50TH ANNIVERSARY

MEMORY BOOK

Class of Mostly boys, barely men, largely uncivilized by five women among us. Lectures, labs and lots of hard homework. One of the first places we were exposed to many great ideas and great people, world-class professors, who loved those ideas, and so we learned to love them ourselves. Welcome to 50th Anniversary Letter from Face Book of the Harvey Mudd Maria Klawe Class of 1967

When you graduated from in 1967, you stepped into a tumultuous time in history. As the Vietnam War raged on, the Summer of Love unfolded We hope you enjoy reading how we’ve made a difference in our world in San Francisco. Space exploration continued to make by following our individual passions. Our journeys since 1967 are unique headlines, and new discoveries in computer science and special and worth celebrating. We’re very proud to be associated began to shape our world into the one we know today. with this group! In many ways, your class, with its diversity of talent, was The diversity that was present in 1963, when most of us arrived on particularly suited for the future that awaited them. campus, remained when we graduated and has blossomed since then. It takes bravery and perseverance to navigate any new adventure, What class members decided to share with a maximum of 300 words and I congratulate you for what you have accomplished both at Harvey and two photographs is fascinating and illustrates just what a diverse Mudd College and beyond. Your contributions have been substantial and group we are and how many different ways we have enriched our world have been recognized in many realms. You’ve developed a reputation in during the past 50 years. graduate schools, industry and in your communities as premium problem Happy reading and celebrating the diversity of our accomplishments. solvers able to excel in virtually any field. Needless to say, Harvey Mudd College is very proud of the Class of Your 50th Reunion Planning Committee, 1967. I offer my congratulations on this occasion of your 50th reunion Penny Barrett Brian Boyle Bob Herling and my sincerest gratitude to you for paving the way for today’s Charlie Johnson George McNulty Hugh Saurenman students. Gary Schantz Bud Simrin Charlie Westbrook

President Harvey Mudd College

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In Memoriam James S. Ambrose Jim • Chemistry

After graduation, I went to work for a chemical company and was involved in converting products to meet ’s air pollution control requirements. The financial side of the business enticed me to get an MBA, and I left for graduate school. Toward the end of my first semester, I was drafted and spent almost three years in the Army—the last 17 months in Vietnam with the Army Security Agency. Upon my return, I went back and finished my MBA at Wharton. The next 10 years were spent working in the finance departments of several large corporations where I gravitated toward developing computerized financial systems to improve productivity and decision-making flexibility. During this time, I married and had three children. Little did I appreciate then how extremely lucky I was. In the summer of 1983, my life changed dramatically as the result of a diving accident that left me paralyzed below the shoulders with essentially no ability to use my fingers. Many who experience this type of injury are teenagers or in their early 20s. Fortunately, I already had completed my education, was married with a family and had substantial work experience with a heavy dose of computer usage. For the past 30 years, I have worked remotely with companies that provide data to other companies selling music, books, videos and games. When I started, our Robert D. first database consisted of information about all 200 CDs that were available for sale! The databases have grown a bit since then. My wife, Kris, is still with me and has been my primary caregiver the whole way. She is a very special person. Andersen Bob • Chemistry

6 7 Steven J. Barker M.D., PhD Steve • Physics Six months after graduation I received my MRS—perhaps the greatest honor I received as a result of attending HMC. The story is that Pat ’66 chased me so long, I finally caught him! For six years after graduation, I worked as an engineer I received my PhD in aeronautical engineering from Caltech and in an engineering-related field. But, when Pat finished in 1972 and the M.D. from University of Miami in 1981. (Yes, I law school, he asked me if I enjoyed what I was doing. was a professional student.) I was a tenured professor in both When I said “no,” he suggested I do what I enjoyed. This engineering (UCLA) and anesthesiology (UC Irvine, University launched me on my next career: volunteering! of Arizona). I chaired the Department of Anesthesiology at UC I share the distinction of being one of the first two women engineers to Irvine (1990 –1995) and then the University of Arizona (1995– graduate from Harvey Mudd, but Shirley has the distinction of being the first to 2013). I have over 200 publications, including 15 textbook professionally distinguish herself in engineering. Congratulations, Shirley! chapters. I served as president of the national organization of Did I waste my parent’s hard-earned money to attend Harvey Mudd? No! anesthesiology department chairs (AAPD) and of the Society Do I help HMC’s ROI? No! But, almost 50 years of volunteering has had great for Technology in Anesthesia. I served seven years as the rewards, but they’re not monetary. American Society of Anesthesiologists’ director for academic The HMC AABOG got my attention shortly after graduation. Then I added anesthesiology, representing all university anesthesiology departments at the church (teaching Sunday School, conducting services, being on the executive ASA. I am now professor emeritus of anesthesiology and aerospace engineering board, acting as clerk), parenting when we adopted two lovely daughters, our at University of Arizona and chief science officer for Masimo Corporation, where girls’ schools (preschool through 12th grade), our community (serving on an I can apply both my engineering and medical backgrounds to advance medical environmental commission, participating in a city-wide collaborative to address technology. In November 2015, I received the Lifetime Achievement Award from teen suicide, acting as an Emergency Services Volunteer), the non-profit sector IAMPOV (Innovations and Applications of Monitoring Perfusion, Oxygenation (fundraising and serving on the board of and Ventilation), “for championing the development of vitally important Pacific Autism Center for Education) and, monitoring technologies and associated testing.” In January 2016, I got the most recently, hospital chaplaincy positions J.S. Gravenstein Award from the Society for Technology in Anesthesia, “for his at the local VA and Stanford. All was possible visionary understanding of the role of technology in anesthesia care and lifetime with the support and encouragement of Pat. commitment to patient safety.” Pat traveled the world on business before In April 2016, I received the he retired, now we try to take yearly, mind- Distinguished Alumni Award expanding trips together. from HMC. The fall/winter At Harvey Mudd, I learned to work with 2016 HMC Magazine has a others, be a problem solver and understand very kind article about me on the impact my actions have on society. That page 30 (bit.ly/BarkerFW16). I has remained unchanged. have three wonderful children and three grandkids. I have a wonderful fiancée who loves me despite all my glitches. Life is good, and HMC has been a key part of the journey. Penelope J. Barrett Penny • Engineering 8 9 L.Victor Bilger Vic • Engineering

Family: Spouse– Marna (Nairn) Bilger, married May 1971 (cousin of William Farwell ’67); Daughter– Katherine [DOB 8/5/79]; Son– Bradley [DOB 10/19/84] Upon graduation, I accepted an engineering position with General Dynamics/Pomona, which had two important attributes: draft deferral and a company basketball team. But the company team’s coach knew the recruiter of a Gulf Oil-sponsored team. The allure was too much for me; I quit my job after one month and played all over Europe as well as in Beirut, Kuwait and Iran. The Selective Service system did not approve and attempted to draft me into the Army, but I was able to obtain a draft-deferred engineering position with the Navy Civil Service in 1968. In 1970, I took a similar engineering job with Hughes Aircraft Company. The draft was finally abolished, so in 1974, I began attending Loyola Law School part-time. After graduating from law school and passing the California Bar Exam in 1978, I left the defense establishment and began to practice law. I joined the Los Angeles office of a national law firm, where I developed a specialty in products liability law (in part due to my physics, math, engineering and science background). I conducted the defense of products liability civil lawsuits for over David N. Bock 30 years, retiring in mid-2011. We defended the design, manufacturing and Dave • Mathematics warnings of complex products, such as motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, helmets and industrial machinery. I was the lead trial attorney in numerous large-exposure trials, prevailing in most of them. After retirement, I began playing senior slow- pitch softball and volunteering at a local public school, where I help primarily with fourth- and fifth- grade math. My wife and I have resided in Thousand Oaks, California, since 1972.

