PEOPLE. December 2010 FALL FESTIVITIES

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1 PEOPLE December 2010 FALL FESTIVITIES

2 Society of Alumni Officers President Christopher F. Giglio 89 Vice PresidentS John M. Malcolm 86 Dennis R. O Shea 77 Secretary Brooks L. Foehl 88 Assistant Secretaries Juan G. Baena 06 Ashley W. Cart 05 Robert P. Swann 90 Paula Moore Tabor 76 Executive Committee Retiring 2011 Walter S. Bernheimer 61 David C. Bowen 83* Thomas P. Kimbis 93 Bernard Lau 85 Gregg C. Peterson 72 Kate Boyle Ramsdell 97 Sarah Barger Ranney 02 RETIRING 2012 Thomas M. Balderston 78* Jennifer C. Bees 08 James Gerard Christian 82 Beth-Anne C. Flynn 81 Aaron R. Jenkins 03 Laura Moberg Lavoie 99 Norma Lopez 95 RETIRING 2013 B. Daniel Blatt 85 Stephen D. Brown 71 Richard T. Flood Jr. 57 Melissa Fenton Herrod 91 Kate Stone Lombardi 78 Vernon C. Manley 72 Katherine Queeney 92* RETIRING 2014 Robin Powell Mandjes 82* *Ex Officio as Alumni Trustee Alumni Fund ChairS Susan C.D. Fortin 92* Ted Plonsker 86* Alumni Offices 75 Park St. Williamstown, MA tel: fax: alumni.relations@williams.edu Williams magazine (USPS No ) is published in August, September, December, January, March, April and June and distributed free of charge by Williams College for the Society of Alumni. Opinions expressed in this publication may not necessarily reflect those of Williams College or of the Society of Alumni. Periodical postage paid at Williamstown, MA and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to Williams magazine 75 Park St. Williamstown, MA The Williams College Society of Alumni was established in 1821 and is the oldest continuously operating alumni organization in the U.S. The Executive Committee is its governing board, charged with representing and building closer bonds among alumni, advancing the interests and reputation of Williams College and furthering meaningful relationships between the two. The Executive Committee conducts the business of the Society of Alumni between annual meetings, held on campus each June during Reunion Weekend.

3 CONTENTS on the cover President Adam Falk greets Bicentennial Medalist Daniel Kleppner 53 during convocation. Photo by Roman Iwasiwka. 20 Class Notes Click on text and photos to jump to the corresponding page Wedding Album 125 Births & Adoptions 126 Obituaries 29 editors Jennifer E. Grow Amy T. Lovett PEOPLE December 2010 Student Assistant Laura L. Corona 11 design & Production Steve Parrish Jane Firor & Associates editorial offices P.O. Box 676 Williamstown, MA tel: fax: Address changes/updates Bio Records 75 Park St. Williamstown, MA tel: fax: alumni.offi Volume 105 Number 3 on the Back cover Ephs gathered in Alabama in July for the wedding of Emily Martin 03 (second from left).

4 CONTENTS On the Cover President Adam Falk greets Bicentennial Medalist Daniel Kleppner 53 during convocation. Photo by Roman Iwasiwka. 4 Class Notes Click on text and photos to jump to the corresponding page Wedding Album 125 Births & Adoptions 126 Obituaries 29 Editors Jennifer E. Grow Amy T. Lovett PEOPLE December 2010 Student Assistant Laura L. Corona 11 Design & Production Steve Parrish Jane Firor & Associates Editorial Offices P.O. Box 676 Williamstown, MA tel: fax: alumni.review@williams.edu Address Changes/Updates Bio Records 75 Park St. Williamstown, MA tel: fax: alumni.offi ce@williams.edu Volume 105 Number 3 On the Back Cover Ephs gathered in Alabama in July for the wedding of Emily Martin 03 (second from left).

5 CONTENTS On the Cover President Adam Falk greets Bicentennial Medalist Daniel Kleppner 53 during convocation. Photo by Roman Iwasiwka. 20 Class Notes Click on text and photos to jump to the corresponding page Wedding Album 125 Births & Adoptions 126 Obituaries 29 Editors Jennifer E. Grow Amy T. Lovett PEOPLE December 2010 Student Assistant Laura L. Corona 11 Design & Production Steve Parrish Jane Firor & Associates Editorial Offices P.O. Box 676 Williamstown, MA tel: fax: Address Changes/Updates Bio Records 75 Park St. Williamstown, MA tel: fax: alumni.offi Volume 105 Number 3 On the Back Cover Ephs gathered in Alabama in July for the wedding of Emily Martin 03 (second from left).

6 CLASS NOTES 1932 John P. English 3226 Heatherwood Yarmouth Port, MA We number only four now, but the good news is that as we moved into the autumn of 2010, we were still four! The world is, however, spinning ever faster around us, sometimes too fast for comfort. As an East Coast resident, I spent a good part of my life not only in Boston but also in New York and that meant in the Williams Club on 39th Street, which has been operating there for our alumni since The operation has now been found impractical and closed as of last June (as have several other college clubs in Manhattan). Some of you will surely join me in shedding a tear in memory. Ham Marston s widow Peg brings us up to date on San Diego matters: Ham s grandfather s five-acre estate now belongs to the city, has been designated a National Historic Landmark and emerges as a showplace of his many contributions to thoughtful urban planning and the conservation of natural beauty, contributions in which Ham heartily joined Richard U. Sherman Jr. Friendship Village Dublin 6000 Riverside Drive, Apt. A109 Dublin, OH secretary@williams.edu 1938 George McKay 2833 Wind Pump Road Fort Wayne, IN secretary@williams.edu Once again our only news is bad news. With regret we announce the death of Henry Dunham at Seaford, Del. Henry spent 50 years with Dupont in various capacities throughout their many plants in the U.S. We also announce with regret the deaths of Mari Stearns, widow of Doug Stearns, and Jean Hickey, widow of Edward Hickey Roger Moore 39 Boland Road Sharon, CT Williams People December Martin Brown 7926 Sand Ridge Road Barneveld, NY REUNION JUNE 9-12 Kim Loring 36 Samuel Way North Andover, MA A reunion mini or quinquennial is a class secretary s best friend. Every class secretary deserves one now and then, especially if they have a class as supportive and engaged as All the better if you have an icon of the class resident in town to provide a base and leadership. With that comes a happy report of 1941 s gathering in Williamstown Oct Despite dreary forecasts of attendance, some 20 friends, some of whom were classmates, gathered in the welcoming living room of Suki and Wayne Wilkins Friday evening. Featured visitors included Christine Case 13, Jim s granddaughter, whom we met when she was still looking at colleges; Roger Taylor 73, Bob s son, with daughter Ashley 11; David Dewey 82; Bill Bell and Kyle Bell, whom we have to thank for his grandfather s being with us; and Chris Robare, Alumni Fund. Claire LaFave 12, an undergraduate relative of Jim Fowle, attended briefly. Bunny Smith (honorary 49) brought warm memories of old friend Oz Tower. Cocktail hour concluded with a roundtable discussion of class news and updates. From there, it was off to dinner at what is now the 6 Pub and was then (1941) The 1896 House. The evening seems to have been enjoyed by all at both ends of a long table. Saturday brought a classic Berkshire October afternoon, a setting ideal for small college football after a lunch gathering at Taconic Golf Club. Always an attraction these days, Trinity College provided the opposition. Memories of last year s loss due to two Trinity touchdowns in the final two minutes were revived as Trinity chipped away at Williams 21-0 early lead. Final score: It was a testament to the survivability of those at the mini that all who were expected showed up on time for dinner Saturday evening at Gramercy Bistro, a new restaurant tucked away in a rejuvenated North Adams complex. The Parishes and Lorings were able to find it by being led by the Wilkinses, but they didn t need to prove anything about survivability. Barbara and Pete Parish had already made two trips this year to Vail, Colo., to ski, and the Wilkinses are among the few regular golfers left in the class. Other evidence of survivability: Jim Fowle harvesting his abundant vegetable garden in Thetford, Vt., and Bill Bell on the run keeping up with his multifarious volunteer activities even though his shinglesinduced balance loss keeps him from his favorite pastimes of tennis and skiing. Jean and Bill Tallman had already decamped on Saturday morning, returning shortly to their new villa in Naples, Fla., about which they are very excited. The ultimate, however, was the dedication that brought Peg and Bob Wineman to Williamstown in the first place. Concerned about no word from such regular mini participants, Wilk ed them the Monday before the mini. That was picked up by their daughter Marian, who lives in Seattle. Knowing how important minireunions have been to her father, she immediately went to work to organize a ride for them. They don t drive distances anymore and don t get on their computer very often. Bob told Marian, Without a doubt he wanted to attend. By Thursday, after a flurry of s between Seattle and Williamstown, Marian had arranged for her brother to drive Peg and Bob from their home on Cape Cod to Newton, Mass., where another daughter, Janet, would accompany them to the mini. Happily, that is the way it worked out, setting a standard for the rest of us. Janet even drove them up Greylock on the new access road. Other news generated by the run-up to the mini came from those who could not make it. Jim Case wrote Wilk that his wife organized a 90th birthday party for him in April. Among the 90 in attendance were about 35 relatives, including nine Williams graduates. Our shortstop/fisherman from Turner Falls, Frank Bush, could not make it. He is in Morocco. Bob Curtis sent best wishes but was unwilling to risk his record of not having driven into anyone in the 75 years he has had a license. George Blossom is under doctor s orders not to travel but is

7 n Friends and family gathered for a 90th birthday party for Jim Case 41 (center) in Honolulu in April. Among the guests were many Ephs, including, from left, Daniel H. Case 46, Phil Kinnicutt 63, Bradford Case 85, Leigh Case 84, Suzanne Case 78, Ed Case 75, Russell Case 81 and Paul Marrack 92. compensating with local trips. An alumni group of classes 45 to 54 invited him to a luncheon Oct. 7, telling him they will need his maturity. He also attended a reception for Adam Falk. Ginny and Al Senear have overcome the obstacles cited in August s People and were to move into their new retirement community Nov. 11 after spending two weeks in Kona, Hawaii. Tod Blodget forwarded a onepage biography of his old classmate at Greenwich Country Day School Charlie Ferguson that was published by the school. This prompted a call to Charlie, about which more will appear in the next People. We are saddened by news of the death of Walter F. Crandall on July 19 in Suntree, Fla. Walt served in the Army Air Force as a radar and communications officer for Pacific-based B-29 squadrons, achieving the rank of captain. After the war, he worked for U.S. Electric Motors in New Haven, Conn. In 1949 he went to work for Wire Rope Corp. of America in New Haven. Walt was instrumental in moving the company to St. Joseph, Mo., in 1950, remaining there until retiring as VP of manufacturing in He was a St. Joseph civic leader, president of the Chamber of Commerce, United Way and many other community organizations. Walt retired to Palm Coast, Fla., and moved later to West Melbourne, Fla., before settling in Suntree in Throughout, he continued his active role in the community and love of golf, participating in many related associations and clubs. The class sends its sympathy to Walt s family. We regret to report the death of John Worth Lund on July 31 in Worcester, Mass. After Williams, Jack served for two years in the American Field Service in North Africa, then two years in the Merchant Marine. A series of factory jobs in the paper business led to an envelope company in Worcester that he ran for 25 years. In a change of goals mid-life, Jack sold the business and thereafter divided his time between various public and nonprofit activities, largely in the health field. Along the way, he fulfilled a lifelong ambition for serious sailing with some 60,000 miles of passage-making. Jack s pride and joy were his three daughters, two from his first marriage and one from his second. Among his healthrelated activities was service on many boards. He was honored for his service to Massachusetts Easter Seal Society, where he was president and director. The class sends its sympathy to Jack s family Bruce Sundlun Carlotti Admin. Bldg., Lower College Road Kingston, RI secretary@williams.edu 1943 Fred Nathan 180 East End Ave., Apt. 22G New York, NY secretary@williams.edu Our most frequent and fruitful source of information continues to be Bill Brewer s daughter, NYC Councilwoman Gale Brewer. She regularly informs thousands of her constituents by of important developments in her district and elsewhere. Her recent ends with this fun tidbit : My father, who is more of a techie than any 20-year-old, just found someone on Facebook whom he d last seen in They served together in WWII. The friend was visiting on the East Coast, called my father and the two of them had dinner and had a wonderful time reminiscing about those years. Bill has not yet responded to my request for any interesting details. Either he considers that there were none, or he is trying to plug what he (wrongly) considers an invasion of privacy. Hank Pennell reports that nine months after a wonderfully successful hip revision he managed to complete the 5K at the New Milford, Conn., Road Race. He adds that you know you are old when the medic who accompanies you on a bicycle for most of the run constantly reminds you to keep talking, so we will know you are OK. Hank wonders whether any of us remember the board track on which Tony Plansky s serious runners, including Pete Van Cott, Warner Peck, etc. performed. Hank also recommends that all of us read Road Map to 100 by Walter M. Bortz 51, and his class notes in the August People. Nip Wilson is happy in Fort Myers, Fla., with morning tennis, a youngster to tutor and many activities to choose from. He also chides your secretary for attributing to him a wife in California who must belong to the other 43 Nip. (Actually, Bill Wilson.) Bill Wilson, incidentally, reports that he had lunch with George Eddy 41. Bill and George were in the same squadron, flying Corsairs off the Intrepid in the Pacific. Word has reached us that Julie Bowen, the wife of Doc Phillips (and Marty s) grandson Scott Phillips, plays Claire in ABC s Modern Family. The show won this year s Emmy for Best Comedy. Julie was nominated for December 2010 Williams PeoPle 5

8 CLASS NOTES Best Actress in a Comedy. She has also presented Doc and Marty with three great-grandsons. McGurk reports a busy summer. He was in Williamstown for Reunion Weekend and then drove to Dorset, Vt., to meet with the designer-editor of the third book in his fiction trilogy based in part on his WWII experience behind the lines in China. This one, Ricochet!, is a spy mystery combat thriller which brings the trilogy to a moving conclusion. The book (and McGurk) have already gotten wide newspaper publicity. McGurk is also continuing his crossword puzzle creation career. Folks here found out, and now I construct two or more themed crossword puzzles a week for local consumption. It sure keeps the synaptic gaps clicking! McGurk was greatly saddened by the death of Warren Hunke 42, an original Octet member and close friend of his for 70 years. McGurk participated in Warren s memorial service arranged by Henry Flynt 44 at St. John s Episcopal Church. Len Eaton responded to your secretary s request that those whose current doings are too boring describe instead their most compelling Williams memory. His was of a special service after Pearl Harbor at Thompson Memorial Chapel. He does not remember whether it was Baxter or Newhall who conducted the service. He says McGurk thinks it was Baxter. We have lost three esteemed classmates: John Dickinson, Bill Klopman and Donald Shriver. You are asked to refer to the obituary section at the end of each issue of People. We will not repeat that information here but will include supplemental information received from classmates or other sources. Eleanor Montgomery writes of a great 10-day stay in Florence with her daughter Susie 76. She is excited about installing granddaughter Sophia 14 at Williams. Austin would have been proud. We also had a nice note from John Dickinson s widow Jean, who sends best wishes to his classmates and hopes for a more peaceful world. Irene Moore, Chub s widow, reports from her home in Peterborough, N.H., on an amazing amount of traveling. A classical painter, she is also finishing a portrait of her second granddaughter. She now has six great-grandchildren. 6 Williams People December Hudson Mead 8 Stratford Place Grosse Pointe, MI secretary@williams.edu Mea culpa! Res ipsa loquitur. I am guilty. The thing speaks for itself. A letter from Milt Prigoff tells it all: After your call, I tore open the caustic letter I was writing you and have redrafted it to be more polite. You did forget me as a participant in our Florida lunches and I was the one who recruited Hank Hunter to join us. He did not graduate from Williams. (Ed. note: Hank left Williams soon after Pearl Harbor, was a Marine and saw action at Guadalcanal and whathave-you for the rest of the war.) Hank has, nevertheless, been a good alumnus who has attended our great college (reunions). In addition to a likeable personality, he has a lovely wife and is most erudite and loquacious. We have lunch regularly when he is in Florida and each other all summer. Hank and I fenced together and received our W for fencing. Your apology for forgetting me is accepted. Jim Crawford, class cartoonist, writes that things in Essex Falls are pretty much the same. Mimi plays bridge and is active in a group in Newark that protects children. I have taken over the entire third floor of my home of 40 years where I keep busy painting water colors have had several exhibitions sold or given away over 25 paintings. Had my left hip repaired June 30, 2009 healed quickly and perfectly still play platform tennis and exercise at a local gym three days a week. Smile a lot. Given up Montclair Gold Club for lack of use and ridiculous costs. Glad to be alive. Hooray for you, Jim. I used to play paddle tennis but in no regular foursome; I substituted now and then 20 years ago with two foursomes until it was discovered that I was not good enough for one and too good for the other and so they both dropped me. Sic transit gloria mundi. (How fleeting is fame.) Percy Nelson does not appear to have Jim s luck. Percy is learning to walk again after spending 44 uncomfortable days in various hospitals and rehab clinics. Tom Buffington reflects on his father, a Williams alumnus now deceased. He says that his father loved to sing at Williams gatherings and inquired in one of his later years whether students still sang. To my negative reply he would lament the decline of the college he loved. Your editor taught college songs to his children at bedtime only to have them grow up and go to college (as did your children) at a time when singing was replaced by the twang of gihtarhs. Pity! Tom was back from attending the marriage of a granddaughter who simultaneously made law review at Case Western Reserve. He exudes, What a lot of joy at once! Now to the reasonably healthy. Herb Bell in Taylorsville, N.C., says he appears to have recovered from a bout with bladder cancer three years ago and is living on Lake Hickory. He says, All four of our children have been divorced once. I do not know whether he meant to use the word once on purpose. I suspect he did. I have three children, two of whom have been divorced, one of them twice. Herb adds, Seems normal these days, but it makes for complicated family relationships. Amen. Charles Carothers relates a story that is right on for these troubled times. He has a grandson who graduated from Stanford but couldn t get started on the West Coast in real estate; hence the alternative: He enlisted in the Marines and is just off for Afghanistan. Charley feels so bad about this that he declares, If I didn t have two tin knees I d go in his place if they d let me. He invites any of us who happen to be in the vicinity of the Ocean Reef Club at Key Largo to pretend the name is Dew Drop Inn. The Ancient Contractor (not Mariner) retired after 59 years, spends three months in Florida and Georgia and nine months in good ole Franconia, N.H. He has five grandchildren two great grandchildren all not too far away. Lucky Bob! Mine are all in Denver. Bruce Winter from Sarasota, Fla., says that the middle 80s (of which he is one) is considered middle-aged in Sarasota. He says that so far he has not found any Williams alumni. However, if he would look in the directory he would find that there are 35 and so he many yet stumble into one, but he probably won t bother because he has a lady friend who keeps him on the go. Bernie Tolan from Bothell, Wash., has been living in the Foundation House since the death of his wife in 07. He considers

9 n himself lucky because he has a daughter living in the vicinity. Gene Connally and Elaine have enjoyed the racing season at nearby Saratoga and have also sipped from the cup of Cultchah by taking in the Saratoga Theater of Performing Arts, where they have seen the Philadelphia Symphony and a number of Gershwin shows. Gene plays limited golf, a nine-hole scramble with the R.O.B.S. (Retired Old B--S). That s just what I do. The average age of my regular foursome is 88. It has not played at the Country Club of Detroit since June, however, as it is being redone for PGA Tournament use. John Willey writes from New Hartford, Conn., that he is living with a daughter but also sees another daughter who lives nearby. Still active, he recently spent a pleasant day in Billville, probably reminiscing about the time in sophomore year someone told him that if he were to dial a certain phone number and ask for Ann he would be talking to T.R.T. (The Real Thing). John did so, but Ann turned him down. Alas! But not so fast a day or two later he got a note from Ann asking him to tea at Phinney Baxter s 14 house because she was his wife. Needless to say, John nearly died, but he was up to the situation. He got all gussied up and arrived at the appointed time where he spent a pleasant hour with a very gracious woman who obviously had one of the best senses of humor on campus. Jack Talbot sent a photo of his wife Angela, which appears on the cover of the book he wrote about her, The Lyrical Life of Angela Schimmenti Talbot. What a beautiful, regal appearing woman she was. What a loss! Shep Poor wrote in September that he was off to Ireland for a week. I suppose he was going over to check out the potato crop and have a wee drop in a pub or two. Marty and Gerry Oberrender, our esteemed class president, have finally crossed the Rubicon. (No! That s not quite right Hudson. A rather mellifluous sounding name, don t you think?) They joined them Eastern fellers at 21 Harvest Circle, Lincoln, Mass ( ). Speaking of Hudsons, I note in The New York Times obituary column that William Hoffman Hudson 50 arrived at Williams with four polo ponies. Shades of the Great Gatsby, whom I thought faded out after the 1930s. Nancy Schlosser reminds us that it has been five years since her Bill left us. Tempus fugit! She says that she keeps busy traveling and went to Venice with a Stanford group ( our two daughters went to that university, she says). Friends look after her. Nancy has a retirement apartment but hopes not to move there for a few more years. Quoth she, My Williams man planned ahead and always took good care of me! Helen Corroon s son Peter continued in his role as mayor of Salt Lake County after losing a bid for governor of Utah. Helen s daughter Andree has started her own public relations business. Nancy Maulsby acknowledges the reprint in my last edition of class notes of David Boies remembrance of Al. She says, This time of year is special for me as it is always at this time of year that I think most about Allen, as he died in November Somehow the light changes and I am right back to our time together. Allen really epitomized a courtly grace that I am not sure is out there in today s world. If it would be anywhere, it would be at Williams, where the respect and dignity of every human being is raised up. He was never loud, he did not like displays, although this makes me think of the elephant that Allen had up and Eph had up to Williamstown for your 10th reunion. That was a huge point for him, and it was done in style, I am sure. No class has come close since then, Nancy. Now to our all-too-fastgrowing disheartening list. Don Fuchs acknowledged my words of condolence at the passing of his wife Betty last March. He disclosed a calcium deposit on his heart which has now been cured. Why he picked Grand Rapids for a starting point I just don t know, but he says, I am reasonably healthy and am the object of a close watch from my four daughters, all of whom live east of Grand Rapids. It isn t the daughter of the month plan, but they take turns making periodic visits. Lucky you, Don! Now to recent sad news, which I abbreviate because of the extensive obituaries that appear elsewhere in this publication. Bob Buck left us after a 10-year battle with Parkinson s disease. Bob was a returnee to Williams after WWII with his wife Ruth and child, who opines, Marietta (Ga.) is a nice place to live, but it does not compare to the purple mountains. Ed. note: I added the state because there are five in all. First prize goes to anyone who can come up with at least one other. Paul Wilkinson of Oak Ridge, Tenn., died on June Frederick Wardwell P.O. Box 118 Searsmont, ME secretary@williams.edu As of this writing our October minireunion had yet to take place, but the September deadline for publishing loomed. Classmate news for some may thus seem dated, but it is what we ve got, and getting it from so many was wonderful. Bill Bennett reported from Tacoma, Wash., that he feels fine despite carrying an oxygen bottle around 24 hours a day. It is not too restricting, he says, and it allows him to drive and gad about pretty well. Don Brumbaugh stayed in Williamstown through graduation in 1944, probably draft-deferred because he was a chemistry major. On graduation he was drafted into the Army and put into electronics. After retiring from Eastman Kodak, they happily live in their long-term home nearby. Marge and Jay Buckley still occupy their home of 50 years in Groton, Conn., but complained that one of Jay s hearing aids is off for repair. Their chimney is in need of serious repair, and fortunately son Dan is scheduled to fix it. Mary and Stu Cohan report being home relaxing after a busy, excellent, summer. Howard Dodd, after a fine summer in New Hampshire, is back home in Groton, Conn., and doing well. His near neighbor Jay Buckley struggles to walk but is in good spirits. Don Gamble is in Monterey, Calif., is still into golf and expects to see Al Pawlick for a round or two. Not so long ago Sam Hazard appeared from a break in a golf school he was attending. Iris and Hal Gilboard think their digs somewhere between LA and San Diego are the place to be, as it has been for the last 10 years or so since giving up the real estate racket in Boston. Hal reports a cool ocean breeze off their beach, no need for air conditioning, no biting insects and he would go on if you let him. Emmett Herndon still bicycles to work every day, plays tennis two to three times a week and says his December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 7

10 CLASS NOTES and Janet s complaints are few. Stu King finished 132 days in the hospital, most due to a series of infections that seem improbable. He expects his just-purchased $2,400 bottle of pills to get him back to the swimming pool shortly. He is walking easily and going to the gym for strength training. Ted Lincoln is still publishing a real-estate guide several times a year despite the reduced number of agents. This is not surprising for southeastern Florida, but that doesn t get him on the tennis court these days. Strother Marshall (Osos, Calif.) reports that, despite some failing in various parts of his human machinery, he keeps going and finds he loves California. Priscilla Ohler (Mrs. John Ohler) reported on John, who 12 years ago, as an MD, diagnosed himself as having Alzheimer s. John is in a nearby care facility that Pricilla can visit daily, with, she says, rewarding results. They can communicate, and their kids are nearby. Ann and I are back in Maine after summer months spent on Lake Ontario. We looked forward to the October minireunion and, with luck, by the time this goes to print ice on the lakes will have frozen over, snow will blow clear and the ice-boating season will be about to start. Lastly, as we must expect, some classmates obituaries have been received. Harry DePan, MD, died in May, after many years of practice in Glens Falls, N.Y. Ev Gidley died in July. He flew P47s in WWII, was shot down over Germany, was taken prisoner after scrambling about for 30 days, escaped and was in Paris for VE Day. The list of his volunteer work for nonprofits is long. Jeff Harris, MD, died in June, shortly after attending our 65th reunion. He practiced medicine in Harvard, Mass., for 33 years and was said to be available 24 hours a day, always. All of these classmates were loyal supporters of Williams REUNION JUNE 9-12 Gates McG. Helms 5 Troon Court Maplewood, NJ secretary@williams.edu Dear survivors of the Great Class of 46, I want to apologize 8 Williams People December 2010 to you all for having nothing ready for the class notes in the August issue. As of Sept. 17, I had not received my copy. Larry Heely phoned, though, so I know he got his. I have heard from Bill Shellenberger and Bud Morrow, both of whom offered material for the coming issue, bless their hearts. Hank Niemitz 44, who lives here at Winchester Gardens, said he had received his copy. I must inquire about the mailing to learn why I get the hind tit all the time. First of all, I shall go through the organ recital: Bill (Shelly) Shellenberger writes that on June 11 he suffered a heart attack. That s the bad news. The good news is that he has been fine ever since he went to his doctor, then by ambulance to hospital. That p.m., he had a coronary cath, balloon and stent inserted. Bud Morrow writes that he has had a series of medical and surgical events in the past year, including cancer removals in both right and left lungs, some dermatology adventures and pneumonia. Also a colonoscopy with polyps removal. That s the bad news. The good news is that all the tests were negative and what is left of me for the next year is at least unlikely to include the black spot. (Some of you will no doubt recall that Len Schlosser missed our 35th reunion because he was battling lung cancer, unsuccessfully.) I pray that the treatments (for Bud) have improved a great deal in the interim. I have learned that Tom Hyndman has acquired a new pacemaker and seems fine. He and Shelly took Wally Thompson out for lunch and had a good reunion. Wally has a power wheel chair, which he handles well and gives him much greater scope than he would have otherwise. Larry Heely told Alberta on the phone this morning that he had a herniated disc in his back operated on in January. It is only now that he has about recovered from that procedure. Larry allowed as how John Chapman s wife, Beverlee, has not been well, though he did not say what the problem was. As a consequence, neither of them was able to get to Williamstown to take part in the annual Williams Alumni Golf Tournament this year. Shelly reports some recent contact with Stan Babson, who, despite his severe vision problems, continues to be in good spirits. That is the end of our various ailments section. We now move on to our various activities section, which mostly involve travel. In Shelly s case, it involved a flight to the pot capital of the world, Boulder, Colo., where Mary Jane is legal for medicinal purposes. His daughter there has two of Shelly and Barbara s granddaughters, aged 13 and 11, and a new home. Shelly writes that he had a very uplifting experience in the balloon ride that they took in honor of Barbara s birthday. Edie and Bud Morrow were in their home in Freedom, N.H., from Aug. 1, but he doesn t say for how long, with lots of family, including, get this: four great-grandchildren, two of each variety! Wow! At this point, I want to challenge all of you survivors to let me know how many of you have great-grandchildren. It isn t too early to start planning for their college educations. I would be very interested to know if you have attempted to do this and, if so, how. I will analyze the results and publish them in People. It would be best if you would me this information, but since many of you are not up on this, I ll be delighted to get it any way you want to send it. Just do it! I remember a few years ago everyone in the securities business talking about the need to know your customer. It was to keep you from making mistakes, from taking a step that would be unthinkable for customer A. There would be a light going on in your head that would warn you that something was amiss. I mention this because it helped me to avoid a $3,000 scam. The story goes like this. Roger Ernst and I had an exchange in which we agreed that he would try to look in here on his way between Florida and Nantucket, where he spends his summers. A number of months ago now, I got an from Roger saying that he was sorry he hadn t been able to keep his promise to stop by on his way up to Nantucket this year, because his sister was in a London hospital, required an operation urgently, and that the hospital was requiring $3,000 before they would undertake the badly needed operation. Would I please send the money right away, and he would pay me back as soon as he got home. Well, that didn t sound like Roger Ernst to me. A foreign service officer for many years would never be caught in a bind like this. At the very least,

11 n he would have a credit card. I respectfully declined. Talked to Roger a couple of months later and asked him about London. Right away, he said that was a scam. But I was impressed that the perpetrator from gone to the trouble, not only of breaking in to Roger s , but read it sufficiently to make up a plausible story involving me. The reason I didn t have a report in the previous issue of People is that Alberta and I took off for the whole month the May to cruise the western coast of Africa on the Ocean Princess, a 650-passenger ship belonging to the Princess Line, which is owned in turn by Carnival Cruise, a NYSE company. We flew to Cape Town, South Africa, just a few weeks before the start of the World Cup. The first port of call was Luderitz, Namibia. Not much to see there. Then we stopped in Walvis Bay, also Namibia, followed by Cotonou, Benin; Lomé, Togo; Tema, Ghana; Banjul, Gambia; Dakar, Senégal. Then, we made landfall in a trio of islands, Mindelo in the Cape Verde Islands, Tenerife in the Canary Islands and Funchal on the Island of Madeira. Then it was back to land with stays of one day in Casablanca, Ceuta, Cadiz, Lisbon, Le Havre and finally Dover, England. Of course, a number of days were spent at sea. Despite the poverty in some of the countries like Benin, Togo and The Gambia, in no port did we have to go ashore in a tender. We were able to tie up alongside the port facilities everywhere. I am not sure that if we had been aboard the Queen Mary that that would have been true. I mean to tell you some of those countries are poor. Alberta and I have been fortunate to have traveled in India, and with Bobby and Art Silverstein in Burma, Cambodia, Laos, all of which seemed rich alongside Benin. While in Cotonou, I had my first look at Voodoo. We were escorted to a couple of outdoor religious sites where voodoo is practiced though there were no services taking place while we were there. There was also a large marketplace we visited that was devoted to the sale of voodoo fetishes. Some of the goods were mighty strange, to my way of thinking. Trina and Dick Debevoise came down to have drinks and dinner with a mutual friend and us this evening, Sept. 17, the deadline for getting these notes to the College. Dick is still going strong, though he admitted to being unsure if he has the physical stamina to undertake a criminal trial that is being offered up if he wants it. At this point, I want to let you all know that my speech has been very adversely affected by my Parkinsons. That means I cannot phone you survivors for a run down on your latest doings. I wonder, therefore, whether we should consider using Facebook, YouTube or even Twitter. Would all of you please me, (gmhelms@aol.com) or phone me ( ) or snail mail me (see above) your thoughts on this matter? Gates 1947 John C. Speaks III 33 Heathwood Road Williamsville, NY secretary@williams.edu At last a communication after a couple of years of no notes for our class. Dick Brigham writes of some major events in his life. First, a year-old greatgranddaughter; and, second, his 61st wedding anniversary. Dick is typical of our mixed-up class in that he started in 1943, graduated in 46 and is listed in Class of 47. For myself, I started in 43 and on returning from the Army in 46 was put in 49M but graduated in 47. Atypical, however, is Dick s split loyalties with Amherst, as part of his family are Williams grads and several others are Amherst. We have a lot of members listed in Class of 47 who graduated at different times, and this has added to the lack of cohesion. Try letting your secretary have a little data on yourselves you may find an old friend. Our class roster of known members now stands at John A. Peterson Jr Glencove Drive, Apt Naples, FL secretary@williams.edu For the record and just in case you weren t aware of it, Forbes magazine ranked Williams number 1 in its America s Best Colleges report. How to go Eph! Some comments from classmates follow. Lionel Bolin: We winter in Tucson and spend summers in Indiana. Joel Carr: Re: reunions, has there ever been an organized 65th? (Joe, I ll get back to you on this.) Giles Toll: We continue to enjoy our Colorado mountains. This summer has been especially good for wildflowers, which we have been enjoying at various altitudes beginning in the late spring and just now (August) fading away. Our hikes are lower and slower, but it s always such a pleasure to be able to get to the high country, for which I am grateful and so fortunate to have Connie as a partner. Wink Halsted: As I go through attic stuff, in addition to throwaway, I occasionally find items of significance familywise or otherwise. In the otherwise category I have found a few items of possible historical interest. A number of these I have donated to the Chapin Library. These have included, for example, original Soviet propaganda items from the Cold War that I picked up here and there. Most recently I came across an old envelope of a letter addressed to my father which carried postmarks to indicate it had crossed the Atlantic on the Graf Zeppelin. Also, as I threw away hundreds of nondescript stamps from an old stamp collection, I came across three stamps that caught my attention. The stamps were in different denominations, from the period of hyperinflation in the Weimer Republic in They represent the standard letter postage rate in Germany from March (100 marks) through midsummer (4 million marks) and late October (50 million marks). I sent the Graf Zeppelin envelope and the three German stamps to the Chapin. I was gratified to hear from Wayne Hammond that he thought, as I did, that these items were worth saving and adding to the Williams library collection of ephemera. Wink continued, It occurred to me that our classmates might also be downsizing and cleaning out attics and basements. They, too, might find items of historical significance such as letters or documents. We could encourage them to keep the Chapin Library SENDNEWS! Y our class secretary is waiting to hear from you! Send news to your secretary at the address at the top of your class notes column. December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 9

12 CLASS NOTES in mind as they cull their letters and files. Perhaps they will come up with significant original materials from their military, business and career activities by or about leading historical personalities or events that would be suitable to make available for research use by Williams students and faculty. Lew Lawton: Marlene and I are in reasonably good health, just rusting away with time. Both find we have less stamina, so life proceeds at a slower pace. I have some problems walking due to arthritis and some nerve damage from a fall down a cliff many, many years ago but still do the family grocery shopping two days each week. We sold our house eight years ago and moved just several miles to a very large, gated condo area. The area is great, with many people ranging from those with young children to old geezers like us. It also provides a very large range of services and activities. The move necessitated trimming down my extensive workshop. The current shop now occupies one room on our lower level and pretty much is limited to metal working projects with some woodworking. I still enjoy spending time in the shop. Just recently, I collaborated with Dick Gray in solving a drilling problem he had. We both keep busy. Marlene engages in a variety of outside-the-home activities and continues to be a gourmet cook. I have acquired some of her skills since cooking is somewhat akin to completing a project in the workshop. On a sad note: Bill Rutter s wife Virginia passed away last July. They were married before graduation and lived in the honeymoon barracks near Weston Field as newlyweds. Bill, you have our sympathy and best wishes. I m curious to know who of you are still working and not retired. Please drop me a line or me at john.peterson@ raymondjames.com Chuck Utley 1835 Van Buren Circle Mountain View, CA secretary@williams.edu Sadly, two of our classmates, who will be remembered well by many of us, passed away this past summer. Dave Rockwood died Aug. 2 at Boston Medical Center after an active family life 10 Williams PeoPle December 2010 Last summer, Ephs from the classes of 1948 to 1976 enjoyed a Williams Alumni Travel-Study trip to Portugal led by Prof. Darra Goldstein (on stairs, in pink shirt). and multiple Cape Cod-based business, civic and recreational pursuits. At one time or another he was chairman of the Barnstable Housing Authority, president of the Cape Cod Conservatory of Musical Arts, commodore of the Wianno Yacht Club and president of the Cape Cod Ski Club. Dave founded the Old Cape Cod Insurance Agency in Hyannis, from which he retired in He is survived by his wife Patricia and his three sons and their families. Andy Goodrich died of congestive heart failure June 19 in Oakville, Ontario, where he had been a Canadian resident since moving there from Winnetka, Ill., in He almost returned to the U.S. for a job in Detroit at one point. He even bought a new house there, until he was so moved by the going-away party given by close friends that he changed his mind and decided to stay in Oakville, which he thought was best for his family. Steve Woodrich provided these personal recollections: In I roomed with Andy, Charley Huntington and Bill Adkins on the top floor of Morgan Hall. We were all Chi Psis and had a great time together. Andy asked me to be an usher in his wedding in 1952, and I visited him a number of times after that. Andy was a great guy and a good friend. Al Clement: Carolyn and I managed to get to our granddaughter s graduation at Clemson in June. Returned exhausted. Spent about a week on Little Sunapee in New Hampshire and have enjoyed visiting with old friends this summer here and elsewhere. They planned to be in Williamstown on Sept. 18 for the memorial service for Warren Hunke 42. Al said, As you may know, he has been the driving force behind our Octet reunions for over 30 years. He was responsible for creating an intergenerational celebration annually and one of the spinoffs was the friendships we all have made as a result. I sincerely hope that the tradition will continue. Music is a wonderful glue that can keep people together, and it has been very special at Williams. We are both relatively healthy and mobile. I had a little heart problem in July but another stent set it right. Blessings of modern technology. Stan Whetstone has a plan to stay on the trail of good seasonal weather. He says, We re here in Park City, Utah, until October; then back to Bonita Springs, Fla. Jim Smith provided a reminder that our children are aging along with the rest of us. Our children, Peter and Stephen, had their 50th birthdays on May 16. As their partners were unable to attend they decided to have a stag celebration and invited son Jay and me to join them for four days in Nassau. It was an excellent event. Jay is our oldest, born in 1955, followed by Liz born in Peter and Stephen were born in 1960, and then we had our final child Nancy in Buffalo was hot this summer, but fortunately the breeze from Lake Erie helped keep us cool. We rented two cabins in Lorraine, Ontario (Canadian lake shore), which is just east of

13 n Port Colborne. Our children and families from Denver, Boston and Waverly, Pa. joined us along with our two local children and their families for a week on the Lake Erie shore. This makes for a very festive family reunion. It almost seemed like our reunions at Williams every five years. Jim also sent along the news that fellow Buffalonian and longtime friend of your secretary Tom Mitchell 50 died this summer after an extended illness. Howard Erskine: Lou and I are living quietly in West Palm Beach, Fla. We have been here for 10 years. Health-wise we are hanging in there. I need oxygen part of the time. I heard on the radio that Williams was voted the best college in the U.S. I am sure that this was due to the contributions of the Class of Recognition at last. Best to everybody. Richard Bilder: Sally and I continue to enjoy Madison and the University of Wisconsin, where I am still at the law school doing some writing, editing a section of my professional journal and occasionally teaching international law. In October Richard was to be at the University of Georgia Law School in Athens. We had a delightful visit some months ago from Jim Finke 50, and I recently had the pleasure of talking with Giles Kelly. Best regards to all. Giles Kelly: I regret that I cannot report meeting with any Williams people during the past summer, though Ann and I kept a lookout during our visit to Budapest, then to the Amalfi Coast of Italy, where we participated in an art and music festival. We were back home in July in time to mark the 89th anniversary of my birth, and in October to celebrate our 26th wedding anniversary. This year we have both enjoyed painting in plein air, sailing on the Potomac and preparing a book contracted by Schiffer publishers Kevin F.X. Delany 3143 O St., NW Washington, DC secretary@williams.edu As your new scribe, I am very gratified by the responses I have received to my recent plea for news about you and yours. Thanks to all who answered the call. I must begin with a downer. Howard Simpson died on Aug. 12 in his hometown of Baltimore. A few days before he died, Howard told a friend, I m so glad that Kitty and I went to the reunion in June. Howard left Williams in his freshman year to enlist in the Army and was waiting to take part in the invasion of Japan when the Japanese surrendered in Because he was fluent in German, Howard was sent to Germany to interview former German troops to determine their suitability to work in the American occupation. Back in civilian life, he had a career of 50 years as a bond specialist with Paine Webber and UBS AG. Because of his conservative investment advice, he earned the nickname of Hold em Howard. He will be sorely missed. I m sorry to report that we have lost several more esteemed classmates: Bill Hudson of Dallas, Texas, on Sept, 5; John Bowen of Canandaigua, N.Y., on Sept. 17; and Stuart K. Wood of Yarmouthport, Mass. on July 26. Bill Hudson s passions were quail hunting and polo. He was a veteran of the oil and gas industry in Texas for more than 50 years. He famously arrived at Williams accompanied by four Polo ponies and helped to establish polo as a club sport, which he captained for three years. After Williams he served as an artillery battalion captain in the Korean War and played with top polo teams throughout the world. He is survived by his wife Cathy, four children and four stepchildren. John Bowen was one of two members of 1950 who graduated magna cum laude and one of our two class marshalls. He became co-captain of soccer and president of the Zeta Psi House. After college he became a distinguished physician in his area of New York State. John was predeceased by two wives. He is survived by three sons and five grandchildren. Stuart Wood was a 2nd lieutenant and navigator in B-17s of the 8th Air Force in missions over Germany in the final days of WWII. After the war he joined the Class of 1950 for a year before leaving to work in executive positions with U.S. Rubber, Avon, American Cyanamid and Pfizer. He is survived by his wife Dee and four children. A stellar group of 23 made it our class minireunion in October. Highlights included festive dinners at the Mill on the Floss and the 1896 House, a blowout victory over the Middlebury footballers in rotten weather, always welcome serenading by the Reunion Jazz Band and just plain communing with classmates and friends. Katie and Norm Olson won the honors for farthest travel with their journey from Chicago. And Morgan Murray and Fred Lanes won accolades from all for orchestrating a delightful weekend. Mo was unable to make it to campus as he was finishing his move to join the Moodys in Basking Ridge, N.J. Incidentally, our emeritus class secretary asked me to convey his thanks to the following for their critical guidance in the past few years: The Williams Reunion Jazz Band; Parker Murray 55 for incomparable assistance; and Stan Roller, Fred Lanes and Chuck Alberti for their many kindnesses. At Saturday s annual business meeting, Stan Roller, four months into his tenure as president, declared us sound and solvent in his State of the Class address to a relieved audience. In other news, Mike Reed reports from the Blue Sky State that though he and Mary made it to the 50th, they had to forego the 60th because some pulmonary problems made it unwise for such a long trip for Mary. Hank had a busy career with Burlington Resources and did consulting till he was 80. The Reeds thrive in Helena with a son, a daughter and three of eight grandchildren living there. Gil Gregory says that June was the highlight of his year, and well traveled it was. Gil set out for reunion with a stopover visit to his brother Don 51 and his wife Joan, who live in the Buffalo area. Tennis followed by dinner with Karin and Dan Roach prepared him for a drive across NY state and some quality time in Williamstown with Stu Duffield, Charley Jensch and other class members. In August Gil was off again to sample the charms of San Francisco with Margie and Roy Collins. Sandy and Wyatt Uhlein certainly have deep Connecticut roots. After 26 years in New Canaan, they have lived the past 25 years in a house they built in Litchfield. Their three children have given them nine grandchildren, and the first great-grandchild is on the way. However, Wyatt spilled the beans. Into this happy family another granddaughter just announced her engagement to, of all things, an Amherst grad. To reassure them, however, I have done some research, and there is no evidence in the past several eons December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 11

