1960s

Edward L. Dolby, BA'60, of Garland, Texas, reports the birth of a granddaughter, Nicole Marie, on February 21, 1996. He notes that he's in his tenth year in the Toyota Sales Society, Gulf States region, which includes 149 dealers in five states.

Harvey N. Gersin, BA'60, owns Sales Consultants of Farmington Hills, Michigan, an executive recruiting organization and division of Management Recruiters International. The company specializes in placing engineers and sales professionals in industrial positions, especially in manufacturing. He and his wife, Cynthia, live in West Bloomfield, Michigan. They have four children and seven grandchildren.

Howard G. Brown, E'61, of Mission Viejo, California, says he is retiring after more than thirty-five years at Hughes Aircraft Company.

Elizabeth H. Calia, E'61, is chief engineer for the Division of Transportation Projects and Watershed Management in Howard County, Maryland. In addition to her Northeastern degree, she holds a master's in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University. She has two sons and two daughters and lives with her husband, Frank, along the Chesapeake Bay.

Frank E. Fennessy III, E'61, was named boys' high school tennis coach of the year for the Massachusetts Cape and Islands area by the Cape Cod Times. Fennessy has coached for six years at Martha's Vineyard Regional High School.

Joseph Gindsberg, ME'61, moved to Jerusalem last June with his wife, Jacqueline. Al Short, BA'62, of Lorton, Virginia, has started a landscape and garden pond design company in the Washington, D.C., area.

Georges M. Celcis, E'63, ME'65, writes, "Still live in Haiti, having survived the embargo. Oldest of two daughters married-grandfather! Renewed ties and meet with [Richard] Dertadian, BA'61, two to three times a year in Fort Lauderdale, Florida."

Stanley M. Fertel, BA'63, has retired after thirty years as president and chief executive officer at Jewish Memorial Hospital and Rehabilitation Center. He and his wife, Charna, have two children and a grandson.

Dave Homan, E'63, has passed the thirty-year mark in federal civil service. He is currently deputy civil engineer at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, helping provide a community of 20,000 with engineering, maintenance, construction, fire protection, environmental, housing, and military readiness services. From 1980 to 1992, he was deputy director and director of planning and programming in the Headquarters Strategic Air Command civil engineering at Offutt.

Leslie M. Scott, E'63, of East Wareham, Massachusetts, retired from the Navy after thirty-seven and a half years. He writes, "Began as a co-op student at the Boston Naval Shipyard and departed from the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Detachment. Was head of the electrical/electronic division for the last seventeen years."

James W. Melloni, MBA'64, of Somerville, Massachusetts, is working at Hanscom Air Force Base as a senior manufacturing engineer in the physical security directorate. "I extend my best wishes to all my friends from the MBA class of 1964," he says.

Michael Kenyon, BA'66, of Keene, New Hampshire, attended the forty-ninth congress of the European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research in Istanbul, Turkey, in September. He is president of Projections and was representing the Council of American Survey Research Organizations.

Robert Matusik, LC'66, LC'72, attended a six-week summer course at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. He notes it left him "only four hours of free time each day. There is homework too."

Bill Wheeler, MS'66, coordinated a Northeastern alumni reception in February 1996 in Paris, where he works for Price Waterhouse. Coleen Pantalone, interim vice provost for undergraduate education, made a presentation.

J. Sargent Slicer, E'67, and his wife, Diane, moved to Morris Plains, New Jersey, when he became regional engineering manager for the eastern region of Protection Mutual Insurance Company. He marked twenty-five years with the Factory Mutual System in February 1996.

Laurence B. Lerner, MEd'68, CAGS'70, of Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, is the new guidance director at Mariner High School in Cape Coral, Florida. He formerly worked at Cape Cod Technical High School in Harwich for twenty-one years. He and his wife, Sheryl, now live closer to their son, Andrew, who works for Disney in Orlando, Florida.

James McElroy Sr., E'68, ME'72, of Brookline, New Hampshire, is executive director of the National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative secretariat. He is vice president of international operations for MicroModule Systems.

Emil Safier, MS'68, PhD'73, of Los Angeles, was the recipient of a 1994 Academy Award for pioneering work in advancing the use of computer software for film budgeting and scheduling.

Stephen A. Sturtz, P'68, works at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is certified in family medicine and has a practice in the northeast section of Philadelphia.

Brian Sullivan and Rick Wilcox, both LA'68, combined to anchor the championship U.S. Customs/FAA security team in the fourth annual Easter Seals volleyball tournament in Peabody, Massachusetts. Relying on teamwork they say they developed at Northeastern, the "Super Feds" helped lead their team to its second consecutive title. Wilcox and Sullivan also played on the championship Customs team in the Easter Seals softball tournament in Malden, Massachusetts. The squad raised more than $500 for Easter Seals.

George F. Weinstein, LA'69, MA'72, of Burlington, Massachusetts, has found several outlets for his writing and photography talents. He is a staff photographer and regular columnist for the quarterly magazine TYRO and writes a biweekly column for the Burlington Times-Union newspaper.