		NEWSLETTER AFIT RETIRED FACULTY - SPRING 2005 APRIL LUNCHEON The Spring luncheon will be Sat, April 16 at the Tuscany Grille in Bellbrook (129 W Franklin – 848 2226). We are not expecting a parade in our honor-this time. The Tuscany is on State route 725 just past the Little Sugar Creek bridge on the western side of downtown Bellbrook. Cocktails will start at 11:30, and we will order from the menu at (about) 12:00. To make your reservation please call by Wednesday, April 13: Wally Breuer 434-3691 Harold Kepler 433-6344 Pete Torvik 374-0521 Jim Bridgman 233-4583 Those who use the internet, please send your email address to torvik@att.net so that it may be incorporated into our data base and used for communication. (We promise not to sell it to a spammer!) BASE ACCESS Another reminder. It continues to be difficult to get onto WPAFB. If you want to use any base facilities (base clubs, library, attend on-base AFIT functions, etc.), you need an I. D. card. Those without appropriate I. D. must be met and escorted. Those of you who are retired military have the necessary I. D. Those of you who are civilian retirees may find it worthwhile to get a card. The issue of I. D. cards to retired civilians is a base-by-base option. The commander of WPAFB has currently authorized it. You can get the I. D. without escort. Go first to the civilian personnel office with some proof of retired status. They will then send you to the badge office with authorization for the card. If you don’t know where to go, start at the visitor center outside of the Main Gate off highway 444 (Hq. AFMC building). IN MEMORIUM Professor Curtis H. Spenny Dr. Curtis Spenny, a member of the faculty of AFIT for more than 20 years, died on Friday, November 19, 2004. He had only recently retired from his position in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Prior to joining the faculty at AFIT, he held research positions in the Department of Transportation and with NASA. He had special interests in robotics and in man/machine interfaces. His primary focus at AFIT was the program in Systems Engineering, in which he taught and guided design studies. He earned his BS in Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, his MS at UCLA, and his doctorate at Harvard. MEMORIAL PLAQUE FUND At the request of the Retired Faculty Committee, the AFIT Foundation has agreed to hold and disburse Memorial Plaque funds. No changes in Fund policies will result. The money can only be spent to pay for Memorial Plaques for deceased faculty members of the AFIT Graduate School(s). The nomination for and approval of plaque recipients remains as in the original policy of 1991, and financial support for this fund will continue as described in the original policy. As of December 31, 2004, the balance in the fund was $ 981. Future contributions should be by checks payable to the AFIT Foundation. These may be given to Wally Breuer or Peter Torvik, or mailed to the AFIT Foundation, P. O. Box 33646, Wright Patterson AFB OH, 45433-0646. Please indicate on the check that it is for the RFC Plaque Fund. The AFIT Foundation and Association of Graduates continues to be proactive in advancing the cause of AFIT in DOD and legislative arenas. Four retired AFIT faculty are currently members of the Foundation Board. Given the accomplishments of the Foundation, it deserves our support. The $30.00 per year dues enables the Foundation to function. No officers or Board members are paid. If you have not done so already, sign up on the Web at www.AFIT-AOG.org RECOGNTION OF DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI Candidates are being sought for recognition in 2005 as Distinguished Alumni of AFIT. A candidate must be: (1) a graduate of a resident degree program, a pre-accreditation program, or a graduate of the School of Engineering (Signal Corps and Army Air Corps) through 1946, and (2) not be currently on active duty with the USAF or serving as a civilian employee of the Department of the Air Force. Candidates are normally not considered until at least twenty years after graduation. Post-humus awards are made only in unusual circumstances. If you would like to nominate a graduate, submit a nomination of a page or so by May 1 to Zdzislaw.Lewantowicz@wpfb.af.mil or by mail to Zdzislaw (Stan) Lewantowicz, Award Nominations Co-Chair, 1981 Monahan Way,. Bldg 12, Rm 107, W-P AFB, OH 45433-7131; or give it to Wally Breuer or Peter Torvik. An Awards Banquet is being planned for the evening of 21 October 2005, at the Wright-Patterson AFB Officer’s Club. Distinguished Alumni – 2004: Two past graduates were honored at a banquet at the Wright Patt Officer’s Club on 29 Oct. These were the 23^rd and 24^th graduates so honored, and the 7^th and 8^th since the program was reinstituted in 2002. Major General Robert Rakine (USAF Ret) completed his MS in Electrical Engineering at AFIT in 1964. Following