WPI journal

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MrUL

OCT 3 1979

GQItPN LIBRARY

Some changes in the Journal

For years, the WPI Journal has carried
advertising, which has furnished in
some years up to 15 percent of the
costs of production. But, because of
some complex Postal Service regula-
tions regarding second class mail
(which is how the Journal is sent),
there will be no more paid ads. It was
either that or pay much more in the
form of significantly higher postage
costs.

Together with this change, and
effective with this issue, the Journal
will be sent out four times a year in-
stead of five. Each issue will have
more pages, however, so that you will
continue to receive as much news
and information about WPI and your
classmates as ever.

To the Editor: I read with great in-
terest the two articles in the April
1979 WPI Journal in regard to the im-
pact of the increased federal regula-
tions on colleges and universities. My
first reaction was to say "Welcome to
the Clubf We, as a small private busi-
ness, are impacted by most of the
agencies you listed plus additional
ones. Additionally, we are constantly
filling out or answering requests from
state and town regulatory bodies.

We are a small firm of about 100
employees, of which only three have
college educations. Many of the
forms received really do not apply to
our firm. We write the agencies and
explain to them that we think they
are in error in requesting information
from us because it does not apply to
our operation. Usually the reply is
some sort of computer letter back ex-
plaining that we are covered under

the regulations and must fill out the
information or be subject to a fine
and/or imprisonment. The time and
key management effort to complete
the forms considerably hamper our
operation and our potential growth.

In my opinion, our government
bureaucracies on all levels are greatly
adding to the inflation in this coun-
try. They are obstacles to obtaining
increases in productivity in the
American manufacturing and service
industries.

I suggest that you use the WPI
Journal as a forum to communicate
to people the effect and cost that in-
creased government regulations are
having, not only on the universities
but also on the businesses of this
country. Furthermore, I suggest that
the Institute require all students to
take a course in business economics
in which the impact of government
regulation is made part of the course.
Hopefully in this manner we can ob-
tain the support of both the under-
graduates and graduates to become
aware of this increasing probelm and
they too in turn will let their repre-
sentatives know of their concerns
about this issue.

Thomas McGee, '64
Petroleum Meter &) Pump
Co., Inc.
Avon, Connecticut

To the Editor: May I make a few
comments about the government
over-regulation, red tape, and bureau-
cratic controls that overwhelm WPI
and much of our society today?

I feel very sorry that WPI and
other colleges and schools suffer from
excessive government interference.
However, I believe that most centers
of education, WPI perhaps included,
are themselves largely responsible for
this condition.

Where were they when federal
aid to education started? (By the way,
I opposed it from the start and gave
speeches against it because I knew
that federal aid meant federal con-
trol.) The more money the federal
government has spent on education,
the worse it has become nationally.

Where have they been while govern-
ment grew larger and larger, with defi-
cit spending, huge budgets, and a fan-
tastic national debt? The nominal na-
tional debt is around $800 billion, but
is more accurately $9 trillion accord-
ing to the National Taxpayers Union.

Even worse, many schools have
been preaching socialism in their so-
cial science textbooks for years.

According to a survey of 200 U.S.
colleges and universities by a com-
mittee headed by state Rep. Donna
Carlson of Arizona in 1978, the top
ten guest campus speakers have been
socialists, even communists. U.S.
News and World Report gave a simi-
lar story.

If we vote right next time, as the
British finally woke up to do in des-
peration, we may still be able to re-
verse our ruinous socialistic tide. In
the meantime, I will feel very sorry
that WPI has such a burden of red
tape, but I hope that you and the rest
of our people will do something
about it.

Ted Latour, '35
Las Vegas, Nevada

To the Editor: Your comprehensive
coverage of the impact of federal reg-
ulations on WPI and other colleges
and universities in the April issue of
the WPI Journal was greatly appre-
ciated.

One certainly has to empathize
with the institutions of higher learn-
ing on this subject. Now administra-
tors and faculties will come to realize
what the business world has had to
bear over the years.

It would be gratifying to see the
articulate leaders of academia com-
bine with the pragmatic leaders of
business to present a forceful front to
persuade Government to eliminate
these uncreative, unproductive, and
unneeded procedures.

Erling Lagerholm, '44
Boston, Massachusetts

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Summer 1979

inside front cover:

Feedback from our readers about governmental regulation.

2 A commencement address to consider.

Thoughts for an age where technology is sometimes consid-
ered a dirty word, by [ohn deButts, retired chairman of
AT&T.

8 Energy: Changing sources in mid-stream

Everybody knows about the energy crisis. But what do we
do about it? Three experts address the topic.

9 Toward a unique coalition

Evelyn Murphy, former Massachusetts Secretary for En-
vironmental Affairs proposes a new and interesting way for
competing factionsto work together.

11 How the electric utilities can cope

The president of New England Electric talks lucidly about
theutilities role in changing sources of energy.

14 Developing and marketing a new technology

A technology R&D middleman looks at the future.

16 Questions and some answers

20 Who's who

Kay Wear Draper — WPI's own talkin' woman.

23

Reunion 1979

30 Can you help us out?

It seems we've lost track of a few people . . .

32 Your class and others

35 Businessperson of the year

46 School of Industrial Management

46 Completed Careers

Cover: The WPI campus about 1909. It appears that we've added a
few buildings since then.

Editor: H. Russell Kay

Alumni Information Editor: Ruth S. Trask

Publications Committee: J. Michael Ander-
son, '64, chairman; Leonard ]. Brzozowski,
74; Robert B. Davis, '46; Robert C. Gosling,
'68; Samuel W. Mencow, '37; Kathleen E. Mo-
lony, 77; Roger N. Perry, Jr., '46.

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WPI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

President: John H. McCabe, '68

Senior Vice President: Walter B. Dennen, Jr.,
'51

Vice President: Peter H. Horstmann, '55

Secretary-Treasurer: Stephen J. Hebert, '66

Past President: William A. Julian, '49

Executive Committee members-at-large: Phi-
lip B. Ryan, '65; Donald E. Ross, '54; Anson
C. Fyler, '45; Harry W Tenney, Jr., '56

Faculty representative: Kenneth E. Scott, '48

Fund Board: G. Albert Anderson, '51, chair-
man; Henry Styskal, Jr., '50, vice chairman;
Richard B. Kennedy, '65; Gerald Finkle, '57;
Philip H. Puddington, '59; Richard A. Davis,
'53; C. John Lindegren, '39

Summer 1979 /The WPI Journal/ 1

A commencement address

to consider.

by John deButts, retired chairman of the Board, AT&T

As a rule, the Journal doesn't print
commencement addresses. If the
speaker is a national figure, especially
if a politician, the speech is often un-
related to the needs or the situation
of either the students or the institu-
tion, serving some other purpose for
the speaker, if not the audience. On
the other hand, commencement
speeches are sometimes too trite, too
predictable, too dull, or too specifi-
cally aimed at the single audience of
graduating seniors. They carry a mes-
sage of forward-looking optimism
combined with an exhortation about
how to live one's life.

If you just skim through this
year's address by John deButts, retired
chairman of the board of AT&T, you
may conclude that it fits the tradi-
tional mold pretty well. But please
don't just stop there. DeButts has a
message for us all, not just the gra-
duating scientists, engineers, and
managers of the class of 1979. He is
concerned about the attitude of the
American people toward technology,
and about how the engineering pro-
fession has to come to grips with that
attitude. It is a message for us and for
our time.

I CONGRATULATE YOU and wish you well as you
confront the challenges of what some people call the "real
world." That term implies that for the past four years you
have dwelt in a never-never land, shielded from the bumps
and bruises of making your own way in the world and in-
sulated from the risks of being wrong. You know better.
And even though it's more than 40 years since I experi-
enced the rigors of an engineering education, I know bet-
ter too.

It has been a long, long time since I have been
engaged in the practice of engineering. But I have never
abandoned, and never shall, the practice of engineering
principles. I am everlastingly grateful for whatever in-
stinct it was that led me to join a profession that taught
me habits of mind which have served me in good stead
ever since. That is why receiving an honorary degree of
Doctor of Engineering from such a distinguished institu-
tion as WPI is so personally meaningful to me.

I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE my concern over three
aspects of the current temper of American society. If they
should turn out to be trends and remain unreversed, they
would make this country a much different place — and in
history a lesser one — from that which we have been
developing over the past two hundred years.
My concerns center on

►first, what I perceive as a growing estrangement from
technology on the part of a substantial number of our fel-
low citizens;

► second, what seems to me an increasing readiness to
acquiesce to mediocrity, to settle for second-best; and

►third, a disposition to believe that in an increasingly
complex world it doesn't make much difference what one
person does or fails to do.

It is to enlist you in opposition to these trends that I
have come here today.

WHAT IT IS THAT ACCOUNTS for the estrange-
ment of so many Americans from the technology' to
which they owe so much is a question on which you can
speculate as authoritatively as I. Certainly it is a strange
development for a society whose technology is the envy
of the world. Even today — in an era in which a great
many other countries, inspired by our example, have made
technology the central engine of their progress — the
United States' gross domestic product accounts for nearly
40 percent of the total market economy of all the major
industrial countries in the free world.

Next month we will mark the tenth anniversary of
man's first walk on the moon. Since that moment in July
1969, eleven more astronauts, all Americans, have dupli-
cated Neil Armstrong's feat. While it is arguable as to
whether the space program accelerated the nation's tech-
nological development or merely diverted its focus, there
is little argument about the fact that most Americans —
for a time, at any rate — saw it as the crowning manifesta-
tion of this country's technological genius.

But what went wrong; Why, at the end of a decade
that began in euphoria over the U.S. exploits in space, do
we find enthusiasm supplanted by a growing wariness -
even fear — of technology? Why are an apparently grow-
ing number of people ready to say, in effect, "Stop the
world, I want to get off"?

The antitechnology mood is diverse. Some people are
simply put off, and turned off, by the complexity that
technology has brought to modern society. Others see
grave hazards to health and safety, even to life itself, in
what appears to them a heedless assumption that what
can be done should be done.

For some it was the war in Viet Nam; for others the
environmental consequences of oil tanker spills and pol-
lution of the air and water from industrial sources. The in-
cident at Three Mile Island brought new recruits to the
ranks of those who would call a halt to the further devel-
opment of nuclear energy power sources.

Summer 1979 /The WPI Journal/ 3

What went wrong! Why, at the
end of a decade that began in
euphoria over U.S. exploits in
space, do we find enthusiasm
supplanted by a growing fear of
technology!

Governor Dixie Lee Ray of the state of Washington,
former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission,
warns against a philosophy that, in her view, could immo-
bilize the nation. "It is," she says, "a philosophy of go slow,
stop, limit everything be fearful, don't progress, don't have
any growth."

Clearly, if that philosophy should prevail, it would
mean the end of economic progress and a sign that we are
ready to abandon our country's historic aim as well — the
aim of ever-expanding opportunity for all our people.

I WONDER, THOUGH, whether the immediate occa-
sions I've cited are a sufficient explanation for what ap-
pears to be the end of America's two-hundred-year love af-
fair with technology. The roots of the estrangement, I
think, lie deeper. I think it springs from the abruptness
with which we have been reminded that we have entered
an era of limits.

From their first beginnings on the rim of this enor-
mous continent, Americans have continuously — and al-
most heedlessly — spent their resources as if there were
no limit to their supply, no tomorrow to hold us to ac-
count for their spending. One does not have to subscribe
to the Doomsday projections of the Club of Rome to rec-
ognize the clear signals on every side that we are moving
from an age of abundance to an age of increasing scarcity
of material after material we had previously considered in
almost limitless supply; from an age that set Growth Un-
limited as its goal to one that may not be altogether with-
out its blessings because it will force us to examine, virtu-
ally for the first time, the quality of that growth.

The first lesson of this new age is one we've all heard
before and never really believed: we can't have everything.
It will take hard thinking, and painful choices, to decide
what it is we really want.

But the fact that we have entered upon an era of
limits calls, in my mind, for more technology rather than
less. It will take more technology, not less, to discover and
develop the alternate energy sources the nation needs. It
will take more technology, not less, to assure the safe dis-
posal — and perhaps the creative reuse — of the wastes of
an ever more complex society. It will take more technol-
ogy, not less, to assure the manageability and the livability

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of our cities and the rational development of their infras-
tructures — transportation, communications, power. In
short, it will take more technology, not less, to assure civi-
lization.

More than to any other calling, it seems to me, the
challenges of this new age are addressed directly to the
engineering profession and what I take to be its basic mis-
sion: achieving maximum utility with least means. In the
years ahead, as scarcities confront us with a whole new or-
dering of costs, I anticipate that "elegance," as engineers
construe the word (getting the most for the least), will be-
come not merely an idealistic goal but our most urgent
practical priority.

I would not presume to prescribe new directions for
engineering in this new era. I do know that the facts of
world economic life in the new age demand that we ad-
dress ourselves anew to devising ways of using less to
make more — in short, to the productivity improvements
that'are so crucial to the fight against inflation.

For the same reasons, cost reduction engineering, un-
glamorous as it may appear, takes on a new urgency. Even
processes from which we might have thought we had
squeezed the last vestiges of excess cost will call for a new
look as materials and energy sources once abundant grow
scarce and dear.

To none of these prospects do I look forward with
foreboding. I doubt that anyone trained in engineering
does. Indeed, I am confident that you share my view that
the age ahead, for all its rigors, will stimulate the engi-
neering profession to new levels of technological accom-
plishment, new levels of service to the nation.

Indeed, it may produce a new engineering. Professor
Jay Forrester of M.I.T. relates the "long waves" in our
society's economic activity — the so-called Kondratieff cy-
cles — to the rise and fall of technologies. We are, he sug-
gests, at a point where further capital investments embo-
dying refinements of traditional technology yield dimin-
ishing returns. What new burst of technological creativity
will power the next great economic advance he does not
predict. For my part, I will venture the notion that the in-
frastructure industry of the future will be what Professor
Tony Oettinger calls "compunications" — the merged
technologies of communications and computation.

It is an occasion for optimism, I think, that these two
industries in which the technological leadership of the
U.S. remains undisputed — communications and data pro-
cessing — are precisely those industries whose products
and services are likeliest to exercise the greatest leverage
on the productivity of other industries and, most notably,
on the service industries that have come to characterize
so much of our economy and which heretofore we have
considered uncommonly resistant to productivity im-
provement.

To summarize to this point, I believe it is crucial that
Americans repair their current estrangement from tech-
nology. What is more, I believe that through a new com-
mitment to technology, we can surmount our current
"crises" with no more than a transitory slowing of eco-
nomic growth. I will go farther and say that I believe that
out of our experience with the new challenges now con-
fronting us will emerge a stronger America — stronger for
being sparer — than we have ever known before.

For that to happen, though, will require a broader, de-
eper understanding of what technology is and what it is
not on the part of our fellow Americans. And for that to
happen, technologists must become educators; engineers
must be teachers.

1 have come to this remarkable
school to deliver this message
because there is perhaps no
place in the nation where it
would be more quickly
understood and — / hope —
more quickly heeded.

IN MY VIEW these are times when the qualities of
mind the engineering profession nurtures are much
needed in our society . . . and as much in the realm of pub-
lic affairs as in technology.

No attribute of the engineer is more suited to these
times than his habit of thinking in systems. Routinely on
the job, the engineer considers what trade-offs — of
strength for speed, of long life for low first cost — are nec-
essary to achieve the design intent. Our larger society
urgently needs lessons in the discipline of proportioning
means to ends.

What the times demand is not a dramatic leadership
but a reasoning one, a leadership disciplined by experi-
ence in matching aims to the resources necessary to
achieve them, a leadership unafraid of complexity and
confident, because it has done so, that complexity can be
managed. Sharing that confidence with your fellow citi-
zens may well turn out to be engineering's greatest contri-
bution to these times.

I have come to this remarkable school to deliver this
message because there is perhaps no place in the nation
where it would be more quickly understood and — I hope
— more quickly heeded. Your well-known and much dis-
cussed program for the training and development of hu-
manistically literate technologists provides a fertile bed to
replant the seeds of the idea that a technological society
depends upon a technologically literate public.

So I bid the engineers and scientists among you to
take on the role of public teachers, not as dogmatic apos-
tles of the technology religion but as patient, objective ex-
plainers of what is so and what is not, remembering that
in the end the pace of technological progress is not a mat-
ter to be decided by technologists alone but by the entire
body of our citizenry. In the end, technological progress
depends upon public acceptance. And that acceptance de-
pends, ultimately, on public understanding.

I WANT TO COUNTER, and urge you to counter, the
second and third of the trends I mentioned at the outset,
trends that seem to me to endanger the vitality of this de-
mocracy: the acceptance of mediocrity and the belief that
no individual's actions matter. Taken together, I would
characterize these as a retreat from excellence.

What I have in mind you may gather from the fact
that, of five "scenarios" the Hudson Institute is using in its
appraisal of our economic prospects between now and
1985, the one it considers most probable is labeled "Mud-
dling Through." What most characterizes this scenario, ac-
cording to the Institute, is inaction. There will be a short-
age of innovative leadership, the Institute opines, and
what will principally motivate decision — or indecision
— is a "fear of negative outcomes" — in other words, an
unreadiness to reach high for fear of falling.

Is this the stirring challenge toward which you've
pointed for the past four years? Is your generation ready to
acquiesce to minimizing downside risk as the main aim of
our society? I trust not.

As with the estrangement of Americans from technol-
ogy, it may be that the current disposition of Americans
to settle for the second best, the merely average, reflects
the disappointment of hopes that may have been pitched
too high in the first place. More particularly, some people
say — and there may be some truth in it — that our cur-
rent mood is simply a natural and perhaps inevitable reac-
tion to the euphoria that characterized the outset of the
1960s. In that time, it seemed, there was nothing Ameri-
cans might not do if they once set their minds on doing it.
In the 1960s we came to believe that we could not only
engineer our way to the moon, we could engineer the
good life as well. And so we set out to create the Great So-
ciety. Under its banner we declared simultaneous wars on
poverty and discrimination and ugliness, and we looked
forward to victory in our time over all of these.

Today, at the end of another decade, and many hun-
dreds of billions of dollars later, those victories remain to
be won and our once-high hopes have been supplanted by
a profound sense of the intractibility of social ills and a
profound disenchantment that bureaucracies can do very
much about them. Things simply don't seem to work the
way they're supposed to.

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In the 1 960s we came to
believe that we could not only
engineer our way to the moon,
we could engineer the good life
as well. We declared
simultaneous wars on poverty
and discrimination and
ugliness, and we looked
forward to victory in our time
over all of these.

Today, those victories remain
to be won and our once-high
hopes have been supplanted by
a profound sense of the
intractibility of social ills and a
profound disenchantment that
bureaucracies can do very
much about them. Things
simply don't seem to work the
way they're supposed to.

Nobody, for example, seems to be able to do anything
about inflation, and the prospect that prices will just keep
on going up and up and up is truly frightening to a great
many people. Add to that the disenchantments that have
come in the wake of Watergate, and you will have gone a
long way toward explaining the cynicism a great many
Americans have come to feel about the motives and stan-
dards that govern the principal institutions of our society.

What we seem unready to recognize, however, is that
the decline in public confidence in our institutions is in
fact a decline in confidence in ourselves. When institu-
tions fail, it is because people fail. The crimes of Wa-
tergate, for example, of the widely publicized instances of
political bribery by business, were not crimes of "the sys-
tem" but crimes of individuals. After all, institutions can't
tell right from wrong. Only people can. In short, it is a de-
cline in the individual's responsibility to society — what
in ancient days we called "civic virtue" — that is at the
root of our current malaise.

• Sooner or later, it is the personal sense of accountabil-
ity of the people who compose them that determines the
character of organizations . . . and of nations. From its loss,
through arrogance or insensitivity, have come our most
shocking disillusionments. Upon its restoration depend
the strength of our society and the strength of the institu-
tions — its colleges as well as its corporations — that give
it purpose and direction.

TO MY URGING of a renewed sense of personal re-
sponsibility to the larger community, it might well be ob-
jected that the sheer scale of our society, the complexity
of its institutions, and the momentum of their undertak-
ings so dwarf the individual that what one person might
do or fail to do hardly makes any difference.

One might even go so far as to ask, can man effec-
tively manage complexity?

My own experience over more than four decades in
the management of one quite sizable and highly complex
enterprise has left me with the conviction that the answer
to that question is an unqualified yes.

Not everybody shares that conviction. Indeed, a sense
of powerlessness in the face of the sheer scale and intri-
cacy of contemporary institutions appears to have driven
a great many Americans to seek their satisfactions in, so
to speak, the cultivation of their own gardens. Perhaps it
is to this same sense of powerlessness that we can ascribe
the disposition of a good many young people to strike out
— sometimes it appears almost as a conditioned reflex —
at virtually every aspect of the so-called Establishment.
Particularly troubling is their readiness to ascribe malevo-
lence to people — business management, for example —
who are surely no less humane than they and who, in the
face of complex circumstances, are simply trying to do the
very best job they know how to do.

I can only hope that history will be sufficiently dis-
cerning to recognize that the heroes of these times are not
those among us with the most strident voices, but rather
those quiet, patient people who, professing themselves no
brighter than the rest of us, set off to find, in science labs
and in engineering offices, the answers to the hard ques-
tions that confront us.

Let me say this with as much passion as I can muster:
This is no time for a retreat from rationality. Granted that
our society's problems are difficult and deep-seated;
granted that the search for their solutions can be pro-
foundly frustrating; granted too that solutions that are
best for almost everybody are almost certain to meet the
perfect satisfaction of nobody — granting all these things,
I nonetheless urge that you engage yourselves in the po-
litical process that will in the long run shape the future of
your town, your state, your country.

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fe-r

For only as each one of us is ready to commit himself
or herself to the arduous and unceasing contest of ideas
and interests and values hy which Americans set their
goals, establish priorities, and make up their minds on
matters of public policy can we be assured that when you
stand where I stand now, a generation hence, you will be
able to say with confidence and pnde that in this land of
ours freedom still lives.

FINALLY, whatever you choose to do in the years ahead,
content yourself with nothing less than doing it just as
well as you know how. Whether it's spoons or brook-sized
turbines or space capsules that you make, make them the
best.

What difference will it make?

It's understandable, I suppose, that as the nation's pop-
ulation grows, as its institutions grow larger and more in-
tricate, that some people should come to think that what
any one individual might contribute to the quality of our
national life is becoming of less and less consequence. It
is to that dispositon, I surmise, that we can attribute the
shoddiness of workmanship we encounter all too often in
the products we buy these days and the bored indifference
with which we are greeted by the employees of so many
institutions, both public and private, whose business it
presumably is to serve the public.

But the opposite is true. The more interdependent so-
ciety becomes, the more crucial is the performance of the
individuals who make it up. An analogy from technology
will demonstrate this. In our business we have learned
that, as the numbers of interdependent components in our
vast communications system grows, the more vulnerable
to failure the system becomes. We call this "the tyranny of
large numbers." Overcoming it depends on the degree of
reliability we build into each and every component. Some
of the components of our current electronic switching sys-
tems are manufactured to a standard that, translated into
layman's terms, calls for no more than a single failure in
ten thousand years. We call that "mean time to failure."
What I am hoping, then, is that each of you, individually,
will conduct your life as if the nation's very future de-
pended on it . . . because it does.

Even were this not the case, I would have no more
important message to convey to you today than to urge
upon you a will to excellence. It was the gist of my final
message to my colleagues in the business in which I spent
almost 43 years. It is the essence of what I've learned.

In the end, the pace of
technological progress is not a
matter to be decided by
technologists alone but by the
entire body of our citizenry
Technological progress depends
upon public acceptance, and,
ultimately, on public
understanding.

IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, it is not we who exist for
society's sake. In truth, societies, nations, institutions ex-
ist for no other end save the fulfillment — what we used
to call salvation — of the individuals who make them up.
We have no greater responsibility, then, than to be and do
— and to help each other be and do — the very best we
can.

Summer 1919/ The WP1 Journal / 7

ENERGY:

mid-stream

What's to do about energy?

Everybody's got the answer, and nobody's got the answer.
The one thing we know for sure is the problem. The earth
is running out of fossil fuels at an alarming rate. However
big the reserves may be, they are finite, and they are being
exhausted.

Everybody know's we've got to find other alternatives —
and we've got to make them work. The remaining ques-
tion is: How do we get from here to there? How do we
move from an economy, a lifestyle, and a technology
based on abundant energy provided largely by oil and gas?
How do we arrive at a state where we can produce enough
energy through the use of renewable or truly unlimited re-
sources? How do we temper our habits and our lives to cut
out the waste and the frivolous uses of energy that have
so long been a part of our society?

We are entering an age of real transition: change will dra-
matically affect our jobs, our homes, our transportation,
how we spend our time, and how we conduct our lives.
Many things we have taken for granted all our years can
no longer be assumed. One is reminded of the Chinese
curse: "May you live in interesting times."

The articles that follow were first presented on campus
last spring. They raise some interesting questions, and
they propose some even more interesting solutions.

Toward a unique
coalition

by Evelyn Murphy

ONE OF THE MOST CONFUSING TOPICS of pub

lie debate is the energy crisis, especially in Massachusetts
and in New England, where choices are complex and diffi-
cult. I want to talk about energy in simple, straightforward
terms with a minimum of technical jargon and a max-
imum of common sense.

The need right now is to act. We have enough data.
We have thought about and analyzed energy problems ex-
tensively. We've considered so many alternative options
and courses of action that we have confused and some-
times even lost sight of the energy crisis at hand. But de-
spite the plethora of information and options, there has
been an absence of constructive action by government -
state and federal, institutions with resources and leader-
ship potential — to start the necessary transition in en-
ergy production. It is clear that a transition must take
place, that we must move toward an era of using energy
through renewable natural resources, such as wind, solar
energy, ocean, and biomass. I need not remind anyone who
manages the family budget, anyone who shops for food
nowadays or who buys clothes or goes to the gasoline
pump, that we're no longer an affluent society. This na-
tion, and particularly New England, is in grave economic
straits. Inflation, driven primarily by energy costs, has hit
hard in Massachusetts and we suffer from some of the
highest food and energy prices in the country. We all
know the situation; it's not a new phenomenon. The signs
of economic strain and curtailed life styles have been
with us unrelentingly for years now.

And yet what positive steps are we taking? As a con-
sumer are you using less energy than a year ago — less
gasoline in your automobile, less home heating oil at
home? Probably not. Like me, you probably turned down
the thermostat three years ago and energy conservation
stopped there. But why is it that we have not acted as in-
dividuals? The President of the United States has told us
on two separate, dramatically televised occasions, that
this nation is in trouble, that the energy crisis is the
moral equivalent of war, that we must pay more to use
less energy. Many of us believe him. He is the most im-
portant public official in this nation and he has the most
information on the situation. We want to believe him.

But statements from other official sources provide ex-
cuses for inaction, as we hear a cacophony of voices
describing the status of oil supplies. This spring the Secre-
tary of Energy testified that this nation is short 500,000

barrels a day. The Congressional Research Service, on the
other hand, argues that the shortage of oil is only 80,000
barrels a day. The big oil companies talk about a world-
wide deficit of 2.5 million barrels a day. Confusing and of-
ten contradictory data allow us to ponder rather than act,
waiting prudently (we often assure ourselves) until the
full dimensions of the problem are understood.

Confusing, conflicting data raise deep suspicions in
all of us that the energy crisis is overblown. Permeating
our society is a feeling that perhaps there is no problem
except that invented by the oil companies for their own
financial gain. But I suspect the principal reason that we
do not act is a feeling of helplessness. How can you or I
make a difference in matters seemingly ruled by OPEC
prices, by Iranian political turmoil, by the big oil and nu-
clear interests, by the mammoth federal bureaucracies?
And yet surely we should be further along toward an age
of energy through renewable resources, not just at the
starting point, which is where we are now.

Where have the leading institutions been? Not one
utility company in this country has made significant in-
vestment in anything but oil, coal, and nuclear plants. I do
not mean to point a finger of blame at the utility compa-
nies. That would be too simplistic. Much of the responsi-
bility rests with the national policy on energy. $12 billion
in federal subsidies maintain an artificial preference for
conventional fuels. Federal expenditures for alternative
energy were recently doubled, up to $500 million. That's
one-twentieth of the $12 billion annually spent on the
other types of energy. That underscores the serious bias
against alternative and renewable resources. Is it any won-
der, then, that the utiity companies of this country are
still locked into fossil fuels? They are simply following the
public policy that speaks the loudest — the federal bud-
get.

We can address the immediate problems — the oil
supplies, the question about safety of nuclear power, the
nsing demand for oil and electricity — and we can start
the transition into a different era. But the federal govern-
ment seems primarily focused on the immediate problem.
I believe, therefore, the only way we're going to get on
with transition to the use of solar and hydro and winds
and rivers and oceans, is if we do it ourselves at the
grassroots level, here in Massachusetts, here in the com-
munities of New England. We can do it ourselves. I want
to suggest three ways, describe three elements of how we
proceed from here.

Ms. Evelyn Murphy is currently a Fellow at the Harvard
Institute for Politics, and was formerly State Secretary for
Environmental Affairs in the Dukakis administration. Ms.
Murphy holds a B.A. in mathematics and a master's degree
and Ph.D. in economics. Before joining the Dukakis ad-
ministration, she was a partner in Lewelyn Davis Incorpo-
rated, of New York City, a firm of international planning
consultants.

Summer 1979 / The WP1 Journal/ 9

FIRST, BARGAINS MUST BE STRUCK in the con

struction of the next large, so-called base-load electric
generating plants. I think of this as an investment in the
future. The most important step in getting a transition
under way hinges on the construction of the next large
plant. In Massachusetts we'll need at least one more plant
to carry us through that transition, say through to the
year 2000. Nowadays, when plant construction is an-
nounced, large protests are often successful in blocking
construction; at the least they can cause costly delays.
The proposed plant may use coal, such as in Kaiparowits,
Utah, or nuclear, as in Seabrook, New Hampshire. Neither
option is exempt from protest, and neither option is par-
ticularly desirable. In different ways, each jeopardizes
people's health and safety. But these are the only two op-
tions which are technologically and politically feasible
and available now to meet large-scale demands. Therefore,
the need now is not for us to be completely negative
through protests that stalemate our energy production.
The need is to be demanding in a shrewd way, to force the
bargains that will move us through to a transition and get
us into a new era of energy.

I can envision a meeting, or several meetings, of en-
vironmental groups like the Conservation Law Founda-
tion, of consumer groups like Mass. Fair Share, and of the
building trades, together with the next utility company
that proposes a major plant. At this meeting, the public in-
terest groups can say to the officials of that company,
"Look, we will not oppose the building of that next plant if
and only if you will first provide hundreds of millions of
dollars towards solar, towards wind, towards those ways of
providing energy and heat and light through renewable
natural resources."

That's real money. That would represent a significant
commitment by that firm toward a new era in energy. I
think that thoughtful, realistic, sensible utility company
executives will probably welcome that bargain. They are
genuinely concerned about meeting the short-term re-
sponsibility for power supplies, and many envision with
us the same long-term goal of reliance on renewable re-
sources for energy supplies.

In fact, all groups benefit from that kind of bargain.
Certainly consumer bills will be lower because the utility
did not incur the added costs of construction delays. (And
those costs will be there, whether beforehand in the con-
troversial "construction works in progress" charges or af-
terwards.) Certainly the environmentalists benefit. The
faster we move toward the use of renewable resources, the
more our environment will be cleaned and better served.
And labor, in addition to its environmental and consumer
concerns, gets jobs.

opener, the toaster, the blender, the stereo, the television,
the hair dryer, work on instant command. But what if the
toaster and the blender and the hair dryer had to wait sev-
eral moments until the load on the entire electric generat-
ing system lightened some? And so what if we had a brow-
nout now and then? Our expectations about energy have
become so pristine that utility companies build more ca-
pacity that necessary in order to avoid, at any cost, a
blackout or brownout.

Utility companies could get more innovative in
spreading the demand for electricity over 24 hours a day.
The public could get more thoughtful and curtail its
wasteful or needless use of energy. All of us could con-
serve even more on real needs — on automobile gas, on
home heating, on lights. But again this is going to take the
actions that we need at the grassroots — to change habits,
to change fears of damnation by the public and the press
if a brownout or a blackout occurs. And in the process of
changing these expectations, there are enormous oppor-
tunities for initiating at the grassroots level, the wide-
spread use of solar panels for heating, of wood burning
stoves, and so forth.

My final comment about actions that move us into a
new age of energy, has to do with leadership. One of the
most infuriating aspects of the breakdown of the Three
Mile Island nuclear power plant was the instant defense
of pro-nuclear forces in the state, the federal government,
and the utility company that ran the plant. As we learned,
the plant's operations were not even under control and of-
ficials were still talking privately about evacuation. Yet
some of the most important public officials of this nation
and this state were reassuring us all, with unwavering
conviction, that nuclear power is safe. The leaders of pro-
test against nuclear power became just as strident in their
condemnation of nuclear power. That kind of public lead-
ership is irresponsible. And that kind of private response
only insures extended protests that do not advance our
energy needs at all.

THERE IS AN ALMOST DESPERATE NEED for

sensible, thoughtful, realistic leadership right now: a lead-
ership that can be openminded, that can reevaluate posi-
tions previously held; a leadership that can attend to both
the short-term energy problems and the transition to a dif-
ferent energy age; a leadership that turns energy for pro-
test into forces for progress. Certainly we cannot abandon
the nuclear power plants that operate now. But the addi-
tional safeguards that will be required in the aftermath of
Three Mile Island have probably shifted the economics of
new plant construction to favor coal plants in the imme-
diate future.

THE SECOND ELEMENT is changing our expecta-
tions. We expect to have lights turn on at the flip of a
switch. We expect to have air conditioners work in
sweltering summer heat. We expect to have the dish-
washer, the clothes washer, the dryer, the electric can-

10/ The WP1 Journal / Summer 1979

So rather than fight old battles about people's health
and safety in coal vs. nuclear, let us be politically and
financially realistic and look to coal plants. And let us put
our energies on making those bargains with each utility
company that proposes another large plant. Let us get on
with changing expectations. Let us get on with energy
conservation and with increased efficiency in our existing
operations. That will get us moving toward an age of en-
ergy through renewable resources.

And let us recognize that, given the recent tenor of
national and state leadership, getting serious about the
transition to an era of energy through renewable resources
means doing it ourselves.

How the electric
utilities can cope,

by Edward Brown

I'D LIKE TO START by describing our company and
tell you where the utilities have been over the last few
years. New England Power Service Company is the com-
pany that provides engineering, construction, and ad-
ministrative services for New England Electric System.
Our affiliated companies are Massachusetts Electric, Nar-
ragansett Electric in Rhode Island, and Granite State Elec-
tric in New Hampshire.

I'd like to describe some of the projects our compa-
nies have been involved in over the past few years, proj-
ects we hope will help develop alternatives. I'll describe
why we're involved in some of these projects and how we
see alternatives fitting into the electric generation picture.

First is a solar water heating project. We have 100 test
units on customer's premises throughout New England
now entering their third year. This is the first major test
program of this size and scope in the country. We're in-
volved in the installation of a photovoltaic electric system
at Beverly High School. We're participating in the redevel-
opment of a small, low-head hydro station in Lawrence,
Massachusetts. This is not a utility development. This is
a development by a private firm called Lawrence Hydro
Associates, and it is the first federally licensed urban hy-
droelectric development project in the country. We're in
the process of converting three units from oil to coal at
our Brayton Point Station, at an estimated cost of over
$100 million. This will save 10 million barrels of oil per
year.

We're involved in the final stages of modifying one of
our units in Salem to use a coal/oil slurry mixture in or-
der to reduce dependence on oil. This is the first use in
the nation of a coal/oil mixture for electric generation.
We're drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and in the southwest-
ern United States for oil and gas in order to reduce our de-
pendence on imports. Last year we brought in and used
the first oil that we drilled and found ourselves.

We're developing load-management techniques de-
signed to shift peak loads and smooth out the growth of
peaks so as to reduce demand in the future . . . and reduce
the new construction necessary to meet these demands.
And there may well come a day when we will be able to
control water heating and residential heating. We may not

Summer 1979/ The WPI Journal/ 1 1

control your electric blender but we think we can get to
the point of controlling significant amounts of load. We're
doing this by using our own power lines to send signals
out and get signals back — techniques our company has
patented. Furthermore, we're exploring very seriously the
possibility of constructing a 50,000 kilowatt wood-
burning generating plant somewhere in northern New En-
gland.

We are active participants in the Block Island wind
generator project. We are interested in exploring, and will
get involved in if possible, the possibility of a solid-waste
generating plant using trash.

We're in the midst of a crisis situation today which
will touch the lives of each of us in ways that we can't
now even imagine. Our standard of living, the way we
transport ourselves, our industrial output, productivity, ef-
ficiency — all are faced with shortages of energy. I can
guarantee that these shortages will occur. We're seeing it
today, week by week, in attempting to obtain oil for our
oil generating plants. They'll persist, and they'll get worse
unless we take steps to shape energy policies that will re-
duce our dependence on oil.

Conservation is probably the least expensive and the
most productive alternative that we have. We also feel
that alternatives such as wind, solar, wood, biomass, must
be developed. We feel that the addition of base-load plants
(both coal- and oil-fired) are necessary although we would
like never to build another oil plant. We feel that nuclear
plants are necessary.

Let me define what I mean by base-load, because the
alternative picture does not apply to base-load electric
generation. In a typical day, a load curve would start low
at midnight, increase in the morning, decrease around
noon time, come back up in midafternoon to a peak, and
then drop back down during the evening to the level it
reaches at midnight. Now, base-load plants must supply
this minimum level. Peak load plants must supply part of
the daytime highs. And intermediate types of plants,
those that can cycle up and down easily must supply the
remainder of the demand. So when I talk about a base-load
plant, I'm talking about a plant that must be on line 24
hours a day, seven days a week, month in and month out.

Edward Brown is president of the New England Power Ser-
vice Company in Westboro, Massachusetts. A professional
engineer, he's been with New England Electric System
since 1956, holding various engineering and administra-
tive positions, including director of management sciences,
project manager for the Bear Swamp pump storage hy-
droelectric project, and vice president for construction and
major projects. The New England Power Service Company
is heavily engaged in a number of research and develop-
ment projects on various alternative energy sources. Con-
sequently, as president of New England Power Service
Company, Mr. Brown is in an excellent position to com-
ment on the transition to renewable sources from the elec-
tric utility's standpoint.

In shaping our national policy, we have to come to
grips with three almost irrefutable facts. First, the days of
abundant, low-cost energy are gone. Every alternative will
be more costly in the future; some will be more practical
than others. Second, the United States' continued depen-
dence on OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries, has become a no-win situation. In 1973, the oil
embargo year, we imported 35 percent of our oil. Today
we're importing 45 percent of our oil, at costs five times
what they were in 1973. We're vulnerable to cartel price
hikes and supply interruptions. Third, when it comes to
base-load electric power generation, I see only three op-
tions — coal, nuclear, or shortages. Alternatives simply
cannot fit into the picture on base-load plants. They can
be fuel savers in the intermediate range and they can fit
in on peak.

Coal has its own problems and will do well to carry
the burden that's been placed on it. Nuclear energy, even
with the present situation, is an imperative. The Three
Mile Island incident is of great concern to us and to the
industry. I can only hope that there's no rush to judgment
as a result of Three Mile Island and that the industry and
the regulatory bodies complete their assessment and eval-
uation as fast and as competently as they can. We can
learn from this event, and we will implement whatever
comes out in forms of new procedures, revised equipment,
or safeguards. Based upon what we know about the se-
quence of events at Three Mile Island, we've already insti-
tuted a review of all nuclear plants in New England in or-
der to make certain that similar circumstances cannot
and will not happen here.

The remainder of my remarks will center on the New
England energy situation and the alternatives for the fu-
ture. Much of my data is derived from a study by the New
England Energy Congress. The New England Congress was
a group of 1 20 people of varied background from industry,
academia, the trade unions, social agencies, environmental
groups, etc., brought together under the auspices of New
England Congressional Caucus and Tufts University.

NEW ENGLAND DEPENDS UPON OIL for about
80 percent of its total energy requirements, compared to
about 50 percent in the United States as a whole. We're
extremely vulnerable to interruptions in supply in New
England, and to price hikes, and we're seeing that almost
week by week now. In terms of energy consumption, there
isn't much difference between the United States as a
whole and New England in terms of where this energy is
used. Residential use accounts for about 26 percent in
New England vs. 14 percent nationwide. (That's under-
standable because of weather extremes in New England.)
Transportation is about 25 percent vs. 23 percent; utilities
use 24 percent vs. 26 percent. So as far as the distribution
of energy resources and where it goes, there's a not great
deal of difference between the United States and New
England.

12 /The W 'PI journal / Summer 1979

The New England Energy Congress, in making a pro-
jection, assumed that the growth in total energy in New
England by the year 2000, would be about 1.5 percent per
year. (Just to put this in perspective, the nationwide
growth have been in the range of 3 to 4 percent histori-
cally.) Putting everything in terms of millions of barrels of
oil per day this means that whereas we're using about a
million and a half barrels per day in New England now, by
the year 2000, they say it should be slightly over 2 million
barrels per day. If it grew at 2.5 percent, which I think is a
reasonable assumption, it would be 2.6 million barrels per
day. The difference between these two figures, the group
says, will have to come about through conservation. But
even so, we will use about 40 percent more than we do to-
day.

Where will it come from? Today, in terms of natural
gas, coal and nuclear, we're using the equivalent of
300,000 barrels per day. The forecast presented by this
group assumes that, by the year 2000, this will about dou-
ble to almost 600,000 barrels per day. This group assumed
that actual usage of petroleum products in New England
would decrease from 1.2 million barrels per day to about 1
million, so in the year 2000 oil will account for about 50
percent of the total, which is where the national average
is today. The remainder, this group says, would be made
up of alternatives. The alternatives, they project, will ac-
count for about 500,000 barrels per day equivalent. That is
about equal to the projection on nuclear, coal, and natural
gas in the year 2000. Furthermore, this is based on the as-
sumption of 1.5 percent growth, which we have not
achieved over the last two years.

If we do not, through conservation, keep the growth
at 1.5 percent, and if the alternatives do not develop to
the extent projected here, then we have to fall back on
something else. And that must be either oil or coal or nu-
clear. If growth is not kept down to 1.5 percent, then that
lack of conservation will have to be made up through oil
or nuclear or coal. This is the thesis I wish to pursue.

Growth must be suppressed through conservation
and alternatives must be encouraged to develop. Where
do the alternatives come from? The New England Energy
Congress sees the doubling of hydroelectric by the year
2000. They see a 10 percent increase in wood-burning
every year between now and the year 2000. They see 25
percent of all new homes from now to 1985, and 50 per-
cent thereafter, fitted with 1000 square feet of solar collec-
tors. They see one-half of existing housing units retrofit-
ted with solar water heaters.

In terms of electric base-load generation through al-
ternatives, my company sees alternative potential in only
three areas. First, wood — we see the equivalent of 900 to
1200 megawatts of electric capacity. How big is that? One
of the Seabrook units is 1 150 megawatts. Solid waste -
we see the potential for 300-500 megawatts. Hydro --we
see an additional potential for 400-450 megawatts. All of
these are much more costly than coal or nuclear alterna-
tives. These numbers that I'm quoting are much less than
half of those shown in the New England Energy Congress
report.

WE'RE KEENLY AWARE that it takes 12 to 14 years,
under today's environment, to plan, design and build a
coal-fired or a nuclear generating plant. This means that if
a plant is going to be needed in 1 992 or 1 993, then we
have to start planning for it today. So let's keep our op-
tions open. Let's go ahead and push for the alternatives,
develop wind, develop solar, develop wood. But let's not
close our options today. In some quarters, the prevailing
belief is that the development of alternative energy sour-
ces is somehow in competition with the electric utilities
(or that we think it's in competition with us). That's not
true. We recognize the need to develop these alternatives,
particularly our own New England native energy alterna-
tives through renewable resources. We see these alterna-
tives not as a threat but as a challenge and an opportunity
to do something about a terrible situation.

In closing I'd like to address one remark Dr. Murphy
made. She suggested that it might be to everyone's oppor-
tunity and advantage if, for the next major plant, utility
companies could sit down with the environmental groups,
the social groups, the regulatory groups, etc., and make a
commitment with these interest groups. I would agree to
making such a commitment on the basis that the con-
struction and operating license for a plant would not be
held up. We would agree to make a commitment in terms
of millions of dollars for research and development in al-
ternative sources. And I'll put that in writing.

Summer 1979 /The WPl Journal/ 13

Developing and
marketing a new
technology.

by Robert Mitchell

THE NORTHEAST SOLAR ENERGY CENTER is

a new, not-for-profit company. We are the agents of the
Department of Energy to accelerate the commercialization
of solar technology in the northeast (New England, New
York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania). When we say solar,
we're talking about the renewable energy resources that
both Ms. Murphy and Mr. Brown talked about. We started
out with the responsibility for domestic solar hot-water
systems, passive solar heating in residences, and what
have you. More recently the Department of Energy has
added active solar space heating, small wind (below 200
kilowatts), and woody biomass. And there is agricultural
process heat and industrial process heat.

Two things are very important to anyone who is con-
sidering solar and indeed domestic solar hot water heating
- the recently passed National Energy Act, and the tax
credit and HUD grants that are available in states like
Massachusetts. We like to talk about a 40 percent "dis-
count" on solar hot water, that's made up of two elements.
The average price for an installed hot water system is
about $2,500. The HUD grant, for those systems that
qualify (and most do), is $400; the federal tax credit
amounts to an additional $620; and so the cost to the con-
sumer is $1000 off the $2,500. This makes the domestic
solar hot water system, at today's energy prices (particu-
larly electric and heating oil prices in most of the areas of
New England), quite viable. Some states in New England
have additional tax credits. Vermont, for instance, has a
tax credit that will reduce the cost to the consumer to
something like $800. With an opportunity like that, in-
deed there is every incentive to go the solar route. The
technology is here, and the governments, federal and state,
are providing the cash flow improvers that are so neces-
sary.

STARTING AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY,

our demands for energy in the United States were pretty
straightforward and relatively low. And then, in the late
1 930s, we became the arsenal of democracy. Our demands
for energy grew exponentially. Of significance here is the

way coal use fell off since 1920; from the 1930s on, our ex-
traction and use of coal in the United States has remained
pretty much at a level.

So our growth in energy demand has been satisfied
primarily by the use of liquid petroleum. It happens that
domestic petroleum picked up most of that growth. How-
ever, in the late 1960s that also leveled off. We started to
use more imported petroleum. Of course we still had do-
mestic natural gas. The input of imported natural gas,
geohydro, and nuclear energy were relatively insignificant.

Let's look just at petroleum itself. Up until the middle
1940s, the United States was a net exporter of petroleum.
That shifted, and we started to import a little bit; but we
did not quite concern ourselves, because our production
continued to grow. And when production from our own
wells leveled off somewhat, importation of oil continued
to grow. But we still didn't worry, because our finds of do-
mestic oil, our proven reserves, grew as our production
grew.

But then in the late 1960s things changed. We started
to draw down our proven reserves faster than we were
finding new ones. At that same time our demand for oil
continued to grow, and we relied more and more heavily
on the foreign market.

By 1973 we were importing a considerable quantity of
oil, something like 37 percent. So our proven reserves fell
off, our production fell off, and even during this period of
national recession (1974-75), we imported more oil, both
volumetrically and as a percentage. Our oil use continues
to go up. Our production continues to go down, except for
Alaska. Next year, when we have the statistics, you'll see a
little blip in the charts for Alaska, but the proven reserves
continue to go down, as does production. It's a very dismal
picture

As we look at sources for this oil, the picture be-
comes even worse. Our imports in 1973 were 35 percent;
in 1976, 43 percent. The current level is almost 50 per-
cent. This is especially significant because we used about
the same amount of petroleum in 1976 as in 1973. So we
had to import more. Let's find out source of this supply.
From 1973 to 1976, Venezuela and Canada, our friends to
the south and to the north, greatly reduced their exports
to the United States. In fact, Canada's stated policy is that
by mid- 1980 they will be exporting a net of no petroleum
to the United States. Venezuela has deliberately cut back
its own production.

So we had to make up both the increased quantity of
imports and the shortfall in imports from Venezuela and
Canada. This was made up by increases from Libya, Iran,
Algeria, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and Nigeria. So our en-
ergy crisis is really an oil crisis, and the actions that we
must take should be directed toward reducing our depen-
dence, or at least controlling our dependence, upon foreign
sources.

In New England, 80 percent of the energy we use is
satisfied by oil, and 79 percent of that comes from im-
ports, either indirectly through refineries outside New En-
gland or directly through product import. The biggest ele-

14 /The WPl Journal / Summer 1979

ment in this import is residual oil, which is used to gener-
ate over half of our electricity and to drive industry. Some
92 percent of that oil which generates electricity comes
from foreign sources. So our cost of electricity in New En-
gland is extremely sensitive to the oil that we get from
the world market.

Our problem in the United States is basically twofold.
We use too much of what we have the least of, and we use
too little of what we have the most of. If we look just at
fossil fuels, we'll see that coal represents over 90 percent
of the proven reserves of fossil fuels; and yet we use coal
to satisfy only 18 percent of energy demands. Oil and nat-
ural gas represent less than 10 percent of our proven fossil
fuel reserves; and yet we use those two in combination to
satisfy over three-fourths of our energy demands. This is
why we have the problem.

New England's problem is more severe than the
United States' problem. We rely upon petroleum to satisfy
80 percent of our energy demand, plus another 8 percent
from natural gas, which brings our total up to 88 percent,
against a national average of around 75 percent, made up
from about 50 percent oil and the rest natural gas. That
natural gas in the United States is used primarily to gener-
ate electricity and to power industry. In the national en-
ergy act, these uses of natural gas will be eliminated by
the year 1990.

Of significance also to the New England region is our
mix in the generation of electricity. In 1976 about 57 per-
cent of our electricity was generated from oil — and oil is
the most expensive energy available to us for that pur-
pose. The figure for the whole United States is only 16
percent. The United States uses a lot of coal, and this is
going to grow and grow. Over one-third of the electricity
generated and consumed in New England comes from nu-
clear power. The cost of that nuclear power at the distri-
bution point is just a little more than half the cost of the
electricity generated from oil. So when we're looking at al-
ternatives and actions, we must look very carefully at the
cost impact of those actions when we compare the United
States and New England. We use very little coal here, so

Mr. Robert Mitchell is manager of the communications
division of the Northeast Solar Energy Center. Mr.
Mitchell's responsibilities at the Solar Energy Center in-
clude coordinating all programs and projects in the north-
east region for public information, solar education, solar
information service, and the technical information library.
Prior to joining the Solar Energy Center, Mr. Mitchell
served for four years as the New England Regional Ad-
ministrator of the Federal Energy Administration. Before
that he was energy advisor to the governor of New
Hampshire and chairman of the New England Energy Task
Force. The Task Force was organized in 1975 and com-
posed of federal, state, and private sector officials. Its pur-
pose was to assist in improving New England's poor en-
ergy posture and to aid in the planning, programming, and
implementing of actions designed to accomplish regional
energy goals. Mr. Mitchell was also the chairman of the
New England Federal Regional Council from 1976 to 1977.

we have no real basis for cost comparisons. But natural
gas in New England costs us twice as much as the average
national cost per unit. That is because we're at the end of
the pipeline, and also because we inject a lot of synthetics
into our gas system.

Petroleum costs us about as much as it does the rest
of the United States. Because of the amount of electricity
we generate from oil and the high cost of that oil, electric-
ity costs us about 45 percent more than the national aver-
age. As a result, our total energy bill for a given unit size
is about 23 percent higher than the United States average.

WE MUST DO THINGS DELIBERATELY in order
to correct this situation. We cannot merely snap our fin-
gers. There are a number of alternatives. The first is con-
servation. For a report prepared in 1975, the six states of
New England worked together with their planning offices,
their environmental offices, their energy offices; worked
with industry, with the utilities, and with the federal en-
ergy administration; all working together with the New
England Regional Commission acting as the secretariat.
Each state identified actions that it could take. These
were carefully examined and adjusted to ensure they were
realistic, not overstatements and not understatements.
The overall effect of these various feasible actions was
that, by 1985, conservation — improved energy manage
ment without deprivation — could save New England
consumers almost 100,000 million barrels of oil a year.

The second option is alternate energy sources. We see
40,000 million barrels here. A good portion of that could
be use of wood, hydro, reclamation of solid wastes, and in-
deed direct solar. Direct solar looks very small in the total
picture, but it's significant. It's the equivalent of solar re-
trofit in 200,000 homes in New England, and there are
now less than 2,000 homes retrofitted with solar. This
alone represents 1.5 million barrels. What we had hoped
was that, during this short time period, we would have the
200,000 homes, but by the end of this period the rate of
growth would be phenomenal. By the year 2000 we could
have 12 or 15 percent input by solar. But we've got to take
that first real step. We haven't done it yet. There is not a
total commitment. We probably will accomplish 50 per-
cent of these projections.

We look at high coal usage, and about 40 percent of
this will be accomplished, thanks to Dr. Murphy and to
New England Electric too. Six nuclear plants could have
been brought on stream by 1985 in addition to the seven
that we have now. But, the way things are going, I doubt
we'll have more than one, maybe not even that, on line by
1985.

The outlook for Massachusetts is not a good one for
controlling and reducing use of petroleum. And, I repeat,
our energy crisis is an oil crisis. We are too dependent
upon the Arab OPEC nations. We do not have the luxury
of selecting options at this point. We have got to work on
every front. Not only must we develop the alternative en-
ergy sources oroperly, bringing them into play, including
conservation; we must also enhance our current electrical
generating capabilities by increased coal use.

.Summer 1979 /The WP1 Journal/ 15

Questions and
some answers.

QUESTION: Ms. Murphy, have you
talked with the Clamshell Alliance
about your proposal? They seem to
have more access to making things
public than Mr. Brown does. I wasn't
aware of almost everything Mr.
Brown said.

MS. MURPHY: I'm not sure Mr. Brown and I are to-
gether on it yet. My proposal was hundreds of millions of
dollars; his statement was millions. I'm not putting that in
an antagonistic way but I don't think it's going to be just a
happy little fest of all sitting down together. I think the
public interest groups really have to push on a company
like New England Power. It is exploring some alternatives
already. It has the potential and the feasibility for doing
them. It is probably one of the most progressive utility
companies in New England right now, and it's headed in
the way we want, but the real issue for us is to push much
harder, to get there faster with more money behind the ef-
fort. I haven't talked with the Clamshell Alliance about
this. I'm still waiting to make sure that indeed the hun-
dreds of millions of dollars might be behind it, not just the
millions.

QUESTION: In pursuing that ques-
tion a little bit, isn't there a problem
here with respect to the responsibil-
ity of the utilities to provide energy
at the least possible cost and their lia-
bility if they don't do that? Isn't some
kind of restructuring needed here to
allow them to make that kind of a
deal, even though it's going to cost us
more, at least temporarily, as their
customers?

16 /The WP1 journal / Summer 1919

MR. BROWN: That's why I said millions and not hun-
dreds of millions. Let me just put our company in perspec-
tive. Our total revenues are around $800 million a year,
over all of New England. Our budget for all research and
development is currently around $4 to 4.5 million per
year; and that's the budget as approved by the Federal
Power Commission. I'm not free to make a commitment
in excess of what we have already received approval for.
However, we do have discretion over where that money
goes. When we talk about hundreds of millions of dollars,
I feel there's clearly a role for the federal government here.
The company can't put a hundred million dollars a year,
or even a hundred million dollars a decade, into this un-
less there is some restructuring.

MS. MURPHY: I want to pick up on that for a minute.
In the process of trying to think this through for today
one of the things that became clear to me was that, when
we talk about energy, we have to listen to two different di-
alogues going on at the same time. One is the dialogue
about the energy problems and crises right now — oil de-
pendence and all that. The other one is about the future.
When we talk of $800 million of operating revenues, and
then think about $4 million of R&D money going toward
new things, we see clearly the mismatch, the imbalance
between the two. Even in the dialogue here today, we
come back to talk mostly about oil, mostly about the ex-
isting situation. Our current vulnerability drives so much
of the public and federal attention to the existing situa-
tion. But there's nowhere near a balance, nowhere near the
same kind of time, much less money, being put into the
necessary shift toward the future. And that's why I think
the transition, if we're going to make it, has got to be
pushed in a much harder way. It may be that we need a
different legal structure for doing it, but I still think the
utility companies must play an absolutely essential role
in effecting that transition. They have the money to do it
if we can provide some means for making those substan-
tial financial readjustments now.

MR. BROWN: I'd like to respond by saying we don't
make money just for the sake of making money. Every-
thing is based upon a cost of service and is based upon an
approved rate structure. We can't make money out of thir
air. It has to come from some place — either from inves-
tors putting money into the business or from customers
paying for electricity received. I just want to be sure ev-
eryone understands we can't print money.

PROF. DOUGLAS WOODS (So

cial Science & Policy Studies): Mr.
Brown, my conception of the regula-
tory process is that you'd have to get
approval from the Public Utility
Commission in this state to include,
for instance, a massive increase in
your research budget among those
operating expenses that are taken
into account in establishing rates. Is
that correct?

.

And if so, what is your expectation
about their likely attitude toward a
request for, say, $100 million in re-
search funds?

MR. BROWN: I'm glad you raised that question because
a distinction has to be made between state regulatory bo-
dies and the federal regulatory bodies. New England Power
Company is regulated by the Federal Power Commission
and I think they'd be much more amenable to a heavier re-
search and development program than a state regulatory
body. Whether we like it or not, a state regulatory body is
more politicized than the federal. They're closer to the
consumers; they get more pressure from the consumers.
But, because we operate in more than one state, we are re-
gulated by the Federal Power Commission; our retail com-
panies are regulated by the state commissions. I think the
federal commission would be much more agreeable.

QUESTION: It seems to me another
route for making transition, besides
this bargaining pressure, is to create
incentives for the utility. Is the util-
ity at the present time very favorably
disposed to load management and
other conservation technologies? If
so, what does it consider its financial
incentive? If not, what would you
need, what kinds of financial incen-
tives, to take an interest in conserva-
tion?

MR. BROWN: One kilowatt of new capacity today
costs around $1,000. One kilowatt out of a peak of 3 mil-
lion kilowatts. If we can avoid having this peak demand
increase, or we can reduce this peak, then we save an in-
vestment of $ 1,000 for every kilowatt. Now that's one
whale of an incentive.

QUESTION: Ms. Murphy said that,
because of the inaction of the federal
and state government organizations
in effecting the transition, we really
have to do it ourselves. To me this
means letting the private sector do it,
and I agree. I think we have to do it
ourselves. My question involves the
problem of how we do it ourselves
when, in fact, the federal and state
governments collect our money and
create the policies and the tax incen-
tives and the subsidies involved in
this whole issue? How do we do it
ourselves when they have so much
control and can really stop us from
doing it?

MS. MURPHY: I think two things have to happen. I be-
lieve there can be the kind of public pressure, public inter-
est group pressure on utility companies to make that tran-
sition happen faster. I also think, in doing it ourselves,
that the general public and even some of the industries
have to go back to the state and the federal governments
and tell them that they've got to get more serious about
this. Because when a coalition of utility companies and
consumer interest groups and environmentalists can walk
into the state or federal government and say, "we've got to
have some changes here," then things will start to happen.
But it'll take a fair amount of organizing. We've lost a lot
of years, and the federal government continues to invest
heavily in the existing system. It's going to continue in
that direction unless coalitions of public interest groups
and the utility industries can get together and face gov-
ernment. Then we may have a very powerful political
force. I can't see any other way.

QUESTION: Why is that an incen-
tive? Don't you recover that invest-
ment from the rate base?

MR. BROWN: I wish we did.

QUESTION: What happens? Could
you describe what actually happens?

MR. BROWN: It's more and more difficult to raise
money on the open stock market. Look at our stock. Peo-
ple think we're really making a killing. And yet, if we have
to raise money in the market today to provide that addi-
tional kilowatt, we have to sell our stock below book
value. That's a real incentive to conserve.

PROF. WOODS: Let me phrase the
question a little differently. Do you
expect that your stock will continue
to sell below book for the indefinite
future, that you're always going to
have trouble getting a decent rate of
return on funds invested in new
plants, that you'll never want to re-
turn to the days when utilities were
always anxious to expand their rate
base?

MR. BROWN: I'd like to see our stock selling above
book, because that benefits everyone, not just our inves-
tors but our customers as well. That's a fact. Do I think I'll
see the day when it will sell above book? Yes. We're recov-
ering from a series of crises, not of our own making and I
think it will sell above book. But when it gets above book,
will we want to go back to build, build, build? No. Because
regulatory commissions today are not permitting a return
that's adequate on this costly plant so I don't see us going
back to a go-go mode and doing a lot more building.

QUESTION: If you had very strong
conservation, do you think the effect
would be good for the company
financially?

MR. BROWN: Yes. And that's an interesting point.
Right now we have a 38 percent capacity reserve. This is
used to criticize us. The reason for that reserve is that, in
1973 and 1974, we had four large units come into service
in anticipation of continuing growth. Well, the growth
didn't continue; it dropped off. So we have a 38 percent re-
serve capacity. If we grew at 4 or 5 percent a year, that re-
serve would only last us 5 years and we'd have to go right
back into raising money again. I'd like to see conservation
take hold so that capacity will last us ten years . . . and by
that time I might be ready to retire. That's as good a rea-
son as I can think of.

QUESTION: Mr. Brown, could you
tell me where spent fuel for the nu-
clear power plants goes, and what is
your corporate responsibility for that
fuel?

MR. BROWN: Right now it's being stored at the site.
There are no reprocessing or waste disposal facilities be-
cause of national energy policies. The latest date I've seen
published, and this keeps getting pushed further and fur-
ther into the future, is that by the late 1980s a decision
will be made on waste disposal. Now, this is a federal pol-
icy position. I think they could make up their minds to-
day if they really wanted to make a political decision. But
I don't believe that there's any senator who is willing to
stand up and say "OK, put it in my state."

QUESTION: Would the economic
feasibility of nuclear power be altered
if the companies were responsible for
the reprocessing and rendering safe of
nuclear wastes from their own power
plants? Right now, there's an open
loop. The nuclear waste is being
stored; it's not being dealt with physi-
cally. If the cost of reprocessing or
safe permanent storage were born by
power plants, what would then be the
relative cost of electricity from a nu-
clear power plant vs. oil or coal or our
other alternatives?

MR. BROWN: It would be cheaper still. There's an aw-
ful lot of potential energy still contained in the fuel rods
that are not being reprocessed today. If reprocessing were
to take place, there would be a net savings. There's an aw-
ful lot of money sitting in that spent fuel. In terms of
waste, I think that's a technical problem that's already
been solved. Certainly there are long-term wastes, but

18 /The WP1 Journal / Summer 1979

they can be rendered safe through ceramicizing and stor-
age in salt domes.

I'd like to point out why we can't make the decision
in this country. France has recently announced they are
going nuclear. They are installing reprocessing and waste
disposal facilities. West Germany just had a hearing,
which lasted several weeks, on a complete reprocessing
and waste disposal back-end system for nuclear, because
they've made up their mind that they're not going to be
importing oil. If they can do it, I submit that this country
can. I think it's a political problem more than a technical
one.

QUESTION: It's my personal belief
that the established utility industry
will not be able to convert to alterna-
tive energy sources because they
have a commitment to centralized
power. What would you think of the
concept of distributing energy man-
agement to the end user? Say you sold
an appliance that would control load
at the user, switching between sev-
eral sources of power like solar, elec-
tricity, solar water heat, a nearby ther-
mal or geothermal source, or some-
thing like this. The electronics would
match the source of power with the
least. I find it hard to believe the
mass centralized power source is the
least expensive.

MR. BROWN: OK, let me try to answer that. First of all,
I think we've reached the peak size of generating units. I
think the future — 10 or 20 years from now — is going to
see smaller and smaller units, particularly as we can get
into other technologies, whether they be fuel cells or pho-
tovoltaic or solar or what have you. But as long as the cus-
tomer has to be supplied by wire, I don't really see any
purpose to the end user choosing whether he's supplied by
solar-generated electricity, or solar-thermal, or photovol-
taic. Electricity today comes from gas, coal, oil, nuclear,
etc. and you don't notice the difference. I think well go to
more decentralized plants, smaller plants, and use alterna-
tives where possible. But I don't really see that the end
user is going to determine how it's generated, unless he
generates it himself.

QUESTION: All the solar energy
discussions that Ive heard, including
your own, talk about the use of solar
panels for residences. Are there any
realistic ways to use solar energy in
industry?

MR. MITCHELL: One of the technologies we are in-
terested in, one the Department of Energy has instructed
us to develop, concerns industrial processes and agricul-

tural processes where solar energy can make significant
heat inputs and displace the need for oil. We are working
on that. But we don't have an actual measurement at our
fingertips as to what that potential is. We are developing
it, and we are working with industry in that context. It is
real, and any Btu that we as a community can save is a
unit of petroleum that we do not have to import. That's
important, particularly when you consider that oil now is
at just about $20 a barrel. By 1985 it will be at least $45 a
barrel. And so with each passing day, as this incremental
cost continues to increase, there is a larger incentive, both
short-term and longer-term, to maximize a fixed cost that
would supply, from there on in, free energy. That's exactly
what we're pushing. It is there and it is real.

QUESTION: Where is the capital to
come from . . . industry?

MR. MITCHELL: Government has a real problem, be-
cause they have got to improve cash flow. They've got to
provide the incentives which will persuade the consumer
(whether it's the home owner, such as ourselves, or the
commercial venture or the business venture, anyone that
uses energy now) to invest in solar. As it is now, there are
very few people who can put down $2,500 for a solar sys-
tem. That's why government has instituted the income-
tax credit. That's why the Department of Housing and Ur-
ban Development has instituted the grant process, and it's
why local and state governments are putting in abatement
procedures that will provide relief from property tax for
fixed periods of time, maybe five years, maybe seven
years. It is why states like California and Vermont have
put in sizable income tax credits. California, for instance,
has an objective of 50,000 household units this year.
That's pretty big. But once you can get this going, once
you can get the old wheel rolling, it will really take off.

Our job is to accelerate the commercialization of so-
lar, not taking anyone's place but working with all the in-
stitutions that exist, we want to see a new technology suc-
cessfully introduced into the marketplace in six to ten
years instead of the twenty-five to thirty-five years it
would normally take. Nothing like this has ever been
tried before. This is deliberately putting someone between
the consumer and government. It is government putting
money into something that would stimulate demand real-
istically. And government is doing it for the consumer. So,
to answer your question, there are distinct opportunities,
distinct applications. Some of them still have to be identi-
fied, but we want to work very closely with industry, with
commerce, and with labor in order to get these things
identified and get the applications in place.

Then, secondly, that's only meet-
ing one part of the overall energy
need. How does this renewable re-
sources scenario speak to the trans-
portation sector, which accounts for
25 percent of our energy consump-
tion?

MS. MURPHY: First, I don't think in the near future,
even after the year 2000, we're going to see a substantial
contribution to the base-load capacity through alternative
energy sources, through renewable resources. What I'm
trying to focus on is that there is a translation from action
into research, and that's not good enough. There are a lot
of technologies on the shelf right now. California can talk
about 50,000 homes while we have 100 — that's ridicu-
lous. We ought to be looking far more aggressively at the
installation of the technologies that are on the shelf right
now to help us through this period of time. We should be
doing it not as research and demonstration but picking
the stuff up off the shelf and getting it installed. We may
look to R&D for some major technological breakthroughs
on base-load capacity, but I'm really focusing renewable re-
sources on the intermediate and the peak-load capacity, so
that we aren't assuming we will continue to rely on coal,
oil, and nuclear, even for most of the intermediate capac-
ity.

Regarding the call for action around coal, yes. We've
debated the coal/nuclear issue now for years, particularly
in New England. And while we may differ on pro-coal or
pro-nuclear, we are hurting ourselves more than anyone
else by not going one way or the other. Instead we con-
tinue the debate ad nauseum, a matter I really think is go-
ing to stalemate. There does need to be a regional or na-
tional decision on that. And the more that we can force
that decision to happen, then I think we will finally get
on with the job.

On transportation, to the extent that we can use re-
newable resources for providing some parts of the energy
needs in any sectors, that will provide more energy capac-
ity for transportation. We'll really be hard-pressed to use
solar technologies for transportation, so let's be practical
about where we can apply them. If they're not applicable
in transportation, at least they clearly are usable right
now in some of our home heating, commercial, retail, and
industrial uses of energy, and so we ought to focus on
those first. But we have to stop the translation into re-
search and development and begin to talk in terms of the
technologies that are already on the shelf.

DR. EDMUND CRANCH:

The only real option I see to
meet the major load is coal. When I
hear solar, that's peak-load usage. So
my question: isn't the call for action
really a call to change the national
policy on coal? And this is not a re-
gional issue.

Summer 1919 /The WPl journal/ 19

Kay Wear Draper —
WPI's own talkin' woman

"SPEECHES ARE LIKE BABIES — easy to conceive,
hard to deliver/' says Kay Wear Draper, mother of six and
an English lecturer at WPI.

This outgoing, vibrant woman, who was Massachu-
setts Mother of the Year in 1978, believes that humor be-
longs in the classroom as well as in the living room. "It
holds the attention of the students," she explains. "It tells
them that you're with them. That you love them. That
you truly want to help them."

Currently Kay teaches public speaking to undergradu-
ates and to students in evening continuing education
classes at WPI. She also teaches English as a second lan-
guage. She smiles at the thought of the latter. "Would you
believe that I don't speak fluently any language other than
English, and that I'm not even a certified teacher?' Then
how was she able to find her present teaching post: Kay
Draper laughs. "I didn't find it. It found me."

ON A BLISTERING July afternoon in 1973, Mrs. James
B. Draper, Jr., wife of the Headmaster of the former Shep-
herd Knapp School in Boylston, was running what she
terms "the world's largest barn sale" on the school grounds.
"The last thing on my mind was a job," she confides. "I was
the busy wife of a headmaster and the mother of six chil-
dren. I hadn't worked since 1949. But I had written a book

At the height of the barn sale, Kay received a phone
call from Prof. Charles Heventhal of the WPI English De-
partment. We'd like you to be our guest at lunch," he said.
"We have a teaching post open, and we'd like to talk about
it with you."

"I'm not a teacher," Kay informed him. "I know,"
Heventhal went on. "But I read your book, How to
produce plays without crying. I liked it. I'm sure you have
the type of teaching ability that we're looking for."

How to produce plays without crying is a popular
book covering every aspect of the production of children's
plays. It is full of detailed information and laced with Dra-
per wit. On page 48 it even reminds the amateur producer
not to forget to "detach the ruby from the slave girl's
navel" at the end of the play!

Kay decided to attend the WPI luncheon meeting. In
remembering, she again blossoms forth with that ready
smile of hers. "We'd lived in Boylston for years," she says,
"but I still had to look up the location of WPI on the
Worcester street map. That should give you some idea of
how hectic things had become out in Boylston."

The luncheon with Prof. Heventhal, Dean Bernard
Brown, and former dean Kenneth Nourse was a success.
"Of course, Mrs. Draper, you can teach!" She was, after all,
a Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in drama and English from
Oberlin College, and she'd worked on her master's in
drama at Northwestern University's School of Speech. Be-
fore her marriage, she had worked as a writer and an-
nouncer at various radio stations in Florida, Kansas, and Il-
linois. She'd been a freelance actress, director, and pro-
ducer in Illinois, Germany (with the American Red Cross
Clubs), Massachusetts, and Maine. She had directed
dozens of student shows. After her marriage to a para-
trooper sergeant, she'd briefly taught English at Brunswick
(Maine) High School. Of course Mrs. Draper could teach
— communications.

Back in Boylston, Kay's husband, Jim, a renowned
gourmet cook and dedicated father, backed his wife's new
aspirations to the hilt. The children were practically
grown up. Everything would be in control on the home
front. Kay should definitely not pass up the teaching op-
portunity.

"THE FIRST THING I DID was to read everything I
could get my hands on about communications," she says.
"Then I taught my first class. I loved it."

Among Kay's early classes were many with foreign
students. Those from Kuwait generally had trouble with
pronouncing their "Fs." Kay made use of the old dramatic
trick of puffing feathers into the air and blowing out can-
dle flames while strongly shaping the "V" sound. "One stu-
dent, in particular, caught on very fast," Kay recalls. "He
got so that he could pronounce all of his 'Ps' perfectly.
And he had a terrific sense of humor. After the final ex-
ams had been graded, he appeared at my door bearing a
gift. Thank you for everything,' he said. He handed me a
box. Berfume from Bersia,' he laughed and fled."

20 /The WPI Journal / Summer 1979

Weekly student trips to such places as Sturbridge Vil-
lage and the Higgins Armory forced Kay to use her bat-
tery of dramatic skills, since she was unable to converse
in the native languages of the students from Kuwait and
Venezuela.

"Along the way, I acted out, charade style, things such
as fence, horse, house — anything we could see out of the
bus window. It was especially difficult at the Armory," she
continues. "It was relatively easy for me to portray a joust-
ing scene, but how do you adequately act out honor and
chivalry"? It is a credit to both teacher and students that
they ultimately understood one another very well.

One of Kay's techniques was to ask each of her for-
eign students to bring in to class a new English word, one
he did not clearly understand. Kay, through dramatic pre-
sentation and simple discussion, would then try to ex-
plain the meaning of the word.

"One day my good intentions backfired a bit," she re-
ports. "The unknown word was beach. Immediately I
fashioned a little playlet concerning waves, sand, tides,
and sea shells. Most of the class caught on right away, but
the student who'd offered the word in the first place
looked more perplexed than ever. I asked him what was
troubling him.

'Well, Mrs. Draper,' he began, 'I still don't understand
the word beach.' I asked him how he'd heard it used.

'Somebody called me a son of a beach.'"

Kay Draper, the daughter of two missionaries, quickly
launched into a 15-minute, off-the-cuff speech about
Anglo-Saxonisms. By the end of the class, the meaning of
most four (and five) letter English words had been made
perfectly clear.

"Not my usual vocabulary," Kay admits. "But as stu-
dents in this country, they had a right to know words that
are commonly used on college campuses here, good /or
bad! And, believe it or not, the class seemed to appreciate
my sweating out the explanations."

At the beginning of her work with newly arrived
Venezuelans, Kay told her students that only English
words should be spoken in her classroom. "If you don't
speak it, you won't learn it," she warned them. She sped up
their learning by playing "Simon Says" and singing songs
in English. If she caught anyone speaking in his native
tongue, she stood him in a corner.

"The foreign students found this 'punishment' utterly
hilarious," she confesses. "And they didn't hesitate for one
moment to turn the tables on me. On the final day of one
course, I said farewell to my Spanish-speaking students by
saying 'Vayan con Dios.' They laughed and headed me to-
ward a corner."

Because there have been so many foreign students
eager to learn English, Kay has been aided by two master
tutors, Mrs. Elisabeth Rubin and Mrs. Mary Jane O'Neil of
the Writing Resources Center at WPI. "They are abso-
lutely wonderful," she says with enthusiasm. "Not only do
they help the students with their grammar and enuncia-
tion, they also get so involved with them that they often
invite the students to their homes and take them along
on family trips." (It is not without reason that the students

call Kay, Elisabeth, and Mary lane their "American
mothers.")

KAY ALSO TEACHES the art of speech-making, and
has prepared a booklet to help students plan and present
oral reports (usually required in connection with project
work). The booklet discusses how to prepare for an oral
presentation, ways of delivering a talk, pointers on speak-
ing, and suggestions for using visual aids. The informa-
tion, although it is in outline form, contains valuable
hints and, as always, an injection of humor. At one point,
Kay reminds the shaky prospective speaker that "the time
given you (to speak) will probably be brief. Thank
heavens!"

In her book-length blueprint on speech-making, Speak
Easy, Kay covers virtually every facet of the subject, in-
cluding mini-exercises to relieve tension and stage fright.
Commenting on the proper presentation of an after dinner
speech, Kay notes, "Like peppermints, you should be wel-
come after dinner." She believes that one's energy should
be aimed at getting the message across most effectively, in
the shortest possible time, and with the least amount of
effort. Of long-winded, off-the-mark speeches, she says:
"Speeches are like steer horns — a point here, a point
there, and a lot of bull in between."

Once students are caught up in Kay's enthusiasm,
they learn quickly how to prepare and present acceptable,
even enjoyable, speeches. "The tape machine plays a big
part in the learning process," Kay explains. "The very first

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day I insist that my students stand up and be videotaped
giving a speech. Seven weeks later, after a series of subse-
quent tapings, they are usually astonished to see how far
they have progressed. Kay grins. "At least they won't fall
apart years from now when they have to give a fund-
raising speech for the hospital. And, hopefully, what
they've learned may also help them further their careers."
Kay strongly believes that the average engineering stu-
dent, American or international, should be able to com-
municate his or her ideas effectively by graduation day.

NOW THAT SHE'S BEEN AT IT for six years, what
does her husband think of her teaching? "Jim has been
supportive all along," Kay replies. "Sometimes he thinks
I'm away from home a lot, especially when I have evening
classes or conferences and must stay overnight in Worces-
ter. The fact that he is an eternal optimist and can handle
anything that comes up at home (not only does he cook,
he also hooks rugs!) has been a plus. Jim enjoys his work,
too. He is a teacher-coach at the Lawrence Academy in
Groton, Massachusetts, where he was recently named
Dean of the Faculty."

And the children? "Since they range in age from 18 to
30, they aren't children any longer," she says. "They were
used to my being involved in church and community
work while they were growing up. My post at WPI was
just another involvement to them. They approve of my ca-
reer. As a matter of fact, Susan Kanya Draper, my
daughter-in-law and the mother of two of our grand-
children, used to be Dean Grogan's secretary. So you can
see that WPI is very much a family affair."

Getting back to families and mothering, Kay chuck-
les about the events leading up to her being named Massa-
chusetts Mother of the Year in 1978. "When West Con-
cord Union Church nominated me for the state honor last
year, I had never heard of the American Mothers' Commit-
tee, which sponsors the annual national search. Actually,
my first reaction was, What about my dog, Penny? She's
taken care of her pups sometimes better than I've taken
care of my own kids. I don't even cook! Nevertheless, I did
accept the candidacy, and I was chosen."

Former Governor Michael Dukakis presented the
award to Kay at Regis College in March of last year. In
May she went to Des Moines, Iowa, for the national con-
vention. Out of the 51 state mothers in the competition,
Kay won one of the top five awards, her category — com-
munications. Since then, Kay Draper has been elected
president of the Massachusetts Mothers Association.

In order to qualify for Massachusetts Mother of the
Year, Kay had to be, first, a successful mother. Okay. Kay
talks lovingly of her six children and three grandchildren,
describing her kids as strong and ambitious. Their talents
range from restaurant consultant to nurse, and they live
across the country, from New Hampshire to California. "I
haven't always liked them," Kay comments, "but I've al-
ways loved them. I would often look at rainbows with
them instead of doing the dishes. Before going to sleep at
night, I'd encourage them to think about the happiest mo-
ment of their day. My 'goodnight' words to them were al-
ways, 'See you in the morning.'" Those are the words she'd
like to have inscribed on her tombstone.

A Mother of the Year candidate must also be an ac-
tive member of a religious body, exemplify the Golden
Rule in her life, be involved in civic affairs, and do general
volunteer work. She must be an all-around "doer," accord-
ing to Kay, and be able to give speeches and interviews.
"And when she is talking about the moral structure of the
family to the public, she has to be specific, because family
solidarity is what the American Mothers Committee em-
phasizes."

KAY DRAPER, who was born in China the daughter of
Christian missionaries, carries with her a quality of ra-
diant living and pure unadulterated joy and energy that is
hard to miss. "If I have energy, it is God's strength being
channeled through me. I welcome His light and love. I try
to get the selfish 'me' out of the way and leave myself
open to His will."

An optimist like her husband, Kay prefers to concen-
trate on the 'glowing' aspects of life and side-step the bad.
"I try not to pack my subconscious with garbage like por-
nography. I firmly believe that a hopeful attitude can
change your life, and that there is goodness in everyone."

22 /The WPI Journal /Summer 1919

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Reiiniuniunion 1979

.Summer 1979 /The WPl Journal / 23

When you are out 50 years . . .

"What is so rare as a day in June?"

Poet James Russell Lowell has
his answer. "Three days — when
they're your 50th class reunion."

The WPI Class of 1929 turned
that up last June 7, 8, and 9. The
event was a lifetime coming, and it
flitted by ever so softly and was gone
before anyone could become accus-
tomed to it.

There was that anticipation of
Thursday afternoon at the Sheraton-
Lincoln Inn and the crowded hospi-
tality room, too small to contain the
shouts of joy that spilled into corri-
dors when old friends met and tried
to identify. For some it was the first
time back since the class had fanned
out from Boynton Hill to take on the
world.

Fate had answered them with the
doom of financial ruin on Wall Street
and the Depression of the 30s. Ah, it
was but the first hurdle in a lifelong
steeplechase. And then, the war that
engulfed everyone in '42 and scarred
the world.

But no time for that, or Korea,
Watergate, or Viet Nam. This was
THE DAY. Start the "whoopee," so
long contained, often repressed.

As the bus filled rapidly, every-
one tried to talk at once to span the
intervening years. There was so
much to say. So little time to say it
before the rip tide of reunion swept
all into President and Mrs. Cranch's
reception at Jeppson House. What a
welcome. What a cocktail party. En-
joy. Enjoy.

Then on to Higgins House for
dinner. Roast prime rib of beef and all
the fixin's in the splendor of the
Great Hall. For whom? '29, '29, '29!
The "new" president and his wife
were charmers, and '29 was their first
50-year class to return to Tech. They
took special delight in the joy of each
50-year diplomate (some of whom
were receiving a WPI diploma for the
first time).

The "glow" lasted all the way
back by bus to the Sheraton-Lincoln,
where the tired ones split and the
younger at heart began talk-fests that
ill prepared them for the morrow.

Registration began Friday morn-
ing in the Wedge, then campus
viewing of all the changes in 50
years, especially that new old build-
ing, Boynton Hall. No more creaky
stairs ... an elevator, yet. The exterior
the same as its picture postcard
silhouette against the powder puff
skies above. Truly a new modern ad-
ministration building in the old na-
tive gray granite shell that remains
the living symbol of WPI. And this
was but the first surprise on the tour
led by Steve Hebert, the Answer
Man.

Walking over almost-forgotten
paths whetted appetites for the buffet
luncheon in Morgan Hall, an inter-
lude before inspection of buildings
that have made the West Campus
come alive since the school days of
1929. And then there was a special
visit to the Worcester Art Museum

for the more hardy.

Friday night was the might for
corsages for the ladies and special sty-
rofoam safari hats for all at the Class
Banquet in the Chartley room of the
Sheraton-Lincoln. The entrees for 65
members and guests were medallion
of sirloin or schrod, another exquisite
meal among many. Prof. William R.
Grogan, '46, dean of undergraduate
studies, talked about "Tech Today" —
an insight into the present curricu-
lum and how the WPI Plan came
about. After a short business wrapup,
the program marked special, less seri-
ous interests of the class and named
superlatives for probably the last
time.

Among them: Most recently mar-
ried: McGowan, who received a re-
cord, "The Best Is Yet to Come"; Fa-
ther with youngest child: Deranian, a
loving cup, "Father of the Year"; Class
member with least hair: Mooshian, a
box of Miracle Grow; Married
longest: Gilbert, a record, "We Could
Start All Over Again"; Grandfather
with most grandchildren: Barnard, a
loving cup, "Grandfather of the Year";
Greatest distance from home: Burr, a
binkey to worry about gas en route
to Mexico; Shortest in the class:
Baldwin, a Pee Wee squeeze toy;
Thinnest in the class: Chin, shoe
strings; Heaviest: Heald, thin mints;
Unmarried: Chin, a life-size poster of
Raquel Welch; Solo driver returning
to Arizona: Dobie, a radio aerial pen-
nant, "Resting."

24 /The WPI journal /Summer 1919

All received tankards with class
emblem as favors. For the more prac-
tical, they can be used as desk-top
pencil holders.

On Saturday, 1 929 joined the
general Alumni Reunion, with a long
table the focal point under the trees
on the gorgeous Higgins House lawn.
The college food service outdid itself
with a roast boneless chicken lun-
cheon, picnic style.

On the program, the 50-year
class distinguished itself with a gift
to the college of $37,000, which was
swelled to approximately $50,000 by
matching gifts, according to
Holbrook L. Horton, chairman of the
1929 reunion class gift committee.
The Class of 1917 Attendance
Cup was received for 1 929 by Re-
union Chairman Francis Wiesman for
an attendance of 48 percent. His com-
mittee was Deranian, Donahue, La-
bonte, and O'Connell.

In addition to the above, atten-
dees were: Baldwin, Barnard, Berry,
Broker, Burr, Carlson, Chin, Cook,
Crosby Dobie, French, Gilbert, Heald,
Knight, Lane, McCarthy, McGowan,
Edson Merrill, Mrs. Norman Merrill,
Mooshian, Newton, Petrie, Halbert
Pierce, Robinson, Russell, Stone,
Towne, Wiley, Matson, Dephoure,
and Nims, plus their wives and
guests.

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Barnard took
a special alumni package of souvenirs
and memorabilia to Frank R. Joslin in
University Hospital, Boston, where
he was under treatment at the time
of the Reunion.

Good Luck '29ers,
Wherever You Are.
Stephen D. Donahue (s.d.d.)

Top: Winners of the 1979 Herbert F.
Taylor Awards for alumni service to WPI
are, from left, Arthur E. Smith, '33, and
Irving (ames Donahue, Jr., '44, along with
Mrs. Taylor and Carl Backstrom, '30,
chairman of the Citations Committee.

Above: Recipients of the Robert H. God-
dard Award for outstanding professional
achievement are, from left, Charles, F.
Jones, '48, and Alfred Strogoff, '49, with
WPI Board Chairman Paul S. Morgan.

At Left: Paul Morgan and Association
president Bill Julian, '49, present the WPI
Award for service to the college to
President-Emeritus George W. Hazzard.

Below: Bill Julian with Daniel J. Maguire,
'66, winner of the John Boynton Award for
service by a young alumnus.

Summer 1979 /The WPI journal / 25

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1 I I

Class of 1934s
45th Reunion

Our 45th Reunion was just about the
best we have ever had. Ted Hammett
and his reunion committee did a
great job, and we are particularly in-
debted to the people in the Alumni
Office for putting together a great
package for the weekend. Having all
our activities right on the campus
worked out great. It was particularly
nice to be able to all stay in
Ellsworth Residence, and to have our
own hospitality suite. Warren and
Helen Davenport did a hangup job
hosting this suite, and if I had a
count on the number of times War-
ren had to rush out to the local sup-
ply emporium to replenish stock, it
would attest to the popularity of this
spot. It was great to have a lot more
time for reminiscing and catching up
on news.

Another memorable item on the
program was the session on WPI To-
day, given by a panel headed by Dean
Bill Grogan, with faculty and student
members. This covered the workings
and success of the WPI Plan.

A nice first for us was having the
Saturday noon Alumni luncheon out
on the lawn under the trees near Hig-
gins House. Both the luncheon and
the program were nicely done, and
were a distinct credit to those who
planned and took part in it.

The high spot of the weekend for
us was our class dinner in one of the
dining rooms in Morgan Hall. This
was MC'd by Charlie McElroy, who
had a bagful of surprises up his
sleeve, including a raffle of a whole
box full of goodies. We had as our
guest Tom Denney, vice president of
WPI's University Relations. He is a
very engaging and articulate speaker,
and gave us a good run-down on
things going on at Tech.

Those attending were: Bertil An-
derson, Beebe, Bissell, Booth, Burpee,
Campbell, Cowal, Cutting, Daven-
port, Flanagan, Frary, Don Green-
wood, Grierson, Carl Hammarstrom,
Hammett, Keenan, Leavitt, Markert,
McElroy, Phelps, Rhodes, Sellew,
Sjostedt, Snow, Paul Sullivan, Tytula,
Vibber, and Whittum.

The Class of 1939s
40th Reunion

The Class of 1939 closed its 40th re-
union festivities during the very early
hours of Sunday morning, June 10th,
1979, when Al Rasklavsky class pres-
ident and general chairman of the re-
union committee, locked the door to
our "watering hole," room 102 of the
Sheraton-Lincoln Inn. That brought
down the curtain on the greatest re-
union, of the greatest class, of the
greatest school.

At least that is the biased opin-
ion of the 86 '39ers and playmates
who, on Saturday evening, posed for a
group picture and later sat down for
the Reunion Dinner.

Earlier that day, they occupied
more than three tables at the tradi-
tional noon-day luncheon of alumni
on the Higgins House lawn. During
that event, C. lohn Lindegren, '39's re-
union gift committee chairman, mo-
destly (he didn't mention the dollar
amount) presented the class gift. It
turned out to be $40,862 at last
count, and represented gifts from 75
percent of the class.

On Friday evening, '39ers were
the guests of the college for the 40th
Reunion Welcome Dinner at Higgins
House. This followed a reception for
the class and their wives hosted by

President and Mrs. Edmund T Cranch
at their residence on Drury Lane.
Among those greeting the '39ers at
the door was Bob Yule, '80, son of our
classmate George W Yule.

For those who have yet to meet
Tech's new prexy and his charming
wife, there is a distinct pleasure for
you to anticipate. The '39ers were de-
lighted with them.

Attendance of '39ers was up to
expectations, with arrivals from as far
west as California and as far east as
Belgium. However, on a percentage
basis we were outdone by a bunch of
middle-aged folk from the Class of
'29! The Class prize for the longest
distance travelled to the reunion
went to Ernie Ljunggren, who came
from San Diego. Bob and Martha
Martin, who flew in from Brussels, re-
fused to be considered for the long-
distance prize, insisting that they had
returned because they were recalled
by Pratt & Whitney! That was diffi-
cult for the Class to believe since the
two looked in great shape.

Bob Bergstrom won the prize
(courtesy of Fuller Brush Co.) for be-
ing the baldest, while Lou Stratton
and Ed Kiem were tied as the most
grandfatherly, with 1 2 grandchildren
each.

Howard A. Whittum

Also handed out to each reu-
nioner was a WPI glass and Reunion
yearbook. The book was put together
by Kelley Keyser, and could only
have been improved upon by more
inputs from you modest '39ers. Inci-
dentally more than one of the wives
present was heard to ask of the
whereabouts of the last person in the
book, J. Wellington Zribell.

Speaking of travel, Ernie Sykes
and the Mrs. arrived from California
with a house trailer, and Ed Kiem de-
parted for Logan Airport with an Avis
car which, due to the gas crunch,
caused him to "try harder" (and per-
haps cuss harder) before he found
enough fuel to get him to Logan for
his return flight to Florida.

lack Boyd and Charlie Amidon
served on the Reunion Committee
along with Ras, Kelley and John.
Wally Abel and Don Houser, together
with Kelley, John, and lack, made up
the Gift Committee.

Carl and Janet Lewin drove in
from Cleveland a week prior, since
Carl had to attend the Tech Board of
Trustees meeting during commence-
ment week. As a consequence, the Le-
wins had ample opportunity to try
the Sheraton swimming pool. It is
best that the Class of '39 "skinny dip-
pers" and those who fell in the pool
remain anonymous.

Had Bob and Donna Mirick
made it from St. Paul — and if Dick
and Mae Wilson, who came in from
California, had not had to depart just
before the Class Dinner — atten-
dance at that event would have num-
bered 90. The Miricks turned back in
Chicago when Bob's back acted up,
and the Wilsons left before dinner in
order to catch a Saturday night flight
to Denmark by way of Italy. Dick had
to attend a Rotary International
meeting in Rome, and he and Mae
have a daughter in Denmark who is
expecting a visit from them and the
stork!

Class reunions are not without
some sadness, however, and the Class
was disheartened to hear that, since
the last printing of the alumni direc-
tory in 1977, we had lost Earl Conant,
Ed Moggio, and George Monchamp.
Please remember them and other de-
parted classmates in the fashion of
your faith.

For those of '39 who did not
make it to the 40th, keep in mind
that there's the 45th to plan for, and
four other years in between. And be
informed that none of us were en-
thralled by what any classmates may
have accomplished, nor were any of
us appalled by what any of us may
have failed to accomplish. Simply, it
was just a good time!

However, it was the unanimous
opinion of the class that, when it
comes to better halves, we all must
have had child brides, since all the la-
dies present were so young and beau-
tiful. And while age may be catching
up with some of us, a number ap-
peared to have remained in great
shape. Two examples will be identi-
fied, not by name but by quotes from
the 1939 Peddler. One still looks as
though he could, with ease, sink that
"one handed hook shot." The other is
in such trim shape that, because of
the behemoths playing in the line to-
day, he might have to settle for being
a "scrappy right guard" on a
1 75-pound football team.

Finally for cne class member, it
was a pleasure that his alphanumeric
vanity auto plates were, finally, 500
miles from home, recognized to have
meaning. They read WPI-39. Of
course, the bumper sticker directly
beneath raised some doubts, since it
read "Virginia is for Lovers."

Art Mallon

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Summer 1979 /The WPI Journal/ 27

,

The Class of 1944s
35th Reunion

If you missed the 35th, you missed a
good time. We got off to a great start
as guests of Jim and Barbara Donohue
in their beautiful home on Friday
night. There was lots of good food, re-
freshment to wash it down, and good
fellowship. In spite of the fact that no
entertainment was necessary, with
Jim on the organ and Barbara with
her Sesame Street marionettes, and
with various rhythm instruments
"played" by other members of the
class, it was quite an evening. And af-
ter everyone went home, Molly (Mrs.
Steve) Porter cleaned up so Barbara
could face the next morning.

We convened again on Saturday
noon on the lawn of the Higgins
House. There were other classes as-
sembled there too, but none with the
enthusiasm and spirit of '44. Our
President Jim received the Herbert E
Taylor Award for Alumni Service to
the school. His pedigree was most im-
pressive. After all this, we adjourned
to our respective nests for a nap.

Saturday evening at the Worces-
ter Country Club was a great time,
too. The Club made a critical mistake
in their planning, and the bar was an
open one for the first part of the eve-
ning. When Jim, our sponsor, arrived,
he immediately realized that it would
go on his tab, and he quickly corre-
cted the error. We got the troops or-
ganized for a class picture, which ri-
valled getting a man on the moon.
And repeated the feat by getting ev-
eryone back to the dining table. We
had a delicious roast beef dinner with
all the fixings.

But at this point the party began
to fall apart. Because we are Jim's
classmates, we let him know that all
that baloney about what a great
alummus he's been didn't impress us
a bit; but after some time we reluc-
tantly acknowledged that he did re-
flect a little glory on the Class of 44.
Then we went through a very digni-
fied ritual of inducting WPI President
Ed Cranch and his wife Virginia into
the Class of '44. Much of the discus-
sion centered on why he was not re-

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ally eligible — like he didn't even
know Doc Masius, or Drowsy Dows,
or great ones like Cookie Price or
Don Downing — but finally they
were accepted with enthusiasm as
honorary members of our class. We
bestowed another honorary member-
ship in our class on Emilie La-
gerholm, having been Mrs. Lagerholm
for only 42 days. If you've been won-
dering, Emilie is just as beautiful, de-
lightful, and charming as you can
imagine. We all thanked Lag for his
significant contribution to the class
and the party.

Then Ed Cranch pulled the dig-
nity of the party back together
(though Joe Marcus didn't give him
much peace!). Ed gave us a quick,
thoughtful, and interesting review of
what he sees at WPI, and where he'd
like to lead it. It's unfortunate that
his talk can't be reviewed here, but
suffice it to say the Class of '44 heart-
ily approved.

Then to recognition of Blitz
Krieger, who traveled the farthest,
from California, and he had the
oldest grandchild too, at 19. John and
Margie Bjork had the youngest
youngster, age 10. Art Pingalore had
the most hair, Frank Williams the
least, and Don Gilrein had the most
grandchildren, 7.

After this, there were a few
smart remarks by Jim and others. Af-
ter a good deal of this sort of foolish-
ness, the party broke up, but not be-
fore Jim led us in the class song (not
the alma mater, but "The Smoke
Went Up the Chimney"). And every-
one promised to be back for our 40th.

Kimball R. Woodbury

The Class of 1954's
25th Reunion

Twenty-five years go by quickly.
They must, because no one had really
changed, and it seemed like only yes-
terday that we had been together.
This was the festive tone of our Re-
union Weekend, and for the 50 mem-
bers of our class (along with 46 wives
and 8 children) it was a milestone to
remember. It was a super weekend.

It all started with the opening of
our Hospitality Headquarters Suite in
the Fuller Residence, which became
the focal point for all our activities.
We even resurrected the "Goat's
Head" for the occasion. King and Dee
Webster served as the hosts, assisted
by Lee and Rose Catineau, Bob and
Jackie Niro, Bob and Del Labonte, Ed
and Dianne Shivell, and Paul and Ju-
lie Alasso. The Suite always had
someone coming or going and made
for an ideal place to congregate, par-
ticularly after the Banquet. At that
point we had about 100 people. We
still cannot understand it — we
didn't run out of either beer or good
conversation!

The Reunion Luncheon gave
Don Ross, our Class Gift Committee
Chairman, an opportunity to present
our nearly $40,000 gift -- which,
with matching funds added in, ap-
proached $60,000. This was a record
for a 25th anniversary class gift.
These funds will be applied to a proj-
ect still to be identified. Don and his
committee will advise.

Mentioning participation, our
Reunion featured the largest atten-
dance ever by a 25th anniversary
class. It appears that our interest and
enthusiasm haven't changed.

The Reunion reception at the
home of President and Mrs. Cranch
afforded an opportunity to meet
them and discuss WPI and to social-
ize. And it prepared us properly for
the Banquet.

The Banquet was superb, thanks
to the Alumni Office, the caterer,
and, more particularly, to Paul Alasso,
Bob Niro, and Lee Catineau, who
planned it. Lee also served as the
Master of Ceremonies and combined
levity and sobriety in a brief program
that highlighted members of the

class, the personality of the class,
things that happened while at Tech,
and the events leading up to the Re-
union.

All our Class Officers were
present: Dave Gilbert, Joe Fratino, Ro-
ger Osell, and Tom Kee. Dave com-
mented on the turnout and recog-
nized Don Ross and Ed Shivell for
their efforts as Chairmen of the Re-
union Gift and Reunion Committees.
Both Don and Ed thanked their re-
spective committees for their efforts
in making both efforts highly suc-
cessful.

The Reunion Gift Committee in-
cluded Don, Howie Nelson, Roger
Osell, Ed Power, and Ed Shivell. The
Reunion Committee included Ed,
Paul Alasso, Lee Catineau, Bob La-
bonte, Bob Niro, Howie Nelson, Ro-
ger Osell, and King Webster.

Our special guests for the week-
end and banquet were Bob and Ruth
Wagner, Ray and Joyce Hagglund, and
Carl and Arlene Koontz. Charlie and
Marianne McNulty were unable to
attend because Charlie had just been
released from the hospital. Bob
Wagner reflected back on some of the
memebers of our class, like Dick
Gilbert, Dick Byrnes, Bill Seubert, Al
Costantin, and Hank Strage. Carl
Koontz recalled his memories of the
civil engineering graduates by
highlighting Doug McLaren, Jack
Malloy, Joe Fratino, Dick Popp, and
Hugh Tufts. Now we know why Pro-
fessor Knight looked tired at times.
Right, Joe?

The Yearbook was distributed at
the Banquet, along with appropriate
comments by Bob Labonte, who as-
sembled the information and oversaw
its publication with the help of the
Alumni Office. From the statistics, it
was obvious that members of our
class have been successful profession-
ally, with 59 percent now in senior
management or higher positions.
These successes were also reflected
in our commitments to marriage,
family, and Tech. The 3.2 children per
family was analyzed as symptomatic
of highly active libidos — that's sexy
engineers.

Friday night found early arrivals
renewing fond memories of favorite
eating spots in Worcester. A group
composed of Dave and Fran Gilbert,
King and Dee Webster, Dave and
Carol Bisson, Bob and Jackie Niro,
Bob and Del Labonte, Joe and Rose
Fratino, and Ed and Dianne Shivell
found their way to Dino's for Italian
cuisine. Dick and Betty Byrnes and
Fabian and Annette Pinkham sought
out a steak house. Fabian is the re-
tired (?) member of our class, and a
sonderful example of an active, vi-
brant person. He said he just couldn't
find time to work now, although he
does consult. The Fijis renewed frater-
nity bonds at Ed Morocco, where Paul
and Julie Alasso, Elmer and Pat Cor-
ujo, Dick and Gwen Popp, Walt and
Harriet Stewart, Hugh and Joan Tufts,
Otto and Joyce Wahlrab, and Howie
and Bebe Whittle assembled. They la-
ter returned to the Hospitality Suite

and reportedly some helped close it
at around 3:00 a.m. Elmer Corujo had
travelled all the way from South
America, where he was on business,
for this occasion and our Reunion.

Mentioning those that travelled
some distances to attend the Re-
union: Saul and Enola Kabbani ar-
rived from Jidda, Saudi Arabia. Lee
presented him with a can of oil at the
Banquet. Saul in turn made some per-
tinent remarks about the oil problem
and his country. Hank and Alberta
Strage came in from London and were
joined by their son, who is attending
Colby College. Hank's executive posi-
tion with McKinsey & Co. makes
him a regular visitor the the U.S.

In summary, when you add the
familiar names of Owen Allen, Dick
Linquist, Clayton Brown, Harry Cha-
pell, Frank Ganari, Adrian Horovitz,
George Idles, George Kay, Joe King,
Dave Lamarre, Paul London, Russ
Lussier, Marvin McCoy, Mai McLeod,
Ray Naudin, Werner Neupert, Larry
Sanborn, Gordon Walters, and Walt
Dziura (and their wives and guests) to
the list, then interweave Tech stories
with exchanges about family and
friends, discussions of professional,
world, and business situations, and fi-
nally stir in good fellowship, it all
equates to an outstanding and memo-
rable reunion. It was a super 25th,
thanks to the Committee, the
Alumni Office staff, and above all,
those who came. Well see you at the
30th ... or before.

Summer 1979 /The WPl Journal/ 29

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Can you help us out?

There are some 700 WPI alumni whose addresses we've somehow lost track of.
If you know a current address for any of these people, would you please drop
us a note and let us know. (And if by some chance you find yourself on this
list even though you're still receiving material (like this Journal) from us, well
that probably means our computer hiccupped (#*HIC*&). We'd appreciate hear-
ing about that, too.

In either case, just use the postage-paid reply card which is bound into the
magazine.

P.S. If you don't happen to know any of these addresses, please feel free to use
the card to give us some information about yourself — your personal and fam-
ily life, what's going on with your career, anything that you might want your
classmates to read about in "Your Class and Others."

Louis D. Soloway, '35
Joseph A. Sukaskas, '35
Russell H. Wood, '35
William F. Atwood, Jr., '36
Thomas J. Healey, Jr., '36
William Miseveth, '36
Frank Ellsworth, '37
Roland O. Farrar, '37
James F. Swartwout, Jr., '37
Russell Jennings, '38

P.P.S. Thanks a lot for your help.

James H. Clancy, '90
Frederic H. Leland, '95
Robert H. Taylor, '95
Edward L. Cullen, '96
Charles V. Walter, '96
Edward G. Beckwith, '97
Juan Irigoyen, '00
Roy G. Lewis, '00
Harry W. F Dunklee, '01

Winfred M. Adams, '02
Chester A. Bacon, '03
Herbert W. Tufts, '03
Elipidio Del. Werneck, '03
Manuel G. Rosado, '05
Ralph S. Forsstedt, '06
Walter P. Ingham, '06
George G. Whitney, '07
Elliott A. Allen, '08
Victor E. Friden, '09

Stephen M. Poutier, '10
James F. Thompson, '10
Martin H. Jachens, '11
Arvid I. Peterson, '11
William I. Randall, '11
D. Blair Foster, '12
Royal B. Libby, '12
Robert W Mungall, '12
Franklin Wyman, '12
Stanley M. Gunn, '13

Charles O. Snow, '13
Edward H. Vance, '13
Harry D. Stephens, '14
Warren L. Ellis, '15
John W. Gleason, '15
Gilbert M. Ireland, '16
Joaquim de R. Junqueira,
Raymond H. Page, '16
Herbert C. Kelly, '17
Rupert C. Pomeroy, '17

Walter I. Stearns, '17
Edward L. Anton, '18
Lewis F. Lionvale, '18
Frank J. Murphy, '18
James E. Arnold, '19

16

Hans E. Anderson, '21
George A. Bijur, '21
Milton W. Graff, '21
Joseph F. Scanlan, '21
Joseph T. Fanning, '22

Francis W. Harney, '22
Edmond G. Reed, '23
Sidney H. Avery, '24
Richard F. Whitcomb, '24
Kenneth G. Broman, '25
Tzu-Hzu Chou, '25
Charles E. Crang, '25
John J. Hynes, '25
Thomas F. Plummer, '25
George C. Chow, '27

Yat W. Chow, '27
Ronald E. Jones, '27
Maxwell L. Stoughton, '27
Gordon N. McColley, '28
Leo J. Melican, '28
Allerton R. Cushman, '29
Alvar O. Ericson, '30
Irving Joseph, '30
Paul R. Nelson, '30
Arthur F. Pierce, Jr., '30

Charles K. Aldrich, '31
Francis O. Carlstrom, '31
Jay M. Harpell Saigon (id), '31
Arthur B. Brainerd, Jr., '32
Edward F Donohue, '32
George E. Oman, '32
Frederick R. Asserson, '33
Ellis R. Brown, '33
Stephen S. Haynes, '33
Wright H. Manvel, '33

John J. Molloy, Jr., '33
Charles H. Newsome, '33
William A. Michalek, '34
George W. Axelby, '35
Robert M. Cape, '35
Clayton G. Cleverly, Jr., '35
Raymond G. Desrochers, '35
Frank O. Holmes, Jr., '35
George A. Mitchell, '35
Alvaro A. Silva, '35

30 /The WPI Journal / Summer 1979

Samuel A. A. Aaron, '39
S. Richard Abbott, '39
Irving W. Forde, '39
Robert J. Hamilton, '39
Laurence M. Howarth, '39
John W. Hughes, '39
Fred J. Kraemer, Jr., '39
Raymond B. Piper, '39
Charles S. Stevens, '39
Lennart Brune, '40

Robert J. Cannon, '40
Rolfe G. Johnson, '40
Joseph J. Platukis, '40
Bernard Polonsky, '40
Willard J. Riddick, Jr., '40
Harry E. Stirling, '40
Alfred F. Andersen, '41
Burgess P. Brownson, '41
Rev Edward G Jacober, '41
John F. McElroy, '41

Paul G. Nystrom, '41
Jerome E. Schread, '41
Frederick S. Sherwin, '41
Chamroon Tishyanandana, '41
Morris C. Chu, '42
Alan Crowell, '42
Burton Franklin, '42
David L. Hartwell, '42
Kenneth T Hunt, '42
William S. Allan, Jr., '43

Alexander J. Belmonte, '43
George Cagen, '43
Everett W. Dunlap, '43
Carl E. Hartbower, '43
James L. Loom is, Jr., '43
Edwin H. Matasik, '43
Clifford B. Moller, '43
Harold E. O'Malley, '43
Marshall B. Raybin, '43
Dr. George P. Scott, '43

Louis J. Baldini, '44
Richard T. Brown, '44
Capt. Alan C. Gault, '44
Peter E. Talley, '44
George E. Titterton, '44
Harrison Bragdon, '45
Donald M. Campbell, '45
Cmdr. Kenneth B. Hofstra, '45
Clifford E. Lanigan, '45
Leonard F. Moore, '45

Alvi T Twing, Jr., '45
Philip S. Adams, '46
Irwin G. Benkert, '46
Gaetano Biuso, '46
John M. Considine, '46
Anthony L. Daoundakis, '46
Charles J. Gose, Jr., '46
Robert N. Gregoroff, '46
Christopher A. Herbert, '46
William J. Kelly, '46

Dr. Myer Krulfeld, '46
Alan Y. Levine, '46
John M. Longo, '46
Philip R. Loshin, '46
James J. Malley, Jr., '46
Dr. Karl M. Mayer, '46
Howard F. McCormick, Jr., '46
Allan W. McCoy, '46
Elton K. Morice, Jr., '46
John C. Osborn, '46

Alvin M. Ross, '46
Sidney S. Sperling, '46
Jose R. Biamon, '47
August L. Flotteron, Jr., '47
Roland H. Guay, '47
William Longmuir, '47
Vaikunth C. Thakar, '47
Benjamin B. Barker, Jr., '48
David I. Caplan, '48
Harold J. Devlin, '48

Julian H. Jacobs, '48
Birger D. Lund, Jr., '48
Paul J. Martin, '48
Joseph R. McBride, '48
William R. Olha, '48
Shou L. Pan, '48
Frederick R. Paul, '48
Franklin J. Powers, '48
Per Roed, '48
Leonard D. Rood, '48

Kenneth E. Whatmore, '48
Thomas H. Wyllie, Jr., '48
Kinsley A. Ball, Jr., '49
Elmer R. Griffith, Jr., '49
Frederick S. Jenkins, Jr., '49
John E. McCarthy, '49
Tsu-Yen Mei, '49
Capt. James B. Morin, '49
William H. B Parr, '49
Harry J. Rogers, '49

Vernon H. Russell, '49
Joseph T. Starr, '49
John R. Adams, '50
Philip L. Barbaccia, '50
Fred A. Carmody, '50
Gerald Fleit, '50
Morey L. Hodgman, '50
Robert L. Tagen, '50
Guido Biagini, '51
George M. Cooley, '51

Ellsworth R. Cramer, '51
Constantino Mustakis, '51
Mehmet R. Ozbas, '51
Ratanshaw K. Patel, '51
Richard E. Snyder, '51
Mustafa T. Sonmez, '51
Dick van den Berge, '51
David F. Wright, '51
Bernard G. Ziobrowski, '51
Robert C. Henegan, '52

Jack Y. T Kwan, '52
Edmund M. Luzgauskas, '52
Lysle P. Parlett, '52
Bernard J. Petrillo, '52
Yasar Yurdal, '52
Stanley C. Andrukonis, '53
Thomas J. Bagley, '53
Karl H. Bissell, Jr., '53
Harrison V. Carter, Jr., '53
Martin R. Cohen, '53

Ernest E. Demar, '53
Joseph A. Holmes, '53
Leroy W. Madison, '53
Carl W. Martilla, '53
Hugh R. McLaughlin, '53
David C. Morrison, '53
Richard W. Morton, '53
Paul C. Murray, '53
Harold G. Rackett, '53
Philip R. Randall, '53

George L. Rousseau, '53
Dr. Wu Mei Yao, '53
Albert L. Zuck, '53
James Hamilton, '54
Ernest R. Hooks, '54
Souren Jaffarian, Jr., '54
Framrose M. Karani, '54
Abdul H. Kazi, '54
James F King, '54
Roy G. Lent, '54

Jack K. Mackowiak, '54
Robert V. Mahon, '54
William J. Mahota, Jr., '54
Robert R. McMillan, '54
Leonard V. Mello, '54
Robert S. Nahas, '54
James E. Clampett, '55
Louis A. Larini, '55
Markar A. D. Markarian, '55
Richard C. Oldham, '55

Alan F. Petit, '55
Joseph K. Ryan, Jr., '55
Leslie C. Street, '55
Antonio Aranguren, '56
Frederic A. Highman, '56
James C. Kubik, '56
John H. Lillibridge III, '56
Juozas Orentas, '56
Hebert P. Schoeck, Jr., '56
Christos G. Alex, '57

Lawrence E. Alston, '57
Ma] Joseph J Arcari, '57
Santo M. Bramande, '57
James F. Fournier, '57
Frank R. Goodwin, '57
Thordur Grondal, '57
Joseph D. Grzyb, Jr., '57
Willis A. Gunning, '57
Stanley Hass, '57
Richard F. Heyelman, '57

Paul J. Janda, '57
Donald H. Morse, '57
Barrera A. Ramirez, '57
Michael Spiegel, '57
Israel Sverner, '57
Benjamin G. Uy, '57
Roger R. Billings, '58
William L. Byars III. '58
Richard H. Campbell, '58
Joseph L. Chenail, '58

Robert D. Crooker, '58
T. William Curran, '58
John F Daly, '58
Robert J. Dunn, '58
Charles G. Fyfe, '58
Frank K. Lind, '58
Richard E. Lorenz, '58
Nicholas S. Petralias, '58
Dr. Sherman K. Poultney, '58
Roger W. Reynolds, '58

Frank A. Seidel, '58
J. Clifford Wiersma, '58
Thomas M. Wood, '58
John A. Beede, '59
Alan E. Benson, '59
Fred D. Blonder, '59
Ralph A. Huey, '59
Roberto Jaramillo, Jr., '59
James W. Mahoney, '59
Davis C. McLeod, '59

Robert W. Milik, Jr., '59
Robert B. Palmer, '59
Harvey J. Rosenfeld, '59
Arthur C. Seelye, '59
Ozden Asian, '60
Arthur D. Brook, '60
Donald J. Busteed, '60
William M. Cannon, '60
George V. Cashen, Sr, '60
Dr. Jo-Chao Chueh, '60

Gungor Dagistanli, '60
Terrence M. Dupuis, '60
John N. Galian, '60
Richard S. Johnson, '60
Stuart W. Macomber, '60
Frank R. Materese, '60
Edward D. McGrath, '60
Capt. Allen R. Miliefsky, '60
Paul C. Miller, '60
Robert M. Neal, '60

John V. O'Keefe, '60
Kenneth Roberts, '60
Peter H. Schneider, '60
Capt. Howard D. Stephenson,
Maung T, Swe, '60
Ara Tutunjian, '60
David I. Westling, '60
Lt. J. Warren Alford, '61
Brother Augustine Bemis, '61
George R. Bolduc, '61

Kayhan Boro, '61
Douglas H. Cormier, '61
Eduardo Cruz, '61
Terry W. Donovan, '61
Evan G. Duane, '61
Suat Gonen, '61
C William Hayes, '61
Norman P. Johnson, '61
John W. Kappel, '61
Swang Lee-Aphon, '61

'60

Steven H. Lerman, '61

Richard A. Levendusky, '61

Russell C. Lockwood, Jr., '61

George Matassov, '61

Maung T. Maung, '61

Dr. Timothy C. Meyers, Jr., '61

John C. Nicholson, '61

John C. Nicholson, '61

Gordon B. Phillips, '61

Lt. Cdr. Leonard E. Pickens, '61

John A. Rossi, '61
Donald E. Schaaf, '61
George M. Storti, '61
Theodore S. Strojny, '61
Dominic E. Tutino, '61
Donald W. Wilmot, '61
Maung N. Win, '61
Alfred A. Arterton, '62
Haines J. Boyle, '62
Yigit Bozkurt, '62

Robert D. Britton, '62
Mehmet I. Can, '62
Victor B. Castellani, '62
William P. Earley, '62
John S. Golder, '62
Joel L. Gordon, '62
Richard D. Hartley, '62
Captain Jackie P Matteus, '62
Robert G. McDonald, '62
Michael A. Moses, '62

Nelson E. Parmelee, '62
Richard S. Price, '62
William H. C. Reinert, '62
Albert M. Rockwell, Jr., '62
Arve Syverud, '62
Basat H. Tilkicioglu, '62
Raymond M. Akerson, Jr., '63
Paul Y Chan, '63
Thomas W. Greisamer, '63
G. William Hartman, '63

Perry O. Kearney, Jr., '63
Cyrille H. Lafrance, '63
Harry P. Mclntyre, Jr., '63
William P. Morrison, '63
Pundalik U. Prabhu, '63
Francis E. Spring, Jr., '63
Gordon O. Stearns, '63
Kendal B. Turner, '63
Gordon M. Ware, '63
Dr. Paul G. Amazeen, '64

Stanley J. Andrysiak, '64
Bernard Baron, '64
Krishnakumar V. Chaudhary, '64
Donald J. Coleman, '64
Victor A. Dushku, '64
Capt. Harry G. Fager, Jr., '64
Robert A. Frenette, '64
William S. Fryer, '64
Geraldine V Geroux, '64
George E. Hammond, '64

William B. Lechmann, '64

Major Clifford M. Macdonald, Jr., '64

Peter C. Trombi, '64

D. Ralph Whiterell, '64

John Wofford, Jr., '64

John T Apostolos, '65

Rajkumar K. Bajaj, '65

Lt. Desha M. Beamer, '65

Michael W. Boyd, '65

James B. Calvin, '65

Dr. Jerry C. Chen, '65
Arthur M. Dickey, '65
Mahesh S. Dixet, '65
Aloysius S. Dzura, '65
Lt. Robert B. Edwards, '65
Dr. Robert W. Hermes, '65
Robert W. Kendrick, '65
Antanas S. Liutkus, '65
John F Madden, Jr., '65
Sunil M. Mehta, '65

Charles F. Merry, '65

Lt. Cmdr. George W. Mitschang, '65

James P. Molloy, '65

William L. Rosen, '65

Dennis J. Simanaitis, '65

Leo G. St. Denis, '65

AN H. Ustay, '65

Dihp V Vora, '65

Kenneth M. Bell, '66

Stephen Berman, '66

Robert G. Bertrand, '66
Satish H. Bhatt, '66
David M. Burwen, '66
Gary P. Cassery, '66
Omer M. Cavusoglu, '66
Shailesh V Dave, '66
Sharad B. Doshi, '66
Dwight S. Evans, '66
Paul F Flaherty, '66
George H. Flynn, '66

Robert G. Bertrand, '66
Satish H. Bhatt, '66
David M. Burwen, '66
Gary P. Cassery, '66
Omer M. Cavusoglu, '66
Shailesh V. Dave, '66
Sharad B. Doshi, '66
Dwight S. Evans, '66
Paul F Flaherty, '66
George H. Flynn, '66

Paul F Glodis, '66
Roberto Huyke-Luigi, '66
Stephen K. Kaiser, '66
Ahmet G. Kozanoglu, '66
Gerald W. Lucas, '66
Ahmet Mavitan, '66
Orlando R. Mendez, '66
Errold F. Moody, Jr., '66
John A. Nordstrom, '66
1st Lt. Geoffrey Potter, '66

James F. Randall, '66
Albert W. Robinson, '66
Edgar P. Rundlett, Jr., '66
Ramanik N. Savla, '66
Raymond A. Wheeler, '66
Subhashchandra N. Amin, '67
James R. Braithwaite, '67
Athanassios H. Canatsoulis, '67
Mahendra K. Dave, '67
Byron L. Dennison, '67

Dhaval R. Kikani, '67
Mitchell P. Koziol, '67
Leonard J. Lamberti, '67
Mohmedjarid M. Malek, '67
David R. Malley, '67
Ajit M. Mody, '67
Rajendra M. Pandya, '67
Kenneth R. Prefontaine, '67
Herbert S. Riddle, Jr., '67
2nd Lt. Richard A. Shaw, '67

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Summer 1919 /The WPI journal/ 31

1909

Lester Carter and his wife marked their
56th wedding anniversary on May 2nd. He
says, "Health is fair with arthritis. Wife is
also fair. Graduated 70 years in June."

1921

Secretary:
Carleton F Bolles
Green Pastures, RFD
Walpole, NH
03608

Rhea and Edward Rose celebrated their
57th wedding anniversary on February 21
1979.

1923

Charles Fram, editor and general manager
of the magazine, Southern Printer, was
honored in November by the Ernest H.
Abernethy Publishing Company, Inc., on
the occasion of his 50th year with the firm.
Charlie is a corporate vice president and
also serves as editor and general manager
of Southern Jeweler. The celebration was
held at the Piedmont Driving Club in At-
lanta, Ga.

1928

Secretaries Representative:

G iff ord T Cook Gabriel O Bedard

Rt 3 Box 294 Keyes Perry Acres 1 32 Marsden St.
Harpers Ferry, WV Springfield, MA

25425 01109

Theodore J Englund
70 Eastwood Rd
Shrewsbury, MA
01545

The Winslow C. Wentworths celebrated
their 5oth wedding anniversary on March
23rd in Turners Falls, Mass. Mrs.
Wentworth graduated from Westfield
Normal School and taught in the city of
Westfield. Her husband, who is retired
from Western Massachusetts Electric Co.,
is a former chairman of the Greenfield
Co-operative Bank board of directors.
Presently, he serves as president of the
Franklin County Home Care Corp. and as a
trustee of Farren Memorial Hospital. The
Wentworths have two sons, three grand-
children, and five greatgrandchildren.

1914

John Desmond of Rochester, N.Y., writes
that he celebrated his 89th birthday on

May 3rd Chester Inman has received a

60-year plaque from the American Society
for Metals. For 34 years he has been a
continuous member of the Worcester
Chapter of ASM, and is chairman emeritus
of the executive committee. He is a fellow
of the Society. ASM has over 42 ,000 mem-
bers.

1919

Secretary:
Edwin W Bemis
10DrydenRd
Brick Town, NJ
08723

Ray Heffernan, chairman of the board of
the H.H. Brown Shoe Company, New York
City, received an honorary doctor of
humane letters in May from Mercy Col-
lege, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Mr. Heffernan has
been responsible for the growth of the firm
from a small company to one of the leaders
of the shoe industry. H.H. Brown's sales
exceeded $100 million last year. Long as-
sociated with higher education, he has
served on the boards of several distin-
guished institutions. He is also active in
Westchester civic circles and belongs to the
board of trustees of St. Vincent's Hospital
in Harrison. He is a member of the Presi-
dent's Advisory Council at WPI.

1926

Secretary
Arthur C Parsons
51 AndoverSt
Worcester, MA
01606

Ken Archibald continues as executive vice
president of the Springfield (Vt.) Chamber
of Commerce, a post he has held for ten
years. Previously, he was with New York
Telephone for 41 years. . . . A.H. Wendin
recently helped build a replica of "The Spirit
of St. Louis" (III), his contribution being
largely the wooden wing frames. Now
summering in San Diego, he expects one of
the highlights of his vacation will be seeing
the "Spirit" fly. He is also planning a trip
East for a week at the Creative Problem
Solving Institute in Buffalo, a stop in Fair-
field, Conn., to see family and friends, and
other stops in Worcester and Rockport,
Maine. Last winter he vacationed on the
beach at Puerto Penasco, Mexico.

1927

Secretary
William M Rauha
4WhiffletreeRd.
West Yarmouth, MA
02673

Harold Eastman writes: "I wish I might
have been on the Hill under the WPI Plan.

1930

Secretary Representative:

Carl W Backstrom Carl W, Backstrom

113 Winifred Ave
Worcester, MA
01602

Charles Cole writes he is "enjoying retire-
ment in Florida with summers on Cape
Cod." . . . Our champion bicycle rider, Ed
"Foxy Grandpa" Delano was struck down
by a truck during a time trial last fall and
received a broken leg. Ed informed his
doctors that he intends to continue his
racing career. The medics did a natural
bionics job on his leg by removing a slab of
bone from his hip and attaching it as rein-
forcement to his leg bone. Competitors will
be "pleased" to hear that this arrangement
may well furnish extra pedaling strength to
the leg. Ed, healing well, intends to pedal
3100 miles to his 50th reunion in 1980. This
ought to inspire the rest of the class to
come to reunion to see this remarkable
rider . Daniel O'Grady has been ap-
pointed chairman of a drive to endow
principal players' chairs for the Cape Cod
Symphony Orchestra during the orchestra
association's 1979 Sustaining Fund Cam-
paign. Dan is the retired general commer-
cial manager and executive assistant to the
president of New England Telephone Co.
He is a trustee emeritus of WPI, a member
of the board of the American (and Mas-
sachusetts) Lung Association, president of
the Woods Hole Golf Club, and a trustee of
the Cape Cod Symphony.

32 /The WPI journal / Summer 1979

1932

Representative:
Howard P Lekberg
RFD 115 Main St
East Douglas, MA
01516

Jan Dowgielewicz, formerly with the Mas-
sachusetts Department of Public Works,
has retired. . . . Russ Purrington, who
retired from the Northeast Utilities System
office in Breslin, Conn., six years ago as
supervisor of maintenance of steam and
hydro plants, writes that he is currently
doing lots of fishing. He has a 28-foot cabin
cruiser which he keeps at Niantic, Conn.

1935

1939

1933

Secretary

Representative

Sumner B Sweetser

Robert E Ferguson

100 Pine Grove Ave

36 Lake Ave

Summit, NJ

Leicester, MA

07901

01524

Harold Hammer says, "Enjoying Florida
living very much." Harold, a resident of
Winter Haven, reports that his grand-
daughter, Kim, graduated from Baypath in
May. His oldest grandson, Jody Weath-
erwax, is at Virginia Military Institute and
has broken the school track record for 1 500
meters three times (Best time: 3:48). . . .
John Henrickson and his wife, Evelyn, are
playing lots of golf at Sun City Center in
Florida. They also go fishing and play
bridge with "many friendly people from all
walks of life in the U.S.A." John serves as
chairman of the Consumer Affairs Commit-
tee of the Home Owners Association. . . .
Albert White, Jr. has several hobbies, one
of which is to walk fast about ten miles a
day. He is retired from the federal Civil
Service.

1934

Secretary:

Dwight J Dwinell
Box 265

Brownmgton, VT
05860

Representative
Dwight J Dwinell

C. Standish Beebe, who retired from Pfizer
Inc. after 32 years as plant engineer and
construction manager, is the newly ap-
pointed executive coordinator of the New
England Construction Users Council. He
uses his home as his office.

Secretary:

Representative

Secretary

Representative:

Raymond F. Starrett

Plummer Wiley

Charles H Amidon, Jr

C John Lindegren, Jr

Continental Country Club

2906 Silver Hill Ave

636 Salisbury St

21 Prospect St

Box 104

Baltimore, MD

Holden, MA

Shrewsbury, MA

Wild wood, FL

21207

01520

01545

32785

Karl Bohaker has retired from the Electrical
Products Croup of AMF, Inc., and has
moved to Pitman, N.J. . . . Edward Cove,
who has been retired for several years, says
that there is plenty to do on Cape Cod the
year 'round. "There is no shortage of ac-
tivities."

Sam Hakam says he's "politically active
in order to get some corrective legislation
on the products liability nightmare." . . .
Roger Lawton is retired from Electric Boat
in Groton, Conn. Currently, he manages
the Lawton "tree farm" in Athol, Mass.,
and enjoys golf, tennis, and skiing. He
plans to continue his retirement in the
Mystic, Conn, area, where he has lived for
24 years.

1936

Secretary

Harold F. Henrickson

1406 Fox Hill Dr

Sun City Center, FL

33570

Representative
Walter C Dahlstrom
9 Jewett Terr
Worcester, MA
01605

Roslyn and N. Robert Levine took a trip to
Israel in May. . . . George Wood retired last
October from the Homelite Division of
Textron, Inc. He enjoys photography and
travel.

1937

Secretary:
Richard J Lyman
10HillcrestRd
Medfield, MA
02052

Representative:
Richard J. Lyman

Now retired, Carl Otto is having a "life of
sunshine, hunting and fishing." . . . Says
Raymond Schuh, "Retirement can't be
beat."

1938

Secretary.

Representative

Emory K Rogers

Albert L Delude, Jr

141 Lanyon Dr.

261 Garden City Dr

Cheshire, CT

Cranston, Rl

06410

02910

Carl Keyser is retired, and is an "author,
more or less." He lives in North Hampton,
N.H., with his wife, Dorothy, whom he lists
as his "employer."

Edward Roszko retired as plant superin-
tendent of production in the Petchem area
of du Punt on Jan. 31st. After receiving his
master's in chemical engineering from WPI
in 1 941 , he joined du Pont in the analytical
group at Jackson Laboratory. In 1942 he
moved to the semi-works operation. Dur-
ing World War II, he was a supervisor in the
chlorine area. In 1 949 he transferred to
camphor. Ed moved to T.E.L. as a super-
visor in the batch processes in 1950, and in
1 951 he was assigned as coordinator of
design and start-up of the T.E.L. continu-
ous plant. He was made senior supervisor
at "A" plant in 1953. Also, in 1965, he was
assigned to the du Pont of Canada project
to coordinate design and start-up of the
lead alkyl plant. In 1966 he returned to
Jackson Laboratory, where he was made a
division head. He became chief supervisor
of the T.E.L. area in 1968. In 1970 he was
promoted to superintendent of the
Chamber Works Power Division. Two years
later he was named superintendent of the
Petroleum Chemicals Manufacturing Divi-
sion.

Ed has been active in scouting and civic
affairs in Upper Penns Neck. He was chair-
man of the Upper Penns Neck Sewerage
Authority, and a member of the Technical
Advisory Committee for the Deepwater
Regional Treatment Facility. He belongs to
the Rotary Club and is on the board of the
Salem Community College Foundation.
During retirement, Ed plans to travel, read,
golf, and garden.

Walter Abel has found a new way to
improve his skiing technique. He straps to
his chest a small tape player, which plays
soothing music while he is skiing. He claims
that this method will turn a novice into an
intermediate in a weekend. Among his
favorite tunes are "East Side, West Side"
and "Red Roses For A Blue Lady." Usually
other skiers, hearing Abel's music, follow
him Pied Piper fashion down the slopes.
"Skiing to music makes you lose track of
the day," he says. "Back at work on Mon-
day morning, you're ready to fight
wildcats!"

Recently, Amet Powell served as an ACS
councilor at the American Chemical Society
and Chemical Society of Japan joint meet-
ing in Honolulu. Attending the interna-
tional conference were chemical society
representatives from Canada, Australia,
and New Zealand. Twelve delegates came
from China, nine of whom gave papers.

Summer 1979 /The WPI Journal/ 33

i94i

Secretary:
Russell W Parks
7250 Brill Rd
Cincinnati, OH
45243

Representative:
Robert A Muir
529 Pearl St.
Reading, MA
01867

Walter Kennedy was recently promoted to
assistant to the general manager, plastic
products group, bag division, at Union
Camp Corp., Wayne, N.J. He had been
assistant to the general manager in the
honeycomb division. In his new post, he
will continue to be headquartered at Union
Camp's corporate offices in Wayne. ... Ed
Pacek is a director and public relations man
at Rocky Point Park in Warwick, R.I.

I942

Representative:
Norman A Wilson
17 Cranbrook Dr
Holden, MA
01520

Wilbur Day's family has "increased by two
new daughters-in-law and one new
granddaughter." He has a total of four
grandchildren. . . . James Houlihan was
recently appointed vice president of re-
search and development for the Milton
Bradley Game and Educational Divisions in
Springfield, Mass. In 1952 he started with
the company as chief chemist. As manager
of game development and, later, as direc-
tor of research and development and direc-
tor of the Advanced Research and Devel-
opment Department, he has been respon-
sible for many new product introductions.
During World War II, he was a weather
forecaster in the Navy. Currently, he is a
lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve, and
teaches weather forecasting in the U.S.
Power Squadron.

David Nyquist writes that he is "still
involved with ports and ships as assistant
general manager of the Chicago Regional
Port District.". . . Frank Sama, who is retired
from Turbo Power & Marine Systems, Inc.,
says that he is enjoying part-time work
with his son in the lumber and building
supply business in Maine. He is proud of his
two granddaughters, ages 1 3 and 1 1 .

1943

Representative:

Behrends Messer, Jr

Mobil Research & Development

PO. Box 1026

Princeton, NJ

08540

Donald Russell's daughter, Nancy, the
oldest of four children, is married and is in
public health consulting work in Menlo
Park, Calif. Bob, the youngest, is an honor

student at Wentworth Institute. . . . Perry
Fraser now serves as senior development
engineer at Mechanical Technology Incor-
porated. He is located in Scotia, N.Y.

1944

Secretary:
JohnG Underhill
6706 Barkworth Dr
Dallas, TX
75248

Representative
John A Bjork
1 1 Tylee Ave
Worcester, MA
01605

^Married: Erling Lagerholm to Emilie W.
Hofmann recently in Cambridge, Mas-
sachusetts. Mrs. Lagerholm graduated
from Vassar and is a yoga teacher in Wes-
ton. Her husband is a real estate counselor
for Norwood Group International, Inc. of
Boston.

Continuing with GE, Floyd Smith is a
sales representative for the firm's lamp
division in Greenville, S.C. . . . George
Williams has been promoted to manager
of fuels, electric operations, at New En-
gland Gas & Electric System, headquar-
tered at Canal Electric in Sandwich, Mass.
He joined NEGEA Service Corp., Cam-
bridge, several years after "retiring" from
Bailey Meter Co.-Babcock & Wilcox. In
1977 he was promoted to mechanical
engineer.

1945

Representative:

Robert E Scott

Allendale Mutual Insurance Co

PO Box 7500

Johnstown, Rl

02919

Robert Buck writes: "Planning on retiring
from the government at the end of June."
... Dr. Carl Clark, a physical scientist, has
been named inventor contact for the Office
of Passenger Research, a branch of the
National Highway Traffic Safety Adminis-
tration in Washington, D.C. He is con-
cerned with the redesign of the au-
tomobile. . William Densmore is the
newly appointed vice president of abrasive
operations in the U.S. and Canada for
Norton Co. He had been vice president and
general manager of the grinding wheel
division since 1971 . In 1946, he started as
an industrial engineer at Norton. He is a
registered professional engineer, and a
member of the Management Board of Ad-
visors at WPI. . . . Charles Shattuck is a
manager of manufacturing engineering at
Nashua (N.H.) Corp.

1946

Secretaries: Representative:

M Daniel Lacedonia George R Morin, Jr

106 Ridge Rd 81 Park Ave

East Longmeadow, MA Keene, NH

01028 03431

George H Conley, Jr
213 Stevens Dr
Pittsburgh, PA
15236

Eugene Ritter holds the post of plant man-
ager at Lehn & Fink in Toledo, Ohio.

1948

Secretary
Paul E. Evans
69ClairmontSt
Longmeadow, MA
01106

Representative
John J Concordia
36 Summer St
Shrewsbury, MA
01545

David Anthony has left Texas Instruments
to "semi-retire." He has cut his daily com-
mute from 1 50 to four miles, and is now
doing some drafting and estimating for a
local (Columbus, Texas) building contrac-
tor. . . . Lawrence Hine says he has "No
news, really, but could make so many
comments on our contemporary American
society that it would fill a book." He has
three daughters, one 24 and married;
another 21 and a college senior; and the
last, 1 6, a high school sophomore, who has
just gotten her driver's license. "To say the
least, their world is not the same as mine."

Norman Lourie holds the post of vice
president of engineering at Wang
Laboratories in Lowell, Mass., with major
facilities throughout Middlesex County.
According to Lourie, Wang is enjoying a
prosperous growth in both small and
medium business computers, as well as
word processing systems. . . . Currently,
Lemuel Manchester is a senior nuclear
engineer at Combustion Engineering, Inc.,
in Windsor, Conn.

1949

Secretary:

Representative:

Howard J Green

lames F O'Regan

1 Kenilworth Rd

17 Hundreds Rd

Worcester, MA

Westboro, MA

01602

01581

Clifton Nickerson is now president of Im-
ages Unlimited in West Boylston, Mass. He
has a slide library of photo decor for dec-
orating corporate offices, hospitals, etc.,
with photo murals. . . John Saunier is a
technical recruiter at Dunnhill in Parlin, N.J.

34 /The WPI Journal / Summer 1979

Businessperson of the
Year

JULIUS PALLEY, '46, the "mastermind of Union Place"
in Worcester, has been named recipient of Worcester
Magazine's Businessperson of the Year Award. In its trib-
ute to Palley, the magazine recently stated: "If our cities
are to continue to flourish and not fall back into decay, it
will be because of men like Julius Palley, who have a
sense of pride in their city and who seek to help others
achieve what they themselves have achieved."

Only three short years ago, Union Place consisted of
two fortress-like factory buildings, decaying from the in-
side out but conveniently located just off bustling Lincoln
Square in downtown Worcester. Sensing the potential of
the complex, Julius and his brother Arthur, owners of
Commonwealth Stationers, bought the property and began
the process of converting it to the city's first privately fi-
nanced urban renewal project, with the money coming out
of their own pockets.

The Palleys took part of the building space, renovated
it for their own use, then looked for their first tenant. By a
stroke of good fortune, Maxwell Silverman's Toolhouse,
the now popular restaurant owned by Gus Giordano, be-
came their "ground floor" tenant. "Giordano has been sort
of a pacesetter for me," says Palley. "He tore everything
apart and built a building within a building."

While Giordano was concerned with the building of
the restaurant, Palley began renovating the rest of the
property, one floor at a time, redecorating each area to the
specifications of the tenant. One after another, a lot of
nice substantial industries and businesses moved in. A
good number of Palley's employees put their special skills
to work at Union Place. "The whole thing was a truly co-
operative effort," he says.

The Palley renovation is unique in that it reverses
the trend of demolishing old buildings and replacing them
with new complexes. In keeping Union Place intact, the
Palleys have preserved a part of historic Worcester and at

the same time provided an alternative for businesses that
would not fare well in either large factories or retail shops.
Julius is especially pleased that he has been able to save
25-51 Union Place because they are the last two industrial
buildings left in Worcester which were originally built by
Stephen Salisbury. "Salisbury was the original impresario
of construction in Worcester," lulius declares.

Loyalty to Worcester is a long-standing family trait.
The Palleys have lived in the area for generations. A son
and nephew of Julius both work in the company that he
and his brother started eleven years ago. Many of his em-
ployees have been with him for years.

"It is this type of loyalty that has helped me to accom-
plish whatever I may have accomplished in business and
at Union Place," he reports. He claims that it is his brother
Arthur, the company treasurer and money man, who
should receive an award. "I was the front man for the reno-
vation," he goes on, "but it was my brother who arranged
the financing and kept our own business running."

Looking to the future of the property, Julius is consid-
ering several possibilities. "Currently the Toolhouse is ex-
panding to the two upper floors, and an exterior elevator
is being constructed," he reveals. "We are trying to blend
in the expansion so that the architectural integrity of the
buildings is maintained."

Some people have suggested that he have the prop-
erty preserved as an historic landmark, which would make
it possible for him to obtain government loans. "At the
present time, we don't feel that we can accept such loans
because of the various restrictions that would be set up,"
he says. "We need a little freedom to move ahead."

Palley is very close to his tenants, all of whom are
from out of town or are new businesses. "We didn't offer
anybody on Main Street a special deal to move in with
us," he emphasizes. One of his major satisfactions is that
the Union Place tenants are doing well. "I have to see
them often and find out what's going on. I can't stay away."

Julius Palley, "Businessperson of the Year," is a man
who shows concern, not only for the welfare of his ten-
ants but also for the past and the future of the city he
loves.

Summer 1919 /The WP1 Journal/ 35

1950

Secretary:

Lester J Reynolds, Jr

15 Cherry Lane

Basking Ridge, NJ

07920

Representative
Henry S Coe, Jr.
3 Harwick Rd.
Wakefield, MA
01880

According to Art Bouvier, who has com-
pleted a career in the Air Force, "Old sol-
diers don't just fade away. They go into the
real estate business." Art has returned to
Massachusetts, where he has joined the
Sanford L. Parks Gallery of Homes in
Sandwich as a realtor-associate. He says,
"I'll be pleased to assist any alumnus hav-
ing designs on Cape Cod." . . . John
Hawley, associated with the Walworth
Aloyco plant in Linden, N.J., for twenty
years, is now located with the firm in
southwestern Pennsylvania at the
Greensburg plant. (The firm's nuclear valve
production was transferred to Pennsyl-
vania.) He writes, "My wife and I are
pleased with our location in a new home in
Ligonier, Pa."

Currently, Richard McMahan, Jr., holds
the post of manager of operational plan-
ning at the Center for Energy Systems,
Energy Systems and Technology Division
of General Electric, in Washington, D.C —
Paul Nyquist, plant engineer at Hill Refrig-
eration, Trenton, N.J., is the present chair-
man of the Chamber's Plant Engineers
Council. The Council is open to plant en-
gineers of member firms and provides op-
portunities for them to be better informed
on topics of mutual interest. Nyquist has
been with Hill as plant engineer since 1 974.
The firm, which employs about 1200 per-
sons, manufactures refrigeration equip-
ment for supermarkets and other food
dealers. "We think our equipment is the
Cadillac of the industry," says Nyquist.
Before joining Hill, he worked for John A.
Roebling & Sons, Trenton; Robinson and
Associates, Newark; and Joule Technical
Services of Union. He belongs to the De-
partment of Environmental Protection's
Industry/Labor Advisory Committee on
Transportation Air Pollution Control. In his
spare time, he plays tennis, skis and golfs.

195 1

Secretary

Representative:

Stanley L. Miller

John L. Reid

11 Ashwood Rd.

31 Spring Garden Dr

Paxton, MA

Madison, NJ

01612

07940

Carl Johansson now works as a staff spe-
cialist (fermentation) for Arthur G. McKee,
engineers and constructors. His daughter
Lisa was married in the "old home town of
Mystic, Conn., in June." . . . Tom June is
vice president and general manager of the
Building Materials Division, Organic Mate-
rials, at Koppers Corporation in Pittsburgh.

36 /The WPl Journal / Summer 1979

. . . Carl Luz, Jr., holds the post of president
at ESCO Plastics, Inc., in Perth Amboy, N.J.
. . Roy Olson serves as assistant director of
plant engineering at Torrington Co. He is
located in Collinsville, Conn. . . . Merrill
Spiller, class head agent, is currently man-
ufacturing manager for Aviv Corporation,
Woburn, Mass.

1952

Secretary

Representative

Edward G Samolis

Philip B Crommelin, Jr

580 Roberts Ave

P.O Box 38

Syracuse, NY

Stanton, NJ

13207

08885

In March a "mini-reunion" of the Class of
'52 was held at the home of Joseph
Lojewski in Wilmington, Delaware. Those
attending were John Feldsine and family,
Dud DeCarli, Mike O'Neil, and Rick Fer-
rari, '51 , and their wives. . . . Edgar Van
Cott holds the post of president of Tren-
data Corp. in Santa Ana, Calif., where he
relocated last October.

1953

Secretary:

Dr David S Jenney

109WilbrookRd

Stratford, CT

06497

George Saltus has been appointed director
of the Customer Switching Laboratory at
Bell Labs in Denver, Colo. Previously, he
was head of the laboratory's Support De-
partment. Since 1953, he has been an
employee of the firm, and he holds seven
patents in military computer circuits, elec-
tronic key telephone systems, and Pic-
turephone key telephone systems.

1954

Secretary:
Roger R Osell
18 Eliot Rd
Lexington, MA
02173

Representative
Roger R Osell

Richard Meirowitz has joined Safe Flight
Instrument Corp. in White Plains, N.Y. . . .
Raymond Naudin holds the post of director
of international sales for Langston in
Cherry Hill, NJ. . . . Milton Meckler, presi-
dent of Meckler Energy Group, Encino,
Calif., recently delivered a speech at the
annual meeting of the American Section of
the International Solar Energy Society in
Denver. His presentation included case his-
tories of solar assisted water source heat
pump systems now being developed by his
firm. Meckler has been named editor of a
new reference work, The Retrofitting for
Energy Conservation Handbook, which will
be published late this year or early in 1980
by Marcel Dekker, Inc.

1955

Secretary

Representative:

Kenneth L. Wakeen

Ralph K Mongeon, Jr

344 Waterville Rd

Riley Stoker Corp

Avon, CT

P O Box 547

06001

Worcester, MA

01613

Richard Crook was recently appointed
manager of product engineering at the
G&O Manufacturing Co. in New Haven,
Conn. A member of G&O since 1972, he
will now be responsible for product en-
gineering functions as they pertain to the
original equipment market and the au-
tomotive aftermarket field.

Harold Sauer, vice president of Inter-
mark Associates, Inc., ran last spring for a
5-year term on the Carlisle (Mass.) school
committee. He is a present member and
past chairman of the planning board, and
he has been active with the Carlisle Histori-
cal Commission, State Forestry Advisory
Committee, and the Carlisle Cub Scouts.

Tarek Shawaf, head of the oldest and
largest Saudi Arabian consulting firm,
Saudconsult, was pictured on the cover of
the April 26th issue of Engineering News-
Record, McGraw Hill's construction
weekly. Shawaf's most active foreign
partnership lately has been with Tippetts-
Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton of New York.
Their combined successes include design
assignments on highways and inter-
changes, a recreational harbor, shore pro-
tection and site drainage in the industrial
city of Jubail. Although noted for civil as-
signments, Saudconsult's architectural
pride and joy is the Ministry of Planning
building, which it designed.

About twelve years ago, Shawaf started
his firm with three employees. Today, he
employs 250, including twelve graduate
engineers. His staff is about 1/4 Egyptian; Va
Pakistani and Bangladeshi; and the other
half Syrians, Jordanians, and Saudis.
Shawaf, of Syrian descent, was one of the
first students sent from Saudi Arabia to
study engineering abroad. He enjoys the
respect of the Saudi royal family, and has
had many good will and business-
promotion missions abroad. At home he
serves (without pay) as secretary general of
the extravagant and modern New Equest-
rian Club in Riyadh, which boasts 350
members, many of them princes.

Currently his firm has offices or affiliates
in London, Houston, New York, and Dub-
lin. He sees his future growth in association
with partners from abroad. He also is en-
thusiastic about the future of solar energy.
He says, "In the next ten years I'd like to
pursue bringing solar expertise to Saudi
Arabia."

Robert Stempel, a vice president of Gen-
eral Motors and newly appointed general
manager of Pontiac, has said that Pontiac
will remain the "sporty motor division at
General Motors," according to an article in
the March issue of American Machinist.

The image has been carefully nurtured.
Burt Reynolds drove a Trans Am in his role
as a stuntman in "Hooper." Stempel him-
self drove the pace car, a Firebird, at the
Daytona 500 NASCAR race last winter.
Says Stempel, "we don't race at GM, but
we enjoy the hell out of motor sports. " Bob
is a current member of the President's
Advisory Council at WPI.

James Warren serves as vice president of
quality control at Pratt & Whitney Machine
Tool Division of Colt Industries in West
Hartford, Conn.

1956

Secretary:

Rev Paul D. Schoonmaker

325 North Lewis Rd

Royersford, PA

19468

Representative
John M McHugh
431 Beacon Hill Dr
Cheshire, CT
06410

Joseph Paparella has been appointed gen-
eral manager of Latin American operations
for the Foxboro (Mass.) Company. . . .
Donald Lathrop continues as a teacher of
philosophy and ethics at Berkshire Com-
munity College (BCC) in Pittsfield, Mass.
He has an MS degree from RPI and a
master's in social ethics from the University
of Southern California. He and his wife,
Marion, have started a series of peace vigils
at BCC. In April they protested the launch-
ing of the first Trident nuclear-powered
submarine in Groton, Conn. The Lathrops
have three children: Mark, 21 ; Scott, 18;
and Dena, 12.

Charles Whitney has been named direc-
tor of research and development for the
Wiremold Company, West Hartford,
Conn., the leading manufacturer of surface
metal raceway electrical distribution sys-
tems and flexible air ducts for the air condi-
tioning and automotive industries. For-
merly, he was an application specialist with
McDonnell Douglas Actron, Hartford,
Conn., and a product engineer with
Superior Electric Co., Bristol. He did
graduate work at Trinity and RPI.

1958

Secretary:
Harry R Rydstrom
132 Sugartown Rd
Devon, PA
19333

Walt Janas, Jr., is a specialist engineer with
the Boeing Co. assigned to the Minuteman
ICBM update program at Malmstrom AFB
in Great Falls, Montana. . . . Stew Staples, a
contractor and custom home builder in
Tucson, Arizona, continues to be active in
the Tucson Open Golf Tournament. . . .
William Wesolowski has been appointed
manager of thin film operations at Micro
Networks Corp. in Worcester. He is respon-
sible for the manufacturing of thin film
resistor networks, as well as research and
development of thin film devices. Formerly
manager of thin film devices at Sprague
Electric Co., he has been in the electronics
industry for twenty years. He holds a mas-
ter's degree in chemistry from Williams
College.

Dr. Arthur Halprin has been promoted to
a full professor of physics at the University
of Delaware in Newark. He joined the
physics department in 1964 as an assistant
professor. In 1 969, he was named associate
professor. He received his doctorate from
the University of Pennsylvania. He has
published papers in professional journals,
and has served as visiting scientist at the
Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research, the
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and
the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. . . .
Richard Keats holds the position of director
of the Northeast region for Support Sys-
tems Associates, Inc., Burlington, Mass.

The April issue of the Abrasive Engineer-
ing Society Magazine reports that Robert
Massad spoke on the evolution of diamond
wheels for cutter grinding of carbide-steel
workpieces at the spring Technical Confer-
ence. He is a senior product engineer in the
Bay State Abrasives Division of Dresser
Industries, and is responsible for diamond
abrasive products and electrochemical
grinding. With Bay State since 1 959, he has
held several engineering posts prior to
being appointed to his present post in
1 966. . . . Thomas O'Connor and Charles
Zisch, '64, have a girls' soccer team (which
they call Charlie's Angels) in Chelmsford,
Mass. The Angels took first place in their
division last fall and everyone is looking
forward to next season.

Robert Steen continues as president of
Recreational Enterprises, Inc. in Killington,
Vt. . . . "Jack" Wolfe serves as vice presi-
dent and general manager of the En-
gineered Products Division at EG&G Sealol
in Providence, R.I.

1957

Secretary Representative:
Dr Robert A Yates Alfred E Barry
1 1 Oak Ridge Dr 1 Algonquin Rd
Bethany, CT Worcester, MA
06525 01609

Ralph Johnson is a manufacturer's

repre-

1959

Secretary

Dr Frederick H Lutze, Jr

1 10 Camelot Court NW

Blacksburg, VA

24060

Representative:

Dr Joseph D Bronzino

Trinity College

Summit St.

Hartford, CT

06106

I960

Secretary,
Paul W Bayliss
170Wyngate Dr
Barnngton, IL
60010

Representative:
JohnW Biddle
78 Highland St
Holden, MA
01520

Last year, James Richards was named vice
president and general manager of produc-
tion at Bowers-Siemon Chemical Co. in
Coal City, III. The firm produces lubricants
and chemicals for the wire manufacturing
industry, and presently has affiliates in
Brazil, India, South Africa, and England.
The Coal City plant is Bowers-Siemon's
only manufacturing facility in the U.S.
Richards says that plant manufacturing
capacities will be enlarged by 25 percent in
1980.

David Daubney works as a project en-
gineer at Curtis and Marble Corp. in
Worcester. . Fr. Harvey D. Egan, S.J ,
recently received tenure and promotion to
associate professor at Boston Theology,
where he teaches systematic and mystical
theology. He has written two books on
mysticism and many articles on mysticism,
theological methodology, and various
theological themes. His latest work is a
chapter on the mystical theology of Karl
Rahner in the German publication, Wagnis
Theologie. ... Dr. David Evensen's daugh-
ter, Karen, is on the women's basketball
team at the University of California at
Irvine. She plans to study engineering.

Joshua Alpern was just promoted to GS-1 6
at the Central Intelligence Agency in the

Directorate of Science and Technology

Currently, William Bonta is chief of the
division of planning for the Environmental
Health Administration at the State Dept. of
Health in Baltimore, Md. . . . Donald Cloud
continues as president of Country Home
Development Corp. in Guilford, Conn. . . .
Al Materas, Jr., is now employed by Robert
E. Nolan Co., Inc., Simsbury, Conn., where
he serves as a senior management consul-
tant. . . . Robert Mercer works as district
representative at the Permutit Co. in Char-
lotte, N.C. Robert Mulholland, Jr., has
been transferred to Ft. Monmouth, N.J.,
where he is a procurement officer in U.S.
Army Communications-Electronics Readi-
ness Command. . . . H. David Sutton is with
Sanders Associates of Nashua, N.H. . . .
Edward Sappet serves as manager of cor-
porate process engineering at Data General
Corp., Westboro, Mass.

Summer 1919 / The WPI journal/ 37

1961

Secretary:
John J Gabarro
8Monadnock Rd
Arlington, MA
02174

►fiorn: to Mr. and Mrs. George Yule, Jr., a
son, Todd Michael, on November 5, 1 978.
Presently, George is a partner of Crampton,
Remke & Miller, a consulting firm in Palo
Alto, Calif.

Still with Stone & Webster, Boston,
Richard Federico is now with the Engineer-
ing Mechanics Division.

Dr. H. Richard Freeman has been
awarded the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration's Exceptional Service
Medal for his work as system engineer for
the agency's international ultraviolet ex-
plorer. He was cited for his "perseverance
and personal dedication, which were re-
sponsible in large part for the success of this
important mission." Dr. Freeman has a
master's degree from Yale and a PhD from
the University of Maryland. During the
year since it was launched into synchron-
ous orbit, the satellite has provided as-
tronomers around the world with over
4,000 spectral images, and it may lead
scientists to a better understanding of ele-
ments, temperatures, and pressure within
stars.

William Gill, a professional engineer,
recently opened with his partner, Gill and
Pulver Engineers, Inc. in Sacramento, Calif.
Gill and Pulver is a civil engineering firm
specializing in water resources planning
and development, flood control and flood
plain management, land development, and

environmental studies Lee Hackett was

recently elected president of the American
Appraisal Company, the largest operating
unit within American Appraisal Associates,
Inc., the Milwaukee-based international
valuation, mapping, and consulting firm.
He started work at the firm in 1963, and
was elected vice president in 1 975. He has
previously served as field supervisor, man-
ager of engineering valuation, manager of
industrial valuation division, and as central
regional manager and vice president and
manager of appraisal operations. He holds
an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Merrill Rutman says, "I am spending an
academic year at MIT studying operations
research, system dynamics, and manage-
ment information systems. Since Sep-
tember 1 978 my family and I have been
living in Chestnut Hill and enjoying the
Boston area. We plan to be back home in
New Jersey this summer." . . . David
Youden has been promoted to assistant
director of engineering at Cone-Blanchard
Machine Co. in Windsor, Vt. This is a new
position in the engineering department.
Since joining the company in 1973, he has
served as product development engineer,
quality control manager, and most re-
cently, manager of product development.

1962

Secretary:
Harry T Rapelje
1313 Parma Hilton Rd
Hilton, NY
14468

Representative:
Richard J DiBuono
44 Lambert Circle
Marlboro, MA
01752

►fiorn. to Mr. and Mrs. Joel Freedman,
their second child, a daughter, on March 6,
1979.

Hubert Cole has received his MS in ad-
ministration of science and technology
from George Washington University. He's
employed as a senior project officer in
headquarters, U.S. Army Test & Evaluation
Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground,

Md Jacob Erlich has been elected to the

board of governors of the Boston Patent
Law Association. . . . George Forsberg
writes: "Expect to be returning to the U.S.
later this year following 41/2 years in the
United Kingdom with Monsanto." . . .
Sharad Gandbhir recently purchased One
Heritage Mall in Berlin, Mass. He expects to
make some renovations, and to use the
building for investment purposes. He will
continue with the same professional clien-
tele, such as physicians and businessmen.
Sharad and his wife and three children live
in Newton.

Last year Jay Hochstaine received his
MBA from Chapman College. . . . Still
residing in Bogor, Indonesia, David Smith is
now a project engineer for Laurie,
Montgomerie & Pettit in Jakarta.

1963

Secretary:

Robert E Maynard.Jr

8 Institute Rd

North Grafton, MA

01536

Representative
Joseph J Mielmski,
34 Pioneer Rd.
Holden, MA
01520

Robert Behn, an associate professor at
Duke University's Institute of Policy Sci-
ences and Public Affairs, was the author of
"Terminating Public Policies" in the Oc-
tober 1 6, 1 978 issue of The Wall Street
Journal.

In February, Richard Dann was pro-
moted to editor of Power Transmission
Design magazine. Also, he was recently
elected to the board of governors of the
Cleveland Engineering Society. ... Dr.
Richard Dominguez is now a professor of
basic engineering and head of the depart-
ment at Colorado School of Mines. He has
an MSCE from Colorado State and his
doctorate in civil engineering (ocean en-
gineering) from Oregon State University.
He has had 1 3 years of teaching experi-
ence, and serves as a consultant for Brown
and Root, Inc., developing ocean structures
supporting oil and gas operations, and with
Sipen-Speery Systems.

John Goselin has been named supervisor
of the product, film emulsion, and plate
division at Kodak Park. He joined Kodak in
1 963. His most recent appointment was
senior product engineer. . . . Dennis Heath
is still with GE, Circuit Protective Devices
Dept., in Plainville, Conn. After three years
as product planner in marketing, he has
returned to engineering, handling UL
liaison work for GE's low voltage power
circuit breakers, ground fault products, and
large molded case circuit breakers.

Russ Hokanson serves as senior super-
visor in the reactor department at the
Savannah River Plant in Aiken, S.C. In
the past year he has run in five marathons,
his best time being 3:21 in Savannah, Ga.
His wife, Barbara, is involved with the Girl
Scouts. Donna, 13, and Debbie, 10, are
active in soccer, basketball, running, and
scouting. ... Dr. Richard Kashnow was
recently named head of GE's Electronics
Laboratory in Syracuse, N.Y. Formerly, he
had been at GE's Electric Research and
Development Center in Schenectady. . . .
Jim Magaldi has transferred from Digital's
Westfield (Mass.) plant to Maynard as a
corporate plant engineer.

1964

Secretary:

Dr David T Signori, Jr.

6613 Denny PI

McLean, VA

22101

Representative:
Barry J Kadets
7 Bellwood St
Framingham, MA
10701

Marshall Crow says that he spends a lot of
time in the Pacific area on an "interesting
contract." He is presently head of the
intelligence systems department at GTE
Sylvania in Needham, Mass. . . . Bruce
Juhola holds the position of marketing
manager of the Telecom Division of
Raychem Corp., Menlo Park, Calif. . . .
Walter Lankau, Jr., vice president of Man-
agement Decision System, Inc., Waltham,
Mass., recently represented his firm at a
conference relating to joint European mar-
keting ventures. His firm is a national com-
pany in the development and use of
problem-solving models and computer
software for business analysis and plan-
ning. Lankau has an MS in chemical en-
gineering from UMass and an MBA from
Wharton School, University of Pennsyl-
vania. In September, the Lankaus will be
moving to a new home in Sudbury, Mass.

Arthur Luhtala is still project engineer
and government representative for USDA
Soil Conservation Service in Meredith, N.H.
... Dr. J. Richard Lundgren, associate
professor of mathematics at Allegheny Col-
lege, Meadville, Pa., has received a Faculty
Professional Development grant of
$18,220 from the National Science Foun-
dation. The grant is for study during
1 979-80 at the University of Colorado,
where he will be working in the areas of
applied finite mathematics. He will also be

38 / The WPl journal / Summer 1 979

concerned with computer science, and the
development of computer programs which
can be used in various courses of com-
binatorics, abstract algebra, and linear
algebra. Prior to joining the Allegheny fac-
ulty in 1971 , Dr. Lundgren had been with
New England Telephone Company. He re-
ceived his master's degree and PhD from
Ohio State University. Several of his articles
have been published in the Journal of
Algebra.

Continuing with GTE Sylvania, Dr. Elliot
Wyner is now with the lighting products
group at headquarters in Danvers, Mass.
He is an advanced R&D engineer. He, his
wife Janice, and three boys live in Peabody.

1965

Representative
Patrick T. Moran
100 Chester Rd
Boxboro, MA
01719

Phil Bachelder now works for James River
Graphics, formerly Scott Graphics. . . .
Edward Falkowski is marketing manager in
Tokyo, Japan, for du Pont's Far East Photo

Products Department Jim Fee serves as

a product manager at Accutest in
Chelmsford, Mass. He resides in Winthrop.
. . . Mordecai Gutman, who has his MBA
from the University of Detroit, is currently
employed by Texas Instruments as a field
marketing specialist involved with dealer
and sales training for professional and
commercial products. . . . William Nicker-
son is a self-employed consulting engineer
in San Francisco.

Phil Ryan has been elected a corporator
at Merchants Savings Bank in Manchester,
N.H. He is a partner in Bigelow & Co., a
Manchester-based management consult-
ing group, which he founded nine years
ago. Previously, he was with Humble Oil
(Exxon) in Houston, Texas. He has been a
member of the accreditation committee at
Merrimack Valley College, and has lectured
in many business management and Small
Business Administration courses, including
several presented at WPI. He has an MBA
from Harvard, and is a member of the
board of advisors, Department of Man-
agement at WPI, as well as being a member
of the WPI Alumni Association executive
committee. In Manchester, Ryan has been
associated with the United Way (board of
directors); Elliot Hospital (board of direc-
tors); and the Greater Manchester
Chamber of Commerce. He served as vice
president and a director of United Way of
N.H.; a member of the Manchester Plan-
ning Board; and as a former regional plan-
ning commissioner representing Manches-
ter on the Southern New Hampshire Plan-
ning Commission.

Still employed as a senior civil engineer
by Suffolk County Public Works Dept. on
Long Island, Harry Schneck is presently in
charge of contract highway and bridge
construction projects. He, his wife, Sandi,
and their two sons live on Great South Bay
at Blue Point. . . . Ronald Schultz, a senior
software specialist for Digital Equipment
Corp., Fairport, N.Y., is a resident at Corn-
ing Glass Works-Process Systems.

1966

Secretary:
Gary Dyckman
29 Skilton Lane
Burlington, MA
01803

Representative
Dr. Donald H Foley
Indiantield Rd
Clinton, NY
13323

Roger Armata has been named superin-
tendent of manufacturing services at Tor-
rington (Conn.) Co. He joined Torrington's
engineering department in 1966, and has
held a number of posts since. He has an
MBA from the University of Hartford. The
Armatas live in Torrington with their two
children. ... Jay Botop serves as an electri-
cal manufacturer's agentfor J. R. Childers &
Associates in Pensacola, Fla. . . . Donald
Givens was recently transferred from his
post as manager of product marketing to a
sales position in Birmingham, Alabama for
Envirotech Corp.

Dave Klimaj has been promoted to pro-
gram manager within the Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Conservation and
Solar Applications, U.S. Department of En-
ergy, Washington, D.C. He is responsible
for various legislative initiatives mandated
by the National Energy Conservation Policy

Act Paul Malnati has joined Formation

Inc. of Mt. Laurel, N.J., as a senior member
of the technical staff. . . . Dennis Murphy
has been named manager of the Florida
Pops Orchestra of Fort Lauderdale. A musi-
cian and a consultant in physics at Florida
International University, Miami, Murphy
plays the recorder, the Moog synthesizer,
and the krummhorn. He taught physics for
five years at Wentworth Institute, Boston.
He holds degrees from Northeastern Uni-
versity and Nova University.

Recently, Ronald Naventi completed
studies for his MS in energy systems at
George Washington University. He is em-
ployed as an engineering supervisor in the
Nuclear Fuels Operations Division of
Bechtel Corp. in San Francisco. He is also
involved in nuclear waste management —
C.J. Patch III serves as a field contract
administrator for Bechtel Power Corp. in
Hancocks Bridge, N.J. A professional en-
gineer, he is registered in California,
Arizona, Texas, and Massachusetts. He, his
wife Patricia and two children reside in
Vineland, N.J. . . . Dr. Frank Pfeiffer, Jr., has
been granted tenure at Nichols College,
Dudley, Mass. He is associate professor of
management, and received his MBA from
Boston College and his PhD from the Uni-
versity of Massachusetts.

Anthony Sacovitch holds the title of chief
engineer of the Worcester Group of the
Wright Machine Corporation Division,
Worcester. The Sacovitches have four
daughters: Lisa, Kerrie, Donna, and Lori. . .
Ronald Swers, is employed by Stone &
Webster, Cherry Hill, N.J.

1967

Secretary:

John L Kilguss

5 Summershade Circle

Piscataway, NJ

08854

Representative
Raymond C Rogers
92 North Common Rd
Westminster, MA
01473

►fiorn: to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Manter,
their first son, Bryan, on November 2 1 ,
1 978. ... to Mr. and Mrs. George H. Rand,
Jr., a daughter, Susan Elaine, on January
24, 1979.

Richard Court, Jr., has been elected
chairman of his local section (Greater Dan-
bury, Conn.) of the American Society for
Quality Control. He continues as a quality
control engineer for Perkin-Elmer Corp. in
Norwalk. . . . Joe Ferrantino is now the
research group leader of the pilot plant at
Monsanto's Bircham Bend plant in Indian
Orchard, Mass. He is responsible for both
mechanical and chemical process devel-
opment. In 1967 he started as a process
engineer at the firm. Most recently he was
a process engineer specialist. . . . Ronald
Jolicoeur works as a project manager at
Teller Environmental Systems, Inc.,
Worcester. . . . Engineers Inc., headquar-
tered in New Jersey and Milford (Conn.),
has appointed Mafatbhai Patel as chief
structural engineer. He joined the company
after being associated with two other com-
panies.

In March Joseph Maggi was named vice
president of Odyssey Exploration Co., an
oil exploration and gas drilling company
based in Farmington, Conn., and Houston,
Texas. Previously Maggi was tax director of
Coleco Industries, Inc. He and his wife,
Alice, have two children, Laura, 5, and Jill,
3. . . . Richard Plummer has a new job as
technical support specialist in microcom-
puters for Digital Equipment Corp. in
Marlboro, Mass. . . . Presently, Robert Shen
serves as project manager in the engineer-
ing department at National Cash Register.
He is married, has two children, and resides
in Ithaca, N.Y. . . . Charlie Sisitsky writes
that he is still the director of community
development for the City of Medford and
lives in Framingham, Mass. His wife Margie
teaches and sells pottery at their home
studio. They have four children: Tammy,
10; Adam, 8V2; Nathaniel, 5; and
Jeremiah, 2V2.

Summer 1919 /The WPI Journal/ 39

II II

Stephen Smith is with the New York
State Office of General Services, Design
and Construction Section. . . . William
Tanzer has been promoted to assistant
superintendent at Eastman Gelatine Corp.
in Peabody, Mass. The firm provides about
60 percent of the gelatine used by Eastman
Kodak Co. in North and South America.

