Class Notes

Robert Byrne

Robert Byrne ('71) and Lorri Lind Caruso ('73) were married on October 21, 2006. They reside in Warwick, RI. -February 02, 2007

Paul B. Ash

Dr. Paul Ash has been appointed Superintendent of Schools, for the Lexington Public Schools, in Lexington Massachusetts. The 6200 pupil school system is located 12 miles northwest of Boston. The appointment will begin on July 1, 2005. -May 29, 2005

Daniel J. Dunleavy

Daniel J. Dunleavy \'71 of Duxbury, MA, died at home October 7, 2003. He leaves his wife, Ann (Robinson), and two sons. Dan was the past president and owner of Able Air Equipment and Service Corp, and at the time of his death the owner of Eddy Square in Attleboro, and the Centreville Mill in West Warwick, RI. He belonged to Phi Kappa Theta. -December 16, 2003

Wayne D. Holmes, P.E.

Wayne Holmes has been elected as a Fellow of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE). Fellow is the highest grade of SFPE membership and is confired "in recognition of significant accomplishment and stature in fire protection engineering." Wayne is Vice President of HSB Professional Loss Control, a global consulting firm providing industrial property loss control and fire protection engineering consulting services worldwide. He is located in the Hartford, CT office of HSB Professional Loss Control. -October 09, 2003

Bruce Nunn

Bruce Nunn (73) and Allison Huse Nunn (73) continue to reside on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. Bruce is the VP and Resident Manager of the Bowater Mersey Paper Company. Allison volunteers at Queen's Manor (a senior residence) and at SHAID Animal Shelter. Their oldest child Will Nunn (WPI 99) married Kerri Lachance Dec 30, 2006. They live in RI where Will works for Toray Plastics and Kerri for Electric Boat. Bruce & Allison's youngest child April Nunn (WPI 04) completed her graduate degree at Univ Wisc in May 06 and now resides in Anchorage Alaska, where she is a medical physicist for the Anchorage Radiation Center at the Alaska Regional Hospital. Their middle child Heather ( graduate of Willamette Univ ) works in resaerch for Amgen in Seattle. We are always interseted in hearing from classmates and Nova Scotia is a great place to visit. -April 17, 2007

Roger Lavallee

Roger Lavallee was recently elected to the Board of Directors of BEACON in Hartford, CT. Biomedical Engineering Alliance and Consortium (BEACON) is a non-profit trade organization consisting of corporations, academic and medical institutions dedicated to the development of medical technology. BEACON has been actively involved in emphasizing the importance of this industry as an economic engine for the greater Hartford region, the I-91 corridor, and the Northeast section of the U.S. For more information, visit www.beaconalliance.org. Roger is Vice President and Director of Business Development at Phoenix Asset Management in Hartford, CT. -February 06, 2007

Maryann Bagdis Goebel

In April 2006, I joined DHL Express, a division of Deutsche Post. I am the global Chief Information Officer for our division and will be relocating to Cologne, Germany in February 2007 (but will be keeping my condo in Fort Lauderdale!). I spend most of my time on the road, visiting our 5 global regions and our parent company in Bonn. -December 26, 2006

Herbert J. Hedberg

Dear Sirs: I wanted to let you know that I saw your write-up about my son, Mason, among the 1973 class notes in the most recent issue of WPI Transformations. Your brief description of his magnificent accomplishment last year is fairly accurate and I am thrilled that you recognized our relationship and chose to include the piece for my classmates to read. Unfortunately, characterizing my role at Cetek as an electrical engineer is somewhat inaccurate; although that is the degree I received from WPI in 1973. It’s not that I am not proud of my chosen discipline, it’s just that failing to mention that I am Sr. VP of Operations for the company makes it sound like I’ve made no progress in my career since my first job at Texas Instruments 30 years ago. Cetek’s website at www.cetek.com describes how we apply automation, informatics, and production paradigms to increase the efficiency of finding new drug-like compounds. Last January, I hosted a meeting here at Cetek with James P. Dittami, Ph.D., Dr. William W. Durgin, and Denise R. Rodino to provide them with information about Cetek’s business in the hope of identifying collaboration opportunities between WPI and Cetek now or in the future. This summer, a WPI Computer Science major, Dave Norcott, interned in my Bioinformatics group writing database application software in support of our drug discovery processes. In October, I attended the World-Changing Technologies seminar in Higgins. I have been well served by my past and present associations with WPI and continue to hold the quality of the educational institution in the highest regard. Thank you again for your inclusion. Regards, Bert Hedberg, BSEE ‘73 -January 04, 2005

Ken Lexier

Ken and Sue Ellen continue to live in the wilds of Maine and would love to hear from classmates. Ken has been practicing general law at a small firm in Skowhegan for thirteen years. Their sons Christopher and Stephen are 28 and 26 years old. Christopher got married on September 18, 2004 in Rhode Island. We are hoping to be grandparents! All is well, drop us a line. -November 12, 2004

Patrick Hester

Pat Hester was one of four recipients of Duke Energy Corporation's 2001 Pinnacle Award, which acknowledges employees who make outstanding contributions to Duke's business success. Pat is currently Sr. Vice President and General Counsel for Duke's Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline. He lives in Westborough, MA with his wife, Ann, and four daughters. -February 03, 2003

