George Churinoff

Email: [email protected] Life: before, during and after MIT ... I am presently in the middle of a long meditation retreat that Address: 194 Tall Timber Lane, Green Mountain NC 28740 should finish at the end of next year. Course: VIII Physics “In brief, the childish work only for their own aims Living Group: Chi Phi Fraternity yet supreme sages act solely for the welfare of others. Activities, students groups: Fencing team, Beaver Key Understanding the respective faults and virtues, may I be inspired to equalize and exchange myself for others” Occupation: Buddhist monk. Ordained 1976 the first Panchen Lama Organizations and causes you are passionate about: His Holiness, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

My retreat cabin

60 Michael H. Coden

Email: [email protected] Fondest or most significant MIT memory ... Phone: 914-262-1591 Few amazing memories: 1. Christmas dinner at Doc Edgerton’s house. After dinner he Address: 4410 Waldo Ave, Riverdale, NY 10471 played the guitar and we all sang songs. Then he showed us “home Course: VI, Electrical Engineering movies” -- 8 mm film of the first atomic bomb blast on Eniwetok Atol. Living Group: Bexley Hall 2. Running the Judy Collins concert to raise money for Bexley Activities, students groups: Swimming Team, Junior Prom, Hall. Especially sewing 4 bedsheets together, having Walt Spring Weekend, Technology Student Travel Service Rode paint a beautiful poster, then hanging the four bed-sheet- wide poster across the front of Bexley Hall at 5:00 AM one Occupation: Currently Head of Cybersecurity Consulting morning. We sold out Kresge Auditorium in 45 minutes. Practice at BCG Platinion, The Boston Consulting Group. 3. 6.01 with Amar Bose. Having p-sets and exams that required Co-Founder and Associate Director of MIT Interdisciplinary you to derive next weeks material from what you had already Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. learned. Professor Bose taught us how to think, how to create new Worked with National Security Council on NIST Cybersecurity knowledge from old. Framework & received a letter of appreciation from the White House for my leadership. Organizations and causes you are passionate about: 13 years Vice President, NextNine, developed strategy & designed I am passionate about cybersecurity. I am concerned that we the cybersecurity architecture deployed in 1000’s of critical underestimate the threat to society as a whole. I want to do infrastructure sites. Founded 3 companies & worked for two VC everything I can to prevent the havoc that cyber-attacks can bring firms. upon our global society. Published numerous articles, a book, appeared multiple times on Life: before, during and after MIT ... PBS & Bloomberg Radio explaining technology & cybersecurity. Author of 16 patents in fiber optics & secure hardware & software My wonderful wife Anni was the 5th woman to get a PhD in protocols. Computer Science from MIT, and has given me two gorgeous children. We met at an MIT Alumni Theater Party event. Spouse or Partner: Anni R. Coden My daughter Gloria is a senior at Washington University in St. Children and grandchildren: Daughter: Gloria S. Coden, 23 Louis where she studies pre-med. She will be going to medical Son: Jonathan W. Coden, 19 school next year, and will become a pediatric orthopedic surgeon. My son Jonathan is a sophomore at MIT, lives in Delta Tau Delta, is also in Course VI, and wants to be a Quant.

Coden family skiing & boarding in Zermatt Coden Family in Petra Michael, Gloria, Jonathan, scuba diving

61 Eric Harry Coe

Email: [email protected] Fondest or most significant MIT memory ... Phone: 352-408-3319 physics labs and lectures varsity tennis and squash and hanging out with mike frye,bob howard,neil stienmetz,bruce Address: 114 Sleepy Hollow Road, 34748 greeenwald,john mauer, bob melanson,and vicki allen Course: 8 physics Life: before, during and after MIT ... Living Group: apt currently have 300 roses and 700 orchids Activities, students groups: varsity tennis varsity squash

Children and grandchildren: eric jr johnathon stephen austin natalie

62 W. Thomas Compton

Email: [email protected] Occupation: Working on CAD software for the Courageous Phone: 860-267-4578 America’s Cup Syndicate. Address: 9999 West County Road 175 South, Children and grandchildren: Kimberly Dawn Compton 36, French Lick, IN 47432 Lindsay Ann Compton 33 Course: XV, Management Living Group: Burton House Organizations and causes you are passionate about: Activities, students groups: The Tech, Burton House Social Monon Railroad Historical and Technical Society Committee

63 Pat N. Confalone

Email: [email protected] Organizations and causes you are passionate about: American Chemical Society Phone: 302-661-2073 Address: 303 Centennial Circle, Wilmington, DE 19807 Life: before, during and after MIT ... I am one of the lucky ones who got to live “The American Course: V Chemistry Dream”. My grandfather Confalone was 14 when he came to the Living Group: Theta Delta Chi U.S. with $ 14 dollars and the shirt on his back. He worked in the slates mines of Pennsylvania and died of silicosis of the lung. My Activities, students groups: Glee Club father was pulled out of 6th grade to work in order to help support Occupation: Ph.D. Harvard, Organic Chemistry, Post- the needs of his eight siblings. After many years of menial jobs, Doc Harvard with R.B. Woodward, Noble Laurate. Roche he eventually became a successful businessman and owned a Pharmaceuticals Medicinal Chemistry1971-1981, DuPont blouse manufacturing company. A college education was the 1981-2013. Developed reagents for sequencing DNA used family dream and it became mine. I am the first and only student in the Human Genome Project. Developed the drugs Cozaar from Pius X High School to go to M.I.T. Not a day goes by that for hypertension, Sustiva for AIDS, and the blockbuster I don’t thank my father and grandfather for their hard work and insecticide Rynaxypur. Total sales of these products eclipsed love that enabled me to not only “go to college” but M.I.T. [why $ 40 Billion. Presented 120 plenary lectures, published 150 not start at the top?] I am very proud of the lives that have been papers, and obtained 50 patents. Am an associate editor for saved by the pharmaceuticals that I’ve developed. But most of all, ten scientific journals. Received several honors and awards, I have had the biggest blessing life can bestow: I married Dianne, including nomination to the Harvard Society of Fellows and the love of my life, a beautiful Southern Belle, inside and out. She elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of has been my constant companion and the most incredible mother Science, and Chairman of the Board of the American Chemical for our two children. In retirement, my consulting and volunteer Society. CUrrently an independent consultant to the Biotech, work has been terrific, leaving ample time for family, friends, Pharmaceutical, and Agrichemical Industries. travel, hobbies, etc. M.I.T. has truly changed the arc of my life !!

