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       I understand that Jim Laverty passed away on 1/23/2007. I have attached the obit below. Jim did a great job as the editor of the GPU Employees Newsletter after he retired and of course he was a key part of the Oyster Creek Communications Department. Very sad.
       I hope you are well.
       Warm regards,
       Mike Roche

H. JAMES LAVERTY, 76, of the Silver Ridge Park North section of BERKELEY
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 01/25/07H. JAMES LAVERTY, 76, of the Silver Ridge Park North section of BERKELEY, died Tuesday, Jan. 23, at home. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pa., he lived in Lansdowne, Pa., before coming to the Toms River area in 1982. He was a journalist with the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Philadelphia, Pa., and the Harrisburg Patriot News, Harrisburg, Pa. He was also employed as communications liaison for the Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant, Lacey, and as Ambassador of Good Will for Pine Belt Nissan, Toms River. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean War. Mr. Laverty attended Bucknell University, and graduated from the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising & Journalism, Philadelphia, Pa. He was a former member of Toms River Chamber of Commerce.

He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Jean Farling Laverty; his son and daughter-in-law, Mark and Nicole of California; and his daughter and son-in-law, Sharon and Keith Gallagher of Lanoka Harbor, Lacey.

The family will receive friends from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Timothy E. Ryan Home For Funerals, 145 St. Catherine Blvd., Toms River. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Reverend Brian Elbe officiating. Interment to follow in Ocean County Memorial Park, Toms River. Memorial donations in memory of James Laverty may be made to VanDyke Hospice, 99 Highway 37, Toms River, NJ 08755. E-mail condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.ryanfuneralhome.com.

Geri Barton

I heard from Charlie O'Neill (who heard from Dick Heward) that Gerri Barton (John's wife and former GPUN employee) passed away last week in FL. Perhaps you've heard. Don't have any details. I worked for John for a while and knew them both well, but don't have current address - do you?

Thanks........Bob Cutler

January 12, 2007

PALM CITY Germaine Barton Germaine "Geri" I. Barton, 80, died Jan. 10, 2007, at Treasure Coast Hospices in Stuart.

She was born in Harrisburg, Pa., and lived in Palm City for two years, coming from Islamorada. She moved to Florida in 1995 from Forked River, N.J. Before retirement, she was a human resources administrator for a utilities company. She attended Grace Place in Stuart.
Survivors include her husband of 25 years, John J. Barton of Palm City;

Drew Holland

Drew Holland, a former GPUN employee, died recently. I was not aware of his passing until now. I did speak to Toni his wife yesterday. See attached obituary from the Atlantic City Press for details. Please pass this on to those of interest.

Regards,

John Sergentanis

HOLLAND, DREW G., 56 - of Folsom, died Sunday at Wm. B. Kessler Memorial Hospital in Hammonton. Born in Richmond, NY he was a South Jersey area resident for 14 years. Mr. Holland served in the U.S. Naval Reserves for 20 years. He worked as a Nuclear Engineer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington, DC. He is survived by his wife: Toni L. Holland (nee Marino), his mother Agnes Holland of Noank, CT, his four children: Trisha Fletcher and her husband: Kevin of Jaffrey, NH, Krista Holland of Worcester, MA, Carrie Imperatore and Joie Imperatore both of Folsom, seven grandchildren: Troy Imperatore, Aubrie Imperatore, Zachary Woods, Sailor Imperatore, Haley Boudreaux, Aaron Fletcher, and Kyle Sebastianski, one sister Joyce Jauch of Buffalo, NY, his father in law and mother in law: Leon and Jean Marino of Hammonton.

A viewing will be held Tuesday 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, and Wednesday after 9:00 AM at the Carnesale Funeral Home, 202 S. Third Street in Hammonton. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Wednesday 10:00AM at St. Martin DePorres R.C. Church, S. Egg Harbor Road and Park Avenue in Hammonton. Burial will follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Hammonton. Donations may be made to National Institute of Mental Health-Gift Fund, 6001 Executive Blvd., Room 8104, MSC 9655, Bethesda, MD 20892-9655. Phone: 301-443-3703.

Published in The Press of Atlantic City on 11/27/2006.

Frank Manganaro

We have received word that Frank Manganaro died early Wednesday morning. His funeral will be in Annapolis on Monday the 18th at 11:30 A.M. in The Naval Academy, St. Andrew's Chapel.

