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1960s
Bob Maki, E’60, has published his first book,The Briefcase (Xlibris.com), a suspense novel set in the 1950s. Maki admits the story, which takes place in Boston and central Massachusetts, is somewhat autobiographical. The book is available directly from the publisher and on Amazon.com and Borders.com. Maki has two grown children, Eric and Kristin, and two grandchildren. He lives in Gardner, Massachusetts, with his second wife, Nancy.
Francis J. Medeiros, E’60, of Hendersonville, Tennessee, retired from DuPont’s Nonwovens Division in 1996 after thirty-nine years. He now works as a consultant on construction of a non-wovens manufacturing plant in Brazil. He and his wife, Carolyn, have been married forty-one years and have four grown children and ten grandchildren.
C. J. “Dino” DiPietro, E’62, retired last year as general manager and treasurer of Arcade Water of Sacramento, California. He was honored by the company’s board of directors for his contributions to the district and the firm. DiPietro is a licensed professional engineer and financial adviser. His e-mail address is <cjdp@att.net>.
Peter Soltz, ME’62, celebrated his sixtieth birthday last November with a Mardi Gras party of seventy friends and relatives at Northeastern’s Henderson House in Weston, Massachusetts. “The Cajun/zydeco music was by the Boogaloo Swamis. Henderson House will never be the same,” he writes. Soltz owns Penny Pincher Kitchens and Baths in Walpole. “It sure beats mechanical engineering,” he quips. He and his wife, Lilyane, recently moved from Canton to Norfolk, Massachusetts.
Geri DiPeri Piscitelli, LA’63, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, is an academic assistant in the Department of Economics at Wellesley College. Her interests include the Boston Ballet and Boston Lyric Opera.
John R. (Dick) Power, BA’63, of Walpole, Massachusetts, retired from the Army in 1992 after nearly thirty years. He later joined GTE, from which he retired last year. He now operates his own financial-planning company, Power Plans. “I always enjoy seeing and hearing from old friends from NU,” he writes. E-mail him at <power.plans@get.net>.
Milton Hagins, MEd’64, retired from the Boston public schools last year after thirty-six years of service, thirty-three of those as a guidance counselor at Timilty Middle School in Roxbury.
Emil W. M. Glost, LA’65, took an early retirement after twenty-seven years with National Semiconductor, and relocated with his family to Folsom, California. His career included positions as engineering manager, member of the technical staff, and senior program manager, and travel to Texas, Connecticut, Utah, and Arizona, and internationally to Scotland, England, and Germany. He and his wife, Christine, and daughter, Susan Gail, hope to enjoy boating, fishing, hunting, and water sports in their new home.
Suzanne E. Maughan, LA’65, of Damascus, Maryland, says she retired last year “to begin a full-time RVing lifestyle with husband, Barry, in a ten-foot Bigfoot Truck Camper on a 350F Series Ford Truck. See you on the road.”
Paul Calef, BA’66, reports that he and his wife, Valorie, have moved to Utah after living in Pennsylvania for twenty-two years. He is an area sales manager for Brock, Easley, a Salt Lake City manufacturer’s representative for valves, instrumentation, and conveying systems. “We plan to do a lot of skiing while we are here, but will miss going to the Northeastern alumni baseball game at Camden Yards when the Orioles play the Red Sox,” he writes.
John J. Collins III, BA’66, of Fountain Valley, California, is director of community programs for Childhelp USA. He is responsible for group homes for sexually or physically abused children, child-abuse education and prevention, and foster-family programs.
Vince Howard, UC’66, notes he’s retired from USAA Insurance in San Antonio, Texas, and “will now travel with my wife (Madeline Derro Howard from Winchester, Massachusetts), do some volunteer work, and enjoy life in south Texas. My work has taken me from Massachusetts to California to Texas to Tennessee and back to Texas (last stop). I’m nervous that the 1960s Class Notes are getting closer to the beginning of the book.”
Donald J. Sullivan, E’67, of Cincinnati, says he’s planning to retire from Procter & Gamble in May after thirty-three years of service. “Margo and I plan to stay in the Cincinnati area but plan extensive travel around the globe. Happy to hear from old friends.” E-mail him at <DJ1@pg.com>.
Lawrence D. Dietz, BA’68, of Sunnyvale, California, is director of market intelligence at Symantec Corporation in Cupertino. He and his wife are the “proud grandparents” of Rachel Dietz, born November 17, 2000, in Boise, Idaho.
Joan E. (Barron) Secher-Merlino, LA’68, of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, says she has taken time to reflect on her life as a “mother, wife, realtor, neighbor, and friend. At age fifty-five, I am blessed. I have four children, ages thirty-one to fourteen—three daughters, Marli, Shana, and Larah, and Justin, the bonus baby and first son, born when I was forty. I am a breast cancer survivor (December 1986), I have experienced divorce (November 3, 1990), a hysterectomy (January 1998), a second marriage (September 26, 1998), and a fantastic real-estate career. I have had the good fortune of assisting Marli, Shana, and myself in buying homes. I also sold two of my personal properties and bought one on Cape Cod, where my second husband, Emilio ‘Joe,’ and I met. Real estate is a challenging but rewarding profession, especially in Massachusetts.”
Brian Sullivan, LA’68, retired from the Federal Aviation Administration on January 2 after thirty years in government service. His last ten years were with the New England Region Security Division, where he was a special agent charged with facility security-risk program management. Rick Wilcox, Marty Rubin, Jack Ferber, and George Torice, friends from freshman year at Northeastern (1963–64), attended Brian’s farewell luncheon at Amici’s Restaurant in Billerica, Massachusetts. He says he and his wife, Betsy, will continue to live in Plymouth and stay busy trying to keep up with their seven grandchildren. “No rocking chairs allowed for these two quite yet,” he says.