Class Notes for Technology Review 1999
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David Tetenbaum Hope
d. 1998
We remember David Tetenbaum
Hope, who died June 29, 1998,
in Tromsø, Norway, of a brain tumor. Following his graduation
in electrical engineering, David took his doctorate from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987. David met
his wife, Amelia Kreitzer, in an intensive Chinese language
class while in Urbana, and they married in 1985. He worked at
MIT’s Haystack Observatory as an upper atmosphere
research scientist before moving to Tromsø in 1993
to work for EISCAT, European Incoherent Scatter Group.
David was an accomplished musician, playing
piano and viola through high school. At MIT, David played for
the Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society, the Boston
Conservatory, and lived in East Campus. His great passion was
early music. He took up lute and harpsichord, and built a
variety of early musical instruments, such as a baroque
flute, clavichord, spinet and virginal. He played with the
Collegium at Wellesley College when they returned to the
Boston area. David enjoyed bicycling and skiing, especially
cross-country skiing with his family in Norway.
David was diagnosed with the tumor
approximately 2½ years ago. His name change, adding
"Hope," reflected his positive attitude and desire
to overcome the illness. He is survived by his wife, Amelia
Kreitzer, two sons, Alex (9) and Jay (7), his parents, Marvin
and Zelda Tetenbaum, and two sisters, Lynn and Barbara. A
memorial service was held in Hinsdale, Illinois, in July and
in Tromsø in August. David's ashes were scattered on the
island of Svalbard. Contributions in David's memory may be
made to the American Brain Tumor Association, 2720 River
Road, Des Plaines, Illinois 60018-4110. Amelia, Alex and Jay
remain in Tromsø, where she teaches at the University.
David's sister, Barbara, is putting
together a book of collected memories from his friends. This
will be given to Alex and Jay so they can continue to learn
about their father as they get older. If you have any
memories you would like to share, please send them to Barbara
Tetenbaum, 7907 N. Wabash, Portland, OR 97217, or e-mail joebeets@concentric.net.
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Al Ericson moved to Bonita Springs,
Florida last fall. He is in his tenth year as an independent
technical marketing consultant for a Japanese construction
products company covering North America. Al recently assumed
Chairmanship of the Student Education Committee of the
Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute. Al can be reached at ACEricson@email.msn.com. Al closes "Still single, by the way. Hello to
all my fraternity brothers from Phi Kappa Sigma."
Dr. Ronald McCaully (’58), sent a
letter announcing the promotion of Dr. John Babiak to
Director of Robotics and Automation at Wyeth-Ayerst Research.
Dr. McCaully indicated that this is a recognition of
John’s visionary leadership in an operation which is
screening millions of compounds per year to provide leads for
new drug substances. Since graduating in Course VIII, John
took his doctorate at the University of California at
Berkeley in biophysics, and did post-doctoral studies at
Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Prior to coming to
Wyeth-Ayerst, John was a scientist at the Sandoz Research
Institute.
Please take a moment to drop us a line, via
e-mail or paper mail—your news may be "old
hat" to you, but it’s new for us. Also visit our
web site when you get a chance,
<http:alumweb.mit.edu/classes/1977>. Barbara Wilson
Crane, secretary, 3130 Paseo Road, Colorado Springs, CO
80909, BarbaraCrane@alum.mit.edu.
March/April
1999
November has arrived here in Colorado with
a dusting of snow—just enough to let us know that winter
is finally coming, after a glorious, mild fall.
David Outzs wrote from San Diego
that his travel has diminished since taking a new position
with Hewlett-Packard’s Systems Engineering team. As a
senior technical consultant, he gets to work with customers
by phone all over the country. David is also continuing
another phase of home remodeling, "work on a 75 year old
Spanish home never seems to end."
I am heading into a new phase for my
fundraising auction software business, marketing my own
product at a tradeshow, the Nonprofits & Technology
Conference series. I worked tradeshows while with Digital,
yet it feels like a big (and exciting) step to be taking my
own company to one now. Mark ’76, and I remain very
active in scouting with our two sons, Sean (11) and David
(7), and with our parish.
