who looked like a turtle. As we went out of Kresge in the setting sun we noticed that ROTC was having a full exercise on the playing fields and a few hundred young men in uniform were lined up, 5 deep, all along one side of the pitches. I looked at Mike, he looked at me and, grinning, we went into action. Mike's car was a "convertible", which meant that a rectangular patch on the metal roof was open and protected by a thick canvas which slid over rails in closed or open position. With the mild weather it was, of course, open. I sat in the driver's seat, Mike pulled out his dagger and stood on the passenger seat, more than half of his body out and erect and we drove very slowly in front of the troops as Mike, in full Roman general garb, "reviewed" them, arm extended holding high the dagger. The poor kids had a very difficult time not laughing, not moving, not responding with a salute. Eventually, ¾ of the way down the line we spotted an officer. Mike quickly sat down, I turned the car around and sped to Kresge's delivery entrance, underground. We went back inside and hoped no one on the parade grounds noticed our destination. Nobody did. (2) Mike was also a consumate fencer and decided, one day, after much ribbing on my part, to show me how it was done. At the time we lived in a derelict house in Revere, together with our bearded friend Stewart Mott, who fancied himself an actor and, in spite of a General Motors fortune, nickeled and dimed us with every supermarket bill. We went to the "garden" (a weed- infected front lawn) in order to have more space and Mike started his demonstration. Little by little a dozen "neighbors" gathered in the street to watch us : they seemed to be very amused by the whole thing and it finally dawned on us that these guys were probably "made" (that was Revere, then) and thought that, whatever the conflict, a quick shot would settle it better than that silly, effeminate 'duel'. Sorry, musketeers’ (3) There are also some vignettes which come back as I write this. Having dinner at a friends place with , whom they knew well, then crossing him in the corridor a few days later, distracted as usual and, of course, not recognizing me as he asked me for directions. Breaking my regular glasses and having to wear prescription sunglasses in a wintery, cloudy day for an oral exam in which both the professor and his assistant spent the time making fun of me, such as asking if I was a Colombian dealer; I got up and left in the middle of one of their course questions, but was "saved" from an "F" by my adviser's ensuing intervention. Writing a scathing review of that year's Tech Show and, particularly, of then-Professor Green - the faculty supervisor - as a foul-mouthed, arrogant but unknowledgeable man, and being called to President Stratton's office for a gentle but firm warning. Having the opportunity, thanks to Professor Everingham, the Director and soul of Dramashop, to meet and talk theater with many interesting people such as John Gielgud, Peter Ustinov, Jean-Louis Barrault, Madeleine Renaud or Edward Albee, to name a few. As a "thank you" for what the Institute brought me, beyond the formal education itself, I was glad to act, for years, as it Educational Councilor in Paris. And wouldn't mind doing it again here in Bordeaux (hint, hint).

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I worked for IBM Brazil as the Assistant Director of its Applied Sciences Department, then at Gillette Brazil, before coming back to the U.S. to join Keydata, the company founded by Charles Adams - an eccentric genius or a genial eccentric, depending on the day - where I designed and programmed the first time-sharing commercial applications in the world, based on the Keydata original development of virtual memory (paging) and on-line, real time principles and operating system. They did the hard work and I just Coboled. Later I joined Peat, Marwick Consulting in (but with projects all over the U.S., including Rome…New York and Omaha), then moved to Caracas, in Venezuela, for a CANTV (telephone company) project and, at its conclusion, to Paris where I worked on a number of different European clients from Peat's before becoming a Manager and running a major project in Algeria for the Ministry of Industry and Energy. After Algeria I came back to Paris, quit Peat, Marwick (today it's KPMG) and became an independent consultant for almost 35 years, with major and recurring clients particularly in the Press but also in the cosmetics industry and other consumer products.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I have always written, starting with a small opus of poems published in French in Rio de Janeiro (where I was brought up) at the age of 19 and which sound, today, shamelessly adolescent. I also wrote fourteen

117 one-hour dramas which were produced on Brazilian TV, before coming to MIT where I wrote one-act plays for Dramashop - one of them ended up in an evening of one-acts at the now-defunct Boston Theatre Company - and won five Boit Prizes for literature. I also had a one-hour drama written for the "On Being Black" series on W-GBH (the Boston affiliate of PBS), in the early 60's. I have been fortunate to have fiction and non-fiction published, from children's stories in Brazil, to articles in TV Guide, the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review (two of them, one of which has been translated in several languages and incorporated in management books), the Boston Globe's Sunday Magazine, L'Express (in France), Manchete (in Brazil) and others. Lately I published a novel, "Deceit", inspired by my time in Algeria and which is available on Amazon on paperback and for Kindle (search by name of author). I have also been the Honorary Consul of Brazil in Bordeaux for over 7 years and have the privilege of being the logistics coordinator for the Brazilian National football (uh, soccer) team with whom I travel all over the world and on whose staff I participated in four World Cups and uncountable "friendlies" (or exhibition games in the official, elegant lingo). I am extremely lucky to be married with Barbara (for 43 years as of 2012), an American speech therapist whose favorite pastime is oenology, which is hardly surprising after 40 years in France of which the last ten were in Bordeaux! Although it is difficult to forget or get over the death almost 18 years ago of my daughter at 34 - a well-known soap opera actress in Brazil - we are very fortunate to have a wonderful grand-daughter in Rio who is married to a TV director with whom she has had our two great-grand-daughters. So far, mostly so good.

William C. Frazier

Course: II

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Some might remember me as the guy who rode a unicycle across and around the halls of MIT. I still have the photos that AP used when it went viral. Commissioned a 2nd Lt. and with my brown bars pinned on by my squeeze at the time I was relieved of $10 as the price paid for the first salute by an enlisted man. My graduation gift went to buy a banjo--to my parent’s disgust---more on this later.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: The University of Pennsylvania accepted me for a master’s degree in ME. Then the Army gave me a report date a year later from that graduation so what to do? Earn some money and off to Paris, France for the rest of my education with musicians, artists, and travelers. Learned some French and traveled around much of Europe. The Army gave me a year in Frankfurt, Germany and then a last year near Tacoma, Washington as a captain and where I courted Ann, my wife-to-be and learned to play guitar. People won’t sing over a banjo. Back to Penn for a PhD in ME, to become a professor. It was a struggle and then, alas, in 1971 no teaching jobs. Luckily Westinghouse R&D in Pittsburg needed someone to do just-emerging Finite Element Analysis on ceramics for gas turbines. And of course, Ann, with a PhD in zoology did get a teaching job.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: We wanted to be in the Pacific Northwest so I was very pleased to start work in Pulp and Paper research in Vancouver, Canada; and thus to establish my life’s career. Serious singing and 12 string guitar playing were a nice distraction. Laid off in ‘82 I came to Portland, OR with wife and two kids, and continued

118 doing research and visiting paper mills to design processes and optimize existing ones. Travel was required from Finland to Japan and all over the US and Canada. A musical highlight was being invited to join choirs to sing two different concerts at Carnegie Hall in NYC. By now I’m playing electric bass in a rock band as well. Ann plays drums—and did so at our daughter’s wedding. But the paper industry was shrinking badly by the late nineties and another lay off led to engineering manager for a supplier who ran a foundry. Still, there was much travel. Final score at the end of my career was 17 publications and 2 patents and friends world wide. We built a house on the Oregon coast which has become the scene of many July 4 celebrations and parade entries with 20 or so rowdy members of our church choir. There was the Precision Beach Chair Drill Team, The Disorientated Express with our SUV done up as a steam locomotive, a Circus troop, Village People singing YMCA and most recently, Health Care with surgeons, lawyers, nurses and an undertaker dragging a coffin. And always a feast afterwards. So I’m finally learning to really play the banjo bluegrass style and have been building a -managed model railroad with help from 3 grandkids who live nearby and two more who visit from California. Our son went to RPI to become a biomedical engineer and our daughter went to Wagner College (Staten Island) and now manages ad placements for Nike sports equipment and clothing. The money’s adequate, health is geezer-good, and we’re still in love, hooray for retirement!

Arthur Taylor Funkhouser II

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: The first hurdle was getting over the shock of interacting with people who spoke a very different version of English than I did, coming from Oklahoma. The snow also stayed on the ground much longer in Cambridge than in Oklahoma. The second shock, felt by most I assume, was suddenly being among others who were just as bright (if not a lot brighter) than I was used to. Suddenly, I was having to worry about keeping up and making passing grades! Being a classic nerd (with thick- rimmed glasses), I wasn't much of a socialite and didn't miss fun and parties all that much. Sports for me was pretty much taken up with squash (which I learned to play at MIT), tennis and ping pong (as I remember, some of us started a table tennis club during my junior year - I have no idea if it still in existence). In addition to being good for me spiritually, church on Sundays gave me a good reason to get off campus and mix with "normal" people, especially girls. Although a lot of my MIT experience was heavy going, I have to admit that my time at MIT was pivotal in my development as a person. I learned to think (at least, I think I did) and to question what others assume. I learned that science, especially , consists largely of reducing and excluding data to the point that a model for understanding it can be made (or adjusted) and that these models can always be discarded should better ones come down the pike. We have an MIT club over here in Switzerland (consisting mainly of Sloan School grads) and I am glad for the events we enjoy together (including visits to CERN) and the camaraderie. I often ask myself if I would do it again, knowing what I know now, and I think I would have been better advised to attend MIT for my graduate studies (when I would have been a bit more mature) rather than my undergraduate. Still, I must confess to a certain amount of pride when I see all that MIT is contributing to the world and I can say, "I went there, too (and survived!)."

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduating, I went to to work on a (then) classified project having to do with side-looking . This was good because this was seen as an alternative to military service and

119 thus kept me out of Vietnam. That group, with and Juris Upatnieks at its head, went on to pioneer the development off-axis holography, now used (among many other things) to make credit cards flashy and paper money more secure. After completing a Masters degree there, I went on (in 1967) to the Washington DC area where I worked as a research assistant at the (then) National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersberg, MD. My job was to calibrate Spectra-Physics wavelength-controlled lasers against the wavelength of the light given off by Krypton 86 isotope gas under standardized conditions of temperature and pressure. At the time, that wavelength was the international standard of length. After 4 years at the NBS, I decided I needed to get out and see the world (remember this was the hippie era). I first went to where I spent 5 months teaching science in a start-up private school called The Learning Community (or TLC, for short). I then traveled with a group to Japan, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Iran, Russia and France. The group left to return to the US but I stayed in Europe and hitchhiked through England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy and Greece where I ended up teaching physics and math in a small international high school. This was great because I was able to travel to Egypt, Turkey and many Greek islands during school breaks. In 1973, I returned to Switzerland to begin my training at the C. G. Jung Institute to become a psychotherapist. In order to earn money, I became a doctoral candidate in photography (due to my holography background) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. After completing the PhD and my psychotherapy training, we moved to Bern in1981 where I set about getting a private practice off the ground and worked on the side as a computer programmer in the local university hospital eye clinic. I still work as a psychotherapist (my specialty is dreamwork) and I also do German-to-English translating.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: My first marriage (in 1966) only lasted 5 years. By that time, we were living in Maryland while I worked at the NBS. We were active in the Church of the Saviour (near DuPont Circle in downtown DC). It was there that I learned about C. G. Jung. My second marriage (in 1975 to a Swiss Miss) lasted 9 years and we were blessed with three fine children. After the divorce, I decided to remain in Switzerland to be a father, though this meant putting down "roots" here and becoming more fluent in Swiss German than I was at the time. My third (and hopefully last) marriage took place in 2006. Esther's previous husband was from the US (Michigan!) and she has twin daughters that live with their families in Muskegon. She has a grown son here as well. This means that she has 6 grandkids in the US and a delightful granddaughter here. My children are all here and my son and his partner (they are to get married this coming March) just gave birth to a bouncing baby boy (Nov. 13th). So, at long last, I am a real grandfather! Esther and I are both active in the local Church of England (Anglican) and I am now also the clerk of a small Quaker group. Almost every year we go to the Taizé monastery in France (www.taize.fr) for a week of retreat and this plus church-related activities keep us occupied quite happily. I have had a life-long interest in what is commonly called "déjà vu) and have now set up a website at http://www.deja-experience-research.org should anyone be interested. I am also an active member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (http://www.asdreams.org). If all goes according to present plans, April 2012 will see me in Tucson for a conference on consciousness and I also want to see my sisters who live in Chattanooga.

120 Thomas H. Gawronski

Course: X

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Donuts at the Reactor Diner in the middle of the night! Studying from one exam to the next and happy to graduate.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you Thomas & Jane graduated from MIT: Earned a Master's degree in Food Science and Technology from Washington State University. Wrote my dissertation on Rigor Mortis in Chickens! Then went to the Medical School at Dartmouth for a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. Did a couple of post docs at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis - one in and one in Periodontology. Time to get a real job in a warm climate and moved to San Diego to work for then Beckman Instruments, later Beckman Coulter and I retired after 29 years.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I married my wife, Jane, right after graduation and we will celebrate our 50th anniversary this June. We have one daughter, Stacia, who is a LCDR in the Navy and stationed in Norfolk, VA. Since retirement I became an elected member of the Planning Board in Ocean Beach and also serve on the Board of the Historical Society. I've been actively involved in establishing a Historic Cottage District. And I also manage the beach property we've acquired.

James Robert Geiser

Course: II

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Besides the well known tuition protests - "$1,600 is too damn much," three memories stand out. My first year calculus teacher explaining that women could not compete with men in their creative capacities as mathematicians because this was subsumed in their capacity to create babies. Several years later I married a particularly smart MIT undergraduate math student, Lucy Garnett -- so much for extra-curricular calculus wisdom. Then, during my second year when I devoted some of my time to the Civil Rights movement just starting on campus I got a lecture from the Dean on how "charity begins at home" and that I should look to my grade point average -- a lesson that, I am happy to say, fell on deaf ears. Finally, on graduation day, when I stood with my fellow "pure" math students awaiting our time to emerge, I saw in our cage a hoard of other students whom I had never before seen - the applied math students. Though Logic and Foundations of Mathematics was my heart’s desire, for the larger part of my career it was applied mathematics that kept food on the table and shelter overhead.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I seamlessly went from undergraduate to graduate school at MIT - no nasty GREs - and then in 1966, it being the Sputnik era - I received a 4 year Research Instructorship at Dartmouth without really trying.. Those were the days! My focus on Logic and Foundations was sparked by a marvelous senior

121 undergraduate course taught by Chomsky who introduced us to the wonders of Gãdel’s mind. For the next 15 years, including two wonderful years as an itinerant mathematician, I worked on Foundations joining a few hearty souls to plumb the work of Yessenin-Volpin (a marvelous mathematician, a poet, and the father of the human rights movement in the former Soviet Union) on revealing the presuppositions underlying the nature of mathematical proof required for proofs to be understandable and convincing and how those presuppositions, when formalized, could themselves play a role in the analysis of proof. I taught at Dartmouth, BU, Tufts, Wellesley ending up at SUNY New Paltz, rock climbing capital of the East. During all that time I did my best to avoid grading papers -- inventing many variations on students grading themselves, finally giving up on the academic route and joining my brother to create the first commercial software to do geological modeling based on the science of structural geology. Our company, Geo-Logic Systems Corp., started in 1983 and underwent various metamorphic stages: was bought by a company in ‘92 that was bought by a 2nd company in ‘95 that was bought by a 3rd company in ‘97 who didn’t like us any more than we liked them. Our little company finally re-emerged in ‘98 as Geo-Logic Systems, LLC, starting from (software and algorithm) scratch. GLS re-established its leadership role in this market and completed its life cycle with a final company sale in 2009 that’s approximately equivalent to getting an academic pension. Now that I have retired, I am returning to my original quest, hoping that perseverance, which I still have in abundance, will make up for the inevitable quieting of brain cells that age bequeaths unto us…

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Lucy Garnett (class of '66) and I married in 1964 and moved to Vermont/New Hampshire in 66 where Lucy started work on her PhD and I had a research instructorship. We lived in the country-side and bought ourselves a horse, Sahara, that we thought we could ride freely over the fields and streams - Islandia was our guide but was a little out of date. Sahara mainly ate apples in our orchard in Sharon, Vermont. We split up in 1970 - Lucy going down to Cambridge to finish her Doctorate (and going on to a career in mathematics and computer science) and I embarked on my two years as itinerant mathematician spending time on the East coast, West Coast and half way in between with occasional jaunts to England and Holland. My second wife, Jeanne Ferrante, and I got together when I returned to Boston from my itinerating to a post doc at the A.I. lab. We lived in a wonderful house in Cambridge with 6 other excellent persons -- artists, architects, actors, activists - Jeanne started working on her PhD at MIT finishing in 1978 after which we moved to New Paltz, NY to start an educational community with some of the people from my old climbing days. The community eventually started but not with us. Jeanne got a position at SUNY New Paltz, and since we were a package, they gave me a position also. But then Jeanne got a marvelous research position at the IBM Watson Labs and never started at SUNY so they were stuck with me. By 1981 I was a tenured professor in the Math and Computer Science Department with a deep seated hatred of grading and my brother, Peter, started nagging me about helping him do some extremely tedious geological model building that he was forced to do by hand and just knew a computer could help. By this time, Jeanne was living in the city, we had split up and I met my third and final wife, Rickie Solinger. As usual for me, as soon as we met, Rickie started working on her PhD, in History this time, finishing in Boulder where my company had to move. Beside receiving the first Lerner-Scott Prize given annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women's history and getting her thesis in book form reviewed in the New York Times, she had to run a household and raise her son Zachary from her previous marriage (now an accomplished labor lawyer with a child of his own (little Dean) and a marvelous lawyer wife Molly) and our little child Nell (now a union activist/financial analyst/violinist and generally astonishing person) while I happily slaved away making our company viable.. When I first started working with Pete I took a leave without pay from SUNY and found that I could make 5 times as much in my spare time consulting as I could as an academic. After a year and a half I resigned from SUNY and Rickie and Zachary and (soon to be) Nell started our next 30 years. Lucy, who was just at my 70th birthday party and Jeanne are especially good friends of ours. I just retired at the beginning of this year and am having fun doing the foundational math I’ve only made glancing contact with over the past 30 years, continuing my drawing and composing and reading and carpentry and occasional consulting and sharing life with my life companion, Rickie.

122 Jonathan Gestetner

Course: II

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Catapulted into the USA from England to a different way of life in an American dorm, I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Burton Conner House. I particularly remember editing the ˜Burton House Reflector” which we changed to the “Distorter” when we were censored. The paper was enhanced by Don Hatfield’s wonderful pictorial title and by cartoons by John Pryke. I remember when we ran a cat “Albert Blythe Gasser III” for undergraduate association president. Our campaign was immortalized in yearbook. We won the election but the authorities (the rotters!) disqualified Albert because he was not registered as a student! I remember a wonderful summer trip driving around USA with Marty Klein. I finished up in Havana soon after Castro came to power.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduating i spent 9 months in Paris working, learning French and enjoying myself. I then “hit the deck running” when i returned to England and was immersed in the family business making duplicating machines (what American’s call mimeographs), where my MIT training was immediately put to good use, firstly running our main factory which employed over 3,000 people and then as chairman of the whole group. After twenty five years in manufacturing i changed to being an antiquarian bookseller -- rather different but also using some of the skills I learnt at MIT. I spent some years on the MIT visiting committee for libraries. Cambridge University in England has now set up an equivalent committee which i have been asked to join.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I met my wife Jacqueline (who will be with me at the reunion together with our 2 sons and one grandson, 47 years ago. We married in 1965 and now have three children, all of whom are married, and seven grandchildren. One of my sons moved with his wife and two children to Brentwood in California about two years ago. We brought our daughter to my 25th reunion. We travel a lot and are very keen collectors of antiquarian books, contemporary silver and jewelry and of 20th century British art.

Robert Gilmore

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: We worked hard and we played hard. The work was related to our courses (of course). And the play involved unimaginable hacks on our friends and others. There were trips: to the quarries, the mountains, lakes, forests, and the Wilderness. On return there was the inevitable trip to Roy's. And don't forget Durgin Park, Field Day, the East Campus sound wars and water fights at the drop of a balloon.

123 Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After years of enduring the cold winters of Boston, I bought a fantastically warm parka and then moved to the Physics Department at the University of South Florida. Stayed there on and off for eight years, then left for the cooler climes of Washington DC, where I put in some time at IDA. The last move was to the Physics Department at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, home for the last 30 years. We manage to visit colleagues in France every June/July, and to 'prove' I'm working, occasionally write a book. Was planning to retire, but the time keeps receding off into the distant future.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Claire (Gilbert) and I were married in 1969 and are celebrating out 43rd Anniversary this year. Along the way we've had two children, Marc (b. 1979) and Keith (b. 1979). We've done lots of outdoor things, travelled a bunch, take in the occasional concert every other week, and do our best to enjoy life as it is. The hope is to build a retirement home in the Adirondack park, and then to retire there and spend the rest of our time in the woods.

Jonathan Glass

Course: VII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: A wonderful experience--professors were readily accessible, course work was stimulating, playing in the concert band was great, and all that Boston had to offer was easily in reach--all of these directly influenced my subsequent experiences. Jonathan & Jane Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I went to Harvard Medical School graduating in 1966 and subsequently trained in internal medicine and then hematology, mostly in Boston. After training I was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and was an attending physician at the Beth Israel Hospital where I developed a research interest in erythropoiesis and iron transport, a research interest that I pursued for many years. In 1986 I was asked to lead the Section of Hematology and Oncology at the LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. LSUHSC-Shreveport was a relatively young medical school with a hospital that had its roots in the Charity Hospital System, affording a far different perspective on medical care than practice on Brookline Avenue. I was fortunate to garner the support necessary to create a very active hematology- oncology group with a busy practice, a large training program, and excellent basic and clinical research. Philanthropic support led to our becoming a named cancer center, the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, and my holding a chaired professorship, the Carroll W. Feist Professor of Cancer Research. Our clinical and clinical research activities had a major impact on health care. Our patients came from 61 of Louisiana's 64 parishes with over 1/3rd of the patients traveling more than 100 miles to see us. Though outcomes for cancer patients in Louisiana rank 49th or 50th, our patients had outcomes that were at least as good as the national averages with these stellar outcomes seen in all groups that we treated including minority and uninsured patients. In addition, we were able to offer cutting edge treatment including bone marrow transplantation for all patients regardless of ability to pay. Using funds that we raised annually as seed grants we were able to foster oncologic research in a number of areas with subsequent funding by the

124 NIH, ACS, and DOD of this research to the tune of an 8-fold return on our initial investments. These successes led a bequest that has generated an endowment in excess of $65,000,000. As a consequence I was able to design and build a multidisciplinary out-patient building that currently sees about 35,000 patient visits per year and in which all services needed by a cancer patient can be obtained. I also designed and brought through to construction drawings, a cancer research building that, when completed, will be a highly efficient, LEED certified, and will allow our Cancer Center to expand its faculty size. This past year we (my wife included) elected to retire--I am now the emeritus Carroll W. Feist, Professor of Cancer Research--and my wife and I have returned to the Boston area to be closer to our children and grandchildren. I mention my wife in the context of professional experiences because she, Jane Crandell, developed a unique program for our Cancer Center. Originally a landscape designer, trained at the Radcliffe Seminars program, with our move to Louisiana Jane created an Arts in Medicine program at LSUHSC in which patients recreated great masterpieces: a local artist would sketch onto one squares a work of art designating the colors; volunteers would bring brushes and paints to patients as they were receiving chemotherapy; the squares when finished would be assembled, glued to foam core, and framed with a plaque giving the name of the painting and the artist, and the names of the patient artists in the order that they worked on the squares. Jane completed over 200 of these paintings, which hang throughout the Cancer Center and the Oncology Unit in the hospital, and which transform the floors into a mesmerizing gallery of art. As part of the program patients receive a copy of the completed work that they had painted on and a written description of the artist and the painting. An annual exhibit of Arts in Medicine works at local venues was a chance to introduce our patients and their families to museums. Jane also and extended the program to our pediatric oncology patients, including having the children painting their own self-portraits, which line a wall of the pediatric oncology unit. Arts in Medicine proved to be an amazing program: as patients’ anxieties were calmed there was greater compliance with return visits and the nurses found that could concentrate more on nursing tasks. Finally, the experiences in Louisiana have convinced me more than ever that health care in our country needs a single payer system. In essence, the LSUHSC system is a single payer system and we were able to deliver high quality care at a fraction of the cost of the private sector. I find, too, that in order to excel in the sciences that we need a far greater emphasis on education and that bastions of scientific excellence need to decentralize so as to involve more rural and less scientifically developed regions, providing role models and opportunities that are otherwise not available.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: In my senior year of medical school I was very fortunate to meet and subsequently marry Jane Crandell and we have raised 3 wonderful sons and now have 6 delightful grandchildren. Our oldest son lives in Lincoln, MA, and is a partner in a Boston law firm; our middle son is in solo practice of internal medicine in Guillford, CT; and our youngest in Greenwich is an executive with a major corporation. We had many summer vacations hiking and camping when our sons were growing up and now look forward to traveling with our grandchildren and catching up on their concerts and Little League games that we could not do from 1600 miles away.

Frederick Keith Glick

Course: VI-A

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: It was with a strong sense of anticipation that I recall arriving for the first time at Logan although the already decrepit Callahan Tunnel was not a reassuring portal. Rush Week immediately

125 ensued and I joined Beta Theta Pi. It was a fortuitous choice as the members at that time were outstanding mentors, models and committed to excellence in all, including youthful skullduggery. The "sip from the firehouse" phenomenon was sobering as my preparation in a small Midwestern town and high school was not challenging and left significant voids. I do not recall being academically comfortable until my senior year by which time I was living a monkish existence in a rented house in Concord. Among the choices made which in retrospect seem significant were to join the Course VI-A Program, co- oping at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory in Bedford and opting for the Army ROTC Program. The former allowed me to do some very early work in Automated Speech and Speaker Recognition and to fly all over the western hemisphere in a specially modified KC-135 researching electromagnetic noise which became the subject of my Bachelor’s thesis. I also recall taking courses directly from several giants of the day including George Thomas, , , Doc Eggerton, Amar Bose, Uno Ingard, Mike Athans.... I recall our graduation day in June, '62 as being a day of great release although it left me wanting to continue with graduate courses which I did for many years thereafter.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After our graduation in June, ‘62, I continued to do electromagnetic interference research at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory. The Army decided I should fulfill my military obligation which I did from early 1963 to early 1965. On release, I wanted to continue graduate study at the Institute and took a position at the Instrumentation Lab. This allowed me to take courses which accumulated over the years, mostly in Course XVI. These were the middle years of the Apollo Program in which the Lab played a central and challenging role as the design agent for the primary guidance, navigation and control systems for both of the Apollo spacecraft. All of the real-time flight software was conceived, produced and verified at the Lab and that is where my attention and contributions were focused. I was fortunate to be at the launch of the Apollo 11 mission from Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969 and back in Cambridge for the first lunar landing on July 20th. An opportunity to do some real-time engineering occurred during the successfully recovered the Apollo 13 mission. The attention that the Apollo Program brought the Instrumentation Lab led to numerous overtures to apply the skills and technology of that program to other challenges. From those overtures, I spent the next decade working with clients on the application of to industrial design and manufacturing problems. This led to extensive time spent in Europe and throughout the US consulting on those problems. In 1983, I was asked by Digital Equipment Corporation to lead an advanced manufacturing technology organization and moved to Colorado Springs to do so. One accomplishment of this organization was a sophisticated, for its time, clean room robotics system for the assembly of computer disk drives which was recognized by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in 1987 as the leading application of industrial robotics in that year. I retired in 2002 after several years of general management assignments for Digital, many in Europe.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: During my undergraduate years, my life partner, Linda Scifers, and I continued a long standing and long distance relationship/courtship as she attended the University of Kansas and I MIT. We married in March, ‘63 and returned to Boston from our Army tour in 1965 to live in Arlington. I commuted to Cambridge and she to her teaching position at Newton South High School. In 1968 our first son, Tom joined us shortly after we moved to Needham. Fifteen months later middle son, John arrived and two years later, youngest son, James. With such closely spaced boys, the following years are something of a blur of little league sports, piano lessons, skiing, etc. We did initiate, during those years, a lifetime of travel which has taken us all over the world and is continuing to the present and beyond, we hope. Our move from the Boston area to Colorado in the early adolescence of our sons saw us/me add three passions skiing, bicycling and flying. We still ski too aggressively and enjoy watching our grandchildren becoming expert at it. I bicycle regularly and for my 70th birthday, rode from Vancouver, BC to the Mexican border in the company of many friends and family. I am into my thirtieth year of private

126 piloting having flown our plane all over this country for pleasure, adventure and on Angel Flights transporting medical patients to and from their distant appointments.

Miles Edward Goff

Course: VI-A

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Lots of hard work. Our freshmen did defeat the sophomores on field day. Part of the sophomore's net was on my dorm room wall!

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Became fascinated by higher and higher frequencies, and pursued professional challenges from UHF to 94 GHz. Held the world's record for power output of a varactor doubler at 47 GHz for a few months. Worked at most of the microwave employers in the Boston area-- MA/COM, Raytheon, Sanders on communications systems, radar and missile guidance MMICs. Eight patents.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I married a widow with six children, and now there are eighteen grandchildren, three great grandchildren, and one more on the way. Twenty four folks for Thanksgiving! Took up scuba diving, and spent many happy hours 100 feet down off Saba Island, DWI. Always drove a Ford. Now its a Mustang GT.

Robert E. Goldschmidt

Course: VI-A

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: A "riot" using water balloons because the tuition went up to $500/semester. The freshman physics problem with monkeys, pulleys, ropes and weights. The irony of "" being used as a unit of measure on the Mass Ave bridge and then later in his career going to work for NIST. Sailing on the with Giorgio Emo on a blustery day when we were the only boat not to capsize despite the fact that neither of us had ever sailed before!

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Member of lead team of five people whoi designed the IBM 360-91 super computer. First unit shipped to NASA Langley to compute trajectories for the lunar mission. Developed convergent divide algorythm which is used in all modern day CPU's. CTO of Kaye Instruments where developed ____, hardware, software, and precise temperature measurement equipment used by the pharmceutical industry to validate safety of injectable drugs; now part of GE.

127 Married to loving wife Jean for 49 years with two children and four grandchildren. Son Marc is architect at Intel for next generation of internet server chips and has been with Intel for over 20 years. Daughter Borni has Masters in Nutrition and has private practice. My interest in recent years has turned to economics where I have identified outsourcing, automation and cost of oil as the key factors destroying global demand and triggering the rising tide of sovereign debt.

Leonard Martin Goodman

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Very nice but hard work!

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Worked for MIT for 47 years, mostly MIT/LL.

Joan Munzel Gosink

Course: XVIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I remember walking across Harvard Bridge in winter; it always seemed to be bitterly cold, windy and rainy. I remember continuously being asked.... “Why would a woman come to MIT?” I remember long philosophical discussions about life and religion that went way into the night. At the time I was convinced that I would always be a Catholic. How wrong I was! I remember the tremendous support that I received from other women students, whose spirit and strength helped me make it through MIT. They gave me the validation that I needed, both academically and emotionally, to become a more capable person.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduation, I took a few years off to become a mother, four times over. Gradually I worked toward a masters’ degree, but switched my major from mathematics to mechanical engineering, and completed that at Old Dominion University in 1973, with the support of a fellowship at NASA Langley. Then it was onto Alaska, where Tom had a visiting professorship, which eventually turned into a research position at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. I won a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Southampton, England in 1974-75, which took the boys and me to England. The boys’ experiences in the British school system are another story. Then back to the USA, for the PhD program in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, which I completed in 1979. After Berkeley, I started as a post-doc at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and gradually worked up the ranks. Two very thoughtful and generous mentors taught me to write proposals, conference papers and journal articles, and to achieve success in research endeavors, a great learning experience. It helped, of course, that we were often the

128 only scientists or engineers proposing unique research in unpleasant environments. In 1989, I had the opportunity to work at the National Science Foundation in Washington DC as a program manager for the Engineering Division in Heat Transfer and Thermal Systems. In 1991, I applied for and received a position as Chair of the Engineering Division at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) in Golden. Work at CSM was challenge indeed! In 1991 my program consisted of about 400 undergrads, 5 or 6 graduate students and 18 full-time faculty members, none of whom had ever received a NSF grant. We needed to initiate a PhD program, to build up our research capabilities, and to modernize the curriculum. The engineering division was remarkably interdisciplinary, and so we focused on seeking funding that emphasized our interdisciplinary strengths. It was a successful strategy. Within two years we had written and received two major NSF equipment grants, a HP grant, and received permission from the Colorado Commission on Higher Education to start a PhD program. The CSM President then acquired funding for three distinguished chairs to support our fledgling efforts. We set to work to develop the research programs. With equipment already in hand, several engineering division faculty members were able to acquire low-cost NSF grants to fund their new graduate students. I wrote a proposal for a NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Grant (IGERT), which was successful. This was followed by a similar grant from the Department of Education, Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN). Both grants focused on funding for our rapidly growing graduate program. The first of the distinguished chairs came on board and brought several grants, including an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC). We hired great young dynamic faculty who exceled in teaching as well as research capabilities. By the time I retired in 2003, eight of our new faculty members had received NSF Career awards. Research funding had risen from almost zero to over $2M per year. Undergrad enrollment was about 1000, and graduate enrollment over 100. These achievements were recognized by the State of Colorado, which awarded us the designation of “Program of Excellence” in 1999. The next year I was named a Fellow by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Unique Woman of 2000 by the Denver Post. In 2000-2001, I went back to NSF as a program director in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources. Back at CSM, we received an invitation from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to submit a proposal for a special program to be known as the Engineering Schools of the West Initiative. We submitted a proposal for the development of a minor program in Humanitarian Engineering, which was successful. The program offers engineering students the opportunity to participate in projects that aid underserved communities all over the world. This is something that gives me a real sense of accomplishment. As an added benefit, humanitarian engineering projects have proven to be a draw for woman students, attracting them at twice their representation in the class. By 2000, accreditation policies for engineering programs were undergoing massive changes. I took the evaluators training program at ABET to better understand these changes, first starting with the accreditation of mechanical engineering programs. It then became clear that the 66 general engineering programs in the , like that at CSM, MIT and Harvard, were not represented by any of the professional societies. After discussions with other department heads and chairs of similar programs and with representatives from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), I started the Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) at ASEE, serving as its first chair. Our goal was to unify the general engineering programs by establishing ASEE as our “official” liaison organization. This was achieved remarkably quickly, since all 66 programs, the ASEE and ABET enthusiastically approved. MULTI, which sponsors conference sessions on multidisciplinary engineering themes at ASEE meetings, is of interest to more than just the 66 programs, and now comprises over 1300 members. From serving as a program evaluator for ABET, I moved into a position as ABET Commissioner in 2008. This volunteer work allows me to visit and learn from many engineering programs, and to keep in touch with the community. In 2009, I was named a Fellow of the ASEE.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Tom and I celebrated our fiftieth wedding anniversary last June. Our four sons, their wives and children joined us in Whistler BC for the reunion. They are spread out on two coasts and it is hard to get everyone together, so this was a very special event. Our sons, Mark, Eric, John and Paul, are our pride and joy. Among them there are three PhDs in the biological sciences, and one MD in forensic pathology. I am

129 most proud of the fact that they, like their parents, are progressive liberals who care deeply about inequities in the world. We do our share of volunteering to ensure the election of liberal candidates and to minimize the effects of disastrous politics associated with corporate greed. Tom and I have travelled all over the world for business meetings and for pleasure. We’ve both done research in Antarctica and throughout Alaska and other high latitude regions. My work has given me some unique opportunities for adventure. As the guest of the US Navy, I trapped onto the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, and catapulted off. Again with Navy pilots, I flew through katabatic windstorms in Antarctica, including the first flight through a hydraulic jump. I’ve waded into freezing rivers taking measurements of frazil ice, and drilled holes through the sea ice into the seabed to measure sub-sea permafrost. Our permafrost work was among the first definitive proofs of climate warming. Since retirement in 2003, my life has become much quieter, revolving around travel, gardening, reading, and exercise classes. I discovered the challenges of the Silver Sneaker program about five years ago, and now go to various classes five days a week. My exercise program is in part a response to a bout with breast cancer five years ago. Treatment included a lumpectomy, chemo, and radiation, and all tests have been clear since. Our children and grandchildren live in Connecticut, New York, California and Washington, so we visit them at least once or twice a year. We enjoy both river and sea cruising as well as independent travelling. My gardening abilities are limited by the deer and elk that eat almost everything I plant in our yard. They even come up on the deck, eight steps, to eat flowers in the planters. I suppose this is one of the tradeoffs for living in one of the beautiful parts of the world, the Colorado mountains. Reflecting on the past 50 years, the biggest change that I observe is the improved attitude toward women in engineering. When I first tried to apply to engineering schools in 1957, I found that MIT was one of few that would even accept applications from women. Now we have programs that encourage women to apply and continue in engineering. I think we have proven our suitability, and then some!

Sherwin Greenblatt

Course: VI

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Upon graduation with my master's degree, I went to work for my thesis advisor, Amar Bose. I became one of the founders of Bose Corporation. I retired 38 years later in 2002, having served as President of the company for 15 years. We grew from one employee in 1964 (me) to over 7000 and our name became known worldwide. In the process we developed and sold products that enriched the quality of life for millions of people. What a ride! After retirement, I became the volunteer director of the MIT Venture Mentoring service, a position I hold today. I took time out from my volunteer work to serve as the executive vice- president and treasurer of MIT for a year and a half and to serve as the Interim executive vice-president of the MIT alumni association for a year. Both were intense and very exciting experiences. I now more about how MIT operates than I ever wanted to.

130 Thomas J. Greytak

Course: VI-A

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I began my student life at MIT in EE and ended up in Physics. As an undergraduate I was in the co-op program, VI-A. I did my co-op at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ along with Elwyn Berlekamp, Mike Lieberman, and Leland Jackson. I began by designing transistor circuits, then worked on the first optical lasers, and finally measured the penetration depth in hard (at that time the high temperature) superconductors, work that became my master’s thesis. My undergraduate training, in particular in linear systems and random signals and noise, was a great help when I switched to Physics in graduate school where I applied laser spectroscopy to problems in condensed matter physics. I ended up staying at MIT, becoming what is known as a “lifer”. I was on the freshman crew, then subsequently centered my extracurricular activities on the Outing Club, in particular rock climbing and skiing. It was through our joint activities with Wellesley that I met my future wife, Betsy Bardeen. As an undergraduate I lived on the first floor of Walcott together with Elwyn Berlekamp, Jim Ellis, Jim Ross and Mike Lieberman. We all had singles, but shared resources including a Chinese red, coil topped refrigerator. Together with Bob Gilmore, Irv Thomae and Ken Gentile, who also lived in East Campus, we enjoyed many wonderful adventures. As a graduate student I lived on Dana Street in Cambridge with other Outing Clubbers, then on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston with Norm Strahm, Bob Gilmore, Paul Schroeder and Jim Hadden.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After my PhD in 1967 I was offered an Instructorship in the Physics Department, which after half a year turned into an Assistant Professorship. I rose through the ranks and received tenure in 1974. I was the Division Head for Atomic, Condensed Matter and Plasma Physics from 1988 to 1998, then the Associate Department Head for Education from 1998 to 2009. My early work involved using laser spectroscopy to study the transition from hydrodynamic to kinetic behavior in gasses, elementary excitations (rotons) in superfluid He4, and dynamic critical phenomena at the superfluid transition in He4. During a year’s visit to John Wheatly’s lab at UC San Diego in 1973 I made measurements on the newly discovered superfluid phases of He3. Back at MIT I began a collaboration with Dan Kleppner, an atomic physicist, to try to achieve Bose-Einstein Condensation in an ultra-cold gas of atomic hydrogen. We were not the first to achieve BEC. That was done in gasses of alkali metal atoms in 1995. We did however develop the technique of evaporative cooling that was central to those experiments. We finally achieved BEC in hydrogen in 1998.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: In 1966 I married Betsy Bardeen, a Wellesley girl. By chance, her father was a well-known physicist, (condensed matter physics). Her two brothers were also physicists: Jim (astrophysics) and Bill (particle physics). This made for really interesting family gatherings. I was able to hold my own by being the only experimental physicist. Betsy and I had two children. The eldest, Andrew, is a physical chemist. He got his SB degree from MIT, his PhD at Harvard, and came back to MIT as a postdoctoral fellow. He is now an Assistant Professor of at the University of South Carolina. He met his wife Sarah at MIT when they were both freshmen living in East Campus. Sarah got her PhD molecular biology at BU. She is now working part-time for the NIH. They have two sons, Alex 4 and John 1. My younger son, Matthew, got his SB and PhD at MIT in Ocean Engineering. He also lived in East Campus. He is now working as a civilian engineer for the Navy at the Naval Surface Warfare Center near Bethesda, MD. As a hobby, he designs and builds wooden sailboats. Betsy died of lung cancer in 2000, an

131 unusual situation since she never smoked, and in fact had always made it a point to avoid second-hand smoke. As a family we have always enjoyed the outdoors. Betsy and I took advantage of my conference trips to hike and climb throughout the West (particularly the North Cascades in Washington) as well as in Japan and Switzerland. Since Betsy died, we have continued to ski, waterski, sail, and backpack together, much of this near our second home on Squam Lake in New Hampshire. Recently I have taken up kayaking on rivers, lakes, and along the New England coast with a group of faculty friends.

Ben B. Gunter, Jr.

Course: II

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I remember: - Learning to sail on the Charles during the beautiful weather of September and October, - Recitation sections on Saturday mornings, - Those frictionless, sparking pucks we used in the experiment to demonstrate conservation of momentum, - How quiet it was following a heavy snowfall, - How few choices there were for places to eat on campus. - When the WGBH studios on Mass. Ave across from Building 7 burned, - Mike Egirous, son of the late Charlie-The-Tech-Tailor, working in his shop on Amherst Street along with his mother, - Frank McClintock teaching about fractures by using silly putty and paperclips, - Playing SpaceWar in Building 26 in the Spring of 1962 with little appreciation of the future for computer games.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Although the computer industry is today's magnet for engineering graduates, in 1962 that role was played by the aircraft and aerospace industries, and I enjoyed being a part of it. After graduating from MIT, I worked at Sikorsky Aircraft, a manufacturer of large helicopters, as a member of a small group that did analytic studies, My work included determining ventilation and air conditioning requirements, developing analog computer simulations of aircraft flight dynamics, and improving the stability of flight control systems. For a few years I worked for General Electric's time-sharing computer services business, one of the earliest organizations to sell remote computer power and data storage, accessed over the telephone network, conceptually similar to today's "cloud" service providers. For several years I owned a small software development firm, specializing in manufacturing, logistics, and finance. And, then, for a number of years I was with a management consulting firm specializing in logistics and distribution, primarily with apparel and direct-to-consumer companies. Along the way, at New York University I earned a masters degree in and at Case Western Reserve University completed all of the requirements except for a thesis for a PhD with an emphasis on fluid mechanics and systems engineering. Much more recently, because of the desire to better manage a few small fractional mineral interests in Oklahoma, I am about a third of the way through a program for qualifying as a Certified Minerals Manager.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: My wife Judi graduated from Simmons College and worked in retailing and retail banking. We are retired, live in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and have two daughters and three grandchildren. Daughter Susannah graduated from Princeton and earned an MBA from Harvard. She is now a stay-at-home mom and lives with her husband and their three children in Bellevue, Washington. Daughter Sarah Jane graduated from Wellesley, earned an MA from The Lauder Institute and an MBA from Wharton. She and

132 her husband live in Paris where she works for Amazon.fr, the French subsidiary of Amazon.com. Judi and I enjoy driving trips to see our daughter and grandchildren in Seattle and to see Judi's relatives in and mine in Oklahoma, Texas, and . We like to visit historic sites, state capitols and state history museums. As for activities in the outdoors, when we and our daughters were younger, we all liked to compete at orienteering meets. Now Judi walks about an hour a day, and I yearn to return for hiking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. And, as seems to happen to many people our age, we have become more interested in family history.

David Harralson

Course: II

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Lockheed California Co, Burbank, CA - Software development for flight data reduction for the SR-71 Blackbird. Litton Data Systems, Van Nuys, CA - Software development for DTAS (Digital Transmission and Switching), an early tactical portable wireless communication for the USMC. JPL, La Canada, CA - Software development for the Deep Space Network. Jacquard Systems, Manhattan Beach, CA - Developed TypeRite, an award winning word processor. Mephistopheles Systems Design, Hollywood, CA - Early BIOS for personal computers. First LAN software for personal computers. Early operating environment including self teaching software, focus tracking help, menu oriented command structure. Font editing software and down loadable fonts for HP LaserJet printers. Software to design/select optimum gear ratios for vehicles. Newcomm, Inc, Westlake Village, CA - Vice President Engineering. In charge of hardware/software development of computer peripherals including the first of what is now known as a media center. Largus, Inc, Agoura Hills, CA - CTO. Evaluate, select, document consumer electronics for end user distribution.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Married to the former Delores Jean Kraft in 1968, divorced in 1982. No children. Designed an early temperature controlled wine cellar and developed wine oriented data base featured in magazines circa 1975. Purchased 1968 Lotus Elan. Contribute technical articles to the user group. Diagnosed with stage IV squamous cell carcinoma September 2009, apparently "cured" with chemotherapy and radiation. Joined Lake Casitas Rowing Association in July 2010 where I row singles, pairs/doubles/ fours/quads, and eights, rowing both port/starboard in all positions, both in practice and competitively in regattas. In addition to regular training, I am practicing/training with a former national champion in a pair.

George Cole Hartmann

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I remember pondering what in the world was in the architect’s head when he designed the . I owe my occasional student anxiety dreams to freshman Friday morning exams in those giant drafting rooms. I savored Saturday morning celebrations afterwards at Durgin-Park Restaurant with the bossy waitresses.

133 Beginning sophomore year, I lived off-campus and trudged each day through the wind and sleet over Longfellow Bridge to class. On weekends I walked to Haymarket to buy substances that resembled food. And how can you forget the hassle of dealing with a car in Cambridge: parking, towing, fines, dings and dents?

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduation, I spent five more years at MIT in the Department of Physics, studying Elementary Particles and finished my PhD in 1967. After that I was a Post-Doc with MIT in California at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) for the first experiments with the brand new 2-mile long 20-Bev electron accelerator. I was one of a dozen physicists that discovered the first of six quarks, which earned MIT Professors Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall and Stanford University’s Richard Taylor the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics. In fall 1968 I decided to leave academia and join the Xerox Webster Research Center (WRC) near Rochester, New York. In 1974 I was selected as one of four persons to establish the Xerox Research Center of Canada (XRCC) in Mississauga Ontario, specializing in development of novel imaging systems. We planned the R&D program, rented a building, hired staff, and purchased equipment. In 1978 I returned to Webster as an R&D manager of technical groups that developed many new technologies embedded in dozens of Xerox products from the early 1980’s onward. During the 1990’s I contributed to creation of a 10-year technology investment strategy for the Corporation that included all Xerox research and advanced technology organizations, including Fuji Xerox. Over the years, I published several dozen technical papers in peer-reviewed journals. Many have been republished in books; one paper won the 1993 Charles E. Ives Award in the Journal of Imaging Technology. I retired 2000 after 32 years with Xerox to pursue other interests.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I met Kathy 50 years ago on the MIT campus. We have had 47 amazing years of marriage and are going strong. We have three really smart kids, all ivy leaguers married to terrific spouses, and 4 grandkids. We have had what seems like a pack of faithful pet dogs over the years. They are angelic creatures - if there is a heaven, they will be there, waiting for me. We enjoyed a decade of Finger Lake cottage ownership, with much remodeling and windsurfing all summer long. We built our retirement house in Chapel Hill, NC with a killer workshop and room for the Steinway. I have enjoyed a lifetime of furniture design and woodworking with both modern and antique tools. I restarted piano lessons 14 years ago. I hope to learn how to play the instrument before my hearing entirely fades away. In recent years Kathy and I have traveled independently around the world. Destinations have included Austria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam. Even so, my score is just 20% in “1000 Places to Go Before You Die”. After each trip I write a travelogue with photographs. Now I am making video diaries. You-tube could be next.

Albin A. Hastbacka

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: One event that stays in my mind ( May 4, 1060) about MIT was when the room (522B) that I shared with Georges Duval caught fire. George had been painting the room numbers for the rooms associated with our suite. Apparently the thinner he used was on one of the rags that he put into a wastebasket. The wastebasket

134 caught fire shortly after 10 AM resulting in seven fire engines and twenty-five firemen coming to put the fire out. I heard the fire alarms as I was coming back from an early morning class, but had no idea that the fire was in my room. There was fire damage, but most of the damage was from the firemen poking holes in the walls with their axes. We ended up staying in that same room until the term ended. The other activity associated with room 523 was George Duval borrowing a large wooden vat from the ME building so that we could brew some homemade beer. I find it hard to believe that George was able to borrow this large wood vat from the ME building without anyone asking where it came from as he rolled it across Mass Avenue.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After MIT, I went on to get an MSEE from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1964. Served with the Air Force Systems Command from 1964 to 1967 as a program manager for several R&D efforts associated with airborne computers. Worked at RCA Burlington as a Systems Engineer for several Command and Control systems from 1967 to 1973. Joined the Military Data Systems Division of Sanders Associates in 1973 as Advanced Programs Manager for Graphic Display Systems. Director of Business Development for Sanders Special Programs and Surveillance Systems Divisions from 1979 to 1988. Joined the MELPAR division of E-Systems in 1988 as the Vice President of Advanced Programs for programs related to intelligence collection from the U2 aircraft. Left E-Systems in 1994 to become the President of Sanders Prototype in Milford NH. Became the President of Sanders Design International in 1997 where he served as the principal architect for Electronic Warfare Systems and advanced 3D printing systems. Hastbacka's contributions in the technology area include the following: System architect for the first Airborne Post Attack Command and Control System for the Strategic Air Command. System architect for the Tactical Image and Interpretation (TIPI) System Display Control & Storage Segment (DCS&R). Architect for the first air traffic control system that used high resolution color displays. Responsible for the development of the first practical tactical intercept and jammer system capable of operating against high speed hopping radios. Led the development effort for producing the highest resolution 3D Printing System.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Married Ruth Ellen Liston in December 1963. Wright Patterson AFB -Son Mark was born in August of 1965. Son Douglas was born in August of 1966. In July of 1981, son Alan was born in Concord Massachusetts. Lived in Kettering Ohio from 1964 to 1966. Moved to Chelmsford/Lowell Mass area in 1966. Moved to Oakton, VA in 1988. Left Oakton in 1996 to move to Amherst,NH. Bought a summer home in Chatham MA in 1977 and the family has been using this location as a vacation and fishing location over the last thirty five years. Mark is a Special Agent assigned to Counter Terrorism task force with the FBI in Miami, FL. Mark has two children (Heather and Kyle). Douglas died in 2010 as the result of complications from an automobile accident. Alan is the Captain of GotStryper Charters in Chatham, MA. Alan and I have been actively involved in developing and producing the Got Stryper line of fishing lures.

John Charles Heine

Course: II

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I joined Student House in 1959 after transferring from Hofstra (then) College, so had 3 years of the 1.2 mile walk/bike/motor scooter ride to Building 35 which was my nominal on-campus

135 workplace. Nate Cook was my bachelor’s and Ph.D. thesis advisor, so I stayed pretty close to the lathes and milling machines. Student House was a great experience in sharing all aspects of operating and maintaining a living group, with the added value of being able to walk into Fenway Park bleachers after the 7th inning for free. My main extra-curricular activity was working at WTBS, the student radio station. That was enough fun that at one point I considered dumping technology for show business, a phase that fortunately passed relatively quickly. Through Steve Crandall, I connected with the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and worked there several summers on material damping. This topic ultimately became the topic of both my master’s work and my Ph. D. thesis, paid for by the Marshall Space Flight Center. At one point I got to stand in the rocket nozzle of a Saturn 5. There is no question that undergraduate course work was a challenge for me for the first year until I figured MIT out and learned to focus a bit. Also, if long term friends are a measure of success at a university, I have three very close relationships with classmates (or near classmate), all of whom are alive and healthy and still married to their first wives.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I have had two jobs since finally leaving the Institute in 1966. I was hired by Dick Lyon at Bolt Beranek and Newman, right out of the Ph. D. program along with a number of classmates. BBN was a terrific place to work because it was had both consulting and tech base development opportunities. My first consulting gig was to design the voice box for the new talking GI Joe doll for Hassenfeld Bros, and that got me a job offer from Mattel, the big leagues. I passed and did a study of the vibration levels of the Saturn 5 instrument section instead. My analysis, which was submitted about 3 months after the first launch, said the instruments would survive, and, in fact they did. Obviously, “just do it” trumped “strategic analysis.” I moved rather quickly to Jim Barger’s underwater acoustics group at BBN, working with the team that designed tactical and strategic systems and quieted ship radiated noise. At that point, about 1970, with the right equipment you could easily passively observe the movements of a submarine at a distance of 2,000 miles and so keep track of the opposition. As time went on, it got a lot harder. Just about the time it became almost impossible, roughly 1990, as we all know the Russians essentially quit and tied all their boats up at the dock where one could count them using satellites. That part of my career trajectory was great fun because it combined some serious environmental modeling with a number of sea trials on both subs and surface ships. I got to see a great deal of the world. Ultimately, however, I decided to work on transitioning technology from consulting and government applications to commercial products. Although this was not a popular activity at BBN, it was the basis of my starting Cambridge Sound Management in 1999 along with Acentech Inc., the architectural acoustics group that had started in 1948 and which had spun off from BBN 40 years later. Acentech had a long term consulting practice of designing acoustic privacy system for open office environments. The traditional approach to these systems begged for some new thinking, which we gave it and now have a rapidly expanding number of people in Waltham providing equipment and support to a world-wide network of Audio/Video integrators. Who knew entrepreneuring would be such a gas?

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I met (1962) and married (1964) Holly Cross, just a terrific red head. I convinced her to migrate from Wellesley College to MIT to become a real scientist (SB ‘65, Ph.D. ‘72). I ultimately failed, because after her post-doc at Mass General and 10 years at MIT as an Assistant/Associate Dean of Students, she became a lawyer (JD Suffolk University ‘92). In any case, she proved without question who the smartest one of the family was and we have never argued about that since. We spent a lot of time in the early years racing cars, hiking around the country and doing some serious traveling. As of now, Holly has just retired from her patent law firm and we are looking forward to spending more time with our two daughters, one of whom is an attorney in California and one a marketer here in Boston. We have one grandson and two of unspecified sex on the way. In the last few years, I put a transition plan in place to ease out of the critical path at our company, we bought a second home out in Santa Barbara CA and hope to start spending half time there next year. Our major challenge is that we will both have to learn how to

136 speak to conservative Republicans. I have been able to develop a number of avocations, none of which I am very good at but all of which give me great pleasure. These include chasing after any kind of a ball, moving or stationary, including golf, where I definitely need more focus, plus woodworking and now flying. The flying became a serious interest the second time we spent 4 hours driving the 90 miles from Santa Barbara to Glendale on highway 101. I have my eye on a nice little plane where we can definitely fly it in just a little more time than it should take to drive. As one ages, one learns to make trade-offs.

Richard Garrett Helmig

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Getting an education at MIT was like drinking water from a fire hose. While I was majoring in Electrical Engineering I concentrated mainly on computer technology not realizing at the time that that I was entering the dawn of the Computer Age. I spent most of my career working in the Computer Industry.My favorite of all classes was with . What a great professor. My favorite non-academic pastime was sailing on the Charles. Sailing became a lifelong passion.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduating from the Tute I went directly to the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Business School. After graduating from Wharton I had short term jobs in Project Management at Control Data and Electronic Associates. I then joined IBM in 1968 and rose to the executive level before retiring in 1993. Then I spent 10 years as a Securities Analyst on Wall Street before finally retiring for good in 2004.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I met my wife Nancy at a Simmons' mixer in the fall of my sophomore year. When became engaged a couple of years later and will celebrate our 50th university in 2013. We have three children and four grandchildren. In addition to sailing Nancy and I have done extensive traveling. We have visited all 7 continents. Quiet time is taken up with reading and Sudoku.

William G. Henrikson

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Hard work, stressful, but mostly fun.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I received an M.S.E.E. from the University of Michigan two years after graduating from the Institute. My first job was that of an engineer at an aerospace company in Los Angeles. Following that, I joined Applied Magnetics Corporation in Santa Barbara, CA as an engineer. I held subsequent positions in that

137 company as an engineering manager, division manager and general manager. In 1973 I began an engineering consulting firm which I later incorporated as MTI Products Corporation. Our automated testing products were sold to many computer equipment manufacturers including IBM, Panasonix, Sony and others.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Over the years I have been an avid sailor and own a 36' sailboat which is moored at Channel Islands Harbor in Southern California. I have two sons, a daughter and three grandchildren.

