"Class of 62"

Here's a brief (brief for me) summary of myself.  Follow graduation, 6/10/62, I started college at Penn State (as did Stevie Mooney) and graduated in '66 with a BS in Chemical Engineering.  The following September I married an absolutely wonderful girl whom I met at PSU - the former Marcia Hoy whose family and ancestors had lived in Penn since 1737.  Together we moved to Bethlehem, PA where I attended Lehigh Univ on an NSF fellowship and Marcial taught middle school (she actually taught all of Mario Andretti's kids, (kinda tells you how really long ago this was).  I got my MS in '67 and accepted a job with Eastman Kodak in Rochester.  Later I attended the same school, Simon School of Business Admin and got an MBA ('76) in finance and marketing.  Kodak gave me a terrific career and I left ('98) after 31 years with a nice buyout package.  Next I joined CVC, Inc.. as general manager and division director of Wafer Process Services.  After a year the company mounted a successful IPO and I watched my options grow 25 fold.  God that tech-bubble was great-but too short lived.  In the meantime CVC swallowed some little fish before finally being swallowed by Veeco, Inc.  Veeco wanted me to transfer to corporate and I wouldn't go.  Roots for an Air Force brat are too precious to dismiss, so I retired and am now happily writing a fictional novel on two people in love in the 18th century Gallacia (part of the  old Austro-Hungarian Empire).  It's really a challenge, but this is where my family roots are.    During all of this Marcia and I produced two wonderful children, Parrish, our son who is 30, a scientist, married and living in Boston and Paisley, our daughter (25) who is an advertising exec for a big agency in Chicago.  We miss our kids since they live so far away, but eventually we all face some form of this longing.  WHS was a singular turning point in my life.  So filled with wonderful memories - we lived on Mississippi Strassee, just across the road from school.  Some of my classmates at HH Arnold were kids I knew and went to school with in other faraway places. Ron Redd was one of these.  We were both at Johnson AFB in Japan from 1952-55 and I played during and after school with Ronnie.   I think Ron remembers me from that time period, but I surely do because  I was fearfully afraid of him - he was such a stinker as a kid, so bossy, but he had mellowed, somewhat by his Senior year.  I still have my 1962 issue of Vapor Trails and chuckle at the dozens of letters and notes written on the inside covers and throughout.  Roslind Robb was my very dear friend then.  She was married on the very same date as Marcia and I in 1966. At WHS Milt Rose, Mike Richardson and I were inseparable friends.  Remember that old antique Mercedes that Mike drove?  Did this all really happen 45 years ago??  I can close my eyes and see everyone as clearly as I knew them then.  Yes, attending HH Arnold was a watershed time period for all of us.  Happy go lucky times.  I like to think the presence of our parents in West Germany contributed big time to keeping the USA and Europe out of another war.  We all made sacrifices, but the memories made it all more than worth it.  I like to hear from anyone who remember.  As Jimmy Stewart said, "it really is "a wonderful world"

    ssummers@usc.edu

Currently residing in Burbank, CA. I have wandered through 4 professions.  Cancer chemotherapy research, secondary school science teacher, real estate sales, and presently, RN  Nurse working for the emergency transport team of Children's Hospital in LA. (Someday, I'll decide what I want to be when I grow up!)  I have two children, one of each gender. My son is a substance abuse counselor and part time web master for the VA Administration Hospital in Baltimore.  His other hobby is producing children ..TEN at last count.  (They can be viewed at www.loftus@abs.net/~loftus/)  The religious and political views expressed on the website are his own, not of his maternal sponsor.  My daughter is a PICU RN (Pediatric Intensive CAre Unit) at the Childrens Hospital in San Diego.  (Luckily, she is only planning on only having one or two children). My present position pretty well uses me up time and energy wise, so my major other advocation is trying to advance my computer use skills and knowledge.  Being a MAC OS user makes learning a fairly easy pleasure, and has the advantage  of having not cost me less worry about Y2K.  And you know what else? I just love this web site.