpose . . . is to educate children,
which is predominantly a secular activity."
... Published in the dominant Afghan languages of Dari and Pashtun, the textbooks
were developed in the early 1980s under an AID grant to the University of Nebraska
-Omaha and its Center for Afghanistan Studies. The agency spent $ 51 million on the
university's education programs in Afghanistan from 1984 to 1994." (Washington Post,
23 March 2002)
The Role of the NeoCons
There is continuity. The architects of the covert operation in support of "Islamic
fundamentalism" launched during the Reagan presidency played a key role in role in
launching the "Global War on Terrorism" in the wake of 9/11.
Several of the NeoCons of the Bush Junior Administration were high ranking officials
during the Reagan presidency.
Richard Armitage, was Deputy Secretary of State during George W. Bush first term
(2001-2004). He played a central key role in post 9/11 negotiations with Pakistan
leading up to the October 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. During the Reagan era, he
held the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Policy. In this capacity, he played a key role in the implementation of NSDD 163 while
also ensuring liaison with the Pakistani military and intelligence apparatus.
Richard Armitage
Meanwhile, Paul Wolfowitz was at the State Department in charge of a foreign policy
team composed, among others, of Lewis Libby, Francis Fukuyama and Zalmay Khalilzad.
Wolfowitz's group was also involved in laying the conceptual groundwork of US covert
support to Islamic parties and organizations in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Paul Wolfowitz
Zalmay Khalilzad.

Bush Secretary of Defence Robert Gates also was also involved in setting the
groundwork for CIA covert operations. He was appointed Deputy Director for In-telligence
by Ronald Reagan in 1982, and Deputy Director of the CIA in 1986, a position
which he held until 1989. Gates played a key role in the formulation of NSDD 163,
which established a consistent framework for promoting Islamic fundamentalism and
channeling covert support to the Islamic brigades. He was also involved in the Iran
Contra scandal. .
The Iran Contra Operation
Richard Gates, Colin Powell and Richard Armitage, among others, were also involved
in the Iran-Contra operation.
Armitage was in close liaison with Colonel Oliver North. His deputy and chief
anti-terrorist official Noel Koch was part of the team set up by Oliver North.
Of significance, the Iran-Contra operation was also tied into the process of
channeling covert support to the Islamic brigades in Afghanistan. The Iran Contra
scheme served several related foreign policy:
1) Procurement of weapons to Iran thereby feeding the Iraq-Iran war,
2) Support to the Nicaraguan Contras,
3) Support to the Islamic brigades in Afghanistan, channeled via Pakistan's ISI.
Following the delivery of the TOW anti-tank missiles to Iran, the proceeds of these
sales were deposited in numbered bank accounts and the money was used to finance the
Nicaraguan Contras. and the Mujahideen:
"The Washington Post reported that profits from the Iran arms sales were deposited
in one CIA-managed account into which the U.S. and Saudi Arabia had placed $250 million
apiece. That money was disbursed not only to the contras in Central America but to
the rebels fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan." (US News & World Report, 15
December 1986).
Although Lieutenant General Colin Powell, was not directly involved in the arms'
transfer negotiations, which had been entrusted to Oliver North, he was among "at
least five men within the Pentagon who knew arms were being transferred to the CIA."
(The Record, 29 December 1986). In this regard, Powell was directly instrumental in
giving the "green light" to lower-level officials in blatant violation of Con-gressional
procedures. According to the New York Times, Colin Powell took the decision
(at the level of military procurement), to allow the delivery of weapons to Iran:
"Hurriedly, one of the men closest to Secretary of Defense Weinberger, Maj. Gen. Colin
Powell, bypassed the written ''focal point system'' procedures and ordered the
Defense Logistics Agency [responsible for procurement] to turn over the first of 2,008
TOW missiles to the CIA., which acted as cutout for delivery to Iran" (New York Times,
16 February 1987)
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was also implicated in the Iran-Contra Affair.
The Golden Crescent Drug Trade
The history of the drug trade in Central Asia is intimately related to the CIA's covert
operations. Prior to the Soviet-Afghan war, opium production in Afghanistan and

Pakistan was directed to small regional markets. There was no local production of
heroin. (Alfred McCoy, Drug Fallout: the CIA's Forty Year Complicity in the Narcotics
Trade. The Progressive, 1 August 1997).
Alfred McCoy's study confirms that within two years of the onslaught of the CIA
operation in Afghanistan, "the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world's
top heroin producer." (Ibid) Various Islamic paramilitary groups and organizations
were created. The proceeds of the Afghan drug trade, which was protected by the CIA,
were used to finance the various insurgencies:
"Under CIA and Pakistani protection, Pakistan military and Afghan resistance opened
heroin labs on the Afghan and Pakistani border. According to The Washington Post of
May 1990, among the leading heroin manufacturers were Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan
leader who received about half of the covert arms that the U.S. shipped to Pakistan.
Although there were complaints about Hekmatyar's brutality and drug trafficking
within the ranks of the Afghan resistance of the day, the CIA maintained an uncritical
alliance and supported him without reservation or restraint.
Once the heroin left these labs in Pakistan's northwest frontier, the Sicilian Mafia
imported the drugs into the U.S., where they soon captured sixty percent of the U.S.
heroin market. That is to say, sixty percent of the U.S. heroin supply came indirectly
from a CIA operation. During the decade of this operation, the 1980s, the substantial
DEA contingent in Islamabad made no arrests and participated in no seizures, allowing
the syndicates a de facto free hand to export heroin. By contrast, a lone Norwegian
detective, following a heroin deal from Oslo to Karachi, mounted an investigation
that put a powerful Pakistani banker known as President Zia's surrogate son behind
bars. The DEA in Islamabad got nobody, did nothing, stayed away.
Former CIA operatives have admitted that this operation led to an expansion of the
Pakistan-Afghanistan heroin trade. In 1995 the former CIA Director of this Afghan
operation, Mr. Charles Cogan, admitted sacrificing the drug war to fight the Cold
War. "Our main mission was to do as much damage to the Soviets. We didn't really have
the resources or the time to devote to an investigation of the drug trade," he told
Australian television. "I don't think that we need to apologize for this. Every
situation has its fallout. There was fallout in terms of drugs, yes, but the main
objective was accomplished. The Soviets left Afghanistan." (Alfred McCoy, Testimony
before the Special Seminar focusing on allegations linking CIA secret operations a nd
drug trafficking-convened February 13, 1997, by Rep. John Conyers, Dean of the
Congressional Black Caucus)
Lucrative Narcotics Trade in the Post Cold War Era
The drug trade has continued unabated during the post Cold war years. Afghanistan
became the major supplier of heroin to Western markets, in fact almost the sole
supplier: more than 90 percent of the heroin sold Worldwide originates in Afghanistan.
This lucrative contraband is tied into Pakistani politics and the militarization of
the Pakistani State. It also has a direct bearing on the structure of the Pakistani
economy and its banking and financial institutions, which from the outset of the
Golden Crescent drug trade have been involved in extensive money laundering op-erations,
which are protected by the Pakistani military and intelligence apparatus:
According to the US State Department International Narcotics Control Strategy Report
(2006) (quoted in Daily Times, 2 March 2006),
"Pakistani criminal networks play a central role in the transshipment of narcotics
and smuggled goods from Afghanistan to international markets. Pakistan is a major

drug-transit country. The proceeds of narcotics trafficking and funding for terrorist
activities are often laundered by means of the alternative system called hawala. ...
.
"Repeatedly, a network of private unregulated charities has also emerged as a
significant source of illicit funds for international terrorist networks, the report
pointed out. ... "
The hawala system and the charities are but the tip of the iceberg. According to the
State Department report, "the State Bank of Pakistan has frozen more twenty years]
a meager $10.5 million "belonging to 12 entities and individuals linked to Osama bin
Laden, Al Qaeda or the Taliban". What the report fails to mention is that the bulk
of the proceeds of the Afghan drug trade are laundered in bona fide Western banking
institutions.
The Taliban Repress the Drug Trade
A major and unexpected turnaround in the CIA sponsored drug trade occurred in 2000.
The Taliban government which came to power in 1996 with Washington's support,
implemented in 2000-2001 a far-reaching opium eradication program with the support
of the United Nations which served to undermine a multibillion dollar trade. (For
further details see, Michel Chossudovsky, America's War on Terrorism, Global
Research, 2005).
In 2001 prior to the US-led invasion, opium production under the Taliban eradication
program declined by more than 90 percent.
In the immediate wake of the US led invasion, the Bush administration ordered that
the opium harvest not be destroyed on the fabricated pretext that this would undermine
the military government of Pervez Musharraf.
"Several sources inside Capitol Hill noted that the CIA opposes the destruction of
the Afghan opium supply because to do so might destabilize the Pakistani government
of Gen. Pervez Musharraf. According to these sources, Pakistani intelligence had
threatened to overthrow President Musharraf if the crops were destroyed. ...
'If they [the CIA] are in fact opposing the destruction of the Afghan opium trade,
it'll only serve to perpetuate the belief that the CIA is an agency devoid of morals;
off on their own program rather than that of our constitutionally elected government'"
.(NewsMax.com, 28 March 2002)
Since the US led invasion, opium production has increased 33 fold from 185 tons in
2001 under the Taliban to 6100 tons in 2006. Cultivated areas have increased 21 fold
since the 2001 US-led invasion. (Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 6 January
2006)
In 2007, Afghanistan supplied approximately 93% of the global supply of heroin. The
proceeds (in terms of retail value) of the Afghanistan drug trade are estimated (2006)
to be in excess of 190 billion dollars a year, representing a significant fraction
of the global trade in narcotics.(Ibid)
The proceeds of this lucrative multibillion dollar contraband are deposited in
Western banks. Almost the totality of the revenues accrue to corporate interests and
criminal syndicates outside Afghanistan.

The laundering of drug money constitutes a multibillion dollar activity, which
continues to be protected by the CIA and the ISI. In the wake of the 2001 US invasion
of Afghanistan.
In retrospect, one of the major objectives of the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was
to restore the drug trade.
The militarization of Pakistan serves powerful political, financial and criminal
interests underlying the drug trade. US foreign policy tends to support these powerful
interests. The CIA continues to protect the Golden Crescent narcotics trade. Despite
his commitment to eradicating the drug trade, opium production under the regime of
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has skyrocketed.
The Assassination of General Zia Ul-Haq
In August 1988, President Zia was killed in an air crash together with US Ambassador
to Pakistan Arnold Raphel and several of Pakistan's top generals. The circumstances
of the air crash remain shrouded in mystery.
Following Zia's death, parliamentary elections were held and Benazir Bhutto was sworn
in as Prime Minister in December 1988. She was subsequently removed from office by
Zia's successor, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan on the grounds of alleged corruption.
In 1993, she was re-elected and was again removed from office in 1996 on the orders
of President Farooq Leghari.
Continuity has been maintained throughout. Under the short-lived post-Zia elected
governments of Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, the central role of the mili-tary-
intelligence establishment and its links to Washington were never challenged.
Both Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif served US foreign policy interests. While in
power, both democratically elected leaders, nonetheless supported the continuity of
military rule. As prime minister from 1993 to 1996, Benazir Bhutto "advocated a
conciliatory policy toward Islamists, especially the Taliban in Afghanistan" which
were being supported by Pakistan's ISI (See F. William Engdahl, Global Research,
January 2008)
Benazir Bhutto's successor as Prime Minister, Mia Muhammad Nawaz Sharif of the
Pakistan Muslim League (PML) was deposed in 1999 in a US supported coup d'Etat led
by General Pervez Musharraf.
The 1999 coup was instigated by General Pervez Musharaf, with the support of the Chief
of General Staff, Lieutenant General Mahmoud Ahmad, who was subsequently appointed
to the key position of head of military intelligence (ISI).
From the outset of the Bush administration in 2001, General Ahmad developed close
ties not only with his US counterpart CIA director George Tenet, but also with key
members of the US government including Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy
Secretary of State Richard Armitage, not to mention Porter Goss, who at the time was
Chairman of the House Committee on Intelligence. Ironically, Mahmoud Ahmad is also
known, according to a September 2001 FBI report, for his suspected role in supporting
and financing the alleged 9/11 terrorists as well as his links to Al Qaeda and the
Taliban. (See Michel Chossudovsky, America's "war on Terrorism, Global Research,
Montreal, 2005)
Concluding Remarks

These various "terrorist" organizations were created as a result of CIA support.
They are not the product of religion. The project to establish "a pan-Islamic
Caliphate" is part of a carefully devised intelligence operation.
CIA support to Al Qaeda was not in any way curtailed at the end of the Cold War. In
fact quite the opposite. The earlier pattern of covert support not only extended,
it took on a global thrust and became increasingly sophisticated.
The "Global War on Terrorism" is a complex and intricate intelligence construct. The
covert support provided to "Islamic extremist groups" is part of an imperial agenda.
It purports to weaken and eventually destroy secular and civilian governmental
institutions, while also contributing to vilifying Islam. It is an instrument of
colonization which seeks to undermine sovereign nation-states and transform
countries into territories.
For the intelligence operation to be successful, however, the various Islamic
organizations created and trained by the CIA must remain unaware of the role they
are performing on geopolitical chessboard, on behalf of Washington.
Over the years, these organizations have indeed acquired a certain degree of autonomy
and independence, in relation to their US-Pakistani sponsors. That appearance of
"independence", however, is crucial; it is an integral part of the covert intellige nce
operation. According to former CIA agent Milton Beardman the Mujahideen were
invariably unaware of the role they were performing on behalf of Washington. In the
words of bin Laden (quoted by Beardman): "neither I, nor my brothers saw evidence
of American help". (Weekend Sunday (NPR); Eric Weiner, Ted Clark; 16 August 1998).
"Motivated by nationalism and religious fervor, the Islamic warriors were unaware
that they were fighting the Soviet Army on behalf of Uncle Sam. While there were
contacts at the upper levels of the intelligence hierarchy, Islamic rebel leaders
in theatre had no contacts with Washington or the CIA." (Michel Chossudovsky,
America's War on Terrorism, Chapter 2).
The fabrication of "terrorism" --including covert support to terrorists-- is required
to provide legitimacy to the "war on terrorism".
The various fundamentalist and paramilitary groups involved in US sponsored
"terrorist" activities are "intelligence assets". In the wake of 9/11, their
designated function as "intelligence assets" is to perform their role as credible
"enemies of America".
Under the Bush administration, the CIA continued to support (via Pakistan's ISI)
several Pakistani based Islamic groups. The ISI is known to support Jamaat a-Islami,
which is also present in South East Asia, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Jehad a-Kashmiri,
Hizbul-Mujahidin and Jaish-e-Mohammed.
The Islamic groups created by the CIA are also intended to rally public support in
Muslim countries. The underlying objective is to create divisions within national
societies throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, while also triggering
sectarian strife within Islam, ultimately with a view to curbing the development of
a broad based secular mass resistance, which would challenge US imperial ambitions.
This function of an outside enemy is also an essential part of war propaganda required
to galvanize Western public opinion. Without an enemy, a war cannot be fought. US
foreign policy needs to fabricate an enemy, to justify its various military in-terventions
in the Middle East and Central Asia. An enemy is required to justify a

military agenda, which consists in " going after Al Qaeda". The fabrication and
vilification of the enemy are required to justify military action.
The existence of an outside enemy sustains the illusion that the "war on terrorism"
is real. It justifies and presents military intervention as a humanitarian operation
based on the right to self-defense. It upholds the illusion of a "conflict of
civilizations". The underlying purpose ultimately is to conceal the real economic
and strategic objectives behind the broader Middle East Central Asian war.
Historically, Pakistan has played a central role in "war on terrorism". Pakistan
constitutes from Washington's standpoint a geopolitical hub. It borders onto
Afghanistan and Iran. It has played a crucial role in the conduct of US and allied
military operations in Afghanistan as well as in the context of the Pentagon's war
plans in relation to Iran.
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Getting to Know You; The U.S. military maps the human terrain of Afghanistan. The
Weekly Standard January 18, 2010 Monday
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The Weekly Standard
January 18, 2010 Monday
Getting to Know You;
The U.S. military maps the human terrain of Afghanistan.
BYLINE: Claudia Anderson, The Weekly Standard
SECTION: FEATURES Vol. 15 No. 17
LENGTH: 3639 words
Â Omaha, NebraskaÂ In early 2003, a single American diplomat and more than 5,000
American troops were stationed in Kandahar, the second city of Afghanistan and the
heart of former Taliban country. The troops mostly stayed on their base, penned off
near the airport, isolated from the people of the city. One of the few American
civilians then living in Kandahar, the former NPR reporter Sarah Chayes, would
describe the tedious hours-long delays and â[#x20ac]oebewildering lack of sys-temâ[#
x20ac] that governed access to the base. Isolation reinforced ignorance, and
under the Americansâ[#x20ac][TM] noses, the provincial governor, a former warlord
named Gul Agha Shirzai, exploited his position to snag most U.S. contracts for his
Barakzai tribe and to cover his private militiaâ[#x20ac]"issued American camouflage
uniformsâ[#x20ac]"with impunity for misdeeds from drug smuggling to stealing. As a
result, wrote Chayes in her 2006 book The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan
after the Taliban, â[#x20ac]oemuch of the [U.S.] expenditure in effort and treasure
that was aimed at building bridges and gaining friends in Kandahar did the reverse.
It built a growing feeling of resentment against the U.S. troops.â[#x20ac] In those
early days, the U.S. military in Afghanistan, for all its famous night-vision goggles,
was blind to what has become known as the â[#x20ac]oehuman ter-rainâ[#
x20ac]â[#x20ac]"the people it had come to liberate. No one has to explain to
any soldier the tactical significance of a hill or a river or an airfield; whereas
few soldiers on the Kandahar base had ever heard of Barakzais, much less the Popalzais
and Alokozais and Ghiljais who had been left out in the cold. Their commanders
similarly failed to recognize the mischief flowing every day from the fact that the
interpreters on whom the Americans were wholly dependentâ[#x20ac]"supplied by the
governorâ[#x20ac][TM]s helpful brotherâ[#x20ac]"were working for him. Today efforts
are being made to change that, as the military draws on a culture of â[#x20ac]oelessons
learnedâ[#x20ac]â[#x20ac]"the systematic practice of looking back at mistakes to see
what can be done better. The generals in charge of the counterinsurgency strategy
being implemented in Afghanistan are graduates of the hard school of Iraq, where the
United States also paid the price of ignorance. Now, the generalsâ[#x20ac]"notably
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) chief David Petraeus and the commander of coalition
forces in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystalâ[#x20ac]"are working through multiple
channels to build their forcesâ[#x20ac][TM] ability to relate to the Afghan
population.Â The whole thrust of counterinsurgency doctrine is summed up in the
subhead to the â[#x20ac]oeGuidanceâ[#x20ac] McChrystal issued to the troops in
August: â[#x20ac]oeProtecting the people is the mission.â[#x20ac] There is abundant
evidence that commanders are reorienting the coalition effort to this end. One small
but telling sign is Sarah Chayesâ[#x20ac][TM]s own career. After entering Afghanistan

just behind U.S. forces in late 2001, she reported from Kandahar for several months.
Her previous experience covering the aftermath of war in the Balkans enriched her
perspective; so did her decision not to join the foreign media at the international
hotel but to live in an Afghan family compound and adopt local dress. By the time
she left Kandahar, in the heady atmosphere of the months after the fall of the Taliban,
she had decided to give up her job and contribute to the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
She did so first through a group founded by Hamid Karzaiâ[#x20ac][TM]s older brother,
Afghans for Civil Society. She raised money in her native Massachusetts to rebuild
houses and a mosque destroyed by a U.S. bomb. She personally directed the work,
learning firsthand what it was like to try to get something done under the thumb of
Kandaharâ[#x20ac][TM]s â[#x20ac]oearbitrary, predatory, brutal, if charis-maticâ[#
x20ac] governor. After taking a break to write her book, she founded Arghand,
a cooperative that employs Kandaharis making scented soaps and lotions for export.
All the while, she was deepening her local contactsâ[#x20ac]"and gradually becoming
an informal adviser to the U.S. military. Soon they were flying her to Hawaii to brief
soldiers about to deploy to Kandahar, and to Fort Leavenworth as a guest speaker.
(â[#x20ac]oeSheâ[#x20ac][TM]s like no journalist youâ[#x20ac][TM]ve ever
seen,â[#x20ac] gushed one who heard her. â[#x20ac]oeSheâ[#x20ac][TM]s a
hawk!â[#x20ac]) Today she is a special adviser to General McChrystal. Her eight-page
â[#x20ac]oeComprehensive Action Plan for Afghanistanâ[#x20ac]â[#x20ac]"published
last January and available at sarahchayes.netâ[#x20ac]"begins: â[#x20ac]oeThe
United States should -redefine its objectives in favor of the Afghan people, not the
Afghan government.â[#x20ac] Another indication of the U.S. militaryâ[#x20ac][TM]s
determination to improve its knowledge of our Afghan friends is General Petrae-usâ[#
x20ac][TM]s creation of an intelligence unit at CENTCOM that will train military
officers, agents, and analysts who commit themselves to Afghanistan and Pakistan work
for at least five years. Their training will emphasize cultural and language
immersion. To lead the new Center for Afghanistan Pakistan Excellence, Petraeus chose
Derek Harvey, a retired colonel working in the Defense Intelligence Agency who had
gained a reputation for prescience in his work on Iraq. A longtime reporter recently
called Harvey â[#x20ac]oethe most intelligent manâ[#x20ac] he had dealt with in the
U.S. government. In the same spirit, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral
Mike Mullen, established the Af-Pak Hands last fall. The purpose, again, is to build
regional expertise by having a core of some 300 officers specialize in a single area
and type of work. Whether they are stationed in the United States or deployed
â[#x20ac]oedownrange,â[#x20ac] they can maintain relationships and steadily deepen
their knowledge of the relevant languages, players, and problems.Â But no innovation
better captures the militaryâ[#x20ac][TM]s will to shed its blinders about local
populations than the aptly named Human Terrain Teams (HTTs). Embedded with units in
the field, these teams consist of five to nine civilians with, among them, con-siderable
military or intelligence experience, social-science expertise, analytical
skill, and cross-cultural training. Ideally, each team includes at least one
Afghan-American, one or more women, and a Ph.D.-level social scientist. Their mission
is to â[#x20ac]oefill the socio-cultural knowledge gapâ[#x20ac] in ways that are
valuable to the soldiers they advise. They are specially charged with helping devise
nonlethal approaches to improving security in a given place. These are not civil
affairs units, off building schools and digging wells, but eyes and ears for the
military officers who plan and lead operations.Â HTTs are to learn all they can about
the people among whom their units operateâ[#x20ac]"their tribal background and power
structures and livelihood, their recent experiences with local government and with
Kabul, their contacts with the Taliban and warlords and coalition forces, and any
-matters of special concern to the commander. They are to do this by developing
personal relationships in the surrounding communities and systematically inter-viewing
Afghans. As they go, they are to analyze their findings and then package them
in forms digestible by soldiers. HTT members receive four to six monthsâ[#x20ac][TM]
training before they deploy. Most of this happens at Fort Leavenworth. But for three

weeks they attend a cultural immersion seminar at this countryâ[#x20ac][TM]s only
Center for Afghanistan Studies, at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. I visited
for a couple of days this fall to observe their training. Â Â The first thing that
struck me on taking my seat at the back of a crowded classroom on the Omaha campus
was the amount of gray hair. The median age of the 30 or so HTT students must have
been 40. The teacher, Thomas Gouttierre, qualified for some gray himself having been
dean of international studies at Omaha and director of the Center for Afghanistan
Studies since 1974. Before that, he and his wife lived for a decade in Afghanistan,
during the hopeful years when a liberal constitution was adopted and women were among
those elected to parliament. The Gouttierres went to Kabul as Peace Corps volunteers
and stayed on with Tom as a Fulbright fellow and later executive director of the
Fulbright Foundation. All through, he also coached the Afghan National Basketball
Team. For three hours that morning, Gouttierre unspooled a panorama of 2,500 years
of Afghan history and culture, punctuated with slides of art, historic buildings,
and dramatic landscapes as well as with comments on the recent election, a digression
on the Pashtun honor code, examples of Afghan humor, and lessons distilled from his
centerâ[#x20ac][TM]s extensive work with Afghans over 35 years. This made for a
somewhat kaleidoscopic experience. Just as the founder of the Mughal empire, Babur,
was coming into focus and one was making a mental note to delve into his autobiography
beginning, â[#x20ac]oeIn the province of Fergana, in the year 1494, when I was twelve
years old, I became king,â[#x20ac] suddenly the Kajaki Dam was center stage. After
World War II, Gouttierre said, the Afghans had accumulated hard currency from the
sale of lamb skins and carpets and wanted to build a dam to irrigate and provide
electricity for the Helmand Valley. When they ran short of funds they sought U.S.
help. The Morrison-Knudsen -Company of Boise, Idaho, which had worked on the Hoover
Dam, trained Afghans in the necessary construction skills. Many had never before
worked off the farm. The result was not only a dam, but also a cadre of skilled labor
that included in addition to the building trades, plumbers and drivers and mechan ics,
cooks and housekeepers. These workers moved to the cities when the project was done
and contributed to the glacially advancing modernization of the Afghan economy.
Gouttierre contrasted the wisdom of training Afghans with the wastefulness of
importing foreign laborâ[#x20ac]"as the coalition did in its early days to build the
all-important Ring Road. For that matter, there are still 30,000 foreign laborers
in the country, he said. Here a class member spoke up. A veteran of several years
in Afghanistan assisting civilian development efforts, the student offered a
clarificationâ[#x20ac]"there is now a requirement to use Afghan labor on most road
projects and train them in road maintenanceâ[#x20ac]"adding that it took field
workers â[#x20ac]oea year of briefingsâ[#x20ac] and much badgering and cajoling to
persuade the U.S. authorities (the student named Karl Eikenberry, then a general
serving in Afghanistan, now U.S. ambassador in Kabul) to agree to use local labor.
Class members tapped at their laptops. That afternoon the students disappeared into
language labs for their several hoursâ[#x20ac][TM] daily instruction in Dari, the
lingua franca of Afghanistan, and Pashto, spoken in the south and east. Their
teachers, all native speakers, included some who have been with the Center for
Afghanistan Studies since they fled the Soviet invasion, but also a young Fulbright
scholar fresh from Kabul. I spent the afternoon talking with Gouttierre in his office,
and with Major Robert Holbert, training coordinator for the Human Terrain Teams.Â
The question on my mind was, How can you manufacture regional experts in six months?Â
The answer was, You canâ[#x20ac][TM]tâ[#x20ac]"and the program doesnâ[#x20ac][TM]t
pretend to. Instead, it aims to recruit smart, creative, cool-headed, highly
adaptable, mature self-starters who already have significant relevant experience,
and then further equip them to operate as bridges between the U.S. military and Afghan
people. You canâ[#x20ac][TM]t teach team members enough Dari or Pashto to make them
fluent, for instance, but you can teach them enough to build on, and enough to improve
their effectiveness at working through interpreters. You canâ[#x20ac][TM]t give them
deep knowledge of the places where theyâ[#x20ac][TM]ll serve, but you can expose them

to a great deal of pertinent information and then teach them how to ask ques-tionsâ[#
x20ac]"not â[#x20ac]oeWhat do you think of the provincial govern-ment?
â[#x20ac] but â[#x20ac]oeWhat was your last contact with the provincial
government? Who exactly did you go to? What was the outcome? What about the time before
that?â[#x20ac] â[#x20ac]oeYou can teach the basic elements of how to work with
Afghans,â[#x20ac] said Gouttierre. â[#x20ac]oeAvoid pork and alcohol. Show sin-cerity.
Afghans like to talk. Engage them in a way that makes them want to talk to
you. Find a way to negotiate differences.â[#x20ac]Â Â Gouttierre and his colleagues
have a lot of experience at this. The Center for Afghanistan Studies has designed
and run numerous development projectsâ[#x20ac]"mostly on contract for the U.S.
government, totaling a $100 million over 35 years. These have included providing
education in the Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan during the Soviet occupation,
bringing Afghan English teachers to study at the center and live with Nebraska
families (for the Fulbright Foundation), and, currently, running literacy programs
for the Afghan Army. â[#x20ac]oeOur philosophy is to involve Afghans wherever
possible,â[#x20ac] Gouttierre said. â[#x20ac]oeOur programs are staffed almost
exclusively by Afghans.â[#x20ac] At last count, he said, roughly 300 Afghans were
employed in the Army literacy program, and many more at the Nebraska Education Press,
in Kabul, now spun off as an independent NGO. Housed in a compound that once belonged
to the Afghan Communist party, the press printed the Afghan constitution and millions
of textbooks for the first post-Taliban opening of school.Â Major Hol-bertâ[#
x20ac]"a fit and focused former social studies teacher in Lincoln, Nebraska,
who served on the first HTT in Afghanistan in 2007â[#x20ac]"elaborated on the matter
of learning to communicate in ways that build bonds. In the early days of the U.S.
presence, soldiers sometimes threw candy and toys to children from moving vehicles.
This drive-by benevolence was seen as demeaning. â[#x20ac]oeRelationships are
everything,â[#x20ac] said Holbert. HTT members are taught to take the time to drink
the endless cups of tea, to invest in relationships. To counteract the constant
churning of personnel in the field, HTTs are replaced one member at a time with,
whenever possible, a monthâ[#x20ac][TM]s overlap with their predecessor, who can make
personal introductions so that local contacts arenâ[#x20ac][TM]t lost. Hol-bertâ[#
x20ac][TM]s spiel exactly captured the spirit of General McChrys-talâ[#
x20ac][TM]s guidanceâ[#x20ac]"indeed, it almost seemed to track it word for
word. As McChrystal wrote, addressing all coalition troops:Â The effort to gain and
maintain [the support of the Afghan people] must inform every action we take.
.â[#x20ac][0/00]â[#x20ac][0/00].â[#x20ac][0/00]â[#x20ac][0/00]. We need to un-derstand
the people and see things through their eyes.
.â[#x20ac][0/00]â[#x20ac][0/00].â[#x20ac][0/00]â[#x20ac][0/00]. The way you drive,
your dress and gestures, with whom you eat lunch, the courage with which you fight,
the way you respond to an Afghanâ[#x20ac][TM]s grief or joyâ[#x20ac]"this is all part
of the argument. .â[#x20ac][0/00]â[#x20ac][0/00].â[#x20ac][0/00]â[#x20ac][0/00].
Listen to and learn from our Afghan colleagues.
.â[#x20ac][0/00]â[#x20ac][0/00].â[#x20ac][0/00]â[#x20ac][0/00]. This is a battle
of witsâ[#x20ac]"learn and adapt more quickly than the insurgent. Â The civilian
HTTs actually face a double challenge. â[#x20ac]oeThe hardest culture to integrate
with is the military,â[#x20ac] Holbert noted. â[#x20ac]oeYou need to project
confidence and humility in order to be able to work well with your unit. So you get
to know them. If your team is invited to a social activity, you go. If
thereâ[#x20ac][TM]s marksmanship training, you go. And on patrol you pull security.
You are not a consumer of resources or producer of drama.â[#x20ac] Â Â The subject
of my second morningâ[#x20ac][TM]s lecture was the geology of Afghanistan. As
students arrived in the darkened classroom, a video was running. It showed a mudslide,
a roaring torrent of mud and boulders pouring over a cement dam in a craggy gorge.
The footage had been shot near Kunduz by a German reconstruction teamâ[#x20ac]"the
first time one of these events, which occur all over Afghanistan, had been filmed.
The lecturer was John Shroder, professor of geography and geology and, like

Gouttierre, a student of Afghanistan for four decades. Shroder is point man for the
centerâ[#x20ac][TM]s National Atlas of Afghanistan project, which collects and
publishes mapable information on Afghanistan, and for its collaboration with NASA,
the U.S. Geological Survey, and the National Academy of Sciences to monitor the
glaciers of Afghanistan and Pakistan using satellite imagery. Shroder writes widely
on Afghanistanâ[#x20ac][TM]s mineral and energy resources and their considerable
potential for development, the subject he addressed for the HTT seminar. Rounding
out the morning was Professor Michael Bishop, expert in something called Geographic
Information Science. He showed a rapt audience how using remote sensing and computer
maps of Afghanistan they can display numerous physical features of the coun-tryâ[#
x20ac]"soil quality, vegetation, water, snow, cloud cover, and many
moreâ[#x20ac]"at high resolution at the click of a mouse. This capability has myriad
applications, from the design of irrigation systems to prediction of floods to the
location of safe construction sites. It will be made available via a
â[#x20ac]oereachbackâ[#x20ac] system now being developed to allow HTTs to consult
distant experts and databases by email. During their time in Omaha, HTT trainees have
classes in the history and politics of Afghanistan in the 20th century, Pashtun
society and culture, women in Afghanistan, religion in Afghanistan, the Afghan Army
and its evolving structure, the globalization of religious extremism, medicine in
Afghanistan, and the role of drugs in international terrorism. Six of their ten
instructors are Afghans. Itâ[#x20ac][TM]s during their longer stay at Fort
Leavenworth that they receive basic survival training and concentrate on social
science methods and analysis. Some are sent to participate in exercises at a simulated
Afghan village in Death Valley.Â For their final exercise, team members are dropped
off in small towns near Fort Leavenworthâ[#x20ac]"places like Bonner Springs, Kansas
(population 7,000) or Smithville, Missouri (population 6,000)â[#x20ac]"to assess the
human terrain. They fan out in pairs or threes to interview locals. They introduce
themselves as students from Fort Leavenworth whoâ[#x20ac][TM]ve been assigned, for
instance, to ascertain how the town copes with flooding from the Missouri River. For
all of the HTT trainees I met, this foray into small-town America will have been a
cross-cultural experience. They included a retired chemist with past Special Forces
deployments in Vietnam and Panama; a former reporter with a couple of decades in the
intelligence community under his belt; an ex-Marine intelligence officer who studied
Arabic and international relations in college and deployed briefly to Iraq; a former
environmental consultant who grew up in Asia and is multilingual; and a Special Forces
vet who served three tours in Afghanistan and one in Iraq. One, an Afghan-American,
told me he fled the Soviet occupation before finishing school but could-nâ[#
x20ac][TM]t find work in Pakistan, so pressed on to the United States. He got
jobs in fast food and supermarkets in Virginia and eventually drove a delivery van.
After 9/11 he felt a strong desire to help Afghanistan. He managed to land a job with
the U.S. military as a â[#x20ac]oerole playerâ[#x20ac] in one of the simulated
villages used for training and worked his way up to interpreter. Now in his late
30sâ[#x20ac]"and married, with an infant sonâ[#x20ac]"he is returning to his native
land for the first time as a member of an HTT. One of the trainees I met is already
â[#x20ac]oein theater,â[#x20ac] assigned to Jalalabad. Her unit is experimenting
with what they call a Female Engagement Team, which has been dispatched to talk to
women in mountain villages and to female prisoners at a juvenile detention center.
She sent me pictures of their visit to a school for 400 girls.Â No doubt her HTT
is also keeping a careful eye on the evolving role of the local governor, Gul Agha
Shirzai, who caused so much trouble in Kandahar back in 2003. Heâ[#x20ac][TM]s become
a figure of some renown, even being profiled back in March in the Wall Street Journal.
Removed as governor of Kandahar by President Karzai in 2004, he was shortly thereafter
reappointed to Nangarhar Province, in eastern Afghanistan, whose capital is
Jalalabad. There he has managed to temper his reputation for corruption. Far from
the home turf of his Barakzai tribe, and thus relieved of patronage duties (also,
possibly, content with the fortune he has already amassed), he has burnished his image

since the days when Sarah Chayes found him so arbitrary, predatory, and brutal. He
is once again in good odor with the Americans. At their urging, he chaired a meeting
of 25 tribal elders from four eastern provinces in late November, according to the
New York Times, for the purpose of enlisting the eldersâ[#x20ac][TM] aid in persuading
reconcilable elements of the Taliban to â[#x20ac]oesit down and talk.â[#x20ac] Has
Gul Agha Shirzai really changed? How is this transplant viewed by the indigenous power
brokers of Nangarhar? Is his warlord past or his present cooperation with the
coalition more indicative of the path ahead? They are questions of some consequence
as the coalition attempts to midwife an Afghan version of the Anbar Awakening in Iraq,
when tribal leaders switched sides and helped reverse the momentum of the insurgency.Â
They are also reminders that human terrain is always complex and elusive terrain,
lacking the stable definition of a mountain pass or valley floor. The Human Terrain
Teams and other innovations by which the U.S. armed forces are lessening their
ignorance of the Afghan people are no doubt imperfect, even crude, instruments for
meeting the challenges of a war where the enemy is at home and we come from far away,
geographically and culturally. Regardless of the magnitude of the challenge, the HTTs
and the rest will be judged by their success on the ground. Still, it is not too soon
to recognize the energy and imagination with which the armed forces are working to
apply their lessons learned.Â Â Â Claudia Anderson is managing editor of The Weekly
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Love of Learning Awards help fund career development and/or postbaccalaureat e studies
for active Phi Kappa Phi members. Eighty $500 awards are given annually for career
development and pertinent travel aswell as for professional or graduate studies,
doctoral dissertations, continuing education, and the like. This year, more than
1,200 members competed, an increase of some 20 percent from last year. Since the
inception of the program in 2007, 230 members have earned Love of Learning Awards
totaling $115,000.
Melissa Adams
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of Massachusetts Medical School Using grant for: Professional certification in
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Tracy L. Arambula-Turner
University of Texas at Austin Doctoral student in higher educationadministration
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a working-class background
Jamie Noelle Ball
University of Kansas School of Medicine Medical student Using grant for: School
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Faith E. Bartz
Emory University Postdoctoral student in public health Using grantfor: Dissertation
Career objective: Bridge scientific community and agricultural industries of
resource-poor areas
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Ryan Becker
University of Nebraska Medical Center Medical student Using grant for: Licensing exam
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Whitney Bignell
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Brandon T. Bodor
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deployed in Kandahar, Afghanistan Using grant for: Dartmouth Tuck Online Bridge
Program to prepare for an M.B.A. program Mostproud of: Wife who has been rock solid
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Rosemary Burk
University of North Texas Doctoral student in biology, emphasis inaquatic ecology
Using grant for: Presenting research at World Water Week in Stockholm
(University of North Texas)
Cynthia L. Butler-Mobley
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Certified Supply Chain Professional Influential person met: My husband, who taught
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Erik Jon Byker
Michigan State University Doctoral student in teacher education Using grant for:
Research in Bangalore, India Most proud of: Marrying such a wonderful and supportive
woman and helping deliver our son
(Michigan State University)
Jamie M. Byrne
Director, School of Mass Communication, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Using
grant for: Project on fund development at universities Satisfying community service:
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Chuck, was diagnosed with colon cancer nearly four years ago. Most proud of: Chuck.
He passed away from cancer in January and was a dignified, loving, inspiring example
of how to face this illness.
(University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
Edward J. Carvalho
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Doctoral candidate in English Using grant for:
My upcoming journal about literature and cultural studies, The Acknowledged
Legislator Most proud of: Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era, co-edited with David
B. Downing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
(Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Michael Certo
Columbia University Postbaccalaureate premed student Using grant for: School
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Linda Chamberlin
Columbia University Postbaccalaureate premed student Using grant for: A trip to
Zambia to volunteer in a rural health clinic
(University of Southern California)
Laura Christianson
Iowa State University Doctoral student in agricultural and biosystems engineering
and sustainable agriculture Using grant for: Nitrous oxide greenhouse gas sample
analysis
(Kansas State University)
Kaira Clapper
University of Alcala, Alcala de Henares, Spain Pursuing a master'sin teaching
Hispanic language, literature and culture Employed as anEnglish teacher at an
elementary school Using grant for: Living expenses
(University of Central Florida)
Barbara Mather Cobb

Associate Professor of English, Murray State University Using grant for: Completion
of an article about bringing the work of 19th-century South Carolina enslaved
poet-potter Dave to middle and high schoolstudents
(Murray State University)
Martha Franquemont
Works for a microfinance program in Bamako, Mali Using grant for: Food and housing
during year of service Fantasy career: Owning a fair-trade coffee shop
(Bradley University)
Benjamin Franta
Harvard University Doctoral student in applied physics Using grantfor: Paleoclimate
research on Iceland's glaciers Satisfying community service: Archaeology in England
and Greece
(Coe College)
Janice E. Frisch
Indiana University Doctoral student in folklore Using grant for: Fieldwork on quilts
at United Kingdom museums
(Ohio University)
Tasha Randall Galardi
Oregon State University Pursuing a master's in human development and family sciences
Using grant for: Laptop computer Memorable course:A weekly sociology class at a state
prison. With 15 sudents outside and 15 inside, the course challenged my preconceptions
about crime.
(Oregon State University)
Betty (Ehrnthaller) Gavin
Family nutrition coordinator, Henry-Stark Extension Unit, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign Using grant for: Chaperoning 4-H teens to Japan Most proud of:
Obtaining a master's in adult education,human resources development, later in life
Matthew N. Giarra
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Doctoral student in mechanical
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(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Andrea Harriott
University of Maryland, Baltimore Campuses M.D.-Ph.D. student Using grant for:
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Margaret Hattori-Uchima
Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Guam Using grant for: Dissertation on
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Christian V. Hauser
University of North Texas Doctoral student in music education Using grant for:
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Elizabeth A. Hazzard
Supervising consultant, transfer pricing services, BKD, LLP, a CPAand advisory firm
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Lori Hoisington
Michigan State University Doctoral student in human development and family studies
Used grant for: International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Meeting in
Stockholm Satisfying community service: Therapy Dogs International
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Stephanie Hullmann
Oklahoma State University Doctoral student in clinical psychology Using grant for:
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Andrew T. Kamei-Dyche
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Cara Killingbeck
Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis Pursuing a master's in library
science Using grant for: Graduate school Career objective: Children's or young adult
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(Ball State University)
Albert H. Kim
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(Virginia Commonwealth University)
Catherine Klasne
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Anthony W. Knight
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Gene Ko
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Brad Korbesmeyer
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Erin E. Krupa
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Rachel M. Latham
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Shin-Young Lee
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Jonathan Leiman
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Adrian LePique
Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Pursuing two master's degrees: in music
performance (trumpet) and computer management information systems Using grant for:
Playing with my school's wind symphony at the World Association for Symphonic Bands
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Christine Lesh
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journalism in 2002 from Saint Michael's College Using grant for: Trip to the Dominican
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Ratessiea L. Lett
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Ross A. Levesque
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Jeremy Lipkowitz
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(University of California, Davis)
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La. Fantasy career: Judge Judy
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Amanda C. Lynch
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Lee M. Malvin
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Texas A & M University Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health
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(Elon University)
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Economist and professor Using grant for: Research on leptospirosis, an infectious
disease of domestic animals Most proud of: My two very smart, creative and funny
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and travel Most proud of: Not giving in to my insecurities about beginning graduate
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Notable Naval Books of 2009
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ABSTRACT
Because this list of books is subjective and consequently may cause some disagreement,
these individuals will remain anonymous. Because it is considered a prestigious
accolade, and coming up with a list of only 20 from the many fine books that were
published in 2009 is difficult and subjective enough without then trying further to
rank them in some manner, the editors will again list the books in alphabetical order,
by title, to avoid any perceptions of hierarchical ranking or favoritism.
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As in previous years, the list of notable naval books for 2009 was compiled, refined,
and ultimately decided by a number of people, all of whom are widely recognized for
their knowledge of matters pertaining to the Sea Services. Because this list of books
is subjective and consequently may cause some disagreement, these individuals will
remain anonymous. Their contributions, however, are hereby recognized and most
appreciated.
The list again includes only those books published in the previous calendar year and
is restricted to a maximum of 20. The basic criterion for selection is that the book
must contribute to the edification of naval professionals in some meaningful way.
In many cases these books contribute by expanding our knowledge of a certain subject;
in others they serve to stimulate discussion and debate; and occasionally a book comes
along that contributes by inspiring or by adding to our basic understanding of who
and what we are.
As before, reference books that appear on a regular basis (such as Jane's Fighting
Ships) and longstanding professional books (such as the Watch Officer's Guide) are
not included. While there is no question that such books are notable, mentioning them
year after year is redundant and unnecessary. Those interested in this list are more
than likely already aware of them and need not be reminded.
Because it is considered a prestigious accolade, and coming up with a list of only
20 from the many fine books that were published in 2009 is difficult and subjective
enough without then trying further to rank them in some manner, the editors will again
list the books in alphabetical order, by title, to avoid any perceptions of hi-erarchical
ranking or favoritism. Selecting the better and the best from this list
will be left to the individual reader.
The Naval Institute is first and foremost an open forum, so the editors welcome the
inevitable disagreement that will likely come from these choices.

