1939
Robert S. Berg, BChE, is a retired Consulting Engineer from E.W. Bliss. He and his wife Mary have two children. He developed the process to make coins that consist of a sandwich of nickel and copper.
1947
William L. Larcamp, BChE, MS ’48, Ph.D. ’50, is the Director of Engineering at the Union Carbide Corporation. He and his wife Diane live in Gettsburg, Pennsylvania.
Allan L. Sluizer, BChE, MS ’48, is President of Urban Chemical of Florida, Inc. He and his wife Norma have five children.
LeRoy P. Streett, BChE, has retired after 31 years as Material and Process Engineer at Rockwell International Corporation. He and his wife Phyllis have a daughter and live in Columbus, Ohio.
1948
Jeanne (Hebkersman) Johnson, BChE, has three children and is currently working as a substitute teacher in Southport, Indiana. Jeanne is celebrating the recent arrival of her first grandchild. She is also very busy carving a variety of items, which she has been doing for about 40 years.
1951
David C. Haring, BChE, MS ’51, is retired and living in Wilmington, Delaware.
1958
Thomas R. Loy, BChE, MBA ’62, has retired as Chief Economist with FMI Management Consulting. He and his wife Rosemary live in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Marcus D. Scharf, BChE, is retired from the U.S. Air Force, owned his own consulting company, and is now retired from Lockheed Martin Co. He and his wife Allie have four children.
1961
John R. Rapach, BChE, is Sales Manager for IMI Fabi LLC. He will retire to consulting work in 2002. He and his wife Peggy plan to travel and enjoy community activities. They currently have three grandchildren and live in Cincinnati.
James C. Thomas, BS, is an Associate at RCP, Inc. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Houston, Texas. He is also retired Regional Director of the Office of Pipeline Safety. He and his wife Mary live in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
1965
John P. Gegner, BChE, MS ’65, is retired from the Project Resources Department of Chevron. John joined Chevron immediately upon graduation and has served as Technical Manager of the Richmond, California refinery, I.T. Coordinator for Chevron’s six refineries, and Consultant for Chevron’s Refining Systems Capital Projects. He and his wife Susan have two children.
1966
William G. Lowrie, BChE, is retired from Amoco Corporation. In October, 2001 he became Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ohio State Foundation. He and his wife Ernestine live in South Carolina.
1967
John W. Bradshaw, BChE, MS ’67, is retired as Materials Manager from Pfizer, Inc. He and his wife Martha have two children.
1971
Gary E. Hoam, BChE, MS ‘ 71, is Environmental Engineer and President of Chem-Tech Consultants, Inc. He and his wife Judy have four children.
1973
Patrick L. Berry, BS, MS ’86, is Supervisory Chemical Engineer
for the U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command at the Edgewood
Chemical Biological Center. In March 2001 he completed 27 years of federal
government service with the U.S. Army as a development engineer and project
manager. During 2000, he received his third U.S. Army Research and Development
Achievement Award for the design and development of the U.S. Army’s current
state-of-the-art system for biological warfare detection, the M31A1 Biological
Integrated Detection System. He also received the Department of the Army
Meritorious Civilian Service Award and his development team shared an R&D
100 Award from R&D Magazine for their co-development of the world’s
first chemical biological mass spectrometer, capable of field use. He and
his wife Verna have two children.
1975
Charles T. Burwell, BS, MS ’90, is a Church Planting Missionary for Christar. For the past two years he has been the Field Leader for the Japan Department of Christar. He helped start a new church in Ube City this past year. He has met many men at the University of Yamaguchi Engineering and Medical School and felt an immediate rapport because of his 12 years of engineering experience and his degree from Ohio State. Charles says that Ohio State is a well-known school by many of the international students there and it is highly respected. He is proud of his roots at OSU. He and his wife Janet have two children.
1981
Dan R. Harriman, BS, is National Marketing Director of Capital Choice Financial Services. He and his wife Linda have two children.
Bill Naseman, BS, is a Drilling Cost Engineer with BP in the Deepwater Projects Department. He and his wife Suzanne have two children and have recently moved back to the Houston area.
1982
Terry S. Chern, PhD, is Director of Technology and Engineering at Honeywell International. Terry recently returned to the U.S. after spending three years in Asia as an expatriate for W.R. Grace’s Packaging Division. He was recently elected to the Board of Trustees at the Textile Research Institute of Princeton. Terry’s wife, Joy, is also an OSU alumni (Accounting, 1981) and is now Assistant Commissioner of Virginia State’s Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse. They have one daughter.
Julie (Rogers) Murphy, BS, MS ’83, is Manager of Environmental
Research in the Chemicals Technology Department of BP. Julie and her husband
Kevin have a son who is now a junior at Indiana University studying business.
After several HSE positions in Amoco Julie is now back in research.
1983
Carolyn Lin, BS, is employed in the Landfills Department of Allied Waste Industries. She joined Allied Waste as the Environmental Compliance Manager for Sunshine Canyon Landfill. The site presently is permitted for 6,600 tons per day of refuse and is pursuing a permit increase to 12,100 tons per day to handle Los Angeles County waste. She and her husband Alan have two children. The family will go back to Nebraska in August to celebrate the in-law’s 45th Wedding Anniversary.
