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1960s


Paul E. Franson
, Ed'61, MEd'68, of Holliston, Massachusetts, plans to retire in June and move to Florida.

Harris K. Herman, E'61, of New York City, is president and chief executive officer of Sky Trek International Airlines of Ewing, New Jersey.

Tom Simkins, E'61, of Troy, New York, asks, "Hey, anyone alive out there?" Myron D. Fottler, BA'62, of Winter Springs, Florida, is director of health services administration programs at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

M. David MacFarlane, P'62, has retired as vice president of regulatory affairs at Genentech, after twenty-six years in the pharmaceuticals industry. He and his wife, Kay, will live in Reno, Nevada, and Palm Desert, California, and do some consulting. His e-mail address is <davemac@gene.com>.

Frank J. Santo, E'62, of Woburn, Massachusetts, has been married forty-three years and has ten grandchildren.

Roger A. Melanson, MBA'63, of Westport, Massachusetts, retired in 1992 as Raytheon's program manager of the Sparrow missile.

Nelson Wikstrom, LA'63, is a professor and chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the coauthor, along with G. Ross Stephens of the University of Missouri­Kansas City, of "Metropolitan Government and Governance: Theoretical Perspectives, Empirical Analysis, and the Future," published by Oxford University Press.

Lindsay Collier, E'64, of West Henrietta, New York, retired from Kodak in 1991 and now is an author and speaker. He is working on his fourth book on organizational innovation titled Organizational Mental Floss.

David H. Lund, BA'64, of Prescott, Arizona, retired last August as a stockbroker with A. G. Edwards & Sons after twenty-six years in the Prescott branch office. He is now building homes for Habitat for Humanity.

Freeman D. Shepard, PHD'65, has been inducted into the National Academy of Engineering. He is a retired senior scientist for infrared arrays and sensors at Hanscom Air Force Base Research Laboratory.

James I. Gabbe, LA'66, of New York City, owns and operates a video/film production company, Gabbe Lights. He is currently producing a documentary series on global financial markets with WNET/PBS.

Robert M. Gravina, LA'66, MS'68, of Nashua, New Hampshire, is director of training at Ciber, in Nashua.

Tom Kelley, BA'66, and his wife, Carole, are moving to Bradenton, Florida. Kelley worked for General Motors for thirty-three years, most recently as quality director at the Bowling Green, Kentucky, Corvette assembly plant. The couple have three children and five grandchildren in Massachusetts, New York, and Florida.

Paul J. Levie, Ed'66, is principal of the Joseph F. Plouffe School in Brockton, Massachusetts.

Phillip M. Scanlan, E'66, retired last year from AT&T after thirty-three and a half years of service. He lives on Amelia Island, Florida.

Edward T. Campbell, BA'67, retired in November from the U.S. Department of Education, where he was a senior criminal investigator in the Office of the Inspector General. He said he plans to travel and then enter the private sector in a security capacity.

Howard J. Schwartz, BA'67, is chairman and chief executive officer of Lynch, Jones & Ryan. He currently is serving a two-year term on the board of trustees of the Security Industry. He was also recently elected to the board of the Securities Industry Association and is a member of the New York Stock Exchange's Specialty Firms' Committee.

Allen T. Senckowski, E'67, MBA'75, of Concord, Massachusetts, is the principal electrical designer of William Rowe & Associates, Architects and Engineers.

Fred Ravens, ME'68, and Catherine E. Ravens, UC'92, say they are "enjoying retirement." They are town meeting members in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and are active in golf, tennis, sailing, and walking. They're also members of the Falmouth Garden Club and serve on the organization's quarterly newsletter.

Frank J. Loethen, E'69, MS'73, of Tampa, Florida, is vice president of operations for Art Mart in Tampa.