John Carl Hermanson

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: MIT was a wonderful place to be an undergraduate. Faculty who were assigned to introductory courses were very capable, liked what they were doing, liked students, and had excellent resources including staff to help set up lecture demonstrations and laboratories. The students were more aggressive and competitive than what I had known in Madison, Wisconsin, but I benefitted from that. Discussion sections were very helpful, physics labs were outstanding, and the environment on campus was warm and inviting. The senior thesis introduced me to a level of research (at the 250 MeV cyclotron and bubble chamber) that inspired me to lead a career as an academic scientist. At Baker House I remember the piano I played in the basement, the meals in the cafeteria, the sound of tennis practice outside my first-floor room, the Shakespeare professor who lived in the building, late night bull sessions, Road Runner cartoons on Saturday nights (in Kresge), TV westerns on Sunday night, friends who helped me keep my Austin mini running. Two events were stamped into my memory for all time: (1) an outstanding prank played on me with the collusion of friends in Aerospace, a campus officer and the Draper folks; and (2) a short period throwing water balloons from my triple room on the 6th floor that ended badly, requiring me and my roommate to appear before JudCom and to accept as punishment a task of window washing activity befitting the crime!

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I entered U Chicago immediately after graduation, receiving a PhD in Physics in 1966. MIT had prepared me well for this challenging degree program. After dabbling in particle physics and superconductivity experiments I switched to condensed matter theory and pursued postdoctoral stints at U Illinois and UC Berkeley. In 1970 I accepted a faculty position at Montana State University in Bozeman, where I remained until retirement in 2003. Much of my research was devoted to computing quantum structure of solid surfaces, collaborating with several experimental groups along the way. In 1990 I accepted the position of physics department head at MSU. For the 13 years leading to my retirement I remained in that position and thoroughly enjoyed leading the department through a major move and subsequent growth.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I married Pat Wiersig in 1965; her career was in nursing. We raised a son and two daughters, who in turn gifted us with 5 grandchildren. Pat and I moved to Boise, Idaho in 2010 to be near grandchildren. Our interest have always included outdoor recreation, travel, visiting friends and relatives, reading, and music.

138 Jon M. Heuss

Course: X

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: The years at MIT were packed with hard work mixed with lots of fun. My memories of the hard work are dim in regard to detail, but the discipline, thinking skills, values, and technical skills I learned have been priceless over the years. The fun involved good times with roommates and classmates going through the same rigor. I Theresa & Jon especially enjoyed being a member of the Concert Band, Orchestra, and Brass Choir. I have fond memories of John Corley’s leadership, the camaraderie of the ensemble, and numerous concert trips to cities along the East Coast. Music helped keep me sane during the four years and has enriched my life since.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduating, I headed to the University of California, Berkeley where I had a research assistantship in the Chemical Engineering Department and received a M. S. in 1964. I joined General Motors Research Laboratories in the suburbs of in the Fall of 1964 and spent a 34-year career in air pollution/environmental studies. In the first third, I was a bench scientist and supervisor, conducting research on the chemistry of smog formation. In the second third, I was a research manager leading a team of scientists and technicians characterizing emissions from vehicles and studying their transformations in the environment. The work included laboratory studies, field studies, and modeling studies. In the last third of my GM career, I got into public policy on environmental issues, representing GM in regulatory hearings and preparing numerous submissions to government agencies. After retirement in 1998, I got into consulting on environmental issues first by myself as Air Quality Associates and then with a small group of others, Air Improvement Resource, Inc. I still consult, but it is part time and out of our home. The clients are mostly industrial companies and their trade associations, but we also do some work for government agencies and think tanks. My expertise involves motor vehicle emissions, the relation of emissions to air quality, and the technical basis for air quality and emissions standards. Over my career, I have had the privilege of working with many bright and capable people, influencing many rules and regulations, and contributing to our knowledge of air pollution and its control.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I have lived in the Detroit Metropolitan Area since leaving Berkeley in 1964. I met and married a wonderful girl, Theresa Apfel. We’ve been married for forty years and have been blessed with two sons, Greg and Steve, and four grandchildren, Aniya, Noah, Anna, and Ryan. We live in Washington, MI, a semi-rural area north of Detroit. Our son Greg graduated from U. of Michigan in Material Science and Engineering, got a Ph. D. from North Carolina State, and works for Intel in their advanced development activities, located near Portland, OR. Our son Steve graduated from U. of Michigan in Architecture, worked as a lighting designer in the New York area, and now is in architectural volume sales and project management for a window company in New York City. With family and grandchildren on either coast, we travel to see them often. We have had a cottage on Lake Huron, 100 miles north of where we live, for twenty years where we enjoy the water and local wildlife. For relaxation, I enjoy golf, particularly with fellow retirees and family. I am also keenly interested in and politics, religion, and education. I am active in the community with our local Planning Commission and as Moderator of our church.

139 Curtis Stuart Hoffman

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I was born on 10 September 1940 in Aguirre, Puerto Rico. Eighteen years later I came to MIT from Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin before the fall semester 1958 to attend rush week. I pledged Lambda Chi Alpha and started classes. I became a member of the lightweight crew and the swimming team. I became social chairman at Lambda Chi. I was elected to the Junior Prom Committee and Beaver Key. I married Nancy Marie Pelletier in 1961 and started a family.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering on 8 June 1962 from MIT, we moved to Seattle, Washington where I started my first job at The Boeing Company. I received the degree of Master of Science in Electrical Engineering on 19 August 1966 from the University of Washington. I started a new job with Bell Telephone Laboratories, North Andover Massachusetts. I completed their Graduate Study Program in June 1968. On 8 July 1969, I accepted an offer from TRW, Redondo Beach, California where I spent the rest of my career until retirement on 1 May 1996. Some of my work there included key roles on programs under contract with the then secret National Reconnaissance Office created in 1961 as an outgrowth of the advice given Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy by Dr. James Ryne Killian, Jr. Other work there included key roles on the DSCS, FLTSATCOM, and TDRS communication satellite programs.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: In the Seattle area our family grew by 1965 to 6: John Stuart, Leda Jean, Curtis LaVerne, and Julie Marie. I did some mountain climbing and summited Mt. Rainier on 24 July 1966 just before l left to go to work at Bell Labs. Our children now all live in southern California. They all attended public schools. Leda, Curtis, and Julie also attended Midland School in Los Olivos, CA. Both daughters graduated from the University of California in Irvine. Julie went on to get a master’s degree in mathematics at California State University in San Jose. Both daughters are married and have two children each. Both sons are bachelors. I spent a fair amount of time backpacking in the Sierras in the '70s, '80s, and '90s and did some scuba diving in the early '90s. Leda got me into rock climbing in the '90s as well. In the latter '80s and early '90s Mickey Haney and Bill Bails invited me to jog on the beach with them during our TRW lunch hours after which we promptly ruined it all with burritos and beer. Since retirement, Nancy and I have been living in Escondido, California. I spent a lot of time with Landmark Education 1968 through 2003 and currently spend a lot of time writing reminiscences and with Catholic Church activities. Nancy spends a lot of time with our grandchildren April, Joseph, Catherine, and Will. She also spends a lot of time playing tennis, yoga, and with Catholic Church activities.

140 James Hornell

Course: XVIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: My MIT Experience was wonderful. In spite of the hard work and the resulting frustrations, the atmosphere was positive with much encouragement from the faculty. It was refreshing to be surrounded by so many truly bright people, an experience I often miss.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After MIT I moved on to graduate school in Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley. After the Ph.D. I held faculty positions at Stanford and the University of Kansas. That was followed by a stint at the Social Security Administration and a switch to applied mathematics, which brought me to Phillips Petroleum Company, headquartered in a small rural Oklahoma town. At Phillips I worked in finance, geophysics, and chemical process control. My financial forecasts were used for the defense borrowing during the Pickens and Icahn takeover attempts. After twenty years at Phillips I began working for the SAS Institute in North Carolina. When I left Phillips another person said to me that the three people who were trying to change things at Phillips were leaving. I was very surprised that I was one of those when I asked him who they were. I recently left SAS to join a privately held regional southern trucking company to optimize their line haul and driver schedules. That suddenly ended with a senior management change that left me and others on the wrong side of the table. I have continued to look for other opportunities, and I am working on my own software for financial market forecasting.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: One of my best memories about MIT is that I met my spouse, one of our women classmates, Marjorie Malley. It was an enjoyable time raising our two daughters. Now we have two very enjoyable grandchildren. In a humanities course at MIT I was given a letter of introduction to the YenChing Library at Harvard, and I was expected to read Chinese for a research project. That has led to a lifelong interest in Chinese art and culture.

Joseph Horowitz

Course: XVIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: My main recollections (aside from numerous nighttime excursions with classmate Bob Huff) are of some of my teachers who had a lasting influence: Henry McKean, Jr., Philip Franklin, Hartley Rogers, Jr., Warren Ambrose, James Munkres. As a sophomore I took a course from Norbert Wiener, for which I was totally unprepared. For some reason it was the only course in the catologue that made sense that semester. A few years ago, Prof. Munkres gave a talk at nearby Amherst College, and, when I went to say hello before he started, he remembered my name after all those years - truly remarkable.

141 Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Went to graduate school at University of Michigan, then joined the faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 1969 and have been here ever since (even beyond retirement in 2002), aside from various visiting positions over the years. Since retirement I have remained active in research, indeed, am doing the most interesting work ever (at least in my opinion).

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Married to Paula for 43 years; 3 children. Life is getting very interesting as we get old (to put it bluntly).

Richard Lawrence Horttor

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I truly enjoyed Boston and surroundings for the 6 years I was there. Everything was wonderful - the history, the T for getting around, culture - museums and Symphony, restaurants, and theaters. The school was terrific, inspite of the "grind". Or maybe because of it. We simply worked harder than most college students. And long term, I think the results were clear. Most MIT grads seem to me a cut above most other college graduates. I think the biggest change from the 50's and 60's is the now close to equal representation of women students. And with friends still there, I visit at least once per year (on average). I think Boston is also the favorite city of my wife, who has accompanied me on many of my trips. From 1980 through 1995, I recruited for Jet Propulsion Laboratory at RPI and MIT, both in Fall and Spring. Also. I have much enjoyed the 10th, 25th, 40th, and 45th Reunions.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Since leaving the Institute in July of 1964, I spent my entire career at JPL in Pasadena, CA, working on several NASA mission to planets in the Solar System. The were Viking Mars 1976, SEASAT Earth Orbiter 1976-1978, Galileo to Jupiter 1978-1983, Magellan to Venus 1986-1989, Cassini to Saturn 1989- 1997, and Mars Express 2000-2007 (with European Space Agency). During that period I was a Group Supervisor, then a Section Manager, all in Deep Space Communications. On the mars Express mission, I was the manager of the NASA portion.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: In 1972, I married my wife, who brought with her a daughter as part of a package deal. We have 4 grandchildren ages 18-25, and a great grandson since April 2009. I am still an avid golfer (9 index) and downhill skier (a bit slower and wiser). Dorothe plays a little golf, but claims to have skied her last. We'll see, as a new ski season approaches. As mentioned above, I see several of my college era friends, sort of annually, after all these years. My principal hobby is maintaining our home of 37+ years, all aspects, carpentry, painting, plumbing, and electrical. We did replace our roof by ourselves 25 years ago, but it leaked after 20 years. So the second time, we hired professionals. I read a lot. My favorite form is the historical novel. But I read lots of politics, biographies, history, and novels. We love music as evidenced by our 30+ years subscription to the LA Philharmonic. We did make a sizable contribution to the

142 construction of Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, a truly spectacular looking and performing concert Hall. Since retiring from JPL in 2007, we have travelled extensively in Europe, Asia, Sout America, and the North Atlantic. We enjoy both ocean size ships as well as the river cruise ships in Europe. It is hard to pick a favorite trip, but in June 2010 we went Vancouver to Seward, Alaska, then to Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Sea, followed by a 2 day bus trip back to Fairbanks. Beyond magnificant. We will continue the travel bit, though at a somewhat slower pace.

Joshua Ladd Howell

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I remember: 1. When I arrived on campus in September, 1957, there was a demonstration against a tuition increase from $800 to $1,100/semester (protesters said that if this kept up, it would cost $25,000 to send our kids to college for four years), 2. Hi-Fi wars between the two dorm buildings on East Campus, 3. The first snowstorm of 1958 that covered the cars in the parking lot north of the cafeteria, so that only a one-foot "bump" in the snow indicated where the cars were, 4. Growing 40- foot high, 5 foot wide "Icicles" from the fourth floor of Goodale in the dead of winter, 5. Classic movies being shown in the - especially Marlon Brando in 1953's "The Wild One" and "Ordet" a Danish film about a farmer's son who thinks he is Christ, and makes you want to believe it! 6. South American students playing cards until dawn in the cafeteria and using ham radio to call home, 7. Professor Harold E. Edgerton, professor at MIT ,and inventor of the electronic flash and high-speed photography, 8. Dr. Edwin Land's presentation, producing color pictures from two black and white slides, 9. Hard work, good friends, and stimulating courses.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduation, I went to the Columbia University School of Business for my MBA in finance and marketing. I spent two years at Ingersoll-Rand in Manhattan, left to run a small home improvement company in San Juan, Puerto Rico, worked at the Puerto Rico Telephone Company, and then at Merck & Company as assistant to the Regional Sales Director for Latin America. in 1971, my wife, 22-month old daughter, and I moved to Miami, where I began work in commercial real estate. I leased and sold a 350,000 square feet of office space before the "development" bug bit me. My first office building project ran headlong into the recession of 1992-3 and, while I am proud of the building we built, the Bank ended up with it. Subsequent projects have been more successful, and I still have great fun doing real esate deals.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: After graduation from Columbia Business School in 1964, I lived and worked in Manhattan. One summer, I was invited by my co-workers at Ingersoll-Rand to visit South Hampton on Long Island for the weekend. There, I met my future bride-to-be. We were married in 1967, settled down in Puerto Rico, and had our first daughter in 1970. We moved to Miami in 1971, bought our first house and, three years later, had our second daughter. They grew up in Miami, but went to the University of Texas, fell in love with Texas, and with two Texans in particular. Marriages in 2002 (in San Antonio) and 2004 (in Austin) followed, and now we are fans of Texas and our three grandchildren in each city. It is convenient that the

143 cities are only a one-hour drive apart, so we can see both families when we plan a trip to Texas. If I ever retire, it will probably be to Texas!

Talbot Shelton Huff, Jr.

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

Hard work and a lot of fun..

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

MSEE at Rice University 1967; Doctor of Science (Hon) George Washington U; Sandels Assn. 1962-1978; E-Systems Melpar Div VP and GM 1980-1993; Bedford County VA School Board 2002-2008

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

.Married Anne Davies 1963 – Anne deceased 1995, Children – Charlotte 1968; Portia 1972; Grandchildren: Rhys Claassen 2003; Katie Pollard 1990; Married Shirley Cothran 1997, Her Children: Karen 1965 and Dawn 1968, Grandchildren Joshua 1990 & James George 1992, Christian Hatcher 2008 & Dustin Hatcher 1991

Bror Olof Hultgren III

Course: XVI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

I have struggled with how to write about what were the most formative years in my life and its psychic cost. [“negative impact on my self confidence, to the extent that it took me around 30 years to accept that while a C/B student at MIT I had grown to be an intelligent, creative scientist.] Two events may serve as examples: failing my first 8.01 exam and then failing my first 18.20 exam (as a post grad special student). [I had entered MIT as an engineer-Course XVI , and at the time of the 18.20 debacle, was employed at the High Speed Wind Tunnel] Recovering from both of these disasters taught a profound lesson: namely to think in abstractions and believe in the logic of the science. These examples are all about how the MIT years changed the fundamental manner in which I have come to look and attempt to organize what I see of the world around me. I can’t say that MIT taught me to be creative, but those years did teach me the ability to “think things anew’, which is the first step of creativity. As important was the exposure to a grownup world: art, music, poetry and drama.

144 Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

The prosaic details: PhD in physics from BU, graduating into the 70’s physics depression economy, a post doc in ophthamology at the BU Med School, finally gainful employment with Polaroid. The 28 years with Polaroid Research were among the most rewarding years I have spent. Polaroid gave me the freedom to invent and define my own job, leading to the development of a group dedicated to integrating image system development with a fundamental understanding of the viewers psychovisual processing of image structure information content and how it impacts customer perception of image quality. Still marvel at the gift of being present at the birth of digital imaging: from the need to do disc swapping to do image processing on a 256 X 256 BW image in the 70’s compared to todays DSLR megapixel imagery at candle light illumination. That said, living through the dissolution of Dr.Land’s vision gives a unique insight into the underbelly of today’s economy.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Married (Simmons grad, Burton House Mixer!!!!), three children. Was not planning on retirement (I was having the time of my life working in the environment of a “start up”) but was terminated (as consequence of Polaroid bankruptcy) the day before my 65 birthday. Consulting for several years until; the economy tanked. Have seriously been pursuing my art. The biggest transition is the acceptance by peers as an artist. I feel lucky in having a supporting netwiork in this new episode. Check out my work at: http://brorhultgrenart.com/

Roger A. Humphrey

Course: II

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

The first Friday freshman quiz, was 8.01, it was Friday the 13th, we got little sleep that night as the Baker Dorm upperclassmen attempted to keep us awake by pouring water under doors of the Freshman's rooms ... I got an “F’ on the quiz ... I did recover later to earn an “A’ for the term, but I have been a little spooked by Friday the 13th’s ever since. Freshman year I tried crew and fencing .. but settled on intramural sailing as a continuing activity. Since home was southern California, I have many memories of cross country travel: TWA Super-Constellation non-stop LA/Boston flights; a group car trip in a “53 Plymouth of a professor moving to Berkeley; through to driving our own new 65 Mustang. Living on Beacon St., morning and night Winter walks across the Charles River were a fact to live with. Remember doing labs and problem sets with slide rules? In Course II, I encountered Professor H.M. Paynter, and got involved with the analog computer and other dynamic things. There was an interdisciplinary design course with a communications satellite system as the main project. It included a field trip in an Air Force DC-3 that took us all the way to Cape Canaveral. As a Senior, I took 6.25, Introduction to System Programming. The homework involved making improvements to CAP (Classroom Assembly Program), a simple assembler for the 7094. Discovering the ability to modify computer programs that write computer programs was a real revelation.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

After graduation, I went to work for Shell Development Co. First in Emeryville, CA then a move to Houston, TX in 1972. I worked on projects proving the use of advanced control systems in refinery

145 process applications. These included the very early use of on-line computers for the control of refinery processes. In 1977, I joined a newly formed group at Chevron Research Company in Richmond, CA. Our charter was to facilitate the use of advanced, measurement and control computers in Chevron Oil refineries. I was the principle architect and developer of the COSMIC (Command Oriented System for Modern Industrial Control) system. It ran on a simple real-time computer system from Taylor Instrument Co. of Rochester New York. At one point there were over twenty COSMIC systems installed in the major Chevron refineries and chemical plants. Later, the traditional instrument makers developed distributed digital control systems capable of performing the same advanced control functions. In 1995 I joined OSISoft, makers software for industrial process monitoring. I worked as a Senior Software Developer with responsibility for a couple of major subsystems.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Married to Carol Jean (CJ) Humphrey. Two children, Paul (dec), and Joanna (48), three grandchildren. I was always interested in cameras, photography and music listening ... activities supported by the modern personal computers. We also enjoy hiking and camping and travel, mostly to visit family. In retirement, we are also doing some international travel and of course “family’ includes visits to the grandchildren. By chance, in the early days, at home we bought an Apple II just two weeks before the IBM PC was announced. At work, we had networked DEC computers so the early PC’s held little interest. The Macintosh, with graphics and network attached LaserWriters made the transition to a desk-top machine worthwhile. Following Apple since the early West Coast Computer Fairs and Berkeley Mac Users Group has always been interesting. After 30 years, I finally quite smoking in 1990. This involved a fair amount of personal growth. I celebrated that success by taking up mountain biking and hang gliding. Mountain biking was invented here on Mount Tam and there are several good hang gliding sites nearby. Daughter of a Lutheran minister, CJ is a preachers kid. We faithfully attended Lutheran churches for many years. More recently we have found the New Thought movement to be a better match for us. We enjoy volunteering at Unity In Marin.

George F. Hurley

Course: III

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

My recollections span 7 years from freshman to finishing Grad School. First term of freshman year was by far the hardest academically -- who can forget the relentless procession of Friday morning hour exams? Last term of the year I completed my ScD was the hardest physically because it seemed I caught some new cold about once a month. We called it Gradstudentitis as it seemed a rather common affliction for those finishing up. First term also provided a breakthrough in coping with the exams. During reading period, a friend invited me to a session given by his 8.01 instructor which basically was a complete course in quizmanship. I’m not sure I would have made it if not for this session. After freshman year, I worked the summer in the Meteorology Department on a project involving statistical approaches to short term forecasting using weather radar. I remember spending part of several Friday afternoons using the radar to track planes approaching Logan . A significant benchmark occurred when I took the first course in my major, Course III. The twice-a-week lectures were given by John Wulff. They were first period so I would get there early and got to know Prof. Wulff who also came in early. He offered me a job in his group which provided continuing part or full time work during the remainder of my Undergraduate years. As the result of working with and for grad students, I never consciously decided to continue past the BS degree, though this had been furthest from my thoughts in September 1958. Summers were relaxing and, in retrospect, educational, especially after I began working in the Metallurgy Department.

146 Life seemed slower paced in those days, and at the end of a hot week, the Institute would be shut down on Friday afternoon. Then it was off to the Music Library to listen to recordings until time to meet my ride to the Cape.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

As many may remember, the 1960’s were good times for job seekers in Science and Engineering. During my senior year, I worked for Hamilton Standard in Connecticut two summers and then full time after finishing Graduate School. This turned out not such a good fit, and I was happy to leave and go to work at Tyco Laboratories in Waltham after 1 year. This was a wonderful experience, in part because of a diverse staff from many foreign countries. I had the opportunity to help in the development of a novel method of growing shaped single crystals while working with some really bright and inventive people. After 8 ½ years there I had the opportunity to move to New Mexico to work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory where I remained until retirement in 2001. Working at a large multi-program Laboratory was also a great experience. I was able to work in a wide range of disciplines ranging from radiation effects on structural materials, solar thermal energy conversion, ceramic and metal processing and finally the weapons program. My last assignment was as Program Manager for the Nuclear Weapons Surety Program. During this time I had the opportunity to work with Victor Stello who was the DOE Defense Programs lead for weapons safety. Victor was a highly motivated individual who was absolutely resolute in ferreting out safety issues and forcing others to recognize and deal with them. While he had a reputation for being hard to get along with, I found him always willing to listen -- provided only that you also listened to him. I learned more from this interaction than from any other in my professional life. Unfortunately he died from lung cancer before he retired.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

After completing Graduate School, the year at Hamilton Standard and moving back to the Boston area, I met my wife who was a nurse at the BLI. Our two sons were born at the BLI, my own birthplace. After moving to Los Alamos, my wife went to work at the Los Alamos Medical Center ER where she occasionally met (as patients) some of the pioneer members of the Manhattan Project (a diminishing population). We developed lots of other, especially recreational, interests during our 26 years “on the Hill.” We did a lot of XC skiing while we were there, although a prolonged and severe drought led to several poor snow years towards the end. We also found many opportunities to pursue sailing. We sailed on a large man-made lake in Northern NM, and traveled to several other destinations for charter vacations. When it was time to consider retirement, we chose to move to the coast in Georgia. My wife continued to work in the local ER for a few years while I discovered that tending a large back yard here was a lot more effort-intensive than what it was in New Mexico. We continue to sail and have learned to wrestle with fierce tidal currents and cope with the occasional tropical storm that rakes our coast (I’m knocking on my wooden desk that we continue to avoid actual hurricanes). While Los Alamos (town) was dominated by other Lab Employees, here we get to interact with many people who are neither science nor engineering oriented which can be both refreshing and frustrating. We have 5 Grandchildren, unfortunately living in the West. Now that we are back in the East, we have had the opportunity to reunite on a more regular basis with a roommate from Graduate House: a former colleague at Tyco, Best Man at our Wedding, and still teaching at Duke University not too far from our new home. We share many happy memories of life in Bldg 35 working on our theses and preparing for the Qualifying, General, Oral, and foreign language exams which relentlessly marched along.

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Jan Hyde

Course: I

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

Formative years, good surroundings, good friends, lots of effort, excellent memories, some loves of my life at the time, great preparation, turned out well.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

MS in 1963, US Army Reserves (to avoid draft and Viet Nam war heating up, brief fling with engineering, Harvard Business School and 40 + year career in real estate investment banking and consulting. A one trick pony that carried me until 2008.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Married and helped raise 2 kids, all while located in Brooklyn Heights, NYC. Wife became a successful physician starting about 20 years into our marriage. Helped me pursue a business on my own and now other interests as an empty nester. Google Jan Hyde New York Times. Explained far better by a pro writer.

George Elias Ioup, Ph.D.

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

Sorry, no time.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

George E. Ioup received his SB (1962) in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his PhD (1968) in physics from the University of Florida. After one-year appointments as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Connecticut and as an assistant professor of physics at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy, he joined the Department of Physics, University of New Orleans (UNO) in 1969. He is now University Research Professor of Physics and Geophysics. He currently serves as Director of UNO at Stennis Space Center and has been president of the Southeastern Geophysical Society. He has received the Amoco Outstanding Undergraduate Educator Award. His research interests include acoustic, geophysical, and aerospace signal analysis and processing; deconvolution, mathematical digital filtering, and spectral estimation; Fourier and wavelet transforms; higher order correlations and spectra; underwater acoustics and bioacoustics; modeling and simulation; and computational physics. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (Citation: For contributions to signal processing in underwater acoustics), Honorary Life Member of the Southeastern Geophysical Society, and a member of APS, IEEE, OSA, SEG, and

148 AGU. He was instrumental in developing a PhD Program in Engineering and Applied Science at UNO. It now has 113 graduates, almost all in the last ten years. He helped found the Littoral Acoustic Demonstration Center (LADC), comprising scientists from the US Navy and four universities. LADC 1) made the first measurement of beaked whale clicks in the Gulf of Mexico, 2) was the first to show evidence that individual sperm whales could be identified from the properties of their clicks, and 3) conducted the biggest experiment ever done to measure the three-dimensional acoustic field of a seismic airgun array.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Dr. George Ioup has been married to Dr. Juliette Christine (Wingfield) Ioup since 1964. She is a Professor of Physics at the University of New Orleans and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.

Erich P. Ippen

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

I was not a particularly good student but I sure had a great time as an undergrad at MIT. I was actively involved in my fraternity (Sigma Chi), the IFC, the glee club, major social events (concerts, dances), Class of '62 activities and intramural sports. The fact that we all took the same courses freshman year and had the same quizzes once a week deepened, I think, our learning interactions and created some lasting friendships. Chemistry was not a favorite at the time, and I remember choosing EE over physics as a major because physics required one more chemistry course. Wellesley was the focus of my social life and where I met my beautiful wife of 45 years, Dee.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

I spent a year at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland on an MIT-ETH exchange fellowship before returning to grad school at UC Berkeley in EE. I was fortunate to get engaged at that time in the emerging field of lasers with a famous professor and to have the opportunity to go to Bell Labs upon completion of my PhD. Bell Labs was a fantastic place to do research at that time. I was there for 12 years and carried out the work that has defined my career creating the first femtosecond-duration pulses of light and using them to observe ultrafast events in materials. I certainly never thought I would wind up back at MIT, but that's what happened. Since 1980 I have been professor of electrical engineering and physics at the Institute.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I reconnected with Dee in San Francisco when I was at Berkeley and when she returned to the States after a year in London working for the BBC. We were married in 1966, and I promised her that we would return to the Bay Area after I spent just 2 years at Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ. As you can tell from above, I never made good on that promise. We have, however, been blessed with good fortune. We have two sons, both married, one now living in San Francisco and one in Atlanta. We travel regularly to both places to visit our extremely good looking and very smart grandchildren. Our other hobbies are tennis, skiing, sailing, traveling and gardening.

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David Clifford Ives

Course: XVI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

Being impressed with Ken Gentle; he made it look so easy and always helped anyone who asked. Enjoying my roommates Roger Sullivan, Bob Gilmore, Paul Schroeder, and Jim Ross. Enjoying conversations with Juri Toomre and Ed Fuestal.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

After receiving my MIT Masters degree in Engineering in 1963, I married Kathy and stayed on getting a PhD in AERO & ASTRO in 1967. I worked for Kaman AviDyne for a year, moved to Long Island to work for Grumman Aircraft for six years and then moved on to work for Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut writing mathematics, aerodynamics, graphics and grid generation computer programs for 34 years. I wrote the world's shortest general FFT program (32 FORTRAN statements) and a 26 statement N- dimensional hypercube linear interpolation program and did basic work in conformal mapping, transonic flow through turbine engine blades, and the analysis of combustor screech. My induced drag program was used in the design of the winged keel on Dennis Conner's 1987 America's Cup winner Stars and Stripes.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Kathy and I have three sons and seven grandchildren and are thoroughly enjoying retirement. I regularly fly stunt kites, radio control aircraft and hold the World's Record for the Fastest (electric powered) RC Model Lobster Boat by winning the last two annual races in Jonesport, Maine.

Leland Brooks Jackson

Course: VI-A

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

Key memories include long nights studying at Sigma Nu, interspersed with parties and philosophical discussions, and also varsity lacrosse on muddy fields in the spring, co-op semester and summers at Bell Labs in NJ, and especially the friendships that I made in all these activities.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

My VI-A co-op assignment at Bell Labs was the pivotal choice for my career in that it provided not only the topic and venue for my S.M. thesis at MIT, but ultimately also for my Sc.D. thesis at Stevens Institute of Technology when I returned to Bell Labs in 1966. I was fortunate to be involved in the early years of digital signal processing, and that has been the focus of my entire career. In 1970 I became VP for Engineering at Rockland Systems Corp., a small instrumentation manufacturer, and in 1974 I joined the electrical engineering faculty at the University of Rhode Island, retiring in 2010. My research has

150 included quantization effects in digital filters, design methods for digital filters, and parametric modeling of signals and spectra. I have published an undergraduate text on signals and systems, and a graduate text on digital filters and signal processing. I am a Fellow of the IEEE and have received the Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

In 1968 I married Diana Norton from my hometown of Atlanta, with Bill Bloebaum as my best man. Diana is a church organist and choirmaster, and she has also had an extensive career as an organ recitalist. We have a daughter Anita, who is a pharmacy professor at URI. She has a son Simon and a daughter Emily, and they live near us in RI. Diana and I enjoy sailing, hiking, canoeing, photography, and travel.

Stan Jacobs

Course: XII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

As a commuter living with a generous middle-aged couple out in West Newton, my tech grind included long hours of travel, solo homework sessions and few connections to life on campus. One freshman day I was called into the Admissions Office to account for my presence at MIT. Having claimed available assets "that wouldn't keep a guy in cigarettes," they said, and no scholarship having been offered, had I falsified the application? Well no, but in retrospect it seemed that acceptance might only have been honorary, and I was not expected to actually show up. The following year I attended seminars for those still adrift regarding their majors, and was the only one to appear at the earth science presentation. Patrick Hurley, an early proponent of continental drift, kindly carried on as if the room were full. That eventually led to course XII, summer at geology camp in Nova Scotia, and a cruise out of WHOI to the Puerto Rico Trench with Brackett Hersey and Doc Edgerton as co-chief scientists.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

After West Newton and Woods Hole I moved to Manhattan, started graduate work at Columbia University and learned to program an IBM 1620 at the Lamont Geological Observatory. My social life improved substantially, but classwork was boring and the call of the sea was growing. More experienced hands talked me out of a drift toward Naval OCS and into a project making oceanographic surveys in the Southern Ocean. In essence, that is what I have been doing ever since, with the remote Antarctic coastline and scientific meetings providing ample opportunities for travel. As my role has evolved from Research Assistant to Research Professor, the studies, instruments and methods have changed remarkably since the early 1960s. Logging many nautical miles and plumbing previously uncharted depths has resulted in several interesting discoveries. A recent focus on ice-ocean interactions in the Amundsen Sea has even helped to shift the paradigm that the earth's ice sheets would likely grow in a warming climate.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Settling down fairly late in life, I married a physical therapist and we now have two late 20-somethings living nearby in NYC. As time has passed we have renovated two houses on the west bank of the Tappan Zee, and have seen our once drab village - which Woody Allen had to spruce up for The Yellow Rose of Texas - shake off its industrial roots and become a local destination. Chairing the village planning board

151 when the mills went out and investors wanted in was a provocative experience. We have been very fortunate to live in good times, and perhaps also lucky to graduate from MIT. But I tend to keep the "good old days" mostly under wraps. Maybe better that the family doesn't know what a cipher I was in college, so little known that another fellow's name appears under my Technique picture. Of course others have suffered worse insults, including a grandfather several greats back, George Jacobs, who came to an untimely end not that far from Boston, back in 1692. If you happen to see the painting of his trial while touring the Peabody Essex Museum, please pass along my regards.

Leonard Evans Johnson

Course: VIII

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

After graduating in 1962 (Physics), I returned to Seattle and took a job with Boeing in their Scientific Research Laboratories. I worked for three years in their Geo-Astrophysics group studying hydromagnetic wave propagation along the Earth's magnetic field lines. This does not have much to do with airplanes; but those were the days when Boeing was profitable enough to support a basic research laboratory that resembled a small university and served as a resource for the company. In 1965, there was a large earthquake (6.5 on the Richter scale) in the Puget Sound area, which was recorded by an array of magnetometers that we had built and deployed as part of the magnetic field study project. The analysis of the data from these instruments sparked my interest in geophysics and seismology. I returned to graduate school in 1965 at the University of California, San Diego and spent six enjoyable years at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP), which is part of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography campus of UCSD in La Jolla. I got my Ph.D. in seismology (and beach volleyball) in 1971. From UCSD, I went to the University of Colorado, Boulder for a two-year post-doc at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES), where I pursued my interest in the internal structure of the earth as revealed from seismic data. For the next two years, I was a visiting professor in the Geology and Geophysics Department at the University of California, Berkeley teaching courses in seismology and geophysics. From Berkeley, the path led, in 1975, to Washington, D.C. and the Earth Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation. I had originally planned to spend only a year or two at NSF finding out what the other end of the academic funding pipeline looked like == that was 37 years ago and I am still here! Most of that time I have been a Program Director in the Earth Sciences Division funding basic research in university departments -- in fact, a considerable amount of it at MIT. I am presently the Director of the Continental Dynamics Program, which funds large multidisciplinary, multi-institutional projects that focus on an improved understanding of the processes governing the origin, structure, composition and dynamical evolution of the continents and continental building blocks. The program funds field projects throughout the world, so I do a fair amount of travelling -- sometimes to rather interesting places. I recently spent ten days camping in the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan with a group of American, Russian and Kyrgyz geologists. Our nylon yurts were quite a hit with the local Kyrgyz horsemen! One interesting travel experience at NSF occurred in 1997, when I was chosen to be the NSF representative at the Amundsen- Scott South Pole Station for the month of November. Since 1957, the U.S. has maintained a scientific research program at the South Pole, and science continues to be the focus of the work. NSF administers the U.S. Antarctic Program, which, during the 1997 austral summer season, supported 185 research projects (more than 700 science-team members). Research is performed in the scientific disciplines of glaciology, geophysics, meteorology, upper atmosphere physics, astronomy, astrophysics and biomedical

152 studies. In addition to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, the U.S. maintains two other year-round stations in Antarctica: McMurdo and Palmer Stations. McMurdo was established in December 1955 on the volcanic rock of Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island, and is the logistics hub of the U.S. Antarctic Program. Palmer Station, on a protected harbor on the southwest coast of Anvers Island, off the Antarctica Peninsula, is the only U.S. Antarctic station north of the Antarctic Circle. Americans have occupied the geographic South Pole continuously since November 1956. The first station, built to support researchers during the International Geophysical Year, was begun in November 1956 and completed in February 1957. As interest in polar research increased, it became evident that a new design and a larger station was necessary. In 1975 the central area of the station was rebuilt as a geodesic dome 50 meters wide and 16 meters high that, with 14- by 24-meter steel archways, covered modular buildings, fuel bladders, and equipment. Detached buildings housed instruments for monitoring the upper and lower atmosphere and for numerous and complex projects in astronomy and astrophysics. The dome facility was designed to house 18 science and support personnel during the winter and 33 during the austral summer. In 1997, a redevelopment plan to upgrade the station began. The new station, which was dedicated in 2008, is one connected, elevated facility. The benefits of elevated structures include reduced snow drifting, increased building life, diminished environmental impact, enhanced safety, maximized solar energy use, and more cost-effective construction. Some 50 scientists and support personnel winter at the station, and up to 150 people work there during the summer. The station's winter personnel are isolated between mid-February and late October.

Michael H. Kaericher

Course: XXII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: The Glee Club and its weekends with the New England women's colleges, the sun rising over the Great Dome after one of my rare all- nighters, the monster snowstorm in April 1960, running around the Charles River basin in the snow in shorts, Huston Smith and Klaus Liepmann, and so much more!!!

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After a brief year and a quarter at Ford, I received "the job offer you cannot refuse" to join the US Army. When that was over, it was time for 2 years at then Carnegie Tech's GSIA to earn an MSIA, and then.... back to Ford for another nearly 35 years, of which 9 were with Ford subsidiaries in Sao Paulo, Brasil. Many fascinating experiences over those years in a variety of roles, ending with 7 years at Corporate Headquarters in Dearborn as Director of Corporate Economics and Strategic Issues--leading a group of professionals in forecasting the economic outlook and trying to anticipate the unexpected! I retired at the end of 2001 and have thoroughly enjoyed my life since.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: One gift the Army gave me was meeting my first wife in Washington, DC, in 1963. We married in 1966 while I was at Carnegie Tech, and by 1972 had four boys who have grown into wonderful men and fathers. Unfortunately, my wife, Meroe, died in 2004 after a brief abttle with cancer. Thanks to the internet, I met my present wife, Dianne, and we married a year later. Between us, we have 8 children, all of whom have wonderful families; we keep busy trying to stay in contact with all of them who are

153 scattered from mid-coast Maine to Victoria, BC. We also travel and have enjoyed especially our multiple visits to Italy over the last 6 years.

Harvey L. Kasdan

Course: VI-A

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Friday morning quizzes as a freshman. First electronics lab as a sophomore. Centennial weekend as a junior. Getting married after my senior year. Commuting from our small apartment in Allston during my graduate year. Finally getting those two prized degrees at the end of my graduate year in a ceremony in which each person actually got their own degree

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: 40 years of increasing responsibility and accomplishment in automatic visual inspection and medical instrument development ►Founder and Chief Technical Officer of LeukoDx, Inc., an Israel based startup ► Consultant to Iris Diagnostics, Division of IRIS International, Inc. after retiring as Chief Scientist ► Major role in the development of every IRIS instrument - more than 3500 are in use worldwide producing an annual revenue stream exceeding $85,000,000 ►Prepared FDA submissions, including the 510(k) that resulted in clearance to market The White IRIS in May 1996 as a class III device with abnormal cell classification capability, the 939 UDx Urine Pathology Workstation in May 2000 as a class II device utilizing artificial neural net technology to achieve walkaway urinalysis, the iQ200 Urinalysis System in October 2003 and the iQ200 Urine Analyzer Body Fluids Module March 2005. ► Corporate liaison with intellectual property law firm representing IRIS - appreciate and understand the strategic and tactical aspects of intellectual property policy and practice. ► Professional career devoted to developing complex systems that include electro-optical, electronic, mechanical and material or specimen handling subsystems controlled by embedded or PC-based software. ► Named inventor or co-inventor on 26 issued and 3 pending US patents, and author or co-author of over 50 publications in conference proceedings and refereed journals.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Married Judith Sperman on September 2, 1962. We have one son, Sheldon who is a Vice President and Senior Labor Council at NBC Universal, and two grandsons, Jonah and Will. We moved to Los Angeles immediately after graduation in 1963, and lived there until 2007 when we moved to Jerusalem, Israel. In 1971, I completed my PhD in Engineering at UCLA. My primary interests outside of work and continuing technical education were Jewish studies and photography.

154 Gerald L. Katell

Course: I

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I thought freshman year was like being thrown into a river full of piranha. And I thanked God for the help and support of my fraternity brothers and our crib room for helping me make it through. Was it Prof. Kraushaar teaching physics and seemingly speaking a language from another universe? My roommate, the late great Ed Linde used to get mad at me because I could remember and regurgitate what he had on the blackboard even though I didn't have a clue as to what it meant. The midterm E I received in that course almost caused me to jump into the Charles River but somehow I pulled it up to a B. Waiting tables at the Faculty Club for four years along with Ed and others was very helpful financially in getting me through. Working on Voodoo and becoming chairman of Secretariat (which gave me a coveted campus parking spot) were also memorable as well as being Prior of Sigma Alpha Mu in my junior year. Of course when the landlord suddenly cancelled the lease of our fraternity house we almost disappeared but Joe Perkell came to the rescue and helped us move to the Fenway. Intramural sports were always a blast and the 100th anniversary celebration including our train car and ride to Sturbridge were highlights. As Class Secretary, a job I held for 20 years, I enjoyed the honor of leading our class into graduation. Lots of wonderful memories.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I went straight to Stanford Business School after graduation, driving my '57 MGA across the US when I had never been west of West Virginia in my life. My chosed field was real estate development and I was lucky enough to get a job with Oceanic Properties in Honolulu at graduation. I transferred with them to San Francisco and was then hired at 26 to head up a new industrial development company in Seattle. After four years there I moved to LA and became president of Parking Structures International. That was an interesting period followed by a life long partnership with Ray Watt, an iconic Southern California developer. I left to form Katell Properties in 1984 but continued to be partners with Ray. We built over 5 million sq ft of industrial and commercial properties and over 2200 condominium conversions. I solld most of my holdings in 2004 to 2006 and moved to Rome. I have been involved in film and musical production, including two musicals that went to Broadway, Million Dollar Quartet and Baby it's You. Currently I am involved in a new oil drilling company in Western Kentucky.I have been heavily involved in non-profit work over the years including nine years as Chairman of LA's BEST, providing after-school education and enrichment programs to the elementary school children in the poorest parts of LA - 28,000 children in 180 schools every day. Also on the boards of the Los Angeles Music Center, Philharmonic and Walt Disney Concert Hall. I have been very active with the Young Presidents Organization as well as WPO and CEO. Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I married the woman I dated for two years at Stanford and adopted her four year old. We had two children in Seattle and raised them in Los Angeles, mostly in Palos Verdes. My son is a monk with the Self Realization Fellowship and my daughter Jennifer is with the Dutch Consulate in San Francisco. After my divorce and four single years I married Sharon and later adopted her daughter Stacey. We had eight fantastic years together and then she died of colon cancer in 1999. I am close to all of my children and spent as much time with them as I can.

155 Dwight A. Kellogg

Course: XV

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Freshman year was very intimidating, as my secondary education had been inadequate as preparation for MIT. I met many very talented fellow students and faculty who inspired me to become a better student. I took a year off to work after my junior year to earn enough money to complete my degree, which moved me from class of 1961 to Joan & Dwight class of 1962.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Upon completing active duty with the Army Reserves in 1963 I commenced a thirty-year career with NY Telephone Company and successor businesses. Over that period I held sixteen positions in financial and regulatory management, the last ten as a financial officer in the business, which enabled me to retire comfortably at age 53. Since then I have served on many not-for-profit boards in Westchester County, NY and NY City, including serving as president of a large children's services agency board. Currently, I am treasurer and board member of the Youth Shelter Program of Westchester, a volunteer at two NY State prisons and an active committee member of our church. The MIT experience gave me confidence to manage people affirmatively and to think critically about business and agency matters.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Joan and I met at age 19 when she was an education major at Boston University. We celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary on June 23, 2012. We have two daughters and a son, all married, and four grandsons. Our older daughter, her husband and a nephew are graduates of MIT as well. None are in the NY area, so we make family visits to California and Virginia throughout the year. Since my retirement Joan and I have traveled extensively, including three alumni association trips. I ski in the winter, golf and bike in the warmer weather and visit the fitness center year round. We have a second home in Litchfield, CT where we hike trails in a large park. Reading has always been a major part of my life. I have come to enjoy cooking in recent years. We have lived in White Plains for 23 years and had lived for 23 years on Long Island.

Martin Klein

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: M.I.T. was a wonderful, bewildering, overwhelming experience. I am very grateful for the opportunity to have been part of it. I remember going into a huge examination hall and feeling that I was the dumbest person in the room. A few other random memories: -Ernst Guilleman lecturing about circuit theory in 10- 250. His body seemed to resonate as he talked excitedly about resonance. - "Collecting" Hatfield posters for LSC events for the bulletin boards (these are currently on display at the MIT Museum). -Sitting in the amazing new Music Library listening to folk music recordings. -Wandering around the many halls of the Institute at all hours of the night, especially the basement, seeing all sorts of amazing displays, labs, and people. -The wonderful all night diners (the Reactor Diner, the F&T, the Red Death, etc.). -Trying to

156 steer a crew shell around icebergs on the Charles River in early spring. -The combined smells of the chocolate factories and the fat-rendering plants. -The Heinz 57, Victor Coffee and Cains neon signs that flashed all night in my Burton House window (and still visible in my brain today). -Many wonderful meals in Chinatown at Yee Hong Guey, the House of Roy and others. -Working as a Coop student at Philco and living in Philadelphia where I worked in the Kennedy campaign. -Driving across the country with classmate Jonathan Gestetner. -I am especially grateful for the opportunity to work with Prof. Harold "Doc" Edgerton and to know him as a mentor and friend.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduation I worked for a while in Doc Edgerton's "Strobe Lab" (now the Edgerton Center) and then at his company, Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier, Inc. (later E.G.&G., Inc.) Doc introduced me to the world of ocean exploration and underwater photography and sonar. Soon after I started my career, the nuclear submarine Thresher sank in 8400 feet of water off the coast of Boston. I became part of the first deep sea ocean search, and I had a chance to install equipment and work with the Bathyscaph Trieste which had gone to the deepest ocean depth (35,813 feet) in 1960. Unsatisfied with the sonar I installed on Trieste, I went on to develop the first successful side scan sonar instruments for ocean exploration. In 1968 I formed my own company, Klein Associates, Inc., which is still in Salem, New Hampshire and is called L-3/Klein Associates. My have been used to find countless shipwrecks and other items of value on the sea bed. I was involved in ocean surveys around the world including working in 1964 on the survey of the English Channel for what would later become the Chunnel Project. I also had many fun adventures working in Loch Ness where we found a World War II Wellington bomber, stone circles and many other interesting targets. I continue to be involved in activities at M.I.T. including the Advisory Committee of MIT Sea Grant and the Collections Committee of the MIT Museum. One of my sonars was in the MIT150 Exhibition at the Museum.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I have had a good personal life with a wonderful family and friends and many interesting hobbies. For over 40 years I have been involved in growing miniature bonsai trees. This is an incredibly challenging hobby, especially in our cold New England climate. For a while I served as President of the American Bonsai Society and my trees have been exhibited in national exhibitions. I am also involved with model railroading as a member of the National Model Railroad Association and the North Shore Model Railroad Club in Wakefield, MA. For a while I had the pleasure and honor of working with our own classmate, John T.M. Pryke, who is a world class expert and author in the model railroad field. I am involved with the MATE ROV Competion, a program where students build underwater vehicles. I am also involved as a mentor to a number of startup small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Gordon Raymond Knight

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: MIT was not easy my freshman year - a kid from California with no Calculus in high school. Joining Sigma Phi Epsilon was an excellent choice. At Sig Ep I had a very active social life combined with a strong academic house that made for a perfect place to live during my four years at MIT. Crossing the Mass Ave bridge was always fun during the winter. I made some lifetime best friends from Sig Ep. Several of us still see each other very often in both northern and southern California.

157 Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After MIT I went to Stanford University graduate school in Electrical Engineering on the Coop program while I worked full time at Sylvania Electronic Defense Labs. I received my MSEE and PhDEE from Stanford. I was fortunate to join Xerox PARC in 1970 as their 17th employee and work there for 10 years. I spent my professional career in the storage industry in Silicon Valley. I was founder of three optical storage companies (Optimem, Maxoptix, and TeraStor). I finished my career as CEO of Nanochip, Inc., a MEMS/semiconductor storage company. I retired in May, 2009, sold my house in Saratoga, and moved up to my other house on top of a mountain above Guerneville on the Russian River.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I married Nancy Hennings in Maine two days after graduating from MIT. We moved to Palo Alto, CA after the wedding. We had two sons, Jeffrey and Gregory. I met my second wife Doris Chang while working at Xerox PARC. We were together for 28 years before she passed away from breast cancer in 2008. She was the love of my life. Doris had two sons, Marshall and Michael which I helped raise. I was very fortunate to be introduced to Susan Leong by my fraternity brother Peter Canepa. Susan and I have been together for the past year and a half and looking forward to many more years together. We both love gardening, raising orchids, fine wine (I have had a large wine cellar for the past 40 years), cooking together, photography, hiking, and traveling. Living in the Russian River wine country and being retired is a real treat.

David H. Koch

Course: X

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: My father was a John Wayne-type figure who grew up in a small town in the ranch country of West Texas. His father published the local newspaper and was a man of modest means. Father was very brilliant Julia, Dave and family and driven to succeed, which led him to attend MIT where he graduated as a chemical engineer. Mother, who attended Wellesley College, was the daughter of a prominent doctor in Kansas City. After the two were married, they settled in Wichita, Kansas, where father was cofounder of a small engineering company that designed oil refineries. They lived on a small farm outside of town where they produced four boys – my two older brothers and my twin brother, Bill Koch, and myself.

I grew up on this farm and spent most of my free time in the summers working as a farm hand along with the other workers who took care of the property. My education was at extremely weak local schools where the instruction was of very inferior quality. My parents were very sophisticated people who realized that if I was ever to be accepted at a top university, I needed to attend a superior private school. Fortunately, an outstanding boarding school, Deerfield Academy, accepted me, and subsequently I arrived on the Deerfield campus as a 14 year-old freshman.

I was a real hick at the time who spoke with a funny accent, for which I was severely teased by my northeastern-based classmates. Initially, I did so poorly on my exams that I thought I was going to be

158 sent home. However, my instructors worked patiently with me and gradually my academic results improved markedly. With much support from everyone, and much effort on my part, I made great progress over the next four years in every area. In addition to the lifelong friendships I formed at Deerfield, I enjoyed immensely my participation on the basketball and track and field teams. My superb Deerfield education culminated in my acceptance at MIT, where my father had attended, which enabled me to join both my older brother, Charles, who was already there, and my twin who had been admitted as well. I will be forever grateful to Deerfield for its extraordinary contribution to my education.

At MIT I majored in chemical engineering like my father and two of my brothers, and have used this training daily for all my professional life. I joined the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, as well as the varsity basketball team, which became the most successful team in the Institute’s history, up to that point in time. My best friends and greatest experiences came from the basketball team. The academic pressure at MIT is extraordinarily intense, rather like medical school, and when I graduated I felt incredibly liberated.

After leaving the academic world I obtained employment at a small research firm in Cambridge, then a local consulting company, and finally at a very successful engineering firm in New York City, where I was engaged for a few years designing chemical manufacturing plants. After leaving the engineering firm I spent many months traveling around the world alone, before finally returning to New York City to join my family company, Koch Industries, where I have been employed since 1970.

Like my father and mother, travel has been a great passion for me. Over the years I have used every opportunity to explore remote and exotic places either alone, with friends, and now with my family. If I ever retire, I will use the time to travel extensively, to visit unfamiliar places such as Eastern Europe, China, parts of Southeast Asia, and the Amazon jungle. Travel remains my favorite form of adventure. I remained a bachelor for 34 years following my graduation from the Institute. Having grown up with all brothers and having attended an all-male boarding school, and essentially an all-male university, I was ready for a free spirited single life. For years I developed my skills as a bachelor and eventually became very adept at this life style. Giving many parties every year to which wonderfully attractive men and women would attend was one of my favorite pastimes. My strategy was a bit like the Great Gatsby who kept hoping that Miss Perfect would someday show up at one of his events and rescue him from his lonely bachelorhood. Eventually, my prayers were answered and I met a lovely lady who seemed to like my style and character, and we were ultimately married. We have been blessed with three fabulous children – a boy, girl, and boy – ages thirteen, eleven and five years old, as of 2012. My wife, Julia, is a terrific mother and a great soul mate, and I could not be more happy or fortunate with her. One of my more unusual life experiences was participation as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party in the 1980 Presidential election. I strongly believe in free markets, minimum government and minimum taxes. Campaigning was my way of communicating this philosophy to the greater American public. The campaign lasted 14 months, was extremely grueling, but in the end was an extraordinarily enriching and educational experience. The presidential candidate and I were on 86 million ballots, received one million votes, but lost by 45 million votes to Reagan and Bush. By contrast, my most depressing and terrifying experience has been my 20 year battle with prostate cancer. When it was first discovered, it appeared to be very advanced with a possibility that I did not have long to live. Miraculously, the multiple different types of treatments I have received over the years have proved to be remarkably effective. While I still suffer from the disease, the medication I am now taking, Zytiga -- made by Johnson & Johnson, has proven to be very successful in controlling the cancer. My doctor believes that my prognosis is excellent and that I have many more years to live as a result of my current treatment. Like many people who have had cancer, I have become a passionate crusader seeking a cure for this disease. I have joined the Boards of Trustees at many prominent medical research institutions and cancer centers to get more involved in this work. Also, for many years I have provided major financial support

159 for cancer research projects across the country, some of which are showing great promise for successful treatment of patients with metastatic cancer. Since I am very public about my condition, I am constantly called by friends and acquaintances seeking specialists for their medical problems. Invariably, I drop everything to attempt to arrange immediate appointments for them with just the right doctor. The gratitude I receive from these patients is very rewarding. Probably, my most significant contribution to cancer research has been my successful efforts in establishing the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. The Koch Institute combines basic cancer researchers with outstanding bio-engineers. MIT’s President, Susan Hockfield, originated this concept, and it is proving to be a powerful one. The basic researchers develop the treatments and the bio-engineers conceive of how to deliver the therapies most effectively to the patient. Almost 650 researchers work in the fabulous, new research building. One of the Boards of Trustees that I have most enjoyed serving on has been that of the MIT Corporation. Recently I completed twenty-five years of Board service. It has been immensely rewarding getting to know the faculty and the other Board members so well. They are some of the finest individuals it has been my pleasure to know anywhere. I take great pride in having helped MIT in many ways, especially through my significant financial support, management advice, and origination of capabilities and important projects. During my long tenure with Koch Industries, the company has successfully survived many challenges and some turbulent times. When I started work there in 1970, it was a relatively small firm headed by my older brother, Charles, who had taken over the leadership of the company following my father’s death several years earlier. Father pointed out to me many times that the smartest thing I ever did was to choose him as a father. Also, I might add, the second smartest thing I ever did was to choose Charles as my brother. Charles’s brilliant, hard-driving leadership has been critical to Koch Industries’ remarkable success. My position in the company has been to head the enormous growth of our process equipment business and to serve on Koch Industries’ Board of Directors, which ultimately sanctions all major investments and acquisitions. Perhaps the most turbulent event in the company’s history was a dispute some years ago between the four brothers that led to major litigation over the direction and management of the company. It was eventually resolved, and we four brothers are now at peace with each other. The most satisfying proof of this is that several years ago, I served as my brother Bill’s best man in his wedding to his wife, Bridget. Koch Industries is a private firm and is now owned primarily by my brother Charles and myself. We get along beautifully and are of one mind about what Koch Industries should be doing. A very important policy, that is faithfully followed, is the reinvestment every year of 90 percent of the earnings back into the company. Due to the power of compounding along with successful reinvestment, the company’s growth has been phenomenal. Koch Industries is now considered to be the largest privately owned company in the world with sales of over $100 billion per year and with 70,000 employees. Our major businesses are oil refining and chemicals, minerals and fertilizers, textile fibers and polymers, wood products, commodity and financial trading, and process equipment manufacturing. My brother Charles and I have become very charitable as the family company has grown. I support many worthy causes and institutions over and above my cancer interests, such as education, public policy, and cultural organizations. My belief is that those individuals, to whom fortune has been kind, should be very generous to others. Doing well by doing good is one of my core values that I believe in very deeply. Hopefully, my medical doctors will be able to keep me going long into the future so that I can continue doing the good works that are so important and that I love so much.