The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British & French Navies, 1650-1815 by Jonathan
R. Dull (University of Nebraska Press)
Contending that in the 17th and 18th centuries major world events were often
determined by ships of the line, Dull - the author of two award-winning histories
of the French Navy - provides a combined history of the two nations whose advanced
economies could best afford these expensive tools of war and diplomacy. In eight
wellpresented chapters he explains the ships' development, the tactics devised for
their use, the logistical aspects of their building and preservation, and the sequence
of AngloFrench conflicts in which these behemoths fought. Charles Brodine, an
Age-ofSail expert at the Naval History and Heritage Command, says that, "Dull writes
with flair and is capable of condensing large amounts of information .... into a lucid,
well-organized narrative."
(For a full review, see December 2009 Naval History.)
The Attack on the Liberty; The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S.
Spy Ship by James Scott (Simon & Schuster)
One of the strangest events in American naval history is once again the subject of
a probing book - the attack on the U.S. Navy ship USS Liberty (AGTR-5) by one of
America's staunchest allies. While Scott relies on new materials, he does not reach
new conclusions, though his account certainly favors one side of the debate that has
raged in the years since the 1 967 incident. His depiction of the attack itself is
riveting and his research impressive. Although he avoids drawing any conclusions as
to why the attack took place, Scott - the son of a Liberty crewmember who earned the
Silver Star - pulls no punches in his treatment of the aftermath, finding plenty of
fault to go around. While there will probably never be a definitive account of this
controversial and tragic incident, Scott's book is a worthwhile contribution to the
ever-growing literature surrounding this compelling mystery.
(For two independent reviews, see August 2009 Naval History and December 2009
Proceedings.)
The Civil War at Sea by Craig L. Symonds (Praeger Publishers)
With this latest achievement, Craig L. Symonds, U.S. Naval Academy Professor Em eritus
and author of the 2009 Lincoln Prize-winner, Lincoln and His Admirals, continues the
work that has made him one of the great Civil War historians of our time. Shedding
light not only on the history of the naval aspects of the Civil War but on the
importance of these operations, Symonds captures the strategy, tactics, technology,
and personalities of this largely ignored component of the war. He covers the navies
of both belligerents on the rivers and the high seas as well as the privateers who
played a significant role, and he makes clear the relevance of these operations, not
only to the conflict at hand but to naval warfare in general. In his preface, Symonds
explains that "in many respects this book is a supplement to [Lincoln and His
Admirals]," which focuses on the leadership aspects of the naval war. Together, these
two works will stand as the last word on the naval side of what Symonds describes
as "America's great national trauma." Well-known Civil War author Stephen W. Sears
accurately describes this book as "a masterful overview of a most meaningful topic."
(For a full review, see February 2010 Naval History.)
Command Attention: Promoting Your Organization the Marine Corps Way by Colonel Keith
Oliver USMC (Ret.)
Although written primarily for new Marine public affairs officers, this book has more
universal applications. The U.S. Marine Corps is widely recognized and admired as
the undisputed leader in presenting its case as the world's most effective military
organization, and the principles established in this book provide a useful guide to
others who want to promote their own organization persuasively, whether military or

civilian. Oliver, who chairs the public affairs leadership department at the Defense
Information School and earlier served as a public affairs officer during Operations
Iraqi Freedom and Desert Storm, uses numerous real-life examples to teach prac-titioners
how to aggressively and effectively promote their organizations, large or
small, using speeches, the news media, in-house newsletters, and Web sites. He also
includes practical tips on public speaking, handling interviews, and building solid
relationships.
"Execute against Japan": The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
by Joel Ira Holwitt (Texas A&M Press)
Lieutenant Holwitt, a naval officer with a Ph.D. from Ohio State University, has
written an extensive study of one of the most important, and yet, until now, largely
overlooked decisions of World War II. Through exhaustive research, he closely
examines the background of the decision - potentially as controversial as that of
using the atomic bomb at the war's end - to target Japan's civilian shipping and its
naval assets. He compares this decision with the U.S. entry into World War I, largely
based on the use of unrestricted submarine warfare by the Germans, and he explores
the legality of a decision by a U.S. admiral in the earliest days of World War II.
Proving that the many books about that war have not exhausted study of this cataclysmic
period, Holwitt's well-executed treatise is not only a meaningful addition to the
vast literature, but it actually fills a void.
(For a full review, see January 2010 Proceedings.)
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
(Random House)
While many Americans are familiar with the name Hyman Rickover as the father of the
U.S. nuclear submarine navy, few would recognize the name Bernard Schriever, whom
Sheehan describes in detail as the father of another component of the nuclear triad,
the American intercontinental ballistic missile. The driving force behind matching
and exceeding Soviet advances in the development of a weapon, which Schriever himself
described as one with "the highest probability of not being used," this littleknown
but extraordinarily significant Air Force officer battled many adversaries in his
quest, including the colorful and controversial General Curtis LeMay, the bet-ter-
known civilian scientist Wernher Von Braun, and, most of all, the dark forces
of bureaucracy. With Schriever as catalyst, Sheehan has produced a history of the
Cold War that will surely spur debate while shedding light on some of the lesser -known
aspects of the strategic chess game that was played during that frightening but
fascinating era.
(For a full review, see January 2010 Proceedings.)
From Hot War to Cold: The U.S. Navy and National Security Affairs, 1945-1955 by Jeffrey
Barlow (Stanford University Press)
This thorough study by one of the top scholars in the field of contemporary naval
history presents a revealing analysis of the U.S. Navy's role in the nation's defense
during the decade just after World War II, when the leaders of the world's most
powerful fleets had to retool from conducting all-out war to the delicate and
dangerous business of preventing it. Included in this well-researched volume is the
Army-Navy fight over unification that led to the National Security Act of 1947, the
early postwar fighting in China between nationalists and communists, the formation
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Korean War, the Eisenhower ad-ministration's
decision not to intervene in the communist siege of the French garrison
at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam, and the initiation of the Eisenhower "New Look" defense
policy.

The Gamble: General David Petra eus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq,
20062008 by Thomas E. Ricks (Penguin Press)
Ricks' highly successful and insightful Fiasco (2006) described in harrowing and
depressing detail what had gone wrong in the war in Iraq. In his latest book, he
recounts a very different tale. Describing a changed U.S. military, one in which an
American general is quoted as saying, "We have done some stupid shit (in Iraq)", Ricks
analyzes what those changes were and how they came to be. It is a story of a transition
from "head-knocking" to effective counterinsurgency, of troops living and operating
among the people of Iraq instead of venturing out in formidable and isolated convoys
of Humvees. It is a story that surely has many Vietnam veterans shaking their heads
in wonderment, grateful to see lessons at last learned, yet astonished over how long
it took for them to be realized. It is also a cautionary tale, whose ending has yet
to be determined. This is mandatory reading for anyone who wishes to understand the
war in Iraq and for those seeking a better understanding of war in general.
(For a full review, see July 2009 Proceedings.)
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
by Nicholas Thompson (Henry Holt and Company)
Rarely does a book come along that is a masterpiece of two genres. This exceptionally
well-written, impeccably researched, and engaging book is both an edifying history
of an important era and a revealing biography of two men who played vital role s in
that recent maelstrom, when war and peace combined in a unique entity we call the
Cold War. The title, though evocative and accurate in some sense of the highly charged
terms it uses, should not mislead. This is not about ivory-tower thinking versus
war-mongering; it about intellectualism at its best, about winning a "war" with
unusual weapons, about differing views synthesized into a strategy that led to the
right outcome and may well have saved the world. In his author's note, which might
be overlooked because of its placement behind the notes and bibliography in the book,
Thompson writes, "The question I have been asked most often while working on the
project is, 'Who was right?' and my answer ... is, 'Both of them.' Each was profoundly
right at some moments and profoundly wrong at others." This is the essence and the
significance of this book, proving in these polarizing times when synthesis is so
elusive that it is possible, indeed mandatory, to find a common ground, to draw from
the strengths rather than the weaknesses of opposing views, and to win wars rather
than battles.
Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 by D. M. Giangreco
(Naval Institute Press)
Winner of the Arthur Goodzeit Award for Best Military History Book of 2009, this
impressive new treatment of a controversial subject reexamines the planned invasion
of Japan that would have taken place had the Japanese not surrendered after atomic
bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Built on new research from Japanese
and American operational and tactical planning documents and postwar interrogations
and reports that senior Japanese commanders and their staffs produced for General
Douglas MacArthur's headquarters, Giangreco reveals that American planners an-ticipated
massive casualties that threatened manpower shortages and a prolongation
of the Pacific war - to perhaps beyond 1947 - with the probable result of war weariness
in the United States. With these grim predictions in hand, planners devised a
two-pronged invasion accompanied by no fewer than nine atomic bombs dropped behind
the landing beaches. This book is in some ways akin to the popular genre of
"alternative history" but in near-real terms, with the sobering realization of how
history's most costly war might have been even worse.
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley (Little,
Brown and Company)

In what the New York Times describes as an "incendiary new book," James Bradley leaves
the familiar territory of his previous World War II works (Flags of Our Fathers and
Flyboys) and ventures into an earlier time when America was debuting on the world
stage. Focusing on JapaneseAmerican diplomacy in 1905, Bradley describes in engaging
detail a cruise to Japan dispatched by President Theodore Roosevelt with a delegation
that was led by Secretary of War William Howard Taft and included Roosevelt's colorful
daughter Alice. Sure to arouse much controversy, Bradley's book weaves in elements
of social Darwinism, American misdeeds in the Philippines and Hawaii, and perhaps
most "incendiary" of all, a charge of U.S. responsibility for the origins of the
Pacific war that Bradley has so successfully chronicled in his earlier bestselling
books.
Loon: A Marine Story by Jack McLean (Presidio Press)
Named for a hot helicopter landing zone in Vietnam, this moving story by an enlisted
Marine is from an unusual source. "Kids like me didn't go to Vietnam," writes McLean
early in his memoir. He came from a privileged background, attended Phillips Acad emy
in Andover, Massachusetts, where one of his classmates was George W. Bush, and later
became the first Vietnam veteran to enter Harvard University. Yet he depicts his
experiences as a lance corporal with an authenticity that is engaging and wins the
approval of retired Marine Brigadier General Thomas Draude, who writes in Proceedings
that "there is no self-aggrandizement - just the narrative of a Marine scared and
confused but doing his job well and faithfully." Publisher's Weekly agrees with
Draude's assessment, describing the book as "a perceptive memoir of the Vietnam war,"
adding that, "McLean reconstructs his time in the Marines with a sharp eye for detail
and very readable - at times almost poetic - prose."
(For a full review, see May 2009 Proceedings.)
Network-Centric Warfare: How Navies Learned to Fight Smarter through Three World Wars
by Norman Friedman (Naval Institute Press)
As only this renowned defense analyst could do, Friedman tackles a complex but
important subject, giving us a much-needed explanation of a concept that some consider
a mere buzzword for already extant techniques and others proclaim a revolution in
military affairs. Arguing that navies invented this method of warfare and that its
origins date back more than a hundred years, Friedman explains how networked warfare
has succeeded and failed in various ways and in differing scenarios. This
well-documented treatise builds on Friedman's personal experience - he worked on the
Naval Tactical Data System, among other projects - as well as his vast knowledge,
enhanced through extensive research.
(For a full review, see September 2009 Proceedings.)
Rescue Warriors: The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes by David Helvarg
(Thomas Dunne Books)
This, at the very least, is an inspiring call to arms for young people who are searching
for a meaningful career. But in these troubled times for the Coast Guard, when its
important work is threatened by that most effective weapon of all - the budget ax
- it would be in the nation's best interests if members of Congress also would read
this book. Helvarg vividly points out that this often-overlooked service rescues more
than a dozen people each day, and he explains that in addition to saving lives, the
Coast Guard conducts port and waterfront security patrols vital to homeland security,
responds to water pollution and oil spills, seizes illegal drugs, directs port
traffic, licenses mariners, maintains and repairs aids to navigation, and - the list
goes on to an extent that one wonders why it is not the largest rather than the smallest
of the nation's armed services!
(For a full review, see November 2009 Proceedings.)

Small Boats, Weak States, Dirty Money: Piracy and Maritime Terrorism in the Modern
World by Martin N. Murphy (Columbia University Press)
Current headlines confirm that modern-day piracy is a real and growing problem.
Murphy, a highly qualified expert in his subject, by studying the various components
of piracy and identifying the commonalities between pirates and maritime terrorists,
makes a convincing case that it is these relationships that bring about the de-stabilization
of states and regions where piracy is most evident. This timely book
sheds light on the complexities of a problem that at first glance seems relatively
simple, and in so doing, provides valuable insight for those who would counter this
blight on international trade.
(For a full review, see November 2009 Proceedings.)
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael
Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Normans reveal the horrors and the conflicting emotions of the participants in
the battle of Bataan, the ignominious surrender, the infamous "Death March," and the
years in brutal captivity by focusing on Ben Steele (whose harrowing drawings are
included), a Montana cowboy who endured and somehow survived years of slave labor,
beatings, and near-starvation. Their account is well-written and unusual in that it
paints the Japanese perpetrators as human beings, wracked with guilt and struggling
to maintain their humanity while inflicting unspeakable horrors. Well -received by
reviewers in general, Proceedings reviewer Dr. Ferenc Szasz describes this book as
revolving "around three themes: brutality, suffering, and the power of human
endurance," and Richard PyIe of the Associated Press calls it "an extremely detailed
and chilling treatment that, given the passage of time and thinning of ranks, could
serve as popular history's final say on the subject."
(For a full review, see June 2009 Proceedings.)
Theodore Roosevelt's Naval Diplomacy: The U.S. Navy and the Birth of the American
Century by Henry J. Hendrix (Naval Institute Press)
"Hendrix is a first-rate researcher." No small accolade when coming from the likes
of Douglas Brinkley, and well-deserved. Hendrix has come up with new, relevant
material that enhances our understanding of President Theodore Roosevelt and his use
of naval power as assistant secretary of the Navy and later as President. As the
former, Roosevelt played a key role in the naval victory at Manila during the
Spanish-American War and, although essentially a peacetime President, he effectively
used the Navy and Marine Corps during the Venezuelan Crisis of 1902-03, Panama's
independence movement in 1903, the Morocco-Periaris Incident of 1904, and, most
famously, the "Great White Fleet" as a tangible representation of his metaphoric "big
stick" of diplomacy. Hendrix's contribution to the already sizable body of TR
literature is a must-read for those who seek a better understanding of the role of
the U.S. Navy on the world stage.
(For a full review, see December 2009 Proceedings.)
The U.S. Nuclear Arsenal: A History of Weapons and Delivery Systems since 1945 by
Norman Polmar and Robert S. Norris (Naval Institute Press)
Two recognized weapons experts have delivered a thorough history of the development
of U.S. nuclear weapons and a comprehensive catalog of the entire American nuclear
arsenal. Rich with illustrations and data, this impressive compilation includes the
well-known weapons of the Cold War as well as a number of lesser-known oddities, such
as an atomic grenade launcher, a drone helicopter equipped with a nuclear depth
charge, and 16-inch nuclear projectiles designed to be fired by the big guns of the
Iowaclass battleships. Also included are the debates - such as the famous Navy-Air
Force battle involving the B-36 bomber and the would-be aircraft carrier United

States, resulting in the so-called "revolt of the admirals" - that flourished in this
contentious era when weapons were designed more for deterrence than for actual, and
almost unimaginable, use.
Victory Point: Operations Red Wings and Whalers- The Marine Corps' Battle for Freedom
in Afghanistan by Ed Darack (Berkley Hardcover)
In the summer of 2005, two operations were conducted by U.S. military personnel in
the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan. In the first, 19 Navy SEALS were killed by
followers of a barbarous Taliban insurgent leader, Ahmad Shah. Victory Point tells
the complete and untold story of Operation Red Wings, and the follow-up mission,
Operation Whalers, that together comprised a complex and difficult campaign ending
in the demise of Ahmad Shah and his men and played a significant role in the ability
of Afghanis to hold free elections that fall. Darack is a writer and photographer
who followed the 2d Battalion of the 3d Marine Regiment since their pre- Afghan
mountain-warfare training, remaining with them through the events recounted in this
vivid and inspiring book. Proceedings reviewer Dave Danelo advises that despite some
flaws, "Victory Point is worth reading for the combat narrative alone."
(For a full review, see May 2009 Proceedings.)
Voyages: Documents in American Maritime History, Volume I, The Age of Sail, 14921865
and Volume II, The Age of Engines, 1865-Present by Joshua M. Smith, ed. (University
Press of Florida)
Published in cooperation with the National Maritime Historical Society, this
two-volume collection of documents is designed primarily as a textbook for the study
of maritime history. James C. Bradford of Texas A&M University, an eminent scholar
in this field, describes these volumes as "the most comprehensive collection of
maritime history documents ever published. Drawn from a wide variety of sources, they
survey virtually every aspect of American maritime history, including maritime
exploration, fishing and whaling, labor, diplomacy and warfare, trade and travel,
and ecology." As the title indicates, the approach is chronological, although brief,
but informative essays preceding each section of three or four documents provide some
thematic cohesion as well.
(For a full review, see June 2009 Naval History.)
By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler U.S. Navy (Retired)
Lieutenant Commander Cutler, senior acquisitions editor for the Naval Institute
Press, enlisted in the Navy at 17 and was a gunner's mate second class prior to being
commissioned in 1969. A Vietnam veteran, he is the author of several books, including
A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy and Brown Water, Black Berets, published by the
Press.
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Harriet E. Morrai Perkins wrote on behalf of her father, F. Rolf Morral, who she says
enjoys reading die Class Notes: "He graduated with a degree in electrochemical
engineering in 1932. Then, as now, it was difficult to find jobs in the U.S., so he
took a research position in Sweden. This was fortunate because he met my mother on
the boat there (they were married for 72 years, until she passed away in 2006). After
working in Sweden and Spain, he returned to die U.S. to work and study at Purdue
University, where he was awarded a PhD in materials science and engineering in 194.0.
He had a long and varied career in metallurgy, teaching at Penn State and Syracuse
University and working in industry at American Cyanamid and Kaiser Aluminum. His final
fulltime position was at Battelle Memoriallnstitute inColumbus, OH, where he founded
the Cobalt Information Center and directed it from 1956 to 1972. Thereafter, he spent
his time consulting until 1987, when he had a brain tumor removed and lost sight and
hearing on his left side. He recently celebrated his 102nd birthday and was featured
on The Today Show. Despite his disabilities, he is in relatively good health for a
person of his age.
He spends most of his time listening to music and books on tape and enjoying family
in the Columbus area (three children, one granddaughter, one great-grandson). He
fives with his daughter Sandra at 1867 Bedford Rd., Columbus, OH 432i2.What he loves
most is travel.This year alone hehas traveled toSan Diego; Portland, OR; Chester,
VT; and New Harbor, ME; and soon he will travel to Nantucket. For his iooth birthday,
he visited Sweden and then had a big birthday party in Blanes, Spain, surrounded by
all five ofhis children and their spouses, as well as most ofhis 19 grandchildren
and 14 great-grandchildren. When he was 97, he backpacked through Europe with his
granddaughter. Two ofhis five children followed in his footsteps with careers in
science. His son, John E. Morral, was awarded a PhD from MIT in 1968 and has been
a professor ever since. His daughter Sandra Margarita Morral Pinkham received an MD
in the '70s and still practices medicine. John and Sandra have also shared his interest
in judging high-school science fairs. If there are other MIT alumni over 100 years
old, my father would love to know."
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Harris A. Thompson is interested in finding out how many classmates are "still alive
and kicking" and what they are doing. He reports that he is one of 103 members of
the Class of 1933 who graduated in 1934 with BS and MS degrees in the Course VI-A
(electrical engineering) cooperative program. Although they graduated in the midst
of the Depression, MIT was proud mat they all found jobs by September. He continues,
"It was my good luck to move to Boulder, CO, right after the war, meet my wife, Lee,
and then have a wonderful married fife for the past "5years. Foreightyears Iwas
aprofessor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado.teaching electric
circuits. Then for 33 years my wife and I operated a very small business, with a dozen
employees, designing, manufacturing, and selling portable, power-driven ventilators
for paralyzed people who could not breathe on their own. We sold the business and
retired when I was 72. 1 am 97 now with some health problems, but still perking along
with the help of my remarkable wife."
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1935 75th REUNION
As these notes are prepared at the end of September, the sun is bright, the air is
dry, the days are cool, and the chill of fall is felt. By the time you read these
notes, I hope you will have had enjoyable holidays.
As a Isham passed away on Dec. 18, 2002. Thomas Wray Blair, 95, of Burlington, NJ,
died on June 25,2009. He received his BS in physics and his ROTC commission from MIT.
He worked at Automatic Electric in Chicago before volunteering for active military
duty in 194.0. Early in WWII, he served in the Caribbean theater, where he met and
married his wife, Lucile Harding. Thomas then served in the Pacific theater,
commanding a joint assault signal company for the battle of Okinawa. He received an
army commendation ribbon for his work as signal officer, 77th infantry division, on
the island of Hokkaido during the occupation of Japan. After the war, Thomas worked
for Federal Telephone and Radio in Clifton, NJ, until he was called back to active
duty in 195 1 for one year in Korea, first as assistant general manager for
communications of the third transportation military railway service and then as
commanding officer of the 304th signal-operations battalion. In 1952 he joined what
was then the Signal Corps Engineering Labs at Fort Monmouth, NJ, where he worked until
his retirement in 1970. He retired from me U.S. Army Reserves as a colonel in 1973.
He was a former councilman of Eatontown, NJ, an avid fisherman and hunter, and a
devoted dog owner. Thomas was very active in Masonic affairs and served as president
of the board of trustees of the Masonic Charity Foundation of New Jersey.
Harold Hutchinson Everett, 95, of Jacksonville, FL, died on June 24, 2009. Haroldgrew
up in Wellesley, MA, and transferred to MITfrom Bowdoin College in 1933. After earning
his bachelor's in Course XV, he became an industrial engineer and then a sales engineer
for Process Control Instruments, and then a manufacturer's rep for Precision
Electronic Components. He then worked as an industrial-marketing consultant until
he retired in 1980, after 45 years in the manufacturing and marketing of highly
technical electronic controls. In 1940 he married Jean Deering McCollom, with whom
he lived in Manhasset, NY. After 39 years of marriage, Harold was widowed; in 2001,
he married Laudra Wakeman Phares, who survives him. He is also survived by his
children- Jackie (Everett) Bonafide and her husband, Phil; Mac Everett and his wife,
Claudia Lefko; and Peter Everett and his wife, Lola-as well as by five grandchildren.
Throughout his life, Hal was active in civic and community affairs. He loved genealogy
and compiled a meticulous genealogybacktothe 17th century. He was a member of the

Society of Mayflower Descendants, Society of Colonial Wars, and Sons of the American
Revolution. His obituary notes that "his ready wit, engaging smile, and penchant for
marvelous storytelling will be sorely missed."
John Steward SlossondiedonJuly 11, 2009. He was preceded in death by his wife of 49
years, Emily Virginia Slosson, and his daughter Rebecca Slosson Hardy. Jack later
married Doris Heerwagen Slosson, who died in 2003. John was born June 6, 1912, in
New York City, and grew up in Vermont. After earning his bachelor's degree in civil
engineering, he began a long career with J. H. Williams/United Greenfield in Buffalo,
NY, and Chicago, progressing from trainee on the shop floor to group vice president.
He retired in 1974 after 41 years, settlingin Hilton Head, SC, and Vermont. Jack
enjoyed golfing sailing, andhorsebackriding. Inlateryears, he and Doris traveled the
world. In 2003. Jack moved to Davidson, NC, where his son and daughter-in-law, Peter
and Becky Slosson, lived, and where he enjoyed frequent visits from his daughter
Alexandra Jordan of Dunedin, FL. Jack had six grandchildren and eight
great-grandchildren.
Please join me in sending condolences to the families of all our departed classmates.
011175th reunion is scheduled for 2010. Any news you care to share would be ap-preciated.
-Ed Woll, secretary, 10 Longwood Dr., Apt. 257, Westwood, MA 02090; e-mail: ed-woll2@
aol.c0m.
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In the past, we have published info on the deceased and the lost but not the
presumed-to-be-active, meaning alive. They include Roger C. Albiston, East Orleans,
MA; Frederick P. Baggerman, Kalamazoo, MI; John A. Benson, Nahant, MA; Norman A.
Birch, Nashua, NH;Walter T. Blake.Tryon, NC; Albert I. Blank, Sai asola, 1 L; Harold
G. Bowen Jr., Mountain View, CA; Norman J. Carlson, Naugatuck, CT; Dominic J. Cestoni,
Huntington Beach, CA; Harry Corman, Waterbury, VT; Charles W. Dodge; David Fulton,
Morristown, NJ; Charles R. Gidley Jr., Palm City, FL; Albert A. Haskell Jr., North
Augusta, SC; Josiah S. Heal.Groton, CT; Margaret M. Kingman, Denver, CO; Blake M.
Loring, Seal Beach, CA; John P. Mather, East Norwalk, CT; William J. McCune Jr.,
Lincoln, MA; Robert W. Monsarrat, Bexley, OH; Gilbert C. Mott, Bridgeport, CT; John
T. Murphy, Kansas City, KS; Thomas A. O'Brien, Wellesley, MA; Carl A. Pearson, East
Greenwich, RI; William B. Penn, Erie, PA; Harold E. Prouty; Walter M. Ready, Sun City
Center, FL; David A. Richardson, Providence, RI; Norman B. Robbins, Forth Worth, TX;
Waldo H. Rostan, Springfield, VT; George T. Rundlet, Berkeley Heights, NJ; Irving
Sager, New York, NY; Alfred C. Schroeder, Newtown, PA; George A. Siegelman,
Plainfield, NJ; William P. Somers, Nashville, TN; Harry S. Stern Jr., Chatham, NJ;
Bardolf A. Storaasli, Sequim, WA; Frances C. Tyler, La Jolla, CA; Horace B. Van Dorn
III, Kensington, CT; Albert E. Whitcomb, Lexington, MA; Joseph F. Wiggin, San Rafael,
CA; Gordon B. Wilkes Jr., Exeter, NH; Walter S. Wojtczak, Sarasota, FL; DuaneO. Wood,
Los Angeles; G. Richard Young, Westwood, MA; and Stanley D. Zemansky, Paradise, CA
You may wish to contact one or more people on this list. I planto. Walt Wojtczak and
I only rarely communicate with any other classmates, although Walt has been in contact
with Duane "Woody" Wood.Forfulladdresses.call Donna Savelli at the Alumni Asso-ciation,
617-253-7558.
-Dick Young, class president, 10 Longwood Dr., #225, Westwood, MA
02090:161:781-326-8766
1938

I am reporting the deaths of Richard L Ordinorne and his wife, Katherine. We would
appreciate any information about him.
According toan extensive obituary in the Seattle Times, August Thomas Rossano, 93,
died peacefully on Aug. 10, 2009. Russ was one ofthe early leaders of environmental
engineering. After completing graduate research at the University of Illinois and
an MS at Harvard University, he entered the U.S. Public Health Service in 194,1. During
World War II, he led efforts to protect worker health and safety in the many plants
supporting the war effort. After the war, he continued advising state agencies on
industrial hygiene, until he was drawn into the new field of radiological safety.
In 1933, Russ's work took him to California, where he met the love of his life, Margaret
Chrisney, in the summer of 1944; they were married that year. In 1948 Russ oversaw
the radiological testing duringtheatomic-bombtestsatEniwetok Atoll inthe Pacific.
He then initiated a national program for courses in radiological health and helped
develop the many state programs for civil defense that provided the foundation for
our modern state disaster-management services. Beginning in 1950, Russ's service
tookyet a new direction when he joined the Harvard University School of Public Health
as a student, senior engineer (air-pollution laboratory), teaching fellow (in-dustrial
hygiene), and lecturer (radiation hazards and management). Russ received
his doctorate from Harvard in 1954. In i960 the Public Health Service loaned him to
Caltech to help develop its program in air-pollution-control engineering. In 1962
he accepted a position as professor of air-resources engineering at the University
ofWashington, where he established a new graduate program in air-pollution en-gineering.
He mentored many graduate students before retiringin 1981. For Russ,
teachingwas a gift and a journey. In retirement, he was honored as professor emeritus
of environmental engineering; he also taughtsdence classes andinspired elementary
students at the Montessori school that Margo had founded in BeIlevue, WA. He was a
loving husband and father, a beloved friend, and an inspiration of faith, compassion,
and learning for the many who knew him. He will be missed by Margo and thenfive
daughters.
Kindly forward information about your activities, family, address, etc.
-Norman C Bedford, secretary, 124 Lincoln St.. Hingham, MA 02043; tel: 781-749-2818;
e-mail: kciampa@ beaconcapital.com.
1939
William Pulver's daughter sent a note to say that her father (Course XV) is in good
health, still plays golf, is active in Rotary, and drives and travels to see friends.
They Uve in Lakeville, CT, on beautiful Lake Wononscopomuc. William's wife, a 1939
graduate ofWellesley College, died four years ago. Duringthe war years William worked
with war-related companies and then took over his dad's car dealership, which was
sold 20 years ago.
William H. Phillips (Course XVI, SB, SM '39) died June 27, 2009, at age 91. A speciahst
in guidance and control of aircraft and spacecraft, he was involved in solvingsome
ofthe Apollo project's major problems, including how to land a vehicle on the moon.
Phillipswasresponsible for the design and construction ofthe Lunar Landing Research
Facility.now designated a nationalhistoric landmark, which towers2oofeetoverthe
Virginia peninsula. Robert B. Sackheim (SM'39, Course X) diedthree days after his
91st birthday at his home in Rye, NY Duringthe early years of WWII, he held civilian
jobs in the Washington, DC, area. In 1944 he was recruited to join the Manhattan
Project at Los Alamos, NM, where his job was to help devise ways to clean up radiation.
After the war he joined his fkther'sagencyandhada35-year career in mail-order
advertising. He was a dedicated golfer for 50 years. Robert is survived by his wife
of 66 years, two children, and two grandchildren. Roderick B. Grant (Course XV) died
Aug. 4, 2009, at the age of 92. He is survived by two children and three
great-grandchildren After graduation, he worked for Dewey and Almy Chemical for eight

years in Cambridge, MA, spent three years as manager ofthe Montrealplant, and then
moved back to Wellesley, MA Afterfouryearswithlocalventuresand a brokerage house,
he became a registered investment advisor. At the time of our 50th reunion, he was
the manager of nine trusts and executor of two estates.
Let your classmates know how you are spending your retirement time; they would be
interested to read about your activities.
-Frederick F. Schaller, secretary, 10 Schaller St., Wellesley, MA 02482; e-mail:
aksffs@aol.com
1940 70th REUNION
Class treasurer Bill Stern has been a runner for 46 years. In August he did very well
in the 2009 Summer National Senior Games. In the men's 90-94 age group, he won gold
in the 1,500-meter run, silver in the 200-meter dash, and bronze in the 100meter dash.
Bill belongs to the Cambridge Sports Union running club and the 65 Plus Runners Club.
and he has completed a Boston Marathon. Followingthc Senior Games, he had a family
reunion at Point Reyes Seashore. Ralph Thompson (Course XV, business and engineering
administration) wrote, "After retirement, my wife, Virginia, and I traveled ex-tensively
andcruisedintheAdantic and Pacificwaters. We flew from New York to London
on the Concorde at Mach 2. My wife died in 2007 after 65 years of a wonderful marriage.
I have sold my house and moved to Pennswood, a retirement village in Newtown, PA I
have a son and two daughters, all married, and sevengrandchildrenand two
great-grandchildren. I am in good health and still able to drive safely."
David R. "Beano" Goodman (Course IX-A, general science) sent me his "obituary," still
a little premature. A few highlights: Wresdingwas an important part of his activities
both at MIT and thereafter. During WWII he served with the eighth fighter command
and later retired from army reserve as lieutenant colonel. He started Madison
Chemical, which continued to grow until he sold it in 1989. He started a Boys Club
of America branch that now has over 1,000 members. He has one son and one daughter.
In spite of serious vision problems, Beano goes to Louisville three times weekly to
play bridge. Dr. Milton Green (Course V, chemistry) recendy moved into NewBridge on
the Charles, the senior facility where I have lived since July. We have not yet gotten
together, but on the phone, he told me a little of his career. As a marine during
WWII, he servedinthe South Pacific. Thereafter he obtained his dottorate in chemistry
at Columbia, and then worked at Raytheon for over 3 o years. I hope to have more
information before long.
Elsie M. Schnorr informed me of the death of her husband, William J. Schnorr, onAug.
15, 2009, in El Cajon, CA His SB was in Course IX-B, general engineering. During WWII,
he served in the navy's Bureau of Ordnance as lieutenant commander. Following the
war, he worked in reinforced plastics at Aerojet and Hughes Aircraft. He was involved
in the development of reentry protection for spacecraft. He also ran a small family
business in steel-rule die cutting until retirement. Raymond E. Keyes (Course XIII,
naval architecture and marine engineering) passed away in Richland, WA, on Aug. n,
2009. He served in design offices and shipyards in a variety of locations, and later
in the nuclear industry in Livermore, CA. Both in college and later he was involved
in gymnastics competition and teaching. He was active in Boy Scouts and Toastmasters
and as a Sunday school teacher. An amateur writer, he was secretary for the MidColumbia
Writers Association.
Saul Namyet of Orchard Cove in Canton, MA, died on April 8, 2009. His SB was in Course
XVII, building engineering and construction. Upon graduation, he took a crash course
on aeronautics and went to Curtis Wright in Buffalo, NY. Postwar, he did ad-vancedresearch
at MITin computer development, introducing computer technology in
civil-engineering projects. He coauthored a book on the effects of stress and nuclear
bombs on structures, which brought him an honor from the Massachusetts Society of

Civil Engineers. Saul was president of both the Boston Society of Civil Engineers
anddie Massachusetts Society of Civil Engineers. He taught at MIT and later was hired
by Northeastern University to expand their civil-engineering department, becoming
its chairman and then dean ofthe school of engineering. In Sharon, MA, his hometown,
he was very active in the community. He served on the PTA and Council of Aging and
was a warrant commissioner member for town meetings and the town Democratic Party.
He also was a boardmember and chairman ofthe school building committee ofTemple
Israel, as well as chair ofthe burgeoning senior program. At Orchard Cove, he was
a member ofthe building and grounds committee and the scholarship committee.
Please keep up those notes, telephone calls, snail- mail messages, and e-mails. Don't
wait to have your career reported in an obituary. Tell me about your life: your
activities since retirement, your travels or family visits, your children or
grandchildren, and especially information relating to classmates.
-Richard E. Gladstone, class secretary,32i6 Great Meadow Rd., Dedham, MA 02026; tel:
781-234-2368; e-mail sybandick@alum.mit.edu
1941
I regret that I had no input for the last TR column. Again,I stronglyurge you to send
me notes about your activities and those of your fellow classmates. While the
activities may seem unimportant to you, they can be very interesting to long-lost
friends.
Dr. Lowell Lee FeI linger, 93,OfSt1 Louis, died on July 24., 2009. He is survived
by his wife of3i years, Erika (née Fischer); a son and daughter; two grandchildren;
and two greatgrandchildren. Born in Norris City, IL, Lowell received a BS in chemical
engineering from the University of Illinois in 1937, and in 1941 he earned a PhD in
chemical engineering from MIT. He was an active member of his professional society
(AIChE). Lowell worked for four decades with Monsanto, retiring in 1981. He was an
avid cycler, hiker, and mountain climber, climbing 14,000-foot Longs Peak in Colorado
many times. Ahfelong clarinetist, he played in the University of Illinois marching
band, the St. Louis Veterans of Foreign Wars band, and a pickup group of weekend
Monsanto players. After retiring, he played in the Compton Heights Band, a St. Louis
concert band, and the After Hours Community Band of St. Charles.
Ivor Collins, our class agent, sends word that he and his immediate family are well.
In August they had a great family reunion in upstate New York, where he discovered
that he is now the patriarch (as I suspect many of us are). He reminds us that our
70th class reunion is in 2011.
Here are more missing classmates: Willem Klaassen, Eugene F. Lawrence, Joseph E. M.
F. Lecavalier, Herbert Malchman, George E. Meyer, Lawrence J. Müller, Carl F. Olson,
William F. Osborn Jr., James W. Papouleas, Bruce L. Paton.Nat H. Pease Jr., William
L PyIe, Eugene G. Richter, Eduardo Rizo Patron Remy, and Mrs. William V. Robertson.
If you have any information about them (or if you're one of them), please let me know.
Ill pass the word to our Alumni Association.
-John W. Kraus, secretary, 2001 Commodore Rd., Newport Beach, CA 92660; tel:
94.9-548-7674.; e-mail: skprjohn@alum.mit.edu
1942
I had an unexpected and welcome telephone call from Phi I O'Neil. Phil and I were
in the same section our freshman year and became good friends. We were not the most
serious students, and we recalled some incidents from diatyear including Professor
Greene's reprimands in English composition class and working together in chem lab.
After graduating from MIT, Phil joined the navy and went to torpedo andsubmarine
school He volunteered for submarine duty and was accepted after passing rigorous

physical and psychological tests. He served 36 months ofsea duty in both the Pacific
and the Adantic in WWII.
Following navy service, Phil joined Union Carbide and held numerous positions,
including plant manager for a couple of plants. Union Carbide was caught in the
downturn of the chemical industry and was eventually bought by Dow Chemical. Phil
spent 26 years with Union Carbide, and then retired witli his wife, Jane, in
Petersburg, VA, where he was last posted. He commented on some wonderful years
enjoying golf and tennis, but sadly some two years ago Jane was diagnosed with
Alzheimer's and is now being cared forinaspecialfacüity.Phil visits her daily, sohis
activities are very limited. They have two daughters in California and one in Boston,
who take turns visiting him each month, and six grandchildrenThe rest of these notes
unfortunately are filled with reports of deaths of our classmates.
Joseph Boltinghouse died in July 2009. Joe was an aerospace engineer with a BA in
math from Ohio Wesleyan University, a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT, and an
M S in electrical engineering from CaI State Fullerton. His 4.6-year engineering
career began at Sperry Gyroscope and continued at North American Aviation and then
Rockwell International, Automatic Marine Systems. He was named in 12 patents for
gyroscopic design. He earned one of the top 10 Rockwell International Engineer of
the Year awards for his invention ofthesolidberylliumrotorforthe electrostatically
supported gyro used in the U.S. Navy Trident and Poseidon ESG monitors. He received
the Thomas L. Thurlow award recognizing his outstanding contributions to die science
of navigation. Joe is survived by his wife of 54. years, Helen; son Jim; and daughter
Susan.
Robert Teare, a mechanical-engineering graduate, died in September 2009. Robert
served in the Pacific tJieater in WWII as an aviation navigator in the marine corps.
Following military service, he joined Battelle Memorial Institute and later Jeffrey
Manufacturing, which became Dresser Industries. Predeceased by his wife ofj8years,
Gertrude.heis survived by his children, Bonnie, Patricia, Sandy, and Edward.
Wallace E. Frank died in August 2009. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering from
MIT and an MS in mechanical engineering from New York University. Following
graduation, he worked for Gilbert and Cox as a design engineer for propulsion systems
for destroyers. In 1945 he was commissioned in the Public Health Service and assigned
to the research laboratory in Savannah, GA, on malaria control. On discharge, he
joined the Franklin Institute Laboratories for Research and Development as a research
engineer in the bioengineering group developing aids for the blind and visually
impaired. He also worked on some very early fiber-optic applications for flexible
endoscopes. Wallace then became president of Splitz Laboratories, whose primary
products were planetarium projectors and screens. He led in the design of innovative
perforated-metal spherical screens. He abo designed student response systems to
measure the effectiveness of a lecturer's presentation. In 1986 Wallace established
Response Systems, concentrating on further development of response systems for group
instruction.
Wallace moved back to Kintnersville, PA in 1986, and was active with the Pallisades
school distria and the Pallisadcs Education and Taxpayer Association, serving several
terms as president. He was active in die Durham Township government, serving as chair
of the zoning hearing board. In2oo7he was named Durham Township Citizen of the Year.
Theodore Tusler, a mechanicalengineering graduate, died in August 2009. He is
survived by sons Anthony andMartin and daughter Paula, whose son Steven received a
BS from MITin 1977 and an MS in 1984.
On behalf of our class, sincere condolences to the families of our deceased
classmates.