I’ve also been working on the class
website, and have updated quite a few years’ worth of
Technology Review articles. The class lists are
cross-referenced to the articles, so you can look up news
about your favorite persons. Visit the site at: http://alumweb.mit.edu/classes/edu
I know that many MIT alumni are fairly
private persons, but I also know they love to read about
their friends from MIT. Please take a moment to share news
for your friends, by e-mail, regular mail, or phone. Barbara
Wilson Crane, Secretary, 3130 Paseo Road, Colorado
Springs, CO 80909, (719) 471-2877, BarbaraCrane@alum.mit.edu
May/June 1999
This month’s news finds my local community in a very
cheerful mood, following the Super Bowl win by the Denver Broncos…and
I’m cheerful because I have lots of class news to share! The other thing I really enjoy is seeing that as time passes,
many of us go further afield in finding what truly contributes to the world
and makes us happy.
Philip G.
Hampton, II, has joined Gardner, Carton & Douglas as a partner in
the Intellectual Property group, following four years of service as Asst.
Commissioner for Trademarks in the United State Patent & Trademark
Office….Steve Grossman writes
“I’m glad to see MIT is finally restoring Baker House.
I’ve been designating my gift to this fund for the last twenty
years! Hello to fellow Baker
alums.”
Dr. Darwin Eton
received the “Physician of the Year” award at the University of Southern
California in 1998, where he is a vascular and endovascular surgeon.
He recently developed genetically engineered bypass grafts suffused
with cells altered through retroviral technology to produce clot dissolving
enzymes. Darwin did a 10 day
vascular surgery stint in Kuwait last May….Bahman Daryanian is a consultant with Hagler Bailly, Inc., in
Boston, and has been working in electrical power sector restructuring in
Russia, Ukraine and other CIS countries.
E-mail address: Bdaryanian@compuserve.com
Werner Haag
is still living and working in the San Jose, California area, and enjoying
the outdoors as much as possible. He
recently took trips to Yosemite’s Half Dome, the New Jersey shore, Italy
and China….Jonathan Rowley Cheng,
his wife, Mary, son Byron (10) and daughter (8), reside in Los Altos,
California. E-mail:
jrchot@alum.mit.edu ….Eric
Black is spending half his time in Tokyo, and half in California,
expanding his company, Resources for Reading, into foreign markets.
He’s studying Aikido and Japanese—“The Internet makes it all
possible.”
Paul Ackman
is planning another trip to Eastern Europe in summer 1999.
He lived there in 1990 and returned in 1996.
He’ll concentrate on Serbia and Estonia, but hopes to travel
widely, and welcomes travel tips, especially from alums living there now….Cynthia
Koelker has a daughter, Celeste, in college now, studying music, with
Luke still in pre-school, and two children in between.
She’s been returning to her musical interests, collaborating to
record and publish a Christmas cantata, and singing in a gospel choir which
will perform with the symphony. She’s
is still in solo family practice, but finding music more fun than medicine
lately.
Frank Phillips, secretary ’36, sent a newspaper
article about one of our classmates along for our news. The article is about MEMS, or micro-electromechanical
systems, and how they pose the possibilities for dramatic changes in many of
today’s technologies. Richard
Feynman advanced the topic first in 1959, and Eric
Drexler wrote a paper in 1981 which described many possibilities which
are now becoming possible. The
MEMS sensor in an airbag is a contemporary example of these devices coming
into practice.
Mark Childs is
teaching urban design at the University of New Mexico, and has a book out
this spring “Parking Spaces,” an
architecture and engineering book “suggesting ways to make parking spaces
more humane, less harmful to the environment, safer and more pleasant,”
and hopes that it reflects the tradition learned at MIT of mastering the
implications of engineering rather than having it master you.
Mark believes that, unfortunately, the latter has happened in much of
the infrastructure for the automobile.
He closes that he “is a faithful reader of class notes, and hopes
to see contributions from some of you he’s lost touch with.”…David Hoicka and Ralph Lopez sponsored
an initiative on last fall’s ballot in Cambridge to move MIT’s nuclear
reactor out of Cambridge. Hoicka
is active in local politics in Cambridge.
George W. Hart
worked at Lincoln Laboratory and the Energy Laboratory following his Ph.D.
in electrical engineering, and then as afaculty member at Columbia and
Hofstra for the last 11 years. He
is the author of a textbook on multidimensional analysis, and many journal
articles. Now he is featured in
studioNOTES, a national artist-to-artist journal.
He’s “quit his day job” to become “a free agent of
geometry,” devoting full time to making sculptures based on the many-sided
figure called a polydedron. (see photo) George had been making sculpture part time for 15 years,
exhibiting in several shows, before deciding to pursue it full time.
