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Dr Carl B Dover |
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Mr William S Goldberg |
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Mr Alan L Schwartz |
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Mr. Aarne Aus, XVIII, died in Mar 1998 of prostate cancer. After returning from vacation in Indonesia in June 1997 he was diagnosed as terminal. After MIT he worked for IBM Canada and stayed in computers; He was Sr. VP of mutual fund in Canada. Estonian by birth, Aarne was asked to sit on Estonian economic council. "Life with Aarne was never dull" - Stephanie Aus(contact information in Alumni directory)
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Dr. Stephen Anthony Benton died in November, 2003 of brain cancer. I[Mike Bertin] was reading the LA Times when I came across the obituary ... It was a shock. He grew up in Santa Barbara and became an optics enthusiast at age 11 when he donned a pair of 3-D glasses to watch "House of Wax". Optics became a professional passion as well. After his MIT years Stephen worked at Polaroid, then received his Ph.D. from Harvard. He was a holography pioneer who invented the familiar rainbow holograms used on credit cards. He was a passionate inventor, who saw no distinction between his science and the art he created. Stephen returned to MIT in 1980, directed the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and was a founder of the Media Lab. His wife Jeanne, who met Stephen at Polaroid, said "He was just always a kid in a toy store, just wanting to take things apart, put it together, and put it together better. He really appealed to the average 10 year old kid."
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Mr. Peter A. Bogdan died in 1964 in a canoeing accident.
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Mr. Charles Albert Bridges, III, VIII, died January 21, 1995 in Urbana, Illinois. He had a wide range of interests. After graduating Tech, he took a master's degree in physics at University of Illinois with an emphasis in both elementary particle physics and astronomy. As a systems analyst and senior scientific programer, he assisted in the operation of the solar telescope at Kitt Peak Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico and since 1980 was assistant specialist at the Computer-based Educational Research Laboratory at University of Illinois. Interested in the natural sciences and a leader in computer cataloging, he produced in 25 years of independent work seven catalogs of butterflies, moths, and dragonflies. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. His obituary ends with the delightful note, "He danced at the Regent Ballroom in Savoy."
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Mr. Billie G. Brown, XVI, passed away in December 2006. He had been living in Seabrook, TX.
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Mr.
Edward Alan Brudno, XVI, died June 3, 1973.
His name was added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Monday, May 31, 2004.
Brudno spent 7 1/2 years in various prisoner of war camps after his F-4 was shot down over North Vietnam in the fall of 1965.
As reported by Joe Galloway:
Former POW Orson Swindle, a Marine pilot who is now a member of the Federal Trade Commission, had the cell next to Brudno for more than two years in Son Tay Prison Camp. They "talked" incessantly by tapping on the wall in a code.
"He was very young, very intense, very intelligent," Swindle remembers. "He had a degree in aerospace engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Al Brudno wanted to be an astronaut."
Swindle said Brudno hated his communist captors and constantly searched for ways to thwart them or ridicule them. "He was a little guy so he used guile and cunning to outwit the guards," Swindle added. He was also one of the best at sending hidden messages in the few letters he was permitted to write home.
A year ago Swindle urged Bob Brudno, Al's brother, to ask the Air Force to investigate Al Brudno's death and add his name to the Wall. There was a thorough investigation, and the Air Force found that it had not done right by Al Brudno. He had been cut loose upon his return from Hanoi, without the support or counseling that is now routine for all returning POWs - routine now BECAUSE of Al Brudno's death.
"Al came home with mortal wounds," Swindle says. "His suicide was a result of deep wounds that were both physical and mental. I know of no one more entitled to a place on that Wall than Al Brudno."
According to the Washington Post,
Four months after he returned home in 1973 -- one day before his 33rd birthday --
he killed himself in the home of his wife's family in Harrison, N.Y.
He was the first of about 600 POWs released during Operation Homecoming in early 1973 to die.
The Defense Department has approved adding Air Force Capt. Edward Alan Brudno's
name to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, ruling that his 1973 suicide
was a direct result of wounds suffered as a prisoner of war.
Representatives of Brudno's family, who had lobbied for the addition of his name, said they were relieved by the agency's decision.