160 Terry Jodok Kohler

Course: XV

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

My most vivid memory of MIT is the intensity and duration of the studying hours. I was “used to” long working hours coming from a USAF Strategic Air Command B-47 Combat Crew where the average work week was up in the 70 hour range, but the intensity was variable enough then to break things up. In addition, since I had arrived at Joan & Dwight Tech at the age of 25 with a wife and child, I had the additional responsibilities of family life, and the “free time” quotient was nil. I also made few significant friends at MIT because I was older than my freshman classmates by some 6-7 years as well, and living off campus I did very little there beyond requirements, but commuted home as soon as possible after classes and library efforts were complete. I did sneak an occasional hour or so down at the sailing center, but was not allowed a sniff at the racing team because I could not practice every day of the week! I also had started in the Class of 1963, but graduated in the class of 1962, because I spent the full summers in my academic programs. I stayed on for one year after my Bachelor's Degree to finish a Master’s degree at the Sloan School of Management, and departed Tech after a total of three years and nine months with two degrees. I did enjoy some time on the faculty as a teaching assistant, teaching the FORTRAN computer language for the Sloan IBM 1620 to Harvard Business School students. I actually got to eat lunch at the Faculty Club for a year, instead of “brown bagging it!” he income was very welcome! The big decision was whether I would join GE, who was recruiting me very hard for their Space Program because of my military flight experience, combined with a Management Masters from The Sloan School.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

My alternative for this decision was to join the “Family Firm” making Stainless Steel and Aluminum pots and pans for the commercial market. I ended up choosing The Vollrath Co., in part because my father made it clear that if I joined GE, I was giving my “permission” to sell the family company if the right opportunity came along. (Family involved for some 137 years as of today, of which he and I have occupied over 65) Having made the Vollrath Co. right decision, I added NORTH SAILS through acquisition to my efforts and interest half way through my management career, starting at the company directly from Tech. I proceeded to work through an OJT management training program devised (I presume!) by my father (Gov. Walter J. Kohler) and my company mentor, V.P. of Manufacturing Paul Rohling. Paul, a Mechanical Eng. from UW, could not have been a better choice to work with me, and I credit my successes to his guidance through the vagaries of learning a complex manufacturing firm. In due course I became the Exec. V.P., and some 15 years after joining the firm became President and COO after my father died, with Paul Rohling as Chairman and CEO. I then became CEO, President and Chairman upon his retirement. As this is written, I remain the Chairman of the company, with a non- family President and CEO who is beginning to work with the Generation Seven interested in the firm. We are a Business Family, not a family business, and are moving with great care to nurture the seventh. There was no particular management interest on the part of my three daughters, but they have said they do want the company to remain in the community, and in family ownership for a couple of more generations at least.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Having added a second child to our inventory while at MIT, my wife and I moved to Sheboygan, WI, and I proceeded to work through the OJT management training program after spending the first two years at the company starting up and implementing a stored program computer based (An IBM 1440!) in house IT department aimed particularly at the gross problems created in manufacturing by very inadequate

161 information availability. I have been mostly involved in the off work sports of hunting, fishing, skiing, including six years of volunteer National Ski Patrol, and my continuing lifetime passion of sailing. I was divorced from my first wife, who died in 1991, but have had a wonderful second bride for over thirty years. I am still active with the firm, often at an internet distance, and have had over 27 years of serious management involvement with North Sails after our acquisition. That has been a most satisfying experience, particularly in that sailing is my long term (since age 5!) passion! Other interests have largely centered on conservation, specifically our work with the WI DNR restoring Trumpeter Swans to WI, and the International Crane Foundation helping reintroduce Whooping Cranes into the Eastern USA by flying eggs and birds all over this hemisphere. We even had the chance to fly Siberian Crane eggs to Russia, and continued all the way eastward around the world through Siberia - the first private aircraft to do so since WWII. My wife and I have been honored by receiving the LINDBERGH Award for all these efforts with our aircraft.

Michael A. Kornitzky

Course: X

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: The first thing that comes to mind was Freshman Orientation, when Dean Fassett got us together in Kresge and said: “look to your left; look to your right; one of you won’t be graduating with your class”. At the end of first term, during reading period before finals, I woke up one morning to find that my roommate had moved out in the middle of the night. I joined the staff of WTBS (which eventually became WMBR, when Ted Turner bought our call letters for his Atlanta ”superstation”. I started out as a control room engineer and eventually moved behind the microphone. I took (and passed) the 3 exams required to become an FCC licensed radio engineer and spent the summer between sophomore and junior years working as a relief engineer for one of the radio stations in my home town of Milwaukee. WTBS moved from the basement of Senior house to the basement of Walker Dining Hall. I was program director when the station went from AM on campus to a mighty 10 watts of FM signal at ”88.1 on your dial”. The antenna was on the top of the dining hall, I believe on the same mast that supported one of the antennas for W1MX, the amateur radio station. Our signal barely made it out of Cambridge; but we had a lot of fun putting it out there. We did sportscasts of our basketball (and eventually hockey) home games. I used to do “color commentary” for some of the basketball games, but I suspect that the real reason I was invited along was to help carry the remote audio equipment that we hooked up to a line running through the steam tunnels under the campus from courtside to the station. We had two seats at center court, at the scorers’ table, next to the PA announcer. Bill Koch played center, while his brother Dave walked the sidelines. The team was playing well, winning a lot of games. One night, in a close game, there was a Referee’s call against Bill. Dave, who had walked over to say Hi (Bill, Dave, and I were in Course 10), was standing directly behind our announcer and disagreed with the call --- LOUDLY and Bluely. In the middle of his tirade, he looked down and saw the “live” microphone. He stopped, quietly apologized to me, and moved to stand behind the MIT bench. At the end of freshman year we got our MIT beer mugs, decorated with the MIT seal, our names, and the year 1962. Those of us fortunate enough to live in Senior House had the house logo on the back of our mugs. It was a warm late May or early June night, at the start of reading period, and we decided to celebrate by having a party in the basement of Senior House. There was a half keg of a foamy liquid that we proceeded to empty by filling our new mugs and passing the transformed liquid

162 through our kidneys. It had become late in the evening, when our current Class Secretary, Hank McCarl, suggested that a group of us go for a walk along Memorial Drive to get rid of the cobwebs that were forming on our brains (he figured that there was safety in numbers. We crossed over the median and proceeded west, along the Charles. Suddenly, someone noticed a car that was occupied by two people doing what people did in parked cars along the Charles. We surrounded the car and Hank jumped up on the hood of the car, began to bang his fists on the windshield, and screamed, at a high volume, “REPENT, REPENT YOUR SINS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE’. One of my all-time favorite classes was sophomore physics, 8.03 and 8.04. Professor Hans Muller really enjoyed teaching the course. He would bounce on the platform in 26-100 and radiate joy at being able to explain the mysteries of physics to us. My least favorite course was 18.05, taught by Professor Thorpe. It seemed to me that he was too busy writing a book on how to beat the Blackjack tables in Las Vegas. I enjoyed the campaign when someone ran the Senior House faculty resident’s cat for Student Body President ,,, and the cat got the most “first-place” votes. For many years, I kept one of Al B. Gasser’s campaign buttons (until it disappeared during one of my moves). His campaign slogan was “No more pussy-footing around in Student government”.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Starting during my sophomore year, I had a part-time (2 afternoons a week) job at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (which evolved into Draper Laboratories after Doc Draper retired). The summer after I received my Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering Practice, I worked for the Electronics division of General Motors on the guidance package for Project Apollo. I continued on in the Chemical Engineering department and started work towards a Doctorate. I had been in ROTC while an undergraduate (our class was the first class at MIT where all of ROTC was optional) and the Army finally said that they had waited long enough and that they wanted my body in uniform, NOW. The late unpleasantness in Southeast Asia was heating up and they wanted warm bodies. After completing Ordnance Corps Officer Basic training, I was assigned to a lab bench at the US Army Natick Laboratories in Natick, Massachusetts. After about 3 months there, our group was transferred to the Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center in Watertown, MA. I completed my two year tour of duty and after a month’s delay for paperwork processing, I continued on for 13 more years as a Department of the Army Civilian. I worked on the manufacturing technology associated with producing structures from light- weight high-strength organic matrix composite materials. Part-way through my career with the Army, I moved from the lab bench to a program office monitoring the Army’s Manufacturing Technology program. I then left the Army and went to work for Sikorsky Aircraft, a helicopter manufacturer in Stratford, and Bridgeport, CT. I spent 5 years there, managing a small (10 person) group within the Manufacturing Engineering Department which supported specialty operations, such as heat treating, painting, sealing, spot welding, chemical milling, carburizing, and shot peening/ I then spent about two years working for Textron Lycoming, a gas turbine engine manufacturer, also in Stratford, CT. While there, I worked in the Plant Modernization program office and was also involved in Manufacturing Technology efforts. I then moved to the mid-citied area between Dallas and Ft. Worth, Texas, where I went to work for the Missiles division of LTV Aerospace, in Grand Prairie, TX. LTV was in Chapter 11 at the time and before long, we became the Vought Division of Loral and then Loral-Vought Missiles and that was followed by Lockheed Martin Vought and, finally, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. I started working on plant modernization efforts in the Manufacturing Engineering department. My Director quickly found out that I has a “black belt in silver shovel” and could string together two or more sentences and make some sense, He assigned me to more and more proposal teams, where I was responsible for writing the Manufacturing portions of the proposals. When the Manufacturing Engineering department was re-organized along program (vs. functional) lines, I was assigned to the Army Tactical Missile Program and then to the PATRIOT Block 3 Missile Program (PAC-3). I was responsible for Manufacturing Plans as well as breaking down the in-house portion of the proposed manufacturing effort in sufficient detail to allow the production estimating group to determine our in- house manufacturing costs. In addition I supported our major subcontractors as a part of several Subcontractor Interface teams. A major part of my responsibility for the last several years at Lockheed-

163 Martin was the “rate” tooling package to bring the production rate of the PAC-3 missile from 1 a week to 1 a day. I retired in early 2006 and for several years, a friend and I dabbled in the “awl bidness”, getting as far as a verbal commitment from several people at Halliburton to see about getting us some venture capital to investigate an idea we had about a device to speed up well completion. Unfortunately, 3 weeks after receiving the good words from Halliburton, my friend was killed in a small plane crash. Right now, I am heavily involved in two start-ups: (a) AeroBearings, an FAA certified repair station specializing in the cleaning, inspection, and repair of high-dollar-value ball and roller bearings, primarily for turbine engines and accessories and (b) MAASTEN, which designs and produces and hopes to sell high and ultra-high precision measuring equipment.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Not much to tell. Married once -- for 5 years. No kids. Like to read and, now that I no longer have to travel for work, I like to travel a bit. I have relatives in a lot of places that I can still visit: Boston, New York, Washington DC, Milwaukee, Chicago, Alabama, Kansas, Oregon, and California. My health isn’t too bad -- it isn’t too good either. I’ve got aches in places I didn’t know I had places. But, at least I still have places.

Hans Kristian Krog

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I enjoyed fully my playful and challenging years at MIT. living at No.6 Club (Delta Psi) gave me an interesting introduction to American living, - and many good friends. Course 6 (and minor in 15) opened my eyes to the beauty of science and technology, and also to professional management. Doc H. Edgerton supervised and inspired my thesis work. We learned how to “effectively think" - maturing years! To compensate for the rather heavy academic stress I took up Skydiving out at Orange, Mass. on the weekends -- great fun, and also a great way to know yourself and your physical and mental limits and possibilities. After MIT I completed an MBA in Norway to be prepared for management positions.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I worked in industry (ITI/STK, Norway, Professional Electronics), in research/information (Assistant Managing Director), Information Technology/software company (CEO). I have also been a Member of the Board/Chairman of several Boards of companies and of professional societies in science and in management, such as NATO/AGARD in Paris, PF in Norway, NIF Industrial Management in Oslo. For the last25 years I have worked as a Professional Investor engaged in financial investment, computer software companies, hotel business (PuertoSot) in Spain, Venture Capital, building and housi.ng companies, and I have been an officer on the board of the MIT Club of Norway since we started, some 20 years ago. For 12 years I was a local Member/Senator of the local Government at Asker County, representing the Conservative Party. Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: My wife of 46 years, Evelyn, and I are happy to have raised 2 great girls, Siv {45} and Annette (42), and they have given us 3 wonderful grandsons; Andreas (10), Mekkel (9) and Sindre (8). We live in

164 Asker, close to Oslo where we have built our "dream home" overlooking the Oslo Fjord. We enjoy family life, travelling at home and abroad, our mountain cabin with the grandchildren, cross country skiing, good friends, wining and dining and voluntary work for the local society/church. We also play in Bridge clubs, and we enjoy golf and tennis.

Stephen George Kukolich

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

I came to MIT from a small high school (96 in graduating class) in Vicksburg, Michigan. I had a good chemistry teacher but it was our sharp, ex pro-football player, history teacher who told me to go to MIT. I struggled to survive the first few years, but did graduate. Only 5 of the 17 in our DKE pledge class graduated. The brothers did provide quite a bit of academic help. I started in EE (6) and switched to physics (8) because physics seemed to provide a more detailed, in depth understanding of how things really worked. My grades were not good so I had to stay on at MIT for graduate study in physics (2 MIT professors did appreciate my experimental skills). By the time I got into graduate school, I sort of “got the hang of it, so grades were much better.” I view the peer pressure and enthusiasm for research and study, among fellow students as one of MIT’s greatest strengths.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

My career path toward microwave molecular spectroscopy really started with ham radio, in junior high, well before attending MIT. It certainly developed much more with the EE and physics courses, especially the lab courses. The senior thesis on measurements with a molecular beam maser (with John King and M.W.P. Standberg) really established the future direction for my work. When searching for a lab project I asked Professor George Valley about doing a laser project (circa 1961) and he said that would not be very interesting “You just flash them a few times and that’s it.” (That was not very good advice). After receiving the ScD doing high resolution microwave measurements on ammonia, I stayed on at MIT as an instructor. I was unable to obtain a suitable academic job in physics doing molecular spectroscopy so switched to chemistry. Spending a year at Illinois with Bill Flygare did the trick and I joined the MIT Chemistry faculty. The research was fun, but my political skills were poor so that only lasted 6 years. I moved on to the University of Arizona. My research group has been doing high resolution microwave measurements of molecular structures and interactions in small molecules and complexes for many years (www.chem.arizona.edu/kukolich/HOME.htm). Two of the latest publications are: J. Chem. Phys. (2011); 135(15):154304, Microwave measurements of proton tunneling and structural parameters for the propiolic acid-formic acid dimer, and Rev. Sci. Instrum. (2011); 82, 094103, Design, construction, and testing of a large-cavity, 1-10 GHz Flygare-Balle spectrometer. The propiolic acid-formic acid dimer is a model system for the doubly hydrogen bonded A-T base pair in DNA and the proton tunneling dynamics may be important in genetic mutations. I haven’t retired yet, but likely will in the next few years.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I met my wife, Penelope Graves at the “Friday Afternoon Club” hosted by graduate students at the (then) Ashdown house on campus in 1970. I have 3 children and 3 grandchildren. My oldest son, Steve A.

165 graduated from MIT, then BU with a PhD in Physics. I have enjoyed flying small aircraft for many years and hope the FAA will allow me to do this a few more years.

Robert George Kurkjian

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

MIT provided a number of “firsts” for a native Southern California student -- First Flight (LA to Boston) First Trip out of So. Calif., First Snowstorm, First Skiing (down a Storrow Drive off ramp), First Experience of Seasons (Spring in Boston), and First F on a test. I came to MIT with a good high school education, so I was able to get A’s while enjoying the pleasures of Boston without studying for my classes. That is, UNTIL November 1958 when I got my First F on a test -- that alerted me to the Bell Curve (and I was not at the good end). One of my responses was to use multi-colored pencils on tests to confuse the grading process -- it worked a little to raise my grades. However, I credit fraternity life at Sigma Phi Epsilon to teach me to maintain a balanced life at MIT of studying hard, but also enjoying the college experience. Some key recollections: (1) MIT Glee Club, with trips to nearby girl’s schools for joint performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Handel’s Messiah, Purcell’s Fairy Queen, and Honegger’s King David -- all topped off by performing at Tech Night at the Pops with Danny Kaye, (2) MIT’s 100th Anniversary train trip to Sturbridge Village, where we were entertained by Pete Seeger, (3) Elec. Eng. Student Faculty Committee Steak & Beer Banquet for seniors and Course VI faculty in the Measurements Lab, with Doc Edgerton (on his guitar) leading us in song, and, in a more serious vein (4) spending midnight to 4:00 AM on the TX-0 computer for my BSEE Thesis, “Test of the Computer Analysis of Handwriting for the Detection of Cancer”. That thesis was the foundation for my career at Hughes Aircraft Company, focusing on computer controlled equipment, automation, and the associated software languages.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

I started work at Hughes Aircraft Company in the summer of 1959. After graduating with my MIT BSEE in 1962, I received a Howard Hughes Fellowship to USC, where I earned an MSEE in 1964. I was employed at Hughes from 1959 (summer hire) until Dec. 31, 2010 (except for one year, 1969, when I quit Hughes to become a millionaire by age 30). Within a year I was back at Hughes because our software start-up, Jacobi Systems, went belly-up. Leaving Hughes in 1969 was the best career move I made -- by working in a small company, closely with our customers, I better understood Systems Engineering. I fit well into a niche of being able to explain “hardware” to programmers and, conversely “software” to circuit & logic designers. That skill allowed me to progress quickly into management ranks. One of the highlights of those days was chairing an international IEEE Committee on Automatic Test Languages -- my “travel gene” was nurtured by the need to travel to Europe frequently for IEEE meetings and to work with our German Air Force customers on Automatic Test Systems. I also worked with the US Navy and Draper Labs on the Trident Missile Guidance System, becoming the Assistant Division Manager of the Strategic Systems Division at Hughes. When GM bought Hughes in 1985, I moved from the Defense side of the business to the Automotive side, focusing on modern automotive electronics derived from military technology. I continued in that technology transfer role, traveling frequently to GM in Detroit, retiring in 2010 as Director of Automotive Programs at the Hughes Research Labs in Malibu.

166 Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I returned to the land of sunshine (California) after graduating from MIT. Being Armenian, family is an important part of my life. My brother, Louis, was also an Electrical Engineer and subsequently an Executive at Hughes Aircraft. Louis & his wife, Grace, have three children; now all married, so I have 8 grandnephews and grandnieces. They are all a joy to watch and interact with as they grow and blossom. My main hobby is snorkeling all over the world (Bonaire, St. Martin, Fiji, Tonga (swimming with Humpback Whales), Yap, Palau, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, Seychelles, and, most recently, swimming with Whale Sharks in the Philippines. I also enjoy wine tasting. I’ve tasted in Napa, Russian River, Oregon, Michigan, France, Italy, Germany, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and South Africa. Travel is high on my priorities, with a ritual of taking a Santa Claus hat along. Wherever I visit I take a picture wearing the Santa Hat, which becomes the focus of my annual Christmas letter. Besides the snorkeling and wine tasting trips and my travel for Hughes, I’ve enjoyed visiting China (MIT Alumni trip), Monaco (MIT Energy Initiative trip), Panama Canal, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, and Spain. In retirement, my volunteer work is focused on improving education for our young people. I’m on the Board of Trustees of Haigazian University in Beirut, Lebanon, and a member of Alumni on Campus for Los Angeles High School, my alma mater.

Richard (Dick) Laeser

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

Transferred after 2 years at Marquette University in Milwaukee, and basically did a reset to freshman year. No campus housing was available, so I rented a room in Brookline where I lived for 3 years, then a 4th year near Harvard Square. After 2 years, took a semester break to get some work experience (and $) at . I remember (1) never having enough time to absorb and understand everything that I wanted to learn, and (2) having a truly minimal social life. The social life improved some when I moved to the Harvard Square area. I graduated in February of ‘62, and the need to fulfill my ROTC commitment prevented participation in the June commencement ceremonies. That makes this 50th anniversary extra special.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

Two weeks after graduation I started 2 years as a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. While my MIT education provided the foundation, those 2 years with the Army turned out to be the start of a system design / management career. After being sent to Ft. Huachuca, AZ (on the Mexican border), I was put into a Lt. Colonel’s slot to manage the development of a vehicle-based field intelligence system -- with a 7-figure budget. Thankfully, the Cuban Missile Crisis didn’t derail things, though it was a real scare. Caltech-JPL offered me the most intriguing work (though lowest salary) of the offers I received as my army commitment wound down. I stayed at JPL for 36 years, essentially spanning the space age. I learned the fundamentals then details of interplanetary robotic flight as an operations engineer for the Mariner Mars ‘64 mission, as the Project Engineer for the Deep Space Network support of the Mariner Venus ‘67 mission, and as the Deep Space Network Manager for the Mariner Mars 71 orbiters. By 1973 I had earned my MSEE from USC, and completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School. Next was a rewarding 15-year sub-career -- operational leadership of the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and out of the solar system -- as Operations

167 Manager, Mission Director, and then Project Manager. In 1988 I was asked to open a small branch of JPL to support the founding of the International Space Station Program Office in suburban Washington. Politics was not nearly as much fun as flying the Grand Tour of the outer planets. The last 8 years prior to retirement were spent leading JPL’s institutional culture change efforts -- a job that made the interplanetary travel seem easy. And while the nation’s interest in space exploration shrinks, it’s satisfying to know that Voyager 1 and 2, launched 35 years ago, are still communicating with us as they exit the heliosphere

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Married to Sandra (Sandy), a psychotherapist in private practice, since 1989. She’s excited about being at this reunion with me. -- Two daughters (prior marriage), three granddaughters, and three great- grandkids (born within a few months of each other) -- Sandy and I are avid travelers, have traveled with MIT travel to: Russia, China, Silk Road (Uzbekistan & western China), Peruvian Amazon, and the North Pole on a Russian nuclear icebreaker and with other groups to: Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Egypt, and Jordan. On our own we’ve traveled to: much of Europe, and Eastern Europe by rail. Bareboat charters to: San Juan Islands, FL inter-coastal, Loire canals, Champlain / Eire canals -- We love the theatre; subscribe to 3 Washington regional theatres, frequent Broadway show binges (4 shows in one weekend). I am a 7-time cancer survivor -- a man with many missing organs. However I am still an active downhill skier. -- Treasurer of Potomac Valley Skiers Inc. -- Worked on competition staff (gymnastics) during ‘84 Olympics in LA -- One major publication: November ‘86 Scientific American cover story

John Erwin LaGraff

Course: XVI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I have strong memories of: hard work, fun courses, cold walks over the Harvard Bridge, great times and friends at Theta Delta Chi, late nights at the library(especially the music library and high in the stacks of the library under the dome),Voodoo, Glee Club at the Pops, Freshman- sophomore rivalry, Film Forum, concerts and lectures at Kresge, Proms (Balls?) with Kingston Trio, Dave Brubeck, Joan Biaz, Count Bassie, others?

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: At Syracuse University 1970-2008: Dr. I am currently Emeritus Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, having served as Department Chair from 1997-2003. Prior to Department Chair, I was director of the Aerospace Engineering Program since 1985 and also the Director of the College of Engineering and Computer Science International Study Program from 1980-2009. After graduating from MIT in 1962, I received a Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Science from Oxford University (1970). I have been active in national leadership in engineering education including serving as President of Sigma Gamma Tau the Aerospace Engineering honor society, Vice President - Education of the AIAA, and Chairman of the Aerospace Division of the American Society of Engineering Education. After serving as Chair of the AIAA’s Academic Affairs Committee and AIAA’s Deputy Director for Education for the Northeast Region (Region 1), I served a 5 year term as Commissioner on the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of the ABET and has been the commissioner for AIAA on the ABET Board of Directors and am currently Chair of the ABET Global Council. I served a 5 year term

168 on the executive committee of the Global Engineering Education Exchange Program in partnership with the Institute for International Education. For over twenty years I have been active in Syracuse University campus leadership serving as chair of the Senate Budget Committee, on the University Committee on Principles for Long Range Budget Planning, the Committee on Space Planning, and as Chair of the Committee on Part Time Teaching. I have received many awards and citations while at Syracuse: The Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence in 2008, the Syracuse University ECS College Outstanding Service Award, the Filter-Tech Outstanding Teacher Award in Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering, the AIAA National Faculty Advisor Award, the AIAA Special Service Citation (1993), the ASEE Aerospace Division Distinguished Service Award (2000), the AIAA Sustained Service Award (2001), and the AIAA/ASEE Atwood Award (2003) for outstanding contributions to aerospace education. I am a member of ASEE, a Fellow of the ASME, and Associate Fellow of AIAA, and a member of th Oxford and Cambridge University Club of London.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Married in MIT Chapel in July 1962 to Susan MacAllister. Two sons and 3 grandsons. Graduate school at Oxford University 66-70.Interests in hiking ,backpacking and winemaking..European travel has been part of my personal and professional interests with sabbatical leaves at Oxford(3 times), Pisa(twice),Zurich(ETH) and Madrid(UPM)

Raymond B. Landis

Course: II

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Starting college study as part of an academic living group (Phi Delta Theta) was pivotal in my development as a person and as a student. I feel sad that students today are prevented from that experience. Great education! What a privilege to study under Mechanical Engineering professors such as Keenan, Rohsenow, Shapiro. McClintock, Den Hartog, Crandall, Dahl, Rogowski, Griffith. Wonderful opportunity to participate in co-curricular activities. Threw shot put, hammer, javelin, and discus on track team. Played rugby for three years (thank you Chuck Conn). Active in the Quadrangle Club and Beaver Key and ASME student organizations. Was a member of the Junior Prom committee for our class that brought Les Brown and His Band of Renoun to us. Wrote sports for The Tech. Loved participating in intramural sports--touch football, volleyball, wrestling, basketball, hockey (can't skate an inch). Wonderful junior and senior design projects with a great team (Robin Lytle, Bjorn Qvale, and Chuck Rein). Stayed on for S.M. degree thanks to the caring approach to ME graduate school admissions by Warren Rohsenow. My grades didn't deserve it, but entering my career with a master's degree made all the difference in the world. Thank you MIT and all my friends from there (Gary Gustafson, Dick Pickett, Bob Hofland, George Harrison, and many others)

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: In February of 1963, I drove my pregnant wife and young daughter from Boston to Los Angeles to start my career as a junior engineer with Rocketdyne, Division of Rockwell International. I worked primarily in rocket engine heat transfer on Apollo engines (F-1, J-2) and on more advanced engines (torroidal aerospike). While at Rocketdyne I developed an interest in an academic career and was able to land a position starting in Sept, 1967 on the engineering faculty at San Fernando Valley State College (now

169 California State University, Los Angeles) with the understanding that I would complete my PhD. I taught full time and went to school full time for four years completing my Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at UCLA in August, 1971 and continued teaching at CSU Northridge until August, 1985. While there I developed and directed one of the first Minority Engineering Programs (MEPs) in the nation and have spent a great deal of my career disseminating the program model I developed, which was based to great extent on my MIT fraternity experience. The 12 years I spent as MEP director working closely with underrepresented students was perhaps the most exciting and rewarding period of my career. In July, 1985 I assumed the position of Dean of Engineering and Technology at California State University, Los Angeles a position I held for sixteen years. Lots of highlights, but one was that we designed, built, and raced three world-class solar electric vehicles eventually winning the national championship with the Solar Eagle III in 1997. Also during this period I wrote my text "Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career" which was first published in 1995 and is now in the 3rd edition. The book has become the bestselling Introduction to Engineering textbook of all time. In July, 2001 I retired but still work virtually full time on my book--updating, marketing, speaking, and conducting faculty development workshops. Nice hobby to have.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I was married to my first wife Dorothy from 1960-1985. We had three children (Susan, Nancy, and Gary) and they each had two children giving me six grandchildren (Jessica, Amanda, Mitchell, Samantha, Jack, and Brooklyn). My daughter Susan is an industrial engineer working with Disney Imagineering and my younger daughter Nancy is a medical doctor in Carlsbad, CA. My son Gary works in arts management and fund raising for non-profits Great kids! Great grandkids! In 1987, I remarried to my current wife Kathy. She's beautiful, charming, highly intelligent (Ph.D. in English), talented, caring. Don't know what she sees in me. Hobbies included playing bridge and rugby (quite different). I played for the Los Angeles Rugby Club from about 1964-1979 with a few breaks. Always a game player, I still play bridge, cribbage, and backgammon on the Internet. When I retired in 2001, everyone said I needed a hobby so I thought "What do I like to do?" and came up with ping pong. I took up table tennis as a serious hobby. Best decision I ever made. Good exercise, good fun, good fellowship and they say it's the best thing to stave off Alzheimer’s. We'll see. So far so good.

Thomas Adolph Layher

Course: II

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

Although at first I felt like the subject of “Freshman’s Lament”, the friendship and camaraderie of the brothers of Theta Delta Chi fraternity played a large part in my sticking around and graduating. Theta Delta Chi had a small house on the MIT side of the Charles River, so during the middle years, the brothers had to room out across the river. I recall Tom & Mary one bitter, snowy morning my sophomore year. I managed to hitch a ride across the Harvard Bridge. The car slowed down to pick me up and to drop me off -- they didn’t dare stop for fear of becoming stuck. I struggled into my classroom only to discover the exam had been cancelled due to the snow (no e-mail back then to make such an announcement). More importantly, I met the enchanting Mary Birdsall of Simmons College at a fraternity Halloween party my junior year, on a blind date, no less. It was the beginning of a lifetime adventure for Mary and me.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

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I spent my entire working career at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, initially in Chassis Engineering. I took time off to earn an MBA from the University of Michigan, and then returned to Ford in a Product Planning capacity. I soon switched to the then-burgeoning field of “computers” initially providing system software support for a new, large-scale Honeywell time-sharing installation at Ford Engineering, then on to application development on mainframe IBM systems. Prior to retirement, I headed up software development of a joint Ford North America/Ford Europe application.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Mary and I have been blessed with three great children and five wonderful grandchildren. So that the third generation cousins can get to know each other, Mary’s sisters and we have hosted biennial family reunions. Last year’s reunion at a dude ranch included nineteen “talls” and eleven “smalls”. Following retirement the end of 1996, Mary and I began travelling. We have visited most European countries and several in the Caribbean. Fulfilling a life-long interest, I returned to school to study German, receiving a BA from Eastern Michigan University in 2003. At that time I was the only student-grandpa in the Foreign Language Department. Retirement was initially filled with many activities in addition to education, including house building for Habitat for Humanity, volunteering at the University of Michigan Mott Children’s Hospital, where I held babies and played with toddlers, performing in quite a few community theater productions, and singing with several local groups. These days I have cut back a bit. We take summers off and spend them at our cottage on Lake Huron in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. I still sing in a men’s chorus and volunteer at the hospital, and we do our best to remain fit and active so we can keep up with our grandchildren. It’s clear I haven’t done much with the actual subject matter of my classes at MIT, but that doesn’t seem at all unusual to me. MIT lays the foundation and helps hone the skills; we then need to be open to opportunities that present themselves as we make our way through that post- graduate world called Life.

William S. Levine

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

I have some wonderful memories of MIT. I remember Bob Solow teaching Economics 101 to a class full of engineers with delight; I remember Sam and Jean Mason as exemplary house residents in Senior House. I brag about having had dinner and an after dinner conversation with (I did not say anything -- I just sat and listened). I remember Doc Edgerton putting his arm around me and asking why I wasn’t singing at a Christmas Party. I still love to watch performances of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” because I was type cast as Peter Quince in Senior House’s performance of the play. As a graduate student, I took a two semester course on numerical methods from Gilbert Strang, surely one of the most charming and effective teachers ever. Michael Athans, my Ph.D. thesis advisor, is still one of my heroes, as is Roger Brockett. I have many other warm memories of people I knew, things I learned, and experiences I had at MIT. To be honest, I also remember the Institute as a very unpleasant place during my undergraduate years. Some of this was because of my immaturity and lack of the resources need to improve the ambience. As a graduate student I found the place much more enjoyable. Of course, I was more mature, had a wife and a car, and did not live in Cambridge.

171 Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I have been married to the former Shirley Ann Johannesen since February of 1963. We have two children, Bruce and Eleanor, and 5 grandchildren. Bruce, and his children lives quite near us and we see them every week. Eleanor lives and Manhattan so we see her and her family less often. We have lived in the same house in Columbia, Maryland, since 1971, except for two sabbatical years. The first of the sabbaticals was spent in France when our children were teenagers. It was a life enhancing experience for all of us. Living in Montesson, a suburb of Paris, working at INRIA, a French research center, and enjoying all that greater Paris has to offer was the adventure of a lifetime. Paris is a wonderful place to visit. It is an even better place to live. Our second sabbatical came after the children had gone off to college. Shirley and I spent 4 ½ months in Newcastle, NSW, Australia while I worked at the University of Newcastle. We flew home on New Year’s Eve. Two weeks later we flew to Minneapolis to spend one month at the Institute for Applied Mathematics at the University of Minnesota. At the beginning of March we flew to Paris where we stayed for 5 months. Minneapolis in the dead of winter and Newcastle in the Australian spring are both wonderful places to live and work. You already know how I feel about Paris

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I went to work for a small company called Data Technology Inc. immediately after receiving my Bachelor’s Degree. I chose to do this because I felt I had no idea what it was like to be an engineer and this was a good way to find out if I liked it. After a very educational and profitable two years with them I returned to MIT to get an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. I joined the faculty in Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park right after I received my Ph.D. Since then I have enjoyed a fairly typical academic career at UMCP right up to the present. I am now officially retired but one of the many advantages of academia is that you can blur the boundary between working and retirement until it is hardly visible. I am also officially a research professor who teaches a laboratory course in the spring and continues to do research on the design of control systems and biomechanical control systems, my two main career long research interests. Another advantage of the academic life is that, if you are actually interested in the details of my career, you can Google William S. Levine and obtain them. I am not the one who made millions in outdoor advertising

Gary Joe Linford

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: In 1958 I had “the single honor” to receive an Alfred P. Sloan Scholarship at MIT prior to my graduating from East High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. I was a bright-eyed physics major with an individual aspiration to become an astrophysicist. Burton House was my choice of living groups. My 8.09 lab partner, Barbara Levine, came to MIT in 1958 at age 16 without graduating from high school. She amazed us by graduating in 3 years with a BS in physics and an MS in math. In the autumn of 1961, MIT’s new Provost, Prof. Charles H. Townes, gave a lecture on “Optical Masers” in Kresge Auditorium. Two days later I visited his office to inquire if he would be my senior physics thesis advisor. He agreed. At Prof. Townes’ suggestion, my undergraduate physics thesis at MIT demonstrated the seminal principle of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) using a pulsed solid-state laser, an elegant thesis topic, perhaps more appropriate for a PhD candidate. In our newly remodeled laser laboratory in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, between 1961 and 1962 I showed the output beam

172 of a pulsed, high-power ruby laser could be focused down to dimensions of the order of a wavelength, increasing the laser intensity by ~ 108. With a 1 J pulse generated in 10-8 s, we could reach peak intensities ~1016 W/cm2. A 10 ns, 1 J pulse of laser light delivered to a deuterium/tritium (D/T) “fuel pellet” of 10-8 cm3, the input energy density would be 109 J/cm3 which could raise the temperature of 10-9 g of solid D/T above 2x108oK, releasing14.3 MeV (2.3x10-12 J) of energy for each D/T fusion reaction. For 10-9 g of D/T the number of He4 nuclei would be 1.2 x 1014 which would generate 280 J energy for an investment of 1 J. But fast neutrons cause problems unless they are captured by a lithium-6 nucleus to form an excited lithium-7 nucleus, decaying into tritium and helium-4. The tritium is used to make more “D/T fuel pellets,” reducing the requisite tritium inventory. The plentiful non-radioactive raw materials for the “D/T fuel pellets” are simply deuterium and lithium. The 4 MeV energy delivered by the neutron-lithium-6 reaction brings the total reaction energy up to 18.3 MeV per nucleon. Two years later Prof. Townes traveled to Stockholm to be awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the “optical maser” (laser). During those heady, nostalgic times during our senior year, many of the male members of the Class of 1962 were obliged to undergo the Selective Service System’s (SSS) obligatory “Pre-induction Physical Examination” conducted at the First Army Base in Boston. Most of us were underwhelmed by this experience. The “hearing test,” for example, consisted of a man wearing a white coat nearly deafening me by loudly “whispering” a random number in my ear. The “intelligence test” was based upon a multiple-choice auto-mechanics curriculum. Since I had previously purchased and committed to memory the 1950 Plymouth Service Manual for my trusty 1950 Plymouth (which to this day is still in good running condition), I managed to score 100% on the “intelligence test,” a fact which astonished the sergeant charged with grading our tests. Our simultaneous en masse “hemorrhoid examination” of 100 stark-naked pre-inductees consisted of us all forming a circle, facing inward, bending over, and “spreading our cheeks” whilst three gentlemen clad in white coats, grasping clipboards, and armed with pencils briskly marched around the circumference, furtively glancing at our prominently- displayed organs of elimination. Not long thereafter, Harvard mathematics professor Tom Lehrer wrote his appropriate (TW)3 song, “It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier.”

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I had first met back when I was 14 as he visited my father’s cousin, Prof. Leon Linford, chairman of the physics department at the University of Utah. Leon Linford and Edward Teller had worked together on the Manhattan Project. In 1952 Dr. Teller settled the argument with Robert Oppenheimer by demonstrating the Ivy Mike inertial confinement fusion (ICF) device which released an energy equivalent to the detonation of ~12 megatons of TNT (5.6x1016 J), significantly more than the 280 J mentioned above. Because the optical maser had not yet been invented, Edward Teller was obliged to explode an atomic bomb to reach the requisite D/T ignition temperature of 2x108 oK. Tellers Ivy Mike demonstration showed that ICF of D/T works. After I earned my S.B. in physics at MIT the old- fashioned way, Prof. Townes suggested that I attend graduate school at Stanford where his brother-in-law, Arthur Schawlow, specialized in optical maser research. However, my father was concerned about my health, and urged me to attend a kinder, gentler graduate school at the University of Utah. Heeding my father’s suggestion, in the fall of 1962 I became a graduate student in the University of Utah physics department. In October 1962 we survived two angry Russian submarine commanders ordering the firing of their nuclear weapon-tipped torpedoes during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Fortunately, the on-board KGB agents had the offending commanders restrained and tossed into a wardroom to regain their senses. Within 2 months of our rescue by the KGB, I received an Induction Notice from my Utah draft board even though I had passed the SSS examination qualifying me for five years of graduate school. In lieu of going to Viet Nam, with the help of MIT I agreed to perform 5 years of national service for the Department of Defense to be performed at Hughes Aircraft Company in Southern California where Dr. Malcolm Stitch (one of Prof. Townes flamboyant Columbia University graduate students) was manager of the newly formed Laser Technology Department. During this time I discovered a dozen new laser lines while we developed a variety of remarkable devices, including the Raman laser, 30 km long lasers, tunable pollution detection lasers, and powerful directed energy devices. By 1971 I had completed my Ph.D. in laser physics at the University of Utah. The AEC, then the ERDA, and lastly the Department of

173 Energy (DoE) were all interested in my early laser fusion work because it enabled them to study D/T plasmas at densities of up to 1025 particles/cm3 without having to bother with pesky underground atomic bomb triggers then being used by old-time nuclear weapons physicists. From 1972 to 1983 I worked as a laser fusion physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) which was America’s pre- eminent nuclear weapons development laboratory. During that time I was invited to spend 26 months at two Max Planck (MP) Institutes in Garching bei Munchen in Germany doing ICF research with the Asterix photolytic iodine gas laser. At LLNL and at the MP Institutes we were able to create many of the conditions existing inside stars by focusing down the most powerful lasers on earth. One persistent irritation in our laser fusion research is the obsessive intrusion of unnecessary security which prevented our discussing our results with other scientists although its primary application is the generation of limitless clean energy for all mankind. This was particularly annoying when I led the 1990-1992 TRW design group that developed the two ICF drivers for the McDonnell Douglas Prometheus fusion test reactor (FTR) design.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: My ICF research work in Europe (intended to bring mankind its only viable future energy source) was similar to a trip into The Twilight Zone. It was in 1938 Germany where nuclear chain reactions were first discovered, demonstrated, and properly understood, but today, German scientists are supposed not to understand simple, 70 year old nuclear chemistry. After results of our successful laser fusion work at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics became public, various minions representing the European Union insisted that the functional Asterix laser be decommissioned, disassembled, and shipped from Germany to the University of Prague, the oldest German university. Prague is no longer part of Germany, and there is little sense of urgency to bring a D/T ICF power plant on line despite the carbon credits, the acid rain, and the planned shuttering of all of Germanys nuclear power plants. Instead the Europeans have spent many decades meticulously constructing the magnetically-confined International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) which has achieved a vacuous plasma density of 1013 D/T ions/cm3, some twelve orders of magnitude less than we achieved with the Nova laser at LLNL thirty years ago. According to the Lawson Criterion, ITER requires a fusion confinement time twelve orders of magnitude longer than the Prometheus ICF reactor. In 1983 I hastily returned from my European ICF research tour after telephone calls in the night from TRW and other aerospace contractors urged me to devote my high power directed energy skills to help build America’s new Star Wars defenses as set forth in President Reagans Strategic Defense Initiative address. Translated into German, his speech was a stirring call to arms to every red-blooded American living in Europe who could read German. At TRW I met my future wife, Dr. Shirley Pfeifer. Taking a leaf out of Boris Zeldovich’s book, we successfully developed ground- based lasers that used phase conjugation to correct for atmospheric effects. Zeldovich realized that the jig was up for the Soviet Union, the word was spread, and the rest is history. We were relieved the cold war had ended. Subsequently, the Russians suggested we design the Stimulated Brillouin Scattering non- linear optical pulse compression system for the KrF laser driver for the McDonnell-Douglas Prometheus FTR design after we funded some of their scientists to study the chlorine-radical chemistry associated with atmospheric ozone depletion. Mysteriously the construction of the zero carbon footprint Prometheus FTR was derailed during the Clinton-Gore administration, and efforts to restart the program have faltered. Our other efforts to improve the environment were not funded either and massive layoffs ensued. In 1998 Shirley Pfeifer, my physicist wife, and I moved our scientific consulting business to Wyoming where we have built a house, started the Snowy Range Piano Competition, and planted a thousand trees, much to the delight of the surrounding wildlife being displaced by the millions of trees killed by the rampant beetle infestations. Record cold temperatures killed all our Linden trees, necessitating renaming our long driveway Unter den Fichten. Recently our simple planetary physics calculations have shown fatal errors in climatologists’ anthropomorphic global warming simulations, and efforts to reinstate Prometheus FTR prototyping continue. Our paper, Climatology--Some Dare Call It Science was promptly rejected without peer review by Science magazine--the first paper either of us have ever had rejected. Members of the Class of 62 are welcome to come see us residing at an elevation of 2225 m!

174 Dennis O. Luebke

Course: XV Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: 1962 IBM East Fishkill, NY Manufacturing technology development engineer 1962 - 1964 1LT US Army Commanding Officer, 330th Ordnance Company (SD), Korea Adjutent, 192nd Ordnance Battalion (USAOD), Korea 1964 - 1993 du Pont Old Hickory, TN, Wilmington, DE Various engineering positions Product venture planner Second level maintenance supervisor Business systems administrator 1993 - 1995 Old Hickory, TN Independant business consultant 1995 - Retired

Anthony Mack

Course: X Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: When I made upper Dean’s list in the first semester, including a 100 on the first 8.01 quiz, I knew I was going to make it at MIT, so I wasn’t going to be a tech tool. Instead, I was able to enjoy the ambience of MIT and the city of Boston - less intimidating than New York, where I came from. It was a great time. I could hardly wait for summers to end Tony & D olores so I could get back to Tech. Memorable events included dating Dolores, my future and present wife, as a freshman and us not dating again until I was a senior; being shortstop on the freshman baseball team, hitting a home run that was ruled foul, and then striking out on the next pitch; jumping out of a 2nd floor window on East Campus to win a few bucks for lunch; the smell of Necco wafers being made down the street from East Campus; the rundown Kendall Square, straightened out years later by our late classmate, Ed Linde; being on the VooDoo staff and enjoying the stuff we didn’t put in the magazine; the mysteries of thermodynamics; a summer job at the Delaware Getty oil refinery, and assigned to the night shift, climbing distillation towers to get samples for testing; some of my good friends flunking out of Tech and me not even knowing they were struggling. Having foreign students as friends - Iranians, Indians, Pakistani, Ghana (the Ghanian friend was amazed that I knew that Ghana was recently the Gold Coast) - we were all together it seems in those days. It was a great four years. Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Graduating with a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering in 1963 couldn’t have been better as far as job opportunity was concerned. The most exciting thing going on then was the U.S. commitment to land a man on the moon before the end of the decade. That led to a job with Avco Corporation where I was a member of the team that developed the heat shield for the Apollo space vehicle, and I then was the project leader for the rocket nozzles for the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM). These critical components used advanced material composites and structures consisting of thermoset plastics reinforced with carbon (graphite) fabric, engineered for high heat resistance, high tensile strength, and ablation properties to insure fail-safe performance on all the Apollo missions. The technical conclusion of the Apollo program led me to Sweetheart Plastics as Director of product and material development for packaging and food service. The object was the conversion of food packages and food serviceware --yogurt cups, margarine tubs, jelly jars, fruit cans, take-out trays -- from paper, glass, and metal to plastic. This involved designing the plastic version of the package and developing various plastic materials with properties that would work with the food it would package. The success of plastics in packaging and other areas helped make plastic the most widely used material in the world, and the bane (undeserved) of environmentalists. In 1987, I moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan to take a job at Fabri-Kal Corporation, a small plastic packaging company, to establish their product and material

175 development program, and served as Executive Vice President over several areas. In 1993, I was elected to the Plastics Pioneers Association, a group of people who have been deemed by their peers to have made significant contributions to the plastics industry. This is a non-profit charitable organization, supporting educational activities in the field of plastics and polymer chemistry. Our activities include such work as raising funds and giving scholarships to deserving students. I am currently the Managing Director of this organization. I retired in 2002, and started Tony Mack Consulting doing various plastic technical jobs for US and overseas companies, which I am still doing. During my career, I received 12 patents dealing with plastic products and food serving systems for hospitals and nursing homes. One of these patents, cited by the New York Times, involved a new method to provide hot meals. Food on sanitary, single use recyclable plastic plates and bowls is kept warm by heaters on the tray via an easy to transport totally battery operated cart. Other patents include tamper evident lids for food containers, and leak proof, secure fitting lids for take-out food plates, with the lids having an easy removal feature. I also had 7 technical papers published involving plastic research, product design and development, quality control, and environmental issues dealing with plastics. A summary of my work and my biography is at the Syracuse University Plastics Collection. Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I first met my wife, Dolores, on a blind date in my freshman year. Our second date was in my senior year. I got my Master’s degree in June, 1963, and we were married in November, 1963. We went to Washington for our honeymoon, just a week or so before Kennedy’s assassination. We had our first child, a son, Christopher, in 1964, a daughter, Jodi, in 1968, and a son, John, in 1971. We lived in North Reading, Mass for 24 years, and enjoyed those years. We spent our personal time with our children’s activities and community projects. We helped with Little League and Boy Scouts --both of our sons became Eagle Scouts. Christopher was an expert at restoring old cars, and John was a classic New England hockey player. Our daughter, Jodi, was a Girl Scout and a horse owner, becoming an accomplished equestrian along the way. I was chairman of the Conservation Commission and ran campaigns for local politicians. I had Walter Mondale call me to help with his campaign for President. Dolores was an active member and President of the League of Women Voters in North Reading. She also worked as a social worker. When my career took us to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1987, Chris had already started his sales and marketing career, and Jodi was halfway through college studying business and financing, so they both stayed in Massachusetts. John, now a senior in high school, elected to come with us to finish high school, and then went to the University of Michigan. Dolores continued with her social work, and I did volunteer work doing tax preparation for low income seniors. Living in a small Midwestern city was a pleasant time for a couple who had lived their whole lives in the confines of the big Eastern cities of New York and Boston. We now tell our New England friends that it would be good for them to spend a few years in the Midwest to experience the Midwest culture and way of life. I retired in 2002, and we returned to Massachusetts to be near our children and grandchildren. We bought a home in Gloucester to enjoy the ambience of an old New England seaport and to make sure our grandchildren would visit us to enjoy the great beaches. Jodi and her husband Greg blessed us with beautiful twin girls, now 13, who are involved in acting, dancing, nature work, and other things that teenage girls do. Greg works in sales for GE, and Jodi does accounting work for several small businesses. Chris runs his own marketing business, and is married to Iman, a dentist. They have a 7 year old son, Jonathan, who is the best 7 year old skier in New England, so says his grandparents. Our youngest son, John, lives in Manhattan, where he does media software work. He has been doing so for the News Corporation --Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, and now at the New York Post. Dolores and I, besides spending many hours and days with our children and grandchildren, also spend a lot of time with friends of over 40 years from North Reading - general get-togethers, celebrations, and cruises and trips to various parts of the world - the kinds of things that we find very enjoyable. We also continue our volunteer work. I do tax preparation for low income seniors and families, and Dolores is on the Board of a committee working to preserve marshlands along the coastline of Gloucester.

176 Modesto A. Maidique

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: During my twelve years at MIT, I met a lot of talented people - from the professors, to the classmates that I studied with. My years at MIT were tough and filled with a lot of hard work. These were the years that I was first married and had my two children. The twelve years I spent at MIT were part of a critical and formative period in my life

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduating from MIT, I co-founded a company that developed integrated circuits. Today, the company accounts for 99% of the sales of Analog Devices, Inc. Next I became a professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a few years later joined the faculty of Stanford as a professor in their Engineering Management department. While at Stanford, I took a year off to become CEO of a company, Genome Therapeutics (formerly Collaborative Research). Later I joined Hambrecht & Quist Venture Partners as a senior partner, at the time, the largest venture capital firm in the world. In 1986 I was appointed President of Florida International University (FIU). During my 23 year tenure with FIU I led its transformation from a comprehensive university to a major research university classified in the highest ranking awarded by the Carnegie Foundation. Under my leadership, FIU tripled in physical size, enrollment grew by 170%, research grew by a factor of 20, endowment by a factor of 70, and it now ranks among the 20 largest universities in the United States, with membership in Phi Beta Kappa and a Division 1-A football team. During that time we also established accredited Colleges of Engineering (appropriately), Law, Architecture, Public Health, and Medicine. In 2009, I was named President Emeritus of FIU by the Board of Trustees and returned to the faculty as a professor in management and Executive Director of the Center for Leadership. In recognition of my achievements as President, the FIU Board of Trustees named FIU's main campus the Modesto A. Maidique Campus

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I currently reside in Miami with my wife and have two children. The oldest, a daughter, attended Duke University and currently lives in Colorado with her husband and two children. My son attended Cornell and currently lives in Connecticut with his wife and three daughters. My interests haven’t changed much during the past 50 years. I am still very passionate about learning, which explains a great deal about my career. In the little free time I have, you would most likely find me in a book store -- reading, browsing, and buying new books. I currently have over 5,000 books, with no appropriate place to store them all. I also like to cruise in my 35 foot, side console Contender during South Florida’s beautiful summer, and winter, months. I enjoy dancing, going to the theatre, and movies with my wife. My favorite movies are ones of historical value that focuses on leadership. My favorite leadership movie of all time would be “Invictus” which highlights Nelson Mandela and Francois Pienaar during the difficult, formative years of the South African democracy. I also enjoy traveling and have visited over 65 countries

177 Marjorie Caroline Malley

Course: XXI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I remember the variety of interesting professors and instructors. There was a freshman mathematics instructor who always taught with a cigarette and a piece of chalk. I never was sure which one would be used on the blackboard. Giorgio de Santillana, the mercurial professor who sparked my interested in the history and philosophy of science, Joan & Dwight was memorable, as well as Bruce Mazlish, a clear and kind historian. I'll never forget the physics professor with old-world manners and values. He refused to recognize me in class, and would try to stare me down when I raised my hand. After one particularly exasperating standoff, I went to his office with my questions. “Ladies should not worry about physics,” he told me. Fortunately, he did grade me fairly

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduation I entered the Master of Arts in Teaching program at Harvard, where I roomed with Vivian Alibozak, who had transferred to Brandeis after her freshman year at MIT. I taught high school physics and mathematics in California, then began the Ph.D. Program in History at the University of California at Berkeley, where I majored in history of science and wrote a dissertation on the early history of radioactivity. For the rest of my life I've worn two professional hats, science and mathematics educator and historian of science. In the first role I’ve been involved in curriculum development and teacher support, as well as having taught high school and adult students and my own hands-on program for children. As a historian, I've been active in the History of Science Society and the Midwest Junto for History of Science, and served on national committees, including the review panel for the national history standards. I've published papers on radioactivity, luminescence, and the nature and history of science, over a hundred and forty reference articles on persons and topics in the history of science, and a book, Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious Science (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: In 1963 I married classmate Jim Hornell (course XVIII). Jim and I did a lot of hiking when we were in California. On one trail in Lassen National Park we encountered my MIT roommate Joan (Munzel) and her husband Tom Gosink. Who would imagine? We experienced the surreal scenes in Berkeley during the sixties, including the occupation by the National Guard armed with bayonets, tanks in the streets, and tear gas. Our campus was even gassed by helicopter, including the campus hospital. I say “surreal” because Berkeley was a very peaceful place at that time, and I felt safe walking almost anywhere, day or night, until the occupation. Such were the politics of the time. After California, Jim and I moved to the Midwest where we lived successively in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma for the next three decades. We joked that this region was a compromise between a Connecticut native (me) and a Californian (Jim). Our children, Tara Maureen Caroline Hornell and Kristin Maria Malley Hornell, are thus officially Midwesterners. Tara earned a PhD in immunology, and Kristin a master's degree in early childhood education. We also have a son-in-law, Murali Prakriya, and two grandchildren, Kiran (8) and Aidan (4 1/2). We enjoyed our children greatly and love spending time with our grandchildren. Jim and I have travelled to various spots in the USA, where we always visit the museums. My dissertation research took us to many sites in western and central Europe. We travelled to Paris with our children for a conference, made three trips to Ireland for (in part) my family history research, and took a quick trip to Germany where I also fit in some family history research. I've been involved with community organizations in Oklahoma and North Carolina, most recently obtaining several grants for a neighborhood playground and

178 bringing the project to completion. I enjoy art and art history, nature and gardening, walking, cycling, and of course reading.

Gordon W. Mann

Course: XV

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I remember many terrific professors, stimulating classes and hard work! Fraternity life at LCA was a great relief from the class and study times. Close friends sharing meals, parties, intermural sports, countless walks across the Memorial Bridge, and relaxing time together. Sports, especially 4 years of swimming and diving, also provided a real break from studies and a close team experience.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I went directly from MIT to Stanford to get my MBA, and then joined Ford Motor’s Finance Staff. After 3.5 years with Ford, I spent most of my career with WABCO Construction & Mining Equipment and Eaton Corp. with 90% of my time dealing with international operations and developing new businesses -- with a heavy emphasis on China in recent years. A highlight experience was living in Belgium for 4 years where I ran the WABCO off-highway truck business. My family really enjoyed living in Belgium and travelling in Europe

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I met my wife Gail while working in Michigan and we have been married 44 years. Our son Curtis is a physician in Chicago, where he is married to an attorney; both of them are devoted to endurance events -- marathons and triathlons. Our daughter Wendy teaches languages and lives In Kent, Ohio with husband and two terrific children; Colemann age 4 and Iona age 1. Luckily for Gail and me, Wendy’s family lives 10 miles from us, and we are very frequently grand parenting for all kinds of activities. I was raised in Connecticut and Gail in Michigan, but we are now Buckeyes, having lived in Ohio for over 30 years. Besides family and a variety of church positions and activities, my big diversions are hiking and golf. While most of my hiking is in Ohio, I spent a week on the Appalachian Trail last October and really enjoyed it, so I will be doing more of that. Gail and I have also had some great trips out west, mainly to visit National Parks and cities in the NW and SW parts of the country

Richard E. Marks

Course: IV

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Tech boot camp. Hard work. I loved it.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Many technical jobs throughout the USA mainly in computer systems. Spent time as database consultant specializing in Health Care Industry applications. Sudden switch in year 2000 to military

179 communications with a friend's start-up company. Working during period the military transitioned from big computers to portable PC and laptop type machines. Overall feeling is that stuff goes on. I did some "good stuff". Some was used, other stuff not used. But all went into the general flow of technology. One interesting "15 minutes of fame" is that in the 1980's after a few hours of frustration, I wrote a utility called uudecode which morphed into MIME protocol which is one of the underpinnings of email systems until XML came along. "Richard Marks uudecode" got 42 million hits on Google recently. It was a silly little program. I should have patented it.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Married, 5 kids, 10 grandchildren, most are normal. Very healthy. In retirement my wife and I have a retail and internet tennis shop - www.justtennis.net. It's fun. San Diego is a comfy place to live.

Gary Matchett

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Much of this is now a blur, but I often recall several of my fraternity mates and a few of my professors. I had jobs in labs and libraries as a student, with my favorite being the music library. Got to know only a little of Boston and almost none of its surroundings, but enjoyed the North End with its Italian restaurants and bakeries. I think the reason I got to go to MIT was that the Sputnik launch so frightened America that we were desperate for more scientists. Things were changing. There were about 25 physics students in our class, but about 250 in the freshman class as we graduated. I grew up in Superior, WI, where it gets to minus 40 Fahrenheit at times. I think it never got to zero in Boston my freshman year, but the daily walk across the Harvard bridge was surprisingly "refreshing". Harvard Square still attracts me, even though many of the unique businesses that were there are replaced by chain stores. I started bicycling at MIT, and have never stopped.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Worked for Honeywell, Inc. developing electrically suspended gyroscopes and their systems, first in Minneapolis, MN, then, in 1971, moving to St.Petersburg, FL. Attended U of Minnesota grad school in control sciences. Took a position with TASC in Reading, MA in 1975 working in navigation-related areas, especially with GPS and inertial systems, for NASA, the Department of Defense, and the FAA. Was chiefly responsible for the GPS term "recalculating". Also worked on the identification of satellites and of underground facilities, mostly from photographic examination. TASC later joined Litton, which then joined Northrop Grumman. Taught courses for 21 years in linear algebra and stochastic processes at Northeastern University in the Graduate School, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Retired from Northrop in 2007 and have consulted on microprocessor programming projects.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Married Marcella Ringness in 1965 and we have two daughters, Andrea and Jessica, who are both married and have children. Andrea lives in Hamburg, Germany, with her family, including her husband Helmut Hoerz and their son David. Jessica is an obstetrician/gynecologist living in San Francisco with

180 her family, including her husband Ryan Thomas and their daughter Lilah. Our recreational activities have included skiing, hiking, and bicycling.

