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WIN 2013

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classnotes Richard Jasper '41 recently celebrated his 93rd birthday. He is retired and lives in Rockland, Mass. Dick Weiss '42 and his wife, Dotty, celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary in February 2012. He retired in 1986, after 45 years with Merck. Arthur Grazulis '43 and his wife have moved to a retirement home in Strongsville, Ohio. "Life is sometimes challenging," he writes, "but our oldest son lives nearby and is helpful." William Walsh '43 writes, "Further to my continuing business start-up effort to license my patented VGA technology, I presented a paper at the Power-Gen International Conference in Orlando, Fla., in December. The paper, titled 'Retrofitting Fossil Fueled Industrial and Utility Power Plants with a New Costeffective Method of Dry Scrubbing for Collection of Sulfur Oxides, Nitrogen Oxides and Mercury,' won second place for 2012 Best Paper Award in the Fossil Technology Track." Daniel Katz '45 writes from Cincinnati, "Looking forward to the arrival of my first great-grandchild." 1 John Knibb '46 shares, "I miss Evelyn, my bride of 61 years, who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly one I have been retired over 24 years and will soon go into a 1950 graduate (w/wife Diane) moved to a brand new assisted year ago this month (November). But life goes on. As a min- retirement village near Suwanee, Ga. I have blindness in one living facility named The Saybrook at Haddam. Our ister, I'm still doing sermons. As an aviation enthusiast, I'm eye and problems in the other eye from a mini-stroke, so have address is 1556 Saybrook Rd., Apt 233, Haddam, CT 06438; still flying, including a wild ride in a Waco open-cockpit been cut off from driving. My three children help me, and the phone is 860-554-5595. My chemical career began with Kop- biplane this summer." seniors village has a bus service. We stayed there for two pers Co., followed by a two-year stint in the Army Chemical years until my wife of 61 years died. Getting down from a Corps, but was mostly (1956–89) at American Cyanamid/ "Greetings from a Class of '46 grad," Fred Kull writes. "I was four-bedroom house to a one-bedroom apartment is not Cytec Corp., then at Princeton with the Bonner Foundation. one of the Navy V-12 contingent who were shipped in from going to be easy." We retired to Connecticut in 1990, and have spent 18 years in colleges all over eastern USA. I was transferred from General Old Lyme, four in Chester. Our first daughter, Pam, (w/David Motors Institute in Flint, Mich. Believe me, it was tough, with all Daniel Rice '46 writes, "I am a certified professional golf Knecht) lives in Hinsdale, Ill. Second is Kay Reynolds (married the military activities and completing four years of study in club maker, having taken up this avocation in 1993 after to Dan Ramus), lives in Shrewsbury, Mass. Her sons, Jeff and three years. Worcester was a great place to be. Despite war- retiring from Westinghouse. I specialize in making all the Mark Dietrich (our grandsons), are now part of Northeastern time shortages and rationing there was a lot to do, and they clubs in a set to have the same MOI (moment of inertia) and University in Boston w/their dad, Bob Dietrich. Jeff is primarily managed to feed us well (although some of the New England- to raise their balance point by backweighting to enable at the Ace Hardware store in Watertown. I'm pleased to be style foods were different from what we Midwesterners were greater distance. Great results!" serving now on the WPI Alumni Association Board." Hal Gruen '49, '65 (SIM) writes, "Retired since '88 and Bob Fulmer '51 is retired and lives in a lakeside community enjoying it. Lots of volunteering, golf, traveling, and bridge." in Stanwood, Mich., with his wife, Marilyn. He plays golf, sings, He lives in Palm Desert, Calif. and serves on the board of trustees of the local hospital. os were not permitted, but many of us had them and used ear Jeremiah O'Neil '50 writes from Scotch Plains, N.J., "Still Bartlett Hastings '51 was commemorated in Fenway Park phones to listen to music during study hours. WPI gave us a enjoying my retirement with my wife, Vivian, and two great- during a Red Sox–Orioles game, on National POW-MIA Rec- quality education and a good start on our Naval careers. grandchildren, Adyson and Kylee." ognition Day, Sept. 21, 2012. He was interviewed on NESN accustomed to). With all of our physical activities most of us were slim and fit. As an EE, I made my own shortwave radio. I hooked it up to another student's amplifier and put a speaker in the window. I played Big Ben sounding the hour across the campus. Radi- Many of us stayed on as reserve officers until our retirements in 20 or so years. THANK YOU, WPI! 74 Winter 2013 about his World War II service and his longtime loyalty to the Les Reynolds '50 writes, "Greetings: In October 2012, this Red Sox. (See p. 15.)

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