Brainiacs Among Us

Big Blue has slightly over 100 Distinguished Engineers among their ranks, and PSU alums have about one dozen in that number.  So it is rather amazing that I happened to run thousands of miles with 2 of them!

The main purpose of this blog is to attract members of our fraternity (and sorority!) to our annual Spring reunion and  golf tournament.  As Herder of Cats, I realize some of you need to be brought into our fold kicking and screaming, but rest assured, when finally rounded up, you will be quite pleased with the outcome.  Finding new friends and reuniting with old acquaintances only augments the bonds you share with old friends.  The golf is only incidental, as we just need more than your lack of hair and increased girth to gently tease you with!  Even All-Americans and Olympians incur that wrath.

New members of our group are appearing quite frequently.  Eric Schwartz happened to be contacted by an alert Jeff Sanden, and both of them are Distinguished Engineers at IBM!  That two members of the same sports team at the same school at the same time are in that select class points out that Brainiacs are certainly among us.

The Twilight Zone coincidences don't even end there.  Jeff was talked into CompSci as a major by Mark Hawkins, who preceded Eric to PSU from Baldwin High School near Pittsburgh!  This was all back in the day when the Computer Science Building was a converted outhouse across the street from the new Natatorium and punch cards were used for computer input!  It turns out Eric golfs too, so herding that cat may be somewhat easier.  He also makes wine, which would compliment Keeper of the Beer Clark Haley quite well.


We are also getting commitments from alums from the 60's, including Skip Krombolz who was coached by Dr. Lucas, who we hope will attend this year's events.

Here's a photo showing Jeff, Mark, Eric and myself from 1979! (among others).

And here's one of Eric bottling his wine while wearing a gray t-shirt! (us 70's/80's guys lived in those!)

And Matt Groves has an article in today's CDT about Terry Losch and Rapid Transit's support of the Dance Marathon and their raising of over $9 Million!