that, he earned a Ph.D. from UCLA and then returned to AFIT as a member of the faculty. Among his many achievements were command of the Air Force Research Laboratories, management of all DOD directed energy weapons programs, and the initiation of the Strategic Defense Initiative. After retirement, he served as a vice-president of Hughes Space and Communications. He has served on many advisory and review boards, including the USAF Scientific Advisory Board and the American Astronautical Society. He is currently a member of the Distinguished Review Board for AFIT's Center for Directed Energy. Dr. Edward (Tom) Curran earned his BS in Engineering at the University of London and his MS in aeronautics from the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield. After retiring from the Royal Air Force, he joined the Air Force Aero Propulsion Laboratory and completed a Ph.D. in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is an internationally recognized expert in hypersonic propulsion, and his work on SCRAM jets provided the basis for much of today’s efforts in hypersonic propulsion. Prior to retirement, he served as the head of the AFRL Propulsion Directorate. He is presently the Technical Director for Engineering at the Universal Technology Corp. Dr. Curran has received many honors, including the Distinguished Alumni Award given by the AFIT chapter of Tau Beta Pi. He is a Fellow of both the ASME and the AIAA. AFIT AWARDS FOURTH HONORAY DOCTORATE Congressman David Hobson (7^th District, Ohio) was awarded a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the commencement ceremony on 21 March. The degree was awarded in recognition of his significant contributions to national defense and for his critical and timely support of the Institute. Prior recipients of honorary degrees from AFIT have been Senator Barry Goldwater, Gen Bryce Poe II and Maj Gen William Anders (USAFR Ret). In the largest graduation for some years, 226 MS degrees and 7 doctorates were awarded. Receiving special recognition were 23 students named as Distinguished Graduates. Four grads received other awards. These, with their fields of study, were: Gross Award: 1^st Lt Jamie P. Sharkey (Information Resource Mgt) Commandant’s Award: Major Kurt W. Meidel (Electrical Engineering) Aldrin Award: Major Charles Michael Gaona, (Electrical Engineering) Roche Award: SMSgt Nanci R. Pigeon (Stategic Purchasing) The James G. Roche Award is a new award, given to an enlisted member of the graduating class who has displayed outstanding scholarship, character, and leadership. In addition to honoring the recipient, the award honors the former Secretary of the Air Force for his key role in the revitalization of AFIT. Major Meidel was also awarded the AFIT-Prize, a $1000 savings bond given by the AFIT Foundation to the member of the graduating class whose research was identified by the faculty as leading to the outstanding MS thesis of the year. Congressman Hobson gave the commencement address, during which he confessed to having brought his grandchildren to the base for a drive down Hobson Way. NEWS FROM DEAN CALICO It appears that the only constant at AFIT is change. The current Commandant, BGen David Eidsaune, is leaving to become the Air Component Coordination Element Director in Baghdad, Iraq. His replacement is to be BGen Mark Matthews, who is currently the Commander of the 48^th Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England. For the next few months the AFIT Vice Commandant, CAPT Ken Ginader, USN, will be the acting Commandant as BGen Eidsaune has already been reassigned and BGen Matthew is not expected to arrive before mid-summer. The renovation of Bldg 640 is nearly complete and should be ready for occupancy sometime this summer. While work remains to be done, it is already clear that the finished product will be essentially a new building. However, with the growth of the student body, staff, and faculty, Bldg 640 is no longer large enough to accommodate the Graduate School. Two departments (Mathematics and Statistics and Operational Sciences), along with the research office, registrar, and student services will remain in Bldg 641. Planning has begun for a renovation of Bldg 641. This will be done one floor at a time, starting as soon as possible after the move back into Bldg 640. Finally, we are hoping to add additional office and classroom space by getting a new building approved for construction in FY 2006. Student numbers continue to grow, with the total enrollment for Fall 2004 at over 900 students. This growth has been accompanied by an increase in the size of the graduate faculty, currently at about 130. Thirty new civilian faculty members have been hired within the past two years. The research program has grown in size (over $5M in external support) and is better connected to the AF and DoD than ever before. The school has