-Jim Littwitz, secretary, 38 Bristol View Dr., Fairport, NY 14450; tel: 585385-3864;
fax: 585-385-4949; e-mail: pmlitt@eaithlink.net
1943
Harold I. Selleck (Course XIII-C) died July 13, 2009, at age 89. According to his
son Mark, he spent his last day relaxing in the sun in his lounge chair on the deck
of his home in Belfast, M E. RLR, indeed.
Other minimal obits: John Peterson (Course IX-A) of St. Louis died Jan. 3, 2009. John
was executive vice president of Drew Foods. Alvin H. Shairman (Course II) of
Worcester, MA, died March n, 2008.
Emily and Charles Swet (Course XIII) have moved to Friends House, a Quaker community
in Sandy Spring, MD. In2oo8 Charles contracted Lyme disease. He is now pretty healthy
but no longer drives. He has been busy putting the finishing touches on a bookt itlcd
The LongTwiUght of Oceangoing Paddle S teamers, 1861-1950. He has four
Last summer, Gloria and Leo Duval made a 17-mile scenic coastal drive from their home
in torrid Hemet, CA, to spend a week in more temperate Monterey/PacificGrove.
Escortedbya son and daughter, they visited another daughter-a singer/performer-and
her husband. Leo noticed a number of tee locations amongthe large rocks alongthe
shore, but did not attempt to improve his handicap.
Replying to wha the terms my compelling appeal, Ned Swanberg reports that he and Gloria
are alive and well and celebrated their 66di anniversary last May. They have three
children, eight grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. They still Uve in their
old colonial house (circa 1736) in New Canaan, CT. Ned expresses mild incredulity
(retroactive) about currently sleeping with a great-grandmother. He retired in 1998
from the financial firm Scudder, Stevens, and Clark. That company is now owned by
Deutsche Bank, which continues to provide Ned with an office on Wall Street, a few
doors up from where he started with Scudder so many years ago. He says it keeps him
young and in the financial loop.
-Bob Rorschach, secretary, 3800 W 71st St., #3214, Tulsa, OK 74132; e-mail:
rorsch@peoplepc.com
1944
We have a new slate of class officers for the next five years, until June 30, 2014.
They are Norman Beecher, president; Harold J. Schnitzer, Paul K. Tchang, and William
A. Wynot,vice presidents; Frank K. Chin, secretary; Edward G. Roosand Louis R.
Demarkles, reunion gift cochairs; and Joseph Shrier and Thomas W. Carmody, class
agents.
It is sad to ring in the new year with this item. Norman Irving Sebell (Course II)
died Sept. 8,2009. He was a very active member of our class. As an undergraduate,
he was a member of the rowing team. He did not enjoy that for long. WWII saw him make
a successful transition from the Ordnance Corps ROTC through Officer Candidate School
to service in the Philippines. After graduation, he met and married Ruth in Syracuse,
NY, and worked for Onandaga Pottery/ Syracuse China as chief engineer on producing
substrates for printed circuits. However, the army was not quite through with him.
He was recalled in 1 95 1 for additional service in the Korean War. Afterward, he
devoted more than 10 years to a shoe business. In 1973 he started Holiday Kennels
at Brockton. He built it into one of the largest pet-care centers in New England.
Norm had other activities, such as the Rotary Club, die Boy Scouts of America, and
the Hebrew Center in Martha's Vineyard, where he built several houses, one of which
was his second home. He did not neglect his family, for they sailed more than 50,000
knots in his boat to the Caribbean, Bermuda, and Canada. Above all. Norm was proud
to be a member of the MIT Class of '44 and was tireless on our behalf. Hc had been

reunion class chairman since 1959 and class treasurer since 1994. Norm and Ruth always
worked very diligendy and successfully on all our events. He is survived by Ruth,
his wife of 63 years; son Mark; daughters Donna, Lisa, and Holly; six grandchildren;
and four great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by another son, Bruce.
-Frank Chin, secretary, 221 St. Paul St., Brooklinc, MA 02446-7151.
1945 65TH REUNION
Happy holidays to all-or am I a sleigh ride too late? I spent last weekend at AOC
in Cambridge and, much to my surprise, I returned home "energized" as the publicity
advertised. At our age, it is difficult to get up in the morning, let alone be
enthusiastic over two days of meetings. The motivators were not necessarily the
programs per se, but all the individuals involved-particularly the students, as well
as those students nmningabout the campus every which way. How does this enthusiasm
relate to you and me? It means that we oldsters still have an opportunitysome might
even call it an obligationto give the Institute a gift as a thank-you forthe education
MIT provided us many years ago. A gift that in die real world can most likely be used
as you so direct: financial student aid, lab supplies or equipment for a favorite
project of yours, scholarship, etc. For those of us who were V- i2ers, our education
was paid by Uncle Sam. What have you given in return? Enough of a lecture for the
moment!
Norman C. Kennedy of Las Vegas died on Aug. 8, 2009. Interestingly, Norm must have
written his obit hi mself, as it was in the first person singular-somewhat unusual,
but so was Norm, as I recall. Norm was a weatherman through and through-a navy V-i2er
with a degree in general science witha majorinmeteorology, who served in the navy
in San Francisco, Guam, and Japan, followed that with 16 years as a meteorologist
for Northwest Airlines, and spent thebalance of his career with the National Weather
Service in Las Vegas. He is survived by his wife, Jan, whom he married in 1947, as
well as by a brother, four sons, eight grandchildren, and two greatgrandchildren.
As I suggested in our last notes, I had planned to start providing tidbits fromSpence
Standish's autobiography, but it is getting late and these notes are due tomorrow
morning. I do, however, wanttothankSpence, Paddy Wade, and all the others who are
or will be working on our 65th reunion and gift. We need news!
-Clinton H. Springer, secretary, P.O. Box 288, New Castle, NH 03854o288;tel:
603-436-8458; e-mail: clint_ springer@alum.mit.edu
1946
Marge and Ted Henning recently visited Ned Tebbetts and Marilyn Spoerl to plan for
our 65th reunion in 2011. The Hennings are considering an upscale seashore resort
hotel in either New Hampshire or Maine.
We continue to have excellent memories of our 62% reunion in September 2008 in
Annapolis, MD. Attendees included John Gunnarson of Concord, MA; Herb Hansell of
Washington, DC; Win Hayward of San Francisco; George LeyofWexford, PA; Ted Heuchling
ofWinchester, MA; and Ted Henning of Manhasset, NY.
We regret to report two recent deaths. David Denzer (Course II) of Schenectady, NY,
died on March 9, 2009. Dave was employed by GE as an engineer at the Knolls Atomic
Power Laboratory. He retired in 1987 to pursue interest in active solar heating for
residences. Dave is survived by two children; his wife of 44 years, Anna, died in
1995.
Walter (Jim) Gloekler Jr. died at age 84 on July 18, 2009. He was the beloved husband
of Betty Gloekler and the late Kay Ridge Gloekler. Jim grew up in Pittsburgh and
graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and MIT. He served in the navy during
WWII in the South Pacific. Hc spent his entire working career at Start Electric, where

he was president from 1965 until his retirement in 1992. Hc was a board member of
the National Electrical Contractors Association and a longtime member of the Duquesne
Club. He is survived by Betty, three children, and three stepchildren.
-Edwin H. Tebbets , secretary, 9 Jerusalem Road Dr., Cohassct, M A 02025;
tel:78i-383-i662;e-maihc-etebbetts@ comcast.net.
1947
Last September I received an e-mail from Joanna Dyer-Boyce, daughter of Albert M.
Naulty.becauseshesawthat we were looking for him. He passed away on May 25 , 1976,
at the age of 5 1, from colon cancer. Albert earned a bachelor's degree in naval
architecture and marine engineering, now called ocean engineering. He was in the naval
reserve after graduating from MIT and was stationed in Michigan for four years. The
family moved to Springfield, PA, and Albert worked at Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton in
Eddystone, near Philadelphia, until they closed. Hc then worked at Stone and Webster
until his death. He had a pilot's license and enjoyed fishing. He taught nuclear
physics in the Drexel University night school for a few years. Also in September,
Nancy Raynsford (Wellesley 48) wrote that her husband, Vance G. "Bud" Raynsford, of
Fort Walton Beach, FL, passed away on July 11, 2009. He, too, had abachelor's degree
in ocean engineering. He served during WWII as a captain in the army transportation
corps in the Pacific. After graduation, Bud worked for Moore McCormack Steamship Lines
in New YorkCity. In February 1951 he joined Keflex, which later became Vitro. He moved
to Fort Walton Beach with Vitro as personnel manager and subsequently became vice
president/ controller of Vitro Services until bis retirement in 1987. Bud was active
in many civic affairs-too many to mention here. He suffered from Alzheimer's for
several years, but stayed at home under Nancy's care, with help of a caregiver, until
the end.
Lester C. Hehn of Englewood, FL, passedawayonAprili3,2oo9. He had an SB in management
and lived for many years in Port Washington, NY, where he was a consulting engineer
with his own firm.
Clifford H. Matson of Valley Forge, PA, formerly of Fort Wayne, IN, passed away on
Aug. 28, 2009. He had an SB in mechanical engineering. He served in the U.S. Army
in Europe in WWII, and, while on occupation duty after the war ended, coauthored abook,
We Were the Line , the history o f his Company G in the 84th division. He retired
from the space division of General Electric in 1992.
William K. Adams of Bethlehem, PA died on Sept. 7, 2009. He attended Lehigh University
and then came to MIT, graduating with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering.
Bill served in the navy as a lieutenant in WWIIand was treasurer oftheAlumni
Association until a few years ago. Bill was the credit manager at Bethlehem Steel
for 40 years before retiring in 1987. He enjoyed his passion of playing tennis for
many years after retirement. Rear Admiral Wayne E. Meyer, USN (retired), of Falls
Church, VA, passed away on Sept. 1, 2009. Interment was at Arlington National Cemetery
with full military honors. He had an SB in electrical engineering and a very
distinguished career in the navy, with a major responsibility for the building of
the Aegis fleet of ships with air-defense missiles. He was a fellow of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and received many other honors.
Joost Sluis of Auburn, CA died on Aug. i, 2009, after a long struggle with Alzheimer's
disease. He was born in Enkhuizen in northern Holland. The family moved to Mt. Vernon,
WA, in 1935. During WWI I, Joost served in me U.S. Navy as a radio technician on the
USS Sanborn. He started college at Calvin College in Michigan and continued at MIT,
where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's in biophysics. He then
went to Harvard and received his MD in 1951, continuing with an orthopedic surgical
residency at the University of California and Fort Miley Veterans Hospital in San

Francisco. Dr. Sluis practiced medicine and engaged in volunteer work, public
speaking, traveling, and writing.
I received an e-mail from John W. Connors, who earned both bachelor's and master's
degrees in mechanical engineering. He started at MIT in the Class of 1945 but lasted
only ayear and a half before enlisting in the army air corps. As a colorblind dyslexic,
he could not be a pilot, but he managed to become a weather officer. "Being wrong
seemed to be the standard with weather forecasting," he wrote. He claims that the
experience of" managing expectations"-preparing the customer for bad news-helped
himlater in his engineering career. He went to work in 1948 at Pratt and Whitney in
East Hartford, CT,inthe newly formed technical and research group for gas turbines.
He retired in 1983 as vice president of advanced engines. Since then he has been active
in the Connecticut Professional Engineers Society, volunteering at the New England
Air Museum, and writing The Engines of Pratt d? Whitney, which will be published in
December by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. If you still have
your 50th-reunion book, John has some other interesting comments there.
-Hugh Flomenhoft, secretary, 13102 Touchstone PL, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418-6952;
e-mail: hiflomen@ alum.mit.edu.
1948
Please send news for this column to Milt Slade,secretary,86Holden Wood Rd., Concord,
MA 01742-4297; tel: 978-369-9407; fax: 978-287-0227; e-mail: m.slade@alum.mit.edu
1949
I write these notes in Maine in October, just back from a threeweek river tour from
Antwerp, Brussels, to Basel, Switzerland, traversing the Netherlands, Germany, and
France via the Rhine and Mosel rivers, with a threeday stay in Lucerne, with a bus
and cog-rail trip to see the Eiger, Monk, and Jungfrau peaks on a beautiful fall day.
I'm late for deliveringthis column, so ?? make it as short as possible.
Herb Spivack wrote Russ Cox in April: "I regret that I will not be able to be with
you at this 60th reunion, as much as I had been looking forward toit. Regrettably,
I have had a bad year health-wise, and it would not be possible to 'circumnavigate'
the campus and the activities. I am enclosing my check for the class dues. Please
give my regards to Tom, Milt, Frank, and Gene." We all missed you, Herb. I mink this
must be the first reunion without you.
And Jim Berman wrote, "Cannot come to the reunion; two grandchildren graduating that
weekend. Don't know how we are goingto do it. Anyhow, have good one."
That wraps up the reunion. I'm postponingthe death notices and obituaries for the
next issue. Until then, be well and as happy as possible.
-Frank H ulswit, secretary, 8076 Queen Palm Ln., Apt. 438, Fort Myers, FL, 33966 -6458;
tel: 239-768-0907 (November-May); 15 Rosewood Circle, Kennebunk, ME 04043-6547; tel:
207-985-4032 (June-October); e-mail: franktlnilswit@alum.mit.edu
1950 60th REUNION
Gerry Lessells and Dave Gushee, whose professional paths differed significandy but
who ran across each other regularly during the 1960s and 1970s at meetings ofthe
American Institute of Chemical Engineers, were finally able to engineer another
meeting. In the September/October issue, we reported the untimely loss of Gerry's
dear wife, Jo, and his plans to take aseveral-month trip through the East, visiting
relatives and friends who knew and appreciated her. Dave was fortunate to be included.
Dave and Gerry report, "We met in Front Royal, VA, in late August and had a whale
of a time remembering ouryears at Tech, our experiences as chemical engineers, and
our activities in AIChE that brought us together those many years ago. A major thread
in our conversations was what being M IT alumni has meant to us-in technical education,

of course, but also in formation of our character and values as professionals." Gerry
is now back in Tucson, AZ, and would welcome visits from any alumni passing through.
In August 2009, Susan and Mal Green were leaving their home ofthe last 20 years to
move to a newly constructed retirement community called NewBridge on the Charles.
Several MIT alums and retired professors live there also. Their new address is 4319
Great Meadow Rd., Dedham, MA 02026, and their phone number is 78 1 -234-2279. E-mail
addresses are unchanged. The new development is about half a mile from the entrance
to MITsEndicottHouse.wheretheclass holds an annual Christmas party. The Greens
enjoyed their Wayland, MA, condo and community. Mai's major regret was leaving his
well-equipped workshop, where he built furniture, repaired many broken appliances,
and listened to lots of Red Sox games. By now most of the workshop should have been
reassembled in NewBridge, where management had promised to make space for it and open
it to the entire community.
John Kocher has called our attention to a CNBC website that ranks colleges according
to the salaries of its graduates. It is very interesting reading. Some points we
noticed: (1) MIT is near the top ofthe list. It is, in fact, tied for second with
some other school located in Cambridge, MA. (2) Starting salaries have gone up since
our day. (3) The Stata Center seems to be the present-day face of MIT, at least as
far as CNBC is concerned.
Augustus F. Andrews died April 3, 2002. His last known address was 4627 Peppertree
Ln., Memphis, TN 38117-3920.
Eeva- Liisa Aulikki Olsen, the wife of Kenneth H. Olsen, died on March 2, 2009. Born
in Lahti, Finland, she was a member ofthe Lotta Svaard, the women's auxiliary ofthe
Finnish Army in the Winter War of 1939. She attended Valparaiso University as an
exchange student after the war and immigrated to the United States after she married
Ken. She is survived by her husband and two children. She was preceded in death by
one son.
Jacob AaII died on May 20, 2009. His last knownaddresswas Nes Verk, 4900 Tvedestrand,
Norway.
Raymond M. Gilliampassedawayon Aug. 7, 2009. His last known address was 4300 N. Ocean
Blvd, #15 J, Fort Lauderdale, FL3330S-5911. After M IT, he served in the U.S. Army
and had a 50-year career as a chemical engineer, duringwhich he also worked for Aramco
in the oil refineries in Saudi Arabia. Ray was preceded in death by his wife, Rita;
he is survived by three children and five grandchildren.
Michael Joseph Fitzmorris Jr. passed away on Aug. 19, 2009, several weeks after
celebrating his 86thbiithday. His last known address was259oGoldStar Highway #315,
Mystic, CT06355-1176. Mike enlisted in the U.S. Marines in 1943 and served as a radio
tech in the Pacific. Following the war, he enrolled at MIT, graduating with degrees
in electrical engineering. Mike worked as a research engineer in a number of settings,
but the bulk of his working years were spent at General Radio in West Concord, MA.
There he was instrumental in developing commercial applications for the strobe light,
developed by Dr. Harold Edgerton at MIT Mike rose to vice president of engineering
and planning at GR. For 56 years, Mike lived in Concord, MA, with his wife, Nataly,
and their family. They moved to Connecticut in June 2008 to be near their son, Chip
Fitzmorris. He is survived by Nataly, his wife of 62 years, as well as four children
and seven grandchildren.
Dr. Richard Cuneo Fox died Aug. 21, 2009, at home (127 Humboldt St., San Rafael, CA
94901-1022). He was a two-termboard member ofthe Marin Municipal Water District,
where he helped guide Marin County through drought. After M IT he received a doctorate
in chemistry at the University of Illinois. He also fought in Korea. Dr. Fox-workedasaresearcher
at Chevron and was the author of numerous scientific patents.
Among other things, he invented a computer program that analyzes information from

infrared spectrometers to determine the chemical composition of previously unknown
materials. As a child, Dr. Fox was the first person to roller-skate across the Golden
Gate Bridge, said his daughter, Sharon A. Fox. "He was 10 years old and was wearing
a green and white beanie. He roller-skated all the way from the Marina to the bridge
that day to join the opening-day celebration ofthe bridge." Richardis survived by
his wife, Joan; five children; and six grandchildren.
-Thomas R. Keane, secretary, 332 Spalding Rd., Wilmington, DE 19803; tel:
302-658-2095; e-mail: tomkeane@alum.mit.edu; Joseph DAnnu nzio, assistant sec-retary,
6943 Greentree Dr., Naples, FL34108-8528; tel: 239-566-7346; e-mail:
joeviola® alum.mit.edu.
1951
We received a very warm and informative note from Clark Abt. He has been appointed
adjunct professor of energy and sustainable international development at Brandeis
University's Heller School of Social Policy and Management.andisteachingagraduate
course this semester entitled Renewable Energy for Environmentally Sustainable
International Development. Last spring he was a lecturer at Benjamin Franklin
Institute of Technology in Boston, teaching automotive-engineering seniors a course
he created, Environmentally and Economically Sustainable Energy Engineering. In 2007
and 2008, as an adjunct professor of management at Cambridge College, he taught
several eveningand weekend graduate courses: Terrorism and Disaster Management in
Health Care Settings, Research Methods for Managers, and Health Care Policy and
Ethics. He is also continuing his iothyear as parttime senior voluntary tutor
(ofEnglish, math,andsciences) atMcKinley South End Academy, a Boston public high
school. After retiring four years ago as chairman emeritus and founder of Abt
Associates, he decided to never retire again but rather to rewire, so as to keep on
learning and teaching. His latest learning adventure was a delightful two weeks at
Quo Vadis Airdrome in the French Alps, learningto pilot highperformance gliders
during flights of one to six hours at altitudes of3,ooo to 17,000 feet. Clark had
learned to pilot light planes and ultralights 40 years ago. This was very different
because it demanded a more intimate learning of the soaring-sustaining winds and
weather and mountainous terrain, but it was even more environmentally inspirational.
Clark is seeking contact with classmates who are like-minded glider pilots in the
northeastern U.S.
A sad note: Eldon C. Heaton of Norco, CA, died in August 2009. He served a two-year
term in the U.S. Air Force. After graduation, he went on to become a nuclear physicist
for various aerospace and defense companies for about 19 years. In 1974, he and his
wife, Nancy, established the West Coast's largest wholesale distributorship of
Christian books. They also opened the first Christian bookstore in the Corona/Norco
area at about the same time. Eldon retired in 1995. He was one ofthe founding members
of Church on the Hill in Norco. He was an avid reader and enjoyed coaching Little
League. Eldon is survived by his sons, Stuart and Phillip Heaton; his sister, Maxine
Marquez; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. John A. O'Shea of Sudbury,
MA, died on Aug. 6, 2009. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps at the time of the Korean
War. Discharged as a sergeant,he returned to MITand earned a degree in mechanical
engineering. He worked for fiveyears at Draper Labs in Cambridge, MA. He then
purchased Foreign Motors of Boston and was active there from 1962 through 1968. John
returned to aerospace and was employed by Raytheon. He later purchased Fitchburg
Colonial Aviation. He had a lifelonginterest in classic and antique cars. In addition
to his wife, Jeanne (Harol) O'Shea, he leaves his daughter, Erin Marie; sons Sean
and Brian; and grandson Gage Corbin.
John C. Richardson ofWilliamsburg NY.passed away on June2, 2007. Heis survivedby his
wife, LoisJ. (Hill) Richardson; daughters Karen J. Roesser, Susan B. Sendziak, and
Pamela J. Colborn of Maryland; 10 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Priscilla Margaretta (Maurer) Burrageof Essex, VT, died on June 22, 2009. Priscilla
graduated with a general engineering degree, one of only 10 women in our class of
around 900. Aftcrgraduation, she joined a research team investigating combustion
characteristics in jet engines. Shortly after her marriage to Peter Burrage in 1962,
theywereboth employed by IBM and moved to Poughkeepsie, NY. In 1967 they transferred
to the IBM plant in Essex, VT, where Priscilla worked until her retirement in 1991.
In her years at IBM, she managed a technical-publications department and later was
an engineer in plant design and layout. At 50 she earned a master's degree in adult
learning from die University of Vermont. One of Priscilla's passions was Scottish
country dancing which she did with grace and skill. Priscilla is survived by her
husband, son Michael, daughter Ann Burrage, son-in-law Patrick Theriault, and four
grandchildren.
Michael Martin McNamare passed away in April 1996, and Stanley Windsor Moulton Jr.
of San Jacinto, CA, died in September 2002. Dr. Lester W. Preston Jr. of Char-lottesville,
VA, died on July 23, 2009. He received a PhD in statistics from North
Carolina State University and served as an army officer in the Philippine Islands
at die close of WWII. Dr. Preston's career was devoted to the pharmaceutical industry.
He is survived by his wife, Dr. Ellen Katherine "Kitty" Preston; his son, Lester W
Preston III; and tiiree grandchildren.
Robert (Bob) Deane Thulman of Qarksvil]e,MD,died on July 22, 2009. Bob was a gifted
inventor, businessman, musician, pilot, and world traveler who graduated with degrees
in mechanical engineering and business and engineering administration. He went into
business with his father, and together they perfected the freestanding fireplace.
He started Thulman Eastern in Ellicott City, MD, selling fireplaces and inventing
several high-efficiency wood-burning stoves. In 1988, Bob flew a single-engine
Bonanza from Baltimore to Sydney, Australia. A gifted clarinet player and saxophonist
who participated in frequent early-eveningjam sessions with fraternity brother
musicians at die ?GG Phi Kappa Sigma house before bitting the books, he played in
several Dixieland and swingbands, including die Bay City 7, die Baltimore Jazz
Factory, and the Last Chance Jazz Band. Hehadaloyal following who loved to hear him
play swing and traditional jazz. Bob is survived by his childrenDavid Kelley Thulman,
Mary Kelley Thulman, and Victoria Parker Thulman-and six grandchildren. We extend
our condolences to die families of all our departed classmates.
-Martin N. Greenfield, class secretary, 25 Darrell Dr., Randolph, MA 02368; e -mail:
greenfield@alum.mit.edu
1952
I write in the last days of September and have no current news of classmates except
for obituaries. Glenna and I spent much of die summer at our hill-country house with
children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. A lot of golf was played. One day
I shot my age (79), much to my satisfaction. I am not a very low handicapper, so a
79 was pretty good. In about two years I should be able to shoot my age regularly,
if I can still play at all. In August we finally finished repairing the damage to
our yard and garden from Hurricane Ike, which hit the Houston area in Septemb er '08.
We lost so many large, old trees that repairing the damage did not restore the original
landscape, but we are happy with the revised look.
The first obituary I will report is William B. Horner (Course X), more informally
known as Jack. He passed away June 22, 2009, in Piano, TX, where he had lived for
most of his years after MIT. While at MIT, he was a member of Sigma Chi. After
graduation, he worked a few years as a packaging engineer and then became a teacher
at Greenhill School in Dallas. Later he switched to real estate, workinginthe Re/Max
organizationbefore retiring in 1996. In 1974 he married Dorothy McNeir, who survives
him. A daughter and two brothers, as well as numerous stepchildren and grandchildren,
survive him as well Jack was from Tulsa, OK and we became special friends because

of the Oklahoma connection. I have a vivid memory of a car trip we took together.
In our senior year, Glenna and I had acquired a 1 950 Plymouth and planned a trip
back to Oklahoma for Christmas. Jack asked to join us, and I gladly welcomed him as
a second driver. Having no money for a motel, we drove straight through from Boston
to Tulsa and then to Duncan, OK which was Glenna's and my home base. The trip took
52 hours. Leaving Boston, we drove in very cold weadier and rain. Ice formed on the
inside of our windows in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Glenna and our baby Ellen stayed indie
backseat, wrapped in a comforter that Glenna had wisely taken. We returned to Boston
with Jack driving all the way in snow.
Charles E. Bethel Jr. (Course XV) died March 30, 2009, in Pasadena, TX. He lived in
die nearby town of Friendswood. Charles was a WWII navy veteran and received a degree
from Harvard in 1948. He received his degree from the Sloan School as a member of
our class. Two daughters, a son, a sister, and severalgrandchildren and
great-grandchildren survive him.
James H. Lee (Course VI) died May 16, 2009, in Sarasota, FL Aformer resident of
Sudbury, MA, James had been in bad health for many years. Hc was a decorated veteran
of the Korean War who served in the Signal Corps. His career focused on defense-related
work for Litton, Raytheon, Lincoln Labs, and Vitro. His wife, Betty, and four children
survive him along with five grandchildren. His youngest son reports that he has his
father's brass rat and intends to keep it safe.
Thomas D. Coe (Course II) died Aug. 17, 2009, in Boxford, MA shortly after suffering
a cardiac arrest at his office. After graduation, Thomas served in the air force,
spending some time in die Cambridge Research Center at Hanscom Air Force Base in
Lexington, MA After his service he founded Wakefield Engineering, designing and
manufacturing cooling devices for electronics. He sold this business and in 1980
founded QA Technology to manufacture testingprobes for electronic circuits. He
remained president of this company until his deadi. Thomas maintained a large garden
and kept honeybees. He was alsoan ardent fisherman, often travelingtoAlaska for the
sport. His wife of 53 years, Jane, survives him, as do two sons, two daughters, and
seven grandchildren.
Since there is litde news, I have room to list missing classmates: Torbjorn Engebakken
(Course VI); Mardi Daphni Groos, née Buell (Course IV-A); Paul M. Kuhns (Course VI
II); John G. Meeker (Course VI and XV); Dr. Robert A. Naber (Course VII); Neil A.
Panzier (Course X); Paul E. Schacht (Course X); Dr. Richard D. Sharp (Course VIII);
Arthur A. Swanson (Course X); Daniel V. Sylvia (Course II); and Patricia Ann Wooten,
née Wolf e (VI). If anyone has information about them, please pass it on to the Alumni
Association or to me.
-Joe F. Moore, cosecretary, e-mail: jmoore52@alum.mit.edu; Lou DiBona, cosecretary,
e-mail: snookie77@ aol.com.
1953
Martha and I are spending six weeks in Buenos Aires, and I have received no subm issions
from classmates, so this will be short on news. I cannot recommend Buenos Aires too
highly for its architecture, its culture, and its liveliness. Not to mention die good
restaurants and prices.
There are two deaths to report. Louis Updegrovedied Nov. 25,2008, in Terrace Park,
OH. He had been president of Tyler Scott. He is survived by his wife, Irene; daughter
Susan; and two grandchildren. Anselm Beai died July 28, 2009, in Richland, WA. Al
joined die U.S. Navy in 1947, serving during the invasion of Normandy and then
transferring to the South Pacific, where his ship was sunk by the Japanese at Okinawa.
After the war he attended MIT, attaining bachelor's and master's degrees, and then
went to work for the navy as a civilian, serving as chief naval architect for the
small crafts and boat division and also the combatant craft engine division. After

retiring in 1981, he played golf and enjoyed life. He is survived by his wife of 30
years, Roxann.
I'm going to take this opportunity to list classmates whose whereabouts are unknown.
If you have any information on them, please notify me or MIT. They are Jamil Abdennour,
William Blackstock, Robert Buckley, Murray Blume, Patricia Brown, Richard Cheslow,
May Chow, William Church, Arthur Cicero, John Costas, Wayne Crum, Norman Dubois, Roy
Dugan Jr., Edward Dunlavey, Edwin Durian, Mario Ech art, Kenneth Foster, Ricardo Gomez
Agudelo, David Goodkind, Leonard Gross, Edmund Herreraycastro, David Hindman, Franz
Hirschfeld, Alfred Holland, Charles Hurt, Cari Kerk, Julius Kornman Jr., Valentin
Koumpoloff, Arnold Levine, Fook Li, Armand Lopez, Roderick MacDonald, Francisco
Mauri-Closa, John Miller, Lai Mirchandani, John Nervik Jr., John Rhodes, Dedy Saban,
Constantino Scarlatos, Hsio Shih, Joseph Sideransky, Donald Smith, Edgar Stolfer,
Lionel Thibodeau, Wilson Turner, James Waters, and Joseph Woolsey.
-W James Mast, secretary, phone/ fax: 001-502-7832-4811; e-mail: wjmast@yahoo.com
1954
Class president Joe Scheller reported on three Class of 1954 initiatives. First, the
MIT scholarship for those who have served on active duty or for the children of such
military personnel has been drafted, and Joe feels it is well on the way to being
finalized. It would be a way for our class to welcome back these men and women and
acknowledge the service they have done for all of us. Second, the class has suggested
a campus-wide design contest to complete the original plan to top the pedestals in
the Building/ lobby with sculpture. The goal ofthe competition would be to encourage
designs created in the spirit of mens et manus and to celebrate MIT innovation. There
would be no promise that any winning entry would be realized; rather, it would be
exhibited and publicized to the community. This competition would be open to any
registered MIT student. There would be six winners. The jury would be composed of
MIT faculty and alumni, including a representative from our class. An event would
be held on April 15, 2011 (duringMITs i50th-anniversary year), to announce the
winners. The MIT Museum would host an exhibition ofthe drawings and models at the
WoIk Gallery in Building 7. The goal ofthe third class initiative is to encourage
children's enthusiasm for studying math and science. Details are still being
discussed.
James S. Hyde, SB '54, PhD '59 (Course VIII, physics), is internationally recognized
for his research in the development, enhancement, and application of electron
paramagnetic resonance (EPR) instrumentation and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
technologies and applications. The MedicalCollege ofWisconsinhas established the
James S. Hydechairin biophysics, which Jim will be the first person to hold.
Jim wrote his dissertation on EPR. After spending 16 years at Varían Associates, where
he headed the EPR R&D program, he joined the Medical College of Wisconsin as professor
of biophysics (a title he still holds), to help establish the National Biomedical
EPR Center. He continues to be director ofthe center, where he develops EPR in-strumentation
and extends the ways in which existing EPRinstrumentation can be used
for new categories of biomedical problems. In 1984 Jim became interested in M RI.
He led the Medical College's interdisciplinary team that was among the first in the
world to develop functional MRI ofthe working brain. In 2009 Jim received the MIT
Club of Wisconsin's Annual Technology Achievement Award. He was elected fellow ofboth
the International Society of Magnetic Resonance and the International EPR Society.
He has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Medical College o f Wisconsin
and numerous international prizes. Congratulations to Jim on his many years of
achievement.
George G. Conway (Course I) of Harwich and Waltham, MA, died on July 16, 2009. George
was born in Weymouth, MA, in 1929 and attended public schools in Quincy, MA, and

Chauncey Hall Preparatory School. He served in the U.S. Air Force in Panama as a
special- vehicles operator. At MIT he was a member ofthe Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity, crew, and the Alumni Council. He worked for Fay, Spoffard, and Thorndike
and spent 23 years with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's design and
construction department, specializing in light-rail bridges. Hc was an expert
water-skier and trail biker. He is survived by bis friend Reta Butmi of Newton, MA
brother Richard A Conway of Jacksonville, FL, nephew David Conway and his family,
and cousin Muriel McMullcn and her children.
Richard L. Jones passed away on April 5, 2009. He is survived by his wife, Mary Ann.
-Marilyn L. Shilkoff,cosecretary,3i Clover PL, New Rochelle, NY 10805; fax:
914-636-2345; e-mail: mlsps@ optonline.net; Barbara B. Black, cosce retary, 370 North
East Camano Dr., Suite 5-43, Camano Island, WA 98282; e-mail: bbblack@whidbey.net
1955 55th REUNION
An apology is due from me (ACS) for misspelling Marvin Tanzer's name in a previous
note. I may enroll in remedial proofreading next semester.
This June, 55 years will have passed since our graduation. Our reunion committee is
planning a great event, 55 th for '55, and you ought to plan on attending. Mark the
dates June 3-6 and prepare for a trip to Cambridge. If not then, when? You may be
busy for the 75th.
The November/December 2009 issue noted the passing of Eugene Gavenman (Course VI).
We also received the following from Norman Ness (Course XII-B): "Gabby and I were
roommates on East Campus for three years-the last one on the fifth floor of Runkle
dorm, overlooking the president's house from a nice balcony interconnecting us with
our good friend George Ta ucher (Course I), who passed away several years ago in
Switzerland. Duringthe past decades, I visited the Gavenmans several times in their
California home while on professional travel to San Francisco."
Heath Oliver (Course XV) passed away on June 29, 2009. He is survived by his wife,
Sylvia Oliver (née Gale), whose home address 1S31410 Creekside Dr., Pepper Pike,
OH44124. Heath also leaves children Candace Oliver Badge' and Lindsay Oliver. For
several years, Heath served as president of Bardons and Oliver in Solon, OH. In the
May/June 2009 notes, we reported the death of Joseph Braun (Course XVI). Recendy we
learned from Guy Wooten '46 that Joseph, a retired naval commander (as is Guy), was
buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery on May 14, 2009.
Charles B. Lory(Course VI-A) died on Aug. 21, 2009. He was born June 19, 1934, in
Pittsburgh to Marion R. and Carolyn C. Lory. He was a member of Kappa Sigma and the
varsity tennis team. Charles later received the SM degree in Course XVI. He was
interred at the family plot at the Long Run Cemetery in Westmoreland County, PA
-Rick Morgenthaler,cosecretary.71 Abbott Rd., Wellesley Hills, MA 02481; e-mail:
frm@mit.edu; Allan Schell, cosecretary, 1585 Boliver Rd., Fort Valley, VA 22652;
e-mail acschell® alum.mit.edu.
1956
I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your families a happy and healthy
2010. Our class president, John Stelling, recendy sent a letter to all on our e -mail
list: Threeyears have passed since the conclusion of our hugely successful 50th
reunion. The reconnections, wonderful stories, photographs, and memories still
remain with us. We are now gearing up for our 55th reunion in 2011 to take place in
the midst of MITs i50th-anniversary celebrations and exhibitions. We are very pleased
that Ralph Kohl will be our reunion chairman. Ralph has begun organizing the reunion
committee for another splendid event. The dates will be Thursday, June 2, through
Saturday, June 4, 201 1. Tech Night at the Pops will lead off the festivities on