Spouse or Partner: Dianne Confalone Children and grandchildren: Children: Nicholas Confalone 35 and Tricia Confalone 32 Grandchildren: Leo 4 and Hattie 1

Fondest or most significant MIT memory ... Coming from a small high school with 29 classmates, I wondered if I “belonged” at M.I.T. My fraternity brothers really helped me out with some tutoring during my freshman year [not to mention the parties]. Prof. Dan Kemp, who joined the Course V faculty in 1964, inspired me to major in organic chemistry which I have enjoyed for the rest of my career. His mentorship was invaluable and the most significant experience at the Institute. It’s hard to imagine, but we had a “tuition riot” in 1964 when the tuition was raised to $ 1700/semester ! The total cost of my M.I.T.education [all in] was $ 16,000. The best memories are certainly around the intense learning atmosphere and the unbelieveble quality of the Pat Confalone & Family - Christmas 2016 professors.

With my lovely wife Dianne in Majorca, 2015 70th Birthday with Dianne and Daughter Tricia

64 Larry LeRoy Constantine

Email: [email protected] Life: before, during and after MIT ... I’m an MIT drop out. I veered off course midway through sophomore Phone: 978-948-5144 year a step ahead of being kicked out. Two years later, married and with Address: 58 Kathleen Circle, Rowley, MA 01969 a nascent career, I returned to join the class of ’67 and settle into studious life in a drafty off-campus apartment, tooling nights in an unheated Course: XV, Management hallway turned temporary study. What have I done in the five decades since graduation? I feel humbled Burton-Conner; off-campus Living Group: standing alongside classmates who stuck to paths of discipline and Activities, students groups: Burtones, All-Tech Sing, Technique, devotion to build corporate empires, amass wealth, or contribute bodies Outing Club, HackComm scientific discoveries. Looking back, I see hints of a life-long pattern of getting ahead of myself to trek routes less traveled. Before graduation, I Occupation: Writing a classic in software engineering with Ed Yourdon, had already launched a startup company, seen my first professional papers writing a classic in interaction design with Lucy Lockwood; winning a Jolt in print, and begun teaching in a post-graduate program at the Wharton award, winning a Rockower Award, winning the Stevens Award; becoming School. A good portion of the half century since has been plunging ahead a Fellow of the Association for Computing machinery, becoming visiting without benefit of a road map. professor at the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia) and at the A year after graduation, I was sponsoring a national symposium and University of Madeira (Portugal); seeing my tenth novel (as Lior Samson) publishing first drafts of the theory and practice that would become in print. structured design. As I helped build the foundations of an emerging discipline of software engineering, my wife and I moved from Cambridge Spouse or Partner: Lucy Lockwood to start a family. By the time I had two daughters, I was building our house Children and grandchildren: Joy, 48; Heather, 45; Devan, 18; Tovah, in Acton—carpentry, electrical, the works—and was already en route to a 15. Grandchildren: Samantha, 13; Audrey, 9 second career. The blame lies in part with MIT. The Sloan School allowed me to Fondest or most significant MIT memory ... construct my own major based in psychology and computer science, My best memories are divided between before dropping out and after portending a future in which I would ever be crossing lines connecting returning. From before, I remember great hacks, goofing off, and becoming people and technology. friends with legendary hacker, David Arthur Hahn, who inspired my first After immersion in tech, I plunged into the people side and trained at the novel. I loved singing in the Burtones and can still remember the words Boston Family Institute to become a family therapist, drawing on my to “Han Skal Leve,” one of the numbers we did for the All-Tech Sing. I MIT background in systems theory to help bring systems thinking and remember failing 5.02 and getting my first ever outright F on a humanities discipline to family intervention and to earn Massachusetts license #15 in essay. Prof. Larkin ripped it and me apart and thereby inspired me to learn marriage and family therapy. to write and become a writer. Centrifugal forces ultimately pulled me back into orbit around computers, After returning, I mostly remember busting my butt to earn back my even as my daughters were launching into college. This time around, I scholarship. I recall arguing with Marvin Minsky and falling asleep in concentrated on the human element, first in organizational development and then as an interaction designer. As careers number three and four econ. I also recall being ignored by the geniuses at Project MAC where my reached higher orbit, my first marriage crashed and burned, and I met wife headed the Documentation Room. I mean, who was this undergrad Lucy, the love of my life. who kept ranting about modularity and design and coupling and cohesion? As I write this, my youngest daughter is a high school sophomore, my I remember Arnie Amstutz, Tom Allen, and others on the Sloan School son is a college freshman, and my wife is in graduate school. In my faculty who inspired me and helped launch my company and get me fifties, when many classmates were empty-nesters already looking toward teaching at the Wharton School even before I graduated. retirement, I was starting over, first moving from industry to academia, Organizations and causes you are passionate about: then rediscovering the joys of growing kids. And this former college dropout, without advanced degree but with a passion for teaching, has held As a lifelong progressive and ardent feminist, I am supporting with academic appointments at universities in Australia and Portugal. renewed vigor organizations dedicated to advancing equal rights, equal Along the meanders, I’ve had a couple dozen books published along opportunity, tolerance, and economic justice following on the recent turn with somewhere north of 200 papers and articles. In my fifth career, as backwards in our country. With a wife doing graduate work in marine the pseudonymous writer, Lior Samson, I returned to MIT roots. My first science and an undergrad son in environmental science, I am surrounded novel, Bashert, being buried in our 50th Reunion Time Capsule, features by environmentalists whom I support and cheer on and who prod me a class of ’67 protagonist and was inspired by people and events from my toward enlightenment. tumultuous first years at MIT. Life is rich. I’m married to my best friend, have four amazing children and two wonderful grandchildren, and a tenth novel soon to be published. Who knows where I might have ended up if I had been able to stay on one path?

