Class Notes for Technology Review 1979
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December 1978 / January 1979
February, March/April, May 1979
June/July 1979
August, September/October, November 1979I had an interesting letter over the summer from Michael Stone. He's working with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps for a year in Rhode Island doing some work as a community organizer, a la Saul Alinsky, for a Providence group called P.A.C.E....Andy Werber has been keeping fairly active and recently presented a paper at the neurosciences meeting....Manuel Lowenhaupt was married last June to Pamela Lyons, Wellesley '78, and is now well into his second year at Harvard Medical School. He's planning to go into primary health care upon completion of the program.
The most recent word I have on Mary Shaeffer is that she is a manager in Proctor and Gamble's Ivorydale Soap Plant, thoroughly enjoys it and enjoys living in Cincinnati. By now Tom Gooch, Bill Byrne, and Dan Leighton are all back in the Boston area after receiving their master's degrees at Stanford. Apparently sunny California was just a little too mellow for them.
Thomas Mills is at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago as a second-year student. He spend the summer working as a psychiatric fellow with N.I.M.H. funding at the University of Illinois' Affective Disorders Clinic. If not busy enough already, he's found time to become the Chicago area coordinator of Gay People in Medicine....Barry Brian writes that he is a homeowner settling into married life and a chemical engineer for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Joseph D'Amore is a process engineer for Crawford and Russell, Inc., in South Plainfield, N.J. Although he works some long weeks, he enjoys the job....David Root is currently working at Millipore in Bedford, Mass., as an "Immuno-chemist specializing in parasitic diseases using Elisa methods to detect antigens and antibodies." (I knew there was a reason I went into management.)....Joseph Forgione is in sunny Arizona working as an electrical engineer for Motorola in their government electronics division....In yet another sunny part of the country -- Florida, Bill Greisser and Pratt and Whitney have established a fine working relationship....Alexander Ling is in the M.I.T./Harvard H.S.T. program and awarded or elected to Sigma Xi last June. -- Doug McLeod, Secretary, 11 Silvey Pl. No. 1, Somerville, Mass. 02143
February, March/April, May 1979
None published.
This month's class notes come courtesy of Jan Krakauer who was in Boston recently and left this letter. "I've been in touch with some classmates and here is the lowdown:
"Al Ericson is putting his degree in architecture to good use as a salesman for Unistress Corp. in Pittsfield, Mass....Dave Dobos is wrapping up a one year stint with the M.I.T. admissions office this spring. He plans to return home to Columbus, Ohio, for the summer where he has a job doing public relations for a country club....Dan Peaco is working as a civil engineer in Boston. He has just received a fellowship from Dartmouth, where he plans to finish the M.S. he began at Michigan several years ago.
Eric Lindstrom has been studying oceanography at the University of Washington, Seattle. Eric has apparently been doing some quite interesting stuff. Las summer he went on a work-cruise to do some investigation in the Bermuda Triangle. This summer he'll be on another cruise, this time to study western Pacific oceanography. He's been in on several papers, has completed an M.S. and has gotten married recently. What else can you do?....Doug Feinstein is working on a Ph.D. in biology at Johns Hopkins. Doug played guitar last summer for a band in Baltimore....Sarkis Koltookian is a mechanical engineer for John Deere, Waterloo, Iowa. He has just bought a house and a second Corvette. Sarkis likes Corvettes. He plans to drive a 'vette around the summer, as usual. If you're in Iowa, that white tornado that blows by you is Sarkis.
Tom Fetter, last I heard, was working H.P.'s instrument division in Loveland, Colo. He has started heading for the nearby mountains on weekends.
My decision to go to the University of Wisconsin turned out to be a good one. I completed a M.S. in December, 1978, and enjoyed Madison, a 24-hour party town and a super place to go to school. I'm now an engineer for a small but reputable company which does testing/research on manufacturing materials and conditions. As a low-level engineer I have a good amount of responsibility and a large amount of work, which leave me little time to customize the van I bought recently." -- Doug McLeod, Secretary, 11 Silvey Pl. No. 1, Somerville, Mass. 02143
August, September/October, November 1979
None published.
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