MIT Class of 1963 Class Notes
Nov 2002
MIT Class of 1963, Class
Notes for November 2002 issue of Technology Review
As you all know by now our 40th!! Reunion is next June. (Can it be that long since we were striplings on the banks of the Charles?) Once again we start this column with information from Class President *Larry Krakauer that will help you plan for the upcoming festivities.
You can follow the planning of
our fortieth reunion, to be held June 6-8, 2003, on our class web pages, at: http://alumweb.mit.edu/classes/1963/planning2003.shtml. If you'd like to help out on the Reunion
"Events" committee, or just follow the committee's work, send an
e-mail to Larry at "
",
and he'll add you to the committee's mailing list. There are plenty of things that we could use
help with that don't require you to be in the Boston area, and many of them are
simple: finding lost alums, contacting
members of your living group, or even just following our minutes and making
suggestions. These days, communications
via e-mail, and participation via the web, are simple and effective. Now is the time to start influencing our
reunion planning. The schedule
this year is a bit different than it has been in the past. The major dinner is Friday evening. At that dinner, as the fortieth reunion class,
we will host MIT President and Mrs. Charles Vest. Tech Night at the Pops will be Saturday evening. Let's work and plan together to make this a
memorable event. Plan on coming
yourself. Boston and New England are
green and lovely in June. And call your
friends from undergraduate days and get them to come too.
The mailbag is pretty empty this month, so it was lucky that Larry also sent some personal news about his daughters. Elissa is a graduate student working at the renowned Duke Primate Center. She lives in Durham with a roommate and two pet rats. She is the primary author of an article that will appear in the American Journal of Primatology, entitled "Hand and Body Position During Locomotor Behavior in the Aye-Aye." A picture of Nosferatu, a good friend of Elissa's and one of the aye-ayes she works with is attached. In July Elissa was maid of honor at the wedding of her oldest friend, the first person she ever spoke to. Larry says that when Elissa was little she was seated them facing this girl, and they started using their ten word vocabularies on each other. They were pleased and astonished to find that these "word" things actually worked outside the home. The Krakauer's younger daughter, Sara, is teaching at the Shackleton School in Ashby, MA. It's quite an innovative place, perfect for keeping a young, idealistic, enthusiastic young woman on her toes. During July Sara worked at an education conference in Cambridge, attending the sessions and networking with the various speakers and attendees.
A milestone occurred this summer for *Frank Model, my Baker House roommate of many moons ago. After 23+ years with Pall Corporation on Long Island, Frank retired in August. Pall makes various kinds of filtration systems, among other products. In his last position there Frank directed the scientific services laboratory and looked at new applications for Pall's products. Frank and his wife, Sue, are selling their house in Dix Hill, LI, and Frank will be moving to Amherst, MA, where Sue teaches at UMass, Amherst. In January Frank will celebrate his retirement with a 25-day trip to Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia Island. The wildlife and topography of that part of the world is spectacular, and Frank is looking forward to the trip. The Models' daughter, Karyn, is working at Resolution Economics, a small consulting firm in Beverly Hills. And their son, Danny, will be doing a postdoc at Gateway Hospital in Los Angeles, after finishing a residency in Portland, OR. With two children in Southern California I expect to be seeing more of Frank. Who knows, maybe some poker games in Las Vegas are in our future. It won't be like the Friday night games on the dining room balcony at Baker House, but then nothing ever will be.
The last few years I've been fleshing out my summer columns (this is being written in July) with tales of the adventures Barbara and I have had with our vacations in New England. But this summer we stayed home. Our two daughters Amy Candell, MIT '87, and Laura Kornish, Harvard '90, and their families came west for a visit. It was the first time that our nuclear family slept under the same roof since 1993. This time, in addition to the spouses (Larry Candell, MIT '88, and Jim Kornish, Harvard '87, no longer the new spouses) there were four grandchildren, Laura's sons Ted and Nathan, ages 7 and 4, and Amy's children Allison (MIT class of 2020) and Jeffrey (MIT class of 2022), ages 4 and 2. It was wonderful having all 10 of us here at the old homestead in Irvine, but it was chaos. Nice chaos, but chaos nonetheless. I'm sure those of you who are already grandparents know exactly what I mean. Well, if you don't want me bragging about my family in this space send me news about YOUR families!
I have a couple of sad items to report. The MIT Alumni Association informed me of the passing of two classmates. *Pierfranco Marzoli of Phi Beta Epsilon and Course 4 (Architecture) died in November, 1999. And *John Pirkle of Course 4 (Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering) died in April, 2002. John was living in Pascagoula, MS and working as a naval architect with Ingalls Shipbuilding. I have no details about the deaths of our old friends. If any of you have information about their lives in recent years, or reminiscences about them from our MIT days please let me know. I think putting stories and information about our classmates in this space is preferable to simple death notices.
Another sad note. I had an E-mail from *Bart Cramer, that his wife Elizabeth (Betsy) Cramer, died June 4, after a nearly three-year battle with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer. Bart met Elizabeth while she was a nursing student at Boston University (BSN, '64). They married in July 1963 and she eventually went on to earn a PhD in Public Health Nursing from Texas Women's University in 1994. She was active in the field of domestic violence/spouse abuse. Bart is working on a PhD in Economic Geography at the University of Iowa.
So classmates, send me some news. Your E-mails, telephone calls, and notes on alumni fund envelope flaps are appreciated. You can reach me at: Mike Bertin, 22 Gillman St, Irvine, CA 92612. E-mail: MCB1@aol.com. If you want to schmooze, call me at (949) 786-9450.
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