Ian Wilson
sent a long e-mail letter iwilson@mgm.com.
He recently celebrated 10 years with MGM, where he is Executive
Director of motion picture credits in the theatrical affairs business
division. He’s just started
production on the 19th James Bond film, to be out late this year.
The job has been flexible enough that he could complete a Masters in
English and begin an MFA program in poetry.
Ian had short stories published in The Gettysburg Review, North
American Review, Confrontation and The Florida Review.
He also has a hypertext story online entered in several
competitions—check it out at users.aol.com/ibar88/private/story/index.htm.
Ian bought his first property last year, a condominium
in Santa Monica, and has been doing extensive remodeling, putting in
hardwood floors, slate entry, new kitchen with a giant Viking stove, and
“is having a good time learning how to boil water.”
He’s been in a relationship for six years; “Denise moved her cats
in with me and though I though I always disliked animals, I’ve come to
really like these little guys. All
of these changes I find surprising and I think so would anyone who knew me
at MIT. They’re good though,
make no mistake.” Ian’s
been in touch with several fraternity brothers, Jeff
Swift, Ken Stecklein, Jeff
Singer, Ed Cluss and David
Welland.
A note for my classmates…I’ll include e-mail
addresses as provided unless we run out of space or you indicate that you
prefer them unpublished. E-mail
addresses are also being added as I get them to the Class List on the
website, so you may find it helpful to check there.
Regards, and thanks for all the news.…Barbara
Wilson Crane, secretary, 3130 Paseo Road, Colorado Springs, CO
80909, BarbaraCrane@alum.mit.edu.
July/August 1999
Hello! Through
your gifts, we support several students via the Class of 1977 Student Aid
Fund. We’re glad to be able
to share some news about them in this issue.
Last year’s recipients, Duncan Bryce ’98, and
Robert Lentz ’98, have both graduated and then enrolled in graduate
programs in course 6 and course 2 respectively.
This year we reached another milestone—we now support three
students: Amir Mesarwi ‘2000,
Roman Luz ‘2001, and Veronica Weiner ‘2001.
Amir Mesarwi is a chemical engineering major, and hails
from Channelview, Texas. Amir
worked as a summer research assistant for Shell Oil, but has an eye toward a
career in medicine. He is
actively involved in Phi Delta Theta, including several leadership
positions. His community
service includes organizing the MIT Hunger Hike and coaching Cambridge Youth
Soccer. Amir serves on the
executive board of the IntraFraternity Council, and enjoys sports, music and
surfing the internet.
Roman Luz is a mechanical engineering major from San
Marcos, California, and hopes to pursue a graduate degree before launching
his career in industry. He is
an active member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, currently managing its
kitchen. Roman works part-time
for the Math department. For
recreation, he participates in crew and intramural football and basketball.
Veronica Weiner is majoring in management, and is very
active on the Baker House executive committee.
Veronica services as athletic chair for the dorm, and captains its
intramural ice hockey team. She
works part-time for the MIT Information Services, teaching Athena
mini-courses, and also holds a UROP in the Meda Lab’s Epistemology and
Learning Group.
Thank you for your generosity, which allows us to
“share the gift of MIT” with these bright and interesting individuals.
Our class web site has been intermittently unavailable
during some upgrade work in Alumni Services.
If you tried to access it, and could not reach it, please try again.
http://alumweb.mit.edu/classes/1977 The dearth of “inbound” news has given me time to add
some more archive columns to the web site, but NEW news is better! Please take a moment to drop me a line about what you’re
doing. Barbara
Wilson Crane, Secretary, 3130 Paseo Road, Colorado Springs, CO
80909 BarbaraCrane@alum.mit.edu
September/October 1999
Hello, Class of 1977!
John E. Jaynes has moved
to a new job at American Airlines, now Vice President Operations Planning
& Performance at American Eagle. “American Eagle is AA’s “regional
operation, but with 210 aircraft and 1400 daily flights at six hubs, the
operation isn’t really regional.” John
spends his spare time supervising the construction of a new home in
Grapevine, Texas…. Douglas Currie,
Jr. is President, Flavors Technology, Inc., in Manchester, New
Hampshire. He can be reached at
e@flavors.com.
