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YOU, ME, US, WILLIAMS OK, so what exactly is this thing, anyway? It has a fancy name: The Williams College Society of Alumni. It has a long history: Nearly 200 years, back to 1821. It has an impressive pedigree: Oldest of its kind in the nation. Oldest of its kind, in fact, on the planet, so far as we know. But what exactly is it?

“The Williams College Society of Alumni is you. It’s me. It’s us. And it’s our relationships with each other and with the college.” —Dennis O’Shea ’77 President, Society of Alumni [email protected]

Well, I could point you toward the mission statement, toward the constitution, toward the planning process we’re engaged in right now to chart out the society’s path toward its bicentennial. And all that is important. But here’s the bottom line: The Williams College Society of Alumni is you. It’s me. It’s us. And it’s our relationships with each other and with the college. And it is truly amazing. From my perspective, just a little over halfway through two years as president, I couldn’t be more impressed with the society you have built. It’s not that we have it all figured out; far from it. We know there is much to do to further strengthen our relationships. We know, for instance, that we can make better use of technology. We know that we have work to do in ensuring that all of us—no matter who we are or where we come from—can find a comfortable place for ourselves in the purple tent. And we know we can do a better job in recruiting and supporting the volunteers who make it all happen in the regions, in the classes, in the affinity groups, in student interactions and everywhere there is an Eph connection. Still: It’s pretty amazing. I love to meet fellow Ephs in Williamstown or visit them around the country. I love to hear about what they’re up to, to watch them connecting, to witness deep friendships growing between those who’ve just graduated and those who graduated, well, less recently. I love seeing that the intellectual curiosity that brought you to Williams has only deepened. I love watching you still acting on the instinct to accomplish—the drive to do well, to do good and to do it together—that got you through your Williams years. That curiosity, that instinct and that drive enabled you and your classmates to leave a lasting mark on the college community. They enable you and your fellow alumni to do the same wherever you are today. Our job on the society’s executive committee, in partnership with the Office of Alumni Relations and so many more colleagues and friends at the college, is to encourage, support and assist with everything you are already doing. One very recent example: the just-relaunched alumni website at http://alumni. williams.edu. Take a look: It’s built to help you grow your relationships with each other and with Williams. Drill down through each of the tabs at the top: “Connect” with fellow alumni, participate in “Events,” find out more “About” the society. And, especially, “Learn.” It’s on that tab where you’ll find lots of food to feed that intellectual hunger that led you to Williamstown in the first place. We’ll be adding more learning opportunities soon. And many more opportunities to connect and participate, too. So check back online often. And please let me hear your ideas, suggestions and concerns. After all, this society is you. It’s me. It’s us.

5 On the Cover 1988 classmates Mark Solan and Jody Abzug enjoy the parade of classes during Reunion Weekend in June.

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WILLIAMS PEOPLE SEPTEMBER 2013 Volume No. 107, Issue No. 6 Editors Jennifer E. Grow Amy T. Lovett

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1. 2013 classmates (unless noted, from left) Olivia Foley, Lauren Agoubi, Erica Wu, Peter Clement ’14, Alexandra Berg, Alexander Kopynec ’09, Julia Bender Stern, Jeffrey Reimann, Blair Robinson and Sarah Guillot met up at beach week in May 2012. 2. 1993 classmates (from left) Nicole Moore, Nicole Haynes and Rebecca Dickinson celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Williams Black Alumni Network in NYC in April 2013. 3. After overhearing the words “beer run” and “Pittsfield” during a cruise through the Panama Canal, Deb (Claypoole) Anderson ’84 introduced herself to Larry Nilsen ’58. 4. In April 2013, Fred Scarborough ’45 (second from right) visited classmates (from left) Charlie Pinkerton Jr., Fran Lathrop Jr., Bud Edwards and Fred Wardwell in Maine. 5. Alex St. Clair ’97 (left) ran into Alex Steinberg Barrage ’97 during a half-marathon in Alexandria, Va., in May 2013. 6. Soraya Membreno ’12 (second from left) joined ruggers Kim Dacres ’08 (left) of the N.Y. Village Lions and (from right) Casey Lyons ’07 and Meagan

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Braun ’12 of the D.C. Furies in NYC in April 2013. 7. After a March 2013 interview with Legal Advocates for Children and Youth, Nicole Chen ’15 visited Roy Bennett ’67, recently retired from the organization. 8. World Flying Disc Federation President “Nob” Rauch ’80 (center) was on hand when the International Olympic Committee granted his sports official recognition in May 2013. 9. Leehom Wang ’98 (center) met with Neil Kubler (fourth from left), Williams’ Stanfield Professor of Asian Studies, and students during a Winter Study trip to Taiwan in January 2013. 10. High school lacrosse teams coached by Chris Parisi ’90 (left) and Jeff Stripp ’90 battled for the first ever Renzie Lamb Trophy at Mount Greylock Regional High School in April 2013. 11. Kathryn (Rowland) Meyer ’07 (left) attended Mariana Uribe’s ’07 first profession of vows with the Sisters of Life in Connecticut in August 2012. 12. From left: Mark Tercek ’79, Lorraine Atwood ’81 and Jim Clemons ’74 met up at a Vermont Law School Board dinner in May 2012.

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ALUMNI PHOTOS 13. 2010 classmates (from left) Julia Reiser, Andrea Park and Annick Benavides met up in Beijing in June 2013. 14. While spending the fall 2013 semester at Oxford, Diana Davis ’07 (left) spent time with Paige McClanahan Brown ’04. 15. Matt Rouse ’97 (left) celebrated his 40th birthday in Boston in June 2013 with (from left) Hilary Roberts ’97, Ginny Suss ’99, Eain Williams ’01 and Alexis Wruble ’99. 16. Will Rathgeber ’07 (left) took a break from teaching in rural Kenya in April 2013 to climb Mount Kilmanjaro with Elliot Heilman ’07, who was visiting from Northwestern University. 17. Family and friends attending the graduation of Katie Quayle ’08 (third from left) from UMass Medical School in Worcester in June 2013 included (from left) her brother Will Quayle ’12, their dad Win Quayle ’73, and Williams ’08 classmates Natashia Kadimik, Becky Nourse and Nisi Zhang.

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18. The Levy family (from left) Michael ’12, Carol Miller, Rich ’74 and Rachel ’09 went hiking with Caleb Balderston ’10 in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in June 2013. 19. Whitey Perrott ’55 (right) celebrated his 80th birthday with (from left) Ted Bowers ’55 and Bill Regan ’55 in Vero Beach in April 2013. 20. Sisters Liza Walsh Keenan ’01 (left) and Ellie Walsh Beasley ’03 and their daughters, born two days apart, got together in Port Colborne, Canada, in July 2013. 21. The first night of her honeymoon in May 2013, Carolyn Robbs Bilanko ’04 (left) and her husband had an Eph encounter when they were seated next to Chris Muir ’05 (right) and his girlfriend. 22. In March 2013, NYC area Ephs from the Classes of 1952 to 2011 participated in a Williams Club outing to see an off-Broadway production of “The Old Boy,” written by A.R. “Pete” Gurney Jr. ’52 (front row, second from left), with marketing director Abigail Solomon ’92 (fourth from left).

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1936 Richard U. Sherman, 6000 Riverside Drive, Friendship

Village Dublin, The Meadows Room 204, Dublin, OH 43017; [email protected] Greetings from the Class of ’36! “Yard by yard we fought our way...” While most of our classmates have already begun their heavenly cavorting, five of us are still here finishing out our work before party time begins: Leverett Davis, Gerard Langeler, Joseph Loughlin Jr., John Van Eck and myself.  “Cheer on cheer did rend the air...” After celebrating our 70th wedding anniversary, my wife Jinny passed on last year. She always wanted to get to the party first. (Remember that 40th Williams reunion!) Recently I relocated to The Meadows at Friendship Village in Dublin, where I stay quite busy. My daughter laughed as I apologized to her for not calling back for several weeks on account of my many activities!  Speaking of activities, my grandson, named after my grandfather, VP James Schoolcraft Sherman, was married on July 20 to Jessie Naderer here in Ohio. Grandson Sunny Haft ’08 and my daughter Marion Sherman ’77 were on site to help celebrate. James works as a doctor of pharmacy at the VA in Phoenix, and Jessie is studying for her doctorate in physical therapy. Sunny plans to become an ENT surgeon and has completed three years at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Marion currently practices psychiatry in Pensacola, Fla. With my PhD in economics, this makes three generations in a wide variety of “Dr. Shermans.” On Sept. 28 I will celebrate 99 years on this earth, and I have enjoyed every one of them. Best to you, my fellow Ephs, “For we’ll fight for dear old Williams, and we’ll win and win again!”

1938 George McKay, 2833 Wind Pump Road, Fort Wayne, IN

46804; [email protected] With sincere regret, we report the deaths of two more classmates: Douglas Johnston and W.W. Keen Butcher. This brings our class membership to six.

1939 REUNION JUNE 12-15 Karl Mertz, Mangels Ranch, P.O. Box 1509, Aptos, CA

95001; [email protected] I’ve volunteered to take over Roger Moore’s job. Here is recent news: John Ahlstrom says he is retired with a capital R, but he and Doris are still looking forward to again renting a house on the beach at Stone Harbor, N.J. Alex Carroll sends greetings. He and Marilyn are well. Alex is phasing out of his responsibilities at the Accelerated Charter School, which he was instrumental in founding years ago. Charlie Cleaver reports that sadly he has given up golf, which he used to play two or three times a week, but he makes up for it with walks with Pat. Bruce Burnham reminded me that we were both in D Entry Sage. His latest woodworking project is a grandfather clock. I wanted to include an update about our class president Jim Burns, but when I tried to reach him I learned he had the flu. 8

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P.O. Box 676, Williamstown, MA 01267 or [email protected]. If you are interested in serving as class secretary, please contact the Alumni Office at 413.597.4151.

Before I volunteered to take over the secretary job, Harry Gotlieb submitted the following directly to the editors: “When I opened the Williams People of May 2013 and turned to the class notes section, I was unhappy to see no listing for the great Class of ’39. This is not your fault, but ours, since we failed to find a replacement for our late, faithful scribe, Dr. Roger Moore. “While our surviving class members have become a precious few, we want to be remembered for some things. For one, Jack Sawyer, who became president of Williams College, was a member of ’39. Nationally known Bernie Auer and James MacGregor Burns are included. “We were the right age for involvement in WWII, in which 10 class members died. “My brother Alan (Harvard ’41) was one who died. I am writing this letter on Memorial Day. “For me, Williams ’39 has meant several lifetime friendships: George Allen, Max Berking, Jim Burns, Alex Carroll, Jack Cooper, Dave Simond and Jack Whiting, of whom only Alex and Jim survive. My life has been enriched by being a member of ’39. “Jean and I celebrated our 71st wedding anniversary on May 23.”

1941 Pete Parish, 350 East Michigan Ave., Ste. 500,

Kalamazoo, MI 49007; Wayne Wilkins, 240 South St., Williamstown, MA 01267; [email protected] The top of our news? Who else but our valedictorian! Allen Senear reported his apologies for not getting back to reunion this year. “It’s a long trip” from Seattle, he claims, but in the next breath he records a remarkable year of travel in ’12: a week in Southern California in February, two weeks in France in April, several weeks in July/August in the Baltic states with “side trips” into Russia, concluding with two weeks back east for a family wedding in the autumn. Perhaps his decision to “end international travel” is related to what air travelers frequently encounter. Example: “Somebody in Wisconsin had severed a buried cable, putting all of Alaska’s computers country-wide out of use” as the Senears began a trip from Seattle. Clerks reverted to “a new technique,” the telephone. Good story, Allen. Jim Fowle too wrote as reunion time for the 3s and 8s rolled around with his good wishes to anyone attending from ’41. He was absolutely right predicting the presence of Frank Bush and Audrey. I had the privilege of sitting with them in the front row at the annual Saturday meeting of the Society of Alumni. Indeed, we were asked to stand (generous applause) for being the oldest alums present. Back to Jim and his suggestion of “Progeny Statistics” competition as a method of encouraging communications for the notes. He suggests our late classmate Dick Lovell as the leader: 12-12, grandchildren and greats. Jim records “a laggardly 5-0.” The Wilkinses do a bit better: 5-3. I’m sure Pete Parish is competitive, but we’ll save that for our next report. How about all of you: alums and honoraries? These reports from Allen and Jim take me back in memory to our commencement on June 16, 1941, when each gave an undergraduate address:

1936–42 James Warren Fowle, “The Williams Temper,” and Allen Eugene Senear (the valedictory) “What of the

Future?” I’m impressed: three mentioned in these notes were magna cum laude graduates, and Allen, a summa! They provide impressive longevity too. Via telephone conversations I can report that Tod Blodget and Margie are fine, and Charlie Ferguson is continuing his painting, possibly our most productive classmate. Local informants who know of his golfing skills report they are still top notch. He was captain of the golf team, you remember, in our undergraduate days. I report the sad loss of two classmates. David C. Twichell died on April 24, 2013. Dave spent the five years after our graduation as a Naval pilot in WWII. He subsequently received a master’s degree in education and zoology from Yale. The next 25 years, in his words, were spent in secondary school education, including 10 years as headmaster of the Pomfret School and five as head of the Thacher School in Ojai, Calif. His final teaching days were spent at the Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, Mass., where he became head of their new middle school from 1971 until 1976. He was always a stalwart supporter of his college. I was struck by two phrases in his obituary: “He gave his service in countless ways to many,” and he followed his own advice “to leave the world a better place than you found it.” He was 95. Edgar J. Nathan III died in his own home in NYC on April 30 at the age of 93. We in Williamstown had last seen him when he and wife Ruth attended a minireunion of 1941 in the fall of 2009. His oldest son Arthur Nathan ’73 died in his sophomore year at Williams. His nephew Fred Nathan Jr. ’83 is a trustee of Williams. Edgar served four years in the Army Signal Corps and the Air Force, ending as a captain. He earned his law degree from Yale and became an assistant district attorney in New York County. He began private practice in 1951, something he enjoyed throughout his active years. In his biographical sketch for our 50th reunion he note, “For the past 23 years I have been the president of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, which was founded by my ancestors in 1654.” News anyone?

1942 Thurston Holt, 4902 Willowood Way, Norman, OK

73026; [email protected] On Aug. 22, 1851, the yacht America outsailed the entire British fleet in a race around the Isle of Wight, off Cowes, southern England. The nearest British yacht to her, Aurora, finished eight minutes after America. Although the 100 Guinea Trophy she won was put up by the Royal Yacht Society of England, it was renamed the America’s Cup in her honor, and this series of races held every three years became known by the same name. Hello, dear reader. So you think you know the Williams Class of 1942? Then which member made it to the America’s Cup Hall of Fame? Welcome. Parking in rear. Answer within. Bill Sammons, class agent, reports, “Not one college class (in the current reporting) has as many

honorary members supporting the Alumni Fund as does ’42. That speaks very well for early ‘decision making’ and for our resourceful Liz Hannock. ” Jack Greenland and his wife Margaret have been happily married for 64 years. They live in Westgrove, Pa., in the southwest corner of the state almost touching both Delaware and Maryland. Jack vividly remembers how, while he was a Navy deck officer in WWII, his heavy cruiser USS Savannah captured and sank a merchant ship off the coast of Italy and, later, when the Germans bombed his ship, 200 lives were lost. After the war he joined Kaiser Aluminum and became a regional sales manager in the Philadelphia area. He has collected antiques and been a hospital volunteer. Jack enjoys reading. Also his family: The couple have two children and four grandchildren. Son Niven, specializing in music composition, is head of arts at Eastern University. Son-in-law Richard Cooch ’70 is a Superior Court judge. Jack and I fondly recalled comedian Jimmy Durante with his “Everbuddy wants to got in the act, da nose knows,” singing, “Who will be wit you when I’m far away?” and always at the end of his act, thanking the audience, wishing them goodnight, then gazing stage left, calling, “And goodnight, Mrs. Callibar, wherever you are.” Jacqueline Egan told me about her career in speech therapy. She specialized in helping young children. “They would understand what you were saying,” she said, “but you couldn’t understand what they were saying. Helping 2- or 3-year-olds is easier than helping 4-, 5- or 6-year-olds.” When Bill Wulffleff told me he is caring for his wife, “even doing all the grocery shopping,” his voice had a ring of devotion. He and his Irelandborn wife Joanne live in a high-rise apartment in Atlantic City, N.J., and were spared the fury of Superstorm Sandy. “I’m glad to be taking care of Joanne because I think of all the care she gave our children,” Bill said. The couple have been married 56 years and have three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Growing up in Long Neck, N.Y., on Long Island, Bill was maneuvering a sailing canoe when he was 6 and an 18-foot sailboat later. His father had a 32-foot cruiser. In addition to sailing, Bill became fond of fishing—surf and deep sea. He said, “My brother owned a sailboat, and we angled for sailfish off the coast of Florida. It was just for sport. They’re not edible. We threw them back in.” Bill’s career was with Interlake, a Chicago-based steel company. He was a Philadelphia-area sales manager for their packaging equipment. In 1942 the U.S. Air Force called Bill up a month before he was to graduate from Williams. “Because of that I resigned from the Class of ’42 on April Fool’s Day so I could have about a month of leisure before reporting.” Bill flew B-25 bombers. Equipped with radar, bombs and depth charges, their mission was to harass and destroy U-boat submarines. After WWII, despite his missing his final two months, Williams awarded Bill his BA degree. In 1929 Jack Sutphen and his family had just moved to Larchmont, N.Y. His mother was looking for something to keep her 9-year-old son busy SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s for the summer. A notice in the paper told about the Larchmont Yacht Club junior sailing program, a six-day-a-week class four blocks from where they lived. Turned out to be just the thing for a love of sailing the rest of Jack’s life. Five years later Jack was experienced enough (and more importantly the right weight) to be asked to crew in an international dinghy race, U.S. against Great Britain. The British brought two Uffa Fox 11 dinghies to Larchmont to race two Nick Potter dinghies, Consternation and Confusion. Racing out in Long Island Sound, the U.S. boats were better in the choppy seas that developed both days, so they won. Then it was on to Williams. Jack described his experience: “Other than enjoying Williams I accomplished very little during my one year of college. I did make center [captain too] on the freshman hockey team and was on the sailing team, but the only real accomplishment was marriage to my childhood sweetheart, Jean. In view of the fact that our marriage lasted over 50 times longer than my college career, it is obvious who deserves the credit.” In 1942 Jack was working in a shipyard in Rye, N.Y., running a small tugboat that moved 110-foot wooden barges that the yard was building for the Army, when a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Corps came looking for young men to run Air Sea Rescue boats. Jack signed on, and after quick training became skipper on an 85-foot crash boat. He and his crew of six patrolled most of the Gulf of Mexico. Hundreds of B-17 and B-29 bombers flew over, and the crash boat would be below the flights in case one ditched. After the war Jack joined sail maker Ratsey & Lapthorn and later became VP. His wife Jean, who was a swimmer, became U.S. women’s national 200-meter freestyle champion during their engagement. She shared Jack’s enthusiasm for sailing. The couple enjoyed racing their Scorpion in the summer and their Rum Dum in winter “frostbite” competition. I have so much of Jack’s story that I’d love to share. If you want to receive it, please be in touch. It’s too lengthy to print here, but I’d be happy to send it along. Jack did make America’s Cup Hall of Fame. Sadly, he died March 24, 2013.  Somehow I didn’t get the sad news of the death of Romeyn Everdell until I saw his obituary in the May ’13 issue of People. Then, two days before submitting these notes, I found out our beloved president Fred Rudolph had died.

1943 Bill Brewer, P.O. Box 289, Galesville, MD 20765;

[email protected] Submitted by outgoing secretary Malcolm MacGruer: Greetings, classmates, and best wishes from friends who were at the ’43 70th reunion in Williamstown in June. Our get-together began on Thursday, June 6, when we had dinner at Dodd House (Old Williams Inn) at a table marked with a tall ’43 sign. Fortunately the college provided vehicle transportation to Dodd House, as did several of our classmates. 10

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While there were 17 people representing the fabulous class, the majority of them were friends and family of classmates of ’43. I feel compelled to report the attendance of four fabulous alumni who constituted a quorum for class business. Our honorable alumni present were Fred Nathan, Bill Brewer, Walt Stults and McGurk MacGruer. Among family members were Fred Nathan’s wife Fran and their son Fred S. Nathan Jr. ’83 and his family, Walt Stults and his wife Jean, and McGurk’s son Duncan and grandson MacKenzie, daughter Amanda and her husband Bob. Friday there was an Ephraim Williams Society breakfast (attended by invitation), seminars and good food at the Dodd House for lunch and dinner. McGurk attended the breakfast affair. Before dinner Friday evening the class had a meeting attended by all. A report was made on the condition of the college, the ’43 Scholarship Fund, Williams’ need-blind admission policy and other matters pertaining to the management of the number-one liberal arts college in the USA. Following discussion of college matters, nominations and the election of class officers took place. The slate of candidates had the following names: president/class agent, McGurk; class treasurer, Walt Stults; class secretary, Bill Brewer. The slate was unanimously elected following a request by Fred Nathan to learn if our secretary pro-tem Amanda MacGruer Davis had studied math and could count all four of the votes. The college sponsored a cocktail/dinner affair at Dodd House attended by all classes whose year of graduation did not end in 3 or 8. Those classes, except for ’43, were having their own dinners. During the reception, ’43 members were privileged to spend 20 minutes in conversation with Williams’ great new president, Adam Falk, a brilliant and most personable man. As dinner was concluding in the big dining room four waitresses carried in and brought to the ’43 table an enormous (enough for everyone in the room !) square, thick, chocolate cake, decorated and with an inscription bringing best wishes on the 92nd birthday of your class president! Embarrassment prevailed. On Saturday we participated in the Alumni Parade, driven in top-down sports cars—MG, Austin Healy, Morris and Triumph. Our cavalcade followed the Williams Reunion Jazz Band on its flatbed truck and was preceded by a ’43 sign-carrying Alumni Office staff member to the Chandler gymnasium, where we were seated in the front row to enjoy the entrances of other classes, one with a bagpipe band. (Do you remember ’43’s 50th? That started something!) After the presentation of all the cups and awards we went to Lasell Gym for the Joseph’s Coat luncheon and enjoyed seeing a post50th alumnus being given the Coat for outstanding performance as chosen by the alumni and the college. At the head table were Brooks Foehl ’88 (secretary of the Society of Alumni), Wayne Wilkins ’41, Pete Peterson ’48, Fred Nathan, McGurk, and wives and family. Wilkins, Peterson and McGurk had previously been awarded Joseph’s Coats. Saturday’s dinner was at the Williams Inn, cocktails (you pay) and a fine dinner with singing by

1942–45 an alumni group composed of alumni who were in small singing groups as undergraduates. Wonderful! Sunday was pack-up day and head for home after a splendid weekend with family and friends—old and new. And don’t forget that the Alumni Fund will be getting under way in a matter of weeks. You’ll hear from us about that!

1944 REUNION JUNE 12-15 David Thurston, 2001 West Rudasill Road, #8312,

Tucson, AZ 84704; [email protected] I learned that Milt Prigoff shattered his upper left arm. I hope to have progress to report next issue. Also, I’m sorry to report that we lost another classmate. Hank Hunter passed away in July. An obituary for him will appear in the next issue. I hope to have lots more to report next time. Please share with me your news and updates.

1945 Frederick Wardwell, P.O. Box 118, Searsmont, ME

04973; [email protected] Fred Scarborough and wife Gay suggested lunch in Kennebunkport, Maine, on April 19 and thus Lucy and Charlie Pinkerton, Bud Edwards, Betty and Fran Lathrop, the Scarboroughs, and Ann and Fred Wardwell gathered for lunch and a lot of talk. It was a great time, the view of the beach and ocean dramatic, and flattering pictures were taken. From Patricia Burton, assistant director of donor relations, via Stu Coan, I received nine thank-you notes from students selected for 2013 springsummer ’45 World Fellowship financial support. The fund we started has now grown to about $12 million, with the income withdrawn for the program limited so that the fund more than keeps up with inflation. The subjects to be studied are somewhat mind-boggling; to wit: Palestinian experience in Germany, especially the Holocaust and 1972 Olympic massacre; economic development of Uighurs in Xinjiang province in China; study of agriculture and food distribution in South America; comparing war memorials in Japan as part of a thesis on the remembrance of the WWII Pacific War; micro-finance in South Africa; the experience of Italian Jews in WWII Italy; study of victims of political strife in Guinea; and mobile media as it affects information sharing and government relationships. Wow! Don Bishop is carrying an oxygen bottle around, but this is not the first time he has been on O2. He navigated transports around in WWII, spent time in the Aleutians and, with wife Betty, produced four kids, one whom is at home keeping them there. Stu Coan has not slowed down, although he and Mary are relieved to have Yale Medical announce, after several months of testing, why he lost weight he felt he would rather keep. It appears there is a satisfactory treatment for whatever the cause. Stu spent Reunion Weekend in Williamstown and was hugely pleased. He and honorary ’45 John Chandler were the only ’45ers in attendance, perhaps because the inclement weather kept Gil Lefferts and others away. In any event, the awarding

of Joseph’s Coat and other events were totally satisfactory. Jim Draper, still very much in the physics business at the University of California, and having sailed a lot in the past, was closely following the America’s Cup trials in nearby San Francisco. Ted Lincoln is still publishing his real estate newsletter in Florida but says it is not easy and that it, along with keeping his lawn mowed, takes most of his time. Dick Morrill’s three daughters induced him to junket to Darien, Conn., for his birthday, and a party of 35 made merry (included were a few classmates’ daughters). From there he went to Denver, and thence to Silver Plume, where he boarded the vintage passenger cars on the Georgetown Loop narrow gauge railroad at 9,500 feet elevation, served by a 1923 Lima Shay steam engine, restored at the cost of $350,000 and fitted with vertical steam pistons. The Lima Shay, designed and patented by Dick’s great-grandfather in 1881, was able to haul loads up and down very steep grades and became the workhorse of the lumbering industry. The Shay, with the worldwide acknowledgement “Nothing works like a Shay,” was the foundation of the Lima Locomotive Works, Lima, Ohio, a very successful company. In November Dick went on the National Review post-election cruise to the Caribbean, where featured speakers included Bernhardt Lewis, Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter and Roman Gann. Rounding out the year, Dick proceeded to Ft. Lauderdale to attend the meeting of the National Investor Relations Institute. He was one of seven founders, and at the meeting attended by 1,300 of the 3,500 members he speechified to a standing ovation and was declared “The First Fellow” of the organization. His reaction was that’s what you get for being the oldest of the three still living founders. Jay Mueller has lived in Anchorage, Alaska, since 1948 without regrets. He reports no income tax, and the state even sends money from time to time. He has always worked in and with computers. Ted Murphy had just finished bowling a game on Wii, which is apparently done through a gadget box hooked to one’s TV and which responds to the way you swing your arm. He wouldn’t tell me his score but said you can play golf, tennis or whatever, all without getting a sunburn. Ted flew P47s in WWII, and I told him that William Manchester and Paul Reid, in 10,050 pages about Churchill and the war, only once mentioned P47s. Ted quickly pointed out that Churchill never had much to do in the Pacific, and that was where he flew. Ted and Shirley live in Rockville, Md., in an independent senior living development. Bob Ward died in March and his obit follows in the rear of this publication; however, Bob Jr. sent me a nice note saying that his father pretty well died with his boots on at home, being happy with the way things were going with his liver cancer up until the last three days. He also said Bob attributed his considerable professional experience to Williams and said he often recited poetry and passages from the classics, but that they came from Williams, not subsequent study. SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s Fred Wardwell seems to be able to keep eight beehives alive, the grass cut and to sail his iceboat for 16 days last winter. As class secretary he has to report on those classmates who failed to make it through June. With 10 members, the list seems unfortunately too long: Al Bonynge, Bob Cope, Art Dodge, Dick Raffman, Dick Palmer, Bill Snyder, John Ward, Bob Ward, Walter Wilmot and Bill Wilson. Obits will appear in this or future issues.

1946 Bill Shellenberger, 4031 Kennett Pike, Wilmington, DE

19807; [email protected] One of the true pleasures of this job is to receive phone calls (my no. 302.656.0459) and/ or to get mail (email: [email protected]) from classmates. Also, this prompted me to read fully our 50th reunion book (thankfully saved, through two address changes, by my dear wife Barbara) compiled by editors Gates Helms, Dick Debevoise and Harry Earle. They did a wonderful job. It’s well worth reviewing. Quite a few members are no longer with us, but the accomplishments of all are quite remarkable. Hearty thanks to the 24 of 49 living classmates who responded to my request for news. There were five more responses from wives or widows—so glad they keep in touch. Several returns were from those not heard from in years. They will go in first. The list of all who responded: Jake Abrahams, Wells Adams, Norm Birnbaum, Irv Clark, Dan Case, John Cleveland, Harry Davenport, Gene Detmer (wife), anonymous, Dick Debevoise, Larry Heely, Pat Higgins, Tom Hyndman, George Kuwayama, Bob Lessor, Bud Morrow, Howard Sachs, Dick Schneller, myself, Don Stone, Wally Thompson, Irv Van Woert, Bill Wenzel and Rolf Wyer. Widows who wrote: Art Brown’s Jan, Earle Brown’s Rita, Jerv Brinton’s Toni, George Peiper’s Barbara and Lew Scheffey’s Joyce. I see Alison Bradford and Roz Dupont and get Christmas cards from Leigh Beeman and Judith Whitley. Jim Wilson of Keene, N.H., died in ’85 and his wife in 2009, according to their daughter. Bill Carl’s widow Billie reported he had moved to ’45. Obit: Manvel Schauffler attended Williams before entering the Navy in WWII. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi. Postwar, he graduated elsewhere and became an acclaimed independent school educator in Portland, Ore. Don Stone was the first to contact me, a real treat since it’s been several years since we were last in touch. Like Dick Debevoise and myself, he was in the combat engineers in the ETO, assigned to the British army throughout the Bulge. Don, as his father before him, was a successful financier on Wall Street for 51 years. Now he enjoys fly-fishing for tarpon and his four children and six grandchildren. His daughter Amy Stone ’75 was the first daughter of an alum to graduate from Williams, and her daughter Emily Stone Tucker ’03 was the first daughter of a female graduate to, also, graduate from Williams. Sam Fuller called next. He recently had a knee replacement but, unfortunately, got an infection. As 12

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he wrote in his bio for the 50th reunion, the Naval Reserve, his family tobacco business and all the various banks for which he worked have deep-sixed. He wrote his own paper for some years in Suffield, Conn. In his questionnaire response, his favorite activity now is reading on his Kindle. Still drives day and night, but no reunion due to the knee. Jake Abrahams wrote that he was in Williamstown on Oct. 12, 2012, for his granddaughter’s wedding (Lily Gray ’07). She is the daughter of his son Peter Abrahams ’68. Jake states he is “surprisingly well—no medications.” (He must avoid doctors.) He still has his 30-foot sailboat, which he still handles by himself in good weather. Spends two hours every other day in the gym, on the bike and pumping iron. Winters in Port Charlotte, Fla. He adds that his grandson Jake Abrahams ’14 finished his junior year and is on the golf team and is a Gargoyle. Congratulations, Jake. Dentistry and Canada certainly agreed with you. Yes and yes to driving. Reunion doubtful—fall is busy. Rolfe Wyer of La Jolla, Calif., writes that he graduated from Williams in September 1944, when very few of our starting class were still around. Checking on three of them, for a previous reunion, two were dead. He has severe health problems— cancer twice and hydrocephalus of the brain. He reads and walks with a cane and doesn’t drive at all. In March Bob Lessor wrote a long letter to our president, praising Gates Helms. He gave up law a few years ago and now is pursuing commercial real property. He has a portfolio of such in Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida. Says that on the letter date he is closing his Fairfield office and moving it to Sarasota, Fla. He has a condo on Long Boat Key plus a lovely house in Weston, Conn., with a pond and a waterfall. He invites all classmates to visit either place. Answering the questionnaire, his favorite activities are “stamp collecting, betting on the horses, reading.” Re: health, “Doesn’t want to hear about them.” Still drives, “but slower,” no nighttime. Yes to reunion when in Connecticut. He is near enough to NYC to regularly attend the ballet, NY Philharmonic and the museums. Appreciate that update, Bob. Wells Adams has a new address: 3003 Gulf Shore Blvd. N., #304, Naples, FL 34103-3912. He spent his freshman year at Trinity but joined the Williams Class of ’46 after the war, graduating in ’47, as many of us did due to summer courses. He lost his wife Grace, his companion of 64 years, in December 2011, “requiring much adjustment.” Regarding health, he writes that an abundance of pills “scares away most threats.” Reading his bio in the 50th reunion book provides a lot more info. He was a B-24 navigator in WWII, a POW in Sagan, Poland. He and Grace traveled the world, had a son who graduated from Williams. Wells flew his own plane until 1996, and much more. John Cleveland wrote that he saw Pete Vanderhoef in Houston a few years ago. He was fraternity brother of both of us—did only that one ’42 summer semester with us before joining the Army Air Corps. He was a B-17 pilot, flew 25 missions and was shot down twice, awarded the DFC. When seen, he had a crippled leg due to a horse

1945–48 accident. He invited John to have lunch with him and his friends, George and Barbara Bush. Pete was a classmate of George’s at Greenwich Country Day—and Pete had dated Barbara as a teenager. John writes his health is excellent—he follows a “blood type diet” so with O neg. blood eats mainly red meat, some yams, raw vegetables and fruit, no processed food, drinks only water and red wine, sleeps all night. Cataract surgery on left eye twice, and now macular degeneration in right eye. Says we are lucky—modern medical miracles like cataract surgery (incorrect—cataract surgery was done with thorns several thousand years ago) and Viagra came along at just the right time for us. He last skied on his 85th birthday at Vail. Has written an article explaining what the country needs to do with its monetary and tax problems, but no one will publish it. Reads mysteries, or any good book. Two divorces, four children, four grandchildren. Has lived in New Orleans the past 13 years in a wonderful relationship with a world-class kinetic sculptor named Lin Emery. Left eye vision good, so drives day and night. No reunion—too remote personally and geographically. Gene Detmer’s wife wrote that he has had two strokes in the last 12 years. The second, a major one, left him needing full-time care and with dementia. I called her, hoping to speak to Gene, but she wasn’t sure he would know who I was. His grandson Brad Lidge was the Phillies’ outstanding relief pitcher a few years ago and is going to retire as a Phillie in August. Pat Higgins responded succinctly that he had “lots” of health problems. Reads, no driving. He lives in a retirement home in Buffalo. I called, and he sounds well. Says he’s still able to be up and about. The last for this issue is George Kuwayama. He writes that he has attended several Williams events in LA and says, “I am definitely a fossil.” Amazed to see so many Williams women. Re: health, he says he’s still alive. “Exercise helps, and lots of pills.” (Heard that and do that, before.) Has discovered the stock market, which he finds very time consuming. Drives day and night. Re: reunion—3,000 miles, but he’d think about it. He was the curator of Oriental art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In WWII he was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division. Read more in the 50th reunion book. Not knowing the future, I’ll give you some local history and serendipity of the Wilmington, Del., area. When I first came to Wilmington in 1952 to join an established older doctor, three members of ’46 were here: Joe Bradford, Wally Thompson and Bernie Felch. Joe and Alison were both from old Wilmington families; they were very kind to me, introducing me to many. After I married four years later, we often played mixed-doubles tennis and dined. They were among the first to come to Stonegates, a retirement community where we now live. Alison is a few cottages away, and we see each other often when she is here. Wally and Kitsy (she was my date at football weekend, left in Wally’s care when I had early curfew as a team member) were my first patients. Their son Brad was born shortly before I had my Delaware license and so was cared for by my older

partner. All three of Wally’s sons attended primary school in what has become the aforementioned Stonegates. Bernie was teaching art, and I cared for his first family. As a legacy here, he built an artistic brick wall, which can be viewed at the Delaware Art Museum. He was a good friend of another artist, Bake Roll. The latter’s sister, Ruth Kauffman, lived in Wilmington, and her family members were my patients. After Bernie’s divorce, he and Roz Dupont lived in an old de-sanctified RC church in Landenburg. Roz and Wally occasionally dine together since their spouses passed. John Egan was the last of the Wilmington five to arrive. He was the first hematologist in Wilmington, setting up a still-going group. He was an excellent bridge player, a not-so-excellent golfer (we played together as equals). Here’s the real serendipity—his son was the surgeon on call for the ER when I arrived in agony with an incarcerated sliding esophageal hernia in December 2000. He operated and saved my life. Recently, his daughter Bonnie joined the law firm where my son works, and she works with him in the family law department. Remember Bob Olcott? Shortly before his death, he and Jessie moved to nearby Chadds Ford, as their daughter Lois Price worked at Winterthur Museum, where she is now the head conservator. My wife Barbara is still a guide and does special tours there. I’ll have more the next issue, but keep writing, calling or emailing.

1947 John C. Speaks III, 33 Heathwood Road, Williamsville, NY 14211; [email protected]

1948 John A. Peterson Jr., 5811 Glencove Drive, Apt. 1005,

Naples, FL 34108; [email protected] Our 65th reunion began Wednesday, June 5, and concluded Sunday, June 9. All formal affairs were at Dodd House (the former Williams Inn), except for the Saturday evening banquet at the Williams Inn. All current class officers agreed to remain for the next term: President George Kennedy, VP Davie Maier, Treasurer Don Markstein and Secretary Pete Peterson. Reunion attendees: Arthur Arditti with Alison, Adrian, Edward, Eric, Evan; Rhett Austell with Carol; George Couch with Lis; Walter Croen with Lila; Harry Dewey with Jane; Arthur Dodd with Yvonne; Marilyn Ellingwood; John Glore with Nancy Heer; Richard Gray; Alfred Hammond with Betty Shaver; Philip Hoff with Joan; Theodore Holsten with Lydia; Don Markstein with Judy; Richard McElvein; Alexander Orr; John Peterson with Sandra; William Rutter with Geraldine; Chuck Smidt with Martha; Helen Smith; Gerald Teran; John Wilson; and Paul Leighton with daughter and daughter-in-law. So, final tally: 20 classmates plus Marilyn Ellingwood and Bunny Smith. The weather for the first couple days was typical Florida style (plenty rain) but broke just before SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s the Saturday parade began and continued sunny through Sunday. You have heard my thoughts in the past re: my belief that 1948 became a class through reunions. WWII messed up our lives/ schedules, and we missed the traditional (normal?) college life. Each reunion seems to have brought us closer together as a class. To all who helped make our 65th a winner, THANKS. Some remarks from a couple classmates who could not attend: Rich Persoff: “For years now I’ve enjoyed your reports on our classmates—wish that reunion was possible this year for us. In mind’s eye I see us moving out sharply with our inadequately sized or well-worn straws and blazers of unmandatory but appropriate colors, and will check the weather channel to see what it’s like for you all in Billville this Saturday. Ann and I stay thankfully well, but travel inconveniences and the blood clot hazard of long periods sitting have shifted travel way down our list of desirables. Glad we got to see so much of this wondrous world when we did. Right now I’m looking over the lake past our newly landscaped meadow, watching the new peaches ripen and listening to Shubert’s Trout Quintet. For the thousandth time I’m overwhelmed by my gratitude for my freshmen music appreciation class with Dr. Nin-Culmell, which has been the route to countless joyous moments. Which I never would have predicted, sharpening those cactus needles in the library listening carrels 60 years ago! My forever thanks to whoever on that long-ago curriculum committee decreed that even science students take humanities!” Ralph Goetzenberger: “Unfortunately I had to cancel coming to our 65th. As you may know my dear Elfrida passed away on April 4 after battling Alzheimer’s for many years. However, I was still planning to come; but now a new problem has erupted requiring my staying pretty close to home, at least for now. They call it cervical arthritis, and my right shoulder and neck is in pain much of the time, particularly at night. I start a course of physical therapy this coming Friday. My greetings to all my surviving classmates. Will be thinking of you all on the reunion days. Hope to make the 70th!” Lastly, two more deaths to report: Ed Trumpbour on April 17 and Buck Jordan on May 5. Buck and I had a long phone conversation on our mutual interest in trains and railroads just a couple weeks before his death. We send our condolences to their respective families. One goof-up on my part: I never followed up with the college’s photo schedule, and to my knowledge, we never had an official 65th picture taken. Mea culpa. As reunion chair, I especially want to thank our Williamstown rep, Bunny Smith, who really put things together for us. Without her efforts our 65th would not have been as successful. Hang in there, group, and I hope we can all be together at our 70th in 2018.

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1949 REUNION JUNE 12-15 Chuck Utley, 1835 Van Buren Circle, Mountain View, CA

94040; [email protected] Jim McClements reported that Steve Sondheim ’50 came to Delaware early this year for a speaking engagement where he and Jim were able to have an enjoyable conversation. Their friendship dates back to the summer of 1948 when Steve, Jim and Dave Bennett ’48 drove to Pasadena to visit Pete Hoagland ’48. Jim added that he expects to be a great-grandfather by now, and that his twin granddaughters, Anne McClements ’16 and Becky McClements ’17, are both at Williams following in the footsteps of parents Bill McClements ’85 and Susan McClements ’85. Ed Maynard has been rooting for his granddaughter Lucy (daughter of Dan Maynard ’83) to become another Eph. According to Ed, “She is a bright girl who was offered several top school choices and made the somewhat misguided selection of Stanford over Williams. I still have two ‘grands’ that look like good Williams prospects but will have to wait two or three years to see if my luck improves.” Alec Clement commented about a very rough spring: “Wife Carolyn suffering from a muscular thing that has rendered her incapacitated is improving, however slowly. Both sons had spinal surgery within a week of each other, and my daughter had a rotator cuff done. My two granddaughters from Va., plus their father and son-in-law ran the Boston Marathon. My daughter was waiting for them at the finish line and got blown off her feet by the explosion—too close for comfort—fortunately no injury. We hope for a better summer and some visits to Tanglewood and the Berkshires.” Our resolute class agent Oren Pollock sadly wrote: “My wife Anita (mostly known as Sam) died May 7 after many years of chronic leukemia. Many members of our family were with her at the end. Before Sam’s death, we welcomed our first greatgrandchild into the world, Eleanor Gray Matteson. For me, there were more than 30 wonderful years. Many reunions, major and minor, were a very happy part of our lives.” And classmates far and wide will share memories of great times with Sam and Nero on those occasions. David Waite reported on his active musical life in Grand Rapids: “There’s little news when you are 87 ( July 1) and living in an assisted living facility. But a Father’s Day program here was developed around me. My oldest son, John, read a Father’s Day poem and then introduced the program: ‘Piano Melodies For Your Pleasure with David G. Waite, Ed.D.’ One of my songs was ‘You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby (’cause baby look at you now).’ A very attractive private duty aide of mine stood beside the piano as I sang the song to her—to the applause of 40 to 50 old folks in the audience. We also read the Lord’s Prayer to the audience together—she each verse, followed by my interpretation of the meaning. My life was largely involved with Christian counseling to poor people, working with handicapped people and teaching in three colleges or universities. Although confined to a walker or wheelchair now, I find useful activities by acting

1948–51 in an encouraging role to the lonely and limited residents with whom I reside.” Congratulations for all of your good works, David. Giles Kelly is deeply into the role of grandfather. “This past June, Lauren was the first of my five grandchildren to marry.” Giles admits, “It was a big deal to be the grandfather of the bride. It was a splendid black-tie affair in Washington, D.C., with much dancing afterward. Then, with that behind me, I went to work preparing for a one-man show of my water color and oil paintings opening in July at the Ingleside Gallery at Rockcreek in DC.” Nancy and Ron Chute have completed their move to Chester, Vt., from Washington, Conn. Ron explains: “Our son Dave, a builder, has added a 2,000-sq.-ft. addition, Vermont-style, to their weekend house. We rented for a year while it was being built after selling our ‘1774 house’ in Conn. We’re still unpacking; finally gave up looking for dishes buried somewhere in the three storage containers and bought place settings at Walmart. My knee won’t allow me to ski, but Dave, his wife Monica and four young kids are dedicated skiers in winter. We may find somewhere warmer then. Nancy has moved carloads of her plants from Washington and is planning borders and continuing her involvement in the garden world. We welcome visitors to this pretty part of the world: 494 Main St., Chester, Vt. 05143.”

1950 Francis J. (Jack) McConnell, 1155 Wildwood Lane,

Glenview, IL 66025; [email protected] Your new secretary and wife Lynn celebrated St. Patrick’s Day a day early with Joanie and Tom Healy and Sandy and Doug Coleman in Tucson, Ariz. Instead of the traditional corned beef and cabbage, we enjoyed pork tenderloin and my signature Mexican corn (white and yellow corn, peppers, grilled onions and bacon bits). Tom, after multiple surgeries by Royer Collins and his team (hip and knee), is a new bionic man and is doing well. Doug continues to complain about loss of distance with his golf game. My only wartime experience worthy of mention involved a chain letter circulating in the Seventh Army where I was stationed during the Korean conflict. I wrote a letter to Seventh Army HQ pointing out that the letter violated several Army regulations. This caused a directive to be issued terminating the letter just as my CO and sergeant were about to cash in. Needless to say, I was not very popular with them, but I was very popular with my fellow privates who were being pressured to sign on. I had a note from Charlie Schaaf reporting that Ellen and Pete Thurber had visited them in their new condominium in Edmonds, Wash. Charlie and Gail moved there to be closer to their three daughters. Charlie also mentioned that he and Stu Robinson played an epic tennis match, which they called a draw after six games apiece (no tie breakers). Coach Chafee refereed the match from above. Because of the distance he missed several line calls. John Brinkerhoff sent me a photo taken by Barry Benepe at the 1948 Winter Carnival. It shows John going off the ski jump at Sheep Hill

(very good form). John was out-jumped by Per Smith, a Norwegian student at Amherst, but they both out-jumped the landing area, landing in the transition area. Had they gone any farther they likely would have broken their ankles, if not more. John still skis, but on the water in Florida. Our president, Stan Roller, talked with Stu Duffield. Stu mentioned that he enjoys fishing in Wyoming with Dunc McDonald and Leigh Perkins. Tom Hodgeman and Mary will be attending the wedding of their granddaughter Eliza Davison ’06 in August. Eliza is her class’s president. I would like to pay tribute to our retiring secretary, Kevin Delany. Kevin, as many of you know, had a distinguished journalism career with CBS and ABC news. In 1973 he was made director of news for ABC’s Washington bureau. He directed the day-to-day coverage of the Watergate period, including the impeachment hearings and Nixon’s resignation. In March 1975, Kevin returned to Saigon to cover the fall of South Vietnam, from which he was evacuated on the final day. Following retirement, Kevin headed his own crisis management firm. Kevin and Joan remain active in Georgetown civic affairs.

1951 Gordon Clarke, 183 Foreside Road, Falmouth, ME 04105; [email protected] For those classmates who are not National Geographic subscribers, the cover of the May 2013 issue shows a photograph of an infant, sandyhaired, blue eyed, staring directly at the camera lens. The caption over the photo is, “This baby will live to be 120.” My copy arrived during the week of April 8. What a timely reminder that Ruth Anne and Wally Bortz were due to run in the Boston Marathon on the 15th. As background, they seem to have completed 53 traditional marathons, with another 17 in their plans. To those figures we should add Ruth Ann’s two 100-mile completions. The day before the Boston Marathon, Wally addressed the Natural Running Center; there is nothing like a speech to warm one for the long run. Following are quotes from Wally’s post-race and bombing email to friends. “Ruth Anne and I were on the course when lightning struck … 4 p.m. … I, on Heartbreak Hill, five miles from finish … (she) still a ways back … police tape proclaimed that Boston was shut down … here we were with miles yet to go before we could sleep or shower or beer … but alive … a bit tarnished but still full of optimism… A BOMB! What the hell did that have to do with a marathon, or sanity or anything else that was rational? “Now it was six hours after the starting gun. … Three-plus hours since the winners had finished … until BOOM!!... The whole world shook a bit… I had never … carried my cell phone on a run … common sense had prevailed … my phone at the ready … virtually no information available to help the 300 or so yet to finishers, collected at the Newton City Hall … fine mayor and hundreds of helpmates covered us … concern … generosity … pizza, Oreos abounded… “Phone call to RA’s sister, who lived five miles SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s away… By 7 p.m. … evacuated from the route… Had we have been of even average pace … would have been bloodied with the rest of the 22,000 finishers… Almost zero information available … restless sleep … 3 a.m. cab to hotel at the periphery of the no-entry zone in Boston... SWAT team … armored cars … machine guns … hundreds of freedom’s guardians at the ready to ensure that Paul Revere’s ride had not been in vain… “Take-home lesson: It is sometimes better to be a tortoise than a hare, particularly when there is blood up ahead!” Editor’s Note: Wally’s report prompted me to Google “Perils of Pauline”; the report makes more gripping reading! Jeanne and Chuck Halleck have celebrated their 43rd wedding anniversary and were pleased that the family was featured on the cover of the May Williams People. As this is written, they will be packing for a visit to children, grandchildren and two great-grandsons in Washington, D.C. If People were a regular broadsheet paper, we could have an “Arts and Literature” section for this issue. Pete deLisser writes that he will soon publish On the Pier in Piermont—100 poems with color photographs. For his 80th birthday, his family bought him a solid bench, which rests on the mile-long pier that juts into the Hudson River near his house. He writes daily. Titles such as “A Conversation with a Seagull,” and “Do You Know Moss Reflects the Sun?” Pete keeps in touch with Bill Rodie, Pete Fisher and Stu Duffield ’50 and attended Bill Sperry’s funeral service. On Memorial Day, Pete read “On Flanders Fields” at the Piermont parade and program. As a veteran, it triggered memories of our classmate and roommate Bill Anderson, RAF flying officer, who died many years ago as a test pilot. Joe McElroy concludes his report of what is happening currently in his very busy life by writing, “I thank my work and my family and friends (many new, young friends, too) and in my cloud of unknowing maybe inscrutable powers as well, for health, curiosity and the additional stresses of a supremely interesting life.” That “life” includes: a son, recently a college graduate, who has opened a recording studio in Manhattan, is attracting clients and already has a record out on iTunes; Joe’s wife, Barbara Ellman, is readying an out-of-town show with 100 paintings and over 100 drawings; Joe’s ninth novel, Cannonball, published in mid-June, as well as a reprint of his 1971 Ancient History with introduction by Jonathan Lethem. Joe covers lots of ground in his report, and there is one topic that, to me, is especially significant. He writes: “New England Review is running a brief section of a nonfiction water book I’m at last completing this year. I’m speaking June 14 in the New York PS1/MoMA ‘Speculations’ series. My subject, a global ethic for water arising in part from science and the arts. I went to India last September-October on a research inquiry into flood control projects in Mumbai. Some e-books available now.” Editor’s Note: I wish I could have been in New York to hear Joe speak; he is touching on one of the half dozen or so areas that are likely to influence all lives over the next hundred years. Next, we come to a note from a classmate who invokes his right to privacy, saying twice, 16

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“confidential and privileged information” and claiming to be “the first person who was dropped from Corrective Comp since 1803.” It takes all kinds. Al Schlosser (“one putt” to those who receive his emails) writes that he and Jackie attended memorial services for both Jon O’Herron and Bill Sperry, where they joined Brad Purcell, Stu Duffield ’50, Ellen and Dick Siegel, Joe Callahan and Pete deLisser. A note from Patrick Graham reports that he and Eric Showers had a nice visit with Jon a few weeks before he died. Dottie and George Dorion organized a very successful luncheon for alumni in the Ponte Vedra area, attracting attendees from as far back as the Class of 1944. The speaker was Statistics Professor Dick De Veaux, whose topic was “Data Mining: Fool’s Gold—Or the Mother Lode.” He made a difficult subject amusing but, then, that is to be expected from a man who in his spare time performs with a doo-wop group, “The Diminished Faculty.” Tad Jeffrey writes that, in celebration of 62 years of a happy marriage, he and Nancy are installing “Nancy’s Folly,” an indoor swimming pool attached to their house. He observes that the pool is likely to cost about five times what they paid for the house 50 years ago. Editor’s Note: Bravo, Nancy! Most of Tad’s classmates can hardly get into the shower let alone jump into and climb out of the pool. Dick Siegel writes that his cataract surgery result was “beyond my fondest expectation” and that his recent back treatment “has relieved the worst pains” and he is “no longer walking like the hunchback of Notre Dame,” and he is looking forward to the tennis season. Editor’s Note: One of the uplifting aspects of this assignment is that, even though there are fewer and fewer of us still standing, we keep looking up and ahead rather than back and down! What better way to wrap up than to recount the report from Don Gregg, who has now added a class of West Point seniors to his teaching résumé, which already includes several January sessions at Williams. The following is excerpted from a letter he wrote in April to the Board of the Pacific Century Institute of which he is chairman. At a dinner following a talk by Col. Cindy Jebb, head of the Department of Social Sciences at West Point, Don noted that she wore paratrooper wings and “told her that (he) had gone through parachute training, under alias as a young CIA officer, in 1951. We then had a hilarious conversation about what had scared us most and discovered that the three-week course I went through 62 years ago is totally unchanged. Perhaps as a result of that conversation, Col. Jebb invited me to … speak at West Point, an invitation I was delighted to accept. “I had last spoken at West Point in the mid to late 1980s. … I found the academy then still to be under the dark shadow of Vietnam—faculty saddened by the number of graduates … killed in a war they thought should never have been fought … curriculum … still seemed to carry great emphasis on past battles … and how they had been won or lost… “Things have changed greatly since then. The Department of Social Sciences now offers 65

1951–52 courses—philosophy, cultural anthropology, economics, history, political science, intelligence and policy, terrorism, international security issues … many other related fields. The motto of the department is ‘humani nihil alienum,’ meaning ‘nothing in the human condition is alien to us,’ adopted in the last 20 years—clearly since I had last spoken there.” In speaking to 25 senior cadets, the colonel “hoped that I would raise issues that they might not hear about from other guest speakers: speaking truth to power, terrible consequences of torture and when to break the rules. “The cadets, male and female, were impressive physically and full of purpose—sizing me up the minute I walked into the room … not at all deferential … word that comes to mind is ‘formidable.’ … Their questions—penetrating, particularly those dealing with my story of breaking the rules as a CIA officer when I protested torture by the Korean CIA when I had been told not to … resulted in the firing of the KCIA director and his replacement who … specifically forbade further torture. “After my talk, several cadets came up to talk with me. One young man said, ‘I don’t think I would have the guts… You risked everything.’ I replied, ‘I decided that how I felt about myself was more important than how the CIA felt about me.’ “I left West Point deeply impressed by all I had seen… At a time when many Americans are disappointed with Congress, skeptical about integrity or lack thereof along Wall Street and appalled by the influence of the gun lobby, it is good to be able to think of a key institution like West Point, which, through its constant efforts to stay attuned to the world as it is, produces such magnificent young leaders…” Earlier, Don wrote of the students he had met, “I am deeply gratified that both Williams and West Point are attracting young people of their stature and background.”

1952 Alec Robertson, 3 Essex Meadows, Essex, CT 06426;

[email protected] After quite a cold and rainy spring, warm weather finally appeared in late May. Judy and I looked forward to going on a Williams trip around the Black Sea in July with John Hyde and hoped for a lessening of the unrest in Turkey, as Istanbul was to be our takeoff and return port of call. Jane and President Bill Missimer informed me that spring had “finally sprung in the foothills of the Berkshires, and the blueberry bushes are demanding attention. … We were delighted to hear of Doug Foster’s Alumni Fund award in recognition of his years of faithful and effective service. Hope to see many classmates at the ‘mini’ in early October.” Betty and Howard Martin stated: “No overseas travel this year. Just three weddings of grandchildren this summer! It is a bit much for the set of parents to whom all three belong. We are thrilled with the new in-laws, but since all three will be ‘Big Fat Greek Weddings,’ even we as grandparents are slightly overwhelmed.” Bob Riegel wrote that he and Keren had a great but hot trip to Thailand and Myanmar. “We

discovered that April is the hottest month of the year there. The great Irrawaddy River was down to a few feet deep from over 30 feet during monsoons. We saw thousands of the many pagodas and Buddhas and had a small boat trip for 11 days on the river called ‘The Road to Mandalay.’ Keren still does some counseling and training of counselors. Occasionally I will take services at churches where the rector is away or sick. A few times the cathedral has asked me to help with funerals and other services. I discovered, as perhaps many of you have, that retirement takes away patterns of living and meaningful work. But I am beginning to enjoy it. Sorry that I don’t get back for reunions.” Don Martin stated that he and Jacquie will be sorry to miss the minireunion, as they will be in Spain. They want to make sure they can attend Pete Gurney’s play at the Flea, as they think that is a great venue. Frank Olmsted is very active and not retiring. “I’m on the Judicial Administration Section Council and the Special Committee on Voir Dire of the Maryland State Bar Association, and I also serve on the State Code Revision Committee. They are fun. Most of the others on these bodies are smarter that I, so being on the committees gives my mind the exercise it needs. We have five black cats. They are sweet. The eldest belongs to our neighbors, but she likes to be petted, and have her kittens, at our house. The neighbors don’t mind. The other four are her kittens.” “About this time last year we were gathering in Williamstown for our great 60th reunion,” recounted Fred Goldstein. “What a wonderful weekend, and what a great job the reunion committee did!  The memories are still lingering, and I am still overwhelmed by the way the class and college honored me. Although retired, I still try to keep in touch. President Bill Missimer is doing a terrific job. Nicky and Paige L’Hommedieu and the Goldsteins enjoyed their last “Lyrics and Lyricists” series at the 92nd Street Y in New York. It was a great series this year, and we were joined by Joan and Jim Manning for one earlier. Emily Kraft and Edwen and I were looking forward to our annual visit with Nicky and Paige at their place in the Adirondacks in July. We hoped to see Marigold and Bob Bischoff while there. Finally, I talked to Pete Gurney recently. He is beginning casting for his new play, which will be coming on at the Flea Theatre in New York in the fall. If you live in the New York area or would like to be included, stay tuned or let me know, as we will be planning a theater afternoon and evening (show and dinner afterwards).” Bill Hatch replied: “Right now Pat and I are very busy with a graduation (our granddaughter from high school), a funeral in Chicago and a wedding in Indianapolis (a grand-nephew of Pat’s). After that we are on R&R. Not happy with what is going on in Washington. I am concerned about the economy because I believe we are on a slippery slope. If interest rates rise, which they will eventually, we could see a correction in the market, a slowdown in hiring and more unemployment—not a good outlook. Also there seems to be no answer to the problems in the Middle East. Other than that everything is rosy.” (Rosy indeed. —Alec) SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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Ted Chasteney. “Looking forward to our 65th in a

few years, God willing! I am enjoying retirement.” Ted planned to take part in a Williams sponsored trip—National Parks & Lodges of the Old West— June 20 through July 13. Spoke to John Hyde about the Williams trip around the Black Sea in July. He said he’d be going on a “busman’s holiday” and would not be speaking officially, although I am sure his comments were valuable along the way. Bea Fuller sent an informative note about the family. “The good news from the Fullers is that grandson Devlin Nelligan is accepted into the Williams Class of 2017. He will represent the third generation of Fullers at Williams and gives me a good reason to return to Williamstown. He is the second oldest of our 14 grandchildren. The oldest, Vince Kindfuller, just completed his first year at MIT. I hope to see some of you this fall.” Bob Bischoff wrote: “Kudos to our grandson, who graduated from Williams on a soggy-hot June 2. Mike Ormsbee ’13 did his parents and grandparents proud by finishing up magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Mike has his next year set up, going to Singapore on a ‘Princeton in Asia’ assignment to teach English to high schoolers there in that exotic city. His parents, Elisabeth Bischoff-Ormsbee ’83 and John Ormsbee ’83, went back to Williamstown for their 30th reunion the next weekend. I imagine that they did quite a lot of celebrating! Marigold and I had a three-week stay in southern California in late April and May, visiting with our youngest daughter, who works for the Southern California Tennis Assn. Meg had the misfortune to fall down some steps while we were there but was a trooper despite the pain that the contusions gave her. All better now, fortunately.” “Busy with getting settled at our summer home on Lake Willoughby in northeastern Vermont, where we will be welcoming many kids and grandkids,” replied Swifty Swift. “Finally have an offer to sell our home in St. Michaels, Md.” He hoped to close by mid-August. “If so, we’re planning to buy a small winter place in Green Valley, Ariz., about 30 miles south of Tucson and a wonderful area for retired folks—lots to do and very inexpensive.” Rick Wheeler chimed in with the following: “You all provided Betty Ann and me with an extraordinary degree of support during those last two years of my studies! To this day, we still find ourselves recalling the many times that we all came together, such as the sports events, Betty Ann’s performance in Steve Sondheim’s ’50 play and the many other Williams gatherings that brought us together. For that we both send to all of you our deepest thanks and appreciation! Betty Ann is in the fourth month of recuperation from a ‘reverse full shoulder replacement’ back in mid-February. I have been fully on hand reflecting those marriage vows! Our beloved house ‘Windrift’ on Cape Cod suffered greatly from the several winter storms. Fortunately, the next generation has stepped up to help us greatly in the management. Carrying on from my major in American history, I am still quite actively involved with our Minute Man National Historic Park as well as a locally formed group dedicated 18

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to continuing study of the American Revolution. Both Duke Curtis and I are charter members! Our warmest best to all.” I am sad to report the death of our admired classmate Tom Evans on June 11 in Bay Harbor Islands, Fla. Having been a decorated Marine (a Silver Star and two Purple Hearts), a graduate of Columbia Law School, and having received a EdD from Piedmont College, Tom went on to a fine law career as a partner at Mudge Rose Guthrie & Alexander. He also was chairman of Teachers College Board at Columbia University, the author of two bestselling books, a star in the Republican Party, and a contributor to many eleemosynary causes. Tom was a champion of educational outreach efforts, and he established a program in which lawyers mentored students in New York schools. Tom is survived by Lois Evans, his wife of 56 years, three children and eight grandchildren. We will miss him.

1953 Stephen W. Klein, 378 Thornden St., South Orange, N.J.

07079; [email protected] A 60th reunion record, 51 members of the class of ’53 plus two honorary members and 42 wives/ friends gathered in Williamstown the weekend of June 6-9. High praise to Todd Mauck for his thoughtful preparation and excellent organization for our reunion. List of participants follows: John Allan, Dudley Baker, Joan and Robert Bauer, John Beard, Tom Belshe, Mary and Tom Brucker, Inge and Gordon Canning, Nancy and Woody D’Oench, John Dighton, Tess and Dave Doheny, Dick Ellis, Lucy and Pete Fetterolf, Carol and Dan Fitch, Joy and Walter Flaherty, Mary French and Dorie Friend, Marian and Mike Goldstein, Marjorie and Slim Harkins, Marianne and George Hartnett, John Hewett, Barbara and Bob Howard, Pamela Dana and Bud Hudson, Paula and Stuart Jay, Don Jones, Joanne and Steve Klein, Tess and Derry Kruse, Joan Clear and Mike Lazor, Happy and Todd Mauck, Ann and John McDermott, Daphne and Tiger McGill, Mary and Jack Merselis, Sally and Harry Molwitz, Gretchen and Bob Morrison, Anne and Charlie Mott, Judy and Art Murray, Peg Norwood, Janis and John Notz, Elizabeth and Bob Ouchterloney, Lorraine and Dave Petersen, Granthia and Fred Preston, Mike Puffer, Marlie and Don Rand, Maren and Tim Robinson, Sheila Thomson and Bob Sillcox, Joanne and Mac Sims, Evie and George Stege, Nancy and Pete Sterling, Barbara and Ted Terry, Sharon and Jim Tompkins, Bobbye and Bob Tucker, Barbara Weedon, Linda and John Whitney, Linda and Bill Williams, and Joe Worthington. Among those traveling the longest distance appropriately were the long-distance swimmers on the Williams swim team, Don Jones and Joe Worthington, who were able to have this year’s long-distance swimmers’ reunion in Williamstown. Other West Coast entries were Tom Belshe from San Rafael, Calif., and from the Pacific Northwest Tom Brucker and George Stege. The weather improved sufficiently Saturday morning for the Alumni Parade, with many from the class

1952–54 actually on foot. At the Joseph’s Coat luncheon Pete Sterling was this year’s acclaimed winner. A murmur unheeded called for restoring the House of Walsh to Spring Street. It did not appear that Sterling’s jacket was tailored by anyone who ever knew the Walsh brothers. Pete had a good visit with Susan and Peter Connolly in what Susan refers to as their “new port” in Hingham, Mass. Tennis courts dried and Harry Molwitz, John Beard, Pete Fetterolf and Pete Sterling were able to get in their tennis match. Sally Molwitz presided from the umpire’s chair. She concluded that she is not yet ready for a similar position at the U.S. Open. It might be noted that even a slightly subdued Walter Flaherty is still easily the most dapper of the class. Bob Ouchterloney tells of losing some 8-9 kilos on his new, no-wheat diet. He happily has traded ice cream for bread. Bob generally gets to his office three times per week and also journeys to Garden City to see Hank Schreier. Bob Sillcox stays in touch with his fellow Canadian and our sometime classmate Tony Griffiths but was unable to prevail upon him to attend our reunion. Statesman Charlie Mott and Bob Morrison monitored the nominating process for the slate of class officers. President John Dighton and the other incumbents, in the usual democratic manner, were the proposed slate and, at the class meeting, all were re-elected with a unanimous vote of one posted by the class secretary. Needless to say, it is a great class, and it was a magnificent reunion. A conflict prevented Don Goldstein from attending the reunion. A festschrift was organized in Don’s honor by Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Woman’s Hospital. A number of Don’s protégés, now scattered throughout the U.S., came to present papers. The final paper was presented by Don, which was a history and summary of his 50-plus years as doctor and professor of medicine. A festive dinner followed at the Harvard Club for friends, family and attendees. Don has been a full professor at Harvard since 1998, in which role he will continue. More information about Don and his career and interests will be in the next class notes. Bill Kimbrough has sold their Lexington, Ky., house. A son, previously on the faculty of the University of Kentucky, has been lured to Oklahoma State in Stillwater as department chairman. Consequently, Janice and Bill plan to spend most of the year in their home in Belleair, Fla.

1954 REUNION JUNE 12-15 Al Horne, 7214 Rebecca Drive, Alexandria, VA 22307;

[email protected] The first thing you should know is that we whose classes are now more than 50 years old are no longer called the Old Guard. Our new official name is the Greylocks. That may or may not explain why so few of us made it to Williamstown for the reunion in June. A more likely explanation is that we are making advance plans to arrive en masse for the 60th reunion next year, Greylocks or not. As sparse as our out-of-town contingent was, the larger void was the absence of one of our local luminaries, Pokey Kalker, who was in a hospital in Pittsfield. Sadly, she died a few days later. She was

a gracious and welcoming focus of our gatherings, both as Phil Kalker’s wife and as his widow, and she will be sorely missed. For the record, those who attended our 59th reunion were Shirley and Jim Carpenter, Mary Jo and Russ Carpenter, Hugh Germanetti, Ann and Al Horne, Mal Kane, Harry Montgomery with Audrey Clarkson, Sonnie and Bob Murdock, Bill Stott, and Dan Tritter with Jacqueline Laroche. Daphne and Bob McGill, another of our Williamstown couples, were also present but spent the weekend with his original class of 1953, which was celebrating its 60th. Mal Kane, a faithful attendee at many of these reunions, spent some time in Williamstown earlier in the year researching the history of the Garfield Club. The club, Mal found, was started early in the administration of Harry Garfield, president from 1908 to 1934, as the Commons Club for nonfraternity students. It was renamed in his honor in 1935 and played a significant role in the process that led eventually to the end of the fraternity system by voting in 1952 to threaten to dissolve itself. If you’re interested in a copy of Mal’s paper, send him a message at [email protected] or phone him at 410.750.3179. In May, the Rhode Island Senate passed a resolution honoring several state residents for their roles in restoring the official portrait of William Sprague, who served as the state’s governor from 1860 to 1863, and among those honored was one of our class’s art majors, John Miller of Narragansett, who served on the committee that arranged the restoration. The work was done at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, which is housed in the Stone Hill Center, the newest building of the Clark Art Institute. Bob McGill is a past president of the conservation center’s board, and Jim Moltz is a trustee of the Clark. After that news from the art world, it’s time for some news of music. Dan Tritter reports that he and Jacqueline ran into Barbara and Sedge Ward at a Metropolitan Opera performance of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at New York’s Lincoln Center. Wasn’t it Mark Twain who said that Wagner’s music is better than it sounds? Now for some legal news: Curt Titus reports that he left his law firm in Farmington, Conn., after it merged into a firm in Hartford at the end of last year. “Since most of my clients are in the greater Waterbury and Litchfield County areas, I came back to Waterbury and cut my 40-minute commute in half,” Curt writes. “Now I am of counsel to the law firm of Tinley, Nastri, Renehan & Dost, doing business law, real estate and land use law, and enjoying every minute.” Curt has six children and 12 grandchildren and says he hopes to make our 60th reunion next year. Finally, in a rare sighting of a long-unheard-from classmate, our man in Paris Laurie Craig spotted a letter to the editor of the Financial Times newspaper signed by a D.P. Marchessini of London. Yes, that’s our Jim Marchessini, commenting on an article about Lean In, a highly publicized book on women’s roles in their careers and marriages. Laurie sent his find to Dan Tritter, who sent it to your scribe. SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s “Most women today,” Jim wrote, “ignore the fact that men are not obliged to marry and, unless they are very stupid, they will not marry unless marriage improves their way of life. Women need husbands—as fathers for their children, to support their families and for emotional support, but men do not need wives, and they are not going to marry women unless the terms are to their liking.” According to Jim’s letter, “The deal has always been that the man supports the family while the wife looks after the children, the house and the husband. If these terms are now changed, or broken, then what is the husband getting? In previous centuries, men had to marry in order to go to bed with women, but that is no longer true. There is general promiscuity. So, what do men get from marriage today?” Our classmate, using his formal name of Demetri, has published three books and conducts an online blog that you can find at this site: marchessini. co.uk. His books are called Scams & Hypocrisy: The Cancer of Our Age; Modern Myths & The Realities Behind Them; and a photo collection with commentary called Women in Trousers: A Rear View.

1955 Norm Hugo, 37 Carriage Lane, New Canaan, CT 06840;

[email protected] Sadly, we lost another dear friend and classmate. Fred Bennett succumbed to pancreatic cancer. Carole cared for him during his final days and was an angel of mercy. Our class condolences have been sent to her. I attended the memorial service for Terry White at St. John’s in Williamstown along with Carolyn and Bobby Behr, Sandy and Ted Bowers, Sharon and John DuBois, Sandy Laitman, Debbie and Bill Montgomery and Susan and Phil Smith. Terry’s closest friend since early childhood, Bill Montgomery, delivered the uplifting eulogy. The service closed with a capella singing of “Neath the Shadow of the Hills” and “The Mountains.” On May 16 Bobby Behr sent out a summary of how our 25th and 50th reunion gifts are performing. Our indefatigable Treasurer Sandy Laitman has solicited sufficient funds to establish the Irwin Shainman Memorial Scholarship. Irwin was our first Class of ’55 Professor. Bill Fall lives in a retirement community for officers in Leesburg, Va. Pals with lots of wonderful folks and retains his love for history by leading tours to sites in DC. Don Everett sees George Olmstead when on the Cape. Produces news releases for Environmental Learning Center. Still playing golf and tennis. Sandy Fargo has a new address: 23053 Westchester Boulevard, Apt. G514, Port Charlotte, Fla., 33980. Stan Foster retired from the CDC 15 years ago and continued teaching in public health at Emory. But he is now winding up with a final lecture: “50 Years in Public Health, Lessons Learned and Visions for the Future.” It may be viewed online at http://bit.ly/16EeUMw. Stan and family summer at Lake Winnipesaukee, NH., along with 40 Foster cousins at the family compound established generations ago. I had lunch with Roger Friedman, and he and Pat are hale and hearty. We reminisced about the good 20

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old days and vowed to keep active. Steve Gordon and Dorie were tooling along at 50 mph on the Hutchinson Parkway when Steve noted in the rearview mirror a car approaching at breakneck speed. And then it rear-ended them and sent them backward down the parkway at 50 mph, stopping only when they hit a concrete barricade. Miraculously they walked away, but the car was totaled. Steve spends his quieter moments giving one-man art shows (two recently) which have been well received. Steve stays in touch with Larry Pomerance and Sol Sevy, who has homes in British Columbia and San Francisco. Chan Headley had a couple of careers working in the insurance business and later teaching at a junior college. Teaching was his passion. His son is Phil Headley ’86. Stays in touch with Frank Rosenbach. Paul Hunn is still single but squiring a couple of ladies. Have had lunch many times with Paul, and he is still full of pep. Taught grad courses in bank credit at both Columbia and U. of Virginia. Sees John Kern on his visits to New York from home in London. Two days after he arrived in New York, John learned of an explosion and fire which gutted his London flat. Fortunately his significant other escaped serious injury. John Innes has recently happily retired after 63 years. Started an electronic fund transfer system for thousands of banks. Recently recovered from glaucoma eye surgery. Married a Swiss lady and visits Switzerland frequently. In his younger days John was a Naval aviator. Bill Irwin took retirement at age 69 after managing radio stations—mostly in Pittsburgh—and then a second career as a stock broker. Dotes on a granddaughter who lives nearby. Sees Mac Fiske and Bill Montgomery. Don Kelley lives in Bennington and so visits the track every day at Williams. Has a bunch of grandkids playing lacrosse for Williamstown high school—maybe future stars at Williams. Stu Kleit lives in Florida after a successful career at Indiana University Medical Center where he was professor and chief of nephrology and associate dean at the medical school. Peter Loomis enjoys his two acres of shoreline overlooking Buzzards Bay and tinkering with his sailboat and motorboat. His grandkids exhibit great musical talent. Richard Maidman is still working as a lawyer and sees Roger Friedman frequently. Pete Maucher reminisced about the Pingry gang who went to Williams. Sold his business of records management and document storage and morphed into a real estate broker. Still active at Pingry. Ken Meyer retired from school administration in Harrison, N.Y., and is busy as chairman of maintenance for his condo and volunteering at Southbury Training School. His passion was teaching. Whitey Perrott celebrated his 80th birthday in Vero Beach surrounded by classmates Ted Bowers, Don Everett, Paul Quinn, Bill Regan and Bob Wilkes. Whitey completed a most successful Alumni Fund, reaching an 86 percent contribution rate and placing him as the best agent the class has ever had. Congratulations! Fred Paton made a six-month appointment with his ophthalmologist and the night before his visit had a stroke and lost vision in one eye. He made it to the appointment and saved further damage. Able to drive but walking a bit harder. Fred is using his banking skills by being the treasurer of the gift shop at his retirement

1954–56 facility. Bill Pogue lost the function of the hair cells in the utricle which control balance, resulting in some vertigo. This has not slowed him down, and he volunteers for Rotary by mentoring high school students in service projects. He also works with elementary students to combat bullying. On his own he visits pediatric hospitals as a clown with his small Maltese dog and bills his act as Beware of the Dog. His daughter just received a Doctor of Divinity, and she is an Episcopal priest. Bob Wilkes was back summering in Manchester, Vt., and saw Whitey Perrott and a few younger Williams grads. His rheumatologist is Class of ’58. Still an avid golfer, but for some reason the ball does not go as far. Bob returned from Richmond, Va., where his grandson graduated high school prior to going into the Navy, allowing some maturation prior to college. Ed Wilkins, a widower since ’09, is happily retired from a career as a consultant for executive search and evaluation. Mel Bearns read the last issue and was “inspired to send in a short summary of recent activities.” He wrote, “Deere and I set sail as planned from St. Thomas to Barcelona on the Seabourn Legend on April 5, ready for a 3,800-mile crossing to Barcelona via the Madeiras and Gibraltar. All went splendidly, as usual, until Deere got blindsided by an unexpected wave that hit the ship just as we were leaving the dining room after dinner five days out from the VI. She lost her balance and fell, breaking the fifth metatarsal in her left foot. The ship’s doctor did X-rays and bound things up, advising us to see an ortho specialist as soon as we got home. Meanwhile, he provided us with a fine, compact wheelchair for her to get around on while on board, and we did quite well from then on.” Mel continued, writing that he and Deere “toured about Funchal in an AWD Land Rover over some spectacular goat trails. The Madeiras are all volcanicformed, and the island was one of the most vertical and striking places I’ve ever seen. At one point we stopped at an overlook cantilevered out over a beach 1,500 feet straight down. The floor is steel mesh you can see through, a terrible sight for anyone, like me, with acrophobia, and even worse the center part is transparent glass or plastic and the feeling is even stronger. I was land-sick from so many days at sea, and the ground was continually rocking and rolling wherever I was, so I practically had to get down and crawl off the overlook on my hands and knees.” The Bearnses travels also included Gibraltar and Barcelona, where they “spent a few days seeing the sights, eating great food and drinking excellent wine from Catalunya. Highly recommend the Hotel Colon right on the plaza in front of the downtown cathedral, right on the edge of the Barri Gotic, aka Gothic Quarter, and close to the Ramblas. “From Barcelona,” Mel writes, “we flew on to London and hung out for a few days on at a lovely small hotel on Sloane Square, stomping ground for the famous Sloane Rangers way back when, then back home via, once more, Reykjavik to take advantage of IcelandAir’s great prices and service in business class.” Mel concluded, “Next up, daughter Courtney Bearns’ ’07 wedding to her long-standing (since fall of her freshman year) S.O. Bartley Tablante

’07. This mega-event takes place late June in

Connecticut, and the whole collective family will be descending from all over to join the crowd. The Far East is on the board for February and will be duly reported.” Charley Bradley remains upbeat in spite of spending time in PT and with a personal trainer. He would love to hear from classmates (914.762.5369).