With son Devan - two generations of beavers. Lucy researching the intertidal zone Tovah as Lucy’s research assistant

65 Chuck Cooper

Email: [email protected] Organizations and causes you are passionate about: Phone: 561-826-9046 Oxfam. Liberal policies. Address: 4201 N. Ocean Blvd, Apt. 409, Boca Raton, FL 33431 Life: before, during and after MIT ... Escaped from Alabama, thanks to MIT. Married, children, worked, Course: VI (Electrical Engineering) widowed, happily remarried. Living Group: Baker House Activities, students groups: Feeb Occupation: Started and sold medical software company. Later, visiting scientist at MIT Media Lab. Then director of bioinformatics at MGH. Currently hanging out at Florida Atlantic University and playing tennis at codger level. Spouse or Partner: Nurgun Erdol Children and grandchildren: 2 children, ages 31 and 33

66 James Gary Cronburg

Email: [email protected] had great fun with my new wife, Ellen, working on the G&S musicals, where she starred as the ingenue in two productions. I loved A.R. Phone: 818-383-1997 “Pete” Gurney’s classes in literature. He is a master and I’ve been Address: 6 Hidden Cove, Plymouth, MA 02360, 2617 Willowbrook pleased at how successful he’s been. Another delightful professor Lane Unit 89, Aptos, CA 95003 was Tom Leherer, who taught Statistics. One textbook was “How to Course: XXI Humanities - IX Psychology Lie with Statistics.” Sailing with the Sailing Team on the Charles and elsewhere was a great experience including training the new women’s Living Group: NRSA Sailing Team. Barbara Desmond was a fast learner and we had good Activities, students groups: Sailing Club, Gilbert & Sullivan times on the boats. Another sailor, Mike Zuteck, was a great friend, Society, MIT Chorus once walking the chain fences together behind Baker House. I loved the Great Court and Main Group buildings as well as the wonderful Occupation: Served in the Air Force for 4 years, 2 years in cockpit hallways. pilot/instrumentaion human factors, 2 years in training and personel systems design. Earned BArch at Boston Architectural Center. Organizations and causes you are passionate about: Managed City of Newton, MA building maintenance, carried The Solstice Singers - Renaissance Concerts with costumes, poetry, out City Planning studies for Town of Winchester, MA and John dance, period instruments. Brown Assoc. in Boston. At MIT, Associate Director for Physical Planning for 8 years: directed projects including Walker Walkway Life: before, during and after MIT ... landscape reconstruction, Amherst Alley realignment and landscape My mom and dad, Susan and Walter, gave me wonderful care and reconstruction, Physics Dept. long range physical plan, coordinated education - a good life. My brother, Terry, and sisters, Wendy and planning for I.M. Pei’s Wiesner Building - List Arts Center. Became Kathy, gave me the warmth of a family and good playmates. Kathy, Registered Architect. Carried out residential and commercial in her infancy, let me learn how to care for a baby which later architectural design in the Boston area, Cape Cod, and New England. allowed me to bring up my daughter Turil with some confidence. A lead Architect for the award winning Stamford CT Medical Growing up with my best friends Dave Hoover and Bob Erbe was Center Health Center and OB/GYN Buildings by TRO. Architect for remarkable. Dave and his wife Carol are still near and dear to Janet complete redesign of Oyster Harbors Marine, Cape Cod. Carried out and me. I always loved school and, amazingly, tests. I fell in love with ADA compliance studies countrywide. Architecture when a teen, and while not successful at MIT in that program, I pursued it at the Boston Architectural Center (now College) Spouse or Partner: Janet Lynn Serman after my stint in the Air Force. So I was fortunate to realize my dream for the balance of my life. This included residential and commercial Children and grandchildren: Turil Sweden Cronburg 47 Child architecture, building maintenance management, ADA compliance, Seth Lambert - 46 Step Child and Physical Planning for MIT. I am still somewhat active in home Dana Lambert - 45 Step Child design. Another love of mine as a kid was music, especially singing, Schuylar Edson Lambert - 8 mo - Grandchild which has continued to this day. I now sing with the Solstice Singers, Fondest or most significant MIT memory ... centered in Falmouth, MA on Cape Cod. We do shows each year The first assembly in Kresge, I remember the speaker told us “Look featuring Renaissance Music. I’ve also sung with a number of to your left and look to your right. One of you three won’t be here choruses including the Tanglewood Festival Chorus at Tanglewood, in four years.” Wow, what a way to start! Also, having transferred and in Boston Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall, N.Y.C. We’ve from another school after one year there, I was surprised that I only travelled a good deal, especially using home exchanges. Paris, Camel, received half of my credits. I soon found that the MIT pace was twice Victoria, London are only a very few of places we’ve exchanged as fast! After the first difficult semester in Architecture, I found I was to. My daughter Turil and Janet’s sons Seth and Dana have been an too immature for Maurice Smith’s course and moved to Psychology exciting part of my life, continuing to present new experiences for us. where I finished with a thesis on “A Psychoanalytic Treatment of Our latest: Schuylar, our grandson - absolutely adorable. We’re now Anton Chekov’s Plays”. I really enjoyed that experience, especially bicoastal, living in Pine Hills in Plymouth, MA and Aptos, CA, near with my thesis advisor, Steve Gilborn, who later went to Hollywood Monterey Bay, each about half the year. Our lives are full of travel, to star in “Law and Order”. He and his wife became special friends. I concerts, theater, restaurants, museums, architecture, boating, dogs, walks, beaches, forests, mountains, cooking, relatives and friends

