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Ray Russo and Sonia Adrouny literally had a reunion in the air in December of 1979, while flying from the D.C. metro area to their respective homes for Christmas in New Orleans. They married a little over a year later, on February 14, 1981.
Ray has a B.S. from L.S.U. in mathematics, followed by an M.S. in mathematics from Tulane University. He was drafted into the Army and served at White Sands Missile Range. After his discharge, he completed a Ph.D. in mathematics from Tulane University. He has worked for the Food and Drug Administration in Washington, D.C. and Rockville, Maryland, for the past 27 years in various capacities. He is now the Director of the Division of Software Engineering Services. Sonia earned a BS in biology at Tulane, followed by an M.S. in botany from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She worked for eight years at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as teaching assistant, laboratory technician, or researcher. She also worked at Computer Sciences Corporation in Silver Spring, Maryland, as a remote sensing analyst (at Goddard Space Flight Center) studying gypsy moth defoliation in Pennsylvania forests. Sonia and Ray have two children, a college freshman, Jennifer, and a high school junior, Peter. Ray, Sonia, and family reside happily in suburban Maryland.
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I am extremely grateful to Eileen, Hanan, and Sandy for bringing us together. I attended Tulane University from 1965-69, graduating with an A.B. in Anthropology. After Tulane, I spend one year working for interracial justice and against the war in Vietnam. In 1970, I entered Harvard, receiving an M.A. in 1974 and a Ph.D. in 1977, both in Linguistics. My doctoral thesis was on linguistic variation in the Jamaican speech continuum. I never inhaled. I consider Franklin as the most interesting, challenging, and rewarding educational experience I have had, and I spent 7 years at Harvard as a graduate student and teaching fellow! Having left a great position at Technischen Universitat Berlin, in 1978 I created an interesting position for myself in a small speech recognition computer company, Dialog Systems. Exxon purchased and then dropped the company, and I landed at Bell-Northern Research (BNR) in Montreal. After one year at BNR, I returned back to Boston in 1982 to help found Kurzweil Speech (a.k.a. Kurzweil Applied Intelligence), a startup financed by Xerox. At Kurzweil, we created the first large vocabulary speech system. I also participated, as an investor and advisor, at Kurzweil Music Systems, in the creation of the first electronic piano. After establishing the linguistic basis for the technology used by Kurzweil, I focused on business development and applications of our technology, such as medical reporting systems. In 1985, I co-founded Language Engineering (LEC) to develop machine translation (MT) systems. Starting in 1990, LEC began development for LogoVista Corporation, a Japanese company created to market our technology, what has become the world’s most advanced MT system. In 2000, I solely established a new LEC, LLC. LEC is now one of the leading providers of MT systems in the world, with products for direct translation between 42 language pairs. Click here to go to the Lec.com site. I have two beautiful children. Adriana Sandoval Akers, 17, a senior at Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts, will attend Barnard College starting in 2005. Dylan Wood Akers, 13, is currently in the 7th Grade at Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. posted 1/2005 |
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Married Ferd Plavidal and they live
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News on the Plavidals.We moved to Houston for Ferd's Ob-Gyn residency at Baylor, had another son, Greg, and spent two years at Shaw AFB, South Carolina. We've been back home in Houston ever since where Ferd is chief of obstetrics at The Woman's Hospital of Texas. I've spent my time teaching, editing the Houston Ladies' Tennis Association newsletter, and playing lots of tennis. We've just settled into an old Victorian farmhouse in Independence, Texas, on the weekends with cows, bluebonnets, and a stocked pond. The Washington County area has some wonderful bike rides, especially this time of year. Needless to say, we're in the country every weekend possible. We'll be celebrating our 31st anniversary this June with a hike in the Swiss Alps. Ferd was Scoutmaster of our sons' troop for many years, and I'm happy to say that I have now taken the place of the troop on some wonderful backpacking treks to Utah, Colorado, upstate N.Y., Canada and Alaska. Hello to all our old friends,
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Hi y'all! With all the talk of the reunion, I figured I ought to update our information. We have two married sons, Chris who is married to Penny, and Greg, who more recently married Meredith. In 2002, Chris and Penny became the parents of identical twins, Henry Michael, "Hank," and Joseph Ferdinand, "Joe," named after their grandfathers. Chris is a professional photographer of home furnishings and sometimes FOOD! He took this spur-of-the-moment picture of us holding these little non-food items back in January. That's Hank on the left . . or is it Joe? Life is certainly full of surprises!
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Susan Clark deMay was married in 1969, lived a full life in the Southwest and fought a brave battle against Hodgkin's Disease until her death in July 1998. | No new picture |
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