10 11 1963–66: One weekend/month in Naval Aviation Reserve earned me a nifty “Free Cruise to Southeast Asia w/6,500 friends & 124 aircraft!” (More fun than graduating with my class!) Steven Bonkowski 1969: Home, finished/continued at UC Berkeley for Steve • Physics MSEE/CS, wasted time on City Council and assembly programming at Berkeley Scientific Labs, consulting at Solano Clinical Labs. 1972: Stumbled into middle-management at Varian Instrument Data Systems, Walnut Creek. I retired as a vice president of Northrop Grumman 1973: Hogged credit developing the world’s first responsible for engineering and operations and country- instrument with embedded microprocessor. wide facility consolidation in the company’s electronics 1974: At Varian, code imaging for first superconducting sector. My wife, Marilyn, and I retired to Balboa Island, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance system. California. After retirement from Northrop Grumman, I 1975: Fooled National Library of Medicine into fellowship in UCSF joint MD/ consulted with small businesses on organization and PhD program. business streamlining. When 9/11 occurred, Marilyn 1979: Completed two medical information science dissertation projects and I got stuck in the Northwest and fell in love with the (ignored by industry!). area. To make sure that that was the place for us, we 1980: Met/married Marilyn Jarvis, intellectual property specialist at UC took a 26,000 mile road trip around the perimeter of the Hastings Law School. country looking at waterfront cities, towns and villages 1981: Ran McGraw-Hill’s biomedical/information technology analysis/ and imagined living there. We eventually relocated to Bainbridge Island, research/forecast unit. Washington, an island city which is a 35-minute ferry ride from downtown 1985: Back to Berkeley to found NOVON Research Group with most of my Seattle. After becoming disheartened with the financial well-being of the city, old DRI team. I entered local politics and successfully was elected city councilman and 1988: Birth of our only child and greatest accomplishment, Michael, now second-year Yale Med. subsequently the city mayor. While on council, we made significant changes 1992: Co-founded DBStar Inc., developing data-mining/database to the city staff and fiscal policy that resulted in a substantially improved rationalization tools. financial position and local infrastructure. I remain involved with the community 1997: Sold out to Oracle, served Clinton administration as Y2K webmaster & as a member of the steering committee of the Kitsap Aerospace and Defense data wrangler. Alliance, an economic 2002: Keeping teenage vow, earned credential at Dominican to teach high development organization school STEM. working to bring aerospace 2010: Michael graduates Yale (two years after Marilyn’s death) works at Yale and defense business and labs, then Google. jobs to Kitsap County. My 2016: In SF, Michael weds fellow Googler, Shirin. wife and I continue to be engaged locally, travel in our MUDD MEMORY: In 1963, Mudd had its own Airstream trailer and visit ZIP (91716) and student mailmen knew all 273 family in Southern California, others. My Loving Liberal School Sweetheart thus Nevada and New York. COVERED a postcard in half-cent Franklin stamps EXCEPT for address “BJB 91716” & msg: “Yours, ‘til Orange Goes Red!” J. Brian Boyle 12 Brian • Physics 13 Kenneth S. Brown Ken • Chemistry

1. Ken studied biochemistry at UC Berkeley, 1967–68. 2. Ken married Marian Van de Water POM ’68, June 16, 1968—the best thing that ever happened to Ken! 3. Marian and Ken served in the Peace Corps in Ghana, West Africa, 1968–70. 4. Ken attended Stanford Medical School 1970–74, graduating with an M.D. He continued his internship and residency at the Stanford University hospitals, 1974–77, completing certification in internal medicine and critical care medicine. Marian worked toward her PhD in economics during this time and had two daughters, Monica and Tricia. After moving to Claremont, Ken started a medical practice, and Marian taught economics at . 5. Their daughters attended Claremont schools. Monica went to UC Santa Cruz and Tricia to Carleton College. Both completed MBAs, Monica at UC Berkeley and Tricia at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. 6. Ken practiced primary care internal medicine and critical care medicine at Hospital Medical Center. After 15 years, he focused on primary care until retiring in 2012. 7. Marian was a visiting scholar for the Social Security Administration in Robert A. Washington, D.C., 1984–85. She moved to Southern California Edison to lead an energy conservation evaluation group until retiring in 2012. She was nationally known for her work. 8. Marian and Ken enjoy hiking and have a Browning Bob • Engineering second home in Gualala, CA, a coastal town 110 miles north of San Francisco. 9. In 2016, Marian and Ken sold their home of almost 40 years on 12th Street in Claremont and moved to Mt. San Antonio Gardens, a retirement community. 10. Ken and Marian enjoy their 6-year-old granddaughter, Naomi, and visit her often in Minneapolis, MN. 11. Life has been a blessing!

14 15 Richard A. Burke Rich • Chemistry

Merton D. Canady Mert • Engineering

16 17 Emmett E. Curran II Jean • Physics I am a board-certified urologist in Humboldt County. A hospital has assumed the practice I started 40 years ago, but I still cover the hospital and do telemedicine consultations for rural clinics. I trained at UCSF and the University of Iowa. I took the American College of Surgeons Four years at Harvey Mudd were followed by two years at Advanced Trauma Life Support course recently since our Oregon State for an MSEE, getting married (Marcia—still hospital will become certified as a Level III trauma center. together), then 37 years at United Airlines in their Engineering It reminds me of my general surgery days at UCSF: I could put in chest tubes Department, and finally 11 years (and counting) of retirement. and do pericardiocentesis in my sleep then and still could. But at San Francisco Life since college has been quite an adventure. There have General, we did ATLS before there was ATLS. There were books on diagnosing been noteworthy professional milestones: SAI (standby abdominal injuries by palpation. Now there are CT scans, FAST and peritoneal attitude indicator), TCAS (traffic collision avoidance system), lavage. I work with two different electronic health records which takes up half the reactive Windshear Detection System demonstration, time a doctor spends with a patient. My wife, Karen, and I live in Mckinleyville in certification and retrofit projects; glass cockpit research northern California on 6.88 acres of tall redwood and spruce trees, two creeks— and proof of concept; DAS (designated alteration station) basically a pinetum with dwarf conifers, lots of Japanese maples and native certification authority, DFDR (digital flight data recorder) plants. We mountain bike, have motorcycles and ride horses almost daily. We parameter expansion and retrofit programs; and numerous other career projects have two paints and a quarter horse, a pet sheep, two dogs and a barn cat, plus and activities that kept the mind exercised and active. two African greys and a double yellow-headed Amazon I’ve had for 31 years. As a graduate of the Bates program, I followed up with commercial and I do trail horse riding, have packed into the Marble Mountain Wilderness and instrument ratings and was an active pilot for many years, primarily in a Cessna participate in horse-mounted archery—no reins, at a gallop. I exercise daily with 170 and a C-model Bonanza. For 10 years, I coached our daughter Lindsey’s kettlebells and yoga in my home gym. I am a range safety officer at local ranges AYSO soccer teams. Marcia and I survived Lindsey’s horse vaulting (that’s and do some shooting sports activities. My gardening is helped by my Kubota gymnastics on horseback), which included family trips to support the team’s tractor and an old 8N tractor. We have a cold greenhouse with succulents and marching in the Rose Parade and to Atlanta where they demonstrated the sport bromeliads. I love reading, including James Harriot’s All Creatures Great and at the Olympics. For the last 11 years, retirement has kept Marcia and me busy. Small and the rest of that series. Harriot loved the Dale farmers, and I have a I’m into road biking (6,000+ miles/year) and golf and many other things I never similar affinity for rural living. And good whisky. really had enough time for when I was working. Fortunately, in the active adult community where we live there are a lot of other like-minded people, and we have more friends than we ever had since college days. Our bike riding group has traveled together on riding tours through France, Ireland, Spain, Oregon, California, Utah and Arizona. So life has been good, especially in retirement. Hope Brian W. yours has been, too. Dorman Brian • Chemistry