1956 Vern Squires, 727 Ardsley Road, Winnetka, IL 60093;

[email protected] In a relieved change of pace, this article does not commence with a report of deaths of classmates. But a reminder of the occurrence of these sad events over the past 12 months came with a note from the college which listed classmates’ spouses who, as widows, were elected as honorary members of the Society of Alumni at the annual meeting in June. They were: Jacquelyn Crocker, Helen Davis, Mary Ford and Gail Jenkins. Now to the latest news of the upbeat variety. One of the first persons I met at Williams in September 1952 was Jim Squiers. After too long a period of no communication, he obliged my request for information with a delightful letter. He reflected that he spent so many of his last three years ostensibly at Williams but actually on visits to Skidmore, that he jokingly tells people that he is a Skidmore graduate. However, it worked out well; he is indeed a member in good standing in the Williams Class of ’56, and he has been married to Carol—a Skidmore graduate—for 55 years. Jim spent 40 years in the stock brokerage business in Chappaqua, N.Y., and then he and Carol moved to Greenwich, Conn., in 2005 where they built a house. Except for visits to Saratoga and Florida, Greenwich remains their home. Jim and Carol have three daughters and eight grandchildren. Wally Jensen wrote with some good news and bad news. The bad news was that he developed acute coronary insufficiency resulting in an emergency coronary angiogram and two stents. The good news is that the procedure was a success, and Wally will be back to playing tennis very soon. But the really good news is that he has finished writing a novel! Their Unbridled Rivalry will be selfpublished soon through Amazon.com. Ironically, the novel begins with the heroine in medical straits very similar to those unexpectedly arriving on Wally’s doorstep. Bob Bethune wrote from his home in Toronto, Canada, to say that he was pleased to read news about some of his football and hockey comrades from days of yore, e.g., Tim Hanan and Steve Gilman. Bob still sees, on a regular basis, classmates who come to Ontario for the summer, e.g., Kirt Gardner and Bill Jenks. Bob and his wife departed for Europe in June for a three-week trip, including visits to London and Leipzig. I had a nice note from Rod Ward, who with Susan had just returned from their Cape Town winter quarters. Rod has moved to “of counsel” status with the Skadden Arps law firm, but he remains “as busy as I want to be” with his position as chairman of the Winterthur Garden and Library SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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reunions at Williams! God willing, I look forward to seeing our classmates at the next reunion.” And speaking of Chip Mann, a nice card arrived which observed that, after his retirement from Harvard in 2002 as an international development advisor, he has been producing educational documentaries about topics he worked on while at Harvard. Take a look at www.DER.org (which stands for Documentary Educational Resources) and enter the search term “Charles Mann”; you will find a list of projects on which Chip has worked, drawing on his experience as a working economist for seven years in Turkey. DER was founded in 1968 with the mission of developing thought-provoking documentary films and media for learning about the people and cultures of the world. Those who attended our 55th reunion will recall that Chip presented one of his films to an appreciative group of classmates and other attendees. A phone conversation with Dan Berman elicited both history and current news. First item of note: Dan called from his office in Salt Lake City, indicating that he is still practicing law, even if on a reduced basis. Dan started with a law firm in NYC but left for Utah in 1960 where he joined the faculty at the University of Utah Law School. But law firms soon followed where he specialized in complex commercial and antitrust litigation. Dan has a great variety of non-legal interests: He has a ranch in a beautiful part of southwest Wyoming, is an avid bird-watcher, enjoys the company of his 125-pound Great Dane and has an extensive collection of Western art. Denny Makepiece sent one of the most succinct messages ever. He recalled the story of a newspaper reporter contacting actor Cary Grant on the latter’s birthday. “How old, Cary Grant?” The actor replied: “Old Cary Grant fine, how you?” To which, Denny added: “We’re fine.” Bill Mauritz wrote to say that he and Carolyn are well and enjoying life in Rye, N.Y. Over the Memorial Day weekend they welcomed Martha and Bill Merizon to their home. A short while later they journeyed to Chicago for a charitable foundation board meeting and took advantage of the trip to have dinner with Toni and Ken Harkness, Ausrene and Bill Kerr and Gay Taylor. Speaking of Gay, in early April, Judy and I had the pleasure of having dinner with her in Vero Beach, where we were visiting friends. Travels often constitute a part of these reports, and this article is no exception. In March, a Williamssponsored trip (along with Dartmouth and Duke) saw four classmates gathered together on the same cruise ship. Joanie and Jock Duncan, Elinor and Sig Balka, Mary and Jim Edgar and Barbara and Bill Zeckhausen enjoyed a “Cruise to the Lesser Antilles,” originating in and returning to Puerto Rico with stops in between at St. Maarten, St. Kitts, Dominica, Antigua, St. Barts and Virgin Gorda. (Unfortunate footnote: Judy and I were supposed to be the fifth Williams couple on the cruise but a lastsecond death in the family required our canceling out.) It was a great trip—wonderful abundant food, excellent performances and interesting lectures, islands and activities. For Bill, a special feature was the presence of Dave Krehbiel ’55, with whom Bill

1956–57 studied at night in the geology lab and then joined in more studying at New College, the theological seminary in Edinburgh. The only blemish on the trip, confirmed in phone calls I had with both Sig and Dave Krehbiel, was the day when the seas were so rough that the ship-to-shore boat couldn’t make it. If anyone was seasick, it remains unreported. “Escaping tear gas in Turkey” might have been the preface to the adventures of Paula and Tink Campbell, but they got in and out of Turkey in May before the trouble started. They had a terrific twoweek trip to Greece and Turkey, enjoying visits to Ephesus, the Halicarnassus Mausoleum in Bodrum (Turkey) and a grand tour of the incomparable city of Istanbul. Tink says, as I hope others do, that he and Paula plan to be at the Vero Beach minireunion in March. I had a very interesting letter from John Knapton, whose name may not be familiar to many but who is, nonetheless, a member of the Class of ’56. John received his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Massachusetts and then came to Williams for an MA in physics in 1956, serving as a graduate assistant in the process. Although John refers to himself as a “non-Williams man,” that degree in 1956 is good enough to make him a classmate in good standing. John spoke appreciatively of his in-depth studies in statistical thermo, atomic physics and quantum mechanics under Professors Ralph Winch and David Park. (That is a world away from political science under James Burns ’39 and Fred Greene). An interesting career followed: work at the Ballistic Research Laboratory (later the U.S. Army Research Lab) for 41 years as an experimental physicist and then, upon retirement, part-time work for GeoCenters (later the Science Application International) for 14 years, all the while finding time to work with employees at major U.S. companies, several small business companies and joint programs with colleagues in Germany, France and the UK. Now in full retirement, John enjoys gardening and is experimenting with the propagation of coffee tree cuttings. In a touching conclusion to his letter, John related how, many years ago, his wife fell victim to multiple myeloma, a serious blood disorder, and was given six months to live. However, that was 17 years ago! By turning to a non-standard medical treatment, she survived and currently shows no sign of the disease even though the medical community still does not generally accept her form of treatment. It is always nice to hear from John Garfield. He recalled his involvement at the 25th and 30th reunions but then slid into a “fading away” period. But the trip to Oxford prior to the 50th reunion renewed old friendships and made new friendships, and John’s involvement was further renewed with the 50th and 55th reunions. He and Sylvia have over 50 years of blissful marriage and, as he put it, “The 21st century has given us the chance to retire to New Hampshire, where the traffic is slower and both taxes and welfare are minimal (allegedly). We are a bit slower, too; the joints and the heart and other body parts don’t work quite so well! But we are pretty happy, I think.” To close this article on a light note, I will relate what I view as one of the great all-time job

descriptions. After the untimely death last year of our Class Treasurer Tony Fisher, Dave Snow (Tony’s successor) wrote to Bob Schumacher seeking some information on our balances or payables. Bob’s reply: “Welcome to the easiest class officer job on the planet—1956 has no money, no general operating accounts and no payables! In other words, the title was created in 2011 because the college wants every class to have a treasurer for some unknown reason down the road.” And now to sign off with this important thought: Place on your calendars the minireunion in Vero Beach for March 5-8, 2014 (where perhaps Sy Becker and Wally Jensen will appear for book signings).

1957 Richard P. Towne, 13 Silverwood Terrace, South Hadley,

MA 01075; [email protected] Continuing where we left off in my quest for Western perspective from our class, I heard from two notable members among the medical profession: Courtney Brown and Eric Butler. Courtney, known to us back then as Warren, still practices orthopedic surgery in Golden, Colo., where he moved after graduating from Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons and residency at New York’s St. Luke’s Hospital. That’s where he met and married his wife Ingrid. In Colorado, he’s been written up as part of the medical team covering the U.S. Ski Team. He’s authored numerous medical articles and book chapters and has taught at Children’s Hospital of Denver on orthopedic medicine. “I can only speak for Colorado as a Westerner, but the main difference between here and the East for me is that professional relationships there often started on a basis of ‘why did you do that?’ versus ‘perhaps you should approach it another way.’ It took me at least 10 years or more to correct my approach and thus get along in civil fashion with my peers. Perhaps bigger western cities are the same as New York. However, when I have been in those locations, they do not appear to be so.” Candor remains among Courtney’s many strong points. Another Western doctor we know is Len Kirschner. Lenny is at it again with a series of letters to the editors of The Arizona Republic, Wall Street Journal, etc., from his Litchfield Park home about federal healthcare policy. It seems when Arizona adopted its Healthcare Cost Containment System in 1982, Len was the director of Planned Parenthood in that state. They sued the feds over the exclusion of abortion funding by Arizona, which it obtained as a waiver from the law. The suit was dropped when Arizona changed its mind by allowing abortion funding as a “covered benefit,” but the issue is now back on the table. The media has depicted Planned Parenthood during Len’s tenure as having “created 10,000 unwanted pregnancies.” Len’s wife takes exception to such a depiction of Len, as such a feat few of us could hope to achieve and most would not wish to have printed. Right on, Peggy, I’d say! Len was a New Yorker who left the East Coast after Albany Medical School for San Francisco, having never been farther west than Pennsylvania. His wife Peggy, whom he SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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experience that happened last February, Graham tells me he spent the winter in Vermont’s North Kingdom journeying with Barbara to Montpelier on crutches to watch theatrical performances there following an accident while tending to one of his sugar maple tree buckets. While using a stepladder resting against the tree, he fell, resulting in a broken femur and six weeks of recuperation. I knew he was made of tougher stuff when he moved from Lawrenceville’s dormitories to become the caretaker of a Vermont tree farm, but I never expected he’d prove this macho! We suburbanites don’t know the challenges we’re missing in life, do we? Not many of us combine an urge to do community service with an exercise program as George Welles told me he does, but that’s why George recently became involved with the Brockton Boys and Girls Club—as the part time janitor. “It’s very rewarding and honorable work that helps, too, with my daily exercise program,” he tells me. No stranger to an honorable cause, I can still remember reading about George and Annie in the Cape Cod Times when he retired as Provincetown’s Episcopal minister after years in this remote Outer Cape town, attending to the needs of its gay community during their struggles with AIDS. Now he and Annie have a new grandson. “Sebastian Patrick George Fredrico Welles, born on the Cape to Mary and our son Patrick, so we’re up to 15 grandchildren.” He continues, “Annie and I have just returned from five and a half weeks visiting our son Stephen and family that includes wife Jennifer, granddaughters Alexandra, 3, and Jacqueline, 1, in San Jose, Calif. We visit them at least once and sometimes twice a year. We celebrate our 55th wedding anniversary in June and two 60th school reunions, high school and boarding school, next fall. We see the Floods from time to time and are still trying to arrange a movie date with the Leinbachs and Gardners. If Nick Wright plans another 4th of July party that includes the 1957 Summer Scholars, he should send out a wider invitation so others in the class could attend. I wish that there were more opportunities to have contact with the ’57 Scholars, both undergraduates and graduates. I’ll bet some of the graduates are in the Boston area. Annie and I would love to host a gathering that would include members of our class as well.” This may not be exactly what George has in mind, but news from Bruce Dayton ’56 mentions a gathering planned in Vero Beach, where many snowbirds congregate, March 5-8 for Classes 195559. Watch for details to come in the next edition of class notes. Let’s catch up with some other folks you remember from the Nifty Fifties! Nancy and Ted Cobden have not moved as far west as most of the classmates I’ve written about, but they have moved in recent years—west to the Berkshires from Cape Cod and the Hartford area. They sent me an appreciative note from Stockbridge about my last column. I thank them heartily and use the opportunity to remind you I need your news regardless of where you live. Maybe next edition I’ll choose another area to ask the same question I asked the Westerners. Why did you choose the place you live in today, and what’s unique about your hometown compared to

1957–58 where you lived when you were at Williams? The character of the people there, their attitudes, their values—that’s what I’d most like to know about. Maybe the Southerners among us should have a try at the subject. My sample of the class would include anybody from the Beltway of DC to Florida and south of the Ohio River as far as Texas. If that’s where you live, think about what you could say about yourselves. Footnote: After these words were written, I received an email from Bob Behr ’55 about the Dahlbergs. Sadly for them, floodwaters destroyed many homes on their street, including much of theirs, according to The Calgary Herald. Pictures from the newspaper show Eric, assisted by his 10-year-old grandson, clearing debris from the front of their home and showing the reporter the damage to Janice’s Steinway pianos, living room and all else therein, where water reached “a meter above the elevated first floor.” The reporter describes him as “exuding an impossible positivity during the tour of his devastated home. ‘It’s almost revitalizing, believe it or not. It just gets you going again,’ he explains. But he’s not naive. Far from it.” That’s Eric, showing a Westerner’s optimism while dealing with the cruelty of Mother Nature.

1958 Dick Davis, 5732 East Woodridge Drive, Scottsdale, AZ

85254; [email protected] Our 55th reunion was hugely enjoyable, notwithstanding persistent rain, which utterly failed to dampen a single spirit. We kicked off on Thursday evening at the Chet Lasells. Chet and Kate had us entented, and the din and crowd were reminiscent of parties of a previous era. I noticed that nobody left before 8 p.m. when the last call for grub had sounded. Lunch Friday was terrific from a college point of view. As Chet noted, our class has made a huge contribution to the alma mater through former president and trustee Carl Vogt, Ephraim Williams Professor of American History Charley Dew and longtime physics professor Stu Crampton. The Friday program was Charley’s and Carl’s, and it was absorbing. Charley is chairman of the history department, chaired the committee on residential living and was the faculty representative and secretary to the trustees’ selection committee that chose President Falk. He talked about the present student body, its varied background and how it is far more nocturnal than we were (well, most of us). He indicated that faculty-administration relations are now quite positive, a trend which got going strong during Carl’s interim presidency. He also spoke fondly of Prof. Fred Rudolph ’42, who passed away in June. Carl endorsed President Falk’s decision to relinquish the traditional residence and acquire a home of his own in Williamstown. Phinney’s old house is a bit of a fishbowl now and not the best place to raise a family. The structure will be used for other purposes. Both Carl and Charley think the current administration has the potential to be a great one. The outdoor tent was a soggy mire, so we ate inside Dodd House Friday night. The swordfish

was outstanding. So were the earlier seminar programs, I heard from all who attended. The Williams Reunion Jazz Band played the mellowist kind of music both Friday and Saturday nights. Barbara Clifford told me they had a big gig up in Vermont Thursday night. I don’t see how Bob Kingsbury and Fred Clifford and colleagues do it, and do it so well. Saturday morning we paraded and heard from President Falk, trustees and others. Saturday evening was a delightful meal at the Williams Inn and a musical presentation by the Ephlats, led by Martha Williamson ’77, she of Touched by An Angel, and our board of trustees. There was a lusty sing along, featuring especially “Brush up Your Shakespeare.” I noticed Warren Clark didn’t miss one word of that classic and that everybody properly pronounced “Cleopatterer.” I detected special verve on the first part of the ancient Chinese verb “kow-tow.” The Sunday morning memorial service was especially poignant, with our recent losses of Matt Donner and George Vare and also David Seymour, who was with us freshman year. It’s not possible to give sufficient credit to Chet Lasell and Rick Driscoll and their spouses Kate and Jeanne and all the others who put together this fine gathering and weekend. Others I haven’t mentioned who attended were Dave Allan and Connie, Ron Anderson and Barbie, Jim Bowers and Susie, John Boyd and Linda, Betsy Clark, Jim Conlan and Virginia, Tom Connolly and Ann, Dave Cook and Loy, Stu Crampton and Susan, Denny Doucette, Denny Doyle and Barbara Galbraith, Don Freeman and Phyllis, Peter French, David Grossman and Jill, Bob Guyett and Sue, Bill Harter, Bob Iverson, Sam Jones and Becky, Spence Jones, David Kane and Siegrun, Whitey Kaufmann and Karen, Peter Levin and Beth, Lou Lustenberger and Anita, Skip Martin and Nancy, Phil McKean and Deborah, Bruno Quinson and Minkie, Bob Salisbury and Toni, Arnie Sher and Serena, Dick Siegel and Pam, David Sims and Jennifer, Brad Thayer and Bee, Margrit Vogt, Rich Wagner and Ginn, and Phil Wilcox and Cindy. Peter Levin sent me the following: “My wonderful wife Mary and I fought a losing battle with cancer for eight months, two years ago. We were sweethearts at the University of Michigan when I was in law school. Married in 1960 with three great daughters and five grandchildren. After deep mourning and no expectation of another serious relationship, this magnificent creature, Elizabeth, appeared in my life. She was also widowed. It was almost love at first sight. We were married last month (May). My close friend Rabbi Arnie Sher officiated. He and Serena are our family since we reunited with them in 2002 when we built our home in Lenox.” Congratulations Peter and Elizabeth, and we enjoyed our meeting! Peter is now also a yoga instructor. It was great to see Ivy, Bob Iverson, who hadn’t been able to get to recent reunions. Bob says he needs a goat (maybe a herd) to help him keep up his three acres near Hinsdale. Denny Doucette gets Gretchen over to Hancock, Maine, for about three weeks in the summer. He usually sees Russ Pope in Bar Harbor. Here’s a rarity: Denny’s son, SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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at Westminster. He earned a strong grade from a tough teacher, Denny said. Don Freeman and Phyllis are looking good, with a slight incipient Cape Cod tan. I recall Phyllis, still in prep school, coming up to see Don freshman year. Don also penetrated later the Holyoke quarantine. They love the Cape. Lou Lustenberger is another one looking mighty fit and trim. Lou and Anita had been living in Portland, Ore., for about a month. Their address is 6114 SW Riverpoint Lane, Portland, OR 97239, phone 503.241.2971, email louislustenberger@ gmail.com. Lou says he’s gradually slowing down a bit to the tempo of the Pacific Northwest as opposed to the proverbial “New York minute.” Everyone else looks good, too. Phil McKean and Deborah were off to Bali over the summer. Susie says she and Jim Bowers are going to do some U.S. traveling, including maybe Arizona and especially Sedona, our red rock jewel. Peter French lives just a few miles away from Billville, in Stamford, Vt. Rick Driscoll sees him on campus from time to time. John Boyd, in his later years of practice, had his own firm specializing in admiralty law. Dave Phillips started out in that (to me, esoteric) field. Bill Harter will take his umpteenth (but it’s a lot more than teens) tour to Israel next February. He looks good for maybe 13 more. Bob Guyett was spoofing Bruno Quinson about his youth, as I sometimes do. Bruno only came along 1/01/38. It sounded like the Barrington Stage (and Minkie has two other venues now!) had a solid summer coming up. As I am finishing these notes I read a rave review for its On The Town revival. Jim Kolster’s son Michael Kolster ’85 was named a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow. Michael is a professor of fine arts at Bowdoin, which Jim says has a strong commitment to the visual and performing arts. Frank Tokioka supplied macadamia nuts to the festivities. They were festive and good. Thanks, Frank. Frank recently lunched with Dave Andrew. David Kane and Siegrun were recently at the Intellectual Property Lawyers convention in Dallas. Siegrun was a presenter at one of the seminars. The sixth edition of her work is coming out this year. Intellectual property is an especially lively place these days. David has headed the NYC IP­­­­Bar. Karen and I enjoyed talking with Margrit Vogt. I asked how she enjoyed her First Lady role while Carl was president of Williams. She said she never really had the role; she was working and flew in on Friday and was magnificently treated by the house staff. Margrit formerly taught German at Berkeley. She noted enrollment in the liberal arts is way down there. Rich Wagner and Ginn love their new home in Oxford, Md., across the bay from Annapolis. There are to Rich’s knowledge no other Ephs or Jeffs there, but he’s a little wary of five Trinity alums. I didn’t know that Rich worked closely with Casper Weinberger in the Reagan era. He still does some work with the DOD. The second weekend in April was a sad one for ’58. Matt Donner passed away very suddenly on April 11 in New York, and George Vare passed away the next day at home. These were the staunchest kind of men and classmates. 26

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The service for Matt was held April 15 in New York and was attended by Whitey Kaufmann, Skip Martin, David Grossman, Rick Lombard, Tom Synnott, Joe Young, David Kane, Jim Conlan, Jim Stevens, Carl Vogt, Dave Allan, Lou Lustenberger, Tom Connolly, Jim Murphy, Dave Allan, Bob Guyett and Mike Shimkin ’59. Judy requested that memorials be sent to Williams. Though far fewer classmates were able to get to the memorial service for George Vare in the packed Napa Valley Opera House on May 18, I understand there were a number of younger Ephs present. Whitey Kaufmann and John Buckner and Lorraine were there. Elsa said that George passed away (from virulent melanoma) wearing his Williams shirt. Whitey Kaufmann spoke at both services. I asked Whitey for the texts of his remarks. His words are wonderful tributes to these great friends. They were greatly felt and appreciated by those who heard them. Let me or Whitey ([email protected]) know should you wish a copy. Whitey also has the URL for a beautiful film of the harvesting of George’s 2012 grape crop. David Seymour passed away May 13 in Denver. Rick Driscoll attended his service. Rick and David were roommates at St. Paul Academy in Minnesota. Another freshman-year classmate, Mike Piel, is reported to have passed away on Oct. 2, 2002. I knew Mike and enjoyed him. Here are upcoming events and dates to make note of. First, the minireunion is Oct. 4-6. Chet and Rick will be providing details. Next is Dec. 6, 2013. Joe Young is putting together the 15th annual Holiday Lunch at the Williams Club in the Princeton Club in Manhattan. Joe put together the first one many years ago. This one is special. The last event is a bit of a “newbie,” but sounds exciting: There will be a “Five Class Reunion” for classes ’55 through ’59 in Vero Beach March 5-8, 2014. I understand a hotel has been commandeered. Bruce Dayton ’56 and Dan Rankin ’59 are organizers; as you know, Chet Lasell co-presides over the Williams club of Vero Beach. Next I’ve got to report that your officers for the past five years were re-elected. Rick Driscoll did the nominating at the Saturday class dinner and then made an expectant (honest, guys) plea for a coup d’état. Hearing none, however, he pronounced the slate re-elected. I note here that the only reason Zeke Knight wasn’t at the reunion is that his summer school for inner-urban youth in San Diego was opening. That is a big deal in San Diego. We are going to get some Ephs out of there. Finally, indulge me. You know of a “Subway Series” and a “Freeway Series.” How about an AllEph Family Series? Si se puede! The Buccos versus the Yankees. The Vegas odds have to be down on that this year. But even Jim Conlan concedes that the Yankees need to do some rebuilding.

1959 REUNION JUNE 12-15 Dan Rankin, 1870 Bay Road, #213, Vero Beach, FL

32963; [email protected] Let me begin with the important news I learned back in April. Bill Moomaw will be recognized for his work addressing climate change when

1958–59 the college awards him a Bicentennial Medal at Convocation in September. Last May he retired from Tufts, where he’s been a professor and head of the Center for International Environmental and Resource Policy. Along with many honors, “Moo” was a former director of the Williams Environmental Studies Program. Bicentennial Medals are presented to celebrate and recognize distinguished achievement in any field of endeavor. Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? I was delighted to receive information of several classmates whom we haven’t heard from recently. Marc Newberg spent an enjoyable evening with Susan and Peter Naiman at the 50th reunion of their Columbia Medical School class. Marc reports they are “both well and look and sound the same.” Peter is “almost completely” (a definite “maybe”) retired from the practice of orthopedics in Milford, Conn. Chuck Dunkel notes that Tom Heeken served on the 50th reunion committee for Michigan Law School’s Class of ’62. Chuck and Jay Hodgson attended law school at Michigan with Tom. David Thun, always a dependable correspondent, is a font of knowledge about ’59ers. He first wrote from Costa Rica, then moved on to Naples, Fla., then to Santa Barbara, then on to Davis, Calif. With the exception of Central America he saw classmates on all his stops. His daughter, son-in-law and 11-year-old granddaughter live in Costa Rica and thrive. In Naples, the Thuns saw Barbara’s brother David Boothby, who continues to recover from the liver transplant he had some time ago. David B. plans to move into a new retirement home currently being constructed in Columbus, Ohio. In Santa Barbara, the Thuns visited Susan and Terry Northrop, who are considering many options for their next living environment. Their current place is wonderfully stimulating and comfortable, so it may be a while before they make a move. In Davis, Calif., David spent two nights with Judy and Dick Wydick, who sold their house and were in the process of moving into a corner apartment in an attractive retirement community about a mile away. From his Thailand home comes word from Bill Norris. Bill recently gave a birthday party for his wife Bua “at a lovely restaurant on the banks of the Ping River here in Chaing Mai. One of the guests explained she had a cousin who had graduated from Williams in the Class of ’59—Tom Kingsley. She reminded Bill that Tom had attended the University of Michigan Medical School and after an internship in LA, a stint in the Air Force, time teaching back at the U of Michigan, and residency in Springfield, Mass., Tom spent 31 years as director of hematology at Kennestone Hospital in Atlanta. As for Bill, he divides his time between Thailand and Northampton, Mass., and he enjoys summers visiting Tanglewood, MASS MoCA, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. During the summer months we (the Rankins) live only about 40 miles from Judy and Sam Parkhill, but I still must rely on others to tell me the accomplishments of our Belmont Hill boy. Both John Palmer and Bob McAlaine notified me that Sam is now president of the board of trustees for the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra. This is no fly-bynight outfit. As John pointed out, it’s “a world-class city sized orchestra.” It was founded in 1923 and

annually performs nine classical concerts, several pop concerts, three family concerts, two concerts for high school students and multiple children’s concerts. Sam, Mac and John joined nine other golfers in late June to travel to Inverness, Nova Scotia, to play at Cabot Links and Highland Links in Cape Breton National Park. To his credit, Bob has co-chaired a successful $8 million campaign for scholarships at the Gesu School in the poorest section of north Philadelphia. Gesu runs pre-K through eighth grade and has been acclaimed a model inner-city school with a strong track record and innovative programs. Not to be left out of the golf picture, Hobie (Bart? Robbie?) Robinson wrote to comment on the sad death of Matty Donner ’58 and described a match he and Matty played several years ago. An Amherst friend of his challenged Hobie to a four-ball match between Amherst and Williams. Hobie invited Matty to be his partner, and the two planned to thrash their Lord Jeff rivals. As the match started it was suggested the loser must report the results to the two schools’ alumni magazines. Not a good idea. The Williams team was soundly crunched. A day or two later when Hobie was playing golf with Bob Lowden, Jerry Tipper and John Palmer, he explained his dilemma of reporting the score. John immediately resolved the problem by suggesting that the results should read, “Williams came in second, and Amherst was next to last.” Perfectly correct. In the “if you find a job you love you’ll never work another day in your life department” comes word from Ross Baldessarini that he continues to work “nominally” on a half-time basis doing medical research at Harvard Medical School, McLean and Mass General hospitals. The accurate story as told by his wife Fran is that Ross gets “half-time pay for time-and-a-half-effort.” In his spare moments he has just finished the third edition of his textbook on clinical “psychopharmacology.” (Now, good doctor, tell me what it means?) From the northeast corner of Pennsylvania Jere Packard writes that he’s teaching history part time—well, “three classes … almost full time”—at nearby Misericordia University. ”It’s fun and fulfilling with good interaction with the students,” he says. While it might not have been full-strength hubris, Jere has to admit he was rather “cocky” about his good health—proper weight, low BP, low cholesterol, etc.—until he was “brutally” surprised by an atrial fibrillation that had him in the hospital for 10 days. Since that bout Jere has had a defibrillator/pacemaker put in, and all seems fine now. Ernie Fleishman still works part time at Scholastic, “helping to improve literacy among struggling learners in large cities and some states.” He and Amy spent two weeks in Myanmar witnessing a society that is in the very early stages of democratic reform. Cliff Colwell is still working on “the development of a ligament balancer for use in total joint replacement surgery as well as pursuing inroads into the causes and prevention of the arthritic process.” The Colwells enjoyed a wonderful two-week trip to South Africa, Botswana and Zambia visiting the wine country, shantytowns and Victoria Falls. While Jack Hyland’s work has focused on the publication of his thriller The Moses SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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and Lonnie Fisher all wrote expressing interest in attending the “Five Class Reunion” to be held in Vero Beach, Fla., next March. It would be a treat if all three make it. Out on the West Coast Norm Cram related how nice it was to visit Alison and Palmer White and Judy and Tom Christopher in Novato, Calif. Chuck Dunkel reports Norm held a Holy Eucharist at his home in Sonoma, Calif., to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the Episcopal priesthood. Janet and Bo Kirschen joined Chuck at the gathering. From the DallasFort Worth area Grey McGown continues to enjoy the company of neighbors John Castleman ’61 and Steve Thayer ’61. Sandy and Peter (Fess) Fesseden left their digs in Santa Fe, N.M., long enough to celebrate Sandy’s 75th with a cruise in the Caribbean—Tortolla, Antigua, Barbados, St. Barts and St. Lucia. Most of you recall the Robert Frost line “home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” This old saw rings true with Williamstown. Besides Jack Dietze, Pim Goodbody, E.J. Johnson, Bill Moomaw and Jim Richardson, who make their permanent residences there, others often return. Michele and Pete Willmott spend most of the summer there in their home away from home. “Motsey” says his house has been on the market for a while, and he’d be happy to give any classmate a good deal on it. Contact him soon! Jay Hodgson follows his lacrosse-playing grandson, who attends Bowdoin. He was quite surprised to return to the Berkshires on Easter Sunday to watch Bowdoin beat Williams in four overtimes. From his home up Route 7 in Shaftsbury, Vt., Barry Mayer often travels to Williamstown and recently took his grandchildren to the college for a tour. He was struck by the student guide, who walked backwards all over campus without ever falling down. Barry discovered this talent may have been acquired from playing field hockey. Seeing Sage and Williams Halls (Entry B particularly) provided plenty of residual adolescence. For many years I’ve believed the term “Old Reliable” was the nickname applied to the N.Y. Yankee outfielder Tommy Henrich. No, no. Now it’s now reserved for Ernie Imhoff. He always comes through with stories, ideas, comments, pictures, etc. Being a local Williamstown boy, his knowledge of Greylock and Pine Cobble is vast, and he can recite Henry David Thoreau’s quotes tying Mount Greylock to Williams College. Geoff Morton and I journeyed back to our favorite mountain in early June for reunion weekend. We had dinner with John Chandler and Barry Mayer, heard several good lectures, enjoyed seeing members of the Class of ’58 who were celebrating their 55th and hearing the Williams Reunion Jazz Band with Tom Hayne and John Halsey performing. Special thanks are in order for Bob Lowden, Hobie Robinson and Tony Volpe for their fine work running our annual fund. To have over 70 percent of the class contribute is truly remarkable. Kudos are also due Jack Hyland and David Thun for succeeding in getting 38 classmates to remember the college in their estate plans. Important dates to remember: Oct. 4-6—minireunion, Williamstown. March 5-8, 2014, five-class reunion (’55-’59), in Vero Beach, Fla.

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1960 Michael Penner, 38334 South Desert Bluff Drive, Tucson,

AZ 85739; [email protected] Dick Eggers reports while in Vero Beach he and Lynda had a lovely dinner with fellow D.U. classmate Dave Banta and Tina, whom they hadn’t seen since the 45th reunion. Dick wrote, “The following day, in a tightly fought golf match against two Orchid Club friends of mine, my partner Dave stole the show by draining a critical long putt on 17, followed by a lipped-out 140-yard approach shot on 18 for a birdie that was an eagle for a moment. With such superb play, Dave assured me we would not be invited back, but as I recall, our fraternity oath included helping each other financially in our dotage.” Win Healy Jr. passed away on the morning of March 15. Win was proudest of the family he raised and of the school, Punahou in Honolulu, that he helped to build as English teacher, dean of administration and, for 30 years, principal. At Punahou, Win had a deep influence on the education of tens of thousands of students who became teachers, thinkers, business leaders, loving parents and at least one president. He also impacted hundreds of teachers, a legacy he was deeply pleased with. Although he spent his entire adult life in the islands, Win’s true paradise was his family’s farm on which he was raised and where he retired. At the end of his life Win was surrounded by his former wife, two sons, two daughters, family and friends. A memorial service was held at the Charlemont Federated Church on April 6. An additional memorial service was scheduled for Aug. 3 at Punahou School’s Thurston Chapel. Win worked long and hard to make our 50th the great event it was. Jon O’Brien wins the award for first responder. Jon reports that he and Joan are well. They continue to live in Westport Mass., along with their daughter Megan and her two children, Jonathan, 18, and Olivia,16. Olivia is at St. Andrew’s School in Delaware (11th grade in fall), where Joan and I spent 20 years working. Jonathan will be working on a ranch in the high country of Patagonia, Chile, for six months starting in the fall. Our other daughters, Jennifer and Elizabeth, live, respectively, in San Francisco and Davidson, N.C.—both great places to visit. One of Elizabeth’s daughters, Charlotte, will join Olivia at St. Andrews next fall. We had an excellent trip to China and Tibet last October and will be in Morocco this fall, but most of all we love being in Westport. Kay and Peter Lisle are neighbors, and Bob Gormley ’61 and I had a good visit with Bob Rorke over a superb lunch in a French restaurant in Boston in the winter. I keep in touch by phone with some others but don’t see many classmates these days. I hope a lot of us can “hang in there” until our 55th in 2015. Speaking of 55th, Joan and I celebrated ours on June 12 this year. What a wonderful ride it’s been! Jerry Bernstein is spearheading the construction of a new high-rise office building for the San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind. This $70 million project will take four to five years to complete. He says, “It entails buying the building next door, buying an apartment building for the 27 current apartment

owners to live in, ensuring we are not building the new building on top of some ancient burial ground, enduring the interminable San Francisco politics involved with building only a half block away from City Hall, architects, solar designers (it is San Francisco, after all), yada, yada, yada. This will be my last hurrah, and then I will retire. After having been in the scrap business for 30 years, this project should finally give me enough good karma to keep me from being damned to hell for all eternity (maybe… although there was that one time in San Jose… OK, let’s not talk about that).” Dave Banta hopes to see all of you at the minireunion weekend Oct. 4-6. Kevin Tierney reports spending the last four weeks traveling sections of the Silk Road. He started with visits to the many Hans in Istanbul and then flew to the central part of the Silk Road in Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara. He saw portions in Armenian villages and Kurdish towns, while skirting the Iran, Iraq and Syria borders. Kevin still has a full trial docket. The stock market is up but so are foreclosures, even in Fairfield County. Marianne and Kevin planned to host their three kids with their eight grandchildren for a week in the Chesapeake Bay area in August to celebrate Kevin’s 75th. Sally and Ken Gillett report having dinner with Betsey and Jerry Goodwin in Weston, Conn.; dinner on Captiva Island, Fla., with Ann and Hank Humphrey; and an afternoon visit with Earla Sue and Colin McNaull in Trumansville, N.Y., when they were in Ithaca for granddaughter Sarah’s graduation from Cornell (about 30,000 in the football stadium watching about 5,500 get diplomas). The Goodwins also went to Dayton, Ohio, for grandson Peter’s graduation from University of Dayton. Summer and early fall were to be in Deer Isle, Maine, with a weekend off to Ithaca for Sarah’s wedding. A full life this year. They are enjoying Newton, Conn., when not in Deer Isle! Earla Sue and Colin McNaull enjoyed the Gilletts’ visit. Colin has a new “rented” horse for this year’s riding season. His horse, Maize, passed away in February. Their 52nd anniversary plans include staying at a lighthouse in Narragansett Bay and sailing on a 12-meter out of Newport, which was their home port during their Navy days. Dixie Griffin reports that she and Keith took a 12-day road trip to visit Texas. The first stop was San Antonio and the Alamo (for the first time). They learned a great deal that they thought they already knew, and Dixie discovered a direct connection to an important daughter of Texas. They saw some of Keith’s family and most of Dixie’s while in Texas and then headed for Santa Fe, N.M., to see Janice. Janice will be living and working there and loves the place. Keith and Dixie joined Kimberley in Williamstown to celebrate Isabel Griffin-Smith’s ’13 graduation. Kim and Isabel will both return to Riverside for a couple of weeks for a well-deserved rest and holiday and then go back to England together. Jim Pilgrim reports that they have just returned from a week-long cruise on the Queen of the West paddlewheel boat down the Snake and Columbia Rivers. There were many stops along the way to see various sights and some nice wineries. It was advertised as a wine cruise, so there were lots of wine tastings. They also learned some SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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1961 Bob Gormley, 1775 Drift Road, P.O. Box 3922, Westport,

MA 02790; [email protected] ’61 was on the road again in the summer and fall. First there’s the elegant Treasures of Spain: Cultural Legacies of Andalusia group event organized by John Byers, John Denne and Wally Bernheimer, coming up Oct. 7-16. Included with those three and wives are Clyde Buck and Sherri, Walt Henrion and Page, Paul Boire and Nancy, John Leathers and Della, Art Waltman and Carol Watson, Harvey Plonsker and Madeleine plus Spike Kellogg ’62 and Gillian and Dick McCauley ’62 and Jane along with tour faculty lecturer Bill Darrow. Bon voyage! A few who considered but already had travel commitments included Eric Widmer and Meera (due in China), Charlie Dana and Ann, who’ve become globetrotters in retirement but are now tracking U.S. sites, Dave Brown and Mary, who will have covered Italy (May) and the Holy Land before lighting back in their Nantucket summer place. And yours truly, with Bea, will be off to Scotland in September, with a stop in Iona to pay our respects to the Irish St. Columba (6th-century missioner). Eric continues his foundational education work as an advisor to the SOLA school in Kabul, the School for Leadership/Afghanistan. SOLA (“peace” in Pashtun) is the only boarding school for girls in the country, and Eric’s role is to guide its graduates to schools and colleges in the U.S. Here’s to that and the place of their women! George Lowe deserves a patience medal. Back in Feb. he sent me a fascinating report on his teaching adventures in Ukraine, and it got fouled up in mailing so missed the cut for the last notes. After training in Salzburg at the Center for International Legal Studies in spring ’12, he and Barbara went off to Odessa in fall ’12 for a five-week stint teaching American criminal law where they mentored 35 eager law students and were drawn into the culture. I understood why, at least from George’s standpoint, when I saw the accompanying pics of him with those gorgeous women students, ear to ear grin on his face. He quipped: “Eat your heart out, Noland!” Noyes Rogers also deserves a patience award. He wrote back in March of being in NYC (from Nebraska) for the new production of Parsifal at the Met. He’d had dinner with Kevin Morrissey and Hatice at Tom Johnson’s son’s (Asa Johnson ’02) new restaurant, Three Letters, in Brooklyn. 30

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He’s a discriminating guy and gave the restaurant high marks: “Very pleasant spot with good simple French food not far from the new Barclay’s Center.” He was also going to see Dan Fales and Nancy in Naples in April. Mike Dively was back in Santa Cruz, Calif., after hosting the annual Dively Committee dinner and enjoying a return to campus life. But he was thinking about a new travel adventure in August, to swim the ancient Hellespont (Dardanelles, the strait connecting mainland Turkey with Gallipoli, 1-4 miles across) in celebration of his 75th in December. The water’s more tolerable in August though. Anyone planning a more challenging 75th birthday challenge? Bush Sr. risked a parachute jump, remember. Anyway, I’ve got till Oct. ’14 to think about heroics at 75. True to his word, Bob Judd did get up to Alaska over the summer to retrace the trail from Fairbanks to Seattle that his Uncle John and a buddy followed on motorcycles back in the day before there were many roads and no highways. Bob’s book, A Mighty Fool Stunt, will tell the whole tale, but he tracked the uncle’s diary in a comfortable vehicle and sent some spectacular photos of roadside vistas—whitewater streams, serpentine valleys, snowcapped mountains. Pierce “Butch” Anderson checked in to report a fun sail with Molly on his Tartan 37-foot sloop down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway to Florida from their place in Maryland, discovering the Low Country of Georgia and South Carolina and stops in Cumberland and Jekyll Island, Savannah, Charleston and Beaufort, S.C., and Amelia Island and St. Augustine in Fla. Reminds me of Jim Hodges living full time on his boat near Charleston. Dave Whittemore and Mary experienced a memorable cruise on the Silver Sea to the Lesser Antilles with 35 other Williams folks. He also wove in great golf on St. Kitts. At one point the Carnival liner with 4,000 passengers aboard docked next to them, the one that sent everyone home by air when their generator went down in a fire. Dave chose well. Bill Holmes is another man on the move. Came back east from his nest in California to tour around Virginia for family and history (Charlottesville, Williamsburg, Jamestown). He was to be up at Tahoe in August and off on an Adriatic cruise in Oct. He and Chris were also set to host a 50th anniversary barbecue. So congrats to them, and a reminder that others of you will be coming on such landmark events so let us know. I never know what to expect from Tom Millington. Turns out this spring he had an exchange with Henry Kissinger (90 this year and still active) about some research and writing Tom had done on a human rights hero of the Argentinian Dirty War period and the “disappeared” in the 1970s, Emilio Mignone. It also turns out that we had published a book by Mignone at Orbis Books, which I directed, and that Tom’s brother Jeff Millington ’66, a foreign service officer, played a significant role in getting the State Department, then under Kissinger, to take up the cause of the “disappeared,” including Mignone’s own daughter, thereafter. Dr. Kissinger gratefully acknowledged Dr. Millington’s partial

1960–62 translation of a recent Spanish publication on the issue, and I have proof in hand. Our man on the scene, John Denne, delivered a brief report on the June reunion, our 52nd. John and Joan dined at the Gramercy Bistro in North Adams on the Friday with Fred Mayer and Pat, Al Schiavetti and Bobbi, Jay Tarses and Rachel, and Dave Macpherson ’64 and Polly. Dave will chair the ’64 50th next year, so he was picking up tips from John. Dave also went to the same Buffalo high school as Fred, who was back from St. Louis to celebrate with brother George Mayer ’63. Fred had called me earlier to warn he was due back on campus but also that he, Paul Mersereau, Mike White and Rik Warch had planned a minireunion for Chicago at the end of June. That foursome was the “ADQ” (for Alum Dorm Quartet) who shared quarters senior year in a secret room off the staircase at Theta Delt. Sadly, they had to cancel plans when it was learned that brain cancer had gotten the better of Rik, in hospice as I write. I’m so glad we could spend time with him and Margo at our 50th. With that, I’d better get the rest of the bad news out of the way: Dave Whittemore reported that Lee Baynard passed away on Nov. 28, 2012, in St. Petersburg after a long bout with Parkinson’s. And Bill DeWitt, our star on the Williams biology faculty, died on May 3, 2013. Bill had been a mainstay at the college since 1967. (Please see the obit section of this issue for detail.) A bittersweet footnote is that spouses Galey Clark (Sam Weaver), Jane Frick and Kitima Samuelson were elected honorary members of the Society of Alumni in June. Fred Rudolph ’42, revered professor and mentor to many of us in AH&L, passed away on June 3, and I’m still processing that sadness. Among other things, Fred was a leading historian of American higher education and immortalized Mark Hopkins with his Yale Ph.D. dissertation later published as Mark Hopkins and the Log. On to happier things. Ron Roberts was in touch with another of his down home reports—no big events except for a knee replacement, no travel since Puerto Vallarta in 2010 and “continuing to write novels under the pseudonym of Harlan Coben.” I had to check Coben on Google, but he’s been pretty successful. No wonder the good life in Hilton Head keeps him energized. Dependable Gil Kerr was in from northern Georgia as well. He’s taking time to appreciate the change of seasons and finds himself less vulnerable to the political winds. Still watches some Fox News to see some gas thrown on the fire (he’s pretty conservative and likes the daily pin-pricking). Another dependable, Bob Marrin, with wife Lois, was in from KC, where he’s associated with The Whole Person (WHP), an agency that works with disabled people and has assisted him in recovery. WHP recently moved into new hyper-accessible quarters in a historic building to expand its frontline therapeutic programs, and Bob assists them with marketing from home. Last bit: John Whitney and Pat have a grandson, Ben, with a rare life-threatening obesity disorder (PWS). Pat coordinates golf tournaments at Vermont National and on Aug. 5 was to stage the

second annual Friends of Ben Classic at Red Tail (Ft. Devens) in Ayer, Mass. Wally Bernheimer, Bob Stegeman ’60 and I planned to pull in a low handicap horse to ride and join the fun. Flash: Gordie Stevenson, a working fool, has become of counsel to Nutter McLennan & Fish LLP in Boston, joining the trusts and estates group from his former firm. Need expert retirement advice? Also, Steve Lazarus talked to Gibby Rachleff recently, and Gib is still struggling to regain full mobility but has lost none of his good humor. He would appreciate hearing from classmates. Hope to see some of you the weekend of Oct. 5-6 at the fall minireunion and football gathering in Williamstown.

1962 William M. Ryan, 112 Beech Mountain Road, Mansfield

Center, CT 06250; [email protected] It has been an especially tough winter in general in Connecticut and, in particular, it has been even tougher for me. We experienced two very heavy snowstorms, the first breaking the single-storm snowfall record of 30 inches. Spring took a long time arriving, and as I write this in late May we are experiencing cold, rainy weather. I was hit with two hospitalizations for COPD (breathing) issues that conveniently excused me from all snow-shoveling duties. Just yesterday I was diagnosed with sciatica. I have recovered nicely from the COPD problems, though it is a condition that will not go away. And I will recover from the sciatic nerve problem, though it does provide me with a ready-made excuse for a horrendous golf swing. Are you guys getting older, too? Or are we already old? Our 50th seems to have spawned several microreunions. My former roommate, Steve Brumberg, stopped in Connecticut with his good friend Carol Ingall on the way to Carol’s condo in Newport, R.I. Carol is a retired professor from the Jewish Theological Seminary in NYC. Steve says he will retire sometime next year from Brooklyn College (I’ve heard this before!) so that he can devote full time to his book on the influence of Catholicism on education in the U.S.A. While at lunch at one of my favorite restaurants, a wasp flew around our table. Steve, the inveterate punster commented, “Gee, I didn’t think wasps liked to hang around Jews.” Last year, Carol and Steve attended a jazz concert with LaVerne and Bill Robertson, resuming their old practice of jazz concert-going, last done when they were in graduate school in Cambridge. Steve reported: “On this occasion, Bill did not bring his trombone but organized the evening’s dinner and concert with Bill Charlap and his trio.” The Robertsons were busy dining last fall. Bill Vaughn informed me that he and Jane had dinner with Bill and LaVerne and Walter Graham and his friend Carol in October. Bill Vaughn continues his work as a trustee on two major pension funds, “which takes me to Naples, Fla., and Phoenix, Ariz., frequently.” They again planned to spend the summer at their lovely Cape Cod home. Shannon and Jim Evans hosted a Psi U micro in March at their stately home in Franklin, La. Steve SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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said, “We fished on bayous, saw gators, roasted a pig, had a crawfish boil and caught up with each other after all these years.” Jim added: “A marvelous time was had by all, especially me.” It was the fifth time Jim has orchestrated a fraternity reunion. He and Shannon enjoyed a river cruise through the waterways of Holland and Belgium. “I was wearing a Williams shirt, and a young man in Holland came forward and identified himself as a Williams College junior doing a year abroad.” Fred Wentz wrote to me that he “had the pleasure of connecting with Al Oehrle, Bill Hyland and John Haslett” in May at their 55th high school reunion (The Haverford School). “They acted like it was their 25th.” Peggy and Marc Comstock dined with Martha and Skip Little in Falmouth, having discovered they were nearby at our 50th. Said Marc, “It was great to catch up with them. We will do it again.” Marc has visited 73 countries (“not including Minnesota”) and will add the Czech Republic to his list this year. Judy and Bruce Grinnell spent two weeks in Beaufort, S.C., at the recommendation of Carl Davis, who now resides there for most of the year. They drove to Savannah to lunch with Janet and Rawson Gordon. “It was a wonderful visit. The Mike Reily ’64 weekend and our 50th reunion were really the first occasions to visit with Rawson in a long time. He gave me a DVD of the ’61 Tufts game, one of our two losses that year. He obtained a copy because he claims he caught seven passes in the game. Coach Waters was convinced that we couldn’t run on Tufts because they outweighed our line by about 45 lbs. per man, so we threw 22 passes. I think I completed eight. I think it was the most passes attempted in a Waters-coached game by a factor of 2.5.” Toby Cosgrove is in the news again, this time in an article in the Harvard Business Review entitled “Health Care’s Service Fanatics.” The gist of the article is that patient satisfaction with their hospital experience is as important as the medical outcomes of that experience. They have reorganized their staff with that thought in mind, and it has worked. Providing patients with an excellent overall experience—in areas such as making appointments, offering a pleasant physical environment, addressing their fears and concerns during their stay and providing clear discharge instructions—became a priority. As a recent participant in a two-week hospital stay, I can attest to the importance of their model and applaud Toby and the Cleveland Clinic. Tom Payzant was on the West Coast doing some education mentoring and consulting during the running of the Boston Marathon and returned two days after that horrific event. “It was hard to stay away from the TV with a constant flow of information and a citywide lockdown. Resilience has been powerful, and the Red Sox are doing great!” Don Pelletier’s son, Emile, entered a competition sponsored by the Canadian Broadcast System for singer/songwriters. “Emile has been doing this as a serious sideline for years and has just completed his third original CD.” Unfortunately, it is too late to 32

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cast your ballot for Emile, but you can listen to his entry at http://r3.ca/0YP8. “The theater, it seems, still needs little old men.” So says Ash Crosby who made recent appearances in Henry V at the Arkansas Rep and Romeo and Juliet at the Roxy Regional Theater in Tennessee. (No, he wasn’t Romeo.) Gil Leigh was chosen as one of the top volunteers in Arlington County in Virginia, where he helps out at the county library. He and Chris enjoyed their annual spring fling at Hilton Head in May, riding bikes, playing tennis, overeating and lazing on the beach. Chris had an emergency stent installation in March but has recovered quickly. After 43 years of employment in the physics department at the University of Florida, Jack Sabin has retired. He will retain his position at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. He lectured in Mexico in May and will spend part of the fall in Denmark. Since, as I’m sure you know, this year marks the 100th anniversary of one of Nils Bohr’s most important papers, he will be attending a conference in San Sebastian (Basque country) to celebrate that event. Nick Rogers is sort of retired but sort of not. He continues to practice dermatology at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, teaching and providing staff supervision for resident patients. He teaches a 14-hour course for University at Sea two or three times a year and has visited all parts of the globe on his 28 (and counting) voyages. Last year he was made an honorary member of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology at their annual meeting in Prague. He had his second hip replacement last year, and both hips are “perfect.” “I enjoy living in Arizona for the weather climate but not the political climate.” He and Sue will celebrate their 50th anniversary next year on a teaching cruise from Singapore to Hong Kong. Fin Fogg’s photo appeared in the Sunday New York Times in May as he presided at the annual Legal Aid Society dinner. “Raised $3.2 million, a new record,” he reported. For the unfortunate among you who are not connected to Eugene Cassidy’s blog, I include a sample: “Ammo is getting scarce… This morning I lucked out and was able to buy several cases of .223 ammo. On the way back home, I stopped at the gas station where a drop-dead gorgeous blonde was filling up her car at the next pump. She looked at the ammo in the back of my Jeep and said in a very sexy voice, ‘I’m a big believer in barter, big boy. Would you be interested in trading sex for ammo?’ I thought for a few seconds and asked, ‘What kind of ammo you got?’” To read more of his very well written and humorous insights, contact him at cassidy@ marshallnet.com. Jim MacDougall passed away on Feb. 28. After receiving his master’s degree and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve, he became a professor of English at Ball State University in Muncie. He also served as the director of prison education with the Indiana Department of Corrections and was very active in the St. Lawrence Catholic Church. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Carol MacDougall, and two children, Rebecca Thompson and Ross MacDougall. Sympathies from the class to the family.

1962–63 Gillian and Spike Kellogg continue their active lifestyle and are looking forward to the fall trip to Andalusia with the Class of ’61 “once skiing and biking season slow down.” Janey and Dick McCauley also have accepted the invitation of ’61 to join them on this adventure. While talking with Spike, we detoured into a discussion of the number of countries we had visited, which prompted me to ask the same question of classmates. I invited you to check out the Traveler’s Century Club website to determine if we had any members and inquired about your favorite destinations. (Membership in the TCC is limited to those who have touched down in at least 100 countries.) I was surprised to learn that no one in ’62 qualifies for the TCC. Steve Clarey has visited the most, 94, but since he was a U.S. Navy admiral, most of his trips were done at our expense. Bill Whitman is close behind at 93, followed by Bob Goff with 86 and Gillian Kellogg at 84. Favorites: Carol and Dick Paul very much enjoy the Williams-sponsored trips, went last year on a riverboat cruise in Moscow and plan on another Williams trip—Peru—this year. Family trips are popular as many of us are celebrating 50th anniversaries. Dinny and Barney Shaw entertained all their kids and grandkids at Siesta Beach in Florida, and Judy and John Huntington gathered their family together for an Alaskan cruise. Barbara and Rob Beard spent two weeks in Argentina visiting Bariloche, Patagonia, Mendoza and Buenos Aires. But the prize for the most unusual and fascinating trip goes to Choppy Rheinfrank. “I made two National Geographic trips by myself in 2008, separated from each other only by a month. I traveled around the world with 80 other passengers on a Boeing chartered jet. I chose them because two of my favorite authors were the leaders of the trip. One was Spencer Wells (who wrote The Journey of Man), and the other was Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse). Truly an amazing experience.” Now that our 50th and my travels are history, soliciting info for these notes is quite challenging. I decided I would phone a few classmates for each issue, concentrating on those whom I did not visit or who did not write bios in our book. The first two of the Seldom Heard: Bill Robinson finished Williams with the Class of ’63 (though he remains officially with ’62), the result of an automobile accident our senior year. He spent six years in the Marine Corps, including several stints in Vietnam. He was wounded by a grenade in Nam and has been on a 70 percent disability pension since. Boats have been a constant presence in his life, and he worked for 24 years for Bath Iron Works in Maine. His work included ship design, development of materials and construction. He retired in ’02 and immediately began teaching special education at Medomak HS. “I began largely due to my wife Joyce’s influence. She has had a long career as a social worker.” Joyce is his second wife. He has two children and one grandchild with his first wife, Marilyn, and both of them are into boats, also. His memories of Williams include the wrestling team with Ash Crosby, who tried to get him interested in the theater. “It didn’t work,” said Bill. “Ash had talent; I didn’t.”

Tom Herschbach entered OCS in Newport, where he roomed with Rawson Gordon. He spent three-and-a-half years in the Navy, including over a year in Vietnam. He began his career with the First National Bank of Chicago (“back when banks had sensible names”) and took his first retirement in 2001 after reaching a senior level in the bond-trading department. His son-in-law asked if he would help out in the finance department of his farm and truck dealership, which he did for the next nine years. He and his wife Janet have two children and five grandchildren and split their time in Flossmoor, Ill., where they have been for 35 years, and Stuart, Fla., spending about a half-year in each. “I enjoyed Williams immensely,” Tom said. “I wasn’t particularly well prepared, but the professors worked with me, and I really learned how to write and think.” You may remember Tom as one of the outstanding swimmers on our outstanding swim team. “Our freshmen team was undefeated. By the time we all were seniors, I was the only one still in the water.” He related a story to me concerning a trip to Cape Cod with Jim Van Hoven just prior to graduation. “We didn’t know anyone there and slept on the beach. Please ask Jim if his back remembers that trip.” He also asked to be remembered to Steve Clarey, “whose parents were so kind to me when I arrived in Honolulu from Vietnam.” Hope to hear from all of you, whether you are a member of the Seldom or Often Heard.

1963 Phil Kinnicutt, 341 Iliaina St., Kailua, HI 96734;

[email protected] Submitted by outgoing secretary Jim Blume: I think it is no exaggeration to say that those of us who attended our gala 50th reunion had an experience that was exhilarating as well as warm and embracing. For those of you who regrettably could not attend (you were missed), I will try, in my final notes as class secretary, to convey some sense of the celebratory nature of our reunion. It is fitting to commend, yet again, our classmates who engineered the event so brilliantly. Bill Burnett, our chair, performed his tasks in exemplary fashion. Every event was flawlessly executed, except for the downpour on Thursday and Friday, which, surprisingly, he could not control. Bill McDaniels, as president, was omnipresent, and his remarks were at once charming and memorable. Lenny Bernheimer tirelessly organized our fundraising, and, due largely to his Herculean efforts, aided by leadership gifts from Harry Hagey and Jack Luetkemeyer, we managed to raise an astounding $13.5 million, which will be used to fund our three gift purposes: scholarships, the Center for Media Initiatives and the 1963 Sustainability Fund. Robbin and John Churchill managed our many meals over five days, which were not only delicious and varied but also, thankfully, a total departure from our previous culinary experience at our alma mater. Our class book, produced by the renowned team of Brooks Goddard and John Bell, was thoughtful, well-conceived and beautifully produced. (Incidentally, even Alan Schlosser, who made a vow to memorize everyone’s entry, found the task to be too daunting.) SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s Bernie Wruble worked many long hours to increase the turnout. In fact, 112 of our 236 classmates returned to Williamstown, which was impressive. Not satisfied merely to prod people, Bernie, with the able aid of Gayle Mandle, chose our simple but elegant clothing for the parade on Saturday. It is, of course, impossible in this necessarily short essay to thank all of our classmates who provided backup in innumerable ways to each of these leaders, but know that their efforts recognized. The only sad note was the death of Fred Rudolph ’42 on the Monday before our reunion. Fred was revered by many in our class as a professor, as a mentor, as a friend and as an inspiring presence. He will be sorely missed. Subsequent to our reunion, Peter Moock wrote a moving tribute to him, which I presume will be printed in the forthcoming postreunion class book. Without question, the highlight of the reunion was the opportunity to re-connect with classmates, some of whom each of us knew intimately and some of whom we only knew distantly. It was clearly evident that camaraderie and bonhomie pervaded our entire time in Williamstown. I would be remiss, however, if I didn’t mention some of the events of the weekend that were unique to our class. On Thursday, Mac Dick, a pediatric oncologist, organized a panel of three ’63 doctors to discuss changes in medical technology. Bill Reznikoff, a PhD biologist, discussed DNA sequencing in a way that even lay people could comprehend. He was followed by Roy Weiner, who commented on the practical application for gene discoveries. Terry Davis was expected to be the third speaker, but unfortunately a family emergency kept him in Ohio. Following that fascinating seminar, Allan Mondell, an honored documentarian, chaired a panel entitled “Making a Difference.” Initially, Allan showed a clip from his new gripping documentary about the Peace Corps. Bill Boyd, who served in the Peace Corps in Cameroon, and Brooks Goddard, who taught in the Kenya USAID’s Teachers for Africa project, sat on the panel in which they described their post-college overseas experience. Impressively, 17 members of our class either served in the Peace Corps or were involved in some overseas program. Zoe Armstrong, a recruiter for the Peace Corps, was the third panelist and commented on the long and distinguished history of Williams alums in the Peace Corps. While the Women of Williams, led by Lyn Bernheimer and Jeanie Goddard, lunched and heard Professor Darra Goldstein discuss desserts, the highly competitive Williams ’63 tennis tourney was being played (stumbled is probably a more apt word) in front of a cheering crowd of two—Carolyn Lougee, the wife of our tennis chair, Dave Lougee, and Lael Carter. Competitors—a rather loose term—included Bill Carter, Bernie Wruble, Peter Moock, Phil Reynolds, Ned Grew, Dave Steward, Gordy Prichett, Lenny Bernheimer, me and a ringer, Rick Berry’s wife Kelly. While there were no winners, it should be noted that in the final match of the day, Lenny and I overcame the highly favored team of Lougee and Kelly Berry in rather decisive fashion. 34

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Throughout the weekend, golf was enjoyed by many under the leadership of George Kilborn. I’m told that players included: Bob Ciulla, Rick Berry, John Churchill, Lenny Bernheimer, Bill McDaniels, John Moran, Steve Weinstock, Gene Goodwillie, Bill Holmes, Brian King, Tony Lamb, Elliot Urdang and Rich Goodman. Our third seminar on the “Value of Liberal Arts Education” was skillfully led by Carolyn Lougee, a professor of history at Stanford. On the panel were three classmates, Garrett Kirk, Woody Lockhart and Paul Michel—Renaissance men all—each of whom, in their incisive way, extolled the impact of their liberal arts education on their post-Williams careers. As an added fillip at the college-wide ceremony at the end of the parade, Paul, a prominent judge on the Court of Appeals, was awarded the Kellogg Award, which is “presented to a Williams graduate in recognition of a most distinguished career.” Paul was clearly a deserved recipient of the award, which he accepted with his typical modesty. Kudos, Paul! After the parade and lunch on Saturday, Jay Rohrlich and I led a group discussion about “Lives Since 1963,” which provided a forum for classmates to share their thoughts on a variety of subjects. The session was well attended, and a lively though somewhat disjointed, but far-reaching and fascinating dialogue ensued. Finally, Perry Kingman and Steve Franklin led a poignant memorial service for our departed classmates. A small brochure listing each classmate’s name and subsequently read by either Perry or Steve was powerfully evocative. The cover of the brochure was adorned by a watercolor by Sandy McPeck, who died in March. In addition to many classmates, the service was attended by Kitty Strauss, Peter Strauss’s widow, and Susan McPeck, Sandy McPeck’s widow, who seemed very touched by the service. Although she could not attend the commemoration, Bonnie Knight, Woody Knight’s widow, wrote an email to all of us, which I will partially quote, “I appreciate all your thoughtfulness and kindness to me over the two days I was at the 50th reunion with my daughter Heidi. I felt enveloped in your love.” I do want to take this opportunity to honor Sandy McPeck, who died subsequent to the submission of my class notes for the May issue. Sandy’s obituary, which was published in the Toledo Blade, had the following headline, “Former teacher, and an advocate who inspired students.” Sandy, who received a MAT from Brown, taught English and coached soccer at Maumee Valley Community Day School for 27 years. He was assistant headmaster for a period in the ’90s and “was a leader in making students and staff sensitive to the racial, ethnic, religious, cultural and even economic variation among students.” Sandy had two daughters and a son from his first marriage. One of his daughters, Alex, commented that “he was an advocate for all kinds of people.” After retiring from Maumee Valley, Sandy taught English for a decade at New Bedford Regional Vocational High School, where most students were learning a trade and worked after school to support their families. Teaching English to kids from working-class

1963 backgrounds was totally involving for him. Susan noted that “he earned their respect.” Sandy and Susan married in 1991, and he became a stepfather to Susan’s four children. He is also survived by five grandchildren and four step-grandchildren. Those of us who were privileged to know Sandy mourn his loss. He was a lovely and honorable man who will be long remembered. Since these notes will represent my final submission to People, I’m going to claim secretarial privilege (a term I’ve coined) and provide an impressionistic, stream-of-consciousness view of classmates whom I encountered at the reunion. It is certainly not intended to be inclusive, though I’ve tried to represent as many classmates as my memory would allow. The first person Kathryn and I encountered upon arriving at our HQ was Bill Reeves, who was sitting under a tree munching on a snack. Bill, somewhat begrudgingly, revealed that he wasn’t optimistic but he hoped to encounter some contrariness at our gathering. When I saw him next on Friday and inquired if he had been successful, he looked at me, smiled broadly and responded with an emphatic yes… Bernie Wruble’s veins are a rich purple. Not only is his wife Jill Wruble ’83 an alumna but also their two children, Matti Wruble ’14 and Austin Wruble ’17, are currently enrolled at the college. But that’s not all—two of his three daughters from his previous marriage, Vanessa Wruble ’96 and Alexis Wruble ’99, are also graduates… Five classmates who attended the reunion celebrated their 50th anniversaries in June. Congratulations to Hobby and David Jeffrey, Lyn and Lenny Bernheimer, Carolyn and Dave Lougee, Ann and Felipe Santo Domingo and Robbin and John Churchill… Exuding conviviality, John Bell was as charming as ever, and Lyn’s presence in the light of her MS was both admirable and courageous. Frank Simunek and Brooks Goddard have continued to avidly collect stamps. Gene Goodwillie, ebullient as ever, could not recall if he starred at left wing or right wing on the famed hockey line of Holt, Roe and Goodwillie. For years, I never knew the derivation of “Toes” Moseley’s name. In fact, I didn’t think that he had a first name. Well, much to my amazement, “Toes” revealed its origin. Evidently freshman year, Woodie Hartman cleverly rhymed “toes” and “mose,” and it stuck. Felipe Santo Domingo told me a similar story about his nickname, “Fop.” Throughout our time together, Bill Burnett was a picture of equanimity, beaming as he let his careful planning unfold… Brooks Goddard, as is his wont, eschewed a tie and jacket at our festive Saturday night dinner but was resplendent in a gorgeous, lush purple tunic from Mali… Steve Weinstock and Jack Luetkemeyer arrived at the reunion via private planes… Jimmy Williams’ distinctive laugh has maintained its distinctiveness… In opining on why she missed Oxford and Europe last year, Tom Boschen’s wife Ginny revealed that Tom is a devoted student of history, particularly focusing on major battles, a subject which does not interest her… Carroll Connard, though considerably slimmer since his captaincy of the swimming team, has seemingly maintained his calm, quiet demeanor…

Fellow swimming captain John Moran’s dulcet voice has become even richer and mellower… Dale and Peter Coxe’s dog was awarded the “Pet of the Reunion” prize… Bobby Seidman was aglow while signing copies of his novel Moments Captured for classmates… George Mayer was as robust and hearty as in days of yore. The fearless foursome of fishing, Dave Lougee, Dave Steward, Gordy Prichett and Phil Kinnicutt, I’m told, managed to stink up the Taconic Golf Course in innumerable ways… Gordon Davis claimed that he was a starter on the basketball team along with Pete Obourn, Dan “Dunk” Voorhees, Roger Williams and Steve Weinstock. Others remained skeptical about Gordon’s assertion… Former hockey manager Phil Albert looked to be hale after recovering from quadruple by-pass surgery… Andy Holt bedecked himself in the same pajamas at the “Come As You Were Party” as he wore in the KA house in 1963. Andy claimed, however, that he had washed them several times since then. Very few of us believed him… Doug Maxwell’s crinkly-eyed smile has not changed in 50 years… Peter Moock’s forehand and serve proved awesomely powerful, though their accuracy was sporadic, at best… Win McKeithen, who graduated in 1966, and Ned Grew traveled the farthest to attend the reunion. Win arrived from Thailand, while Ned came from Finland… David Larry made a quick entry and an equally rapid departure from the festivities… Bill Hubbard was, as ever, elusive… John Dorman, whose sartorial skills historically have been limited (at least compared to his wife Charlene) shocked the assembled by appearing in purple low-top sneakers from Brooks Brothers, replete with yellow laces… Bill Carter was an eager participant at the seminars, asking penetrating questions to the panelists… After the reunion, Jay Rohrlich, a last-minute attendee, wrote a sweetly sentimental paean about his Reunion experience… Cecil Baker, suave as ever, rued the lack of women at Williams during our undergraduate years… Larry Favrot’s lush locks proved the envy of many hirsutely challenged classmates… Frank Lloyd, fully recovered from his neurological difficulties due to the insertion of a shunt, was both lively and vibrant… Rich Gottlieb, belying his age, appeared extremely fit. Finally, over the weekend, Allan Mondell’s very attentive and brilliant young grandson (less than a year old), Juan Jose, decided to apply to Williams for the Class of 2035, or so Alan, Cynthia and daughter Fonya claimed… The renowned Morgan Hall crew consisting of Gordon Davis, John Davis, Bill Whitney, Murray Ross, Jules Quinlan, Bobby Seidman and Alan Schlosser, which had both grown and contracted over the years, held their own boisterous reunion outside their former residence… At the conclusion of the events on Sunday, Bill Sittig, who always seemed so reserved, approached me with tears in his eyes and exclaimed to me how moved he was by the reuniting with all of us. I am now prepared to hand over the pen and take up the gavel of the presidency. Phil Kinnicutt will take over as class secretary. I hope that you will all overwhelm him with news of your doings. SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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Ellicott City, MD 21042; [email protected] Classmates, with less than 12 months to go until our 50th reunion, I want to begin by offering several comments related to this event. First of all, be sure to reserve Thursday, June 12, through Sunday, June 15, 2014. Those are the dates of the reunion, and we hope that ALL of you will attend. In order to prepare for the event, skip Dunn has created a website, www.ephs1964.com, which I invite each of you to access and ask that you provide additional information. There is a “special” section which remembers those of our class who are deceased and offers an opportunity to remember them by writing an “In Memory” message. Ben Wagner says that over the next few months, tom Howell, steve Doughty and he will reach out to classmates, roommates, brothers, siblings, widows, partners and friends to ensure that “our deceased classmates are remembered in the class book.” We are also encouraging widows, partners and family members to join us for the 50th reunion. steve Doughty finds that as he is recalling the lives of classmates lost that he is experiencing “much meaning in it. Plus it is rewarding to have a small part in this whole much larger deal. (50th reunion— wow!)” From the letters and notes that I receive as class secretary, it is certain that everyone participating in any phase of the reunion is gratified by the experience. tom Howell remembers those who have passed away in rhyme and calls the class to the Purple Valley: Give a cheer and raise a beer to the Class of ’64, After 50 years we’ve all changed gears, but we’re coming back for more. We acquired spouses, kids and houses. We’ve gone our separate ways. But we’ll get together—birds of a purple feather—and toast those good old days. Some of our best have gone to rest. Too soon. It was not fair. But they’re part of us, a giant plus; in spirit they’ll be there. Most embrace that purple place—a purple passion burns, While others scrammed after last exam, not eager to return But love it or not, cool or hot, I have a firm belief: That at least in part, in head or heart, we all became part Eph. So some with hair, and some quite bare, all a bit grayer now; We will rally in the Purple Valley because we’re all part Purple Cow. Both Tom and Ben Wagner encourage us to write our personal essays, so there will be a complete biography of the members of 1964. Also note that the Williams Inn has a block of rooms set aside for us. The inn is located directly across the street from our 50th reunion HQ, which will be at the former Saint A’s House. Reservations can be made by calling 413.458.9371 and referring to the Class of 1964 block. Get your name on the list; our big weekend is coming up shortly! 36