increasingly focused its research efforts through the formation of research centers. Currently five such centers are up and operating in the areas of: Systems Engineering, Measurement and Signature Intelligence, Information Assurance/Warfare, Directed Energy, and Operational Analysis. We can expect more to follow. Finally, let me close with a personal/ personnel note. AFIT has been advertising for a Dean for the school and we anticipate hiring someone to start by the Fall of 2005. I will assume the duties of the Academic Director once the new Dean is in place. (Ed note: Since restructuring AFIT into a provost model was put on hold, Dean Calico has been performing the duties of both Dean and the Academic Director.) NEWS FROM FACULTY Cecil Bailey, with publication in September 2004 of the essay, Hamilton and the Law of Varying Action Revisited, has successfully completed a 30 year Odyssey. Hamilton's Law of Varying Action is not a valid equation for non-conservative systems. Hamilton's Principle, with end point terms as Hamilton wrote it, is a valid equation, but only for "potential" systems. Lagrange is also revisited. By differentiating the correct total work/energy, six separate equations are obtained, three for the minimum energy, conservative, systems of Lagrange's Principle of Least Action; and three for the general work/energy systems as found by Dr. B. E. Gatewood in 1972 and demonstrated by Bailey in 1975. Lagrange and Hamilton were great mathematicians. But they were not infallible! Jim Bridgman is in the process of revising and expanding his text on Nuclear Weapons Effects. Joe Cain has recovered from his cerebral hemorrhage of last fall. Some loss of leg mobility hasn’t kept him away from concerts and operas in Dallas. He looks forward to going to Knoxville to meet his second grandson, born on this past Texas Independence Day (March 2). Ernie and Betty Dorko send greetings. Ernie is still "teaching" at the local two-year college--TVI--and trying not to get discouraged. He finds that, after 12 years of grade and high school education, many are inadequately prepared to allow them to utilize the skills that community colleges could provide to them. It has been incredibly wet in the land of enchantment, but it may help to end a five-year drought. Helen Downing is in assisted living at Lincoln Park Manor, 694 Isaac Prugh Way; Kettering, OH 45429. Phone: (937) 297-4326. Ann Ericksen, now past 90, continues to drive. She recently returned from having spent several months with her family. Bob Fontana, still short of 90, but counting, reports that he is also still driving. Norma Keister is still residing at Bethany Village. Bill Lehman has become an advocate of keeping emergency flashers in the car trunk. For the rest of the story, you must come to the luncheon! Leno and Jean Pedrotti count 12 grandchildren, 2 step grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren---and are currently in a HOLDING pattern!! Leno reports on a "family effort" to generate the third edition of Introduction to Optics. As he and his brother Frank published the first edition in 1987 and the second in 1993, it is now past time for the third. This time, since Frank and Leno have been away from the classroom and the forefront of optics for some 15 years, the next generation will join the effort. Leno’s son, Leno Matthew, with a Ph.D. and a teaching background in quantum optics and classroom savvy acquired at the University of Dayton, volunteered to step in and assist the two septuagenarians. The 3rd edition should be coming out early in 2006. (Sounds like a challenge to the landmark text by Dino and Jack.) John Prezemieniecki sends greetings to all. Since Fiona’s death last Dec 20, he has been mastering the art of cooking. Son Chris (women’s soccer coach at U Minn-Crookston and working on a doctorate in criminal justice) and daughter Anita Harper (wth P&G, Cincinnati) visit regularly. Guy Risley is getting the urge to build another new house, as he admits that the one he just built (4 ½ baths, 3 jacuzzis, swimming pool on second floor, and elevators to all 3 floors) may be more than he and Betty need. Daughter Carol has taken a teaching position at St. Petersburg College, so all four children are nearby. The first great grandchild is on the way. Peter and Pat Torvik leave in a few days for a visit to Berlin and Northern Germany. Peter continues consulting activities in the control of engine vibrations. These led to presentations at conferences this past fall and winter. Pat is finishing her term on Session and committees at Westminster, but continues with Master Gardeners, two investment clubs, and some consulting. This year’s harvest consisted of two deer, five squirrels, and 6 pints of maple syrup. REMINDER: Please make your reservations for the April 16 luncheon by calling Bridgman, Breuer, Kepler or Torvik by Wednesday, April 13.