Warren H. McCandless

Course: II

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I enjoyed being on the sailing team. I also liked ice skating outdoors.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Judy & Warren That was a fast "Fifty" ! After graduation from Tech, I went to business school at Stanford. From there, following the advice given to Dustin Hoffman in the "Graduate," I went into plastics, winding up at the "bubble wrap company."

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Plastics was good to us and I retired at the age of 55 to go sailing on "La Contenta" around the nice parts of the world with my lovely wife of 47 years, Judy. For the last 16 years our time has been divided between sailing, skiing and enjoying the company of our daughters, one in London and the other, with three grandchildren near Pittsburgh. We have just ordered a new boat, so we are doing everything possible to stay healthy and be around for our 60th reunion

Henry Newton McCarl

Course: XII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Remembering 1958-1962 - I was fortunate to be assigned to Runkle Unit of Senior House as a Freshman and lived in Room 401 Freshman Year. Hersch Clopper and I were in the same Freshman section and became good friends at that time. Then moved to Room 306 with Manny Terezakis and Ted Zenphennig (in the adjoining room). Moved to an apartment on Beacon Hill my last semester Senior Year and roomed with two students from Boston College who were Med Techs at Mass General Hospital. Summer after graduation the apartment was shared by myself, Bill Levine and Jeff Steinfeld who were friends from Senior House. Great memories of good times and hard work. Sprained my back playing Freshman Intramural Basketball for Senior House in December of 1958 and spent a week in the Student Medical Facility missing final exams - made them up and passed my courses. Took interesting Undergrad Research Opportunities program in Spring, 1959 and enjoyed working on potassium argon isotope project on mineral age determination and another project on electro-kinetic phenomena - Electro Phoresis, Electro Kinesis, Streaming Potential - this pilot program was later

181 developed into the UROP program. Struggled with my Junior Year while enjoying a course on Heat and Fluid Flow in the Department. Hard work and long hours in Geology labs and classes but learned a lot and made Dean's List my last 4 semesters. Highlight of my Senior year was scoring an 820 on the math part of the Graduate Record Exam and not knowing that this meant the highest score in the country on that section of the test - I did not know this at the time - just that I apparently did well and got a number of good offers for Grad School. Had fun in Hobby Shop working on projects including the restoration of a 45-70 Springfield trap door rifle that I got to test fire into a bullet trap from Doc Edgerton's lab on the top of Building Ten - today would have been carted off by Homeland Security, but then it was not a problem. Lots of fun serving as Social Chairman of Senior House (lots of parties) for two years and as Dorm Com representative. Also amateur radio with W1MX and Associate Editor of The Tech. Really loved my 4 years at MIT and determined that I'd like to retire to New England - which I did with my Cliffy Mary Frederica Rhinelander in 2001 to Gloucester where she had spent most of her summers up to that time.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Attended Grad School at the Penn State University where I received my MS in Geology and Geochemistry in 1964 and Ph.D. in Mineral Economics in December, 1969. Also worked in Birmingham, Alabama from 1966-1969 for Vulcan Materials Company as a Market Research Analyst. and then was offered a teaching position in Geology and Economics in September, 1969 at the University of Alabama in Birmingham where I spent the next 32 years teaching and doing research in Mineral Resources, Energy and Environmental Economics. Established a professional reputation in Valuation of Mineral Deposits and Energy Economics and did a Senior Lectureship with the Fulbright Program in Romania in 1977-78. Active in the Mining Engineering Society of AIME for over 50 years serving as Associate Editor of Mining Engineering Magazine for 30 years to 2012. Also a member of the American Institute of Professional Geologists from 1972-2012. Professional papers at many meetings in the United States and in Europe - especially working with my colleagues from Romania. I served as a member of the Romanian Delegation to the World Energy Congress in Munich, Germany in 1980 where I presented a paper with my colleagues from Romania on Energy Conservation Economics. Publications with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and two books with my Romanian Colleague Professor Gheorge Preda of the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest. Developed a consulting partnership (McCarl and Associates) in mineral property valuation and had numerous contracts with the Alabama Highway Department concerning mineral values of property that was acquired for highway construction during the period 1985-2000. Charter member and President of the Mineral Economics and Management Society in 1992-1993. Board of Directors of the Society of Mining Engineers (SME) 1979-1982. Distinguished Member of SME 2000 Licensed Professional Geologist in Alabama 1997-20011 Licensed Professional Geologist in New Hampshire 2002-2012, Member of several other International Professional Associations from 1970-1998

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Married Louise Becker Rys from Pittsburgh in 1963 and had three children - Katherine Lynn (1963), Patricia Louise (1966) and Fredrick James (1970) Divorced in 1986 and Married Mary Frederica Rhinelander in January, 1987. We celebrated our 25th Anniversary in 2012, Community Service as Member of the Birmingham (Alabama) Planning Commission 1974-1986, Chairman 1979-1986, Member Gloucester (Massachusetts) Planning Board 2002-2012. National Society of the Sons of the American

182 John Charles McCloskey

Course: III

(Editor’s Note: Grace McCloskey, John’s wife of almost 44 years, submitted the following remembrance:)

John C. McCloskey passed away on April 25, 2010 after a brief illness. He died peacefully at home with his three children: John A., Devin L. and Marya E. McCloskey at his bedside. John attended MIT on scholarship. His home was in Newton. The MTA and, for a while, John & Grace a motorcycle were his transportation. He was a son of New England and his Boston Irish heritage was his core. My introduction to John was a blind date in November of 1963. It was also my introduction to MIT. John was a graduate student at the time and I was treated to the movie Psycho at Huntington Hall 101. It was quite a way to impress a lady, or otherwise. Nonetheless it was the beginning of a relationship that endured for almost half a century. When he completed his studies at MIT his professional career started with Crucible Steel at their R&D Laboratory in Pittsburgh PA. He left Crucible to do further work at the University of Pittsburgh and worked as a Fellow at the Mellon Institute of Research and Development for several years. We left Pittsburgh in 1972 returning to Massachusetts with our 3 young children. John spent a short time at Texas Instruments and then joined the LG Balfour Company in Attleboro, MA. He was with Balfour until 1988 as Technical Director. In 1987 he presented a paper at the first Santa Fe Symposium on Jewelry and Technology. He went on to speak at five symposiums in the following years. John was awarded their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. Posthumously, the Annual Proceedings of the 25th Santa Fe Symposium was dedicated in his memory. He was Director of Technology at Stuller Settings in Lafayette, LA until 2008. During his professional career he published many papers and articles in jewelry and professional journals. He is credited with introducing grain refiner 14k yellow casting alloys and is responsible for many process developments in investment castings and fabricated metals. John’s moral compass was impeccable. He was never pompous and was ever nurturing of the individuals in his charge. His sense of humor was matchless. He read voraciously and retained it all. In the last few years of his life he studied pottery and put his traditional tenacity into the pursuit doing remarkable work. John was ever inquisitive, seldom acquisitive. He was however proud to be a metallurgist, proud to have had the opportunity of an education at MIT and when he perceived an opportunity to instigate a sizeable grant to his alma mater he pursued it to conclusion and never mentioned it again but grinned happily to have been able to pull it off for the “old gray pile”.

Harold Metcalf

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

Tech is hell, there's little more to say. We tried to alleviate the pressure with intramural football, endless poker and bridge games, incredible and fantastic parties, sailing on the Charles, and billiards at Baker House. My thesis work with Hans Mueller left an indelible impression, I have taught elementary physics the way I learned it from Ingard and Kraushaar, and my courses with Jerry Lettvin are the fondest academic memories. I lived at home in Newton for three years, but junior year in a Cambridge apartment with high

183 school classmate Nick Charney was also a formative experience - he taught me how to write as well as how to enjoy many things.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

I went to grad school at Brown, did a Ph.D. thesis with a chemist who did physics, and went off to a post- doc at Stony Brook with the full intention of getting the hell away from these damned Yankees/Knicks/Giants fans; I never left, and at 71 am still going strong. Stony Brook was good to me as I advanced through all the academic ranks to Distinguished Teaching Professor. I came back to MIT for my first Sabbatical with Dan Kleppner in 1976, went to Paris for a year with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji in 1985, and spent much of the time between those years inventing the field of laser cooling with Bill Phillips, a student I met in Kleppner's group on the first Sabbatical. Bill and Claude eventually shared the Nobel Prize, along with Steve Chu whom we invited into the laser cooling fold early on. I have published 150 papers, three books, and am working on another one. My quite productive research laboratory has five graduate students, a bunch of lasers and atomic beams, and enough (barely) grant money to carry on. I have spent significant time in Israel, Netherlands, China, Austria, and Germany under various guest appointments. On the academic side, I have introduced several new courses in our department, started and maintained the Masters of Science in Instrumentation Program, founded the Laser Teaching Center, directed the graduate program, and been involved in a number of other teaching activities

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

A year after graduating I was married to Marilyn Sonis whom many of the NRSA crowd will remember as the "lady with the red dress on” at several of our crazy parties. Our three children were born in 1964, 1967, and 1973, and the oldest and youngest, both boys, have brought us four wonderful grandchildren (we lost Cindy at age 14 to a congenital heart defect). We moved to Stony Brook in 1968 and still live in the same house. Our older son, David, is the master of Newtonbridge.com, a large and growing group of games, tournaments, and other ACBL activities that have brought him fame and a semi-infinite number of master points. He lives with wife Shari (MIT alum from the '90's and Ph.D. in computer science) in the Newton house where I grew up. Shari writes educational software for a research group at Harvard. Younger son Jonathan is the founder and owner of Integritymartialarts.com, a fabulously successful dojo on the northern boundary of Connecticut, just south of Springfield. He's a fourth degree black belt and a member of the Martial Arts Hall of Fame. His wife Dawn is a writer and her first novel, Luminous, was published in the summer of 2011. We have traveled all over, both boys were Bar Mitzvah on Sabbaticals, David in Lexington and Jonathan in Paris, and continue our globe-trotting on a regular basis, often at international conferences.

George Meyer

Course: VII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

In September 1958 I was planning to be a nuclear physicist but flunked 8.01. I chose Course VII for the wrong reasons but it turned out to be the right thing as my choice of medicine has given me a happy and pleasing life. The thing that stands out was my participation in sports, certainly squash but also dabbling in tennis George & Lynn and lacrosse. I applied for the Peace Corps in 1962 and was accepted to go to Ghana ( I had requested a francophone country) but took a bird in the hand to go to Tulane

184 Medical School. With my grades there was no telling if I would have been accepted after 2 years in the Peace Corps.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

After graduating from MIT I went to med school in New Orleans at Tulane University (I turned down a Peace Corps assignment to Ghana). After two years as an Air Force Flight Surgeon (one in NE Thailand) I did my residency training in Internal Medicine in San Francisco. Following a 2 year stint in Japan I returned to N. California where I finished a Fellowship in gastroenterology. I served a total of 23 years in the Air Force being assigned consecutively to Keesler AFB, MS, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, San Antonio,, TX, the USAF Academy, Langley AFB, VA, before finishing my AF career at Ramstein, Germany in 1993. After four years in Atlanta, GA we settled in Sacramento, CA, in 1997. I remain active doing part time gastroenterology in Sacramento while doing volunteer teaching at the University of California at Davis.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I met a wonderful woman briefly at MIT in May, 1962, but neither of us remembers it; we remet in 1966 and were married in April 1967. Our son, Robert, was born in 1969; he is a commercial pilot, currently not active while his kids are still in school. He works with his father-in-law in the rice farming business. His wife, Alysa, is a lawyer in the Sacramento area. They have two delightful daughters, Courtney, who was born in 1995 and Emily, born in 1998. My cousin’s son, Dobro Goodale, came to live with us when he was 11; his daughter LaLuna was born in 1997. We have enjoyed our annual summer vacations with the 3 girls, but sad because their schedules have decreased the amount of time we spend together now. Our daughter, Liz, born in 1971 is married to Veronika Lesiuk; they are both teaching at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and have a son born in September 2010. They recently moved from Montreal so it is nice to have them closer. I have been fortunate to have had a wife who enjoyed travel as much as I or our marriage would not have survived. Lynn and I love international travel; I go to Japan to teach annually in March. We have been able to use our medical backgrounds to volunteer in such interesting places as Saint Lucia, Bujumbura, Burundi, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, San Fernando, Philippines, and Lima, Peru. I continue to work hard enough to pay for our travel habit. I still play tennis and squash. Jose Alonso and I have just finished playing in an over 70’s squash tournament in San Francisco.

James Darrell Miller

Course: X

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

Shock of going from public school in Milwaukee to Boston/ Cambridge with a hectic orientation and pledge week. Fortunate to find a home at ATO on Bay Street Rd. And then into the freshman basic classes and huge lecture halls. Selecting Course X and finding it fit well, with all the history and the old building. Great experience of being a part of the Chemical Engineering Practice School in New Jersey. ATO fraternity, a blessing with the support to the first year, the friendships and the chance to work together to manage the fraternity in subsequent years. Led to meeting my future wife, Irene.

185 Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduation, went to work for Diamond Alkali at the old historical chemical plant in Ohio. With interest in International business, went with family to Brazil in 1974 and continued with the successors to Diamond Alkali for 36 years , retiring as Director of International Operations with Occidental Chemicals in 1999. After first retirement, went back to Brazil to start up a new chemical venture for the Canadian company, Nexen. On completing that, started up a Florida environmental consulting subsidiary of a Brazilian company, until retiring again in 2009.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Married to Irene Jansen Miller for 47 years until her death in 2010 , Wedding was in Trinity Church in Boston She was a very talented artist and musician who fortunately shared the same love of world travel. Together we enjoyed travels and history. Assembled an interesting art collection with her art and others with a focus on contemporary Latin American and Southwestern US art. Our son is an economist with the US Forest Service, living with his wife in Utah where I have the pleasure of visiting to enjoy their company and the beautiful outdoor activities. Wintering now in Boca Raton Florida, Participating in community voluntary programs including environmental organizations. Spending summers in Wisconsin with time for family there. Active with the MIT Club of Palm Beach.

Peter Swift Miller

Course: XV

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Involvement with a number of entrepreneurial companies. Founding member of Abt associates Inc in Cambridge, now a $300 million research and consulting firm. Third employee, 17 years there, Chief Operating Officer. Moved into software; some successes, some learning experiences. Helped grow three companies, one sales and marketing software, one Windows developoment, one web services; all three sold to public companies. Current activity: COO of Genomic Healthcare Strategies, a boutique consulting firm working at the C- level with large companies to help them understand and plan for the changes in healthcare markets caused by molecular medicine. Volunteer work at MIT: Cambridge Enterprise Forum board, Board Chair, Global MIT Enterprise Forum. Currently Co-Director, MIT Venture Mentoring Service.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I married my wife Marcia in 1964. I was fortunate enough to meet her when she was a freshman at Tufts and quickly realized I wanted to be around her forever. We have three children, Betsy, John, and Katy, one grandson, Betsy's son. Our daughters live in the Boston area; our son is in California. Katy was a VP at Fidelity and is now at Harvard Pilgrim; Betsy's an AVP at Mass Financial Services; John is sales manager of a company in Ventura. Marcia and I have shared interests in antiques, 100-year-old toys (for a time -- that collection has gone to auction), and birding. Bird trips have taken us all over the US, as well as Mexico, Costa Rica, and Nepal. Marcia's become a good silversmith, which takes us to the Tucson Gem Show every year.

186 Richard Jay Millman

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Aside from coursework and rated education, I rowed heavyweight crew for four years including the varsity crew that, among many other wins, beat Harvard and Princeton for the Compton Cup...the first and only MIT crew to win that annual race.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I retired from the Textron Corporation at the end of 2009 as President and CEO of Bell Helicopter, currently Textron's largest and most profitable segment I earned an MSEE from Columbia in one year (1963) by taking fifteen courses...the workload was about the same as a year at MIT. I joined the MITRE corporation and, in 1966, joined the Avco Corp. Missile Systems Division. I soon took on a variety of management assignments eventually becoming Assistant General Manager. In 1987 I was assigned as President of a Textron Corp. Aerospace and Defense (A&D) company in California that was not performing well. Following a one year assignment in 1985, working for Textron's chairman, I became President of Textron Defense Systems. From that platform, over the next twelve years, I worked with all of Textron's smaller A&D companies and, together with several strategic acquisitions, created Textron's third largest and second most profitable segment, the Textron Systems Corp. In 2007 I was asked to 'fix' Bell Helicopter, Textron’s second largest segment, that had operations and related customer and shareholder issues. Bell is now very highly regarded by all stakeholders and will soon exceed $3B in annual revenues!

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I continued to row competitively after college as a member of the US Rowing team and in Masters club rowing. I also continued sailboat cruising and racing, including the Macinaw races and cruising the Carribean and Atlantic. I have three married daughters and also helped raise Robin's (my 2nd wife) son and daughter. Together we have ten Grandkids aged 8 months to 14 years. Robin and I enjoy expedition travel, water sports, several hobbies and travel with the kids and Grandkids.

Roger Shih-Yah Mo

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I was born in Shanghai and finished high school in Hongkong. Coming to Boston and MIT was a bit of a cultural shock. First week in Burton House I was introduced to beer and discovered my alcohol intolerance. The first winter I discovered icicles in my hair when I walked from the swimming pool to the music library. Life was good in MIT otherwise. I was active in the MIT Chinese Students Club, the FF Fraternity (the oldest Chinese American-University Students Fraternity), and the

187 Chinese Intercollegiate Council. I met my wife Amy in my freshman year (she later studied in Simmons). We were instrumental in putting up a Peking Opera performance at the Kresge Auditorium working through the Chinese students organizations in Boston and the Peking Opera Club in New York (my sister was active in that club and starred in the Kresge performance).

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduation I joined Honeywell EDP’s Applied Research Group in Waltham and worked on memory technology development. During that time I received MS and PhD from Northeastern University through a joint Raytheon-Honeywell-Northeastern research project. Then I joined Raytheon working on the Poseidon guidance system program. In 1969 I joined Xerox Corporation and moved to the West Coast. I worked in Xerox for 33 years in various positions including department manager and program manager. Along the way I picked up an MBA from Pepperdine University. I also taught evening classes in the earlier years. After retirement, I got my high school teaching credentials and taught math in the Watts area (where they had trouble retaining math and science teachers) for four years == with little success I might sadly add

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Amy and I will be celebrating our 50th Anniversary in 2014. Amy graduated from Simmons in 1963 and worked for the Forsyth Dental Center in Fenway, Boston. When we migrated to California, she worked for and retired from UCLA’s Neuro-Psychiatric Institute. She worked on research projects on autism, and speech/thought disorders. We have a daughter Karen and a grandson Ashton Blue Mo. During our working years, we were quite active in professional and community organizations including several Asian-American professional and community organizations. We remained active in the FF Fraternity. After retirement, we have taken up table tennis and played a lot in the last few years -- enough to be able to bully little kids at vacation resorts and some old folks on cruise ships

Charles H. Moser

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: The deflated feelings after the Freshman Friday quizzes & the first finals "A Tree Grows in 10-250" - Prof Guillemin's 6.00/6.01 lectures Making vacuum tubes (triodes) in as I recall, 6.03 Lab Late nights in the library study carrels under the dome Thesis work under Prof Kingsley in the energy conversion lab Life in Burton-Conner: · The incessantly blinking 57 sign on top of the Heinz warehouse on Vassar St · Commons meals when the regular name-checker was away (usually having a baby) · Late night hamburgers cooked by a retired Army mess sergeant in the diner on Vassar St · Wondering whether the Conner elevator would really make it to the third floor · The waterfight that brought Dean Fassett over to break it up, and my roommate and me coming back from the snack bar wearing overshoes to navigate the waterfall that was usually a staircase · Leavitt & Pierce tobacconists in Harvard Sq

188 Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Joined New England Electric System in 1962 in district engineering, planning and designing overhead and underground distribution and subtransmission systems and low voltage secondary networks. Then on to transmission planning, responsible for area supply systems and regional and interregional transmission planning. Became Manager of Substation (Design) Engineering, then chief Protection and Planning Engineer. In 2004, retired from National Grid as Vice-president & Chief engineer with responsibility for advanced power delivery technology identification, development and application; distribution & supply system planning; transmission and distribution system protection; distribution standards (overhead and underground) engineering; underground transmission systems engineering; transmission and distribution substation engineering, design, and project management; telecommunication systems engineering; and the Engineering Laboratory (instrumentation, measurement and testing including personal protective goods dielectric testing). A Life Senior Member of the IEEE, past Chairman of the Worcester Section of IEEE and the Worcester Chapter, IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES). Formerly a member of the IEEE Working Group on Estimating the Lightning Performance of Transmission Lines and the Working Group on Special Safety Aspects of HVDC Transmission. Named "Engineer of the Year" by the Worcester Chapter IEEE PES in 2002 and received an IEEE Region I Award in 2005 "For outstanding career achievements in Engineering Management". A member of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC) through 2010; prior to which represented the New England transmission owners on the NPCC Executive Committee. Formerly chaired the NPCC Task Force on System Protection, and was a member of NPCC's Compliance Monitoring and Assessment Subcommittee and National Grid's representative on the NPCC Reliability Coordinating and Members Committees. A former member of the NEPOOL (New England Power Pool) Stability Task Force and the NEPOOL System Design Task Force; chaired the Protective Relay and Control Subcommittee of the Joint ISO-NE/NEPOOL Y2K oversight committee. Previously a member of the former Industrial Advisory Committee to the Department of Electrical Power Engineering of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Married to wife Nydia (Lesley '63) since 1963; one daughter Erica (College of Wooster '00) An incorporator and founding member of the Board of Directors, and past Clerk for the Board, of the Pakachoag Music School of Greater Worcester [MA], now a member of the Board Advisory Committee. Formerly a member and Secretary on the Executive Board of the Assabet Valley Mastersingers. Presently a Trustee and Corporator of the Worcester [MA] Art Museum, and chair of the Board's Facilities & Technology Committee. A member of the Worcester Economic Club, the Worcester Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Worcester Club. Treasurer, Chair of the Finance Committee, and Head Usher at All Saints Church, Episcopal, Worcester MA

Paul Matthew Munafo

Course: II

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I was a non-resident student (i.e. I lived at home with my family, in Dorchester), but I was still able to benefit from the social experience of being a student at M.I.T. Looking back, from the perspective of age and experience, I realize that my student years at M.I.T. provided the perfect transition from growing up in the inner

189 city, in an immigrant family, to the professional world that we now enjoy. No individual events stand out; it was the whole package.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I've had a wonderful career. I was with Boeing and Chrysler, NASA contractors on the Saturn program, for 11 years, which led to a 32 year career with NASA. I won numerous awards and national honors while at NASA, including the Distinguished Service Medal (the highest award NASA can give), four other NASA medals, A.I.A.A. Engineer of the Year and many others. I was the Chief Engineer at the Marshall Space Flight Center, but I worked across the Agency. My specialty was failure analysis; I was once characterized by the NASA Administrator as "the go-to guy when something goes wrong". For example, I led the NASA investigation of the Space Shuttle External Tank following the Columbia accident, establishing root cause of the foam release event and defining the 24 corrective actions required for resumption of the Space Shuttle program. I am now VP/Chief Engineer at Teledyne Brown Engineering, a Teledyne Technologies company. I received my PhD from Auburn University, and I'm a Fellow of ASM Int. and the A.I.A.A.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I'm married to the love of my life and my best friend, the former Virginia (Ginger) Perkins from Vicksburg Mississippi. We share common hobbies of duplicate bridge and fishing, and I have a large vegetable garden. As an outgrowth of the fishing and gardening, we do a lot of gourmet cooking, specializing in Creole cuisine. We live in Huntsville, AL and we have a "fishing house" on the coast of Louisiana. We have three children and four grandchildren; of course, the grandchildren totally dominate our life and our choice of day to day activities.

Edward Myskowski

Course: XI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: My first impression of MIT is an enduring memory: Holy Smokes, everyone here was the smartest kid in class! I am no longer a standout. That impression was shared recently by a long-neglected family member, who graduated a few years ahead of us.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I continued working for a few years after graduation with my part-time employer while at MIT, a foundation contractor, unrelated to Course X. Soon, degree-related career plans became more practical. A typical commercial success was the development of a sodium borohydride based process for paper (newsprint) pulp bleaching. Sounds simple, but it took about six years, including market penetration. Over that period of time I took up stone sculpture as an avocation, which became an important part of my life. I also began a related affiliation with the Peabody Museum of Salem (now PEM), which we formalized in 1984. That led to graduate study with Jim Skehan SJ, at Boston College ca. 1990, focussed on regional geology, and to subsequent work activities related to the forensic analysis of concrete, through 2005. Stone sculpture and curating the geology collection at PEM are ongoing activities, since my retirement from technical employment.

190 Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I have two adult children, and five younger grandchildren, from a previous marriage. All healthy and academically successful. For nearly forty years, I have shared my life and family with Paulina Alexander, a chemist who has been a friend even longer.

Robert D. Nassau

Course: XXI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I boarded the train in Pittsburgh with Bernie Cohen and Jan Hyde, heading for Cambridge and MIT. I was nervous about going to a school I had never visited and knew so little about. We all pledged Pi Lambda Phi and lived together for the next few years. As classes started, I quickly realized that not only did my classmates seem very smart; many of them had had a much better high school education that I did. I remember meeting my freshman adviser the first week. He invited his advisees to his apartment and seemed as nervous as we were. He was certainly not someone I felt I could turn to with a problem. The first 2 years were hard as I struggled through calculus and physics. Living in the fraternity house helped me stay focused on my schoolwork since the upperclassmen mentored and helped the freshmen. Saturday was a day off from studies and I enjoyed the Cambridge/Boston area on weekends. We went to previews of Broadway plays, concerts, ate out at Durgin Park and at exciting ethnic restaurants and had parties at the fraternity house. After our big lunch on Sunday, it was back to work. I switched to Course XXI and planned to go to medical school. I began to take courses I actually liked from great teachers. During my senior year, the "pre-med adviser" berated me for being married. She told me that I had made a grave mistake and that "medicine was a jealous mistress." As it turned out, I did well in medical school and always felt that my MIT education was great preparation for medicine.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After MIT, I went to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, graduating in 1966. After 2 years of Pediatric Residency at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, I spent 2 years in the Air Force. I finished my Pediatric Residency at Boston City Hospital and then joined a private pediatric practice in Brattleboro, VT in 1971. I thoroughly enjoyed being a general pediatrician in a rural setting. I had a varied practice and over the years would often treat the children and grandchildren of some of my early patients. In 1982 my wife and I spent a sabbatical year in Shiprock, NM, working on the Navajo reservation. Experiencing the harsh poverty of the reservation, being invited to traditional ceremonies and to the homes of our Navajo friends, opened me up to what different lives people lead, even in our own country and made me more politically active. In 2004, I "retired" from my practice but continued to work part time and teach a parenting class for first time fathers. I worked periodically as a pediatrician for the Indian Health Service at the Sioux Reservation in Pine Ridge, SD. Since 2001, my wife and I have been volunteering, for about 1 month each year, at Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap, Cambodia where I serve as a mentor and teacher to the young Cambodian doctors. I love the time I spend in Cambodia and have become very close to the Cambodian staff. I was named the Vermont Pediatrician of the Year in 2007, mainly for my work in Cambodia. In January 2012, I completely retired from my pediatric practice but will continue to make my yearly volunteer trips to Cambodia. Let me know if you plan to visit Cambodia in the future. I'm generally there in November and December.

191

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I married Myra Reicher before my senior year at MIT. While I was in medical school, we had 2 sons, Jack and Eric. Myra and I divorced in 1973. I met and married Nancy Storrow, a visual artist, a few years later. My life with Nancy is rich and full. We've enjoyed living in rural Vermont as we shepherded the boys through their school years. We grow a large garden, go skiing in the winter and hiking, canoeing and bicycling in the summer. Over the years, we've had chickens, ducks, sheep, a dog named Aquarius and a pony for the boys. Lately we've only had a cat, and that seems about right at this point. Our sons are now in their forties. Jack is married, has two daughters and is a child psychologist at Rhode Island Hospital. Eric is married, lives in Seattle and is an environmental engineer. We get together often, and still ski, hike and bike together. I've been active in community affairs over the years and am currently President of the Board of our local Boys & Girls Club. For several years, I've organized a successful fundraising bike ride for the Boys & Girls Club. I continue to enjoy my garden, working in the woods, cycling and skiing. I love Vermont and can't imagine living any place else. Life has treated me well.

Philip H. Nelson

Course: XII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

My undergraduate memories are a rich mixture of confronting the academic load at the Institute (as we called it); the friendship of Freshman year dorm dwellers in East Campus, the outdoor experiences offered by the MIT Outing Club, and the stimulation of apartment dwelling in Cambridge during my sophomore, junior, and senior years. The academic demands for me were heightened by my transition from a small town in central Illinois (where few had ever heard of MIT) to the rigor of the math-physics-chemistry requirements for an MIT freshman in 1958-59. I survived through perseverance and help from my dorm mates. A bright spot for me was the required freshman-sophomore humanities sequence, sweeping us through the great ideas of western civilization in a style that I much appreciated as the faculty kept manageable the reading load of theater, literature, and philosophy. During these years I found a home in Course XII, settling on a career in geophysics as a way to satisfy my interest in the earth sciences with the rigor offered by the physics department.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

Wanting to learn more, I was accepted into graduate school in the Earth Sciences at MIT, completing a Ph.D. (lightning-induced electromagnetic oscillations in the earth-ionosphere cavity) in 1967. At this point I veered away from the academic world, and have pursued applied research in industry and government positions throughout my career—mineral exploration methods for Kennecott Copper in Salt Lake City, radioactive waste disposal at Lawrence Berkeley Labs, petrophysical work for the Sohio Petroleum Company, and the study of natural gas in sedimentary basins for the U.S. Geological Survey. In short, I have been preoccupied with the technologies for either finding and extracting resources from the earth's crust or with finding sites for returning spent products. My work is documented in some 100 publications and a book on well logging. Even today, I remain engaged in research work, thinking about the next set of problems -- the geological sciences being an area where experience seems to count.

192 Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

We are blessed with healthy children and grandchildren, all actively engaged in their occupations or schools. Watching the college experiences of two sons and two daughters, I have relived the quandary of my own undergraduate years: how do you know what you want to learn? Some combination of goalposts by knowledgeable teachers and innate curiosity seem to be keys to pursuing learning. For me learning has never stopped (our home living spaces are littered with magazines and books). Respect for learning MIT-style has made me a modest but reliable donor to the MIT Alumni Fund over the years. May the Institute continue to instill its learning ways!

David E. Nickles

Course: X

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

? The evening frisbe games in the 3rd floor hall of Munroe, East Campus -- Saturday morning trips to Durgan Park (before it was gentrified) to beat the rush when the second dining room opened at 11AM for their 99c special. -- Bringing Ray Wenig (one of my buddies) home to Natick for Thanksgiving, where he met my sister. He subsequently became my brother-in-law. -- The water balloon battles during “East Campus Day” and whenever it seemed appropriate --- The massive stacks of IBM punched cards needed to run a "simple" program at the computer center -- The many friendships made through the DeMolay organization

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

After graduation, I was sworn in as a US Navy ensign (via the NROTC program) and began a 2+ year assignment as an Engineering Dept Division Officer on a destroyer (USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.). With a name like that, it was no surprise that it began with carrying JFK and the first family for several days of the America Cup races. Things were not always so glamorous, as we then played a role in the Cuban missile blockade. In Sept 1964, I returned to the Institute with the Course X Practice School working on my MS. After spending 5 months at several NJ chemical plants and refineries (without blowing anything up), I returned to Cambridge and completed my degree in June 1965. In Sept, I started work (after spending the summer touring Europe with a Eurail Pass and $5/day) as a Development Engineer at DuPont in Wilmington, DE working on Corian* solid surface process development. After hours, I took classes at the University of Delaware and got my MBA. After receiving a patent for developing part of its process and helping set up its market development plant, I moved to Buffalo, NY as part of the design and start-up team for the full scale Corian* manufacturing plant. I stayed there until 1972, when I transferred to the DuPont Leominster MA plastics molding plant. At Leominster, I worked on the development on the first plastic soft drink bottle (bet you didn’t know that DuPont invented it). After managing their molding department (we specialized in recycling waste resins into usable products), I moved to their new molding facility in Columbia TN. Unfortunately, the economy was not favorable, so the plant closed 18 months later. In late 1979 I returned to Corian* in Buffalo. For the next 22 years, I worked in a variety of technical, manufacturing, marketing, purchasing and management assignments. Over a 5 year period, I led a team of engineers that designed and started up the joint venture Corian* plant in Toyama, Japan. By the end of the assignment and 30 trips there, I’m sure I had eaten everything in the Boston Aquarium raw. I retired in 2001 after serving as the Global Purchasing Manager for Corian*.

193 Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I met Joan (a DuPont chemist) while in Wilmington and we were married when I moved to Buffalo. You can imagine her reaction in February 1969 when after a Caribbean honeymoon we flew to the snow drifts of Buffalo. Our first daughter Karen was born there. After transferring to Leominster, we settled in Harvard, MA (no relation to that other place), where Christine, was born. This location was great, as Joan and I were originally from this area (Fall River and Natick respectively), so we could spend more time with family. As all good things must end, we traded the Boston Pops for the Grand Old Opry and moved to Columbia, TN (south of Nashville) for 18 months. When the plant shut down, we chose to return to the Amherst suburb of Buffalo, where we knew the schools to be great. Since Karen had spent kindergarten in MA, 1st grade in TN and 2nd grade in NY, we told DuPont that we were not interested in any more moves. Karen attended Simmons College and held a variety of sales and marketing management jobs in the Boston and then Wilmington, DE area, where she met her husband Nick, an attorney. They have two boys, John age 7 and Brian age 5 and live in Newark, DE. Christine attended Wellesley College and then Boston College Law and specializes in pharmaceutical patent law. She works in NYC for a global generic pharmaceutical firm and commutes in from her condo in Chatham, NJ. In addition to spending time visiting family, my hobby has been remodeling kitchens and bathrooms (a heritage of working with Corian* and the building industry). I've created dust at our daughters' homes as well as our own. Joan and I also enjoy the theater and concerts in the greater Buffalo/southern Ontario region and the Boston area as we have a condo in Brookline that the girls lived in when they lived in the area. I'm fortunate to be a 12 year survivor of prostate cancer and that Joan is a 4 year survivor of endometrial cancer.

Charles William Niessen

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: II grew up in St. Paul, MN and was always interested in science, and in electronics in particular. I knew I wanted to be an engineer, and MIT was the best school for that. But I did not know the size of the fire hose they had waiting for me! I chose to stay in East Campus (Walcott 401) where I was assigned for orientation week. Convenient to classes and to Walker (I was going to say food, but thought better of it). Inhabited by a strange set of people who were normal (by MIT standards), friendly, and even interesting. Since my Dad and I had an HO gage model railroad, I sought out the (TMRC) in building 20E (RIP). This was a great layout with a lot of electronics (telephone relays, mostly) that allowed multiple trains to run independently without bumping into each other. I found that it also provided access to the TX-0 computer which had recently arrived on campus (because Prof Jack Dennis who was in charge was a former member of TMRC). A group of us at TMRC spent a lot of time at that machine; it was like a personal computer (which did not exist at that time) when you sat at the control console. There were smart people there (mostly freshmen) who ended up writing some of the first computer games, like “Star Wars” (well before the movie of the same name). This culture was documented in the book "Hackers" by Stephen Levy (1984). (Hackers are the good guys at MIT.) A freshman elective (first given in spring, 1959) by Profs John McCarthey and (of LISP and AI fame), led to a 3-year gig by a group of class members (Elwyn Berlekamp, Alan Kotok, Michael Lieberman, Robert Wagner, and me) to write software for a computer chess game under the direction of Prof McCarthey. It wasn’t even close to IBM's "Deep Blue," but good enough for Alan’s BS Thesis.

194 So Life at MIT was more than lectures and homework; we got involved in what we would do in the real world, too.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I stayed on at MIT for graduate school in Course 6, working under Prof. Jack Wozencraft. The thesis was about new, practical error-correcting codes for communications systems. Claude Shannon had mathematically proven that codes to provide error-free communications actually existed, but it was left to others to find practical ones. This led to summer jobs at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where these codes were being implemented for satellite communications. Upon graduation, I took a permanent job at Lincoln Laboratory in their Communications Division (not realizing how permanent it was going to be). Over the years there I have worked on communications systems that operated at frequencies from DC (well, 50Hz) to daylight (laser frequencies). I also had a diversion to using laser light instead of radio frequencies for a radar. We attached a laser to a 4-foot telescope in MA and pointed it to a sounding rocket launched from Wallops Island, VA. The laser light that bounced back allowed exquisitely detailed measurements of the rocket’s flight. Also, as time went on, communications systems needed to be able to operate within data networks, so computer networking protocols had to be extended to dynamically changing connectivity in a mobile communication system, a still evolving technology field. Over the years, I also took on management responsibilities, but never far away from the technology. At 65 I stepped down from management responsibilities but continue to be involved in studies, analysis, and problem solving. The great thing about Lincoln Laboratory is that there was always something new to learn and a new problem to solve. That’s why I have stayed.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Married to Nancy in 1962, separated in the 1980's. Four children: Karen, a veterinarian living in Indiana with her husband Jerry; they met at Vet school at Purdue. Peter has a MBA and works in Manhattan for American Express. Christopher, went to MIT as undergraduate, Purdue for PhD in Electrical Engineering. Works at MITRE in Bedford, MA. Married Gen (an architect); they live in Medford MA. Robert has an MBA and works for Genentech, currently assigned to Manhattan. A busy set of kids, but we still do get together each year, at least for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but often more than that. Always interested in travel and photography; some foreign trips taken with the family. For the past 10 years, I have made it a point to take a foreign trip every year. Last year was Spain, this year Scandinavia. Also involved in genealogy; discovered my Great Grandfather Franz Niessen arrived in America in 1892, one jump ahead of the debtor's court.

Curtis Northrup

Course: VII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: My Best memories are the friendships with my fraternity broters of Theta Delta Chi.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: MD from University of Washington, 1966; internship at UCLA Medical Center 1967, US Army 1967 – 1969; Captain in Medical Corp; 13 month tour Korea. Radiology residency 1969 to 1972 at the University of Washington, Seattle. WA. Assistant Professor at U. of WA, Department of Radiology 1972

195 - 1977; Radiologist at Group Health Cooperative’s, Eastside Hospital, Redmond, WA 1992 – 2003 then part time until 2008; now retired. Past President of Washington State Radiological Society; Fellow of the American College of Radiology. . Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Married Marion Noffsinger June 30, 1967. Son, Warren Northrup. Interests: sking, hiking, travel, reading.

Lewis Mark Norton

Course: XVIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I remember great classes, classmates, professors, course choices, etc. Then besides the academic experience, I remember dormitory life in East Campus, conveniently located to my main undergraduate activity, WTBS (now WMBR). I was Program Manager my junior year and Station Manager my senior year, just when WTBS converted from closed circuit to FM broadcasting. I also remember church life centered around the Wesley Foundation at the Harvard Epworth Methodist Church. I was Foundation Treasurer my senior year.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduation I stayed at MIT, earning a PhD. in Mathematics, which really was in the Artificial Intelligence area of Computer Science. My advisor was Prof. Marvin Minsky. This prepared me for a career as a computer scientist/software engineer/computational linguist and artificial intelligence researcher. I worked for the MITRE Corporation (1966-1969), National Institutes of Health (Division of Computer Research and Technology) (1969-1983), and Unisys (also called Burroughs, SDC, and Paramax) (1983-2004). I retired in 2004.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I married Judith Ann Edwards in 1964. We have two sons, John (born in 1967) and David (born in 1971). Judie and I have always been active in churches, and I served as a choir director from 1971-1983. Judie and I began a birding hobby in the early 1990's, and we have now seen over 500 species in the continental US and Canada. We have been active in a local National Audubon Society chapter after retiring to Eureka, CA, where our son John lives. Our son David, his wife, and our two grandchildren live in British Columbia, Canada, where David is a dual US-Canadian citizen.

196 Cord W. Ohlenbusch

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Since I lived off campus in Cambridge I remember well the daily walks to school, mostly through dingy, dirty streets. It always was a pleasure to reach the campus. I also took many walks along Memorial Drive and the Charles River. Walking the long corridors between classes. Many visits of swimming pool. Movie night and shows at Kresge auditorium. The highlight was our Soccer team visit and game at Airforce Academy in Colorado Springs, CO. After the game I went mountain climbing with Leo Cardillo (1964) for a tremendous view over the academy and the plains beyond. I remember many other traveling games, Coast Guard in New London, CT; Westpoint Academy, NY; Middlebury College, VT.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Professional Life and Experiences 1955 Sorensen Co. Stamford, CT later Norwalk CT. Power supply Company. I started as transformer winder and ended as Junior Engineer. 1959 Student technician at MIT. under Prof. Bauman; building character recognition, photo memory, braile typewriter, chopper stabilized amplifier power supply. 1962 start at Hughes Aircraft in Culver City, CA. for Bernard Shearer; building high tech semiconductor military power supplies. 1966 Liberty Mutual Research Center in Hopkinton. Director Dr. Allen Cudworth; Boston Arm Project. 2 patents 1970 Tranti Systems on 1 April 1970 with President Frank Trantanella building electronic cash register terminals using Intel 8080 chip. 1975 Commercial Information Corporation, CI in Arlington, MA, later in Woburn MA. President Phil Hankins; building accounting data input terminals using Intel 4004 processor. 1982 Proconics International Corporation, President Richard Foulke; Design semiconductor wafer handling equipment and robots. 1 patent. 1992 Ultra Clean International Corporation, President Richard Foulke; building wafer cassette handling robots and storage areas. 2000 Retired. Work as consultant at Ultra Clean Int. Corp. 4 patents. Two very interesting field trips to Jerusalem, Israel. I went there for field maintenance of our semiconductor equipment. On weekends I had a great time to explore the old city and other places in Israel.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I married Elin Andersen in July 1962 at the MIT Chapel. We have three sons, Norbert studied computer design, Alvin studied software, and Henning writes and plays Indy Rock music. I have 3 grand-children, 1 boy Zane, 2 girls Ayla and Erin. I am glad that I went to MIT. I learned many useful things, philosophy, mathematics, technology. From early childhood on until today I have been fascinated by things, how they work, how they are designed and built, how to maintain them. I have spent my whole career working with gadgets and loved every minute of it. There have been difficult projects but in the end all has been interesting and fun. Thanks. My hobbies are: Andover Historical Society Collection computer data entry, my house repair. creating archive of old family letters and genealogy, and computers and electronics. Through all the years soccer has been an integral part of my life, I have usually played once a week from 1947 until today.

197 Jimmy Kazuhiro Omura

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: For my first two years I lived in Burton House and East Campus dorms followed by my joining Phi Sigma Kappa (PSK) at the beginning of my third year. Joining PSK was a terrific experience. Besides finally having some social life I developed life long friendships with several of my fraternity brothers. I started in Course XVI and did a co-op at Douglas Aircraft in Los Angeles after my second year. When I returned to MIT I switched to Course VI which was a great decision for me. I was captain of the freshman swim team and broke the 100 yard MIT freshman record in breastroke. I also was in the MIT Judo Club for a couple of years. Most of my sports activities later were with PSK fraternity teams. After completing an MS in Course VI at MIT my colleague, Tony Kramer, and I drove to Washington DC and attended the “March on Washington” where Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech in August 1963. We then drove across the southern United States and Mexico on our way to start our Ph.D programs at Stanford.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After completing my Ph.D degree in 1966 I worked at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) for three years including a 9 month contract for the US Army in Bankok, Thailand. This was followed by three different careers. For 15 years (1969-1984) I was a professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA. In 1984 I founded Cylink Corporation in Sunnyvale, California. We developed and sold enterprise encryption equipment and digital spread spectrum radios. Cylink had an IPO in 1996. I was involved in a couple of failed statups after I left Cylink in 1998. In 2002, I joined the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as a Science Program Officer. For nine years I had the wonderful job of giving grants for all kinds of interesting scientific research especially in astronomy and biology which were quite different from my engineering background. Some of these grants went to MIT. I retired in January 2011.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I was able to travel to many parts of the world starting with 9 months in Bankok working for SRI in 1968. As a UCLA professor I participated in many international conferences. My company, Cylink, sold most of its digital radios into developing countries so I visited customers all over the world. Finally with the Moore Foundation funding many environmental programs, I was able to visit several remote parts of the tropics. I have been married two times, have a son and daughter, and two grandkids. I have been with my partner, Susan, for over 20 years. We now enjoy travelling to interesting places for vacations and living in San Francisco. I still jog regularly and scuba dive when I visit tropical locations.

198 Erik Pedersen

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Although I was a good student in high school, MIT was a tough go for me. I came from a high school in New Brunswick Canada with which MIT had no history and I found that my course prep and work habits were behind my fellow freshmen. But I got through that first year although two of my roommates in our Burton House suite didn’t make it. The social life was great with all the mixers in the area. Two of us bought a ‘39 Buick limo from an undertaker and we told each of our fathers the other guy owned it. It had a little problem with a radiator leak so we had 3 or 4 coke syrup jugs of water in back that was used to reload at Wellesley for the return trip. We had to drain it every night in winter except one friend who borrowed it forgot. We had to learn auto repair, replacing the water pump in cold weather. And those were also the days when all license plates in Mass had to be changed within a twelve hour period on New Year’s Eve. Second summer I worked at an MIT lab and stayed at the PSK house. I enjoyed the brothers and pledged there at the beginning of my third year. I valued my experiences at the fraternity and was able to pay it back later by becoming the treasurer of the alumni association for about ten years. During that period I was the leader in buying the building next door with IRDF money and allowing the house to expand to its substantial size today.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Even before I graduated I was working for a local company on building digital systems. It was a great experience designing systems for testing T-1 carrier for Bell, satellite antenna control systems, various high speed counting systems for nuclear research and a missile kill probability analyzer for Raytheon. Even after I received my course VI degree I continued with Harvey Wells until my foreign student visa ran out 18 months after graduation. At that time I moved to Ottawa and starting working for a military contractor building pilot head up displays. They called me “the American” because of the accent I had picked up. Within a year I was named the first project engineer in the company, taking over a large airborne ASW project. But as I was successful in management it became apparent that I should go back to business school. I went back to Sloan School and received my SM in 1967. While there I was a teaching assistant in Forrester’s Industrial Dynamics group. Upon graduating I made a major decision in the direction of my career. Instead of going on for my doctorate or starting a career in consulting I opted for a small company in CT. The company was initially focused on the low energy nuclear instrumentation market and they sent me to San Francisco to sell on the West Coast. After a year I came back and built a division building PC based systems for instrument control. My experience with early PCs (PDP8s and 11s) led me to start my first company with a fellow MIT grad, automating ticket printing and accounting for large travel agencies. Heritage Travel in Kendall Sq was our first customer and we set up shop in their back room. It was a challenge because it competed with the airlines as they recognized the importance of the agency automation and started giving it away. After a number of years, I entered the market for systems in the insurance industry, initially focusing on PC based system for insurance agents. My growing family made me recognize the value of not having to travel as much as I had. We sold that business after a number of years and had to work for the buyer before I started another one, this time with my son who is an excellent salesman. It was a real pleasure to work with him and other members of the family during that period. Our target market was providing software for insurance companies and wholesalers. We spun out additional ventures including a web portal for insurance brokers, but like many other ventures, our VC funded dot com crashed in 2001 when money dried up. After selling our remaining business, I consulted for a few years and then retired. In the early 90s I heard Rod Brooks talking at MIT Tech Day and asked if he had any interest in an experienced

199 businessman for his robotics venture. He did and I became the first business executive of what is today iRobot. Before that the three founders and a number of MIT students were building various prototype robots for the military and other robotics researchers. We started on a path of identifying commercial market opportunities and the company developed a number of partnering projects some of which have led to its success today. Today I am enjoying working with high tech startups in the Boston area and am a member of a couple of angel investor groups. The Boston area is an amazing place for MIT and other graduates to launch a business.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: When I was the chairman of the MIT chapter of the IEEE I attended a regional conference at U Mass and met my wife Margaret serving the coffee. We were married in the MIT Chapel in 1964 after I had already starting working in Canada. She bravely survived the winter in Ottawa but was very much in favor of my returning to Sloan School. We enjoyed being back in Boston and lived on Beacon Hill for two years. After graduating, my job sent us to northern California and we had an enjoyable time there for a year. Our son was born just before we were transferred back to the home office in CT. Our daughter was born three years later. Over the years our family has been the focus of our many of our activities including traveling on vacations. We moved back to Boston and have been living in Needham in the same house for the past 38 years == working in many places throughout the area as I pursued various business opportunities. Being in Boston gave my great access to MIT alumni activities as well. I have served as an Educational Counselor, on the Technology Day committee and on our reunion committees as well as attending many alumni seminars. When our two grandchildren were born we entered a very enjoyable period watching them grow == all the positives and none of the responsibilities of being a parent! We took them on a number of intergenerational Elder Hostel (Road Scholar) trips and had a great terrific time. A few years ago I also took my 17 year old grandson on an MIT Travel white water rafting trip on the Salmon River in Idaho. Today we have traveled to most of the places on our bucket list. Now we spend our winters on the Gulf Coast of Florida in a house right on the beach. Margaret enjoys the beach walking and checking out the wild life in the local state park while I am on the golf course. We both enjoy visits from family and friends and through a boat club we have access to boats to cruise the local waterways.

George Christian Pedersen, PE

Course: X

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I spent from the fall of 1958 until winter of 1966 attending: the last 3 year continuously. It is cold im Masachusetts for a Florida boy.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I worked for Albany Felt company from Febuary 1967 (one month before my last child was born) until July 1974: when I began the operation of a company, Kimre, which I had started 4/1974. I have been, and continue to, comercalize an invention of mine. The product is sold for Chemical Processing and Air Pollution Control world wide. Still ahvein fun.

200 Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I was married Pauline immediatly agter graduation in 1962, and have 4 children, one boy with the same name born 1963, Mary was born 1964, Kimberly was born 1966, and Rachelle 1967. Pauline and I divorced in 1994 and I amrried Barbara in 1966. Barbara died in 2009 of ovarian cancer. I have 14 grandchildren spread all over the country. I now live with Teresa Buoniconti in Coral Gables, Florida. I still love fishing, and playing bridge, but do not get much of either in. I still travel a lot on business and for personal (Mexico on vacation in 2/2012, Greece for business in 2/2012, Morocco for business in 3/2012, Australia for business and pleasure in 3/2012, MI for vacation in 4/2012, Germany in June, etc.

Joseph Perkell

Course: II

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I was far from the optimal MIT undergraduate, not really good at math or studying, but I got by academically and was relieved when I graduated. In retrospect MIT felt like my idea of a grim, early 20th century factory with a lot of academic regimentation especially in the first year when most of us took the same courses and had the same crushing weekly schedule of exams in big groups in large rooms. For many years, I had recurring nightmares of going to take one of those tests without having prepared. Coming from south Florida I was cold most of my four years, until I realized that my coat wasn’t warm enough. This is consistent with my having had an especially hard time with thermodynamics and heat transfer. I was in ME, but never really took to it. Fortunately, I was saved from utter gloom and loneliness by living in the SAM fraternity, in relatively pastoral Brookline. There, I met an exceptional bunch guys. As much as possible, they helped me with my academic struggles, and they provided me with a friendly, fun-loving, family-like environment that had a supportive and positive influence on me. The atmosphere was academically serious, but also very social, and I gradually became increasingly comfortable being with women (as we’d say today). Although I grew up with a wonderful sister, I had no brother. Then for four years I was surrounded by brothers. I formed some terrific friendships, a couple of which are still extremely important to me. After graduation, I went to Harvard Dental School, then spent two years as a dentist in the Army (one in Viet Nam). After the Army, I was blessed with an opportunity to come back to MIT as a graduate student in a custom-designed interdisciplinary PhD program in “Speech Communication”. This came about because I’d taken a year off from dental school, during which I’d spent nine months as a research assistant for Ken Stevens, an EE professor who was interested in the acoustics, linguistics and physiology of speech production and perception. I became so interested in my project (studying articulatory movements from a cineradiograph) that Ken suggested I return as a graduate student after getting out of the Army. He assembled a doctoral committee and I studied the physiology of speech production from 1969 to 1974, when I got my PhD. I’ve had the same job as a research scientist in the Speech Communication Group in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics ever since.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Although dentistry was somewhat satisfying, I gave it up. I was much more stimulated by studying the motor control of speech production how the brain controls an extraordinarily complicated set of coordinated movements of the respiratory system, larynx and “vocal tract” to make us speak, that is, to convey linguistic messages to other people via movement and sound. Extraordinarily, people learn how

201 to do this with virtually no instruction and are completely unaware of the underlying processes. Supported first by Ken’s grants and later by my own from NIH over the years I built up a small but very active research group in RLE, with wonderful colleagues, including collaborators from Boston University, Northeastern and the Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary. I’ve met, collaborated and become friends with people and attended meetings on five continents. In spite of the difficulty of doing meaningful research on such a complicated form of behavior, we've made some discoveries over the years that have advanced the field and been acknowledged by colleagues. As I’m about to retire from being a senior research scientist at MIT, I can’t imagine a better place to have worked, or a career for myself that could have been more gratifying and fulfilling. If you're interested in the research, you can look under "Group Website" of the "Speech Motor Control Group" at http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/JosephS.Perkell.html. In the 43 years since I returned to MIT, it’s changed dramatically become much more interesting and humane. It was a terrific and stimulating place to be a graduate student; it helped that I had such a supportive mentor and was interested in what I was doing. I found that virtually everyone and everything at MIT is about as straightforward as possible. If something could be improved, it was, and in the process, made better than one could have imagined. The recent expansion of cutting-edge efforts in biology, the neurosciences and the environment are good examples, ones that show how MIT is continuously taking the lead in vital areas of teaching and research. The feeling of the place has also improved beyond anything we’d have dreamed of in 1962. Women are now such an integral, major segment of the community that it’s hard to believe there were only 10 in our class. Who would have thought there would be so many women students and professors, much less, a female president? The physical plant has grown in imaginative and esthetically interesting ways. MIT has become a vibrant, exciting, world-class institution keeping pace with and in some important ways, leading the evolution of Boston in becoming a world-class city.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I’m not proud to say that I’ve been married three times each time for about 13 years. However, I am proud to say that I did the best I could to make each one succeed, and I seem to be doing much better in my current one. With my first wife, a professor of classics at Dartmouth, I had my daughter, Jennifer, a lovely woman who is now an attorney, working for the California Dept. of Justice. In that job, she’s argued and won a case before the US Supreme Court. My second wife was a research scientist from Sweden who helped open my eyes to other cultures and ways of thinking. My current wife, Ruth Ginsberg-Place, is an exceptionally beautiful, warm, vivid, smart and down-to-earth woman. She’s been a life-long professional artist and along-the-way, a social worker/therapist. We’re both originally from Brooklyn, so maybe that’s part of the magic. Another part may be that I’ve learned some important life lessons. I have a quite a few interests outside of work. One mixed blessing is my deep interest in politics. Unfortunately, as a progressive, I’m dismayed by the direction the country seems to be heading. Fortunately, I also love to listen to classical music, to sail (with a club in Boston Harbor), take and process photographs, read, see films, kayak, travel and spend time with friends and family, which also includes Ruth’s two children and through them, our four grandchildren. In retrospect, I feel very grateful to have gotten to a point where I could write such a story.

202 Roy Perkinson

Course: XI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Some of the memorable highlights of my time at MIT were having been in a math class taught by John Forbes Nash, until he had his well known crisis that resulted in his having to leave MIT; seeing Norbert Wiener strolling the halls; taking a class with Prof. Bottiglia (Italian); Prof. Norman Holland was an inspiring guide to Shakespeare; having Prof. Edgerton as a project advisor; and especially, taking classes with Prof. in various subjects of philosopy, specifically esthetics. Living in ATO, on Bay State Road, was a terrific experience, and I’m happy to say that we were responsible for the “Great Pumpkin” hack that resulted in turning the Great Dome into an orange pumpkin. (Dean Fassett chastised us sternly, but acknowledged quietly that it was a good one.)

