Class: 1973
Major: Physics, Mathematics
Residence: Hamden, CT
Deceased: December 9, 2019
Alumni survivors: Ms. Theresa M. Lauterbach ’75 (Sibling)
Deceased 12/09/2019
Mike Lauterbach, the beloved husband of Margaret Grey of Hamden, CT. He was born on September 10, 1951 in Waterloo, Iowa. He graduated first in his high school class and went to Carleton College with a double major in Physics and Math from which he graduated summa cum laude. He obtained his PhD in high energy particle physics at Yale and went on to Post-Doctoral Fellowships at Yale and New York University. Most importantly during his time at Yale, he met his best friend and lifelong partner Margaret at none other than Yale’s Graduate and Professional Student Bar. They were married on July 30, 1977. Mike’s career was with LeCroy Corporation in Spring Valley, NY where he rose to be Corporate Vice President for Technical Marketing. As he often said, he ‘taught geeks how to be better geeks.’ He has been retired for 6 years and is survived by his wife, brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law and their families as well as two beloved Maine Coon cats, Arwen and Gimli.
Comments
The idea of teaching geeks to be better geeks, as the death notice above says Mike said, is a typically Carleton thing to think. Yes, you could be in what seemed to be a negative or sardonic category, but if you were the best at it, the sun would shine on you at Carleton. I myself was a sports stats nerd, which may seem valuable now, but was viewed as a shade above streetsweeper back in the 1960s. Glad Mike had the perspective he did, as shown in that quote.