TECHNOLOGY REVIEW CLASS OF 1963 NOTES October, 1997 ISSUE (Sent 27 June
1997)
Dr. Allan Tobin, XXI-B, wrote with a personal
update. In 1995 he became director of UCLA
Brain Research Institute and Eleanor Leslie Chair in Neuroscience.
His textbook, "Asking About Cells," written with Dick Morel, was published
earlier this year. He continues as director of the Hereditary
Disease Foundation which is devoted to finding a cure for Huntington's
disease.
Shoel's editorial note: Huntington's
disease is marked by a relentless physical and mental deterioration, typically
having an onset in the late 30's or early 40's and is characterized by
smooth involuntary movements that at one time were described as dancelike
or choreoform, and therefore the earlier label as Huntington's chorea.
One of the best known victims of this hereditary disease was the folksinger
Woody Guthrie. Ironically, when he first started experiencing symptoms,
they affected his singing and guitar playing, and some contemporary musicians,
thinking this was a new musical style, actually tried to emulate them.
John R. Brach, I, is starting his 12th year as
Director of Engineering at MARTA.
They are working on an intelligent transportation system on buses and rail
in Atlanta. It's tied in to the DOT highway system.
The Long Island edition of "Newsday",
in a feature about the top 100 companies in the area, wrote a very favorable
article about Stephen P. Kaufman, XIV, CEO of successful Arrow
Electronics, Inc., which ranked first in revenues. They made a point
of how he doesn't like to be in the limelight. Then they published his
1996 total compensation.
Dr. Dale E. Miller, VI, is heading
for a technical R&D assignment with one of the intelligence agencies
in the Washington, D.C. area, on loan from the EE department of LLNL in
Livermore, California. He wrote about Paul Gray who, on July 1st, stepped
down as chair of the MIT corporation after some 30 years as associate provost,
dean of engineering, chancellor, and president of MIT, to return to
teaching and advising students. Dale says "Paul Gray was my B.S.
thesis adviser in '63; he obviously continues to serve as an exemplary
role model for those who seek to combine the best of people skills
with engineering and scientific prowess."
Got e-mail from Mike
Maul, VI, who read about the doings of Steve Miller,
VI, in this column and asked if I could give him his e-mail address.
Sorry, Mike, I can't, but this does give me an opportunity to address this
problem. If you would like classmates to have access to your e-mail
address, you should list it with alumni services which will also
provide free e-mail forwarding for life! You can get to alumni services
through a link at our class's web site which is
http://web.mit.edu/alum/www/Class/mit1963[Update:
http://alumweb.mit.edu/classes/1963/]
(You must visit this page created by our Webmaster Ron Young, XVI).
If you do not have e-mail and would like a free e-mail account, you
can register with http://www.juno.com
and download the needed software. If you do not have an internet
provider and just want the e-mail software, call 1-(800) 378-JUNO to be
sent the software diskette for a service charge of $8.82.
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.