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May 2005

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1960s

Karl Bossi, LA'62, of Venice, Florida, has finished penning his memoirs, Just Call Me Moose! Growing Up Italian in America, released in April by Gondola Press.

George O'Leary, E'63, of Boston, is the president and chief executive officer of Bonso Electronics International. A member of the board of directors, he has been with Bonso for fifteen years. O'Leary was formerly chief executive officer and director at Micro General Corporation and vice president and general manager at Lanier Business Products.

Barry A. Berkowitz, PAH'64, of Framingham, Massachusetts, is the president and chief executive officer of Scion Pharmaceuticals. Previously, he was corporate vice president at Albany Molecular Research, a drug discovery and manufacturing company.

Bruce Dreyfus, Ed'64, of Marietta, Georgia, has published Personal Marketing Strategy Program for Transition Candidates. "After working in talent acquisition for the last fifteen years and being inundated with resumés, I decided to change how dehirees seek new employment," he says. The volume is available at .

Maurice R. McMahon, E'64, of Chula Vista, California, has retired as executive director of San Diego's Southwest Regional Maintenance Center, which coordinates visits to naval ships and shipyards. He notes he spent forty and a half years in federal service. "I am enjoying time with my grandson and helping out at the local elementary school," he writes.

John J. McQuade, UC'65, of Essex Junction, Vermont, writes that he "completed a twenty-eight-year engineering career at Sylvania and IBM in the early 1990s, then failed as a self-employed business manager. I did, however, emerge as a reasonably astute investor, and am now living the life of plenty in beautiful Vermont."

Richard Neal, Ed'65, H'91, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general, spoke at the dedication of the Veterans Memorial in Hingham, Massachusetts, in November 2004. "It really represents the townspeople of Hingham taking the time and putting the effort together to build this monument so that they would pay tribute to veterans from all the wars," Neal said after the dedication.

David F. Rivers, E'65, of Wallingford, Connecticut, is a member of the advisory board for AdZone Research, a producer of software that monitors the Internet. He was formerly vice president at Pfizer, where he worked for thirty-four years.

Thomas J. Hurley, UC'67, of Sylvania, Ohio, is the chief operating officer and principal at Findley Davies, a human-resources consulting company in Toledo. He and his wife, Holly, have three children, Tommy, Andy, and Kathleen.

Myron Dittmer, LA'68, of Melrose, Massachusetts, is vice president of quality and engineering at the pharmaceuticals and biotech firm Hyaluron, in Burlington. He writes, "My wife, Rosemarie, is a course-development consultant and part-time instructor for Northeastern. She is also assistant dean of career development at a state community college. My older daughter, Julie-Anne, was recently married and works for an investment firm in Boston. My younger daughter, Joanna, is a teacher in the Westford school system. My son, Tom, is finishing his senior year at Syracuse." Dittmer can be reached by e-mail at mdittmer@hyaluron.com.

Fredric Cramer, E'69, of Acton, Massachusetts, is a vice president at Konarka Technologies, which develops products that convert light into energy. He was formerly a general manager at Nova Biomedical, which produces critical-care and blood-testing devices; he also worked at Polaroid.

Dick Remillard, AS'69, UC'72, of Billerica, Massachusetts, is an enthusiastic and experienced modeler, and a member of the USS Constitution Model Shipwright Guild. Before retiring, he was a scientist and field engineer for a Burlington company for twenty-seven years. During that time, he was also active in modeling; he currently builds all his models from scratch using raw materials. "I got to the point where I didn't even build kits anymore," he says. "I now scratch-build my models after doing years of research on what I'm building, using original architectural plans and photographs."