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		1960s Rich Desilets, E’60, says he’s now “practicing retirement” in Santa Rosa, California, after twenty-four years as an electronic design consultant in New Jersey and Silicon Valley. His projects included working on the Palm Pilot V. Now he practices freestyle ice skating twice a week at the Redwood Empire Ice Arena. Desilets has been involved behind the scenery in more than a hundred live theatre productions, and now looks forward to designing and building more scenery for local Sonoma County theatre groups. Frank J. Imbornone, BA’60, of Tamarac, Florida, sold his condominium on Cape Cod in January and bought a home in Everett, Massachusetts, where he and his wife will live from May to October. “We were known as the fairyland couple when I met my new wife at the local senior center here in Florida,” he writes. “Thanks again for keeping us going.” Richard Madden, E’60, ME’62, of Groton, Massachusetts, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International. To qualify, an engineer must have at least ten years’ active engineering practice and must have made significant contributions to the field. Madden is the director of program management at BBN Technologies in Cambridge, Massachusetts. George P. Patsourakos, LA’60, MEd’65, of Billerica, Massachusetts, notes he “loves every minute” of his retirement. He is a former education specialist for the federal government and now has ample time to surf the Internet and read. Patsourakos says he was pleasantly surprised to find that Northeastern’s Snell Library has more periodicals than many libraries he has visited. His wife, Elaine, is director of social services at Waltham Crossings, and has reduced her work week to three days so they will have more time for travel, entertainment, and seminars. Bob Rosenthal, E’60, of Aurora, Ohio, is the principal in charge of the nearly complete River East Center project, a $250 million mixed-use complex in downtown Chicago. Included in the complex is a sixty-story condominium building that is classified as the fourth-largest residential building in the world. He has worked twenty-one years for AMEC Construction Management, where he serves as vice president and operations manager of the Cleveland territory. He and his wife, Sue, celebrated their fortieth wedding anniversary last year. They were presented with their first grandchild, Sidney Willow, on Rosenthal’s birthday, September 16, 2001. Friends should e-mail him at <robert.rosenthal@amec.com>. Peter T. Barron, BA’61, of Delray Beach, Florida, is a senior vice president with Salomon Smith Barney, where he has worked for thirty-five years. He spends the winter months at the company’s Boca Raton office, and he and his wife, Linda, return to Boston for the summer. Richard E. Pearson, MEd’61, of Fayetteville, New York, is a professor of counseling and human services at Syracuse University’s School of Education. During the university’s commencement on May 12, he was honored with the title professor emeritus. Pearson joined the Syracuse faculty in 1965 as assistant professor of education. He has written numerous articles and chapters focusing on group work, life transitions, cross-cultural variations in natural support systems, and counseling in rural settings. He is the author of Counseling and Social Support. Pearson is a member of the American Association for Counseling and Development and of the American Psychological Association. He has also served as president of several professional organizations. Carl A. Deeb, BA’62, of Fort Washington, Maryland, writes, “My wife, Sara, and I raised seven children. I retired from banking and from teaching. I still enjoy working full time, and I help run the family investment club.” Rod Parker, E’62, of Salem, Massachusetts, joined Cabot Corporation as global purchasing manager. Robert N. Trombly, MBA’62, retired in the spring as chief administrative officer and corporate secretary from Medical Mutual after nearly twenty years helping guide the technological advancement of the Cleveland, Ohio, health insurance company. “I didn’t know computers were going to be the future,” he says of the start of his career. “The computer industry wasn’t something I thought I’d ever get into, but once I had some training, I knew I liked it very much. It has brought me some life-changing opportunities. During my tenure as chief information officer, I felt like I was contributing to big changes that would set up the company for success in the future.” Before joining Medical Mutual, he was president of Delphi Associates, a subsidiary of Arthur D. Little. Active in the community, Trombly received the Legacy Award in 2001 from the Epilepsy Foundation of Northeast Ohio. In 1999, he was honored with the Star