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As you know, since we all received invitations, part of the “approach to the 50th” includes a trip to Oxford, England, to join the Williams students and faculty there and have an opportunity to learn, relax, tour and enjoy the entertainment of the London theater with a close group of classmates. This year the following classmates and partners experienced a delightful week across the pond: Susan and Joe Barsky, Anne and Bruce Birgbauer, Jane and Bill Frado, Hope and al Hageman, Mary Stewart and Chris Hagy, Muffy and Peter Johannsen, Mary and Gay Mayer, Caroline and John Romans, Gerri and Gavin spence, Abby and Bob summersgill, Paul Riecks and Carol Vellucci, Craig schelter and Liz Nill, and John Winfield and Leigh Callahan. Gay Mayer commented that the 13 couples were “on the run since arriving with five fantastic lecturers from the university provided a crash course in English history, which was ‘extraordinary’ in a word. We had a delightful dinner with 12 of the 25 Williams juniors who were here to study. Somehow they manage the intensity of their academics and yet have the ability to find ways to relax and to continue learning from pub quizzes to singing in the choir. Hamlet in Stratford-upon-Avon was ‘powerful’ and cause for much discussion in its 20th century setting. The weather has been typically English but only last night did I get caught in a real bit of rain without a jacket or umbrella. Mary and I had gone to a local pub with Caroline and John Romans. Our reward for a bit of rain was a double rainbow. It has been a real treat and, as all good things, it comes to end all too soon.” Gavin spence wrote that he and Gerri “enjoyed it thoroughly” and found the lectures and day trips to Oxford, Blenheim, Stratford-upon-Avon, the Ashmoleon “great, but what we enjoyed most was getting to know and interact with all of our classmates and spouses.” Craig schelter said he and Liz spent “a fabulous week at Oxford filled with laughter, camaraderie, lectures, tours and history. It was a truly memorable way to glide toward our 50th next June.” Speaking of “gliding,” Dick tucker is “gliding” into the realization that he is truly a senior citizen as he proudly states that his oldest grandson has “just completed his first year as a computer science major at Fitchburg State University—making the dean’s list both semesters.” Dick continues to add to his responsibilities at Carnegie Mellon by becoming its Title IX compliance officer in addition to teaching and performing research. He and Rae somehow manage to leave Pittsburgh on occasion and enjoy their home on Cape Cod for get-aways. While Dick Garland didn’t exactly “glide” to the finish line during this year’s tragic Boston Marathon, he did have a tale to tell about the horrors of that day which is best left in its entirety: “I contributed a tale in the January issue of Williams People about my turning 70, getting into shape, qualifying for the Boston Marathon and getting ready to run that race in April of 2013. As we now all know, that race ended unexpectedly by an act of violence and a great tragedy in which three persons died, and a large number were injured. A number of Williams friends contacted me with concern about

1964 how I was affected by those events and what exactly I went through. My race was going fine until I met my son and daughter near Kenmore Square at a prearranged spot on Commonwealth Avenue. This was just past the 25-mile point of the race. They said they had heard ‘something had happened’ and they might have trouble meeting me after the race. At this point we were all ignorant of what had happened. I continued on a bit but was stopped in a large crowd at the point where Mass. Avenue crosses Commonwealth. Everyone was frantic as the word slowly spread that there had been an explosion and some people were killed. No one had the full story, and everyone with a phone was frantically calling friends, family or other runners to try to find out if their loved ones were safe. I had my phone and kept getting texts from friends near and far, but service was spotty to non-existent. Eventually I found my kids again, and we walked up Beacon Street to Coolidge Corner and found a place to eat and make the necessary calls to friends and family informing them that we were all OK. But everyone was NOT OK, and we were in a daze of thanks for escaping the tragedy but also suffering from ‘survivors’ guilt’ whenever we thought of those not so fortunate. The race organizer, the Boston Athletic Association (BAA), was an absolute champion both during and after the tragedy. About a month later I was sent a marathon medal via FedEx and an email, inviting all the 5,600-plus runners who were stopped short of the finish line to come back in April 2014, run the race again and finish what we could not complete this year. I will be there, shortly before our 50th reunion, and my thoughts during the race will be as much on those no longer with us as on my competing. The BAA has given us a ‘do-over,’ and I intend to make the most of it.” Thank you so much for your insights, Dick. For those of you who want to experience more about the intensity of the preparation and training required for this event, check out Dick’s blog: http://bit.ly/12NWzeW. Tom Howell recently was in Boston to greet grandchild number five and continues “not to be bored with retirement!” Russ Bishop, through his blended marriage to Ginger, now is grandfather of 12, including two sets of fraternal twins! Their five children all graduated from colleges including Williams (Kiri Swinson ’87), Middlebury, Colorado College, Smith and the University of Florida (the latter transforming him to a Div. I “Gator!”). To celebrate their 70th birthdays last year, the entire entourage totaling 26 (you check the math!) spent the last week in June in Bethany Beach, Del., meeting one another (some for the very first time). In the past this has been the spot to vacation on occasion with Mary and Gay Mayer and Ginger and Bill Ruddiman, who met one another in Bethany at age 14 and were to celebrate their 50th anniversary “somewhere” this coming August. Russ writes that he is winding down the investment firm he founded in 1994, Harvest Advisers LLC, through an agreement with his partners, including Sean Cook ’88, leaving him with neither management nor supervisory responsibilities (yea!). With his free time, Russ plans to “start up a subsidiary

of a company that helps people like us develop habits of mind, body and spirit that can make our ’80s even more healthy, satisfying and meaningful than our ’70s.” He has been using some new technologies to help him track exercise, nutrition, sleep and related “habit change” areas and has added meditation leading to a “happier, healthier citizen than I was a year ago,” which I am sure pleases Ginger, no doubt! Russ says he was able to walk (along with 25,000 other fans) the seven-mile U.S. Open Merion Golf Course in Ardmore, Pa., with his sons on two occasions, but he does admit to have watched the final round in his “leather recliner” (where I bet most of our old duffers spent the entirety of the Open). Joining the members of our class who reside overseas, Fred Tuttle was to conclude a trip to Italy during which time he visited Rome, the Vatican, Pienza and Florence after celebrating his 50th anniversary in Paris, “a great place to rekindle.” The couple will then join a Williams travel adventure river-land cruise from Lisbon to Madrid before spending next year in Mougins, France, just outside of Cannes. Sounds like the happy life, Fred; enjoy the wine! Tim Tuttle, no relation, recently concluded a three-week investment trip through China, ending up in Singapore, where he attended his first Chartered Financial Analysts convention in 45 years. He writes that “China is currently going through a multiyear political and economic restructuring process that will support continued GDP growth exceeding 6 percent (eat your heart out Bernanke). I continue to be appalled at the gross misreporting of Asian activities by the western press, but I realize I am in a distinct minority here.” During his travels on a World Wildlife Fund trip in Indonesia, Skip Gwiazda commented on the toll that humans take on other living species on our planet. He has a “longstanding interest in marine life, and I chose to snorkel along several thousand miles from Sulawesi (large island north of Bali) to Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. I was joined by 74 others and only two sharks were seen—and these were only seen by the diving members of our party. Finally, at Ashmore Reef, east beyond the Great Barrier Reef, I finally saw two sharks. What is the point? In a massive area of ocean the Chinese and Taiwanese fishing industry has virtually eliminated one species of fish for shark fin soup.” As I have become older, I, like Skip, have been reading about and learning of man’s domain over the earth and our relatively poor job of caretaking for it and the other creatures who rely on its oceans, atmosphere and with whom we share the vast natural resources of our planet. This is but one episode in the rapidly dwindling biodiversity on Earth. Perhaps these comments will create a discussion that we might continue in our next People.  John Jobeless writes that his travels have been curtailed due to a bruised heel, which is preventing activity for three months. It is during these times when we all come to realize how much we rely on friends, and John’s spirits have perked up as he rekindles with friends with whom he has been able to pick up “long dormant relationships where they left off—seemingly without a hitch, as SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s if no extended time has passed.” He reminisces of a former Williams travel/study Rhine River cruise where he visited Budapest, Prague and Amsterdam and hopes that when he heals… And from out of the blue yonder, I received a delightful history from Steve Bowling, who mentioned that fellow Phi Sig Tim Reichert ’65 persuaded him to leave Cleveland and come west to California and try his talents at Stanford Business School. Following his MBA, Steve spent his entire career in entrepreneurial companies in a variety of positions (CFO, COO and CEO), remaining in California but often commuting to places like Memphis, Atlanta and Shanghai. At the age of 67, Steve retired and has done pro bono consulting for nonprofits through the Stanford Business School Alumni Volunteers and is to be joining their management board in September. Steve and Gabriella have two accomplished daughters: Laura is a genetic counselor at Loyola Medical Center in Chicago, and Sara is just starting her second year of residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. While apologizing that neither daughter could be coaxed to go east to Williams, he and Gabriella will be heading in that direction to attend our 50th next June. On the home front, I completed my 18th swim across the Chesapeake Bay and am now the third oldest finisher of the 640 who were selected in the lottery for this event. Each year, I must admit, those 4.4 miles seem to get longer, and the “speedsters” look like infants, though they are actually our age when we started school. Our youngest daughter, Torrey, will be wed in the fall, so those of you who have been through this can either offer tips, suggestions or just plain old cash to help me cope with both the volume of decisions and the mixed sadness-joy of watching your “little girl” finally grow up and out. I remember all of the times working together on schoolwork, attending riding competitions and watching her take her first dive off the board. And now she is a bright and beautiful young woman using her advanced degrees in business and public health to raise funds for the American Public Health Association. But I am not alone, Paul Crissey is planning for his son’s wedding, where the “fellas” got together for a bachelor party at a recent A’s game and followed it with dinner at a Brazilian steakhouse in San Francisco. His spring production of Footloose went very well, and he plans to work with the Concord High students to take on Legally Blonde, the Musical next year. Biff Steel recently brought his multi-generational family together for “anniversary celebrations.” Together the Steel family totals 131 years of marriage! That seems to me to be pretty impressive and says something for family values. Biff continues to work and teach in Ghana and Uganda. By the time you read these notes, we will be only a little more than eight months until our 50th reunion next June. Get your plane tickets and rooms at the inn. It is going to be a blast! —Marty

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1965 Tom Burnett, 175 Riverside Drive, #2H, New York, NY

10024; [email protected] Secretary Burnett reports: By the time this issue of People reaches our readers, several (Gage, Wheelock, Foley, Reichert and your faithful scribe) will have reached our “seventies” decade. So far, it beats the alternative, but it sure is a difficult concept to get used to. I welcome thoughts and comments on this topic from any and all classmates, since I am sure we have all been amazed by its appearance. With less than two years remaining before our 50th Reunion Weekend, it is important to keep in mind the many upcoming, related events. There will be a minireunion in Williamstown Oct. 4-6 with a multi-class dinner Friday night (beverages available) and a dinner hosted by Gale and Dusty Griffin at their home on Saturday night. The proposed trip to Oxford is scheduled for the week of June 23-30, 2014, with further details provided at the October minireunion. In preparation for his role as reunion chair, Tim Reichart (along with Ron Kidd, Jack Foley and Jim Worrall) “shadowed” the Class of 1963’s 50th reunion to get some ideas about how we may want to organize our celebration in 2015. Martha and John Storey will serve as editors for the class book, which, based on the wonderful tome for the 25th reunion, will be an important keepsake. I want to single out Phil McKnight for his efforts in communicating the various possible gift planning arrangements that classmates can make for their contributions to the college and the class gift. If you have any questions, please email Phil directly at [email protected] for his advice and comments. Dave Coolidge and Dusty have been on top of all reunion-related events, and we owe them both a sincere sense of gratitude and appreciation for all their efforts. Dave sent me a helpful summary of the Colloquium Weekend that was held in Williamstown April 25-27. Among attendees were Dale Anderson, Joanne and Len Brumberg, Jack Elgin, Jack Foley, Lynne and Jim Gage, Liz and Lenny Gibson, Ron Kidd, Rob Oehler, Tina and Fred Ohly, Carol and Bill Ouchi, Rod Patton, Neil Peterson, Tim Reichart, Don Ross, Norm Spack, Barbara and Gordy Sulcer, and “townies” Gale and Dusty Griffin, Kathy and Phil McKnight, Alice and Joe Small, Martha and John Storey, and Priscilla and Jim Worrall. Several faculty members and current students spoke at the various events, and President Falk endorsed the two class gifts—Presidential Venture Fund and a Student Opportunity Fund. Dave concluded that the weekend was a highly successful event. Once again, we must tip our hat to Class Agent Jim Worrall for all his efforts to complete an Alumni Fund campaign raising some $170,000 with an amazing participation rate of 90.1 percent of the 244 members of our class list. Congratulations, Jim, on the job well done. Jim sent me a note about his recent conversation with Max Gail, who was excited about his role in 42, the Jackie Robinson story. Max plays Burt Shotton, who was Jackie’s first major league manager in 1947 (while Leo Durocher was serving a suspension). I

1964–66 saw the movie and thought Max did an excellent, understated and believable job as the manager, and I hope it will lead to other roles for him. I was pleased to receive a note from Bill Meacham from Austin, Texas. Bill is changing careers from IT engineering (at Dell) to semi-retirement as a teacher of philosophy. He has just published a book, How to Be an Excellent Human, which is a study of human nature from an Aristotelian perspective. He is also the author of a blog called “Philosophy for Real Life,” and his website is www.bmeacham. com, where the book and blog are available. He and his wife Patricia Michael live in Austin with children, stepchildren and grandchildren in Texas and Canada. Bill remembers “with fondness” the large contingent of philosophy majors in the Class of 1965. One final note leading up to our big reunion— Dusty is working to set up a website for commentary and memories of our four years at the college, and I invite all classmates to participate in this blog-like venture. For our family, the big news was the birth of our third grandchild, Sadie Rand Fefferman, to our daughter Liza on June 14. We now have two in NYC and one in Denver and could not feel more lucky or blessed.

1966 Palmer Q. Bessey Jr., 1320 York Ave., 32H, New York,

NY 10021; John Gould, 80 Ocean St., Lynn, MA 01902; [email protected] I am late again in preparing this edition of the notes, and I will claim as an excuse that I have been trying to avoid writing about the abrupt death of Carl Casselman in April. At the class dinner in New York in February, he was energetic and upbeat and positive about his future. He had developed throat cancer in 2012 but had had a good response to treatment and, as far as he knew, he had “no evidence of disease,” as the doctors say. The notice from the college contained no obituary, and so his death came as a complete surprise and a mystery. Wink Willett, who was a high school classmate and freshman roommate of Carl’s, filled in some of the details after attending a memorial service in May. In March, Carl had moved to California to be close to his children Robert and Ashley and also to be with his high school sweetheart, Ginny Gifford, with whom he had reconnected just last fall. He was as happy and positive as ever. Then he developed pneumonia. Although the cancer in the throat was gone, it was roaring ahead in the lung and brain. Carl was a frequent contributor to these pages, writing especially about the “Iron Butt” motorcycle races. Wink wrote of the summer of 1964 when he, Carl and Tom Jack went to Anchorage to help rebuild the seven-story J.C. Penney store (tallest in Alaska), which had been damaged in a 9.2 earthquake in March of that year. Ted Washburn roomed with Carl in Fayerweather and AD, and Carl was best man at Ted’s wedding in 1967, serving with Mike Burrows and Pete Richardson, who were ushers. “Carl introduced me to skiing, beer ‘games’ and pool in the cellar of AD, Camel cigarettes, a string of comely, beautiful women, motorcycle riding (falling,

in my case), his autobiographical short stories and his brilliant advertising shoots after graduation,” Wink wrote. “One of my happiest memories is his visit to St. Croix, snorkeling at Buck Island and introducing him to calypso music. Regretfully, I never saw Carl again after a brief visit while I was living in a grotty apartment in Putney, south of London in 1976. … He was a dear man, a smart man and a loyal, caring friend for many years of my life,” Wink wrote. Rob Bradley reported on the sixth annual Williams ’66 Boston dinner held in May at The Country Club in Brookline. It was the largest dinner to date, with 16 attending—13 classmates and three from the college. James Mahon, political science professor, gave a fascinating talk on Cuba and Venezuela in transition, focusing primarily on the economic forces that are driving changes in these countries as well as throughout Latin America. Classmates attending were Bill Adams, Peter Allen, Bill Bowden, Rob Cunningham, Alan Fincke, George Helmer, Con O’Leary, Dick Pingree, Marty Shulkin and David Tunick as well as hosts Rob Bradley, Dan Coquillette and Budge Upton. They are looking for 15‑20 classmates for the May 2014 event. Con O’Leary was a first-time attendee at the Boston dinner and confirmed that it was a fine meal. Both he and Dan Coquillette are both still teaching law at U Conn and BU, respectively. He plans to go to both the New York and Boston dinners next year. Arthur Benson is still practicing law full time. He and his family took a break in May to visit Croatia and Paris. No plans to retire. Bailey Young spent the fall semester as visiting faculty at Harlaxton College near Grantham (Lincolnshire) in Merry Olde England. It is an overseas campus of the University of Evansville in Indiana, where he teaches. It has an excellent British studies core program that draws undergrads from a number of institutions. He taught Stonehenge in the classroom and then went there with the students. Everybody is lodged together in a spacious Neo‑Elizabethan manor house, which he said favored a Williams‑style liberal arts teaching‑and‑learning environment. Back at home he won the Distinguished Faculty Award. The excavation of Walhain Castle in Belgium, which he co‑directs with a colleague from the Catholic University of Louvain, was featured on a Belgian public TV special broadcast in May 2012, subtitled Un Americain à Walhain. Also continuing teaching was co-secretary John Gould, who gave his grammar course again last spring at Bennington. There were 17 students enrolled, and they have signed him up to give the course both in the fall and next spring. Who knew that Bennington students were so interested in rules? John had lunch with Ned Donohue’s daughter Maggie, who is a dance major and plans to work for a dance company in Philadelphia. She did not take the course, but had she done so he was sure she would have passed. John also met her boyfriend Max, who wants to do filmmaking, and he thinks they make a nice team. Willard Spiegelman wrote from across town on a day that felt more like Dallas than Manhattan. SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s Although he likes New York in June, it can be oppressive when it is hot and humid. He teaches one semester a year and otherwise divides his time among Dallas, Connecticut and the Upper West Side. He still writes for literary quarterlies and for The Wall Street Journal. He looks forward to June 2016, which seems improbably close as well as implausibly distant. Economic forces are at play all over. David Kollender reports that work had slowed due to the sequester, but he was keeping busy at home and at their summer place. Lots of chipping, scraping and painting. Come the end of August the Kollender family en masse was going to Germany for a river cruise on the Main and Rhein rivers. Wife Linda still has family in her grandparents’ hometown. Andy Burr proudly announced that he finally is going to be a grandfather. Architect daughter Alex and her architect husband, Allen, are expecting a proto architect, ETA late fall, but so far seem to have no idea how their lives will change. He also visited with Deb and Dave Rutherford and reported that Dave is making “very cool” bags out of old sails (Google “Barkley Sound Bags”), which he sews himself. Their son Ethan Rutherford ’02 had his first book of short stories published. Roger Kubarych wanted to convey the considered opinion that semi-retirement is pretty neat. His second grandchild, Landon James, was brought forth in May by his oldest son, Kevin, and his wife Jen, both laser scientists at the University of Michigan. To celebrate, Roger and Janet were able to dine at that famed Chicago eatery, Bistrot Zinc, with proprietor Lance Knox and his wife Mary. Not to be outdone, Jon Linen reports that he and Lee are working on their 11th grandchild, the ninth girl. He is in what he calls “Stage II,” semiretired and consulting part time for Amex. He has also been working hard with Wink Willett, Punky Booth, Bill Bowden and various others on reunion fund issues. He is busy and healthy. Life is great. On the opposite coast, Bob Bates wrote that he and Linda have daily gratitude for living in such a beautiful place as Santa Cruz County, Calif., with its ocean mountains, redwoods, mild climate, lots of good friends and children/grandchildren an hour away. After surgical repair of a couple of body parts this year, they are gearing up for more travel. He complained that he finds it increasingly difficult to find the 1966 class notes, as they seem to be (mistakenly, no doubt) placed with the old classes. We will speak with the editor about that. Tom Gunn wrote from western North Carolina. He and Pat were traveling again with their motor home for the summer just to stay cool. They leave Florida in mid-May and do not return until midOctober. Last summer they spent in the middle of Colorado in the collegiate range around Buena Vista. The altitude gave great weather, but they ended the summer realizing they are not as tough as they used to be. This summer they are touring the Great Smoky Mountains, 6,000 feet lower in altitude. They affirm that it is a beautiful country, and they continue to be amazed at how great the people are that they meet along the way. Dave Batten wrote from Mallorca, where he and Evi have spent the year after sailing there from 40

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Turkey. Their daughter started school in Germany in September, and they wanted to be close to her. Happily, Schloss Schule Salem and Lydia are a great match, and she is thriving. Their son went to the Lycee in Palma and has added passable Spanish to his English, French and German. Dave is amazed at how young children can learn multiple languages without an issue. They started a major refit on the sailboat last fall, which has evolved into a major and frustrating rebuild. Evi is back in the real estate development business with a small townhouse project, and he gives occasional advice and writes checks. In September, their son Alexis will go to the School of American Ballet in New York. Chip Malcolm is enjoying his half-time schedule: Office two days a week and no OB or call any more. It’ s like a normal routine. He and Nance see their kids and four grandchildren often, since they live close by. He serves on the board of the Opera Company of Middlebury. When he wrote, he was in the midst of their 10-day run of Eugene Onegin. He saw John Ashton in Sun Valley last February, and Mike Katz gave some Russian-language help to the opera singers getting ready for Onegin. Ron Worland retired from private practice a year ago, since combined cost of malpractice and the mandated move to electronic health records was equal to half of his gross income. So far he has completed two-week surgical missions to southern India, southern China, Vietnam and Guatemala, and when he wrote, he was about to return to Venezuela and then back to China. Still busy but happy no longer to have to carry a beeper for the emergency room. More time now, after 35 years, for afternoon naps and grandchildren. Lysle Dalton wrote that he and wife Kathy were expecting grandchild number two later that day, and he was in the car with children on his way to Knoxville. He is still busy as an associate professor in OB-GYN at University of Kentucky. He plans on a few more deliveries before a probable retirement in summer 2014. He rides horses, hunts and enjoys a golf game that seems to have reached a “suitable level of mediocrity,” and he still looks forward to skiing each winter. Life is good, lots to look forward to, especially for the Sun Valley Class of 1966 gathering this summer. Dave Tobis wrote a short note concerning the pleasures of a self‑imposed sabbatical, biking in Sonoma, hiking in Anza Borrego Desert and walking among Redwood trees with Doc Jon Citron. He was then off to NYC for a book launch and an op-ed piece in Time Magazine online about parents. Art Perry regretted that he could relate no news fit to print, except for recalling the wonderful the Class of 1966 event last November at the National Gallery celebrating a Roy Lichtenstein exhibit. He encouraged us in our good works and is looking forward to 2016. Gil Conrad also recalled the event in the East Wing of the National Gallery, organized by Rusty Powell last fall. He further reported that he was alive and well in Falls Church, Va. Barry Barnes wrote that he is “livin’ wide.” He and his partner John shuttle back and forth between Provincetown and Kauai. They enjoy the beaches and birding and beauty in both locations and also

1966–67 many places they visit on the way. “I never tire of the views there on Kauai. … One of the reasons … in particular is how natural the backdrops … are there. … Many beaches other places … are beautiful, but when you turn around there are hotels or condos or just not nature,” he says. The next class event will be the minireunion in Williamstown with the classes of 1964, 1965 and 1967 on Oct. 4-6. You should also have heard by now of some of the projects the Reunion Fund Committee, under Jon Linen, have taken on. The biggest one involves the Kellogg House project, which will strive to meet the Living Building Challenge and will serve as the academic and administrative home of the Center for Environmental Studies and the Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives. The resulting building, Class of 1966 Center for Environmental Studies, will allow our class to have a long-term presence on the campus. A second project, a scholarship fund, will help future individual Williams students. As you know, Peter Koenig, John Gould and I have been laying plans for the 50th reunion book. We are attempting to commission Dan Sherbok to prepare some appropriate cartoons. He is balking a little. Worried that they might be too subversive. In any event, he has just done a book: The Atheneum: A View of the Club, which is a collection of about 130 cartoons. It is to be published as an ebook by Impress Books this summer or autumn. He has heard that Archbishop Rowan Williams and P.D. James are doing blurbs for the book. And in closing, we received this from another denizen of Dallas. “Yesterday, I took off early from the office (where I work for my Bates‑educated son) to meet a girl friend at the park. Seeing her at the park from the back about 100 yards away, I approached quietly to surprise her. Mine was the surprise, however. ’Twas Inge‑Lise, wife of Jack Lane, taking a brief respite from her quick trip to Dallas for an art‑related project. We had a glorious visit. Eventually my friend came, and we left Inge‑Lise to her cellphone and her work. The rest is not for [class notes]…” Then later on Jack Vroom’s Facebook page: “I am very grateful for the well‑wishing, and thank each and every one of you. The health report is far better than I deserve. That was the opinion of my cardiologist, who says he’s not often seen folks have two heart attacks with so little damage to the heart muscle. He says I am lucky. Though I knew that, because I know you all! Best wishes from East Dallas, where lives at least one person grateful for your friendship… Thank you also to Baylor Hospital, which stayed open late for me on Tuesday evening and took care of business in a flash! It’s a nice day to be alive!” Whether or not there is a connection between these events we will leave for you to decide.

1967 Kenneth A. Willcox, 178 Westwood Lane, Wayzata, MN 55391; [email protected] Leading this edition is the first report from Scott Baker in about 10 years. Earlier this year he and his wife Inge were in Yangshuo, China, a small rural town. They were staying at an old farmhouse,

since converted into a small hotel. The day they arrived they met two delightful young women at their restaurant. Turns out they had graduated from Williams about four years ago. The women set up a dinner for Scott and Inge a few weeks later in Beijing with a group of Williams students. Based on that terrific experience Scott concluded, “I have figured out what was very wrong with my Williams experience: no women.” He observed that a large number (30 percent) of the students in some classes have married fellow students. Most have said their spouses were not people they had dated at Williams. They reconnected at reunions. (Ed. note: There’s a lesson there somewhere.) Paul Lipof tried retirement last year for all of a few months before he concluded he wasn’t ready for it. So he is now back at it working for a NYC real estate developer. He manages design and construction of new buildings and projects. He says the NYC real estate market is soaring at the moment. He has two new granddaughters. One arrived in January, the other in April. So they are now up to six grandchildren. Their oldest just graduated from high school and is headed to college. Paul is still biking, playing tennis and skiing, “but not like in the good old days.” The Lipofs were able to get together with the Meisters over the summer. Cathy and John Schwab have moved from northern Michigan to Chapel Hill, N.C. They lost Cathy’s son almost two years ago in a mountain biking event, and their move allows them to be near her daughter in Durham and two of their eight grandsons. John’s older son, John, lives in Westford, Mass., with his wife Kim and three boys. Kim was in the Boston Marathon in April and was about 200 yards from the second blast. John and the boys were at the finish line. Prayerfully, no one was impacted. John’s son Eric and his wife Michelle and their three boys live in Bloomfield Hills, outside Detroit. In spite of John’s counsel to his boys to smell the roses, it seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Their retort is along the lines of, “And what were you doing, Dad, when you were 42?” John concludes, “So much for wisdom.” Bill Garth says that he and his wife are “having the time of our lives here in St. Petersburg.” To illustrate the point he asked, “Did you know that Henry VIII wrote madrigals and played several instruments? We just learned that at a brass quintet concert.” (Ed. note: Bill, your secretary confesses he knew nothing about Henry’s musical talents, but it’s certainly useful information to have.) Ron Bodinson has had a number of meetings with classmates regarding plans for our 50th reunion. March found him caucusing with Allan Stern. Then Ron and John Hufnagel met with Chris Covington in Boston to pick his brain for 50th ideas. Chris hosted them for lunch on the waterfront. In May, Ron and George Cannon teamed up to attend the leadership dinner on campus. While there, Ron was able to visit Dottie and Fred Rudolph ’42. (Ed. note: As all of you may know, Fred passed away the following month.) Ron was also able to get together with Carol and Peter Krause in Old Saybrook and Sharyn and Irv Blond in Newport. After a great trip to Sicily with Professor Lewis as leader, Beth and Bryan Hickman along with SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s Suzanne and Harry Tether have signed up for the African safari this coming January. Bryan has become heavily involved in education. This year he has visited 17 cities and visited many charter schools. Two of the best schools at educating disadvantaged urban minority children have agreed to open schools in Rochester, N.Y. They have purchased a building for one school and are building community support for transforming educational opportunity in Rochester. Jeff Bowen says retirement is giving them the freedom that was missing during their years as superintendents. His biggest challenges these days are yard work, bike hikes, Photoshop and puppy training. They spent a few weeks on the Maine coast over the summer. That allowed him to recuperate from the shock of his 50th high school graduation. Jack Hunt also attended his 50th high school reunion this summer and enjoyed it. The Hunts will become permanent West Coasters (San Juan Capistrano) this year. They will be joining two of their daughters (Orange County and Seattle) and their three children. Their third daughter, Lisa Hunt ’03, recently started her medical practice at the University of New Mexico University Health System in Albuquerque. This followed nine years of training. Another 50-year high school reunion attendee was Harry Matthews. He trekked back to Cincinnati for his event. He noted his high school is, lamentably, a shadow of its former self. Soon after his graduation the school board fired most of the senior faculty. The bean counters ruled and said no more money. What had been a top school in a prestige district tumbled. Harry notes, “As my grandmother always said, you get what you pay for.” He was saddened to see what had become of the school that had prepared him so well for a great education. Chuck Glassmire tackled the next 450-mile stretch of his hike along the Appalachian Trail over the summer. This time he covered the New Hampshire/ Maine section. He also renovated his Falmouth, Maine, condo and spent time ocean kayaking. He had some old high school classmates join him over the summer in Maine for their 50th reunion. He notes this year is the last college tuition year for him, and then all four kids will be through. Chuck plans two more years of teaching and then retirement. Hank Grass is recovering from yet another athletic/orthopedic repair, but he has high hopes of returning to an age-appropriate athletic function. He continues to love his psychiatric practice, teaching and treating physicians. He summarizes, “I have contentment with having found, realized and contributed to my purpose in life on this planet.” Marty Samuels claims no earth-shaking news but adds that at this stage of life, that, alone is good news. By way of small world, a young lady who just graduated from Harvard and who happens to be a next door neighbor of your secretary’s in Wayzata, Minn., started work in Marty’s neurology department at Brigham & Women’s hospital in Boston. It was fun comparing notes with Marty during the hiring process. Your secretary continues manufacturing truck equipment in our two businesses. This industry tends to be boom or bust, and it’s currently more 42

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boom. Winnie is still shuttling to Ohio, where she provides primary care for her ailing mother in her condo. Her mother has had hospice designation and assistance for over two years. Meanwhile, as mayor of our city, I am presiding over a particularly robust period of development. So far the natives aren’t restless. That could change. Thanks go to Turner Smith and your class leadership for their work, under way since last year, which will lead us to our 50th reunion. As some of the notes above suggested, considerable thought is already going into the event. Please be receptive if you are asked to help out.

1968 Paul Neely, P.O. Box 11526, Chattanooga, TN 37401;

[email protected] Fifty-eight classmates and 49 of their spouses or other guests met in Williamstown in June for the 45th reunion of the class. Some of them had changed over the years. Early arrivers enjoyed a dinner at Diane and Steve Phillips’ house next to the Taconic golf course. Most prominent among the guests were Moira and Kevin Dougherty, who live in Williamstown now. Kevin is fighting his own health battles and made a special effort to be with us, to everyone’s great pleasure. Friday brought more than an inch of rain with a high of 53 degrees. Athletic heroes for the weekend were Ron Yee, Clark McFadden and Denny Kelly, who played 18 holes through that, and Ned Williams, who joined them for the second nine. The rest of us, who had the sense to come in out of the rain, had a full array of lectures and tours available to us. John Rahill presented on “Building a Living Architecture,” about his involvement with the college in sustainable design and construction. Ned Williams, who has written the book Fixing Everything: Government Spending, Taxes, Entitlements, Healthcare, Pensions, Immigration, Tort Reform, Crime … spoke on the federal government. He is pretty much not in favor of it. Dinner Friday was a bit soggy underfoot, but the tent part worked. Dinner Saturday included special guests President Adam Falk, former Dean John Hyde ’52 and geology professor and alumni travel leader Bud Wobus. Meals were a great time to catch up, so here are some quick items: Sherman Jones is teaching entrepreneurship at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and wrestling with the frustration of unsuccessful efforts to get a charter school approved. Bob Heiss runs a company that deals with environmental waste in ports. Rod Dimock sold his real estate investment trust and now does micro real estate deals. Bob Lord is nominally retired but works in development at a regional hospital and volunteers in other roles there. Bob Cricenti sold his longtime grocery business and says he devotes his time to chasing grandchildren. Bob Macartney retired from secondary teaching and is using his new free time to catch up on

1967–69 advances in his fields of physics and computer science. Henry Hecht is in his 30th year teaching at UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), now rebranded as Berkeley Law, where he was just named the John and Elizabeth Boalt Lecturer in Residence. E.J. Strasburger says he is still lawyering in Pittsburgh, and John Fulkerson says he is still fixing knees and shoulders. Which leads to a word about reunions. At our advanced stage they are no longer a chance to compete over résumés. They are a chance to see old friends. Friday night, for instance, I noticed a table of former Prospect House residents—Ross Anthony, Barton Jones and Bill Whitman—having dinner together. Meals are also a chance to compare notes on everything from grandchildren to second careers. David Allen and I, for instance, had a nice conversation about our similar marital histories. Two people even chanced into a conversation about the difficulties of family life when a child develops mental illness. It may have been 45 years, but we still have a lot to share. If you were there, you know what I mean. If you weren’t, start making plans to attend the 50th, which always brings great sentiments from those who attend, usually at least half the class. Special thanks to Trav Auburn for chairing the 45th and to Tom Nicholson, who handled many of the local arrangements. Class officers for the next five years are: Ned Perry, president; Tad Piper and Garrett Thornburg, VPs; Larry Levien, class agent; Paul Neely, secretary; Jeff Brinn, treasurer. Fiftieth reunion leaders are Reunion Weekend chairs Barton Jones and Bob Stanton. Fiftieth Reunion Fund chairs are John Oppenheimer and Bob Scott. And, lest we forget, thanks to officers for the past five years: Oppenheimer, Perry, Stanton, Levien and Michael Yogman. A sad footnote: Paul Allison died suddenly just a month after the reunion, which he had attended with his companion Beth-Anne Flynn ’81. Details came to you earlier by email, but a number of people have written to say how wonderful it was to be with him at the reunion. Beth-Anne mentioned how much he loved the college and his class.

1969 REUNION JUNE 12-15 Richard P. Gulla, 287 Grove St., Melrose, MA 02176;

[email protected] We begin this edition with award winners. Congratulations to Larry McCullough, who was honored with the Barbara and Corbin J. Robertson Jr. Presidential Award for Excellence in Education, recognizing faculty members “who have made longstanding, consistent and highly valued contributions to the educational mission of the college.” It is the highest award for teaching given by the Baylor College of Medicine. Larry holds Baylor’s Dalton Tomlin Chair in Medical Ethics & Health Policy and is a professor of medicine and medical ethics.

Congratulations are also due Henry Walker, who received the 2013 Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community by the Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) of the Association for Computing Machinery. SIGCSE is the primary international professional association for computing educators. Henry also attended the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Williams Department of Computer Science. “Computer science has evolved wonderfully at Williams—now truly an impressive department and program.” At the symposium, Henry met up and reminisced with now-retired mathematics professor Victor Hill and classmate Rudy Spraycar. When many of us are retiring, Eric Koster has started a new career. “On March 31, I resigned from my law firm, where I concentrated on real estate development for the past 39 years, and entered the business world—the furniture business to be exact. I have joined Ethan Allen Global and its subsidiaries as VP, general counsel and secretary. Heading up the legal department of a multinational corporation, and the corporate world as a whole, is far different than the rarefied and somewhat academic atmosphere of a law firm, especially when I have the opportunity to visit our manufacturing plants.” Eric has a home in Pownal, Vt., and thus can be found in Williamstown most weekends. While now consulting for a small national nonprofit publisher, Bob Whitton says he is making plans to retire Dec. 31 and has the 45th on his schedule. “Next summer will be busy. Andrea’s reunion at Vassar usually overlaps ours, so it’s a fun long weekend.” Bob saw Peg and Spike Riley in Cape May over the Memorial Day Weekend and says that Rich Pollet has retired from J. Walter Thompson and relocated from the New York Metro Area to Conway, Mass. Pete Lineberger in Spokane, Wash., is having an eventful year. He and spouse Connie celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in March. They will also be seeing their second and third daughters, Molly and Ann, get married ( June and September), and Pete reports he is retiring from his law practice at the end of the year. Jim Barns is looking forward to the 45th reunion. “I was for three years in the Class of 1968, dropped out due to a tremendous and beneficial upheaval in my life and returned to graduate with the Class of 1969. I much preferred that class and though a ‘born again’ extrovert, by then there was no way that I could connect with many of my new classmates. I assiduously submit notes in an effort to compensate and to be known to some come the 45th reunion.” Jim also reports that his daughter, a student at Ohio Wesleyan, spent the semester in Florence, Italy, which prompted a visit by the parents. “Great time, loved hearing the Italians talk.” Dick Tobin has shared some thoughts on the passing of professor Fred Rudolph ’42, a beloved professor of our day. “The very recent news of Fred’s death puts me in mind of many fine opportunities he offered in our Williams days. In our graduation year, he and his wife invited all of the history majors in our class to a big shindig at his home. Sometimes a distinguished career is measured SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s in small gestures like that as well as in the big things—of which, for him, there were many as well, of course.” Marty Lafferty reports that he was elected commander of the U.S. Power Squadron District 5. D/5, which serves the mid-Atlantic Region and Chesapeake Bay with more than 3,000 Members in 33 squadrons, is the largest district in the national boating organization. Andy Lynn celebrated his 44th wedding anniversary in June. “Two kids, 40 and 36 (can I call them kids?), both doctors. Still working, but out of the home office, and at a much slower pace. Physically active, thank God, tennis, golf, cycling, walking. Really hard for me to sit still. My days at Williams are still so clear to me: Lehman Hall: West College, East College, Garfield House. A special shout out to my roommates Tom Willmott and Bill Dickey.” I take scribe’s privilege here to salute some classmates. First, to Rick Corwin, Rob Brokaw and Dick Peinert, who once again led our Alumni Fundraising effort. We may not be breaking any records for fundraising (we’re at 53 percent participation, not far behind the college average of 60 percent), but these guys put in yeoman’s work for every campaign, and they’ve been doing it for years. Rick just completed his sixth year of leadership, and Rob and Dick are both approaching 10 years. And thanks to the associate agents, many of whom have also been serving for years: Chip Broadhurst, Skip Comstock, Keith Cunningham, Alan Dittrich, Wes Howard, Bob Kandel, John McKenzie, John Pascoe, Rich Pollet, Bill Preston, Bob Quinn, Yogi Santa-Donato, Tom Sipkins, Rudy Spraycar, Craig Townsend and Craig Walker. Finally, applause and thanks go to former Class President Bob Grace, who has volunteered to chair our 45th reunion committee. The goal is to get as many classmates back as possible for nothing more than an enjoyable weekend of relaxation and rekindling friendships. Bob is eager to hear from anyone with ideas for the gathering. Write to him at [email protected]. So send your thoughts, mark your calendars and reserve the dates—June 12-15— for our 45th reunion.

1970 Rick Foster, 379 Dexter St., Denver, CO 80220;

[email protected] First to reply (almost instantly) to my request for class notes was Larry Hollar, who reports that he is still in Dayton, Ohio, and is now approaching 20 years as a Bread for the World regional organizer. Having acquired New York State as part of his region, he happily ran into Fred Eames at an Albany, N.Y., event. Stu Selonick ’71 regularly drops by Dayton and lunches with Larry on his way to Cincinnati. Larry is finishing a two-year stint as president of the Bach Society of Dayton and was elected vice moderator of the Presbytery of the Miami Valley. So his church activity will ramp up as the arts management work hopefully ramps down. Larry’s wife Karen Cassedy is on sabbatical from her pastoring work, so she and Larry are enjoying more birding and heading east to Virginia to play with their granddaughters, Cadence and Allegra Penn.  44

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Don Berens’ major news is the March 8 birth of daughter Kathleen Berens Bucki’s ’09 daughter Colleen and that Don and Maureen are greatly enjoying grandparenthood. Don also said that he and Fred Eames recently completed a season (Fred’s eighth, Don’s first) as first tenors in the Mendelssohn Club of Albany, a 60-plus voice TTBB choir. Don also was training for a June bike race up Whiteface Mountain and an August climb of Kilimanjaro. Phil Greenland’s “not much news,” is that he is thrilled to now have nine grandchildren all living in Chicago, within five miles of Phil. Phil and his spouse Aviva attended the wedding of Jim Rubenstein and wife Ami’s son in Minneapolis. Bill Courter has founded the Boomer Health Institute (boomerhealthinstitute.com). Its web site, which should be up and running by the time these notes are published, offers a variety of services to help the baby boomers achieve a better life style. Bill’s new nonfiction book, The Boomer Survivor Kit (565 pages), was to be published in mid June. Suzanne Reed, who is chief of staff to California State Sen. Carol Liu, sent the following: “Would love to retire in the Pacific, but with waters rising from climate change and the loss of equity and short sale of my house, thinking more about a double-wide on two acres somewhere on high ground. My son Michael (SMU ’04) is still a personal trainer in Dallas, and my daughter Diana (NYU ’06) is an ADA in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. My boss is in the last term of her legislative career, so we are looking at three-and-ahalf more years in the State Senate to reform public education in California, slow down and plan for climate change and develop the green and sustainable economy. I continue to ride horses competitively, though I have switched from jumping to dressage. Keeps me sane and somewhat safer, though my horse is a real pip! I wish all my classmates well and hope they will reconnect on LinkedIn or Facebook if they are inclined.” John Hitchens sent lots of news of his life and family in Roanoke, Va.: John’s oldest daughter Christine, 29, returned to school at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and completed an MSW to prepare for her job as a state social worker in Charlottesville with Region Ten. She is the first of John’s four children to be engaged and will be married on Sept. 14 in Charlottesville. John’s daughter Claire, 22, graduated in the spring from the University of Virginia, and his youngest child, Jack, 15, who attended our illustrious 40th Williams reunion with John and Jean, finished ninth grade in the spring. John and Jean continue teaching in the Roanoke City public schools, and Jean was the school system’s Teacher of the Year for 2011-12. John seemed pleased to be, in his words “the famous husband of the teacher of the year!” John also said, “I am happy to report two exciting alumni happenings here in Roanoke, Va. We had a nice visit from David Strathairn in October 2011 when he was on a break from filming Lincoln in Richmond. We enjoyed catching up on family and friends with him over dinner and a nice hike on the trails to Roanoke’s Mill Mountain Star. Soon after that, we had the good fortune of hosting a dinner welcoming Chip

1969–71 Baker and his wife to our neighborhood. I am so

excited to have a Williams grad from our very own Class of 1970 just a short walk away from our house.” Jim Deutsch, whom I had not heard from in a while, sent the following: “I am still living in Washington, D.C., where I work as a curator and editor for the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, helping to plan and produce programs for the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival. My program this year is Hungarian heritage, with China coming up in 2014. I also teach part time (primarily courses on film and folklore) for the American studies department at George Washington University.” Dick Cooch had this to report: “Hard to believe, but I have now served 20 years as a Delaware Superior Court judge (the last 12 as resident judge of my county—includes administrative duties). I’ve liked judicial work from the beginning; I always enjoyed being a lawyer but think that being a judge is more my niche. I was reappointed last year to another 12-year term. My wife Barbara keeps busy with many volunteer activities. Son Richard just graduated from Sierra Nevada College on Lake Tahoe with interests in outdoor wilderness leadership and journalism; daughter Merritt is a junior at the University of Delaware. All are well. We spend time at a cottage on Damariscotta Lake in Maine that we bought seven years ago, but my still having a job gets in the way of lengthier stays there. Barbara has the solution to that, which someday not too far off I’ll implement.” Tom Crowley, a former Williams wrestler, wrote to offer his ringing endorsement of Scott Honecker, Williams’ current head wrestling coach, who has made a concerted effort to reach out to alumni and try to reignite their interest in following the team in its current incarnation. Scott hosted a reception at last fall’s homecoming for the families of current wrestlers, which Tom attended and greatly enjoyed. Tom noted that wrestling was an important part of his Williams experience, and his renewed enthusiasm for the sport has led him to attend a few Williams matches held within hailing distance of the Big Apple. He encourages all former wrestlers from our class (you know who you are) to support Scott in building the team, which this past year had a 12-11 record, sent three wrestlers to the NCAA Div. III Championships in Cedar Rapids and ended up with two NCAA All-Americans (Ces Antista ’13 and Jorge Lopez ’16). Scott won the Div. III Rookie Coach of the Year award. Bob Groban says that his life remains hectic but also is filled with Eph sightings: “I am still with Epstein Becker & Green PC and have no current plans to retire. My son Eli Groban ’02 and his family were with us for Memorial Day. They live in San Francisco, so it was quite a treat seeing our granddaughter Alila and being able to celebrate her first birthday with her. Also, I have been in touch with Tom Sweeney and Jay Nelson. For the past decade, we have taught a Winter Study course on the Supreme Court in alternative years and just learned that the course has been approved for January 2014. Anyone from the class of 1970 is welcome to audit, but we cannot promise anything

on the grade! Finally, spoke with Jay McKenna, who is still at Reid Smith but not traveling internationally as much as he had been. Jay and his wife have eight grandchildren and are looking forward to seeing more of them.” Kelly Corr wrote in mid-June to say that he was chosen as Lawyer of the Year for “Bet The Company Litigation” for Seattle for 2013 by the Best Lawyers in America publication. Per Kelly, “‘Bet the Company Litigation’ is high-stakes litigation in which the future success or failure of a client’s business could depend on the outcome of the litigation.” Kelly went on to say, “Hoping to go out not at the bottom, I’ve decided to go part time now with an eye toward retirement next year. On a personal note, my wife and our two children just came back from a two-week trip to the Galapagos Islands off Ecuador and Machu Picchu in Peru. Wonderful places that I recommend all Ephs put on their bucket list.”  Like most of us, Rod McLeod recently turned 65, and he and spouse Naomi celebrated by spending a week in Amsterdam without cell phones or itinerary, strolling around and seeing museums. When he sent his email to me, they were about to leave for Tanzania for the wildebeest migration and then Zanzibar. Rod reported that in Israel, where he and Naomi reside, “things are heating up on the Syrian front, although it seems an Iran attack has been deferred to next year. There is a slow boil among the surrounding countries (Turkey, Egypt) that in a way is quite hopeful for future positive change. Definitely interesting times to be living in as well as an interesting region.” Finally, I thought I had found another classmate in the news when one morning in June I picked up the Denver Post to read about John Black’s thoughts on the NSA’s cyber snooping through Verizon phone data. The article described John as an “expert on cryptology” and a computer science professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Knowing that “our” John Black had retired from IBM in Boulder not too long ago, I emailed him to see if I could tout his new fame in these class notes. He immediately wrote back with the following: “Nope, better quash this now, as I know nothing of the matter. Since retirement my most strenuous activity has been travel to visit grandkids in Phoenix and Maine. My name is about as common as Bob Smith, and I was not aware that the other John Black in Boulder (there may be more) was involved at CU.” John and Linda’s fourth grandchild is due in December and, consequently, John will be spending Christmas in Connecticut awaiting the birth.

1971 John Chambers, 10 Ashby Place, Katonah, NY 10536;

[email protected] This set of notes includes some serious thoughts—on mortality among the young and innocent, among our old professors, among our own classmates—but then continues, for those who persevere, with happier news and concludes with still lighter reports. First, as these notes are written on the six-month anniversary of the terrible killings at Sandy Hook SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s Elementary School, Newtown, Conn., resident Rich Casden reflects: “Mary and I—like the rest of our country and even the world—were plunged into unbearable sadness on Friday, 12/14/12… A longtime patient of mine lost his daughter, who was one of the young teachers. One of my employees frantically awaited news about her grandson—fortunately a survivor. Virtually everyone in town had a connection to the victims. In the ensuing days the grief that permeated Newtown was palpable, and a shroud still remains.” Rich has tried to find ways to lend a hand toward healing. In a very personal reaction, he wrote a poem commemorating the victims, which can be found in the February 2013 issue of the Connecticut State Medical Society Journal. Professionally, he and other physicians living or practicing in Newtown have tried to bring focus to “four key elements of our national epidemic of gun-related homicides: research, mental health, culture of violence and firearms.” More in the fullness of years, three of our favorite professors (as confirmed in the last notes) have passed. Bill DeWitt ’61, professor of biology, died in early May. Announcing the news to the college community, President Adam Falk wrote, “Bill has been a mainstay of the biology department and the college since his return to Williams in 1967. It’s hard to imagine his not being among us. The many students who knew and admired him include the large number he taught in Biology 101.”

President Falk commented on the Rev. John Eusden, college chaplain in our time, as “a large presence at Williams in more ways than one. While the tall, former Harvard swim captain and former Marine ­pilot loomed forcefully from the pulpit, he also helped lead the college into engagement with the civil rights movement, ecumenical and interfaith initiatives, international studies and environmentalism.” As Rick Beinecke says, “For many of us, he was a great teacher, mentor, advisor and leader. With Bob Gaudino, Kurt Taube and others, he had a huge influence on my views and values and what I have done since.” Fred Rudolph ’42, cherished mentor to so many, including myself, died early in June. Among President Falk’s comments: “The college, and in fact higher education, lost … an important, even historic, figure: Fred Rudolph. Fred served the college in so many ways. As a student, he was a junior advisor, a member of College Council and of Gargoyle, and editor of The Williams Record. As an alumnus he served as president and 50th reunion chair of the Class of 1942. Most notably, few faculty in the past half century have had more of a hand in the development of the Williams curriculum than did Fred … including with the introduction of what we now call the American studies program and of AfricanAmerican history. … More broadly Fred married his love of American history and love of Williams to write pioneering works in the history of higher education. … For all of this and more, Williams bestowed on Fred a Bicentennial Medal and one of his several honorary degrees and established the Frederick Rudolph ’42 Class of 1965 Professorship of American Culture.” Mark E. Stevenson died Jan. 31. According to

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artists from the pop and op art world. After college … Mark became involved in the hotel business while overseeing … real estate holdings of the Stevenson family business. In 1982, Mark purchased the then-decrepit Heathman Hotel with a vision of its transformation into an elegant, urbane and vibrant downtown hotel. The Heathman reopened in 1984 … [and] became a beacon of fine design, excellent cuisine and gracious hospitality that contributed to Portland’s distinct urban character and appeal.” John Resor remembers Mark as “a great friend and a supremely talented and artistic individual.” Aided perhaps by the Massachusetts statute of limitations, John adds a story that includes a confession: “Mark had a lot of confidence, sometimes too much. After an uneventful night at Smith, Mark spotted a canoe that he really liked. He asked me to help load it onto his station wagon and take it back to Williams. When I declined, Mark approached a campus cop and asked for help loading ‘his’ canoe onto the car. When the two of them obviously needed some help, I joined in on the crime. This stunt certainly made the ride back to Williams more enjoyable.” Jim Vipond, even without knowing this story, comments, “I was always in ‘awe’ of Mark, he lived life to the fullest.” For the rest of us, a visit to the Heathman when in Portland might be a fitting tribute; how many leave such a testament? Happier news came from several classmates. Rob Jones, adding to our list of most remembered faculty, named three: “Phil Smith ’55 was an incredible help and inspiration to me. … I can remember many things which Clay Hunt said to shock and awe, but the kindness and scholarly approach of Peter Frost was so influential.” Rob reports a busy practice of CV surgery but seems to invest frequent time with three grandchildren, despite the need for East Coast/West Coast travel to do so. At home in Crystal Lake, Mich., he invites classmates to call for a visit. Travel news: Sharon and Mark Ruchman were in Southeast Asia with Barbara and Jock Kimberley ’66. “We spent several days in Singapore where we met Jock’s classmate Dr. Kiat Tan ’66, a world-regarded botanist/conservationist responsible for re-invigorating the National Botanical Gardens of Singapore, including Gardens By the Bay, a botanical garden and research center. … Its mission is to gather, preserve and protect indigenous Southeast Asian flora threatened by the rapid development of the region. … Very wonderful experience—classmates traveling to Singapore [should] be sure and visit.” Reliable John Acroff used his travel to update us on classmates and their families: “We spent a few days in late May with Janet and Sey Zimmerman, who were our hosts as we visited some attractions in the Washington, D.C., area. Frank Zimmerman ’10 was also there for part of our visit. We then headed to Audubon, Pa., for the wedding of Craig Lindeke’s daughter Lisa Lindeke ’06 to Seth Daniels ’06. (Seth’s father is Paul Daniels ’72.) Bill Lindeke ’01 was an officiant, and Ben Thompson ’01 was a member of the wedding party. Craig’s brother Loren Lindeke ’65 was there with his wife, and there was a large contingent of Ephs from ’06 give or take.”

1971–72 More family news came from proud father Rick Beinecke, whose daughters Emily and Katrina

graduated from Tufts and Roanoke in the spring. Rich Casden’s family updates included all three of his and Mary’s children: “Son Andy (Wesleyan ’03) is a junior partner in a San Francisco-based company. Emily Casden ’06 earned a master’s degree in art history and works as a curatorial assistant at the Jewish Museum in NYC. Alyssa (Skidmore ’99) provided our greatest recent joy when she married Matthew Klein last May. She has an MPA from NYU’s Wagner School and is an administrator at Teach for America in NYC.” Bob Eyre parlayed a trifecta—travel, family and service: “I made my third trip to Haiti in February, and it was doubly fun since son Andrew Eyre ’06 joined me. He is starting his third year of residency in emergency medicine in July, so his surgical, anesthesia and overall clinical skills were put to excellent use. It was great to see how seamlessly he bonded with a group of veteran surgical mission participants. Stephen Eyre ’03 is in his last month of urology residency and will be joining my practice later this summer after taking his boards.” Katie Eyre ’73 was reunion co-chair for her class, and Bob offered a heartfelt report: “The sense of fellowship, meaningful reflections and reconnections—and genuine affection among the classmates—was very special.” One panel discussion “might have invited a discussion of retirement, volunteer activities, leisure pursuits, etc. In fact it touched on far deeper issues of the human condition. Panelists first gave a ‘Williams College Class Notes’ version of their outward successes, accomplishments and careers but then discussed with extraordinary candor and grace the issues that really defined their lives: painful divorce, children in crisis, caring for elderly parents, job upheaval, serious illness, etc. Rarely have I seen a group of such highly successful men (and women) share such intimate details with such openness.” Class of ’71 reunion planners, take note! From several of those worthies, for the moment, we have what I respectfully characterize as “lighter reports,” though serious golfers among us may see their news as profound, since it included for Class President Steve Latham “seven days of golf on the west coast and north of Ireland,” and for Steve Brown close-up views of the recent U.S. Open almost in his backyard at Merion, Pa. Ever gracious John Untereker admitted to a bit of jealousy from his own backyard in Houston but wished Brownie well even through the rain delays. And I wish all the best to every classmate—with special thanks to contributors! Please help us broaden that base, especially with news of those who have been flying under the radar.

1972 Jim Armstrong, 600 West 115th St., Apt. 112, New York,

NY 10025; Julie Rose, 27 Norfolk Ave., Northampton, MA 01060; [email protected] Our class notes begin with a couple of postscripts. Both Tom Kerr and Lans Smith submitted news at the end of 2012 that appeared in the May edition. The recent follow-up from Lans is that he was

awarded the Pacifica Graduate School Medallion— an honor that goes very nicely indeed with the Hardin Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship that he received 10 years ago from Midwestern State University. Kudos! And from Omaha, Tom writes: “I realize that a year has now passed since our reunion. Freelance work has been continuously good and has included a huge variety of projects. To temper the instability of freelance, I left the board of a small local nonprofit to become their communications and marketing consultant. We provide music and entertainment to the senior community here in Nebraska and western Iowa. When you attend one of our performances, you see the magic that this provides. Every now and again I wonder at what point the musical choices for the seniors will be songs from the ’70s and ’80s. We have met the clientele and they are us? Other tidbits from this end are that daughter Em did get a full-time job following her graduation from college, and I launched a book at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders’ meeting, My First Berkshire ABC. It was written by Nancy Rips, and I did the illustrations. We’ve sold all but a handful of copies of the print run, an amazing experience. I must confess that ‘W’ in the book is for Wells Fargo, not Williams.” At the end of his email, Tom included a zinger of a cartoon of Odd Couple Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un. A fine profile carried by the Episcopal News Service details how Jim Munroe is thriving as dean of Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal) in Springfield, Mass. Jim is quoted as saying, “A large part of my role is to be the pastor of the congregation. … I think probably my gifts are more in being a parish priest than in being a diocesan leader, or at least that’s what I enjoy.” He’s taking Spanish lessons to better minister to the diverse community of more than 200 who attend Sunday services at the cathedral. He also reports he is learning to play the drums. “I’m a beginner, but it’s fun.” (Hey, Jim, bring the drums to the next reunion! No, seriously—bring them.) He also spoke of his larger involvement in the Springfield community and beyond. His continuing work with the Veteran’s Education Project and his outreach as dean often jibe. He was particularly concerned about the Boston Marathon bombings in April, which echoed his experiences as a bombing victim during his service as a Marine in Vietnam. “When I saw the videos of the two explosions actually happening, I understood that the people within the blast zone were having the experience I had and that it is an experience that is impossible to describe with words. I also knew that that moment would be a defining moment that they would seek healing from for the rest of their lives and that it may well be years before they’re even ready to begin that healing.” For the full article, go to: http://bit. ly/17j2Sug. Over the transom (as people used to say in the publishing business) as well as at the very last moment came this delightful long-distance missive from Andy Bader: “At our 40th reunion last year, I fielded many questions from classmates about my decision to apply to the Peace Corps after my retirement from the senior housing and SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s services field. I am happy to report that, after a very intensive three months of training, I was sworn in on June 11 as a Peace Corps volunteer at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine. I recently moved to my permanent site in the city of Dnipropetrovs’k, where I am assisting a charitable organization that places orphans with adoptive and foster families and raises funds to purchase medications for sick children. I am also working with a budding advocacy and support group called the League of People in Wheelchairs, which strives to overcome the enormous obstacles that disabled persons face in their daily lives here in Ukraine. There are many sources of inspiration for my decision to serve abroad at this stage of life, including my children, but I also give credit to my liberal arts education at Williams. I am literally learning as I go in a new culture and environment. Experiential education— valuable at age 20 or age 63. I want to thank my friends and classmates for their support as I fulfill this lifelong ambition.” We received news that Don Beyer, who has recently stepped down as U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, was given the Thomas Jefferson Award at a State Department ceremony in March. “The award by American Citizens Abroad (ACA) is presented to a U.S. State Department officer who has rendered outstanding service to Americans overseas. ACA is a citizen’s advocacy group representing 6 million overseas Americans,” according to the news release. Don was honored for his leadership and participation in a series of town hall meetings where U.S. expats’ issues and concerns with Washington were discussed. In March, the ArtQuilt Gallery NYC, owned and operated by Dale Riehl and his wife Cathy Izzo, had an exhibit of the work of the quilter Beth Carney. Local Ephs Paul Isaac, Cande Olsen, David Farren and Jim Armstrong were in attendance at the opening and were treated to a guided tour not only of the areas opened to the public but also of the behind-the-scenes facilities. Absolutely fascinating! For anything and everything to do with quilts, head to 133 West 25th St. Harry Kangis sent in a brief note: “Julia and I just got back from the U.K. We took our oldest grandson, Christopher (whose mother is Megan Hawgood ’88), on a high school graduation trip to play golf at St. Andrews in Scotland. They do grow up fast.” He included a nice news item from the Nature Conservancy. Harry is an honorary life trustee of the Ohio program of the Nature Conservancy and also an ardent scuba diver. His latest efforts have been on behalf of the Raja Ampat Islands, which are located in the Coral Triangle in eastern Indonesia. He has been involved in disseminating information about and helping to raise much-needed funds for Raja Ampat— $100,000, at last report. In the words of the press release, “The seascape includes critical habitats for globally threatened marine species, including sea turtles and cetaceans, and is essential to the food security of local communities. Since 2005, the conservancy and Conservation International have joined together to protect Raja Ampat and the surrounding seas from overfishing, destructive fishing and climate change. With our support, the Raja 48

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Ampat government and local communities established six new marine protected areas to preserve important coral reef habitats.” Kitty Earle Babson sent in a nice, long, cheerful email full of both family news and world news on a personal scale. “Life is full in the 60-plus way of being: parenting surviving parents who are now 91 and 88; continuing work with Myanmar for me and North Korea for Brad Babson; and volunteering service on various boards. Brad is our local Land Trust president, and I enjoy work on Virginia Seminary’s Alumni Association Executive Council. Having recently had to close one of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine’s smallest, and, sadly, unviable parishes, I now serve as ‘supply,’ or fill-in, clergy when there is need, which is almost every Sunday. “In January I returned to Myanmar for the 40thsomething time since 1994. Even in the short time since my previous trip last year, the evidence of mostly positive change was everywhere. Now that Suu Kyi is out of house arrest and duly elected to parliament, taxi drivers, shopkeepers, the young and the old speak openly about what they think about their new government and—without check—the old one. Some of the more positive changes are that the notorious censorship office has been closed, the native press may write openly, and independent dailies have appeared. Even public protest happens. It has always been exciting and challenging for me to take students with me to Myanmar, especially when few have ever traveled in Asia or experienced a culture so radically different from their own that they invariably go through what a friend of mine calls ‘difference fatigue.’ To be there to guide their discovery of self and other is an eye-opener for me every time. I cannot help but remember my months in India as one of only three woman on the Williams-in-India II program and how that formed me as an eternal student of culture and spirit, and as an educator intent on nurturing the kind of ‘light bulb’ insight that can come from what Bob Gaudino called ‘uncomfortable learning’—for that is what time in Myanmar always is. “On the home front, Brad and I are expecting two more grandchildren this summer: a second daughter to Ollie Babson ’97 and his wife Jamie, and a first child to Gusty Babson ’00 and her husband Quinn. We revel in being grandparents: It’s not just about loving the little ones so much but about seeing one’s children as loving parents who reveal some of our own better nature and parental ways—but seem wise enough to let go of much of what isn’t and wasn’t. We are pleased and proud of them all.” Finally, as you may already know from the class letter that David Webster sent, professor of biology Bill DeWitt ’61, the husband of our classmate Mary Lou Brady, died in early May. Among the many people from the Williams community who attended Bill’s beautiful memorial service were Chip Chandler and Michele Chandler and Julie Rose. Bill was remembered as an extraordinary teacher and mentor. Professor of Religion Mark Taylor recalled Bill’s passion for teaching as a “calling,” one that imbued his life and community. “Bill’s students were not only in the classroom, where he was a superb and memorable teacher; he was

1972–73 also a teacher for his family, Mary Lou, Tyler and Erica, for his friends and for his colleagues. The honesty and integrity with which Bill lived his life harbor lessons for all of us.” Friends spoke of Bill’s love of gardening and passion for the exquisite landscapes of the American Southwest, particularly in Canyonlands National Park, Utah. We extend to Mary Lou, her children and all of Bill’s family, friends and former students our condolences.

1973 Dan Farley, 6875 Avenida Andorra, La Jolla, CA 92037;

[email protected] Submitted by outgoing secretary Cole Werble: Thanks to recruiting and reporting skills of the head of our reunion inclusion committee, Steve Hauge, here is a quick by-the-numbers profile of a very lively, stimulating and reflective 40th reunion in the gray and cool Purple Valley. One-quarter of the remaining class (101 of 404) made it back to Williamstown for three days of events, including some very long journeys: Nan Elliot from Anchorage, Alaska, Bill Bodenstab from Lihue, Hawaii, and Tsong-Zung Chang (accompanied by his son) from Hong Kong. A quarter of the quarter who made it back had not been to a reunion in 15 years, and about 10 people were attending their first reunion. We also had about 40 Eph-adoptees (friends and family accompanying the Class of ’73), and we picked up a few attendees from classes on both sides of our graduation—a clear sign of the magnetic draw of ’73. The assembled group marched behind our 10-foot puppet of Ephraim. The puppet’s godfather/creator, Dick Lammert, is worried about the state of the puppet from too much marching in the Berkshires, but that was trouble for Ephraim 258 years ago. Dick noticed some extra flap in Ephraim’s wrists; he may be in for an overhaul. He is still, however, the high point (literally) of the alumni parade. Outgoing class president extraordinaire Jackie Oliveri noted some other impressive acknowledgements of the successful reunion: 46 people responded to Reunion Co-chair John Neikirk’s program of short poster biogs that decorated the Saturday night dessert and coffee; and, perhaps most impressively, two reunion rangers called us “classy”—a sign that our celebration played well even with the newer-generation Ephs. Word of the successful event spread quickly, and I began immediately receiving second-hand notes about the reunion. Milton Greenfell wrote that Dan Lesny, Steve Werbe and Field Horne had immediately told him that “the reunion was very cordial and at points deeply moving.” The weather even cooperated to rekindle (or re-chill) Purple Valley memories by putting on a display of the finest Western Mass. overcast gloom: The temperatures in the upper 50s were close to half those of the last sweltering reunion in 2008. The events started out on a high note with a Thursday evening dinner hosted by Mercedes and Jay Nawrocki in the barn of their house on Cold Spring Road (Route 7), situated spectacularly over the Green River Valley looking at Mount Greylock.

The dinner drew a record 55 people to the opening event. Peter Harnik took over as reunion food manager for the next three group meals, though I think the grilled honeybun desserts (à la snack bar) were a group effort. In Eph educational style, two of the highlights of the weekend were seminar-style discussions of two issues looking backward to the start of co-education during our college years and forward to the next life changes for Ephs 40 years out from the Purple Valley. My thanks to Larry Heidges, who sent summaries of both events to the notes. The coeducation discussion, under the direction of Reunion Co-chair Katie Jacobs Eyre and a panel comprised of Anne Kimball, Joe Standard, Mary Schendel and Bill Walton, took about 60 class members back through the dislocations and challenges for the women who uprooted from their prior schools to face a previously all-male campus to the men who moved from “initial resistance to admiration and acceptance of women on campus.” Showing that Ephs forever speak their minds, in response to comments about the non-event of the change to co-education, some people in the audience spoke with spirited remembrances of the rougher edges of the change—from isolated quarters for the women to a less than universally welcoming behavior from the men. One telling comment for the long-term success of the change for our class, however, is that women tend to return to reunions in a higher percentage than men (22 to the 2013). As class secretary I have experienced that strong attachment to Williams every few months when a large proportion of the updates come from the women members of the class. I just chalked that up to more literacy from that cohort and thanked the college fervently in retrospect for adding note writers to the class mix. The where-next discussion on Saturday drew nearly 80 class members to a discussion led by Steve Hauge and a panel comprised of Steve Harty, Julian Beckford, Lucy Calkins and Larry Heiges. Larry reported a thoughtful session with class members sharing perspectives on dealing with the old and new careers at the start of a fifth decade. “Panelists reflected on careers cut short and what do you do from here. Audience members joined in on personal reflections of their own lives.” Larry noted a mellowing change in the general class perspective from youthful bragging about accomplishments to experienced examination of the best way to use the years going forward. In reunion spirit, Larry said two of the panelists looked back to rock lyrics for summation: Larry to the Stones and “you can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometime you just might find you get what you need” and Steve Harty to “all you need is love.” Musical memories from Joe and Bing (Joe Knowlton ’72 and Bing Bingham) made the class feel very much back at home and back in time at the Friday after-dinner entertainment class. Joe and Bing pulled the feat of a golden anniversary celebration as a musical pairing at our 40th: They started playing seriously together 10 years before our graduation in prep school and also had the “geopolitical events” of the late 1960s prolong their Williams careers. They played with feeling and SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s energy for well over an hour, belying their many years together. Warm-up for the aural nostalgia was provided visually by two great slide shows of images from the class, assembled artistically by Wylie Mitchell and Nan Elliot. Capturing the reflective tone of the event, firsttime reunioner Bobette Reed Kahn, an ordained Episcopal minister, gave a benediction at the Saturday dinner that noted the recent losses of two important faculty members form our era: John Eusden and Fred Rudolph ’42 (who passed away early in the week leading up to reunion). It was a moving moment with Marta Rudolph at the dinner. Several class members spoke up noting the recent passing of members of ’73, including Arturo Calventi. Class member Sally Shipton started the dinner with an invocation: Bobette and Sally literally demonstrating again the blessings of co-education coming to our class. Among many wonderful conversations, I was lucky to have long conversations with two of the other first-time reunioners: Chip Horne from Denver and Peter Welling from his horse farm in Unionville, Pa. Chip, with 24 marathons under his belt (or in his shoes) looked like he could have run from Colorado to Williamstown. Welling was enthusiastic and looked like he could have ridden one of his horses or a Ducati to the event. They clearly enjoyed the new experience of reconnecting with a great class. The reunion was a good warm-up for the next important decade leading to the 50th. I hope classmates will continue (or begin) writing effusively to the new class secretaries: Dan Farley and Nan Elliot—an impressive literary team of successful publisher and creative writer that clearly upgrades the notes for the next five to 10 years. We also have a superb new team of officers: Tom Hyndman as president, Joe Standart as VP and Bill Walton adding the institutional memory and knowledge of the books as returning treasurer. Joe (Dart) is taking on his new responsibilities on the fly: already on the hunt for photos from the reunion and the class past ([email protected]). A great start on the photo memories from the 40th already exists. Check them out at www.Williams73.com. It has been a delight reconnecting with the class as secretary. In fact, it is hard to describe adequately the pleasure in the correspondence with so many of you. It is not as hard to finish the process of de-scribing and hand over the Eph quill to Dan and Nan. I urge you send your news to the new secretaries and start preparing for June 2018 and 2023.

1974 REUNION JUNE 12-15 Jonathan W. Fitch, 5 Cedar Hill Road, Dover, MA 02030;

[email protected] Grace Paine Terzian was in Williamstown for this year’s Reunion Weekend, getting a jump on our 40th. She writes, “I crashed the 1973 class reunion and had a blast seeing folks I haven’t encountered in a great many years and also managed to make a quick visit over to Jeff Johnson in Pownal. I look forward to our 40th class reunion in less than a year. I really hope everyone makes an effort to 50

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come!” Grace, a party crasher? A surprise guest is more like it. Grace also mentions that she has started a new job as chief communications officer at MediaDC, the powerhouse publisher of The Weekly Standard, Washington Examiner and Red Alert Politics. According to its website, MediaDC is an assembly of “teams of world-class journalists in the nation’s capital to inform and enlighten readers and the people who make and practice politics at the state and national levels.” Congratulations to Grace, and good luck to her helping us all make sense out of, well, things such as they are. Gini Peterson writes, “Rob Peterson ’73 and I have been married 39 years—yikes! Unfortunately we couldn’t attend his 40th reunion two weeks ago, but Grace Terzian sent us fabulous photos that we loved looking at. Rob and I are living in Greenville, N.C., where he is head of The Oakwood School, and I am the fourth- and fifth-grade English teacher. We have two children, both married. One couple lives in NYC and the other in New Orleans. We miss our children dreadfully, since teenagers in one’s home add a great spirit and energy, but we are trying to accept growing old gracefully and trying to stay ‘current’ without them around to help us!” McKelden Smith reports: “We are closing on the sale of our home of 25 years in New Canaan, Conn., on June 26. We have a signed contract on an apartment in Manhattan and, while we are emotionally conflicted about leaving New Canaan, we are excited to be starting a new, completely official, empty nester existence in a few months. The only hurdle standing in the way is getting accepted by the building’s board. That is something we are not taking for granted, so I cannot reveal anything further about the exact location. I can say it is north of 35th Street, which means it is not cool. But it has other qualities.” Hardly one ever thought to be uncool, it’s unimaginable that McKelden will stumble snowing any mid-upper-East-West Side building board! Nancy Contel says, “I have joined the ranks of the happily retired. The final work chapter was marked by a meeting with folks whose lives were dramatically altered by a drug my company developed, Jakafi for myelofibrosis. Dan and Susan had been given six months to live and were living with debilitating symptoms… This was now three and four years later, and they are living full and normal lives with very happy spouses and grandchildren. I could not have imagined a better way to close out this part of my life.” Nancy’s other news regards her daughter Julia, the recipient of this edition’s Amazing Child of ’74 Award. Nancy pridefully tells us, “My first day of retirement was my daughter’s first day of work post-college. Julia graduated summa cum laude with a degree in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis. She received the Widmann Award, voted on by faculty as the best in architecture. And faculty told me what a dear person she is. So do ya think this is one proud mom! Julia is working at Robert A.M. Stern Architects in NYC as she felt it would be a good idea to work for a few years prior to grad school. So this is a really good period in life, and I’m looking forward to travel and new adventures in this next chapter.”

1973–74 Our renowned international conservationist

Bruce Beehler has begun a new job as director for

bird conservation at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). NFWF is one of the world’s largest conservation grant-makers, created by Congress in 1984. (Its website describes its broad mission as protecting and restoring imperiled species, promoting healthy oceans and estuaries, improving working landscapes for wildlife, advancing sustainable fisheries and conserving water for wildlife and people.) Before joining NFWF, Bruce worked at Conservation International for over 16 years, most recently as senior director of the Asia-Pacific Field Division, conducting climaterelated fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. While at Conservation International, Bruce co-led a widely published survey on biological diversity in the Foja Mountains, Papua, where he, together with a team of 11 international scientists, made several significant discoveries of new species. In that connection, Bruce is currently working on a revision of Birds of New Guinea and completing Taxonomy and Distribution of the Birds of New Guinea, both with co-author Thane Pratt. We are all lucky that he has taken on such a comprehensive and important new assignment at the NFWF. Thanks to Jeff Elliot for sending along a New York Times article on Bill Finn’s promising new production, Little Miss Sunshine. The Times reports, “A musical adaptation of Little Miss Sunshine, the Oscar-nominated film about a dysfunctional family traveling to a child beauty pageant, will open the 35th season of Second Stage Theater in October, the Off-Broadway company announced on Wednesday. The show is the latest collaboration of the Tony Award winners William Finn, who has written the music and lyrics, and James Lapine, the book writer and director. They worked on the musicals Falsettos and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which was produced at Second Stage in 2005 before moving to Broadway that spring. Little Miss Sunshine has also been mentioned as a Broadway possibility, given the talents involved, the high name recognition of the movie, an out-of-town production of the musical at La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego in 2011 and the involvement of Broadway producers in helping shepherd the show’s development, most recently Beth Williams and Barbara Whitman. But Carole Rothman, artistic director of Second Stage, said on Wednesday that there were no plans for Broadway after the run at Second Stage, where Little Miss Sunshine is scheduled to begin preview performances on Oct. 15 and open in mid-November. Asked why the show was going to Second Stage instead of Broadway, Ms. Rothman said: ‘I’ve sometimes been compared to a dog with a bone. I really thought this piece would be a perfect match for Second Stage. Whatever else was going on with the show, I was fierce about trying to get it here. I try to tune out the noise of the theater business and just focus on getting things that are right for us. This time we won.’” Of course, the theaters would be fighting for the show! Jeff is trying to organize a group of our classmates to attend a performance of Little Miss Sunshine in December; stay tuned for details.

