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Club of Colorado Photo Album]
Following the survey we sent out a few months ago, we have decided to create a discussion board where people can post comments. These can be about upcoming or past club events, or topics and events that aren't even related to MIT. You can find people to carpool with to events. For now, this web site is public and anyone can post there, so keep private information off the board. We're just testing it out. If we find that this forum would be best if it were private and people needed to be approved to use it, or better served by a LinkedIn or Facebook group, we can move it. For now, please, use it as you see fit.
Retirees group - the Beavers
The "Beavers" are a group of MIT retirees; most are from the classes of 1943 to 1946. The group was started by Jack Baring `48 several years prior to his death in January 2005. The group met occasionally for lunch and discussion upon call by Jack.
After Jack's death, Russ Coulson `43 picked up the list of members from Jack's wife and continued to get the group together. In 2006, a published schedule was established for the group to meet every two months on the second Tuesday at the Cherokee Restaurant at 12:30 for lunch and discussion of old times at MIT.
The group, with over one thousand years of total experience in many different fields, is an extensive resource of technical knowledge. Many of the individuals have held responsible positions in industry. Others have had successful careers in their own organizations.
In order to take advantage of this wealth of knowledge, in 2008, the group started a program of letting members discuss their own backgrounds and accomplishments at each meeting. At the September 16th 2008 meeting, Eliot Payson `43 discussed how his background in servo-mechanisms, learned at MIT, was used in the maintenance and calibration of heavy weapons at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
At the November 13th 2008 meeting, Mitchell Keamy `47 discussed the work of the team which he led to define a huge coal to gasoline plant in Wyoming. The facility was a mile square. All processes were worked out and environmental impact statements prepared.
In the meeting of January 20th 2009, Ahmad Ghais `60 told the group about his trip to Egypt taken since the last meeting. Each one of the members of the group has a fascinating story to tell.
The total group now numbers nineteen. This includes two who are working and have trouble fitting it in and two who have health problems. We have lost two great members: Joe Bowman `41, an outstanding petroleum geologist who had his own company and held many important public positions died in 2007; Paul Kase `44, a long time MIT Club supporter moved to Washington state in 2007 because of his wife?s health.
The group has been most enthusiastic. Fifteen of the nineteen members attended the December 2008 meeting.
For more information or reservations to attend a meeting, call Russ Coulson at 303 781 3508.
Technical Advisers Wanted
Technical Advisers wanted for Warren Tech High School, Lakewood, Colorado. Warren Tech offers vocational training for juniors and seniors in Jeffco high schools. The web site is warrentech.org. Programs include alternative fuels, biotechnology, computer science, engineering graphics, graphic design, health science, and precision machining. Their machine shop is one of the best in west Denver metro. They solicit input from a group of technical advisers in each program area. If you are interested in serving as a technical adviser, contact Dan Snare, dsnare@jeffco.k12.co.us.
MIT's 1st Summer in the CLIMB Denver intern program
This year the MIT Club of Colorado joined the Colorado Yale, Middlebury, and Stanford alumni clubs in support of the CLIMB Denver summer intern program (www.climbtherockies.org).
In this program 37 students
- worked at summer jobs offered by local employers (including several MIT alums);
- were mentored by local alums;
- shared residences provided by the program at the Inn at Auraria in downtown Denver;
- participated in varied activities including rafting the Colorado, hiking 14ers, and lectures by local professors, nonprofit leaders, and CEOs of venture capital, technology, real estate development and other local firms and the Denver Superintendent of Schools.
Many thanks are due the MIT Club of Colorado and its board for supporting two students in the first year of MITıs participation in the program. This yearıs students, Kristen Watkins and Edison Achelengwa, are shown in the photos on the right. Kristen is a junior majoring in Urban Studies and Planning and Political Science, with a minor in Applied International Studies. She has spent six years teaching gymnastics, dance, and swimming to children between the ages of three and twelve. Kristen interned for the Denver Regional Mobility & Access Council. Edison is a junior majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Before flying to Boston to attend MIT a little over a year ago, he had never been outside his native Cameroon and had never been on a plane! Edison interned for the MIT Clubıs own Scott Ribe.
The CLIMB program requires a subsidy of about $2,000 per student, which must come from contributions. MIT Club of Colorado members and other Colorado MIT alumni are encouraged to consider becoming employers, mentors, and donors to the CLIMB program. Next year we hope to host 10 MIT student interns in the program. The program is most grateful for the MIT Club of Coloradoıs contribution this year, which was necessary to jump-start MIT's participation. In subsequent years the program must rely on private contributions. CLIMB contribution checks can be made out to CLIMB (specify "MIT" on the memo line) and sent to Stacy Fix, CLIMB Treasurer, 6696 S. Kit Carson St., Centennial CO 80121.
Call For Volunteers
Have you been looking for a way to get more involved in the Club and its activities? Here's your chance! We are in need of a few good volunteers to fill several key positions. Read on, and if you see something you are interested in, please contact the VP of Membership.
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