18 19 In Memoriam William D. Farwell Bill • Engineering

Shortly after graduating from HMC, I wound up at Hughes Aircraft Company doing digital electronics––a fortuitous field to be in, as it turned out. I met my wife, Martha, an attorney at Hughes, about 16 years later. We have two sons. The older passed the bar several years ago and is an attorney in San Diego. The younger recently (finally) earned his doctorate in chemistry at Caltech and is at a biotech start- up in San Francisco, where he is also the guitarist for a rock band start-up, whose genre is “San Francisco heavy metal surf.” I retired five years ago from Raytheon, where I was principal engineering fellow responsible for digital and analog electronics. Martha retired from her solo law practice last year (and cleverly let her bar membership lapse so she can’t work). She now plays the viola in (at least) three community orchestras. I do mountain biking (and still a little running) in the Santa Monica mountains and at Big Bear Lake, where we have a second home. There, Martha can indulge in her second passion, cross country skiing, and drag me along, too. I am most proud of my sons’ accomplishments, but can’t claim much responsibility, which is mostly theirs (and Martha’s). Professionally, I found that working in electronics was oddly both exciting and Sisyphean; multiple times I helped make the largest, most complex IC that ever existed. But in 12 months it was Harrison J.L. commonplace, and in 18 months, obsolete. Frank Of 42 patents, most have become irrelevant. Harrison • Physics What is enduring at a technical organization is its culture—the products and technical expertise are ephemeral. So I am proud of contributing to and propagating that culture. (P.S. I finally figured out that to make something of electronics that will last, put it in a spacecraft.)

20 21 In Memoriam Bruce Gerhardt Bruce • Mathematics

Richard J. Hartman Dick • Physics

22 23 John E. Heiser Family: Son (Roger) and daughter (Carla). Two John • Mathematics granddaughters (6 and 1 1/2). After 46 years, now separated from my wife.

Education: After HMC, I attended University of Minnesota, earning an MSME (1968). I was a research assistant in the Particle Technology Laboratory, which developed new instrumental techniques for characterizing particulate in the air and emanating from industries and vehicles.

Career: After grad school, I worked at United Technologies Research Laboratories examining gas dynamic lasers and SCRAM jets. I spent two years in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps assigned to the EPA, where I worked on the development of particulate measuring instruments. That was followed by five jobs involved with air pollutant instrumentation. I transitioned to product management when I joined Honeywell working on boiler controls then on plastic molding machinery controls. I moved to Chicago in 1991 to take over the sales and marketing management of a company that made environmental chambers that also simulated sunlight. I then became general manager of a company that printed ID badges and developed software to design them. For the past 13 years, I’ve been president of Tri Lite Inc., a manufacturer of specialty lighting products used in material handling applications.

Travels: I’ve traveled extensively for work, covering 49 states and all continents, except Antarctica. For personal travel, I’ve been to Israel and have taken several cruises.

Fun: In addition to being an AABOG member for the past six years, I enjoy traveling, especially cruises. I’m also on the board of Imagination Theater, an improv group that does school programs about social issues. I have the most fun with my granddaughters.

Proud of: My children, their spouses and grandchildren. Every company I’ve worked for was in better shape by the time I left. Robert J. Herling Bob • Engineering

24 25 Robert C. Hesser Bob • Engineering Family: I have one son, Adam, inducted into the DC bar on 3/10/17. My second husband, Mark, a lovely Brit, died in 2005.

Education: Wasn’t HMC enough? Family: Married 43+ years; one son, PhD candidate at Berkeley, molecular and cellular biology Career: Most of my career has been devoted to sales except for my first job at Shell Oil Patent Division. From Education: HMC plus some UCLA there it was Mead Johnson Pharmaceuticals ’78–80; Air Shields Medical Equipment ’80–82; Jane’s (the defense/ Career: Retired from the corporate world—Xerox, Honeywell, aviation community will probably recognize this name) ’82–92; Armed Forces Hitachi—now advising early stage startups; currently on Journal Intl ’92–2002; Jane’s (again!) 2002–10. My technical education at HMC number three. really helped my sales career throughout, including being VP and associate What do you do for fun? Design/build furniture, creative publisher at AFJI. Then—a few months at USIS (UGH!)—they had to file for writing bankruptcy when the U.S. government found out they were falsifying security clearances. I’m now working part time with international trade shows.

Travels: I had wonderful times traveling the world with Mark while working at Jane’s and AFJI. A lot of time in England, his birthplace, as well as other European countries: Switzerland, France, Germany, Greece, Scotland, Wales; in Asia: Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong (while still British), Indonesia, Bali, Borneo, Brunei, S. Korea, Australia, New Zealand; in the Middle East: Abu Dhabi and Dubai; and the U.S., Mexico and Canada! So much FUN!

Fun: Scuba diving was my FAVORITE activity, mainly off California where I was the “abalone queen” (the trick is finding them!) and some tropical diving in lovely warm waters with beautiful undersea life. Now I’m a bit more sedentary. A favorite hobby is the INTENSE study of BIG red wines (yes, drinking required), cooking (especially spicy, exotic foods) and gardening. My bucket list includes more tropical dives.

Proud of: My son, Adam, a GOOD human being and smart, too. My awards won for outstanding salesmanship; it was a good career choice for me! Linda James Hewish Linda • Chemistry 26 27 Wilson H. Hoffman Wilson • Physics

Charles F. Holz Chuck • Physics

28 29 Allen L. Iseri Allen • Chemistry After graduating from HMC, I attended Stanford, earning an MBA in finance and marketing. While at Stanford I met Carolyn. We married in 1969 and have two children and three grandchildren with another on the way. We stayed in the Bay Area for many years before moving to New Family: My wife, Patti, and I have five kids, who are all grown Hampshire and later to the coast of Maine. Carolyn died in up and out of the house. Patti is a pediatric nurse practitioner. 2005 after battling pancreatic cancer. I’ve since remarried,

having met Jean the old fashioned way, off-line at our yacht Education: I went to USC for medical school and did a club’s holiday party. pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. I Career wise, I followed advice I received while in grad school to not let my studied bio chemistry and human genetics after graduation. career get stale but to consider changes every seven years or so. While I did

spend 18 years with Hewlett Packard, I worked in three different functional Career: I have been a pediatrician for the last 40 years in areas: marketing, finance and software development (my only true engineering Orange County, California. job). After we moved to New Hampshire, my career stayed in the CFO/controller

function but crossed a wide variety of technologies, including geophysical Travels: Patti and I go to Oahu, Hawaii, where we have a condo, and to Mazatlán, services (groundwater exploration, development and protection), specialty Mexico. We try to get to Mazatlán about six weeks per year. chemicals, electronic manufacturing, voice recognition software and financial services. All these companies had significant multi-national operations, and I Fun: I raise orchids and became a judge in the American Orchid Society and enjoyed working with people and cultures around the globe. Cymbidium Society. I retired in 2006 and began consulting as a part-time CFO two years later. In addition, I’m an active volunteer on several nonprofit boards. Two are local (president of our volunteer fire department and land trust) and two have an international focus: education in rural Panama and health care in Zambia. While I no longer ski, we enjoy snowshoeing, hiking and boating on the coast of Maine. Jean and I travel extensively in the U.S. and internationally. One of our favorite trips was in 2012 when we joined other HMC alumni to see the total eclipse of the sun in Australia.

