Michael Schmid writes that he has retired as a Project Director for Tampella Power Corp. in 1996. Michael's main interests are his family, church and community. Mike sings bass with the Highland Camerata, a 40-voice chorus whose singers come from a nine county region of northwest North Carolina/southwest Virginia. Mike invites any classmate in the area to "come on down" and attend a concert. The Camerata will be presenting a selection of audience favorites from the past 20 years in Wytheville VA, Sparta NC, Galax VA, and Independence VA on November 15,17,22 and 24 respectively. Mike also raises money for Phi Kappa Sigma, and serves as a Teacher's Aide at the Mount Rogers Regional Adult Educational Program. Michael and his wife Mary live in Galax, Virginia.
Frank Yans writes that he will retire at the end of December from Arthur D. Little Inc. where Frank has been a Vice President and a member of its Board of Directors. Frank will continue to be active in business as a director of several listed companies in the United States and Latin America. Frank is on the board of IBH (International Briquette Holdings) which is a Nasdaq listed company with plant investment around the world of almost a billion dollars. A good deal of it is in Latin America and its biggest facility is currently being built. Annual sales are now about $200 million. Frank is also a director of Orinoco Iron CA which is a joint venture between BHP (Australia's largest public company) and Sivensa (Venezuela's largest public company). Orinoco is in the process of making the largest single investment in Venezuela ever made by a company outside of the oil industry. Orinoco will be producing 2.5 million tons per year of iron for steel making plants in North America and Europe. Both companies are old clients of Frank's and are very active boards since in the aggregate they have about a billion dollars of new construction in progress. Frank says that bringing it all in on schedule and budget is a considerable task. Frank has concluded that the most important thing he got out of MIT was "learning how to cram". Frank's other main interests are his wife Molly, two granddaughters, personal investing and working for environmental charities.
Harry Johnson writes that in May 1997 he retired from the University of Connecticut as a Professor of Finance after 35 years teaching there. However, Harry still teaches one course to help out UConn. Harry's three daughters, one of whom married an engineer, all live in the greater Boston area.
Terry McMahon writes that he has been an independent technology assessment consultant for 30 years. After graduating MIT in Course X in 1957 Terry got his M.E. and D.Eng at Yale in ChE. . He then worked for IBM and thereafter Realtime Systems, Inc. Terry formed McMahon Technology Associates in 1968 and has been providing consulting for business strategy formulation, market research and product planning and application development for a host of clients whose names read like a Who's Who of industry. Terry's firm has made many studies of industrial automation and control and laboratory automation and published numerous technology & market assessments and forecasts for various major industries. Terry has written a regular column for Control Magazine for over six years. Terry and his wife Rosemary live in Leonia NJ.
Stuart G. White, in MIT's Department of Political Science has been selected as the Class of 1957 Career Development Professor. His three-year term begins July 1, 1998. Professor White received a BA from the Magdalen College at Oxford University, an M.Phil from the Wolfson College at Oxford University, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been an Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT since 1997, and was formerly a Prize Research Fellow at Oxford. His fields of interest include normative political theory, history of political thought, political economy, public policy, and British politics. At the graduate level he teaches Normative Political Economy (17.152) and Foundations of Modern Political Thought (17.122). At the undergraduate level he has taught Ethics, Economy, and Social Policy (17.121) and Liberty (17.103). His current research is principally in the area of the theory of distributive justice and economic citizenship. Professor White is further researching the question: what is the proper relationship between the state and voluntary associations (ranging from churches to sport clubs) in a democratic society? Finally, Professor White has a strong interest in British and European politics. Professor White is organizing a conference entitled "Labour in Government: The Third Way and the Future of Social Democracy". The conference will take place November 13-15 at the Center for European Studies at Harvard. Professor White has graciously invited any member of the Class of 1957 to attend the conference.
So, if you have an interest in attending the conference and read this in time, please contact Professor White.
On our class Internet page Martin Zombeck has posted freshman photos. They are not all Ansel Adams quality but then we didn't spend much time posing in the fall of 1953. Anyway, by the time this article appears your youthful countenance should be gracing our Internet page. Moreover, our Class Notes page has been activated within our Home Page, see http://alumweb.mit.edu/classes/1957/ so that you can now read future class note articles about three or four months before they appear in Tech Review. You can read old class notes articles as well. For example, this article had a submit deadline of July 27 and has been posted on our Internet class page since about then; thus, you could have been reading these notes up to four months ago. You can even read articles from The Tech, VooDoo or Technique from our home page. Please note that I have changed my e-mail address. ---Alan M. May, secretary, 3601 Turtle Creek Blvd., Dallas, TX 75219; (w) tel: 214-746-4677; (h) tel: 214-528-8812; (w) fax: 214-746-4754; e-mail: alanmay@wtd.net