Janet & Daisy Jim and Daisy Grandson Schuylar

67 Nathan Curland

Email: [email protected] Organizations and causes you are passionate about: I have been a member of Humanists of Minnesota for the past 14 Phone: 952-928-4933 years, serving on their board and as editor of their newsletter. Address: 4707 Cedarwood Rd, St Louis Park, MN 55416 I have also been a member of the Libertarian Party for decades Course: VI, Electrical Engineering and served as president of the Massachusetts Party in the 1970s. I currently volunteer for the Adult Options in Literacy in Hopkins, Living Group: Tau Epsilon Phi MN. Occupation: Seagate Technology/Bloomington MN: 10/1989 Life: before, during and after MIT ... - 6/2013: Principal Technologist; Executive Director R&D After M.I.T. I went on the University of Minnesota and earned my Engineering; 6 patents PHd EE. During this time I was able to travel to Budapest to the Vertimag Systems Corp: 9/1983-9/1985: VP Engineering attend and present at the first East/West Conference on Magnetic National Storage Industrial Consortium: Executive Committee Recording behind the Iron Curtain. Chairman 2003 I have been married (and divorced) twice and have 4 beautiful Children and grandchildren: Rebecca Curland 36 children from my second marriage. Naomi Curland 34 I retired from Seagate Technology in 2013 and have spent my time Noah Curland 30 keeping fit, voluntary for a number of organizations and doing Chava Rey Curland 28 some traveling. Fondest or most significant MIT memory ... I was fortunate to participate in the Course VI Co-op program, one of the most unique in the nation. You signed up with one corporation for your junior thru graduate years and received a BS/MS at the conclusion. My partner corporation was IBM and the experience and contacts I made paved the way for my future career experiences and successes. Thank you, M.I.T.

Wedding of my youngest daughter 2016

68 Robert A. Curtis

Email: [email protected] Phone: 978-453-1167 Address: 142 Stafford Rd, Lowell, MA 01852 Course: VI Living Group: Senior House Occupation: Worked longest at Digital Equipment Corp on network design and developing 10BASE-T standard in IEEE committee. Spouse or Partner: Patricia Pingree Children and grandchildren: Emma Curtis

Fondest or most significant MIT memory ... Graduating.

69 Charles Daney

Email: [email protected] Life: before, during and after MIT ... Was self-employed for all but 13 years after MIT, and the latter Phone: 831-521-0415 were generally satisfying too. All in the computer industry. Address: 14945 Curtis Circle, Sonora, CA Especially satisfied to have worked in computer-mediated communication (since 1977, long, long before public internet, Course: XVIII Mathematics WWW, etc.) Implemented a compiler for the REXX language, and Occupation: Worked in computer software, networking and wrote a book on it (“Programming in REXX”). science writing. Did graduate work in political science (Yale) and mathematics Spouse or Partner: Jeanne Daney (Stanford). Now living in the Sierra Nevada foothills and enjoying outdoor Fondest or most significant MIT memory ... activities every summer. Favorite professors: Michael Artin, Marvin Minsky, Jerry Lettvin, Dabbled in science writing. Now write just for pleasure. Active Hans-Lukas Teuber, I. M. Singer. on Facebook & Goodreads (a little), blog about mathematics & The math department was great. science (sometimes). Living in Boston was fun, especially in spring (but not winter) Dabble in photography. Have a library of over 8000 books (most still unread). Organizations and causes you are passionate about: Liberal politics, atheism, naturism, environmentalism, science writing.

Silver Fork, American River (California)

70 Robert W. Dann

Email: [email protected] Fondest or most significant MIT memory ... Phone: 602-441-2872 I took advantage of the freshman A/B courses designed to have us think outside the plans we had made leaving high school without Address: 20050 N Cave Creek Road, Apt. 165, Phoenix, AZ any idea of what the real world was like and what our favorite 85024 fields really entailed. The most valuable of these courses for me Course: XXI, Humanities was the introductory Italian/Dante course taught by Professor Living Group: Senior House Bottiglia. Half of each class was spent studying Italian grammar, Activities, students groups: Intramural bowling and half was spent reading Dante in the original Italian. By the end of the year, I was fairly familiar with the basics of the grammar, Occupation: Instrumental in developing a nuclear medicine test and I had read one of the world’s great books, the Divine Comedy, to detect gastrointestinal bleeding. in the original. As a work of art, I still remember details of the Seminal publications in the field of PET imaging (positron brilliant way in which this book was constructed, the rhyme emission tomography). schemes, and the organization of the cantos into the final book. I Managed clinical trials and wrote marketing application for a never had occasion to use Italian until about 40 years later, when I cardiovascular drug that has saved millions of lives (predecessor was flying back to the U.S. from Europe and found myself sitting to Plavix). next to a couple of Italian newlyweds coming to Boston to visit Owner of pharmaceutical/biotechnology consulting company for part of their family. I was able to pull up enough Italian from the many years. bottom of my memory to help them fill out their customs form, Continue to help develop novel drugs and radiopharmaceuticals find an appropriate interpreter in the Customs area, and ensure for cancer detection and treatment. that they were able to contact the uncle who was meeting them at Spouse or Partner: Rosemary W. Dann Logan Airport. Offering this kind of course was typical of MIT, as it forced me to use my mind creatively, and to go about doing Children and grandchildren: Son - Ari J. Dann - 41 creative things based on what I knew - that has always proved to Daughter - Ilana Luna - 38 be the most important lesson I learned at MIT. Granddaughter - Isabella Sofia Luna - 17

