1995

Alumni/ae News


Gary L. Bardsley (EE '71, MS '91) writes that he took the photo "What is going on here?" published on page 7 of last fall's CUTechnology in 1971 to support Fred Chernow's successful bid to win the title of "meanest professor" for E-Days that year. The student in the background is Dennis Wellman (EE '71). Gary is now associate director of the College's Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program.

John Berlin (ME '88) has been named vice president, general manager, and CEO of Carlisle Tensolite, a maker of specialty wires and cables. John lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
Leslie Besser (EE, Bus '66) has been named a Fellow of the IEEE. Leslie is president of Besser Associates, Los Altos, California.

Donald W. Bloomquist (ME '44) was featured in the February issue of the Colorado Alumnus, Inside Colorado, for his role in bringing the bell from his World War II ship, the USS Colorado, to CU where it is now on display in the UMC.

Joseph N. Cannon (MS '66 PhD '71), professor and former chair of chemical engineering at Howard University in Washington, D.C., has joined the College's Engineering Advisory Council.
Kalpana Chawla (PhD '88) is among 19 new astronaut candidates chosen from among 2,962 applicants for the space shuttle program for 1995. A research scientist and vice president of Overset Methods, Inc., Los Altos, California, she will be trained as a mission specialist. Her selection would bring the number of the College's astronaut alumni/ae to 11.

Glenn Chafee (ME '50) was profiled in the July 1995 issue of the Colorado Alumnus, Inside Colorado, for his volunteer activities to help fledgling manufacturing businesses in other countries through the International Executive Service Corps.

David S. Dillard, Jr. (MS '65, PhD '68), a senior research consultant for the Southern Regional Center of the National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement, has been named a University of Alabama College of Engineering 1995 Distinguished Engineering Fellow. David earned his BS in chemical engineering from Alabama in 1963. He and his family live in Gainesville, Florida.

The College's Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory facility has been named Drescher Undergraduate Engineering in honor of John Drescher (EE '32) who has done so much to make this dream into a reality. John was among those speaking at ground breaking ceremonies in October.

Charles H. "Chuck" Durning (ME '29) has received the Ethics in Business Award from the Longmont, Colorado, Rotary Club. Also, in 1996 the Longmont Chapter of the CU-Boulder Alumni Association will honor Chuck and wife Mabel by donating all proceeds from events and fund raising to the Chuck and Mabel Durning Scholarship Fund, which will award scholarships to CU-Boulder first-year undergraduates from the Longmont area.

Don Estes (ME, Bus '58) was elected president of the CU-Boulder Alumni Association for 1995-96 during the Association's Board of Directions meeting this spring. Don lives in Littleton, Colorado.

This summer's movie hit Apollo 13 must have brought back memories for Donald M. Gafford (MS '65). For his efforts as a member of the mission control team when Apollo 13 became disabled in April 1970, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our nation's highest civilian award. Jack Swigert (ME '52), the space vehicle's command-module pilot, is also an alumnus. Jack died in 1982 and the College maintains an endowed scholarship in his memory. (For information about this scholarship, please call 303-492-7899.)

James Gaines (PhD EE '87) received a Technical Achievement Award from Phillips Laboratories for his work in developing a film used in semiconductor laser fabrication.

Civil engineering doctoral candidate Charles Glass (MS '94) received a 1995 Equity and Excellence Award from the University for promoting ethnic plurality.

Youfan Gu (PhD ChE '93) has been awarded the Carl Von Linde Prize from the International Institute of Refrigeration. This recognition is awarded once every four years by the institute, which is an intergovernmental organization for the development of refrigeration and cryogenics. Youfan is employed by HPS Division of MKS Instruments, Inc., of Boulder.

William E. Haible (ArchE '36) passed away last December. He was a partner in the Boston architectural firm of Anderson, Beckwith, and Haible and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Amy M. Harvey (Mktg '86) writes to tell us that she and Gordon Harvey (EE, CS '87) "had their third little buff: Margaret Noel was born in December." Gordon is currently in charge of total productive Maintenance (TPM) at Western Wheel Georgia in Gainesville, Georgia. The Harveys still live in Sugar Hill, Georgia.