"This was psychological torture at the hands of the enemy in a combat zone," said his brother, Robert Brudno of Bethesda. "There are not thousands of others who meet that criteria."
Some former POWs who had lobbied for the addition of Brudno's name said that his death had served as a warning call for the military that led to better psychological care for troops returning from combat.
"I am comforted by knowing that my brother's sacrifice has added to the understanding of the psychological wounds of warfare," Robert Brudno said. "Perhaps others were saved by the alarm my brother's death raised."
Vietnam Veterans Memorial information:
Air Force Captain Edward Alan Brudno (Quincy, Massachusetts)
June 4, 1940 - June 3, 1973 // Incident Date: October 18, 1965
Wall Location: 5 East, Line 2
Mr. David Caldwell, VI, died April 1, 1995. He was living in Walnut Creek, California and working for Texas Instruments.
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Mr. Michael Chessman passed away in February of 1999. Michael was living in Portola Valley, and working as manager of process management at Varian Associates. Our condolences to the family.
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Dr. Theodore E. Cohn passed away May 25, 2006. Ted had recently been a faculty member at UC Berkeley. Our condolences to his wife, Barbara, and the rest of his family. UC Berkeley posted a press release and picture: Theodore E. Cohn, vision expert & signal designer, dies. If you have remembrances of Ted that you'd like to share please submit them. See also the Jan/Feb 2007 Class Notes.
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Mr.
Lawrence A. Coppola, VI, passed away Sept 22, 2006. He lived in
Roslindale, MA while he was an undergraduate. He ran cross
country and track for MIT. At the time of his death Lawrence was
living in Foxboro, MA. Our sincere condolences to his widow,
Barbara Coppola, and the rest of Lawrence's family. If you have
any memories to share about our late classmate, let me know and
I'll include them in future columns.
See also the Boston Globe Death Notice.
Lenny Goodman '62 wrote
to share some memories. Larry went to the Roxbury Latin School,
while Lenny went to the Boston Latin School. There is a rivalry
between the two schools as to which has been around longest.
Lenny described Larry as a "prince of a guy"; they started MIT
together in the fall of 1958, but Larry finished with us in 1963.
They often lunch together and studied for 6.08 quizzes in the
fall of 1961. Lenny said he was envious of his friend because
Larry worked part time at Fenway Park during his MIT years, and
got to see most of the home games.
Mr Norman Dorf, IV, of Glen Cove, NY, died in June 2007. After leaving MIT and completing his Navy service, Norman worked as an architect with Marcel Breuer on the Whitney Museum and then with Davis, Brody & Associates in New York City, where he served as Project Manager on the 1982 restoration of the New York Public Library. He was a dedicated teacher to thousands of Architectural Examination candidates around the country and the world; he was known for the study guide solutions he authored. His loss creates a large void in the world of exam preparation, mentoring and lecturing. Traveling, sailing and spending treasured times with close friends were among Norman's favorite activities. Norman is survived by his mother, Ruth Dorf; his brother, Robert Dorf; his sister, Molly Purrington; his loving girlfriend, Marie Lewis, and his children Tracy, Tom and Whitney.
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Mr Rick (Fredric) Egendorf passed away in June 2005 in Palm Desert, CA after a year-long struggle with cancer. During his MIT years Rick was a course 2 major and a resident of Burton House. After graduation he moved to California to work for Rocketdyne. He started at Hughes Aircraft in 1966 and was a computer systems engineer for most of his career. In 2002 Rick retired from Hughes/Raytheon. He and his wife, Judy, sold their Tustin, CA home and moved to Sun City in Palm Desert, CA, where he was active in the community. Rick is survived by his wife, Judy, his son, Paul, a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, and his daughter, Laura, a graduate of Wesleyan University. Our condolences to the family.
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Dr. Lattee Fahm, who received a Ph.D. in economics from the Institute died in May, 1998. Dr. Fahm had been employed as Executive Director of Economic Research Associates in Berkeley, CA.
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Dr. Clare M. Fetrow, Jr. died on January 10, 1998. I remember him as a fellow physics major at the Institute. Recently he was a principal engineer at Radix Systems in Rockville, MD. --Mike Bertin.