Thursday evening. Ted Korelitz.the newpresident ofthe MIT Cardinal and Gray Society,
promises that the Friday program, which will include the Cardinal and Gray Academy
and the Cardinal and Gray dinner-dance, will be outstanding. Technology Day will take
place on Saturday. Class events around these activities, as well as a pre- or
post-reunion class gathering at a resort hotel, are being planned. Please save the
dates. You will be hearing further from the reunion committee as the schedule is
developed. If you would like to serve on the committee or add a comment, please let
Ralph know by phone (617332-2622) or by e-mail (ralphJcohl® comcast.net). The Class
of 1956 set a record for attendees in 2006, and we bok forward to doing it again."
Phil Trussell writes, "The student who won the Trussell Prize in 2007 is Jimmy
Bartolotta. We've been close to Jimmy- having him for dinner and for Thanksgiving
last year, and having a big send-off for him and our grandson, Matt Duggan (Roger
Williams '09), who are both college AIlAmericans (Matt in sailing). Jimmy was leaving
for Italy to try out for a European basketball team, and Matt for England and Ireland
representing the U.S. Intercollegiate Sailing Association against the British
University Sailing Association. We play lots of golf here and in Sarasota, FL. In
September we are going on a cruise with friends to Athens, stopping along the way
and ending up in Istanbul."
Our esteemed webmaster, Guy Spencer, wrote, "We are back from the British Isles, which
we enjoy gready, especially since we never had to unfurl our bumbershoots even once.
Scodand, without fog, is beautiful. I escaped without developing a full-blown
addiction to single- malts. As for the Isle of Skye, we still don't know why Ann's
ancestors left, except that the word skye does mean 'cloudy' I guess we were just
lucky. London is a great city, and we left knowing that we only scratched the surface."
David Goldman sent an e-mail stating, "We spend a lot of time traveling andhave been
to Africa, Russia, China, Europe, and on many cruises in the past few years. We usually
spend a few months in the winter on the east coast of Florida. Maybe this year we
will see some MIT alumni there. My retirement job is as a technology coach helping
people keep their computers running and teaching them how to make the best use of
modern technology. A thoroughly enjoyable business for a techief
Luis Franceschi sent a note: "I am fine and attive doing consulting in hydrau-lics-
nothing extraordinary. Both my wife and I still do some traveling. We went to
California in March, and last June we visited Vermont, stopping in Boston for a few
days. Expect to go to New York this next fall." We wish you continued good health,
Luis.
Marilyn Gulotta wrote, "After school, I worked in Pratt and Whitney's research and
development division for two years. During this time, I found myself at what then
was computer technology (i.e., we were using computer software for stress analysis
on missile cases). I figured I was more creative at software than I was at engineering,
sol made a career shift and remained in systems software and applications software
off and on for some 40-plus years. Most of this was in the commercial arena, for
Metropolitan Life and then for Prudential Financial. I retired in 2005.
"During this time, I married a mathematician who also started, groundfloor, in
computer technology. We have a physical-chemist daughter (amazing, since the two of
us hate chemistry) who is teaching at the college level. We moved to Westfield, NJ,
circa 1970. 1 got heavily involved in community work here, first in the parent-teacher
association and then winning elections to the board of education, where I was first
female president. I was on the MIT Educational Council for 25 years. When the parents
of my student applicants became younger than I, I figured it was time to step down.
It was a wonderful experience and, according to my 'grades,' I guess I did agood job!
I was a member ofthe Westfield Symphony Orchestra board of directors for five years
and have remained an active supporter for the past 25 years. I was also a member of
our local United Way board of trustees for some 13 years. Currendy I am active in

church business activities, so I keep my old self busy. I maintain friendships with
several of my MIT classmates and near-classmates. It's been a grand journey, all
told."
John Stelling and Ted Korelitz reported,"Attending various sessions ofthe 2009 Alumni
Officers Conference were Beryl and Walter Frey, Margie Gilson, Marcia and Ralph Kohl,
Diane and Ted Korelitz, Mabel and Jim Nevins, and Valerie and John Stelling. Wc
particularly enjoyed the (acuity presentations on M ITs global initiatives. The
session to encourage classes and classmates to communicate using the new social media
twittered right over our heads. We recovered, however, when we joined the others for
lively conversation at the final reception and awards dinner. Ted had reserved a table
for our class and it was full."
-Lloyd Beckett, secretary, P.O. Box 1082, North Falmouth, MA 02556; e-mail: pa-pa@
alum.mit.edu
1957
Ralph M. Gilbert reports, "I usually spend mysummers cycling and swimming in New
Hampshire. This year I spent my time doing something different: I had an atrial
fibrillation. The electrical impulses traveling to the atria (top chambers of my
heart) became disorganized. Out of sync with the lower chambers (ventricles), the
blood pumped to the lungs became compromised, causing shortness of breath. I expect
to be cardi overted in September, with a dose of electrical energy applied to my heart.
I do regret now that I took mechanical engineering instead of electrical engineering.
I could have fixed the whole thing myself in my basement."
Ken Jones relates, "Since I graduated from Cisco Systems in 2003, my wife, Jennifer,
has been keeping me in the manner to which I have become accustomed. I see no reason
to travel. The automatic coffee maker creates perfect coffee each morning (if I
remember to set it up). My racquetball opponents (young whippersnappers, all of them)
keep my ego in check. My dog, Bubba, encourages me to take a walk in the woods each
day. Our mayor is one of Bubba's Facebook friends; he's the best connected pit bull
in town. This year's glorious weather made the trees, shrubs, and vines so thick,
our backstreets look like rainforest logging roads. Every so often in a fit of good
intentions I purchase a nonfictionbook,but I haven't finished one inyears. Life is
great here in sunny, scenic Fitchburg, MA."
Lou Beckersays, "After graduation in 1957, 1 stayed at Tech for another semester and
then decided to become truly self-supporting. I worked at a smallresearch lab in
Madison, WI, for a year, and in 1959 I went to California to work at Aerojet-General
with Lane Branson. We worked together for about a year on something akin to ion
propulsion (so I was, for a time , the proverbial rocket scientist), and then went
our separate ways. (A few years ago I discovered that Lane and his lovely wife, Judy,
were living in Milwaukee, which is a pleasant train ride from our home in Glenview,
IL, convenient for visits.) Then I worked for Consolidated Electrodynamics in
Pasadena andlater Monrovia, CA, for four and a half years. At Aerojet I did primarily
experimental work, and at Consolidated I did theoretical work and shared a patent
with Dr. Chfford Berry, director of engineering. Many years later I discovered that
he was the Berry ofthe Athanasoff-Berry computer! I acquired an MA in mathematics
and an MS in physics at California State University, Los Angeles.
"In May 1965 1 returned to Chicago and started teaching at what was to become
Northeastern Illinois University, while simultaneously working toward a PhD in
physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In my first class at IIT (taught
from Goldstein's Classical Mechanics), I met the very lovely Loretta Silverma n. We
started dating in January 1966 and were married in May 1966. By the time I finished
the dottorate in May 1971, we had bought a home and had three sons. The oldest now
teaches history and social studies at Evanston Township High School and has acquired

a national reputation and a Golden Apple award for his teaching methods. The middle
son is a cardiothoracic surgeonin Rochester, NY.and the youngest is a director of
consulting and strategic planning at Transunion.
"At Northeastern, I started out split between the physical sciences department and
the math department, but quickly went full time to teaching math. In 1970 the dean
ofthe College of Arts and Sciences, thinking I knew much more about computers than
I actually did, asked me if I couldbegin the development ofa computer science
department. I agreed to do so and immediately began building my background in computer
science, mosdy by teaching courses as I wrote them and staying one step ahead ofthe
students. I started hiring faculty and accumulating equipment (punch-card stuff),
and by the fall of 1975 we were officially designated as the Department of Computer
Science and were authorized by Illinois to offer a bachelor's degree. I rose to the
rank of full professor, was chairman ofthe department, and retired as professor
emeritus in 1998.
To supplement the family income (with three boys in college at the same time), I held
a job with Sears Technology as a communications consultant for 11 years. We were
responsible for all ofthe Sears companies' electronic communications and major
computer centers. Initially I designed communications networks, and then I wrote
telecommunications software and acquired another patent."
Lou retired from Sears Technology in 1993 but taughtuntil June 1998. He says,
"Retirement has been an unmitigated joy. My wife and I spend much time together, but
we each pursue our own interests. We do a great deal of gardening, both at home and
as volunteers at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Loretta belongs to several book clubs,
and we both read voraciously. I enjoy woodworking and have studied classical guitar
for several years. I also have returned to playing the piano, which I began as a child.
My reading interests include history, the study of languages, and Chasidic phi-losophy.
We travel some, both within the U.S. and to Canada and Europe, and look
forward to more traveling."
Arthur Cowen (Course X) passed away on Sept. n, 2009, after a threeyear illness. Arthur
was originally from New Rochelle, Ni but lived in Manhattan most ofhis adult l ife.
After MIT he earned a master's in chemical engineeringat NYU and then an MBA at
Columbia. He worked at Stauffer Chemical, Air Products, and Scientific Design. Arthur
became interested in the stock market through a friend at Scientific Design, and
eventually left the chemical industry and became a stockbroker, beginning at Shcarson
HammilL Most ofhis working life was spent as a stockbroker.
For many years, as a hobby, Arthur taught calculus and remedial math to students at
Columbia University and Baruch College. He became an informal life coach to many
students, and he treasured the letters he received explaining how he had changed
fives. Bridge was a passion. He was a fife master and active in the Honors Bridge
Club in New York. The French language was also a longtime interest, and through
immersion courses in France and study in New York, Arthur became fluent. Arthur never
married. He is survived by his brother and sister-in-law, Dr. Edwin and Marlene Cowen,
and a niece and nephew. The class sends its condolences.
-Don Roelike, secretary, 4870 Carriagepark Rd., Fairfax, VA 22032; tel: 703 -978-7370;
e-mail: daroellke@ alum.mit.edu.
1958
Perpetuating the spirit of our 50th reunion, Louise and Martin O'Donnell, Bobbi and
Fred Fisher,your secretary, and Bebe Fallick arranged to dust off the red jackets
and meet at the Cardinal and Gray buffet dinner prior to 2009 Tech Night at the Pops
and then attend the concert. We enjoyed an excellent table location at Pops, enabling
us to exchange greetings with President Hockfield during one of the intermissions.
It was a very festive evening. A few weeks later, Fred Fisher reported, "We held a

minireunion for Course I folk in New York City. Fred.Marv Katz, Bill Bayer, Bob Hazan,
and spouses (Bobbi, Linda, Barbara, and Carol, respectively) met June 11 for dinner
at Nonna's Restaurant on the Upper West Side, with three of the four guys wearing
the red jackets. The following days were spent museum hopping, and we managed to take
in the Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit at the Guggenheim.
"All are holding up well and planning on making the 55th. Incidentally, the red jackets
have universal recognition: Marv and I were waiting for the stragglers to catch up
at Amsterdam Avenue and 85th Street, when we were approached by a fellow wanti ng to
know how much two-bedroom units went for in the area (thinking we were obviously
Century 21 people)."
Dave Rosen's red jacket also attended Pops, although Dave didn't. A few weeks before
Pops, he told me he wasn't going this year. Later, duringdinnerwith a mutual friend,
Norm Jacobs (Yale '58, MS MIT '59), Norm mentioned that he would be at Pops with the
50th-reunion class. He didn't know about the red-jacket tradition, so I suggested
that he might borrow Dave's. It was a perfect fit!
Gordon W. Bright, 72, of Phoenixville, PA died April 20, 2009. Many of us have vivid
memories of Gordon, a talented ballroom dancer, gracefully swirling around the dance
floor during our reunions. He entered MIT from Janesville High School in Janesville,
WI, and majored in electrical engineering.
Allan Rosenberg sent a letter last June, a rarity in these days of e-mail: "Immediately
after graduation, I was hired at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, wherelworked-forthreeyears
and also completed my military obligation. I returned home to Atlanta
and married Marcia Jacobs (my wife of 48 years), and we raised three perfect daughters.
Each has a career and children.
I began a 40-year stint in metal finishing, which ranged from electroplating hardware
for uranium hexafluoride gaseous-diffusion plants to repairing teapots to coating
reinforcing wire with epoxy powder for use in concrete structures. Somewhere along
the way I contracted Parkinson's disease. With Marcia and my girls runningthe pill
parade, I have done reasonably well Two of five grandchildren are autistic, so we
are quite involved with Parkinson's and autism associations. I have begun to write
some poetry." A copy of Allan's poem "Snow on Daffodils" accompanied his letter.
From Matt Smith: "My latest use of theredblazer came afewmonths back, on the occasion
of the Avon Interfaith Brunch, a local tradition of 40 years' standing, promulgated
by the eight religious organizations in Avon, CT. Maybe you can picture me standing
up in church making announcements, and later during coffee hour hawking tickets as
aggressively as I dared (with record-breaking success, I might add!)."
From Greg Lazarchik: "I've been retired since 1998 from PPG Industries, where I worked
for 39 years. I was director of new-business development and chairman of the board
of Transitions Optical, a junior-varsity company (with Essilor of France) that I
started within PPG. The company makes the first photochrome plastic lenses for
eyeglasses, called Transitions. I worked my entire career with PPG, starting in
research and then moving to process development and, later, marketingresearch, all
in PPG's chemical division. I also spent a brief stint in corporate staff as a
corporate economist and completed acquisitions of five companies for PPG.
"Since retirement, I have had my share of medical problems and eight surgeries, which
wiped out most of three years. I spend my time building, flying and wrecking
radio-controlled airplanes, gardening, practicingthe violin, fishing, and keeping
up with me activities of six grandchildren scattered from Altoona, PA, to San
Francisco in the U.S., and one currently serving in Iraq. I am still married to Ann
(Richards) , a Simmons girl from Dover, MA whom I met in my sophomore year at MIT."

-Gary Fallick, secretary, 4 Diehl Rd., Lexington, MA 02420; e-mail: gary_ fal-fick@
alum.mit.edu; class website: alumweb.mit.edu/classes/195 8/.
1959
Since the reunion, there has been a slowdown in the always-meager flow of news. A
card from Ginny and Dave Packer tells of a cruise aboard the Viking Lomonosov. "Having
a great trip-Ukraine, Crimea (Yalta, Sevastopol), and up me Dnieper River to Kiev.
Lots of history (ancient, Cossacks, Crimean War, WWII, Russia, USSR) and beautiful
views." Friends of ours from Santa Rosa, CA, were on the same trip, so we made sure
Dave and Ginny met up with them. I spoke with Dave and Ginny after the trip, and it
sounds like a fine time was had by all.
There is nothingelse to report other than this brief noti ce: Rafael Antonio
Deutschmann Mirón died on May 25, 2005. He was an architect retired from GMT Architects
in Boston. We send our condolences to his wife, Ann Marie, and the family.
I encourage you to send information as to your doings. If there is nothing of interest
to write about next time, I will have to resort to updates on the sorry state of my
golf game.
-Dixon Browder, secretary, 5419 Vista Grande Dr., Santa Rosa, CA 95403; tel:
707-527-8002; e-mail: browder@alum.mit.edu
1960 50th REUNION
I open these notes with my very best wishes to all for a 2010 filled with all good
things, especially our 50th reunion in June.
As I write, it is a warm, sunny firstof-October day in Perugia, Italy. Marie and I
have been here for several weeks and will stay until shortly before Thanksgiving,
although I am going to leave Italyfor atwo-weekbusiness trip to Bogotá, Colombia.
Your reunion committee is in the final stages of preparation for June's events in
Cambridge and Newport, RI. Led by Carl Swanson.the committee has been spending many
hours ensuring that everything we are anticipating, from red jackets to clambake,
is in order. In Newport you can look forward to a dinner cruise, as well as die chance
to sail on an America's Cup 12- meter sloop. Also, by now I hope mat you have gone
to the I nfinite Connection website to enter biographical data for our reunion book.
Congratulations to all for making our Class of i960 Endowment for Innovationin
Education a continuing success. Jorge Rodriguez has posted the FY 2009 year-end
figures on our class website (alumweb.mit.edu/ classes/1960/), showing that gifts
to the fund total more than $1.7 million, with a market value of approximately $5.0
million and almost $2.0 million awarded to faculty fellows.
A few months ago Larry Elman told us that he was going to be a guest speaker at the
hypnotists' convention, talking about his father's work as an innovator in medical
hypnosis. Larry now writes that the speech went well; he recounted some of his father's
experiences being in the operating room as a physician performed open-heart surgery
on a man with hypnosis as the only anesthetic. As the result of his successful
appearance at the convention, Larry is going on the lecture circuit, and DVDs about
his father, Dave Elman, and his work are on the market. He is still teaching his first
love, aviation history, and his wife, Cheryl, continues her traveling art classes
in North Carolina schools.
After a long wait, Lee Tilton has sent information about his multidisciplinary career
in the aerospace, defense, and intelligence communities. Lee is currently president
and CEO of a new corporation, Creative Network Analysis, and director of engineering
for Brimtek, his son's company. He has also held several positions at Mitre, after
a most successful career with NASA from the 1960s to 1990. His work at NASA included
the Skylab and Apollo programs and serving as the first chairman of NASA's program

planning staff for the space station task force. When Lee retired from NASA in 1990,
he was director of science and technology at the Stennis Space Center. Lee andhis
wife, Fritzi, have three children and eight grandchildren. They have a retirement
home on Chesapeake Bay, although retirement is not yet on the Tilton calendar.
Peter Silverberg continues his interesting activities. In August, Peter unveiled a
bronze plaque at the American Philosophical Society (APS), recognizing Benjamin
Franklin's pioneering research on electricity. The plaque, which will hang in the
APS library just a block from Independence Hall, commemorates the publication of
Franklin's book Experiments and Observations onElectricity in 1751. Unveiling of the
plaque was the result of Peter's 15-month effortto rectify a slight to Philadelphia's
greatest Renaissance man. "There's a plaque honoring Franklin's work on electricity
in London but not in Philadelphia," Peter said. The American Philosophical Society
was founded by Franklin and friends in 1743, and early members included George
Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. The APS was selected as the site for
the plaque as it is one of the few available locations directly associated with
Franklin that remain in Philadelphia.
We recently received word that Robert Richmond is suffering from lymphoma. We wish
him a speedy and complete recovery.
As I am doing far too often recendy, I end these notes with reports of classmates'
deaths.
Walter Godchaux died on July 14, 2009, in Windham, CT. Walter was an emeritus professor
of molecular and cell biology at the University of Connecticut. After receiving his
PhD from MIT in 1965, he began an academic career that included postdoctoral
fellowships at the University of Oregon and Yale, followed by professorships at
Amherst College and UConn. Walter is survived by a sister, Barbara Bailey, of London,
as well as other relatives and a host of colleagues and friends. Our deep sympathy
goes out to them.
James Overbeck died on Aug. 7, 2009, in Hingham, MA. After graduation, Jim spent a
year at Princeton before returning to MIT to receive his PhD in 1964. His first
professional endeavors were in x-ray astronomy and included discoveries about the
star Cygnus XR-i. He later joined several Massachusetts companies, where he developed
a vending system for airline boardingpasses and a laser trimmer to repair analog
memory integrated circuits. Jim founded and was president of XRL, a manufacturer of
laser memory repair systems. He also helped found Genetic Microsystems, where he
developed equipment to scan biogenetic material, as well as laserradar systems to
prevent helicopter collisions during night operations. Hc was a neighborhood "Mister
Wizard," applying science to coundess everyday projects, including robins nesting
in his front-door wreath. Jim is survived by his wife, Anne, and three sons. The class
extends its sympathy to his family and friends.
John Dauns died of liver cancer in New Orleans on June 4, 2009. At the time of his
death he was a professor of mathematics at Tulane University, specializing in abstract
algebra. John was born in Latvia, lived through the harrowing experiences ofWorld
War II in Europe, and came to the United States with his family in 1950. After
graduating from MIT, he received a Woodrow Wilson fellowship for graduate study at
Harvard, where he received his PhD in 1964. He spent his entire 45-year teaching career
at Tulane. John also enjoyed many activities outside his professional life, including
flying, skydiving, and swimming. He is survived by his brother Peter, stepbrother
Helmut, and good friend Victoria Slind-Flor. Our sympathy goes to John's family,
friends, and colleagues.
-Frank A. Tapparo, secretary and class agent, 15 S. Montague St., Arlington, VA,
22204; e-mail: ftapparo@ alum.mit.edu.
1961

A note from Bill Hecht, reunion chair, and Dorsey Dunn, reunion class gift chair:
"In a year and a half, it will be our 5 oth! We will do all major events together
but organize and sit by living groups, sports teams, activities, etc. This way we
get to mix and mingle as well as be with those with whom we are most connected. As
to the reunion gift, we have developed a plan with the MIT International Science and
Technology Initiatives (MISTI) and the International Development Initiative (IDI)
to establish two funds, one endowed and one expendable, to be utilized over five to
eight years. Each of these programs enables MIT students to gain firsthand in-ternational
experience. MISTI places students with international corporations
overseas in real jobs, not internships. IDI programs (like D- Lab) engage MIT students
directly in addressing current and pressing problems in the Third World; students
are challenged to use their ingenuity and local, modest resources to solve these
problems. As all of these activities are chronically oversubscribed, the funds we
raise will go to support expansions of these programs in order to provide more students
with real, valuable international experience. Over the coming months, we'll be
providing much more information about these funds and hope that they will attract
your attention and commitment. In the meantime, you may continue to devote your
contributions to the Class of '61 scholarships or other MIT activity. We'd also like
the involvement of any of you who'd like to assist the reunion committee and the gift
committee in encouraging classmates to attend and to contribute to the gift."
Harry Baya wrote, "I went to high school in Caracas, Venezuela, and we've been having
reunions ofthat community of friends. I just came back from one in Dallas and another
in Santa Fe. At the Santa Fe reunion I saw George Felts '60, whom I followed to MIT
and Theta Delta Chi."
I have some sad news to report: the passing of Henry Lieberman last summer. He was
in Course XVIII and was a member of Tau Epsilon Phi. He was a senior life actuary
with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Division of Insurance. Henry was survived by
his wife, Elizabeth.
Dick Caldwell wrote, "We still enjoy showing our dogs. Vinnie (Ch. Loralar's Bachelor
Pad) is currently the number-10 pug in the U.S. Jerry Lee (Ch. Glengowan's Great Balls
of Fire, now in the Golden Retriever Show Dog Hall of Fame) received his second Best
in Show in August. I would never have thought that dog shows would be my main retirement
activity." Lenny Hess wrote fromSan Francisco, "Our number-two son had his second
daughter, Meadow Joy Hess. This bundle of joy makes six wonderful grandkids for Ursula
and me. Semiretirement still works for me!"
Terry Langendoen reports, "I completed my firstyear as a 52-days-a-year 'expert' at
the National Science Foundation last August, and I will remain in that capacity
foranother year. Over the summer I got to go to workshops at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute and UC Berkeley, and will be going to another at West Point shortly."
Notes from Warren Lederman:".lust returned from visiting my son and his family in
Washington, DC. Steve is a high-priced lawyer specializing in telecommunications.
I now have two grandchildren. I have been retired 15 years and am fortunate to be
able to spend winters in Florida."
John Savage wrote, "In mid-August I began a one-year stint as one of 10 Jefferson
Science Fellows in the U.S. State Department. I am on assignment from Brown
University, where I continue to hold a regular faculty position in the Department
of Computer Science. I'min DC with my wife, Patricia, who is teaching at the Sidwell
Friends School. It looks like this will be an excitingyear for both of us."
Tony Hillsentalong (but extremely interesting) bio of his last 50 years. If you a re
interested in readingit , contact him at tonyhill@alum.mit.edu
Brian White reports for those who knew his Carol: "We became engaged watching the
'submarine races' on the Charles, just before goingto the Beta house to be serenaded

for her pinning. Carol's lifelong autoimmune disease finally overcame her will and
bravery on Sept. 15, 2009. She died peacefiilly in my arms. We had known each other
more than 52 years."
Ed Grabowski wrote, "In anticipation of my 70th year in 2010, my wife and I have moved
to a new condo complex in downtown Westfield, NJ, less than one mile from our house
of almost 40 years, alsoin the same town. I am still keeping active in chemistry via
consulting and membership on various advisory boards, including a neat National
Science Foundation program in chemical catalysis and one for the chemistry department
of a noted central Massachusetts technical institute."
Maynard Johnson wrote, "Sara and I started off the summer with a trip to Las Vegas
so we could spend our 46th wedding anniversary on a tour of Hoover Dam. (The 46th
is the dam anniversary, isn't it?) Our son got married in Asheville, NC, in late June,
so we flew his sister and our grandchildren down from Alaska for the wedding; then
took our daughter and grandchildren to colonial Williamsburg VA, for a week, ending
with Fourth of July fireworks there."
Tony Silvestri wrote, "I retired as of July i, after 35 years at the 'same' company -it
had three names. I came to ESL in Sunnyvale, CA, in 1975; they were bought out by
TRW a few years later; finally, around 2002, TRW was acquired by Northrop Grumman.
Anyway, retirement is great. Acouple of weeks before retirement, we took a trip to
the Czech Republic, where my wife's ancestors were from."
Bob Kaplan reports, "In September, I started my 26th year as professor at Harvard
Business School. While I (voluntarily) relintjuished my tenure upon reaching 65, the
school and I recontract each year so that I can continue to teach in executive
programs, mentor junior faculty, and support doctoral students. The flexible teaching
schedule allows me discretionary time for research, case writing, speaking,
consulting, and writing. I had four books published within the past five years on
two management tools I helped to introduce, Balanced Scorecard and activity-based
costing."
That is it for this month. Hug those you love, and love those you hug!
-Chan Coyle, secretary, P.O. Box 774686, Steamboat Springs, CO 80477; tel;
970"879"3493; fax: 970-879-1473; e-mail: chancoyle@ alum.mit.edu.
1962
Your class officers met in conjunction with the fall Leadership Conference at M IT
in late September 2009. Plans are being made for an online survey of classmates to
gather biographical data for a 50th-reunion booklet (have your résumé current). We
hope to have as many classmates participate as we can encourage to doso. More
information will be available at a later date.
Last August, Mitch Madique welcomed the inaugural class of students for Florida
International University's College of Medicine as his last duty as president of tfre
university. He has now retired to his new dual role as th e Alvah Chapman Jr. Eminent
Scholar in Leadership and executive director of the Center for Leadership in the FIU
College of Business Administration. Mitch and his family are looking forward toa more
tranquil life and spending more time traveling.
Sherwin Greenblart retired at the end of August as interim executive vice president
and CEO of the MIT Alumni Association. He is looking forward to spending more time
with his family near Jackson Hole, WY, where his son-in-law works as a ranger at Grand
Teton National Park. Hc will remain a resident of the Boston area and continue as
director of the MIT Venture Mentoring program, which serves would-be entrepreneurs.
Jean-Pierre Frankenhuis served as part of the Brazilian staff during the June
Confederations Cup event in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was pleased with the final

game, when Brazil (the South American champion) came from behind to defeat the United
States (the champion of the North American, Central American, and Caribbean region).
This was the warm-upbefore the World Cup in 2010, and it tested the arrangements for
that major sporting event. JeanPierre enjoyed visiting after tfre games with his
family in Rio before traveling to Tallinn, Estonia, with the Brazilian team in August
for a match.
Henry Averettehas moved to Honolulu to live in a high-rise condo near Ala Moana. His
wife, Mariko, really loves the islands. They still spend summers in Maine at Pemaquid
Falls, not far from the famous lighthouse. Henry sold his business and became a stock
trader to watch the meltdown in the economy. He assures us he was not a major
contributor to the downturn in our retirement funds. Henry would like to visit with
old friends at averette@hawaii.rr.com if you can't make it to Hawaii.
Meanwhile,Walt Simmonsreported that he and his wife attended a reception for
prospective MITstudents held by the MIT Club of Hawaii and were duly impressed. Walt
had met some of them before in his capacity as a judge at the Hawaii State Science
Fair.
Jerry Katell plans to move from London to New York City at the end of January 2010,
as it looks like two musicals he has backed will be coming to Broadway in the spring.
Baby It's You is the story ofthe Shirelles anddieir manager, Florence Greenberg, and
Million Dollar Quartetis the story ofthe all-night recording session on Dec. 4, 1956,
in Sam Phillips's recording studio in Memphis with Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl
Perkins, and Johnny Cash. Our Jerry hopes classmates can get to the Big Apple to enjoy
the shows.
Bob Boyceis retiring as a reference librarian at the public library system in Lincoln,
NE. He intends to enjoy his family (especially his three-yearold granddaughter) and
spend more time biking, advocating for causes (nature, peace, and justice), and
singing in the community chorus.
Ed Feustel informed me that in 2008, John Stanley (K4.ERO) of Rising Fawn, GA, who
has been a longtime technicaladvisortotheAmerican Radio Relay League, won the Doug
DeMaw (WiFB) Technical Excellence Award for the second year in a row. His article
The Beauty of Spectrum Analysis" appeared in the June and July 2008 issues
ofQSTmagazine. You can read more about John in the October 2009 issue of QST. He and
his wife, Ruth (WB4.LUA), have written extensively on topics of interest to radio
amateurs. According to QST, John's interest in the subject "has both enhanced his
work experience, and in turn, benefited from the work environment and the access it
has provided to huge antennas and sophisticated technical equipment." Ed also
mentioned that his work for a class on music at the Dartmouth II .EAD program brought
him together with Carl Andrysiak, who, along with Tom Brydges, lives near Hanover,
NH. Ed indicated that a few more classmates in the area would almost be enough for
an M IT club.
Keep in touch via the Web at alumweb.mit.edu/classes/1962.
-Hank McCarl, secretary, 28 Old Nugent Farm Rd., Gloucester, MA 01930-3167; e-mail:
hmccarl@alum. mit.edu; Herschel Clopper.cosecretary, e-mail: herschc@alum.mit.edu
1963
We have two class heroes this month (you can earn this designation by sending me an
e-mail, calling, or writing with news of your recent and past doings). Our first is
Joe Nathanson.In January 2009, Joe and his wife, Sharon, celebrated the marriage of
their daughter, Amy, to M arc Ershler. Amy is completing herthirdyear as she pursues
a PharmD degree at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. In recent years,
both Sharon and Joe have enjoyed their second careers. Working through his firm. Urban
Information Associates, Joe consults for communities and nonprofit organizations.

This has afforded him a wide range of assignments, from recommending strategies for
revitalizing the historic center of Greenbelt, MD, to documenting the experiences
of immigrant and refugee communities in greater Adanta. Sharon left her senior staff
position with Maryland's state school superintendent to help launch a campaign for
an open congressional seat in 2006. She now works as director of constituent ser vices
for Representative John P. Sarbanes (D-MD). These activities still leave time for
travel. I ? April 20 08 , Joe returned to Philadelphia for his 50th high-school
reunion, where he reconnected with freshman-year Burton House roommate, Barry Belkin
'62. A month later the Nathansons were cruising from Istanbul to Dubrovnik by way
ofthe Greek Isles. Joe stays involved with various Baltimore-area civic activities,
and, since 2001, he has been writing a column, "Regional Perspectives," for theDaily
Record, Maryland's business and legal newspaper.
Our second hero, Steven Reznek, sent an e-mail about life after MIT After graduating
in Course VIII, Steven stayed on for a PhD in physics, graduated in the fall of '67,
and went to teach in Europe. Two years later, he returned to the U.S. with his Danish
wife, to work with the then- new Environmental Protection Agency. After 10 years,
he went to work for Cabot, a chemical company. Cabot's products are almost all fine
particles, so Steve was amused to watch the nano craze hit. He finished his career
as vice president for research. He says he is one of few people who did what the physics
department always said you could-use a physics degree in many areas. Steve is now
retired, pursuing the hobby of wood turning and various volunteer opportunities in
the Boston area. He had close contacts with MIT over the years, but they were almost
entirely with the chemical-engineering department. Hc says he was never able to
convince many physics graduates that fine particles could be interesting. Steve has
two children, one in Detroit and the otherin California. He and his wife split some
of their time visiting their kids and going to Scandinavia. Anyone wanting advice
about what to see and do in Denmarkor Norway should feel free to contact him.
Donald Knutson died at his home in ParkSlope, Brooklyn, NY.in July 2009, 25 months
after being diagnosed with brain cancer. At M IT, Don earned his bachelor's degree,
his doctorate, and his wife, Andrea Allen Knutson. His 1968 doctoral thesis, in
mathematics, later published as Algebraic Spaces, is still widely read today. Don
taught at Boston College, Columbia, and Fordham University. In 1978, after receiving
an MBA from Columbia, he started a 29-year career as a financial executive at the
CBS Television Network. Early in his career he was asked to determine what CBS should
bid for the Olympics and NFL contracts. For the latter, Don's first step was to ask
what die letters "NFL" meant. Later he developed many ofthe analytical systems that
are in use at CBS today, which he was still improving until the day before he was
diagnosed with a tumor in the center of his brain. After his surgery, he attacked
his neurological problems with a no-fuss cheerful curiosity. He relearned die
alphabet using his grandson's puzzles, rejoined the Brooklyn Conservatory Chorale,
attempted to dine in every Park Slope restaurant, and hiked die hills of Prospect
Park, the Berkshires, and die Swiss Alps. Even after his last winter, when a second
tumor paralyzed his right side, he regarded dressing himself one-handed as an
interesting project and continued to attend at least two plays or concerts weekly.
The only challenge that he found heartbreaking was the decline in his ability to play
the piano. Don is survived by his wife, Andrea; his children Allen and Miranda; his
grandchildren Fionn and Taran; brother Robert; five cats; and his 5,000-book library.
A memorial concert at the BrooklynQueens Conservatory of Music was held in the fall
of 2009. Donations may be made in Don's memory to the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory.
Our condolences to Don's family.
Gerald Scott Hammond passed away in July 2009. Gerry was born in Hamilton, OH, in
1938. He was a i960 summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University with a bachelor
of arts and architecture degree, and in 1964. he received a bachelor of science degree
in architecture from M IT. He returned to Hamilton and was an associate ofthe

