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classnotes Brian Chace '69, following 10 years of retirement from GTE Claude Mancel '71 retired from P&G; but remains active as Bruce Beverly '73 writes, "I'm finishing my second year Government Systems and General Dynamics Network Sys- a consultant in innovation. "I have been appointed to the In- providing management consulting services to small- to mid- tems, was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of East- novation Board of Solvay, a Belgium chemical company, fol- size A/E firms at Beverly Management Consulting LLC in ern Michigan in October 2012. He is currently serving as priest lowing its acquisition of Rhodia, a French chemical company. Auburn, Mass., and serving as an external director." in charge of Trinity Episcopal Church in West Branch. Brian I was previously on the Scientific and Innovation Council of and his wife, Elizabeth, who was ordained a priest in 2003, Rhodia. I am also on the Scientific and Innovation Board of Jay Goldman '73 and his wife, Tara, spend their summers in reside in Frederic. Eurotab, a French company specialized on tabletting all kind Saratoga Springs, N.Y., their winters in Boynton Beach, Fla. of products, and serve as an advisor to a number of consultRonald Jones '69 writes, "In 2012 we were blessed with our ing firms, including NineSigma in the U.S., and Sinnogen in first grandchildren—Beckett Jones of Avon, Conn., and John France. After six years as the chairman and an additional six Cowan of Jamaica Plain, Mass." Ronald lives in West Hart- as alumni president of my alma mater in France (ENSCBP), I ford, Conn., and serves as CEO of Jones Enterprises Inc. resigned from that latter position. My kids are scattered over the globe: Sebastien is working in San Francisco as a man- Edward Mierzejewski '69 and his wife, Aline, toured eastern Europe, including Warsaw, Krakow, Bratislava, Budapest, Vienna, and Prague. "It was educational but sobering seeing what people there went through under Hitler and then Stalin," he writes. "I continue working part time in the consulting world, and Aline continues full time (for another year or two) as a nurse practitioner at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla." 4 Eric Nickerson '69 is proprietor of Liberty Flights in Milford, N.H., offering personalized hot air balloon rides yearround, with some unique extras. Each passenger receives a ager at Walmart.com and will finish an MBA from Wharton next May; Pacome (WPI '94, Chem. Eng.) is in Paris working as the Rich Sliwoski '73 tells us he escorted Steven Spielberg around Virginia's Capitol Square when the director was scouting locations for the movie Lincoln; Rich later was an extra in the film's War Department telegraph office scene. Jack Williams '73 writes, "Well, it's hard to believe Jill and I have been retired for nine years now from Shell Oil. This year sales manager, Southern Europe, for BASF; and Elodie, my daughter, is living in Doha, Qatar, where her husband is CEO of Informatica Qatar. This makes family reunions quite challenging but fun. I have four grandchildren. I still reside in Belgium, but have a summer house in the south of France." Roy Linblad '72 writes, "I have been a general dentist since 1980. I enjoy my work and have no intention of retiring any time soon. Just like engineers, dentists solve problems, too." souvenir photo as well as a printout of the ground track with the flight path plotted on a local map. "I got my private license John "Swanny" Swanson '72 has put his 40 years of in 1999 and the commercial one in 2000," he writes. "My cur- experience in the jet engine business and the worldwide com- rent balloon (the third—they get porous and the heat leaks mercial aviation market to use by launching HawkOne & out, requiring more fuel to keep it aloft) is a 90,000-cubic-foot Associates. The firm's consulting services include evaluation Firefly that carries 1,000 pounds. My other passion is sailing. I of new and used aircraft, contract review, and help with have sailed from Hawaii to Seattle, and Annapolis to Tortola, negotiations. Visit them at hawkone-assoc.com. plus a number of other coastal passages. However, the passions don't pay the bills, only the thrills. I'm currently looking for full-time work doing business development and product line management for a manufacturing company." Bob Scott '69 writes, "Since retiring after 32 years as director of planning for the City of Virginia Beach, I've turned to writing. I've recently co-authored Honor on the Line, a nonfiction book that centers on the 1940 season and the single greatest act of sportsmanship in college football history." 5 Former ExxonMobil senior manager Bill Hillner '70 spoke recently on campus about construction of the Berkut gravity-based structure for Arkuntun-Dagi, Russia's largest oil production platform, located off Sakhalin Island. His talk was part of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar Series. Hillner's career with ExxonMobil spans over 35 years as a construction manager in all aspects of petrochemical construction, with significant recent international experience in West Africa, the Middle East, and Russia. Past construction developments include greenfield refinery projects, FPSO new builds, onshore/offshore upstream processing and production facilities and offshore substructures, with additional experience as constructability advisor during FEED and detail design. 78 Winter 2013 4 5

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