50TH ANNIVERSARY MEMORY BOOK Class of 1968 Welcome to 50th Anniversary Face Book of the Harvey Mudd Class of 1968 We hope you enjoy reading about the journeys we have taken, the passions we have followed, and the ways we have made a difference in our world in the time since we were all together at Harvey Mudd. We think all of us should be proud to be associated with this remarkable group! We have followed many different careers, traveled and located to different parts of the world, raised families and pursued a wide variety of interests. We’ve become professors, scientists, engineers, physicians, attorneys and entrepreneurs, among several other interesting vocations. Our time at Harvey Mudd gave us a great foundation for the things we have done and the subsequent lives we have led. We remember our time at the College with considerable fondness (and probably a bit of gratitude that we don’t have to do HMC homework anymore!). What class members decided to share with a maximum of 300 words and two photographs is fascinating and illustrates just what a diverse group we are and how many different things we have done in the past 50 years. Now we should think about what we have yet to achieve in the years that lie ahead! Happy reading and celebrating the wide range of our class’s accomplishments and lives. Your 50th Reunion Planning Committee, Bob Fraley Jay Labinger Ken White Dennis Glenn Gary Patterson Dave Wilbur Dennis Holeman Kim Vandiver Letter from Maria Klawe As you surely know, your years at Harvey Mudd College were significant both on campus and off, academically and in a wider social context. You were in college when eight-track tapes and fuel injection were invented, when the first spacecraft orbited the moon and when scientists made the first warnings about the greenhouse gas effect. When you graduated in 1968, you stepped into a tumultuous world: the Vietnam War raged, Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated and Robert F. Kennedy was poised to earn the Democratic Party nomination for president. You joined a wave of scientists and engineers who would shape our world into the one we know today. It takes bravery and perseverance to navigate any new adventure, and I congratulate you for what you have accomplished both at Harvey Mudd College and afterward. Your contributions have been substantial and have been recognized in many realms. You’ve developed a reputation in graduate schools, industry and in your communities as premium problem solvers able to excel in virtually any field. Needless to say, Harvey Mudd College is very proud of the Class of 1968. I offer my congratulations on this occasion of your 50th reunion and my sincerest gratitude to you for paving the way for today’s students. President Harvey Mudd College Jack M. Appleman Jack • Physics Bruce M. Argall Bruce • Engineering John F. Bagby John • Engineering James C. Bangsund Jim • Engineering Richard G. Barton Dick • Engineering Dwight R. Bean Dwight • Mathematics Family: Four children from first marriage; 25 years into second marriage Education: PhD in mathematics, University of California, San Diego (1973) Career: 45 years teaching mathematics at the University of San Diego What do you do for fun? Basketball, volleyball, table tennis, chess, violin Things you are proud of: My four children James D. Benoit J.D. • Engineering Albert W. Biggerstaff Al • Mathematics Arthur M. Blake Art • Engineering Donald L. Bly Don • Engineering Ronald H. Campbell Ron • Physics I have had a truly wonderful life–for which I am very thankful. Following HMC, I attended the University of Washing- ton pursuing further study in physics. But after four years I found a growing disinterest in my thesis work and the thought of a lifetime career in physics. My Christian beliefs began playing a far more important part in my life. With that, I left physics and went to seminary. There I met my wonder- ful wife, Linda. We’re coming up on 44 years. We’ve raised three sons and one daughter. Our oldest, James, and our youngest, Renee, both graduated from HMC – James in math and Renee in engineering. The bulk of our years together has been in Christian ministries – the last 16 years teaching phys- ics, chemistry and engineering at Seattle Christian Schools where I had many opportunities to help kids in the context of the Bible and their lives. I retired at age 70 from Seattle Christian, having finished my working years with a job I was sorry to leave behind. That’s a good feeling! Looking back across the years, I am very thankful for my education at HMC and for my professors who gave so much for me. I think of Dr. Coleman with