and generous support of NJIT, Peter was honored with the uni-versity’s 2008 Edward F. Weston Medal.
1989 and today is president and principal of the firm. Based in Brooklyn, New York, JF Con-tracting works with city, state and federal agencies, as well as
Anastasia, Peter and Elsa Papanicolaou
with clients in the private sector. The firm’s expertise encompasses
Weston honor interior and exterior renova- for Peter Building PaPanicolaou
government offices, manufactur-ing and warehousing facilities,
safer homes With straW Martin Hammer (Arch) ’80 is Top: Two room house, Battal, Pakistan. Above: Martin Hammer (left), Hamid Ullah (home owner), Surkhab Kahn
buildings are earthquake-safe, energy and resource efficient, and low cost. Variations of straw
nJit’s iron
time athlete Peter Turek ’75 (CE) placed 19th out of 50 in
proposed Straw Bale Building Code for the State of California. n
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and Greg McEntee, son of Bob McEntee ’62 for longest drives,
and Gary Nelson, friend of Bill St. Pierre ’63, and Mal Simon Yaroslav “Ike” Kostal ’65, now
talking with Russ Furnari ’79 Alex Khowaylo ’63 chaired The Tom Ruck ’63 is retired from Andy Handwerker ’63, Alex’s Bob Welgos ’62 at the Newton
some: Roger Edwards ’63, Ben Gazdowicz ’67, Roy Knutsen ’62 and Rich Schroeder ’66.
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Michael Passaretti (CoE), Rubik Sheth (ME) is working Timothy Krulan (ET) has Paul A. Jarvis (EE), who writes in memoriam John Hendrix MS (CE) has Michael Rogalski (CE) received Mary Alice Keenan ’47 Robert E. Shuck ’65 a l u m n i c a l e n d a r corPorate cluBs alumni reunions saVe the date! at The Prudential Center in Newark young alumni cluB JUNE 12-14 NJIT Alumni Association
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and generous support of NJIT, Peter was honored with the uni-versity’s 2008 Edward F. Weston Medal.