TECHNOLOGY REVIEW CLASS OF 1963 NOTES MAY/JUNE, 1996 ISSUE (Sent
February 20, 1996) Lots of alumnews to bring you up to
speed on. I know it's been a long while and I apologize. Don't ask... *DaveJohnson, VI, now married about 36 years, has four children through
college and, at last count, four grandchildren... *Jim Champy, I,
continues as chairman and president of the CSC consulting group as well
as corporate vice-president of Computer Sciences Corporation... *Alan
M. Schindler, VIII, is a pediatrician/pediatric endocrinologist in
Philadelphia. He also teaches at two medical schools. He has written a
book, "Too Tall? Too Short? Too Fat? Too Thin?" about children's growth.
He has developed a computer program for monitoring lead poisoning in children...
*Daniel J. Gross, XV, has completed his first year as president
of Enhance Financial Services, a company he helped found in 1986. In 1992
he was ranked a National Master by the U.S. Chess Federation. I wonder
what he thinks about the Kasparov-Deep Blue match.
*John H. Wasserlein, II, left Boise
Cascade in Idaho and moved to Connecticut to join the American company,
Fraser Paper, Ltd., as president and director. He is also a director of
the Canadian company, Fraser, Inc. By the time you read this, one daughter
should just have finished high school and the other have graduated Tech
in mechanical engineering, making his family a "Tech Tribe," my new designation.
I preferred the alliteration over "Tech Family" and probably better taste,
but if anyone has strong feelings one way or the other, let me know...*Steven
W. Miller's, VI, family is another Tech Tribe. Their son Scott is a
grad student at MIT in ocean engineering, working on the Robotuna project
(a venture jointly funded by Starkist and Orion Pictures?). Steve's fourth
book, "Cardiac Radiology: The Requisites," was published in March. Last
year he was awarded a Harvard-Macy Scholarship for Physician-Educators
to develop multimedia for medical students at Harvard Med...*Tony Geisler,
XV, a self-described "raisin broker" (really food ingredients), loves working
out of his home and living near Walnut Creek, in the San Francisco Bay
area. His wife, Dee, is a resource specialist in the local schools and
also is active in the community. They are really a Tech Tribe. Rebecca,
their elder daughter, graduated MIT in '93 and is finishing her last year
at UCLA Law School. Daughter Wendy is engaged to Rob Fong, MIT class of
'92, who works for Rockwell at NASA in Houston. Wendy graduated University
of Texas and also works at NASA, Houston, at Krue Labs... *Pat Morzilli,
V, almost made Tech Tribe. She writes that she is in shock that her daughter,
who was accepted at MIT, decided to take one of her two full scholarships
elsewhere. Kids!
*Steve Fisher, XVIII, recently finished
a three year term as chair of the Department of Mathematics at Northwestern
University. He had been associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Let us know what you will do now, Steve... *Alan T. Marty, VII,
has a private practice in cardiovascular surgery. In 1994 he was honored
with the Alfred Soffer Award for Editorial Excellence by the American College
of Chest Surgeons. He is on the editorial board of several medical
journals and has published close to 400 articles and book reviews... *Phil
Marcus, VI, our past secretary, still interviews undergraduate candidates
for MIT. President of the Maryland chapter of the American Society for
Training and Development, Phil has his own PC consulting business, specializing
in database programs; Windows 95 is his forte.
*Shingo Nishikawa is representing AT&T
in its efforts to set up a fiber optics cable in Pune, India. He met classmate
*Kirit Sheth, VI, in Bombay. Kirit, he says, is in great shape because
he meditates, has managed a great high tech company for 20 years, Hakotronix,
and has a great family. Kirit's wife works for the company and their daughter
is hoping to come to the US for her MBA. Kirit says real estate is out
of sight in Bombay, higher than Tokyo and Hong Kong, but Shingo thinks
the Bombay bubble will burst as it did in the other two. Kirit says that
*Minoo Shroff, VI, has retired in St. Augustine, Florida. Shingo
makes an interesting observation, namely that the India he had dreamed
of as a student is to be found in the countryside, not in the cities. He
says, "I am an easy captive to the irresistible charm and hypnotic power
of the rural towns and the surrounding sceneries."...Another classmate
associated with AT&T is *Mike Maul, VI. He E-mailed to say that
he has left AT&T Bell Labs after 27 years and will work for Texas Instruments
in Houston, Texas. It will be a change from New Jersey, but Mike grew up
in Kansas, so it's back to the central states. He will be head of north
american design centers for digital signal processing, a position similar
to his post at AT&T where he was head of all international design centers
for the applications-specific integrated circuit area. He still enjoys
taking his horse on long distance and endurance rides 50 to 100 miles per
day (but does his horse enjoy it?). I can see it in Texas, but not in Bayonne.
