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1940s
Paul M. Levenson, E'40, celebrated his eightieth birthday earlier this year. He received citations, proclamations, or resolutions from President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton; from Boston mayor Thomas Menino; from Thomas Finneran, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; and from Thomas Birmingham, president of the Massachusetts Senate. U.S. Representative Barney Frank arranged to have a flag flown over the Capitol on February 25 in Levenson's honor. The flag was later delivered to Levenson. In addition, the staff at the James Michael Curley Recreation Center presented Levenson with a commemorative watch.Stanley Tebbetts, BA'40, was honored by having the spring class of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in the Valley of Northern New Jersey named for him. Tebbetts's Masonic career started in 1933.
George F. Archambault, L'41, of Bethesda, Maryland, was awarded the U.S. Public Health Service Career Achievement Award in Pharmacy in May. Known as "the father of consultant pharmacy," Archambault received the Surgeon General's Medallion from the U.S. Public Health Service in November 1996. Acting Surgeon General Audrey Manley praised Archambault for his long career as chief PHS pharmacy officer.
George S. Vasil, L'41, of Spokane, Washington, says he's eager to get in touch with former classmates.
John T. Dizer, E'43, of Utica, New York, was inducted last fall into the Mohawk Valley Community College Hall of Fame. Before retiring in 1985, he was a professor and department head in Mohawk's mechanical engineering technology department. This fall, Dizer's book Tom Swift, The Bobbsey Twins, and Other Heroes of American Juvenile Literature was published by Edwin Mellen Press.
Mel Levine, E'44, of Brighton, Massachusetts, is working with N.U. professors Bill Lowe and Leonard Brown to start a jazz institute at Northeastern. George P. Makris, BA'48, was honored at the fifty-seventh reunion of the class of 1940 for his "outstanding contributions to the development of the athletic facilities and sports and sportsmanship programs at Northeastern."