Class Notes

1964 Roxann Reddick Bustos (MA) (see ’63 College).

1965 Jerry Gardner (MA) (see ’58 College).

1972 Ralph (Barry) Johnson (MS), a senior research professor of physics and electrical engineering at Alabama A&M University, was elected to the rank of fellow of the Institute of Physics. He is also a fellow of the Optical Society of America and fellow and past president of SPIE, the international society of optics and photonics.

1977 Doug Rundell (PhD) (see ’68 College).

1979 Barbara Bockelmann Rundell (PhD) (see ’68 College).

1984 Tom Guarr (PhD), director of the Organic Energy Storage Laboratory at Michigan State University’s Bioeconomy Institute, and his start-up, Jolt Energy Technologies, have been accepted to be part of a tech incubator at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. The incubator is one of only three incubators in the United States that are embedded at national labs. Tom is doing work in energy storage/batteries.

1999 Nathan Bickel (MS) (see ’98 College).

2006 Geoffrey Pierce (MA) published the novel Manna City (CreateSpace). He writes, “What life remains on Earth has turned to brute savagery. Three survivors—an escaped slave, a one-armed man, and a pregnant woman who believes her unborn child talks to her—travel through the remnants of Earth, searching for the last remaining oasis, Manna City.”

2011 Ethan Burnham-Fay (MS) (see ’08 College). . . . Ryan Perry (MA) (see ’08 College).