1968

Secretary:
Charles A. Griffin
2901 Municipal PierRd.
Shreveport, LA
71119

Representative:

William J Rasku

33 Mark Bradford Dr

Holden.MA

01520

^Married: Charles A. Griffin and Miss Rita
A. Shaw on March 10, 1979 in Shreveport,
Louisiana. Mrs. Griffin, a graduate of
Louisiana State University, teaches in the
Shreveport school system. The groom
serves as a research associate at LSU Medi-
cal School.

William Belisle has completed a one-
year term as president of Lambda Chi
chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, a National honor
society in education. He is presently work-
ing on an MBA degree at California State
University at Long Beach. . . . Recently, Jeff
Decker got together with Barrie Peterson,
who owns Birchwood Organization in Cen-
treville, Va. . . . Continuing with Kodak,
Cobb Goff now serves as senior photo-
graphic engineer for the firm in Rochester,
N.Y. . . . Geoffrey Hartung holds the post of
manager of engineering and facilities ser-
vices at Loctite, Inc. in Newington, Conn.
He is a professional engineer.

For over a year, Joe Hilyard has been
serving as assistant director of the Wiscon-
sin Energy Extension Service's Energy In-
formation Center. He says that Wisconsin,
like Massachusetts, is one of ten states
chosen by the Department of Energy to
carry out year-long pilot programs in en-
ergy conservation education. The Center
works with County Extension offices in 72
counties to help staff members answer
questions and present public energy pro-
grams. It also works directly with the
media. Joe is a co-host of a weekly live TV
program called "Saving Energy" on Chan-
nel 3 in Madison. "Lots of fun and a great
experience." Previously, Joe was with a
consulting firm in Durham, N.C.; had
served as assistant editor of Circuits Man-
ufacturing, a Boston trade journal; and had
been associated with the University of
Michigan's Highway Safety Research Insti-
tute; and Hamilton Standard. Last year he
completed a master's program in jour-
nalism at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison. He found himself drawn to the
"fascinating task of trying to explain and
interpret technical material to nontechni-
cally-trained audiences," which he does
daily in his current post at the Energy
Information Center.

John Hilyard, Joe's twin brother, is plant
engineer for Celanese Corporation in
Texas. Earlier, he had been employed by
Allied Chemical in Ashland, Ky. and Bundy
Tubing in Lexington, Ky., and had a tour
with the Army with stops in Georgia, New
Mexico, New Jersey, and Panama. The
Hilyards have three children and reside in

Corpus Christi Presently, Robert Kohm

works as a senior process engineer at Craw-
ford & Russell in Stamford, Conn Peter

Konopa is supervisor of midsize specialty
financial analysis at Ford Motor Company
in Dearborn, Mich. . . . Richard Kung is a
member of the technical staff at the Mitre

Corporation, Bedford, Mass Michael

Latina recently completed requirements for
the PhD in applied mathematics at Brown
University. Presently he is assistant profes-
sor of mathematics at Rhode Island Junior
College. He and his wife, Mary-Jeanne,
have three children: Michael, 6; Kristin,

41/2; and Justin, 2 Israel Mac has been

appointed by the Mayor of Atlanta (Ga.) to
the position of director of the Bureau of
Traffic and Transportation Engineering.
The bureau supervises Atlanta's traffic con-
trol and management systems, and coordi-
nates development of the city's transporta-
tion programs and projects. Israel and his
wife, Bette, have two children: Melissa, 8;
and Joshua, 6.

Steve Pytka, who holds an MBA from
Tuck School at Dartmouth, is now in the
Strategic Planning Department at Xerox in
Rochester, NY... Jeffrey Semmel joined
Raytheon Service Company in June as a
senior systems engineer. He is doing con-
tract systems programming work. . . Wil-
liam Stanton is now employed by the Col-
orado Water Conservation Board Depart-
ment of Natural Resources in Denver,
where he is a senior water resource en-
gineer Marshall Taylor has been

named vice president and treasurer of
Ryder System, Inc., Miami, Fla. He joined
the company in 1 974 as manager of capital
planning and four months later was pro-
moted to director of corporate planning. In
1 975 he was advanced to assistant trea-
surer, and last year he was elected trea-
surer. RvderSvstem, Inc. is an international
holding company whose divisions provide
essential highway transportation services
to businesses and individuals throughout
the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, and
the Netherlands. With 1978 revenue of
$1 .1 24 billion, the company was 375th in
Forbes magazine's 1979 list of the nation's
500 largest companies ranked according to
revenue.

1969

Secretary

Representative:

James P. Atkinson

Michael W Noga

41 Naples Rd

West Bare Hill Rd

Brookline, MA

Harvard, MA

02146

01451

^■Married: Richard W. DeLand and Elisa A.
Mazza in Bridgeport, Connecticut on
March 17,1 979. The bride, a teacher,
graduated from the Seminaria Baptista de
Trujillo in Peru. The groom is a computer
programmer analyst.

►fiorn: to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J.
George, a daughter, Jamie Lynne, on De-
cember 6, 1 978. ... to Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey
C. Knapp, their second son, Kevin William-
son, on May 19, 1979. Jeff continues build-
ing houses and is now into beekeeping and
making molds for weathervanes — to Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew T. Perreault, their second
child, Amy, on December 23, 1978.

Matthew will be three in October to

Mr. and Mrs. Phillip R. Welsey, Jr., a son,
Kevin Phillip, on February 15, 1979. Kevin
joins sisters, Kristin and Karin.

Brian Abraham received an MBA from
Suffolk University on Feb. 14th, one semes-
ter after being awarded as MS in engineer-
ing science from Clarkson College,
Potsdam, N.Y. He is a planning engineer in
the product planning and management
organization at Western Electric, which he
joined in 1 972. While a lieutenant in the
U.S. Army, he was awarded a Bronze Star in
Vietnam. He, his wife Jacqueline, and two

sons live in Plaistow, N.H Roger

Dennison is a member of the Metropolitan
Boston Transit Authority Advisory Board,
and serves as chairman of the energy effi-
ciency subcommittee for the board. He is a
founder and principal of Energy Planning,
Inc., a Boston consulting firm that assists
building owners in the reduction of energy
usage and cost.

Gregory Enz was recently promoted to
district manager of coin operations by New
England Telephone. He is responsible for all
coin telephones, sales and collection in
Massachusetts outside of Rt. 1 28 and in
Rhode Island. The Enzes have a son, Chris-
topher, 7, and a daughter, Courtney, 4. . . .
Peter Heins is a pilot for Eastern Airlines out
of Miami, Fla. He and wife, Jan, have two
children, and reside in Redland Henry
Sweet of Photographic Images has exhib-
ited a series of his color photographs at
Gallery 201 in Hartford, Conn. He belongs
to the Wachusett Camera Club and the
Photographic Society of America. His im-
ages extend from Hawaii to Switzerland.
He is with the systems division of the
Travelers Insurance Co.

40 /The WPl Journal / Summer 2979

I97Q

Secretary:

Representative:

F David Ploss III

Domenic J Forcella, Jr

208 St Nicholas Ave

25 Hough St

Worcester, MA

Plainville, CT

01606

06062

►fiorn: to Mr, and Mrs. Roger J. Kern, their
first child, Catherine Mary, on September

2, 1978 to Mr. and Mrs. George

Moore, a second son last spring. ... to Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Norcross, a daughter,
Sarah Jane, recently. Howard continues as
a general partner in C.E. Norcross & Son,
building contractors, in South Chatham,
Mass. He is a member of the Massachusetts
Home Builders Association, the National
Association of Home Builders, a trustee of
Cape Cod Contractors Insurance-Trust, a
staff officer of the Coast Guard Auxiliary,
and a director of the Cape Cod Contrac-
tors' and Builders' Association. He is also
associated with the yacht club, the Rotary,
and the American Management Associa-
tion. ... to Mr. and Mrs. Marc E. Schweig,
their second child, Allyson, last November.
Schweig is attending Harvard University on
a Western Electric Science and Engineering
Fellowship.

James Bagaglio is a quality control tech-
nician at Waters Associates in Milford,
Mass. . . Kenneth Cram has been awarded
the Young Engineer Award from the Gen-
eral Electric Aircraft Engine Group. He was
recognized for his outstanding contribu-
tions to the resolution of the TF34 engine
field problems by virtue of his excellent
evaluation engineering direction, often at
a great sacrifice of personal time. Among
his accomplishments was the completion of
over 3000 successful engine test hours on
27 engine builds. Cram is manager of
TF34-100 evaluation engineering at GE in
Lynn, Mass. . . . Bernard Dodge is a univer-
sity fellow in the Instructional Design Pro-
gram at Syracuse (N.Y.) University.

U.S. Representative David Emery of
Maine delivered the commencement ad-
dress at Berwick (Me.) Academy in June.
Recently elected to his third term in Con-
gress, Emergy belongs to committees on
Armed Services, Merchant Marine and
Fisheries, and House Republican Policy. He
is chairman of both the Maine congres-
sional delegation and of the Republican
Task Force on Energy. ... Dr. Lothar
Kleiner, who received his PhD in polymer
science and engineering from the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts last year, is presently
a polymer research engineer at Diamond
Shamrock Corp., Painesville, Ohio. He also
teaches polymer chemistry courses at Lake
Erie College, where he is faculty member.

Jeffrey Manty has been promoted by
Bethlehem Steel Corp. to division engineer
of the Saucon Rolling Mills Division at the
Bethlehem plant. Formerly, he was fore-
man of the plant's combination mill, the
number one producer of structural and
wide flange steel shapes in the country.

Jeff, his wife, Christine, and children, Katie
and Daryl, reside in Nazareth, Pa.

In January, Ed Mason resigned his job as
plant manager with Amoco Chemicals
Corporation, a division of Standard Oil in
Seymour, Indiana, to accept the position of
vice president of operations with Diesel
ReCon Company, a division of Cummins
Engine Company in Memphis, Tennessee.
His new responsibilities include the supervi-
sion of 800 people in three manufacturing
plants in Memphis, Chicago, and Los
Angeles, and the remanufacturing of
Cummins diesel engines. Cummins is the
largest diesel engine producer with 45 per-
cent of the national market. Ed's wife,
Norma, just received her BA in sociology
from Indiana University. They have two
children: Melissa, 8 and Ed II, 6.

Bob Soffel recently was program chair-
man for Union Carbide's local office
(Parma, Ohio) for the United Way. He
writes, "I think WPI's Fund Drive is well-
run using successful techniques. Proud to
be part of WPI — again!" . . . Michael
Vardeman holds the post of safety man-
ager for Lonestar Florida, Inc. . . . Philip
Warren received his MBA from Northeast-
ern University last year. He has been ad-
vanced to finishing superintendent in the
Graphic Products Division of the Nashua
Corporation's Merrimack (N.H.) plant.

1971

Secretary:
Vincent T. Pace
4707 Apple Lane
West Deptford, NJ
08066

>Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Nock, a
daughter Kimberly Gayle, recently. Nock
received his MBA from BU last year. ... to
Mr. and Mrs. John Petrillo, a son, Michael
Thaler, on May 4, 1979. John is district
market manager at AT&T Long Lines in
Bedminster, New Jersey.

William Beloff has been named chief
engineer at Soil and Rock Instrumentation
in Newton Upper Falls, Mass. He and his
wife Drucie have two children, Kurt and
Andrea. . . . Jim Crittenden presently serves
as president of OMP Laboratories, Inc.,
Killingworth, Conn., a firm which he helped
found in 1976 and moved to Killingworth
in January. OMP manufactures medical
diagnostic equipment. . . . Gordon Govalet
now holds the post of assistant chief en-
gineer at Thames Valley Steel Corp. in New

London, Conn This September Michael

Hitchko returns to BU to complete his
MBA, after spending the last two years
with Fluor Corp. constructing cross country
pipelines in Saudi Arabia. . . . Ernest Joyal is
employed by the Naval Underwater Sys-
tems Center in Newport, R.I.

Kenneth Kowalchek serves overseas as a
financial analyst for U.S. Aid, Dept. of

State, Washington, D.C Robert Mills,

Jr., has been appointed director of market
research in the marketing organization at
State Mutual Life Assurance Company of
America in Worcester. He joined State
Mutual's actuarial organization as an actu-
arial assistant in 1 971 , was promoted to
actuarial associate in 1973, senior actuarial
associate in 1974, and assistant actuary in
1975. He became a fellow in the Society of
Actuaries in 1975, and earned the Char-
tered Life Underwriter designation in 1 977.
. . . Thomas Pandolfi was just promoted to
group leader, software, atVarian As-
sociates in Palo Alto, Calif.

Dr. Richard San Antonio is completing
his residency in internal medicine and his
wife, Pamela, her residency in pediatrics at
Walter Reed Army Medical Center in
Washington, D.C. They are currently as-
signed at Fort Meade, Md. . . . Now out of
the Air Force, James Troutman presently
serves as head of vendor quality engineer-
ing at Computervision Corp. in Bedford,
Mass. . . . Glenn White is working on his
PhD dissertation at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.
The dissertation involves the observational
study of the general circulation in the
Northern Hemisphere in summertime.

1972

Secretary:

John A Woodward

101 Putnam St

Representative:

Lesley E Small Zorabedian

16 Parkview Rd

Orange, MA
01364

Reading, MA
01867

>Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond W.
Coleman, a son Gregory James, on March

13, 1979 to Mr. and Mrs. Mark Dupuis,

theirsecond daughter, Kelly, on November

10, 1978 to Mr. and Mrs. Donald

Polonis, a son, Timmy, on December 27,
1978.

Douglas Best, who currently works for
Cincinnati Milacron-Heald Division, is a
registered professional engineer in Mas-
sachusetts. . . . Charles Brine has success-
fully completed the PhD program at the
College of Marine Studies at the University
of Delaware, where he concentrated in the
area of marine chemistry (chemical
oceanography). . . James Colangelo
started on a fellowship in nephrology at

Boston V.A. Hospital in July The Robert

Colps have a "wonderful two-year-old
daughter." Colp is with Foster Wheeler
Energy Corp. in Livingston, N.J. . . . Andrew
Cuchiara has been awarded a PhD in bio-
statistics from the University of Oklahoma
lat Norman. He has a master's degree from
WPI . Next fall he leaves for Japan where he
will be employed in the atomic casualty
division of the International Health Unit. . . .

Summer 1979 /The WPI Journal/ 41

I I

i I i

Theodore Fredericks is now a program
manager in Rockwell International's Collins
Telecommunications Systems Division. The
firm deals primarily in government airborne
systems.

Andy Glazier is employed by the Perini
Corporation atthe Seabrook (N.H.) nuclear
power plant. The $2.3 billion plant, which is
being constructed for the Public Service
Company of New Hampshire, is scheduled
to have its first reactor operational in 1 982.
. . . Linda Gordon serves as a project leader
at Data General Corp., Westboro, Mass —
In March, Howard Levine presented a
paper before the American Physical Society
in Chicago. Levine is a graduate student
member of the Rutgers University commit-
tee to evaluate all athletic policies on cam-
pus. . . . Edward Perkins has joined Digital
Equipment Corp., Maynard, Mass., where
he is a senior software engineer in the RT/C
Small Systems Software Development
Group. . . . Presently, T. Richard Price is
workingfor Deevy and Shannon, Inc., con-
sulting engineers in Beaumont, Texas.

David Riedel is a technical specialist for
Aetna Life & Casualty in Hartford, Conn.
He received his MS in computer science
from UConn last year. . . . Shawn Sullivan
serves as a services engineer at Amstar
Corp., Charlestown, Mass. . . . Donald Taft
is employed by the Courier Corporation,
Lowell, Mass. He, his wife Mary, and two
children live in Nashua, N.H. . . . Richard
Wallace works as a senior field engineer at
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc. in Cam-
bridge, Mass. . . . With Norton since 1972,
Richard Willey is now a manufacturing
engineer in the large vitrified wheel area of
the grinding wheel division in Worcester. . .
"Jack" Zorabedian, Jr., holds the post of
production engineer at GE in Wilmington,
Mass. He is a member of the planning
board in Reading, Mass., where he is also a
town meeting member. He is active with
AVPAC, a political action committee.

1973

Secretary:

Representative:

Jay J Schnitzer

Robert R Wood

322 St. Paul St.

14 Stone Brook Rd

Apt. #3

Sudbury, MA

Brookline, MA

01776

02146

^■Married: James N. Paprocki and Miss
Patricia S. Pollock on March 10, 1979 in
Irondequoit, New York. The bride
graduated from Genesee Hospital School
of Nursing. She is presently employed at
the hospital, and is also attending Nazareth
College. The groom is a computer analyst
at Eastman Kodak Company. . . . Martin J.
Sklar and Janis L. Price recently in Ran-
dolph, Massachusetts. Mrs. Sklar
graduated from the University of Toledo,
and is with the American Red Cross blood
services, Northeast region. Her husband is
with Corning Medical Instruments.

*Born: to Stephen and Deborah La-
Plante Goodwin, their second child, An-
drew Hilton, on February 28, 1979. Their
first child, Tracey, will be three in August.
They write: "We are still enjoying the
sunny South and warm weather." ... to
Richard and Dianne Lamberto Sargent,
75, their third child, Rebekah on De-
cember 28, 1979. Rebekah joins Julie, 41/2,
and Peter, 3. Sargent is a senior project
engineer at Sala Magnetics, Inc., an Allis
Chalmers subsidiary, in Cambridge, Mass. .
. . to Mr. and Mrs. Norman D. Staller, a
daughter Breana Rae, on January 30, 1 979.
Norman has been promoted to senior en-
gineer at Polaroid in Cambridge, Mass.

Richard Belmonte has become the sys-
tem safety engineer for the test and evalua-
tion of Army materiel at Aberdeen Proving
Ground, Md. . . . Richard Brontoli con-
tinues in Baumholder, Germany with the

293rd Engineers Battalion Ray Cheren-

zia, a former WPI wrestler, directs the
wrestling program at the Westerly (R.I.)
YMCA. Recently, two of the boys he
coached placed first and second in the
Connecticut A.A.U. freestyle open cham-
pionships. Ray, who is also the director of
the Rhode Island Kids Wrestling Federa-
tion, istownengineerfor Westerly Still

with GE, John DiGregorio is presently a
project engineer located in Pittsfield, Mass.
. . . Stephen Dolan received his MD from
the University of Vermont College of
Medicine in Burlington last May. He is now
interning in internal medicine at the Uni-
versity of Missouri.

In February, Herbert Hedberg was pro-
moted to test engineering manager at
Waters Associates in Milford, Mass. . . .
David Hubbell, MD, writes: "Am halfway
through a residency in obstetrics and

gynecology." He is located in San Diego

No longer with Exxon, Christopher Kralik is
now a process design engineer in the petro-
leum group at C.E. Lummus in Bloomfield,
N.J. . . . Andrew Langdon, who holds an
MBA from Wharton (University of
Pennsylvania), is with Pennwalt Corp. in
Philadelphia. . . . Ken Lexier received his
PhD in education from Boston University in
May.

Wallace McKenzie, Jr., has been named
special gifts chairman in Saugus (Mass.) for
the 1979 American Cancer Society
Crusade. He is a financial and planning
consultant at Management Decision Sys-
tems of Waltham. Formerly, he was a
senior research analyst at Converse Rubber
of Wilmington. Currently, he is a member
of the Saugus Finance Committee and
serves on the Citizen Advisory Council for
the Massachusetts Coastal Zone Manage-
ment Program. He has been a town meet-
ing memberfrom Precinct One since 1975.
. . . David Moomaw has again taken a job
at Fisher-Price, where he is in a new group
called Technical Design and Development.
He says, "We will be investigating future
product concepts as far ahead as the 1 988
line of toys."

Robert Newman holds the post of senior
systems programmer at Data Terminal Sys-
tems, Maynard, Mass. . . . William Nutteris
presently supporting installation for GE of
the Trident missile fire control system at
Electric Boat in Groton, Conn, on the U.S. S.
Michigan, and is supporting testing of the
Trident missile fire control system on the
U.S.S. Ohio. (These are the first two Trident
submarines to be built.) He also aided in the
installation of the Trident/C4 missile fire
control system on the U.S.S. Frances Scott
Key last fall. . . . Formerly, with Cullinane
Corp. in IDMS development and support,
Bruce Olsen is now the newly appointed
systems programmer in the General Sys-
tems Division of Management Decision
Systems, Inc., in Waltham, Mass. The firm
is a privately-held, national leader in the
development and use of problem-solving
models and computer software for busi-
ness analysis and planning. Olsen will be
working with MDS's financial product, a
subset of its Express software. Earlier, he
had been a senior systems programmer for
Melville Corporation.

Last summer Paul Parulis was promoted
to senior engineer at General Dynamics
Electric Boat. . . . Daniel Prior is chairman of
the underground training development
committee for New England Electric Sys-
tem, Westboro, Mass. . . . Stephen Robin-
son is employed at Honeywell Information
Systems as manager of computer terminals
marketing support. Recently, he was a
candidate for a three-year term on the
board of selectmen in Litchfield, N.H. . . .
Mark Whitley is a reservoir engineer at
Shell Oil Co. in New Orleans, La. . . . Mary
Zoeller holds the post of product marketing
engineer at Hewlett Packard Company in
San Diego, Calif.

1974

Secretary

Representative:

James F Rubino

David G Lapre

18 Landings Way

PO Box 384

Avon Lake, OH

Tunkhannock, PA

44012

18657

►fiom. to Mr. and Mrs. William Dewkett,
a son, Matthew Ryan, on September 12,
1978. ... to Mr. and Mrs. Michael J.
Kozakiewicz, a daughter, Melissa, on Feb-
ruary 9, 1 979 to Mr. and Mrs. John R.

Mason III, their first child, a daughter,
Hilary Alexandra, on February 6, 1979.

After graduating from Georgetown Uni-
versity Law Center, Alden Bianchi will join
the Chicago law firm of Hume, Clement,
Brinks, Willian and Olds. The firm's practice
is limited to patent and antitrust matters,
both national and international. . . . Wil-
liam Block now works at Southern New
England Telephone, New Haven, Conn.,
where he is a data systems specialist. . . .

42 /The WPI journal / Summer 1979

Rod Broeker serves as an instrument and
control systems engineer for SIP Engineers
and Contractors in Houston, Texas. He is
still active in tournament chess, and is the
Texas Chess Association's secretary-
treasurer. His wife, Annie, an economic
evaluator for Badische Corp., has won the
1979 Outstanding Young Engineer Award.
Wayne Bryant continues as manager of
the systems programming group at Com-
position Systems Inc., Elmsford, N.Y.

Christopher Cigal is assistant professor
of military science in the ROTC department
at Washington & Jefferson College in

Washington, Pa Early this year, Steve

Dacri, now headquartered in Hollywood,
returned East for performances at Worces-
ter State College and the Society of Ameri-
can Magicians in Nashua, N.H. He is pursu-
ing a television acting career Capt.

Robert Foley, USMC, is located in Beaufort,
S.C. . . . Presently, Thomas Frink is em-
ployed as an industrial electrical engineer.
He is active in St. Joseph's Catholic Church,
Salem, N.H., especially with high school
youth programs. He is considering a reli-
gious vocation Alan Hahnel holds the

post of chief engineer at Winfrey Structural

Concrete Co. in Boulder, Colo David

Nickless is a student at Suffolk University
Law School in Boston.

Louis Piscitelle is employed as a research
engineer at Stowe-Woodard Co. in New-
ton, Mass Anne Rodier has been

appointed second vice president of pension
financial operations at Union Mutual Life
Insurance Company in Portland, Maine.
She joined the company in 1974 as a
pension service coordinator trainee. Today
she is responsible for group pension ac-
counting and actuarial functions. She is a

fellow of the Society of Actuaries

Currently, William Russell serves as
plant engineer at Acigraf International

Corp. in Branford, Conn Still with Patti

Bros., Sudbury, Mass., James Sgroi now
holds the position of vice president of
manufacturing.

In February, William Stafford received
his professional engineering license. He has
been promoted to chemical and geotechni-
cal branch manager at Walker Labora-
tories, Inc., Columbia, S.C. . . . Alfred
Swierad, Jr. is a member of the technical
staff at Bell Telephone Labs in Holmdel,
N.J. . . . Lee Turner holds the post of
manager of operations and financial
analysis at DWG Corp. in Miami Beach, Fla.
. . . Richard Ventre now works as a produc-
tion supervisor on the Surlyn unit at du
Pont.

W

1975

Secretary

Representative

James D Aceto, Jr

Frederick J Cordelia

70 Sunnyview Dr.

24 Imperial Rd

Vernon, CT

Worcester, MA

06066

01604

^Married: Peter J. Arcoma and Regina M.
Kozlowski on April 28, 1979 in Fairfield,
Connecticut. Mrs. Arcoma graduated from
Briarwood School for Women and is an
executive secretary at Stauffer Chemical
Company, Westport. Her husband is a
project manager for H. Wales Lines Com-
pany in Meriden. . . . Glenn R. Ekwall and
Delia L. Copley on April 21,1 979 in Bar-
boursville, West Virginia. Mrs. Ekwall
graduated from Marshall University and is
a music teacher in Ashland, Ky. The groom
works as a technical service engineer at

U.O.P., Des Plaines, III Stephen Fitz-

hugh and Joan Sposito on May 6, 1978 in
Manchester, Connecticut. The groom has
held a new post as product development
engineer at GE since October — Robert D.
Klimm, Jr., to Miss Margaret I. Healy on
April 21, 1979 in Branford, Connecticut.
Mrs. Klimm is a Becker graduate. The
bridegroom has an MSCE from Northeast-
ern Stephen Wojciak to Ruth Kodis,

MS 79, last August. The bride works for III
Systems of Cambridge, Mass. and is a
graduate of Catholic University. Her hus-
band is a development engineer for GE in
Schenectady, N.Y.

►fiorn. to Mr. and Mrs. Steven F. Manzi,
a son, Brennan Steven, on October 1 7,
1978. In February, Manzi was transferred
to the Waltham Medical Division of the
Hewlett-Packard Company, where he is a
mechanical design engineer. ... to Mr. and
Mrs. David Schwartz, a daughter, Jennifer
Leigh, on November 10, 1978. David is a
position area engineer at Daniel Interna-
tional Corp. in Fulton, Missouri.

Continuing as plant engineer for Tarn-
pax, Inc., Rutland, Bruce Altobelli recently
purchased a house in Clarendon, Vt. . . .
Last September, Joel Angelico joined
Polaroid Corp. in Norwood, Mass. . . . Rick
Aseltine has accepted a new post with the
GE Medical Systems Division, where he is a
systems design engineer working on com-
puterized axial tomography whole body
scanning. He is located in New Berlin,
Wisconsin. . . . Norton Bonaparte, Jr.,
serves as administrative assistant to the city
manager in Grand Rapids, Mich. He holds a
master's degree in Public Administration

from Cornell Karen Brozowski has

been transferred and promoted from pro-
cess engineer, Corning Glass, Central Falls,
to senior process engineer, Corning Medi-
cal RIA Division, Corning Glass Works,
Medfield, Mass. . . . Thomas Colp receives
his Doctor of Optometry from New En-
gland College of Optometry this year

Harry Danberg has joined Monsanto Corp.
in Miamisburg, Ohio, where he is woorking
with DOE on coal gasification projects.

Judith Nitsch Donnellan, who recently
was named the first woman vice president
of Schofield Brothers, Inc. and head of the
firm's Freeman Engineering office in
Attleboro, Mass., was one of several
women engineers quoted in the article,
"Women engineers: here to stay," which
appeared in the May issue of ASCE's Civil
Engineering. The article was concerned
with discrimination against women en-
gineers in government and industry.

Last fall, John Fitzpatrick ran the New
York Marathon (his first) in 3:46. Still with
Exxon, he is also studying for his MBA at
Rutgers. His wife, Ginny Giordano Fitzpa-
trick, is a systems marketing representative
for Service Bureau Company. She is work-
ing for her MBA at Fairleigh Dickinson
University.

Dave Fowler of Information Services at
American Can Company, was slated to run
in the Greenwich (Conn.) 5-mile Road Race
in April. Prior to the race, he ran about six
miles a day, but considers that ten miles a
day would have been "serious training."
Dave, who has a new daughter, goes to
NYU at night, where he is studying for his
MBA. "There are lots of things in the
cooker right now," he says.

Dr. Charles Innis, Jr., holder of a PhD
from WPI, has been appointed to the post
of senior research engineer in the Morgoil
Bearing Department at Morgan Construc-
tion Company, Worcester. Previously, he
had done engineering for the firm on high
speed rolling mill equipment and had per-
formed economic analysis on existing and
new mills. Earlier, he had taught engineer-
ing at UConn and had been associated with
Electric Boat. He belongs to ASME and the
American Society of Lubrication Engineers.
He is on the executive committee of the
Worcester chapter of ASME. His most re-
cent publication is "Predicting Mechanical
Design Reliability Using Weighted Fault
Trees," Failure Prevention and Reliability,
ASME, 1977.

Tom John is an instructor in chemical
engineering at Cleveland (Ohio) State Uni-
versity. . . . Continuing with Sikorsky Air-
craft, Stratford, Conn., Edward Karedes
now works as design engineer. . . . Gene
LaCroix was recently promoted to Lasalign
product manager for Diamond Engineering
Corp. Formerly product supervisor, LaCroix
has been instrumental in developing new
electronics and packaging for the laser light

guideline used in the lumber and wood
products industries. He has had extensive
experience in quality control management
with Texas Instruments. In his new post, he
will be responsible for product marketing
and new application consulting for saw
mills, veneer and plywood plants, parti-
cleboard converters, furniture and other
wood product manufacturers.

Summer 1919 /The WPI Journal/ 43

*• .Mi

■»».

Robert Martinaitis is a member of the
technical staff at Hughes Aircraft Company
in Fullerton, Calif. . . . Richard Perreault,
who lives in Westboro, Mass., now works
as a field engineer for circuit test products
at Hewlett-Packard in Lexington Chris-
tine Powers is a project engineer at Baxter
Travenol, Deerfield, Illinois. . . . Francis
Schlegel received his MBA from the Uni-
versity of New Haven in January. . . . Since
the first of the year, Steven Sweeney has
been working for the naval plant repre-
sentative (special projects officer) at GE in
Pittsfield, Mass., where he is an industrial
engineer. He has received his MBA from
the University of Hartford.

1976

Secretary

Paula E. Stratouly

318Thornberry Court

Pittsburgh, PA

15237

Representative:
LynneM. Buckley
648 Commercial St.
Braintree, MA
02184

^Married: Nancy B. Duncanson and Don

Golba of Buffalo, New York on April 21 ,
1979. Both the bride and groom work in
the Linde Division of Union Carbide. . . . H.
Warren Fairbanks III to Peggy A. Walker in
Whitinsville, Massachusetts on April 7,
1979. Mrs. Fairbanks graduated from
Worcester State College and is a speech
therapist in the Bellingham school system.
The bridegroom is with Thermo Engineer-
ing, Inc., Worcester.

David Altieri has changed jobs. Now he
is employed as an education representative
with Honeywell Information Systems. Al-
though he is based at Wellesley (Mass.)
Education Center, he travels to customer
sites throughout this country and Europe.
. . . John Arden, Jr., works for Stone &
Webster in Boston. . . . Alan Briggs writes
that he completed the Boston Marathon in
2 hours 48 minutes. . . . Hugo Cuevas, Jr.,
who received his master's in fisheries and
allied aquacultures at the International
Centerfor Aquaculture, Auburn (Ala.) Uni-
versity last year, is presently working in his
home country, Colombia, at Recursos S.A.,
a fishing company. He is also doing consult-
ing work on fish culture development. . . .
David Graham has earned his MS in math-
ematics with high honors from Worcester
State College.

In February, Stephen Jennette became a
systems programmer after being an appli-
cations programmer for a year and a half at
Norton Co. . . . William ( "B.J.") Johnson
continues as director of programs for Phi
Gamma Delta Fraternity in Lexington, Ky.

. . Roger Locantore is a lab facilities en-
gineer at Hamilton Standard in Windsor
Locks, Conn. . . . Presently, Steven and
Madeleine Gauthier Lowe are engineers
with the York (Pa.) Division of Borg
Warner. . . . Since January, John Manning
has been working for Megatest Corp. as an
applications and marketing engineer. The
home plant is in San Jose, Calif. John has
opened an East Coast sales office in

Wakefield, Mass Robert Milk has been

transferred to Raleigh, N.C. as project
manager for Electronic Data Systems. . . .
1/Lt. Michael Miller is with the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers at Ft. Rucker, Ala.
1/Lt. Edward Perry II of the Foreign
Technology Division at Wright- Patterson
AFB, Ohio, recently received the Air Force
Commendation Medal. He was presented
with the award for his work as a computer
system plans and programming officer at
Robins AFB, Georgia from 1976 to 1978.
. . . Wayne Pryor is a systems coordinator
for Data General in Massachusetts. . . .
Having left Ford Motor Co., Charles Put-
nam is now a development engineer at
Machlett Laboratories in Stamford, Conn. .
. . Raymond Robey holds the post of re-
search engineer at A.D. Little, Inc., Cam-
bridge, Mass. . . . Paul Selent works for
Exxon Research & Engineering in Florham
Park, N.J. . . . Since January, William Van
Herwarde has held a new post as an en-
gineer in one facet of GE's nuclear program
in Schenectady, N.Y. He is utilizing his past
experience with pumps. . . . Kevin Wall is a
physicist at GE in Schenectady. . . . Robert
Winter was recently appointed assistant
district manager of the Baltimore District of
Raymond International Builders, Inc. Prior
to accepting sales engineering assignments
with the Pile Group, Bob was assigned to
Pile and Spencer, White and Prentis jobs as
project manager and superintendent.

1977

Secretary

Representative:

Kathleen Molony

Christopher D Baker

Apt #1

P.O. Box 35

29 Seaview Ave

Page, AZ

Norwalk, CT

86040

06855

^■Married: Leo J. Cappabrianca and Mar-
garet Granata on February 11,1 979. The
couple moved to Colorado in March. The
groom is an electronic design engineer at
Digital Equipment Corp. in Colorado
Springs. . . . Steven B. Kovnerto Marcia
Gracie on December 18, 1978. The bride is
a junior majoring in chemistry at Brown
University. . . . Ronald A. Rice to Miss Rene
R. Price in Worcester on March 2, 1 979.
Mrs. Rice attended Northeastern Univer-
sity, Boston, and plans to attend Cape
Coral (Fla.) School of Hair Design this fall.
Her husband is currently a painting con-
tractor in Holden, Mass.

Michael Abrams graduates with an as-
sociate degree in electronic engineering
from Nashville State Technical Institute in
September. . . . Stephen Albino works as a
components engineer at Prime Computer
Company, Framingham, Mass. . . . Chris
Baker is a civil engineer with the Arizona
Department of Transportation. . . . John
Brady serves as a product marketing en-
gineer at Texas Instruments in Houston

"Biff" Braswell, who continues with GE in
the large steam turbine department,
Schenectady, is also pursuing his master's
degree at RPI. . . . Previously with AT&T
Long Lines, Bill Cunningham is now with
Data General in Westboro, Mass., where
he is a data communications instructor in
the marketing department. . . . Robert
Dolan is a material utilization analyst at the
Ford Motor Co. stamping plant in Cleve-
land. He was recently promoted to his
present post from the production schedul-
ing department.

Robert Ferrari holds the post of project
engineer at Chas. T. Main Engineers in
Boston. . . . Kenneth Fox is an account
associate in sales support at the Foxboro
Company in West Hartford, Conn. . . .
Frank Gilbert serves as supervisor of ven-
dor control, mechanical test consultant, at
Wyman Gordon in North Grafton, Mass.
. . . Recently, Eric Hertz was promoted to
account executive II at AT&T Long Lines in
White Plains, N.Y. He is responsible for the
Pepsico national account. For recreation,
he jogs on the beach at Old Greenwich,
Conn. . . . Brian Huff is a project engineer at
Ingersoll-Rand Research in Princeton, N.J.
. . . Jim Leighton works as an assistant
engineerat Raytheon Missile Systems, Bed-
ford, Mass. ... J. Barry Livingston is a
software engineerat Digital Equipment
Corp. in Merrimack, N.H.

Currently, Marc Meunier is a field en-
gineer covering southern Florida for Indus-
trial Risk Insurers. He is located in Miami.
. . . Michael Oakes received his MSEE from
the University of Illinois in May. . . . Mark
Puputti serves as a production engineer at
Polaroid Corp. in Waltham, Mass. . . . Dave
Ramsden is at medical school in Chicago. . .
. Allan Shear is a class II engineer for the

City of Woonsocket, R.I Robert Stack

has joined the Wayne (Newark) office,
York Division, Borg-Warner Corporation. .
. . Dan Sullivan is a self-employed consul-
tant in Auburndale, Mass. . . . Robert
Thompson works as a systems programmer
at McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis, Mo.

44/ The WPl journal / Summer 1979

1978

Secretary
Cynthia Grynick
303 Wolcott St.
Waterbury, CT
06705

^Married: William T. Davis, Jr. and Beth
Raymond, 79, on January 27, 1979. The
groom is working as an electrical engineer
doing logic design at Sperry Univac in

Bluebell, Pa Mark J. Hebertto Eileen

McGregor on January 6, 1979. Currently,
the bridegroom is a teaching assistant in
the ME department at WPI, where he is
working for his MS. . . . Lawrence N.
Parretti, Jr., and Miss Victoria L. Livngstton
on February 17, 1979 in Cornwall, New
York. Mrs. Parretti graduated from
Worcester State College. Her husband is
employed by Perini Corp.

Gerald Baird, Jr., is a second lieutenant in
the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps. . . . Louis
Collette serves as a mechanical systems
engineer at Rockwell International in
Richardson, Texas. This fall, he will start
graduate school at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, where he will study for
his MSME. He and his wife Debbie live in
Allen, Texas — William Collins is a special
projects engineer at Stone & Webster, Bos-
ton. . . . John Crossin works as a senior
mechanical engineer at Digital Equipment
Corp., Tewksbury, Mass. He and his wife
Laurie live in Stow.

Adrienne Dill has a teaching assist-
antship at Georgia Tech. and teaches soils
labs while studying for a master's in
geotechnical engineering. . . . John
Downes is an environmental engineer in
the Division of Hazardous Materials in the
Kentucky Dept. of Natural Resources, Co-
lumbia, Ky. . . . Jay Gehrig is with Raytheon

in Norwood, Mass Bryce Granger, who

works for Parker Hannifin Corp., has
bought a house in Ravenna, Ohio. . . .
Dwight Hardin works at Control Logic in
Natick, Mass — Keith Herreman serves as
a division representative for Westinghouse
in Athens, Ga. . . Eugene Jakubowski is a
product marketing engineer at Texas In-
struments in Houston, Texas.

Recently, Ken Kummins completed an
intensive six months of studies at Westing-
house's Nuclear Plant Engineer School.
Presently, he is training on a prototype of a
nuclear powered aircraft carrier. After his
first qualification period is completed, he
will be a qualified engineering officer of the
watch. . . . Frank Leahy is completing his
master's degree in operations research at
the University of California at Berkeley and
enjoys "California so much I've decided to
take a job here next year with Intel Corp. , a
semi-conductor manufacturer in Santa
Clara." He'll be working in the production
planning and scheduling department,
where the plan is to eventually automate
many of the planning processes currently

performed manually. . . . Jim Morris is an
electrical engineer at Motorola in Planta-
tion, Fla.

Jill Neal is a manufacturing manage-
ment trainee at GE in Cincinnati. . . . Rory
O'Connor serves as a technical writer for
systems software at Wang Laboratories in
Lowell, Mass . . . Dimitrios Promponas
works as a programmer at Prime Com-
puter, Inc., Framingham, Mass. . . . Larry
Shiembob is employed as a design engineer
at Williams Research, Walled Lake, Michi-
gan. . Karlis Viceps is an environmental
engineer at Pickard and Anderson in Au-
burn, NY. . . . William Walton is studying
for his MS in geotechnical engineering at
Cornell University.

Kaps go the distance at the Boston
Marathon, April 16, 1979, Hopkinton,
Mass.

Before: (left to right) Tony Biancaniello,
'62; Pat Moran, '65; Bill Shields, '65; Les
Hart, '63; Jim Fee, '65.

After: Celebrating at home of Bill
Shields

Summer 1979 /The WPI journal / 45

School of

Industrial Management

William Densmore, '57, was recently
named vice president of abrasive opera-
tions in the United States and Canada for
Norton Co. Since 1971 he had served as
vice president and general manager of the
grinding wheel division. In 1946 he joined
Norton as an industrial engineer. He is a
registered professional engineer, and
serves on the Management Board of Ad-
visors at WPI.

Arthur Soderberg, '55, former purchasing
agent at Coes Knife Co., Worcester, is
retired and living in South Dennis, Mass.

John O'Malley, '62, controller of Holden
(Mass.) District Hospital, has been named
to the Massachusetts Hospital Associa-
tion's task force on budgeting and cost
efficiency. He is on the MHA Financial
Advisory Committee. Controller at the
hospital for 13 years, he also holds ad-
vanced membership in the Hospital Finan-
cial Management Association. He is a past
president of the Worcester chapter, Na-
tional Association of Accountants, and
founder and chairman of Central Mas-
sachusetts (Hospital) Controllers Associa-
tion. A Bentley College graduate, he also
has an MBA from Anna Maria.

Charles Mason, '65, holds the position
of manager of U.S. Steel in El Dorado,
Arkansas.

Richard Carroll, '71 , has been named direc-
tor of manufacturing for Hydr-O-Matic
Pumps in Ashland, Ohio. The firm is a
leading producer of waste water and sew-
age transfer pumps for domestic, industrial
and municipal applications, and is a division
of Wylain Inc. of Dallas. Previously, Carroll
was with Weinman Pump Co., Columbus,
arid Warren (Mass.) Pumps, Inc., where he
was manager of manufacturing. An Air
Force veteran, he is also a member of the
Society of Manufacturing Engineers and
the American Society of Metals.

Arthur Quitadamo, '74, holds the post of
vice president in the Commercial Loan De-
partment at Worcester County National
Bank. He is responsible for managing the
bank's international function. Previously,
he was corporate credit manager for
Crompton & Knowles Corporation.

Raymond Jolie, '77, has been appointed
treasurer of G.F. Wright Co., Worcester,
He joined Wright in 1 965, and was most
recently assistant treasurer of the firm. He
belongs to the Capital Requirement Com-
mittee in Sturbridge, Mass., and graduated
from New England School of Accounting.

Joseph Cusimano, '78, has been appointed
field sales manager, abrasive marketing
group, at Norton Co., Worcester. He
started work at Norton in 1966, and has
served on the board of the Young Men's
Business Association of Worcester. He
graduated from Middlebury College in
1 962 . He will be moving back to Worcester
from Glastonbury, Conn.

Prof. Richard N. Cobb, John E. Sinclair
professor emeritus of mathematics at WPI,
died May 5, 1 979 at his home in San Diego,
California, where he had lived since 1973.

Prof. Cobb taught at WPI for 27 years,
and was head of the mathematics depart-
ment for three years. In 1 964 The Pedlar
was dedicated to him. In 1966 he received
the WPI Board of Trustees Award for Out-
standing Teaching. He was a member of
Skull.

A former chairman of the board of
deacons and former clerk of the First Bap-
tist Church of Worcester, he also had been
a member of the La Jolla, Calif. Presbyte-
rian Church. Previously, he was affiliated
with the Friends of the Worcester Free
Public Library and the Worcester Founda-
tion for Experimental Biology.

Prof. Cobb belonged to the Mathemati-
cal Association of America, Phi Beta Kappa,
Pi Mu Epsilon, the National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics, and ASEE. He
graduated from Bowdoin and received his
master's degree from Harvard University.
He was head of the mathematics depart-
ment for five years at Deering High School
in Portland, Me., and had taught at Willis-
ton Academy, Los Alamos Ranch School,
Bowdoin, Bates College, and Lehigh Uni-
versity. He was born on June 5, 1911 in
Portland, Me.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara Cobb;
a daughter, Suzanne C. Piatt of Edina,
Minn.; a son, Richard D. Cobb of Water-
town, Conn.; and two grandchildren.

46 /The WPI journal / Summer 1919

Ernest L. Thrower, '01 , a retired mining
engineer who celebrated his 100th birth-
day in January, died on March 14, 1979 in
Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. Thrower was born in Brattleboro, Vt.
on January 24, 1879. In 1901 hegraduated
as a mechanical engineer from WPI. He had
been associated with Pope Toledo Co.;
Brown Hoisting Machinery Co.; F.C.
Greene Engineering Co.; E.L. Thrower,
mining engineers; and the Great Northern
Railway. He joined the old W.H. Warner &
Co., Inc. in 1913, where he was named
general manager of mines in 1 920 and
consulting engineer in 1929. Later, he be-
came vice president and general manager
of Warner Collieries Co.

A former vice chairman of the Ohio State
Mine Examining Board, Mr. Thrower was
also a past president of the Canterbury Golf
Club and a member of the Cleveland Ath-
letic Club and the Baptist Church. He was a
past secretary-treasurer of the Cleveland
chapter of the WPI Alumni Association.

Three of his nephews attended WPI:
EmmettA. Thrower, '27; AlvinE. Thrower,
'30; andCharles W. Thrower, '52.

! Edward A. Hanff, '10, of Pittsburgh,
i Pennsylvania, a retired vice president of the
: former Swindell-Dressier Co., died on Feb-
ruary 16, 1979.

He was born on November 29, 1 889 in
i Rutland, Mass. In 1910 he received his
BSEE from WPI.

Mr. Hanff, who was president of the
class of 1910, belonged to a number of
engineering societies. He was a member of
the National Watch and Clock Club. In the
1950's he retired from Swindell's (now
Pullman-Swindell Co.) engineering
department.

George E. Clifford, '12, of Ann Arbor,
Michigan, passed away on March 29,
!1979. He was 90 years old.

From 1 929 to 1 953 he was with Wol-
verine Tube in Detroit, where he retired as
plant engineer. From 1 954 to 1 958 he did
part-time work in the Willow Run Labora-
tory of the Engineering Research Institute
of the University of Michigan.

A native of Fitchburg, Mass., he was
born on June 27, 1888. He studied mechan-
cal engineering at WPI. He belonged to the
V\asonic bodies, including Scottish Rite and
:he Shrine. The assistant treasurer of the
first Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, he
,/vas also a former president of the Detroit
Chapter of the WPI Alumni Association. He
belonged to the Engineering Society of
Detroit.

jiverett Hutchins, '15, passed away in the
snollwood Nursing Home in Worcester on
ebruary 25, 1 979. He was 88 years old.

In 1 956 he retired from the New England
llectric System, where he had been em-
ployed for 30 years. During his career, he
iad also been with the New York, New
laven and Hartford Railway Co., Morgan

Construction Company, Richard French
Iron Works, and Eastern Bridge & Structural
Co.

Mr. Hutchins was born on Dec. 1 8, 1 890
in Worcester. He graduated as a civil en-
gineer in 1 91 5. He belonged to the
Worcester Horticultural Society.

Payson A. Perrin, '16, of Harvey, Illinois
passed away last October.

He was born on Feb. 20, 1 894 in Boston,
Mass. He graduated as a civil engineer from
WPI. During his lifetime he was associated
with the U.S.C.&G. Survey for five years,
and served in France with the U.S. Army in
World War I. He was also employed by the
Pennsylvania Water & Power Co. ; the State
Highway Department in Olympia,
Washington; and the U.S. Engineer Office
in Pittsburgh, Pa., from which he was
retired.

Howland Buttler, '18, of Chesterfield, Mis-
souri, a retired chemical director from Dr.
Pepper, died recently.

After graduating as a chemist from WPI,
he joined Mallinckrodt Chemical Works as
an analytical chemist. Later, he worked for
the University of Illinois, St. Louis Coke &
Chemical, Monsanto, and Anheuser-
Busch, Inc. He was with Dr. Pepper from
1931 to 1960.

Mr. Buttler belonged to the American
Chemical Society and the Society for Soft
Drink Technologists. He was an elder of the
Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dal-
las. He was born on October 26, 1 895 in
Worcester.

Guy F. Woodward, '20, former superin-
tendent of distribution at Massachusetts
Electric Co., died in Worcester on May 4,
1979 at the age of 81.

He had been with Massachusetts Electric
for 43 years when he retired in 1963. He
was born in Clinton, Mass. on April 2,
1 898, and later studied at WPI.

Mr. Woodward served as president of
the Tech Old Timers in 1 966-67. He be-
longed to the Transmission and Distribu-
tion Committee of the Electrical Council of
New England, the Appalachian Mountain
Club (life member), the Worcester Me-
chanics Association, Worcester Economic
Club, and the Exchange Club. He was a
past president of the New England Society
of Underground Engineers, past chairman
of the Worcester chapter of AIEE, and past
president of the Worcester Tennis Club.

A former commissioner of the Mohegan
Council of Boy Scouts, he was one of the
earliest recipients of the Silver Beaver
Award. He was a member of the New
England Regional Sea Scout committee,
and started the first organized Sea Scout
program in Worcester.

He was a 50-year member of the Ma-
sons, a trustee of the Worcester Historical
Museum, and a member of the Worcester
Craft Center, where since 1 964 he had
been a weekly volunteer assistant to the
director.

Dr. Cyril Israel, '21, a physician in Woon-
socket, Rhode Island, for 42 years, died at
his home on April 5, 1 979. He was 79.

A native of Millville, Mass., he was born
on Feb. 24, 1900. In 1921 he graduated as
a chemist from WPI. He received his MD
from Boston University Medical School in
1926. He practiced medicine in Woon-
socket until his retirement in 1969. For two
years he served as president of the medical
staff at Woonsocket Hospital and as an
associate member of Fogarty Memorial
Hospital.

Dr. Israel belonged to the Woonsocket
Medical District Society, the Rhode Island
Medical Society, the Congregation B'nai
Israel, B'nai B'rith, the Rhode Island Jewish
Home for the Aged, and the Masons, of
which he was a 50-year member.

Percival E. Meyer, '23, of Westfield, Mas-
sachusetts, a retired executive vice presi-
dent of Cortland Grinding Wheels Corp.,
died of cancer on March 1 0, 1 979.

He was born in Westfield on June 10,
1 901 . In 1 923 he graduated as a chemist.
He spent a year with the Fiberloid Corp.,
then joined Cortland, where he was em-
ployed for 46 years. He retired in 1 970 as
executive vice president.

A member of the Masons and ATO, Mr.
Meyer also belonged to the Exchange
Club, the Congregational Church, the
Blandford Country Club, and Connecticut
Valley Shell Club. In 1 967 he was elected to
a three-year term on the board of directors
of the voluntary, non-profit Grinding
Wheel Institute, an association of manufac-
turers of grinding wheels and other bonded
products, organized to promote the best
interests of users of the products and
members of the industry. He wasthe father
of Richard S. Meyer, '60.

Gridley Buddy, '26, of Jacksonville, Florida
died recently.

He graduated as a chemist from WPI.
From 1926 to 1941 he worked as a textile
chemist. From 1942 to 1948 he was with
the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In
1 952 he received his MEd from the Univer-
sity of Florida. For a number of years, he
was a teacher at Samuel W. Wolfson Senior
High School in Jacksonville. He belonged to
ThetaChi.

Donald A. Calder, '26, of Wyckoff , New
Jersey, the retired president of C. S. Brainin
Corp., died on April 25, 1979.

He was born in Worcester on Nov. 28,
1903. After receiving his BSEE from WPI,
he worked forThos. A. Edison Industries,
Allied Control Co., Western Electric, and
Engelhard Industries. Several years ago, he
retired from Brainin Corp. and Stern Metals
Corp. of Mount Vernon, N.Y. He belonged
to SAE, Skull, and AIEE.

Summer 1979 /The WPI journal/ 47

Fall 1979

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Fall 1979

2 Revisiting the 1970s at WPI

A look at the busiest decade ever for WPI,
by Russell Kay

10 Previewing the 1980s at WPI

A glimpse at plans for the near future, as the
WPI trustees see them.

16 Alumni Association

People on the move, and honors for the Fund.

17 What's happening

18 Homecoming 1979

20 Who's Who

WPI's public man in public relations

22 UFO

Experiences of a WPI alumnus on the track
of . . . what;

30 Looking through a borescope at Eugene
Carignan

39

Completed Careers

Editor: H. Russell Kay

Alumni Information Editor: Ruth S. Trask

Design. H. Russell Kay

/ ypesetting: County Photo Compositing,
Inc., Jefferson, Mass., and Davis Press, Inc.,
Worcester, Mass.

Printing: The House of Offset, Somerville,
Mass.

Address all correspondence to the Editor,
The WPI journal, Worcester Polytechnic In-
stitute, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609.
Telephone (617) 753-1411.

The WPI journal (ISSN 0148-6128) is
published for the WPI Alumni Association
by Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Copy-
right ® 1979 by Worcester Polytechnic Insti-
tute. All rights reserved.

The WPI journal is published five times a
year, quarterly plus a catalog issue (identi-
fied as no. 2) in September. Second class
postage paid at Worcester, Massachusetts.

WPI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

President: John H. McCabe, '68

Senior Vice President: Walter B. Dennen, Jr.,
'51

Vice President: Peter H. Horstmann, '55

Secretary-Treasurer: Stephen J. Hebert, '66

Past President: William A. Julian, '49

Executive Committee members-at-large: Phi-
lip B. Ryan, '65; Donald E. Ross, '54; Anson
C. Fyler, '45; Harry W Tenney, Ir., '56

Faculty representative: Kenneth E. Scott, '48

Fund Board: G. Albert Anderson, '51, chair-
man; Henry Styskal, Jr., '50, vice chairman;
Richard B. Kennedy, '65; Gerald Finkle, '57;
Philip H. Puddington, '59; Richard A. Davis,
'53; C. John Lindegren, '39

Fall 1979 /The WPI journal/ 1

by Russell Kay
Research by Jean Stilwell

IT IS POPULAR to categorize dec-
ades of social history with catch
phrases: the jazz era of the '20s; the
depression '30s; the war-torn '40s; the
complacent '50s; the turbulent '60s;
the self-aware 70s. The exact term
you choose, of course, depends on
what aspect of the times particularly
interested or affected your life.

There is reasonably general
agreement that the 1970s have been
peculiarly a time of turning inward,
of examining values and feelings. The
'60s had been a time of questioning,
too, a time of social upheaval, but the
questions were directed outward —
people demanded that solutions for
problems come from other people and
institutions. As a result, a lot of good
things happened, or at least were ear-
nestly set into motion: some mean-
ingful civil rights action, long-
overdue social welfare programs, an
infusion of spirit and money into
education, a space program that
landed men on the moon. But this
same outer-directedness also resulted
in the quagmire of the Viet Nam War,
in an economy that grew ever more
out of control, in an unwillingness to
face the consequences of industrial
and municipal pollution, and a grow-
ing appetite for everything, including
energy from fossil fuels.

At the tail end of the 1960s,
however, things began to change. Peo-
ple started to look for answers inside
themselves. All sorts of "self-help"
philosophies, techniques, systems,
and books proliferated in this new
era, and the signs of the times were
varied indeed:

Revisiting the 1970s at WPI

► Encounter groups, EST, and transcendental meditation

► Dr. Atkins' diet revolution, macrobiotic cookbooks, and Cuisinart food pro-
cessors

► Watergate: the decline and fall of Richard Nixon

^People magazine (which made it big) and New Tunes (which had more heart,
but folded)

► OPEC, gas-pump lines, wood stoves, and diesel cars

► Consciousness-raising, assertiveness training, dressing for power, and looking
out for number 1

► Digital watches, pocket calculators, and video games

► Bob Dylan, Dolly Parton, bye-bye Beatles, funk, punk, reggae, and disco
►.S'fdr Wars, The Godfather, Roots, The Muppet Show, and Crockett's Victory
Garden

► logging, racquetball, kung fu, and the NFL on Monday nights

► Solid as gold and sound as a dollar.

► The once lowly tee-shirt was no longer underwear but a vehicle for making
personal statements.

► We almost lost Detroit with nuclear reactor problems, but instead we got
Three Mile Island.

► Smokey the Bear was quietly retired and Woodsy Owl installed in his place
(pollution evidently being a bigger problem than forest fires).

► The Olympic games went to Munich and the whole world lost.

► Walt Disney World offered us an ultimate fantasy.

► Skylab went up into space, then fell down and hit Australia.

DURING THESE YEARS of the

last decade, it has not only been indi-
viduals who have looked inward for
direction; so too have institutions,
and none more than Worcester Poly-
technic Institute.

The groundwork for the 70s be-
gan with the faculty planning com-
mittee which wrote the Two Towers
report that led to the creation of the
new curriculum called the WPI Plan.
And it was the WPI Plan which was
the touchstone of the times for
Worcester Polytechnic Institute. lust
what happened, you ask?

► Creating the design for a new
technological education.

► Refining the details of the
model, then, one by one, bringing
them into practice.

► Restructuring and redesigning
every single undergraduate course
taught at WPI.

► Winning both acceptance and
renown, on campus and in the na-
tional arenas of higher education and
of engineering, and getting the WPI
Plan accredited.

► Wrestling with the enormous
problems that yearly threatened to
sink the whole enterprise.

► Developing workable ways of
promoting and evaluating student
proiects.

► Defining a meaningful humani-
ties minor required of all students.

► Divining a new way of getting
students to relate their technical ma-
jors to the social world.

Fall 1979 /The WPI Journal/ 3

THE 1970s WERE A TIME of becoming, of growing. In virtually every area
we can look at, the figures show considerable increase since 1970.

Students:

In 1970 there were 1,792 undergraduates, in a total student body of 2,363. In
1979 there are 2,375 undergraduates in a student population of over 3,500. In
1970, 1,520 students (including 41 women) applied for admission, and 541 en-
rolled. In 1979, 2,009 students made application (214 of them women), for an
entering class of 658.

Faculty:

While the student body grew by 48 percent over the decade, the full-time fac-
ulty only grew from 158 to 180, a mere 14 percent, although the number of
part-time, adjunct, and affiliate faculty has risen from 1 7 to 80.

Campus:

The campus has increased slightly in size, from about 45 acres in 1970 to its
present 56. Most of this growth reflects the addition of Higgins House, plus
the Ellsworth and Fuller residences along Institute Road.

In 1969, the campus had 504 dormitory beds; in 1979 it has 912. (There
are about as many fraternity beds now as there were then.) Laboratory space
grew somewhat from 94,078 square feet to 98,749. Classroom space, however,
shrank considerably, from 62,735 to 48,927 square feet, reflecting both the
change in emphasis toward project work (much of it carried out off campus)
and the increased use of alternate instructional tools, such as videotape. For
these reasons, also, conference room space grew from 3,475 to 9,340.

Library:

In 1969, WPI's Gordon Library had fewer than 61,000 volumes. Now it has
more than triple that number and is, in fact, approaching the building's design
capacity of 200,000 volumes. And that doesn't count in the nearly 600,000
technical reports, mostly on microfiche, nor the 30,000 audiovisual items, in-
cluding audio and video tapes and cassettes, records, and films. At the begin-
ning of the decade, WPI had no real archives; now there is a significant and
growing collection of items that reflect WPI's history and heritage, plus a spe-
cial librarian to manage the program.

Departments:

In the last decade, WPI has added 3 new departments — Computer Science,
Life Sciences, and Social Science and Policy Studies — and new graduate degree
programs in biomedical engineering, biomedical science, construction project
management, fire protection engineering, hydrodynamics and water resources,
management, and mathematics for secondary school teachers. History and En-
glish were merged into a single department, Humanities.

Only two people who were department heads in 1 969 still hold that posi-
tion -- Prof. Donald Zwiep of Mechanical Engineering, and Prof. Donald John-
son of Humanities (then, History).

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Continuing Education:

Enrollment in evening graduate school programs has tripled over the decade,
from less than 200 to some 6S0 this year. The area of enormous growth, how
ever, has been in short (1-3 days) courses aimed at professional development.
Where there were barely more than 100 people registered in 1975, the projec-
tion for the current school year is over 2,000.

In a related area, WPI's five-year-old co-op program has grown from 8 stu
dents to over 50, and over the period nearly 90 students have participated.

Finances:

In 1970, WITs budget was about $9.7 million, with a deficit of nearly $400,000.
That has grown to the 1979 budget of $21.3 million. Over the entire period,
the budget has been balanced with an aggregate surplus (retained operational
earnings) of $452,289.

WPI's endowment has grown from $24.6 to $35.2 million, due in part to
many generous gifts and bequests from trustees and others, and the value of
the physical plant has increased from $18 to $30.5 million.

Student Finances:

The cost of education has grown, not just for WPI but for its students as well.
With the consumer price index having somewhat more than doubled over the
decade, tuition has just about kept pace, rising from $2,100 to $4,350. Over the
same period, however, financial aid to students has nearly quadrupled, rising
from $767,000 in 1970 to $2,823,904 last year, as a number of new endowed
scholarship funds have been added.

Research:

Research sponsored by outside organizations has grown from $1.76 million in
1971 to over $3 million.

Alumni Generosity:

Giving to the Annual Alumni Fund has increased from 1970s $134,000 to
1 979's record level of $575,000. During the past six years, WPI has won the
prestigious U.S. Steel award, given by the Council for Advancement and Sup-
port of Education, no less than three times.

Giving to WPI:

Other giving to WPI has been impressively large. During the capital fund drive,
The WPI Plan to Restore the Balance, in the years 1972-1977, WPI exceeded its
$18.5 million goal by over $400,000. The generosity and leadership provided by
WPI's trustees has helped the college keep pace with the times, maintaining an
attractive and functional physical plant, and continually improving the quality
of our already excellent programs.

Fall 1979 /The WPI journal/ 5

Computers:

In 1969, WPI acquired its second computer, an RCA Spectra 70/46, which gave
the campus timesharing capabilities for the first time. This created such a de-
mand, however, that in 1971 a second mainframe computer, a DECTO, was in-
stalled and used strictly for timesharing. By 1976, the Spectra was simply over-
loaded with administrative computing, and was replaced with a larger and fas-
ter Univac 90. Now, in 1979, the DEC- 10 is being run near capacity and is be-
ginning to show its age (discrete transistors, no IC's).

But there are other computers around too. A recent computer census at
WTI shows the Electrical Engineering department leading the list, with 24 Di-
gital Equipment Corporation LSI microcomputers, plus PDF- 7, PDP-8, and
PDP-1 1/10 minis, and a Honeywell 6/43. Computer Science comes next, with a
PDP-1 1/10, two Raytheon RDS-500, a Rockwell A1M-65, and a number of other
microcomputers, plus an incredible variety of terminals and other associated
devices. Mechanical Engineering has three different PDP-1 l's, two of them de-
dicated to special purposes in the nuclear reactor and in materials engineering.
Chemical Engineering has two minicomputers, both DEC, and the Mathemati-
cal Sciences department finishes up the list with an Apple microcomputer.

NUMBERS ALONE, HOWEVER, cannot tell the story of what has hap-
pened at WPI. Far too many students have walked over Earle Bridge during that
period. Here's a quick overview of some of the events that have made WPI
such an exciting place to be during this past decade.

1970

The Cambodian invasion and nation-wide student demonstrations. The first
faculty constitution adopted at WPI. Computer science department es-
tablished. Stoddard Residence Center opened. Environmental Systems Study
Program funded by $200,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. WPI wins na-
tional 1st place in Clean Air Car Race. Higgins House bequeathed to WPI.

1971

Faculty donate two weeks during the summer for planning purposes and WPI
Plan implementation. Carnegie Corporation grant of $188,000 received to aid
summer planning. First videotape viewing station set up in Gordon Library; tel-
evision studio opened in Higgins Labs. Charles W Moore Co. report on a physi-
cal plan for WPI's future presented to the campus. September entering class is
the first able to enroll under the WPI Plan. Free cross-registration among
Worcester Consortium colleges initiated. First off-campus project center
opened at U.S. Army Natick Labs.

6 /The WPI Journal /Fall 1979

1972

Intercession offered for the first time, ISO short courses in three weeks. Ex-
change program begun with The City University of London. Project Center
opened at St. Vincent Hospital. $18.5 million five-year fund drive announced.
National Science Foundation (NSF) awards WPI $733,400 -- largest grant ever
under its College Science Improvement Program. Campus Judicial System
adopted. First competency examinations given under the Plan. Three students
graduate under the WPI Plan, and Lesley Small hecomes WPI's first woman
graduate. "Cookie" Price, dean of faculty, has heart attack and is forced to retire
earlv. In the fall, 14-week semesters are abolished and replaced with 7-week
terms. Life Sciences department established. First blind student enters. "Nego-
tiated admissions" policy started. Geetha Bhatt is first woman to receive PhD.
NSF advisory panel visits WPI to monitor Plan implementation.

1973

Student mail boxes installed in renovated 1st floor of Daniels Hall. Tech News
changes its name to WPI Newspeak. Fall entering class is the first to be en-
tirely under WPI Plan. Ellsworth and Fuller residences open (funded by dona-
tions of the Ellsworth and the Fuller foundations). IQP center established in
Washburn. Kresge Foundation grants $150,000 for renovation of foundry into
student project center. First women students in ROTC. 3-2 programs begun
with Holy Cross, Regis, and Elmira Colleges.

1974

National Endowment for the Humanities awards $180,000 for humanities suf-
ficiency implementation. Exchange program begun with ETH (federal technical
school in Zurich, Switzerland). Acting on a WPI Petition, City Council closes
West Street through the campus on a trial basis, but reopens it after nine
months. Sloan Foundation gives $350,000 for implementation of Interactive
Qualifying Project. Renovations to Morgan Hall begun. NSF gives WPI $48,000
for Plan evaluation. Alumni Fund wins U.S. Steel award. Goat's Head Pub ex-
panded by students. Ford Foundation gives unrestricted $180,000 Venture Fund
grant to WPI to be used innovatively

East campus closed to car traffic and parking; the "greening of the campus"
begun! History and English merged into Humanities department. Social Sci-
ence and Policy Studies department established. Economics, Government and
Business merged into Management department. Washington D.C. Project Cen-
ter opened. As school opens in the fall, Morgan renovations force the use of
Harrington Auditorium as a temporary dining hall. Mellon Foundation grants
$150,000 for faculty development in the Humanities. Salisbury Laboratories
closed for remodeling, its inhabitants redistributed throughout the campus.

1975

Venezuelan students arrive at WPI under special program. NSF awards WPI an
additional $430,100. The graduating class is 50 percent Plan, 50 percent non-
Plan. 3-2 programs with Anna Maria and Assumption colleges announced. Ma-
jor grants toward Salisbury renovation received from the Alden Trust, Dana
Foundation, and the Kresge Foundation. Freshman Seminar program begins.
Workshops on Teaching

earning begin. Arm and hammer weathervane stolen from atop Washburn
Shops. Society of Women Engineers chapter receives charter.

1976

Co-op program begun. WPI Plan accredited by Engineers Council for Profes-
sional Development. Lilly Foundation awards $123,000 for Humanities and So-
cial Sciences. Boynton Hall closed for renovation as Salisbury reopens. (Musi-
cal offices.) Rockefeller Foundation grants WPI $100,000 for IQP implementa-
tion. Program in Urban and Environmental Planning begun. Trustees vote to al-
low two faculty representatives at meetings.

1977

First sorority, Phi Sigma Sigma, organized. Sanford-Riley Hall remodeled.
Freeman Plaza dedicated by Howard Freeman. Arm and hammer replica in-
stalled on Washburn as building exterior is renovated. President Hazzard an-
nounces retirement in one year. Football team wins only one game — trustees
ponder what to do about it.

8 The WPI Journal /Fall 1919

it.

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1978

Blizzard of 78 closes WPI down for three days. Plan to Restore the Balance an-
nounces $18.9 million raised. Football retained as varsity sport. Prof. Jo Ann
Manfra becomes first woman to win tenure at WPI. Exchange programs begun
with University College, London, and Trent Polytechnic Institute. Edmund T.
Cranch inaugurated as WPI's 12th president. Boynton Hall reopened. Alumni
Fund wins U.S. Steel honorable mention. Center for Firesafety Studies created.
Selective admissions policy readopted.

1979

First U.S. master's program in fire protection engineering announced. Astro-
nomical observatory dome erected on Goddard Lab. First blind student gradu-
ates. Alumni Fund meets Dana Foundation challenge grant — alumni giving
increased 45 percent in one year, to $575,884.

AS THE 1970s draw to a close, WPI
can look back on these years as a
time of enormous change, of defining
and reaching toward new goals and
using new ways to attain existing
goals. It has been a time of self-study,
of trying to find out what WPI is and
should be doing, of hard work by fac-
ulty and administration. The WPI
Plan has been brought from concep-
tion to reality, and it provides a new
and firm base for WPI's future.

Approaching the '80s, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute is in the
strongest shape it has ever been in.
We command enthusiastic support
from industry, the world of higher
education, and alumni. If the campus
seems quieter than it was a few years
ago, that's because we're consolidat-
ing the gains we have already made.
The rough outlines of our enterprise,
shaped in the early years of the
1970s, are now being polished to a
high lustre with a very fine grade of
administrative and educational sand-
paper.

Fall 1979 /The WPI Journal 9

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Previewing the 1980s
atWPI

THE WHOLE BUSINESS of education is predicated on
looking to the future. We learn from the past so that we
may better deal with the social and intellectual and moral
and technological situations that are bound to arise in
times to come. We learn in order to grow, and that too im-
plies a future.

Planning for the future is vital to any successful or-
ganization, but especially so for one like WPI, concerned
with technology now changing at faster and faster rates.
Simply maintaining an operation like Worcester Polytech-
nic Institute is an enormously costly undertaking. To do
so without concern for tomorrow would represent a waste
of time, effort, and money. Well then, what should be
done?

That, in essence, was the charge given by the Board of
Trustees to its Planning and Resources Committee a year
ago. Co-chairmen Arthur E. Smith, '33, and Stanley C.
Olsen were asked to evaluate the needs of the college for
the near future and identify those areas where additional
capital support (read that money) would be needed. Their
report, presented to and adopted by the Board last June,
shows a careful balancing of alternatives and directions.

UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS

Before looking at the physical needs of the college, a num-
ber of assumptions about the future had to be made, and
some choices of direction indicated. Among these were:

^■High-school graduates: The number of high-school grad-
uates will begin to decline during the first few years of the
1980s, and the rate of decline will increase in 1981-82.

^Applicant pool: The demand for technical and scientific
education will remain strong, but it is not certain that the
percentage of qualified students will rise. Efforts must be
made to increase the pool of applicants to WPI.

^■Financial aid: It is apparent there will be increased need
for student financial aid at both undergraduate and gradu-
ate levels. High priority must be given to scholarship,
loan, and work-study programs. Federal programs and regu-
lations will plan an increasing role in this area.

^■Educational orientation and enrollment: WPI will con-
tinue to emphasize undergraduate education and to im-
prove the WPI Plan. Undergraduate enrollment will be
held at its present level of about 2,400, or possibly de-
creased to around 2,200 if that proves economically feasi-
ble.

► Graduate and continuing education: Opportunities here
at the master's degree level will expand. WPI should align
its programs to take advantage of these opportunities,
strengthening its offerings in appropriate disciplines.

^■Faculty development: The extraordinary demands of the
WPI Plan, particularly in the recent years of transition and
implementation, has taken a toll of our most valuable re-
source, our faculty. Ways must be found to help renew
and reward this group.

Fall 1979/ The WPI Journal/ 1 1

► Academic program support: Rapidly changing technol-
ogy, coupled with the hands-on approach to equipment
use encouraged at WPI, has created substantial need for
new laboratory facilities and equipment and for new
teaching tools.

^■Student support services: Because of the nature of the
WPI curriculum, with its strong reliance on individual
student action and planning, our advising and counseling
services are in urgent need of strengthening.

^■Athletics: WPI will continue to emphasize lifetime
sports and intramural activities, and WPI will field teams
that are competitive at the intercollegiate level.

As the committee discussed plans and options, other as-
sumptions and realizations emerged. It became abun-
dantly clear, while looking for places to locate additional
athletic fields, that the college is land poor. Most of the
land on the main campus is occupied and used about as
heavily as anyone would want. Salisbury Park to the north
and Bancroft Hill to the west form natural (if attractive)
boundaries.

As with Salisbury and Boynton, efforts will be aimed
at renovation and restoration rather than razing or re-
building.

FACILITY NEEDS

Bricks and mortar type improvements are the easiest to
think about, they seem emotionally to give the most visi-
ble return for the money . . . and they cost the most. But
there are very real needs, some carried over as unmet ob-
jective of the last capital fund drive, the WPI Plan to Re-
store the Balance.

Central Service Facility: Moving the Plant Services
operations from the middle of the campus, in their current
scattered and somewhat makeshift quarters, to a home of
their own is a key to the "greening of the campus" objec-
tive which is central to WPI's future plans. Estimated cost:
$750,000.

used to house the departments of Management and Social
Science and Policy Studies. Cost for remodeling: $1. 12 mil-
lion. Cost for reequipping: $300,000.

Atwater Kent: In this current home of the Electrical
Engineering department, you can still see where the trol-
ley cars used to come and go. Computer Science is a rela-
tively young department which has, however, very close
ties to EE. Students in each department take courses and
laboratories in the other, and both disciplines require ex-
tensive computer laboratories. Together, these depart-
ments account for 35 percent of the student body. It is
planned to move Computer Science (which has had at
least three different buildings in the past ten years) into a
new and permanent home in Atwater Kent. Extensive re-
modeling will be necessary. Cost for remodeling: $1.62 mil-
lion. Cost for reequipping: $412,000.

Kaven Hall: Civil Engineering laboratories and class-
room facilities in Kaven Hall need to be upgraded and mo-
dernized. More importantly, however, we must upgrade
and reequip the structural and geotechnical laboratories.
Cost for remodeling: $ 1 20,000. Cost for reequipping:
$155,000.

Energy Conservation Program: While many ag-
gressive efforts at energy conservation have been made in
recent years, more are needed. Called for now are capital
expenditures for storm windows and insulation for Salis-
bury, Washburn, Atwater Kent, Higgins Lab, Stratton,
Olin, Kaven, and Goddard. Cost: $75,000.

Fraternities: The Trustee Committee felt that a
method should be found by which WPI can assist the fra-
ternities, which have provided housing for WPI students
for generations, to replace, upgrade, and modernize their
buildings. Most fraternities occupy wooden frame build-
ings which were not designed for the heavy use and wear
and tear that they are currently subjected to. However,
the Committee deferred any firm recommendation for ac-
tion at this time.

►Total cost for facilities improvements:
$4.6 million.

Performing Arts: Alden Memorial Auditorium: Grow-
ing interest in performance has resulted in virtually con-
stant use of Alden for lectures, concerts, rehearsals, films,
and plays. The auditorium has a number of acoustical
problems, and the stage wiring needs replacement. Cost:
$55,000.

Washburn Shops: Some 550 students now take mate-
rials processing lab courses in this second-oldest campus
building. Most of the machinery and equipment is 40 to
50 years old, plagued with breakdowns and the need for
constant repairs. Increased use has accelerated the need to
update and reequip the laboratory. Upper floors will be

ENDOWMENT OBJECTIVES

Scholarship Funds: More than 65 percent of WPI's
students have received financial aid in the form of grants,
loans, or through work-study arrangements. WPI wants to
add $1 million to its student aid funds.

Professorial Chairs: Endowed faculty positons are vi-
tal in WPI's efforts to attract and retain outstanding schol-
ars in many fields and to broaden the base of our educa-
tional offerings. Two new endowed chairs are planned. To-
tal cost: $1.5 million.

12 /The WPI Journal /Fall 1979

""■■■■■ ■■■■■ ■■■ ■•■•"-

Building Endowment: The building endowment fund
has been established to ensure that seleeted buildings can
be maintained at an optimum level while at the same
time reducing the burden on the annual operating budget.
Cost: $500,000.

► Total endowment objectives:
$3 million.

IMPROVING THE CAMPUS ENVIRONMENT

WPI is fortunate to have Salisbury Park, owned by the city
of Worcester, as an attractive green belt to the north. Our
playing fields, the Higgins House grounds, and the Baptist
Church provide a western border of green to our campus.
Together, these two areas mark a natural and permanent
boundary to the campus.

Toward the south, WPI has crossed Institute Road
with the addition of the Ellsworth, Fuller, and Stoddard
dormitories. While the college owns some of the wood
frame buildings in the neighborhood, not all the college-
owned property borders the campus proper. To the east,
Boynton Street has been for many years a natural bound-
ary, although WPI now owns 70% of the property between
Boynton and Dean Streets. On all other sides, the campus
is surrounded by busy traffic arteries: Institute Road, Salis-
bury Street, and Park Avenue.

The trustees wish WPI to acquire buildings and land,
in predetermined areas of interest, whenever they come
on the market. These properties will be open to such uses
as student housing, fraternity sites, parking, playing fields,
academic or support service facilities, and green-belt
zones. As each property is acquired, a careful evaluation of
buildings should be made to determine whether to retain
or raze the structures (the latter to eliminate maintenance
costs and problems). $450,000 is recommended for prop-
erty acquisition.

Playing Fields: Let's assume WPI had adequate field
space in 1965. The student body then numbered 1,247
students. Now we have nearly double that number of stu-
dents, and the area of available field space has actually
been reduced.

This becomes especially critical in the light of Title
IX and WPI's need to provide athletic fields for women's
varsity softball and field hockey. We do not currently
have any adequate field for field hockey.

And our students are using the fields. Last spring, the
intramural softball program involved over 800 students on
53 separate teams, playing more than 300 games. This in-
tensive and unrelenting use of the playing fields is simply
wearing them out, leaving no time for reseeding.

It is proposed that:

► The existing soccer field will be enlarged and im-
proved to meet the demands imposed by this sport.

► The existing track must be replaced with one that
meets intercollegiate standards and has improved drain-
age. An artificial surface is planned, and the spurs which
currently infringe on the baseball field will be eliminated.

► The baseball diamond will be relocated.

► A. J. Knight Field will be rebuilt and reconditioned
for use by field hockey and lacrosse.

► Alumni Field will get a new artificial surface so that
it will be available for multiple uses, and lighting will be
increased to extend the use of the field into the evening
hours.

► Tennis courts on Boynton Street will be resurfaced.

► Total cost for playing field improve-
ments:

$1.04 million.

West Street: Closing West Street through the campus is
an unfulfilled dream. Success or failure will be determined
by political action. If successful, $65,000 is planned to re-
landscape the area.

EQUIPMENT AND LIBRARY NEEDS

Equipment: WPI continues to provide modern, fully
equipped laboratories for the use and instruction of our
students so that they can enter their professions armed
with the best possible training and experience. The
project-oriented WPI Plan has generated a concurrent need
to upgrade and modernize our laboratories. Cost of equip-
ment purchases: $762,000.

Library: WPI has maintained a fine library facility,
which also benefits from the Worcester Area Cooperating
Libraries. While the collection is generally excellent, there
is a need to augment our holdings in life sciences, man-
agement, and engineering and science. Cost: $65,000.

Computer: WPI's DECsystem-10, acquired in 1972, is
both approaching saturation (being in use 90 percent of
the 24-hour day) and showing its obsolescent technology
in a lack of repair components. The growth of student in-
terest in computer science and the benefits available in
new computer technology indicate that the system should
be upgraded. Under consideration is a DECsystem-20.
Cost: $500,000.

► Total equipment and library needs:
$1.3 million.

Fall 1979 /The WPI Journal/ 13

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

THREE STAGES

Faculty Development Awards: The prime reason
for the success of WPI and the Plan has been the whole-
hearted efforts of the faculty. To sustain and further im-
prove our programs will require a conscious institutional
effort to recognize outstanding service to WPI and to pro-
vide the opportunity for renewal and strengthening the
faculty's academic competence.

The faculty development program is designed to
build on the present sabbatical leave program (which pro-
vides half salary), and will reach a significant number of
our faculty to influence WPI's educational environment.
Trustee Fellowships will provide the remaining half of the
sabbatic year salary and will be awarded on a competitive
basis, three awards each year for three years. Sabbatic Sup-
plements will enhance the attractiveness of a sabbatical
leave where an external organization provides a portion of
the missing half salary. Finally Industrial Awards will be
used to encourage industrial contacts which may lead to
sabbatical opportunities. Cost of the program: $200,000.

Academic Programs: Special funding is needed to
strengthen various academic programs. Computer science
needs more depth and breadth in its faculty. Management,
which is actively serving industry through off -campus and
evening programs, should be further improved. The Manu-
facturing Engineering program needs to be upgraded, and
we face stiff competition from industry for faculty. The
newly announced Fire Protection Engineering program has
been well received, but much start-up work needs to be
done. The Center for Educational Research and Develop-
ment needs support to continue its evaluation of our cur-
riculum. Graduate research programs in Biomedical Engi-
neering will eventually be self-sustaining, but they must
be developed to that point. Total cost: $250,000 per year
for three years.

►Total cost for academic programs:
$950,000.

OPERATIONAL NEEDS

Unrestricted gifts for operational purposes have provided
significant budget support. The major source of these
funds has been the Annual Alumni Fund, which has en-
joyed phenomenal growth in recent years. Anticipated op-
erational needs are $500,000 this year, $600,000 in 1980-
81, and $700,000 in 1981-82.

►Total operational needs: $1.8 million.

It is expected that these plans will take about three years
to bring about, with a total goal of $13.2 million. Three
stages of proceeding have been defined, with the highest
priority going to faculty development, Atwater Kent,
Kaven, the soccer field, and tennis courts. The second
stage includes Washburn and Alden Memorial. The third
stage covers the central service facility Alumni Field, the
new track, and the baseball field. Divided equally among
all three phases are energy conservation, endowment, and
equipment and library needs. Divided equally among
stages two and three are land acquisition and academic
programs.

THE STRATEGY FOR MEETING OUR NEEDS

When the Plan to Restore the Balance was announced in
1972, it was clearly a general appeal aimed at corpora-
tions, foundations, alumni, parents, and any other poten-
tial donors. The money needed for the facilities and pro-
grams outlined in this article, however, will be raised dif-
ferently Basically, for each area a number of target donors
or organizations have been identified, and proposals will
be made on an individual basis. There will be no general
solicitation of alumni for these needs, although the An-
nual Alumni Fund will continue its normal operation.

CONCLUSION

In the cover letter which accompanied the report, Messrs.
Smith and Olsen noted that "we started out deliberations
after the successful conclusion of our $18.5 million capi-
tal campaign. As in all long-term efforts of this nature,
there are unmet needs and others that have been accelera-
ted during the campaign period. We discovered what we
had suspected — our plant is well maintained and effec-
tively used. However, new technologies and shifting stu-
dent majors have created new needs and pressures."

14 /The WPI journal /Fall 1979

Meet the President

The newly elected president of the
WPI Alumni Association is John H.
McCabe, '68. He is currently vice
president, finance, at Carl Gordon In-
dustries, and he will become execu-
tive vice president there on Decem-
ber 1.

In past years, McCabe has been
president of the Worcester County
Alumni Club, member-at-large of the
Executive Committee, chairman of
the Student Alumni Services and
Group Travel committees, and vice
president of the Association. In addi-
tion, he has been president of the
Poly Club and was a member of the
Inauguration Committee for Presi-
dent Cranch.

Jack lives with his wife Leslie
and three children in Worcester.

Alumni Fund wins another
major award — again!

It was announced this summer that
the 1977-78 Alumni Fund was the re-
cipient of the coveted U.S. Steel
Alumni Giving Incentive Award. The
award itself consists of $5,000, a cer-
tificate, and a moebius strip sculpted
from stainless steel.

This marks the third U.S. Steel
award for the WPI alumni Fund in six
years, the last one (an honorable men-
tion) being just last year. Because of
this, WPI's award was given in a

Four alumni elected,
reelected to WPI Board

Two alumni were newly elected to
the WPI Board of Trustees this sum-
mer, while two others were reelected
to their seats as alumni trustees.

Joining the Board as an alumni
trustee is Joseph Glasser, '35, a man-
agement consultant and retired vice
president of Raytheon, who lives in
Andover, Massachusetts. The other
new Board member is Robert C. Stem-
pel, '55, vice president and general
manager of General Motors' Pontiac
Division. Mr. Stempel resides in
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Reelected to second terms on the
Board was C. Marshall Dann, '35, for-
mer U.S. Commissioner of Patents
and currently a partner in the Phila-
delphia firm of Dann, Dorfman, Her-
rell and Skillman. Mr. Dann lives in
Wilmington, Delaware. Also
reelected to his second term is Hil-
liard W Paige, '41, director of Interna-
tional Energy Associates Limited, of
Washington, D.C.

newly created category, called Sus-
tained Excellence, which includes
Dartmouth College, California Insti-
tute of Technology, Phillips Exeter
Academy, and the University of
Michigan.

In the photo above, Stephen J.
Hebert, '66, secretary-treasurer of the
Association, is shown receiving the
award certificate from James T Ho-
sey, vice president and executive
director of the United States Steel
Foundation.

New program for class secre-
taries begins

Don't be too surprised if you sud-
denly hear from the secretary of your
class asking for news and informa-
tion. It's all part of a new program de-
signed to improve the quality of the
class notes in the Journal with the
help of class secretaries.

Announced at the Alumni Lead-
ership Workshops held during Home-
coming Weekend, the program will
see periodic mailings from each class
secretary to a portion of his or her
class. We hope that this new "per-
sonal touch" will open up channels of
information that we haven't been
privy to in the past, and that we will
be able to print more and more inter-
esting news about your WPI classma-
tes and other alumni. We've had an
enthusiastic reception from the class
secretaries, so now it's up to you to
do your part.

16 /The WI'I Journal/ Fall 1919

What's happening?

BASKETBALL

* December 1

Nichols

* December S

Norwich

* December 8

Bowdoin

December 10

Springfield

December 13

Vtesleyan

"January 12

Amherst

January IS

Middlebury

January 19

Union

January 23

Babson

"January 25

Drew

"January 26

Bates

"January 31

Brandeis

* February 2

Suffolk

Febaiary 5

Trinity

"Febaiary 8

Coast Guard

"Febaiary 13

Williams

"Febaiary 16

Lowell (ALUMNI NIGHT!)

Febaiary 2 1

MIT

Febaiary 23

Clark

Febaiary 27

Tufts

WRESTLING

SWIMMING

"November 29

Boston College

November 28

Babson

December 5

Trinity

"November 30

Holy Cross

"Decembers

Bowdoin

"December 6

Boston College

December 13

Brown

December 12

Clark

December IS

Harvaal-UNH-Mass Maritime

January 22

Southeastern Mass

"January IS

Coast Guard

January 26

Lowell

January 19

Williams, RPI

February 2

Coast Guard

January 24

Amherst

"Febaiary 7

Trinity

January 26

R1C, Univ. of Maine

"Febaiary 9

Keene State

* Febaiary 2

Inwell

Febaiary 14

Brandeis

Febaiary S

MIT

"Febaiary 16

Tufts

Febaiary 9

Hartford, Vtesleyan

March 6-8

New Englands

Febaiary 13

Western New England

Febaiary 17

New England JV Tournament

"Febaiary 21-23

NEW ENGLAND INTERCOLLEGIATE
\ARSITY CHAMPIONSHIP AT WPI!

Febaiary 28

NCAA Div. in Championship

FILMS ON CAMPUS

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

December 6

Western New England

"Decembers

Emmanuel

December 10

Merrimack

"December 12

Bryant

January 24

Gordon

"January 26

MIT

"January 30

Anna Maria

February 1

AIC

"Febaiary 4

Suffolk

"Febaiary S

Wheaton

Febaiary 7

Assumption

February 11

R1C

Febaiary 13

Brandeis

"Febaiary IS

Colby

"Febaiary IS

Clark

*Febaiarv20

Amherst

Febaiary 21-23

MAIAW Suite Tournament

"Febaiary 26

Babson

INDOOR TRACK

December 1
December 8
December 12
Febaiary 13
February 16
Febaiary 23-24

MIT, Brandeis

Bendey

Tufts

Holy Cross, Worcester State

Easterns

New Englands

(* = admission
"November 25

"December 2

"December 9

"December 16

January IS

January 17

January 22

January 24

"January 28

"Febaiary 3

February S

"Febaiary 10

Febaiary 12

"Febaiary 17
"Febaiary 19
"Febaiary 23

"Febaiary 24
February 26
March 4

charge)

Dr. Strangebve

Dark Star

Up in Smoke

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The Boys from Brazil

College The Anal Wire

The Son of the Sheik His Royal Slyness

Dr.JekyUG Mr. Hyde The Champion

The Iron Mask

Superman

The Greatful Dead Movie

Emperor Jones

An I nmamed Woman

Black History: Lost Stolen or Strayed

This is the Home of Mrs. levant Graham

Paul Laurence Dunbar, America's First Black Poet

It Came from Outer Space

Fantastic Animation Festival

The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The Return of the Pink Panther

Malcolm X

A Hero Ain 7 Nothin ' hut a Sandwich

CONCERTS

December 3
December 10
January 21
February 4

February IS

Ron Hudson, Guatemalan guitarist

Beacon Brass Quintet

Richard Henzel: "Mark Twain in Person"

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HOMECOMING 1979

Another gathering was held, this for
members of WPI's undefeated 1954
football team. Although they later
had to watch WPl lose the
afternoon's game to Bowdoin College,
they can now take heart at the team's
finishing out the 1979 season with
three wins, one better than last year
(which was Coach Bob Weiss's first
season with the Engineers), and three
times as many as the disastrous sea-
son of 1977. Now, for next year ....

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Wlfh the win/ier of the alumni road
race. Bob Ferrari, 74 (left), and runner-
up BUI Light, 71 (right), is Patty Ma-

guire, WPI's new assistant alumni
director.

I'he WPl journal /Fall 1979

No, it's not an invasion of the balloon
people, but a bloody mary party
thrown for Alumni Fund volunteers
at Homecoming, besides the morning
wake-up drinks, the happy-face bal-
loons, buttons proclaiming "WP1,
We're on Top," and engineer's caps
were given to the many people who
worked and helped out in setting the
record-breaking, challenge-meeting
1978-79 Fund.

At the finish of the alumni 4-nulc
road race, coming in somewhere in
the middle of the pack is Super-
Runner no. 25, Jack McCabe, presi-
dent of the Alumni Association.

Fall 1979 /The WPI Journal/ 19

WPl's Public Man
in Public Relations

by Ruth S. Trask

HERE'S A QUESTION for you:

What does the term public relations mean?

Did you think of stirring up publicity, or spokesmen who is-
sue statements in other people's names? Well, there's a whole lot
more to public relations than that, according to Roger N. Perry,
Jr., '45, WPI's PR director: "It's a profession that many people just
don't understand." As if to back up his point, Roger keeps a small
sign near his desk that reads:

Public relations is the management function which evaluates
public attitudes, identifies the policies and procedures of an indi-
vidual or organization with the public interest, and plans and ex-
ecutes a program of action to earn public understanding and ac-
ceptance.

of information for the U.S. Army, and he thoroughly appreciated
the public relations role in the organizational staicture," adds
Roger.

"1964 was an especially interesting year on campus," he re-
calls. "It was the year before the WPI Centennial celebration, and
there was an incredible amount of activity. I was already on the
Alumni Centennial Committee before I took up my WPI posi-
tion. I nominated Mildred M. Tymeson to write WPI's centennial
history, Two Towers, and helped plan the photo layouts for the
book as a part of my PR duties. That centennial year in 1965
was a major challenge, not only for me, but for everyone con-
nected with the celebration." For its centennial year activities,
WPI won an award of exceptional achievement from the Ameri-
can College Public Relations Association.

That was only the first of many professional honors, tangi-
ble proof that others have )udged him more than just good at
what he does. Roger's program of support and publicity for WPI's
five entries in the 1970 Clean Air Car Race earned the coveted
Silver Anvil Award of the Public Relations Society of America
(PRSA). "I particularly enjoyed providing PR support for this
event," Roger remembers. "There was such a wonderful spirit of
unity. Preparing for that race was a major undertaking, which the
students carried off magnificently. That was just at the time the
WPI Plan was taking final shape in faculty committees. Many
alumni were concerned about the changes planned for the cur-
riculum. The race proved that WPI students, with faculty sup-
port, could really handle the kind of projects that were being in-
corporated into the Plan. Also, the race generated a great deal of
alumni support and enthusiasm at a very critical time."

THESE WORDS have been the cornerstone on which he has
built, over thirty years, what is probably the longest-running and
most respected public relations career in Worcester County. One
of the interesting things about this is that he started out as an
engineer.

"I didn't start out in public relations," Roger recalls, "but as a
WPI undergraduate I had served as managing editor of the Tech
News, a coeditor of The Peddler, and was a founder of the WPI
chapter of Pi Delta Epsilon, the honorary journalism fraternity. I
was also a student correspondent for the Worcester Telegram. Af-
ter graduating with a BS in mechanical engineering, I joined Nor-
ton Company as a plant layout engineer. In 1949 the company
set up a Public Relations Department, and I joined it. I was really
fortunate in learning the profession under one of the finest peo-
ple m our business, Elliott "Buz" Knowlton, whom I later suc-
ceeded as public relations manager."

In 1964 Roger was tapped by WPI President Harry Storke to
be director of public relations at his Alma Mater, and Roger has
held the position ever since. "General Storke had once been chief

ROGER PERRY has been active in promoting his views
about his profession and in introducing others to it, and he has
built up an impressive record of professional and community
goodwill. In 1974 he passed the tough accreditation examina-
tions of PRSA. Accreditation is the highest recognition of profes-
sional competence bestowed upon members of the Society. He is
at present a regional director of PRSA.

He has played an active role in the Council for the Ad-
vancement and Support of Education (CASE). Following the
merger of the American College Public Relations Association
and the American Alumni Council into one organization, CASE,
Roger stepped in to help smooth the transition and served as
general chairman of the 1976 district conference. He is a founder
and past president of both the Worcester County Public Rela-
tions Association and the Worcester County Editors' Council.
Roger is an alumnus advisor to WPI's chapter of Theta Chi, a for-
mer director of the Better Business Bureau of Central New Eng-
land, and a former director of the Girl Scout Council.

In September, Roger was elected president of the John Wood-
man Higgins Armory Museum following the defeat of a contro-
versial proposal to merge the Armory into the Worcester Art
Museum. A corporator (since 1976) and later trustee of the Ar-
mory, Roger was a staunch supporter of independence for the
world-famous museum of armor. In the reorganization of the
board of trustees, several new members were brought in to re-
place resigned trustee supporters of the merger. Roger Perry is
the first president in the Armory's 50-year history who is not a
member of the Higgins family.

A quiet man, Roger accomplishes more than many people
realize. As a part of his public relations activities at WPI, partic-
ularly in the years under President Storke, he does occasional
speech-writing. The one he remembers most vividly, however,
dates all the way back to 1965. President Storke had been invited
to be principal speaker at a Chamber of Commerce Education
Night program. Storke wanted to use the opportunity to propose

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.

that area colleges share the cost of establishing a computer cen-
ter, a facility too expensive for WTI alone at that time but one
which, Storke was sure, would soon be badly needed. He asked
Roger for some help.

"Whv not give them a ten-point plan?' suggested Roger.
"There must be at least ten different areas in which local col-
leges could benefit by working together. Then, if we don't get
their support on the computer center, we ought to be able to
make some progress on the other points."

Storke's "ten-point" speech hit a responsive chord in the
community, and the results were gratifying indeed. He got his
computer center, and he also got the cooperative program now
called the Worcester Consortium for Higher Education, which
became a reality in 1967 as a result of his efforts.

PUBLICIZING WPI is an ongoing part of Roger's job, the part
which most people think of as public relations. Roger works
with newspaper editors and writers in Worcester and Boston, and
makes trips to New York and Washington to try to generate
more national publicity for the college in newspapers and maga-
zines. Two years ago, Roger brought in a consulting firm of me
dia representatives, Gehrung Associates, which augments his ef-
forts in developing national stories. This arrangement has
proved fruitful, with recent articles in Business Week, the New
York Times, Change magazine, the inflight magazines of United
Airlines and Air New England, and a nationwide Associated
Press Sunday feature story on Audrey Muggleton-Harns's clon-
ing research. Professor Harris was also featured on "Evening Mag-
azine," a nightly television magazine show produced by Channel
4, Boston.

Throughout the year, he and Stephen D. Donahue, '29, news
bureau manager since 1938, research, write, and distribute ovei
250 news releases a year, ranging from major WPI news stories
for national distribution to hometown stories on new fraternity
pledges. "My main job is to make WPI more widely known, and
to let people know what otir students and staff are accomplish
ing," notes Roger. "I also try to foster a friendly climate among
WPI and other local colleges, and between WPI and the citizens
of Worcester. We want people, including our immediate neigh-
bors, to recognize WPI as the real asset to the community that it
is."

THE DAY IS rarely dull for Roger Perry. His duties are many
and varied. Much of his time is spent on the telephone, and, at
times, one wonders if the receiver hasn't taken root in his ear.
Roger smiles at the thought. "I do get a lot of calls," he ad-
mits, "some from writers and editors, or perhaps from a professor
requesting photographs to go with a paper he's about to publish."
The grin on his face becomes broader. "I also seem to be fust in
line on campus to receive complaint letters and crank calls. If

students play their stereos too loud at night, I'm the one the
neighbors ring up first thing in the morning

When he's not on the phone, you might see him discussing
story possibilities with the lournal editor, editing Monday
Memo [a weekly internal newsletter), writing or laying out the
next issue oiNewsbriefs, putting together an exhibit or booth
that will help tell the WTI story at a tan or in a display window,
showing a writer or reporter around the campus, or taking pic-
tures. Indeed, many parents and alumni might best recognize Ro-
ger by the Nikon around his neck, standing on the sidelines at
such events as homecoming, reunion, graduation, parents *,\j\.
and special events, like the recent Energy Expo, cosponsored
with New England Electric, which brought over 13,000 people to
campus in one day. He's there, helping make sure that things run
smoothly for campus guests and visitors, and assisting members
of the press.

As a part of efforts to publicize the college and the commu-
nity, Roger is often asked to suggest people for awards, and he-
was especially pleased to have nominated Dean William R. Gro-
gan, '46, who subsequently received the 1979 Worcester Engi-
neering Societv's Scientific Achievement Award.

ROGER PERRY saw active duty on the destroyer USS Furse
in 1951-53 during the Korean Conflict. During World War II he
had been an engineer in the U.S. Merchant Marine. He served in
the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1949 to 1976, when he retired as a
commander. Roger played an important part when his unit, a
public affairs company based in Boston, won a Silver Anvil
Award in 1972 for a program which brought young people from
across the country to participate in the annual "turnaround"
cruise of the USS Constitution. That same program won the Bos-
ton Publicity Club's first Super Bell Ringer Award and the Free-
doms Foundation Award.

At his home in Holden, Roger has been busy for several
years restoring a Model A Ford, "the same model I had as a stu-
dent at WPI." His wife, Pauline, teaches biology at Wachusett Re-
gional High School. They enjoy outdoor life and spend vacations
traveling with their truck camper.

"When the children were younger, they used to join us," says
Roger, "but now they're grown up and on their own." Son Dick
graduated in [une from WPI and is an industrial engineer at the
Torrington Company in Connecticut. Tina, 77, is with the engi-
neering department of the Town of Holden. fanet teaches physi
cal education in the Northboro-Southboro schools. A year ami a
half ago their oldest daughter, Claudia, presented Roger and
Pauline with their first grandchild, Benjamin.

AS HE LOOKS BACK over his 30-year public relations career
in Worcester, he comments on the many changes over the years.
"Back in 1949, when we started the department at Norton, there
were only about five public relations people in all of Worcester
County Today there are over 100," Roger notes. "And when I be
came director of public relations at WPI in 1964, the college was
so small that I also served as executive secretary of the WPI So-
ciety of Families, wrote a periodic newsletter for parents, pro-
duced the college's publications, and coordinated all special
events. These last two posts are each a full-time position for
someone else now. The college has grown considerably in 15
years."

WPI has certainly stretched its wings since 1964. The Con-
sortium. The WPI Plan. Increased enrollment. Two new presi
dents. As public relations director, Roger Perry has helped publi-
cize every aspect of campus change. Subtlelv, hut effectively, be
has contributed to the coming of age of WPI.

Fall 1979 The WP

UFO

FLYING SAUCERS. UFOs. Mysterious lights in the
sky. Over the years they've been the butt of more bad
jokes than almost anything except Jewish mothers. Then,
two years ago, the movie "Close Encounters of the Third
Kind" made them almost respectable.

And now Dr. Bruce S. Maccabee, '64, a civilian physi-
cist specializing in optics at the U.S. Naval Surface
Weapons Center, is one of the central figures in the inter-
pretation of a remarkable series of UFO sightings last De-
cember in New Zealand. These sightings, described below,
are the first extended UFO observation simultaneously by
reliable eyewitnesses, photography, and both ground- and
aircraft -based radar.

Maccabee recently appeared on ABC's "Good Morning
America" show with Dr. J. Allan Hynek, former astronomi-
cal consultant to the Air Force's Project Blue Book and
founder of the Center for UFO Studies. The two, together
with Australian reporter Quentin Fogarty, an eyewitness,
described the New Zealand events and discussed the find-
ings of their personal investigations.

THINGS BEGAN at 3:28 in the morning of December
21, 1978, when Argosy captain Vern Powell, on a routine
flight, encountered a UFO while climbing out of Blenheim
Airport at the top of New Zealand's South Island. He had
been directed there by air traffic controllers at Wellington
Airport, located just across Cook's Strait on North Island.
Radar men at Wellington had picked up several UFO tar-
gets on their screens, including one particular object — es-
timated to be as large as a commercial airliner — they
tracked for 60 miles. After this, the object remained sta-
tionary until Powell arrived on the scene. Then, to
everyone's amazement, the UFO began tracking Powell's
aircraft down the coast for 12 miles.

When the news of the sighting reached Melbourne,
television reporter Quentin Fogarty, then on holiday in
New Zealand, was asked to cover the story. Fogarty ar-
ranged for a camera crew and a recreation of Powell's ear-
lier flight. With a different crew than the earlier flight, Fo-
garty and crew left Blenheim on December 30 for Wel-
lington, then for Christchurch. Just after midnight, they
noticed a number of bright lights in the direction of the
township of Kaikoura, located on the northeast coast of
South Island. They immediately contacted Wellington ra-
dar, which confirmed unidentified targets in that direc-
tion.

The encounter had begun.

22 /The WPI Journal /Fall 1979

OVER THE NEXT SO minutes or so, until the aircraft

landed at Christehureh, those on board were treated to a
spectacular and at times frightening UFO display. Some of
the activity was filmed, but because of the objects' appar-
ent ability to appear and disappear at will, filming was
quite difficult.

At times, Wellington radar confirmed several UK)s
behind the Argosy plane, and at one time a UFO target
was so close to the Argosy that Wellington could not dis-
tinguish between the plane and the UFO. The passengers
saw a flashing light. Reporter Fogarty, who taped a com-
mentary throughout the flight, summed up the feelings of
those on board when he said, "Let's hope they're friendly!"

lust before they landed, Captain Bill Startup invited
the group back on the return trip. All accepted but one
member of the camera crew who didn't want to fly back
through the area of the sightings. A substitute was
quickly found, and the return trip commenced at 2:16 a.m.
About three minutes after takeoff, the plane broke
through clouds and saw a very bright light ahead and to
the right. Captain Startup, who compared it with a feature-
less full moon, turned on the airplane's radar in the map-
ping mode. Several minutes later, when the plane was
about 1 5 nautical miles out of Christehureh, its radar de-
tected a strong target some 20 miles away, in the direction
of the bright light. When the plane came to within about
10 miles of the object, at an altitude of 13,000 feet, the pi-
lot turned toward the object. But after a 90 degree turn,
the object was still at the plane's side, apparently having
moved as the plane turned.

The UFO kept its relative distance from the plane un-
til Startup decided he had better get back on course. As he
turned, the UFO moved to the front of the craft, to the
left, and then sped away beneath the right-hand side and
disappeared. From this point until landing at Blenheim,
the people on board continued to see bright, pulsating
lights, whose presence was also confirmed later by ground
radar. One brightly flashing light was filmed; it showed a
light oscillating rapidly from bright white or yellow-white
to dim red and orange. The images caught by the camera
show a shape that changes from nearly round, to sort of
triangular, to bell-shaped, this latter having a bright bot-
tom and a dimmer top. The plane landed at 3:15 a.m.

THE MELBOURNE television station, Channel O,
asked the National Investigations Committee on Aerial
Phenomena (N1CAP) to investigate. Bruce Maccabee was
chosen to go to New Zealand and Australia, where he
spent three weeks interviewing witnesses and analyzing
the film. "It didn't take long for me to realize that this
sighting was something unusual," Maccabee says. He esti-
mates that the brightness of the light was perhaps several
hundred thousand candlepower. Assuming a distance of
10 miles, the object shown on the film would be about 40
feet wide. Maccabee also consulted with a number of
other scientists.

lack Acuff, president of NICAP, said his organization
has never previously endorsed a UFO film as being genu-
ine, but he says that the evidence in this case points to
some new phenomenon that is probably related to other
UFO reports. Dr. Hynek stated his opinion that the New
Zealand evidence clearly suggests some phenomenon that
cannot be explained in ordinary terms. He criticized those
in responsible scientific positions who had publicly stated
that the New Zealand film showed Venus, Jupiter, me-
teors, etc., without even bothering to talk to the wit-
nesses, or to find out at what times and in which direc-
tions the various portions of the film were shot.

Maccabee, who has been a member of NICAP for
twelve years, agrees with Hynek on one sure thing: they
knew most of the things that the object could not be.
They were able to rule out planets, stars, balloons, me-
teors, other aircraft, secret military maneuvers, radar
"angels," and even the possibility of a hoax, and produced
scientific evidence for these conclusions.

"All we know," Maccabee says, "is what it was not, but
we are convinced that it's something real." He noted that
UFO sightings of this type have been occurring since
around 1947, "but we have had our heads in the sand -
the ostrich effect." He believes that more should be done
to investigate such phenomena and to keep the public in-
formed.

Fall 1979 /The WPl journal/ 23

1935

1916

Secretary.

C. Leroy Storms

135 West 6th Ave

Roselle, NJ

07203

Wellen Colburn writes: "At 84 I still seem
to be well and able bodied." His wife is not
as healthy, "but we do fairly well."

1928

Secretaries.

GiffordT Cook

Rt 3 Box 294 Keyes Perry Acres

Harpers Ferry, WV

25425

Theodore J Englund

70 Eastwood Rd.

Shrewsbury, MA

01545

Cordon Rice spends May to November in
Ithaca, N.Y., and November to May in St.
Petersburg, Florida.

1932

Emanuel Athanas spent August at his na-
tive Island of Rhodes in the Aegean, where
he gathered material for a book on the
Colossus of Rhodes. Before retirement, he
was "Voice of America's" radio program
director. Later, he became the Washington
correspondent of the Athens News Agency
and of the New York National Herald.

1934

Secretary:
Dwight J Dwinell
Box 265

Brownington, VT
05860

Eugene Shumski, now retired, is doing
consulting work for his former employer,
Milton Bradley Co.

Secretary:

Raymond F Starrett

Continental Country Club

Box 104

Wildwood, FL

32785

Sam Ehrlich, who has a second career with
his son, Richard, reports "progress with a
new (second) plant in Austin, Texas and
two retail furniture stores in Houston."
According to Ehrlich, new designs in solid
oak are selling well. The direction of their
expansion is toward "knock-down" (K-D)
furniture of top quality. They may have
achieved a breakthrough with their
knock-down designs. Sam says, "Still have
plenty of time for golf."

Joseph Glasser, corporate vice president
and manufacturing manager of Raytheon
Company's Missile Systems Division and
manager of the company's Andover-
Lowell Manufacturing Operation, was
honored at a retirement party in May mark-
ing his 34 years with Raytheon. Over 700
friends and colleagues attended the tes-
timonial which was held in Andover, Mass.
At the party he was toasted as "A real
professional. A man who gets things done.
A real people guy. A dynamic leader."
During the evening he was presented with
the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal
from the Department of the Army, and a
membership in the Haverhill Country Club
from a Raytheon executive. Glasser was
named a vice president of the company in
1 971 . He had also served as manager of the
Waltham manufacturing facility. A
graduate of the Raytheon Advanced Man-
agement Program, he also has received an
honorary doctor of science degree from
Lowell University, and the Coddard Award
from WPI. He is a WPI trustee, a trustee of
Bon Secours Hospital and Lawrence Sav-
ings Bank, as well as a director of the Boys
Club of Greater Lawrence.

1936

Secretary:

Harold F Hennckson
1406 Fox Hill Dr
Sun City Center. FL
33570

After 38 years with The Foxboro Company,
Herbert Neuman has retired and is living on
Cape Cod. He writes, "H. Foster McRell, Jr.

is a fellow resident of Harwich."

1938

Secretary
Emory K Rogers
141 Lanyon Dr
Cheshire, CT
06410

Dr. Gilbert Ashwell was recently elected to
the National Academy of Sciences. He
holds the post of chief of the biochemistry
laboratory at the National Institute of Ar-
thritis in Bethesda, Maryland. . . . Richard
Cloues continues on assignment in the
Middle East as a resident engineer for
Overseas Bechtel, Inc. He says, "We are
consultants and construction managers for
the Dubai International Airport expansion
program on behalf of the government of
Dubai, UAE. In January he attained life

membership in the ASCE Allen Gridley,

Jr., former director of communications at
Revere Copper & Brass, Rome, N.Y., retired
early due to poor eyesight, moved to Texas
last year, then back to New York. He
declares, "Life is interesting."

1939

Secretary.

Charles H Amidon, Jr

636 Salisbury St

Holden, MA

01520

Walter Abel, who received WPI 's Robert H.
Goddard Award in 1970, reports that his
most recent activity has been teaching
junior high students what business is all
about under "Project Business." Following
graduation he joined the Research Division
of USM Corp. During World War II, he
managed a project concerned with the first
rocket-propelled aerial torpedoes. In 1969
he was named vice president for research
and development. He attended the Pro-
gram for Senior Executives at MIT and later
became a member of the Visiting Commit-
tee for Mechanical Engineering and a
member of the Industrial Advisory Com-
mittee for the Polymer Processing Program
and the Manufacturing and Productivity
Department at MIT. The University of
Hartford has tapped him for its Industrial
Advisory Committee. He has been chair-
man of the Boston Research Directors Club,
a member of Industrial Research Club of
New York City, and USM's representative
to the Industrial Research Institute, of
which he became president in 1972. He has
served as chairman of the Finance & Advi-
sory Committee in Wenham, Mass.

"Charlie" Amidon writes that he's
"spending the waning years in plant layout
and renovation with occasional lapses into
girl watching." In World War II he reveals
that he developed draftsman's elbow over
clocks, railroad cars, and machine tools,
then "elbowed" into textile machinery.
Business took him below the Mason-Dixon

24 /The WPI Journal / Full 1979

Line, then to Japan and Europe. His wife
Eva has been a teacher and author. Two
sons and a daughter started out in teaching
and Bill is in Turkey and Doug is a wood
carver. The Amidons have several grand-
children. Charlie is a student of the Ameri-
can circus and likes to rediscover its early
history and equipment.

Roland Anderson is working on part II of
The Kings Spawn, a history of his father's
family written by his mother in Sweden.
During his career, he has been with the
U.S.A.F., Counter Intelligence, Westing-
house, GE, Chrysler, and AMF on Titan I
ICBM launchers. After service at NASA, he
spent 12 years as a manager in the Ad-
vanced Systems Lab. atTARADCOM. He
holds a patent on a "surface effect vehicle"
and has others pending, including one on
the inertial battery (IB) — "Over five times
better than a chemical battery." He has set
up the Magnatrans Corp. to handle possi-
ble federal fundingforthe IB development.
His brother, Lennart, '46 has filed for a
patent on an RF pulsed DC propulsion
system which the IB power pack will make
practical. Some years ago Roland Anderson
hosted the "Best of the Best" at the Scarab
Club on the "Bud Lanker (TV) Show."
Hobbies include photography, reading,
model-making, dancing, and Packards. He
has five children.

James Bartlett, Jr. is president and owner
of Hydranautics, a California company spe-
cializing in heavy-load moving machinery
and reverse-osmosis water-desalting sys-
tems. The firm has 100 employees and
offices in Houston, London, Singapore, and
Alkhobar. The Bartletts' oldest, Jim, 3rd,
graduated from Berkeley and is publisher of
three magazines, including Politics Today,
and is president of the International Volley
Ball League. Judy, who has a BS in nursing
from the University of Hawaii, is now
"learning the economics of California
ranching." The youngest, Stephen,
graduated from Northrup Institute and is
manager of field service for Hydranautics
Water Systems. Bartlett, who earlier in his
career was with B.F. Sturtevant, The Trane
Co., The Garrett Corp, and his own Cos-
modyne Corporation, enjoys flying (be-
came a pilot at 47), carpentry and water
sports. He and Shirley are active elders in
the Presbyterian Church and participate in
Santa Barbara politics.

Growing myrtle, English ivy and
pachysandra around his home in Cleveland
Heights, Ohio is R. V. Bergstrom's "Main
outdoor activity." He also belongs to the
YMCA, where he swims a half a mile a day
to keep fit. By the mid- 1 980's, after retire-
ment, he plans to become a beachcomber
at Vineyard Haven, Mass., where the fam-
ily has a summer home. A graduate of
Harvard Business School, he has been with
Norton Co over35 years in grinding wheel
sales and supervision, mostly in the Cleve-
land area During the war years, he was at
the U.S. Naval Gun Factory and was an
instructor in ordnance at the Naval

Ordnance School, Navy Yard, DC. He and
Roberta have four grown children, two of
whom are married. Bergstrom is into the
local "goings-on" in Cleveland Heights,
and his family belongs to the Unitarian-
Universalist Church of Shaker Heights.

After working briefly for Penn Water and
Power Co., Henry Blauvelt joined Public
Service Electric and Gas Co. in 1940 and is
presently manager of operations. For 25
years he lived in North Plainfield, where he
was president of Rotary, a member of the
Board of Education and of the YMCA
board, and belonged to the Carrier Clinic
Long Range Planning Committee. The
Blauvelts have three children and five
grandchildren. Tennis and swimming are
favorite pastimes.

Current activities of Jack Boyd include
land and building management of his
properties, sailing, mountain climbing, ski-
ing, traveling, scuba diving, and guns. He is
a 32nd degree Mason, a member of the
Appalachian Mountain Club, and an officer
in the National Ski Patrol. He has served in
Hollis (N.H.) town affairs as a member of
the budget committee, planning board,
school board, school study committee, and
as deputy fire chief, police commissioner,
and owners' representative on the con-
struction of three Hollis schools. A state
representative for four years, he was also
on Gov. Peterson's task force, governor's
crime commission, and the executive board
of the New Hampshire Council of Boy
Scouts. In 1971 , he sold Nashua Brass and
retired. Earlier he had been with Saco-
Lowell Shops and Colt Firearms. The Boyds
have two sons, two daughters, and three
grandchildren.

Donald Burness has been employed by
Eastman Kodak for his entire career, except
when he was earning his PhD from the
University of Illinois. Since 1971 he has
been senior research associate at Kodak in
Rochester, NY He has been involved in
research related to photographic products
(58 U.S. patents), laboratory planning, and
safety. Burness hikes in the Rockies and
likes kayaking. He plays tennis and is inter-
ested in carpentry, cabinetry, photography
and gardening. He plans to retire soon to
"spend full time taking care of problems
with our recalcitrant Volkswagen Rabbit."
He belongs to the Adirondack Mt. Club,
Appalachian Mt. Club, Green Mt. Club,
Sierra Club, ACS, and Sigma Xi. Helen and
he have two sons and three grandchildren.

For a number of years, Harrison Brown
was involved with the Skylab program
("Don't blame me because itfell! I tried my
darndest to convince NASA to install a
reentry system") While at the Marshall
Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., he
became the sytems engineering manager
for the medium powered flights of Ranger,
Mariner, Voyager, and Echo At the Army
Missile Command he worked on the Talos
and Mauler missile systems. He was with
the Bureau of Ships in Washington, with
the Navy at Mare Island, Calif., and New

England Power, Providence. The Browns,
who have a son (doctor) and daughter
(math, teacher), and two grandsons re-
cently returned from a trip to Spain, Por-
tugal, and Tunisia. They are ardent square
dancers and participate in retirement pro-
grams. Brown serves on the local Mental
Health board and is chairman of the church
board of trustees.

A former local WPI Alumni Chapter pres-
ident, John Busada, has also served as
president of the Flushing Lions Club and
the Chamber of Commerce, chairman of
the YMCA board, and trustee of Flushing
Hospital. He was a vestryman, headed a
local Red Cross drive, the annual YMCA
Fund Drive, and was master of Damascus
(Masonic) Lodge. Associated for many
years with his own firm, Busada Mfg.
Corp., which specializes in transparent rigid
plastic tubing, he was formerly with Omni
Products, Northern Industrial Chemical
Co., the U.S. Navy, and GE. He has a
daughter in the theater and a son doing
graduate work in horticulture.

Since his retirement in 1973, Wilder
Carson and his wife Ruth have spent much
of the time traveling with their Airstream
trailer to Prince Edward Island, Canada, in
the summers and to Florida or the South-
west, winters. They have crisscrossed the
U.S., Canada, and Mexico. From 1958 until
his retirement, Carson served at the Army's
Munitions Command in Dover, N.J., and
received his second Meritorious Civilian
Service Award. Previously, he was at
Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, where he was
employed for 33 years as a civilian engineer
and manager, design and project engineer,
and laboratory chief in ammunition R&D.
For a short time before going to Dover, he
was with GE The Carsons have a daughter
and two grandchildren. Hobbies include
invertebrate fossil collecting, fishing, and
reading. Carson is past president of the
Morris County Engineers Club and an ac-
tive participant for 1 5 years in the local
Great Books discussion group.

Allan Chase spent about 36 years with
Procter & Gamble, retiring in 1975 as plant
chemical engineer in the food products
plant in Cincinnati. He now lives in
Chatham, Mass. The Chases have two
daughters and a son, and try to get in one
major trip a year. . . . Arthur Cooley retired
as a senior engineer with Socony Vacuum
Oil Co., East Providence, R.I in 1975, when
the asphalt plant closed. Earlier he worked
for Anderson Engineering, Cambridge, and
Lovejoy Tool Co., Springfield, Vt. In World
War II he was with the Air Force in Tunisia,
Sicily, and Italy on 50 missions and earned
four oak leaf clusters. In 1 944 he returned
to the U.S. as an instructor and mainte-
nance test pilot. He likes to do repairs,
plumbing and auto mechanical work. His
1 970 Cutlass has logged 1 28,000 miles and
still gets 22 mpg on trips. He used to keep
bees. Recently he completed a course in
colored stone grading from the Gemologi-
cal Institute of America. He enjoys skiing,

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hiking, Whitewater canoeing, and is Canoe
Committee chairman and a member of the
Appalachian Mountain Club. He is a past
treasurer of his local scout troop and Junior
Achievement advisor. He belongs to the
Instrument Society of America and the
American Institute of Plant Engineers, serv-
ing as president of the Rhode Island chap-
ter in 1967. He is a professional engineer
and the father of four.

Harold White has been named vice pres-
ident and general manager of the newly
created Organic Grinding Wheel Division
at Norton Co. , Worcester. The new organi-
zation will include the vitrified grinding
wheel division and the diamond products
division, as well as the organic grinding
wheel division. White, a registered profes-
sional engineer, was previously vice presi-
dent and managing director of abrasive
operations in Northern Europe.

1940

Secretary

Robert E Dunklee, Jr.

Rocky Hill Rd

North Scituate, Rl

02857

Russell Lupien has retired as purchasing
agent for George Meyer Co. in West
Boylston, Mass.

1 941

Secretary
Russell W Parks
7250 Brill Rd
Cincinnati, OH
45243

Robert Wilson continues with Field, Eddy
and Buckley, Inc., an insurance agency in
Springfield, Mass.

1942

Prof. Roy Bourgault of the WPI Mechanical
Engineering Department has been elected
chairman of the Materials Division of the
American Society for Engineering Educa-
tion.

1943

Robert Alexander holds the position of
technical manager at Northern Petro
Chemical in Clinton, Mass.

1944

Secretary
JohnG Underhill
6706 Barkworth Dr
Dallas, TX
75248

Joseph Gibson, Jr., inventor of the Ther-
mosol dyeing process used extensively
throughout the world, has been named the
1979 recipient of The Olney Medal for
achievement in the textile industry. Estab-
lished in 1 944 by the American Association
of Textile Chemists and Colorists, the
medal recognizes outstanding achieve-
ment in textile chemistry or other areas of
textile science. The award consists of a gold
medal, a scroll, and a cash honorarium.
Gibson, who did graduate work at Prince-
ton and MIT, has spent his entire profes-
sional career at du Pont in Wilmington,
Delaware, where he is currently a senior
research engineer in textile end-use re-
search. During World War II he was in the
Naval Reserve.

His accomplishments as a researcher en-
compass different fields. Besides the Ther-
mosol continuous dyeing process, he has
been involved in the development of more
comfortable wearing apparel and the de-
velopment of synthetic leathers. He devel-
oped a sparkling monofilament textile fiber
which provided luxurious fabrics with glis-
tening appearance, and nylon hosiery with
improved fit, sheerness and durability He
holds patents or has written and presented
papers in these fields. Outside of his profes-
sion, he has been granted a patent on a fish
swimway for an aquarium tank; has devel-
oped a general theory on the origin of the
universe leading up the "big bang" theory;
and presented a paper on this theory in the
1978 Louis Jacot Competition in Paris. He
belongs to AATCC, ACS, the Fiber Society,
Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Phi
Epsilon. He served on the National Associa-
tion of Hosiery Manufacturers' Pantyhose
Sizing Committee, and is the 36th recipient
of The Olney Medal, slated to be presented
during October at AATCC's annual na-
tional technical conference in Cherry Hill,
N.J.

Everett Johnson has moved from being
manager of planning and administration to
manager of The Beacon Research
Laboratories of Texaco, Inc. in Beacon,
NY.

1945

Prof. John Fondahl of Stanford University
has returned from a spring quarter sabbati-
cal. He and his wife Doris spent three weeks
in China, then six weeks with the youngest
of their four daughters at Kyoto University
in Japan. . . . Albert Myers was recently
elected vice president of furniture opera-

tions at Lear Siegler, Inc. Previously, he was
vice president of operations for fabricated
products. Reporting to him are Borroughs
Division, Foam Products Division, National
Twist Drill and Tool Division, No Sag Spring
Division, and Plastics Division. He is located
in Rochester, Michigan.

1946

Secretaries:

M. Daniel Lacedonia

106 Ridge Rd

East Longmeadow, MA

01028

George H Conley, Jr

213 Stevens Dr

Pittsburgh, PA

15236

Paul Gorman, group vice president at Chas.
T. Main, Inc., Boston, has been elected to
the board of directors of the corporation.
Elected a group vice president in 1978,
Gorman is responsible for Chas. T. Main's
engineering divisions. In 1975, he joined
Main as vice president and manager of the
Nuclear Division with subsequent respon-
sibilities as manager of the Thermal-
Nuclear Division. Earlier, he had been avice
president for Boston Power Division at
United Engineers and Constructors, Inc.,
and a director of Jackson & Moreland
International, where he was employed for
nearly thirty years, He holds an MS from
Northeastern.

Dean William Grogan has been awarded
the Carlson Award from the American So-
ciety for Engineering Education for his
major role in the development of the WPI
Plan.

1947

Secretary:
Alfred F. Larkin, Jr.
1440E StandishPI
Milwaukee, Wl
53217

Dr. Morrel Cohen has completed six
months leave at Kyoto University, which he
found "most pleasant and stimulating." . . .
Milford VanDusen is presently an en-
gineering staff consultant at Loral Elec-
tronic Systems, Yonkers, N.Y. Earlier he had
been with AIL Division, Cutler Hammer,
Eaton Corp. ... In a recent management
reorganization at the Torrington Co., John
Williams, Jr., was named vice president of
finance and administration. Previously, he
was vice president of the heavy bearings
division. Since joining the firm in 1947, he
has served as district sales manager and
general manager of the heavy bearings
plant at South Bend, Ind. In 1972 he be-
came vice president of heavy bearings, and
in 1 975, director. Last year he moved from
South Bend to corporate headquarters in
Torrington, Conn.

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1948

Secretary:
Paul E Evans
69 Clairmont St
Longmeadow, MA
01106

Gordon Keller has retired from AVCO's
Systems Division.

1949

Secretary:
Howard J. Green
1 Kenilworth Rd.
Worcester, MA
01602

James Adams has traveled to Japan,
Taiwan, Hong Kong and often to Greece
and other parts of Europe during his career
as vice president of marketing for the Gen-
eral Instrument Corporation. He is a
member of the board of directors for two
companies on Long Island and a member of
the Long Island Association and Long Is-
land Forum for Technology. He also serves
as chairman for local scouting groups,
board chairman for a high school scholar-
ship committee, and is involved in church
activities. His three sons, Bob, Jim, and
John, will all be in college this fall. The
Adamses reside in Glen Cove, NY.

Since 1 952 , Walter Allen, Jr. has been
with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, East
Hartford, Conn. His various posts have
included manager of the Texas office and
manager of domestic marketing for the
central U.S. and Canada. In 1974 he be-
came regional director of Pacific and Au-
stralasia. "Have made 1 1 trips around the
world in this job." Currently he is assistant
to the vice president of international mar-
keting. He flies in his Mooney Executive,
sky dives (215 jumps), and skis. . . . Dean
Amidon, the new commissioner of the
Massachusetts Department of Public
Works, says he lives "part time in Boston
and the rest in the Berkshires." Fran and he
have four grandchildren and three
daughters-in-law. He's had to give up his
golf membership in order to concentrate on
his latest professional responsibilities.

Willson Applegate's son, Lansing, just
finished his junior year at WPI. Daughter
Marcia works for United Airlines, and
Nancy is about to enter Sacramento State
University. Wife Nikki does volunteer work
in churches and hospitals and holds semi-
nars in colleges. Applegate holds the post
of corporate director of ground safety for
United Airlines. Earlier he had been an
industrial hygiene engineer in Vermont and
a safety engineer for Boeing. He holds a
master's degree in industrial hygiene from
Harvard, and sings in the church choir. He
has been a leader in the Air Transport
Section of the National Safety Council, the
American Society of Safety Engineers, and
the American Industrial Hygiene Associa-
tion.

Philip Buffinton is a director of State
Farm Fire and Casualty Co., Bloomington,
III., where he also holds the posts of vice
president, secretary, and chief administra-
tive officer. He was a founder of the former
National Flood Insurers Association, and
presently belongs to the National Fire Pro-
tection Association, Seismological Society
of America, American Meteorological Soci-
ety, and the American Management Asso-
ciation. He is an associate in the Casualty
Actuarial Society, a member of the Ameri-
can Academy of Actuaries, and a registered
professional engineer. He and Rita enjoy
golfing here and abroad. They have three
married daughters and a grandson.

Thomas Carlin serves as manager of
general purchases in the Eastern Division at
Wyman Gordon Co. He is a national cer-
tified purchasing manager, a registered
professional engineer, and holds an MBA
from BU. He belongs to ASME and the
National Association of Purchasing Man-
agement. A director of the Worcester chap-
ter of NAPM, he is also a member of the
Rotary and the Westboro High School
Building Committee. The Carlins have fosr
children, and like golf, tennis and skiing. . . .
Thomas Coonan III continues with Plastic
Products and Resin, a department of du
Pont. He's been with the firm 27 years and
is presently a senior marketing assistant in
Chicago. He has two boys and a girl in high
school and enjoys golf and Canadian fish-
ing.

With the Foxboro Company for nearly
29 years, Earl Cruff is currently manager of
project services for D&E. Son Carlton re-
ceived his BS from WPI in 1 971 , his MS in
1 973 , and is employed by Pratt & Whitney.
His daughter, Patti, graduated from
Wheaton. Earl and Glenna usually take an
annual trip to California to see Patti and her
husband. . . . Walter Dick is still at Bell
Telephone of Pennsylvania, where he isthe
design engineer for cable, microwave, and
lightwave communications systems in the
western part of the state. . . . Len Fish
continues in the post of senior vice presi-
dent at the American Gas Association. He is
responsible for technology development,
training, meeting services, membership
development and international liasion,
which gives Bobbie and him the chance to
travel throughout the U.S.A. and Europe.

Since 1 954 Orlando Foss, Jr., has served
as president of the General Box Company
of Waycross, Ga. The company makes
cigar, school, and shoe boxes by its pat-
ented method, on equipment which is
mostly of its own design. Foss and Colleen
have two children, two step-children, and
one step-grandson. He is an elder in the
Presbyterian Church, is past president of
the Rotary Club and the Chamber of
Commerce. He is on the advisory board of
the Southern Division of the National Paper
Box Association, and is past director of the
Associated Industries of Georgia. . . .
Samuel Franc, Jr. of Alamo, Calif, is a
project manager for Raiser Construction
Co., a design-build firm. At the moment,
the company is working on three office

buildings, a condominium project, a high
rise building, and is about to start on
another office building. On the boards: A
17-story hotel for Holiday Inns and a re-
gional headquarters for Fluor. Franc is pres-
ident of Danville Toastmasters, an organic
gardener, a photographer, a real estate
broker, and a "new runner." Marcia
graduated from high school this year, and
her sister, Susan, isasophomore witha4.0
average. Franc's wife Betty collects books.

Charles Gerber has retired (except for
teaching) as senior project engineer from
Mitchell College, New London, Conn. He is
a consultant to the College and to the
Town of Old Lyme. He is associated with
the Salvation Army, Senior Citizens, and
many personal projects. Vi and he spent
several days last winter with the widow of
his cousin and classmate, Karl Berggren. . . .
Howard Green continues as treasurer of
Green Bros, of Worcester, Inc. His firm is
active in the new and used machine tool
business in the U.S. and is expanding inter-
nationally. Recently a large addition was
built. Green is on the national board of
directors of the Machinery Dealers Associa-
tion, which is based in Washington, DC.
His hobbies are golf and tennis. His political
activities are "confined to trying to alleviate
the product liability problems in the U.S."
He has four children.

Alfred Hapgood has spent 24 years in
lens manufacturing, including 12 as lens
plant manager and one year as lens product
manager at American Optical Co., South-
bridge, Mass. He has been chairman of the
Southbridge School Building Committee
for five years, a member of the Cohasse
Country Club board of directors for six
years, and club president for one year.
When his two sons were young, he assisted
with Little League and Pee Wee Hockey.
He and his wife "vacation as often as
possible," with Hapgood enjoying athletics
and fishing — Since 1971 John Hunter has
been engineering director at General
Dynamics-Electric Boat. He says, "We have
about 1 1 00 engineers and 1 700 draftsmen
and workers, who are well into converting
to computer-assisted plan production. We
already handle all material ordering and
listing this way. The Trident (submarine)
requires about 13,500 plans and 200,000
pieces of materials to build one ship."
Hunter is a former mayor of Groton, Conn.,
a senior warden in the Episcopal Church; a
licensed lay reader; a U.S.C G. licensed
operator of small passenger ships; a profes-
sional engineer; and a member of the
Society of Naval Architects and Marine
Engineers, and the Newcomen Society. He
is part-time captain of the last U.S. coal-
fired passenger ship out of Mystic, Conn.
He has three grown children.

Bill Julian, past president of the WPI
Alumni Association and a resident of Mc-
lean, Va., writes that he expects he and his
wife Audrey will be spending about six
months of the year at their new vacation
home at Willoughby Lake in Vermont.
They enjoy sailing and are avid bridge
players. Carol Ann is a special education

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teacher; Debra, an environmental scientist;
and Allen, a senior at the University of
Virginia. . . . Peter Kahn serves as a manu-
facturers' agent for chemical processing
equipment, along with equipment for air
pollution and liquid wastes treatment and
control. His firm, Peter A. Kahn and Co., is
located in Newton, Mass. His daughter,
Merle, who has a PhD in food chemistry,
works for Reynolds Metal. Eric is a market-
ing zone manager for Lincoln-Mercury Di-
vision of Ford, out of the Denver office.

Robert Lawrence has been with the U.S'
Department of Commerce for 30 years and
is presently involved with the development
of novel optical techniques for measuring
the physical properties of the atmosphere.
"How about a volume-averaging wind
sensor that sits in a small box on your desk
and gets its information by simply looking
out of the window?" For fifteen years he
and Pam have flown their plane on busi-
ness and pleasure trips to Glacier Bay,
Newfoundland, and the Peruvian Andes.
They flew to Worcester for his 25th reun-
ion. Viki is a geologist and Vernon is a math
student at the University of Idaho. . . .
Sidney Madwed, who served this year as a
head agent for the class, writes that he
swims five miles a week. He has been
involved with scouting, his synagogue, and
is interested in photography. His firm,
Madwed Manufacturing Co., Bridgeport,
Conn., specializes in zinc die casting, an-
tique plating, and brass plating, light steel
fabrication, and electropolishing. Son Bert
is with Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. Susan
works as an assistant fashion designer at
Parade Dress Co., New York City. Mark is
at Northeastern and Sarah is a high school
junior.

Harold Melden, Jr. has been named vice
president of gas supply at Commonwealth
Gas Co. On a recent trip to Alaska and the
Yukon Territory, he saw his oldest son,
Mark. Kurk, with a BSEE degree from Union
College, is at Data General. Daughter Sue is
a student at the University of Maine. His
wife June plays and teaches tennis. . . .
Robert Miller, Jr. is employed by Gilbert-
Commonwealth of Jackson, Mich. Cur-
rently he is project manager assigned to
Montreal working in tandem with a Cana-
dian consulting company. The project in-
volves the electrification of the central re-
gion of Saudi Arabia. . . . Since graduation
Harry Mochon, Jr., has been associated
with electric utilities, including Hartford
Electric Light Co. and the Connecticut Val-
ley Power Exchange. Presently he is direc-
tor of the New England Power Exchange.
He has two daughters, one a lawyer in
California and the other a social worker in
Massachusetts. Mochon has served as
chairman of the North American Power
Systems Interconnection Committee. A
registered professional engineer, he also
belongs to the Technical Advisory Commit-
tee of the National Electric Reliability
Council. He is an avid golfer.

Henry Mogensen holds the post of man-
ager of the Lapmaster Division (Machine
Tool) of Crane Packing Co. in Chicago. Last
September he left Warner & Swasey Grind-
ing Machine after more than 27 years of
service. . . . Still with Feecon Corp.,
Westboro, Mass., Walter Mussoni now
serves as general sales manager of the
company. The firm manufactures and de-
signs fire suppression systems for airports,
refineries, and municipalities. He and Janice
have two boys and two girls. "Golf has to
be my primary hobby. " . . . John Snyder has
joined Pepsi-Cola Co. in Philadelphia,
where he is manager of packaging re-
search.

1950

Secretary

Lester J. Reynolds, Jr

15 Cherry Lane

Basking Ridge, NJ

07920

Robert Hallisey serves as engineering
supervisor of the test equipment depart-
ment at Hughes Aircraft Co. in Fullerton,
Calif. . . David Humphrey is a self-
employed manufacturers' representative
"living on a farm in beautiful Carroll
County" in Maryland. He is currently re-
storing a 1 927 American LaFrance pumper.
He sees duty as a maintenance officer and
pilot for the Civil Air Patrol.

1954

Secretary
Roger R Osell
18 Eliot Rd
Lexington, MA
02173

Paul Alasso holds the post of product
manager for textile coating and bonding
polyurethane products for a division of
Mobay Chemical Corp. Prior to joining the
company in 1976, he had been with
Midland-Dexter, Trancoa Chemical, Per-
muthane Division of Beatrice Foods and
Union Carbide. The Alassos live in Med-
field, Mass., and have two children, Sarah,
13, and Andrew, 11 ... . "Thirteen years in
the Maine woods with the B & A (Bangor &
Aroostook Railroad) have been very re-
warding ones," writes Owen Allen, who
works for the mechanical department. Ear-
lier he had been employed by Union Car-
bide, New York Central Railroad, and Fos-
ter Wheeler Corp. He holds a bachelor of
divinity degree from the Drew University
Theological School, and once served as a
co-pastor of a circuit of four Methodist
churches in Massachusetts. He has hiked
the 2000-mile length of the Appalachian
Trail, the story appearing as part of a
two-volume book, Hiking the Appalachian
Trail. Owen and Candy have three chil-
dren.

David Bisson's current principal activity
is Frederick Beck Originals, a former cus-
tomer, which he purchased. The firm pro-
duces a fine line of design Christmas cards
which are sold in the finest stores. Bisson is
still chairman, but is in the process of selling
his silk screen printing company, which
developed into the largest screen printing
business in the San Francisco area. For ten
years he had been a sales engineer in San
Francisco for Union Carbide Plastics. Earlier
he did food research in Chicago. Active in
church and city politics, Bisson also reads
extensively, skis, and camps out. The two
older children are business majors at Berke-
ley and the youngest is in high school.
The family resides in Millbrae, Calif. ... In
January, W. Richard Byrnes joined
Goldsmith & Eggleton of Akron, Ohio. He
is brokering plastic resins and compounds
as well as representing two other manufac-
turers. Previous employers were Air Prod-
ucts & Chemicals, Inc.J.T. Baker Chemical
Co.; and Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge,
Mass., where he worked with Wil Kranich
and Roger Osell. He has belonged to the
Lions Club, Jaycees, Toastmasters Interna-
tional and church organizations. Other in-
terests are the music theater, scouting and
children's athletics. Byrnes and Bette have
three children.

Lee Catineau says, "Life has been good
to us." His leisure-time interests have been
geared to working with kids in baseball,
hockey, football and those with problems.
The Catineaus have two boys: Ted, 1 9, and
Don, 18. Lee is presently a broker with
Loeb Rhoades, Hornblower, Inc. in
Worcester. He has previously been with
Bache, du Pont, and the Atomic Energy
Commission. . . . Harry Chapell of
Maynard, Mass. is a past president of the
Lions Club, former Civil Defense radio of-
ficer, chairman of the high school building
committee, and has been chairman of the
Conservation Commission since its forma-
tion. He is the chief engineer at Sage Labs,
after having worked for Raytheon and Bell
Labs. At Sage he is concerned with the
designing of microwave components and
instruments. He helped develop the lunar
lander, has several patents, and has written
technical papers. The Chapells have two
daughters, a son, Robert, '78, and two
granddaughters.

Recently, Elmer L. Corujo was appointed
director of Latin America sales for Harris
Corporation. He joined the firm two years
ago. Previously, he was in management
and international sales with Raytheon and

RCA Last year Allan Costantin resigned

from Union Carbide to become vice presi-
dent of Gibson Associates in Cranford, N.J.
The company manufactures over one bil-
lion thermoplastic closures each year for
major soap, toiletries, cosmetics, food, and
liquor companies. With the exception of his
service in the Medical Service Corps., Cos-
tantin had been with Union Carbide since
graduation. In 1958 he and Dave Bisson

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"covered the Northwest" for the firm's
Plastics Division. He became the sole plas-
tics representative in Texas, Oklahoma,
and Arkansas. In 1965 he was appointed
group leader in the R&D department in
Bound Brook, N.J. and dealt with P.V.C. In
1 973 he was named sales manager of the
eastern region. He has an MBA from Rut-
gers. The family, including six children,
enjoys skiing and sailing. ... A long-time
employee of CE, Kenneth Cross writes:
"We have developed, installed and oper-
ated (for the Air Force) large radars for
BMEWS and for tracking satellites, includ-
ing many based overseas in Turkey, Thai-
land, and Alaska." His most interesting
experience has been as a project engineer
on an experimental infrared program
which took him to Mississippi, Vandenberg
AFB, Calif., and Cape Canaveral. The
Crosses and "two very wonderful adopted
children" reside in Baldwinsville, NY.

Still with Scovill Mfg. Co., Apparel Fas-
tener Division, Walter Dziura now holds
the post of manager of contract engineer-
ing and has five patents. He is the father of
six, one son currently attending WPI. For
many years he was a Boy Scout committee
man. He is active in hunting, fishing, and
conservation work at the Rod & Gun Club.
He teaches grafting as an aid to wildlife. A
member of ASME, he is also a certified
engineer and a Junior Achievement ad-
visor. . . . During the last 22 years with U.S.
Steel, Robert Fish has been concerned with
the engineering of products and applica-
tions of wire rope and structural steel
strand from all production and commercial
aspects. His career has taken him hundreds
of thousands of miles in the southern and
eastern U.S. and on occasional foreign
expeditions to China, Australia, and South
America. Earlier, he worked for the Mas-
sachusetts and Connecticut State Highway
Departments and the Army Corps of En-
gineers. The Fishers have five children, "all
Yankee-born, and now all dedicated
Southern rebels!" They live outside of Bir-
mingham, Alabama.

Joe Fratino began at Columbia Gas
Transmission Corp. in 1954 and is now
director of engineer services in Charleston,
W. Va. He is a registered engineer and is
involved with the ASME, API, and AGA. For
a number of years he belonged to the
Optimist International. He also coached
young people's basketball and baseball
teams. The Fratinos' daughter Lori is mar-
ried and attending Ohio State University;
Maria is planning to attend Marshall Col-
lege; and Michele is 13. . . . Continuing
with du Pont, David Gilbert now serves as
plant managerforthe firm in Antioch, Calif.
He had been assistant plant manager at du
Pont's largest chemical plant in New Jersey.
He has participated in the PTA, scouting,
and local politics. He and Fran are the
parents of Lesley, a graduate of West Ches-
ter (Pa.) State College; Dave, Jr., a student
at Diablo Valley College; and Betsy, also a

Diablo student in California. In his "older
years" Gilbert has given up basketball and
has switched to tennis and skiing. ... Dr.
Richard E. Gilbert flies and runs, but says he
is "not much good at either. " He teaches at
the University of Nebraska, is married, and
has five children.

John Herz is currently active in the ven-
ture field handling corporate reorganiza-
tions and business development assign-
ments for private firms. He had been vice
president of marketing at Siemens Corp./
U.S., and was associated with North Amer-
ican Philips, and Veeco Instruments, Inc.
For years he was in the electronics field
handling sales, marketing, and corporate
planning and development which included
assignments in Europe, the USSR, and the
Near and Far East. Earlier, he spent eight
years in mechanical engineering. He has an
MBA from NYU. He, wife Use, and three
children reside in Stamford, Conn. . . . Bill
Hills' firm, Hills' Research and Develop-
ment, Inc., Melbourne, Fla., continues as a
manufacturer of complete machinery sys-
tems for synthetic fiber extrusion. A
member of ASME, Hills also holds about 25
U.S. patents. During his career he was with
Chemstrand Corp., now merged into Mon-
santo, until starting his own business in
1 971 . He headed the development of a
number of fabrics and fibers while with
Monsanto. Bill and his wife have two sons.
Since 1 977, Mel Holmgren has been self
employed with Sitka Electronics Lab.,
marine electronics service and sales, in
Sitka, Alaska. He has also been employed
by the Geophysical Institute of the Univer-
sity of Alaska, FAA of Anchorage, and
Collins Radio Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He
attended Bethel Theological Seminary and
was involved with the Missionary Com-
munication Service. He enjoys hunting,
fishing, boating, housebuilding, church ac-
tivities, and ham radio. The Holmgrens
have seven children. . . . Adrian Horovitz,
vice president of Harwood Mfg. Co., Pro-
vidence, R.I., is president of Temple Sinai in
Cranston, R.I. He has served as president of
the Hamilton Sinai Bowling League and as
vice president of the Rhode Island Jewish
Bowling Congress for two years. Horovitz
and Deborah have two children, Amy, 19,
and Jeffrey, 16. . . . David Hoyle's career
has been in the field of instrumentation
with major emphasis on applied control
system design. He is chief instrument en-
gineer for an engineering contracting firm
in Boston, and has published several papers
on control system design. The Hoyles have
one child out of college; three in college;
and a 10-year-old at home. Restoration of
a 200-year-old house keeps Hoyle busy.

The main hobby for George Idlis is
swimming, a daily activity. He is a swim
meet official and officiates at the high
school and college level in AAU competi-
tion. He works for Storti Associates of
Warwick, R.I., as a management consul-
tant specializing in management recruiting,

"A career change I found both stimulating,
challenging, and rewarding." He had been
with Bethlehem Steel Co., Shipbuilding Di-
vision, and several other companies. His
children are Bonnie, Amy, and Michael. He
is a past PTA president and officer in his
Temple. ... At last count, Ted Jaros had
visited 32 countries concerning prospects
for sales, marketing contracts, licensing
agreements, joint ventures, or wholly
owned foreign investment. Currently, he is
vice president and director of strategic
marketing for the Semiconductor Group of
Motorola, Inc. Other employers have been
Texas Instruments and GE. Daughter Susan
is in her last year of law school; Joe is at
Loyola Marymount; and Andy is a junior in
high school. Jaros' wife Helen is a branch
manager for Southwest Savings & Loan
Corp., Phoenix, and has an MBA from
Arizona State University.

D. Alden Johnson of Sturbridge, Mass.,
vice president of Montgomery Co., Inc. is
also owner of Hickory Ridge Country Club.
Formerly, he was employed by IBM, by
Hornblower & Weeks, Hemphill Noyes,
and by American Optical Co. He is a direc-
tor of the Massachusetts Flower Growers
Association, a corporator of Nonotuck Sav-
ings Bank, president of Sturbridge Basket-
ball League, and is active in church affairs,
and coaching basketball and baseball. He
likes golf and skiing and has an MBA from
AIC. He and wife Pat are the parents of

Paul, 15, and Karl, 14 Presently, Jaak

Jurison holds the post of manager of Digi-
tal Systems. While with what is now
Rockwell International, he designed and
directed the development of several digital
computers for avionics and space systems.
He was associated with Sperry Gyroscope
Co., and IBM's Watson Laboratories. He
has an MSEE from Columbia. For two years
he served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He
is interested in computer architecture, mi-
croprocessors and fault tolerant computer
systems, and has lectured on avionics com-
puters at U.C.L.A. The Jurisons enjoy
Southern California living: "Beaches. Sail-
ing. Tennis."

1957

Secretary:

Dr Robert A Yates

11 Oak Ridge Dr

Bethany, CT

06525

Alex Papianou's daughter is a freshman
electrical engineering major at WPI. . . .
Formerly the operations manager of
Sprague Electric Company's filter division
in North Adams, Mass., Robert Purple was
recently named general manager of
Sprague's thick-film circuit operations in
Nashua, N.H. In 1 958 he joined the firm as
a radio interference filter engineer in Ohio.
Since then, he has held various engineer-
ing, project manager, plant manager, and
marketing posts in the division.

Fall 1979 /The WPI Journal/ 29

IF YOU EVER need to inspect the
interior of a beaver hut, call Donald
A. Cangnan, MS '59. He can help you
out. He once helped the U.S. Depart-
ment of Interior peek into beaver
huts to take a population count.

Carignan is the president of In-
strument Technology, Inc. (ITI), West-
field, Mass., an engineering company
specializing in the design, develop-
ment, and manufacture of remote
viewing instruments and systems.
His firm designed a portable bores-
cope with illumination to assist U.S.
park rangers in their beaver census.

ITI, started in 1973 by Carignan,
manufactures periscopes, telescopes,
borescopes, fiber optic systems, and
closed-circuit TV systems. "Our re-
mote viewing instruments permit the
viewing, inspection, or photographing
of inaccessible objects or objects lo-
cated in a hostile environment," he
explains. Applications for the instru-
ments include viewing into high ra-
diation areas, looking underwater,
and viewing into high and low tem-
perature, highly toxic, or explosive
environments, and into inaccessible
areas.

Prior to founding his company,
Carignan was an engineering man-
ager at American Optical Company,
Southbridge, Mass., and later a senior
engineer at Kollmorgen Corp., Nor-
thampton, Mass. Since 1973, ITI,
which deals primarily with quality
assurance engineers and provides
them with instruments necessary for
visual inspection, has grown from
five to twenty employees. In 1980,
sales are expected to reach $1 mil-
lion. Carignan remains the optical
systems engineer for the company,

30 /The Wl'l journal /Fall 1979

and he is personally responsible for
development of all systems.

A large portion of ITI's business
is with the nuclear industry, which
relies rather extensively on remote
viewing systems for operation and in-
spection. ITI is currently the major
manufacturer of optical systems for
the U.S. and Canadian nuclear indus-
try, and manufactures several items
for export. ITI remote viewing sys-
tems are presently in use in Japan, In-
dia, Pakistan, the Republic of China,
and in several European countries.

The company is also involved in
the breeder reactor program with
Westinghouse, and it has supplied
the special periscopes for the test
reactor (FFTF) at Hanford, Washing-
ton. Knowledge gained in the design
of periscopes for the FFTF will be
used in the first commercial breeder
reactor at Clinch River, Tennessee.

The future growth of the com-
pany, however, may be in its new
borescope instrument line due for re-
lease in January 1980. Borescopes are
long, small-diameter optical instru-
ments used for looking into inaccessi-
ble areas. The airlines and aircraft in-
dustries rely heavily on borescopes
for internal inspection of jet turbine
engines. Under a development con-
tract funded by United Airlines in
1977, ITI developed a special jet en-
gine borescope which is now in use
at all United Airlines service centers.
Other airlines are now purchasing ITI
borescopes because of the experience
gained by United. ITI was recently se-
lected by General Electric and the
U.S. Navy to supply borescopes for
the Navy's new F-18 Hornet aircraft.

Besides serving as president of
ITI, Don Carignan has other profes-
sional interests. He serves as a con-
sultant to Princeton University for
the desing of remote viewing systems
for the Tokamak fusion reactor. In
November he traveled to Vienna,
Austria, to meet with representatives
of the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) to assist in the devel-
opment of international safeguard in-
spection systems. He is a member of
the American Nuclear Society and
current chairman of Sub Group 1 1.5,
which is responsible for setting stan-
dards for remote viewing optical in-
struments. He is also a member of
the American Society for Non-
Destructive Testing, Inc.

Don lives with his wife Jan in
Westfied. His oldest daughter, Dawn,
is married and living in Vermont. His
three other children — Greg, 21; Jeff,
20; and Pamela, 1 8 — are all engi-
neering students at Southeastern
Massachusetts University. "If any one
of them wishes to pursue graduate
work in engineering, I'd like them to
attend WPI." In the meantime, the
boys work for ITI during vacations
and have learned to operate every
lathe and milling machine in the
shop. For the last two years they have
worked on the drawing boards. "It
would be nice to have them join me,
but I'm not pushing it." Pam wants to
combine engineering and architec-
ture.

Because of his engineering back-
ground, Don was appointed to the
Westfield High School Building Com-
mittee in 1970, and he takes pride in
the new school. It took almost six
years to build: four years to get voter
approval, and two years for construc-
tion. Don belonged to Rotary for two
years, but, because of his extensive
traveling, he reluctantly submitted
his resignation.

For relaxation, Carignan is in-
volved in studying World War II in
the Pacific, and his collection of
books on the subject is growing
steadily. His favorite means of relax-
ation, however, is sailing. He charters
a 22-foot boat and sails out of
Westbrook, Conn.

1958

Secretary:
Harry R Rydstrom
132 Sugartown Rd
Devon, PA
19333

Joseph Gill has been elected a school
committee member in Southboro, Mass.,
filling a vacancy caused by a resignation.
He has a master's degree in business admin-
istration from the Wharton School at the
University of Pennsylvania, and is a
member of the advisory committee created
to review the schools' progress in the
state-mandated basic skills program. He is
the president and owner of Vee-Arc Corp.,
a manufacturer of electric motor drives.
The Gills have five children.

1959

Secretary:

Dr Frederick H Lutze, Jr

11 OCamelot Court NW

Blacksburg, VA

24060

Continuing with du Pont, F. William
Famsworth is now plant superintendent in
Victoria, Texas. . . . Lawrence Lavallee, a
senior engineer with RCA, is on a radar field
assignment at Kwajalein Missile Range in
the Marshall Islands. . . . Philip Peirce holds
the post of quality control manager of the

Worcester Group at Wright Machine In

June Joseph Prindle completed 20 years of
service with West Penn Power Company
and became a member of the firm's Veter-
ans' Association. He is division planning
engineer at Keystone Division headquar-
ters near St. Mary's, Pa. In 1959 he joined
West Penn as a cadet engineer at the
Greensburg general office. He became dis-
trict planning engineer at Butler in 1 960,
transferring to Ridgway then St. Mary's the
following year. In 1964 he was promoted
to division planning engineer. He belongs
to the Elks and the American Legion.

i960

Secretary:
Paul W Bayliss
170WyngateDr
Barrtngton, IL
60010

Shepard Brodie is employed as sales man-
ager at Control Signal Corp., Denver, Col-
orado. ... Dr. Armand Ferro has been
appointed manager of the SEF and Elec-
tronic Ballast Program at the GE Research
and Development Center in Schenectady,
N.Y. He now heads a group of engineers
and scientists engaged in developing new
kinds of high-efficiency lighting systems.

Previously, he served as manager of the
Device Physics Unit and had also been
responsible for the development of new
computer programs for simulating the be-
havior of a wide range of power semicon-
ductor devices. He joined GE in 1960 at the
Electronics Laboratory in Syracuse. In 1964
he started work at the Center as an electri-
cal engineer. He has since specialized in the
study of solid state devices for electronic
power control, ranging from consumer to
electric utility applications. As manager of
the Center's Power Module Program, he
specialized in high-speed switching thyris-
tors and new methods for fabricating metal
ceramic substrates for use in hybrid device
assemblies. He has written or co-authored
34 technical publications and holds 1 5 pat-
ents. He has a PhD from RPI, and is a
member of IEEE. He, his wife, and two
children reside in Schenectady.

1961

Secretary:
John J Gabarro
8 Monadnock Rd
Arlington, MA
02174

Kenneth Engvall was recently elected a
selectman in Boylston, Mass. He received
282 of 325 votes cast. Engvall is a civil
engineer and land surveyor at Thompson-
Liston Associates, Inc., Worcester. A
Boylston resident, he has served on the

local finance committee and zoning advi-
sory committee. Also, he has been a coach
and officer with the Little League. He and
his wife Betsy have two children in Boylston
schools.

John Gabarro, an authority on human
behavior in organizations, has been pro-
moted from associate professor to profes-
sor of business administration at the Har-
vard Business School. He holds an MBA and
DBA from Harvard, and joined the Business
School faculty as a research assistant in
1967. Earlier he had spent two years in the
Army Signal Corps, and worked in the
Electronics Division of Corning Glass
Works. Among his recent publications,
some coauthored, are "Socialization at the
Top" in Organizational Dynamics; Inter-
personal Behavior; and "Teaching Inter-
personal Behavior." He is currently writing
a new book about the ways in which new
general managers develop effective work-
ing relationships with key subordinates. A
director of Town and Country, Inc.,
Chelsea, Mass., Gabarro is also a member
of the editorial boards of "Exchange," and
the Public Policy and Management Pro-
gram of the Intercollegiate Case Clearing
House. He belongs to the American
Sociological Association and the Academy
of Management, and is a member and
director of the Organizational Behavior
Teaching Society. His wife, Marilyn, is
chairman of the Department of Design at
Massachusetts College of Art. The Gabar-
ros and their eight-year-old daughter,
Jana, reside in Arlington, Mass.

Morgan R. Rees, '61, of Worcester re-
ceives the Meritorious Civilian Ser-
vice Medal from Colonel John P.
Chandler, head of the New England
Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engi-
neers. Rees, who is chief of the Regu-
latory Branch at Corps headquarters
in Waltham, Mass., was commended

for "outstanding professional ability,
innovative leadership, and unflagging
dedication to purpose." He is now on
loan to Corps headquarters in Wash-
ington, D.C., to assist in reformulat-
ing regulations governing permit
authorities. He and his wife, Janet, are
the parents of one son, Bradley.

Fall 1979 /The WP1 Journal/ 31

m

mm

1962

Secretary:
Harry T Rapelje
1313 Parma Hilton Rd
Hilton, NY
14468

Roland Beauregard works as plant en-
gineer at Glass Container in Dayville, Conn.
... In August, Cdr. Brian O'Connell was
reassigned as head of the Facilities Planning
Dept. in the Western Division of the Naval
Facilities Engineering Command. He is re-
sponsible for facilities planning and real
estate for all Navy and Marine Corps ac-
tivities in the western U.S.

1963

Secretary:

Robert E Maynard, Jr.

8 Institute Rd

North Grafton, MA

01536

Robert Jamaitis has been promoted to
operations manager of Norden Systems, a
subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. in
Norwalk, Conn. He is responsible for man-
aging, planning and coordinating Norden's
manufacturing, engineering, production
and plant engineering programs in Nor-
walk. Most recently, Jamaitis served as
manufacturing manager. Since joining the
firm in 1963, he has also been production
control manager, overhaul and repair
supervisor, and manufacturing engineering
supervisor. He holds an MBA from the
University of Bridgeport. The Jamaitises,
who reside in Trumbull, have three chil-
dren Robert Mellor ran for a three-year

term as road commissioner in Northbridge,
Mass. in May. He is a former road commis-
sioner and chairman of the Board of Ap-
peals. He is a registered professional en-
gineer in Massachusetts and a manager for
New England Power Service Co.

1964

Secretary:

Dr. David T Signori, Jr

6613 Denny PI.

McLean, VA

22101

Robert Lottero's company, Power Man-
agement Systems of Woodsville, N.H., has
been awarded a Scientific Atlanta franchise
for selling and installing its Hotel-Motel
Energy Management System in New
Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. Lottero is
a co-founder of the firm, which is con-
cerned with the conservation and man-
agement of electrical energy. Power Man-
agement provides a consulting service in
the commercial-industrial electrical energy
market, with Lottero being primarily con-
cerned with the consulting and engineer-

ing. Previously, he worked ten years as
assistant electrical engineer for Public Ser-
vice and two years as an independent
consulting engineer specializing in utility
work.

1965

Donald Carlson recently was elected a
director of NSK-Torrington Co., an 18-
year-old joint venture for the manufacture
of roller bearings. . . . Still with W. R. Grace
& Co., Leonard Feldman is now plant man-
ager in the Construction Products Division
in Jacksonville, Fla. . . . William Hopkins
has been elected a vice president of Stone
& Webster Management Consultants, Inc.,
New York City. He will have project man-
agement and marketing responsibilities in
relation to the company's consulting ser-
vices in the rates and regulatory areas.
Working at Stone & Webster since 1967,
Hopkins has been involved in numerous
assignments with gas and electric utilities in
the preparation and presentation of rate
cases. Presently, his responsibilities include
rates and regulatory studies with gas
utilities in three Canadian provinces and
work with DOE. Earlier, he was with New
England Gas & Electric Co. in Mas-
sachusetts. He has studied business admin-
istration at NYU Graduate School of Busi-
ness Administration. The Hopkinses and
their children, Carol and Richard, enjoy
summering on Westport Island, Me., and
taking backpacking trips in the mountains.
Continuing with IBM, Michael Oliver, is
now an advisory programmer and has
technical responsibility for one of IBM's
data entry systems. Last year he and his
family spent six months in the Netherlands
on a business assignment. They lived near
Amsterdam, and traveled throughout
Europe. "We thoroughly enjoyed our
stay." . . . Thomas Pease has received a
PhD in oceanography from New York Uni-
versity. . . . William Wyman has accepted a
transfer to Cairo, Ga. with the Torrington
Co.

1967

Secretary

John L Kilguss

5 Summershade Circle

Piscataway, NJ

08854

William Carboni recently became an as-
sociate of the Spink Corporation, a leading
engineering and architectural firm in Sac-
ramento, Calif. He and his wife Charlene
have an 1 1 -year-old daughter, Jennifer —
Joe Cieplak now works as a proposal en-
gineer for the Wilson Instrument Division
of ACCO Industries in Bridgeport, Conn.
He writes all proposals for custom-
engineered hardness testing systems. . . .
Allen Ikalainen has been appointed chief of
the Special Permit Development Section,
Permits Branch, of the Enforcement Divi-
sion, EPA-Region 1 , in Boston. Also, he was
elected to the board of managers of the
Village Condominium Association in
Watertown, Mass. . . . Currently, Roy
Lindquist, is a senior R&D engineer at
Glitsch, Inc. in Dallas, Texas. He serves as
secretary of the Dynamic Systems Control
Division, ASME. The Lindquists and their

two children reside in Richardson, Texas

Jonathan Worthley left the Air Force last
year and is presently a member of the
technical staff of the MITRE Corporation in
the Bus Network Systems Department.

1968

Secretary
Charles A Griffin
2901 Municipal Pier Rd
Shreveport, LA
71119

^■Married: Robert V. Gemmer and Miss
Claudia A. Bloomfield in East Lyme, Con-
necticut on June 23, 1979. Mrs. Gemmer,
who holds a BS in nursing from the Univer-
sity of Connecticut, is employed by the East
Lyme Nursing Association. The groom is a
chemist in Branford. He has a doctor's
degree from Stanford University.

Michael Babin is now registered as a
professional engineer in California. . . .
Victor Calabretta has been named assistant
vice president at CE Maguire, Inc., Provi-
dence, R.I. He serves as manager of
Maguire's Civil and Marine Division and is
responsible for world-wide port and ocean
engineering projects, as well as those on
the Eastern Seaboard. Other respon-
sibilities include dams, flood control, and
heavy civil works. With Maguire since
1 971 , Calabretta holds an MSCE degree
from WPI. Earlier, he was an officer in the
Civil Engineer Corps, U.S. Navy. He is a
registered professional engineer, and be-
longs to ASCE, SAME, and the Society of
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.
The Calabrettas live in Jamestown, R.I. with
Christopher, 4, and Katherine, 1 .

32 /The WPI journal / Fall 1979

Kenneth Crawford works for Pennwalt
Corp. in Belville, N.J Robert Demers has

a new position as staff assistant, Division of
Pulmonary Medicine, at the University of
Massachusetts Medical Center in Worces-
ter. He also serves as an instructor in
medicine at the Medical School. . . . Ken-
neth Gminski received his MBA from Rivier
College, Nashua, N.H., which he attended
nights for four years. He is still a senior
resident field engineer in New Hampshire
for Factory Mutual Engineering. . . . David
Cradwell continues with IBM, and is an
industry administrator in White Plains, N.Y.
. . . Walter Sackmann holds the post of fluid
power specialist at Hydro Air of Conn. , Inc. ,
in North Haven.

1969

Secretary:
James P. Atkinson
41 Naples Rd
Brookline, MA
02146

>Born: to Mr. and Mrs. David Zlotek their
second daughter, Katherine, in March. Pat-
ricia is three. Zlotek is president and co-
owner of Hampshire Electronic, Inc. in New
Hampshire.

Andrew DiLeo works as a structural en-
gineer with Glenn Consultants in Phoenix,
Arizona. . . . Joseph Fitzgerald, Jr., a regis-
tered professional engineer, is presently a
project engineer at Matrix Engineering,
Inc. He and Shirley are the parents of Erin
Elizabeth. . . . John Poblocki has been
appointed director of economic develop-
ment of the Blackstone Valley Chamber of
Commerce, Pawtucket, R.I. Since last Sep-
tember he has been serving as industrial
development specialist. Previously, he has
been director of the Department of Plan-
ning and Development for the City of
Woonsocket. He will also now serve as
project manager for the Second Pawtucket
Area Industrial Development Foundation,
Inc.

1970

Secretary:

F. David Ploss III

208 St. Nicholas Ave

Worcester, MA

01606

^■Married: Paul A. Akscyn and Gail L. Spies
on May 26, 1979. Mrs. Akscyn graduated
from the University of Houston. She is a
legal assistant for Fullbright and Jaworski.
Her husband is a senior instrumentation
engineer for Litwin Corp., Houston, Texas.
W. Todd Akin has been appointed to the
position of assistant superintendent of
maintenance and construction at Laclede
Steel Company's Alton, III. steelworks. He
joined the company last year. Prior to that,
he was with IBM. . . . Mark Gemborys
received his PhD in chemistry from
Dartmouth College in June. From 1970-
1972 he was a first lieutenant in the U.S.
Army stationed at Fort Ord, Calif. Currently
he is working in association with Dr. Gilbert
Mudge in the department of pharmacol-
ogy at Dartmouth Medical School,
Hanover, N.H. He, his wife Janet and chil-
dren, Nicole, 6, and Brian, 4, reside in West
Lebanon.

1971

Secretary
Vincent T. Pace
4707 Apple Lane
WestDeptford, NJ
08066

^■Married: Ralph H. Reddick to Meredith
A. Cooper on May 20, 1 979 in Kalamazoo,
Michigan. Mrs. Reddick graduated from
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y.,
and has completed one year of graduate
work. The bridegroom has a bachelor's
degree in music from the University of
Connecticut, and a master's degree from
Eastman School of Music. They have both
signed a two-year contract to perform with
the Caracas (Venezuela) Symphony or-
chestra — the bride as a cellist and the
groom as a string bassist.

>Born: to Dr. and Mrs. Douglas E.
Holmes a son, Matthew Douglas. Having
received his PhD in materials science and
engineering from MIT, Holmes now works
at Hughes Research Labs in Malibu, Calif.,
where he is investigating lll-V compound
semiconductors. ... to Paul and Nancy
Wood Popinchalk, 73, their second son,
Samuel. (Seth is three).) Paul is with Val-
mont Energy Systems working in solar en-
ergy. Nancy is a "full-time" mother.

Daniel Donahue has received his mas-
ter's in engineering from Tufts University
School of Engineering. . . . John Giordano
has joined Hospital Trust National Bank,
where he is management science officer in
the Automated Information Department.

He is responsible for the new management
science section, which supports the bank in
quantitative decision making. He has an
MBA from the University of Rhode Island,
and previously was with the Old Stone
Bank in Providence. . . . Last spring Walter
Jensen, Jr., was named by the student
body at Central New England College,
Worcester, as the 1 979 recipient of the
Excellence in Teaching Award. The award is
based on knowledge of subject material,
presentation techniques, practical applica-
tion, and personal assistance to students.
Jensen has taught courses in physics,
chemistry, engineering, and mathematics
at CNEC for 24 years. He is graduate of
McGill University and holds a master's
degree from WPI. A member of the Math-
ematics Association of America, he also
belongs to the American Mathematical
Society and the Mathematics Association
of Two-Year Colleges in Massachusetts.

