Ralph S. Gootner, UC'61, of Lake Worth, Florida, has stayed busy for the last decade and a half—after a thirty-four-year career with IBM—primarily through his work with the International Standardization Organization (ISO). Among other accomplishments, Gootner has served as director of the South Florida Technology Transfer Center, developed an ISO-9000 program for manufacturers, and worked as a visiting professor at Florida International University under a NASA grant to deliver ISO-9000.

David D. Haskell, LA'63, of Malden, Massachusetts, writes, "In 2003, I was laid off after forty-three years with United Press International, the worldwide news organization where I began my career as an office boy (they call them editorial assistants now) on co-op. Being free from deadlines, I took a two-month, 13,000-mile auto trip around the United States with my wife, Ethel. We are now wrapping up a book about our experiences. Late in 2004, however, there was a setback. Experiencing chest pains, I was diagnosed with severe blockage to my heart and underwent a quintuple bypass operation in mid-November. Fortunately, my recovery process appears to be progressing well, and Ethel and I look forward to many more years of retirement, spoiling our grandchildren and doing some more traveling."

David R. Sawyer, Ed'63, requests that members of the class of 1963 send their e-mail addresses and names at graduation to davenu1963@comcast.net so he can update the class database. Sawyer is married to Cynthia (Goodwin), Ed'66. They live in Ayer, Massachusetts.

Paul Coran, BA'64, of Rockville, Maryland, is an administrative judge and member of the Personnel Appeals Board of the Government Accountability Office.

Joe Caruso, E'65, of Westwood, Massachusetts, is the president of Bantam Group, a business and financial consulting company. Caruso also serves on the boards of Accumenta, Boston Micromachines, and Process Analytical. He is a trustee of Quant Funds, and past president of the New England chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Sharon E. Crane, Ed'67, of St. Petersburg, Florida, retired after thirty-six years of teaching U.S. history and government at O. H. Platt High School in Meriden, Connecticut. "Moved to Florida in 2004, and am currently a consultant and trainer in computer applications for computer phobics," she writes.

Paul J. Donnelly, E'68, is the senior project architect in the science and technology group at the firm Hellmuth, Obata, and Kassabaum, in St. Louis, where he is collaborating on a project for the Indianapolis Airport. In addition, he is the Voyles Professor of Architecture at Washington University. He previously taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Roger Williams University. Donnelly is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Kenneth R. Forte, BA'68, of Clermont, Florida, retired from the U.S. Air Force in a formal ceremony on July 3, 2004. He had served as chief financial officer of Hanscom Air Force Base in Lexington, Massachusetts. Forte spent more than thirty years in federal service, twenty-three of them as a CFO on a number of multibillion-dollar Air Force programs. He is also a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel. He moved with his wife, Rita, and their golden retriever, Riley, to the Sunshine State from Burlington, Massachusetts. Forte's e-mail address is retiredforte@yahoo.com.

Charlie Rutz, BA'68, and his wife, Jan, of Clearwater, Florida, and Wellfleet, Massachusetts, hosted the Sigma Phi Alpha/Phi Sigma Kappa reunion weekend in Wellfleet in early October 2004. Rutz reports that fraternity brothers from the classes of 1955 to 1983 attended. "Many of the brothers had not seen each other for almost forty years," he writes. The weekend included a Friday-night cocktail party at the Sheraton Four Point. On Saturday morning, guests enjoyed golf, whale watches, bicycle rides, nature walks, dune buggy rides, and shopping around Cape Cod. The Saturday afternoon party included a vote to use the proceeds from the fraternity house's sale to establish a Northeastern scholarship in memory of deceased frat brothers. Rutz invites frat brothers to contact him at crutz13@msn.com or visit the website at www.come.to/phisigmakappa. Anyone interested in alumni rosters may also contact him.

William S. Howard, E'69, of Neshanic Station, New Jersey, is an executive vice president at CDM, a global engineering and consulting firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Howard serves as chairman of the American Council of Engineering Companies, which is dedicated to representing the business interests of engineering firms nationwide. He is also a member of the National Commission for Cooperative Education, on whose board of directors he serves. Howard was elected to Northeastern's Board of Trustees in May 2004.