a directed reading course in tensor calculus (I still have the book) and Dr. Helliwell, my thesis advisor on the motion of objects inside the event horizon – exciting days! Thank you both!! And now? Linda and I are in good health and the future is bright and the opportunities boundless in Christian ministries as we seek out the next phase of our lives. In Memoriam Work Life: After Tom’s first two years at HMC, he took a year off to work in the domestic Peace Corps. He was stationed first in Buffalo and then in Las Vegas. Then he returned and finished with the Class of 1969. After HMC, he went to work at Bechtel Power Corporation in Southern California. He spent his work life with them, initially working on various environmental assessments and nuclear assessments of power plants in the U.S. After coming down with MS, which was first noticed during his time at HMC, and moving into a wheelchair more permanently, he became Bechtel’s division public affairs coordinator, speaking at various events around California. He retired in 1985 with a huge retirement party, because he was so well known throughout Bechtel, and we all know what a unique character Tom was. Tom passed away in June 2007. Family: Tom married Ginny in 1981. They lived a wonderful life together and even wrote a book about their love and marriage—Waiting Hearts—in 1989 through Harold Shaw Publishers. Several HMCers attended their wedding and will never forget Tom wheeling Ginny (who was on crutches) down the aisle with big grins on both their faces. Tom went on to write 17 inspirational articles in various Christian magazines. Ginny and Tom lived in Fullerton their whole married life. Ginny still lives there. About HMC: Tom was very active at HMC. He was the second alumnus to be an HMC trustee (1978–1982), was active in the Alumni Association (treasurer 1977–1978; president 1978–1979), was a loyal donor and attended HMC events throughout his life. Thomas L.Carr Tom • Engineering Stanley A. Dodds Stan • Physics David M. Egelston Dave • Engineering Gary H. Fick Gary • Mathematics After graduation, I spent a year at University of Colorado, Boulder, received a master’s in physics and returned to Claremont to begin teaching physics and math in high school, which I discovered that I really loved. I married a young lady from Pitzer, and we lived in the Russian Village for 20 years. We then moved to Pennsylvania, where she had grown up. I continued teaching there until retirement. She passed away a few years ago. I play chess and enjoy making telescope mirrors as a hobby. It provides the satisfying ability to create the most precise extended surface possible to be made by hand. The chess is just for fun. Robert A. Fraley Bob • Mathematics Kenneth W. Frank Kenneth • Chemistry Dennis E. Glenn Dennis • Physics I entered HMC with the Class of 1966 but after a two- year mission to Uruguay for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints I returned in the Class of 1968. I spent two years with EG&G testing nuclear devices in California. After marrying my wife, Sue, I worked for Burroughs Corp. then went to University of California, Santa Barbara for a master’s in physics. We stayed there for eight years and started our family while I worked for Mission Research Corp. We moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico, in 1978, and I returned to EG&G, then to Mission Research. The best part was flying a Cessna 205 around the West with Sue and five children stuffed into a six-seat airplane. In 1984, we moved to California and stayed for 16 years. I worked for Pacific Sierra Research, Aerojet and SAIC. We moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2000, where I worked for TRW, Northrop Grumman and TASC, all without moving my desk. It was a fun time, working with rockets ranging from retired Minuteman III and Peacekeeper ICBMs to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the original Falcon rocket. It’s thrilling to work with things that make all that smoke and fire and go really fast. The best part of my life is our five children. Some have struggled with issues, but I am proud of the people they have become, and I really like them all. Our lives have remained centered around our church, to which we devote much of our free time. One of our sons is a foreign service officer in the U.S. State De- partment, so we travel to visit him and his family fairly regularly. As a result, we have been to Ecuador, South Afri- ca, the Czech Republic, Italy, Austria, England, Denmark, Argentina, Chile, the Falkland Islands, Mexico and more. I have been retired for almost three years; we live in Eden, Utah.