Published on March 9, 2004
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- Carl “Tree” Redfield sent in the following update: “I was married (again) on January 3 of 2004 to Elizabeth. We had been an item for the last 10 years so I finally got of the dime and made her number three and hopefully the last. I’ll sign this update as Tree, the name most folks knew me by in the 60’s.”
- Mark Salitas ‘65 does more stuff in a day than I do in a year: “After I graduated from RPI (BAe, 1965) I earned my MS at Penn State and PhD at NYU in Aerospace Engineering. Worked in gas turbine research at Pratt & Whitney for 4 years, then into the solid propellant rocket business for the last 27 years in Utah (Thiokol and TRW). Northrop Grumman recently bought TRW. I plan to semi-retire in about a year. I still play ice hockey every week, with former college and pro players. If it weren’t for RPI and my NYKT brothers, I never would have been introduced to the fun of the game.I lead a Woodwind Quintet (as clarinetist) that plays for weddings etc. I arrangea lot of music for the group despite a lack of formal training in composition; itsthe logical engineering mind that enables me to construct the 5 parts from an orchestral or piano score.I played clarinet in the RPI orchestra and band (concertmaster), and kept it up until my doctoral thesis took all my time. After 12 years of not playing, I got back into it without much trouble. So, I would pass on this bit of experience to any brothers who are into music performance: tell them that even if they stop playing for an extended time later in their life, it’s never too late to get back into it. (I hear a lot of people say “I wish I had never stopped playing.” I tell them to pick it up again.)”
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