MenuMr. Ronald L Fisher died in November, 2007. He was living in Damascus, MD at the time of his death. Ronald was a course 6 graduate, and lived in East Campus at MIT. He was from Oswego, NY, and while at MIT he was in the Science Fiction Society and the Rifle and Pistol Club. If any of you have remembrances of our classmate send them to me, and I'll share them with the class. Our condolences to the family. --Mike Bertin.
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Alfred W. French III died on Oct. 19, 2004. He was the third in his family to graduate from MIT. His father graduated from the Institute in 1926, and his grandfather graduated in 1889. Alfred moved to Minneapolis, MN with his family in 1965 and established an architectural practice and served as an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Minnesota. He was a member of the Capitol Area Architecture and Planning Board in St. Paul, and was a major participant in the redevelopment of the state capitol area. In 1982 he moved to Naples, FL, where he designed many important public buildings and private residences, and led the effort to redevelop downtown Naples. --Mike Bertin.
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Dr Zalman Levi Feld Gaibel, died on November 17, 1995. His wife, Linda, informed the Institute by way of a donation to MIT's B'Nai B'rith Hillel in his memory. He was a general manager at Josarah Enterprises in Chicago.
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Mr Joseph Stephen Goldberg, died on January 25, 1984, after being struck by a car while jogging. He was living and working in California at the time.
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Mr Edward John (Chip) Goldblum, died on July 11, 1983 in England, where he had worked as a management consultant for over five years. Chip received his SB in Management in 1966 and his SM from Sloan in 1969. He worked for Peat Marwick Mitchell (then one of the "Big 8" accounting and management consulting firms) until his departure for an around-the-world trek. He spent a number of years in New Zealand and ended up in England, not quite making it all around-the-world. His death in 1983 of cancer followed shortly after his marriage in 1981 and shortly before the birth of a daughter in 1983. Chip was born and raised in New Orleans, LA and was active in high school and college fraternity activities, and worked on The Tech in his freshman year.
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Mr. Harold Reed Gregg, X, died in California on April 13, 1993. He had been vice-president-auditing for Transamerica Corp.
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Dr. E. Norman Hernandez, VI, died July, 2007. Stan Wulf ’65, sent me a note about the death of our classmate and his Phi Delta Theta fraternity brother, E. Norman Hernandez. Norman died when his small YAK-55M plane crashed in a wooded area in Everett, Washington. At the time of his death, Norman was chief executive and chairman of AuBeta Networks, a Seattle company that builds secure wide-area networks for businesses. He founded the company in January 2000, having focused his career since 1991 on the integration of computer and digital telephone networks. Norman came to MIT from Miami, and after receiving a degree in electrical engineering, he earned a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Maryland. He taught at the University of Washington in the early 1970s, pioneering the use of lasers to assess seismic shifts. After leaving UW, he founded Terra Technology Corp., which developed seismic monitoring equipment. He then founded or co-founded several other companies dealing with devices as varied as computer drives and pulmonary-function analyzers, the common theme being technology and electronics. Norman was as enthusiastic a sportsman as he was a businessman; he raced Formula Mazda sports cars, hunted grizzly bear and ducks, and took his family sailing aboard a small wooden boat. He is survived by his mother; his wife of 46 years, Ann; his sons Ean, Ethan and Eban, and his daughter, Aubrey.
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Mr. Reinhold Frederick Hollender, Jr., XIVB, died June 30, 1992. He had been living in Minneapolis. No further information is available...
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Dr. Byron E. Johnston, V, and his wife Shirley died on October
8, 2001 during hurricane Iris in Belize. He is survived by his daughter,
Dr. Heather M. Johnston '90, Course XVIII, son Blaine E. Johnston, '91,
Course VIII, daughter-in-law Debra (Ellingson) Johnston, '91, Course X, and
a two-year-old grandson Benjamin.
Further information and photographs taken from
their obituary and the accompanying New York Times article is available at
http://math.vassar.edu/faculty/johnston/obit.html
James Keenan died unexpectedly last October 2003 at his home in Richmond, NH. . Eleanor Klepser, class secretary for 1966, sent [Mike Bertin] an obituary she spotted in a Buffalo, NY area newspaper. James was born in Los Angeles and graduated from Lafayette High School in Buffalo. After his MIT graduation he earned a master's from Harvard and worked for many years at the Draper Lab in Cambridge.
