TECHNOLOGY REVIEW CLASS OF 1963 NOTES JULY,1997 ISSUE (Sent March
24, 1997)
Our past class secretary, Phil Marcus, VI,
who usually closed this column, starts it this month by writing that he
finds his PC-database consulting business has been doing well. Son Gary
(MIT Ph.D. '94) is writing a book on human cognition. Daughter Julie, 8,
is a wonderful artist and engineer (and can spell engineer). Phil's wife,
Linda, is in health care for the homeless. Unfortunately they lost her
father to cancer...
We lost another one of our own, Zalman Levi Feld Gaibel, V,
in November, 1995. His wife, Linda, informed the Institute by way of a
donation to MIT's B'Nai B'rith Hillel in his memory. Perhaps some of us
who knew him would like to follow suit. He was a general manager at Josarah
Enterprises in Chicago. No other information is available at this time...
Dr. Patricia S. Marzilli, V, spent the previous academic year
at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland where her husband, Luigi,
was Emory's exchange professor. They came back in time for the Olympics.
Next year, a sabbatical in Japan...
Paul Shapiro, X, is working at the EPA's office of research
and development on the common sense initiative which he points out is the
administration's highest priority reinvention. Paul was listed in the 1996-7
"Who's Who in Science and Engineering" as well as in the 1997 "Who's Who
in America."...
C. Lennart Enn, I, returned to Washington from California when
his wife, Ginger, was appointed general counsel of the commerce department.
He recently retired from construction and real estate development and now
spends full time managing their investments...*Dr. Joel Schindall, VI,
is living in Poway, a suburb of San Diego. He is very excited about his
work as a vice-president of Globalstar, a 48 satellite constellation worldwide
cellular telecommunications system which will begin launches in late '97
and be operational by the end of '98...
Dr. Cynthia K. Whitney, VII, is the next editor of "Galilean
Electrodynamics," which she describes as a rather dissident physics journal
seeking papers re-examining fundamentals...
Kenneth M. Klein, XIV, recently accepted a position with Columbine-JDS.
Initially in Atlanta, he will be traveling a lot while in charge of their
TV sales, computer systems product line. Ken's daughter Shauria is 7.
He writes he is still single...
Dr. Armen Gabrielian, VI, writes that he has been living in
Silicon Valley for almost 10 years where he has his own consulting and
applied research business. Previously he had spend about 16 years in southern
California doing R&D in the aerospace industry. He has two daughters
in high school, one of whom is getting ready for college. As he says, "the
cycle repeats."...
Dr. Jack Solomon, V, is still at Praxair as director of technology
planning. His wife is continuing in her Ph.D. program at Columbia. One
daughter has graduated college and is in park ranger school; another is
at University of Wisconsin...
Need a rare book? Dr. Richard M. Harris, V, left MITRE as VP
after 25 years. He is now living in rural southern Maryland, consulting
for NASA, and putting rare book dealers on the Web. Mike invites us to
check www.abaa-booknet.com...
Ron Jansen, VI, e-mailed that he and his wife, Chris,
III, moved to Salt Lake City and love it. Their house is at the base
of a 10,000 foot mountain and a deer herd comes by each day. Chris is Director
of the Technology Transfer Office at the University of Utah. Ron divides
his time between skiing and getting 30+ years of possessions unpacked.
Their son Rolf works for Alza, a
biotech firm, and lives in San Francisco. Their daughter Monika
is a Marine Corps officer (surprised parents!!) stationed in North Carolina...
Bob Ratonyi, II, e-mailed his first update in 32 years! His
24 year corporate career - GE, Exxon Enterprises, Zerox, Contel/GTE - came
to an end when he started his own boutique M&A firm in 1986. Then he
decided to explore business and consulting opportunities in his native
Hungary. Following a couple of assignments on behalf of US Agency for International
Development to teach and practice privatization, he became, and is currently
involved in a number of deals in Hungary and in other Central European
countries as a principal investor. He initiated, with another Hungarian-American
partner who lives in Budapest, a venture to provide Muzak services in Hungary
under an exclusive franchise agreement. They are always in search of new
services and products to bring into Central Europe under some kind of licensing,
franchising or distribution agreement with US companies. He and his wife,
Eva, and their two children have lived in Atlanta for 18 years. It's not
the same as Tech's married students housing, where they were one of the
first residents. Bob promises not to wait another 32 years to write again...
Marvin Klotz, VIII, e-mailed that after retiring from 32 years
in the aerospace industry, he decided to become "connected" via the Internet.
One of his self-appointed tasks was to see if he could locate some old
friends from the classes of '63 and '64 so he could get in touch with them
via e-mail. If you would like to send Marv your e-mail address, he his
at: mklotz@ix.netcom.com...
Tom Lewis, XVIII, has been living in Middletown, New Jersey,
for over 20 years. He is a mainframe computer consultant, currently on
assignment at Merrill Lynch in Somerset. His wife, Margaret, is a
manager at Karin's Kurtains. Their son Tom is a graduate student and employed
by the geography department at Hunter College. Ian is a junior in math/computer
science at Montclair State University. He keeps in touch with Burton House
friends Charlie Einolf, VI-A, and Hank Ziegler, XVI. He writes
that Charlie lives in Pennsylvania and works for Westinghouse. Hank lives
in southern California and works for Northrop.
In the last issue, I mentioned that William Shen
was the recipient of the Class of '63 Phi Delta Theta scholarship. Robert
Johnson sent me a copy of a gracious thank you letter Mr. Shen wrote.
I note it here because it makes him a bit more real and because he is one
of the few recipients that I am aware of to have actually thanked us.
Bill Barnett, II, writes from the economics
department at the University of Washington to ask why our class seems to
have disappeared from the Tech Review. "Is everyone dead?" he asked, but
unfortunately included no information about himself. Yes, Bill, there
really is a Class of '63, but we just aren't sending in much, although
judging by the last issue and this, it seems to have picked up again. Please
keep in mind the publication delay. Some of the information in this article
was sent to Tech in October to December. I received it from Tech in the
beginning of March. The submission deadline for this article was the end
of March and you are reading it in the July issue. Let's not see any more
blank columns here in the Tech Review. Let's hear about you! 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.