Larry Laude:
CLASS OF 1963

Platt High SchoolClass of 1963
Meriden, CT
Carnegie Mellon UniversityClass of 1967
Pittsburgh, PA
Lincoln Middle SchoolClass of 1959
Meriden, CT
Samuel Huntington SchoolClass of 1957
Meriden, CT
Larry's Story
So here's my story . . .
After graduating from Platt High School in Meriden Connecticut, I went to Pittsburgh to attend Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University. I had a choice between RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic) in Troy New York but choose CMU because it was a) a bigger city and b) was further from home - but not too far. Went on to get a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering and then a Master's in Nuclear Engineering. Thought about getting a PhD but decided for various reasons that it was time to go to work. I ended up going to work for Westinghouse at the Bettis Lab in West Mifflin, just south of Pittsburgh. Now if I had gone to RPI, I probably would have gone to work for GE, perhaps at the Knolls Lab. In one way, RPI might have been a better choice, since it still has a Nuclear Engineering department, unlike CMU.
I married my first wife while in gradua...Expand for more
te school and we had two children - Sandy, who now lives in Phoenix, and Greg, who's been in Asia for the last 10 years or so and in married with one daughter, Cathy.
I still work at Bettis (42 years and counting), although it's now operated by Bechtel instead of Westinghouse.
Over the years, I spent a lot of time working with Hostelling International, both in Pittsburgh at the national level. Unfortunately the local hostelling organization closed up after I left, closing both the Pittsburgh and Ohiopyle hostels.
I'm married for a second (and last!) time to Marianne. Marianne and I enjoy traveling (US, Europe, Korea, and this year China we hope), bird watching, cycling (although not as much as we used to), gardening, wining and dining.
PS. Look for me on Facebook and LinkedIn.
My Facebook page is "LarryLaude". I can't post the entire link because Classmates doesn't like that.
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