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I dropped out during my Junior year to pursue study of art, but returned a year and a half later to graduate with a dual major of Physics and Philosophy. After graduation, I worked for a while at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (now Draper Lab), where the main focus was on developing missile guidance systems for the government. While working there, I took classes with Prof. Wayne Andersen in the History of Art (he was an amazing teacher), and continued to study art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (painting, anatomy, sculpture, printmaking). Eventually I enrolled in Boston University, obtaining an MA in Art History. During the period when I was studying at BU, I also had a job teaching at the Museum of Science. After completing my studies at BU, in 1967 I was fortunate to obtain a job as an apprentice/assistant to Mr. Frances W. Dolloff, the Conservator of Works of Art on Paper at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), which has one of the world’s greatest collections of prints, drawings, photographs, watercolors and other works of art on paper. Mr. Dolloff founded the Museum’s first paper conservation laboratory in 1928, one of the first in the United States. I worked with Mr. Dolloff for several years. In 1973, I left the MFA to establish the paper conservation laboratory at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. This was the the first such facility west of Chicago. In 1976, I was invited to return to the MFA to become Head of Paper Conservation, where I remained until I retired until 2006. During my career at the MFA, I was able to carry out research on many topics relating to the preservation of works of art on paper, write a number of articles and essays in exhibition catalogs, and advance knowledge regarding the works of artists such as Winslow Homer and Edgar Degas. In addition, the Getty Conservation Institute published my annotated translation of an important German text on early twentieth century practices in paper conservation. Throughout these decades, I also pursued my “second job,” painting in oil, pastel and watercolor.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I married Jean MacKinnon, a graduate of Wellesley College, in 1963. We were fortunate to have two wonderful sons: one is the Classroom Technology Specialist at Roxbury Community College, Boston. He is engaged to a terrific woman and plans to get married next July. Our other son is an Associate Professor of Art History at Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine. His wife is the librarian at a regional high school. They have two sons, ages 6 and almost 11 == and we enjoy succumbing to the magnetic pull of our wonderful grandsons at every opportunity. Meanwhile, I am able to continue my passion for painting and have a studio at Fountain Street Studios in Framingham, where I work virtually every day. I’d be delighted to receive visitors at a moment’s notice. My web site is www.perkinsonpaintings.com.

203 Gary W. Phillips

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I have fond memories of living in the Sig Ep house on Beacon Street, especially the friendships, late night bull sessions, parties, clam bakes on the beach, and easy access to Boston's many ethnic restaurants. We had a large and close-knit pledge class and did lots of things together. The biggest drawback was having to cross the Wilson bridge to MIT, but we could usually hitch a ride in bad weather.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduating from MIT I went on to graduate study at the University of Maryland, College Park. The following summer I married my hometown sweetheart, Virginia, I finished my Ph.D. in nuclear physics at Maryland in 1966, followed by two postdoc positions, first at the University of Washington in Seattle and then at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1972 we moved to New Jersey for a research position at Teledyne Isotopes in Westwood outside of New York City. Two years later I joined the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC where I stayed for 28 years, doing research on nuclear radiation detection and sensor systems. I enjoyed going on a number of field trips working with US naval allies in places like Gibraltar, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Singapore. Following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, reports surfaced of Soviet radiation pollution in the Arctic and the Russian mainland. I led Navy investigations of the resulting radioactivity, including a cruise to the Arctic seas and an expedition to the Angara and Yenisey rivers in Siberia. I retired from NRL in 2001 and went on to part-time research and teaching at Georgetown University as an Adjunct Professor in the Masters Degree programs in Radiation Protection and Nuclear Nonproliferation.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Virginia and I will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary next summer. We have three children and four grandchildren scattered across the country. Tracy lives with her husband Matthew and children Evan,14, and Nathan,12, in Olathe, Kansas outside Kansas City, where she works as a financial analyst for Hallmark Cards. Julie lives in Alexandria, Virginia and works at the Marine Barracks in Washington. Brian lives with his wife Cindy and children Travis, 4, and Kaylee, 2 in La Crescenta, California outside Los Angeles. .He works as a film editor on television reality programs such as Hells Kitchen and Big Brother. We see them several times a year, including Christmas, a yearly ski trip in March to Park City, Utah, and an occasional beach week at the Outer Banks in North Carolina. Evan and Nathan stay with us for a week each summer, which usually includes trips to an amusement park and visits to nearby parks, beaches and historical attractions. Last year I crossed one thing off my bucket list by attending the Rose Parade with the family and the Rose Bowl with Brian.

204 Lawrence Pitts

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Hardest I ever worked in my life, but it was among the smartest and most gifted people I've ever associated with. I thought I was really smart until I went to the Institute - was I ever wrong. Life- saving camaraderie and guidance from my Sigma Nu brothers - broke the grind. Lacrosse and rugby also lightened the load. But the whole experience was by far the most life-changing and life- determining - I was extremely fortunate that I was able to be there. I guess one learns to drink in college (if not before) - I did, not always wisely. Better to be lucky than good. Thanks to the gods who protect. Even learned a bit of culture in Boston - coming from a mid-sized town in central Louisiana, I had a long way to go. My opportunities opened virtually all the doors I needed - EE -> computers -> early neurobiology -> med school and the rest is history. But hard work and graduating made all the rest possible, even not too hard in comparison. I even met my wife on a blind date while at MIT - so the start of literally the rest of my life began there. I consider MIT to be great good fortune.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Just before I graduated, I had a facial fracture playing rugby - bummer. Then off to the Navy (benefits of NROTC) for two years on a cruiser out of Norfolk. Applied to med school while in the Navy (even took the only biology class of my life while the ship was in the shipyard) and immediately went to Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine - another great experience and adventure. Did my internship and neurosurgery residency at University of California San Francisco and then joined the faculty there for the next nearly 35 years. My academic areas of interest were neurotrauma and skull base tumors - a great pleasure both intellectually and in job satisfaction. Taking care of people is fun - most of the time. A parallel side trip led me to be the Academic Senate chair at UCSF, from which I became Chair for the entire UC Academic Senate and spent two years at the UC Office of the President. After a couple more years of academic neurosurgery and after I had partially entered retirement, the then-new President of the UC System asked me to be systemwide Provost and Executive Vice President, Academic Affairs from which I'll be stepping down this summer after over three years in the position. This latter job has been superb if somewhat painful, given California's UC's budgetary meltdown. No one is happy - who can blame them? So I sit at a very busy crossroads where lots of unhappy although extremely capable people pass by - administrators, faculty, students among others. The Provost's portfolio is vast - engaged in UC's $5B research enterprise, 225,000 students of all stripes, about 20,000 faculty plus interactions with the other California K-12 and higher education institutions. I'm fortunate in having wonderful vice presidents and other colleagues to try to keep me out of trouble. My engineering and management backgrounds in addition to my medicine experience keep helping me in my work. Altogether a most interesting road that mainly started at MIT.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I've had about all the fun I can stand in these 3+ years as UC's Provost. So I'll re-enter retirement this summer - maybe by the time of the Reunion. Then I'll have some more time for my family - wife of 46 years (SF Botanical Garden docent and board member), daughter (with her husband and granddaughter) who's on the University of Chicago faculty, and my son who is in finance in London. Lots of fish I need to catch (or at least try to) and roads to bicycle down. Plus some sailing - Turkish coast sounds good, maybe the Caribbean. Too much foregone vacation in the past - have to rectify that while I'm still healthy. Looking forward to seeing some of you in June.

205 Howard A. Plotkin

Course: XVIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Met many people who were much smarter in every class. Learned how to “keep my head above water” so I could graduate. Learned how to get a car unstuck from the snow. Learned about “regular” coffee and learned the difference between a milkshake and a frappe in New England. Made good friends and had good times outside the academic life.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Continued my education: M.S. in Statistics and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, Stanford University CPA license in Texas Professional life Military operations research (simulation) at General Dynamics and at Stanford Research Institute (Naval Warfare Research Lab) Academic positions at San Jose State University (School of Engineering) and at the University of Houston (College of Business Administration) Financial analysis at Pennzoil Company, System One (Continental Airlines), and Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Married Eileen in 1965. Daughters Mindy, Tammy and Jody have given us six grandchildren and live in and around San Francisco, so our travels these days are to the west coast. In earlier years we took family vacations to the east coast, so everyone has been able to see the ‘tute. My particular areas of reading interest have been the Civil War and World War II. While I enjoyed visiting battlefields on our trips, the highlight for the girls was being able to enjoy Friendly Ice Cream sundaes for breakfast.

John E. Prussing

Course: XVI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: My fondest memories are from are from Sigma Nu Fraternity, a grad school apartment afterward, and from intercollegiate sports teams (soccer, baseball, lacrosse, rugby), especially the spring vacation trips to play teams in NY and MD. My non-fondest memories include walking into 8.01 lecture in 26-100 and feeling a hollow pit in my stomach. It was probably a combination of homesickness and a feeling of impending doom. But I managed a B in that course which, at that time before grade inflation, was pretty good. Later I was able to take 21.24 Nature of the Comic and 21.80 Existentialism, the latter taught by two Harvard grad students who also taught it at Harvard to an undergrad I later encountered as a faculty colleague (he in philosophy, I in engineering) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and as a tennis opponent. I recall some great courses and great instructors (and a few klinkers) that prepared me well for my career.

206 Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After receiving my SB, SM, and ScD from MIT I accepted a post-doc at the University of California at San Diego and then became a faculty member in aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1969, where I continue to teach and perform research, even after my retirement in 2007. I'm co-author of two textbooks, have been a consultant to NASA, taught a two-day short course on optimal spacecraft trajectories several times, and served as editor for an archival journal in my field. I'm a Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and in the American Astronautical Society (AAS) and have received the Mechanics and Control of Flight Award of the AIAA and the Dirk Brouwer Awards of the AAS.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: My wife of 46 years, Laurel (Wellesley, Economics, '62) and currently Mayor of Urbana, Illinois, and I have three daughters: Heidi, who has gone back to school to get a degree in medical IT, Erica, an associate professor of anthropology at U. Iowa, and Victoria, a grad student in medieval history at Northwestern U. Heidi has two sons ages 15 and 12 and Erica also has two sons, ages 3 and 1. I've enjoyed playing the piano and playing tennis over the years, even winning a few local tournaments and one in New Orleans. For a number of years I played on a local volleyball club, having learned the sport on the beach in our two years in San Diego, and we played in weekend tournaments around the Midwest. Now in my old age I still play tennis, primarily doubles, so I can shout "yours!" when I can't get to the ball.

Bjorn Qvale

Course: II

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: It is difficult for me to write recollections of my student days in a limited amount of space. Suffice it to say that they are all between good and wonderful. I arrived from Norway in 1960 with rather narrow objectives: Get a Master Degree and then return to Norway to practice Mechanical Engineering of some sort. That all changed into: Get a PhD and devote my life to research and education

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After receiving SB and SM degrees in 1963, I worked in various part-time- and full-time jobs in Cambridge (MIT, National Magnet Laboratory, Northern Research and Engineering Corporation). After finishing my Ph.D.-research in 1966, I was hired as an Assistant Professor in The School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. There, I was lucky to become associated with the Ray W. Herrick Laboratory, and worked with a variety of projects in the refrigeration and the power generation fields. In 1971 I moved to Denmark where I was appointed Professor of Energy Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. My association with DTU lasted until retirement in 2007. The area of responsibility of the professorship was a result of a required redefinition process. The result was that the professorship covered just about everything under the sun, particularly in the area of mechanical engineering energy conversion. That was then what I busied myself with until retirement in 2007. The

207 more important projects were in the areas of Combustion Engines, Turbo machinery, Power Plants, Heat Recovery, Heat Storage, Energy Storage, and Industrial Process Networks.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: In 2003 my wife Kaja (who passed away in 2010) suggested that we attend an art course at a Folk-high- school on an island in the southern part Denmark. Since then, visual art (painting and sculpting) has been my all-consuming interest filling more and more of my time. Presently; I think it is fair to say that painting and sculpture is a full-time-plus activity. I have always been testing my talent in various sports including swimming, track-and-field, cross-country orienteering, golf, and tennis, but the talent has ranged from small to nonexistent. Hailing from Norway, it was expected that I was a competent X- country skier. This was not the case, but I made the MIT ski team. The only sport where I possessed a reasonable ability was rowing (with one and two oars), where I won national and international titles in Europe and North America during my students days In the past; I have been in pretty good shape. That is no longer the case. But I am trying to shake off aches and pains and hold old age at bay..

Philip Rabin

Course: X

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: The most memorable event was the celebration of the Centennial -- the train ride in that old fashioned rail car to Sturbridge Village, the parties and events before and after, Senior House's Great Chicken Cookout and all the games. Senior House itself was a great place to live with many original events from Keg Parties to Shakespeare on the Balcony. Can't forget the Saturdays at Durgin Park with the 95 cent special (I still go there today when I'm in Boston); sandwhiches from Elsies -- the 50 cent special of roast beef or caviar and cream cheese, all the dances and mixes. The studies for me were very difficult but somehow I got through them and in the end, it was worthwhile.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: My first job was with Carborundum, developing markets for their new invention of ceramic fiber. Bored with my first courses toward an MBA, I took and did well on the Law Boards and started at Brooklyn Law School at night, moving back to New York and working for Aceto Chemical. This all changed when trouble broke out in the Middle East in 1967. I volunteered but missed that war but decided to move to Israel in 1969. I was employed by the Government owned Israel Chemicals doing feasibility studies for possible new plants. This led to the construction of Dead Sea Periclase Ltd. I was part of its team and became the Marketing Director. We lived in a desert town near the Dead Sea and led the full Israeli life including serving in the army one to two months per year as a combat medic. We moved back to New York in 1980. Initially working for a trading company marketing Chinese and Israeli minerals, I formed my own company, Parchem Trading Ltd. in 1988. This company developed many innovative products including granular magnesium oxide for use in all vitamins and minerals. It also serves as the agent of a German affiliate, manufacturing antacid and antiperspirant chemicals with plants in Germany and China. I gifted the company to my son and finally retired in 2011. When I left the company it employed about 30 people.

208 Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: On my pilot trip in 1968 to Israel through a series of coincidence I met my future wife, Toni, an ex South African who had also volunteered. It was love at first sight and we've been married for 43 years. We have three children all of whom are married, and three grandchildren.

Kenneth Albert Rahn, Sr.

Course: V

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I worked very, very hard, and was inspired by the great students around me.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Taught high school briefly in Providence. Went to graduate school at University of Michigan and got a Ph.D. in meteorology (actually atmospheric chemistry). Had a postdoc at the University of Ghent for nearly three years. Worked at Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island after that, and eventually rose to full professor. Had two more postdocs in Europe. Retired in 2004.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Wife Julie passed away 25 years ago. Single since then. Have son and daughter, both in computer science. Retain interests in music and photography. Spend four months each year at Tsinghua University in Beijing (China's MIT). Help out in the School of Environment and play in the Tsinghua University Military Band. Feels like MIT again.

Joseph David Rapaport

Course: XV

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I entered MIT thinking I was going to be an engineer like my father and go into his manufacturing business. I quickly decided that engineering was not what I thought it was and switched to course XV, Industrial Management. I liked the business subjects and my minor in psychology but found science and engineering difficult and uninteresting. My only activity was squash which I was introduced to as a freshman. I played for the varsity every year and was the number two player in my senior year. Socially I was very shy. During the summers I worked for my dad at his factory and it was then that I realized that I didn't want to be in business with him. By graduation, even though I had compiled a respectable Cum, I knew I had to go to work; graduate school was out of the question and it wasn't a matter of money. I retained my original chemical engineering concentration so when it came to

209 job interviewing I looked to companies in that field. The only one I was offered was as a salesman for the Plastics Division of Allied Chemical Corp.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I worked with Allied Chemical from graduation for three years going from an initial training program to my eventual territory, southeastern New England. In the summer of 1965 I realized I was not suited to the larger corporate world and quit! I was now faced with a very serious problem, namely the draft. I was not prepared to go to Viet Nam so I decided to go back to school full time and enrolled at Columbia University in the MBA program. After turning 26 and no longer eligible for the draft I dropped out of school. Not knowing what to do at this point I went through a three year period of trying many different and assorted jobs as well as some non-working time. Eventually after much soul-searching I settled on making my waqy in the travel business full time. Actually in 1967, at our first class reunion, I was given the award as the person doing the thing "least related" to what I had studied at Tech and that was working in a travel agency. Not being able to work for someone else, I quit that job. It took me two more years open my own agency and I have operating since 1969 and am still active in it today. Initially I only sold charter flights but in a number of years became a "bucket shop" selling discount air travel. This lasted for about 20 years until my end of the travel business changed and the airlines started competing with us not supporting us. Shortly after that the internet became a major player and this was a development that required a new strategy. During my career in travel I have traveled extensively having visited 135 countries. I expanded my offerings to meet the competion and became a full service agency selling all types of tours and arrangements to individuals. I love my work and am active in a number of trade organizations. I still play squash twice a week.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I was brought up in Brooklyn, and have a younger sister. One year after graduation, 1963 I got married but this was short-lived, divorcing in 1965. To make up for the experience I never had before marriage I entered into a 20 year span of serial dating and relationships. It appeared that I would never settle down and was always ready for a party. In December 1986 I met Bonnie who changed my life. She was a travel agent and we met on a "familiarization trip". It took nine years but we actually married in 1995 to everyones amazement and are still together going strong. She has two daughters from her first marriage and through them I have six grandchildren who all live in New Jersey. We live in the Upper West Side of Manhattan where I have lived since my Columbia days. Bonnie has left the travel business and become a successful fine artist, selling her oil paintings and winning prizes in numerous shows. I grew up as "red diaper baby" in a very liberal Jewish household. I had no religious training and until 1990 considered myself an atheist. However, at that time, I decided to study judaism and took adult education classes at a local synagogue. This experience was so transformative that within a short time I became a regular at services and after six months a full fledged believer. Judaism and Israel have become an obsession with me. I have been to Israel 8 times and would love to live there part-time. In addition to synagogue worship, I study Jewish histroy at Columbia. While I go to a very liberal synagogue, because of my position on Israel, I myself am very right-wing (conservative). In fact I am a registered Republican which is very rare in my neighborhood.

210 Heschel Joshua Raskas

Course: VII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: My recollections of my MIT years have great variety. After wandering from philosophy to food technology (there was a family food business that later played a major role in my career), in my third year I became fascinated with the inner, detailed workings of living organisms. The next two years were exciting, fascinating opportunities to learn of the most fundamental discoveries in molecular biology as they were occurring. I remember walking into a class taught by Professor Alex Rich; he announced he was suspending his material for the day in order to tell us about a new discovery: Messenger RNA. My senior year I had the extraordinary opportunity to work in the laboratory of the great microbiologist Professor . I often note what a privilege it was to learn how to use a microscope from a future Noble Prize winner. During those years I met and established long lasting friendships with many current and future leaders of the molecular biology revolution. In contrast, my first two years were agonizingly difficult. I often wondered if I was at the right place. The grade and performance pressure were intense. The first day of freshman physics, 8.01, I remember the lecturer telling us each to look to the immediate right and to the left. He then announced that one of the three of us would not make it to graduation. Those memories persist. Yet I also recognize the life-long value of the intellectual rigor and discipline acquired during those years. I was very fortunate to have a major role in building Jewish life on campus. During our freshman year a group of us worked with the administration and were able to establish the first kosher eating facility on campus, in the basement of Walker Memorial. As an officer of MIT Hillel I was actively engaged in leading weekly and holiday services, participating in study groups and organizing Passover seders for hundreds of students. Many future students benefitted from the foundation we established.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: From MIT I went to Harvard University to begin the Ph.D. program in Biochemistry. At the suggestion of Salva Luria, I joined the research group of Professor Matthew Meselson, who had recently arrived from Cal Tech. My research focused on two aspects of bacterial ribosome function: First, a demonstration that the two ribosome subunits that serve as the site of protein synthesis separate from each other when each protein molecule is completed. This experiment established one of the fundamental steps in making proteins. Second, we performed one of the first ribosome reconstitution experiments, removing some of the organelle’s proteins and then reassembling the functional ribosome. This approach eventually allowed assigning functionality to the individual constituents of the ribosome. My Ph.D. committee included Matt and two Nobel Prize winners, Jim Watson and Walter Gilbert; my degree was awarded in June, 1967. As I was concluding my Ph.D. work, I became interested in the emerging field of tumor virus research. Adinah and I (we were married in ‘62) returned to St. Louis where I began a fellowship at the Institute for Molecular Virology and a fifteen year fascination with adenoviruses. In 1973 I moved to Washington University Medical School where I became Professor of Pathology and Microbiology and Director of the Center for Basic Cancer Research. I was fortunate to have an active research group of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows and substantial funding of our research by the NIH and American Cancer Society. About 1980, I made a decision to change careers. Although my experiences at Washington University were very positive and stimulating, I was asked to join and lead Raskas Foods, a fourth generation family food business that was nearly 100 years old. What had started as a local dairy had become a fermentation products company whose primary products were cream cheese and sour cream. But the lack of a professional management environment was impairing the success of the business. I led the recruitment of a strong management team. From the early ‘80s until 2002 we advanced the technology

211 of the company, grew ten-fold in sales, added manufacturing facilities in Pennsylvania and Texas and a distribution center in St Louis, and became the second largest cream cheese manufacturer in the country. We were primarily a customized brands business. At the time of the company’s sale in 2002, we manufactured about 85% of the supermarket store-brand cream cheese in the country.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Adinah and I married in 1962. We both grew up in St. Louis. Our families were friends, and we had both attended the same elementary school, a Jewish school. Adinah transferred from Washington University to Boston University, and I began the graduate program at Harvard. We have been blessed with five wonderful children: Jonathan, the oldest, was an undergraduate at Columbia College and completed his MM at Northwestern’s Kellogg Business School. Jonathan is a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley in St. Louis. Daniel, married to Daphna Futter, attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is a Senior Vice-President at Danaher Corporation in Washington, D.C. Aviva, married to Moshe Adler, was an undergraduate at Columbia College and graduated Einstein Medical School. She is a geriatric psychiatrist in St. Louis. Ruth Raskas, married to Nigel Ohrenstein, was a Harvard undergraduate and received her law degree from Georgetown Law School. Ruth is a Vice President at Wellpoint, the health insurer. Mordechai, our youngest, is married to Jen Rubin. Mordechai attended Yeshiva University and then Harvard Medical School. He is a resident in pediatrics at Texas Childrens Hospital, Baylor Medical Center in Houston. Each of the children spent a year in Israel between high school and college. We have been blessed with a bounty of grandchildren and await the arrival of Mordechai and Jen’s first child this spring. Throughout these years I have been active in many not-for-profit organizations and especially so since the sale of Raskas Foods. After serving as President of our synagogue and as President of one of our Jewish schools, I had numerous senior responsibilities at the Jewish Federation of St. Louis and then served as its President. I currently serve as Treasurer of the Jewish Federations of North America, the collective organization of more than 140 individual Jewish Federations. I have also become active in various initiatives to stimulate entrepreneurship in St. Louis. For the last five years I have chaired a major program of Innovate St. Louis. The Innovate Venture Mentoring Service is modeled on the Venture Mentoring Service developed at MIT. We now have more than 150 volunteer mentors and mentor 90 start-ups. What an experience to visit the VMS office at MIT, located just behind 10-250 where I had my first experience with organic chemistry! Adinah and I travel to Israel often and center much of our activities around our children and grandchildren.

Richard Alan Reitman

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I was fortunate back in 1958 to have joined Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity over on Commonwealth Avenue where I made life-long friends. Not only did they get me over the rough spots in my studies at the “Tute”, but we have a group in the Bay area that I see Richard & Sunny regularly and enjoy life with. Some of these great guys are responsible for getting my butt out here in the first place! We have been celebrating many holidays together for over 40 years. We have shared both joys and sadness, gains and losses. And I get to enjoy seeing their kids and their kid’s families grow up. We have supported each other in tough times, laughed at many jokes and thoughts that only could come from MIT folks, and

212 cheered each other on through life, death, sickness, competition, employment, marriage and divorce. In fact, several of us in recent years got hooked on cosmology and get together as often as possible to explore questions and answers in this amazing subject. It is quite wonderful to be able to share so much, including diverse political thoughts, and remain good friends for so long.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I spent a year at the Sarnoff Labs in Princeton working on superconducting magnets. Then moved back to Boston and spent some time in the ESL helping model the human motor systems. Then spent a few years at Lion Research working on ground instruments for the Apollo Program. I moved from the Boston area in 1968 after many years of listening to my TEP fraternity brothers who had moved to California rant how wonderful California was- “beautiful women, amazing beaches, glorious mountains etc . etc.” Much to my amazement, they had not exaggerated! Arriving at the height of the “Love Generation” I was hooked. I came with two offers of jobs- one in southern California, and one in the San Francisco Bay area, working with Philco Ford on various space programs. Little did I suspect at the time that that job would produce a career in the satellite business that lasted over 30 years! I retired in 2001 from Space Systems Loral having worked on power subsystems, and hybrid circuit manufacturing and testing. My last few years were spent managing information systems functions to best support the engineering needs of the division.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Before meeting my wife Diane, I had another marriage that lasted from 1969 to 1984, during which time I raised 4 step children, discovered masters swimming, and found myself competing at the national level (and I did pretty well, with a few records to my name in breaststroke) and competing locally at family swim meets with my kids and thoroughly aggravating other “non-pro” families who didn’t like that my kids and I all trained and swam for swim clubs- we kept our trophies anyway!! Some 28 years ago I helped found The Wild Dolphin Project in Florida, a research project studying dolphins in their world on their terms on the Bahama Banks. The project continues today and still fascinates me! Working my way backwards, I need to cover some exciting times in my life back in the Boston area preceding my move to California. I was invited by a gentleman, Monty Wells, from the MIT sports car club to compete at auto- crossing with my 1963 Corvette. I didn’t know what that was, but got involved anyway, discovered all the things needed to make my ‘Vette more competitive and went on to win many trophies and of course, followed auto-crossing with Sports Car Club of America racing- a really quick way to keep your money from accumulating in the bank! I was quite successful and was invited to compete at the National level! Warned by my mentor, a famous Corvette driver named John Caley that racing at those levels and beyond would be all consuming, I kept my racing to the regional level at Thompson Raceway, Bryer Motor Sport Park, and Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. That was enough to avoid collecting to much money in savings accounts! It was a blast! And now with all my stepchildren all grown up, I treasure spending time with at least two of my grandsons who are close enough for visits, and delighting in the stories of my grand and great grand kids in Montana. I recently retired from my mobile disc jockey business, Star Sounds, after 25 years playing music all over northern California. Sigh. I am a horse lover! We have one horse, a 16 year old quarter horse from Alberta Canada named Sonny

213 John Richters

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I was in the combined VI A and B program, receiving BS and MS degrees in 1963. Along the way I was in the co-op program with Bell Labs. Four years later I earned my PhD, also in EE. (Thank you National Science Foundation!) I played a lot of squash as an undergraduate and just missed making the varsity team. In intramurals I represented Baker in table tennis and badminton. I particularly remember when an ice barricade was built across Mem Drive.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After MIT it was on to New Jersey and Bell Labs, focusing mostly on the design and performance of AT&T’s long-distance network and playing a significant role in AT&T’s conversion to a digital network. In 1994 I jumped in front of a downsizing and retired to New Hampshire.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I was a member of a great squash team in the NYC area for many years. We often won the NJ championship before being slaughtered by the Harvard Club. After retirement it was fun, fun, fun. Favorite pastimes are travel, including getting past both the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, skiing, hiking, kayaking and competing in the National Senior Olympics in badminton. My most productive time is spent writing fiction, primarily fantasy and . I’ve published twenty or so short stories, a dozen poems and three novels so far, with two more hopefully coming out soon. Check out desertmagictrilogy.com if you’re interested. I married Carrie, who graduated Simmons at the same time I finally ended my MIT research. We have four children and five grandchildren, two in Winnipeg, Canada and three not too far away in NH.

Jose Rionda

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Saw snow for first time in my life – participated in memorable snowball “fight” in the parking lot behind East Campus starting at midnight!

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Assistant Director of MIT Chemical Engineering Practice School Station at (then Exxon’s) Bayway Refinery during academic year 1963-64. Joined Exxon Research and Engineering Company (ERE) in February, 1966. Initial assignments involved 1) developing gasoline blends for the Benicia Refiner (prior to its design and construction); and 2) defining design basis for desulfurization facilities and Amuay

214 (Venezuela) and Lago (Aruba) refineries. Project went ahead and new fuel oil formations eliminated smog at New York (Manhattan specifically) area. Headed ERE’s environmental protection division bioremediation and surfactant development program implementation during Exxon Valdez oil spill. I was Exxon’s representative in the industry-wide group that created the oil spill response cooperative. Joined A.D. Little as part-time consultant during 1997-2000. Was part of team that developed corporate-wide safety and environmental protection management system for Petroleos Mexicanos (“PEMEX”).

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I married Gloria Fernandez in September of 1962. We are looking forward to celebrating our golden wedding anniversary next year. We’ve had six children (Gloria, Jose, Mark, Maria, Miguel, Cristina). We have seven grandchildren (Maxwell, Caitlin, Anne, Jack, Sofia, Louis, Luke). We have lived in several locations (London, England; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Coral Gables, Florida) but mostly in New Jersey where we’ve owned four homes at different times. I have been teaching religious courses at my parish’s adult formation program for the last eight years. My interests include travel, photography, sports, and family activities.

Willard Rodgers

Course: VII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: It was a period of serious attention to the courses I was taking, and also of exploring my interests, the direction I wanted to pursue toward a career. In my sophomore year, as I recall, I switched from physics to biology as my major, and was intent on going to medical school to earn both an M.D. and a Ph.D. to prepare myself for an academic career in medical research. But as a junior I was inspired by a course in physiological psychology taught by Prof. Ron Melzack, and ended up doing my senior research project and thesis with Ron; and by the second semester of my senior year I decided that I wanted to go to graduate school in psychology, still in preparation for what I expected to be an academic career. With Dr. Melzack's guidance and help, I was able to get into an excellent graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After completing my Ph.D. in 1966, I spent a year teaching psychology at what was then named Pahlavi University in Shiraz, Iran. That was probably not a wise choice -- the year was frustrating both with respect to doing any research and with respect to teaching, given language problems; and in the spring semester, the University decided to close the psychology department. I was able to secure a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Social Research, the University of Michigan. After a year or so in Ann Arbor, I was invited to join the ISR faculty, and remained there for the rest of my career. My research during those years focused primarily on older populations. I examined the quality of information collected through surveys of older people. For the last two decades or so of my career, I was one of the primary investigators on a major multidisciplinary project, the Health and Retirement Study, in which we interviewed every two years a large (20,000+) sample of the U.S. population over age 50. A focus of my own research within this and related spin-off projects has been on cognitive aging: how our cognitive abilities change as we age. I started a phased retirement in 2005, and in 2008 I cut back to a small fraction which I have spent analyzing data and writing papers.

215 Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I married Mary Ann Swartz in 1965, while I was still in graduate school. We had a son, Loren, born in 1967; and a daughter, Joanna, born in 1973. Both of them went to school almost entirely in Ann Arbor. Loren graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1989, then spent three years in Czechoslovakia (as it was then) before returning to get a master's degree in public policy. His passionate interest since his time in Prague has been on employee ownership, as is amply reflected in his career choices -- he is now the executive director of the National Center for Employee Ownership in Oakland, California. After her graduation, Joanna spent two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali, West Africa. After her return, she went to Eugene, Oregon to earn a master's degree in environmental studies. Mary Ann and I followed her to Eugene in 2006, attracted by the mild climate and the proximity of both the Pacific Ocean and the Cascades. Mary Ann died earlier this year, but fortunately not before she was able to experience the joy of the births of two grandchildren and spending time with them on an almost daily basis. In recent years my primary interest has been on environmental issues, and in particular the threats posed by climate change. I have been active in the Sierra Club, first in Michigan, and now in Oregon. It has become painfully clear to me, however, that making progress in addressing environmental issues, or on just about any other type of issue we face today, we must first change the way our government works. To this end, I have become active in Common Cause in Oregon.

Roger Mayes Rowe

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Most of my friendships were in my fraternity, my Navy ROTC class, Course VI classmates, and MIT lightweight crew. Rowing required a lot of commitment, but it was good exercise and allowed me to work off the stress that built up daily from the rigors of academics. I had the privilege of being a member of the Sue & Roger lightweight crew that represented M.I.T. at the Henley Royal Regatta in July 1962. One of my humorous recollections I title in French, “Tous Jours, Regardez La Femme.” Back in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, many MIT secretaries wore shoes with stiletto heels, which were then in style. When they walked down the halls of the main building, one could hear the “click, click, click” of those heels on the hard terrazzo floors in the main building. During the fall semester of my sophomore year, my EE section was required to take a course in statics taught by an instructor in the Mechanical Engineering Department. The class convened shortly after lunch in a classroom that was invariably warm, so the instructor kept the classroom door open for ventilation. As the lecture proceeded, we would frequently hear the familiar “click, click, click” of a secretary walking down the hallway in our direction, which == naturally - piqued our curiosity. The instructor, aware of our youthful inclinations, would start raising his voice in an attempt to keep our attention on the class lecture, but without success. As the secretary came into view through the open class doorway, all student eyes and heads turned in unison to look, and then quickly turned back to the instructor at the chalk board. This drill went on the entire semester. Sometimes in exasperation the instructor closed the door, but then the room temperature went up and several of us dozed off.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Following graduation with a BSEE degree, I continued graduate studies at the Institute, earning an MSEE in 1963. Then I served two years active duty in the U.S. Navy, part of a 6-year contract in the Naval

216 Reserve that I had signed when I joined the NROTC unit in my freshman year. My two years in the Navy were spent in the Electronics Division of the USS Springfield, flagship of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. After completing my active duty in 1965, I began my civilian career as an engineer at the Itek Corporation in Lexington, Massachusetts. While living in the Boston area in the mid-60’s, I met and courted Suanne Cunningham (goes by Sue), a dietitian at the Massachusetts General Hospital. We were married in 1967, and that fall I entered the Harvard Business School, graduating with an MBA in 1969. After graduation we moved to Gaithersburg, Maryland outside Washington, DC, where we started our family while I worked in contracts administration, marketing, and program management for a small electronics company that made custom radio equipment for the U.S. government and certain foreign governments. During the past 43 years living in the DC area, I have worked as a contractor in federal government programs focused on electronics, communications, and then information technology. Since 1987 I have been self-employed as a consultant. For the last 3 years I have worked in Frederick, Maryland at Fort Detrick, helping Army IT program managers obtain DoD certifications to invest in new computer systems or to modernize their legacy systems. God willing, I would like to continue working for another 2 to 4 years before retiring and pursuing other interests.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Sue and I have been married 45 years, and have three grown children: our oldest is a career woman who lives in DC and has worked in various assignments - on the hill, at U.S. AID, and recently became a self- employed consultant in strategic planning and international marketing. Our son is married and lives on the north side of Baltimore. As a microbiologist with the Federal government, he conducts biomedical research to develop malaria vaccines. Our younger daughter lives in Steubenville, Ohio and is a nurse practitioner. She is engaged to be married in late June. Our son and his wife have blessed us with 3 grandchildren, ages 5, 3 and 1. What a joy! In addition to marriage and parenthood, five other significant events have shaped my life; one of these was life-threatening. The first was an automobile accident in 1965, caused by my falling asleep at the wheel and driving my car off the New York Thruway near Albany. I have a small scar on my left elbow to remind me of that accident, and I have a still-vivid memory of the front windshield blowing out as my car rolled down the embankment, landing right side up. That experience led me to believe that God had spared my life and that conclusion led me to review my spiritual life. The second event was receiving the Lord’s Baptism in the Holy Spirit in October 1971. That blessing put me in touch with God in a way I had never imagined was possible. Jesus was no longer an abstraction, but a personal friend; the Bible and prayer came alive. A third event, in 1987, was being dismissed from being vice president of a small electronics company. That dismissal led me to start my own consulting business in Federal government technical programs, and I have continued in that line of work. Another significant event occurred in 1991: Sue and I decided to test a call to become resident members of a Christian community. That test ended in 1994 with a decision to become non-resident associate members. A contributing factor was having a serious heart attack in May of that year. Another significant health event - much later - was a minor stroke in January 2008 that scared me and my family because strokes have occurred in Rowe males in their senior years. Thankfully, my “brain attack” left me with no impairments, and served as a wake-up call to watch the stress level in my life with the help of some medications and “happy” lights. Most recently, Sue and I joined the Roman Catholic Church at Easter, 2010; this opened a new chapter in our spiritual journey. While my primary interest has been practicing my Christian faith, other interests include classical music, fly fishing, camping (no longer on the ground but with cots), and enjoying our kids and grandkids.

217 Philip A. Ruziska

Course: X

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: *Living in Boston at Phi Kappa Theta (originally Phi Kappa) on Commonwealth Ave - one mile from campus. Walked across the bridge at least 4 times per day (including back for lunch). Walking was easier than finding parking spaces when I had a car. *Will always remember Course X classes with Doc. Lewis, Professor Emeritus and known as the father of Chemical Engineering. He was a master at teaching how to solve Chemical Engineering problems -- he never gave the answers but asked us questions until we solved the problem ourselves. *ChE Practice School in New Jersey and the house many of us shared in Westfield. I pass the American Cyanamid site frequently. it’s a minor league ballpark now.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: *41 years with ExxonMobil, starting out at Esso Research & Engineering in NJ. *Chief Engineer for Agricultural Chemicals, designing, commissioning, and troubleshooting primarily ammonia plants (none of which were in the USA). Field assignments in Columbia, Aruba, Greece, Pakistan, Holland, and Alberta, Canada, and much overseas travel in support of these facilities. *Head of ExxonMobil Refinery/Chemical Interface Technology Development, which involved identifying and implementing new approaches for production of petrochemicals in Exxon and Mobil Refineries. *Retired from ExxonMobil Chemical in 2003. *Now working for Carmagen Engineering, Inc. part time as a consultant, providing technical support in petrochemicals and syn gas processes.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: *Married Barbara right after obtaining MS Degree. *Have two children and 6 grandchildren. Daughter lives in Basking Ridge, NJ and son in SC near Charlotte. *First home was in Chester, NJ. Transferred to Texas in 1986 and now living in Kingwood (a suburb of Houston) *Bought a Condo in Somerset, NJ in 2005, where we now spend our summers (to get away from Houston heat and humidity, plus it is close to our daughter and 4 grandchildren) *Barbara and I enjoy playing golf (house in Texas is on a golf course, one of 5 we play within 3 miles of our home). *Have a Timeshare in Palm Desert, CA where we go for one week in winter and enjoy playing golf. *Vice President and Tournament Chairman of our Golf Club in New Jersey. *Enjoy our spring and fall drives between TX and NJ homes *visiting son, who has 2 grandchildren, in SC, along the way.

Lawrence Salba

Course: VI-A

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Except for the endless work and the horrible food at Walker Memorial, I enjoyed my days in Cambridge. The Burton House environment was very friendly. My roommate for the first two years--Danny Thornhill--was a great person (and has been sorely

218 missed). Saturday lunches at Durgin Park and Sunday dinners at the House of Roy were memorable. Trying to legally park my car was less memorable! I had a used '53 Cadillac--the Hummer of its day. After one snowstorm, it took ten of us to get it out of a parking spot on Memorial Drive. I was a VI-A coop student and worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab in Silver Spring, Md. for two terms. It was a great experience and introduced me to the digital world.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I was obliged to work for the Navy for one year after graduation and I went to the Naval Ordnance Lab in Corona, CA. I soon realized real engineering wasn't for me and I got a job at the System Development Corp., in Santa Monica. They were a non-profit part of the Air Force and developed and supported software for major Air Force systems, like SAGE, and surveillance satellites. (The SAGE computer was one you could walk through to change the ever-dying vacuum tubes.) Programming wasn't for me, either, so I decided to return to MIT, and attended Sloan to get an M.S. in Management. Then I moved to New York and worked as a management consultant for The Diebold Group. In 1975, I moved to Detroit to work at Bendix in their Corporate IT organization. I stayed there for 17 years, while the company changed ownership and names: Bendix to Allied Chemical to Siemens. I had the good fortune to live in Paris with my family for about six months, and have otherwise traveled too much: Brazil, Argentina, Korea, Hong Kong, Tokyo, most of Western Europe, and South Bend, IN. Most of my work circled around the new-fangled PC's that were upsetting traditional IT organizations. I retired from EDS in 2002.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I married late, at age 38, but my wife, Pam was worth waiting for. We were married in 1978 and have lived in Michigan ever since. Pam started and ran a bakery for many years until she retired. We have a son, Ben,living in Atlanta and teaching high school history; and a daughter, Leslie, living in Chicago, and working as a corporate lawyer. Both are married with no children yet. As you can tell from my picture, I enjoyed eating. I do a lot of cooking. I'm still trying to duplicate the sweet and sour chicken from the House of Roy! I have also enjoyed photography and have a nice collection of obsolete cameras. I have always enjoyed reading and have tied myself to my PC with an umbilical cord. I like to try out new software. After my personal experiences at an electronics workbench, I am always stunned that so many of our new device purchases work!!

Bardwell C. Salmon

Course: I

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I pledged Phi Sigma Kappa upon entering my freshman year at MIT, the same chapter where my older brother Bill and father Chenery “Pink” Salmon belonged. The first semester I loaded up with seven courses and by mid-term almost flunked out. With help from older brothers and Dean Fassett, I got my study habits under control and my grades back on track. The competition at MIT was quite a jump shift from what I had been accustomed to at my public high school. When I had time I continued to operate Salmon Tree Service, my business in my home town of Hingham, MA. I took up Ice Hockey with the freshman team where my brother was Coach and fell in love with the sport. In the spring I went out for track and found that my speed in the 440 yard dash was no match for Bill Koch and decided to stick with hockey. As time went on I made the Dean’s List a number of semesters, got into Beaver

219 Key, helped run the Freshmen/Sophomore rivalry weekend and became more active in fraternity life. Varsity Ice Hockey for three years was my favorite sport and Phi Sigma Kappa my social activity. I went through the ranks and became house President. I was honored to be elected into Chi Epsilon (the Civil Engineering Society), to be the President of the Class of 1962 and spoke at our graduation ceremonies. My goal at MIT, besides graduating, was to get a broad general engineering education so that I could go on to earn an MBA and have my own construction company.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduating I joined Bethlehem Steel Corporation in their “Looper” management training program. A year later, to fulfill my ROTC obligations, I joined the US Army Corps of Engineers as a 2nd Lt. at Fort Belvoir, VA. Next was Paratrooper School at Fort Benning, GA with a final assignment at Fort Leonard Wood, MO where I helped to integrate one of the segregated companies. After Operation Desert Strike, building my first airfield and becoming a 1st Lt., and two years, I was anxious to get out and returned to Bethlehem Steel in Chicago. As a construction steel salesman I met with owners of many construction companies and after two years decide to scrap my plans for my own construction company and joined Honeywell Information Systems in computer sales. Honeywell was my home for thirteen years. As I moved up the ranks in sales management we moved to MI, MA and finally MN where I was VP responsible for the Italian and French business units. Realizing that main frame computers were on their way out, I left Honeywell for the early stage venture world. First stop was Prolink in Boulder, CO; followed by five years at ComputerVision, in MA where I became President of OIR and eventually VP General Manager of Worldwide Marketing and North American Sales. The MIT Enterprise Forum caught my interest and I became very active and on the board for about twelve years. During that time I helped to co-found the Technology Capital Network at MIT, became its Chairman for twelve years and am still involved as an Advisor. After ComputerVision I became President of LaserPlot (an electronic mapping company), Co-founded EagleView (a digital talent search firm) where I received a patent, Co-founded RealityWave (Internet software for large 3D models) with two MIT Seniors who were also from Phi Sig (we later sold to AVEVA), and then Co-founded Perillon (an environmental software company) where I am currently Chair/CEO.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Cindy Marshall, my high school sweet heart, and I were married following our junior year and had our first child Cheri while at MIT. Two years later while in the Army we had our second child Doug. When we lived in Arlington Heights, IL Cindy earned her BA in teaching from Elmhurst College while I went nights and earned my MBA from Northwestern. As we moved to different towns we would always look for those with the best school system. Cindy and I remained active in the lives of our children in sports, organizations and vacations. Cheri went on to Dana Hall and then Smith College. Doug went to Phillips Exeter, University of CO in Boulder and graduated with a BSEE from Northeastern. Cheri has given us three wonderful grandchildren: Chris (20), Jaci (17) and AJ (14), manages Customer Service for Perillon and lives nearby. Doug manages Sales for Virginia Panel in Canada, Eastern US, Mexico and South America and lives nearby. I still play organized ice hockey, take international trips with my team, and several times a year, play in tournaments with our three grandchildren. I coached youth hockey for our son and three grandchildren and currently coach Cheri’s women’s hockey team. I served as Class President for 25 years, have remained active in Reunion planning and am currently Class VP. After 19 moves, we now live in and have renovated an antique farm house “Sunset Farm” in Groton, MA which Cindy operates as a Bed & Breakfast. We also have a home on Newfound Lake in Bridgewater, NH. We are still in the process of planning our retirement.

220 Arthur J. Samberg

Course: XVI

After graduating in course XVI I took off for a job with Lockheed Missile and Space Co for three years while getting an MS in Aero/Astro at Stanford. While there I met and married my wife of over 48 years, Rebecca, who was getting her MA in History. In ’65, after discovering that I wasn’t going to be anything like the Wright brothers or Charles Draper, I returned east and completed an MBA at Columbia.

Upon receiving my degree I headed down to Wall St, a fairly unusual choice for someone from Tech in those days. Between ‘66 and ’70 Becky and I completed our family of three, Jeff, Laura & Joe. I worked for three years as a security analyst for Kidder, Peabody, and then a small boutique by the name of Lombard, Vitalis, Paganucci & Nelson. In my continuing path to working for smaller and smaller firms, in 1970 I joined Weiss, Peck & Greer, a start-up investment management firm. Investment management and I agreed with each other and I stayed at WPG for 15 years before the entrepreneurial bug bit again.

I had learned about hedge funds, of which there were fewer than 50 when I decided to start one of my own, Pequot Partners, in 1986. Pequot grew to be the largest hedge fund in the world, managing over $17 billion in 2000 & 01. It became renowned for its technology and healthcare investing and in 2002 diversified into credit and other areas.

Approaching 70, with the financial markets changed and hedge funds under assault, I decided to close Pequot in 2009 and open a family investment office, Hawkes Financial, and an internal family venture fund, Acadia Woods, which focuses on start-up companies in the IT, alternative energy and healthcare industries. I am currently Chairman of JetSuite, an air taxi company, and sit on the board of Tri Alpha Energy, a company that is striving to harness fusion energy.

Other board endeavors include a Life Member of the MIT Corporation, and a Member of MIT Executive Committee. In addition, I served as Chairman of the MIT Investment Management Company for five years and currently sit on the Board of Advisor of the MIT Energy Initiative. I am Co-Chair of the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School. I also serve on the Board of Trustees and Executive and Investment Committees of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the Board of Directors of Historic Hudson Valley, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and served as the Chairman of the Jacob Burns Film Center where I am currently Chairman Emeritus. Other philanthropic affiliations include: the Board of College Summit; and the Board of Overseers at the Children's Hospital of New York. Former Board member of National Board of Directors of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship; and past Senior Chair, Wall Street & Financial Services Division of UJA.

221 Allen"A" Saye

Course: I

I transferred to MIT from Pomona College in 1960 after my junior year, along with classmates Dale Gladding and Adolfo Lau, as part of the 3-2 program and enrolled in Course I to earn a Civil engineering degree. Inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge, Hoover Dam and Golden Gate Bridge projects, I wanted to be involved in engineering and heavy-civil construction. Due to an auto accident that caused a shear fracture to my lower back, I spent the first year at MIT in a full body cast and could not sit down in class. There was an 115-mile/hour hurricane when I arrived in Boston and I remember wrapping my arms around a telephone pole for stability.

I joined the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity for the two years I was at MIT and was fortunate to know Bard Salmon, Richard Phillips, Bill Bloebaum, Erik Pederson, Steve Murdock and Brian Tunstall, among many others. We had great times that broke the study grind. MIT was not the techie school that I envisioned. The great professors focused on teaching us how to think. The curriculum and courses I took expanded my horizons that would serve me well later in my career and life. We all had many job offers before graduating, but I took the only west coast offer from Cal Trans in Los Angeles. I was married right after graduation and worked there for 18 months when I received a job offer from Guy F. Atkinson Company, an international construction firm, and worked there for 23 years, working my way up from Office Engineer on freeway and bridge projects in So. California to Project Manager then West Coast Construction Manager, directing highway, bridge, flood control, nuclear power, geothermal power and wastewater treatment projects on the west coast. I took a leave for a year and co-founded Finegrade, Inc. doing major freeway fine grading in California & Arizona. After Atkinson, I went to work for Brinderson Corp. in Irvine and built a nuclear submarine base and naval base, cogeneration power plant, waste water treatment plant and a high-rise office building throughout the US for the next 5 years.

I moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1961 joined The Natt McDougall Company directing construction of a naval base, water and fish facilities, winning 4 prestigious Build America Awards and 2 Excellence in Partnering Awards from the Associated General Contractors of America and Team of the Year Award from the Project Management institute. I moved 25 times since I left MIT.

I retired in 2009, but stay active in volunteer projects, acting as project manager for the development and construction of the CCA Regional Food Bank Distribution Warehouse Facility to feed hungry families on the north coast of Oregon. I am now working on a clean water development project in central Nicaragua and closely follow the MIT Energy Initiative to help transform the global energy system over the next 50 years. I plan to assist emerging countries, building housing and infrastructure and sustainable communities – the subject of my senior thesis at MIT. I am currently living in Beaverton, Oregon. World travel and seven grandchildren are the joy of my life.

My son Jeff earned his MBA at Stanford, was vice-president of Goldman-Sachs and now runs Saye Capital Management in California. Son Steve received his Masters from Northeastern University, worked as International Games Director for the US Olympic Committee and now owns a property management and golf business in North Carolina. My daughter Sharon graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School and now runs her own law firm in Oregon.

222 Ralph Michael Scallion, M.D., E.E.

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: All nighters ad infinitum. Fabulous group of fraternity brothers at Sigma Phi Epsilon (some of whom have become even more fabulous and rich). Key carrying member of "the midnight raiders." at SPE. Pelting the mayor of Boston's limo with water balloons from the 4 th floor at SPE. Got his and his body guards attention. Castro in the gunsights while driving on Storrow Drive. Clam bakes at Wingaersheek Beach. First EE course with Prof. Amar G. Bose. Prof. Huston Smith's "Religions East and West" course. Humanities course with "theme a week" Schoenwald. Walking the Mass Ave bridge one smoot at a time. The one day MIT closed due to snow. Chamber music at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. WBUR 24/7.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: U.S. Naval Ordinance Lab, 10 years. Physics research group. Designed and developed digital signal processors for passive submarine detection and localization, truck detection, SAM missile radar jammers, active helicopter sonar systems, shipboard gun fire control for cruise missile protection, etc. Silver Spring, MD, Pearl Harbor, HI, Gulf of Tonkin Case Western Reserve med school. Internal medicine internship and residency, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH Duke University Medical Center. Cardiology fellowship then Staff cardiologist. Designed and developed 2 D digital ultrasonic cardiac scanner. Clinical research - PPD, AAI. Durham, NC. Principal investigator in > 200 clinical drug trials. IBM Research Triangle Park, NC. Physician consultant, 10 yrs. Private practice -- Cardiology, Internal Medicine and Medication Management, Durham, NC from 1993 until present.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Married 38 yrs. Wife Lynn, RN, BSN, MSN, NP, AOCN is Nurse Practitioner in breast oncology at Duke University Medical Center. Son, Chris, age 28 is civil engineer employed as a Forensic Engineer at Donan Engineering Co., Inc., Raleigh, NC. Daughter, Megan, age 22, summa cum laud graduate, NC State Univ, entering grad school, social work. Interests - almost everything including cooking, gardening, woodworking, fixing cars and almost everything else. I'm poor so I have a lot of old things that always need fixing. Passions - Motivating patients and myself to adhere to the Therapeutic Lifestyle Program. Cardiac and vascular ultrasound imaging. Discontinuing worthless (and worse) drugs prescribed by primary care physicians, psychiatrists and patients who self medicate with dangerous drugs. + cooking!

Allan L. Scherr

Course: VI-A

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Took a freshman elective in computer programming taught by LISP inventor, John McCarthy and IBMer on leave, Nat Rochester. Got interested in computer hardware and focused on that. Took a programming course with Prof. Herb Teager who became my advisor and mentor. Worked for him while a student flow charting the MAD compiler. Went into course VI-A and was a co-op with

223 IBM in Poughkeepsie, then Endicott, NY, and then back to Poughkeepsie. Worked with some of the most creative and skilled logic designers in the world: Gerry Maley and John Earle. Prof. Teager talked me into taking the doctoral qualifying exams when I was a senior. I did OK except for the question on magnetic fields. Couldn't find anyone that could help with solution when I went back to IBM. My oral committee walked me through solution, and Prof. Teager talked them into passing me with the argument that I was a computer guy and wouldn't need the field theory stuff. They passed me with the admonition that I should never tell anyone that I was a real electrical engineer. Went on to become a teaching assistant for a programming course taught by Jack Dennis. The following year, I became a research assistant in the newly formed Project MAC at Tech Square. My doctoral research was to measure and analyze the performance of the newly created time sharing system. After some resistance from Prof. Fano, the head of Project MAC, I got approval for my topic, and consequently became the world's only expert on time-sharing system performance. I loved my time at MIT, and sometimes regret ever leaving. The people were great, the environment was stimulating, and the work was fun. I was offered a faculty position, but went to work for IBM instead.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: When I reached IBM, despite my desire to stay away from programming, I got immersed in what I called "the time sharing wars." IBM had lost the time sharing business at MIT and Project MAC to General Electric, and did not want to lose any more. IBM had a number of specialized time sharing offerings, but nothing had been integrated into their primary product line: the System/360. I proposed a general purpose time sharing addition to the mainline operating system, OS/360. I reluctantly accepted a management position as the design manager. TSO (the time sharing option) was a huge success and launched my career in operating system design and project management. I went on to lead the development of a fully virtualized version of OS/360 (OS/VS2 - release 2 or "MVS") which laid the foundation for IBM's mainframe operating systems up to the present day. I went on to manage the development of a new distributed processing operating system (DPPX) and IBM's Systems Networking Architecture (SNA) products. I did a stint on the corporate technical staff and had the privilege of working for Bob Evans, the man who managed the creation of the System/360 hardware and software product lines. He was the finest engineering management executive I ever saw anywhere. I was named an IBM Fellow in recognition of my operating system and networking work. Toward the end of my IBM career, I worked in the applications area and finally in the newly formed IBM Consulting Group. I left IBM in 1993 during what I called "the great intelligence test." IBM was downsizing. We were told that we'd get a year's salary if we left now; but that if we stayed, our jobs might not be there in a year. I left and wound up at EMC Corporation in Hopkinton, MA running a series of software engineering groups. I retired in 2000 and have a small consulting business (ALS Consulting) that keeps me busy enough.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I have three daughters, Elise, Stephanie, and Katherine. The first two are successful lawyers in New York City. Katherine is graduating from Carnegie-Mellon this year with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I have four grandchildren that I spend as much time as I can with: Olivia (12), Juliet (8), Sawyer (7), and Zachary (3). I live with my wife of 32 years, Linda, in Rhinebeck right on the Hudson River and enjoy the seasons, the geography, and the trains, boats, and planes that are constantly going by. I became a pilot years ago and have a commercial license. I owned a Cessna 182 for 10 years, then a Lancair IV for another 12 years. Lately my flying has tailed off. I belong to a flying club in Poughkeepsie and occasionally use one of their Cessnas. In my 30's, I finally started taking piano lessons. I'm still taking them weekly, but long ago discovered the unfortunate fact that there is no substitute for talent and practice. I also take guitar lessons and recently took up the trombone. My musical interests are primarily classic jazz: any of the modes created up to about 1945.