Steed-HammondPaul architecture firm for more than 42 years. Gerry retired as
president andCEOin2oo9.The firmfocused on arts, cultural and educational facilities,
banks and municipal buildings, and medical and dental offices. Gerry was an active
memberof professional and community organizations, including the Architects Society
of Ohio, the American Institute of Architects, the Design Futures Council Board, the
Hamilton Community Foundation, the Hamilton Rotary Club, the Hamilton Boys Club, die
Cincinnati Fine Arts Fund Board, and Buder County United Way. He was also an elder
of the Presbyterian Church of Hamilton. He married his wife, Gerry Grimm, in i960.
He is survived by his wife; sons Jeffrey, David, and Matthew; and grandchildren
Rachel, Benjamin, Nicolas, and Jared. Our condolences to the family. Memorials may
be directed to the Hamilton Community Foundation, the Presbyterian Church, or
Berkeley Square.
If you have memories of Don Knutson or Gerry Hammond, send them to me and I'll share
them with the class.
Regards to all. Send some good news!
-Mike Bertin,22GillmanSt., Irvine, CA 92612; e-mail: mcbi@aol.com If you want to
schmooze, call me at 949-786-9450.
1964
With regret, I announce the deaths of Douglas T. Browne and Jon D. Price.
Doug was my roommate for three years. He received his PhD in chemistry from the
University of Illinois and was a professor of chemistry at Worcester Polytech for
over 30 years. A longtime resident of South Hadley, MA, he moved to Westfield, MA,
three years ago. He leaves his son David, daughter Katherine, and former wife, Sheila.
Jon, of Lincoln, NE, received his PhD in cybernetics and electrical and mechanical
engineering from MIT. He is survived by his daughter, Megan Ospiguin, and by two
grandchildren, Alex and Jonathon.
Don Cameron retired from IBM and then from a smaller company. Don and his wife live
in the Bay Area and love to travel. He reports that Machu Picchu and Iguacú Falls
are absolute must-sees. His number-one son and wife and two grandchildren live in
Manhattan, while his other two kids live in the Bay Area. He is planning to make the
5 oth reunion.
Richard (Rick) Townsend and wife Laurel have moved to Bridgton, ME. Rick received
his PhD from Stanford and worked for Bell Labs and AT&T.
One of the new products introduced by my company, QinetiQ North America, has won the
Popular Science Invention of the Year Award. It is a soldier-worn sniper detection
and targeting system.
In preparation for our 5 oth reunion, we are trying to locate classmates for whom
we don't have an e-mail or address. Inmy next few columns, I will list a number of
them. If anyone can provide contact information for them, it would be most ap-preciated.
They include Michael Abraham, Richard J. Adamec, Franklin Adler, Raimundo
J. Aldana, Stephen C. Aid rich, Edward L. Anderson, Thomas H. Baker, Richard L.
Bernstein, Joseph Berube.Om P. Bhalotia, Charles G. Campbell, Jaime Caro, Patrick
Caulfield, Howard Cedar, John S. Clarke, Susan Cousins, and James Cutler.
-Bill Ribich, 18 Revere St., Lexington, MA 024.20; e-mail: wcribich@ comcast.net.
1965 45th REUNION
Steve Dangel reports that he and his wife, Paula, visited Donald Smith and his wife,
Jane Mickelson, at their retirement home in Bolinas, CA, which Don designed and
constructed with help from his kids and friends. Don took early retirement from the
Xerox Research Center in the Palo Alto area after working on many projects related

to plasma physics and thin-film deposition, the most notable being development of
the laser printer for Xerox. He also wrote a textbook on thin- film technology for
McGrawHill. (It's on sale at Amazon.com.) When they moved to Bolinas, 30 miles north
of San Francisco, they purchased a "fractional house" on a bluff overlooking the
Pacific Ocean- fractional because two-thirds of the house had tumbled down a 100-
foot sand cliff as a result of beach erosion. Don and Jane lived there for six-yearswhile
Don put together an inland parcel of land and constructed their retirement
house. The old house was made of redwood planks that now panel the interior of his
library. Don's solar-power system provides all of his electricity in summer, with
the excess sold back to the grid at summer rates, earning enough credits to fully
cover his electricity costs in winter! The house has three branches; a southern
exposure for the kitchen, dining room, and livingroom; and a master suite right out
of a design magazine. He figures he has a couple more years before all the finishing
touches are completed. Don volunteered his engineering talent to design and supervise
the construction of solar installations at their watertreatment plant and town fire
station.
A few days later in Steve and Paula's trip, they met Sid Everett and his wife , Becky,
in Los Altos, CA. Sid retired from a long career at SRI, working on space-vehicle
design and other high-tech projects, and then taught high-school math for six years.
The kids wore him down, and he is now fully retired and looking very relaxed.
Steve is also pleased to report that his daughter Alissa has finished her medical
residency in ob/gyn and is now employed at Tufts Hospital in Boston and on the teaching
staff of Tufts Medical School. His other daughter, Shari, works at the Natick Army
Labs as a packaging scientist. Steve is still at Dangel Robots and Machinery, with
no intention of retiring in the foreseeable future.
From Robert Goeke: "Hard to believe, but after 39 years, I'm still at the MIT Kavli
Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. I've just taken on the job of project
engineer for the Murchison Widefield Array, a radiotelescope 1.5 kilometers in
diameter, with 4,096 dipoles, that is being built in the Great Desert of Western
Australia. Daughter EUi is a visiting professor of geology at the University of
Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Son Rob is finishing a master's in conducting at Catholic
University; he and wife Amanda have a 10-month-old son, Ronan, our first grandchild."
From John Golden: "Ethel and I are still in the DC area in Fairfax, VA. I am still
the vice president of business development for Nakuuruq Solutions, an Alaskan native
corporation. I really enjoy my work, my health is excellent, and retirement seems
far away. I am currently serving as the chairman of our 4.5th-reuniongift committee,
and we are just beginning our solicitation in earnest. All our grandchildren relocated
to Virginia last summer, and we are quite busy keeping up with their activities. Golf
remains my other passion, and I try to get in as many rounds as I can. We look forward
to seeing as many classmates as possible next June at the reunion."
From Scott Graham: "After retiring in about 2002 and being a starving artist
(www.sgraham.com) for six years, I have decided to seek my 'fortune' in Beijing. I
really like living here, partly because the people have been so helpful and partly
because the art community is so much more open to new people-or less arrogant, to
put it another way. I made a threeweek trip here to visit my daughter in April 2008
and pretty much decided that moving here was a good idea. After a bit of thought,
I decided that maybe I should check it out more, so I came for three months as a visiting
artist with the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing. I then moved here in February 2009. 1
am teaching English at the Beijing University of Technology, continuing my art, and
putting some time into beta- testing software for graphics. Teaching English? And
one of the attractions of MIT for me was that I didn't like English? Well, it is easy
to get the job, and it pays at a modest U.S. rate versus a tiny Chinese rate. As a

result, I am doing well in spite of economic troubles in the U.S. It feels good, and
I am making a lot of fun contacts."
From Roger Graves: "Since retiring from teaching at the University ofVictoria three
years ago, I have enjoyed more time with amateur radio and audiophile hobbies, skiing,
kayaking, and beingactive with Buddhist groups. A minireunion last year with old ?GG
roommates was a great time."
Steve Greenberg and his wife, Sharon, have retired to Sturbridge, MA, to five close
enough, but no closer, to their daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter. Steve
retired after 4,0 years in the EDA business but still dabbles in computers for fun.
They have been enticed by Pauline and Tom Barkalow into the world of square
dancing.They still see Richard Homonoffand his wife, Emmie, occasionally.
-Cliff Weinstein, secretary, 26 Sherburne Rd., Lexington, MA 02421; tel: 781 -862-2751
(h),78i-98i-7"2i (w);fiuc 781-981-0186; e-mail: cjw@lLmit.edu
1966
After 16 years of running his company, SenTech, Gervasio Prado decided to take on
smaller projects working from home. The downsizing came a bit earlier than he would
have wanted, but it made sense in the present economic conditions. His son, Thomas,
just graduatedfromthe Rhode IslandSchoolof Design andistryingto make a living in New
York. Wife Mary Pat spends most of her time doingvolunteer fund-raising for various
organizations. Last April they spent three weeks in Sicily and Rome, sharing an
apartment with Johan Palme-Sierra andhiswife, MariPaz. Last year he was able to visit
with Felipe Herba and his wife, Rosa Ileana, who live in Santa Monica, CA. Another
vacationer, Gerald Clarke.visitedlsrael and then Florida ioassuage the pain of
gettingkicked out of fire service by the commissioner of Massachusetts because ofhis
age. More travelers, Carl Jones andwifeLenore'69,justreturned from the MIT China
solar-eclipse tour and the Yangtze River and Three Gorges trip. You can see Carl
fleetingly in a CBS News video, standing at the rail in die fai' left , at
www.cbsncws.com/ video/watch/?id=5i8i3i2n. Carl and Lenore also met up with Robert
Wolf, who was there on an independent trip, and joined him on a river cruise.
Don York, with wife Anna and daughter-in-law Emma, also made an extended trip to China.
They did some deeper touring of the standard sites and spent eight days in Tibet
(including a visit to the Cosmic Ray Observatory), and Don taught a short course in
interstellar matter at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He ran a large
meeting in Beijing last year (400 scientists), including one day at the Great Hall
of the People for a public event marking the 400th anniversary of the invention of
the telescope. He is also working in a small way on two Chinese telescope projects.
One is the Lamost spectroscopic survey project, and the other is just a dream, an
array of 400 small telescopes on the high Dome A plateau in Antarctica. He has enough
research to keep him busy and productive for at least a decade. His biggest reward,
however, is working with students and watching how much faster they get up to speed
using computers and very large data samples. His wife is a tutor and also teaches
Chinese exercise classes for disabled older adults.
After 13 years as Panasonic's North American chief technology officer, Paul
LiaoisnowpresidentandCEOof CableLabs. Earlier he worked at Bell Labs and Bellcore.
He and his wife are moving from New Jersey to Colorado. Jim Weigl has settled into
being more of an inventor and company founder than a strict mechanical engineer. He
fives in Las Vegas and is working on the application of new LED technology to off -road
vehicles.
Stan Horowitz continues at the I nstitute for Defense Analyses, working mosdy on
manpower and readiness issues. He went to Taiwan to talk about the government's
planned transition to a volunteer military. His wife, Carole Kitti, is a budget
examiner in the labor branch at the Office of Management and Budget. His youngest

son, David, just graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is interning
at Washington Hospital Center. Stanand Carole vacationin Hawaii everyyear and also
visit Hilton Head and the North Carolina Outer Banks pretty regularly. Fritz Schaefer
received his 18th honorary degree, a doctorate from Babes- Bolyai University in
Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Babes Bolyai is often considered to be the most comprehensive
university in central Europe. Fritz was also selected as one of the inaugural class
of fellows of the American Chemical Society.
Michael Ward left Adobe in 1999 and started Hidden Knowledge, an e-book publishing
company. He admits it was a bit early but events seem to be catching up. All their
books are available on Kindle, at the new Barnes and Noble storefront, and everywhere
else they can think of. When things were quiet, he put old, public-domain magazine
art (covers and advertisements) on the Web at www.magazineart.org. The Scientific
American covers and old Gernsback titles might be of interest. Tom Hall has retired
from teaching and has more time for other passions, such as ftdlbrain development
and global health. Tom strongly advocates rewarding healthy lifestyles as a
cost-effective solution to ever-escalating health costs. Michael Adler and Jerry
Appelstein '80 led a session on increasing participation levels of five-year reunion
giving at last fall's Alumni Leadership Conference. Our class set records for 4.0th,
35th, 30th, 25th, and 15th. Get ready for the 45th!
Frederick N. Webb died unexpectedly in Lowell, MA, on July 12, 2009. Fred worked as
a computer scientist all his life. For a few summers he interned at NASA, where he
was developing telemetry to aid in the moon missions. He worked for Bolt, Beranek,
and Newman in Cambridge, MA helping to invent tools for the Internet. He spent the
last 10 years at Total View Technology. Fred was a Cub Scout and Boy Scout leader
for many years and a member of the New Bostonian Barbershop Chorus. He was also a
member of the First Church of Christ Congregational Church in Bedford, MA, where h e
was a deacon and served on many church boards. His wife of 42 years, Cynthia (Woods)
Webb, and his three sons survive him.
-Eleanore Klepser, secretary, 84 Northledge Dr., Snyder, NY 14226-4056; tel:
716-839-3525; e-mail: eklepser@alum.mit.edu
1967
Last July, Nolan Perreiraandhis 18-yearold son drove from North Carolina to the San
Diego convention center to attend ComicCon 2009. They spent fourdaysat the con-ventionand
visited die south rim of the Grand Canyon on theirreturn. Their 5,500-
mileroad trip "from sea to shining sea" took nine memorable days, during which they
marveledatdievastnessandemptiness of most of America, and duringwhich their 2003
Prius averaged42-3 milesper gallon. ComicCon is a convention for fans
andprofessionalsin the movie and electronic-gaming industries, especially science
fiction and fantasy fans and professionals. Nolan notes, "You getto listento, talk
with, andmeetwith people from every level of society, including most of the stars
from shows such as StargateSGi, Fringe, Torchwood, and Bones. Between 120,000 and
200,000 people attend. It's a hoot!"
Ted Williams is finally able to work at home in Gloucester, VA, on the Littoral combat
ship Freedom (LCS-1), which is the first U.S. naval ship to employ a modular combat
suite. Because the ship's design is based on open architecture and standardized
interfaces, the various combat systems can be changed out as modules, and within48
hours the ship canbe reconfigured from, for example, an antisubmarine vessel to a
mine warfare ship or a surface attack platform. Its high speed, multiple light- and
mediumweight guns, and unmanned air and sea vehicles also make it an ideal platform
for supporting special forces or hunting down pirates. Ted and Karen enjoy life along
the river with their boats, ducks, cats, and dog.

Having failed retirement twice, Chet Sandberg is engaged in a number of energy
projects. He retired from Raychem/Tyco in 2002 and spent five years at Shell,
commuting to Houston to work on electrical heaters for an oil shale project in
Colorado. There are an estimated two trillion barrels of oil in die Piceance Basin
in northwest Colorado, which the Department ofEnergy says could make America
oil-independent. Although the pilot project was successful, significant envi-ronmental
andeconomicissuesremain. Chet also works with Altairnano, a lithium-ion
battery company with technology that is halfway between a supercapacitor and a lithium
battery. Altairnano did rapid charge of an electrical car in 10 minutes in 2007,
beating the MIT team by two years. In addition') these two big projects, Chet also
has lightning protection, legal consulting, and server-farm energy management on the
menu. Although fighting the usual aches and pains of aging, he still sails, fishes,
and skis. Daughter Kristen has a one-year-old named Anders, named for a 1790 relative
she found by using the family tree from Sweden. I'm betting that grandfathering will
prove to be the most rewarding of all of Chet's projects. He's planninglots
oftooltime" to promote engineering-an especially important job since most of Anders's
relatives are doctors who have already given him play stethoscopes.
It has been four years since Larry Galpin retired to Newark, DE, home of the University
of Delaware. Hc and Bertie fill their time with volunteer work, tennis, golf,
bicycling, travel, and family activities. They have a grandsonin Brooklynwho is three
andareal delight. Daughter Lauren, a doctor, married another doctor in October.
As vice provost for globalization at the University of Southern California, Adam
Powell opened new USC offices thisyear in Shanghai, Seoul, and India. He notes, "USCis
expandingits global footprint!"
Bill Taylor put together an equivalent of Google maps for complicated buildings such
as conceit halls. When a fire alarm goes off, the firefighters have no clue how to
find it His system knows the locations of the alarms and prints a 3-D map showing
how to get to the right room. This saves a great deal of time. The system pays foritself
by posting advertisements for regular visitors. Bill adds, Tm writinga book that
applies Confucius's philosophy of governance to what is going on in the U.S. Confucius
documented three simple rules for how society operates. History shows that societies
that diverge too far from his path of virtue collapse-Constantinople, the Roman
Empire, ancient Israel. More than a dozen Chinese dynasties followed the Confucian
cycle of collapse, war, reunification, peace, and bureaucratic excess, which again
led to collapse. The United States is slidinginto die abyss of the Confucian cycle
just as the Chinese are climbing out. When communism didn't work, they tried
capitalism. When capitalism recendy got a black eye, they started going back to
Confucianism, which has had 2,500 years of testing. Democracy is only 200 years old;
the Chinese leadership can be forgiven for thinking it hasn't been tested long enough
for them to tryit. Illsend anyone parts of the book for comment. My agent wants me
to find people who will say something for the back cover."
Rachel and Bob Howard enthusiastically enjoy raisingMax and Jacob, their
four-year-old twins. Bob notes that he and Jon Sussman serve on the board ofthe South
Florida M IT Club and that Jon was promoted to assist in coordinating all research
at Florida International University's new medical school. Bob also reports that Eric
Coe retired from his practice of medicine in Leesburg, FL, and devotes his time to
his six children, travel, and his investments. His youngest son, Austin, entered NYU
last fall, after spending a year in China and becoming fluent in Chinese. Eric's
youngest daughter is a teenager living at home.
Here in alphabetical order are the 20 classmates and spouses who attended our
fun-filled minireunion at the St. Botolph Club in Boston on Sept. n: John Acevedo,
Ray Ferrara, Bob Ferrara, Cheryl and Harold Jones, Pamela and Joe Levangie.Glenda
and Don Mattes, Tom Miller, Vera and Fred Orthlieb, Myrna and John Ross, Janice and

John Rudy, Elaine and Joel Shwimer, and Karen and Ted Williams. Most attendees were
local, of course, and special recognition was thus given to those who traveled the
farthest-the WiIliamses from Virginia, the Orthliebs from the Philadelphia area, and
John Acevedo from Baltimore. Bob Ferrara notes that the spouses graciously allowed
our classmates their quirks. "For example, the clump of us down at the far end ofthe
table meticulously traced the genealogy of the bygone computer companies of
yesteryear (e.g., Data General, Prime)."
Given the retirement virus sweeping through our class, many of us will have more time
for such minireunions in the years ahead Anyone interested in helping organize such
an event in the San Francisco Bay Area should contact me. I recall that Bill Murray
and I had fun organizing one out here long before the birth ofthe Internet. We called
it the 16%-Year Reunion. Any takers?
-Jim Swanson, secretary, 878 Hoffman Terr., Los Altos, CA 94024; e-mail: jswan-son@
alum.mit.edu
1968
Greetings again from the banks ofthe Potomac. Mike just returned from a week in Japan,
and we are about to head to Europe for a combination of Gail's work and vacation.
The garden is winding down for the fall, and boating season is almost over.
We are pleased to have one wedding to report. Robert Phair married Ann Chasson on
July 16, 2009, on the patio at a wonderful bed-and-breakfast, the Faunbrook Inn, in
West Chester, PA Ann has been steeped in MIT lore, first by meeting many of Bob's
friends and classmates at our 40th reunion last year in Cambridge, and then at
occasional MIT get-togethers in the San Francisco Bay Area, where they make their
home. She's heard stories from Les Kramer, Robert Condap, Michael Oman, Peter Blicher
'69, Dan Greenhouse, and Ed Radio '67. By good luck or by a fortunate and un-characteristic
prudence on the part of these storytellers, she heard nothing that
changed her mind about Bob. After the wedding, they returned to California and threw
a West Coast party attended by 50 oftheir closest friends, including four from MIT -
two from the crowd mentioned above, and two who are spouses of friends and neighbors.
Bob adds, "I'm the most fortunate guy on the planet."
We have two inputs from classmates who studied engineering and now have new biomedical
products. Dave Chanoux wrote about a new Plethysmograph simulator that his firm,
Scanning Devices, developed jointly with Morgan Scientific and John Howard '67. It
is a device used to calibrate equipment that measures pulmonary function in patients
with emphysema, cystic fibrosis, sleep disorders, and other lung diseases. They
started development in late 2007 and delivered the first unit in October 2008. 1 liked
the fact that it uses a Bluetooth link to a separate PDA for its control information.
For some time, Steve Reimers has been working with a small group of dedicated
individuals-"The Consortium," as they call themselves-on the National Brain Injury
Rescue and Rehabilitation Project. One ofthe primary goals is to get hyperbaric oxygen
therapy(HBOT)incorporatedintothe treatment of traumatic brain injury and
post-traumatic stress disorder. particularly for battle veterans. With aseries of
case studies and a30-patient clinical study complete, Steve is raisingfunds for a
large-scale clinical study. (More details on the class Web page.) They hope that the
results will also allow future studies on the effectiveness of HBOT for other
conditions.
Randy Brack recently married his wife, Karen, for the 1 ith time in a little over
14 years! This time was in a balloon in Napa Valley, CA. Technically, each occasion
is a renewal of vows. Some ofthe more interesting ones were the two Elvis weddings
(one in achapel and one drivingup and down the Las Vegas Strip in a pink Cadillac
convertible); the pagan handfasting; the sunset wedding at sea officiated by the
ship's captain; the Native American wedding in an Eskimo village surrounded by totem

poles; and Randy's favorite, the voodoo wedding in New Orleans (with the snake dancer,
of course). The recent wedding was conducted in the canopy of the balloon, which was
both colorful and beautiful, followed by an aerial trip that took them more than 5
,000 feet up. Karen would like to thank all those who attended the 40th reunion and
voted her an honorary member of the Class of 1968.
When Ken Rosenberg wrote, he was enjoying the 21st month ofthe best job he's ever
had-retirement. His summer was animal- focused; he completed a 20-week training
course at the Philadelphia Zoo and is now a docent. Although speaking with adults
in front of big cats, rhinos, or zebras is fun, nothing beats talking withthe-kids:"
Eyes really widen when I ask them to stick out their tongues and then I roll
out an 18-inch piece of purple felt so they can compare their tongues to that of a
giraffe." Recent travel included two weeks in Zambia and Botswana's Okavango Delta,
gettingup close andpersonal with over3o species of mammals and 116 species of birds
in their native environments.
Pam and Scott Marks had a great adventure last summer and fallbri nging their boat
from Chicago to Boston via the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence Seaway, and Nova Scotia.
They left Chicago on July 9, and when last heard from (Sept. 14), they were in Bar
Harbor, ME, having traveled about 2,600 nautical miles. They enjoyed visiting many
large cities, including Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Charlottetown, and Halifax,
plus lots of small, quaint cities along the way. They planned to be in Boston in early
October for MIT Corporation meetings; then they expected to continue south to reach
Fort Lauderdale, FL, by mid- to late December.
Also on a boat is Jim Natland.Heis in one ofthe more obscure corners of the world,
aplace called Shatsky Rise in the northwest Pacific. That's a big pile of lava, perhaps
something like Iceland, that erupted between about 145 million and 125 million years
ago and is now about 3,5 00 meters deep. Jim is on the research drilling vessel JOIDES
Resolution. When he wrote, the team was at the first of five planned drill sites that
will tell them what the lava is and, hopefully, why such a big pile of it is here.
Jim's job is to look at the rocks when they come aboard in cores. For those in the
know, the test is ofthe plume hypothesis versus the plate hypothesis-that is, whether
Earth's mantle sometimes behaves like a blowtorch and kicks out a lot of molten
material, or whether the only thing that happens is that a crack forms in the surface
rocks, allowing magma to leak out.
That's all for now. We look forward to hearing fronryou next time!
-Gail and Michael Marcus, 'isecretaries, 8026 Cypress Grove Ln., Cabin John, MD 20818;
e-mail: ghmarcus@alumjnitedu;mjmarcus@ alum.mit.edu.
1969
Roger Chang and his lovely wife of 40 years, Lula, made it back to the joint services
commissioning ceremony for MIT military officers during the 40threunion week. This
was hosted by General David Petraeus, who commissioned his son Stephen in the U.S.
Army infantry branch, along with the other ROTC graduates. Roger wrote, Torty years
ago, Lula stood up on the stage at Kresge Auditorium and pinned on my bars at my
commissioning ceremony. This is the first ceremony that we ever returned for; we
joined the newly formed MIT military alumni association. We had a great time at the
ceremony, hosted at the coast guard station with a five band, refreshments, and an
address by President Susan H ockfield. The room was packed compared with my
commissioning during the very unpopular Vietnam War. As the commander of an American
Legion postin Columbia, MD, I understand how sending packages to troops and welcoming
them home goes a long way to show support. We were happy to be included in the very
limited number of alumni permitted to attend."
Larry Hill writes, "For the last 14 years I have been runninga small consult-ing-
business applying embedded and networking technology to industrial control,

supervisory control and data acquisition, and machine-tomachine telemetry problems.
Clients are a mix oflarge compames and startups. Earlier I was in various executive
roles in a series of early-stage companies. I enjoy the constant flow of new ideas
and settings that consulting brings, and will probably keep doing k forever. I recendy
received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research award from the Department
ofTransportation for 'near-term technologies to mitigate Shockwaves in traffic' For
tirisi am building on two patents that I and colleagues recendy applied for and
creatinga car-to-car data network that offers a different direction than established
government programs. Joan, my wife of 39 years, does bookkeeping for small businesses
and has recendy started a new venture of her own,calledTuscany:AJourneyfordie Senses.
The program offers one-week vacations in the Orcia valley, each with hands-on
instruction in a different art medium. Two classes 1112009 covered pastels and
sculpture; seven courses are offered for 2010. We five full time on Cape Cod and enjoy
the nearby ocean and the variation of seasons."
Rodger Doxseypassedawayin October 2009 in Baltimore, after losing his valiant battle
with cancer. Hc was "the most knowledgeable person abouthow the Hubble Space Telescope
works and the head of our HST mission office for manyyears," said D. Jack MacConnell,
who worked with Rodger on the Hubble. "He came here in 1981 from Boston _. and quickly
became the central pillar of the whole operation. He won the George Van Biesbroeck
Award of the American Astronomical Society in 1994 for his inspiring and inspired
dedication to the Hubble. He will be sorely missed."
-Carl B. Everett, secretary, e-mail: ceverett@alum.mit.edu
1970 40th REUNION
We are writing this column in late September, following a meeting of our 40th Reunion
Committee in Cambridge. By the time this appears, most of the arrangements should
be set. Put the dates on your calendar: June 3-6.
In recent issues, we've updated you on some of the committee members. Here are a few
more updates.
Pam Whitmanis living in Grass Valley, CA, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. She
writes, "The pioneer spirit of the place extends to my work as a painting therapist,
working with the connection between light, color, and darkness and the human being.
I also teach and am working with a colleague to create a school for this work in the
U.S. (I had to go to Holland to learn it!)" Pam is applying her talents to our reunion
book and other areas in need of an aesthetic touch.
Hilarie Orman, who lives in Utah with Rich Schroeppel '68, stays busy with software
research consulting and development, mosdy for secure Internet communication. Their
daughter was MIT Class of '94. Hilarie, along with Tim Dalton, has tackled Internet
communications issues for us.
Ed Chalfie is still practicing intellectual-property law in Chicago and says he is
not ready to retire. His youngest child is a junior at Tulane. Ed couldn't make the
reunion committee meeting in September because he was in Los Angeles, helping Jack
LaLanne celebrate his 95th birdiday. "He's not ready to retire either," Ed noted.
Mike Bromberg declares that he is "still a filthy hippie: riding a motorcycle,
climbing mountains, wearing tie-dyed shirts, shooting dogs, and going to jam-band
concert festivals, including the reconstituted Grateful Dead. (Remember the free Dead
concert on the steps of the student center during our spring weekend?)" He has climbed
all but one of the 100 highest peaks of the contiguous U.S., and all of the New
Hampshire 4,000-footers in every month of die year. He has also created five popular
trail maps of the White Mountains and has been working on a map of the Monadnock trails.
Mike, who has lived in Mason, NH, since 1983,1s semiretired after3oyears of-beingalternately
self-employed and self-unemployed as an electronicengineering

consultant, putting chips on boards. He says his hardware business has gone overseas
or been replaced with software or biggerchips. He stays busy designing stage lighting
and renting out his garage full of lighting equipment, includi ngrecent designs for
both the MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players and the MIT M usical Theatre Guild.
Alejandro Chu works on Department of Defense radars, from development to acquisition
to testing, but has a full set of personal hobbies. He still works on his cars and
enjoys the outdoors. He runs and rides bikes, motorcycles, and horses. He also likes
yoga and meditation. Although he was scheduled to reach retirement age in December
2009, as of last fall he had not yet figured out what to do next.
Jill Witteisls in her nindi year working on strategy at the corporate office of L -3
Communications in New York, though she continues to make her home in Brookline, MA.
December marked her 40th anniversary married to Norman Wittels '69, who teaches
physics at Brookline High. Their daughter Heather (Yale '05) landed a post as a first
violin in the Chicago Lyric Opera. Jill said she and Norman may think about retiring
sometime, tut not any time soon."
Thomas D. Halket formed Halket Weitz-a corporate boutique, with five lawyers and
offices in Westchester and New York City-after manyyears at large law firms, focused
on technology-related transactions and clients. He has also been acting as an
arbitrator or mediator in complex international and domestic disputes, traveling to
places like Prague, Paris, and London. Additionally, he has been an adjunct professor
at Fordham Law School, teaching a course on representing technology startups. He finds
teaching great fun and very rewarding, but "a horrific amount of work" The last time
he earned so little on an hourly basis, he said, was probably working the desk in
East Campus. He has served as president and chairman of the MIT Club of New York City,
as an MIT venture mentor, and as an officer or board member of several NYC charities.
He and his wife, Amy, live in Larchmont, NY. Their oldest son received his PhD in
economics in 2009 and moved to London on a research fellowship. Their second son has
been one of the survivors on WaUStreet-Theirthirdsongraduated from MIT last spring
and tooka job at a currency and commodities trading fund. Their daughter is at
Washington University in St. Louis. The family tries to ski out west at least once
a year, and Tom has taken up golf more seriously. "I am no longer miserable at it,
only somewhat miserable," he said.
Carson Ag new went to China last summer to view the solar eclipse from alocationa
little south of Suzhou, near Shanghai. But when rain was forecast, his group drove
six hours west to the Anqing, where it was merely cloudy. As totality approached,
Carson was able to catch a few glimpses of the sun and moon. Although the weather
was disappointing, he saw a part of China he never expected to see.
That's it for people working on our reunion. Now another classmate:
Don Edwardshasbeenonthefaculty atGeorgia State University for 28years, beginning in
the biology department and adding appointments in physics and in a new department ,
the Neuroscience Institute. He said he learned of neuroscience at MIT, after taking
Jerry Lettvin's course devoted to the mind-body problem and Hans Lucas Teuber^s
introductory psychology course. "He posed a fascinating question: how do we perceive
visual images as 3-D objects in the world rather than as sensations on the retina?
This, together with Professor William Siebert's course on systems theory (6.05), led
meto consider trying to use my electrical- engineering training to understandhow the
brain works." Don studied vision in cockroaches for his PhD. As an MITsenior, he
participated in the MIT-Wellesley exchange, resulting in his marriage to Genevieve
Steele, their children Florence and Jack, and a keen interest in China and Russia.
"Life has been ablast, forwhich I'm profoundly grateful," he says. "The people of
Georgia pay me to play with crayfish in a lab full of neat equipment and interested
students. (We callit 'reverse engineering an alien technology") I've had the joy of

watching my kids blossom into really interesting and loving people, and of ex-periencing
it all with my very best friend."
On that upbeat note, we wish you a happy end of winter.
-Karen and Greg Arenson, secretaries, 125 W 76th St., Apt. 2A, New York, NY roo23;
e-mail: karenson@ alum.mit.edu; gregory@alum.mit.edu
1971
Robert J. Ranee died June 28, 2009, following a lengthy battie with cancer. He was
raised and educated in New York and then earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees
from MIT He was employed as anelectrical engineer with Bell Labs and Lucent
Technologies for 3r years until his retirement. Anavidoutdoorsman,he enjoyed
cross-country skiing and hiking and he trained in crew for the r 972 Olympics. He
is survived by his wife, Anne-Marie (Carroll) Ranee, and children Andrew, Samantha,
and Natalie. I also received a note from Phil Smith informing me ofthe death of Malcolm
Casadaban. Phil writes, "He was my roommate (along with Mark Gillman) in Baker House
the first year I was at the 'Tute. I'll always remember this really sharp kid from
Louisiana. One day it snowed, and after playing with the white stuff on the windowsill
of 346 for a while, he went outside to play. I warned him that snow hurt if you played
too much. So I was not surprised when Malcolm came back, holding his hands out all
red and saying, 'Wow! It's really cold!' Turns out he had never seen snow! Sounds
like he did well, learned much, and contributed a lot. We're worse off without him
but better off by knowinghim." Phil included a link to an article by Carlos Sadovi
of the Chicago Breaking News Center; the following is an adapted excerpt: "Malcolm
Casadaban, a University of Chicago molecular-genetics professor studying the origins
of harmful bacteria, died Sept. 13 after contracting an infection linked to the
plague. He was studyinga weakened laboratory strain of Yersinia pestisthatlackedthe
plague bacteria's harmful components." His obituary noted, "Malcolm was regarded as
a humble man of high integrity, loyalty, and loving kindness. His untimely death
brings deep grief to all who knew and loved him. Hc was a highly respected scientist
with a brilliant mind." He is survived by his fiancée and two children.
I had previously forwarded this notice from Bob Schulte, but I include it here (slighdy
edited) for those who receive only the print version ofTR. "I regret to inform you
that my daughter, Roslyn Littmann Schulte (first lieutenant; US. Air Force) was killed
in action by a roadside improvised explosive device inAfghanistan onMay2o, 2009. She
was serving as anintelligence officer on the combined security transition team in
Kabul and working with the AfghanArmy G2 aspart of Operation Enduring Freedom. Roslyn
was a 2006 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, where she majoredinpoliti-calscience.
Roz is the first female graduate of the academy killed by an enemy
combatant." Several people wrote to express sympathy for Bob, including Hugh Sprunt,
Jay Miller, Tom Pipai, and Jeff Cooper. As a mother of daughters, I cannot imagine
how I would endure the loss of a child.
Last May, Raisa Berlin Deber.aprofessor at the University ofToronto, was honored to
deliver the 2009 Emmett Hall Memorial Lecture, one of Canada's most prestigious
lectureships, at the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Health Services
and Policy Research. In her presentation, Raisa drew extensively on her team's study,
in collaboration with colleagues in Manitoba, of medical savings accounts (MSAs).
MSAs would change how health care is financed, giving potential consumers fixed
allowances with which to purchase specified health-care services. In theory, this
would save money by forcing people tobe wise consumers of health care. Her team's
studies of the distribution of health-care costs in Manitoba foundthat "in every
age-sexgroup, approximately 80 to 90 percent of the population spends less than the
mean ofthat group for physician and hospital services." She noted that it is difficult
to glean savings from people who do not incur costs and said her team's calculations
suggest that MSAs would both increase total spending and shift costs to the most

vulnerable. Raisa suggested that abetter approach would be to develop strategies to
improve costs and outcomes for the high-spending populationand to keep the
low-spending population healthy. Raisa also acknowledged the hostile reception (at
least in some circles) accorded to her team's research but emphasized the fundamental
importance of being inapositionto"speaktruthto power." It is essential, she argued,
"to be able to maintain programs of research, even if the particular policy issues
being examined are not on the front burner at that moment."
-Laura Middleton, secretary, 8 Windridge Rd., Essex Junction, VT 05452; tel:
802-879-3515; e-mail: nlauramiddlcton@alum.mit.edu
1972
Apologies to all whose notes must be cut short. The online version has about one-third
more of everyone's news, and much more flavor.
For Paul Lentrichia, the senior partner of RI Surgeons, it was a shock to have part
of his pancreas removed. "From my hospital room at Mass General Hospital, I could
see my old dorm, McGregor!" he wrote. "Fortunately, everything was benign. On the
way out of the hospital, I asked the young volunteer if she lived nearby. She said,
"No, I only go to school here- MIT.' I flashed my brass rat and her eyes ht up." Paul
is looking forward to our 40th in June 2012.
Joe Kashi is active in his local Rotary Club in Alaska, which just finished a project
that he spearheaded and partly funded. It used digital cameras and the Internet to
help elementary and middle-school students in Soldotna contact their opposite numbers
in Siberia. This got great publicity, and digital-arts programs started in a few local
schools. His wife is currently president of the Alaska School Psychologists As-sociation.
Joe practices law full time and travels to do presentations about legal
technology. He has two major photo exhibits in two cities 80 miles apart, which busied
him with last- minute framing and meant less salmon fishing or flying, but he says,
"We still had a chance to take our 15 -year-old daughter to several semipro baseball
games."
Bard Richmond is enjoying retirement andhis kids.whoare eight, eight, and six: "I
love to take them individually on trips, like last summer to Iceland, where we used
crampons and ice axes on what's left of one of their glaciers. We side-tripped to
Greenland. The whole family spent another summer in Hood River, OR, where the
kite-boarding winds are fantastic" Bardhopestomakewww.cvm.org bigger-it's helping
60,000 homeless per year now.
Congrats to Donald J. D'Amico,who was elected president of the Club Jules Gonin,
international society for vitreoretinal specialists. Donald continues his patient
care, teaching, and research in retinal-detachment surgery, age-related macular
degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and other retinal disorders as chair of the
Department of Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College/New York-Presbyterian
Hospital. His wife, Dr. Kimberly C. Sippel, is also an ophthalmologist there
specializing in cornea and cataract, so the only question for their 16- month-old
daughter, Arianna, is: "In which part of the eye will she specializer?"
Nicholas Lazaris's daughter Madeline graduated from Columbia with a BAin art history
and is looking hard for a full-time job in New York's art world. Meanwhile, Nick is
not continuing as a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School; although teaching
was fun, he felt he was on the sidelines as an academic and missed "dealing with real
business problems in a real-time mode." In September Mark Wlodarczyk and his wife,
Beth, returned from their annual pilgrimage to the Monterey Jazz Festival: "Highlight
for me was Stanley Clarke doing unnatural things to his acoustic bass during the
Sunday-night finale. It was also a delight seeing Dave Brubeck and Pete Seeger." Son
Nick is majoring in jazz performance on trombone at the University of North Texas.
They drove to Monterey, CA, from Glendale, AZ: "We tried the patience of our GPS by

wandering off the designated route at our whim along the way." Mark spent the last
threeyears as a software "middleware jack-of-all-trades" at a now-dissolved agency,
so he is at B2G now. "We help local municipalities track compliance to disad-vantaged/
woman/minorityowned business expenditures. I got the lead for this new job
via my local MIT alumni club!"
Han Vo-Ta cofounded the MIT Club of Singapore with Lim Hock San (SM 73) in 1983. They
held a big party to celebrate its 25th anniversary early this year, with Susan
Hockfield visiting. Recendy M IT Alumni Association president Ken Wangsuggested that
Han should help set up the MIT Club ofVietnam. Kindly contact Han at vo-ta.
han@alum.mit.edu if you are an MIT alum currently in Vietnam, if you wish to expand
your business operations to Singapore or Vietnam, or if you want to meet other MIT
friends in the region.
Bob Scott retired after 34 years with Hewlett-Packard and its spinoff Agilent
Technologies. He is doing some consulting work, reading travel, genealogy research,
and enjoyment of his 20-something-year-old kids. He found time recently to go camping
with Don Rogai and their wives, before California's fiscal crisis forced any park
closures.
Our cosecretary, Dave deBronkart, is "loving life!" He is workingpart time at
TimeTrade, because his health-care "hobby" has become a true calling. Dave started
www.ePatientDave.com and gave the opening keynote at the Medicine 2.0 Congress in
Toronto: "Yes, a patient giving the opening address at a medical conference-and it
was well received!" He became an avid bike rider and in September was the number-four
fund-raiser on a 25-mile ride for cancer research at Beth Israel Deaconess; he
was also planning a ride with Paul Levy and Bill Reenstra in Boston. "Got to walk
my daughter down the aisle in May, helped send Mom on an 8oth-birthday trip to
Provincetown, MA, and spoke at four health policy meetings in DC so far this year
[2009] ," he reports. Dave is also the cochair of the new Society for Participatory
Medicine. Its journal was set to launch on Oa. 21, 2009.
David Slesinger gave the keynote address at the We Demand Transparency conference
inNewYorkand went to Europe for the first time to Paris for die Vers La Vérité
conference in October. David's speech was tided "Buildingdie Bridge: How Can We Unite
die Peace and Truth Movements?"
Paul Howard sent die sad news that his MIT roommate Mark Haberman of Bridgewater,
MA, passed away on Sept. h after a lengthy hospitalization. Mark had struggled with
diabetes his whole life. Early in 2009 he had a successful pancreas transplant, but
he developed a series of infections to which he finally succumbed. Mark had lived
in Senior House and was a humanities major. He had been a dentist in Seattle. He is
survived by his fadier, a sister, and a brother.
That's it for this month, but hope to hear from you soon.
-Wendy Elaine Erb.cosecretary, 1819 Meadow Ridge Rd., # G, Vail, CO 81657; e -mail:
wee@alum.mit.edu; Dave deBronkart, cosecretary, 17 Grasmcrc Ln., Nashua NH 03063;
e-mail: debronkart@alum.mit.edu
1973
Dustin Ordway writes, "With one child having graduated from NYU last May (at the new
Yankee Stadium), having two more in college does not seem so bad. In December 2008,
1 published a book onrowingfor health (RowDaily, Breathe Deeper, Live Better: A Guide
to Moderate Exercise; more at www.rowdaily.com). I've enjoyed talking with rowers
and non-rowers alike, around die country and in Canada, about die healdi benefits
of moderate exercise. I left the law firm I had been with for many years and formed
my own firm in August 2009. 1 will continue to specialize in environmental law and
to provide facilitative mediation services in all kinds of cases. Kim, my wife of

31 years, and I have lived in Grand Rapids, MI, for over 20 years now. We get back
to Boston and New York City as often as we can, but having an easy io-minute commute
and being this close to our cottage on Lake Michigan makesthepain ofnotbeingonthe
East Coast livable."
Greg Moore provides his first-ever contribution, noting that he and his wife, Wynne
Szeto, are now officially empty nesters. "We moved daughter Gwendalyn into a dorm
at George Washington University the last weekend of August,and tiien prompdy fled
the country, joining an MIT Alumni Travel trip for a visit to Prague and then a very
enjoyable cruise along the Danube River for a week. There were seven MITersondie trip,
including Gerry Marandino '65 and his wife, Laura, along with alums from Berkeley,
Rice.Texas A&M, and Penn. Upon the return to Boston, it was my pleasure to attend
the Leadership Awards Dinner at the Alumni Leadership Conference on Sept. 26, where
Joe Hadzima received the Bronze Beaver Award, Mike Scott received the Henry B. Kane
Award, and Bob Fritzsche received the George B. Morgan Award. Congratulations to the
award recipients." And congratulations from your secretary as well!
Nadir Godrej met Alex Tscherkow (Course X) on his first visit to India. Nadir had
a great time with Alex and his daughter, Elizabedi, and packed as much as possible
into a day. Nadir's brother Adi Godrej '63 hosted a dinner for Chancellor Philip Cla y
and for Indian alumni.
From Andrew Celentano: "Sold my agency, SkyWorld Interactive, last year and set up
a private consulting company, the Melrose Asset Group, specializing in small -business
strategy, turnarounds, mergers and acquisitions, and online marketing. Meanwhile,
I'm playing classical piano in local venues in the area, including die Boston Symphony
Orchestra Cafe and engagements for the local classical station, WCRB. I'm working
on a Victor Borge act with a friend of mine. In my spare time I'm working with an
MIT inventor on a new technology that will change the world of broadcast news forever
(or at least for a couple ofyears). My wife, Hilary.hasrediscoveredwhat a great sketch
artist she is. Daughter number one (Sutton) is acing all her courses in industrial
design at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, and she is planning an elaborate
wedding in 2011. Daughter number two (Regan) and son Andrew have taken some time off
from college toget their bearings. I'm also looking for a major career opportunity.
If anyone knows of an opening in a large company for an executive vice president of
sales or marketing or such, please send info my way (acelentano@alum.mit.edu) and
put a good word in for me.
David Ponjshkindlywrites.Thanks for keeping the MIT 73 flame burning all diese years.
It has been great to watch our cohort cycle through the stages of life." As to his
own life, he notes, "Well, after missing the flares, cards, semaphores, tea leaves,
and e-mails for 35 years, I finally moved with my wife, dog, and cat to Mountain View,
CA. We joined my two daughters, who pioneered the move to San Francisco, and my diree
roommates from MIT, Rich Laiderman (who retired as executive vice president of
Providian), Hyo Jung Kim (whom I visited in his lovely family-medicalpractice
building in San Francisco's Japan Town), and Drew Wade, who is missing in action but
is out there somewhere, perhaps among die intermediate bosons he used to study. In
1998, 1 left a full professorship in literature and electronicmedia at RPI. In my
18 years there, I wrote some books and a bunch of journal and magazine articles, won
some awards for teaching, and traveled the world talking about cyberculture. I spent
an amazing FuIbright year at die Technion in Israel with my wife and diree kids, living
in a villa overlooking the Mediterranean.
"I left RPI to launch a company, adTV, after being seized with a revelation literally
in the middle of teaching a graduate seminar. With lessons learned from diat exciting
if quixotic venture, I specialized in e-learning and new media, eventually servingas
executive director of learning environments for the 64 State University of New York
campuses, giving grants to campuses for computing and watchingdie lights turn on.

