'Distinguished' Harvard alumnus Ted Kaczynski brags about his 'eight life sentences' in alumni magazine update for 50-year reunion 
 
 
 
 By Michael Zennie 
 
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 The latest issue of Harvard University carries an update from one of its more 'distinguished' alumni -- Ted Kaczynski -- just in time for his 50-year class reunion. 
 
 The Unabomber bragged about being 'awarded' eight life sentences by a federal judge. He was convicted in 1998 of killing three people and injuring 23 others with a series of 16 mail bombs sent between 1978 and 1995. 
 
 
 
 The morbid entry lists Kaczynski's address as United States Penitentiary-Max in Florence, Colorado. 
 
 He's come a long way: The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, updated his classmates on his whereabouts for his 50-year Harvard class reunion 
 
 Kaczynski is often cited as being a genius-turned madman. He went to Harvard at age 16 and later earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. 
 
 
 
 His Harvard class of 1962 is meeting this week for its 50-year reunion. 
 
 One of his classmates, Gary G. Peterson, told the Harvard Crimson that Kaczynski remains the most famous member of the class. 
 
 
 
 Alex Taussig , a venture capitalist at Boston-based Highland Capital and a Harvard grad himself, posted a photo of the listing in the Harvard alumni magazine and tweeted a photo with the caption, 'Ted Kaczynski's alumni update for his 50 year Harvard reunion. Morbidly amusing.' 
 
 Then and now: Ted Kaczynski was a 16-year-old prodigy (left) when he attended Harvard University. He grew into a deranged killer who hid away in a secluded mountain cabin in Montana 
 
 
 
 His name is nestled anonymously in with his other classmates, just above Joseph Born Kadane, a renowned statistics professor at Carnegie Mellon University. 
 
 
 
 Kaczynski lists his occupation, 'Prisoner,' and includes the title of his 2010 book 'Technological Slavery,' which includes his infamous anti-technology and anti-industrial manifesto, under 'Publications.' 
 
 Under 'Awards,' he notes 'eight life sentences, issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, 1998.' 
 
 Kaczynski isn't allowed to attend the reunion, though Saturday Night Live imagined what such an event might be like. 
 
 
 
 In the 1996 skit, Kaczynski, played by Will Farrell, shows up shackled by chains and wearing a tweed jacket over his orange prison jumpsuit, flanked by two FBI agents. 
 
 
 
 When he learns that all of his classmates have become captains of industry, he leaves a mysterious 'present' for them and tells them to wait until he leaves to open it. 
 
 
 
 

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 It's Homecoming Week in Cambridge, Mass. Fifty years after leaving dear old Harvard, the distinguished members of the class of 1962 are renewing old ties. 
 
 In the Harvard alumni magazine, Alden writes he is retired from the bench, but still takes an occasional assignment as a Superior Court judge. Brian and his wife report they are working with inner-city kids when they're not at their place in Normandy. 
 
 John has just come out with his latest collection of essays. 
 
 And Ted has just started his 15th year at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colo. 
 
 Ted, of course, is Theodore John Kaczynski, the notorious "Unabomber" who was sentenced in May 1998 to eight life sentences for killing three people and injuring 23 more in a campaign of terror that lasted nearly 20 years. 
 
 Kaczynski's class note appears, in its proper alphabetical place, just ahead of Joseph Kadane's. It was tweeted by a fellow Harvard alum, Alex Taussig, who calls it "morbidly amusing." 
 
 Kaczynski, 70, lists his occupation as "Prisoner." Those eight life sentences he puts under "Awards." Under "Publications" he lists that infamous 50-page screed against the modern world, which The New York Times and The Washington Post agreed to print in exchange for Kaczynski's promise to end his bombing campaign. 
 
 It was that "Manifesto" that led to his capture. Kaczynski's brother recognized the writing style and alerted the feds. 
 
 Kaczynski is not the only former Harvard student to be locked up. Henry David Thoreau spent a night in the Concord, Mass., jail rather than pay the poll tax. Folk singer and political activist Pete Seeger was sentenced to a year in prison for refusing to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee. 
 
 Not all Harvard's prisoners can claim to be prisoners of conscience. Jeffrey Skilling (MBA, 1979) is serving 24 years in prison for his role in the collapse of Enron. Other Harvard alums have been imprisoned for embezzlement, insider trading, identity theft and murder. 
 
 Kaczynski's slide from promise to prison might be the most extreme of all. An intellectual prodigy, he was accepted to Harvard when he was just 16. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan and he was teaching at U.C.-Berkeley when he was just 25. 
 
 While the Harvard Class of '62 can claim many accomplishments, Gary Peterson tells the Harvard Crimson, Kaczynski "is more famous than anyone else in our class." 
 
 So while Ted will not be attending tonight's class dinner in the McCurdy Track Tent, he is certain to be a topic of conversation.
– In the alumni magazine for Harvard University you can find class notes on the lives of Supreme Court justices, titans of industry, Nobel laureates, and … serial killers. The recent issue of the mag features an "update" from former student Ted Kaczynski, class of 1962—otherwise known as the Unabomber, reports the Daily Mail. He lists his occupation as "prisoner" and mentions "eight life sentences" under awards. Kaczynski also makes note of his manifesto, the one that got published before his capture but caught the attention of his brother, who recognized the writing style and turned him in, notes ABC News. A fellow Harvard alum tweeted a photo of the entry.