Paul Carr writes: since I became emeritus from leading my Component Technology Branch in the Air Force Research Laboratory (Paul wrote 80 research papers and was named on 9 patents), I have had time to pursue some new interests. In the last two years I obtained John Templeton Foundation Grants to support my Philosophy Course at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Science and Religion: Cosmos to Consciousness. Recently a jury accepted Paul as Photography Artist Member at the Marblehead Arts Association. Paul invites classmates to visit his home page at www.gis.net/~paulcarr and send him e-mail.

John Armitage Jr. writes that he retired as a senior engineer with IBM in 1989. He sailed solo trans-Atlantic in 1990 and sailed to Spitsbergen in 1992 and 1994. John is the co-author with Mark Brackenbury of the Norwegian Cruising Guide which book is now in its 2nd. Edition and is the only guide in any language for the coast of Norway north of Spitsbergen. John's main interest for the past eleven years has been living aboard his sailboat in the Bahamas, U.K., Ireland and Norway. John home-schooled his son Ben aboard the boat for five years.

Another class author is John Penhune who writes that he has just published a high-tech spy novel The Man with PSI. John is Senior VP for Research with Science Applications International Corp. in La Jolla CA. SAIC, with 36,000 employees, is the largest employee-owned company in the country. John and his wife Marcellite also enjoy sailing having taken recent trips aboard a trawler from La Jolla to Seattle and aboard a high-performance sailboat from Athens to Kos.

Alan Wolff writes that his wife passed away in 1993 and that he remarried in 1998. Alan lives in Hudson FL with his wife Barbara where his interests are travel and golf. Alan retired in 1993 as President of Binary Engineering.

As you know I try regularly to send classmates birthday greetings (some months I forget! and then I don't always have everyone's correct address). Jim Larson, noting that I had addressed the greeting to him at his correct address, when asked by me in my questionnaire for his correct address wryly referred me to the other side of my own epistle. He opined that his principal activity is filling out forms. I empathize with you Jim.

Edward C. Fox passed away last September. Ed and his wife Lois lived in Princeton Junction NJ where Ed had been a member of the research staff of the David Sarnoff Research Labs of the Sarnoff Corporation since 1957. Ed had a great love of music and had actively participated in his church choir. Garth Ervin's wife Bette wrote to report that Garth had passed away in 1998. He retired in 1988 and in recent years had not been in good health. It is sobering to note that our class website's list of deceased members already includes one hundred fifteen classmates from our ranks.

Our superlative Class of 1957 website is located at http://alumweb.mit.edu/classes/1957/ ---Alan M. May, secretary, 3601 Turtle Creek Blvd., Dallas, TX 75219; (w) tel: 214-521-8533; (h) tel: 214-528-8812; (w) fax: 214-521-8544; e-mail: alanmay@wtd.net