Also with Bell Labs, *Marty Eisenberg,
VIA, E-mailed to say he and wife Esther had been to California and had
seen *Bjorn Conrad, XVI, and *Ted Cohn, VI (both AEPi fraternity
brother of ours), whom he had not seen in 30 years. Bjorn, described as
still energetic and fun loving, married Kirby 10 years ago. He is the proud
father of five children, the youngest of whom is three. He (Bjorn, not
the three year old) has a transportation consulting firm which he formed
after leaving Stanford Research Institute. Ted is a professor of vision
sciences at Berkeley. His wife Barbara is a medical researcher at Berkeley.
They have three children Marty described as "remarkable." Marty himself
is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories where
he has worked since 1967. He is a pioneer of a branch of queuing theory
called "polling systems" (systems of queues with a single cyclic server)
and is responsible for a significant breakthrough in that field which he
presented in a paper in Boca Raton. He and Esther have two daughters. One
has an MBA from Columbia and works for Merrill Lynch in Manhattan, and
the other, after living in Paris for a couple of years, returned to the
US to work for Fidelity Investments. Marty, who played squash as an undergraduate,
still plays three to four times a week...Another AEPi fraternity brother,
*Richard W. Weiner, XIVB, was named executive vice-president at
the Connector Set Toy Company. He headed the original legal team which
set up the company which makes K'NEX toys. Rich graduated the University
of Pennsylvania Law School after Tech and was president of the Philadelphia
Bar Foundation and treasurer and member of the board of governors of the
Philadelphia Bar Association. As chief counsel of the Pennsylvania Securities
Commission, he was principal draftsman of the Pennsylvania Securities Act.
I don't remember him taking drafting....*Elliott Bird,XXIB, yet
another AEPi brother writes that aside from his hernia operation (he doesn't
recommend it), he and his wife, Toby, who is an English professor at Nassau
Community College, are living the good life. They spend Christmas in Maui,
July in France, and they weekend at their apartment in Manhattan, doing
theater and opera. Their son, Eric, is a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy
School. He may take a course at Tech.
Another XXIB graduate, *Alan Meyer
writes that he is teaching at Arizona State University-West Campus. After
being "sponsor in nomine" for his brother-in-law's wedding in the Philippines,
he and his wife, Nancy Felipe Russo, traveled to Talgu, South Korea where
she gave a guest lecture at the Women's University on psychology and women's
issues...*Roy Komack, VIA, E-mails that he would like to hear from
us and accordingly has sent his changed internet address which is now royk@komack.com.
He is a certified financial planner in practice as Komack Management Services,
Inc. in Natick, Massachusetts.
Regarding the Class of '63 Scholarships, Sumer
Johal's scholarship was renewed and he graduated in electrical engineering
and computer sciences. He is currently in an MBA program. Jonor J. Jones
also had her scholarship renewed and is expected to graduate this year
in materials sciences and engineering. A new recipient is Hector Padilla
from El Paso, Texas, who is a junior this year and majors in mechanical
engineering, but ultimately will pursue medicine. He is an active member
of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and LUCHA (La Union Chicana
por Aztlan)...*RichardMerrill, II, E-mailed that he is working
on font software at the AGFA division of Bayer Corp. in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
He has twin daughters, one working at DEC and the other at MathSoft. His
other children have been exploring the globe. His son hiked through Europe
and his daughter worked for a short time in the Dominican Republic. Speaking
of the Dominican, I have had an apartment and part ownership in a hotel
in Puerto Plata since 1981. If anyone is planning to travel there and would
like some information, give me a shout, or its electronic equivalent...Still
on the international front, *Laurence Beckreck, XVIII, writes that
he has been teaching math in a Derby, England "high school" for the past
eight years. He and his partner of the past seven years, Fiona Aitkin,
moved in together about a year ago. She is an Anglo-Scottish therapist.
