NEWS AND NOTES
News and Notes
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2020 CLASS NOTES
September 2020
Catherine Flippen Harada and Robert Harada are busy with their grandchildren and enjoying the Colorado outdoors.
John R. Stahl has been publishing his own books of esoteric philosophy and metaphysics under the name of The Evanescent Press since 1971 in Montreal, letterpress printed on his own handmade paper from hand-set type and hand bound. Recently he has reprinted most of his writings in commercial editions ~
The Laughter of God: ISBN: 978-0-945303-24-4 (e-book edition: ISBN: 978-0-945303-18-3)
More Laughter: ISBN: 978-0-945303-25-1 (e-book edition: ISBN: 978-0-945303-26-8)
In addition, he has prepared two collections of writings which may be downloaded for free from his website ~
Selected Articles: Metaphysics and Theology, 1989-2019 (www.tree.org/Selected Articles.pdf). This is just the philosophy, without the radical articles. ISBN: 978-0-945303-23-7
One Planet Makeover (www.tree.org/One Planet Makeover.pdf), which is primarily articles on social, economic, and political themes. ISBN: 978-0-945303-27-5
2019 CLASS NOTES
Classmate Marion Franck wrote an article about attending our 50th Reunion which appeared in the Davis Enterprise on June 2, 2019. Here is the link: https://www.davisenterprise.com/forum/opinion-columns/between-friends-what-to-expect-of-college-reunion/
2017-2018 CLASS NOTES
February 2018
After 26 years as a Ph.D. chemist at Bell Labs and 15 years as a Quality Engineer in the Medical Device area, Susan Clardy McNevin has retired. She is volunteering at JerseySTEM, whose goal is to interest kids in science. In August 2017 she conducted a session of her “AstroFUN” program for the local Girl Scout council’s Solar Eclipse Day.
Barbara Cooke Augenblick has downsized to a rural mountainside home with spectacular views while still in the range of Washington, D.C. Her children are nearby. She is concentrating on pottery/sculpture and oil painting – mostly during Michigan summers. Her volunteer activitie4s in small town America continue unabated.
Eve Ida Barak expects to be at Brown for Commencement/Class of 1968 Reunion in May 2018. She writes “1968? But, but, but – aren’t I Class of ’69? Yup. I entered with the Class of ’69; I (until recently) identified with the Class of ’69. But I actually received my A.B. with the Class of ’68. Until now, I’ve only come back to Class of ’69 reunions. But hey – how often does a girl get to go to TWO fiftieth class reunions? I loved my 50th high school reunion; it was really special. So I decided to cash in on this unique opportunity to go to my 50th college reunion TWICE. After the 1968 event, I will come back for the 1969 reunion.”
Naomi Das Neufeld Flagg is looking forward to the reunion in 2019. She writes “It is for most of us, I’m sure, hard to believe that the past 50 years have flown by. While I run more slowly than most people on the fire road these days, there are times when I still am drawn to the idea of starting something new in my practice or have a better idea for patient outreach on my website. I am still practicing in the Cedars community and am in business for myself. This has been, and continues to be, a very empowering thing to do and, in that sense, is hard to give up. On a personal note, I love being a grandmother to Maya and Piper, daughters of my daughter Pam, Class of 1999. Dennis and I have been married for 5 years, and we are enjoying handing out together. He the creative spur to the work of our joint endeavor, the Children’s Wellness Institute. And this past year I met a wonderful piano teacher who has encouraged me to pick up where I left off and to realize that practicing brings me joy.”
Rauer Meyer writes “Exciting times as my girls graduate from college in May and my retirement beckons. Looking forward to a seminal 50th for the seminal Class of “69. See you there.”
Phyllis Krucoff Shnaider will be married 50 years in June 2018 and has 2 wonderful kids and 4 amazing grandchildren. She is head of the clinical social work section in the Ochsner Clinic Department of Psychiatry, loves her work, and loves her decision to cut back to working 4 days a week.
November 2017
Margery Fisher Anderson loves the unremarkable life she lives in Vermont. She teaches Svaroopa yoga and volunteers in the Heartfulness Meditation ashram bookstore in Massachusetts. She travels to New Jersey and Washington, DC, as often as possible to visit her two grown sons.
Nancy and J. Richard Chambers just returned from a first-ever cruise from Barcelona, Spain, to Monte Carlo, Monaco. “The Silver Wind was a delight, as were the shore excursions and new international friends. Now we are back to solving client problems in my case and not-for-profit management for Nancy.”
Leslie J. Corwin and his wife Jessie Bard traveled to Israel in October 2017 for the International Board Meetings of the Israel Tennis Centers Foundation and the October 16th dedication of the tennis court in Jaffa in honor of Jean Mills, the Polo Club of Boca Raton’s Director of Tennis. Les and Jessie are proud to support Israel Tennis Centers, which bring children from different religions, ethnicities, and socio-economic backgrounds together in coexistence programs, promoting understanding, cooperation and friendship, on and off the court, and have hosted more than 250 people at their home in Boca Raton.
Richard R. Crocker has retired, and he has been named College Chaplain Emeritus at Dartmouth College.
William Dean is still in Geneva, New York, the heart of the beautiful Finger Lakes. He is still working as a pathologist and is still “wining, gardening, sailing, riding his motorcycle, and fishing.” He and Liz’s six children and all doing “pretty well”, and he is now a grandfather!
Paul Dunn writes “while continuing my job as Executive Vice President at Bluerock Capital Markets, Linda and I moved to Laguna Nigel, California, to be closer to our four sons and their families.”
C. Gregory Elliott, M.D. writes “I have had an incredible journey in medicine, and I just celebrated my 70th birthday by biking to Alta, Utah, with friends and family. As Cliff Stevenson would say, ‘Amazing’.”
