Class of 1944

Frank Chen
Email: Fchen99@comcast.net
Address: Oak Crest Village
8800 Walther Blvd, Apt 4106
Parkville, MD 21234
Frank and Josie Chen moved to an Erickson retirement community to enjoy carefree life for the remaining years. If you use Google Earth for fun our address is 8800 Walther Blvd, Parkville MD 21234. A characteristic of the 2,200 senior residents living here is that we share a lot of similar likes and avoidances. The median age here is 85, with a few at 96 and up to beyond 100. Women outnumber men by 69:31. Mealtime conversations are mainly about grandchildren and great grandchildren, what surgical operations each person just had, and when a computer literate diner sits at the same table, the problems we cannot solve when we use personal computers . . . Fortunately we have a well equipped computer lab on the premises, Dr. Zed Hrubec, the director, and a fellow resident offer all the knowledge we'll ever need. Zed is a great teacher, patient and kind. Another friend is Dr. Arthur Jensen, a retired Navy captain who taught physics in his lifelong career. He published a novel! About life in the Persian Gulf, starting with two junior naval officers, female, who were kidnapped and forced into marriages to sheiks as their concubines. A happy ending ensued when Middle East relations between the sheiks and the US Government steadily improved . . . All in all it continues to be a good life.

Class of 1953

David McGarvey
I am from the class of 1953, when Prof. Verbrugge headed the department. Prof. Henry also taught many of the classes I took. I did a double major -physics and math, and went on to get advanced degrees in math at Yale. Although I specialized in operator theory and spectral analysis under Dunford and Schwartz at Yale. I never made the connections with the work in quantum physics that played such a role in stimulating this field of mathematics -- a reflection on my own laziness but also a result of the unfortunate schism between physics and math advanced studies. I went on to a career in policy analysis at the RAND Corporation and now, in semi-retirement, at the Homeland Security Institute, an FFRDC working for the Department of Homeland Security. At HSI I busy myself studying random allocation strategies for the Federal Air Marshall Service on some days and the technology readiness of chemical and biological sensor systems on others. So it has been an interesting career as a "jack of all trades." My wife Judi and I live in Alexandria, VA.

Class of 1954

William Frazer
Email: frazer@berkeley.edu
Address: 433 W. Gillespie
Aspen, CO 81611
This has been an exciting year. Having been involved with two of the world's largest "telescopes", the Keck and LIGO, I am now chairing the External Advisory Panel for the Thirty-Meter Telescope project (Caltech, UC, Canada), which, if funded and built, will be the new world's largest optical and IR telescope. A more demanding challenge is my being on the Board of Governors of the LLC's that now manage Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories. No chance to get bored, but not much chance to ski, either.

Class of 1958

Dave Smith
Email: d.h.smith@worldnet.att.net
Retirement from the electrical engineering world has given me the time to dabble in some other endeavors. This year made me appreciate the environmental perils and bane of paperwork in agriculture. First my orange grove was subjected to sub 20 degree F temperatures then the danger of wild fire. Fortunately neither was a terminal event. Organic re-certification was a rough road this year, too. Agriculture is like a long term project that could lose its funding before a conclusion is reached. Next year I hope to make my 50th and see some faces from the past.

Class of 1959

Marjorie Korner Sinton
Email: wmsin@infomagic.net
Phone: 928-774-8308
Address: 850 East David Drive
Flagstaff, AZ 86001

I have been volunteering a Lowell Observatory – helping in the archives. It was a shock to realize that I am actually part of Lowell’s history.