TECHNOLOGY REVIEW CLASS OF 1963 NOTES MAY/JUNE,1998 ISSUE (Sent January 27, 1998)
 
    If you haven't made plans to attend our 35th reunion, it's not too late.  It would be great to see the tute and each
  other again after lo these ______ (fill in blank) years.
 
    Congratulations to Laurence Beckreck, XVIII, who married Fiona Aitken on April 11. He teaches math at the Sinfin Community School in Derby, England.  Stepdaughter Freya, 17, lives with them. Son Seth, 29, is an electrical engineer for British Rail and son Joshua, 28 and recently married, teaches nursery school...Bob C. Goode, XXIB, also taught, but he and wife Jean took early retirement and expect to write. They moved from New Jersey, having received state and national awards, to Boerne, Texas to be near their six grandchildren.  Bob and Jean will attend our reunion...
  Lenny Ehn, I, will also attend our reunion. He was surprised to see his name in January's class notes even though he hadn't sent any news! (See January's issue).  Driven by the law of conservation of class news, he provided the following.  He retired after a career in construction management and real estate development, having managed the design and construction of many large buildings including offices, stores, medical facilities, and apartments. Now he's speculating on stocks (tech, of course). Lenny's daughter Melissa graduated from Wesleyan and is in publishing. Son Jeremy graduated from George Mason and is in human resources. Lenny remarried in 1984. His wife is an attorney and had been Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration and General Counsel of the Commerce Department; thus the move to the Washington area.
 
    Jorge Alberto Calvo, '93, wrote that his thesis advisor, Kenneth Millet, XVIII, received the 1998 American Mathematical Society Distinguished Public Service Award.  This was based, in part, on has work devoted to underrepresented minority students in the mathematical sciences at the University of California at Santa Barbara.  He founded the UCSB Achievement Program and directed the residential Summer Institute in Mathematics and Science for entering UCSB students...Dr. Alan T. Marty, VII, will be retiring from practicing cardiovascular surgery, but will continue writing and serving on the editorial boards of "Chest," and the "Journal of the Indiana Medical Association."
 
    Anthony Geisler, XV, is still brokering food ingredients and living in Diablo, California. Wife Dee is an elementary school resource specialist. Daughter Rebecca, Tech '93, graduated UCLA Law, passed the California Bar, spent a year teaching English in Japan, and is looking for a "real" job. Younger daughter Wendy married Rob Fong, Tech '92. She is a program specialist and Rob works at an applied sciences lab...Speaking of Japan, Patricia Marzilli, V, joined husband Luigi on sabbatical in Japan. They both held appointments at the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki. She writes that life there is very different from when her grandmother went alone to Hirosaki in 1894-1900 as a missionary/teacher...Stephen Fisher, XVIII, was appointed Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education at Northwestern University last September. He says it will be a challenge to be involved in all facets of education in Northwestern's six undergraduate schools...Larry Kazanowski, VI, was named Vice President, Business Development and Planning for Visteon, the automotive systems operations of Ford.  Larry and wife Cara, live on Orchard Lake in Michigan.
 
    Elliott Bird, XXIB, writes that reunions are landmarks that prompt one to reflect about life changes in the past five years, but says a lot is still the same for him. One change, however, is that he is on sabbatical hoping to write and develop ideas and materials for math classes he teaches...Dr. Herbert C. Doepkin, Jr., VI, is enjoying early retirement from Bill Cables Corp. He and his wife recently visited their son, daughter-in-law, two year old grandson, and two month old twin granddaughters who live in Alaska...Cynthia Kolb Whitney is completing her first year as Editor of the dissident physics journal "Galilean Electrodynamics." Its motto is "Experience, Reason, and Simplicity Above Authority." She writes that its mission is publishing quality scientific papers challenging orthodoxy in physics, especially in relativity. Check it out at <http://msx2.pha.jhu.edu/~dring/gehtmls/gestuff.html> and <http://www.pathcom.com/~shepj/galicont.htm> [Update:<http://members.home.com/saiph/GEHome.htm>].
 
    Kenneth Klein, XVI, writes that '97 was a busy year. He began with a new position as project manager for Columbine/JDS, Inc. in Colorado, responsible for design and delivery of TVWorks, a television sales computer system. In September he was offered a job he couldn't refuse, working as Assistant Director of Systems, Procedures and Sales Service for Univision Television Group in Los Angeles. Daughter Shawna, who lives in Atlanta with her mother, came out for a Christmas visit...Matt Lind, VIB, wrote wryly after 35 years of silence. He says he was "invited out" of his EE masters program at Tech and had no alternative but to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard, the only school that would let him in. He was a token Democrat at the White House at the end of the Nixon Administration. In 1974 he headed the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and "was able to do a lot of damage on a nationwide scale." In 1987, after eight years as an "oh so important corporation executive," he formed STRATMOR, Strategic Mortgage Finance Group. It is the leading consulting and advisory firm serving the mortgage industry. The five owners work from home in "the quintessential virtual corporation." Matt and wife Meg live in Hingham, Mass., in a historic home which Meg, an interior designer, extensively restored. Daughter Jessica will be moving to Boston to work as a lawyer at Ropes and Gray following a one year clerkship for the Federal Appellate Courts. Katy, 13 dances with the Boston Ballet. Sam, 8, MIT material, divides his time between sports and worrying about what came before the Big Bang. In short, Matt says he feels very lucky that life has been so satisfying.
 
    MIT was recently informed that James T. Musselwhite, VI, died October 6, 1996. No other information is available at this time.
 
    William Shen again won our Phi Delta Theta scholarship.  His UROP, Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century, fits with his management consulting interest. He will graduate this spring.
 
    Webmaster *Ron Young, XVI, reminds you: our home page is <http://alumweb.mit.edu/classes/1963/>; to revise your contact information: <http://web.mit.edu/alum/ans/>; to send secure e-mail updates: <MITalum@mitvma.mit.edu>.
 
    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.
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