Michael Elsberry has retired from the practice of law after 41 years, the last 20 with the Orlando, Florida, firm Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed! He and Sally have been traveling frequently and enjoying summers in their house in Beaver Creek, Colorado. He has reconnected with old friends, including William Kaplan, M.D. (Brown ’70), who was in the dorm room across the hall from him in Arnold House.
Maria Isabel Garcia received the “Outstanding Congregational Library” award for her church resource center at All Saints Catholic Church, Richardson, Texas, which she started and has directed for 38 years. The award was given at the 50th Anniversary National Conference of the Church and Synagogue Library Association in Rochester, New York, in July 2017.
Rita Chao Hadden loves teaching “Understanding Asia” at American University to lifelong learners. She is also mentoring Brown University seniors, enjoying her granddaughter Mayzie and daughter Tracy Hadden Loh ’05, hiking in D.C., plays, choir, fusion cooking, travels, and acupressure.
Lynne Moore Healy was named a Social Work Pioneer by the National Association of Social Workers and inducted in October 2017.
Lauren Marcus Hughes writes “Life is good. I am still working in my private psychotherapy practice. My son Christopher and his wife Vicki have a daughter Summer (9), a son Zander (7), and a daughter Shannon (3½). My daughter Meghan and her husband Adam have twins Zadie and Jameson, age 4.”
John Krafft has returned to his roots – living back in Long Beach, California. He is still working as the International Banking Credit Manager for City National Bank but thinking about retirement. He writes “my two daughters are flourishing. Nina is keeping up the family tradition of living in Beijing where she is a special education resource in a bilingual private school, and Emily is in Portland, Oregon, where she works in development for the Xerces Society, which supports invertebrates. I still keep in touch with my first roommate, Spike Gonzales, who lives in Naples, Florida, and seems to have come through the hurricane okay, and with Peter Ujlaki, who has been living in Japan for decades but who breezes through Southern California most years on business. I recently had a delightful visit with Robert Sell and Rita up in Washington.”
Thomas Lemire remembers 50 years ago in the fall of 1967, the excitement of having a new Football Coach, Len Jardine, a young 29-year-old Purdue Assistant, infuse high hopes into Brown’s program. “New uniforms with gold helmets, better recruiting tools, and upgraded facilities and locker rooms served to inspire us. We didn’t achieve the sharp turnaround that some expected, but the attitude changed, and the Administration realized that all aspects of student life benefited from making us more competitive with the other Ivy schools.”
Thomas K. Lindsey is a tutor of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery testing program and a transcriber of manuscripts for the wardepartmentpapers.org project.
Caroline Klock McLaughlin retired on January 20, 2017, from the Town of Lexington, Massachusetts after 31 years. She is still living in Lexington “for now.”
David Parker is continuing to practice corporate and commercial litigation at Kleinberg, Kaplan in New York City. He is staying committed to Brown through his involvement on the board of Brown-RISD Hillel and as a School Chair for the Alumni Interviewing program. He and his wife Ronnie also enjoy their adventures with the Brown Travelers, most recently to Australia/New Zealand and Churchill, Canada (“think polar bears and beluga whales!”). In January 2018 they are going to Antarctica.
2016-2017 CLASS NOTES
Fred Berk writes “Our daughter, Leah Rae Berk ’05, received her M.B.A. in 2014, gave us our first grandchild in 2015, and joined our family business in 2016. Along with her cousin, she represents the third generation of Berks at Pulpdent Corporation of Watertown, MA. Pulpdent is a research, product development, and manufacturing company specializing in professional dental products. We are the world leaders in bioactive dental restorative materials – dynamic, “smart” materials that play an active role in oral health. Ask your dentist about ACTIVA BioACTIVE.
In September 2016 J. Richard Chambers and Nancy enjoyed two mini-reunions, one with Wes and Jill Smith and Peter and Karen Jakes at Wes’s mountain retreat in Truckee, CA, and the other with Ann Brice at her chalet in Soda Springs, CA. We finished the trip with a visit to Sequoia National Park (a must see!). Professional I completed a capital raise for a business buyout in Miami, FL, and I consult with several clients in nonbank, bank, and fintech fields. 3 granddaughters keep us busy and bring much joy to our lives.
Leslie D Corwin writes that life is good personally and professionally. He has been invited to participate in the Aspen Institute’s 2017 Justice & Society Seminar in July 2017, an annual seminar co-founded by the late Supreme Court Justice Harry A Blackmun comprised of 20 participants from various fields who bring a wealth of personal and professional experience to the discussion. They will focus on the conceptions of justice and how a just society should deal with issues such as private conduct and public mores, economic disparities, equality, and the breakdown of long-established hierarchies of race and gender, as well as the contours of justice in the international sphere.
Ann Malone Cowan retired from the University of Kentucky Information Technology Office in September 2013. She is “living a life of genteel poverty, enjoying the simpler things in life, continuing the good fight for society, which she began at Brown more than 50 years ago, and aging, some days gracefully, other days not so much.”
Paul H. Ellenbogen, M.D. has retired from the practice of radiology. His activities are now varied, including volunteer work as a Docent at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, TX. Come visit him in the Being Human Exhibit Hall. He also enjoys playing pickleball once or twice a week.
Michael V. Elsberry retired from the practice of law in February 2015 and has been on the go since then. He and his wife of 40 years, Sally Blackmun, have taken 9 trips or cruises since his retirement, the most recent a Brown-sponsored cruises in the Peruvian headwaters of the Amazon River in January 2017.