R. Daniel Jimenez, who has a PhD from
the University of Texas, continues with
ITESM Physics Dept, Sucursal de Correos

"J", Monterrey, Mexico Chia-Soon Ku

is a senior chemical engineer in the National
Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C —
Dana Worthley works for the Fram Corpo-
ration, East Providence, R.I. in product field
testing.

1972

Secretary:

John A Woodward

101 Putnam St

Orange, MA

01364

John Kaletski has been named manager of
industrial engineering at Clairol's Stamford
(Conn.) manufacturing facility. Since join-
ing the firm in 1972, he has served as
supervisor of aerosols and department
head of sundries packaging. Presently, he is
working for his MBA at the University of
Bridgeport. . . . Still with Power
Technologies, Inc., Timothy Laskowski
currently resides in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. . . .
Ted Martin serves a technical service repre-
sentative for MacDermid of Waterbury,
Conn. . . . David Meyer is certified and a
member of the American Production &
Inventory Control Society. He is a consul-
tant at Rath & Strong, Inc., Lexington,
Mass.

Glenn Mortoro received an MBA from
Bryant College in May. He has an MSME
from the University of Connecticut, and is
employed as an equipment engineer by
Texas Instruments. . . . Richard Sojka is the
new manager of production for the day
shift at Clairol's Stamford (Conn.) facility
He is responsible for production of all of
Clairol's products in the Stamford plant.
Earlier, he was senior project engineer;
department head of receiving, warehous-
ing and inventory control; and department
head of oxidation packaging. He started
work at Clairol in 1972.

Fall 1 979 / The WPI journal I I

1973

Secretary
lay I. Schnitzer
322 St. Paul St
Apt. #3
Brookline, MA
02146

^■Married: Richard W. Graham and Lynne
D. Grossmith on May 12, 1979 in Foxboro,
Massachusetts. The bride graduated from
Westbrook College, and is a secretary at
Norwood Hospital. The groom works as
branch manager for Old Colony Bank and
Trust Co., Medfield, Mass.

>Bom: to Mr. and Mrs. Roger Lavallee
their first child, Michelle Marie, last Sep-
tember. Presently, Roger is an actuarial
studies specialist in the Life Division of
Aetna Life and Casualty in Hartford, Conn.
His duties include competitive studies,
monitoring insurance replacement activity,
new product development, and analysis of
state and federal life insurance regulations
and their effects on company business.

Joyce Caplovich is employed as a consul-
tant with Comptech, Computer & Man-
agement Services, East Hartford, Conn. . . .
Philip Mazzola is a process engineer at du
Pont, Chambers Works-elastomers, in
Deepwater, N.J. He is a professional en-
gineer in Delaware. He and his wife May
live in Wilmington. . . . Paul Parulis, a senior
operations engineer at General
Dynamics-Electric Boat, has been elected
to the Water and Sewer Commission in
Waterford, Conn. ... Dr. Thomas
Szymanski is working for Exxon's Research
and Development Laboratory in Baton
Rouge, La., where he is concerned with
basic fuels research. He holds an MS and
PhD in inorganic chemistry from North-
western University, Evanston, III. . . . Steve
Turo serves as a process development en-
gineer at Fiber Industries in Greenville, S.C.

1974

Secretary
James F. Rubino
18 Landings Way
Avon Lake, OH
44012

^Married: Jeffrey C. Lindberg and Kath-
leen M. Loughrey in Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts on May 12, 1979. Mrs.
Lindberg, a registered nurse, graduated
from St. Vincent Hospital School of Nursing
and Worcester State College. Her husband
has an MSME from WPI, and is with Norton
Co., Worcester.

>Born: to Lt. and Mrs. James Asaro a
son, James Michael, Jr. last November.
Asaro, who was recently promoted to
lieutenant in the Navy, has been desig-
nated a patrol plane commander in the P3C
aircraft. This October he is being trans-
ferred to NAS, Milton, Fla. to become a
flight instructor in the Naval Training
Command. ... to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Woodfall a son, Justin, on November 2,
1978. Woodfall is a production control
manager at Texas Instruments in Attleboro,
Mass.

Jonathan Barnett is with Firepro, Inc.,
Wellesley Hills, Mass. . . . James Carr, Jr.
continues as a partner in H. Carr & Sons,
Inc., Providence, R.I., a $6 million a year,
diversified wall and ceiling firm. . . . John
Fellows serves as a senior product engineer
at Peabody Process Systems in Stamford,
Conn. . . . Currently, David Gerth works for
Arthur Andersen & Co. as a management
consultant in the Administrative Services
Division. He has an MBA from Amos Tuck
School at Dartmouth College.

Richard Ludorf continues as an engineer
associate at Duke Power Co., Charlotte,
N.C. . . . David Teixeira is assistant project
engineer at Gilbane Building Co., Provi-
dence, R.I. . . . Stephen Thibodeau recently
graduated from the University of
Washington in Seattle with a PhD degree in
biochemistry. He will pursue post-
doctorate studies in research at the Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, Minn. . . . Robert
Trotter started as the PROCO injector de-
sign engineer in engine engineering at the
Ford Motor Company in Michigan last
February. He had been a senior engineer at
American Bosch Division of AMBAC Indus-
tries in Springfield, Mass. His wife Robin is
the confidential secretary to the president
at Anchor Motor Freight.

1975

Secretary

James D Aceto, Jr.
70Sunnyview Dr.
Vernon, CT
06066

^Married: 1/Lt. Paul Bianchet and Patricia
M. Burns on May 5, 1979 at Pittsburgh
(N.Y.) Air Force Base. Mrs. Bianchet
graduated from Our Lady of Victory Secre-
tarial School, Plattsburgh, and is a civilian
secretary at Plattsburgh AFB. The groom is
assigned to the 380th Civil Engineering
Squadron at the base. . . . Joseph T.
DelPonte to Judy McKinney on January 27,
1979. The bridgegroom is a physicist-
engineer at Boeing Wichita Co. in Kansas.

. . . Samuel J. Hutchinson and Miss Mayling
Ju on June 2, 1979 in Marlboro, Mas-
sachusetts. The bride is a senior at Fra-
mingharp State and attended Emmanuel
College and Boston State College. She is a
senior computer operator for the software
development group at Digital Equipment
Corp. in Marlboro. Her husband, who at-
tended Bentley College, is in the commod-
ity resource accounting administration for
the corporate data centers of Digital in
Maynard.

>Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Michael J.
Dudas, a son, Michael John Dudas, Jr., on
Junel, 1979.

Michael Aspinwall is planning manager
at FMC Corp., Philadelphia. He has an
MBA from the University of Chicago. . . .
Bruce Chamberlin has transferred from the
Photo Products Department to the Textile
Fibers Department as an R&D engineer at
du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware. He and
his wife Susan reside in Seaford. . . . Bruce
Croft was awarded a doctor of podiatric
medicine in May at the Illinois College of
Podiatric Medicine in Chicago. He was also
awarded a Class of 1979 Service Award,
and is a member of Kappa Tau Epsilon.
Presently, he is in a podiatric residency
program at Hines Veterans Administration
Hospital, Hines, Illinois.

William Cunningham has joined the
Electronics Corporation of America, Cam-
bridge, as the manager of systems applica-
tion engineering. The firm manufactures
burner management systems which
monitor and control steam generators for
utilities and industries. Formerly, Cunning-
ham was a project engineer with Foster
Wheeler Energy Corporation in Livingston,
N.J. He holds an MS from WPI, an MBA
from Western New England College, a BS
from Northeastern and an associate degree
from Worcester Junior College. . . . Re-
cently, Dr. Francis Kiernan received his
degree in medicine from the University of
Connecticut. He is now in a residency
program in internal medicine at Hartford
(Conn.) Hospital. . . . Richard Mariano
serves as process analyst at Gillette in An-
dover, Mass.

Donald Taddia is a senior staff engineer
in the Allegheny County Department of
Aviation at the Greater Pittsburgh (Pa.)
International Airport. He is a registered
land surveyor in Pennsylvania. . . . Paul
Varadian has left the corporate staff of
Texas Instruments, Inc. to form Landmark
Properties, a real estate brokerage and
development firm operating out of New-
ton, Mass. The firm is actively engaged in
the brokerage of commercial, industrial,
and investment property; selling and trad-
ing of existing businesses; and the reloca-
tion and expansion of major corporations.
Recently, Landmark Properties has entered
the development field, specifically in the
rehabilitation of older structures through-
out New England into residential and
commercial usage. . . . Stephen Werner is
employed as senior engineer at Boeing
Wichita in Wichita, Kansas.

34 /The WPI Journal /Fall 1979

1976

Secretary:

Paula E Stratouly

318 Thornberry Court

Pittsburgh, PA

15237

^■Married: Gary Chabot and Cathy L.

Honeycutton June 2, 1979 in George,

Utah. The bride, a student at Del Mar
Junior College, is employed at Revett Air
Conditioning. The groom is with Corpus
Christi Petro Chemical in Texas. . . . Earl T.
Chapman and Marie R. Prizzi in New York
on May 19, 1979. Mrs. Chapman holds
degrees from Alfred University and
Nazareth College, and is employed by the
East Rochester School District. Her hus-
band is at Eastman Kodak. . . . Walter X.
ZukasandPaulaJ. BelaironJune30, 1979
in Worcester. Mrs. Zukas, a software en-
gineer at Sander's Associates, Nashua,
N.H., is also a graduate student at the
University of Lowell. Her husband is in the
graduate program at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.

Robert Barnes, Jr. is a research engineer
at American Cyanamid in Stamford, Conn.

. . Stephen and Noreen Pirog Borys are
both employed by Exxon in Houston,
Texas. Stephen holds the post of senior
technical analyst at Exxon Co. USA, and
Noreen serves as a design engineer for
Exxon Pipeline Co. . . . Jeffrey Burek cur-
rently works for GE in Lynn, Mass. He and
his wife Mary Ann (McDonald) Burek,

Becker, 75, reside in Maynard Randall

Emerson works as a technical representa-
tive at Kemper Insurance Co., North
Quincy, Mass. . . . Walter Grandfield con-
tinues with Motorola in Plantation, Fla. . . .
Jeff Gravdahl is a sales representative at A.
MOE & Co., Inc., Philadelphia, Pa. . . . Ross
Greenberg has been accepted at medical
school and will be attending the State
University of New York at Buffalo.

John Highman now works for Analogies,
Inc., Wakefield, Mass. as an assembly lan-
guage programmer. . . . Continuing with
Kodak, Paul Jacques is presently assigned
as a project engineer in the machine design
development group. . . . Since April, John
Maxouris has been concerned with sys-
tems at United Jersey Bank. He also
coaches and plays with the New York
Astros, a semi-pro soccer team in New

York Phil McNamara, still with Electric

Boat-General Dynamics, continues as a nu-
clear shift test engineer. . . . James Russo is
a project manager at Charles Jewett Corp.,
Glastonbury, Conn.

1977

Secretary

Kathleen Molony

Apt #1

29 Seavlew Ave

Norwalk. CT

06855

^■Married: Allen F. Apel to Miss Jayne F.
Lewis in Beacon, New York recently. Mrs.
Apel graduated from Clarkson College of
Technology and is a programmer-analyst
at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford,
Conn., where her husband is also a
programmer-analyst. . . . David R. Bolin
and Miss Jill E. Holmanon June 16, 1979 in
Hopkinton, Massachusetts. The bride
graduated from Becker and Bentley Col-
lege. Her husband is studying for his
doctorate in chemistry at MIT. . . . Gerard
M. Chase to Cynthia M. Hastings in Suf-
field, Connecticut on May 5, 1979. Mrs.
Chase is a graduate of Hartford State Tech-
nical College She is employed by United
Illuminating Co., New Haven, as a technical
assistant in the ME department. The bride-
groom, also employed by United Illuminat-
ing (Bridgeport), is a results laboratory
supervisor. . . . Joseph J. Kilarand Nancy I.
Schattner recently in Peabody, Mas-
sachusetts. The bride is a Becker graduate
and is employed as a medical assistant in
Salem. Her husband works forTurner Con-
struction Co., Boston. . . Mark W. Popham
and Miss Brenda L. MacEwen on May 12,
1979 in Athol, Massachusetts. Mrs.
Popham graduated from Athol High School
and is in the sales department at L. S.
Starrett Co. The groom is an environmental
engineer for Cullinan Engineering of Au-
burn

Chris Cocaine now works as a mechan-
ical consulting engineer in the Machinery

Division of USM Corp. in Beverly, Mass

Charles Dreyfus III is studying for his mas-
ter's and doctorate degrees in the mathe-
matics department at the University of
Colorado at Boulder, where he also
teaches. . . . George Harding serves as an
environmental engineer with the EPA in
Region I, Boston, and attends Suffolk Law

School at night In May, Thomas Killeen

was promoted from assistant property con-
sultant to property consultant at Employers
Insurance of Wausau. . . . Jim Leary, a
transportation planner in Worcester, has
created Worcester's first comic strip,
"Common People," which appears in
Worcester Magazine. . . . Gary Loeb serves
as assistant to the superintendent of Niag-
ara Mohawk's Albany steam plant. He is a
senior deacon of Washington Lodge (Ma-
sons) in Albany . . Joan Lyshak Roy has
been named systems analyst in the data
processing group of Bay State Abrasives,
Westboro, Mass. Previously, she was a
programmer-analyst at the American
Mathematical Society in Providence,
Rl Scott Saftler holds the post of
technical representative in the Cambridge,

Mass. office of National CSS. He writes,
"Some of my customers include old class-
mates at WPI (Amy Schneider), and a
former professor in the computer science
department, Dennis Barlow."

1978

Secretary;
Cynthia Grynick
303 Wolcott St
Waterbury, CT
06705

^-Married: Constance M. Cunningham

and Brian M. Grenda on July 7, 1979. Mrs.
Grenda, who is at the University of Lowell,
is employed by Raytheon Co. Her husband
graduated from Lowell Technological Insti-
tute and is a senior industrial engineer at

Raytheon in Andover Ronald E. Fish

and Miss MarcyB. EldenonJune3, 1979in
Swampscott, Massachusetts. The bride has
a BA in social work from Fairleigh Dickinson
University, Teaneck, N.J. Formerly with
Metritape, Inc., Concord, Mass., the bride-
groom is now an engineer with Boeing Co.
located at Edwards Air Force Base in
California. . . . David T. Hawley and Martha
A. Gross in Thomaston, Maine on May 26,
1979. Mrs. Hawley graduated from the
University of Southern Maine. Her hus-
band serves as vice president of Howard
Products in Worcester.

Robert P. Lavieri II and Miss Kathleen M.
Grant in Worcester on June 9, 1979 The
bride is a student at Boston University. The
groom is manufacturing manager for Proc-
ter & Gamble in Quincy, Mass Steven

R. Mickool to Lauren M. Heath on May 26,
1979 in Manchester, Connecticut. Mrs.
Mickool graduated from Manchester High
School and is an engineering secretary. Her
husband works for Pratt & Whitney in
Connecticut. . Robert H. Warburton, Jr.
and Kathleen A. Fitzgerald, 79 on June 30,
1 979 in West Springfield, Mass. The groom
is with Babcock and Wilcox in Denver,
Colorado.

William Christian serves in the Peace
Corps and is with the Water Development
Department in Kahamega, Kenya. His wife,
Susan, teaches in Kahamega General Hos-
pital. Henry Daley is a teaching assistant
at the University of Arizona in Tucson. .
Buffalo Forge Co., Pumps Division, of
North Tonawanda, NY., has employed
Richard Egerton as a project engineer. . . .
David Fisher has joined The Trane Com-
pany's Commercial Air Conditioning Divi-
sion at the Roanoke, Va. sales office. He
recently completed the six-month Trane
Graduate Engineer Training Program,
which concentrates on specialized heat
transfer theory and practice as well as
in-depth coverage of company products.
Trane is a leading manufacturer of air con-
ditioning, refrigeration, and heat transfer
equipment for commercial, residential, in-
dustrial, transport and special process ap-
plications and has facilities worldwide.

Full 1979 /The WPI Journal/ 3.5

James Fowler is an engineer-in-training at
Naval Sea Systems Command in the De-
partment of the Navy, Washington, DC.

Peter Hayden spoke on leadership and
service at the Athol (Mass.) High School
annual Honor Society banquet in May. He
was president of the local chapter in
1973-74. . Erik Hedberg is studying for
his MS in science at the University of
Miami. . . . Sandra Hoyle has joined Digital
Equipment Corp., Tewksbury, Mass. as a
product support engineer. . . . Amy Hunter
is an associate financial analyst in field
engineering at Data General Corp. in
Westboro, Mass. . . . Kenneth King has
been promoted to assistant engineer in the
Western Division at the Public Service
Company of New Hampshire in Keene.
Formerly, he was an assistant engineer in
the general engineering office. The Kings
have one daughter, and have moved to
Keene from Manchester. . . W. Charles
McCovern works as an electrical engineer
at Raytheon Co. in Sudbury, Mass. . . . John
Melillo, Jr. is also at Raytheon in Sudbury
. . . John Moulton is with Robert Bosch,
Bamberg, West Germany.

Wayne Noss is on the research staff at
MIT. . . . Sergej Ochrimenko is employed
by Spencer White & Prentis, Hackensack,
N.J. . . . Richard Ruscito serves as a chemi-
cal engineer at the U.S. Naval Ordnance
Station in Indian Head, Maryland. . . . John
Zimmer received a letter of commendation
from the general manager of Westing-
house' Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory re-
garding his outstanding efforts during the
Three Mile Island incident. The letter
stated: "This was a very difficult and crucial
period and the outstanding efforts of
people like you help Westinghouse and the
Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory maintain
their fine reputation in the nuclear indus-
try." A commendation letter was also sent
to Bettis by Admiral H. G. Rickover of the
Department of Energy who said, "It was an
outstanding job." John is with the reactor
servicing A4W project, West Mifflin, Pa.
During the Three Mile Island incident he
was on the Task Force which drained
flammable gases back into the contain-
ment building and separated them for dis-
charge and decontamination.

1979

^■Married: John A. Auger and Sarah Bow-
den on July 1 , 1 979 in Worcester. The bride
is a Becker graduate. The groom is with
Parker-Hannifin in Ravenna, Ohio. . . .
Philip J. Cameron III and Miss Robin A.
Masciadrelli on June 9, 1979 in Westfield,
Massachusetts. Mrs. Cameron graduated
from Becker. Her husband has joined
Clairol in Stamford, Conn. . . . Miss Diane E.
Curren to the Rev. David Bird in Connect-
icut on June 9, 1 979. The groom graduated
from St. David's College, Wales, and Gen-
eral Theological Seminary, New York City.
. . . Jeffrey S. Duhaime and Miss Amy E.
Somers in Waterbury, Connecticut on June
30, 1979. The bride goes to Fairfield Uni-
versity. Her husband is a test engineer at
Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, Conn. . . .
Thomas N. Falls and Nancy J. Disbrow in
Milford, Connecticut on June 9, 1979. Mrs.
Falls holds an AS degree in informational
systems from Quinnipiac College. The
bridegroom is design engineer at
Kimberly-Clark, Neenah, Wise. . . . Michael
G. Gallerani to Miss Sharon Goodwin in
Connecticut on June 16, 1979. The bride
graduated from Barrington College in
Rhode Island and has, until recently, been
employed as associate in admissions at the
college. Her husband is in manufacturing
management at General Electric in Oberlin,
Ohio. . . . Lawrence C. Hughes, Jr. and
Ginnie L. Young on April 21, 1979 in
Webster, Massachusetts. Mrs. Hughes
graduated from Bartlett High School. Her
husband is a laboratory research technician
for United Technologies Research Center,
East Hartford, Conn. . . . Philip H. Turek
and Susan M. Easley in Manchester, Con-
necticut on June 16, 1979. Mrs. Turek is a
Becker graduate. The groom works for
Parker-Hannifin in Ohio.

John Arnold presently acts as a consul-
tant at Interactive Systems, Inc. in Boston.
He is a trustee of the Westborough Public
Library. . . . David Bachiochi holds the post
of scientific programmer with Pratt &
Whitney Aircraft Group in Hartford, Conn.
. . . David Bergeron is with Leominster
(Mass.) Tool Co., Inc. . . . Francis Biagiarelli
is employed by the Petroleum Services
Group of Dresser Industries, Inc., Houston,
Texas. . . . Presently, Paul Blackmer works
as a manufacturing management trainee at

GE Joan Bolduc has been employed by

Procter & Gamble at the Winton Hill Tech-
nical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. . . . Keith
Bonn works as a design engineer in the
Commercial Products Division at Pratt &
Whitney Aircraft. . . . Allen Buchinski
serves as a research assistant in the ME
department at WPI. . . . Paul Burgarella is
with Sprague Electric in Worcester. . . .
Stephen Capoto has joined GE as a sales
engineer. . . . Joseph Carbone is a senior
design engineer at Teradyne in Boston.

Joseph Carrolo has joined Hewlett-
Packard, Lexington, Mass., as a staff en-
gineer. He belongs to the Unity Athletic
Club. . . . Currently, Wallace Catanach III is
an experimental engineer at Warner &
Swasey in Worcester. . . . Karen Chesney
holds the post of operations supervisor at
AT & T Long Lines, Freehold, N.J. . . . C.
James Cook is a software engineer at Prime
Computer, Inc., Newton, Mass. . . . Albert
Cormier serves as a technical representa-
tive for Kemper Insurance in North Quincy,
Mass. . . . Charles Cox is in research and
engineering at Eastman Kodak. . . . Philip
Cullin, Jr. has been employed by the
Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard as an
electrical engineer. . . . Kevin Doherty and
John Fitzgerald are management trainees
at P. J. Stella, Wakefield, Mass. . . . Judith
Dorkin works as a staff assistant in network
distribution at the Southern New England
Telephone Co. in Hamden, Conn. . . .
Sandra Dorr was recently named as assist-
ant programmer for IBM at Middletown
Navy Base in Rhode Island. . . . Steven
Drawe has been employed as a chemical

process engineer at Eastman Kodak Co

M. Beth Driscoll holds the post of opera-
tions supervisor in the management devel-
opment program at AT&T Long Lines in

Springfield, Mass Mary Dunn has been

employed by Digital Equipment Co., Col-
orado Springs, Colorado.

LFE Corporation, Waltham, Mass. has
tapped William Englemann as a project
engineer. . . . Mary Farren serves as a junior
engineer at IBM in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. . . .
David Ford works for Bernard Johnson,
Inc., in Washington, D.C. . . . Louis Fras-
cotti is a technical representative at Kemper
Insurance Co., North Quincy, Mass. . . .
Arthur Girard is a neighborhood coor-
dinator for the Memorial Square Citizens
Council in Springfield, Mass. . . . Kevin
Grealish works as a structural engineer at
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford,
Conn. . . . Donald Griglack is now a process
engineer at American Cyanamid's Fortier
Plant in Westwego, La. . . . Daniel
Grossman works for Cambridge Telecom-
munications, Inc., Burlington, Mass. Heisa
systems engineer in the software group —
Kirk Gustafson serves as a power plant

analyst at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft The

Trane Co., Lacrosse, Wise, has employed

Robert Hart Suzanne Hess is a technical

sales representative with Exxon of Hous-
ton, Texas Robert Howe holds the post

of design engineerat Hamilton Standard in
Windsor Locks, Conn.

36 /The WPI journal / Fall 1979

John Jacobson is with GE in Lynn, Mass.
. . . Paul Keary is employed as a field
engineer at Shell Oil Company in Houston.
. . . Currently, Paul Keenan is with GE.
Previously, he had been a self-employed
house painting contractor. . . . James Kel-
leher is with IBM, Newport, R.I. . . . Daniel
Kennefick serves as a project engineer at
du Pont's Louisville (Ky.) Works. . . . Andre
Labrecque works as a production planner
at Armstrong Cork in Lancaster, Pa. . . .
American Hospital Supply Corp., Miami,
Fla., has hired Terry Langevin as an as-
sociate engineer in the Dade Division. . . .
Stephen Laskowski has been named an
estimator at Westcott Construction Co. in
North Attleboro, Mass. . . . David Mangini
is employed as a staff engineer in Network
Operations at Southern New England
Telephone Co. in New Haven, Conn. . . .
Larry Marino is with AT&T in Worcester.
. . . Alfred Marotta holds the position of
electronic engineer at Griffiss AFB in Rome,
NY. . . . Christopher Mather has been
appointed staff engineer at Hewlett-
Packard Company in Syracuse, N.Y. . . .
Mark McCabe works as a project superin-
tendent at Ernest Guigli and Sons, Inc.,
Wellesley, Mass. . . . Michael McDonald is
an engineering field representative in In-
dustrial Risk Insurers in Hartford, Conn. . . .
Paul McKeown serves as an associate en-
gineer at Westinghouse Bettis Atomic

Power Lab., West Mifflin, Pa John

Meader has been employed by Dewberry,
Nealon & Davis in Vienna, Va. . . . James
Michaud holds the post of technical repre-
sentative in the HPR Department at

KemperGroup in Syracuse, N.Y Jeffery

Mills is a graduate student in the ME
Department at Duke University, Durham,
N.C.

Carl Nyerick works as an associate en-
gineer at Westinghouse Bettis Atomic
Power Laboratory in West Mifflin, Pa. . . .
David Ofcarcik has been named a field
engineer at GE in Wellesley, Mass. . . .
Bharvi Parikh is employed in the QYX
Division of Exxon in Lionville, Pa. . . . Keith
Payea has joined Paratronics, Inc., San
Jose, Calif — Richard Perry is an industrial
engineer with the Torrington Co. in Con-
necticut. . . . Michael Poirier teaches in the

Peace Corps in Kenya Daniel Pouliot is

a management trainee at New England
Telephone, Framingham, Mass. . . .
Michael Rafa has accepted a position with
Westinghouse in conjunction with the
company's graduate placement program.
. . . Robert Reed is in engineering and
production management in the central di-
vision of U.S. Steel in Gary, Indiana. . . .
Gordon Reynolds, Jr. has joined KVB, an air
pollution consulting firm in Hartsdale, N.Y.
He is a consulting engineer. . . . Laurent
Rheault works as a field service engineer at
Babcock & Wilcox Co., New York City

Tom Rockwood holds the post of team
manager at Procter & Gamble Paper Prod-
ucts Co., Mehoopany, Pa. . . . Phillip Roux
is with QYX, a Division of Exxon Enterprises
in Lionville, Pa. . . . Kenneth Roy has joined
Honeywell's Marketing Operation in Bil-
lerica, Mass., where he is a minicomputer
analyst. In his new post he analyzes techni-
cal product information and provides sales
support to the marketing operation. Roy
has an MSCS from WPI. . . . Currently,
Philip Rubin is a research assistant at WPI.
. . . Stephen Rusckowski is in production
management at Procter & Gamble,
Quincy, Mass.

Ensign Robert Sachuf, USN, is assistant
public works officer in charge of construc-
tion at the Naval Communication Station in
Stockton, Calif. He belongs to the Ameri-
can Nuclear Society, the National Society of
Professional Engineers, Society of Ameri-
can Military Engineers, and ASME. . . .
Sanford Selman has been appointed an
associate engineer at Potomac Electric
Power Co., Washington, DC. . . . Peter
Simonson has accepted a position with
Sanders Associates, Inc., Nashua, N.H. . . .
Pratt & Whitney of West Palm Beach, Fla.
has employed Joseph Spinn as an analytic
engineer in the Government Products Divi-
sion. . . . Jeffrey Stickles is currently a
manufacturing management trainee at GE
in Erie, Pa. . . . Beth Stone holds a post
concerned with optics at IBM Corp. in
East Fishkill, N.Y. . . . David Szkutak
serves as a process supervisor at Procter &
Gamble Mfg. Co., St. Bernard, Ohio. . . .
George Tompsett III is with Hamilton Stan-
dard in Windsor Locks, Conn., where he is

an associate engineer in manufacturing

Susan Turner is presently at Cornell Univer-
sity working for her MS in geotechnical
engineering. . . . Frank Urbanski works as a
process engineer at Stauffer Chemical Co.,
Delaware City, Del. . . . Harold Watts, Jr. is
a design engineer at Harris Corp. , Westerly,
R.I. . . John Willemain was recently
employed as a mathematics teacher at
South Hadley (Mass.) High School.

Natural

Science

Program

Dr. Jerry Jasinsky, '68, assistant professor
of chemistry at Keene (N.H.) State College,
presented a program on energy and envi-
ronment at the Masonic Lodge in Windsor,
Vt. in May. He received his BA and MST
from the University of New Hampshire,
and his PhD in chemistry from the Univer-
sity of Wyoming. He belongs to the Ameri-
can Chemical Society, Sigma Xi, and the
American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science.

Larry George '78, has been appointed prin-
cipal of the Henniker (N.H.) Schools. There
were 80 candidates for the position and
five finalists. Criteria for the post were:
curriculum development and teacher
evaluation skills, disciplinary standards,
commitment to excellence, ability to work
as a member of an administrative team,
and communication skills. George holds a
BA from Gordon College and has attended
Salem (N.H.) State University and Wiscon-
sin State University. He taught science for
two years, and has been assistant principal
in Amesbury, Mass.

Stanley Bebyn, 79, teaches at Bennet
Junior High School in Manchester, Conn.
. . . Anne Browne, 79, is at Lunenburg
(Mass.) High School. . . . Anthony Messa,
'79, is a teacher at Manchester Memorial
High School in New Hampshire. . . . Paul
Starek, '79, of Holliston, Mass., is on the
staff at Rindge Tech. in Cambridge. . . .
Robin Williams, 79, teaches at Ahern
Intermediate School in Foxboro, Mass. . . .
Paul Zeolla, 79, who resides in Dedham,
Mass., is employed as a staff member at
Walsh Middle School in Framingham.

Fall 1 979 /The WPI Journal / 37

School of Industrial
Management

During his career, Bob Baxter, '53, has

served as New England sales administrator
for the Wickwire Spencer Steel Division of
Colorado Steel and Iron; national sales
manager for a Massachusetts conglomer-
ate; and national sales manager for Steel
Fab, Inc., Fitchburg, Mass. In 1974 he
formed Baxter Enterprises, acting as repre-
sentative and broker for several large firms
located in the East. Currently, the firm
operates strictly within the steel trade and
represents a large foundry, a pipe manufac-
turer, a structural steel company, a perfo-
rated metal, expanded metal, and textured
metal company, and a tool and die manu-
facturer. Growth for Baxter Enterprises has
increased at the rate of 25% per annum for
the last three years.

Recently, Harold White, '55, was named
vice president and general manager of the
newly created organic grinding wheel divi-
sion at Norton Co. in Worcester. His divi-
sion will include the vitrified grinding wheel
division and the diamond products division,
as well as the organic grinding wheel divi-
sion. Previously, White was vice president
and managing director of abrasives opera-
tions in Northern Europe for Norton. He is a
registered, professional engineer.

Clifford Pontbriand, '58, holds the post of
director of operations for American
Polarizers, Inc. in Reading, Pa. Earlier, he
was vice president of manufacturing at the
Cool-Ray division of Warner Lambert Co.,
and had been with American Optical in
Southbridge, Mass.

John Cray, '59, who retired in 1973 as
purchasing agent after 28 years of service
at Bay State Abrasives, Westboro, Mass. , is
now a part-time consultant doing statistical
analyses for the Central Mass. Employers'
Association. He has a BA and MA from
Assumption College. He belongs to the
Audubon and Forbush Bird Club and is a
backyard gardner. Active in church affairs,
he has served nine years on the Parish
Council and as a lector and adult education
teacher. He was chairman of the Hearings
Board for three years, and has been a
member of the religious education execu-
tive board. He has been active at the
Calvary Retreat Center; been a promoter of
the speaker's list; and concerned with the
Worcester County Ecumenical Council. He
is a former member of the worship commit-
tee. "Sometimes I wonder when I found
time to go to work before forced retirement
at age 65."

Paul Kearney, '59, presently serves as an
accident prevention consultant for the
Central Mass. Employers' Association of
Worcester. Formerly he was with the
Worcester Gas Light Co. (now Common-
wealth Gas Co.) for many years, retiring in
1 972 as manager of the Hyde Park-
Dedham Division. He is a past president of
the Dedham Rotary Club. His hobbies in-
clude gardening and traveling. He has been
to Hawaii, Jamaica, the Canary Islands,
Canada, and England. "The next trip will be
to Portugal, when I obtain enough loose
change. " He has studied at Holy Cross, the
University of Michigan and Columbia.

Donald Sangster, '61, writes: "Living in
Greenville, S.C. A most pleasant spot ex-
ceptforlong, hot, humid summers. For the
last three years I've been shuffling paper at
a textile machinery importing and supply
house, a far cry from my previous long life
in machinery manufacturing manage-
ment." Sangster's son is in oil exploration
with Phillips in Oklahoma. His daughter
recently climbed in the Himalayas. His first
grandchild, a boy, was born last December.
He says he'd like to hear from other '61 SIM
people.

Henning Frederiksen, '63, has been ap-
pointed to the board of directors at Bay
Bank United in Taunton, Mass. He is
president-treasurer of Plainville Machine
Works, Inc., and holds corporate positions
at Plainville Products, Inc. and Plainville
Hydraulics. A veteran of World War II and
the Korean conflict, he served with both
the U.S. Army and Air Force. He belongs to
the Lions Club and the Masons.

Philip Nims, '65, is chief engineer of the
Textile Division atCrompton & Knowles
Corp., Charlotte, N.C.

Scott Sargent, '65, has been elected vice
president and controller of Morgan Con-
struction Co. in Worcester. With the firm
for 22 years, most recently he held the post
of controller and assistant treasurer. He
graduated from Bowdoin, and is
secretary-treasurer of the Bowdoin Alumni
Club of Worcester. He is a member of the
Financial Executives' Institute.

Vincent Kubert, '68, is a project engineer at
Harris Corp., Grand Prairie, Texas. Harris is
one of the world's largest builders of web
type printing presses, and presently is con-
structing a $30 million manufacturing plant
in Grapevine, Texas. Kubert lives in Ar-
lington.

Recently, Alfred Alicandro, '69, sold his
company, Entec Plastic & Engineering
Corp. to a group of private businessmen.
He founded the firm after graduating from
WPI. It ultimately grew to 1 7 plastic injec-
tion molding machines manufacturing
8-track cartridge tapes and cassettes and
related products. It also expanded to 1 0
warehouses and nationwide distributor-
ships. In Leominsterthe firm employed 125
people. The engineering section designed
products and molds for the industry.
Alicandro is being retained for a time as a
consultant by the new owners, after which
he and his wife will relocate to Cape Cod.
He was listed in the 1 975 edition of "Who's
Who In Massachusetts."

Robert Goff, '70, a former division superin-
tendent for New England Power Co.,
Worcester, is retired and residing in Paw-
catuck, Conn.

Warren Prescott, '72, has retired and is
living in North Fort Myers, Florida.

Alan Skiest, '74, holds the position of
senior programmer-analyst for DECUS
(Digital Equipment Corporation Users So-
ciety), located at the Marlboro, Mass. facil-
ity of Digital Equipment Computer Corp.

Robert Harris, '76, is manufacturing man-
ager at Henry L. Hanson, Inc., Worcester.

Raymond Knowles, '79, has purchased
Graham Manufacturing Co., Inc. East
Greenwich, R.I. and renamed it Graham
Products. Previously, he was vice president
and general manager of Rawling Gear, a
member company of Gear Motions in
Shrewsbury. Graham Products produces
machine vises, pressroom equipment, and
related products.

38 /The WI'I Journal/ Fall J 979

Dr. Jerrold P. Commons, college physician
and head of health services at WPI, died at
his home in Worcester on July 25, 1 979.

He was a native of Los Molinos, Calif. In
1952 he graduated from the Washington
University Medical School in St. Louis. He
was also a graduate of the University of
California. He served his internship at St.
Louis County Hospital, Clayton, Mo., and
his residency at Worcester State Hospital.

Since 1978, Dr. Commons was acting
director, residency in family practice, at the
University of Massachusetts Hospital. He
was also director of student and employee
health at the hospital, and associate profes-
sor of family and community medicine.

He was on the staff of Hahnemann
Hospital, and had been director of the
Family Health Center of the hospital on
Dean St. As health physician at
Hahnemann, Dr. Commons was responsi-
ble for the emergency health care of em-
ployees, and served as house physician for
student nurses. He was appointed to the
hospital staff in 1956.

Dr. Commons was a member of the
Massachusetts Medical Society, American
Academy of Family Practice, American Col-
lege Health Association, American School
Health Association, Royal Society of
Health, Worcester District Medical Society,
and the board of governors of the Mas-
sachusetts Academy of Family Physicians.
He was a World War II Army veteran.

Harvey C. Friars, '13, a retired farmer, died
at his home in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
on June 1 8, 1 979 at the age of 90.

He was born on Jan. 30, 1889 in Sussex,
New Brunswick, Canada. After studying
electrical engineering at WPI, he worked
for the Worcester Electric Company and
Commonwealth Electric in Summit, N.J.
before becoming a self-employed farmer.

A former long-time member of the
Shrewsbury Light Commission, he also be-
longed to the Tech Old-Timers.

Norman C. Firth, '20, of Maplewood, New
Jersey passed away on December 18,
1978

From 1 936 to 1 954 he held the post of
publishing director of Dun & Bradstreet,
Inc. in New York. Concurrently he served as
editor of "Dun's Review," as vice president
of a subsidiary, Dun & Bradstreet Corp.,
and as director of the Business Economics
Department. Previously, he had been with
McGraw-Hill Publishing, Inc., for former A.
W. Shaw Co. of Chicago, and the U.S.
Army as a 2/Lt. in the Engineers Corps
during World War I.

After retiring from Dun & Bradstreet, he
wrote business books, pamphlets, and did
some free-lance editing. He belonged to
the American Marketing Association, the
American Economic Association, American
Statistical Association, and Adult Education
Association. He was a former president of
the Board of Trustees of the South
Orange-Maplewood (N.J.) Adult School.

Mr. Firth graduated with a BSEE from
WPI, and was a member of ATO. He was
born on Sept. 30, 1895 in Westfield, Mass.

Philip S. Parker, '22, a retired chief en-
gineer at H. K. Ferguson Co., died on
November 30, 1978 in Middletown, Con-
necticut.

A Worcester native, he was born on April
13, 1901. In 1922 he graduated as a civil
engineer. During his career he was with the
U.S. Geological Survey; Massachusetts
Department of Public Works; Stone &
Webster; E. B. Badger & Sons; and Metcalf
& Eddy. Prior to joining Ferguson in New
York City in 1 954, he served as chief of the
process plant division, Dresser-Stacey, in
Cincinnati.

Mr. Parker belonged to the Cleveland
Engineering Society, Armed Forces Chemi-
cal Association, and American Society for
Testing Materials. He was a former trea-
surer of the New York Chapter of the
Alumni Association.

Morgan M. Whitney, '22, a retired me-
chanical engineer associated with
Griscom-Russell Co., New York City, for
many years, died at his home in Southbury,
Connecticut on May 31,1 979.

After graduation, he became an assistant
in the WPI ME department. Later he was
with Whitney & Co., Leominster, Mass.,
where he was factory manager. In 1 961 he
joined Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton as a sales
engineer, and for a time, was a self-
employed manufacturers' agent and pri-
vate consultant. He was born June 17,
1901 in Leominster, Mass.

A member of the ASME, he also be-
longed to the Masons and Phi Gamma
Delta. He was a former treasurer of the
New York Chapter of the WPI Alumni
Association His son, Morgan M. Whitney,
Jr., graduated from WPI in 1959.

Robert B. Smith, '24, owner of the former
Smith Bros. Plumbing & Heating Co., died
in Leominster (Mass.) Hospital on June 21 ,
1 979. He was 76 years old.

He was a native and life-long resident of
Leominster. After attending WPI, he
graduated from Northeastern University A
journeyman, master plumber, and mechan-
ical engineer, he had worked in the family
business for 37 years, before retiring in
1972.

Mr. Smith belonged to the Episcopal
Church, and was a 32nd degree Mason,
and a Scottish Rite and Shrine member. He
was a past patron of Temple Chapter, OES,
and a member of the Leominster Senior
Citizens.

Harold G. Butterworth, '28, retired assist-
ant to the general manager of Factory
Insurance Association, died of a heart at-
tack on June 9, 1979 at the Hartford
(Conn.) Hospital.

He was born Feb. 19, 1906 in Athol,
Mass. In 1928 he received his BSCE from
WPI. After graduation he joined the Fac-
tory Insurance Association (now Industrial
Risk Insurers), and stayed with the com-
pany for 42 years, retiring in 1971. While
with the firm, he served as an inspector, a
supervisor of underwriting, and an execu-
tive special agent, before becoming assist-
ant to the general manager. He belonged
to Theta Chi, and was the father of Richard
C. Butterworth, '55.

Clifford S. Livermore, '28, died at his home
in Brooklin, Maine on June 19, 1979 at the
age of 72.

He graduated with a BSME in 1 928. Until
1 941 he was employed by the New York
Telephone Co. in New York City. During
World War II he was commissioned a
commander in the Naval Reserve. Later, he
was named staff director in the Research
and Development Division of the Office of
the Assistant Secretary of Defense in
Washington, DC. He retired in 1968.

Mr. Livermore was a former member of
the American Ordnance Association, Na-
tional Rifle Association, and the National
Geographic Association. He belonged to
Phi Gamma Delta. A past president of the
New York Chapter of the WPI Alumni
Association, he had also served as a Council
Representative. He was born on Sept. 5,
1906 in Holyoke, Mass.

Fall 1979 The WPI Journal 39

Emil R. Dube, '32, died of congestive
heart failure on May 2 1 , 1 979 at the home
of his daughter in Bronxville, New York.

A Fall River, Mass., native, he was born
thereon May 13, 1909. He was a member
of the Class of 1 932 , and studied chemistry
at WPI. He then joined Malt Diastase Co.,
Brooklyn, N.Y., as a chemist. For a time he
was chemist-in-charge at Swift & Co., in
Jersey City and was later named chief
chemist and eastern quality assurance
manager at Swift in Kearny, N.J. He retired
in 1 974 after forty years of service.

A member of the American Chemical
Society, Mr. Dube also belonged to the
Institute of Food Technologists.

Frederick L. Yeo, '36, of Upland, California
passed away on April 26, 1979.

In 1936 he graduated as a civil engineer
from WPI, and joined Boston & Maine
Transportation Co., Boston, where he
stayed until 1941. From 1941 to 1961 he
was with the U.S. Navy. He retired as a
commander in 1961.

For the next fifteen years he was em-
ployed by Aerojet-General Corp. in Azusa,
Calif., where he was reliability and quality
control manager for the Midas Satellite
Program. After retiring from Aerojet, he
ran a small, part-time accounting business.

Mr. Yeo belonged to Phi Gamma Delta.
He was born in Winchester, Mass. on April
3, 1913.

John W. Luoma, '49, of Los Gatos, Califor-
nia recently passed away.

He was born on July 25, 1 926 in Fitch-
burg, Mass. He received his BSEE from
WPI. For many years he worked for Gen-
eral Electric, and was at various times lo-
cated in Vermont, Pennsylvania, and in
California, where he was an application
engineer. He was a member of Theta Chi
and Sigma Xi.

Walter L. Magnuson, Jr., SIM '61, a regis-
tered engineer and senior manufacturing
engineer for Jamesbury Corp. of Worces-
ter, died on June 20, 1 979 at The Memorial
Hospital, Worcester. He was 57

He was a soloist in the Bethlehem Cove-
nant Church Choir and a cantor at Temple
Emanuel in Worcester. A charter member
of the Salisbury Singers, he was also a 32nd
degree Mason, a member of the Scottish
Rite, the Shrine, and the Society of Man-
ufacturing Engineers.

Mr. Magnuson graduated from North-
eastern University. Prior to joining James-
bury, he had been associated with George
F.Wright Steel & Wire Co.

Philippe P. Cousteau, '67, son of oceanog-
rapher Jacques Cousteau, was killed in a
seaplane which crashed while he was land-
ing it near the Tagus River in Alverca,
Portugal on June 28, 1979.

A photographer, author, and diver, the
younger Cousteau devoted as much time
to flying as his father did to underwater
research. In 1976 he barely escaped death
in a helicopter crash on Easter Island. He
made his first aqualung dive at 4, and won
a glider pilot's license at 16.

He dived in every ocean in the world, and
shared the experience with millions as TV
producer, photographer, and lecturer. He
studied briefly at WPI and MIT, and held a
degree in science from the College de
Normandie.

After leaving the U.S., he returned to
Paris to train as a cinematographer. He
worked on the award-winning feature film,
"World Without Sun," and was one of six
"oceanauts" to live 235 ft. below the sea
for 28 days during the historic Conshelf III
Project in 1 965 for a National Geographic
Special on CBS.

In 1 968 he began filming "The Undersea
World of Jacques Cousteau" for ABC. He
was vice president of the Cousteau Society
and director of the Cousteau TV series
which won ten Emmy awards. With his
father, he wrote the book, Sharks.

Philippe Cousteau is survived by his wife,
Jan, and daughter, Alexandra. He was born
on Dec. 30, 1940 in Toulon, France.

In the summer issue of the |ournal, the death of Elbridge M.
Smith, Sr., '45, was incorrectly listed as that of Elbridge M. Smith,
Jr.

Kenneth H. Maymon, '70, manager of
conversion engineering at General Electric
in Fitchburg, Mass., died in Nashua, New
Hampshire on March 23, 1979. Hewas45.

Associated with G E for the past 24 years,
he had graduated in 1 954 from Wentworth
Institute, and had received a BSME from
WPI in 1970. He served as Republican
town chairman and as a member of the
budget committee in Milford, N.H.

He was a former Eagle Scout, scoutmas-
ter, and a troop committeeman. A former
vestryman of the Church of Our Saviour,
he was also a past master councilor of
DeMolay in Riverside, R.I. He had been a
dad advisorfor DeMolay in Milford, and an
advisory board member. He was a recipient
of the DeMolay Cross of Honor. A past
master of a Masonic lodge, he was also an
Arch Mason and a Scottish Rite member.

At the time of his death, he was serving
as district deputy grand lecturer of the
Second Masonic District. He was grand
representative to the Grand Lodge in
Washington, D.C., and had received the
General John Sullivan award. He was born
on April 6, 1933 in Providence, R.I.

Bronislaw Stasiowski, '74, died at his
home in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, on
March 12, 1979 at the age of 53.

A lifelong resident of Chicopee, he was
born on September 25, 1925. He
graduated from Hampden College of
Pharmacy. In 1974 he graduated with an
MS from WPI. Forthe pastten years he was
a science teacher at Chicopee High School.
Previously, he had been manager of Wha-
len Drugstore.

Mr. Stasiowski was a Navy veteran of
World War II, and a member of the Elks.

Robert P. Lyle, '78, drowned in January in
Stearns Reservoir, Framingham, Mas-
sachusetts, following a skating accident.
His body was recovered on March 14.

He was born on February 20, 1955 in
Framingham. He had received his BS in
chemical engineering from WPI.

The accident occurred during 20-below
zero weather, severely hampering rescue
attempts by police and MDC scuba teams,
which were characterized by Norman Lyle,
Robert's father, as "absolutely fantastic."

Wayne K. Shiatte, '78, died in a construc-
tion accident in Wheaton, Illinois on April 4,
1979.

He was inspecting a storm sewer project,
when he was overcome by an excess of
carbon dioxide in the air. He was employed
by Baxter & Woodman, Inc., consulting
engineers.

Born on Feb. 20, 1956 in Marysville,
Calif., he later enrolled at WPI and
graduated with a BSCE in 1978. He be-
longed to ATO. His father is Kenneth W.
Shiatte, '53.

40 /The WPI journal/ Fall 1919

WINTER 1980

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Vol. 83 no. 4

Winter 1980

A room at the top

A peck at some interesting graffiti recorded
on the walls of the upper reaches of
Boynton's tower.

Sports

A look at WPI's football comeback, and other
matters, as told by Mark Mandel.

WPI's new head man at ASME

Don Zwiep of our ME Department becomes a

world traveler and national engineering

spokesman.

A special Who's Who profile by Ruth Trask.

15 Justice delayed

The continuing saga of Howard Freeman's
20-year battle with Uncle Sam.

16 ARL coming up on 100

17 Your class and others
38 Completed careers

Editor: H. Russell Kay

Alumni Information Editor: Ruth S. Trask

Design: H. Russell Kay

Typesetting: County Photo Compositing,
[efferson, Mass., and Davis Press, Inc.,
Worcester, Mass.

Printing: The House of Offset, Inc., So-
merville, Mass.

Address all correspondence to the Editor,
The WPI loiirnal Worcester Polytechnic
Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts
01609. Telephone (617) 753-141 1.

The WPI Journal (USPS no. 0148-6128) is
published for the WPI Alumni Associa-
tion by Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Copyright ® 1 980 by Worcester Polytech-
nic Institute. All nghts reserved.

The WPI journal is published five times a
year, quarterly plus a catalog issue (identi-
fied as no. 2) in September. Second Class
postage paid at Worcester, Massachusetts.

WPI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

President: fohn H McCabe, '68

Senior Vice President: Walter B. Denncn,
Jr., '51

Vice President: Peter H. Horstmann

Secretary- Treasurer: Stephen I. Hebert, '66

Past President: William A. (ulian, '49

Fiicuhy Representative: Kenneth E. Scott,
'48

Executive Committee members-at -large:
Philip B. Ryan, '65; Donald E. Ross, '54;
Anson C. Fyler, '45; Harry W Tenney, Ir.,
'56

Fund Board: G. Albert Anderson, '51,
chairman; Henry Styskal, Jr., '50, vice
chairman; Richard B. Kennedy, '65; Gerald
Finkle, '57; Philip H. Puddington, '59;
Richard A. Davis, '53; C. John Lindegren,
'39

Winter 1980 /The WPI Journal/ 1

The northwest corner of the tower
room, with the stairs leading to the
clock and roof, and the site of the gra-
fitti.

A room at the top

YOU KNOW the clock tower on
Boynton. You may remember the oval
wooden stairway that used to wind
its way from the basement to the
third floor. But there's a fourth floor
in the tower that not many WPI stu-
dents have seen. Some certainly have,
however, and we've got proof.

The flagpole atop the tower was
taken down a few years ago, a victim
of rust and old age, and with its re-
moval ended a tradition of students
who had the job of raising the flag.
With the renovation of Boynton, we
had occasion to wonder just what
was up in that tower room, now
reachable only by ladder from the
third floor. So we climbed.

We found a bright, airy room
with windows on three sides offering
a fine view to the south and east of
the WPI campus. We found an old
doorway leading to a truly ancient
stairway that went still further up
into the dark upper recesses of the
tower, leading to the clock mecha-
nism, powered by a small electric mo-
tor driving four large shafts, one for
each face. And beyond that, a series
of steps that, frankly, I didn't care to
try to climb. I'll leave that for the
birds that were flying in from the
outside.

Retreating to the bright room
whose walls were being renewed, I
noticed that one corner, near the up-
per stair door, hadn't been touched,
and it contained an authentic record
of some WPI history. For there, writ-
ten in pencil and pen, were signatures
and comments written by the genera-
tions of students who had climbed
the tower to raise or lower the flag (or
for other purposes, too).

Among other moments recorded
on those walls were:

A November 8, 1957, overflight of the
second soviet satellite, "Muttnik."
The flag's being at half-mast for 30
days following the assassination of
John Kennedy.

Another half-mast period, this for as-
tronauts Grissom, White, and Chafee,
who died in the Apollo fire in 1967.
Numerous trips by students with
guests (mostly female).
A visit by at least one current mem-
ber of the Board of Trustees, Robert
C. Stempel, '55.

And at least one "overnight," this by
Joe Y. (?) and Gordon F. in 1960 (?).

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This is the heart of the tower clock.
It is simply too dark inside to photo-
graph the rest of the tower insides.

Winter 1980 /The WP1 Journal/ 3

Fall Sports

by Mark Mandel

WPI Sports Information Director

The 1979 Fall sports season reflected
the state of the art at WPI. Although
still in a state of transition, WPI has
been building an athletic reputation
that is worthy of its academic stan-
dards. The achievements of this fall's
teams have only enhanced that repu-
tation.

By defeating Hamilton 21-6 in
the last game of the season, WPI fin-
ished with its best football record (3-
5) since 1972. And although a 3-5
year is not ordinarily something to
rave about, a closer inspection of the
season reveals a great promise for the
years to come.

It was both a frustrating and a
satisfying year for head coach Bob
Weiss. The season's opening game
roster included 51 freshmen out of a
total of 84 players. It was clear from
the start that WPI's chances were
contingent on how fast the youthful
team would mature. The aging proc-
ess may have been excruciatingly
slow for Weiss, as the team lost four
straight, frustrating games that could
easily have gone the other way with a
break or two. Finally, late in the sea-
son, the Engineers began to show that
they were learning what they needed.
WPI won its last two games.

Especially encouraging was the
play of quarterback Bob Montagna,
who came on strong after a slow start
and proved himself an effective run-
ner, passer, and team leader. His per-
formance in the season-ending victo-
ries earned him two ECAC Honor
Roll selections. Only a sophomore,
Montagna will be back next year,
along with a fine supporting cast of
players.

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From the defense, which played
well all season long, thirteen line-
men, five linebackers, and all but one
starter in the secondary are expected
to return in 1 980. The offensive team
will have fourteen linemen returning,
plus every backf ield member except
the talented Mike "Smokey" Robin-
son.

"We are definitely on target," said
Weiss after the season. "To think that
we won more games than we have
since 1972, and considering that we
came close in four others, makes me
believe that our returning team can
set its goals higher in 1980. There's
no question that we'll miss our senior
leadership," he added. "Tri-captains
Pete Kelleher (honorable mention
All-New England), Jeff Rosen (Jewish
All- American), and Bob Yule did an
outstanding job for us this year. But I
feel that they've laid a strong founda-
tion for the younger players to build
on.

The highlight of the fall season
was the 9-3-1 performance by the
Engineer soccer team. Although it
was not exactly a rags-to-riches story
the team played far beyond the ex-
pectations of everyone, including
head coach Alan King. The 1979 sea-
son was expected to be a "rebuilding"
year for WPI, which had a 4-7-1 rec-
ord in 1978. Instead, it became the
year that the Engineers earned the
highest ranking any WPI team ever
achieved, an honorable mention in
the Top Ten Division III teams na-
tionwide.

It was also the year that the
team would be rated as high as ninth
in the New England soccer poll, and
go on to earn a second seed in the
NCAA Division III New England
Tournament. WPI lost in the first
round of that tourney, 2- 1 in over-
time to Brandeis, but the team was
still selected as the Number 1 Divi-
sion III team in New England by the
New England Intercollegiate Soccer
League. At the same time, Alan King
was selected as the coach of the year.

"The selection as New England's
best Division III team is justified,"
says King. "The team's performance
throughout the year was outstanding.
I'm thankful for the coach of the year
award, but a coach is only as good as
his players. You can't produce a win-
ning team without the complete co-
operation of the individuals."

First and foremost among those
individuals was All-New England Leo
Kaabi, who led the team both on and
off the field. Kaabi scored 1 7 goals
and had six assists to put him in
third place among WPI's all-time sin-
gle season scorers.

The 1979 cross-country season
started out on an ominous note in
the annual city meet with Assump-
tion, Clark, and Worcester State. A
sick captain John Turpin collapsed
with just 400 yards to go after he had
been leading the race. Turpin did not
finish, and WPI settled for second
place (by one point) to Assumption.

Things went downhill from
there, as Turpin took longer than ex-
pected to return to top form. The
Engineers chalked up seven losses in
a row. Finally, though, with Turpin
leading the pack, the harriers finished
strong by beating their last seven op-
ponents, including a season-ending
victory over Bates, Tufts, MIT, and
Bowdoin in a quad-meet. Head coach
John Brandon's men finished the sea-
son with an 8-8 record.

The women's tennis team,

coached by Marcia Kennedy, was
very successful in its first outing as a
varsity team, chalking up a 7-2 sea-
son. The two losses came at the
hands of Assumption and Brandeis,
both of which had representatives in
the finals of the AIAW (Association
for Intercollegiate Athletics for
Women) championships.

On the season, Lisa Longwell, a
freshman, was a standout, posting a 6-
3 reecord as a first singles competitor.
Deborah Biederman, another fresh-
man, was 7-2 as the second singles
player.

The women's volleyball team,

also in its first year as a varsity sport,
did not fare as well. Seniors Elaine
O'Neill, Cathy McDermott, and Col-
leen O'Connor played well, but the
Engineers could only post a 6- 1 1 rec-
ord.

Winter 1980 /The WPI Journal/ 5

wprs

new head man
at ASME

by Ruth Trask

HONOLULU. TOKYO. MANILA. Jakarta Peking
Leisurely tourist stops on a Far Eastern pleasure tour? Not
for Prof. Donald N. Zwiep, head of the WPI's Mechanical
Engineering Department and current president of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. For Don
Zwiep, those exotic locales, plus a wide variety of U.S. ci-
ties, coast to coast, have been a part of the working itiner-
ary and rigorous travel schedule he's followed since being
installed as ASME president last June. For the past six
months, he has represented the ASME in this country and
abroad and served as a U.S. delegate and negotiator for a
number of important international engineering agree-
ments.

"I am finding my term in office most rewarding,"
Zwiep says. "In the Far East, for example, we were able to
sign several agreements of cooperation that should prove
beneficial to the Society and the profession in the future.
The trip was especially enjoyable because my wife, Mar-
cia, was able to go with me."

On Friday, November 2, Don and Marcia Zwiep and
Dr. and Mrs. Rogers Finch (executive director of ASME)
flew to Kauai, Hawaii, to attend the annual conference of
the American Consulting Engineers Council, at which
they were special invited guests. Zwiep addressed the
group, emphasizing a reaffirmation of ASME's position of
cooperation with ACEC and similar organizations. After
an afternoon of sightseeing, the travelers attended the
ACEC banquet at which they were entertained by a dem-
onstration of the historical development of the island
through fashion and the hula.

The next day, Don met with the Hawaii section of
ASME in Honolulu, where he presented the 27-year-old
group with the Centennial Charter and honored the im-
mediate past chairman of the section. "Being involved
with this meeting gave me a strong feeling of achieve-
ment. The ASME is doing some of its operations in just
the right way."

6 /The WP1 journal /Winter 19HU

On Monday, November 5, Zwiep and his party left for
Tokyo. They especially wanted to meet with the ASME
members in the Tokyo area to get their ideas on how the
Society could better serve its members in foreign loca-
tions. One of the group's objectives was to negotiate an
agreement of cooperation with the Japanese Society of
Mechanical Engineers (JSME). This type of agreement pro-
vides for exchange of publications and other information,
professional assistance to traveling engineers, and other
types of cooperation that will benefit both the organiza-
tions involved and their members.

Don recalls his arrival in Tokyo: "I suppose each visi-
tor to a foreign country has a series of special impressions
thrust on him. My case was no different. Imagine my sur-
prise when I stepped from the loading dock of the plane to
see my name flashing on the bulletin board. I reported at
the information desk and received a message that the as-
sistant secretary of JSME had arranged our transportation
to Tokyo and would meet us at the baggage area. We rode
to Tokyo in one of the finest buses I've ever been on (Gen-
eral Motors, beware!) in terms of seating comfort, vision,
quietness, and cleanliness. Needless to say, I was favorably
impressed. And while Tokyo seems overwhelmed with
traffic, everyone seems patient, and the movement of the
cars takes place in orderly fashion. But air pollution seems
serious."

After eight business hours with the JSME, six hours
of ceremonial activites concerning the signing of the
agreement of cooperation took place at Happo-En, a Japa-
nese garden restaurant complete with music, chopsticks,
floor cushions, and traditional foods.

The next destination was Manila. Although the
ASME representatives had been treated cordially wherever
they had traveled, they were still not prepared for the wel-
come awaiting them in the Philippines. They were met at
the airport by 25 cheering members of the Philippine So-
ciety of Mechanical Engineers (PSME), a large banner,
flower leis and corsages, and a battery of TV cameras.

"At the Manila Hotel, a PSME tailor measured me for
a Throng tagalong' and Marcia for a long, embroidered
gown," Don recalls. "He was to make the clothes overnight
and deliver them at 5 p.m. the next day, because we were
to wear them to a banquet that next evening. Not only did
the outfits arrive on time — they fit!"

The following day involved a variety of activities, in-
cluding a meeting with the commissioner of licensing for
all professional, technical, and skills groups, ranging from
barbers to doctors to engineers. They went sightseeing,
then met with PSME to finalize the agreements. At the
banquet, the agreements were signed, the speeches were
appropriately flowery and the spirit of cooperation was
gratifying. During the festivities, the PSME presented Don
with an elegant bronze and red velvet plaque.

After the Philippines, it was off to Singapore, the most
comfortable flight of the entire trip (courtesy of Singapore
Airlines). Singapore was a catch-your-breath stop, and the
travelers stayed at the world-famous Raffles Hotel, a bit
faded but still having a touch of its elegant, historic past.
Then it was on to Jakarta, Indonesia, for the World Federa-
tion of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) Conference,
with Zwiep serving as one of the ten U.S. delegates. He at-
tended the WFEO seminar on engineering needs and one
on technology transfer. On November 15, Indonesia's Vice
President Malik officially opened the conference, whose
theme was "Food, Transportation, and Energy" in relation
to the less developed countries. During the proceedings,
another agreement of cooperation was signed. The confer-
ence bore other fruit, too. Says Don, "During our meetings,
I found enough IQP topics for WPI students to last the
next ten years!"

While in Jakarta, the Zwieps and the Finches stayed
at the year-old Mandarin Hotel, which was "absolutely
splendid" even though located in a hot, poor city. The old
rickety buses and bicycle carts were in sharp contrast to
those they had seen in Japan.

Winter 1980 /The WPI Journal/ 7

The Indonesian conference finished, the group re-
turned to Japan, where the 100th anniversary celebration
of the Japanese Society of Engineers was in progress. "This
was an important occasion, and a particularly relevant
one," says Zwiep, because the ASME starts its own 100th
anniversary celebration in 1980."

The Crown Prince and Princess of Japan were present
during the anniversary activities. The royal pair greeted
the Americans in English and capped their welcome with
handshakes instead of the traditional bows with which
they had greeted the Japanese guests present.

Once the formal festivities were completed in Japan,
the travelers took to the air again (!). This time the des-
tination was Peking. In China, the ASME representatives
were to meet with the top officials of the Chinese Me-
chanical Engineering Society.

"We were rather worried, because our plane arrived in
China ahead of schedule," Zwiep recalls. "We just didn't
know what to expect." Early or not, the Chinese rolled out
the red carpet for their American visitors. They provided
an interesting itinerary and transportation to the Peking
Hotel. Obviously their arrival had been preceded by a "let-
ter of introduction" from a Chinese government agency.
"The night before Thanksgiving, we were treated to dinner
with five Chinese engineers and directors at the renowned
Peking Duck Restaurant," Don reports. "It was really mem-
orable. We were told that there are actually two Peking
Duck restaurants in the city. One, located near a hospital,
is called the 'sick duck' by the locals. They didn't take us
to that one," Don says with a grin. The meal began with a
covered cup of tea, then many courses of food delivered to
the center of the table for all to help themselves with
chopsticks. The meal ended with soup and fruit.

8/The Wl'l Journal / Winter 1980

Accorded VIP treatment as first-time visitors to the
Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, the travelers
were allowed to visit the fabled palace in Peking's Forbid-
den City without the customary red tape. They also
toured the Machine Tool Research Institute, about 75
miles outside of Peking, a trip that required a special visa.
Says Don, "there were no photo restrictions of any kind,
and we saw a lot of the countryside. Inside the Institute,
everything was quite up-to-date, except for the micropro-
cessors and computers. The guides explained that the re-
pressive 'Gang of Four,' since tumbled from power in
China, was responsible for the shortcoming."

Meanwhile, Marcia and Mrs. Finch were invited to go
on a kindergarten tour. Children from about two to seven
attended the school, which was part of the Machine Tool
Research Institute. The American visitors were met with
a sign in English and Chinese. Their interpreter was a fe-
male mechanical engineer who had been educated in Rus-
sia about 30 years ago. A five-year-old boy sang "Do-Re-
Mi" from "The Sound of Music." (Editor's note: This partic-
ular song seems to be the song which schoolchildren sing
to American visitors in China. 1 wonder whyl) Several
children danced and sang, and little girls offered the
guests candy. "They were utterly charming," comments
Marcia, herself a former school teacher, "and obviously
had rehearsed many hours for their show to us."

Both Marcia and Mrs. Finch were impressed with the
teacher-student ratio at the kindergarten: 23 teachers for
100 students! The school rooms were divided up accord-
ing to the age of the pupils, with each age group having its
own room. "Every room had a picture of Mao on the wall,
a table, chairs, a pump organ, cribs, and blankets," reports
Marcia. "The children ate, played, and napped in their own
areas. Everyone wore heavy, quilted jackets to ward off the
cold inside the rooms."

"We were something of a novelty," Marcia confides.
"We were told that we were the first outsiders ever to visit
the school. The children were cautiously friendly and ex-
tremely well behaved.

At Tsing Hua University, a technically oriented
school like WPI or.MIT, the visitors toured the mechani-
cal engineering department. Again the computer deficien-
cies were evident, but the holograph and laser measure-
ment techniques were not only good, they matched the
best one could find anywhere. "There were several current
engineering magazines about," says Don. "One, the ASEE
Journal had Dr. Finch's picture on the cover. And the staff
had heard all about Norton Company." The university li-
brary had a noticeable lack of technological books, be-
cause there had been no purchases made during the Cul-
tural Revolution from 1966 to 1976. The Chinese engi-
neers are familiar with Marks' Mechanical Engineering
Handbook and similar classics of the field. The Chinese
professor who served as their guide, Prof. Zhang
Guanghua, met them again at the ASME winter meeting
two weeks later.

The VIP treatment continued. The guests ate
12-course lunches, saw a colorful, masked Chinese opera,
and visited what is still surely one of the wonders of the
world, the Great Wall of China. A Chinese government
yacht was at their disposal for a trip around the Peking
reservoir. They had an interpreter at all times.

"It is very cold in Peking in November," Don says.
"The hotel was heated, but our meeting rooms were not.
We had to keep on our overcoats, just like the people do
in their homes. But I really enjoyed their custom of conti-
nuously serving hot tea at all of our meetings. The airport
and the planes are unheated, too, until they cross the Chi-
nese mainland."

Zwiep describes the city of Peking itself as much less
colorful than its American counterparts, because there are
no flashy neon lights or colorful dress. The people wear
dull looking, regimental-type clothes of blue, green, or
gray material. A child's jacket or a scarf provides an occa-
sional splash of color. There are lots of bikes and semi-
trailer passenger buses, very efficient people carriers.

Oddly, for a nation seemingly committed to mass
transit, China does pride itself on its manufacture of a few
black limousines. "They look like a cross between an old
Buick Roadmaster and a current Cadillac Fleetwood," says
Don. Riding in or driving an automobile is a privilege re-
served for the few. "If anyone is fortunate to own a small,
personal car, he shines it at each and every opportunity."

There is virtually no unemployment, according to
Zwiep. "China is fifty to one hundred years behind the
rest of the world in agriculture production, although
changes for the better, including some modern tractors,
were in evidence. However, much of the work still has to
be done by hand. That keeps everyone employed."

Before leaving Peking for Japan and the flight back
home, Don helped work out arrangements for a represen-
tative from the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society
to attend the ASME Emerging Technologies Conference
next August. The fundamentals of an agreement of coop-
eration were developed. The Chinese were to consider fur-
ther, and they stated they were confident the agreement
would be signed in a year or two.

In his meetings with top engineering officials of
China, Don feels they want sophisticated technology such
as computers, seismic gear for oil exploration, and satel-
lites. "But they are geared to do their own development
and production of this hardware, even if it takes a longer
time. They want a fully self-sufficient country."

FOR THE MOST PART, the travelers' flying time had
been pleasant if somewhat tiring. They encountered no
particular problems until their return flight from Tokyo
to New York. "Ten minutes from JFK we ran into a freak
storm," Don recalls. "After a fourteen-hour flight from Ja-
pan, we had to circle Kennedy Airport before being sent
on to Dulles (in Washington, D.C.) because we were get-
ting low on fuel. When we finally landed, we'd spent
about 32 hours time in the air and at airports."

Don Zwiep, however, was predictably unperturbed by
his 32-hour flight experience. During World War II, he
served in the U.S. Army Air Force as a pilot and crew com-
mander of a B-24 bomber. He completed 59 combat mis-
sions and "Hump" flights while serving with the 492d
Bomb Squad, 7th Bomb Group, in the China-Burma-India
Theatre. A former member of the Air Force Reserve, Don
retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel after 22 years
of reserve duty. A little matter like extra air time should
hardly faze him.

Zwiep reverts to Air Force vernacular when describ-
ing his duties as president of the American Society of Me-
chanical Engineers. "I stick to a strict flight plan," he de-
clares. "Personally, I find there is a similarity between serv-
ing as a bomber commander and serving as president of
ASME. In each case I'm involved with policy, and, follow-
ing that, I try to carry out the designated plan of opera-
tions to the best of my ability."

Historically, ASME has been run by a consensus de-
rived directly from the membership. Zwiep feels that he is
a part of that consensus, but that as the temporary (one-
year) president of ASME, his primary function is to imple-
ment and articulate the policies of the Society and to pre-
serve its technical eminence. The directions he moves in
are those that have generally been determined by the ma-
jority of the membership.

Winter 1980 /The WPl journal/ 9

He does have a pet project that he likes to promote
within ASME, though. "I feel strongly that one of the high-
est honors that an engineer can attain is recognition by
his peers," comments Zwiep, who served as chairman of
ASME's Honors and Awards Committee for three years.
"For this purpose, ASME over the years has established a
number of honors and awards — many underwritten by
corporate or foundation sponsors — usually named after a
prominent ASME member. The trouble is, during the last
ten years the Society's membership has almost doubled,
but the number of awards has not. Therefore, it seems to
me that if we are going to provide more incentive to
achieve within our membership, one of the priorities we
should concentrate on is finding new sources of sponsor-
ship to help us expand the system of honors and awards.
As I continue in office, I shall focus many of my efforts in
this area."

Expansion of the ASME achievement awards program
has been only one of a long list of concerns Zwiep has
dealt with during his presidency. "Until recently, Alaska
had no regular ASME section," he says. "Now it has both a
regular section and a student section." In September, Don
was in Anchorage to present the ASME charter to the
Alaska Section. All 50 states now have regular and stu-
dent sections.

Currently, ASME has 95,000 members and a total of
200 sections. "In 1980, as we celebrate our 100th anniver-
sary, a new Centennial Section will become part of the So-
ciety," Zwiep reports. "In the early 1980s, we are projecting
an overall expanded membership of some 100,000."

Although President Zwiep enjoys helping build up
membership in the ASME, he also deals with the South
American and Central American engineering societies
(UPADI) on a good-will basis. "We have met with their rep-
resentatives to discuss the transfer of technology to less
technically developed nations," he says. "We do not, how-
ever, plan to move the ASME into their territory." Other
delicate negotiations are in progress between the ASME
and the Canadian Mechanical Engineering Society.

Don Zwiep, although besieged by a hectic time table,
would be the first to admit that his schedule contains few
dull moments. For example, one week he may be out West
visiting the regular and student chapters of ASME ("a great
learning ground for a president-elect"), and the next week
he could be attending the dedication of a national historic
mechanical engineering landmark, such as the Drake Oil
Well in Titusville, Pa. At WPI he turns up in his dual role
as head of the ME department and president of ASME to
speak on "Perspectives in Mechanical Engineering" during
the Carl Gunnard Johnson Memorial Colloquium series.

Then Zwiep may be traveling to a legislative forum
in Washington, D.C., where he meets with Senator Byrd or
the head of the National Science Foundation; to an ASME
meeting in Salt Lake City; to a landmark ceremony for the
EERBI reactor in Idaho; to an Applied Mechanics Confer-
ence in Niagara Falls, N.Y.; and on to another ASME meet-
ing in Atlanta. After meeting with the American Society
for Engineering Education in Baton Rouge, he attends a
meeting of the Founders' Society of Presidents, followed by
a trek to Des Moines for an Interim (regional) Conference
of ASME. At last, he heads to his office in the ASME head-
quarters in New York City to do battle with the Society's
$18 million budget.

In September, he confers with the Engineers' Joint
Council, the Centennial Steering Committee, the New
York Section of ASME, and the Finance Committee. On
September 29th, he receives a "roasting" and a reception,
including a two-inch thick pine plaque studded with four
lucky horseshoes from the Worcester section of ASME.
The plaque says, "Keep Pitching, Don." (Zwiep is an old
hand at winning the WPI ASME student section horse-
shoe pitching contests.)

His October diary notes a meeting with the ASME
Council to recommend and discuss changes for Society
structure in its second century; a bout with laryngitis in
Atlanta; and a Zwiep talk about energy on TV in Char-
lotte, N.C. In Los Angeles, he is slated to give a paper at
the Engineers Council for Professional Development deal-
ing with the AAES, an engineers' "umbrella" society. Other
stops are in Hot Springs, Virginia; Buffalo, where he
presents a paper; and back to New York City, where he
presides at a banquet.

10 /The WPI journal / Winter 1980

By now it is November, and Zwiep is off to headquar-
ters for two days of meetings prior to his Far East trip. "For
me, the Executive Committee meeting was of strategic im-
portance," Don confides. "That group, on behalf of the
ASME Council, approved a model document which later
enabled Dr. Rogers Finch and me to negotiate agreements
of cooperation with the mechanical engineering societies
in the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia." He looks out his
window, thoughtfully. "Less than two years ago, I never
imagined I'd be in a position to handle such an undertak-
ing. Being president of ASME has some real rewards."

HAVING A DEPARTMENT HEAD serve as presi
dent of a national engineering society has also been re-
warding for WPI. There is both high prestige and high visi-
bility in the position, and it carries with it an intrinsic
amount of good will that cannot help but rub off on WPI.
In recognition of Zwiep's notable achievements and con-
tributions, the WPI Alumni Association honored Don and
his wife at a reception at the Hotel Statler in New York
City during the ASME winter annual meeting on Decem-
ber 3. Among those on hand for the festivities were WPI
President Edmund Cranch, Vice President Thomas Den-
ney and Association Secretary-Treasurer Stephen J. He-
bert, '66. "The reception was most enjoyable," says Zwiep.
"We saw a number of recent graduates whom we hadn't
seen in some time, and we also met some new friends."

Although he was grateful at the response to his recep-
tion, Zwiep emphasizes that he is especially grateful to
WPI for allowing him to adjust his schedule so that he
could accept the post of president of ASME. "I also want to
thank the members of the ME department, who gener-
ously adjusted their own schedules so that I could under-
take my new duties," he says. "They have done a splendid
job in my absence."

Did Zwiep campaign hard to become ASME presi-
dent? "No," he replies with a smile. "I didn't campaign at
all. When I was asked in April of 1978 if I would allow my
name to be sent to the national nominating committee, I
knew that I was probably in the running, along with six to
ten other viable candidates. I was then asked to send a re-
sume to the nominating committee, as well as a statement
that I would serve if elected. My selection as president-
nominee was a complete surprise, for the nominating
committee is always sworn to total secrecy. I didn't learn
that I had been selected until the final announcement was
made at the summer annual meeting in Minneapolis in
the middle of June, 1978."

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, it
would appear, subscribes to the old saying, "When there's
an important job to be done, give it to the busiest person
you know." Zwiep's whole life has been busy, filled with
accomplishment and achievement.

Winter 1980 /The WPI journal/ 1 1

DONALD N. ZWIEP began teaching mechanical engi-
neering in 1951 at Colorado State University. Prior to join-
ing the WPI staff, Zwiep worked full time as a landing
gear design engineer on the B-50 and MX-839 aircraft for
Boeing in Seattle. He served with the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in the design and con-
struction of the local municipal airport.

Zwiep received his MSME from Iowa State Univer-
sity. In 1957 he was named professor and head of the ME
department at WPI. By 1965, his professional accomplish-
ments had grown so much that WPI awarded him an hon-
orary doctor of engineering degree. For several years, in ad-
dition, he was co-head or acting head of the management
engineering department.

He became a member or chairman of numerous aca-
demic and administrative committees, including the Insti-
tutional Committee on Evaluation of Engineering Educa-
tion (1953) and the WPI Presidential Selection Committee
in 1968. In October 1978 he was in charge of inaugural
proceedings for President Cranch.

Professor Zwiep was the driving force behind the ac-
quisition of WPI's nuclear reactor, and he organized its
staffing and educational use. Presently, he is involved
with the administration of the nuclear reactor facility, and
he has served as on the Alden Research Laboratory Advi-
sory Board.

In the classroom, he has taught in almost every area
of mechanical engineering, but with principal emphasis
on kinematics and machine design, along with metallurgy
and thermodynamics. "Even with my responsibilities at
ASME, I continue to teach in the senior seminar course,"
he declares.

Still active in consulting work, Zwiep is also chair-
man of the Board of Trustees of the James F. Lincoln Arc
Welding Foundation of Cleveland, and serves as director
of their award programs. He is particularly pleased with
the Foundation's Engineering Design Competition. "Hardly
a year goes by," he reports proudly, "that a WPI student
doesn't win an award."

In his spare time, Zwiep reviews books, appears as an
expert court witness, serves as a member of National Sci-
ence Foundation review panels, and as a state science fair
judge. He has directed three NSF-URF research projects
and done outside consulting.

One of his articles on engineering education has ap-
peared in a publication in Puerto Rico, while some 28
short articles on popular mechanical engineering topics
were published in the Grolier Encyclopedia and the Ency-
clopedia Americana. He has been published in the Massa-
chusetts Society of Professional Engineering Journal and in
the publication of the Providence Engineering Society. His
papers have been presented at the ASEE annual confer-
ence and at a meeting of the Eastern College Placement
Officers.

Professor Zwiep has received a wide variety of profes-
sional society, educational, and Air Force Reserve cita-
tions and awards. Throughout the country, on many occa-
sions, he has been an invited speaker on engineering edu-
cation topics. A registered professional engineer in Col-
orado and Massachusetts, he also belongs to Pi Tau Sigma,
Sigma Tau (honorary), Omicron Delta Kappa, Sigma Xi,
Tau Beta Pi, and Skull.

He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in
Education, American Men of Science, Engineers of Dis-
tinction, and Outstanding Educators of America. Within
the local community, he has served as secretary and presi-
dent of Torch International and is a member of the
Worcester Economic Club and the Worcester Engineering
Society

HE TALKS ABOUT his stint with ASME with the en-
thusiasm and confidence of one who has been an active
member and officer since his student days. First, he is a
Fellow of the Society, the membership grade of high dis-
tinction given only to those with significant engineering
achievements. Second, he has served the Society in many
capacities, including that of national vice president of the
Policy Board, Education, from 1972 to 1974, and concur-
rently as a member of the Council, the Society's governing
body. In 1973 he also served on the Council's Executive
Committee. A leader in the organizational structure and
development of ASME, he was chairman of the working
party on the Society's educational goal, was a member of
the long-range study group, and, since 1975, has been a
member of the Committee on Planning and Organization.
He is past chairman of the National Mechanical Engi-
neering Department Heads Committee, and he has been
chairman of the General Awards Committee.

12 /The WPI Journal/ Winter 1980

Although recognition of members' accomplishments
(an important personal concern of Zwiep's), is a vital part
of ASME, it is far from the main thrust of the organiza-
tion, as Zwiep is quick to point out. "The ASME, while
still adhering to its original objective of the dissemination
of technical information to industry for the public wel-
fare, is now a multi-faceted organization," he explains. "It is
concerned not only with member interests, but with pro-
fessional and public interests; its codes and standards op-
eration is a principal example."

He feels that ASME volunteers, who establish codes
and world standards for mechanical devices, save the U.S.
government millions of dollars that otherwise would have
to be paid to government consultants. "In this way, ASME
works directly in the public interest."

ASME, now moving somewhat away from a strictly
technical orientation, lobbies in Washington for laws to
benefit the nation. For instance, an ASME Congressional
Fellow is available to provide "white papers" covering such
items as energy alternatives to various congressional com-
mittees working on specific legislation. (WPI Professor
lohn Mayer was recently an ASME Congressional Fellow,
and John Caola, '80, a student intern.) This type of assis-
tance helps Congress make better-informed decisions on
matters dealing with technology.

As president of the ASME, Zwiep encourages growth
in membership by working closely with student organiza-
tions and industrial employers. At the opposite end of the
scale, he also works to use the expertise and experience of
the older members, many of whom have retired from ac-
tive industrial employment. It is Zwiep's responsibility to
see that the policies established by the all-volunteer mem-
bership are carried out by the paid 300-member profes-
sional staff at ASME headquarters in the United Engi-
neering Center in New York. He must, of course, attend
meetings of the ASME Council, its Executive Committee,
the Committee on Planning and Organization, and various
regional and technical committees, as well as the summer
and winter annual meetings.

Prior to taking office last June, Zwiep visited nine of
the eleven regions of ASME in the U.S. to review pro-
posals for the summer annual meeting agenda. "Any mem-
ber may propose any agenda item," he says. "It will be
heard, receive a peer review and then additional reviews
in the various sectional and regional meetings, and then a
final disposition about inclusion in the national confer-
ence agenda." Some of the areas he visits on weekends in
regard to these matters range from Boston to San Diego,
Salt Lake City to Houston. Says Zwiep of his travels, "I
serve as a spokesman for ASME, with or without portfo-
lio."

Winter 1 980 / The WPI journal

His wife Marcia accompanies Don on many of his
trips, for ASME encourages presidential wives to travel
with their husbands. Some of the regions and sections the
Zwieps visit have auxiliaries which annually give $70,000
for scholarships and loans to mechanical engineering stu-
dents. "I am personally very grateful to the Society for
these travel arrangements," Don continues, "as well as to
WTI for allowing me to set up my schedule so that I can
serve as president of ASME. The Society plans to further
recognize those industries and colleges that allow staff
members time off to hold national posts in the organiza-
tion."

NOW THAT HE HAS BEEN president for half his
term, how has Don Zwiep been conducting the affairs of
the society? "I'm not a virtuoso," he answers, "but I do
know who is performing well and who is not. My role is
more like that of a conductor trying to keep things har-
moniously productive."

Under Don's guidance, the ASME has started 1 980 off
on a harmonious note. It entered its first-ever float in the
annual Tournament of Roses Parade. "We entered the
$33,000 float to mark the centennial celebration of the So-
ciety. The West Coast section took care of the details, con-
ducted the fund drive, and did a remarkable job!"

A major concern during the next few months will be
the designing of a new governance system for the Society.
"A lot of hard work is involved," he admits. "We plan to
switch from a governing council plan to a board of gov-
ernors system, and we must have some good answers for
the members who ask, 'why changer"

Until his year in office is over in June, Zwiep expects
to be doing many "one-night stands" nationwide in con-
junction with the ASME centennial celebration. He will
make presidential speeches and sanction centennial char-
ters for new student and regular sections of ASME. It is a
foregone conclusion that he will continue to conduct the
affairs of the Society with the dignity and dedication that
has always characterized his leadership roles, whether
they be with WPI or with ASME.

Zwiep has brought to his presidential post a set of
high principles and a deep sense of responsibility He be-
lieves what Herbert Hoover once said about his profes-
sion:

"Engineering. It is a great profession.
There is the fascination of watching a fig-
ment of the imagination emerge through
the aid of science to a plan on paper.
Then it brings jobs and homes to men,
and adds to the comforts of life. That is
the engineer's high privilege ....

"He cannot, like the politician, screen
his shortcomings by blaming his oppo-
nents and hope the people will forget.
The engineer simply cannot deny he did
it. If his works do not work, he is damned

"But the engineer, himself, looks back
at the unending stream of goodness
which flows from his successes with
satisfaction that few professions may
know. And the verdict of his fellow pro-
fessionals is all the accolade he wants."

The ASME has a special code it follows in naming its na-
tional officers: "Let the office seek the man, not the man
the office." With the election of Don Zwiep as president
of ASME, the merit of that code is plain for all to see.

14 /The WPI Journal/ Winter 1980

Justice delayed

by Allan Sloan

If, as John Milton wrote, they
also serve who only stand and wait/'
HOWARD FREEMAN (WPI '40) and
his company deserve a medal.
They've been doing a lot of waiting
since 1958, in fact. That's when the
Navy began buying Freeman-designed
ball valves that allowed its fleet of
nuclear submarines to take to sea.
Rather than giving Freeman a
citation — or, more to the point, giving
his company some money — the Navy
allowed its submarine suppliers to
lump Freeman's patent. Hardly some-
thing to encourage capitalism or pa-
triotism.

After asking the Navy -- politely
- to pay him, and being turned
down in an administrative proceed-
ing, Freeman and his company, James-
bury Corp. of Worcester, Mass., sued
the government in the U.S. Court of
Claims in July 1963. Jamesbury has
won every round. Yet the company
has not seen a penny. If it's lucky, it
will get its money around 1981. For-
tunately for Freeman, Jamesbury, a
well-run valve producer, has made
enough money — $5.3 million ($1.57
a share) in its 1979 fiscal year — to
afford to slug it out with the feds. Le-
gal bills have run about $500,000.

lamesbury's seemingly endless
struggle to get paid is no small thing.
There's the money, of course; the
company would get about $16 mil-
lion ($4.70 a share) pretax if its claim
were granted in full today. But more
important is what it shows about the
legal system and about what's in-
volved in suing the government for
stealing a patent. Remember this:
The Jamesbury case is relatively nor-
mal. The feds are not stalling. The
suit Autogiro Co. of America brought
against the government in 1951 for
infringement of patents on its Auto-
giro (a precursor of the helicopter)
lasted a record 27 years, and nobody

reprinted by permission of Forbes
Magazine from the November 12,
1979 issue

was stalling there either. Except for a
four-year delay caused by extraneous
factors, everyone has been trying to
expedite Jamesbury's suit, now into
its second generation of lawyers and
judges. Imagine how long it would
take if everyone were stalling.

Our tale begins in 1958, when
Freeman, now 61, was a struggling in-
ventor trying to make a living selling
the world a better ball valve of his
own design. It was just four years af-
ter he had left a good job with a
Worcester company taken $60,000 of
locally raised seed money, and set up
a small lab on top of a printshop. He
was following his dream: a better ball
valve. Ball valves have several advan-
tages over globe valves, the kind
found on most standard faucets. A
ball valve operates by rotating a ball
mechanism through a quarter turn,
and will allow liquids or gases to flow
in either direction. A globe valve gen-
erally takes several full turns to
close, and is prone to squeaks, leaks,
and faulty washers.

Enter the Navy, which couldn't
find a globe valve to meet the re-
quirements of its nuclear subs.
Freeman, who'd invented the fog noz-
zle the Navy used on its fire extin-
guishers during World War II, had
valve expertise and security clear-
ances. He whipped up the necessary
valves, lectured on the subject, and
was properly thanked by a grateful
Navy -- until, of course, it came time
to pay him.

That produced the 1963 lawsuit.
In 1967 the judge ruled that
lamesbury's patent was valid and the
Navy had infringed it. The govern-
ment, naturally, appealed. Then came
a bombshell: a Massachusetts lawsuit
by the company that had acquired
Freeman's previous employer claim-
ing that Freeman had invented the
better ball valve while he was still an
employee. It took four years to dis-
pose of that; then the case went back
to Washington for a second trial. Ja-
mesbury won, the government ap-
pealed. In 1975 the Court of Claims
finally ruled that the Jamesbury pat-
ent was valid and had been infringed.

Then it was time for an account-
ing trial, to determine how much the
government owed Jamesbury. But
there weren't any records of Navy

purchases of ball valves — after all,
the Navy was buying submarines, not
valves. Three years of tedious labor
determined that, as best anyone
could guess, the Navy had bought
100,412 infringing valves for $87.3
million. Federal attorneys agreed to
those figures and said Jamesbury de-
served $1.66 million plus interest. Ja-
mesbury claimed $8.73 million, plus
interest. The trial was held in July
1978, final briefs were submitted last
June, and there's hope a decision will
come down from Trial [udge Joseph
Colaianni sometime this year. After
Colaianni rules, someone will doubt-
less appeal to the full patent court,
and then probably to the U.S. Su-
preme Court. If the Supreme Court
refuses to take the case, Jamesburv
might get paid in late 1980 or early
1981. If the Supreme Court hears the
case or a new trial is ordered, who
knows; None of this has attracted
wide attention. Says Robert Miller,
the Washington patent attorney who
has handled Jamesbury's suit for the
last five years, "Perry Mason-type sit-
uations don't happen here."

To find out what the delay has
done to Jamesbury, Forbes dropped in
recently to see Freeman in his
Worcester headquarters. In spite of
being shortchanged by the Navy, Ja-
mesbury has done rather well. Its
sales last year were $77.7 million and
its earnings $5.3 million. Over a typi-
cal Jamesbury lunch — a salad from
the employee cafeteria, served on pa-
per plates with sugar wafers for des-
sert — Freeman indulged in a little
proud reminiscence. "We were a two-
bit little company in 1957," he said,
"but we held the key to the success of
the Navy's nuclear fleet."

Getting money after more than
20 years is better than not getting it
at all. But Jamesbury isn't even get-
ting a good interest return -- the gov-
ernment began accruing interest at
4.75 percent in 1958 and is now pav-
ing just 8 percent on principal, with
no compounding. Freeman makes a
point of not complaining about how
long he's had to wait for his monev.
Still, the Jamesbury saga amplifies
the old adage: Justice delayed, espe-
cially at 8 percent with no com-
pounding, is certainly justice denied.

Winter 1980 The WPI Journal IS

In 15 years, Alden Research
Laboratory, one of the most
prominent hydraulic study
centers in the United States,
will celebrate its 100th
birthday

The centennial has
generated student interest in
collecting records and artifacts
of ARL's history and putting
them together into a
commemorative scrapbook. So
far, it has been difficult to
obtain much information,
especially about the earlier
years of ARL.

If any alumni can help out
on this project, it will be

greatly appreciated. If you have
some interesting knowledge of
events from ARL's earlier days,
or perhaps some documents or
records, would you please
share them with the students}

Please write to Mark W.
Scott, in care of The WPI
Journal. All documents and
photographs can be copied and
returned if you wish them
back. Thanks very much.

— Mark W. Scott,
Christopher A. Hare, and John
Gleftherakis

16 /The WPI Journal / Winter 1980

1914

Secretary:

Ellwood N Hennessy

The Phoenix Companies

680 Mechanics Bank Tower

Worcester, MA

01608

The invitation from Harry W. Tenney, Jr. '56
"Leadership Weekend Chairman" sent to me
and 55 other class secretaries was accepted by
this Class Secretary, "Bud" Hennessy, 1914. The
workshop conducted by Steve Hebert and Russ
Kay was most interesting to me, but when I
looked around for the other 55 secretaries, to
discover only about 1 5 or 20 present, I was
greatly disappointed. There is something wrong
with the situation as it concerns communication
between alumni and their college, rather than
with communication between alumni and their
secretaries.

What surprised me most was that the College,
under the name of the WPI Alumni Association
went to the trouble and cost of printing up the
blue Class Secretaries Handbook. I was truly
pleased and amazed that someone has dis-
covered that the college actually does want to
hear from the secretaries of the older classes
beyond the 50 year group. Yes, I believe that
those old living members may still be of some use
to WPI.

Everyone in my class knows Horace Cole.
What they may not know is that Horace lives
throughout the year in so many different places.
Part of the time he lives in his home in Sharon,
Pennsylvania. Another part in the summer time
in his home at Wellfleet on Cape Cod, and in the
winter time he stays at his club in Florida. Since
your Secretary has a summer home in Falmouth
on Buzzards Bay, the two of us try to get
together for a good old-fashioned talk.

This year my wife, Dorothy, and I met Horace
and his son, Dr. Richard Cole, for lunch at the
popular Yarmouthport Inn on Route 6A. The
reservation was for 1 :30 p.m. As we went in the
door, the hostess said, "Sorry you are three
minutes late for your reservation so I couldn't
hold your table! " However, in about five min-
utes she gave us another table. What a nice time

we all had. Good food, interesting conversations
and many interesting and delightful reminis-
cences.

I am sure that everyone who has been active in
the Class of 1 91 4 remembers the lovely home in
Spencer, where our Class President, Mike
Dufault, and his wife, Chris, entertained our
group years ago. For a long period of years I have
had business in Ware which kept me there twice
a year for part of a day. On my way back to my
office in Worcester, I would manage to arrive at
Mike's home, just about in time for "Happy
Hour." What enjoyable times we had in our talks
with Mike and Chris and a sister of Chris, who
was often there. Mike even kept my favorite
brand of liquid in his kitchen for my entertain-
ment.

But now Mike and Chris, because of poor
health, have sold their home, and have gone to
live with their widowed daughter in Wellesley.
So I either correspond with him or spend $10.00
talking with him on the phone. To talk with
Mike, however, is worth ten or twenty dollars
anyhow.

Back in 1960, Mike and Chris, and my wife
and I happened to be in Hawaii together, he in
an apartment for the winter, and we in hotels for
a month. There again we had wonderful times
together because Mike always knew where to
go and what to see to have a good time.

In the Summer Journal for 1 979, 1 note that
Edward A. Hanff, '10 of Pittsburgh died on
February 16, 1979. This announcement is a sad
one for me to contemplate. When I first entered
Tech, I lived in a room next to his in a private
home on Fruit Street. As an upperclassman he
was very good to me, a mere freshman, so that
we became good friends. I remember being
greatly impressed when he told me he had a job
for the coming summer that would pay him as
much as 45 cents an hour. Such a high pay in
those days was excellent.

On Monday, October 29th, I had a most
enjoyable talk over the telephone with Al and
Tillie Crandon. They have a lovely home in Little
Compton, Rhode Island. My wife, Dorothy and I
have had interesting and enjoyable visits in each
of our homes. For a couple of years we also
enjoyed each other's company in the
Coonamessett Inn in Falmouth.
— "Bud"

Ellwood N. Hennessy,
Secretary

After 23 years of retirement, Malcolm Campbell
is teaching again. He has been conducting a class
of 27 in life history writing at the Hawthorne
retirement community in Leesburg, Fla. For-
merly, he had taught for 38 years at Dorchester
High School in Boston. Active in the New En-
gland Biological Association, he was named pres-
ident, and in 1938 represented the NEBA in the
formation of the National Association of Biology
Teachers. He became president in 1939, and
attended the annual convention at Ohio State in
Columbus. "We offered a year's membership
and monthly issues of The American Biology
Teacher for one dollar a year — and still ended
the first year with a $300 balance!" In 1956, he
was one of eight science teachers in New En-
gland to receive the Elizabeth Thompson Award
for excellence in science teaching. Although he
spent only a year at WPI, Mr. Campbell says it
"was a most valuable step in my education."
Later, he continued his education at Mas-
sachusetts Agricultural College, and decided to
plant Macintosh apples at his Harvard farm.

1915

Maurice Steele, historian of the Rome (N.Y.)
Rotary Club, is currently writing a history of the
60-year-old club. He is also arranging for the
third yearly consecutive reunion of his 1910
Harford (Conn.) Public High School class.

I9I8

Secretary
John F Kyes. Jr.
40 Holden St.
Holden, MA
01520

The Maurice Richardsons celebrated their 60th
wedding anniversary on June 28, 1979. They
were honored during the 60th annual Rotary
installation dinner in Amsterdam, N.Y. Mr.
Richardson was recognized by the club for his
37-year perfect attendance record. In 1 961 , he
retired from Mohawk Carpet Mills (now
Mohasco Industries), after serving 20 years as
manager of engineering. He had been with the
firm since 1923. Earlier, he had worked four
years as a consulting engineer in New England.
He is a Naval veteran of World War I. For 12
years he was executive director of the Amster-
dam Community Chest (now United Fund). Four
years ago, he retired completely. Last year he
moved to a retirement apartment in Saratoga
Springs.

1924

In September, Warren Fish received an Award of
Merit in the nation's most prestigious competi-
tion for local history achievement from the
American Association for State and Local History
for his notable contributions to the cause of
historical preservation. Nominations originate at
the local level and are screened at the state and
regional levels by a national network of judges.
Only those nominees approved in the prelimi-
nary competitions are considered for national
honors. Mr. Fish was one of 100 nominees. The
American Association for State and Local History
has given awards to local historians and historical
agencies since 1 944. It has a membership of over
6000.

After fifteen months, Willard Gallotte has
completed a contract with Metro-Transit (Seat-
tle) as a consultant coordinator between design
and construction for a $46 million trolley-bus
project. He pushed contracts for 26 small substa-
tions serving 55 miles of trolley. "It sort of boosts
one's ego when out of the blue, at the age of 76,
I was hired to help out by a firm that I had never
worked for." He "retired" again at a luncheon
attended by division and department heads and
other colleagues.

Winter 1980 /The WPI Journal/ 11

1927

Secretary
William M. Rauha
4 Whiffletree Rd
West Yarmouth, MA
02673

The Harold Eastmans celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary on Oct. 5, 1979. Mr.
Eastman retired in 1 968 after 1 9 years at Anchor
Hocking and 22 years at Hartford-Empire-
Emhart. "Forty-one years of business related to
producing glass containers." The Eastmans now
are "pleasantly situated" in Friendship Village,
Columbus, Ohio.

1928

Secretaries:
Gifford T. Cook
Rte. 3 Box 294
Keyes Perry Acres
Harpers Ferry, WV
25425

Theodore J Englund
70 Eastwood Rd.
Shrewsbury, MA
01545

Last March and April, Andrew Maston was at GE
in Pittsfield, Mass., as an inspector for Alcoa on
the repair of a large transformer which was
needed for plant expansion. (He retired from
Alcoa in 1971.) He writes of his GE stint, "In
1 928, I visited the same plant on a WPI student
tour. I guess fifty-one years between visits isn't
overstaying one's welcome!"

I93O

Secretary: Representative:

Carl W. Backstrom Carl W Backstrom

1 13 Winifred Ave.
Worcester, MA
01602

Dan O'Grady and Carl Backstrom have had a
home and home golf match these last four years.
One held at the Worcester Country Club and the
other at Woods Hole Country Club at Falmouth,
Mass., where Dan has just finished his term as
president of the club. Carl continues as chairman
of the Citations Committee at WPI, and attends
all scheduled meetings as secretary of the class.
Roscoe Bowers writes that he has retired from
the Weyerhaeuser Co., but is still called in on
special assignments. So far he has moved 16
times for the company (Can anybody beat
that?). He spends his summers in Vineland, N.J.
and winters in Clearwater, Florida. Your secre-
tary had a very nice round of golf with him last
October in Marlton, N.J., and almost had
another hole-in-one with him — only 4 inches
away.

John Conley now retired, lives in San Diego,
Calif. John has joined the Lions Club, and like so
many retirees works as club treasurer, sight
conservation chairman, hearing committee
chairman, and budget chairman. This just leaves
him a little time to play golf, and take care of his
yard. He plans on being at the 50th reunion in
June.

Ed Delano has to be the best letter writer of
the class and is keeping us informed. He is still
winning senior bike races, and is getting in shape
for that 3100 mile jaunt to our 50th. He is
planning on leaving Davis, California on May
1st, averaging 100 miles per day. Since his bike
was totalled in a truck collision last year, Ed has
ordered a new custom-built model for time trials.
"It's the talk of the area, "he says. It should be. It
weighs 19 pounds and cost $1300!

Charlie Fay still works every day, but not eight
hours any more. He now has three grandchil-
dren: 2 boys and 1 girl. He is looking forward to
the usual get-together at his house after the
50th in June.

Carm Greco writes that he did some traveling
this past summer visiting Amsterdam, Brussels,
Frankfort, and took a ride on the Rhine. Even
though sundaes cost $4.50 in Frankfort, living
conditions in the U.S. surpass foreign countries,
he says. He'll see us all at the 50th.

Robert Hollick reports from El Cerrito, Calif,
that he retired in April of 1978 from the Federal
Power Commission. The mandatory retirement
age is 70. Inspired by Ed Delano, Bob has bought
a bike, but uses it only for exercise, not transpor-
tation to our 50th. Bob has lined up several
relatives that he will visit while here next June for
the 50th.

Jim McLoughlin recently celebrated his
"happy sixth anniversay retirement from North
American Philips Controls Corp., Inc." His cur-
rent activities include serving as a member of the
board of directors of Fort Nathan Hale Restora-
tion Projects, Inc. ; treasurer of the Citizens Park
Council; and library volunteer for the New
Haven (Conn.) Colony Historical Society. As a
hobby, he collects vials of sand from U.S. and
island beaches. "We've visited 39 so far."

Fred Peters: A very nice letter from Fred
informs us that his last retirement was from
Seton Hall University, where he taught man-
agement. He has just finished writing a book on
book publishing which will be published in 1 980.
He was recently honored by Seton Hall, with the
first edition of the University's "President's
Medal" — Congratulations Fred!

He still lives in Springfield, N.J., but spends
winters in Naples, Florida. He is also planning on
being at the 50th.

Carl Backstrom: Secretary.

1931

Secretary:
Edward J Bayon
45 Pleasant St
Holyoke, MA
01040

Representative
Oliver R Underhill, Jr
P.O. Box 281
Franconia. NH
03580

Carl Sage, still in the motel business in Buellton,
Calif., and Mike Sodano, who is retired and
living in Scottsdale, Arizona, had a short "reun-
ion" in July.

1932

Representative
Howard P. Lekberg
RFD 115 Main St.
East Douglas, MA
01516

Ted Barks has retired for the second time as
director of operations for X-Rail Systems, Inc. He
is now living in a new home in Amherst, Mass.
. . . Recently, Bill Reardon was elected chairman
of the Ellis Hospital board of managers in
Schenectady, N.Y. He was first appointed to the
board in 1971 . Until World War II, when he
served as a lieutenant commander in the U.S.
Naval Reserve, Reardon worked for the TVA.
After the war, he joined GE in real estate and
construction operations. From 1966 to 1973,
when he retired, he was manager of engineering
and was concerned with the management of
new facilities for GE throughout the continental
U.S. He is a registered, professional engineer, a
fellow of the ASCE, past director of the Building
Research Institute of the National Academy of
Sciences, and chairman of the Senior Elfuns
Society of GE. The Reardons have two children
and four grandchildren.

1933

Secretary

Sumner B. Sweetser
100 Pine Grove Ave.
Summit, NJ
07901

Representative:
Robert E Ferguson
36 Lake Ave.
Leicester, MA
01524

Presently, the Frank Eatons, Jr., reside in Port St.
Lucie, Fla. . . . Albert Glenn of Millbury, Mass.
writes that he is historian of the Bay Patriots
Chapter PHSA (Pearl Harbor Survivor-Army),
and has been connected with American Legion
baseball, the New England Professional Golfers
Association, and New England AAU track and
field. He continues to hunt and snowshoe.

18/ The Wl'l Journal/ Winter 1980

1936

Secretary

Harold F. Hennckson

1406 Fox Hill Dr

Sun City Center, FL

33570

Representative
Walter G Dahlstrom
9 JewettTerr
Worcester, MA
01605

till with du Pont, Carleton Borden is currently
the director of textile fibers in Wilmington. . . .
John Wyman has been promoted to resident
manager of the Maine facility, a research labora-
tory of the Maine DOT. in Pittsfield. He says,
"I'm doing traffic engineering studies using elec-
tronic data collection and reduction techniques.
Expect never to retire. Work too much fun!"

1937

Secretary;
Richard J Lyman
10 Hillcrest Rd

Medfield, MA
02052

Representative
Cordon F Crowther
20 Bates St.
Hartford, CT
06114

Recently, William Frawley celebrated forty
years of service with Bell Labs in North Andover,
Mass. In 1 939, he joined the company and was
responsible for submarine cable development
and the development of a method for laying
communication wire from airplanes. He was also
involved with mechnical design of communica-
tion equipment for the Signal Corps and other
armed forces communication development
work. In 1958, he became responsible for me-
chanical design of carrier equipment. Currently a
member of the technical staff, he now deals with
the physical design of the D3-D4 dataport units
and the MX2-L lightwave system in the Digital
Systems Physical Design Department. He holds
anMSEEfrom WPI.

Fran Harvey has been named by Gov. King to
a six-year term as a member of the Mas-
sachusetts Building Code Commission. In
November he received a Brotherhood Award
from the Worcester Chapter of the National
Conference of Christians and Jews as the repre-
sentative of the Roman Catholic faith. His award
was presented "for your consistent contribu-
tions, your worthy leadership, and your unique
ability to unite forces to improve the quality of
life." The award, in the form of a plaque, was
presented at the second annual awards dinner at
Pleasant Valley Country Club.

1938

Theodore Andreopoulos serves as a contract
engineer at Boeing for C.D.I. Corp. He is located
in Bellevue, Washington. . . . Ernest Gustafson
presently resides in Sun City Center, Fla.

Dr. Arthur Martell of Texas A & M University
is the 1 980 winner of the American Chemical
Society Award for distinguished service in the
advancement of inorganic chemistry, sponsored
by Mallinckrodt, Inc. Announcement of the
$2000 award was made at the Society's national
meeting in September.

Prof. Martell, head of the Texas A & M
Chemistry Department, is being recognized for
his wide-ranging contributions to inorganic
chemistry, as researcher, teacher, and author.
His major research interests include the physical
and chemical properties, stabilities, and kinetics
of metal chelate compounds in solution, and
metal-catalyzed biochemical mechanisms. As a
teacher, he has supervised some 40 PhD stu-
dents, many of whom have in turn become
academic researchers. Two of his books,
Chemistry of the Metal Chelate Compounds
and Inorganic Sequestering Agents, are classics,
as is his co-written compilation of two massive
volumes of selected and critical tables of stability
constants. He has written or co-authored 300
scientific papers and articles on his research. He
founded the Vourna/ of Coordination Chemistry,
and is editor of the monograph, "Coordination
Chemistry."

Dr. Martell has a PhD from NYU. He served a
year as an instructor at WPI. For many years he
was a professor and chemistry department
chairman at Clark University. From 1961 to
1 966, he was at Illinois Institute of Technology
as professor and chairman of the chemistry
department. Since 1 966, he has been at Texas A
& M, where in 1973 he was named Distin-
guished Professor. Among his honors are an
honorary doctorate from WPI, an honorary life
membership in the New York Academy of Sci-
ences, a fellowship in the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellowship at
the University of Zurich, and the National Sci-
ence Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at
MIT. He belongs to Sigma Xi and Phi Lambda
Upsilon.

Dr. Martell will receive the ACS Award for
Distinguished Service in the advancement of
inorganic chemistry at the Society's 1 79th na-
tional meeting in Houston next March.

1939

Secretary

Charles H Amidon, Jr.

636 Salisbury St.

Holden, MA

01520

Representative:
C John Lindegren, Jr.
21 Prospect St
Shrewsbury, MA
01545

While Edward Dench was with Raytheon from
1947 to 1978, he did a lot of things, "some even
technical." He has a career total of over 65
patents in fluorescent lighting, computers, color
printing, microwave tubes and heating, solid
state, and ultrasonics. He holds an MSEE from
MIT, and at one time was at Interchemical Corp.
He was cited by the Office of Scientific Research
and Development for technical contributions in
World War II. During retirement, he enjoys the
warmth of Florida and the Caribbean, fishing,
boating, gardening, gourmet cooking, sightsee-
ing, and swimming. He was a successful national
chairman of United Way at Raytheon, and is on
the board of a local company he helped to start.
He has twin-daughter housewives, an attorney
son, and ten grandchildren.

Last year, Howard Duchacek retired as profes-
sor emeritus from the University of Vermont,
following thirty years of service. Previously, he
had received his MSAE from Georgia Tech, had
served in the Navy, taught at Norwich, and
worked for Perkins Gear in Springfield, Mass.
Also, he had been at Ohio State, Colorado State,
Oklahoma State, NASA, GE, and the Naval
Research Laboratory. He has had the "wonder-
ful experience" of teaching young people in the
areas of thermal science, fluid mechanics, and
aerodynamics. Research included transient
thermal shock induced elastic-plastic stress
analysis. The Duchaceks have three children:
Lenora, a clothing buyer; Howard, a building
contractor; and Janet, a bank administrator.
Hobbies are sailing Lake Champlain, keeping up
with the kids, and maple syrup processing.

Although semi-retired, George Graham, Jr., is
still active with his own business, Warwick Copy
Products, Inc., which wholesales a line of copy
papers. Earlier, he was with St. Regis Paper,
Oxford Paper, and Glidden Company. While
with Johnson and Johnson, he did research in the
field of paper and received seven patents. For-
merly, he worked for Rohm and Haas, and
served as a staff sergeant in the Army. He and
Helen are the parents of Susan, who is married,
with one son; George III, a physicist; Wendy,
who is doing graduate work at Cornell; and
Alan, who has a master's degree from Syracuse
and is an associate programmer at IBM. Pres-
ently, Graham is secretary treasurer of the War-
wick (N.Y.) Chamber of Commerce. His "claim
to fame" is that he played bridge against John
Crawford, when he was the world champion.
Wife Helen is a legal secretary. She freezes or
preserves all Graham grows in his garden.

Eugene Gravlin continues with Knapp Shoe
Company, where he is vice president of the
Safety Shoe Division in Industrial Sales. At Knapp
since 1964, he had been employed by Kennedy
Printing, Fuller Brush, Western Auto, and H. H.
Brown. During World War II he was a major in
the Army Corps of Engineers. Pat is 29; Paul, 27;
and Eileen, 23. Ella has retired from Cardinal
Cushing Hospital, where she was a night nursing
supervisor. . . . Jacob Hagopian has been with
IBM for 27 years. Before that, he worked for
Northrop, Goodyear, Norton, MIT, and the U.S.
Army. Along the way, he picked up over 20
patents in computer data storage and retrieval.

Winter 1980/ The WPI journal/ 19

He has served as a church council member,
school trustee, a fund raiser for "high causes,"
and a helper in election campaigns. The Hago-
pians have five grown children. Their grandson,
Dana, 7, is the focus of their attention now.

Within a year after graduation, John Harvey,
Jr. became a sales engineer in the Boston District
Office of the Allen-Bradley Company of Mil-
waukee, a prominent manufacturer of electric
motor controls and electronic components. The
postturned into a 36-year career with retirement
a couple of years ago. Currently, he is a consul-
tant to the firm. "Along the line," he spent four
years in the Navy, married, and had three
daughters and two grandchildren. The Harveys
are enjoying retirement living on the Cape with
fresh air, sunshine, and boating.

Carl Hitchon tries to keep up in his study of
French and German, and travels as much as
possible. He is a director of a local savings bank.
In 1959, he purchased a plantfrom Glen Woolen
Mills, a former employer, and formed Glencairn
Yarn Mills employing about fifty workers to
make knitting yarn. Prior to being secretary and
executive officer at Glen Woolen Mills, Hitchon
worked for American Cyanamid Co. for several
years. His daughter, Marilyn, is married and an
interior decorator. His son, Carl, Jr., serves as a
mathematician at Softtechon. The light of his life
is his granddaughter, Tory, "who is very much
her grandmother's image."

Along with Wally Abel, Johnny Hollick, and
Dave McEwan, Don Houser joined United Shoe
Machinery (USM Corporation), now part of
Emhart Corporation, following graduation. After
serving in machine design and armament devel-
opment, he switched in favor of the commercial
side of the business. He helped USM expand into
machinery ventures outside of the shoe industry,
then he became affiliated with the International
Division. For 20 years, he has been involved with
USM'sBostik Chemical Group and living out of a
suitcase. Presently, he is vice president of admin-
istration, dividing his time between Mas-
sachusetts and Switzerland. He and his wife,
Ethel, a fine golfer, have two sons: Bob, a Boston
lawyer and Scott, "a budding insurance under-
writer." Ethel is busy with community projects
and competitive tennis. The Housers like skiing
and sailing near their summer cottage in New
Hampshire.

Harold Humphrey, Jr., writes that he is "now
easing into retirement" via the Research De-
partment at the Torrington Company. During his
long career at Torrington, a subsidiary of
Ingersoll-Rand, Humphrey has been a project
engineer, chief tool designer, machine designer,
assistant chief mechanical engineer, and chief
mechanical engineer of the Needle Division. He
has five daughters: Joyce, a world-travelled as-
sistant lecturer; Judith, a teacher at York Univer-
sity, Toronto; Mary Lou, a graduate of Endicott
Junior College and the mother of two daughters;
Nancy, a free-lance writer and mother; and
Kathryn, an LPN and ex-stewardess, who lives at
home. All have attended various colleges. Hum-
phrey has served in Harwinton, Conn, as chair-
man of the Zoning Commission, and is now
chairman of the Board of Finance. He is chairman
of the Central Connecticut Chapter of the Soci-
ety of Manufacturing Engineers, a National Ski

Patrolman, and was the Connecticut State
Champion Equipped Driver (sports car road ral-
lyist) for two years. He is also a motorcyclist and
Porsche enthusiast. . . . David Hunt, who was an
aeromechanics elective at WPI, with great hopes
of building machinery to travel through the air,
has instead spent his entire career with machines
to move air through pipes. "From pipe organ
blowers to nuclear power plant emergency
exhaust equipment," from engineering to man-
agement. Marge and he have enjoyed traveling,
much of the time on WPI alumni trips.

Bowling, cards, boating, biking, and garden-
ing are favorite pastimes of Roger Iffland. He
likes music, especially performances of the Yale
Glee Club, because daughter Julie is a member.
Joan and Nancy graduated from Central Con-
necticut. David, a Bridgeport alumnus, is a ma-
chine tool programmer, while Peter is at North-
eastern. For 39 years, Iffland has been with a
hometown company, the Torrington (Conn.)
Company. He has served as night supervisor,
machine designer, machine shop superintend-
ent, and chief design engineer to the chief of
mechanical engineering. The Ifflands have nine
grandchildren. . . . R. Adrien Jacques, now with
Concord Machine Tool Co. (importers of
Spanish-made equipment), spends a lot of time
in Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, and metropolitan
New York. Previously, he had been with Pelham
Machinery, Pratt & Whitney, and had served as
president of Bailey Tool and Supply, Inc., and as
sales engineer at Greenfield Tap & Die. During
World War II, he served in the Navy aboard the
Carrier "Wasp" as aviation ordnance officer in
major Pacific operations until V-J Day. He has
three children and five grandchildren. Pete, a
Holy Cross graduate, is with Abex Corp.; Ann
and her brother, Tim, help run her husband's
industrial painting business. Jacques' wife, Pat, is
director of sales for Pharmaceutical Marketers
Directory.

After a short stint at Draper Corporation,
Gleason Jewett spent 22 years with Wyman-
Gordon, and eventually moved into the sales
department in Texas. In 1955, he was named
southwest district sales manager. Currently, he is
technical representative for Standard Mfg. Co. in
Dallas. Although he has worked for Petersen
Mfg. Co. in Nebraska, and Brantly-Hynes
Helicopter, Inc., in Oklahoma, the Jewetts "al-
ways have returned to Texas." A flight instructor
(CFI), until recently Jewett owned an airplane.
Once he was president of Sky Haven, Inc., a
flight school and Cessna dealership in Nebraska.
He and Marge, one of the five top in the nation
in her age group in the AAU Master's Swimming
Program, have two sons and one daughter. Jack
is a top life insurance salesman; Bob, a Delta
Airlines pilot; and Martha, a surgical assistant.
There are seven Jewett grandchildren.

Samuel Kaplan says he "got into ecology
before it became fashionable." After working for
Harrington Richardson Arms, Pratt & Whitney
Aircraft, Boston Ordnance-Small Arms Branch,
and a hitch in the Air Force, he became con-
cerned with a Vermont logging project. Ecology
became important to him when he went into
water well drilling and did consulting on wells,
water systems, and water treatment. He serves
as a member of the American Arbitration Associ-

ation, and is called on as a professional engineer
and state witness in that field. His "fun and
games" is solar energy. He passed a course at
Hartford Graduate Center, and he is involved in
courses for geothermal heat pumps using well
water ("52 degree temperature range con-
stant") as a heat source. At his new dream
house, he has a backup system for maintaining
every system, including heat pumps. With his
computer, he is compiling an underground
water resou rce map from records he has kept for
thirty years. Daughters Nancy and Laura are in
the New York fashion world.

The Carl Keysers have "escaped" from Mas-
sachusetts and are now living in Rye Beach,
N.H., where Carl continues with his writing.
Over the years, he has written a number of
textbooks, two of which were translated into
Japanese and Spanish. "Both foreign language
editions are easier to understand than the in-
structions for Form 1040," he declares. After
mentioning Keysers Spare None: The Federal
Octopus in a broadcast, Harry Reasoner com-
mented that the author didn't like any of our
20th century presidents. Says Carl, "He was
wrong. Cal Coolidge was great!" In 1968, he
retired as Commonwealth Professor Emeritus
from the University of Massachusetts. . . . Fol-
lowing an eventful World War II with the Navy in
the Midway, South Pacific, and Central Pacific
campaigns, Ed Kiem returned to the U.S. and
subsequent five command jobs. In 1 963, he
became Captain, USN (ret.), after which he
joined North American Aviation forfouryears. In
1970, he earned his BA in math ("It took me 35
years!"). For several years, he taught math, until
it began "interfering with my golf game." Once
again retired, he enjoys travel and checking on
his family.

Phyllis and John Lancaster hope to retire on a
Grand Banks diesel trawler in 1981 , after John's
duties as assistant director of the National Radio
Astronomy Observatory and as manager of its
$78 million Very Large Array Radio Telescope
Construction Program in New Mexico are con-
cluded. They plan to cruise from the Virgin
Islands to Canada. They have built a home on
the fourth tee of the Socorro, N.M. Golf Course,
where golf may be played year 'round. With
their five daughters educated and married, they
are currently enjoying a "near second honey-
moon" in the beautiful west. Lancaster was the
first nongovernment person to receive the Na-
tional Science Foundation Medal for Meritorious
Service. He has been listed in Who's Who in
America. . . . For ten years, Leonard Landall has
been with Thomas A. Buff urn Associates of
Boston as an executive search consultant. Earlier,
he was with Frank C. Brown & Co., Draper
Corp., Gamewell Co., Northeastern, and Ray-
theon. Son John, 71 , built his own house in
Grafton. Daughter Nancy is with an electronics
firm, and Norma is in advertising. They are twins
and graduates of URI. Leonard and Ruth have
designed and built a home in Sandwich with a
beautiful view of Cape Cod Bay. They live there
12 months a year.

Carl Lewin has worked for the Austin Com-
pany since 1 940. He spent 1 2 years traveling the
world coordinating international sales activities.
The Lewins expect to retire in Maine in a few

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years. They have three sons: a professor; a
commercial pilot; and a telecommunications ex-
pert. Daughter Joan is a homemakerand school
board member. The Lewins, who have nine
grandchildren, have previously been involved
with scouting and fund raising. ... At the end of
World War II, Carl Lindegren, Jr., was dis-
charged with the rank of Lt. Commander, USN.
He then started a sales engineering business with
his father, which involved selling hydraulic,
pneumatic, and mechanical components in the
New England area. "Have an inside and outside
sales staff of 1 6 people, and enjoy the business
immensely." There are four Lindegren girls (in-
cluding twins), and a son, who is a student at
WPI. The family has been active in ski racing,
with Lindegren once serving as president of the
local racing team. They also race sailboats, and
Lindegren has been commodore of the Stage
Harbor Yacht Club in Chatham, Mass. Their
daughter, Debbie, was runner-up in the Wom-
en's National Sailing Championship in 1977.
Lindegren is a current member of the WPI
Alumni Board. He has served on the Shrewsbury
Industrial Development Commission, and as
chairman of the board at Fairlawn Hospital in
Worcester.

In 1977, Walter Longnecker semi-retired from
Gould, Inc., as vice president-international. After
a two-year stint as a consultant, he is now
completely retired. He had joined Gould in 1969
when the company he was with merged with
Gould and "saw an exciting growth record from
sales of $300 million to $1 .8 billion in ten years."
Earlier he had been employed at Morgan Con-
struction for two years and U.S. Steel for 26.
Walter and his wife are living the "good life" in
Hilton Head Island, S.C., and "now watch the
enthusiastic development of eight grandchil-
dren". . . Currently, William Lyhne, Jr., is
assistant director of Executive Compensation
Services of American Management Associations,
New York City. Previously, he was with Lone
Star Industries, Handy and Harmon, and
Bridgeport Brass Co., where he was employed
for 25 years. He has nine daughters, three sons,
and eleven grandchildren. Recently, he finished
a term as president of the Board of Associates at
the University of Bridgeport.

The Arthur Mallons of Alexandria, Va. live on
10,000 square feet of George Washington's
former pig farm, and "Helen spends some of her
time helping tourists spend money at the Mt.
Vernon Gift Shop." A baseball fan, Mallon has
been in nearly every big league city in 47 states.
In mid-career, he spent 18 years teaching at
Missouri School of Mines, Wentworth, Mer-
rimack, and Tufts. Another third of his career
was in private employment and engineering
practice; and the remaining third has been in
government employment, the last ten years
being spent in the Construction Grants Program
of the EPA. The Mallons have four girls, two
boys, and five grandchildren "with two dozen
degrees and professional registrations among
us."

With Pratt & Whitney Aircraft since gradua-
tion, Robert Martin is presently with the firm in
Belgium as head of engineering work with the
European companies, who are coproducing the
F-100 engine for the F-16 fighter. He is looking

forward to returning home and retirement. He
has three children and four grandchildren. Be-
fore going to Brussels, he served two terms on
the town council in North Palm Beach, Fla. He
and his wife, "Mart," bowl. ("She does better
than I!") He also plays some tennis. . . . Continu-
ing with Blake & Johnson Company, Dave Mc-
Ewan is now headquartered in Beaufort, S.C.

Robert Mirick writes that he retired in 1972
and thinks "there is nothing to beat it." He had
been president of Sanitary Farm Dairies, Inc.
(milk and ice cream) in Minnesota and Iowa.
Earlier, he was in the Naval Reserve, and had
worked for the Pillsbury Company. He is a
registered professional engineer in Minnesota
and a master electrician. A former president of
the North Central Milk and Ice Cream Associa-
tion, Mirick has also served as a board member
of the National Dairy Council, the Engineers'
club of Minneapolis, the local Methodist Church,
and the Audubon Society. He was chairman of
the board of the Ramesy County Historical Soci-
ety; treasurer of the Society of Mayflower De-
scendants (Minn.), and chairman of the board of
governors of the Shriner Hospital for Crippled
Children (Twin City unit). The Miricks have two
sons and like to go motor home camping. . . .
Over the years, Robert Murphy has worked at
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in plant engineering
and at Westinghouse, Murphy Air Engineering
and Automatic Refrigerating Co. Though semi-
retired, he still works part time as a consultant
and manufacturer of an air pollution control
device for industry called the "Oil Mistress." He
was widowed several years ago, and recently
married Marilyn, a psychologist. They commute
between Wayne, N.J. and Westerly, R.I., "half of
the time." Murphy's hobbies are power boating
and "criticizing the bureaucracy." He has two
married children.

Also enjoying early retirement, is John New-
ton, who lives in Brunswick, Me. "These are the
best years, with our home on the coast of Maine,
children and grandchildren within visiting range,
and our youngest daughter in high school." For
years, he had worked for American Steel & Wire
in Worcester. Both he and his wife Evelyn were
"local actors," with Evelyn also working as an art
teacher. Newton's earliest posts were at Stone &
Webster, the Norfolk Navy Yard, and New En-
gland Power in Providence. . . . Most of Albert
Nims' career has been associated with airborne
Air Force radar systems at Westinghouse in
Baltimore, Md. His wife, Betty, weaves, and he
has designed and built several looms for her.
They enjoy travel, have two daughters, and a
"No. 3" daughter in Norway, who lived with
them for a year through the American Field
Service. They have visited "No. 3" in Norway.
Their own daughters are nurses, one being a
former Army captain, and the other a former
Navy lieutenant. "The older one has provided us
with two grandsons."

Presently, Elmer Nutting serves as design en-
gineer in Smith & Wesson's new sporting prod-
ucts division. He had served 25 years with Noble
Mfg. Co., which he left as vice president. During
World War II, he worked for Savage Arms. Wife
Doris is director of Volunteer Services at Cooley
Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Mass. Son
Radley owns a six-man foreign car repair shop,

and Susan co-owns vintage clothing shops in
Colorado. The Nuttings have three grandchil-
dren. They like traveling and tandem bike riding.
A 21 -year deacon of his church, Elmer has also
been town moderator, a member of the water
commission board, the finance committee, and
the Industrial Development Financing Authority.
The Newcomen Society is another interest.

After thirty years at Heald Machine, Worces-
ter, Bradford Ordway retired in 1969. "Ain't
done nothing" since. He and Dot have a son,
Craig, an orthopedic surgeon and chief of
trauma at Nassau County Medical Center on
Long Island. They have a granddaughter and a
grandson. For twenty years, Ordway was mod-
erator and sometimes selectman in Holland,
Mass., with Dot being chairman of the school
board for ten years. Currently, the Ordways ski
one third of the year, spend the second third at
their Vermont house, and the last third, travel-
ing. They have driven from Bangkok to Singa-
pore, through the Australian outback, across the
Yucatan Peninsula, and around Patagonia and
the southern tip of South America.

John Peavey, although looking to a 1 980
retirement, in Hendersonville, N.C., is now a
chemical process engineer at American
Cyanamid, where he has been since 1964. Ear-
lier, he was with John H. Breck Company and
AG. Spaulding. In 1975, he retired as Lt. Col-
onel, Ordnance, after 23 years in the active
Army Reserves. His wife, Ann, has been a
member of the Westfield School Committee,
and former co-manager of the Westfield State
College Bookstore. Son William graduated from
Colgate and Harvard and is in the industrial-
residential carpet cleaning business. He is mar-
ried and has a daughter. Michael, a Duke
graduate, is a lawyer and also married. Louise
graduated from Mount Holyoke and UMass, is a
Latin and English teacher, and has a husband
and a daughter. Charles graduated from Prince-
ton and Stanford and is with McDonnell Douglas
Aircraft. Peavey raises exotic house plants,
makes Chinese furniture, and collects tools.

Still with Fraser Paper in Maine, Art Rand has,
during his career at Fraser, worked in the paper
mill laboratory and served as a technical sales
service representative, and as head of the service
group. He has also done research. Currently, he
is director of environmental protection. . . .
Robert Steele, until his retirement in 1976, was
employed by du Pont, primarily at the Niagara
Falls plant. At retirement, he was engineering
services superintendent. During his last five
years, he was in the Employee Relations Division
developing a simplified wage structure and han-
dling employee relations problems. Since retir-
ing, Steele has been a part-time consultant. He is
a professional engineer in New York and Ohio.
He has served as president of the Niagara
County chapter and as director of the New York
State Society of Professional Engineers; as direc-
tor of the Engineering Society of Buffalo; and as
president of the Technical Societies Council of
Western New York. He has been a church
trustee, Sunday School superintendent, and fi-
nancial campaign chairman. He is a Mason.
Editor's note: Steele's son, Bob, was a good
friend of mine in high school.

Winter 1980 /The WPI Journal/ 21

Before retiring in 1966, Frans Strandberg con-
cluded his career as a civilian engineer with the
Navy, as director of construction of the Atlantic
Underseas Test and Evaluation Center on An-
dros Island, Bahamas. He did a stint with the
Army's Anti-Missile Program in the 1960's, serv-
ing on the team that selected the Sprint Missile
for development. He spent four years at
Thompson Wire, Worcester and in active duty in
the Navy. Presently, Strandberg is an officer of
the Dartmouth National Bank, Hanover, N.H.
Since retirement, he's also been a church ad-
ministrator, village engineer, and a con-
dominium construction project manager. He is
now elder of the local Lutheran Church in En-
field, N.H., and has served on the town hall
renovation committee. Wife Elsie chairs the
church Social Ministry Committee, sings in the
choir, is secretary-treasurer of the area Ecumeni-
cal Council, and delivers Meals on Wheels.

Ernest Sykes, who taught engineering draw-
ing at WPI after serving in World War II, worked
on the construction of two churches near cam-
pus. Later, he worked for General Electric Realty
Corp., on construction management needs at
Appliance Park, Louisville, Ky., and the Atomic
PowerLab., in Pleasanton, Calif., among others.
Since 1961, he's been in plant engineering atthe
Lawrence Radiation Lab. in Berkeley, Calif., the
site of the original "atom smasher." He's been
concerned with problems of stable foundations
and earthquake-resistant restraints, so has be-
come the "in-house" expert at "rebuilding the
variety of landslides that plague us (on campus)
each winter rainy season." In 1974, he and his
wife served as Volunteers In Service to America
in the economically depressed area of northern
New Mexico. . . . For over thirty years, Cordon
Thompson has been a design engineer at G.F.
Wright Steel & Wire Co., designing extremely
fast wire weaving looms and processes. Early in
his career, he was with Eastern Bridge Co. and
Fiske Carter Construction Co. The Thompsons,
who live in Worcester, have two sons and two
grandsons. "We are proud grandparents."

Soon, William Wadsworth expects to retire
from WPI to his 1 300 acres of forest land in New
Hampshire, where he plans to continue his re-
search and consulting in acoustics and finish up
some of his writing. He received his MS from
WPI in 1941 , and then joined the electrical
engineering department. "Have been at WPI
ever since." In 1957, he became a full professor.
Since 1953, he has directed the WPI Acoustics
Laboratory, along with teaching. The lab devel-
oped hearing protectors and communications
systems for use in high level noise fields pro-
duced by jet aircraft. These developments led to
five U.S. patents, the royalties of which helped
support the laboratory. Wadsworth served on
the National Research Council committee on
helmets, and he belongs to IEEE, the Acoustical
Society of America, Audio Engineering Society,
and Sigma Xi. Besides being listed in Who's
Who, he has been honored with the Worcester
Engineering Society Award for Scientific
Achievement. For "diversion" he coached the
WPI tennis team for ten years.

Fred Webster, who spent 24 years teaching
mechanical engineering at WPI, is enjoying re-
tirement in Princeton, Mass. He and his wife,
Ruth, travel to New Hampshire summers and to
Wyoming and Vermont to see their grandchil-
dren. Sometimes they go abroad. Fred has sev-
eral hobbies. Ruth paints, weaves, and serves as
a library trustee. During part of their thirty years
in Princeton, Fred has had a term on the school
committee and three terms on the advisory
board. . . . Presently, Robert West is manager of
product research at Stanley Tools, where he
previously was director of product engineering.
He has been at Stanley for 22 years. Earlier he
was with Thayer Scale Co., Towle Mfg. Co., the
Navy, and Heald Machine, among others. He
holds 38 patents on hand tools such as tape
rules, hammers, and levels. One of his most
important is the basic patent for the Powerlock
rule line, the biggest-selling rules in the world.
Daughter Karen is married and the mother of
Jennifer, 3. Son Lee is a civil engineer. West has
been active in church work and scouting. His
wife continues as a part-time nurse. Activities
include woodworking, hiking, and travel.

Harold White, now back in the U.S. with
Norton, recently returned from a seven-year
stint for the firm in England. He has been at
Norton for 33 years. He had worked for GE and
the Factory Insurance Association earlier. "I was
once too long in India and China with the U.S.
Air Force." (Captain) Hobbies include antiques,
woodworking tools, and American clock collect-
ing. He likes to repair clocks and travel. "We
have been throughout Europe, Asia Minor and
Africa, but our favorite spot is Cape Porpoise,
Me., for family gatherings." The Whites have
three children : Patricia, a project manager at
Ginn & Co.; David, a physiotherapist; and
Catherine, a sales administrator; plus four
grandchildren. Last summer the Whites at-
tended the Queen's Lawn Party at Buckingham
Palace.

George Yule, who owns the family business,
Leominster (Mass.) Granite & Marble, and has
run it since 1 946, previously had worked for du
Pont and Worcester Gas. The Yules have four
married daughters and four grandchildren. Two
of the daughters have nursing degrees and two
have degrees in education. Their son Robert is a
WPI senior, and was captain of the football team
for two years. (Also, he's on the varsity
heavyweight eight in crew.) Yule is a Past Master
of the Masonic Lodge, and a Past Exalted Ruler
of the Leominster Lodge of Elks.

After 20 years in aerospace, Dick Wilson
continues in facilities engineering and adminis-
tration for the Long Beach (Calif.) Schools, a post
he enjoys and has held for over seven years. He is
president of the local Rotary Club. He and Mae
attended the Rotary International Convention in
Rome in June. Also, he is serving on the Regional
Policy Board and on a national committee of the
ASME. He has been active in neighborhood
associations, and has served as a school board
trustee, scoutmaster, United Fund chairman,
City Master Plan committeeman, and church
treasurer. He founded San Clemente Canyon
Park in San Diego. The Wilsons' daughter,
Kathy, graduated from Berkeley and is an artist.
Keith is an ME and project engineer, who has
three daughters; Shelley is married and living in
Norway; Ken, a former Rotary Youth Ambassa-
dor to England, is at Brigham Young University.
Wilson hobbies are jogging, back packing,
swimming, and conservation.

1940

Secretary

Robert E Dunklee, Jr.

Rocky Hill Rd

North Scituate, Rl

02857

Representative
Russell A. Lovell, Jr
Jonathan Lane
Sandwich, MA
02563

Everett Smith, who is retired from U.S. Steel
Corp., Electrical Cable Division, spends much of
the year in Fort Myers, Fla. . . . Since last Jan. 2,
Dr. Michael Wales has been senior research
scientist at ABCOR, Inc., in Wilmington, Mass.
He retired from Shell Development Co., Hous-
ton, Texas, in December of 1978.

1 941

Secretary
Russell W Parks
7250 Brill Rd
Cincinnati, OH
45243

In October, William Simmons, chairman of the
Sino American Cooperative Organization
(SACO), led a group of 100 former U.S. Naval
Group China World War II veterans and their
wives on a two-week visit to Free China in
Taiwan. The group, as guests of the government
of Free China, visited in the Republic of China
and observed progress of the ten great projects
being implemented to modernize and industri-
alize the Republic. Meetings with top govern-
ment officials and industrial leaders were part of
the agenda. SACO is an organization devoted to
friendship and continued contact with the
Chinese Ministry of National Defense in the
Republic of China. (Simmons is president of W.
P. Simmons Company, Inc., in San Rafael, Calif.)

22 /The WPI Journal/ Winter 1980

1942

Representative
Norman A Wilson
17 Cranbrook Dr.
Holden, MA
01520

Donald Packard has joined Jahn Foundry in
Springfield, Mass.

1943

Representative
Robert S Schedin
RFD#1

Brookfield, MA
01506

Dr. Arthur Lindroos, still with Penick Corpora-
tion, is now associate manager of engineering in
Lyndhurst, N.J.

1944

Secretary:

John C. Underhill

6706 Barkworth Dr.

Dallas. TX

75248

Representative
John A. Bjork
1 1 Tylee Ave
Worcester, MA
01605

Recently, Alan Gault returned from a two-year
stay in Jordan, where he supervised the con-
struction of a new airfield for the Jordanian
government.

1945

Representative

Robert E. Scott

Allendale Mutual Insurance Co.

PO Box 7500

Johnstown, Rl

02919

Robert Chaplick says, "After thirty years with
the federal government, I have retired." He had
been an aerospace technologist at NASA's God-

dard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md

Howard Gerring has become affiliated with
Winslow-Smith Associates in Westport, Conn.,
where he is a senior associate. The firm handles
professional placements. Gerring's area includes
manufacturing and manufacturing support pro-
fessionals, as well as engineering and technical
support. He is chiefly concerned with place-
ments in Connecticut, Westchester County, and
New York City.

1946

Secretaries:

M. Daniel Lacedonia

106 Ridge Rd

East Longmeadow, MA

01028

George H Conley, Jr
213 Stevens Dr
Pittsburgh, PA
15236

Nestor Brown has been named manager of
engineering evaluation services for Carrier's Ma-
chinery and Systems Division. He is a former
manager of air systems engineering services, and
has had extensive experience in the design and
development of HVAC equipment. Since 1962,
he has been a member of ASHRAE. . . . John
Osborn has been named superintendent of in-
spection at the Bay City (Mich.) Chevrolet plant.
He joined General Motors in 1953, and prior to
his most recent promotion, was superintendent
of inspection at Chevrolet Grey Iron, a post he
had held since 1971.

1947

Representative:

Allan Clazer

20 Monadnock Dr.

Shrewsbury, MA

01545

Norman Feldman, vice president of corporate
manufacturing service at Honeywell, Inc. , has
forwarded the information that former WPI
President (and Admiral) Wat Tyler Cluverius was
aboard the U.S.S. Maine when it was sinking in
Havana Harbor, Cuba, in 1898. He came across
the information in a review in the Naval Institute
"Proceedings" on a book by Admiral Rickover
titled How the Battleship Maine was Destroyed.
At the time of the sinking, Admiral Cluverius was
a naval cadet. Later, in court, his testimony was
used because "his observations were amazingly
perceptive." Page 117 states, "Thus, the obser-
vations made by Cadet Cluverius appear to
describe the sounds and motions to be expected
from an internal burst."

I948

Secretary:
Paul E Evans
69ClairmontSt
Longmeadow, MA
01106

Representative:
John J Concordia
16 Summer St
Shrewsbury, MA
01545

Paul Holden continues with Westinghouse and
is manager of the engineering department for
Gas Turbines at the South Philadelphia plant.
Paul's son, Carl, graduated with high distinction
in architecture from Penn State last year. Not
long ago, Carl spent a semester abroad studying
European architecture.

1949

Secretary:
Howard I. Green
1 Kenilworth Rd
Worcester, MA
01602

Representative
Sidney Madwed
21 5 Crest Terrace
Fairfield, CT
06432

In May, Thomas Bamf ord was appointed corpo-
rate vice president of research and development
at FMC Corp., Chicago, III. For the past five
years, he has been president of Bamford As-
sociates, Boston, a technology consulting firm he
formed following over twenty years with Arthur
D. Little, Inc. . . . Fred Brennan, the ITT
Aerospace-Optical Division director of business
development, has been elected vice president.
He is responsible for planning, directing and
coordinating all business development activities
for the division, including marketing, advanced
programs, advertising, and business planning.
Earlier, he was director of marketing at ITT
Gilfillan, Van Nuys, Calif., and had fifteen years
of marketing experience with Singer-Kearfott.

Currently, Feecon Corp. Westboro, Mass.,
owned and operated by Jim O'Regan and John
Gagliardo, '46, is the major supplier of equip-
ment for airport crash fire trucks for the U.S. Air
Force and the Navy. In 1975, the company
became part of the Philadelphia Suburban
Group. From 1949 to 1968, O'Regan was with
Rockwood Sprinkler (and successors) until it
moved to Maine. The O'Regans have a married
son and daughter, and a son and daughter in
college. Mary and he enjoy golf, and their
grandsons.

Estelle and James Peepas have four
daughters: Valerie Ann, who is married and is a
graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of
Music; Chrisanne, a graduate of Westminster
College and an employee of Clark Equipment in
the management training program; Diane, an
acting major at Bennington College; and
Stephanie, a marketing major at the University
of Bridgeport. Peepas is president of Selecto-
Flash, Inc., West Orange, N.J., with manufactur-
ing facilities and warehouses throughout the
world . Estelle loves to golf and Peepas has taken
up fishing "in my old age.". . . Hugh Robinson is
cautious around his 750 BMW motorcycle these
days. Last fall, he spent forty days in traction and
weeks more in a leg cast following an accident
that broke his knee. He and Doris travel in their
mini-motorhome and square dance. Their son
Glenn is married and lives in Truckee, Calif.;
Rachel is at California Polytechnic State Univer-
sity. They have a grandchild. For 16 years,
Robinson has been with Raychem in Sunnyvale,
Calif. He is western region sales manager re-
sponsible for half the U.S. for the Chemelex
Division. He is involved with corrosion preven-
tion products for underground and underwater
pipelines.

Winter 1980 /The WPI Journal/ 23

Joe Skidmore is still a sales engineer for Armco
Steel. His wife is a pediatric nurse (RN). His son is
a school teacher in Seattle and his daughter is a
student at Central Washington University. The
family backpacks, golfs, and plays tennis. Joe

likes photography Robert Smith has his own

consulting practice in Eugene, Oregon after
nearly 24 years with Westinghouse. He is doing
largely industrial work, with "as little commercial
design as possible. ' ' Amy is a student at the
University of Oregon right at "the bottom of the
hill." Carol and he are enjoying peace and quiet
around the house and their yard and garden.

Alfred Strogoff continues as president and
chief executive officer of International Foodser-
vice Corp. in California. Previously, he had been
with Sun Chemical Company, as vice president
and managed Standard Kollsman, a Sun sub-
sidiary. He also had been president of a Litton
education group. For 2 1 years, he was with Adler
Electronics, where he rose to executive vice
president. "My WPI background helped prepare
me well for my career changes." The Strogoffs
have five children: Jody, a reporter; Nancy, an
editor; Michael, a graduate student in architec-
ture; and Lauren and Jimmy, college students. . .
Most recently, Wallace Thompson has been
involved with technology transfer and licensing
atdu Pont in Wilmington, Del., where he's been
since 1 950. Now that his three sons have their
bachelor's degrees and have left home, his wife
is planning "grand additions and improvements
to our house, despite its proven adequacy."
They like tennis and golf, and belong to some
community organizations.

Since graduation, Robert Wallace has been a
telephone engineer with Bell systems, IT&T,
COMSAT and F.C.C. for the last ten years. The
Wallaces live on three acres in Northern Virginia,
where they have a six-stall barn and kennel and
breed prize golden retrievers. Bob and Joy are
very active in the Vienna Baptist Church. He is a
deacon and she is director of the child care
program. They sing in the choir, which toured
Europe over a year ago. Summer finds them in
Georgetown, Me. They have five children and
two grandchildren.

I950

Secretary:

Lester J Reynolds. Jr

15 Cherry Lane

Basking Ridge, NJ

07920

Representative:
Henry S. Coe, Jr
3 HarwickRd
Wakefield, MA
01880

John Adams is currently general agent for Occi-
dental Life Insurance Co. of California. He is
located in Indianapolis. . . . Formerly with Heald
Machine and the Alden Hydraulic Laboratory,
Richard Amidon has now been named senior
vice president of New Hampshire Ball Bearings,
Inc., Peterborough, N.H. . . . Francis Fay con-
tinues as principal engineer at Raytheon Co.,
Wayland, Mass.

Dr. Herman Nied has joined the GE Research
and Development Center, Schenectady, N.Y.
With GE since 1960, Dr. Nied has served as a
research engineer in GE's Re-entry and En-
vironmental Systems Division, Philadelphia; an
analytical mechanics engineer at Knolls Atomic
Power Lab. , Schenectady; and as manager of
advanced mechanics in the Gas Turbine Division.
He has a PhD from the University of Pennsyl-
vania and belongs to the ASME, the Society for
Experimental Stress Analysis, and the American
Academy of Mechanics. He is a professional
engineer in New York and New Jersey.

Les Reynolds is still at the American Cyanamid
Company in Bound Brook, N.J. Presently, he
holds the position of assistant marketing man-
ager of Textile Chemicals. He attended the
National Technical Conference of the AATCC in
October at which Joe Gibson, '44 received the
highest award in the textile dyeing industry, the

Olney Award Robert Stewart has resigned as

president and chief operating officer of Arlen
Realty & Development Corp. to take over the
new post of senior vice president of corporate
planning development at IC Industries, Inc.,
Chicago. IC is a diversified railroad, real estate
and food products company. Stewart will primar-
ily be in charge of strategic and operational
planning, acquisitions and divestitures. His first
assignment will cover a possible major transac-
tion involving Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, a
subsidiary that IC sought earlier to sell to South-
ern Railway. Stewart has been nominated by the
WPI Alumni Association to a five-year term on
the WPI board of trustees beginning in 1 980.

195 1

Secretary
Stanley L Miller
11 Ashwood Rd
Paxton, MA
01612

Representative:

John L Reld

31 Spring Garden Dr.

Madison, NJ

07940

Frank MacPherson has retired from politics after
serving four years as a Westfield (N.J.) council-
man and council chairman of the Public Works
Dept. While in office, he was concerned with
instituting extensive storm water controls, in-
cluding a large retention basin project. He says,
"Jack Malloy, '54, was my 'boss', as he has
served as town administrator for many years."
Last year, MacPherson Control Products, Inc.
celebrated its 20th anniversary. The older Mac-
Pherson daughters graduated from UVM. Carol
is in Suffield Academy.

1952

Secretary

Edward G Samolis
580 Roberts Ave.
Syracuse, NY
13207

Richard Boutiette, DPW director in Wakefield,
Mass. since 1961 , has been reappointed for a
three-year period by a unanimous vote of the
board of Public Works. In 1977, Boutiette was
named "Man of the Year" by the New England
Chapter of the American Public Works Associa-
tion, which he had previously served as presi-
dent. He is a past president of Norfolk Bristol
Middlesex Highway Association and a member
of the New England Waterworks Association. He
was chairman of the Technical Advisory Com-
mittee for Solid Waste Disposal for the MAPC.
He has been employed by the Massachusetts
DPW, Edward and Kelcey, and the Town of
Reading, Mass., as town engineer. In 1966, he
gained national recognition for his unique
snow-plowing school. He is a registered profes-
sional engineer, and he belongs to the ASCE, and
the Massachusetts Municipal Engineers Associa-
tion. . . . Earl Klaubert's son Brian is studying
mechanical engineering at WPI.

1953

Secretary:

Dr David S Jenney

109WilbrookRd.

Stratford, CT

06497

Ernest Demar writes: "Now that my son Danny
has decided to attend WPI, I am no longer a
'missing person.' " For 17 years Demar has been
working abroad. Currently, he is a resident con-
struction manager for Pullman Kellogg Limited,
assigned to a large refinery expansion for Mobil
Oil outside of London, England. Demar's oldest
son is a sophomore at Tufts. . . . Dave Elovitz has
resigned as chief executive officer of Medical
Area Service Corporation in Boston to devote full
time to his private practice as a consulting man-
agement engineer concentrating on energy sys-
tems. He has an office in Natick. He started
MASCO in 1972 and built it to an annual volume
of over$12 million. His private practice will build
on his national reputation in the energy conser-
vation field.

24 /The WPI journal/ Winter 1980

1954

Secretary:
Roger R Osell
18 Eliot Rd
Lexington, MA
02173

Representative
Roger R Osell

David Bisson is president of Trend Transit, Inc.,
Burlingame, Calif. . . . Sahl Kabbani's eleven-
year-old firm, New Products Industries in Saudi
Arabia, manufactures PVC pipes. "It was the first
of its kind in the country in 1968." Formerly, he
worked as general manager of the Arabian
Cement Company. Two daughters are married
and son Khairy is studying in Michigan. A few
years ago, Kabbani had a "great" reunion with
Abdul Kazi who had 2,000 men under him, and
who was responsible for the American and Rus-
sian aid to Afghanistan in the field of construc-
tion. "After the revolution, I lost contact with
him." The Kabbanis have traveled often to Brazil
and Europe and twice around the world.

After working as an engineer for seven years,
Thomas Kee switched professions for a career in
the investment business with Merrill Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. He is now an
assistant vice president. Son Kenneth, a former
high school All-Stater in tennis, is at MIT. Kim, at
Brown, was also an All-Stater in tennis and won a
varsity letter in girl's track. Kara is in grade school
and also likes tennis, golf, and gymnastics. In the
summer, the Kees play golf and tennis, turning
to platform tennis in the winter. Kee is an "avid
backgammon player," and enjoys philately. He
sometimes runs into Dick Lindquist at stamp
shows. Currently on the board of the Rhode
Island Association for the Blind, Kee has also
served as PTA president and church treasurer.

Jerome Kilburne has spent 25 years with New
England Telephone & Telegraph, except for
three years with AT & T in New York. In 1 975, he
started a woodworking business featuring
selected furniture accessories, clocks, and
stained glass items. The Kilburnes have three
children: Debbie, who is at Rhode Island School
of Design; Bruce, who is a landscaper; and
Donna, a high school senior. They reside in
Westwood, Mass. . . . King Killin writes that his
goals are to "once get an assignment that is not
somebody else's disaster, and to catch a 14
pound largemouth bass." As for his career, or
anyone else's, "you must be in the right place at
the right time to insure success." Since 1974, he
has held the post of vice president of engineering
at American Can (U.S. Reduction). Previously,
he was with Kaiser Engineers, Bridgeport Rolling
Mills, and U.S. Steel. The Killins have two sons
and a daughter.

Joseph King of Randolph, Vermont, says that
his favorite hobby is sailing his 35-foot sloop,
"Sea Fever" along the coast of Maine. He likes
photography and other outdoor activities, too.
His biggest interest now is constructing energy
efficient buildings that can be partially heated
with alternative energy sources. Presently, he is
president of the King Company, Inc., doing
general contracting. He owns a small commer-
cial development which has a completed office
building and others are being planned. Earlier, he

formed an engineering consulting firm, Dubois
& King, which provides environmental engineer-
ing services to northern New England and which
continues to expand. In 1970, be became senior
vice president. He resigned a few years ago to
start another firm. Formerly, he worked for
Metcalf & Eddy in Boston and the New England
Division of the Corps of Engineers. He and his
wife have four children, the oldest having re-
cently graduated from the University of Ver-
mont— Richard Kirk works as staff engineer in
high-speed printer development at IBM in Boca
Raton, Fla. Formerly, he was with IBM in
Huntsville, Ala., and with Hamilton Standard in
Windsor Locks, Conn. He has two sons and a
daughter. Over the years, he has seen service
with the Jaycees as secretary and president in
Suffield, Conn., and as an officer and commit-
teeman for churches in Suffield and Huntsville,
Alabama . . . Says Haralambos Kritikos, "After
obtaining my BS and MS at WPI and being full of
good memories, I went to the University of
Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where I continued
my studies and obtained my PhD in electrical
engineering. I then went to California Institute of
Technology as a research fellow for a year, then
back to the University of Pennsylvania as a
member of the faculty. I am now professor of
electrical engineering at the University of
Pennsylvania, where I teach and do research in
the area of electromagnetic waves."

Robert Labonte's group's activities have fo-
cused on NASA, principally in the planning,
design, development, testing and integration of
improved command and control systems needed
to support both the Space Shuttle and the many
"exciting space programs planned for the late
1980's." Earlier, he led special studies activities
on the airborne warning and control system; and
served as the U.S. consultant on overall com-
munications planning on the U.S. NATO delega-
tion in Paris. In previous years at Westinghouse
Air Arm, he worked on the development of the
radar for the Bomarc missile. For a time, he was
on the staff of MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. The
Labontes' only child, Robert, spent two years at
Columbia, and is now completing his education
nearer home. Wife Dolores is the current presi-
dent of the Shrewsbury Woman's Club. . . .
Harold Lake wrote an article that appeared in the
Proceedings of the Electronic Components Con-
ference and a chapter, "Design for Shock and
Vibration," which was published in theHand-
book of Electronic Packaging, McGraw-Hill. He
serves as supervisor of electro-mechanical pack-
aging process control systems at the Foxboro
Company. Other associations were with Com-
puter Signal Processors, Inc., Sylvania, and
Sperry Gyroscope. He has an MS from Adelphi
University. His daughter, Debra, graduated from
BU; Sheryl, from Bryant College; and Beth is in
high school, while Rhonda is in junior high.
Lake's wife, Harriet, a dental hygienist,
graduated from the University of Bridgeport.

Paul London runs a business fixing vacuum
pumps, but spends all the time he can sailing.
Former posts were as refrigeration contractor
and as a builder of environmental rooms for oil
companies. He spent two years at White Sands,
N.M., "trying to get some ball bearings to orbit
the earth." He has one child at Ithaca College,
one at Lewis & Clark, and one riding a bike
around England. His second wife, Sharon,
graduated this year with a degree in accounting.
The Londons live in San Francisco. . . . Russell
Lussier says that among his "special awards" are
seven speeding tickets, two tax audits, and a
condemnation notice from Planned Parenthood,
Inc. (The Lussiers have five sons.) He has his own
agency in Warren, Ohio, where he is a manufac-
turers' representative. Earlier, he was seven
years in sales with Horsburgh & Scott Co.,
Cleveland, and nine years with the Torrington
Company.

Except for a stint in the Army, Douglas Mac-
Laren has been with the Torrington Co. since
graduation. Presently, he is in sales management
in South Bend, Ind. Previously, he had been
district engineer and southwestern district man-
ager, with the bulk of his experience being
associated with the oil and aircraft industries. He
has served on engineering committees for the
American Petroleum Institute. One of his sons is
pursuing an accounting career, and another,
engineering, at Texas A&M. The youngest is
eight and keeps Dad's interest in soccer and
Little League alive — Victor Matonis continues
with Monsanto in Springfield, Mass., where he is
technology group leader, R&D. He has written
some 20 technical papers, and holds an MS and
PhD in applied mechanics from UConn. Says he
plays "lousy golf, not too bad bridge," and that
he and his wife have covered most of the world
traveling. Both children are at UMass. Matonis is
past chairman of his section of the ASME. . . .
Malcolm McLeod is a senior development en-
gineer at UCLA. He holds both an MS in en-
gineering and a PhD in planetary and space
physics from UCLA.

Milton Meckler delivered a paper, "Integrat-
ing Solar Powered Heat-Recovery-
Cogeneration Chillers with Building and Thermal
Storage Characteristics," before the Interna-
tional Conference on Energy Use Management
held in October in Los Angeles. The paper
described some of the newer concepts being
developed by the Meckler Energy Group and

Meckler Engineers Group in Encino, Calif For

two years, Harry Mirick has been business
manager-controller for external resources (In-
ternational Purchasing) at Digital Equipment
Corp., Maynard, Mass., and has traveled exten-
sively in the Far East and in Europe. He had been
with HMW Industries, Lancaster, Pa., as vice
president of operations at Time Computer, Inc.,
producer of Pulsar digital watches. He was also
with IBM and the U.S. Army Signal Corps. His
wife, Jean, is a nurse at Worcester's Memorial
Hospital. Son Robert is at the Naval Academy;
and a daughter, Suzanne, at Grove City (Pa.)
College. Mirick likes to sail, garden and hike. He
is active with the Methodist Church, the Mas-
sachusetts Council of Churches, and the IEEE

Winter 1980 /The WPI Journal/ 25

Howard Nelson, long associated with the WPI
Fund Board, received his master's degree from
WPI this year. For the past two years, he has
been at Jamesbury in Worcester. Since gradua-
tion, he has worked for four companies in the
engineering departments, and found the associ-
ations "most pleasant." The Nelsons have two
sons and reside in Grafton. . . . The youngest of
David Nickerson's three daughters is in her
senior year in college. After 1 5 years in engineer-
ing, David and two other people went into
business. "The venture has kept me quite busy
and satisfied." The Nickerons live in Wilbraham,
Mass.

Bob Niro holds the post of manager of field
communications for the Technical OEM Group
at Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard, Mass.
Since he joined the firm 1 3 years ago, he has
spent most of his time in marketing positions and
promoting the very successful PDP-8 minicom-
puter. Earlier, he spent five years at LFE/Tracerlab
in Waltham, Mass. traveling the U.S. and
Canada as a project engineer. He and his wife
Jackie, who likes to ski, have two daughters,
Leslie and Christina. . . . Robert Pickford is the
manager of systems and procedures for the
Pharmaceutical Group of Warner Lambert in
Mendham, N.J. His group is comprised of six
drug companies, such as Parke-Davis, Warner
Chilcott, Texas Pharmacal, and Lactona. He has
also been at American Optical, Mass. Mutual
Life Insurance Co., and American International
College, where he received his MBA and estab-
lished a data processing program. For a time, he
worked for the Counter Intelligence Corps in
Panama. Pickford and his wife Betty are the
parents of Linda, a Gettysburg College student,

and Stephen, 17 During Fabian Pinkham's

career, he has worked on numerous nationwide
projects in the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, and
made the first installation of an integrated data
processing system within the USDA. He served
on the National Inventory Task Force of the
USDA; was a member of USDA's National
Transportation Management Task Force;
worked on problem areas, such as packaging
and protective services; and developed and insti-
tuted mathematical models for obtaining op-
timum solutions for competitive bids involving a
multiplicity of limitations, i.e., origin points
(sources of supply), processing plants, and desti-
nation points for finished products in all fifty
states. His efforts proved successful, and he was
presented with the highest award for an em-
ployee suggestion ever granted in the National
Processed Commodity Office.

In 1 978, Ed Power was elected vice president
for planning and market development of
Windspan, Inc., a new General Foods subsidiary
formed to develop a dinner house restaurant
chain. Previously, he had been employed by
General Foods at its headquarters in White
Plains, N.Y., for ten years working on corporate
development programs. The Powers have three
children: Jane, Maura, and Ned. Power is a
captain in the Naval Reserve. He is inspector
general for a Reserve Readiness Command near
Schenectady, which is responsibleforthousands
of reservists. . . . With the Magnetics Division of
Spang Industries for ten years, George Ramig is
now regional sales manager over eight salesmen

covering the eastern part of the U.S. Company
products include cores for transformers and
magnetic steels. Ramig has taken up tennis,
which he says his son, Keith, plays better than
he. Daughter Jeanne is at Indiana University.
Ramig's wife, Virginia, is a musician, while
Ramig is active in musical groups and enjoys
nature photography. . . . For two years, Walt
Reibling has been plant manager of the Louis-
ville (Ky.) Corning Glass Works plant known as
Corhart Refractories. The plant makes fused cast
refractories for the glass industry. Reibling has
been at Corning for 1 5 years. He has three
children: a college graduate daughter living at
home; Kurt, a married mechanical engineer
working at IBM; and a daughter at UConn.

Donald Ross is vice president and general
manager at MPB Corporation in New Hamp-
shire. He has been involved in sales, marketing,
and specialized business serving the aircraft and
aerospace industries. Presently, he is responsible
for three divisions in New England. The older
Ross daughter graduated from Dartmouth, and
the younger is 19. Their son is 14. Ross and his
wife Prue are involved with a bank directorship
and volunteer school work, respectively. Hob-
bies include baseball and antique auto restora-
tion.

Laurence Sanborn's oldest boy is a student at
WPI. At home, his hobby is "keeping two older
cars out of the grave." His true career love is
microelectronic assembly, primarily in the areas
of thick film hybrids. Last May, he became senior
manufacturing engineer planner at Hamilton
Standard, Electronics Division. Among earlier
employers were GE and Raytheon. . . . Dexter
Sanford serves as a staff engineer for Northeast
Utilities Service Company in Berlin, Conn. His
responsibilities include the design and applica-
tion of protective relay systems for the affiliated
companies of Northeast Utilities. During his
career, he has worked for Connecticut Power
Co., served in the Army at the White Sands
Proving Ground in New Mexico, and at Hartford
Electric. . . . After a number of years with GE,
Fairchild, and Sperry Flight Systems, William
Schoenemann joined Microform Data Systems
as manufacturing manager. Eight years later, the
company had grown from two people in man-
ufacturing and zero sales, to 250 people and $36
million in sales. Schoenemann rose to vice presi-
dent of operations at Microform, then joined
Telecommunications Technology, Inc., in
California, recently, where he is continuing his
pattern as a "workaholic." He's played racquet-
ball three times a week for five years.

Richard Scott holds the post of senior es-
timator in the Providence office of Gilbane Build-
ing Co., a firm he joined following graduation.
He worked on various road, bridge, and building
jobs for the company, then in 1 966, he became
town engineer for his home town of Cumber-
land. In 1 971 he returned to Gilbane. He is a
professional engineer. The Scotts' four sons all
like sports, and Dad has served as Little League
coach. Scott has also been associated with the
local youth hockey group, and the Cumberland
Public Skating Association for the past ten years.

. . . William Seubert, a licensed professional
engineer, is a senior engineer at C.F. Braun &
Co., Murray Hill, N.J. He and his wife Diana have
four children and live in Belle Mead.

Continuing at the Naval Underwater System
Center in Newport, R.I., Edwin Shivell is con-
cerned with A&W ranger and fleet systems T&E.
He has been Massachusetts state president of
the Jaycees. He also was involved with Masonry
and the United Fund. Among his hobbies are
tennis and sailboat racing. . . . Making antique
imitations, woodworking, and cabinetry are fa-
vorite pastimes of Charles Simonich. He super-
vises engineering design, construction and main-
tenance of aerial, underground, buried and
submarine structures and cable facilities for tele-
phone communication needs of the Springfield
(Mass.) district of New England Telephone Co.
Son Charles attends Fairfield University; David is
a high school student; and John is in junior high.
. . . The Halvor Skjellaugs love to travel and
spend many vacations in the Canary Islands.
Skjellaug works for Norsk Hydro-Rjukan Fabrik-
ker in Norway. The company produces am-
monia, ammonium nitrate for forest fertilizers
and explosives, and concentrated nitric acid, as
well as heavy water and a variety of rare gases.
The family, which includes a son and daughter,
likes skiing, fishing, and gardening. . . . After
twenty-five years with du Pont, Walter Stewart
of Marietta, Ohio, is presently a senior process
engineer in the fluoropolymers division man-
ufacturing Teflon and providing liaison with the
engineering department. In the past, he has
been involved with the production of the plastic
inner layer for windshields, and had been as-
signed to Parkersburg, W. Va., and Aiken, S.C.
Dave is at the University of Cincinnati Medical
School. Doug is at the University of Colorado,
and Cindy is in high school. All are competitive
swimmers. Stewart has coached the local YMCA
team.

Seventeen years ago, McKinsey & Company
invited Henry Strage to go to London for a
"short" assignment. Today he is still there, serv-
ing as a director of the firm. He, his wife, and four
children love London. "It is probably the most
civilized city in the world." His most satisfying
professional assignments involved the complete
restructuring of the government of Tanzania and
the reorganization of the United Kingdom Na-
tional Health Service, which employs a million
people. He's been associated with the U.N., the
British Cabinet think-tank, and the Bank of
England. He is now on assignment with the
multinational chemical and oil companies. He is a
governor of the Hebrew University Jerusalem
Institute of Management. He writes manage-
ment articles for magazines, speaks at seminars,
and sometimes teaches at Harvard Business
School. The Strages are well traveled, like to ski,
and are involved with the National Association

for Gifted Children Wilfred Taylor is the

principal member of TEC Associates in Wind-
ham, Me. (consulting civil and sanitary en-
gineers). Other associations have been with Dale
E. Caruthers Co., Crowell & Taylor, Barnstable,
Mass. (town engineer), Corse & Tibbetts, and
Columbia Gas Co. Taylor is a professional en-

26 /The Wl'l Journal/ Winter 1980

gineer and enjoys building houses. He has been
busy in civic associations, scouting, sailing, and
farming. "Raise most of our own food." He
hopes to develop water and wind power as well
as solar energy alternatives. Currently, he has a
tree farm and heats with wood. He has two sons
(one a former WPI student) and four daughters.

Otto Wahlrab continues as the owner of John
P. Slade Insurance in Fall River, Mass., having
purchased the company in 1975 from Bill
Worthley, '37. He was with Firemen's Mutual
Insurance Co., the Navy, and New England
Telephone Co. The Wahlrabs live in Rehoboth,
where Otto is on the planning board. He is a
former chairman of the Republican party in
Massachusetts, a trustee of the Congregational
Church, president of Family Planning of Fall
River, and a director of the local Chamber of
Commerce. He is involved with Rotary, scouting,
squash, and golf. The Wahlrabs have three
daughters, two being in college. . . . Steinerfilm,
Inc., Williamstown, Mass., where Cordon
"Bucky" Walters is president-treasurer, is being
expanded by 30,000 square feet. (Son Glenn,
76, is plant manager.) Walters started the firm in
1972. He was a former employee of Sprague
Electric, du Pont, and was with the Army. He
holds two patents and has been published in a
national magazine. His concerns include church
work, prison visitations, Bible studies, camping,
swimming, sailing and fishing. Recently, he was
in Brazil. He is associated with American Field
Service, scouting, the PTA, Little League, and is a
director of First Aggie National Bank and Jiminy
Peak. He holds 45 percent of the stock in
TEPCO. The five Walters children and their
parents enjoy their waterfront home on Lake
George. Walters is a member of the Presidents
Advisory Council at WPI.

R. Kingman Webster holds the post of man-
ager of a regional manufacturer and distributor
of feeds for poultry and livestock, and he is
located in Andover, Mass. He is a member and
officer of several Masonic, YMCA, Red Cross,
and United Fund associations. Hobbies include
puttering around the house and yard, skiing, and
tennis. The Websters have three daughters. . . .
In the past year and a half, Wesley Wheeler has
had eight career-oriented trips around the
world. He heads his own firm of International
Maritime Consultants Wesley D. Wheeler As-
sociates, Ltd. in New York City. Among his
projects have been the coordinating of four
containership new buildings for ITEL Corp./
Seatrain Charter, numerous ship surveys, and
legal cases. He is also the U.S. representative for
Astilleros, Espanoles, S.A. Earlier he was with
American Bulk Carriers, Inc; Wheeler Yacht Co.;
M. Rosenblatt and Son, Inc.; John J. McMullen
Associates, Inc.; and J. J. Henry Co., Inc. For
seven years he lived in Spain, Malta, and the
Netherlands. He has an MS in engineering
(Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering)
from the University of Michigan. ... For twelve
years, "Howie" Whittle has served as treasurer
of Hollingsworth and Vose Co. , which manufac-
tures and sells $53 million worth of specialty
paper and non-woven products worldwide. Lo-
cated in South Acton, Mass., the Whittles have

three daughters, "who have grown up on a little
farm with lots of horses around." They summer
on Cape Cod and do some Sunfish racing. They
winter at Mad River Glen, Vt., on skis. Their
oldest daughter graduated from RIT, and is
married; their second is a student at UMass, as is
their youngest. Wife Bebe is "quite a horse-
woman."