Her children, Ben, 18, and Freya, 15, live with them. Larry's older son,
Seth, is now 28 and works for British Rail as an electrical engineer. Joshua
is now 26 and is completing a four year teacher training course and would
like to go to Harvard. Larry encourages E-mail at LBeckreck@arcade.demon.co.uk.
and visitors (prior notice please) to their home in Nottingham (yes, you
know the one). They entertained *Tony and DeeGeisler (above)
and *Frank Model's, V, wife, Sue, who was on a research project
in England.
*James H. Lattimer II, XVIII, says
his daughter, Veronique, has rowed with the Vassar Varsity Women's Four
for the past two years and reminds him of his days on the MIT crew (yes,
but who's team was better looking?). Jim says she will graduate in '97...*Woods
Bowman, XIVB and VIII, wrote that he and Michele Thompson have celebrated
their tenth anniversary. Woody left county government in Evanston, Illinois,
where he had been chief financial officer, and after a short stint as interim
president of Goodwill Industries he joined the faculty of DePaul University
in the public service management graduate program...*John E.Graham,
III, II, wrote that his son Michael finished his second year of medical
school at Temple University in Philadelphia and his son Peter finished
his freshman year at the University of California at San Diego...*Maury
Lanman, VI, writes that after 15 years of management for several small,
mostly now defunct, technology companies, he has gone back to doing something
he really likes. As a technical staff member at Alcatel Network Systems
in Richardson, Texas for the past year, he is back to technical work and
finds that he still has the "MIT edge" (and how many times have we all
felt that and been damn glad to have it!)...*Jim Hallock's wife,
Georgie, wrote to say that he was selected by NASA to be on a special seven
member commission to investigate any space shuttle mishaps. They view launches
differently now. He works for the Department of Transportation. Their sons
have a wide variety of interests. Ted is graduating high school this
year and AJ will graduate Brandeis next year with a bachelor's and a master's
degree in chemistry...*Jack Solomon, V, is now a director of technology
planning for PRAXAIR, an industrial gas company. He presented a paper on
technology planning last January. He is involved in the MIT Club of Westchester,
New York, and MIT's Educational Council. His wife, Jan, is resuming her
quest for a Ph.D...*Roger A. Hinrichs, VIII, recently became chair
of the physics department at SUNY-Oswego. His textbook, "Energy and our
Environment," was just released in its second edition. Roger was a Fulbright
Scholar in the Sultanate of Oman in 1993...*John R. Brach, I, is
busy directing engineering designs for the transit authority in Atlanta
in preparation for the Summer Olympics. A new heavy rail system will be
activated, a CNG bus facility completed, and an Intelligent Transportation
System inaugurated. Says John, "Come to Atlanta and experience the fun
this summer!"
Besides keeping you up to date on all these
satisfying pathmarks in our lives, it is also my sad task to report the
passing of those of us whose paths have already ended. These are people
with whom our experience revives vivid memories and emotions, at the same
time coming at a point in our own lives when we have to face our vulnerability
and mortality...*Reinhold Frederick Hollendar, Jr., XIVB, died June
30, 1992. He had been living in Minneapolis. No further information is
available...*Harold Reed Gregg, X, died in California on April 13,
1993. He had been vice-president-auditing for Transamerica Corp...*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 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."
Keep the alumnews coming! Try to get it to
Tech or me by the first of the month. You can reach me by snail mail: Shoel
M. Cohen, Ph.D., Dept. of Psychology, Nassau Community College, Garden
City, NY 11530 or E-mail: 71271.2627@compuserve.com. You can also call
me at home at (516) 286-6453. It would be great to talk to you personally. Menu