Bret Harmen dropped in to Tech Alley towards the early days of August 2002. He brought along his girl friend Karen and they sat together for a photograph in the Alley*s pink chair. Bret*s head happened to end up in a most interesting location vis-a-vis the high speed photograph of Edgerton. The scene is strongly reminsicent of the story of William Tell. Rest assured that we do not shoot apples off the head of our students!!!
Bret is still with Fuji-Hunt in New Jersey. He was here to attend a wedding of a friend in the vicinity. Buffalo I think. But he said that his nostalgia for Tech Alley and the fact that Beers of the World was just down the road apiece drove him to take exit 45 off the Thruway. They were here for a whirlwind visit and were gone much too soon.

In December 2001 (!) Jennifer (Bates) Greenwald said: Hmm, well, let's see. I'm not sure when I talked to you last. My husband and I bought a house about a year and a half ago, now. It's still in Henrietta, just off Calkins Rd. down by Tinker Park (in Rochester). We got a puppy back in September. She's a handful - 70 pounds of dog, and she's not even a year old yet!

I got a new job last April. I'm contracting at Kodak now, working in the Picture Maker Kiosk group. I'm part of the 'Advanced Development' team there. We are responsible for evaluating new digital imaging technologies that come out of the corporate research arm for how mature they are and how applicable to the kiosk product. It can be a lot of fun, though as a contractor I'm a little concerned how long the job is going to last for me. :p
Hope you had a good holiday!
Jen

Scott Sawran dropped in on July 1, 2002 and brought along his mom for a tour of the school and to replenish his stock of RIT T-shirts! Scott has been traveling the world, in a manner of speaking, having spent several years in Italy. He is now with BAE Systems, a British aerospace and defense contractor in the Washington area where his company is one of many contractors providing services to NIMA. He says his computer programming background has come in handy on many occasions and suggests that anyone involved in the Tech program currently strongly consider emphasizing this aspect of their education. Perl, Java and IDL are highly recommended. Scott also is about to celebrate his 5th wedding anniversary to Rebecca Ouelette, a student who shared the first year in the Tech program with him and whom he re-met at Commonwealth Technologies, the company he worked for when he graduated from the program in the mid 1990s.

Paula Siegel sent me the following note at the beginning of July:
Subject: Time to Celebrate
Happy 4th of July!

As we all get ready for the holiday weekend, Trent & I wanted to share another little tidbit to celebrate about. We are happy to announce that we are expecting our first baby! If all goes well, I'll be due on December 27th. We are both very excited and looking forward to the new Siegel arrival. If you have any baby advice please send it our way. We hope you are all doing well. Have a safe & happy Holiday.
love, Paula & Trent
ps. Trent will be taking bets as to whether Santa or the Stork make it to our house first. ;-)
by the way ... december 27th is the birthday of another photo vip! :)

... but then Paula and Trent came East to visit Paula's parents in Honeoye Falls on July 25, 2002 and, of course, dropped in to Tech Alley where I caught up to them and snapped the above candid. Trent is self-employed and offers computerized camera crane (used in the production of commercials used in advertising) services nationwide. Paula works in the management and quality control area of a software production house. They live in Seattle and love it.

There is a new graduates brochure available. You will find a link to it right above this block of text! It is based on the available data and so it has been put together basically only a tentative basis as during the rush of finishing up the year we could not get everyone's photo or information together - so think about this as possibly only the preliminary version. As grads send in additional data and photographs (the general background has been recorded so images can readily be dropped into that background!)the brochure will be updated and improved. The brochure is available for downloading as a PDF document. Click on PDF Document to get a copy of it.