1955

Secretary

Kenneth L. Wakeen
344 Waterville Rd
Avon, CT
06001

Representative:
Edouard S. P. Bouvier
123 Beechwoods Dr.
Madison, CT
06443

Robert Holden now teaches engineering sub-
jects at Cuyamaca College in San Diego, Calif.
The school is an "offshoot" of Grossmont Col-
lege, where he has taught for years. Last summer
he ran in two marathons (26 miles, 385 yards),
and clocked 3 hrs, 48 mins., at the San Francisco
marathon, and 3 hrs., 54 mins. in San Diego. He

was track manager at WPI in 1 955 Charles

Walters, manager of the Wallingford (Conn.)
Electric Division, has been reelected treasurer of
the Northeast Public Power Association
(NEPPA). Employed in the utility industry for
over 20 years, he also has an MBA from the
University of New Haven. NEPPA is a Wellesley
(Mass.) based association representing the 81
consumer-owned electric utilities in New En-
gland.

1956

Secretary:

Rev. Paul D. Schoonmaker

325 North Lewis Rd

Royersford, PA

19468

Representative:
John M. McHugh
431 Beacon Hill Dr.
Cheshire, CT
06410

Alan Adamson, formerly supervisor of Genera-
tion Planning, has been appointed planning
manager of the New York Power Pool. He is
responsible for the Pool's eight member electric
power systems, which supply the major portion
of the electric energy consumed in New York
State. He manages the planning staff, and di-
rects studies regarding the need for different
types of generating and high voltage transmis-
sion facilities in the state. After graduation, he
joined Long Island Lighting, and before joining
the Pool in 1 971 , served as supervisor of genera-
tion and interconnection planning. With the
Pool, he was responsible for supervising, per-
forming, scheduling, and coordination of gener-
ation planning studies in his capacity as super-
visor of generation planning. He belongs to the
IEEE and serves on the Application of Probability
Methods Subcommittee. He and his wife, Carol,
have three children and reside in Guilderland,
N.Y.

Still with United Technologies, Ernest Bern-
stein is now engineering manager in Farm-
ington, Conn. . . Donald Lathrop has been
promoted from associate professor to professor
in the humanities division at Berkshire Commu-
nity College in Pittsfield, Mass. He started teach-
ing in the sciences and engineering department
in 1961 , and presently teaches philosophy. He
has two master's degrees: one in natural science
from RPI and another in religion from USC.

1957

Secretary:

Dr Robert A Yates

1 1 Oak Ridge Dr.

Bethany, CT

06525

Representative
Alfred E Barry
1 Algonquin Rd
Worcester, MA
01609

John Daly has been elected president of seven
Columbia Gas System distribution companies
with headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. Columbia
Gas Companies included are those in Kentucky,
Ohio, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Vir-
ginia, and West Virginia. Since 1976, Daly has
been general counsel and secretary of Columbia
Transmission Corp. in Charleston, W. Va., a unit
of Columbia Gas System. He has been with
Columbia since 1957, and holds a law degree
from Seton Hall. In 1961 , he was named an
assistant supervisory engineer in New York, then
corporate headquarters. In 1971 , he was pro-
moted to senior attorney. He became a member
of the law department of Columbia Transmission
in 1973. In 1976, he was named general counsel
of the firm. Daly and his wife, Jane, have three
sons and a daughter. . . . Bob Lemay is working

for IBM in Hopewell Junction, N.Y Presently,

Richard Moore serves as supervisor of applica-
tion engineering at SKF Industries, Inc., in King
of Prussia, Pa. . . . Robert Propper continues as a
visual information officer at the U.S. Dept. of
Transportation in Washington, D.C.

Donald Rising holds the post of manager of
medical products development at Millipore
Corp. in Bedford, Mass. . . . Richard Stevens is a
sales engineer at Sprague Electric Co. in In-

glewood, Calif David Stuart, who serves the

Baha'i faith as an assistant auxiliary board
member in Massachusetts and New York, was
guest speaker at a Baha'i fireside discussion in
Schenectady, N.Y. last September. He is an
assistant director of the New England Power
Exchange.

Winter 1980 /The WPI journal/ 21

1958

Secretary:
Harry R. Rydstrom
132 Sugartown Rd
Devon, PA
19333

Neil Carignan holds the post of chief design
engineer in the Jacksonville (Fla.) office of M.
Rosenblatt & Son. He is primarily concerned with
Navy marine design. . . . Norman Taupeka is
currently attending the Industrial College of the
Armed Forces in Washington, D.C., his studies
there concluding at the end of June. ICAF pro-
vides senior level courses of study and associated
research in the management of resources in
support of national security for selected military
officers and career civilian officials in the federal
government. For three years, Taupeka has
served as chief of the Systems Engineering Divi-
sion at the Center for Tactical Computer Sys-
tems, U.S. Army Communications Research and
Development Command, Fort Monmouth, N.J.
He has held increasingly responsible positions at
Fort Monmouth since graduation. The Taupekas
and their daughter, Mary Ann, reside in Alexan-
dria, Va.

1959

Secretary:

Dr. Frederick H. Lutze, Jr.

110 Camelot Court NW

Blacksburg, VA

24060

Representative:

Dr Joseph D Bronzino

Trinity College

Summit St.

Hartford, CT

06106

After many years of teaching and administrative
work, Oscar Hawley has just assumed the
headmastership of the Harvard School in
Chicago. The Hawleys have a son, Peter, and a
daughter, Mary Elisabeth. "We try to return to
New England every summer for some play at the
shore in Rockport, Mass." . . . Philip Holden is
currently computer systems supervisor at the
Brevard (N.C.) film plant of du Pont. His daugh-
ter, Cathi, made the dean's list at the University
of North Carolina, and is working toward a
degree in veterinary medicine. Sister Lori was
voted "Citizen of the Year" at her high school,
where she was named official photographer of
the senior class. Cathi has traveled to Europe and
Lori to Venezuela on school trips. The girls also
visited an exchange student friend in Japan. . . .
Leo Price continues with the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers. He is presently serving as a
geotechnic engineer in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is
concerned with the construction of air bases
under the U.S. -Israel agreement. He specializes
in horizontal construction and foundations.

i960

Secretary
PaulW Bayliss
170WyngateDr
Barnngton, IL
60010

Representative
JohnW Biddle
78 Highland St.
Holden, MA
01520

Cdr. Kevin Burke is teaching management at the
U.S. Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey,
Calif. Last year, he was evacuated from Tehran,
Iran, where he was serving as an advisor to the
Iranian joint staff. . . . Recently, Thomas Hous-
ton purchased an ornamental iron works busi-
ness in Eugene, Oregon. He had been employed
by Hughes Aircraft in Fullerton, Calif., for 19
years. . . . David Mudgett works at the United
Technologies Research Center in West Palm
Beach, Fla.

John Reisinger has been named division staff
manager of residence services for Southern New
England Telephone in a newly created post. He is
responsible for staff functions, including busi-
ness office and phone center store methods and
commercial budgets, results, and training. Ear-
lier, he was division manager in materials man-
agement. He joined SNET as assistant engineer
in 1960. In 1967, he was named installation and
maintenance supervisor. After serving as district
equipment superintendent and northern area
staff manager, he was promoted to division
manager in 1976. He has an MBA from the
University of Hartford, is a team captain for the
United Way of Greater New Haven, and a
member of the University Club of Hartford. . . .
Frank Siegel holds the post of senior engineer at
Raytheon in Bedford, Mass. He is in the hybrid
microcircuit advanced development group.

I961

Secretary
John J Gabarro
8 Monadnock Rd.
Arlington, MA
02174

Henry Allessio, vice president of Hayes/Hill, Inc. ,
a management consulting firm, was recently
quoted in The Wall Street Journal as saying that
demand for auto parts was projected to rise a
slim 1 .45 percent in 1 979 compared with a
growth of 3.9% and 5.5% in 1978 and 1977,
respectively. People buy fewer auto parts when
they drive less, as the slowdown in the growth of
auto parts sales proves. . . . Richard Andrews
continues as program manager for ERT, Inc., in
Concord, Mass. ... Dr. Norman Bolyea is now
president of Bolyea Associates in Rye Beach,
N.H. . . . David Chesmel has been appointed
manager of marketing for the seal and packing
division of Chemplast, Inc., Wayne, N.J., a pro-
cessor of high performance plastics. He is re-
sponsible for marketing in the new division, as
well as for sales and product development pro-
grams. He holds a master's degree from Wayne
State University.

Nino DiPilato has transferred to a new IBM
location in Charlotte, N.C. He is presently work-
ing on the system design and architecture of
Retail Banking Systems as an advisory engineer.
He, his wife, and two sons are living in Mathews,
a suburb of Charlotte. "We are all adjusting well
to the beautiful North Carolina weather." . . .
Ralph Guertin has moved to Denver, Colo., and
is now a geophysical consultant with McAdams,
Roux, O'Connor Associates, Inc., an oil and gas
exploration firm. He is responsible for geophysi-
cal research and for development of new
mathematical methods to process seismic data.
. . . Brad Hosmer has been elected corporate vice
president of Group Services for AMF Incorpo-
rated. Brad joined AMF in 1978, following a
series of marketing, operations and engineering
management assignments with three com-
panies, including the management consulting
firm of Booz Allen Hamilton. At Branson Sonic
Power Co., he rose to vice president of special
products marketing. AMF Incorporated, his
present firm, is a worldwide producer of leisure
time and industrial products.

James Kachadorian, owner and founder of
Green Mountain Homes, Royalton, Vt., spoke
about his manufactured solar homes as part of a
session on emerging architecture in Kansas City
in October at the Fourth National Passive Solar
Conference. Since 1976, Jim's designs have re-
ceived national recognition by such organiza-
tions as the National Passive Solar Institute, the
American Section of the International Solar En-
ergy Society, Inc., the National Woodwork
Manufacturers Association, Solar Engineering
Magazine, and House and Garden. Sandia
Laboratories, Los Alamos, N.M., selected
Kachadorian's design as one of fifteen passive
solar homes studied for a special report last July.
The houses were considered to be the best
passive solar-heated buildings of the year. Al-
ready studied by Dartmouth's Thayer School of
Engineering, Jim's homes will soon be studied by
Brookhaven Laboratories of New York.

Green Mountain passive solar homes are indi-
vidually designed for homeowners, manufac-
tured in Royalton, and shipped throughout the
eastern U.S. from Virginia and Kansas to the
Canadian border. Presently, the Kachadorians
are building their own solar home, the first such
home in Woodstock, Vermont.

Normand Noel is the new director of Gilbane
Building Company's regional office in Houston.
Since starting at Gilbane in 1 970, Noel has
served as district manager of business develop-
ment in the Providence and Washington, D.C.
regional offices. He has an MBA from UConn. A
Marine for 20 years, he continues as a lieutenant
colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve.

28 /The WP1 journal / Winter 1980

1962

Secretary.
Harry T Rapel|e
1313 Parma Hilton Rd
Hilton, NY
14468

Representative:
Richard J. DiBuono
44 Lambert Circle
Marlboro, MA
01752

Charles Belanger, M.D., has moved from the
associate staff to the active medical staff at
Hahnemann Hospital in Worcester. He has been
associated with the hospital since 1975. After
graduating from WPI, he did graduate work in
physics at the University of Wisconsin and
studied at Dartmouth Medical School. He re-
ceived his M.D. from the University of Vermont,
and was an intern and resident at Children's
Hospital, Buffalo, N.Y. As a member of the U.S.
Army Medical Corps, he was assigned to Martin
Army Hospital, Fort Benning, Ga. . . M. Philip
DeCaprio has been promoted to manager of
engineering and operations program control and
reporting at Northeast Utilities in Hartford,
Conn. . . . Recently, Clifford Engstrom, manager
of the Middleboro (Mass.) Gas and Electric
Department, was reelected to the board of
directors of the Northeast Public Power Associa-
tion (NEPPA). He has been manager at Marlboro
since 1975 and an employee of the municipal
since 1970. He, his wife, Jane, and three sons
reside in Lakeville. NEPPA represents 81
consumer-owned electric utilities in New En-
gland.

After nearly five years in England, George
Forsberg has returned to the U.S. and is currently
a manager of HMD process technology for
Monsanto in Pensacola, Fla. . . . Martin Gross
has been named product line manager responsi-
ble for the direction and management of the
modular analog and converter and modular
instrument product lines of the Instruments and
Systems Group at Analog Devices, Norwood,
Mass. Since 1968, he has held a number of sales
management positions, the most recent being
that of manager of special sales development.
He has an MSEE and MS in engineering man-
agement from Northeastern. He is married, has
two children, and coaches youth soccer and
Little League in Sudbury, Mass. Analog Devices
is a leading supplier of electronic data acquisition
products. . . . Verne Viele is with Harris Corp.,
Web Printing Press Division, Pawcatuck, Conn.
He and his wife, Sheila, have seven children. . . .
Presently, Stephen Wells holds the position of
director of operations at Lever Bros, in New York
City.

1963

Secretary:

Robert E Maynard, Jr.

8 Institute Rd

North Grafton, MA

01536

Representative:
Joseph J Mielinski. Jr
34 Pioneer Rd
Holden.MA
01520

Alan Elias is a systems programmer-analyst at
Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, Conn. . . . Robert
Maynard, Jr., is the newly-elected vice president
of finance at R. H. White Construction Com-
pany, Inc., Auburn, Mass. He is in charge of
finance and administration for the company and
its subsidiaries. He holds an MBA from
Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Ad-
ministration. . . . Recently, Roger McGee was
promoted to crude oil trading coordinator for
Standard Oil Company of California in San Fran-
cisco. He finds that with unsettled crude supply
at the present time, his is a very busy and
interesting assignment. Previously, he was in-
volved with operations planning for Chevron
USA, Standard's domestic subsidiary. . . . Wil-
liam Newhall continues with the family com-
pany, Harwood Engineering, in Walpole, Mass.
The firm makes equipment used as the national
standard for pressure gauges by several coun-
tries around the world. Harwood models are
used in the U.S. Bureau of Standards in
Washington, DC. Copies of Harwood gauge
calibrators are on display in Moscow and To-
koyo. ... A. Stephen Otis serves as vice presi-
dent of Merrill Lynch, in Los Angeles. ... A.
Edward Scherer has received his MBA from the
RPI Hartford Graduate Center. . Bill Zinno
continues at Dresser Clark, Olean, N.Y., where
he is materials manager.

I964

Secretary:

Dr David T Signon, Jr

661 3 Denny PI

McLean, VA

22101

J. Michael Anderson is now with Continental
Can Company in Wayne, N.J. . . . Benjamin
Brunell holds the post of manager of manufac-
turing applications at Waters Associates in Mil-
ford, Mass. ... Dr. James Kaput, associate
professor of mathematics at Southeastern Mas-
sachusetts University, has been named a Dan-
forth associate. The Danforth Foundation As-
sociate Program recognizes and encourages ef-
fective teaching and fosters activities which
humanize teaching and learning for members of
campus communities. Kaput joined the SMU
faculty in 1 968. He teaches algebra, the philoso-
phy of mathematics, and mathematics educa-
tion. He has an MA and a PhD from Clark Still

with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, John Macko is
presently manager of government liaison for the
government products division in West Palm
Beach, Fla. . . . William Phillips has been pro-
moted to manufacturing manager of Norton
Company's Diamond Tool Division. After eight

years in Holden, he has relocated to North
Carolina.

John Schmidt is an audio-video systems en-
gineer for the American Broadcasting Company
in New York. . Wilbur Waters, Jr., serves as a
senior field engineer-programmer for Westing-
house in Baltimore.

I965

Representative:
Patrick T. Moran
100 Chester Rd
Boxboro, MA
01719

Continuing with Polaroid, Phil Baker is presently
project manager for industrial products en-
gineering in Cambridge. Recently, he spent two
months in Japan developing a new camera.
Twice a year, he teaches an optics course during
Polaroid's management seminar series. The Bak-
ers and their two children reside in Peabody. . . .
Ronald Chand, president of ARSEE Corp.,
Worcester, reports that his growing company
has moved to Oread St. in part of a building that
once housed General Screw Machine Products
Co. His manufacturing space has increased from
2000 to 6000 square feet. ARSEE is the only
carbide manufacturing company in New En-
gland. It sells carbide to fabricators. Last year,
the firm did about $250,000 worth of business.
. . . Paul Schuster has been appointed head of
the processor design department at Bell Labs in
Naperville, III. He is responsible for the design of
general purpose computers for use in the Bell
System. Starting at Bell in 1967, Schuster was
initially involved in the design of special-purpose
hardware for the Navy. In 1 971 , he was pro-
moted to supervisor in the Ocean Systems Divi-
sion, where he was most recently responsible for
specialized computer design for the Navy. He
has an MSEE from WPI, and holds a patent on
programmable digital filter realization. . . . Den-
nis Simanaitis is an editor with Road & Track
magazine in California. . . . Robert Stow holds
the post of engineering manager at Singer-
Kearfott, Wayne, N.J. . . . Robert Waite is a
member of the technical staff at the Mitre
Corporation in Bedford, Mass. He serves as
president of the New England Computer
Society.

I966

Representative
Dr. Donald H. Foley
Indianfield Rd.
Clinton, NY
13323

Secretary:
Gary Dyckman
29Skilton Lane
Burlington, MA
01803

^■Married: John W. Benson II to Ingrid M.
Laurell on July 7, 1979 in Chatham, Mas-
sachusetts. Mrs. Benson graduated from the
School of Art Education at Virginia's Common-
wealth University in Richmond. A former
teacher, she now owns and operates The
Swedish Butik in Chatham. Her husband is with
Burton Industries in Pawtucket.

Winter 1980 /The WPI journal/ 29

>Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gray IV their
first child, Peter Gray V. ... to Mr. and Mrs. Jay
Segal a son, Scott, in August. Daughter Pamela is
21/2. Jay is an attorney in New York City and
resides in New Rochelle.

Gordon Eaton teaches in Ludlow, Mass. . . .
Dr. Paul Glodis is a researcher in the physics

department at U.C.L.A Stephen Kaiser of

Kaiser Sales Corporation, represents the Singer
Company. The firm has offices in Los Angeles
and Whittier, Calif. . . . Roberto Huyke-Luigi is
employed in the department of civil engineering
at Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez in Puerto
Rico — Errold Moody, Jr., who has an LLB from
Lasalle and an MBA and PhD in real estate and
urban economics from the University of Beverly
Hills, is a real estate analyst and consultant in
Irvine, Calif. . . . Donald Petersen, Jr., has
transferred to Miami with IBM, where he is a
systems engineer on the Eastern Airlines team
installing a distributed computer network at all
the airports which Eastern services. . . . Michael
Portanova is a corporate economist at DEC in
Marlboro, Mass.

1968

I967

Secretary

John L. Kilguss

5 Summershade Circle

Piscataway, NJ

08854

^■Married: Neil M. Shea and Judith A. Thiele on
June 16, 1979 in Troy, New York. The bride
received her bachelor's and master's degrees in
zoology at the University of Cincinnati. She is a
faculty member at Hudson Valley Community
College. The groom teaches at North Shore
Community College, Beverly, Mass. He has a
master's degree and doctorate in physics from
RPI.

Eugene Baldrate, who is a staff manager in
facilities planning at SNETCO, is in his second
year at the University of Bridgeport School of
Law. The Baldrates and their children, Kelly and

Brian, have moved to Guilford, Conn Peter

Bondy works for Xerox Corporation in Roches-
ter, NY. . . . Francis Dacri continues as senior
research engineer at du Pont in Old Hickory,
Tenn. . . . Eduardo Mendez holds the post of
project manager at Pavarini Construction Co. in
Santurce, Puerto Rico. He and Anita have three
children. . . . John Rogozenski, Jr., is employed
as manager of development at Dunkin' Donuts
in Braintree, Mass. . . . Still with Carrier Corp.,
Raymond Seguin presently holds the post of
manufacturing manager at a Carrier division,

BDP Company, in Indianapolis John Stumpp

continues to serve as an electronic engineer at
the National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, Md.

Secretary:
Charles A. Griffin
2901 Municipal Pier Rd
Shreveport, LA
71119

Representative
William J Rasku
33 Mark Bradford Dr
Holden, MA
01520

^Married: Terrence P. Sullivan and Holly H.
Hurd in Annisquam, Massachusetts on July 28,
1979. Mrs. Sullivan graduated from Colby-
Sawyer College, New London, N.H. She is a
registered trader for the municipal bond de-
partment at Tucker Anthony & R.L. Day in
Boston. Her husband is president of Boston Bay
Capital, Inc., which he founded. Sullivan has a
master's degree from UMass. His firm is a tax
shelter planning company placing investments in
oil and gas, real estate, and equipment leasing.
. . . Frank S. Yazwinski III and Emily Groves in
South Deerfield, Massachusetts on July 21,
1979. The bride graduated from Hampshire
College.

Michael Annon has a new post as a senior
engineer at Proto-Power Management Corpora-
tion in Groton, Conn Dr. Charles Konopka, a

mathematics teacher at Longmeadow (Mass.)
High School, recently assumed the duties of
assistant principal at the school. He has worked
with the Connecticut State Department of Edu-
cation, was an administrative assistant-teacher
with the East Windsor Board of Education, and
served as a graduate research technician at
UConn., where he received his PhD. Before
going to Longmeadow in 1977, he was special
assistant to the Connecticut commissioner of
education. . . . David Morris is a technical
specialist at Betz Labs, Trevose, Pa. . . . Joseph
Paquette holds the post of general manager for
Wiley Manufacturing of Port Deposit, Md. Wiley
is a unit of AMCA International, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Dominion-AMCA of Hanover,
N.H. ... Dr. Richard Snay continues as a
geodesist at the National Oceanic & Atmo-
spheric Administration in Rockville, Md. . . .
Richard Vaughn is the regional sales manager at
Harding Co. in Boston. He and his wife, Ann,
have three children and reside in Fitchburg.

I969

Secretary Representative

James P. Atkinson Michael W Noga

41 Naples Rd. West Bare Hill Rd

Brookline, MA Harvard, MA

02146 01451

>Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Pond their first
child, a daughter, Jennifer Katherine, on August
9, 1979. Dan is a senior engineer at Martin
Marietta Aerospace, Denver Division, and en-
joys very much the casual Colorado life style. . . .
to Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Senecal their third
child, Brian Albert, on August 8, 1979. Their
other children are Emily, 5 and Eric, 2. Joe is a
senior engineer with Polaroid's Chemical Devel-
opment Laboratories in Cambridge, Mass.

James Atkinson, who is attending the New
England School of Law in Boston, also holds the
post of assistant contract document coordinator
at Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
in Boston. . . . Normand Bachand continues as a
staff psychologist at Clinton County Mental
Health Clinic in Plattsburgh, N.Y. He enjoys
jogging and reading. He and Carol have two
children. . . . Tony Bergantino, Jr., remains with
Polaroid, and is now the technical support man-
ager. He manages the pilot coating facility for
Polaroid's Applied Technology Division. . . .
Kenneth Berube, who belongs to the Central
Mass. Conference of Football Officials, also
serves as purchasing manager at Boston Insu-
lated Wire in Dorchester. The Berubes live in

Oxford and are the parents of Alan and Carla

William Boyan works as an estimator of con-
struction costs at Circle Industries Corp., Bronx,
N.Y. He and his wife, Karen, live in Tenafly, N.J.
. . . Michael Cohen holds the post of marketing
representative at STSC, Inc., an international
computer services company in Boston. . . . Joel
Cehn is a health physicist at Teknekron Re-
search, Inc., McLean, Va. His work involves
evaluating all the various sources of radioactive
air pollutants for the EPA. In his spare time, he
sails, roller skates and makes furniture. . . .
Charles Doe has been promoted to associate
actuary within the actuarial organization at State
Mutual Life Assurance Company of America in
Worcester. He joined State Mutual as an actuar-
ial assistant in 1969. He served as an actuarial
associate and senior actuarial associate prior to
being promoted to assistant actuary in the com-
pany's group term and health organization. He
has a master's in actuarial science from North-
eastern. In 1 977, he became a fellow of the
Society of Actuaries.

In August, Warren Follet joined Advanced
Micro Devices, Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif. He is a
field applications engineer based in the Boston
area. Rick, his wife, and two children live in

Westford, Mass Richard Gurske continues in

Denver, where he is senior environmental en-
gineer at Northern Coal Company. . . . Gordon
Mears has accepted the post of purchasing
manager at American Tourister in Warren, R.I.
. . . James Hills has started a new business,
Custom Valves & Control Corp., in Worcester.
The company engineers, designs, and fabricates
specialty valves and control packages for the
process control market. For eleven years he was
engineering manager for Worcester Controls
before going into business for himself. . . . Still
with Jones Enterprises, Inc., East Hartford,
Conn., Ronald Jones presently holds the post of
vice president and general manager.

Last fall, Donald Robinson was named assist-
ant manager of Massachusetts Electric Com-
pany's Hopedale district. Formerly, he was an
energy systems consultant for Mass. Electric's
parent company, New England Electric. In that
post, he coordinated the firm's solar water heat-
ing test project, recognized as a national model
for solar application in a freezing climate. In his
new position, he has coordinated five energy
fairs (including one at WPI) sponsored by Mass.
Electric and its affiliates. He joined the company
in 1972 as a consumer services representative.

30 /The WPI journal/ Winter 1980

He served in Vietnam with the 1 01 st Airborne as
an artillery officer. The Robinsons reside in

Shrewsbury Frederick Spreter is employed as

regional sales manager at Gould, Inc., Atlanta,
Ga. . . . Paul Wolf has been appointed co-
manager of the TSM Planning Group at the
Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency.
His duties include responsibility for all highway-
related transportation systems management
planning with five counties surrounding Cleve-
land. In the past year, Paul has developed an
improved version of the Transyt/6 computer
program for optimization of traffic signal timing
patterns.

I970

Secretary

F David Ploss III

208 St Nicholas Ave

Worcester. MA

01606

Representative
Garrett G Graham
1 50 Brookside Rd
Needham, MA
02194

^■Married: Richard G. Drolet to Gloria R. Breault
in Cumberland, Rhode Island on August 17,
1979. Mrs. Drolet is attending Bryant College.
The bridegroom works for Valley Gas Co. in
Cumberland. He has a degree from URI.

*Born: to Mr. and Mrs. John J. Gale twin
sons, Michael and David, on October 2, 1979.
The family, which now includes three sons, is
spending the winter in Florida. Gale is the golf

pro at Rochester (N.H.) Country Club to Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Vernile, theirfirst child, adaugh-
ter, Sarah Marie, on September 13, 1979.

Philip Bartlett, Jr., has been appointed sales
manager for the southwest district of
Cyanamid's paper chemicals department and is
moving to Mobile, Alabama. Formerly, he was a
technical sales representative for water treating
and mining chemicals for the firm. In 1977, he
was named assistant to the marketing manager,
paper chemicals. He belongs to the ACS, AICE,
the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper
Industry, and has an MBA from the University of
Southern California. . . . Bernard Dodge is now a
research associate at Development & Evaluation
Associates in Syracuse, N.Y. He is also a consul-
tant to XIMED Research, Inc. . . . Jonathan
Leavitt continues as chief test engineer at Com-
bustion Engineering-KSB Pump Co., Inc.,
Portsmouth, N.H. He and Frances have two
children and reside in Exeter. . . . John Redmon,
who holds an MSEE from WPI, is still an educa-
tion administrator at Pennsylvania Power &
Light Co., Allentown, Pa.

1971

Secretary:
Vincent T Pace
4707 Apple Lane
WestDeptford.NJ
08066

>Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Dunleavy a
son, John, on February 28, 1979. ... to Mr. and
Mrs. Leo R. Gillis, Jr., a son, Kevin Michael, on
July 27, 1979. Leo has accepted a position in the
transmission department of Northeast Utilities in
Berlin, Conn. ... to Dr. and Mrs. Richard San
Antonio a daughter, Marianne Camille, on
March 29, 1 979. Richard is a resident in internal
medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in
Washington, D.C.

Paul Cooper, Jr., recently received a service
award from the New England Division, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers. He was cited for his
willingness to assume new and challenging re-
sponsibilities. He and his wife, Maureen, reside
in Maiden, Mass. . . . Carlton Cruff has changed
jobs and is now working as a project engineer for
Homogeneous Metals, Inc., where he is in
charge of a new plant expansion. The firm
produces powdered metal for the jet engine
companies. ... Dr. Claude Mancel, who has
been associated since 1973 with the R&D Euro-
pean Division of Procter & Gamble, was recently
promoted to associate director. He lives in Brus-
sels, Belgium, with his wife and three children.
. . . John Plonsky works as a contract adminis-
trator at Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, Conn.

1972

Secretary-
John A Woodward
101 Putnam St
Orange, MA
01364

Representative:

Lesley E. Small Zorabedian

16 Parkview Rd.

Reading, MA

01867

^Married: Ralph A. Blackmer and Stacey A.
Wagner on September 29, 1 979 in Orange,
Massachusetts. The bride, a medical
technologist, graduated from Framingham State
College. The groom has an MS in management
science and engineering from WPI. He is man-
ager of sterile operations at Smith, Kline &

French Corp., Philadelphia Mark A. Fritz and

Margaret McDermott. Mrs. Fritz is a typesetter
at Wang Laboratories, where her husband, who
has an MBA from New Hampshire College,
works as a systems analyst trainer. . . . Joseph V.
Gotta and Eileen C. Boisjolie in Easthampton,
Massachusetts on September 1 , 1 979. The bride
graduated from St. Francis School of Nursing,
Hartford, and is a registered nurse at Providence
Hospital, Holyoke. The bridegroom has an MBA
from Western New England College. He is coor-
dinator of product development at Ludlow
Packaging, Holyoke, Mass. . . . William D.
Singleton, Jr., and Lee A. Rademacher in Fal-
mouth, Massachusetts on June 9, 1979. Mrs.
Singleton graduated from Michigan State Uni-
versity. She is a sales representative-editorial

assistant at Goodyear Publishing Co. Her hus-
band is a marketing consultant in the Boston
area.

►fiorn. to Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Ballard, a
daughter, Heather Ann, on Mother's Day, May
13, 1979. ... to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Greene, a
son, on December 26, 1978. Greene now works
as a mathematics instructor at Salisbury State
College in Maryland. ... to Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Shawver their first child, Matthew Arthur, on
July 16, 1979. Shawver is a flow monitoring
service unit supervisor for the Washington Sub-
urban Sanitary Commission. He and his family
live in Bowie, Md.

Al Heaney has moved to Clearwater, Fla. He
recently joined Sperry Microwave Electronics as
an engineering staff consultant. . . . Jeff and
Mary Bollino Petry, '74 and children, Jeff, Jr., 5,
Tony, 4, and Laura, 2, have moved to Detroit,
Michigan. Jeff, still with Torrington Co., has
taken over Hydromatic for the firm. Mary keeps
busy with the children. . . . Robert Pascucci has
graduated from St. John's University School of
Law, where he received a Juris Doctor degree.
He has accepted a position with the law firm of
Max E. Greenberg, Trayman, Cantor, Reiss &
Blasky in New York City. The Pascuccis have a
year-old son, Brian. . . . Wesley Pierson is a
clinical research associate at Riker Laboratories,'
3M, in St. Paul, Minn. . . . Alain Roux is
associated with ELF, a French petroleum com-
pany.

1973

Secretary

lay I. Schnitzer

322 St. Paul St.

Apt #3
Brookhne, MA
02146

^■Married: Joyce L. Caplovich to Randy A.
Wilson on October 6, 1979 in Cromwell, Con-
necticut. Mrs. Caplovich is a data processing
consultant at Comtech, Inc. in East Hartford. Her
husband graduated from Thiel College, and is a
data processing consultant at Michrotech, Inc.,
Simsbury, Conn. . . Raymond F. Cherenzia and
Rhonda C. Zanella on August 1 1 , 1979 in Mis-
quamicut, Rhode Island. The bride graduated
from Mount St. Joseph College. She teaches in
the Westerly school system. The groom holds
the post of town engineer for the Westerly
Department of Public Works. Recently, he re-
ceived his professional engineering license from

the State of Rhode Island

^Married: John J. Luikey, Jr., to Lynn S.
Knight in Knox, Pennsylvania on August 3,
1979. Mrs. Luikey, a registered nurse, graduated
from Clarion (Pa.) State College. The groom is a
project engineer at Quabaug Rubber Co. , North
Brookfield, Mass. . . . Richard C. Peck and Mary
E. Kowalski on September 8, 1979 in Meriden,
Connecticut. The bride graduated from Central
Connecticut State College. . . . Gary N. Shapiro
to Pamela J. Ciardelli on June 24, 1979 in
Milford, New Hampshire. Mrs. Shapiro
graduated from Wilton Lyndeboro Cooperative

Winter 1980 /The WPI journal/ 31

High School and plans to attend the University of
Lowell as a chemical engineering major. The
bridegroom is a mathematics teacher in the
Andover school system. He has an M.Ed, from
Boston University. . . . Ralph J. Veenema, Jr., and
Janet B. Biancur on September 1 , 1979 in
Orange, Connecticut. The bride has a BS degree
in art education and an MS in early childhood
education from Southern Connecticut State Col-
lege. Her husband holds an MSME from UMass,
Amherst.

►Som. to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kavanagh, a
son, "C.J.," on April 18, 1979. Kavanagh is
projects manager of three sites in northern
Nigeria, where he has lived for two years. ... to
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Wallack, a daughter,
Rachel, on July 10, 1979. Wallack has been
transferred by Torrington Co. to Brighton,
Michigan.

Steven Brennan, a general engineer at Naval
Ordnance Station, Indian Head, Md., is working

on the Navy surface-to-air missile programs

Currently, Alan Champagne is located in Ship-
pingport, Pa. with Stone & Webster. . . . Still with
GE, John Gizienski is now a manager of man-
ufacturing engineering for the company in
Ponce, Puerto Rico. . . . Wallace McKenzie, Jr.,
has been appointed a consultant to the Planning
Services Division of Management Decision Sys-
tems, Inc. of Waltham, Mass. MDS is a
privately-held, national leader in the develop-
ment and use of problem-solving models and
computer software for business analysis and
planning. In his new post, McKenzie will help
major companies build models to help their
businesses. Prior to joining MDS, he was senior
operations research analyst for the Converse
Division of Eltra Corp. and research associate at
WPI . He has an MBA from RPI . He belongs to the
Operations Research Society of America, the
American Institute of Industrial Engineers, and
the Saugus (Mass.) Finance Committee. He has
served as area chairman for special gifts of the

American Cancer Society Scott Blackney is

with Raytheon Co., Wayland, Mass.

Garry Boynton is now a senior chemist in the
New York State Department of Agriculture and

Markets in Albany, N.Y Dan Eide was

recently transferred from Hammond Plastics in
Owensboro, Ky., to Carl Gordon Industries, Inc.
in Worcester, where he is vice president of
manufacturing and engineering. The Eides have
two children and reside in West Boylston, Mass.
. . . Claude Lemoi works as manager of shop
operations at GE in Lynn, Mass. . . . John Manzo
is employed as manager of Raytheon Company
in Moorestown, N.J. . . . Ragunath Mhapsekar
has been named as an estimator at the Schnip
Building Company of Norwich, Conn. He will
provide the company with estimating expertise
in the design-build concept of facilities expan-
sion. . . . William Nutter is field service engineer
at General Electric Ordnance, Cape Canaveral,
Fla. He is a member of the Trident backfit
installation and test team. He also serves as
resident magnetic disk file expert. ... Dr.
Philippe Peltre holds the post of branch man-
ager for the French subsidiary of Procter &
Gamble.

Beth Poulin is a consulting engineer for
Foster-Miller Associates in Waltham, Mass. She
works on alternative energy projects as a project
engineer. . . . Daniel Robbins is studying for his
master of fine arts degree at Ohio University in
Athens. ... Dr. John Ward has accepted a
position as a meteorologist with the develop-
ment division of the National Meteorological
Center in Washington, D.C.

1974

Secretary:
James F. Rubino
18 Landings Way
Avon Lake. OH
44012

Representative
David G. Lapre
P O Box 384
Tunkhannock, PA
18657

►A/lamed. David A. Gerth to Miss Angela A.
Ralli in Norwood, Massachusetts. The bride
holds BS and MS degrees from Bridgewater State
College. She is a special needs teacher in Belling-
ham, Mass. The groom, who has an MBA from
Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth, is a CPA
employed as a management consultant in the
administrative services division of Arthur Ander-
son Co. in Boston Alfred J. Swierad, Jr., and

Colleen A. Maroney in Canton, New York on
June 16, 1979. The bride, a graduate of Alfred
State College, is a senior technical assistant at
Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, N.J., where her hus-
band is a member of the technical staff. He has a
degree from Texas A&M University. . . . Mark J.
Whitney and Carolyn L. Noel on July 14, 1 979 in
Connecticut. Mrs. Whitney has a BA in English
and theater arts from Notre Dame Academy and
College of White Plains, N.Y. The bridegroom
works as a cost engineer at Northeast Utilities
Co.

>-Born: to Mr. and Mrs. John Martin, a sec-
ond son, David Michael, on July 25, 1979.
Martin recently received his Massachusetts pro-
fessional engineering license. He works as a
project engineer in the plant engineering de-
partment of Monsanto's Bircham Bend Plant in
Springfield, Mass. ... to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
Yee, a son, Nicholas, in Hong Kong on March 2 1 ,
1979.

Alan Anderson works as a statistician for the
U S. Bureau of the Census. Also, he is continuing
work on a dissertation for his PhD in biostatistics
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel

Hill Dean Anderson is a project engineer for

Perini Corp., Framingham, Mass — In the Sept.
27th issue of Engineering News Record, Garry
Balboni, a project engineer for Perini Corp.,
Framingham, was quoted in the article, "Perma-
nent Slurry Trench Walls Cut Subway Cost and
Disruption.". . . . Currently, Jonathan Barnett
serves as assistant director of the Center for Fire
Safety Studies at WPI. He is also a part-time
instructor of mechanical engineering and a doc-
toral candidate in fire protection engineering. .
Michel Benoit serves as superintendent of lime

and limestone at Pfizer, Inc., Canaan, Conn

Continuing with Gould, Inc., Bill Delphos is
now director of international in the Fluid Power
Group, Rolling Meadows, III. ... Jim Ingraham is
employed as supervisor of the silver emulsion

production group at Polaroid Corporation's New
Bedford (Mass.) negative manufacturing plant.

Alan Judd is now senior manufacturing en-
gineer at Cleaver Brooks Co. in Pennsylvania, a
division of Aqua Chem, Inc., which is a wholly-
owned subsidiary of Coca Cola Co. . . . Capt.
Thomas Kielick, U.S. Army Signal Corps, Ft.
Devens, Mass., presently serves as company
commander of Signal Company, supporting the
10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) known as

the Green Berets Roland Lariviere continues

with Combustion Engineering. He is a senior
quality assurance engineer for the firm in
Windsor, Conn. . . . Bob Lindberg has been
assigned by the Naval Research Laboratory to
Columbia University, where he will be pursuing
research in large satellite control theories. He is
also working on his doctorate in mechanical
engineering.

William Lisk works as a broadcast engineer at

Taft Broadcasting, Buffalo, N.Y Richard

Loomis, who has an MS from Berkeley, is with
Loomis & Loomis, Inc., in Windsor, Conn. . . .
Larry Martiniano, still with Stone & Webster, is
presently a construction coordinator in Cherry
Hill, N.J. . . . Suresh Masand now works as
marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corp.,
Nashua, N.H.

John Mason III has taken a job as an applica-
tions engineer designing heat exchangers at
Lytron, Inc., in Woburn, Mass. The Masons have
moved into their new house in Chelmsford. . . .
Formerly a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton,
Steve McGrath is currently manager of strategic
planning for special projects at American Optical

in Southbridge, Mass David Packard has

joined the production department of the Public
Service Company of New Hampshire, the state's
largest electric utility. Previously, he was a ser-
vice engineer with Combustion Engineering in
Houston, Texas. The Packards live in Goffstown,
N.H. . . . Hercules Paskali holds the post of
technical sales representative at U.S. Steel in
Baton Rouge, La. . . . Jim Rubino, former district
manager for Torrington Co. in Cleveland, is
presently with the firm in Indianapolis. . . .
Douglas Schmidt is a student at Palmer Chiro-
practic College. The Schmidts and their two
children live in Davenport, Iowa. . . . Geary
Schwartz has accepted the post of varsity head
football coach at Stafford Springs, Conn. It is the
first football program at the school. Geary
graduated from the University of Bridgeport,
and has taught math at Weaver High School in
Hartford. He has also coached football at the
University of Bridgeport, Southern Connecticut
College, and UConn. He was assistant broadcast
er on the radio for Bridgeport's home games.
Recently discharged from the Army, David
Scott is now attending Western New England

College School of Law in Springfield, Mass

Kenneth Shankle works as a facilities engineer
for the U.S. Navy at the Naval Regional Medical
Center at Camp Lejeune, N.C. He and his wife,
June, have two children. . . . William Stafford is
branch manager of Walker Laboratories' new
office in Charlotte, N.C. The company is con-
cerned with soils, concrete, and steel testing. . . .

32 /The WPI journal / Winter 1980

Dean Stratouly holds the post of manager of
Gordon Systems Division of Carl Gordon Indus-
tries, Inc., in Worcester Andrew Wemple has

been promoted to assistant actuary within the
actuarial organization at State Mutual in
Worcester. In 1974, he started work at the firm,
and was promoted to actuarial associate in 1 976.
In 1978, he was advanced to senior actuarial
associate within the individual health actuarial
organization. Later that year, he transferred to
the group actuarial. He is a fellow of the Society
of Actuaries.

1975

Secretary

James D Aceto, Jr.
70 Sunnyview Dr.
Vernon, CT
06066

Representative
Frederick J. Cordelia
24 Imperial Rd.
Worcester, MA
01604

^■Married: Mark R. Cosenza and Laura-Kay
Racicot in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts on Au-
gust 19, 1979. Mrs. Cosenza, head teacher at
Happy Hours Nursery School in Marlboro,
Mass., graduated from Worcester State, and is
currently working for her master's degree. The
bridegroom serves as technical superintendent
at Polaroid Corp., Waltham, Mass. . . . Frederick
P. Greulich and Maureen R. Dillon in Worcester
on May 27, 1 979. Mrs. Greulich has a BA from
Holy Cross and an MA from Brown. She teaches
Latin at the Spence School in New York City. Her
husband is a manufacturing manager for Procter
& Gamble Mfg. Co., Port Ivory, Staten Island,
N.Y. . . . Walter H. Hoskins to Peggy R. Hebert
on May 26, 1979 in Worcester. The bride, a
graduate of Doherty Memorial High School, is
employed by Mass. Materials Research, Inc.,
West Boylston. The groom works as an actuarial
associate at State Mutual.

Patricia Pfeiffer and Salvatore L. Salamone on
July 1 , 1979 in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. The
bride and groom are graduate students in the
physics department at Boston College. . . .
Jeffrey A. Webber to Jayne A. DiNicola on
September 7, 1979 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Mrs. Webber is physical activities director of the
Girls Club. She has degrees from Berkshire
Community College and Lyndon (Vt.) State Col-
lege. Her husband has done graduate work at
RPI. He is a data technician at GE Ordnance
Systems. . . . Todd E. Whitakerand Patricia J.
Massaro in New London, Connecticut on Oc-
tober 7, 1979. The bride, a teacher in East Lyme,
graduated from Central Connecticut State Col-
lege and Southern Connecticut State College.
The groom is with the Naval Underwater Sys-
tems Center in New London.

^Born: to John and Virginia Giordano
FitzPatrick, their first child, a daughter, Cara
Ann, on September20, 1979. John is with Exxon

Research & Engineering in Florham Park, N.J

to Mr. and Mrs. William C. Rutter, their first
child, a son, Andrew William, on March 26,
1979.

Raymond Acciardi holds the post of supervis-
ing civil engineer atthe U.S. Bureau of Reclama-
tion in Denver, Colo. He and his wife, Jeannette,
live in Lakewood. . . . Jon Anderson of Wil-
mington, Del., is beginning his second year as a
law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Caleb
Wright. During his clerkship, the Judge has been
working to decide patents upon crystalline
polypropylene and a man-made rubber. Re-
cently, Anderson published in the Columbia
Journal of Environmental Law an article critiqu-
ing from legal and technical viewpoints, Secre-
tary of Transportation Coleman's decision per-
mitting the Concorde to land in the U.S. The
article was titled: "Decision Analysis in Environ-
mental Decisionmaking: Improving the Con-
corde Balance." Anderson holds a Juris Doctor
degree from Yale. . . . Alan Bergstrom, who
received his MS in biochemistry from UMass a
year ago, is now an associate in research in the
Department of Dermatology at Yale University
School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. . . .
Patricia Graham has been nominated as one of
the "Outstanding Young Women of America"
for 1979. The honor recognizes young women
throughout the nation for professional achieve-
ment and community service. Nominated by
Central New England College of Technology,
Pat is a teacher at Assabet Valley Regional
Technical High School and at Central New En-
gland College.

Bill Gregory continues as a manufacturing
engineer at Boston Insulated Wire & Cable in
Plymouth, Mass. The Gregorys have two sons.
. . . Still with GE, John Greenstreet is now an
analyst in computer applications. He and his wife
Barbara reside in Baldwinsville, N.Y. . . . Spencer
Liberty works as a chemist in Newton, Mass. . . .
Paul Loomis has taken a new job at Olin Corpo-
ration in New Haven, Conn. He is with the
chemicals group in technical service. . . . Robert
Martin, who has an MSEE from MIT, serves as
field applications engineer at Intel Corp.,
Chelmsford, Mass. . . . Charles May has trans-
ferred from Charlotte, N.C. to Tampa, Fla.,

where he is a sales engineer with Dana Corp

Stephen Mealy was recently appointed to a
three-year term on the town finance committee
in Bourne, Mass. He works for Benthos Co. of
North Falmouth. . . . Martin Meyers serves as a
member of the technical staff at Bell Labs in
North Andover, Mass. He has a PhD in electrical
engineering from UMass. He is married to Cathy
Seymour, '77. . . . Kevin Mischler has received
his master of public administration degree from
the Austin Dunham Barney School of Business
and Public Administration at the University of
Hartford. . . . Frank Moitoza is presently a
weapons system management trainee for the
Naval Sea Systems Command in Keyport,
Washington. The management development
program consists of rotational assignments in
many naval activities around the country. . . .

1976

Secretary:
Paula E Stratouly
318Thornberry Court
Pittsburgh, PA
15237

Representative:
Richard P Predella, Jr.
40 Hawthorn Rd
Braintree, MA
02184

^■Married: David F. Andel and Paula J. Culver in
Stratford, Connecticut on June 16, 1979. The
bride graduated from Albertus College and is a
program performance measurement coor-
dinator at Avco Lycoming, Stratford, Conn. Her
husband is with Wilson Instruments, a division of
ACCO Industries in Bridgeport, where he is a
machine designer. . . . Paul J. Carabello to
Charlotte A. Nelligan in Belmont, Mas-
sachusetts. Mrs. Carabello is a registered nurse.
She studied at St. Elizabeth's Hospital School of
Nursing. The bridegroom works for MPB Corpo-
ration, Keene. . . . Wayne F. Dyer to Joan S.
Mitchell in Wellesley, Massachusetts on July 21 ,
1 979. The bride is a Wellesley graduate, and is a
procedures auditor for the Northeast Division of
the American Mutual Insurance Companies. Her
husband is a computer programmer for Ameri-
can Mutual Insurance Co., Wakefield, Mass.
Previously, he had taught science at Hollis (N.H.)
High School and at Minuteman Regional Voca-
tional High School in Lexington, Mass.

^■Married: Roger G. Leighton and Susan E.
Barrett last summer in New York. Mrs. Leighton
graduated from Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.
The bridegroom works for Eastman Kodak Co. as

a tool engineer Michael G. Menesale to Ellen

A. Brill on January 6, 1979. The bride graduated
from Anna Maria with a BA in social work. Her
husband is an estimator with U.S. Steel Supply
Division, Structural Wire Products Group, in
Fairless Hills, Pa. He is enrolled in the MBA
program at the University of New Haven.
. . . Charles F. Moulter and Marylouise Giordano
on August 25,1 979 in North Haven, Connect-
icut. The groom is a development engineer for
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio.

^■Married: John C. Mangiagli, Jr., and Terry
L. Putnam on June 23, 1979inGloversville, New
York. Mrs. Mangiagli graduated from
Gloversville High School. Her husband is a test
engineer at Texaco, Inc. in Beacon. . . . Paul F.
Proulx to Janet M. Seppanenon June 15, 1979 in
East Longmeadow, Massachusetts. The bride
has a BSE degree in special education from
Westfield State College. She is a teacher in the
education department at Monson State Hospi-
tal. The bridegroom is a project engineer in the
R&D department of the Milton Bradley Co. in
East Longmeadow. He attends Western New
England College. . . . Steven H. Schoen and
Victoria C. Powell in Natick, Massachusetts on
September 1, 1979. Mrs. Schoen graduated
from Natick High School and works as a secre-
tary for Sun Life of Canada in Wellesley Hills,
where her husband holds the post of actuarial
assistant. . . . Peter Tordo and Debbie Noble in
Guilford, Connecticut on September 1 , 1 979.
The bride graduated from Temple University.
The groom is a loss prevention representative for
Liberty Mutual Insurance in North Haven, Conn.

Winter 1980 /The WP1 journal/ 33

Joseph Betro has received his MSEE from the
University of Wisconsin. . . . Still with CE, John
Bucci is now production supervisor of the task
force at GE in Waynesboro, Va. . . . Albert
Cooley holds the position of administrator of
market planning for microprocessor systems at
RCA Solid State, Somerville, N.J. He has an MBA
from the University of Michigan. . . . Sidney
Formal is with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
in Philadelphia.

Recently, Leonard Goldberg was named re-
gional and international sales manager for
Software House of Cambridge, Mass. He is
responsible for the firm's sales west of the
Mississippi, the deep South, western Canada,
and several international areas. Previously, he
was system programmer at Johnson & Johnson,
Inc. in New Jersey. Professionally, he is symposia
coordinator for the Digital Equipment Corpora-
tion Users Society, and a member of the Associa-
tion of Computing Machinery. He is past presi-
dent of the Mid-Atlantic DECsystem- 10/20
Users Group. Software House is a leading pro-
ducer of data base software for large Digital
Equipment Corporation computers.

Boeing Company, 747 Division, has hired
Richard Isaacs as an associate engineer at the
Boeing plant in Seattle, Washington. Isaacs and
his wife, Cynthia, reside in Marysville. . . . Brian
Plummer is with Intel in Aloha, Oregon. . . .
Jaime Rodriguez is associated with Rodriguez &
Del Valle, Inc., Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. . . .
Steve Tuckerman, who recently received his
master's in regional planning from UMass, is
presently the town planner in East Hampton,
Conn. . . .

1977

Secretary

Representative:

Kathleen Molony

Christopher D. Baker

6 Aiken St.

P.O. Box 35

Norwalk, CT

Page. AZ

06851

86040

^Married: Larry B. French to Betty P. Stockman
in Oxford, Massachusetts on September 15,
1979. Mrs. French graduated from Worcester
State, and is a senior systems analyst at Paul
Revere Life Insurance Company in Worcester.
The groom is a computer programmer with New
England Power Service Company in Westboro.
. . . Domenico Grasso and Patricia A. Prue in
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts on July 7, 1979. The
bride, a graduate of Smith College, plans to
attend Emory University School of Medicine in
Atlanta, Ga. Her husband serves as an environ-
mental engineer for the U.S. Army Environmen-
tal Hygiene Agency in Atlanta. He has an MSCE
from Purdue. . . . Robert J. Hyland and Julia K.
Wetzel on August 18, 1979 in South Miami,
Florida. Mrs. Hyland isasenioratJohns Hopkins
University, Baltimore. The bridegroom, a lab
technician at the Good Samaritan Hospital in
Baltimore, received his MA in biophysics from
Johns Hopkins. . . . Marc N. Richard and Lisa A.
Publicover in Medway, Massachusetts. The

bride attends Wellesley College. The groom, an
MIT graduate, is with the U.S. Army Signal Corps
in Korea. . . . James M. Rucci, Jr., and Nancy A.
Caouette in Greenfield, Massachusetts on June
30, 1979. Mrs. Rucci graduated from the Fash-
ion Institute of Technology. Her husband serves
as a fire protection engineer at Industrial Risk
Insurers, Charlotte, N.C. . . . William S. Taberto
Margaret R. McHugh in Weymouth, Mas-
sachusetts on June 17, 1979. The bride
graduated from Weymouth North High School.
She is an assistant secretary to an orthodontist.
The bridegroom works for Hammond Plastics.
. . . Edward E. White, Jr., and Rosann Zizzari on
September 23, 1979 in Johnston, Rhode Island.
Mrs. White graduated from Rhode Island Junior
College. Her husband and she both are em-
ployed at Allendale Insurance Company.

Fred Baker has moved from Massachusetts to
Beaverton, Oregon. He is a CRT manufacturing
process engineer with Tektronix, Inc. "Still a
couple short of my goal of seeing all 50 states."
.... Richard Blauvelt is employed as a service
supervisor at Bridgeport (Conn.) Machines. . . .
Lawrence Coel has an MBA from the University
of Hartford. . . . David Edgerton serves as a
quality assurance engineer at Data General,
Westboro, Mass. . . . Jeffrey Firestone has
transferred from Rocketdyne to the Military
Aircraft Division of Rockwell International. Cur-
rently, he is working on an industry-assist con-
tract to Boeing Co. in Everett, Washington,
where he is doing design work on the 747. . . .
Paul Hajec is a highway safety research engineer
employed by the Virginia Highway and Trans-
portation Research Council. . . . Ron Howard
holds the post of president of Datability

Software Systems in New York City William

Hubbard is director of materials at Data Point
Corp. in Sunnyvale, Calif.

"Chuck" Johnson is studying for his MBA at
Cornell. . . . Brian Kisiel is employed by Betz
Laboratories of Trevose, Pa., but is located in
Wilton, N.H. He writes: "My area manager is Bill
Messer, '67, who is a part-time farmer on his
170 acres in Canterbury, N.H." . . . Fred Koury
serves as manager for Colony Farms, Worcester.
He has a BS in mathematics from Framingham

State John Kuklewicz is a design engineer at

Collins-Rockwell Int'l., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. . . .
In August, Lt. William Lee took command of HQ
Battery, 108th Air Defense Artillery Group, U.S.
Army. . . . Michael Oakes works for Raytheon
Co., Sudbury, Mass. . . . Ron O'Connor is
enrolled in the School of Public Health at the

University of Michigan Michael O'Leary is a

sales engineer at Blake Equipment Co., Bloom-
field, Conn.

Greg Ruthven has joined Perkin-Elmer Corp.,
Optical-Technology Division, in Danbury, Conn.
He is a structural analyst, and was formerly
employed at General Dynamics in San Diego,
Calif. . . . Gregory Scott serves as a systems
support specialist at Energy Enterprises of Den-
ver, Colo. . . . Cathy Seymour is a third-year
PhD candidate in organic chemistry at MIT. She
is married to Marty Meyers, '75. . . . Currently a
free-lance electrical engineer for a Connecticut
company, Dan Sullivan lives in Newton, Mass.
Prior to taking his present job, he worked for an
electronics firm in Watertown. He played in
different bands in California earlier. . . . Nicolette
Stultz has joined Sunworks in Sommerville, N.J.,
where she is a product development engineer.
. . . Presently, Jeff Tingle serves as an assistant
computer scientist in the Cancer Radiation
Therapy Department at Rhode Island Hospital.
... J. Gilbert Wilson III is a structural design
engineer at Varco-Pruden in Evansville, Wiscon-
sin. . . . Formerly general manager of the First
Madison Corp., John Zimmerman is now a
research associate at Yale Medical School, New
Haven, Conn.

1978

Secretary:
Cynthia Grynick
303 WolcottSt.
Waterbury, CT
06705

^■Married: James M. Fowler to Kathleen L.
Ahern on July 14, 1979 in Melrose, Mas-
sachusetts. Mrs. Fowler, a Smith graduate, has
taught in Camden, Me. for two years, and has
accepted a post as a kindergarten teacher at the
Langley School in McLean, Va. Her husband is

with the Department of the Navy Herbert W.

Holmes to Tana M. Laudicinaon May 26, 1979
in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The bride, who
graduated from UMass, is a substitute teacher in
Sarasota, Florida. The groom is with the U.S.
Highway Department. . . . Gary S. Knox and
Louise M. Asselin in Lincoln, New Hampshire,
recently. Mrs. Knox graduated from Emmanuel
College. Her husband serves as a manufacturing
engineer at Nixdorf Computer Co., Burlington,
Mass.

^Married: Sergej K. Ochrimenko and Patricia
E. Riley in Slatersville, Rhode Island on Sep-
tember 22, 1979. The groom works for Spencer
White & Prentis in Hackensack, N.J. . . . Peter J.
Rowdenand LaurieJ. Burnetton June2, 1979 in
Halifax, Nova Scotia. The bride graduated from
Mount St. Vincent University. She is a legal
secretary for Burwick & Burwick in Worcester.
The bridegroom works in the production control
department at Data General Corporation. . . .
Edmund J. Sprogis and Debbie Youngblood on
August 25, 1 979. Mrs. Sprogis is studying for her
nursing degree at the University of Vermont. Her
husband is employed as an associate level en-
gineer at IBM in Essex Junction, Vt. The couple
resides in their own duplex in Burlington. . . .

34 /The WPI Journal/ Winter 1980

Dean C. Wilcox to Sandra A. Meyer in Warwick,
Rhode Island on October 6, 1 979. Mrs. Wilcox
graduated from the University of Vermont and is
a physical therapist. The groom is a supervisor at
General Dynamics-Electric Boat in Groton,
Conn.

^■Born: to Leonard and Elizabeth Papandrea
Lariviere, 76, a daughter, Christina Marie, on
June 5, 1979. Len is a structural engineer with
Allen-Sherman-Hoff, a company of Ecolaire in
Malvern, Pa. Liz is a market analyst on leave
from Westinghouse Electric Corp. Power Sys-
tems Generation Division in Lester, Pa. The
Larivieres reside in Coatesville, Pa.

Shane Chalke continues at State Mutual in
Worcester. . . . John Contestabile has been
promoted to highway engineer II at the Mary-
land Department of Transportation, State High-
way Administration (SHA). He coaches 8- to
15-year-olds on the Parkville (Md.) Recreation
Council Wrestling Team. "Challenging and re-
warding!" He rooms with RickMazmanian, 77,
who works in the SHA Bureau of Bridge Design.
"There are eight of us here now, including: Sid
Afonso, 79; Carl Blomberg, 79; Paul Gudelski,
78; Bill Malone, 78; Steve Buckley, 77, and
Chuck Rheault, 77.

Andrew Corman is with Turner Construction
Co., and is located in Columbus, Ohio. . . . Lt.
William Diederich is at F. E. Warren AFB in

Cheyenne, Wyoming Mary Donovan is with

the Army Corps of Engineers in Waltham, Mass.
. . . Anne Dyer serves as a structural engineer at
David Taylor Research Center in Bethesda, Md.
. . . Anthony Fernandes works for Malcolm
Pirnie, Inc., Philadelphia. . . . John Kuchachik
serves as a fire protection engineer at Kemper
Insurance in North Quincy, Mass.

Ethan Luce is an associate engineer at the
Barden Corp., Danbury, Conn. . . . Wayne
Martin has been named nuclear plant engineer
in operations for the Knolls Atomic Power Labo-
ratory. . . . Murray Matzmer holds the post of
service adviser at Foreign Motors of Boston. . . .
In March, Theresa Murphy left Torrington Co. In
May, she became a management trainee at New
England Telephone, Boston. . . . Rory O'Connor
wrote "Campus Computer Center Built in Con-
verted Chapel," which appeared in the Sept.
17th issue of Computerworld. . . . Currently,
Michael O'Hara is associate project manager at
Firepro Inc., Wellesley Hills, Mass. . . . Stephen
Pace is employed as field manager of Yukon

Construction in Santa Clara, Calif John Petze

is a production engineer with Hydroblaster, Inc. ,
Sparks, Nevada — Anthony Raymond works as
a systems engineer at Electronics for Medicine in
Sudbury, Mass. . . . Bruce Rutsch is with Prime
Computer, Newton Lower Falls, Mass. . . . Phil

Scarrell is at du Pont in South Francisco, Calif

David Tate serves as a software engineer at

Sanders Associates, Inc., South Nashua, N.H

Brian Timura is a first-year student at Tufts
University School of Medicine. Previously, he
was employed by St. Elizabeth's Hospital in

Brighton, Mass Charles Winters works as an

electronics service engineer at Brown & Sharpe,
North Kingston, R.I.

1979

Representative
Donald O. Patten, Jr.

^■Married: Glenn R. Baylis and Lisa D. Newborg
in Essex, Massachusetts. Mrs. Baylis is a senior at
UMass, Amherst. The bridegroom is employed
by Polaroid in Waltham, Mass., where he is a
production engineer. . . . Maryellen Doherty and
Hospitalman 3/c Michael Munzert, on June 3,
1979 in Worcester. The bride is an assistant
programmer in the Federal Systems Division at
IBM, Middletown, R.I. Her husband serves as a
psychiatric technician at the U.S. Naval Regional
Medical Center in Newport. . . . Kenneth A.
Gamache to Diane L. Storm on September 22,
1979 in Rutland, Massachusetts. Mrs. Gamache,
a graduate of Mount Wachusett Community
College, Gardner, is a secretary at Wright Line in
Worcester. The bridegroom is a manufacturing
engineer at Digital Equipment Corp., Westfield,
Mass.

>Married: William R. Herman and Andrea L.
Trivieri on August 1 1 , 1979 in Utica, New York.
Mrs. Herman, a Becker graduate, is employed by
Brooks Fashions, Hartford. Her husband works
for Arthur Anderson, Inc. . . . Dale Hobbs and
Bonnie J. Derosieron June 16, 1979 in Lunen-
burg, Massachusetts. The bride, a senior at WPI,
is a chemical engineering major. The groom is
with Boeing Aircraft, Seattle, Washington. . . .
Daniel F. Hurst and Cheryl A. Payeur in
Springfield, Massachusetts on July 21, 1979.
Mrs. Hurst holds an associate's degree in ac-
counting from Springfield Technical Community
College. She was a control clerk with Springfield
Institution For Savings. Her husband is involved
with research and development of photo
technology at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY.
. . . James D. Kelleher and Rosemary Shea in
Worcester on October 6, 1979. The bride
graduated from Holy Cross. Her husband is with

IBM, Newport, R.I Kenneth Kimball and

Susan Wright. The groom works for GE-Knolls
Atomic Labs. . . . Peter Madnick and Beth J.
Pomstein in Framingham, Massachusetts on
August 5, 1979. Mrs. Madnick is a senior in civil
engineering at the University of Lowell. Her
husband is president and national sales manager
for Dennesen Electrostatic, Inc., Beverly, Mass.
. . . Christopher G. Mather and Mary L. Skillen on
October 6, 1 979 in Oswego, New York. The
bride graduated from SUNY, Oswego, and is
employed by Eye Consultants of Syracuse. The
groom is with Hewelett-Packard. . . . Anne L.
Pattee and Stephen R. Picardo in Beverly, Mas-
sachusetts. Mrs. Picardo, who also graduated
from Salem State College, is a high school
teacher in the Dover-Sherborn Regional Schools.
The bridegroom attends Boston State College
and graduated from Lowell University. He works
for Sharp Air Freight Company.

^■Married: Thomas D. Rockwood to Susan E.
Kingsley on September 22, 1979 in North An-
dover, Massachusetts. The groom is with Procter
& Gamble, Mehoopany, Pa., where he is team
manager of Luvs in the paper products division.
. . . Robert C. Rosenlof and Mary A. Avery on
July 21, 1979 in Hartford, Connecticut. The
bride is employed by Travelers Insurance Co. Her
husband is with Electric Boat in Groton, Conn.
. . . Jeffrey G. Stickles and Jane L. Martinelli in
Granby, Connecticut on September 8, 1979.
Mrs. Stickles was formerly a secretary at Kenney,
Webber & Lowell, Inc. The groom works at GE in
Erie, Pa. . . Richard R. Tardiff and Debra A.
Hebert in Saco, Maine on September 8, 1 979.
The bride graduated from Biddeford High
School. She is employed by Union Mutual Life in
Portland. Her husband is at the Portsmouth

Naval Shipyard in Kittery Paul A. Tessierand

Jane E. Gresh on September 1 , 1 979 in Avon,
Connecticut. The bridegroom is a development
engineer at Hewlett-Packard in Waltham, Mass.
. . . John F. Wheeler to Anne S. Malaney in
Johnstown, New York on July 21, 1979. Mrs.
Wheeler has a paralegal degree from Becker
Junior College. Her husband works for Turner
Construction Company of Boston. . . Thomas J.
White and Linda J. Hein in Paxton, Mas-
sachusetts on August 11,1 979. Mrs. White
attended UMass. She is administration manager
at K2 Corp., Wilmington. The groom serves as a
wine salesman for Chas. Gilman & Sons, Med-
ford. . . . Robert A. Wood to Robin A. Wrobel on
June 16, 1979 in Warren, Massachusetts. Mrs.
Wood attended Becker. Her husband is em-
ployed by GE in Utica, NY.

Donald Abells is an associate engineer at
Raytheon in Sudbury, Mass. He is a design
engineer on the laser gyro program. . . . Sidney
Afonso works as a highway engineer I for the
State Highway Administration in Baltimore, Md.
. . . Leona Arsenault serves as a graduate
research assistant in the ME department at WPI.
. . . Robert Avarbock has joined Digital Equip-
ment Corp., Tewksbury, Mass., where he is a
systems programmer. . . . Kent Backe holds the
post of staff engineer at CNR, Inc., Needham,
Mass. . . . Stephen Blanchette is employed as a
software engineer at Digital in Maynard, Mass.
. . . Hewlett-Packard Co., Lexington, Mass., has
hired Dean Bogues as a logic analysis-
development specialist. . . . Roland Brooks at-
tends Fairwood Bible Institute in Dublin, N.H

James Campbell serves as an associate engineer
at Honeywell in Billerica, Mass. ... Ian Cannon
has been named a member of the technical staff
II at the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell in
Canoga Park, Calif. He is a systems analyst and
programmer in aerospace engineering.

Stephen Caputo holds the post of sales assist-
ant in the technical marketing program at GE in

Bloomington, Illinois Charles Carter is a field

engineeratSchlumbergerWell Services in Pharr,
Texas. . . Hosur Chikkalingaiah serves as a
sanitary engineer at Whitman & Howard, Inc., in
Wellesley, Mass. . . . Stephen Clark has been
named design and development engineer at

Raytheon in Sudbury, Mass Cynthia Connor

is an associate engineer at Westinghouse-Bettis

Winter 1980 /The WPI journal/ 35

Atomic Power Lab. in West Mifflin, Pa. . ..James
Cunniff holds the position of administrative
technical support manager at Jamesbury Corp.
in Worcester, Mass. . .. Edward Curtis has joined
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford, Conn.
. . . George Dainis is in the chemical engineering
graduate program at MIT. . . . Gail D'Amico is
studying for a PhD in pharmacology at Mt. Sinai
Medical School in New York City.

Andrew Davidson works as a salesman for the
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company
in Worcester. . . . John Davidson is a CDP

engineerat GE In Lynn, Mass Beth Raymond

Davis has been named a structural engineer II at
Allen-Sherman-Hoff in Malvern, Pa. . . . Paul
Delvy is employed as a project engineer at Wang
Laboratories in Lowell, Mass. . . . William
Donoghue is a design engineer at Hamilton
Standard, Windsor Locks, Conn. . . . Chester
Drake has joined United Engineers & Construc-
tors, Boston. . . . Ron Drewiany serves as an
associate engineer in the Electric Boat Division of
General Dynamics in Groton, Conn. . . . Richard
Durand, Jr., is pursuing a PhD in chemistry at Cal
Tech.

Stephen Falls has joined the Spencer Turbine

Co. in Windsor, Conn Eugenia Fernandez is a

technical representative for Kemper Insurance,
Southfield, Mich. . . . Alwyn Fitzgerald works as
a biological assistant at Connecticut Valley
Biological Supply, Co., Inc., Southampton, Mass.
. . . Eileen Foley serves as a mechanical engineer
at the U.S. Army Armament Research and De-
velopment Company, Picatinny Arsenal, Dover,
N.J. . . . Athanasios Foutsitzis is a research
assistantandgraduatestudentatWPI. . . James
Gaffney has been named a chemical engineer at
the Kendall Co., Walpole, Mass. . . . Tom Girotti
is a project engineer at Virginia Electric & Power
Co. in Richmond, Va. . . . John Grimwade works
as a field service engineer at Babcock & Wilcox
Co., Barberton, Ohio. . . . Mark Groves has
joined GE in Utica, N.Y. . . . William Guerin is
employed at Idealab, Inc., Franklin, Mass.

International Harvester Company has
awarded a graduate dissertation fellowship to
James Gustafson, currently a candidate for his
MSME at WPI. He was one of 174 graduate
students, representing 88 colleges, who entered
the competition for the six fellowships offered by
IH for the first time this year. Aimed at providing
assistance to students, benefitting the colleges,
and advancing industrial technology, the fellow-
ships offer maximum funding of $25 thousand
each. They cover up to a two-year period,
provide funds for a cash stipend, tuition, and
support of research costs. Gustafson's winning
proposal title was: "Strain Measurement by
Hologram Interferometry." His research will be
aimed at advancing present knowledge for
holographic strain analysis by experimenting
with new procedures that will relate directly to
surface strains of three-dimensional objects. The
study will develop technology particularly
adaptable in designing and testing critical com-
ponents in the automotive, aerospace, and elec-
tronics industries and in medical laboratories.
Gustafson belongs to the ASME. During the past
summer, he has been employed as a project
engineer by Ambac Industries of Springfield,
Mass.

36 /The WPI Journal/ Winter 1980

Kevin Halloran holds the post of president of
Advanced Hybrid Systems in Newton Centre,
Mass. . . . Dorothy Hamilton is doing work in
inorganic chemistry at the Graduate School of
the University of Illinois in Urbana. . . . Scott
Hansen has joined Monsanto Textiles, Decatur,

Alabama John Haporik serves as an associate

environmental engineer at B.F. Goodrich Chem-
ical Co., Calvert City, Ky. . . . Henry Hazebrouck
has been named a research engineer at Ampex

Corp. in Redwood City, Calif Mark Hecker is

employed as a design engineer at Data General,
Westboro, Mass. . . . Raytheon Company in
Wayland, Mass. has tapped Paul Henderson as
an associate engineer. . . . Daniel Hennessy
graduated magna cum laude from Boston Col-
lege, and is studying for his MBA at the Univer-
sity of Michigan John Hopkins, Jr., works as

a sales engineer at Alger Corp., Abington, Mass.
. . . Arthur Hughes is employed as a field
engineer at Dresser Industries in Texas. . . .
Stephen Hull, Jr., who holds an MS from WPI, is
working on his PhD at Michigan State, East
Lansing. His wife, Kathy, is a resident at St.
Joseph's Hospital in Flint preparing for family
practice.

Craig Jacobson works as a gear product de-
sign engineer at GE in Lynn, Mass. . . . Bruce
Jenket, an officer candidate in the Navy OCS in
Newport, R.I., will be movingto Orlando, Fla. for
six months, then on to Idaho. . . . Turner
Construction Co., Columbus, Ohio, has hired
Richard Jenkins II as a cost engineer. . . . Brian

Johansson is with Motorola in Plantation, Fla

David Johnson and his wife Joan are now resid-
ing in London. Johnson is with Film Cooling
Towers, Ltd. in Richmond, Surrey, U.K., as well
as with Johnson International, Ltd. in Bridgewa-
ter, Conn. . . . Kilmer Joyce has been named
associate engineer in the Combustion Turbine
Division of Westinghouse, Concordville, Pa. . . .
Stephen Kapurch is with the Dept. of the Navy
Fleet Analysis Center in Corona, Calif. . . . Ronald
Knapp, who has an MSEE from WPI, holds the
post of design engineer at Analog Devices,
Wakefield, Mass. . . . Richard Kozicz has joined
Data General, Southboro, Mass., where he is a
systems test engineer.

Claire LaChance is with GE in Philadelphia

Norman Lacourse has been named a chemist at
National Starch & Chemical Corp., Bridgewater,
N.J. . . . Ken Laliberte serves as a manufacturing
engineer at Norton Co., Worcester. . . . Ray
Lambert is employed as a project engineer at
Monsanto in Springfield, Mass. . . . Presently,
Brien Laufer is studying for his MSEE at Ohio

State University Stephen Lawny is a graduate

student in the physics department at WPI. . . .
John Lennhoff holds the post of development
engineerat Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. . . . Stephen
Lesniewski is a student at Jagiellonski University

in Krakow, Poland Ronald Lucier serves as an

associate engineerat Yankee Atomic Electric Co.
in Westboro, Mass.

Frank Maldari works for Itek Corp.,
Lexington, Mass. . . . Frank Martin is a solar
engineerat Environmental Alternatives, Inc.,
Dover, N.H. He is designing a home which he,
Kevin Doherty, and John "Sid'' Fitzgerald may
be building next spring for the owner. . . .
Timothy McAlice has joined Pratt & Whitney
Aircraft Group in West Palm Beach, Fla. . . .
Kathleen McKeon is a teaching assistant in the
math department at Michigan State University in
East Lansing. . . . James Miller is studying for his
MS at Stanford University, where he is a teach-
ing assistant in the EE department. . . . Donald
Mitchell serves as an assistant engineer for
Public Service of New Hampshire in Manchester.

. . . Lisa Mitchell is employed as a field liaison
engineer at Westinghouse Elevator Co., Ran-
dolph, N.J. . . . Jack Morrison has joined Pratt &
Whitney, East Hartford, Conn., as an experi-
mental engineer. . . . Tom Murray is a process
engineer at Texas Instruments in Dallas.

Prime Computer, Inc., Framingham, Mass.,
has employed Peter Pappas as a software en-
gineer. . . . Stephen Parent is at Brown Univer-
sity, Providence, R.I. . . . Gary Pearson is em-
ployed as a product design engineer at
Raytheon-Data Systems, Norwood, Mass. . . .
Heidi Pivnick has been hired as operations
supervisor at AT & T Long Lines, Hartford, Conn.
. . . William Potter is with Motorola in Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla. . . . Joyce Poulton is a
mathematician at Vitro Laboratories in Newport,

R.I Stephen Prawdzik has been working as

an assistant sales engineer at GE in Nashville,
Tenn. . . . Presently, Robert Reed is a product
engineer for Wyman-Gordon in North Grafton,
Mass. . . . Rene Richard has accepted a post at
Kodak in Rochester, N.Y. . . . Glenn Robertson
serves as a product engineer at Texas Instru-
ments in Houston. He is responsible for a mem-
ory device Ali Rostami is a graduate student

at Stanford University. . . . Honeywell, Inc.,
Lexington, Mass., has named Ron Roth an as-
sociate project engineer. . . . Carl Rutigliano
works as a mechanical design engineer at GE in
Fitchburg. . . . Scott Ryder has joined New
England Power Service Co., Westboro, Mass.

David Scheffler serves as a test engineer at
Raytheon Data Systems in Norwood, Mass. . . .
Richard Schneider is a manufacturing process
engineer at Texas Instruments, Mansfield, Mass.
. . . Monique Schobert is employed as a member
of the research staff at Western Electric in Prince-
ton, N.J David Sheridan, a 2/Lt. in the U.S.

Army Ordnance Corps, is currently attending
Explosive Ordnance Disposal School. . . . Alan
Smelewicz is a teaching assistant at WPI. . . .
David Smith is working for his MBA full time at
Babson College, Needham, Mass. . . . Alfred
Spada is a graduate student at MIT, where he is
studying for his PhD. . . . Andrew Sumberg has
joined Thermo Electron in Waltham, Mass. . . .
Edward Tidman III holds the post of group
insurance underwriter at State Mutual in
Worcester. . . . Bob Tosi serves as a design
engineer at Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard,
Mass. . . . John Tracy is an MBA student at
Northeastern in Boston. . . . Bradley Traver
works as a surveying technician for the U.S.
government in the National Park Service. He
writes, "Constantly travelling!" . . . Tom Van
Ness is with Kodak, Rochester, N.Y.

David Wardell is at GE in Schenectady, N.Y.
. . . Vincent Wasnewsky is a teaching assistant at
WPI, where he is studying for his MSEE. . . .
General Dynamics-Electric Boat, Groton, Conn.,
has employed George Wespi as an associate
engineer. . . . David West works for Conrail in
Pittsburgh. . . . David Willey is an associate
engineerat Lockheed-Georgia in Marietta, Ga.
. . . Chris Wilmot serves as a chemical engineer

at Naval Ordnance Station, Indian Head, Md

William Winters is at Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y. . . .
Vincent Wolff has accepted a position as an
associate member of the research staff at Ampex
Corp., Redwood City, Calif. . . . Lawrence
Woodward, who has his MSEE from WPI, is a

teaching associate at UMass in Amherst Paul

Wrabel is an engineer assistant at Babcock &

Wilcox in Barberton, Ohio Priscilla Young is

employed as an engineering trainee at Mobil Oil
Corp., Scarsdale, N.Y. . . . Robert Zunner has
joined Raytheon in Wayland, Mass.

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School of

Industrial

Management

Harold White, '55, now back with Norton in
Worcester following a seven-year stint for the
firm in England, says that his hobbies include
collecting antiques, woodworking tools, and
American clocks. He enjoys clock repairing and
travel. "We have been in Europe, Asia Minor,
and Africa, but Cape Porpoise, Me. is a favorite
spot for family gatherings." Last summer, the
Whites attended the Queen's Lawn Party at
Buckingham Palace.

George Durnin, Jr., '61, continues at Franklin
County Public Hospital, Greenfield, Mass.,
where he serves as vice president of employee
services.

William Lechman, '64, has been named opera-
tions manager for the Chain and Components
Division of Rexnord, Inc. in Milwaukee. He is
responsible for all manufacturing and related
areas for the division. Previously, he was general
manager of Ruberg & Renner, Germany. He
joined Rexnord in 1 956 as a student trainee. He
graduated from the University of Connecticut
with a degree in industrial engineering.

Edward Bilzerian, '66, was recently appointed
vice president and controller of Bay State Abra-
sives Division of Dresser Industries, Inc., in
Westboro, Mass. With the firm since 1955,
Bilzerian has held managerial posts in pricing,
cost accounting, and general accounting. He is a
graduate of Clark University.

Edwin Larson, '77, has been named business
manager of industrial production products at
Norton Company's coated abrasive division,
Troy, NY. Since 1956, he has held various posts
in field sales, marketing, and product manage-
ment for both grinding wheels and coated abra-
sives. In 1978, he moved to the Albany-Troy
area as product manager of cloth backed prod-
ucts.

JohnHickey, Jr., '78, is listed in the 1979 edition
of Who's Who in Finance & Industry. Last
August, he was appointed controller of New
England High Carbon Wire Corp., Millbury,
Mass.

Robert Eves, '79, is now the technical manager
of Norton Company's new proppants plant in
Fort Smith, Arkansas. He has held increasingly
responsible posts in manufacturing control and
process engineering since joining the firm in
1946. A registered professional engineer, he
holds an ME degree from Tri-State University in
Angola, Indiana.

William Monigle, '79, is president of Video
Base, Inc., Merrimack, N.H. The firm produces
custom video taped training and communica-
tions programs. Monigle graduated from the
University of Massachusetts.

Natural

Science

Program

John Sakala, '66, has been named principal of
Princeton (N.J.) High School. He was selected
from nearly 100 applicants. Previously, he was
principal of Rockport (Mass.) High School, and
of Homebase School in Watertown, Mass. He
had taught mathematics and physics in Water-
town, where he was also a coordinator of science
for the school district. He has a certificate of
advanced graduate studies from Northeastern,
as well as a BA from Brandeis. Applicants for the
principal's post were thoroughly screened by the
Board of Education, the high school staff, and
members of the community. Sakala was picked
from among four finalists.

Sr. Pauline Kalagher (S.S.J.), '78, is a science
teacher at Milford (Mass.) High School.

P. Martin Conway, '79, teaches at Granby
(Mass.) Senior High School. . . . Timothy Hoar,
'79, is employed by the school department in
Franklin, Mass., where his is an educator at the
junior high school. He and his wife, Susan, have
two children. They live in Mendon. . . . Robert
Raymond, '79, teaches chemistry at Mahar Re-
gional School in Orange, Mass.

Winter 1980 /The WP1 Journal/ 37

L. Herbert Carter, '07, died in a convalescent
hospital in San Jose, California on October 3,
1979.

A Worcester native, he was born on Jan. 31,
1885. After studying electrical engineering at
WPI, he worked several years for New York
Telephone. Other employers included Reed &
Prince, and Worcester Pressed Steel, from which
he retired in 1 950 as plant engineer. From 1 950
to 1961 , he was a consulting engineer in
Worcester, under the business name of the
Carter Engineering Service. He was a registered,
professional engineer.

Mr. Carter, who moved to California in 1962,
was active in the Little House Senior Citizens
Center in Menlo Park. He had previously be-
longed to the Tech Old Timers, the Elks, and had
been active in scouting.

Richard B. Davidson, '17, a retired associate
engineer at the Sacandaga Reservoir in New
York, died in Glens Falls on September 13,1 979.
He was 83.

He received his BSCE from WPI in 1917.
Following graduation, he was an ensign in the
U.S. Naval Reserve until 1921. He attended
Officer Material School at Harvard, and later
worked for the Power Construction Company of
Worcester. While at Worcester, he was involved
with hydroelectric and dam construction on the
Connecticut and Deerfield Rivers.

In 1925 he joined the Hudson River, Black
River Regulating District of Albany, N.Y. as
assistant engineer. Upon completing his duties
on the Conklingville Dam and Sacandaga Reser-
voir flood control project, he was named as-
sociate engineer on the maintenance of the
Reservoir. In 1966, he retired after serving the
Hudson River-Black River Regulating District for
41 years. He served as district consultant for two
years after retirement.

Mr. Davidson was born in 1895 in Sterling,
Mass. He belonged to Sigma Phi Epsilon, the
Eastern Snow Conference, and the American
Legion. A fellow of the ASCE, he was also a
registered professional engineer in New York.

Retired Army Major General Kirke B. Lawton,
'17, who coordinated photographic coverage of
all U.S. ground troops on the Western Front
during World War II, died in Athol, Mas-
sachusetts on October 20, 1 979. He was 84
years old.

General Lawton's 37-year career in the Army
touched on two world wars, the German surren-
der signing, the Big Three Potsdam Conference,
and the Army-McCarthy hearings. At the apex
of his career, he served as commander of Fort
Monmouth, N.J. and its Signal Corps Center.
The two-star general had served as head of the
Army Pictorial Service, for which he earned the
Legion of Merit, as chief of American ground
combat photographers in Europe in World War
II, and as an eyewitness to top-level end of war
and postwar meetings.

His various Army positions took him to Hol-
lywood, where he assisted in the making of
patriotic movies for the home front, to the
atomic bomb test in Nevada in the 1 950's, and
to a number of White House receptions. From
1940 to 1944, Gen. Lawton served in
Washington, D.C. He was promoted to Colonel
and named chief of the Army Pictorial Services.
In 1944, he was assigned to Supreme Headquar-
ters of Allied Forces in Europe. Starting 1 2 days
after D-Day, he followed the American Army
across northern France with a cameraman, a
jeep, a chauffeur, and a pup tent. He filmed and
conferred with Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley,
British Field Marshall Montgomery, and French
General DeGaulle. On May 7, 1945 he "free-
lanced" his way into a school at Rheims, France
at 2 A.M. and took the only color photos made
of the German surrender ceremony. Two
months later he "crashed" the Potsdam Confer-
ence. "I sneaked in," he was to confess later.

His prized Potsdam photo, widely published in
periodicals and textbooks, was shot on a balcony
over Churchill's broad frame and showed men of
history around a huge round table including:
Truman, Byrnes, Admiral Leahy, Churchill, Atlee,
Anthony Eden, Stalin, Molotov, and Gromyko.

In 1954, while in command of Fort Mon-
mouth and the Signal Corps Center with its
radar-sensitive laboratories, Gen. Lawton was
put into the national spotlight during the heavily
televised Army-McCarthy hearings. The general
was praised by Senator McCarthy in regard to
the civilian loyalty-security check system he had
instituted at Fort Monmouth. He could not
testify at the hearings, however, because of a
"gag" order issued by President Eisenhower. At
the time, Gen. Lawton let it be known that
following the job suspensions he ordered at Fort
Monmouth, there was no longer a threat of a spy
ring at the installation.

Among the general's many awards are the
U.S. Legion of Merit, three battle service stars,
the victory medal, and Czechoslovakia's Medal
of Merit, First Class. He received an honorary
doctor of science degree from WPI in 1950. A
past president of the Boston chapter of the
Alumni Association, he had also served on the
Executive Committee.

Gen. Lawton was born on Nov. 3, 1894 in
Athol, Mass. In 1917 he graduated as a mechan-
ical engineer. He belonged to ATO.

Leslie H. Spofford, '17, chief engineer at
Wachusett Engineering & Combustion for many
years, died in Holden, Massachusetts on April
21, 1979.

He was born on Nov. 30, 1893 in Turners Falls,
Mass. In 1917 he received his BSEE, then joined
Hartford Electric Light Co. He worked for James
McKinney & Sons, Eastern Bridge & Structural
Co., and for 27 years the Worcester County
Engineering Department, where he was a civil
engineer. In 1 959, he started work at Wachusett
Engineering & Construction Co., Holden, where
he held the post of chief engineer.

Mr. Spofford, a Mason, was a registered
professional engineer and land surveyor in Mas-
sachusetts. He was also registered in New York.
He was the father of Winslow Spofford, '56.

Charles C. Alvord, '18, a retired mechanical
engineer and consultant for Norton Co., died on
August 28, 1979 in Hyannis, Massachusetts at
the age of 82.

He retired from Norton's machine division
operation in Worcester in 1 961 , and then served
as a consultant for Norton-Asquith, its
Shrewsbury, England, branch, for twenty
months. While with Norton, he invented several
machines for the company.

Before joining Norton in 1936, Alvord was
associated with his father, Clinton Alvord, '86
(deceased) in the former Worcester Loom
Works. During his early years, Alvord built and
operated wireless sets, when they were still a
great novelty. He was proud of Indian relics and
Civil War documents handed down through the
family by his uncle, Maj. Henry E. Alvord, who,
after the Civil War, was so successful dealing
with Indians in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Alvord, who trained in aerial photography at
Cornell in World War I, was born in Worcester
on Dec. 19, 1896. He was a professional en-
gineer and had a BSME from WPI.

Cornelius A. Callahan, '21, a retired consultant,
died at his home in South Yarmouth, Mas-
sachusetts on June 8, 1979.

Following his graduation as a chemist, Mr.
Callahan worked for four years at Hamilton
Woolen Co. He held subsequent posts at Pacific
Mills, Charlton Woolen, and at Haywood-
Schuster Woolen Mills. AtGoodall Sanford, Inc.,
he was a vice president and at Stroock & Co.,
works manager. In later life, he ran Callahan
Realty, Newburgh, N.Y., and was a real estate
appraiser and consultant.

Mr. Callahan belonged to Lambda Chi Alpha,
Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Skull. He was born on
Sept. 30, 1899 in Winchendon, Mass.

Harold C. Johnston, '23, a retired representative
for Hobart Co., died at his home in Rumford,
Rhode Island on September 9, 1 979 at the age of
79.

He was born on Nov. 12, 1900 in North
Easton, Mass. , and was a member of the Class of
1923. During his career, he was with Worthing
Pump & Machine Corp., Lupton Co., and Toledo
Scale Co. In 1969, he retired from Hobart Co.,
Providence, after thirty years of service.

A member of ATO, Johnston had also be-
longed to the National Association of Cost Ac-
countants, the Sales Manager Club, the
Chamber of Commerce, the Masons, and the
Shrine. He was a member of the Episcopal
Church and the Wannamoisett Country Club.

38 /The WPI journal / Winter 1980

Wolcott S. Bissell, '25, died on September 10,
1979 in Hartford, Connecticut. He was 75 years
old.

In 1965 he retired as assistant training coor-
dinator for the Connecticut State Highway De-
partment after 29 years of service. He was
responsible for formulating and teaching courses
in algebra, trigonometry, and drafting. He had
been a member of the Division of Design before
transferring to the Training Division. Earlier, he
was with Buck & Sheldon, Hartford.

Mr. Bissell was a life member of the Connect-
icut Society of Civil Engineers. A 50-year Mason,
he had served as grand secretary in Connecticut
for the Royal Arch Masons, and had held many
other Masonic posts. He belonged to SAE and
the Connecticut State Employees Association.

A graduate ME from WPI, Bissell also had a
BSCE from MIT. He was born on March 17, 1904
in Hartford, Conn.

Raymond H. Amsden, '26, passed away at his
home in Reading, Massachusetts on August 27,
1979 at the age of 75.

He retired in 1969 following 38 years as a fire
protection engineer for the Factory Insurance
Association of Hartford. He traveled the New
England States, and was then a special agent in
the Boston office.

A native of Arlington, N.J., he was born on
Jan. 25, 1904. He belonged to the Pioneer Club
of the Factory Insurance Association, and was a
member of the class of 1926.

Peter C. Gaskill, '27, a retired clinical psycholo-
gist with the Veteran's Administration, died on
December 1 6, 1 978 following a brief illness.

After studying at WPI, Mr. Gaskill received his
AB from Ohio University and his MA from
Washington University. For many years he was a
clinical psychologist with the Veterans Adminis-
tration in Manchester, N.H.

He was a member and elder of the Presbyte-
rian Church, belonged to the Masons, the East-
ern Star, and the American Legion. A charter
member of the Londonderry (NH) Chamber of
Commerce, he was voted citizen of the year in
1971.

Mr. Gaskill was in World War II, and con-
tinued as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Re-
serve. He served three terms in the New Hamp-
shire legislature. He was a member of Lambda
Chi Alpha. A native of Worcester, he was born
on Dec. 8, 1903.

Ernest T. Parsons, '27, died in Manchester, New
Hampshire on September 3, 1979 at the age of
74.

He was born on Jan. 28, 1905 in Easthampton,
Mass. In 1 927 he received his BSEE from WPI. He
worked 33 years as district transformer spe-
cialist, sales engineer, and manager of the Man-
chester office of the General Electric Company.
He joined the Public Service Company of New
Hampshire in 1959, serving as commercial-
industrial sales supervisor until his retirement in
1969. After retirement, he engaged in consult-
ing engineering work.

Mr. Parsons belonged to Phi Sigma Kappa,
Skull, IEEE, the Rotary Club, and the Masons. He
was past president of the Tri-County Electric
Associates, past chairman of the board of trus-
tees at Camp Foster, and he was a registered
professional engineer in New Hampshire.

Frank R. Roeder, '27, a retired civil engineer,
passed away on August 20, 1979 in Sarasota,
Florida.

He was born on Nov. 20, 1 902 in Turners Falls,
Mass. After graduating as a civil engineer, he
joined the Metropolitan District Commission,
Boston, where he was employed until his retire-
ment. He had served the MDC in various
capacities including that of draftsman in the
Water Supply Commission and a senior civil
engineer in the Construction Division.

Frank R. Joslin, '29, a retired system vice presi-
dent of the New England Electric System, died on
August 24, 1979 in University Hospital in Bos-
ton. He was 71.

As system vice president, he was responsible
for the labor department and various operating
functions. He had started work at New England
Power Co. in Worcester in 1928. Since that time,
he had held increasingly responsible posts
throughout his 45 years with the company. He
retired in 1973.

Mr. Joslin was born on May 1 , 1 908 in Oxford,
Mass. He was a member of the Class of 1 929 and
belonged to Phi Sigma Kappa. In 1948 he
graduated from the advanced management
program at Harvard Business School.

His career with New England Electric was
interrupted three times. From 1933 to 1937 he
was a general superintendent for two CCC
construction camps. He helped develop Myles
Standish State Forest in Plymouth and Assonet
State Forest. In 1 938 and 1 939 with the PWA, he
helped in the reconstruction of Derby Wharf,
Central Wharf, Salem Customs House, and John
Derby House. Later he worked for the federal
government on the National Research Defense
Committee of the Office of Scientific Research
and Development.

In 1946, he rejoined New England Electric,
and was soon named a vice president of New
England Power Co. In 1959, he became chief
spokesman of the company's negotiating com-
mittee which bargained with unions of all system
companies. He became vice president of New
England Power Service Co. in 1962 and system
vice president five years later.

While a resident of Bedford, he served on a
number of local committees, including the
school building committee, the library board of
trustees, and as chairman of the school commit-
tee. He was named director of the Nashua River
Watershed Association. He and his wife com-
pletely restored the Fitch Tavern, which is now in
the National Historic Register.

After retiring, Joslin was named executive
coordinator of the New England Construction
Users Council. He belonged to the Rotary Club.

George J. Tsatsis, '29, of Massapequa, New
York passed away recently.

For many years he was with Consolidated
Edison, which he served as division engineer and
executive staff assistant. He was born on January
6, 1 906. He was a member of the Class of 1 929.

John T. Tomkins, '30, of Newport News, Vir-
ginia, died last August after a long illness. He was
70.

He retired from the machinery design depart-
ment at Newport News Shipbuilding in 1974
after 44 years. He belonged to ATO, the Society
of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the
Propeller Club, the James River Country Club,
and the Newport Lions Club, of which he was a
past president.

He was born on Sept. 17, 1908 in Philadel-
phia. In 1930 he received his BSCE from WPI.

William E. Grubert, '35, the retired manager of
the chemical hazards department of the Royal-
Globe Insurance Company, died on August 15,
1 979 after a long illness. He was 67.

Mr. Grubert designed the first motor vehicle
directional signal as a class project. He also
designed Underwood's first noiseless portable
typewriter.

During his career he was with Underwood,
Elliot and Fisher, F.D.A. Insurance Co. , and the
Army Air Corps in World War II. After leaving the
service, Grubert was employed by Royal-Globe
Insurance, New York as senior vice president and
manager of commercial lines and chemical
hazards department. He retired in 1972.

Mr. Grubert was a cofounder of the New York
chapter of the Society of Fire Protection En-
gineers, of which he was a charter member and a
past president. An outstanding fire protection
engineer, he was very active in the Conference
of Special Risk Underwriters and the National
Fire Protection Association. He belonged to SAE
and the Drug & Chemical Club. In 1935 he
graduated as a mechanical engineer. He was
born April 19, 1912 in Westfield, Mass. It is
being suggested that if any wish to remember
Bill Grubert, that a contribution be made to The
Center For Fire Safety Studies, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts
01609, in Memory of William E. Grubert. This is
a new program which has been set up to award
Master of Science Degrees in Fire Protection
Engineering and is the first such program in this
country.

Winter 1980 /The WPI journal/ 39

Albert L. Delude, Jr., '38, a chief engineer at the
Providence Granite Co. for 25 years, died on
August 21, 1979 in Providence, Rhode Island.

He was born on Jan. 21, 1917 in Worcester. In
1938, he received his BSCE, and was employed
by the Metropolitan District Water Supply Sys-
tem Commission, Boston. He was involved with
construction at Quonset, R.I. Naval Air Station,
Richmond (Fla.) Naval Air Station, and the
Marine barracks at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Briefly,
he was employed at Prestressed Concrete and
Smith Concrete Products, Kinston, N.C. before
joining Providence Granite.

Mr. Delude, WPI Alumni Council representa-
tive of the Class of 1938, belonged to ASCE. He
was a registered, professional engineer.

Sidney F. Perkins, '38, of Athol, Massachusetts
died in Worcester on July 29, 1 979.

He was a district manager for the Mas-
sachusetts Electric Co. for the past 40 years,
including the last 1 1 years in Gardner. He had
also been a commander in the U.S. Navy during
World War II and in the Korean conflict. Prior to
serving as Gardner manager, he was stationed at
Massachusetts Electric in Worcester, and at Nar-
ragansett Electric in Providence.

Perkins belonged to Theta Chi, the Methodist
Church, the Masons, and the Shrine. He was a
graduate of WPI 's School of Industrial Manage-
ment and a registered professional engineer in
Rhode Island. He was born on June 13, 1915 in
Millbury. In 1938 he graduated as an electrical
engineer.

William L Kay, '39, of Point Pleasant, New
Jersey, passed away on August 9, 1 979.

He was born on Aug. 9, 1916 in Scotia, N.Y.
For many years, until his retirement, he was a
research chemist at du Pont in Wilmington and
Newport, Delaware. He had a PhD from New
York University.

Dr. Kay belonged to Lambda Chi Alpha, Sigma
Xi, and the American Chemical Society. He
graduated as a chemist from WPI.

Malcolm N. Pilsworth, Jr., '47, a physicist at the
U.S. Army Natick Labs., Natick, Massachusetts,
died on August 11,1 979 in Framingham Union
Hospital.

He was born on Sept. 10, 1918 in Worcester,
and graduated as an electrical engineer in 1947.
During his lifetime he was with the Naval
Ordnance Lab., Washington, D.C., Landers,
Frary & Clark, and Tracerlab in Waltham, Mass.
He held a BA from Colgate, a master's degree
from Cornell. He belonged to Sigma Xi and Phi
Beta Kappa.

Mr. Pilsworth served in the Navy in World War
II. He was active in scouting and with the
Masons.

Raymond B. Phaneuf , '49, of Lynnfield Center,
Massachusetts died on July 1 5, 1 979 in Boston.
A native of Woonsocket, R.I., he was born on
January 29, 1923. During his career, he worked
for Worcester Pressed Steel, Clevite Transistor,
Itek Corp. and Bar Industries. For the past six
years, he owned and operated National Radio
Corp., Melrose. He served in the Air Force in
World War II, and belonged to Theta Chi. In
1949 he received his BSME from WPI.

40/ The WPI Journal / Winter 19X0

iffi

Summer 1 980

i

Alumni term trustee
nominations being
received

Each year the WPI Alumni Associa-
tion has the opportunity to nomi-
nate alumni for consideration for
positions on the WPI Board of Trust-
ees. Candidates are selected
through a balloting process con-
ducted by the Alumni Association's
Alumni Council, and a Trustee
Search Committee of the Associa-
tion is responsible for assuring that
there are enough candidates each
year for the positions available. Paul
W. Bayliss, '60, chairman of that
committee, has recently announced
that his committee is now receiving

petitions for consideration for nom-
ination for terms beginning in July
1981.

Alumni may submit petitions
which contain the appropriate num-
ber of verified signatures on or be-
fore October 3, 1980. They should
be mailed to Mr. Bayliss c/o the
WPI Alumni Office, Boynton Hall,
Worcester, MA 01609. Questions re-
garding the procedures for the for-
mal submission for proposals
should be directed to Stephen J. He-
bert, '66, Alumni director, at WPI,
telephone (617) 753-1411.

Editor: I found the article, "A room
at the top," about Boynton Hall's
clock tower (in the Winter 1980
Journal) very refreshing. I'm glad to
see that the wall of graffiti was left
untouched during the recent reno-
vations, at least so far. I sincerely
hope it will be left as is. Nearly ev-
eryone has left his name and date of
visit on some obscure landmark at
some time in his life, secretly hop-
ing it will be found and recognized,
hopefully years later. I suppose it's a
way of immortalizing some small
part of ourselves. To paint over the-
se "fossils" of WPI students would
be truly sad. Obviously that small
piece of wall has brought some hap-
piness (perhaps sadness) to some,
and someone felt it could touch mo-
re people (hence the publication of
the article in a prominent place in
the WPI Journal. ) Please help see
that this small unobtrusive spot is
left as it has been for these past
years, to be enjoyed by future senti-
mentalists. Thank you for your con-
cern and the article.

— Walter A. Perkins, '75
Keene, NH

Editor's note: The graffiti are still
there, and probably will be for the
next century or so. In a related vein,
someone recently asked why WPI
had gone to all the trouble and ex-
pense to put sheet-rock on the walls
of that nearly inaccessible and un-
usable room in the tower. Building
code requirements, that's why.

Summer 1980

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Vol. 84, No. 1

8

On Gossamer Wings

Paul MacCready, this year's Commencement
speaker and designer/builder of the Gossamer Condor and
Gossamer Albatross aircraft, discusses the consequences of re-
search into human-powered airplanes.

"The Electric Disco Chicken . . . ?"

The story of one man, twenty chickens, and more

than five thousand photographic exposures, all in 4Vi minutes.

The long ride of Edward Delano

Roger Perry tells the tale of this remarkable alum-
nus who rode his bicycle 3100 miles to attend his class's
50th reunion.

17 Reunion 1980

A brief look back at that wonderful weekend.

24 Your class and others

32 The Peep Toad Potter

How not to stay a physicist: the story of Dick Farrell,'64.

43 What handicap?

John Pavao's success.

45 How much is it worth?

American Appraisal's Lee Hackett, '61, either
knows or can find out fast.

46 Completed careers

Editor: H. Russell Kay

Alumni Information Editor: Ruth S.
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On Gossamer

Wings

by Paul B. MacCready

The discipline of seeking
high-performance on puny
human power lets you see and
understand just how efficient
vehicles can be.

Paul B. MacCieady, president of AeroViwnment, Inc.,
and winner of the two Kremer prizes for human-
powered aircraft, gave this address at WPI's Commence-
ment in May. Since then, he has unveiled the next
aircraft in the Gossamer series — the Gossamer Pen-
guin, powered by solar cells and batteries.

Human-powered flight has been a goal of mankind from
as early as man had developed to where he could envy
the birds. However, once the Wright brothers mastered
powered flight in 1903, people realized that this old avi-
ation goal of human-powered flight was not all that
important. Engines, as powerful as 100 or 1000 men,
were then available to move aviation to achievements
which were never conceived of except by science fiction
writers. A few enthusiasts kept the dream of self-
powered flight just barely alive.

Then in 1959 a remarkable, creative event
occurred. A British industrialist, Henry Kremer, put up
a prize for the first sustained controlled human-powered
flight (i.e., the human-powered analog to the Wright
brothers' 1903 flight). During the 18 years the prize
stood unclaimed, it was increased to nearly $100,000,
the largest prize in aviation. Once Kremer established
the prize, it was inevitable that someone would win it.
But it was not inevitable that anyone would put up such
a prize — that was a unique and creative event.

In the summer of 1976 1 got the idea of how to win
the prize and, with a team of a dozen friends and rela-
tives, created the Gossamer Condor. It won Kremer's
prize a year later. To our astonishment, the aviation
establishment showed great enthusiasm for this esoteric
and impractical feat — and the vehicle went to the
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Wash-
ington, where it hangs next to the Wrights' aircraft and
Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis.

We had found Gossamer Condor was a fun airplane
to fly. You don't have to be either an athlete or a pilot; a
60-year-old woman flew it, as well as a 10-year-old boy.
The dark side of having the aircraft hang in the Smithso-
nian, for us, was that we could no longer fly it. So I cal-
culated what an improved version would do if made
more accurately. The computations showed that our
primary pilot, Bryan Allen, could probably keep it aloft
for five hours, while we ordinary, out-of-condition mor-
tals could fly it five or ten minutes. This sounded like
fun, but we were too lazy to start work on Gossamer
Albatross immediately.

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Mr. Kremer announced a new prize: £100,000 (mo-
re than $200,000) for a human-powered flight across the
English Channel. We suspect he thought winning this
one would take another 18 years; we felt winning it
quickly would be a piece of cake! The basic design of our
aircraft was already calculated on the back of an enve-
lope. I should mention that a WPI 1951 alumnus, my
brother-in-law Kirke Leonard, was a key member of the
Gossamer Condor/Gossamer Albatross teams, and in
fact did the primary development work on the use of ad-
vanced composite materials in the Gossamer Albatross.
In 1979 the DuPont company sponsored our efforts, we
got to England, and Bryan Allen successfully flew the
Gossamer Albatross across the Channel, miraculously
doing it on the first try.

Incidentally, this cross-Channel flight was the
human-powered analog to Louis Bleriot's first flight
across the English Channel in 1909 — a flight which
greatly stimulated aviation in Europe, and which is
regarded by many Europeans as a more important mile-
stone than the Wright brothers' flight. The next early
milestone of powered flight, which everyone agrees to,
was Lindbergh's Atlantic crossing. (However, neither
Henry Kremer nor Bryan Allen has evidenced the
slightest interest in continuing with human-powered
analogs to early aviation milestones!)

While working on these projects, we focused single-
mindedly on the simple goal of winning the prizes.
Since the events, we have had time and occasion to try
to view the projects from a broader perspective. We're
beginning to realize that our projects were pretty spe-
cial. They demonstrated approaches to solving technical
problems and handling management tasks which may
be applicable elsewhere. They gave, to us and others,
perspectives which may be rather important. All this
does not mean we are unusually bright or efficient. In
fact, one of the important perspectives which emerges is
that rather ordinary people, with a bit of luck and a
strong drive, can literally "reach for the stars" and suc-
ceed.

As i think back over the Gossamer aircraft programs,
there are several main points which stand out. The first
of these is this: You can do amazing things in efficiency
and energy conservation when you are really pushed —
and the things you can do may be very important in the-
se days of non-infinite energy resources.

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In 1976, before the vacation when I thought up the
Gossamer aircraft, it had never occurred to me (or
others) that a person could fly on just 1/4 horsepower —
or that you could make a 96-foot wingspan airplane that
weighed only 55 pounds. But I was pushed by the lure of
Kremer's prize money, because I was in the uncomforta-
ble position of having guaranteed a friend's debt which
couldn't get paid. I think Kremer put up his prize money
for just this reason — to push (or lure) people to reach
the goal he had in mind. (Our project turned out to be
more expensive than hoped, so much of the profit was
an illusion. But the initial push was there. ) And now I
am delighted to have had that negative pressure of the
debt — it caused the launching of a unique program. It's
one more example that almost any circumstance can
eventually be turned to benefit.

You can certainly make a better human-powered
airplane than the Gossamer Albatross, but any human-
powered airplane will probably be so large and flimsy
that it will not have an adequate margin of safety. We
now find that our thoughts about future developments
do not concern human-powered aircraft. Our aviation
thoughts are about vehicles operating on two or three
horsepower — 10 times what a human puts out, but still
small enough power output that it can be derived from
battery or solar power, or even from a large model air-
plane engine. My dream is for a silent electric plane,
battery or solar, with which I can soar with hawks, fly
with migrating ducks, and cruise the shoreline at 100
feet.

But there is another area of development which is
of greater interest and greater importance — ultra-
efficient surface transportation. Virtually everyone on
the Gossamer Condor/Gossamer Albatross team is also
involved in the development and racing of streamlined
bicycles. Each year, in a competition in southern Cali-
fornia, the Internation Human Powered Vehicle Associ-
ation sponsors exciting races for these exotic vehicles.
The vehicles all involve enclosing the occupant (or
occupants) in a streamlined fairing, rolling on bicycle-
type wheels, with bicycle pedals and sprockets or equiv-
alent mechanisms. And each year you see man moving
faster across the surface of the earth under his own
power than he has ever moved before.

A year ago, a two-person machine first exceeded 55
mph — and, in a touching ceremony, the drivers were
awarded honorary speeding tickets by the California
State Highway Patrol. This year, a single-person
machine went faster than 55 mph, while a tandem
machine exceeded 100 kph, almost 63 mph. That same
two-person machine, in a long-distance hour race, went
46 miles — a mind-boggling feat (whether feat or feet!).
These bikes make an ideal university project; I'm sur-
prised that so far only three schools have gotten
involved.

These vehicles at present are no more "practical"
than our human-powered aircraft, but in these surface
vehicles you can see the rudiments of something very
practical. The discipline of seeking high-performance on

Once Kremer established the
prize, it was inevitable that
someone would win it. But it
was not inevitable that
anyone would put up such a
prize — that was a unique and
creative event.

puny human power lets you see and understand just
how efficient vehicles can be — and with this under-
standing you are free to use various power sources, such
as human pedaling, an electric motor powered by a bat-
tery or solar cells, a tiny gasoline engine, wind-aided
motion, even a large rubber band, or combinations of
these. In mass production you could have an all-weather
vehicle, retailing at just a few hundred dollars, which
protects you in a crash-resistant cocoon, powered say by
an eight-pound battery/ electric motor system aug-
mented by pedaling as desired, in which you could com-
mute at about 30 mph while maintaining your body in
good physical condition. You may think such a Mickey
Mouse device would never fit into our present transpor-
tation system . . . but just wait until OPEC turns off our
oil imports for three or four months. Our perceptions
can then change very quickly.

The mood of the country now seems to be evolving
toward a willingness to go to war in the Middle East in
order to maintain our dependence on the oil and on the
volatile politics and religions of that area. It seems more
rational, to me, to play with new techniques in trans-
portation, and with new life styles, rather than go chas-
ing so hard after a vanishing resource (and, incidentally,
one which pollutes our atmosphere).

The second main point I learned from the Gossamer air-
craft is that it is useful to approach a problem with a
knowledge of fundamentals but without the deadening
influence of prior detailed expertise and prejudice.

As I look back at the Gossamer Condor/Gossamer
Albatross projects, I see that the main factor which
made them work was the vehicle's structure — and the
main reason that we came up with the right structure
was that I had no background in aircraft structures.
Every other serious team had excellent credentials in

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You or I have the best chance
of thinking clearly in new
areas, where there is little
precedent. Such areas are the
most fun to work in, because
you can make a significant
impact without years of effort.

aircraft structural design, and what every team built
looked, structurally, like a regular airplane or glider. But
that was not the right approach for this sort of pioneer-
ing vehicle. My background included some fundamen-
tals in beam bending and buckling, and those
fundamentals were helpful. But basically this design
was started with a clean slate (and with some knowl-
edge of wire-braced indoor models and wire-braced hang
gliders).

I would rather fly in a jet airliner designed structur-
ally by members of these other teams than by anyone
with my poor credentials in structures. There is, of
course, a vital role for the experts, but if they are getting
into a new area they have to recognize that their exper-
tise may inhibit their search for solutions. After think-
ing about the role of structures experts in
human-powered airplanes, I began noting various
instances where knowledge stifles solutions, and noting
that this happens rather more often than expected.

For example, I was discussing with a 10-year-old
how you put a needle on water and have the surface ten-
sion keep it afloat. The question was, how to set on the
water the largest possible needle which could stay
afloat. How would you lower it and release it delicately?
With your fingers? With tiny wire hooks? With an elec-
tromagnet? After a little discussion, the 10-year-old
said, "freeze the water, set the needle on it, and let the
water melt." Would that really work? I suspect so. But I
realized that I could not have thought of that solution
because in my youth I had set needles down with my
fingers, and my mind was blocked toward ingenious
ways of setting the needle down carefully. The 10-year-
old, even though afflicted with dyslexia, did not have
my blinders on. He understood what question I was ask-
ing better than I did — the question was how do you get
the largest possible needle to be floating on the water,
not how do you set it down. I had introduced an unnec-
essary constraint.

A Nobel laureate in physics told me recently that he
noted the greatest creativity is found in young physi-
cists, and this creativity usually involved ignoring a pre-
sumed constraint which their elders had always
assumed necessary. As a last note on the needle inci-
dent, when I told the story to a friend, he said that when
he was 10 he set the needles down on the water with a
strap of toilet paper, which quickly dissolved away.

10-year-olds have another attribute. They ask ques-
tions and are perfectly happy to ask "dumb" questions
(which may not turn out to be so dumb) . As you get old-
er, you think maybe you should know the answer and so
you are ashamed to ask a question which might label
you stupid. Many of the most effective grownups feel
secure in themselves and are comfortable asking those
"dumb" questions . . . which helps their effectiveness.

Now, when confronted with a new problem, I find
myself asking, "What would a 10-year-old say?" But I
know in most cases I cannot come up with the 10-year-
old's approach because of the years of experience which

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have coated over my originality. You or I have the best
chance of thinking clearly in new areas, where there is
little precedent. Such areas are the most fun to work in,
because you can make a significant impact without
years of effort. After a field is established, and particu-
larly after it is so established that they teach it in col-
lege, the excitement is lessened, even though the
importance of the field may have grown larger. To pre-
pare yourself for the new areas, the exciting subjects
which have fallen through the cracks of established
fields, you want a good background in fundamentals and
in how to get jobs done — things which the WPI Plan
has had clearly in mind during your years here.

The third main lesson of the Gossamer aircraft is that
technical aspects usually make up only a small percent-
age of a total program. Business management, determi-
nation, media interaction, timing, and luck may
represent the major factors. The rule that invention is 2
percent inspiration and 98 percent perspiration is surpri-
singly accurate. I won't belabor this point except to note
that, in the Gossamer Albatross program, probably 90
percent could be called business management — fi-
nance, personnel, hangar leases, logistics, backup boats,
communications, etc. The goal was to win the prize, so
I did whatever moved the project best toward that goal
— and that meant only a little new technology but a lot
of project management.

The early morning flights at
remote airports, watching the
big, miraculous bird slip
silently through the still air —
these represented magic
moments.

I may have given you the feeling that the Gossamer
Condor/Gossamer Albatross projects were just work.
The work came first (my time was actually spent play-
ing hooky from my company, AeroVironment), but
there was much more to the project than work. It was
fun at all times. It didn't take me away from my family;
rather my family got deeply involved in it, with my sons
being the main test pilots. It got me involved with many
new friends.

The early morning flights at remote airports,
watching the big, miraculous bird slip silently through
the still air — these represented magic moments. There
was a flavor of pioneering throughout, which I've only
come to appreciate recently since I've had time to read
about the history of aviation in the first 30 years of this
century. Then there was success, even some small
financial reward, and an appreciation for the feat by the
public which still seems to us more than is deserved.

All this introduces my last point, which is that
work can be fun if you pick a challenge you are excited
about. I recently heard Edwin Link, an aviation and
oceanography pioneer, quoted as saying he never
worked a day in his life — meaning it was all just fun. I
think you too will find this to be true. Eventually you
will find that everything you have learned and will learn
in the future will have value. Politics, exercise, physiol-
ogy, history, art, etc. — it's all as important as engineer-
ing . . . eventually.

Your WPI Plan experience has given you a unique
start; you are emerging into a period when there are
great challenges. You have merged academic technol-
ogy, humanities, and real-world industry. It will be an
exciting next half-century, the most exciting and best
there has ever been.

UIPI

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"The Electric Disco Chicken". . . ?

Bob Goodness, '70, is a man of
many facets. From 1973 through
1976 he designed and manufactured
hang gliders. Currently he is a tool
designer for General Motors in
Framingham, Mass. But you'd
never guess what his latest venture
is.

For the past year or so, Bob has
spent a major part of his spare time
making an animated film entitled
"The Electric Disco Chicken."
Honest. It premiered February 1 at
the Boston Film/Video Foundation,
and its outrageous comic appeal
generated, within a few weeks, two
offers to air it on Boston TV sta-
tions. It has won prizes at both the
New England Film Festival and at
the Toronto Film Festival.

A year may seem like a long
time to produce a AVi minute film,
but that's not uncommon for ani-
mation by an independent filmma-
ker. According to Bob, "there's
actually about three minutes of ani-
mation, where chickens dance a
'Saturday Night Fever' type line
dance, and that three minutes
required over 5,000 individual
moves of the chickens."

Perhaps we should make it
clear here just what kind of
chickens these are that Bob is talk-
ing about. They're the kind you find
living at the neighborhood super-
market — plucked, dressed, and
without benefit of heads or claws.
Frank Perdue would understand.

"I found myself spending about
three hours," Bob continues, "to
film each ten seconds of animation.
Not only did this require a lot of
patience, but it also took a high tol-
erance for discomfort. The filming
sessions frequently went late into
the warm summer nights, and hav-
ing four uncooked chickens under
hot spotlights for hours at a time
stretched my tolerance to the

limits. (Editor's note: Now how
does that commercial go! 'It takes a
tough man to make a tender
chicken '!!) One night I even tried
spraying them with Lysol; but I
quickly changed to washing them
in hot soapy water between scenes.
I used about 20 chickens and ate
maybe 6 of them.

"The other major time con-
sumer, besides the filming and con-
struction of a chicken-scale disco
dance floor and lighting, was pro-
ducing an original disco song. I had
to locate a musician who would
work within my limited budget,
and unfortunately he turned out to
be somewhat temperamental. We
spent about 12 hours in an 8-track
recording studio in Newton
between Christmas and New Year's
1979 — a full month behind sched-
ule. The music did turn out very
professional, but the delay hurt my
distribution efforts. Gary Shapiro,
'73, and his wife Pam helped out
with the background vocals. The
music was the most expensive part
of the film, bringing the total cost
up to $800, not counting the cost of
driving into Boston three to four
days a week."

What would motivate Bob to
spend that kind of time and money
to make a 4lA minute film? Basi-

cally, it was art for art's sake. "I
don't bowl, watch TV, or follow
sports," Bob says. "I've maintained
an interest in the arts for many
years. In the past I've done some
sculpture and furniture design.

"Animation has had a major
increase in attention as a medium
of expression in the last ten years,
with independent filmmakers like
myself working all over the world.
Some of those filmmakers have
given up their independence and
joined government-funded studios
like the National Film Board of
Canada, or Zagreb in Yugoslavia,
because generally there are very few
sources of financial support for
independents.

"PBS in this country recently
presented an opportunity which
could have returned me about
$10,000 for my film. Unfortunately,
because of the delay with the
music, I didn't have enough time to
get the film through PBS's screen-
ing process. And even though this
sounds financially promising, it
was a pretty rare opportunity, and
PBS program directors have the
final say on which films are
selected. Independents generally
complain that the selection process
is not democratic enough for what
is supposed to be the 'Public' Broad-
casting System.

"There are two other possibili-
ties for making my money back,"
continues Goodness. "The first is
cable TV. The second is a lead I've
got about the owner of a fast-food
chicken restaurant chain in Califor-
nia, who has wanted an animated
TV commercial for years. Neither of
these promises to pay more than
PBS. And beyond those opportuni-
ties, there are only film festivals
and the two Boston TV offers — all
of which pay only a small portion of
my expenses. They're just token
payments, really."

But making money from the
film isn't everything. "The real sat-
isfaction I've received has been in
the creative process . . . and being in
an audience when they get hysteri-
cal watching the Electric Disco
Chicken do his thing — that's pay-
day for the psyche!"

UIPI

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of Edward Delano

^BA

by Roger N. Perry, Jr., '45

AT FIRST LIGHT on the

morning of May 1, Edward R.
Delano kissed his wife
goodbye, climbed on his
bicycle, and headed eastward
from his home in Davis,
California. Just over a month
later, he ended his trip. He had
bicycled 3100 miles to attend
his class reunion at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute.

THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN quite an accomplishment
for any person. But Ed Delano is a member of the class of
1930, and he had ridden a bicycle across the united
states to attend his 50th college reunion, at the age of
75. Little wonder that he was seen off by television
crews and newspaper photographers at that early hour.

He had little doubt that he would complete the trip.
After all, he'd returned to his 40th reunion in 1970 on
the same 15-speed bicycle. When his classmates joking-
ly asked him then if he'd return for the 50th by the same
mode of transportation, he said, "If I can throw my leg
over the saddle, I'll do it." And Ed is a man who keeps
his word.

AS A YOUNG MAN, Ed had a passion for long-distance
bike riding, but gave it up when he went to college.
When he was 58, he decided to go back to the bike. He
joined one of the many bicycle clubs on the West Coast
and entered serious competition in road races and time
trial races. By the time he retired in 1970, after 37 years
as a California highway superintendent, Ed was deeply
involved as a serious bicyclist. That spring, he got him-
self into condition for his first cross-country ride. "It
was something I had to try. I wanted to prove to myself I
wasn't too old to do something I really wanted to do,"
he said, looking back at his 1970 ride.

Just to keep in shape for his planned ride back to his
50th, Ed rode to Quebec in 1975, a distance of 3400
miles. That same year, he competed in the Over 60 class
in the European Veterans World Road Cycling Champi-
onships, placing 15th out of 60 entrants. The following
year, he finished 9th in the same race. He has a habit of
bettering his time as he gets older.

Along the way, he acquired a nickname on the bicy-
cle racing circuit, the same name given to a Stockton,
California, bank-robber who escaped by bicycle. When
Ed shows up for meets on the West Coast, everyone
knows him as Foxy Grandpa. "The name stuck," he
commented, "and I kind of like it. I even have it stit-
ched on my racing shirt."

About his real name, Ed comments, "my family
has always pronounced it de-LAY-no, with the emphasis
on the second syllable. That fellow who lived in the
White House for a few years, the one who had this for a
middle name, must have come from another branch of
the family, or else he never learned how to pronounce it.

"Rosamond, my wife, is very supportive of my pas-
sion for bike riding, but she's not a rider herself. When
we go out together, we drive the car. But I prefer the
bike, and I ride about 20 miles a day year-round, just to
keep in shape."

Roger N. Perry, Jr. , '45, is director of public relations at
WPI. After writing this story, he and his wife went on
vacation in Canada — and took their bikes along with
them.

ED HAD PLANNED HIS TRIP to cover the same route
he'd followed in 1970, and he figured on covering the
3100 miles in 31 days.

He left home that May-Day morning, picked up In-
terstate Route 80, and headed toward the Rocky Moun-
tains. 1-80 was to be his route for the next two weeks,
halfway across the country. "Bicyclists are allowed to
ride the shoulder of that road through the West, and it

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makes a beautiful trail for cyclists," he noted. "The
road is new and in good condition, and the grades are
long and gradual through the mountains."

Ed made the first of many long-distance calls to me
on his third night out, reporting that he'd reached Lov-
elock, Nevada, a distance of 272 miles. From then on, I
began to feel he was part of my family. I kept an atlas
near the telephone at home to chart his progress. In the
office, we began sticking pins into a map of the country,
with little flags to indicate the town, date, and distance
covered with each telephone report. Another map was
hung in Gordon Library so others on campus could fol-
low his progress.

In those first calls, Ed reported taking time out to
repair flat tires. He had a total of six flats, and they all
occurred in the first week. He encountered a minor de-
lay while crossing the Continental Divide. "The grade
wasn't bad on 1-80 but, three miles from the top, the
road surface was glazed with ice and I had to walk to the
summit. Then there was another three miles of ice on
the down side before I could ride again. But from there
on, it was almost all downhill to Iowa."

Calling from Kimball, Nebraska, he reported a de-
lay when three inches of snow fell and kept him in Lara-
mie, Wyoming, for a day. "It gave me a chance to rest
up, but it put me behind schedule," he said. On his next
call, Ed told of leaving a Nebraska motel at dawn with a
cold rain falling. By the time he reached the next town,
15 miles along the route, he'd decided it wasn't worth
riding in the cold rain all day, so he checked into the
first available motel, losing another day. "Riding in the
rain doesn't normally bother me. In fact, it's a lot more
comfortable than riding through a heat wave. But that
day in Nebraska it was just too cold and raw to take a
chance."

BEFORE THE TRIP, Ed had indicated his willingness to
capitalize on the publicity value of a man riding a bicy-
cle 3100 miles to his 50th reunion. "After riding this
distance twice before," he observed, "I'm not trying to
prove anything to myself. So if the ride can help publi-
cize WPI, I'm glad to pitch in."

Taking our cue from Ed, the WPI public relations of-
fice alerted news media. They were indeed interested in
hearing about his trip. The wire services covered his de-
parture from Davis, and WPI's clipping service soon be-
gan returning news items from all over the country.
Once he reached the plains, where the population is mo-
re concentrated than in the western mountains, he be-
gan meeting reporters and TV crews again.

At WPI we were concerned that news coverage
enroute might slow him down and put him further be-

hind schedule, so we were somewhat cautious in pacing
the interviews, arranging, whenever possible, for inter-
views to be held only after he'd checked into a motel for
the night. News media along his route were alerted a
few days before he was scheduled to pass through their
area. If they were interested, and most were, I'd give Ed
the reporters' names and telephone numbers when he
called me periodically to report his progress. Then he'd
call ahead to the reporter and either give an interview by
phone or set a meeting point along the way.

"I became a pretty good judge of reporters after a
while," said Ed. "Of course, they all asked about the
same questions, but some were a lot better at it than
others."

At Ed's request, we specifically did not arrange any
alumni welcoming committees enroute. He was con-
cerned that these could slow him up and perhaps keep
him up too late in the evening. And since he never knew
where he'd be staying until he arrived, it would have
been difficult in any case to set up special events.

EXCEPT FOR THOSE half-dozen flat tires in the early
part of the trip, he had no mechanical troubles. Ed car-
ries a tire patching kit, a spare tire, a pump, and a few
specialized bicycle tools which he knew he wouldn't be
able to borrow from a friendly mechanic's tool box in
case of trouble.

He credits his lack of mechanical trouble to fore-
sight. "I took my bike to the best bicycle mechanic on
the West Coast, Spence Wolf of the Cupertino Bike
Shop. I told him to go over the whole thing and replace
any part that wasn't in first-class shape.

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"My touring bike is the best money can buy," Ed
continues. "The frame was made by Ciano Cinelli of It-
aly, who has now retired. I bought it in 1969 for just un-
der $300. Today it's probably worth about $1300, and if I
hang on to it long enough it will become a collector's
item. The complete bike weighs about 28 pounds. It's
one of three I own. For competition racing, I have a
lightweight bike, which weighs only about 19 pounds.
The third bike I use to get around town."

One of the features of Ed's bicycle which distin-
guished it from every other on the road was a plastic
bubble mounted on the handlebars. "That's a Zipper
fairing, which I'm trying out for the first time. It's sup-
posed to cut down the wind resistance by a few percent.
Since it only weighs 14 ounces, I figured it was worth a
try on a 3100 mile trip. Perhaps the value is mostly psy-
chological, I don't know. It's a fact, though, that most
of a bicyclist's energy is expended overcoming wind re-
sistance."

He travels light. "I'm an executive traveler. Besides
my emergency spares, I carry a tooth brush, enough
clothes to keep warm, and a lot of travelers checks,"
was a story he gave frequently to reporters along the
way. "I always stayed in motels. When I was lucky, I'd
find a motel in the middle of town where I could find a
restaurant, a laundromat, a place to buy a newspaper,
and a telephone."

The newspaper did double duty. After he'd caught
up on the news of the world, he'd spread the paper on
the floor of his room so that, when he oiled the bicycle
chain and mechanical linkages each night, he wouldn't
drip on the carpet. "I always kept my cycle in my room
sol could know it was safe," he said. "I'm not much of a
television watcher, so usually I'd lean the bike up
against theTV set."

"The grade up to the
Continental Divide wasn 't
bad, hut three miles from the
top the road surface was
glazed with ice, and I had to
walk to the summit. There
was another three miles of ice
on the down side before I
could ride again. But then it
was all downhill to Iowa. '

AFTER FOLLOWING HIS PROGRESS across country, I
wanted to see firsthand how Ed lived as an 'executive
tourist.' As he approached New York State, I made ar-
rangements to drive out and meet him on the road. He
told me the route he'd follow from the Pennsylvania-
New York border, where he was spending the night.

I left Worcester early the next morning. By mid-
afternoon, I'd left the New York Thruway and picked up
U.S. Route 20, then Alternate Route 20. 1 knew that
he'd be somewhere along this stretch. I passed through
towns named Geneseo and Warsaw without seeing him.
Realizing that we'd need a motel along the route, I be-
gan noting the mileage as I passed each one, mentally
sizing up its quality.

After driving through Varysburg at about 5 p.m., I
began to wonder if somehow I'd missed him. Perhaps Ed
had been stopped at a store just as I'd passed by. But no,
things were just fine and, five miles beyond the town,
there he was, pedaling up a slight grade through the
beautiful upstate New York farm country.

It was a happy reunion there beside the road. Mine
was the first familiar face Ed had seen in three weeks.
For my part, I was delighted to see how well he looked
after riding 2700 miles since he left home. We compared
mileage figures and found that his estimated distance to
go was only 5 miles more than my trip that day. (Ed fig-
ures his distance by adding up the little numbers printed
between towns on a road map. )

He was happy to learn that the Varysburg Hotel was
only five miles ahead of him, because he was ready to
call it a day. I drove back, and he arrived nearly as quick-
ly, because it was all downhill to the town. But we were
in for a disappointment. The hotel was completely filled
with construction workers from a nearby highway pro-
ject. The next motel was 16 miles farther on, and I re-
called that it hadn't looked very promising. Also, the
road was mostly uphill at that point.

"Tell you what," I said. "Put your bike in the back
of my pickup truck and let's go find a good motel. I can
bring you back to this same starting point in the morn-
ing." As we drove north, we saw a sign for a Holiday Inn
at the Thruway in Batavia. "I always like to stay at Hol-
iday Inns," commented Ed. "They have everything I
need, and they treat me royally." We had better luck
here, and they had two rooms available for us.

"Do you ever have trouble getting a room?" I asked,
looking over Ed's functional cycling attire and three-
week-old beard. "No," he said, "but I do have a specific
technique I usually use. I put on a tired look — but with
a sort of wistful smile — and I ask, 'Would you have a
room for a weary cyclist who's been on the road since
dawn?' It hasn't failed me yet."

After we'd checked into our rooms, both of us were
ready for dinner. "First, I could go for a nice cold beer,"

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said Ed. "Then we'll take a look at the menu."

"What does a cross-country bicycle rider eat?" I
asked. "I eat everything," was the prompt answer, "but
not too much of anything. I like a big breakfast. That's
really the best meal of the day because it has to last me a
long time. Then during the day I usually stop at a store
and buy an apple, a banana, some grapes, and some-
times I just sit on the curb and eat them right there.
When you ride a bike, you lose all your dignity. I can't
carry much with me, so I just buy what I can eat right
away. I snack that way about every two hours."

For dinner that night, Ed had soup and a salad.
There was a salad bar, and he tried a little of everything
except the hot peppers. "A salad is really a well-
balanced meal. It's got everything you need."

As we discussed food, it became clear that he under-
stood the nutritional value of everything he ate and
that, on the road, he was careful to eat what he needed
for strength and stamina. "I'm not a health food nut,"
he said. "I enjoy just about everything. While I'm rid-
ing, I don't eat much beef, though. I never use sugar out
of the bowl, and I don't add salt to my meals. There's
enough in most food, anyway."

As we returned to our rooms on the second floor, Ed
ran up the stairs, two at a time. "Always run up stairs,"
he said. "It's good for you." This from a man who had
pedaled nearly a hundred miles that day!

He called California, a nightly ritual, to tell Rosa-
mond where he was and to check on the news of home.
Then he oiled his bicycle. Once he'd completed his eve-
ning routine, he relaxed in a chair and we talked a bit. I
commented on his beard, which was beginning to look
distinguished. "I don't like beards," snorted Ed. "But on
a trip like this, I carry only the essentials, and even a ra-
zor adds weight. Now the beard is starting to itch, and
one of the first things I'm going to do when I get to
Worcester is go to a barber shop and get a shave, a hot-oil
shampoo, a haircut, and a facial . . . the works! But you
know, even though I don't like beards, I find having one
on this trip is an asset. Somehow the beard seems to
give me credibility."

"How many people do you find in your age bracket
in bicycle competition," I asked, when the conversation
turned to his other bicycling activities.

"There's one guy from Florida who's 84, and he still
rides in competition. If he ever decides to retire, then I
guess I'll be the oldest competitive rider in the country.
But there are a lot of riders not too much younger than I
am, and each year there seem to be a lot more.

"When you think about it, bicycle riding is one of
the best things you can do to keep in good physical con-
dition. There's no danger of damaging your legs and
feet, like you can do in running. Besides, you can go
about three times as fast and see three times as much on

a bike. If you ride hard, you give the old heart a good
workout. It's like any muscle in your body, the more
you make it work, the stronger it gets."

Does he smoke? "I used to smoke, but I guess you
could say I didn't do it for a living. It would take me
three or four days to finish a pack of cigarettes. Then
one day I just decided I didn't want to smoke any more,
and I haven't touched one since. Now I find the smell of
tobacco repulsive . "

Once he was back on the
highway, our brief visit was
over. Ed quickly disappeared
from sight in my rear-view
mirror. It would take him five
more days to reach where Vd
be at dinnertime.

HAD ED NOTICED any changes since 1970 as he re-
traced his earlier route along the old U.S. numbered
highways in the eastern half of the country? "I hardly
recognized the same route. There have been a lot of
changes in the buildings along the roads. But the biggest
change was the condition of the roads themselves. Some
of our Midwestern states should be ashamed of what
they call highways. And I speak as someone who spent
37 years in the highway business!"

Safety is a matter of vital concern to a bicycle rider
in an automotive society. "My professional highway ex-
perience makes me particularly aware of hazardous situ-
ations, and I just don't let myself get into them," he
said. "Intersections are the most dangerous, and you
have to keep your wits about you. I always ride on the
shoulder of the road, even though in many places it's a
pretty rough ride. I wear protective headgear to keep the
old head in one piece if I should take a spill. I never ride
at night; that's suicide.

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"Dogs are about the only hazard you can't antici-
pate. There's something about dogs and bicycles. They
must think you're running, and they want to chase any-
thing that runs. When I see a dog, I size up the situation.
If I can beat him on a sprint, I pour it on. If he's got the
lead on me, I'll sometimes coast without moving my
legs and maybe he'll ignore me. I've been pretty lucky
so far."

Ed wasn't so lucky a year and a half ago. He was hit
by a truck. His bike was demolished and one leg broken
in two places. "Fortunately it happened near a hospital
with an excellent orthopedic surgeon, and he put me
back together real fine. When I told him I wanted to get
back on the bike as soon as I could, he had me come
back so he could graft on some extra bone to give my leg
more strength."

Up to this point, I had considered Ed a remarkable
person to have already ridden a bike so far at his age. But
to do it after just recovering from a bad leg-break? My
admiration grew.

He looked at his watch. It was nine o'clock. Time
to turn in. Ed's day, and mine too the next morning, be-
gan at 5 a.m. "I like to start as early as I can, but most
dining rooms don't open until six," he said. This one
was no exception. We were the first customers.

I was interested to see what Ed's biggest meal of the
day would be. First he had a large glass of orange juice.
Then a bowl of cereal. "I try to get raisin bran, because
it has a lot of bulk to it," he said. The next course was a
plate of eggs with coffee.

We struck up a conversation with the waitress, who
didn't have many other customers that early. "I'm rid-
ing a bicycle from California to attend my 50th class re-
union at Worcester Polytechnic Institute," he
announced to her, carefully enunciating the name of his
alma mater. "Now be sure you spell that right," he
added with a twinkle.

As we both finished, he noticed that I'd left a sprig
of parsley on my plate. I never eat parsley. "It's good for
you," he said. "You should always eat everything."

Ed speaks like a man who means what he says.

I ate it.

By 6:30, with breakfast behind us, Ed was chafing
to be on his way. Checking out was easy for him be-
cause, except for the bike parts on a carrier, his luggage
is spread throughout the seven pockets in his cycling
shirt.

Once he was back on the highway, our brief visit
was over. He quickly disappeared from sight in my rear-
view mirror. It would take him five more days to reach
where I'd be at dinnertime.

SOME of the photos I'd taken of Ed were used by the
Worcester Telegram the next morning. This was one of
several reports on Ed's cross-country progress printed by
the Worcester newspapers. As he neared Worcester, it
seemed that everyone I met knew about his trip and was
rooting for him. Perhaps he had kindled that spirit of ad-
venture which lies dormant in most of us as we become
entwined in life's normal routine.

Fair skies and tailwinds blessed the final leg of his
journey, and by Sunday evening, June 1, he was in
Springfield, just 60 miles short of his goal. However, the
official welcoming ceremonies were scheduled for noon
on Tuesday, based on earlier estimates of the time he'd
need to cover the remaining distance. "No problem,"
said Ed. "I'll just loaf along to Sturbridge, and that will
give me plenty of time to do the last 20 miles on Tues-
day morning."

For more than a month Ed Delano had ridden alone.
"That's the only way to ride. No two people ride at the
same rate of speed, so one is always lagging behind the
other and making it hard to keep up a comfortable
pace." But he did not ride alone for those last seven
miles.

In Auburn, he was met by Alumni Secretary Steve
Hebert, '66, and News Bureau Manager Steve Donahue,
'29, who had known Ed in his college days. They were
driving a restored 1953 Buick convertible with signs
taped to the sides identifying the grizzled bicyclist. Also
in the entourage was Douglas Thompson, 78, supervi-
sor of the WPI television studio, who videotaped the last
leg of Ed's trip and in the next two days prepared a 15-
minute documentary of Ed's trip for showing at Re-
union. Together with a Worcester Police Department
motorcycle officer, they escorted him right through
downtown Worcester, past City Hall, to the WPI cam-
pus.

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According to Steve Hebert, people on the sidewalk
waved and drivers beeped their horns as they recognized
that man on the bike they'd been reading about in the
papers.

When radio reports from the escort indicated that
Ed's arrival was imminent, the bell atop Washburn
Shops was rung to let everyone on campus know it was
time to gather in front of Boynton Hall for the grand fin-
ish of this historic ride.

At 1 1 :40 on the morning of June 3, 1980, Ed Delano
rode up the long sweeping drive from Boynton Street,
passed under a banner marking the official end of the
line, and waved his hand in a happy salute. Whatever
words he may have said in that moment of personal tri-
umph were lost forever in the cheers of the crowd.

In 1970 he said, "If I can throw
my leg over the saddle, I'll ride
back for the 50th Reunion. "
And Ed is a man who keeps
his word.

PRESIDENT CRANCH, in his official welcome, noted
that Ed Delano obviously had the physique of a Tarzan
and the instincts of a homing pigeon. Alumni President
Jack McCabe, '68, presented Ed with a plaque showing
his cross-country route superimposed on a map of the
United States. City Councillor Sara Robertson, repre-
senting Mayor Jordan Levy, presented Ed with a key to
the City of Worcester. She mentioned that, as a native
Californian, she was particularly pleased to be part of
the welcoming ceremonies. And to prove her sincerity,
she planted a big kiss right on his month-old beard!

Rick Ferron, '82, presented Ed with a certificate
proclaiming him an honorary member of the WPI
Commuter's Association. He next gave Ed a tee-shirt
bearing, on the front, the official symbol of the group
and, on the back, the words foxy grandpa, honorary

COMMUTER.

Ed's response was brief, but heartfelt. He had kept
the promise he'd made to his classmates ten years ear-
lier. This was probably his last cross-country ride, be-
cause there's no real challenge left when you've done it
three times. He was proud of his alma mater and hoped
that perhaps his trip had helped make more people
across the country aware of WPI. And perhaps, too, his
trip might have been an inspiration for a few retirees to
take up bicycling.

THEN Food Service Manager Scott Migala stepped for-
ward with a huge cake, appropriately decorated, to be
shared by the whole welcoming crowd. After posing for
TV cameras and newspaper photographers, there was a
small, informal luncheon in Morgan Hall. Among the
guests were Professors Jim Matthews and Harold
Hilsinger, both of whom had made more leisurely cross-
country rides on bicycles. "You fellows who ride with
packs on your backs and camp out, you're my real he-
roes," exclaimed Ed. "I didn't even work up a good
sweat as an executive tourist."

Ed was driven to the Holiday Inn, where he was
welcomed by innkeeper Maranes Nikitas himself, who
had been eagerly awaiting his celebrated guest. The
signboard in front carried the message, "Welcome to
WPI's Ed Delano, '30."

Even before he'd had a chance to shower and
change into the conventional clothes he'd shipped
ahead, reporters were waiting to talk with him. Boston
Herald- American writer Joe Heaney started his inter-
view in Ed's hotel room. He was interrupted by a call
from the AARP Newsletter editor. Joe finished his inter-
view while Ed was realizing his month-long dream of
"getting the works" at Barber's Crossing, the barber
shop I use. Heaney's article concluded with the fact that

"Always run up stairs, " he
said. "It 's good for you. " This
from a man who had pedaled
nearly 100 miles that day!

proprietor George Bamikas wouldn't take any money
for his work. "How many customers come 3100 miles
for my services? This one's on me," said George.

For two days, Ed was besieged by writers who want-
ed his story. Even though he said much the same to
each, he patiently answered all questions. Within
hours, his story was carried by the wire services and on
radio stations. He even had calls at his hotel room from
radio stations in North Carolina and Los Angeles, from
all-night talk shows who wanted him to share his expe-
riences with their listeners.

By June 5th, when the Class of 1930's three-day re-
union officially began, Ed was finally able to call his
time his own again. Clean-shaven and wearing a busi-
ness suit, he could pass through a crowd without being
recognized as the bearded bicycle rider who had cap-
tured everyone's imagination two days earlier. And
that's the way he liked it. At his reunion, Ed was happy
to be just one of the class, reliving those great days on
campus in the pre-depression era and bringing each oth-
er up to date on personal events of the past half century.

When the class held a dinner at the Plaza Club, lo-
cated on the top floor of the Worcester County National
Bank Building, Ed did slip back into character. Instead
of taking the elevator, the way everyone else did, he
climbed the stairs — up 24 floors!

When he made the final notes in his travel log, Ed
noted that he had made the trip in 33 Vi days, almost
three days better than his time ten years earlier; but still
he missed his planned schedule by two and a half days.
Ed is a purist who counts total elapsed time. But to ev-
eryone else who had become a part of his cross-country
ride, Ed was right on schedule in terms of riding time.
Weather had kept him indoors for two days, and the fi-
nal day he delayed in Sturbridge in order to synchronize
his campus arrival with the planned ceremonies.

Everyone wanted to know if he planned to ride back
home. No, one way was plenty. Another frequently
asked question was whether he would be riding his bike
to his 60th reunion.

"Well," Ed commented by way of an answer, "I've
ridden across the country three times now, and the nov-
elty is beginning to wear off. I don't believe I'll make
any promises about the 60th."

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HE TOOK APART his bicycle, packing it away in a
canvas bag for shipment home. When he left Worcester
at the end of the Reunion, he stopped at St. Louis for
two days of physical evaluation at the Washington Uni-
versity Medical School. A team of research people there
have followed him for the past ten years, for Ed is one of
their subjects in a long-term study on aging.

In a letter to Ed after the visit, Dr. James Hagberg
wrote:

"We would like to express our thanks for your visit; it
was inspiring for all of us and, on top of that, simply a lot of
fun.

"Your body weight this time was 1.5 pounds lower (175.6
pounds) than during your 1978 visit. Your body fat was also
very similar to the 12.5% measured on your first visit. Your . . .
oxygen consumption was . . . substantially lower than mea-
sured earlier, and is probably indicative of the lower intensity
riding experienced during the last month. It would be higher
following your training for the national time trials, I'm sure.

"Your maximal voluntary ventilation (where you
breathed as much as possible in 15 seconds) was 185 liters per
minute, which is exceptional. Predicted normal for your age
would be 80. Your vital capacity was 18 percent above predict-
ed normal.

"Your heart rate, blood pressure, and electrocardiographic
response to the treadmill test were perfect."

On Ed's first Saturday back in California, he partici-
pated in the district 25-mile time trial championship,
covering the distance in one hour, nine minutes, and
seventeen seconds. Of the five riders in the Grand Mas-
ters Class (55 and older), he placed second. All his com-
petition was under 60. This finish qualified him to enter
the national championships later in Bisbee, Arizona.

LOOKING BACK at Ed's ride, I can recall few events in
recent years that have stimulated so much genuine in-
terest in, and affection for, one man. I think there could
be several reasons for this.

Each of us looks to the future with some concern,
for we see too much evidence that old age is not really a
golden period of happy and healthy retirement for many
people. But even those who never met him can see in Ed
Delano the hope that maybe, just maybe, they too have
a chance to enjoy their later years with as much gusto.

The formula he lives by is essentially simple. Eat-
ing sensibly in moderation, doing what he enjoys, get-
ting plenty of exercise, and enjoying his friends. To
those who have the pleasure of knowing him, Ed has
other endearing attributes. He's essentially a quiet man,
who listens more than he talks. In spite of his notable
accomplishments, he is humble. And although he be-
lieves passionately in his way of life, he chooses to teach
it by example rather than by preaching. Ed Delano is a
gracious and considerate gentleman, the kind of man
we'd all like to have living next door ... or as a class-
mate. Just ask anyone from the Class of 1930.

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at right: The Class of '55 enjoying
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above: Winners of this year's alumni
awards. From left, Herbert F. Taylor
Award recipients (for service to the
Alumni Association) Peter H. Horst-
mann, '55; Plummer Wiley, '35; and
Leonard G. Humphrey, Jr., '35. Robert
H. Goddard recipient for professional
achievement, Raymond J. Forkey, '40;
(not shown is Robert C. Stempel, '53,
also a Goddard winner). Recipient of the
WPI Award, for service to the college by
a non-alumnus, is Robert W. Stoddard.

The WPI Journal / Summer 1980/17

1 955 's 25th

Twenty-five years certainly flew by.
They must have, because everyone
looked the same and it seemed like
nearly yesterday we had been
together. 37 members of our class,
along with 30 wives and guests,
returned for the reunion, which was
certainly festive and one that we
will always remember. It was a
great weekend!

It all started with the opening
of our Hospitality Suite in the
Fuller Residence complex, which
became the focal point for all our
activities. Frank and Madeline
Horan, Pete and Barbara Horst-
mann, and Ray and Ginnie San-
soucy served as the hosts. The suite
was a busy place and made an ideal
place to meet. Several times we had
about 70 people in the suite, and we
never ran out of beer or good con-
versation.

Friday night the early arrivals
spent several hours in the suite
renewing fond memories of their
four years at WPI and in Worcester.

The group comprising Jerry and
Charlotte Backlund, Earl and Pat
Bloom, Bob Holden, Hank and
Donna Manseau, Bob and Rose-
Marie Neunherz, Hal and Shirley
Sauer, Bob Schultz, Dick and Hella
Sieron, Chuck and Barbara Walters,
and the hosts went to dine at
Maxine's, a new restaurant in
downtown Worcester. They later
returned to the Hospitality Suite
and closed it at about 3:00 a.m.

The reunion luncheon gave Ray
Sansoucy, our class gift chairman,
the opportunity to present our
$35,600 gift, which with matching
funds approached $56,000 to the
College. Our goal was $35,000. Our
gift represented an excellent gift for
a 25th-year class, both in terms of
dollars and the percentage participa-
tion by members. It appears that
our interest and enthusiasm for WPI
has not changed. By a vote of the
members of the class, the funds will
be used for the new main entrance-
way in the now-being-renovated
Atwater Kent electrical engineering
and computer science laboratory.
Also at the luncheon, our own Pete

Horstmann and Bob Stempel
received two of the six coveted
awards: Pete the Herbert F. Taylor
Award for distinguished service to
WPI, and Bob the Robert H. God-
dard Award for outstanding profes-
sional achievement. Unfortunately,
Bob was, at the last minute, unable
to join us for the reunion.

President and Mrs. Ed Cranch
served as hosts in their home for a
reception for the class. This gave us
an opportunity to meet them and
discuss WPI and to socialize. The
banquet was held at the Higgins
House, and the class picture was
taken inside . . . and getting every-
one assembled proved to be quite a
task in itself. The banquet was
superb, thanks to the Alumni
Office, the caterer, and more partic-
ularly to Frank Horan, John
Calhoun, Pete Horstmann, Ray
Sansoucy, and Ralph Mongeon, who
planned it. Frank also served as
master of ceremonies and presented
very smoothly a brief program that
highlighted members of the class,
the personalities of the class, things
that happened while at Tech, and

the events leading up to the
reunion. We even resurrected the
Goat's Head for the occasion.

Frank announced that Tarek
Shawaf presented a very generous
gift to the class, which pushed us
over our goal. Tarek had a number
of kind words to say about WPI and
about all his friends in this country.

Ralph Mongeon recognized Ray
Sansoucy and Frank Horan for their
efforts as chairmen of the Reunion
Gift and Reunion committees. Both
Ray and Frank thanked their com-
mittees for their efforts in making
both programs highly successful.
The Reunion Gift Committee
included Ray Frank Horan, Paul
Brown, Bob Olson, Art Rudman,
and Ed Bouvier. The Reunion Com-
mittee included Frank, Ralph Mon-
geon, Pete Horstmann, John
Calhoun, and Ray Sansoucy.

Our special guests for the
weekend and banquet were Carl and
Arlene Koontz and Merl and Sandy
Norcross. Merl reflected back on
some members of our class, like
Earl Bloom, Ed Bouvier, Don Gre-
nier, Pete Horstmann, and Bob
Schultz, the 'jocks' of the class. Bob
Holden presented Merl with a 'gift,'
borrowed from WPI, that he had
been using for the past 25 years.
Carl Koontz recalled his memories
of the civil engineering graduates by
highlighting Lou Axtman, Paul
Brown, Jocko Conlon, Frank Horan,
Bob Schultz, and Tarek Shawaf.
Merl and Carl brought back many
fond memories.

The yearbook was distributed
at the banquet, along with appropri-
ate comments by Ralph Mongeon,
who assembled the information and
oversaw its publication with the
help of the Alumni Office. From the
stats, it is obvious that members of
our class have been very successful.
They have also been successful in
marriage, family, and commitment
to Tech. They also average 3.2 chil-
dren per family ... a very productive
class.

Those that traveled some dis-
tance to attend the reunion were
Tarek Shawaf, who came from Riy-
adh, Saudi Arabia; Bob Schultz,
from Corvallis, Oregon; Bob

Holden, from San Diego; Howie
Dworkin, from Detroit; and Don
Zwiers, from Joliet, Illinois. Tarek
received the gift for traveling the
longest distance from abroad — a
round-trip ticket on the self-
propelled Gossamer Albatross. Bob
Schultz traveled the farthest from
within the country, and he received
a can of dust from Mt. St. Helens.
President of the Class, Brian
Kelly, was unable to make the
reunion, and he suggested that we
elect new class officers. They are
Pete Horstmann, president; Frank
Horan, vice president; Ray San-
soucy, treasurer; and Ralph Mon-
geon, secretary.

In summary, when you add the
familiar names of Roger Bardwell,

Larry Dennis, Larry Henschel, Ray
Lemieux, Jim Mathews, Walt
Power, George Robbins, Gerrit
Swart, Al Twitchell, John Welsh,
Dick Butterworth, Dave Dayton,
John Edfors, and Bob Sechrest and
their wives and guests to the list,
then combine Tech stories,
exchanges about family and friends,
discussions of professional, world,
and business situations, and factor
in good fellowship, it all equates to
an outstanding and memorable
reunion.

It was a great twenty-fifth,
thanks to the Committee, the
Alumni staff, and above all those
who came. We will be seeing you all
soon.

-

left: Peter Horstmann, '55.
below: The Class of 1 950 showed a re-
markable turnout for their 30th re-
union.

The WPI Journal / Summer 1980/19

1940's 40th

After months of planning by the
Class of 1940 Reunion Committee
and three years by the Gift Com-
mittee, the Friday morning of
Reunion finally arrived. 48 class-
mates plus their wives took part in
our best reunion ever. Everything
could be described with superla-
tives, starting at the moment we
signed the registration cards in
Morgan Hall with the pleasant,
helpful hostesses assisting our
obtaining 1940 caps and 1940 tote
bags, answering all our questions,
and pointing the way to our
Ellsworth Residence rooms and our
own 1940 Hospitality Suite nearby
Hospitality was ably captained by
John and Laurel Peters, assisted by
Ken and Judy Blaisdell.

That afternoon some enjoyed
golf and tennis with classmates and
wives at the Worcester Country
Club, while others attended
campus talks and tours, while at
the same time catching up on old
time-topics and friendships.

The evening program, entirely
as guests of the Institute, started
with a truly cordial reception at
President and Mrs. Cranch's home
at One Drury Lane. Those bacon-

wrapped shrimp tidbits were very
tasty and so nicely served along
with other morsels and cocktails.
We then crossed over Park Avenue
to the Higgins House and a very
brief, informal, and breathless tour
of the mansion and grounds. It was
followed by an elegant roast beef
dinner. We are noting now that,
next time back, we would like to
spend more time studying the
house and grounds. We also wish to
point out that this was the first
time we have enjoyed strawberry
shortcake a la two-long-stemmed-
roses for dessert! Place setting
favors, thanks to Clark Goodchild,
were 1940 nickels sealed in a plastic
coated 1940 sign card. President
Cranch was the key speaker, offi-
cially welcoming us for the week-
end. Class president Ray Forkey
highlighted the coming activities,
and Steve Hebert, '66, alumni direc-
tor, was the master of ceremonies.

We then adjourned to our
Dorm, our Hospitality Center, and
then to the Goats Head Pub in San-
ford Riley for a very excellent eve-
ning of dancing and listening to
old-time numbers by a Banjo Band.
Many 1940 classmates participated
here!

Saturday came with heavy rain.
Breakfast in Morgan was abundant

and delicious, and we have to point
out the outstanding difference in
food service the entire weekend —
the difference being our memories
of being served as students as com-
pared with our now being guests,
with food and service to match the
occasion. We split up the the Art
Museum tour, the WPI Today panel
discussion, the nuclear power topic,
and shopping in the bookstore. Oh!
we wish the store had been open
earlier, because there were too
many conflicting demands on our
time. The lecture by Professor Les-
lie Wilbur — nuclear power: where
are we headedl — was outstanding,
very broad in scope, and we hope it
will be printed for all to study and
discuss back home. Others were
excited by the WPI Today panel.

Then came the alumni lunch-
eon, indoors at Morgan due to the
rain. Again a good meal, but the
excitement of our class participa-
tion dimmed the excellence of the
food. Our class president Ray
Forkey received one of the prized
Goddard awards for outstanding
professional achievement. Good
work, Ray! Our own Howie
Freeman, as a member of the Board
of Trustees, made presentations of
other awards. And then our Merrill
Skeist raised the roof when he pre-

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sented the Institute with our class
gift, more than double any prior
40th reunion class gift at
$160,247.66 plus corporate match-
ing gifts of $12,919.75, Dana qual-
ifying payments of $37,669.28, plus
two separate special additional gifts
from class members totaling
$362,500.00, for a grand total of
$573,336.69. Haifa million dollars!
The $160,247.66 official class gift
has been voted by the class to go for
scholarship aid. Wow! That was
some reunion luncheon!

That afternoon we relaxed a
bit, some took the campus tour,
others visited their fraternity, and
still others enjoyed the class Hospi-
tality Center. We all congregated at
the Sheraton Lincoln Inn for class
picture-taking, cocktails, dinner,
band music, and dancing between
courses — just a beautiful evening.

Ed Hafey, although running for
King of USA, proved to be king of
amusement and pun. Ray For key
got in a business session to
announce the tracking down of an
old class bank account of $399.00.
Fritz lohanson gave the 1940 class
historical overview, reserved a min-
ute of silence for our 17 deceased
members, announced the results of
the questionnaire now published in
the new biographical yearbook. Ray
then introduced our guests: Tom
Denney, WPI vice president, who
reported on the high qualifications
of the entering freshmen; and Prof.
Emeritus Al Schwieger and Prof.
Don Zwiep, head of the mechanical
engineering department and
national president of A.S.M.E.,
both of whom spoke of their world-
wide travels. Clark Goodchild
announced that the two door prizes,
very nice gift sharpening sets, were
won by Jack Leach and Howie
Freeman. Clark also took small
group pictures at each table during
the evening. Yearbooks were passed
out to all, which resulted in many a
light in the dorm being turned out
late, while we digested those 73
reported careers. Music and dancing
was enjoyed by all.

Sunday morning Break-Up-
Brunch at Morgan was another
super meal, along with the sincere

good-byes and vows to "see you in
five at our 45th." Special thanks go
to Clark Goodchild for design and
procurement of Class Caps and
Bags; to Clark and Fritz Johanson
for editing the Yearbook; to Merrill
Skeist for carrying the ball on the
Class Gift; to President Ray Forkey
for calling the signals; and to all the
members of the committees who
put in many hours of work to make
it all come to pass. Citations for
long distance traveling for the occa-
sion should go to D. Bates, R. Bates,
M. Ross, L. Behrent, E. Hafey, and
W. Brooks.

The complete list of those
attending follows.

— Bob Dunklee, Secretary

Mr. & Mrs. Howard L. Anderson
Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Bates
Mr. & Mrs. Ralston E. Bates
Mr. Lewis F. Behrent
Mr. & Mrs. Max Bialer
Mr. & Mrs. George S. Bingham
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth R. Blaisdell
Dr. & Mrs. Roland S. Brand
Mr. & Mrs. William S. Brooks
Prof. & Mrs. Malcolm S. Burton
Dr. S. Carlton Dickerman
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Dunklee, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Raymond J. Forkey

Mr. & Mrs. Howard G. Freeman

Mr. Clyde L. Gerald

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Flencross

Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Goldsmith

Mr. & Mrs. W. Clark Goodchild, Jr.

Mr. Willard T. Gove

Mr. & Mrs. Frank G. Gustafson

Mr. & Mrs. Edward E. J. Hafey

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Halloran, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Hayes

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Hewey

Mr. & Mrs. Fritz E. Johanson

Mr. & Mrs. Rolfe G. Johnson

Dr. & Mrs. Stanley W. Kimball

Mr. & Mrs. David A. Kuniholm

Mr. & Mrs. John A. Leach, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Russell A. Lovell, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Zareh Martin

Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. McDonald

Mr. & Mrs. Richard T. Messinger

Mr. & Mrs. Peter A. Muto

Mr. & Mrs. John H. Peters m

Mr. & Mrs. Donald Ramaker

Mr. & Mrs. Marcus A. Rhodes, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Milton E. Ross

Mr. & Mrs. M. Michael Sadick

Mr. & Mrs. S. Merrill Skeist

Mr. & Mrs. Everett P. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Francis E. Stone

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence R. Sullivan

Mr. & Mrs. Harry Terkanian

Mr. & Mrs. Frederic S. Wackerbarth

Mr. Randall Whitehead

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Wingardner

Mr. & Mrs. David B. Zipser

Merrill Skeist presents President Cran-
ch with the 40th anniversary gift of the
Class of 1940 — more than half a mil-
lion dollars in all.

The WPI Journal / Summer 1980 / 21

1930's 50th

Actually, the 50TH Reunion for
the Class of 1930 started on Tues-
day, June 3rd, with the arrival of Ed
Delano on the completion of his
3, 100 mile bicycle ride from Davis,
California to WPI. As he crossed the
finish line about noon at Boynton
Hall, he was greeted by President Ed
Cranch and a crowd of 300 faculty
members, students, office workers
and friends.

Fran Kennedy and I met him at
the Yankee Drummer Inn on the
Auburn-Worcester line, whence we
followed him the last seven miles
by car. This section of his ride was
also filmed by the WPI television
crew. He received the key to the
city, a plaque from Jack McCabe,
President of the Alumni Associa-
tion, and I presented him a pair of
roller skates from the Class of '30,
suggesting he may want to try these
for his 60th. Any way you look at it
— it was a remarkable feat.

On Thursday afternoon, June
5th, we started to assemble at the
Sheraton-Lincoln Inn, and at 5:45
p.m. most of us boarded a bus that
took us to the President's house for

a welcoming reception. At seven,
we moved over to the Higgins
House for a delicious roast beef din-
ner.

At the dinner, President Cranch
spoke about the school, and then
presented 50-year diplomas to those
present, followed by the premiere of
the 15-minute tv presentation of Ed
Delano's ride of the last few miles,
with the finish up the hill to Boy-
nton Hall, and the various short
speeches of welcome and congratu-
lations.

Friday a.m., Steve Hebert,
Alumni Secretary, escorted our
class on a 1 Vi hour walking tour of
the campus, pointing out the many
new buildings and changes of the
past twenty years. This was fol-
lowed by a very nice buffet lunch in
Morgan Hall.

During the afternoon, many of
us attended seminars on the WPI
Plan, and another on Estate Plan-
ning. The bus took those staying at
the hotel back, so they could get
ready for our 50th banquet which
was held on the 24th floor — the
Plaza Club — in the Worcester
County National Bank building, op-
posite Worcester City Hall. The
class picture was taken during our

social hour, but with all the mir-
rors, windows, space, who knows if
it will come out?

Following a very fancy dinner,
Gardner Pierce, head of WPI's plant
facilities, gave us a slide show of
WPI old and new. Dan O' Grady, the
Master of Ceremonies, read several
letters from people in the class who
could not attend for one reason or
another. I announced that we had
100 living members out of a gradu-
ating class of 141; 76 members had
contributed to our Fund;
$15,000.00 had been raised during
1970-77; and, $39,677.55 was raised
in the last three years. We also had
matching gifts to the College of
$3,061.25 and $9,684.00 in Dana
matching funds. So our total effort
was $67,422.80. (Actually, a late
gift of $1,224.38 has arrived, so our
total is now $68,647. 18.)

The class voted that the Col-
lege use our 50th Reunion Gift for
the new student lounge area in the
renovated Atwater Kent building. A
suitable plaque will be put in the
room informing all that this room
was given by our class.

Gene Center, Class President
for the last five years, thanked the
various committees for work done

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on arranging everything for the re-
union. Pete Topelian gave a short
talk on working (for money) after
age 72.

Charlie Fay Chairman of the
Nominating Committee, presented
the following slate for the next five
years: President: Dan O'Grady;
Vice President: Fran Kennedy; Sec-
retary/Treasurer: CarlBackstrom.
Nobody objected, so we were voted
in. Once again, the bus was there to
take the hotel people back, and our
class really enjoyed this means of
travel.

Saturday morning at 10:00
a.m., we were voted into the 50-
Year Associates group, and we lis-
tened to a very interesting talk on
energy by Prof. Leslie Wilbur.

Due to the rainy weather on
Saturday our reunion luncheon had
to be moved inside to Morgan Hall,
rather than the Higgins lawn. After
lunch, the Goddard, Taylor, and
WPI awards were presented to six
people.

Due to the fact we had 42 per-
cent of our living members there,
we beat out the class of 1940, so we
will have "Class of 1930" inscribed
on the large silver attendance cup
donated by the class of 1917. The
best percentage of returning alumni
from a class wins this honor, and al-
so a bottle of champagne.

After the reunion luncheon,
about 35 of our group of 75 went to
Charlie Fay's home in Sterling,
where we celebrated with the
champagne. We finished with ham-

burgers, hot dogs, cookies, and cof-
fee, which put everybody in a good
frame of mind for their trip home,
saying, "See you in five years."
Thanks Charlie and Ingrid for open-
ing up your house to us!

The following people were at
the reunion:

Mr. & Mrs. Carl W. Backstrom, Mr. &
Mrs. Roscoe H. Bowers, Mr. David K.
Bragg, Mr. & Mrs. C. Eugene Center,
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Coghill, Mr. &
Mrs. Charles H. Cole, Mr. & Mrs. Wil-
liam D. Davidson, Mr. & Mrs. Herbert
W. Davis, Mr. Edward R. Delano, Mr. &
Mrs. Charles R. Fay, Mr. & Mrs. Stanley
H. Fillion, Mr. & Mrs. Leland H. Fisler,
Mr. Thomas F. Flynn, Mr. & Mrs. Wal-
ter H. French, Mr. & Mrs. Albert M.
Goodnow, Mr. & Mrs. Carmelo S. Gre-
co, Mr. & Mrs. Allan L. Hall, Mr. Robert

Steve Hebert, '66, presents Gene Cen-
ter, '30, with the champagne and the
Class of 1917 Attendance Cup. As usu-
al, the 50th anniversary class outdid ev-
eryone else!

E. Hollick, Mr. & Mrs. Irving Joseph,
Mr. & Mrs. Francis E. Kennedy, Mr. &
Mrs. Raymond C. Lewis, Prof. & Mrs.
William W. Locke, Mr. & Mrs. Percy F.
Marsaw, Mr. & Mrs. George A. Mar-
ston, Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Milde, Mr.
& Mrs. William J. Newbold, Mr. Daniel

F. O'Grady, Mr. & Mrs. Christos
Orphanides, Mr. John R. Parker, Mr.
Henry A. Pearson, Mr. & Mrs. Fred P.
Peters, Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Reynolds,
Mr. & Mrs. Wilson H. Rice, Dr. & Mrs.
Philip M. Seal, Mr. & Mrs. George W.
Stratton, Dr. & Mrs. Joseph T. Tawter,
Mr. & Mrs. Alvin E. Thrower, Mr. Paul
J. Topelian, Mr. & Mrs. John H. Wells,
Mr. & Mrs. Harold G. Williamson, Mr.
Charles L. Wright, and Mr. & Mrs. Ar-
thur Zavarella.

It was a great Reunion!

— Carl W Backstrom

middle: Members of the 50-year associ-
ates relaxing at the Worcester Country
Club.

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The WPI Journal / Summer 1980 / 23

1904

Loyalty to WPI often transcends a genera-
tion. Such was the case with the daughter
of Edward C. Perry who shared his pride of
this alma mater with his family as she grew
up. Had Miriam been a boy, she might well
have followed her father to WPI. Instead,
she graduated from Simmons college and
entered military service in World War II.
She became the first Chief of the U.S. Air
Force's Woman Medical Specialists Corps
and later retired with the rank of colonel, by
then the wife of Lt. Col. Moxie Goll, U.S.
Army, now retired. Miraim Perry Goll died
in January, 1979, but in her will she left a
substantial bequest to WPI in memory of
her father. Col. Goll recently visited the
campus for the first time to see the college
of which his wife often spoke fondly.

I9II

An early thesis on wind power, "The Con-
struction and Test of a Windmill Electric
Lighting Plant," by the late Ralph Goddard
has been acquired by the Rio Grande His-
torical Collections in the New Mexico State
University (NMSU) archives. Goddard
wrote the thesis while an undergraduate at
WPI. He was dean of the NMSU engineer-
ing college from 1 92 1 to 1 929, until his
accidental death in the campus radio sta-
tion. The current NMSU engineering dean
says that the thesis "was an excellent piece
of work for that time."

1912

Ruth Taylor, widow of Herbert Taylor, was
named the 1979 Red Cross Volunteer of
the Year for Worcester County.

1913

William Stults writes: "I still drive my
14-year-old car, and will probably spend
the summer in North Carolina."

1914

Secretary:

Ellwood N Hennessy

680 Mechanics Bank Tower

Worcester, MA

01608

The following information was sent to me
by the vice president of our class, Earl
Hughes. While it is true that his fraternity
has been informed of this information,
certainly the rest of our class have not, and I
am submitting it exactly as it was sent to
me.

