Hello Alumni/ae of Physics and Engineering: OCTOBER 2003

Cooperation, collegiality, creativity, concern for each other, a sense of “family,” and plain old-fashioned hard work characterized your department while you were here.

Names have changed

from (you fill in the names when you were here)

to Ferruzza-Gaffney-Salem-Stuckey-Thompson in the 1990s

to DeGoede-Ferruzza-Gravé-McBride-Scanlin-Stuckey

and the numbers of students have changed

from (you fill in the number of department students when you were here)

to 10 to 20 in the early 1990s

to 70 to 80

but the spirit remains the same.

The department extends a cordial invitation for you to participate in this year’s Homecoming. Details may be found at: http://www.etown.edu/alumni/Homecoming.asp

Our normal round table discussion (October 18, Saturday, 3-4:30pm) will be in the E-lab (Esbenshade 166). Refreshments will be available (on the second floor of Esbenshade, near the “bridge” to Musser) from about 2:45pm. Feel free to bring food from the second floor down to E166.

Floor plans for the Science, Math, and Engineering Center will be available. (Since Trustees want “cash in hand” before starting this big project, the start date has been delayed until Summer 2005.) I have never asked you to make donations, and I won’t start now. However, when you are approached about supporting this significant project, please give it serious attention.

As always, we – your faculty in Physics and Engineering – count it a privilege to be fully engaged in educating the next generation of physicists and engineers.

We look forward to seeing you (or hearing from you).

David Ferruzza

Chair, Physics and Engineering

++ If you can’t make it this year, perhaps you can send a brief update on your activities.

++ When you have a spare moment, visit www.etown.edu/physics&engineering