14 CLASS NOTES of a Williams wife being stoned to death for marrying an Amherst man. Be of good heart. Stu Duffield and Joan are chalking up 58 years of marital bliss, all on the basis of a blind date arranged by his senior year roomie Bill Sperry 51. The anniversary numbers are getting so high we may have to start a Loving Cup competition to keep track of the leaders. Meanwhile, Stu just keeps on, building fly rods, tying flies and hanging out near some river. Speaking of the above, Julie and Tim Louis celebrated their 60th in July. Six children, seven spouses, 22 grandchildren and two great-grands spread out from New York to LA. The family were really testing the odds last fall when a Democratic grandson ran for Congress in Arizona in a district Republican to the core. It is interesting to note how many of our classmates indicate that they are happy in their present abodes. Dunc Campbell is an example: My wife Ann and I have been living in the old family homestead here in Bennington for nigh on 45 years, and I don t see us moving. You might say I m in the historic preservation business as I am spending much of my time restoring the old barns on our property and keeping the fields open. Life is good, and I guess we fit into your Aging in Place category. Bill Riegel comments, At 82 I find Nancy and myself adding on to our house here in Duxbury. No, she is not pregnant! While the rest of the world seems to be downsizing, we are upsizing our 1824 Cape Cod cottage to make it possible for us to enjoy our twilight years in situ. Rusty Bourne is another content with the status quo. He is happily situated in a complete care residential community in Ithaca, N.Y., with everything from tennis and skiing to stimulating friends. Brother Stan and wife Ginny in Castine, Maine, pretty much echo Rusty. They are happy with their surroundings and facilities and want to stay where they are as long as they can. Phyllis and Bill Coldwell report from Niantic, Conn., that they have been living in a 55-plus community for more than two years and really enjoy the maintenancefree arrangement. All four of their sons and families are within two hours of their home. Bill had a mild stroke a year ago but with no permanent damage. Others are going a different 12 Williams People December 2010 direction. John Dole writes: Celia and I just moved to a brand-new house in Leucadia, Calif., near the Big Blue Pacific but not on it. (Too bad!) Celia designed it, and it s a jewel! We moved from Taos, N.M., where the winters were too much and too long. My postpolio syndrome finally caught up with me after stealthily lying in wait for years. I m in a wheelchair now, but it doesn t stop me from my favorite activities of painting, sculpture design and writing. Also have a 13-foot-high sculpture at the San Diego harbor edge which was winner in a competition put on by the port of SD. I m still trying to market my novel, selfpublished several years ago. Gail and Charlie Schaaf are also on the move. We are on track to sell our townhouse in Glenview, Ill., next year and purchase a condominium facing Puget Sound in Edwards, Wash. Mike Carter regrets that he and Lillian had to pass on the 60th to attend his prep school s 65th because his class there is dwindling at a faster rate than our Williams class. Their summers are unusual. This was their third visit to Kazakhstan in Central Asia to visit their son Michael and his family. His grandchildren go to a British school and are becoming fluent in Russian to add to their Italian and English. The Carters planned to spend their third winter in San Francisco to escape the snow and ice of New Hampshire. More random jottings: Stan Roller, our new class president, and wife Mary spent a couple of weeks in Nova Scotia before the fall duties took over. Meanwhile, former pres Doug Coleman celebrated the passing of the torch by heading to St. Petersburg with Sandy and on to a Baltic cruise to mark their 60th anniversary. Our new class treasurer, Tom Hodgman, managed a late summer trip to Grindelwald in the Swiss Alps. He was to be joined by his son TJ and his wife Karen, who live in Annecy, France. Tom reminded me that my brother Jack and I joined him on a climb of the Lauberhorn in 1949, just after our freshman year. Meanwhile Dunc McDonald reminisces about growing up in Foxhall Village in DC and adventures on the C&O Canal and concerts from canoes on the Potomac. Barry Benepe recalls memories of salad days in Greenwich Village, farmers markets on Long Island and antique jigsaw puzzles. Tom Goodrich and Sarah enjoy their lifestyle in Wilmington, Del., which is enhanced by The Academy of Lifelong Learning, which allows them to give and take courses. Chris Acker missed the reunion to be on hand for a granddaughter s high school graduation. He s clearly proud as punch of the grandkids and their achievements. Chris says they have much to be thankful for, especially since he survived cancer four years ago. George Razook also missed the 60th due to surgery for Claudia, but they vowed to be on hand for the minireunion in October. A note from Congreve Quimby. He and Connie much enjoyed the Portugal Douro River cruise last summer. Con continues to be involved with Kairos Prison Ministry, which calls for visiting prisoners at Dannemora, a maximum-security prison near Burlington, Vt. Con also works with Camp Agape, a summer camp for Vermont children who have experienced a parent s incarceration, while Connie volunteers at a nearby hospital and finds ways to serve at St. Paul s Cathedral. Bill Gehron has recently completed his, titled, Ramble: A memoir. It chronicles three generations of Gehron lives, 245 pages in paperback form. Bill is a veteran of WWII and Korea (as is your secretary). I have not read his book yet, but I look forward to it. Another memoir is entitled: Cases of Interest by Jack McConnell, my old Deke fraternity brother. It is a slim read of 75 pages about Jack s career as a lawyer in Chicago. After reading it, I came away with two thoughts. McConnell is one smart lawyer, and in any legal dispute I sure would want to have him on my side. As you enjoy this holiday season, I wish to end with an upbeat postscript. After I sent out a letter in September asking for any news in your neck of the woods, I received a note from Don Miller in Lexington, Ky. Don said he had been battling some health issues for some time but claimed feeling fine. He said that he was fortunate to have two great daughters living right in town. About five weeks later, another came from Don. It said: After treatments and surgeries for cancer since June, received my biopsy report Friday: No cancer. I am, of course, elated and wished to share my joy with you. My favorite definition of friendship is:

15 n Doubling one s joys and halving one s sorrows. I hope in this holiday season and in 2011 all your family news is positive and joyous REUNION JUNE 9-12 Dick Siegel 229 Golf Edge Westfield, NJ secretary@williams.edu One of the highlights of the summer for Ellen and me was attending the opening of an exhibition at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, N.Y., conceived and co-curated by our daughter Nancy, a professor of art history at Towsen University, entitled Remember the Ladies Women of the Hudson River School. This was the first known exhibition to focus solely on the women artists associated with this important 19th century landscape painting movement. The title of the exhibition comes from a letter written in March 1776 by Abigail Adams to her husband John, which states in part, I desire you would Remember the Ladies if perticular (sic) care and attention is not paid to the Laidies (sic) we are determined to foment a Rebellion. Dave Ruder continues to be active. An emeritus professor at Northwestern University School of Law, he continues to teach a seminar in securities regulation and to supervise three continuing legal education programs in the corporate and securities law fields. This year marks Dave s 50th year of law teaching, including years while on leave. Dave reports, Following the stock market flash crash on May 26, 2010, I was appointed to a joint CFTC-SEC Advisory Committee on emerging regulatory issues. Some of the issues we are examining are similar to those I faced following the 23 percent Dow Jones market decline on Oct. 19, 1987, when I was chairman of the SEC. In March Dave and his wife Susan had a most pleasant visit in Boca Grande, Fla., with Claire and Ted Curtis and Jane and Bob Geniesse. Joe Como sent a lovely letter stating: This is the first time that I have submitted information to class notes. Sadly, the first and foremost item I wish to report is the loss of my beloved wife of 56 years on July 19, Terry died from complications of a series of strokes after putting up a gallant fight for her life. Our six children have been very supportive with frequent visits, but it is still very difficult overcoming the loss of my best friend and companion. I am thankful that she got to enjoy 12 wonderful years at our beautiful retirement home on Lake Greenwood. On a brighter note, a highlight and humbling honor for me was serving as grand marshall of the 2010 Memorial Day observance in Williamstown. I talk frequently with Blair Perry, with whom I grew up in Williamstown. What a lot of our classmates probably don t know is that Blair got his start in the field of law in the Marine Corps, which sent him to the Naval Justice School in Newport, R.I. God willing, I plan to attend our 60th reunion this coming June. All of us send our deepest condolences to Joe on the loss of Terry. The North Adams Transcript, in reporting this year s Memorial Day parade in Williamstown, noted that the grand marshal, retired U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Joseph Como, had served during the Korean War and remained in the Marine Corps for 23 years. This is the day that we are supposed to pay tribute to those who gave all gave their lives and didn t make it back from war, Como said. What a lot of people don t realize is that many of those that didn t make it back were 17, 18, 19, 20 years old. They gave their lives without ever having a chance to have a life. Ted Prescott still resides in Ukiah, Calif. He is semi-retired but works eight hours a day from 5:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., keeping track of the stock market and the input that is more confusing than enlightening. He manages a oneman office for mutual securities and enjoys working with clients who often are long in the tooth like himself. It s his business and hobby rolled up into one. Ted reports, With my wife Nancy I enjoy hosting family and friends, mostly local, but with a Southern Cal base from 30 years spent in Los Angeles. Our traditional family July 4 celebration featured my patented rum punch, sometimes known as Kick-A-Poo Joy Juice (any Lil Abner fans left out there?). After mostly retiring from community service to focus on the market meltdown of recent years, I am now re-involved with Big Brothers/Big Sisters and in training as a court-appointed special advocate, a program to represent the interests of juveniles in court proceedings when requested by the presiding judge. Ted previously was involved with Rotary, the Child Care Planning Council and the Ukiah Players Theatre. For the Players he developed and produced a bluegrass country, folk and western music festival. And for Rotary, a Rubber Ducky Derby. Ted enjoys the slower, friendlier pace of a small, mostly rural community. For those interested in reading an excellent health-related book, I recommend Wally Bortz new opus, Next Medicine The Science and Civics of Health, which has just been released by Oxford University Press. In the words of the publisher, In Next Medicine, Walter Bortz shows how the defects of American healthcare threaten the stability of the entire nation. Bortz argues that the financial interests of biotech and drug companies have eroded the values of the medical profession and placed profit before human wellbeing. I received a very nice note from Renee Spencer, who says she is adjusting well to retirement living at Linden Pond in Hingham, Mass. Renee went to LA to attend the graduation of her grandson Ivan from USC Medical School. Ivan graduated summa cum laude and now is in residence at Duke University Hospital. Ivan married a classmate, Kathleen Kiernan 06, whose parents Joseph and Mary Kiernan both were Williams 78. Renee s grandson Sasha entered Davis School of Law this year, and her 13-year-old granddaughter Olivia is a star in soccer and excels in track and field. Olivia is getting straight A s and has longterm plans for only one college, Williams. With great joy, Renee says, I m truly proud of these young ones Earle would have been so happy. Ted Garver writes, Tell Gordy McWilliams that I bested his wood cutting. Five pick-up loads, equivalent to about three cords, Around here no one remembers what a cord is. Otherwise, I seem to be making some progress commercializing some patents. David Fischer reports, Haven t written in a long time because life is good but not exciting. I am still working three days a week at Yale School of Medicine doing some teaching and a lot of administration in the cancer center. We just built a new building for $460 million and call it the Smilow Cancer Center. It is sparkling and December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 13

16 CLASS NOTES new and very uplifting (a bad pun for those in the know Mr. Smilow made his money as CEO and a big stockholder of Playtex, a manufacturer of bras). Over the Memorial Day weekend, Ina and I had the opportunity to attend my 55th Harvard Medical School reunion, and we had a wonderful time seeing old friends, median age 80, but most of them did not look that old. Either it was good living or the one-third who were no longer living and the one-sixth who were unable to make the trip to Boston due to ill health or the ill economy. We send good wishes to all of you for a healthy and happy New Year. Another long-absent writer, Dave Muhlenberg enclosed a clipping from the MIT Alumni Review reporting upon the death of Dennis Gorman in January. Dave and his wife Margitta went on a two-week tour of Peru and the Galapagos, and having survived all of the high altitude in Peru, Dave must be in pretty good shape. Dave had two successful cataract removals upon his return from the trip and reports that both he and Margitta are in good health. Cap n Herb Poole writes from Maine that he will make every effort to be at the 60th and looks forward to seeing everyone. Tim Blodgett wrote that he and Becky summered at Kezar Lake, Maine, as is their wont, with children, grandchildren and sundry others passing through from time to time. After Labor Day they were off to the West Coast to see relatives, followed by a ferry ride to Vancouver to join a Williams excursion led by John Hyde 52 to the Canadian Rockies to view the incredible fall foliage. Fraser Moffat regrets not being able to be at the mini, but he attended Homecoming Weekend with his son Philip 86. Fraser still maintains two homes, one on each side of the Pond, and is helping his son bring solar power into schools and institutions. MASS MoCA is one example, and the University of San Diego is the big success. In addition, two school districts in Pennsylvania now have signed letters of intent. Fraser sends his greetings to all, and he hopes to be at the 60th. After four aborted efforts, Bill Paton s finally came through. Bill reports, They say we don t have seasons in Florida, but I play tennis every Monday, Wednesday and Friday 52 weeks a year. It s interesting to be bundled up with scarves 14 Williams People December 2010 and gloves in Jan/Feb with the temp in the 30/40s, and to sweat it out in Jul/Aug when its already 85 at 7:30 a.m. I see Malcolm Frazier from time to time at the University Club of Winter Park. We chortled recently over Forbes ranking Williams #1 in the U.S. ahead of all of the Ivy League and all others. Who could have known? How come I haven t seen any financial benefits of that at Starbucks or Tiffanys? Don t they know who I am? The class 50th reunion gift continues to reap dividends. Tom Kent received a letter from a Williams economics major in the Class of 12, thanking us for sponsoring his internship with Microfinance Transparency, a nonprofit organization which operates over the web and whose mission is to provide transparency in the microfinance industry in order to promote competition and remove unethical behavior in the market. The student writes, I would not have had this opportunity without your combined support to the Alumni Sponsored Internship Program and hope to be able to help another Williams student have a similar opportunity. Many thanks. Alec Robertson 52 was kind enough to send me an article that appeared in the Sept. 7 issue of ACFR News Group, written by Don Gregg, commenting upon former President Carter s recent visit to North Korea which resulted in the release of a U.S. citizen. The article is too long to print in its entirety, but I would be happy to send a copy to anyone requesting one. In the article Don discusses various facets of the U. S., South Korea, North Korea and China interrelationships, and in particular the impact thereon of the explosion and sinking of the South Korean Navy frigate Cheonan in March under mysterious circumstances in the Yellow Sea. Among Don s observations are the following: Former President Jimmy Carter deserves great credit for traveling to Pyongyang and securing the release of a U.S. citizen, Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who had been sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally entering North Korea. We do not know yet whether Mr. Carter discussed the Cheonan issue while he was in Pyongyang. We do know that the former U.S. president is respected in North Korea for having had a friendly and useful conversation with Kim Il-sung, the first North Korean leader, in Thus it is likely that he did hear from the North Korean leaders their version of what happened. I believe that Mr. Carter, known for his independence and willingness to enter into controversy, may well have come back with more than Mr. Gomes. The insights he will have picked up from his talks with top leaders other than Kim Jong-il should coincide with an emerging realization within the Obama administration that its current stance toward the North, featuring sanctions and hostility, is having little positive impact, and that a return to some form of dialogue with Pyongyang needs to be considered. Pete delisser reports that in August he attended a networking event at the Princeton Club sponsored by the alumni office. It was attended by a large crowd of graduating seniors and mentors. Pete says, Amazing how everyone mixed naturally, joyfully and professionally. Students basically roamed the room and got answers about resumés and actual referrals for jobs. As a result, I have two participants working with me on resumés and possible referrals later. Pete is working on a new book of stories, which he hopes to have out in November. When he isn t being poked by one of his eight doctors, Jim Mcnerney spends a great deal of his time with his children and grandchildren. A graduation in June in Kenilworth, the family in July in Catawba (Lake Erie), 20 family members in August in Nemacolin, Pa., a trip to Madison, Conn., NYC and Long Island in September, the wedding of a grandchild in Dublin, Ohio, in October, and finally back to Naples for the winter. Sheila and Stan Hazen continue their travels. In May they drove to Asheville, N.C., to visit the Vanderbilt estate, Biltmore. They also visited a Cherokee Village near the Great Smokies National Park. In June they attended Sheila s 50th reunion at Northfield Mount Hermon School, where a classmate reminded her of the blind date she had with an Amherst man. In August they made their annual pilgrimage to the Berkshire Choral Festival. (How many of us would keep returning to the place where we first met our spouse?) Stan decided that this year, as a concession to age, he would not sing. The Hazens then drove to South Hadley, where they lunched with Betsy and Bob Bergen, whom they have seen each summer since they had been on the Williams

17 n cruise to the Low Countries in The Hazens wish everyone well and look forward to being at the 60th in June. On a sad note, we mourn the passing of Everett Smith, whose son Tom 88 is a chemistry professor at Williams, as well as the death of Gordon Clarke s wife Karen. Our deepest sympathies to Ev s wife Sandra and the family, and to Gordon and the family. Let s make every effort to have a super turnout for our 60th, which will be held June Make your plans ASAP. It will be mid- December when you read this, so enjoy the holidays and have a healthy and happy New Year Alec Robertson 3 Essex Meadows Essex, CT secretary@williams.edu With thanks for your replies, I am pleased to have received a number of very positive notes. The Robertsons had a wonderful summer in Sagaponack, N.Y. Mary Lee had an 80th birthday party for me, including all of the family except for daughter Gillian s husband, who couldn t leave the farm in England, 17 all together! Also, 80 of our closest friends. It was a blast! President Fred Goldstein chimed in that he and Ed met for a play dinner at O Neal s in June, a block from Lincoln Center. On hand was the author himself Pete Gurney along with his wife Molly, Ben Heilman, Robin and Ted Withington, Gerri and Frank MacManus, Priscilla and Jack Taylor, Ann and Doug Foster, Jacquie and Don Martin, Rick Jeffrey, Joan and Paul Doyle, Joan and Jim Manning, Marigold and Bob Bischoff, Nicky and Paige L Hommedieu. Fred wrote, After a wonderful dinner we moved over to Lincoln Center to enjoy Pete s new play, The Grand Manner, about Pete meeting Catherine Cornell back in It stars Kate Burton in the title role with an excellent cast. It was terrific, and, as usual, Pete s writing was outstanding. In early July, we drove to Williamstown and picked up Emily Kraft to drive up to the Adirondacks and spend three wonderful days visiting with Nicky and Paige L Hommedieu. Lots of laughs, great food and tours of the area. Emily Kraft also joined Ann and Doug Foster, meeting us in late August for a wonderful Sunday afternoon on the lawn at Tanglewood. The Boston Symphony and Tanglewood Chorus were terrific with Beethoven s 9th. Although Jim Manning and I decided four straight days of golf were a bit much and did not participate in the alumni golf weekend this year, we did get together in Norwalk and Stamford for a number of rounds during the summer. Age takes its toll. We were looking forward to one of the biggest minireunions ever, based on early returns to the mailing. We are very pleased that Elliott Bates, who joined our freshman class in 1948 but graduated in 1955 after being an Army lieutenant forward observer during the Korean Police Action, has asked to be reclassified in Welcome back to the fold, Elliott! It s tough to lose two roommates, Dick Kraft and George Steinbrenner, in one year, wrote Don Martin. As you know, George named Dick Pusher because that was his job as center for the Williams football team, and it stuck. Henry Norton reports that he and Mimi planned to be at minireunion and later hook up with his grandson at Middlebury. Ted Withington spent most of the summer with complicated appendicitis but is much better now 10 pounds lighter and two inches slimmer! He gave a talk entitled Soviet Triumph Medals of the Early Soviet Space Program to the New York Numismatic Club and received their Charles Wormser award. His grandson was to be married in September at the Trapp Family Lodge in Vermont, continuing their New England associations. Susan and I have just returned from a wonderful trip to Nova Scotia and PEI, replied Kent Barber. We did NOT escape Earl, as it found its way up the Bay of Fundy the day we were supposed to be there at the town of Digby. We left there a day early and returned to Halifax to wait it out. I haven t experienced a hurricane before. The wind and rain were extraordinary but fortunately short-lived. Prior to that the weather was hot there, much hotter than the forecast. We were fascinated by all the history and beautiful scenery that area offers. We highly recommend a visit to that part of Canada. Kent wasn t able to attend the minireunion, staying in California with a side trip to Colorado to see grandchildren for the fall. Hank James chimed in: It appears from the peregrinations in the last class notes that the liberal intelligentsia in our class are saying, I voted for Obama hoping to get the Bush car out of the ditch, only to find out Obama doesn t know how to drive. Not so intelligent, were they? Bill Hatch reported: It has been a hot and very dry summer here in Cleveland. Now that our grandchildren are growing older and have their own priorities we were not able to get them all together for a family vacation, which we have done for many years. Too bad, but time marches on. Pat and Bill were headed to Florida and so missed the mini. However, Bill said, hope to visit the east next summer. Marney, David s youngest daughter, is off to the University of Denver for her freshman year, and Bill s two boys are in their junior and senior years in college, one at Vanderbilt and one at John Carrol here in Cleveland. Kelley has a boy and girl, 12 and 15, here in the local Chagrin Falls school system nice to have them around to follow their sports activities. I am still playing golf and tennis, but the quality of both is rapidly deteriorating. Just returned from a fabulous stag week of golf on the Big Island in Hawaii, gleefully stated Ray George. I am still up north in the Chicago area. I have played golf with Bob White and see John Montgomery and Pete Pickard regularly. Ben Heilman sent a friendly message from North Carolina: I am blessedly in good health. As far as peregrinations are concerned, I made it to Pete Gurney s play a while back, and it was great to see so many classmates. Aside from that, my most exciting peregrination recently was a trip to Park City, Utah, to visit my daughter and family. Included was a float fly-fishing trip down the Green River through Flaming Gorge great fishing and magnificent scenery. Otherwise the usual sailing and poking around on the beautiful Chester River. I spoke to Pete Ingersoll on the telephone. His new hip is now quite comfortable, although he has no intentions of getting back on the lacrosse field very soon. His gold and uranium projects are perking along, and he holds firm faith in the continuing strength of gold in the market. Looking back on the summer, reminisced Rick Wheeler, Betty Ann and I would have to say that it was a wonderful preparation December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 15

18 CLASS NOTES for the celebration of our 60th wedding anniversary on Sept. 9, which has occupied most of our time since you wrote to us. There were a number of gatherings of family and friends. It was memorable. One thing that will never be forgotten and for which we send our deepest and joint thanks to all of you in the Class of 1952 who were on hand to welcome us to Williamstown for the first two years of our marriage. Bruce Campbell wrote that he and Fran left their retirement home in Tennessee to move to Seattle, closer to their daughter and two grandchildren. They hoped to spend the summer in Rhode Island. They welcome visits from classmates living in the Seattle area or passing through. There have been numerous tributes to George Steinbrenner since he died in July, and none more fitting in my opinion than Fay Vincent s 60 comment quoted in Williams Alumni Review. There was a more public (47,000- odd fans) memorial for George at Yankee Stadium on Sept. 20, with his entire family plus Joe Torre present. A plaque was unveiled, and kind words were spoken. We are all privileged to have known George and to have enjoyed him as a classmate. In addition, I am sorry to report the passing of Bruce Brackenridge and Charley Dinkey. Their obituaries are in this issue. Bruce was a cyclist, golfer, skier and contrarian, had a distinguished career with JP Morgan, served on several boards, and in retirement focused on the Enlightenment, living in France six months of the year. He is survived by his wife Barbara, three children and seven grandchildren. Charlie Dinkey was a financial planner in Florida and left four children, four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Mary Lee and I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving and wish you our sincere compliments of the holiday season Stephen W. Klein 378 Thornden St. South Orange, NJ secretary@williams.edu Janice and Bill Kimbrough went East in July for a family reunion and along the way had nice visits with Joy and Walter Flaherty in Norwood, N.J., and old philosophy major colleague Joe Fell and his wife Judith in Lewisburg, Pa. Joy and Walter took the 16 Williams PeoPle December 2010 Daniel Kleppner 53 (second from left) received a Bicentennial Medal from Williams President Adam Falk (in purple) on Convocation Weekend. Also pictured are fellow medalists (from left) Joshua M. Kraft 89, William H. Eddy Jr. 49, Camille L. Utterback 92 and William E. Spriggs 77. Kimbroughs on a trip to West Point, where, since Joy had no photo ID, they could not get in. Bill explained that Joy was from Arizona, where it was said you didn t need any ID. This cut no ice at West Point. Joe, of course, was chairman of the philosophy department at Bucknell and is still (in the spirit of J.W. Miller) developing his own philosophy. Joe had a room dug out when adding to their kitchen that Bill said is a magnificent, sound-proof music room. The visit was a lot of fun, but Bill says that unfortunately he did not leave with a new, fresh comprehension of the Mid-World. He does believe Joe will at last come to our 60th class reunion and also mentions that he and Janice would welcome visits from each and all in Lexington, Ky., in the summer or Clearwater, Fla., in the winter. Peter Sterling and his venerable Volvo made the round trip once again from Houston to Carbondale, Colo., home of Bobbye and Bob Tucker for an excellent visit (albeit with no hunting) and also attendance at the annual Ephmen on the Rocks in Aspen, where George Hartnett has been a pillar of the event for many years. David Palmer competed in the annual Alumni Golf Tournament and reports his team did not finish last in their flight. They did however bow to the team of Nettie and Harry Houghton in a nine-hole match. Over the summer Barbara and Bob Howard spent some time with Linda and Bill Williams and Polly and John Pike in Vermont. Stan Miller has a place within walking distance of Canada, also in Vermont, but apparently an appropriate distance from civilization. Frederick Eames 70 sings with Oakley Frost in the Albany Mendelssohn Club. It occurred to him that Oakley might be too modest (he was) to report that he was the honoree at Dr. Oakley Frost Day in North Bennington on Aug. 8. Fred thoughtfully mailed to me the flyer and program of events, commenting that it was a wonderful celebration for a man well loved and respected in his community. Oakley retired in He is active as a member of the Sage City Symphony, The Union College Symphony, a Thursday night string quartet, the Mendelssohn Choir Club, the Sage City Six and the Frosty Four. Other interests include the Bennington County Beekeeper s Club, The New England Tropical Conservatory and Rotary. Dan Kleppner was honored at the Sept. 25 College Convocation for his distinguished contributions to education. Many of Dan s honors, awards and achievements have been chronicled in previous class notes, but it has not previously been mentioned that he is director of the MIT Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms! It should be noted that while our president John Dighton has long been recognized as a patron of the arts, more important is his devotion to the Williams College men s basketball team. With the Ephmen competing for the Div. III

19 n championship once again, John recruited son Chris, son-in-law Gary and grandsons John and Matt to accompany him to the Final Four competition in Salem, Va., where the Ephs were edged out in the final but, as John said, covered themselves with glory. The Oct. 1-3 minireunion, according to best mid-september estimates, was to have no fewer than 41 classmates and wives. Preparations by Peter Connolly and Todd Mauck assured another memorable gathering. Mike Lazor s freshman granddaughter Kathleen Elkins 14 is playing number three or four singles for the Ephwomen s tennis team. Her match at Amherst gave Mike an excused absence from Williamstown that Saturday. Marge and Slim Harkins are coming in from Dublin, Ohio, for their first mini ever. Pictures, commentary, etc., can be seen on Bob Howard s Class Bulletin Board soon after the weekend. Don Marshall died on May 28 following a fall. Don had been for more than 40 years a respected and admired professor at the University of Minnesota School of Law. He frequently won awards as most outstanding professor, etc. Joe Worthington, who was a Garfield Club waiter with Don while at Williams, had sent on the obituary from the Minneapolis Star Tribune and some other information. Joe had reconnected with Don when business and other matters took Joe to Minneapolis several years ago. Joe said what high regard Don was held in and the lasting impression he d made on the legal community. When he retired in 2005, alumni, colleagues and friends created the Donald G. Marshall Scholarship to honor his challenging, inspiring and principled teaching. Predeceased by his wife Gerry and a son, he is survived by three sons and five grandchildren Al Horne 7214 Rebecca Drive Alexandria, VA secretary@williams.edu First, the good news. At the end of July, Sonnie and Bob Murdock flew to Rhode Island to see Ed Mauro tie the knot with Karen Adams. The new Mrs. Mauro, it turns out, has been the news anchor of WPRI-TV, Providence s Channel 12, since Three weeks later, she announced that she would retire at the end of this year. So the Providence Journal ran this headline on its front page: In 2011, no Karen Adams at 6 and 11. The story, forwarded by our Rhode Island correspondent John Miller, quoted her as saying she plans to travel with her husband, retired businessman Ed Mauro. Ed, as you know, had lost his beloved wife Jan in He s still active in the Golf Foundation of Rhode Island, which he organized to build and operate the Button Hole Short Course of Providence to teach his favorite game to disadvantaged kids. Congratulations, Ed, on finding a new partner. More good news comes from Ohio, where Dick Hollington is once again a member of the state s House of Representatives, appointed last winter to fill a vacancy. Close followers of Holly s career will remember that he served two terms in the state house from 1967 to His return was welcomed by the Republican leader of the house, who noted his experience with the legislative process, his legal expertise and his background in banking combined with his enthusiastic personality. Alas, he didn t run for a full term in November. Unfortunately, there was also bad news. We ve lost two more classmates, Tom Stephens and Bill Weeks. Tom Stephens, who died in June at Waterbury Hospital in Connecticut, always enjoyed his trips to Williams and seeing all the 54 classmates, said his widow Bonnie, adding that he had planned to be at this year s June reunion. Tom lived in Denver and in Albuquerque before returning to Connecticut to help look after his mother. In his last years, he worked part time with his wife as a trade show coordinator at Branson Ultrasonics in Danbury. Bill Weeks, who died in May in Hopewell Junction, N.Y., spent his working years, from 1960 to 1993, as an engineer and technical analyst at IBM, where he was known as an expert on circuit analysis and microwave theory. He was also an enthusiastic skier who pursued his passion for the sport in the Rockies, the Alps and the Dolomites into his 70s. His widow Ann reports that he really loved Williams and felt his days there were magic. Now for some international news. After we graduated, John Beard, Laurie Craig and Michel Balinski were roommates in Cambridge while John and Scorp studied at Harvard Law and Mike pursued a master s at MIT. This year they got together again in France. Here s John s account: The Craigs had bought half of what used to be an auberge on the Seine, about halfway between Paris and Strasbourg. It was a completely charming place and dates from the 15th century, if my memory is correct. They have quite a bit of land at least a couple of acres with an elegant lawn, and an outbuilding that has been refitted to serve as Scorp s office in the country and accommodations for guests. Michel came out to visit with us, and we five [with Molly Beard and Penny Craig] spent many hours together visiting some of the sights and talking about old times. Scorp and Michel retain their American citizenships and keep pretty close tabs on world events and on the role of the U.S. in world affairs. The three of us are barely distinguishable in our politics except that Michel shocked even Scorp and me with his solution to excessive compensation to executives. He would limit them to $250,000 per year. Period. Michel is still applying his math skills to the field of electoral reform, including the current effort to downsize the British Parliament. His latest book, cowritten with his colleague Rida Laraki, is called Majority Judgment: Measuring, Electing, and Ranking, and will be published by the MIT Press in March. Did you catch the reference to their work in a New Yorker article in July? Here s an update from Cut Umbach in Idaho: Twenty-five years here have seen us involved in teaching at College of Idaho; raising and using llamas to explore (and practice fly-fishing technique) in the amazing wilderness at our back door; consulting under the aegis of University Associates and then freelance for local nonprofits; Third World travel; a full-court press to get an ordinance bringing sanity to the motorized use of the mountain lake we live on the shores of; playing at political and arts activism; introducing our grandchildren to the joys of woods and water; skiing and sailing as often as possible; and, lastly, dealing with the inevitable ups and downs of advanced middle age. Bilateral simultaneous ruptures of the quadriceps tendon above each knee (brought on by taking Lipitor) were inconvenient and December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 17

20 CLASS NOTES disabling for a while, but that s mostly behind us now. Russ Carpenter reports that he and Mary Jo, and Emily and John Miller, drove to Rehoboth Beach, Del., on July s final weekend to help celebrate Ann and Al Horne s five decades of marriage. Way back in 1959 and 1960, he writes, roommates Al and Russ realized that the only way to escape Washington s summer heat was to flee to the Atlantic. So they rented a house two blocks from the beach in Rehoboth for three months each summer and found 24 others who signed on for half the weekends for $75 each. Al, who had started dating Ann, persuaded her to join up in 1959, and the next winter Russ, who had just met a new gal from Kansas City, did the same with Mary Jo. They were glorious summers. Everyone was reimbursed $12.50 at a reunion party in January. And this is the year for Al and Ann and Russ and Mary Jo to celebrate their 50th anniversaries and a friendship that has grown through those years. Bob Sullivan writes from Castle Rock, Colo., that there has been an enormous amount of growth in the area, including two new hospitals where I do volunteer work. Retired from his practice of surgery, Bob is taking a Denver University course on Aviation for the Non-Aviator, and he and his wife Bobbi welcomed Guy, one of their 12 grandchildren, as a freshman at Denver U. in the fall. Last April, they also had their first great-grandchild. Miriam and Ted Irwin report from New Jersey that our sixth child brought forth our 18th grandchild. (Is that a class record?) Furthermore, Our oldest grandson became the father of twins. Last winter, the Irwins add, they spent an absolutely fantastic week exploring the Everglades with 30 other assorted Ephs, spouses and widows on one of the eco-trips organized by Bob Behr 55. From Judge Charlie Sheldon of the Los Angeles Superior Court: My peers on the court keep asking me when I will retire. I answer, What about Justice John Paul Stevens, who did not leave the U.S. Supreme Court until he was 90? I think I am the oldest judge of the 434 on the L.A. Superior Court. I am not a potter, carpenter, stained-glass blower or artist, so it s up and go. That figure of 434, by the way, is not a typographical error. No other single court in the country, 18 Williams People December 2010 Charlie says, has as many judges. Brad Grinnell has moved to Illinois from Rochester, N.Y., where he had run the Grinnell Travel agency for many years. The travel business was fun, Brad says. I had a good time. But Williams, he says, was not a good time for him; he had gone there largely to please his mother. After graduation, Brad spent a year in NYC before returning to Rochester to join his father in the travel business. Brad and his wife Sue had two sons. Sue now needs full-time care for Alzheimer s, and Brad has an apartment in an assisted-living community in Vernon Hills, northwest of Chicago, near their younger son. From Wilmette, Ill., Ralph Smith reports: Cappy Adams, John Mabie, Jack O Kieffe and I are all on New Trier High School s 60th reunion committee, and all are healthy and retired. Hope to see you at our 60th Williams reunion. Denny Slater writes from Montana: I was sorry to miss our 55th, as Jane and I had such a good time at our 50th, but had to have extensive back and spinal surgery, all resulting from having polio at age 4. We are enjoying our retirement in the Bozeman, Mont., area, living on a golf course. If any classmates come to this area, please call us. Jack Smith, who has been spending summers in Canada and winters on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, reports that he has sold his house in Ontario and has put his Hilton Head house up for sale. He s moved into a deluxe retirement community on Hilton Head, Jack reports, adding that he s basically in good health. John Overbeck says he s now largely housebound after injuring his leg in a fall while working in his garden. The good news, though, is that the house he had bought in Washington s Capitol Hill neighborhood includes an elevator. That was a frill during the 30 years he was walking to work at the music division of the Library of Congress, but now it s a necessity. Finally, Sonnie and Bob Murdock saw their grandson graduate from Oklahoma State University in May but had to miss his commissioning as a Marine Corps second lieutenant. Tornadoes were heading our way, Sonnie explains, and we had to outrun them Charley Bradley 103 Meadow Road Briarcliff Manor, NY secretary@williams.edu Merce Blanchard writes, I recently read Mac Nelson s book Twenty West. It traces the history, events and notables associated with the longest U.S. highway. Mac s book shows that he is a historian, a naturalist, a geologist, a raconteur as well as an expert on Yellowstone National Park, where he has encamped extensively on nearly 30 occasions. It is a great and informative read that should be of interest to our classmates who traveled this route to Cleveland, Chicago and Milwaukee for the holidays. Carol and Dick Rahill visited us at Lake Kezar in July. Weezie and I celebrated the birth of our first grandchild in August. Beautiful baby Sophie and son Will are doing fine! Mel Bearns writes from Virginia with his update: Not a great deal to report over a summer that s broken all records for heat and humidity, and in Virginia that s saying something. Bill Prime and I continued Prime Time s journey from the Grenadines north, with a leg this time from Nassau to Spanish Wells, a great hurricane hole where she was to lie secure over the storm season. We d hoped to make it from Nassau to SW in one day, but that surely didn t work out. We had about 15 kts. dead on the nose and by mid afternoon were still a long way from port. Bill found a tiny little hunk of land on the chart which would give us some lee from the wind and a place to drop the hook for the night, so we altered course and headed for it. Sunset was called for at 8:02 by the GPS, and the hook hit the bottom just as the sun went below the horizon and darkness descended. Easy run the next day, and we made it into S. Wells by lunch time. We ran over 14 hours the first day, under power and sail, and averaged about two knots. As the saying goes, Gentlemen don t sail to windward. On a more scholarly front, daughter Courtney 07, who s been working in the Yale psychology lab to gain some real-world experience, [started] the arduous road to a PhD in social psychology at Princeton in early September. Deere and I are puffed up with pride and happy to have her closer to us. My younger son