Earl C. Hughes, '14, 98 Lighthouse
Drive, Jupiter Inlet Colony, Florida 33458.
Earl received a WPI honorary Doctor of
Engineering Award on June 7, 1963, and
the WPI Herbert F.Taylor Award on June 7,
1975. He is currently retired and is still
married to Mary B. Hughes (54 years). Earl
has one daughter, Mrs. Philip A. Peterson,
who lives at 350 Salisbury St., Worcester,
two sons living in California, and a total of
nine grandchildren and two great grand-
children. Earl has enjoyed visits in Florida
from President and Mrs. Cranch; Vice Pres-
ident and Mrs. Bolz, who live in Hughes
House which he gave to WPI; and also
from his very good friend, Tom Denney.
Earl writes that he will be 88 in September
and is beginning to feel it.

Earl has done a lot for our class and for
Worcester Tech. As most people know, he
gave his own home to the College. One
other thing that is not generally known is
that Earl lives in Florida next to the home of
Perry Como. Whether Earl gets free beauti-
ful music at home, such as Perry Como
gives on television, I do not know.

I had another interesting letter from
Mike Dufault, our president, and I also
spent some more money on the telephone
talking to him personally as before. Neither
Mike or Chris, his wife, is presently very
well, but they get around and occasionally
go out to lunch at the Pillar House, which is
my favorite eating place in New England.

I also hear from Eddy Bartlett, who still
lives contentedly alone in Tryon, North
Carolina. Last year he said he was very busy
raking up an extra crop of leaves.

Tilly and Al Crandon and my wife,
Dorothy, and I keep in touch every so often
with each other by telephone. They are
very busy living a social and farming life in
their lovely home in Compton, Rhode
Island.

1915

The Frederick Churches will be celebrating
their fiftieth wedding anniversary in
October.

1917

Married: Brigadier General Hermon F. Saf-

ford and Mrs. Annemarie Logsdon on
March 15, 1980, in LaJolla, California.

1921

Secretary

Robert E Chapman
26 High St
Oakdale, MA
01539

REUNION

TUNE I 98 I

Representative
Robert E Chapman

The Edward Roses celebrated their 58th
wedding anniversary in February.

1925

Secretary
Daniel L. Hussey
81 Whitney Rd
Short Hills, NJ
07078

John Fitzmaurice of Wellesley, Mass., a
retired assistant traffic engineer from the
Massachusetts Department of Public
Works, is currently a self-employed traffic
engineering consultant. . . . Leonard San-
born writes that he is retired, healthy, and
has completed three two-year terms in the
New Hampshire legislature.

1926

Secretary
Archie J. Home
1 Hunter Circle
Shrewsbury, MA
01545

REUNION

JUNE I 98 1

Archie Home spoke on the topic, "Grow-
ing Up to Be A Man" at the annual district
Men's Communion Breakfast held at the
First Church in Sterling, Mass., on March
23rd. He is well known for his talks about
land development, management, counsel-
ing and consulting. A member of the Amer-
ican Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, he
also belongs to the Society of Real Estate
Appraisers and the American Right of Way
Association.

Armand Paquette writes, "We are cele-
brating our golden wedding anniversary on
June 2, 1980."

24 / Summer 1980 / The WPI Journal

1927

Secretary:
William M. Rauha
4 Whittletree Rd.
West Yarmouth, MA
02673

The Nathan Southwicks celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary on October 5,
1979.

1928

Secretaries:
Gifford T. Cook
Rte.3 Box 294
Keyes Perry Acres
Harpers Ferry, WV
25425

Theodore J. Englund
70 Eastwood Rd.
Shrewsbury, MA
01545

Since the Paul Henleys moved to Spain
eight years ago, they've done a lot of
traveling. They have journeyed to Belgium,
Italy, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Por-
tugal, Morocco, the Canary Islands,
Madeira, the Balearic Islands, Monaco, and
"many of the wonderful places in Spain."
Memorable trips include a cruise from
Alicante to Genoa to Tunis on a Dutch ship;
a canal barge trip to Carcassonne; a visit to
the caves of Altemira (before they were
closed); and trips to the Alhambra, Sevilla,
and Cordoba. Other points of interest have
been the Costa del Sol ("similar to Miami
Beach") and Barcelona. "Madrid you can
have. The weather is like Cleveland, Ohio."

The town where the Henleys live is on
the Costa Blanca, off the beaten tourist
path. "An artist's paradise. We have a villa
halfway up the mountains against the sea."
Fishing and farming are the most prevalent
vocations in the area.

"As for the American bases (here), they
are more of an advantage to the U.S. than
to Spain. Spain managed to stay out of
World War I and World War II, and I
believe it will stay out of the approaching
World Warlll."

Ralph Lundberg says that he's so busy he
wonders how he ever had time to work. He
enjoys swimming, hiking, biking, golfing,
bowling (two leagues), boccia, and tennis.
He also travels and belongs to three men's
clubs. Inga and he like to dance and belong
to a club where they dine and dance. About
every other year Inga visits her family in
Sweden. Ralph has accompanied her on
the family trips four times.

1929

Secretary: Representative

Holbrook L. Horton Holbrook L. Horton

1 20 W. Saddle River Rd.
Saddle River, NJ
07458

Wayne Berry and his wife are tutoring slow
learners in the West Side Elementary
School near Spring Hill, Fla. Last fall,
Wayne taught a course in fundamental
economics for adult education at the local
high school and used his booklet, "Progress
and Poverty" as a textbook. He also
teaches Sunday school at the Methodist
Church, is a lay speaker, and coaches chil-
dren's soccer. . . . Arthur Knight has re-
turned from a week-long exploratory
checkup at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in
Hanover, N.H. He resides in Lower Water-
ford, Vt.

1930

Secretary: Representative:

Carl W. Backstrom Carl W Backstrom

113 Winifred Ave.
Worcester, MA
01602

John Burt recently moved to Melbourne,
Fla., to enjoy retirement. . . . Joseph
Coghill was robbed at gunpoint at the
Centerville Variety Store in Warwick, R.I.,
in June, but not before he tried to disarm
the gunman with his bare hands. When
first confronted by the robber, Joe grabbed
the barrel of the gun, before it was finally
pulled out of his grasp. The gunman de-
manded money from the cash register. Joe
offered the man two tens, but he didn't
leave until he got about $45. . . . Sherman
Dane is still working in Boston at Welch and
Forbes (Fiduciaries and Trustees) and
commuting each day from his home in
Marshfield, Mass. The Danes have three
children: Bob, 27; Chris, 21; and Nancy,
19, a junior at Plymouth (N.H.) State Col-
lege. "I expect to work full time until Nancy
graduates," Sherm writes. "After that, I
hope to slow down a bit and semi-retire."

Herb Davis says that he, like Jim
McLoughlin, collects sand samples. Cur-
rently, he has a collection of about 100
samples from around the world. In the
1950's he helped design and test a beach
cleaner, and during the testing he dis-
covered that adjustments had to be made
to allow for the large variations in sand
from beach to beach. The project got him
interested in sand collecting. Among his
samples are those from the USA, Tahiti,
Bora Bora, England, Wales, and Scotland.

Armando "Ed" Greco retired in June
1979. He left May 9th for a two-month trip
to Western Europe. This was planned a
year ago, so he was unable to attend the
50th.. . Jim McLoughlin was sorry to miss
the 50th, but he had just gotten back from

the hospital recovering from an attack of
angina. It was one of the few reunions he
wasn't able to attend. . . . Ted Mesh enjoys
his big vegetable garden and his camellias,
roses, azaleas, magnolias, and gardenias in
Greensboro, N.C. Louise and he live quietly
and do no entertaining. Ted does some
volunteer interviewing for the Greensboro
Urban Ministry and is involved with church
projects. His daughter and family live next
door and his son and family live in In-
dianapolis. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Fred Peters of
Springfield, N.J., were named the recipients
of the Archbishop's Award during the an-
nual fund-raising gala held to benefit
Catholic Community Services in the Ar-
chdiocese of Newark, on April 27th. They
are members of St. Rose of Lima Church in
Short Hills, where Fred serves as a parish
trustee. Peters, who is the former executive
vice president of Reinhold Publishers in
New York, is a past president of the Heart
Institute at St. Michael's Hospital in
Newark. He also serves on the advisory
council of the Seton Hall University School
of Business and on the editorial board of
The Advocate, the archdiocesan newspa-
per. Mrs. Peters, a past officer of the ladies
auxiliary at St. Rose of Lima, is a volunteer
worker at St. Ann's Villa in Convent Sta-
tion, a home for retired nuns, and at a
nursing home in Totowa operated by the
Little Sisters of the Poor. ... Phil Seal has
started a three- year term as a town asses-
sor in Gouldsboro, Me. (Prospect Harbor,
his home, is part of Gouldsboro.) He has
been busy for several months getting all the
information together for sending out the
bills. Phil says that Ken Gleason, '33, has a
summer home in his area. . . . Vern Wade's
grandchildren graduated in June, so gradu-
ations kept him from the 50th reunion. He
sends regards to all his classmates.

1932

Representative:
Howard P. Lekberg
RFD 115 Main St.
East Douglas, MA
01516

Paul Nelson was named a co-recipient of
the 1979 Outstanding Conservation
Farmer Award at the Caledonia Extension
Advisory Board and Conservation District
meeting held in Danville, Vt., in May. He
and Raymond and Donna Nelson have
operated Hillside Acres Farm in Barnet fol-
lowing conservation management prac-
tices in the use of their woodland. They
produced maple syrup from 1 300 maple
taps. Paul served as town selectman for a
number of years.

The WPI Journal / Summer 1980 / 25

1934

Secretary:

Representative

Dwight J Dwinell

Edward R. Markert

Box 265

1 Elf Hill

Brownington, VT

South Amherst, MA

05860

01002

Harold Greeney has retired from Sandy Hill
Corp., Hudson Falls, N.Y., where he was a
sales engineer.

1935

Secretary

Raymond F. Starrett

Continental Country Club

Box 104

Wildwood, FL

32785

Representative:
Plummer Wiley
2906 Silver Hill Ave.
Baltimore, MD
21207

Walter Blau, who retired over a year ago,
writes, "Can't find the time to do all the
things I planned for retirement. Enjoying
every minute." He had been with Wallace
Silversmiths in Wallingford, Conn., where
he was plant engineering manager. . . . B.
Austin Coates says that he has gone blind,
but with extensive surgery and laser treat-
ment his eyesight is coming back slowly.
. . . Phillip Dean still enjoys skiing several
times a week in the winter. In summer, he
sails on Long Island Sound or works in his
vegetable garden. . . . Sam Hakam's son
just graduated from Long Beach Univer-
sity.

1937

Secretary:

Representative

Richard J. Lyman

Gordon F. Crowther

10 Hillcrest Rd.

20 Bates St.

Medfield, MA

Hartford, CT

02052

06114

Correspondent:

Samuel W. Mencow

189 Parker Ave.

H olden, MA

01520

In June, Allen Benjamin retired from teach-
ing urban and environmental planning at
WPI, although he still may be involved with
an occasional course. He expects to do
some consulting and writing. His wife,
Eleanor, works at Wayland Public Library,
but they will take a short trip during her
vacation. Meanwhile, they are establishing
a "farm" in Wayland. They grow blueber-
ries, strawberries, raspberries, peaches, and
pears. During his career, Benjamin was an
urban planner in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El
Salvador, and various U.S. cities and towns,
as well as a planning engineer for the
Massachusetts State Planning Board.
Civic-minded, one of his awards was the
Distinguished Service Award of the New
England Chapter of the American Institute
of Planners.

26 / Summer 1980 / The WPI Journal

IS FOR ^a w

ers

Continuing as a professor in applied
physics at Stanford University, C. Chapin
Cutler says, "We are loving our new life in
California, but it is not really relaxing."
Recently, he bicycled 68 miles on the Coast
Highway. He is active with the IEEE (Fel-
low), the church, and the Boy Scouts. Ear-
lier, he had been with Bell Labs in New
Jersey for 41 years, and retired as director
of the Electronic and Computer Systems
Research Laboratory. He was involved with
"Echo," "Telstar," and the Picturephone
computer applications, and was awarded
over 70 patents. A member of the National
Academy of Engineering, he also belongs
to the National Academy of Sciences,
AAAS, and Sigma Xi. WPI awarded him an
honorary doctorate.

Wesley Holbrook retired in February as
safety engineer in the technical support
section of the Boston regional office of the
U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Recently, he and Betty got together with
Dot and Bob Powers on their way back
from Florida. Last year, Holbrook taught a
course in industrial safety one night a week
at Northeastern, and expects to teach
again this year. "The students are all from
industry — and striving to obtain a degree
the hard way by going to school nights," he
explains. He hopes to do some consulting
on fire protection and safety engineering.
During his career, he had advised industrial
firms and building contractors on fire pro-
tection and safety standards and require-
ments. ... A. Hallier Johnson is still retired,
and shooting, hunting, and boating. He
lives in Chesapeake City, Md., on the Elk
River.

David La Field serves as president of
Shipyard Crafts in San Lorenzo, Calif. . . .
The Dick Lymans are visiting China this
summer. Dick says, "Have always wanted
to know whether you drink or chew bird's
nest soup!" In a year he expects to retire,
but presently is vice president and director
of personnel at New England Electric. . . .
Billings Mann of George Mann & Co., Inc.,
Providence, R.I., has retired. He was presi-
dent and director of the firm. . . . Francis
Marchand is keeping busy with the Visiting
Nurse Association and a social service
agency in Torrington, Conn. He is retired,
has five grandchildren, and enjoys sailing
and tennis.

A. Hamilton Powell has returned from a
6-week volunteer stint in Kenya (near
Nairobi) with the Africa Inland Mission. He
planned and installed the electrical system
in the 56' x 90' shop that the technical
services branch of the mission is construct-
ing. From the new building, technically
trained personnel will go out to build
houses, water projects, and electrical sys-
tems for the 450 missionaries across central
Africa.

1938

Representative
Francis B Swenson
599 Common St
Walpole, MA
02081

Paul Murphy, a consultant for GE in San
Jose, Calif., is now retired and living in
Anacortes, Washington. . . . Henry Ritz,
president of R&R Plumbing Supply Corp.,
Worcester, was recently elected president
of the Association of the Plumbing and
Heating Wholesalers of New England. He
has served as president and treasurer of
R&R Plumbing for 42 years. He holds a
degree from Northeastern and took a man-
agement course at the Harvard School of
Business Administration. Active in fraternal
and civic groups, Ritz has also served as vice
president and director of the New England
Wholesalers Association.

1939

Secretary

Representative

Charles H Amidon, Jr

C. John Lindegren, Jr

636 Salisbury St.

21 Prospect St.

Holden, MA

Shrewsbury, MA

01520

01545

Roger Iff land retired May 1st. from the
Torrington Co., where he had been chief of
mechanical engineering. . . . Carl Lewin, a
WPI trustee, has been appointed manager
of the Melbourne, Australia, office of
Austin-Anderson Pty. Ltd., the Australian
subsidiary of the Austin Company, interna-
tional designers and builders. He joined the
firm in 1940 as a field engineer in Austin's
Eastern District. Later, he moved into sales,
and in 1965, he was appointed sales man-
ager for Austin's international companies.
In 1975, he was elected a corporate officer
of the company, maintaining his worldwide
sales responsibilities as vice president for
international sales and development.

He belongs to the ASCE, the Cleveland
Engineering Society, the American Man-
agement Association, and Tau Beta Pi. The
Lewins are moving to Australia from De-
troit, where Lewin has been responsible for
the operations of the Detroit office of the
Austin Company.

1940

1943

Secretary

Representative:

Representative:

Robert E Dunklee, Jr.

Russell A. Lovell, Jr.

Robert SSchedin

RockyHillRd.

Jonathan Lane

RFD#1

North Scituate, R.I.

Sandwich, MA

Brookfield, MA

02857

02563

01506

Honeywell, Inc., Minneapolis, has named
Willard Gove vice president of corporate
real estate and field administration. In his
new post, he is responsible for corporate
real estate operations and the administra-
tive functions in Honeywell's U.S. branch
sales and service offices. Since 1978, Gove
has been director of corporate real estate
and field administration. In 1951, he joined
Honeywell's Commercial Division as a sales
representative in Boston, and two years
later he became a marketing manager. He
has also been manager of markets and
products and director of corporate field
administration. ... P. Warren Keating,
chairman of the board and treasurer of the
P. J. Keating Co., Fitchburg, Mass., has
been elected to the Burbank Hospital Board
of Trustees. . . . Zareh Martin, an aircraft
instruments engineer at GE in Wilmington,
Mass., also teaches evening courses in
management at Northeastern. He is a
member of the Nahant School Committee.

1942

Representative
Norman A. Wilson
17 Cranbrook Dr
Holden, MA
01520

McGraw-Hill is publishing Dr. Frank
Bodurtha's book, Industrial Explosion Pre-
vention and Protection. The book is con-
cerned with the principles and practice of
explosion control in the chemical and allied
fields. Dr. Bodurtha, who has been with du
Pont for 27 years, is now a principal consul-
tant in the engineering department. . . .
Win Munyon works for Whitman & Ran-
som in New York City. ... In April, Rodney
Paige was named vice president of corpo-
rate engineering at Pfizer, Inc., New York
City. He had been director of construction
and plant services. He joined the Groton
plant in 1951, and transferred to corporate
engineering in 1964 as assistant director of
engineering. He is a licensed professional
engineer in New York and Connecticut.
The brother of "Hilly ** Paige, '41 , he is also
a member of the Steering Committee for
the Class of 1942's 40th reunion gift pro-
gram. ... Dr. Ray Wynkoop, formerly di-
rector of the corporate research depart-
ment at Sun Oil Co., has retired.

Richard Bonnet has retired from AVTEX
Fibers after 32 years of service. . . . Harry
Merkel holds the post of president of Mer-
cury Company of Norwood, Inc., which is
now located in Brockton, Mass. The firm is
a subsidiary of Fischbach and Moore, Inc.
. . . Frank Szel took early retirement from
Dow Chemical, and is presently residing in
Sun City West, Arizona.

1944

Secretary:

Representative

JohnG. Underhill

Harrison E Holbrook, Jr

6706 Barkworth Dr

Holbrook Drop Forge, Inc

Dallas, TX

40 Rockdale St.

75248

Worcester, MA

01606

John Underhill is currently distribution
coordinator for the western marketing re-
gion of Exxon Company, U.S.A., in Dallas,
Texas.

1945

Representative:
Robert E. Scott
Indian Hill Rd.
Little Compton, Rl
02837

James Breed writes from Richland,
Washington: "So far, only a slight dusting
from Mt. St. Helens, but many friends were
caught further north in the thick of the
dust." . . . Burt Hinman is currently vice
president of Varco with responsibilities for
international operations, purchasing, R&D,
and the manufacturing of equipment for
sorting and coating forms which Varco
manufactures. The company manufactures
forms for all purposes, including those for
computer printing and machine reading.
... Ed Swanson is "unloading" a big house
for a smaller one with more land. He likes
gardening and finds Washington an in-
creasingly interesting place to be.

1946

Secretaries:

M. Daniel Lacedonia

106 Ridge Rd.

East Longmeadow, MA

01028

REUNION

JUNE 1 98 1

George H. Conley, Jr.
213 Stevens Dr.
Pittsburgh, PA
15236

Judge Ernest Hayeck has been elected to
membership in the American Antiquarian
Society, which is headquartered in Worces-
ter. He is a justice in the Commonwealth of

Massachusetts Trial Court, District Court
Department, Central Worcester Division.
The AAS is the first historical society that
has national collections and serves scholars
and researchers worldwide. The library
holds examples of over 2h of all American
material printed before 1821 and its collec-
tion covers material up through 1876.

In February, the Rev. John Knibb, Jr.,
was elected president of the Virginia Chris-
tian Ministers Conference (Disciples of
Christ). He has been pastor of the Hampton
(Va.) Christian Church since 1967. . . . Cur-
rently, Jack Laffey serves as vice president
of marketing for worldwide major accounts
at Clark Equipment Corporate Headquar-
ters in Benton Harbor, Mich. He travels a
great deal and is responsible for the full
Clark product line to major accounts. The
product line covers construction equip-
ment including loaders, scrapers, cranes,
graders, and skimmers.

Thomas Lempges has been named to
the newly-created post of vice president of
nuclear generation by the Niagara
Mohawk Power Corp., Syracuse, N.Y. Pre-
viously, he was head of nuclear generation.
In 1949, he joined the firm at the Dunkirk
steam station. A total of 22 years of his
experience has been in nuclear generation.
He was concerned with the Enrico Fermi
fast breeder reactor in Michigan, a jointly
sponsored reactor project in Vallecitos,
Calif., the design and supervision of
Nine-Mile Point and the functions of the
FitzPatrick plant. He is a licensed profes-
sional engineer.

Donald Nichols has retired. Formerly, he
was associate technical director of en-
gineering and technical supply at Naval
Underwater Systems Center, New London,
Conn.

1947

Representative
Allan Glazer
20 Monadnock Dr.
Shrewsbury, MA
01545

Norman Feldman holds the post of vice
president of operations at The Three
Phoenix Co., Phoenix, Arizona.

1948

Secretary:

Representative:

Paul E. Evans

James G. McKernan

69ClairmontSt

516 Brook Forest Ln

Longmeadow, MA

Charlotte. NC

01106

28211

Thomas Hess is director of engineering for
fuel injection equipment at Stanadyne/
Hartford Division of Roosa Master. . . .
Richard Home continues with Cincinnati
Milacron Co., and is presently regional
administrator in St. Louis, Mo. . . . Gordon
Keller writes that he is retired from AVCO

The WPI Journal / Summer 1980 / 27

and is "messing around with solar do-it-
yourself to keep in touch with the engineer-
ing philosophy." Recently he participated
in a Total Environmental Action Seminar in
Harrisville, N.H. . . . ArneKellstrom is leav-
ing New Jersey this summer for Houston,
Texas, where Ingersoll Rand is setting up
new headquarters for the Gas Compression
Group. He has been with the company for
32 years, and is now vice president of
product management, a post related to all
oil field and process industry products.

Daniel Sheingold edited Transducer In-
terfacing Handbook (a Guide to Analog
Signal Conditioning), which was recently
published by Analog Devices, Inc., of Nor-
wood, Mass. The manager of technical
marketing at Analog Devices, Inc., Shein-
gold is also editorof "Analog Dialogue." In
the course of a long career in analog com-
puting and data-acquisition, his major pub-
lications include the Analog Devices'
Analog-Digital Conversion Handbook,
andNonlinear Circuits Handbook , and ear-
lier, the Philbrick Applications Manual for
Operational Amplifiers, and The Lightning
Empiricist.

1949

Secretary:
Howard J. Green
1 Kenilworth Rd.
Worcester, MA
01602

Representative
Sidney Madwed
215 Crest Terrace
Fairfield, CT
06432

Dean Amidon, commissioner of the Mas-
sachusetts Department of Public Works,
was named one of the top ten Public Works
Leaders-Of-The-Year during the observ-
ance of National Public Works Week in
May. He directs 4,500 DPW employees
and is responsible for an operating budget
of $100 million. He originated a useful life
replacement schedule for DPW equipment
to increase efficiency and reduce mainte-
nance costs and has developed a caravan/
masspool program to assist private firms in
the development of commuter van and car
pools fortheiremployees. Under Amidon's
direction, the DPW had surpassed its goal
of advertising $200 million of various types
of construction projects for the first time in
history, and has streamlined operations to
operate more efficiently with available re-
sources.

Phil Buffinton continues as chief operat-
ing officer for State Farm Fire & Casualty
Co. and State Farm General Insurance Co.,
wholly-owned subsidiaries of State Farm
Mutual. He serves on the board of directors
of both subsidiaries. Since his companies
are among the largest writers of home-
owners insurance, he is very interested in
construction standards, windstorm resist-
ance, and arson detection. He belongs to
the American Academy of Actuaries and
the Casualty Actuarial Society. . . . Richard
Hawie has retired. . . . Bill Julian has ac-
quired a Vermont real estate license and

plans to sell some condominiums and lots
at Burke Mt. . . . Daniel McQuillan serves
as a broker for South Coast Realty, Mat-
tapoisett, Mass. He is also a general man-
agement consultant doing business under
the name of McQuillan Associates.

Edward Randall was elected a director of
Morgan Construction Co., Worcester, and
was simultaneously promoted to vice pres-
ident of rolling mill engineering administra-
tion and purchasing. Since 1954, he has
been with the company, which he has
served as vice president, project adminis-
tration and purchasing. He belongs to the
ASME and is a director of the Purchasing
Management Association of Worcester.

1950

Secretary:

Lester J Reynolds, Jr.

15 Cherry Lane

Basking Ridge, NJ

07920

Representative:
Henry S Coe, Jr
3 Harwick Rd
Wakefield, MA
01880

Dan Harrington, Jr., presidentof Sunnyside
Motor Co., has been reelected a library
trustee in the town of Holden, Mass. . . .
Kenneth Muccino, an employee of Peter
Paul Cadbury in Naugatuck (Conn.) since
1 957, is currently director of engineering.
He has two sons: Kenneth 73, who works
for Northeast Utilities in Berlin, Conn., and
Keith, a second-year medical resident at St.
Francis Hospital in Hartford. . . . James
O'Connor holds the post of program man-
ager at Hazeltine Corp., Greenlawn, N.Y.
Presently, he is working on a NATO E-3A
program at Siemens for Hazeltine. . . .
Charles Seaver is an energy conservation
engineerat Ball State University in Muncie,
Indiana.

During the past ten years, some 6,000
people have settled in Guilford, Conn.,
most of them in subdivisions engineered by
Russell Waldo and Associates. (Waldo's
son, Jonathan, 78, is with the firm.) The
Waldo company has also handled the en-
gineering end of nearly 80% of the town's
residential and commercial development,
and about V3 of Madison's (Conn.), as well
as numerous jobs along the shoreline. A
self-described conservationist, Waldo likes
to build multi-family housing projects to
save energy and keep land open. He also
likes to provide affordable modern rental
housing, and points out that 40% of the
residents of the apartments in his Straw-
berry Hill complex are retired.

Philip Wild has been elected a director
by the board of directors at Stone & Web-
ster Engineering Corporation. He was also
appointed director of engineering. In his
new post, Wild is responsible for engineer-
ing in the firm's Boston headquarters, as
well as engineering and design throughout
the international corporation. A vice presi-
dent since 1972, during his 24 years with
the company, he has engineered and de-
signed major power projects, headed the

marketing department, and most recently
has held the post of senior engineering
manager. Wild, a professional engineer,
belongs to the U.S. Committee of the
International Commission on Large Dams
and the International Society of Soil Me-
chanics and Foundation Engineering. He is
also a member of the ASCE and holds a
master's degree from Princeton. He is a
town meeting member in Walpole, Mass.

I95 1 REUNION

Secretary
Stanley L. Miller
11 Ashwood Rd.
Paxton, MA
01612

TUNE 1 98 1

Representative:
Duncan W. Munro
59BnghamSt
Northboro, MA
01532

Capt. Ralph Auerbach, Jr., Civil Engineer
Corps, U.S. Army, retired on July 1st
following 26 years of Navy service. His final
assignment was as executive officer of the
Western Division, Naval Facilities Com-
mand, San Bruno, Calif. This fall he will
enterthe DBA program at Florida State. . . .
Leo Lemere has transferred to The Badger
Co., Inc., as vice president of project con-
trols. . . . Jack Reid's company, Diversified
Metals Products, which he headed as pres-
ident, recently merged with Koch Engineer-
ing Company, Inc., Fairfield, N.J. Currently,
he holds the post of general manager of the
Divmet Division at Koch.

1952

Secretary:
Edward G. Samolis
580 Roberts Ave
Syracuse, NY
13207

Representative
John M Tracy
1 5 School St.
Northboro, MA
01532

He

Lee Tuomenoksa, executive director of the
Data Communications Division of Bell
Labs, has been elected a fellow of IEEE,
was cited for his "contributions to the
development of telephone electronic
switching systems."

1953

Secretary

Dr David S Jenney

109WilbrookRd.

Stratford, CT

06497

Representative
George T Abdow
35 Forest Glen
West Springfield. MA
01089

^Married: Daniel W. Furman and Marcia
Brandwein on May 4, 1980, in New York.
Mrs. Furman graduated from Pratt Insti-
tute. She is director of styling for M. Low-
enstein and Sons in New York City. The
groom, who has an industrial engineering
degree from Columbia, is in business in the
U.S. Virgin Islands.

28 / Summer 1980 / The WPI Journal

Dave Beach is still with Kodak, now
working in the medical products field as
program manager for automatic blood
analyzers. Two of the four Beach children
are through college (St. Lawrence and Rus-
sell Sage), and the third is at Michigan. The
youngest is in high school. Dave stays
active with a "strong bug" for ski racing.
He has entered the New York State Senior
Race Circuit and won his age group in 78
and was second in 79. This year he raced
on the women's Olympic downhill course
atWhiteface Mt. in the Senior Nationals.
Among Dave's other interests are the Ski
Patrol and tennis. Last year, he reached the
semi-finals in the Rochester Senior (tennis)
Districts.

Tom Bellew celebrated his 27th year
with IBM in June. Currently, he is a staff
engineer in packaging and distribution of
large scale computer systems. Daughter
Diane is a teacher; Lynne, a speech
therapist; and Jody, a college graduate.
David continues at Clarkson. Tom has
served as an officer and/or chief of the
Hyde Park (NY) Volunteer Fire Department
for over 20 years. He and his family enjoy
downhill skiing. Recently Tom completed
his 20th year as secretary-treasurer of his
10-pin bowling club.

Mike Cariglia is presently an engineering
analyst with New England Power in
Westboro, Mass. He says that a WPI/NEES
Corporate Contacts Program has been set
up for the purpose of keeping WPI
alumni-employees informed about ac-
tivities taking place at WPI.

Ed Diamond writes from Cutchogue,
N.Y., that he's working on electronic war-
fare systems for Grumman on almost a
60-hourweek. He reports, "It'salmostfun,
something like working out puzzles all the
time. We are not far from the Star Wars
concepts." The Diamonds have four chil-
dren aged one to twelve. Ed and the oldest
enjoy sailing on Peconic Bay. Ed's "check-
ered career" includes a tour as a project
engineer on Ranger at NASA, design of a
solar system for an energy house for
Grumman, and a spare time stint as editor
of "Mensa." He says that he considered
working in energy as a career, but came to
his senses in time.

Ed should compare notes with Dave
Elovitz, whose letterhead carries the logo,
Energy Economics. (Dave's new business
venture was outlined in the winter7our-
nal. ) He writes that his consulting business
is busier than he ever intended. With the
three Elovitz offspring through college, his
wife, Franny , is more free to travel with him
when his consulting takes him to interest-
ing places like Guam and Truk. Their son,
Ken, a materials science graduate of
Lehigh, is a process engineer at Texas
Instruments in Attleboro. Daughter Sara
went to Syracuse and Curry and teaches
multiply handicapped children at Little
Peoples School in Newton. She also does
some typing for her dad. Gary just
graduated from Dartmouth and is in

graduate school in Israel. Although the
senior Elovitzes are involved with Dave's
business, they still sing in the Temple choir,
and Franny helped with the Sisterhood
cookbook fund-raising project. Dave has
finished a chapterfora McGraw-Hill hand-
book, and is writing a magazine article on
ventilation for Plant Engineering. He
teaches seminars, sails, and is involved with
the American Field Service. His AEPi
roommate, Arthur Shepard, lives right
around the corner from him.

Your secretary, Dave Jenney, proudly
reports he finished his fourth Boston
Marathon in April with a closing "sprint" to
break three hours by ten seconds — good
for 1536th place. . . . H. G. Stanton is the
controller for DiEugenio Tool Center, Inc.,
Phoenix, Ariz. After retiring from the USAF
in 1972 as a lieutenant colonel, he was an
industrial engineer with Black and Decker
Corp. (McCulloch Corp., Lake Havasu,
Ariz.). Recently, Stan wasan honor student
at Arizona State University and graduated
with a BS in accounting.

Wildt, who holds a diploma in structural
engineering from the Imperial College,
University of London, England, belongs to
the ASCE, American Concrete Institute,
National Fire Protection Association, and
the American Society for Testing and Mate-
rials. He is a registered professional en-
gineer in Massachusetts.

1955

Secretary

Representative:

Kenneth L. Wakeen

Edouard S. P. Bouvier

344 Waterville Rd.

123 Beech woods Dr.

Avon, CT

Madison, CT

06001

06443

Raynald LeMieux holds the post of man-
ager of licensing sales at Atlantic Richfield
Company, Philadelphia. . . . At the present
time, Richard Lucey is president of Intrex,
Reading, Mass. . . . Donald McNamarais
the president at Tara Chemical Co.,
Pittsburgh, Pa.

1954

1956

REUNION

TUNE 1 98 1

Secretary:

Representative

Secretary

Representative

Roger R Osell

Edwin Shivell

Rev. Paul D Schoonmaker

John M McHugh

18 Eliot Rd.

64 Woodland Dr,

325 North Lewis Rd.

431 Beacon Hill Dr

Lexington, MA

Portsmouth, Rl

Royersford, PA

Cheshire, CT

02173

02871

19568

06410

Neil Gleberman has been appointed man-
ager of operations for the chemical division
of Koppers Co. He supervises and directs
operations at plants located in Bridgeville,
Oil City, and Petrolia, Pa., and Chicago, III.
. . . Douglas MacLaren was recently pro-
moted to plant engineer at the Torrington
Company (Heavy Bearings) in South Bend,
Ind. He joined the firm in 1954 and went to
South Bend in 1974 as assistant sales man-
ager. Later, he was named sales manager
for several domestic sales offices. . . . Mil-
ton Meckler's firm, the Meckler Energy
Group, has begun a complete survey of the
air conditioning systems at the Naval Air
Station at Lemoore, Calif. Twenty-nine
major buildings are involved.

The sales engineering division of
Bethlehem Steel Corporation's sales de-
partment has appointed RogerWildttothe
newly created post of project manager.
Formerly a structural consultant, Wildt will
have responsibilities in the area of new
products, particularly the coordination of
interdepartmental market development
teams. He will continue serving Bethlehem
and the steel industry in the fields of build-
ing codes and structural fire protection.
Prior to starting at Bethlehem Steel in 1 960,
he was an associate professor of civil en-
gineering at WPI. From 1963 to 1967 he
served the steel company as an assistant
research engineer. In 1967, he was trans-
ferred to the engineering department. Two
years later he was named a structural con-
sultant in the sales engineering division.

Donald Behringer was elected as a one-
year member of the Ashburnham (Mass.)
Municipal Light Board last spring. He is a
senior engineer at GE in Fitchburg, Mass.
. . . Robert Farrar has been elected to the
board of directors of the Keene (N.H.)
Co-operative Bank. He is president of Fred-
erick A. Farrar, Inc., and Farrar Engineering,
Inc., and vice president of P.B. Alford As-
sociates, a snowmaking consulting en-
gineering firm. Before returning to Keene
to join his father, Frederick A. Farrar, '31, in
the electrical repair, sales, and service busi-
ness, Farrar worked as a design engineer
for Westinghouse. He and his wife,
Jeananne, have four children. . . . Norman
Fischer holds the post of associate director
at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.

Prof. Raymond Hagglund of the WPI
mechanical engineering department was
the featured speaker at an ASME meeting
held at the Old Mill in Westminster, Mass.,
in May. His topic was "Products Liability in
Engineering." . . . Still with Ebasco Over-
seas Corp., Charles Healy is now residing in
San Juan, Puerto Rico. . . . Anthony Scan-
cella serves as plant manager for du Pont in
South San Francisco, Calif.

The WPI Journal / Summer 1980 / 29

1957

Secretary:

Dr. Robert A. Yates

11 Oak Ridge Dr.

Bethany, CT

06525

sentative at Metropolitan Life in West Palm
Beach, Fla. He is also a realtor-associate at
New Era Realty II Corp.

Representative:
Alex C. Papianou
15 Birch Tree Rd.
Foxboro, MA
02035

John Braley is national account manager at
Information Handling Services in Dallas,
Texas. . . . Audrey Carlan, a professor at
Southwest College in Los Angeles, cur-
rently serves as chairman of the mathemat-
ics department. . . . Thomas Kohanski has
been doing design work on submarines for
over 20 years. He was with Electric Boat
from 1 959 to 1 968 and with Mare Island
Naval Shipyard since. Tom and Ellie's chil-
dren are: Karen, 21, a student at the Uni-
versity of California-Davis; Tim, 1 9, at the
University of California-Berkeley; and
Mark, 17, a high school senior.

Wilson Sellar holds the position of presi-
dent at R&M Stampings, Inc., Westboro,
Mass. . . . Carl Uretsky is employed as
regional manager at Unitrode Corp., Dal-
las, Texas.

1958

Secretary:
Harry R. Rydstrom
132 Sugartown Rd.
Devon, PA
19333

Last October, Jasper Freese sold his busi-
ness to Otto & Culver of Storm Lake, Iowa.
Currently, Freese works as manager of the
Greeley, Colo., office of the architectural-
engineeringfirm. . . . Stewart Gentsch con-
tinues with Rexnord, and is now president
of the Roller Chain Division in Springfield,
Mass. . . . David Helman holds the post of
vice president of administration at Insti-
tutes of Medical Sciences, San Francisco.
He has an MS in management from RPI.
William Hopf, vice president and gen-
eral manager of Walworth Co. , has re-
ceived the "Man-of-the-Year Award"
from the Valve Manufacturers' Associa-
tion. His award read in part: "William H.
Hopf — for years of meritorious service to
the valve industry." . . . Presently, Sheldon
Kesslen serves as plant manager at Alton
Shoe Co., a division of Shaer Shoe, Inc. . . .
Douglas Todd was co-author of "A Mech-
anism for the Development and Use of
Synthetic Fuels" which appeared in the
April 24th issue of Public Utilities
Fortnightly. He is manager of steam and
gas for power generation business devel-
opment, gas turbine marketing depart-
ment, at GE in Schenectady, N.Y. He joined
GE in 1 966 and has worked in heat transfer
products and the medium steam turbine
and gas turbine division. Earlier, he was
with Alco Products, Inc., in nuclear, petro-
chemical and utility services. . . . Richard
Wiinikainen is presently a sales repre-

1959

Secretary:

Dr Frederick H Lutze, Jr.

1 10 Camelot Court NW

Blacksburg, VA

24060

Representative

Dr Joseph D. Bronzino

Trinity College

Summit St.

Hartford, CT

06106

Burnham Baker holds the position of presi-
dent at PenCept, Inc., in Waltham, Mass.
. . . Frederick Costello was promoted to
vice president of sales for the ethylene
oxide derivatives division of Union Carbide
Corp. and is now headquartered in
Moorestown, N.J. He began work as a sales
trainee in New York for the company fol-
lowing graduation. He was advanced
through the chemical field sales organiza-
tion and was named district sales manager
in St. Louis, Mo. In 1971, he was named
market sales manager in New York. Later,
he became the EOD division director of
sales in Moorestown. The Costellos and
their three daughters and three sons live in
Moorestown.

Wayne Gass continues as director of
physical facilities and assistant business
manager at Mount Holyoke College. He is
responsible for 800 acres and 100 build-
ings, including 50 major structures and 40
faculty houses. He directs a corps of 250
people whose talents include pruning, car-
pentry, and cooking. With the college since
the early 1 960's, Wayne has seen the
campus expand considerably with a
number of new buildings being built and
older ones being renovated. In the 1970's,
the school caught its breath with reduced
building activity, and in the 1980's is look-
ing ahead to energy conservation. Says
Gass, "It's the route we have to walk." He
holds an MS from MIT and is active with
the Holyoke Rotary Club's Foreign Student
Program.

Michael Hertzberg, president of Michael
A. Hertzberg Consulting Engineers, Inc.,
Waitsfield, VT, was recently elected vice
president of the American Consulting En-
gineers Council (ACEC) for 1980-82. The
Council represents 3,600 independent en-
gineering firms. Previously, Hertzberg
served as a member of the ACEC Engineer-
ing Education and Scholarships Commit-
tee, the Business Practices Committee, the
Interprofessional Committee, the AIA-
ACEC Liaison Committee, and the Planning
Cabinet.

His own firm, established in 1967, spe-
cializes in mechanical, electrical, alternative
energy and energy conservation engineer-
ing services. Formerly, he had been presi-
dent and national director of ACEC-
Vermont and had held posts in three com-
panies. In 1978, Hertzberg received an
ACEC-Vermont engineering excellence
honorable mention for the mechanical en-

gineering design of the Vermont State
Hospital in Waterbury. He has studied at
NYU, CCNY, and the University of Illinois.
A member of the National (and Vermont)
Society of Professional Engineers, he also
belongs to the American Society of Heat-
ing, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning
Engineers.

Norman Monks serves as division opera-
tions managerat Rexnord. . . . Still with the
Army Corps of Engineers, Leo Price con-
tinues his involvement with the construc-
tion of two airbases in Israel. He expects to
be back in the U.S. next year. . . . Phil
Puddington has joined P.T. Brake Lining
Co., Inc., Lawrence, Mass. He is a member
of theWPI Fund Board.

i960

Secretary

Representative

PaulW. Bayliss

JohnW Biddle

170WyngateDr.

78 Highland St

Barnngton, IL

Holden.MA

60010

01520

Still with IBM, William Firla is now senior
market support center representative in the
Data Processing Division, Waltham, Mass.
. . . Paul Honer is employed as marketing
and sales manager at Kennedy Engineering
Co., Tulsa, Okla. He is an ordained deacon
in the Tulsa Diocese of the Catholic Church,
assigned to St. Ann's in Broken Arrow. He
and his wife, Ruthann, have two children.
. . . Irwin Jacobs is vice president of the
commercial OEM group at Digital Equip-
ment Corp., Maynard, Mass. . . . Robert
Kandall holds the post of commercial vice
presidentatPullman-Kellogg, Hackensack,
N.J.

Continuing with Polaroid, Richard Lor-
ing is presently a senior manager of techni-
cal manufacturing in the film division, in
Waltham, Mass. His wife, Pat, is active in
the Massachusetts Association of Conser-
vation Commission and serves as chairwo-
man of the Town of Westford Conserva-
tion Commission. The Lorings have two
children in high school.

Kenneth Matson was named vice presi-
dent of the Public Service Electric & Gas
Research Corporation, where he began as a
cadet engineer in 1 960 in New Jersey. He
has an MBA from Rider College and at-
tended the program for management de-
velopment at Harvard Graduate School of
Business. He is married and has four chil-
dren.. . . Formerly a field sales managerfor
the Rubber Chemicals Division of Mon-
santo Co. , Harry Ray is now plant manager
of the Detergents and Phosphates Division,
Monsanto, in Trenton, Mich. Son Tim is a
student at Cornell; Kevin a high school
student; and Susan is in elementary school.

30 / Summer 1980 / The WPI Journal

David Willard, a group leader at the
Mitre Corportion, Bedford, Mass., has
been awarded a patent as co-inventor of a
digital bus communications system. The
device is a time-division multiple-access
communications system that includes a
number of terminals coupled to a common
signal path or"bus." Itoperates more than
seven times faster than an earlier version
developed at the system engineering firm,
for which Willard had previously received a
patent. With Mitre since 1960, he had also
been associated with Crompton &
Knowles, and had served as an indepen-
dent consultant. He has a BS from the
University of Vermont and a master's from
WPI.

I961 REUNION

Secretary:
John J. Gabarro
8 Monadnock Rd
Arlington, MA
02174

JUNE I981

Henry "Hank" Allessio is presently a vice
president and member of the board of
directors of Hayes/Hill Incorporated, New
York. He had been with William E. Hill &
Company for over ten years before it
merged with Robert H. Hayes and As-
sociates in 1979. He holds an MS in man-
agement from RPI. Prior to joining Hill, he
was with New York Telephone and Geon
International. Hayes/Hill is an international
management consulting firm.

Roger Borden, associate professor of
mechanical engineering at WPI, is taking a
one-year leave of absence from his teach-
ing duties to join other top engineers from
around the world to "shape the vehicle of
the 1980's." In June, he left for Boston to
work with the U.S. Department of Trans-
portation's Transportation Systems Center.
Says Roger, "The car of the 80's will be
practical, not a thing of beauty. It is cer-
tainly going to have to last a lot longer than
our present cars, since it will undoubtedly
cost a good deal more." He expects that
the biggest change in automobiles will be a
move away from metals as the primary
material for car bodies. "Metals corrode,
are heavy, and cut down on mileage." He
believes there will be a switch in the indus-
try from metals to composite materials or
plastics, and that the use of the diesel and
gas turbine engines will be more wide-
spread. Along with the advances in auto
construction, Borden envisions the growth
of mass transit as one of the better hopes in
solving our transportation problems.

Bradford Cushing has been promoted to
manager of engineering design at Weston
Designers-Consultants. He is responsible
for all design activities in the engineering
and construction management division.
With Weston since 1975, he was a project
engineer and project manager, and has had
1 3 years of experience in the industrial and
municipal markets. During his career, he
has also been with Enviroengineering, Inc.,
and GE's Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.
Weston is a 500-person international en-
vironmental energy design-consulting or-
ganization headquartered in West Chester,
Pa. . . . Richard Davis, who holds an MBA
from Pepperdine University, Los Angeles,
presently serves as manager of strategic
planning for the military products group at
Intel Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif.

James Dunn is president of Dunn En-
gineering Co., Inc., Foxboro, Mass. . . .
Daniel Geller works as a senior environ-
mental consultant with the Maryland En-
vironmental Service in Annapolis. He and
his wife, Susan, and two children live in
Alexandria, Va. . . . Allen Johnson holds
the post of district sales manager at
Lambda Semiconductor in Tampa, Fla. . . .
G. Leonard Johnson was recently pro-
moted to director of generation engineer-
ing at Northeast Utilities (NU). Previously,
he was director of reliability engineering
and quality assurance. In 1 961 , Johnson
joined the Hartford Electric Light Com-
pany. In 1966, he transferred to NU. From
1 968 to 1 975, he was project engineer and
acting project manager for Millstone II.
Johnson belongsto NU's Nuclear Speakers'
Bureau, the ASME, and the American Nu-
clear Society. He is a registered professional
engineer in Connecticut. He, his wife,
Lauretta, and son and daughter live in
Glastonbury.

Stephen Klein is a senior staff scientist at
Science Applications, Inc., La Jolla, Calif.
. . . Still with Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., Peter
Kuniholm is now resident project manager
for the environmental consulting firm in
Cairo, Egypt. He is concerned with waste-
watersystems rehabilitation and expansion
in the Suez Canal region, including the
cities of Port Said, Ismailia, and Suez. . . .
Merrill Rutman continues as an electronics
engineer for U.S. Army CERCOM, Ft.
Monmouth, NJ. . . . Conrad Matuzek has
been honored by New England Telephone
Co. for his sales achievements. He is recog-
nized by the company for doing an out-
standing job developing his segment of the
business market for 1979. Matuzek re-
ceived a personalized plaque from the
company president, and was named a
member of the New England Telephone
President's Club. The club is comprised of
top sales performers in each company divi-
sion. Matuzek is marketing manager in
Waltham. His organization is responsible
for electronic and electrical industries in the
five-state area served by the company. . . .
Currently, Charles Mello serves as plant
engineer at Coppus Engineering in Worces-
ter.

1962

Secretary:
Harry T Rapelje
1313 Parma Hilton Rd
Hilton, NY
14468

Representative
Richard J DiBuono
44 Lambert Circle
Marlboro. MA
01752

Robert Cassanelli has been promoted to
laboratory manager of the General Foods
plant in Dover, Delaware. Since 1974, he
has been managing the starch and instant
pudding programs at Dover. He started
with the firm in 1964 in the Tarrytown
(N.Y.) technical center. He holds an ad-
vanced degree in food science from the
University of Massachusetts. ... Dr.
Keyren Cotter is assistant director at the
Center for Fracture Mechanics at
Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. . . .
Paul Cultrera serves as director of the
Cooperative Education and Placement De-
partment at Manatee Junior College,
Bradenton, Fla. . . Arthur Dobreski is em-
ployed as a facilities operations managerat
the Signetics Division of U.S. Phillips in
Sunnyvale, Calif. The Dobreskis have three
children. . . . John Rupprecht is a president
at Sullair Corp., Michigan City, Indiana.

1963

Secretary:

Robert E. Maynard, Jr.

8 Institute Rd.

North Grafton, MA

01536

Representative
Joseph J. Mielinski, Jr.
34 Pioneer Rd.
Holden, MA
01520

Albert Brodeur is employed as manager of
engineering computing at Pratt & Whitney,
West Palm Beach, Fla. ... Dr. Robert Des-
mond, P.E., former head of the mechanical
engineering department at Rochester
(N.Y.) Institute of Technology (RIT), has
been named director of RIT's new Institute
for Applied Energy Studies. He will be
responsible for the institute's energy re-
search and development programs, includ-
ing a $483,089 federal grant to reduce
energy consumption on the Rochester
campus. The new institute will conduct
research and development programs in
applied energy for the private industrial
sector and study alternative sources of
energy. Energy House, a solar powered
energy efficient home built through
cooperative efforts, will come under the
authority of the institute. Dr. Desmond was
appointed to the directorship because of
his extensive experience in energy re-
search. He has taught at RIT since 1 970,
and he served as a consultant to the
Swedish State Power Board while on sab-
batical leave in 1976 and 1977. He belongs
to Pi Tau Sigma, Sigma Xi, ASME, Roches-
ter Engineering Society, and ASEE, among
other societies. He has a PhD from the
University of Minnesota. The Desmonds
live in Lima, N.Y.

The WPI Journal / Summer 1 980 / 31

In May, Dr. Allen Hoffman, associate
professor of mechanical engineering at
WPI, was selected as the WPI Outstanding
Teacher of 1980. He received a $1,000
award and a citation from the college trus-
tees. He holds a PhD from the University of
Colorado. In 1 964, he joined the WPI
faculty as a teaching assistant. His profes-
sional interests are in vibrations, fluid me-
chanics, biomechanics, and the environ-
ment, including pollution abatement of
Lake Quinsigamond. Since his student days
as a co-captain of track and cross country,
he has maintained his interest in running
and has entered many races, including the
Boston Marathon.

Presently, Russell Hokanson serves as
area supervisor at du Pont's Savannah
River plant in the reactor department. "I
am still trying to qualify for the Boston
Marathon. It will be a little easier now since
I'll be 40 at the time of the next race." . . .
Dr. Richard lacobucci'sfirm, Roctronics
Entertainment Lighting, Inc., recently de-
veloped a new light dimming package that
can control up to 9000 watts of power
without creating excessive interference
with sound systems nearby. It makes life
easier for touring performers because the
dimmer pack can be hung at the top of
lighting towers adjacent to the lighting
fixtures. . . . Joe Mielinski, Jr., operations
manager at WPI's Alden Research Labora-
tory, has been elected to a three-year term
on the Holden (Mass.) School Committee.

The Power Systems Group of Combus-
tion Engineering, Inc. (C-E), has appointed
A. Edward Scherer as director of nuclear
licensing, Nuclear Power Systems Division.
He will be responsible for assuring com-
pliance with Nuclear Regulatory Commis-
sion regulations, as well as developing re-
sponses to proposed licensing criteria. After
serving in the Army Corps of Engineers'
nuclear power program, he joined C-E in
1968. At C-E he was most recently licens-
ing manager. He has an MS from Pennsyl-
vania State University, and an MBA from
RPI's Hartford Graduate Center. He is a
registered professional engineer, and be-
longs to the C-E Nuclear Speaker Service
and the Atomic Industrial Forum's Steering
Committee on Reactor Licensing and
Safety. He also is a member of the Ameri-
can Nuclear Society, the ASME, and the
Society of Sigma Xi, an honorary scientific
research society.

Timothy Shea has been appointed ser-
vice manager in the newly formed Service
Department of the Westinghouse Power
Systems Projects Division (PSPD). The new
service department will work more closely
with other Westinghouse divisions' service
operations to coordinate the total service
support for PSPD operating plants. Re-
cently, Shea completed an assignment in
Egypt as project director, Cairo West Unit
No. 4. Previously, he was site manager for
Kori Unit No. 1 . Since joining Westing-
house in 1971 , he has held increasingly
responsible assignments.

1964

Secretary:

Representative:

Dr. David T, Signori, Jr

Barry J Kadets

6613 Denny PI

26 Harwich Rd.

McLean, VA

Chestnut Hill, MA

22101

02167

^■Born: to Dr. and Mrs. Gary Goshgarian a
son, Nathan, recently. Gary is a professor of
English at Northeastern University. This
year his first novel, Atlantis Fire, was pub-
lished by Dial Press (see spring Journal),
and he is now working on his second,
which was inspired by another real life
experience. (While at WPI, a classmate
developed a system to beat the numbers
game. Gary is weaving that system into his
new novel which concerns the rip-off of the
state lottery.) He was the commencement
speaker at Northeastern in June.

Christopher Almy continues in his me-
chanical engineering post at Knolls Atomic
Power Laboratory, Schenectady, N.Y. He is
chief of Indian Princess Nation, treasurerof
the Boy Scouts, a YMCA baseball coach,
and a Sunday school teacher. He is also a
major in the U.S. Army Reserve and oc-
casional does a two-week stint at Ft.
Monmouth, N.J. Wife Marge is a Brownie
leader and does volunteer work in the
school library. She and their son, Chris, Jr.,
are jogging companions. Daughters Jen
and Katherine enjoy acrobatics, baton-
twirling, and piano playing.

In January, Peter Dornemann accepted a
new position as director of marketing at
Digilab, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. . . . Don
Ghiz remains as director of steel purchases
in the purchasing department at Conoco,
Inc., in Houston, Texas. . . . Terry Harris is
now the marketing manager at Texas Ole-
fins Co., Houston. . . . Ron Lubowicz, the
former vice president and chief operating
officer of L & T Builders, Inc., Pampa,
Texas, has been elected a director and the
chief executive officer of Achievement
Homes, Inc., of Lubbock. Achievement
Homes is active in single and multi-family
construction throughout west Texas and
eastern New Mexico largely through its
franchising operations and various limited
partnerships.

Dr. Bruce Maccabee has received a
$2,000 award from the National Enquirer
for his investigation of a New Zealand UFO
case in which a strange object was filmed
from an airplane as well as tracked by radar.
The WPI Journal ran a story describing
Maccabee's investigations in fall 1979.

Harold Monde will be chairman of the
Milwaukee section of the ASME next year.
. . . Frederic Scofield holds the post of
superintendent of construction at Northern
Liquid Fuels Co., Omaha, Neb. . . . Pres-
ently, Thomas Spargo is employed by Stan-
ley Works in New Britain, Conn. The Spar-
gos, who reside in Terryville, have three
children.

The

Peep Toad
Potter

From physicist to pottery partner,
that's a thumbnail description of
the vocational life of Dick Farrell,
'64, over the past few years.
Describing the advantages of his
current life, Dick says, "my wife
and I have a lot of freedom. We have
a very rich life in many ways. ' '

Until seven years ago, Farrell,
who has a master's degree from
Brown University, worked as a
career physicist at nasa Electronics
Research Center and at Tyco Corpo-
rate Research Center. His wife, San-
dra, a graduate of Massachusetts
School of Art, was art director for
the Jewish Community Center of
Brookline and later headed the Bos-
ton ywca pottery department.

In her spare time, Sandra made
pottery in a basement studio at
home. Dick became interested in
the craft as he watched her turn out
wares that she later sold to shops
and galleries. He became so inter-
ested, in fact, that he decided to join
her in the pottery business full-
time.

' 'We made a six-month com-
mitment to see if we could make a
living out of pottery and to see if we
could share our lives on a 24-hour-a-
day basis, ' ' Dick reports. The com-
mitment meant that they would
have to move into larger quarters.
They hoped they wouldn't have to
leave New England.

A friend's suggestion eventu-
ally led them to a run-down mill by
a waterfall on the Whetstone Brook
in East Killingly, Connecticut. The
valley surroundings were pictur-
esque, and the mill affordable. San-
dra fell in love with it immediately.
"It was so romantic, ' ' she thought.
"It will take a lot of work, ' ' Dick

32 / Summer 1980 / The WPI Journal

thought. But the Farrells were
young and had plenty of elbow
grease. They decided to buy it.

It takes time to renovate a 200-
year-old mill that was once a tan-
nery, a blacksmith shop, and a
plastics storehouse, into a livable
home, workshop, and gallery. The
new owners did all the cleaning and
construction work themselves, in
spite of the fact that for six months
Dick continued to commute to his
job in Waltham. Still, they managed
to make progress. They lived in a
small partitioned area on the third
floor while creating their perma-
nent living space on the second
floor. "Aesthetically speaking, it
was the pits," says Farrell, recalling
the plastic-covered insulation that
served as the partition.

In the early stages, Dick and
Sandra had to lug water and cook on
an electric hot plate. A coal stove
from an old Pullman train car was
their only heat source. Gradually
they added plumbing and other
creature comforts. Farrell engi-
neered their water power to provide

the mill with a portion of its elec-
tricity for free. His wife stripped the
ancient beams with a torch until
they regained their original nut-
brown beauty.

Today the 30 by 40 foot living
space is partitioned with white
insulated panels and weathered
boards. The central part of the space
soars to a double-layer Plexiglass
roof. There are lots of plants about,
but little furniture. Adjacent to the
living space is a studio-workshop
with pottery wheels. The gallery
and kiln and glazing room are
located on the first floor.

Before moving to Connecticut,
Sandra had sold her pottery to shops
and galleries and at craft fairs. Now
clients come to the Farrell' s gallery
at Peep Toad Mill. Since 1974
they've had two shows a year, on
Labor Day and Thanksgiving week-
ends. This year, for the first time,
they held a major spring exhibition
in May, and they have plans to
extend their other shows through
weekends in September and
December.

The May exhibition at Peep
Toad Mill included works of 15
highly recognized craftspeople,
mostly from southern New Eng-
land. "We make an effort to show
works that integrate well, and our
approach to exhibition is one where
environments are creaed by display-
ing groupings of pieces as they
might be used to enhance living
environments." The show was
attended well, though never
crowded, and was appreciatively
received.

During the last decade, many
serious artists have turned to craft
media for creative expression, and
the craft movement has been
widely recognized as an important
direction in American art today. "It
has been exciting and gratifying for
us to be part of this trend, ' ' the Far-
rells say.

Farrell has served on the local
zoning board of appeals for the past
five years, and has recently taken a
central role in a citizens action
group working to re-outfit a series
of large local damsites for hydro-
electric generation — a project
whose profits are to be dedicated to
public service.

Dick Farrell says of his unusual
lifestyle, "at the time we decided to
make this change in our lives, many
people were baffled by what they
saw as the sacrifice of a promising
research career for uncertainty and
struggle as a 'starving artist.' For
me, the choice arose out of a feeling
of personal incompleteness.
Through my years of education and
research, I had accepted an identity
with my analytic mental function.
The left-brain-hemisphere func-
tions of definition and analysis tend
to be developed in the world of tech-
nology at the expense of the integra-
tive, flowing, creative functions of
the right brain. Looking back, I now
recognize that the initial feeling of
incompleteness was actually my
right brain creative function
demanding inclusion in my person.
Working through this identity
crisis, and all its attendant changes,
has certainly been difficult, but it
has also been fully worthwhile. ' '

The WPI Journal / Summer 1 980 / 33

1965

Representative:
Patrick T. Moran
100 Chester Rd.
Boxboro.MA
01719

Robert Asplund, a GTE Products Corpora-
tion research and development engineer,
has been named a recipient of the Leslie H.
Warner Technical Achievement Award for
the conceptual design of the Flip-Phone
telephone, the first GTE phone designed
expressly for retail consumers. Asplund,
who shared the award with a collaborator,
helped design the internal electronic cir-
cuits to fit the phone's compact size. He
was awarded $5,000 by General Tele-
phone and Electronics Corporation at
world headquarters in Stamford, Conn. . . .
David Bank holds the post of manager at
Servall Mfg. Corp., Fall River, Mass. . . .
Dr. Michael Boyd works as a senior pro-
grammer at Sperry Univac, Roseville, Min-
nesota.

Wayne Eddy serves as a manufacturing
information systems analyst at GE in Hook-
sett, N.H. He and his family reside in Con-
cord. . . . Robert Edwards is employed as a
senior geophysicist at URS/John A. Blume&
Assoc, San Francisco. He has an MA from
Berkeley. . . . Robert Hawes, Jr., has been
named director of business development
for Liquid Paper Corporation, a Gillette Co.,
in Dallas, Texas. Most recently, he was
product manager for commercial products
for the Paper Mate Division of the Gillette
Co. In his newly created post, he will
coordinate marketing, sales, manufactur-
ing, research and development, and en-
gineering activities between Liquid Paper
and Paper Mate. He will also look for new
business opportunities. Hawes has an MBA
from Boston College. Previously, he served
Gillette as director of operating planning
for Paper Mate and as administrative as-
sistant to the president of the Safety Razor
Division.

James Heinrich is employed as regional
engineering manager at Elliott Co.,
Chicago, III. . . . Charles Hunnicutt has
been promoted to head of the Rural and
Suburban Switching Department at the Bell
Telephone Laboratories Indian Hill facility
in Naperville, III. His department is respon-
sible for development of maintenance
softwear, testing and field support of elec-
tronic switching systems that are part of
Bell's national telecommunications net-
work. Earlier, Hunnicutt was involved in
softwear development of a new electronic
switching system now being developed at
Indian Hill. He started to work for Bell Labs
in 1968, and holds an MSEE from RPI. A
member of Tau Beta Pi, he also belongs to
Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi. He is past
president of the Tri-City Hockey Associa-
tion and of the Wild Rose Elementary
School Parent-Teacher Organization. The
Hunnicutts have two sons, David and
Douglas.

Last fall, Amar Kapur's company, Ameri-
can Industrial & Medical Products, Inc.
(AIM), moved from Worcester to Auburn
because more space was needed for future
expansion. The firm manufactures and dis-
tributes specialty gases primarily for the
food, hospital and computer industries.
Recently, AIM opened a welding store
offering a complete line of welding prod-
ucts, and it continues to offer expertise in
cryogenic engineering and design. . . .
George Lemmon is a chief engineer for

EBASCO Services, New York City Still

with Bell Laboratories in Whippany, N.J.,
David Luber is now supervisor of the en-
gineering planning group. He also teaches
part-time in the Fairleigh Dickinson
graduate business program. . . . Martin
Soja holds the post of manager at Price
Waterhouse & Co., New York City.

REUNION

OCTOBER 3-5

I966

Secretary
Gary Dyckman
29Skiltonl_ane
Burlington, MA
01803

>-Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Ander-
son their first child, a daughter, Nora Ellen,
on March 21,1 980. Steve is the chief
engineer at the Lee Company, Westbrook,
Conn. ... to Mr. and Mrs. Robert W.
Trefry, a son, Brian, who joins sister, Jen-
nifer, 4. Currently, Trefry is a project en-
gineer at Rust Engineering, Birmingham,
Ala., where he is working on the solvent
refined coal project.

Gary Cassery is employed as an account-
ingand inventory control managerat Texas
Instruments in Attleboro, Mass. . . . Still
with Torrington Company, Robert Coates
presently serves as district sales engineer in
Charlotte, N.C. He is associated with the
Torrington Special Products Division. . . .
Kendall Cowes works as a senior engineer
in advanced development at Datatrol, Inc.,
Hudson, Mass. . . . Earthquake Engineering
Systems, Inc., Boston, employs Gary
Dyckman as a project manager. The
Dyckmans have two children and live in
Burlington. . . . Hank Flynn holds the post
of manager of test engineering at Nixdorf
Computer Corp., North Reading, Mass.

Raymond Gallant works as a district
service manager at Waters Associates, Inc. ,
Medford, Mass. . . . Robert Holt has joined
Ocean Data Systems, Inc., Rockville, Md.,
as senior technical associate. . . . Philip
Hopkinson holds the position of manager
of engineering in the specialty transformer
departmentatGEin FortWayne, Ind. He is
a professional engineer in North Carolina.
. . . David Jorczak has a new post as senior
mechanical engineer at Kollmorgen Corp.,
Electro-Optical Division, Northampton,
Mass. . . . Stephen Kaiser serves as presi-
dent of Kaiser Sales Corporation, Los
Angeles. . . . Robert Levine is manager of
product planning and business develop-
ment at GE in Warren, Mich. He and his

wife, Mala, have two children. . . . Gerald
Lucas is employed as staff manager at
AT&T Co., Bedminster, N.J. . . . Presently,
Paul Peterson works as managerof techni-
cal support at Software AG in Lakewood,
Colo.. . . John Petrie serves as senior appli-
cations engineer at ITT North Microsys-
tems, Deerfield Beach, Fla.

Robert Rapp is assistant area superin-
tendent at du Pont in Aiken, S.C. . . .
Peter Sommer writes that he and his wife
have just adopted two beautiful children.
. . . Robert Sternschein is employed as a
manufacturing superintendent at Colt
Firearms, Hartford, Conn. He has an MSIE
from Northeastern, is married, and has
three children.

1967

Secretary:

John L. Kilguss

5 Summershade Circle

Piscataway. NJ

08854

Representative:
Douglas W Klauber
1 0 Alice Dr
Nashua, NH
03060

>Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence R.
Gooch their third child, Erin Margaret, last
August. Presently, Gooch serves as en-
gineering manager in the contract-
engineering division of the Farrel Ma-
chinery Group in Ansonia, Conn. He works
with Jim Haury, '69; Fred Bartkiewicz, '63;
and Bob Bennett, '64.

Charles Blanchard has been named
manager of the R&D department of CPC
Engineering Corp. He also continues as
manager of the environmental products
division. In addition to nationwide respon-
sibility for the environmental product line,
he will be responsible for research and
development. Since 1971, Blanchard has
served CPC as project engineer, engineer-
ing manager of the pneumatic ejector divi-
sion and manager of the environmental
products division. He belongs to the ASME
and the New England Water Pollution Con-
trol Association. The chairman of the Stur-
bridge (Mass.) Water & Sewer Commis-
sion, he is active as a scout cubmaster, too.
. . . John Cahalen is employed as superin-
tendent of process engineering at
Schweitzer Division in Lee, Mass.

Currently, Richard Court is the chairman
of the Greater Danbury (Conn.) Section of
the American Society for Quality Control.
In June of 1 979 he passed the exam and is
now an ASQC certified quality engineer.
. . . Ronald Dill has been promoted to the
position of manager of fiber materials de-
velopment and evaluation at Goodyear
Tire and Rubber in Akron, Ohio. He has
been with Goodyear since graduation. . . .
Dr. Francis Gay, who received his PhD from
Northwestern last year, now serves as
supervisor of softwear engineering at
Siemens Corporation in Boca Raton, Fla.
He, his wife, Susan, and two children reside
in Coral Springs. . . . Stephen Lak received
his PhD from UMass last year. He is a
reliability engineer in the Ambac Division of
U.T.C. . . . Jack Rahaim holds a post in

corporate trainingat DEC, Maynard, Mass.

Sudhir Shah was appointed director of
engineering at Purcell Associates, Hartford,
Conn. He is also a vice president of the firm
and has been chief structural engineer. In
his new role, he will be responsible for the
technical quality of all engineering projects
at Purcell. Shah, a registered professional
engineer, attended the University of
Gujaret, where he earned his BSCE. He
holds an MSCE from WPI. He belongs to
the ASCE, the National Society of Profes-
sional Engineering, and the American Con-
crete Institute. . . . Giri Taksali serves as a
senior project engineer for the Kaiser
Transit Group in Miami, Fla. . . . Fred Tur-
cotte is with Wood Structures, Worcester,
Vt.

1968

Secretary:
Charles A. Griffin
2901 Municipal Pier Rd.
Shreveport, LA
71119

Representative:
William J. Rasku
33 Mark Bradford Dr
Holden, MA
01520

►fiorn. to Mr. and Mrs. John H. Holmes, a
son, David, on August 18, 1979. . . .toMr.
and Mrs. George Landauer a son, Brian
Howard, on December 13, 1979. ... to
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Racine their third
child and second son, Bryan, on March 8,
1 980. On April 1 , Racine was appointed
unit supervisor for the engineering projects
procurement unit of Aramco Services
Company in Houston. He is responsible for
contracting matters related to Aramco's
engineering and construction activities in
Saudi Arabia. In May, he graduated from
South Texas College of Law. In July, he was
slated to take the bar exam. ... to Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth R. Blaisdell, Jr., their first
child, Michael Eric, on March 20, 1980.

Arnold Antak was promoted to office
administratorforthe Boston office of How-
ard Needles Tammen & Bergendoff, En-
gineers-Architects, in January. He is re-
sponsible for personnel administration,
budgeting, insurance, financial administra-
tion and general office administration. . . .
Donald Bergstrom serves as assistant proj-
ect manager at Walsh Construction Co. in
Longview, Washington. Presently, he is
managing construction of a new paper
machine complex for North Pacific Paper
Corp. . . . Major John Caprio, U.S. Army, is
stationed at Ft. Bragg. He and his wife,
Susan, have three children. ... Dr. John
Cryanski, who has a PhD from the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, is with the Theoretical
and Physical Chemistry Institute of the
National Hellenic Research Foundation in
Athens, Greece.

Ronald Cummings has joined the law
firm of Delio and Montgomery, New Ha-
ven, Conn. He holds an MS from North-
eastern and a law degree from Suffolk.
Currently, he is a candidate for a master of
law degree in trade regulation at New York
University School of Law. Formerly, he was

associated with the law firm of Zarley,
McKee, Thomte, Vourhees and Sease in
Des Moines, Iowa. . . . Richard Dubsky is
chairman of the departments of mathemat-
ics and science at St. Albans School in
Washington, D.C. Also, he serves as an
instructor of mathematics at the University
of Maryland. He is working on his PhD. . . .
Robert Gosling has been named the 1980
New Hampshire Young Engineer of the
Year. He is a staff engineer in the civil
engineering department at the Public Ser-
vice Company of New Hampshire. A
member of the New Hampshire Society of
Professional Engineers, he is the Society's
current secretary and co-editor of its publi-
cation, The Observer. He is a director of the
Bow Athletic Club and belongs to the Bow
Rotary Club. He serves as chairman of the
Bow Industrial Development Committee
and as a member of the WPI Alumni Publi-
cations Committee and a WPI Alumni Fund
volunteer.

Richard Hampson is a staff engineer at

IBM in Charlotte, N.C John Korzick

owns Korzick & Company in Concord,
Calif. . . . Eugene Murphy holds the posi-
tion of sales applications manager at Van-
zetti Infrared, Canton, Mass. He is as-
sociated with EIT-Massachusetts Board of
Registration of Professional Engineers. Last
year he received his MSMSE from WPI. . . .
William O'Neil is now a senior cost en-
gineer for Gilbert-Commonwealth As-
sociates, Inc., Oak Ridge, Tenn. . . . Re-
cently, Ronald Porter was appointed to the
finance department faculty at Boston Col-
lege. He is a real estate investment-trustee
for hundreds of apartments throughout
Massachusetts. His article, "Calculating
Holding Period Returns for Real Estate In-
vestments," was published in Real Estate
Review, the journal of the New York Uni-
versity Real Estate Institute.

Frank Posselt works for DICOA in
Savannah, Ga. . . .Since graduation, James
Powers has been with Metcalf & Eddy. Last
year, he was in Egypt. He has worked on
numerous watersupply projects in the U.S.
and abroad. . . . Continuing with Perkin
Elmer Corp., Arnold Schwartz is now a
seniorengineerheadquartered in Norwalk,
Conn. . . . Formerly with Reed and Prince,
Jaffrey, N.H., Richard Seymour presently
serves as production superintendent at
New Hampshire Ball Bearings, Inc., Peter-
borough, N.H. He has an extensive back-
ground in all phases of design, production,
and plant engineering. . . . Greg Sovas is
now chief of the Bureau of Mineral Re-
sources in New York state.

1969

Secretary:

Representative

lames P. Atkinson

Michael W.Noga

41 Naples Rd.

West Bare Hill Rd

Brookline, MA

Harvard, MA

02146

01451

>-Born: to Mr.and Mrs. Gerry A. Blodgett

their first child, Sarah Katharine, in De-
cember. Gerry recently received his LLM
degree in patent and trade regulation law
from the George Washington University
Law School and is practicing patent law in
Worcester. ... to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
DiLeo their firsi child, Maria Rose. Andy,
for the last year, has enjoyed self employ-
ment as a free-lance structural engineer.

Still with Raytheon, Dennis Agin now
works as software program manager for
the firm in Sudbury, Mass. He and his wife
have three children. . . . Anthony Baglini
owns Turn of the Century Brass Co. in
Providence, R.I. . . . Arthur Evans III serves
as corporate market manager at Goulds
Pumps, Inc., Seneca Falls, N.Y. . . . Andrew
Heman works as process engineerat Union
Carbide Corp., Jacksonville, Fla. . . . Curtis
Kruger is a sales engineer at Dresser Indus-
tries, Walnut Creek, Calif. . . . Anthony
Leketa, assistant area engineer with the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Ft. Devens,
Mass., is currently responsible for contract
administration of over $40 million worth of
construction contracts in the New
England-Plattsburgh, NY., area. He is a
registered professional engineer in Mas-
sachusetts and belongs to the Society of
Military Engineers.

Ronald Lewis is with the Civil Engineer
Corps, U.S. Navy, in Japan. As senior activ-
ity civil engineer, he supervises five Civil
Engineer Corps officers. He is concerned
with facilities planning and programming
maintenance, repair, construction plan-
ning, and budgeting. Recently, he received
his MS from the University of Florida and
was elected to Tau Beta Pi. He enjoys
running and racquetball. . . . Daniel Lipcan
has designed and constructed a new home
in Sandwich, Mass. He holds the post of
plant manager at Boston Insulated Wire &
Cable Co. in Plymouth. The Lipcans have
two children, Daniel and Nancy. . . . Daniel
Lorusso is a consultant for Lorusso As-
sociates, Pittsfield, Mass. He is involved
with digital electronic design and micro-
processing. An instrument-rated pilot, he
belongs to the Pittsfield Airport Commis-
sion.. . . "Sandy" Malcolm, after ten years
in New Jersey, has returned to Mas-
sachusetts, where he is manager of quality
assurance for Johnson and Johnson in
Weymouth. He is a member of ACS and
ASQC.

The WPI Journal / Summer 1980 / 35

Chris Masklee is an associate materials
and research engineer for the state of
California in Sacramento. He is also a real
estate broker. . . . Robert Mayer holds the
post of chief engineer, electronics, for Con-
trol Products Division, Hackettstown, N.J.
. . .Spare time activities for Tom McAuliffe
include coaching Little League baseball and
soccer, advising a church youth group, and
engaging in marriage encounters. An area
supervisor in production fordu Pont near
Houston, he has 29 people reporting to
him. He supervises operation of utility sup-
ply facilities and sulfuric acid production
facilities. The McAuliffes have two
children.

Edward Mierzejewski works as a trans-
portation planning consultant for Chase,
Rosen & Wallace, Inc., Alexandria, Va. He
is active in church groups and in various
professional societies. . . . Roger Miles
holds the post of president of Doten Man-
agement Corp., Plymouth, Mass. The firm
manages nine weekly newspapers and a
tourist publication, and also does commer-
cial printing. Not long ago, Miles started a
new publication in Maine. . . . Eric Nicker-
son is presently employed as a production
engineering manager at Teradyne Compo-
nents, Nashua, N.H., where he is responsi-
ble for all products shipped out of the plant.
For two years, he helped develop a new
connector product line at Texas Instru-
ments. He has built a new house and is
landlord for two houses in Connecticut. . . .
Continuing with Stone & Webster, Michael
Noga directs the development of equip-
ment and plant arrangements for fossil
fired and advanced technologies electric
generating plants. He and his wife de-
signed and subcontracted the construction
of their house in Harvard, Mass. They have
two children.

Paul Norkevicius serves as a product
development engineer at Ford Motor Co.,
Dearborn, Mich. He is responsible for a
portion of the development and certifica-
tion testing of passenger car tires. . . .
Michael Nowak is a chemist at Decotone in
Westminster, Mass. . . . Joel O'Rourke
works as a district education specialist at
Computer Sciences Corp., Rosslyn, Va. . . .
John Paolillo holds the position of senior
associate programmer at IBM in Endicott,
N.Y. . . . Still with United Illuminating Co.,
R. Craig Pastore applies protective relaying
on the transmission and distribution sys-
tems for an electric utility. He is a golfer and
bowler and is located in Guilford, Conn. . . .
Mahendra Patel enjoys gardening and
every summer grows some vegetables
from his native India. He likes photogra-
phy, too. With Boston Edison since 1969,
he is involved with power plant design and
construction. A registered professional en-
gineer, Massachusetts, he also is an active
member of the ASME, and served on the
Boston section executive committee as
chairman. Presently, he is committee
chairman for honors and awards, ASME,
Region I. . . . Running, car rallies, and pho-

36 / Summer 1980 / The WPI Journal

tography are just a few of Al Pauly's hob-
bies. He is a senior research engineer at
Michelin America's Research & Develop-
ment Corp., Greenville, S.C. The Paulys are
the parents of Benjamin and Justin.

Andy Perreault, a nuclear engineer at
Knolls Atomic Power Lab., has been active
with the American Nuclear Society at-
tempting to educate the public on the
benefits of nuclear power. At Knolls he
helps to ensure that the nuclear reactors
the lab designs, and sometimes operates,
for the Naval Reactors branch of the DOE,
are functioning properly. He is a profes-
sional engineer. His wife is pursuing an
MBA at RPI. . . . Stephen Phillips continues
as the owner of Phillips Associates, Boston,
which is concerned with graphic and indus-
trial design and communications, as well as
product design and development. Re-
cently, he's been developing toys and
games and plans to form a product devel-
opment company. He belongs to the Art
Directors Club of Boston. . . . David Piet-
raszewski is still with the U.S. Coast Guard
Research & Development Center in Gro-
ton, Conn., where he works on instrumen-
tation and data communications system
design and development. He was named
the recipient of an award for outstanding
contributions to the Center. Presently, he is
designing a heat efficient house for his
family. . . . Donald Rapp continues at du
Pont and is now located in Lexington, Ky.,
where he is a sales and technical repre-
sentative in explosives. He and his wife,
Elaine, have two children, Bryan and Derek.

Bidyut Rath is an associate at BD/
International in Houston. . . . Robert Reidy,
a senior application engineer at
Megatherm, East Providence, R.I., works
closely with consulting engineers and ar-
chitects on commercial and industrial proj-
ects involving building load management
in conjunction with thermal storage de-
signs. "Play a lot of golf, but can't shoot my
age yet!" Reidy belongs to the Providence
Engineering Society and the ASME. . . .
James Richey is employed as manager of
power supply design engineering at Data
General, Westboro, Mass. He has an an-
tique clock business, "The Olde Tyme
Shoppe," where he buys, sells, and repairs
antique clocks. The Richeys have a baby
son, James Jacob. . . . Ronald Roberts, still
with Western Electric, Inc., presently serves
as senior test development engineer in
North Andover, Mass. As engineering
group leader he is responsible for develop-
ment of manufacturing tests on data and
switching communication systems. He has
an MS from Northeastern and is an instruc-
tor at Northern Essex Community College.
Also, he is involved with Resource Parents
for Boston Children's Hospital Devel-
opmental Evaluation Clinic.

Charles Robinson, Jr., is manager of
operational planning for customer services
at Foxboro (Mass.) Company. A member
of the Foxboro Soccer Association, he also
coaches and referees local soccer teams. He
enjoys cross country skiing, tennis, and
bikes to work every day. ... A senior
engineer at Raytheon-Missile Systems Di-
vision in Bedford, Mass., Rene Roy is re-
sponsible for missile borne computer pro-
gramming on the Patriot missile system, as
well as the automatic test software. The
Roys have three sons. . . . Robert Scott,
director of planning for the City of Virginia
Beach, Va., coordinates the physical devel-
opment of the city, "The fastest growing
city on the East Coast." . . . Steve Selinger
is senior design engineer, chassis, at Volks-
wagen of America in Warren, Mich. He has
design and release responsibility for sus-
pensions and exhaust systems on U.S. built
Rabbits. For seven years he has been in-
volved with racing sports cars. He likes
photography and amateur radio. . . . Con-
tinuing with Polaroid, Joseph Senecal does
chemical process R&D as required to trans-
form laboratory procedures to viable full
scale systems. He lives in Worcester and
commutes to Polaroid in Cambridge by
train. While commuting, he enjoys reading
serious fiction. He has started a small wine
tasting group.

Vinubhai Shah works as senior mechan-
ical engineer at Commonwealth As-
sociates, Jackson, Mich., where he is con-
cerned with nuclear and non-nuclear pip-
ing system analysis. . . . While not on duty
as a staff engineer at IBM in Endicott, N.Y.,
Barry Shiffrin may be found developing
pictures in his recently finished dark room.
He takes pictures and makes color prints
from the slides. Currently, he is turning the
basement into a family room area, as well
as pursuing his interest in magic. . . . Tom
Starr (Gwazdauskas) holds the post of
technology manager of nuclear processes
at Helix Process Systems in Westboro,
Mass. He manages the process design ef-
fort for pollution control systems for nu-
clear power plants. In the community, he is
assistant soccer coach for Southboro Youth
Soccer and president of the neighborhood
civic association. Also, he is a local section
officer of AICHE. . . Robert Stessel is living
on board a 1910 classic boat that he is
rebuilding in Beverly, Mass. Originally, the
boat was a Harbor Ferry from Marblehead.
In 1978, Stessel survived the blizzard
aboard the "Kelpie" in Beverly Harbor. A
technical consultant to the Northeast Surf
Patrol, he occasionally engages in search
and rescue with the group. He belongs to
the National Marine Electronics Associa-
tion. He is the proprietor of Advanced
Marine Electronics in Beverly.

Still with Bechtel, Martin Surabian pres-
ently supervises mechanical engineers in
the design of mechanical systems for
nuclear-coal power plants. He is located in
Gaithersburg, Md., and serves as a church
trustee and as a baseball and football

-

coach. . . . John Taylor belongs to the
Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper
Industry, which he serves as a member of
the coating process committee. He is a
member of the Research Committee at the
University of Maine. His hobbies include
jogging, photography, and building HO
scale train layouts. He continues as a group
leader in coating process development at

St. Regis Paper Co., West Nyack, N.Y

John Thompson, Jr., holds the post of vice
president of finance and chief financial
officer at SW Ind/Stowe Woodward Co. in
Newton, Mass. The Thompsons have three
children and reside in Wellesley. . . .
Charles Trent serves as technical services
manager at Crompton & Knowles Corp.,
Reading, PA. One of his duties is to estab-
lish procedures and specifications for prod-
ucts. He introduced computer color control
for textile dyes. Trent has an MBA from
Lehigh and belongs to the American Asso-
ciation of Textile Chemists and Colorists
and the American Chemical Society. . . .
Kimball Watson has been designing and
building hydrofoil sailboats. A staff en-
gineer at IBM in Essex Junction, Vt, he is
concerned with reliability analysis of inte-
grated circuits. . . . Phillip Wilsey, Jr., en-
joys a wide variety of outdoor activities:
hiking, canoeing, kayaking, cross country
skiing, and snowshoeing. Since 1971, he
has been with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft,
East Hartford, Conn., where currently he is
a product support engineer. His present
responsibilities include monitoring field
problems in a high pressure compressor
and using the data to provide customer
input to new engine design or proposed
modifications. The Wilseys have three chil-
dren and reside in Newington, Conn. . . .
Steven Zieve plays golf and is a life master
in bridge. He is a programmer-analyst for
the Hartford (Conn.) Insurance Group, for
which he provides support for operations
research and property casualty actuarial
departments.

1970

Secretary:

F. David Ploss III

208 St Nicholas Ave

Worcester, MA

01606

Representative
Garrett 0. Graham
150BrooksideRd.
Needham, MA
02194

^Married: Dr. Lee C. Malbon and Ann M.

Murphy in Boston, Massachusetts, on April
11,1 980. The bride graduated from Salem
State College and received a master's de-
gree in English from Boston College. She is
an English teacher at Maiden Senior High
School. The groom received a double mas-
ter's degree in physics and education and a
doctorate in education from Boston Col-
lege. He serves as vice principal of Bur-
rillville (Rl) Regional High School and also
teaches computer science at Bentley Col-
lege, Waltham, Mass.

Richard Abrams holds the post of direc-
tor of nuclear product development at
Helix Systems in Westboro, Mass. . . . Ber-
nard Belouin teaches at Mt. Greylock Re-
gional High School, Williamstown, Mass.
... Dr. Mark Brown, who has a PhD from
the University of Minnesota, is a senior
research engineer at American Can Co.,
Neenah, Wisconsin. . . . John Cattel is now
project manager at Riley Stoker Corp. ,
Worcester.. . . Donald Colangelo works as
a consultant for Stone & Webster Man-
agement Consultants in New York City. . . .
Dom Forcella currently serves as executive
director of the Council on Environmental
Quality at the state office building in
Hartford, Conn. . . . Frank Gardner is em-
ployed as a senior plant engineer at Nuclear
Energy Services in Danbury, Conn. . . .
Robert Greenwald III is a design engineer at
Auditronics, Inc., Memphis, Tenn.

Stephen Johnson has been promoted to
group supervisor of the Chemical Engineer-
ing Section at the Babcock & Wilcox Co.
Alliance (OH) Research Center. His group
(combustion technology) is researching the
clean combustion of coal in utility and
industrial steam generators. He joined the
firm in 1 976 as a research engineer and has
been a senior research engineer since 1978.
Earlier, he had been with Riley Stoker
Corp., Worcester.

The Boston section of the American So-
ciety for Quality Control (ASQC) has
elected Kent Lawson of Norwood, Mass.,
its publicity chairman for 1980. He will
serve as a member of the executive com-
mittee and will be responsible for the
monthly publicity in the national Quality
Progress Magazine, the Engineering
Societies of New England Journal, News-
letter, the meeting notices, and the media
exposure campaign. He is a senior quality
engineer for the new products develop-
ment group of the Polaroid Corp., Cam-
bridge. Also, he is vice president of the
board of directors of the Nassau Gardens
Cooperative Housing Association, Inc., of
Norwood, a senior member of ASQC, a
member of the ASME and an officer of the
Polaroid bowling league. He has an MS
from Northeastern. The ASQC has over
32,000 members nationwide. It is a society
of professionals engaged in the manage-
ment, engineering, and scientific aspects of
quality and reliability. The Boston section,
founded in 1945, is the second largest with
nearly 900 members.

Paul Lee continues as principal engineer
at Lockheed Electronics Co. in Plainfield,
N.J., where he and his wife, Lily, reside. . . .
Bradford Myrick works as a project en-
gineer at Ingersoll-Rand Co., Allentown,
Pa. . . . Girish Patel is employed as a struc-
tural engineer at Bechtel Power Corp.,

Gaithersburg, Md. . . . John Sztuka, Jr.,
holds the post of product supervisor at
Hercules, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware. He
has an MBA from Western Michigan Uni-
versity. . . Philip Warren was recently
promoted to production manager-finishing
for the Graphic Products Division of
Nashua Corporation in Merrimack, N.H.
. . . Louis Zitnay is an environmental en-
gineer at IBM Corp., Rochester, Minn.

1971 REUNION

OCTOBER 3-5

Secretary:
Vincent T Pace
4707 Apple Lane
WestDeptford.NJ
08066

^■Married: Thomas A. Pandolfi and Pat
Hendrix on March 29, 1 980. The groom is a
senior software engineer. . . . Frank W.
Steinerand Elizabeth C. Poulin, 73, in
Montego Bay, Jamaica on April 9, 1980.
Beth is a project engineer for Foster-Miller
Associates in Waltham, Mass.

*Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Carlton E. Cruff
theirfirst child, a daughter, Melanie Au-
gusta, on February 17, 1980. ... to Nancy
and Ben Katcoff a daughter, Rebecca
Suzanne, on March 1 6, 1 980. The Katcoffs
also have a son, Gregory, 2. ... to Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Trachimowicz a son, Matthew
Neil, on July 9, 1979. Matthew joins
brother Timothy, 3. Trachimowicz was re-
cently promoted to resident engineer for
EBASCO Services, Inc. . . . toJacquelynand
UrmasVolkeason, Erik, on April 11, 1980.

Don Baron serves as industrial sales
manager at Logetronics, Inc., Springfield,
Va. He and his wife live in Alexandria. . . .
Russ Batson of Wells, Me., builds custom
designed, solar-heated homes through
Green Mountain Homes of Royalton, Vt.,
James Kachadorian, '61, president. . . .
Avanish Bhagat holds the position of man-
aging director at Corrosion Control Ser-
vices, Ltd., Bombay, India. He and his wife,
Minal, have one child. . . . Richard duFosse
is currently employed as a telecommunica-
tions analyst at Data General Corp.,
Westboro, Mass. The duFosses and their
two children live in Northboro. . . . Robert
Gazda is vice president at K&W Machine &
Tool in Springfield, Mass. . . . Alan Gradet
works as a senior environmental engineer
at ERT in Houston, Texas.

Paul Grady teaches in Waltham, Mass.
. . . John Griffin holds the post of district
manager of real estate operations at New
England Telephone, Boston. . . . Continu-
ing with Riley Stoker Corp., William Hel-
liwell, Jr., is now district service manager in
Northglenn, Colo. He and his wife live in
Westminster. He has an MBA from the
University of Denver. . . . Louis Howayeck
serves as system effectiveness manager at
Stencel Aero Engineering Corp. in Arden,
N.C.

The WPI Journal / Summer 1980/37

Bruce Leffingwell is a market manager at
Olin Corp., Stamford, Conn. . . . John Lind
works as a field engineer at General Tele-
phone Co., Sumter, S.C. ... A senior sales
engineer at Westinghouse, El Monte,
Calif., Richard Pace is also studying for his
MBA from the University of Redlands. The
Paces and their three children reside in
Diamond Bar. . . . Gerald Parrott has been
promoted to the post of chief engineer at
Rock of Ages Corp. , Barre, Vt. He is respon-
sible for all phases of engineering within
the Barre company and all of its sub-
sidiaries. He joined the Graniteville firm in
1 976 as a staff engineer and has performed
in all functions of the engineering depart-
ment since that time. He has taken numer-
ous engineering and management courses
and he is a member of the Mechanical
Engineering Honor Society. Previously, he
was with Westinghouse.

Abbas Salim is a start engineer tor Mar-
tin Marietta in Denver, Colo. Presently, he
is responsible for power distribution and
control for a 350 KW solar power plant for
Saudi Arabia. He, his wifeZubeda, and two
children live in Littleton. . . . Francis Scricco
holds the post of manager of strategy
development in the consumer products
and services sector at GE in Fairfield, Conn.
. . . Daniel Smith works for Morgan Con-
struction in Worcester. . . . David Winer is
employed as a senior engineer at Orion
Research, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.

1972

Secretary:

John A Woodward

101 Putnam St.

Orange, MA

01364

Representative

Lesley E Small Zorabedlan

16 Parkview Rd

Reading, MA

01867

^■Married: Theodore A. Martin and Cindy
Jarvenpaa on April 12, 1980, in Westmin-
ster, Massachusetts. The bride graduated
from Mount Wachusett Community Col-
lege and was employed at Central Veteri-
nary Supply of Westminster. Her husband
is with MacDermid, Inc., of Connecticut.

>Bom: to Mr. and Mrs. William Kamb a
daughter, recently. Kamb is a class agent.
... to Mr. and Mrs. T. Richard Price a son,
Jamie, on March 3, 1980. Sister Sheila is
eight.

Gary Dunkleberger is an IBM systems
programming manager at Aerospace Cor-
poration in El Segundo, Calif. ... In June,
Jim Hall was appointed director of market-
ing, Construction Products Division, at
Norton Company in Gainesville, Ga. Previ-
ously, he was with the Safety Products
Division in Cranston, R.I. . . . Paul Lavigne
was named plant superintendent for the
Roller Chain Division of Rexnord, Inc.,
Worcester, which he joined last year as
manager of industrial engineering. He be-
longs to the American Production and In-
ventory Control Society and the Society of
Manufacturing Engineers.

38 / Summer 1980 / The WPI Journal

Richard Logan, CPA, is president of
Positron Computer Corp., Ashland, Mass.
He is concerned with EDP consulting, busi-
ness management consulting, and business
software. . . . Richard Podolny has been
certified as a Rolfer by the Rolf Institute of
Boulder, Colo. . . . Michael Rapport has
been promoted to actuarial associate in the
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company's
pension department. He is responsible for
assisting with actuarial certifications of de-
fined benefit pension plans, reviewing pen-
sion valuation reports, and developing ac-
tuarial procedures. With the company since
1 978, Rapport is an associate of the Society
of Actuaries, a member of the American
Academy of Actuaries, and the Philadel-
phia Actuaries Club.

James Tarpey was promoted to manager
of transportation for Orange-Rockland
Utilities of Pearl River, N.Y. He is in charge
of the company's transportation policies
and oversees the selection and mainte-
nance of passenger vehicles, trucks, and
other construction equipment. In 1972, he
started work as an assistant electrical en-
gineer at the firm. In 1 975, he was named
general supervisor of line technical services,
and in 1979, he was promoted to eastern
division assistant superintendent of over-
head lines. He is a registered professional
engineer in New York, and has a degree
from New Jersey Institute of Technology in
Newark.

Thomas Tracy has been elected to a
three-year term on the Uxbridge (Mass.)
School Committee. Recently, he was pro-
moted to marketing engineer in the pro-
posal group at Stone & Webster, Boston. A
life-long resident of Uxbridge, Tracy be-
longs to the Uxbridge Historical Society, as
does his wife. He is an assistant scoutmas-
ter, a member of Phi Kappa Theta, and
serves as the editor of the national alumni
newspaper, the Temple. Tracy, who has a
master's degree from Northeastern, be-
lieves that inflation is the most serious
problem facing schools in the 1980's. He
has two children, Joanne, 6, and Michael,
3. . . . Richard Wallace is employed as a
senior civil engineer at Daniel Construction
Company, Greenville, S.C. He, his wife,
Diana, and child live in Greer.

1973

Secretary

Representative

Jay J. Schnltzer

Robert E Akie

322 St, Paul St.

33-8 Sheridan Dr

Apt. #3

Shrewsbury, MA

Brookline, MA

01545

02146

^■Married: Gene L. Franke and Arlene L.
Bremer on September 22, 1 979. The bride
attended Essex Community College and is
a credit investigator for First National Bank
of Maryland. The groom is a metallurgist
and project engineer at the David W.Taylor
Naval Ship R&D Center in Annapolis. The
couple resides in Severna Park. . . . Robert
J. Nacheman and Jessica R. Eth in Teaneck,
New Jersey, on May 25, 1980. Mrs.
Nacheman graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania and holds a master's de-
gree from Columbia. She specializes in
product safety and public health at Mobil.
Her husband is a project engineer with Lev
Zetlin Associates, Inc., of New York. He is
studying for his master's degree in struc-
tural engineering at City College of the City
University.

>Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A.
French their first son, Timothy John, on
April 3, 1980. Tim graduated from New
England School of Law with a Juris Doctor
degree in June. He will join the Boston
patent law firm of Fish & Richardson as an
associate. ... to Mr. and Mrs. William E.
Henries a second daughter, Elizabeth Ann,
on March 21, 1980. Henries has a new job
as senior structural engineer with Yankee
Atomic Electric Co., Westboro, Mass.

Robert Akie works as a sales engineer at
Pat Jenks Assoc, Wakefield, Mass. . . .
Dennis Beliveau is involved with produc-
tion scheduling and analysis in GE's Gas
Turbine Division, Schenectady, N.Y. . . .
Jeffrey Blaisdell holds the position of proj-
ect manager at George B. H. Macomber
Company (builders), Boston, Mass. The
firm is concerned with large construction in
the New England area. . . . With Control
Module, Inc., for over four years, Chris
Broders was recently promoted to chief
engineer. He is located in Enfield, Conn. . . .
Richard Brontoli writes: "Enjoying many
large construction projects throughout
Germany." He is still stationed at
Baumholder where he is a commander for B
Company. . . . Paul Brown, Jr., is general
foreman of mechanical maintenance at
RSRCorp., Dallas, Texas. . . . Michael De-
Collibus currently holds the post of sales
manager at Dynamac, Inc., Marlboro,
Mass. He, his wife, Cheryl, and two chil-
dren reside in Nashua, N.H.

■iC

Richard Filippetti, along with several
other family members, won a total of
$24,505 on the television game show
"Family Feud," which was aired in May. He
participated in the California-based show
with his sister, Frances Morast, and her
husband, and another sister, Nancy Schar-
land, and herhusband. Thefamily was one
of 150,000 families who responded to a
recruitment drive by the show's producers
a year ago. Only 21 families from New
England were selected to compete. Filip-
petti says his family taped seven shows:
two on one day and five on another. "We
were tired. We had only ten minutes to
relax and change clothes between tap-
ings." The group discovered it was consid-
erably easier answering questions in front
of the TV set at home instead of in front of
the camera. "I developed cramps from
nerves," Filippetti confides.

All expenses for the family, including
plane fare to Hollywood, meals, and hotel
accommodations were paid for by the
show's producers. Dick, a manufacturing
manager at Goddard Valve Corp., Worces-
ter, says, "I expect to be hearing from the
IRS shortly."

Filippetti has two other news items: his
second child, Gregory Michael, was born
on March 2nd; and he was recently pro-
moted to varsity status in the Collegiate
Basketball Officials Association.

Presently, Michael Green baum is a pat-
ent attorney with Wigman & Cohen in
Arlington, Va. . . . George Harris is now a
senior support engineer with Gould-
Modicon, a post he has held since April. . . .
Ed Jamro has been elected chairman of the
New Jersey Chamber of Commerce South
Jersey Environmental Committee. Ed was
the main force behind the organization of
the committee which consists of environ-
mental representatives from all major oil
and chemical companies located in the
southern New Jersey area. . . . Subhash
Johar serves as a senior engineer at Bechtel
Corp., San Francisco, Calif. . . . Charles
Kavanagh works as a project coordinator at
Value Line Construction Corp., Hun-
tington, N.Y. . . . Kenneth Makowski is
employed as a training engineer at the
Power Authority, State of New York, New
York City. He resides in Stamford, Conn.

During his recent travels as national pres-
ident of the ASME, Prof. Donald Zwiep met
with Firdosh Mehta in Edmonton, Canada.
. . . Bruce and Allison Huse Nunn are
currently located in the state of
Washington, where Bruce serves as assist-
ant superintendent for the Boise Cascade
pulp mill in West Tacoma. The Nunns and
their two children moved to Gig Harbor
right after Christmas. They write: "We're
enjoying the Northwest scenery. We sur-
vived having our moving van overturn en
route to Washington and a month's motel
stay with two preschoolers." Allison keeps
busy with the children and their animals.
She and Bruce would welcome a visit or
note from alumni passing through the area.

. . . Maryann Bagdis Pace holds the post of
senior consultant at Peat, Marwick and
Mitchell in Dallas, Texas. She works in the
energy regulatory group for the oil and gas
industry, and has done some independent
consulting. . . .

James Risotti was recently awarded his
MBA under the executive MBA program
conducted by the Suffolk University
Graduate School of Administration. He be-
longs to Delta Mu Delta National Honor
Society and is employed at GE in Lynn,
Mass. The executive program is offered
exclusively on Saturdays for those in middle
or upper level management positions. . . .
Peter Runyon works as a technical training
instructor for GE in Schenectady. He is
associated with the GE Field Engineering
Development Center. ... AM Shafigh
serves as an assistant professor at the Col-
lege of Computer in Tehran, Iran. . . . Ken
Therrien holds the position of service en-
gineer at Hamilton Standard, Windsor
Locks, Conn. . . . Presently, Tom and Kathy
Zawislak Dagostino are employed by Tek-
tronix in Beaverton, Oregon. Tom is a
market segment manager doing market
research and Kathy is a software engineer
designing the operating system for a real-
time debugging option for a microproces-
sor development aid. They are both class
agents.

1974

Representative:
David G Lapre
P.O. Box 384
Tunkhannock, PA
18657

Secretary:
James F. Rubino
18 Landings Way
Avon Lake, OH
44012

^Married: Mark E. Ostergren and Charla J.
Cottone of Marion, Illinois on May 19,
1 979. Mrs. Ostergren serves as supervisor
of Southern Illinois Christian Academy. Her
husband is with Babcock & Wilcox. . . .
Michael W. Pontbriand and Cynthia D.
Stafford in Billings, Montana. The bride
graduated from Woodlawn High School in
Baton Rouge, La. She is employed at Busch
Gardens in Tampa, Fla. The groom works
for Badger Company in Tampa. . . . Jay K.
Thayer and Pauline Blois in Westboro,
Massachusetts, on February 2, 1980. Mrs.
Thayer graduated from Salter Secretarial
School and is an executive secretary at
Management Decision Systems, Waltham.
Her husband is a senior mechanical en-
gineer at Boston Edison Co., Nuclear Divi-
sion, Boston.

>-Born: to Dr. and Mrs. Duane R. Arse-
nault a son, Kevin Duane, on October 10,
1979. Kevin joins his sister, Crystal Lynn, 2.
In December, Arsenault received his doctor
of electrical engineering degree from RPI.
Currently, he is a full staff member at MIT
Lincoln Laboratory, where he is doing re-
search on a surface-acoustic-wave chirp

transform processor — work that is similar
to that found in his doctoral thesis. One of
the other full staff members at the Lab is Dr.
Victor Dolat, '64. ... to Mr. and Mrs.
Michael S. Martowska their first child,
Michelle Margaret, on March 16, 1980.
Martowska has been promoted from
supervisor of incoming quality assurance to
supervisor of package research at Clairol,
Inc., in Stamford, Conn.

Dennis Anctil holds the post of design
engineerat O'Brien & Gere Engineers, Inc.,
Syracuse, N.Y. . . . Ann Anderson works as
an analyst in the software department at
Computervision in Bedford, Mass. . . . Paul
Boulier serves as a project leader in the
research and development group, Borden,
Inc. — Thermoplastics Division, Leomin-
ster, Mass. . . . Chuan- Ju Chen is employed
as a senior engineer at Monsanto Plastics &
Resins Co., Indian Orchard, Mass. . . .
Wayne Chepren was commissioned a sec-
ond lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force upon
graduation from OTS at Lackland AFB, San
Antonio, Texas. He is now at Norton AFB in
California. . . . David Clew is a weatheriza-
tion specialist at Pacific Gas & Electric in San
Jose, Calif. He and Mickie have two chil-
dren. . . Todd Cormier serves as a project
engineer at Halliwell Associates, Provi-
dence, R.I. The company is presently con-
tracted to 14 firms to redevelop their hy-
droelectric facilities.

Steve Dacri, who appeared at WPI this
spring, entertained at the Speidel national
sales meeting in Newport Beach, Calif., in
May. Summer engagements are slated
aboard the MS Princendam and New York
to Bermuda cruises aboard the Rotterdam
and Volendam. . . . Capt. Robert Flanagan,
Jr., serves as company commander for
Company C, 2d Battalion, 4th Infantry, in
the U.S. Army, Germany. He has an MS in
physics from MIT.

Gary Golnik is a member of the technical
staff for TRW Defense & Space Systems
Group, Redondo Beach, Calif. . . . Edward
Gordon holds the position of senior devel-
opment programmer at Decision Data
Computer Corporation, Horsham, Pa. . . .
Gordon Gover works as a senior develop-
ment chemist at Clairol in Stamford, Conn.
. . . Michael Graham has been named cor-
porate director of compensation and bene-
fits at Bausch & Lomb, Inc. Formerly, he
was with Albany International Corp. He
holds a degree from RPI. . . . Continuing
with Bell Laboratories, Howard Greene is
now located in Murray Hill, N.J. He has
received his MSEE from the Columbia
School of Engineering. . . . Gary Hills, who
has an MSCE from Berkeley, is a cost
engineer for Stone & Webster, Wading
River, N.Y. . . . Lawrence Hunter is with
Westinghouse Electric in Baltimore, Md.
... In March, Vijay Kirloskar and his wife,
Meena, visited WPI from India. . . .
Michael Kosmo is employed as a project
engineerat Schofield Brothers, Framing-
ham, Mass.

The WPI Journal / Summer 1980 / 39

Paul Nordstrom is a principal sanitary
engineer for the Rhode Island Department
of Environmental Management in Provi-
dence Stanley Piekos holds the posi-
tion of project engineer at Riley Stoker in
Worcester. Last year, he received his MSCE
from Stevens Institute of Technology in
Hoboken, N.J. . . . Stephen Powlishen now
works for Hewlett-Packard Co. . . . Bechtel
Power Corp. employs Michael Rollett as a
field engineer in San Clemente, Calif. . . .
John Stopa, who has his JD from BU School
of Law, serves as an assistant legal counsel
at Orion Research Incorporated, Cam-
bridge, Mass. He is a chess master. . . .
Stephen Williams is working as an inven-
tory and production control specialist for
GE in Ft. Wayne, Ind. He has completed a
three-year assignment as a quality control
engineer.

1975

Secretary: Representative:

James D. Aceto, Jr. William F. George

70SunnyviewDr. 27 Old Farm Rd

Vernon, CT Spencer, MA

06066 01562

^Married: Bruce E. Keith and Laura E.
Gardosik, '77, on April 12,1 980, in West
Warwick, Rhode Island. Mrs. Keith is a
design engineer at Polaroid Corp., Cam-
bridge, Mass. Her husband is with
Teradyne Corp., Boston. . . . Capt. Michael
L. Parker and Brenda S. Harkins on De-
cember 29, 1979 in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Currently, they are residing in Killeen,
Texas. Mike is stationed at Ft. Hood as a
cavalry squadron maintenance officer. . . .
David T. Shopis and Patricia A. O'Sullivan
on March 15, 1980 in Windsor, Connect-
icut. Mrs. Shopis, a graduate of Hartford
Hospital School of Allied Health, is a nurse
at Hartford Hospital. Her husband is with
F.I. P. Corporation in Farmington, Conn.,
where he is construction manager.

+Bom: to Mr. and Mrs. David H. Kings-
bury their third child, first son, David
Joseph, on March 11,1 980. ... to Capt.
and Mrs. Douglas Sargent a daughter,
Amber Marie, on September 8, 1 979. Sar-
gent, who was promoted in December, is
still serving in Portland, Me., with the U.S.
Army.

Dr. Andrew Armstrong has received his
Doctor of Optometry degree from the New
England College of Optometry. He has a BS
and MS in mechanical engineering from
WPI. While at optometry college, he had
extensive clinical experience at the Boston
Eye Clinic and at Dorchester House Multi-
Service Center. He had a three-month resi-
dency at Rutland (Mass.) State Hospital. At
a pre-graduation awards dinner, he re-
ceived the Bausch and Lomb contact lens
award, which is given to the graduate
displaying the highest proficiency in the
field of contact lenses.

Clifford Ashton has been promoted to
engineer at Northeast Utilities (NU). Last
year, he joined NU as associate engineer in
the generation engineering department.
He belongs to the ASME, Pi Tau Sigma, and
Sigma Beta Pi. . . . John Balint serves as a
sales engineer for GE in Oakland, Calif. . . .
John Batt, a staff engineer in the Customer
Service Group of Union Carbide, has been
transferred to the Linde Division at the
Distribution Technical Center in
Springfield, N.J. . . . Michael Blaszczak,
an engineering recruiter for General
DataComm Ind., Inc., is headquartered in
Danbury, Conn. . . . Erik Brodin is a project
engineer at GM in Framingham, Mass. He
holds a master's degree from the University
of Rhode Island and an MBA from Western
New England College. . . .Still with the Lee
Co., Raymond Cibulskis is now product
manager for the firm in Westbrook, Conn.
• . . . Robert Cummings is employed as a
system planning engineer at Central Ver-
mont Public Service Corp., Rutland, Vt. . . .
Mark Deming serves as a senior planner for
the County of Santa Cruz, Calif.

Judy Nitsch Donnellan has been named
a registered professional engineer in Mas-
sachusetts. She continues as vice president
and director of Schof ield Brothers, Inc. , and
as manager of the Attleboro branch office,
Freeman Engineering Company. . . .
Robert Fair holds the post of project en-
gineer at Connecticut General in Hartford,
Conn. . . . Robert Hart is employed as an
operations researcher for the U.S. Army
Communications Research and Develop-
ment Command in Ft. Monmouth, N.J. . . .
Daniel Lapen works as a research chemist
at Coulter Biomedical, Concord, Mass. He
has an MS from UMass. . . . Ronnie Mater-
niak has obtained registration as a profes-
sional engineer in Delaware. He is being
transferred to du Pont's Construction Divi-
sion at the Richmond (Va.) plant on a
two-year rotational assignment. He is
working on his MBA "between job trans-
fers." . . . Continuing with the Veterans
Administration, James McKenzie is pres-
ently with the Office of Construction as a
resident engineer in Washington, D.C. . . .
Paul Menard has received his PhD in
chemistry from Ohio State University in
Columbus.

Laurence Michaels is now a senior sys-
tems programmer-analyst at Applied Data
Research, Inc., Princeton, N.J. Previously,
he was with Whitlow Computer Systems in
Englewood Cliffs. . . . Ralph Miller works
as a nuclear equipment operator at South-
ern California Edison in Santa Ana. . . . M.
Graham Noll is with Analogic Corp., Dan-
vers, Mass. . . . Toby Reitzen serves as a gas
process engineer for Mobil Oil in Chick-
asha, Okla. . . . Michael Schultz is a
graduate research assistant at MIT.

1976

Secretary:

Paula E Stratouly

1804 Windsor Ridge Dr. t

Westboro, MA

01581

REUNION

OCTOBER 3-5

Representative:
Richard P. Predella, Jr
40 Hawthorn Rd.
Braintree, MA
02184

^■Married: Karl S. Johanson and Miss
Shalene Nayar on February 2, 1980, in
Bombay, India. The bride attended schools
in Bombay, New Delhi, and England. The
groom has been a customer support repre-
sentative for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft since
1976. He was based at Air India from 1977
to 1980, assisting with B-747 operations.
This May, he relocated to Garuda Airlines
at Jakarta, Indonesia, to assist in their
B-747 operations. . . . John V. Bucci to
Susan K. Dillen on December 29, 1979. The
groom was recently promoted to manager
of materials at GE Datacom in McAllen,
Texas.

►fiorn: to Mr. and Mrs. James R. Cul-
linane a son, Jason Stephen, on April 16,
1980. Jim is with Grinnell Corp. in Provi-
dence, R.I. The family resides in Norfolk,
Mass.

Richard Allen works as a project en-
gineer at Dufresne-Henry, Manchester,
N.H. He holds an MSCE from the University
of Washington. . . . Charles Bellemer is a
chemist at Janco in Dover, N.H. . . . Keith
Bennett serves as a project engineer at Air
Products & Chemicals in Paulsboro, N.J.
He, his wife, Kim, and one child live in
Bellmawr. . . . Charles Bohling is employed
as a computer programmer at Mission Re-
search Corp., Albuquerque, N.M. . . . Mark
Coulson holds the post of nuclear shift test
engineer at General Dynamics- Electric
Boat, Groton, Conn. . . . Richard Crafts is a
process engineer at Occidental Chemical,
White Springs, Fla. . . . Thomas Des-
coteaux is with the estimating department
at Delia Construction Co., Inc., Enfield,
Conn. . . . Presently, Les Erikson is em-
ployed as general manager at Norton Co. in
Arden, N.C. He and Carol have three chil-
dren. ... Ed Floyd serves as a design
engineer at Dufresne-Henry in North
Springfield, Vt.

Riley Stoker, Worcester, employs James
Galvin as a construction engineer. He has
an MSCE from Stanford. . . . Still with
Eastern Utilities Associates Service Corpo-
ration, Lincoln, R.I., Robert Grande was
recently transferred to the system planning
section. . . . John Grenier, Jr., works as a
programmer II at Norton Co., Worcester.
The Greniers have a son, Michael. . . .
Raymond Houle, Jr., continues as general
manager of Precision Products, the family
business located in North Smithfield, R.I.
The firm produces calculator keyboard as-
sembly equipment, precision welding fix-
tures, automatic choke inspection gauges,
and was certified to work on the Apollo
program. Recently, the company moved

40 / Summer 1980 / The WPI Journal

into larger quarters with room for expan-
sion. . . Benjamin Jacobs is a self-
employed actor and acting teacher in Port-
land, Oregon. . . . "B. J." Johnson is now
associate group manager for Prudential
Insurance in Boston. He is chairman of the
WPI Homecoming Committee. . . . Steven
Landry serves as a chemical officer with the
U.S. Army in West Germany.

Andrew Marcus writes: "It appears that
the WPI plan works. I've been working for
the same firm, F. L. Smidth &Co., for three
years." Presently, he is assistant contract
manager. Earlier, he had been a project
engineer, then project manager. His firm,
based in Copenhagen, is a manufacturer-
designer of Portland cement equipment
and plants. "One of the reasons I picked
WPI was that there wasn't a language
requirement. Because of the fact that most
of our plants are in Mexico and South
America, I now know Spanish!" . . . Robert
Milk is director of data processing at Elec-
tronic Data Systems, Raleigh, N.C. ... In
February, William Ruoff joined Gas Ser-
vice, Inc., in Nashua, N.H., as a gas distribu-
tion engineer.

Craig Self is with Polaroid Corp., Cam-
bridge, Mass. . . . Thomas Stowe is a test
engineer at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, East
Hartford, Conn. . . . Lance Sunderlin holds
the position of supervisor of the insulating
department at Anaconda Industries in
Watkinsville, Ga. . . . Albany International
Corp. of Glens Falls, N.Y., employs Thomas
Vaughn as a sales engineer. He covers New
England paper mills in his sales territory and
is located in Nashua, N.H. . . . Currently,
David Wolff works for ASA, Inc., a
software house in Southboro, Mass. As a
programmer-analyst and project leader, he
heads a group of 75 people. . . . Recently,
Neal Wright was assigned as maintenance
officer for the 642d Engineer Equipment
Company (CS) at Fort Devens. He is re-
sponsible for over 140 pieces of engineer
equipment. The 642d Engineer Company
has been commanded by two other WPI
alumni, Thomas Beckman, 73, and Wil-
liam Baker, 76. ... In May, Brian Young
received his MBA from Widener University,
Chester, Pa.

1977

1978

Secretary

Representative:

Secretary

Kathleen Molony

Christopher D. Baker

Cynthia Grynick

6 Aiken St.

1 1 Boston St.

303 Woicott Ct.

Norwalk, CT

Lawrence, MA

Waterbury, CT

06851

01841

06705

Michael Abrams, who is studying for his
MSEE at Vanderbilt University, works as an
electronic technician at Northern Telecom
in Nashville, Tenn. . . . Carol Sigel Baran is
with Charles T. Main, Boston. . . . Jeffrey
Baumer works as a manufacturing en-
gineer at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in North
Berwick, Me. . . . Brian Belliveau is em-
ployed as a division sales engineer at
Westinghouse-Sturtevant Division in Hyde
Park, Mass. . . . Greg Cipriano is a project
engineer at Instrumentation Laboratory,
Lexington, Mass.

Leonard Clow, a graduate student at
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan-
sas, is affiliated with the biochemistry de-
partment. . . . Lawrence Coel is a sales
administrator at Interex Corp., Natick,
Mass. . . . When the tall ships visited Bos-
ton at the end of May, Bill Cunningham
was again on hand as he had been in 1 976
with his silk-screening business. His tempo-
rary business cards read: "Tall Ships Mar-
keting, Boston-crafted silk-screened ap-
parel." Bill says he sold most of his stock
before the event was over. . . . Michael
DiMascio serves as vice president of Briggs
Engineering in Norwell, Mass. . . . Paul
Hajec has accepted a new post as senior
transportation planner for the Merrimack
Valley Planning Commission in Haverhill,
Mass. . . . Barbara Hatch is employed as a
production engineer at Thiokol/Specialty
Chemicals Division, Newell, West Virginia.

1/Lt. William Lee is currently a battery
commander with the U.S. Army in Europe.
Later this summer, he will be located in San
Antonio, Texas. . . . Jerry Melcher serves as
an application engineer at Moore Systems
in San Jose, Calif. . . . Eric Paulson holds a
post as commander with the U.S. Army at
Ft. Stewart, Ga. . . . 1/Lt. Marc Richard,
who recently received his MSEE from MIT,
is now with the Joint Tactical Communica-
tions Office in Tinton Falls, N.J. . . . Peter
Rudman, a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army,
transferred from the Signal Corps to the
Finance Corps in March. He is stationed in
Germany. . . . Andrew Sayles is with Walsh
Construction Company, Darien, Conn.

Mike Sullivan writes: "Finally back in
New England after two years in 'Frostbite
Falls,' Minn. [Rochester, Minn.]" Presently
he is with IBM in Essex Junction, Vt. . . . Ted
Tamburro serves as a 1/Lt.-ADP officer for
U.S. Army Management Systems Support
Agency in the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
He and his wife Judy live in Alexandria, Va.
. . . Robert Ware, who has an MS from
Cornell, is a graduate student and research
assistant in the chemical engineering de-
partment at MIT.

^■Married: Robert A. Brown III and Gail M.
Beauregard in Gardner, Massachusetts, on
April 1 9, 1 980. The bride, a graduate of Bay
Path Junior College and Rivier College,
teaches at Gardner High School. The bride-
groom serves as a design engineer at Harris
Corp., Westerly, R.I. . . . Joseph Maslar
and Wanda Wells on December 21 , 1979.
The groom is a sales manager at Datamet-
rics, Inc., Wilmington, Mass. . . . David T.
Markey and Regina A. Carcieri on April 26,
1980 in Providence, Rhode Island. Mrs.
Markey attended Rhode Island College and
works for Almac's Inc. Her husband is with
Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, Conn. . . .
Stephen W. Robichaud and Colette M.
LaChance in Gardner, Massachusetts, on
November 24, 1979. The groom will finish
the GE Manufacturing Management Pro-
gram in July. He has been serving as a buyer
and is now working with solar-wind-
nuclear energy. . . . Alan E. Simakauskas
and June Carroll on October 20, 1 979, in
Spencer, Massachusetts. The bride, a med-
ical secretary at Cape Cod Hospital, Hyan-
nis, graduated from Becker. Her husband
is with Butler Automatic, Inc., Canton,
Mass.

>Born: to Robert and Robin Paisner
Chapell their first child, a daughter,
Melanie Ann, on April 22, 1980. Chapell is
a project engineer at Linenthal Eisenberg
Anderson, Inc., Engineers, in Boston.

Anthony Allis holds the post of president
of Microwave Systems Engineering Corp.,
A&J Marketing, and National Idea Devel-
opment. He is secretary of A. J. Allis Dairy
Co., Inc., and is located in Scarsdale, N.Y.
. . . Paul Avakian is with NEC Micro-
Computer, Wellesley Mass. . . . Paul Cody
is employed as a field service engineer at
Westinghouse Electric Corp. Engineering
Service, Framingham, Mass. . . . Wallace
Davis III is supervisor of environmental
sciences for the Washington Public Power
Supply System in Richland. . . . Adrienne
Dill is with Haley & Aldrich, Inc., Cam-
bridge, Mass. . . . Raymond Dunn starts his
third year at Albany (N.Y.) Medical College
this fall. "From then on it's full time till May
1982." . . . Mladen Eic serves as technical
manager for "Jugoinspekt" in Yugoslavia.
. . . Bryce Granger now works for Akron
Standard as a project engineer. . . .William
Heberling III is employed as production
engineer for Zachary Organs in Parsippany,
N.J. Recently, he oversaw the design of a
one-man band type of instrument with
drums, bass, guitar, and violins.

The WPI Journal / Summer 1980/41

What handicap?

John Pavao, '79, has a lot going for
him, according to his boss at the
Naval Underwater Systems Com-
mand (nusc) in Newport, Rhode
Island. Another colleague says,
"we'd greatly appreciate having
other graduates like John referred to
nusc. They make fine profes-
sionals."

Pavao, a computer specialist,
has demonstrated proficiency in his
profession and devotion to duty on
his various job assignments, in spite
of what many would consider
unsurmountable odds.

John was born blind. Blindness,
however, has never deterred him
from reaching his goals. Currently
he works as a permanent employee
deeply involved in developing a
computer software program for the
Acoustic Range Tracking (art) sys-
tem which will be used at autec,
the Atlantic Undersea Test and
Evaluation Center, located on
Andros Island in the Bahamas.

To facilitate his work, John
uses a teleprinter that prints Braille;
a Braille writer; a telewriter; and a
talking calculator. He can read nor-
mal print by using an optacon,
which uses an electronic system to
scan letters and numbers and trans-
late them into impressions he can
read with his fingertips.

John, a graduate of Perkins
Institute for the Blind, Watertown,
Mass., has been interested in com-
puter science for a long time. At
WPI he became adept at program-
ming many of the popular computer
languages, including Fortran,
basic, cobol, and microprocessor
machine languages.

Following his graduation from
WPI, Pavao was interviewed by a
number of company recruiters
through the Office of Graduate and
Career Plans, but he was unable to

secure a position because of eco-
nomic considerations. "I discov-
ered," he explains, "that
companies were unwilling to hire
me unless I could provide my own
Braille terminal. They didn't have
Braille terminals available, and I
couldn't afford to buy one myself."

Before finally joining the staff
at nusc, where equipment for the
handicapped is available, John
received a 700-hour temporary
appointment which he passed with
flying colors. John is very happy
with his permanent post at the
Sound Laboratory, which was
offered to him after the trial period.

' 'Actually, it was a hobby that
eventually led me to nusc, ' ' John
reveals. ' 'I enjoy operating ham
radios, and several years ago I
became friendly with another ham
radio enthusiast, Tom Riley, who is
my current boss. It was through his
efforts that I was able to take advan-
tage of the job opportunity at the
laboratory."

Able-bodied, well-trained, and
capable, John displays a great deal of
self-confidence. His co-workers feel
that he has no handicap whatso-
ever. He routinely walks unassisted
from his office in Building 1 1 1 to
Building 103 for negotiations on
computer technology. Every day he
rides to and from his job in a carpool
from Dighton, Mass., where he
lives with his parents.

After hours, his interests are
varied and many. He's an avid
sports participant and regularly
engages in swimming, jogging,
bowling, and shooting baskets.

42 / Summer 1980 / The WPI Journal

Carl Klein has accepted a new job as
production supervisor of switch assembly
and molding in the GE Wiring Device
Dept, Middletown, R.I. He will attend
Harvard Business School this fall. . . . Pres-
ently, Ken Kummins holds the position of
principal engineer for E.D.S. Nuclear at the
Commanche Peak Site in Fort Worth,
Texas. Also a consulting engineer, he is
working in a group that's doing safety
analyses on the plants. He expects to be in
Texas for a couple of years. E.D.S. Nuclear,
a consulting firm, has offices in San Fran-
cisco, New York, Atlanta, and Paris. . . .
Scott Lentz serves as process control en-
gineer at the Foxboro Co. in Chamblee, Ga.
. . . Kathryn Lyga is a design engineer at

CE-KSB Pump Co., Portsmouth, N.H

Advent Corp., Cambridge, Mass., employs
Brian McLane as a television design en-
gineer. He is involved in the design of
economy projection television. . . . Edward
Menard is a firmware engineer at Qantel
Corp., Hayward, Calif.

Stephan Mezak holds the post of com-
puter resources manager at Eaton Corp. in
Sunnyvale, Calif. . . . Richard Ruscito is
employed as a process supervisor at W. R.
Grace-Davison Chemical Division, Balti-
more, Md. . . . Philip Scarrell is a first line
supervisor with du Pont in South San Fran-
cisco, Calif. . . . Gregory Smith works as a
sales engineer at F. K. Smith Co., Inc., Ham-
den, Conn. . . . Andrew Tannenbaum is
now an information systems staff member
in the Sonar Systems Development De-
partment of Western Electric, Whippany,
N.J. . . . Jeff Toran is employed by du Pont's
R&D facility in Wilmington, Delaware. He
just received his master's from WPI. ... In
February, Bettina Tuttle transferred from
GE in Ohio to GE-Plastics in Pittsfield,
Mass., where she is a process engineer.
While in Ohio, she coached a YMCA swim
team (12 to Nationals). In Pittsfield she
teaches handicapped children skills and
sports. She is taking night courses for her
MBA.

1979

Secretary

Representative:

James Manchester

Donald O. Patten. Jr

625 Main St.

27 French St.

Reading, MA

Hingham, MA

01867

02043

^Married: A. Michael Blaney and Marlene
M. Livingstone in Southboro, Mas-
sachusetts on April 12, 1980. The bride
attended Aquinas Junior College. . . . An-
thony Doornweerd and Elizabeth A. Rivers
on May 16, 1980, in Branford, Connec-
ticut. Mrs. Doornweerd graduated from
Becker.

Edward Anderson, Jr., has joined
Megakit Corp., Santa Clara, Calif. . . . Rick
Bonci serves as a process engineer at Mon-
santo Textiles Co., Decatur, Alabama. . . .
Stephen Caputo is taking a GE technical
program in Auburn, N.Y. . . . Douglas
Clark works as a design engineer at Pratt &
Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford, Conn. . . .
Dewey & Almy Chemical Division of W. R.
Grace & Co., Lexington, Mass., has em-
ployed John Craffey as a process engineer
in new product development. . . . Thomas
Dinan, Jr., is at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. He belongs to the
Electrochemical Society and the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers. . . . John
Etrie serves as a purchasing agent at
Coghlin Electric Co., Worcester. . . . Mary
Farren was promoted to associate engineer
at IBM.

Ken Fast is employed as a junior engineer
at Engineering Incorporated in Hampton,
Va. . . . Michael Gabriella works as a water
quality control engineer for the Division of
Water Pollution Control in Westboro,
Mass. He is a member of the chorus and
quartet of the Society for Preservation of
Barbershop Quartet Singing in America.
. . . Steven Gottschalk has accepted a post
as associate engineer at Perkin- Elmer Opti-
cal Technology Division in Danbury, Conn.
. . . Robert Hart has joined the sales office
in Trane Company's Commercial Air Con-
ditioning Division, Los Angeles. Recently,
he completed the Trane Graduate Engineer
Training Program, a six-month course con-
centrating on specialized heat transfer
theory and practice. Trane is a leading
manufacturer of air conditioning, refrigera-
tion, and heat transfer equipment for
commercial, residential, industrial, trans-
port and special process applications and
has facilities worldwide.

William Herman serves as a systems
analyst at Arthur Andersen, Hartford,
Conn. . . . Lorraine Kikuta Hunt is a quality
control engineer at DEC, Westfield, Mass.
. . . Brian Johansson is employed as a
development engineer at Motorola, Inc.,
Plantation, Fla. . . . Paul Keary is a compos-
ite structural engineer at Boeing Co., in
Washington. . . . Leonard Kleczynski is
employed as a project engineer at Markem

Corp., Keene, N. H. . . . Peter Kujawski is a

chemical staff officer with the U.S. Army at

Ft. Ord, Calif Procter & Gamble,

Mehoopany, Pa., employs Douglas La-
Brecque as a team manager. . . . Stephen
Lefemine works as a sales application en-
gineer at Warren Pumps, Warren, Mass.
. . . Lawrence Leduc serves as a project
engineer at Carl Gordon Industries,
Worcester. . . . Sheng Lung Lien is now
with Monsanto in St. Louis, Mo. . . . Pres-
ently, Ian Mair is employed as a research
metallurgist with Lukens Steel Company,
Coatesville, Pa.

John Moses is with A. D. Little in Cam-
bridge, Mass. . . . Peter Mullarkey holds
the post of project engineer at CTI7
Thompson, Inc., in Denver, Colo. . . . Paul
Norton serves as a junior engineer at
Gannett-Fleming, Camp Hill, Pa. . . . John
Osborne is employed as a field sales en-
gineer at GE in Schenectady. . . . Chris Ratti
(not "Patti" as erroneously printed in the
spring issue of the Journal) continues as
plant supervisor at Engineered Plastics
Products, Inc., in Stirling, N.J. . . . Kenneth
Sawyer holds the post of analytical en-
gineer trainee at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in
East Hartford, Conn. . . . John Skliutas is
working for his master of engineering in
electric power at RPI. . . . Currently,
Timothy Spera is with Honeywell EOC in
Lexington, Mass. . . . Joseph Spinn is em-
ployed as stability engineer at Pratt &
Whitney Aircraft in West Palm Beach, Fla.
. . . Michael Tabaczynski has accepted a
post at Raytheon in Wayland, Mass. . . .
Marine 2/Lt. Gregory VanHouten recently
graduated from Basic School located in the
Marine Corps Development and Education
Command in Quantico, Va. The school
prepares newly commissioned officers for
assignment to the Fleet Marine Force and
emphasizes the duties and responsibilities
of a rifle platoon commander. Training
included instruction in land navigation,
marksmanship, leadership, and teamwork
in the 26-week course. . . . Felix Vargas is
with CHU Associates in Littleton, Mass. . . .
Douglas West, an MSEE student at WPI,
serves as a teaching assistant in the EE
department.

e

The WPI Journal / Summer 1980 / 43

School of Industrial
Management

John Greenaway, '54, holds the post of
chairman at Peterson Steels, Inc., Avon,
Conn. The firm is a division of SKF Steel.

Richard Seymour, '75, has been named
production superintendent at New Hamp-
shire Ball Bearings, Inc., Peterborough,
N.H. Formerly, he was with Reed and
Prince Company in Jaff rey. He has an ex-
tensive background in all phases of design,
production, and plant engineering, and has
aBSMEfrom WPI.

Ronald Butler, 76, was promoted to chief
engineer at CPC Engineering Corporation.
During his 18 years with the firm, he has
served as project engineer, quality control
manager, plant engineer, and production
manager. He is a graduate of Worcester
Junior College, and is on the advisory
boards of three vocational high schools:
Tantasqua, Worcester Vocational, and
WITI. The Sturbridge resident is vice chair-
man of the American Welding Society and
a member of the board of the Tri-
Community YMCA, where he serves as
chairman of the house committee. He also
belongs to the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Bay State Abrasives, Westboro (Mass.) has
announced the appointment of Everett
Peterson, '79, to the post of manager of
manufacturing control. He graduated from
Northeastern. With Bay State since 1965,
he most recently served as senior industrial
engineer. He is a past president of the
American Institute of Industrial Engineer-
ing, Worcester chapter.

Natural

Science

Program

Robert Kelley, '60, an associate professor
in the natural science-physics department
at Worcester State College, was recently
named the first "Science Educator of the
Year" by the Massachusetts Association of
Science Teachers. The new award is de-
signed "to recognize persons making out-
standing contributions to science educa-
tion in the Commonwealth of Mas-
sachusetts." Kelley earned his EdM in sci-
ence education at Boston University. He
was chairman of the founding committee
of the Massachusetts Association of Sci-
ence Supervisors and has been presidentof
the Association, and chairman of the 1 977
eastern convention of the National Science
Teachers Association. He has received
awards for outstanding work from the
M.A.S.S., the Civil Air Patrol, and the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion.

Jim O'Brien, '60, is currently a professor at
Boston State College, Boston.

Dr. Jerry Jasinski, '68, presented a Citizen's
Workshop on Energy and the Environment
on May 7th in Newport, N.H. The highlight
of the presentation was the use of the
energy-environment simulator, a spe-
cially designed electronic computer which
enables workshop participants to play the
roles of energy decision makers. In the
game, they allocate the world's energy
resources to meet growing demands. The
program was given under the auspices of
DOE. Dr. Jasinski is assistant professor of
chemistry at Keene State College. He be-
longs to the ACS, Sigma Xi, and the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of
Science.

Ernest DiMicco, '74, was chosen by the
National Association of Student Councils to
present a workshop at its national conven-
tion in Arizona in June. DiMicco is a science
teacher, and adviser to the Coventry (R.I.)
High School Student Council. A graduate
of Providence College, he holds a master's
from WPI and has studied at Penn State
and URI. Under his leadership, the Coven-
try High School Student Council has be-
come one of the most active and respected
in the country.

Michael O'Keefe, '74, is senior associate at
Management & Advisory Services, Bur-
lington, Mass. He, his wife, Donna, and
one child live in Pelham, N.H.

44 / Summer 1 980 / The WPI Journal

How much is it worth?
Well, I don't know,
but I know someone
who does ....

He's appraised everything from the
Empire State Building to the
Golden Gate Bridge.

Lee P. Hackett, '61, president
of American Appraisal Co., the
world's biggest tangible and intangi-
ble property appraiser, seems to
have touched all bases. "Along the
way, we've appraised professional
baseball, football, and hockey
teams." Hackett's firm has also
evaluated the worth of the bankrupt
Penn Central Railroad, an ITT space
communications satellite, the Alas-
ka pipeline, steel mills in South
America, and the Lincoln convert-
ible limousine in which President
John F. Kennedy was riding when he
was assassinated in 1963.

' 'As a rule, we stay away from
art objects and private residences,"
Hackett continues, "but we have
done work for 60 percent of the
firms on the Fortune 500 list."

Hackett, a Vermont native,
joined the Milwaukee-based firm
after receiving his BS in electrical
engineering from WPI and serving
as a lieutenant in the Army Signal
Corps. In 1974, he received his
MBA from the University of Chi-
cago, and he now discusses invest-
ment tax credits and component
depreciation as easily as watts and
volts. And after years of traveling
around the world, appraising every-
thing from sole proprietorships to
huge copper mines, he has scarcely
a trace of his New England accent
left.

His Yankee trader savvy, how-
ever, is still intact. Hackett doesn't
allow American Appraisal to rest on
its laurels. He continues to beat the
bushes around the world looking for
ways to make a buck. He is forever
coming up with new ideas to better
serve his clients, while still main-
taining the image of an easy-going,

"plain-folks" individual. Easy-
going or not, Lee Hackett is not one
to come out second-best in a busi-
ness deal. For example, not long ago
he charged the State of New York
$800,000 for appraising the state
university system, the largest in the
country.

"We put a value on every desk,
building, and piece of land in the
system," he says. The company
also offered the state a continuing
update service so that it could make
accurate budget forecasts. "That
was my biggest assignment. It took
two years to complete."

American Appraisal is a subsid-
iary of American Appraisal Associ-
ates, Inc. It accounted for half the
parent company's revenues last

year. Hackett predicts that his firm
will be earning $40 million annual-
ly by 1984. A Milwaukee financial
analyst familiar with American Ap-
praisal agrees with that forecast. He
says the company does a good job of
selling its services: "It's a people
company. It doesn't make anything,
but it thrives on expertise."

American Appraisal is a well-
established business, which origi-
nated in Milwaukee purely by

accident. "Back in 1896," Hackett
explains, "the founders left Minne-
apolis to go to Chicago, where they
planned to set up a company staffed
by experts who could make impar-
tial property valuations that could
stand up in court. They traveled by
night train and mistakenly got off at
Milwaukee instead of Chicago. Un-
ruffled, they decided to set up shop
where they were. The Joseph Sch-
litz Brewing Company was their

first customer."

Soon the company was recog-
nized as a leading expert in the areas
of insurance, mergers, and property
tax matters. Today, American
Appraisal has 250 appraisers and
500 staff members, including sales-
men, engineers, financial analysts,
economists, and other specialists
skilled in the collection and inter-
pretation of knowledge. Data flows
through the computer system 24
hours a day from the field force,
from information services, and
from staff calculations servicing
tens of thousands of clients.

Hackett notes that his compa-
ny spends $1 million a year on sub-
scriptions to publications and other
data collection services, plus anoth-
er $1.5 million on travel expenses,
all in the name of adding services.
"Our aim is to provide the client
with a complete package of infor-
mation and assistance that will tell
him how much he is worth, how
well he is doing, and how much he
can improve his situation."

Lee Hackett has spent nearly
half his 40 years with American
Appraisal. He has helped to make it
prosper, and he hopes to lead it to
greater heights in the future.
Although business keeps him busy,
he does manage to find time to do
other things. For example, he serves
on the enrollment committee at
Milwaukee School of Engineering;
he's finance director for the Mil-
waukee Tennis Classic; and he's a
member of the University Club and
the Association for Corporate
Growth. During the summer he
escapes to the Arctic, fishing, and in
the winter he can be found skiing in
Colorado and Utah.

The WPI Journal / Summer 1980 / 45

George H. Ryan, '08, a retired head
chemist for White & Bagley Co., Worces-
ter, died on May 11,1 980 in Millbury,
Massachusetts. He was 93 years old.

A Millbury native, he lived there all of his
life with the exception of 16 years (1908-
1 924) which he spent in Montana as a
sheep rancher. He graduated from Worces-
ter Academy in 1904. In 1908 he
graduated as a chemist from WPI. For 34
years he held the post of head chemist at
White & Bagley Co. from which he retired
in 1956.

He belonged to Sigma Xi, the Millbury
Baptist Church, and was a 50-year member
of the American Chemical Society. He was
a past president of the Worcester chapter
of the ACS and a life member of the
Meridian Lodge of Masons in Cascade,
Montana.

Winfield S. Jewell, Jr., '15, of Grosse
Pointe, Michigan, died on March 24, 1 980.

He was born on August 29, 1 893 in
Indianapolis, Ind. In 1915 he received his
BSEE. During his career he was with GE,
Studebaker, Jewell-Bassett-Jewell, Ready
Power Co., Jewel Motors, and White-
Haines Optical. For a number of years he
was self-employed and associated with
Maxon, Inc., as a real estate agent.

Mr. Jewell belonged to Phi Gamma Delta
and the Senior Men's Club of Grosse
Pointe. He was a veteran of World War I. At
one time he was president of the Detroit
chapter of the Alumni Association.

John P. Comstock, '16, internationally
known naval architect, died of a heart
attack in Newport News, Virginia, on
January 29, 1 980. He was 85.

The former chief naval architect at New-
port News Shipbuilding, he was honored in
1 960 by the National Society of Naval
Architects and Marine Engineers for nota-
ble achievement in his field throughout his
career.

He was a life member of the Society,
belonged to Sigma Xi, and was also a life
member of the Royal Institution of Naval
Architects, United Kingdom, and a life
member and past president of the En-
gineers Club of the Virginia Peninsula. He
published over 70 technical papers in the
naval architecture field.

In 1916, he received his BSCE from WPI.
In 1919, he earned a BS in naval architec-
ture from MIT. Following graduation, he
was employed at the old Cramp's Shipyard
until 1927. Later, he was with the Marine
Engineering Corporation, and the New
York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden,
N.J. In 1929, he became associated with
the naval architectural firm of Theodore E.
Ferris, New York City. He joined the well
known Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Dock Company in 1931 , startingoutas
a draftsman and retiring as naval architect
in 1960.

Mr. Comstock helped with the develop-
ment of the towing tank at Newport News,
and channeled its activities into the most
productive fields. His colleagues have said
of him, "His contributions to naval ar-
chitecture on a worldwide basis have been
magnificent."

Since his retirement in 1960, he had been
a lecturer at the Mariners' Museum and a
reading instructor with the Peninsula Liter-
acy Council. For many years, he was a
ruling elder in the First Presbyterian Church
of Newport, and more recently a member
of the Hidenwood Presbyterian Church. He
was born on Jan. 12, 1 895 in Waterford,
Conn.

Frank J. Murphy, '18, who graduated from
WPI as a mechanical engineer, died on
February 26, 1980.

Chester A. A. Peterson, '18, died in

Brockton (Mass.) Hospital on March 1,
1 980, following a long illness.

He was born on Sept. 12, 1896, in
Brockton, and later studied civil engineer-
ing at WPI. Duringhis lifetime he had been
principal at Vanceboro (Me.) High School,
and had also been employed by the Maine
Central Railroad; the city engineer's office
in Quincy, Mass.; and the Town of
Stoughton (town engineer). Prior to his
retirement in 1961, he was the home office
representative of the Prudential Life Insur-
ance Co. for 30 years.

Mr. Peterson belonged to Sigma Phi
Epsilon. He was a member of the Congre-
gational Church of North Easton, where he
was editor of the church paper, "Tidings."
A former deacon, he was a past president
of the church Friendship Club.

Ralph F. Tenney, '18, passed away in
Summit, New Jersey on March 16, 1980.

A native of Leominster, Mass., he was
born on March 12, 1897. In 1918 he
received a BS in chemistry from WPI, and in
1920, his professional degree in chemical
engineering. He belonged to Sigma Xi and
Tau Beta Pi.

After serving as a private in the Chemical
Warfare Service of the U.S. Army, he briefly
joined MIT as a chemical engineering in-
structor. He was then a works chemist for
Worcester Gas Light Co. , and a gas produc-
tion manager for the Long Island Lighting
Co. From 1947 to 1953, he was chief of the
operating section, coal gasification and gas
synthesis, at a coal-to-oil demonstration
plant for the U.S. government. From 1953
until his retirement in 1964, he was a
chemical engineeratagovernmentanthra-
cite experiment center.

Mr. Tenney belonged to the American
Gas Association and the Masons. He was
the brother of Harry Tenney, '20.

Rear Admiral Richard S. Morse, U.S.N,
(retired), '19, of Sea Ranch, California, died
on December 2, 1979, at the age of 82.

He was born on Feb. 22, 1897, in
Marlboro, Mass. After attending WPI, he
entered the U.S. Naval Academy from
which he graduated in 1920. He spent his
entire career in the Navy, starting out as a
midshipman and retiring in 1947 as a rear
admiral. From 1948 to 1965 he served as
secretary and assistant treasurer of the
Argonaut Insurance Co.

Admiral Morse received the Defense
Ribbon, one star, in World War I and World
War II, and he was cited for his service in
the 1919 Haitian campaign and the Asiatic
Pacific campaign. He received the Legion
of Merit in the invasion of southern France
and the Bronze Star in the Iwo Jima and
Okinawa campaigns.

He belonged to Phi Gamma Delta and
the Masons.

Homer E. Stevens, '20, of Augusta, Geor-
gia, died on April 23, 1979.

For many years he was with the Worces-
ter Fire Department, which he served as
captain. He was born in Worcester on Dec.
26, 1896, and later became a member of
the Class of 1920.

Prior to joining the Fire Department, he
worked for Savage Arms Corp., Sharon,
Pa., and Crompton & Knowles, Worcester.

46 / Summer 1980 / The WPI Journal

Carroll A. Huntington, '21, a founder of
and a partner in Huntington, Goodnow,
Connors, Inc., died at his home in Welles-
ley, Massachusetts, on March 31,1 980. He
had been incapacitated from a stroke suf-
fered ten years ago. He was 81 .

In 1945 he helped establish hisinsurance
brokerage firm in Boston. In 1973, the
offices were moved to Wellesley. The com-
pany specializes in commercial property
coverage. Prior to founding the company,
he was a salesman-engineer for Improved
Risk Mutuals of Boston.

Amemberof the Naval Reserve in World
War I, Mr. Huntington also belonged to Phi
Sigma Kappa, the Masons, and the76 Club
of Boston. He was born in Barre, Vt, on
Sept. 1, 1898. In 1921 he graduated as a
mechanical engineer.

Luther C. Small, '22, a former member of
the Worcester Housing Authority, died
March 3, 1980 in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

He was with the Worcester Housing
Authority (WHA) as executive director for
public housing and management from
1 954 until he retired in 1 970 and moved to
Cape Cod. As executive director, he was
responsible for the maintenance, man-
agement, and budgets for over 200 build-
ings run by the WHA. He was also con-
cerned with the construction and renova-
tion of buildings.

Priorto his WHA appointment, Mr. Small
had served as clerk of the works in the
restoration of Great Brook Valley and Cur-
tis Apartments which were heavily dam-
aged by the 1 953 tornado. Earlier posts had
been with R. L. Whipple Co. and Fiske-
Carter Construction Co., Worcester.

Mr. Small, a member of the Class of
1922, was born on Dec. 8, 1900 in
Westbrook, Me. He graduated from Lee
Institute, Boston, where he studied to be a
licensed, registered and bonded real estate
broker. He was a registered civil engineer.
During World War II, he was a lieutenant
commander with the 56th Battalion of the
Seabees, and formed the first Seabee unit
in Massachusetts.

He was a 50-year Mason, and belonged
to the Congregational Church, the Mas-
sachusetts Retired State, County, and
Municipal Employees Association, the
AARP, and the American Legion.

Kenneth E. Hapgood, '23, retired director
of power and design with the Tennessee
Valley Authority, died in a rest home in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, on January 9,
1980.

He was born in Hudson, Mass., on
March 31, 1899. In 1923 he graduated as
an electrical engineer from WPI. During his
lifetime, he was with GE, Allied Engineers,
and the Tennessee Valley Authority. While
with the TVA, he made a number of busi-
ness trips to Europe and Taiwan. In 1964,
he was appointed to the Federal Power
Commission.

A fellow of IEEE, Mr. Hapgood also
belonged to CIGRE (the Conference Inter-
national des Grandes Reseaux Electrique)
and NSPE. He was a registered engineer in
Tennessee, and a member of the Chat-
tanooga Engineers Club and the Congrega-
tional Church. He had been listed in
"Who's Who in Engineering" and "Who's
Who in America. " At one time he served as
president of the Schenectady chapter of
the Alumni Association.

Edward B. Johnson, '23, of Garden City,
New York, passed away recently.

A native of Wethersfield, Conn., he was
born on Aug. 16, 1899. He graduated in
1923 as a civil engineer. From 1925 to
1927 he was with Western Union. In 1927,
he joined Franklin Society Federal Savings
and Loan Association, and retired as assist-
ant vice president in 1964. He belonged to
Theta Chi.

Richard L. Kimball, '24, of Ocala, Florida,
formerly with Gibbs & Hill, Inc., died on
January 10, 1980. He was 77 years old.

Following his graduation as an electrical
engineer, Mr. Kimball was an employee of
Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. for ten
years. For the next three years he worked
for the Federal Power Commission. He
then joined Gibbs & Hill, Inc., New York
City, from which he later retired as chief
systems engineer.

He was a professional engineer and a
member of AIEE, the American Railway
Engineering Association, and ASME, as
well as CIGRE (the Conference Interna-
tional des Grandes Reseaux Electrique). He
served on the Elmer A. Perry Board of
Awards.

Mr. Kimball was born on March 8, 1 902
in Springfield, Mass. He was a member of
Lambda Chi Alpha, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma
Xi. His grandfather was Alonzo Kimball
(deceased), an early WPI faculty member
who planned the interior of the magnetic
laboratory (Skull Tomb); designed the WPI
seal; and founded the Electrical Engineer-
ing Department.

Thomas D. Perry, '24, retired mechanical
engineer for Atlas Design Co. , passed away
on February 12, 1980 in Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts.

He was born on Dec. 17, 1902 in
Chicopee, Mass., and was a member of the
Class of 1 924. He belonged to Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, the Massachusetts Society of Pro-
fessional Engineers and Engineering
Societies of New England. Other affiliations
were with Associated Engineering Co. and
United Engineering Co., both of
Springfield, and with A.G. Spaulding &
Bros, of Chicopee.

Waldo E. Tillinghast, '24, of Brooklyn,
Connecticut, died recently.

He belonged to Sigma Alpha Epsilon. A
member of the Class of 1 924, he later
became a funeral director in Moosup,
Conn., and then a partner in F.W. Tilling-
hast Sons in Danielson, Conn.

Arthur R. Brown, '26, of Sun City, Califor-
nia, is deceased.

He was born in Gardner, Mass., on July
25, 1904. In 1926, he received his BSEE
from WPI, and in 1928, his professional
degree. For many years, he was a senior
engineer at Westinghouse Electric Corp.,
Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. Brown was a registered professional
engineer in Massachusetts. He belonged to
the Franklin County Chapter of the Ohio
Society of Professional Engineers.

Salvatore F. Marino, '28, WPI senior class
president and business managerof the first
Peddler, died on February 23, 1980 in
Bristol, Connecticut. He was 77.

He was born in Plainville, Conn., on June
15, 1902, and received his BSME in 1928.
Before entering WPI in 1924, he was a
draftsman at Marlin-Rockwell in Plainville.
After graduation, he worked in New York
and Boston on the design and installation
of steam power plant equipment. From
1 935 to 1 957, he was with the New Depar-
ture Division of GMC of Bristol, where he
became chief product engineer and was
granted several patents. From 1957 until
his retirement in 1 965, he was senior appli-
cation engineer for the Fafnir Bearing
Company of New Britain, Conn.

Mr. Marino had been a Republican
selectman in Plainville, had belonged to St.
Joseph's Church, and was an honorary life
member of the Knights of Columbus. He
also belonged to Tau Beta Pi. Interested in
music, he started playing the organ and the
piano at an early age. He sang in several
choral groups and glee clubs in Connect-
icut. Besides traveling extensively with his
wife, Helen, he found time to compile a
family tree and to write a family history
dating back to 1800.

Joseph E. Totas, '31, a retired industrial
engineer from the former Worcester
Works, died on March 13, 1980 in St.
Vincent Hospital, Worcester, at the age of
71.

With Worcester Works, U.S. Steel, for
over 30 years, he retired when the com-
pany closed. He was born on Jan. 11, 1909
in Worcester, and was a member of the
Class of 1931.

Mr. Totas was a registered professional
engineer and land surveyor in Mas-
sachusetts. He was a member of the
Greendale Retired Men's Club, Lithuanian
Naturalization and Social Club, and St. Joan
of Arc parish and its Goodtimers Club.

Curtis A. Hedler, '34, of Norwich, Connect-
icut, passed away recently.

He was a former assistant to the superin-
tendent of production operations at the
Northeast Utilities Service Company in Be-
rlin. Also, during his career, he was assistant
plant superintendent for Connecticut Light
and Power in Uncasville, Conn., and former
plant superintendent for the utility at the
Montville generating station.

A member of the Society of Professional
Engineers, Mr. Hedler's other affiliations
were with Sigma Phi Epsilon, the Masons,
and the Boy Scouts. He had served as a WPI
class agent. He was born on May 16, 1911
in Taftville, Conn. In 1934 he received his
BSEE from WPI.

Robert B. Keith, '38, who retired eight
years ago from U.S. Steel Corp., died in Key
West, Florida, on February 5, 1980.

He was born in Quincy, Mass., on Nov.
22, 191 5, and later graduated as an electri-
cal engineer. He was associated with Amer-
ican Steel and Wire and U.S. Steel during
his entire career. In 1972, he retired as an
industrial engineer.

Mr. Keith was a registered professional
engineer in Ohio. Active with the Boy
Scouts, he had also served as treasurer of
the Cleveland chapter of the Alumni Asso-
ciation.

Dr. Roland W. Ure, Jr., '46, was killed in a
light plane crash in Utah on January 24,
1980. He was 54 years old.

After studying at WPI, he received his BS
from the University of Michigan, his MS
from the California Institute of Technology,
and his PhD from the University of
Chicago. For nearly twenty years, he was a
physicist at Westinghouse. In 1969, he
became a professor of electrical engineer-
ing, materials science, and engineering at
the University of Utah, a post he held at the
time of his death.

Dr. Ure was an authority on thermalelec-
tricity. He played a key role in establishing
the Hedco Micro Electronic Laboratory in
the College of Engineering at the University
of Utah. He had served as editor of "Ther-
malelectric Devices, Energy Conversion."

He belonged to Lambda Chi Alpha, Sigma
Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, and IEEE
(senior member). Other affiliations were
with the American Physical Society and the
American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science.

A native of New York City, Dr. Ure was
born on June 22, 1925. He held two pat-
ents, and was the author of numerous
technical and scientific papers, as well as a
textbook on thermalelectricity.

During World War II, Dr. Ure was with
the Naval Ordnance Laboratory. He was
active with the Cooperative Christian
CampingGroupforwhich heled numerous
backpacking and four-wheel drive trips. He
belonged to the United Church of Christ,
and served as president of the Hercules
Fliers.

Bernard Siegel, '48, of Ipswich, Mas-
sachusetts, died on March 4, 1980.

He was born on May 12, 1926, in Brook-
lyn, N.Y. In 1948, he graduated as a me-
chanical engineer from WPI and received
his MSME from Columbia in 1949. For
many years he was with General Electric in
Lynn, Mass. He was a member of AEPi,
ASME, andASNE.

James D. Wilson, '49, a former chairman
of the Board of Selectmen in Andover,
Massachusetts, died on February 19, 1980,
at Lawrence General Hospital following a
short illness.

Born in Worcester on April 24, 1920, he
later became a student at WPI. In 1949 he
graduated with his BSME. For a number of
years he worked for Laird deVou, Inc., of
Cambridge, which he served as salesman,
treasurer-clerk, and engineering consul-
tant.

A registered professional engineer, he
was past president of the Merrimac Valley
Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He
was a Navy veteran of World War II, and he
was active with the Episcopal Church, the
March of Dimes, and the Boy Scouts. He
belonged to the Masons, the American
Society of Tool and Manufacturing En-
gineer, and Phi Gamma Delta.

Richard C. Gillette, '52, president of Star
Datacom, Inc., McLean, Virginia, recently
passed away.

He graduated as an electrical engineer in
1952, and then received his MA from
Trinity College. Among his employers over
the years, were Aries Corp., U.S. Industries,
Lewis Dobrow & Lamb, Wilson, Haight &
Welch, Inc., the Bristol Co., United Aircraft
Corp., Motorola, and Telecheck.

A member of the American Economic
Association, he also belonged to the Asso-
ciation of Industrial Advertisers, Phi Kappa
Theta, and Pi Delta Epsilon. He was a
former president of the Washington (D.C.)
chapter of the Alumni Association.

Mr. Gillette served as an ensign in the
U.S. Navy from 1952 to 1954. He was
associated with the U.S. Naval Institute, the
U.S. Navy League, the American Platform
Association, and the National Yacht Club.
He was named to "Who's Who in the
South and Southeast."

Francis G. Scarbeau, SIM '63, passed away
in St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, at the
age of 53.

He was comptroller at NYPRO, Inc. in
Clinton, Mass. Earlier, he had been assist-
ant controller at Riley Stoker, which he
joined as an accountant in 1953. In 1956
he was named accounting supervisor and
in 1957, accounting manager.

Mr. Scarbeau was a native of Worcester,
and graduated from New England School
of Accounting.

Raffi H. Hollisian, '77, died of heart failure
in Boulder, Colorado, on March 1, 1980.
After WPI, he went to the University of
Colorado, where he was studying mathe-
matics and history. Last summer he toured
several foreign countries including Ar-
menia, which enriched his strong attach-
ments to his Armenian heritage.

48 / Summer 1980 / The WPI Journal

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IN THIS ISSUE:

2 Fall sports: Off to a rousing start

4 Shipping out with the President's Advisory Council

Sending off the Tall Ships and saying thanks to some veryspe-
cial people.

10 Biomedical Engineering— The human side of technology

A brief look at what may be the oldest of WPI's non-traditional
programs.

13 On butterfly wings, this time . . .

Yet another WPI connection to those human-powered aircraft

14 Give the job to a busy man!

15 Eager beaver?

16 Your class and others

30 Completed careers

Editor:

H. Russell Kay

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Kathleen Molony, '77; Stanley P. Negus, Jr.,

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WPI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

President: John H. McCabe, '68

Senior Vice President: Peter H. Horstmann, '55

Vice President: Clark Poland, '48

Secretary-Treasurer: Stephen J. Hebert, '66

Past President: William A. Julian, '49

Executive Committee member s-at-large:
Philip B. Ryan, '65; Donald E. Ross, '54;
Anson C. Fyler, '45; Harry W. Tenney, Jr., '56

Fund Board: Henry Styskal, Jr., '50, chair-
man; Richard B. Kennedy, '65, vice chairman;
Gerald Finkle, '57; Philip H. Puddington, '59;
Richard A. Davis, '53; C. John Lindegren, '39;
JohnH. Tracy, '52

The WPI Journal / Fall 1980 / 1

Fall Sports:

Off to a rousing start!

by Mark Mandel

WPI Sports Information Director

If the WPI sports year continues as it
has in the first half of the fall season,
it will be the most successful in
many, many years.

The football team's 3-1 record
marks its best start since 1968,
when the Engineers went 5-2. WPI
opened the season with a loss, 23-6
to Norwich, but rebounded and won
the next three games: 14-0 over
Coast Guard, 7-5 over Colby, and
37-0 over Western Connecticut State
College before a cheering Homecom-
ing crowd of alumni and students.

"We are pleased with our efforts
during the first half of the season,"
said head coach Bob Weiss. "But we
would sure like to play that first
game over again!"

As the scores indicate, the Engi-
neers have won on the strength of
the defense. After giving up all 23
points to Norwich in the first half of
that game, the defense limited its
opponents to just 5 points in the
next three and one-half games.

Offensively, a switch that has
moved tri-captain Bob Montagna to
halfback and freshman Mark Lefeb-
vre to quarterback has been quite
effective. But the bulk of the offen-
sive load has fallen on the shoulders
of sophomore halfback Jim Leonardo
. . . and he has responded. Jim leads
New England small colleges in scor-
ing (5 TDs) and won the prestigious
Gold Helmet Award (given by the
New England Football Writer's Asso-
ciation to the most outstanding per-
formers in New England college
football) for his 4-touchdown perfor-
mance in WPI's win over Western
Connecticut.

"The second half of the season
should be a good test for us," con-
tinues Coach Weiss. "Bates, RPI,
Hamilton, and Lowell — our next
opponents — are all formidable
teams. However, I feel that we can
do well in each and every one of the
remaining games. If the spirit and
the togetherness that we showed in
the last three games continues over
the next four, there is no question
that this team will produce one of
the best records in years."

Unexpectedly, the soccer team
(4-0-1) is also having one of its better
years. Despite losing WPI's third all-
time scorer, Leo Kaabi, to gradua-
tion, Coach Alan King has brought
his team to its highest rankings in
WPI history— 12th in the country
and 2nd in New England.

The offensive punch, supplied
by Kaabi last year ( 1 7 of WPI's 35
goals), has been provided by mid-
fielder Micky Nallen (3 goals, 4
assists) and forward Tony Pileggi (4
goals). The defense, led by captain

Dennis Wysocki and goalie Jim
Eilenberger, has lived up to its expec-
tations. The Engineers have given up
only three goals in the first five
games.

"I'm not yet convinced that this
is a great team — we still have the
toughest part of the schedule ahead
of us," said head coach Alan King.
'But we are beginning to play like a
team, and I have high hopes for the
remainder of the year."

The women's tennis team has qui-
etly but quickly taken itself from
infancy, just a year ago, to respecta-
bility. Under the tutelage of Marcia
Kenedey, the Engineers won their
first six matches and have a 7-3
record halfway through the sched-
ule.

The key to the early success can
be found in the team's depth. The
engineer lineup, from top to bottom,
is stocked with very capable players.
First singles player Lisa Longwell
(7-3 record); second singles Debbie
Biederman (6-4); and first doubles
Cindy Gagnon and Leslie Cornwall
(4-2) are the cream of the crop. But
everyone plays, everyone contrib-
utes, and the result is a very reward-
ing season.

The cross-country team, riddled by
graduation, is having a tough go of it.
Its 2-5 record should improve as the
young team gets further into the sea-
son.

The women's volleyball team is
1-2 and will play the bulk of its
schedule later in the fall.

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Shipping Out

with the

President's Advisory Council

It started out as a part of a time-
worn device used by many col-
leges to help raise money for the
Annual Alumni Fund. It has become
something much more valuable and
significant for WPI.

In 1972 a special category of giv-
ing to the college by alumni and par-
ents was created for the first time:
those who had given the Alumni
Fund or the Parents Fund $1,000 or
more, or who had made a one-time
gift of $10,000 or more, were recog-
nized with membership in a newly
formed group called the President's
Advisory Council.

Photographs by Michael A. DiPierro, '68,
and Stephen J. Hebert, '66

Now, many colleges have done
similar kinds of things to help stim-
ulate such major giving by alumni
and parents. Such recognition usu-
ally takes the form of a special certif-
icate, or plaque, or some other
physical memento, suitably
inscribed or engraved. But Thomas J.
Denney, vice president for university
relations, and Stephen J. Hebert, '66,
alumni director, didn't want the
PAC to be just another "me-too"
program.

"People who make gifts of that
magnitude," says Denney, "are
showing a very real commitment to
WPI and to what we stand for. For us
merely to turn around and give them
something like an engraved paper-
weight as a way of saying 'thanks' —
well, it just didn't seem to me to be a
meaningful enough gesture. Instead,
we decided to try and capitalize on
the commitment of these donors to
WPI by asking them for more than
just money.

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"We tried to think of a suitable
structure, a vehicle with which we
could tap the wealth of knowledge
and experience these successful indi-
viduals had amassed in their
careers," Denney continues. "Yet
we wanted to do it in a way that
wouldn't conflict with the normal
day-to-day operations and policy-
setting functional areas of the col-
lege, which properly rest with the
college administration and the Board
of Trustees, respectively. And we
didn't want to take up too much of
the time of these busy and con-
cerned people."

The end product was the
President's Advisory Council,
a group which would be
invited to the campus annually to
meet with the president of the col-
lege and discuss a specific topic of
concern.

To help form the charter group
of PAC members, Len White, '41,
head of R.H. White Construction
Co., Inc., pitched in to head up the
recruitment drive. An attractive
invitation to membership was pre-
pared and mailed to approximately
80 alumni who were considered
prospects for the PAC. In that first
year, 38 people joined the group.
(Compare this with the 17 people
who had contributed at the level of
the PAC the year before.) They were
invited to campus that winter, for a
stimulating discussion with Presi-
dent George Hazzard. The theme of
that meeting was the problems fac-
ing higher education in the 1970s,
including financing college opera-

tions, student expenses, and attract-
ing sufficient numbers of students in
the face of an imminent decline in
the college-age population.

The PAC program was off and
running. It was so successful, in
both leadership and financial terms,
that Denney and Hebert and White
wanted to find another way of saying
'thanks' to this generous group of
involved and committed alumni.
What they decided has evolved into
the other main tradition of the PAC,
an annual recognition function. It
started off simply enough, with a
desire to hold a truly elegant dinner,
with cuisine and setting appropriate
to the stature and prestige of the
group.

Barbara Hall, special events
coordinator, located a suitable
caterer and the evening was staged
in the great hall of the Higgins
House, which had just recently
become a part of the WPI campus.

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THE ANNUAL DISCUSSIONS with
the president have continued.
Over the years they have
touched on student housing, the
Football Committee's findings and
report, Title IX and equal athletic
facilities for women, the greening of
the campus, and plans for WPI's
physical plant.

The dinners have continued, as
well, and they have become a very
special annual event. In 1975 some-
one got the idea of staging a "Feder-
alist" dinner at Old Sturbridge
Village, recreating the supper served
at George Washington's inaugura-
tion. Well, it turned out that the
menu had to be altered somewhat,
but the combination of the nine-
teenth-century setting and enter-
tainment, plus the feeling of
community created by being with
others who cared about the future of
WPI, made the day something very
special for those PAC members who
attended.

The next question became,
"How could the PAC follow that
kind of act for the next year?" With
great difficulty and ingenuity, that's
how. For 1976, the group was
addressed by a special assistant to
the Montreal Olympic Games Com-
mittee. In 1979, another dinner was
staged at Sturbridge, this one
focused around the theme of recreat-
ing the 'Junto,' a group of intellec-
tuals founded by Benjamin Franklin,
who gathered periodically to imbibe
and to solve the world's problems.
Franklin, as an inventor and early
technologist, seemed a suitable
choice for a WPI group, and the
group was welcomed by Ben himself
(well, actually by an actor perform-
ing a one-man show) .

In 1979, after heading up the
organization for eight years, Len
White turned over the reins of
the PAC chairmanship to Richard A.
Davis, '53, president of Thermos
Division, King-Seely Thermos Co.
White is currently serving on the
Physical Facilities Committee of the
WPI Board of Trustees and is corpo-
rate chairman of WPI's current capi-
tal funds program.

For 1980, the PAC had one of its
finest days ever. By now, the group
had grown to more than 150 mem-
bers, and it was getting harder and
harder to 'top' the previous year's
PAC function. But 1980 happened to
be Boston's 350th birthday. As a
present to Boston, the Tall Ships —
which had so thrilled the city and
nation in 1976 — returned for a few
days' visit to Boston Harbor topped
off by a sailing race to Norway.

President Edmund T. Cranch
welcomed President's Advisory
Council members to some of the
best seats in the house, on a spe-
cially chartered boat, as the Tall
Ships sailed out of the harbor and
readied for the start of the race on
June 4. Two PAC members flew in
from California, one from Washing-
ton, and another from his home in
the Caribbean, specially for the
event.

The editor of the Journal hap-
pened to be leaving campus late on
the afternoon of the 4th, just as the
buses were returning from the Tall
Ships cruise, so he wandered over to
Harrington Auditorium in time to
see the group disembark. "In ten
years at WPI," he commented, "I
have never seen such an excited and
enthusiastic crowd. They came out
of the buses walking on air, it
seemed like. You could tell that
they'd had a great day, with the Tall
Ships and with each other."

Over the years, the PAC has
grown considerably in
numbers. And in doing so it
has managed to develop a sense of
community among its members
while successfully avoiding any hint
of elitism. As PAC members have
come to know one another, as they
have candidly shared their opinions
at the annual discussions with the
president, as they have enjoyed the
annual functions, and as they have
welcomed newcomers into their
midst each year, the PAC has indeed
become a vital force within the WPI
community.

PAC members come in all sorts.
They range in age from the class of
1913 to the class of 1974. They
include parents of students and
alumni in the classes of '77 through
'83. Their numbers include busi-
nessmen, engineers, entrepreneurs,
contractors, attorneys, and members
of the WPI faculty. They live across
the continent, from Anaheim to
Aruba. They give of themselves —
their resources, their knowledge,
their commitment, their time, and
their love for WPI.

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Above: On the Tall Ships, people can
look mighty small.

Below: And you thought Main Street
was crowded ....

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Above left: Tom Dcnncy, vice president
for university relations, shares a moment
with Julius Palley, '46.

Above right: Professor Ray Hagglund,
who holds the Kenneth G. Merriam Pro-
fessorship in Mechanical Engineering,
enjoys the day with Bill Steur, '35, who
endowed the faculty position in honor of
the former head of WPI's Aeromechanics
Option program in the 30s and 40s.

Below: The contrast of the 18th and the
20th centuries is evident in Boston Har-
bor.

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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING -
The human side of technology

As the oldest of the 'non-
traditional' fields at WPI,
L biomedical engineering has
been around since the mid-1960s. In
that time it has emerged as an inno-
vative yet mature program that cuts
across many of the traditional disci-
plinary boundaries.