71 Donald M. Davis

Email: [email protected] Life: before, during and after MIT ... I founded the Lehigh Valley team in the American Regions Math Phone: 610-865-9058 League in 1993. We won the national championship in 2005, Address: 1926 Paul Ave, Bethlehem, PA 18018 2009, 2010, and 2011. I was a successful marathon and ultramarathon runner from 1977 Course: XVIII, Math to 2009, with best marathon time 2:49, and 6:10 for 50 miles. I Living Group: Burton House won five ultramarathon races, and represented the US in Italian Activities, students groups: The Tech, Bridge Club Del Passatore 100km race in 1994. Occupation: PhD, Mathematics, Stanford, 1972. Professor of Mathematics, Lehigh University, 1974-present. Inaugural Fellow of American Mathematical Society, 2012. 120 publications in algebraic topology. Author of “The Nature and Power of Mathematics.” Spouse or Partner: Jean Grosz Davis Children and grandchildren: daughter, Joelle Michaels, 46. grandson, Kenny Michaels, 11. granddaughter, Audrey Michaels, 7. Fondest or most significant MIT memory ... Met my wife there. (She was at Boston College.) Wrote “Talking Rock” column for The Tech. Organizations and causes you are passionate about: Active in Unitarian Universalist Church.

2014, wearing shirt of Lehigh Valley math team

with my wife and grandchildren, August 2016

72 Cheryl (Klitzke) Dawson

Email: [email protected] Organizations and causes you are passionate about: (1) The health of our world’s physical environment. Not only do our Phone: 717-846-1225 own outdoor recreations depend on that, but so does the survival of Address: 393 Waters Road, York, PA 17403 our species. Course: XVIII - Mathematics (2) Dog rescue, in particular, Siberian Husky rescue. I helped found a board of people that raises money to assist Siberian Husky rescues in Living Group: McCormick Hall the US and Canada. I use my spinning and quilting to help with this Activities, students groups: Musical clubs...in particular, Concert and I have also fostered about fifteen Siberians for local rescues. Band and Baton Society Life: before, during and after MIT ... Occupation: After not quite completing all work for a PhD in math I was so excited upon arrival at Tech to find a group of people, and at the Univeristy of Michigan, I taught part-time at Penn State where especially young women, that I could actually talk with and not be my husband was on the faculty, first at the main campus and then at considered an intellectual snob. Coming from a farm in western a branch campus in York, PA. In 1982, I joined him as part of a team Kansas to the big intellectual city of Boston was just incredibly working on the Collected Works of Kurt Gödel. I had taken a lot of exciting. My parents were intimidated by it, but I was ready to embark German courses at Tech as well as logic courses in Course XVIII and on a bigger world. By the time I went home at Christmas my freshman Course VI, worked at I-Labs technical publications my senior year at year, however, I was feeling pretty down and homesick. My wise Tech, played with calligraphy on a lark, and hung around the logicians father said, “Well, you have to decide: do you want to be a big fish at the University of Michigan with my logician husband. All of this in a little pond or a little fish in a big pond?” I thought about it one collided to make my part of the project to learn and transcribe Gödel’s microsecond and said, “The big pond is a whole lot more exciting. I obsolete German shorthand; later I became the managing editor of the think I’ll stay in the big pond.” My ego came back up a bit when one project, which lasted for 21 years. We met many fascinating people of the upperclasswomen pointed out to me how few women had ever and traveled to places we would probably otherwise never have graduated from MIT. visited. It’s been a very interesting life; I still get occasional requests Years later I had a letter from the Admissions Office at Tech asking to transcribe other Gabelsberger shorthand! me what I thought they could do to recruit more women to Tech. I Spouse or Partner: John W. Dawson, jr. wrote back saying I really didn’t have any brilliant ideas except for somehow identifying bright young women who might be candidates. Children and grandchildren: No children, thus no grandchildren. I pleaded with them not to lower standards for women just to admit Our nurturing instincts are satisfied by our teaching careers and our more, saying that the very fact that MIT felt I could compete with men beloved huskies. on a level basis had been incredibly good for my self-confidence.At Fondest or most significant MIT memory ... that point I was asked to be on the Educational Council and thus to -My freshman year-not a fond memory, but certainly significant: visit high schools in my area to interview and hopefully find the sort Leaving Boston with Scotty MacVicar and three other freshman coeds of students to whom MIT wanted to offer admission. I did this for to drive to Washington, DC to go through the rotunda where President some years until our travel began to make it difficult to be home at the Kennedy’s body lay in state. We stood in line the entire night and Lin time the interviews needed to happen. Bernhardt and I were in the last group to be allowed to walk by the I’d just like to say: Be open to whatever opportunities Life offers to casket. --- learn something of interest. I took German at Tech because I just enjoy -Rehearsals with the MIT Concert Band. I played flute in the band all studying a language. I took logic courses there and in grad school four years, becoming the librarian the last two. We went on tour every not because they were required for a degree in math, but because winter break and came back exhausted to start the next semester...but I had always had foundational qualms and felt logic was basic to it was at least a break from study!--- mathematics. I worked at I-Labs as an editor in technical publications -Living in an apartment in Westgate my senior year while working because my family finances weren’t good my senior year. I took in the I-Labs technical publication department. When McCormick a calligraphy course because I just like pens, paper and ink. Had I Hall overflowed, Tech made space at Westgate. They still wanted us not done all of these things, I would never have even considered to take our meals at McCormick. We told them if they forced us to do volunteering, surely would not have succeeded, to learn an obsolete that, we’d make them choose who went over there. That smacked of German shorthand and thus become a part of a team to publish Kurt coercion, so they relented.--- Gödel’s Collected Works. You never know how Life is going to work -Graduation! I had finally hit a sort of stride and hated to leave.W ould out, but the journey has been fascinating. have liked just one more year to consolidate all I had learned, realizing Even in retirement I continue to take courses to make my hobbies how much I had changed and grown! more worthwhile and just for personal enrichment. When I first sipped from the firehose at Tech, I said, “Oh, boy, I’ll never have to be bored the rest of my life.” And I haven’t been (when left to my devices at least).