Karen Mollineaux Ferguson writes “Tom and I continue to live in New Canaan, Ct, where we are active volunteers and active grandparents to Henry, Will, and George who with our son Matt and wife Kate live in town. There are no planned moves to the sunbelt for us! Also, we recently made a great trip to Sicily.”
Lynne Moore Healy presented on behalf of the NGO Committee on Social Development at a side event at the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at United Nations Headquarters, New York, in July 2016.
Tom Lemire is enjoying the arrival of his 2nd grandchild along with part-time fun as a Marketing Consultant in the Advanced Composite Industry. He is happy to travel only and if he wants to. He can be reached at TLemire@cox.net.
John Liebmann writes “since retiring from the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, I have been involved with nuclear disarmament and with current debt and humanitarian crises in Puerto Rico, both through religious advocacy organizations. My wife Millie started a new career as a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor, and son Elvin is an artist. We live in Sunnyside, Queens, New York, near Long Island City and Astoria.
Thomas K Lindsey retired as a librarian at the end of 2012. He has variety of volunteer projects, including tutoring prospective military enlistees to pass the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (20% of high school grads do not achieve a minimum score, and the Armed Services will only accept 40% of all grads), tutoring GED students (a rewarding experience, since 25% of the populations over 25 does not have a high school diploma or GED), transcribing post-Revolutionary War manuscripts, participating in the Toastmasters International Club, and other volunteering as projects arise.
Tom McKlveen and his wife Nancy moved from Des Moines to Mill Valley, CA three years ago. He enjoys doing alumni interviews. Their son John ’97 is the area interviewing chair in Marin County, CA.
Caroline Klock McLaughlin retired from the Town of Lexington, MA on January 20, 2017, after 31 years as Assistant to the Town Manager and Project Manager.
Barbara Gershon Ryder has become Professor Emerita in Computer Science at Virginia Tech and has moved to Sarasota, FL. She welcomes contact from any classmates from the Class of 1969 who are in the area. She is looking forward to having more time to spend with grandchildren Riley (age 7), Benjamin (age 4), Adam (age 4), and Clara (age 2) in Seattle and Providence.
Stephen Terri has been retired for 5 years after a 42-year career with ExxonMobil. After extensive world travels with the company, he is happy to be settled down near Houston, TX. He is married to Alison Amato, and they have a blended family of seven kids, most of whom have left the nest, and four grandchildren. His activities now include exercise, golf, and model trains, and he is also dabbling in the restaurant business.
John Thelin’s articles and op-eds on higher education have been published in the New York Times, Money Magazine, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. His new book, “American Higher Education: Issues and Institutions” was published by Routledge in early 2017.
Dr. Byron Lichtenberg, currently an Assistant Professor of Business and Engineering at LeTourneau University, Longview, Texas, is the Program Coordinator for the Master of Engineering Management Program. He is also the Chairperson of NASA’s Standing Review Board for the Commercial Crew Program. This program is the first commercial development by Boeing and SpaceX to build rockets to take astronauts to the International Space Station and low earth orbit.
Tom Lindsay writes “I retired from library work December 31, 2012. My wife Beverly passed away on October 20, 2015. I am now looking for a combination of part-time and volunteer work in the Fort Worth area.”
Brian Watson writes “I am currently finishing my last semester of teaching physics at St. Lawrence University. The department is letting me keep my office, so I’ll be continuing a research collaboration with colleagues at McGill University. I expect to enjoy my formal retirement.”
PREVIOUS YEARS' CLASS NOTES
Class President Joe Petteruti was the recipient of Brown University’s Nan Tracy Award presented during the 2012 Alumni Fall Weekend to a class leader who has given “distinguished service to his/her class, the Association of Class Officers, and/or the University.” Congratulations and thanks for all your hard work!
J. Richard Chambers writes “Consulting work keeps me traveling helping non-bank financial institutions with strategy, technology, and capital formation. I am also serving as a Director of First Century Bancshares and VTM LLC. My older son is now in Atlanta at Georgia Tech working on his Ph.D. and Emory Medical School for his doctor training. My stepson and his wife have our 2nd grandchild on the way. My younger son is a video commercial maker in New York City. In May of next year Nancy and I will go to the Hawaii to see the big island to attend the ARCS National Board Meeting. This year we did horseback riding in Wyoming and Santa Fe for vacation.”
Bobby Wayne Clark writes that he and Grace and celebrating the arrival of their first grandchild and, soon, their 43rd anniversary. He is semi-retired from university life; he is still writing, and his current project is helping a health care system pioneer write his memoir. He is enjoying life in Durham and summers in Rhode Island.
Richard Crocker is planning to retire as Dartmouth’s college chaplain and Dean of its Tucker Foundation on June 30, 2013. Carolyn Torberg Crocker continues to enjoy her work in the Lebanon, New Hampshire, Public Library.
William Dean writes that he is alive and well in Geneva, New York, with wife Liz, six children, and no dog. He is looking forward to seeing everyone at our 45th Reunion.
Rita Chao Hadden recently presented “Twelve Cultural Expectations = East vs. West” at American University for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. The renewed focus of interest in Asia prompted her to want to broaden the understanding and appreciation of the differences between Asians and Westerners. Rita was born in Hanoi and raised in Saigon, Phnom Penh, and Hong Kong. She was educated in French, American, and Chinese schools. She has lived and traveled in over 35 Eastern and Western countries and has always been fascinated by different cultures. She would love to hear from her Brown ’69 classmates at rhadden@gmail.com.
Linda Bacon Hopkins is still working as a psychologist/psychoanalyst, nowhere near retirement. She writes “see my book – False Self: The Life of Masud Khan (New York: Other Press and London: Karnac, 2008).
