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Received an e-mail from Dave Stare bringing greetings from the California wine country. About 3 months ago Dave got together in Los Angeles with Maris Peika, ‘62, Dick Sutton ‘62, and Bill Loomis ‘61 for dinner. They were all members of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity and enjoyed getting together again. Dave can be reached via the internet at: dstare@drycreekvineyard.com
Don Moore and John Stanley got together in May with some old high school buddies and watched "October Skys" which reminded them of their own pre-MIT experiments. Glad to still have all their fingers and toes, they really enjoyed the movie. Don is in the process of moving back to Maryville, TN, the scene of their aforementioned adventures, and John lives about 2 hours south on Lookout Mountain in Georgia. They get together more frequently now that they live closer to one another. Don, Barry Roach, and John were the first of many to go to MIT from Maryville High School. Mention of Barry Roach brings to mind that we haven't gotten an update report on his progress with the vineyard in California.
Walt Simmons dropped us an e-mail awhile back with the news that The MIT Alumni Club of Hawaii had a visit from Professor Amar Bose, founder of Bose Corporation, and Professor of electrical Engineering at MIT. Dr. Bose gave his talk on March 9, 2000, at the campus of the University of Hawaii. Walt made the arrangements and Dr. Bose gave an outstanding talk in which he reminisced about his years working with Norbert Wiener.
In case you missed it in the Winter, 2000, issue of MIT's Spectrum, Dave Koch, G. Meade Wyman, Jim Draper and their wives were all present at the dedication of the David H. Koch Biology Building on the MIT Campus. Dave has also pledged $25 million to fund cancer research at MIT. The gala event featured Dr. Richard D. Klausner, director of the National Cancer Institute, who gave a lecture as part of the day-long event entitled "Cancer Research: The Future is Here." In the evening , MIT President Charles Vest and his wife, Becky, hosted a dinner at their home for over 40 alumni and friends in honor of Dave and his wife Julia.
On the 30th of June, Ed Feustel transitioned from IDA to Dartmouth College. At Dartmouth, Ed is a Research Associate with the Institute for Security Technology Studies and is busy studying the Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing. Before Ed left the Washington, D.C. area for the wilds of NW New Hampshire, a Class of ‘62 get together was held on the Sunday before Memorial Day at Roger Sullivan's house. Classmates present included Roger, Charles Weller, Jim Ellis, John D'Albora, Ed Feustel and Bob Gilmore - sounds like an East Campus reunion as well as a Class of ‘62 gathering.
Mary and I just returned from a 10-day visit to Southwestern England, where your Class Secretary gave a paper in Bath, UK, at the 36th Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals and 11th Extractive Geology Conference, Millennial Celebration, Aqua Sulis, Anno Domini MM. Mary spent some time at the American Museum in Bath researching her Rhinelander ancestor's papers archived there. It seems that Mary's family sponsored a privateer for the British named "Revenge" (formerly "Surprise" - shades of Patrick O'Brian) in the 1780's, and it was quite a successful business venture. We had an up close and personal visit to Stonehenge with some archeologists from the British National Trust. We also visited some clay mines in Cornwall, old Roman lead mines, Cheddar Gorge and had dinner at the Roman Baths. All in all, quite an enjoyable visit with our British colleagues in the industrial minerals business. We're off to Mainz, Germany, in July, where Mary will present a paper at the Society for the History of Authorship, Readership and Publishing (SHARP) celebration of the 6ooth anniversary of the birth of Johannes Guttenberg.