Mushrooming and quilting combine The “family”, Christmas 2014

73 Peter R. Denton

Email: [email protected] Organizations and causes you are passionate about: Phone: Whatever success I have is directly attributable to my education 609-304-9624 opportunites. In 1998, we started E3 (see above); mission is to “fix’ public Address: Unit 103 South, Beach Point, 2660 South Ocean Blvd, Palm education in New Jersey. This is political, difficult, and critical. Also on Beach, FL 33480 the Boards of other non-profits, mostly in education and social services. Course: VI, Electrical Engineering Audrey is heavily involved in Habitat for Humanity, and Heart to Heart (prisoner issues). Living Group: Kappa Sigma Life: before, during and after MIT ... Activities, students groups: Freshman Council; Head, Purchasing MIT- beginning of a life of change- from a quiet south Jersey town to freedom Council, IFC; Interfraternity Council Board; Finance Committee, Student at MIT. City life living off campus in Boston; managing and being responsible Government; Kappa Sigma, VP; Tau Kappa Phi, Eta Kappa Nu for our own lives at Kappa Sigma; Going to the Harvard Business School with 15 classmates and graduating at 23 yrs old. Career changes: 3 years government Occupation: After Harvard MBA, 3 years government consulting, 4 consulting - learned that most good gov. objectives are not met in real life. years financial and operations mgmt for jewelry mfg firm; joined family hi Spent a lifetime watching the War on Poverty fail. Met Audrey, quit our jobs tech business in the thin film industry, (mostly optics, not semiconductors); spent 14 years on Board of Society of Vacuum Coaters; reorganzied and and went on a six month honeymoon. Returned to the US on the night of the grew the society. Mid 90’s started high tech company in German;, mfg. of Watergate break in and just barely avoided being caught up in the coverup. equipment to make CD’s and DVD’s; financial security from company IPO Joined a jewelry mfg. company (VP finance and operations) for 4 years, had in ‘97 allowed retirement from Denton Vacuum and focus on ed reform kids and started sailing. Next change was joining the family business and and non-profits; started Excellent Education for Everyone, focused on managing it for 20 years. Found an entrepreneurial opportunity in Germany, urban ed reform in NJ. Focus had to be politics, money and power as the IPO in 1997 and changed from the business world to public policy. Financial status quo is protecting the adults in schools over the interests of children; security allowed Audrey and I to devote significant time and money for 19 years still politically active nationally trying to save the lives of disadvantaged to urban education reform as major advocates of school choice - both public and children in urban NJ and around the country with school choice. Still private. Then Newark Councilman, now Senator, Cory Booker, cofounded our own (but don’t manage) Denton Vacuum and working on technology NJ focused non-profit, Excellent Education for Everyone, (E3). NJ efforts were entrepreneurial opportunities. only partially successful, nationally much better. Unfortunately ed reform is about money and power, and much less about kids and education; so we became Spouse or Partner: Audrey J. Denton and are politically active. The good news: increasing numbers of disadvantaged children have good education opportunities thru school choice. Bad news: Children and grandchildren: Tracey Keij-Denton (lawyer) m. Eelco political opponents using government agencies to attack us personally for our Keij (university development director) Children: Quintus Denton Keij (7); Siebo Denton Keij (5); living in ed. reform efforts. Most of our efforts have had significant bi-partisan support, Holland which hopefully continues in these polarized times. Keith P. Denton (marine scientist) m. Lauren Candia Denton (school My major hobby is racing small, one design sailboats; it keeps me physically administrator) active and competitive! No motors, we sail them just with the wind. Most of my Children: Marea M. Denton (7); Sawyer Keith Denton (4); living in crew are at least 10 years younger than our kids. Trying to explain life before Sequim, Washington smart phones is fun. We did win one national championship, but competition is tough. Latest boat is a carbon fibre 32’ catamaran (see picture), and maybe next Fondest or most significant MIT memory ... year a foiling boat. Same answer from our 40th: Squash - still playing; surrviving first year Since our daughter and her family live in Holland, and our son and his family after arriving unprepared; lifelong positive impact of fraternity (independent live in Sequim, Wa, we have a 6 hour plane flight to see our four grandkids. living off campus, major support from brothers academically, socially, etc.); Annoying! experiencing the 60’s revolution as someone who wasn’t revolting; writing But it keeps us traveling. I still own Denton Vacuum, but have not run it since a history of EE at MIT - which was pretty much a history of EE; access to 1998. Since our kids will not join the business, we are organizing it to be sold. world class professors and facilities; close relationship with Dean Wadleigh; Our market for thin films is increasing, but we export a lot, so a strong dollar negotiating beer quotas at campus social events. Beach Boys! is a problem. Current management seems up to the task, so things should work Being at MIT was like being let out of jail after high school. MIT let us out. run our own lives. Living in Boston, we were responsible for our house, Our family funded a graduate school scholarship (Presidential Fellowship) in recruiting fraternity members, our food, getting to classes, studying etc.; we my father’s name (Richard A. Denton, Class of ‘36). Discussions with President were allowed to make as much or as little of the opportunites MIT offered. Vest about MIT’s need for funding to attract the best graduate students was eye Running the purchasing manager’s council of the IFC, learning how to manage opening. MIT is dealing with significantly increased competition for the best an organization with financial goals, finesse the liquor discounts we weren’t and brightest. Presidential Fellowships allow new grad students to spend their supposed to be getting; negotiating with food and heating oil suppliers at 20 first year exploring MIT’s options; no need to be a TA and earn money. Each years old. And Avram Bose; the most extraordinary circuit theory professor/ year there is a new fellowship recipient; we frequently meet with them and get a lecturer, in his starched white shirts filling up 6 to 9 blackboards with actually sense for what current MIT grads are thinking. comprehensible equations. When 20 years later my electrial techs found out Now working on what the new career for the next 20 yrs. Bose was one of my professors, my stock when up 500%! Preception, not will be: travel, writing, more exercise, more time with reality, but it worked for me. grandkids - lots of options!