1985
Kevin Byrd, BS, is Vice President of Product Marketing at Hyper Active Inc. He and his wife Maria have three children.
Mark J. Hogan, BS, is a physician with Children’s Radiological Institute/Columbus Children’s Hospital. Mark wishes to say thank you to all in the Chemical Engineering Department, adding that the education he received there more than prepared him for his training in medicine. He and his wife Helen have two children.
David J. Moonay, MS, is Rheology Laboratory Supervisor for Brookfield Engineering Labs, Inc. He completed his Polymer Science Ph.D. at the Institute of Materials Science (University of Connecticut) in December 1999. He began working at Brookfield Engineering in September 2000 and was promoted to Rheology Lab Supervisor in December 2000.
1986
Ritu Chaudhari Dhingra, BS, MM ’99, is Marketing Manager in the Global Marketing and Sales Department of Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. She and her husband Gautam have two children.
1987
Lisa Thomas Morse, BS, was a Technical Sales Representative with Betz Industrial in 1991 until the birth of her first child. She and her husband Thomas have two children and live on a "farmish" 5 ½ acres in the outer reaches of suburbia in the Detroit area. She teaches piano out of her home and plays the synthesizer for her church’s worship team.
1988
Michael F. Morgan, BS, is a Patent Attorney for BASF Corporation, where he prosecutes patent applications in the coatings and polymer dispersions areas. He and his wife Tamela have two children.
1991
Deborah Fahey DuFresne, BS, BS in Biology ’89, is Manager of
the Microbiology Department of Omya. She and her husband Jeff have two
children.
1995
Meredith Lewis, BS, is Operations Support Engineer in the Lubricants Department of Equilon. She recently moved to the San Francisco Bay area with Equilon as the Operations Support Engineer. Prior to that move she worked for Exxon Mobil in Houston in various technical and business assignments.
Jay M. Nardi, BS, is Quality Control Manager at Avery Dennison Inc. He and his wife Tara have one son.
Bridget (Blaney) Schober, BS, is a high school physics teacher in the Lewisville Independent School District. She had an eventful last year, traveling in Europe for three months, moving to Texas, switching careers to teaching, and marrying her husband Rudy.
1996
Matthew Kelly, BS, is Technical and Quality Manager at Kaneka
Texas Corp. Kaneka Texas Corp. is a Japanese specialty chemical company
and Matthew works in the Automotive Division. He is currently working on
an MBA and plans to graduate late next year. He and his wife Nancy had
their first child last year.
1997
Paula Garcia Fluhrer, BS, MEd ’99, is a high school chemistry teacher and married her husband Jeffrey in July 2000.
Ping Shen, BS, is a Thermal Design Engineer in the Sales Department of Vogt-Nem in Kentucky.
1999
Jay Carstens, BS, is a Process Engineer in the Manufacturing Department at Advanced Inhalation Research (a subsidiary of Alkermes, Inc.). He transferred jobs from the Oral Technology Department of Alkermes, Inc. to Alkermes’ wholly owned subsidiary, Advanced Inhalation Research (AIR), located in Cambridge, MA. He works with developing existing drugs to be delivered to the lung.
2000
Douglas Ginger, BS, is a Chemical Engineer in the Polyolefins R&D Department at Dow Chemical. He is also an active Ultimate Frisbee player.
Josue Pagan, BS, is a Process Engineer at Pharmacia Corporation and he and his wife Damaris live in Puerto Rico.
2001
Andrew Kihm, BS, is a Facilities Engineer for Shell International Exploration (Royal/Dutch Shell) and Production, Inc. He lives in New Orleans.
Hemisha Shah, BS, is an Engineer in the Technical Operations
Department of Merck & Co, Inc., in Danville, PA. She is involved with
Habitat for Humanity.
In Memoriam
Bill Asher, MS ‘58, died last year. He and his wife Claire lived in Half Moon Bay, CA, and he worked as a Principal Chemical Engineer at SRI International.
Robert A. Jones, BChE ‘49, pased away on June 1, 2001. His wife Patricia, who lives in Texas, survives him.
Clifford B. Kemp, BChE ‘40, died on May 29, 2001. He lived in Cincinnati.
Robert W. Laurrell, MS ‘50, passed away August 8, 1997, but we only received the news this year. Robert graduated in 1950 with a Masters in Chemical Engineering. He worked for DuPont as a Lab Director.
John C. March, BChE ‘32, passed away on October 22, 1999. He and his wife Ann lived in Cedar Park, Texas, were he was an engineer with Alcoa for 43 years.
Joseph D. Parent, PhD ‘33, died on April 10, 2001, after a long illness. His wife pre-deceased him in February, 2000. He was a college professor and research consultant, specializing in natural gas reserves.
Charles E. Stoops, Jr., BChE ‘37, died on April 27, 2000. He worked for the Oldbury Electrochemical Co. in Niagara, NY while in school. Upon graduation he worked for several years as an assistant professor at Lehigh University before returning to industry. After many years in industry he returned to academia at the University of Toledo, which he joined in 1967 as an associate professor. Between 1967 and 1972, he served as Chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department.
Earl C. Sumner, BChE ‘50, died July 19, 2001. He and his wife Helen lived in Tipp City, Ohio where he was retired Manager of Duriron Company Incorporated.