Alumni Reunion Review 2009

Gary E. Anderson retired from the Dow Corning Corporation in 2006 after being the chairman and chief executive officer since 2001.

Anderson graduated from Michigan Tech in 1967 with a BS in Chemical Engineering. He also studied at Central Michigan University, where he earned a master's degree in business administration.

When Dick Gray '82 and Staci Chronowski '82 came to Michigan Tech in 1978, Gray came for the skiing and, well, the program in geological engineering. Chronowski came because of her love for the area: after many summers in the Keweenaw, she chose Tech for location, location, location.

Growing up in the small town of Bessemer, Mich. in the Upper Peninsula, Karpus was essentially interested in sports and science. He participated in basketball, football and baseball along with working on the school yearbook during high school. He worked numerous odd jobs throughout high school as well to be able to afford college.

Lina T. Taskovich earned a BS in Chemistry from Michigan Tech and an MS from the University of Minnesota. She is a retired research scientist from ALZA Corporation in Palo Alto, California. A native of Ecuador, Taskovich distinguished herself from the outset of her career, when she set up the University of Minnesota's first amino acid analyzer. She went on to prominence in the study of biological systems.

Katerina Aifantis '01 is accustomed to being the youngest in the room.

At the age of sixteen, the Houghton High School student sweet-talked her principal into letting her take courses at Michigan Tech, where she promptly aced calculus and chemistry.