Keith’s family on left; Tracey’s right, Us middle Pete’s Newport house view (for reunion Pete (right) racing Marstrom 32 catamaran, 2015 barbecue)

74 Dennis DeRiggi

Email: [email protected] Fondest or most significant MIT memory ... Walking across the Harvard Bridge in the middle of January to Phone: 703-525-7285 take final exams at MIT. Address: 3315 23rd Road North, Arlington, VA 22201 Life: before, during and after MIT ... Course: XVIII, mathematics Nancy and I have been married for 48 years. Nancy recently Living Group: PKT retired from a patent law firm where she served as a legal Activities, students groups: intramural sports secretary. Our daughter Angela is an architect and practices in NYC. Angela received her Master of Architecture degree from the Occupation: About a year after graduating from MIT, I joined the University of Pennsylvania. Our son John is a computer scientist Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) as a software programmer. whose professional responsibilities take him to many third world After working for a few years, IDA encouraged (i.e., paid for) me countries. John received his Master of Science in geographical to attend graduate school, and consequently, I received a Ph.D. in information science from the University of Edinburgh. mathematics from University of Maryland in 1976. I returned to IDA in 1989 where I have served a member of the research staff ever since. Career highlights have included publications in peer reviewed mathematics and statistical journals, as well as internal IDA technical papers and projects related to communications security, experimental design, and algorithms for predicting the spread of contagious diseases. Spouse or Partner: Nancy DeRiggi

Children and grandchildren: Angela (39), John (37)

Our daughter Angela, me, Nancy, and our son John mia cara famiglia

75 Larry-Stuart Deutsch

Email: [email protected] Life: before, during and after MIT ... MIT classes were useful; but, life skills gained in Burton House, The Phone: 714-296-6170 Tech and Technique actually more important to me …and Minor Address: 6237 E Breton Circle, Orange, CA 92869 White’s Course IV Creative Photography classes more valuable than Course XVIII classes. These were life lessons in philosophy of Course: XVIII seeing and being not technical courses with photography a vehicle for exploring substantive concepts. Living Group: Burton House (Burton Third) Jerry Letvin’s paper “What the Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain” and his debate with Tim Leary got me interested in biomedical engineering Activities, students groups: Photo Staff: Technique & The Tech, and I had a job in Civil Engineering working on highway design Sailing Team, Fencing Team software; so, I was torn between Civil Engineering and Biomedical Engineering grad school. Growing up in Boston, I opted for change Spouse or Partner: Ms. Dale Lynne Andrews and a research fellowship in Biomedical Engineering at McGill Organizations and causes you are passionate about: University (Montreal) continuing to maintain Civil Engineering software for extra money. Searching for adaptive filtering in guinea At MIT we learned that technologies evolve while principles endure. pig auditory nerves eventually proved too frustrating and impractical. Utilizing the fruits of scientific research to guide practical evidence In an academic family, no PhD would make me the “family idiot” based decision making is the essence of effective engineering. so.... medical school. Since an MD seemed easier than a PhD, I Treating each other with a certain basic human decency, concern and enrolled at McGill, an experience similar to MIT…. like drinking from tolerance are practical concepts that are actually the most effective a fire hose and enjoying it! With tuition at $640/year and being from ways to advance the well being of a society as a whole as well as our MIT when Route 128 was Silicon Valley, I was able to earn enough own self interests. While many have sought to justify this approach money working summers at DIGITAL Equipment Corp (Maynard, on the basis of religious faith, this is a engineering concept that does MA)…. a pioneering company founded and run by MIT alumnae. not require religious justification. This is an approach which can be Ten years of graduate school, medical school and Surgery Residency proven effective using the mathematical tools we have come to call at McGill and another casual but profoundly important life decision. optimization theory and computational science. Surgery training in the 70’s was very demanding with very long Ideal societies are asymptotic goals; disagreements, arguments and hours.... and a casual comment made during surgery by junior faculty competition are constructive parts of an engineering approach to changed my life. He told me that he expected to finally spend most societal optimization. Fuzzy logic tells us that there are many possible nights at home while my fellow residents and I stayed in the hospital paths to universal, affordable high quality health care, while a rigid … but, it wasn’t working out that way. I could do anything for a few mathematical analysis tell us that doing so is not optional. As the only years; but, the idea of working like that for the rest of my life…. that nation with the resources to achieve that goal that has not done so, this was different. That night, listening to California Dreaming, I saw an needs to be a national priority. Similarly, the efficacy of utilizing our opportunity to have a life and escape Montreal winters. I was going resources for our own personal benefit as well as the benefit of others to get warm and spend some evenings outside the hospital. After a especially those less fortunate than us, both at home and abroad, year at the Dijkzigt Academic Hospital (Rotterdam, Netherlands) just follows from a thoughtful mathematical analysis. Treating each developing the first commercial computer based ICU monitoring other equitably is simply a pragmatic approach that involves taking system, I arrived at Stanford. advantage of diversity to further the practical advancement of our I left Montréal with the most wonderful person I’ve ever met, Dale society. It’s like solving a puzzle, a task that can only be achieved by Andrews. She was a new grad nurse on the unit where I began my using all of the different pieces. There is no need to invoke religion to internship. We’ve been together for 42 years and three countries; she justify these approaches; morality is a practical engineering approach is the love of my life and my best friend. to life. The design of machines, buildings and infrastructure projects California is the “Promised Land”. I visited Disneyland the year it is a successful marriage of art and engineering that depends on opened, amazed at snowless winters and oranges growing on trees not scientific methods and principles. Similarly, the design of legal and in plastic bags…. While California is outwardly very different than governmental constructs will ultimately fail if not grounded in those New England, it shares the same cultural and philosophical values. same scientific principles …and failure is simply “not an option”.This My only disappointment … discovering that the water is cold!... no planet is our home and it is worth saving! wet suit… no surfing I specialized in Interventional Radiology (IR), imaged guided minimally invasive surgery, during a period of dramatic development in non-invasive imaging technologies and miniaturized devices…. advances due to many MIT classmates and have been on the University of California faculty at UCLA, UC Irvine and UC Davis for most of my career doing clinical work, teaching generations of medical students and residents and marveling at the impressive accomplishments of each successive generation. Southern California is a wonderful place; so, when professional advancement required, I actually commuted to the University of Nebraska (Omaha) and later to Good Samaritan University Hospital (Phoenix). Returning to the UC system at UC Davis (Sacramento), I continued commuting from Southern California, a surprisingly common commute with many colleagues and state government officials doing the same and developing a “meaningful relationship” with Southwest Airlines. I retired and stopped commuting in 2012… no pager, no “on call” ….. I then worked as volunteer faculty two days a week a UCLA Harbor Hospital for three years… great cases, great students, no money. I “We ..do these things ..because they are hard” JFK now work for the Joint Commission as a Hospital Surveyor …helping hospitals and traveling around the country visiting the hometown of Radar O’Reilly, the birthplace of Cpt. James T Kirk, Manhattan, Alaska, Guam… meeting lots of interesting people along the way.