Richard Krafchin writes that he and Barbara are healthy and still happily married. He writes “the absence of problems is a wonderful thing!” He is looking forward to seeing everyone at our 45th Reunion and thinks that 45 years/250 years are tough concepts to absorb.
Tom Lemire was the co-chairman of a conference on carbon fiber materials in October 2012. He writes “I’ve been in the Advanced Composites Industry since the day I graduated from Brown, so it’s been a lifelong commitment. I’ll probably retire from my current job at the end of 2012 but will do some consulting thereafter. “Plastics” really did turn out to be a calling for this graduate.”
After 35 years on the road handling mostly employment litigation of Nestle USA and for the past dozen years labor litigation for various airlines, Norman Quandt retired as an equity partner in the management firm of Ford & Harrison LLP on January 1, 2011. Norman and his wife (of 42 years) Gail have built a retirement home in the foothills of the Georgia mountains approximately 50 miles northeast of Atlanta where they spend most of their time landscaping and gardening. They would welcome seeing/hosting old friends their self-contained bed and breakfast type suite any time. He can be reached at Nquandt@gmail.com.
Joan M. Ruffle, M.D., writes “I am still working as a faculty anesthesiologist at Penn State’s Hershey Medical Center. I plan to retire in June and go to working one day a week. My husband has not figured out how to slow down. He has an apartment rental business that he runs by himself, including all the repairs, remodeling, lawn mowing, etc. During tax season he prepared tax returns. We enjoy an occasional vacation – usually two weeks in the Caribbean area – and we also try to spend a few days in Connecticut visiting my cousins.”
Frank Scofield writes “Since my retirement in ’03 teaching earth science and coaching lacrosse, I have accumulated 4 grandchildren, participated in 2 Woods Hole research cruises under the direction of classmate Lloyd Kegwin, and spent as much time as possible sailing my boat around Cape Cod and the Maine coast.”
Barbara and Bob Sherman are living in Pelham, New Hampshire. Barbara has retired, and Bob is President of the Nashua, New Hampshire, Teachers’ Union and Vice-President of AFT-NH.
Sandy Stoddard writes “I am looking forward to retirement next year. This summer I had fund throwing the javelin in Senior Track and Field meets, ending the seas ranked 3rd in the United States and 11th in the world in the 65-69 age group.”
Stephen Terni retired at the beginning of 2012 after 42 years with Exxon. He writes “Great career, always challenging and meaningful. I lived in five different countries, learning about distinct cultures, and learned a new language.” Now his focus is on his four children and four grandchildren, and fitness, golf, and hobbies are his priorities. He is looking forward to our 45th Reunion.
Brian Watson is an Associate Professor of Physics at St. Lawrence University and in his last year full-time teaching. Then he plans to go on a phased retirement teaching a reduced load.
John Wilkinson is enjoying semi-retirement by traveling, including the Western parks and British Columbia as well as Japan. This year his second grandchild, Molly, was born, and his other grandchild, Clare, is 3 years old.
Peter Allgeier is President of the Coalition of Service Industries (CSI), a trade association of global service companies dedicated to obtaining more open and fair trade and investment conditions for US-based service companies. Marsha (Brown ’70) is retiring in March as Deputy County Manager of Arlington, Virginia. Their two sons, Matt and Danny, are in graduate school at the University of California Berkeley in Business Administration and Public Health, respectively.
Barbara Cooke Augenblick still lives in Hunt County, Virginia (outside the beltway west of Washington, DC). Mark continues to practice law in the
District of Columbia. She is involved in small town activities – volunteerism/boards/charities/church/environmental groups/book club/garden club, etc. – and in the summers is an artist in northern Michigan. Barbara is grandmother to two – Amy Augenblick and Walton Smith’s girls.
David A Bubier is President of The Mint National Bank, a 4-year old bank. Hildy has retired but stays active in community activities.
Toni Carbo recently co-edited a book: International Perspectives on the History of Information Science and Technology (Proceedings of the 2012 Pre-Conference on the history of the ASIS&T and Information Science and Technology Worldwide). She also just concluded editing the International Information and Library Review (IILR) after 2 years.
Francine Chernack Clark has been a scientific writer for the last 25 years after 18 years as a teacher. To satisfy the teaching urges still in her, she has been an adjunct instructor of mathematics at the University of Rhode Island and Salve Regina University since 1999 and has no plans to retire.
Judith A Clark, an attorney with Sullivan & Clark in Melrose, Massachusetts, writes “Rich (Brown ’68) and I are both still working. In our spare time we enjoy theater, restaurant dining, travel, and most particularly, spending time with our four grandchildren – two grandsons and two granddaughters.”
Jay DeJongh writes “our third grandchild (and first granddaughter) was born in March 2012. Our two grandsons are now five years old.”
Lynne Moore Healy’s first grandchild was born on June 24, 2012 – Mason Bancroft Healy. She was named a Board of Trustees’ Distinguished Professor – the highest honor for a faculty member at the University of Connecticut – and her medal was presented at a reception in October 2012. Her Pembroke roommate, Janet Bronson Swift, surprised her by attending the event.
Mark Davis and his wife Beverly have recently finished restoring an 18th-century farmhouse in his hometown of Hampton, Connecticut. They added on a music studio for rehearsals and where they perform as a classical guitar duo when they hold their “North Meadow House Concert Series.” Last summer they traveled to Australia where they performed in Sydney and Perth and where Mark was a guest conductor for the Federation of Austral-Asian Mandolin Ensembles Music Festival. Mark still plays electric guitar (remember the band “Rufus” c. 1969?) and is still in touch with classmate Alan Musgrave (“The Night People”). Mark’s band “Big Jump” plays a very danceable variety of neo-soul tunes and has recently been performing at the Roots Café in Providence.
