The June events at MIT are completed, and, by all accounts, a good time was had by all. We especially want to take note of the fact that our oldest living graduate, Yardley Chittick ‘22, 107 years young, provided a stirring rendition of “Take Me Back to Tech”. You can click on http://web.mit.edu/dsl/aurora/YardleyChittick.mp3 to hear it for yourself!
We have not heard from any 1950ers who were there, but some of you are likely to have attended. If so, let’s hear from you! In the meantime, it is not too early to be making plans for 2010. Our committee is hard at work looking at various options, and we all have something to look forward to.
We received the following from Ed Kruse; Possibly some other classmates will want to look up and get information on missing classmate by using Ed’s approach:
Dear Joe and Tom Thursday, June 5, 2008
Tomorrow is the anniversary of D-Day, 1944. I missed the event.
You listed an Edward Jacob Schickli as a new member of MIT 1950's missing.
I went to a site I've used to see if possibly the person has passed on: the Social Security Death Index, located at http://ssdi.rootsweb.com .
I didn't find his name, but among the 14 or so "Schickli" names who had passed on there was an Edward and a Jacob who might have been his ancestors; both were from Kentucky.
So I went to the telephone listings in www.anywho.com for "E. Schickli" in Kentucky. There was just one: E. J. Schickli, Jr., 14411 Old Henry Road, Louisville, KY 40245, phone 502-241-7900 - (seems like a business phone). This might be an offspring of our class's Edward Jacob.
I decided to check on others in the March Class Notes listing of missing. There were just too many, and too many common last names, so I decided to concentrate on those with unusual last or first names, or those who I remember from Tech.
Here are the ones I studied: (guide: * = birth date; + = death date, sometimes followed in parentheses by the city/town and state of first social security application.)
I received the following from Tom Buchanan regarding Pete Petrofsky’s request for information on John Wescott. With the additional information from Tom, maybe there are others in the class particularly from the noted fraternity who can add to Tom’s recollections
Hi Joe: I'm addressing this note to you because I'm unable to call up your notes for some reason or another. I succeeded at first, but now I've lost them. Maybe it's because my machine is over 10 years old.
I saw in your class notes a request from Pete(?), last name forgotten, for info on John Wescott. I knew him well while he was at MIT. He was an ATO pledge while I was one for Kappa Sig. He had a marvelous tenor singing voice. After he dropped out of Tech, he went on to Bowdoin where he pledged Kappa Sigma. I believe that he trained at Ft. Belvoir in VA before going to Korea.
We didn't see him when my wife and I went to DC in 1950(?), but we did get his address. Sent him a Christmas card, but it was returned stamped "Killed in Action". Sorry. Nothing more to add.
Tom Buchanan tcbiii@midcoast.com
I answered as follows:
| Joseph D. D’Annunzio, PE, Class Secretary | Thomas R. Keane, Assistant Secretary | |
| 16 Treeview Circle | 332 Spalding Road | |
| Scotch Plains, NJ 07076-2436 | Wilmington, DE 19803-2422 | |
| joeviola@alum.mit.edu | tomkeane@alum.mit.edu | |
| Phone 908-322-1785 | Phone 302-658-2095 |