Jon R Pawlik:  

I am not a gold member of Classmates so I won't receive your forwarded messages. Try emailing j r p a w l i k at the Verizon network. (Update: I will maintain a gold membership through January 6, 2018, then cancel. You may use the listed email address any time.) -------------------------------- I did become a scientist (physicist, actually) as everyone projected, graduating with a PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard University, following a Physics MS and Physics Engineering BSE with an Electrical Engineering/Computer Science minor from the University of Michigan. For my PhD thesis I worked on hydrogenated Ge and Si amorphous semiconductors (possibly used in your video-cam, for solar photovoltaic cells, solar absorbers and for certain types of electronic detectors). I loved living in the Cambridge/Boston area while at Harvard, though I don't miss the congested traffic, snow storms and bitter-cold winter winds. Their fast, clean, efficient, color-coded subway was great for getting around this stimulating academic, cultural and historical haven. I met so many wonderful people and was privileged to have several Nobel Prize-winning professors, and many other notable ones, instructing and entertaining me. For summers 1965 through 1974, as well as full time while getting my MS, I worked at the Ford Scientific Research Laboratory in Dearborn, Michigan--a quite respected lab in its heyday. Most of my career was with Lucent (formerly AT&T, now Alcatel-Lucent) Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, about 25 miles west of the NYC Holland Tunnel, also a wonderful place to live apart from the ridiculously high property taxes. There were really great people there--just my kind of folks! I was involved in the research and development of semiconductor lasers used in fiber optics systems which carry the Internet, telecom traffic, cable TV, Verizon FiOS, etc. I was also actively involved in technology transfer to AT&T Microelectronics manufacturing and in the project to lay the first trans-Atlantic fiber optic cable (TAT-8). Finally, in later years after the semiconductor laser R&D was complete, I became a senior systems software developer for large telecom digital signal processing systems called Packet-Voice Gateways (PVG for VoIP [voice over the Internet] and many other things) at the Holmdel, NJ Bell Labs location. I received four patents and wrote 39 external and proprietary internal publications throughout my Bell Labs career. With the eventual financial demise of Lucent and the old Bell Laboratories (truly a major loss for the entire world!) I contemplated what to do with a much too early retirement. The mother of my children is deceased and I ended a second 13 year relationship/marriage many years back. I've had a couple of shorter relationships since then, too. If you know a tall, passionate, bright and far-out but stable woman, point her in my direction. I've lived in my New Providence home most of my time in NJ, completing a major exterior renovation in summer 2013. Right now I'm doing some much needed interior renovations and will start the installation of a gas fireplace shortly! Both of my children are doing really well and work in the financial sector. My daughter Kendra, a confirmed world traveler and amateur photographer, graduated from NYU in spring 2001 and completed her MBA in May of 2009 from Fordham in NYC. She spent ma...Expand for more