Gregory “Spike” Gonzales continues playing and promoting tennis in Naples, Florida. He invites visiting Brown alumni to contact him at tencapfl@aol.com. Having developed and launched the National Tennis Rating Program for the United States Tennis Association, Spike has been inducted into the Eastern Professional Tennis Hall of Fame.
John Krafft writes “After 15 years in Colorado I finally made my way back to Southern California where the proper Christmas attire is a Reyn Spooner Hawaiian shirt and Bermuda shorts. I was blessed to be able to live with my father for a year before he passed away peacefully at age 90 last April. I am now living on the water in Long Beach and taking the light rail to downtown Los Angeles for work at City National Bank. It is my favorite job since Beijing in the 1980’s! I am working with great colleagues building a top-notch international banking unit. Come on out and visit!”
Eugene Mattison writes that after 37 years in International Banking and “other stuff” before that, he decided to retire in September 2012. That said, however, “retirement” did not last long as he now has consulting arrangements with two organizations – one is a Canadian-based publisher which requires assistance in Latin American markets and the other is an International Trade advisory firm. However, he still has more time for his family (spouse, two daughters, and two grandchildren) as well as travel.
John Overton has retired as a cardiothoracic surgeon but is still doing some teaching and limited consulting in safety and risk management. His wife, Ann Lowry, continues to practice colo-rectal surgery in Minneapolis. He writes “we are healthy and thankful for good health and many blessings.”
Bob Rothstein writes “Since September, 2012, daughter Liane (27) is back in Belgium after getting her nursing degree and becoming an RN in the US. She brought along her new husband, Jeremy, who will be going for his long-delayed Masters in Neuropsychology here in Brussels. Daughter Shona, after degrees in architecture and criminology, is now a candidate detective in one of the Belgian police academies. Her chosen specialty is in human trafficking.
I’m still working well past retirement age (and at 66 I’m already one year older than most of the Class of 69). Full-time day job continues as Managing Director of Data Innovations Europe, now under new ownership since October, 2010. But the buyout has not only secured my retirement but given me the possibility to get involved in some other ventures. Chief among these is BrewDog Belgium, started in November, 2012, which has the exclusivity for opening BrewDog bars in Belgium and Luxemburg. BrewDog is a Scottish craft brewer that was started by two guys and a dog in 2007. The web site says it all (www.brewdog.com). I know nothing about (running) bars, but luckily my associate, Mike (33), who is also an unofficial adopted son, has been doing this for ten years. Also have become a business angel for a Brussels-based web startup (www.tagtagcity.com) who are pioneering in the so-called SOLOMO (SOcial-LOcal-Mobile) market. A few other irons in the fire, but it gets too long – come to Brussels and have a few beers to hear more.”
Ted Sherrod is an Administrative Law Judge for the State of Illinois and writes that he will be retiring soon!!!
John Thelin visited Brown on October 20, 2012, to join with more than 200 Brown Varsity Wrestling Alumni to celebrate 100 years of Brown wrestling. He also wrote the “Centennial History of Brown Wrestling’ book. John’s book, A History of American Higher Education, was published as a new 2nd edition in 2011 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. In 2011 John received the Outstanding Career Research Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education.
Walt Woerheide writes “My most recent publication, ‘Sustainable Withdrawal Rates from Retirement Portfolios: The Historical Evidence on Buffer Zone Strategies’ in the May 2012 Journal of Financial Planning is one that my classmates who are getting ready to retire might find useful.”
This year the "almost annual" get together of Pembroke pals Sandi Nusinoff Lehrman, Bonnie Falkof Blodgett Bethea, Lynn Kelley, Kathy Kindl Norris, Margy Devenney McIntyre, Peggy Dworkin Northrop and Barbara Harper Schulak took place in Tucson, hosted by Bonnie at her new winter home. Unfortunately, Sandi was not able to join us this year due to family concerns. We toured the Sonoran Desert Museum, downtown Tucson, Sabino Canyon, and the Botanical Gardens. We also did some hiking on trails and generally enjoyed ourselves, with the best part being a chance to talk and re-affirm our life long friendships. Next stop, Providence and Hartford!
Naomi Das Neufeld Flagg, M.D., writes “I was married until 2005 to Tim (Neufeld). We raised 2 great kids, Pam Neufeld Collingwood ’99, Boalt Hall 2004, and Katherine Neufeld ’03. In 2008 I met Dennis Flagg, a commercial artist, graduate and teacher at Pratt Institute, who had come to Los Angeles to attend film school. We married on October 6, 2012, with Pam and Kathy as my attendants. Anne Munder Bercovich, M.D. ’69 and Lionel Bercovich, M.D. (Brown Faculty) and Janet Solomon ’69 were in attendance and helped us celebrate. I am in private practice in Los Angeles, specializing in pediatric endocrinology. In my Beverly Hills practice I see people from every walk of life, with my fair share of people from the movie industry. My passion is childhood obesity, however, and in 2012 I started a business called the Children’s Wellness Institute, which is an internet-based weight management program for children. We contract with hospitals and insurance companies. I spoke at Brown Medical School on child obesity during Commencement in 2011. I published 2 books – KidShape: A Practical Prescription for Raising Healthy Fit Kids in 2003 and KidShape Café: Over 150 Kid Tested Recipes in 2004 – and in 2006 I was interviewed for the position of United States Surgeon General.”
Chantal Noiseux Haussmann, M.D. closed her family practice office in Vancouver, Canada, in February 2012 but is still happily working in medical clinics 2½ days per week. This gives her and her partner, Dr. Andrzej Lotlicki, who teaches physics at the University of British Columbia, more time to sail their Beneteau 39 and to ski at Whistler.
