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classnotes 30th anniversary at GE and 30th wedding anniversary with Jo- my wife, Orlene, and I try to attend as many swim meets as we 10 Scott Mathews '82 has been working at Jet Propul- Anne—both tremendous milestones. I also received the GE can at both Marshall and Western Illinois. Both will be swim- sion Lab (JPL) for the past 6½ years, as lead engineer in the Bush/Badger Engineering Award for the first production intro- ming at their respective Conference Championships this year. Spacecraft Mechanical Engineering Section, Integration and duction of an Ox-Ox Ceramic Composite on an aircraft en- It is great to see them competing at the Division I level." Test Group. He read the cover story in the last issue of the gine. While all this was going on, I happened to give Journal with great interest, because he, too, is involved with Jo-Anne a kidney (she had gone into kidney failure and I was John Skrip '81 and his wife, Rosanne, announce the birth of a match). Jo-Anne, who graduated from Becker College and their first grandchild, Jaden. John and Rosanne have been subsystems for the Mars Science Laboratory project. See his works as a transportation coordinator at a martial arts studio, married 43 years. He is retired but teaches chemistry as an letter to the editor, p. 8. is now recovering from the transplant. Charles, our older son, adjunct at local community colleges. is a junior at WPI studying chemical engineering. He plays the space rover Curiosity, designing, building, and testing Mark Besse '83 writes, "Greetings from down in Dallas, Jay Koven '82 writes, "Interesting life changes… After being Texas. I have been reshaping my career from Telecom soft- out of the computer science field for many years, I have ware development to serving as a systems analyst in the decided to go back to the field that I really love. I started as a medical field at Dell Inc. My family is growing up—my oldest Rick Rykosky '81 says, "I am working for Valero Refining PhD candidate at NYU-Poly this fall on an NSF/IGERT fellow- is now driving! Cheers." Corp. in New Orleans as maintenance superintendent. Luc, ship with a focus in cyber security. This has also been an inter- our oldest son, graduated from Louisiana State University in esting year for degrees for the whole family. My daughter Belle Tim Morse '83 and his wife, Linda, write, "Enjoying our eight 2009 majoring in finance and swam for LSU. Arlie, a senior at received her MS in systems engineering from USC, my son grandchildren!" They live in Montpelier, Va. Marshall University in West Virginia, has a swimming scholar- Robert received his BS in electrical engineering from the Uni- ship and will graduate this year with a psychology degree. versity of Arizona, my son William received his BS in electrical Bob Plante '83 writes, "Started a new business in 2012 pro- Breane, her twin sister, is a senior at Delgado University, ma- and computer engineering from Harvey Mudd College, and I, ducing do-it-yourself video content for automotive repair, joring in business. Dylon, our youngest, is a freshman at finally, received my MS in computer science from Iona Col- maintenance, and upgrades for Corvette, BMW, and Lexus. Western Illinois University and also has a swimming scholar- lege. My daughter Rose must feel left out, but she is not too Google 'froggy's garage' to learn more." ship, majoring in emergency management. Besides working, far behind in her studies at Drexel." club tennis and has a brown belt in taekwondo. His brother, Bryan, is a high school senior honors student." Joan Morra '84 writes, "I got to spend a week on campus this past August, as my older daughter was attending WPI's 10 Launch camp. If you haven't been back in a while, things have really changed since '84. Goddard Hall never looked that good when I was there! The camp was very well run and was an excellent experience; I highly recommend it for children of alumni. And it gives you a great opportunity to take a trip down memory lane." At year's end, Ron Rappel '84 wrote, "Quite a few changes for me as 2012 comes to a close: I will be getting married at the end of the year to my fiancée, Yara Halasa. She is a researcher/graduate student at Brandeis University. The ceremony will take place in Amman, Jordan, where her family is from. Yara and I will continue to reside in Andover, Mass. I have decided to leave my position as principal firmware engineer at Vicor Corp. and accept a position with Keurig Inc., developing firmware for its line of beverage brewers. This is a great opportunity for me, one that I'm really looking forward to." Irene Sotiriou '84 co-chaired the second annual Stop Hunger Now meal packaging event at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Wilmington, N.C. "We exceeded our goal of assembling 25,000 meals," she writes. Last summer Irene visited the new Acropolis Museum on a trip to Greece. Kirk Chartier '85 retired as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Reserves. Bruce Harley '85 has written a new and improved version of his best-selling book, Insulate and Weatherize. Ten years after 82 Winter 2013

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