Charles F. Johnson Charlie • Engineering

30 31 Calvin K. Kato Cal • Engineering I’m sure that my odyssey should begin after Mudd. Nuclear engineering looked pretty cool to me, better than Vietnam, so I turned down a Navy flight school commission and stayed in the graduate education racket. But General Hershey had other plans for me. Unexpectedly, I ended up working with nuclear weapons for many years. So much for generating electricity too cheap to meter! A great stop on the journey was Los Alamos, New Mexico, a lovely town, where my first wife and I raised a daughter and enjoyed the outdoor high desert lifestyle and a fine ski area right on the edge of town. Building bombs morphed into intelligence analysis of other people’s bombs. When you study second-hand information all the time you crave the chance to see the real thing, so when inspections of Iraq started in 1991, I was pushing to the head of the line. The IAEA hired me away from the , and I had many adventures in Iraq and later dissecting the bomb program in South Africa for two years. After more years in New Mexico and Nevada, I decided to go back to Vienna for a retirement segue. Bad plan because 9/11 happened immediately as I arrived and so Iraq heated up again, Bigly! Lots more fun adventures in Iraq, and a great sadness that we were on the ground and in the factories and we knew without a doubt there were no nuclear weapons in Iraq. That’s old news. The best news was finding a wonderful new wife, Kathy, who some of you met and know is British. We’ve made a great retirement choice to stay in Vienna, the best town in Europe, where Kathy paints and gardens and I write and consult! 300 words about 50 years. Wow.

Clowning with some of my Russian students on the wintery banks of the frozen Tom River in Tomsk, Siberia, in 2011. Robert E. Kelley Bob • Physics 32 33 In Memoriam Paul T. Kollar Paul • Engineering After Ralph graduated from Mudd, he received his master’s in chemistry from Harvard University. He served in the Peace Corps and taught chemistry at Middle East Technical I’ve experienced a series of blessings. This year marks the University in Ankara. After three years as an aerospace 40th wedding anniversary for Lynnsly and me (three children, engineer at TRW, he changed direction, studying at UCSF five grandchildren). Lynn has degrees in respiratory therapy and graduating with an M.D. There, he met Janis Birdwell, and art history with careers in emergency and intensive care a UCSF nurse, and a happy 39-year marriage followed. He hospital teams and, later, antiques and interior design. completed his residency in internal medicine at Cedars Sinai My studies led me to USC (MSEE, solid state electronics). Medical Center and obtained board certification in nuclear I stumbled into Silicon Valley in 1969 during the early days of medicine from the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Health Center. integrated circuits when I joined Signetics. My HMC education Ralph continued his practice at the VA, later becoming the chief of nuclear enabled me to understand the process technology and circuit medicine at West Los Angeles Veterans Healthcare Center. He also served as design methodology of the industry and the customer design an assistant professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He and market window opportunity, and how to communicate contributed to innovations in the computer programs that created the pictures effectively between the two. I worked there 17 years and from nuclear medicine scans, and he was involved in the development of MRI experienced many firsts, including the first monolithic phase locked loop and the and the interpretation of MRI scans. first successful programmable logic device. Ralph and Janis raised four children: Jonathan, the youngest, graduated In 1985, we moved to Oregon to join a startup, Lattice Semiconductor, which with honors from HMC, completing his PhD at UCLA in electrical engineering was pioneering memory technologies. I applied EE technology to programmable and currently works as a MEMS design engineer at a start-up in Santa Monica; logic, used both for programmable logic and non-volatile memory. With ups and Michael will complete a PhD in physical chemistry at UCLA; Heather and Jennifer downs, it went public in 1989, and I stayed until 1998. are bio-medical/chemical engineers with B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford. I joined TriQuint Semiconductor, run by one of my associates from Signetics, Janis pursued a career in medicine as a Los Angeles Steve Sharp. We grew the company from $30 million to $450 million in four years School District nurse. Her work for children’s health and as the high-frequency microwave, millimeter wave, cell phone, satellite and deep wellbeing helped lead Ralph into his service to enrich the lives space communications markets exploded from 1998 to 2002. of blind children with whom they shared their love of animals. In 2002, I changed gears and became an angel investor An actor, set designer, lighting specialist and singer, Ralph in the Pacific Northwest. I have been involved in innovative was the center of energy for the community theater in Hidden microprocessor design, non-blocking optical interconnects for Hills, and he made elaborate floats for parades. Ralph’s supercomputers, software for lawyers, modulating terahertz hearty laugh, broad smile and inspiring life are remembered frequencies with analog techniques, non-fogging ski goggles, and by all who knew him. educational software. I am in the Keiretsu Forum and a venture Written by Ken Brown partner in a Tokyo-based venture capital company.

Ralph R. Lake Ralph • Chemistry

34 35 Jack V. Landau Family: Sharon and I were married in June 1968. We have Jack • Engineering lived in the same house since 1971, long enough to see the neighborhood become gentrified. We have two sons. One lives in Chicago, around the corner from Wrigley Field, and has three boys ages 8, 6 and 6. He and his wife are both hospitalists. Our other son is an urban planner and lives on Long Island, NY. He has a boy, 7, and finally a girl, 4. His wife works for NBC selling air time for all of those wonderful commercials.

Education: After Harvey Mudd, I headed for the University of Arizona to obtain an M.S. in civil engineering. Instead of getting the degree, I found my wife-to-be. I then transferred to UCLA, where I finally earned an M.S. in engineering.

Career: My first job was as a civil engineer with the Shell Pipeline Co. After five years, I moved on to work for Southern California Edison as a design, civil, construction, cost/schedule, project, generation siting, and environmental engineer in approximately that order for the next 40 years.

Travels: I enjoy traveling and have been to all 50 states. Thanks to Edison’s generous time-off policy, and Sharon’s somewhat flexible schedule as a special ed assistant, we have been able to visit a couple of dozen countries in Europe, Asia, South America and Australia over the years. We still have a few places that we would like to see.

Fun: Besides playing with my grandkids, I look forward to the short ski season. If I had enough time and money, skiing would be a year-round sport.

Proud of: I am proud of my family and proud of the fact that I had a successful career and am able to have a comfortable and enjoyable retirement.

