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1950s

JAMES E. ALVERSON (B.S. 1954 CEE, M.S. 1961 CEE)

of Redmond, Washington, writes, "I am now a retired civil engineer but am active in the ASCE History and Heritage Program and support Engineers Without Borders."

PETER GEORGE ANGELIDES (B.A. 1952 Spanish, B.S. 1959 Metallurgy)

of Fremont, California, writes, “I’m still engaged in materials science by cross-sectioning electronic components for microscopic analysis in Silicon Valley.” He is also attending Ohlone Community College, taking piano and trumpet.

Don P. Allen (BS 1950 ME)

After Cal, I worked for Ford, served in the USAF in Europe, got into the electronics industry in Silicon Valley where I worked my way up through a number of companies and took grad work in EE at Stanford (I know, booo). I co-founded two as a VP and as CEO, then ended up as CEO of a third. Since retirement, I mentored and lectured at Cal (E-110, Venture Design) for eight years and presently mentor startups at nearby Stanford. My wife, Susan, and I live in Redwood City and track 7 kids and a dozen grandkids.

Lowell Allen (B.S. 1951 CE)

of Eureka retired from Caltrans Structures in 1991 and now serves on dispute review boards for Caltrans contracts.

George Ansolabehere (B.S. 1952 CE)

of Bakersfield retired as a construction engineer for Kern County. Married in 1959 to Marcelle Ariey, they have four children and seven grandchildren.

J. Kirk Ashford (B.S. 1958 ME)

of Anaheim writes, "From 1993 until recently, I was based in Kensington, London, working with Western U.S. Properties for the vast OPEC resources, as macro-managed by National Westminster Bank. When OPEC changed their investment policies after George W. Bush sanctioned the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and I retired to the West Coast of the U.S. "

KENNETH D. BAILEY (B.S. 1950 EECS)

retired from Bechtel Corporation Engineers and Constructors, San Francisco, in 1988, after more than 37 years with the firm. He resides in Carmel-by-the-Sea and credits much of his career success to the education he received at Berkeley Engineering and the UC Extension course in Management he completed in 1964.

JAMES H. BASSETT (B.S. 1950 ME)

of Anaheim, California, retired in 1988 and moved to a retirement home in 2006. He has three children and five grandchildren. His kids are graduates of UC Berkeley, Riverside and San Diego.

JOHN M. BOZAJIAN (B.S. 1950 ME)

retired from Haghen Aircraft Co. in 1987 and moved to Arcadia, California, in 2002.

Bruce Baird (B.S. 1950 ME)

of Garden Grove, California, was responsible for design and manufacture of N2O4 and hydrazine tanks, which were made from the largest titanium forgings ever produced. The tanks were used to fuel the descent and ascent stage rocket engines of the lunar module that landed astronauts on the moon and returned them to orbit. Baird writes, "My wife Suzanne now has Alzheimer's. I visit the nursing home twice daily when not in central California working on historical preservation of the airfield where I soloed as a pilot at age 18 during World War II."

Bernard J. Barden (B.S. 1953 ME)

retired in 1987 from IBM and is now a docent at the San Francisco Maritime Museum and Hyde Street Pier. He sails "Tall Ships" whenever he can. E-mail:

Lou Beck (B.S. 1953 CE)

of Fresno, Calif., writes, "Since retiring, I've been catching up on house maintenance and working on my hobbies - Dixieland jazz and collecting California license plates."

Jesse Bequette (B.S. 1959 EECS)

of Costa Mesa, California, is retired and keeping busy with the Boy Scouts, the Lion's Club and his grandchildren.

William Blythe (M.S. 1957 CE)

of Palo Alto retired after 42 years on the faculty of the civil engineering department at San Jose State University and is still active as a consultant.

William Bridges (B.S. 1956, M.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1962 EE)

retired from the EE and applied physics departments at Caltech asthe Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, in 2003. Hewrites, "My wife, Linda McManus, and I have now completed our'ultimate retirement home' in Nevada City, California, wherewe have six acres of forest on a hilltop. We split our time abouttwo-thirds there and one-third in our old residence in SierraMadre, California."

EDWARD W. COBLE (B.S. 1951 CE)

writes, “Moved from Los Altos to Walnut Creek last year. Too hot here!!”

