In the Public Eye

Charles Durkin ’65, chairman of the Northeast Power Coordinating Council, was quoted in Newsday and interviewed on PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer in the wake of the summer’s power failures in New York and other eastern cities. Durkin, who previously worked for Con Ed, was asked to compare the 2003 blackout to the one that paralyzed New York in 1977
Mass High Tech profiled Gazelle Systems’ new CEO, Stephen Pytka ’68, in its “Movers & Innovators” column
The Boston Herald sports pages included a “Pro File” of New England PGA president Jack Gale ’70, who is the head professional at Dublin [N.H.] Lake Golf Club
Judge Paul Losapio ’73 made Newsweek’s “Perspectives” page with his comment on a high-profile case in which he sentenced a man to 18 months of jail for licking a stranger’s feet in a Massachusetts supermarket
Robert Raslavsky ’78, one of the original 10 “Worcester Scene” photographers, was the prime force behind an art exhibit, “The ‘Worcester Scene’ Photographers ...10 Years After,” which opened at the Worcester Historical Museum in July. The Telegram & Gazette covered the show and wrote of Raslavsky’s career in aerial photography, from Alaska to the Bahamas
In its July issue, Golf Magazine ran a profile of course designer Mark Mungeam ’83, calling him “refreshingly low-key and modest,” and “a traditionalist with a fondness for all things old”
Professor Fabio Carrera ’84’s work with students at WPI’s Venice Project Center was featured in the Wired magazine story “The Lost City of Venice.” Carrera was also interviewed for the BBC Radio program “Europe Today”
WPI Web designer Troy Thompson ’95 was named one of Worcester Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” for 2003. He was honored for creating the Social Web and for work done by his company, Daedal Creations, on Web sites for area nonprofits, including AIDS Project Worcester, ARTSWorcester and the Massachusetts Reading Association
Defending champion Matt Gissel ’01 competed in the 2003 National Monopoly Championship. He was bankrupted by stiff competition, which included his father, Robert Gissel.

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