Sixty-six of us and about an equal number of family, significant others, etc., attended our 30th reunion last June and by Technology Day, 303 of us had contributed $572,889 to the Class of 63 Reunion Gift. Thanks to many led by *Robert Johnson, VIII, our Reunion Gift Chairman, we exceeded our half million dollar goal.
There was a changing of the guard on T-day. At dinner at the Hull Room at the Charleston Navy Yard our class elected *Larry Krakauer, VI, President, *Alan Bell, Vice-President, XVIII, *Paul Abramson, Jr., XVI, Vice-President, *Dan Ross, XVI, Class Agent, and myself, *Shoel Cohen, VII, Secretary. *Steven Bernstein, VI-A, remains our treasurer.
Thanks for a job well done by outgoing President, *Peter Van Aken, XV, Vice-President, *Kenneth Anderson, II, (who apparently only could be replaced by two people), Class Agent, *Martin Schrage, VI, and Secretary, *Phil Marcus, VI. Phil wrote this column for ten years and with his promise of help, I hope I can approach the great job he did.
Now for alumnews. (Is that Latin: alumni, alumnae, alumnews)? *Patricia Sherman, IV-A, and her architectural firm, Sherman Greiner Halle was featured in a major news article describing their innovations in doing business with the community in a changing economic and regulated environment. ...*Groves E. Herrick, XVI, received an Outstanding Faculty Member Award at the Maine Maritime Academy where he is Professor of Engineering...*Frank Levy, XIV-B, joined MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning this year and became its first Daniel Rose Professor of Urban Economics...*Steve Ditmeyer, XV, Chief Research and Development Engineer for Burlington Northern Railroad won the Association of American Railroads' award for outstanding technological achievement for codeveloping a natural gas-fueled locomotive (better for the environment). He designated the award to MIT's Center for Transportation Studies...*Kenneth Millet, XVIII, a professor of mathematics at U California is president of a coalition for better math and science teaching from kindergarten through university...*Mike Sheriff, XIV-A, writes that he is enjoying a second career as General Counsel of World Vision, International, a humanitarian relief agency working in 90 countries.
*James Tang, XVI, started a new company, Transworld Mortgage Corp., serving 7 billion in home mortgages. His son, Andrew, now 17, wants to be tennis' next Michael Chang. Last April, *Allen V. Clark, XX, was transferred to Atlanta as Coca-Cola Food's Director of Corporation Quality Assurance and Environmental Monitoring. He says he'll have to travel a lot...*Steven A. Evans, VIII, writes that he is the Director of Advanced Technology Programs at the Rocketdyne division of Rockwell International. His two sons are on their own, so he and wife Sheila are traveling and sailing...*Bob Petrich, X, says he just became Director of Process Re-Engineering at Rohm and Haas. His two sons became chemical engineers. Rob, at FMC in Maine, and Mike, in the Ph.D. program at Cornell. His daughter (name?) is a business major in her junior year at Villanova. He and his wife are setting up their new home in a style they call "after children."...*Richard Merrill, II, is now doing freelance software consulting. He has one son at U. Mass, Amherst, and four daughters, one of whom just married. His quote: "Hooray!" Do you see a pattern here with our kids or what. (Sorry, I'm a psychoanalyst, I can't help it)...*Michael Denny, XIV-A, now Professor of Economics at U Toronto, is "empty nesting" because his sons are now in college. I guess he's looking for company because he invites anyone going to Toronto to call him at (416) 978-6295. Keep those cards and letters coming, especially you, *Michael J. Weisskoff, who wrote for the first time in 30 years (yes, I'm counting!). Michael is a business-computing consultant living in Brighton. His wife Carole presented him with their first child on his 44th birthday (for the man who has everything). His son should be about 8 by now. They won't be empty nesting for a while.
Let me know what's happening! *Shoel M. Cohen, Ph.D.,
Dept. of Psychology, Nassau Community College, Garden City,
NY 11530 or (516) 489-6465 (home) or Compuserve 71271,2627
or Internet 71271.2627@compuserve.com.
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