ALLAN WAYNE COLLINS (B.S. 1956 CEE)

received the Arizona Society of Professional Engineers’ Lifetime Achievement Award and the John C. Parks Award from the Arizona Section of the ASCE, both in 2008. After retiring from the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps in 1982, he served as public works director and county engineer for Maricopa County in Arizona and head of highway design for the Arizona Department of Transportation. Since 2000, he’s been vice president of Huitt-Zollars, Inc., a Dallas-based engineering and architectural firm. He is active in U.S. Tennis Association tournaments and is ranked in Arizona's 70s age division.

Don Cannon (B.S. 1951 EECS)

is retired and living in Sacramento.

Robert N. Cordy (B.S. 1957 EECS)

writes, "I retired after 35 years of research and development in nuclear power and undersea technology. Subsequently, I served as business manager for the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center at Port Hueneme, California. I am now happily semi-retired in the beautiful mountains of west central Idaho, still active as a registered patent agent."

Burton A. Corsen (B.S. 1950 ME)

is happily retired in San Jose, Calif.

Lyle DeLoe (B.S. 1958 IEOR)

of Sacramento died in February at age 76. He trained the U.S. Air Force and the Royal Air Force on guidance of the Thor missile, the first U.S. operational ballistic missile. Working for Aerojet, he served as a consultant on the vulnerabilities of the U.S. nuclear missile fleet to electromagnetic pulse. His two sons also graduated from Berkeley Engineering:

Robert Dean (B.S. 1954 CEE)

of Gainesville was part of a three-consultant panel that submitted a report to the South Florida Water Management District describing the Herbert Hoover Dike as a grave and imminent danger to the people and the environment of South Florida. Dean has held academic positions at the University of Florida, the University of Delaware and MIT and has consulted for about 100 companies and government agencies.

Warren Dryden (B.S. 1951 ME)

of Camarillo, California, died in April of Parkinson's. Upon his retirement, he was a program manager at Lockheed Martin Test Facility in Palmdale.

Roland Duquette (B.S. 1956 EECS)

of La Canada , California , is now retired from his career as an electrical engineer, currently serving as a financial officer for six trusts. A member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi, he spent seven years in the U.S. Navy.

NOEL EBERZ (B.S. 1959 EECS)

of Naalehu, Hawaii, got his master's in geology at San Jose State University in 1984 and spent 15 years as a Colorado River guide. He's now a docent at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. www.cosmic-concerns.net

David Eberly (B.S. 1955, M.S. 1956, ME)

of San Francisco writes, "I'm retired and goofing off with photo and computer projects after many tedious years in the unusual occupation of tending facilities maintenance and repairs in a popular local free lunch dining room."

CHARLES K. FELLOWS (B.S. 1950 CEE)

of Sacramento retired in 1986 from the California Department of Water Resources.

Ronald Gerdes (B.S. 1957 ME)

is working part-time at NASA Ames Research Center 's Flight Simulation Lab as an engineering test pilot.

Ronald Gersten (B.S. 1956 ME)

of Creve Coeur, Missouri, has a dental practice and is writing two books,

Robert Gordon (M.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1962 NE)

of Los Altos writes, "I have finally published my book,

Alan Gradwohl (B.S. 1955, M.S. 1958 IE)

of Marina delRey, California , worked as a computer analyst for General Electricand Planning Research Corporation. In the mid-70s, he became alawyer and practiced law with a specialty in engineering casesuntil he retired in 1998. He now does volunteer work as a temporaryjudge, in mediations, and tutoring in a grammar school.

CHARLES J. HAVER (B.S. 1950 CEE)

writes, “I had a great career as a consulting engineer, and now we are enjoying retirement in Palm Desert. My chance to learn at Berkeley has been a great benefit year after year.”

Gordon Hart (B.S. 1952 CE)

of Modesto died of heart failure in March at the age of 74. An innovator in the design of relocatable school classrooms, he was engineering manager for Cuckler Steel and Varco-Pruden Buildings, both in Turlock, California, before starting his own architectural and engineering firm in Modesto in 1974. He was a Modesto planning commissioner, served as president of the Structural Engineers Association of California, and received the Northern California Engineer of the Year Award in 1983. A resident of Modesto for 34 years, he was active in many area non-profit organizations including the YMCA and the Modesto Symphony.

