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		1960s Bob N. Maki, E’60, of Gardner, Massachusetts, reports that his second novel, The Sea’s Lament, will soon be published. His first book, The Briefcase, concerns two NU students during the 1950s. Patrick R. Buccio, E’61, of Medford, New Jersey, shares his memories of the late Prudie Rae Moore, an admissions office staff member who, he says, helped him time after time when he was a Northeastern student. “She was the greatest,” he says. “Always glad to do whatever she could, never asking for anything in return.” Her above-and-beyond kindnesses included helping Buccio find jobs at the university throughout his student years, including one as an attendance taker for physics classes. The jobs didn’t pay big money, says Buccio, who was already a husband and a father when he enrolled at Northeastern, but “the extra dollars sure helped tide things over.” The caring admissions staffer even helped Buccio’s wife find a nursing job. Buccio remembers Moore was especially quick to take bewildered freshmen under her wing. “She must have helped a million students,” he says. A retired electronics engineer, Buccio has lived in the Garden State’s Medford—which by coincidence, he says, was named after his boyhood home, Medford, Massachusetts—for twenty-five years, after moving there to take a job with RCA. He retired two years ago from his employer, which following several mergers had become Lockheed Martin, to help care for his wife during the illness that eventually claimed her life. He’s currently considering returning to work part-time. “Professional success came so easily,” he says. “It was all because of the training I got at NU.” The father of five says he never forgot Prudie Rae Moore’s generosity and support, and wants to take the opportunity to pay tribute to her now, perhaps inspiring similar memories on the part of other NU alums. “After I graduated, I moved all over the country and got so busy, and lost touch,” Buccio says. “I never really got a chance to thank her.” Forest Golden, E’61, is living aboard S/V Rejoice, anchored in Tobago Cays, St. Vincent, and the Grenadines. “I have started my second year of sailing in the Caribbean after retiring in 1999. The lifestyle is wonderful, and the engineering skills come in handy aboard the boat,” he writes. Classmates may e-mail him at <w1zar@winlink.org>. Robert E. Carlson, BA’62, of Walpole, Massachusetts, reports that he sold his company, Hydralign, Inc., in 1993, became semiretired in 1995, ran Carlson Consulting from 1995 to 1999, and then fully retired. “I spend winters on Sanibel Island, summers in Maine, and spring and fall golfing at our home on Royal Crest Country Club in Walpole,” he writes. Al Short, BA’62, of Lorton, Virginia, has accepted a position in the Bush administration as head of the team that is renegotiating the Compact of Free Association with the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia. He was chief of staff of the White House office that established these independent Pacific Island states in the 1980s. Manuel E. Joaquim, E’65, of Lake St. Louis, Missouri, reports that one of the companies he owns won a Technology Fast 50 Sprint Award, which recognizes the fastest-growing technology companies in the Midwest.