1930s
Sam Forman, L'37, comments, "At age eighty-six, I am retired,
doing volunteer work with SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives),
counseling people who want to go into business or helping people in business
who want to expand or are having money problems." He lives in Framingham,
Massachusetts.
Roy Beaton, E'39, a former Northeastern trustee and lifetime
trustee emeritus, writes from Sequim, Washington, his twenty-ninth house
and fourteenth state. He chronicles his life as: education years (193942),
DuPont and Manhattan Project years (194346), General Electric/Hanford
years (194656), nuclear weapons years (195663), space years (196368),
electronic years (196874), nuclear power years (197581), and
retirement years (1982present). Significant events include marriage
in 1939 to Margaret Marchant; a doctorate in chemical engineering from
Yale in 1942; work on the Manhattan Project (the atomic bomb) during World
War II; the birth of his daughter, Constance, in 1944; the birth of his
son, Roy Jr., in 1949; work with General Electric into the 1950s; work
on nuclear weapons into the early 1960s; responsibilities in the space
industry, including the Apollo spacecraft; accomplishments in military
areas into the mid-1970s; the death of his wife in 1978; work on nuclear
power into the early 1980s; and retirement in 1981. He married Leora Lauer
Schier in 1982 and became stepfather to her three daughters, Patti Briselden,
Susan Carter, and Mary Rieber. Their combined families now include eleven
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. They moved to the Olympic
Peninsula in Washington in 1992 and moved again in 1997 into a single-story
home. ("In deference to my ex-jogger arthritic knees. Oh, dem Golden
Years," he comments.) Beaton is a member of the Frank Palmer Speare
Society and the Huntington Society, he received an honorary doctor of science
degree from N.U. in 1967, and he established the Roy Beaton Engineering
Scholarship Fund in 1993.