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chairman of the Northwestern Region, Second Century Fun Major Gifts Com-mittee. In addition to this M.I.T. activity, he is chairman of the Propulsion Section of the American Ordnance Association, and member of four other groups: Ameri-can Rocket Society; American Manage-ment Association; Institute of the Aero-nautical Sciences; and the West Valley Y.M.C.A. . . . Thank you both, Knip and Bill. Now let's hear from still more classmate!
Harold Seykota, XV, our former class secretary, did just that. Here's a letter dated February 28, 1961, and mailed from Santiago, Chile: "The story starts in Korea where during December 1960, I had finished my job of training an oper-ating group and we successfully com-pleted our performance guarantee run. In fact, during the 10-day run we made 2605 tons of urea instead of our guarantee minimum of 2500. And that's a lot of little white urea balls! . . . En route to the U.S.A. I phoned Mary and Jim Bar-ton, XVI, in Seattle, where he forms part of the team which makes Boeing succeed. Also in Seattle I visited via phone with Nils Rosenberg '40, who is with Boeing International these days and who has been on foreign junkets this last year. . . . Bob Fife, XV, formerly our neighbor at Redondo Beach, Calif., has bought a motel near Santa Cruz, Calif., and he, Maisie and their happy family are now expecting visitors from the East to share with them the joys of Monterrey and the wealth of the rest of the county. . . . Alex Laker, I, visited us during the holi-days and asked that his regards be ex-tended. . . . John Noyes, '38, of St. Louis reported via phone during plane touchdown that all is well in the airplane business at MacDonnell and with his family. "During January I had my share of the blizzards in Cincinnati, Washington, and New York until I started a tour of South America. Enjoyed seeing Lobby and Conchita at Mexico City and I am pleased to report that the altitude of Mexico City didn't bother those of us who are accustomed to dealing in rarified air. . . . At Bogota during an M.I.T. luncheon I met an alumnus who reported that Tony Arias, II, had left Cuba, was well and was in Florida, although his substantial holdings in Cuba have been expropriated. . . . Cristobal Rosas, X, at Lima, Peru, is on e of the leading citizens of that country where, among other things, he owns a couple of factories at which some 3000 whales per year are converted into oils and fishmeal. . . . Continuing on south I had another won-derful meeting. This time the plane touched down at Antifogasta, Chile, which airport is mostly nothing, sur-rounded by sand dunes. Well, at this out-post, waiting to be rescued from being stranded by an out-of-order engine, was Ralph Laredo '44. I had last seen him in May, 1949, at Rio de Janeiro where I had finished building and starting up a dry ice plant and turned it over to Ralph. He was assigned by Liquid Carbonic to head up production and maintenance at the Rio plant, and some five or more other South American plants. Ralph and I came in Santiago together, and these last couple of days we have brought one another up to date on what happened in the last 12 years. "On the home front of the Seykotas I am delighted to report that Hilda and the youngsters have done remarkably well in spite of the Old Man's absence. Now that the house of Redondo has been sold, we are reasonably liquid with respect to movement, and are planning to meet in Mexico or maybe Argentina soon for a couple of weeks' vacation before we re-turn Stateside about mid-April to con-tinue on with Vulcan, headquartering at Cincinnati. Geographically this seems to us to be a demotion, but it only confirms the old story that some guys will do al-most anything to keep form working." Seymour Sheinkopf, X, who shares with me the task of composing Alumni Fund letters and thereby writes many of you directly, is treasurer of Reliable Hardware, with two Boston suburban stores. Among Seymour and Sylvia's ac-tivities, Boy Scouting comes well up on the list. Sylvia is currently chief den mother and Seymour is cub master of Pack 2, Brookline. Two of the scouts, naturally, are  Mark and Paul. And as an ex-Bostonian, I envy the Sheinkopfs their opportunity to enjoy and help sup-port such cultural activates as the Mu-seum of Fine Arts, the Science Museum, and Friends of Symphony. . . . Gus Hunicke, II, and Prilla amplified the short news item which appeared in last month's notes. The 80 Fenwood Drive address in Old Saybrook, Conn., is a temporary one, for they are expecting to buy a home there shortly. Gus went with Cramer Controls Corporation late in 1959 as director of engineering. The company is one of the portfolio companies of the American Research and Development Corporation, and the target is growth, sticking mostly to commercial instru-mentation. They're breaking ground for a new plant within the next few weeks, and will bring out at least nine new products this coming year after having brought out five new ones this past year. The Hunicke's oldest youngster, as was mentioned last month, is Jim, a fresh-man at the Institute, going into Course II like his father. Gretchen, 17, is heading for Wellesley. And Debbie, 10, makes it a trio. Cruising is a family sport. The past couple of years, the Hunickes have enjoyed Buzzards Bay and Long Island Sound.
Dick Leghorn, VIII, made the keynote address on March 9 before the National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services meeting in Cleveland. Dick, founder and president of Itek Cor-poration, made the prediction in his speech that a broad new information In-dustry now shaping in the nation will al-low us to challenge the Soviets' closed so-ciety from a position of strength. He said: "A free flow of information is anathema to the Soviets' political system which, in contrast to the West's, bases on the se-crecy of a closed society. This contrast is revealed in space, where the West is pressing forward with information satel-lites to provide data for weather predic-tion, navigation control, and mapping purposes. The Soviets, on the other hand, have limited their efforts in an informa-tion sense to exploratory thrusts at Venus and the moon." For more on Dick Leg-horn, refer back to the April issue. Also, Dick is one of many noteworthy men who participated in panel discussions at Centennial Celebration in April. Op-penheimer, Huxley, Land, Pace, and Salk were just a few of the distinguished people on the program along with our il-lustrious classmate, not to mention The Right Honorable Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of Great Britian.— Oswald Stewart, Secretary, 31 Birch Road, Dar-ien, Conn.
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The news this month is brief. . . . William Steber is the inventor of patent No. 2,952,847 for a radar indicating sys-tem. . . . Ed Hahn has left the Woon-socket plant of U.S. Rubber and has transferred to their research center at Wayne, N.J. Ed will work on the devel-opment of Lamiflo, a thin rubber skin which, when used on the hulls of motor boats, enables them to move faster through water. At Woonsocket Ed was chief chemist in charge of the foam fub-ber laboratory and was later appointed production development and control manager for the entire plant.
Don't forget to contribute to the Alum-ni Fund to help swell our 25th Reunion Gift. As of January 31, 1961, 25 percent of the class had contributed, and the av-erage gift was $27.00. . . . From the low condition of your Secretary's mail, it appears that not many of you are pa-tronizing Phelps-Walker Company, namely, Parker Pen. How about rectify-ing the situation?— Alvin Guttag, Secre-tary, Cushman, Darby & Cushman, American Security Building, Washington 5, D.C.; Dr. Samuel A. Goldblith, As-sistant Secretary, Department of Food Technology, M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass.
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Last call for the 20th Reunion! Early returns indicate a record attendance. Early in March, 120 had said they'll be there, with another 20 coming if humanly possible. If you haven't yet sent in your registration, do it now!
Luke Hayden, having recovered from the effects of his auto accident last sum-mer, is picking up his share of commu-nity activities. He is serving as chairman of the real estate committee for the As-sociation of Business and Commerce of Central Berkshire County. The commit-tee will serve as a clearing house and liaison group for satisfying the physical requirements of any type of economic en-deavor desirable to the area. Luke is also one of the two vice-chairmen of the 1961 United Fund campaign of the Pittsfield, Mass., area. As well as working with the United community Services over the past several years, he has served as a di-rector of the Catholic Youth Center and
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