David W. Hendricks (B.S. 1954 CE)

of Fort Collins, Colo., retired from the Colorado State University faculty in January after 30 years. E-mail:

James Ingram (B.S. 1959 ME)

of Vacaville has been retired since 1995 but continues as a staff consultant to the cities of Vacaville and Dixon . He has been a licensed civil engineer since 1965.

DONALD S. TOOMB JR. (B.S. 1951 Eng. Physics)

of Claremont, California, retired from nuclear power development and satellite surveillance engineering and is now exploring amateur radio (call sign N6AFO).

ALBERT C. “CREW” WAITE JR. (B.S. 1953 Eng. Physics)

of Fort Collins, Colorado, retired after 40 years with Bell System, later Telecordia, in 1993. He and his wife, Joan, traveled to Peggy’s Cove near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 2008.

Donald Toomb Jr. (B.S. 1951 Eng. Physics)

of Claremont, California, is retired from nuclear power development and aerospace engineering.

Theodore Arthur Jr. (B.S. 1951 ME)

of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is now widowed and active in several Masonic and Methodist Church groups. He has three children and four grandchildren and is expecting his first great-grandchild this year.

Wilfred Lewis Jr. (B.S. 1952 EE)

of San Marino , California , retired in 1993 after more than 41 years at Northrop Grumman. He traveled with his wife of 33 years, Dorothy, to Alaska, Europe, the east coast, Sacramento, and Hawaii before she passed away in December 2001.

John "Jack" Rhett Jr. (M.S. 1952 CE)

of Arlington died in January at age 79. He served in both Korea and Vietnam in the Army Corps of Engineers and earned three Legions of Merit before retiring from active duty in 1972. He then joined the newly established Environmental Protection Agency and in 1979 was appointed federal inspector by President Jimmy Carter of the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, overseeing construction of portions of the pipeline now used to transport natural gas from Canada to the U.S.

HARRY J. KRUEPER (B.S. 1951 CEE, M.S. 1953 CEE)

is still working and writes that Cal was "a true inspiration."

Richard Kelso (B.S. 1959 Engineering Physics)

of Richmond Hill, Ga., recently founded Magnolia Racing Stables to race thoroughbreds through racing partnerships and direct ownership.

Allen Klinger (B.E.E. 1957 Electrical Engineering, M.S. 1958 Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 1966 Electrical Engineering)

Filed my Ph.D. dissertation and rewarded myself with a trip to Mexico in 1966. Have been many interesting places since as a UCLA professor. Travel and reading stimulated appreciation of math in other cultures. In a 2007 return to Mexico visited the Queretaro museum of mathematics (www.uaq.mx/museo/). May 2009 visited Linyi University in China where I spoke with students, faculty, and visiting scholars, introducing them to practical and theoretical computer research.

Albert Knudsen (B.S. 1950 EE)

of La Habra, Calif., writes, "I am still working as director of engineering at Soderberg Manufacturing Co. I am still married to Mary Lou. We were married in 1947 after I got out of the Navy. I was recalled back into the Navy just after graduation and spent a year in Korea on an ammunition ship. We have three children and five grandchildren."

DONALD H. LOLLICH (B.S. 1951 ME)

of Concord, California, retired in 1985 from Shell Oil after 34 years as a project engineer.

Charles L. Lawson (B.S. 1953 EP)

of Sunnyvale, Calif., writes, "I am tutoring kids in East Palo Alto. We can always use more tutors. Contact me at 408-739-1490."

John M. Leach (B.S. 1959, CE)

does some consulting on land development and dispute resolution but is mostly retired in Del Mar, California. A major focus is his 1939 Ford Tudor Deluxe hot rod.

Alan Levy (B.S. 1950, M.S. 1952 Metallurgy)

retired from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and is living in Sacramento.

A.T. (Tom) Lewis (B.S. 1954 CE)

of Berkeley writes, "I just returned from Paris , France , where I had the privilege of working on planning software for the French National Railways. One never knows where civil engineering will lead!"

EVERETT W. MAGUIRE (B.S. 1950 CEE)

of Pacific Palisades, California, is a retired construction lawyer. He graduated from UCLA School of Law in 1957.

JAMES D. MCLAIN (B.S. 1959 CEE)

of San Mateo, California, retired after 44 years with Bechtel Corporation and is still a consultant with the company. He spent a major part of his career in international project management of mining and metals projects.

