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from Western Reserve. . . . Clinton Powell is now the assistant director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases, at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Clinton has risen up through the ranks at NIH since he was commissions as an officer in the Public Health Service in 1946. . . . Robert Hose has organized his own firm of Robert Hose Associates. The new organization is located at 392 Springfield Avenue, Summit, N.J., and will specialize in industrial design consultation. For the last 15 years Bob was connected with the Henry Dreyfuss organization and worked on a diversity of projects, including ballpoint pens, telephones, thermostats, slide projectors, computers, machine tools, bowling alley equipment, earthmoving vehicles, and missile systems. He is a fellow and past president of the American Society of Industrial Designers, a registered architect, and a member of the ASME and AIEE. . . . Bob McDonnell is now applicant and sales engineer for Dee Air Condition, Inc., in Springfield Mass.

The following members of the class attended the Alumni Day festivities on June 12, 1961: James and Mrs. Baird, John Danforth, Sam and Mrs. Goldblith, Larry Kelbley, Ed and Mrs. Pollak, Phil Stoddard, Arnie and Mrs. Wight, Hap Farrell. - Alvin Guttag, Secretary, Cushman, Darby & Cushman, American Security Building, Washington 5, D.C.; Samuel A. Goldblith, Assistant Secretary, Department of Food Technology, M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass.

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It was shocking to  hear and is a sad duty to report that Bill Ahrendt, his wife, Mathilde, and three of their four children, Virginia, 11, Charles, 7, and Barbara, 3, were killed when their private plane crashed in the Peruvian Andes on September1. Bill had left Lima bound for Pucalipa. After selling his company, Ahrendt Instrument Company, to Litton Industries Bill became a private engineering consultant. He was also a contributor to the "Encyclopedia Britannica" on the science of servomechanisms and was a part-time instructor at Maryland University's School of Engineering in January of this year. 

On the brighter and more heartening side of the news, we are happy to report that Rog Finch has been appointed Directory of University Relations for President Kennedy's newly formed Peace Corps. Dr. Finch, who is directly of the Rensselaer Research Division, has been granted a leave of absence from that post by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in order to fill the Peace Corps post, which was an assignment he commenced in Washington on August 1. He will be responsible for Peace Corps projects administered by universities. This method of operation of Corps projects abroad is, we are informed, one of the principal ways in which the Corps will function to make the skills of American educators available to the people of other countries. Rog received his master's degree in 1947 and his doctorate in 1950 both at M.I.T. In 1946 he was appointed director of the Slater Memorial Textile Research Laboratory, a post he held until he rejoined the Rensselaer faculty in 1954. He was a member of the Engineering Education Mission to Japan in the summer of 1951. For six weeks in 1952, he was engineering education consultant to the Mutual Security Administration to negotiate a contract between M.I.T. and the University of Rangoon. From January to May of 1953, he was deputy director in Burma for the Technical Cooperation Administration and then served for a year as director of the Foreign Operations Administration in that country. During World War II, Rog was first a captain in the Air Force and from December 1943 was for two years a major in the Quartermaster Corps as director of heavy textile research and development for the Army. He is a native of Broadalbin and was married in 1942 to Barbara E. Hine of Gloversville. They have four children, David, John, Steven, and Kathryn. 

Charles Sauer has just removed himself from the "Most eligible bachelor list". He was married the first part of September in San Francisco to Miss Mary Louise Read of Weston, Mass. They are spending their honeymoon in Hawaii. . . . George F. Quinn has been appointed assistant general manager for Plans and Production in the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. His duties will include the direction of the Divisions of Production, Plans, Operations Analysis and Forecasting, Raw Materials, and a newly-established Division of Peaceful Nuclear Explosives, which will carry out the Commission's Plowshare Program, hitherto a function of the Division of Military Application. George joined the Commission staff in 1948 as an industrial engineer. In December, 1952, he was named Chief of the Production Division's Reactor Products Branch; in March, 1954, Assistant Director for Operations, and in October, 1955, Deputy Director. He was appointed Director of the Division in September, 1959. After his graduation from M.I.T. with a B.S. degree in chemical engineering, he worked for five years as an engineer and research assistant on programs for the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the Manhattan Engineer District. He served as instructor in chemical engineering at Columbia University from July, 1946, to June, 1948, when he received his M.S. degree in chemical engineering. . . . Our Class was well represented at the second technical Conference on Hurricanes, under the Joint Sponsorship of the American Meteorological Society and the Greater Miami Branch of that society, on June 27-30. Professor James M. Austin, Secretary of the American Meteorological Society and Kenneth C. Spengler, Treasurer, attended the Conference. 

