TECHNOLOGY REVIEW CLASS OF 1963 NOTES MAY/JUNE, 1994 ISSUE
(Sent February 15, 1994)
The new Boston University Center for Photonics
appointed *Dr. Donald C. Fraser, XVI, as its first director. He
was also appointed professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering. Don
comes to BU from the Department of Defense where he was principal deputy
undersecretary of defense, acquisition. There he oversaw a budget of more
than $100 billion and supervised a staff of 650 senior managers and six
defense agencies employing for than 100,000 people. For this work, he was
awarded the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the highest honor accorded
by the Department to civilians. Don sees the application of photonic (light-related)
technology as still in a pioneering stage. The BU Center will use its 29
million dollar federal grant to develop applications in commercial, security,
and defense areas, and try to promote the photonics industry. Photonic
technology applications include areas as diverse as fiber optic communications,
the development of palm-sized computers, and surgery. Don had helped develop
a digital control system for the Apollo Command and Lunar Modules while
at the Draper Lab at Tech in the '60's and became the lab's executive vice
president and chief operating officer in 1988.
*Dr. Ronald L. Alpert, II, feels it's
safer in Belfast, Northern Ireland, than in most US cities, even though
he had to evacuate his motel due to a bomb threat. From my perspective
in the New York area, he's probably right. He was in Belfast last September
as part of "ISO committee" activities.
*Dr. Steven J. Gould, V, now living
in Oregon, was appointed a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal
of Organic Chemistry.
*Robert Morse, VI, wrote to bring us
up to date on his doings for the last 30 years. Unable to stay away
from Cambridge, he took a law degree at Harvard in 1967. The same year
he married Sandy Goldstein. They moved to Manhattan where Bob practiced
patent law and then to Washington, D.C. where he was with the U.S. Department
of Justice's Antitrust Division. After leaving Antitrust, Bob became partners
with "Chub" Peabody, former Governor of Massachusetts. In 1982 he joined
his present law firm, Galland, Kharasch, Morse and Garfinkle which has
50 attorneys and of which he is chairman. Sandy has her own business making
jewelry from antique buttons. They have a daughter, Lisa, now 23, who graduated
Swarthmore with honors in 1992 and is an aspiring actress in NYC. Their
son Eric, 19, who was a star baseball player in high school, will have
finished his first year at Duke by the time you read this and "this week"
thinks he will major in physics and possibly go to law school. Bob
ends his note with this: "After 26 plus years of marriage to Sandy, I have
found that 'happiness' is family and career in that order."
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