Chuck reports: Just wanted to drop a note giving an update to all my friends from RIT. I have attached an e-mail of my newest daughter Michelle Elizabeth. She was born on 2-20-02.
I am still working at Symbol Technologies, going on 9 years people cannot believe that I have stayed with one company for so long. - Best Regards, Chuck --- Charles Torzilli, Symbol Technologies Inc. , One Symbol Plaza - Mail Stop E-10 , Holtsville, NY 11742-1300 , Ph: 631.738.3093 , Fax: 631.738.5534

... and Karen says: Canyon James Marks was born on Flag Day, June 14, 2002 at 5 PM on the dot. He was 9lbs. 14 oz, 21 1/2", with a 14.35" diameter head (luckily his VERY PROUD big brother River had a 14.5" head and paved the way almost 3 years ago!) Every card we get, River thinks says that he is a big brother now. He has 2 shirts that say "I'm the big brother" that he alternates wearing each day, with us washing the other one each day. No more truck shirts every day, after he finally has one for each day of the week, go figure!

After a little bit of jaundice worry, Canyon was almost back up to his birth weight on Tuesday at the Doctor's (9lbs. 12 oz). The doc was very happy with his nursing (Mom's milk came in quick after a weekend long feeding frenzy that Canyon decided to do!) He is an eater and a pooper but a very sweet and easy going baby so far. Mom and baby are doing well!

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GRADUATION 2002!
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Well, yet another graduation ceremony came and went! Listed in the Graduation Bulletin of the Institute the following Techs finished or are very close to finishing the program. The list includes: Anita Bauer, Jessica Boarman, Kristyn Falkenstern, Conor Kelly, Bianca Koscielski, Michelle Lavalette, Linda Le, Tiana Lichtenau, Logan Lindquist, Pilar Martinez, Erin Murphy, Alicia Novi, Jason Peterson, Andy Prasetio, Astrida Rideout, Zach Schreiber, Kim Sennett, Peter Tate, Victor Trimarchi and Mark Updegraff. ANOTHER RECORD CROWD!

Above are some photographs I made during the preparation stage of the graduation ceremony. There was not much light in the venue where this was taking place so I apologize for the motion blur on many shots but the exposure time was something like 1/4 second! On the other hand, if you would like a copy of one or all the photos I took on that occasion just send me an email with the request! Originals are in color but suffer from unusual color balance problems due to the spectral quality (lack of quality!!) of the lights in that place.

As I look over these photos it seems to me like only yesterday you all arrived here as frosh. Best wishes on all your future plans. Let me know what "develops" in the in any and all aspects of your lives (I guess we can no longer say "develops" in a feeble attempt at photographic humor ... now that we are in the "digital" age, eh? ... so what will it be? hmmmm) . Particularly I would like to know if you end up in some tourist trap like San Diego or Miami and if you have a spare room to put me up for a few days or weeks! Anyway, I promise to be discrete in terms of whatever details you update me with that I might share with others! :) My email, in case you do not remember it, is: andpph@rit.edu

During a recent excursion to Texas I was invited by graduates of RIT (several being Imaging and Photographic Technology program grads!) to visit NASA Johnson Space Center where a slew of RIT'ers work in a variety of capacities. Most work for the contractor providing services to NASA - the company is Dyncorp if I recall correctly). Anyway, the group affectionatley known throughout the base as the "Photo Lab" is under the supervision of Mark Sowa. Working with him are Robert Markowitz (who does a lot of wedding photographs on weekends), and Crystal (Embrey) Schroeder. Paul Reichert and Steve Marchiando (also "Techs") are photo/video trainers of astronauts in a separate section of the operation.

Also there is Sheri Dunnette, part of the NASA group and working in the area sort of generally known as IT. Sheri took me along to one of her meetings where the availability/upgrade of NASA laptop computers was being discussed. She has a wonderful office in one of the buildings there with a great view of "the campus".

Mark Sowa took me on a "shoot" where he photographed a US Coast Guard helicopter flown in just for the occasion to a spot on the JSC fields. The photo he made will be used for promotion of a new IMAX movie about the Coast Guard. My photo of the chopper is included here for your amusement.