21 n Stuyvie has been laboring at UC Santa Cruz and is now in the last stage of completing his dissertation for a PhD in a combination of sociology and anthropology. I m starting to feel like the knuckle dragger of the family. There seems to be no news, writes Molly Asher. I don t travel, I seldom see classmates, and the gardening and reading I do are weak on plot. However, your quote from Stu Kennedy s interview with Bray Redecker did strike a spark. The Indian from India was, of course, Anil Asher. He and Bray became friends freshman year and remained close until Anil s death. Bray bought a house in Williamstown and lived here with his family for a year while he served as diplomat in residence at Williams, teamteaching a course that wound up with a weekend game at Mount Hope simulating a diplomatic crisis in a mythical country called Al Jazira. Bray and Anil wrote that game at our kitchen table and took part with the students in the enactment. Bray later had it published and went on to develop this teaching method further for the foreign service. Besides the year he lived in town, he came to visit us several times for weeks at a stretch, decompressing on Williams tennis courts from the stresses of the foreign service. Jay LaFave reports, Carolyn and I are healthy and well and living in Shaker Heights, outside of Cleveland, in the house I moved into with my parents in Carolyn and I have raised six children in that house, three of whom later graduated from Williams. They are all well and busy with their own lives, which include our 12 grandchildren, one of whom is now a junior at Williams and another of which is her older brother who graduated from Williams about five years ago. The youngest, by the way, are twin boys, 6 months old. I hold the distinguished (I hope) title at IMG of vice chairman (ret), and although I have little to do with company operations now, I do go into my office every day and find enough to keep me busy for about four hours a day. I started with IMG in 1961 when we formed it, so it s been a long career. We sold the company to the present owners in 2004, and under their leadership the company continues to grow and prosper. For George Rounds, the focus EPHCOMPLISHMENT Roderick H. Willcox 55 was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America Willcox is an attorney with Chester, Willcox & Saxbe in Columbus, Ohio, representing clients in business and corporate law. this season has been home and family house maintenance, kids and grandkids and it has been a rich and rewarding time. Had the great fun of running the 53rd Annual Des Plains River Canoe and Kayak Marathon with my son Tim for the sixth time, with no intention of competing this time but rather just a great day on the river with his daughter and boyfriend. It was truly sweet. With the river seven feet above normal and stream flow at 150 percent of normal, it was a swift and smooth ride (no dams to deal with) with a measure of excitement around the fallen trees and tight turns. We survived. The new voice-over career has been a challenge with a down market and packed talent pool but nonetheless fun. And health-wise, regular yoga and a light diet has keep me at or near my college weight, and that feels great. The eyes I have macular degeneration appear to be stable still, though two months ago one side began to deteriorate. Quick and effective treatment (Lutesin injection for you eye docs out there) seems to have stopped, and in some measure reversed, the disease s progress, so I feel truly blessed to have such high-level treatment available within a 30-minute drive! Though I have to confess I miss the beauty of New England every day. Would welcome connection with 55ers in the Chicago area, but don t expect a golf game from this guy! Flying RC airplanes? Sure! Mary and George Olmsted report that they enjoyed the 55th reunion: A good turnout, high level of recognition, very friendly festivities planned by Pres. Bob. We have a special group of loyalties. Between Williamstown get-togethers we see Nancy and Colie Yeaw lots around Chatham. Both contribute much to the town in areas of conservation and preservation, history and financial management. Colie, Don Everett and I are in the same weekly bridge group. Betsy and Whitey Perrott came down from the mountains to play golf at our wonderful seaside course Eastward Ho!, and Don joins us when he s not officiating at PGA tournaments. (He s an awesome Rules of Golf guy!) Mary and I watch our grandchildren approaching college admission and wonder if any will fall in love with Smith or Williams. We ll stay tuned and supportive of their decisions. Dick Beatty reports the exciting news that the Class of 2014 (!) will include our grandson, Timothy Richard Beatty Cannon, who is the son of our daughter Alix 83 and her husband Bryan Cannon 83 and the nephew of our son Nick 88 all tracking back to the benevolence of Fred Copeland 35. Bob Behr reports on Sept. 28 that Dave Arbuckle lost his wife Julie in mid-september. They were/are both close friends of the Laitmans through high school and college. We extend our sympathies and condolences to Dave and his family. I also read Mac Nelson s Twenty West this summer and much enjoyed it. Mac takes a few good swipes at the Burned Over district of western New York State in the 1800s, and gets very enthusiastic about Yellowstone National Park (and other National Parks), which I, as a Rockefeller maven and enthusiast, really appreciated. A Great Read and a good history lesson. Buy and read it! I spoke to several spouses at the 55th reunion about the absence of their husband s names in previous issues of Williams People, and many promised to write in the future. Don t want to embarrass anybody by using full names, but, Hey Maria, What about Dick? 1956 REUNION JUNE 9-12 Vern Squires 727 Ardsley Road Winnetka, IL secretary@williams.edu Once again I must start an article with the sad news of the passing of classmates, three at the time of this writing. John Taylor lost his battle with pancreatic cancer in August. A huge crowd was present at the memorial service, including seven December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 19

22 CLASS NOTES representatives of the Class of 56: Mary Clare and Bill Jenks (who served as an usher), Toni and Ken Harkness, Martha and Bill Merizon, Paul and Tink Campbell, Laurie and Bill Troyer, Judy and Vern Squires, and Ausrine and Bill Kerr. Bill Kerr delivered a touching eulogy centered on the theme Best Friend in Verse and Rhyme. I am sure Bill would be glad to provide a copy to anyone who asks. I am indebted to Tylo s brother, Dave Taylor 59 for these final thoughts: John G. Taylor passed away on Aug. 8, while battling pancreatic cancer. Two days before his death, he spent the afternoon on the porch of his home in Glencoe, Ill., watching the best amateur golfers in the world compete in the Western Amateur Open. It was the kind of day he loved. The weather was beautiful, his friends and family were with him, and he got to watch top-notch golf once again being played at his hometown Skokie Country Club golf course. A gentleman s wager may have been placed on the outcome of the occasional 10-foot putt. John was an enthusiastic alum, participating in both the Chicago and Vero Beach, Fla., alumni associations. He was a person who loved people and loved life and lived every day to its fullest. John made friends wherever he went, and they remained his friends for life. He will be dearly missed by all. Another loss to the class was Dave Loomis, who passed away in July in Jerome, Ariz., after a full and varied life. After Williams, Dave received a theology degree (Union Theological Seminary) and a master s in human development (Harvard) and went on to serve as a university chaplain (University of Maryland), a pre-kindergarten teacher, a union organizer and a minister. In 1985, Dave moved to Arizona, where he worked with the developmentally disabled. Dave left behind his wife Deni, two sons and many friends and relatives. Jim Symons wrote a beautiful tribute to Dave entitled The World Cup: In Memory of Dave Loomis, in which Jim reflected on their friendship, which started as freshmen in September 1952 and continued for the next 58 years. The focus of the essay was their love of sports and competition in everything from golf to chess to horseshoes. Their competition evolved into the World Cup, meaning that if either of them won three meetings in a row, the loser had to come 20 Williams People December 2010 up with a fitting trophy for the winner. In July 2010, on the occasion of Jim and Marilyn s 50th wedding anniversary, Jim assembled materials for a public presentation of the World Cup Trophy. Space does not permit a complete recording of the event, but I will quote from the closing paragraphs of Jim s tribute. At the anniversary party at noon all 100 guests gathered for some skits, pictures and public greetings. Along with recognizing family and friends, Jim called Dave forward to receive his honor. With due ceremony the citation was read, and Dave was greeted with applause in recognition of his great athletic accomplishment. One week later, Dave died in Jerome. The cancer won over his physical body, but Dave s happy and generous spirit remains alive in the hearts and minds of his friends. I wish I could include the entire tribute in this article, but if anyone would like a copy, contact Jim at jimarsym@hotmail. com (or I can a scanned copy). Our third loss was Duane Batista, who passed away in late August. Duane served in the Air Force after Williams. Then, while a member of the Air Force Reserves, he was pulled out of Harvard Law School during the Cuban missile crisis. He went on to become a specialist in labor and employment law, settled in Wellesley, Mass., and became active in local government there and in Mount Washington, Mass. Surviving Duane are his wife Jane, three children and four grandchildren. Three months before his death, Duane ed Buster Grossman and Tink Campbell to the effect that the medical outlook was not good, but he concluded with this positive message: The work that you and so many other of our class officers, past and present, and others in the class have done for our class and our College has been magnificent. You have my thanks and deserve the gratitude of everyone interested in the wellbeing of the College. Before turning the page on this sad part of this article, I will note that the number of classmates who have left our ranks now stands at 69, of which 23 are post-jan. 1, On a related but more positive note, I received a notice from the College that at the 188th Annual Meeting of the Society of Alumni held on June 12, 2010, Mary Clark and Kate Salmon were each elected as an honorary member of the society. A large influx of news arrived for this article, for which I am very grateful, including a great note from Tom Yankus. Paraphrasing would not do it justice: I just retired from coaching baseball at Choate for the past 52 years. They made a big deal out of the 502 wins, but my take is that a blind squirrel can win 500 in 50 years only 10 a year! I will continue to teach English until the students start to hoot me out of the classroom as not cool. My wife Julie is teaching three classes of chemistry at Choate, working in a dormitory and coaching the hurdlers and the thirds girls volleyball team. I am her assistant. My daughters Annie and Alex are both at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif. Annie, a junior, was second leading scorer on the water polo teams that captured the SCIOAC championship. Alex, a freshman, hopes to throw the javelin in the spring, to improve on her New England Championship toss. Regardless of Tom s modest comments, I think 500 wins really is a big deal. Dan Berman reported that all is well with him in Salt Lake City. Still actively practicing law, Dan opened his own office last January. Perhaps even more impressive was his trip to Lake Louise, Canada, for hiking with five of his six daughters. Awesome! And speaking of awesome families, Bill Latimer reported that three of his 14 (!) grandchildren are off to college. Jim McLamb gave me a fast thumbnail sketch of his career: Following medical school, orthopedic surgery starting with two years in the Navy, an academic position for three years, then 30 years in private practice and concluding with six years in hospital administration. Meanwhile, since 1980 Jim has been involved in a sustainable forestry tree farm and expects that activity to continue indefinitely. Jim reported five children, all doing well. Jim Paterson wrote from Sunsites, Ariz. (a few miles east of Tucson), his home for the past 10 years, although he and Jennine get back to Maine every year. Airport security is a pain, says Jim, what with two metal hips and a metal knee. Between the two of them they have four children who have produced 10 grandchildren (eight girls) plus three great-grandchildren. Linda and Bob Speath gave up the

23 n 1956 corporate life early and moved to Amelia Island, Fla., in Bob stays active with tennis, local politics and in many community organizations, while Linda swims, does aerobics and is chairwoman of the board of Florida State College at Jacksonville. They work traveling into this schedule and often see their Amelia Island companions Noni and Jock Duncan. Another Floridian is Ed Pitts. He and his wife live in Key West (Baltimore in the summers), where he works with borderline incorrigible kids in local schools, writes symphony program notes and does symphony program notes. Ed phoned Prof. Irwin Shainman shortly before his recent death to thank him for his gift of music; Ed recalled that he seemed so pleased, and I m so glad I had the honor of speaking to him. I am glad to pass on Ed s closing thought: Warm wishes to my classmates. I heard from Phil Raspe, a member of the class in but still viewed as a classmate, since once a member always a member. Phil went on to Franklin & Marshall College, became a CPA but became a victim of the demise of Arthur Andersen & Co. and spent most of his working years in the nonprofit field, retiring in 2005 from the William S. Paley Foundation. Besides his family (wife Carol, two sons and three grandchildren), Phil s main hobby is choral singing. For 20 years he has sung in a mixed chorus, and for 15 years he has sung with the Orpheus Club Men s Chorus in Ridgewood, N.J., for which organization he is now in his 10th year as treasurer. Rick O Toole is now in his 11th year of retirement as a solo internist. He and his wife actively manage seven acres around their house in the hills overlooking Ashland, Ore. Fishing and traveling are important parts of their lives. The traveling involved a trip last spring to Vero Beach, where he discovered that Vero is kind of Williamstown South with so many Williams alumni (including numerous from the Class of 56) living full or part time there. A nice note came in from Andrea Dubroff, who was communicating on behalf of Mike Dubroff. Despite a severe stroke eight years ago, Mike remains cheerful to this day and has substituted viewing sports for participating in them. (Mike was down to a seven handicap at the time of his stroke.) Mike and Andrea celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2009 and continue to manage their business of developing and managing hotels. Andrea noted that Mike always refers to his years at Williams as the best four years of his life. He would enjoy hearing from any classmate who has the time to write to him at 16 Witchwood Lane, Edgartown, Mass or by to Andrea at andreadvnyd@aol.com. Although in his post-retirement years, Jim Davie is still at work, this time in an effort to launch a new soft drink called Afterparty. He just signed up his first three, distributors but he added, I have a long way to go. Art Hyde is retired and living in beautiful Buffalo, N.Y., where, as he noted I love this phrase Eastern sophistication meets Midwestern charm! He enjoys travels in and out of the U.S. and has had some memorable times in Arizona with Jack Carter, Ed Amidon and the late Dave Loomis. Art loves music, with an eclectic taste: classical music and cowboy western. Charlie Dow retired about a year ago, although, sadly, it was not entirely his idea; his job disappeared. But at least that freed up time for Charlie and Martha to do a river cruise in Europe, a trip to Cooper Canyon in Mexico, and they were off to Turkey in the fall. Charlie is still active with the Porsche Club, taking in many of their events, but he closed with the wistful comment that, I must admit I am getting tired of not having a job of some sort. Ed Noyes has returned as a battle-scarred veteran from a quadruple bypass and two complete full-hip replacements. Ed is developing a sports video website. Check out the seven-minute pilot at and watch its development over the following months. Meanwhile, he and Ann are proud of the accomplishments of their children. Megan is digital programming manager for Simon & Schuster in NYC, and Ned has performed in Amadeus in Rochester and in the off-broadway production of So Help Me God. Another upbeat note came in from Nick Sterling. He and Mickey both retired in Two years later they rented a place on Pine Island, Fla. (near Ft. Myers), and subsequently bought a house on Pine Island to get away from the cold New York State winters. They enjoy a lot of walking, biking and kayaking, but they do not entirely escape snow; they head for 10 days at Steamboat Springs every winter. Summers are now spent at Blowing Rock, N.C., where they are active in the local hiking club. The really good news department: Mickey and I are both in excellent health and, hopefully, will maintain this state for the foreseeable future. Sig Balka continues to make available works from his magnificent collection of art, with two shows in October, each consisting of 50 items. One show is at the University of Richmond, and the other is at Hebrew Union College. Sig is part of a group working to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Jewish Religious Center at Williams. The group will sponsor a yearlong festival of the arts and will be publishing a book on the Jewish community at Williams from 1870 to date. I was delighted to hear from Dick Duckoff, from Manchester, N.H., who reported that his health, faculties and energy haven t changed that much over the last 50 years. (Must be the New Hampshire climate. I say that only because Manchester is not far from where I grew up). Mike is happily married to Diana and, for the last 30 years, has followed, with excellent results, the visionary insights of his father: That the road to true happiness is to become involved in every aspect of the community. Dick concluded with this thought: The divisiveness that so consumes our country today greatly concerns me. The Sept. 7 issue of U.S. News and World Report ranked Williams #1 among national liberal arts colleges. I thought the closing paragraph of the write-up on Williams was a nice way to close this article. Talented, highly motivated students and faculty from across the country and abroad gather in the natural beauty of Williamstown to create a community of learning that is both personal and powerful. Personal are the bonds that grow among faculty and students in the classroom, lab, theater and studio and through an endless array of extracurricular activities. Powerful are the learning that results, the impact Williams students go on to have on the world and the strength of their lifelong attachment to each other and to the place. December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 21

24 CLASS NOTES 1957 John S. Pritchard 150 Candlewood Drive Williamstown, MA Williamstown is hotting up with end of summer, changing colors and return of students, fall sports and nonstop events which make me think younger but restrict movement. Wish you were here to also enjoy the Berkshires during late September. Plans for our Oct minireunion were well under way, and I will report on events next time. We hoped for a record turnout, and thanks to Pete Fleming, Sheila Mason and alumni staff, the agenda was terrific, with faculty seminars, tailgating with other classes and dinner with scholars and summer interns. Lots of good news this time, starting with Penn Charter School honoring Joe Perrott by naming an athletic field after him for his many years of teaching and coaching lacrosse. His brother Whitey 56 ed me, and we agree with the plan of getting Joe back on campus next spring for Williams lacrosse games. John Sudduth reports that Jim Lund (aka JRock) hosted a pleasant boat ride on Highland Lakes, Maine (near Bridgton), for Pete Fleming, Merce Blanchard 55, Suds and wives the end of August. After the cruise, we all dined at Camp Wyonegonic on Moose Pond, owned and operated by Carol Sudduth, widow of George Sudduth 59. We all enjoyed a fine, warm day in the woods and on a beautiful lake in Maine. The Pritchards have fond memories of Camp Wyonegonic, as daughter Sarah worked there in her teens.news from our former Spring Street Stomper Bob Ritter, who writes, Laurel and I just returned from our ranch in Minnesota after six weeks with about half of our 20 grandchildren in attendance. No it s not my memory they keep multiplying. A week ago, I would have told you our eight children were finally finished with babies, but we just got word that a baby girl from China is expected. That s been a hard slog, as the Chinese really slowed down the adoption process with the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics in order to avoid being perceived as a country that exports large numbers of girl babies. Anyone applying now can expect to wait at least seven years. I continue as CEO 22 Williams People December 2010 of InsMark, a computer software developer/publisher company I founded in Business is good although new business is off some from recent years as the slowdown has trimmed us a bit. We have 30,000-plus licensees for our software, and fortunately our monthly service fees exceed our operating expenses by a pretty good margin. I have dropped most marketing and am spending most of my time as creative director a function I really like. We still enjoy our place in Owl s Head, Maine, where we usually spend June and October, and home remains in Alamo, Calif. One musical note, since my lip is shot and playing the cornet is no longer much of an option, I play some piano, but still my favorite instrument is the baritone ukulele. I enjoy writing songs for the multitude of grandchildren you should hear The Ballad of Fatty Watson, the story of a bully who beat me up regularly when I was a kid and how I got even. Another favorite is Fred the Frog. Our thanks for the update. And for those of you who would like the lyrics to Fred the Frog, I encourage you to be in touch with Bob directly. Charlie Simpkinson wants to know why no one has ever heard of Williams, even though it has been No. 1 in the U.S. News & World Report ranking of colleges. When I was applying to grad schools, I was asked more than once if Williams was an accredited school. When I did some recruiting for Williams at local high schools, it was the same situation. They had heard of Amherst. Why is this so? Charlie, you are not alone in feeling this way, but don t forget how Amherst was founded by stealing our faculty and books back in 1821 and setting up down state. They even stole our color purple, although it looks faded. I wish you could compare the two campus scenes, athletic programs, music, theater, etc. They compete, but at best are a distant No. 2. Now that represents a unbiased point of view from a local resident. You might suggest to this group that they check out the websites of both schools as a means of comparison, etc. Jean and Don Morrison write from Colorado, Now we watch our kids take their kids (our grandkids) to first year of college. Granddaughter Julie is off to Pepperdine in California on a scholars program scholarship, without which her parents would not have been able to afford this expensive, conservative school. Good fit for her and for the school. Pepperdine has a Christian heritage unlike the secular philosophy of most colleges and universities today. Jean and I attended the Kentucky Derby last spring with Road Scholar, listened to Derby history, toured beautiful 100- to 1,000-acre horse farms, spoke with a jockey about his trade, learned from a statistician about betting and toured the best equipped horse hospital in the world. We strongly recommend this fascinating trip and are not even horse people. Road Scholar is the new name for Elderhostel. Thanks Don. John Rogers is fortunate to have both of his children (now 42 and 40) plus five grandchildren living within 20 minutes of his home. On a sad note, he attended John Taylor s funeral service last July with a large Williams contingent. John ( Tylo ) had many, many friends and a lovely family. He as well as Ken Harkness 56 and Bill Kerr 56 have been members of John s church. The McKees enjoyed a weeklong family reunion in Sedona July 1 as a pre-birthday celebration of Ted s 75th. All four children attended with spouses and ninth grandchildren for hiking, swimming, tubing on the Verde River and just hanging out with lots of laughs. Last August, Ted and Barbie visited daughter Betsy and son Philip. Betsy s oldest is a soph at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo., a small liberal arts college of about 4,000 with a lovely campus on a mesa overlooking the town. Her other two boys are in HS and the eighth grade. Betsy s book, How To Be A Zen-Mama, continues to sell countrywide. Betsy takes after her mother, to be sure. Ginny and Brad Tips enjoyed their annual reunion of East Coast/West Coast families, this time in San Diego, where the famous zoo was a special attraction for all the grandchildren. Dee Gardner updates, Mimi and I just got back (Aug) from a splendid cruise with Rob and Kate Beebe on their yawl Acorn up the east coast of Nova Scotia. Earlier, Rob, Skip Cole and I sailed into Camden, Maine, catching up with the Scobles, which was great fun. During June in Honolulu, we had lunch with Duane Yee and Peter Glick 61, Mike s brother, and had coffee in Shanghai last April with Jim Blume 63 and John Newhall 55, who were on a Williams tour of China. Mimi

25 n took me to visit her birthplace in Fujian Provence, then back to Shanghai for a alumni reunion of her school where we met Meredith Yang 14, president of her senior class, attending Williams this fall. I have been working in the College archives researching the major changes at Williams from the 60s to present and will be developing an article or more sometime soon. Several Williams folk have contributed their memories and opinions and I welcome more. Also visited Nancy and Kurt Gardner 56 in Tucson, Deni and Dave Loomis 56 in Jerome, Ariz. last year, and unfortunately Dave died last July from cancer. Keeping up with our eight kids and seven grands is a full-time job, which we so enjoy. Best to all. Duane Yee enjoyed a June reunion with the Kirschners, and they visited Volcanoes National Park for four days to enjoy two hit and giggle rounds of golf at Volcano Golf Club and Hualalai Golf Club. Actually it was hit and guffaw but lots of fun and a great time. Welcome news from Bob Loevy, who writes, I am teaching my final full-time year at Colorado College. Next fall (2011), I will enter into the college s early retirement program with teaching responsibilities progressively reduced over the ensuing years. Cannot believe my 53-year career teaching at the college level is beginning to come to an end. I am looking forward to teaching American government during this fall s elections. It could prove exciting and interesting for the students. With more spare time ahead, I am looking forward to enjoying my six grandchildren, ages 1 to 14, whose home also is in Colorado Springs. Thanks, Bob for your update and continued good health to you. Kathy and I spent the first three days of our honeymoon in your lovely town, and after 51 years, our memories are like yesterday. Phil La Zier is providing the status of his trekking adventures with Lew Palmer and Joe Richardson. After graduation, Lewis Palmer, Joe Richardson and I (Delta Phi roommates) drove to Colorado for hiking some 14 thousanders. Joe left for his family in the Philippines while Lewis and I continued in Colorado and then Mount Whitney, California, and other western states. When Lewis was in Denver, I would occasionally borrow a T-33 from the Air Force and fly there. The next day, we would ski or hike the mountains. Lewis eventually moved to San Diego, but we have continued to get together; he gets to Sacramento and then we drive around the Sierras, sometimes using military facilities for cheap overnights. Lewis and Joe have had several hiking trips together, but never the three of us, until now. Finally, we ll all be together this September. At first, Joe and Lewis will drive up to Lassen Peak for a climb and great view of Mount Shasta. Then I ll pick them up for a few days of hiking the Sierras. Then we can share all of our medical problems. Many thanks Phil for your historic update. Our scribe Dick Towne is providing us with a historic account/ exchange with John Sudduth of the Alumni Review story about Professor Fred Rudolph 42 (now 90 years young) and history-lit seminar entitled AH&L He writes, Charley Keller and Luther Mansfield were intellectually intimidating to both of us. Fred was, as you (Suds) put it, approachable. My papers, like yours, were late and got marked down commensurately. Best of all was your comment about who were the few bright lights among our classmates: Dee Gardner, Dave Connolly. I d add two others (Jim Patterson and George Sykes come to mind I think they also were in the seminar). For the most part, however, as you said, When Luther was opening a session with Let s run up the flag and see who salutes it, Mr. Sudduth! the rest of us were desperately looking for a place to hide! None more so than I. I missed him at the Mohawk watching The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, where you found him but was there to watch For Whom The Bell Tolls the night before comprehensive exams. This allowed me to go brain dead during the exam and answer nearly every question with examples of things taken from the movie I d seen. Brilliant scholarship! Rudolph still gave me a pass. What an embarrassing performance. As you put it, the class motto among most of us might have been expressed as Better to remain silent and appear stupid rather than opening the mouth and removing all doubt. I may have gotten better at self expression with the passage of time. You have for sure! At least I can claim I wrote a piece longer than a term paper, my history of family and company recently reviewed favorably by Prof. Pritchard. Suds, thank you for the wonderful note and its memories of our student experiences. Before closing, Jim Lund lost his wife Lou Ann earlier this year and, with his permission, I would like to share some of his thoughts on her passing. Lou Ann died April 1 at the Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn, Maine. She was diagnosed with stage-4 non-small cell carcinoma of the lung a few weeks before that while in Florida. We brought her home to Maine for her final days. The condition was inoperable, and other than making her as comfortable as possible, there was no cure. On a brighter note, my old roomie John Sudduth attended her service at St. Peter s Episcopal Church here in Bridgton. I introduced him to our 80 guests at the after party and gave him the mike for a few minutes. John continues to be a great storyteller. He is also godparent to our daughter Jennifer Lund. Quite an evening after Lou Ann s burial in the memorial garden at the church. We were fortunate to have John with us. Hope all is well with you folks. Warmest wishes from the Berkshires, one of the top 10 venues in the world according to National Geographic. Also thanks to Pete Fleming for his leadership, including enlisting Tom Slonaker as our reunion chair for our 55th in 2012! 1958 Dick Davis 5732 East Woodridge Drive Scottsdale, AZ secretary@williams.edu Let s start in Maine, where the sun first rises. Phil McKean is still into plenty of competitive skiing and vies with a number of variously vintaged Ephmen. Phil continues: In April I skied with Charlie Hudson at Sugarloaf and we had fine spring conditions late there. Then my junior-year roommate Eric Butler 57 came to Maine from California, and we enjoyed a fine visit. At the Mount Holyoke reunion, which was Deborah s 50th, we connected with Sig and Dave Kane, Kay Byerly and Jim Hutchinson, and Ernie Imhoff 59 and Hilda. Later in June, Sam Jones and Becky Jones got together with us for lunch with beautiful views of boats in Rockland Harbor. Sam was picking up his racing sails, and we heard of their splendid journey to Egypt and beyond. December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 23

26 CLASS NOTES I m involved at the local hospital foundation, VP of a land trust, a local UCC church that s working for marriage equality in Maine and teaching and studying at a U. Maine senior college, where I m leading courses in anthropology, human evolution and religion. Recently our UK and California families have (of course) been in Maine to enjoy an amazing run of summer weather that encouraged sailing, swimming and ball games. I ve been learning a lot about World Cup and youth soccer from my 8-yearold English grandson. As Maine goes, so goes Vermont. Skip Martin and Nancy have had a busy summer. Tex Vogt spent a day with me here in Dorset when he returned to Williamstown for graduation in June. I see Rich Lombard regularly at our Manchester, Vt., club and we have played golf together a couple of times. Bob Guyett and Sue were our house guests for the mixed member guest tournament in August. They are fine, but we did not win any prizes. John Beard 52 and Sandy were also house guests. Skip and Nancy were also on Cape Cod and visited with four 55 couples. Skip keeps in close contact with Tex Vogt, Matt Donner and Whitey Kaufmann. Jim Becket recently visited Ray Montgomery and Shannon in Vermont and reports that their Choose Your Own Adventure brand continues to thrive. I hadn t been aware of that gem of an enterprise. Jim himself has been in Europe on five trips recently. The last was a symposium in Switzerland on Lake Victoria. Jim is finishing a documentary on the late climate scientist Steve Schneider. Jim has been at the forefront of the climate change controversy. He writes: The subject of global warming remains fascinating, especially the passion it arouses and how there s a correlation between political views and one s view on man-caused global warming. Hoax or end of the human species are the two extremes. The sun also eventually rises in California, and when Karen and I are near La Jolla we like to take in a breakfast at La Valencia overlooking the cove. We had the best of company in our Veep, Zeke Knight, and Jack Talmadge. Zeke is heavily into educational projects. He is founder and chairman of Summerbridge San Diego Inc. and has been operating this 24 Williams People December 2010 project for 18 years. It helps get at risk fifth- to eighth-grade elementary students excited about education and also encourages college students to go into teaching. Some of the Summerbridge alumni have made it to the Ivies. This is the cutting edge of education. Just for openers, just one new challenge this year was finding a sponsor to provide a breakfast for all the students, in addition to lunch. Zeke is also on the board of trustees at the Bishop s School in La Jolla and at Deerfield. As I recall Jim Stevens was formerly a trustee at Deerfield. Some years ago a friend in Tucson who was a brother-in-law of Ben Hull lent me a biography of Frank Boyden, the legendary head of Deerfield and long-time Williams trustee. A great read. Zeke and compadres were hoping the Padres could close strong this year. So did a lot of Zonies who see the Pods on their home turf and root for them as a back-up in the NL West. Jack Talmadge is up on everything local and national and follows UCSD sports, especially girls volleyball. Jack has discovered a Red Sox fan coastal pub owner who does a New England clambake in the summer. We ve had some sadness. Eric Malnic passed away on July 27 at his home in Altadena, Calif., after a long illness. Eric had a stellar career with the LA Times. He was a key part of a team which won a Pulitzer for its coverage of the Watts riots. He drove a Jeep in the action coverage with the credo keep moving, never stop. Even so, his vehicle took three bullets. He was later an ace aviation reporter, called the best in the country. One of Eric s fortés was merging stories from different sources. He was close to Otis Chandler, the majordomo of the Times for many years. When he retired it was with a thunderous spontaneous standing ovation of his colleagues. Martha s address is 1788 Homewood, Altadena, Calif., Ed Snyder lost his wife of 52 years, Marsha. She died suddenly at home on Lake Pontoosuc on July 30. Ed says Marsha was the creative inspiration behind the cinematic prowess of their son Zack. She ran the 4th of July fireworks show at Lake Pontoosuc. Bob Salisbury and Toni were at the funeral. Don Morse lost his son Chris to stomach cancer on Aug. 24. Chris was a prominent chef in the Chicago area. Don gave a moving valedictory and created a scholarship fund at the Kendall College in honor of Chris. Don and Csilla were here for quite a while before returning to Hungary. OK, let s come back to the state of our alma mater. Our treasurer David Grossman has moved his practice. He is now a member of the firm of Lawson & Weitzen at 88 Black Falcon Ave. in Boston. It is a full-service law firm, and David will continue to practice in his several areas of specialty. He can be reached at dgrossman@ lawsonweitzen.com. Lou Caplan had a busy summer. Lou and Brenda were in Barcelona for a meeting in June and stayed with their son who works for Doctors Without Borders. They were thereafter guests of the Pope, Lou being one of 12 specialists from around the world invited to participate in a conference on atherosclerosis. Lou was one of four stroke neurology specialists and the only one from the U.S. They stayed right across from St. Peters and were attended with salutes and great ceremony by the Swiss Guards. All this amidst visits by and to grandchildren; son Benjamin 03 just graduated from the Tufts Medical School and is a family practice resident at Boston University Medical Center. The Chet Lasells, the Walt Kastens and the Bob Youngs were together on the college-sponsored tour of Portugal. I understand they had a great time; who wouldn t in that country by-thesea with marvelously enhanced desserts. Down Maryland way Bill Dudley is happy for two reasons. First, his book Maritime Maryland: A History is now published. The review I ve seen ( vivid ) has enticed me. Second, as Bill says Donna and I have bought a home near Easton on Maryland s Eastern Shore. This is something we ve always wanted to do, and we hit the housing market just right, having sold our Harwood home in July. Their new address is 9949 Eagle Drive, Easton, Md Tel: ; billdudley@starband.net. Bill s book is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. I think Karen got my copy through Amazon. Bill Booth writes: Don Conklin and I rafted the Yampa River with other Williams alums, including my daughter Missi Goss 84 and her daughter, and other relations and friends. Great company,

27 n guides by Hatch Outfitters, and more than illuminating digressions on geology by Prof. David Dethier and his wife Nancy, who was a perfect organizer of obstreperous Williams men and women. You should a been there. The scenery was beyond all other river trips. In May Bruno Quinson and Minkie attended a Quinson family reunion in Paris. There were 70 first cousins there, some Bruno hadn t seen since 1948 and some he d never seen. Minkie more than held her own with La Française. They also took in the French Open at Roland Garros. I almost got Bruno s website right. It is com. Bruno s watercolor portfolio is beautiful. I focused initially on New England and France. Bruno does a lot of painting in the Berkshires and evokes them beautifully. Our other artist, Ben Foster, has been recently plagued by black bears and rabbits. Ben says he has learned to augment his height when confronted by the carnivore denizens of the Mohawk State Forest; Zay says they re a tad smaller than Ben portrays. The rabbits are eating Ben s crops of vegetables. This trouble in paradise! Ben does oils and acrylics, largely landscapes around Litchfield and around Lenox and Stockbridge in the Berkshires. He also does coastals and teaching on the Georgia coast in the winter. He teaches and paints on Jekyll Island and will show this fall and winter in Brunswick. Ben cites an old saw, Art isn t art until it s sold, it s just inventory. Not true, of course, but makes a point. I got this from Betsey Jayne Skudder: My daughter Lisa Jayne Sippel 86 and I played in the Alumni Golf Tournament in July we won our flight. This is a fun event. I have played in it before they do a great job. It s great to hear from Betsey, whom many of us first knew as undergrads. And any of you other honorary members, drop me a line. Some time ago I got a wonderful note from Marcia Schoeller, expressing appreciation for our class presence at the memorial for Karl. Bruno and George Vare convened a group to take in the play Office Hours by Pete Gurney 52 in early October. Tom Connolly and Whitey Kaufmann were there. Elsa Vare is with a group called Legal Momentum which was holding its annual convention in New York. George Vare was the subject of a column in that bible of the wine world, The Wine Spectator. In the July 31, 2010, issue, the longtime columnist and senior editor James Laube wrote about George and Elsa s Ribolla Gialla vineyard, the only one in Napa Valley. George tells me that when you see Ribolla, think reboiled; it was a specially purified wine deemed suitable for weddings and extraordinary occasions. In the delicate language of the wine connoisseurs, as put by Mr. Laube, It is deeply colored and rich, with floral-ginger scents and delicate peach and guava flavors. Mr. Laube says that for George, Ribolla is for the fun of it. He s part garagiste, part guerilla wine marketer a big league vintner who has found a quiet eddy in a deep, flowing river of mainstream wines. When Williams President Adam Falk was in the Bay Area recently, George and Elsa got to show him their winery. The Vares like our new president very much. When I got a message from David Phillips recently about living in Sausalito for 45 years, I got to thinking about distances between first and second homes. For Vero and other Florida folks, it s big miles, for Bob Young s hills-tomountains a bit less, Bruno and Matt Donner less yet. But David may be the winner he and Lore only drive 22 miles from Sausalito to Bolinas, on the coast. They can and do go at the drop of a hat. David says Bolinas has taken on a few airs lately, what with one of the Coen brothers and the actress Frances McDormand moving in. I understand Bolinas used to be called reclusive. The Carl Vogts and the John Buckners were there for a party on the 4th of July, and Chip Wright and Martha were to be there in late August and September. David marked 45 years living in Sausalito and more than that, I think, litigating in a tough venue. I don t sense much burnout in David. Steve Cartwright had an ulcer operation around Labor Day but has had a gangbusters recovery. Steve had to get his blood count up for the operation and says he has the blood of half of central Ohio coursing through his veins. He credits a great nurse for bringing him back so quick. I don t have any details, but I understand Steve Rose has a blog: With yeoman help from family and friends, Denny Doucette got Gretchen and himself to their summer home in Hancock, Maine. There s got to be a ton of tonic in that. And speaking of that part of the world, how about this cruise to Nova Scotia next year, complete with 58s favorite musicians! Truly an inspiration. Elections have consequences, and so does getting an item to your scribe. As a result of Jack Creden s observations about China, I looked for some reads on present-day China. One, China s Megatrends by the Megatrends author John Naisbitt, was a good first read; I m sure there are others. I quit taking Forbes a few years ago. There were too many rankings of billionaires, plutocratic athletes and entertainers. But I sometimes read it, and when I picked up a copy in August here was our alma mater ranked the #1 college in the nation, regardless of size, followed immediately by Princeton and less immediately by Stanford, Harvard and Yale. As you read this the Bowl Championship Series is about to produce a chorus of We re # 1s. Hey, we re #1 where it counts. Come fill your glasses up to all those many, many who have brought that about. I may have to try Forbes again Norm Walker 15 Vin Mar Court Rye, NH secretary@williams.edu Submitted by Dan Rankin: After the superb job Norm Walker has done cranking out these good columns for the last two to three years, he decided it was time for a vacation to recharge his batteries, and he s allowed me to have a shot doing this assignment. I picture him in the background reading this piece and wielding the red pencil. Please be kind, Mr. Secretary. Ernie Imhoff presented my first problem when he wrote he had serendipitously stumbled upon two books written by Williams professors. Well now, I had to scurry to the dictionary to find out exactly what serendipitously meant. Lots of definitions were cited, generally meaning making happy discoveries by accident. However, I developed a better understanding when it said something about searching for a needle in a haystack and finding the farmer s daughter. OK. Ernie said both December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 25

28 CLASS NOTES books, Gladly Teach by Bliss Perry 35 and Newhall and Williams College by Richard Newhall, are beautifully written and focus on the primary duty of an effective teacher at Williams, then and now to teach. Publishing, using Williams as a stepping stone, etc., are not what Williams needs or looks for when it hires its faculty members. How true. He said the Newhall book is still available, but the Perry book may be out of print and hard to come by. In response to one of the notes I sent out to 59ers, Marc Newberg answered at the crazy hour of 3:45 a.m., and Holly Cantus replied at 12:32 a.m. Correctly, I thought, I labeled Marc an early bird and Holly a night owl. Desiring to send me straight to my therapist, Marc sent me a note at 2:48 a.m. and asked, Night owl or early bird? Was Marc this contentious in college? He continues to appreciate the beauty of Williamstown and enjoys visiting the Berkshire Mountains. His sources have reported that in Greenwich Mike Grant has become one of the most sought-after bridge partners in town. Always the gentleman, Peter Bradley commented about a typo in one of my notes. It seems holler was spelled ar not er. That was no typo. I always thought holler was spelled like collar and dollar. He did take some pity on me and sent a copy of his very humorous book Full of Carp. That is spelled correctly. In the area of education I ve had some nice exchanges with Paul Frost, who is a yearrounder here in Maine (we of course head south when the snow starts to fly), and while he s retired from K-8 teaching he continues to teach Education in a Multicultural Society at the University of Maine. He also has helped create the first ever wilderness-writing camp for Wabanaki high school students from tribal communities in Maine. Bob Embry still serves as president of the A.S. Abell Foundation, which focuses on issues of urban poverty, energy and the environment and often distributes grants and begins initiatives to solve problems in the educational systems of Baltimore and the state of Maryland. With his retirement from teaching at Kenyon College last May, Kirk Emmert has thrown himself completely into his job as mayor of Gambier. The locals have been a little rough on him, and his recent back surgery has meant all lobbyists, contractors and 26 Williams People December 2010 complainers must ask for favors on the first floor of City Hall. And while Slate Wilson continues to teach the clinical portion of the anatomy course to 120 first-year medical students at the University of Portland, he s already rented a 52-foot sailboat for June 2011 to lead a trip through the Mediterranean, his seventh excursion. He s interested if any 59ers want to join him. Neptune tugs at the heart strings of other 59ers and often makes you question the sanity of those who go to sea. Pim Goodbody, who usually propels his crafts with oars, decided in early September to sail his 28-foot sailboat from the eastern end of Lake Ontario (Watertown vicinity) to the western end (Niagara Falls vicinity) to compete in a masters rowing regatta. He somehow bamboozled Buzz Van Sant to join him on this fun-filled, 200-mile voyage. After five days of battling high winds and waves, an expiring engine, numerous trips to marine mechanic shops, enduring some windless days, midnight sailing and a non-functioning GPS that put them in the path of freighters, they arrived at their destination St. Catharines, Ontario. I find it remarkable that they made it through customs; loyal friend Buzz never jumped ship; and Pim still managed to come home (that s another story) with three gold medals. Then there is David Thun. David and Barbara (David Boothby s sister) stopped here in Boothbay Harbor as they sailed from Marion, Mass., in their 37-foot boat to explore the coast of Maine. Even an impressive sailor like David can struggle at times on the sea. Here s his account of his approach to York harbor: Unfortunately when we picked up the mooring, I was not aware of the strength of the tide and ended up stopping the boat with my left hand jammed between the line and the cleat. When Barbara was able to back the boat down to release the jam, I could see clearly into the depths of my left index finger. The harbormaster, who was standing by in his boat, said, You must go to the hospital, and I will take you. Barbara agreed, so I was outvoted, and after cleaning and bandaging the wound, he went out of his way to take me to the York Hospital. I had a tetanus shot, x-rays and a great discussion with a lovely young nurse while waiting out the Sunday night emergency room rush. Eventually the doctor stitched David up on the gurney in the trauma room. Now here s the part I wonder about. Is David embellishing his story? When she finished she instructed the lovely nurse to apply a bulky dressing. Then she (the doctor) took out a tiny slip of paper, drew something that was supposed to represent a map, added her phone number and said we were invited for dinner the following evening. To top it off, she reached forward, rubbed my head as you would a youngster, and disappeared. Now come on, has this guy always affected the women this way? These episodes may not help Slate get his full crew for the Med cruise. Jerry Tipper doesn t shrink from ocean sailing as he and three friends headed out in late August from Boothbay Harbor despite the coming of Hurricane Earl. Jerry returned home safely. Brooks Marshall wrote from a boat docked in the Danube River in Vienna, where he and Michele were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. He does know how to live it up since they d already spent five days in Paris. Nevertheless, this exciting European sojourn could not erase an indelible memory from the fall of He plainly recalls Mike Shimkin signing up for French I his freshman year after living in France, while Brooks decided to start French I cold, no preknowledge of the language at all. This was not a fair game in Brooks mind, and the resulting grades proved that. Mike seems to remember the situation quite differently. He had visited France, not lived there, and he was just a good student who deserved the A s he received. Actually Mike says he should have taken Spanish since his career took him to Nicaragua and El Salvador, and he started a Spanish-language book company in NYC. Various classmates are on the move. Nick Frost and Patty have relocated from the hills of Bozeman, Mont., to the west coast of the Sunshine State in Port Charlotte, Fla. And now that Rich Moe has retired after 17 years as the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, he and Julia have purchased a second home in Santa Fe, N.M. Local resident Pete Fess Fessenden was delighted to hear that news and soon the old college roommates, Rich and Fess, were partying like it was 1959 again. The northern California crew also knows how

