1940s

Edwin E. Houston, E’43, of Winter Haven, Florida, writes what he calls a “short summary of my life since graduation: Basic training in the U.S. Corps of Engineers at Camp Crowder. Started OCS at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Sent to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to work on the initiator for the A-bomb. Worked on the A-bomb and later the nuclear rocket engine for twelve years. Spent one year at Lincoln Lab working on pulse Doppler radar. Spent twenty years in Florida and California testing inertial guidance systems for Air Force missiles. Spent twenty-five years growing citrus in Florida. Have lived in our present house, located close to Cypress Gardens, for the past twenty-seven years. My wife, Joan; my son, Bruce; and I have been motor-home RVers since 1972 and currently own a thirty-three-foot Holiday Rambler Vacationer for summer travel. I would be interested in a list of my class members. I would be especially interested in hearing about my friend Douglas Egles.”

Herbert K. Seymour, LA’43, of Falmouth, Maine, writes, “We now have a granddaughter at Northeastern in the nursing program—Jillian Roberts, from Lincoln­ville, Maine.”

Glenn Reed, E’47, and his wife, Ellen, are nearly fully retired at The Shores in Bradenton, Florida. Reed reports that he continues to write to nuclear publications and newspapers promoting atomic-fission energy production as the world’s solution to environmental and energy- supply problems. He notes he spent his professional life with New England Electric System, Wisconsin Electric, General Electric, Westinghouse, Argonne National Laboratory, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s advisory committee.