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Dr. Jeremy A Klainer, V, died on April 17, 2002. Jeremy was president of Professional Planning Associates in Rochester, NY.
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Dr. Harry Koons, VIII, died on May 11, 2005. Harry continued at the Institute for his Ph.D. in geophysics. He worked for 37 years at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA in the Space Sciences Lab, where his title was Distinguished Scientist. He was an expert on space weather and worked on many satellite programs. Outside the lab Harry enjoyed birding. Our condolences to his wife, Ann, and his family.
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Mr. Yagiv Krzekicki, II, XV, died 1998 from lung cancer. After leaving MIT, he changed his last name to Kadar, a Hebrew name, according to his son Aran Kadar.
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Mr. Alfred Kugler, a Sloan Fellows Program alum died in April, 1998. Alfred was living in Grand Haven, MI at the time of his death. The most recent MIT Alumni Register shows that Alfred was employed as the Manager of Technical Services for Karl Schmidt Unisia Inc. in South Haven, MI.
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Mr. Barry Kurtzman, as reported by Jeremy Gold, came to MIT well prepared and found the early work easy. He was fascinated by number theory, games, poker, pool, and all things probabilistic. Barry plunged into these pursuits, an easy thing to do at MIT. Focusing on games can get you into bad work habits, and after several semesters Barry flunked out. After leaving MIT he hung around Boston, writing microcode for Honeywell, and eventually got drafted. The army realized it had a fine technical mind in its ranks and set Barry to fixing typewriters. After that Jeremy lost touch with Barry, but heard about him later from an Australian folk singer named Carl Cleves, a member of a group called the Hottentots. Carl met Barry in the city of Zomba in Malawi in the late sixties. Barry had come from Cairo, southward bound, hitching rides, with little money but lots of time. He was still passionate about mathematics and whiled away the hot days solving geometry and algebra riddles from a well-worn math book. Carl spent weeks in the market and bars of Zomba, passionately debating African culture, philosophy, politics and travel with Barry. It was the late sixties and there was a revolution happening in the world, but Africa moved at a slower pace. Carl described Barry as an American sadhu, bigbearded, bighearted, ringwormed on both feet, but continuing on his quest. Barry continued to journey around Africa, visiting the strife torn Sudan, Libya, and Kenya.
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Mr Howard A Leibowitz, II,... a dear friend and MIT fraternity brother of mine past away last September.
I attached one of the obituaries from the local paper. [Highlights: After
getting an MBA at Syracuse Howard's career included 23 years with
Corning, 3 years as COO of Grant Industries in West Nyack, NY,
and ten years as VP of engineering for Nabisco in East Hanover,
NJ before "retiring" at the end of 2000. Recently he was been a
VP and consultant with Manchester doing executive coaching and
leadership development. Howard was an accomplished jazz pianist
and he performed with a number of bands in local establishments.] He and I organized a reunion of our
fraternity brothers (Sigma Alpha Mu) every five years in Boston. We will
miss him a lot in 2008.
Best regards,
Robert Ratonyi '63
Stephen Markstein's, XVIII, wife, Linda, informed the Institute of his death in January, 1996. His firm, Shaw and Markstein is located in Manhattan.
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Carl W. Marquis, Jr., XXI, of Enola, PA, passed away July 6, 2004. Carl served in the Navy during the Korean War, and after graduation in course 21 (Humanities) worked many years as a consulting scientist with Raytheon. He is survived by his wife, Martha, and sons Douglas Marquis, of Weston, MA and Carl Marquis III, of Burke, VA.
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Mr. Peter Marzoli died Nov. 27, 1999, according to Cindy Menz, who used to work for him here in the States. "Mr. Marzoli was a well respected man in the Textile Industry for many years all over the world. He will be sorely missed." A picture of Peter Marzoli of Marzoli International can be found at http://www.onlinetextilenews.com/atmi/reception2.htm. This report was also confirmed by Marzoli International.
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Mr. Lee McGuire, XV, passed away on December 31, 1999.