29 n to party, as Norm Cram hosted Bo Kirschen, Chuck Dunkel, Steve Weideman, Palmer White and North Carolinian Stu Wallace and their spouses in Sonoma, Calif. Apparently Steve s wine connections and Crammie s beer affiliations brought back memories of house party weekends. The traveling set includes Jim Reynolds and Janet, who went to Alaska in late June and spent two nights with Henry Cole and Susan in their remote mountain hideaway. What a wonderful place that is, and how nice to visit with an old pal from the Deep Purples. For those of you who don t remember, the Deep Purples were a seldom heard but excellent singing octet that performed offoff Spring Street. The word is Jim and Henry s chirpings brought delight to the creatures in the wilds of the Denali Preserve and roused Bo Kirschen and Janet to travel to Alaska. They, however, stayed on the cruise ship as it explored the fjords and coastline from Glacier Bay to Whittier in spectacular weather. Dick Lee and Sally joined the Williams alumni coastal cruise up the Norwegian coast from Bergen to Kirkenes. Dick said this was their 10th alumni trip and one of the very best. Bill Norris travel is more a migratory experience since he and Bua spend their winters in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in a house they designed and built, and for the remainder of the year they live in Northampton, Mass. While in this country they market and sell the goods of dyers/weavers from rural Thailand. Dan Fanning has been touring Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks with his younger brother Gus, and he continues to work on engineering studies for the departments of transportation in Rhode Island, Connecticut, South Carolina and Michigan. The news from the Chicago contingent is that Pete Willmott has two sons in college in California Matt at Stanford and Chris at The California Institute of the Arts. And David Earle has stepped down from his position as president of the Old Masters Society of the Chicago Art Institute. Apparently the Chicago Bears are pleased to have the raucous rooting of Pete and Tony Volpe at their home games. Dave Taylor and Scotty s lifestyle resembles ours. We re like the coming and going of the tide. They spend six months in the Chicago area and six months in Vero Beach, Fla., while we re six months in Vero Beach and summers in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Class Treasurer Tom Hayne joins the Vero fun for several months, and we get to see and hear his Williams Reunion Jazz Band with John Halsey on the piano once a year when they arrive in town. Mother Nature seems to be dogging Bob Platt. He reports he and Pam spent three months last summer in their Bozeman, Mont., townhouse, dodging huge hail stones (big, but not the size of grapefruit), which did a number on their house. He then traveled to Christchurch, NZ, just before the 7.4 earthquake hit. The Platts are now safe and sound in their Port Republic, Md., home. There are always the can t retire or at least can t sit still folks like Geoff Morton, who is in his 51st year of working in schools. He s returned to St. Edward s School in Lakewood, Ohio, as a part-time college counselor as well as being the college counselor for Fuchs Mizrachi School. He still manages to escape to his second home in Tucson, Ariz., and then make it to Florida for a visit during the winter. It s always a treat to see the big fellow when he comes south. He and I crashed the Class of 60 s 50th reunion in June and applauded with others as they gave the College a record $46 million. Bart Robinson and Ingela graciously hosted us for the weekend, and we briefly saw Jim Richardson and Barbara watching the alumni parade. Jerry Rardin and Sue enjoyed two summer trips to Williamstown, one to meet up with Don Campbell 60 and another to show off the campus to old friends. Always on the go, Richard Crews still cranks out an essay a day which he sends to happy recipients, voluntarily tutors high school dropouts, and serves on the Civil Grand Jury of Santa Clara County, Calif. His oath of secrecy means you can ask me anything to which he will answer, I can t tell you that. Cliff Colwell reports he s still working but has changed his focus to writing and renewing NIH and California stem cell initiative grants. He proved to me that he remains agile and can still swing the racquet as he and his physician son, Chris, made it into the quarterfinals of the National Senior Father and Son Tennis Tournament. Another tennis stalwart, Tom Davidson, is still lurking behind the video camera, recording not just Williams events but West Point reunions of classes attending the Point when his dad was superintendent. Tom promises his 10 hours of our 50th has now been pared down to two hours. And, finally, to show that doctors do take their own advice and stay active, Bill Arend has received two more awards at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He s been designated distinguished professor, and he s received the Presidential Gold Medal by the American College of Rheumatology. Alex Reeves is back seeing patients and has had neurology clinics in New England, Virginia and soon one in DC. Just as important are his worldwide fishing trips in hopes of hooking Moby Dick. I don t believe a day goes by that some clever note or story from Barry Mayer doesn t come my way, always good for a smile. I hope all of you will do the same and give me a holler anytime Michael Penner South Desert Bluff Drive Tucson, AZ secretary@williams.edu Greetings to the Class of 1960 from your new secretary. We all owe Ron Stegall a big thank-you for the excellent job he has done as class secretary during the past five years. His summary of our 50th reunion accurately captured the wonderful weekend! My first request for the class is to me your thoughts and impressions of the 50th along with any news about yourselves and/or our classmates. As for my reaction, the reunion far exceeded my expectations by a huge margin. I easily recognized almost all our classmates, so there were only a very few where it was a little more difficult to put a name to a face. My candidate for the classmate who had the best time is Ned Benedict, who wore a big smile for the entire five days. I am sorry to report that we have lost a classmate and friend. Tom Stewart died of a brain tumor on Aug. 25. Tom, a Navy veteran and amateur magician, retired from a distinguished banking career. I recently received a heartfelt note from Tom Tierney expressing his regret at not being able to attend the 50th. Tom reports that he has recently discovered that he has stage-4 pancreatic cancer and is undergoing palliative care. He has fond memories of his soccer and baseball games. He asked to December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 27

30 CLASS NOTES be remembered to his roommates Ed Eggers, Fred Schweizer, Jim Hartley and Jon Gilman and to express his deep thanks for the support they offered him at Williams. He s very grateful for the work of Win Healy and Jon Klem in preparing the reunion book, which has provided him with many hours of interesting reading. An unexpected pleasure for Sally and me was having lunch with Celia and Jeff Shulman at a NYS Thruway stop as we were heading back to the Midwest after the reunion. I was interested to learn that their son Douglas Shulman 89 is the relatively new commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. I m sure he ll stay busy with the new effort to regulate, test and educate previously unregulated tax preparers REUNION JUNE 9-12 Bob Gormley P.O. Box 3922 Westport, MA secretary@williams.edu 50 th As we continue our run-up to the 50th next June, I thought it would be fitting to offer a preliminary glance at some of the bios you sent to Tim Weinland for the 50th classbook to be. Norm Walker 59 (a good friend and fellow Swampscott High, Mass., grad) had done the same for his class, and it generated attention, mainly because he chose to feature some guys rarely heard from over the years. I love hearing from our usual suspects but, in the interest of showing our diversity and strength, offer some tidbits on others this time. It s also the only way we ll ever hear from some of you elusive gentlemen. I promise not to dig deep, since your bios were written for publication in the class book next spring, and I hesitate to steal your thunder or risk taking something out of context, but we re a pretty damned good bunch. Since we had 51 lawyers as of our 25th (or about 20 percent of the class), a sampling from that gang deserves top billing. Not just for professional accomplishments, but for overall contributions to society and culture. To wit: David S.J. Brown enjoyed a solid career as a DC attorney and administrator but also served for 19 years as board chair of the Washington Animal Rescue 28 Williams People December 2010 League whereunder thousands of shelter animals were able to find loving homes. I know: We have a rescue dog. Also, following the further teaching of St. Francis, Dave has been active in Catholic circles as a Knight of Malta and Patron of Arts in the Vatican Museums. Noyes Rogers, our man in Nebraska, stands out not necessarily for his lawyering but for his climbing the cultural heights. He has attended close to 1,000 performances of some 300 operatic productions all over the world, and nearly as many classical orchestra performances. He has also been a global architecture enthusiast. Now there s a guy to talk with at reunion. Bruce Chapin, an Orlando barrister, is a proud father of four ( No Ephs just three Seminoles and a Moccasin, all Florida universities) and another of our many fishermen. Wife Linda has been a force in Orlando politics and public service and is currently board chair of Orlando Health, the region s largest hospital system. Since Bruce has come to focus on mediation/arbitration in his practice and since his soph roommate John Simons does the same as an administrative judge in California, and since they re both fishing enthusiasts, I took the liberty of sending John a copy of Bruce s bio. Bruce fishes mostly out of their family beach place at Boca Grande, and John goes down annually after tarpon in the Keys. If they both came to reunion, a fishing venture could be arranged quickly. Jerre Swann, ever the Southern gentleman, has been with his Atlanta firm for 43 years and is hailed as a national leader in trademark law. John Leech has practiced in Cleveland since 64, where he has specialized in antitrust and healthcare law. He s also been a town mayor, a hospital board chair, been allied with the Cleveland Clinic and active in land conservancy. Since 95, he has run a growing healthcare consulting practice. Married to Pat for 50 years, with four daughters and 11 grandchildren, he vacations whenever he can with the whole gang of 21. Better you than me, John. Next comes a select group of scientists and academicians. Bill DeWitt is still at Williams after all these years, a molecular biologist who has found the good life in the Berkshires preferable to the big-time research universities. He had done his graduate work at Princeton and UC San Diego and a postdoc at MIT with an offer to stay there but Professor Bill Grant and the chance to help build a nationally recognized program for training pre-meds and future scientists drew him back. The College is grateful for that. He has been married since 73 to Mary Lou (Brady) 72, so he quickly realized the advantages of a coed Williams as well. Frank Darrow agrees too that his career was shaped by his undergraduate years and wanting to be like my faculty heroes. He did a PhD in physical chem. at Penn, then taught at Earlham and Ithaca until retirement in 04. He and Kathy were married in Feb. 61 and lived in the famous Barracks. Now they travel nationally in a motorhome and favor camping with grandkids, birding, biking and the good outdoor life. Eric Davis has been teaching English at the Commonwealth School in Boston for 39 years. A different sort of Mr. Chips who credits Clay Hunt, Don Gifford and Fred Stocking 36 along with classmates Henry Stabenau, Michael Sacks and Uldis Heisters for sharpening his critical skills, he says, Uldis answers my letters, Henry sends me books for Christmas, and Michael invites me and mine for visits to NYC and summer rentals. Ah, those college connections. He concludes, By a fine twist of fate, my daughter Theo is a prof at Williams (tenured, thank God.) David Ayres is a physicist, retired since 08 and living in Berkeley. After earning a masters at Cal he did a stint in the Peace Corps, then spent two years teaching in Nigeria before returning to Berkeley to complete his PhD (particle physics). He then spent 39 years at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Wife Kathy earned her PhD in cell and developmental biology at U. Chicago. Dave spent 15 of his Argonne years designing, building and using a 1,000-ton tracking calorimeter in Minnesota, one-half mile underground in the Soudan mine. I ll leave it there since only Jay Tarses and I (and maybe Tad Day or Chuck Taylor) really comprehend such heavyduty scientific research. Suffice it to say that Dave gave his brilliant career to serving the interests of science and society. Richard G. (Rob) Robbins did his PhD at Columbia in Russian history. From 1969 till retirement in 06 he taught and administered at U. New Mexico in Albuquerque.

31 n From left, 1961 classmates Pete Raisbeck, Fred Kasten and Van Schreiber met in Twin Bridges, Mont., for four days of fly fishing in August. He was back and forth to Russia for research over the years, published two books and his share of articles and now lives near San Jose, Calif. As he notes, he was in the USSR during the Soviet heyday ( 50th anniversary of Glorious October ) and again in 1990 with a box seat for the process of its unraveling. Interesting times, and another guy to talk to at reunion about something other than college memories. Walter Nord took a master s at Cornell and a PhD at Washington University, St. Louis, in social psychology. He was hired on to teach there in the business school and rose through the professorial ranks. After visiting years at U British Columbia and Northwestern he eventually moved to the University of South Florida in 1989, where he has been since. He has co-edited the highly regarded Handbook of Organization Studies and was named Distinguished University Professor at So. Florida in 03. Dave Wheelock caught my attention right away with his reminder that it s been more that 50 years since we saw, or thought we saw, Sputnik whirl above the Freshmen Quad. For Dave, it was an event that helped shape his future in ways not imagined then. He continued, I realized my esteemed professors at Williams taught me a great deal, but that my friends there taught me something much more important: To respect different opinions, ideas, cultures, interests and priorities, to listen and learn outside the classroom as well as inside it. Evidently, members of Congress did not have as good an education. He went on to teach math and science and coach for seven years at So Kent School. Then came IBM for 13 years along with moves to Dallas, Houston and Austin. He s now with Information Builders in software development and living happily in William Faulkner s Oxford, Miss., a great university town. Many of our banking and finance types may have been in hiding from federal regulators, or just not gotten around to writing up a bio, but I did manage to find a couple of stalwarts. John Leathers did a Columbia MBA, joined Smith Barney in 1965 and made a career of it. He is still active at CityGroup Smith Barney as senior VP but mostly acting as a financial consultant. He also kept up his tennis and squash, was ranked in NY s top 10 in the latter and played in the National several times. He and Della have been married 30 years, and daughter Joanne was Williams 05, while son Jonathan opted for Davidson and the south. Wayne Jackson first owned and operated a restaurant in Hamilton, Bermuda, then went on to a banking career with the Bank of Bermuda, where he was for 31 years until retirement as senior VP in 01. Now he has been lured back by the new owners (HSBC) to do what he loves best: trust and estate work. He is also a grateful pancreatic cancer survivor (15 years) and has kept faith and family at the center of his life as a result. He remembers especially friends at Williams and Bennington and pays special tribute to classmate John Palm, who we lost, sadly, a few years back. Bob Charles deserves to be featured here since it was through a connection at the Cluett Center (now Center for Development Economics, celebrating its 50th and the target of our class gift) that his career was launched. He was encouraged by Jivat Thadani, a Cluett scholar back then, to study in India after graduation in 61. Asia and development became the dominant threads of his career track ever since. He later became regional director of the Peace Corps in Northern Thailand for five years, and his children were born there. Back to the U.S. for his kids education and directing a Connecticut state agency (Low Income Planning Agency) for 10 years, then a chance to return as Thailand Peace Corps director in 82 for another five years. He is now in the process of gifting his extensive collection of Asian ceramics to the Wooster Art Museum, giving back to Asia something for all it has given me. Six homes, five books, four careers, three children, two wives and a partridge in a pear tree, writes Marty Linsky. I am a survivor, a serial re-inventor of my life and a very lucky person. And so it seems. He points to formative points in his life, beginning at Williams in 58 as coordinator of Silvio Conte s Congressional campaign against James MacGregor Burns 39. Marty emerged as a rising young star on the liberal Republican side (remember those days), while Dave Farrell rode the losing Burns horse and ended up heading for the priesthood. In 59, Marty studied with Bob Gaudino, who got him to realize that Spinoza or Plato were more about Linsky than about them: He was demanding, scary, exciting and deeply transformative. Taught me how to learn, how to teach and to take responsibility for who I am. Marty went on to a meteoric but brief career in Mass politics, then to journalism and academia as he studied and has since taught at the Harvard Kennedy School. Along the way he was an assistant to Elliot Richardson and later to Bill Weld, governor of Massachusetts. In 2002 he formed a leadership development firm, Cambridge Leadership Associates. He may be lucky, but he s also really smart and entrepreneurial. Thomas B. Williams grew up and has always lived around Bellport Village/Brookhaven on Long Island. He has also worked in the area of children and family services and land preservation for most of his life and feels the December 2010 Williams PeoPle 29

32 CLASS NOTES two are closely related. He was director of admissions for the School of Social Welfare at SUNY Stony Brook and director of the Experimental College at Stony Brook as well, and I count eight boards and local committees on which he served for the common good. Cheers to him. If this is not to compete with the class book itself, I must cut it short. Wish there were less interesting profiles. Jim Moore out in Carmel, Calif., notes that he has been a teacher, stockbroker, pilot, property manager and Pascal programmer. He was also once raped by a cheetah in Kenya in 72. Hope he shows at reunion to explain himself. Uldis Heisters has climbed mountains all over Europe and the U.S. and is in the habit of greeting every mountain ascended with an off-key rendition of the refrain from our alma mater. I like that. Jon (Jack) Heiser sent his bio literally in a word, in a stream of consciousness connected style that requires careful study but is quite revealing. You expected something straightforward from a California psychotherapist? Lastly, Bob (now Baru) Adler surfaced after many years to give a fascinating account of his circuitous life path since Williams. He started with a year of African studies and an MSW at Columbia mixed in with street gang social work for eight years. Burnt out, he wandered with his second wife and child, hitchhiking in the U.S., living on a kibbutz in Israel, camping on a Greek island and, finally, in the late 70s joining a nomadic international commune in northern California. Yes, it was that era. They resettled in Tepotzlan, in the mountains of Mexico, and founded an ecological community. Each family built their own house, learned to make furniture, lived off the land. He s still there, working as a tour guide and walking the land he loves. He s been in three marriages, has five children, one a Princeton graduate and investment banker in London, one an artist and art prof teaching at UC San Diego, one a poet who just graduated from Hampshire College and one, Dhyan, a junior at Williams! I will close by saying I look forward to being with all these interesting characters in I wish you all holiday joy and peace in the New Year. 30 Williams People December William M. Ryan 112 Beech Mountain Road Mansfield Center, CT secretary@williams.edu Happy 70th! Bonnie and I attended Steve Brumberg s surprise 70th party in NYC in July along with 45 others, including brother Len 65, son Josh 92 and Joe Bassett (with wife, Nancy). Unfortunately, there was no opportunity for Joe or me to relate to the assembly our many tales about Steve. Fortunately, there was no opportunity for Steve to rebut. You have heard of the 12 Russian spies who were deported by the U.S. government. What you haven t heard is that one of them, Donald Heathfield, was a friend and business colleague of our president, Spike Kellogg. Spike was as surprised as anyone. I never suspected he was anything but a Parisian with a Canadian passport. Just as a precaution, I m taking Spike s name off of our class bank account. We spent a beautiful summer weekend with Marjorie and Jay Johnston at Diane and Fin Fogg s lovely summer home in Quogue, N.Y. Jay is well along with his book about his legal battle and triumph over Richard Scrushey and expects to have a publisher soon. The three men played (note the quote marks) two rounds of golf over two difficult courses. Few pars, fewer birdies, but many, many fescue miscues. John Sargent has been named a trustee of the Cape Cod Symphony. Guess they ve never heard him sing. Sarge is building a collection of antique silver spoons. Who would ve thunk it? Check out the new feature in the alumni section of the Williams website called Every Person Has a Story (EPHS). Interesting and humorous anecdotes by alumni about their time at Williams. You ll see several persons you know. Midwest meanderings: Kent Collins spent most of his life in Dayton but now calls Hilton Head home. His father and Bob Nevin s dad were Williams classmates, and Bob s mother sold Kent their first home in Dayton. Kent spent a year at Inland Steel in Chicago and two years at the B School at Harvard before moving to Dayton as assistant to the president of NCR in 65. In 72, I decided I wanted to become involved in public service, and I joined the Kettering Foundation as head of their research function. It was a very rewarding experience. I was involved in so many disparate activities, from research to international affairs to urban planning. In 81 he began his own consulting operation, Collins & Co., specializing in corporate strategy and acquisitions, now run by one of his sons. I continue to be involved in a minor way. We have two family businesses, natural gas and college book stores. Kent married Sallie Morris in the summer of 62, and they have three sons, Greg 87, Scott and Chipman. Chipman is named after our own Chip Black, who, in turn, has a son named Kent, named after guess who? The second generation Chip and Kent were classmates at Denison University. Sallie and Kent have 10 grandchildren. Sue and Sel Whitaker moved in 2006 from State College to Pittsburgh, where first-class health care is close by and they can root unabashedly for the Steelers. Both have battled serious physical problems, but both remain upbeat, cheerful and fun to visit. They were married four days after Williams graduation (high school sweethearts) and honeymooned at Jack Kroh s Chatham vacation home. They had two children, one of whom died tragically in 94. Sel obtained his M.A.T. from U. Penn and his PhD in education from Northeastern. He began his career as a superintendent of schools in Duxbury, Mass., in 79 and walked into a hornet s nest of deficits and unpaid bills. Big budget cuts caused him to leave Duxbury in 84 for the same position at State College, where he served for 10 years. Best 10 years of my life, said Sel. We developed a really good school system and sent a number of kids to Williams. Sel came to Williams as a highly recruited football player, but a cartilage injury our first year ended his playing days. I m not very proud of my time at Williams, Sel declared. I was too much of a partier and not enough of a studier. I do remember Fred Rudolph 42 as the best teacher I ever encountered. He engaged the class in the social issues of the times. Despite his shortcomings, Sel was awarded an honorary degree by Williams in 1984 and was our class speaker at our 25th reunion. In startling contrast to the long courtship of Sel and Sue, Bob

33 n Nevin met his wife Linda Fox while at a submarine convention in Halifax. He ended up on a date with her by virtue of the toss of a coin (he didn t say whether he won or lost), and they were married a year later. All of this occurred while Bob was on active duty on a nuclear submarine after going through OCS in Newport. He served for seven years on three different nuclear subs. Subsequently, he got his MBA from Wharton and joined the Huffman Manufacturing Co. (think Steve) in Dayton. He ran all of Huffman s non-bicycle businesses and left in 84 to join Reynolds & Reynolds as executive VP and chief administration officer, eventually growing the company to a billion-plus dollars in revenues. He and Linda have two Williams children, Heather 93 and Drew 97. They now split their time between Dayton and Kiawah Island, and Bob plays about 130 rounds of golf every year. I remember the wonderful times at Williams very well, he reports, particularly the wild wine-tasting parties on the Psi U lawn on Sunday afternoons. How I ever made it through as a physics major is truly amazing. He continued: Only thing more amazing than that was how my sophomore roommate, Graddy Johnson, ever made it. He was a wild man, never studied and always seemed to squeak by. On to Lexington, Ky., and Bob s roommate. Graddy has been through trials and tribulations that would be more than sufficient for a half-dozen persons. The very good news is that he is now healthy, happy, productive and married (for the third time) to a wonderful woman, Candy Gill, whom he refers to as his salvation. He stopped drinking and gambling in 1985, partly due to a serious discussion with Ruthie and Jimmy Watts. God did it, says Graddy. I could never have done it without His help. Prior to that time Graddy obtained his law degree from the U. of Kentucky, worked for two firms in Lexington, served for two years in the Kentucky State Legislature, worked as the U. of Kentucky men s tennis coach and began his own proprietary practice in criminal defense. I was gambling and drinking like mad, he said. Las Vegas casinos used to send a plane to bring me there. I began stealing from my clients, using their payments for my addictions instead of their defense. In 82 he was suspended from practice by the Kentucky Bar Association, and in 85 he was disbarred. After five years of sobriety and good work for state and local government, Graddy was reinstated and was employed as a lawyer for clients of the Department of Families and Children and the Health Services Department. He now splits his time with Candy between Lexington and Pelican Bay in Naples and does some pro bono work for the Lexington Hope Center, working with incarcerated young people. He had two wives prior to Candy and has three grandchildren. Bob Nevin told me about a bet he made with Graddy during our sophomore year concerning the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony. Bob won the bet, and the result was that Graddy had to skate around the ice rink, stark naked, in the middle of the night. Well, Graddy said, you can imagine that were not many ice rinks in Lexington. In fact, it was the first time I d ever been on skates. There are still pieces of me attached to that rink! His current thoughts: I have no idea of what the future holds, but I am looking forward to the trip. We are, too, Graddy. John Shoaff returned to his hometown, Ft. Wayne, Ind., after pursuing a degree in architecture at Yale. He has worked there ever since, first as a residential architect and, more recently, in public sector work as a developer of Headwaters Park, the largest public space in Ft. Wayne. He is finishing his second term as a member of the city council and has been very active in aiding the renaissance of downtown Ft. Wayne. At one point he lived in a home designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, and Wright remains an important interest in his life. He believes he has developed a new theory explaining much of Wright s work and is preparing a book on the subject. Bilateral symmetries are screened by asymmetries, he told me, and of course I believed him. He married his second wife, Julie Donnell, in 92. My father, grandfather and uncle all went to Williams so I really had little choice, he said. But I loved it and never regret going there. Such great professors! I remember David Park in physics saying: I never memorize a formula; I derive it. He hopes to be at the 50th reunion (which will be his first) and hopes to see Chris Sargent, Phil Wirth and Bob Henry there. I met Bob Klein in Southern Michigan at one of his three country clubs. He and Wallis now split their days between Charlevoix, Mich., on the upper peninsula, and La Jolla, Calif. Bob plays over 200 rounds of golf a year, has had nine holes in one, and plays to a 2 handicap. One of his frequent golfing buddies in Northern Michigan is legendary Oklahoma football coach Chuck Fairbanks. He serves as a trustee of Cranbrook, the prep school whence he came to Williams; EPHCOMPLISHMENT Charles W. Kellogg II 62 was inducted into the U.S. Biathlon Hall of Fame last fall. Kellogg competed in prep school and at Williams, and during WWII he was assigned to the Modern Winter Biathlon Training Center at Fort Richardson, Alaska. He has competed at the national level for many decades, has been the Nordic VP of the U.S. Eastern Amateur Ski Association and was vice chairman of the U.S. Biathlon Association. does a great deal of work for the Evans Scholars program; and has been a board member of Beaumont Hospital for more than 30 years. After obtaining his law degree from U. of Michigan, he spent 25 years with Butzel & Long, a Detroit firm, specializing in antitrust litigation. Strohs Brewery and the U.S. Brewers Association were major clients. It was increasingly difficult to be a corporate lawyer in Detroit, said Bob. Sort of like being a blacksmith when the cavalry has ridden off. Wallis is Bob s second wife. She has three children from a prior marriage. When I asked Bob whom he would most like to see again, he answered, Everybody! I m not certain Bob would have included Charlie Kurtz on this list, however, as Charlie is one of the most rabid fans of Ohio State that I have ever encountered (and I lived in Columbus for eight years). His wife Linda is an ex-buckeye cheerleader, and their home is covered in scarlet and gray. They have a Buckeye room that is filled with OSU photos December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 31

34 CLASS NOTES and memorabilia, and they even served cookies with scarlet and gray toppings. Charlie came to Williams from Columbus and returned there immediately after college, obtaining a law degree from Ohio State. After a year clerking for an Ohio Supreme Court judge, he joined the firm of Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur and remained there for his entire 37-year career. He specialized in personal injury and workers compensation litigation, becoming managing partner of the firm in 88. Charlie s first wife died tragically by her own hand in 1982 after spending 14 months in a mental hospital. He married Linda in 83, and she adopted the two children from his first marriage, one of whom, Chad 94, was a two-time All-American runner at Williams. I got a wonderful education there. I ll never forget Professor Waite he was so magnetic! Nevertheless, I felt out of place with my Midwest background. It was a bit of a bewildering place for me. And I still am upset about the loss of fraternities. Pamela and Denny Bauman live just north of Columbus in Dublin. Denny is a cardiologist with training in both cardiology and internal medicine. He does not do surgery but rather determines the best treatment for patients with heart problems and follows that patient through his treatment (which may include surgery). He was trained at Harvard Medical School (same class as Mike Scott and Bob Rubin) with residencies and fellowships at the Univ. of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City. He spent two years in the Army including a year in Vietnam as a flight surgeon. While in Nam, he encountered a 13-year-old child with a congenital heart defect. He wrote several letters and succeeded in having the birth defect repaired in the U.S. and became the subject of a Look magazine article. He practiced in Cincinnati, Salt Lake City, Corvallis, Ore., and Hartford before moving to Columbus with the Veteran s Administration Clinic. Since 1997, he has been a full-time Ohio State faculty member, concentrating on patient care with some teaching. He married Pamela Solberg, whom he met at Fort Sam Houston five days before he shipped out to Vietnam. They have two children and built a second home in Charleston, S.C., in 2004, though we don t get down there as often as we should. We re still trying to sort 32 Williams PeoPle December 2010 Last summer John Connor 63 (left) and John Romans 64 were among a group of friends that traveled together to Ukraine. out the rest of our lives. He would love to reconnect with Tom Johnson. Tom and I shared the concession stand at the football games and became close friends. He d also love to have another piece of the Beta Theta Pi cherry pie, the best in the world. Bonnie and I traveled to Williamstown in August to view the marvelous exhibition at the Clark entitled Picasso Looks at Degas. We stopped for lunch at Paresky (née Baxter). Sitting together at the Snack Bar were former Williams presidents John Chandler and Frank Oakley and former Williams provost and Colgate president Neil Grabois. We stopped to chat for a bit and left feeling very good about our alma mater Jim Blume 23 Vicente Road Berkeley, CA secretary@williams.edu By threatening to ask his wife Robbin to intervene on my behalf, I managed to prevail upon John Churchill to tell me about his life. As many of you know from her prominence at past reunions, Robbin is virtually a member of our class. John is semi-retired but continues to work part time as an executive recruiter for companies that are having financial leadership difficulties. John and Robbin have six grandchildren, five of whom have grown up in distant venues, but fortunately their sixth, and youngest, Spencer, is in close proximity. Three of their grandchildren live in France, just outside Geneva. Church and Robbin make an annual pilgrimage to visit their son Craig 86 and his wife Sarah 87. Craig manages the Microinsurance Innovation Facility for the ILO and is responsible for spreading and monitoring a Gates Foundation grant to organizations around the world that are developing policies and infrastructure for microinsurance products. Their other two grandchildren live in Medway, Ky., where their mother Karel owns and manages a retail mini-mall. Church and Robbin continue to travel extensively. In addition, they have reserved a space at a planned development on Water Street in Williamstown. John remains active with sports playing golf as well as jogging. Other than performing fund-raising duties for our class, his former roommate Peter Coxe and his wife Dale, are his main Williams connections. Bill Huppuch wrote that he and his wife Molly had just returned from Maine, where they had visited with Carroll Connard on his sheep farm in Penobscot. Bill commented, It was great to catch up after all these years and to be a part of his life for a brief time. Bill and Molly also joined Dale and Peter Coxe at a lovely restaurant in Blue Hill, and then the four of them spent a day on Peter s 35-foot cruiser. Bill noted that the company was exceptional, the scenery fantastic and the amazing day ended with a delicious dinner of lobster and corn on the pier at Southeast Harbor. Now, if I could only hear from Peter Coxe himself In response to an from

35 n me, Bill Reeves wrote in the midst of the disastrous BP oil spill from New Orleans to say, Nevertheless while there is life, it goes on. I am at the end of an independent historical career, writing on Louisiana subjects. Have seven grown children, everybody well, plus many grandchildren. My principal outside interest is Jane Austen; I m president of the Jane Austen Society of Louisiana Inc. Jimmy Williams, who resides in Denver with his wife Patterson, wrote that he had just finished reading Wallace Stegner s Crossing to Safety, a very good, but rather melancholy book. I, too, had recently read the Stegner book, which I highly endorse it is particularly poignant at our stage of life. I ll include Jimmy s excerpt from the book, which I ve further synopsized. Whatever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a mark on the world. We were young and earnest. Beyond a basic minimum, money was not a goal we respected. But we all hoped, in whatever our capacities permitted, to define and illustrate the worthy life. Jimmy, who is contemplating retirement, has clearly lived the worthy life. At the time of his Jimmy was embarking on a trip to Washington to speak on behalf of the Western Governor s Association to the Disposal Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America s Nuclear Future. Jimmy was ecstatic about his wife Patterson s accomplishments as an educator at the Art Museum of Denver. He forwarded an article about her, which noted that in 2006, she was recognized by the American Association of Museums Centennial Honor Roll as one of the top museum professionals in the past century. The article further noted that she is a master teacher for Asian art; and resident expert on all things Egyptian. Jimmy, along with Brian King attended the Ann Arbor wedding of Mac Dick s daughter Eliza, which he described as delightful despite a rainstorm causing everyone in the tent-protected reception to take off shoes and roll up pant legs. The Aug. 5 edition of The New York Times carried an op-ed co-authored by Paul Michel, a former chief judge of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. As a way to spur innovation and create jobs, Paul recommended that the U.S. Patent Office be fully funded. Paul wrote that due to under-financed operations, there is currently a backlog of 1.2 million applications at the patent office, which judging from history should yield 780,000 new patents. He estimated, in the article, that if the patent office attained full functionality, it would create at least 675,000 and possibly as many as 2.25 million jobs. Paul, who recently retired, is married with two adult children. After Alex Kyrtsis compelling remarks in the spring issue of People, I thought his analysis of the Greek financial crisis which had a profound impact on world economies this year might be of interest. I will abbreviate his response, excerpted from his latest book, Achieving Happiness. The Greek economic crisis was not instigated by the worldwide crisis of We had no housing bubble nor insolvent banks. The Greek crisis was effectively the breakdown of democracy in the very country that cradled it. In addition, the size of the debt was falsified until the European community finally became aware of its size and its gravity. Despite their economic woes, the Greeks chose to go on a spending spree, continuing to ignore their day of reckoning. Alex concluded by stating that currently there is a glimpse of optimism as the Greek people and their government seemingly are starting to come to grips with the severity of their economic problems. I hope my synopsis does his cogent analysis justice. I received a very sweet and touching note from Mike Strauss 94, Peter s son, thanking our class for the many kindnesses we extended to his family in the aftermath of Peter s untimely death. Unfortunately, I have to report the loss of another extraordinary classmate Jim Wood. Jim, who was the director of the Art Institute of Chicago for 25 years, came out of retirement in 2006 to become president and chief executive of the Getty Trust in LA. I thought I would quote extensively from The New York Times obituary on June 14, 2010: In his years at the Chicago Institute, Mr. Wood became one of the most respected museum leaders in the country, overseeing an expansion of its world-class collection, renovations of all its departments, the construction of a new wing and the initial planning for a second addition. He also helped conceive well-regarded exhibitions a Monet retrospective in 1995 and a van Gogh and Gauguin show in 2001 that broke attendance records for the museum. Before taking over the Art Institute, he was the director of the St. Louis Art Museum for six years. He also held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. Mr. Wood was the first person with a deep background in art and museum administration to serve as president of the Getty Trust since its formation in Under Mr. Wood, the Trust which oversees the J. Paul Getty Museum and three other arms, for conservation, research and philanthropy was seen as having restored its reputation. Mr. Wood moved aggressively to streamline the organization of the trust, leading to layoffs and the elimination of dozens of positions. During the recession, he instituted deep cuts in the Getty s operating budget that led to salary cuts and further layoffs. Mr. Wood was mentioned through the years as a leading candidate for the director s post at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Instead, he chose to stay at the Art Institute until his retirement in Although he was a quiet and very private man, several classmates, namely Wood Lockhart, Bobby Seidman and Gordon Davis wrote to me reflecting about Jim and his impact on them at various junctures of their lives. I m sure other classmates had similar stories. Jim is survived by his wife Emese Forizs, an art historian and painter, daughters Rebecca Breen and Lenke Moscarelli, and three grandchildren. On behalf of our class, I send our deepest condolences to Jim s family. Peter Callaway wrote that he retired at 33 after leaving Project Place, the Boston social service agency he had started in Subsequently, he dreamed up a series of multiyear projects aided by inheritance. The projects Hexiad, an international networking project; Organizational Energetics, an organizational development system based on traditional Chinese acupuncture; a local online atlas to Bryant Creek Watershed for local schools; and Ozark Seed Bark. The money s gone, but a couple of projects linger on. December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 33

36 CLASS NOTES Peter and George, his partner, a retired architect and artist, split time between a farm in the Missouri Ozarks and a warehouse in downtown Little Rock. Peter s farm family consists of George s two daughters and four grandsons as well as his ex-wife, brother, sister-in-law and mother, Peter s friend Vinnie, her husband Daniel and a half dozen friends. For entertainment, Peter watches screens small and large and reads a few periodicals NY Review of Books, The New Yorker, Metropolis and Guardian Weekly. He has several books on his eclectic reading list: The Hindus by Wendy Doniger and biographies of Mark Twain and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Winston Wood commented that he retired at 55 and has been footloose for nearly 15 years. For the last five years, he and his wife Gail split their time between homes in California and Arizona. As he put it, twice a year we have to say good-bye to our friends, but also twice a year we get to renew our acquaintances. Gail and Winston travel a fair amount. They were going to England and Northern Spain in September and are planning to cruise the Adriatic and Aegean Seas in May. Their two sons and four grandchildren, whom Winston declares he loves to death, live close by to one of their houses. As for Williams, he and Pots exchange letters occasionally. He also sees his roommate John Willson, a retired Denver lawyer, every few years. Winston concluded, Life s been good. Retirement s been even better. Both of John Dorman s daughters, who were raised in Northern California, now live in Ann Arbor, Mich., because both of his sons-in-law are affiliated with the University of Michigan. In December of 2009, both daughters gave birth to children of the opposite sex. Hence, Charlene and John spent the Christmas holiday in Ann Arbor, where they were joined by their son Todd and his family. John lauded Mac Dick, a professor in the medical school, for his help with medical resources in Ann Arbor. John noted that Mac had just had a cardiology fellowship established in his name. I never realized he would be so famous when he sat next to me in organic chemistry. When he wrote in May, John had just returned from a business/pleasure trip to Massachusetts with his 34 Williams People December 2010 entire family, which culminated in a BBQ for 17 with Charlene s family in Lexington and a wedding attended by John s four siblings (including his brother Tim 70) and five of their kids. Larry Buxbaum is beginning his final year at the Hennepin County Bar Association. After three years of practicing law, 10 years in public service/politics, a dozen years in corporate management and nearly 20 years in association management, Buxie indicated that the time is right to retire. He went on to state, The multiple careers have been a great blessing to me, as the variety of my experiences has enriched my life and my relationships. The incredible educational experience at Williams opened me to many possibilities and the subtle encouragement to serve others has influenced many of my choices. A continued quest for knowledge has been at the core. For example, Larry initiated a program at the bar on law and literature, which uses short stories and plays to illuminate issues around ethics and bias. He fully hopes to continue similar programs in retirement when he and his wife Linda plan to do more traveling. Both of his children Deborah 88 and Evan 91 live in the Boston area, while Linda s kids reside in the Midwest. He is also planning on feeding his passion for fishing. Larry concluded by stating, We eagerly look forward to my 50th reunion and renewing relationships. My conversations with classmates have been few and far between, but I hope to remedy that in the coming years. He added, We are well, all things considered, and look forward to the new phases of our lives. His last remark seems particularly poignant for all of us as we near on our 70th birthdays. And finally, Alan Schlosser participated in a panel discussion in April at the Gaudino commemorative on campus. In honor of his 30-plus years of lawyering for the organization, the ACLU of Northern California named its new Legal Resources Center for him Martin P. Wasserman Triadelphia Road Ellicott City, MD secretary@williams.edu Classmates: 50 years ago we all first met on the freshman quad to start a new stage of our lives. We had just concluded high or prep school, and for most of us this was the first extended period away from home seeking independence and growing into adulthood. It was both an exhilarating and somewhat frightening time as I recall it for myself. But what we all had to fall back on were the successful times that we had each experienced in high school. That is why I requested we share our reminiscences as we returned to our hometowns and celebrated our 50th high school reunions. What was it like to see our friends from the Class of 1960 when Cathy s Clown by the Everly Brothers was the #1 song and although The Apartment won the Oscar for best picture, we probably preferred Psycho, Spartacus or The Magnificent Seven! Attending his 50th reunion at North Syracuse Central High, Paul Crissey learned that it is now a middle school. Paul in previous notes mentioned how difficult it is as a drama teacher to obtain the resources required to prepare as he would like but was pleased to see that his former high school has a state of the art theater. His most memorable experience, however, was seeing his best friend and noting how quickly they resumed their friendship: Within a minute, we were just as close as then no awkward silences, just a great feeling of communicating, with follow-up s afterward. Paul also learned that one of the girls in his class confessed to having a huge crush on me back then, which he found amusing. Following the reunion, Paul went to Orlando for the World Yo-yo Championships, an annual event for me, Laurie and our son Nathan-the-rocketscientist, who helps run the contest. Paul manages the hospitality suite and gets to help judge the artistic performance category. Next time you will have to fill us in on more of the details, Paul. Bob Shaw noted that one-fifth of his classmates had passed away, including his best friend from growing up and one that he had retained as a close friend through the years. Some of my classmates seemed changed in appearance or behavior, others were profoundly different, and everything in between. He classified the experience as somewhat spooky as he returned to the quad where we stood 50 years ago in our navy blazers and white ducks and received our diplomas. Nearly