CHARLES K. MILLER (B.S. 1958 Engineering Physics)

of Laurel, Montana, retired in 1987 from the National Bureau of Standards, where he was chief of the electromagnetic division. His wife, Bonnie, wrote in to say that, while physically healthy, her husband is suffering from Alzheimer's. "This terrible disease needs to be our next national concern," she writes. They recently celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary.

Charles Mathews (B.S. 1950 CE)

writes, "Thanks to the G.I. Bill, I was able to go to college. I chose Cal because my mother graduated from there in 1917. I was a mediocre student , but my education served me well in a career that spanned 40 years in both the private and public sectors with 21 years on overseas assignments in Morocco, Spain, Bolivia, Turkey, Chile, and Jamaica. I retired in 1990 and have settled back in Penn Valley, California."

Thomas McKay (B.S. 1955 CEE)

of Atherton, California, writes, "I'm retired and enjoying every minute of it."

Thomas N. McKay (B.S. 1955 CE)

of Atherton writes, "I'm retired and have been living on the San Francisco peninsula for the past 30 years. Still rooting for those Golden Bears and next year's visit to the Rose Bowl."

Alan McMasters (B.S. 1957, M.S. 1962, Ph.D. 1966 IEOR)

of Monterey, Calif., retired from the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School. He then completed a two-year contract with the Navy to develop a new repairable item inventory model. He is now an amateur blacksmith and artist.

Robert Moline (B.S. 1958 CEE)

of Santa Monica retired in 1997 from a 38-year career as a soil mechanics and foundation engineer, the last 15 years of which he spent freelancing as a geotechnical engineering consultant. He writes, "My wife Jo Ellen and I married during my first year at Cal and have enjoyed 50 years together and counting. We have lived at the same address in Santa Monica for more than 36 years."

S. James Morizumi (B.S. 1955 ME)

of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, writes, "I am 81 years old and in a rehabilitation program following my stroke. I was born in San Francisco in 1923 and spent four years in Berkeley, then got a Ph.D. in math from UCLA. I am proud of the great 2004 football team at Berkeley. Congratulations!"

Zuhair Munir (B.S. 1956 ChemE, M.S. 1958, Ph.D. 1963 MSE)

, distinguished professor ofchemical engineering and materials science and former dean ofengineering at UC Davis, was selected to deliver the annualDistinguished Research Lecture of the Davis Division of theAcademic Senate. The award, the highest honor presented by thesenate for scholarly research, has been given annually since 1942and was last awarded to an engineer in 1970. Munir, a native ofIraq, does research in the area of electric fields and their effecton materials processing.

Harry J. Krueper, P.E. (B.S. 1953 ME)

of San Bernardino, Calif., is a consulting engineer in civil and traffic engineering, environmental reports, and land surveying.

LOWELL K. PATT (B.S. 1956 CEE)

of Murrieta, California, wrote in to tell us about the great trout fishing in New Zealand and the two-week Hawaiian vacation he took with his entire family. He's also recently traveled to Australia and Florida.

JOHN R. PERROTT (B.S. 1956 CEE)

of San Antonio, Texas, has published two books, Save Mozambique's Elephant Coast, about his effort to develop a wildlife refuge for 5,000 elephants slated for mercy killing, and Bush for the Bushman, about the native people of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa.

Saifullah K. Paracha (B.S. 1954 ME)

has had a distinguished career in engineering and politics in Pakistan for four decades, including serving as a member of the Pakistan Senate, member of the Pakistan Chamber of Engineers, and president of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry. He lives in Quetta.

Lowell Patt (B.S. 1956 CE)

of Murrieta, California, had a very satisfying career in municipal energy, housing development, and redevelopment. He is now retired and working on his golf handicap .

Peter Paul (B.S. 1952 EE)

formerly of San Bernardino, Calif., died Nov. 30, 2001. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; son, Michael; and daughter, Catharine Bissell.

Clements Pausa (B.S. 1953, M.S. 1954 MSE)

of Atherton, California, is a retired semiconductor industry executive working part time as a director at the PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Technology Centre.

Helen Pease Peters (B.S. 1951 CE)

died Sept. 1, 2002 in Sacramento. She was internationally known for her work in groundwater hydrology, and worked in flood forecasting for the State Department of Water. She served on the UC Engineering Advisory Council and advised the U.S. Geological Survey and the Federal Department of the Interior.

Edward H. Phillips (B.S. 1954 EP)

of Troy, Mich., is building cardio and paraplegic rehabilitation equipment.