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Mr. Hatem Mostafa, XV, died of cancer October 23, 2006. His widow, Janet wrote that "Hatem always loved MIT and was so proud to be an alum. The engineering and management skills he learned at MIT were the foundation for an interesting and successful career in Canada and Egypt. I met Hatem when he was a student at MIT and I was at Wellesley. We were married in 1965 and now I rejoice in the memories of 41 happy years together. We have two children and two grandchildren." I remember walking to the Sunday brunch with Hatem and Janet at our 40th reunion. He was in good spirits and we were reminiscing about our freshman year; we were roommates in a Baker House triple for about a week while he was waiting for a single and I was a displaced person, sleeping on the couch in that room, along with Larry Krakauer and Jack Solomon, and waiting for a bed anywhere. Our condolences to Janet and her family. --Mike Bertin.
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Mr. Harry Movitz, XVI, passed away in May 2008 in Pembroke Pines, FL after being ill with cancer. Harry was a graduate of Boston Latin School and MIT. He lived for many years in Framingham, MA, and in his career he was an engineer for the first lunar landing, and later helped run family businesses including a lawn care company, a drycleaner, and a stable of racehorses. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn, his daughter Michelle, and son Louis and daughter-in-law Lisa, several grandchildren. Our condolences to the family. If anyone has any fond remembrances of Harry that they would like to share please send them to me. --Mike Bertin.
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Mr. James Taylor Musslewhite, VI, died 6 Oct 1996. Rick Merrill spoke to his mother 6 Oct 1997.
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Mr. Dwayne Nuzum, IVA, died of a heart attack in January 2005, following knee replacement surgery. Dwayne was a Boulder, CO native, and earned architecture degrees from the University of Colorado, MIT, and a university in the Netherlands, where he attended on a Fullbright scholarship. His 38 year career with the University of Colorado began as a professor, and included service as Dean of the School of Environmental Design in Boulder, and Chancellor of the Colorado Springs and Denver campuses. In the 1960's he was a Boulder city councilman, and in the 1990's he chaired the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. Dwayne was a talented painter in high school and college, and had recently resumed painting. His acrylic paintings of architectural icons are sold in a Denver gallery. Dwayne is survived by his wife of 45 years, Janet, two sons, and two grandchildren.
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Mr. Sylvester Ariochuku Okereke, II, died 1974. according to his son, Sylvester Okereke, in an email from London, England. As a student Sylvester was in to Varsity Soccer.
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Mr. Alan Ramo, XII, died of a heart attack on May 19, 1995. You certainly will remember him from Baker House and his exceptional success in sports, especially wrestling. If you were looking for a bridge game, Alan was your man and became a Life Master at 26. Alan earned his MS in Geophysics from Cal Tech and did further graduate work at University of Texas at Dallas. He was a Staff Professional Geophysicist with the Oryx (Sun Oil) Corporation and a world renowned authority on geothermal physics. He had discovered the locations of significant sources of natural hot water. He met Doris in 1973 and consistent with his interest in water, they were nationally recognized for their leadership in the Coast Guard Auxiliary. They had just celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. They have a son, Richard. If you are moved to do so, Doris suggests directing memorial contributions to the American Diabetes Association and the Finnish-American Society of Dallas-Fort Worth. Alan made a real impact on those who knew him. He will be sorely missed.
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Mr. Donald Reed,
XVI, of Georgetown, MD, died
suddenly January 14, 2006 at home. Don graduated with BS and MS degrees in
Course 16 (Aerospace Engineering) and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He worked
for several years at Hughes Aircraft in California, then moved to Maryland and
began a 35-year career with Thiokol. His first project at Thiokol was as a
solid rocket engineering analyst of gas dynamics, structural and thermal
behaviors, and trajectories, where he developed a series of computer
performance programs that are still used today. He authored many technical
papers and reports, one paper winning a national AIAA award. At Thiokol, Don
became Director of Engineering and led a multi-disciplinary team of rocket
scientists responsible for conceiving rocket motors and controllable gas
generators for commercial and defense related applications that continue to lead
the industry in the 21st century. He contributed significantly to the design of
the rocket motors used on missions to the moon, Venus, Mars, and the only four
spacecraft that have explored the solar system beyond Pluto. Don retired in
2001. He was a member of the Maryland & Delaware Association of
Professional Engineers and the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. In his spare time Don
was a private pilot and enjoyed boating on the Sassafras River. Our condolences
to his wife Joan, his two sons, and other members of his family.
