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Class of 1964 Class Notes - Volume 3 Classnote contributions can be sent to thorhanson@comcast.net and they will be posted as received. Give your classmates a summary of what you have been up to during the last 58 years - professional life, family, current interests, photos, etc. or anything else you would like to post. 2014 - Present
Bob Liebermann Thor Hanson
Dave Colton
Richard Karp
Bill Meisel
Bill Stwalley Notes from Bob Liebermann (Back to top) Posted 2022: Bob documented his days at Caltech in this paper published in the International Journal of GeoSciences (August 6, 2021):
"Reminiscences
of Days as an Undergraduate at Caltech in the 1960s: Geology, Student Body
Politics and Intercollegiate Football"
- By Robert Cooper Liebermann 1964: Barbara
graduated from Elmira College 1964-1969: Graduate
school at Columbia University 1969-1970: Short postdoc at Caltech with first child Karen [born 9/69] 1970-1976: Research
faculty member at Australian National University 1976 to 2014: Bob on
faculty in Geosciences at Stony Brook University May 23, 2014: Formally retire from Stony Brook. July 2014: Kids take
our entire family to southern France to celebrate our 50th
wedding
*********************************************************************** Notes from Thor Hanson (Back to top) Posted 2014: After graduating from Caltech, I worked a short time for DuPont before going to graduate school at Iowa State where I obtained my PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1969. Then I joined Shell Oil for a 34 year career with assignments in refining and environmental technology. After retiring at the end of 2003, I have keep busy with some consulting work, traveling, catching up on deferred projects from my working days and mostly enjoying the grandkids. Karen and I were married in 1981. She had three children, Dale, Jill and Adam, who are now married with children of their own. We live in Houston, Texas and see the kids often. Our on-line Christmas Letter provides more details on our family and activities - http://www.hansonwebs.com/christmas2013/
*********************************************** Notes from Dave Colton (Back to top) 5/7/2021 Email: The most important thing to say (at
least to me!) is that I am still alive. Other than that, here is a short
history of my life since 1964. After Caltech I went to Wisconsin for my
Masters degree and then to the University of Edinburgh in Scotland where I
received my Phd in 1967 under the supervision of Arthur Erdelyi (formerly a
Professor of Mathematics at Caltech). I then went to Indiana University
where I became Associate Professor and then in 1975
David Colton
Unidel Professor of Mathematical Sciences Emeritus
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware 19716
U.S.A.
*********************************************** Notes from Richard Karp (Back to top) 4/29/2021 Email: *********************************************** Notes from Bill Meisel (Back to top) 4/29/2021 Email: Still somewhat active. My last book, Computer Intelligence, was published two years ago, but I’m writing another. I’m participating in a webinar, Who will control your connection to companies?, next month. Trying to prove us old folks can still function! *********************************************** Notes from Bill Stwalley (Back to top) 5/13/2021 Email:
Mauricette and I are doing well. Our family has
remained healthy and our 2 youngest granddaughters became eligible (ages
12 and 15) for the COVID vaccine today and have appointments set for the
first dose next week. This is a great relief! The science and speed
behind the development of the new vaccines has been remarkable. We put
ourselves in lock-down since March 2020. We shopped for groceries
online and had the order put directly into our car trunk. We were lucky
to be able to spend this time with each other and enjoyed reading,
walking, doing puzzles, playing games, dancing, virtual meetings with
family and virtual play performances and virtual art exhibits. Who
would have thought that getting a shot would feel so great! We are
fully vaccinated and soon our loved ones will also be. Going to the
grocery store to pick our own produce is a treat! We drove to Kansas
City about 2 weeks ago to see our fully vaccinated family there. What a
treat! It seemed so pre-COVID! We hadn't seen our son, Ken (except
virtually) since Oct 2020 when we traveled to Norway together with
family. Our younger son, Steven, luckily lives close to us and we could
meet outside for walks around the ponds. We have been in contact with
family every day.
I retired in June 2016 from the University of
Connecticut but remained as an Emeritus Professor of Physics and
Chemistry. Mauricette and I moved to Saint Anthony, MN (a suburb of
Minneapolis) in Aug 2017. We have loved living close to family and
enjoyed all the arts opportunities in the Minneapolis area.
*********************************************** Notes from Bockett Hunter (Back to top) 5/13/2021 Email:
Hello to all the Rudds, last time for that, given
the cancel culture renaming of Ruddock House. I once had the
pleasure of sitting next to Mr. Ruddock at dinner. My old House
dinner jacket is still in my closet. I remember with fondness using
Millikan's mechanical
calculator.
I also remember with great fondness all the great guys I went to CIT
with. Best to all of you!
*********************************************** Notes from Howard Ono (Back to top) 5/24/2021 Email: I was also going to give you some info about our football coach,
Bert LaBrucherie. As Dave Holtz mentioned, before he was the
football coach at Caltech beginning in 1949, he was the head coach
at UCLA, going to the Rose Bowl in 1946, losing to Illinois. Ater
two more bad seasons, he was fired and ended up at Caltech. But
before going to UCLA, from 1935 to 1944, he was the very successful
football coach at Los Angeles High School, my alma mater, and the
alma mater of fellow '64 Caltech classmates, Bill Rosenberg, Jerry
Thomas, and Ed Medof.
Coach LaBrucherie has a brief wikipedia page that lists his
won-loss records for all of his seasons at UCLA and at Caltech. I
noticed that in our time there our team won 4 games. After we left
he won 1 game in his last four seasons at Caltech. The team did have
a winning season in 1957 with a 4-3 season! |
returned to Scotland at
the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow as a Professor of Applied Analysis.
In the meantime I married Renate Hubner from Berlin, Germany, and we have
had two children, Claire and Natasha ( Sadly, Natasha died of breast cancer
in 2013).Renate and I have three grandchildren which are the apple of my
eye! In 1978 I moved to the University of Delaware and retired as Unidel
Professor in 2019. My main area off research is in inverse scattering theory
and the 4th edition of my book with Rainer Kress" Inverse Acoustic and
Electromagnetic Scattering Theory”, published with Springer, appeared in
2019. In between times, I was a candidate from Indiana for the U.S. Senate
in 1974 on the Socialist Workers Party ticket ( which, to the surprise of
nobody, I did not even get enough signatures to get on the ballot), ran for
city council in Newark, Delaware, in 1988 for Jessie Jackson’s Rainbow
Coalition (got on the ballot but lost, again to nobody’s surprise since the
central theme of my campaign was that the University of Delaware should
divest from South Africa) and in the 1990’s was president and chief
negotiator for the faculty union at the University of Delaware. I also
taught a course in Women’s Studies at the University of Delaware for three
years. Looking back at my life, I feel like the ending of an old Waylon
Jennings song: “Some of it was magic, some of it was tragic, but I had a
good time all the way”.