No current news of the Class of ’74 would be complete without entries in our ongoing collective travelogue. To begin, Rich Levy writes, “Carol and I had a peripatetic spring. In April, with Audrey and Jeff Elliott, we spent great two weeks in Turkey (luckily, before the recent unrest). Our travels took us to the coastal areas of Izmir and Bodrum (and various points in between), Cappadocia in the center of the country and, finally, Istanbul (including the Taksim Square and Gezi Park areas at the heart of the recent protests). By itself, Istanbul is a remarkable city. If and when things return to a semblance of normalcy, the country is definitely worth a visit—interesting history and culture, and great food and wine. And I must say, as I walked into the Great Theatre at Ephesus and into the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, it was as if I could hear the voices of E.J. Johnson ’59 and Whitney Stoddard ’35 lecturing about those very places in Art History 101-102.)” Rich also mentions that he “closed the book on my 60th birthday by redeeming a promise made last September by my son Michael Levy ’12, my daughter Rachel Levy ’09 and her boyfriend Caleb Balderston ’10 to spend a weekend of hiking (more precisely, hiking by day and ‘hotel camping’ by night) with Carol and me. After a wet first day (with wind and rain blowing horizontally across the tops of three peaks in the Presidential Range) but very nice second day, Carol, Michael and I can count our first five of the White Mountain 48, while Rachel and Caleb added to their already larger totals. Now onward to 20 more (of the 46) Adirondacks and 43 more White Mountains!”  Others sought warmer climes—and the unsurpassed hospitality of Jeff Johnson in Key West, Fla. Jeff writes, “Since we bought our house in Key West (in October 2010), we have had a steady stream of Williams guests. Nan Elliot ’73 flew in from Alaska in January to stay with us and attend the incredible Key West Literary Seminar for two weeks. Speaking at the seminar was Darra Goldstein—currently the Francis Oakley Professor of Russian at Williams. So we hosted a ‘Williams in Key West’ cocktail party. In addition to myself, Nan and Darra were Darra’s husband Dean Crawford and their daughter Leila Crawford ’12. Also attending were Carol and Bob Stegeman ’60. Even before Nan flew back to Alaska, Sam Willmott (son of Charlie Willmott ’74) arrived for a two-month stay.  He is performing at the Red Barn Theater in Key West in a new musical called Sister Robert Ann’s Cabaret. And, of course, Charlie just arrived yesterday to see his son perform. Other Williams grads made their way south, including Wendy Hopkins ’72 and Peter Hopkins, who combined their Key West adventure with a trip to Red Sox spring training.” One might say that Jeff ’s big-heartedness as to Williams folk is ubiquitous. Dave Maraghy is teaching courses in sports law and entertainment law at Elon University School of Law and writes, “Had a really neat connection with a wonderful classmate, Jeff Johnson. This past May Jeff graciously took time to make a presentation to my entertainment law class via Skype from his office in NYC. Jeff was also kind enough to have Hy Conrad sit in as well, mystery writer and exec producer of the hit series SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s Monk. Together they shared their invaluable advice on all aspects of the entertainment industry but in particular their experiences around publishing their wonderful fun book: Things Your Dog Doesn’t Want You to Know: Eleven Courageous Canines Tell All.” Friends, that’s it for now. Please mark our reunion dates of June 12-15, 2014, on your calendars. Echoing Grace’s call, I really hope everyone makes an effort to come! 

1975 Julia Berens, 22 Sperry Lane, Lansing, NY 14882;

[email protected] What a difference four months makes! Connie Sheehy is reaching milestones ahead of expectations. Who else in the class can say (happily) she has gained 12 pounds and prefers being weighed wearing her shoes? Connie is driving, doing water aerobics and playing some golf; she is deeply grateful and humbled by the prayers and caring of so many during her terrifying health scare. Fred Stueber and wife Betsy were with Connie at a party in Hanover the night before she checked in to the hospital. Fred speaks for many of us in expressing gratitude for Connie’s ever-improving health. His six words for 60 are: “Working through yin and yang complexities.” Many wrote with updates of their children’s graduations and weddings. Sarah Richardson Straley is embracing the empty nest by working less and traveling more. She is retiring from the Pinellas County (Florida) Attorney’s Office and becoming of counsel with her husband’s law firm in Tampa. Her youngest daughter will enter Kenyon College in the fall, and her oldest daughter will begin her senior year at Wellesley after spending time working on the campaign for, and then in the office of, Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Debba Curtis (new address: 19 Ellsworth St., Portland, ME 04102) has a new daughter-in-law from Kiev, Ukraine, living with her son Will in Abu Dhabi, and she expects to be a grandmother in the fall. Having spent much of last December in the hospital with a bad case of strep, she wants to thank former roommate Julie Winkler Petri for taking over her Alumni Fund duties. Debba plans to catch up with Tacey Phillips Carroll ’76 and muster the courage to talk her father, Ted Curtis ’51, into giving up his driver’s license. Ben Duke’s daughter Rettie graduated cum laude from Washington College in Maryland. She is working as head fishing guide at a ranch in Wyoming. His son Benjy heads up a fishing, hunting and riding expedition program he developed for ranches covering nearly 100,000 acres. Ben is still ranching cattle in Elbert County, Colo., and is in his 20th year as a 4-H leader. As the executive director of the Mesa Verde Foundation, Ben raises money for programs and projects in the park. Corinne Ball celebrated her youngest child’s graduation from Williams; Amanda Lorelei Weber ’13 joins her sister Aimee Claire Weber ’11 and Corinne as Williams alumnae. She hopes to see Amanda Van Dusen on a trip to Detroit, where her task is to help the city work through its rescue. Other Eph graduations include Andy Quinn ’13, son of Margaret Stuhr and Tim Quinn ’77, who were joined in 52

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Williamstown by their daughter Katie Eckelman ’08 and Katie’s husband Bryan Eckelmann ’09.

While attending a jazz concert in the Purple Valley in May, they caught up with Tim’s roommate Steve Nelson ’76. Mike Watkins and Ellin Goetz ’76 celebrated the graduation of Rhys Watkins ’13. Mike, ever the tennis bum, was pleased to hear Billie Jean King speaking. His winter in Naples, Fla., included visits from Andy Peterson and Suzanne Peterson, Peter Keller and family, and yours truly. If you haven’t checked out Mike’s hotel in Naples, it’s high time you treated yourself to his amazing hospitality. (OK, Mike—does that plug assure me a spot next winter?) From the “forgotten” Mountain Time Zone (if you’re from the East, you never know when your favorite TV shows will air), Mike Wilson writes that he and Dr. Dave McKenzie (aka “the Griz”) met for some skiing at Copper Mountain in March. Despite having not been on the slopes in 18 years, Dr. Dave picked it right up again. “Salutes were given to deceased ski team coach Ralph Townsend. From Copper Summit we could see over to Ptarmigan Pass, where Coachie trained with the 110th Mountain Division during WWII.” Both Mike and Dave are semi-retired and living the good life. While visiting my daughter in Colorado in the spring, I looked up K.K. Duvivier, who lives in Denver down the street from one of my childhood friends. I toured K.K.’s award-winning “net-zero, micro-load” house designed by her husband Lance Wright (more Division III classes would have helped me understand the science behind it all), and then we enjoyed a delightful lunch, catching up on 38 years of post-Williams life. K.K. was honored this spring with the “2012-2013 Best Professor” award from the University of Denver College of Law, an especially meaningful tribute because professors are nominated by and voted on by students. I am happy to report we have classmates keeping the arts alive in their respective communities. Renee Meyer continues to direct Ballet Mobile, bringing inspirational ballet to over 3,000 people last year. Renee writes that the performances “get those brain neurons firing so our audiences can retrieve and remember the emotional well-being they experience during our performance. We give every audience member a silk flower instead of getting flowers ourselves. We make house calls instead of curtain calls.” In addition to his day job as an investment advisor and analyst, Fred Dittmann performed leading roles in three Gilbert and Sullivan operas with The Savoy Company in Philadelphia. In chatting with Fred, I told him memorizing all those lines and melodies were sure to stave off a feeble mind. Fred’s 13-year-old daughter Danielle plays hockey, alto sax and sings. His a cappella group The Tonics is about to produce its fourth CD, and he would be happy to send it to interested classmates (my order is in!). Akua Lezli Hope White continues to create beautiful crafts, her latest being doily rugs. Her talents are many; her poem “Elmira for Twain” can be found at the Mark Twain Riverfront Park. I haven’t forgotten my promise to Lezli to get her to our next reunion, only two years away. I may be contacting

1974–76 some of you for ideas of how to get our amazingly talented, vivacious wheelchair-bound classmate to the Purple Valley in 2015. Patty Brown Glenn and husband Mike Pronko have been building a web-based art gallery (www. pm-artworks.com) with the goal of breaking even and allowing emerging artists to realize a profit. They travel internationally at least twice a year to include artists they discover in other countries. She spent her 60th birthday in the Sahara Desert being serenaded by a South African lute player and doesn’t expect to top that next year. Her children Eliot and Virginia Glenn ’07 will both be in Boston for grad school in the fall. While his wife Maria was attending a composting workshop nearby, Ned Reade was photographed by the Kennebec Journal, happily behind his easel in Hallowell, Maine. Ned is, no doubt, an institution at Trinity Pawling, where he still teaches. Has anyone else had the same job since 1975? Some life changes to report: Scott Lutrey, after 34 years with the Department of Defense, has retired and returned to Maryland after five years in North Yorkshire. He writes, “As I prudently married a bright, capable, younger woman, my immediate prospect is to be a kept man—Ellen has thoughts of a hot dinner and glass of wine waiting for her when she gets home from the office.” After 37 years of teaching math and science, Clive Hulick Connor is retiring, and she and husband Herschel will hop on their Pearson 365 ketch (sailboat) and head south from Connecticut to the Caribbean for the winter. They will take a break in October to join the Williams group heading to Bhutan. Jon Appelbaum completed his third medical mission trip to Nicaragua and happily reports he has been promoted to professor and named to an endowed chair. Will Parish finished a decade of teaching high school environmental science and is working for a startup nonprofit, Ten Strands, which partners with the state of California to get environmental education into the public schools. His son Mac is a portfolio manager at Kiva living in Nairobi, Kenya, and Nate just graduated from Colorado College and in the summer planned to begin a car rally race from London to Mongolia. Claire Berman Blum’s six words for 60 are: “so grateful to be cancer free!” Her veggies are coming up in the organic community farm where she gardens, and her high school freshman and college sophomore children are well. Reid and Linda Spencer Murchison had a fun visit with Ann Batchelder and Henri Kieffer in May in Asheville, N.C. Linda reports her daughter Clare Murchison ’08 had a blast at her fifth reunion. Charlie Selcer had a good phone conversation with Bobby Kittredge, though he did not reveal the subject; some interesting possibilities come to mind. Charlie’s Minnesota State representative wife Yvonne has collaborated with Steve Kelley on some initiatives. Daughter Danielle Selcer ’10 returned to Minnesota after three years teaching in Vietnam. Her language skills come in handy when her father takes her to Pho restaurants. A big round of applause to Dean Cycon for being one of five honorees to receive the 2013 Business for Peace Award (sometimes called the

“Nobel Prize for Business”) in Oslo. He could not attend the ceremony because he was attending his daughter’s graduation from Pitzer College. Earlier this year, Dean received the first Community Engagement Award from U.N. Women, recognizing his 20 years of work with women and girls throughout the coffeelands. Dean gives credit to his Williams education for his international success. Bob Reder has moved from adjunct status to professor of law at Vanderbilt, teaching courses in transactional practice and corporate governance. Regan Miller has been appointed by the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court to be the chief district court judge in his hometown of Charlotte, N.C. Gina Campbell continues to enjoy her granddaughter; she finds that the process of producing two workbooks on clean language is as demanding, at times, as producing a child. True to his word, Steve Stephanian sent a report of Peggy’s and his visit to Diane and Mike Hensley’s ski/vacation home in West Virginia. They snowshoed at 5,000 feet, “breathtaking in more ways than one.” Otherwise, Steve’s spring was spent as a volunteer coach for his 7-year-old grandson’s soccer team. On his 40-minute drive home twice a week, his reward was stopping at a package store with a particularly good beer selection. Somewhat uncharacteristically, Anton Bestebreurtje had little to report. Milt Morin did concede that Anton’s Christmas lights are even more over the top than Milt’s Halloween decorations; I’m not sure where this competition can go from here. Helen Kelly and Nancy Greenhouse had their annual rendezvous at the Holyoke Mall, a “glamorous place” that’s about halfway between Helen in Coxsackie, N.Y., and Nancy in Boston. I am glad to hear that Helen is her usual “delightful ebullient” self. Nancy and her husband continue to keep bees as well as two big dogs, and she still works as a development consultant to some nonprofits. A correction is in order for Tony Kroker’s residence; he lives in Wallingford, Vt., not Connecticut. Finally, a big congratulations to Rich Pickard, who was elected alumni trustee, proudly joining Barbara Austell and Jimmy Lee on the Williams College Board of Trustees. He encourages classmates to be in touch if they have concerns or if he can be of help in his new position.

1976 Jane Ray Kell, 2110 Howell Mill Road NW, Atlanta, GA

30318; [email protected] Greetings, classmates. I hope this edition of class notes finds you well. It’s been a year of transition for many of us, with two of our classmates leaving jobs at the college and others of us moving and/or traveling to far-flung locations. Kit Traub is on his way to London with wife Ulrike and son Herbert after completing a sabbatical year at the National War College, where he earned a Master’s of Science in national security strategy. “I loved it for the caliber and spirit of my fellow students, who included the lead pilot of the Blue Angels, decorated soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, cyber experts, scientists SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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February he published Vampires in the New World (ABC-Clio/Praeger), which he describes as “a general audience historical survey of vampires in the U.S., mostly in fiction and film, but with some attention to folklore.” Tersh lives in Fort Ann, N.Y., with partner Phoebe Jackson, who also is a professor. “We have too many books and a loud, older cat,” Tersh explains, adding that he is enjoying the area’s summer opportunities for boating, hiking and camping. “I keep downsizing,” Heather Neal Thomson writes. “I left big pharma for stealth pharma (under the radar), and now I’m at a startup that’s still operating off of venture capital. I’m having a great time, but it’s in Type 2 diabetes, which I figured will be a growth industry for a long time to come with all us fat baby boomers. I must say that learning about the disease state has inspired me to start losing weight.” Bill Hudson writes that his oldest son John is living in San Antonio with wife Darinka and daughter Isabella, “who is cute as a button.” His younger son Michael is with 160th Night Stalkers (Special Operations), living in Georgia with wife Annie and sons William and Charles. Daughter Vanessa is studying for nursing certification in San Antonio, and youngest son Timothy was to start sixth Grade at Episcopal Day School in Brownsville in August. “What a world!” Bill sighs. Debbie McCarthy Nelson and Paul Nelson met up with Trish and Steve Castraberti and Jack Costello and Susan Costello in the North End of Boston to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and had dinner in June with DY (aka Dan Yeadon) and his wife Susan, whom they also saw, along with Tony Kroker ’75, at a 60th birthday party for Mike Capone ’75. “I must say we all look pretty darn good! This 60 stuff isn’t so terrifying after all,” Debbie writes. I am glad you feel that way. The Nelsons have been busy planning the wedding of their oldest son, Alex, which will take place in Carmel, Calif., this fall. “Luckily there is not a conflict with the annual ’76 Williams tailgate, which will be held this year on Oct. 5,” Debbie writes. “Williams will be hosting Bates, and plans are to have a class tent right behind the near goalposts as usual.” Jim Ware has had a major transition in his family, with his father-in-law moving into his home. “We have adjusted to his arrival pretty well,” he writes. “He brought his Boxer, Bud, with him, so now we have four dogs in our house. I was a bachelor 15 years ago, and now I live with eight other creatures! It’s quite an adjustment.” Jim’s note came right after Fathers’ Day, and he was feeling grateful for his two daughters Alex, 12, and Nikki, 10. “I feel particularly blessed because these girls were quite unexpected,” he wrote. “My wife Janey was told by the medical experts that ‘no kids were possible’ in our future. A year into our marriage, she became pregnant completely naturally and delivered Alex nine months later. Dad, that would be me, was quite terrified by the whole event, not knowing what to expect and becoming a dad late in life at age 46. But the whole thing turned out so well, we decided to have another one, Nikki. They are as different as night and day, but both delight my heart.” Jim also is grateful that his investment-industry consulting

1976–77 firm is booming. “We get fun assignments in places like Cape Town, London, Amsterdam, Dublin and of course Boston and New York. Today I head for Sedona for a six-day meditation retreat. I look forward to it but already miss my family.” DC Dugdale has lots of good things happening in his life. “My son, who graduated from Eastman in December, has landed a full-time job teaching music for the coming fall at a local high school. It’s been great to see him work on this and, hey, a job with benefits is good any time. My daughter Kate, who just finished her freshman year at Colgate, has had some trouble finding a job for the summer but this week landed an internship at the local history museum and a paid night-shift job at a local fabric store; time for some ‘character-building’ with night-shift work. She is a history major and wants to do museum work, so the internship is great.” DC’s daughter Emily Dugdale ’14 was in Chile for her second semester and was due home in August before returning to the Purple Valley, which DC reports now is called the “Purple Bubble.” Are you serious?! She has been selected as class secretary for the Class of 2014, so she obviously has a fine character. DC is looking forward to returning to the Purple Bubble for Emily’s graduation and has entered a lottery to stay at the Williams Inn. (Are you sure about that—have they changed the plaid carpet since 1976?) He also plans to attend Parents Weekend, having enjoyed his experience in 2010, when he reconnected with fellow parents Matt Rowe ’77, Steve Pagnotta ’77, Vivian Patterson ’77 and Brad Kendall ’77 and Barb Kendall ’77. Jim Trapp has left Williams to accept a position with the Nature Conservancy of Michigan, where he will be a major gift officer for their upcoming global fundraising campaign. Jim came to Williams in 2004 to head up the 25th reunion program and went on to become director of the Alumni Fund and eventually annual giving. It’s a big loss for the college, but Jim is looking forward to being closer to parents, siblings and children and to living in the Ann Arbor area, ideally on a lake in one of the state recreation areas. We’ll miss seeing you in Williamstown, Jim, but we’re glad you and Judy will still be coming to OUR reunions! On a final note, it is hard to believe, but classmate Paula Moore Tabor has retired from Williams after 21 years in the Alumni Relations Office! The emails that came from the college were glowing, recounting Paula’s many accomplishments with respect to the Parent’s Fund, 25th Reunion, the Williams Alumni of Color Networks, including creation of WLAN and WAAAN, the Latino/ Latina and Asian American networks that ultimately joined WBAN. The college tribute opined, “Her entrepreneurial spirit coupled with a magnetic personality will serve her well in her new ventures as they have in her roles for alumni relations.” I wholeheartedly second that and wish Paula the very best in the next chapter of her life!

1977 Deborah DePorter Hoover, 7480 Herrick Park Drive,

Hudson, OH 44236; Sandra Lorimer Lambert, 149 College Road, Concord, MA 01742; 1977secretary@ williams.edu We begin with the lyrics of a new song “When Will It End?” written by Dave Bass concerning racial profiling and gun violence, inspired by recent events. Dave is a gospel vocalist and songwriter in the tradition of Sam Cooke. He has partnered with Dr. E. Faye Williams and the National Congress of Black Women, The Spiritual Volunteers of Washington, D.C. (a gospel quartet he used to sing with), the Greater Washington Urban League, and Pastor Alfred L. Dearing and C.A.Y.A. (Come As You Are) Community Ministries to record and release the song as a free public awareness CD in June. We’ve reprinted the lyrics here; for more information contact [email protected]. “When Will It End?” Guilty by sight/a deadly trend Black is the crime/when will it end? We need the truth/and justice too To live in peace/as others do Another young man/there on the ground Looking for answers/but none are found Only seventeen/went for a snack A brief encounter/never came back A mother crying/a father too People are asking/ “What will they do?” “Our hands are tied up!”/the “Po Po” say A vigilante/just walks away You can stand your ground/claiming a threat Nobody’s watching/and no regrets Oh but not this time/the world can see It cries for justice/and honesty BRIDGE The world today/has so much hate The way you look/can change your fate Without the look/you can not blend And so I ask:/when will it end? As we write our class notes it is June and the season of graduations, and we heard from many proud ’77 parents about their graduates. Dennis O’Shea alerted us that nine of our classmates had children graduate in the Williams Class of 2013, including Tim Belk, George Christman, Alan Eusden and Lynn Eusden, Pat Landers, Karen Leaf, Dave Marrs, Tim Quinn and Dan Rashin. Congratulations to all of you. Dennis shared that the ceremony was capped by the “totally unexpected sight of commencement speaker Billie Jean King whacking 100 autographed tennis balls into the crowd at the end of her speech.” And to think, we only had Robert Redford... On their way to graduation, Tim Quinn and his wife Margaret Stuhr ’75 commented that “as we drove down into Williamstown from the west on Route 2 we were reminded of the incredible impression Williams made on us lo’ these many SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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year at Penn and was to be home for the summer, working at an internship at Oxford University Press. Scott Davis’ highpoint of the year was watching as daughter Charlotte graduated from Trinity College in the spring, majoring in neuroscience, which Scott added “is an area of focus for my second career—medical social work and case management.” Scott has been traveling since last year’s reunion, spending weeks in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Park City, Utah (for the Sundance Film Festival). He is looking forward to his 40th high school reunion in Pasadena, Calif., in July before going on safari to Kenya. For the moment, he is rebuilding his place in Fire Island Pines after Hurricane Sandy. Also celebrating in May were Bruce Orkin and his wife Ethel, whose youngest son David graduated from Vassar College with honors. Bruce relocated to Chicago earlier this year, after 24 years on the East Coast, to become vice chair for academic affairs at Rush University Medical Center (as reported in our last issue). Charlie Haines wrote that he couldn’t remember when he last relayed news and contributed this comprehensive update: “I was married three years ago, and my wife and I have a total of three living parents, eight children, five children-in-law, and four grandchildren with one on the way. Of these 20 family members, we are fortunate to have 15 living in Alabama. In addition, our house has been open to as many as four people transitioning from a Christian shelter as they get back on their feet. Needless to say, there is always something going on at our house, and we have had some parking issues in the neighborhood on some weekends…” He reported that one of their children, Davis, was nearly killed in a bicycling accident in Chicago in July 2011, when a Mack truck ran over him and crushed his pelvis and “there were three miracles around his survival.” Davis and his identical twin brother have a rock band, whysowhite, which was recently voted Chicago’s #2 rock band. Charlie and his wife Nancy are planning to go on a medical mission to North Africa in October. He adds, “She’s a nurse, and I am the strapping male carrying her bags.” Charlie is president of Kinsight LLC and advises affluent families on “their journey toward fulfillment by merging psychology and money. In many ways, Williams prepared me for all that is happening right now, and I will be forever grateful.”
We so enjoyed hearing this from Ken Leinbach: “By reading the class notes, one would think that 58-year-olds lead pretty interesting and stimulating lives. But not always.” Ken noted that his oldest daughter graduated from Hamilton College this year, and his younger daughter is Williams-bound this fall, where she will be playing for the women’s basketball team. As for Ken, “My idea of excitement is trying for one more injury comeback with aspirations of becoming a recreational jogger … and [listening] to an excessive amount of sports talk radio as an antidote to NPR.” Ken works in the ER and confesses to some jealousy over friends and peers retiring, “as that hand wasn’t dealt” to him, although his work schedule is tapering down. He hopes to spend his extra free

1977–78 time watching his daughter play for Williams at various NESCAC campuses but expressed concern that her boyfriend is Class of 2014. Also with a Williams athlete in the family is Michael Beschloss, who shared that his son Alex Beschloss ’16 was a pitcher in the spring on the Williams varsity baseball team. We wonder what his major will be… Tad Cavuoti took us down memory lane, recalling the production of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes freshman year by Cap & Bells. He recently had the joy of music directing the production at the Landon School in Bethesda, Md., with Lowell Davis ’68 in the audience. Tad commented that in the Williams production, he “played the officious Purser. (Type casting? Unquestionably not!)” He remembers visiting Porter’s “composer’s cabin” at nearby Williams and viewing some of his manuscripts. Tad wonders whether any other ’77 classmates recall the production. I do—as a spectator! We’d love to hear from you… Last year’s reunion bike ride inspired Jeff Knisely to ride the Rocky Mountains! Last August he was part of the “19th” team that rode in advance of the U.S. Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado. He covered the same route as the pro riders, approximately 600 miles in a week, over three 12,000-foot peaks! He planned to top that effort with a five-day ride over the summer, covering 400 miles and ascending Pikes Peak and Mount Evans, which have the two highest paved roads in the U.S. He is still teaching history to eighth graders, encouraging his students to apply to Williams (one success is Todd Brenner ’15), and “loving life!” Fred Simmons is not to be outdone either—after reaching the summit of Mount Everest last May, he was planning to climb Carstensz Pyramid on the island of Papua New Guinea. Joining him on this adventure are Bill Simon ’73 and two of Fred’s college-aged children. Continuing on the adventure theme, Deborah DePorter Hoover’s son Jack Hoover ’15 was off to Kuwait as a summer intern and then to Jordan for his semester abroad studying Arabic. Deb and John Hoover ’76 plan a late fall trip to visit. In the meantime, Deb is keeping busy with her day job as president of The Burton D. Morgan Foundation and as newly appointed chair of the Fund for Our Economic Future, a philanthropic collaborative with 50-plus members in Northeast Ohio pooling resources to reinvent the regional economy. Marty Marchese sent in a postcard (we love mail!) of Mount Rushmore. Marty was on a Williams National Parks Safari with Prof. Bud Wobus over the summer along with several other alumns, including Kevin Cramer and his wife Janet. Marty is enjoying seeing “some of our beautiful and very large country” after a travel respite. Reporting from Paris, Jeb Seder contributed that the “biggest Williams news for us is gratitude for Dennis O’Shea, who is lodging our daughter Julia, a rising senior at Goucher” over the summer while she worked for a Baltimore-based children’s services organization called TEAM. In addition to Dennis being a great host, Jeb exposed that Dennis is “a huge Dr. Who fan.” While celebrating the new dean’s arrival at the American Cathedral of Paris,

Jeb and his wife Francie had a “Class of ’77 almost connection.” The new dean invited some old friends from Louisville, Ky., to attend, including Tay Wilkens, sister of Neal Wilkens. Although Jeb had “a fine catch up on Wilkens women up and around the East Coast,” he didn’t share their secrets. At an American University of Paris event, Jeb was invited to fill a table by Joey Horn ’87 and Ragnar Horn ’85 and visited with Ray Henze ’74, Vicky Rummler ’87 and more. He mentioned that fellow Parisian Tim Jones could not participate but was heard from while illicitly emailing from various airborne conveyances. He also reminisced with several roommates and old friends (not friends who are old) about Rev. Eusden, including Alan Eusden and Lynn Smyers Eusden, Peter Sheil, David Rogers, Holly Boyer Scott and Tony Quay (who he defended as “NOT always missing”). He also mentioned hearing from Amy Sterling Bratt, who is living in Boston with her family. Byrne Kelly contributed that he has “ironically” been commissioned to design a retirement community next to National Harbor near Washington, D.C., overlooking the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and Alexandria, Va. Byrne lives in Takoma Park, Md., and is a landscape architect and environmental planner and is “in transition toward a formal marriage to Karin Elizabeth Theophile” that will be completed when their children complete their college studies. Stay tuned for more. Joining the retirement ranks is Carlton H. Tucker, after 34 years in high schools and the last 20 as principal, most recently head of upper school at Princeton Day School. Tuck commented that he “thoroughly enjoyed last year’s reunion (my first and only one I ever attended).” He was quick to add that his school’s graduation always fell on that weekend, and he is looking forward to our next reunion. Sandy Lorimer Lambert enviously watched her daughter Sally Lambert ’08 and Owen Westbrook ’06 drive down Route 2 to her fifth Williams reunion in June. Sally connected with several friends and classmates under the tent in the Greylock Quad, including Will Schmidt’s children Peter Schmidt ’08 and Ellie (Eleanor) Schmidt ’06. They shared that Will and Katherine’s house in the Purple Valley is now complete—we’re looking for an update from Will and maybe a house tour four years from now! Until then, keep sending us your emails and snail mail—the best part of this gig is hearing from all of you!

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C l a s s N ot e s Road. True to predictions, it rained like hell. I didn’t know whether to praise the foresight or lament the pessimism of our indefatigable class officers Bill Kister, Amy Sterling-Bratt and Sue Stred, but the purple umbrellas handed out at registration were put to immediate good use. Most of us resigned ourselves to attending the excellent afternoon presentations at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance. There was a super talk about impressionism by Carol Ockman, and former Greek cabinet minister Pavlos Yerouloanos ’88 gave an insider’s take on the absurdity and pathos of the Greek economic debacle. President Falk’s Q and A session featured some clips of a 1964 black and white TV documentary on Jack Sawyer ’39. Not only were the visuals stunning— the snow-covered campus looks scarcely different in 2013—but the words from President Sawyer’s mouth about why the liberal arts approach to education were so essential to prepare for an unpredictably changing world were nothing short of prescient. That was President Falk’s point—the Williams mission is essentially the same today. An earlier panel discussion on the value of a liberal arts education was interesting enough, but to me it was a head scratcher that Mark Roche (“Why Choose Liberal Arts?”) wasn’t included. Meanwhile, back at Garfield House, Amy SterlingBratt fretted as she looked at the position of the tent on the low ground. Recognizing it would be soon be a bog, she contrived to drive to Home Depot to buy mats to serve as a sidewalk. This proved a pretty good albeit temporary solution, and the cocktail party and BBQ took place on schedule. Music was provided courtesy of Frank Carr, who schlepped his arenaworthy assemblage of speakers and audio equipment from home to provide dance music. (That in walking around making all those electrical hookups in the wet grass Frank did not suffer an electrocution we were all grateful, as Frank’s know-how would prove critical Saturday night as well. But I digress.) With the Temptations and other Motown and classic rock tunes blaring, the dance floor was quickly filled up, mostly by 50-something Bacchae who were compelling if frightening to watch. I was impressed if not amazed to watch Kathy Pierson in boots with heels, managing to stay upright on the slippery surface. (OK, she fell once, but she bounced up a lot faster and stayed on her feet a lot longer than any of the Pittsburgh Penguins, whose dismantling by the Bruins was being watched inside by hard-core hockey fans, or non-fans who needed to warm up.) Of course, wine and beer were ample and supplied sufficient warmth for the rest of us. Yet when compared with previous reunions, and certainly by undergraduate standards, the attendees were an abstemious group. People were early to bed, and tried not to think about the driving rain, which brought an additional 0.8 inches overnight. Happily, the rain stopped before daybreak, leaving an evocative fog of a cool morning. Feeling ambitious, I decided to observe a familiar undergraduate ritual of “running a Gale,” that is, run the loop around Gale Road and then through campus. Gassed by the time I reached the perimeter of Cole field, I spied what at first appeared to be a statue of an immense bird. As I approached I was able to detect barely perceptible movement. As I passed by, 58

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I was astonished to discover the apparition was Tony Lawrence, deep in concentration, executing precise and graceful moves of what I later learned was Tai Chi. Tony, a onetime avid practitioner of the art, was making a comeback. When I caught up with him in the tent that evening, Tony was more interested in reminiscing about our premed travails than recounting his distinguished career as an ER physician and urgent care in Washington, D.C. I had to pry that out of him. His charming wife Jennifer is also a physician, practicing Ob-Gyn. Saturday’s breakfast was a pleasant affair, albeit served in WWI trench conditions. Cordy Gould, who has gone into business making, among other products, artisanal granola, served some of her soon-to-be famous fare. From there we made our way to Chapin Hall for the alumni parade. I couldn’t help noticing our class is getting disturbingly close to the front of the line, where the Old Guard are chauffeured in fancy antique cars. The parade was over in a quick conversation or two, and we dutifully if reluctantly filed into the Lasell gym to the alumni meeting. As boring as such things could be, it gives one a certain pause to bear witness to the same words and protocol uttered since the alumni association was established well over a century ago. And I will confess I felt a full-fledged chill when I heard my name called as this year’s winner of the class secretaries’ Thurston Cup, and more so, as I returned from the podium with cup in hand, to hear the cheers of encouragement of my all-of-a-sudden rowdy classmates. At the conclusion of the meeting, I had no idea what I was supposed to do with the cup, and previous Thurston winner John Bessone was nowhere to be seen. The consensus of the group nearby was I could keep the cup for a year, just like the Stanley Cup. Not for the first time regretting that I heeded the advice of classmates, an hour later I was a fugitive. Even if the security cop didn’t buy my story, I was able to get the whole thing straightened out. I will say the college security they have these days have a better sense of humor than the muchdreaded Willard Busl, back in the day. The big event of the afternoon was Herb McCormick’s account of his sailing around the Americas in a sailboat in 2010. The room was packed, and Herb did not disappoint. He proved as good a raconteur as scribe, captivating us with commentary on the slides which chronicled the journey. That Herb told his amazing tale with modest understatement made the icebergs of Baffin Island and the rock islands of Cape Horn seem all the more terrifying. Even accomplished sailor David Moir, who peppered Herb with questions, had a hard time believing it all, and he did not exactly jump at Herb’s offer to make him a crew member next time around Afterward we cruised Spring Street, where we ran into an astonished Jim Cohen. Jim could scarcely believe the transformation of the Purple Pub from onetime dive to upscale establishment. We bought espressos next door and relived Morgan West. Limited by the cognitive limitations of middle age as we may have been, we had no difficulty going room by room recollecting its denizens of 1974-75. Somewhere in the vicinity of King’s Liquors we entered an interesting and unfamiliar boutique. I was taken to be addressed by name by the proprietor,

1978–79 who turned out to be Wit McKay. After a career in New York Wit and his wife Anne have moved to Williamstown, and they had just opened their store. I had no trouble picking out those core facial features which make recognition 30 years later possible, yet something didn’t seem quite right… As far as we could both recall, our Williams acquaintance was based entirely on our first semester freshman year, when we shared a trial by fire in R.G.L. Waite’s section of History 101. Who thought taking a course with the author of the Williams style manual, in his specific area of expertise, was a good idea? Well, I suppose this is the kind of thing that makes us wiser as sophomores. Then it dawned on me—Wit’s 18-year-old voice, accented heavily by his North Carolina roots, was gone! Funny though, how knowing each other only from sitting across a table from one another discussing during a few hour sessions when we were 18 years old such details stick with us so clearly. By dinnertime, the previous night’s runoff had turned the turf under the Garfield tent to a quagmire. Even the upgraded plywood walkways were of no use, and guys and girls alike wore their finery with their boots. The enthusiasm was undiminished. I had great conversations with the recently relocated from Alabama to San Francisco: Maggie O’Brien, an allergist for many years but seeking a position in an administrative capacity in an international medicine organization; Bill Huckle, who is tenured on the biology faculty at Virginia Tech and is still rabid about their football program; Mary O’Donohue, who as promised brought her delightful daughter and was wishing she was still singing with the Ephlats; and Kevin O’Rourke, whose acting career caught fire a few years ago (Mayor Edward Bader in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire), but who takes even greater satisfaction from running the summer mentor program for undergraduates wishing to make their living in acting. I also caught up with Morgan West buddy John Simmons and his wife Karen Ham. I did not get to say more than a brief hello to his Morgan West roommate Bill Riegel but was fascinated to hear much about him, including his passion for collecting history books from his wife Betsy Lyman. I made acquaintance with Russ Hardy. I vaguely knew of him at Williams, as we were pre-meds together, but we never really connected till Saturday evening. Russ worked as a bench research scientist and was on the team which developed important monoclonal antibodies as a treatment for lymphoma, at which point his wife Joan’s pregnancy with twins necessitated his finding a better paying trade. The natural move was to hematology/oncology. Russ has found great satisfaction in the field and has an interesting take on people’s wondering how he can handle so many patients dying. “Compared with internists I know, my patients are the best. Most people ignore their doctor’s advice, smoke, overeat, let themselves go, ignore what their doctors tell them because they can’t be bothered. My patients will do anything so they can live. The energy and love for life they show is always inspiring.” Somewhere during all of this conversing, we were wondering why dinner was being served so late. Turns out the caterer could not get the fire started and had no backup plan. Fortunately for them, and

for all of us, Frank Carr stepped into the breach once again. Whether through luck, divine intervention, or actual know-how on his part, we managed to have dinner without anyone getting blown up. There were feel-good presentations and a moment of prayer and silence for the list of departed classmates read by Sue Stred. Softspoken Mike Anton turns out to have a showman’s streak, and his magic act was no less impressive for the bad lighting and mildly inebriated state of the crowd. And then the music, sweet music, there was music everywhere. Walter Ogier and The Six, the envy of all other reunion classes, back by popular demand, rocked and rolled Williamstown like it has not seen since June 2008. These guys are just GOOD. Their songs were of course right in our demographic’s wheelhouse—The Band, Doobie Brothers, Van Morrison, Rolling Stones—each song given a treatment that made it personal for each individual who had the privilege of being in the tent. If you didn’t get your mojo back listening to The Six, I am sorry to say, Sir and Madam, it’s gone for good. As energized as we got, the biological imperative was calling, and some of us retired before the music stopped. With the lights out, the Garfield window open, I let the music soak me as I approached the border of my dreams. I mused that in those mostly happy, forward looking undergraduate years the West College gate slogan “Climb High Climb Far” was such a fitting slogan, but for this one night, we dreamed of things as they once were. I want to thank you, my class, for your unstinting support and friendship through the past 10 years— check that, for the past 39 years, since 1974. Without denying our wonderful diverseness, we share an identity and ethos. It has been a pleasure and great privilege to be an imperfect mouthpiece for this. We are fortunate to have Maggie O’Malley Luck taking the pen from this point. Au revoir!

1979 REUNION JUNE 12-15 Barbara H. Sanders, 3 Stratford Road, White Plains, NY

10603; [email protected] There’s an old saying that 20 years go by in the blink of an eye. So what does that mean about 38 years—are they gone in almost two blinks? It’s been that long since we rolled onto campus in 1975, coming in station wagons, taxis and buses. Perhaps an upperclassperson picked you and your two suitcases up at Albany Airport, with the remainder of your belongings arriving in the Baxter Hall post office. For whatever reason, your parents may have been unable to accompany you through this rite of passage, but in mind or spirit, they had faith and trusted that you were mature enough to arrive in Williamstown on your own—and you did! Your JAs were happily waiting for you. Whether you were on the first or the fourth floor of your entry, they and others helped you lug your belongings to your room on that beautiful day in early September. It felt like early fall, but the calendar told us it was still late summer. As families departed, to see them again in a few months, you may have experienced an eyemoistening goodbye. But some time before the end Class notes continued on page 76 > SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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of the day, the fun would definitely begin! And of course, academics would follow several days later. Cathy Jackson Edington and family welcomed her first grandchild, Jackson, into the world on June 20. She is tickled pastel blue. Jean Dexheimer Dudek and husband Paul enjoyed a visit and dinner with Chris DiAngelo, his wife Lindsay and son James. “Paul and Chris attended high school together. The DiAngelos were in the DC area to settle James in for his summer internship. From Washington, Paul and I went to Istanbul for one week. Life is treating us just fine.” After 32 years of service with the U.S. Geological Survey and National Geodetic Survey (part of NOAA), Marti Ikehara retired in March. “My immediate goal is mundane—to organize, reorganize and de-clutter stuff in my house, now that I have to see it all the time! My long-term goal is to travel everywhere to expand my birding experience. During Memorial Day weekend, I attended my niece’s graduation from Middlebury, which is also one of my sisters’ alma mater. The weather was horrible—cold, windy rain, and it even snowed in the mountains! I stayed in North Conway, N.H., and visited three colleagues in NH and Vermont. At my request, my sister (who works at UMass Amherst) gave me the ‘five college tour,’ so after all these years, I got to see Amherst! I’m planning to come to reunion, tying it in with another niece’s graduation from Wesleyan.” Gregg Hartman loves living in the Hanover, N.H., area, a college town much like Williamstown. “I lived in NYC for 20 years before moving here in 1999. Traded my business suits for tractors and a barn. My wife Jinny, son Ben, 17, and daughter Matti, 14, are with me. Both children are avid ice hockey players. I’ve pretty much traded soccer playing for hockey, and I coach and play in several men’s leagues. Navigating the college selection scene this year with Ben, and busy with Matti as she travels while playing on numerous hockey teams and camps has been an adventure. Both Jinny and I are anesthesiologists at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. I am a professor of anesthesiology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and vice chair of the department at the hospital. Tom Dodds is department chair, so Williams is well represented! I stay in touch with Michael Golden but exchange lots of stories and current experiences with many Williams classmates via Ken Hollingsworth’s birthday email chain and ‘blog’ of sorts.” Linda Sheffer Larabee has jumped on the bandwagon of new correspondents and has happy news at that. “My husband John Larabee ’78 and I were in Williamstown over Memorial Day weekend to joyously celebrate the wedding of our daughter Kate Larabee ’07 to Sam Tuttle ’07. The Berkshires delivered some cold, windy rain that could not dampen the exuberant Williams spirits. We are especially grateful to Peter Tuttle ’78 and his wonderful wife Cathy for raising such a great soulmate for Kate. Sam and Kate will live in Boston while Sam completes his PhD in hydrology at Boston University and Kate completes her pediatric residency at Mass General Hospital.” 76

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Long Ellis writes to say, “I am working at a very exciting mobile app media company called Flurry, with NYC offices in the Flatiron District on 21st and Broadway. The company is based in San Francisco, so I get out to see my mom (who is still kicking at age 92) and one of my three sisters, who lives in Menlo Park. I attended the Alta ski trip this year and saw a number of classmates there, including some of my Williams roommates—Tom Albert, Jeff Jenks, Paul Detjen and Nick Noyes. Two of our children have graduated from college and are out in the working world. Our son is in the movie business in LA, and our oldest daughter is in NYC at a private bank. Our youngest daughter is a junior at Dartmouth and playing on the lacrosse team. Looking forward to year number two at the Alta ski trip and our 35th reunion!” After two years as assistant professor for clinical family medicine in Greenville, S.C., Allan Macdonald is returning to Florence. “I have accepted the position of associate director of the family medicine residency program, McLeod Regional Medical Center. I will be directly involved in teaching full-spectrum family medicine, including maternity care.” Andrew Kane made it short and sweet—“I’ve been married to Martha Buffkin Kane since 1986. We have four children, including a daughter who is in the Williams Class of ’10. I serve as a physician in the emergency department of Lakes Region General Hospital, Laconia, N.H.” We’ll press him for more details at the reunion. Lisa Russell O’Shea enjoys her work at the Association of American Colleges & Universities in DC. “In February, I spent a weekend in Philadelphia with Kathy Burnside and Cyane Gresham, my freshman roommates from Morgan West. Kathy continues to be one of the top distance runners in her age group, and I had the pleasure of seeing her cross the finish line of the Marine Corps Marathon a few years back. I saw Joanna Monroe Polefrone, also from the great Morgan West, when I was in Pittsburgh. She’s doing well, and we shared stories of our adult children. I had a fantastic surprise when Rick Moog showed up at my office for a meeting. And I hope to see Tad Roach soon—he’s on one of our advisory boards and is very respected in higher education circles. It was great to lay eyes on Laurie Jones Thomsen, Peter Thomsen, Tad Seder and Stan Parese while I was in Williamstown for 24 hours in May.” Anyone can easily read Bill Webster’s effervescence between the lines—“Diane Hughes (a.k.a. my wife), Manette Jen McDermott and Pat Strong Owens convened in Williamstown this spring for a girls’ getaway. Timing centered around the Williams/ Amherst baseball game (our son David Webster ’15 is on the Williams baseball team). Finding the sport event (and Williamstown!) just too tempting, my youngest son Will and I crashed the party— some things never change! The ladies prepared dinner for their Williams offspring (Abra Owens ’15, Chi McDemott ’13 and David Webster ’15) as well as their roommates and Riki McDermott ’09. The visit to Billsville was great as always, with the exception of the baseball team losing. Caught up with Clinton Loftman by phone recently. He mentioned that the weather had sufficiently thawed in Duluth for David

1979–80 Vipond to escape for a visit to San Francisco. David continues to own and run a B&B in Duluth. So I believe he enjoyed being on the guest side of things for a few days. On my end, I am now spending my work weeks in New Hampshire, working in Dover and living in Portsmouth. On weekends I head home to New Jersey. Enjoying Portsmouth immensely and welcome any visitors!” Stew Menking tells us, “The 1970s Ephlats once again made our annual pilgrimage to Reunion Weekend. So Gwen Nichols, Hal Sprague, Wayne Wilkins and I celebrated our 34th reunion. Along the way we were able to hang out with Chris Broda, Connie Carpenter and even ran into Laurie Thomsen on Spring Street. And speaking of the great ‘Main Street, U.S.A.,’ we saw the outside of Barbara Ernst Prey’s new art gallery. But the only time we had to stop in was after midnight on Saturday, and Barbara isn’t open 24 hours yet!” Several days later, Barbara’s letter picked up where Stew’s left off—“I’m really excited about the gallery. It’s a wonderful place to exhibit my new paintings. We also have a print room with a wide selection of scenes of Williams and vicinity. I hope everyone will stop in when you’re in town! It was great to have Henry Lee and family at the opening. It was also great to see Al Blakey, Long Ellis, Betsy Balderston and other classmates who have stopped in. In other locales, I ran into Kate Wheeler Rock on the plane to Turks and Caicos, and our families had some fun dinners together. I loved seeing Elisabeth Keller and Mitchell Reiss recently in NYC, and Lauren Ingersoll Murray ’80 (childhood friend) with husband Tam Murray in DC when I am there for meetings. I follow Mark Tercek on Twitter, as the environment is so important in my work as a landscape painter.” Bill Couch is still working at IBM, traveling most weekdays but back home on Thursday night. “Travel is a challenge, but so is unemployment! The best part is that I really enjoy my work as a consultant to the insurance industry. My son Chandler joined the U.S. Marine Corps and completed boot camp in April. It was a really tough 13 weeks, but he actually gained weight! He is now in advance training before he deploys the ‘Fleet.’ My wife Helen and I plan to attend our reunion in June.” Betsy Harper started a new job in Massachusetts, working in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energy and says, “So I’ve turned into a state employee at age 55 (yikes!)—but for good reasons. I will be directing projects to install approximately $7 million of energy efficient renovations and renewable technologies on Mass. state-owned housing (primarily for the elderly). While new construction LEED buildings get all the press, the real challenge is to make our current housing stock more ‘energy wise’—building by building. This is truly my secondcareer passion.” Susan Eckman was looking forward to another Williams graduation. “My daughter Susannah Eckman ’11 came to the Purple Valley to watch her BFF Ryan Loughran ’13 graduate. Ryan was a four-year starter on the football team (offensive line) and has certainly reinvigorated my interest in Little Three football! And have to say, Stew Menking keeps me feeling connected to Williams. Definitely worth his weight in gold!”

This year, Hugh Calkins was elected president of the Heart Rhythm Society, an international organization of more than 5,800 specialists in heart rhythm disorders (also known as cardiac electrophysiologists) from 72 countries. Hugh was elected during the organization’s 34th Annual Scientific Sessions in Denver. He directs the clinical electrophysiology laboratory, the arrhythmia service and the arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. After sending out the request for class news, I received what appeared to be a brief, innocuous email from Steve Rogers. It included attachments, which he asked me to share with my husband, Charles Sanders ’78—some team football photos from their separate freshman years at Williams. Before I knew it, I found myself in the middle of a high-spirited, “friendly crossfire” of emails (when the dust began to settle, I scrolled down and found that Ken Hollingsworth initiated the email chain—over 100 “footballers” in all! An impressive roster, as well as priceless photographs of Williams scholar-athletes from back in the day. From the pictures, you can tell that they loved the game and the team). I gently reminded Steve that the reason for my initial email was to encourage him to send me news for the column! “Well, everything on my end is going well. I left Kellogg in October after teaching there for 17 years and returned to the good ole alma mater, Harvard ‘B’ School. I teach entrepreneurial finance, and I love being back. Herb Irvin, James Foy, Craig White, Clint Loftman, Nate Paige ’81, Dan Perkins ’78 and Mike Reed ’75 are a few of the folks that I have recently talked to or seen. It is always a pure joy to interact with fellow alumni.” Mark Lewy has a good reason to be thrilled—“My daughter Jacqueline Lewy is a member of Williams Class of 2017. She is not only a daughter of the Class of ’79 but also a granddaughter of John Lewy ’54. We are all very proud of Jacqueline and very excited for her as she begins the next phase of her life.” Just as a reminder—if you haven’t already done so, start making your plans to return for our “once in a lifetime” 35th reunion. June 12-15, 2014. There will be plenty of space, because it’s in the Purple Valley. Come enjoy the past, savor the present, and see the vision for the future. See our reunion as a time of renewal—to relax, hug old friends, make new friends, strike up conversations and share stories—gain a greater appreciation of what a great class we are and what a special experience we had at Williams. 

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of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., in the fall. In Chicago I was engaged in a project involving leadership and mission in Catholic parishes; I had a very enjoyable and productive stay and am disappointed only that institutional priorities did not allow for the continuation of the project. One of the pleasures of my time in Chicago was the opportunity to reconnect … with fellow Sage-A-er Brian (Boaves) Avery and his wife Janet, with whom I shared dinner on a couple of occasions. … I also still reconnect periodically (mostly electronically) with Steve Pecorini, Kathleen Kelliher and Nancy Bargessar Swyers ’79. I still do a fair bit of travel for conferences, retreats and research (Omaha, Miami, London and northwestern Germany this summer—a study in not a few contrasts!). But all things considered I’m glad to have home base back in New England, where I can be closer to family. (An illness on my mother’s part kept me going back and forth between Chicago and Maine much more than I’d have liked this past year; lots of miles racked up on American and Southwest!)” A nice contingent of classmates chimed in from England. Ralph Schroeder says, “I normally don’t have anything Williams-esque to report, but … I had dinner with and gave a little talk to the current Williams students at the Williams-Exeter Programme here in Oxford, which was fun. Since the current director of the program, Katie Kent ’88, is an English prof at Williams, we shared some reminiscences of larger-than-life profs we had both encountered at Williams, including the chainsmoking Laslo Versenyi. Apart from that, I saw Jonathan Jacobson and family on a research trip to DC last spring, and Mark Lanier came to visit me on an England trip just before Christmas. Other than that, there is not much news: my kids are both at university, and I’m happily working as an academic here (though I often wonder why they call what I do ‘work’—it seems more like being a perpetual student).” Kathleen Kelliher reported on the annual Williams in Europe weekend held last April: “My husband Phil and I have always wanted to go and were determined to do so this year. As it happens it was in Cambridge, which while only an hour or so from London, we really do not know at all. It was a fabulous weekend, so well organized by the Williams alums who are studying at Cambridge. Apparently there are about 25 of them at any given time, the only other American university with more representation was Harvard. When you compare class sizes, Williams really does excel there.” Pano Pliotis adds, “Things are fine here in London, where I have lived with my wife and two children (now teenagers) since the late 1990s. We have been through what feels like the coldest winter and spring in memory. I keep in touch with Steven Hall, Joe Mellicker, Rich Robinowitz, Ann Eakland and others from our class but, sadly, do not see them as often as I would like; trips to the U.S. are taken up by work or family visits and so the message to all of you out there is visit London, and we will be glad to show you around.” Pano moved to London to work as a U.S. tax lawyer for Merrill Lynch and now works in a similar role at GE Capital. His wife is English, which made settling there easy.

1980 Marko Remec’s solo show Totally Totem, debuting five of his newest works, opened at MASS MoCA on June 15. Sloane Graff says he’s happily married with three great kids, active in church and local charitable activities. Carolyn Dye and Jon Broughman are living in Princeton, N.J., where she enjoys the flexibility of a part-time teaching position. Jon is the headmaster at the Hun School of Princeton. Carolyn adds, “Our older son, Sam, is a computer science major at The College of New Jersey, which means he will probably be employable when he graduates! Our younger son, Ben, has just graduated from Hun and will do a gap year in India and South Africa before matriculating at Colby College in the fall of 2014. He is thinking about becoming an archaeologist; not sure what that means about his job prospects after college! … I see quite a bit of my college roommate Linda Hansell, who lives about an hour away in Philadelphia.” From the heat of Texas, Chip Oudin reports: “I’m still traveling to London and Ghana for Anadarko, working to develop several offshore oil fields in West Africa. Julie and I had dinner with Calvin Schnure ’81; he was in town performing with the Lone Star Harmony Brigade’s quartet extravaganza, with 80 men from all over the country singing barbershop music all weekend. Absolutely fabulous! Daughter Jessica and her husband just bought their first house outside Atlanta; don’t you wish we’d had three-point-something interest rates back in the early ’80s when we were buying our first homes?” And, when Chip wrote, daughter Jeanie Oudin ’08 was back in Williamstown attending her fifth reunion. Summer plans included a trip to the Canadian Rockies. The Head of the Charles always brings some rowers together. Jeffrey Graham stayed with Bert Snow and Leigh Snow ’81 at their bed and breakfast. He also spent a night with Libby Holmann, who gave him plenty of pointers from her experience the previous year. He ran into Tom Rizzo ’81, George Baumgarten ’81 and Tom Knowlton ’81, who rowed together in the Williams alumni boat “Purple Reign.” Jeff and his wife Janice still live just north of Bangor, Maine. He hopes to get involved in the scuba diving component of the Wounded Warriors program and continues to do urology clinics in rural Maine. Ray Demeo sent an update on his family: “Our son Ben Demeo ’15 finished his sophomore year at Williams. He is spending the fall semester of his junior year in a math program in Budapest. He loves origami and its mathematical implications and so [was] happy to have secured a summer internship at Brown, where his job [was] to analyze, study and make origami models. … My oldest son, Mike, is an American Sign Language interpreter in Washington, D.C. Turns out there is a high demand for interpreters, particularly male ones—ever notice most interpreters are female? And DC is a great place to work, because the government agencies always need interpreters and, not incidentally, it’s full of smart, talented young people. Jack, 18, [graduated] from the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts High School. He is an excellent guitarist who fronts his own band, Goat Boy. They write smart pop songs that their young fans like but which also

appeal to older (read: us) listeners.” At his graduation ceremony in the spring, Jack and his band covered the Talking Heads’ “This Must Be the Place.” Ray continues, “Jack loves the Talking Heads, which reminds me of when Steve Case wanted to bring the band to Chapin for Spring weekend—I think it was 1977. At that time I had never heard of the Talking Heads, but Steve knew the next big thing when he saw it. Turns out we got Cheap Trick instead. And then there is 8-year-old daughter Sophia, finishing second grade at Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School, where she is learning—by immersion—Mandarin Chinese.” Annie Ko and I share stories of chickens and children. Hers are raised in the city, while mine grow up in the country. Nevertheless, they lay eggs, cause problems and bring joy. I believe the chickens are safer in the city, but the children may be farther from harm in the country. Annie’s youngest son recently joined his dad on a mission project in Haiti. Robert “Nob” Rauch has blended play and work quite successfully. One of the founders of the Williams Ultimate Frisbee Organization at Williams in 1976-77, he is now the president of the World Flying Disc Federation. By day, he’s a hedge fund manager, specializing in emerging markets distressed debt. Over the years, he won six U.S. National Championships and five World Ultimate Championships. Thanks to Nob’s growth and development strategies with WFDF, a milestone for Ultimate players was reached last spring, as the sport received recognition by the International Olympics Committee. Nob lives in Chappaqua, N.Y., with his wife and three children. I am closing with a reflection from Dave Beardsley, who retired from the Navy on Jan. 1, 2013, with more than 32 years of service. Dave recounts 17 to 19 physical career moves with his family. He maintained his clinical skills with long nights on call while he filled administrative roles during the day. His wife was on active duty for 26 years, and their three sons are now grown and independent. They have friends scattered far and wide and deeply appreciate the opportunity they had to serve our country. He is now working as a medical director of a large outpatient surgical center in Fredericksburg, Va. Dave reports that the transition to civilian practice has been easy: “My current group is wonderful, and I believe we put out a service that has value: two-thirds of the cost of a similar hospital-based practice and a higher-quality product (low nausea rates with amazing post-op pain control and no infections) that is incredibly safe as well as efficient. Many of our patients (I cover 50 to 70 a day) are military retirees and even active duty, so I feel at home. My peers are awesome surgeons, and the nursing/support staff are committed. The community is also welcoming and wonderful as well as interesting. As a Williams grad, and an American, I feel blessed. Though we can always do better, this is the greatest place in the world to live.” I second that, Dave.

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02186; [email protected] I am sitting on a beach in the Perhentian Islands off northeast peninsular Malaysia, waiting for a dive boat and writing my notes. Thank you for all your responses. Next stop: back to Boston for summer vacation. From our New England contingent: Mary Kate Shea submits: “After many years working in the field of event logistics for various sports entities, I’ve transitioned into higher education. I worked in the conferences and special events office at Dartmouth for three years before taking a position as the director of conferences and events at Williams in September 2009. This past October I became the bursar at Williams. In that role I’ve had the opportunity to reconnect with several classmates and others from the years surrounding 1981 who have children attending Williams. It’s great to be back in the Purple Valley, and I encourage any classmates who are in town to stop by the first floor of Hopkins Hall!” Karen Friedman reports that she has been “a total slacker about writing in for class notes,” however, things are good. “My husband Bill and I just celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary, and it has been a very happy five years for us. He’s a pastor at a small but active UCC/Congregational Church in Arlington, Mass., where I’m also a member and a deacon. I’m practicing law at a commercial litigation firm in downtown Boston and recently was named partner. Our schedules are almost diametrically opposed, but we manage to squeeze in some fun.” Karen and Bill were looking forward to a summer birding trip to Montana with Mass Audubon. Karen continues, “We have two cats—Simon & Schuster— and we do our best to keep them away from birds. I haven’t seen too many Williams classmates lately— Tad Read and Jamie MacDonald were the most recent connections.” In a reciprocal submission, old entrymate Tad Read mentioned, “I had lunch with Karen Friedman recently, who was looking well and enjoying her new role as partner in her law firm. I have also been hanging out with Nancy Shapiro and husband Bill McIlroy, whom I regularly try to drag away from their (currently) busy architectural practice to hit the warm water beaches in Rhode Island. Frequent trips to New Jersey to visit my ailing parents have the benefit of getting me into Manhattan, where I get to see Mike Koessel every few months. Mike lost his mom earlier this year, and he visits Michigan often to look in on his dad. I lost my dad in April, after a major stroke had robbed him of his mind about a year before. Father’s Day feels particularly poignant this year.” Athos Bousvaros writes, “I’ve spent the last 25 years of my career at Boston Children’s Hospital as a pediatric gastroenterologist, focusing on the care of children with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. I recently became president of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (www.naspghan.org). I’ve been happily married for 26 years to my wife Meg, whom I met while in medical school at Duke. Our son George is now a 80

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rising junior at Cambridge School of Weston and loves biology, math and computer games. My love of comic books has not diminished since college, and one of my many side projects is developing educational comics for children, including Amy Goes Gluten Free, a book about Celiac disease. As for Williams, I only occasionally talk with classmates (most recently, I sent Greg Watchman a CD of British ska music from the late ’70s). However, we’ve established a great pipeline of Williams graduates who work for our department before going on to better things: this includes Sarah Weber, Helen Hood, Kate Rooney, Jay Ingram and Ben Atkinson.” In next-gen college news: Lorraine Atwood has enjoyed visiting Williams quite often this past year since “Caroline Atwood ’16 (one of my four children) just finished her freshman year there. She was one of the crew team members (alternate) at the NCAA. Caroline’s Newfoundland was often found cheering the team on at meets sporting a Williams banner (made by another team member’s mother). … I just moved from the back roads of Vermont to Norwich, Vt., and am enjoying ‘city’ life.” Caroline spent the summer at Williams, participating in an American Foreign Policy program. Rich Besser: “It’s been a busy few months. I went to Hong Kong to report on bird flu—tried to get to Shanghai, but visas for journalists were not easy to come by. I am now on the road promoting my first book: Tell Me the Truth, Doctor. Highlight so far was talking health with Stephen Colbert. I had dinner … in Long Beach with Arun Swamy and his family. Arun was in for a visit from Guam, where he is a political science professor. I’m looking forward to spending more time in Williamstown. Our older son, Alex, will be a freshman this year.” Lynda Miller is “recovering from my daughter’s college graduation from Lehigh and my son’s northern California high school graduation in the 100-degree heat. Facing an empty nest with husband Mark, but still pretty busy with work at a broadcast equipment company, having gone through an acquisition by Miranda Technologies in Montreal and later an acquisition by Belden Cable based in Indiana. Heading to Montreal soon for the third time this year, although the first two were in January and February, so I am actually looking forward to this trip.” Kyle Hodgkins: “Well, the Rolling Stones say you can’t always get what you want, but we beg to differ: We’re thrilled for our daughter Sara, who will be heading off to Middlebury. She’s starting as a February admit, which means she gets to do a gap semester … so she’s piecing together a series of adventures. I know Ann Maine and Rachel Aliber Duffy (among others) have kids at Middlebury, so she’ll be in good company. Rachel’s daughter Caitlin was kind enough to meet with us when we went back up for a re-visit; she’s a theater phenom and was enormously helpful in giving us the Feb. scoop. And I feel better that Dr. Mike Kiernan will be just a stone’s throw away, as he’s entrenched in several programs there. In May, we had a great time at the wedding of Julia Fiske’s oldest son, Will Parker ’08 (also at Williams), and caught up with old roommates Jody Flood, in from London, and Jody Tabner

1981 Thayer. I also chatted with Robbie Kukulka, who must have won the mileage award, as he made the trek from the United Arab Emirates. As always, our doors are wide open to any travelers passing through Cincinnati.” Mike Hulver raves: “Oh, the life of an expat abroad! I guess I can start back a year or so ago, when I took my second daughter, Ann Marie, to Australia for her high school graduation present (two years ago my wife took our first daughter, Sarah, to Rajasthan, India, upon her graduation). We spent two wonderful weeks there, with some time in Sydney (walking the city and Harbour Bay Bridge), diving on the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns (where we swam extensively with sea turtles) and camping in the Outback in the Alice Springs region (sunset and sunrise around Uluru is stunning!). It was also the first time that I spent time drinking with Ann Marie, as she turned an alcohol-legal 18 on our first day there! I spent the next several months continuing oil exploration here in Saudi Arabia, followed by a short trip to Boston in late October that became extended due to Hurricane Sandy! I was visiting Ann Marie, where she had begun her freshman year studying marine biology at Northeastern University. Besides being stuck by Sandy, I spent a very pleasant lunch in Cambridge with Jamie MacDonald at the Miracle of Science Bar & Grill, where we ‘grilled’ each other about our lives and interests. After another six weeks in the Saudi sandbox, my wife and I headed back across the Atlantic for our four-week repatriation vacation. After a couple of weeks with my family in West Virginia and our house in Hebron, Ky., our entire family headed down to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for some fun in the sun! We enjoyed copious Mexican food and drink, scuba diving, jungle zip-lining, whale watching and pool encounters with sea lions and dolphins. After returning from vacation, I completed my final training for the Jan. 25 Dubai Marathon. I managed to run 3:28:44, 11.5 minutes under my qualifying time for Boston 2014! That was particularly sweet, since in the spring of 2012 I had suffered from a stress fracture that kept me from running till June ’12. Through this year I have continued working as the regional geologist for the Rub’ al Khali desert petroleum exploration team. I took a 10-day break in May ’13 to travel to the States with my wife Amy for a niece’s wedding in Minnesota, a visit to eldest daughter Sarah at the Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, Georgia) and a visit with youngest daughter Molly at Western Reserve Academy in Ohio. My daughter Sarah just won a Student Gold Award at the National Addy (advertising) awards for a promotional video she created for a nonprofit organization. The One Bead Project sells recycled glass beads made by Kenyan glass blowers to raise money for Kenyan schools (www.onebead.org).” Julia Heidmann relates that her empty nest was “beginning early.” With both of her kids away for the summer and her husband Tim in San Francisco with the America’s Cup, she writes, “[It] should be a lot of fun watching from the shore. The 45-foot boats were very fast, and I haven’t seen the 72-foot boats on the water yet. I will probably be doing a lot of trips to the city in between ladies’ night in here in Los Altos. … Still trying to figure out what that

next step is in my life. Meanwhile I’ve been spending more time at the San Francisco Zoo and helping with the education of current and new docents. Springtime is great, as the animals are most active, and there have been a lot of recent births there. My nonexistent sewing talents have come into play, and I have found myself making bug costumes as well as banners for the cause. Who would have known? Saw Dave Weyerhaeuser ’81 and Sarah Weyerhaeuser ’83 and Margaret Carr ’82 in Woods Hole. They are doing well and have kids that went to or are still at Williams. Ann Maine just graduated her last of four sons from high school and had her last Eagle Scout court of honor. Brendan is off to Middlebury next year following two brothers and father Gordon. I know Ginny Maynard is still playing hockey, as she is playing with my sister-in-law in the Boston area. Haven’t seen her or any games yet.” Kim Kelling Engstrom: “I was recently attending the PBS Annual Meeting in Miami. I am the director of community engagement at the PBS member station WFSU in Tallahassee. The PBS Annual Meeting is where all public media folks convene and share what’s working and learn what is in the pipeline for the coming year. So it was quite a surprise when Anne Avis walked up to me to say hello. Turns out Anne is the chair of the Board of Directors for KQED (that’s the San Francisco station). It was great to catch up and share our passion for public media and Williams.” Sarah Foster says, “We have been enjoying our two years as empty nesters and have turned into very lastminute planners, though we miss our girls at home. We do not, however, miss worrying about them driving in the wee morning hours anymore. Last winter, I enjoyed honing some old skills and learning new ones through some very interesting career coaching, which was both worthwhile and has reaped some rewards. It is not really helpful to learn in your 50s that you are well suited to different careers that require years of training and experience, such as computer programming and criminal forensics! On the other hand, at least my chosen profession was also identified as a good choice (environmental health science).” Keith Berryhill and Diane Lidz report that Keith “spent a great weekend with Marc Johnson while I was in Indianapolis for the Masters National Swimming Championships in May. Janis was away, so Marc and I spent the evening cooking a great ‘guys’ meal, drinking beer and chatting about old times and classmates. Marc came to the pool to watch me swim and texted pictures of me to as many classmates as he could think of.” Sue Edelman is brief and to the point: “The kids are suddenly 19 and 17, the humongous old Tudor still has to be heated and you realize that it’s time to downsize. Sold Tudor, offer accepted on ranch (about one mile away), my body still hasn’t recovered from packing contortions. Best feature of the ranch is two full bathrooms! This is what excites me nowadays.” Kevin Weist sounds like the Class of ’83 secretary: “This past weekend, The Doctors (remember them?) played our first gig in 33 years at the Class of ’83’s 30th reunion. It was epic! One-hundred-plus people jammed into the Perry House living room and traveled back in time to 1980 with songs like ‘Surrender,’ SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s ‘What I Like About You’ and ‘Whip It.’ Somebody described it as being like that scene in Cocoon where the old people jump in the pool and become young again. Perry House was our pool—with lots of sweating, pogo dancing and fists pumped in the air. Playing in the band (with me) were original members Paul Robinson ’80, Chris Tantillo ’83, Andy Schlosser ’83, Bill Simpkins ’83 and new additions Lyman Casey ’83 and Bruce Leddy ’83. And dancing their asses (off ) were … Dave Weyerhaeuser, Sarah Mabie Weyerhaeuser ’83 and Nevill Smythe and probably a lot more friends, but it was too dark to see. For one brief magical moment, we were again ‘The Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the Room.’” David Weyerhaeuser agrees: “Did up the ’83 reunion. The Doctors made their first house call in over 30 years. They still got it. Dancing and general merriment ensued.” Phil Darrow writes: “I have taken a new job as a regional counsel for KB Home in Las Vegas, participating at last in the housing recovery after lo, these many years of struggle (both for the town and the industry, not to mention a bit of my own). We are relocating from Chicago over a several-month period, as our youngest, Mason, just finished high school. Lots of family news, as our eldest, Adrienne Darrow ’11, [got married] this summer before starting law school this fall, and our middle guy, Mack, just became engaged and will be job-hunting in Southern California. Robin put her seminary studies and eldercare chaplain duties on hold for a bit to deal with all of this but plans to resume after we are settled in. Although the state of Nevada does not, ahem, have a seminary, she will be able to telecommute and sometimes commute to California. Looking forward to a large Williams photo at Adrienne’s wedding, where Ginny Earle Soybel ’79 will be one of the readers (Anna Soybel ’11 being the maid of honor).” Rick Boyce is still in the Cincinnati area: “I’m a professor in the biological sciences department at Northern Kentucky University. We have been there for 11 years, which is the longest my wife Martha Viehmann and I have lived in one area in our adult lives! Our oldest boy has just finished his freshman year in college, while the youngest has finished his freshman year in high school. Both are now taller than their parents. I’ve gotten into Irish music in a big way (I play flute), while my wife is active in a local group that promotes tolerance and diversity.” Val Colville: “Read Bill Haylon’s novel I’m Will. It traces a young man’s journey through high school— but with the style, wit and sensitivity of our Bill. And, as a mom with a now rising high school senior … the story is particularly pertinent and poignant. But even if you have older kids, littler kids or no kids at all, read Bill’s book! Val continues, “Andrew Starcher is alive and well and living with his wife Suzanne in La Torre, Valcolla, Ticino, Switzerland (look it up, it’s kind of hard to find). He has simultaneously brought to a successful end 20 years as a professor and senior administrator at Franklin College Switzerland in Lugano (easier to find—just ask Heather), and a DBA in higher education management at the University of Bath, UK (and everyone knows where that is, right?). He is looking forward to his next 82

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professional challenge, though he currently has no idea where or what that might be. Something involving Switzerland, humanitarian work, higher education, children, teacher education, Malta, Spiti Valley (India), international education, teaching, administration, Central Asia and/or the Persian Gulf. Like we said, he doesn’t have a clue. His son Alan has one more year of Liceo Classico in Italy (they do 13 years of secondary school, of course) and is likely to remain in Europe for his university studies. Or not. (He’s a little like his dad in that sense.) Andrew is also a grandfather twice-over by way of Suzanne’s daughter Leo and [was to] be happily sitting on said granddaughters for two weeks in Pau, France, this summer. Look him up, and tell him to get up off those poor little girls.” In the Belash household, twins Isabel and Ali finished their ninth-grade year and were awarded “IASAS Scholar Athletes.” Each played on the varsity football, touch rugby and track and field teams, competing across Asia for their school. Wreck and night scuba dives in the Perhentians prepared them for wreck diving in Bali and for Isabel to spend a week on a school trip rebuilding a coral reef back in Bali, while Ali will be trekking in Nepal this fall. My wife, Kate Sweetman, could be found all over Asia and Australia, interviewing leaders for an upcoming study as well as teaching leadership seminars as part of Bank Negara’s (Malaysia’s central bank) consulting practice known as ICLIF, where she is the director of research and curriculum. Yoshi finished his year of coaching girls’ varsity football and boys’ varsity rugby with a gold medal in the final international schools rugby tournament. I also coached middle school football and Frisbee as well as served on various committees while mountain biking in the jungle in my spare time.