She writes “we are leaving on a well-deserved 4-month leave of absence to be spent in Australia and New Zealand starting in med-December 2012. We can hardly wait.”
Byron Lichtenberg recently retired from Southwest Airlines. He is still very involved in Zero Gravity Corp (www.gozerog.com) as founder and current chief technology officer.
He writes “I’m on the look out for my next career opportunity. Tamara and I have 2 adopted daughters from China, a senior in high school and a 5th grader, so a relaxing retirement is not in the works yet.”
Donna Maria Regis writes “My beloved husband, Robert McGee (Princeton ’53, Harvard Law ’59) died of complications from kidney failure August 10, 2011, just a few weeks short of his 80th birthday and our 39th anniversary. I miss him terribly, but my life in music has kept me going. I am Musical Director of the New Hampshire Accordion Association (NHAA), co-sponsor of the annual ACCORDIONS NOW! Music Festival, which I co-founded in 2008 and where I serve as Artistic Director. In recent years I have travelled the country to perform and conduct. During a 2011 concert tour of the Midwest I was honored to become the first female solo artist to perform at A World of Accordions Museum in Superior, Wisconsin. That concert garnered TV coverage by ABC, NBC, and Fox. At the 2012 Florida SMASH in Orlando, I gave a solo performance in honor of “living legend of the accordion” Tony Lovello, formerly of the Three Suns (“Twilight Time,” “Peg of My Heart”). I also conducted the SMASH orchestra in my adaptations of Tony’s arrangements. Currently I am writing arrangements for the ACCORDIONS NOW1 2013 Festival Orchestra. This year’s festival will be held August 9-11 at the beautiful Courtyard Nashua.”
Hallie Iglehart writes “It’s been a long time since 1969! After one trip overland from England to Nepal and back (Ross McElwee ’71 came along), two books written (Womanspirit and The Heart of the Goddess), countless workshops taught, and two non-profits later, I am happy and healthy in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2011, after a quarter century of envisioning how I could help the million sea creatures that die every year from our trash, I founded All One Ocean. We partner with government and local beach agencies to set up Beach Clean Up Stations: permanent on-site boxes with educational signage, kids’ art and repurposed bags, enabling anyone and everyone to pick up trash as they enjoy the beach. I can be reached at Hallie@alloneocean.org.”
Tim Wiggenhorn writes “I had a wonderful, rewarding career with Sea-Land Service, the pioneer of containerized international shipping. Based in New Jersey and, later, North Carolina, my work took me to approximately 30 countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and India. My wife Beth and I were able to retire early, and since 2001 we have been living in St. James Plantation in Southport, North Carolina, enjoying unlimited golf on 4 courses. My three children live in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Wisconsin.”
From Stuart Flashman: I perhaps capped five years of litigation against the California High-Speed Rail Authority by representing Kings County and two landowners in that county in a challenge to the Authority for failing to meet requirements of a $10 Billion bond measure (Proposition 1A) approved by California voters in 2008. In a hearing before Judge Michael Kenny in Sacramento County Superior Court, I argued that the Authority's actions violated the bond measure and therefore they, and a $6 Billion legislative appropriation to begin land purchases and construction on a 130 mile segment in the Central Valley, should be voided. The hearing received wide news coverage throughout California. The judge's decision is expected some time this summer.
John B. Ferguson writes “I am retiring on June 30 after teaching at Bard for 36 years!”
Barbara Cooke Augenblick and Mark (Brown ’68) still live in the Virginia countryside just beyond Washington, DC. (Life in a small town in hunt country). Mark continues to practice law in DC, and Barbara serves on local boards and is a painter, potter, and active grandmother to daughter Amy (Brown ’94) and her husband Walton Smith’s (Brown ’94) two girls.
William Dean, MD, writes “Alive and well, still with Liz for 30 years now. Living, working, gardening, fishing, and living in the Finger Lakes of upstate New York. Six kids more or less grown up and doing well. Definitely not retired. Looking forward to the big 45!!”
David Duffell is a partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLC, an international law firm based in New York. He manages the Providence office and focuses on Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Investment transactions globally.
Paul Ellenbogen, MD, is currently Chairman of the Board of Chancellors of the American College of Radiology (ACR), the “Voice of Radiology” with over 36,000 members. He writes “at the time of our 45th Reunion I will be the President of ACR.”
Michael Elsberry writes “Sally (Blackman) and I were blessed with our first, and only, grandchild on April 2, 2013. Addison Leigh Ramey has been lots of fun since she joined our family in the Tampa group. Sally has retired from Darden Restaurants after almost 25 years, and I am working my life in that direction. In addition to my practice as a commercial litigator for Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, I serve as our firm’s General Counsel, which takes a good bit of time. We traveled with the Brown Travelers to the Black Sea in 2012 and to the Baltic and Russia in 2013. Good way to travel!”
Jonathan Entin is serving for the second time as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Law. He writes “one of my colleagues, who is President Paxson’s father-in-law, has been threatening (facetiously?) to use his family connections to get my degree revoked if I assign him to teach in a particular classroom that he doesn’t like.”
Karen Mollineaux Ferguson writes “Tom (Brown ’67) and I are happily retired. We are both busy with New Canaan (Connecticut) volunteer activities. Our son Matt, his wife Kate, and two grandchildren also live in New Canaan, so we have many activities with them. We have an apartment near Lincoln Center in New York City and spend a night a week there. A great blend of country and city. Life is good!”
Edwina Hartshorn-Flynn writes “My beloved husband died five years ago. I have moved back to Massachusetts to be near family.”