Anthony J. Landler Tony • Engineering 36 37 In Memoriam In Memoriam Malcolm Lewis Malcolm • Engineering

50 years! Malcolm would have been delighted to celebrate this reunion. He was so proud of Harvey Mudd College and everything it stands for. Malcolm’s priorities in life were: God, Family, Work and Serving. He was a devoted husband and father and loved his family as unconditionally as I’ve ever seen. His mantra was the Golden Rule, and I think his life reflected that. He had a great sense of humor, loved a pun, cared deeply for the environment, loved his work and respected those who worked for and with him. It’s difficult to say whether HMC falls in the family or serving category, but I think family. He loved being a student at HMC and continuing on as a board member. He wanted to give back to an institution that I believe shaped so much of his adult life. He had the utmost regard and respect for everyone at HMC, his classmates, the faculty and staff (past and present), the board members and was always impressed with the current students. Harvey Mudd College was an integral part of our family life, and we shared Malcolm gladly, because it meant so much to him. Many of his friends and colleagues tell me that when they W. Gregory have a tough situation they ask themselves “What would Malcolm do?” He really was a beautiful role model, a gentleman extraordinaire. He is missed and thought of Lockwood every day. Greg • Physics Written by Cindy Lewis

38 39 In Memoriam

Chip P.J. Male Wow, 50 years already! At graduation, a Navy laboratory Chip • Mathematics offered me a job working on a test range in Hawaii, which seemed like a great break from the rigors of HMC. I quickly fell in love with the environment and great people, and 50 years later am still here. I also fell in love with a very special lady; Betty and I have been married for 47 years. Plans for graduate school fell by the wayside, but there have always been interesting work opportunities available in Hawaii. Our four children, five grandchildren and a great grandchild all live close by so we spend a lot of time with the grandkids babysitting, attending special events and helping them with their education. The children generally call me first to for help with car and home repair projects so there is never a chance to be bored. It is great to be able to spend lots of time with my immediate family. My entire career has been spent in the Naval R&D establishment with Hawaii branches of several Navy laboratories. Half my federal career was spent in anti-submarine warfare for the Navy and the other half in command control and communications (C3) for the Marine Corps. A couple of projects involved the design, construction and fielding of deployable C3 systems for the Navy and Marine Corps which let me travel to locations from the Middle East to Asia. My final federal service job was a three-year assignment as the Office of Naval Research science advisor to the senior Marine Corps commander in the Pacific. After retiring, I took a job as a contractor with an organization that conducts military utility experiments with emerging technologies intended for fielding to the Marine Corps. Still working but cut back to half-time three years ago.

Gordon R. Mattis Gordon • Engineering

40 41 George F. McNulty George • Mathematics

We graduate into the Summer of Love, Sergeant Pepper, Dylan, Ken Kesey is on the bus. My worldly goods into my VW minibus. Out of Claremont north to Berkeley. Here is Berkeley; into a gas station. The attendant, beard and pony tail, offers a lid with the gas. Not Claremont. Ken Brown and I setup in Berkeley and learn to cook—we eat it anyway. Martin Luther King, Eugene McCarthy, RFK and Nixon has a secret plan! Marsha Taft and I marry for two years: So it goes. Alfred Tarski grabs my mind. Polished Polish metamathematician, Russell and Picasso in one. I go to his house Thursdays at 8 p.m. I’m 23 but this guy, almost 70, runs me ragged. He lets me leave at 3 a.m. or maybe 7 a.m. Reagan signs my PhD! Winnipeg a year, Dartmouth for two more, then 1975; set up a lifetime in Columbia, SC. But hot summers! I’m off to Boulder or San Diego. Nieves says yes, yes she will, yes! A sabbatical honeymoon in Hawaii. Nieves finishes her dissertation. Off to Manila on a Fulbright. Alfred is born in Quezon City. I am an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Darmstadt. Curtis G. Write a book. Buy a house. Michael born. Buy a bigger house. Nieves and I are Miller math department chairs. She is better: Twenty years! I do three. Curt • Physics From Croatia, Hungary and China students show to get PhDs with me. The Ulam Lectureship at Boulder. Passports filled by exotic destinations! Who knew mathematicians make their art across the world? Kids off to college after all those soccer practices. Seeing what mathematics did to us, they do computers. American Mathematical Society Fellow. Really surprises me. Alfred at 30 asks us for a new name, more feminine. We say Alli. We get a daughter—no teenage daughter part.

42 43 Kirk Morrison I have been having a lot of fun since 1967. Near graduation, Kirk as the Vietnam War raged, it sounded good to me when a Navy Lab recruiter offered me a job working in engineering while they held off the draft board. That eventually resulted in the Navy supporting me in getting a master’s degree at San Diego State then providing the opportunity to live in Northern Italy for three years while working as an employee of the Office of Naval Research at a NATO laboratory. Mary Beth and I later felt that we essentially learned to eat well while enjoying the Italian Riviera and meeting its people. After five more years working for an ocean electronics company in California, Sonatech, I had enough of seasickness, and we moved to Albuquerque. We live in Albuquerque’s Nob Hill, named 100 years ago by a developer who tried his hand in California, then had better luck in New Mexico. Being an engineer at Sandia National Laboratories for 22 years always allowed me to delve into new areas, even working on internet technologies for the first 10 years of that development. However, the lure of the mountains and the desert and the friendly neighborhood has been powerful. As our three daughters struck out on their own as engineer, business consultant and physician, I retired from Sandia. I have come to really appreciate the amazing foresight of those people who have preserved our public lands; not only forests and remote parks, but inner-city public spaces as well. That has been a set of fantastic accomplishments. So when I am not dealing with our old rental houses or neighborhood business or helping Mary Beth with her accounting technology, then we are off wandering.

Spencer D. Nelson Spence • Engineering

44 45 Dwayne W. Nuzman Dwayne • Mathematics

Eric N. Partch Eric • Physics

46 47 Stephen L. Quilici Steve • Physics

Family: Married Judy Huckins POM ‘67; son, Jeffrey, married Laura Moxley, grandchildren Julia and Greg; daughter, Lisa, married Peter Feret, grandchildren Nick and Kate. What a great family!

Education: M.S. (1969); PhD (1974), applied physics, Stanford

Career: U.S. Army active duty 1969–70 (1970 in South Korea); Aerospace and communications and commercial IT in industry: Rockwell Int’l 1974–86; Cincinnati Bell 1988–92; Computer Sciences Corp 1992–2003; Harris Corp 2003–2011; now doing local governance, City of Ojai Planning Commission and Building Appeals Board

Travels: Family travel to UK, Hawaii, Alaska, Mexico, Belize, U.S. National Parks and Monuments; Business travel to UK, Norway, Denmark, Greece, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan

Fun: Hiking, trout fishing, bicycling, home improvements/ handyman repairs, traveling to visit family

Proud of: My wife Judy, our children and grandchildren; graduate Ronald D. work at Stanford (set a world record in digital signal processing in 1972; broke it in 1973); contributions to defense and commercial telecommunications; officer or director on boards of five 501(c)(3) charitable organizations Reading Ron • Chemistry

48 49 George B.

I’m a math professor at the College of Marin, and April is a busy month during the spring semester, so I don’t Robinson have the time needed to take a break. Please pass along George • Mathematics I am alive and well and happy and healthy, and just as annoying and nerdy as ever.