1982 Will Layman, 8507 Garfield St., Bethesda, MD 20817;

[email protected] In games of international intrigue only the chumps and the dead guys tell their story, spill their guts, reveal their thinking. I guess that makes me a chump, since I’m still drawing breath. For now. I was on assignment from “the Company”—my goal simply to intercept the movements of an international agent with a vague but possibly sinister mission. He was known as “The Bonobo,” and I was led to believe that he had something to sell, something that the U.S. government wouldn’t want falling into just anyone’s hands. I had one lead. New Yorker Marlene Standish Regalado had supposedly seen The Bonobo and was willing to meet me on the Fourth of July in Fort Lauderdale, out of the glare of The Big Apple. I found her there with her husband Cesar on “a four-day weekend where they do the fireworks over the ocean. It was truly beautiful—sea breezes and perfect weather.” Sure it was. “But what was happening back in New York? I asked her. “We learned that we escaped a heat wave,” she told me. “Florida is cooler than NYC.” Which told me that Gotham was where I needed to head next. I took the auto-train north with every intention of arriving in Manhattan the next day, but things rarely

1981–82 go according to plan in this business. An encoded message from my Company contact suggested, mysteriously, that I “make an appointment with Dr. Miller in DC.” Talk about Company-speak. Next thing I knew I was in a briefing with Mike Miller, whose new job as “physician-in-residence at the National Governors Association’s Center for Best Practices” put him in constant motion “across the country by working collaboratively with both the NGA health team and governors’ health staffs.” Fine, but what did that have to do with catching The Bonobo? “While I’ll be working on a variety of projects,” he told me, “one area I’ll be focusing on will be improving care and lowering total costs for ‘super utilizers,’ people with complicated medical conditions and/or lack of coordination across providers and care settings.” Super Utilizers, eh? I thought to myself. That meant I was going to need some additional equipment to deal with this Bonobo fellow. “Got it, Doc,” I told him, before he added that he’d be “working on ways to integrate community health with traditional healthcare delivery, activities to improve birth outcomes and the NGA’s Prescription Drug Abuse Project. “Interesting and hectic,” he said, “like drinking from a fire hose while going over a waterfall.” I’d been warned. If I was going to need more tools, then I’d have to stop for some “corporate yoga” in the City of Brotherly Love. I was off to see Missi Pelham. She had “started working as a yoga instructor for a privately owned company that brings wellness and fitness programs into office and corporate settings. It’s great to see those stressed-out employees unwind during an hour yoga break from their desks.” Some brilliant cover for a busy trade in tiny transmitters and gel pens that double as HD cameras. Missi was “enjoying some local summer pleasures like trips to the Jersey Shore and to the ballpark to catch a Phillies game,” so she slipped me a small package at Citizens Bank Park during the seventh inning stretch, and I was on the road again. I arrived in Manhattan with the temperatures soaring. It was evening, and my contacts were to be three of the most “dangerous” agents in the Company: Shari Lusskin and Seton Melvin. I was guided to the rendezvous point by Marlene Standish Regalado—who explained that our cover story was that they were all “celebrating turning 50 again on a steamy July night in New York.” I appreciated the humor, as not one of them looked a day over 39. The town was dead, though, with no sign of a black market presence. Lusskin pulled me aside and whispered, “We could use some Purple Valley time.” I got the hint, pulled my Lamborghini Veneno around, and the two of us headed up the Taconic Parkway. It’s a little-known truth that North Adams, Mass., is a hotbed of international weaponry trading. That MASS MoCA place? Little more than a warehouse full of thinly disguised shoulder-mounted grenade launchers. Shari and I arrived in time to pick up traces of the presence of Evan Benjamin, whose cover story was that he had “returned to Williamstown to watch my son Ari Benjamin ’13 graduate. It was quite a thrill to be there and watch the pomp.” Pomp? Is that what the kids are calling the weapons trade

these days? Benjamin was no babe in the woods. We heard that he said, “Williams celebrates tradition well.” Shari learned that the word on the street was that Evan had seen a few other ’82ers there, including other parents of ’13s: Amy Ferguson Daubert and Dan Goldman. Merely a coincidence? We thought not, particularly when we learned that he had also gotten to “catch up with old friend and new Williams Board of Trustees member Eric Cochran.” Clearly something was going on in the Berkshires. Was Evan Benjamin The Bonobo? In the middle of lunch at Pappa Charlie’s (Charlie himself having been part of the Company back in the 1970s), Shari grabbed my shoulder and pointed out the window. It was James Hoch. In no time we pulled him into a hallway in Morgan and leaned in close and curious. “I’m here to see some of the Williamstown Theatre Festival productions,” he declared. “Truly great shows. My daughter Julia Hoch ’15 is working at the festival this summer as the social media intern, so everyone should follow her on Twitter—@WTFest.” The story checked out all right, and it struck us that the action in Billsville was over. Our Bonobo had moved on. The trail, we felt, was inexorably pointing north. Eileen Schlee: “OK, Will, I respect your work (as have been doing the beg-job re: Kent Place School classmates as class secretary and have employed every nearly tactic to extract stuff ) and belatedly throw a bone: Clive and I find ourselves happily at the end of the line viz packing kids off to university, with a lucky youngest, Isabel Schlee, entering the Williams Class of 2017 end of August. She had a chance to meet the great Costleys on Spring Street last summer and looks forward to new years of good food and weather, good sport, leaving the UK behind for a while. These days I’m working, just on my golf game. My life goal now to shoot under 100 one day on the Taconic.” Shari decided we should make a stop in Charlestown, N.H., to gather some intel from Jon Scott, a retired agent. The trail of crumbs we had to follow to track him down led us to an evening drum circle. It was a Thursday, and Jon was “the lone electric guitarist playing with an interesting, eclectic and variable group of between five and eight drummerpercussionists—circle format, of course—none of whom went to Williams College and (unlike some of our classmates) all of whom have a decent sense of rhythm.” The Bonobo might have been traveling on two wheels, he said. “The motorcycle collection in my garage is down to only four bikes, at least for the time being,” he said. Let’s go, Shari whispered to me. And we were headed for the border. You’d be hard-pressed to find a city more likely to be crawling with international terrorists than Quebec. Charming on the surface, but delinquent at its heart. Shari and I arrived on the weekend of the Summer Festival, and we kept our nose in the air for trouble. All we found, however, were Marian Hewitt and her husband Bill, listening to a free concert at the festival and having “a great time.” It was too calm to be real. Shari isn’t much on French food or wine, so we retreated to an Irish bar to consider the possibilities. “Frankly, Will, I think you’ve spooked the Bonobo—no pun intended—and he’s either left the U.S. or is hiding here, laying low. Whaddaya say SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s I stay here and you take off beyond the U.S., give us two chances to run into this scumbag?” So Shari buried herself in a pint, and I was off for Dublin. My contact in Ireland was Maria Pramaggiori, the new chair of media studies at the National University of Ireland-Maynooth, “a small university town (not unlike Williamstown, actually) located just outside Dublin.” She taught for a year in Cork on a Fulbright, but this was still new: “After so many years in North Carolina, I anticipate a lot of exciting changes, months of spirit-crushing logistical problems to solve and complex transactions undertaken in dimly understood currencies.” Her partner Tom was there, too, along with their dogs. “I had mixed feelings about leaving North Carolina now that it has decided to return to its former status as most embarrassing Southern state, a reputation well-earned when Jessie Helms was alive. I have been attending the ‘Moral Monday’ protests against our Republican-dominated legislature. I hate to leave the fight. To be honest, Ireland looks like a hedonistic society compared to NC these days.” Hedonism is Ireland? I thought that kind of thing was in the past now that our old associate Mike McGinn was stuck on the West Coast, being the mayor of Seattle. “You think The Bonobo would seek refuge on the West Coast, Maria?” She just nodded and, against her better Irish judgment, lent me her raincoat. After I landed in the Seattle airport (where, as usual, a small rain cloud had made its way inside and was sprinkling mildly on my luggage carousel), I reached Shari by cell phone to tell her where I was. “I wandered south again,” she told me, the sound of the Lamborghini growling in the background. “Visited Sean Bayliss in upstate N.Y., where he teaches high school art history and works on his own paintings with imagery and text based on conversations. He’s doing the ‘older dad’ thing,” she said. “He just took Luke, who is almost 7, on a road trip to see relatives in Michigan and for camping. ‘I often wish I had the more resilient body of a 30 year old,’ he told me.” Shari had just turned 39 again, so I just found this confusing, but I couldn’t ponder it as I suddenly saw Will Hodgeman in a yellow slicker near the ticket counter. “Hodgeman,” I said. “I thought you were wandering the Asia-Pacific rim for some high-tech company.” “Nope,” he said, wiping the rain from his brow. “Now I am splitting time between Seattle as home and San Francisco for work as CEO of a young company, KISSmetrics, whose HQ is in downtown SF.” Hodgey still loved acronyms, I could see, and I asked him about Mayor McGinn. “You support the guy, or might he be questionable. Ever hear him call himself ‘The Bonobo’?” Hodgeman shook his head no. “Vote Mike!” he said. Then he offered to show me his “SF Chinese restaurant collection of Fortune Cookie fortunes. I’m silently awaiting the magic numbers for the next Powerball,” he winked. In the meantime, he suggested I wander north a bit to a little island community called “Anacortes” and “check out the hyperbaric oxygen, man.” I’d heard of the stuff but wasn’t sure why he was steering me there. 84

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Once I arrived on my rented Harley, I was greeted by an old friend, Rick Versace. We’d trained together years ago, knew the same guys. “I’ve just been ‘hanging out’ here running the new wound care and hyperbaric medicine clinic at Island Hospital. Hope all is well, Will.” Dr. Enrico looked grand, but his face twisted into a pretzel when I mentioned The Bonobo. He told me to immediately call Will Foster, who was now teaching international cybersecurity policy at Georgia Tech. “How’s it going, Will?” He was really enjoying the teaching, he said. And he had good news for me. The Bonobo had been hiding in plain sight all along—headquartered in DC right under my nose. Hiding from us for 20 years. It was Sally Coxe. An old friend. What? I phoned Shari and had her meet me at Dulles. We would be at Sally’s whereabouts within an hour, and that evening we had her cornered in a Cleveland Park bar. And she admitted, yeah, she was The Bonobo. Sort of. “I have been delinquent for far too long … hiding in the shadows, relishing the things, vowing to send some scintillating news, but…” She looked at us as if to figure out if we could be trusted. “There’s no time like the present to repent. What have I been up to for the past 20 years? I’ll tell you.” And she did. What’s all this about The Bonobo, we asked her. “If you don’t know what a bonobo is, you’re missing out on one of this world’s most amazing beings. I didn’t know until 1993 when I was working at National Geographic on a book about the great apes. Bonobos are more closely related to humans than any creature on earth (along with chimpanzees), yet most people still do not even know they exist! Bonobos are extremely rare, found only in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Bonobos are the ‘hippie chimps,’ distinguished by their ‘make love, not war’ proclivities, their peaceful, matriarchal society and their remarkable intelligence. “So, what I’ve been doing for 20 years is: I’ve been working to save the bonobo and the Congolese rainforest.” She had founded the Bonobo Conservation Initiative in DC. Wow, we thought. Not plotting to take over the world, but just to save a neat little slice of it. “It has been a privilege to work with the Congolese people to protect the bonobos and their habitat in the heart of the second largest rainforest on earth. We have established two official nature reserves—you can read all about it at www.bonobo.org and in a new book to be published this fall by D.Y. Béchard: Empty Hands, Open Arms. Folks should drop me a line or sign up on our website to come to book signings.” We offered Sally a lift in the Lamborghini to her next meeting. We laughed. I pretended, unsuccessfully, to be an intelligent primate. She regretted being out of touch and said that she even planned to meet us last summer in the Berkshires. “Not only were my bags packed for the last reunion, but they were even in my car when I got stopped in my tracks by an untimely comeuppance. I was so there in spirit.” After that, Shari and I were on to our next adventures, she in N.Y., me in DC. There were loose nukes to be tracked down, most likely, or maybe

1982–83 some WikiLeaks refugees to annoy. Being an international man of intrigue could almost be as tough as living in the Congolese rainforest, I thought, as I motored home.

1983 Bea Fuller, 404 Old County Road, Severna Park, MD

21146; [email protected] On June 8 in Williamstown, in the wood-paneled living room at Perry House, after a great dinner under the tents next to Perry, about a fourth of the class of 1983 time traveled. We really did. The Doctors played some great time pieces like “Whip It,” “I’m a Man,” “867-5309/Jenny” and “Suffragette City.” We danced, and we shouted/sang with them, and for about 90 minutes, we were 20 years old again. Who knew that we still knew all the words from those songs? I know I speak for everyone who was there when I heartily thank Chris Tantillo, Andy Scholosser, Bill Simpkins, Bruce Leddy, Lyman Casey, Kevin Weist ’81 and Paul Robinson ’80 for transporting us back to 1980 and a simpler time—a time when we weren’t worried about mortgages, teenagers, toddlers, driving, college admissions, the economy, the environment, or anything else except what time the pub closed. So of course a bunch of us headed down to the fancy new Purple Pub and had a great time hanging outside reluctantly trying to get our feet back in 2013 but knowing that the early ’80s were a great time to be in Williamstown. Special thanks to Jill Diamond-Wruble and Dave Shufelt, our class co-presidents, and to Marc Sopher, Dave Durfee, Elizabeth Neilsen and Don Carlson, who all helped organize a wonderful 30th reunion. Extra special thanks to Marc Sopher for collecting and sending out photos for the past six months to inspire us to attend and for creating a slide show and sound track for the event itself. Check out those photos and some from reunion on Marc’s Facebook page for anyone who wants to see what s/he missed or what we did. Also thanks to Meredith McGill and her parents for hosting a gathering Friday and to Elizabeth Neilsen for hosting a dinner Thursday. I know I was psyched to get some real quality time with Bernie Neuner, who is running long distances too fast for me as he trains for a marathon, and Dave Lott, who is as clever as ever and must be entertaining his students and colleagues at Montgomery College, and Doug Staiger, who apparently is a rock star professor at Dartmouth, according to one of my students, and with Matt Lynch. Scott Garabedian and Chris Tantillo were sharing stories of freshman year in Lehman and noted that in 1979, if you came from Kansas, you could keep just about anything in your freshman room. We had a Lehman minireunion with Kate Lytton, Laura Kunberger, Laura Kaiser, Cary Gaunt, Denise Soucy and Sue Hanlon. I also was grateful that I was able to share some meals with Mike Weiner and Di Margolis, who made the trek up to Williams despite Mike’s recent move to a wheelchair. I also had a good mini-catch up with Maryam Elahi, who continues to amaze me with her dedication to helping women around the world who are victims of abuse. Special thanks to our JAs J.L. Neville Smythe III ’81, Dean Ahlberg ’81 and Liz Colpoys Costley

’81 for checking up on their freshmen 30 years

later. Neville won the colorful, spirited shirt awards. Here are a few reflections from other classmates: Roger Platt commented, “Reunion for Liz and me was an absolute blast. Catching up with our incredibly diverse and accomplished classmates throughout the weekend and concluding with a Saturday night blowout with The Doctors (and ending up at the vastly improved Purple Pub) is tough to beat! As busy as we all are with our own careers, families, personal challenges, etc., it was fun to decompress for a couple of days and get reintroduced to what brought us to Williamstown in 1979. Most important, it was great to spend some quality time with close friends who we don’t see nearly enough. Thanks to everyone involved in planning what turned out to be a spectacular weekend.” Dave Shufelt: “Speaking of The Doctors turning back the clock, John Ormsbee, as you may have seen, was ‘partying like it was 1999!’ He came off the dance floor at one point (sweating like the temp in the room was 1999 degrees!) and hollered, ‘I’m 22 again—I just fell through a Doctors time warp!’” Drew Helene “is grateful to Bruce Goff for lending him a fan for the weekend!” Marc Sopher wonders: “Does your face still hurt from so much smiling and laughing? Does your voice still sound like a ‘weedwhacker’? No fat lady in sight, so the celebration carries on, online! Kudos to all, as every person there had a hand in making it a joyous weekend, exceeding all expectations, a 12 out of 10. Where to start? How about with The Doctors! Believe it or not, these humble guys were worried they would disappoint us! It was sublime; the dance was like a giant machine, operated by The Doctors, that had the ability to transport a room full of people back in time 30 years. It was like the scene in Cocoon where the old people jump in the pool and become young again. Perry House living room was our pool. If you are hankering for more of their musical medicine, go to the Williams ’83 or my Facebook pages, where a handful of one-minute clips have been posted, courtesy of Jeremy ‘Dane Gibbs’ Snow. Jeremy’s musical roots stretch back to The Sex Pistols and The Dead Kennedys, with which he performed. Modest to a fault, Jeremy strives for anonymity, but I feel compelled to reveal the man behind the mask and bring his genius to light. If any of you took video of reasonable quality, please send it my way (via Dropbox or YouTube link) and I will share with everyone. Andy ‘Guitar’ Schlosser’s wife also took video, so stay tuned. Show these guys some love, and let them know we want them to rock at our 35th!” I know there are many class members who wished they could have attended. So what did those of you do in lieu of attending reunion? Sandi Clark Watson was attending the Star Trek Convention in Boston. Dave Park was on an outdoor adventure out west. (The view was stunning!) Geoff Mamelt was “welcoming my youngest daughter, Rebecca, into the ranks of Jewish adults, meaning she is now able to help lead our congregation through the Shabbat religious service. I was a ‘proud papa,’ as she did a great job at her bat mitzvah. Sorry to miss out on seeing friends at #30, but I expect to make it to #35!” Gordon Celender missed the 30th reunion but was planning to be at Williams from 26 to 28 of July for SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s a special tennis reunion and was “looking forward to seeing my family and old friends from the tennis team.” He wrote, “I’ve been living in Dublin, Ireland, for the past nine years and haven’t been in the States since November of 2008, when my dear mother Mildred died. … I hope you had a most blessed weekend, reminiscing with all those who returned to gather in idyllic Williamstown, perhaps one of the most beautiful places to attend college in the whole world. If you wish, I’m sure Marc Sopher will have some photos of the event to provide for anyone who might wish to see the faces of the tennis alumni.” Barb Reifler was “in the Bahamas with my family. Tommy, my 15-year-old son, is enamored with the sea and fishing. He and my husband traversed the Atlantic by boat while my younger son Parker and I flew over, as we both hate losing sight of land. Great fishing and snorkeling was had in Hope Town. Hunter Pynchon told me I missed a great reunion. I do miss the Berkshire Mountains and would have liked to catch up with old friends and new. Thanks to the organizers!” Liz Streitz wrote, “I just wanted to let you know how much my husband Tom Powel and I wanted to be at this year’s reunion. I hope you all had a grand time, and I look forward to hearing about it from everyone. I hope there are lots of ‘war stories’ and much juvenile behavior to report. We would have been there in Billsville with you all, but in late February Tom was asked to shoot the American artist Sarah Sze’s installation at the USA Pavilion for the 55th Venice Biennial, so we had to move to Italy for a month, as we also signed up six more artists/countries for Tom to shoot. … Tom is the top photographer of contemporary art in NY—he shoots for all the major artists, galleries, museums, etc.” Matt Ryan was sorry to miss, but he had to watch his daughter Emily race in the All New Englands, for which she qualified by running in the States. Kris Strohbehn also had to cancel at the last minute to watch his son’s Little Mermaid play. Claudia Berger’s daughter had a dance performance, and Eric Smith also had a dance performance because, as he wrote, “You know me—I gotsta boogie!” Of course this column represents a small portion of the wonders of reunion. Stay tuned for the next installment. Thanks again to all for letting me keep writing the class notes—I really love the opportunity to stay in touch with so many different classmates. Happy summer and fall!

1984 REUNION JUNE 12-15 Sean M. Crotty, 31 Carriage House Lane, Saratoga

Springs, NY 12866; Carrie Bradley Neves, 1009 Route 3, Halcott Center, NY 12430; [email protected]

1985 Wendy Webster Coakley, 271 Pittsfield Road, Lenox, MA

01240; [email protected] We open this column on a congratulatory note, starting with Eric Dahlberg, whose Napa-based wine filtration company was recognized as a Veteran Employer of the Year by the California Employer Advisory Council. An Army veteran himself, Eric has hired a number of service members over the 86

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years; many have moved on to jobs with local wineries or advanced to management positions within his own organization. Outside of work, Eric is busy ferrying kids to sports activities; his eldest daughter, Frances, is on a travel water polo team, a year-round sport in California. He stays in touch with Mat Glauninger, Graham McDougal ’89, David Stevens ’83 and Susan Anderson Stevens ’83. John Clayton, my senior-year breakfast buddy, also deserves congrats for the publication of his first book in five years, Stories from Montana’s Enduring Frontier: Exploring an Untamed Legacy. The book collects 27 of John’s essays on Montana history, composed over a 20-year time span. “The very first magazine article I wrote about Montana history was for the Alumni Review, a portrait of rancher Bill Mackay ’35,” Clates reminisced. “That was in 1991, shortly after I moved out here. I went on to write a few more. An editor from The History Press suggested I collect them in a book. I hadn’t thought publishers were interested in essay collections, nor did I think I had enough to collect. Happily, I was wrong on both counts. Indeed, I had so much material that the original Mackay article ended up on the cutting-room floor.” Outdoorsman Toner Mitchell has been appointed New Mexico public lands coordinator for Trout Unlimited. Appropriately enough, his LinkedIn avatar is a rainbow trout that he caught in Alaska. “My work in New Mexico with Trout Unlimited involves everything from protecting our two endangered trout species, outdoor education, a little lobbying on public lands issues and writing about conservation and fly fishing issues (a blog called Truchacabra),” Toner wrote. “Also, borrowing water from cities and farms to leave in the streams for fish, no small task in these droughty times in the Southwest.” Toner traveled to California to help Gordon Becker celebrate his 50th birthday, along with Lou Benevento. Kudos to David Shipley, an editor at The New York Times, for nurturing the next generation of journalists as a member of the college’s Jones Fellowship Committee. Established in 2009 in memory of Jeffrey Jones ’66, this graduate fellowship bestows a $10,000 prize at commencement to a senior wishing to pursue journalism in print, film or other media. Gus Haracopos is also representing our class in service to the college as the newly elected Tyng Bequest administrator. “I’m excited for the opportunity to give back to Williams, especially because the Tyng basically changed my life—not once but twice,” Gus noted. “Of course it made Williams possible, with all that entailed and with all the benefits that I still feel from that amazing time, and it also allowed me to pursue social work without worry that my earnings would never catch up with student loans. It’s exciting to think about helping young Ephs make those decisions for themselves and to watch them embark on grad school and careers that really mean something to them and to the world. Personally, I like the timing because it’s a milestone year, with many of us classmates rounding the 50th birthday bend this year. It feels like the right time to take some responsibility for supporting those budding careers.” Brooklyn-based Adam Pass took a slightly more Bacchanalian approach for his 50th, escaping to

1983–85 the Napa Valley for some “vine tourism” with wife Joanne and another couple (no doubt making Napa wine guy Eric Dahlberg very happy; see above). Adam also enjoyed a minireunion with Elaine Rosenfeld Margulis while attending an ophthalmology conference in Chicago. “Had a lovely dinner with her and her husband Art (Princeton ’85) and their two great kids, Sarah and Aaron,” Adam reported. “What’s amazing is that, in all these years, neither Elaine nor I have aged a day. As an ophthalmologist, I know the value of not wearing the proper corrective eyewear in situations like these—a little blurriness around the edges is a beautiful thing!” Adam’s son Scott decided that small town New England college life was not for him and chose to matriculate at the University of Wisconsin. “So instead of yelling ‘Go Ephs’ at football games, we’ll be shouting ‘Go Badgers,’ which should be an interesting and different experience for all of us,” Adam noted. He’s reassured that the proud borough of Brooklyn is being represented in Williamstown by Harold Theurer, the son of his Poly Prep classmate and Morgan East entrymate Lynne Jaycobs Theurer. Hamilton Humes and brother Hans Humes ’87 returned to Billsville as Kraftee Vets, the honored title given to WUFO alumni. “We played the kids on the WUFO ‘A’ team. On most points I was more than twice as old as everybody else on the Kraftee line-up, so my grey hair really stuck out,” he said. “I also covered (not well, mind you) my nephew Willem Humes ’16, who scored on me but was extremely nice about it.”   Yours truly managed to carve out a quick break from a 24-hour business trip to Chicago to reconnect with my fellow Lake Forest High School alum Bob Angevin. His downtown real estate development firm, Starbuck Capital LLC, has been operating successfully for more than a decade. Bob looks great— he’d just returned from a ski trip out West—and stays in touch with fellow Chicagoans Adam Carroll and Jeff Louis (currently living in London). Cacky Caan Mayher wrote in as she and Rachel Stauffer were making plans for their annual summer trip to Northern Wisconsin, where they both went to camp. “Rachel visited Suzy Schulze Taylor in May, and I was supposed to join them until a broken arm sidelined me,” Cacky lamented. “I was running and tripped over uneven sidewalk and landed with my right arm outstretched and snapped my humerus just under my shoulder in three places. Ugh! And rehab at my advanced age is long! My golf career is suffering.” “May was my month to meet progeny of our class,” observed our man in LA, Dan Blatt. “I hosted Katherine Boozer Cote’s son at an Ephs-inEntertainment dinner and also had lunch with Anne Fetter and her kids up in Berkeley.” Rob Mancuso and Phil Walsh were on hand to help Dan usher in his 50th, along with Cesar Alvarez ’84, David Roland ’84, Andrea Smith ’86, Jacqui Davis ’87 and a casting call of alums ranging from the early ’70s to the late ’90s. He also got together with Chris Varrone during a trip to NYC. “Even though Chris and I often lock horns on Facebook on matters political, we kept our discussion to the experience of writing fiction, as I have now finished the first part of the first book of a

fantasy epic that has been kicking around in my head for about 10 years,” Dan added. Astute readers of this column may recall that Chris published his first novel, Shadows in Summer, two years ago. Mike Coakley and I attended an on-campus lecture on the legacy of Williams President Jack Sawyer, where we caught up with Steve Nielsen. Steve is based in Palm Beach but has a second home in nearby Hancock, Mass. We stopped at Mezze to fortify ourselves for the drive back to Lenox and saw Tim Peterson ’86 and Sally Hart Peterson ’86 on the college tour with their son Jack, a nationally ranked junior tennis player. Young Jack and his friends helped Sally with the social media aspects of her successful run for City Council in Ann Arbor, Mich. We also chatted with the Rev. John Denaro, who was enjoying dinner with his partner Joel Van Lieuw and the Rev. Peter Elvin from St. John’s in Williamstown. After working for the Episcopal Church at the national level for many years, John has returned to parish ministry in Brooklyn. For those classmates who are not on the class email list server, it is my sad duty to report the passing of Will Gillespie—Justice Department economist, legendary trivia buff, husband to Catherine and doting father to 8-year-old Anna—on April 29. “Will was the first classmate with whom I communicated,” recalled Kelley Murphy. “In the summer of 1981 he responded to an initial letter I sent to my three future roommates. I can still recall Will’s pride in his hometown of Erie, and his gentle correction of my diction. Will made the best of a rather diverse freshman rooming quad (with Asa Bloomer and Rich Dimperio). A typical scene in the suite was Will at his desk, looking sideways with a wry smile, taking in whatever drama might be occasioned in our common room. He was consistently cheerful and easygoing, remarkably providing neither a cross word nor reprimand all year. I remember seeing these characteristics seemingly unchanged in him at a recent reunion.” Brother-in-law Ted Benson was kind enough to send me the eulogy he delivered at Will’s funeral at Burke Presbyterian Church in Burke, Va. “I really got to know Will sophomore year, when we started living in the same dorm,” Ted remarked that day. “The best rooms went to seniors and then juniors, so sophomores got lousy rooms. But not Will. Because of his heart condition, he couldn’t hike lots of stairs, so he got a ground floor room. This was a prime room—it was huge and a single—with a desk, walkin closet and sitting area with a big picture window looking out at the Berkshire Quad. Even though we all knew he had it because of his health, we were a little jealous. And even though he knew he had it because of his health, he was pretty psyched. “His room was big enough that he could host study sessions, Dungeons & Dragons games, even parties,” Ted continued. “At one Halloween party, there were expected costumes: witches, vampires and stuff, and then Will, who was just nicely dressed, in khaki pants, blue blazer, white shirt, red tie. He made us guess what he was, and when none of us got it, he smiled broadly and said, ‘I’m a prospective!’” Will’s keen wit was also in evidence on our graduation day, when he was called upon, as class salutatorian, to step in when Valedictorian Aristotelis SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s Papadopoulos elected not to speak. I encourage all of you to pull out your 25th reunion book and read Will’s remarks, if for no other reason than that they represent the first time a Williams salutatorian had addressed the class since 1898 (and probably the only time since). “I realized that I had now become the answer to a trivia question,” was Will’s wry observation from the podium. “My initial reaction, however, quickly gave way to shock when I realized that I would have to give a speech. I had carefully avoided nominating myself for either of the other two speaking positions, and since I knew I was not the valedictorian, I had thought I was safe. One of my friends suggested that I would rather be in Greece, and the idea was certainly attractive.” No doubt Will’s fellow orators—Phi Beta Kappa Speaker Hank Uberoi and Class Speaker Dave Wehner—appreciated his selfdeprecating humor from their chairs on stage. “Will was very good natured about subbing and seemed to think it was all rather funny,” recalled Hamilton Humes. “And, of course, he gave a great speech.”  “By the way,” Hamilton added, not realizing that his next comment was going to rock my secretarial world, “Aris claimed he would be out of the country at graduation, but he actually was there listening to Will’s speech, which he thought was wonderful and was the best reason for him to give his speaking slot that he could think of. The leaving early was really just a cover story.” Goodness gracious, for the past 28 years I’d thought Aris had hightailed it back to Greece when, in fact, he’d pulled a Tom Sawyer and watched the entire thing! Another ’85 myth debunked: Will’s sly parting gift to us all.

1986 J.P. Conlan, Tulane D-2, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00927;

[email protected] As more and more members of the Great Class of ’86 turn 49 years old, some of the transitions that mark this season are as varied and unanticipated as they are interesting. Some transitions in employment, already consummated, inspire our admiration: Mammen P. Mammen Jr. retired from the Army after 21 years of service and took a VP position with a San Diego biotech company. Now living in Del Mar, Calif., Mammen has the same 301 area code cell phone number.  Chris Stearns, chairman of the Seattle Human Rights Commission and of counsel with Hobbs, Straus Dean & Walker LLP, was appointed by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to the State Gambling Commission. A member of the Navajo nation, Chris has worked for Energy Secretary Bill Richardson and published and litigated on American Indian affairs. Other work transitions, still in the process of being sorted out in this hoofed and bleating economy, afford us the opportunity to match our classmates’ talents to the needs of our employers, partners and ourselves: Andy Mylott is an experienced hedge fund lawyer between positions looking for the next opportunity. “I haven’t worked in NYC since 1999. I worked in 88

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Norwalk, Conn., for 13 years. But I’m looking in NYC now.” If any alumni know of a hedge fund manager who is looking to hire general counsel, I’m sure Andy would appreciate a note. Steve Troyer writes that he “retired” (quotation marks, his) from Juniper Networks in April. Steve spent the next two months evaluating new employment options, visiting his older son at college and touring New England and New York schools with his daughter, acting as chauffeur for his 10-year-old and literally putting food on the table, and attempting to summit Mount Shasta, the second highest volcano in the Cascades: “I was with three other guys and two guides. Only one guy made it to the 14,100-plus foot summit with one of the guides. The other guide had to tend to the rest of us with altitude sickness.” Steve was happy with the attempt: “It was a great learning experience. 12,000 feet was the highest I have done. One more day at altitude and I may have made it.” Steve’s now working with some folks on founding a startup. “We have a great team and idea, and with any luck by next class notes we will have raised a round, which enables us to start building the business.” He invites anyone interested in hearing more to give him a call. The ever-ebullient Bruce Bullock writes, “I launched the Digital Domain Institute last spring with stand-alone classes in digital matte painting, rotoscoping, compositing and cinematography and welcomed our first cohort of FSU Film/DDI students into our BA degree program. Unfortunately, Digital Domain went bankrupt in September, and my school was closed.” In the spring Bruce taught film appreciation at Palm Beach State part time and started looking nationwide for a good project appropriate to someone with what he describes as “a meandering and exotic CV” that boasts among its accomplishments “film production, digital post production, civil litigation, criminal prosecution, educational administration, teaching, banging hammers, giving Disney tours, delivering pizzas, training Census takers, etc., etc.” Bruce planned to be in West Palm until the end of August, but he was willing to relocate anywhere, including Williamstown, for the right opportunity. Some developments in our employment situations remind us of the challenges we faced at Williams: Still at Staples (25 years this past April), Sara Morgan shifted out of IT into an ecommerce business role (still in tight coordination with IT) about six months ago. “It’s a very big change and somewhat painful,” writes Sara, that reminds her of the freshman quad “when suitemates Peggy Dyer, Maureen Murray and I would scream out our first-floor windows ‘Pain is Growth!!!!’ to vent our stress. *sigh* Not sure what my 10- and 11-year-olds would think of that, never mind my husband!” It would be curious to get Brian Carpenter’s opinion on that question: “Back here in St. Louis,” writes Professor Carpenter, “I’ve wrapped up another semester living in a dorm with 150 freshmen and am looking forward to one final year there. We’ve done all sorts of great academic and social events with the students, and it’s been eye opening to see how 18-year-olds really live—a bit of amateur anthropology and window into music, fashion, slang, technology and perverse sleep and dietary habits

1985–86 I wouldn’t know the first thing about otherwise.” In his academic work in the psychology department at Washington University, Saint Louis, Brian reports that his research is going well despite the scarcity of grant funding opportunities in recent years. Undaunted by the prospect of teaching his first online course in the fall, Brian responds, “Great adventures!” Great adventures await many in our class. Professor of Art and Art History at University of Texas at Arlington Mary Vaccarro took summer break from studying Italian drawings in France and hiked in Colorado and then on the Amalfi Coast. (This looks like vacation, but it is not beyond the pale that photographs taken on her visit to the Amalfi Coast will make it into her next project.) Having been admitted to the New York State and U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit bars this spring, your humble chronicler, J.P. Conlan, is looking for part-time “of counsel” appointments, document review and federal appellate cases as a hedge against an at-risk university pension. Laura Towne, still practicing dermatology in St. Augustine, Fla., where she, thriving in the hot Florida climate, has developed that “thin blood that we, as hearty Williams college students, used to make fun of,” works in an expanding multi-specialty group with facial plastic surgeons and otolaryngologists. “We are so excited because we are finally bringing on another dermatologist at the end of the summer,” Laura reports: “It means a lot of work for me right now but hopefully will translate into more vacation (and maybe a trip up to Williams) in the future.” Laura writes that Saint Augustine is a great place to vacation: “If anyone is ever down this way, please drop me a line!” Some adventures occur at home on a day-to-day basis: Sara Morgan informs me that her daughter Elena turned 10, was testing for a karate belt (green with a black stripe, which comes before brown and then black) and also playing town lacrosse; Sara’s son Dylan, 18 months older, also plays both town lacrosse and on two club teams. During the summer they were at three lacrosse tournaments, and at one of them Dylan was to play both club teams. Sara says, “Christian is coaching two of the three teams, so life is a tad busy!” The grand adventure of their children matriculating in the Purple Valley weighs on some of our classmates’ minds: Laura Towne reports that her daughters are now 18 and 14—the elder, Ali, a rising sophomore at Washington & Lee University, the younger, Sarah, a rising freshman in high school. “I have four years to work on [Sarah],” writes Laura, “in the hopes that maybe we can have another Williams grad in the family.” The means of persuasion is to develop in her daughter an exquisite fashion sense: “Everything I buy for her is either purple or gold,” writes Laura. “I wonder if she has noticed?” Class President Mark Broude writes that he and his wife have been hitting the college trail with their son, a rising senior in high school. “Of course Williams is on the list,” writes Mark. Our son “has been there a couple times already and is planning on an overnight visit in the fall. I do my best to allow

him to make his own decision unfettered by my prejudices,” confesses Mark, “but that is sometimes easier said than done.” Of the means of persuading college aspirants to seek out Williams as their first choice, Mark thinks that, from his son’s experience, Ephs are the best possible marketing tools that Williams has: “My son was walking through Central Park earlier this month with a Williams backpack on and was approached by a recent graduate who asked him if he went to Williams,” recounts Mark. “Hearing that he was actually a high school student looking to apply there, she spent 30 minutes talking with him about her experience at Williams and what she found so rewarding about the school.” Mark’s conclusion? “That type of random encounter does much more to sell the experience to him than anything I could ever do.” As it happens, though, not all of our classmates have children at the college shopping stage quite yet: “I attended my younger son’s kindergarten ‘graduation’ yesterday!” writes David Chua. “I know, I have a long way to go.” Not discouraged from adventuring, David and his family planned to vacation in Taiwan over the summer. In preparation, David’s two boys are enrolled in a Chinese-immersion school. David and his wife Christina hope that their boys can hone their Mandarin in local Taipei YMCA camps for a few weeks. “I think everyone will be able to communicate with ease (and without eliciting questioning looks or even laughter) except for me,” David confesses. “My saving grace is that I can at least read Chinese.” Good luck, David! David’s proud kindergarten graduate is hardly the youngest scion of the Great Class of ’86. To my knowledge, that honor belongs to Patrick Antonio Thomas Vitale—“named after his two grandfathers (and me),” writes Tom Vitale. Tom and his wife Antoinette welcomed baby Patrick into the world in April. Tom Vitale writes the six Vitales—little Patrick, Tom, Antoinette and Patrick’s three older sisters—Giovanna, 10, Ava, 8, and Cararose, almost 6, occupy a house in Pelham Manor in lower Westchester County, N.Y., where Tom moved about three years ago, after living in Manhattan apartments since graduation. “All is well and we are really enjoying having a new baby in the house!” Tom reports. “Some of the best moments for me and my wife with baby Patrick are when we watch our daughters interact with their new brother.” When his girls were each born, Tom admits, they were so close in age that they didn’t really appreciate each new baby as something new and special. “But now that they are older, they are really celebrating the experience too. Lots of fun!” This comparative interaction is preserved for future viewing in Tom and Antoinette remarkable “Picture of the Day” project. “Every day of my children’s lives,” Tom informs me, “we have taken at least one photo of them (often many, many more). We started with the birth of our first child, figuring that we would only keep up with this project for a few months, but then we got a bit obsessive and have continued for the last 10 years! The photos are different every day—basically a visual diary of the activities, events and people in their lives and including both quiet moments and busy times, solo shots and pictures with others.” Tom and Antoinette currently SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s have about 200,000 photos on their computers and back-up drives, organized by month and events—a truly formidable archive that, in this writer’s opinion, not only promises to enrich their children’s understanding of themselves and their growth but also promises to make the inevitable sitting down with the parents to view baby pictures a sure-fire way to discern the true intentions of his daughters’ future suitors. As children grow up and leave home, there has been a tendency to take on new work: Brad Ball, commuting from Chatham, N.J., to NYC to work as an equity analyst at Evercore Partners, writes, “[With] our eldest son Matt … a senior at Middlebury … currently traveling in Brazil and will be in NYC for an Off Broadway internship this summer [and] our second son Nick … a sophomore at Hamilton … in Utah for the summer, working for Deer Valley Resort and volunteering at the oldest dairy farm in the state, [and] our youngest Zac … a high school sophomore … spending the summer volunteering and training for swim team and keeping us from being ‘empty nesters’ thankfully (since we are way too young to have adult kids).” His wife Amy Ball has restarted her professional career in real estate. Amy keeps in regular contact with Julie Convisser and Amy Glick; Brad saw Jeff Weber and Mark Broude recently, and Amy and Brad had dinner with Tom Vitale and his wife just before their new arrival. Anne von Arentschildt Dawson announces that she will be teaching children’s yoga in the fall “to deal with partial empty nest.” Of her boys, she writes: Husband “Michael Dawson ’88 and I took boys to Michael’s 25th reunion, and boys ate Papa Charlie’s subs all weekend, did college tour for rising 11th grader Charles and visited Clark with rising ninth grader Henry so he will have something to talk about with Ben Williams ’85, the headmaster at Cate, which Henry will be attending in California as of this fall.” As part of their adventures, Michael and Henry shall be biking Camino de Santiago in Spain (300 km of it), and Charles is off to Taiwan. Also visiting Williamstown this spring was Brian Carpenter, who participated in the Daring Change program, “a series of TED-like lectures by students, staff and faculty focused on envisioning the future of Williams in the future.” The presentations are available online. There he caught up with Jeff Weber and his wife Stacey. “They are both doing well in NYC and were about to host a Williams event at their house,” writes Brian, “generous alums that they are.” Class President Mark Broude was up in Williamstown in May for an alumni event: “It was a beautiful, sunny afternoon (which seems incredibly rare on the East Coast this spring), and the campus looked its best.” Mark spent time talking with Ted Plonsker, Jeff Sher (whose daughter starts at Williams in the fall) and John Malcolm (with whom he and his son had dinner early in the spring when he was in New York). Mark also recently had lunch with Tara Kazak, who gets to experience Obamacare first hand, working for a large hospital organization out on Long Island. Mark reminds the class that our next reunion is only two years away. He would be interested in hearing everyone’s ideas about activities we could 90

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plan to make our weekend as enjoyable as possible: “Any ideas that could generate excitement would be welcome.” Please, do drop him a line. Finally, with “nothing much to report,” Daniel Peris informs the class, “Life goes on.” Indeed, it does, Dan. And may these notes find it treating you all well, and even better tomorrow! Muchos saludos.

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Jill Shulman, 135 Red Gate Lane, Amherst MA 01002; [email protected] My father, Jeff Shulman ’60, called Williamstown a “toilet bowl” in the spring. After steady rain for almost two weeks in Western Massachusetts, I get it, Dad! Barb Halligan also “gets it” and braved Spring Street during monsoon season where she spotted honorary degree recipient Annie Lennox not once but twice. Barb also continued her reign as a stellar student and will now shape the minds of other students after recently earning her teaching certification. I imagine toilet bowl memories, among others, were rekindled at Reunion Weekend as well. Phoebe Roosevelt informed me that her husband Chauncy Lennon ’88 brought one of their three children to his 25th, leaving Phoebe behind in NYC to man (woman?) the fort with their other two. Phoebe also caught a glimpse of Maura Henry as well as Charlie Lazor when they were passing through town, each with a daughter named Maeve. On the topic of popular names, after copious research, I can answer Jeff Heilman’s puzzler from the last round of class notes. In case you didn’t realize, these are serial notes, like a soap opera, so for those of you who miss All My Children since it went off the air, you will get your fix tri-annually from Jeff and me. Drum roll please… Though we have 16 Davids in our class, we have 21 Johns, the most popular name in the Class of ’87! However, Davids win for most news submitted to class notes this round. I was moved by this heartwarming Williams story from Dave Tager. “When my father-in-law found out he needed a quadruple bypass and aortic valve surgery, my first thought was to reach out to the Williams family. … I Facebook messaged my friend and cardiologist, Nate Lebowitz ’86. He was away on vacation at the time but replied and provided invaluable advice. I’d also emailed Toby Cosgrove ’62. He offered to provide a second opinion from the Cleveland Clinic. And I’d reached out to Craig Smith ’70 at Columbia Presbyterian, perhaps best known for being President Clinton’s surgeon. Craig called me immediately on that Sunday and ended up performing what he called “routine” surgery (at least for him) in April—so far, so good. My father-in-law and others were amazed by the power of the Williams community, especially that such esteemed people whom I’d never met had responded so quickly and with so much care. While I wasn’t surprised, I am impressed and grateful that this is who we are as Ephs.” There are other sickness-to-health stories from our class. Gail Henderson-Belsito wrote, “On Nov. 6, I was diagnosed with breast kanswer (yes, I spell it my

1986–87 own way. I will show no respect to such a dreadful disease.)” After a wretched winter, Gail is now on the mend, supported by husband Steve Belsito and children. Gail sums up her news with gratitude and the sentiment, “All is well. All is well. All manner of thing shall be well.” Katie (Kerr) Clarke’s response to “kanswer” was similarly disrespectful to the disease but uberrespectful to those it affects. “My sister Kendra (Kerr) Olvany ’82 and I recently launched a social enterprise called The Licorice Project. It’s an online community for everyone affected by breast cancer: newly diagnosed patients, survivors and their friends and families. Our mission is to connect people locally, share resources and make it easier to give and receive help. We also want to spread unexpected joy along the way! You can check us out at www. thelicoriceproject.com.” Greg Leeds wrote, “Just spent the weekend with Nik Khakee. We (Nik, me, his boys and my son Zach) went to Yankee Stadium to see the Sox blow out the Yanks—very nice for us Sox fans! Zach and Nik’s boys will be spending another summer together up in NH at Camp Pemigewassett. Still working at Northfield Mount Hermon, running the summer school, teaching math and coaching soccer and skiing. Zach just finished his freshman year here, and my daughters Heidi and Hillary will be coming to NMH in the near future.” Karen Adams Finley reports the surprising fringe benefit of the college search process with her daughter Katherine was visiting with Williams classmates along the way. She ran into Sarah (Hansen) Wilson ’88 in an airport security line, each traveling to a different destination for college tours. Karen also saw Thayer Tolles twice, each time in a different state. A fierce battle ensued between me and Jody Abzug ’88, when Karen’s daughter was accepted at Sarah Lawrence College, where Jody is the senior director of giving, as well as Hampshire College, a 10-minute drive from my house. I won—Katherine will attend Hampshire next fall—and I am sure to happily report many visits with Karen in the next four years. Hopefully, Jody can join us. I also had a wonderful visit with Martha Hoopes over strong coffee at a local coffee shop. Martha lives nearby in Easthampton, Mass., and teaches at Mount Holyoke College. This year she is on leave with a Harvard Bullard Fellowship, and her new textbook, Invasion Ecology, hit bookshelves in June. Lots of other work-related news came from Bob O’Connell, who begins his email, “I think this may be my first submission to the class secretary in 26 years, but hey, you have to start some time.” Bob reports that after 13 years lawyering at Goodwin Procter in Boston, he has packed up and moved his practice to Fish & Richardson, an intellectual property firm. Bob himself focuses on strategic copyright and trademark advice and counseling, and he was listed for three years running in the “WTR 1000.” Trademark lawyers out there, you know what this is, and you know it is impressive. Bob also reported he “will be getting together with Coleman Yeaw, Cliff Peale, Steve Pekala and Jim Jordan for our annual getaway of golf and hijinks. Coleman is doing IT at Bain; Cliff is still scribbling for the Cincinnati Enquirer; Steve does

strategic market intelligence for a big construction company in Minneapolis (the company that built Target Field), and Jim is one of the very few of our classmates who has had just one job from the get-go, teaching science and coaching at the Lawrenceville School. I am also regularly in touch with Paul J. Mahoney, who is still prosecuting crooked doctors and Medicaid fraud in New York. At home, my daughter Anna just turned 13 (give me strength), and my son Michael is about to be 11. The teenage daughter years should be fun…” Lori Jonas reported, “Just got back from Memorial Day weekend in NYC, where we had dinner with Daniela Klare Elliott and her lovely family. We brunched on Monday with Beau Everett and his delightful crew and did some sightseeing. Both Beau and Tiff have children attending my old school, Hunter College High School, which is pretty neat. Everyone looks amazing—hard to believe it is 26 years since graduation!” Minireunions abound. I heard tell of a potentially raucous night (though top secret) in Philadelphia when Missy Wilcox Debarge, Denis Newcomer and Cindy (Morhouse) Bardwil were on the prowl. Cindy reports, “As fate would have it, while we were searching aimlessly for a mechanical bull toward the end of the evening, we ran into Suzanne Biemiller (righthand woman to the mayor of Philly), who directed us to the aforementioned bull. All I can say is what happens in the city of brotherly love stays in this city of brotherly love!” Of course, my obvious follow-up question was, “Did anyone get hurt?” to which Cindy responded, “I can’t tell you. I would have to kill you.” Please note that there was no smiley face emoticon included in this response. I received another report of “one of those nights” from Sheila Coogan, who gathered with “Sean Denniston, Steve Browning, John Hund and his wife Linda at Hugo’s in Houston for dinner. John ordered the fried grasshoppers, which Steve declined because it was a Friday during Lent. Fortunately, John also ordered the pitcher of margaritas. Monica (Crossman) Meling reported, “After living 12 years in Norway, we moved to Canada in 2007 for four years and are now back in Norway again. We loved experiencing the Canadian culture and, much to my surprise, it was quite different than the American culture. Great for our 15-year-old twins to do a French immersion program and to be close to my family in Arizona, too. Did get back to NYC in 2009 to visit Thayer Tolles, and we spent a weekend up at Lake George at Cindy (Morhouse) Bardwil’s house with 10 other Class of ’87 women. It was an amazing experience to reunite in such lovely surroundings with such dynamic classmates.” The following Ephs were also present and accounted for: Karen Adams Finley, Haley Clifford Adams, Barb Halligan, Deb Gordon, Carol Smallwood, Kerry Cullen Morgen, Maria Cook Robertson, Ann Marie Plankey, Suzanne Biemiller, Kelly Flynn Post and Missy Wilcox. Monica continues, “Otherwise, life is good in Norway. I returned to my true love—teaching! I teach IB economics at a local Norwegian high school here…” Monica welcomes classmates visiting Norway to visit her. In closing, I am happy to report that the rain has finally stopped here in Western Mass. The sun SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s is shining, the birds are chirping, and today is my birthday. (We all know which one.) Many of you are popping up on my Facebook wall, which gives me the warm and fuzzy feeling of spending the day with dear old (read “old” whichever way you like) friends. Thank you for your contributions—local, national and international—all equally valuable. And do write to Jeff with the solution to this episode’s puzzler: What was the exciting technological addition to the dorm rooms after our freshman year at Williams? Hint: I made mention of this in my introduction to our reunion class book. Now I must go blow out the candles on my birthday cake before the house catches fire. Signing out with warmth and gratitude, your co-secretary, Jill.

1988 Peter Grose, 1 Hampshire Woods Court, Towson, MD

21204; [email protected] Submitted by outgoing secretaries Britta Bjornlund and Carolyn O’Brien: The always late, make ’em wait, extend the date, tempting fate, great Class of ’88 showed up en force at the 25th reunion. If you weren’t there, or weren’t at the meeting, or didn’t get the email, our great class won the Webster Atwell ’21 Trophy for the class raising the largest dollar amount for the Alumni Fund and the John P. English ’32 Trophy for the largest increase in dollars over last year for reunion classes. Our overall gift to the college, presented at the Society of Alumni meeting, was $4,001,088, which includes our Class of 1988 Scholarship in the amount of $1,070,829 to benefit first-generation students at Williams. This is all very impressive, if we do say so on our own behalf! And thank you to each and every one of you who contributed. We also broke attendance records for a 25th reunion and won the Reunion Bowl! Katie Kessler Chatas won the Rogerson Cup, which is the college’s highest award for alumni service and symbolizes outstanding loyalty, achievement and service in the name of Williams. Very deserved; congratulations Katie! At the alumni meeting, Katie, Stu Staley, Brooks Foehl and Russell Werkman all graced the stage and gave inspiring speeches. Many thanks to them as well as Tracy Heilman and Matt Lapointe and the class agent team, who not only whipped the class into shape to achieve an incredibly high participation rate in the Alumni Fund (of course in the last moments just to make it interesting), but have been doing so for the past five years! Tracy volunteered to continue serving as co-head class agent for the Alumni Fund with Lewis Collins and Cary Benedict Collins, who were among Tracy’s army of volunteers this past year. After leading her own army of volunteers in putting together an amazing reunion, down to sharing her cell phone number with the entire class, Lisa Tenerowicz agreed to serve as class president for the next five and help ensure our 30th is equally fun. Joining Lisa is Jody Abzug, VP, Britta Bjornlund, treasurer, and Peter Grose (our joint thanks) taking over as secretary—send him your news! And no, Pete, we have no idea who nominated you! Brian Kornfield sent a shout out to thank Dave Greenberg for organizing the soccer game on 92

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Saturday afternoon at Poker Flats. The team included Brian, Dave, Susan Enright Amburg, Rob Chase, Peter English, Brooks Foehl, Pier Friend, Peter Grose, Eric Hanson, Bill Hilty, Dave Kane, Robert Pucciariello and Ben Schlosser, among others. This geriatric group apparently pulled through beating the opposing team, which may have been comprised of their own kids. Ann Munchmeyer led a rousing Zumba class that was attended by Cindy Craig Johnson (of course!), Kerstin Skoogfors Porter and Karen Olson. We saw some pictures, and those women were working out! Orion Howard and Bob Gallagher rode bikes up Mount Greylock sometime during Reunion Weekend. Rain didn’t stop Scott Healy, Ben Schlosser and Bill Brydges from playing some golf but it did give Scott and Bill a good excuse to ride in the cart instead of walking. Refusing to ride in the cart, Ben later complained that he was sore from carrying his bag the full 18 holes! Maybe that’s why he broke out the North Carolina moonshine on Saturday night. Anyone who wasn’t at reunion, come next time just for the swag. We got cool t-shirts designed by Tom Newhall. We all wore them during the Saturday morning parade (as required), led by class marshals Katie and Brooks. During the parade, many of us finally understood the logo (hey who said we were smart—have a closer look if you haven’t already). We also received cool glasses to shield the sun and engraved stemless glasses for our beverages. Carrie Curvin expressed pleasure that an entire 12-ounce seltzer could fit in her new glass. Thursday night brought an early group of reunioners to the Log. This group included Nick Beatty, Bill Brydges, Annie Shulman Budlong, Nils Christofferson, Cary Benedict and Lewis Collins, Alison Foehl and Brooks Foehl, Tim Hamilton, Andy Harris, Tracy Heilman, Tommy Hudgins, Mark Huffman, Terrance Hults, Lisa Phillips Klein, Chris Oldham, Kurt Oeler, J.R. Rahill, Tom Smith, Stu Staley, Chris Swindell and Lisa Tenerowicz. Friday night the skies opened up, but that didn’t stop an enthusiastic crowd in the Towne Field House. Ramona Gelzer Bell, Letitia Carolina-Powell, Martin J. Furey and Peter Ruggerio are just a few of the people that had a chance to catch up while remaining dry. Wendell Chesnutt and Donna Lisker posed for photos. And there was plenty of space for the kids to run and for their parents to ignore—we mean, keep a watchful eye on—them. Sean Cook’s son Calder tried almost all of the kids’ games. Ellen O’Connell’s 6-year-old Gordon showed off serious soccer skills. He must take after granddad Mickey O’Connell ’50. Friday evening also found Mary Ellen Ulmer cracking up her former roommate Donna Lisker with tales of Mary Ellen’s husband’s sartorial challenges. Our class won many college-sponsored awards, but who will get the Looks Just Like S/He Did in College award? One nominee might be Ted Arrowsmith, still a long-distance runner since his Purple Valley training 25 years ago. Maureen “Moe” Kelleher is a strong candidate as well! Some of us still think Bill Hilty looks the same as he did in college, but at least one wisecrack (Chris Shorb—not in attendance) viewing reunion photos commented

1987–88 that it was Tom Higgins that hadn’t aged, adding that perhaps that was because Tom always looked like a 40-something-year-old. (Not our joke, you look great, Tom.) And while we don’t want to appear superficial, we did overhear a fellow classmate exclaim, “Randy Fox is a fox!” and we are guessing his wife would agree. During the Friday night buffet, Jonny Hollenberg, Derek Buckley and Doug Troob polled classmates as to which of them had the most grey hair. Embracing our age is healthy, and the more hair the better right? Later, Doug Troob lamented with Bill Pike, Ray George and Jim Elliott that Steve Gutterman hadn’t made it in from Moscow. Rumor has it a bold crowd moved on to the Purple Pub later that night possibly led by Scott Berman and others. The reports were that the Purple Pub is no longer a dive and also no longer offers pitchers of beer for $3. And after all the chatter pre-reunion we have to wonder if anyone went tunneling that night. On Saturday, shopping for Williams gear at Goff ’s was a great way to spot folks (and to stay dry). Bill Boyd and Tom Higgins were there (right around the pick-up rugby game!) as were Phil Culhane, Mac Hines, Stephen Kargere, Don Ousterhout and John Rumsey. Mark Solan was probably not the only person who picked up a new purple and gold umbrella for the weekend. Jean Janson Fulkerson made sure she went home with some purple bling. Across the street, Claire Hsiang Marx, Sally Robertson Laroche, Rebecca Thomas and Amy Searight stopped in for some Pappa Charlie’s memories. During the Saturday picnic lunch, Corinna Lamb chased her twin 5-year-old boys around, while Stan Macel chatted with classmates. Several classmates and progeny visited Hopkins Forest Saturday afternoon, once the weather was a bit clearer, some just enjoying the nature like Anne Magnuson Hartnett and Jim Hartnett, while others hiked (or slid) down a muddy hill for a “critter search,” including Mike R. Harrington and son Declan (Mike’s partner David chose to oversee younger son Noah’s napping); inspiring class speaker Pavlos Yeroulanos and family; Mark Meyer and family (who spurned the shuttle bus on the way back to campus and earned an ice cream); and Mike Goldstein and kids (shout out to Mike’s daughter Zoe who not only helped some of the “old” folks through the mud but later kept an eye on Carolyn O’Brien’s daughter Audrey during the Saturday night kids event). The shuttle bus was a good opportunity to catch up with Nora Harrington and Sharon Burke, who were enjoying a few minutes of sun in the late Saturday afternoon. Kate Gerber Kennedy attended several of the Saturday offerings and caught up colleagues on plans for the new library and new and old Stetson. J.R. Rahill apparently enjoyed the day, his birthday, flying his small plane with friends. At the Saturday cocktails, before indefatigable 25th reunion director Alice Wilson brought out her bullhorn to round up the class at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance for a photo, Lillian Kessler shared the joys of raising two young children on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in a busy law practice. Wilbur Swan and wife were enjoying their time away from their four kids. Gerry Kirschner’s wife Katie gamely tried to capture the action on her own

camera. After the full class shot, several groups posed for freshman entry or senior year housing photos. When Tommy Hudgins was missing for a 71-73 Hoxsey photo, Brad Roegge kindly stepped in, slicking his hair back and channeling his inner Tommy. Despite a soggy Poker Flats, Saturday dinner was clearly a highlight for our class. It is true that as you get older the reunion food gets better. More importantly, we had a chance to sit down and enjoy our old and new friends. Tim Farnham and Chris Gascon serenaded us and were joined by Joyce Noonan Andersen, Tom Smith, Russell Werkman and HuJung Joseph Yoon as we all sang “60 Thou to Live with Cows.” (Stu Staley earlier pointed out that 60 Thou does not currently even cover one year tuition.) Seated near the live music (loud for us old folks) and also conveniently located near the dessert bar, Nichole Donath and Sean Lev prepared to dance the night away. Lots of folks were seen cutting the rug, perhaps no one as enthusiastically as Peter Ruggiero. Austin Kelly was having such a good time that the children’s dinner organizers had to call his cell phone at 11 p.m. to remind him that it was time to come get his kids. He brought them back to the festivities. A drink or two was all it took to get Joyce Noonan talking about laundry—she has five active boys. Reunion organizer Lisa Buxbaum Burke made sure her husband Brian was enjoying his first Williams reunion. Rob Chase, his good-sport wife Gen and two children were pleased they made the trip to Williamstown from New Delhi, India, where he is working. Rodney Cunningham proved his memory is actually somewhat intact 25 years later, as he could remember which of our classmates were fellow political science majors! Ken Alleyne’s son told him that his friends were pretty cool. Mac Hines and his wife and four children were making an East Coast vacation of the trip to Williamstown. Mike Friedman and his wife Adena Testa Friedman ’91 and two sons embarked on a college tour, and Meg Thomas Kahdeman brought her oldest daughter for some East Coast sight-seeing in addition to reunion. Andrea Walter showed off the campus to her daughter Juniper Walter-Eger. Former off-campus roommates Sonja Lengnick and Janet Mansfield came back for reunion; no word on whether they’re teaching their respective children how to play rugby. Ellen Lee-Allen was much more interested in showing daughter Maya the Williams College Museum of Art than the rugby fields. Mike Wiedemann showed his son around the new Sawyer Library. Both Keith McIver and Ken McIver attended reunion. We are sworn to secrecy on which brother was fondly recalling the flume with a Mission Park food service staffer. Ben Miller envied future treasurer Britta Bjornlund, since he kindly served in the role in the days before online checking. Barak Rosenbloom confirmed that, politics aside, he was all in favor of four more years of a “Barak” in the White House, even if the DC Barack spells things a little differently. Sue Lavigne Thomas had no complaints about dorm living during the weekend, given that husband Neil and son Gregory were spending the rainy reunion weekend on a Boy Scout camping trip! Tim Hamilton shared a suite with the Munchmeyer/ SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s Healy clan (Ann, Scott and three boys) and coped by spending as little time in the room as possible. David Walters, with some prompting, showed off pictures of his own boys, now young men, traveling on some exciting family vacations. The Vermont contingent of sean MacFaden and Holly Brough as well as anne Molleur Hanson and her husband Eric made the trek to reunion to get together with former Washington, D.C., roommate Geri tierney. Britta Bjornlund brought her own family from DC and that of her sister lydia Bjornlund ’83, who was attending her first Williams reunion at her 30th. (Those of you who haven’t attended, will we see you in five?) Some people were missing a reunion for the first time. Nicole Melcher was expecting her first child. Jason Drake Martin arrived on June 17, clocking in at 8 pounds, 14 ounces. Congratulations Nicole! Ironically, ted lange used an ice-climbing theme in his 25th reunion book submission, and unfortunately he had an ice-climbing incident in late March that prevented his attendance. What started as a day trek to climb a pillar of ice in Montana became a mile-long crawl through the snow with a broken ankle. He’s doing OK and recuperating in Bozeman. To everyone who attended in June, everyone who has written us these past five years, and to everyone who reads these notes, thank you very much! As class secretaries signing off, we apologize for any misspellings and for any poorly placed jokes, and we want to say it has been a pleasure. Continue to write in and see you in the Purple Valley in 2018! Missed the reunion? These alums were also there:

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1988–90 the first chair of the American Medical Association Women Physicians Section. John Nicholson recently left the law firm and has joined Infosys as a “strategic negotiator” (cue visions of William Shatner). “The job is actually going to involve moving to London for a few years, starting in January 2014. In the meantime, my wife Estelle, our two kids and I have sold our house in DC and moved to Wilmington, Del., where we plan to be for the rest of the year.” And now, for your reading pleasure, the chance encounters. Nancy (Titus) Johnson “met a Williams alum in Kazakhstan when she attended the church where my husband and I were missionaries. More recently, while visiting my twin Laura (Titus) Tang in Shanghai, we had coffee at Starbucks with a more recent alum whom she had befriended. Right now, I am finishing my second year of teaching at an international school in Tbilisi, Georgia. I taught seventh grade and loved it. All four of my children attend the school, and my son was in three of my classes, but he took algebra with my husband along with our oldest, Autumn. Ironically, I did not teach the seventh-grade life science class, even though I wrote the curriculum, but I did have the opportunity to teach modern world history, which I also enjoyed very much.” Heather (Martinez) Zona: “Still playing soccer four to five times a week, trying to curb my animal hoarding habits (three dogs, two parrots), planning my next trip overseas. I just got back from a weekend in Palm Springs with Leila Jere ’92 and Heidi Beebe ’92. We have been taking this trip for the past eight years. Paul Knudsen and I work at the same nonprofit, training volunteers to advocate for kids in foster care. I keep up with many folks on Facebook.” While in California on a business trip, Stewart Verdery met up with David Sandford, a senior executive at TiVo—much hilarity was had reliving Oxford ’87-’88 moments. Stewart also saw Ted Hobart in his new Pittsburgh hometown earlier this spring—his consulting firm is working for Ted’s wife at Dick’s Sporting Goods. And in a very random coincidence, one of Stewart’s former employees at Homeland Security has retired to run a B&B in Williamstown—what are the odds? Hart Murphy just finished 11 years of teaching at W.B. Travis High School in Austin, Texas. “Williams connections are all pretty sparse and random down here in Texas. A couple of weeks ago I happened to run into J.B. Bird ’86 for the first time since he graduated. It turns out he has been working in public relations for the University of Texas at Austin, a cause which has surely not been helped by the fact that they awarded me a degree last month (an M.A. in government). I have summoned Christian Hudak ’08 back from his restoration work in Dunhuang to help me translate a letter I just received in Mandarin. He insists it is a job offer. Who do I know in Shanghai? I am at least glad this missive did not get misfiled with the bride requests in the rest of my foreign mail stack.”

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90046; [email protected] It has been a great few months of hearing from classmates who haven’t appeared in the class notes for quite a while, if ever!

Carey Simon writes from York, England, “I’m married with a lively 6-year-old daughter. I work for Network Rail sort of in a clerical role (was the old British Rail before privatisation). I’m grateful for life here in Northern England and just, as is said here, mosey along. My biggest passion is de-cluttering, digitizing and attempting to reach a more minimalist way of living so that my mind can be more free to think beyond the minutiae of everyday life.” Melissa Scalera wrote from her home in Blenheim, a small town at the top of the South Island in New Zealand, where she has been living with her family (a 10-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter) and working as an OB-GYN for seven years. “Moving to New Zealand was actually sort of an accident. I signed up for a six-month locum tenens assignment and just never left.” Brice Hoskin and Karen (Hufnagel) Hoskin are “really enjoying having our goddaughter Ariel living with us for the summer in Crested Butte, Colo. Ariel is the 19-year-old daughter of Thaddeus Ward, who is (maybe technically) Class of ’91, but only because of a few lagging credits after a (very) memorable junior year abroad in Peru. If I remember correctly, Thaddeus’ classes were derailed by Sendero Luminoso, and he was sent back to the USA mid-year. Brice and I are making up for many years of forgetting to send Ariel birthday gifts and failing to provide any spiritual guidance whatsoever. She is great help on the bottling line at Montanya Distillers, so maybe we will at least send her home with a marketable skill in a growing industry sector. She has become fast friends with our boys Nate, 15, and Will, 13. We are still hoping her fluent Spanish will rub off on our boys and that someday we can send our boys to experience the boroughs of NYC, which Thaddeus and Daysi call home now after several years in Lima.” On March 9, Jacques Payne wed his sweetheart Diana near Little Rock, delighted to have family come from all over, including 14-month-old niece Joelle who managed to spend most of the night on the dance floor! Jacques and Diana were looking forward to a honeymoon in Aruba. “Diana and I are battling breast cancer now as well. Two years ago, Diana was diagnosed with Stage III C breast cancer. She went on to receive two rounds of chemotherapy before undergoing a bilateral mastectomy and a month of radiation. After receiving word that the cancer was in remission, we participated in the Walk for the Cure here in Little Rock. Diana was able to participate in the cancer survivors’ parade at the end, which really meant a great deal to her. Unfortunately, shortly after the race her next PET scan showed that the cancer had returned and metastasized. Diana now has stage IV breast cancer, and from here on out the cancer will be treated like a chronic illness. I hope and pray there will be something that will slow or stop the cancer and she will be with us for many years to come.” In Jacques’ work, he manages clinical trials for several biotech and pharmaceutical companies, mostly oncology trials. He would like to remind us all that, “Cancer is awful. I encourage everyone to stay up to date on their physicals and at the first sign of a potential issue, go to the doctor.” Thank you, Jacques, and our thoughts are with you and Diana. SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s Victoria Szabo is “teaching visual and media studies at Duke University, where I have been since 2006. I am especially interested in how we can create ‘hybrid reality systems’ that combine real-world and virtual experiences as a way to explore layers of history and culture in a critically engaged, effectively rich way. Most recently I have been learning mobile app development and studying Italian for beginners, partly in support of a digital city project focused on Venice, where I’ll be teaching in fall 2013 (in English!). I’m also chairing a digital art gallery, ‘XYZN: Scale’ at the ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 conference in Anaheim, Calif., this summer, and have been dabbling in a bit of digital art production myself with some collaborative augmented reality and game-based works. In other news, I’m still rowing with my Williams women’s crew teammate Donna Lisker ’88 for the Carolina masters crew down in Chapel Hill, where we prove to all doubters that Duke and UNC-CH can indeed live in harmony (as long as we don’t wear the ‘wrong’ color blue to the boathouse)!” Jim Adams and wife Erika Kahill are the proud parents of daughter Clementine, born in June. Jim has also moved to the National Audubon Society, where he is now the Alaska policy director. Since the last reunion, Margaret Laster has held research positions and fellowships at the Frick Collection, the Center for the History of Collecting at the Frick Art Reference Library and at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. In May, she completed her Ph.D. in art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, with a ceremony at Avery Fisher Hall. She continues to live in NYC, where she sees fellow alums from Williams. Will Lafave is back in hometown, Shaker Heights, “happily married going on 18 years now with a son, 10, and a daughter, 5 going on 16. My role as VP of major accounts gives me a chance to work for an Israeli surveillance technology manufacturer from my home office with responsibility for accounts spread from Denver to New York, Cincinnati to Houston, and a few more cities in between. I narrowly missed our last major Williams reunion to a business trip to Nice, France. My last trip to Williamstown was a passing through stopover on my way to Vermont the summer of 2008. I had great fun showing off the campus to my bride, who had never been, playing with my son on the rugby pitch, taking a tour of The Clark Art Institute, enjoyed a meal at the 1896 House and an overnight in the Williams Inn. While I did not get to campus much, I spent a decade in Cleveland running the Williams Alumni Association of Northeast Ohio—an organization my grandfather helped to create and which is well run by Ted Moore ’92 now for a few years already. So I’ve managed to stay connected to Williams in that manner over time.” The news from Philadelphia is that Mike Barsanti has “been newly remarried, to the lovely Erin Rose Mooney, in November, and we have a new baby, Pierce James Barsanti, born in December! So it’s been an interesting time! I’m continuing to work on an online graphic novel adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses called Ulysses Seen, which is currently being hosted by the James Joyce Centre in Dublin (www. 96

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jamesjoyce.ie). I loved our 20th reunion and am very much looking forward to 25. I may not have the youngest child in our class by then, but I imagine I’ll be close!” All is well with Anne Darnton in Santa Fe. “Evan (my 8-year-old second grader) is in those golden years of childhood where he is curious about how the world works and yet believes in the magical side of things. I get to commute with him every day to our school, where he is still OK with being the principal’s son. (I don’t know how long that will last!) I am continuously envious of my husband Chris’ ability to have interests outside of work that he actively pursues. I am a tag-along fly fisherman, skier and mountain biker. With a new superintendent and school board, work (i.e., school) has been overly consuming this year, and I am determined to bring some balance back where it belongs. We moved a little over a year ago into a more rural location, and I love that I look out my windows and see mountains, horses and barns every day. (That way I can pretend I am a horse owner without the commitment and expense!) It is a restorative view.” Ethel Brooks and family are back in New Jersey. “I am still missing my year in London, and all of us would like to permanently relocate … but not sure how to make it happen. In January, for the U.N. Holocaust Remembrance Day, I was invited to speak at the ceremony in the U.N. General Assembly Hall.” Ethel’s speech remembering the plight of the Romani during the Holocaust is on YouTube at http://bit.ly/1bo6jTG. Scott Nabel was the designated People note-taker at the Boston bar mitzvah of Neal Lindeman and Liz Borowsky’s son Henry, “who clearly inherited his looks from his father (who now looks like his own father) and a beautiful singing voice from his mother.” Scott was impressed that the flowers on the bimah (stage) during the service were purple and gold, and although Neal claimed that this was not intentional, it must have been at least subliminal. “Other Ephs in attendance were Dan Drezner, whose son was bar mitzvahed just two weeks prior at the opposite end of Newton. Dan is a professor of international relations at Tufts. Making her first appearance in these class notes (courtesy of moi) is Rebecca Buchanan, who lives outside DC and for the past two years has been working in the State Department on European human rights issues. I promised not to share any of her classified work stories, so I can only report from my own observations that she is an extremely capable swing dancer. As for yours truly, I remain a civil servant for the city of New Haven. In January 2011, I was loaned from human resources to labor relations. The last labor director decided to resign and stay home with her newborn, so I continue to hold down the fort by myself.” Hilary Klotz enjoyed a great visit with Carol Metcalf Lind and Cassandra T. Hiland and their daughters in Chicago and sent on a super-cute photo of “the girls of the girls of Jake House.” She also came across a wonderful TED talk by Dan Drezner, who is continuing to pursue the zombie meme (http://youtu. be/Vjke3VTp5ks). Apparently zombies have surpassed vampires in the popular imagination, possibly indicating a new fatalistic strain in the American psyche. Check it out—lots of fun!

1990–91 In November Alexandra Iselin and husband Philippe celebrated the birth of their son Oscar, who joined his three sisters Sophie, 8, Camille, 6, and Zoe, 3, in the town of Porrentruy in northwest Switzerland. “Sisters are all thrilled (and so am I). I still have a little time to work as an independent architect. And of course we spend our free time skiing and hiking and golfing.” Sue Abbott got married to longtime sweetheart Dave Schweizer in June in a “lovely small wedding on the Vineyard with family and a few close friends—beautiful weather and everything went smoothly (even the dog as ring bearer). We had a ‘mini-moon’ in Vermont and will take a longer trip later.” All is well with Rusty Field in Minnesota. “I left Ameriprise Financial after 19 years in 2009 and have been with UnitedHealthGroup for the past three years. Healthcare is a fascinating space. Kids are 12, 10 and 8—two girls and a boy. Outside of work, it seems my life has become that of a friendly sherpa— shuttling back and forth at all hours.” I have a little news of my own, as I will start this fall at Cal State University Fullerton as an assistant professor in the biology department. I’ve had quite a series of teaching and research positions over the years, and it feels like a real treat to actually get a permanent position (tenure, knock on wood…). When I confessed a little trepidation about starting on this path so late, Catherine Crouch reassured me that it makes no difference, and that she also got a late start on the tenure track (at, ahem, age 33)! I’ve been a bad mom, as the trek from our house in LA to Disneyland has always seemed a little too far, and I’ve never taken the kids. That same trek will now be my daily commute: karma biting back! Most missed from my time at UCLA will be the exercise group I’ve been meeting with before dawn on the track for the past few years. The camaraderie and motivation will be hard to replace. Hilary Klotz and Dave Pesikoff were again in Williamstown in May accepting trophies galore as our head agents. From Dave, “With 351 gifts, we hit over 70 percent for the second year in a row, third highest of all classes since 1973. For what it’s worth, our average over the last four years is now 69.5 percent, the highest for all classes since 1973. And to boot, this is the third year in the last four we have won the Alden Trophy. We also, somewhat unexpectedly, won the Chairman’s Trophy for most dollars raised among classes 11-24 years out. It means a great deal to say that the Class of 1990 raised enough money to fund the financial aid needs of five students.” Dave Bank will now be joining Hilary and Dave P. as a third co-head agent of our class, while Dave P. has been tapped to co-chair the entire Alumni Fund for 2013-15. I imagine the competition for those trophies will heat up as Dave P. shares his prowess with other classes, but we welcome the challenge, right?! And welcome to Dave B., as well, and thank you for stepping up! Hope you all had a good summer and will consider dropping me a line.