The 20th Reunion, June 9-11, at Bald Peak Colony Club, Melvin Village, N.H., is still a happy topic of conversation. The accommodations, food and service were excellent. Even the weather was fine. The generally accepted observation among those present was that, except for increasing waistlines and receding hairlines, the men looked just as youthful as ever. The ladies were even more alluring than at the 15th Reunion. Those in attendance were: Zack and Maizie Abuza, Bud and Pat Ackerson, Johan and Sis Andersen, Colonel and Mrs. Richard Arnold, Hank and Mary Ruth Avery, Professor and Mrs. Stanley Backer, Pierre and Susie Barkey, Ed and Alice Beaupre, Ray and Cecily Berry, Jr., Robert W. and Ruth Blake, Robert w. and Lindsley Blake, Rog and Priscilla Blum, Bill and Lucienne Bowes, Joe and Jinny Bowman, Bill and Mrs. Cadogan, Bill and Mrs. Cherry, Wilson Compton, Jr., Mario Conti, Bob and Carol Demartini, Malcolm and Mrs. Dodd, Mike Driscoll, Rog and Barbara Finch, Bill and Jean Folberth, Jr., Lewis and Penny Fyske, Joe and Dorothy Gavin, Jr., Carl and Marie Googdwin, Les and Alice Gott, Elmer and Martha Greenleaf, Bill and Mary Hargens, Ray and Peggy Harper, Alvin and Margery Hartman, Luke and Dorothy Hayden, Bill and Evelyn Hooper, Erling Hustvedt, Frank and Barbara Johnson, Herb and Mrs. Klein, Walk Kerske, John and Dion Macleod, Mr., Mitch and Marjorie Marcus, Ed and Nat Marden, Bob and Eileen Meier, Kirk and Ann Miller, Will Mott, Carl Mueller, John and Janet Murdock, Conrad Nelson, Monroe Nordern, Ed and Eleanor Owen, Charles Sauer, John and Marge Sexton, Norm and Nini Shapira, Bob and Eleanore Smith, Peter and Marjorie Smolka, Ken and Louise Spaulding, Irving and Mrs. Stein, Frank and Beth Storm, Jr., Jim and Mrs. Thornton, Lawrence and Jane Turnock, Jr., Ted and Lois Walkowicz, Reid and Barbara Weedon, Arthur and Mrs. Weinberger. As evidence of the physical fitness of those in attendance, sporting events were very popular and awards were made to some in recognition of their outstanding skill and sporting prowess. Those receiving awards were: Tennis, Kirk Miller; golf, Les Gott for low gross, Joe Bowman and Roger Blum winning partners in the tournament; Larry Turnock for hitting and fielding. 

Class elections were held at the reunion with the results as follows: President, Ed Marden re-elected; Vice-President, Johan Anderson; Regional Vice Presidents, John Sexton, Ted Walkowicz, Bob Meier, Frank Storm; Secretary-Treasurer, Walt Kreske; Assistant Secretaries, Hank Avery, Everett Ackerson; Local Standing Committee to keep the ball rolling for your convenience and pleasure, Ed Beaupre, Ivor Collins, Mike Driscoll, Dave Howard, John MacLeod, Jr., Charles Sauer, Irving Stein, Reid Weedon, Jr.

Be sure to keep us informed as to your activities, promotions, demotions and what not.-Walter J. Kreske, Secretary, 53 State Street, Boston; Henry Avery, Assistant Secretart, 169 Mohawk Drive, Pittsburgh 28, Pa.; Everett Ackerson, Assistant Secretary, 16 Vernon Street, South Braintree 85, Mass. 

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Monroe R. Brown has joined the Piasecki Aircraft Corporation as vie-president, Administration. This new position

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