AFIT RETIRED FACULTY - SPRING 2005

APRIL LUNCHEON

The Spring luncheon will be Sat, April 16 at the Tuscany Grille in Bellbrook (129 W Franklin – 848 2226). We are not expecting a parade in our honor-this time. The Tuscany is on State route 725 just past the Little Sugar Creek bridge on the western side of downtown Bellbrook. Cocktails will start at 11:30, and we will order from the menu at (about) 12:00.

To make your reservation please call by Wednesday, April 13:

Wally Breuer 434-3691

Harold Kepler 433-6344

Pete Torvik 374-0521

Jim Bridgman 233-4583

Those who use the internet, please send your email address to torvik@att.net so that it may be incorporated into our data base and used for communication. (We promise not to sell it to a spammer!)

BASE ACCESS

Another reminder. It continues to be difficult to get onto WPAFB. If you want to use any base facilities (base clubs, library, attend on-base AFIT functions, etc.), you need an I. D. card. Those without appropriate I. D. must be met and escorted. Those of you who are retired military have the necessary I. D. Those of you who are civilian retirees may find it worthwhile to get a card. The issue of I. D. cards to retired civilians is a base-by-base option. The commander of WPAFB has currently authorized it. You can get the I. D. without escort. Go first to the civilian personnel office with some proof of retired status. They will then send you to the badge office with authorization for the card. If you don’t know where to go, start at the visitor center outside of the Main Gate off highway 444 (Hq. AFMC building).

IN MEMORIUM

Professor Curtis H. Spenny

Dr. Curtis Spenny, a member of the faculty of AFIT for more than 20 years, died on Friday, November 19, 2004. He had only recently retired from his position in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Prior to joining the faculty at AFIT, he held research positions in the Department of Transportation and with NASA. He had special interests in robotics and in man/machine interfaces. His primary focus at AFIT was the program in Systems Engineering, in which he taught and guided design studies. He earned his BS in Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, his MS at UCLA, and his doctorate at Harvard.

MEMORIAL PLAQUE FUND

At the request of the Retired Faculty Committee, the AFIT Foundation has agreed to hold and disburse Memorial Plaque funds. No changes in Fund policies will result. The money can only be spent to pay for Memorial Plaques for deceased faculty members of the AFIT Graduate School(s). The nomination for and approval of plaque recipients remains as in the original policy of 1991, and financial support for this fund will continue as described in the original policy. As of December 31, 2004, the balance in the fund was $ 981.

Future contributions should be by checks payable to the AFIT Foundation. These may be given to Wally Breuer or Peter Torvik, or mailed to the AFIT Foundation, P. O. Box 33646, Wright Patterson AFB OH, 45433-0646. Please indicate on the check that it is for the RFC Plaque Fund.

The AFIT Foundation and Association of Graduates continues to be proactive in advancing the cause of AFIT in DOD and legislative arenas. Four retired AFIT faculty are currently members of the Foundation Board. Given the accomplishments of the Foundation, it deserves our support. The $30.00 per year dues enables the Foundation to function. No officers or Board members are paid. If you have not done so already, sign up on the Web at www.AFIT-AOG.org

RECOGNTION OF DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

Candidates are being sought for recognition in 2005 as Distinguished Alumni of AFIT. A candidate must be: (1) a graduate of a resident degree program, a pre-accreditation program, or a graduate of the School of Engineering (Signal Corps and Army Air Corps) through 1946, and (2) not be currently on active duty with the USAF or serving as a civilian employee of the Department of the Air Force.

Candidates are normally not considered until at least twenty years after graduation. Post-humus awards are made only in unusual circumstances. If you would like to nominate a graduate, submit a nomination of a page or so by May 1 to Zdzislaw.Lewantowicz@wpfb.af.mil or by mail to Zdzislaw (Stan) Lewantowicz, Award Nominations Co-Chair, 1981 Monahan Way,. Bldg 12, Rm 107, W-P AFB, OH 45433-7131; or give it to Wally Breuer or Peter Torvik.

An Awards Banquet is being planned for the evening of 21 October 2005, at the Wright-Patterson AFB Officer’s Club.

Distinguished Alumni – 2004: Two past graduates were honored at a banquet at the Wright Patt Officer’s Club on 29 Oct. These were the 23^rd and 24^th graduates so honored, and the 7^th and 8^th since the program was reinstituted in 2002.