1991 Christine Choi, 85 First Place, Brooklyn, NY 11231;

[email protected] The first responder to my request for news was Joe Cruz. Turns out it was a big day for him: “Getting married today, darling, under crystal blue skies in Williamstown surrounded by family and friends in Griffin Hall. Margaret Coady ’95 and I will continue to live in lower Manhattan and Williamstown. I’m unspeakably happy.” Another Morgan freshman to grow his family is Kristian Omland: “Our son Aron was born on Feb. 22. He’s great, his big sister Phoebe dotes on him, and we’re settling into parenting two. That means we’re tired!” Fellow Morgan entrymate Michelle Sanders spent the summer training for the Pan-Mass Challenge cycling event, which benefited the DanaFarber Cancer Center in Boston. The 27-mile route said to her: “You can DO this!” She had also hoped to spend the summer with Jonquil Wolfson and her daughters. Louise Price Kelly also raced, in a Spartan Sprint at Tuxedo Ridge, N.Y., and came in the top 1 percent for her/our age group. She started her own company, Glowstone Consulting (http://www.glowstoneconsulting.com), which provides technology and marketing services to nonprofit organizations. “My few years of ‘leaning back’ allowed me to get this business started; my volunteer work in the community helped me identify a market opportunity and establish a strong network of clients.” Next stop: Istanbul to visit Lisa Kaestner and “Super Spartan” in September. Louise’s daughter is graduating from elementary school, and her twin boys will be going into fourth grade. While they’re growing up, Louise strives to be less mature. Good plan, I say. Lisa has been in Istanbul for nearly three years, “observing political developments and protests with interest. At sundown, people bang pots and pans, blow car horns and generally make noise in support of the protests at Taksim Square. Otherwise, since we live quite far from the protests, our lives are not directly affected.” Professor Darra Goldstein visited Lisa in the winter; everyone is welcome. Istanbul was where Ramona Liberoff landed for work: “A vibrant, cosmopolitan city in the throes of a skirmish of ideas: Can the secular bourgeois prevail against an authoritarian regime? It was most odd: driving along the coast with my colleagues getting social media alerts and tweets from Taksim Square; dining at a podh restaurant where precisely at 9 p.m., all the diners banged their plates in sympathy with the protesters. Made me feel very humble and also lucky to have the freedom to live in a democracy with rights!” Sean Watterson emailed from Islamabad, where he represented the World Bank and worked with the Securities & Exchange Commission Pakistan, “a bit of a break from being a bar owner in Cleveland. Griff Mann and Amanda Mann are moving from Cleveland: Griff will run the Cloisters and serve as medieval curator for the Met.” Betsy Allen-Pennebaker reported that the BBC reported on Sean’s Happy Dog (reporter goes to a bar to hear Schumann and Beethoven!). She and SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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parenting. We got certified as foster parents and have a great young woman (15 years old, smart, funny, extremely opinionated) living with us part of each week. Hats off to those who do it full time! I have no idea how people do it.” Anyone in Asia Pac? Ellen Highstone Sorensen and her husband and 3-year-old twins Alex and Sofia moved to Singapore “to take on the job of managing director, South East Asia, for Vacheron Constantin, the Swiss timepiece maker. My territory includes Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Singapore. Would be happy to connect with any Williams alums based here.” Michael La Porte: “I’ve finally succumbed to the suburbs of Chicago. The wife and I moved our 31⁄2-year-old daughter Margot and our Scottish Terrier Simon to the North Shore suburb of Glencoe and then a month later bought a ‘fixer upper’ to renovate and move into by Halloween. Had coffee with Rob Abel on one of his visits to Chicago. Traded email with Barbara Kircheimer pondering the relationship between her and one of my new neighbors, also a Kircheimer—none apparent. Always enjoy reading Tim Hanes’ global warming activism on FB and Jon Faini’s extremely thoughtful exploration of the gun control issue, also on FB. Still chugging away at Flachsbart & Greenspoon—the names of my two law partners— in our four-man patent-litigation practice!” Ray Neufeld moved his family from Connecticut to NYC: “My wife Julia Whitworth (Dartmouth ’93) works at St. John the Divine Cathedral, where she will be named canon for liturgy and the arts this fall. We are living on the Cathedral Close with three kids (Liam, 7, Gregory, 41⁄2, and Grace, 2).” Ray works in TV as a freelance camera crane op and video utility and was designing the set for Stonington Opera House’s production of Cymbeline on Deere Isle, Maine, while scouting a NYC studio for drawing and sculpting. Anna Bardone-Cone teaches, among other classes, “abnormal psychology (which I never took at Williams being a math/French major—took intro psych my senior year—crazy things can happen!)” at UNC (Chapel Hill). After a summer of travel to Chicago, Wisconsin (where she and her husband attended graduate school and met) and Ecuador, Anna began “a five-year study that focuses on eating disorders (with a focus on how to best define recovery).” Did you catch Stein Soelberg interviewed for winning the NCAA bracket in Time magazine by Joel Stein, who by judging from his unprintable filth about Williams, is either a Canadian or Stanfordian? Deb Tomaselli and Chris Aylott live in central Texas, where “the summer reading program is keeping her hopping at the San Marcos Library, and I’m in the middle of designing a game for Disney Mobile. Meanwhile the kids are rampaging through summer camps and daycare. We also just celebrated the summer round of birthdays and anniversaries with a weekend at Bastrop State Park, where the CCCbuilt cabins are cool, the grill is hot, and the wildlife is overly friendly.” Barry Clifford hinted of a quiet summer: “Maybe Ohio to ride roller coasters at some point, maybe 98

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hiking in New Hampshire with a friend from b-school.” Leila Jere and Melissa Fenton attended the spring meeting of the Executive Committee of the Society of Alumni. Leila reports that Melissa “gave an amazingly creative exit with a song, accompanied by mandolin, and got everyone to sing along. While the EC is losing Melissa, we will gain another ’91-er as Mary Moule begins her three-year term on the committee. EC-ers had lunch with students as part of the Life After Williams series and attended the Daring Change seminars, which offered a look back at Jack Sawyer’s ’39 era. I learned a lot and was reminded yet again of how little I was paying attention to much of anything while a student. I also ran into Sara Dubow in Paresky.” Leila organized an annual Palm Springs trip with Heidi Beebe, Heather Martinez ’89 and others. Providence, R.I.-based Kathi Fisler was back on campus with Mike Cox and Erik Sebesta for the 25th anniversary of the computer science department: “A fun weekend of talks from CS alums (students and faculty) from across the years, it was fun to see folks who aren’t in the same five-year reunion cohort for a change.” Kathi met up with Mark Henderson, Karen Kristiansson “and their (rapidly growing!) girls” in California and is spending her sabbatical “running after my preschooler, Tara, who has just learned to ride her bicycle without training wheels—good workout!—and doing outreach work with middleand high-school computer science education.” Kathi reports that Amy Butler Greenfield’s latest book came out in May: “It’s in the youth fantasy genre, set in 17th-century England. The book is the first in a trilogy coming out in the next couple of years.  The book page is at http://bit.ly/15s9jdg.” In her dream job working with Bonnie Raitt, Molly Foehl gets to travels to Australia and New Zealand (site of a wonderful dinner with Amy Beliveau and family) and spent the summer in Europe: “I am thoroughly enjoying working with one of my musical heroes!” Home is Oakland, but the Berkshires remain close to her heart because her family, including head of the alumni office Brooks Foehl ’88, lives in Williamstown: “My nephew Taylor Foehl ’14 finished his junior year at Williams, where he was a JA in Williams F. It was so fun to visit his dorm room last year and have many fond memories of Williams E and the Freshman Quad come bubbling back. I am also lucky to visit with Kathleen Judge Igoe, my freshman-year roommate, and run into other fun ’91 folks who live there including Rob Abel and Ann Marie Marvin Swann.”  Kathy (Munchmeyer) Kendall reported a miniSage C reunion: “Katherine (Stearns) Sprenger, Pam (Volpe) Jelaca, Shauna (Steele) Powell and Alejandra (Fernandez) Stavrinides visited me in Falmouth, Mass. We had a wonderful time relaxing, checking out Cape Cod and reminiscing and even had Facetime conversations with Pete McEntegart and John Faini.” Steve Martin forwarded an email from the Williams College Summer Theatre Lab, pointing out that Erica Dankemeyer was featured in a trivia question. (“With which dance company did Erica dance before coming to teach at Williams?”) What is he up to? “Raising chickens and family doctoring in

1991–92 Northfield, just an hour from the Village Beautiful!” After a scare with deep vein thrombosis and massive pulmonary embolisms, I am back on my feet, traveling regularly from Brooklyn to Chicago (site of our first Virgin Hotel) and Newark (where my friend Shavar Jeffries after improving the school district with KIPP charter schools, is running for mayor). Evan Buxbaum and his lovely wife Valerie, Stef Andemichael, Damion Luaiye and Jim Kutscher and I enjoyed a warm gathering on a cold NYC winter night, and my summer began with a stroll with India Amos, who mentioned an app that tracks good habits: we decided to try 15 minutes/day of virtuousness. Low bar, high yield.

1992 Heidi Sandreuter, 130 West 79th St., #11A, New York,

NY 10024; [email protected] It seems like I am not the only one who is feeling a bit more creaky these days. Don’t get me wrong— I am incredibly thankful to have the privilege of aging. It’s just interesting how many of us now feel compelled to share stories on this topic. For example, Denise Royal explained that her daughter finishing up kindergarten and becoming a first grader “totally makes me feel old. I can’t imagine how I’d feel if she was a teenager!” Denise realized that she may even be in denial about being in her 40s when telling a friend about someone she had met: “He asked me if he was our age and I said, ‘No, he’s a little older than us, maybe in his early 40s?’ My friend just gave me a funny look and then I realized ‘CRAP! WE’RE in our early 40s! So yeah, I guess he’s about our age.’” Funny how it sneaks up on you. As does a hip replacement. Andrew Everett wondered if he might be the first classmate to have a joint replaced: “I had my hip replaced in mid-April. As of this writing, six weeks later I am already back to 75 percent to 80 percent and making amazing progress daily.” Since this is Andrew Everett, LAX season was not to be missed. The man had “lots of fun” coaching the local boys’ seventh-/eighth-grade team and helping with his daughter’s first-/secondgrade co-ed team. Andrew and his new hip even helped his own team win the local B league tourney. Andrew and his wife Elise (Newhall) Everett ’94 moved near my childhood best friend, Becky Castle, when relocating from Seattle to Vermont. Even though she helped Middlebury beat Williams more than once, they have realized Becky’s a good egg with some great little girls to love (and babysit) the littlest Everetts. Another “gray hair” point was made by Jay Emerson when he called out that this is the year of our 25th high school reunions. Jay is “still mucking about at Yale, now working on a book tentatively titled R is for Racing.” He frequently sees Ben Northrup walking around the neighborhood. Despite being in our 40s, we’re still procreating quite well. Tom Warren shared news that Chris Pare just had his second child, Eliza, in May. Charles Picard and his wife Deanna Zibello ’98 had their first child, Alexander Daniel Picard, in March. “We’re calling him Xander for now, but we chose Alexander because it gives him a wealth of nicknames to pick from when he’s old enough to care about such

things.” The Picards are in Spokane, Wash., since Deanna will be teaching for another year at Gonzaga University. Pavel Shlossberg ’96 recently joined the faculty at Gonzaga, so he and his wife Christina Li ’95 hang out with the Picards frequently. Thomas LaPorte has two announcements: “After five years out of the game, we had another baby girl, Leah Colette La Porte, on March 23. It was an early birthday present for her brother Noah and her sister Hannah. And, since we didn’t feel like a newborn was enough stress, six weeks later we packed our bags and headed to Shanghai, PRC, for an advance visit to look at schools and housing in anticipation of being relocated in the summer. For the next three years we’ll be in Shanghai as I help build a new animation studio as the director of digital operations for Oriental DreamWorks!” Looking forward to future tales of the LaP’s in the PRC. Too bad they just missed Ashley Milliken and her family, who were traveling through China during the summer weeks after finishing up their Taipei adventure. Ashley typed her scoop on a phone while on a boat to China, explaining how the Millikens just ended their five months in Taiwan where daughters Perrin, 13, & Carly, 11, “had a chance to be city kids.” The family hung out in Xiamen before moving on to Yunnan Province to do some volunteer work. Then it was off to Beijing to reconnect with some friends from their days as residents in 1994-97. By September the Millikens should be firmly planted back in Vermont. Chris Gemignani and his family are on the move: “We’re pulling up the deepest, warmest, fuzziest roots we’ve ever had, keeping them alive and then making some new ones. We’re moving to Nashville, Tenn., after six glorious years in Reston, Va.” The relocation is driven by Chris’s business, Juice Analytics, and the kids (Zoe, Zachary and Noah) who have been pressing for their own rooms. “In Nashville, kids, anything is possible. Anyone want some of our stuff?” Git your country on, Chris, because Nashville is f-u-n. Sean Keilen and his wife Abby moved from Washington, D.C., to Northern California to start new jobs in the literature department at UC Santa Cruz. (Go, Banana Slugs!) Sean writes, “We’re very happy. Born and raised on the East Coast, I’ve always been my best self in California, and it’s something of a miracle that these jobs became available. At work, I have the privilege of spending almost all of my time with Shakespeare, Ovid, Montaigne and Freud (the writers whom I love the most). I am also the provost of Porter College, one of UCSC’s 10 residential colleges and the one devoted to the fine arts.” Sean —ever the teacher—anticipated, “What’s a provost? In this context, it would be wrong to think ‘viceroy.’ Instead, think ‘vicar of a small country parish’ or ‘teaching principal of the high school in Fame’ or possibly ‘Dumbledore.’” I’m glad Sean cleared that up—and made me feel old with the Fame reference that conjured up fond recollections of Bruno Martelli. After 20 years in San Francisco, Lon Troyer moved to Chicago to join his partner Mario. On a recent trip to NYC, Lon caught up with Liza Johnson “over a decadently rich brunch in Brooklyn. I spent the next day trying to walk it off with Brendan Kearse SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s in Central Park. Clearly, closer proximity to the East Coast is already paying dividends.” Despite claiming that she’s “not terribly interesting at the moment,” Amy Sachtleben has landed softly back in LA after leaving her job at Disney in London last summer. In her months off, Amy traveled to Paris, Morocco, Myanmar and the Icehotel in Sweden (“Ridiculous, I know, but very fun. It was like an Armstrong late night, only—colder”). In March, Amy began working at Mattel doing finance and strategy for its consumer products business. Amy spends most of her time in Marina del Rey and is “maybe sort of thinking about getting back in to rowing. Or not.” Rowing always makes me think of Susan Snyder, of course, who refused to share any news about life in Newton, Mass., other than bragging about her central a/c and having an extra room for guests (like me) who used to sleep in her basement. The scoop that made me most exhausted was from Dave Toder. Dave’s wife, Colleen (Boland) Toder, has been homeschooling their six kids, ages 16 to 4, while he has been busy with his architecture practice, “including the design of a second zero-net energy development of homes here in New Paltz. We’ve also been working on a small renovation/addition on our house and new garden areas, both of which are looking good. Our eldest is taking driver’s ed and college courses, three others just performed in a ballet recital, another will be playing trumpet in a jazz recital, and another will be testing for his next karate belt. Then we’re going to the Galapagos for a week with my parents, which we’re all looking forward to. Life is full and fun.” And I’m off to take a nap. Doug Dreffer also has a 16-year-old (seriously?). “I’m loving life in New Hampshire. My apologies to New Hampshire-ites I ridiculed as a Massachusetts snob back in the day. And June marked my 20th wedding anniversary with Lisa. Since the wedding was a year after graduation, it was a big Williams affair. I recall, just before the open bar closed, walking past the boys from Goodrich who had all just returned from the bar with as much beer as they could carry. In all seriousness, it was a very special day with lifelong friends. Gregg Goumas ’92 was a groomsman. Otherwise, life revolves around our teenagers Kyla, 16, and Grant, 14. I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching Kyla to drive, when we can fit it in. Grant is an avid rock climber, so I’ve learned about belaying, quickdraws, and ways to avoid injury. Last year I took on the role as residency program director at the NH Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency at Concord Hospital. So far, so good.” Abby Solomon is balancing mothering, acting and wife-ing as she celebrated her first wedding anniversary on Memorial Day and enjoys parenthood with her year-old son, Jasper. “I’m still working on various theater projects. I produced and acted in a show Off-Broadway earlier this year and will spend this summer on Cape Cod acting in a Shakespeare play.” Jillian Hollmann is “still living in my birthplace of NYC. My ‘community’ here, beyond my immediate family (which includes my parents and sister, who still live here too, as well as my husband Mark and sons Oliver and Tucker), is really the families at Oliver’s school (P.S. 87, our local public elementary school), who remind me of the Williams community 100

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in their simultaneous diversity (in terms of background, talents and interests) and uniformity (in terms of their commitment to community, openness and service). Although I’ve been a therapist for a while, I only recently found my niche and discovered that what I really love doing is coaching parents who worry a lot about whether they are doing what’s best for their kids (by giving them the most effective tools to deal with their particular concerns, so they can worry less and enjoy their time with their kids more!).” On the topic of helping parents, Sallie Han has just published Pregnancy in Practice: Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary U.S. “A fine read for anyone who has been, is, will be pregnant or knows someone who has been, is, or will be pregnant or wants to teach it to undergraduates in cultural anthropology!” More classmates experiencing some serious life adventures include Ken Thomas, who wrote from Mexico City. Ken is now working for Mexico’s new opposition party, MORENA, “after two elections with the ‘leftist’ (I cringe at that a little) candidate Lopez Obrador.” And Dan Brayton was living with his family aboard a 36-foot wooden ketch in Woods Hole, Mass., this past June while teaching a summer program for Sea Education Association. “This is my idea of a working vacation. Just before we headed down to Woods Hole, my daughter Nell, 7, and son Nico, 11, had a great time playing with Tess, 8, daughter of Andrew Everett and Elise (Newhall) Everett ’94, who live just up the road from us in Shelburne, Vt.” Dan was quite impressed with Andrew’s quick mastery of the local brew scene. After the SEA program, Dan planned to be back in Vermont, “where my crew and I will keep sailing … on smaller bodies of water and in smaller boats.” Kristen Forbes and her husband Steve Calhoun (Dartmouth ’93) have been spending time in London, a temporary stay required by Steve’s finance work. Hopefully Kristen, an MIT/Sloan professor, is taking a break from breaking new ground in economics and enjoying wearing Wellies in the rain with her three kids, Leighton, 7, Griffin, 6, and Rowan, 4. Candace Kelly, U.S. attorney extraordinaire, has finished up an assignment that landed her in DC yet again. By the time these notes go to press, Candace may be back swimming in the San Francisco Bay without a wetsuit. And Kerr Houston celebrated his 11th year of teaching at the Maryland Institute College of Art by spending a few lazy evenings at Camden Yards, watching the emergence of Manny Machado. He then went to Venice in June, shepherding 14 students from Torcello to the Biennale and from gelateria to pasticceria. Yum. Contributing to the “Hell Has Frozen Over” section of notes, Bill McKinley is doing (and liking) yoga, likely ironing-out remaining Ironman kinks. Billy and his better half, Jen (Plansky) McKinley, keep it real in Lexington, Mass., where they ponder how to navigate the technological landscape with three growing (and amazing) daughters, Emily and Katie, 13, and Annie, 10. Thanks to everyone for sharing your scoop and keeping us all better connected. Brumberg, what is up in your Queens corner of neuropsychology? Go Cows.

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1993 Anne Conrad Hummel, 5 Bittersweet Court, Centerport,

NY 11721; [email protected] Submitted by outgoing secretary Chad Orzel: I wasn’t able to arrange to be in an airport for my final edition of the Class Notes, but I’m sitting down with a beer that I charged myself $8 for (which I will endeavor to keep from spilling all over my keyboard), after removing my belt and shoes, so it’s almost like being in a Chili’s at BWI. Only not. It’s been a busy five years—when I sat down to write my first installment of these, my daughter was barely a month old, and by the time you see this, she’ll be starting kindergarten, and her little brother will be almost 2. Just for kicks, because I’m a science nerd and like numbers, I went back through all my Class Notes files to get some figures on just how eventful the last five years have been: I’ve had the honor of reporting on nine weddings and a whopping 76 births (36 boys and 40 girls). Those tallies include a few very recent additions: Roz Moxon attended Guy Nachtomi’s wedding to Kimberly Beal in April in LA with Hilary O’Rourke Wynperle and Jennifer Weiss Blecker; Tim Pinto and his wife Jamie had a son, Evan, in April, and thanks to Facebook I can confirm that he’s very cute. Greg Locroft and his wife Anna welcomed Lucas Deeny Locroft on June 3, and Camille Preston and Mark Newhall (one of the aforementioned nine weddings) had a son, Preston B. Newhall, on June 11, just two days after our reunion. Those new kids provided an excellent excuse for Tim, Greg and Camille to miss the reunion, but about 140 of us (plus a double handful of spouses from other classes) turned up in Williamstown in early June to take over the Frosh Quad. While Friday’s dreary rain demonstrated just how much difficulty incoming class president Tom Kimbis will have coordinating the first fully solar-powered reunion in 2018, the skies cleared somewhat on Saturday, and an excellent time was had by nearly everyone. Of course, having an excellent time is not entirely compatible with accurate class secretary journalism, but I’ll do my best. As with previous reunions, the weekend was a nice mix of getting to see people I hung out with regularly in college—meeting Luke Shullenberger’s son Cole, who would hit it off great with my daughter (within 10 seconds of meeting me, he was playing Whack-a-Mole with my feet); watching Chris Wolf employ economic incentives with his son Alexander; seeing Jen Galbraith Ryan and Dave Ryan ’92 chase their daughter Penny around the dance floor; reminiscing about Gurgle and telling stories about science grad school with Dave Young and Ethan Marin—and spending more time with some other people over the course of one weekend than I did during the four years we lived within a mile of one another. I particularly enjoyed talking with Mike Wynn and his wife Vicki, and Kerrita Mayfield was good enough to write down an update for me, that I promptly lost (the gist was that she’s recovering well from major surgery and doing outstanding work with anti-bullying programs at the education school of UMass in Amherst). And, of course, the crowd was just big enough that there

were people I almost didn’t see at all—had I not swung by the Snack Bar to get a Coke on my way out of town, I would’ve completely missed talking to Jen Weiss and Roz Moxon O’Connor. Like a good science geek, I spent a fair amount of time talking to other physics and astronomy majors from back in the day. Jonathan Young started a job running the Internet operations of the National Geographic Society, so if you’d like a discount on tickets to the Galapagos Islands, well, he probably can’t help you, but it couldn’t hurt. Dan Robb recently moved from Berry College in Georgia to Roanoke College in western Virginia, and his wife Natalia is teaching at Washington & Lee University just up the road. Dan also got up at 7 a.m. Saturday for the bird walk in Hopkins Forest with Mark Mossey, a concept that I found kind of mind-boggling, not exactly being ambulatory at that hour. Dan also heard second-hand about Paul Hausladen, who is working at Oak Ridge National Lab with one of Dan’s new colleagues (who described Haus as “a unique and funny individual,” so we know he’s got the right guy. Trevor Pound was in from Ottawa, and we exchanged border-crossing stories (I came directly to the reunion from a physics conference in Quebec). Kevin Greenberg and Karen Greenberg were in from Philadelphia, and Kevin did a good job of navigating some historical awkwardness. Alex Bump apparently narrowly edged out Adam Stegeman for the longest trip to reunion, as he lives a few miles farther east in England. Matt Smith wasn’t a physics or astronomy major but graciously tolerated some jokes about him stepping down from playing Dr. Who that were only funny to the cardcarrying geeks, so he deserves a mention here. There wasn’t a very big rugby contingent present, but I did spend a while catching up with Mary Refermat and Margaret Wang. And a couple months previous, I came over the mountains for a memorial event in honor of Jon Siegelbaum ’95, where I saw a bunch of rugby players from later classes—Colin Sellar ’94, Derek Kuhl ’95 and Brad Svrluga ’95 (who was good enough to provide crash space), Dan Ionascu ’96, and George Watson ’97 and Ian Synnott ’97. For want of a more coherent narrative, here are some scattered other recollections from the weekend: talking with Jon Birknes about the surprising connections between neurosurgery and dairy farming, and with Jon and Sean Rorke about Rob Neviaser (new linebackers’ coach at Bowling Green) and Paul Minnefor (who is an attorney in New Jersey, and also sent me a Facebook message after the reunion noting that while he wasn’t able to make the reunion, he had been to a football event in April with Dean Pignatare, Sean Rorke, Brian Prendergast, Todd Machnik ’94, Adam Cefalo ’94, Brad Kroh ’94, Tom Castiello ’94, Mike Hlatki ’95, Gerry Keegan ’95, Eric Minkwitz ’96 and Ethan Brooks ’96); my jokingly announcing Jon Nasser as the next class secretary on Facebook, which was a little awkward to explain to him the next day; talking with Raj Purohit and Sandeep Patel for the first time since they used to exercise total control over the thermostat in Wood; Dave Nickoll reporting that he’s working on a project with Queen Latifah; Dave Kensinger had recently received my books as a birthday gift from his wife, SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s Beth Kensinger; several of us made an ill-omened trip to Spring Street that I’m going to blame on Eli Torgeson for no obvious reason; and particular thanks are due to Derek Catsam’s expert services as a mediator. When last I saw Derek, he was hard at work brokering a solution to the problem of women in combat with two active-duty members of the U.S. military. Andy Lee deserves special mention for making a last-minute effort to get to reunion, only to be thwarted by the airlines. As I said, it was an excellent time, and huge thanks are due to Jamie Art and Kate Brill, who pulled the whole thing together for us. Other than Friday’s weather (which wasn’t in their direct control, but kudos to Kate for providing us all with umbrellas), everything came off without a hitch. Believe it or not, there was also news that didn’t revolve around three days in Williamstown. In the “sarcasm gets results” file, Dan Yu responded to his joking mention in the last Class Notes by writing in to say that he’s “spent time working on the iPhone and iPad for Apple, worked on a number of movies for Dreamworks Animation, and yet [I] don’t feel like I’ve accomplished what I want to accomplish yet.” That’s probably a good indicator that we’re not all over the hill yet. Though we’re probably nearing the top of that metaphorical hill, as Erik Jacobsen writes that he missed the reunion due to a European vacation (among other things, visiting Jennifer Austin Flanigan ’91 in Paris) to celebrate his oldest daughter’s high school graduation. Also checking in from Europe was Nancy Rodriguez, working in below-sealevel real estate in the Netherlands with “three boys speaking fluent Dutch (me, still trying my best).” Closer to Williamstown, Bridget Conry writes that she’s managing the Haven Bakery and Café in Lenox these days and expanding to Great Barrington. She’s been studying herbal medicine for the last decade, and is “putting this knowledge and experience to good use in the burgeoning cannabis industry” in Vermont and Massachusetts, and has 7- and 10-year-old daughters, the older of whom has recently taken up basketball. On the West Coast, Helene (Wilburn) Lhamon is working as an ER doctor on Whidbey Island north of Seattle and enjoying the last little while before she’s officially parenting teenage girls. We also have two additions to the ever-growing Class of 1993 Media Empire: Ethan Zuckerman’s new book, Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection hit stores just after reunion; Ethan came to the reunion from an early launch event in NYC. And Reenita Malhotra has both a book (Forever Young—Unleashing the Magic of Ayurveda) and an award-winning radio show, Asian Threads, on RTHK Radio 3 in Hong Kong. Her show just won the top award for current affairs at the New York Festivals International Radio awards, which was ample justification for a trip to New York for the award ceremony. And that’s almost certainly enough news to make a final edition of the Class Notes. On a personal note, though, I want to thank everyone who’s said nice things, both in person and via the Internet, about the last five years’ worth of reports. I’ve had a lot of fun writing these up, and I’m glad to hear that they’re also entertaining for people who aren’t me. 102

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And I’m grateful for the chance to be a part, however tangential, of the huge array of activities you’ve all been sharing with me. Thanks very much for keeping me plugged in. And with that, I’ll close out my tenure as class secretary and pass the metaphorical torch to Anne Conrad Hummel, who I’m sure will do an excellent job chronicling the next five years. And I look forward to seeing many of you at the 25th, if not sooner.

1994 REUNION JUNE 12-15 Elizabeth Randolph Rappaport, 9 Killington St.,

Chappaqua, NY 10514; [email protected] Summer is here, and it’s sweltering in New York most days, which makes me somewhat grateful for my freezing cold office. My kids are happily in camp, and we planned to head to Boston for a week at the end of August to visit family and hit some North Shore beaches. I was recently up in the lower Berkshires and the breeze made me miss Williams. Coreen McCool wrote to say she left her consulting job at Monitor Group after 18 years for a job at Analysis Group, another consulting firm, as the VP of human resources and recruiting. She is busy with her three boys, ages 10, 7 and 4.  Erik White was on vacation in Sunriver, Ore., where it rained, but his “Northwest kids” took it in stride, he said. They rode bikes and visited a lava tunnel and watched lizards and toads eat crickets at a nature center. Erik took on a new job as medical director for his anesthesiologist group.  Busy academic bees, our class… Allyson Hightower wrote to say she is a graduate student at Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, where she teaches and works with children and special needs children. Allyson plans on going into the field of play therapy when she finishes school and will work with children and families. Jason Poling received his Doctor of Ministry in June of 2012 from Biblical Theological Seminary. He caught up with Mike Strauss and Josh Kussman in Washington, D.C., earlier this spring. Previously he was in Williamstown to celebrate Professor Robert Dalzell’s retirement and has reported celebrating Ravens victories with Mike Strauss last winter at a “Bengals” bar in DC. “For the record, as we all know the tablecloth well preceded the cloth for Jason,” he writes. Sandy Ryan is earning her master’s degree in mental health counseling from the University of Vermont at the end of the summer—four years in the making. She did the program part time and conquered breast cancer in the process. “I’m pretty excited for what comes next,” she writes. Brooklyn’s own Jen Wingate is pleased to announce the publication of Sculpting Doughboys: Memory, Gender and Taste in America’s World War I Memorials. She teaches art history at St. Francis College in downtown Brooklyn where she lives with husband Steve Dean and their 5-year-old son John.  They had a visit from Heather Walsh over the July 4 weekend. Steve and Jen also saw two different productions of a great new play, The Ultimate Stimulus, by Felipe Ossa.   Cynthia Sharpe is living in Kansas and telecommuting to California. She makes theme parks and has recently worked on creating the Warner Bros.

1993–95 Movie Studio Tour London: The Making of Harry Potter. She says she has “the best job ever, getting paid to make nerdy dreams come awesomely true.” Cynthia says her 10-year-old daughter just finished fourth grade but dreams of going to her father’s alma mater, Cornell. She said: “I need to even the score.” Brett Schneider is moving to Providence, R.I., to take up a professorship at the Rhode Island School of Design. Kirsten Rose writes from Williamstown, where she lives with her husband and 8-year-old daughter and works as the children’s librarian in town. “What could be more glamorous than doing the hokeypokey at story time with a huge gang of toddlers and pushing Harry Potter books at the older kids?” she asked, adding that she loves small town life way more than “I ever thought I would.” Between hikes and breaking up “plunger wars” between her 9- and 6-year-old boys, Amanda Ward is typing up ideas for a new novel in Ouray, Colo., where she is spending the summer. She also has a 1-year-old girl who she spends much time trying to get to sleep for naps. Another Eph in transit, Adam Scheer, and his family are moving to the San Francisco Bay area to take an expanded role with JDS Uniphase, where he develops and markets anti-counterfeiting technologies. He will live just north of the Golden Gate Bridge in Tiburon, where he hopes to catch up with local alums. Denise Molina wrote to say she and Dominic Ellis, who live in London, had dinner at St. John’s Bread and Wine with Tibisay Salerno, who was visiting. She also ran into Andreas Zapf and his daughter at a local farmers’ market.

1995 Anamaria Villamarin-Lupin, 535 Arabella St., New

Orleans, LA 70115; Nancy O’Brien Wagner, 1049 Linwood Ave., Saint Paul, MN 55105; 1995secretary@ williams.edu Dear friends, greetings from Minnesota! First, the good news: Jen Rork sends news from Williamstown that Cady Rork Craig was born March 18 and is as sweet as can be. Jen vouches that adjusting to having three kids is going quite well. This fall will bring a new shift as big sister Adelyn will be starting kindergarten in the same class as Sarah Brill’s twins Molly and Paige Cangelosi and Brad Svurluga’s son Will. Lara (Cooper) Edwards sent word that Cooper William Edwards was born on May 6. Lara jokes, “You can decide whether naming our kids after ourselves speaks to our narcissism or our inability to come up with anything more creative. So far, he is an easy-going baby and is happily tolerating excessive face-kissing from his 2-year-old sister Paige and excessive face-licking from his canine big brother Bogart.” Mahri Relin sends news of her new business, Body Conceptions by Mahri. “I started it in March 2012 doing exclusively private training, and we began offering public classes in Tribeca in January. We’ve already been named ‘One of the Best Body-Sculpting Workouts in the Country’ by Vogue and were profiled recently in Dujour Magazine,

Dance Spirit Magazine and Well+Good. We are also currently featured in the cover article for Fitness Magazine. I’m so excited about these developments, and I’m looking forward to creating a growing wellness identity in and out of the city.” Paul Boxer writes “I am still on the faculty at Rutgers University, not knowing whether to laugh or cry about the national scandals that keep hitting our central administration. Having tenure has allowed me to stay focused on my passion for improving care for kids in the justice system. To that end I have been working on research funded by the U.S. Department of Justice evaluating services for gang-involved kids. My wife is tenured at Montclair State, and we’ve been collaborating on research on adolescent development. We just moved with our three kids (7, 5 and almost 2) to Livingston, and my son is delighted by the groundhog who resides in our backyard and the deer who wander over from the nearby park.” David Lee had a busy week in June traveling the West coast. “Was fortunate enough to have dinner with Joe Pew and Mopsie Pepper and their two adorable daughters up in Seattle. I went to Palm Springs and 105-degree heat for Adam Nagata’s wedding. I got to see Rami Batniji, Chris Murphy, Jay Ashton, Gretchen Engster, Matt Aselton ’93, Alex Shawe, Jessie Price, John Streng and Andrew Nagata ’97.” Apparently, the heat was so extreme that most people ended up in the pool. Fun! Mark Cordes and fiancée Virginie have been enjoying life and travel in the Northwest, fitting is some water sports fun at Lake Chelan, camping on the Olympic Peninsula and urban adventures in Portland, Ore. “It’s amazing that it’s all in such a compact area!” Greg Crowther sends a note that Pam Proffit Smith won America’s most prestigious ultramarathon, the (100-mile) Western States Endurance Run, in June. She became the second Eph to win this race, the other being three-time victor Nikki Kimball ’93. “In a message a few months ago I referred to myself as the self-appointed class distance runner; however, in light of Pam’s success at Western States, the world 100K championships, etc., the title really belongs to her.” He signs off, “Greg Crowther, class distance runner, emeritus.” Lisa Siraganian wrote, “This May I had a chance to chat with our former prez Francis Oakley about the Williams-Exeter Programme he initiated (and some of us experienced). He was receiving an honorary degree from SMU, nominated by one of my colleagues English professor Willard Spiegelman ’66.” Sheri Esteban-Elie and Teresa Rodriguez both wrote to report a lovely reunion, sans kids or spouses for themselves and Archana Unni Tamoshunas, Missy Pearlman MacMillan, Ammu Ramakrishnan Kirtane and Rachel Levinson-Waldman. The goal was to “celebrate our 40th birthdays this year (well, mostly this year—Rachel Levinson-Waldman is a young ’un). We met up in Boston and had an amazing time doing lots of fun things and having a chance to catch up. It was kind of like being in college again—staying up too late talking!” Sheri sent a picture, too, which shows six beautiful women having a great time. Brad Svrluga wrote about a similar event on the other side of the country. Being a Doughty-Housecentered event, there was a striper involved. “Most SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s notable, in honor of our collective 40th birthdays, and under the capable and inspired leadership of Brett Dalke, my housemates from Doughty House and I spent five days on a 75-foot houseboat in Lake Powell, Utah, over Memorial Day weekend. Those in attendance: Meech Ackah, John Berkley, Brett Dalke, Brian Eng, Randall Friedman, Grant Harbison, Chris Oleks, Dave Rowland and John Ruder. Beautiful weather, great company, lots of stripers biting and great memories. We’ll be back.” Brad reports his regularly scheduled life in Billsville continues to satisfy, though making it work requires weekly trips to NYC for a few days. “But that’s a happy and satisfying balance. We just finished hosting Becky Poate Schaffler, her husband Michael and their adorable kids Lucas and Lilly for a long weekend and Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival, which takes place each year at MASS MoCA in North Adams. Becky and family live in LA, where she and Michael practice law. We spent a lot of time over the weekend with Ali Garbarini ’94 and Micah Singer ’94. Ali is a professor in the history department at Williams, and Micah is an entrepreneur.” FlorenceMae Waldron celebrated her 40th birthday in May with a 40-mile bike ride. “Thanks to pregnancies/newborn babies/etc. over the past several years, this was the first time I’ve done a ‘birthday ride’ since I rode 35 miles for my 35th, and despite being early in the summer riding season, it was a fabulous ride and a fabulous way to celebrate. Closed out the month by celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary, for which my husband gave me a lovely silver pendant of a bicyclist that was custom-designed by the same local jeweler who (besides being an avid biker herself ) custom-designed our wedding bands.” As for myself, I took the low-effort approach to the big Four-Oh. Dave and I planned to pack up the three kids in the minivan to drive to Mount Rushmore for the 4th of July. That plan sounded really smart in June, but on the eve of the trip (as I’m writing these notes), I’m thinking this isn’t such a low-key idea after all. I’ll let you know how it goes, unless, of course, my long-term memory dissolves once I actually do turn 40. In that case, just assume it was great. And for the sad news: As our class notes were being collected, Eric Roiter and Neil Glass wrote to pass on the news of our classmate Geoff Quinn’s death on June 21 in a San Diego hospital with his parents and brother by his side. Geoff fought a courageous two-and-a-half-year battle against an aggressive sarcoma tumor condition that had been diagnosed in November 2010. Neil wrote, “Throughout the fight, we marveled at Geoff ’s ability to be completely selfless and thoughtful while maintaining his faith. For the past five years, Geoff had been studying at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary outside of Boston. He was working toward a Master of Divinity when his symptoms began. While at Williams, Geoff excelled in the pool, being named a two-time All American swimmer. He will be deeply missed.” As the news spread, many of you wrote to me to express your sadness. Geoff was a lovely soul, and he touched a lot of people, including myself. As Owen Bittinger noted, we have lost too many of our classmates too soon. We’re 40 now, and far enough 104

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from our youth to marvel at the beauty, strength and optimism that we witlessly carried each day. Yet still, we are 40 now—midway through this adventure and finally graced with some awareness of those blessings we’ve got. That’s a good thing. Take care of yourself, keep in touch, and call a fellow Eph this week.

1996 Lesley Whitcomb Fierst, 50 Scottsdale Drive,

Fredericksburg, VA 22405; [email protected] By the time you all read this, to paraphrase Florence + the Machine, summer’s dog days will be over, the dog days will be done, and for me, personally, at least, the horses indeed are coming. But more on that later. Mark Rudolph gets to be first, because he complimented my plea for contributions. “I enjoyed the video you sent so much that you have convinced me to send in a brief blurb. Regrettably, just like the two people in the video, I have nothing much of substance to say. I moved to Duxbury, Mass., last year from Plymouth. I remain a forensic psychiatrist who also maintains a part-time clinical practice. I have finally reached the point in my career where I can be somewhat picky about which forensic cases I take, and this is certainly a blessing. Other than watching the Williams College Reunion Jazz Band play, I have had no known recent sightings of fellow alumni (though I am expecting this will change right around your news cut-off date). In March, however, I did meet up with Professor of Music Emeritus Kenneth Roberts, with whom I have kept in contact since graduation, at a Boston Symphony Orchestra performance.” Speaking of long-lost classmates, Emine Fetvaci wrote, “Sorry I have not sent any news in a long, long time, but I hope to make up for that this time around. 2013 has been an exceptionally productive year for me Not only has my book come out (Picturing History at the Ottoman Court, Indiana University Press, 2013), but it has already been translated into Turkish, too. A volume of essays on Ottoman history that I and a colleague edited together has also appeared in the last week. Most importantly, though, my husband Daniel and I welcomed our baby girl Dilara on May 3. Dilara is a sweet little darling and quickly taking charge of our lives!” And Danny Kim wrote, “I haven’t contributed in a while, but I figured this was as good a time as any to do so. The big news is that I’m getting married (!) June 15. I might not have time before your deadline to provide a blow-by-blow, so I’ll give you the ‘expected’ details now. Anyway, I’m getting married in Columbus, Ohio, to Meagan Toohey (whom I met in law school at UVA). The ’96 contingent is expected to include: AJ (Bernheim) Brush and Mike Brush, Peter Everett, Bryan Greenhouse, Allie (Verderber) Herriott, Jared Hughes, Kyle Nagle, Barbara Shreve and Janet (Alter) Stocco. And, my best man will be my brother (Matthew Kim ’01). After the wedding, we’ll head to Bermuda for our honeymoon. Meagan got her fill of legal practice and is now an academic adviser at OSU. I’m still toiling away at DOJ. Unfortunately, for the time being, that means that we continue our long-distance relationship. Here’s to hoping that the Columbus legal market can stand to absorb one more lawyer—and soon!”

1995–96 Holly (Hodgson) Stephens recently finished her first year of teaching and first year back at work after being a stay-at-home mom for six years—“Definitely nice to be back in the classroom! Fun Eph visits lately from Jen (Nicholson) Todd and Jon Todd, Brian Spitzer and Laura Massie ’99, and Dawn Biehler-Day ’97 and Nathan Day ’97. Much fun was had by all progeny at the zoo and pool. Narrowly missed seeing Jen Suesse due to pink eye (ugh) but continue to enjoy weekly Kate Nights with Kate Marquis.” Kudos to Holly for her careful drafting—you can’t tell who had the pink eye. (Reminds me of the time a couple of years ago when I picked up my daughter Aviva from preschool and she said to me, “Mommy, I think I have junkatitis.” I had to hold back the laughter as I asked her if she meant conjunctivitis.) Speaking of discolored eyes, in June, Lydia (Vermilye) Weiss and James Weiss hosted a rockin’ cocktail party with many Ephs in attendance. (Get it?) Wes Smedley and his wife Lori, Henry Shinn and his wife Heather, Mary (Booth) Dwight ’97, Jim Heyes and his wife Julie, Sarah Greenberger and her husband Matt Engel, and Eyal and I all were able to ditch the kids, swig some drinks and enjoy a warm but not sweltering DC summer evening. Sarah is working as counsel for the Department of the Interior, and she and Matt recently had a daughter, Eliza, who joins their 4-year-old son Toby. Lydia (Vermilye) Weiss is working hard for our natural resources as a lobbyist for the Alaska Wilderness League, and Wes is an Episcopal priest just across the Potomac in northern Virginia. I didn’t get to talk shop with Henry or Mary, but I did get to see an adorable video of Henry’s twin boys. In June, Peter Goddard was ordained and became a deacon at the Myrtle Baptist Church in West Newton, Mass. Once again, like the last Goddard update, this did not come to me from Peter himself but from his dad/PR agent Brooks Goddard ’63. (Does Peter send in updates on his dad to his dad’s class secretary?) And Elizabeth Waugh-Duford submitted her own exciting news. “First, I got married to Tom Duford on April 13. It’s a second marriage for both of us, and we had a very sweet outdoor ceremony with just our families. All four of our kids participated and were adorable (as usual). Tiffany Steinwert was our officiant, and it was so wonderful to have her bless our marriage! Her sons Grady, 3, and Henry, 1, were very helpful, and husband Josh was a trooper throughout despite being on crutches! So, I am now Elizabeth Waugh-Duford (I promise this is the LAST name change, ever), and I have two stepchildren, Ben, 7, and Olivia, 5, along with my two daughters, Stella Rose, 6, and Callie, 4. It’s a total madhouse around here but full of fun (most of the time, anyway!). Second, Tom and I went up to the Boston area to visit his family, and I caught up with Jen Fain Greenwold, her husband Simon and their two children Molly and Henry; and with Kelly Beard and her girlfriend Sarah, who is awesome. Jen continues to work as a psychiatrist in Cambridge, and Kelly is in divinity school in Newton. I always love seeing my Williams friends—there’s truly nothing like that bond.” Agreed!  Speaking of the bond of Williams friendships, Alice (Borden) Peterson wrote, “Ali (Poett) Sullivan’s husband decided she deserved to get away for her

39th birthday, and Kasia (Sullivan) Horner, Sonia Ocasio and I were happy to support the cause. The

four of us spent the weekend in Miami, where lots of chatting made it clear we should be doing this much more often and the TRX class made it clear that we are no longer as coordinated or physically fit as we were when living in Dennett 130. We missed Margaret (Howell) Lawrence, who was in the process of moving to a beautiful new house in Brookline, Mass., and Katie Hyde, who happened to have another trip to sunny LA planned for Ali’s birthday weekend.” Speaking of girls’ getaways, Porter (Harris) May, Robin (Keller) Elliott and I had one of our own in May. (Karen (Robinson) Coyle was supposed to join us but couldn’t make it at the last minute.) We headed to Bronxville, N.Y., where Porter and her family have lived for the past several years, though we did head into NYC for the day, sans kids—which means we got to do things like try on clothes in store dressing rooms without kids either opening the door or ducking under the locked door and out of the dressing room when you’re the least clothed. It was wonderful to catch up with the girls again. The following month, Porter moved back to Winchester, Mass., where she had lived shortly after we graduated from Williams, but this time with her husband Peter and their three kids, Savannah, 6, Henry, 4, and Scarlett, 1. In other fellow mama news, Tonia Lopez-Fresquet began her update with an apology: “I wanted to update you last time, I really did, but my son Russell was born on Jan. 23 and somehow I didn’t manage it. He’s a wonderful, cheerful baby, and thankfully a much better sleeper than his big sister was. Still, caring for two little kids is keeping me (delightfully) busy. Betsy Rosenblatt ’95 is an honorary aunt, and we see her regularly, but otherwise I’m really missing more chances to see my Williams friends. More of you need to visit Los Angeles!” Speaking of California, “Things are going great here!” wrote Katie Sawyer Rose. “Two exciting work happenings: I got a commission to silkscreen a bank of floor-to-ceiling windows at a new apartment building going up on Nob Hill, San Francisco. They saw my work on California native plants and thought it was a good fit for the view out to the courtyard. (So now I’m learning to silkscreen!) I’ve also been accepted for a residency at Vermont Studio Center. I’ll be up there in September, and I’m looking forward to taking a day trip down to Williams!”  So I joked in the opening paragraph that the horses are coming. After 15 years in the DC area and the last seven years in Silver Spring, Md., only miles from the DC border, my family recently moved to significantly less urban Fredericksburg, Va. How much less urban? There is a house just down the street from us with goats in the yard, and now that the super hot weather has slowed down, the horses and cows are often out in the yard of the house (farm? Do the animals automatically make it a farm?) around the corner, on our way to my kids’ new school. It’s quite a change. Since that may not be enough change, I also recently changed jobs, joining the law firm of Troutman Sanders. We are sad to leave the area (where we’re 15 minutes away from Lydia and her adorable family!), but I’m excited for our new ’hood and to get more settled at work and at SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20005; 1997secretary@ williams.edu Through the first half of 2013, creativity is the name of the game for the class. Several folks have written in to report on the rave reviews Fiona Maazel’s new novel, Woke up Lonely, has received, as well as to note the thrill of seeing it featured at their local bookstore. Meanwhile, Brian Slattery has earned plaudits of his own, as in March his novel Lost Everything won the Philip K. Dick award for distinguished science fiction. Sumi Loundon Kim is writing a fourth book, a Buddhist-meditative curriculum for parents and children. Drew Bunting’s first album of children’s music, I Don’t Wanna Brush My Teeth, was distributed to subscribers of Bobbledy Books (Matthew Swanson’s and Robbi Behr’s creation) in June. Copies are available at bobbledybooks. com and on iTunes. Drew managed a second creation this year, as he and his wife welcomed a second little boy (Eddie) to the world on April 23. Something must be in the air, because boatloads of other classmates wrote in with baby news, for example, Julie Rapaport: “In February, Tom Reid and I welcomed our respective children, Amity Reid and Alec Derouin, into the world. Though they were due the same date, Alec beat Amity by about two weeks. … The past year has mostly been consumed with gestating and the results thereof. Alec has already hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and the top of Angel’s Landing (in Zion), not that he knew it. He’s also been to Tahoe (he was aware of that).” Gigi Saltonstall “hopes that all is well. … My husband JF and I welcomed a new baby girl on April 25 of this year, Josephine Saltonstall Goldstyn. All is well, and our older daughter Cordelia is handling it with as much grace as you can expect from a 2-year-old! I’m taking a few months’ leave from the landscape architecture practice that I started last year, SALT Studio, but I’m looking forward to getting back to work in the fall.” Luisa (Rios) Heinz had a second baby girl, Elsa, on April 8. Luisa notes that 4-year-old big sister Sofia and husband Matt could not have been more excited, and all are doing well. Lauren Araiza and her husband Charlie McNamara ’96 adopted a newborn baby girl at the end of March. They named her Rita Marisol McNamara, and she is an absolute joy. Rebecca Hynes checks in from Baton Rouge, La.: “My child has more love for the class notes than any alum ever could. She’s 22 months old and calls the class notes her ‘book,’ which she insists on carrying everywhere and having read to her. She curls up on it protectively when she goes to sleep. Future class of 2033 secretary? As for me, I’m still practicing family law in my solo practice and loving it. It’s great to feel like I’m helping people through a really hard time in their lives.” Warning, classmates: now that our audience extends to toddlers, I may feel compelled to censor some of your PG-13 entries—50 Shades of Purple, these notes are not. 106

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Alex St. Clair started running in the fall. Over Memorial Day weekend, Alex (literally) ran into Alexandra Barrage on the course of a half marathon in Alexandria, Va. (Alex was wearing Williams garb.) After the race, they enjoyed an impromptu gathering that included Alex’s kids, Penn, 5, and Laurie, 3. Two longtime listeners, first-time Class Notes callers stop by. First, Dan DeSnyder writes, “This fall, married the love of my life, Sarah, in Houston, where I’ve been living for the last seven years. We’ve firmly planted the flag in Texas, and I can’t imagine how our two careers will ever lead us anywhere else, so be sure to look us up if you ever pass through town. We had a great Williams turnout at the wedding—too many to mention, but it was great to finally mix up all those Williams guys and their families with the friends I’ve picked up along the way since. Thanks, guys.” Jeanette Kim also made her inaugural Class Notes appearance to share the birth of her first child, Juliette Sooheh Chu, on April 12, 5 lbs., 9 oz. Jeannette and Yvan “survived the first two months and are enjoying our adventure in parenthood.” Jeanette claims, “This is the first time I’ve EVER written in for class notes, so I guess nothing of note has happened to me since ’97 until this,” but plenty of us can testify to the contrary (details confidential, of course). Lots of interesting news from Dave Vosburg: “Dave and Kate Vosburg ’98 brought their three kids with them to Cambridge, England, on sabbatical this year, so stop by if you’re wandering through the U.K.! Dave received a grant from The BioLogos Foundation to study and write about the integration of evolution and Christian faith. He’s collaborating with The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion and also working in the laboratory of Jonathan Nitschke ’95 at the University of Cambridge.” Geoff Findlay is “still helping people get patents on biotech-related inventions. Within the last few years, I somehow got recruited to be a soccer coach for my daughters’ teams. Most recently I have been a coach for my daughter’s preschool team. As much fun as it would be to tell you that I have them organized into a group of Cobra Kai ninjas and brag online after we dominate other teams, at this age the game is more like ‘soccer fu’ than soccer.” I for one am glad to hear that none of Geoff ’s daughter’s opponents have, in fact, been victimized by sweeping of the leg, placement in body bags or general lack of mercy exhibited. Rachel Steel Cohn writes: “In June my family and I moved to Westport, Conn. My daughter Olivia starts kindergarten in the fall, and my twins Reese and Clark will be in preschool (we did not name them after candy bars on purpose). I love working at Facebook, where I can be found eating tofu scramble and drinking kale juice alongside 20-somethings while lying about my age. My husband Neil does environmental finance at a private equity fund, and he’s led the superhuman job of a yearlong house renovation—not for the faint of heart. We just got an SUV that I am quite certain is bigger than my freshman suite in Williams B. Looking forward to becoming active in the Fairfield County alumni group!”

1996–98 Emily Eldredge “gave, in late April, a TED talk at Marion Correctional Institution in Marion, Ohio, called ‘The Truth About Inner Demons,’ followed by three days doing the Drawing Out Process with inmates in three different Ohio prisons. It was one of the most incredible experiences of my life, and I feel so deeply awed and blessed to work with these men. I’m also thrilled to have illustrations by the wonderful Robbi Behr play a major role in my work.” Annie Thoms and Jeff Bolas welcomed the birth of their third child, William Elliot Bolas, on Feb. 13, 2013. Annie notes, “Will is developing into a happy, easygoing baby, and big sisters Eleanor and Isabel are great at entertaining him. After seeing Ken Harmon ’97 play the title role in a production of The Mikado in April, this entertainment has taken the form of increased dancing to Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. I’m on leave from teaching HS English for a little while but still blogging about children’s books (at annieandaunt.blogspot.com). Jeff continues to work in computer forensics.” Adrienne Lu’s family welcomed their newest addition, Veronica Lu Sullivan, on Jan. 24. According to Adrienne, “She is the happiest baby I have ever met, and we love her to pieces. Big brother Benjamin has not yet asked if we can return her to the hospital. In April we packed up and moved to a suburb of DC just in time to catch the last of the cherry blossoms, and last month I started a new job, so it’s been a busy few months.” Karen Vazquez and Mike Vazquez are still in Medfield, Mass. Mike is an orthopedic surgeon and practices in Milford. Karen is home with the kids—three boys and a girl. The oldest is 9, and the youngest is nine months. Craig MacDonald earns the award for most classmates mentioned per word in his update: “Not much happening here. Finally settled in on the move from Richmond to Northern VA. Looking forward to catch up with friends Pat Moore, Eric Kelly, Chris Mestl, Brian Higgins, Kevin Poppe and Bob Hyland at Frank Pericolosi’s wedding in August.” Congratulations to class secretary emeritus Bahia Ramos for being named one of south Florida’s 40 under 40 Black Leaders of Today and Tomorrow by the Miami Herald! And finally, lots of news from Holly Grace: “Kris Kahn and I welcomed our daughter Hannah on Feb. 2. We are sleepy but are having lots of fun with her. Kris continues to work on his company’s line of grills and grilling accessories, including a must-have summer essential called S’more to Love. I’m back at work with an affordable housing nonprofit where we will be breaking ground on construction of a senior development this summer. We’ve hosted Eph visitors from near and far to meet little Hannah. We had a fantastic time in April carbo loading and cheering on Mark Torres as he ran a super fast Boston Marathon (and are very grateful that we were unaffected by the awful bombings). He, Erinn and their two kids have relocated to Denver from DC. When not giving me much needed baby advice, Sandra Plouffe has been busy managing the gut renovation of her future NYC condo home and chasing after her two adorable daughters.” Thanks for all the updates, folks. I’m off to grill some s’mores!

1998 Jediah White; 503 South Prospect Ave., Madison, WI

53711; [email protected] Submitted by outgoing secretary Andrea Stanton: Hello and happy summer 2013 from Denver, where our late season snows have given away to hot days and some June wildfires. I hope that those of you who attended our 15th reunion had a terrific time and that those of us who did not attend enjoyed following the fun through Facebook updates and emails. Many thanks to our reunion committee cochairs, Erin Casey and Conrad Oakey, for their work in putting together what looked like a great array of events. Many people wrote in with family updates. Gwen Garber reports that she was married in June to David Hoffman, celebrating their Massachusetts wedding with Janee Woods Weber and Matt Woods Weber, Lauren (Guth) Barnes and Tony Barnes, Abby (Williamson) Fisher and Adam Fisher, and Samantha Abelson. “Despite the 95-degree weather,” she writes, “we danced the night away in the outdoor tent” and then “spent a few relaxing nights on Nantucket.” Bunge (Warren) Cook writes that he enjoyed seeing everyone who attended reunion and that it was “great to get a round of golf in at the Taconic.” He eloped with bride Eliza in early 2011, and they have been on the move ever since. “In July ’12 I completed my tour on recruiting duty in Los Angeles,” he writes. “We moved to Newport, R.I., where I just completed a master’s in national security at the U.S. Naval War College and Eliza worked in the JAG office.” He has been assigned to headquarters Marine Corps at the Pentagon for his next tour, and by the time you read these notes, Bunge and Eliza will be settled in Washington, D.C. Laura Davis Stahl writes that they welcomed son James Faulkner on May 3 and that “big sister Hailey is enjoying her baby brother.” They missed our 15th but plan to attend the 20th. Chris Smith writes that his family welcomed son Sebastian Christopher on April 19. Matt Garland also writes with news of a new one: he and wife Emily welcomed Nathaniel Gabriel on June 2. His father terms him “supercute.” Tui Sutherland writes that she and Adam Sterns are “having a wonderful time with our two boys ( Jonah, 3, and Elliot, 1) and loved bringing them to reunion and showing them around their future campus (no pressure or anything!).” The third book in her dragon series, Wings of Fire (Scholastic) came out this summer, with two more on the way. “I’m really excited about these books,” she says, “not least because they have the best covers I’ve ever had!” Another trilogy, co-written with sister Kari Sutherland ’02, came out with Harper in March. They enjoy the “Boston contingent of Williams alums, which now includes Jordi (Schuster) Battis and Seth Battis, as well as Kristin Cashore. They had a great time with Mitch Stripling and his family at his Brooklyn wedding last summer and stopped by Northampton on the way back from reunion to see Erica (Hyman) Kates—“her two girls Eden and Talia are ridiculously adorable.” She ends by noting: “It was great to have a minireunion of some of our entry (Williams A/Sage F) at reunion: Aaron Kammerer, Pete Robinson, Bryan Frederick and Thais Mariz de Oliveira, especially when our SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s JA Johnny showed up to say hi.” Maryellen (Davis) Collett writes that she and husband Keith also grew their family this spring, welcoming their second daughter, Maura Jane, on May 6. Lauren (Guth) Barnes writes that she and Tony Barnes added son Zachary Benjamin to their family on April 25. “Everyone is happy and healthy, and Ariadne loves being a big sister,” she writes. Veronica Roberts writes that after over a decade in New York, she has moved to Austin, Texas. “Although my mother was horrified (I think her knowledge of Texas is limited to 1980s Dallas episodes) and made me promise that I won’t acquire a Texas twang (no worries there) or wear cowboy boots (couldn’t promise that), I absolutely love Austin,” she writes. Having moved for a position as curator of contemporary and modern art at the Blanton, she says: “I pinch myself to be living in the land of great live music, bats, dogs—everyone has one—and breakfast tacos.” She hasn’t spotted Ryan Gosling at the local Whole Foods yet but has seen Liz Craft “quite a bit” and adds that she now has an “actual guest bedroom, so any and all Ephs should please holler if they are ever in town.” Stefan Papaioannou has accepted an assistant professor position at Framingham State University, and he and his wife look forward to reconnecting with other Williams folk in eastern Massachusetts. Jeri Williams “has moved back to southern California and has joined a neurology practice in Bakersfield. She is subspecializing in movement disorders as well as intraoperative monitoring deep-brain stimulation procedures for neurodegenerative disorders and dystonia.” Marla Robertson writes that she and her family have left Chennai, India, after seven years to relocate in Shenzen, China. “I’ll be teaching second grade at Shekou International School, while my husband will be involved in teaching and administration in the high school,” she writes, adding, “Our kids Talia and Taitum will be entering third grade and kindergarten. We’re very excited about the move and about getting to know a new corner of the world!” Kate (Hedden) Vosburg and Dave Vosburg ’97 are off to Cambridge, England, for a year-long sabbatical. “We’ll spend it exploring castles, punting on the Cam, and cultivating British accents,” she writes. “That will be particularly amusing for our three kids (ages 7, 4.5 and 4.5); I’d love to see them pick up British slang,” she adds. They’ll miss seeing Pam Bromley, who was to return from a sabbatical in Germany over the summer. From Boston, Peter Robinson writes: “I’m very fortunate to have some of my favorite Ephs nearby. We’ve spent time recently with Aaron Kammerer, his wife Daphne and son Henry who recently moved from Cambridge to Newton. And to really make our lives easier, Jim Bell and Caroline (Nesbit) Bell ’99, Riley and Myles moved there too. Jim whipped us up some gourmet sandwiches while Millie and Riley got acquainted. Despite pressure to head five miles west, Liz, Millie and I remain in the South End of Boston continuing to love our neighborhood of 12 years.” Michael Veloso writes that for the past 18 months he has “been composing music and doing sound and game design for the upcoming video game Fantasia: Music Evolved! It’s a wicked exciting project to work on, and it will be a pretty singular 108

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experience,” he says. “In other news, Emily Ronald ’99 and I are raising our wonderful son Julian, who is nearly 3 years old. And somewhere in there I’m trying to find time to write some songs for a local avant-rock band.” Leah (Pollak) Abel writes that she and Jason Abel “had a blast catching up with old friends at the reunion and particularly enjoyed hanging out with the many Sage F-Williams B alums (Leah’s old entry-mates) who made the trip. The very next weekend we enjoyed an impromptu family vacation up to Traverse City, Mich., for Father’s Day.” The highlight, she notes, was Sleeping Bear Dunes, “an amazing expanse of sandy dunes that stretch for miles. We trekked barefoot, seven miles in all, to enjoy beautiful Lake Michigan, which resembles an ocean. The three kids, Jack, going into fourth grade, Emmy, going into second, and Alex, entering kindergarten, kept leaving Mom and Dad in the sandy dust! The next day Leah and Jack enjoyed ziplining at a pirate-themed adventure park.” Jed White writes: “Reunion was a blast, though it seems there may be a five-year hangover.” He adds: “It will take my daughter that long to wear through her supply of purple cow tattoos, and I’ve been dubiously honored as the next class secretary. Since the thrills and chills in my life are monopolized by two very small people who also would rather not hear about my day, I’m looking forward to keeping up with everyone else’s much-more-interesting lives until another excuse for beer pong in the Berkshires.” Catherine Riihimaki writes that she “went all the way to reunion, only to discover that I work across the street from Chris Little at Princeton University. I guess I should write updates a little more often!” She adds: “I’ve been at Princeton now for just under a year, working to improve science education for our undergraduates. It was great to see so many friends at reunion, especially seeing all of our kids (future Ephs?) playing together.” Mike Ryan writes that he has been living outside Philadelphia for the past six years, “working for an investment firm in the burbs.” He says: “At the reunion, my three little kids enjoyed sporting their new purple cow shirts and made new friends among their future Williams classmates,” adding: “Tony Barnes talked me into serving as VP of the next reunion, but I don’t know that we can top this year’s show!” Whether you attended our 15th reunion in person or in spirit, I hope you’ll all enjoy this concluding update, from James Kossuth, who says: “I love reunions. I missed the fifth, but the 10th and 15th were just amazing. I’ve been to my wife’s high school and college reunions and my high school reunion, and I’ve heard about other non-Williams reunions, but really nothing comes even close to the experience of a Williams reunion. Ann and Lucy (now 6.5) both look forward to reunion almost as much as I do.” James adds: “While it’s not always going to work out to have your entire Mission Park suite reunited so that you can reminisce about any of various literally sophomoric escapades, it’s quite a different experience altogether to have meaningful conversations with people that you basically—for whatever reason—never crossed paths with during school.” He notes: “There’s a song that Lucy sings in Daisy Scouts—‘Make new friends, but keep the old; one is silver and the other gold.’ I feel the same way

1998–99 after this reunion. The possibilities for friendships in our class, even with people I never knew during school, are endless. And that’s a wonderful thing.”   This is my final update as class secretary. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to receive your updates every four months—thank you all for sending them in and for leading such interesting lives. In the meantime, I’ve done my own bit of writing, and am happy to say that I just received advance copies of my first “big girl” book, This is Jerusalem Calling: State Radio in Mandate Palestine, which the University of Texas Press is publishing. I’ve also been doing an increasing amount of speaking and writing on Syria, a place dear to me for all the wonderful experiences I had as a part-time Damascene from 2002 to 2006. And, to seal my identity as a Coloradan, Ted and I adopted a rescue dog: part Golden, part mystery pooch, all hiker. And now, I hand the digital torch to Jed White, who as noted above will be taking over as class secretary for the next five years. Please welcome him this fall with a big bouquet of updates: [email protected].

1999 REUNION JUNE 12-15 Erik Holmes, 915 East Mayfair Ave., Orange, CA 92867;

Nat White, 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT 06039; [email protected] As a class, we seem to be settling into routines of work and family life, with most updates centered on major changes like new babies or jobs and fewer of you sending in small updates about visits with friends. This may be OK for the next year, since we will hopefully have a large contingent getting together to catch up in person next June, but then I hope we’ll get brief updates again, even if they don’t contain anything major. If you’re interested in helping plan our reunion, please email Dede at dedeot@ gmail.com. On the note of reunions, I’ll start with some affinity reunions that just took place. Jodie Hearn Wilson brought her husband Bob and daughter Sylvia to Williamstown in April for the 25th anniversary of the computer science department. Jodie notes that it was “a tremendous event, especially considering both organizers and attendees are generally not known for their social skills.” Jodie enjoyed the informal mingling as well as the official program, catching up with Matt Bell, who works at Google in NYC, Derek Sasaki-Scanlon ’98, who runs his own business, mypetchicken.com, and Art Munson ’01, who just signed on with a tech startup. Rachel Axler wrote about the Ephlats reunion (which I also heard about from my colleague at Hotchkiss, Betsy Beck ’77), where she got to catch up with Wesleyan professor Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Mark D’Arrigo, Nat Roland and “a bunch of awesome humans from our surrounding years.” Facebook rumors indicate that Mark did something important in Las Vegas, but I haven’t heard a direct report, so you’ll have to wait. Rachel continues to write funny things for a variety of programs, mostly for TV (How I Met Your Mother, Goodwin Games), but also for movies (Epic). Several classmates snuck into a 15th reunion a year early, by way of their spouses. Stephanie Sewell King and her husband Jonathan King ’98 won the award for having the youngest child among the 15th

crowd; Alexander Thomas King was born on May 11 and made the trip from NYC to Williamstown at 4 weeks old. Also attending were Kim Comeau Webster ’98, Sam Webster and their boys. Stephanie also recently met up with Catherine Bagley Beamer and Brooke Harnisch in Boston. Catherine was in town from San Diego for a conference, and Brooke is moving from Boston to Milwaukee for a fellowship. Stephanie and Jonathan moved to a bigger place near Columbia, and they are greatly enjoying truly having space for their two boys and goldendoodle. Since the move, Stephanie met Jan Postma and his 6-month-old, Lily, for lunch. Rich von Bargen is set to take over as the new president of the Williams Club in New York; he’ll take the reins at the 100th anniversary annual meeting and dinner in June, and I’m sure he’d love to see classmates drop by. David Glendinnig and Hans Davies took their annual trip from DC to Atlantic City in the spring; they returned heavier in the midsection and lighter in the wallet, and it sounds like fun was had. Jon Kravis elected not to join in this year, instead choosing to spend the time with his wife Laura (Jacobs) Kravis and kids William and Emily. Hans reports that wife Jennifer Walcott is thrilled to join the board of BalletNova, a dance company providing instruction and performances for children and adults. Hans and Jennifer are already planning their trip to reunion, but in the meantime they will head for Holland and for Maine. The evertraveling Marc Barreda wrote that he was headed out on an Alaskan salmon-fishing boat with Josh Pierson ’00 and Adam Nesbit ’97, and they were anticipating the arrival of Todd Carnam ’00. Meg (Randall) Park and her husband Eddie Park ’98 welcomed Ella Nayoung Park into the world, only 13 days after her due date. Meg reports that residency has trained her well for the sleep deprivation and given her the ability to nap any time, anywhere. Meg and Eddie had visitors before Ella was born: Dan Polsby ’96, Darby Jack ’97 and Nathan Foster ’98. Meg and Eddie and Ella will be in LA for at least two more years; Meg has one year of internal medicine residency left at UCLA and is staying on an extra year to serve as chief resident. Fellow California resident Cara Yoder Matzen and her husband Evan welcomed their second son, Theo Yoder Matzen, on March 1. Theo is a mellow, smiley baby, much like older brother Rigel. Ethan Gutmann and his wife had their second child, Brendan Michael Gutmann, on March 13. Brendan is aiming to be as tall and skinny as his dad. Julie CantatoreFrancis and Jon Francis are excited about the arrival of boy #3, William Vito Francis, who arrived May 13. Julie reports that, thus far, older brothers Nolan and Augie have been good helpers. Cathy Warren and Scott Snyder are thrilled to announce the arrival of Sebastian Warren Snyder on April 9. Sebastian is set to be an overachiever like his parents, starting by arriving a couple weeks early. Cathy, Scott and Sebastian are headed from New York to Jupiter, Fla., where Scott has taken a job at the Scripps Research Institute starting this fall. Amy Patterson is also starting a new job in academia in the southeast; she’ll be an assistant professor of public health at Agnes Scott College, in Decatur, Ga. Amy is very excited to be returning to SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s her liberal arts roots at a school with purple as one of its colors, even if it’s in the South, all-female and much smaller. Erik Holmes, his wife Shannon Reid, and their son Declan planned to move to Charlotte, N.C., at the end of June. Shannon has finished her PhD and taken a post as assistant professor of criminology at UNC Charlotte. Erik is continuing his work as a jury consultant, now working from home and traveling quite a bit. Erik would love recommendations for BBQ joints in Charlotte. Before the move, Erik and his family caught up with Ian Eisenman and his family in San Diego. Ian and his wife Ariane both work at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. In addition to Ian, Ariane and their kids Maya and Leo, Ian Lewis ’00, his wife Tricia, and their kids Joshua and Lilly joined in on the farewell dinner for Erik. Christina Williams wrote in from South Sudan, where she is spending three months as a surgeon with MSF (Doctors Without Borders). Upon completion of this stint, Christina will “return to exciting Ohio to continue my more ‘normal’ work in surgery.” Erryn Leinbaugh also has the travel bug. He finished his residency in Providence and sold his house. Erryn is taking his wife and daughter on a monthlong vacation in Moscow to meet the Russian side of the family before moving into their new house in Williamstown. Erryn will be an ER attending at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. Lindsay (Beach) Petersen has been hanging out at home, where she is entertained by her kids Eric and Ellie. Ellie is a girl after my own heart; she apparently wakes up making the sign for “bike” and patting her head so her parents know it’s time to put her helmet on. Lindsay did catch up with Becky Logue-Conroy and Anazette (Williams) Ray via Google Hangout, something that the Lehman East girls apparently try to do several times a year. Lindsay’s massage clinic has moved into a building with an orthopedic surgery office, so she’s looking forward to hanging out with some people “at the top end of the medical food chain. It will make me feel like I’m back at school with all you other geniuses.” Speaking of homes, Andrea Slate Daily showed hers off to the entire country on the Today Show on June 14. Andrea’s husband Brent was featured in a story as a follow-up to a piece in the Wall Street Journal about why new dads don’t take paternity leave. It was a good few weeks for our class in major news media, as Sarah Carr had an opinion piece published in The New York Times on June 16. Sarah’s column relates to her new book, Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America’s Children, which is focused on New Orleans schools. As for me, I’ve been catching up with, and missing, Ephs in various places. My wife, Julie Rusczek, and I took our kids Jasper and Greta up to Great Barrington, Mass., to catch up with Becky LogueConroy and her twin girls Maeve and Meiris in time to hear the fabulous news that Becky’s husband Chris Conroy has made it to the major leagues as an umpire. We had a visit from my brother Jed White ’98 and his family on their way to reunion, where he apparently decided that this class secretary thing was a good idea and he should try it. I missed connecting with Jess (Green) Murphy when we were each 110

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in Ann Arbor for weddings at the same time and didn’t know it. I was there for Andrew Henderson’s wedding to Kate Crary, and it was lovely. Andrew is an assistant professor in Houston, and Kate (a grantwriter extraordinaire) has her office two doors down. While there, I did get to catch up with groomsman Neelay Shah and his wife Roopal, in from Portland, and Albert Dang and his wife Elaine, in from San Francisco by way of Chicago and en route to Toronto. Neelay continues to work for Intel, and Albert is working for Frog Design. Upon my return to campus, I re-met Heather (May) Eckert ’00, who will be moving into the next building over as she and her husband Michael move from Blair Academy to Hotchkiss. I hope you caught the theme of these notes, and I hope that it will spur you to start planning for June. I’m looking forward to seeing a lot of you back in Williamstown next year. In the meantime, keep the news coming in!

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02139; [email protected] Let’s start with the MLE’s. It has been a very busy year of human child making. Alexis (Gilman) Khalil welcomed a baby boy, Oliver Myles Khalil, on April 26. “He is a very calm and easygoing baby and is much loved by his big (by eight years!) sister.” Dan Mason’s forbidden MLE from last night is forbidden no more, as he welcomed daughter Sara Jane on Pi Day, March 14. “Big bro and big sis love her and have accepted her into the wolf pack,” says co-pack leader Dan. Dan also had the pleasure of running into Chris Richards, who described his Google workplace to Dan as “magical pony land.” We have two other members of the Three Child Club (TCC), the first being Class Notes All-Pro Deb (Frisone) Young, who welcomed Hannah Fay Young on April 24. Hannah weighed in at a solid 8 pounds, 2 ounces. “Life is busy, nothing else to report!” Then there’s Lily (Filip) Trajman, who celebrated the birth of daughter Miriam Yvonne on May 2. “I’m thrilled to have a daughter after two boys. Gideon and Asher are adjusting pretty well, and Omer and I are struggling to shift from manto-man to zone defense.” The Trajmans live in the Castro in San Francisco and were planning a busy summer of international travel. Kate (Flynn) Grant and Tom Grant scoff at the Three Child Club members (they actually do no scoffing at all, but it’s more fun if I say they’re scoffing), having graduated to the Quatro Society (QS) with the arrival of Garrett David Grant, born May 9. Key stats: 8 pounds, 14 ounces, and 20½ inches long. “With the addition of our fourth boy we can now have a brotherly team represented in the 2030 Winter Olympics—either in curling or bobsled.” Also joining the QS are Amy (Sprengelmeyer) Healy and Jason Healy, who added twin girls Nora Leilani and Maya Waileia on May 13. The two girls totaled 12 pounds, 2 ounces, and 36 inches of baby. Big brothers Seth and Evan are reported to be very loving siblings and are even helping with diaper changes. Amy wrote that “life is busy and sweet,”

1999–01 which was a very sweet thing to write, really. Both Amy and Jason still work at Suffield Academy. Morgan (Eckles) Bernstein was good enough to provide us with a double-MLE update: Last summer she married her business school sweetheart, Matt Bernstein, and in May she welcomed her first child, daughter Dillan Melia Bernstein. Stats: 7 pounds, 6 ounces, 19 inches long. Morgan and Matt live in San Francisco; she works at the Haas School of Business. Congratulations also go out to Molly (Cummins) Scott and Richard Scott, who welcomed Lucy Hunnewell Scott, little sister to Henry, on April 22. The Scott family resides in Washington, D.C. Debbie (Ebert) Bloss and her husband Kevin welcomed Charles Thomas Bloss on May 27. Debbie wrote: “Charlie is doing great, and his big sister Ella loves to give him hugs and kisses. It has been a wonderful few weeks so far.” She then gave us a very Torie Gorges-esque flourish by adding, “although we do miss our sleep.” Anna Frantz and Matt Levy’s second child was so eager to get in under the Class Notes deadline that he arrived two weeks early. Zachary Lee Levy was born on June 19, “fighting in the featherweight division at 4 pounds, 14 ounces,” according to his proud papa. Wrapping up the new additions portion of our program this time is Sarah Weston, who welcomed daughter Miriam to the world on March 26. First-time Class Notes writer Nicole Steinmuller married Benjamin Shappell on May 4 in Nantucket, surrounded by several of our fellow alums. She and Benjamin met through friends in Boston during her medical residency. Nicole finished her medical training last year after a fellowship at the University of Rochester and is now working as a family physician, also on Nantucket. We will start our Classmates Being Awesome at Things (CBAT) section with someone who is far from a first-time submitter, Sara (Caswell) Kolbet. Sara is very excited to announce that she is going to graduate school, specifically to the speech language pathology program at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore. So excited is she that her email included not one, not two, but four exclamation points! “I’m aware that Virginia (Pyle) See is going through a similar program in Washington—we’ve been in touch about it. Of course, only mention that if she does.” Well, she didn’t mention it, but I’ll include it anyway! Sara continues to raise her two children, a son who just finished kindergarten and a daughter who is starting preschool. Julia Brown wrote for the first time with news of some very cool work that she was planning for later in the year. She was to spend three months during the summer in Milan on a grant from the George Washington University, and in the fall she was planning to return to the U.S. to do an artist fellowship at The Core in Houston and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in Washington, D.C. Meg (Ting) Ryan switched jobs last February and is now working in a private practice endocrinology group in Bryn Mawr, Pa. She also had a great time at husband Mike Ting’s ’98 15-year reunion. They took all of their children, Finn, Declan and Eve, and even gave them purple cow tattoos. I assume temporary, since Meg did not specify.

