Message-ID: <22126944.1075857101252.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:23:00 -0800 (PST) From: racer91@aol.com To: vance.carter@ni.com, rick_schneider@notes.teradyne.com Subject: Re: Bove Cc: richard.dziura@superiorelectric.com, bprytko@sepracor.com, saealumni@wpi.edu, rleone@xl.bm, alan.masse@stpaul.com, gary.wong@fmr.com, mark_galvin@notes.teradyne.com, david_castelli@notes.teradyne.com, michael_yevak@notes.teradyne.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bcc: richard.dziura@superiorelectric.com, bprytko@sepracor.com, saealumni@wpi.edu, rleone@xl.bm, alan.masse@stpaul.com, gary.wong@fmr.com, mark_galvin@notes.teradyne.com, david_castelli@notes.teradyne.com, michael_yevak@notes.teradyne.com X-From: RACEr91@aol.com X-To: vance.carter@ni.com, rick_schneider@notes.teradyne.com X-cc: richard.dziura@superiorelectric.com, bprytko@sepracor.com, saealumni@WPI.EDU, rleone@xl.bm, alan.masse@stpaul.com, Gary.Wong@fmr.com, mark_galvin@notes.teradyne.com, david_castelli@notes.teradyne.com, michael_yevak@notes.teradyne.com X-bcc: X-Folder: \Andrew_Lewis_Dec2000\Notes Folders\Discussion threads X-Origin: Lewis-A X-FileName: alewis.nsf Wow!!! Talk about a blast from the past. It's good to hear from you guys and see that a part of our 70's folklore still lives today. Vance - never in a million years would I have guessed you'd end up in Switzerland! I'd be happy to take you up on the offer for a visit. I'll send you my address so you know where to send the plane tickets :-) I can't pass up this opportunity to share my all-time favorite SB Bove award. It involved a brother who, having led a pampered life at home, had never done his own laundry. He decided the time had come to do his own laundry. Sometime later, after having deposited the proper coinage and starting the machine, he returned to check on his laundry. He was found standing at the DRYER bewildered as to why his powdered laundry detergent had not dissolved and his clothes were still dry. I know who it was. Let's see how many of you guys remember! And if anyone remembers the details better, I'd love to hear the rest of it! PA!! Steve "Gotts" Gottschalk '79 In a message dated 11/15/00 11:42:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, vance.carter@ni.com writes: I've been on the road the last few days trying to find new engineers and am just now digging through my email stack. I assume the question concerns the big chunk of metal that has a steel bar pressed into an aluminum base and a slanted steel plate on top. ?Tom Murray helped me build it. ?We are both class of '79 and I believe we built it in '78 or '79. ?We put it together in the old Washburn machine shops were I was working as an assistant. ?The idea of the steel plate was to put the brothers name once each week when it was passed around. ?Dave M. has a much better recollection of how it was introduced than I do so I will let his version of the events stand. For the history of the award and how it all started you will have to ask someone else. One of these years I'll get back for a reunion but I've been living in Switzerland for the last 10 years and with a family it's not so easy to get over very often. ?Noone sings "Home on the range" anymore but I do enjoy the yodelling and Swiss alphorns. ?I actually don't feel that far away from the USA. ?I can get TexMex to eat right around the corner from the office. The night of the election one of the main Swiss television stations had an all night broadcast ?and people are always asking me who is going to win. I sometimes think the Swiss are talking about the election as much as the Americans. ?The more sensible ones understand what's happening. ?In any case my kids (10 and 12) are very interested and it gives me a chance to explain how the system works (or doesn't depending on your viewpoint). ?By the way, when is someone going to come over for a visit ? I'm the Manager for National Instruments here for those of you familiar with LabVIEW. ?Just look at a National Instruments advertisement and find the phone number for Switzerland and that's where you will find me. ?The old Email address still works but National Instruments got the rights to ni.com so the ending switched. ?Here is the current address : vance.carter@ni.com pa Vance Carter (Tex) '79 Rebbergstrasse 2 CH-5312 D"ttingen Switzerland 011 41 56 245 5634 rick_schneider@notes.teradyne.com on 14-11-2000 10:12:32 PM To: ??"Dziura, Richard" cc: ??"'Bob Prytko'" , "'saealumni@wpi.edu'" ?????, "'Vance.Carter@natinst.com'" ?????, rleone@xl.bm, alan.masse@stpaul.com, ?????Gary.Wong@fmr.com, mark_galvin@notes.teradyne.com, ?????david_castelli@notes.teradyne.com, michael_yevak@notes.teradyne.com Subject: ?RE: Bove I just heard from Rich Leone, Class of '76 (rleone@xl.bm); ?he knows the true origins..... pa, rick schneider '79 "Dziura, Richard" on 11/14/2000 03:46:59 PM To: ??"'Bob Prytko'" , "'saealumni@wpi.edu'" ?????, "'Vance.Carter@natinst.com'" ????? cc: Subject: ?RE: Bove This address for Vance is a couple of years old. ?Is it already on the alumni list? Another person to consult for history is the Doctor - Rich Harabedian,'75. My memory is pretty fuzzy on this but I thought he may have been in on the beginning. ?I know he was in on official Room 7 SB Bove meetings (count off by two's) that took place before my years there. ????-----Original Message----- ????From: ????Bob Prytko [SMTP:bprytko@sepracor.com] ????Sent: ????Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:06 PM ????To: ?'saealumni@wpi.edu' ????Subject: ?Bove ????I think vance carter's email is flaoting around somewhere, do you have it? ????Check out the hill's list or site for it. ?I may have it at home. ?P ????House Core tonight ????_______________________ DZ wins the prize! Yes, the S.B. Bove trophy was created by C. Vance Carter in the Washburn shops I think during 1978 while he had a student job there. ?Vance and I were roomates during freshman year and joined Mass Delta together and lived there 1976 through 1979. I remember the night he presented the new trophy to the House Meeting for the first time. ?Wild applause and instantly adopted as the only true and official Bove trophy. ?I thought he had his initials on the bottom of the base, but I could be wrong. The S.B. Bove award already had a history before our time (like DZ said) but Vance's design was the first actual trophy I think we had for the award. We awarded it each week so there must be huge history of deserving winners by now. ?Maybe Mass Delta needs to consider a "Bove Lifetime Achievement Award"? Vance, since we're all talking about you why don't you add your part of the history here? PA, David Mangini '79