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published an article on the "Pittsburgh Public Auditorium Retractable Roof."...Herb Weiss, Manager of Military Systems Planning, Technical Staff, participated in the recent Summary Plenary Meeting of the Operations Evaluation Group (OEG) of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations...Les Klashman spoke recently on the campus of the Pennsylvania State University to the 33rd annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Water Pollution Control Association on federal regulation of and assistance to municipal sewage treatment operations. Les is the regional program director of the Water Supply and Pollution Division, Department of Health, Education and Welfare....Bob Cornforth has been appointed a sales engineer on the senior sales of The Lummus Company....Joe Engel has been appointed chief metallurgist for the Buffalo steel plant of Republic Steel Corporation....Bert Bennison recently has been made Assistant Director of Research of the Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation.

To make our 25th Reunion an outstanding success, we must be proud of our Class Gift. Co-operation by each individual in accordance with his capacity in contributing to M.I.T.'s Second Century Fund, which is counted towards our Class Gift, will ensure that our class will reach its objective.-Robert H. Thorson, Secretary, 506 Riverside Avenue, Medford, Mass.; Professor Curtis Powell, Assistant Secretary, Room 5-323, M.I.T.;Jerome Salny, Assistant Secretary, Egbert Hill, Morristown, N.J.

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 On August 10, Julius Kovitz died in a Liege, Belgium, hospital. Julius was a resident of Belgium where he served as a chemist for the Brussels firm of Metallochimique. He is survived by his wife, Sylvia (Astor), and four children, Barbara, Frances, Roberta and Donald.

Bert Grosselfinger has kept me posted of his travels. One card arrived from Casablanca and another from Sao Paulo, Brazil. It would appear that Bert is maintaining his usual pace...There are news items on political activities of three members of the class. In Wakefield, Mass., Jack Bethel was appointed to the Board of Public Works. Jack has also served on the Finance Committee of Wakefield....In Redwing, Minn., Demetrius Gelatis has been elected mayor. Demetrius has been a resident of Redwing for several years. In 1946 he and two other Tech men (Frank Chesley and Gordon Lee) formed the Central Research Laboratories, Inc., the major product of which is a series of master-slave manipulators for handling radioactive materials....The (Boston) Traveler has published an item about Bill Gibson's activities as U.S. Consul in Luanda, Angola, where he has been stationed for the last two years. He had previously served in Brazil, India, and London. The paper states, "Life under the American flag in Angola is not easy. Last March the consulate was the scene of a  nasty mob attack, after the United States first stated its stand against Portuguese colonial policy. Gibson'a official car was pushed into Luanda Bay, in front of the consulate building. The anti-American mob tried to enter the offices, but was stopped by police."

Recent promotions include that of Norman Currier to management analysis officer, engineering department, in the Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard, and that of Marvin Kahn, Vice-president of Acme-Hamilton Manufacturing Corporation, to the position of director of research, development and engineering.... David Wadleigh, who is director of engineering for Scott Paper Company, was one of the participants in the 40th session of the advanced management program at the Harvard Business School.... And for a final item for this set of notes, Welcome Bender was a speaker at the Franklin Institute last May.- David E. Acker, Secretary, Arthur D. Little, Inc., 1424 Fourth Street, Santa Monica, Calif.

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It is indeed with regret that I must report the death of another classmate. Theodore E. Dinsmoor, who was deputy director of American Machine and Foundry Research and Development Division, died on August 17, 1961, of a heart attack. Ted received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and was with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory from 1941-1956, first as chief of the Special Projects Division. In 1956 he joined American Machine and Foundry as director of planning and applications engineering in the Defense Products Group and at the time of his death, as stated, was deputy director of the Research and Development Division. He was the author of about 20 technical papers and the holder of three important patents. The U.S. Navy gave him the Certificate of Commendation in 1947, the Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 1952, and the Distinguished Civilian Service Award in 1956. The citation of the latter award reads as follows: "Through his noteworthy technical and administrative capabilities, as demonstrated in the field of underwater ordnance development at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Md., Mr. Dinsmoor has made outstanding contributions to Naval defense. As chief of the Special Weapons Division of the Laboratory's Underwater Ordnance Department, he has made particularly outstanding contributions to the Navy's Underwater Ordnance Program by providing inspiring leadership and remarkably sound engineering judgment in directing and co-ordinating the efforts of a group which successfully planned and developed to a stage of fruition a complex project designed to provide our country with unique capability in terms of Naval tactics." He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and two sons. Theodore, Jr., 15, and David, 10.

During the summer vacation, I received the following note from Phelps Walker in connection with a problem in his patent department at the Parker Pen Company: "I was sorry to miss the 20th Reunion but our daughter Frances was graduated from high school that weekend. She will be a freshman at Wellesley this fall. Our daughter Margaret will be a sophomore in high school this year. Fred and Paul are entering sixth and fourth grades respectively.... Maxine and I have been living in Janesville for over seven years, and we love it. I was recently transferred from the domestic operation to the international operation of Parker Pen. This has given me an opportunity to cope with some of our problems overseas.... This spring Maxine and I spent six weeks in Brazil, where I was conducting industrial management seminars for the ICA. This was great fun. We may even have done some good, although Janio Quadros is certainly an enigma. Next week I am leaving on a brief trip to Europe. Next time I will write to you just for the hell of it - not because I want something."

From Bob Hess comes the following: "Thought it about time I brought you up to date on my doings. Have been quite mobile over the past five years. First up to Burlington, Vt., for several years as Plastics Department manager in brush fibers. Fell in love with the area and hope some day we can go back there permanently. Then, after a brief stay in Brooklyn, where I learned how to produce polyethylene film, I went to Batavia, Ill., to bring a new polyfilm plant on stream for Plastic Horizons, Inc. - then the largest independent producer of this product. When I'd been plant manager there for about eight months, Celanese bought out the company. Then I became technical and administrative superintendent for a combined two-plant operation; and if you think commuting between two plants 40 miles apart is fun, try it some time in Chicago traffic! Now I'm back in my home territory again as development manager for Celanese Plastics Company, in Newark. We're involved in acetate film and sheeting, polyethylene film and polyethylene bottles in this division.

"On the personal side, we now have two boys. I can probably claim just about the youngest offspring for the class; at least for the present. Roger was born on March 1. His older brother, Tommy, is now five. We've just acquired a house in Livingston, N.J., and are looking forward to getting back East....Haven't seen many of our classmates. Was sorry to miss the 20th last year, but was unable to break away. Hope to see more of the gang now that I'm within reach of a club....That about brings my activities up to date."

Charlie DeMailly has been elected vice-president of Plymouth Cordage Company.
... Roger Mather has been appointed director of the newly established Research and Engineering Division of the Mine Safety Appliances Company. Previously Roger was with U.S. Steel.... Roy Avery is managing editor of the American Chemical Society's News Service.... Amos Joel has been appointed director of Switching Systems Development at Bell Telephone Labs.... Charles Kip has joined the Chemstrand Research Center, Inc., as a literature chemist. Charles has just received his degree in library science

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