News and Notes 2008

News and Notes 2008

December

David Rust

David and Gail

I just retired from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory where I led the solar physics research program for 23 years. I continue solar research while also trying to understand Cubism and Abstract Expressionism by copying paintings by Picasso and Joan Mitchell. In May my wife Gail and I had a wonderful vacation with friends from APL, touring Beijing, Xian, Hong Kong, Shanghai, etc. But it was sobering to see the people camped out on the streets after the May 12 earthquake, which killed more than 70,000. In August we spent a week in Ann Arbor taking care of our grandchildren, Clare and Sean, while our daughter Amy and husband Peter Higgins were in Vienna. Peter is a gastroenterologist at the University of Michigan and Amy is a soccer mom and part time English teacher. My son Harlan has two children and is a nephrologist in practice in Norfolk. We are trying to keep up with the grandkids, who are heavy into Nintendo and instant messaging. Let's hear from you soon at dmrustATcomcast.net.

October

Larry Chase

Left full-time employment on Jan 16, 1996, the result of a semi-handsome AT&T buyout (I had been a speechwriter and general-purpose PR person there for 20 years). Then:

two years of freelance consulting and writing; two-year series of home exchanges and travels that took Susan (Brown '63) and me to lots of good places around the world; eight years of volunteering (National Park Service, Nature Conservancy) that took us to lots of good places around the country.

Currently house-sitting in Haines, Alaska, for second winter in a row. Writing, taking snapshots , volunteering with local historical society, shoveling snow (28 inches to date this fall; more expected).

In 1999, built a small cabin with our own hands (the value of a liberal education) on a lake in Andover NH. It became our official residence in 2006, when we sold our NJ house on the very day that the housing bubble reached maximum inflation.

Happy ever since.

May

Earle R. Halsband: Still working (maxillofacial surgeon) but spend most of my time in Florida, perfecting myself as well as my golf and tennis games. I have become a student of the Yiddish language and literature. My wife, Carol, and I are proud parents of two, Dana and Robin (B ’92), and proud grandparents of three. Thanks for the memories.

April

Dorothy Pierce McSweeny: We have a new grandson, Warren Maverick Burns, born February 29, 2008.

Brent D. Moore sent news this spring: For the past several summers, Nat Chace, Carl Hally, Tom Rutherfold and I have had a summer reunion in Rhode Island. In 2007, we met in Little Compton at the summer home of Brown President Barnaby Keeney, which I and my daughter Martina de Avila Moore ’91 recently purchased from the Keeney family. President Keeney built the house in the early 60s. The property abuts the home of Brown Professor Walter Feldman.

James Corbett:

I have stepped down after 17 years as chairman of neurology at the University of Mississippi Medical School

March

Michael Slayton: Retired from medical practice (internal medicine) two years ago; enjoying travel and time with grandchildren.

Mary Emery Doucette: Having retired from my life as a high school math teacher and department head, I’ve moved into the “I don’t know how I found time to work” phase. I’m taking courses, traveling, reading, quality and enjoying living downtown in the great city of Toronto.

Samuel G. Friedman: Still working in family real estate company. Son Geoff, recovering lawyer, has taken over. He’s a tough boss. Five kids, 8 grandchildren.

Michael Goldfield, MD: Praticing psychiatry in San Mateo, CA.

Spent time with Paul Cochette on a Brown travel trip to France.

Gerald Pouliot, MD: Wife Marjory retired from management with the telephone company after 35 years of service. I have a full-time gynolocopy office primarily devoted to women’s health care and menopausal medicine, plus committee work at South Shore Hospital as chairperson, South Shore Physicians Hospital Organization. Two daughters in MA, one in CT, and four grandchildren.

March - John Calhoun, founder and President (for twenty years) of the National Crime Prevention Council, recently published Hope Matters: The Untold Story of How Faith Works in America, the story of 22 amazing people who are reshaping lives and communities across America. For the book go to amazon.com, or www.BartlebybythePublisher.com

Stanley L. Freedman

Ruth Grace Jervis

Michael Naidoff: Retired, spending winters and summers in Aspen, CO.

Randolph Steinen: Retired ’02, after 30 years with the UConn department of geology; remarried ’04 to Derrith Owen. We live in the village of Mansfield Depot, just a couple of miles from the University. Derrith is a painter and sells her work at “A Farther Hill Gallery,” which is in our front room. I work part time with the CT Geological Survey.

Gene Kopf: I spent winter fishing off Jupiter Island in the Gulf Stream and the summer farming in the N.C. mountains. Still studying film, literature and current events at F.A.U. With my wife, I’m traveling Russia and the Baltic countries.

February -

William Friedel:

Two daughters, four grandchildren. I hope to retire soon.

Prudence Kimball:

David and I both retired in 2004. I taught chemistry at Crawfordsville High School (IN) for thirty years. David was a professor of chemistry at Wabash College. We just returned from a trip to Australia and New Zealand and hope to do more traveling in the future.

Susan Miller: Paul (’61) and I are enjoying retired life in a golf community (town) of St. James. We are both active in community activities, volunteer work, golf, tennis and entertaining friends. Have had visits form Allison Borton Libschitz, Doug Whitney (’61) and wife Martha, Chuck Rood (’61) and wife Shane in the past year. We are also enjoying trips to Africa, China, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Peru, and Costa Rica.

Elaine Remley Peracchio: Adrian (’61) and I are both retired and now spend summers in Grand Lake, Colorado and winters in Houston We also enjoy visiting daughter Nancy and husband Bret in Tyler, Texas, daughter Elise and husband John in Seattle; and son Glenn and wife Sara and especially our grandson Carson in London.

Martha Stewart: John (’60) and I are retired from farming and have downsized to a condo in Portland, Oregon, which we love.

Ken Walker

Ralph Watson: I continue to enjoy walking my two Springer spaniels on the Brown campus most days. Kids love to pat the dogs and there is always a “story” about “how they miss their dogs at home.” Good therapy for both the students and an old grad.

Robert H. Zeff: I am now the medical director of the Vein Center at Iowa Heart. I am no longer doing heart surgery, since I had surgery on my back. I tried retirement and it didn’t work.

We have learned from John Andes '62 of the February, 2008 death of our classmate Gordon Scott. John wrote this tribute: "After more than two decades of dealing with diabetes, Gordon Scott, Brown University Class of '62, succumbed to the disease's ravages With this event, the world will be a little less enjoyable, and days a little cloudier, because gone from our midst is one of huge heart, soul, and stature. Gordon loved to laugh at the idiocies so many, whose eyes were closed to reality, called truth. He reached out his hand to those in need, nurtured them and gave them a push toward independence. He will be missed."

Yearbook photo strip created by Helene Schwartz Kenvin. Contributed pictures by Helene Schwartz Kenvin.

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