Award from the Ohio Cancer Research Foundation for his philanthropic activities. He has served on several boards and committees for organizations such as the Cleveland Playhouse, the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, the Police Athletic League, and the National Corporate Theater Fund in New York. Trombly and his wife, Janet Kramer, live in Rocky River, Ohio. They have three grown children who live in the Boston area. Leo E. Mortimer, E’63, of Columbia, Maryland, retired as director of air traffic technology at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, and is now a freelance flight instructor. Bill York, E’64, has moved to Orlando, Florida, joining fellow industrial engineering classmates Sam Gross and Bill Monahan in “the home of Mickey Mouse. Chris Cassidy, now working at Northeastern, has been trying—with little success, due to travel and work schedules—to coordinate a mini-reunion in Boston for industrial engineers. Seems we have more class of 1964 industrial engineers together in Orlando than anywhere else lately. Maybe we should all plan a Florida trip. So let me know if any of our classmates would like to have a mini-reunion here sometime soon.” E-mail him at <wyorkara1@earthlink.net>. Jerry K. Campbell, MEd’65, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army, reports that he and his wife, Renate, are “enjoying the good life of retirement in sunny San Antonio, Texas.” He can be reached by e-mail at <jrc6@stic.net>. Steven Heffron, E’66, and Anna Wechsler Heffron, BB’68, have moved to Marstons Mills, Massachusetts, after living in California for thirty-two years. “We have decided to move back to Massachusetts to be near our families,” they write. “We hope any classmates in the Marstons Mills area will contact us.” Anna adds, “I look forward to reconnecting with my Bouvé friends and attending Northeastern functions.” Bill Mitchell, E’67, of Andover, Massachusetts, is now a section manager for customer support of echo cancelers at NMS Communications, after a thirty-five-year career with AT&T/Bell Labs/Lucent. He and his wife, Martha, have three children and three grandchildren. Jon C. Soutar, BA’67, of Orchard Lake, Michigan, retired from Ford Motor Company after thirty-four years. He says he intends “to continue lake living in Michigan” and plans “to relax rather than re-enter the work force.” His e-mail address is <jonsoutar@yahoo.com>. R. M. “Max” Maxwell, E’68, says he and his wife of seventeen years, Mary Stewart Barber, have moved from Chicago, Illinois, to Mystic, Connecticut. Maxwell has retired from teaching and is now an exhibit interpreter at the Mystic Seaport Museum. Rick Bernier, LC’69, SET’72, writes, “A few years ago, we moved from Boxborough, Massachusetts, to Salem, New Hampshire, to be closer to work. Then, after thirty-four years of working as an engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq Computer, I was laid off. After two more jobs and two more layoffs, I took early retirement. Now I understand how people can say they don’t know how they had time to work. I seem to be busier than ever. My wife, Nancy, and I do some traveling to see our four children and to see other parts of the country and the world. We have been to the Northwest, the West Coast, Florida, Canada, France, and England. In our spare time, we keep busy visiting friends, working around the house and yard, and being more active in church. Nancy keeps busy in a garden club and other activities, and I’m still busy with my duties as president of the Boston chapter of our engineering society, the Institute of Packaging Engineers. I would love to hear from old friends and coworkers.” His e-mail address is <rebernier@juno.com>. Charlie Friel, Ed’69, and Linda (de Lyon) Friel, LA’70, of Groveland, Massachusetts, celebrated the birth of their granddaughter, Sarah Elizabeth, on August 3, 2001. Her parents are Danielle (Friel) Cain, AS’93, and Ken Cain, CS’94. Charlie and Linda can be e-mailed at <lafriel@msn.com>. Emily L. Harris, MEd’69, of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, has retired from public- school teaching after thirty years in Massachusetts, twenty-eight of them in Boston. Arthur Schwartz, MA’69, of Huntington, New York, received an honorary doctorate from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) during graduation ceremonies in June. Rabbi Schwartz is the spiritual leader of Kehillath Shalom Synagogue in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. The honorary degree was based on Schwartz’s leadership of Kehillath Shalom for twenty-six years. According to RRC president David Teutsch, Schwartz “guided the small congregation as it has grown to include a lively diversity of activities usually associated with a much larger congregation.”