Catch up with your Classmates
Please keep us updated on developments in your life – career news, marriages,
births, and more. Submit your Class Note (no more than 100 words) for consideration in our next
issue of Skulematters: alumnews@ecf.utoronto.ca
A very special thanks to those of you who
were kind enough to send us information
for the inaugural section of Class Notes.
4T3 John Dyke (Mech 4T3), whose 35-year career in steam generator design included leading the Pickering A nuclear station design team, has written memoirs on Candu history. Go to: http://canteach. candu.org.
5T3 Ike Goodfellow (ECE 5T3; MASc 5T4) is the rep for the Class of 5T3 and wants to remind fellow classmates that our 55th reunion is coming up! Contact Ike for more info: ike.g@sympatico.ca
6T8 CK Chang (Mech MEng 6T8) had
a long career with Shell and was
involved in a myriad of roles in a
number of different countries. In
late 2005, he, along with a few
peers, founded a company called
‘Asian Pacific Petroleum Associates’
based in Singapore.
7T0 David Strathern (Chem 7T0) was
appointed to the Niagara Parks
Commission in June 2007, following a
career in the pulp and paper industry.
7T7 Christopher Solecki (Civ 7T7;
MASc 7T9) works at Hatch Mott
MacDonald as the firm’s
Airport/Aviation Practice Manager
and a Senior Vice President. His
son, Andre Solecki (Civ 0T7) also
works at Hatch Mott MacDonald.
7T8 Lorna Gibson (Civ 7T8) was
appointed Associate Provost at the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) in August 2006.
She is also the Matoula S.
Salapatas Professor of Materials
Science and Engineering, Professor
of Mechanical Engineering and
Professor of Civil and
Environmental Engineering. Prof.
Gibson was recently appointed to
the University of Toronto Faculty of
Applied Science and Engineering
Dean’s Advisory Board.
8T3 Clarissa Brocklehurst (Civ 8T3; MASc 8T5) was appointed Chief of Water and Environmental Sanitation at UNICEF in April. The appointment caps a distinguished 12-year career as a water supply and sanitation consultant that started with her master’s thesis on the water and sanitation needs of 13 aboriginal reserves in Manitoba. Her work has taken her to Bangladesh, Cameroon, India, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Tibet, Togo and Zambia. www3.sympatico.ca/cbrocklehurst
8T6 John Rowswell (Civ MEng 8T6) recently started his third term as Mayor of the City of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and works at his engineering firm where he specialized in structures, welding, and metallurgy.
8T9 Peter Noble (Chem 8T9) moved
to Calgary with Imperial Oil two
years ago, along with his wife, Joy.
Peter is the chair of the new Skule™
Alumni chapter in Calgary.
[calgary@
skulealumni.ca].
9T1 Christina Heidorn (EngSci
9T1) is currently a producer with
CBC TV’s Documentary Unit, working
on the “Confidential” series. She
has also been a producer and
writer on projects for National
Geographic, Discovery, TLC, and
several European broadcasters. On
National Geographic, you may have
seen her film on the aurora borealis,
“Riddle of the Polar Sky,” or on
CBC’s “Fifth Estate” documentary
on the science behind surviving a
lightning strike.
9T2 Deb Chachra (EngSci Physics 9T2; MASc 9T5; PhD 0T1) co-founded Science Outreach at Skule™ and is currently Assistant Professor of Materials Science at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts.
9T5 Bobby John (ECE 9T5) currently
lives in Atlanta, Georgia,
where he co-founded CreationStep
(www.creationstep.com) and
Indoor Playground (indoorplayground.ning.com).
9T7 Luis Zubieta (ECE MASc 9T7;
PhD 0T1) is the Senior Project
Engineer for Burlington-based
SatCon Power Systems (SPS), a
division of SatCon Technology
Corporation, which focuses on power
electronics for alternative energy
sources. As well as its main product,
30 kW to 500 kW inverters for photovoltaic
applications, the firm also
builds power converters for fuel cell
stationary power generators, designing
and delivering converters of
up to 2.4 MW.
9T9 Fernando Morgan (Chem MASc
9T9; PhD 0T3) works for
AnoxKaldnes Biopolymer AB, part
of AnoxKaldnes AB Lund, Sweden
as an Engineering Scientist in the
Department of Research and
Development.
0T3 David Deak (EngSci 0T3) just
completed his DPhil (equivalent to a
PhD) at Oxford, where he began
studies in Materials Science in
2003. He founded the Oxford branch
of Engineers Without Borders and
in 2006 he was inspired to train for
the Ironman Triathalon. Since then,
he has competed in this grueling
contest in the U.K., Monaco, and
Austria and finished in the top 50
per cent of the inaugural Ironman
70.3 World Championships, held in
Clearwater, Florida.
0T5 Seyed Alireza Rabi (EngSci 0T5) is a second year MD-PhD candidate
at Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine. In 2004, in the fourth
year Biomedical Option, Rabi proposed
writing new code to modify
facial-recognition software created
by his U of T ECE Professor, Parham
Aarabi. The result is patent-pending
software, called Modiface, that
allows anyone to use a digital camera
and Internet access to see what
he or she would look like with
specific altered facial features after
having cosmetic surgery. Modiface
Inc. partners are currently working
with plastic surgeons to improve the
system that might someday revolutionize
plastic surgery.
0T7 Craig Milestone (PhD 0T7) and Lisa Wise (PhD 0T7) raced to wedding victory on September 4, 2007. The two competed in a wedding-themed obstacle course against two other couples to win a $20,000 wedding package.