Nonedieless, I couldn't resist the lure of entrepreneurial ventures and launched
SpongeFish-a social network for knowledge exchangeafter raising a bunch of capital.
It got me out to San Francisco and put me on a team with people much younger and smarter
than me. I was then asked by MentorNet.net to become CEO, takingdie reins from its
founder and CEO of 12 years. We're a nonprofit, matching mentors in industry with
protégés in engineering and science at 100 universities and colleges over the Web.
I'm proud that M IT is one of our staunchest partners. The economy hit us hard,
especially since so many of the campuses we rely on for annual fees were hurting,
but we've survived through austerity and a move of our entire operationsto the cloud.
Cheersto all of my classmates, old squash teammates, and friends from Course XXI ."
Wouldn'tbe much of a column without notes from Tom Lydon (I guess it's really Grandpa
Tom now). His granddaughter is "16 months old and walking (well, running) everywhere,"
he writes. "Mary Paula and I just learned that our oldest daughter, Mary Elizabeth
(Wclleslcy '02), will be having identical twin girls next March! That will be three
granddaughters under the age of two running everywhere. This should be a good way
for me to get back in shape for running marathons again! On a sad note, Mary Paula's
only brother, Kenny, passed away Aug. 23 at die age of 52, after a twoand-a-half-year
battle with sarcoma. I was the best man at his wedding in 1983 and gave a eulogy at
his funeral. Ithasbeen very difficult, especiallyfor Mary Paula, because he leaves
a wife and diree children behind."
-Robert M. O. Sutton Sr., class secretary, 13878 Lewis Mill Way, Chantilly, VA 2015
1 ; e-mail: bsutton@ alum.mit.edu.
1974
Not muchtoreportthis month. Guess everyone is still employed and scrambl ing to stay
that way! I am happy to note that of die many classmates who are educational
counselors, nine were named to die AII-5 list, which recognizes the quality of
interview reports made by die ECs: die top score of 5 is given to a report that is
considered most helpful in the admissions decision process. Congratulations to Safwan
Benjelloun, Bonnie Buratti, Charles Calhoun, John Cooper, Ronald Fox, Michael Glenn,
Andre Jaglom, Sandy Yulke, and, um, er, me, Dave Withee, this mondi's muckraker.
I had a great time this summer at the Midwest Renewable Energy Conference. The M IT
Club ofWisconsin had dieir annual meeting there and offered discount entry. The club
also once again sponsored a pavilion and discount entry into the Experimental Aircraft
Association (EAA) flyin at Oshkosh and cosponsored die Women Soar program to encourage
young women to take up careers in aviation. Ify'all haven't been to EAA, it is
wonderftd.Once again, I warn you that Barry and I have no qualms about making up stuff
about you. So send us die truth, or the truth will be in the words of die keyboarder!
-Barry N. Nelson.cosecretary, e-mail: barrynelson@alum.mit.edu; David With-ee.
cosecretary, e-mail: dwithee@ alum.mit.edu.
1975 35TH REUNION
Chuck Digate writes, "After over 30 years as a software/Internet executive and serial
entrepreneur, I have transitioned to clean energy. I participated in the New England
Clean Energy Council's fellowship program during the summer of 2008, when a dozen
high-tech CEOs were retooled in the technologies, policies, and financial models of
renewable energy and energy efficiency. Now I'm in the very early stages of developing
an offshore wind project near the coast of Massachusetts. My wife and I have an
n-year-olddaughterwhojust entered middle school in Winchester, MA."
Thérèse Smith writes, "Continuing at UConn, sharing a graduate-student office with
Elaine Sonderegger '67. 1 taught a second class last summer, and there are plans for
me to teach again next spring. Very happy to be working in the domain of electronic

voting technology and reenergizing the local chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, an honor
society for computing and information disciplines. Aikido is energizing, too."
Glen Speckert writes, "It's an interesting time to be an independent consultan t and
entrepreneur. The technology is exploding, and the economy is poised." Peter Schulz
writes, "I have been working at MIT Lincoln Lab for the last 24. years. I currently
am in the middle of the Pacific (Kwajalein),improvingradar and optical technologie s
for the Reagan Test Site. I have two children: one working on Wall Street (having
survived his first year out of college in investment banking) and one an undergraduate
at Babson. I swim, run, and bicycle on this very small island and recendy did my firs t
triathlon."
Robert Schreiber, president of Theta Delta Chi's House Corporation, noted that the
fraternity's annual alumni banquet was to be held Nov. 7 at Fenway Park He was
"hopingfor an excellent turnout ofou^th-anniversary pledge-mates-in anticipation of
a similar turnout for the official M IT reunion next June."
David Dinhoferwrites, "I just joined the teaching staff of Downstate Medical Center
as a clinical assistant professor in radiology. It is great fun. However, there is
a steep learning curve in how to navigate a New York State-run institution and deal
with residents. Peter and I are working on a minireunion for Bexleyites. Please
contact me (david.dinhofer@dinhofer. net) or Peter if you are interested. I look
forward to seeing all of you at the next reunion."
AJ Willmer writes, "Debra Judelson '73 and I just returned from a great weekend in
Cambridge, the MIT Alumni Leadership Conference, and a visit with daughter Anjuli
Willmer 07. Boy, I don't remember 10-250 seats being that narrow. It was great to
see Frisbee tossingon Kresge and KiIJi an Court. Juggling club was making very good
use of the Building 10 lobby. I heard there was renewed interest in tiddlywinks, but
it was nowhere to be seen. Who remembers the glory years of MITs international
tiddlywink dominance in the 1970s? How about some Frisbee and tiddlywinks at our 35th
reunion? Ill be there."
As you can see, we are gearing up for our 35th reunion. We are trying something a
little different-encouraging all classmates to find one or two friends who might be
interested in getting small groups of friends back together. We think some
minireunions of the living groups would also be interesting. I would appreciate any
help.
-Peter Dinhofer, secretary, 1620 Ditmas Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11226; tel: 718-282-694,6;
e-mail: pdinhofer® alum.mit.edu.
1976
Jeff Clarke writes, "Back in the States following four-plus years serving as the
country director for the Peace Corps in Moldova. After spending 25 years with
Snohomish County in Washington State, the final 12 as their solid-waste director,
it was time to do something different before the concrete hardened around my ankles.
Working with volunteers and our MoIdovan staff and learning to speak Romanian was
both a challenge and very refreshingandgave methe chance to travel to places I never
would have seen otherwise. In May I came back to Seattle and started managing Seatde
City Light's residential and smallbusinessenergyconservationprogram, just in time
for the stimulus program to hit. We are very popular with everyone who wants to jump
on the greenjobs bus." Diana Dickinson writes, "Jay (Torborg, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute '80) and I moved from the Seattle 'burbs lo Portland. OR. and back inside
city limits for the first time since 1983. What a pleasure tobe close to everything!
Pordand is a delightful city with great restaurants and wonderful local wines. Our
businessBikcTircsDircct.com- is doing well after recovering from a complete loss when
our warehouse burnedin August 2008 (three alarms, 95 firefighters, TV news, the whole
bit- no one got hurt, diankfully). Jay continues in remission from his non-Hodgkin's

lymphoma (it's 10 years now since his diagnosis), and my chondrosarcoma has also shown
no signs of recurrence. Our kids are well and gainfully employed, two years after
graduating from college. What more could you ask forr
Mike Paluszek writes, "My company, Princeton Satellite Systems, is in its 17th year.
We are working on missile defense, developing an optical navigation system for NASA,
writing software for agile spacecraft applications, and designing two-stageto-orbit
vehicles and many other aerospace projects. We sell aerospace software around the
world. Our algorithms for collision avoidance will be flying on the Swedish Space
Corporation's Prisma spacecraft. Our latest work is on vertical-axis wind turbines.
We started the program under IR&D and now have National Science Foundation fundingto
test a prototype. We hope to commercialize the technology next year. One interesting
market area is small wind turbines for Africa. Many countries are in dire need of
electric power, and our small wind turbines may be exactly what they need. The company
recently moved from Princeton to Plainsboro, NJ. We've expanded to 10 employees and
have engineers in New Jersey, Texas, Minnesota, and Colorado. We recently submitted
a proposal to NASA for an astronaut exercise machine that we're developing with
Professor Mike Littman of Princeton University and the physical-education department
there. Eloisa de Castro, who just graduated from MIT and is our newest employee,
designed the machine.
"My wife, Marilyn, is department manager of music at Princeton University and works
on many university committees. She continues her Middle Eastern dance and teaches
it at Princeton. She sometimes trains with Suhaila Salimpour, a world-famous Middle
Eastern dancer, and is accredited in the Suhaila method. Marilyn also began hard-core
strength training at the Princeton University gym last year. The family went to the
Berkshires in August and stayed at a nice bed-and-breakfast, the House on Main Street,
in Wilfiamstown, MA. Our son, Eric, is in seventh grade. He just grew four inches
in the past three months. His two major outsideof-school activities are chess and
ballet. He went to the American Ballet Theater Summer Intensive in Tuscaloosa, AL,
this summer. It was our first trip to Alabama! He had a great time. They had a
performance and he danced in three of the pieces. We received a DVD of die show, and
Eric's picture was on the front cover! Eric is old enough to take my ballet classes
now when he is free in the mornings. We took class together for three weeks in August.
Last time we were the only men in class and were given a separate men's combination:
four jumps in passé and a double tour (four times in a row) , which we did together.
Eric competes in chess monthly. His U.S. Chess Federation rating is 1454. He's also
been learning how to use a 3-D graphics application, Blender, and is getting pretty
adept. He is interested in making movies.
Tm the MIT Educational Council vice chair for the Princeton region. We are fortunate
to have a lot of alums as ECs, so my job is pretty easy. I interview eight to 15 students
each year, which is a lot of fun. I continue to work for Opera New Jersey; mostly
I recruit supernumeraries for their operas. I've performed in many of their shows.
Eric has also performed with them several times. My biggest role in the past few years
was as Buoso Donati in Gianni Schicchi and its modern sequel Buoso's Ghost. Buoso
Donati is dead for most of the two operas. As a corpse, I spent most of the time being
dragged around and dropped. It was a very physically demanding role. Quite a lot of
fun, too! I take ballet class five times a week with many professional dancers, dance
teachers, college students, and a few hard-core adults. I've been performing in the
Princeton Ballet School's productions with Eric. Two years ago I was Gamache in Don
Quixote, a slapstick role as an older nobleman intent on marrying the 15 -year-old
Kitri. I keep in touch with Professor Tommy DeFrantz at MIT. A few years ago he arranged
for me to dance a modern duet with a friend of mine in an MIT choreography class.
Now, that was quite different from my usual lecture on satellite dynamics and
control!"

David Silberstein writes, "After 25 years at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Buffalo, NY,
and Princeton, NJ, I have retired to take a new position at Bayer HealthCare. I am
involved in a new area (for me) that provides interesting work in regulatory affairs
and has nothing at all to do with aspirin. Trying to refresh my high-school German
to ease informal conversation with a number of my new colleagues. Will be at M IT
in October for parents' weekend. My youngest daughter is a senior (Course V). My wife
and I will also have the opportunity then to visit our middle daughter (Class of 2006,
Course III), who is now at Raytheon. My uncle Saul Namyet '40 (building engineering,
which was Course XVII at the time) died this summer at 91, shortly after being
diagnosed with ALS. He was an inspiration to all of his extended family as he continued
tobe active and involved in a variety of activities until just before he died."
-Reynold H. Lewke, secretary, Plus3Network, 100 Pecora Way, Portola Valley, CA 94028;
tel: 650-444-8038; e-mail: lewke@alum.mit.edu
1977
On the bright side, the last call for news led to more than a dozen people joining
our class Facebook page. (If you can't find our group, MIT 1977, e-mail me and ask
to join.) At this writing, we're close to 40, with some people posting regularly and
others mostlyreading. We also have a sizable presence on Linkedln, and smaller numbers
(and nothing official yet) on Twitter and My Space. We still have our Yaho o group
too. The MIT Alumni Association also has Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedln pages plus
a blog, Slice ofMITavailablcatalum.mit.edu. Check them out.
The call for news, however, generated little response (I guess we all have settled
comfortably into middle age). Happily, the following came from Frederick Faller,
picking up on our thread about career choices: "The summer after I graduated, I went
to work on a farm for four months, herding sheep, haying, and generally trying to
get technology out of my mind. Onreturningto Cambridge, I helped resurrect the Slice
of Life Cooperative Bakery, which I ran with four colleagues for two and a half years.
As I tried to find a more normal schedule, I ended up at Harvard working in the
geophysics lab, which was more or less related to my major in Course XILAs time passed,
I began doing mechanical design for a design firm in Arlington, MA I worked for
subsistence wages since I did not have a degree in engineering, but many of us from
MIT quickly moved up into senior design work. After another two and a half years,
I went into the ministry full time, working with a large church in the Boston area.
Then, with two and half years ofthat under my belt, and newly married, I moved back
into engineering at Zoll Medical, specializing in emergency cardiac resuscitation.
Threekids arrived in less than three years, and with that done, life turned to managing
the intricacies of the family and continuingto workpart time with die church.
Somewhere along the way, I picked up blacksmithing for fun and some pitiful profit;
wrote three and a half novels, two of which have been published; andgota number of
patents for my workat Zoll, where I advanced to principal mechanical engineer. The
kids are almost out of school-an artist who lives in Cambodia, a mechanical engineer
at Tufts, and an architect at Carnegie Mellon. I am enjoying an empty nest with my
wife and paying off college bills by selling products in the virtual world of Second
Life. I continue to teach in the church, and the way things are going and through
no particular fault of my own, will probably never be able to retire. So much for
the American dream."
We are about halfway between reunions. There should be a lot of great stories to tell.
But why wait for 2012? Send them to me at:
-Glenn Brownstein, secretary, 181 9 Emerald Ct., Clarksville, IN 47129; e-mail:
scoopcat@alum.mit.edu
1978

We begin with sad news of the death last spring of Jim Berkovecin a bicycling accident
on Rock Creek Trail in Rockville, MD. Jim returned to MIT two years after graduating,
to get a PhD in economics. He taught and conducted research at the University of
Virginia and later worked at the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC. Then Jim spent
15 years at Freddie Mac, most recendy as vice president of credit models and analytics.
A memorial fund in Jim's name has been established at MIT to support economics graduate
students. Donations can be sent to MIT or made online at giving.mit.edu/givenow/
ConfirmGift.dyn?desig=3292r20.
David Knuttunen has a "(relatively) new blog, Persistent Wondering: Musings from a
Man Who Can't Stop TTtinking(persistentwondering.com)." On the blog, he describes
himself as "more than anything else ... a thinker, a wonderer, a philosopher" in the
literal sense of the word. Not necessarily a very good one, but we all do what we
can." David has also built an addition on his home "mainly to house a larger office
for my home-based consulting engineering business." Rich Wareis celebrating his first
patent with a halfdozen coworkers. "It's for the software we wrote for MOCASystems
(which employs a heavy proportion of MIT grads), providing extremely accurate and
detailed predictions for very large construction pro jects (multiple buildings in
one place)." Bob Clark wrote: "Ran Fife Brook (class 2 white water) and Zoar Gap (class
3 white water), on first try, first day ever doing white water. And again next day."
For the uninitiated (like me), he's talking about kayaking.
In my e-mail to the class, I asked for suggestions about video games for boomers.
Roy Colby wants largeprint games. Kathy Kielmeyer calls for a Wii remake of Empire,
"a very old game played by using keys on the keyboard, long before the era of graphics."
She elaborates, "That way, I'd get some exercise while playing. Second choice would
be a Wii game of logic or Tetris that you play by jumping around." Both Kathy's kids
arc at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute studying engineering, and she reports that
she played softball last summer and went waterskiing over Labor Day weekend. From
Hassan Alam:"Myeldersonjust started CaI (UCaI Berkeley, for those of us on the other
coast). The food is much better than anything I remember at MIT-last week they had
lamb biryani, tri-tip, chicken congee, and jumbo prawns." Geoff Baskir's main news
again is about the family thespian. His daughter was Birdie in a production of Inherit
the Wind in Washington. He added that the American Society of Civil Engineers was
about to release its Virginia Infrastructure Report Card, andhe "wrote a good chunk
of the section on aviation."
Bill Fejeswrites abouthis kids. "We currendy have two in college. Elder daughter Jess
is a senior at Simmons College, applying to veterinary schools. Kid number two,
Stephanie, is a junior at Parsons School of Design in New York. Number three, Will,
is a high-school senior, being recruited to play division I lacrosse at the University
of Denver. And Macaulay is a high-school freshman (also a lacrosse player). I'm still
the chief operating officer at the startup Seakeeper (40to r5o-foot yachts with a
gyro-based stabilizer), and unlike most companies in the recreational marine
industry, we're having good growth (above 50 percent in 2009). I also became a director
at Broadwind Energy, which specializes in the wind-turbine industry. (I should note
that contrary to popular belief, little if any stimulus money has reached the wind
industry.) My wife, Althea, and I enjoy the more-temperate climates of southern
Maryland." Lee Langford s oldest son, Max, was headed to Dartmouth College for his
sophomore year: "He is still a pitcher on their baseball team, which went to the NCAA
playoffs last spring. My youngest son, Ben, is now a junior in high school."
Former class president and secretary Jim Bidigare thoroughly enjoyed getting his
freshman son Luke settled in at Berklee College of Music, in Boston's Back Bay. "It's
a pretty amazing place. Perhaps not too hyperbolic to say that it's the M IT of
contemporary music. Luke's digging being around 4,000 passionate musicians. Berklee
was founded by MIT alum Lawrence Berk in the r 960s to teach contemporarymusi-candprovide
practical career preparation for the working musician. And thanks to

David Browne [secretary's note: that's me!] for a mini-tour of the incredible biotech-and
MITdriven real-estate development that has occurred in Cambridge between Central
Square and the Tute. I found myself coming to grips with the fact that while some
parts of MIT/Cambridge/Boston will always be 'mine,' much of what was mine has been
added to, replaced, or just plain lost." Jim'sdaughter Danielle startedatOhio State
University as a business major, working half time atthe Apple store in Columbus:
"Danielle's already got the Apple bug and hopes for a career with that fascinating
company!" Two more kids are still in high school.
Just areminder thatyou can catchup onnews,thoughts,anddaily doings and doodlings of
classmates on our Facebookpage.LookforDavidBrowneSecretary andfriend the class.
Sunada and I just celebrated the 30th anniversary of the night we met A long time,
but not long enough! Send me news.
-David S. Browne, secretary, r20-D Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02139; e-mail:
dsbrownc@alum.mit.edu
1979
Please send news for this column to Bill Rust, secretary, e-mail: wjr@ alum.mit.edu.
1980 75th REUNION
Greetings! I can hardly believe it is nearly 2010. Way back in October 2009, Deb and
Russ Blount celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary in a room decorated with photos
of the 1978 and 1980 MIT heavyweight crew teams. Russ writes, "Our daughter, Lina,
was preparing to row her first race in the seven seat of the Bryn Mawr novice eig ht,
found that ancient history, and sent the pictures to me the day before our anniversary
trip. I told Lina that my classmate John Stenard had been in the varsity too. Lina
has enjoyed her first two months at Bryn Mawr. Though she'd never been in a shell
until college, her reaction to the sport has been a lot like mine; we hear more of
rowingthan of any class, choral performance, or social event. Our son, Drew.is a
high-school junior, enjoying his sister's absence and his new role as the only kid
at home. He's followed his sister as an all-state musician, but in trumpet rather
than choir. Deb is still at Boeing, and I'm still a public- works director. We've
been in these roles for over r2 years, since my post-heart-surgery 'downshift.' We're
likely to stick with Boeing and the city of Fife as we transition to empty nesters,
but we look forward to more time hiking paddling siding, motorcycling and catching
up with classmates!"
Cindy Reedy was on Jeopardy last May. She says, "I was stymied by the buzzer, but
it was still fun! We watched the show with about 25 friends at a local tavern; I was
more nervous about their response than I was during the game. I got a friendly e-mail
from Denise Martini sayingthat she had caught the show-such a nice surprise." Cindy
spent part of Memorial Day weekend at a party at the home of Baker House alums Yvonne
Tsai and Scott Kukshtel. Grace Napierdirected a universally well-reviewed production
of Seussical for the Wheelock Family Theater last February. They sold out nearly every
show.
The exciting news from Susan Bates is that her twins, Matthew and Sarah, graduated
from high school on May 2r, 2009. Sarah began Smith College in the fall, as a pre-veterinary
student majoring in biology, with a minor in drama. Matthew started at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, majoring in aerospace engineering. Susan says, "I
am still working at Spectrum Health, an integrated health system in Grand Rapids,
M I, as a strategic-planning analyst. My husband, Clayis the assistant to the bishop
of our Lutheran synod." Peter Dreher wrote, "I finished my PhD in 2007 in aeronautical
engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology. I make everyone call me Dr.
Dreher" now. Life is exciting." Pete attended the2009Tech Reunion with a classmate
from Columbus, OH.

We hear from Marlon Weiss, "I am married and happily living in Lincoln, NE. My oldest
son, Noah, graduated from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and will be going
for postgraduate studies in mathematical neurology at Northwestern University in
Evanston. My twin girls, Casey and Molly, are at UNL in the fishery and wildlife
department and at the University of Texas at Austin doing sports training, re-spectively.
My youngest son, Levi, is coming closest to following in my footsteps
by going into engineering. He will stay closer to home at Iowa State. I have a small,
independent family medical practice that keeps me as busy as I would like. My wife
would like to start a commercial salsa business with her recipe that everyone raves
about; maybe she will have more time in a couple of years."
Lisa Masson reports, "My oldest daughter came home brandishing her brand -new brass
rat, but she is only staying here a week (? have to keep my cell fines alive, Mom').
My second daughter will start UCLA in the fall. Then I will have just one daughter
left at home, a junior. She is amazing-a cheerleader/track star/ div-er/
trampolinist/International Baccalaureate student. Meanwhile, I enjoy splitting
my time between seeing patients and working on the electronic health-record im-plementation
at Sutter Health."
Jerry Appelstein, our class president and chair of the William Barton Rogers Society,
is gearing up for our 3 oth reunion. He has already rounded up about 15 volunteers
for the gift committee as our class attempts to break a decade-long record of 55
percent participation in a single fiscal year, set by the esteemed Class of 1970.
Jerry is looking for another 15-20 teammates, so please e-mail him at oilstar®
alum.mit.edu to join. Jessica, his eldest daughter, has graduated from Northeastern
and is taking classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology, as she ultimately wants
to be on the business side of the fashion world. Janna completed her freshman year
at the University of Miami, and both Jerry and Janna were recendy at Cape Canaveral
to witness the space shutde launch of Dr. John Grunsfeld, who, alongwith several
crewmates, successfully repaired the Hubble telescope!
Tom Griffinenjoyed another banner year for his Philadelphia Phillies. He was lucky
to be present for one of their wins over the Dodgers in the National League
Championship Series. At this writing the Phillies were awaiting the outcome of the
World Series and a chance at a repeat championship.
Your cosecretaries hope your holidays were the best ever. We would love to report
what you did and who you saw in our next issue of Class Notes.
-Cindy Bedell, Apt. 1209B, 8470 Limekiln Pike, Wyncote, PA; e-mail: cmbe-dell@
alum.mit.edu; Tom Griffin, 10 Normandy Dr., Chadds Ford, PA 19317; e-mail:
tpgrifnn76@aol.com
1981
Please send news for this column to David J. Powsner, secretary, tel: 6174.39 -2727^),
508-650-6230 (h); e-mail: dpowsner@alum.mit.edu
1982
Alan Oppenheimer and the company he runs. Open Door Networks, have gottenin-toiPhoneappsbig-
time.Alan and his wife have also started the Alan and Priscilla
Oppenheimer Foundation (with Cedric Dettmarasadirector), which is working with
Harvard's Personal Genome Project to help bring the personal genome to "the rest of
us" and help us understand what it will mean when that happens.
Roslyn Romanowski writes that western New Yorkers are worried about the economy, Like
everybody else. Roslyn works as a private-practice hematologist/oncologist, and her
husband is slated to fini sh his EdD in the spring. She doesn't recommend grad school
(for either prospective students or their spouses) after 4.5 , unless it's for
something fun. Roslyn found another MIT alum, Stuart Rubin '83, hiding out in the

radiology practice next door, which was a nice surprise. Earlier this year, a
scientist was visiting her office and spent time studying the diplomas. When they
were introduced, he said to Roslyn,"Oh, I seeyou went to M IT. I was accepted there,
but decided to go to Cambridge (the one in England) instead." Her reflexive a nswer,
which she was unable to suppress in time, was "Oh, that's too bad." Her partners were
a little embarrassed, but the scientist took it well!
Bill Ralston is a senior associate with Kirton and McConkie in Salt Lake City, helping
clients obtain patents on communications systems, semiconductor processes, and other
new technologies.
Grantland Drutchas was elected managing partner of his intellectual-property law
firm, McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert and Berghoff. The firm, based in Chicago, has
particular expertise in litigation and patent prosecution involving pharmaceutical,
biotech, medical diagnostic, telecom, and computer software technologies. Grant and
his wife, Kristin, have two children, Gabrielle (four) and Hudson (one), and five
in Wicker Park, an old, eclectic neighborhood of Chicago.
Please keep the news coming. Nothing worse than an empty in-box!
-Roger Pellegrini, secretary, e-mail: rpellegrini@alum.mit.edu
1983
Wes Bush was to become CEO of Northrop Grumman on Jan. 1, 2010. At the time of this
writing, he was Northrop's chief operating officer. As reportedinthe Wallstreet
Journal, Wes said he would "continue to match the company's capabilities against the
Pentagon's emerging needs in counterterrorism."
Cady Coleman is in training for a flight to the space station scheduled for November
2010. We hope to have details in the near future.
Tim Kuo writes, "The following Bakerites from the Class of '83 (and their families)
made it to the Baker House 6oth-anniversary celebration/ reunion that was held over
the Fourth of July weekend: Sue Berg, Wes Bush, Ann Kuo, Hyun-A Park, Dave Shumway,
Peggy Shumway, and Hampton Wat kins. Over 500 people attended the celebration!"
Aline McKenzie writes, "I've begun a master's degree in emerging media and com-munications
at the University of Texas, Dallas. Taking classes in your late 40s is
a whole lot different than when you're 18. You can argue with the professor!"
Richard Michalski writes, "I survived die first year of the Sirius-XM merger, and
Sirius-XM managed to avoid bankruptcy as well. I'm still a principal chief engineer.
Still working at die I nnovation Center in Deerfield Beach, FL, on long-range
technologicaldevelopmentsthat I can'ttalk about. I have now been in die satellite
radio business for almost 12 years. Doing a lot of traveling for both business and
pleasure lately. Doing my best to take 12 weeks of vacation in 2009 (six weeks carried
over fromprevious years and another six diat I earn this year), since die merged
company has a use-or-lose policy. Anne and I enjoyed our 25di-anniversary cruise so
much we are taking another one for our 26th. To Nice, France, for a couple of days;
then Monaco to Alliens byway ofltaly, some Greek islands, and Turkey; and then a couple
of days in Athens before flying home."
Ken Krugler writes, "My startup (Krugle) was sold to Aragaon Consulting at the end
of January 2009. 1 took a short break, and then started a fun open-source project
called Bixo, which is a system for data mining Web pages. Still enjoying family life,
the ambiance of Nevada City, NV, in die Sierra footiiills, hiking and biking with
local classmate Chris 'Seh med' Schneider, and die occasional Boombah game with
friends, including Mike Santullo, Brian Jacobs, Jeff Muss, Kinta Foss, Chris
Schneider, Mark Farley '84, Mike Cassidy '85, and Caroline Wang '85."

Chris Schneider writes, "I decided to take a sabbatical from software development
for 2009 after Ken Kruglersold his startup, Krugle, where Fdbeen working forthe past
fewyears. I plantoreturntocontract workin2oio via TransPac Software, die consulting
company I helped him found back in 1987. I'm also taking the 2009-?0 school year off
from teaching highschool physics, which I've been doing part time for die past 10
years or so.
"As I do mostyears, I went climbing this summer with other members of die Vulgarian
Ramblers mountaineering club, many of whom are MIT alumni. The tour included a trip
to California's Palisades with Dan Blodgett 70 and Mike Bromberg 70, after which I
drove with Mike to the front range in Colorado to climb with Randy Schweickart. While
in Colorado, I was able to visit Danna and Alan Taylor and their baby, Travis, as
well as Jim Campbell '80. In September I took aweeklongtrip to California's Kings
Canyon National Park with Dan Blodgett '70 and Ken Krugler. Two climbing-trip videos
arc posted at www.vulgarianramblers.org/tours/ tour_2oo9-php."
Jeff M uss passed along a note from Joe Mascidescribing his participation in the 2009
Memory Ride, a biking event to raise funds for Alzheimer's disease research: "I
planned to complete the 125 -mile ride, but that was going to require a very tight
schedule and a 16-mile-per-hour average over the first 90 miles. Unfortunately, we
started late (and were given no allowance for makeup time), so I decided to join a
group of fast riders to try to make up die lost time. Things were going splendidly
until we realized we were lost! Sixteen miles later, we were back on the route , but
the hope of completing the 125-mile ride in time was gone. On the plus side, completing
the 100-mile course gave me a 116-mile tally for the day, still a personal best!
"Thank goodness for my training, because that's a long ride. With about 30 miles to
go, I was afraid that cramps were settling in on my quads, but bananas, salt -spiked
Gatorade, and Goo shots kept me moving at a great clip, and I finished the ride in
almost seven hours to the minute (plus those blessed pit stops). The 50-mile pit stop
was the bright spot of the day. My wife, Mary, ran it, and she stole the show with
a toga-party theme that was a sight for sore eyes (and other sore areas as well).
"We had a blast, we raised lots of money for a most worthy cause, and I slept like
a baby that night. Ten minutes across the fine, I said I never wanted to see a bike
or a bottle of Gatorade again. Now I can't wait for next year's ride!"
-Jono Goldstein, secretary, e-mail: jg@ta.com
1984
Please send news for this column to Wendy Keilin, 220 N. 3rd Ave., Highland Park,
N.I 08904; tel: 732828-8770; e-mail: wendy@ theprosperousartist.com.
1985 25th REUNION
A quick reminder that our 25th reunionis a few months away, over the weekend of June
3-6. Your class secretaries will be there, and we hope to see many of you there, too.
We have a lofiy goal of 85 percent participation from our class for our 25th-reunion
gift to MIT. Our class gift shows MIT how we feel about our school, and proceeds arc
used to fund the wide range of programs and initiatives that make MIT a unique and
truly outstanding educational institution. Please go to giving.mit.edu/reunions for
more information and to make a donation.
Nisha Shah writes,"! recently got together with some MITfriendstosee a Schola
Cantorum concert in Palo Alto, CA. It was great to sec an MIT alum. Matt Blum '98,
perform in the chorus."
Julie Schwedock has been promoted to manager of microbiology R&D at Rapid Micro
Biosystems. She is abo the new program chair for the Association of MIT Alumnae. Her
husband, Brian White, is an associate professor at UMass Boston, in the biology

department Hegothisham-radio license this year. Their older son has startedhigh
school and their younger son has started third grade.
My husband and I (Diane Hess Brush) had dinner with Pam Gannon '84 and Dave Douglas
in Montauk, NY, in August We meet in Montauk annually for dinner, and it's always
great to see them. Dave just coauthored a book called Citizen Engineer: A Handbook
for Socially Responsible Engineering. As a member of our class reunion gift committee,
I had the pleasure of meeting with Inge Gedo recendy.
I (Lisa Steffens) am still working at private-equity firm J. F. Lehman in New York.
My son, Luke, now in second grade, and husband, Pete, and I go to our farm in upstate
New York most weekends. By chance I recendy saw Wayne Townsendai the U.S. Open. Wayne
is president and CEO of marketing services firm ClickSquared. He and his wife, Liz,
have three children: twins Natlian and Stephen (13) and daughter Maddy (11). Wayne
says, They are dragging us to lots of soccer fields and swim meets!"
-Lisa Steffens, cosecretary, e-mail: lisa.steffens@alum.mit.edu; Diane Hess Brush,
cosecretary, e-mail: dmhcss@alum.mit.edu
1986
Please send news for tliis column to Robert Lenoil, secretary, 3421 Riverwood Dr.,
Placerville, CA 95667; tel: 530-626-5838 (h), 530-344-9400 (w); fax: 925-226-4023;
e-mail: lenoil@ alum.mit.edu.
1987
Greetings. This month we have some very sad news to report: Gregory T. Mount passed
away on Aug. 11, 2009. After graduating from Course VI-i, he received his MS in finance
from the University of Chicago in 1992. Greg retired as a partner from Goldman Sachs
and was a partner in Greywolf Capital. He is survived by his wife, Allison Cook, and
by sons Andrew, Alex, and Jonadian, all of New York City. Todd Malone reported that
about a dozen of Greg's Delta Upsilon brotliers attended his funeral in Alabama, and
over 20 went to a recent memorial service in New York City.
Mark Foringeris still in the air force and was just selected for colonel. He was also
recognized as the Air Force Scientist of the Year, senior military category, for the
second straight year. Mark and his wife, Lori, who was just promoted to lieutenant
colonel, were reassigned to Wright- Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH. Lori's
going to run the F-15 E upgrade programs, and Mark is slated to manage the C-27J
program.
Duncan McCallumwrites,"I'vebeen indie Bostonareasincegraduation.My wife, Joy, and
I and our children (Duncan, 11; Claire, nine; Stuart, seven) live in Lexington, MA
After graduating I spent four years at Draper Lab before heading to Harvard Business
School. Post-HBS, I spent a fewyears at Haemonetics before moving to the venture
capital world. I spent 10 years as a general partner at two firms (Flagship Ventures
and Bessemer Venture Partners) before leavingdie venture world in 2007 to cofound
CiIk Arts with Professor Charles Leiserson. We sold CiIk Aits to Intel in July, and
I'm now lookingat new CEO opportunities."
Ojas Rege helped launch a new company, Mobilelron, on Aug. 5, and is dirilled to be
back in "startup land." He is responsible for marketing their product, which is
software geared toward companies that want to reduce the complexity and carrier mobile
costs of their internal smart-phone deployments. Ojas and his family are still in
the Bay Area, in a house most closely resembling a human pinball machine, with their
three boys (11, four, and two), caroming off each other a couple of hundred times
per day. Also at a startup is Steve Berczuk, whose company, Humedica, recendy emerged
from "stealth mode." The company is based in Boston and provides business intelligence
solutions to the healdi-care industry. Stan Hua ng is on the team as vice president

of engineering. In other news, Steve's three-year-old son, Daniel, has started
preschool One ofhis favorite clothing items is an MIT sweatshirt.
Mary Minn is doing fine in Westerly, RI , workingas an anesthesiologist and raising
her daughters (17, 15, and 13). I ? her spare time, Mary has become a regular runner,
and she is now an educational counselor for MIT.
Katherine Schwarz writes, "This is the first time I have ever sent anything to our
Class Notes, and I've done so on die occasion of several long-overdue firsts: first
real-world job, first marriage, first new car, and (at least thinking about buying
my) first house. After all these years, I finally managed to file my PhD diesis at
Berkeley. Thanks to excellent job-hunting advice from my advisor, I'm working at a
company I had never heard of a year ago, in a field I never expected: seismic
exploration for die oil industry. Both of us certainly never thought we would move
to Houston, until this job offer. After our October wedding in California, another
possible change may occur, as my fiancé thinks it's now his turn to go back to school."
Charles Gilman, Wendy Cone Gilman, and Will Hoon received die George B. Morgan '20
Award at die Alumni Leadership Conference this past September. They were recognized
for their involvement in the MIT Educational Council, which is die nationwide network
of alumni/ae who, on behalf of the admissions office, interview students applying
to MIT
Grace Ueng was featured in the October 2009 issue of Inc. magazine (available online).
In the "Passions: Life Outside the Office" spread, Grace discusses her passion for
biking, as well as the biking accident that left her seriously injured in 2005 .
Joan and Kevin Hurst recently traveled to Korea with daughter Katie to adopt a baby
boy. Matthew has quickly adapted to his new home, having learned to scale bodi die
stairs and die furniture. Kevin continues to work on energy policy at the White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Greer Swiston is winding down her stint as chair ofthe Massachusetts Commission on
die Status of Women, but she was recently nominated by the governor to the Mas-sachusetts
Advisory Committee for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. By the time
this appears in print, her husband, Rob.will most likely be completely recovered from
a motorcycle accident in April 2009.
Philip Koebel writes: "I had my first baby in November. It's Nancy's second baby girl,
and big sister (je je) Sydney (five) is very excited about die arrival of little sister
(mei mei). My views of birth are a bit warped because my first memorable experience
happened in 26-100 during LSCs showing of Alien. When our paths cross for a three-to
five-day window every August in the Cambridge area, Mark Hessler and I join any
pickup soccer game we can find. I even carry my boots in my luggage so they canbe
worn this one time per year. With my dad (Romin Koebel, PhD '74) as our fan, we alighted
on Brooks Field in front of McGregor and New and Next Houses on the most gorgeous
of late summer evenings. We believed we were playing with current MITundergr aduates
and graduate students who politely invited us into dieir game. We were slighdy
surprised by die intricate foot skills, sharp passing, and hard toe-down shots, but
chalked it up to Coach Alessi's undeniably growing influence on the MIT admissions
process since we were walk-ons way back when. Then (alas) the game was shut down by
the adiletic department when only one ofthe participants could produce a current ?GG
ID. In the end, we were grateful for the interruption, because it saved at least one
of us from having his annual pulledmuscle and allowed us to graciously exit to the
big table at Toscanini's, where Gus remembered us. He remembered Mark more accurately,
which made it easier for me to eat both ice creams."
-Jack Leiter, secretary, 349 Mary Louise Dr., San Antonio, TX 78201; tel:
210-785-9100; e-mail: leifer@ alum.mit.edu.
1988

Friends, it would be extremely helpful ifyou were proactive in spontaneously
sendingus column materiaL As clearly exemplified by many of our classmates' highly
successful business ventures, our community is capable of much better networkingthan
we seem to be doing. So please pitch in even if we don't come rappin' on your door.
I recendy represented MIT at Belmont (MA) High School's college fair as a volunteer
educational counselor. Two students were early applicants to MIT, and we had
one-on-one interviews. For someone like myself who has no children, it is impressive
to see the intelligence developing in such young people. This also reflects on the
quality ofthe admissions-office selection process. Both in interviews and in die
questions of other students who stopped by my humble table (die only one without any
banner, photos, publications, orprofessionalrecruiter, to cut costs), I was
astonished at our image. Despite MITs being less than four miles away, very few ofthe
kids had ever visited. Most saw the Institute either as a challenge (a school to be
admitted to but not necessarily to attend), or as a secluded, narrowminded sanitarium
sort of place. I struggled hard to entice diese young people to go walk the Infinite
Corridor, climb the chapel wall, grab a bite to eat at the student center, and just
talk with anyone so that they'd learn what MIT really is. I believe that MiTs two
greatest characteristics, other than academic achievement (increasingly challenged
by globalization), are the diversity of its population and die openness. This creates
a uniquely fertile ground for germinating the tiniest idea that a young and bright
person might conceive. Don't you agree? Some of you probably have children nearing
college age. Why would you or would you not entice your child to apply to MIT? Send
in your two cents and they might be published!
Closing riddle:What place has been a parking lot for police cars, the site of a London
phone boodi, a very firm breast, and lately a rather bland wedding cake? You guessed
it-die Dome, which is being renovated. I hope it doesn't come out dodecagona!.
- Nicolas Cauchy, cosecretary, e-mail: nicolascauchy@alum.mit.edu; Erik Heels,
cosecretary, e-mail: heels@ alum.mit.edu; Craig Jungwirth, cosecretary, e-mail:
craig_jungwirth@ alum.mit.edu.
1989
Greetings! This month's "targeted" people areCarlos Barreto, Sravana Chakravarty,
Kenneth lshii, Jinnie Jung, Christopher Olmedo, R. Scott Rowland, and Hyon Suh. Please
write ifyou are on this list or know about someone named! There is a lot of news this
mondi from all the reunion-book submissions. Here is a sampling; I will try to include
more in the next few issues.
Iff at Mai Roumieisin New York working at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, an ar-chitectural
firm specializing in skyscraper design. Iffat and husband Eugene have
diree kids, Yasmeen (11), Feras (eight), and Sinan (diree). Iffat also coaches Lego
robotics teams in her spare time.
For the past seven years, Ira Scharf has been workinginAndover.MA, at WSI-part ofthe
Weather Channel companies, which is the largest private weather company in the world.
"We were recendy acquired by a consortium made up of General Electric/ NBC-Universal,
Bain Capital, and die Blackstone Group. I am general manager ofWSI's energy and risk
division. We develop and sell high-accuracy decision-support and weadier-forecasting
solutions to energy traders, utility companies, and reinsurance firms." ha and wife
Peninalive in Newton, MA, with Eli (seven), Abigail (five), and Maya (two). "I am
fortunate that living in the Boston area has afforded me the ability to stay connected
to MIT through many local alumni activities. I currently sit on the board of directors
of the MIT Hillel Foundation, and I [was] also a member of our 20threunion gift
committee."
Ira Hochman has "been keeping busy ever since graduation!"

