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Bill Davidow has recently been quoted in the news on several occasions as a spokesman of his company, Intel Corporation, and as a leader of the semiconductor industry. Although not founded until 1968, Intel is one of the foremost of the Silicon Valley companies in California. It pioneered in developing the computer memory chip, which stores electronic information, as well as the microprocessor, the computer on a chip, which has resulted in both the creation of new industries and the disruption of old ones. Arguably, Intel is as involved as any company in the international high technology war, which pits the best and the brightest of our companies against some very able Japanese companies such as Hitachi, Fujitsu, and NEC. When Senior Vice President Bill is not acting as a gladiator in behalf of U.S. industry, he can be found as an active member of the northern California '57 contingent or in Hawaii, where he and his wife Sonja have built an awardwinning house with walls that cantilever open whenever friendly trade winds are in the area. Erich Kunzel has added another honor to his escutcheon with his appointment as principal pops conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also the musical director of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, which he helped found in 1977, and is a regular conductor of the Toronto Symphony, the Winnipeg Symphony, the Indianapolis Pops, and the San Francisco Pops. Other guest appearances, such as with the Boston Pops and the Cleveland Orchestra, make him one of the busiest conductors in any musical field. Like Bill Davidow, Eric feels the need to repair an island, although in Eric's case the island is in Maine, and to a house built by him and his Austrian wife Brunhilde.

Charley Tseckares, a founding partner of CBT-Childs, Bertman, Tseckares, and Cassemdino Inc., recently spoke at a meeting of the National Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture held in Detroit. The subject of his talk was the issue of educating architects in the field of adaptive re-use. Charley's experience in this area includes Boston-area projects such as One Winthrop Square, the Ames-Webster Mansion, and the Exeter Street Theater building. Charley is a pioneer in the field of adaptive re-use and, under the auspices of the National Trust of Historic Preservation, has published an article on the subject.

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