What Have We Been Doing?

In order to get a jump start on catching up with one another at the reunion, please e-mail or send a paragraph or two summarizing where you have lived and/or what you have been doing since high school. These will then be posted on the web site for others to read. Send email to Harold Van Aken (mail@hvanaken.com) or send by mail to 8 Malloy Rd, Wallkill, NY 12589

Harold Van Aken - LMCS 1962

	Syracuse University for Electrical Engineering - 1962
	Drafted in 1965 but joined Air Force
	Toured Japan and Okinawa working in Electronic countermeasures in support of Viet Nam War.
	Started work for Macbeth in Newburgh, NY in 1969 as Jr. Electrical Engineer
	Macbeth made Densitometers, Spectrophotometers and lighting products
	Bought House in Callicoon Center, NY 1975
	Married Marylou Gesvantner in 1983 (Jim Denman's cousin)
	Macbeth - VP Advanced Development 1984
	Son Todd born in 1984
	Daughter Kimberly born in 1985
	Macbeth - VP Technology 1989
	Had built house in Wallkill and moved there in 1989 after 20 years if commuting to Newburgh
	MaryLou - director of Wallkill Library - 1999
	Todd went to Stevens University - BS Engineering Management - 2006 graduated and working for PSEG in NJ and living there.
	Kimberly going to Binghamton University - Psychology - She graduates in 2008.
	The company I worked for, Macbeth was bought out by competitor Xrite and Newburgh location closed and moved to Grand Rapids Michigan. - 2006
	I stayed with the new company Xrite - Position - Chief Color Scientist - I work from home office in Wallkill, NY.
	MaryLou - retired December 2007
	No plans for my retiring - 38 years and work is still like a hobby
	14 Patents
	Bogey golfer and losing my long drive.
	Computers and internet my hobbies.
	Website - http//hvanaken.com http://LivingstonManor.net

John Hoos - LMCS 1962

	Followed Bill Vick to Colgate University, joined the same fraternity and graduated with a BA and a certificate to teach secondary school mathematics in 1966.
	Entered Duke Law School in the fall of 1966.
	Married Bonnie Currie in the summer of 1967. Bonnie grew up in Youngsville, graduated from Jeffersonville in 1963 and SUNY at Oswego in 1967.
	We lived in student housing (which became a mixture of student housing and public housing) in Durham NC, where Bonnie taught first grade to help put me through law school.
	We lived in Rochester NY the summer of 1968 where I had a summer clerkship with a law firm.
	Graduated from Duke in 1969.
	Moved to Binghamton NY that fall, where both Bonnie and I taught in the public schools.
	Moved to Milwaukee WI in the summer of 1970 where I joined a law firm.
	Our first daughter, Tara, was born in Milwaukee in 1971. She graduated from Denison University, taught middle school English for some ten years and is now married with three boys (6, 4 and 2).
	Left the law firm in 1975 and moved to Libertyville IL (a northern suburb of Chicago) where I joined Hewitt Associates, a firm that consults with large corporate clients on their human resource programs.
	Our second daughter, Adrienne, was born in 1976. She graduated from DePauw University, taught first grade for some ten years and is now married with a girl (4) and a boy (9 mos.).
	Retired from Hewitt in 2000. For the last 15 years of career, managed a group of some 50 lawyers located in some 10 different offices in the US and Canada.
	Enjoy travel, especially foreign travel.
	Enjoy golf, but struggle to maintain a bogey handicap.
	Enjoy the grandchildren.
	Second home on a golf course in Tucson AZ.
	Our sons-in-law are both in public education and they and our daughters are raising their families in Libertyville. That keeps us there for a good part of the year.