Linda Bacon Hopkins is the author of False Self: The Life of Masud Khan (New York: Other Press and London: Karnac, 2008) and the mother of Rebecca Hopkins Smith (Brown ’98). She writes “after 30+ years in Philadelphia, I now live in Washington, DC.”
Erna Willis Kerst writes “After a career in international development I retired from the Senior Foreign Service (USAID - U. S. Agency for International Development) at the end of 2012. Mike (Brown ’68) retired from USAID a couple of years earlier. We are now living in Washington, DC, after spending nearly 80% of our adult lives overseas, primarily in Africa.”
Alan LaFiura writes “All three sons have joined the business. Ultra-Poly Corporation, which recycles polyethylene and polypropylene, will celebrate its 40th year in business in 2014. My second wife Beth passed away June 13, 2013.”
John Murphy writes “Our youngest has now graduated from college, and I’m on Medicare – so life is at different stage. I’m still practicing law in Providence. Friends as why I haven’t retired, but I enjoy what I do! We have four grandchildren now. Our sons have returned to Rhode Island after time in California, so it’s nice to have them (and the grandchildren) close by. Recently went West to see the Red Sox play in Colorado and to see the University of Texas football game in Austin – a very different scene than Brown Stadium! Life is good.”
Mary Cook Nocon and her husband are both retired and enjoying their unhurried life in Indianapolis. Their daughter Abby, 27, lives in London and works in digital marketing. Their son, Jesse, 25, lives in Boston and works to develop youth rugby teams. Mary’s stepdaughter Jenny, 43, is an artist in Los Angeles.
John O’Reilly writes “I am still working. I am completing a new chapter to my unpublished work The Function of Christianity in U. S. History. I stay active, and I work at the local food bank as a volunteer.”
Nancy French Reilley writes “Divorced from Tim Reilley (also Brown ’69) in 2003. Two children: Laura, who is the food critic and feature-writer for the Tampa Bay Times, and Evan, who is an acoustical design engineer for SMW in San Francisco. Two granddaughters: Sophie Rottenberg, age 18, and Noora Reilley, age 6. I have lived in Tampa since 2005 and am still working as the Development Database Manager for the Tampa General Hospital Foundation, the fundraising arm of the major hospital in the area.”
Stephen Sesko writes “Happily retired December 2011. Enjoying my new home and dream library. Keeping active by developing my Japanese garden. Also enjoy my annual trip to “home away from home” in Switzerland. Follow our Class and the University regularly online.”
Stephen Weiner has retired from practicing law in Connecticut and Massachusetts. He writes “My wife Susan and I are enjoying ourselves with our grandchildren Ben and Elizabeth Smolin and Gabe and Caleb Weiner, all four years old and younger. We are also enjoying planning and taking vacations: Mexico, San Francisco, and Central Europe so far, and the Caribbean, Los Angeles, and a river cruise from Paris south next year. As always, I am enjoying following Brown soccer and UConn basketball.””
Alfred Ham retired from Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA on August 31, 2013. He now has more time to spend with his 7 year old granddaughter and 3 year old grandson as well as more time for boating, fishing, golfing, and travelling with his wife.
John Seater formally retired at the end of June 2013, resigning from his professorship at North Carolina State University. The following October he and his wife of 42 rewarding years, Susan Harris Seater, '71, moved to Walpole, Massachusetts, to be near their two children, Elizabeth '99, and Robert, each of whom has two children. Playing with the four grandchildren is delightful! Although he is no longer working, he still is doing economics. He has an office at Boston College and continues to do research and write papers. John writes “We just had half the basement converted to a workshop. Once I get my benches and tools set up, I plan to do a lot of woodworking. Playing with grandchildren, doing economic research, working wood, and a wife who still puts up with me: life is good!”
Janet Solomon is now ten years into retirement and still enjoying it. Travel and ikebana take up most of her time, along with the inevitable house projects. She stays in touch with a number of Brown friends regularly and would love to hear from other “old” friends.
Joseph Higgins writes “After almost 4½ of being unemployed I began work in October 2013 as Office Manager of the Watchung Arts Center in Watchung, New Jersey. In addition to the day-to-day running of the office, the job involves publicizing events at the Arts Center through the writing of press releases and flyers, designing playbills for performances and program guides for exhibitions, and supporting the center’s website and membership database.”
Barbara Gershon Ryder now has three grandchildren: Ruby (4½), Adam (20 months) and Benjamin (15 months) and spends lots of time in airplanes visiting family.
John Ferguson retired in 2013 after 36 years of teaching biology at Bard. He writes “No more lab reports to grade! I went off the payroll on July 1, and now I’m on the dole. . .”
Candace Page retired in April 2013 after 40 years as a newspaper editor, columnist, and reporter. She is now working part-time as a freelance writer for newspapers and local public radio. She has one daughter, an artist on Whidbey Island, Washington, three stepchildren, and seven fabulous grandchildren.
Scott Somers has spent the last 28 years in the executive search field as the Managing Partner at the Windale Group in Glendale, California. He writes “My wife Anne and I are healthy. Anne is a retired lawyer and has more time than I do for fun things. I do get my two mile run in with the dog most mornings. Anne and I both enjoy listening to Brown classmate Jude Ciccolella and his band when they play in Burbank.”
William Flook writes “Although Barb and I are now full-time residents on Maryland’s eastern shore, I continue to work as a supervisor for the School Psychologists of the Baltimore County Public Schools. Barb retired last year, and I anticipate doing the same in 2015. My daughter Kate and her husband Pete are living in Massachusetts with our two wonderful grandsons. My son Billy and his wife Kathleen are reporters in the Washington, DC, area. My daughter Magge completed here Ph.D. in Chemistry at M.I.T. and is now a research chemist for Goodyear in Akron, Ohio. We are all doing well. Sorry I will miss the 45th but planning on coming for the 50th.”