On Friday evening the group all got together for dinner at a seaside (well, gulfside!) restaurant in a newly developed area of Houston. We all had a great time there! Saw Rick Slater and his familty there as well. This was followed by a bash at Sheri's house where we got the group shot made by Sheri using the selftimer on her top-of-the-line Nikon camera system. She was going to be photographing a friend's wedding the following weekend.

In retropsect it was a GREAT time. It was gratifying to see the impact these Tech grads have on the photo/imaging activities of a major national laboratory. Thanks, y'all!

Hi Andy, I'm currently working for Schenectady Materials and Processes Laboratory, Inc. (Ironic Name huh) . I'm an industrial photographer in the metallography division. I primarily shoot macros and micros of failed machinery parts. My company is a full service lab which has a chemistry division, a mechanical division (tension tests, hardness, etc.) and the metallography division which cuts up samples, mounts them in epoxy, and polishes them to a mirror finish. The sample is then etched with an acid and viewed under a microscope to reveal the microstructure of the metal. I take a lot of photomicrographs on 8x10 film on an old horizontal Leitz mm5 metallograph. I develop the 8x10 sheets and contact print them. I shoot a lot of photomacrographs of the samples prior to sectioning on 35mm, 4x5 and now digital. My company is small (20 employees) and so is the budget but I'm doing what I love to do and that counts for a lot. I'm currently setting up a digital imaging workstation with CD-writer, scanner, solid ink printer, PhotoShop, and two digital cameras (one for macrography and one for photomicrography) It's been challenging to get it all working harmoniously but piece by piece its all coming together.

I married Kimberly Rainville from the Biomedical group and we moved out here after we graduated. We made a bet, whoever landed their job first the other would follow. She won. She found her job as a medical photographer for the VA Hospital in Albany, NY and is still working there. She has every digital imaging gadget in existence. I'm a little envious. I came to this area without a job prospect and it took a long time before I found one I really liked. I worked in photo labs until 1995 when I found my current position. I have always managed to find a job in the photographic industry no matter where I ended up.

I have two children, Samantha (6yrs) and Tyler (1yr). I built a house in Ballston Spa, NY right near Saratoga. It is beautiful here in the Adirondacks and I love it. I'm also a landlord (I never sold my 1st house) so I rent it to crazy people. It can be a real headache sometimes. Needless to say, all this keeps me very busy.

Its been a long time since we've talked and I'm sure you've forgotten who I am so I'm including some photos to jog your memory. Thanks for teaching me well. It's finally paying off.

Sincerely,
Kevin M. Shoemaker - PPHT 1990

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On the day before the Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Mexico the Technical Photography Student Association and the Student Chapter of the SPIE put on another (the 25th annual!) unforgettable picnic/barbecue in the quad located in front of the School. Attendance at the picnic was unprecedented in recent history. This was not anticipated as the early returns indicated that the students were much too busy to attend a frivolous affair such as a barbecue. However, as the day wore on many Tech students who were passing by the grill and free ice cream bar took a brief detour from their academic obligations and passed some few moments sharing camraderie and good times. Among notables attending the event were Prof. Rus Kraus, Iris, Pamela who brought Chad, Matt, Kristyn who brought Drew, Jason, Dave, Jeff, Jessica, Carl, Conor, Michelle, Sergio ... and these are all your faithful reporter can remember!!

A source for wonder and amusement was the 6" equatorial mounted telescope that was used to track the Sun and visually demonstrate the presence of ubiquitous sun spots on the star's surface (some asked if they could be cleaned off). Also, a spirited game of bocci-ball was a source for physical exersize for the more physically fit members of the group.

All in all, the 25th annual IPT barbecue was an unqualified success. It brought much joy and happiness and entertainment to a large group of tech participants and visitors alike. By the way, Jason promised to save the chicken for next year's barbecue.

Erin Murphy	Paula and Trent Siegel	Jeff Detrick & Bill Weitzmann	Kylie Williamson	Matt Hanson

On April 4, 2002 our very own Erin Murphy, senior in the Imaging and Photographic Technology program, received an RIT award for Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship. This is an exceptional achievement because it means that Erin exceeded a Cumulative GPA of 3.85 throughout her academic career and, in addition, excelled in several other areas complementing academic achievement such as creative work, civic activities, employment, etc. At the awards ceremony Erin was accorded the distinction of Rochester Institute of Technology Scholar.

