The Alumni Magazine for Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (WPI)
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60 Fall 2014 class notes deployed platforms at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Grounds. He was commissioned in 1988 into the Signal Corps, with initial duty as platoon leader and executive offcer, C Company, 11th Air Defense Signal Battalion; and later served in Darmstadt, Germany, and in Belgium. Mike has deployed twice in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and also deployed to Haiti as part of the 10th Mountain Division in support of Operation Uphold Democracy. His awards include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, and many others. He is married to the former Anne Marie Tourville and has fve children. 1990 Michael Pace writes, "Married to my wife, Rosanne, for 16 years and have one child, Anthony, who is 10 years old. Have enjoyed being a Phoenix resident for past 20 years." Michael is an associate vice president and investments fnancial advisor in the Private Client Group at Wells Fargo Advisors in Mesa, Ariz. Colonel Rory Welch retired from the Air Force in July after serving over 23 years in uniform. He has begun his next career as director of business development for Intelsat General Corp. in Bethesda, Md. Rory and his wife, Nancy, live in Manassas, Va. Their daughter, Lauren, is a frst year student at UVA and their son, Ryan, is a senior at WPI. 1992 Donald Peterson was named dean of the College of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics at Texas A&M; University-Texarkana. He is also chair of the Biomedical Engineering Society's Industry Affairs Committee. 1994 Bob Mason writes, "I recently launched a new Boston- based venture frm called Project 11, which invests early-stage seed capital into technology and software startups. P11 focuses on deep collaboration with founders ideally working with teams accelerating their business growth after the launch of early prototypes. For the past couple of years I was part of the management team for the Techstars Boston accelerator program, investing in dozens of startups from Boston, across the U.S., and in Europe. I'm very excited about the recent fourishing of and emphasis on entrepreneurism at WPI and encourage others to get engaged through the WPI Tech Advisors Network. Connect with me on Twitter @bmason." 1995 Patrick Delahanty has moved to Petaluma, Calif., where he is the web engineer for TWiT.tv, an online tech news network created by TechTV's Leo Laporte. Patrick has made numerous appearances on various TWiT shows, such as '99 Tim Igo has reached his goal of climbing the "7 Summits"—the tallest mountains on each of the seven continents (Everest in Asia, Aconcagua in South America, Vinson in Antarctica, Kosciuszko in Australia, Kilimanjaro in Africa, Elbrus in Europe, McKinley in North America.) He writes, "Mount McKinley was the last mountain in the journey, and in June I went up to Alaska. On June 28, I was successful in reaching the summit: the highest point in North America. I brought a fag with the seals of my three alma maters: Austin Preparatory School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Babson College F. W. Olin School of Management." Send your class note to classnotes@wpi.edu. Images welcome!