Victor O. Li
has joined the University of Hong Kong as Chair Professor of Information
Engineering as of September 1997. He
is also serving as managing director of Versitech, Ltd., the University
company, whose mission is technology transfer from university to
industry…. Anthony Abner and
his wife Deborah celebrated the birth of their fourth child, Jared Thomas
Abner, on December 3, 1998…. Jeff
Sacks is living in Montana, and is married, with three children.
He is a lawyer on the Bar of Quebec, has pursued an MBA at McGill,
and is involved with real estate management.
Steve Keith
is now assigned to Navy staff in Washington, D.C., and invites classmates
visiting the area to contact him…. Dr.
Eric J. Lindstrom has joined the civil service as Oceanography Program
Scientist at NASA headquarters…. Susan
Nelson is living and working in central France for the next three to
five years. She says
“Hello” to all current and former Epsilon Theta members.
We have a long letter from Paul Ackman. “You
might remember my friend Jasmina Bogicevic who accompanied me to the reunion
in 1992. Jasmina lives in Novi
Sad, Serbia, which has been under constant attack by NATO. Fortunately, Jasmina is surviving bravely.
She says she will never surrender and claims that President Clinton
is trying to divert attention from his sex scandals by bombing Serbia.
Her interpretation of the Kosovo situation is based on Serbian
government propaganda. Jasmina
lives a few blocks from the large suspension bridge over the Danube that was
destroyed. Her home was not damaged, but other buildings nearby, such as
the University of Novi Sad, were. Jasmina
frequently attends patriotic rallies in the center of Novi Sad, although
that, too, has been bombed. Serbs
feel they are at war with NATO, rather than the ethnic Albanians, and many
are prepared to defend Serbia to the death.
I lived in Novi Sad in 1990. It
is a provincial capital in northern Serbia, far from Kosovo.
While it is the second largest city in Serbia, it has no particular
strategic significance other than it controls navigation on the Danube.
Now that the bridges are down, the upstream areas of Serbia, Hungary,
Slovakia, and Austria no longer have access to the Black Sea.
Phone service to Novi Sad is generally good, but the USPS no longer
delivers mail to Serbia. Sincerely,
Paul Ackman.”
Thanks to all who dropped us a note this past couple of
months. We hope more of you
will do so—email is welcome along with paper mail.
At this risk of killing all inputs, I’d like to ask you to take
just a moment to elaborate on your news.
It’s sometimes difficult to guess the correct verbs and tense when
the note reads: “CFO,
Mumbledy Corp., engaged, one cat, J.D.
Yale.” If you were me, how
would you write this up for the magazine?
Please don’t quit sending notes, though.
If a terse list is what we get, we’ll find a way to publish it. Regards, Barbara
Wilson Crane, 3130 Paseo Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80909, BarbaraCrane@alum.mit.edu.
November/December 1999
It’s
hard to think of November when you’re writing a column in July….but it
IS the last column of the millenium (by conventional wisdom—yes, I know we
really have another year to go.) David
L DeBruin, Esq. Writes that he has been enjoying success in his patent
litigation practice since changing law firms three years ago.
He is working actively for reform of the public education system in
Milwaukee. Meantime, his eldest
daughter is reminding him of the “joys of taking standardized tests and
preparing college applications.”
Dr.
Matthew Sherman
is working as the Therapeutic Area Head for the oncology/hematology clinical
development group at Genetics Institute in Cambridge, and at Wyeth-Ayerst in
Radner, Pennsylvania.
John
Thain
has been promoted from partner to Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs
and Co., New York City…. Philip
Hampton, former Asst. Commissioner with the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, is now a partner in the Intellectual Property Group at Gardner,
Carton and Douglas in Washington, D.C.
My
husband, Mark ’76, continues to enjoy his new job at Oracle Corporation.
We are both active in Scouting with our two sons, Sean (11) and David
(8). I’ll be attending
“Camp Adventure” in a week or so with David, Mark will be going to Camp
Alexander in Lake George, Colorado with Sean. My fundraising auction software business continues to grow
steadily. It’s gratifying to
get to work with so many dedicated volunteers and non-profit staff around
the country. Please take a few
moments to write or send email—tell us what you hope to be doing in the
next millenium—what you hope will be the same, different, or better!
Barbara Wilson Crane,
secretary, 3130 Paseo Road, Colorado Springs, CO
80909, BarbaraCrane@alum.mit.edu.
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