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Class Notes:
Engineering@Nebraska wants to know its alumni are doing. Tell us about about your professional honors and memberships, career changes and family information such births, marriages, graduations and deaths.
Log on to www.engineering.unl.edu/alumni and click on Alumni Update Form.
Send us your photos to include with your class note. E-mail is the most efficient way to get your photos in Engineering@Nebraska. Send them to Ashley Washburn and reference your class note. Please note that photos must be high resolution—at least 300 dpi.
- Or you can send photos to:
Engineering@Nebraska University of Nebraska–Lincoln
P.O. Box 880642
Lincoln, NE 68588-0642
Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you would like them returned.
- On Nov. 15, 2006, the Osage (Iowa) Municipal Utilities Building was renamed the Weston D. Birdsall Utilities Building in honor of the BSME ’49 graduate. Wes Birdsall was general manager of Osage Municipal Utilities from 1972 to 1992. Birdsall has been recognized on the “NBC Nightly News” and in the Wall Street Journal, Time and USA Today for encouraging energy conservation in his community. To this date, Osage has some of the lowest electricity rates in the country, according to a Mitchell County News-Press article. n
- John A. Marks, BSEE ’54, is retired and living in San Jose, Calif. He is enjoying retirement by playing bridge, tennis, piano, choir and napping. John can be reached at skram77@att.net.
- John O’Reilly, BSME ’82, is the founder of O’Reilly Wealth Investors LLC in Carlsbad, Calif. The company is an independent, registered investment adviser that provides wealth management services. John can be reached at john@oreillywa.com.
- Jeffrey Kohn, BS CIVE ’89, is superintendent of the Platte South Water Treatment Plant. He works with the Metropolitan Utilities District Water Operations Division to explore methods of meeting new regulations. Jeff was involved in the design of the new 100 MGD Platte West Plant, which is under construction. He can be reached at Jeff_Kohn@munebr.com.
- Chad Mercer, BSCM ’01, lives in Fresno, Calif., and is a structures engineer for Washington Group International. He is working on a $200 million freeway improvement project in Riverside.
- James Loutzenhiser, BSEE ’03, has been an electrical engineer at the Cooper Nuclear Station since 2004. He is living in Auburn and raising a family. James can be reached at jlloutz@nppd.com.
Friends We Will Miss:
Frederick Carl Hunt, BSME ’50, passed away Sept. 10, 2006. Hunt was founder of Vibration Test Systems in Aurora, Ohio. He held a patent on a line of low-cost electrodynamic shakers in the 25-600 lbf range. He also integrated his company’s line of digital controllers with customers’ computers. Hunt was from Omaha and served in the U.S. Navy for two years. He also was a member of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology.