PMC Mechanical to receive Upper Dublin Medal for Outstanding Business

Harry Santangelo, owner of PMC Mechanical Contractors Inc., will receive the 2011 Upper Dublin Medal for Outstanding Business.
Gazette staff photo BOB RAINES

"Anyone who has ever played soccer at Mondauk Common, used the fields at the Camp Hill-Highland Athletic Complex or attended programming at the North Hills Community Center owes a debt of gratitude to PMC Mechanical Contractors Inc."

"The employees of the Ambler-based contracting company have lent their time and talents to the betterment of Upper Dublin Township during the past three decades, using their expertise to help improve many of the township's park and recreation amenities."

"For that service, PMC Mechanical Contractors Inc. has earned the 2011 Upper Dublin Medal for Outstanding Business, which it will receive at a ceremony May 25 at the Manufacturers' Golf and Country Club."

Read more by following this link to the Mongomery Media, Ambler Gazette's News section...

Inventions: Reverse Osmosis Applications – Dean Spatz and Chris Miller were there at the Beginning of RO.

"When Dean Spatz '66 Th'67 arrived at Dartmouth, commercial applications for reverse osmosis systems were in their infancy. In ES 21: "Introduction to Engineering," Spatz and Chris Miller '66 Th'67 were given a jar of brackish water and told to find a way to make it potable. The pair came up with a prototype for an RO purification system."

Read more by following this link to the Thayer School of Engineering Magazine, Dartmouth Engineer's Inventions section...

Ask the Expert: Tom Brady Explains Plastic Recycling.

"If you drink soda or use liquid laundry detergent, chances are you've purchased polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles designed and manufactured by one of several companies Tom Brady '66 Th'68 founded and runs, including Plastic Technologies Inc. (PTI), Preform Technologies, and Phoenix Industries International – the largest producer of recycled PET for packaging in this country."

Read more by following this link to the Thayer School of Engineering Magazine, Dartmouth Engineer's Spotlights section...

They're Back! First Look at Pictures from the Santa Fe Mini-Reunion held May 22 - 25, 2009

It was a great weekend celebration, and the first pictures are ready to see! These pictures, by Rich and Judi Abraham, are in two sets, so follow both links, and enjoy!

Santa Fe Set One

Santa Fe Set Two

The Journalist: PETER PRICHARD '66 makes headlines with his Newseum

Prichard landed his first newspaper job at the Greenwich Time newspaper in Connecticut in 1970, a copy editor gig that paid $95 a week. That break launched him on a career in journalism, as a sportswriter, television producer, feature writer, political editor and, from 1988 until 1995, editor-in-chief of USA Today. Now he's making news by opening the doors in mid-April to the Newseum, a state-of-the-art, interactive museum he directs as president.

The 250,000-square-foot museum is actually the second Newseum. Prichard led the team of museum and news professionals that built the original $50 million Newseum in Arlington, Virginia. In its five years of operation between 1997 and 2001 the Newseum attracted more than 2.2 million visitors and won several national awards for its design, video and interactive productions. The new venture's chief funder is the Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press and free speech.

The new seven-story, $450 million complex on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., tells the story of five centuries of news history through exhibits in 14 galleries, 15 theaters, two broadcast studios and more than 100 interactive touch screens. The main atrium of the building features a giant news ticker and 40-by-22-foot high-definition media screen that displays breaking news stories. Artifacts in the Newseum's collection include a three-story guard tower that was part of the Berlin Wall; a flak jacket worn in Iraq by Bob Woodruff, who was nearly killed there in 2006 when working as news anchor of ABC World News Tonight, and a collection of more than 30,000 historic newspapers.

For Prichard - who credits Dartmouth professors Noel Perrin, John Finch and Chauncy Loomis with kindling his love of the written word – serving as president of the Newseum is the culmination of a career spent documenting news. "This is the most ambitious effort ever to educate the public about the news media and the First Amendment," he says.

Photo courtesy Newseum

– Kathryn Levy Feldman, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, May/June 2008

OUR US FOREIGN SERVICE CLASSMATE COMPLETES HIS CAREER WITH A NEW FORM OF MUSICAL FOREIGN AID

As referenced in the Dartmouth Alumni Office's "More Green News" website, (see also the first link below), our classmate Jim Cason, who completed his tour of duty as US Ambassador to Paraguay in August, 2008, and who will be retiring from the Foreign Service on October 1, spent a good deal of his free time learning Gurani (Paraguay's indigenous Native South American language) and then recording a CD album of Guarani folksongs.

"What I've been trying to do is show respect for Paraguay and for its culture," Jim said. Proceeds from the album sales are going to fund English-language grants for poor Paraguayan students. As of August first, 2,000 copies had already been sold in Paraguay. The title of the album is "Campo Jurado" ("Field of Promises"). Jim is selling copies for $15. To obtain one via "snail-mail," between now and September 22, 2008 send a check for $19 (the extra $4 covers the handling / shipping costs) made out to James C. Cason to:

900 N STUART ST, APT 420
ARLINGTON, VA 22203-4103.

(Provide the specific address to which it should be mailed!)

After October 1, Jim will be moving to Miami and will provide us with that address when he has it. If you are mailing your order after September 21, contact campojurado@yahoo.com for the latest address, or, check back here, where Jim's latest address will be posted.

The album (or selected individual tracks) is also available via Apple iTunes for those who have the Apple iTunes store software downloaded on their computer. The iTunes download procedure (for Jim's music - not for the entire iTunes Store software suite) is: simply click on Campo Jurado and either individual songs or the entire album can be downloaded.

Read more about it:
The following links provide further worldwide coverage of Jim's project:
US ambassador on song in Paraguay; (BBC)
U.S. Ambassador's Parting Gift To Paraguay; (NPR)

Photo: Andres Cristaldo / EPA file

– Submitted by Steve Posniak

40-year Reunion, Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-29, 2006

To DOWNLOAD a full-resolution 4.2 Mb jpeg of the official class photo,
click on the thumbnail image below, then on "ReunionPhoto.jpg":

• List of classmates who attended
• The Schedule of Events
• List of Activities
• Survey results are in: Top 25 Hits of 1966
• The program for the Memorial Service
• Gallery of photos: now available Be sure to send photos you have taken to Bob Serenbetz.

Class of 1966 Fall Mini-Reunion, October 21-22, 2005

Class of 1966 Fall Mini-Reunion, October 29-30, 2004

Class of 1966 2nd Colorado Ski Weekend Mini Reunion
Winter Park, Colorado March 19-29, 2005

60th Birthday Celebration, San Francisco/Napa
April 30 - May 2, 2004

60th Birthday Celebration
San Francisco/Napa April 30 - May 2, 2004