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Class Notes195907928-1650, (973) 635-7354,arthur.l.forrest@gmail.com.Wally French sent two photos (seeonline) from the reunion of 1958-64Delta Upsilon brothers, wives, andfriends held in Annapolis, Md., in June.Wally’s contact info: 305 Ocean Ave.,Avon-by-the-Sea, NJ 07717-1421,(732) 774-4307, w.dfrench@att.net.Hu Hagadorn has made manysignificant technical contributions totoday’s electronics marketplace. Hewrote: “In 1967, I received a master’s inelectrical engineering from NortheasternUniversity while working for HoneywellInformation Systems. At Honeywell, Iworked on character recognition studies,developed ferrite/ceramic magneticheads and a disk drive motor, andconducted head position servo stabilitystudies for an IBM-compatible diskdrive. Honeywell later transferred thedivision to Oklahoma City. Deciding tostay in the Boston area, I left Honeywelland worked for a start-up company,Helitron, and developed a linear motorfor a floppy disk drive and associatedcontrol system. Due to a recession,Helitron went out of business. Isubsequently got a job with MohawkData in Herkimer, N.Y., where I workedon tape drive stability problems. Afterliving in the Boston area for sometime, Herkimer didn’t seem quiteright for me, and I found employmentwith Ampex, in Redwood City, Calif.”At Ampex, Hu worked on severalbreakthrough technical developments,including designing high frequencyswitching power supplies, linear andbrushless motors, and phase-lockedcontrol systems for capstan motorsand scanners, plus tracking multiplerecording /playback head trajectoriesin video recorders. He subsequentlytook a number of postgraduate coursesand wrote a paper, “A Study of Impulseand Sinewave Frequency Responsesfor a Basic Digital Control System,”which was presented at the GSPxand International Signal ProcessingConference in Dallas in 2003. Hu’scontact info: 9 Light Way, Menlo Park,CA 94025-1863, (650) 365-7340,huhaga@yahoo.com.Warren Hogan wrote: “As ofJuly 1, 2010, I have the equivalent ofa full-time job as mentor, chair of theboard, and active involvement in thedevelopment to deployment of IADDICShelters. IADDIC provides innovative,ultra-low-cost housing solutions forthe poor and disaster relief victims,with the goal to get the cost of a oneroomshelter/house below $1,000so hundreds of millions of people canimprove their living conditions. To seehow one of these units can be madein a few hours, go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBsupuhgtq8.” Warren’scontact info: 4681 Parnell Lane, Plano,TX 75024-5501, (469) 241-0751,whusl@usleadership.net.Tom Hosking sent an update: “Ihad heart valve repair and four bypasseslast year, but I’m back playing golf atleast twice a week and exercising. Mywife and I just celebrated our 50thwedding anniversary. We live in TerreHaute but spend November throughApril on Anna Maria Island, Fla.” Tom’scontact info: 220 Highland Court, TerreHaute, IN 47802-4915, (812) 299-1327, twhosk@msn.com.Don and Janeen Kein spent severalweeks on Cape Cod. They played agolf course in Brewster, Mass., calledThe Captains. Don’s contact info: 90New England Ave. No. 5, Summit,NJ 07901-1830, (908) 918-9756,donaldkein@gmail.com.Hu Hagadorn contributed an updatefor Edwin Nelson: “Ed left Lafayetteafter our sophomore year and joined theNavy, flying combat aircraft off carriers.After his Navy service, he was a pilotwith TWA, flying 747s. He marriedmy sister, later divorced, and had threechildren. Ed received a degree fromUniversity of Nebraska–Omaha.”The latest contact data for Ed: P.O.Box 201, Stillwater, NJ 07875-0201,(973) 383-5012.Norm Sensinger shared the emailaddress for Chip Pfautz, and NorbSmith followed up. Chip says, “SorryI missed our 50th, but I was ill withdiabetes and in a post-op rehab aftera toe amputation.” Chip’s contactinfo: 1064 Tamiami Trail Unit 1301,Sarasota, FL 34236-2475, (941) 953-3898, chippfautz@verizon.net.Dick Poey showcased his workat the Hopkins (Minn.) Center forthe Arts this summer in The SecretsWithin exhibition. Dick had a onepersonshow scheduled for Octoberat Hennepin Avenue MethodistChurch in Minneapolis. He and wifeHeidi will be touring China duringthat time. Dick noted: “SouthwestPublications wrote an article about meand the Sculpture Society Show at theArboretum. It appeared in the EdenPrairie, Chanhassen, and Chaska, Minn.,newspapers. The Sun Sailor wrote aboutthe Hopkins Art Street program andfeatured my interview.” His contact info:16465 Ellerdale Lane, Eden Prairie, MN55346-1430, (952) 949-3444, poeyart@comcast.net.Don Puckette wrote: “We had ourannual family get-together at our houseon Lake George, N.Y., with all three ofour children—two of whom are Lafayettegrads, Richard ’84 (and his wife, DeboraToffey Puckette ’87) and DebraPuckette Macaleer ’93—and eightgrandchildren. I hope to see Jim Levi, aKDR brother, during a trip to Florida.”Don’s contact info: 28 Via Maria Drive,Scotia, NY 12302-5736, (518) 399-7369, cpuckett@nycap.rr.com.Norm Sensinger wrote: “I hadlunch with Chip Pfautz in Sarasota, Fla.He plans to make our 55th. DuringReunion Weekend, I attended the ChiPhi barbecue and saw brothers from ’60and ’61 whom I had not seen in years,plus my house son, Dr. Bruce Applestein’62.” He adds that his second grandson,Mason Carter Sensinger, was bornMay 6. Norm’s contact info:369 Homeland Southway Unit 1-A,Baltimore, MD 21212-4140, (410)532-7672, nsensinger@comcast.net.Norb and Maryellen Smith traveledto Huntington Beach, Calif., in lateMay to celebrate their grandson’s 9thbirthday. Norb attended the nationaldirectors meeting of the Navy Leaguein Washington, D.C., in late June.Dee and Nels Snook reported onthe Delta Upsilon reunion for classesof ’58 to ’64 held in June. About 27brothers and spouses/friends attendedthe reunion put together by Bob Zimet’60 and Don Lass ’60 The group metin Annapolis, Md., where Wally Frencharranged for a private room for the ’58–’59ers. Joining Wally and his wife, Dot,from the ’59 DU class were Wally andBetty Knobel, Nels, and Dee. Sundaywas the reunion aboard the CatherineMarie sailing vessel. Snooks’ contactinfo: 12832 N. 14th Drive, Phoenix, AZ85029-2829, (602) 971-4546, das2nes@yahoo.com.During his distinguished Navycareer, Captain USN Ret. Jad Sortorecommanded USS Fairfax County, atank landing ship. Seapower magazinefeatured an article in which the Royal86 lafayette • FALL 2011 For full version and photos, see – http://community.lafayette.edu