After graduation, I spent the summer hiking etc. in Oregon. With a U.S. Army Math Research Center fellowship, I got an M.A. in math at Wisconsin and spent a summer working for the Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland, in the Biomathematics Division. From 1969 to 1976, I returned to Oregon and George B. worked as a power scheduler, programmer and analyst for Pacific Power & Light. This was a good time to be back home, as my mother died, my father remarried and then he died, so my sister and I ended up with a great step-family in Oregon and still are involved with them. Then from 1976 to 2004, I worked for the Army at the Rock Island Arsenal as an operations research Rothbart analyst/systems analyst. Highlights included modeling depot operations with George • Physics Simscript II.5, using Don Chamberlin’s (HMC ’66) Standard Query Language to extract lessons learned from Desert Storm data, and helping Al Gore reinvent government by finishing up the Command’s initiatives. Barb and I married in 1981, and we have two children from her previous marriage and three grandchildren. Barb was the director of planning and development for Community Health Care in Davenport, Iowa. We’re Unitarian Universalists. As we both retired in 2004 and “the kids” live in Arizona and Michigan, it’s nice to be “snowbirds” with half a year in each place. I’ve stayed pretty active, with intramural volleyball, softball and football at the Arsenal, some running, folk dancing, Jazzercise and now mostly exercise machines and walking. We’ve traveled a fair amount, and I enjoy learning bits of foreign languages as needed. I’m still pretty good at German, French and some Norwegian. I continue to sing and to write song lyrics, especially political ones. For example, “Iraq is Their Land” was performed at our district Democratic Party Convention in Iowa.

50 51 Paul R. Rudolph Paul • Engineering I retired from Lockheed Martin some years ago to a small island in Puget Sound, where I have enjoyed the wonderful climate, frequent visits from local wildlife (eagles, deer, Following graduation, I spent three years in the United States coyotes and more) and watching the shipping traffic in Army as a 1st lieutenant to include a trip to Southeast Asia. Admiralty Inlet on its way to Seattle and Tacoma. Due I returned home to a family trucking and ranching business. to the death of my longtime partner Neil in 2015, I will This involved the managing of a small water company where be downsizing shortly into a smaller home with less I met my wonderful wife, Sandra. I had the opportunity to maintenance so I can spend more time traveling. This design and build things for the water company, trucking and photo was taken of me this February sitting in an oversized ranching concerns. It ranged from designing fruit-handling “Hobbit” chair in the woods where some of the filming for the movies was equipment from the orchard to the actual packing and hauling done in Mount Aspiring National Park near of fruit for export. During that time, I designed and built Queenstown in New Zealand. We had just taken our home, where we raised our three children. Our oldest, a jet boat ride on the Dart River and were having Jennifer, picked up on the engineering aspects and went on a short hike through the beautiful woods. to become a licensed civil engineer. Kathleen followed the lead of her mom in the biological sciences and received her doctorate working on acacia ants in Kenya. During that time, I joined the Ventura County Live Steamers and built my own live steam engine and designed a large layout with bridges and tunnels that was open for the enjoyment of the public. It now has been transported and set up here at home on our avocado ranch. Our son, Brian, growing up on the ranch, gained hands-on experience building and designing. He spent 10 years serving in the United States Army with a deployment to Afghanistan before returning home. Thereupon, he and I became partners in a joint venture, Rudolph Machine LLC, a CNC machine shop. That has allowed us to design and build components for a wide variety of customers: Hollywood film production, electric buses, military target drone projects, modern lamp designs and antique aircraft parts. Kathleen married a fellow Shirley A. Sandoz scientist, Jay; and they have two Shirley • Engineering delightful children. River, at 2 and a half, is a train fanatic just like his grandpa!

52 53 Hugh J.

After graduating from HMC, I earned a master’s degree in aerospace engineering at USC, then worked in the Saurenman aerospace industry for a couple of years before returning Hugh • Engineering to school to pursue an MBA. From that point forward, my career evolved toward managing commercial and industrial manufacturing companies, both in the U.S. and overseas. After managing to graduate from HMC, I went to graduate Some of the assignments were turnaround situations, school at Tufts University in Massachusetts, where I learned which were challenging but very satisfying. I’m relatively smart; something I had my doubts about after My assignments allowed me to reside in several struggling through HMC. I met Linda Troisi at a PBS auction in countries outside the U.S., including Canada, Mexico and Australia. In Canada, Boston, and a year later we got married, which is pretty much I met my wife, Donna. We were married in Toronto, with fellow HMC ’67 grad the best decision I’ve ever made. We did not have children, Jim Ambrose serving as best man. My eldest daughter, Salena, was born in but Linda is the oldest of six siblings, so we have plenty of Canada, and her sister, Katrina, was born in Mexico. When we traveled from nieces and nephews. I received my PhD in 1975, and my first country to country, explaining the passports—two Canadian, one American and real job was with a small consulting firm in Oakland, California, one Mexican—to immigration officials was sometimes a challenge. where I started working on projects for rail transit systems, I had always been interested in teaching as an alternate career path, but which I’m still doing, still enjoying and still find challenging. couldn’t justify it financially. In 2001, I decided I could afford to pursue that We spent 10 years in Oakland, moved back to Boston for 17 years, and then to interest, so I resigned my corporate position, and landed an adjunct teaching Pasadena in 2002, where I started my own company. I’ve now gone full circle position in the College of Business at the . Over a 14-year because I grew up in Pasadena. It’s nicer than I expected to be back in Pasadena, period, I taught courses in Finance, particularly because the smog is much less severe than it was in 1967. At this Marketing, and International Business, point, my life is pretty much dominated with trying to keep the business and myself and thoroughly enjoyed the entire healthy. I had very little contact with HMC when we were in Boston and Oakland. college teaching experience. Better Back in Pasadena we have contacted them frequently when we were recruiting. late than never. This was based on the advice of Malcolm Lewis ’67, who recommended hiring I wrapped up my teaching career in HMC students when Malcolm and I talked back in 2001. Currently five of our 12 2015. Since retiring, I keep occupied staff are HMC graduates, and by playing softball in a couple of local we are interviewing two HMC seniors’ leagues, riding my Harley and seniors for full-time positions, so hiking in the Sierras. Life has been I’m continuing to follow Malcolm’s good. advice. One of our current projects is the extension of the Gold Line LRT to Claremont; commuting to our office will be much easier for future HMC hires. Gary J. Schantz Gary • Physics

54 55 Joanne Fisk Shapard Joanne • Mathematics

W. Alan Sikes Alan • Physics

56 57 Michael B.

Family: Met my wonderful spouse of 40 years, Vilma Manteiga, while studying for an M.S. (math) at University of Simmonds Florida. We have no children but family hobbies are flying Mike • Physics (both of us are instrument pilots), scuba diving, photography (I carry, Vilma shoots) and morning walks.

Education: M.S. math, University of Florida; PhD math, University of North Texas

Career: Spent two years in Peace Corps, Zamboanga, Philippines, between HMC and graduate school, then worked at General Dynamics, bought out by Lockheed Martin Aerospace, for 32 years as an operations analyst, serving as senior manager for last 10 years of career.

Travels: While working at Lockheed Martin, lived for three years in Taiwan. During that time, Vilma and I scuba dived every small island we could find in Pacific Ocean (Great Barrier Reef, Truk Lagoon, Yap, Micronesia, etc.). LM also sent me abroad to many places including Turkey, Poland, England, France and Germany.

Fun: Current hobby is tennis. I play in three to four national-level tournaments per year for our age level, but I only win about half of my matches so I’m not a top player. I study cosmology in my spare time, trying to learn the physics and the new math (geometric algebra and calculus that were re-invented while we attended HMC and that we all missed).

Proud of: Several operations research computer models I built for LM plus some special algorithms. Surviving three qualifying rounds and making it to the first round of U.S. Open Table Tennis tournament, my first USTA tournament of any type.