Frank was VP for Maintenance and Construction at GPUN at the time of his retirement.

For those who might want to send a note, his home address is:

7306 River Crescent Dr.

Annapolis MD 21401

I'm sure his wife, Carol, and the family would be pleased to hear from you.

-For Phil, who is on travel at this time, Jeanne Clark

Max A. Nelson

From Steve Cafrelli & Ken Boughton: It is with regret that I write to inform you of the passing of Max Nelson, long-time PRG chairmen and procedure guru extraordinaire at TMI for many years. Max passed away from complications of a stroke suffered in the middle of March, on April 3rd, two days after his 64th birthday.

Published: Apr 04, 2006

Max A. Nelson, 64, of Elizabethtown, died on April 3, 2006 from the effects of a stroke.

He is survived by three sons, David of Harrisburg, Chris of Santa Clara, California, and Eric of Fishers, Indiana.

He was born April 1, 1942 in Hobbs, New Mexico.

Max graduated with a BA in physics from the University of Colorado in 1966. Following graduate school, he worked as a nuclear engineer, first for Idaho Nuclear Corporation and later for Arizona Public Service. He was employed as a startup engineer at Three Mile Island from 1971 to 1978. He was then recruited back as Safety Manager in 1980, in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island accident. With his brilliant mind and attention to detail, he was highly regarded in that role. He retired in 1998.

Max was a lifelong model railroad enthusiast. He was well known for his intricate models and his contributions to model railroading groups. Drawing on his model building skills, he once built a harpsichord, which is now owned by the Susquehanna Chorale. He had previously sung in the choir and played guitar for the folk choir at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Middletown.

Honoring his request, there will be no memorial service. Contributions may be made to Hospice of Lancaster, 685 Good Drive, P.O. Box 4125, Lancaster, PA 17604-4125.

Charles J. Paczolt Sr. age 73 of Wayne died Tuesday, April 19, 2005 at the Wayne View Convalescent Center in Wayne. He was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and had lived in York, Pennsylvania and Parsippany before moving to Wayne thirty-eight years ago.

He received his formal education at Johnstown High School in Johnstown, Pennsylvania graduating with the Class of 1949. He then went on to study at Tri-State College in Angola, Indiana where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering with the Class of 1958.

He served in the United States Army as a Radio Mechanic with the 3174th Headquarters Battery having attained the rank of Corporal. He received the National Defense Service Medal.

Charles was a member of Saint Timothy’s Lutheran Church in Wayne. He was also a member of the Wayne Seniors of Wayne. He was employed at GPU Nuclear Energy as an Electrical Engineer in Parsippany where he worked for fourteen years before his retirement in 1995.

He enjoyed the hobby of gardening maintaining a patch of flowers and vegetables at his home. He was however challenged by the neighborhood woodchuck that also enjoyed Charles’ garden.

Charles Paczolt was a wonderful example of a “Family Man” who was always there for his family. He will always be remembered for his devotion to family and his habit of giving a hearty greeting to his children when he came home from work. Perhaps the highlight of his life was the arrival of Grandchildren. He adored them and they in turn returned his love unerringly.

Charles was trilingual having the ability to speak English, Slavish and Russian. Jeanette and Charles where married for forty-two years and enjoyed “The Best Marriage” together.

Surviving are his wife Jeanette (nee Micks) Paczolt; one son Charles Paczolt Jr. and his wife Kathleen of Butler; one daughter Julie Worsham and her husband Paul of Cincinnati, Ohio; two sisters Mary Farrar of Henderson, Nevada, Helen Elrod of Wayne; one brother Stephen Paczolt of Falls Church, Virginia; four Grandchildren Matthew, Kyle, Thomas Paczolt and Samantha Worsham.

Those planning an expression of sympathy, in Charles’ memory, are asked to consider Saint Timothy’s Lutheran Church “Building Fund”, 395 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ 07470.

I heard about Charlie Paczolt's passing and I wasn't sure if you knew about it so I'm sending it along. Charlie was a very nice person whom I worked with in QA.

Ernie Schuler (formerly of GPUN) passed away in March. Ernie requested that his niece Annette arrange for a party upon his passing. As such, all are invited to a party in his honor on Monday May 23 between 6 and 8:30 pm at a restaurant called Dublin 6, which is on Hudson Street in Greenwich Village, NYC, on the west side of the block north of W 11th St.