The recent death of Richard G.
Beschle, associate professor and one
of the founders of the program,
marks the end of what we might
describe as the "first stage" of bio-
medical engineering education at
WPI. It is an appropriate time to take
a brief look at where the program has
come from and what it is doing
today.

Biomedical engineering is the
application of engineering
principles and methods to
problems in medicine. As engineer-
ing fields go, this is a fairly new one.
Though where you mark the begin-
nings of the field depends somewhat
on how you define its limits
(Roentgen's use of x-rays, for exam-
ple, might be considered one of the
earliest instances of biomedical engi-
neering), there were no educational
programs to train professional bio-
medical engineers until the 1950s.

WPI doesn't really offer an
undergraduate program in the way
that some other colleges do, and in
fact biomedical engineering isn't
even a separate department, being
instead an interdisciplinary program
which uses faculty members who
also have joint appointments with

other departments. Prof. Robert A.
Peura, '64, coordinator of the pro-
gram, states its philosophy thus:

"Some schools offer a number
of undergraduate courses in the bio-
medical area, but they attempt to
cover such a breadth of material that
the student never gets any real depth
in any one area. We encourage our
students to major in the department
that reflects their basic interests —
mechanical engineering, electrical
engineering, computer science,
chemical engineering — and then
supplement that work with life sci-
ence courses and, finally, if they
choose, select from our senior- and
graduate-level biomedical engineer-
ing courses.

"Most of our emphasis at the
undergraduate level is through the
project work, particularly projects
done at the two hospital internship
centers we maintain, at St. Vincent
Hospital and at the University of
Massachusetts Medical Center.
These two centers offer students the
opportunity to get practical, clinical
experience in the field."

As he talks about his field and
his program, Peura's nor-
L mally reserved manner
takes on a passionate intensity. "For
me, biomedical engineering is a
chance to do something technical
and really see the human benefit
from your work, to do something
that helps people live. I majored in
electrical engineering at WPI, but I
quickly discovered I didn't want to
build a faster computer or make a
better national defense system. I got
interested in biomedical engineering
after reading about defibrillators in
the ieee Spectrum during my junior
year, and I ended up going on to Iowa
State University for graduate work."
He continues, "I guess what I like
most about biomedical engineering
is the amount of feedback I get from
my work, the chance to see it put
into practice and really be of direct
benefit to other people."

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From its beginnings in 1963 as a
joint program operated by WPI
and Clark University, the bme
program has cut across all sorts of
traditional academic boundaries. In
those early days, WPI itself offered
no biology courses, so a cooperative
program was the only possibility.
The initial foray into the area was
with a seminar held in 1961, when
Dick Beschle spoke on the subject.
The next year a joint seminar pro-
gram with Clark's biology depart-
ment was held at WPI.

The first course in biomedical
engineering was initiated by Dick
Beschle in 1963, when it was given
to students from both schools, and
repeated during the summer for six-
teen graduate students in electrical
engineering. (That summer's course,
incidentally, was either directly or
indirectly responsible for the plan-
ning of biomedical engineering pro-
grams in at least two other schools.)
Initially the program offered a
master's degree, and a doctoral
degree program was inaugurated in
1965.

If biomedical engineering had
remained at the graduate level it
attained by the late '60s at WPI, it
would certainly be a good if tradi-
tional program. But then something
different happened. The WPI Plan
came along, and with it a focused
emphasis on project work, the solu-
tion of real problems in conjunction
with outside sponsors.

This opened up a whole range of
new possibilities for WPI students. A
project center agreement was
quickly reached with St. Vincent
Hospital, a 600-bed teaching hospi-
tal in southeast Worcester.

The February 1975 Journal
described some of the work done by
students at St. Vincent, specifically
the refinement and development of a
technique for detecting blood clots
in the calf by measuring changes in
electrical resistance, a procedure
first defined by Dr. H. Brownell
Wheeler, now chief of surgery at
UMass Medical Center. The stu-
dents' project, you may recall,
involved the use of liverwursts (with
holes drilled in them) to simulate

the human calf. That project
resulted in a validated medical test
which is now used by the hospital,
and Bill Penney, one of the students
involved, is now on the WPI bio-
medical engineering faculty.

More recent work at St. Vincent
has involved projects in blood pres-
sure measurement, development of
a cardiac simulator for training hos-
pital personnel in the use of an intra-
venous pressure monitor,
microcomputer-based patient moni-
toring techniques, designing a modi-
fied surgical tool for cutting bone,
and designing an adjustable headrest
for wheelchairs. Projects at UMass
Medical Center have included
designing and building a micropro-
cessor-based instrument for moni-
toring the heart's oxygen
consumption during surgery, mea-
suring pulmonary artery tempera-
ture, building an instrument to
monitor the operation of a defibrilla-
tor, devising a method for accurately
testing the coefficient of friction of
suture material (and thus determin-
ing the security of surgical knots,

The WPI foumal / Fall 1980/11

measuring the true motion of the
knee joint, devising a procedure for
cooling large wounds to aid healing,
a cough detector and counter, and
work on determining the speed of
blood flow by using ultrasonic waves
and doppler shifts.

This wide range of projects,
however, do show two consistent
threads that are characteristic of
what is perhaps the major emphasis
of WPI's program: investigation of
non-invasive measurement and
monitoring techniques — that is,
techniques and tests which can be
made from outside (or on the surface
of) the body to discover underlying
conditions. The second thread is
that much of the work done in the
program is concerned with blood
flow in the body — with the arteries
and veins, and with heart action.

At WPI some 85 undergradu-
ates are involved in the bio-
L medical engineering
program, in addition to 30 graduate
students. While it will not likely
ever match the size of one of the big
departments — say ME or EE —
biomedical engineering will con-
tinue to offer a uniquely different
alternative for WPI student engi-
neers.

During the early years of the
WPI Plan, the term 'technological
humanist' was coined to refer to the
type of values-conscious engineers
and scientists the school wanted to
produce. Of all the technologies
being studied at WPI today, can any
be called more 'humane' than bio-
medical engineering, which is aimed
at helping to protect and restore
health and life?

RICHARD G.
BESCHLE

The thing that was really spe-
cial about Dick Beschle was
the way he cared about stu-
dents. He was always available to
students, even if they weren't taking
one of his courses or working for
him. He spent a lot of time just
being available for students with
questions or problems." Those are
the comments of Bob Peura, current
biomedical engineering coordinator
at WPI.

A former student echoed those
sentiments: "To me, the most mem-
orable thing about Dr. Beschle was
that he spent several hours a day in
the Biomedical engineering lounge
talking to students. This was not
official or part of a course. He was
just always there, talking to stu-
dents. The conversations were
informative, educational, and inter-
esting. This showed a real dedication
to teaching."

One of his students later com-
mented that Dick "exuded through
his teachings and manner a deep
respect for the living organism. I can
remember quite distinctly Dr.
Beschle relating the moving experi-
ence the first time he held in his
hand a beating heart." That same
student continued, "the most valu-
able learning experiences at WPI that
I can recall were the informal gather-
ings 'chaired' by Dr. Beschle, where
student research or other related
topics were discussed an analyzed in
an open forum. . . To him there was
no such thing as a stupid question.
He answered every one with
patience and wisdom."

One of the big interests in
Beschle's life was the scouting
movement. Edwin B. Coghlin, Jr.,
'56, worked with Dick on a number
of scouting committees and pro-
grams. He remembers, "Dick's tre-
mendous commitment to an
exceptional program . . . his great
concern for the health and safety of
each and every individual camper. . ."

Dick, a WPI graduate and mem-
ber of the Class of 1950, was one of
the founders of WPI's biomedical
engineering program, and he
directed its operations for many
years. During that time it grew from
a joint operation with Clark Univer-
sity to a separate WPI program serv-
ing scores of students each year.
Through an administrative mixup,
Dick, an associate professor since
1963, was passed over for promotion
twice, despite the support of his col-
leagues in the Life Sciences Depart-
ment. Dick was finally scheduled for
the promotion to full professor he so
richly deserved on July 1, 1980. But
he didn't make it.

Dick's class was celebrating its
30th anniversary Reunion in June
with a dinner at the Salem Cross
Inn, West Brookfield, Massachu-
setts. As part of the program, Dick
had begun to address the group when
he suddenly collapsed, stricken with
a massive heart attack.

A special effort is being made by a
group of his colleagues and former
students to create a memorial fund
in Dick Beschle's name. As this
issue went to press, over $5,000 had
been raised. Ideally, the group would
like to endow an annual graduate
assistantship; if that is not possible,
then an annual lecture series will
result. If you would like to contrib-
ute to this fund, please send your
donation to The Richard G. Beschle
Memorial Fund, Worcester Polytech-
nic Institute, Worcester, Massachu-
setts 01609.

12 / Fall 1980 / The WPI Journal

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On butterfly wings this time

When we ran the article by
Paul MacCready about
the Gossamer aircraft in
the summer issue of the Journal, we
inadvertently left out the contribu-
tions of another WPI alumnus
whose research was intimately
involved with the success of the pro-
ject.

The alumnus is E. Eugene
Larrabee, '42, who is currently asso-
ciate professor at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Students of
Larrabee, using his propeller design
algorithms, designed the final pro-
peller for the Gossamer Albatross,
helping to transform that initially
unsuccessful aircraft into the Chan-
nel crosser that attracted world-wide
attention. A popular account of Pro-
fessor Larrabee's propeller design
and analysis methods appears in Sci-

entific American for July 1980.

Professor Larrabee gave the first
of this year's Carl Gunnard Johnson
seminars at WPI in September. His
presentation covered propeller the-
ory and the history of the Chrysalis
project, which led to the construc-
tion by his students of a sophisti-
cated pedal-drive airplane during the
short period of 90 days in the spring
of 1979. The biplane featured a
72-foot wingspan and weighed 95
pounds. The students were all
undergraduates in MIT's department
of aeronautics and astronautics.
Stephen Finberg, an engineer in the
Charles Stark Draper Laboratories in
Cambridge, designed and con-
structed the Chrysalis air-speed
measuring system and took the pic-
ture which is reproduced here.

The Chrysalis biplane, alas, is

no more. After being flown more
than 330 times during the summer
of 1979 by at least 40 different pilots
(including Bryan Allen), it was dis-
mantled forever on September 16. A
handsome l/12th scale display
model of the plane has been con-
structed for MIT's historical collec-
tion.

Professor Larrabee is proud to
have received the Gospel according
to Prandtl and Betz while he was a
student of the late Professor Kenneth
G. Merriam in the then-famous
aeromechanics option of the ME
department. And he's proud to con-
tinue passing it along to his students
at MIT, where he has taught since
1946. But the Chrysalis project has
to be the outstanding Lehr und
Kunst activity of his life.

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A BUSY MAN

If you want to get a job done, give
it to the busiest person you
know," goes the old saying. The
University of Arkansas apparently
believes in old sayings. It just named
Dr. Mason H. Somerville, '64, the
new chairman of the department of
mechanical engineering and engi-
neering science.

Dr. Somerville made his way to
Fayetteville, Arkansas, via Grand
Forks, North Dakota and seven years
of distinguished service at the Uni-
versity of North Dakota (UND). For
the last three years, he has been
director of the University's Engi-
neering Experiment Station in the
School of Engineering and Mines.
Since 1976, he has also held the post
of associate professor in the depart-
ment of mechanical engineering.

At the Engineering Experiment
Station, Somerville designed, nego-
tiated, and implemented the Engi-
neering Service Plan, which provides
financial rewards for professionals at
the School who are academically
productive. He is also partially
responsible for a research incentive
plan with the University, which pro-
vides monies to the School. Under
his leadership, the annual value of
the station's research projects rose
from $700,000 to $3.4 million in a
space of five years.

As a professor at UND, he
developed and taught the first gradu-
ate course on the finite element
method. His other courses included
fluid mechanics, turbomachinery
design, and heat transfer. Along the
way, he produced 32 major publica-
tions and reports totaling over 3,000
pages, and conducted research pro-
jects valued at over $1.3 million.

Concerned with alternate
sources of energy, he designed,
supervised the building of, and mon-
itored three experimental residential
solar heating systems and developed
a multiple-source heat pump. The

university's coal characterization
proposal, which he chaired, won the
Old West Consortium competition.
His concern for energy extends out-
side of the classroom. He is one of
the founders of the Energy Associa-
tion of North Dakota, a private not-
for-profit citizens' group dedicated to
the furthering of energy conserva-
tion and the use of renewable energy.
A member of the North Dakota
Solar Resource Advisory Panel,
Somerville was also elected to the
program planning and review board
of the Mid- American Solar Energy
Complex, Inc. to represent the state.
He has helped arrange a national
energy conference, and has partici-
pated in 65 solar energy and coal gas-
ification presentations since 1975. In
May, he was invited to testify before
the Senate Appropriations Commit-
tee on DOE's conservation and solar
application budget. Last February, he
chaired a symposium on ice maker
pumps.

A year ago, recognized as an out-
standing faculty member at UND,
he was elected a faculty lecturer. A
number of other honors have come
his way. Six years ago, he won the
Outstanding Young Educator's
Award from the Society of Automo-
tive Engineers. Previously, he won
the Most Demanding Teacher Award
at Pennsylvania State University,

which also named him the Olin
Grant recipient in a faculty compe-
tition.

Dr. Somerville received his PhD
from Penn State and his MSME from
Northeastern. He is a registered pro-
fessional engineer in North Dakota.
An experiencd researcher and con-
sultant, his most recent project post
was that of consultant in the design
and construction of the HVAC sys-
tem at the Cray Research Facility in
Minneapolis. The design, an off-
peak air conditioning system, was
completed this year.

Somerville was active on
numerous UND committees, and
this year concluded a three-year
term on the Faculty Research Com-
mittee. His professional member-
ships include the ASME, the
International Solar Energy Society,
and the American Society of Engi-
neering Education. Recently, he was
invited to speak before the Midwest
Governors' Energy Task Force in St.
Louis, Mo.

Prior to joining UND in 1973,
he was a senior engineer at
Westinghouse's Bettis Atomic
Power Laboratory. One of his pro-
jects at Bettis was the completion of
a major preliminary design of the
shutdown and refueling facilities
required for the U.S.S. Nimitz air-
craft carrier. From 1967 to 1971, he

14 / Fall 1980 / The WPI Journal

EAGER BEAVER?

SIX DAYS A WEEK, this WPI
alumnus arrives at his office
at 7:45 a.m. After opening the
mail, he checks the cash receipts,
looks over the new invoices and the
incoming orders, scrutinizes the pre-
vious day's production figures, then
takes a tour of the plant.

"An eager beaver," you tell

yourself. "A young man trying to
impress his boss. Trying to get to the
top. Fast!"

was a full-time instructor at Penn
State, and from 1977 to the present,
an invited lecturer at the University
of Wisconsin.

Dr. Somerville takes to the Uni-
versity of Arkansas a solid back-
ground of dedication, creativity, and
achievement, as well as a profes-
sional record which will stand him
in good stead as head of the Mechan-
ical Engineering Department. This
summer, he took over his new post,
which like any new job is both chal-
lenging and time-consuming. At
Arkansas, he will teach mechanical
engineering, as well as serve as head
of the department.

"I still plan to keep up with my
outside activities, however," he
declares. "I sing in the Methodist
Church choir, and I am active in
Lions International." A family man,
Somerville also enjoys racquetball,
backpacking, and woodworking.

A busy man can make time for
almost everything.

Actually, the "young" man is
over 80 years old, and he's been at
the top for decades. He's Herbert E.
Brooks, '20, owner and director of
the Conant Ball Company of
Gardner, Mass. For 60 years he's fol-
lowed the same daily office routine.
It's in his blood now. Herb Brooks
likes to make sure that everything is
running smoothly, and that every-
one is doing his fair share to keep
Conant Ball Company the producer
of fine quality furniture that it has
been for 128 years. During his long
career with the company, he's
worked with five generations of his
family: his grandfather, his father,
his brother, his son, and since 1979,
his grandson.

In 1920, he joined the firm as an
assistant factory superintendent. In
1936, he, his father, and his brother
purchased control of the business
from the state of Edward Ball.
Shortly afterward, he was elected
president. When his father retired in
1949, Brooks was named treasurer.
From 1974 to 1979, he was chairman
of the board. Presently, he serves as a
director.

A Gardner native, Brooks
attended WPI, graduating as a
mechanical engineer in 1920. While
there, he was a member of Sigma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity and Skull.
During his vacations, he worked in
the family factory learning how to
make furniture. Some of his early
responsibilities included the supervi-
sion of the wood shop and the pur-
chase of lumber. Subsequently, he
took charge of the entire manufac-
turing operation of the company,
and, much later, became the chief
executive officer.

For a number of years, he
attended furniture shows in Grand
Rapids, Mich., Chicago, 111., and
High Point, S.C. His interest and
dedication to the industry led him to
active participation in the New Eng-
land Association of Furniture Manu-
facturers in the 1940's. Because he
was a leader in the furniture field, he
was invited to testify in Washington,
D.C. before the World War II Price
Control Board. For two terms he
held the post of director of the
National Association of Furniture
Manufacturers.

Brooks' administrative talents
have also served him well in com-
munity affairs. He is a former direc-
tor of the First National Bank of
Gardner, and a past president of the
Gardner Home for Elderly People,
and of the local United Fund. He is a
50-year member of the Masons, and
a former member of the Monomo-
noc Sporting Club and the
Rotary. He belongs to the Congrega-
tional Church.

Since he started work at Conant
Ball in 1920, there have been many
changes in the company. Originally,
Conant Ball was strictly a chair
manufacturer. Early on, unfinished
chairs were being shipped from
Gardner to Boston to be finished and
sold in the Boston finishing plant
and showroom. Although the finish-
ing operation was shut down in the
late 1920's, the firm continued oper-
ating showrooms in Boston and in
New York City during the 1930's.
Later, it produced dining room and
kitchen suites. Early American fur-
niture was introduced in the 1930's,
with one of those lines only being
discontinued in 1973.

Conant Ball was a leader in con-
temporary furniture. In 1932, it
brought out American Modern,
designed by Russell Wright. Follow-
ing World War II , it was in a good
position to satisfy pent-up consumer
demands. Chicago consumers nearly
rioted when a model room was
unveiled. The firm produced that
design for over 20 years.

Currently, the company is
famous for Sierra, its contemporary
line made of solid oak with walnut
accents, as well as for another group
styled in the country English man-
ner. Another popular line is a group
of solid oak put-together tables,
introduced in 1977.

For 128 years, Conant Ball has
maintained its reputation for high
quality craftsmanship in the manu-
facture of solid wood pieces. And for
60 years, Herb Brooks has been on
the job at 7:45 a.m. to insure the
continuance of that reputation.

The WPI Journal / Fall 1980 / 15

1915

Edward Nary writes that he is sorry that he
missed the reunion, but hopes to attend
next year. This year during reunion he was
preparing to move back to his birthplace,
Adams, Mass. after 65 years.

1920

Secretary

Dr. Frederic R. Butler

228BurncoatSt.

Worcester. MA

01606

Burton Marsh, emeritus member of the
WPI Board of Trustees, is presently at home
from the hospital following a slight heart
attack.

1926 REUNION

Secretary
Archie J Home
1 Hunter Circle
Shrewsbury, MA
01545

TUNE 4-7, 1 98 1

Alfred Wilson writes: "I graduated from
S.D. Warren Co./Scott Paper Co. more than
eleven years ago and am still going
strong." He recently moved from
Westbrook, Me. to Quechee, Vt.

16 /Fall 1980 / The WPI Journal

1929

Secretary Representative:

Holbrook L Horton Holbrook L. Horton

120 W. Saddle River Rd
Saddle River, NJ
07458

The class has completed its 50th anniver-
sary of graduation program by selecting
the Communications Research Laboratory
on the third floor of Atwater Kent
Laboratories as its gift to the college at a
cost of $40,000. It had previously funded a
scholarship until the architect finished the
plans for WPI's newest improvement. Hol-
brook Horton was chairman of the gift
selection committee, assisted by Andy
O'Connell, Diran Deranian, Frank Wies-
man, Milt Labonte and Steve Donahue.

1930

Secretary Representative

Carl W Backstrom Carl W, Backstrom

1 13 Winifred Ave
Worcester, MA
01602

Ed "Foxy Grandpa" Delano just keeps
rolling along. He was the unofficial national
champion in his age class at the recent
25-mile time trial, winning out overfour
other riders all younger than he. Ed is
hitting the media on all fronts. Many news-
papers ran the story of his historic ride to his
50th WPI reunion. He made "Faces in the
Crowd" \n Sports Illustrated, and he was
featured in an article in 50 Plus to name just
a couple of magazines. He has also made a
number of TV appearances.

1933

Secretary:
Sumner B. Sweetser
100 Pine Grove Ave
Summit, NJ
07901

Representative:

Dr Raymond B Crawford

RFDColdbrookRd.

Oakham, MA

01068

Don Haskins and his wife and the George

Lymans travelled with their trailers to
Mexico in March. The Lymans left from
Connecticut and met the Haskinses, from
Utah, at the border. They then travelled
together, communicating by CB radio.
After enjoying the warmth of Mexico, they
returned to the U.S. for a few days of skiing
at Utah resorts. In the future, they hope to
travel together through the West and
Canada.

1935

Secretary

Raymond F Starrett

Continental Country Club

Box 1 04

Wildwood, FL

32785

Representative:
Plummer Wiley
2906 Silver Hill Ave.
Baltimore, MD
21207

Last year, Theron Cole was named vice
president of engineering, research and de-
velopment at Parker Metal Corporation

Harvey White now serves as president of
Harvey W. White, Inc., Charlotte, N.C. He
is a registered professional fire protection
engineer and RM consultant.

I936 REUNION

JUNE 4-7, I 98 I

Secretary

Harold F Henrickson

1406 Fox Hill Dr.

Sun City Center, FL

33570

George Rocheford recently received a
lifetime membership award from the ASCE
in Boston. He is active as a director of the
Natick Lions Club and is busy with local
charities.

1937

Secretary

Representative:

Richard J. Lyman

Gordon F Crowther

10HillcrestRd

20 Bates St

Medfield, MA

Hartford, CT

02052

06114

Correspondent

Samuel W Mencow

789 Parker Ave

Holden, MA

01520

Hank Dearborn continues as a patent and
trademark attorney at Texaco, Inc. and
plans "to continue as long as my health
lasts." He is headquartered in White Plains,
NY. and resides in Summit, N.J. . . . Re-
cently, Harris Howland returned from a
sailing trip on his boat to the Dry Tortugas.
He writes: "Have been retired now for five
years and still enjoying it. I play tennis three
or four times a week and a game of golf
once in a while." Howland is a member of
the U.S. Power Squadron with the rank of
navigator.

The Ray Linsleys have returned from
France where they visited their daughter
who lives in Le Vesinet outside of Paris.
(Their son-in-law is manager of the Paris
branch of the Bank of America.) The
Linsleys' oldest son is a consultant in the

.

restaurant business, and their second son is
sales manager for a distributor of material
for natural food stores. Their youngest son
is on tour with his rock band, which has just
released its first record.

After retiring from Hydrocomp, Inc., in
1977, Ray later formed a new consulting
firm, Linsley, Krager Associates, in Aptos,
Calif. Last year, he completed the third
edition of Water Resources Engineering
and received an honorary doctor of en-
gineering from WPI.

1938

Representative
Francis B Swenson
599 Common St.
Walpole, MA
02081

Norman Bouley, formerly chief of produc-
tion control at H.F. Livermore Corp., Bos-
ton, is retired. . . . Robert O'Brien continues
with Kraft Dairy Group (Breyer, Sealtest,
Breakstone, etc.) in Philadelphia.

1939

Secretary:

Charles H. Amidon, Jr.

636 Salisbury St.

Holden, MA

01520

Representative
C John Lindegren, Jr.
21 Prospect St.
Shrewsbury, MA
01545

Keith McKeeman has a winter home in
Tucson, Arizona. He serves on the board of
directors of Moses Ludington Hospital in
Ticonderoga, NY. and is on the Planning
Board of Hague, NY. He retired three years
ago as chief industrial engineer from J.C.
Penney Co. During his leisure time he
enjoys golf and contract bridge. . . . Ernie
Sykes says, "June 5th was commencement
day for me as I retired from the lab at
(University of California) Berkeley." Trailer
travel is in the Sykes' future.

1940

Secretary

Robert E. Dunklee. Jr

Rocky Hill Rd

North Scituate, Rl

02857

Representative:
Russell A Lovell, Jr.
Jonathan Lane
Sandwich, MA
02563

Eric Anderson and his wife Hazel are enjoying his
early retirement from Pratt & Whitney Aircraft at
their home in Meredith, N.H on the shores of
Lake Winnipesaukee. Although the shell of their
house was built by a contractor, Eric did all the
interior finishing himself with a little help from
his friends. In the summer he commands his own
fleet of small boats. In the winter he snow-
mobiles and goes cross-country skiing. "No
Florida winters for this rugged Scandinavian!"
. . . Howard Anderson continues as president of
the WW. Clark Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio.
The firm provides complete electrical service to
heavy industry such as steel mills, metal-working

installations, chemical and processing plants,
and electric utility company facilities. An avid
golfer, he's had two holes-in-one, one of which
occurred on Friday the 13th .. . Since retiring
from his office and institutional furniture man-
ufacturing business, Donald Bates has been
keeping busy with interests in several small
businesses and real estate projects. He writes:
"Our favorite hobby is traveling. Besides other
short trips, we go completely around the world
twice a year."

George Bingham has just started a new career
as manager of hydroelectric power and water
resources for Chas. T. Main, Inc., in Portland,
Oregon. Earlier, he had worked for 30 years for
EBASCO Services and over seven years for Bon-
neville Power Administration. Once he took two
delegations to Russia as part of the U.S. technical
exchange program. He's made seven annual
appearances before the Public Works Commit-
tees of the House and Senate. . . . Bill Blades is
enjoying his early retirement from the Worcester
Works (U.S. Steel) in Marco Island, Fla. Wife Vi is
a volunteer at Naples Community Hospital.
"Both of us have served in every church job
except pastorand organist". . Alexander Bod-
reau has retired from American Optical Corp.,
Southbridge, Mass., after 38 years with the
company. He is an avid fisherman, garden "put-
terer,"and participant in town politics. Forthirty
years he has served as chief of the fire depart-
ment in Quinebaug, Conn. He devotes quite a
bit of time to fire prevention and community fire
safety, and follows his grandchildren's participa-
tion in school sports.

Dr. Ronald Brand has retired from the Univer-
sity of Connecticut after 33 years. He had been
with the faculty and had held the posts of head
of the ME department and director of academic
planning for the university. Over the years, he's
held visiting professorships in Norway and En-
gland. Presently, he's "trying to keep a 200-
year-old house and six acres in shape." He sails
in Narragansett Bay and is treasurer of the Town
of Eastford. The Brands have three children and
two grandchildren.

Currently, Malcolm Burton serves as associate
dean for undergraduate affairs, director of the
College Program ("design your own cur-
riculum"), and director of the freshman-
sophomore program in the College of Engineer-
ing at Cornell University, where he has been on
staff for 34 years. He was once associate dean
for graduate studies when then associate Dean
Cranch (now WPI president) was on leave. He
wrote a textbook on applied metallurgy and was
published in numerous technical publications.
Once the owner of his own plane, his hobbies
are now woodworking, carving, and painting
waterfowl decoys.

Dr. S. Carlton Dickerman and his wife Anne
enjoy retirement living on their 1 3-acre tract on
Rogers Lake, Lyme, Conn. Activities include
fishing, ice skating, wood cutting for the stove,
and above all, gardening. They grow asparagus,
rhubarb, raspberries, blueberries (20 qts. last
year), and flowers. In the winter they garden in
their greenhouse. Arthur Dinsmore says that he
is in "sort of a pre-retirement slot" at Seneca
Falls (N.Y.) Machine Company where he is man-
ager of technical services. With the firm for 32
years, he has a number of patents for machine
attachments, including some for the first au-
tomatic handling device for work machined be-
tween centers.

Formerly with GE, Wheeler Wire, and Essex
Wire, Kenneth Fraser is now western regional
sales manager for Markel Corp. The Frasers are
sports lovers. They regularly participate in golf
and league bowling, as well as gardening. Wife
Jane works part time at the Bank of America. . . .
Continuing as president and chairman of James-
bury Corp., which he founded in 1954, Howard
Freeman says he has no intention of retiring,
"but I foresee shifts in emphasis on the horizon."
The Freemans, who have two children and two
grandchildren, enjoy their home on Cape Cod.
. . . Last summer, Clyde Gerald, vice president of
Lloyd Publicity Co., Baltimore, Md., decided to
retire, but reports that he has so many irons in
the fire he's thinking of going back to work "to
rest up." His hobby is model railroading.

Leonard Goldsmith is continuing his career in
research, development and manufacture of iner-
tial attitude, reference, and navigation systems
for aerospace applications, predominantly mili-
tary. He serves as program manager in the
Singer-Kearfott Division, Wayne, N.J. His wife
Marcia, a professional, international folk singer,
teaches viola, violin, and guitar, and plays
chamber music on the viola. Their son Martin is
an MD and Richard a documentary filmmaker.
Goldsmith makes stained glass creations, hikes,
and goes to concerts, museums and the theatre.
After 30 years with Honeywell, Will Gove now
holds the post of director of corporate real estate
and field administration for the firm in Min-
neapolis. He is a junior warden and lay reader at
his church, reads on the radio for the blind, and
chairs a committee to sponsor three Vietnamese.
A sports buff, he likes skiing and tennis.

Joe Halloran, past president of his local volun-
teer fire association, reports he has responded to
over 800 fire alarms. At one fire he fell from the
second floor into the basement of a small build-
ing following a chimney collapse. He is now
treasurer of Box 22 Associates, International Fire
Buff Associates, and a member of the Branford
Yacht Club. With the Halloran Equipment Com-
pany, he has been manager of the industrial heat
treating furnace division in New Haven and for
thirty years has been New England representat-
ive for Ajax Electric Co. and Park Chemical Co.
The youngest of the Hallorans' five children is a
senior at St. Lawrence University.

Franklin Hayes still farms with D.F. Hayes &
Son in North Brookfield, Mass. He and Norma
have a married daughter and a son who at-
tended WPI and is a mechanic. Hayes is an active
Mason. . . . With six acres of woodland and a big
garden, Robert Hewey says he gets plenty of
exercise without leaving home. Currently, he is
vice president of manufacturing at Sprague-
Textron in Bridgeport, Conn. . . . David
Kuniholm reports that he is still "lead soloist" at
Kuniholm Associates in Petersham, Mass. His
agency sells machinery and equipment to the
textile, paper, and plastic film industries in New
England. His son, David Jr., graduated from WPI
in 1969, and his daughter, Donna, is married and
living in Spain. The Kuniholms have made three
trips to Spain, and have also toured Portugal,
Rome, Greece, and Morocco. Presently, they are
restoring a 200-year-old 1 1 -room home in
Petersham. "A challenge."

Russ Lovell's book, The Cape Cod Story of
Thornton W. Burgess, is now in its second
edition. His town history of Sandwich is slated to
be published in 1982. For six years, he worked
for a small research firm on the Cape in the
ecology, energy planning field doing energy and
pollution studies. He is married to Penelope
Dalrymple-Balston, a British subject. They enter-
tain a lot and have been around the world nine
times.

The WPI Journal / Fall 1980/17

Judson Lowd continues as president of C-E
Natco in Tulsa. The company engineers, designs,
manufactures, and erects crude oil and natural
gas production processing facilities, mainly out-
side the USA. The Lowd's daughter Dana is a
missionary in Thailand. The family currently con-
centrates on tennis, having pretty well given up
their long-time association with horse shows.
Lowd has served as a trustee of the University of
Tulsa and of Beirut University College in Leba-
non. After retirement, he plans to engage in

some oil and gas related foreign consultation

Noel Maleady, a member of the U.S. Power
Squadron, now has his eighth boat, a 21 -ft. DC.
Hatteras, and once took a 1 , 000-mile trip by
water. Since his retirement from GE after 30
years, he's done a lot of traveling, including
several trips to Europe.

The Richard Mayers, looking ahead to retire-
ment, have built a Deck House in Intervale, N.H.,
near North Conway. They say the location
should give them ready access to climbing,
skiing, camping, and sailing and still be within
striking distance of Boston and Maine. Mayer is a
procurement specialist at Monsanto in Decatur,
Alabama.

Richard Messinger, of Richard T. Messinger
Insurance Agency, is a member of the Board of
Assistants of the Massachusetts Society of May-
flower Descendants, and has done several pro-
fessional genealogical searches for clients. For
many years, he's been working on a comprehen-
sive genealogy of the descendants of Henry
Messinger of Boston and Robert Taft of Men-
don, works he hopes to get ready for publication
in the future. The father of three sons, Messinger
has been involved in scouting, bowling, golf, and
stamp collecting. Once he engineered the resto-
ration of an 1896 Duryea with Charles Duryea
himself. . . . Although his experience includes
engineering stints at Buffalo Forge, Republic
Flow Meters Co., and Crane Co., Fred Miller
took a big gamble in the travel business and
won. After 31 years of corporate life, he became
a manager of a travel agency, and then decided
to start a travel training school, Echols Interna-
tional Travel Training Courses, Inc., in San Fran-
cisco. Presently, Fred is president of the school
and his wife, Virginia, is director of admissions
and placement. He says that, despite being
astride the San Andreas Fault, "we have been
blessed with outstanding success." Daughter
Nancy and her husband both help out at the
school. Fred has been named a certified travel
counselor by the Institute of Certified Travel
Agents.

Lawrence Neale has had a number of articles
published, one of the more recent being, "Exper-
imental Evaluation of Fish Guidance Devices for
Intakes" for the ASCE. Long associated with
Alden Research Laboratory, he is now a flow
specialist at Chas.T. Main, Inc., Boston. At Main,
his responsibilities involve the review of hydrau-
lic aspects of projects, including hydroelectric
developments, thermal power plants, and other
projects associated with flow phenomena. As a
member of the firm, he travels to various loca-
tions supervising model studies of projects being
designed by Main. Neale, who has won the
Worcester Engineering Society's Scientific
Achievement Award, belongs to numerous
honor societies, technical societies, and profes-
sional committees.

In February, Merrill Skeist was named as a
co-recipient of a U.S. patent for the magnetic arc
spreading fluorescent lamp at Spellman High
Voltage Electronics Corp., which he serves as
president. Presently, he says he is acting out the
role of innovator. So far, Lawrence Berkeley Labs
(DOE) and GE are interested in the invention. In
June, Skeist was slated to graduate from the
Harvard Business School Small Company Man-
agement Program. He and Marian are active in
many Jewish organizations.

Larry Sullivan, president of L.R. Sullivan
Assoc, Inc., reports he has no plans for retire-
ment. His company is the largest appraisal firm in
northern New Jersey. The Sullivans spend win-
ters in their oceanside condominium in Boca
Raton, Fla. Hobbies are golf, bridge, and travel.
One of their sons, Chris, is vice president of the
company. Wife Bunny is in real estate. . . . This
year Harry Terkanian is retiring as a senior
engineer from Raytheon in Bedford, Mass. He
expects to work part time after retirement. His
wife, Mildred, has an accounting degree from
Bentley and is a staff accountant at Millipore
Corp. He is the benevolent treasurer at his
church.

Daniel Von Bremen, Jr. gave his son an un-
usual wedding present — his own business as a
manufacturer's representative selling hydraulic
and pneumatic components. He still does some
consulting. Although retired from refereeing
high school and college soccer games, he is
involved with Red Cross First Aid, CPR, and is
chapter safety chairman, as well as being a
member of the Cooperstown Rescue Squad. . . .
Although Frederic Wackerbarth's family busi-
ness was partially destroyed by fire last year,
Wackerbarth Box Shop, Inc. is now making more
pallets in its new setup than it did prior to the fire.
For 15 years, Wackerbarth has been a member
of the Granville, Mass. Finance Committee and
has served as church deacon, 4-H leader and
scoutmaster. (He holds the prestigious Silver
Beaver Award from the BSA.) A lecturer on
edible wild foods and pyramid power, he also
enjoys gardening.

Dr. Michael Wales reports a year of great
technical growth with three papers in the works
and attendance at the Gordon Conference.
Hobbies are literature, baroque mathematics,
cross country skiing, and planning final retire-
ment in Hawaii. After many years with Shell
Development Co., he is presently senior research
scientist at Abcor, Inc., Wilmington, Mass. He
was involved in the development of a successful
flame-resistant polystyrene for electronic appli-
cations. He has five patents. . . . After 31 years
with ITT, Thomas Wingardner retired from the
Avionics Division where he had "cradle to the
grave" responsibility for all navigation contracts.
The Wingardners have three college-graduate
sons and five grandchildren. Presently, they
divide theirtime between Marco Island, Fla., and
Cape Cod.

1941 REUNION

1942

Representative:
Norman A. Wilson
17 Cranbrook Dr.
Holden, MA
01520

In July, the board of directors of Algonquin
Industries, Inc., elected John Townsend as
chairman and chief executive officer. Previously,
he served as president and chief executive officer
of the Guilford, Conn, magnet wire manufac-
turer since its founding in 1968. He holds
world-wide patents in the field of taped magnet
wire, assigning them to Algonquin's joint ven-
ture, the Magna-Ply Company, which he still
serves as president and chief executive officer. . .
John Bartlett, Jr. has been named general man-
agerof New England High Carbon Wire Corp. of
Millbury, Mass. The company produces ferrous
spring wire and is owned by Precision Industries,
Inc. of Washington, Pa. Earlier Bartlett had been
a manufacturing manager for a Brown & Sharpe
subsidiary in Manchester, Mich. He belongs to
the Wire Association and has worked for Reid
Avery Co., ACCO Industries, and Morgan Con-
struction Co. . . . Peter Holz, chairman of the
ASME Oak Ridge Section, served as chairman
and master of ceremonies during the ASME
Centennial Observance held in Knoxville, Tenn.
in February. Prof. Donald Zwiep of the WPI
mechanical engineering department, then the
president of the ASME, gave the keynote ad-
dress during the festivities. Holz, with Union
Carbide, is also a professional engineer.

1943

Representative:
Roberts. Schedin
RFD#1

Brookfield, MA
01506

Clifton Kinne holds the post of senior engineer
at Imlac Corp., Needham, Mass. . . . Herbert
Marsh, a professional engineer, continues at his
post with Westinghouse. Last winter he was
professional development chairman of the
ASME Oak Ridge Section assisting with the
ASME Centennial Observance which took place
in Knoxville, Tenn. During the celebration, WPI
Prof. Donald Zwiep, then national president of
ASME, rededicated the three Dixie IV ASME
sections located in northeastern Tennessee.

Secretary:
Russell W. Parks
7250 Brill Rd
Cincinnati. OH
45243

JUNE 4-7, 1 98 I

Continuing with International Energy Associates
Ltd., Hilliard Paige holds the post of officer-
director of the firm in Washington, DC. He is a
member of the WPI board of trustees.

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1946

Secretaries

M. Daniel Lacedonia

106 Ridge Rd

East Longmeadow, MA

01028

Geroge H. Conley, Jr
213 Stevens Dr
Pittsburgh, PA
15236

Roger Broucek is now regional manager at H.J.
Hodes & Co. in Kansas City, Mo. . . . George
Fritz recently celebrated his 25th service an-
niversary at Teleype Corp. in Skokie, III. He is
manager of the company's sales documentation
organization. Besides his WPI degree, he holds a
BA in English from the University of the Pacific in
California. ... In August, the Rev. Prescott
Grout was a guest speaker at the First United
Methodist Church of Westboro, Mass. Cur-
rently, he is a design draftsman at Riley Stoker in
Worcester.. . . Charles Miczek, a corporate vice
president at Stone & Webster Engineering Cor-
poration, has also been appointed deputy direc-
tor of engineering at the firm. He started work at
the company in 1 946, became head of structural
engineering in 1 968, and was appointed a senior
engineering manager in 1978. He belongs to the
ASCE and serves on the Society's Nuclear Stan-
dards Committee. He is a registered professional
engineer.

1947

Representative:
Allan Glazer
20Monadnock Dr.
Shrewsbury, MA
01545

Robert Mark is completing 33 years with General
ElectricCo. at 12 locations throughoutthe coun-
try. Presently, he is a member of the corporate
employee relations staff at worldwide headquar-
ters in Fairfield, Conn.

1950

Secretary:

Lester J Reynolds, Jr

15 Cherry Lane

Basking Ridge, NJ

07920

Representative
Henry S. Coe, Jr.
3 Harwick Rd
Wakefield, MA
01880

Barbara Cocker, wife of John Cocker, is a well-
known marine artist. In the summer she exhibits
her work at the Old South Wharf in Nantucket,
Mass. Her winter studio is in Rumson, N.J. She
has had one-woman exhibitions at the Little
Gallery at the Barbizon in New York, at the
Artists' Association of Nantucket, and at Gallery
100 in Princeton, N.J. Her work has also been
shown at a group exhibit at the National
Academy in New York. She is listed in Who's
Who in American Art and Who s Who of Ameri-
can Women. Her husband is on the technical
staff at Bell Telephone Labs. ... Dr. Herman
Nied was recently appointed chairman of the
Structures and Dynamics Committee of the Gas
Turbine Division of the ASME. As chairman, Dr.
Nied will coordinate and plan future conferences
and sessions for the committee, focusing on the
latest gas turbine technology. He is with the GE

Research and Development Center and is a
licensed professional engineer in New York and
New Jersey. He belongs to the ASME, the Soci-
ety for Experimental Stress and the American
Academy of Mechanics.

Richard Olson was the co-author of "Rating
Quality Systems" which appeared in the May
issue of Quality Progress. He is a senior member
of ASQC, is a registered professional engineer,
and an associate member of the European Or-
ganization for Quality Control. For 25 years, he
has held posts in quality control, reliability, en-
gineering, and procurement in industry. A cer-
tified quality engineer, he is an adjunct professor
of management at the University of Lowell. . . .
James Sullivan has been named to the newly
created post of chief steam power engineer at
the consulting engineering firm of Neill and
Gunter in Falmouth, Me. Previously, he was
chief mechanical engineer for Thermo-Electron
Corp., Waltham, Mass. Earlier, he was with
Anderson-Nichols of Boston; General Dynamics
of Groton, Conn.; Boston Edison Co.; Stone &
Webster of Boston; and GE of Lynn, Mass.

I95 1 REUNION

Secretary
Stanley L Miller
11 Ash wood Rd
Paxton, MA
01612

JUNE 4-7, 1 98 1
Representative
Duncan W Munro
59 Brigham St.
Northboro, MA
01532

Andrew Freeland works for Harmon Electronics
in Grain Valley, Mo.

In July, Thomas McComiskey was appointed
assistant vice president at Buffalo Tank Opera-
tions (Bethlehem Steel) in Dunellen, N.J. Earlier,
he was manager of the tank division's plants in
Buffalo, N.Y. and Romulus, Mich. He joined
Bethlehem in 1951 in the steel operations de-
partment's former fabricated steel construction
(FSC) section. After two years with the U.S.
Army, he returned to his former post of field
engineer in 1 955. He subsequently was named
safety engineer for FSC's home office staff; a
field engineer in the Eastern and Central districts;
resident engineer in the Central and Western
districts; and project engineer for the Central
district. He also served as manager of construc-
tion and assistant manager of FSC erection in the
Western district. In 1 976, he was named to a
product sales post with Buffalo Tank, Chicago
area. After being advanced to resident salesman,
Chicago, he became plant manager in Buffalo
and Romulus.

Having left Sun Chemical as market manager
of flexible packaging, Phil Michelman is now in
marketing sales of packaging with Handschy
Industries. He has two sons, Jeff and Mark. Jeff is
entering Washington University at St. Louis for
graduate work in hospital administration. Mark
is starting his third year at the University of
Illinois. The Michelmans live in Palatine, III.,
outside of Chicago. . . . Neal Peterson continues
as a senior development engineer at the Foxboro
(Mass.) Co. . . . Donald Spooner was appointed
managing engineer of project design, Models B
and C, in the Copy Products Department of the
Kodak Apparatus Division (KAD). He joined
Eastman Kodak in 1952. Most recently, he held
the post of supervising development engineer,
accessory development and design for KAD.
Spooner, who belongs to Sigma Xi and the
Rochester Engineering Society, holds a master's
degree from MIT.

1952

Secretary
Edward G. Samolis
580 Roberts Ave.
Syracuse, NY
13207

Representative
John M Tracy
15 School St
Northboro, MA
01532

Formerly technical director of Emhart's United
Machinery Group, Robert Johnson has been
named the new president and general manager
of Fellows Corp., an Emhart subsidiary in North
Springfield, Vt. Fellows manufactures gear cut-
ting machinery and has 1000 employees.
Johnson, atop research and development
executive previously based in Beverly, Mass.,
joined Emhart in 1952. As United Machinery's
technical director, he coordinated research and
development, manufacturing, capital expendi-
tures, patents, and long-range planning at 27
units in 17 countries. He has an MBA, is a
registered professional engineer in Mas-
sachusetts, and belongs to the ASME, the Amer-
ican Association for the Advancement of Sci-
ence, and the Industrial Research Institute.

1954

Secretary:
Roger R. Osell
18 Eliot Rd.
Lexington, MA
02173

Representative
Edwin Shivell
64 Woodland Dr.
Portsmouth, Rl
02871

With Honeywell Information Systems for 15
years, in April Andy Morgo was transferred from
California and Arizona back to Massachusetts.
Presently, he is international support manager in
Billerica.

1955

Secretary:
Kenneth L. Wakeen
344 Waterville Rd.
Avon, CT
06001

Representative
Edouard S. P. Bouvier
123 Beechwoods Dr
Madison, CT
06443

Last Year, Louis Axtman, Jr. transferred from the
New England Division, Corps of Engineers, to
the new Disaster Agency established by the
president in July. Presently, he is chief of the
Structural Survey Group in the Operations Sup-
port Division located at the Federal Regional
Center in Maynard, Mass. This summer, the
Axtmans went to England where Mrs. Axtman
was born. They have three children. Flying,
sports car restoration, and music are favorite
pastimes. . . . Jerry Backlund holds the post of
manager of operations at American Cyanamid's
Warners plant in Linden, N.J. The plant produces
industrial and agricultural chemicals. Jerry is with
the Field Artillery in the U.S. Army Reserve,
where he teaches a command and general staff
officer course to active Army, USAR, and Na-
tional Guard officers. . . . The David Bagleys,
who have a villa on the lake in Wolfeboro, N.H.,
also enjoy boating at Cape Cod, on the North
Shore, and at Lake Winnipesaukee. Bagley is a
sales engineer for a manufacturer representative
at New England Controls, Inc., Mansfield, Mass.

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. . . With IBM since graduation, Earl Bloom is
now senior engineer and engineering manager
of new business products in the Systems Prod-
ucts Division, Endicott, N.Y. Daughter Cindy
majored in music at Mansfield State College in
Pennsylvania, the college her sister, Tracy, plans
to attend. Bloom's outside interests are golf,
tennis, and investments. . . Edouard Bouvier,
who has been active on the WPI Alumni Council
and as class bequest agent, also enjoys camping,
gardening, and woodworking. He has been with
Southern New England Telephone since 1956.
This year, he was named staff manager of motor
equipment. In 1978-79, he was chairman of the
AT&T task force on microcomputers for building
automation. Bouvier and his wife, June Marie,
have seven children.

Long employed by Westinghouse, Cedney
Brown continues in the company's Advance
Reactors Division in Madison, Pa. In his spare
time, he likes youth recreation activities, church
work, choral singing, and specialty artwork. He is
married and has two daughters. . . .P.W.Brown,
Inc., Paul Brown's company in Westboro, Mass.,
is mainly concerned with utility and heavy con-
struction in the New England area. The Browns,
who have two boys and two girls, are restoring
an old farm in Westboro, where they raise
Scotch Highland cattle.

Marty Burden is now a product manager
(reinforcing for automotive weather strips) at
Schlegel Corporation, Carolina Division, in Ches-
ter, S.C. Before their recent transfer to South
Carolina, the Burdens' major hobby was the
restoration of a 140-year-old farm house. . . .
John Calhoun's son, John, Jr., is a student at
WPI. Daughter Mary Jane goes to Holy Cross
and David to the Coast Guard Academy. Ann
and Paula are at Notre Dame Academy. Since
1976, Calhoun has held the post of personnel
administrator at Heald Machine (Cincinnati
Milacron) in Worcester. The family has a sum-
mer home in Plymouth, Mass., where they sail,
swim, and work on the house.

Lt. Col. Dean Carlson (U.S. Army Ret.) is
presently in the real estate marketing field with
Mann Associates in Arnold, Md.r where he is vice
president. Since entering the profession of real
estate, he has been involved with sales counsel-
ing, construction, property management, and
administration. Carlson belongs to Schlaraffia,
an international organization of German-
speaking men (1 1 ,000 members). The Carlsons
have two children. . . . John Cnossen, who is
self-employed with Quaker Motor Lodge in
Uxbridge, Mass. , has also been a science teacher
and head of the department at Uxbridge High
School. Son Jack is a chemical engineering major
at WPI. Michael graduated from Tufts Dental
College in June, and Timothy from Eastern
Nazarene College. Peter is a graduate of Ux-
bridge High School. In his spare time, Cnossen is
a flight instructor. . . . Continuing with G&O
Mfg. Co., New Haven, Conn., Dick Crook is now
manager of product engineering, a post he has
held since last year. He and Paula have three
daughters and six cats. They own a 23-ft. sloop
and can be found sailing in the Bahamas, the
British Virgins, on Long Island Sound, and Nar-
ragansett Bay. Crook has a private pilot's license.
He likes sports cars and competitive shooting.
Last year he served as chairman of the Flood and
Erosion Control Board of the Town of East
Haven, Conn.

David Dayton is still president of Technical
Development Corp., Boston. He also owns Day-
ton Corp., which is concerned with energy con-
servation products. He is on the board of direc-
tors of several businesses and community or-
ganizations. During his leisure time he runs,
writes, and plays tennis. He and Shirley have five
children. . . . Lawrence Dennis is currently chief
of the Communications and Automatic Data
Processing Division at the Communications and
Electronics Materiel Readiness Command in Fort
Monmouth, N.J. His career has sent him around
the world, while family, church, and hobbies
keep him busy at home. He is chairman of
property and finances for his church. Lately he's
taken up flying.

W.G. Dudevoir remains with Sanders As-
sociates in Nashua, N.H. He belongs to the
National Society of Professional Engineers and
the Greater Nashua Youth Hockey Association.
The Dudevoirs have four sons and a daughter.
. . Alan Ede has a collection of 16 mandolins
and banjos. He enjoys bluegrass and "old-
timey" music. Other interests are fishing, tent
camping, and canoeing. He has been teaching at
Oregon State University since 1974. ... A Hon-
eywell employee since 1960, John Edfors is
presently manager of mechanical design and
packaging of minicomputer and terminal prod-
ucts. Edfors is married, has an 18-year-old
daughter, and works around his old farm. He is
associated with a musical group, and likes
woodworking and vacations in Maine. He owns
a cottage, complete with a sailboat and a canoe.
. . . Art-collecting, real estate, and land devel-
opment are some of Dick Goldman's pastimes.
During working hours he is in program man-
agement at Intel in Santa Clara, Calif. . . John
Goodwin has had a 25-year career with the
Federal Aviation Administration in Washington,
D.C. Presently, he is airport advisor for the
government of Spain in Madrid. Earlier, he was
chief of the airport planning division. . . . Still
with the mechanical engineering department at
WPI, Hartley Grandin, Jr. enjoys woodworking
and house design and construction. He and his
wife, Diane, are the parents of Jennifer, 10, and
Joel, 8.

Daniel Grant, Jr. serves as a lead electrical
engineer on small hydroelectric power projects
for Chas. T. Main, Inc., Boston, Mass. . . . Re-
cently, Donald Grenier of Donald Grenier Corp.,
New York City, purchased an 18,000 sq. ft.
building to house a new data center. In 1968, he
formed his company to provide computer appli-
cations design service for clients. In 1 976 a
second division was started to provide process-
ing services to clients who have no computers.
The favorite family vacation spot is Chatham,
Mass., and the favorite family outing is "Rooting
forthe Red Sox at Yankee Stadium." Grenier has
served as Little League commissioner for three
years and as chairman of the Carmel Planning
Board for nine. . . . Timothy Healey continues as
an attorney with Healey, Farrell & Lear in
Washington, DC. He and his wife Deirdre are
the parents of Michael, Matthew, and Brian. . . .
Lawrence Henschel holds the post of president
of Sportsmen Accessories, Inc., Bridgeport,
Conn. The firm is a major manufacturer of
fishing pools and other sports items. Henschel's
outside interests include scouting, water sports,
and fishing. Wife Anita is a teacher.

Bob Holden, an engineering professor at
Cuyamaca College in California, is an activist in
the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO,
and the National Organization for Women. He
has also been active in the cause of constitu-
tional rights of public school students. Several

times he has been elected as a member of the
Democratic County Central Committee in San
Diego County. He is the father of two teenage
sons. . . . Francis Horan's son Timothy is a
student at WPI. James is at Holy Cross; Thomas
at Shrewsbury High; and Maryellen is a junior
high student. Horan has been with Mas-
sachusetts Electric since graduation. Presently,
he is in Worcester as head of marketing for
Massachusetts. A current member of the
Shrewsbury School Committee, he has coached
Little League and Youth Basketball, and has
served as president of the Lions Club and the
Chamber of Commerce. He was a trustee of
Nonotuck Savings Bank, chairman of the United
Fund, and president of the Fund's board of
directors.

Active in numerous WPI alumni activities, Pete
Horstmann has also been serving on the Holden
School Committee and on the Wachusett Re-
gional School District Committee. He is a cor-
porator of the Worcester Boy's Club, Worcester
Science Center, and Consumer Savings Bank. He
is vice president of research and development
and engineering at Coppus Engineering Corp.
(industrial turbomachinery) in Worcester. This
year Pete received the Herbert F. Taylor Award
from the Alumni Association. . . . Philip Jones
works as development engineering supervisor of
the Printing Division at Kodak in Rochester, N.Y.
After hours, he fishes, plays tennis, and collects
and deals in antiques, especially clocks. He does
volunteer work for public television and likes to
ski. . . . Photography, sports, and dancing are
the favorite pastimes for Richard Kee, who holds
the post of director of product electronics en-
gineering at Polaroid in Cambridge, Mass. He
and Jennie have four children.

Brian Kelly is vice president and general man-
ager of Bell Telephone Company of Pennsyl-
vania. The Kellys' five children range in age from
elementary school to law school. Busy with Little
League, Kelly has also been on the board of
directors of several organizations including the
United Way, the Pittsburgh Symphony Society,
and Blue Cross of Western Pennsylvania. . . .
Norman Lawrence has performed twice at Car-
negie Hall as a bass with the Rutgers University
Choir. He's been with General Dynamics for 20
years. Now he is studying for his BS in computer
sciences at Rutgers. The Lawrences have four
children.. . . Ray LeMieux holds a pilot's license,
plays golf, and listens to his classical records on
home-built equipment. With Atlantic Richfield in
Philadelphia, he helps provide Arco-developed
technologies worldwide.

Philip Lincoln has been with IBM since gradu-
ation. Currently, he is in program management
for semiconductor components. He writes: "En-
joying Vermont." He likes sailing on Lake
Champlain and Burlington's cultural opportuni-
ties in music and theater. The Lincolns, who have
three children, live in Essex Junction. . . . Joseph
Lite is a test conductor of the global positioning
system, Navstar satellite, at Rockwell Interna-
tional in Seal Beach, Calif. He belongs to the
Rockwell Management Association, and he has
won merit awards from community organiza-
tions. Popular pastimes are scuba and skindiving
and involvement in scouting and Catholic church
activities. . . . Hank Manseau serves as a cantor
atSt. Anne'sChurch in Northboro, Mass. He has

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been a district commissioner for the Boy Scouts,
and a cubmaster and scoutmaster. Formerly at
Incoterm, he is now manager of corporate prod-
uct planning of the Airlines and Financial Indus-
tries Division at Honeywell, Inc., Wellesley,
Mass. The father of four, he enjoys sailing,
canoeing, and cross-country skiing. . . . Jim
Mathews is co-founder of L & M Sales, Inc.,
Marlboro, Mass. As a manufacturer's repre-
sentative, he's concerned with capital equip-
ment for the semiconductor industry. Earlier, he
had been with Teradyne, Texas Instruments, and
Sprague Electric. He has six children.

Dot and Ralph Mongeon are both involved
with education groups. Ralph is vice president of
the Massachusetts PTSA and Dot is in charge of
volunteers at a Shrewsbury (Mass.) school. Last
year, the four Mongeons took a cross-country
trip at the height of the gas shortage. With Riley
Stoker, Worcester, for many years, Ralph is now
manager of boiler development. . . .Since 1974,
Edwin Nesman has been employed by MIT as a
staff engineer at Haystack Observatory in
Westford, Mass. At the observatory, he supports
radio-astronomy research with digital in-
strumentation design. Nesman has two children.
He has served on the Bolton School Building
Committee and the School Committee. . . .
Philip Olson's present position at United Il-
luminating is senior mechanical engineer super-
visor. He and Nancy are the parents of Peter and
Holly.

Martin Rafferty, an employee of Exxon Corp.,
is currently on loan to Aramco as engineering
consultant on rotating equipment in the petro-
leum and process industries in Saudi Arabia. For
the past ten years, he was with Esso in Libya. A
do-it-yourselfer, Rafferty has lately been inter-
ested in volunteer fire brigade work. . . After 17
years as a head football coach at several schools,
Art Rudman has just resigned from Cheverus
High School, Portland, Me. He and Nancy are
opening a small boarding home in Skowhegan.
(Nancy is an R.N. with long experience in nursing
homes.) Art, who may not give up football
completely, is selling insurance on the side. He
has four children. . . . George Robbins continues
as area superintendent of operations for North-
east Utilities in Torrington, Conn. Active in
church work, he also has served on the Voca-
tional Advisory Council and Litchfield Board of
Education. Heand Carol have three children. . . .
With Presmet since 1955, Rey Sansoucy is pres-
ently vice president of engineering. He has six
children and enjoys home construction projects,
as well as gardening. He is a former chairman of
the Worcester chapter of SME and the Boston
chapterof APMI (Powder Metal Institute). In his
car collection he has a 1 930 Olds, a 1 926 Model
T, and a 1957 Ford

Hal Sauer holds the post of vice president of
Intermark Associates, Inc., a consulting organi-
zation which assists U.S. companies in establish-
ing markets for their products outside the U.S.
The firm is located in Sudbury, Mass. Sauer still
plays the sax and clarinet. He is a present
member and past chairman of the town planning
board. . . . Last Year, Robert Schultz was ap-
pointed to the Oregon State Board of Engineer-
ing Examiners. He continues teaching at Oregon
State University in Corvallis. He has received two
outstanding teacher awards at the university.
After class, he serves as a high school football
and basketball official. He has four children. . . .
Robert Stempel, vice president and general
manager of the Pontiac Motor Division at Gen-
eral Motors, has been promoted to vice presi-
dent for European sourced passenger car opera-
tions. A WPI trustee, this year he received the
Robert H. Goddard Award.

Bruce Sealy is still with Comten, which has
been acquired by NCR. He is located in Missouri,
where he opened a company sales office in St.
Louis nearly four years ago.

Richard Sieron is presently vice president of
research and development at Dual-Lite, Inc. in
Newtown, Conn. His outside interests include
sailing and duplicate bridge. Remarried in 1974,
Sieron has five children and a granddaughter,
and his wife has a son and a daughter. . . . Now
semi-retired, Edward Simonian operates a cow
and calf farm, as well as a motel. He likes farming
and fishing. . . . With IBM since 1962, Gerry
Sutton is now involved in product development
of office systems in White Plains, N.Y. "When
not chasing the white ball, I enjoy solving the
mysteries of cars," he writes. HehastwoBMWs.
The Suttons' son just graduated from Syracuse
and their daughter is in pre-law at Georgetown.

John Welsh is concerned with the engineering
and marketing of computers at DEC. He partici-
pates in tennis, sailing, and gardening. . . . Gerrit
Swarfs wife, Dixie, points out that they lived in
1 3 different places in the first 1 3 years of their
marriage. Swart is an engineering associate in
the Petroleum Development Department at
Exxon Engineering in the powerforming area. He
and his family lived in Europe for five years while
working for Exxon. The youngest of his three
children, Tim, was born in London. The Swarts
are now located in Florham Park, N.J. . . .

A long-time employee of Pratt & Whitney,
James Warren now holds the position of vice
president of quality control in P & W's Machine
Tool Division of Colt Industries in West Hartford,
Conn. He and his wife are incorporated as
Simsbury Tennis House, Inc. They lease, and
Mimi operates, a four-court indoor tennis club.
... For seven years, Donald Zwiers was chief
engineeratKemlitein Joliet, III. In 1977 he began
using Kemlite's scrap material as a chain link
fence filler strip. Now, he works full time with
Deco Link, after developing the product from
nothing to a growing business. Zwiers has four
children. Civic-minded, he has been on the
school board and has been associated with the
Lions Club.

1956

Secretary;

Rev Paul D. Schoonmaker

325 North Lewis Rd

Royersford, PA

19568

REUNION

JUNE 4-7. 1 98 1

Representative
John M. McHugh
431 Beacon Hill Dr
Cheshire, CT
06410

Joseph Concordia, a project manager for
Herzog-Hart Corp., wrote "Catalyst Handling in
Batch Hydrogenation" which appeared in the
June issue of CEP-Chemical Engineering Prog-
ress. He has had over 23 years of experience in
the design of specialty organic chemicals plants.
. . . Still with Schirmer Engineering Corp., David
Provost is currently a senior field engineer in loss
control. He is a licensed professional engineer in
California in fire protection and accident preven-
tion in industrial and commercial properties.

1957

Secretary

Dr Robert A. Yates

11 Oak Ridge Dr.

Bethany, CT

06525

Representative;
Alex C. Papianou
15 Birch Tree Rd.
Foxboro, MA
02035

Philip Backlund serves as manager of energy
and environmental management at Rockwell
International Corp., Troy, Mich. ... Dr. Philip
Rotondo was the co-author of "Fiber Reinforced
Concrete Poles Developed," which was pub-
lished in the June issue of Transmission and
Distribution. His training has been strongly
oriented to structures and applied mechanics
and has been applied to highway bridge con-
struction, precast concrete structures, aircraft
engine components, and nuclear reactors. He
has a PhD from RPI, is a registered professional
engineer, and is a consultant in Simsbury, Conn.

1958

Secretary

Hairy R. Rydstrom

132 Sugartown Rd.

Devon, PA

19333

Gas Service, Inc., has appointed Donald Inglis as

vice president and general manager. The family
is relocating from Massachusetts to the Nashua,
N.H.area. Inglis has been with the Berkshire Gas
Company of Pittsfield, Mass. since 1958. Before
taking his new post, he had been a senior vice
president at Berkshire. He has taken a numberof
management courses. Civic-minded, some of his
community posts were trustee of Farren Memo-
rial Hospital, director of the Valley Credit Bureau,
and corporator of the Franklin Savings Institute.
He was also active in scouting, and was a
Montague town meeting member.

Bernard Podberesky was named manager of
purchasing operations for GE in San Jose, Calif.
The Podbereskys reside in Los Altos and have
three daughters. ... In June, Norman Taupeka
graduated from the Industrial College of the
Armed Forces in Washington, DC. He is chief of
the Systems Engineering Division at the Center
for Tactical Computer Systems, U.S. Army
Communications Research & Development
Command, Fort Monmouth, N.J.

1959

Secretary:

Dr Frederick H Lutze, Jr.

1 10 Camelot Court NW

Blacksburg, VA

24060

Representative:

Dr Joseph D Bronzmo

Trinity College

Summit St.

Hartford, CT

06106

After 20 years with GE, George Constantine is
now general manager of Schulz Electric Co., a
heavy electrical apparatus repair facility in New
Haven, Conn. Annual sales of $4 million plus and
the employment of 80 people make Schulz
Electrical the largest independent facility of this
type in the East.

The WPI Journal / Fall 1980 / 21

i960

Secretary:
Paul W. Bayliss
1 70 Wyngate Dr.
Barrington, IL
60010

Representative
John W. Biddle
78 Highland St.
Holden, MA
01520

1962

Secretary:
Harry T. Rapelje
1313 Parma Hilton Rd.
Hilton, NY
14468

Representative
Richard J DIBuono
44 Lambert Circle
Marlboro, MA
01752

1965

Representative:
Patrick T Moran
100 Chester Rd
Boxboro, MA
01719

Paul Allaire, deputy managing director of Rank
Xerox Limited, London, England, has been ap-
pointed managing director. (The post is the
American equivalent of president.) In 1966, he
received his master's degree from Carnegie-
Mellon and joined Xerox Corp. as a financial
analyst. From 1970 to 1973 he was director of
financial planning and control at Rank Xerox in
London. From 1973 to 1975, he returned to
corporate headquarters as director of the inter-
national staff . Returning to England in 1975, he
became chief staff officer at Rank Xerox. In
1 979, he was named deputy managing director.

The Rev. Charles Heslan was awarded the
prestigious 1980 Roselle W. Huddilston Medal
at the annual meeting of the Maine Lung Associ-
ation in June. The medal is presented annually to
an individual rendering outstanding service in
the field of health, one "who has assessed an
unusual health need, established a program to
meet that need, a program that could be used as
a statewide pilot project." Rev. Heslan was the
prime motivator behind the Arthur Jewell Com-
munity Health Center. He was co-author of the
original grant application and often spoke in
support of the center. Rev. Heslan attended
Fitchburg State College and graduated from
Bangor Theological Seminary. He holds a degree
in history from Wright State University. . . .
Douglas Kendrick is vice president of engineer-
ing at Telex Terminal Communications in
Raleigh, N.C.

1961 REUNION

JUNE 4-7, 1 98 1
Secretary:
John J. Gabarro
8 Monadnock Rd.
Arlington, MA
02174

Robert Schomber was co-author of "A Utility
Centralizes Its Repair and Maintenance
Facilities" which appeared in the June issue of
Transmission and Distribution. He holds the
post of supervisor of the Equipment Repair
Center at Florida Power and Light Co. Previ-
ously, he held line and staff assignments in
financial and manufacturing capacities, and he
has been budget supervisor and internal auditor
for FP&L. A senior member of AIIE, he also has
an MBA in finance from Syracuse University. . . .
Robert Schuessler is vice president of manufac-
turing at Majestic Industries, Teterboro, N.J. . . .
Kenneth Tebo serves as engineering manager at
the Berlyn Corp., Worcester.

J. Alphee Desjardins is an associate professor at
Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill,
Mass. He, his wife, Virginia, and four children
reside in Beverly.

1963

Secretary

Robert E. Maynard.Jr

8 Institute Rd

North Grafton, MA

01536

Representative
Joseph J Mielinski, Jr.
34 Pioneer Rd.
Holden, MA
01520

Continuing with the U.S. Army, Herbert Head is
now a Lt. Colonel at Camp H.M. Smith in
Hawaii. ... Dr. Daniel Pender recently com-
pleted a research fellowship in otology at Har-
vard Medical School. . . . Edward Polewarczyk of
Sundstrand Corp., Rockford, III., spoke about
the space program at the Elks Home in Webster,
Mass. in June. Ed is resident materials manager
of the Space Systems Group, Rockwell Interna-
tional, at Sundstrand.

I964

Secretary

Dr. David T. Signori, Jr

6613 Denny PI

McLean, VA

22101

Representative:
Barry J. Kadets
26 Harwich Rd.
Chestnut Hill, MA
02167

Continuing with Digital, Richard Downe is now
principal quality engineer for the firm in Au-
gusta, Maine. . . . Gary Goshgarian spoke on the
topic, "Atlantis: Fact and Fiction" at the annual
meeting of the Boston chapter of the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research
in Cambridge in May. His first novel, Atlantis
Fire (see the spring 1980 Journal) recently re-
leased by Dial Press, has been judged by a fellow
author as "The best novel I ' ve read in five
years." . . . Stephen Harvey has received his
MSEE from Northeastern. He belongs to Pi Tau
Sigma and is on the technical staff at Bell Labs,
North Andover, Mass. ... Dr. David Laananen
holds the post of manager of the R&D Division at
Simula, Inc., in Temple, Arizona. . . . Robert
Rounds, Jr. of Rounds Technical Sales, Inc.,
reports that his business is presently located at
912 North Greenwood Ave., Park Ridge, III.
Formerly, the firm was headquartered in
Chicago. ... Dr. Al Potvin participated in the
ASEE-Biomedical Engineering Division Confer-
ence held in June at Amherst. He has served as
chairman of the Division for 1 979-80. During
the past five years, three WPI electrical engineer-
ing graduates have been Division chairmen,
including Dr. Bob Peura, '64, and Dr. Joe Bron-
zino, '59, who will chair in 1 980-81 . Dr. Potvin is
a professor and chairman of Biomedical En-
gineering as well as professor of electrical en-
gineering at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Peter Behmke is a product manager at Fram, East
Providence, R.I. The Behmkes reside in Seekonk,
Mass. . . . John Hart has just been appointed
R&D engineering manager of Hewlett-Packard's
Andover division. In his new post, he is responsi-
ble for all technical developments on the diag-
nostic medical equipment produced by the divi-
sion, such as ultrasonic imaging systems, com-
puterized EKG analaysis systems, and pulmonary
diagnostic systems. John, Andrea, and their son,
Jason, live in Acton, Mass. . . . Benjamin
Surowiecki serves as vice president and general
manager at Loctite Puerto Rico. . . . Cdr. Francis
Watson holds the position of director of the
construction support division at Naval Facilities
Engineering Command in Alexandria, Va. He is
in the Civil Engineer Corps of the U.S. Navy, and
has an MSCE and PhD from Georgia Tech. . . .
Dr. Howard Sachs has been named associate
provost in the Office of Academic Affairs at Ohio
State University in Columbus. Previously, he was
assistant dean of the Graduate College of the
University of Illinois at the Medical Center in
Chicago. He taught anatomy and histology at
Illinois starting in 1972, and became assistant
dean in 1978. His field of research is devel-
opmental physiology. He has a PhD from Clark

I966 REUNION

OCTOBER 1 98 1

Secretary
Gary Dyckman
29SkiltonLane
Burlington, MA
01803

^■Married: Hugh R. McMenamy and Dr. Marcia
L. Comstock in Summit, New Jersey on May 23,
1980. The bride graduated from Manhattanville
College and Columbia College of Physicians and
Surgeons. Currently, she is a third-year resident
in internal medicine at Overlook Hospital in
Summit. Her husband graduated from Villanova,
has an MSME from WPI, and holds the post of
senior project engineer at Exxon Research and
Engineering in Florham Park, N.J.

Dr. Ronald Finn is director of the cyclotron
facility at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Miami
Beach, Fla. He also serves as adjunct assistant
professor at the University of Miami School of
Medicine. . . . Still with Heublein, Raymond
Hopkins was appointed manager of the Spirits
Group plant in Paducah, Ky. He is responsible for
all manufacturing operations at the plant, which
bottles such Heublein products as Smirnoff
vodka, Heublein cocktails, Black Velvet Cana-
dian whiskey, and Black & White scotch. Hop-
kins joined Heublein in 1969 as a management
trainee, and most recently served as acting plant
manager for the company's plant in Allen Park,
Mich. He has an MBA from the University of
Hartford. . . . Kyle Ondricek has been named
business manager for the multi-media filing
group at National of Holyoke (formerly National
Blank Book). Before his appointment, he was
product manager. He holds a degree from
Northwestern.

22 / Fall 1980 / The WPI Journal

William Spratt is general foreman at Rexnord
in Worcester. . . . Andrew Warner, Jr. works as
an associate at Leland Computer Services, Inc.,
in Atlanta, Ga. . . . Malcolm White, Jr. is a senior
laboratory supervisor at Polaroid in Cambridge,
Mass.

I967

Secretary:

John L. Kilguss

5 Summershade Circle

Piscataway. NJ

08854

Representative
Douglas W. Klauber
10 Alice Dr.
Nashua, NH
03060

>Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Manter their
second child, Ian Russel, on April 7, 1980. Man-
ter received his MS in management from WPI in
May.

Roger Bartholomew, S.J., has received his
master of divinity degree from the University of
Toronto. He serves as a physics teacher at Jesuit
High School in New Orleans, La. . . . Joseph
Cieplak was promoted to product manager for
the Riehle and Systems product lines at ACCO
Industries, Inc., Wilson Instrument Division,
Bridgeport, Conn. The two product lines provide
materials testing capabilities to determine
strength and hardness. ... Dr. Robert Cornell,
research and development section manager,
specialty chemicals, at Uniroyal, Inc., has been
elected to the board of directors of the United
Way of Naugatuck and Beacon Falls, Conn. He
holds BS and MS degrees from Clarkson College
and a Ph D from WPI. A member of the American
Chemical Society, Polymer Division, he also be-
longs to Sigma XL . . . Peter Dickerson serves as
project manager at Badger America, Cambridge,
Mass. He, his wife, and two children live in
Acton.

John Dow is employed as assistant to the
president of marketing at Page Gulfstream in
San Antonio, Texas. ... Dr. Lee Estes is one of
two professors in the EE department at South-
eastern Massachusetts University sharing a
grant from the office of Naval Research for
$63,829. Their funded research project is aimed
at refining the use of sonar in detecting under-
water objects. Since 1 976, they have used
sophisticated laser equipment to simulate sound
waves in a miniaturized marine environment.
Their findings will aid both naval submarine
experts and maritime industries. Dr. Estes has
taught at SMU for nine years, specializing in
optics and communications. He and his co-
researcher have received Navy grants totalling
$210,000 in four years. . . . Paul Granchelli
works as a scientific programming specialist for
Lockheed Missiles and Space in Linthicum, Md.
. . . Still with Hughes Aircraft in El Segundo,
Calif., Peter Herron is currently manager of
program planning and control.

Roy Lindquist has been promoted to manager
of product development at Continental Emsco
Company, Dallas, Texas . . . Navy Lt. Cmdr.
Robert McAndrew recently participated in an
amphibious landing exercise at Fort Story, Va.
He is an officer assigned to detachment 106
from Amphibious Construction Battalion Two
based in Roanoke. The amphibious landing was
a substitute for a similar landing at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, as part of the Atlantic Fleet's annual
training operation, "Solid Shield." The original
maneuver was canceled by the president in order
to divert ships to help the refugees from Cuba.
McAndrew joined the Navy in 1967.

I968

Secretary:

Charles A. Griffin
2901 Municipal Pier Rd
Shreveport, LA
71119

Representative
William J. Rasku
33 Mark Bradford Dr.
Holden, MA
01520

^■Married: Francis (Frank) K. Verderber and
Barbara Georgakis on July 27, 1 980. The bride, a
dental hygienist, graduated from Farmingdale
State in New York. Her husband is a corrosion
control engineer for Long Island Lighting Co.

Edward Cannon, varsity soccer coach at St.
Anselm's College, was on the staff of the Soccer
Farm in Pomfret, Conn, as an instructor in
August. He also served as program coordinator
for one of the sessions. The Soccer Farm offers
summer clinics for boys and girls from 8 to 1 8.
. . . Jeff Decker just moved to Cincinnati where
he joined the executive committee of
Winegardner & Hammons, Inc. His prime re-
sponsibility is in hotel and restaruant develop-
ment and corporate planning. He holds the post
of senior vice president of the company. . . .
Charles Griffin is a research associate in the
department of biochemistry at the Louisiana
State University Medical School in Shreveport,
LA. He also owns Water Trails Canoes, a canoe
rental and sales business. . . . Ted Heidt is em-
ployed as a financial analyst for Air Products &
Chemicals in Allentown, Pa. He has MS degrees
from Carnegie-Mellon and the University of
Pittsburgh.

Dr. Ronald Jodoin, an assistant physics pro-
fessor at Rochester Institute of Technology, has
just received tenure from RIT. He and Martha
have two children and live in Pittsford, NY. . . .
Chester Kasper, Jr. now holds the position of
senior sales engineer at Pearse & Pearson,
Bloomfield, Conn. . . . William Mahoney serves
as senior editor at R.S. Means, Inc., Kingston,
Mass. He and Joanna have four children and live
in Plymouth. . . . Richard Scaia is district en-
gineer at the Torrington Co. in Hinsdale, III. . . .
Edward Zakzerewski continues with Arco/
Polymers Research and Development, which is
relocating to the Philadelphia area.

I969

Secretary:
lames P. Atkinson
41 Naples Rd.
Brookline, MA
02146

Representative
Michael W Noga
West Bare Hill Rd.
Harvard. MA
01451

^Married: James F. Baxendaleto Linda L. Polk
in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Mrs. Baxendale
graduated from Stuart School of Business Ad-
ministration, Asbury Park. The bridegroom has a
degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University. They
are both employed by the U.S. government at
Fort Monmouth, N.J. . . . Ralph J. Eschborn II
and Ellen E. Asanoff on June 28, 1980 in Fair-
field, Connecticut. The bride is a Phi Beta Kappa
graduate from Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.
She is an engineer for du Pont in Wilmington,
where her husband holds the post of product
technologist. . . Paul T. Shea and Kathy A.
Ohanian on August 3, 1980 in Providence,
Rhode Island. Mrs. Shea graduated from URI.
The groom who has a master's degree from URI,
is currently a PhD candidate. He is with du Pont
in Wilmington, Delaware.

Carl Ballard is employed as a senior engineer
at Westinghouse-Bettis in West Mifflin, Pa. . . .
Rodney Dahlstrom works as a senior process
engineer at Stone & Webster Engineering, Bos-
ton. . . . James Hills was appointed engineering
manager of the Lakso Company, a division of
Package Machinery Company, in Leominster,
Mass. For the past year, he operated his own
business, Custom Valves and Controls Corpora-
tion of Worcester. Previously, he was engineer-
ing manager at Worcester Controls Corporation.
He belongs to the Instrument Society of America
and the ISA Control Valve Standard Committee.
. . . Formerly vice president of economic devel-
opment for the Blackstone Valley Chamber of
Commerce and project manager for the Second
Pawtucket Area Industrial Development Foun-
dation, John Poblocki recently joined Kates
Properties, Inc. of Providence. He is vice presi-
dent of project development at the real estate
development firm. Earlier, he played a promi-
nent role in the development of the North
Central-295 Industrial Park in Lincoln.

James Rodier, rates engineer for Public Ser-
vice Company, was one of several public utility
representatives who spoke before the Southern
New Hampshire Association of Commerce &
Industry, Inc., in June. The general topic of the
public forum was the future of their companies
and its effect upon business. Rodier has a juris
doctorate from Suffolk Law School. Prior to
joining Public Service Company as a staff en-
gineer in 1 976, he worked as a specialist in utility
rate matters and regulation for firms in Boston
and New York City. B. Lee Turtle has com-
pleted his PhD in metallurgy and is now teaching
at General Motors Institute in the areas of
metallurgy and manufacturing processing.

1970

Secretary:

F. David Ploss III

208 St. Nicholas Ave.

Worcester, MA

01606

Representative:
Garrett G Graham
150BrooksideRd.
Needham, MA
02194

^■Married: Maine Congressman David F. Emery
and Carol L. Rordam on June 21 , 1980 in
Alexandria, Virginia. Mrs. Emery serves as a
legislative advisor on energy matters for Con-
gressman W. Henson Moore (R-La.). The couple
plans to establish a permanent residence in
Emery's hometown of Rockland.

M.E. (Rico) Argentati has been promoted to
supervisor by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.,
Denver, Colorado. With Bell since 1972, he
holds a master's degree in engineering science
from the University of California at San Diego
and a master's degree in applied mathematics
from the University of Colorado at Boulder. As
supervisor of the Administration and Traffic
Measurements Group in the Customer Switch-
ing Laboratory, Argentati directs development
of Dimension PBX off-line computer software,
traffic measurements, and real-time models. The
Dimension PBX is an electronic private branch
exchange developed by Bell Labs for business
customers and manufactured by Western Elec-
tric in Denver. The Argentatis and their year-old
daughter, Angela, live in Englewood.

The WPI Journal / Fall 1980 / 23

Peter Bladen is senior engineer at Bechtel
Power Corp., Gaithersburg, Md. He recently
received his MS from North Carolina State Uni-
versity.. . . Daniel Breen serves as product man-
agerforthe Spectronics Division of Honeywell in
Richardson, Texas. . . . Daniel Czernicki works
as a technical representative at Naval Underwa-
ter Systems Center, Goodyear Aerospace Corp. ,
Akron, Ohio. . . . Raymond Danahy received his
PhD in nuclear physics at WPI in May. He
teaches physics at Norwich University, North-
field, VT. . . . Andy Donaldson is employed as a
lead process engineer at Stearns-Roger, Denver,
Colo. He and Judy have two children and live in
Parker. . . . William Dudzik continues as an
operations research analyst with the U.S. Navy
at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard. . . . Roger
Johnson is a corrosion engineer at Southern
Connecticut Gas Co., New Haven. . . . Alan
Kolaczkowski serves as a member of the techni-
cal staff at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque,
N.M.

Kent Lawson has been promoted to principal
quality assurance engineer by the Polaroid Cor-
poration. He is publicity chairman, senior
member, and member of the executive commit-
tee of the Boston section of the American Society
for Quality Control. Also, he is vice president of
the board of directors of the Nassau Gardens
Cooperative Housing Association, a 204-unit
luxury living complex in Norwood, Mass. He will
continue his responsibilities as a camera devel-
opment engineer in the Polaroid Program Of-
fice, a group which shakes down new camera
designs, plans the product and process flow, and
brings the product to full production. He was
instrumental in the development of the SX 70,
Pronto, and One Step cameras.

Rajnikant Mehta holds the post of manager of
the engineering department at Noblewest in
East Hartford, Conn. . . . Having resigned from
active duty as a U.S. Army captain last year, Alan
Prucnal is now a contracting officer's repre-
sentative (civilian) for the Army in Heidelberg,
Germany. He has been in Germany since 1975,
and he plans to stay in Europe for at least two
more years. . . Robert Rosenberg is a real estate
broker and developer with Robert A. Rosenberg
Associates in Quincy, Calif. He is a graduate of
the Realtors Institute. . . . Anthony Toscano is
now senior project manager for Buell Division of
Envirotech Corp. in Lebanon, Pa.

1971

Secretary:
Vincent T. Pace
4707 Apple Lane
West Deptford, NJ
08066

^■Married: Paul B. Sullivan and Kathleen M.
Sch warz on June 2 1 , 1 980 in Keyport, New
Jersey. The bride is a computer programmer for
American Telephone & Telegraph. She
graduated from Glassboro State College. The
groom is a systems designer for Western Electric
Co. and holds a master's degree from Stevens
Institute of Technology. . . . John Szoke, Jr. and
Joan Ricklefs on August 2, 1980 in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire. Mrs. Szoke, a music teacher in
Auburn, Mass., graduated from Manhattanville
College and UMass. Her husband serves as a
biomedical engineer at Hewlett-Packard in
Lexington, Mass.

Presently, Dick Arena is relocating to Michi-
gan as the result of a promotion. He is sales
manager of the automotive section at Martin
Marietta Aluminum in Southfield. ... Dr. Joseph
Carter, who received an MS from the University
of Minnesota this year, is with the Euclid Clinic
Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. . . . Steven Chan
serves as a staff engineer at Ampex Corporation,
Redwood City, Calif. He received his MSEE from
WPI this year. The Chans and their two children
reside in Fremont, Calif. . . . Jim Crittenden has
just taken the position of project engineer at
USCI Division of C.R. Bard in Billerica, Mass. He
spent the previous four years as president of a
small company he co-founded in 1 976. The firm
made products used in cardiovascular medicine.
USCI, his current employer, now owns the busi-
ness. In 1 975, Jim won the Sports Car Club of
America's A Sedan National Championship and
was runner-up in 1976. He continues racing,
sponsored by Mecca Development, which
makes state-of-the-art lubricating systems for
cars.

Dr. BaljitGambhir is a senior engineer at Shell
Oil in Houston. . . . Alan Gradet, an environmen-
tal engineer at Environmental Research &
Technology, Inc. (ERT), Houston Engineering
Division, was co-author of Part II of "Environ-
mental Outlook for the '80s" (Managing
Hazardous Wastes Under RCRA), in the July
issue of Chemical Engineering. At ERT, Gradet is
responsible for business and technical develop-
ment of the firm's hazardous-waste consulting
services in the Gulf Coast region. . . . Chia-Soon
Ku serves as a senior research engineer at the
National Bureau of Standards in Washington,
D.C. He has a PhD from Penn State University.

Dr. Richard Lindsay continues as a research
associate for the Grinding Wheel Division at
Norton Co., Worcester. One of his respon-
sibilities is to outline safe grinding practices to
users of Norton's grinding wheels. Through
seminars he has conducted, and technical papers
he has written, he tries to impart a better under-
standing of the nature of grinding. Lindsay holds
a PhD from WPI. He attended Worcester Junior
College and graduated first in a class of 1200 at
Northeastern, where he studied mechanical en-
gineering. He has a master's degree from MIT. A
noted expert in his field, he was elected to CIRP,
the prestigious international institution for
production-engineering research. . . . Michael
Murphy has been promoted to production man-
ager at Brockway Plastics in Sloatsburg, N.Y. He
transferred from Nashua, N.H. . . . Peter Salis
was promoted to engineering superintendent at
National Starch and Chemical Corporation in
Indianapolis. He joined the firm following
graduation, and belongs to the American Insti-
tute of Chemical Engineers. . . . Ray Skowyra is
employed as a marketing specialist at GE Plastics
Division in Minneapolis.

1972

Secretary:

John A Woodward

Rte. 1

Box 7516, Fawnbrook

Hillsborough, NC

27278

Representative.
Thomas J. Tracy
68MendonSt
Uxbndge, MA
01569

►A/lamed. Alan E. Dion to Patricia P. DesRoches
on April25, 1980 in Decatur, Georgia. Mrs. Dion
graduated from Rhode Island Junior College and
Providence College, and is program director of
the DeKalb County E.O.A. The groom received
his master's degree from URL He is an environ-
mental engineer with the U.S. EPA. . . . Michael
J. Ingemi and Irene S. Wiik in Norwood, Mas-
sachusetts. The bride graduated from Westfield
State College. . . . Alan Nafis and Sandra Busk
on June 7, 1980 in Cheshire, Connecticut. Mrs.
Nafis is a graduate of Stone School of Business.
. . . Kurt M. Wusterbarth and Arlene E. Ryan on
June 7, 1980 in Meriden, Connecticut. Mrs.
Wusterbarth, an economist, graduated from Al-
bertus Magnus College and Georgetown Uni-
versity. Her husband is a consulting engineer.

>Bom: to Betzi and John Powers a son,
Thomas Ohlson, on July 7, I980. Tom, the
grandson of W. Robert Powers, '37, joins his
brother, Jay, 5.

Roy Aloisio serves as a social worker for the
State of Vermont in Newport. He and his wife
Kathy live in Morrisville. . . . Denis Kokernak is
presently with USCI-C.R. Bard, Billerica, Mass.
. . . Vahe Krikorian works as a business quality
manager at Digital in Maynard, Mass. ... Dr.
Roy Lindblad received his DDS from Case-
Western in May. He is a dentist at St. Francis
Hospital, Hartford, Conn. . . . Mahendrakumar
Patel is employed as project engineer at Tembec,
Inc., Temiscaming, Quebec. He and Sarla have
two children. . . . Bertrand Stanfield-Pinel holds
the post of vice president and general manager
of Feau Realty Development & Management in
Scottsdale, Ariz. . . . Arnope Tantuvanich works
as a design engineer at Tekform Products Co.,
Anaheim, Calif. . . John Woodward is a service
administrator for GTE Southeast in Durham,
N.C. He has a master's degree from USC.

1973

Representative
Robert E Akie
33-8 Sheridan Dr.
Shrewsbury, MA
01545

Secretary
lay I. Schnitzer
322 St. Paul St.
Apt #3
Brookline. MA
02146

^■Married: David S. Bowen and Pamela Wal-
dron on May 23, 1980 in South Windsor, Con-
necticut. The bride graduated from Central
Connecticut State College, and is employed by
the Living and Learning Schools, Farmington.
Her husband works for Travelers Insurance in
Hartford. . . . Mark D. Whitley and Janice M. Bell
of New Orleans, Louisiana on June 22, 1979.
Mrs. Whitley graduated from the University of
Southwest Louisiana with a BA in business.
Recently, Whitley was promoted to the post of
senior reservoir engineer with Shell Oil Co. in
New Orleans, where he is involved in economic
analysis and reservoir evaluation.

24 / Fall 1 980 / The WPI Journal

r j i*ii ifci*

Jason Burbank has received his MSME from
UMass, Amherst. His master's project was con-
cerned with passive solar heating in
greenhouses. Presently, he is employed by
Cleverdon, Varney, & Pike in Boston. . . . Mark
Cichocki serves as a field service engineer at
Coppus Engineering, Worcester. . Jay Di-
mand is a member of the technical staff at
Schlumberger-Doll Research in Ridgefield,
Conn. . . . Frederick Kulas has left IBM to join
Digital Equipment as a product marketing man-
ager. In his new post, he is responsible for
product strategy, promotion, market develop-
ment, and forecasting for Digital's Microcompu-
ter Products Group in Marlboro, Mass. His wife,
Sue, who holds an EdM degree from Harvard, is
assistant dean of continuing education at Dean
Junior College in Franklin, Mass. . . . Kenneth
Larsson works as a project engineer at Converse
Ward Davis Dixon in Caldwell, N.J. He has an MS
from Columbia.

Roger Lavallee was recently promoted to
actuarial research assistant at Aetna Life & Casu-
alty in Hartford, Conn. . . . Edward Peczynski
was promoted to the post of senior engineer at
Northeast Utilities, Hartford, Conn. He is a regis-
tered professional engineer (Conn.) and has a
master's degree from RPI. In 1973, he started at
NU as an assistant engineer and was named
associate engineer in 1975. He was promoted to
company engineer in 1978. He belongs to IEEE,
and is past chairman of the IEEE education
committee, as well as being a member of the
adjunct faculty at the University of Hartford. . . .
Martha Ryan is employed as a process engineer
at Digital Equipment in Hudson, Mass.

Roberto Slimak continues as the self-
employed vice president of Textilera Avila in
Caracas, Venezuela. . . . Richard Socha has re-
ceived his PhD in chemical engineering from
WPI. Since January, he has been employed as a
research engineer at Mobil Research and Devel-
opment Corp., Princeton, NJ. As part of his
graduate research, in 1977 he and his wife
Luanne spent six months in the USSR, where he
worked with Soviet scientists as part of the
American-Soviet Collaboration in Catalysis, Ap-
plication to Manned Space Flights. The Sochas
have a son, Michael. . . . Still with A.E. Staley
Mfg. Co., John Whitney currently works as a
syrup refinery superintendent in Morrisville, Pa.

1974

Secretary:
James F Rubino
4433 Crossbridge Ct
Plainfield, IN
46168

Representative:
David G. Lapre
P O Box 384
Tunkhannock, PA
18657

^■Married: Albert E. Barrett, Jr. and Allison
Quirk in Farmington, Connecticut on May 10,
1 980. Mrs. Barrett, an artist, graduated from the
University of Connecticut. The bridegroom is a
senior engineer with Instron Corporation, Can-
ton, Mass. . . . Neil E. Billings to Nancy M.
Vaccaon April 12, 1980 in Sterling, Mas-
sachusetts. The bride, a Tahanto Regional High
School graduate, is a secretary at Alden Research
Lab. Her husband is employed at GE in Lynn,
Mass. . . . James F. Rubino to Ann L. Boyle in
Natick, Massachusetts on July 12, 1980. Mrs.
Rubino graduated from Green Mountain Jr.

College and UMass. She is an educational con-
sultant at Curriculum Associates. The groom
holds the post of district engineer for the Tor-
rington Co. in Indianapolis, Ind. . . . William P.
Tanguay and Nancy L. Boynton in South Bend,
Indiana. The bride, a registered nurse specializ-
ing in allergy medicine, holds a BS in nursing
from St. Teresa's College, Winona, Minn. Her
husband is employed as a senior electrical en-
gineer at Hammond Organ, Chicago. The Tan-
guays are members of Ocean, a popular rock
group in the Chicago area.
>Born: to Jim and Lexy Chito Ferraris, 77, a
daughter, Nina Elizabeth, on July 20, 1980. Jim,
with the Trane Co., is headquartered in Avon,
Conn. The family resides in Burlington.
Brian Anderson is regional sales manager at
Anacon, Inc., Burlington, Mass. . . James
Bowen now holds the post of product support
engineer at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in West
Palm Beach, Fla. Heand Judy have two children.
... In May, Roger Broeker, Jr. received his MBA
from the University of Houston. He is an instru-
ment engineer at S.I. P. Engineering in Houston.
. . . Robert Bryant serves as a control engineer at
General Public Utilities, Reading, Pa. . . . Wayne
Bryant is a systems programmer at Teradyne in
Boston. . . . Thomas Burns is employed by GE's
Gas Turbine Control Systems in Schenectady,
NY... Robert Dutson works as an accounts
loss prevention consultant for the Kemper
Group, Summit, N.J. He belongs to the Society of
Fire Protection Engineers.

John Fanotto recently passed the Professional
Engineers' exam in the state of California. Cur-
rently, he's lead field engineer with Bechtel
Power Corp. at San Onofre Nuclear Power plant
in San Clemente. . . . David Gerth, a CPA, now
serves as manager of the Administrative Services
Division of Arthur Andersen & Co. , Boston. He
has an MBA from Amos Tuck School,
Dartmouth. ... In March, Donald Gross was
promoted to captain in the U.S. Air Force. Re-
cently, he returned from an 18-month tour in
Korea, and he is now attending undergraduate
pilot training at Reese AFB in Texas. . . . Bruce
Lackey holds the post of regional analytics spe-
cialist at Sybron/Taylor, San Leandro, Calif. . . .
Richard Ludorf is employed by the system plan-
ning department at Northeast Utilities Service
Co., Hartford, Conn.

Gary Pontbriand is now assistant plant man-
ager at Quabaug Rubber Co., North Brookfield,
Mass. . . . Irvin Press holds the position of
marketing manager at the Robbins Co., Attle-
boro, Mass. He has an MBA from Boston Univer-
sity. . . . Stanley Purington is employed by Boe-
ing as a specialist engineer in Everett,
Washington. . . . Joseph Strempek works as a
service engineer for Babcock & Wilcox, Houston,
Texas. . . . Richard Takanen is employed as
manager of manufacturing engineering at GE in
Riverview, Mich. . . . Brad Wetzel is a senior
project engineer at Sun Gas Co., Houston. The
Wetzels and their two children live in Missouri
City. . . . Edwin Wiles serves as design engineer
at Reynolds Metals Company in Richmond, Va.

1975

Secretary

James D. Aceto, Jr.

35Ticonderogal_ane

Millis, MA

02054

Representative
William F. George
27 Old Farm Rd.
Spencer, MA
01562

^Married: Dr. Andrew C. G. Armstrong and Dr.

Nancy E. Mraz on August 9, 1980 in Fort
Fairfield, Maine. The bride and groom, both
graduates of New England College of Op-
tometry, Boston, share a practice of optometry
in Plymouth, N.H. The bride is also a graduate of
the University of Maine at Farmington. . . .
Patricia A. Graham and Robert J. Flaherty on
June 29, 1980 in Worcester. Mrs. Flaherty is a
mathematics instructor at Central New England
College and at Assabet Valley Regional Voca-
tional School. The bridegroom graduated from
Bowdoin College and from Nichols College,
where he received his master's degree. He is an
area representative for Pitney Bowes in
Waltham. . . . Robert E. Linna, Jr. and Connie A.
Sullivan on May 10, 1980 in South Yarmouth,
Massachusetts. Mrs. Linna graduated from
Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School. She
was formerly employed at Bass River Savings
Bank. Her husband serves as a computer pro-
grammer at Coppus Engineering, Worcester.

>Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Alan Bergstrom a
daughter, Katharine, on October 10, 1979.
Bergstrom is an associate in research in the
dermatology department at Yale School of
Medicine. ... to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W.
Linder a son, Ken, Jr., on October 16, 1979.
Linder is a chemical account engineer for Indus-
trial Risk Insurers in Chicago. He and his wife,
Sue, live in Naperville, III.

Richard Caruso works as a process design
engineer at Hydrocarbon Research, Inc., Miami.
. . . David Chevalier continues as a buyer for
Chevalier Furniture, Worcester. . . Louis Chris-
tof oro serves as data processing manager at
Tech Hifi, Inc., Randolph, Mass. . . . Michael
Dolan holds the post of process development
engineer at Mobil R&D Corp. in Paulsboro, N.J.
. . . Francis DuGrenier is in the final year of a PhD
program in the School of Business at UMass,
where he is a research associate. He received his
MBA in 1977. . . . Presently, Glenn Ekwall works
as an on-site project manager in the RCC Unit at
Ashland Oil for U.O.P. Inc., Des Plaines, III.
Recently, he was transferred from the technical
service department, for which he and his wife
had traveled throughout Europe on various re-
finery startup activities.

In May, Richard Gannon received a doctor of
pharmacy degree from Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy and Science. He earned his BS in
science from the University of Connecticut
School of Pharmacy. A member of Rho Chi
national honor society, he did his pharmacy
residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospi-
tal, Philadelphia. . . . Robert Granger was
awarded his JD, cum laude, from Suffolk Univer-
sity Law School recently. He is a principal consul-
tant for Chas. T. Main, Inc., Boston. . . . Edward
Greenebaum holds the position of project en-
gineer at Huth Engineers, Inc., Lancaster, Pa. He
is a registered professional engineer in Pennsyl-
vania. . . . Frederick Greulich is Coast depart-
ment manager at Procter & Gamble Mfg. Co.,
Staten Island, N.Y.

The WPI Journal / Fall 1980 / 25

Charlene Hodgkins works for CY/RO Indus-
tries in Stamford, Conn. . . . Louis Isgur received
his MBA from Suffolk University, Boston, on
June 8th. He is a member of Delta Mu Delta and
serves as production engineer, small systems
division, at Honeywell in Lawrence, Mass. . . .
Moshen Kavehrad, who has a PhD from
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, is senior staff
engineer at GTE Satellite Corp., Stamford, Conn.
. . . Jonathan Leather is employed as a field
engineer at Imperial Metallic Lubricants, Inc.,
Dedham, Mass. ... Dr. Joseph LeBritton con-
tinues as a research associate in physics at the
University of Rochester in New York. His spe-
cialty is particle physics research at Brookhaven
Lab. Last year, he received his PhD from the
University of Rochester. . . . Last fall, Penn Pixley
was promoted to plant engineer at the Celotex
Corp. plant in Quincy, III. He supervises the
departments of maintenance, power genera-
tion, and engineering.

David Salomaki and his wife, Mary, have
bought a house in Santa Clara, Calif. Salomaki is
a development engineer for Hewlett- Packard/
Dana Systems Division, where he is designing
the next generation computer. He also teaches a
course at San Jose State University. . . . Charles
Shillito and his wife, Lois, live in Shrub Oak, N.Y.
Shillito is with Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., White Plains.
. . . Robert Sooy works as an R&D project en-
gineer at Emhart Corp., Dyna-Pert Division,
Beverly, Mass. . . . Michael Sundberg is pres-
ently a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy with the Naval
Administrative Command in Great Lakes, III. . . .
David Williams serves as an associate transpor-
tation planner at Northern Middlesex Area
Commission, Lowell, Mass. His wife, Gretchen,
is also a planner, and will soon start work at the
regional planning agency in Boston. Williams has
a master's degree in urban planning from the
University of Wisconsin.

1976

Secretary:

Paula E. Stratouly

1804 Windsor Ridge Dr

Westboro. MA

01581

REUNION

OCTOBER 1 98 1

Representative:
Richard P. Predella, Jr
493 Page St.
Lunenburg, MA
01462

^■Married: Patrick J. Murphy and Janet E. Mil-
lerd in Willimantic, Connecticut on June 28,
1980. The bride has an intermediate education
degree from Eastern Connecticut State College
and is taking graduate courses in mathematics at
the University of Houston. She is a fifth grade
teacher. The bridegroom works for Ebasco Ser-
vices, Houston. . . . Donald P. Nardi to Katherine
A. Evans in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts
on June 7, 1980. Mrs. Nardi graduated from
Springfield Technical Community College, and is
an administrative assistant at Greater Springfield
Chamber of Commerce. Her husband, a techni-
cian at Monsanto Co., attends Western New
England College. . . . Richard P. Predella, Jr. and
Margaret M. Lantaigneon May 31, 1980 in East
Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Mrs. Predella
graduated from North Adams State College. She
is a claims adjuster at Commercial Assurance
Company in Peabody, Mass. The groom is with
New England Telephone and Telegraph in Fitch-
burg, Mass.

^Married: Robert W. Sengstaken and Teresa
A. Clark in Keene, New Hampshire on June 21 ,
1980. Mrs. Sengstaken graduated from Keene
State College and New Hampshire Vocational
Technical College. Her husband works for Mar-
kern Corporation. . . Robert G. Valentine, Jr.
and Caterina L. Sciannameo on May 3, 1980 in
Worcester. Mrs. Valentine is a graduate of the
Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. She is a
nurse at St. Vincent Hospital. The groom serves
as a systems analyst at St. Vincent. . . . John A.
Watters, Jr. and Patricia A. Baker on March 29,
1980 in Millbury, Massachusetts. Mrs. Watters
graduated from North High School, Worcester,
and is employed by Cottage Tailor, Inc., Worces-
ter. Her husband is with John Hancock Mutual
Life Insurance Co.

Mark Allyn is now in San Diego working for
the U.S. Navy's Naval Electronic Systems
Engineering Center. He is responsible for the
installation of high power radio transmitters. . . .
Scott Bamford serves as a geotechnical engineer
at Woodward-Clyde Consult, in Houston,
Texas. He has received his MS in ocean engineer-
ing from URI. . . . Val Danos works for East Bay
Municipal Utilities District. . . . Wayne Dyer is a
programmer at Computervision in Burlington,
Mass. ... In May, James Farina received his PhD
in physics from Drexel University. He is a visiting
assistant professor in the physics department at
Drexel in Philadelphia. . . . Wesley Gilbert and
his bride, Nancy, who were married on May
31st, have just moved into a "new-old" home in
Broad Brook, Conn. Gilbert serves as chief en-
gineer at Frame-Up Engineering Co. in Enfield.
. . . Jonathan Hatch holds the post of process
control engineer at PPG Industries, Pittsburgh,
Pa. . . . Barry Heitner is employed as a process
engineer at du Pont in Orange, Texas.

Presently, Walter Hoehn is with SE Data Pro-
cessing Co., Miami, Fla. . . . Elizabeth Papandrea
Lariviere is now in product line planning and
management for microwave radio at Western
Electric in North Andover, Mass. . . . Robert
Lemer serves as an office automation consultant
at Wang Labs, Lowell, Mass. He holds an MBA
from the University of Rochester. . . . Tom McA-
loon is employed as a sanitary engineer at New
Hampshire Water Supply & Pollution Control
Commission in Concord. . . . William McGee
works as a design engineer at Applicon, Inc., in
Burlington, Mass. . . . James Petrillo is a senior
process engineer at B.F. Goodrich Chemical Co.,
Pedricktown, N.J. . . . Craig Plourde was elected
assistant treasurer of the technical support de-
partment at Connecticut Bank and Trust Co.,
Hartford, Conn. He joined the bank in 1976 as a
programmer and was promoted to senior sys-
tems engineer two years ago.

Steven Silva holds the position of microcom-
puter development specialist at Tektronix, North
Syracuse, N.Y. . . . John Smith, a PhD candidate
at SUNY in Buffalo, works as a research assistant
at Health Research, Inc., Roswell Park Memorial
Institute.. . Arthur Stryer has received his MBA
from Northeastern. He serves as a senior design
engineer at Data General, Westboro, Mass. . . .
Jeff Triwedi continues as a sales engineer at GE
in Oakbrook, III. . . . Donald Weymouth is man-
ager of manufacturing systems at Wright Line,
Inc., Worcester.

1977

Secretary
Kathleen Molony
6 Aiken St.
Norwalk, CT
06851

Representative:
Christopher D Baker
1 1 Boston St.
Lawrence. MA
01841

^■Married: Glenn R. Andrews to Jeanne A.
McKenna on August 2, 1980 in Stamford, Coq-
necticut. Mrs. Andrews, a computer pro-
grammer at Travelers Insurance, Hartford,
graduated from Fairfield University. Her hus-
band is also a computer programmer at Travel-
ers. . . . Robert E. Bowser and Miss Donna
Lindsay of North Brookfield, Massachusetts on
June 14, I980. The bride graduated from Anna
Maria in 1978 and from Columbia University
School of Nursing in 1980. She is employed at
the Children's Hospital National Medical Center,
Washington, D.C. The groom is with the Naval
Sea Systems Command in Washington. . . .
Brian D. Buckley and Kristina T. Perry on Sep-
tember 13, 1980 in Worcester. The bride was
formerly a civil engineer in the Department of
Public Works, Holden, Mass. Her husband is a
nuclear engineer at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
in Kittery, Me. After a trip to Ireland, the couple
is residing in Kittery Point. . . . James A. Buffi and
Deborah R. Buccion August9, 1980 in Johnston,
Rhode Island. Mrs. Buffi, who attends the Uni-
versity of Bridgeport Law School, graduated
from URI. Her husband works as a project
engineer-estimator for Dimeo Construction
Company, and he is completing his MBA at
Bryant College. . . . Don L. Drinkwaterand
Barbara A. Morrison on July 13, 1980 in West
Warren, Massachusetts. The bride is a Becker
graduate. Currently, she is in the nursing pro-
gram at Boston State College. Her husband is
employed at Digital in Tewksbury.

^■Married: George L. Keeler and Frances L.
Link in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on August 2,
1980. Mrs. Keeler graduated from Fitchburg
State College School of Nursing and is a nurse at
Berkshire Medical Center. The bridegroom is a
design engineer for GE Ordnance Systems. He
received his master's degree from RPI this year.
. . . Thomas W. Kintz and Anita Duchesneau in
Norway, Maine on May 17, 1980. Mrs. Kintz
graduated from Becker. Her husband is presently
employed by Connecticut Light and Power. . . .
Brian D. Kisiel and Donna M. Oppici in West
Boylston, Massachusetts on May 17, 1980. Mrs.
Kisiel, a counselor for the Nashua (N.H.) Youth
Council, graduated from Framingham State Col-
lege. Her husband is a sales engineer for Betz
Laboratories.

^■Married: Gary A. Loeb and Leslie G. Levine
in Albany, New York on May 11, 1980. The bride
graduated from Hudson Valley Community Col-
lege and Russell Sage. She is a probation officer
for Albany County. The bridgroom serves as
assistant to the superintendent of the Niagara
Mohawk Albany Steam Station. . . . Mark O.
Puputti and Brenda A. Boucher, '80 in Chicopee,
Massachusetts on July 12, 1980. Mrs. Puputti is
a process engineer at GTE Laboratories in
Waltham, Mass. Her husband is a production
engineer at Polaroid Corp., Waltham. . . .Steven
E. Sweeney and Monica A. Murphy in Albany,
New York on May 31,1 980. The bride
graduated as a nurse from Maria College. The
bridegroom is with the New York State Depart-
ment of Transportation. . . . Joseph C. Williams
and Margaret George on May 25, 1980 in
Auburn, Massachusetts. Mrs. Williams, an Anna

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Maria graduate, is a social worker at the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worces-
ter. Her husband serves as a manufacturing
engineer in the Vitrified Grinding Wheel Division
at Norton Company.

Raad Al-Awqati works as a special service
representative for M. A. Al-Bahar in Kuwait. . . .
Christopher "Bake" Baker is now an assistant
engineer at Edwards & Kelcey in Boston. . . .
Michael Bloom holds a new post as senior
systems programmer-performance analyst at In-
teractive Data Corp., Waltham, Mass. . . . Bruce
Baran is working for his doctorate in physics at
Northeastern. . . . Stephen Coleman continues
as an actuarial associate at State Mutual in
Worcester. . . . Paul Craffey has received his MS
in chemical engineering from UMass. He now
works for Owens Corning in Grandville, Ohio.
. . . Bill Cunningham was recently awarded a
fellowship in the two-year MBA program at Tuck
School at Dartmouth. Says Bill, "I'll be majoring
in marketing, finance, and skiing." Data General
has given Bill a leave of absence for his graduate
study. Last summer, the company sent him to
Germany for a week to set up a training pro-
gram. . . . Scott Davidson is a senior software
engineer at DEC in Maynard, Mass.

David Drzyzgula holds the post of manager of
Agway, Inc., in Rutland, Vt. . . . Apostolos
Economou works for Sole Ltd. Solar Domestic
Appliance Industry, Athens, Greece. . . . Jim
Gado is a first-year student at Suffolk Law
School. . . . Gary Helmstetter is a systems de-
signer at Software House in Cambridge, Mass.
. . . Last summer, to maintain his crewing ability,
Eric Hertz attended rowing camp in Craftsbury,
Vt. . . . Jim Lunney has been transferred by GE's
International Division to Scotland, where he is
concerned with navigational computer projects.
The 18-month stint was "conveniently" ar-
ranged so that Jim can take in two Oktoberfests
in Germany. . . . Kim Mohanty is a physics
associate at Brookhaven National Labs, Upton,
N.Y. . . . Kathy Molony has been promoted from
product district supervisor to new products
coordinator at Clairol in Stamford, Conn. . . .
Christopher Morosas is employed as a product
development engineer at CIT Cryogenics in
Waltham, Mass. . . . Jeffrey Peterson works for
United Technologies in Hartford, Conn. . . .
Scott Saftler holds the position of product con-
sultant at National CSS in Wilton, Conn.

Igor Shulyak continues as a process engineer
at Norton's in Worcester. . . . Donald Statile
serves as associate engineer at Yankee Atomic
Electric Company, Westboro, Mass. He has a
master's degree from RPI. . . . Last Year, Gregory
Tietbohl received his master's degree from the
University of Delaware, then worked for a time
as a thermal systems engineer at General Electric
in Lynn. Presently, he is an R & D engineer for
Riley Stoker in Worcester.

1978

Secretary
Cynthia Grynick
303 Wolcott St.
Waterbury, CT
06705

^■Married: Ralph S. Chapman and Vida Yazdi of
Hempstead, L.I., New York on May 31, 1980.
The bride graduated from New York Institute of
Technology with a BS in interior design. Her
husband serves as a systems programmer in the
advanced technology department of National
CSS, Inc., Wilton, Conn. . . Jeffrey M. Fraulino
and Faith E. Kachinsky in Middletown, Connec-
ticut on June 28, 1980. The bride, a student at
Middlesex Community College, works at Liberty
Bank for Savings. The bridegroom attends
Hartford Graduate Center. He works for Macchi
Engineers. . . . Linda E. Lammi and Emmanuel
Papanicholas in Topsfield, Massachusetts. Mrs.
Papanicholas has a BS from Northeastern and an
MS from WPI. Her husband, a graduate of
Suffolk University, is with Atlantic Tracy, Inc., of
Beverly, Mass. . . . Robert Lundin and Joan
Gribouski on April 19, 1980 in Worcester. The
bride graduated from Quinsigamond Commu-
nity College and is employed at UMass Medical
School. The groom is a student at Tufts Univer-
sity School of Dentistry. . . Richard McNamara
and Mary G. Snyder on June 8, 1980 in Belmont,
Massachusetts. Mrs. McNamara, a Westfield
State College graduate, is a social worker for
West Suburban Elderly Services, Waltham,
Mass. Her husband works for Turner Construc-
tion, Boston . . . David J. Thibodeau, Jr. and
MaryJ. O'Donnellon June21, 1980 in Warwick,
Rhode Island. The bride is a magna cum laude
graduate of Anna Maria College and a substitute
teacher in Warwick. The bridegroom is em-
ployed by Sanders Associates, Nashua, N.H. . . .
William H. Walton and Patricia A. Tracy in
Worcester on May 31 , 1980. Mrs. Walton is a
fire protection engineer with the Kemper Group
in North Quincy, Mass. Her husband serves as a
geotechnical engineer at Chas. T. Main, Inc.,
Boston.. . . Charles S. Winters and Ann M. Prew
in Pawtucket, Rhode Island on August 9, 1980.
The bride graduated from LaSalle College and
attends graduate school at Catholic University.
The groom is with Electrack, Inc., Hyattsville,
Md.

Currently, Bernice Albetski is a programmer-
analyst at American Company in Greenwich,
Conn. . . . Navy Ensign Bramwell Arnold, Jr. has
reported for duty with Attack Squadron 122,
Naval Air Station, Lemoore, Calif. He joined the
Navy in June of 1978. . . . Carl Blomberg is now
employed at Henley Lundgren in Shrewsbury,
Mass. . . . Robert Brosnahan works as a project
engineer at Richards Manufacturing Corp.,
Memphis, Tenn. He recently received his mas-
ter's degree in bioengineering from Clemson
University. . . . Gary Davis is a senior systems
analyst for Dialcom, Inc., of Silver Spring, Md.
. . . Stephen Dudzik is with Vitro Laboratories,
Silver Spring, Md. . . . This year, Richard Dziura
received his MSEE from WPI. He works as a
development engineer for GE's Lighting Systems
Division in Hendersonville, N.C. . . . Paul Gifford
serves as an estimator at Daniel Construction
Co., Greenville, S.C. . . . Robert Grochmal is
studying for his MSEE at RPI . He continues as an
Edison engineer at GE in Pittsfield, Mass.

Paul Gudelski works as a highway engineer II
in the Bureau of Construction Inspection for the
State Highway Administration, Salisbury, Md.
The Gudelskis have two children. . . . John Han-
non, an engineer with du Pont, was transferred
to Martinsville, Va. in March. He and his bride,
Kathy, reside in Collinsville. They were married in
May. . . . Erik Hedberg, presently as MS student
at the University of Miami, will enter Duke
University in December to study for his PhD. . . .
Ruth Anne Heselbarth is a staff accountant with
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. , a public account-
ing firm in Boston. She passed the CPA exam in
May. She has an MS in accounting from North-
eastern University and is taking night classes for
her MS in taxation at Bentley College. ... In
January, Peter Hunt was promoted to first
lieutenant in the USAF. He serves as a mechan-
ical systems engineer for the Titan IllatVanden-
berg AFB, Calif. . . . Leonard Lariviere is involved
with microwave tower design at Western Elec-
tric, North Andover, Mass. . . . Kevin O'Donnell
continues as a graduate student at the Institute
of Optics at the University of Rochester. . . . Rory
O'Connor is now software editor for Computer
Business News.

Michael O'Hara holds the post of project
engineer at 3M Company in St. Paul, Minn. . . .
Ernest Poulias is employed as a manufacturing
engineer at Combustion Engineering, Ware-
house Pt, Conn. . . . Bruce Rutsch is a senior
engineer at Sweda International in Pinebrook,
N.J. . . . Allan Schweber serves as division
equipment coordinator at the Southland Corpo-
ration in Alexandria, Va. . . . Forrest Titcomb has
received an MS degree from MIT. He belongs to
Pi Tau Sigma. . . . Craig Vickery holds the posi-
tion of engineering technical writer at Pratt &
Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford, Conn. He is also
enrolled in the MSME program at RPI's Hartford
Graduate Center. . . John Wallace, who has an
MS from Carnegie-Mellon, serves as a member
of the technical staff at Bell Labs, Naperville, III.
. . . Wesley Wheeler, a project engineer with
Exxon Research/Engineering Co., Florham Park,
N.J. , is currently on assignment to Esso Engineer-
ing (Europe) Ltd. in Surrey, England. . . .
Raimond Winslow continues at Johns-Hopkins
School of Medicine in the department of
biomedical engineering. He is working on his
doctoral degree in biomedical engineering.

1979

Secretary
James Manchester
625 Main St
Reading, MA
01867

Representative:
Donald O. Patten, Jr.
27 French St.
Hingham, MA
02043

^■Married: Andre G. Labrecque and Cheryl A.
Vaughan in Worcester on June 28, 1980. The
bride, an executive medical secretary, graduated
from Salter Secretarial School. Her husband is in
production management at Armstrong Cork
Co., Lancaster, Pa. . . . David J. Lodigiani and
Doreen P. Schultz on September 13, 1980. Mrs.
Lodigiani is a Becker graduate, and works at
Fitchburg State College as a medical assistant.

The WPI Journal / Fall 1980/27

. . . Donald H. Mitchell to Rosemary L. Oshana
on August 9, 1980 in New Britain, Connecticut.
Mrs. Mitchell graduated from Becker and has
been employed at Farmington Convalescent
Home and Rest Home. Her husband works for
Public Service Co. of New Hampshire at Man-
chester. . . . Robert P. Reed to Suzanne M.
Lavoie in Auburn, Massachusetts on April 19,
1 980. The bride graduated from Salter Secreta-
rial School. She is with the physiology depart-
ment of the University of Massachusetts Medical
School in Worcester. The bridegroom is a prod-
uct engineeratWyman-Gordon, North Grafton.
. . . John P. Sasonoff and Kathleen M. Cooney in
Billerica, Massachusetts on May 10, 1980. An
alumna of Boston College School of Nursing,
Mrs. Sasonoff is now employed in the Tempo
program at Massachusetts Hospital School in
Canton. Her husband has a BSEE from Manhat-
tan College and an MSEE from WPI. He is a
senior engineer with Raytheon in Wayland. . . .
David J. Sheridan and Joyce A. Poulton on May
31 , 1980 in Westport, Massachusetts. The bride
is a mathematician. The groom is a second
lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Presently, the
couple is living in Vincenza, Italy. . . . Felix E.
Vargas and Maura C. Scanlon on April 12, 1980
in Jefferson, Massachusetts. Mrs. Vargas works
at Kelly Health Care, Worcester. She is a senior at
Worcester State. The bridegroom is employed
by Chu Associates in Littleton.

John Auger works as a facilities engineer at
Parker Hannifin Corp., Ravenna, Ohio. . . Jeff
Boike works for U.O.P. in Chicago. . . . Paul
Capstick graduated from West Point in May. . . .
Stephen DiPietro is studying for his master's in
nuclear engineering at MIT. . . . Ronald Drew-
iany continues with General Dynamics-Electric
Boat in Groton, Conn. . . . David Erickson is an
applications engineer in the Process Instrument
Division at Panametrics, Waltham, Mass. . . .
Andrew Faiss serves an an associate structural
engineer for General Dynamics-Electric Boat,
Groton, Conn. Faiss had a five-year double
major: ocean engineering and management en-
gineering. He has completed his management
engineering program and finished everything
but his MQP in ocean engineering, and plans to
complete the latter this fall. Faiss's was the first
interdisciplinary ocean engineering program at
WPI. . . . Michael Falcinelli is employed as a
system engineer at Hewlett-Packard in
Lexington, Mass. . . . David Gehly works as a
process engineer at ITT Semiconductor in Law-
rence, Mass.

John Hopkins, Jr. holds the position of vice
president at the Alger Corp., Abington, Mass.
. . . Presently, Stephen Hull is a research fellow
at Michigan State University in East Lansing. . . .
In June, Bruce Jenket completed nuclear power
school in Orlando and is now applying his
knowledge at Knolls Atomic Lab. in West Milton,
N.Y. A Navy ensign, he expects to go to sub
school in New London, Conn., early next year.
. . . Steven Kanevski has been commissioned a
second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force upon
graduating from Officer Training School at Lack-
land AFB near San Antonio, Texas. He was
selected for the school through competitive
examination and will now go to Mather AFB,
Calif, fortraining. . . . Raytheon Equipment Divi-
sion, Waltham, Mass. has employed Robert
Manninen as associate test engineer.

Michael McDonald is an inspecting field en-
gineer at Industrial Risk Insurers in Wellesley,
Mass.. . . James Michaud continues as a techni-
cal representative for the Kemper Group in
North Haven, Conn. . . . Gary Pietryk works as a
fuel systems engineer at Combustion Engineer-
ing in Windsor, Conn. . . Mark Pittenger is a
junior research specialist in the department of
biochemistry and biophysics at the University of
Pennsylvania Medical School. . . Stephen
Prawdzik serves as a sales specialist in the light-
ing system department at GE in Hendersonville,
NC. . . . Robert Rosenlof continues with General
Dyanmics, Groton, Conn. . . . Richard Ruscito
has accepted a position as process supervisor for
W. R. Grace, Davison Chemical Division, Balti-
more, Md.

Biraja Sahu works as a design engineer at
United Tech Corp., Hamilton Standard
Division, in Windsor Locks, Conn. . . . Richard
Sewersky has been named an industrial engineer
at Jamesbury Corp., Worcester. . . .John
Skliutas, who has received his master's degree
from RPI, is now an application engineer for the
AC transmission studies group of the Electric
Utility Systems Engineering Department at GE in
Schenectady. . . . Anthony Weiner works as a
field service engineer for the Surface Division of
Midland Ross in Toledo, Ohio.

I980

^■Married: Curtis T. Dudley and Annette Bachand
in Williamstown, Massachusetts on July 26, 1980.
The bride attended North Adams State College.
Her husband is employed as an electrical engineer
at New England Telephone in Framingham. . . .
Scott M. Harvey and Linda J. Carroll in Barrington,
Rhode Island on June 1 5, 1 980. Mrs. Harvey is a
senior at Holy Cross. The groom serves as a
product engineer at Data General. . . . Lisa A.
Krauss and Paul W. Del Campo Hartman on June
14, 1980 in Bristol, Rhode Island. The bride is a
process development engineer with Procter and
Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her husband is a
graduate of Roger Williams College. . . . Donald
W. May to Kathy A. Seaver of Franklin, Mas-
sachusetts on June 14, 1980. Mrs. May graduated
from Framingham Union Hospital School of Nurs-
ing. The bridegroom is a junior engineer for
Raymond International, Inc. . . . John W. Moriarty
and Carol J. Evon in Waterbury, Connecticut on
July 26, 1980. The bride holds a degree is criminal
justice from the University of Connecticut. Her
husband is with du Pont in Victoria, Texas. . . .
John E.Sjostedt and Judith W. Gemma in Clinton,
Massachusetts on June 7, 1980. The bride, a
graduate of Quinsigamond Community College
and Assumption, is community relations manager
at Van Brode Milling Co., Inc. The groom is with
the Washington Works Division of du Pont in
Parkersburg, West Virginia. . . . Henry A. Spang IV
and Linda S. Landry in Ocean Point, Maine on
June 14, 1980. The bride works at Vought Aircraft
Co. and the groom at Texas Instruments in Dallas,
Texas. . . . Thomas A. Storey and Patricia A. Lowe
of Worcester on June 28, 1 980. The bridegroom
serves as a fire protection engineer at Goodyear
Atomic Corp., Piketon, Ohio. . . . Francis J. Walsh,
Jr. and Barbara J. Granneman on April 12, 1980 in
Garden City, New York. Mrs. Walsh graduated
from Elmira College. Her husband, who also
graduated from Elmira, is employed as a chemical
engineer at W.R. Grace & Co., Lexington, Mass.

*Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Ulrich Steiner a daugh-
ter, Marisa Barbara, on January 9, 1980. Steiner is
with Emch & Berger, Consulting Engineers, in
Bern, Switzerland.

Jeffrey Andrade has accepted a post as design
engineer at Raytheon, Inc., Wayland, Mass. . . .
Allison Avery is with Stone & Webster, Boston. . . .
Verne Backus serves as a trainee in the Silicones
Division at GE in Waterford, N.Y. . . . Exxon
Research & Engineering in Florham Park, N.J. has
employed James Barker as an engineer in syn-
thetic fuels process development. . . . Jay Bel-
lingham is an associate engineer with Potomac
Electric Power Co., Washington, D.C. . . . Kath-
leen Berthelette is a management trainee at New
England Telephone Co., Providence, R.I. . . .
Robert Blake has joined United Illuminating in
New Haven, Conn. He is a member of the ASME.
. . . Eastman Kodak of Rochester, N.Y. has named
David Boger as a research scientist. . . . Michael
Bowen works as a construction coordination en-
gineerforCamp Dresser &McKee, Inc. — Alexan-
der Potter Associates in New York City.

Douglas Brand is with the Torrington Co. in
Connecticut. . . . Philip Bryan was recently named
a design engineer at Kodak in Rochester, N.Y. . . .
Stone & Webster, Boston, has employed Candace
Buckley as a junior engineer. . . Daniel Buckley is
a software engineer II at Digital Equipment Corp.,
Marlboro, Mass. . . . Sharon Buckley has joined
the manufacturing management program at GE in
Schenectady, N.Y. . . . Robert Burghoff is a tissue !
culturist in the life sciences department at WPI. . .
Michael Caputo has entered the University of
Massachusetts Medical School. . . . Daniel Casey
is now a development engineer at Monsanto
Research Corp., Miamisburg, Ohio. . . . Michael
Cheamitru is with the David W. Taylor Naval Ship
Research and Development Center, Bethesda,
Md. He serves as a structural engineer. . . .
Gretchen Chipperini has been named a design
engineer at United Nuclear, Montville, Conn. . . .
Edward Chojin is a manufacturing engineer at
Digital Equipment Corp., Natick, Mass.

David Clarke serves as a field service engineer
for the Foxboro Co. . . . Richard Collins is an
associate engineer in the AEP Program at Hon-
eywell in Billerica, Mass. . . . Peter Connolly works
as a teaching assistant at the University of Califor-
nia at Berkeley. . . . Christopher Cook is employed
in the technical sales and marketing division at
Westinghouse in New York City. . . . David
Craigue works as an associate design engineer at
Hamilton Standard, Windsor Locks, Conn. . . .
Megatest Corp. , Santa Clara, Calif., has employed
Raymond Cronin as an applications engineer. . . .
John Cybulski has accepted a position in the
manufacturing management program at GE in
Schenectady. . . . Tom Daniels serves as a safety
analyst in the Nuclear Power Generation Division
at Babcock and Wilcox Co., Lynchburg, Va. He
belongs to the ASME and the American Nuclear
Society. . . . Michael Davenport is an assistant
engineer at Northeast Utilities in Hartford, Conn.
. . . Thomas De Bellis holds the post of systems
programmer at Columbia University, New York
City.. . . James DeCarlo is employed by New York
Telephone Co. in New York City. . . . John Dehais
has joined Hamilton Standard in Windsor Locks,
Conn. He is an associate engineer in the Environ-
mental Control Systems Department.

28 / Fall 1980 / The WPI Journal

I > W » «' ' ■ HWIWII'I ■ ■»■■ 1 w 1

Duane Delfosse is a member of the engineering
training program (Edison) at GE in San Jose, Calif.
. . . Mark DiLuglio now works for John M. Geisser
Co., Greenville, R.I. . . . James Drumm is with
Badger America, Inc. in Tampa, Fla. . . . Oliver
Edwards is employed at Exxon Chemical Com-
pany, Florham Park, N.J. . . . Eric Engberg is a
software instructor at Data General, Southboro,
Mass. . . Perry Esposito has joined the marketing
support group at Bailey Controls Company in
Denver, Colo. The firm isa division of Babcock and
Wilcox. . . . Paul Farineau serves as a second
lieutenant in the Army Chemical Corps. . . James
Feenan, Jr. holds the post of project coordinator at
Coppus Engineering, Worcester. . . . Margaret
Fernald works for Teledyne Engineering Services
in Waltham, Mass. . . . Bell Labs, Indianapolis,
Ind., has named Gary Fischer as a member of the
technical staff.

Arthur Flagg III is with GTE Sylvania, Needham
Heights, Mass. . . . Richard Forand is employed as
an engineering field representative by Industrial
Risk Insurers of Hartford, Conn. . . . Frances Fortin
serves as a structural engineer at the David W.
Taylor Naval Ship Research & Development Cen-
ter in Bethesda, Md. . . . Andre Gagnon works in
the safeguards reliability and application division
at Westinghouse Nuclear Control Center, Mon-
roeville, Pa. . . . Michael Gardella holds the post of
associate engineer at Electric Boat in Groton,
Conn. . . . Michael Gariepy has been employed as
a chemical vapor deposition engineer at Analog

Devices in Wilmington, Mass. . . . Brian Gifford is
a project engineer at the Naval Ordnance Station
at Indian Head, Md. . . Stephen Gilrein has
joined the Chicago District Corps of Engineers. . . .
Currently, Richard Goldman is attending Cornell
University Law School.

Thomas Grimm serves as assistant mechanical
engineer at Fluor Mining & Metals, Inc., San
Mateo, Calif. . . . Robert Guarasi has been em-
ployed by the management career system at Cruc-
ible Steel-Colt Industries, Midland, Pa. . . . Anne-
marie Guay is a management trainee at New
England Telephone in Manchester, N.H.
. . . Robert Guerin has joined the Aerospace Elec-
tronic Systems Department at GE in Utica, N.Y. He
is affiliated with the Edison Engineering Program
Robert Guillemette is a materials engineer at
Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, Conn. . . . Candyce
Hallock, who was commissioned a second lieuten-
ant in the U.S. Air Force Reserve in May, is an
acquisitions project officer at Hanscom AFB, Mass.
. . Irvin Halman works for Kodak in Rochester,
N.Y. . . . Carl Hammer is with the Outdoor
Center-Camp Jewell, YMCA of Metro Hartford,
Inc. in Colebrook, Conn. . . . Michael Herberg has
been named to a post with the GE Silicon Products
Division, Waterford, N.Y. . . . John Herr is em-
ployed as an associate engineer at Lockheed in
Burbank, Calif. . . . James Hinckley is with Xerox
Corp., Rochester, N.Y. . . . David Hoercher con-
tinues as a graduate student at RPI. . Gary
Holland works as a teaching assistant in the

chemistry department at Northwestern University,
Evansville, III. . . . Edward Holmes serves as assist-
ant development engineer at Honeywell Electro-
Optics Center, Lexington, Mass.

Western Electric has employed Thomas Horgan
as a marketing engineer. He is located in Boston.

Arthur Huggard is with Monsanto in
Springfield, Mass. . . David Huhtala holds the
post of manufacturing manager at GE in Lynn,
Mass. . . Brian Huntley is in the master's program
atWPI. . . James Idelson hasjoined LTXCorp. in
Newton Highlands, Mass. He is an applications
engineer-international. . . . Bruce Jacobson is a
design engineer for special equipment at Photo-
panels of New England, Princeton, Mass. . . .
Anthony Jannetta is with Harris Corp. in Roches-
ter, N.Y. . . Matthew Johnson works in the linear
test system group at Teradyne Co., Boston. . . .
Chandrashekhar Joshi is a graduate student at
MIT. . . . Currently, Richard Jundanian is working
for his master's degree at WPI. While an under-
graduate, he developed a rate-pressure product
computer. The device, now in the operating room
at UMass Medical School, is used by surgeons
during the complex and critical procedures of
open-heart surgery and tells the surgeon and
anesthetist how strong the heart is. AtWPI Junda-
nian is working on a more refined version of the
computer. The NSF has asked him to build an
artificial heart which will be used in research into
blocked arteries. In the future, he hopes to build an
artificial pancreas for diabetics.

School of Industrial

Management

Edward Eidt, '53, a former federal mediator in
Worcester, is now retired and living in Bushnell,
Fla.

Wade Cloyd, '64, who joined Raybestos-
Manhattan in December, has been named vice
president of communications. In his new post, he
is responsible for all activities of the firm's
newly-created Communications Division. He
will be concerned with environmental affairs,
government relations, investor relations, internal
corporate communications, community rela-
tions, and all advertising for the corporation.
Previously, he was director of public and gov-
ernmental affairs at the firm.

Paul Granquist, '67, has been appointed execu-
tive vice president of Thomas Smith Co.,
Worcester. He is responsible for general opera-
tion of thecompany. In 1959, he joined the firm
as cost accountant. Prior to his promotion, he
was vice president of administration. The com-
pany manufactures custom metal stampings,
industrial fasteners, rubber products and gas-
kets. Granquist has attended the evening divi-
sions of Worcester Junior College and Clark
University.

Currently, Frank Gustafson, '71, serves as senior

product engineer at Bay State Abrasives-Dresser
Industries, Westboro, Mass. He belongs to the
Professional Engineering Society.

Recently, John Fitch, '74, was appointed man-
ager of purchasing at Bay State Abrasives in
Westboro, Mass. In 1950 he began work at the
company. Before his promotion, he had been
purchasing agent. He is a past chairman of the
Upton Water Commission and the Upton Hous-
ing Authority.

Henry Mossman, '74, has been named director
of engineering operations at Bay State Abra-
sives, Westboro. With Bay State since 1953, he
was serving as the division's chief engineer at the
time of his most recent promotion. In his new
post, he directs all plant engineering functions
and has supervisory responsibility for mainte-
nance, and the machine shop. He has served as
president of the Greater Marlboro Programs Inc.
and as a member of the Marlboro-Westboro
Mental Health Area Board.

Carl Harris, '75, was promoted to manager of
tooling and design at Centronics Data Computer
Corporation in Hudson, N.H. He has been with
the company for two years. Earlier, he had been
with the Thomas Smith Company, Worcesterfor
ten. He has an extensive background in all
phases of die design and pressroom operations.
In his new post, he is in charge of all die design,
N/C programming, tool room activities and
facilities for the Fabricated Products Division.

Natural

Science

Program

The Northbridge (Mass.) School Committee has
appointed Conrad Bibeault, '68, to teach
physics and chemistry at the high school starting
this fall. He had taught both subjects at Holy
Name Central Catholic High School in Worcester
since 1962, and had served the school as chair-
man of the science department. He has a degree
from Providence College and has taken graduate
courses at Holy Cross and Framingham State.

Clifford Alio, '70, is an associate professor of law
at the University of Detroit School of Law. Also,
he is a consultant on Workers' Compensation
law and costs to Michigan U AW. In 1978, he ran
the Detroit Free Press International Marathon in
2:46:26. . . . Georges Caplette teaches science in
Lincoln, R.I.

Deborah Pietro, '78, holds the position of man-
ager of system design and development for
Education Service Group, Inc., Weeks Mills, Me.

The WPI Journal / Fall 1980 / 29

Lester H. Carter, '09, passed away on June 20,
1980 in Gardner, Massachusetts. He was 93
years old.

The former owner of Greenwood Brothers
(Insurance), he sold the business and retired in
1964. Previously, he had been with Baxter D.
Whitney & Son, Heywood-Wakefield, and Flor-
ence Stove Co. He became affiliated with
Greenwood Insurance in 1936.

Mr. Carter was born on Nov. 16,1 886 in
Gardner. He received his BSME from WPI and
belonged to the Masons, the American Legion,
and the Elks. In World War I, he was a lieutenant
intheA.E.F.

Frederick P. Church, '15, died in a nursing home
in Maiden, Massachusetts, on August 7, 1980.
He was 88 years old.

Born in Norwich, Conn, on Dec. 20, 1891 , Mr.
Church was employed before his retirement in
the design division at Stone & Webster. He had
also worked for A. B. Reed Engineering Corp.,
the business office of Maiden Hospital, and the
Foxboro Co. He was an Army veteran of World
War I.

A member of many organizations, he was
affiliated with the Masons, the Shrine, the Ap-
palachian Mountain Club, and the Shakespeare
Festival Foundation, as well as the Schubert
Club, which is a choral group. He was a past high
priest at the Tabernacle Chapter of Maiden.

Mr. Church belonged to Phi Sigma Kappa, and
graduated as an electrical engineer. He was a
former member of the WPI Alumni Council, and
a past president of the Boston chapter of the
Alumni Association.

Horace Trull, '16, died at his home in Dudley,
Massachusetts, on June 1 , 1 980.

He was the owner of Trull Lumber Co. from
1935 until 1972, when he retired, and sold the
company to his son. Earlier, he had been with
Reed & Prentice Co., Bethlehem Steel, Pattison
Coal & Lumber Co., and Reed & Prince.

Mr. Trull was born on Nov. 6, 1891 in
Woburn, Mass. He was a member of the Ma-
sons, the Dudley School Board, and the Webster
Sailing Association, as well as an incorporator of
the Webster Five Cents Savings Bank. In 1916,
he received his BSME from WPI.

Charles E. Heywood, '17, a retired chief service
engineer from the Elastic Stop Nut Corp. of
America, died unexpectedly on July 13, 1980 in
Colebrook, New Hampshire.

He was born on Feb. 7, 1894 in Milwaukee,
Wis. In 1917, he received his BSME from WPI.
Among his employers were the Society of Au-
tomotive Engineers and Chance Vaught Aircraft
Co. In 1954, he retired from the Elastic Stop Nut
Corporation of America.

Long interested in the preservation of unique
natural areas, Mr. Heywood was the former
president of the Maine chapter of the Nature
Conservancy. In Maine during the 1960s, he
helped establish public ownership and use of
Wight Brook Step Falls in Newry, Turtle Island,
and other coastal islands. Other areas he helped
preserve were the Springvale rhododendron
stand, Grafton Notch State Park, and Katahdin
Iron Works State Historic Monument. He was
active in church work.

He was the first president of the Bethel (Me.)
Historical Society, and belonged to the Seminole
Club of Crystal River, Fla., and the Crystal River
Power Squadron. He wrote the History of Up-
ton, Me.

Alexander W. Caird, '18, of Braintree, Mas-
sachusetts, died on February 15, 1980.

He was born on June 15, 1895 in Chicago, III.
Later he became a member of the Class of 1 91 8.
Among his employers over the years were Stone
& Webster; the American Oil Co.; and Fay,
Spofford, & Thorndike. He held degrees from
Harvard and MIT, and belonged to ATO.

Richard A. Heald, '20, former president of Heald
Machine Co., Worcester, died at the Memorial
Hospital on June 1 7, 1 980. He was 80.

Mr. Heald was president of the firm from 1949
to 1955, when the company was sold to Cincin-
nati Milacron. He served as chairman of Heald's
board of directors from 1955 until he retired in
1964, following 45 years of service. Before
becoming president, he had also been treasurer
of the company.

He was born on July 2, 1899 in Barre, Mass.,
and later studied mechanical engineering at
WPI. A well-known amateur photographer, in
1964, he had a one-man show of color photo-
graphs at Worcester Art Museum. His work was
shown throughout the Northeast. Civic-minded,
he served on the boards of several banking,
education, and charitable organizations. He be-
longed to ATO and was a former Worcester
council representative.

Brig. Gen. James F. Early, '22, of Baltimore,
Maryland, died on March 30, 1980.

A Worcester native, he was born on Feb. 3,
1901 . After attending WPI, he entered West
Point, graduating with a BS in 1923. Im-
mediately following graduation he joined the
U.S. Air Force. He was one of the few officers
who served with the Eighth Air Force Service
Command in both the European and Pacific
theaters during World War II, and he received

decorations for his accomplishments in each
zone. The decorations included the Bronze Star
with an Oak Leaf Cluster, the Legion of Merit
with Cluster, and the War Department Com-
mendation Medal.

During his military career, he held a number of
posts. At one time, he was chief of the Supply
Division, Air Materiel Command, headquartered
at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. Later
he served in the Pentagon. In the 1950s, he was
assistant president of Fairchild Engine and
Airplane Corp.

C. Francis Weeks, '24, a retired operating en-
gineer from Stone & Webster-Badger Process
Division, died on April 26, 1980 in Salt Lake City,
Utah, after a long illness.

He was born on April 15, 1901, in Brockton,
Mass. In 1 924, he graduated as a chemist from
WPI. During his career, he was with Fiberloid
Corporation, Beveridge-Marvellum Co., U.S.
Envelope, and the Badger Process Division of
Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. At one time,
he was a chemical construction enginer traveling
in Europe, Iran, and Africa.

Arthur V. Houle, '25, retired senior vice presi-
dent of Sears Bank & Trust Company, Chicago,
died on June 17, 1980 at his home in Winona,
Minnesota.

He was associated with the bank for 25 years,
retiring in 1 966 as senior vice president. Follow-
ing his graduation as an electrical engineer from
WPI, he was employed at New York Edison Co.,
and later at Cooper Union Institute of Technol-
ogy, and South Side Savings Bank & Trust Co.,
Chicago.

A native of Millbury, Mass., he was born on
Aug. 20, 1900. He belonged to Tau Beta Pi and
Robert Morris Associates.

Howard G. Lasselle, '26, of Westwood, Mas-
sachusetts, died on March 7, 1980. He was
retired vice president of New England Power
Service Co.

In 1927, he joined the power company as a
meter tester in Worcester. Increasingly responsi-
ble posts in the New England Electric System,
included that of assistant superintendent of dis-
tribution in Providence and executive assistant in
Boston. In 1956, he was named system distribu-
tion engineer and two years later, vice president
of New England Power and general purchasing
agent for New England Electric System com-
panies. He retired in 1 969 following 42 years of
service.

Mr. Lasselle was born on May 17, 1904 in
Berlin, Mass. In 1926, he received his BSEE from
WPI. He belonged to the Providence (R.I.) En-
gineering Society and the National Purchasing
Agents' Association.

30 / Fall 1980 / The WPI Journal

ril^llb1 II

Charles MacLennan, '27, passed away on July
20, 1 980 in Halifax, Nova Scotia after a brief
illness.

He was born in River John, Nova Scotia,
Canada on May 23, 1903. In 1927, he received
his BSEE from WPI. Following graduation, he
spent a short time with Brooklyn Edison, then
several years at New England Power in Millbury ,
Mass. In 1935, he went to India, where he
progressed to the post of manager at Tata Hydro
Electric Co. After twenty years, he moved to
New York, where he worked for American and
Foreign Power Co., holding a five-year assign-
ment in Brazil. Later, while with the World Bank
in Washington, he took a post in South Africa.
His final full-time job was with Harza Engineer-
ing in Chicago.

In retirement, he was associated with Cana-
dian Executive Services in a consulting capacity.
He also devoted time to his dream of harnessing
the high Bay of Fundy tides. With the help of a
professor from England and Baron Rothschild,
he finally convinced the dominion and province
to plan a pilot plant. At the time of his death,
Charlie was writing a book on his 50-year strug-
gle to harness the tides.

Always generous, he donated part of his large
River John property to the post office for a
building plot, and gave another building lot for a
retirement home for senior citizens, which he
sponsored.

Emmett A. Thrower, '27, retired purchasing
agent on the corporate staff of U.S. Envelope
Co., died July 22, 1980 in Springfield, Mas-
sachusetts. He was 75.

A native of Gardner, Mass., he was born on
Aug. 28, 1904. In 1927, he graduated as a
mechanical engineer from WPI.

Mr. Thrower joined USE in 1928, in the paper
department, and he was named head of the local
purchasing department in 1944. He was ap-
pointed purchasing agent to the corporate pur-
chasing staff in 1965. In 1969, he retired. During
World War II, he was a lieutenant in the Mas-
sachusetts State Guard.

He was a 32nd degree Mason, and belonged
to the Eastern Star, the Sons of Union Veterans,
SAE, and the Congregational Church. Formerly,
he was a member of the National Association of
Purchasing Management, as well as past presi-
dent of the Connecticut Valley Chapter of the
WPI Alumni Association. He was the brother of
Alvin Thrower, '30.

Richard J. Stone, '29, died on June 10, 1980 in
Monadnock Community Hospital, Jaffrey, New
Hampshire. He was 72 years old.

He was born on Jan. 8, 1908 in Worcester. In
1929, he received his BSME from WPI. During
his career, he was associated with Rockwood
Sprinkler Co., Employers' Liability Assurance
Corp., American Steel & Wire Co., A. L. Stern
Co., and American Steel & Wire. From 1940 to
1 945 he was with the War Department.

Other employers included C.F. & I Steel Corp.
and the Wickwire Division of the Colorado Fuel
& Iron Corp., New York City. In 1970, he retired

as assistant to the president of Lawler Automatic
Controls, Inc., Mt. Vernon, N.Y.

Mr. Stone belonged to AEPi, ASME, and
Sigma Xi. He served as past chairman and secre-
tary of the Jaffrey Board of Adjustment, and he
was involved in the Neighbors Helping Neigh-
bors organization.

F. Parker Smith, '30, passed away on May 1 1 ,
1 980 in Glendora, California, after suffering a
stroke on May 8th.

A native of Geneva, N.Y., he was born on Dec.
23, 1906. He graduated as a mechanical en-
gineer in 1930. Among his employers were
Gilbert & Barker Mfg. Co., West Springfield,
Mass.; Hillhouse & Taylor, Willimantic, Conn.;
Reda Manufacturing Co., Chicopee, Mass.; and
Lockheed Aircraft, Burbank, Calif. For a number
of years, he was a distributor of auto supplies in
California.

Mr. Smith belonged to Phi Sigma Kappa. He
was the brother of Charles Smith, '35.

Edgar A. Phaneuf , '31 , of Southboro, Mas-
sachusetts, a retired research engineer, died in
Framingham Union Hospital on July 13, 1980.
He was 73.

In 1931 , he graduated as an electrical en-
gineer. After graduation, he was with E. A.
Phaneuf Construction Co. for several years. He
joined the Metropolitan (Boston) District Water
Supply Commission in 1 936. After serving as an
associate electrical engineer for the U.S. Navy at
Quonset Point, he worked at Telechron. For 24
years, he held the post of research and develop-
ment engineer at GE in Ashland before retiring in
1962. He was associated with GE's Clock and
Timer Department in the Dental Health Section.

An inventor who held many patents, Mr.
Phaneuf was awarded GE's Phillip J. Cordiner
Award for excellence in engineering. He be-
longed to Sigma Xi, served on the Southboro
Advisory Board, his church building committee,
and as a scoutmaster.

Curtis M. White, '32, of San Diego, California,
died recently.

He was born on June 24, 1 909 in Gardner,
Mass., and later became a member of the Class
of 1932. His employers included the Florence
Stove Co., the Aviation Corp., Welbilt Stove Co.,
and Gray Manufacturing Co. He also worked for
G. Fox & Co., Hartford, Conn., and General
Office Utilities, Chicago, III., from which he was
retired. He belonged to Theta Chi.

Allan R. Catheron, '34, a former Foxboro Com-
pany systems research engineer, died at his
home in Concord, Massachusetts on June 17,
1980.

At Foxboro, he was involved in the develop-
ment of pilot process equipment and industrial
measurement and control devices. He joined the
company in 1 936, and was a member of the
research department since 1937, except for a
change to ordnance production engineering dur-
ing the war years. He transferred to the STS
group as a systems research engineer in 1 968. In
1 975, he retired, but remained active as a com-
pany consultant.

Mr. Catheron was chairman of the Automatic
Control Division of the ASME, a member of the
Basic Engineering Policy Board, and the Com-
munications Board, to name a few of his ASME
responsibilities. He conducted college seminars
on problems of industrial measurement and
control. Among his various patents were those
for a rate of climb (change) meter and a self-
adjusting electrical controller. He wrote a
number of articles, as well as a chapter on
pneumatic components in McGraw Hill's Con-
trol Engineers Handbook.

He was born on Aug. 25, 1910 in Boston. In
1934, he received his BSME. He belonged to Phi
Gamma Delta and was a fellow of the ASME.

James A. Lane, '36, one of the first design
engineers to work on the Manhattan Project in
World War II, died on June 7, 1 980 in Annapolis,
Maryland. He was 66 years old.

At the time of his death, he was a staff
member at the Institute for Energy Analysis
(IEA). For many years, he had been a top staff
member at Oak Ridge (Tenn.) National Labora-
tory, and he was largely responsible for establish-
ing Oak Ridge as a major center of nuclear
research following World War II.

Herman Postma, the current director of Oak
Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has said,
"Jim Lane was one of the charter members of
ORNL and among the first to recognize and push
the commercial potential of nuclear energy. He
was recognized for that leadership in the U.S.
and worldwide and was sought after for his
insights and expertise by many countries."

Mr. Lane was born on Jan. 12, 1914 in
Worcester. He received his BS in chemistry from
WPI in 1936 and his master's degree in 1938. He
did postgraduate work as an international ex-
change fellow at the University of Gottingen in
Germany and at the University of Delaware.

During his career, he was with du Pont, the
University of Chicago (Manhattan Project), and
Clinton Laboratories, as well as the U.S. Atomic
Energy Commission, Washington, D.C., where
he served as chief of the reactor evaluation staff
in 1952. In 1953, he was back in Oak Ridge as
director of the Reactor Experimental Engineering
Division. While at ORNL, he led teams to help
develop nuclear power in Brazil, Egypt, Israel,
and Pakistan.

In 1972, he became a consultant with the
International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna,
Austria, where he lived until 1975. He spent
1975 back at Oak Ridge, from which he retired
in 1976. He returned to the IAEA in Vienna
between 1976 and 1978. His last post was with
the IEA.

Mr. Lane belonged to Lambda Chi Alpha,
Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi. He was a fellow of the
American Nuclear Society.

In addition to his engineering work, he was
interested in tennis and was an avid sportsman.
He had the reputation of being "the best bad-
minton player in the city." He enjoyed sailing,
ballroom dancing, and coin collecting.

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John Higginson, '37, died on March 29, 1 980 in
an automobile accident in Iraan, Texas. He was
64.

He was born on Aug. 10, 191 5 in West Haven,
Conn., and graduated as a mechanical engineer
in 1937. During World War II, he served with the
U.S. Navy as a lieutenant commander in sub-
marine design and testing. For many years, he
was with Thiokol Chemical Corporation in Utah,
where he was employed as general manager and
later as special assistant to the vice president,
before going on medical leave in 1976.

Mr. Higginson was a member of the board of
trustees of Weber State College, and he be-
longed to the Brigham City Chamber of Com-
merce, Lambda Chi Alpha, and the Rotary. He
was a life member of the Elks.

Norman C. Bergstrom, '42, a quality assurance
supervisor at the Gary (Ind.) Works of U.S. Steel
Corp., died on June 2, 1980 in Merrillville,
Indiana. He was 59 years old.

For eight years at the Gary Works, he was a
quality assurance supervisor in the blast-furnace
and raw materials division. Previously, he had
worked for U.S. Steel Corp., in Worcester, and
had been a works chemist in Duluth, Minn.

Mr. Bergstrom was born on Sept. 29, 1920 in
Worcester. He joined American Steel & Wire
(U.S. Steel) following graduation as a chemist in
1942. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, the
A.C.S., the Society for Applied Spectroscopy and
the Masons.

Richard W. Russell, '44, a class agent for the
Class of 1944, died on May 12, 1980 in Califor-
nia while on vacation.

He was born on Jan. 4, 1923 in Philadelphia.
Upon receiving his BSEE, he joined Lockheed
Aircraft Corp. Later he received his MBA from
Harvard Business School, and became affiliated
with Lybrand Ross Bros. & Montgomery in Los
Angeles. At the time of his death, he was a
partner in Coopers & Lybrand in Washington,
D.C.

A certified public accountant, Mr. Russell be-
longed to the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants, and the California State
Society of Certified Public Accountants. He was
active with the Boy Scouts, having served on the
executive board of the Los Angeles Area Coun-
cil. He belonged to Lambda Chi Alpha and was in
the USNR during World War II.

Roger J. Cameron, '57SIM, died at his home in
Chicago Heights, Illinois on May 23, 1980. He
was 65.

He retired as manager of engineering adminis-
tration for Pullman Standard in Chicago last year
following twenty years of service.

A Worcester native, he lived in Worcester for
forty-five years before moving to Illinois twenty
years ago.

James J. Taparowsky, '69SIM, died on June 8,
1 980 at the Memorial Hospital in Worcester at
the age of 62.

He was a chief engineer for New England High
Carbon Wire Corp. in Millbury, Mass., where he
worked for 38 years. Last year, he retired.

Mr. Taparowsky belonged to St. Andrew the
Apostle parish and its Men's Club, Worcester
County Bee Keepers' Association, Boston Min-
eral Club, New Haven Mineral Club, Canadian
Micro Mineral Association, New England Micro
Mounters, Singletary Rod and Gun Club, and the
National Rifle Association. He was a past presi-
dent of the Worcester Mineral Club.

During World War II, he was in the Army
Signal Corps. A Worcester native, he graduated
from Clark in 1940, and from WPI's School of
Industrial Management in 1969.

David K. Ramsden, '77, a junior at the Illinois
College of Podiatric Medicine, died in Chicago of
injuries sustained in an auto accident on June 5,
1980. He was 25.

Born in Providence, R.I., on April 24, 1955, he
later enrolled at WPI. In 1977 he received his BS
in life sciences. He belonged to the Baptist
Church.

Philip J. O'Connor, '52, development manager
at Ashland Chemical Co., died at his home in
Columbus, Ohio, on June 12, 1980.

During his career, he was with General Chem-
ical of Allied Chemical, Catalin Corp. of America,
and Ashland Chemical. He served two years in
the U.S. Coast Guard.

Mr. O'Connor was born on Jan. 21, 1928 in
Warren, Ohio. In 1952, he received his BS in
chemistry from WPI. At Ashland Chemical he
was involved with marketing and sales. He was a
member of Phi Kappa Theta, and he had served
as a class agent.

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IN THIS ISSUE

2 Homecoming

Three views of a super Homecoming weekend

S Sounds Good

Music from the Glee Club

9 Sinkholes!?

Bill Murray's got them all over the airport.

10 People Who Live in Glass Houses

You won't find the Shahs throwing stones

1 1 Class Secretaries and Representatives

12 Your Class and Others

30 Completed Careers

On the cover: A restful wintry scene at Higgms House

Editor: H. Russell Kay

Alumni Information Editor: Ruth S. Trask

Designer: H. Russell Kay

Typesetting: County Photo Compositing,
Inc., Jefferson, Mass.

Printing: Davis Press, Inc., Worcester, Mass.

Alumni Publications Committee: Donald E.
Ross, '54, chairman; Robert C. Gosling, '68;
Sidney Madwed, '49; Samuel W. Mencow, '37;
Kathleen Molony, 77; Stanley P. Negus, Jr.,
'54-

Address all correspondence to the Editor, The
WPI Journal, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
Worcester, Massachusetts 01609. Telephone
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The WPI Journal is published for the WPI
Alumni Association by Worcester Polytechnic
Institute. Copyright 1980 by Worcester
Polytechnic Institute. All rights reserved.

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WPI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

President: John H. McCabe, '68

Senior Vice President: Peter H. Horstmann, '55

Vice President: Clark Poland, '48

Secretary-Treasurer: Stephen J. Hebert, '66

Past President: Willlam A. Jullan, '49

Executive Committee members-at-large:
Philip B. Ryan, '65; Donald E. Ross, '54;
Anson C. Fyler, '45; Harry W. Tenney, Jr., '56

Fund Board: Henry Styskal, Jr., '50, chair-
man; Richard B. Kennedy, '65, vice chairman;
Gerald Finkle, '57; Philip H. Puddington, '59;
Richard A. Davis, '53; C. John Lindegren, '39;
John H. Tracy, '52

The WPI Journal / Winter 1981/1

HOMECOMING

for 1980 was a rather special week-
end. Scheduled earlier in the season
than in previous years, it was blessed
with good weather and entertained
by a WPI football team that could do
the job! Here are some of the high-
lights of Homecoming 1980, as seen
through the eyes of several of the
participants.

Planning a party can be a lot of
fun, especially when your
guests pay their own way and
a professional staff is in place to help
with the details. So when Jim Fee,
chairman of the Class of '65's 15th
Reunion, asked if I would like to
serve on his committee, I was quick
to say yes. This was our class's first
big reunion since graduation.

Jim, my old fraternity brother
and present-day jogging buddy, has a
reputation for cutting red tape —
lengthwise. But he did a good job of
putting together a Reunion Commit-
tee, with Ron Greene, Jake Jacobson,
Bill Lightfoot, Steve Rudnick, him-
self, and me. Starting in the fall of
1979, the committee planned, plot-
ted, and worked to make our 15th
live up to what people might expect
from WPI's centennial class. And
judging by the turnout and the re-
ports that filtered back to me, no one
was disappointed.

Any report of the day would
have to center on Higgins House, the
stately 'tudor' mansion, next to the
soccer field, that only Mrs. Higgins
got to enjoy during our undergradu-
ate days. Now it is part of the
campus, and on Homecoming Satur-
day was headquarters for the Class of
'65 Reunion. Guests registered in
the lobby, drank bloody marys on
the sun porch, and had brunch be-
neath the high-beamed ceiling of the
great hall. There were straw hats for
classmates, flowers for their guests,
Reunion yearbooks for everyone,
and balloons for whomever got to
them first.

Higgins House was also the
scene for the brief program that fol-
lowed brunch. Jake Jacobson, who
had mailed a questionnaire to class
members over the summer, pre-
sented the results, some of which
were surprising: 64 percent of our
classmates are still employed as en-
gineers; 85 percent would, if they

The WPI Journal / Winter 1981/3

had it to do over again, get their un-
dergraduate education at WPI; 55
percent married their high school or
college sweetheart; 81 percent do
not smoke; and 83 percent are for
Reagan Editor's note: this was writ-
ten prior to the 1 980 election.

All Jake's statistics, plus the
autobiographies of 86 classmates,
are bound into the Reunion year-
book. (If you weren't there and
didn't get one, a few copies are still
available from the Alumni Office for
$5.00.)

Jake also made a few awards: to
Phil Ryan, for losing the most hair
since graduation; to Gene Dionne,
for traveling the farthest (from Los
Angeles) to attend; to Phil Bachelder
and Jack Kelley, tied in the category
of most children, with four each;
and, special awards to the two fac-
ulty members cited most often in

the questionnaire responses as 'most
memorable': William Grogan and
John van Alstyne.

Next, Jim Fee and I became the
'Not Ready For Skull Players,' pre-
senting the highlights and lowlights
of our freshman year. Not all the
lines were memorable, but the water
balloons were a hit, and we decided
not to use the fire crackers. The skit
proved once again that, although
you are only young once, you can be
immature all your life.

From Higgins House, people
filed down to the football game and
the Class of '65 tent, which stood
near the field and offered compli-
mentary drinks. There, more than
anyplace else, people got to mix,
greet old fiends and faculty, and, un-
der a beautiful autumn New England
sky, get caught up on 15 years of ex-
periences.

What is most amazing, perhaps,
is the positive attitude this class dis-
plays toward life in general. Evi-
dence of that seems to jump from
almost every page of the Reunion
yearbook, where classmates describe
their hobbies, travels, professional
achievements, patents, families,
community and church activities,
and advanced degrees. Almost to a
man, they testify to their satisfac-
tion with the way things have
worked out. Nils Ericksen wrote it
one way: "very proud to be a gradu-
ate of WPI." But Charles Dufour
may have said it best: "We believe
the times have been good to us."

— PatMoran, '65

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emories of the days when

.... You met hundreds of new
people during Freshman Orienta-
tion, and were overwhelmed trying
to remember all their names.

.... You entered the cage
ball game, and were trampled by
your own team.

.... You attended your first
class at WPI and panicked because,
your professor wrote mathematical
formulas on the board with his right
hand as he erased them with his left.

.... You placed your first
frantic phone call to your parents to
say, "send me some money! I already
spent everything I had."

.... You sat down to take
your first exam, and had no idea
what the questions meant.

.... You ran your first com-
puter program, and then spent all
night trying to correct the mistakes
before your 8:00 a.m. computer
class.

.... You decided to relax on
the quad instead of studying for your
fluids exam,- after all, you didn't
need to study since fluids is just
common sense.

.... You participated in the
Paddle Rush and the Rope Pull, and
then wondered why every muscle in
your body ached.

.... You attended a concert
and some athletic events during a
weekend the alumni called Home-
coming, and then asked why they
called it that!

.... You went home for
Thanksgiving and ate enough food to
keep you from starving for six
months.

.... You shivered as you
trudged across the campus during a
snow storm, and wondered if the un-
merciful wind would push you off
the top of the hill. Then you called
home to find out how to unlock your
car doors once the locks had frozen.

.... You slept day and
night for the first week of winter
break, and then woke yourself only
because you thought you had missed
a class.

.... You attended Interses-
sion and had a chance to enjoy such
'intellectual' courses as "Magic in
Chemistry," "Belly Dancing,"
'Mountaineering," and "Ballroom
Dancing."

.... You returned for the
spring semester and vowed, "Things
Will Be Different This Spring. I
Will Study Less and Enjoy Campus
Life More." (And who were you kid-
ding?)

.... You attended Spree
Day, and all your course work left
your mind.

.... You began to plan your
sufficiency, iqp, and mqp: you even
set up a timetable which you would
later find difficult to follow.

.... You attended Junior
Prom Weekend and suddenly real-
ized three years at WPI had passed.

.... You finally accepted
the fact that your Sufficiency, iqp,
and mqp had to be completed —
SOON.

.... You began to prepare
for your Competency Exam, and
then suddenly Commencement
drew near.

.... You walked across
campus for the last time with your
calssmates, received your diploma,
and realized your undergraduate
days at WPI were over.

.... You attended your first
Homecoming as an alumna, and fi-
nally understood the meaning of
Homecoming.

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Certainly each of us has our
own individual answer to the
question "What Is Home-
coming?" Our view of Homecoming
may depend on whether we are
alumni, faculty, staff, or students of
WPI. As an alumna, I feel that
Homecoming is a time to meet with
many friends from my days at WPI
and reminisce about our lives here.
For me, Homecoming is more
than a deluge of activites that take
place from Friday to Sunday Each
year, the anticipation and excite-
ment of Homecoming begins long

before October. My first thoughts of
Homecoming focus on the many
people I met while at WPI, and the
experiences I shared with them. I
think of the valuable friendships
formed, not only with my fellow
studnts but also with administra-
tors, faculty, and staff. All of these
people gave me a great deal, not of
what they have but of what they are.
Because each experience shared with
these people had its own special
charm, I cherish every memory and
draw joy from the thought of every
adventure.

From our days at WPI, all of us
take more with us than the intellec-
tual part of our lives here. When we
meet at Homecoming, we recall all
the academic as well as the social
bonds we shared. We talk about
keeping in touch during the years be-
tween Homecomings, and many of
us make promises to see each other
frequently in the future. Hope we
are able to keep these promises.

— Patty Graham Flaherty, '75

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Anni Autio, a junior from Nor-
wood, Massachusetts, works part
time during the year in the Alumni
Office, from where she has a bird's
eye view of Homecoming activities.
She offers these thoughts:

Homecoming .... alumni
returning to their alma ma-
ter ... . football game
.... reunions .... rope pull
. . . . and more. Is this what it is
all about?

Homecoming is a weekend full
of activities for both alumni and stu-
dents. For those who are involved in
the preparation of any activity dur-
ing the weekend, Homecoming be-
comes a real occasion — extensive
planning, suspense as the weekend
draws near, running around getting
things done, and finally taking part
as things happen.

When it finally comes together,
Homecoming is really a time to re-
member: picnic groups spread out
around the quadrangle at noontime
on Saturday, the Wedge bustling
with activity throughout the day
with alumni registration, road-race
signup, reunions, a pre-game cele-
bration party, and much more.

Being a junior at WPI, I have ex-
perienced two previous Homecom-
ing weekends. Freshman year I
decided to go home, and sophomore
year I worked at the registration
desk. It was only then that I realized
Homecoming was not just a semifor-
mal dance on Saturday night; it is a
weekend for enjoyment! This year,
Homecoming was more meaningful
because I had a chance to see many
of the activities that I had previously
overlooked. (And I even found out
that, yes, WPI does have a football
team!)

—Anni Autio, '82

The WPI Journal / Winter 1981/7

Glee Club Recordings Available

The WPI Glee Club, which enjoys a high reputation for its musicianship, has, over the past decade, toured
and performed in Europe, England, and California. It has also made a number of recordings which have been
occasionally available to students and alumni.

Although those past records are out of print, the Glee Club is now planning to distribute tape recordings
of their work. These new issues will be available either on cassette or reel-to-reel tape. The sound quality is
quite good, the performance level high.

Here are the works which will be available:

From 1970

Two Christmas Carols — arr. Lefevre

1. Quite Pasteur (The stars looked down)

2. Entre le Boef (Here between ox and ass
so calm)

From 1972

The WPI Glee Club with the Skidmoie Col-
lege Chorus, Louis Cunan conducting,
recorded at Skidmoie

Mass for winds, soloists, and chorus — Igor
Stravinsky

Come Again Sweet Love — John Dowland
Soon Ah Will Be Done — arr. Dawson
Er est ein Kindike (tenor J. J. Homko)

The Tour to California

WPI Glee Club with the Wheelock College

Glee Club
Saints Bound for Glory — anon.

From 1975

The Tour to England recording

WPI Glee Club with the University of Massa-
chusetts Brass Choir, recorded at Trinity
Lutheran Church, Worcester

Air de Trompette (Walter Chestnut, trumpet)
— Giuseppe Torelli

Missa Salve Regina (tenor P. Arcoma, bari-
tone R. Cummings, bass C. Skinner) —
Jean Langlais

Crucifixus — Antonio Lotti

Ain'a That Good News — William Dawson

Sister Mary Wore (baritone C. Skinner) — arr.
Marshall Bartholomew

The Baker's Dozen:

All Kinds of Women — Brachell
Vive 1' amour — arr. Shaw
Done Made Mah Vow-Whalon
Good Night Little Girl -Shepherd
Skye Boat Song (tenor P. Arcoma, baritone C.
Skinner) — Fenno Heath

From 1976

WPI Glee Club with the Smith College Glee
Club, Louis Curran conducting, recorded
in Alden Memorial Auditorium, WPI.

Cantata No. 106, Gottes Zeit (God's time is

the best time) — !. S. Bach
Ave Vernum Corpus — W. A. Mozart
Sancta Maria (Iva Dee Hiatt conducting) —

W. A. Mozart
Keep to the Middle of the Road — arr.

Bartholomew

The Baker's Dozen:

Hooda Day — arr. Bartholomew
Landloard Fill the Flowing Bowl — arr. Knox
Where Did You Prep — arr. Shepherd
Charlie (bass W. Davies) — arr. Knox
Gonna Build a Mountain — Knox

From 1977

The Tour to Germany and Austria recording

WPI Glee Club, Louis Curran conducting:

Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes — arr.

Bartholomew
Keep in the Middle of the Road

Bartholomew
Roll, Jordan, Roll (bass W. Davis)

Bartholomew — Curran

arr.

arr.

