Class Notes Archives
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April 1997 Hi Everyone! Lots of news. Many thanks to Fouad Saad and Melissa Kaye for sending very lengthy updates about a number of classmates! First, congrats to Clara Yang, who is now engaged to Brian Dye, '96. They have not set a date for the wedding yet. . . . Out in California, Ivan Oei finished an MNG in Course 6 and is now with Qualcomm, Inc., in San Diego. . . . Bryn Mowry and David Oh, '91, moved to Silicon Valley just before Thanksgiving. David is building satellites at Space Systems/Loral and having a great time at it! Bryn is a project manager at Apple and is thrilled to be there. . . . Bonnie Kim is currently at Stanford University. . . . Irwin Lee is in a physics doctoral program at Stanford. . . . Augustin Martinez is working for Fluor Daniel in Irvine, Calif. . . . Patrick Piccione is in the chemical engineering doctoral program at Caltech. . . . Quoc Tran is working with Silicon Valley Group in San Jose, Calif. . . . Lan Hoang is with National Semiconductor in nearby Santa Clara. . . .Janet Wang's job with Tencor has her in the same vicinity, as does Nupur Gupta's job with Xylinx. . . . Dianna Goldenson works with Amgen in sunnv Southem California. . . . Congratulations to Mark Sadowski and Stephhanie DeWeese, who were engaged in June and are getting married May 25 in Florida, where she grew up. After the wedding, they will be joining all of you MIT grads in Southern California. North of California, Brodi Beartusk is now working at Intel in Portland, Ore. He managed to finish the five-year MNG program in 4.5 years, so he decided to go back to hometown in Wyoming and work as a park ranger for six months before going to work at Intel. . . . In the central U.S., belated congrats to Ari Trachtenberg, '94, and Felicia Moss, who were married on June 30,1996. They're both still working on PhDs at U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. . . . Brett Bader is working at Dow Chemical, south of Houston, and John Paschewitz is in Ohio working with the Air Force. . . . Anna Chwang is in the chemical engineering doctoral program at U. of Minnesota. . . . Sookyung Lee is with Crystal Semicunductors in Austin, Tex. . . . Mike Joffre is in the physics doctoral program at U. of Chicago. . . .Yvette Croskey is with Du Pont, near Houston. . . . Karyn Green has finished a master's in nuclear engineering at U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. After vegging out at home for a couple of weeks, she will be heading to MITs nuclear engineering department and is looking forward to the change. . . . Anuja Patel is now at U. of Michigan completing a master's in mechanical engineering. Before that, she worked for a year at a biomedical engineering firm in Tennessee. While there, she had a very noteworthy experience. She took a yoga class with Woody Harrelson. Anuja said Woody was really nice and lived up to his reputation. The Eastern side: wedding bells rang for Nicole (Gotti) and Ed Hernandez, who were married in Springfield, Mo., on November 30. They continue to live in Blacksburg, Va., where both work as engineers for Hoechst Celanese. . . . Brit Gould is working for IBM in North Carolina, but manages to drop by Scotland somewhat frequently. . . . Mavyn McAuliffe finished a master's in materials science in December and has started working at Allied Signal in Morristown, N.J. . . . Nancy Ho is with New York Consulting Partners and living in Manhattan. . . . Jim Clemens finished an MNG in Course 6 in June 1996. He took the summer off and had a great time visiting friends. He saw Joe Levesque, who is doing exceptionally well at the Du Pont plant in Buffalo, where he has been working since graduation. Funny enough, Joe has really been enjoying his time up North (other than the fact that it is so cold!). In fact, because he is multilingual (French and English - it's that Maine heritage), he has been giving tours at the DuMaurier plant in Toronto on weekends. Jim began working at Lehman Brothers ("investment bank, Wall Street, yes I sold out") right after Labor Day. At the time of this writing, he is finishing up an incredible four-month training program and can't believe that he's going to tackle the real world. Also in the city is Melissa Kaye, who has been having a great time working at Goldman, Sachs & Co. She is very happy to be back in the city where she grew up. . . . Jennifer Chow is at J. P. Morgan and is working hard but she really likes the people she has met there. . . . Wynne Kwan is at Columbia finishing up a master's in urban planning. She loves being in New York but plans to take a trip around the world when she graduates and wants to visit as many coffee bars as she can in one year. . . . Speaking of the world, Prashant Doshi and Lizette Arcee are currently with American Management Systems in Holland. . . . Mukund Venkatesh is in Paris studying at the College Des Ingenieurs in an MBA program in conjuction with various international companies. His e-mail address is <mvenkate@cdi.cdi.fr>. If you're gonna be in Paris, drop him a line! . . . And back home (at least my home!), Fouad Saad is currently working at Cabot Corp.'s research and development facility in Billerica, Mass., after finishing up with the Chemical Engineering Practice School. He is in the process technology group of this chemical company whose main product is carbon black. His job provides a mix of research and plant work, allowing him to travel to a couple of plants in the U.S. so far, and (he hopes) some international locations soon. He is living in Davis Square with David Ho, '94, and Mark Lohmeyer, who work for Arthur D. Little and Gemini Consulting respectively. . . . Ye-Chuan Koh finished Practice School and is now working for KPMG consulting firm. . . . William Tran is with Raytheon in Cambridges. . . . Scott Lazerwith and Mike Oh are sharing an apartment in Cambridge. Scott is in the second year of a PhD in organic chemistry at Harvard. Mike is very busy running his own three-person computer consulting company, The TechSuperpowers. That's all, folks! Hope to hear from you soon.--Ranjini Srikantiah, secretary, IDX Systems Corp., 116 Huntington Ave., Flr. 13; Boston, MA 02116; e-mail: <srikantiah@idx.com> |