76 Michael Deutsch

Email: [email protected] Phone: 201-988-6409 Address: 14811 Horseshoe Trace, Wellington, FL 33414 Course: II and XIV Living Group: Senior House Spouse or Partner: Adrienne Deutsch

77 Gordon J. DeWitte

Email: [email protected] Life: before, during and after MIT ... The first job with EG&G in 1967 was in their facility at 95 Phone: 512-301-8945 Brookline Ave, across the street from Fenway Park. Even managed Address: 160 Abbott Dr, Austin, TX 78737-4534 to take in a World Series game that fall; thought I had found the best job ever. Course: VI, EE Living Group: MIT Student House Activities, students groups: Indoor and Outdoor Track Occupation: “Tester and Method for Checking Meter Encoders in Automatic Meter Reading Systems,” Patent Number 4,276,644 issued 6/30/81 Spouse or Partner: Dorothy A. DeWitte Children and grandchildren: Jennifer N. DeWitte 45 Sharon N. DeWitte 41 Fondest or most significant MIT memory ... Freshman class in High-Speed Photography taught by Doc Edgerton. My first job after graduation was with EG&G, the company formed by Edgerton and two of his graduate students, Kenneth Germeshausen and Herbert Grier. Organizations and causes you are passionate about: Habitat for Humanity.

Dot & I at last year’s Ham Club dinner

78 Peter DiGiovanni

Email: [email protected] Organizations and causes you are passionate about: I love just about anything relating to good music. I am Phone: 703-242-2160 currently President of the Washington Metropolitan Accordion Address: 2603 Lasswade Lane, Oakton, VA 22124 Society, and I play the accordion in theWashington Balalaika Course: X, Chemical Engineering Society Orchestra.

Living Group: Baker House Life: before, during and after MIT ... Occupation: Mobil Oil Corporation 1968-2000, including 15 I grew up on the south shore of Long Island, NY, and was the technical, managerial and executive positions in 8 locations youngest in my high school class. At MIT, I had my hands (and throughout the U.S. Disciplines included refinery process mind) full with the course work, social challenges (I turned 17 engineering, technology coordiation, planning, scheduling, during my freshman year), bridge games and other unorganized economics, supply, logistics, financial analysis, and information activities at Baker House. If I were doing it again, I would have systems. made more of an effort to join into formal activities, particularly relating to music. Got my MS in Course X-B in 1968 and went Spouse or Partner: Sally DiGiovanni to work for Mobil Oil right after that. Met my first wife, Barbara, Children and grandchildren: David (son) and Candace (step- at Mobil and we had a son together. She had serious health issues daughter) shortly thereafter, and ultimately succumbed to cancer at age 3 Grandchildren, plus one due in April 2017. 43. A year later I married Sally, a highly successful Realtor, and we have now been married almost 27 wonderful years. I had Fondest or most significant MIT memory ... a satisfying 32-year career with Mobil, and retired in 2000. In Can’t come up with just one, but the beginning and the end are 1998, I got my real estate license and have been helping Sally particularly memorable - the moment my parents dropped me off ever since. Upon retiring, a series of coincidences brought me for freshman orientation and left me standing in on a sidewalk to playing the accordion, which is now the centerpiece of my in front of a fraternity house...... and Graduation Day. The four retirement activity. years flew by for me - 10-250 lectures, delivering papers to Warren K. Lewis at his home, walks across the Harvard Bridge, learning how to write a thesis succinctly from Prof. Meissner, a solar energy seminar with Professors Sarofim and Hottel, a teaching assistantship under Professor Gilliland, and a life-saving tutoring from Pete James so I could pass a critical EE final on the second try. A big disappointment was being refused for the Navy ROTC program because I was still 16 years old. And then there was freshman year at Baker House, rooming with Fred Hottes, John Cook and Brad Cross, when the sophomores came into our room and unceremoniously “threw” us all into the showers, the 1965 East Coast power failure, Baker bridge games, and all those mixers.

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