Gerald Stepner, P’52, H’62, of Peabody, Massachusetts, was one of twenty-eight Americans honored with a 2007 Elder Volunteers Enrich America Award, presented by the MetLife Foundation and the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging. Stepner volunteers with the North Shore Elder Services Money Management Program. Herbert Abrams, ML’56, of Brookline, Massachu­setts, was profiled in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in December 2007 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the so-called Red Book, which he helped launch. The Red Book is a combination diary/manual for the commonwealth’s lawyers. Abrams taught at Northeast­ern’s School of Law Enforcement and Security for twenty-five years. He was appointed to serve on the state’s Superior Court in 1979 and retired in 1993. At age eighty, he currently has
a mediation practice in downtown Boston. Ronald B. Child, LA’57, of Boxford, Massachusetts, received an Industry Statesman Award in October 2007 from the National Paint and Coatings Association in appreciation of his long and devoted service to the paint and coatings industry. Child began his career at California Products Corporation in 1975 as a technical director. He is now the firm’s vice president of compliance and regulatory affairs. Sheldon S. Leppo, LA’57, of Sharon, Massachusetts, has worked for fifty years at Plymouth Rubber, which closed its Canton manufacturing plant in September 2007. Leppo, the vice president of research and development, and more than sixty other employees moved to new offices, also in Canton. Plymouth Rubber now manufactures its products in China and Spain. Leppo starts his workday at 6 a.m. to be able to call workers in China, where it is 6 p.m., and Spain, where it is noon. Bob Matthews, BA’57, of Heathsville, Virginia, reports that eight of the seventeen members of the Division A marketing and advertising class of 1957 (along with their guests) attended the fiftieth class reunion in May 2007. The eight were Bernie Hanlon, Lou Bushnell, Bob Price, Bob Gerrier, Norman Morris, Fred Holtzman, Ed Larkin, and Matthews himself. Several hadn’t seen the others in fifty years. “At each place setting, there was a yellow wooden pencil,” explains Matthews, “which each class member broke in two in memory of Dean Hamilton, who would start each new economics class by breaking a pencil and then asking the class, ‘Am I destroying or creating? That is the problem, and I leave it with you.’ Fifty years later, we are still discussing it.” Angelo C. Sciarratta, BA’57, of Needham, Massachu­setts, has been in the insurance business for fifty-one years. His firm, also located in Needham, is Sciarratta & Doucette Insurance. He is a licensed insurance adviser and a certified public accountant. John Hatsopoulos, LA’59, H’99, of Lincoln, Massachusetts, has been appointed to the board of directors of Antigenics, a New York biotechnology company pursuing treatments for cancers and infectious diseases. Hatsopoulos is a cofounder of Thermo Electron and the chief executive officer of American DG Energy, which helps customers reduce the costs of electricity, heat, hot water, and cooling.