[We both shared the Aero Coop course experience at Martin Co in Baltimore in
the Fall of our Junior year.
We lived in the same rooming house catering to Coop students run by the widow of
a Martin Co employee & he drove me to & from work.
Don would drive back to his home in Delaware on weekends, so I can
understand why he might have settled in Maryland rather than the West
Coast..
The "highlight" of the Coop experience was the long faces at Martin Co when
they lost out on the Apollo Moon-race contract.
I last talked to him a number of years ago when I was calling for the
Institute. ...rey
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Dr. Gaetan C. Richard, VI, died Feb. 9, 2004, in Marina Del Rey, CA. Gaetan's MIT degree was from Course VI. I have no further details. Our condolences to the family.
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Mr. Charles Rodgers, XV, of Long Beach, CA died in 1992.
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Ms. Nancy (Lundeen) Savage, VIII, died in May of 2002. Nancy was a physics major at MIT and I remember her from some of our courses. --Mike Bertin.
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Mr. Robert M Schwarcz, VIII, died in 2006. His hometown was Coral Gables, FL. At MIT he lived in Senior House where he was athletic chairman and an avid participant in intramurals. He also participated in varsity swimming and crew. Our condolences to Robert's family. Any stories or information you can share about our classmate would be appreciated.
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Mr. Phil Spira, VI, died January 5, 1998. He was a course 6 graduate of MIT. He was hospitalized in November and then spent the last few weeks at home in Palo Alto. Jonathan Gross, XVIII, wrote that he spent the New Year weekend with Phil before Phil died. He says, "we watched a succession of gangster movies we'd seen before; Phil still loved talking baseball. Phil's family is collecting memories of him from his friends."
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Mr. Gregory M. Staradub, XVIII, of Nashua, NH died at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA on April 20, 2008. He was the son of Regina A. Staradub and the late Edward Staradub of Scottsdale, AZ, and husband of Cynthia E. Staradub of Nashua. He is also survived by a son, daughter, 2 grandchildren and a sister. Greg was an engineer and a software engineering fellow at Sanders Associates (now BAE systems) for 26 years. He rounded out his career as a professor of mathematics and computer science at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, NH. Greg graduated in 1963 from MIT with an SB in mathematics, and received his MSEE from Lowell Tech (now Umass Lowell) in 1970. --Cynthia Staradub
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Mr. Paul Swenson, who received his MS in Course 2, diedin 2002 in Cleveland. Paul held 25 patents for gas related technologies. He was particularly proud of his work in developing natural gas as an alternative to gasoline to improve air quality; many cities now have natural gas bus fleets. His professional work was consistent with his commitment to lobbying for sound environmental policies. He served as president of the Ohio Chapter of the Sierra Club in the 1970's. Our condolences to Paul’s family.
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Mr. Steve Swerling died May 26, 1997 of Lou Gehrig's Disease. Steve earned his master's degree in EE at Yale and joined Tektronix in Portland, Oregon after leaving Arthur D. Little in Cambridge. He made his home in Portland and there founded Mentor Graphics from which he retired as vice president of engineering in 1995. Steve leaves a son and daughter.
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Mr. Peter van Aken, XV, of Winchester, MA died suddenly June 23, 2009. Peter graduated in course 15 (Management) and was COO and Treasurer of XANALOG. His first wife, Carol E (Gustafson) van Aken, '65, pre-deceased him. See the May/June 1999 classnote. I remember attending her Memorial service to support Peter. From the reaction of others, it was clear that Peter was a strong contributor to his local community. He is survived by his wife Candy, who is mentioned elsewhere in the classnotes. For further details see the Death Notice.
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Mr. Thomas Wojick, XV, of Milford, MA died June 8, 2004 at home. Thomas graduated in course 15 (Management) and was a Project Manager for the former Shipley Co. in Marlboro for 17 years. He is survived by his wife Nancy, his sons Thomas Wojick Jr. of Mansfield, MA, Gregory Wojick of Haverhill, MA and his daughter, Christine Wojick Lilienfeld of Chestnut Hill, MA.
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