David Gilford works in the administration of Mayor Bloomberg in New York, leading the city’s energy, clean technology and resilience economic development programs. “Post-Sandy it’s been a challenging but exciting time, developing programs to try to make us better prepared for the next storm.” His work also brings him into contact with Emily Small, who is chief of staff for the Division of Energy Management. In June, Dave met up with our distinguished class secretary, emeritus, Bert Leatherman, who was visiting from Brazil. Also, as of this writing, Dave and his wife were preparing for the imminent arrival of a highly forbidden MLE. Congrats to Pat Burton, who is now a tenured professor in the biology department at Wabash College. Pat remarks: “Looks like I’ll be in Indiana for quite a while…” Will Darrin changed jobs within the insurance industry, moving from Liberty Mutual to Travelers. Otherwise, he says only that he is trying to keep his daughter Autumn from eating sand at the beach. Closing out this section is Lauren (Singer) Cohee, who finished her year as chief resident of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins and has started a second year of an infectious disease and tropical pediatrics fellowship at the University of Maryland. Her husband Brian is working on a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care at Walter Reed Medical Center. So basically, if your family needs medical care, you could do a lot worse than finding a Cohee. Time for Lightning Round: Katherine Birnie enjoyed visits with Aya Reiss, Ethan Plunkett, Taylor Schildgen and Lauren Buckley last spring. Katherine works in environmentally focused private equity; Aya is a pediatric resident at Children’s Hospital in Seattle; Ethan and Lauren are ecologists in Massachusetts and Seattle, respectively; and Taylor is working on a postdoc in geology in Germany and Peru. Vineeta Mahajan Bonthala lives in Chicago and works as an in-house attorney for a bank and has two young sons, ages 4 and 2. She had dinner with Andre Mura in the spring and runs into Rob Howell frequently. Hilary Barraford probably didn’t expect to see this in print, from her June 17 email: “I got nothin’! Sorry dude.” No worries, homegirl. Steve Roman, with his patented bulleted list: “Ran the LA Marathon with Drew Sutton on St. Patrick’s Day. Visited Boston to get some nerd on with Jon Pearson, Brad Geddes and Alfonso Gonzalez del Riego. While I was away, my lovely wife Becky (Iwantsch) Roman visited Kevin and Virginia See as they vacationed in Northern California. I believe they destroyed some Salvadoran food. Smooches, my fantabulous gringo.” And with that…

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C l a s s N ot e s theater festival). Michael, who is the writer, lyricist and co-producer, went to Korea with a group of 20 performers, designers and creatives to mount this brand new production that included puppetry and masks. Songs from Sunfish were also featured in concert as part of the Broadway’s Future series at Lincoln Center in May. Sarah Thomas’ film Backwards, in which she stars opposite James Van Der Beek, is still on iTunes and became available on Netflix streaming in June. In March, Sharmistha Ray was one of five artists nominated for a 2013 L’Oreal Paris Femina Women Award in the Art category. This award, given in 17 categories, “honors women with extraordinary accomplishments, outstanding leadership qualities and exceptional commitment to their careers and communities,” according to news site India-West. Sharmistha will be opening a solo exhibition at Aicon Gallery in New York on Oct. 24 (and would love to have Ephs come check it out). Rob Seitelman finished his fifth year of teaching last spring and was looking forward to teaching theater at Mountain View High School in the fall. In June he participated in a reading of a new play as part of Berkeley Repertory Theater’s new work development program called The Ground Floor. Seth Brown has created a hip-hop card game, Legend of the Cipher, which combines strategic card play and rapping (two of Seth’s hobbies). The game was released this year at PAX East and is available at LegendoftheCipher.com. Seth said that initial reviews have been positive. After 11½ years, seven moves and four overseas deployments as an active duty Marine Corps officer, Rob MacDougall and his family decided that it is time to return to the “civilian” world. Rob, his wife and their four children moved to Northern Virginia in July. They are hoping that this move will allow them to settle down and stay somewhere longer than three years. Reflecting on his years with the Marines, Rob wrote, “It has been such an honor to serve in this capacity, and I will miss it dearly!” Melissa (Vecchio) Wood and Don Wood ‘00 moved to the DC area in July because Melissa took a job as director of speech and language at The Lab School of Washington. Melissa also noted that at all of 4 and 2, sons Cameron and Tyler already team up and conspire against her and Don, and that their days are filled with a mix of laughter and exasperation. Joey Shapiro Key accepted a position as director of education and outreach for the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at the University of Texas at Brownsville and was anticipating a move to Texas. Her husband will also be working at the university, and their kids were looking forward to learning Spanish and going to the beach. After three years teaching in Cape Town, South Africa, Darik Velez and Elizabeth (Moulton) Velez ’02, along with their kids Rigel and River, have returned to New England. They began teaching at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire last fall and have enjoyed the return to New England, which has put them closer to family and allowed them to host a Williams gathering over New Year’s. Darik wrote that they have also had the pleasure of meeting Aaron Marsh and his family, who were also in their first year at St. Paul’s. 112

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After nearly 11 years in Washington, D.C.,

Heather Barney moved to Lewisburg, Pa., last fall to

coach rowing at Bucknell University. She misses the city but has found Lewisburg to have a charm not unlike that of the Purple Valley. On June 15 Heather and her partner Abigail were married in nearby Bloomsburg, Pa., in a ceremony attended by Roshni (David) Guerry, Kristin Wikelius, Laura Spero ’02, Lisa Cohan ’02 and Liz Mygatt ’03.Heather also had the chance to see Meg (Tierney) Gemborys (and her kids Henry and Hazel) and Elizabeth Roller Apgar (and her kids Maggie and Charlotte) when she was in Worcester, Mass., for her team’s conference championships. (Her crew won!) Royce Smith was named to the 2013 list of Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, which annually recognizes the top five percent of Pennsylvania lawyers. Royce, who works for the Philadelphia personal injury law firm Feldman Shepherd, was recognized as a Rising Star last year. Jessica Robbins graduated from the University of Michigan with a PhD in anthropology in May. She got together with Danielle Tarantolo, Kristin Wikelius, Margaret (Radzik) Scoolidge, and Kristine Taylor in Brooklyn to celebrate. Danielle reports that they had a blast though were reminded that it is dangerous to try to drink like they are 22. Danielle is enjoying her work as a lawyer at a legal services organization, where she does class actions on behalf of the poor. She also loves hanging out with her 1½-year-old son Carlo, who was just learning how to talk back at the time of this writing. Verena Arnabal and her family bought a house in Westchester County and were planning a mid-July move—in time for her elder daughter, Maya, to start kindergarten in the suburbs in the fall. Chris Koegel and Susan Levin Koegel ’02 are still in Boston, where Chris is enjoying working at Bain and Susan teaches biology at Tufts. Their daughter Shelby, 2½, enjoys playing with several other Williams kids: Amelia (daughter of Robert Adamo and Jessica Bauman ’02), Caroline and Fletcher (Todd Rogers’ kids), Wilson and Lucy (Will Ouimet’s kids) and Ralph and Sam (Aaron Marsh’s kids). Caren Mintz and her husband closed on a home in Manhattan in January, becoming shareholders in a co-op apartment. The new home was part of their preparation for the arrival of their daughter, Hannah Sylvie Grossman, born Feb. 17. Hannah was due on Caren’s birthday but chose to wait about a week, so she got her own day. Four months in, Caren was enjoying motherhood and reported that Hannah looks very happy in her Williams onesie with a purple cow on it. Michele Kovacs and Scott Goldberg ’02 had a son, Ty, on Feb. 27. They are still living in Venice, Calif., and Michele graduated from family medicine residency this summer. Feb. 27 was also the date when Tracy Zanco welcomed her second daughter, Keira Rose Hardekopf. In June, Tracy was about to start doing pro bono legal work teaching a class on law to teen parents. Cameron Clendaniel and Sara Hausner-Levine ’02 welcomed their second child, Hannah, in March. They are still living in Brooklyn, N.Y., where their son Jack, 2, goes to school with Lizzie Jacobs’ son Henry. In mid-June, Cameron, Sara, Jack and

2001–02 Hannah bravely hosted a Williams weekend in the southern Berkshires. They were joined by Ryan Grimaldi Pickard and John Pickard ’99, with their children Luke and Claire, and Kaitlin Rahl Brandt ’02 and Nick Brandt ’02 and their children Jamie and Lila. “As far as I know, everyone survived!” Cameron wrote. On April 2, Jen Berylson welcomed her second child, Zachary Leonard Block, who joins big brother Benjamin Jay Block. Jen’s family still has their giant Saint Bernard, and Jen reports that she is officially outnumbered. A few days later, on April 4, Fumi Tosu and his wife Karen welcomed their first child, son Yushi Tosu. Melissa (Scuereb) Bonventre and her husband Brian had a baby girl, Kara Alexis, on May 31. Their son Lucas is 3. Writing about all the new babies brings me right back to when our daughter was newborn; however, at a bit over 1, Stella Jean isn’t so much like a baby any more. She gave me kisses for the first time on Mother’s Day, and she started walking on Father’s Day. Toddlerhood, here we come! Feyisara Akanki visited with Vanea Norris and her husband Derek at their home and reports that their little baby girl is no longer a baby either but a toddler with a bright smile and curious eyes. Sadly, the reason for Feyisara’s visit with Vanea was not a happy one—Feyisara’s mother passed away at the end of April, and she was in Boston for the funeral. During the funeral, Williams friends Enuma Menkiti, Dafina Westbrooks and Vanea were there to give Feyisara support. Back at home in Texas, Feyisara has been working as an adult physician at a Parkland clinic in the Dallas metro area since just before the New Year. She noted that the transition from resident to full attending was a bit bumpy, but that as of June things were going smoothly. I am really grateful to Feyisara for her news this time, because I had been thinking about how to acknowledge, in this column, that not all of us are facing a bed of roses each time I send out my little blurb requesting news. So many of the updates I piece together for these notes are life’s high points, yet I know that there are classmates out there who are also going through difficult life events between these columns. Sometimes I hear about those events, usually followed by a request to leave that piece out of the class notes; most of the time I don’t hear about them. But I’d like to acknowledge that they are out there. They take many different forms: unemployment, divorce, miscarriages, deaths of loved ones, health issues and more. If that’s where your life is, I hope you know that you’re still just as valued a member of this Williams community as are the people with the sunny news. If that’s where your life is, I hope you have friends like Enuma, Dafina and Vanea to support you. And if you’re one of the supporting friends, thank you.

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Patrick McCurdy, Maximilian Niederste-Ostholt

and I all joined Sam Wilson on his bachelor party in Reykjavik, Iceland, in early June. We hopped a red eye and hit the ground running upon our

arrival. We took an ATV safari along the mountains that surround Grindavik (a fishing town about 30 minutes outside of the capital) before decompressing at the Blue Lagoon. With little to no darkness, we explored Reykjavik’s extensive nightlife and were shown around by a mutual friend named Vikingur. Although we were only there for 48 hours, it is a trip none of us will soon forget. Patrick, Max and I also attended Billy Marino’s wedding in Palm Beach, Fla., in early May and had a blast soaking up the sun and catching up with Billy, who is working and living in Boca Raton, Fla. Also in attendance were Chris Bruno, Chris Hall and John Snipes ’08. Nicholas Minekime planned to marry Andrea Nogales ’04 in July, and they decided to make their home on the East Coast. “I moved to NYC in April and am now enjoying a new commute through Central Park every morning. I couldn’t have picked a better time to arrive. After six years in the Bay Area, I’m looking forward to being closer to Williamstown, family and the beautiful East Coast with its four seasons again.” Nick is still with Capricorn Investment Group and is focusing on building a business in solar finance. Daniel Morales is a new dad. Dan’s wife Gwendolyn (Baxter) Morales ’00 gave birth to a baby girl, Calista Isadora Morales, on April 15, 2013. Hillary (Weinblatt) Chapman and Jason Chapman wanted to share the wonderful news that their daughter Sydney Allen Chapman was born on April 23 (eight days early and a day after they closed on the sale of the downtown Boston apartment). “She’s loving her assortment of purple cow onesies and other Eph-related paraphernalia!” Sarah (Hart) Unger, her husband Joshua and their 1-year-old daughter Annabel planned to move from Durham, N.C., to Miami Beach, Fla., this summer after finally finishing their medical training. Sarah will be starting as a pediatric endocrinologist in Hollywood, and Joshua will be starting as vascular surgeon in Miami Beach. “We will miss Durham but look forward to lots of excitement up ahead!” Sarah wrote. Tenaya (Plowman) Kolar purchased her first home with husband Nathan Kolar ’05. “It’s just a few blocks from where we live here in Hailey, Idaho. We’re doing a bit of remodeling before we move in. … But we’ll be keeping (for the time being) the orange shag carpet, pool table and wet bar in the basement—it’s quite the party pad (in case anyone wants to visit!). Looking forward to getting through the construction phase and into something livable!” Tenaya reports that Nate has been teaching at the Sage School for the past two years and that they regularly see fellow Ephs who have also been involved in the startup: Emily Olsen ’09 and Hilary (Angle) Weekes ’94. Tenaya’s brother Jonathan Plowman ’00 was planning to be married “here in the valley, amid some lovely mountain views, on June 22. Should be a great party with a few Williams-folk making the trip out.” Topping off Tenaya’s eventful June was a gathering of fellow Ephs in the Bay Area, including Sarah Barger, Brooke Ray Smith, Annie Weiss, Jenny Wetzel, Hilary (Hackmann) Redden, Brooke Toczylowski ’03 and Susan Fulmer. SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s Garry Sanders sent a report from Oregon, where he crossed paths with a few Ephs of late. Laddie Peterson came down from Portland for a ski weekend and again in May to compete in the 2013 Pole, Pedal, Paddle with Garry, his wife and another friend in the team category. “Good times were had all around by Team VAGL, and we posted a respectable finish in our age category. It was great to see Laddie before she leaves Oregon for the East Coast.” Garry was looking forward to spending some time with Eric Moore and his wife Beth during a whitewater rafting trip for five days in June. Garry has promised photos for the next issue. Eric Olson-Getty has gotten back into running big time. “I completed my first half-marathon in March and hope to run my first marathon sometime in the fall.” Eric has been involved with the Moral Monday civil disobedience actions organized by the NAACP at the North Carolina General Assembly in Raleigh. “I got arrested on May 20 protesting a laundry list of right-wing policies being churned out of our legislature and governor’s office, and it has been exciting to watch the movement grow from week to week.” Sadaf Ahmad celebrated the birthday of Nura Kinge ’05 with Christopher Calfee ’04 and other Ephs at a Moroccan restaurant in Dupont Circle, DC. “Belly dancers entertained the crew.” Sadaf is looking forward to Williams Alumni of Color reunion weekend on Martha’s Vineyard with Enuma Menkiti ’01 and Jamilla Deria ’01. However, she will miss Heather Brutz, who departed Washington, D.C., with her boyfriend for a MBA program in North Carolina. Sarah Philipp’s summer has been hectic so far. She returned to Jacksonville, Fla., from her deployment to Japan at the beginning of June. She’d been there since Thanksgiving in her job as a Navy squadron flight surgeon. “Deployment went well, but I’m very happy to be home.” When she wrote, Sarah was on her way to Peru for a two-week vacation and was “looking forward to seeing Machu Picchu, whitewater rafting in the Amazon, zip lining, sand boarding and exploring Lima and Cusco.” Upon her return she expected to be busy with residency applications. This is her final year with the Navy, so she was applying to civilian emergency medicine residencies over the summer. Ethan Rutherford’s first collection of stories, The Peripatetic Coffin, was published in May and called a “bracing debut” by The New York Times. He had a lovely few months traveling in support of the book (and seeing old classmates as well). In August he and his family planned to move to Akron, Ohio, where his wife Maryhope accepted a job as a professor at Kent State. Ethan was “looking forward to seeing David Roberts just about every day.” Irene Hollowell reports that her work at Southern Exposure Seed Exchange includes garden photography, customer service and trial crop growing, so she gets to grow and eat “lots of unusual stuff like sesame, Swordleaf lettuce and Mexican sour gherkins. A couple weeks ago we planted 11 kinds of edible gourds and 24 kinds of winter squash in our trial gardens.” Irene also reports that she “enjoyed a trip to Hawaii, where I met up with Adriana Woods ’03; she and her husband have a plant nursery with rare fruit trees.” 114

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Unfortunately, as Irene Hollowell was coming home from Hawaii, the warehouse burned down at Acorn intentional community, where she lives. Their woodshop, autoshop and a portion of their seed inventory were consumed. “We were all relieved that no one was hurt. Despite the fire, Acorn Community is also a experiencing a time of delights, including baby goats, baby humans (getting ready for our second), a high proportion of couples, growing seed sales and many delicious lacto-fermented vegetables.” Noelle Ho reports that Drew Gatewood ’10 was working in Hong Kong for Citibank over the summer. Russell Yeh ’79, HK alumni association chair, emeritus, hosted a small dinner to welcome Drew to the city on June 6 at the Shanghai Fraternity Association. At the dinner were Drew, Russell, Noelle and her husband Wai-Shan Lam, Trisha Yeh ’04 and her husband Ed Tsui, Thomas Leung, Conrad and Martin Matsui, head of the external managers division of the reserves management department at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, which is Hong Kong’s Central bank. Martin is the uncle of Kaison Tanabe ’13, who happens to be Drew’s wrestling teammate back at the Purple Valley.

2003 Claire Magat Raffaelli, 56 Old Spanish Trail, Portola

Valley, CA 94028; [email protected] Submitted by outgoing secretary Anri Wheeler Brenninkmeyer: It was great catching up with so many of you at reunion in June. Our class had a record turnout, and we hope to have even more at the 15th! David Brenninkmeyer and I had a great weekend introducing our daughters Summer and Harper to Williams and seeing friends. Highlights included: the car ride up with Perry Kalmus during which he regaled us with tales of his life in LA; walking in the parade with the double stroller; watching Summer and Harper play with Sarah Lenzi’s son Ethan and Davida Kutscher’s daughter Carmel; laughing harder than I’ve laughed in a while with Gus Howard; and late night at Goodrich with WRFC alums. New class officers were named at reunion and are as follows: President Perry Kalmus, VP Lisa Schulman, Treasurer Fulton Breen and Secretary Claire Magat Raffaelli. It has been a true pleasure gathering and writing your notes for the past five years. Thank you for sharing all of your milestones and minutia with me. I look forward to reading Claire’s notes in the years to come. Babies, and more babies… All told, our class’s offspring count rose by 12 since last notes! Ray Stahl and Jessica Calfee Stahl had a baby girl, Emily Virginia Stahl, on Feb 23.   Tracy (Borawski) Baker gave birth to son Brecken William Baker on Feb 26. Brecken joins older brother Jackson. The Bakers recently renovated and reopened the Spirit Shop Deli, and both the liquor store and the new deli are doing well. The class of 2003 reunion blew other 10-year reunions out of the water when it came to alcohol consumption (and attendance in general), and Tracy sends a big thank you for the business. Whitney Hosty and her husband Patrick welcomed their second baby, Henry, on March

2002–03 18. Whitney, Patrick, Lillian and Henry made the trip from Kansas City to Williamstown for reunion and had a wonderful time catching up with everyone. They loved meeting all of the other kids there, especially the other possible members of the classes of ’32 and ’35.  Tim Austin and his wife Jess have a new addition to their family. Cecily Mae Austin was born on March 20. Tim and Jess are enjoying watching her grow and develop and were looking forward to summer, during which they’d have lots more time to spend with her. All three had a great time catching up with people at reunion. On May 1, Pete Glenn-Applegate’s wife Katherine gave birth to Edward M. Glenn-Applegate, their first child and a future member of the Class of 2035. Trisha Blake ’02 and Alex Blake welcomed their third son, Zion Alika Barbosa Blake, weighing in at 7 pounds. Alex has been traveling back and forth to New Jersey working at Johnson & Johnson HQ for a marketing project. He had dinner with Andy Ramirez ’02 in Princeton, N.J. Abby Tadenev and Mike Tadenev are still in Bar Harbor, Maine, and loving it. They welcomed a little girl, Molly (Mary Lucille Tadenev), on May 5. She arrived a week late; must have wanted to wait for a Cinco de Mayo birthday. Abby and Molly are both doing great and were finding that summer is a great time to be on maternity leave in Bar Harbor. Andrew Layng has two new additions to his family. His wife Caitlin gave birth to twins on May 31. Finley Evelyn and Henry Hamilton were born a month early, but both came home with Caitlin and are doing well. Big brothers Charlie, 4, and Teddy, 2, are happy to have another brother and now a sister as well. Amy Graham was sad to miss reunion but had a very busy spring. Amy’s husband was transferred to DC, and they were very happy to leave Illinois for northern Virginia. Their daughter Lucy Eleanor was born on April 9, just a couple weeks after the move. Amy is taking some time away from practice and has been writing for a veterinary journal while staying home with Lucy. Amy and her family love being back on the East Coast and exploring the DC area. They have seen Jen Nail several times and were also able to see Grey Maggiano give his last sermon before moving. Amy was looking forward to catching up with more classmates in the area. Also on April 9, Alix Davis Weiss and her husband Andrew welcomed their first child, Averil Sophia. In her first two months of life, Averil had playdates with Philadelphia-area Ephs Lindi von Mutius, Camilla Lynch and Bethany Sayles Yu, as well as enjoyed a visit from Katharine Baker, Eric Woodward and their daughter Ayelet. After many happy years in Philadelphia, Alix moved at the end of June to Baltimore, Md., where her husband was to begin a cardiology fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She is eager to reconnect with Baltimore-area Ephs. Liz (Campos) Pearce is still at Vanderbilt and has two years left in her otolaryngology, head and neck surgery, residency. She was so sad to miss reunion but for a good reason: she and her husband Russ welcomed Oliver “Ollie” Daniel Pearce into the world on April 24. He arrived one month early,

only six days after Liz’s Willy B roommate Emma (Herries) Purdy had her son Hunter. Liz and Emma can’t wait for Ollie and Hunter to go on their Class of ’35 WOOLF trip together!  There are also three weddings to report. Catherine Denver Fowler is living in Baltimore, Md., with her husband Brad, an attorney. They were married in October 2012 and are looking forward to a new addition soon: a dog. Catherine works in nursing and public health at Johns Hopkins and is contemplating a doctorate in public health, but for now she’s enjoying not being a student. Andrew Ferrer and Caitlin Barrett were married in May and had a blast at their reception at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., with Joe Gallagher, Mike Pinkel, Jason Leith and Chris Vaughan ’04. Andrew and Caitlin moved into their first home in Wellesley, Mass., after coming back from Maui and Kauai. Linda Lau married Gavin Rosenbush in Boyds, Md., in May. ’03ers there to celebrate with the couple included Kyla Dotson, Caroline Fan, Andrew Golden, Janet Ho, Jiyong Kim, Lisa Marco-Bujosa, Binney McCague, Joo-Hee Suh and Brigitte Teissedre. Miguel Payano’s first solo show in Hong Kong, Koicocks, was a success. His interview on the TV program Dolce Vita aired in June. You can see the online catalog for his show at http://bit.ly/1aoOsy7. Jenny McElroy bought a townhouse in the Twin Cities last September and is finally moved in. In addition to catching up with many classmates, Jenny’s reunion travels also allowed for her to hang out with grad school buddies Elliott Hibbler ’00 and his wife Laura.   Vivien Shotwell received her artist diploma in opera singing from Yale in May. In March she sang at a recital at Williams with Paul La Rosa ’02 and Noah Lindquist ’08. Her novel Vienna Nocturne, which began as a short story she wrote at Williams, is coming out in February 2014 with Ballantine Books. Jon Hatoun was in DC for a pediatric conference and stayed with Josh Kotin, his wife and their 4-month-old baby boy, who are all doing well. Jon finished his residency and started a general pediatrics academic fellowship at Boston Medical Center in July.  Peter Tucker and Emily (Glenn) Tucker relocated to the Bay Area last fall. The Tuckers and their daughter Amelia, who turned 2 in June, live in Los Altos. Emily works as a child psychologist in private practice, and Peter is an attorney. Nina Chaopricha finished her PhD on organic carbon stabilization in deep and buried soils and is enjoying living in Ithaca, N.Y. On a recent family trip to Boston, Nina’s husband enjoyed trying out Seth Brown’s ’01 “tabletop hip-hop game,” Legend of the Cipher.  Liz Chase has accepted a position at Stonehill College in the library. She also hopes to teach undergrad classes in Irish studies. Tad Hodgson is going to be working from home for Slalom Consulting. Liz and Tad moved back to the Boston area and are happy to be back from the South. They’re looking forward to seeing more of their ’03 friends. They’ve already seen Joe Lucia, Katherine McGrath, Steve Eyre and Caty Sumner. During a visit to New Jersey, SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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us luck, and if you’re on the left coast look us up as we pass through!” Steve Seigel was at Paul Weiss DC for the summer in the litigation department, working part time as a summer associate and part time as a babysitter for all the young 20-somethings in his summer class. In the office, Williams grads are also outnumbered by Amherst grads 2-1, which is a little disheartening. Luckily, there is a partner in this office, Alex Young K. Oh ’90, who kindly keeps vigilant lest the Amherst folks get too aggressive. Otherwise, Steve is very happy to be back in DC and reunited with his husband and dog until law school starts back up again in September. Myriam Southgate moved to Amsterdam over the summer and celebrated the new king’s coronation and the last Queen’s Day (for a while). Her new job is at Heineken, and she will be doing quite a bit of business travel around Africa and the Middle East. Akilah Rogers studied luxury hospitality in Monaco for six months at the International-University of Monaco. After four years in Colorado, Mike Henry is back in DC, where he’s helping to open an office for his employer, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Martin Mudd reports: “As the second year of the Montessori High School comes to a close, I reflect on my participation in founding and sustaining it, and at the same time I am making a transition to half-time teaching Japanese and advanced maths next academic year and spending the rest of my days doing historic building restoration work, developing my vision of liberatory education, and growing and cooking food for me and my partner Nishaan. Although I do not often see many Williams grads here in Lexington, Ky., I do enjoy reading about the social justice work of radical Ephs around the country.” M.J. (Prest) Lanum just published (as M.J. Prest) a young-adult novel titled Immersion. She says, “My audience is teens, but it’s perfect for adults as a beach read due to a scorching hot love triangle and just enough action to keep you reading late into the night. It’s now available on Amazon.com and as an audiobook on iTunes.” On May 11, Carolyn Robbs married Jeff Bilanko in Palm Springs, Calif. She felt so lucky that Meredith (Jones) Clifford and Sean Clifford ’05 were able to come and represent our alma mater. She hadn’t seen them for four years, and Carolyn got to meet their beautiful daughter Ellie. Jeff and Carolyn spent their honeymoon exploring France for two weeks. She reports, “On our first night in Paris, we went out to dinner and were seated near two other English speakers. We struck up a casual conversation, and about 30 minutes in, we realized one of them was another Williams alum, Chris Muir ’05! Jeff, Chris, his girlfriend and I ended up drinking wine and talking long into the night. The bartenders even sent us off with complimentary double shots of absinthe. It was a perfect start to the trip.” While still working as a Boston Chocolate Walking Tours tour guide, Ally Matteodo joined the Cambridge Historical tours, which offer Harvard tours, Cantabrigia tours, ghost tours, and pub crawls! She also appeared in the 4th Wall Stage Company’s

2003–04 production of Sam Shepard’s Simpatico, directed by Barbara Guertin and performed at the Hanover Theatre in Worcester, Mass. Prior to this Ally performed in What a Drag with Theatre with a Twist at the Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley for a fundraiser to generate money for the Country Day School of Groton. Over the summer Ally was working with the Massachusetts Theater Experiment on The Other Side of Town, a fictional story with realistic characters and settings that takes place in 1968 Somerville.  On April 24, Melanie (Beeck) Gaudion and her husband Lee welcomed their first son, Oliver Lee. Melanie says, “My mom had been here from Brazil a couple of weeks, my dad a few days and my brother was arriving with his wife and 22-month-old when I was in the delivery room. They came to stay with us almost a month, and boy was it a crazy, fun—at times very loud—experience having all the South American energy, a 15-month-old hyperactive Vizsla dog, a cat that seeks attention and someone to play with at all times and who thinks she’s the house princess (she isn’t wrong!) and a newborn all under the same roof.” Jonathan Langer and Nicholas Brandfon visited Tim Patterson in Craftsbury, Vt., for a week of turkey hunting after the wedding of George W. Evans. The turkeys outsmarted them for six mornings, but they finally bagged a gobbler on the last day, and it flew back to Denver with Jon.  Kristen (Van Woert) Connolly and her husband Greg welcomed their baby boy, Colin Edward Connolly, on Oct. 20, 2012. He loved meeting Brookie Kaltsas, Sarah (Torkelson) Stickney, Tim Stickney, Pete Endres and Caitlin Canty in his first few weeks/months of life. Kristen says, “He loves to smile and is always on the move; we are blissfully happy!” Kristen finished pediatric residency in June, and they were staying in Vermont, where she planned to join a pediatric practice near Burlington. Kristen is looking forward to our 10th (gasp!) reunion next year! Shamus Brady had the honor of serving in the wedding party of Bill Ference ’07. Shamus managed to lose count of the number of family members he was escorting in but redeemed himself by helping the groom with a wardrobe emergency at around 9:53 p.m. He was only able to navigate to the wilds of Pennsylvania and out of lower Manhattan thanks to trusty co-pilot Eric Engler. Needless to say, after a quite pedestrian and rather boring bachelor party it was nice to attend a wedding with some excitement. Nick Borja married Annie Lord in Miami, Fla., on April 20, and a strong Williams contingent was there to celebrate: Carlos Silva, Elliott Baer, Elliot Morrison, Zach Yeskel, Heather Brubaker ’03, Jeremy Redburn ’03, Rob Gonzalez ’03, Rana Kannan, Krishna Kannan ’03, Dan Schwab ’02, Ellie Cowen ’06, Thomas Hall ’06, Ceci Calleros and Jeremy Calleros ’98. All the fun Frisbee-playing and dance floor antics gave Annie a taste for what’s in store at next year’s reunion; she’s just as excited as Nick is!   On March 8, Kate (Berens) Bucki and her husband Craig welcomed daughter Colleen Victoria Bucki into the world. In April, Kate was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Buffalo and Erie County

Public Library. She is enjoying being a new mom and serving the community. After meeting at ACE Jazz Lounge in Goodrich in 2003, Ariel Peters ’06 and Drew Newman are engaged and are planning a November wedding in the Berkshires. Elliot Morrison, Maggie Popkin ’03 and their son Toby bid New York farewell, moving to Cleveland, where Maggie will be a professor at Case Western, and Elliot will finally be something more closely approximating a real lawyer. Anyone else who wants to halve their rent and quadruple their square footage is invited to join them in the rust belt. Laura Day had a blast with Ephlats from the Classes of 1963 to 2016 at the a cappella group’s two-year-late 55th reunion back in April, along with Herr Dr. Professor Jamie O’Leary, Liz (Dimenno) Rooney ’05, Ashok Pillai ’05, Sasha (Gsovski) Albohm ’06, Nim Deshpande ’07, and about 70 others. Andrew Giarolo graduated from Seton Hall Law in May and was to start work as an ADA for Berkshire County after taking the bar later in the summer. In the meantime, he was making good use of the Sawyer monkey carrels while studying for the bar. Laura and Ashley Cart ’05 ran a halfmarathon together in Lenox and Stockbridge over Memorial Day weekend. It was cold and rainy but made very exciting by the bear that crossed their path at mile 3.5! Their respective husbands, Andrew and James Cart ’05, along with the Cart kiddos and three-legged dog won the unofficial prize for “most supportive spouses” as they drove all around South County to cheer them on. Kristin Cole writes: “I’ve been embracing the California lifestyle and thriving in my foodie mecca of Oakland, where the sun is always shining and temps are 10 degrees warmer than SF! I’m living the freelancer’s dream and balancing my time between chefing and organizing farm-to-table yoga events with a Williamstown ‘townie.’ Pei-Ru Ko ’09 also helps us out at these WildSoul events. I live close to Sara (Gilliam) Lonergan and family and visit often for my doses of dog and baby time!” Prosper Nwankpa writes that he has two wonderful kids, Jesse, 23 months, and Pearl, 4 months, and that he is “loving life and working on many cool things!” Tim Stickney and Sarah (Torkelson) Stickney have been enjoying their time living in Maine, where they have been since 2012. Tim and Sarah felt compelled to write (after a long hiatus from Class Notes) after a weekend at Newfound Lake in New Hampshire at Ashley Carter’s family lake house. Joining the festivities were Pete Endres, Adam Grogg, Nicole (Eisenman) Weber, Cortney Tunis, and Ashley Carter and Laurel Carter ’12 (among others). Activities ranged from bathrobe modeling, flip cup, channeling Justin Timberlake and Snoop Dogg, dinner making dance parties, not sleeping followed by napping and deep conversations in the sauna. Everyone agreed that our rendition of “Mirrors” is top notch and that Tim really needs a better fitting robe. Dave Arnolds and his wife Marin welcomed the birth of their son Edward Porter Arnolds on May 20. Dave has one more year left in his MD/PhD program and is hoping to have a real job before the baby starts college. SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s Hannah Harte is working part time and started a graduate program in psychology at Pepperdine. It’s no Williams, but it feels good to be in school again. She’s also thrilled that Sumana (Cooppan) Wolf was to move to Los Angeles over the summer! Since last July Scott Grinsell has been in DC, clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The clerkship was winding down, and Scott was headed back to New York for the summer. He was looking forward to a few months of vacation and seeing everyone he missed over the past year. Chrissy Milkosky got married Oct. 6, 2012, in High Point, N.C., to Jonathan Gentry. Her bridesmaids included Amanda Stout and Jessica Ebberson. On the eve of class notes being due, Heather Foran was working late with Jen Lazar, the two of them about to embark on the Field Academy’s third summer expedition. They’ve been building this traveling high school for the last three years, and in July they were to be studying water and survival in the Southwest. Daniel Shearer, who had the pleasure of being on the board during the first year when Claire Samuel was assisting with the first expedition and before Annie Moore jumped on the board, reports that the students absolutely love the experience and come out of it ready to direct their own education. Get in touch with Daniel for more details on the emerging alumni movement to get Williams to divest from fossil fuels. Daniel and Jen also just bought a house with Rachel Brodie ’02 in Richmond, Vt., and you should visit! While visiting, you might also run into Claire Samuel or Ken Brown ‘05. Zak Haviland ran into Ben Fleming in Brooklyn, and the clever fellows realized that the two women they had married last summer were best friends who had grown up together in Dallas, Texas. Oops! They caught up about corporate law and principal-ing, and Ben confided that yes, he still has night terrors. Devin Fitzgibbons was MIA and likely taking care of his really cute new baby, whom he reports has almost developed the balance to ride a cat. Jonathan Langer continues to live in Denver, although he surprisingly felt pangs of jealousy for life out east on recent visits to Tim Patterson’s custom house-on-a-hill in Vermont and George Evans’ and Nick Brandfon’s classic red-brick apartments in Brooklyn. Jonathan left BakerHostetler, where he’d practiced since law school, to join the boutique business law firm Izbiky & Assoc. Alex Grashkina-Hristov writes: “I was in Sofia, Bulgaria, in June and hung out with Petya Miteva ’10, who leads visitors to the city on tours and pub crawls. Then, I went to London and met Roman Herman ’06 for brunch. He had flown in from Bratislava for the weekend, and he met our 11-month-old daughter. Also with a cute little girl, Teodora Ivanova-Limon ’03 and her husband seemed to be enjoying living in London.” Charlie Davidson writes: “Kam Shahid, Rob Follansbee, and I had dinner with my dad Max Davidson ’61 in New York, while Kam was in town for a two-week rotation. Way back in 2012, Dave Rackovan and his girlfriend Yana stayed with me in NYC, and we rang in the New Year at a party down in SoHo. Finally, I moved to Williamsburg despite being a Manhattan lifer to date. Thankfully, I found 118

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nearby. While meeting at a rooftop bar for a beer on Cinco de Mayo, we ran into a glittery face-painted, sombrero-wearing Andrew Zimmer, which just happens to be one of my favorite types of Zimmer.” Keith and Joanna (Touger) Olsen welcomed their second son, Asher Jacob Olsen, on March 22 and have settled in as a family of four. He is a very happy baby and has already enjoyed his first playdate with Matt Hoffman’s son Brendan. Keith graduated from the MD/PhD program at University of Rochester in May. He will complete his intern year in Rochester, after which they will be headed to Portland, Ore., in June 2014 for residency. They look forward to seeing Pacific NW Ephs.

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Charles Soha, 150 Huntington Ave., Apt. NA6, Boston, MA 02115; [email protected] Friends, the Class of 2005 has surely been on the move since our last issue. Dave Cohen relocated to Chicago to start his residency at Northwestern in internal medicine and would love to hear from any Williams folks who are there. Zach McArthur was moving to Chicago in August to start a new teaching job. He’s excited to reconnect with Alice Brown, who teaches in the suburbs there, and he may live with Jeff Koegel ’06. Vladimir Andonov has been in Chicago for nearly a year for business school. He met up with Jane McCamant and ran into Gigi Stender at a Williams event in May. Vladimir also went to NYC for three days to get together with Ivan Manolov and Kamen Kozarev. They reminisced about their early post-Williams days and had dinner at an Austrian restaurant on the Lower East Side. Bart Clareman graduated from Harvard Business School alongside Bynum Hunter and David Roth in May. Bart moved back to NYC, where he’s cofounding an education technology company called Tiggly (www.tiggly.com) that’s developing toys for toddlers that interact with tablet screens. He notes to those that have children, nieces or nephews that Tiggly makes a great gift! Marissa Doran graduated from Yale Law in June and will be clerking for a year in San Diego. She then plans to move back to New York. Dan Lieberman graduated from medical school in June and moved to Seattle to start residency at the University of Washington in emergency medicine. Maryl Gensheimer and Jason Davis were moving from New York to DC over the summer; Maryl is to join the faculty at the University of Maryland in the fall. They were sorry to say goodbye to New York but were both looking forward to catching up with Ephs in the area. Micah Halsey and Elena Bonifacio graduated from Columbia Business School in May. Micah and his fiancée Simone Levien ’08 moved to Brooklyn. They went up to Williamstown for her fifth reunion and had a blast. Jocelyn Gardner Spencer and Matt Spencer are moving to Connecticut, where Jocelyn will be the pastor of the First Congregational Church of Woodstock. Matt will be teaching math at Holy Cross in Worcester, where he ran into Beth Landis when he went for his interview. Hilarie Ashton was gearing up to start her PhD at CUNY in

2004–05 the fall. Until then, she’s preparing for her mother’s memorial, kickboxing up a storm, writing a book and soaking up as much sun as she can. She celebrated Alana Whitman’s 30th birthday in June and was also thrilled to see Davida Kutscher ’03 and her daughter Carmel when they were stateside for Davida’s 10th reunion. Phil Smith celebrated his 30th birthday in the East Village with Kerel Nurse and Kerel’s wife Ines Major ’06, Veronica Mendiola, Kyle Acebo, Elena Bonifacio, Chuck Soha and Vishal Agraharkar. Vishal had a similar celebration a few weeks later with a similar crowd—including Phil, Kerel, Ines, Elena and Chuck as well as Abby Whitbeck, Amanda Niu, Laura Futransky, Chris DeNicola and Karl Johanson. Meg Bossong turned 30 and says, “Mike Silverstein is correct: It does make you better at complaining about things.” She participated in the Daring Change event that the college held back in April (http://www.williams.edu/daring-change/), “which was really fantastic, and I was really energized by the number of people coming together to talk about Williams’ identity, past, present and future.” Christina Villegas spent her 30th birthday in San Francisco biking, hiking and celebrating with Jessica Lovaas ’06 and Gina Calderon ’04. Christina’s been gardening at her folks’ house in Queens, N.Y., with the help of consultants Faith Lim and Julian Lazalde ’04. After working in Arizona for two years at The Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, she’s back in NYC, working at The Bronx Defenders, and is excited to reconnect with folks and make new friends. Phil Enock, still in the process of working toward a PhD in experimental clinical psychology at Harvard, published his first journal article (http:// bit.ly/13N6dDm). It includes research on mobile applications for mental health treatment. Jennifer Simmons trained for and successfully completed her first three half-marathons: the first in February at Disney World, the second in March with a variety of rock bands and the third in April at the Nike Women’s Half Marathon, where she received a Tiffany’s finisher award. JJ O’Brien has started his own adventure, making “rather rad apparel” (hemhaus.com). He spends his days getting fit with Katie Shattuck’s Move Me Fit platform and spotting Chief Resident Dr. Emily (Welsh) Gottenborg’s picture throughout the halls of UCSF. JJ sends special thanks to Megan Henze for flying out from NYC to celebrate his 30th birthday in Tahoe, along with the many other Bay Area Ephs who made the trip, including Katie Shattuck, Emily (Welsh) Gottenborg, Drew Gottenborg ’06, Garrett Collins ’04, Blair Coffman ’06, Christian Henze ’09 and Marco DeMeireles ’09. Kara Weiss (karaweiss. com) is releasing her debut book, a novella-in-stories titled Late Lights, complete with a blurb by Williams professor Jim Shepard on the back! A book launch party was planned for NYC along with other events in Salt Lake City, Seattle, Boston and Martha’s Vineyard throughout the summer; she hoped to see ’05s at them. Daniel Krass loves life in Music City, halfway to his doctorate in audiology at Vanderbilt. He saw Jocelyn Gardner when she was in town and hangs out with Sam Goldman every so often. He

anticipates returning home to the Bay Area in a year for his clinical externship but in the meantime offers a free place to stay in Nashville. Molly Sharlach completed her PhD in microbiology at UC Berkeley and in September was starting a one-year certificate program in science communication at UC Santa Cruz. She looked forward to a summer of relaxation, travel and relocation from Berkeley to Silicon Valley with her husband Kevin. Jonathan Landsman made a trip up to Boston to link up with Zach McArthur and head north to rendezvous with Ken Brown at a Vermont ski mountain. Before they hit the road, Jonathan worked Yelp to painstakingly choose a breakfast place with the largest homemade donuts he’s ever seen. The order of the day was “we are old men; let’s not get hurt.” Jonathan took one lone black diamond shortcut, and that made him the team stunt devil. They put in a respectable four hours or so then headed back to the lodge for more donuts, drinking coffee like a New Yorker—so much that Jonathan muses that he drank Ken and Zach under the table. Ross Smith plans to spend four more years in Uppsala, Sweden, where he is starting a PhD position. When not busy in the lab, he was out in the forest, training for a summer of big orienteering competitions. The most exciting was planned for Cali, Colombia, in August at the World Games, where he and his fiancée Samantha will be representing the U.S. While near Albany, N.Y. for the team trials, he hung out with Dan Weintraub and Anna Popick ’04. Ashley Weeks Cart and James Cart are giving vegetable-gardening a real try this season—stopping at nothing to have farm-fresh tomatoes. They bought a small farm in Vermont last spring, aptly naming it Cartwheel Farm. They have a flock of chickens and 12 kitchen garden beds and are learning all about life out on rural country roads. Their daughters are getting old enough now that they can help and learn the joys of farm life. Next up? Sheep ownership, so that Ashley can have an endless supply of wool to feed her knitting obsession. Tim Crawley hung out with fellow Spring Streeter Matt Earle ’07 at the Crawley compound in Cottage Grove, then went back up to Portland, Ore., where Matt was able to satiate a massive coffee craving at Stumptown. Katie Dolbec planned to start a sports medicine fellowship in Lewiston/Augusta, Maine, in July after finishing her emergency medicine residency in Portland, Maine. Jaime Hensel graduated from the Yale School of Nursing with an MSN to become a family nurse practitioner. Sara Martin and Ari Schoenholtz came for her graduation. Pam Choi is a surgery resident at Washington University in St. Louis, undergoing a basic science research fellowship studying small bowel adaptation. One day, at a joint surgery-radiology conference, she happened to sit down next to John Symanski ’06, who is a radiology resident. Pam was looking forward to her summer wedding with Deborah Hemel and Nisha David as bridesmaids. Beth Potter and Devin Fitzgibbons ’04 welcomed Anne Potter Fitzgibbons to the world on April 22. They’re still living in Brooklyn and were looking forward to escaping to the Adirondacks for the summer. Asha Rhodes-Meade married Sean Meade on May 25. Barrington Fulton and Jamal Mobley ’04 and SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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Washington, DC 20003; [email protected] There’s lots of good news to share, so let’s start with Megan O’Malley, who got a promotion; she’s now a producer at R/GA and is working on the Nike FuelBand. She’s also loading up on extracurriculars: R/GA has a Toastmasters chapter, and she’s an officer; plus, she started a company CSA—“lots of yummy treats.” She, Kristyn Bretz ’07 and Cecilia de la Campa were set on doing all of the touristy things New Yorkers never actually do, like walking across the Brooklyn Bridge and visiting the Brooklyn Botanic Garden over the summer. High-five to Lisha Perez, who graduated from Wharton in May and is back in NYC for a new job at Unilever. She saw Ikem Joseph and Joe Hutchinson at Ikem’s birthday in June. Emily Casden was “co-maid of honor” with Joe at Jon Russell and Melissa Paige’s (15!) wedding in April, and over Memorial Day weekend she and her girlfriend April moved in together; they now share a spacious one-bedroom in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. “We’re one block from Prospect Park and actually have too much space.” Emily reports that April has been welcomed with open arms into the Eph “cult,” as she calls it. Meanwhile, Emily is still at the Jewish Museum, and she coordinated the career retrospective of comic artist Art Spiegelman, which will be on view from Nov. 8 to March 23! Lisa Lindeke and Seth Daniels got married at the John J. Audubon Center in Audubon, Pa., on May 26. Their guest list included 39 alums spanning the classes of 1968 to 2006, including both of their fathers, Craig Lindeke ’71 and Paul Daniels ’72. Lisa wrote, “It was particularly special to us to be able to have a self-uniting marriage (allowable in Pennsylvania due to its Quaker heritage).” Two of their brothers officiated—one of them is Bill Lindeke ’01—and Colin Yee and maid of honor Emily Bonem served as their witnesses. At the end of the night a dozen Ephs recreated the dance to “What a Feeling” from the Winter Study music video that needs no introduction. Lisa and Seth honeymooned in Greece and Turkey and are now back stateside, where Lisa is in the last year of her PhD program in child clinical psychology at Penn State, and Seth is a mortgage foreclosure litigation attorney outside of Philadelphia. Sarah Louise Smith attended EunSu Chang’s wedding in May along with Jay Bid, Michelle Lee, Thomas Kunjappu, Tseli Mohammed and An-Lo Yu ’07. While vacationing in Morocco and Senegal she spent time with Matt Hsieh and Meg McCann, who are living in Dakar. They visited a resort called 120

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Obama Beach and (accidentally) went off-roading through towns all over West Senegal. Brad Brecher wed his fiancée of two years, Erica, in Boston on June 1. At the wedding was a herd of purple cows, including Adam Bloch, Zack Orjuela, Blake and Sasha Albohm, Laura Borland and her husband Seth Borland ’03, Guy Smith ’04, Brian Carey and Abby Carey ’07, Ben Bullitt ’08 and Mike Kirwan ’08. Brad changed jobs within the Marine Corps and now works as an operational law attorney at the II Marine Expeditionary Force. Erica graduated from Tufts Dental School and was to start a pediatric dental residency program at UNC Chapel Hill. While they were in Boston, Blake and Sasha checked in on Evan Bick and Gillian Sowden’s boys, who were turning 1. Sasha and Blake have their own bundle of joy—a dog named Scotch, who is also a year old. She’s a lanky mix of setter, spaniel and perhaps something else, and she “looks really good in a purple collar.” Yariv Pierce and Aston Gonzalez ’08 also tied the knot in June, eight years after Vickie Fernandez— Yariv’s entrymate and Aston’s JA—introduced the two. Yariv and Aston were thrilled to celebrate with 53 Ephs at their wedding in New Rochelle, N.Y. Dianne Pfundstein was on her honeymoon in Iceland; she married Robert Chamberlain in NYC on June 8. Alex Chan’s engagement to her fiancé Justin drew a crowd to Brooklyn. Reed Harrison and Annie Harrison flew in from Portland, Analia Sorribas came up from Jersey, Jared Powell and Julia Esko came down from Boston, Arathi Rao joined from DC, and Stephanie Vano, Anne Louise Ennis and Nick Perry ’04 also stopped in for the celebration. Alex finished business school in the spring, and she and Justin were moving back to the Bay Area over the summer. Erin Wagner and Beth Ann Barnosky were busy celebrating their upcoming weddings to good friends and MIT frat brothers Will and Kevin. (Erin actually introduced Beth Ann and Kevin just weeks after we graduated.) Erin had her bachelorette in Killington in March with Beth Ann, Kristin Moss, Katie Krause and Meaghan Lisman, and Beth Ann had hers in Denver in April with Erin and Kristin, plus Poker E housemates and bridesmaids Meaghan, Emily Madden and Kate Sauerhoff. Erin’s wedding was in Boston on June 15, and Beth Ann’s was July 5 on Long Island. Maggie Carr was planning an August wedding in Pittsburgh. She and her fiancé Paul were looking forward to seeing lots of Ephs … and Lord Jeffs. Yes, it’s true: “I’m afraid to admit that Paul did in fact go to Amherst.” Todd Shayler has already forgiven her; he visited Maggie in California in the spring: “We had a lovely time hanging out, telling jokes and drinking cocktails in my backyard.” Cristin Wilson and her fiancé James welcomed baby boy Chase Jacob on Dec. 13 last year. They bought a house in March and are getting married in October! Speaking of babies, Bradford Chu was to start a fellowship in pediatric cardiology in July. In May he went to New Orleans for Jazzfest with the one and only Jon Wisbey, who, says Brad, “appears to have found his natural habitat.” Others are settling in elsewhere: Neal Holtschulte is a third-year PhD student in computer science at

2005–07 the University of New Mexico. He taught his first class, “Introduction to Programming in Java,” over the summer and went for runs in the high desert of Albuquerque. Tommy Hall is living in Telluride, Colo., where he hikes, mountain bikes and grows Outside LSAT, his LSAT (and now GMAT!) tutoring and publishing company. Erika Latham started working at a small-animal clinic in the Miami area. “I still find it odd to have palm trees be the norm and see lizards climbing up trees instead of squirrels.” She had plans to travel to Europe in July, including dancing at a tango festival on the coast of Croatia. Erin (Blanchard) Chen was looking forward to hosting Kate Majzoub in Seattle in August and “savoring the late-summer sun and sharing the city that is feeling more and more like home.” Before starting a new job at the culturally diverse Seattle World School in the fall, she had planned her own excursions to Peru and China. Lucy Cox-Chapman is still in Boston and is now with a health-care advocacy organization; she was working hard on the October launch of the Affordable Care Act. The highlight of Adam Bloch’s winter was a trip to Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah, where he managed to ride his heavily modified antique motorcycle to a couple of records. Alissa Caron was about to get on a plane: “My husband Kinal and I are moving back to Boston tonight,” she wrote. She had been in Southeast Asia for more than four years but was eager to be closer to home and to start her new job at Harvard School of Public Health. Chris Geissler and Kim Geissler (16!) finished their PhDs in North Carolina (in economics and health policy, respectively) and were packing up the car. Chris is in Holyoke, and Kim is doing a postdoc in Boston. They saw Todd Shayler, Ben Cohen, Liz Killien, Heather Casteel and Alyson Lynch at Katie Belshe’s wedding in June, “which was a great start to the summer.” Meanwhile, Jim Prevas was finishing up his residency, and he and his wife, Helen Prevas ’07, were moving to Annapolis. Sometimes people ask me for an update, so I’ll oblige. I was in New York over the summer for a legal internship. I got lobster in Red Hook with Pamela Good, Ainsley O’Connell and Mary Catherine Blanton on Memorial Day and celebrated Pam’s wedding in Providence a few weeks later with Ainsley, Mary Catherine, Mary Singer, Meredith Singer and Meghan Ryan. What else? Oh, I’m engaged! Drew Newman ’04 and I are happily anticipating our Nov. 2 wedding in (where else?) the Purple Valley. I don’t think we’ll be able to top Yariv’s guest list, but we’ll certainly try!

2007 Caitlin Hanley, 1121 Arlington Blvd., Apt. 608, Arlington, VA 22209; [email protected] It is hard to believe that it was 10 years ago this fall that we arrived as a class in the Purple Valley! Embarking on a journey called “college,” we embraced the quintessentially Williams

traditions—freshman year entries, Mountain Day, homecoming—and made Williamstown our fouryear home. Ten years later, the class notes serve as continued evidence of the enduring friendships and memories forged by the Class of 2007 in the Purple Valley and beyond. And so this edition begins with ’07 Eph-ventures. This past April, Elliot Heilman traveled to Africa for a month to visit Will Rathgeber, who was teaching in a small village in Western Kenya. The two climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, which was both “pretty cool and freezing cold.” Elliot is at the dissertating stage in a graduate program at Northwestern University called rhetoric and public culture. Will begins law school at Berkeley this fall. Martha Rogers spent the first two weeks of June visiting Lalibela and hiking northern Ethiopia with Glenn Rogers ’79 and José Pacas ’08. Martha and José then visited Dar es Salaam, where they met up with Lauren Fernandez ’07 on her way back from South Africa. Also returning from a recent trip to Africa, Abby Taylor, who now coaches women’s club hockey at Ohio State University, writes, “It’s nice to be back on the ice.” Abby is pursuing a degree in veterinary medicine at OSU. Auyon Mukarji reports, “All is well in Darlingsideworld.” The summer is off to a momentous start for the string-rock quintet with “festivals, a few opening slots for bands that open for bands that you have heard of and tank tops. That’s pretty much it,” as Auyon sums it up. The spring was filled with ’07 wedding celebrations, engagements and the arrival of new little Ephs. On June 8, Elizabeth Pierce and Matt Davis were married in Lenox, Mass. It was an “amazing and perfect day” surrounded by friends and family, including Colleen Gerrity, Alex Hogan, Natalie Vokes, Alison Penning, Ren McDermott, Emma Reynolds, David DeVaughn, Brian Van Wyck, Sura Tilakawardane, Caroline Doctor, Abelee Esparza, Matt Summers and Justin Bates. Elizabeth and Matt took a few days to relax in Vermont before returning to work (teaching and consulting, respectively). In addition to enjoying the “wonderful” wedding weekend, Colleen Gerrity and Alex Hogan had an extra reason to celebrate as they both survived their intern years as pediatric residents at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, R.I. Kathryn Rowland married Chris Meyer in May 2012, and Liz Pearce, Joe Shippee, Scott Faley ’05, Liz (Ellis) Ludvik ’06 and Jeff Ossinger ’05 attended the ceremony in New Jersey. In August 2012, Kathryn attended Mariana Uribe, now Sr. Mariana Benedicta’s, first profession of vows with the religious order the Sisters of Life in Connecticut. Kathryn spent the past year in South Bend, Ind., where her husband finished law school at Notre Dame. Brian Norton visited the Meyers from St. Louis, and along with Bianca Czaderna ’11, who is in graduate school at Notre Dame, had dinner with Professor Jim Nolan, who was participating in a fellowship program at Notre Dame for the spring semester. On Feb. 14, the Meyers welcomed daughter Claire Elizabeth (a Valentine’s baby!). They recently moved to Denver, where they are “enjoying the beautiful mountain views!” SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s On April 16, Laura (Lee) Ernst and husband Christian welcomed son Eli. Though no Ephs have met him yet, Angela Doyle and Jen Menzies attended baby showers (in San Diego and Tennessee, respectively) before his birth. The Ernsts still live in San Diego and are adapting to life in their family of three. In the spring, Andy Eklund and Allegra Funsten got engaged at the National Arboretum. Sean Gleeson and Lauren Hartmann were engaged on June 8. In March, Sean took a football coaching job at Princeton University and moved to Princeton with Lauren in June. He looks forward to introducing her to fellow Ephs at Brian Nelson’s wedding to Sophie Scully ’06. Graduations, relocations and ’07 Eph gatherings also continue to go strong. Ally Holmes graduated from law school last January, took the bar in February and was sworn to the Massachusetts Bar in June. She is now officially an attorney for the city of Boston and looks forward to having some free time now that school is over and getting back in touch with Boston Ephs. Diana Davis graduated from Brown with a PhD in math and accepted a postdoc for next year at Northwestern University. Also at NU, Kevin Kellert finished his first year at the Kellogg School of Management and spent the summer interning in New York. He maintains a personal finance and economics website (http://krkreflections.blogspot. com) and encourages Eph readers. Katie Fleming finished an MPP program at UC Berkeley and moved back to New York. While she is “sad to leave Laura Wagner in California,” she is “happy to be back with Margot Weller, Charles Howard and other New York Ephs.”  Jen Sleeper works at Walt Disney in Burbank, Calif. In May, she attended an Ephs in Entertainment lunch at the Disney executive cafeteria with John Headly ’89, Peter Nelson ’71 and William Jacobson ’09. Also in California, Ben Echols is “still in SF doing the same old stuff ” but recently has made a few trips to the East Coast for Eph wedding festivities. The ’07 WUFO crew—Ben, Rohan Mehra, Tyler Auer, Conor Quinn, Doug Hammond, Alex Hogan, Owen Simpson, Larry Dworkin, Giorgio Mosoni as well as Charlie Upton ’08, Jamie Quella ’10 and Jon Dahlberg ’10—gathered in NYC to celebrate Norman Nicholson’s bachelor party. Ben also joined a number of Ephs attending Charlie Upton’s wedding to Elana Boehm ’06 in Chapel Hill, N.C. Maggie Lowenstein finished medical school at University of Pennsylvania and moved to San Francisco to start her internal medicine residency at UCSF, where Lindsey Wu is also in her residency program. Maggie hangs out with co-JA Ben Echols (who lives down the street!) as well as Haley Tone and Riley Maddox ’08, who also live in SF. Also graduating from medical school, Ben Grass wrote “from the road” en route from Hanover, N.H., to Missoula, Mont., to complete a residency in family medicine. Nirmal Deshpande is also “saying goodbye to the East Coast” as he heads to Ann Arbor for business school at University of Michigan in the fall. In this spring, he attended the 55th Ephlats reunion 122

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in Williamstown. It was a weekend “spent singing and laughing with old friends (fed by at least four consecutive late-night Colonial’s deliveries to Perry library—who knew that [Colonial] accepts payments via Square!)” Carpe diem! To the next 10 years and many more!

2008 Sarah Bonn, 110 East 84th ST., #5D, New York, NY

10028; Tim Geoffrion, 45 Trowbridge St., Apt. 5B, Cambridge, MA 02138; [email protected] Submitted by outgoing secretary Julie Van Deusen: It was wonderful to see so many of you at our reunion in June! Despite (or possibly because of ) the rain and mud, it seemed like everyone had a truly great time. It was fun to see our class reconnecting with one another, and it really felt as if we were in college again. A few highlights from the weekend include rocking out to Darlingside at First Fridays in Goodrich and eating a LOT of knock-younakeds, testing our Williams knowledge during trivia in Paresky Pub, hanging out and playing lawn games in the Greylock Quad, and dressing up and then subsequently dancing in the mud pit on Saturday night. We had more than 300 people attend our reunion, which won us the “highest class attendance” award at the Alumni Meeting on Saturday morning, at which, ironically, our attendance was very low. Now that reunion is behind us, it’s time for a new group of class officers to take over for Jen, Liz, Gordon and me. From all of us, it’s been a pleasure to serve as your class leaders for the last five years. I would like to officially congratulate Jessica (Freeman) Hole and Lashonda (Williams) Gardenhire, co-presidents, Charlotte VanWagenen, VP, and Sarah Bonn and Tim Geoffrion, co-secretaries. You will likely be hearing from Sarah and Tim soon for the next round of Class Notes. I hope you enjoyed the rest of your summer, and I’m already looking forward to seeing everyone again in five more years!

2009 REUNION JUNE 12-15 Mijon Zulu, 377 East 33rd St., Apt. 8H, New York, NY

10016; [email protected] When I think about our class and school I think about: College rankings, embarrassing and/or inspiring escapades, old friends and interesting if not mostly good and heart-warming memories. In the fall, we’ll commence our fifth year since graduating college (our ninth since beginning college together) and, surprisingly so, I could not be prouder of our progress. I am sure that at times life can be mundane, trying, or feel stale, but if you let yourself look, pause and assess, you’ll see that we are not the ‘lost generation.’ We are defying the odds of a recession and figuring out what to pursue and how moving forward. Congrats to everyone regardless what you are up to. Now, for the latest and the greatest. We are traveling the world! In Europe, Morgan Phillips-Spotts spent spring break traveling through England and Scotland and squeezed in some

2007–09 quality time with Emilie Voight. In the Middle East, Molly Hunter—two years into her job at ABC News NY bureau—lent her apartment to rising 2L Bibi Metsch-Garcia and relocated to Jerusalem for July and August to study Arabic and join ABC News Jerusalem bureau. In Africa, Danielle Zentner took a break from her thesis at Stanford to do a summer field trip in South Africa (#lucky)! And, from Asia, we have finally gotten news from Ed Wichiencharoen who reports to be living happily in Bangkok, Thailand, working part time in entertainment and part time in seafood manufacturing. Mr. Wichiencharoen also went back to America for the first time since graduation this past April for work and had a chance to visit a lot of friends in New York, Boston and LA! We are teaching the leaders of tomorrow. Almost done with her master’s at Teachers College, Becca Gordon will teach middle or high school English at an NYC public school in the fall. After two years of working at the Stratton Mountain School, Liz Kantack started a one-year MAT program at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Finally, the Claires have reunited. Claire Whipple is back from Malawi and will start a master’s in education at Bank Street, which is where Claire Rindlaub has been studying. Ms. Rindlaub is naturally overjoyed but was occupied with summer school and catching up with Kelly Kirkpatrick and Emily Smithad We are educating ourselves and to become leaders of tomorrow. Lindsay Bouton and Hannah Ratcliffe graduated with MAs from Harvard School of Public Health. Ms. Ratcliffe will be staying at HSPH, working as a project coordinator for the Women and Health Initiative, while Ms. Bouton will move to DC to work for the FDA. Ruth Aronoff spent the first half of the summer in Houston—where she caught up with Katie Stack ’08 and Danielle Zentner—as a geology intern at an oil and gas company and then headed to Colorado to make field maps before heading back to Indiana, where she is still in a geology PhD program. Frecka Brasz is pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering at Princeton and finds time to play professional ultimate Frisbee for the Philadelphia Spinners. Nico Aiello is in his fifth year at UMass for a PhD in math but spent the summer in Madison, Wis., interning as a software developer for Epic, a healthcare software company. Also, TJ Khoo finally chimed in (yay!). Mr. Khoo spent the past four years at the University of Cambridge, working toward a PhD in experimental high energy physics on the ATLAS experiment. A couple of the highlights were spending 2010- 11 working at CERN and discovering the Higgs boson on July 4, 2012. In October, he plans to begin three years as a junior research fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. Jacob Cerny will take the next year off of teaching to finish his master’s in linguistics at FIU and complete the prerequisites for the anesthesiology assistants program at Nova University. Boston resident Andy Ward will relocate to the Bay Area in August to live with Anna Soybel ’11 and get a PhD in neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Brian Prest is moving on after two years at the Congressional Budget Office and two years at NERA Economic Consulting to pursue a PhD at Duke in

environmental economics, with a focus on energy economics and climate change. Finally, Noemi Fernandez left Boston after two years to start graduate school at UPenn, where she was named the Dean’s Centennial Scholar for the Division of Higher Education. Rachel Bring graduated from NYU School of Medicine and started an internal medicine residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia University Medical Center, while Sam Smith left Chicago for New Haven to start a residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Internal Medicine-Pediatrics. Upon arrival, Ms. Smith caught up with Brian Delmolino and Zach Safford over dinner. Caroline Kan is finishing her last year and is applying to residency programs in anesthesia (good luck!), while Kelly Smith continues her studies at Georgetown. Ian Simmons spent the summer studying for the bar exam while rising 3Ls are working hard for their post-law school opportunities. Columbia’s Ben Howard split his summer between Skadden, Arps’ NY and LA offices before heading to Birthright in Israel. Cornell’s Stef Williams left Law Review to work at Davis Polk in NY, while Nicole McNeil took a quick trip to Sri Lanka and Singapore with Patricia Ludwig and Catie Lee before summering at Latham & Watkins in Boston. Down in DC, UVA’s Ben Bodurian summered at Gibson Dunn. Ali Tozier spent her 1L summer clerking for a judge and gaining experience with child protective, family law and criminal cases. And in the fall Raff Donelson will start at Northwestern Law while Hanna Miller, fresh from her MA at Harvard Divinity School, will start at NYU Law. We are getting ready to shape the business world. Rising second year George Miller finished his first year at Sloane where he ran the MIT Clean Energy Prize, started a Sloane yoga class and spent the summer interning at XL Hybrids, a startup that converts vans into hybrids. Also a rising secondyear, Naya-Joi Martin has kept her relationship with basketball alive as she interned in PR for the Knicks and worked for the NBA Las Vegas Summer league in July. Ms. Martin is busy but still finds time to catch up with Nailah Wilds, David Edwards and Barrett Allison. Angelo Terra left Deloitte Consulting after four years to spend three months at SITAWI, a finance for good nonprofit organization in Rio de Janeiro before he starts at the Kellogg School of Management in the fall. Jake Gorelov and Liz Bacon will be going to Wharton, Ali Barrett will stay in NYC and go to Stern, and Natalia ReydeCastro will be back in the States to get an MBA at Yale with an eye to continue her career in economic development. We are conquering the working world. In the city that never sleeps, Ephs are working hard for the money. Patty Liao is living in Long Island City with Alda Chan. In May, Ms. Liao went on an inspiring glacier-filled cruise vacation to Alaska. Wendy Li started a job as associate producer on a true crime series, while Julian Mesri concluded his Emerging Artist Fellowship and is now an adjunct professor of theater at Pace University, teaching Spanish contemporary theater. Mr. Mesri is also busy studying for the GRE and putting final touches on SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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C l a s s N ot e s his new bilingual play, Immersion. Anthony Molina changed jobs to follow his former boss and work at MNI Targeted Media, a TIME Inc. company, and spent July 4 at Lisa Sloane’s BBQ. In the fall, Allison Khederian will move to NYC and live with her brother Robert Khederian ’12 In New England, Sarah Riskind is conducting a church choir and teaching upper and middle school music at the German International School of Boston. Rahul Bahl went to Billsville for the alumni golf tourney with Tyler Zara, Dave Ramsay, Chris Chiang and Matt Felser plus a quick Forge session with Kari Lyden-Fortier. Mr. Bahl celebrated Chris Chiang’s birthday with Brandon Halloway in Chicago. Owen Martel decided to follow up his walk across Europe in 2011 with a 2,400-mile trek across the American West. Check his progress at http:// walkthewest.wordpress.com. In Balboa (Newport Beach), Calif.—home of the Arrested Development banana stand—Jess Kopcho hosted Allison Prevatt, Liz Kantack, Meg Conan, Kat Conaway, Katherine Robinson, Clara Coughlin and Monsie Munoz for “margs”and a minireunion. In Shiprock, N.M., Jim Lowe is the coordinator of data, assessment and

compliance for the Central Consolidated School District. And in LA, Gabrielle Woodson launched a music blog (www.gabfestgabrielle.com), where she posts Juicy Jams, Righteous Remixes and interviews with musicians and music industry folk, including Cirque du Soleil music directors and owners of boutique music licensing agencies. Finally, Elise Piazza published a study in Psychological Science on the auditory system’s efficient use of statistical information to perceive sounds while Catalin Iordan gave a talk on the representation of object typicality in the human brain at the Vision Sciences Society meeting in May. We are finding time to declare our love for each other. Brian Prest proposed to Sarah Tung and, while she is not an Eph, they met through Ben Howard, who studied with Ms. Tung in Edinburgh! Also, college sweethearts Rob Buesing and Jess Kopcho are finally engaged. (Doesn’t that make Psych 101 sounds like soothsayer?) Now, for the weddings. Lauren Bloch kicked things off in Hilton Head and married Seth Peress on May 19. Ms. Bloch was surrounded by the Eph love of Courtney Asher, Denise Duquette, Ali Tozier, Tim Ryan, Ali Barrett and David Thompson ’11. Michael Kearney married Sarah Wood, whom he met at MIT, on June 15. The wedding was attended by Britt Spackman, Caitlin Colesanti, Andy Camposeo ’08, Catie Lee, Kevin Snyder, Tomas Golia, Grant Meyer, Chris Rose ’08, Francisco Bisono, Michael Moorstein ’10, Joe Geoghegan ’10, Blake Shultz ’10, Ben Bodurian and Mike Maker (men’s basketball coach). Later that month, Kevin Coombs married Whitney Ballsrud and partied the night away with Matt Felser, Brian Bistolfo, Andre Martinez, Michael Gerbush, Lauren Garcia, Eric Muller and Rusty Abedinzadeh. Also, sometime in June, Morgan Phillips-Spotts and Stephanie Reist snuck in a quick catch-up session with Victoria Williams before joining Maggie Tucker, YaWen Lu, Natalia Gonzales and Carol Tsoi ’11 at Maddie Jones’ wedding. 124

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Stay tuned for updates about the August weddings of Lizzie Burns and Mike Smith as well as Becky Sansone and Tyler Bonewell. It is beyond an honor to revel in your glory. Much love and well wishes, YCS

2010 Cat Vielma, 833 W. 15th Pl., Apt 312, Chicago, IL 60608;

[email protected] Submitted by outgoing secretary Ethan TimminsSchiffman: Amanda Widing is still working her way to doctor status at Columbia Medical School. “A highlight for me is Meg Zisser returning to New York for the summer and planning all sorts of summer activities with her,” she says. Whitney Hitchcock is also chugging along through medical school. In the spring, she was leaning toward pursuing urology for her residency, citing as motivation both her love for surgery and the connection between urology and the portion of her last name that contains an age-old euphemism for a body part closely associated with that field of medicine. Now entering her fourth year at Dartmouth, Whitney lists as her major accomplishments in Vermont scouting out every “fabulous” brewery and planting a “kick a**” garden with Chris Beeler ’08. I encourage Whitney to read Abby Wood’s next piece for Berkshire Magazine, a county-wide beer and hard cider tour, “a perfect way to soak it all in” before Abby heads to Manhattan in August to attend Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. There, she will pursue a master’s degree: “I couldn’t be more excited!” Check out Abby’s Williamstown profile (http://bit.ly/14oGK0R) from June for a historical perspective on our old stomping grounds. Mike Tcheyan visited the village beautiful in June in between concluding his three years teaching in South Texas and moving even farther south for his next adventure. “During those three years, I have employed Professor Richardson-inspired teaching techniques, had the pleasure of serving as a TFA corps member alongside Caitlin Eley and attended many ‘Pachangas’ within sight of the Rio Grande River.” After stopping by campus, Mike moved to Arequipa, Peru, to teach for Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold. “If any fellow Ephs end up in Peru (and I know somebody will end up down there), make sure to shoot me an email at [email protected].” Staying on the subject of international travel, Chuck Kollmer wrote in to share some positive news. In the spring he had just wrapped up a master’s degree in interdisciplinary humanities and social thought at NYU. “Over the past two years, I put in some serious time working on my German, receiving lots of help from my esteemed colleagues at Deutsches Haus at NYU.” His hard work paid off in the form of a Fulbright grant to study in Germany for 2013-14. “I’ll be nerding out heavy, studying the history of plant biology in postwar Europe.” Also a student of horticulture, though more of the post-winter East Bay variety as of late, Jacob Levin spent the spring completing a “Jewish/urban ag/social justice fellowship” at Urban Adamah

2009–10 in Berkeley, Calif. When I met up with him on a sunny May day he guided me through the program’s farm: The goats were cute, the kale was sweet, and his fellow fellows were busy making tiedye shirts. Jacob told me that he planned on sticking around for the summer before heading back to North Carolina’s Research Triangle in the fall. Perhaps Jacob’s compatriots will find interest in Marco Sanchez’s new tee shirt company “bolilod,” which is based on “mirror words” from his college thesis. Fully settled in Brooklyn, Marco continues to play trombone with the Harmonica Lewinskies. “We’re in the process of recording our second album and playing shows weekly.” Kallan Wood is another transplant immersed in NYC life. Quoting HBO’s show Girls and noting that she realizes she is indeed the program’s target demographic, Kallan wrote that she is “almost getting it kind of together” a year and a half since she moved from California. Kallan is continuing to dance but is also looking at graduate school outside of the performing arts. She is “super excited” for the summer and her sister Gillian Wood’s ’14 return from the Williams-Exeter Programme in Oxford to work as a Columbia research fellow. “I’m pumped to have her up the street for two months!” Ariel Williams will begin graduate school at Columbia in the fall to pursue a master’s in international affairs. She is both nervous and excited for the change. After nearly three years in California, Rebecca Gilbert is moving back east. She moved home in Pennsylvania for the summer with plans to begin a master’s degree at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in August. Words, she says, cannot express her excitement. Liz Irvin also starts graduate school this fall. She will pursue a master’s in city planning at MIT. “I’m looking forward to reconnecting to Ephs in the Boston/Cambridge area and escaping the swampy DC weather.” Just outside of Beantown, Mike Drzyzga is still researching HIV as a chemistry Ph.D. student at Brandeis: “Things have begun to heat up in lab, as we’ve had some very promising leads. I want to call them breakthroughs, but it’s early enough that I could jinx it that way.” Besides work, he has attended monthly game nights hosted by Joshua Wilson ’11 and Johannes Wilson ’11 and had the chance to hang out with Colin Killick ’12 to celebrate the choral piece he and Dan Kohane ’12 wrote for the Cambridge Science Festival. In May he took part in the annual Watch City Festival in Waltham, Mass. There, he dressed up in steampunk garb and a had a “nerdy blast.” “There may soon be videos circulating of me dancing with Cobra Commander from G.I. Joe,” he wrote. During the festival he hosted a showing of his web series, Dirigible Days. The second season is still on Kickstarter, now reimagined as a graphic novel: “All in all, busy times.” Like Mike, Meredith Craven is studying the HIV virus. Meredith, who wrote in from Amsterdam, attends Rollins School of Public Health at Emory. She traveled to Ndola, Zambia, over the summer to work with Zambia Emory HIV Research Project. “The umbrella project is based on reducing HIV

through couples getting tested together and then undergoing counseling to discuss results. They are beginning to integrate family planning into the counseling, as the group just received a grant to insert IUDs and implants (LARC measures—long acting reproductive contraceptives).” Meredith’s job was to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of nurses training in these methods. After her three months in Zambia, Meredith planned on visiting South Africa for “some fun (a.k.a. vineyards).” I, too, hope to visit South Africa after Mike Moorstein spoke highly of his experience there years ago. I plan on doing so from Guinea, where I will begin Peace Corps service as an agroforestry volunteer in December. I had originally accepted an invitation to serve in Benin in June, but a bone spur in my elbow required surgery. (Speaking of spurs— or, the Spurs, rather—big ups to Will Hardy and the rest of the San Antonio Spurs organization for a successful season.) Many thanks to returned Peace Corps volunteers Ana Iona (Kenya), Alex Howard (Senegal), Jess Clarke (Cameroon) and Carry Clark (Kazakhstan) for their words of wisdom; thanks to all for the good luck wishes. While I look forward to Peace Corps service this winter, Seattle provides ample reasons to enjoy the present. I have seen three performances by the Satori Group, a local theater company comprised of many Ephs, including Liza Curtiss, who played a ghost in a June show: Spooky! Williams theater department chair David Eppel was in attendance, and I was lucky enough to break naan with him beforehand at an Indian restaurant: Spicy! I will miss Seattle, partially for the dinner parties I have had with new and old friends alike. Abby Islan came through to my parents’ home for an evening meal before she and her fiancé Sascha moved to Salem, Ore., in June. The couple met in Seattle, where Abby had been working as a customer support agent for Big Fish Games. Before the move, Abby received a surprise visit from Sage D entrymate Caitlin Eusden and a regular visit from Gigi Campo, who was not in Sage D but is Abby’s friend nonetheless. Andrew Forrest is in DC, spending much time with Doug Smythe, Chad Brown and Emily Barrios, “all from our original Sage D crew.” Andrew works at Upworthy, a startup media website, where he has been since they launched in March 2012. “Just over a year old, we just crossed the top 100 U.S. websites mark by one official ranking, and we like to claim that at least by some key metrics, we’re the fastest growing media site in history. Fun times.” I visited Alex Rubin at his family’s home outside of DC in June. We strolled through Arlington National Cemetery on a sweltering day, learned some presidential history at the National Portrait Gallery and snacked on frozen yogurt with Seamus McKinsey ’12 and Liz Jimenez ’12. Also in DC, I met up with a high school friend who studied abroad with none other than Andrea Park. Andrea left Beijing in the spring after wrapping up two months “Eph-ull of friendship and traveling.” Julia Reiser came to visit, and the two of them partied in Shanghai and camped overnight on the Great Wall, where they were the only two in the group to miss the sunrise. “Next time!” They SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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NY 11238; [email protected] I guess we are getting old, since my plea for nuptials in the last edition was answered, and felicitations are in order for a number of happy classmates. Who knew that members of the crew team were so busy falling in love on and in between those long bus rides around New England? Adrienne Darrow planned to marry longtime beau Ian Boyd in July and was excited to celebrate with many Ephs, including maid of honor Anna Soybel and best man Chris Serna. Adrienne promises to take a token group photo with a Williams banner before she and Ian jet off to Sardinia for their honeymoon. In the fall, she is to begin law school and married life in Ann Arbor, Mich. Fellow teammates Becca Licht and Dan Constanza traveled from Brooklyn Heights to Williamstown for the crew team’s home race this spring, joined by friends Leland Brewster, Jack Wadden, Anna Soybel, Alex Treco ’12, Lisa Jaris ’12, Sara Wallace ’12 and Ashley Amos ’12. Dan took Becca on what she believed was an impromptu hike up Stone Hill, only to realize he wanted to ask her a very important life question. “It was so great to celebrate our engagement basically on the spot with all of these friends [over wings at the Forge],” wrote Becca. Outside of the crew bubble, Heath Pruitt is engaged to “a wonderful girl named Ann Marie.” They’re planning their wedding for the fall of 2014. 126

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Steph Berger is back out on deployment on the USS Pearl Harbor, giving aid to Pacific Island nations with Pacific Partnership, a humanitarian mission comprised of various militaries and NGOs. She is looking forward to coming home and planning her wedding to Sara Plunkett ’10. Life changes come in all sizes, however, and many classmates were making moves big and small across the country and around the globe over the summer. After finishing her MFA in creative writing at the University of Washington in Seattle, Liz Weinberg plans a move to New Haven, Conn., with her girlfriend, who will be working on her master’s at Yale. Leah Landsdowne paid Liz a visit in the spring as she passed through Seattle. Hari Ramesh is heading to New Haven to commence a PhD at Yale in political science after a year living with Haley Steggall in Boston; the roomies hosted Clare Quinlan for a weekend in the spring. Making a transcontinental leap in a westerly direction is Evan Skorpen. After a couple of years in NYC, Evan went off to climb in Alaska with George Sullivan for a month before heading to San Francisco to start a new job and a new life. He looks forward to hanging out with Briana Marshall, Tommy Hester and the rest of the San Francisco Williams crew. Carly Ameen wins the award for the most serious globetrotting; after completing her second summer of fieldwork in the Yukon Delta of Alaska, she is to move to Aberdeen, Scotland, in the fall to study for her master’s in archaeology at the University of Aberdeen. Thammika “Prim” Songkaeo is moving to Philadelphia from Austin to begin an education degree at UPenn in the fall. During the summer, she and Kaitlin Butler were developing a personal statement workshop to help high school students from under-served communities. Former New Yorker and more recent Beantowner Nina Cochran moved to Manchester, Vt., last spring, and she is working as a literary assistant. After an Asia adventure with Julia Van Hoogstraten (that included a catch-up with Erin McGonagle ’12 in Cambodia), Laura Staugaitis moved to Denver from Chicago last spring to continue her job and “return to mountainscapes.” She gets lots of quality Eph time in Colorado, as she works with Julia Seyferth ’12, and the aforementioned Erin is moving back to Colorado this summer. If I’ve learned anything from compiling these class notes, it is that grad students certainly take advantage of their time off to travel. Future doctor Brian Borah finished his first year of medical school at Loyola University of Chicago and immediately departed for Guatemala City to work in a health clinic for a month. He planned to arrive back in the States just in time to attend the wedding of fellow future doctor Mike Geary in Summit, N.J., in June. Fellow med student Yuzhong “Jeff ” Meng was just as eager to get out of town; he took off on a “long-awaited” trip to France and Italy after finishing his first year at Harvard Medical School in June. He was joined by Nai Chen Yeat ’13, who flew to Paris only eight hours after donning cap and gown at commencement.