Major General Robert Rakine (USAF Ret) completed his MS in Electrical Engineering at AFIT in 1964. Following that, he earned a Ph.D. from UCLA and then returned to AFIT as a member of the faculty. Among his many achievements were command of the Air Force Research Laboratories, management of all DOD directed energy weapons programs, and the initiation of the Strategic Defense Initiative. After retirement, he served as a vice-president of Hughes Space and Communications. He has served on many advisory and review boards, including the USAF Scientific Advisory Board and the American Astronautical Society. He is currently a member of the Distinguished Review Board for AFIT's Center for Directed Energy.

Dr. Edward (Tom) Curran earned his BS in Engineering at the University of London and his MS in aeronautics from the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield. After retiring from the Royal Air Force, he joined the Air Force Aero Propulsion Laboratory and completed a Ph.D. in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is an internationally recognized expert in hypersonic propulsion, and his work on SCRAM jets provided the basis for much of today’s efforts in hypersonic propulsion. Prior to retirement, he served as the head of the AFRL Propulsion Directorate. He is presently the Technical Director for Engineering at the Universal Technology Corp. Dr. Curran has received many honors, including the Distinguished Alumni Award given by the AFIT chapter of Tau Beta Pi. He is a Fellow of both the ASME and the AIAA.

AFIT AWARDS FOURTH HONORAY DOCTORATE

Congressman David Hobson (7^th District, Ohio) was awarded a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the commencement ceremony on 21 March. The degree was awarded in recognition of his significant contributions to national defense and for his critical and timely support of the Institute. Prior recipients of honorary degrees from AFIT have been Senator Barry Goldwater, Gen Bryce Poe II and Maj Gen William Anders (USAFR Ret).

In the largest graduation for some years, 226 MS degrees and 7 doctorates were awarded. Receiving special recognition were 23 students named as Distinguished Graduates. Four grads received other awards. These, with their fields of study, were:

Gross Award: 1^st Lt Jamie P. Sharkey (Information Resource Mgt)

Commandant’s Award: Major Kurt W. Meidel (Electrical Engineering)

Aldrin Award: Major Charles Michael Gaona, (Electrical Engineering)

Roche Award: SMSgt Nanci R. Pigeon (Stategic Purchasing)

The James G. Roche Award is a new award, given to an enlisted member of the graduating class who has displayed outstanding scholarship, character, and leadership. In addition to honoring the recipient, the award honors the former Secretary of the Air Force for his key role in the revitalization of AFIT. Major Meidel was also awarded the AFIT-Prize, a $1000 savings bond given by the AFIT Foundation to the member of the graduating class whose research was identified by the faculty as leading to the outstanding MS thesis of the year.

Congressman Hobson gave the commencement address, during which he confessed to having brought his grandchildren to the base for a drive down Hobson Way.

NEWS FROM DEAN CALICO

It appears that the only constant at AFIT is change. The current Commandant, BGen David Eidsaune, is leaving to become the Air Component Coordination Element Director in Baghdad, Iraq. His replacement is to be BGen Mark Matthews, who is currently the Commander of the 48^th Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England. For the next few months the AFIT Vice Commandant, CAPT Ken Ginader, USN, will be the acting Commandant as BGen Eidsaune has already been reassigned and BGen Matthew is not expected to arrive before mid-summer.

The renovation of Bldg 640 is nearly complete and should be ready for occupancy sometime this summer. While work remains to be done, it is already clear that the finished product will be essentially a new building. However, with the growth of the student body, staff, and faculty, Bldg 640 is no longer large enough to accommodate the Graduate School. Two departments (Mathematics and Statistics and Operational Sciences), along with the research office, registrar, and student services will remain in Bldg 641. Planning has begun for a renovation of Bldg 641. This will be done one floor at a time, starting as soon as possible after the move back into Bldg 640. Finally, we are hoping to add additional office and classroom space by getting a new building approved for construction in FY 2006.

Student numbers continue to grow, with the total enrollment for Fall 2004 at over 900 students. This growth has been accompanied by an increase in the size of the graduate faculty, currently at about 130. Thirty new civilian faculty members have been hired within the past two years. The research program has grown in size (over $5M in external support) and is better connected to the AF and DoD than ever before. The school has increasingly focused its research efforts through the formation of research centers. Currently five such centers are up and operating in the areas of: Systems Engineering, Measurement and Signature Intelligence, Information Assurance/Warfare, Directed Energy, and Operational Analysis. We can expect more to follow.