He was such a genuine individual with no pretenses; pleasant to speak with; very intelligent and a consummate mathematician. He enjoyed good music and loved living in NYC to be close to the best. I remember him fondly. - Boris Gan

It is with a deep sadness that we inform you of the passing of John Vincent on Friday evening at his sister's home in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, as a result of his recent illness. The funeral is tomorrow in Ft. Smith.

John's loss will be felt not just in NEI, but throughout the nuclear industry. He was well known and well liked across the entire industry.

John's well respected reputation spanned not only the domestic nuclear energy industry, but included dozens of organizations world-wide that were engaged in the manufacture, transportation, storage, and disposal of nuclear fuel. He dealt with everyone in an extraordinarily professionally manner, always with a smile. He was just a great person to be around. John's experience touched many of the most significant moments in the history of US nuclear power. His skill, determination, and confidence were helping to define the industry's future. He leaves us far too soon.

I can second that - I worked with John when I was buying nuclear fuel and related services, and I really liked working with him. He was a "man of mystery" (he enjoyed it immensely when my wife called him that once) because you never knew what the heck he was up to most of the time. If you made a comment to John about the weather, he would reply something like, "Well, the cumulus-nimbus clouds are in spherical alignment, and that presages precipitation, but other than that, yes, it is a fine day." But that was John Vincent, and I learned to enjoy it. We had a shared experience of being in the Nuclear Navy, so there was a common bond between us - and I learned a lot from him about nuclear fuel. He was a character, and a nice guy. I know I'll miss him.

If anyone wants to send a note of condolence, John's family has provided the following addresses:

Sorry you didn't know Bob or his wife, June, who also worked for GPU. I guess that was before your time. Us "old timers" knew him well. He was a QC engineer. His obituary reads as follows:

MIAMI - Robert L. Wayne died Monday, October 4, 2004 after a long illness. He was 80. Born in Brecksville, Ohio, he had resided in the Whippany section of Hanover for more than 25 years.Before moving to Florida, he had lived in the country of Belize.

Mr. Wayne retired in 1989 from GPU in Parsippany, where he had worked as a nuclear engineer.

A World War II veteran, he served in the U.S. Army. Mr. Wayne was predeceased by his first wife, Jeanne Wayne; his daughter, Bonnie (Niederschmidt) Wayne; and his grandson, Bryan Niederschmidt. He is survived by his wife, June, and her two children, Oliver and Alison; his son, Edward Wayne; his daughter, Cynthia Anderson and her husband, Tom; two grandchildren, Lisa Niederschmidt and Ashley Anderson; and two sisters, Dorothy Dawson and Sally Smith.

Family and friends are invited to a memorial service in his honor at the Teabo Methodist Church, Mount Hope, on Friday, Nov. 5, at 7pm.

Today, July 20, 2004, I received an email from Manny Libano with the very sad news of Rose's passing. Her obituary is captured below, but I would like to say a few things about her before posting it.

Rose was my co worker for the 10 years that I worked at GPU Nuclear, and for a couple of them she worked directly for me. I can't say that she was a "close friend" - we didn't socialize after work or anything like that. But she was one of the closest co workers I had a GPU Nuclear. I could always depend on Rose to tell me like it was - if I was doing something stupid, or if others were doing something that was downright wrong - she was there to tell the Truth.

Rose didn't have a fancy degree, but boy, she knew what was right. And she wasn't afraid to say it, either. She had a sense of humor that cut right through every hard time that we shared, even if it was hers..and she had more than a few hard times. She had a sense of dignity that persevered through it all. Yeah, she was dealt some bad cards at times, but she played them the best she could, and always came up smelling like.....a rose!

When I started working at GPU, Rose had just been cut from her job as executive secretary and was thrown to the wolves in the purchasing department. I remember one evening, while I was working late, hearing her in the next cubicle having a hard time dealing with her new job. I started sitting with her and explaining how things worked, and once she got the hang of things, she was soaring above the people who had been in the same job for years. There were other, often traumatic changes during our time together. Yet she always stuck with things, didn't give up, and wound up on top - not through cutting another person down, but rather by doing her best and giving the task her full effort.

She never forgot the human side of the business. Rose always knew how to deal with the person on the other end of the phone, always found a friend after the deal was done. She would wring every possible savings out of the deal, and make the person smile while she did it.