2010–11 Daniel Walsh and Lisa Merkhofer have been studying geology at Penn State, where Daniel has co-taught geology field trips with David Oakley. They planned to spend July traveling in Peru with Kevin Wandrei. Ellen Song was enjoying her summer off from her PhD program at Duke. Writing in from South Korea, she reiterated how nice it is to know there are Ephs all around the world. She had hung out with Jinyoung Park ’12 and Anne Kerth, who has been teaching in South Korea since graduation. To any Ephs dabbling in cybercrime—beware! Danny Huang is busy analyzing the underground economy of malware and Internet fraud as part of his PhD thesis. He and his classmates at U.C. San Diego are hoping to catch cybercriminals and make the Internet safer. With the exciting life of a graduate student still ahead of her, Quaneece Calhoun has been working in Michigan at the Hawthorne Center, a children’s psychiatric hospital, since September 2011. She will be attending the Michigan School of Professional Psychology in the fall to obtain her master’s in clinical psychology. For advice, Quaneece could talk to Brooklynite Andrew Triska, who just graduated with his master’s and has a job as a psychotherapist working with mentally ill adults. Partner Sam Barbaro ’09 joined him on a trip to Cornell for his brother’s graduation, where they caught up with PhD student Shyla Foster ’09. Andrew ran into his former professor, Karen Russell, at a reading in Brooklyn and shares that her book (Swamplandia) is selling like crazy! Also in Brooklyn, Christine Chung reported that she is living in Carroll Gardens and partying hard with English PhD candidate Maya Hislop, who is back in BK for the summer. Christine is still working in operations for a restaurant group based in the West Village in NYC. Brooklyn neighbor Clare Quinlan is now working as the development associate in individual giving at the New Museum. She and Caroline Chiappetti enjoyed hanging with (nota-saint) Patrick Barren on St. Patrick’s Day, where they ended up salsa-dancing in one of Christine’s restaurants. Clare had the pleasure of attending a very muddy Governor’s Ball in NYC in June with Loretta Shen, Todd Schnuck and a bunch of friends from their semester abroad in Madrid. Thanks to our friends who are teaching and molding youth into future Ephs. Tim Lengel is in Richmond, Va., teaching U.S. history and government to high school students at Collegiate School. He visited Chandler Sherman in DC. Sarah Dewey and Corey Baldwin were joined at Pine Cobble School in Williamstown this year by Patrick Aquino ’12, and all three (“four if you count my dog Gunner,” wrote Sarah) are psyched to stay on for another year, with Sarah taking the job of director of development. With the ’08s back in town in June for their five-year reunion, Sarah “felt like a freshman all over again!” After serving as an Americorps VISTA for a year in DC, Carol Tsoi became a community organizer and worked with immigrant high school students to push for interpretation in public schools. After winning the campaign, Carol transitioned to Telesis, a company that builds urban communities.

She planned to meet up in New Hampshire in June with Sophie Robinson, Jen Rowe, Elizabeth Kalb, Will Lee, Leigh Davis and David Phillips. “Unfortunately Mara Shapero will still be in Israel doing medical research and can’t join,” wrote Carol. Sophie is working for a climate change nonprofit, Better Future Project, in Cambridge, Mass. There, she is the operations coordinator, and organizes events, meetings and trainings. Since moving to Boston, Fiona Moriarty has been at Harvard, coaching track and field and running for New Balance Boston. When not running or coaching running, Fiona collects athletic shoes to be recycled and refurbished to support microeconomics in West Africa. She now works for Rerun Shoes as their brand consultant and is happily accepting gently used sneakers! Changemaker Manny Yekutiel is living in beautiful San Francisco, working for FWD.us, a new immigration reform advocacy group. Fellow changemaker Tom Sikes is busy with band Great Caesar, working on a big ambitious music video about human rights and LGBT equality. (You can check them out on Kickstarter if you want to know more. The song is called “Don’t Ask Me Why.”) Agricultural do-gooder Will Harron lives on the New York side of Lake Champlain in a tiny Adirondack town with just a bakery and a waterfall (“absolutely beautiful”) and does project management for a farm nonprofit. “In an instance of hoogedyboogedy, I get my food from a CSA farm that Kelsie Meehan works at.” Will Slack is still traveling all over the country for work. His total state count is now 13. On one such trip in May, he ate expensive pizza with Diego Flores and Chris Brauchli in San Francisco. He saw a long list of people (including Madeline King, Emily Studamund, Will Harron, Alicia Cook, Katerina Belkin, Dan Constanza, Katie Friedman and Troy Whittington) at the Williams 2013 commencement. Demonstrating that cross-country friendships are alive and well, Illiyana Hadjistoyanova visited Lexi Coleman for a week in Chicago. They almost burned the city down for the second time in its history. Summing up the sensation of how fast time is flying, Bhavya Reddy writes that since graduating, “I’ve worked as a cemetery tour guide, lived in India for a year and am now back home, interning at a place that was once a monastery. I may or may not have gotten into college for the fall (the letter was pretty confusing) and am currently freaking out about having graduated two years ago.” As we can see, though, sometimes good things do happen a few years after graduating from college; people fall in love, travel, get into grad school and land administrative positions at their dream organizations, if not their dream jobs. And if things are taking their sweet time coming together, never fear, there are decades of class notes to come.

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Reading your updates was as though I was hosting offices hours, where each of you dropped by my apartment and we caught up for a little bit before you returned to your hectic schedules. So here’s the notes… The first batch of updates came from the slew of teachers eagerly anticipating the end of their first year. Dominique Rodriguez promptly responded, “3 MORE DAYS!!!” Sabine Chishty was in the “frantic final push” for the Regents at Bronx Leadership Academy II. She will stay in NYC as a teaching English for TFA. Coincidentally, Paisley Kang will be teaching English in NYC this fall as she finished her art teaching position at BART charter school. She also had her solo art show debut in Brooklyn and prepares for more. Susannah Emerson is enjoying teaching art in Madrid. From the Boston area, Marni Jacobs and Hillary Higgs obtained teaching degrees and are planning for their classrooms. Austin Davis finished his position at Andover and joined Gregory Kaskan at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College over the summer. To prepare her Shanghai students for American colleges, Kate Shaper took them clubbing—experiential learning at its best! She returned to the States to attend the wedding of crewmate Sydney Tooze and Alex Taylor ’10. Also returning from China, Thomas Kuczmarski finished his teaching position in Taiwan and was “psyched up to be back!” Melissa Whitaker-Reyes celebrated her first year as Señora Reyes by visiting Brazil and attending a Beyoncé concert with Newton Davis, who admits, “This being out of college thing is starting to make sense.” In Philadelphia, Haley Brooks worked with Raphael Menko on their start-up (Learn2Earn. org) while hosting Gonpo Lama and Adnan Khan. Haley traveled the East Coast, visiting Sarah Herr in North Carolina and Peter Reznik and Michael Mara in Williamstown before returning home to San Diego. From the West Coast, David Monnich sends “pas y amor” as he, Chase Davenport and Felipe Colina connected at the Golden Gate Park one day in April. David also attended a Spurs vs. Lakers game with Jimi Morales. Felipe is working at a marketing manager for a software company there. Also in the Bay Area, Chuan Ji works as a software engineer at Google, where he encounters Andrew Lorenzen and Dhyan Adler-Belendez. Filling out the Bay Area roster, Jack Berry passed time with Matthew Crimp and Hannah Satlzman, who finished their years with AmeriCorps and Green Corp, respectively. Matthew worked in an Oakland school garden, while Hannah ran a campaign with Yosemite National Park. For the summer, Matt returned to his Alaskan homeland for some quality fishing, while Michelle Rodriguez, taking a break from teaching in Costa Rica, played her ukulele and sang at Wrangell Mountains Center in Alaska. Amy Nguyen and Kate Aldrin had another West Coast reunion in the Silverlake area. Kate has a new job 128

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assisting a writer for Sony, and Nguyen works for a NGO that does emergency relief and development services abroad. Amy went to DC for work and visited Elizabeth Jimenez, who, when not working at Booz Allen Hamilton, practices her Arabic and demands anyone in the area to “holla at your kid!” DC-based Ephs Madeleine Watson and Kate Stevenson work at Booz Allen and NASA, respectively. They took a trip down to Nashville to visit Grace Wright. Katy Gathright returned to DC to work for Groundswell, which drives access of clean energy to low-income communities. She writes, “I definitely see a lot of Ephs down here. I had Siwol Chang and Rodrigo de las Casas crash my all-girls high school reunion.” Let us move to NYC; the other post-Williams epicenter. Oriana McGee and Bridget Ngcobo continue working as legal assistants at Sidley Austin LLP, where in the building they see many Ephs, including David Reison. Tom Casserly returned from working on an energy farm in Oklahoma to work at the Archdiocese of New York. Meisha McIntosh did some PR for Oscar-winning Django and Silver Linings Playbook. Stephen Maier does research at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases. Also at NYU, Kesi Augestine finished her first year of her master’s program and is teaching college essay writing. Another city scholar, Mary Claire Brunelli, was taking summer courses for her master’s in French at Columbia. Michael Nelson works at Relationship Science as a data consultant. NYC was the place of many meet-ups as well. Making the trek from Burlington, Megan Behrend came to visit Christina Martin, Holly Crane, Margy Love and Lizzie Fox. Ari Kerstein came from Charlestown to meet up with Alex Cameron and Brad Polsky to watch a Red Sox-Yankees game and midnight screening of The Room. They also saw Pinsi Lei, who does freelance PR for Levo League and is enjoying the fast-paced scene that comes with NYC tech startups, such as encountering an array of people from Marina Abromovic to Busta Rhymes. Michaela Morton finished her season at PlayMakers Rep and visited NYC, where Sayantan Mukhopadhyay hosted her before he returned to India. Her trip was busy as she performed with Alison Chase Performance and received insight from Zoe Jenkin, who came fresh from a philosophy conference in Latvia. Michaela now prepares for her permanent move to the city. She’ll join Astoriabased Noah Schechter and Jonathan Draxton, who work at Schrödinger by day and make theater by night. Jonathan took a break from his double life to pound Guinness with Leila Crawford in Dublin. Finishing out the Astoria crew, Emily McTague enjoyed her year living with Matt Staiger, Wendy Magaronda and neighbor Kyle Villanova and moved to Boston with Grace Babula and Emily Niehaus. Although not permanent, Tyler Chapman, Brett Eisenhart, Meera Sivalingham, Taylor Fleishhacker, Kristin Alotta, Maia Dickinson and Caroline Capute traveled to Boston’s South End to visit Helena Nannes, Nicole Stenquist, Emily Wendell, Jill Greenberg and Hannah Systrom. Chapman summarizes the weekend: “Lot’s of Eph lovin’!” As always, Boston rolls deep. James Mathenge begins his second year at Wellington Management

2012–13 Co., and Bianca Martinez works community engagement for Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Co-secretary Kendra Sims hangs out in Cambridge with Jennifer Rodriguez, Stephanie Jensen, Clarissa Andre and Shara Singh while blogging for Julia Child’s favorite butcher! She writes, “Bon appetit…” Also in Cambridge, Matt Piltch returned from his teaching in Uganda and now works at Deloitte Consulting. Matt returned to Williamstown and reunited with Kate Gallagher, Sylvia Molina, Sydney Tooze, Xio Pinto, Kesley Conklin, Zach Evans, Amanda Esteves-Kraus, Austin Davis, Elizabeth Dorr, Mati Amin and many others to commemorate the bench next to Paresky in memory of our classmate Gavin McIntire. Abigail Stark, Francesca Barrett and Sonja Boatman are enjoying the Cambridge summer doing research while applying to PhD programs and medical schools. Boston-based entrepreneur Imran Khoja prepares for the new line of products that Designed Good will release this fall. Additionally, the startup made it into the Progression Lab accelerator in Las Vegas, where Laura Berk still lives doing public art projects for a venture capital firm. She joined Rigoberto Ruiz-Bonilla to watch Emily Chapman and English Cook graduate. Last spring also brought as many changes as our last one, as numerous ’12s were heading abroad again. Adriana Leigh-Mendoza was off to Peru; Leah Enrenyu headed back to Uganda; and Bridget Ngcobo was leaving the big city and returning home to continue her research. Jinyoung Park returned to Korea and “will be happy to meet any Eph dropping by!” Don Maruyuma, who is still at his job translating official documents in Japan, is excited for familiar faces to visit. After visiting Seoul, Mindy Lee went to Bangkok to visit Adena Hernandez. She says they spent their time “eating their way through the city.” Paula Moren, Alex Long and Nicholas Pugliese met up in Kuala Lumpur, where Alex is a Fulbright ETA. Paula came from South Korea, where she was teaching. Nicholas came from Kabul, where he quit a telecommunications job to pursue a professional soccer career. He’s been documenting his experiences at http:// footballinkabul.com. When Steve Smith is not working for the U.S. attorney office, he’s “winging” for a semi-professional rugby team that placed second at the U.S. Rugby National Championships. He’s currently training for the US 7s Olympic Development Academy Team for Rio 2016. Olivia Delia finds time to race with her French track team while interning for the global malaria program at WHO in Switzerland. Christopher Logan reports his athletic training by replying, “Played tennis with Takuto Sato.” Deon Soogrim met with WUFO teammates Tom “Crawdaddy” Crawford, Aaron “Ledge” Freeman, Luke “Cool Hands” Breckenridge and Will “Body” Weiss in North Carolina and played “lots of Ultimate and laser tag.” Deon works at OSMOS gallery and started his fellowship with the art nonprofit Creative Time. Chengjia “Jia jia” Jin, along with Susan Chen, Alex Cornel and Sara Davidson, also had their own spring break trip in Florida. Back in NYC, Jia Jia went to a Muse concert with Raven Hills before she

headed to Britain to pursue a master’s in forensic psychology. Raven joins a cohort of Ephs returning to academia. Before Austin Davis heads to medical school at Ohio State, she caught up with Talia Mizikovsky (works in editing in NYC) and Vanessa Harper at a wedding of Rachel Hagler ’13 and Nathan Schine ’13. Natalie Davis is excited to come to NYC after living with Matt Madden in Atlanta. They visited Andy Schnieder in Houston before she left. Meghan Breen was leaving Alabama to matriculate to the University of Vermont medical school. Erik Levinsohn and Thomas Bliska were racing bikes over the summer before med school in New Haven and M.Arch at the University of Virginia, respectively. Inez Tan left the comforts of Tunnel City to pursue a MFA in fiction writing in Ann Arbor, Mich. Marsha Villaroel was spending her summer in the Galapagos before heading to vet school at Tufts. After a year working in Bulgaria (and co-authoring a book), Anna Antonova planned to return stateside to study marine affairs at the University of Rhode Island. She writes, “I am excited to see all the Ephs in the area.” And luckily for her there are a few classmates in southern New England. Elizabeth Dorsey continues her position in admissions at SEA Semester in Cape Cod, while Ali Mitchell is working as a blacksmith for the preservation yard at Mystic Seaport. Thirty minutes away, Emily Schwab continues with AmeriCorps in Providence. She joined Nora Kern to attend Bonaroo. As for their other Thomas Street roommates, Sarah Dorsey is “still pitching my tent in various places around the country (Montana, Idaho, California, Utah).” She spent the spring teaching environmental education in Western Virginia. Another Thomas Street resident, Lucy Rollins, simply replied, “Life is a Rainbow. Yeah, yeah, yeah!” Vanessa Soetanto is trekking the great outdoors as hiking dormant volcanoes in Guatemala. Andy Morgosh and Kelsey Ham are in the process of planning their Montana summer wedding by a big yellow barn where Jack Fitzhenry and David Carlin will be in attendance. Another Montanan, Ford Smith, says it was going to be the highlight of the Montana summer! Well, as for yours truly, I got my own fellow Montanan, Amy Darling, as well as Rebecca Eakins and Lizzie Fox, and remain a welcome Eph-post for any Brooklyn visitors while I prepare for my “big break.” I find time to catch up with Elizabeth Chan and Mustafa Saadi while reminiscing about our “JA days.” In my Nostrand Ave. apartment, I enjoy the fresh smell of Trinidadian roti, West African incense and your stories. Thank you and until we meet again.

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COURTNEY ADKINSON ’05 & AIDAN FINLEY ’04 Arlington, Vt., July 7, 2012

CATHERINE DENVER ’03 & BRAD FOWLER

ELIZABETH WAUGH ’96 & TOM DUFORD

Rehoboth Beach, Del., Oct. 7, 2012

Chapel Hill, N.C., April 13, 2013

SARAH PESIN ’04 & ARI KESSLER ’04 LOUISE KUSHNER ’06 & SCHUYLER RIGGS ’05 Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 1, 2012 Photo taken at a March 22, 2013 celebration in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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YARIV PIERCE ’06 & ASTON GONZALEZ ’08 Yariv (wearing glasses) and Aston (wearing suspenders), each holding a Williams banner for his respective class, celebrated their wedding with more than 50 Ephs and two stuffed purple cows in New Rochelle, N.Y., on June 2, 2013. Among the guests was Vickie Fernandez ’06 (front row, third from left), Yariv’s entrymate and Aston’s JA, who introduced the couple.

ELAINE SHUM & ALBERT DANG ’99 Hong Kong, China, Dec. 25, 2012

KATHRYN ROWLAND ’07 & CHRISTOPHER MEYER

SASHA GSOVSKI ’06 & BLAKE ALBOHM ’06

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CRISTY GARZA & JARED MAYERS ’07 Topsfield, Mass., Oct. 21, 2012

KRISTEN MACINNIS & TREVOR POWERS ’09

LESLIE THOMSON & MICHAEL STRAUSS ’94

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ELIZABETH PIERCE ’07 & MATT DAVIS ’07 Elizabeth and Matt started dating during the fall of their junior year and were married at Stonover Farm in Lenox, Mass., on June 8, 2013. They are pictured with the 13 classmates who attended their ceremony, during which Natalie Vokes (second from right) gave a reading. Colleen Gerrity (fifth from right) and David DeVaughn (sixth from left) spoke at the rehearsal dinner on June 7.

LISA LINDEKE ’06 & SETH DANIELS ’06 Audubon, Pa., May 26, 2013

JESSIE KASSAB & BILLY MARINO ’02

LINDA L AU ’03 & GAVIN ROSENBUSH

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1975

Tom Cummings & Allison Hart, March 3, 2013

1984

Bob Hollister & Alejandra Okie, July 6, 2012

1987

Sumin Eng & Peter Elarde, July 7, 2012

1994

Susan Vaill & James DeCorpo, Dec. 12, 2012

1998

Mitch Stripling & Jordan Dexter Pascoe, June 23, 2012 Lincoln Pan & Amy Chau, Dec. 30, 2012 Lizi Craft & Tyler Ferguson, Feb. 17, 2013

1999

Nikki Strauss & Luke Schroeder, Aug. 11, 2012

2003

Catherine Denver & Brad Fowler, Oct. 7, 2012 Andrew Ferrer & Caitlin Barrett, May 26, 2013

2004

Aidan Finley & Courtney Adkinson ’05, July 7, 2012 Sara Arnold & Jonathan P. Wilson, May 23, 2013

2005

Mary Baccash & Kerri McMahon, Aug. 11, 2012

2007

Chris Kim & Adam R. Kahn, Sept. 29, 2012

2008

Matt Gustafson & Shannon Spaulding, Feb. 23, 2013

2002

Kelley Cardeira & Chris Carlson, May 10, 2013

birthS & adoptions 1986

1996

Patrick Antonio Thomas Vitale to Tom Vitale, April 19, 2013

Julia Marie O’Halloran to Jane (Greenawalt) O’Halloran, Feb. 8, 2013

Scarlett Eleanor May to Porter (Harris) May, Sept. 4, 2012 Jesse Theodore Bates to Megan Barber, Sept. 12, 2012 James Ryder Elliott to Robin Keller Elliott, Sept. 28, 2012 Matthew Francis Kozuch to Ana Maria (Zavala) Kozuch, Oct. 1, 2012 Ketziah Teshuvah Dean to Peter Dean, June 6, 2013

1993

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Reese Anne-Elizabeth Galloway to Rose (Turiello) Galloway, Jan. 23, 2013

Sarah Vazquez to Karen Tarbell & Michael Vazquez, September 2012 Rosalie Yarros Laurent to Jardayna Werlin Laurent, Sept. 18, 2012 Elle Shin to Jessica (Petoia) Shin, Sept. 27, 2012 Hannah Grace Kahn to Holly Grace & Kris Kahn, Feb. 2, 2013 Juliette Sooheh Chu to Jeannette Kim, April 12, 2013 Josephine Saltonstall Goldstyn to Gigi Saltonstall, April 25, 2013 Duncan Stuart Forbes to Greg Forbes, April 29, 2013

1988 Maximillian Stubblebine to Robert Stubblebine, Oct. 26, 2012

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1994 Everly Clementine DeCorpo to Susan Vaill, Sept. 3, 2012

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1998

Aya Mariah Jean Murray to Brady Murray, Oct. 18, 2012 Liam Padraig Gerard Fiorino to Liz (Kajunski) Fiorino, Nov. 9, 2012

1999

Alden Whitcraft Pompa to Christine Whitcraft, Aug. 26, 2012 Colin Michael Plante to Jennifer (Rottmann) Plante, Sept. 13, 2012 Gabriel Dylan Connell to Karen Hu, Oct. 8, 2012 Callum Clance Ray to Anazette (Williams) Ray, Nov. 11, 2012 Alexander Will von Bargen to Rich von Bargen & Suela (Nako) von Bargen ’00, Dec. 31, 2012 Sebastian Warren Snyder to Cathy Warren & Scott Snyder, April 9, 2013 Carson William Hajjar to Peter Hajjar, April 25, 2013 William Vito Francis to Julie Cantatore-Francis & Jonathan Francis, May 13, 2013

2000

Zachary Leonard Block to Jen (Berylson) Block, April 2, 2012 Wesley Matthew Chen-Gordon to Yng-Ru Chen, Dec. 27, 2012 Owen Christopher Jacquin to Lanie (Holzapfel) Jacquin, Jan. 24, 2013 Deia Beatrix Hunter to Stephanie Whitehead, March 29, 2013 Lucy Hunnewell Scott to Molly (Cummins) Scott & Richard Scott, April 22, 2013 Teagan Alyssa Joyce to David Joyce, April 30, 2013 Garrett David Grant to Kate (Flynn) Grant & Tom Grant, May 9, 2013

2001

Iyla Ruth Israelow to Tanushri Kumar & Jacob Israelow, April 27, 2013

2002

Ayelet Baker-Woodward to Katharine Baker & Eric Woodward, Nov. 26, 2012 Charlotte Griffin to Kristen (Shapiro) Griffin, Jan. 15, 2013 Sofia & Lucia Palomino to Katie Gortz, Jan. 21, 2013 Emily Virginia Stahl to Jessica Calfee Stahl & Ray Stahl, Feb. 23, 2013 Brecken William Baker to Tracy (Borawski) Baker, Feb. 26, 2013 Henry Alan Hosty to Whitney (Gee) Hosty, March 18, 2013 Cecily Mae Austin to Jess (Tierney) Austin & Tim Austin, March 20, 2013 Lucy Eleanor Mohl to Amy Graham, April 9, 2013 Averil Sophia Weiss to Alix (Davis) Weiss, April 9, 2013 Oliver Daniel Pearce to Liz Campos Pearce, April 24, 2013 Edward M. Glenn-Applegate to Pete GlennApplegate, May 1, 2013 Mary Lucille Tadenev to Abby Davidson Tadenev & Michael Tadenev, May 5, 2013 Henry Hamilton & Finley Evelyn Layng to Andrew Layng, May 31, 2013

2004

Colin Edward Connolly to Kristen (Van Woert) Connolly, Oct. 20, 2012 Pearl Chisom Nwankpa to Prosper Nwankpa, Feb. 11, 2013 Asher David Olsen to Joanna Touger Olsen & Keith Olsen, March 22, 2013

2005

Monica Yagel Gouvea to Marcos Gouvea & Devin Yagel Gouvea ’07, Aug. 25, 2012 Rose Beatrice LaRocca to Roger LaRocca & Alison (Burgner) LaRocca ’06, Sept. 27, 2012

2006

Chase Jacob Robinson to Cristin Wilson, Dec. 13, 2012

Grayson Thomas Cotuno to Dan Cotuno, Aug. 8, 2012 William Haldeman to Matt Haldeman, Nov. 29, 2012 Zion Alika Barbosa Blake to Trisha (Barbosa) Blake & Alex Blake ’03, Jan. 2, 2013

2003

Zoe Elton Durlacher to Chris Durlacher, May 25, 2012 Mackenzie Lee Deaner to Jason Deaner, July 5, 2012 Shane Anthony Porcelli to Jay Porcelli, Oct. 11, 2012 Samuel Joseph Farke to Sarah Nichols, Nov. 16, 2012 Beth Carroll Zimmerman to Kate Carroll & Patrick Zimmerman, Nov. 21, 2012 SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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Herbert L. Gutterson, Jan.

11, 2013. Herb was honored in 1977 with the Independence Foundation Chair at Choate School in Wallingford, Conn., where he taught English—a job he said one can never master— coached track and served as a dorm master for 30 years. A supporter of the movement for coeducation at Choate, Herb stepped down early as chair of the English department in order to allow his successor more time in the position to prepare for the admission of girls to the school. A lifelong writer, Herb’s novel, The Last Autumn, was published by William Morrow in 1958. He spent his retirement as a yearround resident of Siasconset, on Nantucket Island, until he moved to Yarmouth Port, Mass., in 2004. His survivors include his wife of 64 years, Dorrit, two children and three grandchildren.

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D. Britton Faunce, Jan. 10,

2013. Britt graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1939 and then served as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy during WWII. He went into—and eventually took over—the family business in foreign freight forwarding, and in 1974 he became the senior VP of Wolf D. Barth, from which he retired in 1983. Britt lived and raised his family in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and moved to Gladwyne in 2000. He enjoyed spending his summers in Great Pond, Maine, and was an avid golfer, once traveling with Williams alumni to Dublin, Ireland, to play the game. He was predeceased in April by his wife of more than 70 years, Phyllis. His survivors include three children, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Wade B.C. Weathers, Jan. 27,

2013. Wade’s love for flying was fostered at Williams, and after graduation he started working for Pan American Airways, where he met his future wife, Audrey. During WWII, he flew between NYC, Portugal and Brazil, and he brought supplies into Berlin after the war. The couple lived and raised their 136

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family in Stamford, Conn., as what he called “New York suburbanites … [living] by the Greenwich Mean Time Clock” for his years flying with Pan Am. In 1975 Wade and Audrey moved to New London, N.H., and in 1988 he joined the Edo Corp., serving as VP of sales until his retirement in 1995. Wade and his family summered on Lake Sunapee, N.H., for many years, as Wade had done since childhood. A lifelong golfer, he volunteered to coach at the local high school. He was predeceased by Audrey and one daughter. Among his survivors are four children, including Prentice Weathers ’77, and six grandchildren.

1939

Rev. Arthur C. Weil Jr., Jan.

3, 2013. Art earned his Master of Divinity from Yale in 1942 and was ordained into the ministry at the Congregational Church in Williamstown that same year. He served in several Massachusetts parishes before finding his home at the Rocky Hill Congregational Church in Connecticut, where he was pastor from 1955 to 1979. He was then associate pastor at the First Church of Christ of Glastonbury until his retirement in 1983. Art was active in his community, serving as the president of the Civitan Club of Hartford and the AARP in South Glastonbury and sitting on the boards for Yale University and the Hartford Seminary. He suffered a major stroke in 1987, but his spirit remained strong, and his lifelong interest in the world around him never waned. His survivors include his wife of 68 years, Alice, four daughters and five grandchildren.

1940

John O. Tomb, Jan. 7, 2013.

John worked for 25 years as a partner at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., opening offices in Cleveland, Toronto and Tokyo. Among the towns he called home were Boston, Chicago, Wolfeboro, N.H., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and Richmond, Va. Many years of his retirement were spent between the east shore of Lake Winnipesaukee

in the summertime and the Santa Ynez Valley in the winter months, where in both spots family visits were a highlight. An avid sailor, John owned a sloop called Playful, which he piloted about either Buzzards Bay or Narragansett Bay many summer days. His survivors include his wife of 70 years, Helen, three children, eight grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and niece Kirsten O. Lundberg ’76.

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Ray J. Egan, Jan. 22, 2013. Ray

was a captain in the U.S. Air Force during WWII, when he learned to fly. He stayed with the Air Force full time after the war and then went to work as an airline pilot at Pan American Airways (1966-80), receiving letters of commendation for the assignments he completed there. He spent the 12 years before retirement as a realtor, serving as VP and office manager at Realtech Associates in Ridgefield, Conn. In 1992 he moved to Florida, where he enjoyed playing golf. His survivors include his wife of 47 years, Jacqueline, four children, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Philip H. Hamerslough Jr.,

Feb. 3, 2013. Phil was assistant to the president of Jacques Kreisler Manufacturing in North Bergen, N.J., and then VP and part owner of Michigan Peat Inc. in NYC for many years before realizing his dream of working in education. He earned a Master of Arts in teaching from Yale in 1964 and taught English at Tappan Zee High School before serving as director of recruitment for The Peace Corps. Later, he worked as director of development at the Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y. His years in education fostered an interest in publishing, and in 1971 Phil became president of New Dimensions in Education, an educational publishing company. He made his home in New York and Connecticut and spent summers in Mexico and California. Phil was a lifelong supporter of several Jewish philanthropies and served for a time as director of the American

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Jewish Committee. His survivors include his wife of 71 years, Edith, three sons and six grandchildren. Frederick Rudolph, June 3,

2013. Fred started writing drafts of the college’s history as editor of the Record and forged a career in the history of American higher education. A young Army veteran of WWII, Fred was among alumni recruited to teach a swelling student population he described as “not much younger than I, and not much less prepared for each day’s lessons.” Seeking both more training and more teaching experience, he entered Yale’s graduate program in history, earning a PhD in 1953. Though he didn’t intend to come back to Williams, an opening on the history faculty brought together his need to do field research for his dissertation (which would become the book Mark Hopkins and the Log, published in 1956) and his desire to start his career teaching undergraduates. He and his bride Dottie moved to Williamstown in 1950 and, except for a few visiting professorships at Harvard and UC Berkeley, never left. Fred’s scholarship in the history of American colleges and universities now serves as the foundation to anyone earning an advanced degree in higher education. His books include The American College and University: A History (1962, 1990); Curriculum: A History of the American Undergraduate Course of Study Since 1636 (1977); and several edited collections of essays on educational, and Williams, history. As a teacher, Fred had a far-reaching influence, developing several central programs, including American studies and women’s and gender studies. He served as college marshal, was the administrator of the Tyng bequest and served on the Committee on Admitting Women, the Bicentennial Commission and the Visiting Committee of the Williams College Museum of Art. He retired in 1982 and, realizing that he had been married to his job for three decades, launched what he called an “extended honeymoon,” traveling all over the world

with Dottie. As an alumnus, Fred served as his class’s 50th reunion chair and was the class president for more than two decades. Williams honored him with the Rogerson Cup in 1982, an honorary degree in 1985, the Joseph’s Coat in 2002 and the Bicentennial Medal in 2011. The Class of 1965 established a professorship in American culture in his name. He was a two-time Guggenheim fellow (1958 and 1968), founder of the Berkshire County Historical Society and a member of several professional historical associations. Among his survivors are his wife of almost 64 years, Dottie, two children, including Marta Rudolph ’73, and six grandchildren, including Payson Cushman ’05.

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Stedman Seay, March 13,

2013. Sted worked in insurance before WWII and then spent five years in the Army, 10 months of which were spent in combat with the fourth Armored Division in Patton’s Third Army. His career in the retail business started soon after the war and lasted until his retirement. He served in various capacities at stores throughout New York and New England, retiring as operations manager from the Yale co-op in 1980. He retired to his hometown in the Schoharie Valley of New York, spending hours in his workshop on woodworking and artistic projects. Predeceased by his wife Betty in 2012, his survivors include a son, two grandchildren, brother Elmer Seay ’39 and cousin Jack West ’55.

philip h. hamerslough jr. ’42

frederick rudolph ’42

John S. Sutphen, March 24, 2013. Jack started sailing at age 9 and never stopped. He served as a skipper of air sea rescue boats in the U.S. Army Air Force during WWII and then went to work as a sail maker at Ratsey & Lapthorn, retiring as VP in 1980. While living and raising his family in Mamaroneck, N.Y., he competed in 35 winter races in what is known as the Frostbite series on Long Island, with his wife Jean as his only crew. He moved to San Diego, Calif., after retirement and immediately joined the yacht club, where he volunteered SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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and was awarded the Burgee of Merit for that work. He competed in seven America’s Cups and was inducted with honor into the America’s Cup Hall of Fame in 2005. He served as a judge in international regattas, held championships in the Pacific Coast Class and finally wrote it all down in a book called Messing About in Boats for 80 Years. Predeceased by his wife Jean and son John, he is survived by, among others, a daughter, a granddaughter and two great-grandchildren.

1943

John C. Dewey III, Jan. 20, 2013. Jack’s undergraduate career was interrupted by WWII, in which he served from 1942-45, sustaining an injury that left his vision partially impaired. He earned a master’s degree in education from Boston University in 1954 and worked at the Belmont High School in Belmont, Mass., for many years, serving as a reading consultant from 1984-89. But his work life was cut short after he fell and hit his head on a stone during a round of golf. This injury left him with speaking and balance problems for the rest of his life, and he described himself as “taciturn rather than loquacious” as a result. Predeceased by his wife Sarah in 2007, Jack is survived by, among others, two sons and cousins William T. Carleton ’35 and Henry B. Dewey ’48. George L. Hubbell, Dec. 2,

2012. George was an active swimmer at Williams and rediscovered the sport later in life, swimming daily and competing every month for many years. He once said that Bob Muir’s coaching came in handy 44 years after the fact, as he competed in Senior Olympics across the country. He owned and operated Hubbell Motors until 1969, when he started a new career on the staff of N.Y. State Sen. Ron Stafford—occasionally helping out for U.S. Rep. Bob McEwen—until his retirement in 1985. In retirement, George spent summers in his hometown of Chazy, N.Y., on Lake Champlain, and winters on the Intracoastal Waterway, Stuart, Fla. He was predeceased

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by his wife Loretta in 2009. His survivors include five children, six grandchildren and cousin Edgerton G. North Jr. ’48. Charles F. Yeiser, March 6, 2013. Chuck served in the U.S. Navy during WWII and went promptly to law school, where he expected to remain. A phone call from the headmaster of the Cincinnati Country Day School changed his plans. He took what was meant to be a one-year leave of absence to fill in for an English teacher and stayed at the school for more than three decades. Along the way he earned a master’s degree from Xavier University in 1953, and his career, initially as teacher and coach, culminated with his tenure as headmaster. During that time the school became coeducational, a highlight for Chuck because of what he called the “superior learning experience” the school could offer its students. After his retirement, Chuck went to work for a nonprofit independent school service organization and helped place teachers in independent schools across the Midwest. He was also a community leader, serving on the boards of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, The Children’s Home, The Springer School and the local chapter of Planned Parenthood. Of great importance to him was his role escorting women into the clinic, through lines of picketers, and raising the funds to purchase a new building after the clinic was burned down. Yet some of his greatest work was done out of the spotlight. For more than 30 years he supported college students with limited means, defraying their educational expenses. He was honored by the National Society of Fundraising Executives with the Individual Philanthropy Award in 1991. He was predeceased by his wife Mary in 1997. Among his survivors are four children, including Charles Yeiser Jr. ’67, four grandchildren, including Lauren Yeiser ’10, and five great-grandchildren.

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Albert W. Bonynge, Jan. 19, 2013. Al spent two years at Williams before entering the

U.S. Army. He earned a BS from NYU in 1947 and went on to a 32-year career in industrial sales at Singer Sewing Co. He moved to Doylestown, Pa., in 1960 and began a second career as a real estate agent with Class Harlan, spending as many winters in Florida as he could. He was predeceased by his wife Mary and son David. His survivors include two children, two grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and longtime companion Gert Hornstein. Robert H. Cope Jr., April 15, 2013. Bob left Williams when WWII broke out and served as an intelligence specialist in southern Italy with the 15th Air Force, 304th Bombardment Wing, earning a Bronze Star Medal for his service. Back stateside, he married his sweetheart and they returned to Williams together, Jeannie being one of the first women to take classes at the college in the days after the war. Thanks to some good advice from the Williams placement bureau upon graduation, Bob started what would become a lifelong career at Equifax, taking early retirement in 1985 and moving year-round to Cape Cod. He spent retirement caring for the four-and-ahalf acres he lovingly called “the farm” and reading for the blind on local radio. He was predeceased by his wife of 61 years in 2007. His survivors include two sons, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Gardiner Rogers, March 30, 2013. Gard’s Williams education was interrupted by WWII, during which he was stationed in England and served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force, piloting B-17s. He was honored with the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal for his service. After the war, he finished his education at Washington University in 1956 and embarked on a career in the aerospace industry and later with Penn Mutual Life Insurance. But it was his military experience that defined his life, and he was a longtime member of the Navy League and the Military Order of the World Wars. In retirement,

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he lobbied Washington, D.C., about military concerns. His survivors include his wife of 61 years, Ginny, three children, five grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. William B. Snyder, Feb. 6, 2013. Bill served in the U.S. Air Corps during WWII before beginning a career in finance. He spent 20 years working for the Bank of New York and then nearly as many at Loomis, Sayles & Co. before he founded his own investment counseling firm, William B. Snyder & Associates, in 1989. But Bill’s biggest impact in his Bronxville community was through his volunteer work. He helped many organizations navigate financial planning and investment matters, including Jansen Memorial Hospice, the Rotary Club, the Bronxville School Foundation, the Westchester Community College Foundation, the Reformed Church of Bronxville and the Lawrence Hospital Center. In his free time, Bill restored antique furniture, embroidered, played golf, fished and rode his bicycle. He was predeceased by his wife of 62 years, Challis, in 2010. Bill’s survivors include three children and two grandchildren. John H. Ward, Jan. 21, 2013.

John had a deep appreciation for classical music and was proud to have attended one of the first concerts to be held at Tanglewood in 1940. After a short time at Williams, he went on to graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder. A member of the Army Engineering Corps in WWII, he was stationed in Luxembourg, Wales and England. Upon his return to the States, he went to work first at Lummis Co., then the F.L. Smith Co. and eventually went on to a long career at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in his hometown of Schenectady, N.Y., from which he retired in 1984. John dedicated much of his time in retirement to volunteer work at his local library and his church, the Eastern Parkway United Methodist Church. He was predeceased by his wife of 55 years, Aline, in 2007. John’s

survivors include three children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Robert E. Ward, March 9,

2013. Bob heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor during his freshman year at Williams. He completed two years before entering the Army Specialized Training Program at Texas A&M University, from which he deployed with the 12th Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army, seeing combat and getting wounded at the Battle of the Bulge. Thanks to the G.I. Bill, Bob finished his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Williams after the war. He had a 35-year career in chemical engineering, serving as VP of several manufacturing companies before launching a second career as a realtor. He received the Middlesex County Board of Realtors Annual Award every year for 20 years working in his hometown of Monroe Township, N.J. He was predeceased by a daughter in 1995. His survivors include his wife of almost 40 years, Anne, three sons, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

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Walter S. Wilmot Jr., March 24, 2013. Walt proudly served in the Medical Corps 68th General Hospital during WWII and returned to his alma mater to teach political science after the war. He studied government at Harvard Graduate School for a time but soon developed an interest in business. He worked as the director of labor relations at AVCO Corp. in Greenwich, Conn., for nearly 30 years and then served in a similar role at Textron Inc. in Providence, R.I., retiring in 1991 as the VP of employee relations. Walt read The New York Times every day of his life and was proud not to own a computer or have an email address. He called himself politically and economically liberal but said he was conservative in his belief that everyone needs a solid liberal arts education. He was predeceased by a son and a stepson. His survivors include his wife of 31 years, Dottie, two daughters, three stepsons, seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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William H. Wilson, Jan. 24,

2013. Bill served in the Army Air Corps during WWII as a B-24 co-pilot, for which he earned a Purple Heart. After the war he worked as an associate buyer and as a stockbroker, first in upstate New York and then in Houston, Texas. In the 1960s he moved to Dallas to run the local office for Manpower, a temporary staffing firm, and begin a career from which he didn’t retire until 2000. He served as president of the local chapter of the American Management Association and was an avid sailor, golfer, lover of fine food and card player—gin rummy was his game. His survivors include his wife of 44 years, Karin, four children and three grandchildren.

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William W. Parsons, Dec. 25, 2012. Bill spent two years at Williams as part of the V-12 program and graduated from Tufts in 1945. After nearly completing his master’s degree in music, he switched gears and earned a PhD in mathematics from Yeshiva University in 1967. He went on to a long and distinguished career as a professor of math at various colleges, and as a longtime New Yorker he was proud to spend much of it teaching at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. An observer of the political and economic situation, Bill felt Americans generally could do more to make the world a better place, and he was a faithful correspondent with Williams on such matters. He did his part to improve his community through his contributions to the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen. Bill’s survivors include a niece. Manvel Schauffler, Jan.

8, 2013. WWII interrupted Schauff ’s education, and when he returned from serving in the Navy he moved west to start a farming cooperative with a few friends and his new wife, and he enrolled at Lewis and Clark College. He earned a BA in 1954 and a master’s in education in 1955 while working at his first teaching job at Estacada

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High School. Schauff started teaching history and social studies at the Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Ore., in 1953, and by 1967 he had become the school’s headmaster. Schauff once took a bullet while protecting a boy from being kidnapped off the school grounds. And he held a meeting with a parent while he looked under the hood of—and fixed—her brokendown car. As headmaster, Schauff coached nearly every sport, directed plays and led skiing and camping trips with his students. But the classroom beckoned, and Schauff moved to Seattle in 1980, where he taught middle school and served as the dean of faculty at the Bush School until 1995. Schauff worked with the American Friends Service Committee and the Experiment in International Living, and he helped to found several independent schools. His survivors include his wife of 65 years, Verna, three children and two grandchildren.

1947

Richard T. Brigham, Nov. 12, 2012. Richard earned an MBA from Stanford in 1955 and had a long career as a project manager in marketing analysis at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., taking early retirement in 1985. A member of the choir at Williams and a lifelong lover of music, Richard sang for many years with the DuPont Chorus and later the Greenlea Chorale. He was active in his community of West Chester, Pa., serving on the boards of the Wilmington Music School, the Concept School, the Chadds Ford Historical Society and a retirement community called The Hickman. He was the supervisor for Birmingham Township for several years and the treasurer for the Birmingham Friends Meeting, where he was a member for much of his life. He was predeceased by his wife of 62 years, Peggy, in 2011, and son Douglas in 2012. His survivors include four children, three grandchildren, two greatgrandchildren and cousin Peter Driscoll ’61.

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Briggs Baugh, March 7, 2013. Briggs was an early proponent of recycling, and he founded and chaired the Greenwich, Conn., Recycling Advisory Board (earning him the nickname “Garbage Czar”), for which the state honored him with several awards. He once said that he had narrowly missed a career in politics, having served as president of the Greenwich and Connecticut State Young Republicans Clubs in his day, but instead he had a long career in station relations at ABC and as operations manager at CBS before being, as he put it, “downsized.” High on his list of blessings he counted the many trips he took around the country and the world, through the Air Force, his work in TV and his own personal travels. He spent his last 12 years working as an instructor with Little Scientists, teaching hands-on enrichment classes to young children. He was predeceased by his former wife, Claire, in 1998. His survivors include three children, three grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, niece Jennifer Marigliano Dehmel ’91 and nephew Paul R. Dehmel ’91. Barrett F. Emmert, Jan.

25, 2013. Barry was born in Indonesia, and although his education and career were situated in the American Northeast, he pointed to his birthplace by way of explaining his love of travel. He returned to Indonesia many times, along the way visiting 43 countries and many spots in the U.S. Local food and wine were top on his list in each place, and he always returned with plenty of photographs and gifts for friends and family. Having earned an MBA from NYU in 1962, he served as president of Burlington Industries for many years. He made his home in NYC and Connecticut, and he retired to North Carolina in the 1990s. He was predeceased by his first wife, Helen, in 1970. His survivors include his second wife of almost 40 years, Geraldine.

1949

Robert S. Bacon, March 7, 2013. Bob earned two PhDs— one in 1955 from the University

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of Nebraska-Lincoln in psychology and the other in 1971 from the University of ColoradoBoulder in geography. In between degrees, he worked as a clinical psychologist and then (briefly) a stock broker. But his interest in geography was paramount, and he taught the subject at Miami University of Ohio for many years, retiring in 1993. While working, he spent the academic year in Oxford, Ohio, and summers in Colorado, where he played tennis and skied. More recently, Bob and his wife spent summers in Florida, where he took up watercolor painting. His survivors include his wife of 44 years, Betty, a daughter and two grandchildren.

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Howard M. Cadmus, Dec. 7,

2012. Howard, who was fluent in several languages, served as a translator during the Korean War. Upon his return, he moved back to his hometown of Montclair, N.J., where he was president of the board of education for several years. Later, he moved south and worked as VP and secretary of the Carolina Casualty Insurance Co. in Jacksonville, Fla., before serving as a full-time pioneer of the Geneva Congregation of the Jehovah Witness for 14 years. His survivors include his wife of 36 years, Mavis, a daughter, two grandchildren and one great-grandson.

Peyton S. Cochran Jr., March

1, 2013. Skip earned a BS from University of Virginia in 1950 and went on to a career with the Rouse Co., from which he retired in 1992. Skip’s work at Rouse included the development of indoor shopping centers and planned communities, and yet his heart was in land preservation. The two fit together perfectly, however, as one of Rouse Co.’s goals was to work against sprawl. Skip was a trustee of Valleys Planning Council and served on the advisory board of the Trust for Public Lands. An active fox hunter and steeplechaser for much of his life, he was a member of the Maryland State Wildlife Commission and served on the Association for Wildlife Conservation. As

founding member and president of the Land Preservation Trust, he helped create a 300-acre equestrian center in Cockeysville, Md., near his home. His survivors include his wife of 52 years, Evelyn, three children and five grandchildren. Charles F. Gunther, Nov. 15, 2012. At Williams Chuck was the president of the Horse Polo Association and enjoyed playing games against Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Cornell. He earned a BA from Stanford in 1950 and went on to a career in financial services, first as a partner at Woodman, Kirkpatrick & Gilbreath. In 1987 he moved to Pacific Securities, where he served as the executive VP and director for five years before becoming VP of Van Kasper & Co., from which he retired in 2003. His dedication to San Francisco, the town in which he was born and where he chose to spend most of his adult life, was expressed through his many years on the advisory board of the Salvation Army’s adult rehabilitation center. His survivors include his wife of 58 years, Patricia, and two children.

Barrett F. Emmert ’48

Thomas D. Richardson, Feb. 27, 2013. Tom’s impact on the Norwalk, Conn., community can be seen at nearly every turn. He had a hand in the planning, construction, design and renovation of projects including the public schools, the YMCA, the library and the United Church of Rowayton—the project closest to his heart. The design of its new sanctuary won several architectural awards. Tom was also a member of the Common Council, the United Way, the Senior Housing Board and the Roton Point Beach Club. A sergeant in the Philippines and Japan during WWII, Tom went into the business world after graduation. He worked for an advertising agency and then in real estate before finding his professional home as the administrator of the Oak Hills Golf Park in 1970, where he worked until 1987. After retirement, his involvement at the church became a nearly full-time job; he served as business manager until 2000 and was deeply involved in SEP TEMBER 2013 PEOPLE

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selecting the current pastor. In 2003 he was made an honorary deacon of the church. In 2004 he moved to Rosewell, Ga., where he immediately became involved in the community and local church. His survivors include his wife of 62 years, Gary, five children, 13 grandchildren and cousins Peter Richardson ’66 and Artemas Richardson ’40. Stephen H. Rowan, Feb.

17, 2013. Born in England to American parents, Stephen was shipped to the States at the outbreak of WWII, at the age of 16. A few years later, while studying art at Williams, he was drafted but (despite memorizing the chart) failed the vision test. Eager to lend his hand to the war effort, he became an ambulance driver and spent the remainder of the war in Libya and Italy. After graduation from Williams, he started a master’s program in art history but changed course when he realized he wanted to become a teacher. In 1963, soon after earning a master’s from Bank Street College of Education in NYC, he made plans for a yearlong trip to Alaska and Arctic Canada. That year turned into a lifetime, and it was the only place he ever called home; he became a Canadian citizen in 1980 and worked first as a teacher and later as superintendent of education in Arctic Quebec and the western Arctic. Stephen settled in Fort Simpson, a small village on the banks of the Mackenzie River, where he was best known for founding and sustaining the Historical Society and preserving the village’s historic buildings. He was also a devoted walking-tour guide—he wrote the tour booklet himself—giving tours into his 80s. He was devoted to the Beautification Society, the library board and the Jack Rabbit Ski Club, and he received the Northwest Territories Outstanding Volunteer Award in 2003. His survivors include eight nieces and nephews.

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the Army counter-intelligence corps during the Korean War and then returned to his home state of New York to coach high school basketball. Serving as co-captain of the basketball team at Williams brought him great happiness, and he became a lifelong sports enthusiast. He moved to California (as he liked to point out, the same year as the N.Y. Giants) to work for Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance; by his retirement in 1991, he was the VP and division manager. In 1973 he married Virginia and adopted her young son Anthony. At the time his stepson became a U.S. citizen, he legally changed his name to Larson, a fact that gave Bob great pride. In 1992, Bob moved to Arizona and spent some of his retirement as a volunteer driver for the clinic lab at the local hospital and the rest playing golf and traveling the world with his wife. His survivors include his wife and son. Jonathan O’Herron, April

4, 2013. John believed that family came first. His father didn’t attend college but deeply wanted his son to, and one of the scholarships John endowed at Williams is in his mother’s name. The other is named for his children. He was also devoted to his own children’s educations, serving as a trustee at their high school, St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H., for nine years and establishing a scholarship fund there. He was also a trustee at his daughters’ college, Middlebury, for 15 years, where he recently established an internship to support students committed to helping others. John was also a strong supporter of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, where he was known for following up major gifts with a question: “What else can I do?” He was a trustee of the American Red Cross of Greater New York, Kolbe Cathedral High School in Bridgeport, Conn., New York Medical College, St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Stamford, Conn., and the Inner-City Scholarship Fund of the Archdiocese of New York. In 2004, he was made a Knight of St. Gregory by Pope John

Paul II. A lifelong Democrat, John often tried to change the political affiliations and beliefs of friends and neighbors in his home, Darien, Conn., with occasional success. He received an MBA from Harvard in 1957 and had a long career— from which he never officially retired—as a partner at Lazard Freres & Co. in New York. He took great pride in mentoring young investment bankers, cautioning them to balance work and family life, and always living by example. In addition to the scholarships he funded at his alma mater, John also served as 50th Reunion Fund vice chairman and class associate agent (1995-2013). He was predeceased by his wife Shirley in 2004. Among his survivors are three children, including Jonathan O’Herron Jr. ’79, and 11 grandchildren, including Sarah

Burleigh ’09, Cornelia Burleigh ’13 and Tucker Burleigh ’16.

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Joseph H. Bumsted, March

24, 2013. Joe was 15 when he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, but his continued good health in the face of the disease was a great source of pride. His long-term illness did ultimately affect his ability to travel. (He was particularly disappointed to miss his 60th reunion). He was a lifelong volunteer, counseling young diabetics being just one example. He also served as chairman of the United Fund of Pelham, N.Y.—his home for 21 years—and on the Historic Preservation Trust, the Visiting Nurse Association and Diabetes Association of Lancaster, Pa., where he moved in 1985. His career started in the textile industry, but he later served for many years as division president and executive VP and COO at Woodstream Corp., a manufacturer of pest control solutions. In retirement, he focused on education, mentoring in a reading program in the public schools and marketing creative building toys to classrooms around the country. An avid golfer, he also found great delight in traveling around the world to play. His survivors include his wife of 35 years, Becky, two children and two grandchildren.

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William C. Stroh III, Feb. 3,

2013. Bill got involved with the radio station at Williams when he was an undergraduate and continued to operate ham radio for much of his life. After studying physics at Williams, he earned a master’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1956. He was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force during WWII and later had a long career as president of William Stroh Inc., a direct selling and marketing company. He also served as civil defense and emergency management director in his hometown of Millburn, N.J. Bill’s survivors include two sons and three grandchildren.

1953

Alger B. Chapman Jr., Feb. 18,

2013. Duke went to Columbia Law School after graduation, and started his career as an attorney with the Securities & Exchange Commission before moving on to VP and counsel of the New York Stock Exchange. By the time he retired in 2004, he was chairman and CEO of ABN Amro Financial Services. In between, he experienced firsthand one of Wall Street’s amazing growth stories with Shearson, Hammill & Co., of which he was president and CEO at the time of its merger with CBWL Hayden Stone in 1974. In 1982 the firm was acquired by American Express, and Duke became the vice chairman of American Express International Bank. In 1986 he became chairman and CEO of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, where he spent more than a decade. In that time, he also served on the boards of Smith Barney Mutual Funds, Johnson International, Trade Development Bank and New England ISO. His commitment to his community was evident in his volunteer work with the Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation, the Boy Scouts of America and the Police Athletic League of New York. Among his survivors are his wife of nearly 30 years, Beatrice, four children, including Samuel Chapman ’86, and five grandchildren. David F. Decker, Dec. 21, 2012.

David worked in marketing with

IBM in Syracuse, N.Y., and Boca Raton, Fla., for many years before moving to Nettles Island in Jensen Beach, Fla., for 25 years of his retired life. Active in the Episcopal Church throughout his life, he was also a member of the local theater guild. His survivors include his wife of 52 years, Joyce, two children and two grandchildren. Lewis J. Kleinrock, Dec. 3,

2012. Lew married his sweetheart, Peggy, while at Williams, and by the time of his graduation they had lost two children to cystic fibrosis. Heartbroken but steadfast, they moved to New Haven so Lew could attend the Yale Law School. His postgraduate work was interrupted by his service as a rifle platoon commander in the Marines, and when he returned he changed course, entering Harvard’s MBA program and graduating in 1959. He ended up in a career in investment management, which he loved because, as he said, “you got paid far more than you were worth.” Before becoming the president and director of Independence Investment Associates in Boston, Mass., he was the VP of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance. He helped found an inner-city girls’ high school and believed each person should search for one good idea “that makes a positive difference in the lives of at least 10 people outside one’s family.” Peggy died on Feb. 8, 2013. Lew’s survivors include a son and four grandchildren.

Joseph H. Bumsted ’52

Alger B. Chapman Jr. ’53

Harry E. Yeide Jr., Feb. 6, 2013.

After studying political science at Williams, Harry earned a bachelor’s of divinity from Union Theological Seminary in 1957 and a PhD from Harvard in 1964. He moved to Silver Spring, Md., where he raised his family and taught in and, for a time, chaired the religion department at George Washington University, from which he retired in 2011. His survivors include his wife of 57 years, Betty, and three children.

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years in advertising in NYC and Toronto. Jack then quit his job to write a novel, which, though never published, brought him great joy. During that time, he and his family moved to Reston, Va., and when he went back to paid employment (having “used up our money”) it was with The Washington Post. He worked in the promotion department before convincing the editor that he should write a business column, which covered topics he described as “the folkways of office life.” Through it all, Jack’s family was what mattered most to him, and he was proud to bring “the same date I left with” to his Williams reunions and described his three children as his “greatest pleasures and best friends.” His survivors include his wife of 59 years, Mary, three children, six grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and greatniece Julie Wyman ’08.

1955

Thomas R. Bell, Feb. 18, 2013.

Tom majored in English at Williams and went to medical school, earning an MD from Johns Hopkins University in 1959. He spent several years in the U.S. Air Force, an experience that brought him to Walnut Creek, Calif., the place he would call home for the rest of his life. After the Air Force, Tom worked in private practice as a pediatrician for more than four decades. His survivors include his wife of 55 years, Marylou, four children, three grandchildren, brother William H. Bell ’41 and nephew David A. Bell ’76. Harold F. White III, March

30, 2013. Through the luck of a call to Williams’ placement bureau in 1958, after his release from the Air Force, Terry wound up back in the Purple Valley. He started out at the Warren Wire company in Pownal, Vt., but soon moved to Sprague Electric, where he spent 19 years, ultimately holding the title of VP of human resources. After Sprague, he took a position at his alma mater, and until his retirement in 2001, he reported to the director of the physical plant with varied responsibilities, including student and faculty housing, finance and personnel.

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In 1970 his wife Carole passed away. Through old friends, he met and was married to Alleson Whitney the following year, and their blended family included four children from each side. He loved living close to the Taconic Golf Course, and he was a frequent competitor in the annual Alumni/Guest Tournament. Among his survivors are his wife of nearly 42 years, eight children, including W. Bradley White ’79, 14 grandchildren, including Crosby Fish ’10, and brother Palmer White ’59.

1956

David Ford, Jan. 8, 2013.

Dave went into the newspaper business after graduation, first at a weekly paper in Wilmington, Mass., and then at his own weekly in Milo, Maine—though with inadequate advertising revenue, this venture didn’t last long. He soon went to work at Harvard University Press, becoming a senior graphic designer and learning the skills he needed to open David Ford Graphic Design in 1974, where he worked until his retirement in 2007. First located in Lincoln, Mass., and later in Woodstock, Vt., Dave earned a name—and several awards—in book design. From 1988 to 2006 he also was responsible for a family business in textile equipment manufacturing, which later evolved into a real-estate holding company. He enjoyed music and the outdoors—from gardening and beekeeping to cross country skiing and maple sugaring. His survivors include his wife of almost 53 years, Mary, and two sons.

1958

Matthew C. Donner, April

11, 2013. Matt made his home in NYC, earning an MBA at Columbia in 1960 and working in securities sales on Wall Street for many years. His career started out with Smith, Barney & Co., and he worked with several research boutiques until beginning a career with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, which was acquired by Credit Suisse in 2000. He deeply enjoyed his work and loved living in NYC but found ways to retreat as well. He had a home

in Quogue, N.Y., where he spent weekends with his family, and he traveled to Williamstown each fall, as he said, “for football and foliage.” His survivors include his wife of nearly 39 years, Judy, two children and two grandchildren. George A. Vare Jr., April 13,

2013. After graduation, George went into the family electrical construction business before earning an MBA from Harvard in 1966. He then went to work with Schlitz Brewing Co., which launched him into the world of wineries. His introduction to California wines came when he was president of Geyser Peak Winery, which he grew to a 700,000-case brand before setting out on his own. He also ran a consulting firm for the wine industry, started up several small wineries and founded a monthly newsletter about the trends in the business. He served as executive director of the American Vineyard Foundation and loved to provide young winemakers with help fulfilling their visions. In 1996, he co-founded Luna Vineyards, which introduced varieties of Italian grapes to Napa Valley, and out of his education in those grapes grew his final project: Vare Vineyards, for which he grew some of the toughest, most idiosyncratic grapes, producing wonderful wines. He traveled extensively and often for his work, and he learned to speak Italian later in life. George loved to sail, work in his woodworking studio, cook and meditate. Among his survivors are his wife of almost 30 years, Elsa, three children, including Catherine Vare Schembre ’82, three stepchildren, eight grandchildren, cousin John Shaw ’62 and nephews John Willmott ’88 and David Willmott ’92.

1959

Winston Healy Jr., March 15,

2013. Five days after graduation, Win set sail for Hawaii for what he thought would be a year or two, and he ended up spending the next four decades deeply embedded in the process of educating the children at the Punahou Academy in Honolulu. He earned a Master

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of Education at the University of Hawaii in 1968 and later went on to receive his EdD from UMass Amherst in 1981. Win started in Punahou’s English department in 1960 and coached basketball. By 1968 he was also the school’s principal. He gave up coaching but never stopped teaching a course on existential literature, because he said it was “inextricably interwoven with high school leadership.” Win felt blessed to live in Hawaii, where he raised his family and worked hard to make the Punahou Academy an outstanding independent school. He retired in 2000 and returned to his hometown and his family’s farm in Shelburne Falls, Mass., where he helped advise the teachers and staff at Charlemont Academy and served on the Charlemont Board of Selectman. Among his survivors are four children, including Than Healy ’91, Jason Healy ’00 and Elisabeth Healy ’04, two grandchildren, his brother Jonathan Healy ’68 and cousin Allan Foster ’64.

molecular biology. He joined the faculty in 1967. Bill taught at Williams for nearly five decades and was appointed the C. Carlisle Tippit Professor of Biology in 1983. He served as chair of the biology department on four separate occasions and sat on several important faculty committees, including the Steering Committee and the Committee on Appointments and Promotions. His research was supported by the National Institutes of Health and focused on hemoglobin synthesis in amphibians, the production of antibiotic proteins in amphibian skin and molecular strategies to augment hydrogen production in photosynthetic bacteria. He was the author of three influential and award-winning textbooks and several articles on cellular and molecular biology. Bill lived what he described as a “pretty routine, happy life in the Purple Valley.” Among his survivors are his wife of 40 years, Mary Lou DeWitt ’72, and two children, including Erica DeWitt ’09.

Hugh S. Johnston, Jan. 6,

1962

2013. After graduation, Mike joined the U.S. Army Security Agency and learned to speak Mandarin for his post in Special Operations Command, for which he was stationed in Okinawa, Japan. Upon his return stateside, he earned a JD from Hastings College in 1966 and went on to a career practicing law in Santa Cruz, Calif. Known for his wonderful voice, Mike was active in the Santa Cruz music scene as lead singer of the bluegrass band Hot Dam String Band. His survivors include his wife Joan, two children and two grandchildren.

1961

William DeWitt, May 3, 2013. Bill earned his PhD in biology from Princeton in 1966 and went to MIT to conduct postdoctoral research in molecular biology. Although offered a teaching job at MIT, Bill decided big city life wasn’t for him. He heard about an opening at his alma mater, and when Bill contacted the chair, he was excited to learn that Williams wanted to expand its study of biology to include

James K. MacDougall Jr., Feb. 28, 2013. James earned a PhD from Case Western Reserve University in 1967 and taught English at Ball State University until his retirement in 2001. He made his home and raised his family in Muncie, Ind., yet traveled frequently to the Indiana State Department of Corrections, where he directed the prison education program for much of his academic career. Active in the St. Lawrence Catholic Church, James was ordained a deacon in 2005 and spent many years chairing the stewardship committee and presiding over nursing home communion services. Among his survivors are his wife of 50 years, Carolyn, two children, including Rebecca Thompson ’85, and four grandchildren.

Harold F. White III ’55

george a. vare jr. ’58

William DeWitt ’61

1967

Stephen S. Mark, Feb. 4, 2013.

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obituaries love—at Williams and beyond— was music, and Steve was proud to have attended the first day of the Woodstock Music Festival before boarding the USS Davis, on which he served as officer during the Vietnam War. While pursuing his JD from the University of Texas (1972) Steve was editor of the Texas Law Review, and he went on to make partner at several different Dallas firms. For 11 years he was co-owner of Mitchell & Mark, from which he retired in 2005. Steve had one son, who lived for just over a month in 1973. His survivors include his partner of the last 14 years, Melanie, a sister, two nephews and his former wife and good friend, Shelby.

1971

Mark E. Stevenson, Jan. 31,

2013. Mark started collecting art when he was an art history major at Williams, making many trips to NYC and developing a collection of the early works of now well-known pop artists. After graduation he returned home to the Pacific Northwest and worked on design and remodeling construction projects. Through this work he became fascinated with historic restoration and bought the Heathman Hotel—at the time in disrepair—in Portland, Ore. Through Mark’s vision and hard work, he created a historic and cultural landmark that is still a beacon for the arts in the city he loved. In 1990, having fallen ill, he returned to his childhood home in White Salmon, Wash., where he spent the rest of his life. A longtime member of the boards at the Oregon Art Institute and the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, Mark was a constant supporter of the arts in his community. Among his survivors are his parents, three siblings, and many cousins, including Thomas Stevenson ’71 and Davy Stevenson ’04.

1972

Richard M. Deslauriers, Jan.

16, 2013. Rick was the owner the Deslauriers Co. in Bon Aqua, Tenn., specializing in fine woodworking. An athlete at Williams, he was a faithful fan of the Nashville Predators hockey team. Rick was devoted

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to his family and enjoyed keeping bees and listening to music. His survivors include his wife Diane and three children.

1978

Katherine L. Frank, Dec. 26, 2012. Katherine’s time at Williams was deeply formative—she found both her future spouse and her career path there—but it was the only time she lived away from NYC. Returning there after graduation, she earned a JD from Fordham in 1983 and practiced law until 2001, as both assistant attorney general of New York State and court attorney with the New York State Supreme Court. She later worked as a literacy tutor with the New York Public Library. Her survivors include her husband of 28 years, Jerome Page III ’77, two sons, including Ian D. Page ’12, and nephew Richard Bode ’02.

Other Deaths Douglas U. Wilson ’46,

June, 1, 2013

J. Leroy Thompson Jr. ’54,

Feb. 1, 2013

James R. Ford ’55,

Jan. 17, 2013

Michael L. Piel ’58,

Oct. 2, 2002

David A. Seymour ’58,

May 5, 2013

Walter L. Baynard Jr. ’61,

Nov. 28, 2012

Arturo R. Calventi Thomén ’73, 2001 Obituaries are written by Julia Munemo and are based on information that alumni and their families have supplied to the college over the years. To access more biographical information on many alumni, visit www.legacy.com or www.tributes.com.

Katherine L. Frank ’78

WHO IS THE ALUMNI SOCIETY? Digging a little deeper on Society President Dennis O’Shea’s ’77 message from the inside front cover of People, here’s a quick quiz to see how much you know about your alumni family: 1. What’s the current count of alumni in the society (let’s say within 500 people)? 2. What’s the gender breakdown of the society? Extra credit if you can guess what decade it reaches 50-50. 3. What’s the median class year of the society? 4. What are the top four most populous regions of the country? Extra credit if you can put them in order. 5. What’s the ethnic breakdown of the society? 6. What’s the percentage of alumni married to each other? Here are the answers: 1. With the addition of 527 members of the Class of 2013, along with 12 Grad Art and 28 CDE graduates, the society numbered 28,711 in late July. 2.The gender breakdown is currently 36.42 percent female and 63.57 percent male. Assuming current enrollment numbers stay constant, the society will reach gender balance in 2040. 3. The median class year is 1986. I’m guessing how you feel about that depends on which side of that number you land. 4. Not surprisingly, 25 percent of you live in New England. The next region may have thrown you—it’s the West Coast, with 17.5 percent. Metro New York is next, with 16 percent, followed by the Mid-Atlantic at 13 percent. Those of you in the South make up 11 percent, and 9 percent of you are in the Midwest. Slightly over 4 percent of you are living outside the U.S. 5. Approximately 84 percent of you are white, 5.5 percent are black, 5.3 percent are Asian, and 3.2 percent are Hispanic or Latino. Alumni of color are the fastest evolving demographic within the society. The incoming Class of 2017 mirrors recent classes and numbers 552 students, 295 of whom are white and 206 are students of color (12 students declined to indicate their race). 6. Rural legend has had the number of married alumni couples as high as 50 percent, but it’s actually 11.64 percent. These numbers only begin to tell the story of our diverse and disparate group. We have Williams in common along with a broad range of affiliations with each other and the college. The obligation of the Alumni Relations Office and the society’s leadership is to provide you with meaningful and substantive opportunities to engage with Williams and your fellow alumni. In our data-driven world, we’re increasingly focused on how we can measure the effectiveness of our efforts and your engagement with the college. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that we track points of engagement, among them your event participation, volunteerism, giving and utilization of online resources. Combined, or viewed individually, these factors paint a picture that gives us a sense of how you’re engaging with Williams. But we also understand that the picture is incomplete. Whatever quantitative analysis may tell us, we know that your relationship with Williams can’t be fully captured in our database. Your definitions for engagement with Williams are as disparate as the society you inhabit. We’d love to hear how you define yours. With best wishes from Williamstown,

“Whatever quantitative analysis may tell us, we know that your relationship with Williams can’t be fully captured in our database.” —Brooks Foehl ‘88 Director of Alumni Relations [email protected]

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