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Cupola era alumni (1945-1962)
1951
Thomas M. McCarthy (B.S., ChE) lives in Limal, Belgium with his
wife, Monica. Since retiring as director of product development at Procter
& Gamble, he has served as a consultant on environmental affairs,
working particularly in the area of waste management and specializing
in biogas utilization. He writes, “I have recently acquired two beautiful
grandchildren. In whatever spare time is available, I am an avid herb
gardener.”
David R. Nethaway (Ph.D., Chem), though
retired since 1991, stays very busy: he still works one or two days a
week as a nuclear chemist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, makes his
own wine (Cabernet Sauvignon, Gewürztraminer, and plum wine this
year), and runs several miles a day. He and his wife, Sally, enjoy traveling,
and have plans to visit Alaska, Southern California, and Kansas this year.
They live in Alamo, CA.
1952
Harold C. Freeman, Jr. (B.S., Chem) worked for four years as a
chemist before entering seminary school in 1959. After serving two churches
in northern Minnesota, he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hastings,
MN for 25 years. Though retired since 1988, he is still active in the
ministry. He writes, “I authored the book, He Turned My Wine into Water,
an account of my years as an alcoholic and how Jesus set me free.” He
and his wife of 54 years, Joella, have four sons and four grandchildren,
and are expecting their first great-grandchild in November. The couple
recently moved to Farmington, MN.
1955
Ernest R. Birnbaum (B.A., Chem), a retired professor of chemistry
at St. John’s University, shared with us this anecdote about Prof. William
Giauque, who was Birnbaum’s senior-year advisor: “One day I asked Dr.
Giauque if he were free to speak with me. He replied in the affirmative,
but that he could only spare me a few minutes because he was preparing
for teaching his next class. That class was thermodynamics, the very subject
in which he had won his Nobel Prize!” Birnbaum notes that he “continues
to marvel at, and to grow in respect for, Dr. Giauque’s diligence.”
1959
Richard E. Bozak (Ph.D., Chem), emeritus professor of chemistry
at California State University, Hayward, attended the 16th International
Plant Protection Congress in Beijing, P.R.C., in May. While in China,
he presented an invited lecture at the Center for Research and Development
of Fine Chemicals at Guizhou University, addressing the organic molecular
structures in medicinal herbs.
1961
Mary R. S. (Weir) Creese (Ph.D., Chem), who is retired from the
Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Kansas, published
the second volume of her survey of nineteenth-century women scientists.
Ladies in the Laboratory II, which came out this summer from Scarecrow
Press, covers women in continental western European countries and Ireland.
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