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After 16 years of running his company, SenTech, Gervasio Prado decided to scale down and is now taking on smaller projects working from home. The downsizing came a bit earlier that he would have wanted, but it made sense in the present economic conditions. His son, Thomas, just graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and is trying to make a living in New York. Wife Mary Pat spends most of her time doing volunteer fundraising for various organizations. Last April, they spent three weeks vacationing in Sicily and Rome, sharing an apartment with Johan Palme-Sierra and his wife, MariPaz. Last year he was able to visit with Felipe Herba and his wife, Rosa Ileana, who live in Santa Monica, CA. Another vacationer, Gerald Clarke visited Israel and then Florida to assuage the pain of getting kicked out of fire service by the Commissioner of MA because of his age. More travelers, Carl Jones and wife Lenore '69 just returned from the MIT China Solar Eclipse tour and the Yangtze River Three Gorges trip. You can see Carl fleetingly, standing at the rail in the far left on a CBS News video at http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5181312n. They also met up with Robert Wolf, who was there on an independent trip, joining him on a river cruise. Don York, his wife, Anna, and daughter-in-law, Emma, also made an extended trip to China. They did some deeper touring of the standard sites, spent eight days in Tibet, including a visit to the Cosmic Ray Observatory, and Don taught a short course in interstellar matter at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He ran a large meeting in Beijing last year (400 scientists), including one day at the Great Hall of the People for a public event, for the 400th anniversary of the invention of the telescope. He is also working in a small way on two Chinese telescope projects. One is the LAMOST spectroscopic survey project and the other is just a dream, an array of 400 small telescopes on the high Dome A plateau in Antarctica. He is excited as ever about his research and has enough to keep him busy and productive for at least a decade. His biggest reward, however, is working with students and watching how much faster they get up to speed using computers and very large data samples. His wife is a tutor and also teaches Chinese exercise classes for disabled older adults.Eleanore Klepser, secretaryAfter 13 years at Panasonic as their North American CTO, Paul Liao is now the president and CEO of CableLabs. Prior to that he worked at Bell Labs and Bellcore. He and his wife are in the process of moving from NJ to Colorado. Jim Weigl has settled into being more of an inventor and company founder than a strict mechanical engineer. He lives in Las Vegas and is working on the application of new LED technology to off-road vehicles.. Stan Horowitz continues at the Institute for Defense Analyses, working mostly on manpower and readiness issues. He went to Taiwan to talk about their planned transition to a volunteer military. His wife, Carole Kitti, is a budget examiner in the Labor Branch at OMB. His youngest son, David, just graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is interning at Washington Hospital Center. Stan and Carole vacation in Hawaii every year and also visit Hilton Head and the North Carolina Outer Banks pretty regularly. Fritz Schaefer received his 18th honorary degree, a doctorate from the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Babes Bolyai is often considered to be the most comprehensive university in central Europe. He was also selected as one of the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society. Michael Ward left Adobe in 1999 and started Hidden Knowledge, an e-book publishing company. He admits it was a bit early but events seem to be catching up. All their books are available on Kindle, the new Barnes & Noble storefront, and everywhere else they can think of. When things were quiet, he put old, public domain magazine art (covers and advertisements) on the web at www.magazineart.org just for people to see. The Scientific American covers and old Gernsback titles might be of interest. Tom Hall has retired from teaching and has more time for his other passions such as full brain development and global health. Tom strongly advocates rewarding positive healthy lifestyles as a cost-effective solution to ever-escalating health costs. Michael Adler and Jerry Applestein led a session on increasing participation levels of five year reunion giving at last fall's ALC. Our class has set records for 40th...and 35th, 30th, 25th, and 15th... Get ready for the 45th!
Frederick N. Webb died unexpectedly in Lowell, MA on July 12, 2009. Fred worked as a computer scientist all his life including an internship at NASA for a few summers where he was developing telemetry to aid in the moon missions. He worked for Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge helping to invent tools for the Internet. He spent the last ten years at Total View Technology. Fred was a Cub Scout and Boy Scout leader for many years including Scoutmaster of Troop 1. He had a deep love for music and was a member of the New Bostonian Barbershop Chorus. He was also a member of the First Church of Christ Congregational Church in Bedford where he was a Deacon and served on many church boards. His wife of 42 years, Cynthia (Woods) Webb, and his three sons survive him.
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