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Class Notes: 1958 1972 1980 DAVID MERRION was elected a Fellow TOM LOCKWOOD retired from General CAROL BEATTY graduated with a Juris in the American Society of Mechanical Motors after 47 years. He is now working Doctorate degree from the University Engineers, ASME, in 2014, with the at Isuzu Manufacturing Services of of Tulsa in May. She passed the law bar following citation: "Mr. Merrion has been America in Plymouth, Michigan, as a exam at the end of July and was sworn involved with diesel engineering for 60 Project Engineer. in as a lawyer on September 24. She now years and has distinguished himself as works full time for Legal Aid Services an engine designer, exhaust emission After retiring, GRAHAM SMITH and of Oklahoma doing exactly the type of expert, engineering manager, company his wife moved to Gibraltar, a British work she hoped to do: providing legal executive, emissions compliance auditor, territory on the southern tip of the assistance to people with disabilities, the consultant and member of Board of Iberian Peninsula, probably best known elderly and other Oklahomans with low Directors. Accomplishments include as the Rock of Gibraltar. It is the only income. Carol and her husband TOM designing five new diesel engines, place in Europe where there are free- WITTE, who is also a 1980 graduate of discovering the cause of hydrocarbons roaming monkeys. Smith was a GMOO co- Kettering, celebrated their 33rd wedding and odor in diesel exhaust, leading the opted to AC Spark Plug. His home plant anniversary in September. engineering department of a major diesel was AC Delco in Dunstable, England. engine and transmission manufacturer, 1982 being a member of the team to take a KARL KRAPEK of Avon, Connecticut, JOHN CACHAT has company public, serving as compliance has been selected by the North-American left manufacturing auditor reporting to EPA and consultant Interfraternity Conference Foundation as and is now working in to several companies and the National this year's recipient of the Outstanding healthcare. One of his Academy of Science." Foundation Volunteer Award. companies, Directed Medical Systems, was recently acquired by COMS 1961 1979 Interactive. Cachat’s current focus is Three graduates – HERB ADAMS ’61, LOREN C. REX, an independent improving end-of-life care with advance JOE BRADY ’69 AND JEFF YOUNG ’70 financial advisor with Generations care planning and advance directives. – were featured in a recently published Financial Planning and Wealth book called Blood, Sweat & Gears: The Management, was named to Cambridge 1986 Story of the Gray Ghost and the Junkyard Signature Club 2014 by his independent GARROLD DEGRACE Firebird by David Barnes. The paperback broker-dealer, Cambridge Investment received a promotion and eBook versions just went on sale on Research, Inc. Cambridge is among the to technical fellow in Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo, largest privately controlled independent September 2013, leading etc. The publisher is Telemachus Press. broker-dealers in the U.S. This honor the Manufacturing The book is historical fiction - based on a recognizes a financial advisor’s success Process Analysis Group in General true story - about a group of independent based on production, client service and Motors Powertrain in Pontiac, Michigan. engineers led by Adams at GM's Pontiac commitment to values. He’s received numerous GM Intellectual Division who designed and built a racecar Property Awards, including patents in from an old 1964 sedan and seriously MIKE RICHARDSON the usage of advanced structural analysis competed with it in the 1971 professional is now Executive Board tools in the simulation of powertrain Trans-Am circuit. They did this on their Director and SVP Global manufacturing processes. own time and money. In 1972 they did Strategy for Nexteer it again starting with a wrecked Firebird Automotive. Richardson led the roadshow 1987 and surprised a lot of people at the Mid- team to both list Nexteer on the Hong DANIEL NICHOLSON was promoted Ohio Sports Car Course. Kong Stock Exchange & issue a corporate to vice president, global powertrain at bond in 2014. General Motors on November 20, 2014. 26 KETTERING MA G AZINE