Harry S. Simrin Bud • Mathematics

58 59 Fred R. Sinal Fred • Mathematics Husband, father, economist. Eleven years in New Haven, three in Houston and back to Claremont since 1981. Living three blocks from my office and classrooms at Pomona College, where I teach stocks and statistics. I love my job and have never worked a day of my life. Coached 50+ youth soccer teams. Loved playing soccer, squash and lesser sports until I ran out of cartilage in my left knee. Children graduated from Swarthmore and Haverford, another now at Cornell, and three more leaving home in the next 10 years. Lately taken to writing trade books: • Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie With Statistics • What the Luck? The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives • Money Machine: The Surprisingly Simple Power of Value Investing I seem to be gravitating toward things that are surprising which, to me, is increasingly wonderful.

Gary N. Smith Gary • Mathematics

60 61 Stephen C. Smith Steve • Physics Law of Unintended Consequences, Example 17 It is now a commonplace that we share a global economy.

But its seeds were sown during the isolationist 1930s that followed the stock market’s crash of 1929, when depression saturated the national psyche and families everywhere adopted a frugal mindset, abjuring waste.

Out of this historical milieu rose young adults who fought in World War II, planted victory gardens, reinvented patriotic recipes—and lives—finding alternates for rationed goods, and who, with the peace, started families,

raising with their children, their millions of children, I among them, the proximate cause of our current key international trading partnerships. — For example, many of the vegetable and fruit juice extractors,

hair clippers and electric shavers, microwave oven control panels, cell phone batteries, soda fountain and beer dispensing components, fire extinguishers, and Christmas lights we use today were manufactured,

packaged and shipped by the daughters and sons, granddaughters and grandsons of the very same three starving children in China who surely would have perished had I not heeded my Mother’s pleas

to clean my plate at every meal.

Kenneth H. Solomon Ken • Mathematics

62 63 Alicia C. Sparks Alicia • Mathematics

My professional life has been very rewarding. After HMC, I got a master’s in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin and met and married Jim Sparks. Despite my dislike of programming in the HMC freshman engineering course, I took a few undergrad programming courses at UT. It turned out that I loved programming; it was what I was meant to do. I did application programming for the next 44 years. It was my hobby and my work. It was a challenge getting my foot in the door, being a woman in a man’s profession in Dallas, Texas. My persistence prevailed. I started out doing assembly language in a real-time environment, designing a simulation for a steam ship power plant and heading an effort to implement and install a supervisory control system for an oil pipeline near Chicago. I took off two years to spend with my daughter, Christine, but work pulled me back. I wrote CADCAM applications for apparel design, footwear design and grading, and nesting for CNC cutting of metal parts using flame and plasma cutters. As director of development for Footwear Systems, I traveled to Europe and managed teams of programmers in Canada and the Czech Republic. The company changed hands, and I went to work for an unsuccessful dot com, writing real-time stock market studies. Next, I Robert J. wrote a program that used statistics to identify Stewart duplicate records in large medical databases. Bob • Engineering I developed a parallel processing application using a server and five slave computers. Then I wrote a program to display system readiness with various surveillance sensors disabled that went to Cheyenne Mountain. Lastly, I developed web interfaces and sophisticated reports for the tree-structured hardware database for flight simulators. I am a retired widow, and my daughter lives with her son in Brooklyn. I lead an exercise class at my residence in Dallas.

64 65 James H.

1967–72 UC Berkeley, physics PhD: Lawrence Rad Lab high-energy physics. Berkeley Youth Baseball. Treadway 1971–2003 Married Carol: biologist, researcher, teacher, Jim • Engineering scuba diver, traveler and loving mother of our sons, Todd and Scott.

My first job after graduating was in Hawaii testing weapon 1973–75 Oxfordshire, England: employed by HRH at systems on Navy ships. While there, I became a Navy- Rutherford Lab, elementary particle experiments at certified scuba diver and bought a sailboat and sailed to CERN, traveled Europe. Organized summer school all the Hawaiian Islands. It was a great life for four years. I “Aspects of Energy Conversion” at Oxford. returned to San Diego in 1971 and have lived there since. 1975–77 Post-doc Harvard University, Physics Dept: consulted on risk-cost- I married Nancy in 1982; we decided we married too late benefit analysis and impacts of energy systems, including LNG, nuclear, coal. to have kids. We’ve lived in our current house since 1986. 1977–present Orinda, California: Board member and president, Orinda Youth Nancy takes our Maltese to hospitals, retirement homes and Association. Travel on five continents. Tickets to Oakland A’s, California the jail as a therapy dog; it’s rewarding for all. I got an MBA in Symphony & hiking with Patty and Wilson Hoffman ’67. 1987. I’ve worked mostly as a program manager for defense contractors, currently at General Atomics Aeronautical, which 1977–87 Director and Principal, Tenera Corp & PHB, and 1987–present builds the drones used in wartime regions like Afghanistan. Fifty years of working Managing Director, Van Horn Consulting: developed electric utility models is long enough; I’ll retire this year. Haven’t traveled much—a couple of times to for EPA and the Electric Power Research Institute. Implemented U.S. SO2 Europe, a few times to Canada and a cruise to Alaska. However, I’ve backpacked cap-and-trade market, a design used for European Union Emissions Trading in the Sierras many times. Expect to travel much more after retiring. Recently gave System and California’s carbon market. Set price for first SO2 allowance trade. up motorcycle riding after 45 years; got my first motorcycle while at HMC in 1965. Led studies of national energy and environmental regulations and policies for Bought a telescope last year and took up deep-sky astrophotography, which can EPA, DOE & EPRI. Expert witness and independent evaluator for geothermal take years to master and is very satisfying. Nancy and I both try to stay healthy— power, wind, natural gas, renewables and CHP contracts, investment she does Zumba, and I alternate days between cardio and weightlifting workouts. decisions, environmental impacts and economics. Advisory board member for Play tennis every weekend; look forward to playing more after retirement. I read a GreenFire Energy Inc. lot and enjoy improving my sound 2006–present Married Kris: economics professor, system; never lost the “stereo” bug traveler, grandmother to our six grandchildren. that bit me at HMC. We bought an 2006, 2015 1964 & 1966 Holland Baseball old cabin near Yellowstone Park in Project Reunions at Dodger Stadium and AT&T Wyoming [photo]. Nancy and I will Park with Coach Bill Arce, Charlie Westbrook ’67, be watching the 2017 Eclipse in Larry Mallach ’66 and Chuck Iverson ’66. Casper, Wyoming, with the HMC Alumni Association; maybe we’ll see you there! Andrew J. Van Horn Andy • Physics 66 67 Peter L.Walstrom Pete • Physics

In September 1967, I left Los Angeles to attend grad school in physics at Cornell University. I did my thesis work in experimental high energy physics at the 10 GeV Cornell electron synchrotron, and got my PhD in 1972. My first job after grad school was at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the then Fusion Energy Division where I first worked on superconducting magnets, cryogenics, magnetic field modeling, etc. In 1973, I married Sharon Cook of E. Kentucky, whom I met at Cornell. We had our three children, two girls and a boy, while I worked at ORNL. In 1984, we left Tennessee and moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where I worked on superfluid helium and on design studies of superconducting magnets for fusion. We left Madison in 1988 for Los Alamos, New Mexico, where I first worked as a Grumman employee on Star Wars (actually the Neutral Particle Beam Program, Ground Test Accelerator). After the GTA program died, I joined LANL as a staff member in the Accelerator Technology Division, where I worked on many accelerator-related projects. This included not only beamline design, but particle beam optics and proton radiographic image modeling. I have enjoyed hiking, backpacking and skiing in New Mexico and Colorado. I (mostly) quit skiing after I broke my leg skiing in 2008. The most fun in physics I have had recently was designing and modeling a magnetic trap for measuring the William D. neutron lifetime. I’ve enjoyed working with academics and grad students from the Watson consortium. Had to brush up on my Bill • Mathematics quantum mechanics to compute depolarization losses. I retired from LANL in 2015. Sharon and I have been spending a lot of time in Connecticut visiting our daughter and two grandsons. And we now have a third grandson from our son in Albuquerque.