R Seeley Life Events - LMCS 1960

	Graduated from high school 1960.
	Attended RCA Institutes NYC-Graduated with Associate Degree in Electronics.
	Worked 4 years for Westinghouse Defense and Aerospace in Maryland.
	In 1966 went to work for Bendix Field Engineering Corp.
	After 2 years, Bendix offered me a contract job with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.
	Spent 8 years working with satellite navigation research and development at JHUAPL.
	While at JHUAPL I performed navigation duty aboard the astronaut recovery ships for space missions utilizing our satellite nav. system.
	The last 18 months at JHUAPL I represented the Lab. at GE in Utica, NY while they were building a satellite radar altimeter.
	After the satellite was launched from Vandenburg AF base I decided to try and stay home for a while.
	Bendix then offered me a position at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
	At GSFC I became the Field Engineer for Ground station Space Command systems.
	During this time, 1978 thru 1995 I was associated with providing training at Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. Bendix maintained the Shuttle Launch Training System.
	I installed the command systems around the world for command support of satellites and the Space Shuttle.
	In 1995 I decided that 33 years was long enough and retired.
	My wonderful wife Ruth and I had three children, Christine-1966; Pamela-1970;Richard-1974.
	We presently have 5 Grandchildren, the oldest is in her 2nd year of college.
	The last 8 years I have played slowpitch softball as a pitcher. Three years ago we won the Senior Mens World Cup in Virginia. This past year we played 11tournaments and won the ISA Senior Mens World Championship. The sponsor of our team is Hamel Builders of Elicott City, Md.

Elizabeth Fries - LMCS 1961

	Graduated from LMCS 1961.
	Graduated from Albany Business College 1963.
	Went to work for Dr. Edward Miller in Jeffersonville right after graduation
	Married Paul E. Hubert in September and lived in Jeffersonville until 1967 when moved to Youngsville where we still reside.
	Our first daughter was born in 1967 and graduated from Binghamton University in 1988. She now works full time for Media Com Cable Company in Middletown and part time as a dispatcher for Sullivan County 911.
	Our second daughter was born in 1971 and graduated from Elmira College in 1993, Cortland in 1996 and Indiana State in 1998. She now works at Mount St. Mary's College in Newburgh as head athletic trainer and teaches.
	Both daughters are married and living in Sullivan County.
	During this time I changed jobs going to the JYCS Youngsville building 1976 to 1980 when I went to work for Sullivan County Department of Family Services and retired in 2002.
	We have two grandsons: 2 years old and 1 month old.
	During these past years I have played softball (adult league), umpired softball (high school), and am now a scorekeeper and assistant coach for a slow pitch team. Also our daughter played fast pitch in high school, college and for nine years played summer ball and Empire Games. As a result we traveled throughout the New England states, plus got to watch many of the first Olympic Team players close up (Lisa Fernandez never got a hit off Jill).
	I also served on the first appeals board for the planning board of the Town of Callicoon
	Taught Sunday School (and became it's director), was organist for the church for close to seven years
	Became an EMT with the Jeffersonville Ambulance Corps until forced to retire because of back pain, am now a member of the Sullivan County RSVP program and volunteer at the Town Hall.
	I am also the Deputy Town Clerk and Deputy Registrar for the Town of Callicoon and work part time. I was chosen as the Town of Callicoon Volunteer of the Year in 2007

Charles Banks - LMCS 1961

	1961 Attended Broome Technical Community College, Binghamton, NY
	1963 Union Carbide Corp, Tuxedo, NY – Chemical Lab Technician
	1965 Union Carbide Corp. Niagara Falls, NY – Chemical Lab Technician
	1966 Drafted US Army – 13 months Korea
	1968 Union Carbide Corp., Tuxedo, NY – Production of Radioisotopes
	1972 Transferred to group starting Radiopharmaceutical production
	1981 Radioisotope, Radiopharmaceutical and Nuclear Reactor sold to Hoffmann-La Roche
	1983 Transferred to Engineering Dept. working on transfer of technology to Indonesia Government.
	1989 Two months in Indonesia setting up production facilities.
	1990 Contamination detected in ground water - Nuclear Reactor shutdown.
	1990 Work on decommissioning Nuclear Reactor and Production buildings
	1996 Transferred to Roche in Nutley, NJ – Engineering construction management/demolition
	2008 STILL WORKING AT ROCHE IN NJ.
	Married 1970; Divorced 1998; 2 Children; 4 Grandchildren
	Current address: 1 Colonial Dr. apt B; Little Falls, NJ, 07424
	Phone: (201) 694-0386
	Email: cbanks108@yahoo.com