224 Robert A. Schlenker

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I chose MIT one summer evening after my sophomore year in high school when Bill Jennins, a neighborhood friend of my brother Dick was visiting with news that his sister Nancy, a Radcliffe student was engaged to a MIT chemical engineering graduate student. I asked, "What is MIT?" Bill answered, "The best engineering school in the country." So, with the same naivety that most adolescents have when choosing a college, I decided then and there that MIT was where I would go. I took my SATs, applied to MIT and was accepted. Arriving for freshman orientation in September 1958, I found that I had no room assignment and began my overnighting at the 'tute on a cot in the basement of Graduate House. After a couple of days I was cut from the crowd and with roommate Doug Loescher, was assigned to Baker 103, a back double from which we could see the east side of Dean Fassett's house. Professor Alar Toomre and his wife were our faculty residents. They were welcoming and hosted a number of mixers of which I attended at least a couple. I registered for 18.351 and the instructor spoke in low tones to the blackboard and wrote in tiny script. I dropped the course and registered for the Advanced Standing exam after reading Professor Philip Franklin's text which was used as the course book. The Advanced Standing process was a math savior for me. By the time I left MIT I had accumulated five semesters of math by this process, having begun with M11, later to be known as 18.01, during our freshman orientation week. Another memorable figure freshman year was our porter, Richie Reavis, one of the nicest men I ever met. I knew him until his death in 1997. Son of a slave and a half black/half Cherokee mother and the grandson of a full blooded Cherokee grandmother, Richie was the keeper of a piece of American history that was completely foreign to me. On his bookcase at home was a block of the Washington Elm, the tree on Cambridge Common under which George Washington took command of the Continental Army in 1775. When the terminally diseased tree was cut down in 1923 Richie's father, George Washington Reavis, obtained a piece by applying to the Mayor of Cambridge, explaining that the grande dame of the North Carolina plantation where he had been born a slave, was widow to a Revolutionary War veteran who had known Washington. Among us students in Baker and later those in Burton House where he transferred in autumn 1959, Richie was known for his good nature and good deeds and was later recognized by MIT President Howard Johnson for his service to the MIT community. You could see it from Dean Fassett's back door. His was the only living unit in West Campus not occupied by students. I always wondered about the location of the Fassetts' house sandwiched as it was between Baker House and the Dekes. When the Dekes launched water balloons at Baker House the balloons had to pass over the Fassetts' house, which they invariably did. With the exception of Sancta Maria Hospital, all of the real estate in West Campus was MIT associated. This of course included Graduate House which would be renamed Ashdown House before I left MIT for the Midwest in spring 1970. Avery Ashdown, the namesake of Ashdown House was a bachelor professor of chemistry who devoted much of his life to the fostering of students and could be seen often in the halls of the Institute, at the pool where he swam daily, or at the Graduate House. He was a gentle serious man who contributed greatly to the young people around him. Still on West Campus but bordering Massachusetts Avenue was the Coop and up Mass. Ave. a bit was Bexley Hall. My memory is vague, but I remember Chuck Glueck, Herschel Clopper, and Richard Stein. We had two coeds in our section whose names escape me as do the rest of the members of the Section. Why section 22 was blessed with two of the total of seventeen freshman girls entering MIT in '58 is anybody's guess. I remember one of those girls graduating with a double major in three years, putting most of us one thousand or so boys to shame. Besides Richard Stein always being on top of everything, my most

225 memorable moment vis-a-vis Section 22 was one Saturday morning in 8.01 recitation instructed by Hale Bradt. Graduate student Bradt confronted by a problem that confused us all, looked at the board and then at us and said "Gosh fellas, I don't know!" That dear man, with a music minor from Princeton, who could be seen bicycling around campus, rose to eminence in the Physics Department and is now Emeritus Professor of Physics. I also vividly remember Mr. Lewinsky (was that his name?) who taught our Humanities class and invariably arrived toting a green book bag, well filled, and looking slightly tweedy in his jacket and khakis. He was then, I believe, a Harvard graduate student. During Plato, I recall a sharp comment or two by Chuck Glueck about philosopher kings! Lectures in 8.01 and 8.02 were by Professors Karl Uno Ingard and William Kraushaar. In Baker House, there were "groups" of course. The New York City boys with Tom Heinscheimer the loudest could sometimes be heard on the first floor. Cool and collected was Nick Charney, later founder of "Psychology Today," and his friend Pete Schreier from Newton, a sports car enthusiast, who explained to me that "MG" meant Morris Garage and who admired Bugattis. Then there were the card players who played far into the night sometimes for high stakes, it was rumored. And there were the billiards players, at least one of whom was stunningly good. We had our water fights with mariahs and a few guys got showered. Two students I admired greatly were Mike Littlejohn who drove himself to study and understand physics well beyond our "grade level" and Alan Citron whose piano playing could be heard now and then coming from the old upright in the dining room. His playing of the Moonlight Sonata was particularly settling. Another fine musician was John Hermanson of Baker 641, a physics major and member of our class. He was a flautist who practiced for hours on end. In fact he seemed to practice more than he studied but his cum was great. Senior year I worked at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory on NASA's Gemini Project. I may have been the only student there. There I met the three most unexpected personalities I ever encountered at MIT. In off hours one was a music teacher and photographer and, oh my! the pictures he flashed would make a Penthouse reader blush! The second was a control panel designer for the Gemini space craft who was so certain of the correctness of his designs that when astronauts came to review his proposed designs and objected, generally due to poor ergonomics, he went ballistic as though it was his life on the line and not theirs. The third was a superb technician who could use the F word more frequently, more creatively, and as more different parts of speech than anyone else I have ever encountered. In some ways, he was one of the most verbally adept people I have ever known. Among the subjects I thought interesting was linguistics. Though I never made a switch from physics I did attend some classes and lectures by two greats, Morris Halle and Roman Jakobson. It was in one of Professor Halle's classes that I learned of some boys in Cambridge who had developed their own secret language. Not that codes are unusual among children who wish to have a private world separate from their parents, but this was a true language with grammar, vocabulary, tenses etc. From Jakobson's talks I recall tidbits about the Indo-European languages. Linguistics is, of course, one of MIT's strengths then and now. The one Baker House resident and class of '62 man that I remember choosing linguistics as an area of concentration was George Lakoff, a XXI major. George's enthusiasm for linguistics and encouragement of me once he discovered my interests nearly convinced me to make the switch. He became a professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. Professors Halle and Jakobson were, of course not the only European born faculty at MIT. Another influential person was my advisor, Lazlo Tisza, a former refugee from Hitler's madness. Professor Tisza, a theoretical physicist, was a very mild mannered man always well dressed and never non-plussed by students. He was never discouraging, not even the semester when I wanted to register for seven courses and he approved my doing so. As I think back, I realize that he embodied MIT's remarkable attitude toward students. Some might call it permissive but I consider it enlightened. It is a "let them try it" educational philosophy a very successful philosophy indeed. Professor Francis Hildebrand was another author whose books I remember well. An applied mathematician, Professor Hildebrand provided a very pragmatic approach to the practical use of math. It was in his book on numerical analysis that I was set straight on the rounding of numbers with 5 as the last digit. As I recall it the rule was to round up if an odd digit would be made even and to round down if an even digit would be made odd. He ran a numerical analysis laboratory on the second floor of Building 2

226 filled with Friden mechanical calculators. They could retain some 15 to 20 significant digits. Slow by today's standards but state of the art during our student days. Though I never heard him speak, math professor Norbert Wiener loomed large in our student imaginations. I became aware of him first by rumor and whisper among our fellow freshmen who emphasized his legendary eccentricity. I finally saw him in Building 2 walking along but without dragging the signature pencil along the wall as a navigation aid. The recent biography of him, "Dark Hero of the Information Age" is informative. As famous as Professor Wiener was, I think our classmate Oliver Smoot became even more famous. I first encountered him as a name on the Harvard Bridge. I especially appreciated the "+ 1 ear" ending of his bridge-length measurement. It was not until a hospitalization in the MIT Infirmary that I learned that the Smoot of the bridge was a member of our class. He was in a bed one over from mine. He told me the story of the marking of the bridge. Much more recently I learned that his son, as a pledge of Lambda Chi Alpha, had marked the renovated Harvard Bridge; a fitting tribute to his father and fellow Lambda Chi! And, just a few months ago, I found that "smoot" is now a defined term in the American Heritage Dictionary, not with the traditional definition, for "smoot" is an ancient English word meaning hole or opening for the passage of small animals or bees, but as a unit of length. The American Heritage Dictionary entry sadly lacks the story behind the unit-of-length definition. Another riot I was drawn to was that in Boston on the occasion of a neo-Nazi rally. I got there in plenty of time but stayed on the fringes. It was ugly! As the 60's proceeded from this neo-Nazi rally onward, there was increasing turmoil that brought the outside world in to the sequestered student life at MIT. I vividly recall the Cuban Missile Crisis and standing at the newspaper kiosk in Harvard Square perusing headlines and wondering if we all would be vaporized in a couple of hours. Not a fantasy this. A real gut clenching possibility! Shortly thereafter was the assassination of President Kennedy of which I learned when I walked into my basement laboratory in Building 2. Then came the great northeast blackout in November 1965. Through the windows in the walkway between Buildings 2/6 and 14, Boston, normally awash with lights, especially from the Prudential tower, was completely black, a decidedly eerie scene. On my way home I was able to find candles for sale, but they were in such high demand that I got only a couple of them. As the Vietnam War ramped up so did passions over it. I witnessed this close and personal one night while sitting in a group in the foyer of the top-floor-24-hour library at the Stratton Student Center. Near 77 Mass. Ave. and the Stratton Center was Kresge Auditorium, sometimes known as the "orange peel" for reasons our class knows well. There I attended the so-called last public performance of our beloved Tom Lehrer. I also listened to T. S. Eliot read his poetry at Kresge and attended splendid lectures on thermodynamics by the great Philip Morrison while he was a visiting professor of physics from Cornell. He then accepted an invitation to join the MIT Physics Department and was a frequent user of the Hayden Library and its map room. It would be wrong to neglect the Citgo sign that flashed on and off across the Charles River. It could be mesmerizing. Many a night I peered out at it from Baker 642 as I struggled to focus on quantum mechanics homework. That is the closest to hypnosis I ever got. Though never hypnotized, I did get to speak to one of the MIT psychiatrists. It was a comical interaction. In a dull mood and having difficulty concentrating, I, in a funk decided to consult with one of the mental health professionals. So, in I went. The doctor sat virtually without movement, almost corpse like. He quietly asked me a few questions and then requested an example of my difficulty concentrating. Well, I had borrowed a comparative grammar of Greek and Latin from Widener Library at Harvard. I had gotten five or so pages into it and found I could not concentrate further. I explained this to him and he ruminated for a while. Then this cadaverous man motivated perhaps by his own negative reactions to the classical languages, muttered, "There's nothing wrong with you." I left and returned the book. Though I never encountered this psychiatrist again, I had professional contact with MIT physicians, Samuel Clark, Melvin Chalfin, and Harriet Hardy. They were a distinguished group! Some of their research work made use of desiccated skeletons most of which had residual tissue clinging to the bones. The skeletons were housed in a room in the basement of Building 6 more or less opposite Professor Javan's laser laboratories. In the floors of the basement corridors of Buildings 6 and 2 were utility raceways, dark moist environments where cockroaches lived. The dampness came from the high water

227 table beneath MIT, a water table so high that the basement would flood during really heavy rainstorms when water rose up through those raceways. I recall that once there were two inches of water on the floors and I recall numerous other, not quite so severe, floods. Somehow the cockroaches survived these floods. During the quiet hours of the night they would emerge. These two to four inch long insects found their way into the room where the skeletons were stored. Once he discovered this, Dave Gunner, the diener for these skeletons realized that the cockroaches were a useful defleshing mechanism and so created a takeoff on a "beetle box," one of which he already operated in Building 16, Biology. In would go a skeleton, in would come the cockroaches and after a suitable period of time the skeleton would be cleaner. Though the cockroaches scattered as quickly as they could when the lights were turned on, some were occasionally slow. One hapless critter was trapped by a colleague, Albert Keane, and put out of its misery with liquid nitrogen, boxed as a gift to Al's science-minded son and taken home. His son took this 3 1/2" specimen cheerily, examined it and then kept it for future play. Not hearing about the cockroach for a couple of weeks, Al inquired about it. His son said, "Oh, it crawled away."

Stephen G. Schmelling

Course: VIII

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduating from MIT, I attended graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley, receiving a PHD in physics in 1967. After a few years as a post doc, and a couple of academic positions, I spent the bulk of my career working first as a researcher and then a lab director for the US Environmental Protection Agency. My primary interests were in environmental problems related to the subsurface. While my work for the EPA was not directly related to my studies at MIT and Berkeley, those schools, especially MIT, provided a great foundation for what I did do. I retired in 2008

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Since retiring four years ago, I have been in the process of gradually moving from Oklahoma to Santa Fe, New Mexico to take advantage of the high semi-arid climate and the Northern New Mexico culture and lifestyle. I have been lucky enough to have two wonderful wives. The first, Elizabeth, whom I married in the 1966 was the mother of my two sons and died in 2003. I married my second wife, Carlotta, in 2004, and it has been great the second time around.

Philip Stephen Schmidt

Course: XVI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Member of varsity track team and manager of basketball team, Varsity VP of MIT Athletic Association. Good friends in AEPi and Course 16. Learning that snow isn't much fun after the first couple of hours.Trudging across the Mass Ave bridge in mid-

228 winter with a 25 mph headwind, counting . Catching the last two innings of Red Sox games when the gates were opened at Fenway, and seeing the Great Celtics of the early '60's (Russell, Sharman, Cousy) play at the Garden. Watching Norbert Weiner eating lunch at Tech Drug while reading paperback sci-fi novels. Working in Prof. Samuel Collins' cryogenics lab as a freshman. I will never forget the sound of a specially designed $700 special dewar imploding when I laid it down on a stone lab bench, and of Dr. Collins responding, not by firing me, but by having me read a book on thermal shock. The humbling knowledge that everyone around you is smarter than you are, and the inspiration of learning at the feet of the world's masters. The strange feeling of disorientation when I walked out of my last final exam and realized that I didn't have to go home and work any more homework problems.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Education: SB, Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 1962 MS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford, 1965 PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford, 1968 Professional: Bell Helicopter Division of Textron Corporation, 1962-64, Aerodynamicist Prairie View A&M College, 1968-70, Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow and Assoc. Prof. of Mech. Engr. University of Texas at Austin: 1970-present: Asst, Assoc, and Prof. of Mech Engr 1971-73: Director, Equal Opportunity in Engineering Program 1978-81: Associate Dean of Graduate Studies 1986-2003: Center for Energy Studies, Director, Process Energetics Lab 1994-1999: Director, Engineering Instructional Media Lab 2000-2010: Director, PROCEED (Project-Centered Engineering) Program and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Development, Dept of Mech Engr 2010-present: Phased retirement (half-time) Consulting: Electric Power Research Institute, 1981-82, Senior Consultant (on leave from UT) Other: Gas Research Institute, Texas Governor’s Energy Advisory Council, U.S. Congress (Office of Technology Assesment), numerous corporations Registered Professional Engineer, State of Texas Teaching areas: Thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer Design of thermal-fluid systems Energy and society Research areas: Thermal optimization of manufacturing processes, industrial energy management, hybrid fuel/electric process design Online resources for engineering thermodynamics, project-centered learning Research publications: Over 75 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, 3 chapters in professional handbooks and research compilations Books and web resources: Electricity and Industrial Productivity: A Technical and Economic Perspective, Pergamon Press, 1984 Industrial Energy Management and Conservation, with L.C. Witte and D.R. Brown, Hemisphere, 1987 Industrial Electrification in the Information Age, with F.T. Sparrow, J.H. Vanston and J.W. Zarnikau, Edison Electric Institute, 1994 Thermodynamics: An Integrated Learning System, with D.H. Baker, D.K. Ezekoye, and J.R. Howell, John Wiley, 2006 ThermoNet: Web Resource for Students of Engineering Thermodynamics, with D.H. Baker, D.K. Ezekoye, and J.R. Howell, John Wiley, 2006 Patents: Ground Effect Machine, US patent #3,261,420 (assigned to Bell Aerospace Division of Textron, Inc.), issued 1965 Method and Apparatus for Rapid Drying of Coated Materials with Close Capture of Vapors, US patents #6,207, 941 and 6,323,470, issued 2001. Honors: Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Ralph Coats Roe Award, American Society for Engineering Education (Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Educator), 1992 Chester F. Carlson Award, American Society for Engineering Education (Innovation in Engineering Education), 2010 Texas Professor of the Year, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1994 Academy of Distinguished Teachers, U. T. Austin, (inaugural member) 1995 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, U. T. System, 2009 Chancellor’s Council Outstanding Teaching Award, U.T. Austin, 2010

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Personal: Married Donna Jane Packer in 1966, Palo Alto, CA Children: Allan (b.1969), Daniel (b.1971), and Lauren (b.1974) Grandchildren: Maya, Jacob, and Mira Hobbies: Amateur astronomy and astronomy outreach Music (accordian) Mentoring of K-12 students to promote interest in engineering and science Playing with my grandchildren

229 Edward M. Schneider

Course: X

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: With my Chemical Engineering degree in hand, the Presidency of The Senior House in my fond memories, and invaluable experience as the night watchman at 100 Memorial Drive, I moved to Akron, Ohio to work in the Chemical Division of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. When I left Goodyear, I had been the Marketing Coordinator for PVC Resins and had obtained a MBA degree. My wife and I then opened “Home Economics,” a wholesale/retail enterprise focused on kitchenware, gourmet foods and clever gadgets. We expanded that to nine stores in Ohio and North Carolina in the seventeen years we operated that company. While in the last few years with “Home Economics,” I enrolled in The University of Akron School of Law, and when we left “Home Economics,” I opened a law office with a concentration in Family Law. In 1999 the County Family Law Judge asked me to join the County Court as a Magistrate, and I did. Subsequently, I was appointed the county’s first Family Law Mediator and then the first Foreclosure Mediator. I was then appointed to the Akron Municipal Court as a Magistrate, and I am still there. I am also the Adjunct Professor of Family Law at The University of Akron School of Law and have led the Junior Congregation at our synagogue for more than 25 years.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Alice, my wife of 46 years, and I have two daughters, two wonderful sons-in-law and four grandchildren, who, in deference to the late Dr. Edgerton, are “the strobe lights of our lives.”

Herman Martin Schneider

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Herman M. Schneider was born to German immigrants on January 24, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York, and spent his first school years in Cambria Heights, Queens, where one of his best friends attended the same public school. That friend was subsequently lost due to a re-districting of the schools, only to appear again as a classmate at MIT. In sixth grade Herman moved to what was at that time a rural area in Bernardsville, New Jersey, where he graduated from Bernards High School. He first visited MIT before high school and can still remember seeing the annual undergraduate tuition rate of $700 per year! Even though he was at the top of his high school class, his guidance counselor gave him zero probability of being admitted to MIT since no previous students had been accepted, but he applied anyway and was accepted. Thanks to some local MIT pre-rush week activities in New Jersey, he pledged Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity immediately after arriving on campus. Having had no siblings, living in this fraternity became the most important aspect of his first four years in college because of the life lessons

230 learned, such as understanding other people, receiving and later giving help to others, and acquiring tolerance for other cultures and beliefs. Apart from the fraternity, his main campus activity was the MIT Glee Club which helped him to appreciate different types of music that still plays a role in his life today.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Herman continued his studies at MIT after the first four years which he found challenging but nothing in comparison to the years in graduate school where he earned the S.M. in 1963 and the Sc.D. in 1968, all in electrical engineering. The graduate years were difficult in part because he did not have the support of many of his fraternity brothers who left campus for other endeavors. While in graduate school, he was a teaching assistant and later an Instructor where he earned the Carlton B. Tucker award for excellence in teaching. Upon receiving his doctorate, he became Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT after spending his first year on industrial leave with the General Electric Company. He held in high regard the superb teaching ability of his doctoral thesis advisor and was honored when that professor asked him to teach his graduate course. In 1973, he joined GE Project Ultra High Voltage in Lenox, Massachusetts. Until 1977 he was responsible for outdoor insulation design using a full scale 1500 kilovolt transmission line. Subsequently he held several managerial positions at GE in Pittsfield, MA, including manager, high voltage technology. In 1984, he returned to the facility in Lenox and became technical director before leaving GE in 1994 to join J.A. Jones Power Delivery at the Lenox location where he eventually was named vice president. He retired in 1998 and continued as a consultant to GE and electric companies for several years. He was active in several professional societies and is now a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Herman has enjoyed skiing, tennis, and swimming which he stills tries to practice daily. He is a volunteer at Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic in Lenox, MA, when he is not visiting his other home in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Hans Paul Alexander Schroeder

Course: I

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: There are so many recollections, it's hard to know where to start. I remember walking into 77 Mass Ave for the first time. Dozing on the lawn in the quad and missing class. 10-250. Edgerton's strobe photos. Math, physics, chemistry, humanities, German, psychology, EE, even some CE classes - hundreds, maybe thousands of memory fragments pop up. I remember hours spent programming the TX-0, the old IBM 704, and the CE dept 1620. Punched paper tape and punch cards. That experience got me part-time jobs programming a 7090 at a private company and also at the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at 10x the student labor rate. There are lots of memories outside of class - intramural football and wrestling, playing squash, playing lacrosse, and singing in the MIT Choral Society. Walking across the Harvard Bridge in the middle of winter, but then also in the Spring. Riding the MTA (like Charlie). Boston Pops, the Fenway, Commonwealth Ave, Beacon Street, Public Garden, Commons, concerts on the Charles. Singing in musicals put on by the NE Conservatory. Visiting museums. Fall colors. Then in 1963, on to the Masters program at the Sloan School and the "Quantitative Option". Forrester and Industrial Dynamics. Samuelson and Economics, systems classes, a

231 little accounting. Sitting in the sunshine on the front steps facing the Charles and chatting with a pretty red-headed girl. MIT Outing Club trips, rock climbing, canoeing on the Saco River, Mt. Washington, diving trips off the coast near Marblehead and Gloucester. Trips to the Cape. There was a lot going on. Looking back, most of the best memories are outside of class.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: My part-time programming jobs as an undergrad evolved into a software development company in Cambridge and Washington DC. We did projects for Raytheon, Mitre, Federal Reserve, Harvard, and lots of other places. That went on for a few years after grad school but then I sold out and moved to Hawaii. In Hawaii, I worked as an operations research analyst for a military contractor at Pearl Harbor, and then went to work for one of the Big-8 CPA firms as a systems consultant. That job got me out to all the islands, and to San Francisco and Washington, and gave me some insight into how businesses operated. It also got me through a mail-order course in accounting which led to passing the CPA exam. From there, I started another software company that caused me to move to the Bay Area. That little company tanked, which got me back into doing systems consulting. After passing through 2 or 3 other startups, my systems and programming work eventually led to the formation of a little company that sold software to banks for commercial credit analysis. I wrote the software and did the software training, and my partner sold the software and did the credit analysis training. He turned out to be a really good salesman so we were pretty successful, and eventually we sold the company to Moodys Data Service. I adapted that cash flow analysis software for use in business valuation, and that's where I've been ever since. I have a couple of small, one might say boutique, business valuation firms that operate nationwide, We've been doing that for 26 years. I have a small staff in Chico and San Carlos, CA, and a lot of associates scattered around the country, and we value ownership interests in small to medium-sized companies. We value a lot of high-tech companies, and a lot of construction companies. I've written a few papers that were published in professional valuation journals, which turns out to have been a good move. All of this follows directly from those six years at MIT - math, physics, the programming classes, the civil engineering and architecture classes, and the quant classes at Sloan, but also from the humanities classes. People who don't know about MIT are sometimes surprised that an MIT guy can quote poetry and knows something about history, literature and philosophy.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: While still an undergrad, I married a nice, bright girl named Glenda, who went to work as a programmer for the MIT Computation Center working on the early timesharing project. Like me, she's been involved in computer systems development ever since. At the time, I had my little Cambridge company doing systems, and was 50# overweight and stressed. Our first daughter was born at the old Boston Lying-In Hospital. Within about 2 months we had moved to Hawaii and bought a house 100 yards from a great beach in Kailua. I got down to 175# within a couple of months (and am still the same weight 45 years later) and lost the stress. We had another child born in Kailua, and lived a nice, relaxed life for six years. Living there is a lot different than visiting; I could get home from work at 5:30 and be on the beach by 5:35. I had a boat anchored 25 yards offshore. And then there were the weekends spent diving, body- surfing, and hanging out with friends, several of whom were also MIT grads. Sweet. The entrepreneurial bug eventually caused us to move to Palo Alto, CA, which was also pretty nice. After a few years, Glenda and I got divorced, and I subsequently married a great gal from Iowa named Dulcy, an art teacher. We lived in Menlo Park for 20+ years and adopted two kids. I bought a small plane for my business and flew it for quite a few years, but the need to fly went away and I sold the plane. The traffic, general chaos, confusion, and congestion finally drove us out of the Bay Area and in 1996 we moved to Chico, which is a nice, small college town, an outpost of civilization in the northern California central valley. We bought some acreage in the Cascade/Sierra Nevada foothills outside of town, 40 miles from Mt. Lassen, and built a home. We're pretty far out in the woods, so our neighbors are mostly deer, bears, mountain lions, bobcats, wild turkeys, etc., and a few humans. A couple of cars pass by every day,

232 and at night there is almost zero light pollution, so the stars are clear. But we have DSL, so we're still connected to the outside world. That place is very quiet and peaceful, but my office is in town 20 miles away, and I often end up working very late (a habit from MIT days), so I also have a small house in town about a block from the office. The kids are all grown up and dong well, and now there are six, seven, or eight grandchildren depending on how you count. Family structures are a little less rigid than they were 50 years ago. It looks like I'm going to be doing business valuations for the rest of my life. It's interesting work (mostly), I work with bright, successful people, it keeps my head functioning, and it pays well. But, a friend of mine is talking about getting an apartment in Paris...

Herbert Lawrence Selesnick

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I recall attending lectures in a cavernous auditorium and struggling to understand one foreign language (physics) presented in other virtually foreign languages (the scandanavion English of

Professors Irwin Kraushaar and Uno Ingaard and the Chinese Hinda & Herb English of Professor Kerson Huang). I recall an absent-minded mathematics Professor named Norbert Wiener leaving the classroom for about 20 minutes to ponder a question one of us had asked, finally returning to the classroom with a broad smile, announcing "the answer is intuitively obvious, just as I thought," and then proceeding to finish his lecture without remembering to tell us the "obvious" answer to our question. I recall taking the shortest possible breaks from my deadline-driven bachelor's thesis project by scurrying over to a nearby greasy spoon called The Atomic Cafe to scarf down 21 consecutive "speed lunches" of custard pie and coffee. I recall celebrating MIT's centennial during our junior year with a convocation at which former British Prime Minister Anthony Eden spoke and a concert featuring jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal (more engaging than Eden). I recall taking my dates to classical and jazz concerts and Greek tragedies in Kresge Auditorium, all priced so low that I could afford to present myself as an afficionado of high culture. I recall being convinced that I had developed wrong answers to all four questions on a nuclear physics final exam, getting the exam back with a perfect grade of 100, not understanding why any of my answers were correct, and beginning to think that my future perhaps did not lie in theoretical physics. And I recall cramming as many "philosphy of science" courses as possible into my overcrowded physics-and-mathematics curriculum in hopes of learning what distinguishes a scientific understanding of conscious experience from other ways of knowing, and (to my everlasting benefit) actually finding out.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Having decided that for me at any rate people are more interesting than particles, I applied to and was accepted by MIT Sloan where I earned a master of science degree and learned quite a bit about what was then called industrial management. Courses I took in organizational psychology and the related lectures of Warren Bennis, Edgar Schein, Richard Beckhard, Chris Argyris and Douglas McGregor made an indelible impression on me and planted the seeds of what ultimately became my 45-year organizational consulting career. A visiting professor at Sloan named Peer Soelberg helped me obtain a research assistantship developing computer simulations of management decision making behavior, which in turn helped to advance his research. Soelberg also introduced me to MIT political science professor Ithiel de Sola Pool who was seeking a graduate assistant to develop a computer simulation model of the Soviet mass media system. By this time hooked on building simulation models of organizational and societal behavior, I applied to and was accepted into the first graduate-level class in the new MIT political science

233 department, where I earned a PhD degree with a concentration in political communication. Looking for a professional opportunity to apply my model building expertise in management and political behavior, I had earlier applied to and been hired by a Boston-based management consulting firm called Harbridge House. They had an opening in a start-up profit center that would be consulting to entities engaged in "public administration and institutional services." I spent 15 years at Harbridge House, ultimately becoming a group vice president and helping to build the domestic public management side of their global practice into one of the firm's most successful profit centers. While at Harbridge House, I met and married my wife of 33 years, Hinda Sterling. In 1981 Hinda and I decided to leave the firm and simultaneously to launch both (1) our own specialized practice in organizational consulting, and (2) what eventually became an internationally syndicated comic strip about the organizational life of an American CEO called "Stockworth." Our comic strip appeared in 77 business periodicals worldwide and an anthology of the strip's 600 best panels sold almost 10,000 copies. Over the past thirty years our organizational consulting practice has serviced more than two hundred government, commercial and non- profit enterprises throughout the U.S., including over two dozen of the largest federal agencies.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Hinda and I have three daughters: Marcy (43), Julie (39) and Erica (39). We also have four grandchildren: Kayla (20), Sarah (18), Jaden (3) and Ben (2). Our two younger daughters attended graduate school in Washington, DC and thoughtfully married men living in the DC metro area, making it relatively easy for us to visit with them and their families during our frequent trips to Washington for ongoing federal consulting assignments. Maintaining connectedness with our oldest daughter and two granddaughters has been even easier because they live less than 20 minutes from our home on Massachusetts' historic North Shore. Our oldest daughter combines her veterinary technician role at an animal hospital with a private practice in at-home feline nursing care. Our middle daughter is a partner in a large corporate law firm where she specializes in complex insurance litigations. And our ever-so- slightly youngest daughter is director of organizational development in her husband's information technology consulting firm. Some of my extra curricular (pro bono) activities over the past 50 years include helping the North Shore community where I bought my first home to acuire and administer federal and state grants for mass transit, community and industrial development, and environmental preservation; serving as an active board member for a North Shore synagogue and for the North Shore Jewish Historical Society; compiling family trees and organizing reunions of my maternal and paternal grandmother's respective families; helping to organize several of my highschool class reunions; captaining phone banks for the ultimate winmner of the 2008 presidential election; and serving on the board of advisors of the industrial/organizational psychology master's program at Salem Sate University. Our home in Beverly Cove abuts the Atlantic ocean and I am truly blessed to enjoy year-round beach walks with the love of my life and Chelsea, our 4-year-old Yorky.

Judith Elizabeth Selvidge

Course: XXI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: In 1960, I transferred to MIT from the University of Geneva. Recollections of my two undergraduate years in Cambridge are so many and varied they could fill a book. In fact, they have…entitled "I didn’t know they had girls at MIT", targeted to appear in eBook form in time for our reunion… Adventures like: endless hours toiling over problem sets; Saturday morning chemistry labs [“hot

234 glass does not look hot”]; study breaks at the Reactor Diner or the architecture department’s atelier or Doc Edgerton’s Lab; skiing at Stowe, Mad River Glen, and one April at Tuckerman’s Ravine [“Where are the lifts?”]; and rock-climbing practice at that quarry == what was its name? And finally, to ones surprise and delight, getting the Secretary of the Faculty’s letter in June senior year, “You have been recommended for the Degree of Bachelor of Science¦” and being able to say ever after when encountering a challenge, “How hard can it be?”

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: It’s been my good fortune to work for a number of great organizations -- large and small, public and private == on many fascinating projects, particularly those benefiting from a rigorous analytic approach… as one CEO put it, “mining data before-data mining was cool.” Upon graduation, I joined the Lunar & Planetary Sciences Group at JPL, then earned degrees from Imperial College, London (DIC in Statistics & Operational Research) and Harvard Business School (DBA in Decision Control Systems). Next I taught at the Business School, University of Colorado, Boulder, followed by stints in Washington at the OMB, on a Presidential commission, and with the defense contractor, BDM Corp. In 1985, I became VP for strategic risk management at Marsh & McLennan in NYC. I returned to the West Coast in the 1990’s to practice as a consultant in strategy and risk analysis, advising companies from nuclear power plant operators to public accounting firms.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Robert Louis Stevenson, speaking of his grandfather (a successful engineer, property developer, and civil servant, among other things), said “His great talent was the ability to keep all of his interests alive at once.” I share the same goal. My interests are largely intellectual: math and science, obviously, plus design, literature (especially Shakespeare), and languages. At the moment I’m learning Homeric Greek, in order to enjoy the Iliad in the original. Nowadays, I can’t resist continuing to consult in decision- making, risk, and operations -- whether for paying or pro-bono clients. My favorite vacations are spent fly fishing, hiking, and fence-mending at our family ranch in Colorado. So far I am the latest (!) family member to be welcomed at MIT, following my father (class of 1932), uncle, and older brother; however, I have a new, exceptionally intelligent great-niece for whom I have some hopes.

Thomas P. Sheahen

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: My foremost recollection from Freshman year was walking very early across the Havud bridge and first seeing the "Smoot" marks. I didn't understand them until a few days later. I came into MIT with a love of both ice hockey and physics, and both grew stronger during my years there. We were blessed with a number of good players from Canada, Minnesota, etc. in those years, and beat teams like Univ New Hampshire around 1960-ish. (Subsequently, UNH got serious and produced players like NHL defense star Rod Langway). In addition to playing varsity, I was the first intramural-sport manager to start a program for grad students, with an intramural grad-student hockey league beginning about 1964. That effort earned me a major administrative award from the athletic department. Majoring in Physics was wonderful at every step. Both professors and other students were always helpful. I remember one day showing up for an appointment with Prof. Francis Low (to discuss some quantum

235 concept) and as I entered his office he said into the phone "I've got to go now, General, there's a student here to see me." That simple anecdote captures the way the faculty treasured its students. I really wanted to learn, and the faculty really wanted to teach me. The MIT environment was just right for me. During my undergraduate years, I developed an interest in the interface between religion and science, and it was a pleasant surprise to find that the MIT faculty was not antagonistic to such a viewpoint. In grad school we set up a series of lectures under the auspices of the Tech Catholic Club and had many fine professors come and express their views. It was hard to talk EE Prof Marvin Minsky into making a presentation (he was advancing Artificial Intelligence, having invented the "robot arm"), but he and every speaker got our minds focused on serious questions just over the horizon beyond science into philosophy and theology. I also did a lot of water skiing in those days, traveling with my apartment-mates down to Cape Cod, even in the late autumn or early spring.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: While in Grad School I had a summer job at Bell Labs, and went there directly after completing my PhD in 1966. I worked on a missile project involving instrumentation on a re-entry vehicle. The fruits of that program was that the USA could not be bluffed when they went into SALT negotiations with the Soviets in the 1970s. Subsequently I moved into instruments in harsh factory environments, and then to the National Bureau of Standards, specializing in energy measurements and energy sciences in general. In 1977-78 I was chosen as a Congressional Science Fellow by the American Physical Society, and that brought me into the science-policy world of Washington DC. I worked for Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon, a genuine statesman who demonstrated a far more honorable picture of Washington than the stereotype popular today; my work contributed a tiny bit to the eventual de-regulation of natural gas prices. In 1982 I became a Registered Professional Engineer in Maryland, adding some letters behind my name. I continued to work in the Washington area for the remainder of my career, always in energy-related activities. During the 1980s I worked for the Office of Technology Assessment, and later was Executive Director of the Energy Research Advisory Board of the Department of Energy; then in 1987 High-Temperature Superconductivity came into existence. At MIT I had done both undergraduate and PhD theses in superconductivity, so it wasn't long before I joined Argonne National Lab, and by 1993 wrote the textbook "Introduction to High Temperature Superconductivity" which made me a junior guru in that specialty for the next decade. In the later 1990s I worked for S A I C, and by 2000 was attached to Oak Ridge National Lab, working for the high-temperature superconductivity program of the Department of Energy. Finally, in 2005 I joined the WashDC office of the National Renewable Energy Lab, supporting the Department of Energy's effort toward a hydrogen-economy. I retired in early 2009. Along the way, I taught occasional physics courses and management courses through local universities. I worked harder preparing my lectures and grading fairly than I ever had since grad school. In the early 2000's I began writing a weekly newspaper column in Q/A format, called "Ask the Everyday Scientist." That continues to the present, and forces me to stay current on new technologies.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I retained a lifelong interest in ice hockey. I began refereeing intramural games on the outdoor rink next to Briggs Field House in early 1959, and continued refereeing amateur hockey for 44 years, finally hanging up my skates in 2003. At one point I quipped that "players, coaches and mathematicians all agree that Tom's refereeing skills are billions of times greater than when he first began reffing." I was married in 1967 and have 3 children: Laura, 1971, Allan, 1972 and Andy, 1979. All of them have been skating since about age 2 or 3. Both boys became skilled hockey players, including at the college level. Allan went on to serve 10 years as the head coach of the hockey team of Loyola University of Maryland. He has two boys (Sean, 2001 and Conor 2003) who enjoy other sports as well. All three kids have jobs that make a parent proud. Laura lives in Rome, Italy, and is the Information Officer for Caritas Internationalis, a huge international charity that looks after refugees and suffering people all over the world. I can barely pronounce some of the countries she's been to. Allan is the manager for much of Maryland of the company that oversees the care of developmentally disabled individuals, under contract

236 to the state government. Andy is very skilled in all things I.T. and is a principal consultant within the Ericsson Company, the Swedish electronics giant. Over the decades I've made a lot of friends, including many outside the sciences, with knowledge of philosophy and theology, and I've read a lot of books in those fields. Around 1990 I became an active member of ITEST (the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science & Technology), and in 2008 I became its director. ITEST is committed to the principle that science and religion need not be enemies, but are in reality complementary pathways toward knowledge. We hold annual conferences, publish a quarterly bulletin, and have very active programs in elementary education. The time I devote to ITEST resembles a full-time job, even though I'm a retiree now. I still find time for sports such as water skiing and snow skiing, plus occasional travel to faraway places. My home is on a lake in the mountains of far western Maryland (although Coloradans wouldn't call this real mountains). There's plenty to do all year round. Moreover, the internet and Email enable me to keep connected with friends everywhere.

Theodore J. Sheskin

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I liked the people at MIT. Students in my Baker House dorm and in labs were always collaborative. My lab partners, particularly Al Sock, contributed to my success in graduating in Course VI. I was disappointed by recitations often taught by graduate students instead of faculty. I have written letters on this issue to the late dean MacVicar, to presidents Vest and Hockfield, and to Technology Review. MIT has devoted increased attention to undergraduate education.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: From 1962-64, I worked as a test equipment engineer for IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY. During 1964-65, I earned an MSEE from Syracuse University. From 1965-68, I worked as a logic design engineer for Burroughs (now Unisys) Corp. in Paoli, PA. In 1968 I joined Digital Information Devices, a start-up company in Lionville, PA, as a systems engineer. When that company failed in 1971, I enrolled in a doctoral program in industrial engineering and operations research at Penn State University. Upon graduating with a PhD and a PE license in 1974, I was hired by Cleveland State University as an assistant professor of industrial engineering. I retired as a professor emeritus in 2009, and engaged in post retirement teaching through Dec. 2011.I am the sole author of 21 papers published in peer reviewed journals of engineering and mathematical methods. I am also the author of a book, Markov Chains and Decision Processes for Engineers and Managers, CRC Press, Nov. 2010.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I am a bachelor. I take home delivery of the New York Times. My wide range of interests has been expressed in the publication of numerous letters to editors of a variety of newspapers and magazines. I enjoy listening to classical music, reading mysteries, and walking every day.

237 Harold (Hal) Shukovsky

Course: III

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I remember my years at MIT with great fondness. The Senior House living group was a wonderful group of diverse folks. I still feel honored to have been selected as hall chairman of the Holman living group. My years at MIT featured the Mass Ave bridge measurement in Smoots, the packing of the Mass Ave underpass with snow, the 20 ft icicle growing contests at East Campus, the smell of the NECCO candy factory that permeated the air as you walked to class from Senior House and the midnight runs to The Nile in Boston for baba ganoush and of course trips to Elsie's at Harvard Square for her roast beef specials. I relish the times I saw Norbert Weiner wandering the halls of MIT and all the Norbert Weiner stories that were part of the MIT culture. I remember the three diners in the MIT neighborhood that were nicknamed “The Red Death”, “The Black Death”, and the diner near the MIT reactor nicknamed “Radioactive”. I often feel that my years at MIT were perhaps the best years of my life as I also met my soul mate, Yvonne in 1959 and we have been married for over 50 years.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After receiving my S.B. in 1962, I went on to receive a S.M. (1964) and ScD (1965) at MIT in course 3B (Materials Science: Physics of Solids). My research was in the field of superconductivity and the effects of crystal defects on the low temperature electrical transport properties of ultrapure single crystals of tungsten. Upon leaving MIT I worked at the Western Electric Research Center in Princeton, N.J. on the development of the magnetic plated wire memory.After several years at Western Electric I joined the RCA David Sarnoff Laboratories in Princeton, continuing my work on plated wire memories. Our group moved to Marlboro, MA when the RCA Computer Systems Center was established. When RCA decided to exit the computer industry I joined Digital Equipment Corp in 1971. I spent 21 years at DEC working on the development of high density thin film memory disks and the development of thin film magnetic recording heads.for high performance hard disk systems. I led a wonderful R&D group that made a number of significant contributions in the field of high density magnetic recording through product development, patents, technical publications, and presentations at international conferences.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I married my soul mate, Yvonne in the MIT Chapel on December 24, 1961 and we have been married for over 50 years. We have two adult children, a son, Eric and a daughter, Karen, and two grandchildren. Yvonne and I were active in the art community in the greater Boston area during our years living in Framingham. We were members of the Concord Art Association, Cambridge Art Association, Sudbury Art Association and Yvonne was a member of the Copley Society in Boston. We exhibited our art (Yvonne-collage, watercolor, photography and my photography and digital collage) widely in the greater Boston area until we moved to the Lake Sunapee area of New Hampshire. Since our move to New Hampshire in 1996 we have been members of the New Hampshire Art Association in Portsmouth as well as the AVA Gallery in Lebanon ,NH. We have a website gallery , www.shukovskygallery.com that has about 80 of our art works on it, although it has not been updated for several years.

238 Xavier L. Simon

Course: X

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: The best time in my life! And just today I wrote about how impressed I remain to this day about how the professors were so down-to-earth and in touch with their students, something I never Xavier & Gail experienced after leaving MIT.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After an MS degree I moved on to the Harvard Business School for an MBA. Then I worked my way up the ranks in the private sector in Mexico before becoming general manager of a start-up company. I then moved to the World Bank for a twenty year career in development. I had always been intrigued with why so many people in developing countries seemed unable to do more to help themselves (my experience was that they were always willing). Since retiring I have been developing and am now putting the finishing touches on my own stab at a theory of social change and design tools for helping people help themselves.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: Three beautiful children and three even more beautiful grandchildren; my wife lost to them! My oldest daughter in Atlanta is trying to make it on her own, her sister is in the Washington DC area managing the financial affairs of a small tech company, and my son is responsible for integration of the engineering work for Boeing's entry to replace the Space Shuttle.

Bruce Frederick Smith

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

I remember the excitement of being admitted to MIT and the award of a scholarship that made it possible for me to attend. I felt a great deal of responsibility to my parents for their support and sacrifice. I began in the fall of 1958 and lived in the Senior House dorm on campus. The classes were tough and I worked very hard. Fraternity living beckoned through several friends I met that first year. I joined Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, a move that really made for a fulfilling and rewarding time. Many lifelong friendships were begun during these years. I found the course work difficult and the competition challenging and stimulating. By the end of my sophomore year, I settled on course 8 as my major. I graduated in 1962 with a degree in physics. Living at Sig Ep was a great move for me. It made my Institute experience so much more complete and thoroughly rewarding. As a fraternity we shared so many experiences. We worked very hard most of the time, but we also had time to play hard. The memories flood in: double dating with someone who had a car, house parties, shared projects, beach parties, and just

239 being a part of a group of delightful brothers. We shared the responsibilities of running the house and representing ourselves to others. In such a group we learned many valuable life lessons about responsibility and leadership.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: After graduating in 1962, I began graduate school at the University of Maryland in physics. I was fortunate to also work as an intern during the summers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The experiences at Goddard were in various space science activities. As I continued my graduate studies, I concentrated in astrophysics. My thesis research involved the stellar component and dynamics of galaxies. I developed numerical techniques to follow the nonlinear dynamical evolution of galaxies. This research relied on the use of large scale computers which were available at the time. I received my Ph.D. degree in 1968 from the University of Maryland. I moved on to NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA with a postdoctoral fellowship. Most of my career was spent as a research scientist at Ames. The research work I did focused on the dynamics of stellar systems. I collaborated with Dr. Richard Miller, University of Chicago. These investigations relied on fully self-consistent, time- dependent galaxy models composed of stars and gas. These experiments allowed for the study of the fully nonlinear dynamical evolution of various systems. Some of the significant results indicated the complex structures of elliptical and barred spiral galaxies. The work also made important strides in our own understanding of galaxy clusters and collisions of galaxies. Many of the numerical experiments were carried out using particle codes (large n-body codes) in three dimensions. These studies were made possible by large super computers available at the time. These included the llliac IV, CDC machines and a series of Cray computers. The analysis of the results demanded the use of graphical displays of the 3D models and relied on powerful computer graphic machines that were available at the time. These numerical experiments were used to analyze and understand the observational advances from the Hubble Space Telescope. In the later years I moved into management positions at NASA Ames and was the Branch Chief of the Planetary Systems Branch in the Space Science Division. I retired from Ames in August, 2004.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I met my wife, Wendy, while in graduate school. We were married in July, 1967 and have been happily married for 44 years. We raised our three children, Heather, Jeff, and Erin, here in California. While the children were growing up, we were very involved in all their school and extracurricular activities. We participated in the PTA and supported them in their school sports and music programs. Outside of school activities we were very involved in scouting, swimming, baseball, basketball, soccer, and YMCA programs. It was a fun and busy time in our lives. All three children went on to college, received their degrees and are now married. We are now the proud grandparents of 7 grandchildren ranging in age from 4-14 years old. It has been delightful to watch the grandchildren grow and develop. There is never a dull moment in their lives. Wendy and I share interests in outdoor activities. We have spent a lot of time in the mountains, particularly in Colorado, near Rocky Mountain National Park, where my parents retired, and in the Sierras, including Yosemite National Park. Activities have included camping, hiking and skiing. We have also had many opportunities to spend time along the Pacific Coast. Whether it is in the mountains or by the ocean we always come back with renewed energy. We are happy to see that we have passed down our love of the outdoors to our children and grandchildren. We have had some wonderful trips to New Zealand, the Galapagos Islands and Hawaii. We anticipate new adventures in travel in the years to come.

240 Elmer Leroy Smithson

Course: XVI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: Walking across the Harvard Bridge at least 4 times a day and when it was cold, windy or just lazy trying to thumb a ride at the corner of Boylston and Mass Ave. Being a California boy, learning how to walk on ice without slipping and falling. How beautiful it was in the fall and waiting and looking for the first buds and leaves of spring and how great it was to have survived the winter, especially after finals. The fascination of Boston. The time I walked across the bridge on a Saturday (I think) and seeing these marks on the pavement and getting to the Cambridge side and seeing 364.4 Smoots + 1 ear and wondering what THAT was all about. The companionship of my fraternity brothers. The impressiveness of our fraternity while our butler Simpkins was alive. Our wonderful cook Mrs. Day. Dressing in coat and tie for dinner and having coffee afterwards in the second floor lounge. Waking up in the morning in our sleeping dorm with snow on the foot of the bed. Going to classes in Building 33. Wandering around the MIT campus and admiring the Great Court and the names of famous scientists on the buildings. The view of MIT from across the Charles River. The pure joy of putting my thesis receipt on the wall in the second floor lounge and how GREAT it felt to graduate.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: I had already worked for about two years previous to graduation at Douglas Missiles and Space Systems Division in Santa Monica, CA. After graduation they made the best offer and I returned to Douglas. In 1967 the company became McDonnell Douglas and in 1997 was taken over by Boeing. I worked for the company for 43½ years retiring in 2003. Through the years I worked on many projects including launch vehicles, manned and unmanned reentry vehicles, , interceptors and satellites primarily in the area of flight mechanics, orbit mechanics and software development. My interest was mostly in new development and I did not choose to work on the same thing for extended periods of time. I liked the challenge of doing and learning new things and working for new people. I worked on such projects as Honest John, Delta, Discoverer, ASSET, the beginnings of the Space Shuttle and the Space Shuttle study and proposal, Site Defense, HOE, Special Activities, and Delta 3 ending with Delta 4 from pre-proposal, proposal and into development. I was heavily involved in developing the company’s current trajectory program starting in 1968.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I met my wife, Janette Sims, in our apartment building where I was living with a fraternity brother. She is a native of Coventry, England having immigrated here in 1957 with her family. We both loved the outdoors and hiking. We were married in Oct 1965 in her apartment in Santa Monica. We recently celebrated our 46th wedding anniversary. In 1968 we had our first child, Stephanie. In 1970 the company moved us to Huntington Beach where we bought our house. In 1970 our son William was born, followed by Julie in 1972 and Robert in 1975. We have lived in the same house for over 41 years. I have backpacked in the Sierra for over 25 years a number of times with my wife. We have also enjoyed traveling throughout the West. We have taken trips to England, Paris and Scandinavia. We have owned two travel trailers that we have enjoyed. We currently are still traveling in our trailer; it’s the only way to go. I love to play AT golf and volunteer at the library’s Homework Club helping kids with math. In 1979 a cousin got me interested in genealogy and I have accumulated 16,000 names in my records. Genealogy is like being a detective without getting shot at, but you don’t get to kiss the girl!

241 Oliver Reed Smoot

Course: XIV

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I arrived in 1958 intending to become a physicist like my hero Enrico Fermi, live in a dorm, and become an Air Force pilot like my Dad. By the end of the second round of weekly physics quizzes I realized most of my classmates had more insight into both physics and calculus than I. Actually, I was on track to flunk out. Luckily, I had pledged Lambda Chi Alpha. Through my Big Brother’s counseling and strong pledge brother links, I was yanked up short, learned how to study, and forced to become less introverted. By the end of freshman year I was doing OK academically, had made some good friends, but certainly didn’t know what I should major in. Over the summer I thought about the subjects that appealed to me and focused on Courses XIV, XV and XXI, since the most rewarding courses I had taken were Economics and Foundations of Western Civilization. So, I decided to become a Foreign Service Officer, enrolled in Course XIV and became a happy camper studying international relations. Well, there was that pesky minor, so I also took two Course XVIII subjects a semester. What a bummer, but I once did know what a gradient vector was! Between our Junior and Senior years I met Sandy Curry when we worked in adjacent rooms in the Pentagon programming the Air Force’s Aircraft and Aerospace Inventory document. This was done using a home crafted matrix manipulation “language.” It was easy to make a mistake and have to throw away 12 hours of mainframe time. Fortunately for the Air Force, I enjoyed Sandy’s company a lot and spent relatively less time jockeying for computer time. Sandy went to Northwestern, so my senior year could have been a drag if Lambda Chi hadn’t purchased a new home at 99 Bay State Road. Helping to find, buy and occupy a new fraternity house was a unique and rewarding experience. However, those 700 miles apart certainly provided revenue for AT&T! There was (and is) a senior thesis requirement in Course XIV. I found an advisor, Professor Lucian Pye, an expert on Southeast Asia. Unfortunately, I had just taken a course involving local Boston politics and wanted to write about student attitudes towards police based on a survey. Professor Pye thought that not very interesting, so we had long talks and I wrote about the impact of Buddhism on three Southeast Asian countries. With our research resources today this would have been easy. Then, the hard part was going from “great library” to great library trying to find any research less than a decade old. In a way, it is gratifying to know that my research showed that the then common perception of Buddhists as equivalent to pacifists was incorrect, as all three countries I studied had experienced great strife in the past, and we know today that Sri Lanka, Burma, and Cambodia have had such experiences since. As with most of us, graduation rushed up much faster than I ever anticipated. That spring, however, my future father-in-law convinced me that even for a Foreign Service officer getting a law degree was a good idea, so while competing for a Foreign Service position; I gained entry to Georgetown Law Center. Unfortunately, I mentioned this during a Foreign Service interview, and was told they needed all my time. Having to choose certainly affected my whole life, as I chose law school. When we were sophomores, juniors and seniors, my pledge brothers and I made sure the pledges repainted the "Smoot Marks” on the Harvard Bridge, but I think we left not giving them another thought.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: Georgetown Law Center was a jolt. No math, no tech-talk, only reading cases, class recitations, and being humbled by professors until you learned to “think like a lawyer.” Luckily, I did, about the end of the first year, removing the terror, but leaving the grind. That summer I was living at home, said I had to contribute much more to my schooling. So, I transferred to the Evening Division, and looked for a job. I found the perfect job, computer operator at the Institute for Defense Analyses where they modeled ballistic missile exchanges -- usually requiring multiple hour runs, leaving plenty of time to study.

242 Somehow, however, I found myself learning FORTRAN, then helping on some small projects, then not operating the computer unless it was my project, then learning assembler and extending both our operating system and FORTRAN compiler. I passed the DC and VA bars by 1966, and promptly decided systems programming was much more interesting. In 1969 I recognized I either returned to graduate school in the new subject of computer science or applied my legal knowledge. I obtained an Assistant Manager position with the Business Equipment Manufacturers Association (BEMA) to manage the privacy aspect of their response to the Federal Communications Commission’s proceeding to decide whether to regulate the computer industry -- isn’t that an amazing idea? I got the job because our computer facility was in a shielded room and thus I must know about privacy. That’s a long introduction to saying that I spent the rest of my entire career at what is now the Information Technology Industry Council (ITIC), utilizing not only my law degree and my political science knowledge, but also that good grounding in science and math almost no one else in Washington has. Being at what is now ITIC put me at the front of addressing policy issues that increasingly affected the computer manufacturers' privacy, patentability of computer programs, federal procurement of computers, foreign trade, export controls, and copyright of computer programs -- each enabled me to meet new executives from companies, work with new parts of the federal government, and increasingly travel internationally to work with other industry associations and international organizations. During this time I was promoted to Executive Vice President, essentially the COO, managing the internal and financial aspects of the Association. Then, in 1986 I was assigned (drafted?) to represent CBEMA on the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Board of Directors. In 1961 BEMA sponsored the first computer and office equipment technical standards committees. (ITIC still does. What were X3 and X4 in 1959 became the International Committee for Information Technology Standardization, with over 1300 ANSI standards, more than any other US standards organization. ) ANSI was in crisis, with several major engineering societies threatening to walk. Soon, I was spending almost all my time on ANSI affairs, then, I seemed to be chairing committees, working with federal agencies, going to International Organization for Standardization (ISO) meetings, and generally taking a leadership role in voluntary standards management. So, in 2000, I resigned my position as Executive Vice President of ITIC and became VP for External Voluntary Standards Relations on a contract so I could become Chairman of the Board of ANSI. The following year the US had an opportunity to offer a candidate for President of ISO, which I became for 2003-2004. I wouldn’t say I planned my career very well, and I try to tell younger people life holds a lot of surprises, so get as good an education as you can -- but it must include lots of math and science -- even if it tastes bad at the time. I would say almost my entire career was enjoyable and much was fascinating. All the while, with no real interaction with me, the Smoot Marks were being repainted (a real positive feedback loop) and gathering local, then wider attention.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: After meeting Sandy Curry in the summer of 1961 while working in the Pentagon, we dated long distance, as her family moved to Connecticut and she went to Northwestern in Illinois. Following graduation from MIT, I spent most of my spare time figuring out the cheapest way to get where she was, and how to pay my phone bill. We married in June 1964 and settled down in an apartment in Arlington VA. Sandy was born in Washington DC and lived there her whole life until going off the Northwestern, so I asked her several times if she would like the life of a Foreign Service officer -- luckily she said “Yes.” All that makes it somewhat ironic that we lived in an apartment in Arlington VA for three years, then a house in Annandale VA for 11 years, and then in a house in Falls Church VA for 30 years. All were within five miles of each other. After working for IBM and when the kids were in school, Sandy returned to work at Social and Scientific Systems where for the next 30 years she managed a group doing statistical analyses for various federal health agencies. Our son, Steve, was born in 1967, a quite happy kid who turned out to be pretty intelligent and studious. When we toured colleges he liked the science labs the best. When he walked into 77 Mass Av his eyes lit up and he said, “This is for me.” Luckily, he got in, majoring in Course VI and living in Hayden. Steve went to Berkeley to get his PhD. He and Marcia Smith (‘89 VII) married and live in San Francisco. Steve works for Riverbed Technologies. Our daughter, Sherry, was born in 1970 and tried everything from sports to pageants before getting her

243 bachelor’s in computer engineering at UVA. She worked as a consultant in telecomm privatization until she would have to take the GRE again and then went to the Sloan School where she met her husband Mark. After being the business manager for a veterinary hospital, she is currently coping with our two grandsons, Ryan-eight and Drew-six. As you might imagine the grandsons are the reason we now live in Rancho Bernardo CA—nine miles from Ryan and Drew (and of course Sherry and Mark). We moved here in June 2007 and in October fled as the Witch Creek wild fire burned to the eaves of our house. We have lived through many >20” snowstorms, hurricanes, and even an earthquake, but nothing concentrates your attention quite like waking at 4 am and seeing a line of fire advancing up the canyon behind your house. As newcomers we have thrown ourselves into numerous activities. I know I have played more bridge than any time since being an undergraduate. We have met many friendly and interesting people here and are busier than ever. Sometimes we forget that we moved here to do things with the grandchildren and then make more time to be with them. After ignoring MIT things for many years I have become active in the San Diego Club and have become an Educational Counselor. I certainly enjoy talking to the high school seniors, but I sometimes wonder what they think I might know about MIT today. My experience convinces me that MIT undergraduates, and alumni must be the most optimistic group of people around. I wonder whether MIT selects us or we self-select.

Daniel Lafayette Smythe, Jr.