Jay Best has started or been part of five different startups: "Mosdy in technology
and mobile and wireless, but my latest is energy efficiency and environmental
improvements for homes and small businesses. Just getting launched over the next few
mondis."
Jeff Applebaum writes, "Since our last reunion, we've been blessed with two more
children: Jacob (three) and Sarah (one), who were the result of eight in vitro cycles!
Lots of work, but the oldest is helping, in between his text messages. I am currently
a professional stand-up comedian, business owner, and speaker. Please see more at
www.jeffapplebaum.com."
Jeff Myers and Risa (Bobroff) Myers write, "JefFs company, Raven Aerospace
Technology, is in its 12th and most profitable year. He and partner Rich Patten '88
added a third employee last year. They are part of the Oceaneering Space Systems team
that's building the new space suit for NASA. It's a busy but exciting time. Risa is
working at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She enjoys being back in health care and is
challenged by the opportunities in her new job. She has also started taking graduate
classes again, and is consideringpursuing an advanced degree in biomedical in-formatics.
We have a seven-year-old son, Adam, and two rescue dogs."
After graduation, Jeff rey KiIMa ? served in the navy for five years as an officer
on a nuclear-powered submarine: "I made five patrols in the Pacific on a bal-listic-
missile submarine. After the navy, I attended Johns Hopkins University and
received my PhD in materials science, studying organic semiconductors and organic
lightemitting diodes. During grad school I caught the patenting bug, and since 2000
1 have been in private practice as a patent attorney in Washington, DC, receiving
my law degree from Georgetown University in 2004. My professional work is primarily
in metallurgy and machining technologies for clients that include Sandvik, a large,
Swedish-based steel manufacturer and machine-tool supplier." Jeffrey also is an avid
bird watcher: "When I travel, I have my binoculars and bird book at the ready. One
memorable trip to New Orleans, I spent a halfday with a guide and an airboat in the
John Lafitte National Preserve looking for birds. Very fun!"
Jen Lloyd has been at Analog Devices in Wilmington, MA, since 1997 as a mixed -signal
design engineer, working on product development of data converters and networking
products: "The rest of the time I keep busy with my two kids, as well as cycling,
hiking, skiing, and visiting friends."
Joe Lichy writes, "Besides raising three kids, I'm on my second career. Spent the
1990s designing microprocessors at Intel and Quantum Effect Devices (startup number
one). In 2003 1 moved into photovoltaics and founded NuEdison to manufacture low -cost
solar modules (startup number two). That was acquired by Silicon Valley Solar. I'm
now working on a couple of stealth-mode solar projects (startup number three)." Joe
still plays ultimate Frisbee regularly.
Joseph Orso has been a structural analyst with Boeing for almost 18 years: "I started
in November 1991 at their Philadelphia site, which is where we produce the CH -46 and
CH-47 helicopters and V-22 tilt-rotor. After I married Brenda in 1996, we moved to
Seattle, where I worked for two years at Boeing Commercial Aircraft. We returned to
the Philadelphia area in 1998 and bought the house we have been living in for the
past 10 years. I've been mostly supporting the 787 program; I helped grow our
commercial support team from the two of us initially to over 100. As this support
requires me to travel to Seattle a lot, my family and I needed to spend more 'quality
time' together, so we bought an RV in 2007 and have been enjoying visiting campgrounds
in the mid-AtlanticAs a New YorkCityboy, having a house on wheels is as close to
camping as I feel any need to get. The family really enjoys it, and I do too , even
though I don't like s'mores."

Joel Friedman has been doing software consulting and stand-up comedy. He played a
computer geek in the 1999 TV movie, Pirates of Silicon Valley, "for which I did not
require any special makeup." Joel was also mentioned in a Saturday Night Live Weekend
Update sketch that aired on Dec. 11, 2004. Joel's wife, Sharon Ellen Burtman,wasthe
1995 United States women's chess champion.
John Martin has had many startup jobs since graduation. John married Stacey Turner
in 2008 and had a baby girl, Ava Rose.in March 2009. Johnhas been skydiving, bought
200 acres with 30 friends (mosdy MITers), attended the 2004 Democratic convention
in Boston, and "enjoyed life so far!"
-Henry Houh, secretary, 26 Liberty Ave., Lexington, MA 02420; tel: 781861-6191;
e-mail: hhh@alum.mit.edu; class website: alumweb.mit.edu/ dasses/i989/.
1990 20th REUNION
From Humphrey Chen (Course XV): "I joined Verizon Wireless in May and am now
responsible for leading new technologies. My charter is to help startups gain access
to our roughly 90 million customers more quickly. I'm all about accelerating
commercialization and making it easier for the innovation frontier to work with a
traditionally old-world slow carrier. In this new mobile era, it's all about cool
new apps that make a difference for everyday. Our family continues to be based in
New Jersey, and it's cool to be working in what used to be the origi-nalAT&
Tglobalheadquarters in Basking Ridge. Our son is now seven and carrying on the
Chen family tradition of being the tallest in his class. If you're leading a cool
mobile wireless startup, I or my team wants to understand its potential. I am also
working closely with venture capital firms to help fund the next great big ideas in
the fourth-generation world."
From Tamal M. Islam (Course VI-I): "I guess this must be my second post since
graduation. Sometimes I look back and wonder how I got here. I am a bit heavier, a
bit grayer, and yet still with the mentality of a high-schooler. I have been living
in London since 2000. 1 now have an 11-year old son (Nasr) and three-year-old daughter
(Safa), as well as my wife of 14 years (Humaira). My daughter, who stillhas Mongolian
spots on her back (which means that she has Mongolian blood), rules the roost. My
son had the spots as well, but the fearsomeness of Genghis by passed him. Safa has
learned to spell and write her name and will probably endup onBritairisGot Talent,
givenher nonstop singing. Nasr has just earned an academic scholarship at die private
schoolhe attends. He plays goalkeeper in field hockey for his schooland went to
nationals, borough, where he won the tournament at the London youth games, and then
to county, where he placed second in the East of England tournament. My wife is a
full-time mother and keeps me in fine as well.
"Having started out in the Dilbert cubicle as an engineer, I am currendy in software
sales at Genesys. Mainly through work, I have been to over 40 countries. I thoroughly
enjoyed my time traveling, minus the planes, trains, automobiles, and meeting rooms.
For work, I've been a Viking in Sweden, taken safaris in South Africa, climbed the
Great Wall outside Beijing, and had lunch in the shadow of the pyramids at Giza. My
biggest personal achievement is that I've just received my black belt in jujitsu.
As an avid martial artist, I've tried many other styles, but I found jujitsu to be
the most effective and intellectually stimulating. Anyone interested in discussing
martial arts is welcome to e-mail me! My other passion is reading, mainly about
history, politics, and religion. I'm on Linkedln at www.linkedin.com/in/islambo.
"I had been meeting a few MacGregor J-entry Virjins in the Bay Area annually, but
that eventually stopped. I did speak to Peter Lobrutto (Course Villi) the other day,
and I would love to reconnect with others!"
From Jeff Morgenthaler (Course VIII): "I recendy moved to northern Maine to be close
to extended family. My wife, Melanie, and I have a son, Daniel, who is two and a half.

He's had a chance to live near three great-grandparents (sadly, only one left now)
. My wife has started a business, Little Da niel's Den, which brings eco-friendly baby
and child products and Kindermusik to this rather remote rural region. Check out her
store online. I am a remote employee of the Planetary Science Institute. Myprojects
include wide-field ground and space-based observations of comets (read: making
fundamental atomic and molecular physics measurements in a laboratory with a really
good vacuum) and using oxygen emission coming from Io to monitor conditions in
Jupiter's plasma torus (read: monitoring Jupiter's magnetic field and Io's vol-canoes).
I am also becoming involved with the gamma-ray and neutron detector on the
Dawn spacecraft, which recendy flew past Mars on its way to rendezvous with asteroids
Vesta (2011-12) and Ceres (2015-16). This represents yet a new energy and particle
regime for me (though I do recall studying thermal neutrons in the junior lab
experiment atthe MIT reactor). Gamma-ray spectra, which show the residual spec-troscopic
eff ects of photons escaping after Compton scattering or pair production,
are much messier than the photoelectric-effect-dominated x-ray spectra I studied at
the MIT CCD lab as an undergrad and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a
graduate student. Speaking of my grad-school days, the data analysis on my PhD diesis
experiment, which recorded a spectrum of the diffuse x-ray background, was made
obsolete by the discovery of x-rays coming from comets. It turns out that the same
mechanism that produces cometary x-rays can produce heliosphere x-rays. So my thesis
instrument was probably telling us more about the interaction that solar wind has
with interstellar hydrogen and helium than about a supernova remnant in which the
solar system was thought to be embedded. Back to the drawingboard on that one! (Good
thing I have kept the old thesis workstation with all the hard-to-port software
running all this time-r7 years and counting!) Contact me to hear more about
spectroscopic analysis software I developed for my Io project to fit high-resolution
spectra of the sun."
From Priyamvada Natarajan (Courses VIII, XVIII): "After finishing my undergrad, I
stayed on at MIT to start a PhD in the program in science, technology, and society,
and I intended to also pursue a physics PhD (crazy, but I was young and foolish!).
Two years into that PhD, I got an un-turn-downable fellowship at Cambridge (U.K.)
and Trinity College to pursue a PhD in cosmology working with the most eminent
cosmologist of our times, Professor Martin Rees. I left ?GG (still in
all-but-dissertation status-I plan to do something about that next year when I am
on sabbatical at Cambridge, MA) and went to England. I finished my PhD and was elected
to a Tide Afellowship at Trinity College. Ayear after my PhD, Yale offered me a junior
faculty position. I am now jointly appointed in the astronomy and physics departments
as a tenured professor. It'sbeena crazy but fun ride since MIT I love what I do
andenjoymy workenormously. I work on exotica in the universe, including mapping dark
matter and dark energy as well as the formation and growth history ofblack holes in
die universe. Do take a peek at my homepage: www. astro.yale.edu/priya. I have not
been particularly good at keeping in touch with classmates since I first crossed the
pond in 1994!"
From David Plass (Course VI-III): "I'm proud to report that our son, Aaron (Class
of 'r8?), was bar mitzvahed last weekend here on Long Island. He led the service of
about 200 congregants as if he'd been doing it his whole life, making my wife and
me think that he maybe found a new calling! Our daughter, Brianna, looked like a
beautiful princess in her gown and tiara. There's a picture on my Facebookpage."
-Laura Ruth Scoi nick, secretary, 35 Hazen Rd., Unit B7, Shirley, MA 01464; e -mail:
laura@alum.mit.edu
1981
Judy Yanowitz sends an update: "After ro years in Baltimore, first as apostdoc and
then as a staff associate at the Carnegie Institution, I am leaving to become an

assistant professor at Magee Women's Research Institute at the University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine. My husband, Harry Hochheiser '89, will also join the
faculty at the medical school. Our kids, Elena (eight) and Maia (five), are excited
to move close to their cousins in Pittsburgh and to a school without a uniform policy.
We are looking forward to the lack of tears each morning-tears this inane policy was
supposed to prevent. Now that the G20 has highlighted how great a city Pittsburgh
is, we expect to hear from many MIT friends who plan to visit/ move there."
Peter Gottlieb writes, "I am the electrical-engineering manager for the energy
solutions group at A123 Systems, a company started on research done at M IT. I really
enjoy being back in Massachusetts and especially being at a company at the leading
edge of so many energy projects. Working here can be like the old "taking a sip from
a fire hose," but it's a welcome treat for someone who has been so thirsty for so
long. My family is still stuck down in the New York area (I visit every weekend) until
die real-estate market opens up down there, so it is a littie tough, but on the other
hand I get to work as late as I want."
Ken Zemach writes, "Am finishing up a technology-development stint in Iraq and am
headed for three weeks' leave in Papua New Guinea, where I hope to (a) trek in the
jungle, (b) boat up the Scpik River, and (c) get truly lost After that, 111 probably
be back in Iraq doing some other work for a few months before returning to the U.S."
Jacquelyn O'Bryan sends this update: "My husband, John Craig, and I are pleased to
announce a new member in our clan. Jessica Lynn Craig was born Dec. 9, 2008, and is
already worshiping her older brother's footsteps. Irecendy metup with Dawn (Mitzner)
LaPorte while she was conferencingin San Francisco. She is as vibrant and full of
life as ever."
Here's the latest from Julie Gupta: "I'm heading off to Malaysia for a while to help
launch a new WiMax network. ?? be heading up business development and product
strategy. Quite exciting for me. I'm looking forward to the lifestyle change. Stop
by Kuala Lumpur and say hello if you're in the neighborhood." Imtiyaz Hussein writes,
"I recendy got married to Michael Wartofsky (Harvard '91) at the Union Club of Boston.
We enjoyed the company of good friends and family as we celebrated this joyous moment
in our lives. On the work front, for the past year and a half I have been at the
Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consulting firm that spun out from Bain. It's a return
to my 'nonprofit roots' after several years of forprofit consulting."
George Chen has this update: "My wife, Wendy, and I are very excited to announce that
we have a baby girl named Joanna, who wasborn in early September." Morlie Wang reports,
"I have started my radiology residency at the John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, and Tm
having fun studying while on public transportation to/from work." Chantal (Moore)
Pittman writes: "I have never sent an update, and it's been r8 years since graduation!
After stints in consulting, venture capital, and telecom in several national and
international locations, I am now in Austin, TX, working in solid-state lighting
product design. I finally got married about six months ago to a native Texan and former
marine (Chris). We spend a lot of time sailing, golfing, and enjoying local live music
like Bob Schneider and the big events like Austin City Limits. We are planning to
build a grid-neutral house in the hill country just west of Austin, with plenty of
room for kids and parents (when they retire). I see my brother Andrew Moore '93 and
his family all the time, as they live in Austin. I was lucky enough to catch up with
Garrett Moose and Ken Nimitz at my wedding bash. I also had dinner with Casey Santos
in New York last summer, and I stay in touch with Kris Clark as much as possible.
Seems like everyone is doing pretty well in spite of the economy."
Here's news from Tamara Say: "My husband, Rhön (U.S. Air Force Academy '89), returned
from a yearlong deployment in Iraq and retired from the air force last spring. The
kids and I are happy to have him back home on a regular basis. Since his return, we've
moved to San Antonio and have enjoyed setting up our new life here. My small defense

contracting firm, SAYtr, is growing, and we've taken on construction management work
supporting the Reaper and Raptor missions at Holloman Air Force Base, NM. I've fallen
in love with New Mexico and hope to develop more work there. On a personal note, over
the past ro years I've enjoyed pursuing the art of flamenco, and I've had the
opportunity to produce some shows recently."
Annie (Wandtke) Al mstedt writes, "Our baby girl, Marina, was bornback in February
'09. Avery sweet baby, she was welcomed also by her three big brotiiers. Our
homeschooling adventure continues; we're now in our secondyear. I'd really enjoy
hearing from other classmates who are going this direction with their kids' ed-ucation!"
Allan Duffin recently published his book History in Blue: 160 Years of Women Police,
Sheriffs, Detectives and State Troopers. Alan is a freelance writer and televi-sion/
multimedia producer. He has over 50 magazine and newspaper articles to his
credit. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Michele, a television production/
script supervisor and copy editor.
Thanks to everyone who sent news-it's great to hear from you!
-Lola Ball, secretary, e-mail: lola@ alum.mit.edu.
1992
Please send news for this column to Class Notes, Technology Review, r Main St.,
1993
We have a wide variety of updates this time around. Keep them coming, please. Just
e-mail me and put "MIT Class Notes" in the subject line.
During the Alumni Leadership Conference last September, two classmates were honored.
Robert Wickham received the Kane Award "in recognition of exceptional service and
accomplishments indie area of fund-raising for the Institute." Our class president,
Mary Motto Kalich, received the Lobdell Award "in recognition of alumni - relations
service of special depth over a sustained period."
Paulo Correia submitteda witty firstdme update. He andhis wife, Holly,are delight ed
to announce the arrival of their son Max. Max (six) attends first grade and has already
had one teacher innocendy announce,"Max is goingto MIT someday!'' Paulo adds, "We
don't want to jump the gun. Perhaps next year we'll announce the arrival of our oth er
son, Leo (three)." Paulo works as a life management engineer (obey!) at GE Aviation
in Lynn, MA, determiningthe safe operating limits for critical rotating parts in
primarily turboshaft (helicopter) engines for commercial (Federal Aviation Ad-ministration)
and military customers.
Tom Wu, another first-timer, tells us, "I moved out to the Silicon Valley area two
years after graduating from MIT, got my master's degree, and worked on computer
security and cryptography for various startup companies until one of them, Re-activity,
was acquired by Cisco in 2007. 1 married my wife, Rachel, in 2005 , and
we now have a three-year-old son, Charlie. In 1998, 1 invented the Secure Remote
Password (SRP) protocol, which achieves secure communication over aninsecure
networkusingonly a short human-memorized password One of my mathematicalside
projectsyielded a notable result recendy, the discovery of the largest known Sophie
Germain prime, with a length of 53,081 digits, breaking a record that had been in
place for over two years."
Jason Cornez and his wife, Maria Dominguez, welcomed their first son, David, on Aug.
29, 2009. Everyone is doing well in Estepona, Spain.

Sophia Yen, MD/MPH, and Steve Ko and their daughter, Sabrina YenKo, welcomed Stephanie
Yen- Ko into their family in late September. Photos are available in the online
edition.
Leila Tabibian, Trice (Mu nz) Hallac, Tomjay Paul, Julie (Lyren) Wilson, and Tim
Wilson had a great time catching up at Mike Dumbroski's marriage to Matt Woodward
in a small wedding in Salem, MA, on Sept. 19.
After four hot and humid years in Houston, Yvonne Lin has migrated west to start on
the faculty at the USC/ Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center in the ob/gyn department
(division of gynecologic oncology). "My research primarily focuses on different
therapeutic pathways for patients with advanced ovarian cancer, particularly in
conjunction with clinical trial development. My position is especially great because
I will still have an important clinical role helping my department develop its
minimally invasive and robotic surgery program. After arriving in LA., I reconnected
with Saeed Jaffer, who lives in Pasadena, CA, with his wife, Kishwar Ahmed '92, and
their two brilliant children. Although I grew up in Southern California, I was
relatively unfamiliar with most things LA, so Saeedand Kishwar introduced me to some
really great eats: Zankou Chicken. It's a very tasty, inexpensive chicken shawarma
place, with excellent tabboulch salad as well!"
Just before leaving Houston, Yvonne and Roy Liu were able to reconnect with Pete Garbes
and meet his wife, Heather. Through the wonders of social networking Yvonne had
discovered that Pete had relocated to Houston (actually the Woodlands) to start a
new position in the northern suburbs. "We had fun hanging out and showing Pete and
Heather our favorite haunts in Houston. It was just a shame that we reconnected a
few weeks before we moved to LA."
A. J. McFarland recently attended the annual Society of Experimental Test Pilots
(SETP) symposium and invited Tomjay Paul to the formal awards banquet as a guest.
"There are more MIT alums in the society than I can count, but some of my closer friends
in attendance were fellow test pilots Keith Colmer (Lamda Chi Alpha '89), John
Teichert (Sigma Phi Epsilon '94), and Michael Sizoo (Sig Ep 'S3). Keith's wife,
Cecelia Linncll Colmer (Alpha Phi '92), was also on the scene. Outgoing SETP president
Gregory Lewis (70) is also a Course XVI graduate."
-Diane (Hern) Anderson, secretary, tel: 512-215-0564; e-mail: dhern@ alum.mit.edu.
1994
Happy New Year! Here's a resolution that's easy to checkoffyour list-send an update
to your class secretary. Congratulations to Alicia Hunt and her husband, Jonathan
Hunt '97, on their new son, Timothy James, born on July 19, 2009. Timmy joins big
sister Fili e and big brother Christor. who arc both in kindergarten. Ah eia writes,
"Elbe's biggest complaint is that she doesn't get to hold her new brother enough.
Christor loves his little brother very much, but prefers to keep his distance. Last
spring I enjoyed developing a seminar on home energy savings for the Massachusetts
Municipal Association (MMA). The seminar is being presented all over Massachusetts
by energy auditors and environmentalists on behalf of the MMA. I'm looking for a new
job, preferably management or consulting in the energy field." Good luck, Alicia and
familyl
All the best in 2010.
Please send news to:
-Mariquita (Gilfillan) Blumberg, tel: 917-680-3562; e-mail: mariquita@ al-um.
mit.edu.
1995 15th REUNION
Greetings, everyone!

It may be hard to believe, but next June it willbe 15 years since most of us left
M IT. Reunion plans are being discussed on die Class of 1995 Facebook page. Join
tocatch up with classmates and hear about our exciting plans!
Elron A.Yellinand Derya Akkaynak, SM '05 , got married last spring. Derya is in her
second year as a PhD student in the MIT/Woods Hole OceanographicInstitution-jointprogram,
and Elron is in his 14th year as an engineer at MOTU. After graduation,
David WiIlisonmovedtoSanFranciscotoattend the University of California, San
Francisco, where he received his MD and PhD in die Medical Scientist Training Program.
In 2005 he received his PhD in cell biology with a dissertation tided "Essential Roles
for G-alpha 13 in Endodielial Cells and Neural Crest during Embryonic Development."
In 2008 he graduated from medical school at UCSF and moved to Los Angeles for his
medical residency. David is now a second-year resident in psychiatry at the Resnick
Neuropsychiatrie Hospital at UCLA, and he plans to do a fellowship in child and
adolescent psychiatry.
Alex Backer's company QLess, which eliminates standing in line by letting users enter
a virtual fine and get paged on dieir cell phones, was selected as a finalist for
Best Business Innovation by the American Business Awards. QLess is used at res-taurants,
motor- vehicle registries, clinics.and colleges around die nation. Alex's
other company, Whozat? The People Search Engine, launched a new résumé-based search
engine at SocialDiligence.com. Uday Jhunjhunwala is in NYC working on a screenplay
that takes place in the Middle East. He's also helping to produce a documentary about
baseball in the eastern Himalayas of India.
After many years, Eileen Stephens finally had news to share. She was heading back
to Tokyo in November for the next three to five years. She moved to DC post- Wharton
in 2003 for a White House fellowship and spent several years in environmental/
management consulting. Now she is rejoining her old industry (medical devices) with
Medtronic. She will head marketing for several cardiovascular-product families.
Eileen would love to reconnect with fellow nerds while she is abroad.
Thank you to everyone who has submitted updates. Please remember that you can submit
updates and photos anytime throughout the year to be posted on our class website,
alumweb.mit.edu/classes/1995/.
-Jennifer (Tschudy) Carlstrom, secretary, 1304.5 Alta Tierra Rd., Los Altos Hills,
CA 94,022; e-mail: jtschudy@alum.mit.edu
1996
It is the beginning of autumn, one of myfavorite New England seasons. The nights have
begun to chill, the air is crisping, and the leaves are turning. Peach and apple
picking are in full swing, and I am looking forward to carving a jack-o-lantern with
my son, who is now four and old enough to fully appreciate the experience. Bctaspring,
the startup accelerator that I founded with two other Providence, RI, entrepreneurs,
graduated its first class this pastmonth. One of our teams is already funded, and
a second team is well on its way, which is a great way to end a wonderful summer.
I am starting a Twitter stream for our class (@miti996) and willbe sending out news
inrealtime as folks report it. Updates will be restricted to members of our class
anddie extended MIT community. Ifyou are interested in following, please e-mail me
your Twitter username from your MIT e-mail account so that I can approve your follow
request.
In August Bunty Bohra and family moved to Bangalore, India. Bunty has been named CEO
ofthe Goldman Sachs Bangalore operations for the nextfewyears (congrats, Bunty!).
Bangalore is the captive offshore center for GS and the company's third-largest
office. Bunty 's wife, Charu '94, and kids Nikhil (four and a half), Akshay (two and
a half) and Mia (11 months) arc all doing fine.

Robert J. Brown, MD (Course V) has moved from Yale to complete a one-year fellowship
in pediatric neuro-oncology at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. He is focusing on
treating pediatric brain tumors and conducting research on novel treatment
strategies, understanding long-term side effects ofboth chemotherapy and irra-diation,
and treatment in adolescent and young-adult patients.
Ana Echanizand her husband, Ben Wen '92, proudly welcomed daughter Jade Lorea into
the world last May.
Niraj Gupta reports that his wife, Seema, made a heroic effort to deliver their second
child, a son named Kavi Raj, on June 5, 2009. Kavi weighed in at 7lbs., 12 oz. He's
already havinga blast playing with big sister Anika (three) and is looking forward
to playing center field for the Yankees upon his graduation from MIT in 2030. Go,
Kavi!
Alan Pierson lives in New York, but when he wrote, he was planning to perform in lreland
and Germany. A/ ihythmia,an albumhe conducted with Alarm Will Sound, has been released
by Nonesuch Records. His next CD, which should be out before too long, builds directly
on his M IT experience: it's an album of music by Derek Bermel, whom he first met
and worked with in die long-gone MIT Premiere Orchestra.
Brian Semmes recendy obtained a PhD in mathematics from the University of Amsterdam
and is seeking employment.
Alexis Farei Wang received die Ball Corporation Award of Excellence.
-Owen Johnson, secretary, 88 Hudson St., Providence, RI 02909; e-mail: myri-ad@
alum.mit.edu; Twitter: @owenjohnson.
1997
Greetings, classmates! As usual, we have a crop of baby beavers to report. Kelly Ka
Yiu Chan and Gloria Liu welcomed dieir first child, Carleb Chan, in July 2009 in Hong
Kong. On Nov. 3, 2008, Michael and Emily (Ko) Wang joyfully welcomed into the world
their second daughter, Juliette Seung-Ying Wang. Emily naturally went into labor just
two hours before her scheduled induction, and Juliette was born weighing just under
nine pounds (two amazinganswered prayers!). Bigsister Carotine is proud to be
Juliette's personal entertainer! Amy and Ben Schaum had their second daughter. Danika
Megan, on Aug. 29,2009. They are all still happily livingin the suburbs of Cleveland.
Michael and Emily Zalamea have been busy since die birth of their second child. Mason
Jeffrey Zalamea, in April 2009. Emily writes, "It took some time, but we have all
adjusted to having another child in die house. Maddy is the proud big sister,
veryprotective ofherbrother."The Zalameas took a family trip to Northern California
to visit Teresa (Winson) Sapirmanandher husband, Robert, at their new house, and then
all drove to Lake Tahoe. They're now planning a trip to Texas to visit Joel and Cristia
ne (Lin) Johnson sometime in 2010.
Anna Pan and Laura DePaolimetup in Detroit to visit Julian and Lisa (Ho) Verdejo and
dieir newest family member, Noah. The weekend consisted of the MGM casino, naps, the
Detroit Institute of Arts, naps, and a mini field trip to Zingerman's delicatessen.
Jag rut i Pateland her husband, Antony Donovan '94, moved into Senior House to be
the new housemasters.
Clay Ward has started a new company, ProcrasDonate. "The idea is to give Internet
users a charitable incentive for good time management. We help people make automatic
donations to dieir favorite charities whenever they waste an hour on sites that
they've marked as ProcrasDonation. Plus we help people set goals for themselves and
track their progress ont hose goals. The flip side ofProcrasDonatc is TimeWellSpent.
Users who mark their favorite websites as TimeWellSpent can also voluntarily pay for

the time that they spend on those websites. So the service supports quality online
content as well as charities."
Adam Ganderson completed his first Ironman triathlon in Louisville, KY, in August
2009. He swam 2.4 miles, biked 112 miles, and then ran 26.2 miles, all in 13 hours
and six seconds. He is reasonably proud of his accomplishment and looking forward
to doing several more.
-Amy Grayson, secretary, 149 Bishop Allen Dr., Unit B, Cambridge, MA 02139-2409;
e-mail: agrayson@ alum.mit.edu.
1998
We have a nice set of updates in this column, assembled in dieir natural order.
Diana Sanchez writes, "I got engaged on Sept. 9, 2009, at 9:00 a.m. to Guy Williamson.
We plan to wed on 10/10/2010 at 10:00 A.M. Numbers used in true MIT fashion!" Diana
adds, "In April I left Cordis (a Johnson and Johnson company) after seven years to
work as a program manager for Svelte Medical Systems in New Providence, NJ, a startup
in cardiovascular medical implants, specifically coronary stents."
We have two newly married classmates. Brendan Donovan married Anni Walcher on July4
in her hometown of Eppan in the Italian Alps. The reception was held in a mountain
meadow where they were joined by friends and family from around the globe, including
Dave Burt '97, Dan Chak '02, Kimberly Murdoch '99, Michael Parkins '99, Matthew Karau
Oi, and Carol Strohecker'86.
Shira Rosenberg married David Baigel in August, with several MIT alumni in attendance.
Shira continues to work at Morgan Stanley in the risk department of the resi-dential-
mortgage business. Sherecentlymoved out of New York City to Long Island.
Rachel Sha and Leon Hsu (G '99) are happy to announce the birth of their second child,
Madeleine. Her older sister, Sophia, loves giving her hugs and kisses. Life is hectic
but wonderful.
John andCarisa (Leise) Kymissis welcomed a baby boy, Paxon Kymissis, on Sept. 17.
He was greeted by his older sisters Cosima (six), Keira (four), and KC (two). They
enjoy living in New York. John is an assistant professor of electrical engineering
at Columbia University, and Carisa is a psychiatrist at Columbia University Medical
Center.
Elissa Lee's words were too good to paraphrase; on April 1, she and husband Scott
Pelletier "were foolishly surprised with the birth of our daughter, Caroline Vera,
who is fondly called 'Care Bear" (obnoxious roar included) by big brother .ID!"
Lydia Musher, husband Benjamin (Harvard '95), and older daughter Talia welcomed a
boy, Avi Meir Musher, on May 28. The family moved to Houston in July, and Lydia would
like to meet up with any MIT alumni in the area.
Steven Yang and his wife, Pearlin '01, are pleased to announce the birth of their
daughter, Skyla Yang, on Aug. 42009.
Seppo Helava wrote, "Earlier this year, I started an iPhone video game development
studio with Colin Bulthaup '97. Our second game, Word Ace (an online Texas hold
'em/word game mashup), just came out on the iPhone and the Palm Pre!"
Bree Huning wrote, "I've left software to begin my second career as a doctor. I'm
a first-year at UMass Med School, located in lovely Worcester, MA (the big Woo). A
little-known fact about the Woo, according to the brochures anyway, is that it's the
Paris of the millennium, so if anyone wants to save on airfare and just come to
Worcester for a visit, my arms are open. I haven't found the Eiffel Tower yet, but
I'm still looking."

Sally Chou moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles and is studying music composition
and film scoring. Her Course VI-III degree comes in handy for electronic-music
synthesis and fixing her friends' computers. She is not on Facebook, but aspires to
be someday.
Craig White writes, "I'm a manager with Shell in the United Kingdom; great fun and
lots of challenges. My wife, Anushka, is teaching Spanish and French part time." Craig
has three children-Tucker, Colette, and Peyton-and a dog Chunky Monkey, all of whom
are "adorable, happy, energetic, and house-trained."
Jennifer Johnson Muhammad is loving life as a mom to her beautiful 15 -month-old
daughter. She works part time and attends Rutgers part time (going back to become
a registered nurse). E-mail her at kurupt@ alum.mit.edu if you want to catch up.
-Lindsay Androski Kelly, secretary, 3407 Q Street NW, Washington, DC 20007; e-mail:
androski@ alum.mit.edu.
1999
As I write, summer is coming to an end, but by the timcyou read this, it'll be the
middle of winter already. As usual, the summerwas filled with weddings, births, and
vacations.
Yours truly managed to take some time off in September for a second honeymoon to
Argentina to celebrate our first anniversary. We had a blast watching tango shows,
eating tons of steak (yummy lomo parilla), getting drenched by the waters of Iguacu
Falls, and experiencing die excellent wines of Mendoza. If you get the chance to visit
Argentina, be sure to try some Torrontés (a local white- wine variety that reminds
me of Gewürz traminer).
Lily (Hong) Shah and Jay Shah comedbabyTobeyonApril28.Tobey came into mis world at
9 lbs., 3 and 20 inches long. The family took a summer road trip to New York to visit
grandparents and relatives. Lily, andTobcy live in Pittsburgh, where Lily and Jay
are finishing fellowship trai ning programs.
Seems like several members of our class ended up in the medical sion. Class vice
president Seema Nagpal is finishing her neurology dency at die University of San
Francisco. Seema will be ing to Stanford for neuro-oncology starting mid-February.
Seema is ing forward to six weeks off, mosdy to catch up on sleep but maybe to squeeze
in some travel if she wakes up from her beauty rest.
Oni Guha got engaged to Jimmy Lusero and will be graduating from her pediatrics
residency program in Albuquerque, NM, in June 2010.
Jefri Mohdzaini finally got ticated and moved into a house after realizing that baby
paraphernalia takes up more space dian an ment can handle. He now lives with his wife
and nine- month-old son in Lower Merion, PA, a short train ride from Philadelphia.
While many people went on mer break during August, Samuel Sidiqi moved to Afghanistan.
Sam works for Agility, doing government and logistic contracts. His days are filled
with long hours of work, sionally punctuated by an explosion off in the distance.
Sam plans to be in Afghanistan for several years; let him know if you are ever in
Kabul.
Siva Venkatachalam and her band arc proud to announce the birth of their second
daughter, Sowmya Alagu Sevugan, on June28. Both mom and baby are doing great.
Julie and John Zehren welcomed dieir son, Brody James, on August 31. Brady's
two-year-old sister, is adjusting well to the new John is an environmental consultant
with ERM just outside of Hartford.
Most people go to exotic tions for vacation. Alexander Bouis (Captain asha), who
normally spends his days running sailboat charters in the Caribbean, instead spent

his mer vacation back on the mainland in the Big Apple, visiting family and friends.
I guess even folks who live in paradise need a change of scenery.
Matthew Debski flew his airplane, a four-seat 1979 Piper Archer, from Palo Alto, CA,
to Oshkosh, WI, for thisyear's EAA Airventure. He met up there with Jeremy Roy, who
joined him for the flight home. Sounds fun, doesn't it? Maybe Matt will offer us a
ride in his plane to our next reunion. Matt is engaged to his elementaryschool
sweetheart, Katherine Weed. Their wedding party will include Andrew Wheeler '00,
Charles Able '97, and Gregory Spurrier '95.
Anna Orenstein-Cardona writes, "One of my summer highlights was meetingupwith my
wonderful friends from the Class of 1 999 for our 10-year anniversary! It was a
wonderful few days filled with laughter, memories, and, unlike our 5th reunion, many
babies! It has been a true joy to see my fellow classmates become mummies and daddies
and to share in the excitement of seeingtheir kids grow through the years. Besides
the reunion, I didn't get to escape very much this summer, as I started a new job
as head of credit flow sales in London for LBBW (German Landesbank) at the beginning
of July. I've commenced my German classes, and so far all is well. Hope to use them
at Oktoberfest soon!"
Ten years after graduating, Kip Pettigrew is once again a student at MIT. However,
this time he's on die other side of campus getting his MBA at Sloan. Adecade ago,
he never imagined he'd be comingback to the Institute, let alone as a Sloanic, but
he's learned that there's always more to learn and MIT is the best place to do k.
Send him a line and go for a beer the next time you're in Cambridge.
Zachary Strider McGregor-Do rsey got married in the summer of 2008 to Jessica Lee.
The wedding was attended by enough M IT people that he's afraid to list them lest
he leave one out. Following the wedding, the couplclcft for Tanzania, where they hun g
out for a year with deaf people and hyenas. Okay, the latter is a lie; social
interaction with hyenas is officially discouraged by Tanzania's national parks
because of some problems they've had with the 2,000 newtons of force that hyena jaws
occasionally exert. But the couple did meet lots of small-mandiblcd deaf people.
Most people think Zachary and Jess were in Tanzania on some humanitarian mission (how
do these rumors get started?). No, Jess was just trying to get data for her
dissertation, and Zach thought it'd be cool to do nothing for a year on his wife's
government funding, a litde gravy train à la Senator Fulbright. So it was entirely
selfishly motivated, somewhat exploitive, and probably illegal. Their efforts
spearheaded the Timberlakian colonialist movement to "bring Kurtzback." Most of their
free time was spent trying to find an excuse to get to Zanzibar (the birthplace of
Freddy Mercury).
The couple returned to the United States and Mexican food in the summerof2ooc;. Zach
is nowtryingto finish getting all doctored up for the big math ball, as the local
news follows him around shooting B-roll for their "aging grad-student population"
piece. Jess is also finishing up, but she's doing so in Djibouti because taxpayers
pay her lots to be there. Party at Zach's house.
Jaspal Sandhu married Vandana Makkerlast September. Inattendance wereAkash Patel and
wife Akita, Justin Siou and wife Chloe, Khalid Shakir and wife Maribeth Macaisa, Ejaz
Chunawala and fiancee Pam, Ya-Bing Chu and wife Maiiyanne, Michael Li and girlfriend
Joyce, Be Ware and wife Amanda with kids Jasmine and Be, Eric Yoo, Raj Vazirani '98,
Bhuvana '00 and Hyder Husain '96, Nick Mason '96, Matt Hanna '98, Par Somani Oi, and
yours truly. Needless to say, lots of food, fun, dancing, conversation, and pyramid
were had by all.
-Tony Chao, secretary, 1239 Sajak Ave., San Jose, CA 95131; e-mail:
tchao@alum.mit.edu

2000 10th REUNION
We have a ton of wedding and baby news.
Well start on beautiful, sunny Aug. 8, when Aaron Valade '02 and Ay Ding toast ed to
the good health of their families in a Chinese tea ceremony before boarding a duck
boat (Waterfront Wanda) to exchange vows in the middle of the Charles River. Ay writes,
"At one point during the wedding ceremony, we were adrift in a sea of ?GG sailb oats
and melodically serenaded by the Red Line T! Afterward, we and our grandpar-ents.
parents, and siblings feasted at the Capital Grille to close out the joyous
celebration."
Danielle Adams adds to the wedding news: "Kevin Wortman and I married on Aug. 8 in
Park City, UT. We had a small ceremony with family and friends; Brian Romo and his
fiancée were able to attend. We are living in Salt Lake City, and I am in my last
year of general surgery residency. We hope to stay in the area next year, and I am
looking for a 'real' job."
Kicking off the baby news, Berta Liao and Neil Narbonne welcomed their first child,
Ewan Hugo Narbonne, who arrived on Sept. 18 weighing 3,220 grams. Says Berta, "We
are absolutely besotted with him."
Bhuvana Kulkarni Husain writes, "My husband, Hyder Husain '96, and I arehappyto
announce thearrivalofour baby daughter, Maya Aaliyah Husain. She was born on July
14, weighing an impressive 5 lbs., 7 oz., and measuring 18.5 inches tall. We are
grateful that she's a good sleeper, already up to five or six hours at a stretch
overnight. I guess she gets this sleeping ability from her parents! Life with a newborn
has been very challenging and incredibly rewarding! We're still in the Boston area,
both working at nerd jobs in high tech. And I'm gearing up for what will hopefully
bea great 10threunion gift campaign!"
Anthony Torres contributes this: "I believe it was 2007 when I last wrote and announced
my engagement to Parizad (Cama) Torres (Northeastern '03). Well, time for an update.
On Oct 4., 2008, we had a wonderful wedding in Stony Point, NY, at Patriot Hills,
followed by a fun after-party at the hotel where most guests were staying. The weather
was perfect, and everything went smoothly, combining our 'trifecta'of a justice of
the peace, Zoroastrian priest, and Catholic priest into a wonderful ceremony. While
there are many people to thank, we'd like to pick out the following MITers for being
able to celebrate with us: Rocky Bryant '01, Aaron Valade '02, Ay (Ding) Valade, Ranjit
Survanshi, Mona Shah, Stephen Martin '99, Mark Audigier '98, Will Dichtel, Mike Kim
'99, Sage Zaheer '01, Aaron Rogers '99, Justin Verdirame, Jay Nichols '01, Chuck
Booten, Stu Jackson, Alan Chhabra '98, Danny Fisher '01, Alex Weathers, Anita Wu '99,
and Laura Sandler '99. We had a lovely honeymoon in Riviera Maya.Mexico, filled
withMayanruins and swimming with die dolphins, and then unfortunately came back to
work. Our one-year anniversary is about celebrating a lovely Indian-Italian dinner
with both of our parents and eating year-old leftover cake (as well as the backup
cake we ordered)."
In the only non-baby/wedding news, Justin Kent is thrivingin Miami. By day he's a
software and Web developer for the Miami Herald, and by night a VJ extraordinaire.
He's especially taken to i Phone programming, and by the time this prints, he will
have released his seventh iPhone application.
-Matt McGann,secretary,3 Elena Rd., Lexington, MA o242i;teb 617-258-5507 (w);
e-mail: mcgann@alum.mit.edu
2001
Albert Leija and Hilde Heremans announce the birth of their second child, Sophia
Leija, on April i, 2009.