LEONARD A. REA (B.S. 1956 ME)

has been retired since 1996 and is enjoying golfing, travel and his grandchildren.

Gordon Ralls (B.S. 1954, M.S. 1955 ME)

of Pleasant Hill is starting his 18th year of retirement after spending 34 years in construction and manufacturing management for Shell Chemical and Shell Oil Companies. He was a licensed mechanical engineer in California, Ohio, and West Virginia. During his Shell career he worked in California, Ohio, Oregon, and New York City. For several years prior to retirement, he taught evenings in the School of Management at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill.

Jack Reetz (B.S. 1956 ME, M.B.A. 1959 Bus. Ad.)

is retired with his wife Joyce in southern Maine , 10 minutes from their grandchildren in Kennebunk. He spent 27 years with Honeywell as a software development manager and program manager.

Karl G. Reseck (B.S. 1956 ME)

retired from engineering and engineering management in 1998. He lives in Los Altos, California.

MARVIN L. SCHINNERER (B.S. 1958 EECS)

of Albany, California, writes, “Bike touring New Zealand and Australia since retirement in 1996. Also lead Sierra Club Wilderness trips.”

BALRAJ SEHGAL (M.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1961 NE)

writes, “I have retired and am currently emeritus professor of nuclear power safety at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.”

FREDERICK SHERMAN (M.S. 1950, Ph.D. 1954)

professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and an expert on the dynamics of high-speed airflow in the upper atmosphere, died last October at age 80. His work in the 1950s and 1960s influenced the fledgling U.S. space program and supersonic flight. He published the textbook Viscous Flow, and his many honors included a UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award in 1961. In retirement, Sherman devoted time to folk dancing and family genealogy.

JACOB SHPAK (B.S. 1955 ME)

of Walnut Creek, California, a former manager of engineering for C&H Sugar Company, writes, “Retired in 1991 after a most fulfilling engineering career and am now reconstructing my life after losing the love of my life, Margot.”

JOHN F. STEWART (B.S. 1959 ME)

of San Jose, California, writes, “I love mechanically synchronized machines, especially designing machines for paper products for schools. During my retirement, I’ve taken many cheap trips on the Green Tortoise bus.”

WALTER BARRON SWEET (B.S. 1950 CE)

of Arcata, California, recently retired from Walter B. Sweet, Inc., his civil engineering, surveying and geology firm in Arcata and Ventura.

Sergio Rodriguez Sanchez (B.S. 1950 IEOR)

of Guadalajara, Jalisco, in Mexico, writes, "I am still managing my family's business, after 20 years of doing so. In these difficult times, more than ever, the education that I received at Cal has helped me make what I consider the best decisions for the business."

Robert Sarquis (B.S. 1954 EE)

of Healdsburg , California , worked for Sylvania and Microwave Electronics for 15 years developing and manufacturing traveling-wave tubes. He then worked for 25 years in solid-state microwave devices for California Microwave and TRW Microwave in Sunnyvale. He retired in 1993 and took up the hobby of flying radio-controlled model airplanes.

Charles Scheffey (M.S. 1951 CE)

of Arlington, Virginia, writes, "I have now retired and live in Sunrise Senior Living. My wife Ella passed away in August 2004. I keep busy with the analemma [the figure-eight pattern traced out by the Sun's movement over the course of the year], activities of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and here at Sunrise."

William Schick (B.S. 1957, M.S. 1958 ME)

of Los Altos, is happily retired after a very rewarding career designing a broad range of communications equipment and using many of the subjects he learned at Berkeley Engineering.

Norman F. Schneidewind (B.S. 1951 EE)

is a professor of information sciences and director of the Software Metrics Lab at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 2001, he received the Engineer of the Year award from the IEEE Reliability Society for his contributions to software reliability modeling and reliability leadership of key national programs, such as the space shuttle program. He was interviewed about his work last year by National Public Radio, and an article about his award was published in the Monterey Herald. He lives in Pebble Beach, Calif.

Prof. Bal Raj Sehgal (M.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1961 NE)

teaches at the Royal Institute of Technology as professor of nuclear power safety. The institute is the premiere engineering school in Sweden. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2003.

Ejlef H. Sorensen (B.S. 1958 CE)

of Northridge, Calif., writes, "At the age of 78, I'm mostly retired, but am still doing some city engineering projects."