I have to say that she was an inspiration to me. I remember printing out a "Rosie the Riveter" poster for her, and she kept it in her cubicle for years. That was her motto, "We Can Do It", and she lived it - there was nothing she would shy away from, and I always respected her for that. On the other hand, Rose could tangle with the best of them. You knew when she was pissed at you. It took a while, but eventually she got it out and got it over with. When she decided you were all right, she stuck with you and wouldn't let you down.

At times, Rose was also my confessor. I was going through a lot of trials, both professionally and personally when she worked in my group, and she always listened to me and dispensed advice like the mother she was, even though she was only 8 years my senior. I have to be honest here, she was one good looking, classy lady! She had a certain presence that made men sit up and take notice.

I'll miss her sense of humor most. She always had some off color comment that she would throw out, then put her head back and give a full throated laugh that made you just have to join in. I can hear it now. She made a lot of tough times fun. Thanks, Rosie, for being you and giving me the chance to be with you for all these years. I hope you enjoyed being with me as much as I did being with you, and I look forward to seeing you again, in the next great adventure.

Rosalie A. Casella (nee Graziano) age 62 of Towaco died Friday, June 25, 2004 at the Saint Joseph’s Wayne Hospital in Wayne. She was surrounded by her loving daughters Lori and Lisa.

She was born in Passaic and had lived there before moving to Towaco thirty-three years ago.

Rosalie received her formal education at Passaic High School graduating with the Class of 1960.

Before her retirement she was a Contract Administrator for GPU Energy and later with Exelon Nuclear Power Company.

Rosalie will always be remembered by her family and friends as a wonderful cook. She was a dedicated and loving Mother and friend to many. She had a gift of personality that was always open to ideas and dialogue and lots of great humor peppered into conversations.

Surviving are two daughters Lisa A Casella of Towaco and Lori A. Casella and her Fiance` Kevin Mooney of Oak Ridge; two sisters Joann DiPiazza and her husband Joseph of Towaco and Angela Biro and her husband Victor of Lincoln Park; also survived three nephews Victor Biro Jr., Joey and Jimmy DiPiazza.

My mother, Rosalie, touched many lives throughout her years…her parents, daughters, sisters, brother-in laws, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles, friends.

All who knew her will always remember her laugh, her silly antics, and her crazy sense of humor. Oh, the stories we could tell… We will also remember her compassion and loyalty. If you needed someone by your side, she was the one. She was a great, great companion. She loved her trips to Atlantic City, she loved shopping, going to the movies, out to dinner, more shopping. She simply loved spending time with the people that she loved.

My mother was an incredible woman. She was beautiful inside and out, she was cute, she was sexy, she was smart. She was creative, a great artist, and a wonderful cook. She was feisty, sensitive, powerful, and much, much more. Anyone who had the opportunity to know her personally is truly blessed.

But Lisa and I are the luck ones. We had it all. Our mother showed us more love and devotion than any child could possibly ask for. We were her world and she was ours. It was always the three of us. Everything that she did was for us. She encouraged, she guided, she supported and she pushed. She was passionate about our lives. Proud of us when we succeeded and when we didn’t. She was both our mentor and our biggest fan.

Most of all she showed us what it means to be independent, strong and courageous. And she was very courageous. We are so proud of her.

We hope that one day we will be the mom that she was for us and give our children the unconditional love that was given to us. Thank you mom for everything.

So, our mother, our best friend, our companion, our heart, our life, our love… you rest in peace. You only slipped away for a while and we will all be together soon.

To family and friends: Please write and tell us stories about mom. We would love to hear them. And please include your address and phone if you would like to keep in touch. Thank you and may God bless you.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, June 29, 2004 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Magnificat RC Church, Kinnelon where a Funeral Mass was offered.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations in Rosalie's memory to The Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research, 1111 Stewart Avenue, Bethpage, NY 11714 would be appreciated.

Dear Mr. Dieckamp,

I hope all is well with you. I thought you would like to know that there will be a memorial service for my dad at Trinity Lutheran Church in Dover, NJ on August 24th, at 2pm. Doug and his family and I will be there as well as my aunt and uncle from Raleigh. Mom is still pending. It would be great to see you. And if there is anyone else in the GPU/Mountain Lakes/NJ circle whom you feel would want to know about this, please feel free to pass the word. Thanks so much, love, Cindy

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Subject: Bob Arnold remembered

The Harrisburg Patriot-News ran an article on Mr. Arnold's death along with a photo of him giving a briefing on the TMI-2 accident. Following is the article.