Recently Paula Siegel sent a photograph of her and Trent taken in their backyard in Seattle, Washington. They are fine and sending everyone best wishes. Trent is freelancing in the general field of production of television commercials and traveling all over the country. Paula works in Software QA at ScenicSoft, a software company in Seattle, and is also happy at work and at home!

A couple of weeks ago the faculty of the program made it possible for the high school photography teacher of one of our current 2nd year students to become reunited right here at RIT. Jeff Detrick recommended his teacher for a Fellowship to a Photo/Imaging Workshop that the faculty here presented to 25 teachers nationwide. It was Jeff's (and his mom's!) recommendation that swayed the selection committee.

Karl Williamson and his wife Patti sent us the photograph shown above to introduce us to their newly born precious little angel. Her name is Kylie Grace Williamson. She was born on March 30, 2002, 7 lbs 2 oz at 19 in. long. Karl is a Project Engineer in the Print Technology Group, Heidelberg Web System Inc., Durham, NH Send Karl and Patti a note of congratulations!

In early April, 2002, Matt Hanson who works at PhotonResearch Associates in Newton, MA, dropped in briefly to check out the department during a visit to the school associated with working on an online (distance learning) Imaging Science graduate program. Work and studies are going very well and to top it off last year he married Kim on July 22 and then they went on a honeymoon trip to Hawaii. He also installed a smashing personal webpage and you should visit it to know all there is to know about Matt at http://www.omnium-gatherum.org/

Hey Andy, How is everything up in Rochester?? I hope that everyone is having a good year so far. Everything down here is going pretty good, although the humidity is starting to kick in already :-(. My first Shuttle flight just landed on Tuesday morning, the guys that fixed the Hubble Telescope. I helped support that flight, which means we went to Mission Control and answered questions and stuff, which was a lot of fun. Anyway, I was doing a certification run for a class last week and my student took a prety neat picture with a 16mm lens, and Steve and I thought that you might like to see it. Well, tell everyone that I said Hi, and please congratulate all of the students graduating in May for me, they are a great group of very talented people. Regards, Paul

Paul Reichert - Photo/TV Instructor - DX34
Building 4N Room 2043
paul.a.reichert1@jsc.nasa.gov - "If you shoot for the moon and miss, at least you will be among the stars."

Not what you might think! Bruce Kahn, Glenn Miller and Andy Davidhazy participated in the Annual Faculty Show of the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences along with 25 other colleages from the school. Bruce's pieces included two lenticular images that depicted subjects in 3 dimensions, Glenn's artwork was as colorful as ever and Andy contributed a digital trio of whimsical little faces. Check out their recent visual accomplishments by clicking on the thumbnail images to see them as larger versions.

Nicole Marousek and Garrett Vanderover, who graduated just last year, came up from New York Citiy where she works at Fortune magazine and he at Estee Lauder on Long Island, to visit Nicole1s brother who just started as a freshman at RIT this Fall. They, of course, did not miss the chance to get together with old friends and so invited the tech bunch to pass some time with them at McGregors on a recent Saturday evening. Anita, Jessica and housemate Carrie, Bruce and Amy, Kimberly, Laura, as well as several other RIT students such as Neil, joined the group for an evening of merriment in the smoking section of the bar. My clothes still bear witness to the event! On the other hand, the best part of the evening was the free-flowing ale, the delicious Guiness "shots" and the warm greetings and effusive goodbyes accompanied by generous hugging that went on. Time of arrival at home that evening was 2:30 am for this veteran photoreporter!

To add news to this Departmental News Bulletin Board send text and attached images to: Andrew Davidhazy who will gladly add the item to this bulletin board dedicated to the students and faculty of the Imaging and Photgraphic Technology program at RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.