WPI Glee Club with the Regis College Glee
Club

Cantique de Jean Racine (Sheila Vogt con-
ducting)—Faure

Jubilate Deo (Sheila Vogt conducting) —
Peeters

Saints Bound for Heaven (L. Curran conduct-
ing) — arr. Dawson

Every Time I Feel the Spirit (bass R. Vaz, L.
Curran conducting) — arr. Dawson

Exekiel Saw de Wheel (tenor J. Willemain,
Sheila Vogt conducting) —arr. Dawson

Muss I Denn (Sheila Vogt conducting) — tradi-
tional German folk song

WPI Glee Club with the Regis College Glee
Club, Louis Curran conducting, recorded
in Mechanics Hall, Worcester:

Ecce Enim Ex Hoc Beatum, from the Mag-
nificat—J. S. Bach

From 1979

Let Us Break Bread Together— arr. Heath

The Summer Day — Brahms

Cantate Domine — Hassler

Laura Lee — arr. Jennings

Steal Away — arr. Bartholomew

Wake Freshman

From 1980

Inter-Collegiate Musical Council Convention
held at WPI

Forget Not My Law (J. Minasian conducting)

— Effinger

Kantata, B.W.V. 21, Ich hatte viel Bekum-
mernis (WPI Glee Club with the Regis
College Glee Club, Louis Curran conduct-
ing)-J. S. Bach

Three Blake Songs (tenor J. Palmer) — arr.
Heath

The Heart Worships (tenor W. Guilfoile, Jr.)

— Gustav Hoist

Yonder ( tenor J. Palmer) — old Russian melody
Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair-
anon.
The Stars Brightly Shining
Wake Freshman

If you would like to obtain one of these tapes, please return the coupon below:

Name:

Address:

I am interested in obtaining recordings of the following works as performed by the
WPI Glee Club (please indicate year):

Please send me more information on

price and availability.

I would prefer my tapes on

□ cassette □ reel-to-reel.

Return this coupon to:

Louis Curran, director

WPI Glee Club

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Worcester, MA 01609

8 / Winter 1981 / The WPI foumal

■ u.rt i ilHBnHUlllk 1MILBUJK1

Sinkholes!?

Bill Murphy, '22, has only one real prob-
lem these days. Sinkholes. You'd think
that an 80-year-old Florida resident
would be rightfully concerned with more
frivolous things, like playing shuffle-
board or catching the breezes on a tropi-
cal patio. But not Bill!

You see, Bill Murphy is vice presi-
dent of heavy construction at Gilbane
Mills Jones, and currently he's supervis-
ing a major project, the Orlando Interna-
tional Airport. He's concerned with all
site work, which includes earthwork, ca-
nals, all underground piping, bridges,
tunnels, roads, parking areas, pile driv-
ing, airside concrete aprons, taxiways,
extensive refueling systems, and envi-
ronmental control. So far, there have
been few difficulties with construction.
Not much rain. Tough, but tolerable
summer heat. "We never stopped work,"
Bill allows. "Even though the sinkholes
have been kind of a headache."

Workers at the sprawling airport site
firmly believe that Murphy has set his
foot on every square foot of ground on
the property at least once during con-
struction. He probably has. He's "on
duty" daily from early morning into late
evening. And he loves every working
minute.

"Working is my life," he declares. "I
never wanted anything else. When I was
65, nobody mentioned retirement, in-
cluding me."

At Orlando International, Gilbane
Mills Jones' job is construction manage-
ment. Should a problem crop up,
Murphy gets the gist of it on the tele-
phone, then rolls off in his jeep to help
solve it. Basically, in such an assign-
ment, he is responsible for the managing
of the work listed previously, plus the es-
timating of the cost and time involved in
the project.

His on-site responsibilities last from
Monday through Saturday. On Sundays,
he does job-related paper work at home
and writes many letters to friends and
relatives.

By this time, Mrs. Murphy is used
to her husband's full-time schedule. "All
construction wives are up against it be-
cause the hours are so irregular," Bill
says.

During their marriage, he and his
wife have had only short vacations in the
U.S. and Canada. "Years ago we took a
two-week trip to Cuba," he reveals. "We
have a house in New England, but we
don't get up that way very often."
Murphy has gotten around, just the
same. He has visited five continents and
17 countries on bidding and negotiating
trips. For the last 13 years, he's been out
of the bidding business. He's too busy
getting the company projects completed,
then moving on to the next job. Just prior
to going to Orlando, for example, he
worked on plants in New York, North
Carolina, and Georgia.

Bill Gilbane, a college champion
boxer and president of the Providence-
based firm, believes that Murphy "will
keep on going forever." A few years back
it was suggested that Murphy might be
better off financially if he retired and did
consulting work, Gilbane says. Tom
Gilbane, chairman of the board and a col-
lege wrestling champion, voiced the
same opinion. Murphy's response was to
keep right on the job.

Except for an old knee injury ("torn
cartilage horn sliding bases") and a bout
with a hernia, which Murphy, of course,
won, he has virtually never been sick.
He claims that the fact that he doesn't
smoke or drink, harks back to his days at
WPI when he played baseball and basket-
ball.

That trick knee, his legacy from
baseball, has kept him in construction
all these years. "Now I don't want to
leave," he says. "Work and my wife.
That's all there is. I don't want to retire
and be miserable like so many of my
friends."

He confides, "Just between you and
me, I would like to keep working as long
as I can produce for the company."

It looks like Gilbane Mills Jones will
be having its current vice president on
the payroll for some time. Murphy
comes from hardy stock. His uncle, Wil-
liam "Kitty" Bransfield, was considered
to be the strongest man in major league
baseball. A more distant relative, Sir
Edward Bransfield, was knighted by the
Queen of England after he became the
first white man to set foot on the Antarc-
tic Continent.

With that kind of ancestry, it's no
wonder that Bill Murphy, at 80, can still
set a torrid pace.

The WPI Journal / Winter 1981/9

6hp

People who live in glass houses . . .

Practically nobody gets to live in a
glass pyramid. The exception? Aroon
Shah, '67, of Weston, Mass., who re-
cently moved into a glass pyramid with
his wife and two children.

Although Shah's pyramid would be
dwarfed beside the Great Pyramid, it is a
massive private dwelling according to to-
day's standards. Over 4,500 square feet
of futuristic living space.

Shah, a senior energy engineer at Po-
laroid, got together with Architect John
Hagan a couple of years ago to plan his
dream house. "We wanted a geo-solar
house," Shah explains. "And Hagan
knows how to design a home that relates
to the people who live in it, to the envi-
ronment, and to the earth."

The first step in construction was to
ram earth up against the structure,
giving it all the advantages of an under-
ground house with none of the disadvan-
tages. The technique allows the building
to take advantage of two natural sources
of heat and insulation — earth and sun.
(geo-solar)

The house, which is filled with light
and views, is designed so that one always
feels on ground level. Skylights softly
light interior rooms. All rooms ring the
central living room which includes a
large conversation pit, planters, and is
topped by a lofty 32-ft. glass pyramid.
The family room, kitchen, four bed-
rooms, utility room, and two baths are
set into a man-made hill. This sunken
arrangement takes advantage of the
cheapest insulation, earth, which helps
keep the house at a steady 55 degrees.
Active and passive solar systems contrib-
ute to higher temperatures.

The glass pyramid, itself a passive
collector, is the cornerstone of the solar
heating system. Wall ducts force the hot
air by fans into the floor where it radiates
heat into the first floor. The tile and con-
crete floor contains two inches of styro-
foam insulation and eight inches of rocks
to trap heated air. This heating system
will be run by a computer (to be installed
this year) which also will open the vent
at the top of the pyramid and adjust the
giant shades that line the expansive glass
area.

A back-up system of a gas heater and
a wood stove is available for use if neces-
sary. Heavily insulated walls and an
earth-covered roof are part of the unique,
energy-saving design.

Not only does Shah's geo-solar
home heat and cool its occupants, it will
eventually provide them with year-round
food. Cold frames for starting garden
plants are built in glass enclosures over
the front and back entrances. Besides the
cold frames, there are a planter fence sur-
rounding the conversation pit and five
sunken planters big enough to house fu-
ture exotic trees. There are auxiliary
planters on the second floor.

After tending plants in their new
home, the family can take turns relaxing
in their whirlpool bath, which has a
south-facing view and a 150-square-foot
window. In spite of this, and other built-
in luxuries, Shah feels that the house
will ultimately cost no more than others
in his area, because of the annual savings
in maintenance and heat.

Bottom line: The Aroon Shahs sleep
on water(bed) and live in a glass house
sunk into a hill and set on stones. They
love it.

10 / Winter 1981 / The WPI Journal

lBii'inri

WPI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Class Secretaries and Representatives

1914

Secretary

Ellwood N. Hennessy, CLU

The Phoenix Companies

680 Mechanics Bank Tower

Worcester, MA 01608

1916

Secretary

C. Leroy Storms

135 West 6th Avenue

Roselle, NJ 07203

1918

Secretary

John F. Kyes, Jr.

40 Holden Street

Holden,MA01520

1919

Secretary
Edwin W. Bemis
10Dryden Road
Brick, NJ 08723

1920

Secretary

Dr. Frederic R. Butler
228 Burncoat Street
Worcester, MA 01 606

1921

Secretary

Robert E. Chapman
26 High Street
Oakdale, MA 01539

1922

Secretary

Philip H. White

164 Meadowbrook Road

Needham, MA 02192

1925

Secretary

Daniel L. Hussey

81 Whitney Road

Short Hills, NJ 07078

1926

Secretary

Archie J. Home

1 Hunter Circle

Shrewsbury, MA 01545

1927

Secretary

William M. Rauha

4 Whiffletree Road

West Yarmouth, MA 02673

1928

Secretary

Gifford T. Cook

Rt. 3 Box 294 Keyes Perry Acres

Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

1928

Secretary

Theodore J Englund

70 Eastwood Road

Shrewsbury, MA 01545

1929

Secretary

Holbrook L. Horton
120W. Saddle River Road
Saddle River, NJ 07458

1930

Secretary
Carl W Backstrom
113 Winifred Avenue
Worcester, MA 01602
1931

Representative
Oliver R. Underhill, Jr.
PO Box 281
Franconia, NH 03580
Secretary
Edward J Bayon
45 Pleasant Street
Holyoke, MA 01040

1932

Representative
Howard P Lekberg
RFD 115 Main Street
East Douglas, MA 01516

1933

Representative

Dr. Raymond B Crawford

RFD Coldbrook Road

Oakham, MA 01068

Secretary

Sumner B Sweetser

100 Pine Grove Avenue

Summit, NJ 07901

1934

Representative

Edward R. Markert

1 Elf Hill

South Amherst, MA 01002

Secretary
Dwight J. Dwinell
RFD#1 Box56H
Orleans, VT 05860

1935

Representative

Plummer Wiley

2906 Silver Hill Avenue

Baltimore, MD 21207

Secretary

Raymond F. Starrett

Continental Country Club

Box 104

Wildwood, FL 32785

1936

Representative

George E. Rocheford

21 Dover Road

South Natick, MA 01760

Secretary

Harold F. Henrickson

33 Chapin Road

Holden, MA 01520

1937

Representative
Gordon F. Crowther
20 Bates Street
Hartford, CT06114
Secretary
Richard J. Lyman
10HillcrestRoad
Medfield, MA 02052

1938

Representative
Francis B. Swenson
599 Common Street
Walpole, MA 02081

1939

Representative
Samuel B. Kaplan
Route #2
Bull Hill Road
Woodstock, CT 06281

1940

Representative

Russell A. Lovell, Jr.

9 Jonathan Lane

Sandwich, MA 02563

Secretary

Robert E. Dunklee, Jr.

Rocky Hill Road

North Scituate, Rl 02857

1941

Secretary
Russell W. Parks
7250 Brill Road
Cincinnati, OH 45243

1943

Representative

Robert S. Schedin

RFD1

Brookfield, MA 01506

1944

Representative

Harrison E. Holbrook, Jr.

Holbrook Drop Forge Inc.

40 Rockdale Street

Worcester, MA 01606

Secretary

JohnG. Underhill

6706 Barkworth Drive

Dallas, TX 75248

1946

Secretar/es
George H. Conley, Jr.
213 Stevens Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15236

M. Daniel Lacedonia

106 Ridge Road

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

1947

Representative
Allan Glazer
20 Monadnock Drive
Shrewsbury, MA 01545

1948

Representative
Roger M. Cromack
16 Burr Farms Road
Westport, CT 06880

Secretary

Paul E. Evans

69 Clairmont Street

Longmeadow, MA 01 106

1949

Representative
Sidney Madwed
215 Crest Terrace
Fairfield, CT 06432
Secretary
Howard J. Green
32 Camp Street
Paxton, MA 01612

1950

Representative
Henry S. Coe, Jr.
3 Harwick Road
Wakefield, MA 01880

Secreetary
Lester J. Reynolds, Jr.
15 Cherry Lane
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920

1951

Representative
Duncan W. Munro
59 Brigham Street
Northboro, MA 01532

Secretary
Stanley L. Miller
11 Ash wood Road
Paxton, MA 01612

1952

Representative
John M. Tracy
15 School Street
Northboro, MA 01532
Secretary
Edward G. Samolis
580 Roberts Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13207

1953

Secretary

Dr. David S. Jenney
109 Wilbrook Road
Stratford, CT 06497

1954

Representative
Edwin Shivell
64 Woodland Drive
Portsmouth, Rl 02871

Secretary
Roger R. Osell

18 Eliot Road
Lexington, MA 02173

1955

Representative
Edouard S. P. Bouvier
123 Beechwoods Drive
Madison, CT 06443
Secretary

Kenneth L Wakeen
344 Waterville Road
Avon, CT 06001

1956

Representative
John M McHugh
431 Beacon Hill Drive
Cheshire, CT 06410

Secretary

Rev. Paul D. Schoonmaker
325 North Lewis Road
Royersford, PA 19468

1957

Representative
Alex C. Paianou
15 Birch Tree Road
Foxboro, MA 02035

Secretary

Dr. Robert A. Yates

Uniroyal Inc.

Elm Street

Naugatuck, CT 06770

1958

Secretary

Harry R. Rydstrom

19 Altadena Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15228

1959

Representative
Dr. Joseph D. Bronzino
Trinity College
Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106

Secretary

Dr. Frederick H. Lutze, Jr.
1 10 Camelot Court NW
Blacksburg, VA 24060

1960

Representative
John W. Biddle
78 Highland Street
Holden, MA 01 520
Secretary
Paul W. Bayliss
170 Wyngate Drive
Barnngton, IL 60010

1961

Secretary
John J. Gabarro
Harvard Business School
Humphrey House 23
Boston, MA 02163

1962

Representative

Richard J. Di Buono

2 Royal Crest Drive

Apt. #10

Marlboro, MA 01752

Secretary

Harry T. Rapelje

1313 Parma Hilton Road

Hilton, NY 14468

1963

Secretary

Robert E Maynard, Jr.

8 Institute Road

North Grafton, MA 01536

1964

Representative

Barry J. Kadets

26 Harwich Road

Chestnut Hill, MA 02167

Secretary

Dr. David T. Signori, Jr.

6613 Denny Place

McLean, VA 22101

1965

Representative
Patrick T. Moran
100 Chester Road
Boxborough, MA 01719

Secretary

John P. Jacobson

308 Howard Street

Northborough, MA 01532

1966

Secretary

John G. Dyckman

29SkiltonLn

Burlington, MA 01803

1967

Representative
Douglas W. Klauber
10 Alice Drive
Nashua, NH 03060
Secretary
John L Kilguss
5 Summershade Circle
Piscataway, NJ 08854

1968

Representative
William J. Rasku
33 Mark Bradford Drive
Holden, MA 01520
Secretary
Charles A Griffin
Rt. 4 Box 179
Shreveport, LA 71 107

1969

Secretary

James P. Atkinson

125 Pleasant St. Apt. 609

Brooklme, MA 02146

1970

ftepresentat/Ve
Garrett G. Grahm
150 Brookside Road
Needham, MA 02 194
Secretary
F. David Ploss, III
28 Pocasset Avenue
Worcester, MA 01606

1971

Secretary
Vincent T. Pace
1520McKean Street
Philadelphia, PA 19145

1972

Representative
Thomas J. Tracy
68 Mendon Street
Uxbridge, MA 01569

Secretary

John A. Woodward

Rt. 1 Box 7516 Fawnbrook

Hillsborough, NC 27278

The WPIfoumal / Winter 1981/11

I$)I2

Mr. and Mrs. J. Francis Granger celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary on October
22, 1980. Mr. Granger, who presently serves as
secretary of the Massachusetts Highway Asso-
ciation, was city engineer and superintendent
of streets in Marlboro, Mass., from 1928 to
1960, when he retired. After retirement, he
joined the private engineering firm of Granger,
Thompson and Liston. During the last two
decades he has been one of the most vigorous
men in Massachusetts in the advancement of
the public works profession. He has also been
very active in Marlboro civic affairs. Mrs.
Granger, a Wellesley graduate, holds a mas-
ter's degree from Columbia. At one time she
was supervisor of English at the Horace Mann
School at Columbia University. Like her hus-
band, she has been active in Marlboro civic af-
fairs. She participated in the founding of a
local Girl Scout troop and has worked with the
Red Cross.

1927

Charles Moore has swum 400 miles in Cleve-
land's Cudell Recreation Center pool from Oc-
tober of 1971 to June of 1980 and has earned
eight Red Cross 50-mile certificates.

1929

Mary and Arthur Gilbert of Louisville, Ky., re-
cently joined 14 other couples who had been
married for over 50 years at a celebration held
by Senior Citizens' East. The combined mar-
ried years of those present was 869! Mary
Gilbert recalled that she and Arthur had their
first appliances when President Franklin
Roosevelt closed the banks.

Arthur Knight is now living in St . Johns-
bury, Vt. Recently, when the Fairbanks Weigh-
ing Division held its 150th anniversary
celebration in St. Johnsbury, the Knights had a
ringside seat for the parade at their new ad-
dress. Fred Baldwin and his wife, Millie,
joined the Knights for the festivities. Fred took
part in the 100th Fairbanks celebration 50
years ago.

Fred McGowan reports that after moving
to Florida for his health following an auto acci-
dent three years ago, he is now back in Con-
necticut, at Heritage Village in Southbury. He
and his wife, Dorothy, were disappointed in
Florida, "so after a year of too much warmth,
and not enough to do," they sold their house
and came right back to "an ideal year-round
climate." Fred continues to collect old Ameri-
can prints and catalogs having to do with early
manufacturing in the U.S. He would welcome
hearing from others in this field. His address is
563 D Heritage Village, Southbury, CT 06488.

1930

Ed Delano says that he now has a new time
trial bike which weighs only 19 pounds.
Where to next, Ed?

Harold Hart writes from Lake Monte-
zuma (I like the name) in Arizona that he was
sorry he could not make the 50th reunion. He
walks a mile or two every day, but would not
compete with Delano on the bike. His garden
and taking care of the house keep him busy.

Ray Lewis wrote some time ago that he
sure enjoyed seeing all the classmates at the
50th. After the banquet Friday evening, they
left for Wellesley where his wife also had a re-
union. They spent part of last summer at Lake
Sunapee, N.H.

Milton Warner has many outside inter-
ests, including tutoring two recently-arrived
Vietnamese immigrants in the English lan-
guage and serving on the maintenance com-
mittee of the Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship of Evansville, Indiana. Marge and
he also teach a Sunday School class for junior
and senior high school students. In October
his first grandchild, Teresa Allison Watts, was
born to his daughter, Sally, and son-in-law, Ri-
chard Watts. Dick is an actuary with the ms in
Washington, D.C., and Sally is an attorney
with the Department of Housing and Urban
Development. In March, the Warners attended
the marriage of their older daughter, Dorothy,
to Lee Charles Robbins. Lee works as an inves-
tigator for the Department of Human Services
in San Francisco and Dorothy is an adjudicator
for the Veterans Administration there.

1931

Idof Anderson, Jr. writes: "Starting my tenth
year of retirement here on Cape Cod. Enjoy
swimming from May 30th to nearly Novem-
ber 1st. I just seem to be so busy doing noth-
ing, that I don't have time to do anything."

The Bob Barretts have just bought a con-
dominium in Longwood, Florida, where they
plan to spend most of the winter months.
They are located on the shore of Lake Winni-
pesaukee in Laconia during the summer.
While in New Hampshire, they are within 15
miles of their whole family, including five
grandchildren. "There is seldom a dull mo-
ment!" Recently, Bob and Noriene took a trip
to the Far East, stopping off to see Red Sage in
California. Because of unsettled world condi-
tions, they feel that that trip was probably
their last outside of the U.S.

Ed Bayon and his wife, Ruth, are looking
ahead to celebrating their 50th wedding anni-
versary in September. They have two daugh-
ters, and nine grandchildren (13 to 22 years),
six of whom are currently in college. One boy
is studying civil engineering. A year ago, Ed
left the management of Tighe & Bond/SCI to
his partner and he is now "working into retire-
ment" as a consultant to the firm. Five out of
the 34 graduate engineers on staff are WPI
graduates, two of whom serve as assistant
chief engineers. Ed had the pleasure of renew-
ing a friendship developed at Tech almost 50
years ago when he attended the Boston
College-Navy football game this fall with
Frank "Champ" Blouin, '32. Champ is a re-
tired U.S. Navy vice admiral now living in
Washington, D.C., after an exciting and chal-
lenging career in the service of his country.

Dud Chaffee writes that he is currently
retired in Greensboro, N.C., after having been
in charge of operations, maintenance, engi-
neering, and planning on college campuses
throughout the east coast during his career. He
was associated with Mount Holyoke, Spring-
field, Middlebury, St. Lawrence, and finally
the University of North Carolina, from which
he retired. He is an active golfer and stamp col-
lector. Also, he was active in the fund-raising
drive for the class 50th reunion gift.

Ted Coe, who lives in Vermont, has pur-
chased six acres of ocean front and tidewater
(1000' deep water, 600' tidewater) in
Boothbay, Maine. Having decided not to build,
he considers the land as a good investment be-
cause there is not much property of this type
left in Maine. Formerly with Farrel Co., he has
been retired for 15 years.

Trustee Emeritus Al Demont writes that
he and Phyllis have been busy managing two
houses and trying to sell one. On Labor Day
weekend they attended her daughter's wed-
ding in Boulder. His daughter Diane has a new
baby boy named Jordan Albert Kapp, who was
christened at his church during its anniver-
sary. The Demonts celebrate their first wed-
ding anniversary on December 29th. Al
belongs to the '"70" National Ski Club. Last

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year, he was the principal agent in selling a ski
lodge at Smuggler's Notch, "where (we) four
couples held a happy ten-year partnership be-
fore the old gang just moved too far away." Ac-
tive in his church, he has completed two
years' service as senior elder, the highest lay-
man's office. After retiring from ge in 1973, on
two occasions he was drafted to rim the
Schenectady County Community Co-op Pro-
gram.

Warren 'Bun' Doubleday and his wife, Si-
grid, have a retirement home not far horn Dot
and Paul Fittz in Orange, Mass. After Bun re-
tired as a Civil Service employee of the Air
Force in 1972, they traveled for a while, but
have decided that "it is easier to stay at
home." They make maple syrup, cut fire-
wood, mow the lawn, and shovel snow. The
Doubledays have three daughters and nine
grandchildren (two girls, seven boys|. "We can
take care of a pretty good-sized turkey at
Thanksgiving."

Len Dunn is recovering from a severe
stroke that left him hospitalized from Febru-
ary of 1979 to January of 1980. He says, "My
wife, Audrie, diligently looks after me, but it's
quite a task." Len is located at St. Lambert,
Quebec, Canada.

Richard Fairbanks, who is retired from
government service writes: "Employed by
naca (now nasa); caa (now faa); and the Air
Force." He and Viola have been married 48
years and have two daughters and three grand-
sons.

Fred Farrar has three good reasons for
planning to attend reunion. Not only will Fred
be celebrating his 50th, his son, Robert, '56,
will be on hand for his 25th, while his grand-
son, Daniel, is a member of the Class of 1984.

Also looking ahead to the 50th, is John
Fletcher. He and Arlene, his wife of 44 years,
are enjoying retirement in South Dennis on
Cape Cod, where they have resided for nearly
eight years. "We do what we want, when and
if we want to." When the Hilt Fishers, '30, get
to the Cape, they usually visit the Fletchers.
John's last job was with Bryant Electric, a divi-
sion of Westinghouse in Bridgeport, Conn.
Henry Friel holds the post of product
manager at Wire Mesh Products in York, Pa.

Wally Gove, local coordinator for the 50th
reunion, attended the reunion workshop on
Oct. 4th.

George Hansen's son, who is 42, hiked
the Appalachian Trail in October. George re-
tired in 1973 from Pratt & Whitney Aircraft.
Presently, he lives in a house he built for re-
tirement. It is located in West Willington,
Conn., on a paved road, surrounded by woods.

Until last year, Edwin Haskell served as
part-time chief designer for Chandler Machine
Co. Previously, he retired from GenRad,
Bolton, Mass. The Haskells have three chil-
dren and three grandchildren. They have re-
tired to a "lovely adult mobile home park" in
Concord, N.H. They have gardens and a yard
to care for, and square dance twice a week.
"Play in a senior citizens' orchestra occasion-
ally."

Golf and oil painting are hobbies enjoyed
by Frederic Holmes. In 1972, he retired from
Bird Machine Co. following 25 years of serv-
ice. He was a sales engineer and consultant for
the mid- West area for the firm, which manu-
factures paper-making machinery and centri-
fugal equipment. He has two sons and five
grandchildren.

Trescott "Tres" Larchar, Sr., who lives
alone says, "A major effort goes into cooking.
I'm not a gourmet cook, but I'm willing to try
something new." He claims he maintains a
nearly constant weight. Since retiring from
Olin several years ago, he's done some con-
sulting. He is active with the Masons, the Sen-
ior Citizens' Group, and he attends a few
technical meetings. Travel and music are
other interests.

Irving Newcomb ran his own cabinet
shop until he retired in 1974. He had previ-
ously retired from ge. In February, he and his
wife celebrate their 48th wedding anniversary.
They have three children, four grandchildren,
and are located in Center Bamstead, N.H.
Albert Palm writes: "We live 22 miles
east of Los Angeles and from our hillside home
beneath Mount Wilson Observatory we can
see up and down the San Gabriel Valley as far
away as Pasadena and the Rose Bowl." In
1975, he was commended by the chief of po-
lice for stopping a runaway auto by deliber-
ately ramming it with his own car. Besides his
bs, he holds an ms from WPI. During his
career, he has been employed by the former
Worcester Gas Light Co., American Steel &
Wire, and he was a partner in Stidsen & Palm
Co. From 1944 to 1960 he was a sales engineer
in the abrasives division of Norton Co. From
1960, until he retired in 1974, he was with
A. P. deSartno & Son, Inc., Phoenixville, Pa.
The Palms' son, Robert, graduated from WPI
in 1964. They also have a daughter and four
grandchildren.

Good thing Phil Pierce retired! He doesn't
have enough time for work. In "retirement",
he teaches folk dancing, and calls square
dances. He keeps improving his house and
yard, serves as church treasurer, still "walks"
18 holes of golf several times a week, bowls,
and drives for "Meals on Wheels." Once a
year, the Pierces travel (Europe, etc.), but are
always glad to return home to Monterey,
Calif. "Life is great. No snow. No high heat."
Phil taught mathematics at the Navy Post-
graduate School in Monterey for 28 years. He
and Irma have three sons, three granddaugh-
ters, and two grandsons.

C.F. "Red" Sage says, "Hope to see you
all next June in Worcester!" He admits his red
hair is now gray, but declares it is still quite a
thatch. Red and Val's son, Dick, has a phc and
is assistant curator in the Veterbrate Zoology
Museum, University of California at Berkeley.
Tony and Mike farm, make cabinets, and play
golf in Oregon. ("Hope to visit them Thanks-
giving.") Since 1970, the Sages have managed
Pea Soup Andersen's Inn in Buellton, Calif.
They've seen it grow from 41 to 97 units. "Too
busy to retire." However, if the spirit moves
them, they might go into a nearby mobile
home.

Early in the year, Mike Sodano had some
surgery done to correct poor circulation. The
right carotid artery was cleansed, then a quad-
ruple by-pass was performed. "Haven't felt so
good in a long time." In 1970, he retired from
ge, and after staying in Japan for two years, he
returned to Scottsdale. Daughter Carole is at
the University of the Pacific and John at the
Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mike swims, and is a licensed ham radio oper-
ator. So far, he's made over 100 contacts all
over the U.S.A.

After 32 years, Hurant Tashjian continues
operating his hardware business, Bay State
Paint & Hardware Co., in Worcester. "No
plans for retirement." The Tashjians have two
daughters. Emily is engaged and Gloria is an
assistant professor of mathematics at Merri-
mack College in Andover, Mass. Two years
ago, while Gloria was an exchange scientist at
the Mathematics Institute, Czechoslovak
Academy of Science, Prague, her parents vis-
ited her.

Bob Terrill spent 32 years as a commis-
sioned officer in the Armed Forces. He gradu-
ated from the U.S. Military Academy andthen
from flying school at San Antonio. "I was in
the Air Force from that time on." He partici-
pated in World War II and the Korean war, as a
colonel and as a brigadier general, respectively.
In 1964, he retired from the service as a lieu-
tenant general. The Terrills were slated to visit
their daughter and two grandsons in California
over Thanksgiving.

Although retired, Fran Townsend claims,
"I still can't find time to do all the things I
have ahead of me." He hopes to get his eye sit-
uation cleared up before trie 50th. The Town-
sends, who live on the Cape at Cotuit, Mass.,
have two daughters, a son, and eight grand-
children.

Carroll Whitaker serves as cost depart-
ment manager for the Ames Textile Corpora-
tion of Lowell, Mass., where he has been
employed for 45 years. "The work is varied
and very interesting," he says. For 21 years, he
and Eleanor have frequently square danced
with various groups and feel that "this won-
derful recreation has done a great deal to keep
us in good health."

In 1974, Robert Williamson retired from
Union Carbide after 39 years. He was in sales,
production, and industrial engineering in the
Consumer Products Division (Eveready). The
Williamsons celebrate their 40th anniversary
in February. They like to play contract bridge
every week with two groups of retired persons.
Their daughter and two grandchildren live in
Albuquerque. Judy is a registered artist (water
color and acrylic) and is working on her mas-
ter's degree in teaching. Williamson does
"kitchen table" model railroading at home.
He is treasurer of a sizeable model railroad
club.

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1932

1938

► Married: Paul E. Nelson and Mrs. Marion E.
Francis in Barnet Center, Vermont on Septem-
ber 21, 1980. The Nelsons currently live in
Shaftsbury.

1934

At the winter annual meeting of the asme held
in November in Chicago, Allan Catheron was
posthumously awarded a Century Medallion.
Al, who passed away last June, was a fellow of
the asme. He was a retired system research en-
gineer for the Foxboro Co.

Charles McElroy, one of WPI's top "sen-
ior" swimmers, was invited to attend the
'Sports Legends" banquet which was held in
Lowell, Mass. in October to honor great ath-
letes of the past.

Dr. Elijah Romanoff serves as a program
director for the National Science Foundation
in Washington, D.C.

1937

Lawrence Barber retired last January horn A.
C. Lawrence Leather Company, Inc, but con-
tinues to be active in an advisory capacity.
Joining A. C. Lawrence after graduation, he
stayed on during his entire career. In recent
years he has had responsibility for production
at all of the company's locations, horn Maine
to North Carolina. At its annual convention in
June, the American Leather Chemists Associa-
tion named Barber president-elect. In 1976, he
was one of a small group of associates within
the company which purchased A. C. Lawrence
from Swift and Company. Soon after, he relo-
cated his headquarters to Waynesville, N.C.,
where he and his wife Martha now reside.
World travel has been extensive. In August he
toured China, giving a series of lectures on
leather manufacturing to Chinese tanners and
shoe manufacturers.

In July, Vin Johnson retired as manager of
Michigan operations for Marsh & McLennan
after 28 years of service. The Johnsons took a
five-week trip through Canada and New Eng-
land in their motor home last summer, and
spent a couple of weeks on Cape Cod. Vin
writes: "We'll be in Key Biscayne for the win-
ter and then in the spring we'll take a trip to
the West coast, go on up to Vancouver, then re-
turn to Detroit."

Francis Jenkins serves as a mechanical engi-
neer at United Engineers in Holcomb, Kansas.

1939

Oiva Kama is deputy vice president of project
engineering at International Coal Refining
Company, Allentown, Pa.

David McEwan is presently plant man-
ager at Cynthiana Screw Corp., a division of
VSI Corp. He is located in Cynthiana, Ky.

Norman Packard is manager of engineer-
ing at Nautilus/VA in Independence, Va.

Norton Company, Worcester, has ap-
pointed Harold White as vice president and
general manager of the Coated Abrasive Divi-
sion in the United States. Previously he was
vice president and general manager of the
company's Organic Grinding Wheel Division.
Also, he was responsible for Norton's abra-
sives business in Canada. Before his appoint-
ment to that post in 1979, he had served in
England as vice president of abrasive opera-
tions in Northern Europe. He has been with
Norton since 1946.

1940

Bruce Boyd, who entered WPI after nine years
with Westinghouse writes: "At 72, 1 may be
the oldest member of the Class of 1940." He
ultimately retired from Westinghouse after 43
years of service. His first job was with the
early warning radar that picked up Japanese
airplanes 130 miles off Oahu on the morning
of Dec. 7, 1941. "No one believed it." Boyd
holds six U.S. patents. He and his wife Louise
chose to stay in Maryland following his retire-
ment to be near their family. Boyd continues
his amateur radio hobby, which he started in
1921.

Lois and Bill Brooks finally arrived home
in Scottsdale, Arizona following their 40th re-
union. After leaving Worcester, they visited
friends on the way back, stopping at Cape
Cod, Hartford, Morristown, N.J., Knoxville,
Tenn., Lake George, N.Y., among other places.
They traveled 6600 miles going and coming to
reunion. It was Bill's first time back since
graduation.

Albert Howell is now employed as a
mathematical analysis engineer at Mack
Trucks, Inc. in Allentown, Pa. In 1977 he un-
derwent heart surgery. Son Jack is a soap
maker in Denver; Philip a motorcycle shop
owner. Daughter Olivia is a teacher;
Elizabeth, an executive secretary. Howell is in-
terested in church work and Common Cause.

Harding Jenkins is an enthusiastic resi-
dent of Venice, Fla, and enjoys travel, tennis,
and the beach. Retired from American
Optical, where he was corporate vice presi-
dent, he subsequently was associated with
i.e.s.c. in Manila, where he helped contribute
know-how in a developing area. He was a con-
sultant to Mount Holyoke College horn 1975
to 1977.

Golf, swimming, bowling, and fishing are
some of Fritz Johanson's activities. He's had
three holes-in-one and won a club champion-
ship trophy. His wife Majken is a good golfer,
too, and likes bowling, dancing, and traveling.
Still with Warner & Swasey as eastern export
district manager, Johanson has about a million
flying miles under his belt. He's been in
Russia three times, and as a member of a U.S.
government delegation he visited Moscow,
Leningrad, and Kiev. He attended WPI's Eve-
ning Graduate School and the Advanced Man-
agement Program at Harvard Business School.
He's been involved with the Worcester Area
Council of Churches.

After a four-month leave of absence to fin-
ish a shell house in Vermont, Rolfe Johnson is
now back at work constructing a plastics facil-
ity for ge in Pittsfield. His wife, Margaret, is
director of activities at a Brattleboro (Vt.) nurs-
ing home. Johnson met Margaret on a boat trip
from the Isle of Man to Liverpool, and they
were married in Cheshire. They toured Europe
on their bmw 750. In the past ten years, John-
son has spent much of his time in Scotland,
Holland, and Israel on construction projects.
While in Israel, he narrowly missed three ter-
rorist raids.

In March, Benedict Kaveckas joined Wang
Laboratories in Tewksbury, Mass. as a senior
manufacturing engineer. He likes to repair
autos and appliances.

P. Warren Keating is a member of the Pur-
suing Committee, Worcester Society of Mu-
tual Aid in Detecting Thieves.

Dr. Stanley Kimball currently holds the
position of chairman of the department of radi-
ology and nuclear medicine at Richmond
Heights General Hospital in Cleveland. He
has been chief of staff and is now vice presi-
dent for a second time. He is certified by the
American Osteopathic Board of Radiology.
Kimball will fish anywhere, and has already
tried his luck from the Yukon River to Guade-
lupe. He has six children and seven vehicles,
including two diesels.

The Arthur Koerbers have a retirement
Tyrolean chalet overlooking the Sierras at
Lake Tahoe. They are employed part time as
tour guides showing local historic sites, and
Arthur drives a snow plow in winter. Hobbies
include hiking, skiing, and model railroading.
Previously, Koerber had been a camp ranger for
the Girl Scouts, an organization he and his
wife were associated with for years. For 25
years he was with ge in Pittsfield, Mass. spe-
cializing in lightning arrestor design. He was
president of the Green Mountain Club, chair-
man of the New England Trails Conference,
and vice chairman of the Appalachian Trail
Conference.

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1 a in ■ ■ 1

David Kuniholm reports that he is still
"lead soloist" at Kuniholm Associates in Pe-
tersham, Mass.

Kenneth McClure is the retired chairman
of K.H. McClure &Co., Inc., Stamford, Conn.
Presently, he resides in Charlottesville, Va.

Since retiring as chief of design from
Hamilton Division of United Technologies,
Donald Ramaker has done some consulting for
utc. After hours, he's into fishing, hiking, and
antiques. Jean, his wife, is an antiques dealer.
Ramaker, who had a 37-year career at Hamil-
ton Standard, has two sons and a daughter. '

His R&L Manufacturing Co. is busy pro-
ducing a wide variety of urethane products,
says Milton Ross, president of the California
firm he started during "the great recession" of
1974. He holds six U.S. patents and has six
children. Outside interests include flying,
earthworm raising, scouting, and Little
League.

Raymond Shlora and his wife, Clare, en-
joy many trips to Europe. He continues as
president of H.H. Brown Shoe Co., Inc., New
York City. As president of the Brown Canadian
operation, a post he still holds, he lived for
nearly 20 years in Montreal at one time. Cur-
rently, Shlora also serves as chairman of Igloo
Import and Supply Co., Ste. Agathe, Quebec.

1941

Dr. Alfred Winslow serves as a senior chemist
at Borden Chemical Co. in Louisville, Ky.

1942

Allan Anderson is manager of market planning
and development at Bath Iron Works in
Maine.

Formerly with Westinghouse Electric
Co., Hollywood, Calif., Ralph Piper is now re-
tired and living in Sonoma.

Russell Proctor serves as director of pro-
jects at Procon, Inc., in Houston, Texas.

Samuel Williams, Jr. has been elected
chairman at O'Brien & Gere Engineers. He
joined the Syracuse company in 1956, and has
been president since the firm was incorporated
in 1971. Under his direction, the company has
grown from 180 employees and $4.8 million
in sales in 1971 to over 300 employees and
sales totaling $12.3 million in 1979. During
that time, the firm has established offices in
Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C., St.
Louis, White Plains and New York City, ad-
ding to several previously established offices.
Williams is also a trustee of Onondaga Savings
Bank and the Rescue Mission Alliance. He is a
director of the Greater Syracuse Chamber of
Commerce, the Metropolitan Development
Association and the Economic Development
Corp. Besides his WPI degree, he has another
from Harvard University.

1943

Everett Ambrose holds the post of senior staff
engineer in the Continental Group in Avon,
Conn.

Dr. Carroll Bennett, the acting head of the
chemical engineering department at the Uni-
versity of Connecticut, has been named the re-
cipient of the $2,000 Warren K. Lewis Award
from the American Institute of Chemical En-
gineers. He received the award in November at
the Institute's annual meeting in Chicago. He
is a fellow of the Institute. The award, spon-
sored by Exxon International Co. and Exxon
Research and Engineering Co., is given annu-
ally to recognize distinguished and continuing
contributions to chemical engineering educa-
tion. Dr. Bennett has been a professor of
chemical engineering at UConn since 1964.
He is the author of three books and over 30 ar-
ticles which have appeared in professional
journals. Also, he has served as a consultant
for several firms, including the Fafnir Bearing
Co., ge, Monsanto, Remington Rand Univac,
and United Technologies. He holds patents re-
lating to cellulose impregnating and the han-
dling of natural gas. His doctorate in
engineering is from Yale University.

J. Perry Fraser is now senior development
engineer for Stirling engine systems at MTI,
Inc., Latham, N.Y.

Ed Lipovsky has been retired for over a
year. Formerly, he was a contract administra-
tor at dcaas-usg, in San Diego, Calif.

1944

Roger French is a self-employed consultant in
energy conservation and management in Jack-
son, N.H. He holds an mba from Harvard.

Charles Stowell continues as senior vice
president of the Metal Exchange Corp., St.
Louis, Mo.

1945

George Brown holds the position of president
at Whitinsville Spinning Ring Co. in Gastonia,
N.C.

Robert Scott is vice president of Johnson
& Higgins of Connecticut, Inc., Hartford.

Dr. Mitchell Tenerowicz recently ap-
peared on the "That's incredible" tv show
which highlighted Father DiOrio, the charis-
matic priest from Worcester.

1946

Walter Bank, a WPI trustee, is now marketing
manager at Syscon Corp. of America in Wash-
ington, D.C.

Robert Bart let t serves as r&d manager at
Alco Dispensing Systems, Carol Stream, 111.

Walter Gleason is retired from Exxon and
living in Grantham, N.H.

Presently, John Laffey serves as vice presi-
dent of marketing for major accounts at Clark
Equipment Co., Benton Harbor, Mich. He is
also director of National Mobile Concrete
Corp.

Allan Raymond is employed as an envi-
ronmental engineer in the South Carolina De-
partment of Health and Environmental
Control in Columbia. He retired from New
York State after 30 years of service. He is con-
tinuing his career in the field of solid and haz-
ardous waste management.

Peter Vozzolla works as a senior experi-
mental engineer at Hamilton Standard in
Windsor Locks, Conn.

Robert Willis is a lead sales engineer at ge
in Spokane, Washington.

1947

Henry Bove has been elected vice president of
the chemical division at United Engineers &
Constructors, Inc., a Philadelphia-based sub-
sidiary of Raytheon. He had served since 1971
as project manager, and was responsible for the
management and design of environmental and
chemical process facilities. Earlier, he was pro-
ject engineering manager and supervising engi-
neer. Prior to joining United Engineers in
1968, Bove was affiliated with Day & Zim-
mermann, Inc. for 20 years, where he rose to
vice president of planning and research. A reg-
istered professional engineer, he holds both bs
and ms degrees in chemical engineering from
WPI.

Ernest Kimball is with Kaiser Aluminum
& Chemical Corp., Mexico, Mo.

1948

Robert Adams serves as president of Adams In-
dustries, Inc., Westmont, 111. Also, he is asso-
ciated with Tutco, Inc., Cookeville, Tenn. and
the Wing Co. in Cranford, N.J.

Niel Fishman serves as sales manager at
PH. Werner, Inc., Springfield, N.J. He is a pro-
fessional engineer in New Jersey and Florida.

Recently, Arne Kellstrom moved to Hous-
ton where he is vice president of product man-
agement for Ingersoll Rand Co.

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A. Stuart Kelsey holds the post of trea-
surer at Reflections in Art, Inc., Pompano
Beach, Fla.

Benjamin Richter works as a cement mar-
keting and distribution manager for Texas In-
dustries, Inc., Arlington, Texas.

Edward Tyler is manager of c&a product
engineering at ge in Evendale, Ohio.

1949

Eugene Briggs is president and treasurer of
Mastercraft of Burlington, Inc., Graham, N.C.

Charles Chase, formerly a supervisor for
U.S. Steel, is presently retired and living with
his wife, Carolyn, in Brewster, Mass.

Malcolm Ferson has been appointed man-
ager of sales, Region I, in ge's Steam Turbine-
Generator Marketing Department. He will be
responsible for customer relations and sales in
New England, New York, Tennessee and the
western third of the U.S. With the company
since 1949, in 1952, he entered the Sales
Training Program. During his ge career, he has
served as a turbine specialist for the Apparatus
Sales Department in Dallas, and as industrial
sales manager for the Medium Steam Turbine-
Generator Department in Lynn, Mass. After a
stint with the Electric Utility Sales Depart-
ment in Texas, he was appointed manager of
sales, Region IH, in 1966. Since 1977, he has
served as manager of pricing, planning and ad-
ministration for the Large Steam Turbine-
Generator Financial Operation. Ferson
belongs to the Mohawk Golf Club and the

ASME.

Russell Larson serves as project manager
at Perini Corp., Framingham, Mass.

1950

Carl Ackerman has been named product spe-
cialist, electrical insulation, at the Fiberloys
Division of Rogers Corporation, Rogers, Conn.
In his new position, he will be responsible for
marketing Rogers' SF/duroid and SE/duroid
structural insulating materials. Before going to
Rogers, Ackerman had been vice president and
secretary of Union Mills Paper Manufacturing
Company for 22 years. He had also been assis-
tant to the president at Superior Polymers
Company and did technical service marketing
at the Chase Foster Division of Keene Corpo-
ration. He is an officer of the astm Techical
Committee for D.09 on electrical insulating
solids, is a senior member of the ieee Power
Engineering Society and the ieee Electrical In-
sulating Society and is a member of the Under-
writers Laboratory Industry Adivsory Group
on polymer materials. The Ackermans reside
in West Warwick, R.I.

Recently, Pete Cummings was appointed
a new member of the board of trustees at Be-
cker Junior College, Worcester. He is the cur-
rent president and former treasurer and
general manager of the Lowell Corp.

Glenn From is employed as program
control-supervisor at Lockheed in Burbank,
Calif.

Albert Perry works as manager of the
Parts Distribution Center at Worthington
Compressors, Memphis, Term.

1951

Robert Baldwin is with Pullman Heat Re-
search, New York City.

William McNeil holds the position of
manager of sales services at Cabot Corpora-
tion, Atlanta, Georgia.

Currently, John Seguin is an account ex-
ecutive at Norton Co., Worcester.

Dr. Robert Zimmerer was a course leader
at the 12th Annual Electro Optics/Laser Con-
ference and Exposition held in November at
Hynes Auditorium in Boston. His topic, "La-
ser Power and Energy Measurements," was
part of the Professional Advancement Course.
Dr. Zimmerer is with Scientech, Inc., Boulder,
Colo.

1952

Now located in Portland, Oregon, previously,
Jack Yun-Ting Kwan was a senior research en-
gineer in the high temperature gas dynamics
laboratory at the Institute of Mechanics, Aca-
demia Sinica, Beijing, China.

Edgar Van Cott holds the position of presi-
dent of Data Convenor Corp., Cochituate,
Mass.

1953

Paul Snyder is manager of planning and pro-
jects at Mobil in Fairfax, Va.

1954

Clayton Brown is president of dti Data Termi-
nals Corp. in Medfield, Mass.

In August, Milton Meckler delivered a pa-
per entitled "Solar Powered Rankine Cycle,
Dual State Chiller/Regenerator Improves
Combined Cycle Efficiency" at the Solar Cool-
ing and Dehumidifying Conference in Cara-

cas, Venezuela. His book, Energy
Conservation in Buildings and Industrial
Plants, was published by McGraw-Hill in Sep-
tember. The Meckler Group's newest affiliate
is California Solar Technology. Its first project
will be the development and installation of the
residential Skytherm Solar System.

Emmanuel Milias was recently reelected
president of the Hellenic Arts Society of
Worcester County. He is employed by Norton
Company as supervisor of Process Systems Re-
search. A vice president of the board of direc-
tors of St. Spyridon's Church, he also sings in
the church choir. He and his wife, Elpida, are
former co-chairmen of the church festival.

In July, Dr. Werner Neupert a project sci-
entist for nasa, briefed representatives from
headquarters and the press on the first scien-
tific payload to fly on the Space Shuttle, nasa's
space transportation system. The briefing and
details of seven principal experiments were
provided at Goddard Space Flight Center. The
prime payload for the flight, which is slated for
April of 1982, is a Department of Defense pro-
ject.

1955

Roger Bardwell continues as president of the
Production Marketing Group in Rochester,
N.Y.

Charles Walters, general manager of the
Wallingford Electric Division, has been elected
second vice president of the Northeast Public
Power Association, which recently held its an-
nual conference at Bretton Woods, N.H. Previ-
ously, he served as treasurer of the association.
He holds an mba from the University of New
Haven.

1956

William Johnson holds the position of vice
president at Sobotka & Co., Inc., Washington,
D.C.

William Jordan, Jr. now is vice president
in charge of logic products for Synertek of
Santa Clara, Calif., manufacturer of integrated
circuits. Formerly, Jordan was vice president of
engineering for Boschert, and earlier, vice pres-
ident of the memory systems division of Intel.

1957

Christos Alex is presently with Nanmac Cor-
poration in Framingham, Mass.

John Bandarra is a plant manager for Tam-
pax, Inc. in Claremont, N.H.

16 / Winter 1981 / The WPI Journal

Allan Carlson is employed as product line
manager in planning and management at
Western Electric Co., Morristown, N.J.

Walter Kress serves as project manager at
American Cyanamid, Engineering & Con-
struction Division, Wayne, N.J.

The William Rawstrons have returned
from South America where they adopted a
seven-month-old boy. They have five children
of their own. Rawstron holds the post of vice
president for engineering and planning at Ja-
mesbury, Worcester.

I958

Currently, Normand Bedard works for the
u.s.a.f. at Los Angeles Air Force Station. He
and his wife have two children at Assumption,
one at Stonehill, and two in private high
school as well as one in private grammar
school.

Joseph Dudcl v, Jr. serves as director of con-
struction at Revlon, Inc., Edison, N.J.

Donald Grenon is presently regional su-
perintendent of operations at Northeast Utili-
ties, West Springfield, Mass.

William Hopf was recently named vice
president and general manager of demco, a di-
vision of Cooper Industries, Inc. in Oklahoma
City. He has more than 16 years in the valve
industry and is regarded as a leader in the de-
velopment and production of quarter-turn
valve products. In 1979 he was named "Valve
Man of the Year" by the Valve Manufacturers
Association. From 1976 until the demco ap-
pointment, he worked at Walworth Company,
Valley Forge, Pa., a major manufacturer of in-
dustrial valves. At Walworth, he served as vice
president and general manager of Lubricated
Plug Valves, Aloyco and Marine divisions, and
of the company's Cryogenic Valve subsidiary.
Previously, he was vice president of engineer-
ing and quality assurance. Before joining
Walworth, Hopf was manager of engineering
for Irvington-Moore, Jacksonville, Fla., which
manufactures lumber processing equipment
for the forest products industry. From 1964 to
1974, he worked at Jamesbury Corporation,
Worcester, where as r&e manager and chief en-
gineer, he introduced actuator products, a
high-performance butterfly valve, and new
lines of ball valves. Hopf holds an msme from
WPI and completed Dartmouth's Amos Tuck
Executive Program in 1978.

He has served as chairman of the Valve
Manufacturers Association's Technical Coor-
dinating Committee and Task Force on Prod-
uct Liability and made a presentation to the
White House Conference on Small Business in
1979 on product liability protection and the
Federal Trade Commission's proposed stan-
dards and certification rules. Hopf and his wife
Sandy have a son who attends Campbell Uni-
versity in North Carolina. His company, de-
mco, manufactures butterfly, gate and ball
valves, centrifugal pumps, sewage treatment

plants and solids separation equipment for the
petroleum, chemical, food, beverage, paper,
water and waste treatment, and marine indus-
tries.

Ray Johnson serves as a divisional vice
president of sales at Nepsco, Inc. in Boylston,
Mass.

Ronald Kangas is program manager at
U.S. dot in Washington, D.C.

Currently, Burton Keeler holds the post of
design engineer at ce Ordnance Systems, Pitts-
field, Mass. The youngest of his five children,
Marion, is a freshman at WPI. Her roommate
is I )ebbie Allen, daughter of Owen Allen, '54.
Marion's uncle, Malcolm Keeler, '54, roomed
with Allen thirty years ago in Sanford Riley.

David Ripple holds the post of manager of
jewelry equipment development at Avon Prod-
ucts, Inc., Mansfield, Mass.

J. Clifford Wiersma is with J.C. Wiersma
Real Estate in Indianapolis.

1959

Frederick Costello is now vice president of
sales for the Ethylene Oxide Derivatives Divi-
sion at Union Carbide Corporation, Danbury,
Conn. Fred and Phil Pudding tun are co-
chairmen of the 25th Reunion Committee.

William Pursell, Jr. is vice president of
manufacturing at Canco, Inc., Houston,
Texas.

Eric Rorstrom has advanced to staff engi-
neer at Northeast Utilities. He joined nu in
1 973 as a senior engineer. A member of the
asme, Rorstrom also serves as an NU repre-
sentative to the Electric Power Research Insti-
tute. He has an mba from UConn. From 1961
to 1962 he was in the U.S. Army Reserve.

I960

George Beebe serves as plant engineer for mit's
Lincoln Lab on Kwajalain Missile Range in the
Marshall Islands.

Paul Byron holds the position of resident
inspector at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission in Glen Ellyn, 111.

Donaldson Dow is employed as a senior
structural engineer at United Engineering in
Darien, Conn.

Henry Hyde is manager of loss prevention
at basf Wyandotte Corp., Parsippany, N.J.

Paul Johnson is regional director of
alumni at mit in Cambridge, Mass.

Fred Kloiber wrote "Power Engineering in
Fusion Research" which appeared in the Octo-
ber issue of the IEEE Almanack. He did gradu-
ate work at Yale, and is a member of the
professional technical staff at Princeton Uni-
versity, assigned to the Power Branch of the
Engineering Division. Previously, he had been
with ge and Norden Laboratories where he

worked on aircraft, spacecraft, and rail-car
power and control systems.

Raymond Levesque has been named man-
ager of American Cyanamid's newly acquired
aerospace products plant in Saugus, Calif. Pre-
viously, he was thermoset molding compound
department manager at the company plant in
Wallingford, Conn.

Anan Panananda is director of the Cus-
toms Department in Bangkok, Thailand.

Donald Taylor is employed as project su-
perintendent at Catalytic Inc., Toledo, Ohio.

Francis Toce holds the position of presi-
dent at Syracuse Scientific, Inc., Clay, N.Y.

I96l

John Donnelly is employed as manager of
manufacturing of instrument products at ge in
Lynn, Mass. He relocated to his present job in
1978 from the ge transformer plant in Shreve-
port, La.

Evan Duane serves as a software systems
project leader at Grumman Aerospace Corp. in
Bethpage, N.Y. He specializes in mini-
computer application software development.

Ron DuFries continues with Morgan
Construction Co., Worcester, where he is cur-
rently sales manager for wire machinery.

Arthur Greene holds the post of physicist
at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton,
N.Y. He is concerned with the Isabelle Project.

William Lupoli serves as senior account
manager at trw in Westwood, Calif.

Continuing with T-Bar, Inc., Wilton,
Conn., Moussit Noradoukian presently serves
as assistant vice president of marketing.

Raymond Rec continues at Eaton Corp.,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he is chief in-
strumentation engineer.

Ralph Smith is employed as a marketing
representative at du Pont in New York City.
He holds an mba from Drexel.

1962

Albert Andrews is divsion manager at Treasure
Chest Advertising in Windsor Locks, Conn.

George Bastien continues with Bechtel
Power Corp., where he holds the post of group
supervisor.

William Krein, formerly manager for the
finance and division support operation of ge's
Installation and Service Engineering Division
in Schenectady, has been named controller at
Zenith Radio Corp. He joined ge in 1966 in the
Advanced Manufacturing Training Program
and following assignments in manufacturing
engineering with the Steam Turbine-
Generator Division and in factory supervision
with the Power Circuit Breaker Division,
joined the corporate staff in 1968. In 1972, he

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became manager of financial operations anal-
ysis for the Power Generation Business
Group, was named manager of finance for the
ise Division in 1974, and to his last ge post in
1976. He has an mba in finance from Babson
Institute, is married, and has three children.

John "Tony" Lockwood continues as
president of J.A. Lockwood Co., in
Pluckemin, N.J. The Lockwoods, who reside
in Bridgewater, N.J., have three sons.

Stephen Osterling, a former manufactur-
ing manager with Eastman Kodak, has been
named plant manager at Battery Technology
Company in Lexington, Ky. The firm is a divi-
sion of Duracell International. Osterling is re-
sponsible for directing all operations of the
local facility. Battery Technology specializes in
"button cell" mercury and silver oxide bat-
teries used in watches, cameras, etc. Osterling
has an mba from Dartmouth. Previously, he
worked for Johnson & Johnson.

Peter Parrino works as technical coordi-
nator at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dr. James Quirk continues as a professor
of physics at the University of New
Hampshire. He also runs U-Drive Boat
Rentals and Houseboat Vacations as well as
Lake George Tour Boats.

Frank Sokol holds the position of presi-
dent of Falcon Associates, Inc., Westport,
Conn.

Dr. John Tien was a co-author of "Cobalt
Availability and Superalloys" which appeared
in the October issue of Journal of Metals. He is
a professor of metallurgy at the Henry Krumb
School of Mines, Columbia University. He re-
ceived his pIid and ms in metallurgy and mate-
rials science from Carnegie-Mellon and his
MEng degree from Yale. He was a research sci-
entist at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft for four
years before joining the faculty at Columbia in
1972. He has written over 90 papers in many
materials areas, including the physical and
mechanical metallurgy of superalloys, coars-
ening and stress coarsening, kinetics of hydro-
gen embrittlement, and fracture mechanics.
Also, he has researched and published in areas
relating to materials availability and technol-
ogy, transfer. Dr. Tien is a consultant to many
industries and the United Nations.

John Tufano is vice president and general
manager of Peco Enterprises, Inc., Davenport,
Iowa. He has an ma from Notre Dame. The
Tufanos, who have two children, live in Bet-
tendorf.

1963

1965

Raymond Akerson is employed as division
chief at National Security Agency, Fort Meade,
Md.

Andrew Andersen is involved with special
project construction at asr Multi Group in
Troy, Michigan.

Richard Garvais, who holds an mba from
Syracuse, serves as general manager of Wilson
Sporting Goods, Fountain Inn, S.C.

Hunter Associates Laboratory, Reston,
Va., has announced the promotion of Howard
McDevitt, Jr. to the position of vice president
of engineering. Prior to joining Hunter, he was
supervisor of the Remote-Sensing Group of the
Systems Division of Bendix Corporation.
More recently, he was vice president of engi-
neering at Acuity Systems. He holds a bs from
Bucknell, an ms from WPI, and he has also
studied at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Dan Pender is setting up a medical
practice in the specialty of otology (refers to
ear diseases) in Lido Beach, N.Y. Dan says, "It
is a wonderful specialty for a mechanical engi-
neer, as it involves microsurgical repair of
middle ear structures, as well as a thorough
understanding of middle ear and inner ear bio-
physics." The latter concerns the concepts of
impedance matching, vibrations, hydrody-
namics, and the electrophysiology of the
neurosensory receptors in the ear. After com-
pleting surgical residency at the University of
Vermont, he was certified by the American
Board of Otolaryngolgy in 1978. For the next
two years, he was at Harvard on a research fel-
lowship. "Along the way, my wife, Vivian,
and I have seen our family grow to four chil-
dren, including three-year-old twin girls."

Art Pratt serves as a senior associate at Al-
lan Davis Assoc, Inc., Stamford, Conn. He is
a registered professional engineer in Illinois
and Connecticut.

Gerard St. Germain is guidance project
manager at the Naval Plant Representative Of-
fice in Pittsfield, MA.

Willard Sweetser, Jr., has been named a
vice president by Bume & Roe, Inc. He will re-
tain duties as director of construction with re-
sponsibility for all construction activities of
the company.

1964

► Married: Marshall W. Cross and Margaret L.
Mangan in Milford, Massachusetts. Mrs.
Cross, a graduate of Quinsigamond Commu-
nity College, is a senior secretary at gte Sylva-
nia of Needham, Mass., where her husband
serves as engineering manager.

Dr. John Boyle holds the post of staff sci-
entist at C.S. Draper Laboratory in Cam-
bridge, Mass.

David McCaffrey is an account executive
at Union Carbide Corp. in Chicago.

Recently, "Butch" Altenburg established
Technical Process and Engineering, a sales and
engineering consultant company serving the
rubber and plastic industries. He and his wife,
Karen, are located in Tamaqua, Pa., where
they are building a house. Both are very active
with the National Ski Patrol. Also involved
with the Eastern Division Ski and Toboggan
Test Committee, Butch was the 49th person
in the U.S. to receive National Certification.
He is chairman of the Eastern Division Certi-
fied Program. Karen has been named the Out-
standing Professional Patroller in the Eastern
Division.

Thomas Arcari is co-founder of Triple-A-
Construction Company, a firm which builds
custom houses, and is presently starting a one-
hundred acre development in New Hartford,
Conn. He has been with Northeast Utilities
since 1969. The father of four, in his spare
time he coaches Little League and makes fur-
niture.

Anibal Ayala writes, "At age 55, 1 will be
retiring next September. Hope to be there for
the reunion, because then I'll be free to go
when I please." For many years a professor of
electrical engineering at the University of
Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, he wrote a college
textbook [Electric Machines and Trans-
formers). A number of his technical papers
have been published in various Puerto Rican
technical journals. After retirement, Ayala
plans to work in real estate investments.

Philip Bachelder, who has an ms in man-
agement from rpi's Hartford Graduate Center,
serves a dual role as manager of process engi-
neering and program manager of government
r&d contracts in electrophotography at James
River Graphics in South Hadley, Mass. His
staff of 18 is involved in six technical disci-
plines. The Bachelders have four sons. Their
dad says, "I have coached some boys' teams,
but I get over-zealous. Would you believe that
as a spectator I was shown 'the yellow card'
for questioning a soccer referee's call."

Dr. Bradford Barber is now with the
School of Physics and Astronomy at the Uni-
versity of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Fishing, sailing, running, and skiing are
favorite pastimes for Nicholas Barone. Since
graduation he has worked for ge and Olin
Corp. He is now director of consumer
services, a government regulation function.
He and Kathy have two boys and a girl. Kathy
is very active in the pta. Nick is past president
of the Milford (Conn.) Kiwanis, chairman of
the Milford Planning and Zoning Board, and
director of the Milford Conservation Land
Trust.

After spending two years with Exxon in
England, Frank Benham, and his family are
now resettled om Brookside, N.J. Currently,
Frank is section head in the Engineering Tech-
nology Department at Exxon Research and En-
gineering in Florham Park, N.J. He is involved
with designing, constmcting, and operating
the worldwide marine terminal facilities at

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Exxon's refining and marketing location. After
hours, he likes woodworking, sailing, and
photography. Wife Paula is an officer in the
Northern New Jersey unit of the Herb Society
of America. Becky, 12, has decided she's seen
enough of other countries and hopes to see
more of the U.S.A. Her brother, Peter, 9, is a
'ball of fire" with "webbed feet from too
much swimming."

Confirmed Chess Nut Gregory Berry is
not only one of the top postal chess players in
the country, he is also the current president of
the Argonne Chess Club, and a past president
of the Chicago Industrial Chess League. "In
addition to my chess passion, I play racquet-
ball about twice a week." Berry, who has a phD
from UConn, now holds the post of manager
of the energy system analysis group, engineer-
ing division, at Argonne National Laboratory.
He is primarily concerned with emerging coal-
based technologies. The Berry s have two sons.

Kenneth Brown manages a team of 55
electrical-mechanical-software engineers in
the development of a new class of typesetter at
Compugraphic Corporation. Once busy with
the Jaycees, Brown and his wife have also be-
come active supporters of Marriage Encounter.
Daughters Debbie and Diane play the piano
and ice skate, respectively. Sportswise, Brown
has learned to sail small racing craft (470), and
discovered how to "eat lunch balanced on the
rail of a keeled-over boat and how to swim out
from under a capsized boat." The family leads
a guitar group for weekly folk masses at
church.

Randy Burr serves as a buyer at Eastman
Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. He purchases process
control equipment and instrumentation (re-
cording equipment) and energy management
systems, with annual purchasing volume be-
ing as high as $14 million. The Burrs and their
children all enjoy golf and skiing with the chil-
dren both competing in swimming. In the ten-
year-old bracket, Lisa was ranked 29th in the
U.S. as a breaststroker (aau). Wife Pat is an op-
erating room nurse. For two years, Randy was
on the National Ski Patrol.

Robert Cahill writes: "Judy and I were for-
tunate in being vrp's at the XHI Winter Olym-
pics at Lake Placid, and played the role to the
hilt with the likes of Jean Claude Killy, Lemar
Hunt, and the king and queen of Sweden." Ca-
hill is president of National Hydron, Inc., Lan-
caster, Pa., which manufactures, among other
things, "the" anti-fog goggle for skiers. He has
been serving as class head agent. This year he,
his wife, and two daughters traveled to Las Ve-
gas and California.

Don Carlson has just relocated to Dus-
seldorf , West Germany, as product manager for
European operations of the Torrington Com-
pany. His family of four enjoys bicycling along
the Rhine with a knapsack of bread and local
wine. Last fall, while home on leave, he ac-
quired a handsome 10-point buck. Skiing in
the Alps and fishing are also favorite pastimes.

Lee Chouinard was recently promoted to
marketing manager of Europe and Africa for
Amoco Chemicals, Petroleum Additives Divi-
sion, and is now located in Geneva, Switzer-
land. Stacy, 8, is a budding gymnast. Trey, the
Chouinards' four-year-old adopted son from
Nicaragua, "has learned more English in the
past 18 months than most five-year-old native
Americans know." The family likes vacation-
ing in Maine, home of Secretary of State Ed
Muskie, Chouinard's uncle.

Presently, Stephen Cloues serves as a
church planning consultant with an emphasis
on starting new churches in strategic loca-
tions. He is headquartered in Birmingham,
Ala. He holds postgraduate degrees from Geor-
gia Tech and Southwestern Baptist Seminary.
Hiking, backpacking, and bicycling are
leisure-time activities.

For the past 13 years, David Coombe has
been with the U.S. Army. Currently, he is sta-
tioned at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. Earlier
assignments were at Watervliet Arsenal in
New York, and at Kwajalein Missile Range in
the South Pacific. Recently, he earned a flight
instructor's certificate. The Coombes like sail-
ing, scuba diving, and skiing, depending on
where they are located.

Frank Rainer (Czbulka) is studying laser
induced damage to optical coating and glasses
at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Califor-
nia. He has a master's degree from the Univer-
sity of California. Travel buffs, he and Sigrid
have driven from Alaska to Panama, journeyed
from Asia to Germany by bus, and visited Si-
beria, Kenya, the Great Wall of China, and
South America — in all, over 62 countries.

Charles Dufour holds the post of director
of newspaper engineering at Harris Corp. Busi-
ness travel has taken him to China twice re-
cently. He, Sandra, Jill, Holly, and Chuck now
live in a 150-year-old house on the Pawcatuck
River in Rhode Island. "We are in the process
of gutting and remodeling this charming old
house," Dufour says. (His wife is an interior
designer. ) Besides jogging and skiing, Dufour
serves as president of an investment club
which he helped to organize. "As yet we've
made no money, much to my wife's dismay."

Charles Durkin, Jr. recently became in-
volved in sailing and says he is becoming "ad-
dicted." He is town committeeman and
treasurer of a political social club in Yorktown
Heights, N.Y. With Con Edison since gradua-
tion, he is presently manager of system opera-
tion with responsibility for the reliable
economic, secure and safe operation of the
electric and steam systems serving New York
City and Westchester County. He holds a pat-
ent on a control device and has published arti-
cles and technical papers. In 1977, he was
chief system operator at Con Edison during
the New York City blackout. "Many hours of
hard work then!" The Durkins have three
children.

William Eidt is now international
licensee administrator for Combustion Engi-
neering, and administers agreements with
companies in France, Belgium, the Nether-
lands, Sweden, and Finland. He has a daugh-
ter, Lauren, 6. Pastimes include gardening,

softball, and part-time real estate sales. He
holds an mba from Western New England Col-
lege.

Nils Ericksen of Ericksen Associates, Inc.,
who specializes in ski area design and ski lift
relocations, is a professional engineer. In two
years, he's worked in 15 states and two foreign
countries. He is a licensed tramway inspector
in Massachusetts, as well as a member of the
national tramway code committee, and the
Eastern Snow Conference. Previously, he was
technical editor of "Ski Area Management"
magazine. His 1 1 -year-old daughter is a "super
skier."

Jim Fee is now product manager for Accu-
test, a company in the automatic test equip-
ment field. Over the years, he's regularly been
involved with a number of WPI alumni: John
Jacobson and Cap Chenoweth, '64 — down
river canoe racing and Whitewater kayaking in
Washington; Alan George, '66, Wayne Ponik
and Paul Covec, '64 — working on Teradyne
projects; and Pat Moran and Bill Shields — road
racing.

Dick Fortier, who has a pIid in
mechanical engineering from Northeastern, is
a mechanical group leader in the engineering
division for Cabot Corporation in St. Louis.
Previously, he had worked for Stone & Web-
ster and had taught at Southeastern Massachu-
setts University. He and Gail have two sons.
Serious running is a pastime, and in 1978 Dick
qualified for and ran in the Boston Marathon.
Most of Ron Friend's professional career
has been spent in the valve industry. Follow-
ing employment with Jamesbury Corp. and
Masoneilan Regulator Company, Ron is cur-
rently principal engineer at Crosby Valve and
Gage Co. He belongs to the asme, the isa, and
is a registered professional engineer. He and
his family enjoy camping, their latest adven-
ture being a two-week camping trip at Walt
Disney World in Florida.

William Galebach serves as manager of
the engineering department at the Hanover fa-
cility of Motorola in Maryland. His wife, Judy,
is a financial analyst at Motorola. They both
have degrees from Georgia State University.
Although their daughter, Amy, is toddler age,
she is always included in their yachting activi-
ties on Chesapeake Bay. Other interests are
fishing, tennis, and being active in the Anna-
polis Choral Society, and the Community As-
sociation.

Robert Gerdes is currently a senior
process engineer in the chemical division of
ppg Industries, New Martinsville, West Vir-
ginia. He has been with the firm since gradua-
tion. His assignments have primarily been in
chlorine and chlorinated benzene operations.
One of his special projects was the starting of a
new plant in Canada. Sally and he have two
sons.

Paul Giusti went into the family business
in 1976 and built a 300-seat restaurant and
lounge on New Bedford's historic waterfront.
"None of the laws of physics apply in the res-
taurant business, only Murphy's law." His
wife, Patricia, a former American Airlines
stewardess and Becker graduate, was Miss
Pennsylvania in the Miss USA contest for

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Miss Universe in 1964. The Giustis have two
children and like tennis, skiing, and racquet-
ball.

Joseph Gracia, Jr. presently serves as mar-
keting manager of precision capacitors at
Comell-Dubilier Electronics. He writes:
"Happy to be situated in southeastern Massa-
chusetts raising a family and sailng around
Buzzards Bay." Other interests include bicy-
cling, skiing, and gardening.

Ronald Greene says he hopes to take ad-
vantage of another one of those "great trips
sponsored by the WPI Alumni Association af-
ter we had such a super vacation in Paris in
1976." His involvement in barbershop quartet
music has taken him to many parts of the
country and Canada for conventions, competi-
tions, and performances. He sings with an in-
ternational competition chorus, The Sounds
of Concord, arranges music, and directs. Since
graduation, Greene has worked for General
Dynamics, rca, and Data General, where he
built a department of 25 engineering pro-
gramers. Since January, he has served as man-
ager of computer diagnostics at
Computervision .

Jim Gustafson, his wife, Dot, and their
daughter, Cari, live on a lake in Watertown,
Conn., where they swim, fish, ice skate, and
go boating. Gustafson has a master's in man-
agement science from the Hartford Graduate
Center. He holds the post of manager of corpo-
rate data center operations at the Stanley
Works in New Britain, Conn. Previously he
was with Chas. T. Main, Boston, and Air Prod-
ucts & Chemicals, Allentown, Pa.

John Henrickson is a product planning
manager at Western Electric Co., Allentown,
Pa.

Glenn Hurst serves as project engineer at
du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware.

Kenneth Johnson holds the position of
vice president at Natgun Corp., El Dorado
Hills, Calif.

George Mitschang, who has an ms from
Cornell and the Naval Postgraduate School,
also has a PhD horn the latter. A lieutenant
commander in the U.S. Navy, he is presently
stationed in Scotland.

Charles Seaver serves as superintendent
of the technical division at du Pont in
Victoria, Texas.

Irwin Smith continues with American
Standard, Wauregan, Conn., where he is plant
engineer.

1966

Brian Belanger is employed as principal staff
engineer at Motorola, Inc., Tempe, Arizona.

J.N. Borad is a design engineer for Nuclear
Power Service, Inc., Secaucus, N.J. He and Ur-
mila and their three children reside in Hous-
ton, Texas.

Jetfrey Cheyne works as an electrical de-
sign engineer at Raytheon in Sudbury, Mass.
He has an msee from Northeastern.

Previously vice provost for enrollment
planning at Carnegie-Mellon University, Dr.
William Elliott was recently appointed to the
newly-created post of vice president for enroll-
ment at the University. Bill joined the
Camegie-Mellon staff as assistant director of
admissions in 1966. He has degrees from
Clark University and the University of Pitts-
burgh, and he is a former president of the
Pennsylvania Association of College Admis-
sions Counselors.

Richard Goodell has been named director
of minerals engineering by the materials sci-
ence products group of Pfizer, Inc. New York
City. Since 1977, he had been plant manager
for the firm in Adams, Mass., after serving in
similar capacities at Pfizer plants in Lucerne
Valley and Victorville, Calif. He began his ca-
reer with the company in 1971 as a project en-
gineer at the Adams plant, and became plant
engineer in 1972. He will remain at the Adams
plant in his new capacity. Prior to joining Pfi-
zer, Goodell was associated with Sikorsky Air-
craft, serving as a test engineer. The Goodells
live in Williamstown and have three children.

Wallace Hack serves as a maintenance su-
pervisor at Borden, Inc., Chemical Division,
Leominster, Mass. He is a professional engi-
neer in Illinois, New Jersey, and Massachu-
setts.

Dr. Charles Jaworski serves as an oral sur-
gery resident at Letterman Army Medical Cen-
ter in San Francisco. He is a lieutenant
commander in the U.S. Navy. He and Rose-
mary have two children and live in Novato,
Calif.

James Loomis is a general superintendent
for Stone & Webster, Boston. He and Judy and
their three children live in Baton Rouge, La.

Marty Mastroianni is a manager of mar-
ket development at Allied Chemical Corp.,
Morristown, N.J.

Alan Moksu, who has an mba from
Northeastern, is employed as a senior staff en-
ngineer at Kollsman Instrument Co., in Merri-
mack, N.H.

David Spencer is with Pacific Power &
Light, Centralia, Washington. He and Kathy
have two children.

Robert Wilson works as a process
engineer at Arwood Corp., Tilton, N.H. The
company produces investment castings in alu-
minum, magnesium, and copper alloys, used
mostly in the aircraft, aerospace, and defense
industries.

1967

Warren Clark serves as senior engineer at Dy-
namics Research Corp., Wilmington, Mass.

Carmen Delia Vecchia, who holds an ms
in mathematics from St. Mary's University in
San Antonio, Texas, holds the post of unit
manager of sales at Procter and Gamble,
Shreveport, La.

Major Edward Gallo is currently stationed
with the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps outside
of Athens, Greece.

Charlie Goodspeed heads Goodspeed &
Associates, Exeter, N.H., a small construction
company which specializes in solar energy.
Also, he is an assistant professor in the civil
engineering department at unh.

Ron Gordon is involved with tech ed.
planning at ibm in Irving, Texas. He is a profes-
sional soccer referee.

John Kuenzler holds the position of mid-
west area manager for emc Controls of Cock-
eysville, Md. The Kuenzlers live in
Jarrettsville and have two children.

Bhoopen Kurani is with Earth Quake En-
gineering Systems, San Francisco.

Herb Riddle, Jr. is employed as program
manager for Special Military Electronics at
Analog Devices, Norwood, Mass.

Joseph Slocik holds the position of senior
engineer in the advanced transformer depart-
ment at ge in Pittsfield, Mass. He has an ms
from Union College.

Nelson Thune serves as plant manager at
Hyland Therapeutics Division, Travenol Labo-
ratories in Los Angeles.

Duncan Vanderberg works as a project en-
gineer at Dow Corning Corp. in Hemlock,
Mich.

1968

>-Bom: to Mr. and Mrs. Roger Pryor a son, Ja-
mes Clark, on October 5, 1980.

Michael Babin works as a senior project
engineer at Polysar, Inc., Leominster, Mass.

R. Gregory Balmer is a staff engineer at
Exxon Research & Engineering Co., Florham
Park, N.J. He holds an ms in environmental
engineering from Purdue.

Wayne Blanchard is operations finance
manager at Johnson & Johnson in Chicago. He
and Sandra have two daughters.

Richard Collins has been promoted to as-
sociate actuary at State Mutual in Worcester.
A fellow of the Society of Actuaries, he has
been with State Mutual since 1968. He had
served as assistant actuary.

Robert Cuikay, who has an msee from
WPI, has been appointed director of support
engineering at Data General in Westboro,
Mass. With the company since 1973, previ-
ously he was manager of the systems sustain-
ing engineering department.

DMP Corp., Fort Mill, S.C., has pro-
moted Paul Dubinsky to executive vice presi-
dent of sales, administration and
manufacturing. Formerly, he was vice presi-
dent of sales. Before joining the firm, he was
waste treatment manager, and later national
sales manager for Napco. He holds a degree in
psychology from Sacred Heart University, and
studied for his ma in business at unh.

The director of Civil Preparedness in
Glastonbury, Conn, recently announced that
Edward Harper has been appointed as assistant
radiological defense officer and civil prepared-
ness training officer. Harper is director of engi-
neering for the Harper Buffing Machine

20 / Winter 1981 / The WPI journal

Company and serves in electronics for the
Navy Reserve. He is also the amateur commu-
nications coodinator for Civil Preparedness.

Phillip LaRoe is a range engineer at the
U.S. Naval Weapons Center at China Lake,
Calif.

Since 1975, Bob Meader has been a study
manager in the Navigation and Coastal Branch
of the Corps of Engineers, Mobile District.
Last spring, he was one of 15 Corps employees
selected to attend an eleven-month training
course for water resource planners at the Board
of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors in Fort Be-
lvoir, Va. The intensive course covered a full
range of planning and engineering activities
from beach erosion projects to societal
impacts of water supply. A bicycling devotee,
like Ed Delano, '30, he commutes by bike to
work. In five years he pedaled over 28,000
miles. Some time ago, he went to Delano's
house where he received a friendly welcome
and a glass of apple juice. Bob is studying for
his ms through the University of Alabama.

Dr. Michael Paige presently serves as
manager of product quality assurance at Wang
Laboratories, Lowell, Mass.

Wayne Pierce holds the post of section
head at Exxon Research & Engineering,
Florham Park, N.J.

Kenneth Roberts serves as controller of
the central region for Mobil Corp. He,
Kathleen, and three children reside in Bar-
rington, 111.

Frederick White is a development engi-
neer at Ingersoll Rand, Painted Post, N. Y.

1969

fames Alford is engineering representative at
Travelers Insurance in Boston. Also, he serves
as commanding officer of maintenance unit,
usee Reserve, in Boston.

Thomas Fournier is district engineer at
Puget Sound Power & Light in Burlington,
Washington.

Peter Grosch was named manager of re-
tail marketing for Soabar, a leading supplier of
tags, labels, and in-plant marketing systems.
He is responsible for the overall marketing di-
rection of ocr-a as well as conventional price
marking systems. Prior to his promotion,
Grosch spent about two years as manager of
advanced systems development and over three
years as product manager. He has a master's
degree in marketing from Emory University,
Atlanta, Ga.

Dr. Richard Gross serves as a research
leader at Dow Chemical, Plaquemine, Louisi-
ana.

David Johnson holds the post of depart-
ment chief at Western Electric in Morristown,
N.J.

Presently, Michael Joseph is a senior
physicist at Herron Optical Co., Long Beach,
Calif.

George McCandless, Jr. is an instructor in
the department of economics at Dartmouth
College.

Vinubhai Shah works as principal engi-
neer at Gilbert/Commonwealth in Jackson,
Mich.

In September, Peter Walsh received his
mba from Suffolk University. He is district
manager of McGraw-Edison, St. Louis, Mo.

1971

1970

► Married: Peter G. Bladen and Janice A.
Baumhover on September 20, 1980 in Hender-
son, North Carolina. The bride is a graduate of
North Carolina State University, where her
husband received his ms. They are both em-
ployed at Bechtel Power Corporation in
Gaithersburg, Md.

Todd Akin is assistant manager of mainte-
nance at Laclede Steel. He and his wife live in
St. Louis and have one child.

Still with American Cyanamid, Philip
Bartlett is presently business manager for the
firm in Wayne, N.J.

Peter Billington is an assistant professor
at Northeastern University, Boston. A pbx>
candidate at Cornell, he is working on his
thesis. His major is operations management
and his minor is quantitative methods in busi-
ness.

Bernard Dodge, who will soon receive his
phi), is an assistant professor in the depart-
ment of educational technology at San Diego
State University.

Roger Etherington works as a technical
service representative at Vulcan Materials Co.,
Chemical Division, Birmingham, Alabama.

John Garrity spoke on the Maine nuclear
referendum before the Dexter Kiwanis Club in
August. He joined Maine Yankee's reactor en-
gineering department in 1970. He participated
as engineering supervisor in the start-up pro-
gram. In 1974, he started at Central Maine
Power Co. as project engineer for the Sears Is-
land nuclear project. Presently he is director of
nuclear engineering and licensing at Maine
Yankee. Formerly, he was chairman of the
Boston section of the American Nuclear Soci-
ety.

Will Heald is a self-employed partner in
real estate investments in Phoenix, Arizona.

Dr. Robert Plante is an assistant professor
of management at Purdue University, Lafay-
ette, Indiana. Recently, he received his phD
from the University of Georgia.

Joseph Toce, who has his pho in biochem-
istry from the University of Wisconsin, is a
chemist at Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis,
Missouri. Wife Suzanne is an md.

>■ Married: Donald H. Campbell, Jr. and Pa-
mela J. Hale in Enfield, Connecticut on Octo-
ber 4, 1980. Mrs. Campbell, who is employed
by Alvin and Company, Bloomfield, graduated
from Enrico Fermi High School, Enfield. The
bridegroom works for Combustion Engineer-
ing, Windsor.

Keith E. Hongisto and Susan E. Johnson
in Chippewa, Pennsylvania on September 6,
1980. Mrs. Hongisto graduated from West
Chester State College, and is employed by
Sargent Electric Co., Shippingport, Pa. The
bridegroom works for Stone & Webster, also in
Shippingport.

► Kent Borner works as division manager
at Phaseliner, Syosset, Long Island, N. Y The
Bomers reside in Griswold, Conn.

Richard Carroll holds the post of vice
president of manufacturing at Hydr-O-Matic
at Claremont & Baney in Ashland, Ohio.

Neil Collins holds the position of produc-
tion administrator and project engineer at
Daverman & Associates in Syracuse, N.Y. He
has an ms in management science and engi-
neering from WPI, and also graduated from the
School of Industrial Management. He just
completed two years as chairman of the
Worcester County section of ieee.

Greg Dickson serves as Michigan division
manager of industrial hygiene for Dow Chemi-
cal Co., Midland, Mich.

Dr. Paul Furcinitti continues as a research
associate at Columbia University. He is with
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, N.Y.

William Helli well was promoted to man-
ager of contract service engineering in the
service division of Riley Stoker in Worcester.
With the company since graduation, he had
been district service manager in the Denver of-
fice. He has an mba from the University of
Denver.

William Leslie is employed as a site man-
ager at Westinghouse in Bay City Texas.

Emile Levasseur works as a manufactur-
ing engineer at King-Seeley Thermos Co.,
Norwich, Conn.

Peter Markunas currently holds the post
of chief of the facilities branch of the Depart-
ment of Transportation in Cambridge, Mass.
He often sees Prof. Roger Borden, '61, who is
also at the dot on leave from WPI for the aca-
demic year.

Donald Milia is employed as a salesman
at the Torrington Co., Cleveland, Ohio.

Anthony Schepis serves as marketing
manager for the atm division at ALFA-Laval,
Inc., Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Mitchell Soivenski is a systems analyst at
Liberty Mutual in Portsmouth, N.H.

Donald Usher received his mba from Kent
State in May. He was a member of the WPI
alumni crew team which defeated the Holy
Cross alumni crew, as well as the Holy Cross
varsity crew, over Homecoming.

Ron Zarrella recently resigned as director
of engineering at Clairol to become vice presi-
dent of manufacturing with the Danskin divi-
sion of International Playtex in York, Pa.

1972

► Married: John P. Gal lien to Sandra J. Treacy
in Reading, Massachusetts on September 13,
1980. Mrs. Gallien graduated from the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts, Amherst, and manages
Racquetime Club in Woburn. The groom
serves as a project engineer at gte Sylvania in
Danvers.

► James Altoonian is a partner in Harvard
Management Company, Boston. He trades
equity securities for the Harvard University
Endowment Fund.

James Andruchow, a building contractor
for Stephen Andruchow, Inc., West Warwick,
R.I., is a sponsor of the West Warwick Slow-
Pitch League and of West Warwick Youth Soc-
cer. He belongs to the town's tax assessment
board of review and serves as first vice chair-
man of the West Warwick Republican Town
Committee.

Peter Bert asi serves as market manager at
Olin Chemicals in Stamford, Conn.

Richard Ellis works for O.D. Hopkins As-
sociates, Contoocook, N.H.

Bruce Hall continues as a contract admin-
istrator for the U.S. Navy at the Portsmouth
Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Me.

Ed Kleinman has received his pho in
chemistry from the University of California,
Berkeley. He is now working at Pfizer in Gro-
ton, Conn, as a research scientist in medicinal
chemistry.

David LeBlanc serves as a sales represent-
ative for GE's Wire & Cable Department in
Bridgeport, Conn. He is district representative
in Massachusetts and Rhode Island from his
office in Natick.

Henry Margolis continues as a staff asso-
ciate for the department of physical chemistry,
Forsyth Dental Center, Boston, Mass. He has
a PhD from the University of Vermont.

Richard Meighan is employed as district
manager and sales engineer at Warren Pumps
in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Continuing with Clairol, Richard Sojka is
currently manager of N/S operations for the
firm in Stamford, Conn. Joseph Szlosek works
as a production supervisor at Imperial Chemi-
cal industries in Marshall, Texas.

Richard Wolke holds the post of advanced
manufacturing engineer at ge in Lynchburg,
Va. His specialty is robotics.

1973

► Married: Richard A. Choiniere and Sharon
A. Vegnone in Webster, Massachusetts on Sep-
tember 14, 1980. The bride graduated horn
Dudley Hall Career Institute. She is a medical
secretary in Worcester. Her husband serves as
quality control manager for Feecon Corp.,
Westboro, Mass.

22 / Winter 1981 / The WPI Journal

Maryann Bagdis Pace and John S. Runge
in Dallas, Texas on September 26, 1980. The
bride has accepted a position as director of
Data Processing for GENCOM, Inc., in Dallas.
The company services and sells beepers, mo-
bile telephones and telephone answering serv-
ices in ten U.S. cities. Maryann's job is to
design software and select appropriate hard-
ware. The firm has no computers.

Alden J. Palmer and Cathlin A. Houlihan
in Manchester Center, Vermont, on July 19,
1980. The bride, an elementary school
teacher, is a graduate of Eastern Connecticut
State College. In September, she began study-
ing for her master's degree in education at the
College. Her husband is a senior scientific pro-
gram analyst at the Pratt & Whitney Division
of United Technologies, East Hartford, Conn.

► Fermo Bianchi is area engineer at Can-
bro Corp., Pittsfield, Maine.

In June, Richard Brontoli will start gradu-
ate school in construction management under
a fully-funded Army program. Presently he is
captain and company commander with a U.S.
Army engineer construction company in
Baumholder, Germany.

Leo Buchakjian serves as manager of ds
processing for ge in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has
an ms in materials science from mit.

Stephen Dolan, who holds an md from
uvm, is now resident physician in the depart-
ment of medicine at the University of Mis-
souri.

Andrew Langdon is a financial analyst at
Rockwell International in Anaheim, Calif.

Recently, Kenneth Lexier was appointed
as curriculum coordinator and project writer
for the public schools in Uxbridge, Mass. He
was chosen for the newly-created post over 28
other applicants. Previously, he held a similar
position with the Attleboro School System.
He has also taught at the Worcester Alterna-
tive High School and worked as a desk lecturer
at Worcester State College and Assumption.
He holds an ma from Assumption and an edu-
cation doctorate from Boston University.

John Luikey, Jr. works as second shift su-
perintendent at ITT Royal Electric in Paw-
tucket, R.I.

Frederick Paris serves as divisional project
engineer at Ludlow Corp. in Needham
Heights, Mass.

Albert Popoli continues as senior struc-
tural designer at Stone & Webster in Boston.

J. Diane Pritchard is now employed by
Barrington College in Barrington, R.I.

Thomas Radican works as an area engi-
neer for American Hoechst in Coventry, R.I.

Robert Schultz owns Riverpoint Tool,
Inc., Providence, R.I. He is moving to Rhode
Island after working in Alaska as operations
manager for Alaska International Construc-
tion. He holds a degree in arctic engineering
from the University of Alaska.

Gary Selden, who is with ge in Warren,
Michigan, serves as manager of tungsten car-
bide powder production and quality control for
international projects.

Previously with Material Service Corp.,
Tim Whitehouse is now plant superintendent
at A.R.C. Kyle, Inc., Lithonia, Ga. The firm is
a large concrete pipe producer in the south-
east.

1974

► Married: Charles W. Fallon and Miss Judith
L. Janson in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts on
August 9, 1980. Mrs. Fallon, a student at
Quinsigamond Community College, is em-
ployed at WPI. The groom works as a field-
service technician at Feecon Corp., Westboro.

+-Bom: to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lindberg,
Jr. their first child, a daughter, Bethany Chris-
tine, on August 17, 1980. Bob is a research
physicist at Naval Research Laboratory in
Washington, D.C. Presently, he is assigned to
Columbia University, New York City, where
he is pursuing his doctorate in mechanical en-
gineering.

Brian Anderson holds the post of sales en-
gineer at Tyson Controls, Inc., Mansfield,
Mass.

Dean Anderson is employed as a project
engineer at Perini Corporation in
Framingham, Mass.

Subhash Bajaj works as a quality control
manager at Hitchiner Mfg. Co. in O' Fallon,
Mo. The company makes non-ferrous invest-
ment castings for aerospace, computer, and
communication industries.

Davis Balestracci serves as a statistician
at fmc Corporation in Princeton, N.J. He is
slated to receive two advanced degrees from
the University of Minnesota in June.

Leonard Brzozowski serves as division
materials manager at Midland Brake Division-
Midland Ross Corporation, Owosso, Mich.

Don Bucci is now a senior project engi-
neer at International Coal Refining Corp., Al-
lentown, Pa. The company is a subsidiary of
Air Products and Wheelabrator Frye. Bucci has
an ms from the University of Pittsburgh. He is
a registered professional engineer in Pennsyl-
vania.

Armand Catalani holds the post of direc-
tor of customer support operations at Geo. J.
Meyer Mfg. in Cudahy, Wisconsin.

Robert Cimikowski is a computer special-
ist at Martin Marietta in Denver, Colorado.

William Dyson is senior research
engineer at Monsanto, St. Peters, Missouri.
Recently, he received his pho in physics from
West Virginia University.

James Edwards is presently a graduate stu-
dent at Iowa State University.

John Gilgis holds the post of principal pro-
grammer at Data General in Westboro, Mass.
Previously, he worked in DG's national tech-
nical support and in new products support in
North Carolina for field engineering.

H. Edward Goetsch serves as assistant
chief engineer for advanced products at Stana-
dyne, Inc., in Windsor, Conn. He has an msee
from rpi, is married, and has one child.

David Korzec has been promoted to su-
pervisor of general construction at Northeast
Utilities, Millstone nuclear power plant. Cur-
rently he attends courses at the Groton branch
of the Hartford Graduate Center. He joined nu
in 1977. He and his wife, who is an interior de-
signer for Home Beautiful of New London,
Conn., live in Waterford.

fames Martin works as frame foreman at
New England Telephone in Manchester, N.H.

Harvey Neilson, now separated from the
u.s.a.f., is currently a full-time student at Bos-
ton University.

Garry Nunes is construction supervisor at
Stone & Webster in Piketon, Ohio.

Grason-Stadler has appointed Janice
Painter as marketing manager. In 1975, she
joined the organization as a customer training
manager in the Behavorial Instrumentation
Group. In 1976, she became associated with
the gsi middle-ear product line as a marketing
assistant, and then as product manager. She
has traveled extensively for csi presenting
training sessions and demonstrations. As mar-
keting manager, she is responsible for the total
marketing effort at Grason-Stadler, which has
been manufacturing hearing-testing instru-
ments for thirty years.

Daniel Palmer, a project engineer at
Ebasco Services, is pursuing his mba at the
University of Houston.

George Ranney continues as process engi-
neer at Uniroyal Chemical Co., Giesmar, Lou-
isiana.

Robert Trotter is a project engineer at
Stanadyne Inc. in Windsor, Conn.

Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc., New York
City, employs Peter Tunnicliffe as director of
construction services. He is studying for his

Richard Ventre is area engineer for du
Pont in Wilmington, Delaware.

1975

► Married: Vicki J. Cowart and Michael
Grieco from Rome, New York in April. The
bride, who has her ms in geophysics from Col-
orado School of Mines, has been a geophysicist
in the oil and gas exploration program at
Mobil since 1977. Currently, she is involved
with the offshore California Federal Lease Sale
Program and the Wyoming Green River Basin
Project. Her husband, a computer geologist for
Mobil, holds degrees from the University of
Syracuse.

Jean M. Reny to Thomas A. Runge on De-
cember 13, 1980 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
The bride is a chemist in chemical process r&d
at the Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo. The
groom recently completed his phD in organic
chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison under Dr. Barry M. Trost. He will
also be employed by Upjohn.

► Vinay Aggarwal serves as a member of
the technical staff at gte Research Labs, Inc.,
Waltham, Mass.

Jon Anderson continues as a lawyer with
Peterson, Gibson & Noble, Montpelier, Vt.

Paul Bianchet serves as a senior field engi-
neer at Combustion Engineering, Windsor,
Conn. He has his mba from rpi.

Erik Brodin, who is with General Motors,
represented his company at a placement semi-
nar held in November at WPI. Robert Morin
represented Stanadyne at the same seminar.

Bruce D'Ambrosio is a programmer ana-
lyst at Pacific Sierra Research Co. in Santa
Monica, Calif. He received his ms in computer
science from the University of Southern Cali-
fornia.

Harry Danberg works as a process engi-
neer at Celanese Chemical Corp., Houston,
Texas.

Navy Lt.j.g. William Demers has returned
from a deployment in the Mediterranian Sea.
He is personnel officer of Carrier Airborne
Early Warning Squadron (vaw) 123, based at
the Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va. While de-
ployed, his squadron was embarked aboard the
aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. During the
cruise, the crew visited a number of ports from
Palma de Mallorca to Tunis. The ship partici-
pated in several training exercises, including
the nato exercise, "Dawn Patrol."

Robert Donle is project engineer for Pa-
cific Construction Co., Ltd., Honolulu, Ha-
waii.

Allen Downs has started the mba program
at Harvard Business School.

Jay Gainsboro holds the position of presi-
dent at Opus Telecom Inc. in Weston, Mass.
Will George is now assistant district at-
torney at the Worcester County Courthouse.
Maurice Giroux works as a senior engi-
neer at Martin Marietta Aerospace in Denver,
Colorado. He has an mba from the University
of Utah. Presently, he is concerned with space
shuttle communication system engineering.
Lt. Daniel Halstead continues with the
U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor.

Kenneth Howell works as a junior ac-
countant at Aimes Department Store in Rocky
Hill, Conn.

Terry Itameri-Kinter, and Kristina, whom
he married last June, spent a two-month hon-
eymoon bicycling through Germany, the
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzer-
land, and Italy. Currently, the couple resides in
Turku, Finland, where Terry is an English in-
structor at Inlingua Kieliopisto.

Gary Kiontke was promoted to senior ac-
tuarial assistant at Monarch Life Insurance
Co., Springfield, Mass. He joined the firm in
1977, and previously held the position of actu-
arial assistant. Recently, he took courses at the
School of Insurance at the University of Con-
necticut.

Robert Lord, Jr. is employed as a district
sales engineer at Torrington Co. in Westport,
Conn.

Ronnie Materniak, who is presently en-
rolled in the mba program at the University of
Richmond, is area engineer for du Pont in the
construction division at the Spruance plant.
Mark McCabe holds the position of pro-
ject engineer-manager at Wendel Kent & Co.,
Inc., Sarasota, Fla.

Robert Murray holds the post of senior
support engineer at Northrop Corp. in Nor-
wood, Mass. He has been with Northrop since
November of 1979.

Paul O'Brien is presently a seminarian
studying for Catholic priesthood at Pope John
xxiii National Seminary in Weston, Mass.,
where he will receive his master's of divinity.
He has an mba from the University of New
Haven.

Robert Simon holds the title of business
analyst at Allied Chemical Corp., Chemicals
Company, in Morristown, N.J.

Dr. Kazem Sohraby is employed as senior
engineer at Computer Sciences Corp., Falls
Church, Va. He has a phx> in electrical engi-
neering from Polytechnic Institute of New
York.

Steve Sweeney works as an industrial en-
gineer for the Department of the Navy in Pitts-
field, Mass. He received his mba from the
University of Hartford.

Presently, Donald Taddia is employed as a
project manager at usatr in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Morris Weisman is employed as a me-
teorologist at the National Center for Atmo-
spheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

Scott Wilson is now a project gyro engi-
neer at Timex Corp., Middlebury, Conn. He
and his bride, Nora, reside in Wolcott.

Jon Wyman, a lieutenant in the Civil En-
gineer Corps, U.S. Navy, just completed a tour
with deployments to Rota, Spain and Guan-
tanamo Bay, Cuba. He and Rhonda have three
children and live in Gainesville, Fla. Cur-
rently, Jon is working for his ms in engineering
and construction management at the Univer-
sity of Florida, Gainesville.

1976

► Married: Scott R. Bamford to Patricia
Devine on October 18, 1980 in Warwick,
Rhode Island. The bride, who has an under-
graduate and graduate degrees from the Uni-
versity of Rhode Island, has been an
employment counselor for the state. Her hus-
band has a master's degree in ocean engineer-
ing from URL

Mark K. Coulson and Diane M. Ciaccio
on September 27, 1980 in Massachusetts. Mrs.
Coulson received her degree in biology from
Skidmore College and presently manages her
own business. The groom is employed as a nu-
clear engineer in Connecticut and is studying
for his mba.

Craig J. Plourde and Mary A. Parese in
North Haven, Connecticut on October 18,
1980. The bride, an engineer for snetco, grad-
uated from Villanova with a bs in biology and
holds an ms degree in environmental engineer-
ing from the University of Connecticut. The
bridegroom serves as a senior systems engi-
neer at cbt.

John Ryle HI and Wendy D. Rockefeller on
May 31, 1980. The bride graduated from Rad-
ford College in Virginia. Her husband is a ben-
efit specialist at Buck Consultants, Inc. in
New York City.

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Paul R. J. Selent to Gail J. Bringsauf on
October 12, 1980 in Kinnelon, New Jersey.
The bride graduated from Montville Township
High School and is employed as a technical
clerk at Exxon Research and Engineering in
Florham Park, N.J., where her husband is an
electrical engineer. He has received his mas-
ter's degree from rpi.

>-Bom: to Susan and Jeremy Brown twin
daughters, Melissa Margaret and Glenna Eliza-
beth, on July 21, 1980. Their daughter, Emily,
will be three in February. Brown recently com-
pleted the fellowship examinations of the So-
ciety of Actuaries and was promoted to
assistant actuary at State Mutual in Worcester.

►Army Major William Baker is now sta-
tioned at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. In June, he
will be headquartered at Ft. Lee, Va.

Peter Barbadora is employed as assistant
supervisor of quality assurance at Perini Power
Construction, Framingham, Mass.

Joseph Betro is a doctoral candidate at the
University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.
Two years ago he received his msee from the
University of Wisconsin.

Alan Briggs was recently promoted to
maintenance supervisor at du Pont's neoprene
manufacturing facility in LaPlace, La. He is
continuing to work for his mba on a part-time
basis.

James Buss, an associate of the Society of
Actuaries, has been advanced to senior actuar-
ial associate at State Mutual in Worcester. He
had been an actuarial associate.

W. Kim Colich serves as associate buyer
at Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport
News, Va. The Coliches have one child and
live in Hampton.

Albert Cooley serves as product manager
at the Codex subsidiary of Motorola in Mans-
field, Mass. Presently, he is working on his ms
at bu. Earlier, he had been with rca Solid
State.

David DeMeo continues as a lieutenant
with the U.S. Navy.

Loretta Deming is associate project engi-
neer at Clairol in Stamford, Conn. She has an
ms from mit.

Sidney Formal is presently with usaed,
Baltimore District, at Ft. Belvoir, Va.

Daniel Garfi is employed as a consultant
at Spiridellis and Associates, Inc., Piscataway,
N.J.

Norman Gariepy is now a cpa and senior
auditor at Touche Ross & Co., Worcester. He
holds an ms in accounting from Northeastern.

Scott Gowing is with David Taylor Naval
Ship Research and Development Center in Be-
thesda, Md.

Previously a transportation planner in
Hartford, Conn., John Griffiths is now a pro-
ject development engineer at Tri-Met, Port-
land, Oregon. He has an msce from the
University of Virginia.

John Hamilton continues as chief project
engineer at Raymond International Builders in
Houston, Texas.

George Hefferon has received his pho in
photo-chemistry from Columbia University,
where he also earned his master's degree. Pres-
ently, he and his wife, Marguerite, are at Ohio
State University in Columbus, where he is do-
ing post-doctoral work, and she teaches Eng-
lish. Mrs. Hefferon is working on her pho in
English at Ohio State.

Kansas Gas and Electric Company re-
cently named Thomas Keenan as director of
nuclear operations. Previously, he was director
of engineering and operations at Vermont Yan-
kee Nuclear Power Corporation, Vernon, Vt.
In his new post, he will be responsible for the
operation of Wolf Creek Generating Station
which is under construction near Burlington,
Kansas. A Naval Academy graduate, Keenan,
who served several years in the Navy, attended
the Naval Nuclear Power School, and for six
years was chief engineer for the USS Robert E.
Lee nuclear submarine. With Yankee since
1969, in 1977, he was named director of engi-
neering and operations for Vermont Yankee
Nuclear Power Corporation.

Kenneth Korcz works as a field engineer
for ge in Atlanta, Ga.

A self-employed consultant, Marc
Langlois recently received his ms in materials
engineering from WPI. He is located in Deca-
tur, Ga.

Roger Leighton is an automation engineer
at Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y.

John Mangiagli, Jr. is a technical service
engineer at Ingersoll-Rand Co. in Painted Post,
N.Y.

Michael Miller continues as a captain in
the U.S. Army. He is operations officer of a
helicopter flight unit.

Kathleen Morse of Digital Equipment Co.
was a panelist at a placement seminar held at
WPI in November.

Stephen Rourke has been promoted to
quality assurance analyst at the New England
Power Exchange (nepex). The operating arm of
the New England Power Pool, nepex coordi-
nates the production and transmission of elec-
tricity in New England. Rourke joined nepex in
1976 as an assistant engineer. He advanced to
associate engineer in 1978. Currently, he is
completing his mba at Western New England
College, Springfield, Mass. He belongs to the
ieee and is chairman of the nepex-neplan Ac-
tivities Committee, a recreational group for
employees. He is a member of the Cathedral
Chapter at Christ Church Cathedral, Spring-
field.

Continuing with ge, Eugene Savoie is
currently district sales manager for the firm in
Overland Park, Kansas.

Steven Tremblay is executive director of
Alpha I, South Portland, Maine.

Presently, Mike White works for Water
and Power Resources Service for the U.S. De-
partment of Interior in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Jeff Wilcox holds the post of administra-
tive analyst at Mobil Oil in Mission, Kansas.
He has an mba from the University of Pitts-
burgh.

1977

► Married: James B. Howe and Barbara A.
Merriam in Baldwinsville, New York on Octo-
ber 11, 1980. Mrs. Howe graduated from Po-
welson Business Institute and is with Niagara
Mohawk Power Corp.', where her husband
serves as an engineer.

Charles M. Johnson and Janet K. Van
Wert in Holden, Massachusetts on August 16,
1980. Mrs. Johnson is a graduate of UMass-
Amherst, where she received a bs in elemen-
tary education. The bridegroom attends
Cornell University Graduate School of Busi-
ness.

John J. Osowski and Debra Smith in
Canandaigua, New York on August 23, 1980.
The bride, a graduate of Community College
of the Finger Lakes, is a student at Rochester
Institute of Technology, where her husband is
also enrolled. She is a customer service repre-
sentative for Mobil Chemical Co. The bride-
groom is temporarily assigned to Mobil
Chemical Canada Ltd., Belleville.

► Michael Abrams is a senior engineering
technician at Geo Source in Houston, Texas.
Currently, he is working on his msee at the
University of Houston.

Glenn Andrews serves as a technical pro-
grammer at Travelers Insurance Co., Hartford,
Conn.

Christopher Baker and his wife, Nancy
are currently residing in Lawrence, Mass.,
where they were married last October. Baker
writes: "Nancy didn't like cactus, so we
moved back to New England from Arizona."
Nancy graduated from Northern Essex Com-
munity College and currently works for
Cressey-Dockham Co., while her husband is
with Edwards & Kelcey in Boston.

William Cronin continues with Digital
Equipment in Maynard, Mass.

Still with General Dynamics, Convair Di-
vision, Paul Curdo is now on loan in an
industry-assist program to Boeing Co., Seattle,
for design of the strut structure of a new gener-
ation airplane, the 757. He is a structural engi-
neer.

Alfred Elvin is a post doctoral fellow at
suny, Buffalo, in the Department of Pharma-
ceutics.

Tom Grautski serves as an area manager
in production at Estee Lauder in Melville, N.Y.

Keith Harrison is employed as assistant
area engineer by the Federal Highway Admin-
istration in Lansing, Michigan.

George Keeler recently completed the ge
Advanced Engineering Course and Edison Pro-
gram. He is a product design engineer for ge in
Pittsfield, Mass.

Brian Kisiel continues as a technical spe-
cialist for Betz Laboratories working out of
Wilton, N.H.

Henry LeBlanc, still with the Plastics Di-
vision of Mobil Chemical Co., currently
serves as project manager on a $10 million
plant expansion in Bakersfield, Calif., the
completion date being in May. Since April, he
has been a crew member on a racing yacht

24 / Winter 1981 / The WPI Journal

which sails out of Long Beach Yacht Club. He
writes: "The winters in Southern California
are much nicer than those in upstate New
York (Macedon), although I do miss the beauty
of that first snow fall."

David Makris is a senior associate pro-
grammer at ibm in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Bruce Minsky of the University of Massa-
chusetts Medical School participated in the
placement seminar held in November at WPI.

Roberta Ann Nelson is in technical sales
at Schaal Associates, Burlington, Mass. At
night she goes to Suffolk Law School. She has
an answering service for her own business,
Bertabel Trust.

Vanigere Ranganath holds the post of pro-
gram and systems manager at Hewlett Pack-
ard in Waltham, Mass.

Albert Riggieri, Jr. serves as a senior actu-
arial assistant at Paul Revere Life Insurance
Co., Worcester.

Nancy Roberts is employed as an
actuarial analyst at Sim Life of Canada in Wel-
lesley Hills, Mass.

Ralph Sacco ID continues as a sales engi-
neer at Westinghouse in Framingham, Mass.

Robert Szewczyk is an electro-optics engi-
neer in the Optical Sciences Department at
the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Dave White is a biologist for Ecology &
Environment, Inc., Edison, N.J.

I978

► Married: James K. Boettcher and Terese A.
LaMoria on July 12, 1980 in Rutland, Massa-
chusetts. Mrs. Boettcher attended Becker and
Castleton State College. Her husband is a
computer operator at Reed & Prince Manufac-
turing Co., Worcester.

John A. Brighenti and Kristen E. Johnson
on November 1, 1980 in Wethersfield, Con-
necticut. Mrs. Brighenti graduated from Hart-
ford College for Women. Recently, she
received a degree in criminal justice from the
University of New Haven. The groom works
for Avon Plumbing and Heating.

Robert H. Caless to Sarah C. Connelly in
Concord, Massachusetts on June 7, 1980. The
bride graduated from the University of New
Hampshire. The groom holds a master's de-
gree in metallurgy from RPI. He is employed
at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford,
Conn.

John B. Cozzens and Mary Ann Desaulner
in Webster, Massachusetts on August 16,
1980. Mrs. Cozzens, a pre-school educator,
graduated from Quinsigamond Community
College. Her husband is an electrical engineer.
The couple resides in Glens Falls, N.Y.

Stephen LaPlante to Debora Henneberry
on August 8, 1980 in Attleboro, Massachu-
setts. The bride attended Parson's School of
Design in New York City. She is employed by
Women's World Health Spa, Raynham. The
bridegroom is with Vappi Construction Co. of
Cambridge.

Endel J. Luhtjarv and Dawn K. Charlonne
in Winchendon, Massachusetts on August 9,
1980. The bride graduated from the dental as-
sistant program at Monty-Tech. Her husband
serves as a quality assurance engineer at Sim-
plex Time Recorder.

► Navy Lt.j.g. Bramwell Arnold, Jr. was
promoted to his present rank while serving
with Attack Squadron 122, based at Naval Air
Station, Lemoore, Calif.

Daniel Baublis, a field engineer for Bab-
cock & Wilcox, is presently a lead start-up en-
gineer at a coal power plant in New Mexico.

State Mutual, Worcester, recently pro-
moted Shane Chalke from actuarial assistant
to actuarial associate. He is an associate of the
Society of Actuaries.

Barry Cronin serves as a project engineer
at ge in Syracuse, N.Y.

Rodney Dill is a field engineer at ge
Ordnance Systems in Newport News, Va.

Elizabeth McCauley Donahue is em-
ployed as an occupational program consultant
by the Aiken County Commission on Alcohol
and Drug Abuse in Aiken, S.C. She is director
of a $26,000 program providing employer as-
sistance programs to industries in a three-
county area. During the past fiscal year,
revenues have doubled.

Jeffrey Firestone, still with Rockwell, is
currently on loan to Boeing in Seattle, Wash-
ington. He has been assigned to Boeing Aero-
space on the mx missile project.

Formerly with O'Brien & Gere, Bill
Gagne is now a graduate teaching assistant in
the department of civil engineering at WPI.

Paul Gifford is a construction estimator at
Daniel International, Manchester, Ohio.

Karen Hayes serves as a programmer-
analyst at Gerber Systems Technology, South
Windsor, Conn.

Keith Herreman holds the post of market-
ing representative at Westinghouse, Athens,
Ga.

Michael Kenniston is a pho student in the
computer science department at Stanford Uni-
versity, Stanford, Calif.

Presently, Gary Knox is with E.J. Sys-
tems, Inc., where he is concerned with ad-
vanced manufacturing technology. He is
located in North Billerica, Mass.

Stephen Kuczarski serves as a project en-
gineer at Hamilton Standard, Windsor Locks,
Conn. He, his wife, Carole, and baby, Laura,
reside in West Springfield, Mass.

Scott Lentz holds the post of control sys-
tems engineer at Aramco in Houston, Texas.
He will be moving to Saudi Arabia.

Charles Marden is a lieutenant j.g. in the
Navy. Home port is Pearl Harbor.

Laura Mattick is tranferring with Procter
& Gamble from the Mehoopany Paper Prod-
ucts plant to the St. Bernard Soap plant in Cin-
cinnati. At Mehoopany, Laura had
assignments as a production supervisor, indus-
trial engineer, and area safety manager in the
tissue module which manufactures Charmin
and White Cloud. Her new assignment will be
as a synthetic granular detergent packing su-
pervisor.

Thomas Medrek is an electrical engineer
at ADECorp., Newton, Mass.

Alok Misra works as a system software
engineer at Computer Controls Corp. in
Wilmington, Mass.

Currently, Jill Neal is attending Carnegie-
Mellon Graduate School of Industrial Manage-
ment. In June, she completed GE's two-year
Management Training Program.

Currently, Charles Pallett is working in
Venezuela for the project management depart-
ment of Exxon Research & Engineering Co.

Larry Parretti serves as an assistant pro-
ject engineer at Perini Corp., Rockville, Md.
He and Vicki live in Silver Spring.

Philip Scarrell works as a first line produc-
tion supervisor at du Pont in Front Royal Va.

Andrew Tabak serves as a Redeye section
leader for the U.S. Army in Ft. Riley, Kansas.
He uses the Redeye heat-seeking man portable
missiles to provide air defense coverage for a
54-tank battalion.

David Tate is employed as a senior soft-
ware engineer at Sanders Associates in
Nashua, N.H.

Presently, Russell Thomas is employed as
a production engineer for the computer divi-
sion of Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino, Calif. He
is concerned with the HP 1000 AP automation
processor. Russell received his degree in man-
agement after just three years at WPI. After
graduation he worked for a small plastics com-
pany for six months. He then re-enrolled at
WPI, this time taking courses in the electrical
engineering program, finishing in 1980. He
now has the equivalent of a double major, and
he is enjoying his new post and life in the Cali-
fornia area.

Bettina Tuttle recently completed a spe-
cial development program for promising
young engineers with ce. Called the
Chemical-Metallurgical Technical (Chem-
Met) Program, it is a two-year program in
manufacturing management sponsored by the
Engineered Materials Group, a group of five
chemical and metallurgical businesses. Upon
joining ge, Tina went into the Chem-Met Pro-
gram which rotates participants through four
six-month assignments at two different loca-
tions, exposing them to the technical and ad-
ministrative aspects of manufacturing
positions. Program members are outstanding
chemical, mechanical, or metallurgical engi-
neering graduates. Tina began as a process en-
gineer and was later a facilities engineer with
the Laminated and Insulated Materials De-
partment in Coshocton, Ohio. Her third as-
signment was as a process engineer in the
Plastics Operations in Pittsfield, Mass. Pres-
ently, she is supervising the start-up of an ex-
change process for a new plastic venture.

John Vestri, Jr. is a production control
planner at Parker Hannifin Corp., East
Brunswick, N.J.

Michael Walker is employed as assistant
superintendent at Morse/Diesel, Inc., Boston.

Wes Wheeler continues with Exxon Re-
search & Engineering in London for a two-year
loan assignment. He is working in the project
management department of Esso Engineering
(Europe I Ltd.

The WPI Journal / Winter 1981 / 25

1979

► Married: Tim F. Bamford and Florinda M.
Costa in Portsmouth, Rhode Island on August
23, 1980. Mrs. Bamford, who attended South-
eastern Massachusetts University, is studying
at Lowell University. The bridegroom is em-
ployed at Genrad Inc., Concord.

Charles R. Close to Karen A. Thibault in
Somerset, Massachusetts. The bride graduated
from Becker, and formerly worked at Ray-
theon in Portsmouth, R.I. The groom is with
Alcoa Aluminum Co., Little Rock, Ark.

M. Beth Driscoll and Samuel M. Kinney
IH on October 4, 1980 in Georgetown, Con-
necticut. The bride now works at at&t Long
Lines in White Plains, N.Y. Her husband, an
insurance broker, has a ba in English from the
College of Wooster (Ohio) and is employed by
Frank B. Hall & Co. in New York City.

Louis Frascotti to Rachela Tironi in Wa-
terford, New York on October 11, 1980. Mrs.
Frascotti, who is employed by Brooks Junior
Fashions, Inc., graduated horn Becker. The
groom serves as a fire protection engineer with
Kemper Insurance Co., North Quincy, Mass.

Thomas B. Girotti to Debra K. Solomon
in South Boston, Massachusetts on August 23,
1980. Mrs. Girotti graduated from Smith-
Deal-Massey Business College in Richmond,
Va. The bridegroom is employed by the Vir-
ginia Electric and Power Co. in Norfolk.

Donald A. Larson and Miss Deborah A.
Close in Rowayton, Connecticut on October
11, 1980. Mrs. Larson graduated from Becker.
Her husband is employed as a sales representa-
tive by Data General.

Stephen J. Lefemine and Francyne D.
Fiorillo in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts on May
1 1 , 1980. The bride graduated from Clark and
is a probation officer at Worcester Juvenile
Court. The bridegroom is a sales-application
engineer at Warren Pumps, Inc., Warren,
Mass.

Mary Ellen Mazeika to William J. Blunt
in Worcester on August 16, 1980. The bride
serves as a regional planner with the Central
Massachusetts Regional Planning Commis-
sion. The groom graduated from Holy Name
Central Catholic High School. He is a machin-
ist for Norton Co.

Daniel P. Pan ice ia to Dawn C. Smith on
September 6, 1980. Mrs. Paniccia graduated
from Berkley Secretarial School. She is with
M.G. Wheeler Co., Greenwich. Her husband,
after attending WPI, went to Columbia Uni-
versity.

David E. Szkutak and Joan M. Bolduc on
August 30, 1980 in Waterville, Maine. The
bride is an electrical engineer for Procter &
Gamble in Cincinnatti, Ohio, where her hus-
band serves as a chemical engineer.

Paul N. Zeytoonian to Jane F. Con-
naughton in Waltham, Massachusetts on Sep-
tember 21, 1980. Mrs. Zeytoonian, a nurse in
the critical care section of Waltham Hospital,
graduated horn St. Elizabeth's Hospital School
of Nursing in Brighton . Presently, her husband

is attending the Graduate School of Engineer-
ing, Northeastern University. He is employed
as a mechanical engineer with the Polaroid
Corp.

► Ronald Bauman, who has an ms in
management from WPI, works as a sales repre-
sentative at Digital in Melville, N.Y.

Paul Bellagamba continues with Donald
O. Anderson, a general contractor in Middle-
town, R.I.

Continuing with ge, Stephen Caputo is
now a district sales manager in Minneapolis.

Clint Carpenter is a research assistant in
the department of chemistry at the University
of Wisconsin in Madison.

Timothy Casey is with Interstate Elec-
tronics Corp., Anaheim, Calif. He writes that
Liz is enrolled in a phD program in hydrody-
namics.

Garrett Chace holds the position of man-
ager at Killingly Building Products, Dayville,
Conn.

Ray Chase works as a management
trainee at O.Z. Gedney, Terryville, Conn.

Chris Corpuz is in the mcrp program at
Harvard.

George Dainis has completed his ms in
chemical engineering work at mit and he now
works as a process engineer in the plating de-
partment at Texas Instruments, Inc., Attle-
boro, Mass.

Douglas DeSimone is now in the depart-
ment of biological sciences at Dartmouth Col-
lege, Hanover, N.H.

Raymond DiMuzio was recently pro-
moted to polyvinyl emulsion supervisor at the
Plainfield, N.J. plant of National Starch and
Chemical Corporation. He joined the com-
pany in 1979 as a production engineer. He be-
longs to the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers.

John Donahue works as a substation engi-
neer at Niagara Mohawk in Syracuse, N.Y.

Louis Feula works as a technology engi-
neer for the Monsanto Co. in Indian Orchard,
Mass.

David Freni is a civil engineer with the
Federal Aviation Administration, headquar-
tered in Kansas City, Missouri. He says he has
a "constant travel" status.

Michael Gallerani continues as a manu-
facturing engineer at ge in Providence, R.I.

Mark Galvin is a project engineer at Bur-
ton Tool & Die Co., Leominster, Mass.

John Grimwade holds the post of field en-
gineer at Babcock & Wilcox in Chicago.

Suzanne Hess, who is employed by Ex-
xon, was a panelist at the placement seminar
held at WPI in November.

Kenneth Howard works for Innamorati
Bro., Clinton, Mass.

David Johnson, formerly with Film Cool-
ing Towers Ltd., England, is presently with
Johnson Associates, Inc. in Bridgewater,
Conn.

Lawrence Kurt is employed as an ac-
countant at Robertshaw Controls, Milford,
Conn.

Brien Laufer is now affiliated with the
Shell Oil Co., Houston, Texas.

Stephen Lawry is a high energy laser
physicist at the usaf/af Weapons Lab.,
Kir t land afb, Albuquerque, N.M.

James Mastalerz continues as a
programmer-analyst at Coppus Engineering in
Worcester.

Thomas McClure works as a lubricants
and finish chemist at ge Medium Steam in
Lynn, Mass.

Robert Parent serves as a software engi-
neer at Tektronix in Oregon.

Stephen Rehn works as an electrical engi-
neer at Panametrics in Waltham, Mass.

Philip Rubin is a process engineer at du
Pont/Berg Electronics, New Cumberland, Pa.
He has received his ms in materials from WPI.

Leonard Taylor is with Xanics & Co., Van
Nuys, Calif.

Neil Volkmar works as manager of opera-
tions engineering at ge-doe Neutron Devices
in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Currently, John Wheeler serves as assis-
tant to the president at Citrus County Land
Bureau, Far Hills, N.J.

1980

► Married: Eugene W. Balinski, Jr. and Diane
E. Martin in Worcester on June 14, 1980. Mrs.
Balinski graduated horn Salter Secretarial
School and is a secretary for the Nashua, N.H.
Fire Department. The groom is employed at

Sanders Associates, Nashua Gregg

Belevick and Sarah Brunell in October. The

couple is living in Worcester Richard

L. Coleman and Kathryn L. Grider on May 24,
1980 in Cumberland, Rhode Island. The bride
is an associate engineer at GE in Pleasanton,
Calif. Her husband serves as a computer scien-
tist at Lawrence Livermore National Labora-
tory in Livermore.

Todd W. Cullen and Miss Kim M. Ri-
chardson in Marlboro, Massachusetts on June
21, 1980. Mrs. Cullen attended Westfield State
College. She is a room reservationist at Shera-
ton Lincoln Inn. Her husband serves as assis-
tant manager of Thorn McAn, Worcester

Center Robert B. Cummings and 2/

Lt. Candyce L. Hallock, U.S. Air Force, in
Worcester on October 18, 1980. The bride,
who is stationed at Hanscom afb, is a projects
officer co-located at Mitre Corp., Burlington,
Mass. The bridegroom serves as a project engi-
neer at J.F. White Contracting Co. of Boston.
.... Timothy S. Dean to Nancy E.
Hodgdon on July 28, 1980 in Portland, Maine.
The bride is an alumna of the University of
Southern Maine. Her husband is a plant design
engineer at Bechtel Power Corp., Gaithers-
burg, Md.

26 / Winter 1981 / The WPI Journal

Perry Esposito and Cynthia Stanley in
New Preston, Connecticut on October 4,
1980. Mrs. Esposito graduated from Southern
Connecticut State College in New Haven with
a bs in elementary education. She taught at the
Family Resource Center in New Milford. The
bridegroom has accepted a post at Bailey Con-
trols in Denver, Colorado Jill E. Fa-

bricant and Glenn A. Corwin, '81, on June 15,
1980. The bride has been named programmer-
analyst at Digital in Maynard, Mass. She is
also taking evening graduate courses at WPI.
Her husband is a computer science student at

WPI Paul A. Ferrara and Diane M.

Santaniello, 79, on October 12, 1980 in John-
ston, Rhode Island. Mrs. Ferrara is with State
Mutual Life Assurance Company. Her hus-
band works for the Small Business Service Bu-
reau in Worcester.

Gary E. Graf to Cheryl A. Sarofeen in
North Brookfield, Massachusetts on lune 14,
1980. The bride graduated from North Brook-
field High School. The bridegroom is an elec-
trical engineer at Sanders Associates, Nashua,
N.H Stephen J. LaFlamme and Bar-
bara A. Morin in New Hampshire on July 25,
1980. The bride, an employee of New
Hampshire Insurance Co., graduated from
Manchester Central High School. The bride-
groom was temporarily employed by the Vet-
eran's Administration Hospital Engineering
Department. He is now working for his mas-
ter's degree in nuclear engineering at Ohio

State University Allen L. Legendre,

Jr. and Diane M. Ritchie on June 20, 1980 in
West Boylston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Legendre
graduated from St. Peter-Marian Central Cath-
olic High School, Worcester. She was manager
of the Gold Star Boulevard Branch of Home
Federal Savings & Loan Association. Her hus-
band has his master's degree in management
horn WPI. He has joined Florida Power Corp.,
St. Petersburg, Fla.

Arthur B. O'Leary ID and Eileen R. Ford
on October 11, 1980 in Cornwall Bridge, Con-
necticut. Mrs. O'Leary graduated from Bay
Path Junior College with an AS degree in busi-
ness administration. She is a money market
investment technician for Aetna Insurance
Co., Hartford. The bridegroom is with Artisan

Industries, Inc., Waltham, Mass

Thomas C. Stange to Cynthia M. Noel in
Athol, Massachusetts on September 1, 1980.
Mrs. Stange graduated from Hahnemann Hos-
pital School of Nursing, Worcester. She is a
registered nurse at Memorial Hospital.

>-Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Mark Lewis a
son, Stephen John, on August 1, 1980. Lewis is
employed by Caltrans and is located in Eu-
reka, Calif. He writes: "My dog, Bart, is also
in California. He grew up on the WPI
campus."

► Michael Aghajanian has been named as
a systems specialist at ge, Fitchburg, Mass.
.... Dennis Allard works as a structural
engineer at Technical Aid Corp. in Waltham,
Mass Mark Andrews is an applica-
tions chemist at Waters Associates in Milford,
Mass Craig Autio is associate engi-
neer at Avco-Systems Division, Wilmington,

Mass Amos Barnes IV is studying for

his msce under an nsf grant at WPI.

Joseph Barone works as a rotating engi-
neer at ge Ordnance Systems in Pittsfield,

Mass Hildegard Benneck is now a

member of the technical staff at Bell Tele-
phone Labs, Holmdel, N.J Robert

Berlo holds the post of sales engineer at Hinds

& Coon Co., South Boston, Mass

Mark Beschle has joined gte Sylvania.
.... Brian Biernacki is employed as a
junior field engineer in the training depart-
ment at Dresser Atlas in Houston, Texas.

David Bowers has been employed by the
corporate safety department at Air Products

and Chemcials, Allentown, Pa Todd

Brennan is with Ciba-Geigy Corp. in Cran-
ston, R.I Keith Brown is an environ-
mental engineer at Cullinan Engineering,

Auburn, Mass Salvatore Bruno has

joined Union Carbide as a plant electrical engi-
neer in Red Oak, Iowa Jeffrey Carter

works as a manufacturing program engineer at
Xerox Corporation, Webster, N.Y.

Mike Chew works for Bendix Corp.,
Kansas City, Missouri Donald Con-
nor is a graduate student in biobehavioral stu-
dies at UConn Stephen Courville is

with gte Sylvania, Needham, Mass

Dave Craigue and William Emmet won sec-
ond prize in The Lincoln Arc Welding
Foundation competition for the hydraulic
tomato-planting machine which they
designed and built as a WPI project. Emmet is
now at Cornell University in a two-year ms

program in agricultural engineering

Charles Crowley has been named a staff engi-
neer at Poly Cast Technology Corporation,
Stamford, Conn.

Judith D'Agostino serves as a process en-
gineer at Monsanto Plastics & Resins in

Springfield, Mass Duane Delfosse is

now program engineer for ge in San Jose, Ca-
lif Joseph DeMauro serves as district

manager of performance control at New Eng-
land Telephone in Boston. He and his wife,

Theresa, reside in Framingham

Jeffrey Deutsch is a graduate student in the
electronics research laboratory at the Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley. .... Richard
DiMascio works for gte Sylvania in Needham,

Mass Paul Diotalevi has been hired

as a management trainee at New England Tel-
ephone in Framingham, Mass Paul

Doherty is now a process engineer at Pfizer,
Inc., Chemicals Division, Groton, Conn.
.... Robert Dreyfoos serves as a design en-
gineer at Photo Electronics Corp., West Palm

Beach, Fla Margaret Dumont has

joined Digital Equipment Corp. in Nashua,

N.H Hebert Dunnington III is a field

engineer at Schumberger in New Orleans, La.

Thomas Egan works for Beringer Co.,

Marblehead, Mass Tom Fawcett has

become a member of the technical staff at Mi-
tre Corp., Bedford, Mass Peter Folta

is an assistant rate engineer at New England

Gas & Electric, Cambridge, Mass

Richard Forand serves as an assistant engineer
at Industrial Risk Insurers in Charlotte, N.C.
.... Carl Gates, Jr. works as a sales repre-
sentative at du Pont in Clifton, N.J.

Thomas Gellrich works for Exxon Chem-
ical Co., Florham Park, N.J Jack Gre-
gory has joined Digital in Maynard, Mass.
.... Djelloul Haouari is with Sonelec in

Algeria Data General, Southboro,

Mass., has named Scott Harvey as a manufac-
turing engineer Jeffrey Hebert has

been named shift technical adviser at Yankee

Atomic Electric, Rowe, Mass

Claudia Huehmer is with Boston Edison Co.
in the Prudential Center, Boston. While at
WPI, she co-designed a removal tool for a sur-
veillance capsule in an atomic core

Steve Kahn continues at Bettis Labs in West
Mifflin, Pa.

Kevin Keena is now a mechanical engi-
neer at Digital in Marlboro, Mass

Peter Kelleher serves as an associate
engineer-nuclear power engineering trainee at
the Westinghouse Electric Naval Reactors Fa-
cility in Idaho Falls, Idaho Robert

Kennedy is a sales engineer for Westinghouse

Power Systems, Framingham, Mass

Christopher Kintz has joined General
Dynamics-Electric Boat in Groton, Conn.
.... David Konieczny has joined Bechtel
Power Corp., Gaithersburg, Md.

Anne-Marie Kruglewicz is employed at du
Pont's Marshall Laboratory in Philadelphia.
.... John Letourneau serves as a member
of the technical staff at Bell Labs., Piscataway,

N.J Gareth Kucinkas is now a field

engineer at Schlumberger Well Services in

New Iberia, La Kevin Loftus has been

named a process engineer at Chemapec, Inc.,

Woodbury, N.Y Michael J. Lombardi

holds the post of contract engineer at Bechtel
Power Corp., San Francisco, Calif.

Michael R. Lombardi has been employed
as a support engineer at Stone & Webster, Bos-
ton Raymond Lucchetti, Jr. is now a

systems support engineer at Bunker Ramo

Corp., Trumbull, Conn Thomas Lu-

cey works as a production engineer for Sys-
tems Intergration Engineering at Data General

in Southboro, Mass Stone &

Webster, Cherry Hill, N.J., employs Raymond
Lum as a career development engineer.
.... Deborah Luper has joined Western
Electric, Allentown, Pa.

Kevin Lynch is a member of the Rocket-
dyne Division of Rockwell International in

Canoga Park, Calif Brian Mahoney is

on the technical staff at Mitre Corp., Bedford,
Mass Carlos Maltos is a customer as-
sistant contact in the treasury department at

Citibank in Mexico City Paul Man-

deville serves as a project engineer at Naval

Ordnance, Indian Head, Md Kenneth

Mandile is a design engineer at GTE Sylvania,
Strategic Systems Division, Lithium Battery

Group, Waltham, Mass William

Mangano, Jr. has been employed as a survey
statistician by the U.S. Census Bureau, Dept.

of Commerce, in Suitland, Md John

Manning, Jr. is working for his ms in environ-
mental health engineering at Notre Dame,
where he is with the department of civil engi-
neering.

The WPI Journal / Winter 1981 / 27

Mario Marcaccio is an environmental en-
gineer at Camp Dresser & McKee, Boston.
.... Ralph Man-one has joined
Hewlett-Packard, Lexington, Mass. as a sys-
tems engineer Pratt & Whitney Air-
craft Group, East Hartford, Conn., has named
Ronald Marshall as a program analyst.
.... Gilbert Martin, Jr. has accepted a post
as nuclear plant engineer trainee with
Westinghouse-Bettis Atomic Power Labora-
tory in Idaho Falls, Idaho Robert

Martinek is employed as a design engineer at

Raytheon in Sudbury, Mass Anthony

Masullo was named a process engineer at Pfi-
zer, Inc., Groton, Conn.

Joseph Mayall is a field service engineer at

Babcock & Wilcox John Mazeika is a

service engineer, level I, at Combustion Engi-
neering in Windsor, Conn Thomas

McBride has joined Dresser Industries, Atlas
Division, in Alice, Texas 2/Lt. H. Pe-
ter McClain, who attended the U.S. Army
Ordnance School at Aberdeen Proving
Grounds in Maryland, was recently assigned
to the Army Missile & Munitions Center, Re-
dstone Arsenal, Alabama Darlene

McCormick is with the Westinghouse Oce-
anic Division in Annapolis, Md

Cathleen McDermott is now an engineering
assistant for the County of Los Angeles Road
Department, Los Angeles, Calif.

Linda Mclnnis works as a technical writer
at Ampex Corporation, Redwood City, Calif.
.... Maryellen McLaughlin accepted a po-
sition as electronics engineer at Charles Stark
Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Mass.
.... Joan McNamara was named as a
process development engineer at Monsanto in

Indian Orchard, Mass John McNeff II

has been hired by Procter & Gamble, Quincy,

Mass., as a production engineer

Brian McQuillan serves as a human factors-
system safety engineer at gte Sylvania in

Needham Heights, Mass Scott

Mease is now a field systems engineer for Da-
niels Construction Co Paula Mesite

is with Ensco, Inc., Springfield, Va. At night,
she attends the master's program in electrical
engineering at George Washington University.

Fred Mirabelle, Jr. is employed as a design
engineer at Harris Corp., Westerly, R.I.
.... Michael Mitchell works as a manufac-
turing engineer at Texas Instruments in

Attleboro, Mass Serge Molinari is a

field service engineer at du Pont in LaPlace,

La Presently, Patricia Monterio

serves as an assistant process engineer at Fluor
Engineers & Constructors, Irvine, Calif.
.... Rosemary Murphy holds the post of
process development engineer for Critical
Fluid Systems, Inc. (A.D. Little Labs) in Cam-
bridge, Mass.

William Murtha was named as a manu-
facturing management trainee at ge

John Neilon attends grad school at the

University of Miami John Noonan

works as a civil engineering assistant for LA
County Flood Control, Los Angeles, Calif.
.... Paul Normand has been employed by
the Hamilton Standard Division of United
Technologies, Windsor Locks, Conn

Colleen O'Connor is an information systems
designer at Western Electric in North Andover,

Mass Thaddeus J. Okolo, Jr. has been

named a design engineer at Sikorsky Aircraft
in Stratford, Conn.

David Olds has accepted the post of de-
sign engineer at the ge Direct Energy Conver-
sion Center in Wilmington, Mass

Mark O'Neil works as an assembly planner at

Intel in Santa Clara, Calif Elaine

O'Neill is now with Clairol in Stamford,

Conn Robert Oriol is employed by

the Small Business Service Bureau in Worces-
ter Ronald Ouellet is with Texas In-
struments in Dallas.

David Paciorkowski serves as a
communications-electronics engineer for the

u.s.a.f. at Keesler afb, Miss Louis Pa-

lecki was named as associate advance engineer
at Honeywell's Electro-Optics Center in Lex-
ington, Mass. He is a member of the Worcester
Art Museum Michael Parulis is em-
ployed as an associate engineer at General
Dynamics-Electric Boat, Groton, Conn.

Robert Pearson is now a process engineer

at Pfizer, Inc. in Groton, Conn Bjorn

Pedersen holds the post of manager of experi-
mental engineering at Varian/Extrion in
Gloucester, Mass. He has an ms in manage-
ment horn WPI William Perkins is

with arradcom in Dover, N.J

Honeywell Electro Optics Center, Lexington,
Mass., has employed John Pierre as an associ-
ate development engineer Paul Pietal

works as a statistician for the Bureau of the
Census in Suitland, Md.

Currently, John Pobuk serves as a Peace
Corps volunteer in Micronesia, where he is a

water systems adviser John

Podlenski has joined kvb in New York City.
.... Thomas Polito works as a graduate re-
search assistant at WPI's Alden Labs.

Richard Preliasco is employed as an asso-
ciate engineer at Lockheed Missiles & Space

Co., Sunnyvale, Calif Mary Puzemis

holds the post of chemist at Environmental

Waste Removal, Waterbury, Conn

David Quaranta is with the ME department at

WPI James Racca is now an associate

engineer at B.F. Goodrich Chemical Division
in Independence, Ohio.

Sanders Associates, Nashua, N.H. has
named Michael Ramadei as a design engineer

I Clifford Read works as a product

support engineer at Foxboro Company.
.... Cathy Reed holds the position of pro-
ject engineer at Badger America in Cambridge,

Mass Craig Reed is with du Pont at

the Savannah River plant in Aiken, S.C.
.... David Reeves has accepted the post of
product development engineer at American
Hoechst Corporation in Leominster, Mass.

.... Cathryn Ricci serves as a process engi-
neer at Berg Electronics, a division of du Pont
in New Cumberland, Pa.

Charles Richards rv has joined Harris

Corporation, Rochester, N.Y Ronald

Richter is with Analytical Systems Engineer-
ing Corporation Mark Riley is a

teaching assistant at Thayer School of Engi-
neering, Dartmouth College Steven

Robbins has been named as a system analyst
at Sanders Associates, Inc., Nashua, N.H.
.... Norman Robinson, Jr. was employed
as associate advanced manufacturing engineer
at Xerox Corp., Henrietta, N.Y.

John Roche works for Micro Networks,
Worcester, in the manufacturing engineering

department Jeffrey Rosen has joined

Stone & Webster in St. Francesville, La.
.... Richard Rotelli, Jr. holds the post of
structural engineer at Jordan, Apostal, Ritter

Associates, Inc., in Davisville, R.I

Elizabeth Roth is a student at Hahnemann
Medical College, Philadelphia.

Charles Rothauser who holds an mscs
horn WPI, works as a project analyst at United
Technologies Research Center, East Hartford,
Conn. He is a member of the Association of

Computing Machinery Martin Rowe

has joined Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood,

Mass Lee Sacks is with ComputerVi-

sion in Bedford, Mass Thomas Sar-

della accepted a post as electronics engineer
with nasa at Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, Md.

Doreen Sa Vieira is working in applied re-
search at Western Electric Co., North An-
dover, Mass Gary Sawicki serves as a

manufacturing engineer at Texas Instruments,

Attleboro, Mass Kenneth Sawyer has

joined Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, East Hart-
ford, Conn., where he is employed as an ana-
lytical engineer Angelo Scangas is a

process engineer with National Starch and
Chemical Corp., Plainfield, N.J.

David Schab works for Hughes Aircraft in

Greenfield, Mass Peter Schoonmaker

is a junior engineer at Northern Research &

Engineering Corp., Woburn, Mass

During the summer, Sharon Schulze worked
for the Upper Blackstone Water Pollution
Abatement District in Millbury, Mass. She is a
teaching assistant at WPI Craig Sher-
man is employed at Thermo Electron Corp.,
Waltham, Mass. He has an ms from WPI.

Michael Slattery is a technical staff mem-
ber in the Hughes Aircraft Ground Systems

Group, Fullerton, Calif Charles

Smith is concerned with installation engineer-
ing at Western Electric in North Andover,

Mass Chartsiri Sophonpanich is a

graduate student in chemical engineering at

mit Richard Stephens has accepted a

post as a sales engineer at Dana Industrial. The
firm is located in Warren, Mich.

James Stonier works for Honeywell Infor-
mation Systems of Billerica, Mass

Charles Sullivan BI attends the University of
Rhode Island, where he is studying for his mba

in finance James Sweeney HI is an

Edison engineer at ge in Schenectady, N.Y.

28 / Winter 1981 / The WPI Journal

.... Keith Sylvestre is with Northeast Util-
ities, Norwalk, Conn Edward

Szkutak, Jr. has been named a manufacturing

engineer at West inghouse Steve

Tarantino holds the post of process engineer at

du Pont in Belle, West Virginia

Pamela Thomas has been employed as a man-
ufacturing engineer at Communications
Corp., Newport Beach, Calif.

Mark Tino was hired as a staff consultant
in the Administrative Services Division at Ar-
thur Andersen & Co., Boston John

Titus is a graduate student at WPI

fames Torrey, )r. has joined Arthur Andersen &
Co., Hartford, Conn., where he is a staff mem-
ber Gary Traverso has been named as

a research engineer at du Font's Savannah

River Plant, Aiken, S.C Gerald Two-

mey is with ltx Corporation, Newton High-
lands, Mass.

Edward Tyburski is a design engineer at
Harris/Radio Frequency Communications Di-
vision, Rochester, N.Y Robert Voz-

zola, who has been with Redington Counters
in Windsor, Conn., is slated to be stationed as
an Air Force pilot and 2/Lt. at Columbus afb

in Mississippi in March Chuong Le

Vu is a member of the advanced engineering
program at Honeywell Information Systems,

Billerica, Mass Bruce Webster works

as a manufacturing engineer at Parker Manu-
facturing in Worcester David Weiss

was named a manufacturing engineer at East-
man Kodak.

Richard Welch holds the position of qual-
ity control engineer at unc Resources, Inc.,

Uncasville, Conn Recently, Peter

Westcott joined rca Automated Systems Divi-
sion, Burlington, Mass James Wilbur

works as a technical representative at Kemper
Insurance Company, North Quincy, Mass.
.... John Wilbur is a manufacturing engi-
neer with ge in Lynn, Mass David

Wilson has joined gte Sylvania, Needham,
Mass.

William Woishnis is employed as a plas-
tics process engineer at Hewlett-Packard Co.,

Palo Alto, Calif Rosemary Wojtowicz

is a graduate student at mit Robert

Woodard works as an engineering field repre-
sentative at Industrial Risk Insurers in Phila-
delphia Eric Worthington serves as a

programmer at Ensco, Inc., Springfield, Va.

Pamela Wright is a lab technician in the

life sciences department at WPI Ho

Ling Yee is with gca Corp. (Technology Divi-
sion) in Bedford, Mass Scott Yeo-

mans has been named an actuarial trainee at
Travelers Insurance Company, Hartford,

Conn H. Michael Yevak, Jr. has been

named a component buyer in the ge manufac-
turing management program at Pittsfield,
Mass.

Melissa Young has been employed by
Teledyne Engineering Services, Inc., Waltham,

Mass Robert Yule is with du Pont in

Belle, West Virginia John Zagorski is

studying for his doctorate in biochemistry at
Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas. He received an
assistant professorship for the fall term.
.... John Zelz, Jr. is a staff engineer at
Hewlett-Packard, Fairport, N.Y.

School of Indus-
trial Management

Harold White, '55, has been appointed vice
president and general manager of Norton's
Coated Abrasive Division in the United
States. Previously, he was vice president and
general manager of the company's Organic
Grinding Wheel Division, and was also re-
sponsible for Norton's abrasives business in
Canada. Prior to his appointment to that post
in 1979, he served in England as vice president
of abrasive operations in Northern Europe.

Nicholas Moffa, '56, was recently elected
chairman of the board of the Grinding Wheel
Institute. The cwi is an association of U.S.
manufacturers of grinding wheels with head-
quarters in Cleveland. Previously, Moffa
served as the Institute's vice president in 1975
and 1976 and was elected its president in
1977. He also became president of Bay State
Abrasives, Westboro, Mass. in 1977. In the
role of chief executive at Bay State, he also di-
rects the affairs of Anderson Operations, an in-
dustrial brush manufacturer in Worcester and
Felker Operations in Torrance, Conn. Felker
produces diamond saw blades and a range of
machines for cutting concrete, masonry, and
tile. Moffa graduated from Northeastern and
Harvard Business School's advanced manage-
ment program, as well as WPI's School of In-
dustrial Management.

Alfred Kastberg, '61, has retired as execu-
tive vice president of Henry L. Hanson, Inc.,
Worcester, and is living in Hopkinton, N.H.

John O'Malley, '62 was recently pro-
moted to director of fiscal services at Holden
(Mass.) District Hospital. He is responsible for
all financial cash management, accounting,
billing functions and data processing. He has
been with the hospital since 1966. He was pre-
sented with the 1980 Founder's Award of the
Massachusetts Chapter of the Hospital Finan-
cial Management Association. The award is
given for outstanding service in chapter activi-
ties. A director of the organization, O'Malley
is also chairman of its membership commit-
tee, and serves on the Founder's Awards Com-
mittee. He holds the post of chairman of the
Central Massachusetts Financial Council. He
is a member of the Massachusetts Hospital As-
sociation's Standing Committee on Finance,
where he is the only representative of a hospi-
tal having less than a 100-bed capacity. An mba
recipient from Anna Maria College, O'Malley
currently teaches in the mba program there.
He also teaches financial management in an
undergraduate program at Worcester State
College.

John Porrazzo, '63, serves as manager of
engineering at Arrow Automotive Corporation
in Hudson, Mass.

Stephen McCabe, '64, holds the post of
director of operations at Armatron Interna-
tional, Melrose, Mass.

George Sonntag, '68, is employed at Cin-
cinnati Milacron-Heald in Worcester.

John J. Shields, '69, married Judith A.
Morse in Hudson, New Hampshire on Sep-
tember 21,1 980. The bride, a sales represen-
tive for Digital Corporation, graduated from
Vermont College. Her husband graduated horn
the School of Industrial Management at WPI
and from Harvard School of Business Adminis-
tration. He is vice president of Digital Corpo-
ration, Maynard, Mass.

Joseph Flyrm, '70. serves as sales supervi-
sor at Norton Co., Worcester.

Edward Dykstra, '73, is director of techni-
cal services and EDP planning at Warner-
Lambert Co. in Morris Plains, N.J.

Kenneth Paradis, '75, is manager of labor
relations at Monsanto Enviro-Chemical Co.,
St. Louis, Missouri.

James Dineen, '78, is the controller and
chief financial officer at Fitchburg Coated
Products in Scranton, Pa.

John Ellison, Jr., '78, has been named a
vice president at Galileo Electro-Optics Corpo-
ration, Sturbridge, Mass. The vice president
and general manager of Fused Products and
Power Supplies, he will continue to be respon-
sible for the entire fused fiber optic product
line, including all military and commercial
face-plates, inverters, magnifiers, and image
conduits. His prior experience includes the po-
sition of general manager for the Fiber Optics
Division of American Optical Company and
sales engineer for Connecticut Light and
Power. He holds a bs in industrial administra-
tion from the University of Connecticut.

Milton Steen, '79, has been named local
manager of the Attleboro office of Massachu-
setts Electric Co. He heads the newly created
southeast district, which is a consolidation of
the company's Attleboro, Hopedale, and
Marlboro districts. Prior to his new post, Steen
was manager of the company's Marlboro dis-
trict, where he supervised electric operations
and customer service. After two years in the
Army, he joined Mass. Electric in 1961 as a
student trainee. In 1962, he became a residen-
tial sales promotion representative in the
Worcester office, and in 1964, district sales
manager in the Weymouth district. Following
a series of promotions, in 1975, he was named
assistant director of consumer services for
New England Electric, the parent company of
Mass. Electric. Steen is vice president of the
United Fund of Westboro, as well as vice presi-
dent of the local Chamber of Commerce and
Rotary Club.

Neil Collins, '80, is now production ad-
ministrator and project engineer at Daverman
& Associates in Syracuse, N.Y. For the past
two years he was chairman of the Worcester
County Section of ieee.

Alan Fontaine, '80, has been named gen-
eral foreman of packaging, sani safe, and con-
noisseur departments at Russell Harrington
Cutlery, Inc., Southbridge, Mass. He started at
Russell Harrington in 1973 as a service man.
He was promoted to management responsibil-
ities, first as an assistant supervisor in 1975,
then as supervisor in 1978.

The WPI Journal / Winter 1981 / 29

Franklin C. Green, '06, died on March 20,
1980 in Portland, Oregon at the age of 94.

He was born on May 24, 1885 in Maui,
Hawaii. In 1906, he received his bsee horn
WPI. Two years later he earned his profes-
sional degree in electrical engineering. He was
a retired high school teacher.

Leon H. Rice, ' 13, of Manchester, New
Hampshire passed away in August.

A Manchester native, he was born on
Oct. 28, 1890. While still at WPI, he joined
Leighton Machine Co., Manchester, and re-
mained with the firm until his retirement as
treasurer 54 years later. In 1913, he graduated
as a mechanical engineer.

Mr. Rice was a past president of the New
Hampshire Manufacturers Association and
past chairman of the State and City Industrial
Councils. He also belonged to the Masons
(32nd degree), and served as a trustee of the
ymca and the Methodist Church. His son,
Leon, graduated from WPI in 1943.

Malcolm D. Campbell, ' 14, of Leesburg, Flor-
ida passed away on January 31, 1980.

A native of Reading, Mass., he was born
on April 14, 1891. After studying at WPI, he
later graduated from Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College. In 1932 he received his MEd
from Boston Teachers College.

From 1918 to 1923 he was employed at
Norfolk County Agricultural School, and from
1923 to 1956, he was with Dorchester High
School, Boston. He retired in 1956 to travel
around the world.

Mr. Campbell was a former president of
both the New England Biological Association
and the National Association of Biology
Teachers. A past president of the Lawn Bowl-
ing Club of Milton, he was also a former presi-
dent of the Town Club of Milton. He had been
a Mason and a deputy of the Boy Scouts. Just
prior to his death, he conducted a class of 27 in
life history writing at the Hawthorne retire-
ment community in Leesburg.

Ray C. Crouch, ' 14, of Dallas, Texas died on
July 12, 1980.

In 1914 he graduated from WPI as a me-
chanical engineer. During his career, he was
with Riter Conley, A.G. Reeves Construction
Co., and Buffalo Tank, a division of Bethle-
hem Steel. He retired as works manager and
sales manager from Buffalo Tank in 1958.

Mr. Crouch, who was born on June 12,
1890 in Thomaston, Conn., was a past mem-
ber of the asme, the American Welding Society,
American Metals Society, and the National
Safety Council. He had served as director of
the Sewickley, Pa. ymca, as church vestry-
man, and as a sector warden for Civil Defense
during World War n. He was a former officer in
the Northern New Jersey Chapter and Western
New York Chapter of the Alumni Association.

Earl C. Hughes, ' 14, WPI trustee emeritus,
died at his home in Jupiter, Florida on Novem-
ber 15, 1980.

Before retiring in 1959, Mr. Hughes was
president and chairman of the board of Bay
State Abrasives in Westboro, Mass. He joined
Bay State in 1936, after serving as assistant
sales manager of the Grinding Wheel Division
at Norton Co. He was director of the L.S. Star-
rett Co., Athol; Warren Pumps, Inc., Warren;
and the Associated Industries of Massachu-
setts. He held the post of president and chair-
man of the Grinding Wheel Institute.

A native of Worcester, he was bom on
Sept. 30, 1892. In 1914, he received his bsce
from WPI. He was awarded an honorary doctor
of engineering degree in 1963.

Mr. Hughes, a member of Phi Gamma
Delta, also belonged to the Worcester Art Mu-
seum, Newcomen Society, Massachusetts
(and Worcester) Horticultural Society, four
country clubs, the Worcester Committee on
Foreign Relations, Worcester Economic Club,
Worcester Natural History Society, the Ma-
sons, and the Worcester County Music Associ-
ation. He was a trustee of Hahnemann
Hospital and the Worcester County Hearing
and Speech Center. For many years, he was a
vestryman at All Saints Episcopal Church.

In 1917, during World War I, Mr. Hughes
was commissioned a first lieutenant at offi-
cer's training camp in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Later,
he was assigned to the Infantry, before being
transferred to the Air Service. After spending
three months at the mit School of Military
Aeronautics, he was assigned to the Aviation
Military Repair Depot in Dallas, Texas. He
was commanding officer of the 877th Aero
Squadron before being discharged as a captain
in 1919.

Besides being a life member of the WPI
board of trustees, Mr. Hughes served WPI in
many other capacities. He was, for example,
chairman of Techni-Forum in 1955 and 1956;
a representative on the Alumni Council from
1953 to 1955; and a member of the President's
Advisory Council. Before retiring to Florida,
he donated his home at 15 Regent St. to WPI,
the residence now being the permanent home
of the vice president and dean of the faculty. In
1975, he received the Herbert F. Taylor Award
from the Alumni Association.

Earle E. Andrews, '15, a retired attorney, died
in Rochester, New Hampshire on September
7, 1980 at the age of 91.

He was bom on July 2, 1889 in Bingham,
Me., and later became a member of the Class
of 1915. He graduated from Boston University
Law School in 1916. In 1917 he enlisted in the
Army and continued in the active reserves, re-
tiring as a captain in the Quartermaster Corps
in 1942.

He was employed as a compensation trial
attorney for the Lumberman's Mutual Casu-
alty Co. of Boston until he retired in 1954.
Then he was associated with the law firm of
Horovitz and Horovitz, Boston, retiring in
1978.

A senior member of the Oklahoma Bar
Association, he was a past member of the
American Bar, the Middlesex Bar and the Mas-
sachusetts Bar Associations. He was an active
member of the Masons. He belonged to ato,
the Doll Collectors of America, the Rushlight
Club, the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower
Descendants, and the Congregational Church.
He served as a past chairman of the Winches-
ter, Mass. Finance Committee. For several
years, he was chairman of the Winchester
Board of Public Welfare.

Raymond P. Lansing, ' 15, an internationally
known inventor and a retired vice president of
the Bendix Aviation Corp., died in Old Lyme,
Connecticut on October 17, 1980. He was 86.

In 1951, Mr. Lansing was awarded an
honorary doctor of science degree from WPI.
At the time, he was vice president and director
of Bendix Aviation. During his many years
with the company, he contributed to the de-
sign of accessory devices upon which the effi-
cient and safe operation of aircraft depends. In
recognition of his efforts in World War n, he
was one of 60 leaders of the aviation industry
to receive a presidential award of merit and
was especially cited for pioneer work in the
field of aircraft instrument and accessory pro-
duction.

After fifty years' association with the avi-
ation industry, Mr. Lansing retired in 1965. He
obtained 150 patents for aviation devices. One
patent was for the first direct cranking aircraft
engine starter which he developed for the
World War I Liberty engine.

He joined Bendix in 1916 as an engineer
for the Bijur Motor Appliance Co., and contin-
ued with the firm when it was acquired by the
Bendix Eclipse Aviation Company. In 1929, he
became vice president at Eclipse. He served as
a group executive over the eastern divisions of
Bendix, and was elected a director in 1945.

Mr. Lansing was an associate fellow of the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astro-
nautics and a member of the Society of Auto-
motive Engineers, American Ordnance
Association, American Rocket Society, Bergen
County Chamber of Commerce, New Jersey
State Chamber of Commerce, and the Mont-
clair Chapter of the Sons of the American Rev-
olution. An advisor to Fairleigh Dickinson
University, he was also a retired lieutenant
commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He
was bom on Dec. 26, 1893 in Brooklyn, N.Y.
In 1915, he graduated as a mechanical engi-
neer from WPI. Formerly, he served as vice
president of the Northern New Jersey chapter
of the Alumni Association, and as a member
of the President's Advisory Council. He held
an honorary lld from Fairleigh Dickinson.

30 / Winter 1981 / The WPI Journal

Harold Nutt, ' 16, died in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida on October 23, 1980, the day following
the death of his wife, Margaret.

He graduated as a mechanical engineer
from WPI in 1916. During his career, he was
with B.F. Sturtevant Co., Fairbanks Morse,
Premier Motor Co., and Durant Motors. From
1930 until he retired in 1962, he was vice pres-
ident of engineering, then president, general
manager, and chief executive officer of the
Borg & Beck Division of Borg Warner Corp.,
Chicago.

Mr. Nutt belonged to Tau Beta Pi, Sigma
Xi, and the Society of Automotive Engineers,
which he formerly served as chairman of the
Chicago section. In 1954, he was named vice
president of passenger car engineering by the
Society. A member of the Coral Ridge Yacht
Club of Fort Lauderdale, he was also a former
member of the South Shore Country Club,
Chicago.

He was born in New Rochelle, N.Y. on
Dec. 3, 1893. His brother, Arthur Nutt, also
graduated from WPI in 1916.

Frederick W. Bauder, '20, professor emeritus of
chemistry at Newark College of Engineering,
passed away at Overlook Hospital in Summit,
New Jersey on August 24, 1980. He was 83
years old.

For the past 12 years, Dr. Bauder was a
consultant in industrial waste control for the
joint meeting of Essex and Union Counties, a
regional sewer system. He was a professor of
chemistry at Newark College of Technology
(New Jersey Institute of Technology) for 27
years. In 1945 he received his MS from
Stevens Institute of Technology followed by a
doctorate from Columbia University.

He belonged to Phi Sigma Kappa and
Omicron Delta Kappa fraternities. A registered
engineer, Dr. Bauder was a member of the
American Society of Engineering. Also, he was
a certified chemist and a fellow of the Ameri-
can Institute of Chemists the the American
Chemists Society. He was a Navy veteran of
World War I. A native of Newark, N.J., he was
born on July 24, 1897.

Wilfred H. Howe, '22, retired chief engineer of
the Foxboro Co., died on October 30, 1980 in
Attleboro, Mass. He was 78.

From 1969 to 1975, he was a selectman in
Sharon, Mass., and served on various town
committees. He was chairman of the Harvard
Business School Alumni Association, past
president of the Sharon Rotary Club, and a
Mason.

After graduating horn WPI as an electrical
engineer in 1922 and receiving his MBA from
Harvard, Mr. Howe joined ge for two years.
Later, he was employed by Alden Mfg. Co.,
Atlantic Precision Instrument Co., and Fox-
boro Co. He belonged to ieee (fellow), isa, the
asme, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Xi, and the
Congregational Church. A Worcester native,
he was born on March 13, 1902.

Stanley M. Townsend, '22, of Pleasant Hill,
Tennessee passed away on August 31, 1980.

He was born on July 15, 1899 in Worces
ter. A membei of the Class of 1922, he retired
horn Michigan Bell Telephone Company in
1961. Prior to his retirement, he was a partner
in Jensen-Townsend Printing Co., from which
he retired in 1977.

Mr. Townsend was a Past Master of the
Masons and a past Noble Grand of the ioof. He
was a founder of the Museum of Arts & His-
tory, a membei ol the Salvation Army Advi-
sory Board, and a chairman of the Board of the
Visiting Nurses Association. He 1956 he was
elected supervisor of Fort Gratiot Township.

W. Roy Carrick, '23, founder and president of
the Carrick Agency of Worcester, Northbridge,
and Hopedale, died at his home in East
Douglas, Massachusetts on August 26, 1980.
He was 78.

He had been in the insurance business for
over fifty years, and was a former general agent
of the Aetna Life Insurance Company of
Worcester, a charter life underwriter, and a life
member of the Million Dollar Round Table.

Mr. Carrick, a Worcester native, was born
on December 8, 1901 . He was a former direc-
tor of the Old Colony Bank of Worcester
County, and a member of the Masons, the
Shrine, the Worcester Club, and the Congrega-
tional Church. He was a member of the Class
of 1923, and belonged to Phi Gamma Delta.

Edwin M. Bailey, '25, a former member of the
President's Advisory Council at WPI, died at
his home in Amesbury, Massachusetts on Sep-
tember 10, 1980 following a brief illness.

At one time a Bailey Co. vice president,
Mr. Bailey was also past chairman of the
Amesbury bpw. He was bom in Amesbury on
April 27, 1902, and was a member of the Class
of 1925.

He was employed by the Bailey Co. in
Amesbury for 27 years, becoming vice presi-
dent, treasurer, and secretary prior to retire-
ment. Previously, he was with the
Massachusetts Department of Public Works
for 15 years. In World War U he was a civil en-
gineer for the U.S. Navy in Kittery, Me., Mel-
bourne, Fla., and Hitchcock, Texas. Also, he
was an engineer for the Army along the New
England coast.

Mr. Bailey was elected to the Amesbury
Board of Sewer and Water Commissioners,
and the Board of Public Works, which he
served as chairman for seven years. He was ac-
tive in the Masons and the Shrine, as well as
the U.S. Power Squadron, in which he held
the rank of navigator. A past commander of
the Merrimack River Power Squadron, he was
also a former commander of District 18 for
squadrons in Essex County.

For the past 15 years, he and his wife trav-
eled extensively. They had been around the
world three times, and had visited all the Eu-
ropean countries except two.

Vincent J. Goodwin, '25, former superintend-
ent at Leland-Gifford, Worcester, died at
Hahnemann Hospital on September 19, 1980.
He was 79 years old.

An engineer at Leland-Gifford for fifty
years, Mr. Goodwin retired in 1970. He was
bom in Worcester on Nov. 25, 1900, and grad-
uated as a mechanical engineer from WPI in
1925. He belonged to sae. He was the father of
Richard E. Goodwin of the Class of 1955.

Julian B. Pendleton, '25, a retired civil engi-
neer horn Creole Petroleum Corp., died in
Dunnellon, Florida on September 25, 1980. He
was 77.

A native of Hardwick, Vt., he was bom on
Feb 14, 1903 Prior to joining Creole Petro-
leum in 1929, he was employed by New Eng-
land Power Co., and the Pennsylvania
Highway Dept. In 1960, he retired from Cre-
ole. While with the firm, he was located for a
number of years in Venezuela.

Mr. Pendleton belonged to sae, the asce,
the Masons, and the Lions Club. He received
hisBSCE in 1925.

Warren T. Went worth, '26, died in Lynn, Mas-
sachusetts on October 28, 1980 following a
brief illness. He was 78 years old.

Bom in Tonawanda, N.Y. on Oct. 25,
1902, he was a member of the Class of 1926.
He attended Yale.

Thirteen years ago he retired as a senior
designer after 30 years at General Electric's
River Works. Following retirement, he taught
mathematics and drafting at Northeast Insti-
tute of Industrial Technology, Boston.

He belonged to the Amateur Telescope
Club of Boston, and he was a supporter of the
Lynn Philharmonic Orchestra and other musi-
cal organizations. He was a past president of
the Greater Lynn Camera Club.

Duncan G. Jackson, '28, a well-known busi-
nessman in Nashua, New Hampshire, died in
September at the age of 73.

He was bom in Fall River, Mass. on Oct.
14, 1906, and later became a member of the
Class of 1928. He was the owner and president
of the former Nashua Grain Company, and un-
til two years ago, had been a Ward 2 select-
man.

Active in scouting for many years, he was
the recipient of the Silver Beaver Award for
distinguished service. He was a former chair-
man of the Algonquin District bsa. He was a
Mason, a member of the Nashua Finance
Club, and a veteran of World War II.

Luther Q. H. Chin, '29, died on November 20,
1980 at his home in Freeport, New York.

AWorcester native, he was bom on Dec.
24, 1908. In 1929, he received his bsee from
WPI. Before he retired, he was a sales engineer
with Westinghouse Electric International,
New York City. From 1936 to 1944, he taught
electrical engineering at National Central Uni-
versity in Nanking, China. Also, he had man-
aged the Hong Fong Low Restaurant in
Worcester, and served as a lecturer at the
World's Fair in Chicago in 1933.

Mr. Chin belonged to the aiee, the Chi-
nese Institute of Engineers, Tau Beta Pi, and
Sigma Xi. He was a licensed, professional engi-
neer.

Norman W. Gaudreau, '37, retired president of
Bay State Tool and Machine Co., Springfield,
Massachusetts, died in August at the Bay State
Medical Center.

In 1937, he graduated as a civil engineer
from WPI. He had been with Bay State since
1939. Earlier, he worked for Factory Insurance
Association. He belonged to the American So-
ciety of Tool Engineers, Army Ordnance Asso-
ciation, and the National Tool & Die
Manufacturers.

He was a past president of the Connecti-
cut Valley chapter of the Alumni Association,
and a native of New Britain, Conn., where he
was bom on Oct. 9, 1913.

Charles H. Amidon, Jr., '39, a consultant at
the Jamesbury Corp., died on November 17,
1980 in St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester. He
was 63.

During his career, he was with Seth Tho-
mas Clocks, Pullman-Standard, Heald Ma-
chine, Rodney Hunt Co., Foster Machine Co.,
Textile Machine Works, Butterworth Machine
Co., and David Gessner Co. Several years ago,
he became a self-employed consultant. He was
a consultant for Jamesbury Corp., Worcester,
for four years.

Mr. Amidon graduated as a mechanical
engineer from WPI. He was a member of Tau
Beta Pi, Theta Chi, the Worcester Art Mu-
seum, the Masons, and the Massachusetts As-
sociation for Retarded Children.

A registered, professional engineer, he
also belonged to the asme. He belonged to the
Friends of the Worcester Public Library,
Holden Historical Society, the Circus Histori-
cal Association, Circus Fans of America, and
Circus Model Builders. An authority on circus
history, he wrote and illustrated various circus
books and magazines. He was born in Worces-
ter on Aug. 25, 1917.

Melvin T. Rafuse, '39, died at his home in
Holden, Massachusetts on August 14, 1980.
He was 63.

He was bom on Aug. 17, 1916 in Worces-
ter. In 1939 he received his bsme from WPI. For
41 years he served as a sales engineer for Heald
Machine Co., a division of Cincinnati Mila-
cron in Worcester.

Mr. Rafuse belonged to the Zion Lutheran
Church. He was a 32nd degree Mason, a mem-
ber of the Eastern Star, the Scottish Hirams,
Heald Hirams, all Scottish Rite Bodies, and
the Massachusetts Consistory.

Merrill W. Wright, '41, a former industrialist
and civic leader, died recently at his home in
Leesburg, Florida at the age of 62.

The retired chairman of the board of G.F.
Wright Steel & Wire Co., Worcester, Mr.
Wright had also served as a president of the
National Rifle Association. In 1976, he retired
from Wright after 35 years of service. During
his career, he was employed in the family
company as assistant manager, company man-
ager, treasurer, executive vice president, presi-
dent, and chairman of the board.