68 69 Hans C.West Hans • Physics Virtually every important part of my personal and professional life has been initiated and catalyzed by my four years at HMC, and I am grateful for all the opportunities that has given me. Professionally, my entire career followed a linear path beginning at HMC, with a Hertz Foundation graduate fellowship that led to grad study in computational physics at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL), with a PhD thesis in astrophysics on star formation from interstellar gas. I eventually focused on computer simulations of combustion chemistry, where my biggest accomplishment was solving the 75-year-old puzzle of the fundamental origins of engine knock in spark ignition engines. I officially retired in 2005 after 42 years at LLNL, but I still am working there on the same class of problems. Retirement showed me that I do this kind of work because I like it, even if I don’t get paid for it anymore. With my limited skills, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to play intercollegiate baseball and spend a baseball summer in Holland had I attended a different college. After 40 years, I retired from almost daily racquetball and squash, with hips that have partly given out from too many years as a baseball catcher. I married Annelle Lazar, a 1969 grad from Pomona (married now 48 years), and we have two daughters and two granddaughters. We built a home on a 200- acre ranch in the hills south of Livermore, off the grid (all solar, water well), and we have 120 olive trees from which we make our own olive oil. Wilson Hoffman and Andy Van Horn and their families, among others, have helped us pick and press the olive oil over the past 10 years.

Charles K. Westbrook Charles • Physics 70 71 Harvey J.

I went to graduate school at UC Berkeley, decided physics wasn’t for me, left to teach school and wander, then Willenberg returned to graduate school at UC San Francisco and Harvey • Physics obtained my PhD in nucleic acid biochemistry in 1977. After a postdoc at Stanford, I entered the chemical industry as a genetic toxicologist. This was when the biotech industry was just starting, and I eventually wound up leading a Looking back after 50 years, I realize that I enjoyed my four group looking for new ways to apply biological methods years at HMC—even looking back on the strong competition to address needs of the chemical industry. I then spent in physics, math and chemistry. It’s clear that the dedication two years doing genetic engineering of plants, and entered the pharmaceutical of the faculty and the competition of the students prepared industry in Pennsylvania. After 25 years, I am still working in the pharmaceutical me for a successful career and personally rewarding life in industry, now as a senior director of clinical affairs at Bausch & Lomb. I am advanced technical industry. I made lifelong friends at HMC most proud of shepherding a drug for treating even though I miss two of my closest friends: Jon Wunderlich allergies to FDA approval and for my many and Harrison Frank passed away much too early. contributions to the development of other drugs After HMC, I went on to grad school in physics but got and medical devices. I have been married for drafted after that first summer. Even with the draft, I got lucky: 45 years to the same artist I first met in San I spent my brief Army career in Germany, met my wife Elke Francisco and have three children and four whom I’ve been with for 46 years, and the GI Bill paid for a PhD. I finished grad grandchildren. school at University of Washington, with an M.S. in physics, and an MSE and PhD in nuclear engineering. My first career was in the nuclear industry, where we built the first operating liquid metal fast breeder reactor at Hanford. My dissertation was in plasma physics, where I dreamed of developing operational fusion reactors. When my first job in fusion went bankrupt, I came to Boeing and spent most of my career first in Seattle, then in Huntsville, Alabama, back to Seattle, then Downey/Huntington Beach/Pasadena. I arrived at Boeing just as we were beginning to design the International Space Station, and they needed someone with enough science background to communicate with the scientists using the space station and enough engineering background to tell the designers what the requirements were. My unofficial title was chief scientist. I was involved in technical societies, including vice president of the American Astronautical Federation. I’m now retired in McKinney, Texas. Jon I.Williams Jon • Physics

72 73 In Memoriam David R. L.

Jon was a proud Harvey Mudd graduate. His love of the sciences, especially physics, was nurtured by his great Worthington professors. His education helped shape him as a scientist Dave • Physics and as a man. He was inspired by Founding President Joe Platt. We still have the letter Dr. Platt wrote to his mother discussing Jon’s improved grades at the end of his freshman year. Jon loved working with Gray Bell and was I started at HMC in 1963 but poor grades led to a year proud that he was allowed to coauthor a paper with him off, when I learned French among other things and was while still an undergraduate. He had many fond memories readmitted to became part of HMC’s class of 1968. I of enjoying ice cream on Sundays at the home of an esteemed chemistry continued to take French at Pitzer and Pomona, and after professor. He loved taking classes at the other and was able graduation volunteered for the Peace Corps. After training, to attend lectures at Caltech. Stories about the Miwukaroids were hilarious, and they decided not to take me, but I had learned some Arabic we still have the mug he won from coming in second in the pizza-eating contest while in Saudi Arabia where my father was working, so I at Shakey’s. He so enjoyed his fellow classmates; Dr. Harvey Willenberg, the took off on my own. I visited Iran, Afghanistan, West and late Dr. Harrison Frank, Cal Kato and Steve Bonkowski became lifelong friends. East Pakistan, India, Nepal and Ceylon, with Hindi the Peace After graduation, Jon received his master’s in physics at Purdue then worked Corps had taught me, and Urdu that I could read since it uses in research and development for the U.S. Navy at the Naval Air Warfare Center. the Arabic alphabet. He attended USC on a Department of Defense Fellowship and authored several I traveled from India to East Africa, where I often spent nights in Sikh Temples, papers, worked on national and international projects, distinguishing myself from other hippies by knowing Hindi. In Tanzania I climbed led international study groups and, at the time of his Kilimanjaro and sailed on Lake Victoria, continuing to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi death, was in line to lead the laboratory as technical and Zambia as far as Victoria Falls. Then on to the Congo where I sailed down director. Jon and I were married Aug. 29, 1971, and the Congo River and up to Cameroon, Chad and most of West Africa, including were blessed with four wonderful children, Erik (39), the slave forts of Ghana and the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and back to Mali and Anastasia (37), Gianna (34) and Nicholas (30). We had Timbuktu, then down to the Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, the Canary Islands and a wonderful and blessed life with Jon. He enjoyed finally Europe after almost three years traveling. Knowing some Arabic, Hindi, and returning to Harvey Mudd with the children to show fluent French made things easier. I wound up studying Cybernetics in Silicon Valley them where Dad went to school. As a family, we are and worked at SRI where I invented the oscilloscope-like display you now see proud that Jon’s love of physics is carried on by a used for audio editing, then researched glucose control in diabetes before I retired. named scholarship, awarded each year to a physics A water leak at a home above us in the Santa Cruz Mountains caused things to student. Jon would have loved attending his 50th start sliding, so we had to abandon the 1939 La Honda home I had expanded so reunion. We hope that everyone has lots of fun and lovingly. Now we have lost what I thought was our ticket to a decent retirement. many fond memories. Best hope now is for FEMA to buy us out. I’ll think of you all in April. Written by Elaine Wunderlich Janson Jon A. Wunderlich PhD Jon • Physics 74 75 1 9 6 7 A look back World population: 3.467 billion

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