John N. (Nick) Newman is on the Faculty in the Department of Ocean Engineering (until 1970 known as the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering). John had in the past done Graduate work at MIT and Cambridge University and then worked until 1967 for the Navy at the David Taylor Model Basin. John's teaching and research activities are in the area of "Marine Hydrodynamics" which is the title he chose for his text published in 1977 by the MIT Press. John's specialty is the influence of waves on ships and offshore platforms. Kathy and he spend most of their spare time sailing, which gives John a lot of opportunities to observe waves. The highlight of their sailing activities was a trans-Atlantic cruise, sandwiched around a sabbatical year as visiting Professor at the Norwegian Technical University in Trondheim in 1981-82. Since then John has enjoyed continuing contacts with Norwegian colleagues and students, and several of his current research sponsors are from the Norwegian offshore industry. He has three children.
April 1996
Frank Amoroso is a retired communication system engineer who is consulting with Digital Data Modulation Studies in Santa Ana, CA. He is a session organizer for the September 22-25, 1996 IEEE Fourth International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques & Applications at the Electoral Palace, Mainz, Germany. His session is "The Role of Mitigation Bandwidth in Spread Spectrum Communications."
Terry Carney of Chattanooga, TN enjoyed his reunion with the MIT crews that rowed at Henley in '54 and '55. Robert (Buz) Sawyer was there along with a dozen others from the Classes of '54, '55 and '56. The reunion was during the Regatta in England this past July. Of the twelve oarsmen and two coxwains that competed ten oarsmen, the '54 coxwain and their coach Jack Frailey returned to the Thames for a commemorative ceremony and row over the course. Terry is Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Tennessee. He has 3 daughters with Laurel, the MIT graduate, teaching Bioengineering at BU.
Robert Sawyer MD lives in Guilford, CT and has an active consulting service in preventive and occupational medicine. He is also Vice President of ENTEK, Inc., consultants in Environmental Engineering. He travels widely, skiis in Aspen and has four children and two grandchildren.
Bill Peter has a medical software company in Minnesota. He retired early from DuPont in 1985. His software focuses on "outcome management technology" to develop improved therapy protocols for better quality and lower cost healthcare delivery. The company, Health Outcomes Management, Inc., has over 800 clients now in 40 states.
Walter F. Storer has retired and is living in Oregon in the great northwest where he is enjoying the woods and natural beauty of the area as well as many of the cultural events.
Gidean Gartner will be starting the Giga Information Group, Inc., a market research firm orientated toward the needs of technology users. Giga is a combination of BIS Strategic Divisions, a $25 million Norwell, MA market researcher serving vendors and ExperNet, a Santa Clara, CA network of information technology experts.
Richard E. Quinn is Director, Professional Practice in Engineering Education at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NCE).
David S. Shefrin has a company Private Career School Consulting in Phoenix, AZ and is involved in all aspects of career schools including curriculum evaluation, placement, marketing, advertising and financing. He is currently working on an Arizona Israel Exchange Commission.
Bob Scher is President of Encoder Design Associates, a consulting company in Clifton Park, N.Y. Bob was president of the Teledyne Gurley Co. (a division of Teledyne Inc.) until 1992 when he left to start a consulting firm that specializes in design of optical encoders and other measuring instruments. Bob and Audrey enjoy chamber music concerts in their leisure time.
May/June 1996
Roger Borovy has joined Fish & Richardson, an old line line Boston intellectual property law firm. He is in theMenlo Park, CA office doing patent infringement defense and licensing. The Fish firm wrote the patents for Thomas Edison.
Arnold Schindler attended the 40th Reunion planning session on Feb. 6 and reported that he has retired from Northrop Corp. His son David graduated from Brandeis and is the Events Producer for the Capital Center in Washington, D.C. where the Bullets and Capitals play.
July 1996
Howard Trachtenberg reports happily that he and his wife Carol became grandparents for the fifth time with their first granddaughter. Howard is the Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at Baystate Medical group in Springfield, MA. Howard's leisure time is spent at ski patrol duties in the winter, and golf and fly fishing in the summer.
Martin Reiss is President and CEO of RJA Co. with nine offices throughout the country doing fire protection engineering consulting services. He has just been elected Vice Chairman of the National Fire Protection Association Board of Directors.
I regret to inform you that Elmer J. Korn passed away May 14, 1994.
August/September 1996
The opening of RICHARD BERTMAN: SCULPTOR was celebrated with a reception at the MIT Museum on January 25, 1996. His sculptures were on exhibit at the Museum through May 3, 1996. By profession Richard is an architect and a founding principal of CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares. CBT recently won a major project in Bermuda to design a new, mixed-use development that will include an office and retail building, townhouses and villas, and a marina.
Thomas Comparato has been working in Washington on the National Maglev Initiative for the past four years. He is now back at the Volpe Center in Cambridge heading up the Airport Surface Projects Office. Thom has three grandchildren.
John Cronin retired October 1995 after 29 years with Pfizer Inc. His most recent position was Controller of Pfizer's Information Technology Division. John's future activities will include sailing, travel and volunteer work.
Phillip Birbara is the senior principal scientist working in environmental control in space technology in Windsor Licks, CT. He has been involved in designing life support systems in space for the past 30 years and he has 35 patents.
Walter Conrad, Jr. has a construction contracting business in Chesapeake, VA. Walter has two children Jennifer and Paul, and a grandson Augustus Conrad.
James McGrady is retired from Cytec Industries where he was the Safety and Environmental Engineer. He lives in New Jersey and in his motor home when touring the country.
Frank Spada teaches Electronics at Wentworth Institute. His daughter Joanne is engaged to Michael D'Agostino and they have an October wedding planned.
October 1996
Our 40th Reunion was very well attended with 127 classmates registered. There were 164 attendees at the prePops buffett and 226 at the Friday evening gala at the Museum of Science. The fun continued up at the Black Point Inn Resort in Maine with a dinner dance, clambake, sports, sight seeing etc.At the clambake there were 147, all enjoying the excellent food.
From the very active tennis participation emerged some outstanding competition and a very high level of play from Tom Hoffman, Merlin Lickhalter, Phil Schaffer, Craig Sherbrooke, Dan Wolfson and Sheila Wolfson.
The new class officers will be as follows:
Ted Korelitz - President
Arnold Schindler - Treasurer
William Grinker - CoChairman 45th Reunion
William Leitch - CoChairman 45th Reunion
John Stelling - CoChairman 45th Reunion
Walter Frey - Class Agent
Ralph Kohl - CoSecretary
William Northfield - CoSecretary
November/December 1996
Kreon Cyros is retiring from Draper Labs and MIT after 34-1/2 years. He will become President of a spinoff non-profit company OFMS Inc. With a license from MIT for all the previously developed facilities management systems, OFMS Inc. will continue sharing its products and services with other universities, medical centers, Government agencies, corporations, as well as MIT.
Rolf Wetzell had his book "Chess Master at Any Age" published by Thinkers' Press (Davenport) in 1994.
Lawrence Hallee passed away August 18, 1994 during a business trip to Bangkok, Thailand. He was a vice president and director of Stone & Webster Corp. and executive vice president of Stone & Webster Technology Corp. He was acknowledged as a world leader in olefins technology and was co-author of 20 articles on various aspects of ethylene production and purification.