Course: VI-A

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT: I walked across the Harvard Bridge almost every day for most of 7 or 8 years.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT: From 1967 to 1970 I was an Assistant Professor of EE at MIT. From 1971 to 1988 I was a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where I worked on integrated circuit mask fabrication, thin- film hybrid circuits, surface acoustic wave devices, MOS integrated circuits, and CCD devices for signal- processing applications. Since 1988 I has been at MIT , where I worked on high- data-rate tape and disk recording systems and other instrumentation for processing radio astronomical data. There are a few patents with my name on them. I loved my work, because I was being paid to design electronic “toys” and play with them. My job was my hobby. I am still working a few hours a week, and plan to retire at the end of 2011. My job has taken me all over the world. Since some of these trips were to fix some of the “toys” that I designed, my mother calls me a “glorified repairman”. I retired at the end of 2011, but I'm still going to the office one day a week so I guess you could say that I'm flunking retirement.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years: I have one son and one daughter and 3 grandchildren from my first marriage, which lasted 22 years. My new wife of 15 years, Gaye, has added 3 sons and 7 grandchildren to our family, from her first marriage. My spare time outdoor activities have included cross-country and down hill skiing with the children, bicycle racing and foot racing. I broke 5 ribs while cross-country skiing on an icy trail behind my house, alone, in freezing weather. Our most interesting vacations were a cruise around the Galapagos Islands, and a river cruise through the south of France. I was a lousy youth soccer coach.

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Arthur David Snider

Course: XVIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

Toughest years of my life. Always pressure. Some inspiring teachers; some not. Mass lecture system was great, with one exception. I would not do it again. Spectacular start, severe burnout by senior year.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

Worked at Draper Lab for 4 years, very good job, but was hobbled by lack of PhD. Dropped out, earned doctorate at Courant Institute - much more suitable school for me. Joined math faculty at USF, moved to engineering, still here as Emeritus. Found that I had a knack for teaching, writing (6 textbooks), problem solving (consulting), found theoretical research uninspiring.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Married 4 times (like my father). No children. I have always indulged my passion for athletics. Discovered passions also for acting, fine art, travel, bluegrass music.

Nick Soloway

Course: XV

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

I went on to law school immediately after graduating from MIT, and have had an interesting and successful career as a private practice patent attorney. Professional accolades include AV and Preeminent listings by Martindale-Hubble, Best Lawyers in America by Woodward White, and a Patent Buddy Top Patent Prosecutor. Working with interesting and creative people, and with cutting edge technology is hardly work at all. I am now "half time"-just 12 hours a day and Sundays. Saturday is reserved for hiking. I have also started several companies with clients, including two instrument companies, and a bio- mechanical device company-actually a footwear company, to be more precise. My company (insolia.com) was featured in Technology Review, October 2004. I remain connected to MIT. I started a chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum and served as Chairman for many years. I am a past president of the MIT Club of NH. And, I am a regular at Paul Gray's Technology Breakfasts. I also am on the Advisory Board for the UofA College of Science, and on the Advisory Board for the UofA College of Fine Arts. And, I recently became involved with Singularity University, which, judging from the number of Beaver Rings worn by the faculty, might be dubbed "MIT West".

245 Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

The last ten years have brought significant changes. My wife Wendy Tinklepaugh (Wellesley 1964) and I moved from Southern NH to Tucson, AZ about eleven years ago. Wendy, who was a medical doctor, retired from private practice. Unfortunately, she didn't get to enjoy her retirement. Six months after we moved, she was diagnosed with breast CA. She fought the disease for six and a half years. I lost her about four years ago. I have been fortunate, however, to fill the void. I reconnected with an old pre- Wendy Wellesley College girlfriend, Kay Ransdell (Wellesley 1963). Kay was a dean at the Mass. College of Art, before she retired. She now works part time as a grant writer for a cultural organization. I have two terrific children. My daughter Robin, lives in Palo Alto, CA. She is the Executive Producer of FutureMed at Singularity University; President and Gala Chair of the San Francisco Ballet ENCORE; and Director of Operations of Intellimedicine, Inc. Son Christopher is a Network Engineer with Netarx, in Auburn Hills, MI. I have one grandchild, Nicholas, who was born on Robin's birthday, who in turn was born on Wendy's father's birthday. Hmmm. Three generations of relatives all born on the same day. I was past President of the Board of the American Stage Festival, and am looking for another theater group to get involved with. Also, I recently joined the Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation. Work keeps me busy. Kay and I are travellling a bit.

John F. Sowa

Course: XVIII

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

Earned an MA in applied mathematics at Harvard and a PhD in computer science at the Vrije Universitet, Brussels. Worked at IBM for 30 years in R & D on systems architecture, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics. Taught courses at several universities and summer institutes. Co-founder of VivoMind Research, LLC. Wrote several books and published many articles on AI, knowledge representation, and related topics. Participated in standards activities, including ISO/IEC standard 24707 on Common Logic. Fellow of the AAAI.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Married Cora Angier in 1969. Still married.

Charles Edward Sparks

Course: VII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

I remember my classmates and how we helped and supported each other. I learned from my teammates in the many intramurals I participated in. In football we had three all state starters and the games occupied most fall Saturday's followed by a keg party and dates. In bowling I had the opportunity to reorganize the transition from candle pins. The fraternity saved me with tutoring and always provided the distractions to

246 be saved from (skiing, sailing, poker, hockey, adventures and of course partying). At the end the education allowed me to move to the next step including the mentorship and publications to form the foundation for my future.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

Following medical training I joined the Navy where I was sent to Vietnam Nam as head of a medical team in the Central Highlands. I worked mostly with Vietnamese in a hearts and minds program as part of MACV-the central command. Because of the experience I completed my 5 years directing emergency and family medicine at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital as a Lt Commander USN. I completed residency and cardiopulmonary fellowship at Penn trained as a Pathologist and spent 5 years on the biochemistry and physiology faculty at MCP. I am currently Professor emeritus at the U of Rochester where I have collaborated with my wife Janet on projects related to heart disease and diabetes for the past 30 years. Teaching, research, education and service have provided the kind of balance that ADD has required. My MIT education has served me well.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I enjoy sports and was involved in whatever my three children did when they lived at home. I have enjoyed talking to my youngest son about patent law as he is completing an LLM in intellectual property at GWU. I spend more time in Sarasota with my wife and Shelties walking on the beach. Research has been more of a hobby than a job and related projects and trips have occupied most of my free time.

John Oliver Stanley

Course: VI-A

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

James (Don) Moore '62, and I were best friends in High School and roommates in Burton House our freshman year. We avoided freshman hazing by keeping some scary looking high voltage transmitters in our room, and making vague remarks about voltages John & Ruth on doorknobs during the night. We moved to East Campus the next year and Don later got married leaving me alone in Goodale 303. I was quite involved in various Christian groups, including Campus Crusade for Christ, The Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and Park Street Church, which led to my later career path in Christian Radio broadcasting. Dan Thornhill, '62 who sadly passed while still a young man had a great influence on my life, and later proved a key person in keeping all of the Christians from the Boston area together after we had gone our various ways. Ham radio was an important part of our lives. Somewhat to the chagrin of Don's wife Ruth, we both kept amused with trips to Eli's and (THE) Radio Shack. We bought a square meter of military transmitter and put in on 6 meters during the 20th centuries highest sunspot maximum. (Ruth later learned to live with it). I co-oped at General Radio and learned a lot. The "real world" experience taught me a lot about what parts of the class work were important and what parts were not. I highly recommend it.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

I finished four years of graduate studies at Candler School of Theology (Emory University) in Atlanta. This led to my ordination as a United Methodist pastor, and then on to India to teach in a Methodist

247 Junior Technical College, now called Nave Technical Institute. On the way to India, I met and married Ruth Kleinheksel of Holland Michigan, the second woman to graduate from Western Theological seminary located in that city. We studied at Missionary Orientation Center in Stony point, New York for a year, then for another year at the Landour Language Institute in Mussourie, India. After three years teaching at NTI, we went to the Spanish Language Institute in San Jose, Costa Rica for a year. Thus, I managed 7 years of grad school with no more than a master's to show for it, but with three distinct fields of study that is not unusual. Ruth and I spent 3 years in India, teaching, and then went to Quito, Ecuador to do engineering for HCJB, one of the world's largest broadcast operations. While there, I also was one of three co-pastors for a combined Lutheran/Anglican/Methodist/ etc. congregation. Leaving the high altitude after 14 years, and having risen to the engineering director's position, we proceeded to spend the next 25 years consulting with various radio stations, large and small, on transmitter and antenna issues. I also taught briefly at John Brown University and ESPOL (Guyaquil, Ecuador). Much of our work with larger broadcast operations also involved teaching the local staffs. Our consulting work has taken us to 62 countries as of last count. We are trying to retire from foreign travel, but still do a lot of consulting with "our" radio stations, via the internet.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Ruth has been the greatest blessing anyone could desire on this earth. She has learned so much engineering that most places we have been, the locals assume she is an EE. Her actual major at Hope College was in Psychology, which may explain why she has been able to understand a personality challenged MIT grad. We had one son in India, who did not survive infancy, and later adopted a son, Andrew, who has also blessed our lives greatly. Andrew served 8 years in the military, with the USMC and the Georgia Army National Guard, having spent one year in Iraq. That forced me to accept that I am only the third best shot in our family, since Ruth grew up shooting "varmints" on her dad's farm. Andrew's main career path has centered around law enforcement, and he is presently training dogs for a kennel near Atlanta. Our retirement home is on Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, where we live off the grid, and have applied many of the ideas we have learned from our third world friends. Trying out alternative ways of heating water, generating power, and generally living have been a great adventure. We think the first world green movement needs to learn a great deal from our world neighbors in Africa, Asia and South America. The larger Christian community through the years has also had a strong tradition of "simplicity", which we feel is important. (My Stanley ancestors were Quakers.) Ham radio is still an interest, and I write quite a bit for the various ARRL publications, as well as peer reviewing many articles submitted for QST magazine. A couple of years ago, Ruth (WB4LUA) and I (K4ERO) were the speakers at the DX banquet at the Dayton hamfest. We reviewed our 40 year career in ham and broadcast radio and were ourselves reminded of what a blessed and happy life we have enjoyed.

H. David Stein

Course: V

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

I believe my swimming records in the 220 and 440 yard freestyle are still standing.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

After MIT I attended Medical School at the Albert Einstein

248 College of Medicine and completed a surgical residency at the Einstein Hospital System which was interrupted by 2 years of military service in the Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland. I was a surgeon and a faculty member of Einstein and Downstate Medical Center eventually retiring as Chairman of Surgery at Flushing Hospital in New York and Professor of Surgery at Einstein. After retirement I turned to photography that has become an obsession and my work can be seen at www.hdstein.com.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I married Ruth Klein (who is now a pediatrician) while in Medical school and we are approaching a wonderful 49 years together. We have 3 daughters two of whom are surgeons and married to surgeons. Our third daughter holds a doctorate in computer science (she claims she is the only real doctor in the family). We have four grandchildren who keep us young.

Richard Bernard Stein

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

There were many memorable events, but three stick out. First, was meeting my wife, Sue, at a Hillel mixer. She was there by mistake since she wasn't Jewish. After a few uneventful dances she couldn't find the girl who had come with her so she sat in the corner to wait until she returned. Seeing this bored, but lovely girl in the corner I asked her to dance and the rest is history. We will be celebrating our 50th anniversary this year. The second event occurred because of my dissatisfaction with the MIT curriculum. I lamented the fact that we were in the presence of many Nobel laureates and other distinguished scientists and engineers and, as undergraduates, we had virtually no contact with them. I was Chair of the Student Committee on Educational Policy and proposed an undergraduate course where students could do research projects or tutorials with eminent people to really find out about science and technology. To my surprise the program was approved and continues I believe in modified form to this day. The third was working one summer as a trainee in the National Physics Lab in Germany. It was a great summer working and travelling around Europe, but I also was becoming dissatisfied with physics. It seemed to be about building bigger and bigger machines to study smaller and smaller particles of less and less relevance to anything on a human scale. I decided to switch in biophysics and eventually physiology and neuroscience and was fortunate enough to be accepted to Oxford University. Their long established tutorial program made the transition smooth and interesting.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

I won a Marshall Scholarship to study in Oxford and eventually did a D.Phil. in Physiology. I stayed on for a couple of years as Staines Medical Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford and really enjoyed and benefitted from the long tradition. While in Oxford we were in a quandry because there were many things we liked about the U.K. and many about the U.S., so we thought: where in the world would we find a combination of these good things without too many of the problems? We decided to try Canada for a couple of years and I accepted a position at the University of Alberta. I relished the challenge after the traditions at MIT and Oxford of building something from the ground up. It proved to be a great choice and happily we are still there. When I arrived I doubled the number of neuroscientists (there was one

249 other) and there are now over 60 faculty members in Neuroscience. I developed the Rehabilitation Neuroscience Group and the Division of Neuroscience (now the Centre for Neuroscience) and have been funded continuously from Canadian granting agencies for over 40 years. This has led to over 200 peer- reviewed publications and devices such as WalkAide and C-Leg that are now sold world-wide to help people with mobility problems. I have received many awards, but probably the most significant to me is the Medal of Honour from the Canadian Medical Association, which is the highest award they give to people who are not medically qualified. I have given up teaching, but continue as a Research Professor at the University of Alberta, where I help to mentor young scientists.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Our daughter, Eleanor, was born while we lived in England and is now 48 years old. Unfortunately, she suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome, but she has devoted her medical practice to this condition and has become one of the experts in this poorly understood field. We also adopted a Korean orphan with the help of a friend's brother who was a missionary priest in Korea. He is now 45 and started his own company, Canadian Occupational Resource Consultants, that provides training and services in the occupational health area. My wife, Sue, and I remain active, hiking the trails in the Canadian Rockies and photographing wild flowers. We also have done ballroom dancing ever since the mixer at MIT. Together with a friend who sings and has a one man band, we go into seniors' homes and extended care hospitals and put on a song and dance show. After putting on an exhibition for a while, we spread out and dance with the residents, who really seem to appreciate the performance and the chance to dance. Other activities include cross-country skiing and golfing (me) and quilting (Sue). We have travelled widely, including many of the world's trouble spots, such as East Germany the day before the Berlin Wall was built and after it came down, South Africa during apartheid, Thailand and Peru just after they had coup d'etats. Most recently, we cruised through the Persian Gulf and were on the first cruise ship to land in Egypt after the Arab spring deposed Mubarak. We don't seek them out, but seeing many of the world's problem areas first hand has made us appreciate more the way of life we have in North America.

Jeffrey Steinfeld

Course: V

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

MIT has changed a lot since I was a student here. Mostly for the better. Not always.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

I first came to M.I.T. in the late 1950's, graduating with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1962. In those bygone days, all seniors were required to carry out a Senior Thesis and my thesis was carried out in the laboratory of Prof. Gordon Hammes, who was at that time a new assistant professor of chemistry. The work used time-resolved spectroscopy to measure reaction rates using the recently invented temperature-jump technique, with a time resolution (0.1 to 500 msec) that was state-of-the-art at the time. In graduate work in Prof. Bill Klemperer's group at Harvard, I investigated relaxation processes in molecular iodine vapor. The work on iodine (and an early proclivity for foreign travel) led me to take up a post-doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Prof. George Porter, then at Sheffield University but soon to move on to the Royal Institution in London, a knighthood, a life peerage, and the Nobel Prize. The flash photolysis

250 apparatus in Porter's laboratory also operated on the millisecond time scale, but I helped set up the first laser flash photolysis (LFP) apparatus in Porter's lab which accessed the hitherto unimaginable sub- microsecond regime. Those initial LFP experiments resulted in what turned out to be the first reported example of a multiphoton dissociation process. On a return visit to the RI, it was quite a surprise to see that LFP apparatus displayed in the "ambulatory gallery" along with Faraday's first generator (since removed to the Faraday museum, admission £1), Dewar's first Flask, and Bragg's diffraction apparatus. Returning to M.I.T. as an assistant professor in 1966, I continued to focus on obtaining kinetic data for physical and chemical systems using time-resolved spectroscopy. The recently invented CO2 laser was an effective source for selective molecular excitation. Combining a CO2 laser pump with a tunable solid- state diode laser (TDL) probe led to the development of infrared double-resonance (IRDR) spectroscopy, which was extensively employed in my laboratory. The time resolution of IRDR experiments was still in the microsecond range, but this was sufficient to resolve single-collision events in dilute gases. Among the systems initially investigated was SF6 (at that time a euphemism for UF6), which conveniently had strong absorption bands at CO2 laser output frequencies. An important new direction resulted from a suggestion by a former student (Dr. Mark Spencer, then at the NASA Ames Research Laboratory, now proprietor of Water Analytics Inc. in Andover, Mass.) that the IRDR technique would be well suited for filling in some major gaps in the spectroscopic database for ozone. The Antarctic "ozone hole" had recently been discovered, which provided strong validation for the Molina – Rowland ozone depletion hypothesis, and NASA was mounting field campaigns to measure stratospheric ozone. The lack of key data on spectroscopic assignments and, especially, pressure- broadened linewidths, hampered retrievals from measured data. The IRDR measurements on ozone were successful, and importantly brought me in contact with the atmospheric science community and the NASA Upper Atmosphere Research Program, where I learned that similar gaps existed in the data base for methane (a major greenhouse gas). Using CO2 lasers, however, limited the range of molecules which 13 could be investigated using IRDR, and so a series of surrogates were studied including CD4, silane, and CHD3 – a strategy known as "tuning the molecule to the laser". While a great deal of interesting information about spherical and near-spherical top molecules came out of these measurements, this was still not "real" methane, i.e. CH4. It finally became possible to study CH4 using equipment in the Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, namely a Raman-shifted Ti:sapphire pump laser with improved TDL probes. As this work progressed, I became increasingly aware of changes that were being observed in the abundances of other atmospheric gases, such as methane and carbon dioxide. For example, the concentration of atmospheric methane had risen by 140% during the previous century. The time scale for this change is not milliseconds or microseconds, but years. The "perturbation" is not a laser or other controlled laboratory scenario, but human activities such as agriculture (particularly rice and cattle cultivation), natural gas extraction and distribution, and dumping trash into landfills. And the induced change has not relaxed to its pre-perturbation level, but is continuing to diverge. With this awareness, my interests turned from microseconds, not to picoseconds or femtoseconds, but to gigaseconds (i.e., years), and not to "single molecule" events but to large, interconnected systems: specifically, the Earth System, in which we all live and which is, in fact, the basis of all the social, technological and economic systems on which we depend. During my career at M.I.T, as student and faculty member:  the carbon dioxide content of the Earth's atmosphere has increased by nearly 30%;  the global average surface temperature, the mean sea level, and the acidity of the world's oceans have all measurably increased;  the rate of species extinction has accelerated and the level of biodiversity correspondingly decreased;  half the oil that ever existed has been extracted and used up – mostly by being incinerated;  the total human population has tripled, with a fifth of that total living in absolute poverty.

251 While academics and professional summiteers continue to debate the meaning of sustainability and sustainable development, one thing is certain – the trends enumerated above are not in any sense sustainable. Our descendants, and the students now in our classrooms and laboratories, will be pursuing their careers, raising their own families, and just trying to survive in a world that may be increasingly subject to climate extremes, shortages of food and water, disappearing sources of cheap and easily available energy, and the social unrest that will follow as a result. For all their sakes, we have an absolute obligation to try to understand what is happening to the world that we inhabit, to develop strategies to mitigate against adverse trends, and most importantly to educate the next generation about these issues. We owe them no less. Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I am still here, still contributing, and have even managed to stay out of jail for the past 50 years. That's not too bad, considering.

Norman D. Strahm

Course: VI-B

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

My immediate recall has undergraduate days as a steady stream of homework interspersed with games of hearts with Peter Reich and Ralph Palmer, biking to Harvard Square for church services, sailing dingies on Charles River, singing with the glee club, taking trips to glee club concert performances, and going to Durgin Park or Chinatown for weekend meals. Grad school memories focus on cooking and dinner parties while living in apartments in Brookline, Back Bay Boston, and Belmont with lots of students from the class of ‘62, including Elwyn Berlekamp, Bob Gilmore, Tom Greytak, Lew Norton, Irv Thomae, Mike Lieberman, Paul Schroeder, Roger Sullivan, and Jose Alonso. Many weekends involved trips to the White Mountains for hiking or to Squam Lake, New Hampshire for canoeing and water skiing. The goal of a PhD thesis required lots of driving to and from Lincoln Labs.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

My first job after getting the PhD was teaching and doing research as a visiting assistant professor in the Physics Dept. at the University of Illinois at Chicago (then called Circle Campus). During that time I became familiar with the futures markets in Chicago and with the academic side of finance. I completely switched careers and spent the next 23 years working in the futures markets, the first three years as a member of the Chicago Board of Trade with Hornblower Weeks Noyes & Trask and Loeb Rhoades, Hornblower & Co., and Shearson Loeb Rhoades. I then worked with research departments at Smith Barney Harris Upham, Commodities Corporation, James Orcutt and Co. ,and PaineWebber, Inc. While at PaineWebber I became a Commodity Trading Advisor and formed my own firm ND Strahm, Inc., from which I retired and eventually returned to teaching (physics, math, astronomy) part time at Oakton Community College in the suburbs of Chicago.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

During the time I was teaching at Uof I I did a lot of canoeing and camping in the boundary waters area between northern Minnesota and Canada and in Quetico Provincial Park in Canada. Some of this was with my first wife; we also spent a six week canoe trip ending at James Bay, Canada. I spent another six week trip with about ten people biking from Santa Fe to the Grand Canyon, north through the canyon

252 lands of Utah, ending in Jackson, Wyoming. My wife and I had one son who it now a software engineer for Apple in California. In 1997 we divorced and a couple years later I married Patricia Ferguson who has three daughters and six grandchildren. My interests in later years includes bridge, and jazz (a taste for which I acquired from Patricia).

Karen M. (Lewallen) Strom

Course: XVIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

I was introduced to my future husband (Stephen Strom, Harvard '62) on the first day I arrived at MIT. He was sitting in my dorm living room with his then girlfriend who was also entering MIT. Most of my memories of those years are of studying among the ship models in the basement of Building 5 and of middle of the night search for vending machines in the old wooden buildings left from WW II. We were married in my sophomore year and I took a leave of absence during which our first 2 children, Robert & Kathy, were born. During that period I also worked at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. After 2 years I was guided by Steve's advisor into transferring to Harvard/Radcliffe where I majored in Astronomy. I graduated in June 1964 with Honors in Astronomy.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

Well, first, I graduated from Harvard. I continued working at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and had 2 more children, David & Julie. After Julie's birth I applied and was accepted into graduate school in Astronomy at Harvard. However, my husband received an offer to head the Astronomy program in the newly established Earth & Space Science Dept. at the State University at Stony Brook, NY so we moved to Long Island instead. We spent 3.5 years at Stony Brook, flying often to observatories in the southwest, California and Chile until this became too big a burden on our children. An offer to move to the Kitt Peak National Observatory arrived at a propitious time and we made the move to warmer climes and shorter commutes. The upcoming commissioning of the 4-meter telescope was also a huge draw and we spent many nights there taking images of galaxy clusters on glass photographic plates for the study of galaxy structure. During this period I developed some of the earliest image processing software for the reduction of astronomical data (still on photographic plates). The rapidly improving capabilities of infrared detectors provided the opportunity to study the population of very young stars still embedded within their dark cloud birthplaces so we returned to the study of an old love of ours, T Tauri stars. Throughout this period we were also involved in the automation of telescope systems, necessary since most of the objects we were observing were not optically visible. This concern continued through our move to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where we led a group that studied young stars through the use of ground-based and satellite infrared, radio line and continuum, and optical spectroscopy. With the birth of the World Wide Web I became involved in the development of systems for the publication of professional papers and theses as well as visualization applications for helping students understand difficult concepts. These concerns continue today although I officially retired 13 years ago when we moved back to Arizona. At that time Steve re-joined Kitt Peak for a few more years. Over the course of our joint careers we published almost 200 papers together (other co-authors were there as well).

253 Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Steve and I have always been politically active and remain so. When we were married we already shared many interests other than Astronomy, such as model railroads and photography. On our first sojourn in Arizona we reignited our interest in photography (outside of the observatory darkrooms) by taking a course on photography with our younger son at the Museum of Art. From there we were led to take History of Photography courses and then studio courses at the University of Arizona. That began the first part of our exhibition careers that extended through the early 1990's until our Astronomy and WWW careers became far to busy to continue. Upon our return to Arizona, having decided to move completely to digital photography, we had to learn the best techniques for this new regime before we began again to exhibit our work. We are now integrated into the photography community again and this is the major focus of our activity now. With new development in digital publication, I am devoting time to practicing book design in the digital realm, especially for art books using rich media. We hope to (very) soon have our first such book available in both fixed-format ePub (for the iPad) , PDF for all platforms, and both a trade and limited edition print book. As mentioned above, we have 4 children: Robert, a network security specialist in Phoenix; Kathy, retired from life as a high school math teacher and now working in the Pacific NW in real estate and acquiring land for conservation purposes; David, a conservative spokesman in Minneapolis-St. Paul; and Julie, who has taught at an inquiry based charter school and now works at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. Robert has 2 children, Caitlin & Devin, Kathy has 2 children, Rebecca and Daniel, and Julie has 2 children, Emily & Hannah. Only Devin, Daniel and Hannah remain in college, but not for much longer for any of them. We have no great-grandchildren yet, nor any near-term prospect for them.

Robert Brian Strong

Course: XV

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

My fondest memories are divided between many Fiji adventures and the wonderful accessability of the sailing pavilion to Sloan. As for excitement, many motorcycle shots across the bridge in the cold of winter certainly stick with me. At Sloan I most enjoyed my work in Indutrial Dynamics and that led to my later work in the computer business. I was fortunate to see Jay Forrester at the Sloan 50th and he was as impressive then as I remembered him from the 60s. Post grad my time on staff was memorable for the most wonderful and competitive lunch time card games ever.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

I worked as a programmer for the MIT Comptroller for a year then served two years in the Pentagon fulfilling my ROTC obligation. That led a 25 year IBM marketing career -Miami, Atlanta, Tokyo, Westchester NY, and finally Connecticut. I retired in 1990 and moved into equity options trading which has remained a passion.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

My wife Nancy, three children, and six grandchildren are all active skiiers and sailors which provides for regular family vacations. In the summer we live on our boat in Maine and take joy in the time our

254 family spends cruising with us. Locally I am busy on several boards and as treasurer of the Westport Y where I play raquetball and with the Y's Men of Westport/Weston as membership chairman.

Gary Stuart

Course: XVIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

.As a kid I was interested in science and math and decided that I wanted to go to MIT after reading an article about the school that appeared in Life magazine in the early 50’s. But I had never been in Cambridge until the fall of 1958 when our classes began. Having grown up in a relatively small community in downstate Illinois, MIT was somewhat of a shock to me at first. As time went back, I realized that if I could survive MIT, I could survive any where. Classes: I was a Course 18 major but took 14.01 as a sophomore as part of the humanities and social sciences requirement. I found that I had a strong interest in economics and by the time of graduation, I had completed nearly as many economics classes as math classes. Among the faculty members I remember most, Frank Fisher was one of my first economics professors and encouraged me to continue my economics studies. By the time of graduation, I had taken classes taught by three future Nobel prize winners (Samuelson, Solow, and Modigliani). In math, three faculty members come to: George Thomas who authored our calculus text and taught the junior class in analysis, Ed Thorp who taught a freshman elective on number theory and later gained fame for devising a system for winning at blackjack by counting cards, and George Wadsworth who taught a class in operations research. Baker House: My living group was Baker House and the classmates I spent the most time with also lived there. I also remember our two housemasters: Norman Holland and Alar Toomre. Holland was a film buff and Toomre introduced us to a game called Diplomacy. Hacks: A couple of minor hacks at Baker. One involved making a giant icicle at the rear of the dorm by running a hose down the side of the building during the one of the very frigid times. The other involved getting a weather balloon and blowing it up in someone else's room.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

Following MIT, I got an MA in economics from Harvard. My professional experience included positions at Ford Motor Company (1965-1974), General Foods (1974-1981), and Union Pacific Corporation (1981- 1999), starting as a financial analyst at Ford and ending as EVP and CFO at UP. Union Pacific was one of the two railroads that formed the transcontinental railroad and today is one of the four remaining major freight railroads in the U.S. As UP participated in the industry consolidation, I got to work on the financial aspects of several mergers. After retiring from UP, I was CFO for a year of a start ==up company that offered logistics management services on an internet platform. I also was on the board of Ace Ltd. for twenty years as the company grew into a major global property and casualty insurance company

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I got married in 1965 and have four sons (a lawyer, a physician, an information technology executive, and a high school history teacher; two in Vermont, one in Connecticut and one in Texas) and six grandchildren. None of my sons went to MIT but I'm hoping one (or more) of my grandchildren might. Lived in Michigan, Germany, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Texas, and Nebraska. Through business and

255 personal travel, I have visited some 30 different countries and 49 states. My most recent international travel was a three week trip to China last year where I traveled throughout the country with one of my sons who was in the country teaching English. As a volunteer, I have served on the boards of a library, a public television station, a community foundation, and as treasurer of my church. I am currently a volunteer with Literacy Volunteers, working with adults from Latin America tutoring them in English. My current hobbies are bicycling and genealogy.

Bernard Stumpf

Course: XVIII

I learned to sail at the MIT Sailing Pavilion while a sophomore at MIT. Enjoyed sailing both in Massachusetts (Marblehead, Salem), Vermont (Lake Champlain) and later in the Caribbean in the 1980's. I learned to fly a single engine airplane in 1985 and have hardly sailed ever since. I got my first job doing computer work in 1963 at the Foxboro Company and worked on a monitoring and control system at New England Power in Fall River. I also married Dotty in September 1963. I was driving home in November 1965 when the big Northeast blackout started and I wondered whether the Automatic Turbine Startup program I had worked on had caused this blackout: It had not! We lived in Dedham and Canton and had our first 3 children there. In late 1967 my job at Honeywell Computer Control Division needed us to move to Minneapolis, where I joined a group working on a 64-user Time-Sharing system based on a minicomputer complex of 3 processors. We were in Minneapolis when the Apollo 11 mission landed on the Moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. We had 2 additional children in Minneapolis before I found a job in Natick at Prime Computer developing a minicomputer and multi-user Operating System which became PrimOS. In early 1980 I was one of the founding engineers at Apollo Computer where we developed one of the first commercial single user workstations capable of being interconnected via a high-speed network and using a high- resolution bit-mapped display allowing us to pioneer the graphical user interface which is now so common on all personal computers. Our family has grown a bit since then. 3 of our daughters are married, one lives in Portland, OR where she teaches law, and they have 2 boys ages 7 and 5. Another daughter lives in Urbana, IL teaches Anthropology and they have 2 girls ages 6 and 3. Our youngest daughter is a Physical Therapist and lives in Jamaica Plain where they have 2 girls ages 2 and a baby. Dotty and I now live in Westerly, RI where I found a job in 2003 doing medical imaging applications.

Roger John Sullivan

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

My freshman-year room was Bemis 106 in East Campus. I attended Rush Week and received a bid from a fraternity, but I decided that I preferred the more independent life in East Campus. Susan & Roger I continued to live in Bemis sophomore and junior years, spending

256 most of my time frantically studying for the next test or theme. The evening of every Registration Day (beginning of Fall and Spring terms), I would join a group of friends for pizza at Simeone’s near Central Square. In the spring of junior year I became 8.10 lab partners with Jim Ross, who remained a lifelong friend until his sad passing in the early 1990s. At the beginning of senior year, I moved to Goodale to join Bob Gilmore and Dave Ives in a three-man suite of connecting single rooms. Bob was essential to my surviving the difficult physics courses. I introduced Dave to a girl named Kathy; they have now been married for almost 49 years. Later, in graduate school, I helped introduce Bob to a girl named Claire; they have been married for over 40 years. I spent the first year after graduation (1962-63) at Cambridge University, England. I then came back to MIT for graduate school and lived in Graduate House. During 1963-64 I roomed with Ed Feustel. The following year I became Chairman of the Executive Committee and, with Adam Carley, worked with the Institute to change the name of the house to “Ashdown House”. Irv Thomae introduced me to a girl named Sue Goodpaster; we have been married for over 45 years. Irv, Ed, and Jim were the ushers at our wedding. I finally completed a long thesis in x-ray astronomy and received my Ph.D. in Physics in 1969.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

In 1969 I joined the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute (IITRI) in Chicago. I advised NASA on potential future lunar and planetary scientific missions. In 1973 I joined System Planning Corporation in Arlington, Virginia, where I helped develop new techniques for inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) for moving targets. In 1986 we moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I served at the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM). I was Program Manager for development of an X/C/L-band polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and led analyses concerning SAR performance and automatic target recognition. Finally, in 1994, we moved one more time to Alexandria, Virginia. I joined the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), where I have advised the U.S. government concerning SAR and ground-moving target indication (GMTI) radars on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially the Global Hawk. I have also performed analyses concerning radar concepts for ballistic missile defense. From 2003 to 2007 I temporarily joined the Government; I served as Technical Advisor to the Missile Defense Agency’s Project Hercules, which was responsible for developing new algorithms for missile-defense systems. I am still a part-time adjunct at IDA. In 2000 I wrote a book about radar; the second edition is “Radar Foundations for Imaging and Advanced Concepts”, 2004, available at www.scitechpub.com. I also authored Chapter 17 on SAR for the third edition of the Radar Handbook, edited by Dr. Merrill Skolnik, McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Sue and I have three children. We always try to be organized, and we chose names starting with “A”, “B”, and “C”, in that order: • Andy, born 1971 in Illinois • Barbara, born 1974 in Washington, DC • Cathy, born 1977, also in Washington, DC (Actually, the truth is that we did not consider alphabetization for Andy and Barbara; and 6-year-old Andy convinced us to choose a name starting with “C” for our third child!) Barbara and her husband Ben Hock live in Newbury Park, CA, near Los Angeles; they have a daughter, Ellen (“Elle”), born in 2007, and a new baby, Phoebe, born in February, 2012. Cathy and her husband Matt Bloedorn live in Catonsville, MD, and have a son, Alexander (“Xander”), born in 2010. Andy, now 41 years old, has never been married but will soon tie the knot with his fiancée Becka in May, 2012, in San Francisco, where they both live. Sue is busily pursuing a Ph.D. in Semitic languages at The Catholic University of America. Since semi-retiring from IDA in 2007, I have enjoyed a combination of working part-time, volunteering, and preparing my autobiography (written and video versions!). Sue and I also like to travel. I have been to all the continents, including Antarctica; and Sue plans to “check off” her last continent when we both travel to New Zealand and Australia in November, 2012; we plan to join Professor Richard Binzel on an MIT tour to view the next total solar eclipse near the Great Barrier Reef.

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Richard Neel Sutton

Course: V

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

My parents wanted me to go to Harvard. The Harvard interviewer asked what I had been doing over the summer and what books I had read. When I told him that I had read the Amateur Radio Handbook cover to cover and had spent the summer building radio transmitters with my friends and talking to people all over the world, he said, "You are telling me that you didn't read any books at all over the whole summer?" A short interview it was my friends. I insisted on stopping at MIT and the interview started out with the same "what books have you read" theme. Not an auspicious start, I thought, but I gave him the same story. He thought that was a great way to spend the summer and told me he too had an amateur license. He then offered to give me a tour of the "new" computer, an IBM 701 as I recall. They turned off the lights and the banks of vacuum tubes glowed wonderfully. It was October of 1957 and they were tracking Sputnik. As I recall they had all of 4K of old time core memory. I know by the time we graduated they had 64K. It is in the MIT museum and I have a picture of myself next to it from our 45th -- two relics from the good old days. I actually went to the Institute with the idea of going to Medical School, a novel idea at the time. I started out in Course 7. My premed "advisor" was some guy in Student Health. When I went to see him, he told me to come back in a couple of years if I was still I interested. Humm -- great advice I guess. I never went back. In my first Course VII lab I was supposed to draw a picture of what I saw through the microscope. I am severely artistically impaired and the prof was really unimpressed. I think I got a "D" on that one. Well I was a fast learner and by the end of the week I had dropped the Course VII idea and signed up in Course V. I never took another bio course at the Institute and I had to do a summer session at Northwestern to get the Med School minimum prerequisites. If I had to do it again, I think I would try Course VI. But I did enjoy Course V. I was certainly glad when I got into Medical School because one thing I learned was that I sure wasn't smart enough to be a Chemist. 21.02 is still a bad memory 50 years later. I got a chance to do that one twice. I cared not what St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas thought then nor do I now. As far as I was concerned the "Dark Ages" were appropriately named. Organic lab was a memorable challenge. Has anybody ever successfully polymerized methyl methacrylate without a bubble in it? My TA practically had to use a white cane to get around campus but he could see the most microscopic of bubbles. I met a guy at the 45th who said he still had bad dreams about Chemistry. Wasn't there a near riot when tuition went up to $750.00 a semester? Going to a NCAA III school was great. Anybody could be a jock. I rowed a couple of years on the Crew with not a lot of success, but I did get into reasonable shape. Hitting the Charles at night in freezing temperatures surrounded by glistening white fish was for better men than I. I ended up getting a letter in Track and Field throwing the hammer. A great sport you can “play” all your life, right? Those were the days of freshmen rush. You had to pick a living group before you knew where the bathrooms were on campus. While I greatly enjoyed my Beacon Street fraternity, I missed a lot of campus activities. On cold nights (were there any warm ones?) it seemed that once I got back across the river I was rarely sufficiently motivated to return. I think the current policy that all freshmen live on campus is a good idea. I really enjoyed Course V and my only regret was not making more of an effort to get to know my fellow students and to better appreciate what a rarified atmosphere we were living in. From the publications that cross my desk it seems like the Chemistry Department is taking a more undergraduate friendly approach these days. Four years flashed by and I was off to Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania. My only regrets is that I wish I had taken a little more leisurely time of it all and perhaps smelled a few more roses. I never did get a chance to fit that music course into the schedule. We didn't have as many liberal arts courses available as they do now, but there were really quite a few. There just never seemed to

258 be enough time. But back then we thought it was important to finish in four years and get on with it. It seems crazy now, why were we in such a hurry?

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

After graduating from the Institute I was off to Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania. I was all hot to be a Surgeon. After graduation, I spent two years as a surgery resident at the Detroit General Hospital, School of Medicine. The pace was a killer but it was certainly a great place to learn some surgery. I was a (very) Junior Surgery Resident when, in the long hot summer of 1967 the locals lit up the downtown and we watched as the city burned down around us. The Army called and I was off for two years active duty. During this time all physicians served a minimum of two years. I was posted with an infantry unit in the 101st Airborne as a Battalion Surgeon up near the DMZ in Vietnam and ended up commanding a medical company. This was 1969 and things were calming down a little after Tet 1968, but it was still pretty hot, another story for another day. I was glad I had a "warm up" as a surgeon in Detroit. After the Army, I changed specialties and began a four-year residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Missouri, Columbia. We had a very interesting NIH grant to study computer applications in Medicine and I was able to complete the residency program and also take enough course work to qualify for an MSEE. I ended up being recruited to start a so-called "Interventional Radiology" program here in Wichita Falls, a smaller town north west of Dallas. My sub- specialty, wherein we have a lot of direct patient contact, with guided biopsy, drainage procedures, and catheter blood vessel work, allowed me to take an active part in the patient care and also take advantage of my previous surgical experience. I have been here pretty much my entire professional life as a practicing Physician. Radiology is a great specialty and it seemed like every couple of years brought some fabulously interesting and exciting new modality. The equipment is very high tech and being able to use fluoroscopy, angiography (study of blood vessels), CT (Computed Tomography), diagnostic ultrasound, and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) have made for a fascinating life experience in Medicine. My wife, a surgeon, and I may have not been great professors or written any books, but we take considerable satisfaction in having been privileged to be involved in many people's lives, hopefully sometimes making a difference, and certainly helping a lot of people through some of their difficult times. Many people these days are pessimistic about the future of medical practice but I tell anyone who will listen that things always change. Things are always different. Things never are the same. And medical practice has changed and will inevitably change more. But medicine is indeed a calling, and an opportunity to serve, and is always interesting, and never boring. And if I were a young person, knowing what I know now, I would unhesitatingly do it again and recommend it as a career for anyone.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Being a Physician has been a great privilege and honor and made an interesting and intellectually stimulating and challenging career. I have also been blessed with good health and a wonderful family. We have four children all of whom great kids and doing well. Our family has also been the beneficiaries of some modern medical miracles ourselves for which we are most grateful. Our eldest son is now 11 years post chemotherapy, surgery, and knee replacement for a highly malignant tumor and is doing well. Our daughter was born four months early and was on the ventilator in the neonatal ICU for two months. She is now a fourth year Engineering student and doing great. Son, Richard, is a Stanford grad and computer software security guru who, with a couple of friends, just started a new company based in San Francisco. William is a Baylor grad and has a Ph.D from the University of Hamburg in International Trade Law. He lives with his wife in England and teaches at Cambridge. Daughter Wesley is finishing up in Biomedical Engineering at the McCormick School at Northwestern University. Son Neel is a Mechanical Engineering major at Texas A&M University. After graduation I think he really wants to be hired on at Mythbusters. Who else in our class can say they still have two children in College? Ha! The two youngest will probably want to go to Grad School, or Medical school, and maybe specialty training. I figure I will be off the hook when I am 82. My wife of many years, Beth, is a General Surgeon and a graduate of Baylor University and Baylor Medical School. It has been an exciting and busy life for two professional people raising four

259 kids, but it has never been boring. When our two younger children were in Junior High, we were having to hire two shifts for childcare. Beth decided that I needed to retire and take care of the kids == poor me! So I became Doctor Mom driving the car pool. Believe me, it was tough having to get up early, get breakfast, get the kids to school, then hit the gym and make it to the first tee by 10:00. It wasn't actually quite that simple, and my golf game did not materially improve, but I did finally get a chance to smell some roses and read some of those books the Harvard guy was talking about back in 1957. I stay plenty busy in retirement. I was pretty much under the radar until the Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Midwestern State University, an MIT Ph.D. (1995), found out about my stealth MSEE degree I got along the way while I was a Radiology Resident at the University of Missouri. Don't laugh out there you hot shot "real" engineers, but I am now an "adjunct" Professor of Mechanical Engineering helping teach the introductory Electric Circuits and Electronic Devices course and the Lab. I may not know what I am doing all the time but I can generally get it to work. I am not quite used to co-eds holding doors for me. My lifelong love and hobby is airplanes. I got my license while I was in the Army at Fort Riley in 1968 and have been flying ever since. Over the years I have had a chance to fly a lot of neat airplanes from puddle jumpers to jets and hold an Airline Transport Pilot rating. Too bad I'm too darn old now or I would hustle a flying job in my retirement. I presently have a Cessna 310 and besides pleasure trips, I take an occasional Angel Flight patient down to M.D. Anderson hospital in Houston. After 40 years of flying it still seems like magic when the wheels leave the ground. I have been active in the Commemorative Air Force, an organization dedicated to the preservation and flying of (primarily) WWII airplanes. I participate in the activities of "Fifi" the only flying B-29 in the world, "Diamond Lil" one of two flying B-24s in the world, and the "Devil Dog" a B-25 in Marine Corps colors. I don't tell anybody that I am older than the "antique" airplanes. After all, I don't look a day over, uh, 71, right?

Robert J. Swaney

Course: XV

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

I remember one main thing from my freshman year -- studying nearly all the time. There were fun times, too, with the five guys I ran around with. But every year got a little easier and I finally began to get a decent night's sleep. Some of the things that I really enjoyed were our two Field Days, going to Tech Night at the Pops, watching a transit of Mercury from the 77 Mass. Ave. steps, driving to western Mass. to see a partial eclipse of the sun and sailing on the Charles. Yes, I still like astronomy and my wife thinks I should have become an astronomer. I remember a lot of Friday night Campus Crusade for Christ meetings in Boston. Another fun thing was practicing with the Pistol Team with my roommate Bob Covey, but that didn't last long. I don't think either of us were that good. I couldn't miss mentioning how much I enjoyed listening to "Hillbilly at Harvard" on FM Saturday mornings and how Joe Wyatt would let me borrow his good tape recorder to record music that I'd never heard before but somehow grew to like a lot. Thanks Joe. I don't know how to explain why I liked both the Boston Pops and hillbilly music, but I still do!

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

My first job was with McDonnell Aircraft and the company and the industry were fascinating but my job was just plain boring. But it was an interesting time to be in aerospace. The Mercury capsule was already flying, we were in the process of building Gemini and the F4 Phantom II was perhaps the best fighter around. After that I became a Mfg. Engr. working for the Alco Controls Div. of Emerson Electric. That

260 was a good fit in that it was part desk job and part going out into the shop creating ways to improve processes. I must have done hundreds of experiments over the years and enjoyed all of them. I moved to California in 1980 and was the Supvr. of Mfg. Eng. for Vetco Offshore Div. of Combustion Engineering. The company made money “hand over fist” but we were sold twice in one year and the company was broken up and many of the products were never manufactured again. What a comedown from being the Cadillac of the industry with our products being used and respected all over the world. I next worked briefly for a small defense-related company as the Mgr. of Ind. Eng., but they ran into problems with the government and lost their contracts for 6 of their 7 products over a few months’ time. That’s when I left and began marketing a small investment fund that was doing very well. A few years later I retired early and, like a lot of people say, I seem to be as busy now as I was then.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I married Angalee Schaefer in 1964 and we had four boys. We ended up living in her hometown of Ventura, CA, which was quite a surprise to her. Three of our sons live in So. Cal. and one is a track and cross country coach at Tabor College in KS. Two of the four teach; one physics and one chemistry and the other son is doing what he’s always wanted to do, go into business for himself in a print shop just outside UCSB in Santa Barbara. Three of the sons are married and we have 9 grandchildren, and soon it will be ten, including one adopted from Uganda. Angalee was an RN for years but went back to school at 55, got a MS and became a Nurse Practitioner. She loves it and enjoys the diagnosing and playing junior doctor. I don’t find much time for amateur astronomy or flying RC model airplanes, but I’m the Assoc. Dir. of a non-profit, the Camarillo Healing Rooms. Last week a local hospital invited us to operate out of their facility and offer to pray for any of their patients that request prayer. That will be interesting. We began to travel overseas in 2006 and have been to most of the countries of Europe. I got to meet four of my relatives in Norway and one in Denmark. This year we’re going on the MIT tour of Egypt. Naturally some friends think it’s too great a risk right now, but twenty-some other Tech grads are raring to go, including our classmate, Dr. John Dobson who’s leading the tour.

Michael R. Terry

Course: II

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

1958 Mercer Island, WA First graduating class of Mercer Island High School 1958 Cambridge, MA Mechanical Engineering degree program. Roommates: Steve Banks, MIHS, WA; George Facuse, Honduras, Dick Stein, NY. Associations: Seabury Society, NROTC Adjutant, Walker Memorial Staff, Informal Dance Committee, Assembly Ball, Assistant Captain. Influential Professors: McGary, Mann, Hands on experiences: ICR engine tuned intake, Boeing Summer EIT Program at the Industrial Products Division Seattle, WA, working with 502 and 520 Gas Turbine engineering, manufacturing and test. Machine shop, Sparrow missile turbine dynamometer. Design projects: Curb climbing wheelchair, In-line continuously variable transmission. Bachelor of Science Thesis: Sparrow Missile “Cold Gas Turbine Transient Response”

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

1962 Bayonne, NJ NROTC summer cruise on USS Great Sitkin, AE 17 , DC electric ammunition ship, commissioned Ensign Engineering Duty Officer on the Bridge by the Commanding Officer 1962

261 San Diego, CA Reported for duty as the Electrical Officer of the USS Lynde McCormick, DDG- 8 guided missile destroyer, Attended Treasure Island, CA Damage Control and ABC School, deployed to the Western Pacific, including off shore South Vietnam during a Cu de Ta, ports of call in Yokosuka and Yokohama, Japan; Subic Bay, Philippines; Hong Kong (by chance, met a high school classmate aboard the USS Sterlet, SS submarine at 50 foot depth under the South China Sea). Design projects: Bridge Wing Venturi design, Gunnery Tow Target Design, Emergency Dryer Drive Coupling Repair. 1963 San Francisco, CA As Assistant Chief Engineer, managed McCormick’s overhaul at San Francisco Naval Shipyard, Hunters Point, CA including experimental FAST underway replenishment system. First naval ship to transit to Sacramento, CA after the opening of the canal. 1964 Seattle, WA Reported for duty as the USS Plainview, AGEH-1, Experimental Hydrofoil, Project Officer for the Supervisor of Shipbuilding at the Harbor Island site of the Puget Sound Bridge and Dry Dock Co. Initiated interest in a Bureau of Ships sponsored Test and Trials group that became the Hydrofoil Special Trials Unit at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA. Passed the baton to LCDR. Karl Duff (MIT 58) 1966 Cambridge, MA MIT Naval Construction post graduate Master Degree and Naval Engineer Degree program. Influential Professors: Abkowitz, Kiel, Capt. Stark, Cdr. Reed, E.S. Taylor, Chrysostomides. Hands on experiences: Ship Design fairing lines and calculating the curves of form, cryogenic compressor piston transient response. Design Projects: Ship Design weapons system modification, project. Monte Carlo simulation of logistics problem on IBM 360, Marine Battalion Assault Transport surface effect ship design. Master of Science Thesis: “Constant Lift: Hydrofoil Tab Control System == Hydrodynamics” Award: William L. Stewart, Jr., for the Course XIII Fact Book 1969 Carderock, MD Assigned to David Taylor Model Basin, as Program Officer and Test and Trials manager for the AALC experimental air cushion landing craft program (LCAC in production). Conducted orientation tours for competing contractor design groups. Initiated interest in a Naval Ship Systems Command Experimental Trials Unit, Panama City, FL. Critiqued the Preliminary designs for the Joint Surface Effect Ship test craft A and B. Awards: 1972 US Patent “Differential Bottom Cell Pressure Safety System for Air Cushion Craft”; Navy Commendation, for Amphibious Assault Landing Craft program. 1972 Saigon, Vietnam Reported for duty to the Naval Forces Vietnam, Naval Advisory Group, as the Boat and Maintenance Facility engineering advisor to the Vietnamese Navy Technical Bureau, with facilities from Da Nang in the North to Dong Tam in the Mekong Delta. Design project: Concept for the Refitting of the MV Chessman Astoria, OR, Columbia River Ferry, from maintenance barge to a Hospital barge. Award: Vietnamese Navy, Staff First Class for Advising the Technical Bureau. 1973 Carderock, MD Returned as the Ship Systems engineer on the Combat Systems Advisor Group, reporting to the Chief of Naval Material and briefing the Chief of Naval Operations on the potential use of fuel oil derived from coal. Design projects: Tug Barge Test Ship, Tug Barge LST, Multi-spectral Surveillance Systems, Boost Phase SLBM Chaser, Small Waterplane Twin Hull/UWV ASW system, STOVL aircraft for small Carriers, Standardization of Seakeeping Transfer Functions for Ships, High dynamic Anti-ship Missile, Computer Based Damage Control Assistant, Acoustic Station Keeping “Distance Line” 1974 Crystal City, VA Assigned to the NATO PHM program office at the Naval Sea Systems Command, as Combat Systems and Test and Trials Officer, working with CDR. Karl Duff (MIT 58) on the prototype USS Pegasus PHM-1, patrol hydrofoil missile ship, and consulting with German and Italian Navy engineering representatives. Hands on experience: Pacific Missile Range Test and Evaluation and return voyage to Seattle. Design project: Material fatigue design review and the revised Ship Specification for production PHMs. Award: Navy Commendation, for PHM program. Publication: 1976 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astonautics, AIAA paper - with Duff and Schmit-”NATO PHM Ship and Weapons Systems Test and Evaluation”. 1977 Mare Island, CA Assigned as Executive Officer and Ship Systems Lecturer Engineering Duty Officer School, providing hands on experience for 200 basic students and 120 MID career students. Vice Chairman, American Society of Naval Engineers Golden Gate Section . Award: Navy Commendation , for Engineering Duty Officer school Executive Officer 1979 Crystal City, VA Selected to be Ship Design Manager, for the Modified Repeat Kennedy Class aircraft carrier for the Naval Sea Systems Command. Manager of Surface Ship Concept Formulation program working with the Naval Ship Engineering Center and the Navy Labs to look forward 20+ years. Design projects: Concepts for

262 Corvette Hydrofoil Escort, Mother/Daughter patrol craft, Quick Response Surface Effect Ship/Air Cushion Craft Mine Hunting and Sweeping System, Surface Effect Ship Segmented Lift Ship, Growth Limits to PHM Technology, Navigation Intentions coded Navigation Lights, Computer driven Signal Lamps, Modular Universal Auxiliary Ship class, High Survivability Heavy Combatant, Arsenal Ship, Alternative Mission Ships Boat , Modular Vertical Launch Systems, Modular Electric Drive Propulsion System. Award: Meritorious Service , Surface Ship Conform program manager. Publication: 1981 American Society of Naval Engineers, ASNE paper-”Surface Ship Conform == Dimension 2000” 1981 Brussels, Belgium US Navy representative to the NATO Project Group 13 Frigate for the 1990s. 1982 Seattle, WA Business Review Officer, Program Officer for the completion of the production PHM program, and Executive Officer, Supervisor of Shipbuilding, during the completion of FFG, DD, PHM construction programs . Successful Inservice Inspection and Survey of USS Hercules, PHM 2, - the last production hydrofoil (3 brooms). 1983 Licensed as a Professional Mechanical Engineer, State of Washington. Award: Meritorious Service, Supervisor of Shipbuilding Executive Officer 1984 Seattle, WA Retired from the Navy as Commander, USN . 1985 Seattle, WA Joined Boeing Marine Systems in, conducting Industry Research and Development in Naval Systems. Design projects: PHM 7 design, Royal Norwegian Navy Jet Foil patrol craft, Ships Boat Hydrofoil, Omni Periscope, UAV mission equipment studies, One-Shot Modular Electrical systems connector. Systems Engineering Manager for Boeing Defense and Space Division, including trouble shooting Hanford site remediation, International Space Station Alpha, Houston, TX, Defense programs in Huntsville, AL and the New Zealand Air Force Anti-submarine aircraft proposal. ASNE-Puget Sound Section Chairman. AIAA- Marine Systems and Technologies Technical Committee Chairman. Award: Boeing Merit Award, Systems Engineering support to International Space Station Alpha. Publications: 1986 Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, SNAME-Chesapeake Section Paper-with Sladky-“The Concept of Advanced Concepts”; 1987 Society of Automotive Engineers, SAE Future Transportation Technology paper == “Advanced Marine Vehicle Concepts”; Excellence Award; 1989 AIAA-ASNE paper “What Price Transport”; 1989 ASNE paper == with Hooker, “Hydroaviation”; 1990 Marine Technology Society, MTS paper “Transport Effectiveness”; 1992 ASNE High Performance Marine Vehicle paper “Transport Effectiveness in HPMV Design” 1995 Seattle, WA Retired from Boeing and started AeroMarine Systems Engineering consulting company in Washington State. Consulted on Kinetics Co. radio control advanced marine vehicle designs, marine corps beach mine warfare systems, lighter than air refueling, mission adaptive suspension system for marine vehicles, rhomboid wing target drone, model testing, AirRide catamaran cruiser hydrodynamics, Orca swimmer training video system, tourist submarine maneuvering requirement. Publications: 1996 ASNE Advanced Marine Vehicle paper “Cross Sound Commute == circa 2000”; 1997 Canadian Institute of Marine Engineers paper “Evolution of Advanced Marine Vehicles”; 1998 ASNE-SOLE paper “Cross Ocean Deployment” 1998 Everett, WA Joined Henry Cogswell, College, as Mechanical Engineering Senior Lecturer to teach Boeing and Navy personnel Bachelor degree candidates night courses and entering Freshmen day students physics, chemistry, and natural kinematics. Assisted the Department in gaining ABET 4 year accreditation. Conducted student field trips to local companies for first hand manufacturing technology demonstrations. 2006 Monroe, WA Retired after teaching 400+ students and started boat restoration.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Married Julie Ann Erickson, of Seattle in 1966; two children, Shannon and Ryan and 5 grandchildren. Interests: Boating on Puget Sound, WA with MV Miss-Terry-Us, 15.5 foot catamaran outboard “cruiser”. Completed a 3 year restoration of a circa 1960 19.5 foot cold molded plywood pic-nic boat. Amateur Radio Technician Operator KE7OKV; Member of W7SKY Sky Valley Amateur Radio Club; Monroe City Emergency Management, Volunteer Radio Operator.

