CLASS NOTES


1959 Peter Loeb, a member of HMC’s first graduating class, returned to HMC for


Alumni Weekend. Peter is a well-known mathematician whose solution to a long- standing problem regarding the use of probability theories and infinitesimals was named after him. “Loeb spaces” have also applied to mathematical economics, game theory, mathematical physics and ordinary number theory. Loeb retired in 2009 from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after 40 years on the faculty. He continues to teach and enjoys traveling and photography.


1974 John Lavrakas was selected by the Small Business Administration as its 2011 Small Business Person of the Year for Oregon.


John’s company, Advanced Research Corporation, located in Newport, Ore., is a small R&D company providing GPS consulting services and web-based solutions in Fisheries Information Systems. They recently delivered a fish traceability program for the Gulf of Mexico, called Gulf Wild (mygulfwild.com) and a salmon fishery database for Oregon (pacificfishtrax.org). Since moving to Oregon, John started a technology group in the county to unite technology professionals.


1978 Indiana University physicist Charles Horowitz is among 143 scientists from 22 countries being honored by the American Physical


Society (APS) for excellence in assessing scholarly manuscripts submitted to the society’s publications. Charles, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Physics Department and a researcher in the Nuclear Theory Center at IU Bloomington’s Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter, was recognized from within a group of 45,000 active referees. Charles was named a fellow of APS, considered the pre-eminent organization of physicists in the United States, in 2009 for his contributions to research involving dense nuclear matter. He earned a Ph.D. from Stanford in 1981, then conducted


postdoctoral research at Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. In 2007, while Horowitz was at IU, his work received international attention for leading to the first-ever modeling of the chemistry of a neutron star.


1988 A second daughter, Lily Alexandra Sherman, was born to Heather Sherman and David Fandel ’86 on Feb. 28. Big sister, Noelle, is excited


and has already suggested mommy and daddy have another baby in another seven years.


1991 Peter Schwartzman is associate professor and chair of environmental studies at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. Since moving


to Galesburg in 1998, Peter has been active in the community as co- founder of The Center and The People in Galesburg, as well as co-director of The Lunch Spot, a successful enterprise that helped feed kids during an extended winter break. Peter recently won a seat as a city councilman in Galesburg, and he took office in May. He co-authored an article entitled “A Solar Transition is Possible” by the Institute for Policy and Research (http://iprd.org.uk/) and was also featured on Redwood Community Radio KMUD based in California.


1993 Zachary Mason received his Ph.D. in computer science from Brandeis. He is currently principal scientist at Efficient Frontier, a Silicon


Valley start-up. Zach just published his first novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey. It is being translated, so far, into Italian, French, Russian, Portuguese and (less trivially than one would expect) British. It was reviewed in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the San Francisco Chronicle and also on National Public Radio.


Ellen Heian and John Stimson ’94 were married on Nov. 26, 2010 in Indianapolis, Ind. Cliff McCarthy ’94 (best man), Deborah Swarts, Matthew Morse ’95, Catherine Humowiecki Berry ’96 and Cameron Kellough ’98 were in attendance. Ellen and John’s daughter, Aryl Anne, was born Mar. 18. They currently live in Azusa, not too far from the Donutman!


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