He was concerned with civic affairs in
Auburn, where he was a past chairman of the
board of selectmen, as well as former chair-
man of the street lighting committee, and of
the town hall rehabilitation committee. He
belonged to the sidewalk committee, and was
appointed a town police officer and Civil De-
fense director. He had been a trustee of the
Congregational Church.

Mr. Wright was born in Worcester on Apr.
5, 1918. Later he enrolled at WPI and at Bryant
and Stratton. He once said that from the age of
five, he was "hooked on guns, ....
possibly because my mother was a Hickock
and there is a family connection with the fa-
mous U.S. marshal and pistol marksman,
Wild Bill Hickock." He was a former secretary
of the New England Police Revolver League.

Besides being a 32nd degree Mason and a
Shriner, Mr. Wright was active in the Wire In-
stitute of America, the Rotary, the Sea Scouts,
and the U.S. Savings Bonds program. In Flor-
ida, he served as planning director of the Lake
County Emergency Services and treasurer of
Agro-Energy, a group formed to develop a
process of conversion of citrus juices into me-
thanol and which had developed engines to
run on such fuel. He belonged to Alpha Tau
Omega.

William C. Woods, Jr., 42, of Manhasset, New
York passed away on November 6, 1980.

He was born on March 25, 1919 in New
York City. After graduating as an electrical en-
gineer from WPI, he saw active duty as a lieu-
tenant in the U.S. Navy. In 1946, he joined
Western Union. From 1952 to 1954 he served
as a commander in the Navy. He was a senior
engineer for Sperry Gyroscope for eleven
years.

In 1965, he became a senior staff engineer
at Grumman Aerospace Co., Bethpage, NY.
He was a member of the ieee and the ire.

Frank H. Parsons, Jr., '45, co-owner of the
Acushnet Fish Corp., died in New Bedford,
Massachusetts on September 28, 1980.

He was bom on Nov. 28, 1923 in Provin-
cetown, Mass., and later became a member of
the Class of 1945. He graduated from Massa-
chusetts Maritime Academy. During World
War II, he served in the Merchant Marine.

Besides being co-owner and vice president
of Acushnet Fish Corp., Mr. Parsons was gen-
eral manager of Capt. Frank's Seafood Market
in New Bedford. He belonged to pkt.

Robert A. Hughes, '54 sim, died on November
1, 1980 in Worcester at the age of 62.

A former plant superintendent at Rexnord
Co., Worcester, he worked there for 37 years
before retiring in 1973. He was a Worcester na-
tive, and lived in Paxton for 56 years. At one
time, he belonged to the Sons of Paxton.

Arthur J. Soderberg, '55 sim, died recently at
Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass. He was
a retired purchasing agent for Coes Knife Co.

Alton C. Churbuck, '56, of Cotuit, Massachu-
setts was killed in an auto accident on March
12, 1980.

A native of Melrose, Mass., he was bom
on Feb. 16, 1934. He was a member of the
Class of 1956, and received his bs from Boston
University and his mba from Harvard Business
School. He belonged to Lambda Chi Alpha.

During his career, he was with Minneap-
olis Honeywell and Arthur Andersen & Co.,
Houston, Texas. He also served as president of
Maple Wood Products Co.

Wilbur S. Ekman, '59, died on September 3,
1980 in Hartford, Connecticut. He was 43
years old.

For over twenty years he was a chemical
engineer at Armstrong Rubber Co., where he
served as a radial tire compounder. In his lei-
sure hours, he was active with the Midget
Football "Ray Tellier" League in West Haven.

A native of Hartford, he was bom on June
16, 1937. He was a member of Lambda Chi Al-
pha. In 1959 he received his bs in chemical en-
gineering from WPI.

Stanley V. MacNeill, '60 sim, of Hudson, Mas-
sachusetts, died October 10, 1980. He was 66
years old.

Before retiring in 1978, he was mainte-
nance manager for the Worcester Gas and
Light Co. for 39 years. He had belonged to the
Unitarian Church, the Masons, and the Rotary
Club, and was an auxiliary police officer for
the Marlborough Police Department. He was a
notary public.

Robert M. Wallace, '60, a computer specialist,
passed away in Dayton, Ohio on June 24, 1980
at the age of 42.

Since 1967, Wallace was employed by the
Foreign Technology Division at Wright-
Patterson afb in Dayton. He was a pioneer in
the field of machine translation: Russian to
English. In June of 1979, he was invited by a
Canadian company to participate in a panel
discussion and present a paper to an interna-
tional convention in Bermuda. In May of
1980, he was invited to preside at the 9th Mid-
Year Meeting of the American Society for In-
formation Science at Robert Morris College in
Pittsburgh at a discussion of Automated Lan-
guage Processing.

He belonged to Phi Kappa Theta, and was
a graduate of the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst. He was born on June 20, 1938 in
Milford, Mass., and was a member of the
Class of 1960.

Maurice D. Letourneau, '73, a former teacher
at Quabbin Regional High School, died at his
home in Oakham, Massachusetts on Novem-
ber 1, 1980. He was 42.

He graduated from Worcester State Col-
lege, then received his ms in mathematics
from WPI in 1973. Until last year, he had
taught for several years at Quabbin Regional in
Barre, Mass. He was a native of Holden.

Steven A. Spaulding, '78, was killed in an au-
tomobile accident on April 18, 1980 in Seattle,
Washington at the age of 24.

At the time of his death, he was with the
Boeing Company. After leaving WPI, he en-
tered Virginia Polytechnic institute and State
University.

Gary F. Pietryk, '79, of Holyoke, Massachu-
setts died in a head-on automobile crash in
Connecticut on October 26, 1980.

He was bom on Sept. 19, 1957 in Ho-
lyoke, Mass. In 1979, he graduated as a me-
chanical engineer from WPI. He was
employed by Combustion Engineering of
Windsor, Conn., and belonged to the asme.

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Tom Keil

It's not the physics of music, but the music of the
physicist.

Planning your family's financial future

Gilbert Osborn discusses some of the considerations
that have to go into financial planning, with a look at
how some farsighted individuals have helped WPI at
the same time they have been planning for their fam-
ily's future.

Things to consider in financial planning

An interview with WPI tax counsel Conrad Teitell
about the many options in estate planning, together
with their many and varied tax and income
implications.

The coming crunch in the computer business

A look at what the federal government has labeled the
most serious manpower shortage for at least the next
decade.

16 Tech Old Timers

The many activities of WPI's most active alumni group.

17 Your class and others

20 Nothing negative about this feedback!

WPI's Harold Black, '21, is inducted into the highly
exclusive National Inventors Hall of Fame.

32 Completed Careers

Cover: You can always tell when it's Spring around WPI by
the appearance of the surveyors around the campus and in
Institute Park.

Editor: H. Russell Kay

Alumni Information Editor: Ruth S. Trask

Designer: H. Russell Kay

Typesetting: County Photo Compositing,
Inc., Jefferson, Mass.

Printing: Davis Press, Inc., Worcester, Mass.

Alumni Publications Committee: Donald E.
Ross, '54, chairman; Robert C. Gosling, '68;
Sidney Madwed, '49; Samuel W. Mencow, '37;
Kathleen Molony, '77; Stanley P. Negus, Jr.,
'54-

Address all correspondence to the Editor, The
WPI Journal, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
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Alumni Association by Worcester Polytechnic
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sachusetts.

WPI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

President: John H. McCabe, '68

Senior Vice President: Peter H. Horstmann,
'55

Vice President: Clark Poland, '48

Secretary-Treasurer: Stephen J. Hebert, '66

Past President: William A. Julian, '49

Executive Committee members-at-large:
Philip B. Ryan, '65; Donald E. Ross, '54; An-
son C. Fyler, '45; Harry W Tenney, Jr., '56

Fund Board: Henry Styskal, Jr., '50, chair-
man; Richard B. Kennedy, '65, vice chairman;
Gerald Finkle, '57; Philip H. Puddington, '59;
Richard A. Davis, '53; C. John Lindegren, '39;
John H. Tracy, '52

Tom Keil

Dr. Thomas H. Keil, professor of physics at WPI
since 1967, practices what he teaches.
On campus, he is involved with energy-
related projects covering solar design. Back home at his
Dutch colonial on Roseland Road, he has put a number of
his classroom theories into down-to-earth practical use —
with rewarding results. "In 1968, we heated our 2000-sq.
ft. house for $300," he reports. "In 1980, our heating bill
for the same house was $300."

The Keils, who have an oil furnace, did not suddenly
strike oil in their backyard. "We use the furnace only for
backup heat," Keil explains. "Our primary heating
sources are a coal stove and lots of glazing on the south
side of the house, which provides a generous amount of
free solar heat."

The sun also heats the hot water for his family of
four. A few years back, he had a solar hot water collector
installed on the roof. "With the tax credits allowed for
such an installation, we've come out ahead there, too,"
he says. Not leaving anything to chance, Keil has added
extra insulation to his middle-aged house, and built and
installed interior shutters on the windows. "During the
winter, we keep the shutters on the north side perma-
nently closed." He grins. "We also keep on our sweaters
and go into the kitchen with the coal stove, if we want to
get warm. In the kitchen, the temperature is nearly 68
degrees. In the rest of the house, it's about 10 degrees
cooler. But our bodies have adjusted to these tempera-
tures quite well."

While it was his classroom interest in solar energy
that led Keil to solar retrofit his home, it was his home-
grown interest in woodworking and music that led him
to teaching and performing back on campus.

"As a child, I enjoyed watching my father in his
workshop, and I learned a lot about carpentry and wood-
working from him," he reveals. "I also took piano lessons
and began to appreciate music." Tom's two interests
came together when he built a harpsichord from a kit.
The venture was so successful that he decided to teach a
harpsichord-making course at WPI's first Intersession in
1972.

"That first Intersession was of personal significance
in another area, too," he confides. "The St. Louis String
Quartet performed, and Max Rabinowitsj introduced me
to the world of stringed instruments. Today I play the
cello. As a matter of fact, a student and I played the cello,
and Prof. Harit Majmudar played the tanpura, in a trio for
the EE2001 class on its last day." Keil has also played
with a piano trio which includes Jennifer Weininger,
whose husband is Chemistry Professor Stephen
Weininger.

So devoted is Tom to the cello that he carried a
rented one down to the Washington Project Center where
he was faculty advisor for a term last year. In Worcester,

he continues to spend a lot of time practicing on the in-
strument. This summer, however, he won't be doing all
of his practicing at home. "My wife, Nora, has given me
a great gift," he says. "Ten days at Apple Hill Music
Camp near Peterborough, N.H.I can spend over eight
hours a day with chamber music!"

Of late, Tom has branched out into violin-making
and is currently repairing an old violin for a student. He
has not yet learned how to play the instrument. His 13-
year-old daughter, Perry, however, is taking violin les-
sons. His son, Seth, 12, took bassoon lessons but prefers
sports.

Summers find the Keil family in Nantucket. "We
have a couple of small sailboats and take lots of day trips.
The children have become so proficient that they can sail
by themselves."

Interested in education at all levels, Tom was for-
merly an officer of the now defunct Friends of the
Worcester Public Schools. He is about to become an in-
corporator of the Higgins Armory Museum, where Roger
Perry, '45, director of public relations at WPI, serves as
chairman. "The Higgins Armory is presently an impor-
tant part of our projects program at WPI," he says. "This
week, some of our students are concluding a project
there, presenting an exhibition on foot combat.

Keil, who has been involved with the WPI Plan since
its inception, is enthusiastic about projects which he
calls, "the most successful part of the plan." In 1969, he
served on and later became chairman of the curriculum
committee. He was responsible for creating and editing
the first operational catalog. He worked on the general
implementation committee, and was on the committee
which wrote the proposal to the National Science Foun-
dation which was so important in implementing the
plan.

"When I became physics department head in 1972,
the plan was 95 percent implemented," he says. "I spent
most of my time from 1972 to 1977 working on various
aspects of the plan, particularly projects." In 1977, he re-
linquished his post as department head and went back to
teaching full time.

He is still deeply involved with projects. Over the
past three years, Keil, Jack Boyd (mechanical engineer-
ing), and Van Bluemel (physics) have been advisors for so-
lar collector and solar pump design projects, which have
become popular topics. Keil enjoys such projects as much
as his students. "I like to relate physics to engineering."

Tom Keil not only like what he does, he's good at it.
In 1978, he received the Outstanding Teacher Award from
WPI. (And he still practices what he teaches!)

The WPI Journal / Spring 1981/1

Planning

your

family's

financial

future

by Gilbert S. Osborn

The accompanying interview with Conrad Teitell,
special tax counsel to WPI, addresses a topic which
we believe is — or should be — of compelling interest
to everyone in the WPI family. We hope you will read it
carefully and consider its implications for your future
and your family's security. Attorney Teitell is a recog-
nized national authority on estate planning and related
topics.

Incredible as it may seem, nearly half of all Ameri-
cans with assets to pass along after they die fail to make
wills. Consequently their property is distributed by state
law under generally rigid rules, and in many cases it goes
to persons the owners would not have chosen as benefi-
ciaries. Considering that executing a will is neither diffi-
cult nor expensive, it is difficult to understand why so
many persons are reluctant to do so, thereby jeopardizing
their loved ones and others whom they might otherwise
benefit, including institutions like WPI.

Why is it so important to have a will? As Attorney
Teitell points out, a properly drawn will is the only way
to make sure that the property you leave at death will go
to those whom you want to get it. Your will can guaran-
tee that the distribution of your property will be a lasting
memorial of your life and the values you hold in high re-
gard. Your will can nominate the persons you choose to
be the guardians of your minor children if they should be-
come orphans; it can name an executor of your own
choice to carry out the directions in your will; it can help
your attorney to minimize the taxes and other costs pay-
able at your death; it can provide security for any benefi-
ciaries who may not be qualified to manage their
inherited funds; and it can allow you to make a thought-
ful bequest to WPI and to other institutions or organiza-
tions whose work you want to help perpetuate.

If you're like many WPI alumni, you probably drew
up your will some time ago. Chances are, it reflected
your wishes and directed that your estate would pass to
your heirs according to your specific desires.

But, times and circumstances change — sometimes
suddenly, sometimes almost imperceptibly. Changes in
your family or perfessional situation; revisions in the
Federal tax laws; the impact of relentless inflation; even a
move to another state — these and other facts may corn-
spire to undermine the validity of the most carefully
thought out estate plan.

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An effective estate plan should have two primary ob-
jectives: First, the conservation and optimum use of your
assets to achieve maximum benefits for you and your
family during your lifetime; and, second, the transfer of
your assets to your heirs and other beneficiaries at your
death with a minimum of shrinkage due to taxes and
other costs. Attorney Teitell offers some especially help-
ful advice in this area.

Like individuals, institutions like WPI also must
plan for the future. During the past decade, WPI has
emerged among the front ranks of America's preeminent
educational institutions, thanks in large measure to the
enlightened generosity of earlier benefactors — Boynton,
Salisbury, Kinnicutt, Gordon, and many others — who
provided the financial foundations upon which later gen-
erations have helped WPI to grow and to prosper. The
largest single gift in WPI's history — a bequest of $5 mil-
lion in 1964 from the estate of George C. Gordon, Class
of 1895 — made possible the construction of the Gordon
Library and also endowed the Leland P. Kinnicutt profes-
sorship of Chemistry.

In 1975, a bequest of more than $1 million from the
estate of James H. Manning, '06, and Mrs. Manning en-
dowed a revolving student loan fund, and another be-
quest from the estate of Levi Leonard Grant, former head
of the Mathematics department and WPI's acting presi-
dent from 1911 to 1913, generates substantial annual in-
come for student financial aid.

But the good works such generous bequests help to
make possible are by no means restricted to gifts of such
magnitude, welcome as they are. Hundreds of bequests of
more modest dimensions from alumni, widows of
alumni, and other friends of WPI, have added immeasur-
ably to the college's financial strength, and have contrib-
uted significantly to the growth of our endowment
resources and our physical plant facilities. Currently,
nearly 200 alumni, trustees, and other friends of WPI
have advised us that they have included a provision for
WPI in their estate planning. By so doing, they have be-
come active partners in perpetuating and strengthening
WPI's educational leadership.

Attorney Teitell also points out that there are several
attractive ways by which alumni and friends of WPI may
give property to the college during their lifetimes and still
enjoy the income from that property together with attrac-
tive tax advantages, including reduced income and estate
taxes. As inflation constantly pushes everyone into
higher income tax brackets, these inter-vivos gift vehi-
cles have become increasingly popular among our gradu-
ates and friends. During the past four years, for example,

we have written six charitable remainder interest agree-
ments with generous annual income to the donor, and
another 27 persons are receiving quarterly income pay-
ments as participants in WPI's Life Income Fund and
Pooled Life Income Fund. Details about these plans, and
the attractive benefits they offer both for the donor and
for WPI, are available from Gil Osborn, Director of
Planned Giving, in the Office of University Relations.
As Teitell emphasizes, every person with assets to
pass along should plan his or her estate carefully, in con-
sultation with his or her own advisers. We subscribe
wholeheartedly to this advice, and welcome the opportu-
nity to discuss with you how you may include WPI in
your estate planning, if you are so inclined. Of course,
your estate plan should be tailored to fit your unique fi-
nancial and personal objectives.

Mark Twain reportedly once told a friend, "of
course I'm interested in the future, because I
plan to spend the rest of my life there."
We hope that you share his feeling, and that these
thoughts will help you to plan your future, and your fam-
ily's, in a way that provides the security you, and they,
deserve.

The WPI Journal / Spring 1981/3

Things to
consider a

V^« Mr. Teitell, what do you

CONSIDER THE ESSENTIALS OF AN EFFEC-
TIVE ESTATE PLAN?

in

financial

planning

An interview with
WPI tax and
estate-planning
consultant
Conrad Teitell

• A satisfactory plan is far
broader than many people realize. It
involves three parts:

First is the creation of wealth.
Otherwise you'll have nothing to
pass along to others.

Second is the conservation of
your assets so that you can enjoy
them right now and still have some-
thing left for comfortable retire-
ment, or to provide for your care
should you become ill or disabled.

Finally decisions must be made
on what property you will leave to
members of your family and
others — and how to leave it.

All of this has to be done with
the knowledge that there are three
enemies of any estate: taxes, infla-
tion, and the possibility of misman-
agement. Proper planning can avoid
the erosion of your assets by those
three foes.

V^» IS REDUCTION OF TAXES A PRIME
OBJECTIVE?

That's important, but it
shouldn't distort your wishes. Peo-
ple can get so caught up in tax bene-
fits that they forget what they want
to do.

I'm reminded of a play by Paddy
Chayefsky a few years ago. The hero
was played by Zero Mostel. Toward
the end of the play, Mostel, about to
commit suicide, turned to the audi-
ence and said something like this:
'Did you ever hear about the man
who got married in order to take ad-
vantage of the joint return, who then
got divorced in order to preserve his
Liechtenstein tax status, and who fi-
nally, on the advice of his account-
ant, kills himself?"

In planning an estate, you cer-
tainly should consider taxes — and
sometimes they will change the way
you do something. But that's not

where you start. First consider what
you want to accomplish, and then
determine what modifications may
be necessary for tax reasons.

V^» IS AN "ESTATE" WHAT PEOPLE
LEAVE BEHIND WHEN THEY DIE?

That's only one aspect of the
term. You have an estate right now if
you have accumulated any worldly
goods at all. And you probably have
been making estate plans without
even realizing it.

For example, when you buy a
life insurance policy, you make an
estate decision about the sort of pro-
tection you are buying and who is
boing to benefit on your death. Nam-
ing the beneficiary is important; so
is ownership of the policy. It's often
possible to take a million dollars'
worth of insurance out of an estate
just by having the beneficiary be the
owner when the policy is purchased,
or by transferring ownership if the
policy already is in your name.

If you buy a house for yourself
and your spouse and put it in joint
names, you've made an estate
decision — and sometimes not
wisely, for there are pitfalls in own-
ing property jointly For example,
the joint owner of property can't
convey an interest in it to heirs or
beneficiaries; the ownership interest
passes to the surviving joint tenant.
For that reason, joint ownership
might cancel out provisions in a
will.

Often, unnecessary gift and es-
tate taxes are incurred by putting
property in joint names. Get expert
advice, and weigh the pros and cons,
before you decide whether joint
ownership is advisable in your case.

Another thing many people
don't realize: If you haven't thought
about who will eventually get your
property — and specified your wishes
in a will — the state where you live
has a distribution plan all ready and
waiting for you, and it may be just
the opposite of what you'd have
wanted.

Reprinted with permission from U.S. News & World Report, December 8, 1980
Copyright 1980, by U.S. News e) World Report, Inc.

4 / Spring 1981 / The WPI Journal

Q:

Why?

l* Because for people who die
intestate — without leaving a will —
arbitrary state laws determine to
whom, how, and when your prop-
erty will be distributed. Your close
relatives will share in your estate,
but frequently not in the same pro-
portions you might have desired.

VJ* What might happen in such a

CASE?

i Suppose an individual who
dies without a will leaves a spouse
and two young children. In some
states, his or her property will be dis-
tributed one-third to the surviving
spouse and two-thirds to the
children.

Because the children are mi-
nors, a guardian has to be appointed
by the court. Although the spouse
probably would be the one ap-
pointed, in most states he or she has
to post a bond and pay bond pre-
miums. The guardian has to bet
court permission to use any part of
the children's share of the estate for
their support or education. And an
accounting has to be filed each year
with the court, detailing what the
spouse did with the children's prop-
erty. The spouse has to go to court
to explain all this, and time and
money will be spent in preparing the
accounting.

Take another case, when a per-
son dies leaving a spouse but no chil-
dren. In many states, if you have no
will, your spouse shares your estate
with your parents, brothers, sisters,
nephews, and nieces.

Thus, if you want to control
where your property goes on your
death, you need a will to carry out
your instructions.

VJ« In the case of a married cou-
ple, SHOULD BOTH PARTNERS HAVE
WILLS?

Yes. Husband and wife should
each have a will. Consider the mar-
ried woman who has no large

amount of property of her own be-
cause most of the family assets are
in her husband's name. Although
she hasn't much property now, she
will have a substantial estate if her
husband is the first to die and leaves
all of his perperty to her.

If a wife dies after her
husband — and without a will — her
estate, including everything she in-
herited from him, will be distributed
by the intestacy laws of her state,
the husband's and wife's well-
thought-out plans for children,
grandchildren, and charitable organi-
zations will be frustrated.

Awife shouldn't wait until she
becomes a widow to make her own
will. She will be under stress, and
that's not the best time to make im-
portant financial plans. There's also
the possibility that she may simply
postpone making a will, and never
get to it.

v£» Suppose a wife owns property

OF HER OWN, AND WANTS HER HUSBAND
TO HAVE ALL OF IT WHEN SHE DIES —

In that case, she needs a will
to assure that he will inherit all of it.
But it is important to leave the prop-
erty in a way which saves estate
taxes. When both husband and wife
have substantial assets, the com-
bined estate taxes on the husband's
and wife's estates often can be re-
duced if the wife leaves half of her
property to her husband and the
other half to children,
grandchildren, or charities. Or, she
might elect to leave half of her estate
outright to her husband and the rest
to him in a trust. That will save es-
tate taxes on his death. Only with a
will can a wife accomplish these
goals.

V#* Does a single man or woman

NEED A WILL?

i\Z Of course, so that he or she—
not the state's inflexible rules— will
determine who gets his or her prop-
erty. With a will, a single man or
woman can name an executor, cre-
ate trusts for young or inexperienced

heirs, benefit favorite charities. State
intestacy laws, incidentally, do not
provide for any charitable gifts.

xJS Whom should one name as

EXECUTOR OF A WILL? CAN A MAN AP-
POINT HIS WIFE, OR A WIFE HER HUS-
BAND?

Yes. But the particular facts in
each instance should rule that deci-
sion. If the assets are large, there
may be complicated tax returns to
file, valuations to be determined, in-
vestment decisions to be made. For
these reasons, it's often advisable to
have a bank or trust company, an ex-
perienced attorney, or other profes-
sional act as executor or trustee— or
as coexecutor or cotrustee with a
spouse or a close relative.

For example, my Uncle Henry
may know nothing about investing,
but he does know and care about my
children. I have confidence that he
will look out for their needs. So I
may want to name Uncle Henry to
act as cotrustee with the trust de-
partment of my local bank, and get
the benefit of a linking of two areas
of expertise.

\J* Have many individuals built

UP LARGER ESTATES THAN THEY REALIZE?

l« That's often the case today be-
cause of inflation and the growth of
fringe benefits in business and indus-
try. For example, many people have
houses that are worth perhaps three
or four times what they paid for
them many years ago. That inflated
value will show up in their estates,
as will the proceeds from group in-
surance that many employers pro-
vide for their employees. Under
these circumstances, a person can
find thaqt his or her estate will be
subject to tax— and often a hefty tax.

The WPI Journal / Spring 1981/5

V^S YOU MENTIONED A TAX ON THE
PROCEEDS OF INSURANCE. AREN'T INSUR-
ANCE BENEFITS TAX-FREE?

Insurance payments to a bene-
ficiary are free from income tax, but
they are subject to estate tax. Unless
proper plans are made, a big insur-
ance policy can increase the estate
tax.

One way of getting around this,
as I mentioned earlier, is for the fam-
ily breadwinner to make a gift of his
life insurance to his spouse. Assum-
ing he transfers the ownership at
least three years before his death, the
insurance proceeds won't be part of
his estate. If a policy with a large
cash value is given away, there may
be a gift tax on the present value, but
you can be certain that the gift tax
will be lower than the estate tax that
would otherwise be imposed on the
higher face value at death.

Let's say I have a 1 -million-
dollar policy, with a present value of
$200,000. If I give that to my wife to-
day, $200,000 is potentially subject
to gift tax. If I die with that same pol-
icy in my estate, 1 million dollars
will be subject to tax.

V^S Can a person make a gift of

THE GROUP INSURANCE POLICY
PROVIDED BY HIS OR HER EMPLOYER?

l« Yes. Almost all states now au-
thorize that. And since the value of
group term insurance is very low —
usually there's little or no current
value— no gift-tax liability generally
is incurred.

But it's important to note in
giving away any type of life insur-
ance that once ownership of a policy
is transferred to another person, the
original owner no longer has the
right to change beneficiaries or to
make any other changes.

VJ« Congress rewrote the laws
governing estate and gift taxes a
few years ago — in the tax reform
Act of 1976. Did those changes cut
down somewhat on the cost of
passing along wealth?

l* They increased the costs for
some poeple and reduced them for
others. Let's take a look at the law
before 1976, and the way things
stand now.

Under earlier law, an individual
could give away each year, free of gift
tax, property worth $3,000— $6,000
if a spouse concurred in the gift — to
as many beneficiaries as desired. In
addition, every individual had a sep-
arate lifetime gift allowance of
$30,000— or $60,000 for a couple
giving jointly. There were separate
schedules for gift taxes and estate
taxes. Taxes on gifts were about one-
fourth lower than those on property
passing through an estate. Moreover,
gifts during one's lifetime reduced
the size of the estate and thus re-
duced the amount of estate tax to be
paid. Every estate had an exemption
of $60,000 before any estate tax be-
came payable.

V^» HOW DID THE I976 LAW CHANGE
ALL THIS?

l* It made no change in the an-
nual gifts that one can make tax-
free. It's still possible to give away
$3,000 a year— or $6,000 with a
spouse's concurrence — to as many
beneficiaries as you wish.

But the additional lifetime gift
allowance of $30,000 per person was
abolished, and so was the $60,000
exemption from estate tax. How-
ever, these were replaced with a "un-
ified" transfer tax credit. More about
that in a minute.

The former separate gift and
estate-tax rates were replaced with a
progressive "unified" rate schedule
applying to both gifts during life and
at death. As matters stand now, any
portion of the unified credit used
against gift taxes during one's life-
time reduces the credit available to
be used eventually against the estate

tax. Note, however, that any
number of annual gifts of $3,000 — or
$6,000 if a spouse agrees — can be
made without cutting into the tax
credit.

An estate is allowed a marital
deduction for property passing to a
spouse of up to $250,000 or one-half
of the value of the adjusted gross
estate — whichever is greater. Also,
an individual can give a spouse up to
$100,000 free of gift tax. But in that
case, one's eventual estate-tax mari-
tal deduction may be decreased.

\J« HOW HIGH ARE THE RATES ON
GIFT AND ESTATE TAXES NOW?

As you can see from the ac-
companying table, the unified rates
range from a low of 18 percent to a
high of 70 percent on one's taxable
estate. The table is deceptive, how-
ever. Without going into the techni-
calities, once you exhaust the
unified credit, the bottom bracket is
32 percent — and not 18 percent.
However, the unified credit against
tax keeps a sizable amount out of the
hands of the tax collector.

For married couples who plan
carefully, the first spouse to die can
leave an estate of more than
$400,000 this year, and as much as
$425,000 in 1981 and later years,
and not be taxed at all by the federal
government.

Q:

HOW DOES THAT WORK OUT?

Congress specified that, be-
ginning in 1977, estates should get a
credit against any estate tax due. In

1977, the credit was $30,000; in

1978, $34,000; and in 1979, $38,000.
In 1980 it moved up to $42,500. In
1981 and thereafter it will be
$47,000.

6 / Spring 1981 / The WPI Journal

Since $42,500 is the estate tax
on about $161,000, the individual
who died in 1980 would pass along
$161,000 with no tax being due.
Married people get an additional
break: a marital deduction of 50 per-
cent of the value of the adjusted
gross estate, with a minimum de-
duction of up to $250,000.

So, for a spouse who dies in
1981 or thereafter, when the full
$47,000 unified credit applies and a
marital deduction has been provided
for, there will be no estate tax if the
estate doesn't exceed $425,000.
Above that amount, the first dollar is
subject to tax at an effective rate of
32 percent, and that rate goes up pro-
gressively with the size of the estate.

A basic point to keep in mind in
estate planning is the need to look
beyond what happens to just one es-
tate. As I've noted, it's possible for a
husband or wife to pass along to a
surviving spouse more than
$400,000 of assets free of estate tax.
But without proper planning, the es-
tate of the second to die can then be
clobbered by the tax collector.

V^« Are there ways to minimize

THE TAX ON A SURVIVING SPOUSE 's
ESTATE?

That often can be done by
making use of a trust. Let's consider
the case of a humsband who has a
$400,000 estate and wants his wife
to have the use of all the family as-
sets after he dies, but also wants to
provide for their children.

Instead of giving his wife the
maximum marital deduction al-
lowed his estate, his will can specify
that she get outright only the portion
of the marital deduction that will re-
duce his estate tax to zero, taking
into account the unified transfer tax
credit.

The rest of his assets go into a
trust which will pay income to his
wife for her lifetime, and principal if
she needs it— and on her death will
be divided among the children. In
that way, the wife's estate also will
be free of estate tax. Without the
trust, the wife's estate might have to

pay tens of thousands of dollars in
taxes.

For the larger estate, a good plan
often involves giving the surviving
wife an amount equal to the maxi-
mum marital deduction outright or
in trust, and giving her the balance
of the estate in a trust which will
benefit her for life but which will es-
cape estate taxes on her death.

These are some examples of the
advantages of trusts. There are many
other possibilities. You might want a
trust to protect a beneficiary
against his inexperience in managing
property, or against his financial
folly. You can appoint a trustee who
has wide discretion in deciding how
and under what circumstances the
income and principal of the trust
should be distributed.

VJ« Are there different kinds of

TRUSTS?

Yes. A trust that you set up
during your lifetime is called a "liv-
ing" or "intervivos" trust. A trust
that is set up under your will — and
that doesn't become effective until
after your death — is called a "testa-
mentary" trust.

V^» Can trusts of various kinds

HELP REDUCE ESTATE TAXES?

Yes, in many instances. But
that is not always the prime
purpose. A trust is also used for dis-
posing of property and managing it,
and for protecting heirs and benefi-
ciaries. A lawyer can advise you
whether a trust makes sense in your
circumstances, and, if so, what type
of trust you should create.

V^« HOW IS THE AMOUNT SUBJECT
TO ESTATE TAX DETERMINED?

Oversimplified, total the
items which go into the gross estate,
such as securities, tangible personal
property, real property, cash, mort-
gages, life insurance when the pro-
ceeds are either receivable by the
estate or the decendent owned the
policy. To this add one-half of any
community property and the value
of any jointly held property — which
may be includable in the gross
estate.

Then, subtract the decedent's
debts, funeral expenses, estate-
administration expenses, the marital
deduction, the orphans' deduction,
and charitable gifts. After all this,
you arrive at the taxable estate — the
amount potentially subject to tax.
The unified credit reduces the tax,
and in some cases wipes it out
altogether.

v^» Are there ways to give prop-
erty TO A COLLEGE, CHURCH, OR OTHER
CHARITY AND STILL GET LIFE INCOME
FROM THE PROPERTY?

l« Yes. It's an increasingly popu-
lar way of helping charities. Many
people would like to make signifi-
cant charitable gifts, but they just
can't afford to part with the income
from their assets. A person in this
position can make a gift while he or
she is alive, retain the income for
life — as well as for the lifetime of a
survivor, if that's desired — and get
an immediate income-tax deduction
as well as an eventual saving on es-
tate taxes.

The WPI Journal / Spring 1981/7

The Tax Bite on
Gifts and
Estates

The federal government taxes the value of property that people give away dur-
ing their lifetimes, as well as that left to heirs at death.

The gift tax is paid by the donor. The estate tax is paid by the executor
from the estate's assets.

Until a few years ago, the federal tax on gifts was a separate tax with
lower rates than for estates — an encouragement to gift-giving. But a new law
enacted in 1976 combined gifts and estates into a single tax schedule. Under
its provisions, credits taken for gift taxes reduce the amount of credits avail-
able for use against the estate tax. The unified credit— $47,000 for persons
who die after 1980— offsets the tentative tax up to the 32 percent rate. The
highest rate is 70 percent, for transfers above 5 million dollars.

Before a tax is levied, an estate gets a marital deduction for property pass-
ing to a spouse of up to the greater of $250,000 or one-half of the adjusted gross
estate.

The following shows taxes on property passed by gift or in taxable estates
of $10,000 to 1 million dollars.

TAXABLE TRANSFER TENTATIVE TAX

Upto$ 10,000 18%

$ 10,000-$ 20,000 $ 1,800 plus 20% over $ 10,000

$ 20,000-$ 40,000 $ 3,800 plus 22% over $ 20,000

$ 40,000-$ 60,000 $ 8,200 plus 24% over $ 40,000

$ 60,000-$ 80,000 $ 13,000 plus 26% over $ 60,000

$ 80,000-$ 100,000 $ 18,200 plus 28% over $ 80,000

$100,000-$150,000 $ 23,800 plus 30% over $100,000

$150,000-$250,000 $ 38,800 plus 32% over $150,000

$250,000-$500,000 $ 70,800 plus 34% over $250,000

$500,000-$750,000 $155,800 plus 37% over $500,000

$750,000-$ 1 million $248,300 plus 39% over $750,000

The tax on taxable estates from over 1 million dollars to over 5 million dollars
ranges from 41 percent to 70 percent.

8 / Spring 1981 / The WPI Journal

Here's an example. Take a man
who at age 70 creates a charitable
trust with $100,000 of securities
that cost him $30,000 many years
ago. He tells the trustee, "I'm put-
ting $100,000 into this trust, and ev-
ery year you are to pay me 7 percent
multiplied by the fair market value
of the trust as revalued each year."

This year, if the securities in the
trust are worth $100,000, the donor
gets $7,000. Next year, if the value
goes up to $1 10,000, he gets 7 per-
cent times $110,000— or $7,700. If
the income in any year isn't great
enough to make the payment, the
trustee dips into the principal to
make the payment.

In this particular example, the
donor would get an income-tax char-
itable deduction of $52,500. His de-
ductionis not for the full $100,000
placed in the trust. Uncle Sam dis-
counts the deduction for the actuar-
ial value of the donor's retained life
enjoyment. If he's in the 50 percent
bracket, the $52,500 deduction saves
him $26,250 in income taxes. And
he's going to get a yearly payment
from the trust for as long as he lives.

The annual payment could be 5
or 6 percent, or it could be 8 or 9 per-
cent. The higher the annual pay-
ment, the smaller will be the
income-tax charitable deduction.

V^» Are there additional advan-
tages TO THIS KIND OF GIFT?

l« Yes. The tax savings can be
even more significant. Suppose you
have stock that cost you $30,000,
and it's now worth $100,000— but
it's only paying a 2 percent return.
You want to sell. But you'd have a
$70,000 capital gain, and the income
tax on that would be, typically,
$17,500.

If the property is transferred to a
charitable trust, however, it can be
sold with no tax whatever on the
capital gain. Then the money can be
reinvested in something with a
higher yield. Adding the $26,250
income-tax savings generated by the
charitable deduction to $17,500
saved in capital gains taxes makes a
total tax savings of $43,750. You
have, in effect, a $56,250
investment— and not a $100,000
investment — in this arrangement,
because you saved $43,750 in taxes.
Assume that you get a 7 percent re-
turn. That's $7,000 on your original
$100,000 investment. But a $7,000
return on a $56,250 investment
means a yield of 12.4 percent. And
these days, you have to look at the
real yield on your investments.

Many charitable trusts can be so
invested that the payments received
each year are not taxed at ordinary
income-tax rates, but are either
taxed as capital gains or are untaxed
as a return of principal. That can be
very attractive.

V^« Are there other provisions in
the 1976 Tax Reform Act that can
affect the taxability of an estate?

l« Yes, there are several — with
varying degrees of complexity. For
example, an orphans' deduction sets
up a formula for estate-tax deduc-
tions for bequests to orphan chil-
dren. It specifies a deduction of
$5,000 for every year the child is un-
der 21 . Suppose I die, leaving an 1 1-
year-old child, and there is no other
surviving parent. Subracting 11 from
21 and multiplying by $5,000 means
that the child can get $50,000, free of
estate tax.

Wealthy people should be con-
cerned about so-called generation-
skipping rules. Congress made it
more difficult for families to hold
property in trusts for generation after
generation and avoid taxes as the
property is handed down from chil-
dren to grandchildren and so on. For
example, if a trust provides income
to a spouse for life, then to a son or

daughter for life, with the remainder
going to grandchildren, a generation-
skipping tax may be imposed at the
time of the son or daughter's death.
The tax comes out of the assets of
the trust. Within the new rules,
there's a $250,000 exemption for
property passed to grandchildren in
this fashion. There are a number of
pitfalls. Assets may become sugject
to tax, just by naming the wrong per-
son as trustee.

There's also a lower special-use
valuation of property for people who
own farms or real property used in a
closely held business.

All these are points people
should be aware of as they plan their
estates. I've just mentioned general
rules, and certainly not all of them.
Every individual wiith substantial
assets to pass along should consult
his or her own adviser as to how the
law applies in each particular case.

The WPI Journal / Spring 1981/9

The

coming

crunch

in the

computer

business,

or, Where are
the people
who will push
the buttons?

by Russell Kay

Not so many years ago, if you wanted to suggest to
someone a career that offered sure employment
almost anywhere in the country combined with
excellent job security you mentioned public-school
teaching.

Nowadays the teachers are out on the streets looking
for work in the aftermath of declining student popula-
tions, inflation, and draconian tax-cutting measures. You
don't suggest to anyone nowadays that teaching is a safe
career.

What then?

Computers. If ever there was a field crying for people, it is
this one — and it encompasses segments of virtually every
other field that touches on, or is touched by, technology.

Computers. The new watchword for the rest of this cen-
tury. Computers seem to be everywhere in our life; they
pervade our technology. The growth of computer use in
the last few years has been astounding, and yet projec-
tions for the near future make that recent growth seem
small.

Computers. They bring a whole new range of possibili-
ties, good and bad, to whatever they touch. They are, in
many senses, magic machines.*

Yet they are still machines. They need to be researched
and developed. They need to be designed. They need to
be manufactured. They need to be sold. They need to be
installed. They need to have programs written for them,
or they become merely expensive space-heaters. They
need to be maintained. They will break.

They need, most of all, an incredible number of people to
do all those things. And therein lies our tale.

*I believe it was Arthur C. Clarke, the science-fiction
writer, who first proposed the dictum that, to those una-
ble to understand its workings, any sufficiently advanced
technology is indistinguishable from magic.

10 / Spring 1981 / The WPI Journal

The marketplace

Teaching computer science

The manpower* * problem in computer-related in-
dustries is enormous, and it provides a classic ex-
ample of the laws of supply and demand in
operation. Most of the new people needed will have to be
trained in such areas as computer programming, informa-
tion management, computer science, computer engineer-
ing, electrical engineering. An extraordinary demand for
these people has arisen very rapidly, and the supply of
people who can fill that is severely limited. Classical eco-
nomics says that the price of the people will go up in this
situation, and indeed it has. Salaries in computer-related
jobs are higher than in most others, and they keep rising
at a pace greater than inflation.

A look at figures for starting salaries for college grad-
uates (bachelor's degrees) is revealing. The averages run
from $12,700 for liberal arts graduates to $20,000 for
computer science, to $22,000 in electrical engineering.
By comparison with other technical disciplines, civil en-
gineering averages $20,000, mechanical $22,000, and
chemical $24,000. (These figures are national averages as
of December 1980.)

Competition in the marketplace is incredibly in-
tense. In St. Louis recently, the Association for Comput-
ing Machinery held its annual conference, an event
which is for many people not much more than a giant job
fair. There were over 300 organizations interviewing at-
tendees for jobs. And it was often enough the case that an
individual would spend part of his day behind the desk,
interviewing candidates, and the rest of the day being in-
terviewed himself!

The attractions of the computer field are quite some-
thing. And yet there are some very serious problems that
must be tackled if the supply side of the issue is to be in-
creased.

* */ use the term 'manpower' in its generic, rather than
its sex-specific sense. The first computer programmer in
history was a woman, after whom the Department of De-
fense has named its new programming language— ada.

Most of the people needed will have to have col-
lege or graduate training in their area. That
means that they will need qualified college pro-
fessors to teach them. And the basic requirement for
teaching in a college is a pIid.

In 1980, there were 200 computer science pIid's grad-
uated in this country. At the same time there were at
least 1300 jobs advertised for these individuals, including
600 openings in colleges and universities. But the situa-
tion is worse than that. Of those 200 pIids, some 50 to 55
percent will go directly into industry. Another 30 to 35
percent are foreign nationals who, for visa or other rea-
sons, will be leaving the country and therefore cannot be
available for teaching. That leaves 15 percent, or about 30
new people for the 600 positions.

The economics aren't good, either, for teaching
about computers. At a school like WPI, the starting
salary for a new assistant professor with a pIid (whether
in computer science or any other department) is cur-
rently almost identical with the starting salaries of our
bachelor' s-degree graduates. With a brand-new pIid, how-
ever, industrial offers this year are in the neighborhood of
$32,000-$45,000. Whatever incentive to earn a pud that
exists, therefore, is likely to be strongly biased in favor of
industry and against teaching. This has an effect on the
entire field, however: it becomes harder than ever for stu-
dents to study computer science because there aren't
enough qualified faculty available to teach. It's compara-
ble to an agricultural situation where the price of corn is
so high that, instead of reserving enough corn to seed
next year's crop, everything is being sold right now.
That's fine for the short term, but what do you plant,
what do you harvest, what do you sell, and what do you
eat next year?

And that isn't the end of the economics, either. One
of the traditional attractions of college teaching is the op-
portunity for professors to engage in professional research
in their fields — and indeed they must do so if they are to
remain teachers under the usual "publish or perish" stan-
dards for promotion and tenure that exist at colleges and
universities. Yet high teaching loads don't leave time for
faculty to do research and publishing, so the high demand
also works to the professional teaching disadvantage of
college faculty.

The WPI Journal / Spring 1981/11

Furthermore, to engage in computer science research
takes time and equipment that often isn't available to-
day. In the one-third-century history of computers as real
machines, they have evolved through four distinct gener-
ations of technology: from vacuum tubes and relays, to
discrete solid-state devices, to small-scale integrated cir-
cuits, to the current very large scale integration of com-
ponents. No single academic department could hope to
keep pace with this rapidly changing technology. Experi-
mental facilities in most computer science departments
across the country are therefore obsolescent and inferior
to industrial facilities.

The cost of the equipment tends to create another
problem, this one organizational in nature. Computer
science is a laboratory discipline, and yet at WPI and at
many other institutions, the computer science depart-
ment has virtually no control over its primary laboratory
equipment. That laboratory — in the form of the campus
computer center — is an autonomous administrative
structure. During 1979-80, 40 percent of the timesharing
use of WPFs dec-io (since replaced by a more powerful
DEC-20) was by CS students. But the CS department (cur-
rently located in Washburn) has one — count 'em, one —
terminal which is permanently hardwired to the dec-20.
Every other terminal for the department and its faculty
must be used on a dial-up basis, subject to the availability
of an open line to the computer, at the slow speed of 30
characters per second. There is clearly no parallel with
any other department's basic tools.

A recent report released by the Computer Science
Board, a forum for the heads of the 67 computer-science-
phD-granting institutions (which do not include WPI) in
the United States and Canada, indicated that for rather
normal research, an average computer science depart-
ment must plan to spend $25,000 to $30,000 per
researcher — which includes graduate students as well as
faculty members — in capital outlay over the next five
years. For serious, state-of-the-art research, the figure is
$55,00 to $75,000 per researcher. And to all these figures
must be added approximately another 10 percent to 20
percent per year for maintenance and support.

Under these circumstances, it is fair to say that
anyone who does go into teaching must really
want to teach. It is also fair to say that faculty
morale and faculty retention are serious issues. It be-
comes harder and harder to compete with the attractions
of industry, especially when industry sets up research fa-
cilities that have the freedom and atmosphere of univer-
sities combined with competitive salaries and up-to-date

facilities. Experienced assistant professors can get indus-
trial offers as high as $45,000.

And yet the need for faculty has never been greater.
Nationally, the number of computer science faculty with
phDs has risen from 805 in 1975 to 825 in 1980, while the
number of undergraduates in the field has doubled. When
WPI started its computer science department in 1970,
there were 24 undergraduate majors and six faculty To-
day there are 220 undergraduate majoring in the field and
nine faculty. The beginning computer course at WPI, CS
1001, which teaches how to program in Fortran, had 700
students enrolled this year. That single course represents
a full teaching load for three to four computer science
faculty.

Every computer science faculty member teaches
evening courses, mostly given off campus, in addition to
a full load of daytime courses and projects. The extra
compensation for this additional evening work doesn't
begin to compare with normal teaching salaries, much
less what a faculty member could expect to earn by
devoting that time to research. That our faculty continue
to take on this extra load is more often out of loyalty to
the continuing education students and their needs rather
than a real desire for more teaching.

It cannot be too surprising, therefore, that finding
and holding teachers is a problem. A search has been go-
ing on for over a year to find a computer science depart-
ment head for WPI. What may be somewhat surprising is
that holding students can also be a problem. Often a stu-
dent takes a job in the summer or evenings working at
computer programming. His employer offers that student
an immediate full-time job, no college degree needed, at a
$20,000 salary. That's very attractive, and it does take its
toll of students. (That this practice is unfortunately
short-sighted, both for the student and for the employer,
is all too true.)

Prof. Stephen Alpert, acting head of WPI's computer
science department, summed up the faculty situation
this way: "It's Tuesday, right? I bet I could get on the
phone to people in local industry and sell this entire de-
partment and everyone in it — lock, stock, and barrel — as
a package. Everyone in the department would make sig-
nificantly more money, no one would have to move be-
cause our work would still be in the area . . . and I bet I
could wrap up the negotiations for all of this by the end of
the week! That's how strong the demand for good, expe-
rienced CS people is."

12 / Spring 1981 / The WPI Journal

The Electrical Engineering
perspective

Electrical engineering is the other major discipline
which is inevitably caught up in the computer
whirl, because computers are electronic machines.
For EE, moreover, computers are a growing part of their
field. Computer engineering has clearly become one of
the fundamental areas of electrical engineering, and
every EE must be comfortable with the use of computers.
A recent report by the Institute of Electrical and Elec-
tronics Engineers (ieee) power group recommended three
computer courses for all EEs, regardless of specialty.

But it is still only one part of electrical engineering.
Professor Donald Eteson echoes the feelings of the WPI
department when he remarks that an EE needs a broad
education within the field. "The year I graduated, the
University of Pennsylvania computer went on-line, and
the first real paper on the transistor was published. If I
hadn't gotten an education that would last, one that had
staying power, my career would have been over the day I
graduated!"

The EE department has not had the same difficulties
as computer science in recruiting and keeping faculty.
They have not established a special computer group (al-
though there are certain members who are more inter-
ested than are others), because they feel every
department member must be able to deal effectively with
computers.

Although it has its own courses in computer engi-
neering, the EE department has worked together with the
CS people to develop a new interdisciplinary course, "In-
troduction to Microprocessors," which was offered for
the first time last year. Other major involvement is pri-
marily in projects, especially in the areas of power, com-
munications, and biomedical engineering.

The EE perspective on equipment needs is some-
what different from that of CS. Eteson, in looking to the
future, says that, "in a few years, the long-awaited com-
puter millennium will arrive. It will then be standard
practice in industry to provide each engineer with the
desk-top equivalent of a pdp-ii minicomputer for his or
her sole use. Going a few years beyond that, something
equivalent in computing power to our dec-20 will be able
to sit on that desk top."

There is a reasonably strong rationale for saying, in
effect, 'let's wait three years and we can get equipment
that's twice as powerful for the same number of dollars.'
The hidden cost of that wait, however, is that you then

don't have access to those computers for three years, and
this can have a serious impact on a department strongly
rooted in current technology.

The EE department is currently in what Eteson de-
scribes as "a holding pattern" regarding computer equip-
ment. "The future is clearly with distributed computing,
and we will have to see how well such things as ethernet
(a coaxial cable based local network system developed by
Xerox) will fit in with WPI's educational needs." The de-
partment, after some discussion, has recently standard-
ized all of its microprocessor teaching and development
around a single chip, Intel's 8086, which uses 16 bits in
each of its words.

Student access to computing (something which WPI
has always boasted of), has become something of a prob-
lem, and promises to remain so, according to Eteson, un-
til the next major change in campus computing power,
perhaps four or five years off (remember, WPI's dec-20
was just installed last summer!). All over the campus,
however, microcomputers are sprouting up like weeds in
a meadow. Several years ago some eighteen lsi-ii units
were acquired, and these are being used in such various
places as civil engineering, materials engineering, the
University of Massachusetts Medical Center, and me-
chanical engineering, as well as EE and CS. Apple II
micros have appeared in the mathematical sciences
and materials engineering departments (and perhaps
others, too).

It has been suggested, seriously, that perhaps the in-
troductory computer course, CS 1001, be shifted away
from Fortran, punched cards, and the campus computer
center's Univac, and to UCSD Pascal (a dialect of the
Pascal language developed at the University of California
at San Diego) used on a series of small microcomputers
(which would have to be obtained) where students would
have to schedule time. Although this would provide a
more modern introduction to computers and computer
programming, as yet no serious study of the cost of
this move, or its implications for faculty time, has
been made.

Eteson sums up the equipment and curriculum situ-
ation this way: "If we work very hard at it, we can proba-
bly manage to stay not more than three or four years
behind industry. "

The WPIfoumal / Spring 1981 / 13

Continuing
education:
Glowing in the
dark

One place to see the impact of the computer revolution is
in WPI's continuing education programs of evening grad-
uate courses and short seminars. Professor Robert Hall,
director of the programs, notes that electrical engineering
and computer science courses account for nearly half the
offerings in the evening graduate program.

Growth in the industry has created a special require-
ment for employee training. One large local computer
maker, for example, has plans to drastically increase its
workforce in the next five years (estimates being heard
range from 30,000 to 50,000 people to be added!)

This kind of growth in size means a building boom
as well, and this feeds students into WPI's evening certif-
icate program in plant engineering.

Another large manufacturer of computers and
computer-based systems found itself unable to hire
enough qualified people locally and went to national re-
cruiting, but even this is not successful nowadays be-
cause of increased housing costs and the concomitant
lowered mobility of people) . So this company now is
back to looking locally and retraining people to acquire
the skills needed.

Hall notes that the number of evening students has
risen dramatically in recent years. "In 1973-74, we had
250 students enrolled in the evening program. By
1979-80, that figure had tripled to nearly 800." He at-
tributes this to the need for expanded knowledge plus the
easier opportunities now available. WPI gives evening
courses at a number of off-campus locations, including
Digital Equipment Corporation, Data General, Ray-
theon, and Honeywell.

Hall also comments on what some students go
through to get a degree. "We find that a number of people
will work in a degree program for a year or two, then get
transferred out of the immediate area, then cycle back in
a couple of years. One recent graduate took six years and
three employers to get his degree!"

WPI's newest continuing education effort has been
aimed at providing a series of short, two- or three-day
seminars in specific areas. Hall observes that one com-
puter manufacturer sends its employees to WPI seminars
in such numbers that it represents the largest single pro-
vider of students for these programs. He notes further
that all the area computer industries, taken as a group,
account for between 30 and 40 percent of all seminar at-
tendees. To give you an idea of the numbers involved, in

-78, its second year of operation, the seminar pro-
gram reached 600 people. In calendar 1980 over 2,500
were enrolled.

14 / Spring 1981 / The WPI Journal

The outlook

In October 1980, the National Science Foundation and
the Department of Education published a joint report,
Science e) Engineering Education for the 1 980 's and
Beyond, which attempts to assess the adequacy of our ed-
ucational system to meet the needs which are projected
for the future. It observed that:

Computer professional fields represent the single broad area in
which there are clear shortages of personnel at all degree levels
at the present time and where those shortages are projected to
continue through 1990. . . . Trends for computer profes-
sionals have been similar to those for engineering; namely, rap-
idly rising undergraduate enrollments and decreasing phD
production.

. . . A good deal of the instruction now being offered
may be obsolete simply because it makes use of obsolete equip-
ment. A similar situation is evident in many computer profes-
sion departments. While this situation may not pose significant
problems for the large employers of engineers that can afford on-
the-job training for newly hired personnel, specialists argue that
it could have appreciable effects on smaller companies and in-
dustries which traditionally have counted on new graduates to
keep them abreast of the latest developments.

The faculty shortage and equipment obsolescence problem
[may mean] that the capacity of engineering schools and com-
puter profession departments to accept and provide an adequate
education to all qualified applicants may be reached during the
present decade. . . . It is probably the case that long-term
solutions to the faculty shortage, equipment obsolescence, and
rigidity problems must derive from the establishment of close
working relationships between universities and industry.

WPI, with its project-based curriculum, has a strong
current involvement with industry. What the school is
now exploring is the use of people in industry to help sup-
plement faculty and thereby relieve some of the load, par-
ticularly in the computer-related areas. The recently
announced joint venture with Emhart Corporation, for
example, will involve numbers of Emhart personnel on
campus working with students on the projects and re-
search programs undertaken in the areas of robotics
and industrial applications of current microprocessor
technology.

This kind of cooperation will increase, and it will in-
volve many different types of companies, for the simple
reason that there is no other way in which industry or or
the academic establishment can hope to meet the need
for trained computer professionals.

Will these kinds of measures be enough to solve
the severe shortage of trained professionals?
Or will it be a case of too little, too late? Will
the promise of the magic machines fade?

Ask again in five years.

The WPI Journal / Spring 1981 / 15

Tech Old Timers

IT IS WITHOUT QUESTION One of
WPI's most enthusiastic clubs.
Its members meet once a month,
September through May, and cur-
rently draw about 50 people to each
meeting. Among the reasons for the
group's success are that it is a fun
group or retirees of diverse talents
with a common interest in WPI and
in surviving on a fixed income.
Members can drop by WPI on the
second Thursday of the month, en-
joy a cup of "coffee and," and rap
with classmates, former profs, and
trustees — all of whom are repre-
sented in the TOT membership. The
atmosphere is informal, the business
meetings short, and the programs in-
teresting and stimulating. There is a
group of 25 or 30 members who feel
so keen about the organization that
they rarely miss a meeting.

The group was started in De-
cember 1958 with only 23 members,
and its objective hs remained un-
changed over the years: "To culti-
vate tge comradeship of older
members of the Worcester Polytech-
nic Institute Alumniresiding in or
near Worcester for sociability and ex-
change of ideas upon such topics of
community or general interest as
may suggest themselves, and espe-
cially those relating to the Insti-
tute." The club's simple, one-page
bylaws have been revised in only mi-
nor details over the past 22 years in
only minor details to reflect chang-
ing circumstances. And after 20
years, inflation caught up with TOT
and they had to raise their dues from
$ 1 . 00 per season to $2 . 00 .

Many members have served the
group as officers, usually for a two-
year term. An example of extreme
dedication is the case of Harrison
Brown, ' 12, who was secretary of the
club for its first 16 years! WPI fur-
nishes a meeting place, and the
mailings go out through the Alumni
Office. Otherwise, the club is virtu-
ally self-sustaining. They get good
speakers from WPI faculty and staff
and tap the talents of their own
members for travelogues and hob-

bies of special interest. There is no
limit to the supply of good speakers,
on a wide range of subjects, that they
can get through members' contacts.

There is always a lot of good-
natured kidding during the meetings
and everyone joins in the fun. When
Walter Dennen, '18, gets up to make
an announcement, you can always
count on a few humorous remarks
about the current political scene,
while Larry Larson, '20, provides a
running commentary on the pro-
ceedings. Any attempt at formality

on the part of an over-zealous mem-
ber is summarily dismissed. In spite
of all this, however, there are occa-
sional technical and serious pro-
grams that can inspire some very
searching questions.

Over the years there have been
ups and downs, but membership has
continued to grow. Alumni are retir-
ing earlier, living longer, and liking it
better. Only ten years ago TOT had
about 700 members, while today
there are over 150 active members.
Another 150 alumni within easy
driving distance of WPI are eligible
to join. Qualifications: sense of hu-
mor, age 65 or retired.

Tech Old Timers at their September
1980 meeting:

Front tow: Pete Marsaw '30, Dir
Deranian '29, Ed Brown (faculty),
Stan Knight '32, vice-president
Howie Whittum '34, president
Wally Dahlstrom '36, secretary-
treasurer Bob Fowler '36, George
Bartlett '38, George Garrison sim
'53, and Cy Hardy '26.

2nd row: Chet Doe '28, Erwin
Mattson '23, Larry Backlin '28, Ted
Schoonmaker '26, William Har-
rington '23, Karl Penney '28, Leight
Wellman (faculty), Bert Anderson
'34, Carl Backstrom '30, Al Glenn
'33, and Wendell Davis '22.

3rd tow: Phil MacArdle '27, Ted
Englund '28, William Kosciak '36,

Russ Hemenway '35, Roger Tarbox
'28, Art Parsons '26, Chet Inman
'14, Bob Chapman '21, Harold
Baines '26, Forrest Nelson '28, and
Art Miller '24.

4th tow: Ray Bjork '26, John
Hendrickson '33, Harold Hendrick-
son '36, Lester Sarty '28, Russ Field
'22, Wayne Keith '22, Phil White
'22, Edwin Tucker '32, and Frank
Forsberg '18.

Back tow: True Sanderson '31,
Freeman Hawley '23, Ed Sawtell '38,
Al Chase '36, John Whenman (fac-
ulty), Bill Locke (faculty), Don
MacMillan '35, Irving Desper '21,
George Parsons '22, Wally Gove
'31, Walter Dennen '18, and Art
Klebart '33.

16 / Spring 1981 / The WPI Journal

1919

Austin Welch writes: "I've never seen any-
thing written about a part (small) that WPI
played in Robert Goddard's, '08, rocket work.
What I recall is this. The present Skull build-
ing was used in 1916-1917 only by Tech
News, and we met there, I think, at 4 p.m. ev-
ery Monday or Tuesday. Then we were asked
to relinquish the building and meet in Boyn-
ton instead. The next thing we knew, an assis-
tant professor of physics named Haig was
conducting rocket experiments for a Clark
University man named Goddard.

I lived on Dean St and the noise

from the Skull building came straight through
to my house. About once in two weeks, espe-
cially in winter, there would be quite a loud
explosion during the night about 3a.m.

I just thought that Prof. Haig and WPI
should have some sort of recognition concern-
ing the experiments."

1922

In 1965, after 41 years of teaching in the Civil
Engineering Department at WPI, Prof. Carl
Meyer retired to Winter Park, Fla. Ayear later
he came out of retirement to enter a second
professional career, which was as a section cel-
list in the eight-man cello section of the all-
professional Florida Symphony Orchestra. He
says, "Music, as my Tech friends know, had
been my life-time avocation. My second ca-
reer, that of a professional musician, ended af-
ter ten years of service with the Florida
Symphony."

After his retirement, he continued his
technical writing by producing the 4th edition
of his textbook, Route Surveying &> Design in
1969. The first edition of the book was
published in 1949, and it quickly became the
most widely used book in its field.

In preparation for the future, he took on a
co-author, Prof. David Gibson of the Univer-
sity of Florida. In 1980 their joint efforts cul-
minated in a 5th edition, published by Harper
&Row.

Prof. Meyer takes great pride in the stay-
ing power of his book. It continues to be the
leader in its field, and already has been used by
more than 275 different universities, colleges,
and technical institutes.

He writes: "I like to remind friends that
when they drive over a nicely-banked and spi-
raled curve on any Interstate Highway, the
chances are better than 50-50 that the curve
was computed and built with the aid of the
theory and tables in Route Surveying et>
Design."

1925

O. Arnold Hansen was recently named "Engi-
neer of the Year" by the Erie-Niagara Chapter
of the New York State Society of Professional
Engineers. "Ole" started his career with the
White Motor Co. of Cleveland, Ohio follow-
ing his graduation from WPI. On his last day of
work at White, he drew a sketch of the auto-
matic clutch for a fellow worker who was baf-
fled by an engine clutch problem. That sketch
was the basis for the first several patents is-
sued in his name.

After leaving White, he joined Linde in
Buffalo, N.Y, and worked on the problems as-
sociated with Eveready Prestone as it was then
manufactured. Following the solution to those
problems, he turned his attention to liquid ox-
ygen distribution. This was new in the U.S.
and was carried out with German equipment.
In this field, Hansen instigated the develop-
ment of several new processes and equipment
on which over 25 patents were issued in his
name. Articles concerning this work were
published by "Mechanical Engineering" and
'Chemical Engineering."

His innovative approach to problems led
him into a wide variety of investigations rang-
ing from rupture characteristics of high pres-
sure gas cylinders to the revitalization of spent
oil wells, from building plans for laboratory
expansion, to representation of the company
in college relationships.

He retired early, but worked for a time at
Firewell to complete a project which provided
liquid nitrogen cooling for infra-red detectors
on military aircraft, and at Bell Aerosystems
on the development of positive propulsion fuel
tanks for the Minuteman Missile.

Civic-minded, Hansen has served as a
past president of the local chapter of the Soci-
ety of Automotive Engineers, and of the gov-
erning board of his church. He was the
architect and supervised the building of a Girl
Scout lodge, and taught several engineering
courses at Erie Community College.

1927

Percival Lowell's son-in-law has joined him in
managing the Pert Lowell Company which
manufactures mast hoops and sail hanks,
among other things. Lowell is located in New-
bury, Mass.

1928

William Lester is president of William Lester
Corp., Livingston, N.J.

Although retired since 1969, Donald Reed
leads an active life in Millbury, Mass. He does
a considerable amount of church work, espe-
cially along managerial and financial lines.
Occasionally he also helps out with the nur-
sery school.

1929

Arthur Knight writes from Vermont that the
National Geographic special report entitled

"Energy," and the Exxon magazine, OilWays,
should be required reading for prospective en-
gineers as well as the general public— anyone
interested in the energy scene. He and Helen
("not boob tube addicts") try to keep up with
what's going on by reading a host of publica-
tions, including Antiques Magazine, Book Di-
gest, and Smithsonian magazine. The Knights
have maintained a sense of humor. They for-
warded a clip from Forbes which lists "aging"
standards. One of the standards allegedly is:

"You sink your teeth into a steak, and they
stay there!" Knight is a trustee emeritus of
WPI.

1931

REUNION

June 4,5,6,7

The 50th reunion committee has been hard at
work since last fall. Members are Ralph
Hodgkinson, Frannie Townsend, Ed Bayon, Al
Demont, Wally Gove, Frank Andrews, Ed
Odium, Fred Farrar, Bob Taylor, Ted Coe, Red
Underhill, and Bob Barrett, chairman of the
class gift committee. The latest meeting was
held in the form of a telethon from the Alumni
Office on Sunday, March 15th.

Frank Andrews, who retired from Water-
town Arsenal in 1967 with 27 years of govern-
ment service, still works as a self-employed
civil engineer. He says he's a bachelor and a
golfer, "but may settle down one of these
days."

Francis Burgoyne is retired. Formerly, he
was clerk of the works for the ymca, Green-
dale branch, Worcester.

The WPI Journal / Spring 1981/17

Nothing negative about this
feedback!

Santa Claus arrived a week early at the home of
HaroldS. Black, '21, last December. "On Decem-
ber 17th; to be exact," he explains. "That was the
day that I was officially notified that I had been elected to
the National Inventors Hall of Fame. What a Christmas
present! The best honor yet!"

He chuckles. "It just goes to show, that if you live
long enough, a lost of things can come your way." 83-
year-old Harold Black, the originator of the negative
feedback theory, has won countless awards from the sci-
entific community. His large library abounds with them.
But the latest is by far, the sweetest.

Since its inception in 1973, the National Inventors
Hall of Fame has selected 38 inventors to its ranks, in-
cluding two eminent WPI alumni, Robert Goddard, '08,
and Dr. Black. Among the first members were Thomas
Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Eli Whitney. Two
others, Charles Kettering, who invented the first electri-
cal ignition system for the automobile, and Carl Djerassi,
who formulated the birth control pill, were previously
tapped by WPI to receive honorary degrees. Dr. Black also
received an honorary doctor of engineering degree at WPI
in 1955.

The National Inventors Hall of Fame is dedicated to
the individuals who conceived the great technological ad-
vances which are fostered by the patent system. The pur-
pose of the Hall is to honor these inventors and bring
public recognition to them and to their contributions to
the nation's welfare.

Inventors are selected for the Hall of Fame by a selec-
tion committee composed of representatives from na-
tional scientific and technical organizations. The
committee considers whether the invention of the nomi-
nee is covered by a U.S. patent, the contributions of the
invention to the nation's welfare, and the extent to
which it promotes the progress of science and useful arts.

C. Marshall Dann, '35, a current WPI trustee and
former head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
(which helped establish the Inventors Hall of Fame),
comments on the magnitude of the latest honor be-
stowed on his fellow alumnus.

"Election to the National Inventors Hall of Fame is
one of the highest tributes that an inventor can receive,"
he says. "Dr. Black is to be congratulated. He now joins
the ranks of Edison, the Wright brothers, and Marconi.
His selection into such a prestigious fraternity reflects
great credit on WPI."

In his former post as Commissioner of Patents,
Marshall Dann took part in the 1977 Hall of Fame induc-
tion ceremonies for Dr. Edwin Land of Polaroid Land
camera fame. "I presented him with his 498th, 499th,
and 500th patents," he recalls. "Also, in 1979, 1 was host
to the Goddard party, when another WPI alumnus, Rob-
ert Goddard, was posthumously inducted into the Na-
tional Inventors Hall of Fame."

On February 8th Dr. Harold Black was in Arlington,
Va. to participate in this year's induction ceremonies. "It
was a wonderful evening," he says with enthusiasm.
'Even though I barely had time to taste my dinner. First,
Bell Labs (his former employer for 42 years) sent a limou-
sine around to take us to the ceremony. Once we arrived,
Channel 13 interviewed me for an hour and a half for an
upcoming TV series called "Creativity." A lot of other re-
porters and photographers were on hand, too, and I guess
they were doing their job. Some friends of ours told us
later that they had seen us on TV way out in Kansas."

A model of Dr. Black's negative feedback amplifier,
which revolutionized electronic communications, was
on display at the Hall of Fame during the ceremonies.
Black developed the theory of negative feedback for solv-
ing distortion problems back in 1927 while he was cross-
ing the Hudson River on the Lackawanna ferry on his
way to work at Bell. After several years of wrestling with
the problem, he suddenly realized a solution. By feeding
part of the amplifier's output back into the device along
with the normal input, but in reverse phase, and then
keeping the device from oscillating, he would have ex-
actly what he wanted: a means of canceling out the dis-
tortion which was introduced by the amplifier.

He opened his morning newspaper, and on a blank
page of the New York Times he sketched a simple dia-
gram of a negative feedback amplifier plus the equations
for the amplification with feedback.

It took ten years for Black to receive his "Wave
Translation System" patent, primarily because it was
such a revolutionary idea that the Patent Office didn't be-
lieve that it would work. His invention required a patent
application of 42 pages of text, 9 pages of 126 claims, and
33 pages depicting 75 figures or drawings. The reason for
its extraordinary length was that the invention was in a
new field, whose principles were not understood at the
time, although today they are well known and com-
monly used.

Initially important in transcontinental and trans-
Atlantic telecommunications, negative feedback has also
been widely applied to industrial, military and consumer
electronics, weaponry, analog computers, and such de-
vices as pacemakers. It has had a marked impact on ra-

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dio, television, public address systems, sound recording,
chemical control systems, spacecraft guidance systems,
and electrical power supply circuits.

Even today, Black's theory, later refined by him-
self and others at Bell Labs, continues to find new
applications. "Negative feedback amplifiers are still
essential," he comments. "I have seen hundreds of thou-
sands of uses. There are almost an endless number of pos-
sibilities."

Dr. Black was with Bell Labs from 1921 until his re-
tirement in 1963. Later, he became principal research sci-
entist at General Precision Corporation. Since 1966, he
has been a communications consultant, also primarily
concerned with negative feedback systems for the blind
and deaf.

Throughout his long, distinguished career, Dr. Black
has received 62 U.S. patents and 271 foreign patents. He
holds eleven fellowships and 19 memberships in profes-
sional societies. He is listed in a number of notable publi-
cations such as Who 's Who in Science, Who 's Who in
America, and Who 's Who in Engineering, as well as in
Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in Aviation. An
author, he has written 42 articles.

Among his numerous awards are: The 1934 Ameri-
can Institute of Electrical Engineers National Best Paper
Prize in Theory and Research; the 1940 Modern Pioneer

Award on the Frontier of American Industry by the
National Association of Manufacturers; the Franklin
Institute John Price Wetherill Medal; the U.S. War De-
partment Certificate of Appreciation in 1946; the Re-
search Corporation Award in 1952; the aiee Lamme Gold
Medal in 1957; and the Audio Engineering Society's John
H. Potts Memorial Award.

Dr. Black acknowledges that he has been fortunate
to have been the recipient of so many awards. "Each has
meant a lot to me," he confides. "But being named to the
National Inventors Hall of Fame means the most."

The U.S. patent system, which cites the foremost
inventors for their contributions to science and society
through its Hall of Fame, once received an apt tribute
from President Abraham Lincoln, also an inventor. He
said: "The patent system added the fuel of interest to the
fire of genius."

At 83, Dr. Harold Stephen Black has received the
highest honor that the patent system can bestow —
induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. And
his personal "fire of genius" is still very much aglow. The
native of Leominster, Mass. describes his great gift more
simply. "Call it Yankee ingenuity," he says.

His latest interest in to be the first to find an ideal so-
lution to the continuing quest for 3-D television.

Ever since Ben Chadwick sold his hard-
ware business in 1969, he and his wife have
been on the go. For several years they enjoyed
freighter travel and visited ports in Africa, the
Orient, Australia, New Zealand, the eastern
Arctic, Newfoundland and Labrador. During
their last freighter trip, they went 200 miles by
river into the interior of Venezuela.

Now past the age limit (65) for freighter
travel, they have purchased an Airstream
trailer. In February, they were slated to go on a
five-week caravan to the Baja Peninsula. The
Chadwicks have also been on a number of
alumni trips.

In 1965, Paul Fittz retired from Sears
Roebuck after 28 years with the company. The
last few years, he was plant engineer at the
Sears mail order plant in Philadelphia. After
retirement, he returned to Massachusetts
(North New Salem). Subsequently, he became
vice president of the Orange Savings Bank and
president of the Kiwanis, as well as chairman
of the New Salem Planning Board, when zon-
ing was adopted. In 1968, he retired as a cap-
tain from the usnr. With his wife, Dorothy, he
taught round dancing from 1972 to 1978. The
Fittzes have two daughters and six grandchil-
dren. Three years ago, Paul suffered a major
stroke.

Still associated with the Athol (Mass.)
Historical Society, M. Dexter Gleason also
conducts tours through the Athol Public
Works and L. S. Starrett Co.

Otie Mace recently sold his electrical con-
tracting business and is now a consulting engi-
neer. He writes, "I am looking forward to
having more time off."

Formerly with W. M. Steele Co., Inc.
Worcester, George Munson is now retired and
living in Daytona Beach, Fla.

John Tuthill of Orient, N.Y. says that
since his retirement from du Pont, he has
'played at commercial fishing."

1933

The Jim Rafters, who were married in July,
now have two houses, one of which they in-
tend to update and sell. Jim reports that he
plays golf frequently and occasionally wins a
drink or two from his playing companions.

1936

Although officially retired, J. Edward Guild did

a consulting job last winter for Reynolds
Metals Co. in Richmond, Va. The Guilds keep
busy with church assignments and genealogi-
cal research.

As he approaches his 45th reunion, John
Wyman waxes poetic from Maine. He writes:
'There was a Tech grad. named John, who en-
joyed the noise of the throng. When it came to
time to retire, he said, 'I don't tire.' So around,
he's still kicking the gong." John, who says
limerick writing is a hobby, hopes to attend
his 45th with Dee.

1937

William Brown says that he retired from Rock-
well International last July and is enjoying
himself.

Caleb (Bud) Hammond, chairman of the
board of Hammond incorporated, Maplewood,
N.J., retired recently after 41 years. At the
board of directors meeting at which his retire-
ment was announced, a testimonial was pre-
sented to him by his brother, Stuart L.
Hammond, president of the firm. The resolu-
tion cited Hammond for his "unfailing sense
of perception and his most capable leadership
as chairman and president." In appreciation of
his many years of service, he was named chair-
man emeritus. Currently, Hammond is active
as a WPI trustee, chairman of the Maplewood
Bank & Trust Co., and trustee of the Medical
Center at Orange, N.J. Also, he holds the post
of director of Summit Bancorporation.

Richard Lyman, vice president of New
England Electric System, Wesboro, Mass., re-
tired March 31st. He had been with the com-
pany for 43 years and nine months. Dick was
instrumental in setting up the new matching
gift program at his firm.

A. Hamilton Powell has returned to Lees-
burg, Fla., after his overseas mission of design-
ing and installing electrical systems for
mission buildings in Kenya and Italy.

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1938

Paul Bergstrom retired last November. Pres-
ently, he is keeping busy with volunteer work
and home projects. He plans to travel this
summer.

Bernard Lovelace, formerly manager of
engineering at Raytheon in Bedford, Mass., is
now retired.

A. George Mallis is semi-retired, but re-
mains active as a consulting engineer. Pres-
ently, he is working on a new revision to
"Comprehensive Catalogue & Encyclopedia
of U.S. Morgan and Peace Dollars", the due
date being 1982.

Recently, Henry Ritz was re-elected presi-
dent of the Plumbing and Heating Wholesalers
of New England for 198 1 . He is president of
the R & R Plumbing Supply Corporation,
Worcester. He has a degree in business and en-
gineering from Northeastern University and
took a management course at the Harvard
School of Business Administration. Active in
fraternal and civic groups, he was past vice
president of B'nai B'rith Lodge and the Zionist
Organization of America.

Warren Schafer, formerly a production su-
pervisor and chemist for Diamond National
Corp., retired on Dec. 1, 1980.

In January, Robert Taft, senior vice presi-
dent of Industrial Risk Insurers, retired follow-
ing 42 years of service. With the exception of
four-year's service as a Navy pilot during
World War n, he spent his entire career at IRI.
In the 1950's, he was field manager of the At-
lanta office; in the 1960's, manager of the east-
em regional office; and in the 1970's, a
member of IRI's national staff.

He was instrumental in overseeing the
formation and growth of the Canadian Indus-
trial Risk Insurers and played a major role in
the consolidation of the Oil Insurance Associa-
tion and the Factory Insurance Association
into IRI in 1975.

A former president of the WPI Alumni As-
sociation, Taft also received the Herbert F.
Taylor Award. Most recently, he was named
head of a campaign to develop a graduate pro-
gram in fire protection engineering at WPI's
Center for Fire Safety Studies.

Industrial Risk Insurers, an association of
45 leading insurance companies, underwrites
some 47,000 industrial and commercial prop-
erties in over 60 countries. Insurance in force
exceeds $575 billion.

1939

Walter Abel has been elected president of
Computer Aided Manufacturing, Interna-
tional, Inc., a non-profit membership body
formed in 1972 to advance manufacturing pro-
ductivity through computerization. He will
also be a member of the CAM-I board of direc-

tors. Abel serves as vice president of research
and development for Emhart Corp. He joined
Emhart's USM subsidiary in 1939, was re-
sponsible for establishing the unit's research
departent and, later, for the creation of the
Central Research Division. He is a member of
the Industry Advisory Board at MIT's Labora-
tory for Manufacturing and Productivity. A
past president of the Industrial Research Insti-
tute, he later chaired the committee that
published the IRI's Definition of Research and
Development. CAM-I, which he now serves as
president, is a worldwide body of some 130
members supported by more than 85 indus-
trial companies and 45 educational organiza-
tions and governmental groups in the U.S.,
Australia, Europe, and Japan. The organiza-
tion's objective is to develop and test advanced
prototype systems based on computer-aided
design and computer-aided manufacture.

Albert Lavan has retired from the research
and development department at Antex Fibers,
Inc.

Last year, the Carl Lewins visited Jack
Boyd at his hillside home on Lake Winnipe-
saukee in Gilford, N.H.Bob O'Malley has re-
tired. Formerly, he was an administrator at
Cowell Hospital, Davis, Calif.

1940

Raymond Forkey, former president of Coppus
Engineering, Worcester, formally retired in
January. For the past year he has served as
employee- consultant to insure a smooth tran-
sition of Coppus to its new owner, the Spenax
Corp. of Shelbyville, Ind. Coppus manufac-
tures industrial turbines, blowers, and gas and
oil burners. When Forkey joined the firm 28
years ago, sales were less than $2 million. Last
year sales were over $20 million. Earlier,
Forkey worked in the sales department at Nor-
ton Company before starting at Coppus in
1952. He has served as a corporator of the
Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank (now Con-
sumers Bank) and the Worcester Science Cen-
ter, as director of Riley Stoker, and as a trustee
of WPI, Worcester Academy and Hahnemann
Hospital. He is a past president of the Worces-
ter Area Chamber of Commerce and recipient
of WPI's Robert H. Goddard Award.

After practicing engineering in Europe
and the Middle East for several years, Rolfe
Johnson is opening an office in Jamaica, Vt.
The firm will offer a complete service of engi-
neering and surveying and will deal with a
wide range of projects. Johnson has an ms from
Armour Tech and holds professional licenses
in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota and Vermont.

Most recently, he was a resident engineer
on construction projects in Scotland, the
Netherlands, and Israel. In Vermont, he will be
concerned with waste treatment, municipal
engineering and solar energy, to name a few
projects.

1941

REUNION

June 5,6,7

1942

James Houlihan was recently appointed vice
president of preliminary design, research and
development for the game division at the
Milton Bradley Company, Springfield, Mass.
In 1952 he began as a chief chemist at the
company. Later he was manager of game de-
velopment, director of research and develop-
ment, and, most recently, vice president of the
firm's research and development department.
He has been responsible for many new product
introductions contributing to a major part of
the company's growth. During World War n,
he was a weather forecaster in the U.S. Navy.
He is active with the U.S. Power Squadron,
where he teaches weather forecasting.

Arthur Wilson holds the post of senior
staff mechanical engineer at Motorola, Inc.,
Scottsdale, Arizona.

1943

William Tunnicliffe holds the position of mar-
keting manager at Bobst Graphic, Inc., Bohe-
mia, N.Y.

Dr. Richard Whitcomb, who retired last
year following a long, illustrious career as an
aerodynamicist at nasa's Langley Research
Center, was quoted in "They're Redesigning
the Airplane," which appeared in the January
issue of the National Geographic. His discov-
eries include the "coke bottle" fuselage for
practical supersonic flight; the supercritical
wing for low drag at high subsonic speeds; and
winglets, which save about 5 percent of fuel
costs by reducing drag.

Among his many professional awards are
the Collier Trophy awarded to him in 1955 for
the Area Rule, a concept revolutionizing su-
personic flight; the National Medal of Science
presented to him by President Nixon in 1973;
and the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy,
given to him for significant public service to
aviation. (His basic model demonstrating the
coke bottle fuselage, Area Rule, is on display
at the Smithsonian Institution.)

Whitcomb's many accomplishments
have not gone unnoticed by his Alma Mater.
In 1956, he received an honorary doctor of en-
gineering degree from WPI. In 1975, he was
presented with the Goddard Award for profes-
sional achievement.

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In retirement, Whitcomb is not twiddling
his thumbs. He is teaching himself solid state
physics, and he has converted the extra bed-
room in his apartment into a workshop-lab.
His project? It's a secret, but it keeps him
working late into the night. He hints, how-
ever, that it is energy related. Dick Whitcomb
has a long, unbroken string of technical tri-
umphs. Few doubt that his latest project will
also be a winner.

1944

Recently, Irving James Donahue, Jr. was re-
elected president of The Memorial Hospital
Board of Trustees in Worcester.

Arthur Pingalore served as an instructor
for the Tri-Community Chamber of Com-
merce "Changing Management Roles" pro-
gram held in Southbridge, Mass. in January.
He has been director of training at Cincinnati
Milacron-Heald Corp.; a trustee of the Worces-
ter vocational high schools; a trustee of
Fairlawn Hospital; a board member of the
ymca; and an adjunct instructor at Anna Maria
College.

1945

Robert Buck has retired from the faa after 30
years of service. He lives in Pittsfield, Mass.

1946

Walter Bank, A WPI trustee, has been named
director of marketing for DCS Corporation, an
Arlington, Va. engineering firm specializing in
electro-optics, airborne sensor/weapon sys-
tems, and energy conservation r&d. Previ-
ously, he was marketing manager for Systems
Consultants, Inc. He is a director of the Na-
tional Energy Resources Organization.

Irwin Benkert is with the Furnace Me-
chanical Division of M. W. Kellogg, Houston.

Robert Farwell is now vice president of
market development for GTE Comm. Prod-
ucts in Stamford, Conn.

Thomas McCaw has assumed the posi-
tion of president and chief operating officer at
Fairfield Manufacturing Co., Lafayette, Ind.
He has been with Fairfield for 33 years and
has served as vice president for marketing
and sales since 1972. The holder of 32 patents
on gearing, worldwide, McCaw studied ad-
vanced engineering at mit. He is on the boards
of Presbyterian Housing, Inc., Lafayette Home
Hospital, the Lafayette Symphony, the bsa,
and the Tippecanoe County Historical
Association.

Douglas Miller is program manager for
the U.S. Department of Energy, Brookhaven
area office, Upton, NY.

George Morin, who owns Bergeron Ma-
chine Co. of Keene, N.H., also serves as presi-
dent of Green Mountain Metals in Windsor,
Vt.

William Wells is now retired horn Chry-
sler Corporation after 32 years of service and is
an instructor of engineering technology at
Western Kentucky University in Bowling
Green.

1947

Carrol Burtner is director of the Office of Me-
chanical Engineering Safety Standards, usma,
for the U.S. Department of Labor in Washing-
ton, D.C.

1948

Howard Dember serves as manager of Allied
Electric Supply, Waterbury, Conn.

Lawrence Minnick is an associate at Pick-
ard, Lowe, & Garrick in Irvine, Calif.

Clark Poland has established a new busi-
ness entitled Scan Web of North America, Inc.
Temporarily his office is located in his home
in New Canaan, Conn. Clark is national chair-
man of the Corporate Contacts Program of the
WPI Alumni Association.

Leonard Rood holds the position of tech-
nical director at Dysart Chemical Co., Co-
lumbus, Ohio. He is also a real estate broker
and president of Rood Enterprises.

1949

Norton Co. has appointed Robert Rowse as di-
visional vice president and general manager
for proppants in the materials division. He
will continue as divisional vice president for
research and new business development. With
Norton since 1949, he has held various posi-
tions in abrasives research, manufacturing,
and marketing. He attended the Advanced
Management Program at Harvard Business
School and the School of Industrial Manage-
ment at WPI.

1950

John Hawley is manager of nuclear engineer-
ing at Walworth Company in Linden, N.J. He
is a professional engineer in New Jersey.

Lawson Hill has sold his mail order shoe
business (Lawson Hill Leather and Shoe Co.)
and moved to Jackson, N.H. Presently, he is a
consultant. Also, he has launched a mail order
business for the British Isles Collection.

Francis Norton serves as construction su-
perintendent at Monsanto in Nitro, West Vir-
ginia. He and Eleanor have one child and
reside in St. Albans.

Presently, Richard Pieper serves as finan-
cial manager for Ft. Apache Timber Co.,
Whiteriver, Arizona. He has an mba horn
Pepperdine University in Los Angeles.

Les Reynolds continues as manager of
planning and business development at Ameri-
can Cyanamid Company, Organic Chemicals
Division, Wayne, N.J.

1951

Recently, G. Albert Anderson was elected a
trustee of Henry Heywood Memorial Hospi-
tal, Gardner, Mass. He is vice president of
Collier-Keyworth Company.

R. Ross Chapin's daughter, Carol, is a stu-
dent at WPI. She hopes to major in mechanical
engineering.

Capt. Charles Darrell, usn, holds the post
of director of fleet logistic support with the
Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington,
D.C.

John Marley serves as a technical consult-
ant and assistant to the general manager at
Motorola Semiconductors Japan, Ltd., Tokyo.
He is working on microcomputer systems for
automotive engine controls in Japan.

Paul Radasch writes: "Running a small
engineering company is quite a challenge." He
and his partners have just taken on two
younger men to work into the operation of
Wind River Engineers, Riverton, Wy.

Dick Van Den Berge is employed as a sen-
ior analytical engineer at Hamilton Standard,
Windsor Locks, Conn.

1952

Stanley Berman has been elected a member of
The Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees,
Worcester. He is a vice president of manufac-
turing at Norton Co. and trustee and treasurer
of the executive committee of Worcester
Academy.

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Richard Gates continues as an insurance
agent in Brattleboro, Vt.

Roland St. Louis writes that his sixth
child, a son, is an applicant for admission at
WPI and will graduate from high school this
June. A daughter will receive her ba from Har-
vard and a son a law degree from the Univer-
sity of Chicago in June, also.

1953

Martin Cohen holds the post of director of op-
erations services at TV International of Phila-
delphia. He has an mba from Wharton.

Recently, Dick Davis, a WPI trustee, was
named executive vice president at Truelove &
MacLean, Inc., Waterbury, Conn.

Currently, Emil Larson is employed as a
facilities engineer at Krupp Company of
Boston.

1955

Gerald Backlund is plant manager for Ameri-
can Cyanamid, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

The Dataline Corp., a major supplier of
data processing systems to the building supply
industry, recently appointed Hugh Bell as
chairman of the board. Bell, the founder and
majority stockholder in the corporation, will
continue as chief executive officer. He started
the company in 1971 following his association
with Scientific Data Systems, Bell Associates,
and the Yondata Corp.

Robert Neunherz serves as facilities man-
ager of Wright Line and lives in Westminster,
Mass.

Ed Schoppe, Jr., keeps busy managing an
informal natural foods co-op and working in
product development at the Foxboro Co.

1956

REUNION

June 5,6,7

Robert Kleid has been named manager of the
mailing systems division product evaluation
laboratory for Pitney Bowes Business Systems.
In 1963 he joined the firm as an engineer.
Since 1975, he has served as a senior engineer.
He holds an msme from WPI, and belongs to
the asme, and the American Society for Qual-
ity Control. He has been awarded four patents.

Irwin Smith ID, president of Surpass
Chemical Co. of Albany, N.Y., has been
elected to a second term as regional vice presi-
dent for the American Association of Textile
Chemists and Colorists. A past chairman of
the association's Hudson-Mohawk section,
Smith has also served six terms as a national
councilor. From 1956 to 1958, he was with the
U.S. Army. He has been active in several Al-
bany civic organizations, aatcc is the world's
largest technical and scientific society devoted
to textile chemistry, with more than 8,000
members in the U.S. and 50 other countries.

Charles Sullivan is currently engineering
project manager for Air Force mature engines
at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Government
Products Division, in Connecticut. Formerly,
he was located in Tequesta, Florida.

1957

Lawrence Alston holds the post of senior prin-
cipal engineer at Polaroid Corp., Cambridge,
Mass.

Dick Barlow is now chief executive offi-
cer at Bentley Harris Mfg. Co. in Lionville, Pa.
He and Afra, who reside in Newtown Square,

have three children Albert Langill is

president of C A D'Ora, Inc., Waterford, Ohio.

Still with Monsanto, Bill Rogler is pres-
ently product manager of the Plastic Bottle Di-
vision in St. Louis.

Anthony DiGiovanni has been named as-
sistant vice president of distribution and engi-
neering at Boston Gas. He is responsible for
the installation and maintenance of the com-
pany's underground facilities and piping as
well as the administration of the engineering
department. Boston Gas serves nearly 500,000
customers in 74 cities and towns through
5,600 miles of gas distribution mains.

DiGiovanni joined the former Mystic Val-
ley Gas Company as a staff engineer in 1958
and was named general superintendent of
Mystic Valley distribution in 1972. He became
superintendent of distribution-north for
Boston-Gas when it merged with Mystic Val-
ley in 1974, and manager of distribution in
1977.

He belongs to the New England Gas Asso-
ciation and the American Gas Association's
distribution, construction and maintenance
committee, and lives with his wife, Joanne,
and four children in Reading, Mass.

Dr. Sherman Poultney serves as a senior
staff scientist at Perkin-Elmer Corp.,
Norwalk, Conn.

Joaquim Ribeiro has been re-elected trea-
surer of The Memorial Hospital Board of
Trustees, Worcester.

Douglas Todd is the new manager of
STAG (a combined steam and gas turbine
unit I business development and environmen-
tal planning at GE in Schenectady, N.Y. He
will be responsible for worldwide market de-
velopment of the company's combined cycle
power generation equipment along with prod-
uct planning and communications programs.
He will be concerned with international oil
and gas areas, as well as the introduction of
combined cycles domestically, utilizing syn-
thetic fuels supplied by integrated coal gasifi-
cation systems. Other responsibilities include
legislative and regulatory activities in the en-
ergy and environmental field. With GE since
1966, Todd started in the Large Steam Turbine-
Generator Department. Prior to his new ap-
pointment, he was manager of STAG market
development in the Gas Turbine Marketing
Department. Currently, he is affiliated with
GE's Gas Turbine Operational Planning and
Advanced Concepts Operation. He and his
wife, Marcia, have two children.

1958

Roger Anderson has a daughter in college and a
daughter and son in high school. Home is in
Weatogue, Conn.

Everett Angell serves as a project manager
at Foster Wheeler Energy Corp., Livingston,
N.J.

1959

David Daubney is a project engineer at Hol-
lingsworth & Vose Co., East Walpole, Mass.

Morgan Ely serves as a purchasing agent
at Bechtel Power Corp., Berwick, Pa. He re-
ceived his mba and msce from Utah State Uni-
versity.

Robert Hayden has been appointed engi-
neering manager at the Henry G. Thompson
Company in Branford, Conn. He holds an
msme from Yale, and joined Thompson in 1979
as project engineer. Previously, he was with
Grumman Aircraft, Perkin-Elmer, Scan-
Optics, and other high technology firms. He

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belongs to the Society of Manufacturing Engi-
neers, Tau Beta Pi, and Pi Tau Sigma. The
Henry G. Thompson Company, a subsidiary of
Vermont American Corporation, has manufac-
tured Milford cutting tools for over 104 years.

Leo Price writes: "All goes well in the
construction of the two air fields here in Israel.
Will be back in the U.S. in 18 months". Price
is chief of the Geotechnic Section for the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers.

Richard Soucy holds the post of program
manager at IBM Corp. in Tampa, Fla.

I96l

I960

William Cannon is employed as fiscal officer
at Pave, Inc., Waterbury Center, Vt. He has an
mba from Babson and lives in Stowe.

For three years, Donaldson Dow has been
a (temporary) contract engineer in the stress
analyst field. He enjoys the job variation and
meeting new people in such areas as
California and Rhode Island. Presently, he
lives in Danbury, Conn., although he has a Te-
questa, Fla. mailing address.

Arthur LoVetere, president and chief oper-
ating officer of MacDermid, Inc., has been
elected as a director of Colonial Bank in Wa-
terbury, Conn. He is also chairman of the
Greater Waterbury Chamber of Commerce,
president of the Metal Finishing Suppliers' As-
sociation, associate chairman of the Laymen's
National Bible Committee, Inc., and a mem-
ber of the Young President's Organization. He
holds an mba from Tuck School at Dartmouth
College.

Ron Pokraka holds the position of eastern
sales manager for Industrial Dynamics. I le is
located in Falmouth, Mass.

Thomas Sokolowski is with the
Technical Evaluation Unit, usaf.

Peter Zilco wrote "Apply Demand Con-
trols for Energy Conservation," which ap-
peared in a recent issue of Specifying Engineer.
He is general manager of Eagle Signal Indus-
trial Systems, Davenport, Iowa, a developer
and supplier of programmable industrial con-
trol systems with many applications in the
field of power demand control. Also, he has
served as system products sales manager and
as industrial systems manager since joining
the firm in 1977. Earlier, he was product mar-
keting manager for programmable controls
with Allen-Bradley, marketing engineer with
Hewlett-Packard, and an aerospace engineer
with various other firms. He has an msee from
Northeastern University, Boston.

Alfred Dunklee joined the [ct Propulsion Lab
(jpl) as a permanent employee in the space
physics section last October. He has been a
contractor for jpl for five years, and has been
involved with the Viking project, the Galileo
project, and the seasat project. The Viking
project put spacecraft on and around Mars, and
Dunklee was involved in Viking mission oper-
ations software. Galileo is a future craft de-
signed to circle Jupiter. With seasat, an
oceanographic satellite, Dunklee is concerned
with software for analysis of high energy as-
trophysical observatory data.

Arthur Kroll is with Gilbarco, Inc.,

Greensboro, N.C Richard Leven-

dusky serves as systems engineer at Naval
Weapons Handling Center, Colts Neck, N.J.

Thomas Maloney is resident manager and
assistant vice president at E.F. Hutton & Co.,
Burlington, Mass.

Paul Nordborg serves as a data processing
consultant for Manufacturing Business Sys-
tems, Worcester.

Svend Pelch, continuing with Bristol
Myers, is presently with the Unitech Division
in Pasadena, Calif.

Louis Rossi has been appointed as re-
search associate in the Photomaterials Divi-
sion at the Kodak Research Laboratories in
Rochester, N.Y.

Robert Ruberti has been promoted to head
the Command Intelligence Section at the
Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss afb,
New York, radc is an Air Force laboratory that
specializes in command, control, communica-
tions and intelligence research and develop-
ment. Ruberti, who has been with radc since
1961, holds a master's degree in statistics from
Syracuse University. He, his wife Sharon, and
three children live in Rome.

1962

Recently, Joseph Baldasaro was appointed di-
rector of manufacturing at Federal Chain
Company of Providence. In his new post, he is
responsible for manufacturing, production and
inventory control, and purchasing. Prior to
joining the company, he was with Speidel-
Textron, where he was materials control man-
ager and general manager of industrial
engineering and maintenance. Previously, he
was also with Fairbanks Morse Division of
Colt Industries, St. Johnsbury, Vt., the Mobil
Oil Co., and Consolidated Edison Co. of New
York City. He graduated from the Bernard M.
Baruch School of Business, the City College of
New York City. The Baldasaros have two
daughters, Amanda and Adrien.

Jesse Erlich has been elected by the mem-
bers of the Boston Patent Law Association to
serve as secretary and member of the Board of
Governors of the Association. The Boston Pat-
ent Law Association has more than 250 mem-
bers and serves the First Federal Judicial
Circuit, including Maine, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Erlich was
on the Board of Governors in 1979, and also
acted as chairman of the Patent Law Commit-
tee in 1980. In addition to being the new secre-
tary, he will act as advisor to the bpla Patent
Office Affairs Committee. He holds a Juris
Doctor degree horn Georgetown and is a
member of the bars in both the District of Co-
lumbia and Massachusetts. The Erlichs live in
Bedford, Mass. with their two children, Adam
and Shari .

Ralph Johanson has been named regional
vice president of GRW Engineers, Inc., a full-
service engineering firm headquartered in Lex-
ington, Ky. He will direct activities in the
Louisville office. Following graduation from
WPI, he began his engineering career as a lieu-
tenant in the Army Signal Corps and then
worked in private consulting firms in Califor-
nia, Illinois and Kentucky. In 1971, he started
work at GRW, and in 1975 became principal
engineer and manager of Louisville-based engi-
neering projects.

Johanson is the author of the paper "De-
sign of Sanitary Sewers" given at the WPCF
National Convention in Houston in 1979, and
the paper, "Sewer Maintenance and Rehabili-
tation" given at the WPCF convention in
Knoxville, Term, in 1980. He serves as mayor
of Brownsboro Farm, Ky.

Established in 1964, GRW Engineers has
performed engineering design for over 600
building and utilities projects with an esti-
mated replacement value in excess of $3
billion.

Dr. Mike Moses is associate professor of
corporate strategy in the Department of Man-
agement, Graduate School of Business at New
York University.

Dr. Joseph Swartzbaugh has been pro-
moted to general manager of engineering at
Systems Technology Corporation (systech),
Xenia, Ohio. He joined the firm six years ago,
and previously served as principal scientist.
systech specializes in environmental and en-
ergy technology. It is a subsidiary of Systems
Research Laboratories of Beavercreek, Ohio.

The WPI Journal / Spring 1981 / 23

1963

1965

1966

Charles Beck II is an analytical chemist with
Luvak, Inc. in Boylston, Mass.

Dr. Richard Iacobucci, president of Roc-
tronics Entertainment Lighting, recently spent
a week visiting Larry Escott in Manhattan.
(Larry is a stockbroker and investment ana-
lyst.) Charles T. Loveridge, son of Charles L.
Loveridge, '48, is now a member of the Roc-
tronics staff. Iacobucci says that one of the lat-
est Roctronics products is the Lasergraph™
which "can write 'WPI' on Bancroft Tower
from Boynton tower." The new eight-building
Roctronics site is located in a 55-acre nature
preserve in Pembroke, Mass. It contains both
Iacobucci's office and his residence.

Michael Kulig currently works as plant
engineer at Monsanto in Addyston, Ohio.

Fred Riley was recently elected president
of the International Association of Quality
Circles. He is product assurance manager for
Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, Calif.

1964

► Married: Ernest E. Chenoweth and Virginia
C. Jones of Stowe, Vermont on September 28,
1980. John Jacobson, '65 and Mario Tama
were members of the wedding party. The
bride, a graduate of Johnson State College, is a
free-lance artist in Stowe. The groom holds a
bsme and msme from WPI. Currently, the
Chenoweths live in Stowe, where Cap is self-
employed with Sunworks Construction and
Engineering. The company designs and in-
stalls domestic solar systems, builds tradi-
tional and contemporary Vermont homes, and
does solar consulting.

>-Bom: to Mr. and Mrs. Larry G. Hull a
daughter, Lynn Christine, on May 5, 1980.

Thaddeus Betts is employed as a civil en-
gineer by the U.S. Military Academy, West
Point, N.Y.

Thomas Boyle is a registered representa-
tive for Legg Mason Wood Walker in Gaithers-
burg, Md.

John Ganley is a senior engineer at AT&T
Long Lines in Bedminster, N.J.

David Helming is presently assistant divi-
sion manager at Public Service Electric & Gas
Co., Burlington, N.J. Formerly, he was assis-
tant manager for the firm in Newark.

George Klander holds the post of presi-
dent of The Wordsmyth, Ltd., West Salem,
Ohio. He is also an instructor of communica-
tions at North Central Technical College. The
Klanders have four children.

Charles Lombardo is currently with Ever-
green Publishing Co., Trenton, N.J.

J. Richard Lundgren, who has a pho from
Ohio State, continues as an associate professor
at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa.

R. Todd Varnum works as a development
engineer at IBM in Essex Junction, Vt.

► Married: Bill Guidi and Mindy Hackner on
November 22, 1980 In Richmond, Massachu-
setts. Mrs. Guidi graduated from the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts with a BA in English.
She is an in-school suspension supervisor for
Lenox Memorial High School. Her husband
serves as a consulting engineer for General
Electric.

Leo Berendes received the certified finan-
cial planner designation last summer. He is
with Janney Montgomery Scott in Providence,
R.I., and lives with his wife and three children
in Rumford.

Robert Cahill has been appointed presi-
dent of Allister Manufacturing Company, Inc.,
Exton, Pa. Previously he served as president of
National Hydron and had been associated with
Hilti and SGL Homalite. He has an mba from
the Wharton School, University of Pennsylva-
nia. AVietnam veteran and company com-
mander with the U.S. Navy Seabees, he
received the Purple Heart and the Navy Com-
mendation Medal. Allister manufactures elec-
tric operators for commercial and residential
garage doors.

Mike Dembski is now a principal of
his own company, The Premium Group, of
Danbury, Conn. His company arranges for
the premiums that are often offered by fast
food restaurants and cereal companies, for
example.

Jay Hammett continues at EMC Controls
in Cockeysville, Md., and now holds the title
of director of corporate planning.

Dr. Robert Hermes is a systems analyst
for Magnavox in Mahwah, N.J.

Kenny Hultgren, still with GE, presently
is on a three-year assignment to the GE sales
office in London, England, where he will be
selling mechanical drive steam turbines.

Chester Sergey, Jr. has been named re-
gional sales manager of the Northeast region of
Enthone Inc., West Haven, Conn., a subsdiary
of ASARCO, Inc. The region comprises all of
New England and New York state. Sergey has
done graduate work at Lehigh University. He
is a member of the American Electroplaters
Society and is past president of the Waterbury
branch of the society. The Sergeys have two
children.

B.H.( Woody) Adams serves as vice president of
Kleinschmidt & Dutting, Inc. in Pittsfield,
Me.

Roger Armata has been named manufac-
turing engineering manager of the Torrington
Co. Standard Plant in Torrington, Conn. He
will be responsible for industrial engineering,
project engineering and manufacturing main-
tenance. With Torrington since 1966, he has
been with the engineering department and has
held various positions within the company.
He holds an mba from the University of
Hartford.

William Bentley works as a Merchant
Marine officer for Gulf Oil's Trading and
Transport Marine Department, U.S. Fleet Per-
sonnel, of Philadelphia, Pa.

Thomas Brasiskis is the president and
owner of Enco 2000, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. He and
Kathleen have one child and live in Marietta.

Currently Paul Castle holds the position
of general manager at W. C. Meredith Co.,
Inc., East Point, Ga. He has an mba from
Dartmouth.

James Cocci serves as a staff consultant at
Sanders Associates, Inc. in Nashua, N.H. The
Coccis have two children.

Peter Kudless has been promoted to the
position of project construction manager for
the Hope Creek Generating Station by Public
Service Electric & Gas Company of New Jer-
sey. The plant will have two boiling water re-
actor units, each with a generating capacity of
1 100 megawatts. Completion of Unit 1 is cur-
rently scheduled for 1986, and Unit 2 for 1989.

Pete was also recently selected to serve as
executive officer of Reserve Navy Mobile Con-
struction Battalion (rnmcb) 21, which is head-
quartered in Lakehurst, N.J. He is currently a
lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve
(Civil Engineer Corps). Presently, Ken Olsen,
'62 is commanding officer of the battalion,
RNMCB-21. Pete, his wife, Karen, and their five
children reside in Tumersville, N.J.

Dr. John Lauterbach serves as analytical
research division head at Brown & Williamson
Tobacco Corp. in Louisville, Ky. Recently, he
was named chairman-elect of the Louisville
section of the American Chemical Society.

Orlando Mendez is president of O.R.M.
Construction Corp., in Puerto Rico.

Presently, Michael Napolitano is em-
ployed as an electronic development engineer
at Boston Digital Corp., Hopkinton, Mass.

24 / Spring 1981 / The WPI Journal

1967

1968

1969

► Bom. to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Goulart, a son,
Jared Joseph, on December 9, 1980.

Fernando Castillo has been promoted to
supervisor of standards development in the
boiler design department at Riley Stoker in
Worcester. With the firm since 1970, he previ-
ously was senior engineer in the proposal engi-
neering department.

Dr. William Cobb is an assistant professor
of medicine at Tufts University School of
Medicine, Boston, and director of medical ed-
ucation at Quincy (Mass.) City Hospital.

Bryon Dennison is a visiting professor at
Southeastern Massachusetts University,
North Dartmouth. He holds a bsee from West
Virginia University and an msee from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute. The Dennisons live in
Westford, Mass.

Rein Freeberg is a member of the techni-
cal staff at Mitre Corp. in Bedford, Mass. He
and his wife, Laurel, reside in Lexington.

Edward Gallo writes: "I arrived here out-
side of Athens, Greece with my family in July
of 1980. Presently, I am the commander of the
138th Ordnance Company."

Currently, Athanasios Kanatsoulis holds
the position of managing director of IMCO
S.A. Hellenic Trading Company in Athens,
Greece. He has an msee from the Moore School
of Electrical Engineering and an mba from the
Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at
the University of Pennsylvania. His home ad-
dress is: 1, Menandrou St., Kifisia, Athens,
Greece. Tel.: 01-8084270. He and his wife live
in Athens and are the parents of a daughter.

Russell Lukes works as manager of com-
puter operations for Strategic Planning Assoc,
"the nation's fastest growing consulting firm
providing long-range strategic business plan-
ning services to Fortune 500 firms."

Robert McAndrew serves as supervisory
engineer at Babcock & Wilcox, Lynchburg, Va.

Dr. Paul Milne, who holds a pIid from
Kansas State University, is with the Suslo unit
of the Department of Defense.

Jack Rahaim presented a one-day course
on techniques and materials to aid the energy-
user at Massasoit Community College, Brock-
ton, Mass. in November. The course was
designed for individuals who have direct re-
sponsibility for energy use and its costs: plant
managers and engineers, chief executives,
plant owners and design engineers. Topics in-
cluded utility rates, heating, lighting, and en-
ergy audits and budgets. Rahaim, who has
over 12 years of energy management experi-
ence, conducted the course in conjunction
with Eastern Edison, Massachusetts Electric
Company, Mt. Wachusett Community Col-
lege and the Small Business Administration.

>-Born: to Ruthanne and Ken Gminski a

daughter, Sarah Beth, on October 22, 1980.

Bill Belisle received his mba from Califor-
nia State University at Long Beach last Au-
gust. He had previously received his msme
from the same school. Presently, Bill is the
training manager at AiResearch Manufactur-
ing Company in Torrance, Calif. The firm has
over 7000 employees and is one of the Signal
companies.

Norman Brunell has just moved to Hous-
ton, Texas to be counsel for Litton Energy Sys-
tems, which is undertaking a new
multi-billion dollar project to convert natural
gas to methanol fuel on floating plants. He
holds a id from Suffolk University.

Dave Gumbley serves as operations and
engineering coordinator at Getty Refining &
Marketing Co., Bakersfield, Calif.

Dr. Charles Konopka is now a systems
support specialist at Combustion Engineering
in Windsor, Conn. Formerly, he was assistant
principal at East Longmeadow (Mass.] High
School.

C. David Larson serves as marketing
manager at Devcon Corp., Danvers, Mass. He
has an mba from Rutgers.

Douglas Riley, chairman of the Nashua
Regional Planning Commission, addressed a
breakfast forum of the Southern New
Hampshire Association of Commerce & In-
dustry in February. He discussed the area's
sharp growth in the past decade, and reviewed
the commission's initiatives in transit, high-
ways, and water policy. Formerly, he was em-
ployed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
and Camp Dresser and McKee, environmental
engineers. Currently, he is a civil engineer for
Harvey Construction Company, Manchester,
N.H. He began guiding commission policy in
1978 as a member of the Regional Sounding
Board. Since last July, he has served as chair-
man of the commission.

Leo Sprecher holds the post of president at
Budd Foods, Inc., Manchester, N.H.

John Trudeau works as western opera-
tions manager for Corporate Computer Sys-
tems, El Granada, Calif.

Navy Lt. David Williamson has returned
from a deployment in the Indian Ocean. He is
an officer assigned to the guided missile
cruiser uss South Carolina, home-ported in
Norfolk, Va. While deployed, his ship operated
with the aircraft carrier uss Dwight D.
Eisenhower and the guided missile cruiser uss
Virginia as part of the Eisenhower carrier
group. The ships formed the first Atlantic
Fleet carrier group to engage in a scheduled,
full-scale deployment to the Indian Ocean.
Port visits were made in Singapore and Kenya
as the carrier group traveled more than 68,000
miles and conducted air operations for 183 out
of 240 days.

Edward Zakrzewski continues as a senior
recruiter for Arco Chemicals in Newtown
Square, Pa.

Joel Cehn holds the post of radiation protec-
tion advisor at Pacific Gas & Electric Co. in
San Francisco.

John Connell is a project manager for
Aetna Insurance Company in Hartford, Conn.

Alan Cunningham serves as branch man-
ager at Republic Packaging in Beverly, N.J. He
is married, has two children, and holds an mba
from Babson College.

Previously headquartered in Holland with
General Electric Plastics B.V, Jerome Flynn is
presently located in Lausanne.

Bruce Green is a sales manager for the
Bath Iron Works Corp. Division of Cleveland
Punch & Shear Works. He is located in Bath,
Maine.

In January, the law office of Warren C.
Lane, Jr. in Worcester was renamed to Lane &
Greene, PC, a professional corporation. Joel
Greene is associated with the firm.

Charles Kalauskas has a new position as a
senior transportation planner with BSC Engi-
neering in Boston.

Stephen Legomsky holds the position of
staff attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th
Circuit, San Francisco, Calif. He and his wife,
Lorraine, have one child.

David Lieberman holds the post of man-
ager of systems and procedures at Memorex
Corporation in Santa Clara, Calif.

Paul Shea, who received his pIid from the
University of Rhode Island last year, is a re-
search engineer at du Pont in Wilmington,
Delaware.

Harold Wyzansky has received his ms in
systems engineering from the University of
Pennsylvania. Currently, he is employed as a
computer operating system analyst for the Na-
val Air Development Center, Warminster, Pa.

1970

*-Bom: to Carol and Bradford Bjorklund a

daughter, Nicole Brianna, last July. The family
resides in Woodham, Surrey, England.

To Mr. and Mrs. Marc Schweig their third
child, Meredith, last December. In June,
Schweig graduated from Harvard University
with an SM in applied mathematics. In Sep-
tember, he was promoted to department chief
of regulatory and international technical stan-
dards at Western Electric and moved to Mor-
ristown, N.J.

John Boyd is employed as a marketing en-
gineer at Hewlett-Packard Co. in Waltham,
Mass.

Daniel Breen, who transferred to the
Dallas area last year, was recruited by Frank
McMahon, '72, for his basketball team. They
won their league championship without a
loss.

The WP1 Journal / Spring 1981 / 25

Ralph Di Iorio currently lives in Annan-
dale, Va., and works for American Manage-
ment Systems, in Arlington. He is employed
as the company's decsystem-2o6o operations
manager responsible for operations and plan-
ning of four DEC-20/60 mainframes. Presently,
his group is in the final planning stages of relo-
cating all DEC-20/60 mainframes to a new fa-
cility two blocks away, a move that must be
made without having any of the 120 users out
of service. His company offers both DEC and
IBM services. After hours, he is working on
his master's in computer science at George
Washington University.

David Emery, a Maine representative to
the U.S. House of Representatives, has been
appointed as deputy minority whip for the Re-
publican Party. Reportedly, Emery is the first
Maine resident to serve in any House of Repre-
sentative leadership post since 1899. He
credits his appointment in part to a need for
more representation in the House hierarchy
from the northeast sector of the country. He
says his assignment will be "to line up votes."
He also expects to be a bridge between the
conservatives and moderates in the party. In
February, he was the guest speaker for the an-
nual Eastern Maine Chapter of the Maine So-
ciety of Professional Engineers meeting in
Bangor.

Duncan Gillies serves as president of
Duncan M. Gillies Co., Inc., West Boylston,
Mass. He is also chief of the West Boylston
Fire Department.

Continuing as a project manager for
Heery Associates, Neil Hodes is currently
concerned with the sports arena in An-
chorage, Alaska. He has an mba from Boston
University.

Steven Lacaiie has moved from Westboro,
Mass. and is now located in California.

Tim Mackie assumed a new professional
position as general foreman in the Glass Ce-
ramic Diamond Products Division at Norton
Company, recently. He is an officer of the
Worcester County Alumni Club.

Edward Mason holds the position of vice
president of operations at Diesel ReCon Com-
pany. He lives in Cordova, Tennessee.

William Rolya received his mba in finance
from Fordham University last July.

James Ryan holds the post of department
manager for firmware development at Honey-
well in Framingham, Mass.

John Shea holds the position of senior
service supervisor at Dowell in Freeport,
Texas. The Sheas have three children and live
in Friendswood.

Robert Soffel writes that he is looking for-
ward to Homecoming and hopes to make it
"back to the 'Tute this year." He continues
with the Linde Molecular Sieve Department of
Union Carbide. Since November he has been
with the field technical service group, servic-
ing their installed units in the U.S., Canada,
and almost anywhere else there are natural gas
liquids recovery plants, or ethylene plants. He
divides his off hours between the Brookfield,
Conn. Volunteer Fire Department and tennis.

Presently, Paul Wilson is employed as
chief engineer at Arwood Corporation in
Tilton, N.H. He lives in Ashland.

26 / Spring 1981 / The WPI Journal

1971

► Married: Raymond L. Skowyra, Jr. and

Marianne D. Short on November 1, 1980 in St.
Paul, Minnesota. The bride graduated from
Newton College of the Sacred Heart and Bos-
ton College Law School, and is an attorney
with a Minneapolis law firm. The groom, who
graduated from Harvard Graduate School of
Business, is with GE in Minneapolis.

John Capitao is manager of engineering
for computer services at GE in Fitchburg,
Mass. He has an msme from WPI.

Lee Cristy is president of Wire and Board,
Inc., Beltsville, Md.

Allen Downs is a senior software engineer
at Wang Labs in Lowell, Mass. He and his
wife, Saucy, now live in Mont Vernon, N.H.

Dr. Irving Engelson was recently ap-
pointed staff director of Technical Activities
for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers. He will direct the technical opera-
tions of ieee, the world's largest engineering
society, with 200,000 members worldwide.
The Technical Activities Department is re-
sponsible for coordinating the efforts of 30
technical societies within the ieee, which pub-
lish 46 periodicals and hold over 150 confer-
ences annually.

Dr. Engelson has belonged to the Institute
since 1955 and is a senior member. Last year,
he was appointed acting staff director of Tech-
nical Activities.

Prior to joining the ieee staff, he was with
RCA for eight years. Also, he was professor
and associate dean of the College of Engineer-
ing and Technology at the University of Ne-
braska, and associate professor and assistant
dean at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

He holds a bs from Polytechnic Institute
of Brooklyn, an ms from Rutgers, and a pho
from WPI, all in electrical engineering. A
member of Eta Kappa Nu, he also belongs to
Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi, and has been
elected to the New York Academy of Sciences.

Steven Face serves as a research scientist
at Kaman Sciences Corp. in Colorado Springs,
Colorado.

Dr. James Kaufman was a featured
speaker at the 60th annual Massachusetts
Safety and Health Conference and Exhibit in
Wellesley, Mass. He is an associate professor at
Curry College in Milton, and safety chairman
of the New England Section of the American
Chemical Society's Committee on Chemical
Safety.

William Nute, a development engineer
for Western Electric, is currently assigned to
Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J.

Vincent Pace, no longer employed at GE
in Philadelphia, now attends law school at
Temple University.

Donald Peterson holds the post of assis-
tant treasurer at Northern Telecom Ltd., Mis-
sissauqa, Ontario, Canada. He has an mba
from Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth. The
Petersons have one child, Janine.

Richard Pietryka is a sales engineer at
Westinghouse, Towson, Md. He and Paula
have two children and live in Columbia.

Glenn White continues as a post doctoral
research fellow in the Department of Meteor-
ology at the University of Reading in the
United Kingdom.

1972

*-Bom: to Karen and Mark Dupuis their third
daughter last August. Mark, who is Worcester
County Regional Club chairman, was recently
promoted to plant manager in the Diamond
Tool Division of Norton Company.

Jack Blaisdell is vice president and sales
engineer at Tectrol Associates, West Spring-
field, Mass. He, his wife, and two children re-
side in Lee.

Joseph Gotta has been appointed western
region sales engineer for Galileo Electro-
Optics Corp., Sturbridge, Mass. Earlier, he
was a marketing coordinator for Ludlow Corp.
In his new post at Galileo, he is responsible for
the administration of technical sales support
to industrial and government accounts in the
western half of the U.S.

George Hajisawa is a secondary school
teacher for the Ministry of Education in Nico-
sia, Cyprus.

John O'Brien holds the post of plant man-
ager at Spectra Physics in Eugene, Oregon.

1973

Bill Ault is now a sales supervisor for Norton
Co., with a territory in central Illinois. Holly
(Keyes) Ault, '74, works as a research engineer
for Olin Corp. in East Alton, 111.

Fermo Bianchi, Jr. now works as a con-
struction coordinator for Stone & Webster in
St. Francisville, La.

Dr. Paul Ciaccio, who holds a doctorate
in optometry from the New England College
of Optometry, is an optometrist in Orleans,
Mass.

James Davis serves as a sales account
manager at Nalco Chemical Co., Oak Brook,
111.

Tom DiFrancesco, a civil engineer and
cpa, has joined the Disney organization. He
works in Florida on epcot (experimental proto-
type community of tomorrow) and in Califor-
nia at the Disney Studio in Burbank and at
Disneyland. "I play golf, when I'm not work-
ing," he says.

Conrad Fong is currently employed as a
project engineer at Sweetheart Plastics in
Wilmington, Mass.

David Haflich is operations coordinator
for Envirotech Operating Services in San Ma-
teo, Calif. He has an ms in environmental en-
gineering from Stanford University.

Mervyn Hamer holds the post of process
engineer at Stuart Pharmaceuticals in Pasa-
dena, Calif.

Bucky Kashiwa now works in the fluid
dynamics group of the Theoretical Division at
the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. He is
concerned with the investigation of
multiphase flow phenomena. His group is
looking into the effects of steam-water jets
which arise in hypothetical nuclear reactor
accidents.

Jeffrey Korn has completed the initial
training at Delta Air Lines' training school at
the Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport
and is now assigned to the airline's Miami pi-
lot base as a second officer. Earlier, he had been
with Altair Airlines.

William Mawdsley has been elected assis-
tant vice president and associate actuary
within the actuarial organization at State Mu-
tual Life Assurance Company of America in
Worcester. A fellow of the Society of
Actuaries, he was named associate actuary in
1978.

Rick Nabb and his wife, Gina, are located
in Connecticut. Rick continues as manager of
compounding at Clairol.

Last September, William Nutter left GE
Ordnance Systems and later joined Rockwell
International Space Systems Group at Ken-
nedy Space Center in Florida. He is a member
of the engineering technical staff for space
shuttle launch operations.

Warren Smith holds the post of senior en-
gineer at Air Cruisers Company, Belmar, N.J.
The company manufactures aircraft escape
slides and life rafts.

John Zikopoulos, who has a phD in bio-
chemistry from Iowa State University, serves
as a senior research scientist at Armour &
Company in Scottsdale, Ariz. He and Athena
have two children.

1974

► Married: Bruce R. Beaupre and Donna T.
Ventresca in Worcester on November 15,
1980. Mrs. Beaupre, a graduate of Salter Secre-
tarial School and Worcester State, is employed
by Riley Stoker Corp. The groom is a process
engineer in the special formats area in the film
division of Polaroid Corp., Waltham. He is
studying for his master's degree at WPI.
.... Alan C. Hallquist and Laurie A. Des-
marais on October 4, 1980 in Winchendon,
Massachusetts. The bride graduated from
Westfield State College and is purchasing
agent for The Lakso Company, Leominster.
The groom is an air quality scientist at Envi-
ronmental Research and Technology,
Lexington.

► Born, to Betsy and John Chipman, a
daughter, Julie Ellen, on August 26, 1980. John
received his master's in engineering manage-
ment from Northeastern University last June.
Presently, he is working with fiber optic trans-
mission systems at GTE Sylvania, Needham,

Mass to Penny and Alan Judd, a

daughter, Heather Catherine, on January 4,
1981.

Christopher Cigal, a captain in the U.S.
Army, is located at Washington & Jefferson
College in Washington, Pa. He and his wife,
Anne, live in Canonsburg.

Todd Cormier is employed as a senior
project engineer at Halliwell Associates, Inc.,
in East Providence, R.I, specializing in the de-
sign of hyroelectric power projects. The firm is
involved in all aspects of alternative energy,
including: conversion to coal, solar, and most
recently, oil shale.

Steve Dacri says that he entertained on
the Prinsendam in Alaska "before it sank!" In
1980 he appeared on TV in "Candid Camera,"
'Good Day," "Dinah & Friends," and did a
taping for "That's Incredible" which aired this
January. Among the celebrities he has recently
worked with are Bob Hope, Tony Orlando, and
Tim Conway.

Ranjan Das works as a project engineer at
Dresser Industries in Olean, N. Y.

Dr. Richard Dunlap is a research associate
at Dalhousie University, department of
physics, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He holds an
ma from Dartmouth and a pIid from Clark.

Robert Ferrari works as a project engineer
at WVP Consulting Engineers, Decatur, Illi-
nois. He and his wife, Judy, live in Urbana.

Joseph Forand, who has an ms from Yale
and an mba from Northeastern, is now a chem-
ist for Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati.

James Gow has been promoted to director
of systems development within the systems
development organization at State Mutual in
Worcester. A fellow of the Life Management
Institute, he was named senior project man-
ager in 1979.

Lawrence Hayden is now a software engi-
neer at Raytheon in Portsmouth, R.I. Former-
ly, he was an Army captain in the Pentagon.
He, Gail, and two children reside in Middle-
town.

Capt. Thomas Kielick, U.S. Army, is an
assistant professor of military science in the
Siena College rotc department at Loudon-
ville, N.Y.

Harold Maxon serves as a risk engineer at
Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati.

William Murwin was recently promoted
to systems consultant within the data process-
ing organization at State Mutual Life Assur-
ance Co. of America, Worcester. He joined the
company in 1974. In 1978 he was promoted to
senior systems analyst.

Ronald Sarver continues as president of
Ronnie's Catering, Inc. and Sarver Realty in
Randolph, Mass.

Stephen Skutel has been promoted to sen-
ior computer research and technical support
consultant within the data processing organi-
zation at State Mutual in Worcester. He joined
the company as a systems analyst in 1974. He
was promoted to computer research and edu-
cation consultant in 1977 and advisory com-
puter reseach and education consultant in
1978.

Dean Stratouly has been elected vice pres-
ident of Massachusetts operations at Wright-
Pierce, architects and engineers, in Topsham,
Maine.

Craig Tyler is now manager of customer
engineering at Tuttle & Bailey, New Britain,
Conn.

Mary Lynch Voshell is temporarily sus-
pending her career to remain at home with her
daughter, Sharon, who was bom on Feb. 9,
1980.

Frederick Williams is an electro optical
engineer at CBS Technology Center, Stamford,
Conn.

1975

► Married: John M. Batt and Barbara A. Mutz
on June 14, 1980. ►Born: to Joan and Stephen
Fitzhugh their first child, Christopher Ian, on
February 24, 1981.

Norton Bonaparte, Jr. holds the post of di-
rector of program development at American
Society for Public Administration in Washing-
ton, D.C. He has a master of public adminis-
tration degree from Cornell University.

Robert Cummings now serves as opera-
tions engineer for Public Service Company of
New Mexico. He is located in Albuquerque.

Presently, Alan Destribats is manager of
strategic planning in Lachine, Quebec, Canada
for Canadian General Electric. He and Mary
Jane have two children.

Michael Dudas holds the position of vice
president at Electrodes, Inc., Milford, Conn.

Currently, John FitzPatrick serves as a
group manager for Esso Engineering Europe,
Ltd., and is located in England. He is estimat-
ing for construction projects in Italy, France,
and Germany. His wife, Virginia (Giordano), is
doing part-time work as a systems consultant
for Control Data Limited two days a week.
Daughter, Cara, keeps her busy, too.

Ginny writes, "England is expensive, but
fun." Paris, Austria, and Scotland are next on
the FitzPatrick agenda.

The WPI Journal / Spring 1981/27

Robert Granger writes that he has opened
his own law office in Boston. He received his
Juris Doctor degree with honors from Suffolk
University and was admitted to the Massachu-
setts Bar. For the last six years, he has been as-
sociated with Chas. T. Main, Inc., a major
engineering firm in Boston, At Main, he has
served as principal consultant to electric sup-
pliers and consumers in the areas of rates, reg-
ulation, and finance.

Clarke Greene has been appointed sys-
tems engineer by Times Fiber Communica-
tions, Inc., a subsidiary of Insilco Corporation
in Wallingford, Conn. He will assist in the de-
sign of systems for the cable TV, military, and
telecommunications markets. Previously, he
was a project engineer at the Radio Amateur
Satellite Corporation, where his responsibili-
ties included design, testing and fabrication of
spacecraft antenna and computer systems.
From 1976 to 1978 he was a technical editor
for the American Radio Relay League. Also, he
has been a science instructor at the Talcott
Mountain Science Center in Avon.

Bill Gregory has a new job as senior man-
ufacturing engineer at ITT Surprenant in Clin-
ton, Mass.

Lloyd Hemenway works as a product
manager for dry flue gas desulfurization sys-
tems at Buell, Emission Control Division, in
Lebanon, Pa.

Paul Houlihan works as a field sales engi-
neer at Texas Instruments, Inc., Waltham,
Mass.

Robert Howard is with Alcoa Technical
Center, Alcoa Center, Pa. He and Betty have
two children and live in Export, Pa.

Michael Kallet serves as vice president of
systems and programming at Computer Sup-
port Corp., Dallas, Texas.

Dr. Mohsen Kavehrad is a member of the
technical staff at GTE Laboratories, Inc., Wal-
tham, Mass. He and his wife, Susan, have one
child and reside in Hudson, N.H.

Presently, Robert Martinaitis works as an
associate staff engineer in the Surveillance
Systems Group for the Applied Physics Labo-
ratoryof the Johns Hopkins University, Lau-
rel, Md.

Robert Poxon has been named front end
manager at the new Wonder Food Warehouse
in Woonsocket Plaza in Rhode Island. He
joined Wonder in 1972 in Milford as a part-
timer. In 1975 he became front end manager of
that store. He assisted in the opening of Won-
der's Big D Market in Uxbridge in 1978. The
Wonder Market Company does $110 million
in sales annually and is reportedly the largest
sales volume independent supermarket opera-
tion in New England.

James Roche is a senior project engineer at
General Motors Corp., Warren, Mich.

Paul Rojko continues as an engineer with
the usaf.

Patricia Pfeiifer Salamone continues as a
graduate student and research assistant in the
Boston College physics department . She and
her husband, Salvatore, reside in Brookline,
Mass.

Paul Stein is a graduate student in the De-
partment of Physiology at Albany (N.Y.) Medi-
cal College. He has an ms horn the University
of North Dakota.

Frank Vanzler works as an assistant proj-
ect engineer for the Turner Construction Co.
in Cleveland.

Jeffrey Wnek completed his third Boston
Marathon in 2:43. He lives in Athol, Mass.

1976

REUNION
October 2,3

► Married: Gary M. Anderson to Margaret E.
Toms in Wellesley, Massachusetts on October
4, 1980. The bride graduated from Wheaton
College and works for the University of Mas-
sachusetts Medical Center. The groom is with

Heald Machine Company, Worcester

Jonathan G. Bradley and Lynne H. Jordan of
London, England on December 20, 1980 in
Houston, Texas. The bridegroom is employed
by Texas Instruments, Houston.

Thomas Bailey is employed as a sales en-
gineer for the ITT Surprenant Division in Des
Plaines, 111.

Stephen Borys serves as a senior engineer
in Los Angeles for Exxon Co., USA.

Richard Brandoli is a senior manufactur-
ing supervisor at Texas Instruments, Attle-
boro, Mass. While he was racquetball champ
at the Attleboro YMCA, Jack Fitzgibbons, 75,
was squash champion.

Jeffrey Buntz is assistant engineer for the
Northeast Connecticut Regional Planning
Agency in Brooklyn, Conn.

John Carbone is with the Naval Ocean
Systems Center in San Diego, Calif.

Previously with Union Carbide in Tona-
wanda, N.Y., Jeffrey Codene is now project en-
gineering supervisor at Ensign Bickford Co.,
Simsbury, Conn. He is working for his mba.

Stephen Cummings, who received his
mba from Boston University, now is employed
as a production engineer at Polaroid in Wal-
tham, Mass.

Lynne Buckley Decker continues with
United Engineers & Constructors, Boston.
She and her husband, Francis, reside in Wey-
mouth, Mass.

Timothy Golden is a technical service
representative for Monsanto in Springfield,
Mass. He holds an mba from A.I.C.

George Hefferon, who received his PhD
from Columbia University last year, is now a
research associate at Ohio State University in
Columbus.

Currently, John Heid works in corporate
engineering at Max Factor in Hollywood,
where he is a project manager. He resides in
Camarillo, Calif.

Last year, Steven Kuznicki received his
phD in chemistry from the University of Utah.
Now, he is senior research chemist for Air
Products & Chemicals in Allentown, Pa. The
Kuznickis have three children.

Richard Leone is with Factory Mutual Re-
search Corp., Norwood, Mass. He and Karen
live in Milford.

Anne Madara, still with Polaroid, now
works for the Corporate Systems Division in
Waltham, Mass. She is currently the coordina-
tor for the Polaroid Programmer Training Pro-
gram. The first ten trainees will graduate in
June after eight months of combined class-
room and on-the-job training.

Craig Plourde has been promoted to assis-
tant vice president in technical support in
management information systems at the Con-
necticut Bank and Trust Company. He joined
the company in 1976 as a senior programmer
and has been senior systems engineer since
1978.

Rick Rudis is an engineering assurance
engineer for Stone & Webster, Boston, Mass.

Steven Schoen has been named a fellow of
the Society of Actuaries, as a result of a test
which he passed last November. Also, in Feb-
ruary, he was promoted to assistant actuary at
Sun Life of Canada, the insurance company
where he is employed.

Kelly and Bruce Stoller, who were mar-
ried last June, are living in Nashua, N.H.

Esmail Tinati is self-employed in Las
Vegas.

Cpt. Neal Wright, who has been with the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Ft. Belvoir,
Md., is looking forward to an overseas assign-
ment in April.

1977

► Married: Allan R. Clarke and Ann C. Depies
in Appleton, Wisconsin on November 1, 1980.
Mrs. Clarke graduated from Marquette Uni-
versity. She is a dental hygienist. Her husband

is a chemical engineer for Amricon

Robert Medeiros and Diane F. Markmann in
Fallston, Maryland on December 20, 1980.
The bride, who has been employed as a branch
bank manager, attended Towson State Univer-
sity. The couple presently resides in Herts,

England J. Clayton Ney, Jr., toTania

M. Olear on February 21, 1981 in Waterbury,
Connecticut. The bride graduated from Cedar
Crest College, Allentown, Pa. with a degree in
sociology and education. She is the affirmative
action officer for the City of Waterbury. Her
husband serves as an administrator for Ex-
panded Rubber Products, Watertown.

28 / Spring 1981 / The WPI Journal

Allyn Amabile serves as a design engineer
at Celanese Chemical in Houston, Texas.

Timothy Ascani is an executive officer
with the U.S. Army at Ft. Lewis, Washington.

Paul Cadorette, who is pursuing his mba,
works as district representative for Bess Eaton
Donuts in Westerly, R.I.

Andrew (Moon) Clancy now serves as a
planning engineer at Western Electric Co. in
Burlington, Mass., having transferred to the
Marketing Research Group. He still rows for
the Riverside Boat Club in Cambridge.

William Cloutier works as project engi-
neer for Nuclear Energy Services in Danbury,
Conn. He and Maureen live in Bethel.

Ismael Colon serves as a project scientist
at Union Carbide in Elm Brook, N.J.

W. Paul Cullen continues with GE in
Schenectady, N.Y.

Steven Fine is a laboratory scientist at
Western Company in Fort Worth, Texas. He
works with the analytical group of the
Western Research Division. In December, he
received his ms in chemistry horn Texas
A&M.

Nancy Gettens is with Polaroid in Wal-
tham, Mass. She and her husband, Anthony
Giglio live in Medfield.

Mike Gregory has been in pilot training
with the U.S. Air Force.

James Howe is employed as a hydro plant
engineer at Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.

David Laferriere serves as a corporate staff
engineer at Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Barber-
ton, Ohio.

William Lee, a first lieutenant in the U.S.
Army, is stationed at Ft. McNair, in Washing-
ton, D.C.

Kathy Molony was recently promoted to
department head of production in oxidation at
Clairol, Stamford, Conn.

Ltc. Ronald Norris is with the U.S. Army
in Washington, D.C.

Michael O'Leary works as a sales engi-
neer at Blake Equipment in Bloomfield, Conn.

Amy Schneider is employed as a program-
mer by GTE Sylvania of Danvers, Mass.

Nicolette Stultz holds the position of sys-
tems design engineer at Solar Energy Sales in
Walnut Creek, Calif.

Chris Thomas is district engineer at the
Torrington Co., Novi, Michigan.

Richard Wheeler holds the post of product
sales representative at Hooker Chemical Co.,
Pottstown, Pa. He and Linda are the parents of
Jason, 1.

1978

► Married: Kathryn E. Lyga and Edgar F.
Heselbarth HI on October 4, 1980 in Salem,
New Hampshire. The bride is a design engi-
neer at C. E. Power Systems, Newington. Her
husband, a graduate of Wentworth Institute of
Technology, is an electronics technician at

Digital Equipment Corp John Sabat,

Jr and Maryanne Bohdiewicz on August 3,
1980 in Worcester. Mrs. Sabat graduated from
Anna Maria, is in the master's program at
Worcester State College, and is a learning-
disabilities specialist at the Ellis Elementary
School, Fremont, N.H. The bridegroom, an
electrical engineer at Sanders, Inc., Nashua,
N.H., is taking the master's program at North-
eastern in Boston

Alvaro Arcila serves as a planning advisor
at Fabricato, S.A., in Colombia.

Howard Bleakie holds the post of engi-
neering manager at Protanic in Cohasset,
Mass.

Robert Brosnahan recently published a
paper in the Journal of Biomedical Materials
Research. It was entitled: "Suitability of Pig-
mented PVDF Wire For Implantation in the
Dog."

David Chin is now with Factory Mutual
Engineering Association in Dallas, Texas.

Lou Collette works as a senior engineer in
government systems at Harris Corp., Palm
Bay, Florida. He is studying for his master's
degree at Florida Institute of Technology. The
Collettes have a fourteen-month-old daughter
and live in Melbourne.

Greg Dunnells continues as a process en-
gineer at Gulf Oil Chemicals Co., Baytown,
Texas. He is involved with technical service in
the olefins units.

Eric Fredrickson presently works for
C & K Components in Newton, Mass.

Robert Fritsch, who has his msee from
WPI, now works as an associate engineer at
EVA Service Corp., Lincoln, R. I.

Howard Hillstrom is presently studying
for his phD in biomedical engineering at Drexel
University in Philadelphia. His research is
concerned with myoelectric, microprocessor
controlled prosthetic devices.

Wayne Martin serves as a nuclear plant
engineer for GE in Windsor, Conn.

Marine 1st Lt. Mark McCalmont has re-
ceived his wings of gold in recognition of 18
months of flight training. The naval aviator's
curriculum included basic studies in engineer-
ing and navigation, training flights in simula-
tors, and aircraft carrier landings. He joined
the Marines in 1978. Presently, he is with the
All Weather Attack Training Squadron-202 at
the Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point,
N.C.

Steven McLafferty is a design engineer at
CSP, Inc., Billerica, Mass. He works with ar-
ray processors.

Recently, Pete Mulvihill accepted a pro-
motion to district supervising engineer in the
San Francisco field office of Industrial Risk
Insurers.

Robert Pancotti is a computer scientist at
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in
Livermore, Calif.

Robert Rossier works as an associate engi-
neer at Electric Boat in Groton, Conn.

Newell Stamm, Jr. is with Stamm Con-
struction, Newingto, Conn.

Paula Jane Stoll, who has a master's de-
gree from WPI, is presently a graduate student
and research assistant in the chemical engi-
neering department at the University of Illi-
nois in Urbana.

Jan Tauc is with Northern Research & En-
gineering Corp., Woburn, Mass.

Stephen Tourgny is a quality process con-
trol engineer at Norton Co., Huntsville,
Alabama.

1979

► Married: David W. Ford to Patricia Caswell
in Fall River, Massachusetts on November 29,
1980. Mrs. Ford is attending Southeastern
Massachusetts University Scott Han-
sen and Leslie Schellhase on October 11, 1980
in Bedford, Massachusetts. Jay Frankudakis
was in the wedding party. .... Mark B.
Hecker to Ann-Marie Robinson on April 19,
1980. The bride serves as an associate software
engineer at Prime Computer in Framingham,

Mass Mark T. McCabe to Kim S.

Lusnia in Chicopee, Massachusetts on De-
cember 27, 1980. Mrs. McCabe graduated
from Bowdoin College and was a marketing
consultant at New England Telephone Co.,
Worcester. Her husband works for Wendell

Kent Co. of Bradenton, Florida Jason

F. Providakes to Janet K. Grossman on January
10, 1981 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Mrs.
Providakes graduated from Springfield Techni-
cal Community College and was a flower de-
signer and manager at Small's Flower Shop.
The groom is a doctoral candidate in electrical
engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca,
N. Y. . . . . John M. Vogt and Heidi Pivnick
on February 14, 1981 in Providence, Rhode Is-
land. The bride works for AT&T Long Lines,
Boston. Her husband is with Warren Commu-
nications, Littleton, Mass.

Carl Anderson holds the post of assistant
chief engineer of ball valves at Jamesbury
Corp., Worcester. He has an ms in manage-
ment from WPI.

Paul Bellagamba is a civil engineer for the

City of Bristol, Conn Currently,

Allen Buchinski serves as a productivity engi-
neer in Schenectady, N.Y. at GE John

Corini works as a product design engineer in

Lynn, Mass. at General Electric

Philip Cullin is with Astra Pharmaceuticals,
Westboro, Mass.

The WPI Journal / Spring 1981 / 29

Stephen DiPietro has been named a recip-
ient of a fellowship administered by the Insti-
tute of Nuclear Power Operations. One of 62
fellowships awarded to advanced engineering
students, it will aid the recipient in pursuing a
master's degree in nuclear engineering. Each
recipient receives a stipend of $5,500 for the
academic year, with $2,500 being given to
each institution to help defray other costs.
The nationwide recipients were chosen based
on grade point average and interest in nuclear
power operations. Previously, DiPietro re-
ceived a Babcock and Wilcox Academic Schol-
arship and a Mary T. Richardson Fund
Scholarship. Currently, he is seeking an MS
degree in nuclear materials engineering.

Mary Dunn works as a design engineer at

Digital in Colorado Springs, Colo

Alwyn Fitzgerald has a new job as office man-
ager of Connecticut Valley Biological Supply
Co., Inc., Southampton, Mass.

Mike Gabriella, a quality control engineer
at New England Interstate, Westboro, Mass.,
is a baritone in the Grandstand Vocal Band,
1980 semifinalists in the international
spebsqsa (barbershop) competition.

Arthur Girard, who has a bs in urban plan-
ning from WPI, is program administrator for
Memorial Square Home Improvement Pro-
gram in Springfield, Mass Peter

Gould is an associate engineer at Raytheon

Co., Way land, Mass Robert Gregorio

serves as a platoon leader with the U.S. Army
at Ft. Bliss, Texas.

Suzanne Hess, an Exxon sales representa-
tive, is concerned with the southeastern Vir-
ginia territory. She has conducted lubrication
courses for Exxon customers in the area.
Anheuser-Busch invited her to recommend
lubes for all the new equipment for its massive
Williamsburg brewery expansion. For relaxa-
tion, Sue likes nothing better than sailing
around Chesapeake Bay in a 19-foot sloop.
Last spring, she spent her vacation island-
hopping the Caribbean in a chartered boat.

2/Lt. Steve Kanevski is a navigator for the
U.S. Air Force. He expects to be stationed in

England soon Jim Kelleher serves as a

programmer at IBM in Middletown, R.I. He is
working on the command and control system
for the Trident submarine and also taking an
assembly language programming course at uri.

Leonard Kleczynski is a design engineer
in R&D for GE's Direct Energy Conversion
Projects-Fuel Cells in Wilmington, Mass.
.... Andy Labrecque holds the post of su-
pervisor of production planning at Armstrong

World Industries in Fulton, N.Y

Claude Lecluze is a process engineer at ELF-

Aquitaine in France Kathleen

McKeon is completing her master of science
degree at Michigan State University this year.
She hopes to teach mathematics at a commu-
nity or junior college.

Jeff Mills has just finished his msme at
Duke and now works at UOP Process
Division near Chicago William Pot-
ter works for General Data Comm., Inc., Dan-
bury, Conn. He is also pursuing his master's
degree Jeffrey Stickles is a manufac-
turing engineer at AVCO Systems,
Wilmington, Mass.

2nd Lt. Gregory VanHouten has
graduated from the Navy's Aviation Indoctri-
nation School. During the four-week course at
the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla., he stud-
ied basic aerodynamics, aviation physiology
and engineering. AIC is the first step in the na-
val flight training program leading to designa-
tion as a naval aviator. VanHouten joined the
Marine Corps in 1978.

Michael Vicens serves as a quality engi-
neer at Storage Technology Corp. in Puerto
Rico. He and Maria have two children.
.... Robert Williams works as a project en-
gineer for the Naval Electronic Systems
Command in Washington, D.C. He and his
wife Katherine have four children and live in
Woodbridge, Va.

William Winters, who recently received
his master's in engineering from Cornell, is
with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo

Park, Calif Currently, Mohammed

Younes works for Sonelec of Algeria.

1980

30 / Spring 1981 / The WPI Journal

► Married: Amos F. Barnes PVand Judith G.
Barrett on November 29, 1980 in Branford,
Connecticut. The bride attended Eastern Con-
necticut State College and was employed at
the Connecticut Savings Bank. The groom is
employed at WPI under a National Science
Foundation Research Grant while pursuing his

master's degree in civil engineering

John S. Cybulski and Carole J. Potts in
Schenectady, New York on December 13,
1980. The bride graduated from Becker. Her
husband is employed in the manufacturing
and management program at GE, Schenec-
tady Thomas A. Daniels and Jean M.

Martin, '81, recently in Hingham, Massachu-
setts. The Rev. Roger Borden, a WPI professor,
performed the ceremony. The bridegroom
works for Babcock & Wilcox Co., Lynchburg,

Va Mark W. DiLuglio to Paula

Dolyak on February 14, 1981 in Greenville,
Rhode Island. Mrs. DiLuglio graduated from

Rhode Island College James J.

Feenan, Jr. and Patricia J. Curry in Hamilton,
Massachusetts. Mrs. Feenan, an emergency
nurse at Fallon Clinic, Worcester, graduated
from Essex Agricultural and Technical
Institute. Her husband is with Coppus
Engineering.

Anne M. Haselton and Robert Kuklinski,
'81, in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. They are re-
siding in Manchester, N.H Anthony

A. Masullo and Anne E. Weber in Yardley,
Pennsylvania on October 11, 1980. The bride
attended Becker and is employed at Kaplan's
Travel Bureau, Norwich, Conn. The bride-
groom works for Pfizer Chemical Company,
Groton.

Brownell Bailey works as a project man-
ager for an engineering firm in Dillon, Colo-
rado. "Living in Breckinridge. Love it here!"
.... Douglas Beller serves as a member of
the technical staff at Hughes Aircraft in
Culver City, Calif.

Godwin Benson is now a senior lecturer
in the Kaduna Polytechnic Mechanical De-
partment, Kaduna, Nigeria. He serves as a Ni-
gerian soccer referee Roger Busico is

a member of the technical staff and an electri-
cal design engineer at Bell Telephone Labora-
tories in Whippany, N.J.

John Cermenaro holds the post of product
development engineer at CBS Musical Instru-
ments in Fullerton, Calif Frank De

Bonis is presently a management trainee at
U.S. Steel Corporation, Texas works, in Bay-
town, Texas David Drevinsky works

as an environmental engineer with the EPA,
Boston. He goes part-time to graduate school
and belongs to several chess clubs, including
the United States Chess Federation.

Paul Filewich is employed as a design en-
gineer at Harris Corp., Westerly, R.I

David Fox is a technical support specialist at

Digital in Merrimack, N.H John

Goodwin is employed as a programmer-
analyst at Arthur Andersen & Co., Boston.
.... Gary Graf is with Sanders Associates
in Nashua, N.H.

William Guilfoile, Jr. serves as an electri-
cal project engineer at Anaconda Industries,

American Brass, in Ansonia, Conn

Jeffrey Ironfield now works as a consulting en-
gineer for EDS Nuclear, Inc., Melville, N.Y.
.... Thaddeus Kielar is presently a
research associate at International Energy As-
sociates, Ltd. in Washington, D.C

David Lesser serves as a product engineer at
Western Electric in Reading, Pa.

Karen Liukkonen is a student in the mba
program at Babson College, and lives in

Needham, Mass Silvia Matamoros

Loud is employed as a design engineer at
T.R.W. Vidar, Melbourne, Fla.

Jon Marshall currently serves as an asso-
ciate engineer at NBI, Inc., in Boulder, Colo-
rado. The company manufactures word

processing systems Linda Mclnnis is

a hardware technical writer for Computer-
vision of Bedford, Mass.

John Milson holds the post of administra-
tor of standards and documents at Interactive

Data Corp., Waltham, Mass Richard

Mongeau is in the manufacturing manage-
ment program in GE's Reentry Systems Divi-
sion, Philadelphia John Nenninger is

a mechanical engineer in training at Heald
Machine Co., Worcester.

Ian Newman works as a project engineer

at Sprague Electric in Worcester

Matthew Powell is employed as a hardware
design engineer in the Strategic Systems Divi-
sion at GTE Sylvania in Needham Heights,

Mass Marc Provencal has joined

TRW Corp., Redondo Beach, Calif.

John Putis works as a marketing engineer

at Western Electric Bruce Richmond

works for GE in Utica, N.Y Matthew

Rubano is an associate engineer at Northeast

Utilities in Hartford, Conn Mark

Senior is a process engineer at Badger America,

Inc., Tampa, Fla Peter Sherer has

been named a control products design
engineer at Texas Instruments in Attleboro,
Mass.

Carlos Smith serves as a programmer at
Computervision Corp., Bedford, Mass.
.... Joseph Sotak has joined Western Elec-
tric in Kearny, N.J Christian Tasche

is with Boeing Commercial Airplane, Seattle.
.... George Tobin, Jr., serves as a supply
management intern for the U.S. Army in Tex-
arkana, Texas. In March, he was scheduled to
be transferred to the Army Command in Ft.
Monmouth, N.J. He is working for his mba.

Geoff Ward is a microcircuit fabrication
engineer in the quality department at Analog
Devices Semiconductor, Wilmington, Mass.
.... Richard Whalen is employed as a soft-
ware engineer by Digital in Maynard, Mass.

Natural Science
Program

A. Thomas Shirley, 72, was recently named a
teacher of physics at Dover High School, Do-
ver, N.H. Formerly he taught in Hampton. He
holds a bs from Plymouth State College.

Robert Kolesnik, 78, teaches physics at
Bartlett High School, Webster, Mass.
Richard Simmons, 70, is presently head of the
biology department of a high school in New
Zealand. He attended Bridgewater State Col-
lege and graduated from Boston University. He
and his family reside in Palmerston North,
New Zealand, a city of 60,000 which is consid-
ered to be an educational center.

► Married: Anthony V. Messa, 79, and
Ann Mary Manning on December 19, 1980 in
Manchester, New Hampshire. The bride, who
graduated from Mount St. Mary College, is
employed in the English department at Man-
chester Memorial High School. Her husband
is with the science department at the same
school.

School of
Industrial

Management

Formerly with Sentry Co., Foxboro, Mass.,
Charles Gelette, Jr., '54, is now retired and re-
siding in Taunton, Mass.

For the last 12 years, Albert Ormondroyd,
'55, has had his own business in Maine. Cur-
rently, he is retired in Whitinsville, Mass.

Nicholas Moffa, '56, has been elected
chairman of the board of the Grinding Wheel
Institute, which is an association of U.S. man-
ufacturers of grinding wheels. Moffa is presi-
dent of Bay State Abrasives, Westboro, Mass.

Leonard Krasnow, '57, serves as vice
president of engineering at Berlyn Corp.,
Worcester.

Clifford Pontbriand, '58, writes that
he is now manager of frame manufacturing for
Pennsylvania Optical Company in
Reading, Pa.

Schwieger Award

to Henning Frederiksen

Paul Flynn, '66, is plant superintendent
in Burlington, N.C. for Crompton & Knowles
Corp.

Recently, Robert Rowse, '66, was ap-
pointed divisional vice president and general
manager for proppants at Norton Co., Worces-
ter. He continues as division vice president for
research and new business development.

Gerard LaFleche, Jr., '77, has been pro-
moted to manager of inventory planning, oph-
thalmic instruments, for the Instrument
Division at American Optical Corp.,
Southbridge, Mass. He has had 15 years expe-
rience at AO in distribution, customer service,
and inventory planning. In his new post, he is
responsible for coordinating factory
scheduling for the firm's Buffalo, Rochester
and Southbridge plants. He graduated horn
Nichols College.

Henning Frederiksen, sim '63, re-
cently received the Albert J. Schwie-
ger award for outstanding
achievement at the School of Indus-
trial Management's 32nd midyear
banquet at the Wachusett Country
Club.

Frederiksen is president and
treasurer of the Plainville (Mass.)
Machine Works Co., which he
founded in 1961. He also organized
the Plainville Products Group in
1973 and the Plainville Hydraulics
Corp. in 1975.

A native of Argentina, he at-
tended Norfolk public schools and
Boston Trade School. During World
War II, he was with the U.S. Army.
From 1951 to 1953, he was a master
sergeant in the Air Force.

The Schwieger Award is named
for the first director of WPI's School
of Industrial Management. The
school offers a four-year course de-
signed for middle management per-
sonnel from area industry.

The WPI Journal / Spring 1981/31

Bonnie-Blanche Robinson Schoonover, the

first librarian emeritus of WPI, died in Worces-
ter on February 9, 1981.

Before retiring in 1964, she was head li-
brarian at WPI for over 22 years. Earlier, she
had been night librarian at Radcliffe College.

She was born on Nov. 15, 1893 in Ponca,
Nebraska. In 1915, she graduated from
Momingside College, Sioux City, Iowa. Later,
she received her ma in English at Radcliffe, and
then studied for her pIid.

While taking graduate courses at the Uni-
versity of Chicago, she did volunteer social
work with teenagers at the famed Jane Ad-
dams Hull House. She worked tirelessly after
World War I for the passage of the Nineteenth
Amendment. "I even spent a night in jail pro-
testing for the right of women to vote," she
once admitted.

During World War EI, her husband, Lynn
Schoonover, was named assistant professor at
WPI. Before his death in 1973, he became act-
ing head of the economics department at WPI.
Also, he was head of the department of finance
at Northeastern and a lecturer at Becker.

When Prof. Schoonover first came to
WPI, his wife was offered the post of librarian,
a position she held until her retirement in
1964. She once said of her years at WPI, "Boys
and books! How can you beat that for a living?
And God never made any finer men than
engineers."

Mrs. Schoonover belonged to the Congre-
gational Church, and was a former Sunday
school teacher. She was a past president of the
Worcester Woman's Club and a member of the
Worcester Ecumenical Council. A book re-
viewer and lecturer for many years, she ap-
peared in the 1966 edition of Who's Who of
American Women. A scholarship is given an-
nually in her name to a woman student at
WPI.

Jacob L. Mueller, '13 of Shrewsbury, Pennsyl-
vania, the retired owner of Mueller Engineer-
ing Co., died on June 23, 1980.

In 1963, after more than 41 years, Mueller
Engineering closed its doors. The firm did
heating and air conditioning contracting.

Mr. Mueller was born on Mar. 7, 1889 in
Austria. In 1913, he graduated as a mechanical
engineer from WPI. For four years, he did grad-
uate research in the heat treatment of low car-
bon steels. During that time, he developed a
carburizing compound, designed facilities for
its manufacture, and served as a specialist-
consultant to New England manufacturers.

In World War I, he was plant manager and
chief engineer for the American Chain & Ca-
ble Co. While with the company, he designed
and supervised the construction of special me-
chanized carburization furnaces which ob-
tained better results of speed and depth
penetration than by previous methods.

A professional engineer, Mr. Mueller was
a pioneer in the development of automatic
heat for home and industry until his retire-
ment in 1962. He belonged to the Engineering
Society of York (Pa.), the Lions Club, and Ex-
ecutives Club, which he had served as presi-
dent. He was a life member of the state and
national Society of Professional Engineers.

Oliver W. Cook, '15, died unexpectedly at his
home in Bridgton, Maine on February 9, 1981.

A native of Warren, R.I., he was born on
Aug. 6, 1891. He attended WPI and Clark. For
many years, he served as a self-employed me-
chanic in Maine until his retirement. Wood-
working and stamp collecting were among his
lifetime hobbies.

He was a veteran of World War I. When
the Clark University Ambulance Unit was
formed, he joined it, and spent the duration of
the war in France driving heavy supply trucks.

Wellen H. Colburn, '16, a long-time employee
of the Boston Edison Company, died on Janu-
ary 21, 1981 in Ayer, Massachusetts. He
was 86.

In 1916, he received his bsee from WPI,
and in 1917, his professional degree. Following
his graduation from WPI, he joined Bay State
Street Railway in Boston. Other employers
were Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. in Quincy
and Thomson Electric Welding Co., Lynn. In
1920, he became affiliated with Boston Edi-
son, retiring in 1960. From 1955 until 1962, he
was an instructor at Northeastern University
in Boston. Following his retirement, he be-
came a self-employed consulting engineer.

Mr. Colburn, who belonged to Tau Beta Pi
and Sigma Xi, was also a member of the ieee,
the Masons, and the United Church of Shirley,
Mass. He served as chairman of the Shirley
Red Cross Bloodmobile. He was a past presi-
dent of the Boston chapter of the WPI Alumni
Association and a past member of the Alumni
Council. A native of Worcester, he was born
on Dec. 1, 1894.

Harold G. Saunders, '16, the former vice presi-
dent in charge of sales and engineering at Air-
serco Mfg. Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, died
recently.

He was born on July 4, 1894 in Provi-
dence, R.I. After graduating as a mechanical
engineer in 1916, he worked for New England
Westinghouse in Chicopee Falls, Mass. During
World War I, he was with the U.S. Army in
France serving as a bombardier and instructor.
From 1919 until 1959, he was with Kinney
Vacuum, Boston, where he rose to sales man-
ager. After his retirement from Kinney, he
went with Airserco. He belonged to Theta
Chi.

Clifford C. Whiting, '17, passed away recently.

For many years, he was a self-employed
manufacturing jeweler in Chicago, 111. A
member of the class of 1917, he belonged to
Phi Gamma Delta.

Arthur M. Millard, '18, a retired transmission
engineer from the Southern New England
Telephone Company, died in New London,
Connecticut on November 20, 1980. He
was 87.

Mr. Millard was employed by the New
Haven office of SNET for over 40 years. In
1959, he retired.

He was born on Jan. 16, 1894 in Hartford,
Conn. After graduating as an electrical engi-
neer in 1918, he joined Southern New England
Telephone. A member of aiee, the Baptist
Church, the Graduate Club in New Haven,
and the Telephone Pioneers of America, Mr.
Millard also belonged to the New Haven
Country Club. He was a 50-year member of
the Masons. His brother, Fred Millard, gradu-
ated from WPI in 1922.

Maurice W. Richardson, '18, died in Saratoga
Springs, New York on December 20, 1980 at
the age of 84.

Prior to joining Mohasco Industries in
Amsterdam, N.Y. in 1923, he worked for R.
Wallace and Sons Mfg Co., Wallingford,
Conn.; John A. Stevens Consulting Engineers,
Lowell, Mass.; and the Naval Experimental
Station in New London, Conn. For twenty
years, he held the post of manager of the engi-
neering department at Mohasco, formerly
Mohawk Carpet Mills. He retired from the
company in 1961.

Civic-minded, he was past executive di-
rector of the United Way of Montgomery
County and a member of the Amsterdam
Planning Board. He was a trustee of the
Methodist Church, the Amsterdam Memorial
Hospital, and the Sanford Home for Women.
For over 10 years, he was a member of the ad-
visory council for the General Electric sta-
tions, WGY and WRGB.

Mr. Richardson graduated from WPI as an
electrical engineer. He belonged to Skull,
Theta Chi, and had been executive director of
the Amsterdam Community Chest. He was a
licensed professional engineer in New York
State. During World War I, he was a chief elec-
trician in the U.S. Navy. He was born on June
10, 1896 in Leomnister, Mass.

Watson H. Whitney, '19, died in Plymouth,
Massachusetts on November 23, 1980 at the
age of 83.

Following his graduation as a mechanical
engineer, he joined Shepard Electric Crane and
later, New Home Sewing Machine Co. From
1923 to 1958, when he retired, he was with
GE in Lynn, Mass. He worked as a specialist
in wage rates and union relations.

A native of Orange, Mass., he was born
on Nov. 19, 1897. He belonged to Tau Beta Pi,
the Congregational Chinch, the local senior
citizens' club, the Cracker Barrel Club, and
Retired Men's Club. He was a 50-year Mason.

32 / Spring 1981 / The WPI Journal

Col. Robert W. Horner, '20, U.S. Army
Retired, died in Marietta, Ohio on January 15,
1981.

A career army officer, Col. Horner served
in World War I and World War II, retiring from
active duty in 1954. For twenty years, he was
with Birmingham Electric Co. in Alabama.
Later, he joined Lockheed Aircraft, Marietta,
Ga. After retirement, he became a tax exam-
iner for the Internal Revenue Service.

Col. Horner was born in Hartford, Conn,
on Nov. 5, 1895, and was a member of the
Class of 1920. He belonged to the Masons and
the Baptist Church. A past president of the
AARP No. 764, he also belonged to the Na-
tional Association of Retired Federal Em-
ployees.

Richard B. Swallow, '23, a 46-year employee
of the Public Service Electric and Gas Co. in
Newark, N.J., died in Rumford, Maine on De-
cember 22, 1980. He was 80 years old.

Bom on July 14, 1900 in Manchester,
N.H., he subsequently became a student at
WPI. In 1923, he graduated with his bsee. Dur-
ing his long employment with Public Service
Electric and Gas Co., he served as a meter and
wiring engineer. He retired in 1970. He was a
member of Phi Sigma Kappa and the Elks.

Solon C. Bartlett, '24, died at his home in
Ridgewood, New Jersey on February 18, 1981.
He was 79.

After receiving his bsee from WPI, he
joined Edison Electric Institute as a coordina-
tion engineer. For four years he was a research
engineer at Ford Instrument Co. From 1937 to
1966, he was with American Electric Power
Co., New York City, where he retired as elec-
trical engineer in charge of communications.

Mr. Bartlett held first class commercial
and amateur radio licenses and was a past
president of Hobbyists Unlimited of Ridge-
wood and of the New York Chapter of the
Alumni Association. In 1973-1974, he was
a member of the President's Advisory Coun-
cil at WPI. He also belonged to the ieee and
cigre. He was bom on Aug. 28, 1901 in Wash-
ington, DC.

Raymond G. Wilcox, '24, retired general su-
pervisor of lines at Western Union Telegraph
Co., New York City, passed away on January
18, 1981 in West wood, New Jersey.

Following his graduation as a civil engi-
neer from WPI, he began work at Western
Union. He started as a plant inspector and was
promoted to construction supervisor, then di-
visional supervisor of lines. From 1962 until
1967 he was general supervisor of lines.

Mr. Wilcox was born on Jan. 25, 1902 in
Griswold, Conn. He was an active participant
in the Baha'i faith and served as a member of
various Baha'i committees and as a teacher
and public speaker. He belonged to SAE and
Skull.

Gordon F. Howes, '26, of Pelham, New York
died on April 27, 1980.

He was born on July 27, 1904 in Holyoke,
Mass. In 1926, he graduated from WPI as an
electrical engineer. He joined the New York
Telephone Co. following graduation, and re-
tired in 1969. While with the company, he
served as a traffic engineer, equipment engi-
neer, and methods engineer. He was a member
of Lambda Chi Alpha and Tau Beta Pi.

Harry C. Peinert, '26, formerly a production
manager for du Pont, died after a long illness
in Wilmington, Delaware on February 5, 1981.
He was 75.

A native of Clinton, Mass., he was bom
on June 19, 1905. In 1926, he received his bs in
chemistry from WPI. He joined du Pont after
graduation, and retired in 1966 following a 40-
year career in the explosives department man-
ufacturing operations.

While with du Pont, he served as chief
chemist at the company works in Birming-
ham, Alabama,- assistant plant manager at the
Seneca, 111. works; and as production manager
of the company's explosives department in
Wilmington. He was a member of Tau Beta Pi
and Sigma Xi.

Cecil R. Furminger, '27, of Appleton, Wiscon-
sin died on November 1, 1980.

He was bom on Aug. 26, 1902 in Mitte-
neague, Mass., and was a member of the class
of 1927. During his career, he worked for Terry
Steam Turbine, Orbison & Orbison, Appleton
Machine Co. (vice president), and Gilbert &
Nash Co. (assistant manager). He was a 32nd
degree Mason and Shriner.

For eleven years, he served on the board of
Appleton Memorial Hospital. He belonged to
the Salvation Army advisory board.

David G. Cormier, '28, recently died in Web-
ster, Massachusetts.

For many years, he was with the Massa-
chusetts Electric Co., Worcester, from which
he retired in 1967. For a time, he was chief
engineer.

He was born on Dec. 17, 1901 in Somers-
worth, N.H., and later became a member of
the class of 1928. He belonged to sae.

Harold G. Richards, '29, a 40-year employee of
Industrial Risk Insurers, passed away at his
home in West Hartford, Connecticut on Janu-
ary 4, 1981 at the age of 73.

A native of Stamford, Conn., he was born
on Nov. 27, 1907, and later became an electri-
cal engineering student at WPI. He was a
member of Lambda Chi Alpha. He joined the
Factory Insurance Association (now Industrial
Risk Insurers) in 1929 as an inspector. Other
posts were with Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.
and Western Sprinkled Risk Association,
where he was a special agent. He retired in
1972 from ERI, where he had been an adminis-
trative assistant.

Mr. Richards belonged to the local Con-
gregational Church choir for 31 years, and was
associate treasurer for 13 years. He was a 32nd
degree Mason, a past president of the Pioneers
Club of F.I. A., and an honorary member of the
West Hartford Art League.

Charles K. Aldrich, '31, formerly of Buttzville,
New Jersey died recently.

During his career, he worked for Interna-
tional Nickel Co. of Canada, Ontario Refining
Co., and American Cyanamid Co., Bound
Brook, N.J.

He was bom on Feb. 29, 1908 in Perth
Amboy, N.J. Subsequently, he became a mem-
ber of the class of 1931. He belonged to
Lambda Chi Alpha.

John J. Molloy, Jr., '33, formerly the president
of Construction Management Corp. of New
York City, died on December 27, 1980 in Glen
Ridge, New Jersey.

A native of Hartford, Conn., he was bom
on Sept. 19, 191 1 . In 1933, he received his bsce
from WPI. During his lifetime, he was with
the Bureau of Public Works in Hartford; the
Connecticut Aviation Commission, and Ray-
mond Concrete Pile Co., where he was con-
struction superintendent. At the time of his
death, he was employed by Page Communi-
cations, Inc., in Virginia. He traveled exten-
sively throughout the world during his career.

Mr. Molloy belonged to ato and Skull. He
was a Navy veteran of World War n, serving as
an officer with the Seabees. A member of the
Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, he
also belonged to the Society of American Mili-
tary Engineers.

Maxwell E. Marshall, '37, recently passed
away in Sarasota, Florida.

He was bom on June 5, 1915 in Holyoke,
Mass., and graduated as a mechanical engineer
from WPI in 1937. During World War H, he
served as a lieutenant commander in the U.S.
Navy. For many years, he was with Long Is-
land Lighting Co., retiring as manager of me-
chanical and civil engineering in 1976.

Mr. Marshall belonged to aep, the Ma-
sons, and the Edison Electric Institute.

Col Irving T. McDonald, Jr., USAF (Ret.),
'46, died in New Smyrna Beach, Florida on
October 2, 1980.

He was born on Dec. 23, 1925 in Spring-
field, Mass. He was in the Navy V-12 class of
1946, and left WPI in his junior year to enter
the U.S. Naval Academy. In 1949, he gradu-
ated and was subsequently commissioned a
second lieutenant in the Air Force. In 1953, he
received a master's degree in engineering from
Purdue University and did postgraduade work
at the University of Michigan. He belonged to

EKN.

At the time of his retirement in 1973, he
was chief of the policy and plans division for
Air Force Intelligence in Washington. After
moving to Florida, he was appointed manager
of the Deltona office of the First Federal Sav-
ings and Loan Association, Daytona Beach,
Fla.

During his career, he had many interest-
ing tours of duty. One of the most memorable
was a 17-month tour as assistant air attache in
Moscow, when he traveled extensively
throughout the U.S.S.R.

"Mac" rose to the rank of colonel during
his last assignment in the Pentagon, before re-
tiring and moving to Florida.

The WPI Journal / Spring 1981 / 33

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