37 n From left, William Steel 64, Bob Strong 64 and Henry Hutchens 65 gathered in October for their 50th reunion at North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, Ill. half the class returned for the event, and I spoke to and got along with people I hardly knew in school. Returning to Governor Dummer Academy in Byfield, Mass., Ted Bliss noted that 25 out of 50 returned and that it was easy to renew friendships despite the distance and time that had occurred since graduation. He stated that the class decided to get together informally every year at reunion time with whomever might be in town. Ted has been retired for several years, and he and Ginny spend time visiting their two daughters in Leesburg, Va., and Avon, Conn., to see the grandsons. They remain active in the First Congregational Church and in the Essex Historical Society, where he was to moderate the November elections at the Essex Town Hall. I was on a telephone call with a colleague who informed me she was on her way to a class reunion with a friend of mine. The next I knew, Richard Kipp greeted me after all these years! He was traveling to Ossining, N.Y., for a rogue reunion since the main reunion was held in Florida in May, because that s where the reunion coordinators lived! Several persons held out, returning to Ossining later in the year. They toured their hometown, beginning with Croton Dam, which when completed in 1906 was the tallest dam in the world. The small group of eight also visited the high school, downtown museum and Sing-Sing Prison, where Rich s father (Williams 31) served as head physician and chief of surgery. Rich noted that his father would have attended the executions of the Rosenbergs and wonders how that might have affected his father. Rich recalls an interesting but not infrequent event from the 50s. Two African American classmates had experienced some blatant prejudicial treatment by school guidance counselors. One was admonished by the coach/ guidance counselor when he went to basketball tryouts and was told that this team is only for collegebound players. The other was unable to go to college and went into the Army straight from high school. After discharge, he got a job at Readers Digest, where his intelligence and drive was noted. He attended college at night and remained at the Digest, retiring as head of IT. Rich noted a Williams sticker on the back window of his car and learned that the son graduated in the Class of 95 and subsequently became class speaker at Columbia Law School. How proud he was of Williams! Anticipating the fall reunion, Biff Steel looked forward to the event at the North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, Ill., along with Bob Strong and Harley Hutchins 65. Biff was to participate in an alumni-facultystudent panel on the meaning and impact of the school s motto: Live and Serve. He also was to receive the Stanton Award, given to an alumnus who exemplifies the school s motto through work and/or volunteer activities. Biff is based in Accra, Ghana, and teaches a course in microfinance at the University of Ghana. He also consults for the World Bank and International Fund for Agricultural Development. In perhaps the strangest occurrence at a reunion, Jay Friedman writes that a little over an hour into the event I received a call informing me that my substitute caregiver for Linda had locked herself out of the house, with Linda inside. So much for the reunion. But he did have a catch-up breakfast with John Foster in June for a meeting of the Asia Society. John is well, has a new wife and remains busy running his healthcare-oriented private equity fund. Hopefully John will join us at the Williams 50th. Those are a few of the stories; I hope they will continue for the next issue of Williams People. During his career, Vince Farley worked in a variety of locations for the State Department in Africa, where his expertise is well recognized. He retired after more than 30 years in the Foreign Service in 1997 and has subsequently worked on a range of meaningful projects. He currently works with groups supporting development programs in West Africa, focusing on the agricultural and health sectors. He has a newfound expertise in poultry and dairy farming, courses not taught at Williams. In 1995, he met Amadou Toumani Toure, who facilitated major international discussions dealing with the crises following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. After Toure was elected president of Mali seven years ago, Vince was invited to be the honorary consul of Mali in Georgia. Vince notes, Mali has remained committed to multiparty democracy and responsible economic reform. I work on a number of cooperative arrangements between Mali and organizations in Georgia and elsewhere in the U.S. Vince has obtained surplus medical supplies, equipment and pharmaceuticals for the developing world and encourages classmates to support similar organizations which exist throughout the U.S. He has also developed a multifunctional low-cost plow that can be pulled by cattle and will revolutionize small-scale agriculture in rural Africa. In addition, he and Carolyn often visit their two wonderful daughters (I know them both), a pediatrician and a teacher, who have both settled in the Atlanta area, and their three delightful grandchildren who are now 10, 7 and 5. Award for the family most distant (excluding Leo Murray) goes December 2010 Williams PeoPle 35

38 CLASS NOTES to Dick Tucker, who lives with wife Rae in Doha, Qatar, where Dick serves as interim dean of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. There is an undergraduate campus now in its seventh year and housing approximately 300 students and offering majors in business, information systems and computer science. We have graduated three classes, and the students are doing well working in Qatar or the region, or enrolled in graduate programs. Dick recalls how different the Gulf region is today than when they lived in Beirut and Cairo in the 1970s. Dick and Rae invite any classmate passing through the region to drop in and say, Hello! Speaking of Leo Murray, he writes that he has returned to Hong Kong from his 11th visit to Mongolia and learned that Williams is ranked, in Apple Daily, ahead of Harvard, Princeton, Yale and MIT as America s best college/university. The original Chinese reads: Williams College emerges as the best university in America. He also writes that he had a mini Williams get together in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, with Howard Stauffer, Amy Marash (wife of Dave Marash) and Gantuya Badamgarav 06 following a horseback riding expedition in central Mongolia. Could there be a more exotic Williams reunion anywhere? Continuing to work on the Banyan Project, Tom Stites informs us that he speaks around the country and generates interest in the project. He hopes to present at the South by Southwest Interactive in Austin next spring and will use his fellowship year at Harvard to work with students and faculty developing a detailed business plan to help attract additional funding for the project. As one supporter writes: When the only television news worth watching is on a comedy channel and punditry trumps investigative reporting, it is time for journalism to find a new way to sustain itself. The Banyan Project, relying on new methods to enhance civic discourse, may provide clues to that future. Skip Gwiazda supported the successful selection of Elizabeth Warren as the director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Skip did everything short of speaking directly to the president, engaging colleagues, friends and relatives to help promote her. He notes that we need grass-root movements from 36 Williams People December 2010 the center to balance the massive amounts of special interest money and radical extremists whose narrow objectives obscure the good of the country. He urges us all to become more active in the political process. He and Suzanne recently returned from a trip to Russia, learning Russian history, visiting Moscow and St. Petersburg and meeting the new Russians who have emerged over the last 20 years. He also notes that Jim Murphy is retiring from his distinguished career with the Office of the Federal Trade Representative. Doug Beier states that he and Rosemarie completed a three-week, 2,800-mile road trip exploring Glacier National Park (on its 100th anniversary), Yellowstone and Grand Teton Park. He describes absolutely gorgeous country and extraordinary weather. Steve Birrell writes that many of our classmates now live in Williamstown. Sarah and John Foehl have moved to Williamstown joining Jane and Bill Frado, Polly and Dave MacPherson, summertime residents Frances and Peter Buttenheim, and June and Jack Leingang. Steve notes that there are also a large number of neighbors from the Class of 1965, including John Storey, Dusty Griffin, Phil McKnight, Joe Small and Dave Wilson, who holds a monthly alumni dinner group. Steve also comments that Williams 17th president, Adam Falk, has gotten off to a great start, receiving kudos from college and townsfolk alike. While Tom Howell might have slowed down on the tennis court and lost a step in his squash game due to the pressing matters of working on some Supreme Court amicus briefs for the American Bar Association, he has energy galore for his children and grandchildren. Tom writes about his summer highlight: trips with his 3-year-old grandson to the grocery store at dawn during which time Tom learned: (1) Trips to the store (especially around the bakery section) are like trips to Las Vegas what goes on in the store stays in the store; (2) You can t buy beer in Wisconsin before 8 a.m. Who knew? Baked goods and a beer all before 9 in the morning. Works for me! Dick Mitchell writes that he has been in California practicing law for the past 22 years. After raising their children in Marin County, they moved near Palm Springs, but finding the soaring temperatures, they moved to Pasadena. Now they view some magnificent architecture, San Marino looks right out of New England Steve Martin s Father of the Bride house is a few blocks away. They are very close to the beaches and LA. Dick describes the current political climate in California as being really polarized. Where else would Arnold be governor, except maybe Minnesota? On the other hand, he says with a smile, We would rather compare the cabernets v. pinots, something we found fascinating about living near wine country for those years up north. Dick s son Rick is a writer-producer for a TV show in LA, and his daughter Kelly is in Boulder. He and Barbara are meandering through life grateful for our blessings of decent health and interesting challenges. We continue to revel at Williams ratings, which surpass Stanford s and UCLA s, whose graduates abound in these parts. Gary Ratner says that Richard Gold had an air-freight business in NYC, which he sold about five years ago. He subsequently moved to Carmel Valley, Calif., home of his wife Carolyn. She s from Monterey and was anxious to be near her father, sisters and other family. Rick remains busy with his family and enjoys being in a beautiful part of the world. Norman Periera writes that he is presently professor emeritus of history and Russian studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he lives with his wife Linda of 46 years. I think that you, Dick Tucker and Dick Scott have the longest records for successful marriages. Congratulations! I know that Pete Buttenheim and I are not too far behind at 45 years. Those women must be something very special putting up with us for all those years! Anyone else at 45 or longer that I missed? I want to conclude with a sort of challenge. John Wester says that he has not been swimming much since his championship days at Williams. He plans however to get in shape enough for our 50th to swim a few laps with you and Gay Mayer if you guys can find time. John s last trip to Williams was in 1969 to visit swim coach Bob Muir. At the time he was living in a commune in northern California and enjoyed an LP of Mary Baker Eddy following a dinner of baked beans and iron-skillet fried hamburger with our old coach.

39 n Upon hearing of Wester s plans, our other super-star swimmer Bill Bachle shouts that he will go up against John anytime, as long it s a five-meter race. I m an inch or two taller so will prevail until I pass out. He reminds us that his pool in France is only 20 feet long which makes anyone look good. Perhaps we can all paddle along in the new Muir Pool in 2014 that is if any of us can fit into our Speedos once again a very frightening thought! And on that image, let me wish everyone a very happy and healthy Marty 1965 Tom Burnett 175 Riverside Drive, #2H New York, NY secretary@williams.edu Secretary Burnett reports: With the completion of the successful reunion last June, the communications effort of the class has greatly diminished. Accordingly, the notes will be sparse this issue, but classmates should look forward to hearing from me soon as I attack the class list looking for commentary. Please contact me or the College alumni office with new addresses or changes. Upon request from a classmate, I will make the class list available as an attachment to a reply , which I believe will add to the overall communication/connection among classmates. Harriet and I greatly enjoyed our annual gathering with Jack Foley, Tim Reichert, Art Wheelock and Ron Kidd at Groton Long Point, near Mystic, Conn., where Jack and Saranne own a yearround weekend home. No time for the boat this year, just grilling and relaxing with great sunsets. With the arrival of our first grandchild in August 2009, Harriet and I decided to look for a family retreat in the Hamptons and were lucky to find a place in East Quogue, near Westhampton, some two hours from Manhattan. Still painting and furnishing, but hope to welcome classmates for weekend visits starting next spring. Phil McKnight remains busy in Williamstown. In the fall he delivered an eight-part lecture series entitled The Role of Law in American Democracy at the College s Faculty Club. The lectures were sponsored by the Osher Lifetime Learning Institute and were designed to explore the central role that American law has played in the establishment and development of American democracy. Our Class President Dusty Griffin has already been hard at work planning events for our 50th reunion in June He will soon be announcing our class reunion chairman along with several vice chairs who will assist the appointee with various tasks so ably directed by Jack Foley and his team for our 45th reunion. Several interim events are being planned and will be announced in the near future. Homecoming this year was Nov. 6. We now have six classmates living in Williamstown Dusty, Phil, Jim Worrall, Dave Wilson, John Storey and Joe Small so all these events were sure to be graciously and well hosted REUNION JUNE 9-12 Palmer Q. Bessey 1320 York Ave., #32H New York, NY John Gould 19 Nahant Place Lynn, MA secretary@williams.edu Late last spring Bill Bowden, John Gould, Bob Roesler, John Schelling, David Tunick, Jack Vroom and Wink Willett turned up in Williamstown to take a first stab at planning for the 45th reunion, which takes place June Questions like numbers of classmates, cost and activities swirled around us. We chose Spencer House as our reunion HQ, because it is close to the action, has wonderful public rooms and provides lots of parking. Jack Vroom and John Schelling are official reunion co-chairs; classmates with ideas or concerns are urged to get in touch with them or anyone else on the list. Everyone is eager to improve from reunions past; as Bob Roesler put it, We can use all the suggestions we can get. Roesler also provided a bit of personal history. He is still practicing law in Burlington, Vt. I don t know when or if I ll retire as one can only ski and golf so much. All five kids are healthy and employed, and the six grandkids are progressing through school with the oldest three in high school. For some reason life seems to be busier since the kids moved out; maybe Kathi and I have more time to do what we want and what really interests us. We both volunteer by serving on various boards, and she is still working part time in the OR at our regional hospital. Margo and Bill Bowden once again sponsored a minireunion the fourth annual on the weekend of Oct. 2-3 at their lovely house in Williamstown. They are hoping to get the ball rolling heavily for next June. This summer the Bowdens and I ( I being Gould, this issue) saw The Fifth of July at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. (A fine time, though the play was less than whelming.) Just at press time Bowden s event transpired. Bill and Margo, Wink and Bonny, Sarah and Joe Bessey, Allen Rork and John Gould had dinner at Water Street s Hobson s Choice on Friday night. On Saturday, joined by Jill and George Helmer, Fran and Bob Rubin, Charley Randolph and Gayle King, Dave Tunick, Con EPHCOMPLISHMENT In October Jeffrey Rosen 66 received a Susan G. Komen for the Cure Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction in basic science and clinical research. Rosen is a Distinguished Service Professor and the C.C. Bell Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology and Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, studying how breast cancer may alter the hormonal development of mammary glands. O Leary, and Judith and Ned Davis, we watched the football team more or less dismantle Trinity, though it got exciting in the fourth quarter: at the end. Then we went to the Bowdens for a wonderful dinner. On Sunday the assembled classmates, joined by Andy Burr, had a morning meeting to do some further reunion planning. Much was discussed. The survivors of our professors have been invited to several events. One evening is slated for MASS MoCA, a December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 37

40 CLASS NOTES wonderful transformation of one of the old North Adams mills. The enthusiasm was high, and we are hoping for a big turnout from all of you next June. Wink also described for me a Labor Day weekend at Jon Linen s new Adirondack camp on Bullhead Lake, N.Y. Spectacular house, said Wink, designed by their son-in-law. Visiting Jon and Lee were the Willets, Kyle and Budge Upton, Betsy and Billy Roe, and most delightfully Char Pfaelzer! Rob Cunningham sent in a more recent Tunick sighting: He flew to Scotland, where he joined David aboard his yawl Night Watch, crossing the North Sea to Kristiansand, Norway: A delightful experience under David s very skillful seamanship. In the meantime Rob and Rigney have moved to Cape Cod, selling their Wellesley house. Whatever was not given away is either now crammed into our Orleans home or with our daughter in Allston. Tunick is not the only sailor among us. This from David Batten: Got your in a small bay 25 miles Northwest of Bodrum, Turkey. We have kept a 53-foot sailboat here the past two years. Evi, Lydia, 10, and Alexi, 4, have adopted my passion for sailing and are great crew. Will finish Turkish southern coast and the eastern Greek islands this year and move to western Greece for next summer. Wonderful scenery, food, history and culture. David adds that the best way for the rest of us to see this world are on gulets, which seem to be 20- to 35-meter boats with four to eight cabins. Not expensive if shared. Bring friends. Jody Dobson wrote with some sad news: His brother Michael died at 63 from cancer. A true Renaissance man. My sister and I miss him terribly. I know none of this is really appropriate for our class notes but here it is anyway. (But bad news is important to all of us, though, and there s more coming in the column ahead.) Otherwise, Jody says he s still working, still single, still growing up. Which considering this latest loss, is good enough news for me. We wish him well. Ron Worland as of June had already had two surgical missions in 2010 two weeks in China and Venezuela to repair cleft palates. By now he has taken his team to the Dominican Republic for a third. He remarks that back home in Oregon cosmetic surgery remains most limited, but he 38 Williams PeoPle December 2010 Hal Crowther 66 (second from right) celebrated his 25th wedding anniversary in Castine, Maine, with (from left) Steve Atlas 66, Jim Thompson 68, Tom Cary 67 and Stan Bourne 50. enjoys his five grandchildren and loves living in a beautiful state which I am most successful thus far in not taking adequate advantage. Jim Harrison reports that he, Karen, daughter Kathy, son Jay 90, daughter-in-law Barbara and granddaughter Shannon spent two weeks last April on a tiny atoll in the south Maldives. Jay and his family then returned to Hong Kong, while the rest of the Harrisons stopped at Doha on the way back to the U.S. Two months later, via Skype, they were able to greet Shannon s new brother Conor on his first day! Jim s last tidbit was that when they lost power from a July storm, Judy and Coleman Bird lent them freezer space to save their food. Even better, they let us have the food back when power was restored three days later. It was great to hear from Gordon Wishard out in Hoosierland. (We used to see each other when I was in graduate school out there.) He is mostly concerned that my driver s license confirms a certain age that seems inconceivable to me. He fears his parents doctored his birth certificate. Not that likely, I fear. He adds, Lawyering is an ongoing reward, chiefly in the part-time role as teacher/coach to those younger lawyers in my firm with whom I work closely, and I expect to stay with it till the fun wanes. After two years of semi-retirement from Hopkins School, Bill Ewen is still coaching with marvelous success. He guided the Hopkins boys varsity squash team to the New England Prep School C Team Championship and the Hopkins boys varsity tennis team to the New England Prep School B Team Championship both were firsts in Hopkins history, and this in my 42nd year of coaching tennis (but only my third of coaching squash). Hopkins just celebrated its 350th anniversary, so these victories carry historical significance. It all was, he says, an amazingly miraculous ride this past year! It was happy news when Gil Conrad broke radio silence from the D.C. area. He and his wife have been librarians; she has retired, but he is still keeping busy as a substitute librarian with the Fairfax public schools. He also works for the Democrats as head of precinct operations for a part of Fairfax County. The Washington suburbs have lots of interesting people we know and enjoy. George Helmer is happy in his recent (three years) marriage, he s healthy, and he s a new grandfather. Hard to say how to beat that. He does mention a few extra pounds, and the appalling state of the world s natural environment, but as Vermont has had the nicest summer in recent memory, and the food is very good, he s bearing up nicely. Rob Bradley wrote, mentioning the Third Annual Williams 66 Boston Dinner in Brookline this past spring. It was described at length in the last issue, but I ll mention the attendees this time: Dan Coquillette, Bill Ewen, Alan Fincke, Jeff Jones, Steve O Brien, Dick Pingree, Marty Shulkin, Budge Upton, Wink Willett and Rob. One additional factoid: True to Williams form, the bar bill was

41 n almost more than the meal. Next year Rob hopes to expand the occasion to classmates living all over New England. In preparing the notes for this issue, I did hear from Ron Promboin and Roger Kubarych, who both said they had nothing to report. Weak responses to my plea for news, I thought, and I wrote back to both of them to tell them so. But no news is good news, remember, and they both sounded cheerful. Graham Cole has at last retired after 17 years as head of Westminster School in Simsbury, Conn. He and Carol have returned to Lawrenceville, N.J., where life is pleasant. Although I had forgotten how hilly southwestern New Jersey can be, I have enjoyed logging more miles on my bike, and my cardio-recovery rate has improved notably. He s hoping to travel Normandy and Down Under were mentioned as possible destinations. The Coles would love to see anyone visiting or living in the Lawrenceville area. Bob Mitchell reports that he, artist wife Susan Love, and yellow Lab Koslo continue to thrive in Santa Barbara, Calif. His three children seem to be healthy and happy, too: Noah, 39, with wife Carol, owns and runs a karate dojo in Westchester County; Jenny, 36, whom he and Susan just visited, lives in Atlanta with husband Eric and is a professional recruiter; and Sarah, 30, is a clinical psychologist in NYC. He has just completed his third novel, Everything on the Line (about tennis, a sport that, sadly, he had to give up after 58 years because of heart issues), and is hard at work on number four, Masaccio s Gift. He has recently spoken with classmates Pete Haller, Budge Upton, Stan Possick, Pete Allen, and Chuck Debevoise, as well as with former JA Marty Wasserman 64 and professors Fred Rudolph 42 and George Pistorius. Charley Gibbs writes that he saw Coach Navarro and his wife in Charleston during the Jets/ Colts play-off game, and they both were great. Amazingly he did not seem to have aged. On a more personal and reflective note, he adds, I am tiring of practicing law in what to me has become a dog-eat-dog, money motivated profession. To ease the pain I signed up for a few history courses at a local college and find that the excitement of learning I felt at Williams is again aroused, and my memories of the four years there are in a heightened state we were real lucky. Courtesy of Bill Bowden, I can offer some word from Jan Van Horne. He and Carol are in Boca Raton, enjoying life, albeit in surrounded by too big a house, too expensive a golf club, too high taxes, etc. Thankfully, both are reasonably healthy. Their two daughters live about 90 minutes apart in England. Kristin 93 is in Surrey outside London, and Anne 98 is a doctor with the Air Force in Suffolk. Jan adds, I feel a bit removed from Williams and our class, which is my fault, I guess. Topper Winder was my closest contact. I saw Tom Hellman about one year ago in Boca, but nothing since then. Had some nice correspondence with Pete Richardson, and Charley Randolph lives north of here, but we have not seen each other. Hopefully that will change with the reunion. Another at least part-time Floridian, Tommy Gunn, and his wife Pat spent the summer camping in the Great Smokey Mountains of western North Carolina. They were hosting a rally of motor home enthusiasts in Ashville, N.C., in October and then attending the Scottish Games at Stone Mountain, Ga., before returning to winter in Winter Haven, Fla. Also in November he planned to be helping 20 volunteers build five houses in Cristo Rey, Nicaragua (a slum outside Managua, populated by the former residents of that city s dump and relocated to the slum by the government). Tom adds, My wife and I are in great shape thanks to a summer of working out four times a week at the local gym, but nowhere near the shape Jim Meier must be in. I couldn t swim two laps in my bathtub much less challenge the English Channel. The whole story can be seen here: Now for the promised bad news. In July Terry Irwin was diagnosed with a particularly aggressive cancer: a rare type of T-cell lymphoma. Over summer he was airlifted from Bega to Canberra, where he received the first whack chemotherapy. Unfortunately, the treatment was unsuccessful, and Terry passed away on Oct. 15. His wife Lois and their children Dean and Kathryn were with him in his final hours, and Lois wrote, I cannot thank our friends enough, as you imagine it has been scary for all of us, and your support has been of great importance. And finally, the Jim Meier story. Some of you have followed Jim s English Channel attempt. He trained for over a year and a half pool workouts, long swims (five to eight hours), cold water swimming (the Atlantic until mid-december and back again in April) and core work. Last April he entered the 24-mile Tampa Bay Marathon; although he didn t finish, he went 12 hours and covered about 23 current-adjusted miles. On the first Thursday of September he set out from Dover. The boat crew consisted of five (including daughter Joslyn and son Jake) and captain/pilot Neil Streeter, who set the course and called the shots. The swim began in the middle of the night; Jim could not navigate himself when all he saw was water and darkness. His crew was charged with keeping him fed every 30 minutes, keeping the log, keeping in touch with the outside world. Jim wrote, From my start at 3 a.m., I had washing machine conditions, very tough. I had swum for a little over 11.5 hours into the southern shipping lane when I called it quits. My crew had informed me at my prior feeding that I had been fighting currents. I had tried to pick up the pace and had been pushed backward during the last 30 minutes. I have no regrets. I got what I came for. I later learned that of the five people swimming on Thursday, only one made it to France. An extraordinary effort, say we all. In reading the ed congratulations to Jim, I spotted the names of some old friends: Joe Bessey, Bailey Young and Ned Zimmerman. Best wishes to all of you, and I hope we can all gather in Williamstown in June. Do good work, as Garrison Keillor says, and keep in touch Kenneth A. Willcox 178 Westwood Lane Wayzata, MN secretary@williams.edu Leading this cold weather issue is word from Don Brown, long absent from these pages. In August he and his wife Maureen celebrated their 42nd anniversary. They have three married children and four grandchildren. None left the South for education or careers. Don is in his 34th year of running an architectural practice in Montgomery. It is one of the December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 39

42 CLASS NOTES largest in Alabama. This all followed 10 years in school and five years in Vietnam. He serves the southeast on the national board for the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He has chaired the AIA national political action committee for several years. Don wonders, How come everyone looks so much older? Rick Williams bought a home in Richmond, Texas, a suburb of Houston. They wanted a base by their daughter and year-old grandson. They still have their primary residence in the Florida Keys and a beach house in Avalon, N.J. Their son s Marine Reserve unit was recently activated. He is now serving in Afghanistan as an infantry platoon commander. He writes, We pray for his safe return. Rick thinks the best approach to politics is to vote against incumbents and preclude a political class of career pols. Steve Mark says that all his cancer checks so far have been good. He and Melanie went to China for two weeks. He was pleased that he was able to walk around in the polluted Beijing air quite well. He even had a successful walking tour of the Great Wall. He states retirement life is good. Checking in from North Carolina, Gwynn Radeker writes that his first grandchild, a boy, was born Aug. 23. That was a Monday, following a big murder trial Gwynn wrapped up the previous Friday. He says he plans on prosecuting until he is 70 if his health and stamina hold up. Gwynn is the assistant district attorney. He adds, Speaking of retirement, I am thinking of retiring in Panama, Ecuador or Belize and wondered if any classmate has experience with ex-patriot retirement. He would appreciate any advice. Although Jim Allen is going to half time in his ophthalmology practice, he says he s busier than ever. He s been studying Buddhism and has been building a sauna in his cabin when he isn t doing that. His son Will 02 was married in June. They drove one daughter in a moving truck back to Minnesota from Boston. Their other daughter has been in Hong Kong, interviewing for a job there. Meanwhile he is in the middle of a two-year docent training course at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Rick Ackerly has a new book, The Genius in Children: Bringing out the Best in Your Child. He compiled it from weekly essays he wrote during his eight years as 40 Williams People December 2010 head of Children s Day School in San Francisco. The subjects were stories of kids, teachers and parents. He connected the vignettes to related research on topics of education. Rick has a website and blog that he invites classmates to visit. Try com. During the past year Rick was able to connect with Peter Grossman, Jon Lovell, Allan Stern, Jon Vipond, Rich Gehrman, Gregg Meister, Brian Murphy ( still the feisty revolutionary ) and Bob Conway. Rick also met Camille Utterback 92 at a Bay Area alumni gathering. His reaction, Wow! No wonder she got a genius award. What an artist! Gregg Meister spent part of the summer back in Haiti conducting a video project in a refugee camp. He describes it as very depressing. He adds, I have a growing appreciation for international aid workers. Andy Cadot and his wife Lindsey are finally residents of Roque Bluffs, Maine. It s about five hours northeast of Portland. He figures they will be living out of boxes for quite a while as they unwind from their move. Bob Conway, Tyrell and their younger son Alexander joined four friends sailing in the San Juan Islands for a week. Their older son Evan stayed in LA, where he was producing songs for a boutique record label. A debut album was due in the fall. In May they attended an opening for Paula and Warren Suss daughter Becky at the UC Berkeley Art Museum. It was her final exhibition for her MFA in painting. They then went to a party hosted by Pat O Donnell and his wife Barbara Gates. Brian Murphy, Lenny Goldberg and Jon Lovell (and Ellen) were there along with Carlton Lull, Tim Lull s 65 widow. A few days later they got together with Jon again at a lunch arranged by Chris Covington. Peter Grossman was also there. And a week after that, Tyrell and Bob were at Rick Ackerly s goodbye party. Rick and Victoria were moving to Decatur, Ill., for her work there. Bob also met with Gregg Meister. They had a good talk about their friendships with John Gladney and his memorial service. Bob adds that he and Gregg are both converts to Mike Roizen s 30-minute daily walk regimen, and it reportedly shows in their waistlines. Harry Tether says he was most gratified that Chris White and his wife Judy attended his Buffalo retirement ceremony. Harry had taught high school history for 43 years. He hadn t seen Chris for several decades. As a gift, Chris gave Harry a nicely wrapped box that contained a pants hanger with Harry s magic-markered name still showing on it. Chris had borrowed it when they were roommates in Morgan Hall in Later in the summer Harry and Lon met Mark Piechota and his wife Pat Evans for lunch in Philadelphia. The immediate retirement future for Harry includes a new house and some modest travel. Jeff Bowen is midway through his last year as superintendent of schools. He says, Retirement beckons, or at least graduation to teaching, interim positions, maybe even a little writing. His wife Hillary plans to hang in for another year as a school chief. Jeff continues, After spending the first half of my career as a policy researcher for 700 school boards and the second half serving a rural school board, I now understand how helpful it can be to develop a real sense of community and a very thick skin. It s time to shed the skin. This past June, Jack Hunt retired as president/ceo of King Ranch after 15 fun-filled years. He is still working with King Ranch on some matters, mostly related to water and resource issues. He continues as a member of the Texas Water Development Board. He also has other assignments. What he says he really misses is the company plane. He and Diane remain in Houston with one daughter there who is finishing her residency. The other two are on the West Coast. Jack and Diane plan to migrate west eventually. Bill Biersach writes that they enjoyed a visit from Mary and Warner Fletcher, who were in Wisconsin for a wedding. They were able to get together with Ginny and Doug Mills for dinner at their golf club after a brutal round for the men. Doug and Bill reminded Warner that the Red Sox s troubles were nothing compared with those of their Milwaukee Brewers. Bill McClung and his wife Hannah Jo are enjoying a sabbatical year in Ludwigsburg, Germany. This is his second sabbatical at the Paedogogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg. Their oldest son Andrew received his BA from Carleton College and has a Fulbright fellowship in Innsbruck, Austria, to do quantum physics research. Their

43 n From left, 1968 classmates Teddy Ragsdale, Spencer Beebe, Tom Ray and Mark Donavan attended the 100th Pendleton Roundup in Eastern Oregon last summer. younger son Charles is beginning his junior year as a philosophy major at Macalester College (St. Paul). He may decide to spend his spring semester in Mac s Berlin/ Vienna program. Bill Clendaniel s oldest son Cam 01 and his wife Sara 02 have bought a house in Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn and are now minorities in a thriving and architecturally handsome black neighborhood. Bill and Ron had a wonderful monthlong trip to Santiago, Chile, and much of Argentina this past February/March. Meanwhile Bill has become board chair of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He serves with Bud Bailyn 44 and Westy Saltonstall 65. They have raised $1 million from the board to buy them time to build a larger donor base. The Boston Friends of the Public Garden, his other board position, has recently raised $2 million to do some wonderful restoration work. Bill and Ron had a great summer and enjoyed a nice visit with John Hunisak 66 in Middlebury, Vt., while visiting Bill s youngest son. Hank Grass is happily working full time in Portland, Ore. A good part of his private psychiatric practice is devoted to treating physicians. He recently completed his annual half-ironman triathlon. He has been doing it for about 25 years. He says he finishes about in the middle of his age group. Last, but hardly least, is word from Marty Samuels. His latest honor will be his induction next year as a Fellow in the Royal College of Physicians in London. This is quite an honor for a Yank. At time of this writing Marty was also looking forward to a visit from Sue and Larry Ricketts. They were to meet at Marty s newly acquired beach house in Nahant, a little peninsula about 16 miles from their home in central Boston. Also to join them for dinner were Carey and Carroll Perry. That would represent a minireunion of three old Bryant House roomies. Marty continues leading Brigham neurology, now with more than 350 people. The Samuels often get to see their two granddaughters, as their daughter Marilyn and her husband Sam, both 97, live in Lexington. Marty s son Charles 02 is doing his second postdoc in number theory and is looking for a job. Not too much new in your secretary s world. In my mayoral role, just the normal occasional train derailment in town, budget problems, churches suing the city, construction delays, zebra mussels infesting the lake, etc., etc. Other than that, business continues anemic. So all in all, life is good. Have a wonderful New Year, and I ll see you in the next issue Paul Neely P.O. Box Chattanooga, TN secretary@williams.edu Thanks to all who answered my pleas for news. From David Snydman: I have been chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center for 12 years. We have about 20 attending physicians in infectious diseases and about 15 postdoctoral fellows. It is a big program, funded in part by four NIH training grants. I just received notice that my own training grant will be refunded for another five years. The beauty of academic medicine is that one can contribute in so many ways: teaching, research, patient care, consulting and creating new knowledge. I have no desire to retire and can t afford it anyway with what has happened in the past two years. Recently a book on transplant infections, which I edit, was published (third edition). I am still married to Diane, my wife of 39 years. I see Howard Steinberg once or twice a year. I teach a course in clinical trials each year in our graduate program. As a former Pfizer executive, Howard delivers a very entertaining lecture on the industry perspective in clinical research. His honorarium is a round of golf, which we both enjoy at some local high-end public course. I also frequently get to see Bob Arbeit, who attends on our inpatient service and frequently manages to come to our conferences, despite working across town. He contributes a lot to the program. From the West Coast, Peter Naylor reports, Unfortunately, I don t see much of Williams, except the occasional window sticker in passing autos. My daughter graduated Stanford in June and is now at Boston University studying biomedical engineering and swimming. Her Stanford team missed a national championship by 2.5 points. Being in Boston is allowing her to visit our family s roots and my oldest friends. One of the first to contact me with an offer to host her was Ned Perry. We go back to Fenn School as well as Williams roommates and the same company at NOCS (a month apart). A news release from Sacred Heart University describes the activities of Bob McCloud in Albania: Twice a Fulbright Scholar in the region the University s first he is continuing his productive and very happy relationship with the people of the Balkans. He just returned from a month in Tirana, Albania s capital, where he is a consultant to the Education Excellence and Equity Project of the Ministry of Education and Sciences. In a nutshell, that means he is an adviser to all the country s K-12 educators on issues related to computer-based learning. His recommendations will touch the lives of some 2 million children in December 2010 Williams PeoPle 41

44 CLASS NOTES what is hoped will bring Albania to a leadership position in technology education and use. An associate professor of computer science and information technology at Sacred Heart, Bob McCloud had already spent 17 months in the Balkans a place for which he has developed an obvious fondness. During his recent service, Professor McCloud met with educators from across the country, some of whom drove for hours to attend these seminars. They are hungry for information, he reflects. We discussed what was working and what was lacking in the classrooms. Two things, especially, convince me that these programs will succeed. First, the most important social capital in this society is the family: they want their children to thrive. And, second, dating back forever, is their deep commitment to education. These make a winning combination that is hard to beat. Social notes from all over include the next two items. Andy Weiss says, To my dismay my company has grown to 35 employees. I m as forgetful as ever which used to challenge my co-authors when I was an academic but the other people are great at managing me. The most fun about running a company is I get to pick ways for everyone to have fun and get to hire really smart students to mentor and learn from. Nuptials: Two Williams weddings in one year. My daughter Kara Weiss 05 is marrying her partner Brittany Esty 05. They met at Williams, where Brittany played soccer and Kara played rugby. Watching Kara stop Amherst and score the only points of the game during the last game of her senior year while playing with a cracked rib was my greatest Williams experience. Nothing beats the vicarious pleasures of the triumphs of one s kids. My daughter Annie Weiss 02 just got engaged to her boyfriend Peter Cook after being together for seven years. Judge Allen Swan reports this: Last October, I officiated at the wedding of my son Matthew 03 SENDNEWS! Y our class secretary is waiting to hear from you! Send news to your secretary at the address at the top of your class notes column. 42 Williams People December 2010 and Laura Zuckerwise 04. Among the attendants were best man and Matt s roommate Foster Cronin 03 (son of Bob 69 and Emily Cronin, who were also there), Claire Samuel 04, Zack Yeskel 04, Matthew Ellis 03 (who played a saxophone solo in the ceremony) and Stuart Warshawer 03. Matt is a neurology resident in New York, and Laura is a lawyer just finishing a year clerking for a federal judge in Newark, N.J. (Since they don t have time to write to their own class notes, I m putting this in mine.) With our daughter Katie having graduated from Bowdoin(!), working in the medical field and now starting her last year at Yale School of Nursing to become a nurse practitioner, Marion and I have settled into the life of empty nesters, still working and wondering, as liberal arts majors, where the medical genes came from. Bob Scott does devoted work as a Williams trustee and with many more nonprofits. I ve done a poor job of being retired, and my recent appointment to the Board of the New York Stock Exchange has me teetering on the brink of overcommitment. The problem is, I enjoy my extracurricular activities, especially with Williams, so I don t know where to cut back. Karen and I just returned from a trip to Greece and Turkey that was a flashback to Art History 101. We split time between our homes, and I think we have the balance about right (three months Vermont, nine months Florida). I know I m really getting old when I start thinking about which of my grandchildren should go to Williams! Jim Halloran writes from Cleveland with news of career changes. A brief recent history. After PNC bought National City, where I was the energy and utilities analyst, in late 2008, I was bought out in June 2009 with a one-year paid vacation. I am nowhere near ready to retire, however, and in May I joined PNC in their wealth management unit. On the side, I am actively involved with the board of the Ohio Oil & Gas Association. Leslie has started up a couple of businesses designing jewelry and acting as rental agent for some Italian villas. We are as busy as we have ever been. Bob Chambers reports cheerfully, I had open-heart surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in mid-july to repair my mitral valve. Now that my circulation is back to normal, I feel better than ever, and I was frankly amazed at how short the recovery time seemed. The cardiologists have given me a green light to resume life as usual, so I m looking forward to some skiing this winter and hikes in nearby Glacier National Park next summer. Also on the mend is John Oppenheimer, who had a knee replacement in September. At last report, rehab is coming along nicely. The award for the most cryptic message this time is for this: Hi, I m Eddie Weeks, and I m moving to Moab, Utah, in December. Come visit to learn more! 1969 Richard P. Gulla 287 Grove St. Melrose, MA secretary@williams.edu Jonathan Moore has joined the ranks of published authors with A Practical Guide to International Philanthropy, which explores the pros and cons of using foreign philanthropic structures as well as provides a compliance road map to international grant making and suggests alternatives to traditional U.S.-based charities. We had a raucous publication party to celebrate, with Jim Sicks and Bill Hoffman attending. The book has been a big success. My law practice has increasingly been focusing on international charitable issues, both inbound for foreign charities seeking to raise money in the U.S. and outbound for U.S. philanthropists seeking to use foreign structures to hedge against more intrusive government regulation. Jon also says he s been serving on the Board of American Friends of the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation with Richard Brockman. Also out with a book is Mike Sabbeth, who, after two years of anguish and struggle, has completed The Good, The Bad and The Difference: How to Talk with Children About Values. It s about teaching ethics to young children and should be in print when you read this. Mike did a book signing at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vt., in October. I didn t realize it was just down the block from Williamstown. It was like going home. Marty Lafferty reports that the emergence of cloud computing is driving an unprecedented wave of new growth for the Distributed Computing Industry Association, where he serves as CEO. He

45 n has also been enjoying his year as commander of the local unit of U.S. Power Squadrons. Events and photos are posted regularly on Facebook (search for Kent Narrows Sail & Power Squadron). Marty and his wife Sari (Cornell 77) always welcome visits from classmates to their home on Kent Island, Md. Class VP Wes Howard recently returned from Portland, Ore., where we said goodbye to our daughter Libby, now a freshman at Lewis & Clark. Many flashbacks to arriving in Williamstown for the first time having hardly ever been out of Omaha. Libby is much better prepared than I was for living away from home. Our son Alex is getting straight A s at a local state college. I am still enjoying practicing commercial law and looking forward to doing so for many years to come so we can celebrate paying college bills. Congratulations are in order, as Wes was recently honored with an appointment to the Board of Governors of the Colorado Bar Association. He was looking forward to a visit from Julius Rosenwald and stays in touch with Bob Bearman 70, who also practices law in Denver. Jim Barns, reference librarian at the regional library system in Charlottesville, Va., retired at the end of July. The time was right. Things were on a decline. I engineered a party, and 240 people showed up. It was a mutual appreciation celebration at the People s University and very valuable for one who can easily question what his life has been about. It will serve me well in the full life ahead. Jim s daughter Hayden will be attending Ohio Wesleyan, where Hayden s greatgreat-grandmother was the first woman to attend. Chuck Webster also retired in June, after 41 years in eighth grade teaching civics and history. It was a great ride and never a dull moment with middle schoolers, and I will miss working with the students, but not the seemingly endless testing and preparation. It seemed at times there was little time to thoroughly teach the curriculum. Presently I am enjoying some post-retirement relaxation. My plans are fluid. I may look for some part-time work in the future but also have started a small business buying and selling vintage outboard motors. I ll never be rich from it, but it provides enjoyment. Hello to Chuck Collins, John Kitchen, Mark Winick, Rich Hassinger and Sage C friends. Hamilton Helmer met up with Bob Helms in London in the summer and says Bob is moving to Florence, where his wife Tru is doing research on Renaissance bronze. Hamilton says he s continuing with my usual eclectic mix: teaching at Stanford, writing, board work, consulting, investing. California has been a delight. Moved in 94. Hamilton s sons Andrew and Edmund went on to Pomona College, which he says was founded by someone from Williams. Good news from attorney Herb Ogden, who in August had the honor of marrying my former roommate David Tower and my friend Robin Hoffman in front of some 35 guests at our house in Mount Tabor, Vt. He and she stood next to the beautiful flower garden my wife Cathy had been reworking since spring, overlooking Otter Creek, and the backdrop was Dorset Peak. After Dave s wife Beeke died, Cathy and I had introduced him to our friend Robin. Lo and behold, they began spending more and more time together, and I was very pleased when they asked me to marry them. It was the first time I d married anyone as justice of the peace. Luckily I got the names correct throughout. Rev. Chris Kinnell is enjoying his seven grandchildren and was excited to replay our son s wedding Brendan Kinnell 00 to Katie Fogg 00 at Chapin Hall by staying over in North Adams and then coming to the Clark and going to MASS MoCA. Brendan is now teaching at the Collegiate School in Richmond, Va. Chris is presently serving Christ Church United Methodist in Sherrill, N.Y., between Syracuse and Utica. Lots of news from David Grant, who continues to classify himself as a slogger, although I pretend that I continue to work by choice rather than out of necessity. And retiring at age 62 without a really fat retirement fund only makes sense if you don t plan on living past 75, so I suppose I will soldier on for another few years until Obamacare is fully phased in and my wife and I no longer have to worry about the occasional stroke or embolism. I am now on my sixth year of a geographically bipolar existence, working in San Diego and flying from San Diego to Seattle on weekends in the summertime, while my wife tends her gardens on Bainbridge Island, eight miles west of downtown Seattle, and living a life of connubial bliss in the winters when she returns to live with me in Leucadia. We are now grandparents, having been blessed by our daughter Samantha Riegels 00 with a delightful grandson now aged 27 months. Having just returned from a week s vacation with said grandchild, practicing law is a piece of cake when compared to chasing after a 2-year-old. David s son Jonathan was named executive director of the Tenants Union of Washington State, a nonprofit dedicated to helping low-income renters throughout the Puget Sound region. Hopefully none of my clients will wind up in his cross-hairs. At age 28 he s one of the youngest executives in Seattle, and based on a non-scientific survey he took at his recent 10th high school reunion, one of the few graduates actually on what could be described as a career path. Andy Lynn is also still slogging, though at a drastically reduced speed. Children all grown with careers. Grandson just turned 4. Going on a New England cruise, which should remind me a little of Williamstown. Been in Florida nearly 40 years. Wow, I m old! Jim Ebin has checked in after many years. A year after leaving Williams, I went to India for 10 years, Nepal for three, and eventually Northern Thailand for 10. I received my degrees from California-Berkeley and Cambridge in Britain during the odd few years in the States and Europe and Varanasi Sanskrit University in India. Too much to tell in such a short space. I have finally come to rest in northwest Connecticut with Lucia, my Vassar girlfriend from Williams days. Best to anyone who remembers me. Lee Maxwell, sending his best to all, is in the Philadelphia area, directing his CFO consulting practice as much as possible into alternative energy companies and green technology and sustainability companies. Stay well and in touch. And let s hear from more of you for next issue! 1970 Rick Foster 379 Dexter St. Denver, CO secretary@williams.edu Thanks to all of you who responded to the that I sent in mid-august. For those who don t have an address December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 43

