CLASS NOTES
1963 William Benkovsky is retired and living in old town Seal Beach in Southern California (known as Mayberry by the sea). He enjoys traveling, especially by cruise ship. He’s been on 15 cruises so far and sailed 200 days on Holland America line. His longest cruise was 63 days through the South Seas, including Australia and New Zealand. He wrote and published a novel, Soul Path, in 1999. He says, “At this time, I’m decid- ing what I want to do with the rest of my life (but no hurry; life is good).”
Robert Clark was a featured speaker at the formal decommissioning of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ship Miller Freeman in Seattle. He had served as the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries vessel’s first chief scientist when he and his soon-to-be bride, Shirley, joined
the then largest American fisheries research vessel at the builder’s yard in Lorain, Ohio, and sailed the St. Lawrence Seaway to Montreal where they were official guests at EXPO’67 World’s Fair. Later in 1967, they helped place the Miller Freeman into commission in Seattle and, after 46 years, they helped decommission the ship, representing the last few surviving “planktowners.” Robert retired as founding director of NOAA’s Restoration Center Northwest in 2004, and he and Shirley now split their time between Tucson in the winter, their mountainside farm in the summer and a condo in the sleepy community of Snoqualmie, Wash., in the spring and fall.
Paula Diehr P90, 2013 HMC Outstanding Alumna, has been retired for three years, but is still working 10 percent of the time, writing a few more scientific papers. She says, “Otherwise we are doing the usual (some traveling, spending more time with family, going to the gym, doing lunch with friends). I’m par- ticularly happy with my new book club, where we read a book a week. This thoroughly absorbs all the time I thought I’d have.”
Now retired, John Graves relishes having more time for lifetime hobbies: winemaking and singing (he belongs to three choirs that focus on Classi- cal repertoire), as well as enjoying children and grandchildren. With his longtime wine partner, he manages about 20 acres of grapes and produces
about 1,000 cases of fine wine a year. He says, “Our range includes a rounded, fruity Chardonnay; a sauvignon blanc; a pinot noir rose; a soft, fruit-driven pinot noir; a Bordeaux blend red made from cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc and merlot; and a shiraz.”
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Ernie Manes has devoted his life to produc- ing new mathematics. He enjoyed a long teaching career at the University of Mas- sachusetts at Amherst and published many books and papers. He retired from teaching in 2004 to have more time to do mathemati-
cal research. His current, big project is a book tentatively titled Algebraic Methods in Topological Dynamics. Other interests include birding with his beautiful wife, Ruth, (they visited Big Morongo Canyon before attending the HMC 50th reunion) and enjoying his children and grandchildren.
Joe Stone is retired from Kodak and devotes a lot of time to travel and working on his home, which he built. He and his wife, Gail, also care for 26 acres of land, maintaining trails, pond and stream as a home for an abundance of wildlife.
Roger Williams retired in 2006 from Boeing and now resides in Madera, Calif., near his older brother. He enjoys spending time with his son, two daugh- ters and nine grandchildren (pictured with the eldest, Logan Riley Williams).
1965 Almost by chance, five old friends who live on opposite coasts
got together for a taco brunch in the Bay Area last summer. Pictured are Dick Sears and Holly Sears and Tom Moran along with Pat Musser. Bill Musser ’66 is behind the cam- era. “Wonderful to reconnect after more than 40 years!” said Bill.
1977 Joey Goodknight, son of Greg Goodknight and Greg’s late wife, Teri Cahill ’78, graduated from UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry in
2011 with a B.S. in chemistry and will be receiving a master’s in physics from Harvard this spring as he works his way toward a Ph.D. in chemical physics. After a decade—“from my Cisco VoIP days,” says Greg—a patent will be issued for “Packet telephony across the public switched telephone network” U.S. 7,808,981, of which Greg is the sole inventor.
2012 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow Kevin Tambara P14 is working to fill the STEM pipeline with diverse populations, especially in computer science. He is developing a computer science-based science curriculum for Los Angeles middle schools and has connected with HMC CS faculty doing work in local middle and high schools. Kevin says, “I’m calling my pilot curriculum CyberMaker Science, since it pulls in computational thinking concepts (via Scratch, paper-based circuits, e-textiles, robotics) with hands-on engineering projects as they relate to science. I am collaborating with the MIT Media Lab, essentially applying some of their projects to real-world classroom settings.”
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