Ralph DeSantis

Mgr., Communications

Three Mile Island Generating Station

717.948.8930

[email protected]

REMEMBERING Robert C. Arnold

Friday, July 04, 2003

BY DAVID DEKOK Of The Patriot-News

Robert C. Arnold, one of the leading officials of General Public Utilities Corp., became a lightning rod for criticism of the company after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979.

Arnold oversaw the first four years of the controversial cleanup of the Unit 2 reactor, which had been destroyed in the meltdown that occurred the morning of March 28. When GPU's legal and political troubles rose to a fever pitch in 1983, he was eased out of the public eye.

Last Saturday, he died of a heart attack at his home in Mineral, Va. Arnold was 66.

TMI was the central event in his career with GPU. Genial in person, he expressed regret for the accident in an interview last year.

"Clearly, the saddest thing is that we just scared the daylights out of an awful lot of people," Arnold said. "There was certainly ample reason for those who are not knowledgeable about [nuclear power] to have some degree of skepticism as to whether things had worked the way we claimed they would. We affected a lot of lives very adversely."

Retired GPU Chairman William G. Kuhns spoke highly of Arnold yesterday, calling him an able administrator and a gentleman.

"He did a wonderful job," Kuhns said. "He was very valuable to the community as well as the company, briefing the press and public. He was very strong."

In what industry observers saw as an attempt to curry favor with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, GPU moved Arnold out of the president's job at subsidiary GPU Nuclear in 1983. Kuhns portrayed his removal of Arnold from the top job as a routine corporate change and a favor to Arnold.

"He was under an awful lot of pressure because of the understandable public concern," he said. "It was time to make a switch."

Arnold stayed on with GPU in a less visible role until his retirement in 1997. He eventually became vice president of power supply and oversaw a GPU effort in the early 1990s to build a cross-state power line in Pennsylvania, a project that died in the face of public opposition.

Gary Miller, who was station manager of Unit 2 during the accident, said Arnold played a key role in GPU's survival after the accident.

"I always viewed us in the plant as just doing our job day after day in a lot of adversity," he said. "But without people like Bob dealing with the outside world in a gentle, measured way, and all of us trying to do the right thing ... there could not have been a recovery."

Midstate anti-nuclear activists saw Arnold differently. Joanne Doroshow, who was legal counsel for Three Mile Island Alert in Harrisburg and helped lead the battle against the restart of TMI Unit 1, said, "He was our nemesis. He was the guy in charge.

"We tried to get the company to move him out of TMI," Doroshow said. "He wasn't the only management level person we had a lot of problems with, but he was like a lightning rod."

Arnold grew up in Port Huron, Mich., and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1959. He served 10 years in the Nuclear Navy, the training ground for nearly everyone at Three Mile Island. GPU's Metropolitan Edison subsidiary received his resume from a Navy placement service in 1969 and hired him as a senior engineer.

Met-Ed was building both Unit 1 and Unit 2 of TMI at the time. Arnold became a vice president of Met-Ed in 1974 and vice president of generation for GPU Service Corp. in 1977. In that role, he oversaw completion of Unit 2. During the accident, which lasted from March 28 to April 1, 1979, he was involved in efforts to determine the size and ultimate danger of a hydrogen bubble in the reactor.

He became the spokesman for GPU Nuclear in trying to ease public fears in 1980 about a planned release of radioactive krypton from the Unit 2 containment building. Without the release, GPU would have been unable to carry out the clean-up of the reactor.

Arnold didn't stray far from nuclear energy even in retirement. He lived along Lake Anna in Virginia, a lake created to provide cooling water to the North Anna nuclear plant. He enjoyed golf, reading, boating and fishing with his grandsons, according to an obituary that ran in his hometown newspaper.

On February 12, 2003 we lost a good friend, Tony Collado. Tony was one of those guys who was quiet and unassuming, but was always there, working hard and supporting the team effort. I never heard him speak ill of anyone.

Our deepest condolences to his wife Rose, his daughters, his brother Frank and all his family and friends.

lf you do send a gift, please send an acknowledgement to Tony's wife, Rose. If you need it, I can provide the address.