46 CLASS NOTES on file with the College, please send me your news at the address above. First, news from abroad, where our class is well represented. Rich Wendorf reports that he was sorry to miss the 2010 reunion and is very much enjoying his new position as the director of the American Museum in England. He says that he ll be inviting Williams alumni in the London area to a party at Christie s in January, so please mark your calendars. By the way, I discovered that there is a nice profile of Rich on the museum s website. Go to then click on the support tab along the top, then click on the Director tab to the left. Patrick Matthews ed me from Amsterdam to say that he is working as a therapist and teacher under the name of Nishant Matthews. He recently published a book called The Friend. Apparently one can get along quite well speaking English in Holland, because Patrick reports that his Dutch remains at about the same level as it was when he was at Williams. Ty Tuttle writes from Paris that, despite a busy work schedule, he was able to visit his parents in Florida in February. Over the summer, he and his wife also were able to visit Italy (the return flight was delayed due to the volcano eruption in Iceland) and the Czech Republic (where they saw the opening U.S. match of the World Cup on a giant screen in the Old Town) and again return to the States for the marriage of a niece. Peter Thorp sends his best to the class from Kigali, Rwanda, where he ll be located for at least the next three years opening a science and technology boarding school for high school girls. Peter says that Rwanda is intent on getting past the horrific events of 16 years ago, and toward that end has focused on a series of national initiatives to increase economic development, including education. Currently, only 13 percent of the country s girls attend high school, so Peter s project, Gashora Girls Academy, will have an immediate impact. Anyone interested in learning more about that project should visit org. Peter acknowledges the help he has been given by Pat Bassett, Paul Miller and Skip Kotkins. Gary Bensen and Whit Knapp have also been keeping track of his progress. Sluggo Stearns and his wife Janelle spent the summer 44 Williams People December 2010 in Indiana remodeling a new, smaller house and visiting friends before heading back to Thailand at the end of September where they will remain until the end of March. He welcomes all visitors. For those of you who have been paying attention, you ve noted that I ordered the foregoing notes geographically in case any of you would like to plan a short around-the-world trip to see old classmates with stops in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Kigali and Thailand. Fred Rhame is still a general pediatrician practicing in San Antonio. His wife Laura Parker is a district court judge. Notwithstanding his recently having become a first-time grandfather (granddaughter Samantha, born to son Josh), Fred is still a competitive tennis player. His team won the national 4.5 level over-60 division held in Surprise, Ariz. Fred s second son, Benjamin, just finished a year of backpacking and camping throughout South America with his wife Catalina from Bogota, Columbia. Third son Gabe is in school in San Francisco. Fred s location does not put him in much contact with fellow Ephs, but he and his 9-year-old daughter, Catherine, did manage to attend a Williams soccer national held in San Antonio one freezing afternoon. Catherine loves the outdoors, and she and her parents spend lots of time at Fred s in-laws home in Telluride, Colo. He does hear frequently from Jennifer Wolcott and hopes to visit her and her husband in Panama next year. In May 2010, Bob Lee married Kathy Krause (Dartmouth 84) near her parents home outside of Philadelphia. Bob s brother (Williams class of 74) and Kathy s brother Peter 77 were in attendance. After returning briefly to Kansas City for a choral blessing ceremony (Bob teaches at the University of Kansas), they spent six weeks in France, staying mostly in Lyon, where Kathy was leading a class but also traveling to the Cote d Azur, the Perigord and Helsinki, where Bob gave a talk. John Black recently retired after 21 years with IBM. He and his wife Linda live in Boulder, Colo. John s retirement freed up time for travel this summer, a good thing, since each of his daughters (one in Cambridge, Mass., and one in Phoenix) gave birth to her first child earlier this year. John is still getting used to retirement but having a ball with his two new grandsons. Tim Dorman reports that after 30 years of relatively urban living in the same place, Lauri and I moved to the Sonoma wine country, about an hour north of San Francisco. My leadership consulting work continues to have a strong international focus, so it is nice to have a retreat to come home to and just often enough replace airplanes with bicycles. I currently am doing some teaching at Wharton and the American University of Beirut and really enjoy the giving back phase of this new chapter called being in your 60s. It is unbelievable that we are all there already. Halley Moriyama s first grandchild was born at the end of May to daughter Caroline, and he and Helen spent two weeks on the Outer Banks of North Carolina seeing them. He got to Williamstown twice last summer, once for reunion and the other for the 50th Alumni Golf Tournament, where he ran into Ted May and Tom Jamison as well as his old JA John Oppenheimer 68. He highly recommends the Alumni Golf Tournament to the rest of us. David Prouty is still in Tucson, music freelancing and piano tuning. His daughter McGill recently enrolled at the University of Michigan, his son Alex is a high school senior, and daughter Eva is blooming along in the third grade. Don Berens and family spent part of the summer driving 5,060 miles through 15 states and one province in the Midwest and West, taking in professional baseball games and biking. (Don has now biked in every state of the union except Idaho, Nevada and Utah). Don says that they saw many of the sights that make America great, like Little Finland in Kimball, Wis., Carhenge in Alliance, Neb., and the filming of Transformers III in Chicago. John Hitchins writes that he and Jean greatly enjoyed our recent reunion and hope to be regulars at future reunions. He and Jean are both teachers in Roanoke, Va., and were able to enjoy their summer break traveling in Virginia and North Carolina. Son Jack is in middle school, Clair is in her second year at UVA, Christine is in a MSW program at Virginia Commonwealth University, and David continues his restaurant work in Fredericksburg, Va. On the way to visit my son Andrew at his job on Nantucket in late July, I spent a couple of days with Ken McCurdy in Ogunquit, Maine, where he has

47 n been renting the same house for a week in July for many years. While there, we had dinner with Dick Cooch and his wife Barbara, who were on the way to their summer home in Damariscotta, Maine. On Nantucket, Andrew and I had dinner with Charlie Ebinger, his wife Put and Charlie s most amazing and engaging 95-year-old mother, who was visiting them from her home in Ohio. Finally, I heard from Jeff Krull, who laments having missed the 40th reunion. He and Alice had planned to attend, but then Jeff had a slight stroke in May that temporarily affected his peripheral vision on the right side. He was hospitalized for two days and only missed three days of work, so luckily the injury wasn t too serious. They decided, nevertheless, not to make the long drive to Williamstown. Fortunately, his peripheral vision returned in less than a week. Jeff and Alice have no plans for retirement but are spending more time with their 8-year-old grandson and are planning some long weekend trips to Florida to visit their 2½-yearold granddaughter. Jeff, who, as all of you know, served as our class secretary for some 35 years, thanks all of you who made the job interesting and joins me in urging all of you to keep those informative cards, letters and s coming REUNION JUNE 9-12 Scott Simundza 579 Sagamore Ave., Unit 102 Portsmouth, NH secretary@williams.edu We ll start with a couple of promotions, first from Rick Beinecke: This summer I was named chair of the public management department at Suffolk. Meanwhile, my daughter Emily, playing for the Tufts softball team, had a tough loss to Williams in Williamstown last spring. But wait til next year! Jim Lavine was inaugurated as president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers at the association s 52nd annual meeting in Toronto in August. The press release included a few of Jim s thought-provoking inaugural remarks: Mr. Lavine challenged the defense bar to support judicial independence, noting that debasing attacks upon judges directly undermine judicial independence. Explaining that in an era in which money is increasingly influencing judicial elections, often to the detriment of fairness in the criminal justice system, Mr. Lavine said, The organized criminal defense bar has a special responsibility to defend the judiciary. Mr. Lavine also called for a return to the fundamental rights guaranteed in our Bill of Rights and for a more open and fair approach by the government to the criminal justice process. Observing that far too much injustice results from prosecutorial abuse of its responsibility, he noted that it is a matter of fundamental fairness that evidence of innocence must be promptly and fully disclosed to the accused. Mr. Lavine also pledged vigorous protection of the Fourth Amendment, cautioning that advancing technologies and an obsession with national security pose a grave threat to privacy and liberty. Jim also provided a personal note (not included in his inaugural speech): My hair is not as white as Sey Zimmerman s, but is a lot grayer and shorter but I do still have hair! I look forward to catching up with everyone. Dave Olson celebrated a major family milestone in the spring: Our oldest daughter Meredith 04 was married to Mark Wallace 04 in Williamstown on May 22. Daughter Karen 07 was maid of honor, and there were many Williams alums in attendance. Many swimmers and skiers attended, along with respective coaches. There was a question of which group was winning the drinking contest. Class of 1971 saw Jane and Doug Pickard and Ellen and Gene Bauer. Class of 1972 was represented by Scott Cooper. They had all left by the time the Williams photo was taken behind the Class of 2004 banner. Both daughters are working and living in Boston. We also had a wedding of Ceren Yucel, who Susan and I call our Turkish daughter, who had been an exchange student for a full year 15 years ago when she was in high school. Wedding was in Holland but reception was in Istanbul. Susan, Meredith, Karen and Mark attended the wedding while I stayed home to pay for Meredith s wedding. I then joined them in Istanbul for the reception. Great time had by all. I remain working as a civil trial lawyer but now say that I am in single digits and will do this for something less than 10 more years if my health holds steady. I am swimming again and may begin competing in Master s events if I stick with it. Hope to see folks at the 40th reunion next June. From Steve O Grady: Never know if I should respond to 68 or 71 as it took me a while to get through. Son Stephen Jr. 97 was married Aug. 28 to Katherine Lynch (Middlebury 97) in Maine. Fifteen Williams alums in attendance including my brother Jeff 66 and sister Margie 78 and many Lax players. Jim Tam has been getting around the globe this year: After spending eight days touring Scotland, Linda and I visited Audrey and David Kubie in NYC at the same time we visited our son who lives and works there. The biggest thrill was golfing with David and meeting Mr. Golf Fix himself (Michael Breed s show is on Monday nights on the Golf Channel). I was sure to send a photo to Peter Wege, who had nothing but nice things to say as his swing has benefitted tremendously from Mr. Golf Fix. I plan to see Peter and Kathy in Sedona in November. Eduardo Montiel provided this update from Managua: I have been to Williamstown only once since I left at the end of my sophomore year but intend to make it to the 2011 class reunion in June. To briefly bring you up to date: After Williams, I obtained a management degree at MIT and a PhD in business (finance) from Harvard and have been in academia ever since. For a few years I was dean of INCAE, a business school based in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, where I now teach and chair the finance area. I was also minister of finance of my home country, Nicaragua, and established an investment promotion agency with support from the World Bank. My son graduated from Penn this past June, and my daughter is an engineer from the University of Michigan about to start her MBA (no Williams offspring!). Apart from teaching and writing, I now spend my time consulting, serving on boards and as much time as possible with my wife in a house by the beach close to the Costa Rican border. No plans to retire just yet. Hope to see you in June! Phil Camp writes: I have dusted off my resume and am seeking employment after a long stretch as a home entrepreneur/mad scientist/ discouraged worker. In less astounding news, Sue has become more active in music at church. (We re in the choir. Don t December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 45

48 CLASS NOTES laugh, I can sing pretty well; now I just need to learn to read music.) She is seeking a midlife career change to musician (not quitting the day job just yet).we would love to make it to reunion 11, but it looks tough right now. God bless you all. Finally, Mark Pearson took advantage of Williams connections in the next phase of his building project: Mary and I generally take a big, long, often foreign, trip every other year, so this was the stay-at-home summer except for a brief jaunt to the Berkshires a play in Williamstown and a trip to the Norman Rockwell Museum. Other than that, lots of going to baseball games with Sox affiliates Portland and Lowell, doing much better than the team that plays in the Fens. It was a great summer for vegetable and herb gardens, fruit trees and berry bushes, so lots of canning. Work is progressing on the grounds at our healing center in Kingston, N.H., with a memorial garden and Ten Commandments/Beatitudes monument site. Nice places for people to hang out, poke around, pray and ponder while waiting for their medical or counseling or massage appointment, or for someone they brought for an appointment. We re raising funds for building #2, which, like the first one, is in a slightly modernized 18th century style. Since the second building will incorporate a chapel and have a steeple, I knew I needed things more technical than just pretty coffee table books of New England colonial churches. So, I called the art department and asked for whichever professor most knew architecture. Said professor referred me to a Williams graduate who is an architect and loves this style, and quicker than one can sing The Mountains my architect son-inlaw had in his possession reprints of James Gibbs and Asher Benjamin s treatises on Georgian SENDPHOTOS W illiams People accepts photographs of alumni gatherings and events. Please send photos to Williams magazine, P.O. Box 676, Williamstown, Mass High-quality digital photos may be ed to alumni. review@williams.edu. 46 Williams People December 2010 style church architecture. (Gibbs designed St. Martin s in the Fields, next to the British Museum, and really is the father of the style; Benjamin was a prominent New England architect in the latter 18th century.) The Williams community, as always, is there for each other. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this edition, and please remember to save the dates for our 40th reunion in Williamstown, June Jim Armstrong 600 W. 115th St., Apt. 112 New York, NY David Webster 596 Arbor Vitae Road Winnetka, IL secretary@williams.edu Cande Olsen reports that in September she competed in the ITU Triathlon World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, representing Team USA. My event was a triathlon consisting of a 1.5-kilometer swim, a 40-kilometer bike ride and a 10-kilometer run. I qualified for this race based on my performance at the 2009 USA Triathlon National Championship in the women s age group (finally it s good to be 60!). In Budapest, there were 19 competitors in my age group, and I placed eighth overall and first for Team USA! USA Triathlon coordinated our weeklong stay and provided training practices, transportation, medical staff, bike mechanics, etc. Budapest is a beautiful city known for its historic architecture and for the spectacular views along the Danube River, which is spanned by eight bridges, each with its own history and style. The city is normally crowded with people and traffic, making it a challenge to bike and run, but on race day the course was closed to traffic. This gave us the opportunity to really take in the beauty of the city as we were biking and running along the river and over the bridges. For the last five years I ve been competing in triathlons at the local and national level at the sprint, Olympic and half-ironman distances. I have frequently come in first in local races, but the national and international level is a whole new experience! It s all been very rewarding, with the additional benefits of meeting lots of wonderful people and being in the best shape of my life. Cande was to compete in the 2010 USA Triathlon National Championships, hoping to qualify for the 2011 ITU Triathlon World Championships, which will be held in Beijing. Mary Brown sent the following from New Orleans: For the past three years I ve been working as vice dean for administration at Tulane University School of Medicine. If you have a child in our med school who needs a word of advice, send him or her my way. We actually have a few Williams alums in this year s first-year class. My older daughter, Rebecca, got married in February, and my baby, Erin, just got engaged. I feel so old! I have even started making my bucket list which, of course, includes working until I m 106, unless the stock market miraculously recovers. In this day and age of tightfistedness, I still defend the marvelous benefits of a small liberal arts college. There is nothing like it for expanding your world view and giving one a delight in learning. Thank you, Williams. Eliza Mathieu writes from Jackson Hole: Although James and I are no longer married, each of us, by chance, within a couple of hours, enjoyed meeting Barbara Bradley Hagerty 81, religion correspondent for NPR. She was here briefly this summer speaking at my church about her terrific new book, Fingerprints of God. Then I happily heard from David Webster. I was delighted to help him with a few ideas for his family vacation in Wyoming this summer. He decided to forgo a visit to a mining operation in Gillette (which I actually thought would be fun, as a second-tier [!] choice of activity), and the dinosaurs in Thermopolis were off the route, so they visited the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana instead. The great part was that they also visited me. It was terrific fun to have Lucia and David, their stunning, adorable, bright daughter Jessie, and David s Scottish cousins David and Gillian Wright all staying with me. We laughed far into the night, walked along the Snake River, breakfasted on my deck looking at the Tetons and generally fell in step like family. I felt as if it were my vacation. It reminded me how much I miss my Williams friends. So come one, come all to see me in Jackson Hole ski season approaches! I spoke with Parker Croft, who was in Vermont selling his

49 n cattle. He and Michelle took their four children to Turkey on a Williams family trip for their honeymoon/family vacation. He rounds out his and Michelle s tea farm in Hawaii with goats and chickens, so if you visit them you can pound nails on the family compound he s building, after a scrumptious breakfast of a goat cheese omelet and steaming tea. Classmates were notified by in August that Jim Cornell had been in a bad biking accident, suffering a broken neck and serious head trauma, among other injuries. The reports at first were grim, but gradually the news from Babette Jenny, Jim s wife, got better, including that Jim had been transferred to the Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital. In September Jim himself wrote to Harry Kangis that he had been discharged and was back home on the farm in Unionville, Pa., with outpatient therapy three days a week. There s still a long way to go, but the prognosis is good. Jim thanks Harry for getting the word out and welcomes s or phone calls from all 72ers. We have gone through some changes since the last time I reported in, writes Scott Briggs. About a year ago, we pulled up stakes in the Bay Area and moved to Alta, Utah. We had been going there to ski for 25 years daughter Marly 04 manages one of the lodges there. But the main impetus came when our 11-yearold found out there is a satellite campus of the Sandy public school system in the ski-area base lodge. He knew heaven when he saw it. We were able to convince one of the homeowners (there are few homes and condos in Alta the canyon is narrow, and avalanche danger rules out most building sites) to part with his property, and we ve been very happily ensconced ever since. It s a relief to leave the political and fiscal dysfunction of California behind. We still get our ocean fix in the summer at our R.I. home, and I m doing a number of longhaul ocean (sailing) races in the shoulder seasons, but winter is now all about enjoying 60 feet of snowfall a year with lots of visits from our family. And, modern communications being what they are, I can live in a National Forest and still keep up with my business responsibilities. Life is grand. Our son Jonathan and wife Phebe (both 01) have graced us with another grandson Elliot (called Eli) was born in July 09, took his first steps a couple of weeks ago and so is obviously ready to join his brother Toby on the slopes this winter. Our daughter Julia is getting married this December, and Marly has indicated she won t be too far behind, so more grandbabies are in the offing. Mayke has written a really nice children s book, Here You Are, which is selling well, primarily through Amazon, and I ve recently found myself quite busy designing and computer-modeling home construction the tools to do this have become incredibly powerful over the past five years, and they radically improve communication between the homeowner, the designer and the builder. From Williamstown, Mary Lou DeWitt writes: Things are pretty calm on our end, which is just the way we like it! Son Tyler is starting his third year of a PhD program in biochem at MIT and is doing some exciting research on E. coli bacteria. Daughter Erica 09 graduated from the Gemological Institute of America in May and is now employed at David Yurman in Manhattan. She has become quite the city girl, loving her job, her new digs in Williamsburg (Brooklyn) and the French toast bagels she can get at the bagel shop around the corner from her apartment. Bill and I continue to enjoy the country and all the perks that go along with living in Williamstown and the Berkshires. He is gearing up for Bio 101 this semester and his course on biological clocks for next spring, and I m busy designing and weaving fiber pieces for exhibit and commission. Judy Stein is the executive director of the Center for Medicare Advocacy, a nonprofit law firm she opened in 1986 that s headquartered in Connecticut with offices in DC and around the country. We work in myriad ways to advance access to Medicare and necessary health care, and we have been very active in pushing for health care reform. We provide a wide array of legal and education services, from individual appeals and talks at senior centers to writing a treatise, pursuing class-action litigation, and participating in policy development at the national level. Last year I was fortunate to be one of the speakers at First Lady Michelle Obama s White House forum on women and health reform. I have two wonderful grown daughters, Kate (Yale 98), who has three adorable children, and Rachel (Brown 00), who just got married this summer. I have been happily married for 15 years to Ken Dardick, a family doctor. We and our standard poodle Henry live in Storrs, Conn., near UConn, home of women s basketball. I learned a great deal at Williams, not the least of which was how to navigate in a man s world. I think fondly and gratefully of my Williams times and friends. Will Thorn and Carol are in the U.S. for leave and consultations after completion of Will s long-term Moscow assignment for the U.S. Commercial Service, the trade promotion arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce s International Trade Administration. Moscow was both challenging and rewarding, and Will hopes for more of the same at his next post, as commercial attaché at the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels. The Thorns lived in the embassy compound in Moscow but plan to live in a residential neighborhood in Brussels. At a welcome-home combined 60th birthday and 35th wedding anniversary party, Will caught up with Chuck Downs and Harry Barschdorf. Chuck is president and CEO of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, located in Washington; Harry continues to do IT systems consulting work from northern Virginia, and he told Will that he and wife Alison have developed a strong passion for hiking in the beautiful eastern woodlands and mountains. In Boston Will and Carol saw Terry and Cas Groblewski, and while visiting former colleagues at MEDecision in Wayne, Pa., Will ran into that company s executive VP and CMO, Andy Schuyler, who does a weekly commute from and to his home in Springfield, N.J. Finally, on a quick trip to northern California, Will caught up with Lindsay Beaman in San Rafael. Lindsay had just returned from taking son Garrett to begin his first year at Cornell. Co-secretary Webster returned home from his family trip to Wyoming and Montana in July to find a message from James Mathieu. Since our breakfast at the Wort Hotel in Jackson, with just 2, Silver Dollars embedded in the Silver Dollar Bar, I applied for (and was accepted) in the master s program in spiritual psychology at the University of Santa Monica. It December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 47

50 CLASS NOTES is designed as a distance-learning program; however, I am required to attend (in person) 10 three-day seminars in Santa Monica a year for the next two years. Ironic, since returning to SoCal is (in the proverbial, existential, literary application) like going home after just 42 years away. I do love a good road trip, and now I have 20 lined up like planes hovering over O Hare. I am already looking forward to Dodger home games, real Mexican food, Pacific sunsets with the Channel Islands silhouetted across the horizon offshore, sitting in the early morning fog in my wetsuit and then picking off a liquid mountain to ride, and ranging out in Nevada s hinterlands looking for wild mustangs, new ideas, new discomforts, books on tape, brilliant stars in the desert night skies and miles (and miles) of western landscape therapy on both sides of my Volvo. David adds that after our visit in July, James sent me a copy of Paul Lieberman s 71 video Mr. Gaudino, featuring contributions from James, Dale Riehl, Gary Patteson and Mark Blundell, among others, which is superb and highly recommended. I m still living in Tacoma and recently hired my replacement as president of Northwest Cascade, writes Steve Barger. The company continues to expand in a variety of unglamorous businesses civil and geotechnical construction, septic services, and portable toilets. I ve endured countless jokes about the nature of our operations, but we ve grown to 500 employees and believe we are #1 in the #2 business on the West Coast. I plan to work part time for a few years, focusing on finding new customers. This will be a challenge, as private construction work has stalled in the Northwest. With my newfound free time I m traveling more, spending more time on four boards for community organizations and simply playing more. I trained for the Olympia marathon (finishing fourth in the 60-plus group) and lowered my golf handicap. On the golf front, I spent four days at Bandon Dunes in Oregon, and I just returned from Ireland, where I played 10 links courses on the southwest coast a wonderful experience! I made a few errant swings but was flawless in the pubs. On the final flight of my return trip, I sat next to Oliver Babson 97 (son of Brad and Kitty Earle Babson), his wife Jamie and 48 Williams People December 2010 their adorable baby daughter Skyler. Small world! It was fun to hear about Oliver s work with the Gates Foundation. Mary continues to enjoy her work at a public Montessori school in Tacoma, and our kids are both in California. Sarah 02 works for DraftFCB advertising in San Francisco, and Ben works with troubled teenagers at a high school in Willits, Mendocino County. We are able to visit them quite often. All of us spent a great long weekend in July with Bill Boeger and family at their beautiful Sun Valley home. We re looking forward to another trip there in October, when we ll have a 72 minireunion with Judy Buttenheim Stevens, Dori Jacobson and significant others. The rain and gray days have returned to Seattle, so we re looking forward to seeing the sun again on a trip to Mexico in December. Life is good, and crossing into the dreaded 60s has been painless thus far. Good health and happiness to all! Peter West writes: I have survived a seven-year fight against prostate cancer, with chemotherapy now stopped and male hormones slowly returning over a year s time, to normalcy sort of a sultan s harem guard: certified safe. Lew Steele dropped us a line to mention that he had dinner with Bob Gordon while passing through New Jersey recently. In June Lew and Charlie Rubin, Paul Isaac, Dan Pinello, Mitch Rapoport, Tony Robins and Chris West and spouses and partners got together in NYC for an excellent repast and evening of good conversation. Charlie Rubin had such a good time that rumors indicate that he plans on coming to the next reunion. Perhaps the best part of the dinner was the homemade bread Mitch and his wife brought, made at their bakery in Connecticut, Wave Hill Breads Lew remains with the Office of State Review in Albany, working on special-education appeals Cole Werble 2540 Massachusetts Ave., NW Apt. 204 Washington, DC secretary@williams.edu From the summer vacation reports from 73 comes a story with a message for our group of turning-60, aging boomers. It s a story of new beginnings and positive restarts and the drama takes place appropriately in Williamstown. The way the story was told to your class secretary, Tom Hyndman and Marty Doggett trekked to Williamstown over the summer for an alumni golf event on the Taconic course. They were dragging around the course having a mediocre round when the skies opened up and the course was deluged and then cleared of contestants. By tournament rules, when the match restarted, it began de novo. With their pedestrian start erased, Hyndman and Doggett began anew and soared to new heights, eventually capturing their flight. Another classmate took flight over the summer in a different way, embarking on a whirlwind around-the-world trip taking advantage of the extensive network of Williams stopping points along the way. Doug Ray writes that as campaign director at Palm Beach Day Academy, he found himself with six weeks off this summer. He and his wife Melissa dug immediately into frequent flyer miles and booked an around-the-world-in-40-days odyssey. A key part of the journey was taking advantage of as many Williams Club reciprocal rights as possible. Doug s report: Alas, no reciprocal clubs in Shanghai, Rotorua (New Zealand), Budapest or the Loire Valley. But we can attest to fabulous accommodations at the Royal Automobile Club of Australia, Raffles Town Club in Singapore and the East India Club in London. Doug was so charmed, he says the 75 hours of flying was even enjoyable (many movies and more than a few free beverages ), and he is already planning his next airborne circumnavigation. On his next trip, he will glean away the chaff and stay only in cities with a Williams Club connection. Jerry Wheelock also took advantage of academic perks to see more of the world, his trip courtesy of Harvard. We spent three weeks in St. Petersburg, Russia, writes Jerry. His wife had a gig teaching Harvard Summer School students aspects of St. Petersburg history and culture. It was actually a re-gig reprising a similar teaching stint in 2009, which is making Jerry a bit of a regular in the no-night world of St. Petersburg in midsummer. We did this last year and had the same apartment and friends. We arrived on June

51 n In July, Ephs from the classes of 1961 to 2006 gathered in Williamstown for Alumni Cycling Weekend. 21, when they celebrate midsummer s eve with bands and fireworks at 2 a.m. when it gets somewhat dark. Jerry notes he had much of the day to himself (after dropping his 8-year-old off at camp). With his growing cultural ties to the Russian showplace, he was able to go behind the scenes with personal tours to such sites as the art storage facility for the Hermitage amazing climatecontrolled building and art that the public has yet to see. He also took at trip to the ancient capital, Novgorod, where he saw the spectacular ancient fort, rang bells by hand, saw where Ivan the Terrible tossed most of the rebellious population off a bridge. But visiting the treacherous bridge must have brought his thoughts back quickly to home, where modern Ivans are throwing the financial services population off the bridge. Right after noting the trip to Novgorod, Jerry comments: The financial services/mutual fund industry continues to be under pressure from competitors and the new consolidated banks. Surviving layoffs and being able to do more with less continues to be the name of the game. Williams 73-in-Kenya was active again last summer with Chris Zook, wife Donna and sons Andrew and Alex tracking black rhinos and bull elephants on foot with cameras and a masai warrior. Chris says they survived four close incidents and had a great family bonding experience. Chris lives in Amsterdam in a restored 1661 canal house. He works at Bain as head of strategy practice while writing business books for Harvard Press. He sends a gracious welcome to other classmates passing through Amsterdam to give a call and stop by for a beer and watch boats along the canal. That certainly sounds safer than walking with him in Kenya. Bain also figures prominently in another classmate s news. Lucy Calkins reports that her son Evan Skorpen 11 has already signed on with Bain to start after graduation. Her older son, Miles, works at McKinsey. Lucy is the founding director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University s Teachers College. She also writes classroom reading series for the elementary level, having just completed a series of 10 books. She says that she remains active in supporting urban school reform. The 73 social consciousness lives on with Peter Klejna, who reports planning to start back to school for a master s. He starts at the Smith College School for Social Work in June The same spirit infuses Bill Tartar, who was ordained an Elder in the Apostolic denomination. He is now an associate minister, preaching, providing marital and pre-marital counseling and assisting men and women who are returning from incarceration. Bill lives in the Cleveland suburb of South Euclid (where he has been for 22 years). Bill should have a good deal of wisdom and perspective for advice for a happy event within his family. His eldest son, Will Jr., is to be married in May James Fraser Darling (one of the revered stalwart news contributors for 73) was ministering to wayward souls of a different variety in London over the past summer. He reports participating as an usher for his church, which provided shelter and solace to overwhelmed street revelers from the Notting Hill Carnival. In another nuptials note, Bill Simon reports attending the Philadelphia wedding of his goddaughter Avery, Bill Eyre s eldest daughter. Simon reports at least two Eph sightings at the wedding (Jim Marver 72 and Albert Oehrle 62) and a solid, understanding cameo role by the father of the bride. Eyre even allowed us to occasionally refer to him by his real name, The Beef, Simon says. All around, the wedding sounded like a lively, upbeat and super event, and then a detail slipped out about the groom playing hockey for the Pittsburgh Penguins organization. To a diehard Caps fan, that changes the whole tone. My condolences to Bill the father and Bill the godfather. Dave Butts reports on a thoroughly Williams wedding: Williams parents, bride and groom, and Williamstown as the scene of the happy event. David Butts 06 married Erika Latham 06 on May 30 on Sheep Hill in the Purple Valley. It was a full week of events, commencing May 23 with the bride s graduation from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. Larry Shoer provided part of the transportation across Massachusetts in a vintage MG. The pre-wedding week saw ideal early summer activities in the Purple Valley: Taconic golf outing, hiking, visits to the Clark, etc. Steve Hobbs flew in from California and played in the golf outing, served as the unofficial wedding photographer and contributed on acoustic guitar to the evenings Buttstock live music. Bob and Lucy Beck 75 were also at Williams for the week. More Ephs arrived for the ceremony itself. Joseph Shoer 06 was best man; Taya Latham 07 was a bridesmaid as was David s daughter Kristen. David s son is completing a PhD in engineering at MIT next year; he seems to have a great start on that career, having engineered a successful minireunion around his wedding. Chip Horne writes that another recent second-generation Eph, oldest son Alex 08, started medical school at the University of Colorado. From his Rocky Mountain home, Chip has pulled a NESCAC trifecta. Second son Ben graduated from Middlebury in June. Youngest son Will December 2010 Williams PeoPle 49

52 CLASS NOTES matriculated at Bowdoin last fall. Chip is still practicing law in Colorado and says that he is hoping to squeeze out another five years or so of gainful employment. Website photos show Chip looking very youthful, but gainful employment in law? That sounds challenging. Field Horne called with breaking news in mid-september. He reports buying one third ownership of Saratoga Living magazine. He already provides editorial content for the magazine, doing historical research on the Saratoga Springs area for a section called Saratoga Heritage. Field seems undaunted by the trends against print. Field also tracks down Ephs around the world. He reports seeing Mack Stewart in Munich in late August. He and wife Thurid, daughter Jessica (soon to be a medical doctor) and son Jeremy (working for Philip Morris in Munich) were leaving for his father s 90th in Lincoln on Sept. 3. Mack is still a rep for a veneer company. He sees Randy Perry, also in Munich, very rarely. One final report on vacation activities is the type of trip designed to warm a secretary s heart: a journey full of visits to classmates made by Phil Dodd, a past class secretary. Phil and his wife Fran had the hard task of finding a way to escape the heat of Vermont. Where do you go when you are already in an ideal summer spot? Fran and I took a pleasant two-week driving tour through Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Phil reports, to one peninsula where the summer temperature has not topped 80 degrees in at least the last five years. The trip brought him in contact with the Ephladen Kingston clan: We stayed for a night with Jim and Jessie Kingston, both 75, at their fine summer home near Lunenburg. Jim s brother Paul and Jane Kingston 74 (Wellesley exchange) were also visiting, so we had a great minireunion. Phil, Paul and Jim had a simultaneous high school minireunion. They went to Loomis together before Williams. Paul and Jane, who were roaming New England from their Charlottesville, Va., home, had previously visited on Cape Cod with Tom Parker 75 as well as with Jim Rooney and Sue McFarlan. I hope other members of 73 are taking notes on these two intersecting road trips and are starting early to plan similar news-laden trips for Williams People December Jonathan W. Fitch 5 Cedar Hill Road Dover, MA secretary@williams.edu Hats off to Paul Stekler, the George Christian Centennial Professor in Communication at the University of Texas at Austin, on his recent appointment as chair of UT s Department of Radio-Television-Film. In a UT newspaper article, the dean of the College of Communication is quoted as saying, Since joining the department as production area head, Paul has overseen large-scale revisions in both the graduate and undergraduate curricula and has recruited working filmmakers to the faculty. As a result, Radio-TV-Film production and screenwriting programs offer nearly 50 classes each semester to more than 1,000 students all taught by working narrative and documentary filmmakers and screenwriters with national credits. Paul has taught documentary film production at The University of Texas at Austin since His own documentary credits include George Wallace: Settin the Woods on Fire, winner of a Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award; Vote for Me: Politics in America, winner of an Emmy, a dupont-columbia Journalism Award and a Peabody Award; Last Man Standing: Politics, Texas Style, which aired on PBS s P.O.V. series in 2004; two of the Eyes on the Prize civil rights history films; and The Choice, PBS s Frontline series film on the Obama-McCain election, which was seen by an audience of more than 10 million. Currently Paul is in production on Getting Back to Abnormal, a film about New Orleans five years after Katrina. After receiving a PhD in government from Harvard, Paul began a career in academics at Tulane, where he says he discovered that documentary filmmaking, as opposed academic scholarship, was his real passion. Paul, if you are looking for material for your next documentary, do you have to look any farther than the great Class of 1974? President Fran Doran was kind to share a note with us from Elizabeth Kalb 11, a recipient of our class s Sponsored Internship Program. Elizabeth spent last summer working in the emergency department at New York- Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center. Elizabeth writes, As a research associate, my primary responsibility was to speak with patients in the ED and enroll eligible patients in ongoing clinical studies. The information gathered from such studies is imperative for improvements in patient care and the advancement of medical knowledge. Additionally, I was able to interact with underserved patients and listen to their unique stories. At the onset of my final year at Williams as a pre-medical student, my work this summer allowed me to apply my education in a tangible way. Furthermore, my interests in pursuing medical school after graduation and serving those less fortunate have been confirmed. Thank you for your generosity offering financial support for the internship program. With the grant, I was able to explore the healthcare industry during a critical time period. This clinical exposure will not be forgotten, and I know that it will influence my future pursuits. Well done Elizabeth! You ve made a grand case for our class s undertaking and provided a superb talking point for those who will be calling us as the end of the year approaches! Fran s daughters (both Ephs) just started graduate school (one in law, the other in medicine), and that his son is entering teaching. Fran also writes of a round of golf on the Yale course in early August with Bob Patterson, Rick Vancisin and Rick s dad Joe. (Rick s father, if you don t know it already, is the winningest coach in Yale basketball history.) Fran reports, Coach Vancisin shot 99 at age 88! We expect no less of Fran, Bob and Rick, er, 30 years hence. It was great to receive a letter from Raul Nobre Martins, who took me up on my request for reflection. From his native Brazil, Raul writes, Having been an AFS exchange student in the U.S. (a HS senior in the DC area) and coming from a Southern Hemisphere country (where school calendars follow the calendar year), I twice made the South- North-South transfer, and each time it added an extra semester to my schooling. By the time I got to Williams for our junior year I was as old as most seniors. So, 38 years later and ahead of most people in our class, this past April I entered the 60-something troupe and had a 6.0 New Version Launch Party for family members and a few friends. Coming from a family of seven brothers and

53 n sisters and being close to several cousins, it means there were close to 100 people at lunchtime. It was very enjoyable. Here in Brazil senior citizens (those over 60) have privileges like special parking spots and ticket discounts. Several decades after finishing my undergraduate studies I am again paying half-price for movie tickets and having no-line priority service whenever I go to the bank. Nice small touches. Professionally I am not retired and actually hope to never do so. One nice feature about being an architect is that one can fine tune workload and project preferences as one grows older and more experienced. (Oscar Niemeyer, a Pritzker Prize winner and this country s bestknown architect, is still working at age 102.) I still work more than 50 hours a week enjoying a lot what I do and remain very active within professional organizations. I had always known that life does not start at 40 but actually at the time of birth (or perhaps even before that). What I am finding out now is that at 60 it keeps going as strong as ever. To all of you saying goodbye to your 50s, I can testify that it is nice to be 60! Our extraordinary adventurer and celebrated scientist Bruce Beehler writes that he spent June and July in New Guinea, studying the impact of climate change on wildlife and the forest people in a remote upland ecosystem. He says, As things get warmer, the wildlife tends to head uphill to cooler climes. Also the agricultural systems the local people depend upon change because of shifts in temperature and rainfall. There is no doubt in these local people s minds that climate change has already arrived in a big way they can recount all sorts of changes they are reacting to. Bruce also mentioned a name from the past, On the local side, I attended the U.S. Open Tennis with Dave Sawyer, who spent his freshman year with us in Williams Hall and then transfered to Swarthmore. That day in Flushing Meadow saw the players and fans wilting in the unrelenting heat and sunshine. Bruce has worked on important endeavors for years at Conservation International and is now serving as its senior director, Biodiversity Assessment & Ecosystem Health, in the Science and Knowledge Division. Congratulations to another of the Class of 1974 s stellar scientists, Doug Miller, whose book Modern Surgical Neuropathology won the first prize in the neurology section at the British Medical Association s annual book competition. Doug was happily surprised: I was unable to attend the dinner, especially since I only learned about a week before the dinner that the publisher had entered the book in the competition, and I had no idea it would win. (I couldn t have found free time to go to the UK that week anyway). Another of Doug s books, the Atlas of Clinical Neurology, 3rd edition, was published in September. On the family front, Doug was proud to report that one of his sons has begun work as an assistant prosecutor for the district attorney of Bronx County, while another son is teaching in the DC school system. In response to one of my pleas for news, President Emeritus Jeff Johnson writes, My online advice column ( is now being published in newspapers in MA (The North Adams Transcript!), NY and FL. And I ve just started a humor blog called Things Your Dog Doesn t Want You to Know ( for all the dog lovers out there. I ve been hanging out with Eva Grudin in Williamstown who swears that the Class of 1974 was the single best class ever. I guess we would all agree. Speaking of Jeff, Grace Terzian writes, I had a pleasant Williams interlude this summer visiting my 19-year-old daughter Gracie, who was an acting apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. She s a theater major at the University of Virginia, and she enjoyed getting a taste of the Purple Valley. It was certainly a flashback for me. Jeff Johnson and Hy Conrad put me up in their lovely home in Pownal and even organized a gathering including Bill Finn, our beloved art history professor Eva Grudin and Wick Sloane 75 and his wife Betsy. News shorts: Jack Dill spent two weeks in September with Colette touring the Denali National Park and other areas of Alaska. Jane Holdren writes that she and husband Jack continue their consulting careers, very much looking forward to retirement. She says, Our hearts lie with our horses (Peruvian Pasos) and the equestrian center that we are building in central Mexico, to retire to with our horses. Bill Suda sent a note expressing shock over the passage of 40 years since freshman days. And finally, in July my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed the production of Pool Boys, a musical written by students of Bill Finn, at the Barrington Stage Company. The production was a part of the BSC theater lab, which Bill leads. I hope that many of us will meet up with a classmate (or two or 30), in the coming months. The Annual Holiday Lunch in NYC expertly orchestrated every year by Jeff Elliott was a perfect opportunity for such good cheer. I hope you were able to make it this year. In the spirit of that occasion, the very best wishes to all for happiness and good health in the holiday season and the New Year! 1975 Julia Berens 22 Sperry Lane Lansing, NY secretary@williams.edu Like many of you, my memory isn t what it used to be, so I wanted to be sure when exactly I first undertook the job of class secretary. I found a rather dingy copy of the Williams Alumni Review from the summer of 1980 where class secretary Mike Rosten wrote that he was passing the baton to me. One significant change since 1980 is the intimidating, bright purple, 20-page How To Write for Williams style guide, which for a retired high school English teacher presents a special set of challenges. On the brighter side, has made the solicitation of news far easier than it was years ago. So here goes It should come as no surprise that Bob Kittredge was the first to send an that summed up highlights of our reunion. Bob acknowledged the courage that many classmates attributed to his wife for both marrying him and coming to a reunion. Suffice it to say, she is a trooper all around! Class President Tim Reny sent an e-card of the Williams Chippendales: Joe Bonn, Chuck Chokel, Gordon Earle, Bart Nourse and Tim. Joe and Chuck looked extremely giddy and pleased with themselves, while Gordon (clearly the leader of the pack) appeared a bit bored with the whole endeavor. Bart sent his own piece of news (with no reference to the e-card): Had a great fishing weekend with Dave Terkla, Kurt Van Steemburg and Tim Reny at Dave s place on Lake Winnepesaukee in New Hampshire back in mid-august. Timmy caught his first fish... December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 51