263 Irving (Irv) H. Thomae

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

East Campus life “Congleton-Kingsburys per Coosmos-squared Careys” [?sp?] Saturday noon at Durgin Park, occasional trips to Chinatown “5.0 Pizza” at Simeone's in Central Square amazing hack by the “Midnight Re-Decorating Committee” frequent trips to Eli Heffron's Electronic Surplus (still have some of those treasures) Prof. Hartley fiddling with his pipe during every class== and the day that, when he lit it up, three quarters of the class lit pipes too, even a hookah Faculty who changed my life by their unforgettable clarity and humanity: Neal Hartley, Dave Frisch, Bill Siebert, Jerry Lettvin and some inexcusably inept teachers: J.F. Nash, and in 8.06 “If you don't understand me, you shouldn't be a physicist” WTBS's annual reading of “The Other Wise Man” Junior year: Working all night on junior physics lab reports MIT's Centennial, chartered train ride to/from Sturbridge Village to hear Pete Seeger As a grad student in the summer of '63, working on the LINC (first laboratory minicomputer) in Kendall Square, eating lunch at the old F&T Diner TMRC: wild parliamentary wrangles at our weekly meetings, actually a great education in Robert's Rules As freshmen, helping P. Samson code Beethoven themes for the TX-0 late nights spent building superdetailed models “Power Going Off” .. While a grad student, designing solid-state equivalents to TMRC's all-relay control “System”

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

During our senior year, I had decided to pursue my bent for experimental physics in the realm of neurophysiology. After one uncomfortable year as a Biology grad student, I settled into the “Communications Biophysics” group in Bldg 20 and the EE Dept. It was through catching up on and later TA'ing parts of the Course VI core that I learned not only content but teaching methods from outstandingly effective faculty, especially Bill Siebert. I completed my interdisciplinary PhD on the physiology of color vision during the summer of 1968. Eager to teach, I thought myself very fortunate to join 99 other newly-hired faculty as Federal City College opened in Washington, D.C., which until 1968 had no equivalent to a state university. The planners had badly underestimated student demand for practical curricula such as engineering and business. With the encouragement of more senior science faculty, I soon found myself advisor to about 200 students who wanted to major in engineering. Over the next three years, we managed to establish an undergraduate engineering program and add several faculty. Meanwhile, I found that I particularly enjoyed teaching engineering design. In 1972, feeling a strong need for more practical experience, I left FCC to undertake product design using some of Intel's first microprocessors as system elements. After two years of industrial employment and consulting, I joined Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering in 1974, where I taught digital systems design as well as parts of the undergraduate Engineering Sciences core, and earned two US patents. In 1981 I became Thayer's first Design Fellow, supervising graduate theses based on industrially sponsored systems design projects. In mid-1984 I left Thayer School to become an independent consultant and software developer, with clients in the machine tool, electric utility, printing equipment, and personal-computer applications industries, among others. I returned to Dartmouth and Thayer School in the late spring of 2001 as a Research Engineer with the Institute for Security Technology Studies, where I worked on malware analysis and anti-phishing measures until retiring in Sept. 2006.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Family: Married Sally in June 1964, while in graduate school. She too was one of FCC's first 100 faculty members. By the time we moved north from DC to Dartmouth, we had son Randy (b. 1971) and

264 daughter Cherry (b. 1973.) In 1980, serious family mental health issues necessitated a divorce and custody struggle at the same time as tenure review. I had already grown roots here in Norwich, Vermont, so decided to stay here for my son's sake. In Sept 1987, after several years as a single parent, I met Hetty, who already had Louisa (b.1977) and Josiah (b.1981). We married in late May of 1988. Not really Brady Bunch, but it's worked out pretty well. Since then Randy has graduated from RPI and done a master's at MIT; Cherry graduated from Barnard, and somewhat later from NYU Law; Louisa has a master's degree in nursing education; and Josiah is currently finishing a master's at Dartmouth and applying for Ph.D programs in Psychology. Three of the four are now married, and we have two granddaughters in Denver (with Randy), one granddaughter in Newport News (with Louisa), and two grandsons in Eastchester NY (with Cherry.) In 2000, we designed and built a new house with space to enjoy hobbies, grandchildren, and retirement. My younger brother is a brain-injury survivor, dating back to emergency surgery at age 14, in 1958. After our parents' deaths in 1988 and '89, he lived alone for years while his physical and mental health declined. In 2007, he reluctantly moved to an assisted living center here in Vermont. Being close by, I can more effectively advocate for his medical and related needs, and attempt to make his financial resources last as long as possible. These responsibilities add up to a new career quite different from the retirement I'd imagined, but I'm the only brother he's got. Community: In 1990 I joined my town's Finance Committee, and continued on it for most of the next 17 years. This led to heavy involvement in Vermont's ongoing search for more equitable school funding than the local property tax, and in other policy issues at the state level. I have frequently testified before legislative committees, and have had the satisfaction of seeing many of my suggestions lead to improvements in Vermont law. In this century, broadband is as essential to economic development as Rural Electrification was in the mid-20th. I serve on the executive committee of “ECFiber.net”, a consortium of 23 Vermont towns formed in 2008 to build a community-owned, subscriber-funded fiber- optic network reaching every home and business. Using mostly local investment, we built our hub and 22 miles of cable last year, and expect to nearly triple both cable mileage and subscriber count this year. Hobby: I've been a scale model railroader ever since my TMRC days. Since about 1960, I've been tracing the history of the Montpelier & Wells River, a Vermont short line torn up in 1957. I began collecting photos and artifacts while still an undergrad, and in recent years have enjoyed gathering oral histories from old-timers whose lives depended on it in one way or another. Small-town life was much more self-contained before World War II, and since retirement I've been trying to recreate that world in miniature, as an HO-scale layout filling much of our basement. It's a project that's likely to take the rest of my life. More hands are always welcome, so I hope that friends who visit Vermont will look me up. Looking back, this has not been the life I might have expected. However, thanks to the problem-solving skills that MIT taught me, the common thread seems to have been helping students, clients, and fellow Vermonters make their own lives and their communities better.

James Elbert Thompson

Course:

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

Water fights at Burton House, chemical tubing banned, I still have strobe photos of sheets of water from wing-to-wing ;-) Audio battles at East Campus... can you beat this sound level ?:-) Never enough sleep. We (Naomi Bundy and I) married on March 31, 1960, and moved to Magazine St to a more "normal" life. (About to celebrate 52nd Anniversary). Worked as an electronic

265 technician for Profs Woodson and Jackson, and grad-student-and-Prof-to-be Melcher, in , building equipment to test MHD mechanisms.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

When I graduated I went to work for Motorola Semiconductor Products Division in Phoenix and got in on the very beginnings of Integrated Circuits. Interestingly, some of my '60's chip designs are still being sold (by Lansdale Semiconductor). Over the next few years I worked my way up to Group Manager, running a team that did primarily Analog chip design... OpAmps, A-to-D-to-A Converters, Video Amplifiers, Phase-locked-loops, and many automotive functions: alternator regulators, ignition systems, engine controls, etc. (My web-site, listing all my designs, is at http://www.analog-innovations.com) Did a quick 8 month break in 1968 and jumped ship from Motorola and joined John Welty at Philco-Ford, Santa Clara. Then came right back to Motorola when they wanted me to move to Philadelphia ;-) In 1970 Motorola had their big lay-off and wanted me to lay-off some of my team. I balked. When pressed I laid myself off and joined Dickson Electronics designing hybrid circuits. In 1973 I was canned for trying to take the production more toward commercial and easing out of military. I had already been doing some "work on the side" writing (and teaching) instructional courses in integrated circuit design for ICE, so I decided I'd just go freelance, got my P.E., and started doing consulting. In 1977 I joined Bob Fulks (MIT, 1957?) and Bob Anderson (MIT, 1962) at a start-up called OmniComp, as analog guru. OmniComp was ultimately absorbed by GenRad and then unceremoniously shut-down in 1987. So I went back to freelancing, and have been doing so ever since... and still having fun. I have designed literally hundreds of custom integrated circuits, including the venerable MC1488/89 (RS-232) chips, and the original USB interfaces for Intel's processors. I have been awarded 18 patents.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Naomi and I have four children... Our first child, Madeleine was born while we were still at MIT, in January, 1962. She is a graduate of Scripps College (Clarement) and runs United Way in Yuma, AZ. She is married to James F. Coil, a prosecutor for Yuma County. They have presented us with three granddaughters, one graduated from UofA in 2010, the second is a sophomore at UofA, and the third is a senior in high school. Our second child, Jennifer, born in 1964, is also a graduate of Scripps College, and is a chemist... she runs the City of Phoenix Water Laboratories. She is married to Andrew Calles, an accountant for Honeywell. They have two children, Megan, a sophomore at UofA, and Duncan, a junior in high school. Duncan is autistic. Our third child, Aaron, born in 1970, attended UofA, studying computer programming, and now develops and runs all the software systems for the world's largest call- center system. He is married to Carrie Degnan, a real-estate para-legal. They have one son, Killian, age 4. Our fourth child, Duane, born in 1972, attended UofA and graduated from ASU with a degree in mechanical engineering. He married Renee Rosen who runs a Harley parts website. They have one child, Allison, age 10. Duane died from colon cancer in 2006. Obviously our interests are centered around our family, though we do participate in the community. Naomi and I have been involved with Girl Scouts since 1967... I've even been a cookie mom ;-)

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Peter Thurston

Course: XV

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

I discovered when I arrived at MIT as a freshman that as a small town boy growing up north of Pittsburgh, I had suddenly become a very small fish in a very large pond competing with incredibly brilliant classmates, many with much more advanced secondary educational preparation. Fortunately I went through Rush Week before classes began and I joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity which became my home-away-from-home. Intramural athletics were a big part of my SAE experience, especially touch football, which was played at a very intense level during the championship games. I also played rugby for the MIT and Boston Rugby Clubs, which provided an enjoyable intercollegiate sports experience. The MIT social life experience was that of an all boys' school. However, with so many girls and co-ed colleges nearby, it was possible to have a varied and active social life on the weekends. My SAE brothers provided access to many non-academic experiences such as water fights in the spring, water skiing in the summer and snow skiing in the winter at 20 below zero, to mention just a few. I recently saw a Boston Globe article about the "MIT Infinite Hallway" which is illuminated twice each year when sun properly aligns. This happening is called "MIThenge." This article brought back memories of the endless granite hallways and total lack of living plants and organic wood paneling, which could have softened the cold and seemingly heartless environment. Fortunately I was able to return to the SAE house on Beacon Street, across the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, each day for lunch and for dinner with my brothers in a warm and welcoming environment.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

After graduating from MIT with B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Management, I joined IBM as a sales trainee in 1964 in Cambridge, MA. After seven months, I took a two year military leave of absence to serve my Army Corp of Engineers ROTC commission. My first year assignment was to the NASA Saturn V Second Stage Project office in Huntsville, AL. I was then called to duty in Vietnam, where I served as Officer in Charge of a punch card data processing center at the Army spare parts depot in Qui Nhon. I was discharged at Ft. Lewis, near Seattle, and rejoined IBM as a sales trainee in Palo Alto, CA. As an IBM large systems sales representative, I was responsible for large accounts in the San Francisco Bay area. During the next ten years I held various positions including marketing manager for Stanford University and Lockheed Missiles and Space Corp. I transferred to IBM Storage Products Division in San Jose, where magnetic disk storage technology was developed. For the next eight years I held an array of management positions in printer and disk storage product marketing, development and manufacturing. In 1985 IBM moved our family to Tokyo for four years. My challenge was to help IBM keep track of its Japanese storage product competitors. After returning to San Jose, I held worldwide competitive sales and marketing management positions. During the ten years prior to my IBM retirement in 2006, I had the pleasure to work with Cisco, Brocade, McDATA and others to bring their storage networking products to market through IBM's worldwide sales channels. I never could have imaged that I would have such a challenging and fulfilling career with the opportunity to work with so many interesting IBM'ers, customers and business partners around the world.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Carol ConnelI and I were married in Palo Alto, CA in 1969. We were introduced by my sister, Jacqueline, who lived in Menlo Park and who met Carol at a Stanford Alumni gathering. We have been happily married for over forty years and we have been blessed with three grown children -- Jonathan (40),

267 Gregory (38) and Katherine (34), and with three young grandchildren -- Teo (3), Eleanor (2) and Siena (1). Our children grew up in Los Altos Hills, where we continue to live and enjoy our home after my retirement. I was actively involved raising our children including giving them ski lessons at Squaw Valley. Our family still gets together for one week of skiing at year’s end and one week of summer time fun in Truckee, CA, where Katherine’s family now lives. Gregory was a member of the University of Colorado Free Style Ski Team and Katherine is still a member of the Squaw Valley Ski patrol. After “teaching” our children how to ski when they were growing up, they now give me ski lessons! While living in Tokyo, our family was able to travel around the world each summer to Europe, Africa and Asia. We spent holidays in many fascinating Asian countries. This cultural experience had a profoundly positive affect on all of us, but especially our children who were in elementary and middle schools. Now that I have retired, I am dedicated to introducing elementary school children to nature as a Wilderness and Farm Guide and as a member of the Board of Trustees at Hidden Villa in Los Altos Hills. Carol is a Docent and Chair of the Story Tellers at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, so we continue to be connected to Asian cultures. My greatest joy is collaborating with our adult children on their projects and supporting our three grandchildren with the opportunity to help their dreams come true.

Bret Timmons Tucker

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

A phenomenal education acquired during four intense, challenging, fun, and jam-packed years. Wish I could do it all over again.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

Professional activities since MIT, in chronological order: Honeywell Computer Division Computer design engineer, eventually becoming the department manager in charge of CPU design. Arthur D. Little Inc. Staff consultant, based in Cambridge for two years and then Brussels for three years. Index Systems Inc. Managing Director of the London subsidiary. Independent consultant Advised SafMarine, the national shipping line of South Africa, in their conversion from break-bulk to container ships. Ergo Inc. Founded the company and currently serve as its CEO, providing financial models, software, and data services for bonds, options, and futures to hedge funds and institutional investment firms delivered via www.indexarb.com.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

After graduating from MIT, I lived in Lexington and Waltham for eight years and had more time to get to know and enjoy Boston and sailing in Maine. While working at Honeywell, I worked part time on my MBA at Sloan but had to terminate those studies after joining ADL due to travel commitments. My career at ADL involved travel throughout the US, Europe, and Africa. I eventually moved to Europe and, although the case workload was usually demanding, there was ample time for private travels and activities, including sailing in the North Sea and Aegean. I met a wonderful Swedish girl and we were married for thirty-five years. My last assignment abroad was based in Capetown, which afforded us numerous opportunities to travel in Africa. After finishing the project in Capetown, we moved to the US and chose Santa Barbara due to its climate and mountain/ocean similarities. My activities here included serving on the board of the Santa Barbara Food and Wine Society. Other interests have included tennis, golf, skiing, and hunting/photography on a large ranch. Our son, Ben, was born three years after we

268 arrived and we participated fully in his educational and sports activities. He is now a financial advisor with Merrill Lynch in Santa Barbara and is also an avid golfer so we share professional and sports interests.

Edward W. “Ed” Underriner

Course: XX

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

What an awakening MIT was after breezing through high school! When that first grade report came out, it was tough explaining to my folks that, although ALL of us were in the top 10% of our high school classes, now, half of us would be in the lower 50%. I called this higher mathematics. My ambition, long- time, was to be a chemical engineer, and what better place than MIT for that particular discipline. But, one semester, dissuaded me of that notion. So, I sought another major...and found Course XX, at that time known as Food Technology. With much appreciation to Dr Samuel Goldblith, then head of the department, I switched from Course X, and found everything I had been seeking. And, incidentally, by joining the class of '62, I increased the department roster by 50%. (Yes, there were now a total of three baccalaureate candidates.) Making all of this endurable was my association with the brothers of Sig Ep. We worked hard, played hard, and got through the difficult times with mutual support. What more could one ask of a fraternity? Following graduation, I stayed on for a Masters in Food Science and Technology. These degrees paved the way for my career in the food industry.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

I held positions of increasing responsibility with Armour and Company (Oakbrook, IL), The Gorton Corporation (back to New England, in beautiful downtown Gloucester), Marriott Corp. (Washington, DC), and ultimately with McCormick and Company (Baltimore, MD) until retirement. In 1980, I became a member of Rotary, the world's largest service organization. Following retirement from the food industry, I agreed to serve as executive secretary of Rotary District 7620 (Washington and central Maryland) for ten years. This provided me with the great privilege of meeting, and serving with, some extraordinarily dedicated people seeking to serve others less fortunate, through community and international service projects. After more than 30 years, I continue to enjoy my association with Rotary. I currently serve on the local Police and Community Relations Council (precinct 3, Baltimore County), in support of those dedicated men and women who regularly place their lives on the line for the betterment of our community.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Nancy and I have been married for over 23 years. Together, we have five children from our previous marriages, and a total of 12 grandchildren, with our first great grandchild expected later this year. About 13 years ago, I signed up for art lessons (pastels and oils), and found that, with a great teacher, anyone can learn to paint. That, plus a long-time interest in model railroading (which I exercise with two of my grandsons) keeps me reasonably busy. Nancy is retired (also from McCormick), and together we indulge our mutual interests in good food, good books, museums and theater, some travel (including day trips with our friends in the McCormick Retirees' Association), our wonderful church and church family...and of course, our grandchildren.

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David Vilkomerson

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

Perhaps it is the unreliability of memory, but I remember the student years as being a lot of fun – interesting courses, interesting fellow students, vivid intellectual discussions, discovering the girls at Wellesley and Brandeis, making friends I still have. What’s not to like (other than the climate…)?

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

I’ve always been grateful to MIT for teaching me how to approach a technical problem, rather than teaching me a multitude of facts; I’ve been happily involved in research for all these years (except for a few “lost years” in management), and those skills have served me well. Briefly, joined RCA Labs in Princeton, who were nice enough to send me for doctoral study at Columbia. I started work in medical electronics/physics during a post-doc at Hebrew University, and have stayed with it since, a source of endless fascination. After my work was sold to Johnson& Johnson, and me with it for six years, I’ve been my own boss at three companies I have founded. No big monetary scores (sorry, fundraisers!) but a lot of satisfying and ceaselessly interesting challenges.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Lucky enough to be “hand-selected” by a colleague at RCA Labs for his bright and beautiful daughter, happily married ever since. Two daughters and two granddaughters have been a continuing source of pleasure. Still get great pleasure from classical music, and tennis and squash (thank you MIT for teaching it to me), and travel to the great sites of the world.

Jack L. Walker

Course: VI-A

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

My recollections begin with arrival at South Station on the train from a small farming community in Michigan. It was my first trip to MIT, Boston or any big city and so my learning started quickly. I recall many new experiences from the very first days and meeting Norbert Wiener as part of Freshman orientation activities was especially memorable. During my student years at MIT, it seemed that most time was spent attending classes, preparing for exams, term papers, and senior thesis work with only precious little time for parties and fun. As I look back to those years, my perceived time allocation has changed and I now fondly recall so much time spent in enjoyable bull sessions, hall parties, interspersed with interesting academic work. I share the view of others who have said that we learned more in the four years of MIT undergraduate education than in any four years since.

270 Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

After leaving MIT in 1962, I began graduate school at the University of Michigan and received a PhD in Electrical Engineering. I worked for nearly 38 years for the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan doing mostly microwave imaging research. I served many roles at this 500 person non-profit institute including program manager, Technical Director, Executive VP and Chief Scientist prior to retiring in 2000. Two days after retirement, I fulfilled a dream and rode my bicycle from California to Maine. I was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995, and over the years, worked as a member of several National science and engineering committees including the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. I continue to serve on some of these government science panels.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I met my future wife Bev at an MIT mixer and we have been married for 48 years. We raised our two daughters in Ann Arbor, MI. Jacqueline is the Principal at the Montessori School in Webster, NY and Alison is a Costume Designer at in Providence, RI. We now have five grandchildren == the oldest born in 1998 and the youngest born in 2012. I enjoy trout fishing, bicycling, and running == I have run many marathons, including the Boston Marathon and the New York Marathon. Since retirement, I have been able to spend more time helping with the local children’s science museum and Rotary International projects. Recently, I have taken up ham radio and am quite active in this new hobby experimenting with antennas and using international Morse code. Bev is an artist (oil paintings) and is very busy with galleries and art shows. I serve as her “worthless assistant”. Bev and I now live in our house on the Maine coast for five months during the summer and spend the rest of the year in Ann Arbor enjoying the attributes of both places.

Stephen J. Warner

Course: XV

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

The best parts of MIT for me were the lifelong friends I made and the confidence it gave me that I could run with the best. In retrospect, I am very happy with my choices of classes which were to experience or taste as much as possible including science, engineering , business , economics , philosophy, literature, art , religion, etc. Learning to program computers was especially useful in my early career. Fraternity life and girls certainly played a major role in my student years. I was able to take advantage of the fantastic Boston environment and the phenomena known in those days as "mixers" at the many girls schools. I was able to meet and enjoy the company of many fine young ladies. A group of us rented a house on the shore in New Hampshire (very cheap in the winter) for weekend getaways. Lots of great times there. Worked one summer in Norwood Mass, while living at the Fraternity. Big highlight was spending the summer between junior and senior year touring Europe by motorcycle with MIT friends.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

-Lockheed Missles and Space Co. in Calif for two years developing computer programs -MBA at Wharton School, Univ. of Penn -ranked #1 in class of 1966 -Management Consulting at Arthur D. Little 1966-68 -LLB degree from Blackstone School of Law.

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Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

After 20 years in NYC-Wall Street, I moved to West Palm Beach Florida in 1990, where I continued with venture capital and consulting activities. Currently, I am not employed, but serve as a director of several public and private corporations, mostly in environmentally related businesses. Family-wise, I have been married for the past 15 years and have four stepsons aged 22 to 34. I also have a 43 year old daughter from a previous marriage. I have been fortunate with my health, despite being overweight. I have been a serious bridge player for the past 30 years - my main pastime. Also have been playing competitive Croquet for the past 10 years. I played golf off and on for many years, with the goal of being mediocre - but I did not achieve it! SCUBA diving was an enjoyable activity for me for many years. I have been diving all over the world from the Carribbean to the Red Sea to Australia. I was an active small plane pilot for over 30 years. I have traveled extensively all over the world. Some more notable travels include two European motorcycle trips, several months in the far East as part of a round the world trip, owning an apartment in Mexico City for several years, extended consulting assignments in Saudi Arabia and in Eastern Europe, and an African safari in Botswana. I have visited over 100 countries, flown on over 125 different airlines and have ridden on metros/subways in 48 cities!

Niel K. Weatherbie

Course: VII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

My recollections of MIT student years are that of a continuous sequence of events and new experiences. It was a time of experimenting and trying to sort out what was important to me. Academically and career wise, I did not really succeed in that while at MIT. Though I was interested in the information, I was not a satisfied Course VII major and could not see it as my career. Unfortunately, at the time, I also couldn’t figure out an alternative. One recollection was the travel and lack of travel in those years. There was the 72 hour bus ride between Twin Falls, Idaho and Boston twice each year. And as I only went home for Christmas my sophomore year, I remember some very quiet hallways at Burton House during the holidays while I worked on floors and bathrooms. I worked on the Burton House cleaning staff throughout my years at MIT to earn spending money--two years as worker and two years as the staff manager. I got involved with student government through the Burton House social committee my sophomore year and that grew to involvement in Burton House politics and committees, the Dormitory Council and several school wide committees--notably the Centennial Weekend Committee. I remember the issue of “dressing for dinner” in the then new Burton dining hall being a particularly hot political item for a while. In addition to being rewarding and fun, these social and political activities proved to be very educational, broadening and provided experiences that served me well in my subsequent career. I enjoyed the association and friendships of many classmates and students while at school, and we shared numerous “philosophical” and “wild” times, however after graduation my life was one of many moves and many short term friends. I did not maintain relationships with those I knew at MIT.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

After graduating from MIT, I earned a commission in the in September 1962 through Officer Training School at Lackland Air Force Base, TX. After attending the Communications-

272 Electronics short training course at Keesler Air Force Base, MI, I held various positions in Air Force Communications Command. I was first assigned to Scott Air Force Base, IL as a communications maintenance officer and then as a plans and programs officer. In 1965 I was assigned to the 1st Mobile Communications Group, Clark Air Base, Republic of the Philippines, where I served as a contingency plans officer, as commander of teams in Thailand and South Vietnam, and as Chief of Plans. Returning to the U.S. in November 1966, I attended the Communications Staff Officer’s Course at Keesler AFB, MI, finishing in August 1967. I was then assigned to Tinker Air Force Base, OK, as Officer in Charge of the Tinker Automatic Digital Information Network (AUTODIN) switching center. During this assignment I attended and completed Squadron Officer’s School at Maxwell AFB, AL. I was next assigned to Wildwood Air Force Station, AK, in May 1970 to serve as Chief of Telecommunications Operations. In December 1971, I moved to Eielson Air Force Base, AK, to assume command of the 1995th Communications Squadron. In July 1974, I left Alaska to attend Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell AFB, AL which I completed in July 1975, having simultaneously earned an MBA with Auburn University. I was then assigned to Fort Meade, MD, to serve as a communications security analyst with the National Security Agency (NSA). During this assignment I completed the National Communications Security Course and became the first military officer to be certified by NSA as a professional communications security analyst. I also became certified as a professional resource manager by the Agency and completed the Industrial College of the Armed Forces Course by correspondence. In July 1978 I assumed duties at Kelly AFB, TX as Director of Operations Support at the Air Force Communications Security Center. When Air Force Security Service reorganized and changed names, I became Chief of Operations Evaluations, Air Force Electronic Warfare Center, Electronic Security Command. I was promoted to Colonel on 1 June 1981 and selected to attend Air War College at Maxwell AFB, AL, graduating in May 1982. I was then assigned to Headquarters U.S. Forces Japan at Yakota Air Base as Assistant Chief of Staff for Command, Control, and Communications Systems (J6). In this assignment I had the opportunities to become the first foreign officer to address the Japan Defense Agency Joint Staff College, and to have an article published in Signal magazine on U. S. Command, Control and Communications Systems in Japan. In July 1985 I returned to Air Force Communications Command as Director of Plans and Programs, Detachment 6, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH. When Detachment 6 was deactivated Jan 1, 1986 and Headquarters Logistics Communications Division (LCD) was activated, I became Chief of Staff for Headquarters LCD. In August 1987 I assumed the dual positions of Vice Commander for Headquarters LCD and as Deputy Director and subsequently Director for Integration, Policy, and Human Resources for the Deputy Chief of Staff Communications Computer Systems, Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC). Later, while still retaining my position as LCD Vice Commander, I served as Deputy for System Engineering, Logistics Management Systems Center, AFLC. In August 1989, I moved again and became (dual role) Director of Communications- Computer Systems, San Antonio Air Logistics Center, and Commander, 1923rd Communications- Computer Systems Group, Kelly Air Force Base, TX, serving as the Air Logistics Center's single manager for computer and telecommunications resources and for air traffic control services at Kelly AFB. The 1923rd won the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award under my command. After 30 years and three month’s service, I retired from the Air Force on 1 September 1992. My awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, two Legion of Merit, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, two Air Force Meritorious Service Medals, two Air Force Commendation Medals, the Vietnam Service Medal and the Government of Japan's Third Order of the Sacred Treasure. After my Air Force retirement I first did consulting and project management for the Briscoe Library of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). I managed preparation of a proposal to upgrade library hardware and systems and to develop networked services to health service providers throughout south Texas, as well as initiated development and implementation of a strategic planning and process management system for the library. In February 1995, I was hired for part time work by both the Briscoe Library and the Psychology Departments of UTHSCSA. For the library I drafted proposals, then set up, installed and maintained 14 funded computer systems providing Internet and library access to health service institutions in south Texas. I also designed, programmed and maintained databases that tracked use of these services as well as provided financial management information for the Library. For the Psychology

273 Department, I designed, programmed and maintained financial tracking, drug research and contract management databases. The Psychology Department subsequently ported the financial tracking system to four other UTHSCSA departments. I fully retired in 1999 when we moved from Texas to Idaho, but still help friends, family and my wife’s activities with their computer questions and issues.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I met my wife, Judith, at Keesler AFB, MI in 1967 when I was there for a school. She was an Air Force registered nurse working in intensive care at the base hospital. We were married in April of 1968. We have two children, daughter, Tina, born in Anchorage, AK in 1971 and son, Brett, born in Fairbanks, AK in 1973. Both pursued competitive distance swimming through high school and college. Tina now has three children and owns (with her husband, Kevin) the companies that manage the city swimming pools and instruct swimming for Colorado Springs, CO. Brett moved from swimming to modern pentathlon, was in the US Army’s World Class Athlete program, and won a silver medal at the Pan American Games. Stress fractures of the leg ended that stage of his life and he now has two children with his wife Natalia and a successful career as a commercial property appraiser in San Antonio and south Texas. Throughout my military career, Judith worked as a nurse, earned a college degree, was active and multiple offices holder in the Officer’s Wives Clubs and worked as a manager in Ohio and Texas in state facilities for mental health and mental retardation. She retired in 1999 when we moved to Idaho. She is now active in PEO, a women’s philanthropic educational organization, serving on the Idaho State Executive Board and is scheduled to become its president in 2015. Our primary recreational activities and interests have been camping, as well as fishing and hunting. We owned snow machines in Alaska and I hunted, ran a trap line, did some taxidermy and fished a lot. After we came to Idaho, we bought a stern drive boat, a 5th wheel camper, and two all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). Every opportunity we go out to camp, usually either taking the boat to fish or the ATVs for exploring. I have hunted bear, moose, caribou and Dall sheep in Alaska; elk, antelope and mule deer in Idaho; and wild boar and whitetail deer with my son in Texas. We work at trying to stay healthy. We have been attending a local college exercise class for seniors three days a week for 11 years. Additionally, Judith likes to walk and do yoga; I prefer to work out on the treadmill. When time and circumstance allow, we play some golf.

Raymond Wenig

Course: XV

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

MIT was a challenge on many levels. Learning to live with lots of new freedoms and yet establish priorities and disciplines to delve into the educational processes of the institute required many trials and iterations. We went backward when freedoms won and forward when the disciplines took hold. Once the learning process was in some sort of balance we found it easy to make new friends and find new organizations to affiliate with. Joining the Demolay fraternity chapter brought social association with a diverse set of outstanding fellow students and into contact with a brother who would later introduce me to his younger sister eventually making him my favorite brother-in-law. Other activities developed through the used book selling efforts at TCA which lead to becoming the head of the TCA organization. The love of books also lead to student employment in the aeronautical library and then to becoming the managing head of the student staffing for the MIT library system. These leadership challenges helped to develop management skills, provided some extra funds and added competition to the study process. Work responsibilities usually won out over social opportunities, but there were sufficient Demolay social events to bring dates from the local girls schools into the MIT experience. Once my attention was focused on my

274 Demolay brothers sister the social issue was solidly set for the future and has lasted formally for 48 good years and is still going strong.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

In the pursuit of my MIT degree it became necessary to do some additional courses in order to complete the requirements for graduation. As I was now regularly seeing my Demolay brothers sister who lived in the Boston suburbs, I wanted to secure employment in the Boston/Cambridge area. Many interviews came up empty till a prospective employer who could not secure funding to hire me for the summer directed me to a new consulting company in need of a computer analyst. The manager, an MIT grad agreed to a job offer and I had a summer job that turned into permanent employment for the next 12 years. The company was a Washington DC think tank called the Corporation for Economic and Industry Research (CEIR), Inc. My work involved working on the development of a sophisticated mathematical programming system, followed by project management systems, economic forecasting, satellite data analysis and a number of advanced management information systems. CEIR was eventually acquired by Control Data Corp and the independent consulting work became somewhat more complicated so I moved into a series of entrepreneurial ventures, eventually leading to starting my own consulting company, International Management Services, Inc. (IMS.) IMS grew to develop advanced information systems that tracked the rise of minicomputers, then client/server computing, then to distributed architectures and cloud- networked computing. Now retired to South Carolina work with a local Angel Investment group to assist high technology start-up companies. Building 18 portfolio companies on the road to success. Starting a new regional training organization to develop a culture of service excellence in the lowcountry covering all types and levels of service companies.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

Married to Sandra Nickles (sister of David Nickles 1962 - X) in 1962. Raised 3 daughters all professionally employed across the country. Five grandchildren. Traveled worldwide for business. Traveled North America via recreational vehicles for over 40 years. Boating by sail and power up and down the east coast. Raised Norwegian Elkhounds now graduated to enjoying smaller Havenese. Walking and biking for exercise, woodworking for hobby and writing and storytelling for preservation.

Lynn Walton Whelchel, Jr.

Course: VII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

I am eternally grateful for Sigma Nue fraternity for they kept me in school, made sure I studied, were always available to answer questions about school or life, fostered my interest in athletics (Rugby, Swim and Crew teams), and made sure I graduated. I remember my freshman tutor, Prof. Bose, showing me his original speaker (how far he has come), Norbet Weiner disrupted 18.01 occasionally when he got lost, trying to stay awake in Music Library (usually unsuccessfully), horrible P. Chem labs on Friday afternoons with the all-nighter to get it written up, Prof. Schmidt in 8.01 getting all excited, unintelligble Physiology classes, Dr. Levine (?) teaching us 7.01 or 7.02 with his black pants and white shirts full of cigarette holes, movies on Friday nights in Kresge where we rolled beer cans (empty of course) down the aisles, riding my motorcycle down the main hall of Building 10 on weekends evading

275 security, working with one of the 3 Electron microscopes all on the same floor at MIT (5 in total in Boston at the time). We used to go for lunch on Saturdays after crew practice and have a ball with the $0.99 specials with pitchers and pitchers of water. Five of us, I think TJ Lageman, Dave Koch, myself, Mel Cornelio and a fifth, pulling into the end of the St. Patrick'sday parade in Boston at its starting point with all the cops lining the route thinking Mel's convertible was official was tons of fun--why we were not arrested I will never know. I could go on and on--however, in summary, my four years were the most stimulating ones of my life and I thank my lucky stars everyday that my father sent me to military school and thence to MIT. Also, I obviously found plenty of time to have fun along the way.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

I went MIT in 1962 to Dartmouth Medical School (it was 2 years then) and then on to McGill Medical School (gotta love those French girls altough I married an English girl from England in Montreal) finishing in 1966. I stayed in Montreal and completed my General Surgery Residency,in 1971, picking up French along the way. At the end of my residency I left Canada to join the US Army where they sent me to Viet Nam as a surgeon to protect the world from Communism. I thought I know how to operate until I arrived in Viet Nam and the prededing surgeons showed me what it was really like. I spent the second year in Fort Ord, California, and certainly loved it altough I would not live in California now. After honorable discharge (a miracle) in 1973 I started a solo private practice (what a dinosaur now) in Winsted, Connecticut. From there I moved my office south 10 miles to Torrington, Connecticut. Mid- life crises struck and I returned to Boston in a fit of madness to complete a two year residency in Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery at Tufts from 1983-1985 (they called me A.I.--not aortic insufficiency but Ancient Intern). This was a point in our lives that was not appropriate for moving to Tennessee or Washington state so I resumed my practice in Torrington, focusing on vascular and thoracic with a smidgen of general surgery. In 1999 we decided (my wife was running the business side of the practice) it was no longer any fun so we quit in March 2001, just as the Dot.Com fiasco hit--ugly. It took 10 seconds to make the transition from medicine to non-medicine. I mistakenly thought I would now have some spare time-- being busy dropped from 80-90 hours/week to 70 hrs/wk and I do not have enough time to fit it all in, especially now. I have been fortunate health-wise and other than the usual orthopedic stuff and tons of dollars to the pharmaceutical industry to combat the hypertension and cholesterol problems life is great, even though I no longer go helicopter skiing (one of my great recurring adventures).

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I married Sue in Montreal in June 1965, had a wonderful honeymoon in Europe which I still remember (no Alzheimers yet, I think) and over the years we had three children, 1967 Adam, 1969 Alyn, and 1973 Angus--all As to make it easier on summer camp name tags. They are all grown, married, possess advanced degrees and have produced 7 grandchildren--so much for the one child policy from China. We are half lucky in that Adam lives here in Connecticut but Alyn lives in Denver and Angus in London, England (reverse immigration) where he hates the high taxes. Sue and I gave them a stable family situation for we have lived only in Colebrook from 1973 on and are in our one and only house--altough we don't use all six bedrooms anymore--kinda silly two old folks rattling around in a huge 1810 house-- we were too busy to flip houses when everybody else was doing ti. I fill my spare time working on my investments (meager that they are--I have a new mantra--DON'T LOSE MONEY), working on and racing my Porsches, loving HD opera with the Metroplitan Opera of New York, fixing the garden and house, riding my motorcycle (not a Harley and I may be too old to be an organ donor) and trying to spend time in the Adirondacks at our lakefront cottage. Also, while we are healthy and the world is quasi-stable (?) we have traveled extensively in Asia, some in Europe and South America and plan to go to Turkey this fall. Our English daughter-in-law, whose parents are from the Punjab (Indian side--Sikh), will be arranging a big trip to Northern India next year and New Zealand is also on the list. I was able to visit Australia while in Viet Nam. It is amazing how fast 50 years has flown but I have sure had fun during those years. Hope the next 20 are as good--I am sure they will be, but different. I look forward to the Reunion and seeing my pledge brothers form Sigma Nu again.

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Clark Woody White

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

My strongest memories of my years at MIT include.... the experience of sitting in lectures with several hundred other students.... the inspiration of listening to physics lectures by Professor Ingard and Professor Kraushaar. They convinced me to major in physics rather than chemical engineering …. rush week...... parties, social events, and daily life in the fraternity house.... learning to play bridge and then playing too often.... meeting people from all over the world..... snowfalls in excess of 3 inches...... walking or hitchhiking across the Harvard Bridge.....seeing a frozen river ….exploring the cultural opportunities in Boston and the local area.....attending major league baseball games at Fenway and seeing Ted Williams at the end of his career and Carl Yastrzemski at the beginning of his.... seeing the Boston Celtics ( Bill Russell, Bob Cousy, etc.) play basketball and observing some of the first great basketball battles between Russell and Wilt Chamberlain....stress associated with finals week each semester..... senior thesis.... the search for a graduate school.... and (finally) Graduation with Father Hesburgh as the Commencement speaker.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

After MIT I attended graduate school at Duke University earning a PhD in Physics in 1968. From November 1967 until October 1975 I was employed as a staff member at Bell Labs and then spent the next 28 years in the Solid State Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, retiring in June 2003. My professional career involved basic research in solid state physics and materials science including studies of ion-solid interactions, ion beam modification of materials, and materials characterization using ion beams. This work resulted in numerous scientific papers (authored or co-authored) published in various scientific journals, conference proceedings or book chapters, and 10 patents were granted. Invited or contributed papers were presented at national and international conferences and I was a chairperson of several symposia and the International Conference on Ion Beam Modification of Materials. I served in several positions for the Materials Research Society (MRS) including president of the MRS in 1984. I am a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Materials Research Society. Additional awards include an IR-100 Award and a DOE award for Outstanding Sustained Research. I am also the namesake for, and the first recipient of, the MRS Service Award, the Woody Award.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

The luckiest day of my life was the day I met Linda when we were both working at Bell Labs. We were married in 1970 and subsequently we had two wonderful children who have been the pleasure of our lives. We took great pleasure in their childhood years (baseball games, soccer, gymnastics, etc.). Our son Clinton was an undergraduate at University of Tennessee and then attended graduate school at Caltech where he earned a PhD in Mathematics. Our daughter Virginia attended Wake Forest University and then earned her PhD in Botany at University of California. She is now a faculty member in the Biology department at Riverside Community College. Several times I have had the good fortune to sit in on lectures given by one of my children. The lectures they gave were so much better than I would have been able to do at that age and experience. Linda and I have enjoyed several wonderful trips throughout our married life. Some were in the company of friends, some were with our children, and some were by ourselves. We have attended and participated in numerous national and international scientific conferences and we greatly enjoyed the social interactions that come with those events. We have also participated in several service activities for the community and the church.

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Robert E. Wilhelm

Course: XXI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

While at MIT I lived on the Boston side of the Charles and endured the walk over the bridge 4 times every day because the bus cost 10 cents. Some of my best friends are my fraternity brothers and we still socialize and ski together. My memories of specific classes iis a bit vague at this time but two of my best are working with the nuclear physicists on fusion projects which were forecast to be commercial about 20 years ago and are now forecast to be commercial in another 30 years and working with some of the major luminaries in the Political Science department on issues such as MAD. Our world is a lot safer now than then.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

After MIT, I moved upriver to Harvard Business School and received an MBA in 1964. At the time I thought this is much easier than MIT! Then, I began a 40 year career with Exxon that took me all over the world. I lived and worked in South America and Europe for extended periods, spent lots of time in the Far East, learned Spanish as a second language, and made many contacts through MIT alumni. Finally, I settled down at Corporate HQ in Dallas as a Senior VP and member of the Board of Directors. After retirement, I stayed active in the energy area and am still on the Board of a company that invests in energy activities in developing countries, and I do some consulting in the energy area as well. MIT asked me to serve on various visiting committees in the 1980's and that service evolved into two five year terms on the Corporation working with Chuck Vest and Susan Hockfield. Currently, I am on an Advisory Board for energy matters at Stanford. My politics have not changed much since I was an undergraduate and worked in JFK's campaign.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

My first marriage did not work out well, but my second seems great. Two children but no grandchildren as yet. Our time is split between homes in Dallas, Beaver Creek, and Hawaii. I still ski, play golf and tennis, and travel extensively to see all the things I missed the first time around.

Jerome Alpiner Winston

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

My primary recollection is being busy -- and being assisted by those who were a year or two ahead of us. I lived at Baker House. I recall sitting on the floor soon after moving into Baker House with a large group of Freshmen, being told about MIT traditions by older students. I recall their passing on their "bibles" which helped to make midnight hours of homework more bearable. In winter, I recall the middle-of-the-night snow blockades of Memorial Drive. Mostly, I remember late nights of study, at my desk or in the library, with occasional walks through a campus that was never

278 closed -- there was always a lab or computer centre with people working late at night. I enjoyed the wide range of subjects to which we were introduced at MIT, from the many aspects of science and engineering to an introduction to literature as art, to a major study of the history of 'Western' civilization. [What I carried away prepared me to bridge science, history and philosophy when -- after moving to Australia -- I joined colleagues to develop the professional practice of 'evaluation' of human service and public sector programs.] I recall being busy as a member of many different organisations on campus. APO provided me an opportunity to continue what has been a lifelong association with Scouting. I recall serving as one of the night editors of our campus newspaper, helping to 'put the paper to bed' and then delivering the final copy to the printer's office in the early hours of the morning. Being inept at fencing, I accepted an offer to serve as student manager and enjoyed the organisational challenges involved the behind-the-scenes activity. Thanks to a volunteer position arranged through the main student service organisation on campus, I recall gaining new insights in to the human services while working with children and their social workers at a 'settlement house' in Cambridge.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

I moved to Australia in 1965. I spent a few years as a junior academic, first in a statistics department at a university in Canberra and later at a new university in Melbourne. By the early 1970s, I had started to work in a small university, also in Melbourne, that offered degrees in technical and vocational areas. At first I only taught mathematics and statistics to science students, but I soon volunteered to work with colleagues to develop and teach in social work, community development, nursing, recreation and leisure studies programs that -- while they began on campus -- were soon being presented at professional conferences as well in training facilities at a wide range of government departments. In the late 70s, in response to invitations to visit government departments and other universities to discuss the challenges of evaluating public sector program, I used my base at the university to establish the Australian Evaluation Network. I served for a few years as editor of the Network's newsletter, which helped link the few of us who were developing methods for evaluating government programs. In 1979, I designed and then led the growth of a graduate program in evaluation which attracted part-time students who were graduates in a wide range of disciplines and were then working in (or with) government and non-government organisations. By the early 1980s, an Australasian Evaluation Society was formed, which provided an international, organisational base for developing evaluation into an area of professional practice in Australia and New Zealand. In 1986, left the university for six months, having been accepted into an executive exchange program, working in Canberra with the federal government's Department of Finance. As 'program budgeting' had only been introduced a few years earlier, I had an inside view of the approaches taken by leaders in government departments to encourage improvements in the planning, budgeting and evaluation of government-funded programs. I continued to work with the AES and was appointed a Fellow a few years ago. Throughout the 1990s, I continued to develop theories and teach in the intersection between 'research methods', 'systems models' and 'program evaluation'. I was frequently invited to give lectures and lead workshops in Australasia and occasionally in Canada and the USA. In 1994, I was invited to work with a Malaysian expert in evaluation. This led to our establishing an international evaluation research and development centre in Malaysia which now has branches in Malaysia, Zimbabwe and Australia. I continue to work actively with this international team, to develop and assess models and methodologies which have been taught and applied in many parts of Asia and Africa. In 2011,

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I have been active in Scouting and Rotary for many years, serving as a District Venturer Scout Leader for 35+ years and as a member and twice president of the Rotary Club of Greensborough (Victoria, Australia). For the past 20 years or so, I have also been active in planning and coordinating a range of inter-faith activities.

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Robert Stephen Wrathall

Course: VIII

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

This is a lot to ask of someone on the verge. There are two memories which stand out explicitly as huge achievements, both on East Campus Day. As a senior I just happened to have a can of pistol powder and a coil of green fuse in my room. I really do not remember why, but I did. As the evening of my last East Campus Day started to heat up, I went over the the National Magnet Labs where I was doing my senior thesis and machined a 1.75 inch diameter chunk of mild steel about 10 inches long with a 3/4 inch hole and set a fuse hole and made a small cannon. It was a huge success. The first shot was out of a window facing the quad. I was in the room with two freshmen when I lit the fuse. As I watched it burn down, I covered my ears while the freshmen did not, the difference four years makes. They were deafened for the rest of the night. The cannon recoiled and hit the floor 12 feet away. Security ended up with the cannon after two more shots. Another East Campus Day, as water balloons were pouring out of a 5th floor window, I took a small balloon and threw it through the window from the ground. What a shot. I enjoyed the time. I enrolled in physics but the class I enjoyed the most was a graduate class in powder metallurgy by Professor Wolff. I still only understand thermodynamics in principle. I turned out to be fast on my feet and inventive, much better at engineering than physics. But, who knows, maybe there is some life there yet. Did I use any of the information I gained at MIT? I took lots of humanities. I have enjoyed literature and reading. I know a little about Russian literature, Freud, and Kierkegaard and all of the existentialists because of this. When I spent a year in Vienna I knew where to look for Freud's house and offices. As a Mormon missionary we spent a week knocking on psychiatrist's doors in the neighborhood before we got tired of the game. I read "Lolita" before I could possibly understand what it really meant. I took Russian and German. The German served me well, as for Russian, I can dope out the pronunciation of a word in Cyrillic alphabet. Much of the classwork I took has now settled down into the bedrock of my repertoire. I greatly enjoy science and engineering and can thank MIT for that foundation.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

I left MIT to go on an Austrian mission for the church. I returned three years later with lots of other experience but completely without contacts for continuing education. I applied at BYU as a graduate student in physics. But I had forgotten about comprehensive exams. I crammed for 2 weeks and passed 2 and finally passed the other two a little later. In three years you can do a complete erase. I picked an experimental topic in solid state physics to map the Fermi surface of bismuth-antimony alloys. An interesting subject but one without any real urgency and very little demand in the world of physics. I met my wife, Janice, there. I had known her before in New Jersey where we both lived but convinced her years later and in another place. In graduate school we had 2 3/4 children and Janice got her Master's degree. A lovely time in the shadows of the Wasatch Front. Faced with the lack of academic jobs at the time of graduation, I switched to be a radar engineer at Goodyear Aerospace. I was becoming versed in radar. I got to see the chicken accelerator in action against aircraft windows and the blimp landing at the hanger in Goodyear, AZ. I developed several algorithms for radar detection and digital signal processing. I left Goodyear and joined Motorola as a circuit designer largely on the basis that I knew what a Fermi surface was. This was a steep learning curve but after a year I was dangerous. I worked for 10 years at the Semiconductor Research Laboratories in Phoenix where our group developed the first power BCD process. I started my patent portfolio there and now have 37 or 38 patents, some of them are good. (Children count now at 6. Wife was satisfied. We really liked each other.) Got my first computer with CpM operating system. I complied a printer driver in assembly language. I was lured away from Motorola to work for GE/RCA/Harris (in order of succeeding management) at RTP in North Carolina. Turbulent years. Got a large contract from IBM worth lots of money. Harris had financial problems and I

280 ended up in California 20 years ago. (Three Children in college at once.) Joined National Semi, Siliconix, a startup Impala Linear, Micrel, Advanced Analogic Tech, and finally another startup, Analog Solution Devices where I am head of engineering. It has been a really exciting time. (Janice passed away 4 years ago, and I remarried an old friend, Claudia, whom I met as a graduate assistant.)

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I have been very dedicated to my lovely family. I tried to keep things in proportion. At the present time we have six children, thirteen grandchildren. Five of my children are in education, three in doctoral or post doctoral programs. We have four daughters and two sons. Janice and I loved hiking and camping. We walked down the Grand Canyon three times and went on several wonderful week hikes, the most spectacular down the Paria River to the Colorado River. We enjoyed travel, particularly with our polyglot children, mostly in Central and South America. How life passes. No marriage was more pleasant. She contracted cancer and passed away after a very hard year. She taught me how to be brave. I realized I am not constitutionally capable of living alone. Claudia had been in the senior physics lab where I was TA. We had met again in North Carolina where she was completing her second Ph.D. degree at UNC. We became fast friends, she with the family. We took her canoeing down the Cape Fear River and to the beach near Myrtle Beach for a week. She later hired my youngest son as her lead TA in teaching writing to her psychology students. When Janice passed I wanted to marry someone who would be a complement to Janice. Claudia was that person. Well after Janice died, I found out that she had picked Claudia out, but did not tell me, so that I could make up my own mind. No marriage can be more pleasant than this one. I am so fortunate. Claudia is an artist beyond all her academic and musical skills. Her interest in art brings a huge enjoyment to our life together. We buy art together and I watch her paint. We travel. We have been to China and Europe. She knows and likes our children and grandchildren. She loves the Wasatch Front where she grew up at the mouth of a canyon which supports the world's best skiing. She is one of the only people who would rather go back to Salt Lake City than live in the Santa Cruz Mountains just a few miles from the ocean. (She tolerates it for my sake. ;-)).

Joe Earle Wyatt, Jr.

Course: XV

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

I remember the splended misery of an MIT education. I was always pressed to perform beyond what I thought I could do. At the time it was very hard but in retrospect it was all worth it. I learned so much and gained so much self confidence that life after MIT was wonderful. I had fun too. Being on the rifle team allowed me to get away from the toot from time to time. I also enjoyed taking ski trips to Vermont during winter breaks. I took advantage of the many cultural events occuring all around Boston. It was important to be in the company of so many smart and intelligent people. I learned as much from my fellow students as I did from the faculty. I have never been in such an outstanding group of people since I graduated except when I am with a group of MIT graduates.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

When I graduated, I went to work for the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics in Groton, CT building Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines. I was in the reactor plant engineering section. While there I earned an MBA from the University of Hartford. Much of the rest of my work experience was in systems

281 analysis and computer programming. I worked for the DuPont Company, International Platex, Informatics and AT&T. I got laid off from AT&T in 1997 and found myself too old to be employable at 57. I struggled for almost 5 years trying to get back on my feet. In that time I sold insurance, drove a limo, and drove an 18 wheeler all over the country for a year (I still have my class A license). I finally went back to school to Chubb Institute to retool as a computer programmer in the internet age. But fate stepped in and the dot com bubble burst just as I finished and I never even got a job interview. I finally settled on teaching science in high school. I have been teaching Physics at Bayonne High School in Bayonne, NJ for about 10 years now. I really love it. I teach my physics classes like an MIT course but a little (but only a little) gentler. The students love it (but not at first) because they really learn. I haven't done any great deeds or founded a world famous company in my life but I am satisfied with it. I make a great difference with my students, preserve and advance science in our society and keep the spirit of MIT alive in the world.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I married a classmate, Judy Brainard, after graduation and we had two children, Christopher and Rebecca. Christopher is an EE and works for the Naval Underwater Warfare Lab in Rhode Island. He has two children. Rebecca is a nurse in CT. She has three children. Judy and I divorced in 1977. I met and married Zigrida Zacs a few years later. We have one son, James. He graduated from the US Naval Academy in 2006 in Physics and got his MS in Physics from the Naval Post Graduate School in 2008. He is helicopter pilot for the Navy and is stationed in Guam at the present time. He is married to Chrystal Borne and they have a 2 yr. old daughter named Madison. She is really cute. Zigrida and I divorced in 1992. I live with LIsa Garas at the present time. We have been together about 5 years. I learned to fly an airplane in 1983 and have had my private pilots license for 30 years. I continued to shoot competitively after MIT (I was on the rifle team) and earned the Distinguished Rifleman Badge, the highest award for military style rifle shooting in the United States, in 1982. I have attended the National Rifle matches at Camp Perry, OH for the past 36 years and I have earned many medals and awards in that national competition. I joined the Civil Air Patrol in 1997 and have advanced to the rank of Major. My current major project is attending the Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis in Livingston, NJ to obtain my certification in Psychoanalysis. My goal is to finish my training and set up a psychoanalytic practice. I think this will be my last career. I have found that an MIT education is the perfect preparation for being a psychoanalyst or anything else for that matter.

George Mead Wyman

Course: X

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

I had to work very hard at MIT, but the Institute gave me, or reinforced in me, a predilection for high energy and high quality endeavor. Looking back, I really loved my time at MIT. It was quite exciting to be at the world class institution which MIT has always been, and the pace of learning was remarkably rapid. Of course, I’m probably overlooking a few, personal academic rough spots during those years. My living group, Beta Theta Pi, provided a very positive environment during my undergraduate years. I was very compatible with my fellow housemates, and at least a few became lifelong friends. The house did much to help me set my expectations for accomplishment at the Institute.

282 Upper classmen helped to guide me in setting my sights for academics, athletics and other activities. I met my wife—we have just celebrated our 49th anniversary—at the house. I always thought that athletics were my “escape valve” from the constant academic pressure. In any case, athletics were a major aspect of my non-academic life at MIT. By far, the most important element of athletics was playing varsity basketball. I loved playing hoops and had many fabulous experiences playing with my teammates.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

I went to Harvard business School after my undergraduate work at MIT. I started my professional career as a management consultant at Arthur D. Little, Inc. High technology entrepreneurship was my preferred calling and so after five years at ADL, I took the plunge and joined a small, high tech firm. I have worked inside entrepreneurial companies throughout the rest of my career, with the exception of two tours of duty as a venture capitalist. Several of the entrepreneurial companies became large, and in those, I lead the process of successfully making an initial public offering (IPO). Much of my work involved the management of international operations, as aspect of my responsibilities which I greatly enjoyed.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

In spite of all the hard work in my professional career, my wife Ann and I were able to enjoy a robust family life. We had two children, who are now adults, a girl Sarah and a boy Dudley. Both offspring have their own families so that Ann and I now have six grandchildren, all girls. We have always lived in the Boston area. Family life has always been extraordinarily important to me. As a result, much of my recollection of non-professional experiences, is tied to family events. We travelled together often, visiting Europe, frequently. Drawn to Martha’s Vineyard by Ann’s mother, we began going to the Island more than 40 years ago. We built a house there which has been expanded several times, and we still spend much time there in the warmer months. Outside of employment, I have been involved in a number of professional organizations and have served on boards and committees of a number of non- profits corporations. One of these, Grupo Guayacan, Inc. has probably been the most important to me. I have done business in Puerto Rico for over 30 years. In 1996, the Puerto Rican government asked me to sit on the board of a non-profit corporation whose dual objectives were to develop private equity as an asset class for Puerto Rican institutional investors and, at the same time, to develop programs to encourage and train local entrepreneurs. Over the past fifteen years we have raised and invested $125 million in private equity funds (mostly outside of Puerto Rico) and conducted and extensive range of programs in support of entrepreneurship. My family and I have always made time for exercising and athletics, as often as possible while enjoying nature. This has helped to keep all members of the family reasonably healthy, while generating a strong love for the out-of-doors. We also love music and have made listening to and making music an important component of our leisure time.

Harold S. Yang

Course: VI

Tell us about your recollections of your student years at MIT:

Growing up in Hawaii I never experienced cold weather. Snow and ice was a novel experience, particularly the first time I encountered a frozen puddle on the ground. Looking back, the majority of my recollections are positive. The work was hard and the friends were good. There were always activities competing

283 against study time. New England in the Fall is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. I will always be grateful for my time at MIT.

Tell us about your professional life and experiences since you graduated from MIT:

After graduating I took my first job with IBM in San Jose, CA, designing mass storage subsystems (disk drives). In 1967 I co-founded my first "start up" which subsequently went public. I thoroughly enjoyed that result and became a "serial entrepreneur." I participated in approximately twelve start ups which yielded five liquidity events. The net of this career is that I have actually retired about eight times. In 2003 I switched careers, and became an executive coach. I continue coaching today with clients ranging from Fortune 50 companies down to twelve-person start ups in Silicon Valley.

Tell us about yourself and family and interests over the past 50 years:

I have been married to the same woman for thirty-nine years and have two daughters (35 and 25) and a son, 22 years old. I am grateful that my professional success created a phasing between work and no work that cycled at about three years on and three years off. This gave me the freedom to travel extensively, learn to play piano, sail, go back to school, coach bobby sox softball and soccer, lead Boy Scout activities, etc. I took my first Tai Chi class in 2003 and it has become a lifetime practice.

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