Heidi and Ahmed Elmouelhi were happy to welcome their son, Tarek Ahmed Elmouelhi,
on July 1, 2009, in Minneapolis. He weighed 7 lbs., 9 oz., and measured 21 inches.
Both mom and baby are in good health. Dad is wondering if anyone can explain how one
manages to function on two hours of sleep a night.
Aaron Santos's book How Many Licks? Or,How toEstimateDamn Near Anything was published
in fall 2009. Visit www.aaronsantos.com or search for the book on Amazon.com.
On Sept. i, 2009, J. Joan Hon packed her bags and relocated from New York to Hong
Kong, where she is studyingadvancedMandarinatthe Yale-China Chinese Language Center
at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. On her first weekend in the new city, she
bumped into Damien Brosnan.whom, oddly, she never raninto at MIT. If you are in the
area, she would love to hear from you at jadejoan@ gmau.com.
Fred Huang moved to Beijing after Google lured him over with offers of free food and
a shiny new MacBook Pro. He is new to the city and looks forward to reconnectingwith
alumni in the area. He is offering his sofa to 'ois thinking of visiting.
Elicia (Anderson) Moody and her husband, Ryan, welcomed their second little one on
Sept. 17, 2009. Their older son, Kyle,loveshis"baby Preston" and is adjusting to life
with a brother. Pictures are on their website, www. the-moodys.net, and Elicia loves
hearing from old friends on Facebook.
I, Carol Miu, met up with Frank Bentley '02 at London St. Paneras International after
I had just arrived via Eurostar from Paris and Frankwas just about to take the Eurostar
to Paris. We had a delightful vegan brunch at Eat and 2 Veg near Baker Street. It
could have been two trains passing in the day, but we made it work!
-Carol K. Miu, secretary; tel: 202286-5615 (c), 202-833-5257 (w); e-mail:
miu@alum.mit.edu
2002
Margaret and Justin Markswelcomed Hannah Eleanor Marks into their family on Aug. 1,
2009. She was 7 lbs., 4 oz., and 19.5 inches long. Gitrada Arjara Harmon and her
husband, John Harmon, also recendy became parents. Gitrada writes, "Our son, Ethan
Adinun Harmon, was born on June 9 , 2009. Every moment with him has been so amazing
and wonderful!"
Matthew Cain recendy completed his PhD in cognitive psychology at UC Berkeley. He
is now a postdoc at Duke, looking at how things like playing video games and speaking
multiple languages can affect core cognitive abilities. Matthew's wife, Sasen Cain
'05, just moved back to Boston, so hell be spending a lot of time there as well.
Charles Du recendy transitioned from his startup, Crystal Media Guild, back into
corporate life, taking a position as resource operations manager with CLS Com-munication
in Singapore in charge of Asia and the Pacific. He was expecting his first
child in mid-October 2009.
Nodari Sitchinava received his PhD in computer science from UC Irvine and moved in
September 2009 to Aarhus, Denmark, where he took a postdoctoral position in the
computer science department of Aarhus University.
Christina (Almodovar) and Kevin Ferguson announce the birth of their son, Wesley
Alexander, on April 17, 2009. Kevin is working for Commander Naval Air Forces,
planning events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of naval aviation in 2011.
Christina is a part-time high-school and college volleyball referee and fulltime mom.
Kevin writes, "We've been in San Diego for over a year, and it's been good to us."
Yi Xie graduated from Wharton with an MBA in May 2009 and moved to San Francisco to
work for Goldman Sachs in investment banking. After graduation, she traveled around
Asia, visiting Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, China, and Nepal, and meeting

up with Jumaane Jeffries '03 and Dylan Glas '97 in Japan. Yi would love to catch up
with anyone from our class who is living in the Bay Area.
Erica Salinas celebrated her 29th birthday in September at .lay's Saloon in Arlington,
VA. Alumni in attendance included Madeline Close, Nathan Doble '01, Carol Miu '01,
Derrick Boone '08, andAlexa Herman '08. The fun-filledpacharLgafeatured birthday
cake and ice cream, party favors, and temporary tattoos. Erica made a birthday
donation to Coprodeli, a nonprofit organization that aids underprivileged families
in Peru.
Your cosecretary, Helen Lee, went to Oregon to run the Hood to Coast relay wit h the
New Orleans Track Club team. This race is a 197-mile relay that starts on Mount Hood,
runs through Portland, and ends at the beach in Seaside, OR Helen's 12 -person team
finished in a little under 23 hours, placing 53rd out of over 1,000 teams.
Thanks for reading and contributing to this issue of Class Notes. Send us any updates
you have for future columns and keepyour contact information up to date at al-um.
mit.edu.
-Helen Lee, cosecretary, tel: 617256-8121; e-mail: helenleeo2@ alum.mit.edu; Brian
Richter, cosecretary, tel: 310-709-574.5 ; email: bkr@ alum.mit.edu.
2003
Hello, classmates! We begin with an undoubtedly true update. Mike Gay is buildinga
perpetual-motion machine in his backyard. Although he can't disclose all the details,
it involves cold fusion and fire ants. It is 50 percent complete. Well done, Mike.
Teresa Petersgot married last January and defended her PhD thesis at MIT. Theresa's
PhD research was on carbonated ice creams and sorbets. Her list of volunteer taste
testers is already long and a new list was started at the defense: people willing
to test what quantity of carbonated ice cream they could eat without adverse burping.
Teresa isn't sure what she'll do next- anything from opening an ice cream shop to
starting a postdoc!
Monica Gupta and Anuj Jain were married on May 30, 2009, in a traditional Indian
ceremony on a beautiful sunny day in West Orange, NJ. The couple, who have been
together for the past four years, met as toddlers in New Jersey. They hadan amazing
time growing up together and now look forward to growing old together. Maya Chandru,
Patricia Crumley, Anna (Konfisakhar) Gellar, Jessica (Huang) Gordon, Urtar a Marti,
Heather Sites, Tarik Ward, Lindsey Wolf, Sailu Challipalli '01, Jeyun Choi '01, and
Shrey Kumar '01 attended the wedding. Monica graduated from Wharton, and last fall
she was to begin consulting with Booz in NYC, developing strategy in the media and
entertainment industry.
Arthur Fitzmaurice ran his sixth marathon, not beating his personal record but
battling the heat and humidity of Maui in under four hours. Madleina Scheidegger of
Sydney visited Christine Robsonin Silicon Valley. Madleina is working for Google with
Christine's better half, Josh Weaver '00. Josh and Christine were planning an
extensive bird photography trip last fall to Australia and New Zealand. Christine
anticipated that it would be a lot of fun, even though they'd be standing in muddy
estuaries for several weeks. Christine added that Kitty Chen finished her MBA at
Wharton and is working as an investment banker in NYC.
Preeti Chadhaand Amar Doshi got married Sept. 19, 2009, in San Diego. It was a
respectable nerd reunion, including Gloria Choi; Priya Verma; Sheila Viswanathan '04;
Rumman Chowdhury '02; Tara Sainath '04; Premal Shah, SM '06; Penina Michfin Chiù '00;
Lanny Chiu'oo; Ruby Pai '04; and Amar's (nerd) college buddies. Preeti and Amar
planned an October East Coast reception, which was to include Priya Verma; Pooja
Gupta; Sonali Mukherjee Shah; Sheila Viswanathan '04; Tara Sainath '04; P remal Shah,
SM '06; Priya Agrawal '04; Aileen Wu;and Smita Aiyar'oi.

Kathy Hwang returned from Vijayawada, India, where she was part of a U.S. design team
that collaborated with a social enterprise called Vikasitha. Vikasitha offers
jobtraining centers to women, teaching them sewing and embroidery skills to start
their own businesses. Kathy worked with the organization to help with skills training
and developing a sustainable business strategy.
Daniel Craig got married in August to Sally Honda, a wonderful piano teacher and
die-hard Red Sox fan. The wedding was on the right- field roof deck overlooking Fenway
Park. Many MIT alumni attended, including Rory Edwards; Flora Burstein; Kevin Wang;
Mike Kahan; Woojin Choi; Adam D'Amico '99; Thomas Quealy '02; Nick Cohen '02; Rory
Foster '04; Matt Sither '04; Bo Kim '04; Neel Kantak '05; Phil Hum '06; Mike Fitzgerald
'07; Ryan Berk '02; Sarah Yensen;Ted Lester, SM '07; Mike Folkert '97; and Michael
Hendricks '02. Dan and Sally now live in a little house in Lexington, MA, with a white
picket fence.
Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross was featured as a young innovator by the National Science
Foundation's National Science Board in August. He also coauthored a new book,
Bio-Inspired and Nanoscale Integrated Computing, and joined the advisory board of
Global Green Consulting Group.
Raul Coral got married to Kelly Hughes, a sunshine girl from Tampa, FL, last summer
in Saint Augustine, FL. Raul's former acro/astro buddies Mike Anderberg and Ian
Garcia, as well as former grad-school office mate and swimming partner Simon Watson,
PhD '09, attended the wedding.
Aaron Milstein spent the last five years in San Francisco, graduated with his PhD
in neuroscience, and was off to work as a postdocin Jeff Magee's lab at the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute's neuroscience research faculty outside of Washington, DC,
called Janelia Farm. Krzystof Fidkowski and his wife, Christina, are living in Canton,
M I. Their first child, Bridget Adelaide Fidkowski, was born on Aug. 22, 2009. Bridget
weighed 7 lbs. at birth but is now in the double digits.
Alan McConnell and Ling Bao's startup project. SwingVinc.com, was recendy featured
in the Washington Post. Alan and Ling were celebrating by taking some much-needed
vacation.
Daniel Turek and his wife, Jennifer, planned to move to New Zealand in December, and
Daniel will begin a PhD in mathematics in February 2010. Go visit!
Jyoti Agarwal graduated from business school in June, and after her last summer
vacation, started work as a consultant in NYC. Jyoti would love to meet up; if people
are visiting or livinginNYC.let her know. Anita Tseng married Joshua Shaw on May 30
in Scituate, MA. Bridesmaids included Denise Cherng Schannon'02, Elaine Wong Flynn,
and Sophia Han Chung. Denise and her brother, Erick Tseng '01, gave wonderful
speeches. Eddie Chung '99, Michael Feng '00, Catherine Chen '02, James Flynn '02,
Elise Bender, Joanna Lee, Sarah Rhee '04, Nicholas Chun '04, and David Schannon '04
attended and danced the night away. Amanda Beeson defended her dissertation in May.
Then she went to work for MEET (Middle East Education through Technology). Amanda
taught computer science to Palestinian and Israeli students. From authentic dinners
to conversations about the wall, it was a fascinating, fulfilling, whirlwind
introduction to the Middle East. Afterward, Amanda traveled in Turkey, Israel,
Jordan, and Egypt. Currendy, Amanda is a visiting assistant professor at Williams
College. She welcomes everyone to visit.Proud parents Rebecca Deng and Thomas Lin
are pleased to announce the arrival of their daughter, Tess Yating Lin. Tess was born
on Aug. 3i, 2oo9, at 4:2ip.m. in Seattle. She weighed 8 lbs., 7.9 oz., and measured
21.25 inches.
Jonathan McEuen nabbed his PhD in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania,
wrapped the third official Philly Pecha Kucha night, which he organizes.andhas taken
to lecturing on campus and bikingvery, very long distances to fill free time. He's

excited aboutthe nuptials of some MITfriends/ former roommates and an upcoming trip
to Colorado with his wife, Anita Kumar, to visit some fine MIT folk.
Megan Lumb enjoyed a mini MIT reunion at her wedding to Edgar Tuero in August. In
proper nerd fashion, it was held at the Rochester Museum and Science Center. To show
their alumni spirit, Ekta Desai and Cara Toretta '04 dressed up in beaver costumes
to put on aplay in one of the wildlife exhibits. Anusha Prasad played a beautiful
bridesmaid, and MIT kids in attendance included Julie Jaramillo, Rupa Hattangadi,
Julie Koo, Ekta Desai, and Cara Toretta '04.
-Kristie A. Ta ppan, secretary, e-mail: ktappan@alum.mit.edu
2004
Sarah A. Nowak and Devdoot Majumdar received PhDs and got married.
Leah (Scharf) Rosenfeld and her husband, Shalom Rosenfeld, are happy to announce die
birth of their second son, Alexander Moses, in March. Juggling two kids while working
on her PhD is tough, but Leah says they are doing well. Eric Zhang and Sandy Chen
tied the knot on Sept. 12, 2009, after being together for three years. Despite the
rain, Woojin Choi '03, Tony Kim '03, Dan Kim.Taewon Kim, Roy Gross, Ben Wang, Soojin
Lee '05, Leonard Chung '05, and Phil Hum '06 made it to the wedding reception in North
Haledon, NJ. Everyone seemed to enjoy the scrumptious food and the never-ending
cocktails and top-shelf drinks. Before the end ofthe night, the Sigma Chi boys got
down on one knee and serenaded Sandy with their famous song, "The Sweetheart of Sigma
Chi." At the end ofthe night, Sandy and Eric were overwhelmed with the love that their
friends and relatives showered upon them. May their marriage be filled with much
happiness and peace.
Carri Chan finished her PhD at Stanford and moved to New York, where she is a professor
at Columbia Business School Carri recendygotengaged to Matt Ford (UPenn '03), and
they are busy planning an August wedding.
After graduation. Rene Anziani, Kevin Emery, and Ricardo Lachman applied their
computer science, physics, and mathematics skills to building an automated trading
system that systematically finds profit opportunities in the stock market based on
purely quantitative models. The three of them launched their own hedge fund in
mid-2008, and they have generated consistent returns amid unprecedented financial
uncertainty. They enjoy working together, and they are growing and expanding their
investment advisory business.
In September Andy Perelson moved to Sydney. Australia. where he expects to five for
at least the next year while working for Google. He's hoping that people will use
this as an excuse to come to Australia and visit.
Dan Hussain started his PhD in civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon
University, home ofthe Pittsburgh G20. His quals are scheduled for January, and his
dissertation topic relates to carbon dioxide sequestration and green oil, based on
the work that he and the company he cofounded are doing. See www.insanemath.com for
the latest information on Dan's entrepreneurial and research activities.
Stephanie (Balster) and Mark Cuezon celebrated their first wedding anniversary in
May 2009 (it's been an awesomeyear, of course!) with a trip to the Philippines and
Guam to retrace their roots. They went sailing, jetskied.rode an all-terrain vehicle
and a banana boat, got a couple of massages by the beach, and ate as many Filipino
dessert treats as possible around the beautiful island of Boracay. After visiting
friends and family in the Philippines, they went off to Guam to visit all of Mark's
favorite places around the island. Then Mark decided that since he'd always wanted
to work on planes and five in San Diego, and since Stephanie thought it would be an
interesting new adventure, then now was the time to do it! They both successfully
applied for job transfers, and after a little side trip to hike in the Grand Canyon

and go off-roadingin a jeep inSedona, AZ, they moved out of LA. and the spacecraft
business and are now working on unmanned aerial vehicles in San Diego for Northrop
Grumman.
Captain John Scheuren, stationed at Joint Test and Evaluation in Suffolk, VA,
reclaimed the U.S. National Pro/ Am Cabaret title at the U.S. National Dance
Championships in Orlando, FL on Sept. 12, 2009.
-Emily Chi, secretary, 10645 Wcllworth Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024; tel: 310-488-9303
(h); e-mail: emilychi@alum.mit.edu
2005 5th REUNION
Howdy, '05s. Welcome to another edition of Class Notes!
Kat Allen Sniffen says, "Hello from Japan!" She was there on business in October after
trips to Israel and Los Angeles. She has learned that there's a limit to her love
of Japanese food. She had a crazy summer full of travel. After a great two years in
Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, Doug Hwang found his way back to Boston and p -sets
at MIT as a first year Sloanie. In October, Rose Grabowski went to the Cape to run
her second half-marathon. Her training was sustained largely by the moral support
of her new kitten, Stewie.
Mandeep Singh got married on Aug. 15 to Kriti Jain '07 in Chapel Hill, NC. Alums in
attendance included Mike Sekora, Dave Kloster, Chris Grossman '07, Sid Sundar '07,
Cassandra Roth '07, Elizabeth Zhang '07, Eva Enns '07, Inna Koyrakh'07, Kelly Han,
Minwah Leung '07, Natalie Rubenstein '07, Rashida Nek '07, Sarah Lieberman Zatko,
Yuki Jung '07, Koyel Bhattacharyya '09, and Maria Guirguis '09. Mandeep and Kriti
honeymooned in the Florida Keys and planned on touring India for New Year's. They
just moved to Baltimore, where Kriti is working on her MHS at the John Hopkins School
of Public Health. Mandeep works in pharmaceutical consulting.
Christina Laskowski will be graduating with her mechanical engineering PhD in August
2010. She's been studying manufacturability of fuel cells and is looking for a tenure
position in academia or a relevant industry position. If your company could use
someone like Christina, please contact her at cmlaskow@alum.mit.edu
JoHanna Przybylowski married Michael Silva (UCSD '05) on Aug. 14, 2009, in
Pennsylvania. Bridesmaids included Sheeva Azma'07 and Shuai Chen '07; groomsmen
included Juan Rodriguez '04. After their adventurepacked honeymoon in New Zealand,
where the happy couple went canyoning, caving, rafting, kayaking, glacial hiking,
and ice climbing, they had a second reception in the Los Angeles area. Several
classmates attended the East and West Coast receptions. The newlyweds are back at
Caltech finishing their PhDs and enjoying their first year as husband and wife.
Panasaya Charenkavanich and Bryce Buckley were married on Aug. i, 2009, in Newport,
RI. Allison Hall, Valerie Gordeski, Susan Hwang '06, Dejah Judelson, Jennifer Wu,
Christina Bonebreak, Nicole Hou'04 Katherine Hung'06, Prachi Jain, Lauren Kai, Yerrie
Kim, Deanna Lentz '06, Fallon Lin '06, Monica Rush, Sean Schoenmakers, Smita Singh,
Lee Squitieri, Kelsey Vandermeulen '06, Christine Wang '06, Alex Wong '03, and Tiffany
Yang '06 were in attendance. The newlyweds five in Boston, where Panasaya is a
third-year student at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Bryce is a senior
analyst at Infinata. Tingting Peng traveled to Mexico to assist Baron Baptiste at
his yoga boot camp and was headed to Koh Samui, Thailand, in November to do asite
visit for aresortpropertydevelopment that she is working on. She also hiked 100
kilometers for the Oxfam Trailwalker with three guys attempting to finish in under
30 hours.
Nimi Ocholi participated in MITs Alumni Leadership Conference and got a chance to
hear Hockfield speak again in person. He also had a blast tweeting via his iPhone
and updatinghis Facebook status for the whole conference. He is considering a career

in social networking. Apart from that, he is patiently waiting for the business -school
virus to hit him, given that most of his pals have already been infected by it.
-Haiming Owen Sun, secretary, 530 Broadway E, Apt. 328, Seattle, WA 98102; tel:
818-480-8808; e-mail: haiming@alum.mit.edu
2006
Thaddeus Wozniakrecendycelebrated his 26th birthday. Steven Stoddard, Salvatore
Pallante, and Evan Taylor 07 all made the trip from the East Coast for the weeklong
celebration in LA. and San Francisco. Alongthe way they met up with Joseph Audette
'05 , Mathew Abrahamson, Rick Henrickso n, Helen Belogolova, Chris Bateman '07, Trevor
Chang '07, and Shannon O'Connell '08.
On May 17, Leila Agha married Joshua Aronson '04 in a lovely ceremony in Cambridge,
MA. The bridal party included Emily Proctor, Justine Wang '07, David Wang, Pius
Uzamere '04, Shankar Mukherji '04, and Kevin Jiawen Chen '04. The newlyweds
honeymooned in Italy and particularly enjoyed bicycling through Chianti and hiking
on the Amalfi coast. They are now back in Cambridge, where Leila continues to work
on her PhD in economics at MIT, and Josh has begun his neurosurgery residency at
Brigham and Women's Hospital.
If you have a note you would like to share, please contact:
-Betsy Eames, secretary, 13212 Fox Ripple Ln., Herndon, VA 20171; tel: 571-839-3313;
e-mail: betsy.eames@ alum.mit.edu or o6classnotes@ gmaiLcom.
2007
Robert Leke spent the past two years with McKinsey, serving one year in New York and
another in Dubai. Robert then stepped away from the corporate world to volunteer at
the African Leadership Academy, a nonprofit high school with the aim of transforming
Africa bydeveloping its future leaders. Robert will spend the next year in Jo-hannesburg
and Nairobi working for an African-based investment firm.
Daniele Diab completed two years at Morgan Stanley's sales and trading division, with
their equity department. Her first year, she was on the swap desk, trading European
and global indices. She then transitioned to derivatives structuring, where she was
responsible for innovation and product development. Daniele is now back in Boston,
pursuing an MBA at Harvard to gain general management skills and explore entre-preneurial
opportunities. She will most likely go back to the financial industry,
but on the buy side.
-Maurice K. H age-Obeid, cosecretary, 10 Akron St., Apt. 713, Cambridge, MA 02138;
e-mail: mko@alum.mit. cdu; Joia Ramchandani, cosecretary, 216 W Springfield St.,
Boston, MA 021818; e-mail: joiar@alum.mit.edu
2008
Jusleen Karve and Lokesh Chugh were married in the Woodlands, TX, on Sept. 19,2009.
-Ellen E. Sojka, secretary, 15 Skehan St.,Somerville,MA;teL,765-427-4i68; e-mail:
elleneileen@alum.mit.edu
2009
Jennifer Tang started her full-time position as an operations research analyst at
the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, MA. She is
working with the Federal Aviation Administration to upgrade to NextGen and improve
the quality of our nation's airspace. Her first big project is the Fort Lauderdale,
FL, air traffic control tower, so she will be traveling to Adanta and Fort Lauderdale
often.

Angela Cantu began working full time for investment banking firm Estrada Hinojosa,
which specializes in public finance in Dallas. She is currendy working on projects
to provide financial advisory to large cities and school districts in Texas.
Danwen Chen is improving the nation's educational system with a full -time position
at Curriculum Associates in North Billerica, MA. She works on several projects
developing online products aimed specifically at special educationand students with
developmental delays.
Jijun Chowis working for Deutsche Bank in Tokyo. She is super-excited about living
and working abroad. She hopes to learn more about Japanese culture and improve her
Japanese while she's there. She looks forward to hanging out with more MIT people
in Japan!
Arjun Naskar is hanging out with Demario Dayton, still.
Tina Srivastava was selected to fly aboard a Zcro-Gravity parabolic flight in June
to test the Course XVI satellite with Julian James. The two students successfully
demonstrated the satellite's solar-array deployment in a zero-gravity environment,
a big step toward a launch into low-earth-orbit. Two weeks before the flight, Charles
Herder proposed to Tina on a skydivingtrip. They planned to get married on Jan. 10,
2010, in Dallas.
Wendi Zhang began her full time position as an associate in the consulting group for
Decision Resources in Waltham, MA, while continuing as director of business de-velopment
for the MIT-related nonprofit startup, One Earth Designs (one of the
cofounders is Scot Frank ?8). Wendi just came back from a very exciting summer
traveling through five countries in 11 weeks-the U.K, Italy, Singapore (for research
on entrepreneurship), and Japan and Thailand (as part of the Kawamura Fellowship
Program).
After spending a semester abroad in Cuba, Kendra Johnson is living in San Francisco
as a first-year medicalschool student at UCSF.
Rachel Kolesnikov-Lindsey just can't get enough of MIT and is avoiding the real world
by spending one more year at the Tute toget her MEng in materials science and
engineering. Say hi ifyou are in town!
Irina Shklyar has begun medical school at Yale and is dealing with the information
overload! She says hi to the '09s and invites anyone visiting New Haven, CT, to say
hello.
Shoutout to Willard Johnson!
Bronwyn Edwards and Zach Clifford '08 are happily married!
Brian Coffey spent the summer in India working for Vehicle Design Summit. He's now
at Navigant Consultingin Washington, DC, livingwith Eric Conner '08 and Patrick
Petitti '08 , and recovering from MIT quite well.
Tommy Franklin lived with Brian, Eric, and Patrick over the summer. H e is now pursuing
a master's degree at Stanford. Ryan Brunswick and Luke Harris are living together
in Boston.
Kevin Foley is pursuing a master's at MIT and living with Jeremy Cohen, Jason Rathje,
and Brandon Suarez, who are also pursuing master's degrees. Brandon's program is in
Course XVI; he also obtained his private pilot's license.
Matt Loper is working in New York City and living with David KaIk '08 and Bradley
Brown '08.
Jimmy Bartolotta is pursuing professional basketball in Europe.

Edward Keith is living in New York City with Joey Goldschmid '08 and working for
Blackstone Group.
Bradley Gampel is coaching basketball at his old high school. Ransom Everglades, and
is a volunteer clinical research assistant at UHZ Sports Institute in Miami. Stephen
C. Toth is asecondlieutenantindie US. Marine Corps, stationed at the basic school
in Quantico, VA.
Ben Grannan is living in Lima, Peru, studying the effects of airflow on tuberculosis
transmission.
-Jennifer Tang, secretary, 129 Franktin St., Apt. 324., Cambridge, MA 02139; tel:
908-727-0984.; e-mail: jennifertang@alum.mit.edu
COURSE I
In a video on the Engineer Your Life website (a guide to engineering for high -school
girls), Daniele Lantagne'96, MEng'01, introduces a suburban high-school class to the
sheer effort involved in fetching one's daily water in buckets from the nearest pond
or river. After a correspondence delay while she responded toa cholera epidemic in
a remote area of Nepal, three days' walk from the nearest airstrip, she provided an
update: "I moved to the Centers for Disease Control in Adanta in 2003 and have traveled
in about 43 countries since then. I work part time now in London, getting my PhD atdie
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Recendy I worked on biosand filtration
in Zimbabwe, water supply in Somali refugee camps in Kenya, and development projects
in Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Liberia."
"Hong Kong has definitely changed, and I am part of it," writes S. Selwyn Chan, SM
'85. After 25 years of deep involvement in the construction business, "I was getting
bored and disillusioned and decided to branch out to something I like. I went to law
school, qualified as an attorney, and am now leading a double life, primarily as a
lawyer but also keeping involved in construction by assistingpeople who get into
trouble."
Amid all the talk about stimulus spendinglast April, Professor Joseph Sussman,
PhD'68, explained in Good magazine's transportation issue why the U.S. should route
more of its infrastructure dollars to high-speedrailand implement congestion
pricingto help smooth traffic flow.
During a trip to northern Zambia in November 2008, CEE principal research engineer
Earle Williams, PhD '81 (EAPS), and a team for a Discovery channel segment about wild
weadier encountered a vigorous lightningstorm with centimeter-sized hail, an
extremely unusual phenomenon in the tropics.
Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva, SM 71, PhD '73, coedited a book, Recent Developments in
Transport Modeling: Lessons for the Freight Sector (Elsevier Science, 2009), with
Hilde Meersman and Eddy Van de Voorde of the University of Antwerp.
Former civil-engine ering professor Saul Namyet'40 (old Course XVII, building
engineering and construction) died on April 8, 2009. After workingwith major
airplane-building companies during World War II, he returned to MIT and did research
in computer development, introducing the first use of computer technology in
civil-engineering projects. He also researched the effects of stress and nuclear
bombs on structures, coauthoring a texthook on the subject that received honors from
the Massachusetts Society of Civil Engineers. After teaching in Course I, he joined
Northeastern University to expandtheir civilengineering department, becoming
department chairman and ultimately dean of the school of engineering.
Commander John O'Leary, SM '66, died on Aug. 3, 2009, at age 77. He served 20 yearsasan
officer in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps and another 23 years as a project manager
at Bechtel. Survivors include his wife, Emily; a daughter; and two grandchildren.

Richard Laramie, SM '71, died on Aug. 8, 2009, at age 62. He had conducted safety
evaluations of more than 60 dams in New England. Mr. Laramie began at Met calf and
Eddy in Boston and later joined Resource Analysis of Cambridge, MA, which was acquired
by Camp Dresser and McKee. As a specialist in analyzing hydraulic-flow problems, he
traveled around the world working on projects. He also volunteered for his community
conservation commission for more than 15 years.
One favorite saying of Wilford Winholtz, SM '43, was, "I'm a peacemaker, no matter
how much trouble I cause." A passionate advocate for peace and a church activist for
70 years, he died on Aug. 16, 2009, at age 92. For many years he worked as a city
planner with the aim of building community and living in harmony. In 1964 he ran for
the U.S. Senate on a peace platform, and during the Vietnam War he served as a counselor
to young men considering conscientious-objector draft status.
Egons "Tony" Tons, SM '54, of Ann Arbor, MI, died on June 2, 2009. As a teenager during
the German occupation of Latvia, he left the family farm to work for the German air
force. After the war ended, he received a scholarship to attend Antioch College in
Ohio, and then continued to MIT for his SM and further teaching as an assistant
professor. His innovative research on joint sealants for roads was one of his most
significant contributions to highway engineering. In 1968 he joined the faculty at
the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and remained until 1990. After manyyears
ofseparation, Tony finally reconnected with his family in Latvia in the 1960s.
Thomas Hood '48, SM '51 (old Course XVII), of West Lafayette, IN, died on April 11,
2009, at age 84. He originally entered MIT with the Class of 1945 , but joined the
army. Working for George Fuller in New York City, he was involved in the construction
of Manhattanville College, the Seagram Building in NYC, and the rare -books library
at Yale. From 1980 to 1991 he was a professor at Purdue University in the department
of building construction and contracting. He and his wife traveled for the in-ternational
executive service corps in countries from Turkey to Zambia; they also
traveled extensively by Airstream trailer across the U.S.
Ruth Niessen, widow of William Niessen, SM '33, of Marco Island, FL, died Jan. 18,
2009. She leaves a son, Charles W. Niessen.
COURSE II
Carter "Bud" Karins, SM '65, was appointed one of four new trustees at the Princeton
Theological Seminary, the largest Presbyterian seminary in the country. Founded in
1812, it has more than 600 students in six graduate-degree programs. Bud is chief
executive officer of Karins Engineering Group in St. Petersburg, FL, and a member
of the First Presbyterian Church there. John Ogden Outwater Jr., ScD '50, of South
Burlington, VT, passed away on Aug. 12, 2009. He was born in London and grew up in
London and New York. During WWII, while his family returned to the U.S., he earned
his bachelor's of science and master's in engineering at the University of Cambridge
(Trinity College). John served in die Indian army and left war-torn England to workin
India, keeping 200 troop vehicles running. He retired as a captain. Following his
return to the U.S., he received his ScD from MIT in mechanical engineering and was
awarded a PhD in 1976 from Cambridge University. He married Alice Hooker Davidson
in 1952.
John spent his professional life teaching and doing research at the University of
Vermont. He published 120 research papers and measured the force necessary tobreak
the leg bones. As a result, he developed the first testing device to allow ski bindings
to be set to release before the bone breaks. He worked with U.S. and German
manufacturers to develop bindings that released at a certain strain based on a
person's weight and height-a protocol still used today.
He led four archeology expeditions for the Wenner-Gren Foundation-to Mexico, Peru,
and Haiti-to locate the quarries and study how the Incas cut the massive stone-

blockswithoutmetal tools. He and Alice vacationed in the Yucatán for 15 years. He
leaves Alice, four children, grandchildren, a brother, and numerous other relatives.
COURSE III
Dr. Leslie W. Coughanour, ScD '47, died June 3, 2009.He was from Lincoln, CA, and
leaves his wife, Marjory.
COURSE V
Elizabeth Mildred Black, SM '47, died Sept. 9, 2009. She was from Redding, CT. She
was preceded in death by her husband, Donald M. Black, and is survived by her sons,
Donald T. Black and Thomas P. Black.
COURSE VI
Professor John McReynolds Wozencraft, SM '51, ScD '57, of Redmond, WA, died Aug. 31,
2009.
COURSE X
Lowell Lee Fellinger, ScD' 41, died at home July 24, 2009, at the age of 93. Lowell
received a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois. He worked 40
years at Monsanto, holding several management positions and retiring in 1981. Lowell
was involved in the development of many chemical processes and the engineering and
construction of production facilities for Monsanto in England, Australia, and the
U.S. He was associated with pharmaceuticals, herbicides, plasticizers, resins, and
many other basic-process chemicals, but is remembered most for phenol He was an active
local member of his professional society (AIChE) and served several years on its
national board. He also served on the University of Illinois alumni committee. Lowell
was an avidhiker and cyclist andplayedthe clarinet most of his life, participating
in the University of Illinois marchingband. He is survived by his wife of 31 years,
Erika; son Bill; daughter Nancy; asister, Pauline Firebaugh; two grandsons; and two
R. Norman Wimpress, SM '39, died at the age of 92 at his home in Dana Point, CA, on
July 23, 2009. Norman was raised in Glendale, CA, and was a graduate of Caltech and
MIT He was a member of the Caltech Eaton Canyon Rocket Weapon Project during WWII,
conducting rocket propellant and design research. Most of his career was as assistant
chief engineer for C. F. Braun. An avid sailor and yachtsman, Norman became a member
of the Balboa Yacht Club in 1955 and later joined the Huntington Harbour Yacht Club.
He was preceded in death by his wives, Susanne O. Wimpress and Joan E. Wimpress. He
is survived by his three children, six grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and
three brothers.
COURSE XII
In October, Paul E. Speer, PhD '84, became president of CNA's Center for Naval Analyses
and scientific analyst to the chief of naval operations. CNA is a not-for-profit
research organization that provides in-depth analysis and results-oriented solutions
to help government leaders choose the best course of action in setting policy and
managing operations. Paul is the former vice president and director of research for
CNA's Institute for Public Research. He earned his bachelor's in geology and
geophysics from Williams College and his PhD in oceanography from MIT and the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution. He is responsible for the federally funded R&D center
for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps that provides research and analysis services
across the Department of Defense.
COURSE XIII
Jim Ertner retired in September 2009 after 4.1 years in naval shipbuilding. He figured
that, like the Nascar driver whose wheels wore out, it was finally time to retire.

Given today's economic climate, Jim thought about working part time in retirement
as a bankruptcy agent, but that's a fate worse than debt, and it requires
month-to-month resuscitation. His wife suggested just growing a flower garden in the
backyard, but Jim didn't want to be a petal pusher, and he didn't think he could forget
the past and rely on the fuchsia. Finally, Jim considered being a zombie, but he didn't
want to be a working stiff. Jim was named Punster of the Year by the International
Save the Pun Foundation at the 31st annual O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships in
Austin, TX, on May 15, 2009. For more examples of Jim's punning prowess, see his book,
The Giant Book of Animal Jokes, coauthored with best-seller Richard Lederer. This
behemoth book of bestial humor is available from Amazon and from the publisher
(www.stoneandscott.com), and it's great for year-round gift giving!
Before retiring from naval service in 2007, Captain Francis (Frank) Camelio served
over three years as commander of the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate
Maintenance Facility, a mosdy civilian industrial organization of more than 5,000
employees. In 2008 he published One Last Hope: Strategies to Prevent Imminent National
Decline and Create a Better Future (Xlibris), in which he explains why our national
ignorance of all forms of entropy-physical, economic, social, and information- has
placed us on the path to decline. One Last Hope also details how the US. can develop
and execute a national strategic plan to minimize entropy's influence nationally and
globally. Frank is currendy working on a novel that he describes as a "genetics
thriller."
COURSE XV
Spencer Eugene Smith, SM '63, of Austin, TX, died Aug. 28, 2009. Hc is survived by
his wife, Joan.
COURSE XVI
Dr. David R. Downing, ScD'70, retired from the aerospace engineering department at
the University of Kansas in May. During his 28 years there, Dave taught advanced
control system and instrumentation courses. From r 98 8 to 1999, he was the department
chair. He also directed the Kansas Space Grant Program from 1990 to 2006 and the Kansas
NASA Experimental Project to Stimulate Competitive Research from 1996 to 2006. Before
joining the University of Kansas, Dave was in engineering at the NASA Electronics
Center (1966r97o), an assistant professor of the system engineeringdepartmentat
Boston University (1970^974,), and an aerospace engineer at NASA's Langley Research
Center (1974.^98^. In 2009 Dave and his wife, Barbara, celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary.
W. Hewitt Phillips, SB '39, died June 27, 2009, in Hampton, VA. Mr. Phillips was an
aeronautical engineer for NASA and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee
on Aeronautics at Langley Research Center. He was an expert on the handling qualities
and guidance and control of aircraft. He started in 1940 as a junior engineer in the
stability and control branch of the flight-research division, and he retired in 1979
as chief of the flight dynamics and control division. He was frequently invited to
consult on NASA space programs. Hc is credited with original design of the lu-nar-
landing research facility at Langley, where Apollo astronauts practiced moon
landings under simulated lunar-gravity conditions. Following retirement, he was
named a NASA distinguished research associate and continued aeronautical research
projects for another 15 years. He was a lifelong model-airplane designer and builder.
During his career, he received many honors and awards, including honorary fellowships
in the National Academy of Engineering and the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics, NASA medals for distinguished engineering and scientific achievement,
and the president's award for distinguished civilian service. Mr. Phillips was very
active in alumni and fund-raising activities throughout his life and even attended
his 65th class reunion in 2004..

Priyakant Avantilal Vasavada, SM '46, died April 8, 2009.
TPP
Michael Goldstein, SM '92, came back to TPP in October to speak with students about
careers in hazardous waste and site remediation. Michael has spent ?? years in this
field-r2 at the Environmental Protection Agency and five at General Electric.
Lara Greden, SM 'or, launched a company in October called Luzia that will provide
energy information at the time of buying and selling real estate. This company builds
on work done in her TPP master's thesis. Lara and her husband, Bruno, are also enjoying
their nine-month-old son, Bruno Xavier. Valerie Karplus, SM '08, coauthored an op -ed
in the Boston Globe last August entided"Electric Vehicles Aren't the Solution -Yet."
Valerie is a PhD candidate at MIT, and the article was the result of ongoing research
between the Sloan Automotive Lab andthcMITJoint Program on die Science and Policy
of Global Change.
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