54 CLASS NOTES ever! Van taught me fly-fishing techniques. Dave cooked up and smoked up one of the best fish suppers I ve ever had. Am in regular contact with Peter C. Johnson 76, Angus Laird 73 and Hardin Coleman about our online videos of master teachers nationwide. Kurt s report of the weekend is that it was more foodfest than fishing. His additional happy news is that his son Peter 03 is to marry Alicia Andrews 03 in Williamstown in March, and his daughter is in grad school in Edinburgh and Skye, spending this fall in Cambodia and Thailand. Over the summer Kurt spent a quiet weekend in Pownal with Lisa and Peter Hillman, whose son Spencer was at golf camp at Williams and showed skill in driving golf balls off the patio and into the woods. Kurt s not-so-happy news is that when he renewed his passport, he could no longer call his hair color brown. Unable to use the g word, he settled on silver. At least three women from 75 traveled to Alaska last summer. Wendy Gradison and husband spent time on the Kenai Peninsula and in Denali. They kayaked to a calving glacier and saw grizzlies, moose, caribou, Dall sheep, whales, porpoises and sea otters. Larry and I took a 30th anniversary cruise/land trip through Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, Anchorage, Wasilla, Denali and Fairbanks; I couldn t agree more with Wendy s assessment of the incredible beauty of the place. Melissa McGuire also went to Alaska with daughter Nora Kern 12. If I d had the time in Anchorage, I would have looked up Michael Parise, who has been practicing law in Alaska for 30 years. Sending a message while riding a train to Kyoto, Suzanne Fluhr lauded the perks of academic medicine. She and Steve Albelda were traveling in Japan, where Steve was speaking at an international conference for mesothelioma researchers. Meredith Fox and Rich Finkelstein have left upstate New York for Virginia, where SENDNEWS! Y our class secretary is waiting to hear from you! Send news to your secretary at the address at the top of your class notes column. 52 Williams PeoPle December 2010 From left, Jo Ellen Harrison 79 and E.J. Johnson 59 gathered with 1975 classmates Susie Read Cronin, Chan Lowe and Ned Reade at the Harrison Gallery on Spring Street during Reunion Weekend in June. Rich took a position as dean of University of Mary Washington. In September, Rich and two other old Morgan Easters, Jeff Jacobs and Anton Bestebreurtje, met in Fredericksburg to celebrate Rich s new position. Anton also sent some family vacation photos, which included his daughter s fiancé, whose last name is a shorter but equally difficult spelling challenge. Alicia Kershaw of Gallop NYC, a therapeutic riding program, was featured as NY1 s New Yorker of the Week. Alicia writes that the organization offers therapeutic riding lessons to about 150 riders a week at three locations in NYC, two-thirds of them at no cost or a nominal cost. About half our riders are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and research is showing that therapeutic riding provides measurable benefits to kids with ASD. Congratulations to Alicia for this great work and for having three children who all have jobs, including her son, a senior in college, who has already accepted an offer after graduation. Nancy Gallt and Barbara Rubin visited Alicia in Maine last summer, and both are well. Classmates reporting rites of passage include Claire Blum, whose younger daughter read from the Torah at her bat mitzvah and whose older daughter began the college search, visiting Nova Scotia and Amherst. Claire is also busy working on town projects including the planning of a tercentennial. Amy and Allan Ruchman are experiencing the empty nest with sons Zach and Gus on different continents. Zach, a Princeton graduate, is on a Fulbright in Amman, Jordan, where Phoebe Sloane, daughter of Wick Sloane 76, is one of his contacts. Allan writes that his son Gus has deferred his start at Harvard to take a gap year with a group called Global Citizen Year. He will be going to Senegal, doing a community service project and living with a family. In addition to learning some French, the local lingo he will need to learn is Wolof. I took very little Wolof at Williams so I really can t help him. My Southern Tier neighbor Akua Lezli Hope, forever upbeat despite (in her words) profound physical challenges, is trying to start a paratransit nonprofit in Corning, N.Y. While she has had a positive response from out-oftown friends willing to help, she still needs to find a local treasurer. Lezli continues to write and send out manuscripts (her poetry is gorgeous!) and design jewelry and accessories, which can be viewed at akuadesigns.esty.com. I have told Lezli that if she is willing, I will find a way to get her to our 40th reunion. Several s made reference to our reunion; apparently the glow had not completely faded. Ned Reade was pleased to show his art on Spring Street and reiterated Chan Lowe s story of E.J. Johnson s 59 recognition of Tom Lockhart 34 years later as the streaker in his Art 101 class. Nancy Reece Jones summed up what many of us enjoy about returning to Williams; she reveled in the experience of being around people who didn t need to be told how beautiful the purple mountains really are or be

55 n convinced of the value of a liberal arts education. Nancy is writing articles for local magazines and newspapers and exercising her horseback riding muscles as well. She also volunteers with hospice and has done extensive reading on the death passage. It sounds as if Nancy has a very full and fulfilling life. Dean Cycon and I discovered a surprise connection we have through San Lucas Toliman, a small community in Guatemala, which I visited while on a church mission trip in January to build stoves, tie rebar and pick coffee beans. It turns out that Dean s coffee career began with a visit more than 20 years ago to San Lucas, where he met Father Greg Schaffer, a native Minnesotan, who has been the mission priest in San Lucas for more than 40 years. Dean s daughter Sarah, a sophomore at U of Penn studying international health, is involved with a women s health project in Guatemala, working with the teen daughters of women her dad began working with many years ago. Daughter Aliya, 16, is attending the Kirov Academy of Ballet in DC, on track to become a professional ballerina. Dean has had a busy year traveling to Timor, Kenya and Indonesia, working on fair trade, social justice and people-centered development projects in coffee communities we buy from. Because Charlotte Vaughan Winton had never missed a reunion until our 35th, I decided I had to give her the blow-byblow version of events in person and made a quick trip to San Francisco in July and happily missed some of the 90-plus-degree heat of the Northeast. While visiting the de Young Museum, we ran into Tom 73 and Robyn Durrell Geissler, one of whom was actually looking at the exhibits while the other was taking a nap on a bench. We enjoyed a leisurely cup of coffee (had to wake up the napper!) and had several laughs catching up on family news and Williams friends. We also traveled to Los Gatos to meet up with Carol and Rich Pickard, who treated us to an amazing, too-many-courses-to-count dinner at Manresa. Charlotte, Rich and I, with nine children among us, celebrated the final college graduations in each family. Last and very far from least, the Purple Valley has lost one of its most die-hard, nearly native sons to the green hills of New Hampshire. Congratulations to Harry Sheehy, who accepted an offer to become the athletic director of Dartmouth. Those of us who have made regular trips to Williamstown over the years won t believe it until we get to Williamstown and look in the stands or on the sidelines and can t find the tall guy who always makes us laugh and embodies so many of the things about Williams that we love. Thanks to all who sent news keep it coming! 1976 REUNION JUNE 9-12 Jane Ray Kell 4 Springlake Place, NW Atlanta, GA Laurie Taylor 435 Grove St. Upper Montclair, NJ secretary@williams.edu Hello classmates. It was so good to hear from those who answered Jane s and my call for news. I am hoping that the rest of you are saving up all your news for the reunion next year and will get to share it with us then. Mark your calendars: reunion is June 9-12, I know Jane and I are looking forward to seeing all of you and hearing all of your news. In the meantime, it was nice to hear from Paula Moore Tabor. She reports that she spent several days last summer with Chris Woodring Seigrist and husband Rick 77 at their beautiful summer place in Maine. We had a blast playing in perfect weather. According to Paula, Ernie Roberts was in Williamstown with his son Trey, looking at Williams. She also spent time this past June with Al Gentry 78 and Marty Williams 78 and their families at the Babson College graduation celebration of Al s son Newman. Tom and Connie McEvoy traveled to Honolulu this past June to attend the wedding of Scott and Cynthia Schumaker s son Alec 10 to classmate Jane Kelly. According to Tom, It was a wonderful event at the Kelly home (they stocked ice-cold beer in an outrigger at the wedding, which will always endear them to me). A harbor dinner cruise and beach party added to the festivities. Scott actually gave the best (read: funniest) toast. It was a full house of Williams people, from the classmates of Alec and Jane to Scott s former law partner and Cynthia s dad. Eric Christiansen was in Williamstown the weekend of Aug , seeing a couple of shows at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and picking up his son Robin, who was completing his summer as an apprentice at the WTF. Eric said it brought back memories of the summer of 1973 when he and Tacey Phillips did this. Earlier in August, he got to ride in a parade on the back of a Corvette to celebrate being named 2010 Educator of the Year by the Greendale (Wis.) Chamber of Commerce. Kit Traub, his wife Ulrike and son Herbert, 10, returned to DC to a stateside posting for the first time in 13 years. What a difference a millennium makes. Herbert has started fifth grade, which is middle school in the Great Falls Church school system. I m relearning the corridors at the Department of State (where there is a secret cell of Williams grads) and Ulrike is doing the boxes for the 12th time in 17 years; not sure we have another move left in us. When we are settled, she will look for work again. It s a particularly tough career path for a Foreign Service professional spouse who does law, banking and management. With my expertise focusing on European and multilateral affairs, we ve managed to stay within striking distance of Vienna, so returning to visit Ulli s mom, Herbert s grandmother, has been a stable constant in an otherwise peripatetic existence. On the way home to DC from Europe this year, we had a fine summer break on the Lido in Venice, although we missed the Hotel des Bains, and then we did Florida family in Miami, a week at the beach, Kennedy Space Center and Mickey; Herbert is the right age for all of it. Joe Shaw is working at New Alliance Bank in West Springfield, Mass., as first VP and department manager of Massachusetts Business Banking Group. His wife Debi is running their bed and breakfast, The Worthington Inn. Trip, his son, graduated from UVM and is now developing an organic farm in Worthington, and his daughter Jessie will be graduating from UMass-Amherst, this year. Joe was very involved with canoe and kayak marathon racing for a number of years and was on the U.S. Marathon Kayak Team nine times. Although he has retired from the team, he is still active as a competitor in the December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 53

56 CLASS NOTES longer pro canoe marathons in U.S. and Canada and in a volunteer role as executive director of the U.S. Canoe Association and chair of the Marathon Sports Division of USA Canoe/Kayak. You can find press releases at Joe hopes to make it to reunion next June. Mary Raz is doing just fine. She moved to Sacramento from San Francisco for a new job with a U.K.-based company called Xyratex. She leads HR initiatives in the Americas and divides her time among three sites: Sacramento, Fremont and Lake Mary, Fla. Mary was slated to visit HQ in England before the end of As are many of us, Mary is in post-empty nest syndrome, as her son Jonathan went off to Pomona College in 2004, and her daughter Danielle to University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is an economics major. Jonathan got his BA in art history and Spanish language and literature in 2008, then went to Harvard Graduate School of Design but hated it, so now he s living in San Francisco, working as a paralegal for a firm that specializes in immigration law. Mary says he has found his passion and plans to apply to law school next year. Mary heard from Susan Collings, who left her development job at Harvard after many years to become director of development at The Art Connection, an organization that facilitates the donation of works between artists and nonprofits such as schools and homeless shelters. Susan is buying a home in Boston s South End to become a true urban dweller after many years in the suburb of West Newbury. Mary also is in touch with Acquanetta Williams 78 and reports that she is doing well, EPHCOMPLISHMENT living in College Park, Pa. Mary is going to try very hard to get to our 35th reunion. Tom Piazza is looking forward to reunion and hoped to make the October tailgate, as he was to be in residence at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. Things have been hectic and 54 Williams PeoPle December 2010 satisfying for him. His novel City of Refuge, which came out in 2008, won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction last year. He is at work on a new novel and is assembling a collection of his journalism and critical pieces, which HarperCollins will bring out next year, titled Devil Sent the Rain. For the past two years he has been one of the writers for the HBO drama series Treme, set in post-katrina New Orleans and created by David Simon of The Wire. Tom and his partner Mary Howell were busy in September with many interviews related to the five-year anniversary of Katrina, which they are both happy to see behind them. Tom says that he is incredibly proud to hear that Elvis Costello claims to have used imagery from City of Refuge for a song on his new CD National Ransom. Tom also spent some time with Jay McInerney when he was doing an article in New Orleans. Dave Trawick reports, All Eric Christiansen 76 was awarded the Charlie Herman Educator of the Year award by the Greendale, Wis., Chamber of Commerce. Christiansen is the theater director of Greendale High School, where he has taught since He also is chairman of the board of the Milwaukee-based charity NORMAL In Schools classmates and authors Jay McInerney (left) and Tom Piazza caught up with each other at Domilise s in New Orleans last summer. remains well in the Monk- Trawick household. Sam, my 11-year old, played goalie for the Pittsford Mustangs traveling squad this year while his brother Alex, now 9, for some reason favors baseball, a sport his father never really excelled in or liked. In keeping with our yearly tradition, at least one of the lads suffered a broken bone, this time being Sam, who fractured his right radius while racing Alex. However, the miracle of modern medicine provided him with a water-proof cast which allowed him to swim in the pond of Nickerson State Park in Cape Cod during our week off. Both kids favor their mom when it comes to sweet disposition and intelligence. My gift to them will be male pattern baldness, the gene for which I suspect I have passed to both, given the long history of chrome domes in my family. I remain happy as the fellowship director of the division of pulmonary and critical care at the University of Rochester. I continue to run, albeit at a much slower pace than my thinner days at Williams, and I have taken up downhill skiing (which is a necessity here in upstate NY). Sam and Alex find it a little embarrassing to ski with the old man, as they seem to take to the slopes like they were born on them. I once disappeared into a deep gully and was rescued by a couple who had to be in their 70s who happily skied on after pulling me out. I have no ego! Becky is training for an Olympic triathlon to be conducted in and around Lake Canandaigua in mid-september. The only thing that concerns me is how she will do during the swim in the lake given that the leaves here are already turning as the temperature drops. I will meet her at the end of with a flask of brandy. Otherwise (and I know I have said this before), I plan to attend the 35th reunion. I will wear my best pair of Dockers and my University of Louisville Basketball shirt so

57 n Chris Mavroides will be able to recognize me. Tom Blake is living in Belmont, Mass., with his wife of eight years Heather, his two sons and her son and daughter. Tom s oldest son, Matt, went to Harvard and is now working happily for a startup company in neighboring Watertown. His other son Jay is working at Trader Joe s in Cambridge and lives at home. Heather s son Trevor is a junior at Hartwick University in upstate NY, and daughter Abigail is a sophomore at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. Heather is a school nurse at one of the elementary schools in Belmont, and Tom is still running his building and remodeling business. He took a big hit in the recession and is regrouping. Tom also lost 40 pounds last year and is keeping quite active with hiking, biking and sailing. In August Meg Lowman had a life-changing expedition to Ethiopia, working on forest conservation with National Geographic and the Coptic churches. You can view photos/ blogs on Meg is starting her new job as director of the Nature Research Center in North Carolina, which is located in Raleigh, working on a science technology project linked to the NC State University system and she is looking forward to getting together with classmates there! Greg Etter writes that after leaving Dubai (just as the wheels were coming off that bus), I came back to work on the Obama campaign (yeah!) then headed to Kuwait, where I ve been posted for the past 18 months. Lots of bling bling, but I miss my family, so I m calling it quits in another year. If I m in U.S. for 35th I ll see you there. He also left an open invitation to anyone to drop by if you are ever in town. Ken Goode was hoping to get to reunion, but, given what s going on with his life, it doesn t look like it s going to happen. In 2005, I married for a second time and became an instant grandfather. Shortly thereafter, my son left for college and we became empty nesters and enjoyed it greatly. Kathie and I went on an African safari through the Williams alumni travel program and were planning on being in Denver for Obama s acceptance speech at the 2008 Convention. But a few days before we were to leave, things changed, and now we ve got another 14 years before we become empty nesters again. Long story, short, we ve joined the growing number of Americans who have become legal guardians of our grandchildren. It s certainly not the life we expected, but we re having a great time raising Hunter and Haylie, ages 4 and 6. We ve certainly learned why one has children at an earlier age especially two as active as these two are. Fortunately we ve kept ourselves in reasonably good shape (despite what the health insurance companies think) and are able to keep up with them most of the time. However, something had to give and, after a 30-plus year career in arts administration (most recently with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra), I ve retired. Anyone know any good babysitters? Bill Hudson writes that his son Michael, back from a third tour in Iraq, was awarded a Bronze Star Medal last summer. Mike, a U.S. Army captain and airborne ranger, lives in Hawaii with his wife Annie and their children William and Charles. Bill reports that he had a great summer: Children and grandchildren healthy and really good most of the time. Two tropical storms, one depression SWEET! The border area is a bit stressed, but the Rio Grande Valley is a great place to live and raise children. Bill hopes to make it back for the 35th. Unfortunately, not all the news I received was good news. Doug Smith sadly reported that his wife Françoise died of lung cancer last summer. So it s been a rough couple of years dealing with this implacable disease. My sons Julien and Adrien are bearing up well, and I ve had the support of lots of family and friends. David Moore and his wife Deb came to Françoise s memorial service, and I exchanged messages with Joe Singer Daiva (Garbus) Gasperetti 401 East 74th St. #5C New York, NY secretary@williams.edu Dear classmates, as the year draws to a close and we prepare for the holidays and the New Year, I wish you and yours all the best. It was great to hear from so many of you, and I look forward to more news in 2011! Dennis O Shea encourages classmates to join the class Facebook group. Just go to com/williams77 and click Join, then start posting photos, stories or memories you d like to share with the class. As we get closer to our 35th (gulp!) reunion in 2012, we ll also use the page to get out late-breaking information. Anne Chaffee and Seth Dahlberg, who have been married for 30 years, attended the June 26th wedding of Jim Roe and Catherine Becker. Son Jonathan Dahlberg 09 graduated from Williams last year, and daughter Ellen is a junior at Middlebury. Seth and Anne live in central Massachusetts and practice medicine in Worcester, Seth in cardiology and Anne in pediatrics. Continuing with wedding news, Esthela Calderón and Steven White were married in León, Nicaragua, on March 21, which happens to be International Poetry Day. Qué romántico! Esthela and Steven worked together on a book called Culture and Customs of Nicaragua (Greenwood Press) as well as on El mundo verde también tiene voz, a CD of poetry with ecological themes. They are living in Madrid, where Steven directs the St. Lawrence University Program Abroad in Spain. (Dianne) Alexandra Thompson Neil s daughter Zoe started at Wesleyan in the fall. Her departure caused a mixture of pride and pain, I guess, but mostly pride. Other exciting news is that NY Stage and Film did a workshop for Alexandra s play Strange Fits last spring. Over the summer, she spent a week at Kevin O Rourke s 78 Williams College Summer Theatre Lab and found the group of theater students there to be incredibly talented, open and wonderful. The admissions office is doing well by the theater department these days, says Alex. She is still married to John Vennema, Princeton 70. They live in NYC and are now officially empty nesters as John s daughter Bess is a senior at the University of Michigan. Alex misses all her Williams friends and hopes we ll have another Mothers-to-Mothers event in NYC soon, so I can see everyone again! Congratulations and best wishes to Fred Lawrence, who, on 1/1/11, is to become the eighth president of Brandeis University. He and his wife Kathy are looking forward to returning to the Boston area and to joining this remarkable university and its community. Meanwhile, Fred is completing his term as dean of the George December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 55

58 CLASS NOTES Washington University Law School. Mark Chaffee reports that his tribe is growing up fast. Macklin 09 graduated from Williams last year and spent the winter training in New Zealand. He was the silver medalist in the 800m at the New Zealand Track & Field Championships last spring. Mack joined Ragged Mountain Running Club out of Charlottesville, Va., and is sponsored with a stipend of $8K/ year and 12 free pairs of shoes, allowing him to do what he loves: run. Son Quinn graduated in 2010 from Miami University. Like Mack, he s a web developer, currently working out of Mark and Monie s home. Their middle man, Griff, is in his junior year at RIT. He s majoring in information security and hopes to work for the NSA or DOD. As Mark puts it, Govy jobs are pretty sweet right now. Their little girl Rorie graduated from Chagrin Falls HS last spring and matriculated into Miami University in the fall. Rorie is taking a break from varsity sports after 12 consecutive seasons of varsity soccer, gymnastics and track. So, for a change of pace, she signed up for horseback riding! Youngest son Cathal is immersed in football. Last year, his team had an amazing run, taking an undefeated season all the way to the Ohio State HS Championship game in the Hall of Fame stadium in Canton, Ohio. Last summer, for the first time in 24 years, Mark and Monie took vacation without the kids, practicing their empty nesting skills for a couple weeks at Moosehead Lake, Maine. They re looking forward to more us time in Hawaii this winter. The first week of August, Jane Lester was in Heilbronn, Germany, cheering for her 16-year old daughter Nina, who played Ultimate Frisbee in the World Junior Ultimate Championships. This event is held every two years for players under 20 years old. Twenty girls were selected for Team USA, most of them 19 years old and already in college. Her team competed against 13 other SENDNEWS! Y our class secretary is waiting to hear from you! Send news to your secretary at the address at the top of your class notes column. 56 Williams PeoPle December 2010 In June, 1977 classmates gathered to celebrate the wedding of James Roe 77 (right). Also pictured, left to right, are Andy Goodell, Bob Oldshue, Seth Dahlberg and Pat Landers. countries and won the bronze medal. Sara Lund sent news of lots of changes in her growing family. Nathan (28, Army dentist) and his wife were expecting Sara and Rob s 75 first grandchild in December. Chris, 25, and wife Katie (both dental students) were married on Aug. 21 in Montana. Caroline, 22, is starting a graduate program in biology at UMD, and Marian, 18, left for Gustavus Adolphus College in the fall. Sara accepted a new position as a hospital chaplain in Superior, Wis. With both sons in the Army, she s been involved in creating a Blue Star Mothers chapter (a service organization of military mothers) in Duluth. Rob is still operating on skin cancers when he isn t camping, fishing, hunting or playing in a band. Sara and Rob feel very fortunate and send greetings to all. With wife Kathie, Rich Remmer enjoyed dinner with Jim Roe and his bride Catherine last summer. It was good fun all around until the conversation turned to Scrabble. Visitors to the Roe residence be forewarned: They are apparently both sharks! After seeing the photo in August s alumni news of Topper, Ramsey, Jerry and company in Abaco last April, Rich now understands why schools of frightened bonefish were racing past his home in Treasure Cay, Abaco! He says classmates are always welcome there. He spends most of the winter in Treasure Cay and fishes most days. Rich celebrated his 55th birthday by returning a 42-foot sailboat to the U.S. after the Newport Bermuda race. In June, he enjoyed an awesome round of golf with Dman (Dan Davison) and Werts (Steve Wertimer). Werts was busy sorting and packing 20 years of set materials and props from Law and Order NY, as he had been assistant director, producer and production manager for the show before it moved to LA. Dave Koenigsberg visited Rich s family restaurant, The Snapper Inn, in July. They also had a visit from Michael Schiffmiller s wife Lori, after which Mike called with some editing pointers for the Snapper Inn website. In his law office, Rich recently worked on a very unusual real estate question with Steve Latham 71 that involved the possible treatment of leasehold as personal or real property. Steve has an active firm in Riverhead, N.Y. Most of Rich s legal time is spent on waterfront and environmental real estate as well as pro bono work on the Board of the Friends of the Connetquot River State Park Preserve. He says, Our big hurdle remains the untimely closure of the 100-year-old hatchery due to the presence of a rare disease, IPN. The state s solution is a new 21st century bio-secure hatchery that relies on pumps and filters. Definitely a step backward as far as carbon footprint. The existing hatchery uses the natural flow of the river rather than wells and the grid. Patty Thomsson writes, Well, it was not the Africa trip in late March nor the dental surgery in early June. But somehow or other I contracted the streptococcal pneumonia infection in my left ankle and foot on June 20 and then landed in the Princeton

59 n hospital for 10 days. After surgery, powerful antibiotics and lots of support from family and friends, she was able to get around with a limp by August. Although the summer was not a fun one for Patty and her family, she did meet up with Monica (Sheehan) Bennett and her husband for a weekend in Williamstown Aug While on campus, Patty noted the Schapiro building, new since our 30th reunion in She and her husband met the Bennetts for dinner at the Orchards and then attended The Last Goodbye at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. There they ran into Marty Marchese, who was on his way to see Fifth of July on the MainStage. Naturally as she strolled (hobbled?) around the campus, Patty began imagining the possible stagings for our 35th reunion in June Although it is a bit early to begin any serious plans, Patty welcomes ideas and suggestions. Bill Jaume finished his massage studies in Florida after 1,000-plus hours of training and received an associate s degree in advanced massage therapy. Says Bill, I must be one of the few people in the country to get an AS after getting a BA and an MBA! Despite all the training, New York State requires even more hours, so right after Labor Day he began a couple of courses in NYC to finish up once and for all. He looks forward to completing his NY boards in January. Bill spent most of last summer traveling to Toronto, Spain, Ft. Lauderdale, the Poconos and Fire Island. He says he loves retirement. It s not too difficult to understand why! In September, Joel Scheiman visited NYC on business and rounded up Joe Rickards, his wife Lisa Morgan and Daiva Gasperetti for Sunday brunch. Joel continues to live and work in Tokyo. His daughter Anne teaches second grade in Portland, in Japanese, at the only bilingual school in the state of Oregon. Son Joshua is a high school senior who plans to attend college in Japan. Joe and Lisa s son Adam is in Paris, pursuing studies in music, while daughter Daphne began her freshman year at SUNY s Lehman College. Daiva s son Joe is happy as a sophomore at Stanford, while daughter Margot is applying to colleges. After catching up on work, life and gossip, the group followed the cozy brunch with a stroll on the High Line, NYC s new and unique park built on elevated train tracks that date back to the 1930s. It s always great to catch up with old friends 1978 Jeff J DeLisle 538 Bloomingrove Drive Rensselaer, NY secretary@williams.edu Oh son, why don t you be sensible and go to Harvard or Princeton... Or even Williams. They say it s a nice refined place. Probably many of you, like me, thought Russ Weiss was the author of that quote, since he had it in a frame in his dorm room. But as Jim Cohen points out, it was actually from Robert Penn Warren s All the King s Men. Jim had come across an unflattering Williams citation in Richard Russo s That Old Cape Magic that he felt deserved a retort. He thought it timely to acknowledge that, in spite of questionable provenance, the poster is in his closet. (Excuse me, Mr. Russo, but Forbes rated Williams the #1 institution of higher learning in the U.S. of A. this year.) Our classmates offspring continue to matriculate to the P.V., and 2010 was a bumper crop for second-generation graduations. Pedagogue Pete Thayer and his wife Francie s hearts were bursting with pride and humility as they saw their youngest child, Whitney 10, pick up her diploma on the soggy Sunday morning. Among the familiar faces at the Alumni Parent Breakfast and other weekend events were Miranda Heller (Nathan Heller 10), Tom Balderston, Gary Hoffman (Alyson Hoffman 10) and Tim Layden (Kristen Layden 10). Pete paused to take in the Clark Art Institute for the first time in 25 years, remarking, Great art like great schools stand the test of time. Also attending graduation were Jack Dupre and Colleen (Lyons). The graduation of their baby, Katie Dupre 10, inspired Jack to write a wonderfully nostalgic and upbeat note. He and Colleen, college sweethearts, celebrated their 30th anniversary in October. Their son Chris (Dartmouth 06) is living in Boston s North End and working in the financial services field. Middle child Allison (Bates 08) is in far northern Maine in charge of college counseling at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics. Katie is now in an engineering development program at BAE, where one of the old guys of the establishment was Jack s Williams roommate Mike Masi. Jack continues to practice intellectual property law at Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds in Concord, Mass., and Colleen handles the legal issues in corporate transactions at Sheehan Phinney in Manchester, N.H. Watching your child go through Williams causes you to relive the best times you had there. For those of us familiar with the good times Jack enjoyed at Williams, that s saying a great deal indeed. In spite of the differences, it has much of the same vibe. Katie was on the track team, as was Sara Wild 11, so on occasion they ran into Phil and Kathy (Versenyi) Wild. The Dupres also enjoyed following Katie s trips with Prof. Jay Pasachoff to chase solar eclipses around the world. And Katie took the same Winter Study course on the National Parks with Prof. Bud Wobus that Jack took in Also encountered that weekend was the Dupres pal David Koenigsberg 77, for Eric 10. K-Berg is still practicing law in NYC. The graduation speaker was none other than Jack s first-floor East College JA. Jay McInerney 76 might have become a big name in American literary circles, but, to Jack, Jay s greatness peaked in the fall of 1974, when he and Andy Hogeland 76 took a motley, ragtag group of unpolished, underconfident young men and molded them into a motley, rag-tag group of unpolished, brashly confident young men. Jack decided to reach out some of the guys he d spent so much time with there. Henry Whittemore, Dan Felizberto and Jack were hosted by Mike Masi in Amesbury, Mass., for a venison cookout, a camp fire and a chance to remember some of the times that we are all starting to forget. Another former East College denizen, Rob Tyler, was inspired to write for the first time. For the past 29 years he has lived in Pittsford, N.Y., working as a marketing and technical writer. Rob says, I almost have the hang of it. He and his wife Pat Pauly were to celebrated their 24th anniversary in October. I almost have the hang of that, too. Their daughters June, 21, and Marla, 19, are attending Johns Hopkins and McGill, respectively, outshining their dad in every December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 57

60 CLASS NOTES way, for which he is proud and grateful. Right around the corner from Rob, just like in 1974, lives Tom Wells (and family). Rob has kept in intermittent touch with Russ Weis and Jim Wilch. Rob is hoping to pull together an even larger East College get together in Boston to include all of the above mentioned plus Jim Hutchings and Carl Webster. For Rob and Pat, the longawaited empty nest arrived last year, and though Patty is pursuing her passion of art quilting (PatPauly.com), Rob has not yet gotten the hang of it. What was I doing with my life before it was dominated by child-rearing? Rob is paying the bills and dabbling in short fiction. He awaits the day when his daughters are making the big bucks and paying the rent on my retirement home in the Hamptons. That is how it works, isn t it? Henry Whittemore met up with Tod Jebb when, around Labor Day, Larry Whittemore 39 sponsored a family weekend at the Basin Harbor Club in Vergennes, Vt. Tod was bringing his son to UVM for his sophomore year. It had been 19 years since Henry and Tod last saw one another. Hank is issuing a formal plea to Tom Michie and Jeff Kelley, also roommates from senior year at 62 Meacham St., to get back in touch. Henry continues to ply the sometimes calm, sometimes roily waters of forestry and finance at FourWinds Capital Management. In addition to managing the company s environmental program, he is responsible for a wood pellet production facility in Serbia and a diverse collection of radiata pine plantations from the top of the North Island to the bottom of the South Island in New Zealand. At the time he wrote, Henry and Darcy were heading to Croatia for a bareboat sailing charter along the islands of the Dalmatian coast with a few couples they d met when living in Australia in Their daughter Katie graduated from UVM last May and is now living in Burlington. Their son Sam is beginning his sophomore year at MIT, not a small adjustment for a country kid from Maine! Besides taking advantage of the fabulous and abundant Utah powder (skiing 35-plus days per year, mostly at Snowbird), Bill Schultze and his wife Pat concluded a three-summer project of constructing a log cabin in 58 Williams People December 2010 Big Sky country, Sheridan, Mont. They pretty much did the entire project themselves from salvaging, cutting and laying 100- plus-year-old logs, to plumbing, tiling and electrical work. Bill downplays the workmanship: chink (the white stuff between the logs) covers up a lot of sins. The cabin is in a heavenly setting among mountains, fish-filled rivers and hiking. The Schultzes regularly see Richard and Maggie Luck in nearby (relatively speaking) Colorado. Six years as chairman of the management department at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah have not diminished Bill s enthusiasm for the job. Bill is also actively engaged as a researcher, with a focus on corporate governance in general and on entrepreneurship in particular, and he has several PhD students. Pat is a fundraising consultant for higher education, museums and other high-end cultural institutions. Their daughter Katie, 24, graduated from Colorado College and is working in energy conservation in Denver. Son Alex, 23, graduated from Depauw University in 2009 and is also working in Denver. Dave Forrester enjoys Montana hiking and fly fishing, not to mention biking, which was his main activity during a recent Italian vacation. Having sold his tire recycling business, he now works as a consultant in the same field. He recently visited China, where he was impressed with the entrepreneurial spirit which prevails under the totalitarian government. Paul Shorb went on a five-day trek through the backcountry of Sequoia National Park by his 16-year-old son Cameron. He then had a lovely visit and homecooked meal with Dan Rudolph and his family. Paul notes that they efficiently, not to mention economically, dropped two kids off at Williams in September: senior Jack and first-year Claire. Was ever a person better matched to her state than Maggie Luck? For years we ve been hearing about Maggie s perambulations in the Rocky Mountains, where she sucks up the oxygen and scenery with equal enthusiasm. Last summer, one of her dreams was fulfilled when she became a hikemaster at the Rocky Mountain National Park. Maggie did the training through the YMCA of the Rockies 18 years ago but never seemed to have the time. But looking over her shoulder at her 50th birthday, she decided it was now or never. These hikes are substantial, physically demanding and at times risky. One of them covers 18 miles and 5,000 feet of elevation. On one of her hikes she helped Brent Washbourne 46 celebrate his 85th birthday. Brent had been doing the Y hikes for years, and Maggie led a troop to the summit of Mount Washbourne behind his house. Also there for the celebration was his brother Ted Washbourne 50. I have had so much fun that I think a smile is permanently affixed to my face! I ve seen bear, moose, elk, bighorn sheep and deer. I ve seen some incredible views and shared them with wonderful guests. Rich Usatine s daughter was married to a young man Rich considers suitable, and his son started college at Harvey Mudd as a physics major. To combat the empty nest, he gave birth to an electronic baby. With his son-in-law Peter he developed an iphone app of his previously published The Color Atlas of Family Medicine. It is selling like Baxter Hall hot cross buns, both in the U.S. and abroad. Mary and Al Gentry s son Albert IV graduated from Babson College, the U.S News and World Report #1 undergraduate entrepreneurial business program 11 years running. Al IV spent a year in Buenos Aires but has settled in Jersey City, where he has secured a great job Verizon Wireless in the entertainment marketing division. At his graduation they were joined by Jennifer and Marty Williams, whose son James (apparently heeding the opening advice) graduated from Harvard last spring. Al and Mary also came across a Williams T-shirt at a distant relative s reunion and met Jeff Delany 06. En route to Barbados to celebrate their 25th anniversary last April they encountered a Williams staffer. Julie Rand, checking in from Chicago, worked in the financial futures field for 11 years and then quit when her twins entered kindergarten. For the past few years she stayed quite busy with freelance writing, volunteering for the kids school and as a docent for the Lurie Garden at Millennial Park. She became an Illinois Master Gardener. Now that Nate and Eden are in the sixth grade, she s decided to start another career: She has enrolled in a Master of Library Science and Information Science program at Dominican University. Her dream

61 n job would be to someday work in a horticultural library, but if that doesn t work out, she ll be happy to just have a job. Julie participated in a Vipassana meditation retreat, which involves 10 days of awakening at 4 a.m., meditating for 10 hours per day, having only two meals, and getting only six hours of sleep. In addition, one is not allowed to speak or have contact with other participants. Julie found the not speaking part was easy, but six hours of sleep was really, really hard. Ted Stroll did a solo mountain bike ride up to 11,853 feet along the Continental Divide Trail in southern Colorado. The views into the Chama River Valley, in Ted s opinion, are some of the most spectacular alpine vistas anywhere, but his emotions quickly ran from exhilaration to bemusement at his way being blocked by blowdown, to irritation at being obligated to clamber upwards of a mile over upturned trees. After falling into a hidden stream, Ted realized his GPS data was faulty, at which point he realized he was marooned. Exhausted and out of water, he managed to find a logging road which took him back to civilization. In the tradition of the great British explorers, Ted was understated in his assessment. It was an ordeal that could have proved fatal. It took about two days to recover from it psychologically and perhaps five physically. I had to fight to control not so much feelings of panic but feelings of intense dread. These had physical symptoms, too, like heightened blood pressure and tons of adrenalin. Ted resolves that next time he ventures to the Rockies, he ll look up the intrepid Wally Chambers to partner on his adventures. Spurred by his experience, Ted wrote a thoughtful and effective op-ed which was featured in The New York Times: com/tedstroll. The piece generated a lot of letters from all over the country, which Ted found a bit discomfiting. Herb McCormick s circumnavigation of North and South America 27,500 miles sailed in just over a year s time was easily the most interesting and eventful year of my life. The mission studied the state of the oceans around the Americas the loss of sea ice above the Arctic Circle and its ramifications; the increase of oceanic acidification and what that means to shellfish, reefs and healthy fisheries; the widespread problems of overfishing and plastic pollution; and many more. Highlights? Rounding Cape Horn was a Very Big Day and transiting the once impassable Northwest Passage was incredible. A bit worn out, he plans to unwind by crossing the continent on bikes and kayaks with his 12-year-old daughter. Seriously. In the last edition of notes I goofed big time: I referred to Angela Rubel as Angela Person. I mentioned that Angela had been living in Colorado, working in special education. In June, with her oldest child grown and gone, she decided to move to Portland, Ore., with her son Toby, 13. Angela is a proficient pianist whose passion has only grown with time. She laments that she can t play as quickly or with as much facility as at one time, but perhaps her maturity allows her to play with more heart. As with a lot of musicians, Angela finds playing a great balm against the physical and emotional pain that life can bring. So bringing the family heirloom Steinway grand with her was a no-brainer, small doorways and floor space be damned. Kate Lombardi is still at work on her book on mothers and sons. She finds the project a bit daunting and more difficult than anticipated, but we know she ll pull it off. Kate has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Society of Alumni at Williams, which she says provides her with an interesting window into life at the College. She was in the PV for the induction of Adam Falk, transfixed by the dignitaries from all the nation s colleges and universities, in full academic garb. (No doubt trying to get on Williams good side, and who can blame them?) While there she ran into Tom Balderston, whose accomplishments in college fundraising over the years are so well known that they scarcely need mentioning. OK, he has been spectacular, and we, the alumni association and the College owe him great thanks. Alice Dunn and Gordon Hardy celebrated their 25th anniversary with a trip to Florence and Rome. Alice, an architect, was in her element and did her best to explain the sublime sights to Gordon as he did his best to dredge up his Art 101. In between they indulged in the twin Italian pleasures of palatine sensuosity and spectating politics. Clearly, Gordon is a Renaissance Man. At heart a classicist, he has energetically if not hyperactively embraced modern culture and technology. He has a Pandora playlist which features Johannes Ockeghem and Steeleye Span, for Pete s sake. His current position at Bentley University in Waltham, Mass., involves writing, editing, running web projects and teaching journalism. It s a good life. Teaching is hard work but very rewarding. He envies his youngest daughter Lora, who is reading Ovid, Plutarch, Homer, et. al in the honors program at Hofstra University, which he says is not your father s Hofstra! Gordon enthuses, With my daughter Molly still in school in Vancouver, B.C., three of us are at college. Jim Wilch does not own a GPS, navigation equipment or even an ipod. A self-described analog man in a digital world, he sent his news, meticulously and magnificently printed, on a piece of yellow lined paper. To my chagrin, I ve misplaced it arrgghhh! Finally, Brent Shay wrote a long an informative note on a number of classmates connected with the Boston chapter of the Williams alumni association which could constitute a column in itself. I have to leave this out. But next issue you will read of Jon Hattenback, Patricia Martin and her husband Rick Moog 79, Jay Loeffler, Steve Rothstein, Michael Wolfson, Chris Evenson, Paul Skoronski, Harriet Hancock Club, Will Noel, Don Toumey, Earl Childs, Melie Rockefeller and Ed Friedland. Well, reading these over we still seem like a lively bunch. It doesn t seem like we really believe our grousing about feeling old. Even as Pete Thayer, empty nester soonto-be, pondered his daughter s departure to England (to get a master s degree and play another year of lacrosse), he was seized by a familiar inspiration: I feel a road trip coming on! Attaboy, Pete. I ve got gas money Barbara H. Sanders 3 Stratford Road White Plains, NY secretary@williams.edu Several of our classmates were very active last summer (in more ways than one!). Tad Seder ran in the Hood to Coast Relay (197 miles, with 12 team members). He adds that Tam Murray participated in several events the NYC December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 59

62 CLASS NOTES Triathlon, 1,500-meter swim, 40K bike ride and 10K run. Tad has been in contact with Pete May during his service in Iraq. Speaking of which (or whom), Dana Gaines enjoyed the pleasure of Pete s company on Martha s Vineyard this past summer. Pete s family had a wonderful vacation stateside, which continued with a visit to his brother s home in Newport, R.I., prior to returning to Iraq in September. Dana sent a photo of the May family (including Slade, Aimee, Remi and Savannah). Pete and family enjoyed visits with local classmates Brendan O Neill and Eric Sundin as well as Chuck Schmidt 48. A highlight of their stay was when Katie Burke flew over from Nantucket for a sail and cookout. At the time of this writing, Pete should be home for good, and he thanks everyone for their overwhelming support (with a special thank you for the efforts of Stew Menking and Adopt an Eph). Now that her three sons have graduated from high school, Renelda Pierce Sells is one of the newest members of the empty nest club. She and husband Mike are enjoying this new phase of their lives while cherishing the memories of a house filled with young people. I received a touching note from Kathy Connolly Ruane: My husband Bill passed away in November 2009 from a brain hemorrhage. He was a great guy! We were together for 30 years. He was my best friend and an amazing father. We certainly had quality time as a family, whether taking family vacations, attending our children s soccer, baseball, football, basketball and field hockey games or simply hanging out. He played baseball at Boston College in the 1970s and subsequently worked for the U.S. District Court in Boston for 34 years. Someone told me don t be sad that it s over rejoice that it happened. On difficult days I repeat that to myself, because although I would like to have had another 30 years, ours were pretty spectacular. Ginny Earll Soybel expressed that she has been more or less in hibernation since Thomas died last winter and is just beginning to feel more connected and engaged with the world. Despite Thomas s long illness, his death was somehow still unexpected. I suppose we can t ever be prepared for such a loss. 60 Williams People December 2010 The past few months have been difficult, of course, but our classmates have been extraordinary in their support and kindness. Those who were able to attend his funeral brought strong hugs and wonderful stories. In phone calls, notes and s, I have found genuine comfort in your many memories and good thoughts. And in gifts to the Alumni Fund in Thomas memory, our class has demonstrated its characteristic spirit and generosity. When our daughter decided to go to Williams, no one was more thrilled than Thomas, and her graduation this June will be emotional and joyful. Thank you, all of you, for taking such good care of us. Gerry Kelly enjoyed reading a great new book by Tim Layden 78, Blood Sweat and Chalk, about the football offenses I never understood. Son Andrew is at Amherst, Luke is at Boston College, and daughter Hope is in fifth grade. My wife Liz works at Wilmington Trust. Lynn Luginbuhl writes from Vermont: I live in Middlebury, where my husband and I both work part time in a pediatric practice. We both commute to Massachusetts for our other jobs. I work part time as a pediatric infectious disease consultant at Massachusetts General Hospital. My husband, Morris Earle, works part time as a pediatric intensive care doctor at UMass in Worcester. We have three children Ben and Hal have already finished college, and Will is a senior in high school! Where has the time gone? Living in Middlebury has many benefits. It is a beautiful place. Recently we have had the joy of meeting up with several Williams friends whose children attend Middlebury. Rich Moog and Pat Martin visited last February when their daughter Samantha started as a Feb. We also saw Sally and Bob Staiger at the end of August, when their daughter Hannah started as a freshman. Lynn was looking forward to seeing both families in October for parents weekend. After 30 years of working for others in banking and executive search, Sally Greenspan Rowley- Williams started her own search and career consultancy business ( I love exercising entrepreneurial muscles and have been honoured (notice the British influence!) to be featured in the current Stern (NYU business school) alumni magazine. For the past six years, I have been on the board of the Racehorse Owners Association and earlier this year was asked to join the Board of Trustees of The Pony Club, a 12 million (about $19 million) charity. So, professionally, am very busy and happy. Edmund and I moved out of London after 21 years and for past three years live 10 miles south of Oxford. I am still riding and competing regularly and now working hard to lower my golf handicap. As I had a bad, non-equestrian accident five years ago that had left me partially paralysed for nearly two years, I am thrilled to have regained virtually full use of my right shoulder, arm and hand. Edmund and I are happily approaching our silver wedding anniversary and looking after our 14-year-old Jack Russell terrier. Michael Golden took the big leap from his beloved home state to reside on the West Coast, in Washington. I have spent the last decade pursuing education reform, first as deputy secretary of education in Pennsylvania then leading strategy and marketing at Pearson, a global education company, and until recently running the worldwide education business at Microsoft. That role brought me to Seattle. I have recently gone out on my own to more directly impact the 1.4 billion students around the globe, focusing on developing courses that make school relevant and engaging for students, helping prepare teachers in new ways and pursuing systemic change through the convergence of education, business and technology. On the social note, from time to time I meet Tad Seder (a longtime Seattle-ite) for breakfast. I have had the good fortune to see Brian and Manette McDermott, happy in LA and whose youngest son is at Williams; Larry Pensack, who is running a technology hardware startup in Boston; and Gregg Hartman, who Tom Dodds reported is prospering in Hanover, N.H. Well, spring will be here in a few months, which has more significance for those of us residing in the northern latitudes. Not to say that in this season of our lives, we want to rush time any faster than necessary. Stay warm, and please keep us informed of what s going on in your life.