John Liebmann writes “It has been a year of transition. I retired from New York City civil service at the Department of Housing Preservation and Development in 2013. For more than fifteen years I directed the Sponsor Review unit in the Office of Development. My wife Millie is completing her graduate degree in Rehabilitation Counseling at Hunter after many years in a New York law firm. Our soon, Elvin, has emerged as an artist in Long Island City. I have also done some writing, long deferred; one piece is about my father, John Liebmann ’41, and his experience as an editor on the Daily Herald leading up to World War II and then his Army experience in Europe on the staff of the famous football coach (Alabama and Duke) and citizen-soldier, Wallace Wade ’17.”
Paul Payton and his wife Bette Schultz ’73 celebrated their 20th anniversary this spring with a “third honeymoon” (the first two were at 0 and 10 years) beginning with a visit to Bette’s parents in Arizona to celebrate their 70th anniversary and then on to the Galapagos and Machu Picchu. Paul continues to write and play keyboards with Rob Carlson ’70 in “Rob Carlson & Benefit Street” and hopes that the group’s second album will be out by the time you read this. Paul also released his solo doo-wop project as The Fabulous Dudes: “The Kids Would Go Wild.” Details on all the above can be found at www.presenceproductions.com. Paul writes “Rock stardom didn’t happen on schedule, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen sometime. Stay tuned!” Meanwhile Paul finances his “rock star career” with his ongoing voice-over work, and Bette has added the role of expert witness to her pharmaceutical consulting work. They are looking forward to seeing friends from their and many other classes at the reunion.
Maria Isabel Lopes Garcia writes “At the age of 67 I am still working two jobs: Library Specialist IV at Southern Methodist University (35 hours/week) and Librarian at the All Saints Parish Resource Library at All Saints Catholic Church in North Dallas, Texas (20 hours/week). I started this Church library in 1979 as a volunteer and have been employed by the Church since 1985. I currently have more than 30 volunteers helping me direct it.” Maria is the grandmother of a beautiful 5-year-old girl named Diana Evelyn Askew. She owns two apartments on the south coast of Portugal where she spends the month of June every year.
Sandy Stoddard recently bid goodbye to Connecticut and moved to Asheville, North Carolina. He is still working (remotely) for New York Life in financial reporting. He is enjoying his grandchildren and trying to stay active.
Eve Barak writes “After switching from an academic research career to Federal grant administration, I worked at the National Science Foundation for 22 years, primarily as Program Director for cell biology in the Division of Molecular & Cellular Biosciences (the name of my program changed several times, but the science I was handling remained the same). My husband, Eugene Davidson, was Chair of Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and founding Chair of Biochemistry at the Penn State Medical School at Hershey for 20 years before that. We both retired in 2008, and moved from Washington DC to “unincorporated Palm Beach County,” Florida, where we built a home in 2006 in anticipation of our retirement. In the intervening years, after we sold our DC home, we lived a chaotic “transitional” life, spending as much time as possible in our home in Florida while still working and maintaining a small apartment in the DC area. Now that we’ve retired, we’ve kept busy. We do quite a bit of traveling, and we've performed in shows with our local community’s “Players’ Club” (I describe our group, including ourselves, as “rank amateurs,” and you can apply any definition of “rank” you wish). I’ve taken up pottery (something I hadn’t done since 4th grade), and within a year or so of joining the local Hadassah chapter, found myself on the chapter’s Board. My husband has returned to the world of serious competitive bridge, and has gotten himself busily involved in some R&D projects for very-early-stage biomedical start-ups. I am looking forward to our 45th Reunion! “
Allen Greenspan has been Director of Electrophysiology at Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, the last eight years, actively practicing interventional electrophysiology and doing clinical research. He has recently received 2 patents from the United States Patent Office on a new application of the electro-anatomic mapping system used in localizing the origin of arrhythmias. He has three grandchildren – Jake (age 8), Lexi (age 5), and Cecelia (age 1).
Robert Lynch is the CEO of the Warren Company in Naples, Florida. He writes “In the 1960s we blamed the sad state of world affairs on our parent’s generation. Like so many of my classmates, I thought we could build a better world during our generation. Today, the world we behold is a product of our generation, and our dream to make the world a better place seems so sadly unfulfilled. After graduation and a heart-wrenching a combat tour in Vietnam, I went to Harvard for a degree in Organizational Behavior to try to learn the source code of why our world cannot seem to transcend its past; I learned only half of what I was seeking, and have spent the rest of my life on a quest to understand the nature of humans and the path toward building a world that would embrace trust and cooperation. After working in business and government, then starting several companies, twenty five years ago I embarked on a journey as thought leader, consultant, and trainer in the emerging fields of strategic alliances and collaborative innovation to help unfold the inner “design architecture of cooperation.” Now, after hundreds of clients, several books, three university programs, and over 35,000 people trained, along with an untold trail of humbling experiences and learning from failures, I am confident we have learned enough about high performance teams and trust building to embark on the next phase of the this bold journey – to create a world that is truly synergistic and much less prone to breakdown. For the next phase of my life I am dedicated to creating a global alliance linking like-minded people to build a world we can trust. Using Archimedes' analogue “Give me a lever long enough and I can elevate the earth,” I believe we now have the potential to elevate the Course of History, the Destiny of Nations, the Purpose of Leaders, and the Fate of People by the end of the decade. I invite any other Brunonians who are so compelled to join me in this noble cause and embark on a journey to fulfill the dream we had when we graduated so many years ago. It's not too late.