Wallace McKenzie

Wallace McKenzie joined Elytics, Inc. as Vice President of Professional Services. Elytics is a high-end provider of packaged enterprise analytics applications for measuring, optimizing and improving e-Business performance. He will be responsible for growing the Elytics client services organization and client roster, as well as deploying consistent high-quality installations in the financial services and pharmaceutical industries. Prior to Elytics, McKenzie was a Director of Consulting Services at Answerthink where his responsibilities included the integration of Legacy Technology's with Answerthink operations and serving as a Director in the Business Intelligence practice. He was co-founder, CFO and Vice President of Consulting of Legacy Technology prior to its merger with Answerthink. Prior project experience includes work with Kellogg, United States Air Force, Rand Corp, World Bank, Sun Oil and General Motors. McKenzie also served for several years as Vice President of Consulting at Legacy Technology. Prior to Legacy Technology, he was a Director of Consulting Services at IRI - responsible for the delivery of consulting services for all financial and marketing Decision Support Systems (DSS) projects in Eastern U.S. Elytics is headquartered in Boston, MA. Elytics' clients include IBM, AstraZeneca, WellPoint Health Networks, and Bank of America. -November 20, 2003

Bob Fried

I have always wanted to start my own business, so after 23 years at General Semiconductor (formerly General Instrument, now Vishay), I quit to go into business on my own as a consultant to the discrete semiconductor industry. Since my previous experience was in both engineering and marketing, I do consulting in both these areas. I also sell high-speed test equipment and used semiconductor processing equipment, as well as hard-to-find components. My wife, Meryl, teaches math at a local college. My older son graduated college in June 2006 with a BS in math and is taking a year off to travel before starting grad school. My younger son, Michael, just started his freshman year at college and will probably major in computers. -October 07, 2006

Norton N. Bonaparte, Jr.

Norton Bonaparte, Jr. '75 was elected president of the New Jersey Municipal Management Association for 2006. The New Jersey Municipal Management Association is an organization of professional local government administrators & assistants whose goal is to improve the quality of local government in New Jersey through professional management. Norton is the city administrator of Plainfield, New Jersey. -December 31, 2005

Jeffrey Wnek

After thinking about it for nearly 29 years, I have finally become a teacher. I started teaching Earth Science last January at Weddington High School located in Weddington, NC, just south of Charlotte. It is by far the most challenging job I've had. I am enjoying it quite a bit! -October 22, 2004

Al Barry

Al has helped to start a new business with offices and a factory in China. Wuxi REM Ltd. does mechanical design, machining, and forming for contract customers. Al and Laurie split their time between homes in Atlanta GA and West Falmouth MA. Son Matthew is teaching middle school in Atlanta and Daughter Ashley just graduated from Cornell. -August 20, 2007

Steven Fine

Steven Fine married Eileen Mushin in June of 2006. They reside in Derby CT with Eileen's three children, Andrew age 15, Alyssa age 12, Jenna age 10, and Steven's daughter Destany age 8. Eileen is a middle school science teacher in Darien CT. Steven remains at LATICRETE INTERNATIONAL (his 20th year) as a Senior Product Development Chemist. He has recently been elected Secretary/Treasurer of the Methods and Materials Standards Association for the ceramic tile industry. -October 01, 2006

John Osowski

I was married 12/30/04 to Martha Every (Brown '79) in Rochester, NY. My sons Paul and Alex were my best men, and Martha's daughters Hannah and Madeline were her bridesmaids. Martha is director of University Advancement Services at the University of Rochester, where she has worked in various positions for 17 years. She is originally from San Francisco. I am now in my sixth year at SUNY College at Brockport as director of Planning and Construction, in charge of capital and other construction projects at the college. Professionally I contribute to ASCE Rochester section, now serving on the Past Presidents' Committee and chair of Awards and Prizes committee. Personally, I recently developed an interest in the sport of Biathlon: cross-country skiing and rifle shooting, and finished 9th in the novice class at a local race. I am now a level 3 USA Hockey certified ice hockey referee. In the spring I will once again be co-captain of Brockport's running team in the Chase Bank Corporate Challenge. -February 28, 2005

Joe Williams

I remain at Ford Motor Company as a Program Management Supervisor for the new 2006 Fusion. Recently (4/4/04), I remarried. I am having fun getting to know my new family and traveling to car shows all over the country showing my two matching Classic Mustangs. Life is good and I hope that you all are doing well! =:) -January 18, 2005

Gary Loeb

Gary has moved! He is now the Corporate Performance Engineer for Exelon Power's Fossil Generation group in Kennett Square, PA. Gary's new manager is also a WPI grad, Dave Harris '85. Gary, his wife, Leslie, and children, Rachel and Adam, live in West Grove, PA., only a few miles from Delaware. -October 21, 2003

Steven B. Fine

I have recently taken a new position at LATICRETE INTERNATIONAL, as Senior Product Development Chemist for North America. This position involves technical support of sales and operations in the United States. I also have a 4 year old daughter, Destany. -November 07, 2002

Laima Pauliukonis

I've been living in Brattleboro, Vt., and loving it since 1996, when I moved here with my family. Since then, I have become President of Brattleboro Anesthesia Associates, PC, and was recently elected as president of the Medical Staff of Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. My husband, Gary Snyder, and I are also very busy raising two boys, Adam (9) and Salim (8). -January 29, 2003

Andrew Davidson

Andrew J. Davidson was promoted to Vice President / Chief Financial Officer at Richard White Sons, Inc. He joined the firm in 1997 as Controller and has since worked diligently to maintain the financial stability of the firm. As the CFO, he will be responsible for advising the Chief Executive Officer and President with respect to financial reporting and growth and overseeing the Accounting Department personnel. -July 10, 2006

Peter G. Gould

Peter was recently appointed the Director of Mechanical Engineering for Raytheon's Integrated Defense Systems. Peter has held a variety of management positions within engineering over his 23 years with the company, and most recently was a Senior Manager within the Air Missile Defense/ Surface Radar business unit. Peter was elected an Engineering Fellow in 2002. -January 14, 2003