Jodean Sparling (B.S. 1952 ME)

retired in 1991 and did some engineering consulting in 2000 and 2001. He lives in Inglewood, Calif., and is studying transformational breathing. E-mail:

James Spirakis (B.S. 1955 IE)

is retired and living in the Villages Golf and Country Club in San Jose.

Ralph Wm. Bishop Sr. (B.S. 1951 CE)

has enjoyed a successful career with the California State Highway Bridge Department for 37 years, plus 12 years as a consultant.

Donald Stiling (B.S. 1950, M.S. 1952 IEOR)

of Sebastopol is producing high-quality wine grapes for Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in the Russian River Valley of Sonoma County.

David Keith Todd (Ph.D. 1953 CEE)

UC Berkeley CEE professor emeritus and a pioneer in groundwater engineering, died of acute leukemia in April at age 82. During the 1950s, he did some of the earliest research on seawater intrusion into aquifers and chemical contamination of groundwater. His book Groundwater Hydrology, a standard in the field for two decades, was translated into Turkish, Persian and Malaysian, among other languages. As an educator, Todd was most proud of his many students who went on to leadership positions in groundwater engineering.

ERNST S. VALFER (B.S. 1950 IEOR, M.S. 1952 IEOR, Ph.D. 1965 IEOR)

of Berkeley was the director of management sciences at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He's also a licensed psychologist and has directed two psychiatric clinics since 1994. He's currently a senior research fellow at UCLA and a senior lecturer at UC Berkeley.

JAMES LOUIS VAN VORHIS (B.S. 1952 EECS)

died in Monterey, California, last September. He was 81. Born in Berkeley and raised in Lomita, California, he briefly attended UCLA at age 16 and worked on Cannery Row for his father, who was assistant superintendent for Sea Pride Packing Co., for 86 cents an hour. He served in the U.S. Army at Camps Beale and Stoneman in California and enjoyed a 35-year career at Bourns, Inc., before retiring to the Monterey County ranch he helped build as a youngster.

Charles Votaw (M.S. 1959 Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering)

retired to the beach and is now living in Avon , North Carolina.

JAMES R. WARD (B.S. 1956 EECS)

moved from San Diego to Grass Valley in 2006 to be close to one of his sons. "We are enjoying the Sierra foothills," he writes.

CHARLES B. WHARTON (B.S. 1950, M.S. 1952 EECS)

of Ithaca, New York, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University, writes “Gloria and I celebrated our 55th wedding anniversary in August. The whole family came together at our cottage on Cayuga Lake for the first time in five years.”

JOHN T.R. WILSON (B.S. 1950 EECS)

of La Canada Flintridge, California, retired 11 years ago from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He writes, “We are planning to move to Chico and/or Seattle in 2009.”

Philip C. Warriner (B.S. 1956, M.S. 1961 CEE)

of Sacramento is retired from a 40-year career in bridge engineering at California Department of Transportation.

Philip Warriner (B.S. 1956, M.S. 1961 CE)

of Sacramento writes, "I'm totally retired and enjoying it. Among other things, I have recently traveled to France and Egypt."

Carl Weinberg (M.S. 1953 CE)

of Walnut Creek, Calif., is mostly retired but still doing some consulting in the electric utility system. E-mail:

John Wilson (B.S. 1950 EECS)

retired from Jet Propulsion Laboratories and is now living in La Canada, California.

Harold H. Yackey (B.S. 1955 ME)

of Citrus Heights, California, retired in March after 48 years in consulting engineering and related fields. He plans to devote time to his wife, children, and grandchildren, traveling around the Western U.S. and working with Habitat for Humanity. He also wants to make use of his lifelong accumulation of woodworking tools.

Charles E. Zell (B.S. 1950 CE, M.S. 1953 TE)

of Sacramento, Calif., writes, "This year I continue to pursue my lifetime hobby of trains and railroading. I have celebrated 21 years as a docent at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. In July, I attended the Electric Railroaders' convention in Portland, Ore. In August, I spent 16 days in Brazil riding and chasing trains. This year I was elected president of the Organization of Macular Friends, a support group for persons with macular degeneration. My impaired vision does not slow me down. October marked my 20th anniversary of retirement from Cal Trans."

Kenneth Zerda (MS 1955 MSE)

retired from Unocal in 1986. He lives in San Diego.

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