Finally, let me close with a personal/ personnel note. AFIT has been advertising for a Dean for the school and we anticipate hiring someone to start by the Fall of 2005. I will assume the duties of the Academic Director once the new Dean is in place.

(Ed note: Since restructuring AFIT into a provost model was put on hold, Dean Calico has been performing the duties of both Dean and the Academic Director.)

NEWS FROM FACULTY

Cecil Bailey, with publication in September 2004 of the essay, Hamilton and the Law of Varying Action Revisited, has successfully completed a 30 year Odyssey. Hamilton's Law of Varying Action is not a valid equation for non-conservative systems. Hamilton's Principle, with end point terms as Hamilton wrote it, is a valid equation, but only for "potential" systems. Lagrange is also revisited. By differentiating the correct total work/energy, six separate equations are obtained, three for the minimum energy, conservative, systems of Lagrange's Principle of Least Action; and three for the general work/energy systems as found by Dr. B. E. Gatewood in 1972 and demonstrated by Bailey in 1975. Lagrange and Hamilton were great mathematicians. But they were not infallible!

Jim Bridgman is in the process of revising and expanding his text on Nuclear Weapons Effects.

Joe Cain has recovered from his cerebral hemorrhage of last fall. Some loss of leg mobility hasn’t kept him away from concerts and operas in Dallas. He looks forward to going to Knoxville to meet his second grandson, born on this past Texas Independence Day (March 2).

Ernie and Betty Dorko send greetings. Ernie is still "teaching" at the local two-year college--TVI--and trying not to get discouraged. He finds that, after 12 years of grade and high school education, many are inadequately prepared to allow them to utilize the skills that community colleges could provide to them. It has been incredibly wet in the land of enchantment, but it may help to end a five-year drought.

Helen Downing is in assisted living at Lincoln Park Manor, 694 Isaac Prugh Way; Kettering, OH 45429. Phone: (937) 297-4326.

Ann Ericksen, now past 90, continues to drive. She recently returned from having spent several months with her family.

Bob Fontana, still short of 90, but counting, reports that he is also still driving.

Norma Keister is still residing at Bethany Village.

Bill Lehman has become an advocate of keeping emergency flashers in the car trunk. For the rest of the story, you must come to the luncheon!

Leno and Jean Pedrotti count 12 grandchildren, 2 step grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren---and are currently in a HOLDING pattern!! Leno reports on a "family effort" to generate the third edition of Introduction to Optics. As he and his brother Frank published the first edition in 1987 and the second in 1993, it is now past time for the third. This time, since Frank and Leno have been away from the classroom and the forefront of optics for some 15 years, the next generation will join the effort. Leno’s son, Leno Matthew, with a Ph.D. and a teaching background in quantum optics and classroom savvy acquired at the University of Dayton, volunteered to step in and assist the two septuagenarians. The 3rd edition should be coming out early in 2006. (Sounds like a challenge to the landmark text by Dino and Jack.)

John Prezemieniecki sends greetings to all. Since Fiona’s death last Dec 20, he has been mastering the art of cooking. Son Chris (women’s soccer coach at U Minn-Crookston and working on a doctorate in criminal justice) and daughter Anita Harper (wth P&G, Cincinnati) visit regularly.

Guy Risley is getting the urge to build another new house, as he admits that the one he just built (4 ½ baths, 3 jacuzzis, swimming pool on second floor, and elevators to all 3 floors) may be more than he and Betty need. Daughter Carol has taken a teaching position at St. Petersburg College, so all four children are nearby. The first great grandchild is on the way.

Peter and Pat Torvik leave in a few days for a visit to Berlin and Northern Germany. Peter continues consulting activities in the control of engine vibrations. These led to presentations at conferences this past fall and winter. Pat is finishing her term on Session and committees at Westminster, but continues with Master Gardeners, two investment clubs, and some consulting. This year’s harvest consisted of two deer, five squirrels, and 6 pints of maple syrup.

REMINDER: Please make your reservations for the April 16 luncheon by calling Bridgman, Breuer, Kepler or Torvik by Wednesday, April 13.

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