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Melcher Remembrance Set

Melcher Remembrance Set
A remembrance of Professor James R. Melcher will be held in Edgerton 
Hall (Rm 34-101) Thursday, April 11, at 4pm. Dr. Melcher, the Julius A. 
Stratton Professor of electrical engineering and physics, was director 
of the Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems. He died in 
January at the age of 54, having been a member of the faculty since 
1962.

Speakers for the remembrance include Professor Paul L. Penfield Jr., 
head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; 
Professor Emeritus Thomas H. Lee; Professors Jeffrey H. Lang, Alan J. 
Grodzinsky, Markus Zahn, and Institute Professor Hermann A. Haus. A 
videotape, "Jim Melcher in Action," also will be shown. The remembrance 
will be followed by a reception in the Grier Room.

Professor Melcher's thoughts on energy policy and the state of the 
nation as he struggled with his illness are summarized as the major 
article in the MIT section of April's Technology Review.

FIORI H. PUNTIRI
A funeral Mass was held March 26 for Fiori H. Puntiri, 74, of Holbrook, 
a former service staff member in the Office of Laboratory Supplies, who 
died March 21. Mr. Puntiri worked at MIT from 1951 until his retirement 
in 1981.

He leaves his wife, Grace M. (Antonio), and a daughter, Patricia Kinahan 
of Quincy.