CLASS NOTES
1963 REUNION YEAR Skyfall was named the Outstanding British Film at the British Academy Film Awards. HMC Trustee Michael G. Wilson produces the Bond fi lm series along with his half-sister Barbara Broccoli. “This is a great honor,” said Michael Wilson. “It’s the fi rst time Bond has been recognized in this way.” Skyfall, the highest-grossing fi lm of all time at the U.K. box offi ce, also received an Original Music award.
1965 Arunas Rudvalis retired at the end of fall 2012 after teaching math at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for 40 years.
1967 George McNulty, professor of mathematics at the University of South Carolina, was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical
Society. He, two other alumni and HMC faculty members Art Benjamin and Nicholas Pippenger, and President Maria Klawe became members of this inaugural group during a ceremony at the AMS Joint Mathemat- ics Meetings in January. Fellow alumni were Peter Loeb ’59, professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Jerrold Tunnell ’72, associate professor of mathematics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
1968 REUNION YEAR Frank Greitzer retired from the Pacifi c Northwest National Labora-
tory, where he had served as chief scientist for cognitive informatics, leading R&D in applied cognitive science/mathematical modeling for enhanced decision making, information processing and training. In June, he established a consulting arm, PsyberAnalytix LLC, which will focus on similar R&D topics for clients in government, academia and industry. He says, “One of the main applications of this research is in the fi eld of counterintelligence, particularly combating the insider threat (see www.
PsyberAnalytix.com). Frank and his wife, Sue, who celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary on a Panama Canal cruise, welcomed their second grandson on June 1, 2012, the fi rst day of Frank’s retirement.
1975 Corinne Morse recently retired from the National Center for Atmospheric Research after 22 years; she will remain as a consultant.
She spent 15 years working on the Juneau Airport Wind System (JAWS) in Alaska. The system provides information pilots can use to identify potentially turbulent zones within the airspace of the mountainous and often windy airport. It uses a network of wind-measuring instruments and computational formulas to indicate when and where atmospheric conditions are interacting with the local terrain to produce turbulence.
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In Alaska’s capital city, JAWS enables the airport to maximize opera- tions while maintaining safety by identifying corridors of smooth air for safe take-offs and landings. Cory is married to David E. Beeman Jr., a former physics faculty member who taught at HMC for 21 years. Dave is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is a member of the neuroscience graduate faculty.
1976 Andrew Lees works in India and China making affordable vac- cines. Both of his children are in college, leaving Andy and his wife, Julie,
with a mostly empty nest.
1977 Jim Bean, an HMC Trustee, will return to a faculty position in the Lundquist
College of Business at the University of Oregon after having served as senior vice president and provost since 2008. He will be working on special projects for the president involving governance and expanding exter- nally funded research. Prior to Oregon, he spent 24 years at the University of Michigan, where his appointments included serving as the Ford Motor Company co-director of the Tauber Manufactur- ing Institute, associate dean for graduate education and international programs in the College of Engineering and associate dean for academic affairs. From 2004–2008 he served as dean of the Lundquist College of Business.
Tabor Communications Inc., an international media, advertising and com- munications company, appointed Richard L. Brandt as managing editor for HPCwire (
www.hpcwire.com), a news and information resource covering the latest global advancements in high-performance, compu- tational and data-intensive computing. Richard writes about science, technology, business and environmental issues. He was editor-in-chief of Upside magazine for fi ve years and was a technology correspondent for BusinessWeek for 14 years. He’s received a National Magazine Award, Atlantic Monthly Award and a Maggie Award, among others.
1978 REUNION YEAR Elizabeth (Betty) Johnson, organizational capability manager, Earth
sciences, for the Chevron Energy Technology Company, presented a career seminar at HMC in February. She discussed the opportunities available in exploration geophysics, the academic preparation necessary and ways to be successful in the industry. Betty is the former national president of the Association for Women Geoscientists and has been ac- tive in the Society of Exploration Geophysics and the American Geophysi- cal Union. She is a past member of the HMC Alumni Board of Governors. continued on Page 34
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