Alumnus Ray Hauser and engineering student president Jennifer Anderson dedicate an undergraduate laboratory in the Chemical Engineering Department


Ray L. Hauser (PhD ChE '57) received a University of Colorado Medal in August. Ray, founder and senior scientist of Hauser Laboratories, Inc., of Boulder, has also joined the College's Engineering Advisory Council.

Clarence "Clancy" Herbst (ChE '50) received an honorary degree in May from CU-Denver. Clancy was formally thanked by the CU Board of Regents last December for his "leadership, commitment and passion for CU." He is currently funding the Herbst Membership Challenge to build membership in the CU-Boulder Alumni Association.

Dan Hernandez (ECE '90) was the keynote speaker at last December's Graduate Recognition Ceremony. A senior consultant at U S WEST, Dan is also joining the College's Engineering Advisory Council this year.

Leaving the CU-Boulder Alumni Association's Board of Directors this year were
Norman "Pinky" Hill (ME '35) of San Antonio and Jim Ross (EE '62) of Fairfax, Virginia.

Bruce Holland (EE '74), founder and president of SpectraLink in Boulder, has joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department's Advisory Board.

JoAnn Joselyn (AppMath '65, MS, PhD Astrogeophysics '67, '78) was added to the Distinguished Alumni Gallery in the CU Heritage Center. JoAnn, a space scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, has also been elected to a six-year term as secretary general of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy. She is the first woman to hold that position.

Karl Larson (ME '54), chairman and chief executive officer, Gustave A. Larson Company, is serving on Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering's Professional Advisory Board.

Micah Moore (CS '92) was the keynote speaker at this spring's Minority Engineering Program Awards Banquet. Micah received an MS in computer science in May from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and plans to pursue a PhD at Stanford University.

William G. "Chip" Parfet, Jr. (ArchE '69), writes to say that the student in the lower right corner of the E-Days photo on page 6 of last year's CUTechnology is Joseph Pettus (CE '70).

Irene Peden (EE '47) is chairing the College's 1996 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards Selection Committee.

Frank Prager (ChE '84) has joined the CU-Boulder Alumni Association's Board of Directors Executive Committee. Frank, who lives in Englewood, Colorado, chairs the Legislative Relations Committee.

Juan Santos (ECE '92) received the Minority Engineering Alumni Award for 1995 for a variety of community service activities. These ranged from involvement with World Youth Day to organizing teams to paint homes of poor and elderly people throughout Colorado.

George A. Sissel (EE '58) has been elected president and chief executive officer of Ball Corporation. He had been acting president and CEO since May 1994.

David V. Shuter (AES '59) is now president of the Advanced Transportation Systems Division of Powers Design International, a design resource center for automobile manufactures worldwide.

Tandy Watkins (ME '94) recently received the 1995 Black Engineer of the Year Award from US Black Engineer magazine. Tandy is a development engineer for the Component Products Division of Motorola in Schaumburg, Illinois.

James Voss (MS '74) recently flew on his third space mission. He took a six-hour spacewalk outside the space shuttle Endeavor to test space station assembly techniques and evaluate improvements made to spacesuits.

Richard Weingardt (CE '60, MS '64), chairman of Richard Weingardt Consultants of Denver, received CU's George Norlin Award for distinguished lifetime achievement in his field. Rich also assumed the presidency of the 180,000-member American Consulting Engineers Council this spring.
David E. Weiss (AS '67, MBA '89, MEngr Telecom '89), executive vice president and chief operating officer of StorageTek Corporation, was the keynote speaker at the College's Graduate Recognition Ceremony in May.

Jim Young (AES '88, MS '89) authors an article in the latest Colorado Alumnus, Inside Colorado, about his experiences as a lead test director on the Boeing 777, experiences he shared with Jim McRoberts (AES '59), chief experimental test pilot for the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, and Joe MacDonald (AES '69), Boeing's senior 777 project pilot since 1990.

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