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SOFTBALL CHAMPIONS
Softball champions, 1935 summer session class in chemical manufacture |
John W. Crossett (BS '36) sent this photograph of the 1935 summer session class in chemical manufacture, along with this reminiscence: "This summer class distinguished itself in an unusual manner. Each school in session would produce a softball team and our supreme goal was to beat the lawyers, but to everyone's surprise a member of our team, Larry Pagel (BS '36), was a semi-pro softball pitcher. This tournament was always won by the boys from PhyEd, but due to Larry's skill we won the tournament in spite of me as the catcher."
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Victor A. Atiemo-Obeng (PhD '75) won this year's Percy L. Julian Award for significant contributions in pure and/or applied research in science or engineering. The Julian Award is the most prestigious award presented by NOBCChE, the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists & Chemical Engineers. Victor, a scientist at Dow Chemical, was chosen for his contribution to the design of mixing processes. Except for a few years living at his home in West Africa, Victor has spent his entire career at Dow.
Jonathan A. Hipps (BS '02) is currently employed as a chemical engineer with candy maker M&M Mars in Hackettstown, New Jersey.
This past October, Jay V. Ihlenfeld (PhD '78) returned from a two-year assignment in Tokyo as executive vice president for Sumitomo/3M. Back in Minnesota, he has assumed a new position as vice president of research and development for 3M, based in St. Paul.
Ignasi Palou-Rivera (PhD '97) returned to the U.S. last year to spend a year as a postdoc working on modeling micro-power generation processes. He now works for Applied Materials in Santa Clara, California, a manufacturer of systems for processing silicon wafers.
Known to his contemporaries as the grad student with the boa constrictor in his office, Morris R. Schoenberg (PhD '74) has retired from Amoco Chemicals Research and Development in Naperville, Illinois and is moving back to Verona, Wisconsin. This summer he is back at the department teaching in our summer operations and process laboratory (sans boa, thank you).
This summer Matthew R. Vokoun (BS '98) begins a fellowship in the Leaders for Manufacturing program at MIT, a two-year program leading toward an MS in chemical engineering and an MBA. The program is geared toward addressing the broad issues in manufacturing, such as product development, marketing and the supply chain.
In May, Matt also married Reena Prasad, a 1998 UW-Madison graduate with a BBA in Marketing and Management.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has honored David J. Zanzig (BS '86) as a Distinguished Corporate Inventor. David holds 40 U.S. patents, several of which are of commercial significance to Goodyear. His contributions have also been recognized through the prestigious 2002 Automotive News PACE Award, the 2001 NorTech Innovation Award and the 2000 Popular Mechanics Editor's Choice Award for New Products. David recently relocated from Akron to Goodyear's Technical Center in Luxembourg where he is responsible for product development in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Jianfeng Zhang (MS '97) who also received an MS in electrical and computer engineering from UW Madison in 1998 is now employed as an energy management systems engineer with Midwest ISO, a non-profit independent transmission system operator that serves much of the Midwest.