63 1980 Laura Pitts Smith 1828 Old Yellowstone Trail S. Emigrant, MT Truth be told, I was wondering what I had gotten myself into, accepting the secretary position. But honestly, it s quite a treat to find s from classmates when I open up my mailbox. They bring glimpses of extraordinary lives into my ordinary days. Vivian Dorsel, working in the Berkshires, is the editor/publisher of upstreet. Many of us were lucky enough to hear her speak at our last reunion. Her magazine features new fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. Van Townsend didn t make it to the reunion in June. I have to include his excuse in its entirety, as it humbled and inspired me. He wrote, Wish I could have been in Billsville for our 30th, but with my stem cell transplant (stupid multiple myeloma cancer), I had to settle for wonderful minireunions with Sarah Usedtobe Mollman and Carl Tippit. They lifted my spirits and aided my recovery, so much so that Carl and I probably packed two reunion nights into one honky tonk bar crawl and music talent search in Nashville! Many thanks to Bart Mitchell, James Meigs and Andy Chase for amusing text exchanges. The immunesuppression unit at the hospital even allowed me to place my road bike on a trainer stand in the room, ostensibly to aid recovery but actually so I can ride with Greg Avis and his phenom son one day! Hope to be alive and well for our 35th. Bill Clark left our reunion and proceeded up Mount Katahdin in Maine. (Something about those reunions makes you feel younger than you are and encourages dangerously challenging, physical activities.) Then he left for Edinburgh, London, Copenhagen and Oslo on a combination work/ play retreat. He saw Kathleen Kelliher and her family in London. After a three-semester break, Bill is back at Holy Cross, teaching religious studies. Speaking of climbing mountains in Maine, Michele Corbeil needs to tell this tale herself: My summer was going pretty well until I fell on top of a mountain in Acadia National Park in mid-july and broke my ankle in two places. The good news was this happened in a place where mountain rescues are fairly common; the bad news was it was the same weekend the Obama family was vacationing on Mount Desert Island. Still, a stalwart group of 25 park rangers and search and rescue workers climbed up the Perpendicular Trail to help me and carried me down the mountain on a stretcher, belaying me with ropes in some places. That was not the adventure I bargained for! I fell at noon and reached the hospital around 6 p.m. I had surgery that night and spent three days in the hospital (no, the Obamas did not visit me). I now sport a permanent plate and nine screws and am in a boot and walk with crutches. By the time this is published I might be weight-bearing and starting to walk again. Suffice it to say, my career hopes as a foot model or volleyball player are probably dashed. Thank goodness for the kindness of the small community I live in. They have brought me meals, driven me to work, watered my garden and mowed my lawn. Margaret Walton and Kathy McKay missed reunion but got together in California, visiting the Sentinel Dome in Yosemite National Park. I thought I might run into Sue Gentile in New Haven this past August, but that didn t happen. Between the traffic and the iron gates, I felt gridlocked all weekend. Sue reports: I began working for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education as the STARS Content Specialist in June. I also continue to teach at Antioch University New England as an adjunct professor. My son Brady graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon School in May and is now a freshman at Yale. My son Bill did an internship with Morgan Stanley last summer and has been offered a position there following his graduation from Georgetown in the spring. Andy Kelly and his wife Sue (Hamilton 80) visited their daughter Tessa 07 in Copenhagen, Denmark, for two weeks in July. Tessa is working as an architect for Ron Hayden s brother Dan, who is a partner in an architectural firm in Copenhagen. Andy and Sue are happy to say that they can now fit into their tight pants again after bicycling every day, as all good Danes do! Dave Beardsley moved to Chicago and is heading the Navy side of a hospital merger between Navy and Veterans Hospital in n North Chicago. He has been in the Navy since graduating from Williams and is loving every minute. He received an MBA from William & Mary in 2010 before going off to the war. Dave married another Navy doctor, an OB/GYN, who has retired, and their four sons are almost all out of the house. Each one bounces back for short, periodic visits. They have moved eight times in eight years. Dave s current job is definitely a challenge, managing 3,000 folks and a $450 million operating budget. Sue Harris joins the evergrowing ranks of empty nesters. Her youngest, Mike, graduated over our reunion weekend (hence, Sue s no-show) and now is at SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry. He s an outdoor kid if there ever was one. Sophie 08 is in the second year of her four-year art conservation program at the Institute of Fine Arts in NYC. Sue is still in South Salem, enjoying her work as a school librarian at the Harvey School, traveling and getting outdoors every chance she gets. David Barnes and Liz Halsted were enjoying/suffering through a preview of their empty nest over the summer when their son Tatum went away to work as a CIT at camp. David is all over the globe playing music. Last summer he was in Delaware playing at the Riverfront Blues Festival with an impressive lineup of musicians, and he was headed overseas in the fall. Like many of us, Dave and Liz are trying (pathetically) to remain neutral in the college selection/application process with their son. Jennifer Armstrong is planning a walking/hiking trip to the Turquoise Coast in Turkey. She s trying to convince Sonia Weil to join her. Any classmates who are interested in seeing the world should definitely get in touch with Jennifer, as she plans an adventure every year. Down in Raleigh, N.C., Susie Camp survived an especially hot and humid summer. She was hoping to catch a football game with Amy and Jim Daubert. Suzie and Jim both work for Duke. Kathleen Kelliher spent a week last summer in the U.S. before returning to London. She and her family visited San Diego, taking a very hot camping trip in the Anzo Borrego Desert and a trip to Baja California, which she described as very safe. Then they spent 10 days in the Northeast with family and friends. Kathleen saw December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 61

64 CLASS NOTES Anna Simas Christoforo 82 and her husband Michael. They just adopted a lovely little boy and are bursting with joy from becoming parents for the first time. Kathleen enjoyed Father Bill Clark s visit but missed seeing Jean Dudex Dexheimer 79 in Paris in April due to volcanic ash keeping her stateside! Wayne Eckerson made my day. Wayne claims this is his first contribution to our class notes, and I feel quite privileged to be the recipient. He reports, I ve been living happily in the Boston area since graduating, the last 10 in Hingham, where my wife and I have raised two wonderful kids who are fast becoming adults. Since leaving the teaching profession at age 30, I ve never been able to adequately explain to my family what I do for a living. All they know is that it s something in software that enables me to work at home when I m not traveling. So I won t try here, except to offer a link of me in action ( org/sd2010/videos). I d love to catch up via (weckerson@ gmail.com) or whatever 21st century digital medium you prefer until the next reunion (which I promise to attend!). Becky Webber took her first trip to Alaska last year, where she attended Steve Colt s 81 wedding. He was getting married for the first time at age 50. Becky states: It was amazing Denali was looming up in the background as Steve said his vows. I went out there with a group from the Appalachian Mountain Club, where I had my first job from Williams, landing at the foot of Mount Washington the day we graduated. I still do civil rights work in Maine as an attorney, with a focus on domestic violence, none of which I did at Williams when I was so focused on environmental work. And being in my 50s now? Why the heck do I keep getting so hot at the office? But it s great at road races, where the 40-year-old crowd is brutal but the 50-year-old women aren t so tough. Becky was running on a relay team in the Maine Marathon in October and am SENDNEWS! Y our class secretary is waiting to hear from you! Send news to your secretary at the address at the top of your class notes column. 62 Williams People December 2010 hoping I just don t need too much Tylenol afterwards. It s becoming quieter on the home front here at the Smith household in Montana. After a lively summer with all four children home, our oldest daughter has moved to Brazil, and our son Ford 12 returned to Williams (in time to lead a kayaking trip in the WOOLF program). I enjoyed the help and camaraderie of Jim Levinsohn and his wife Kirsten Barfod 81 when I moved the middle daughter in at Yale. They have a great place, complete with two big dogs, a vegetable garden under the clothes line (I wish I was that green ) and close enough for both of them to bike to work. Our baby is a high school senior who feels like she s lost her three best friends. I continue to teach special education, K-12, in the public school and try to help Vern with the never-ending chores of living on a ranch. Think about writing to me when celebrations are in order, when challenges test your soul, when sights touch your heart not just when I beg for news. It ll be more colorful REUNION JUNE 9-12 Kyle Doherty Hodgkins 8645 Monte Drive Cincinnati, OH secretary@williams.edu Just to show that we re an open-minded bunch, Amanda Acker Rice writes, Our younger daughter Lena started her freshman year at AMHERST! She ll join Deb Sacken Eastburn s son Jack (although he s a year ahead of her). She is hoping to play squash on the team. So far, she s having a ball and she tells me that she s made great friends and has gone to at least one party every night! (Maybe she s following too closely in my footsteps.) It ll make homecoming football games a little more interesting. Her older sister Lucy, who is a junior at Vanderbilt, is spending the fall semester in Florence. She s minoring in Italian and art history. It s definitely weird being an empty-nester; I think our dog is feeling it even more than Jim and I are! I m looking forward to seeing everyone at our 30th yikes, we re old! Amanda and Jim were looking forward to a November trip to visit Lucy in Italy. I also got a brief note from Marion Pratt, whose far-flung locations and nonstop schedule leave her little time to write. She was in the middle of the Pakistan flood response with USAID and promised more news upon her return! Jenny Ordeman Harbold has good news: I am so happy to report that my daughter Lindsay has made a full recovery after her terrible car accident and resulting brain injury last January. She was conscious after four days, sent to rehab and discharged after just another few days, got a little therapy at home and was back at school less than a month after the accident. She was able to graduate with her class in June. The many messages of support from our class were very comforting and helpful during this stressful time. Looking forward to thanking people and celebrating my good fortune at our reunion. I do have some sad news to share, though. Charlie Kubert passed away peacefully at home on Sept. 10, surrounded by his family. I remember him as a passionate environmentalist since way back when. He clearly made a difference in his work in renewable energy, but I imagine he was most proud of his children, Jessica and Abigail. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his wife Karen and his girls. Several of you wrote in to offer your thoughts. Ted Wolf recalls, I heard from Charlie a couple of years ago in a very characteristic way. He sent out a note to members of our class connected to CES about Gaye Symington 76, who was then making a run for governor in Vermont but whom we all knew as the talented and spirited bread baker for Log lunches back in the day. Charlie gave Gaye s candidacy a plug, and I m sure I m not the only CES alum far from Vermont who then pitched in to support her bid. I sent Charlie a note, and he replied with a little about his work with EPLC and then mentioned environmental initiatives he was involved in or following around the country, from Oregon to Vermont, far from his Chicago home. He was plugged in, passionate, doing everything he could to push progress on clean energy, and I am sure his sincerity and knowledge made him effective everywhere. That s

65 n Members of the Class of 1981 (and their former JA) gathered in Portland, Maine, in September. From left, (front) Anita (Rydberg) Swift, Ann Maine, Lynn Brandi Bunis, Cathy (Gernert) Ramsay, Sue (Megna) Hemond, Ali Nevin Sheahan; (back) Judy Gast, Hilary Hodgson 79, Mandy Acker Rice, Beth-Anne Flynn and Karen Friedman. how I remember Charlie, earnest and connected. The world needed Charlie, and as the father of two daughters myself I can only imagine how his family mourns his premature passing. My condolences to Karen and to his daughters, and to all who knew him as a good friend and a principled advocate for the living world. And Lauren von Klan remembers, Charlie loved to think. A great idea got him going. He was also quite an amazing athlete who would take to the woods for a cross country ski adventure as soon as the snow was right. His friendship will be missed. Margot Stiassni-Sieracki wrote in as well: Although I had lost touch with Charlie in recent years, I knew him well freshman year. He was a man of integrity with great energy and enthusiasm for his interests and passion for spending time in nature and advocating for the environment. He was loyal to his friends and had a fine sense of humor. I remember him telling me to take it easy on the folks at the post office because I wrote so many letters home. Charlie had a very analytical mind and usually didn t hesitate to tell you his frank opinion. He stood by his word, pursued high moral values and was steadfast for his causes. He was a good friend to me and to many, and I will never forget him. What a beautiful legacy. Take good care of yourselves Will Layman 8507 Garfield St. Bethesda, MD Kolleen Rask 55 Pine Hill Road Southborough, MA secretary@williams.edu Doc, I want to thank you for seeing me on such short notice. My Therapist: You know I take your therapy very seriously. You wouldn t ask to see me on the Saturday morning of a holiday weekend if this were not an extremely dire situation. Oh, this is dire. This is serious. It s my class notes column. Again. My Therapist: Excuse me? Exactly. The guilt, the feelings of inadequacy, the pressure. I m on the edge. I m desperate. I ask politely for news from my college classmates, and yet all their news simply causes me to question my own choices. Like, how about the news I got from Maria Pramaggiore, who is still a professor of film studies at NC State in Raleigh? Do you think my job is remotely that cool? Not only did she report that she also teaches yoga while I can only tie my shoe using a set of electrician s pliers but she also explained, I went on a photo safari in Zambia, where I was lucky enough to see rhinos, wild dogs, leopards, lions, hippos and elephants. My vacation last summer pretty much consisted of going to North Jersey to play Rosalita in a bar band. Cool, but it ain t elephants, right? And to top it off, she mentioned that next summer she will be teaching at NC State s Prague Institute, whereas they paid her to watch Piranha 3D this past summer! Some people have all the luck! My Therapist: Jealousy is a very unproductive emotion, Will. Besides, didn t Maria invite anyone from the Class of 82 to visit her and hoist some good Czech beer? Sure, sure, but it s not just Maria. I ve got a million reasons to be fraught. Did you know that Julia Isaacs welcomed her granddaughter this year, Kayden Renee Isaacs Osilesi, born Aug. 20 in Silver Spring, Md.? You re going to say that s a joyful occasion, but doesn t that make me old? My Therapist: You and your classmates are now 50, Will. This is going to happen. C mon, smile. You probably have a 30th college reunion coming soonish, right? Yup. Amy Daubert says that she and Lee will soon be sending information about that. Madness! Age! Ear hair! Amy also reported that she had a lobster and chowder-crowded 50th birthday party on Cape Cod with Julie Anderson and John Hebble 80, as well as John Carey 80 and his wife Joan. It was a beautiful day and night, she wrote, and it is always so good to spend time with friends from Williams. Doc, the closest I got to lobster this past summer was an old B52s song that came up on my ipod. I did spend some time in Williamstown, actually, staying with my friends Joel Hellman 84 and his wife Sharon on Cole Avenue. I also spent an hour chatting with my freshman roommate Tom Costley in his Overland Adventures office on Spring Street. But no one there offered me lobster. And here s another thing. I heard from a freshman entrymate, Will Foster, who is teaching 140 students at Arizona State University, which he says makes him feel connected to Binx Little and Mark Taylor, adding that Professor Taylor s book Campus in Crisis was published this year. Doc, if you had taken one of Taylor s classes with all that impossible-to-comprehend post-structuralist discussion of Derrida s view of textual impossibilityishness My Therapist: Will, you re becoming hysterical. Put down that jar of anchovies. Sorry, Dr. Melfi. My Therapist: And I m not December 2010 Williams PeoPle 63

66 CLASS NOTES Dr. Melfi, and you re not Tony Soprano either. Remember, you don t kill people. You re a bald high school teacher from New Jersey who likes jazz. Right. And Eban Goodstein has been out of touch for a while, but it turns out that he recently relocated east to direct the Bard College Center for Environmental Policy, which offers master s degrees in environmental policy and in climate science and policy and will soon be launching a new MBA with a focus on sustainability. All I ve done lately is recycle a six-pack of Diet Pepsi! Not to mention that Eban has two daughters, one at Wesleyan and the other just graduated therefrom. He also told me that Don Carlson 83 dropped in last spring to give my capstone class a seminar on leadership, and I d welcome connecting with other alums with green business interests. And here I tell you a sad truth, Doc: I do not know what a capstone class is. I just know that I don t have one. My Therapist: Listen, Will. It is Saturday morning. And while I understand that your classmates good fortune tends to get you down, I think maybe what you need today is not a therapy session but just some cartoons and a nice bowl of Lucky Charms. Personally, I have a tee-time in 45 minutes. Hey, I just found out that Eileen Conley Schlee has taken up golf. Why shouldn t she? She s in London, where she hosted Rick Belfanti and his partner Anthony, a San Francisco-based fashion photographer, after their wedding in Paris. Following a career in law, she writes, Rick has evolved into some sort of economic analyst. But then her ends with this ominous note: He s got some scary findings. How can that not set me on edge, Doc? My Therapist: Surely you got some wholesome news that could be in a Norman Rockwell painting, Will. You don t have to focus on the scary. OK, fair enough. Mike and Jen Rosenfelder sent in a photo of a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the bleachers Steve Serenska constructed outside his house in Bristol, R.I., for the famous Bristol 4th of July parade, America s oldest. Their son Matt (West Point 10) was there, along with the Williams Association of Rhode Island. That s pretty heartwarming. They also ate breakfast with John Russell at 64 Williams PeoPle December 2010 From left, Ned Brown 82, Suzanne Case 78 and Harry Hagey 63 worked last summer on Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific Ocean to protect it as a Nature Conservancy preserve, National Wildlife Refuge and research station. the Hampton Inn overlooking the Passaic River in Newark, where John was holed up for a guest conducting gig with the N.J. Symphony Orchestra. Now, Doc, if looking at the Passaic River in Newark is not uplifting, then dig this bit of advice John has for the youth of America, reported via Mike: If you have a child who is interested in the arts as a career, place every possible obstacle in their path. If the child overcomes them, then maybe they ll have a chance. (My Therapist gets up from chair, walks to coat rack, begins to put on a jacket with the intent of leaving.) Hold on, Doc. What about my therapy? Aren t you going to at least suggest I up my meds or, you know, do some emergency foot reflexology? What about this? Mike and Jen also had Jon 80 and Carolyn Dye Brougham 80 over for a barbecue after Jon turned up last fall as headmaster of the prestigious Hun School in Princeton. Jon and Carolyn look, act and (as far as I can tell) are pretty much doing the same as when Jon was a Sage F JA during our freshman year overseeing all kinds of chaos, stress and unrealistic expectations with calm and equanimity. My Therapist: Calm and equanimity. That s what I m prescribing for you, Will. And never calling me again on a Saturday morning. But then who am I going to call? I can t call Julie Nessen, because she lives in Boston running a nonprofit called The Young Entrepreneurs Alliance, which helps inner-city teens in vocational schools build and run long-term, income-generating businesses. Over the past two years, I ve hired two recent Williams graduates (Denise Duquette 09 as a program manager and Kevin DeWar 10 as a coordinator of sponsor and mentor relations) as well as Nancy Greenhouse 75 as a marketing consultant. I mean, Julie is really busy, plus her daughter Susan Tan 10 was on her way to the UK to spend two years at Cambridge University on the Herschel Smith Fellowship. My Therapist: Will, I am going to leave for the golf club now, to which you do not belong and into which you cannot follow me. Before I go, I ll just ask you this: Is there no one who communicates with you as class secretary who is noble and lovely and respectful of you, giving you a sense that you are a highly worthy person? Ummmmmm. Ahhhhhhhhh. Well there s Jay Hellmuth. Here s what he wrote, in a kind of poetic form: To our noble, hard-working Secretaries, I have information to report Jay Hellmuth met up with Sonia Nazario at the Clinton School of Public Policy in Little Rock where Sonia was lecturing about her book, Enrique s Journey. End of report, comrades. Glory to our class! My Therapist: Well, there you go. You are noble and hard-

67 n working. Now: Eat some Lucky Charms, Will. They re magically delicious. Thanks, Doc. I feel a lot better. Though I am little bit nervous that someone might be after me Lucky Charms. Are you sure that s a good cereal for me? 1983 Bea Fuller 1113 Jenniper Lane Annapolis, MD secretary@williams.edu Apologies up front for editing; I needed to make our news fit. You may recall a new feature for the column, which highlights inspiring classmates. First up: Steve O Day for contributing significantly to the medical field. After 16 years of cancer research in Stage IV melanoma, Steve served as the principal investigator on a double-blind clinical trial study that took place in 120 cancer centers in 13 countries and has been described as a breakthrough in melanoma and by Robert Bazell of NBC Nightly News as a seismic shift in cancer treatment. This new drug ipilimumab (or ipi ) blocks the protein brake on the T-cell that would ordinarily shut down the immune system. Steve is involved in designing and conducting follow-up studies to test the drug in different combinations with other melanoma treatment agents and to test its effectiveness against other cancers, including prostate and lung cancers. Steve spoke before an audience of about 30,000 oncologists and cancer research scientists from around the world at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. The full article appears in The New England Journal of Medicine. Heather Skilling nominated Maryam Elahi because, She s stayed true to the human rights cause since college and has managed to make a real difference. Me, I just try to get through the first week of school! Maryam joined The Open Society Foundation, which works to build democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. Maryam joined OSI in June 2007 as the director of the International Women s Program. Prior, Maryam was the founding director of the Human Rights Program at Trinity College, where she taught courses on international human rights law, as well as at the Oxford University Summer International Human Rights Program. During her time at Trinity, she traveled to set up international programs with a human rights focus resulting in programs for Cape Town, Santiago, Trinidad and Hong Kong. Maryam served as the advocacy director on the Middle East, North Africa and Europe for Amnesty International in DC from John Walsh was confirmed and sworn in as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Congratulations to all three nominees this quarter and to all of us for our daily accomplishments, small, medium and large... Congratulations to Michael Cristofaro and Anna Simas, who writes, After many years of wanting to have a family, we ve been blessed with a beautiful baby boy our Daniel Jacob. We traveled to Utah for his birth, and while there were able to spend time with Nola (Bertram) Sundquist and her family. Kevin Rochford was in northern Wisconsin at a father-son camp and writes: Isolated place. Lo and behold I bump into John Kelsho 88, who not only is a Williams grad but also went to the same high school I did in Manhattan and lives in Evanston, Ill., where I am today! Marc Sopher reports, We were dropping Meredith off for the beginning of her Eph career. Within minutes of pulling up at Paresky we saw Jeff and Peggy Southard Sutton 84 with their son Nathaniel. Both our kids plan to run x-c, under the tutelage of Pete Farwell 73 (yes, he is still the leader of the pack). At lunch, caught up with Ian and Anne L Hommedieu Sanderson 84, whose son John is also a 14er. Returning across campus to help Meredith settle in to Armstrong. (Does everyone know that Mission is all freshmen now?) Saw Bernie 63 and Jill Diamond Wruble, whose daughter Madi becomes the fifth Wruble Eph. Back at Mission, met Greg Holm s daughter Cece, who travelled from Colorado with mom Mary, leaving Greg to hold down the fort with their two younger sons. Marc was looking forward to a minireunion at Parents Weekend in October. Marc also wrote that he was grateful for the kind words from classmates, whose recommendations have helped as he deals with his health issues. He says, Without them, I would never have experienced the comic genius of Eddie Izzard and Brian Regan, among others (apparently I have been living under a rock). Ian Sanderson also wrote of his encounter with Marc and Jeff and said, Our common impressions: (1) the dorm rooms now seem really small; (2) the campus looks terrific; and (3) we are really jealous of our kids. Congratulations to potential first-time writer Bruce Leddy, whose contribution surpassed mine in length, eloquence and humor; however, word limits resulted in some brutal edits sorry. I often find what others are doing to be so impressive/ intimidating that my own news seems lame. Classmates are running nonprofits, researching for cures, adopting abandoned children and generally saving the world, while I (as a director/ writer of comedy in Hollywood) have largely been trafficking in racial stereotypes, scatological humor and penis jokes. I m afraid very few people will even have a clue who I am, because, no offense, I hardly know who any of you are anymore. I look through these notes and with about 78 percent of the names I m thinking, seriously, were these just random people who wish they went to Williams and Bea never did a background check? Bruce sums up 27 years since graduation in Tweetable length : Wrote/prod at MTV NY 7yrs, married DSquilla83, movd to SantaMonica, dirctd/prod MADtv 9yrs, 2kids 10/13, wrote/dirctd indie TheWeddingWeekend, just rescued dog. He concludes, What have I learned in all this time? My advice is to keep perspective by reading the first few pages of People before coming to our class notes. Ever notice how the whole thing is like a big flip book of life? Starting at the back and flipping forward it generally goes: travel/ grad school/first jobs, marriage/ next jobs/kids, attempts to achieve impressive things/stave off middle age, second marriages/ second careers, kids achievements/retirement, travel/decline/ oblivion. Bruce encourages all of us to take a look at those first couple entries. It s kind of heart-breaking, but it s also really illuminating. For most of us, thankfully we still have a decent number of pages to go in this publication before our year no longer shows up. Good thing, so that maybe I can accomplish more than just rising to the rank of exec VP at GHC The Genital Humor Channel. We must be getting old, because December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 65

68 CLASS NOTES Bruce Irving also makes note of the placement of our notes in the publication! Bruce writes: My update is a bit elegiac (must stop using this word!), based as it is on how far back into the middle of the alumni notes our class s section has slipped. We re running a very serious risk of being the people in the four-panel corduroys down on Spring Street, back for a little visit to the ol alma mater, of whom we used to make fun as we cruised campus in our force field of seeming eternal youth. Lately I ve been hanging out with various alum nephews and nieces, watching them start beautiful families (Anna Rettig Shane 98 and Adam Shane 97) or awesome bands (Sam Kapala 09 is the drummer for Williams-born Darlingside, a serious contender for next big thing). And on the other end of the spectrum, I see with near disbelief that some my classmates are already sending their children to Williams. My own daughter Emily, a high school junior, is starting to make noises (to my downplayed excitement) about being interested in applying next year. Which leaves us in the middle, a place I m still getting used to. I think it s going to be an OK spot, though. Bruce continues, I ve gotten together with Cliff Hoyt a few times lately, and it s as if we ve never had 27 years go by. Ditto Mark Pine and Margen Kelsey 82. I missed Peter Shapiro and Mike Smith when they came to Boston recently. My loss, though Shap and his wife Amy had such a good time that he s now threatening to move here. I just wrapped up a year s work producing a new TV series called This New House, made by This Old House for the DIY Network. It was a good experience I learned lots about what s coming down the pike for construction, energy and housing, which helps in my renovation consulting business. I m also joining a real estate firm in Cambridge so give me a call! Tom Vellenga writes in summing up the past 27 years, After 14 years in DC, where I fell in lifelong love with Julie Reilly Schmid, we moved to Minnesota in (Note to Margaret Mattson and Laura Hoptman: Julie s a brunette!) Julie was raised in DC, but we decided that we should get off the DC merry-go-round before the Clinton administration ended and raise our kids with the help of my family in the Twin Cities. Today we ve got boys of 13 years and 10. They are beamish boys, 66 Williams People December 2010 nearly the opposite of each other, and we are mad for them and I use mad in all of its senses. I am building a new group called Heartland Democracy. Working as a nonpartisan public engagement group, we are finding ways to win over more hearts and minds to progressive goals. We ve adapted Warren Zevon s line for our own purposes: Send lawyers, buns, and money. That s not a plea for money. And buns means food here in the heartland, you gutter-dwellers. I just thought that Matt Ryan, who seemed to play Zevon every hour on his radio show, would appreciate that. While I m at it, I want to blow Brendan Kiernan s cover. He s in DC now, getting his security clearance, soon to put his Russian and analytic skills to work on our collective behalf. At last the Frogman is in play in the big pond where he belongs. I d urge y all in the area to get in touch with him. Tom continues, I don t believe I ve seen mention in these pages of Laura Hoptman s illustriousness. A few years ago, The New Yorker ran a review of an exhibit she curated. It could not have been more laudatory, and the critic laid his praise at the feet of Laura. She s now directing the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC. I m on to you, Laura. Dina Esposito writes: Rob Bowman and I and the kids are back from our four-year Africa adventure Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for two years and Nairobi, Kenya, for two years. Each had unique thrills and interests, and we were glad to have shared the experience with our kids (now 9, 13 and 15). Rob was working as Justice Department attaché at the U.S. embassy in Nairobi and became the resident expert on piracy since Kenya is prosecuting most of the Somali pirates who have been captured off the coast. I was working for a nonprofit on governance and peace building in the region so was able to travel a lot to Zimbabwe, the Dem Rep. of Congo, Ethiopia, southern Sudan and other spots! We are settling back into our home in Arlington and re-embracing American life. A little closer to home, Jenny Weeks returned from a science journalism fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod. They bring 10 journalists there every fall to spend a week learning what their scientists and engineers do. She says, There was another Eph in my group, Jennifer Barone 03, who is news editor at Discover Magazine. This week I went to parents night at our middle school and found out that my older daughter Claire s seventhgrade science teacher is Karen (Mitchell) MacAulay! For their first lab Karen had the kids chew three kinds of bubble gum, measure each others bubbles, graph the results and figure out which brand worked best (I think Bubblicious was #1). Who says science can t be relevant to everyday life? Steve Epstein reports having a great Williams moment in late June. My son Michael, 17, and his friend Bryan spent two weeks at Williams at a golf camp. When they arrived in Williamstown, they received a tour of the athletic facilities and greater Spring Street (including a trip into the Log and to St. Pierre s Barber Shop) given by none other than Hall of Fame Football Coach Dick Farley. Coach Farley provided stories and anecdotes about his 30-plus years at Williams as we traipsed around town, and even bumped into former Athletic Director Bob Peck. (Mary) Hunter Pynchon is still living in Providence working on a beautiful 1900 Victorian fixer upper, complete with all the exquisite details of that period patterned wood floors, mantle pieces with interior iron fireplace walls and handmade plaster ceilings of the amazing detail. We are two blocks away from Brown athletic facilities and games. It s not hard to find tennis, squash, soccer, basketball, ice hockey and lacrosse games (plus work out rooms and indoor track) outside your back door. [and] you are never more than half an hour from the water. Now that I have sold you on the secret little gem called RI, please don t share it with your friends! We do need more Williams representatives here; we re surrounded by Brown Bears! Irve Dell checks in, The object theater piece Kira (Obolensky) 84 and I created in Philadelphia, Cabinet of Wonders: an Impossible History, was just nominated by the Barrymore Awards for Best New Play. The play was at Open Eye Figure Theatre in Minneapolis in the fall. Karen Lewis Alexander writes: My son Myles graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a major in economics. He also did some advanced work at the London School of Economics. Work goes well for me at Loyola

69 University Health System, where I have now assumed the senior VP position for both the offices of development and of external affairs. The work is keeping me busier than I imagined, but it is very fulfilling. I had the opportunity to scrub in and observe a kidney transplant surgery. I witnessed a kidney being removed from a donor and then walked into the next OR and placed in a very sick young woman. When the kidney pinked up the shouts of joy from the docs and nurses was overwhelming. Crying into my face mask, I realized just how privileged I am to work at an institution that does such remarkable work each day. I thank Lyman Casey, who wrote about Charles Donovan: Our classmate, co-conspirator and friend Charles Donovan died this past Feb. 9. He passed away suddenly of heart failure at his home in Quincy, Mass. Many of us who knew Charles well in his Williams days find this hard to fathom, because we can t shake the memory of his boyish grin, his silly cackle or his weird, warm take on the world. After graduation, Charles had the poor judgment to room with Eric Wilding 82 and me. Despite this setback, he went on to a successful career in advertising on Madison Avenue and, later, in Boston. He married twice and fathered two children: Emily, who is now a beautiful and charming college student, and Sam, whose resemblance to his father is enough to take your breath away. Many of us lost touch with Charles in the 1990s as we turned our energies to our own families and careers. Meanwhile, he dealt with more than his fair share of challenges with grace and strength. We are only now coming to grips with this loss. For me and many of Charles longtime friends, the ironic upside of this experience is that it has brought us together again, however briefly, to remember and celebrate our friend. Several of our classmates have expressed interest in making a group donation in Charles honor. Anyone who wishes to join in this gift, please feel free to contact me at lyman@centralis.com. And last, a scholarship has been established at the College in honor of Katie Miller, whose death was noted in our last column and whose obituary appears in the back of this issue Sean M. Crotty 31 Carriage House Lane Saratoga Springs, NY Carrie Bradley Neves 7 Gay St., Apt. 4N New York, NY secretary@williams.edu Dear classmates, the sun is bright. The air is crisp. The sky is blue. Are you ready for some football? Sorry, but it happens to me every fall. This year I have three nephews playing high school football. Of course then there is Monday Night Football, a Thursday night college game and maybe a Thursday night NFL game. Then of course all the college games on Friday and Saturday and NFL on Sunday, and we are back to Monday Night Football. I suppose I could find more useful ways to spend my fall days and nights I m also sure I could find more destructive ways. So I don t judge myself too harshly when my 10-year-old daughter comes in and says: Dad ANOTHER football game? I just stare at her in disbelief. Is this child really mine? Is there not one drop of football blood in her veins? Of course, upon reflection, I admit she is 100 percent right so I hand her the clicker and clean out my sock drawer. Speaking of football I got an from Jack McGonagle, and his son Jackson is playing ball at Taft. I hoped to meet up with Jack to watch a game or two in the fall. He was quite the proud father, as he should be. Mark Payton writes that his lovely wife Dawn and he now have three children in college. Blair is a sophomore at Franklin Pierce in N.H.; Jessica is a freshman at George Washington University in DC (along with Charlie Bainard, son of our own Pam Briggs 84), and their son Greg is now a freshman at Williams and playing some ball. See, everything comes back to football in the fall. Mark adds that Greg lives in Sage C in the same room as Mark s old buddy Keith Haynes. Mark didn t want me to leave out that Jackson Payton, now 6, has just started first grade at Williamstown Elementary. No word on his fall sports activities however. Let s see that will make him Williams class of? Nope, not going there my head is already filled with too many numbers dealing with n things like the maximum gross takeoff weight of a B It s 870,000 pounds by the way, not that anyone would care unless you were sitting in the back. Great hearing from you, Mark, and thanks for the update and hope to catch a game or two this year in the Purple Valley. So my love/hate relationship with Facebook continues. The hate side I m sure everyone can guess (privacy issues). The love side of Facebook, however, keeps me in touch with some of you, and that is a grand thing indeed. I hear through Facebook from the lovely and talented Mara Bun, who writes: Stu and I send a hug from the Queensland mountains, where two frog-mouthed owls have made their home in our Avatar tree just outside the kitchen. Life unfolds from season to season. My work with Green Cross remains a wonderful labour of love, though the organisation is regularly precariously perched, three months away from running out of cash. Somehow, miraculously, things come through just in time. For those who listened to the story of Australian bushfires at our 25th reunion, you can check out what Green Cross is doing about it here: www. builditbackgreen.org much like the work we are doing in New Orleans. Daryl Hannah was to visit the bushfire communities who are building back to inspire us with her story of living off the grid in Montana stylishly! With help from Alison Tucher we are now connected with our wonderful new U.S. ambassador and have been sort of adopted as their environment charity, which is very cool. Other than on Facebook where lovely chats with Williams friends appear from time to time, no contact down under can be reported, though Sean threatens to show up one day as his Pacific work grows. The highlight of contact was over the World Cup, where a group of 84 Latinos celebrated Spain s win over Facebook. All good. Hope all are well, and visit us if you are in Australia! We love company up in the rainforest and cater happily for hoards. BJ Connolly is back coaching at the high school level in SC, and I m hoping to report on a great season in the spring column. It seems the football thread continues. When I pull up Facebook in some hotel half a world away there are not many things I can count on but one is finding out where Ken Wyatt has been. I love December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 67

70 CLASS NOTES it cause the man knows how to travel. Albeit, he is covering all that great travel in the cloak of actually doing some business, he can t fool me. It looks to me like he is having way too much fun for it to be work. He has a great line of Vodkas take a look at He has a Mountain Huckleberry The Liquor Snob reviewed: While Poland is the place we think of when someone says potato vodka, this is definitely a high-end entry, clean and tasty. We figure it d make a great bottle to keep around in your ski house, so you can sip it with friends and family while wearing turtlenecks by the fire. Actually, that s not really our style we re thinking we ll fill up our Coldpoles and enjoy a berry boost while we re on the mountain. Anyway, we definitely recommend it if you can get your hands on it we liked it just as much or more as any other berryflavored vodka we ve sampled in our long and storied history. Now if that doesn t get you to run out and find some I don t know what will. Ken also shares: The main thing going on here is that Emmy 85 and I are adjusting to an empty nest. Both kids are boarding school students at Saint Paul s in Concord, N.H. James is a junior. Caroline is a freshman. Luckily, the campus is just under 30 miles from our house in Bedford, so we will see the kids frequently, especially for sporting events. James plays football, alpine ski racing and lacrosse. Caroline was looking for a fall sport but will swim this winter and row crew in the spring. I am hoping that Emmy will be able to come with me on some of my frequent trips around the country. Regardless, our yellow lab Zeus will be one spoiled dog with the kids gone. Well, Ken, hopefully you guys will have some great travels ahead and keep us posted via Facebook and via the class notes so we can live vicariously through you. Jim Neumann is praised here for sending me a very timely note. He writes: Lots has happened in my family in the year since 84 s 25th. My work in environmental economics has really taken off, which I attribute entirely to a post-reunion wave of support for sustainability. It started when I presented work in Baltimore last December, which included a drop-in on Bill Harrison and Steph Adler to experience a dayin-the-life of their busy family, including an explanation of cloud 68 Williams People December 2010 computing from Bill over dessert, late-into-the-night discussions of wind power in Nantucket Sound, and a primer on how to take a pharma startup through FDA approval. Energized by the visit, in February I started a new project advising the World Bank and a handful of Eastern Europe/Central Asian governments on adapting agriculture to climate change. Took me to Albania and Moldova in March, in May to Macedonia and Uzbekistan fortunately nothing like Sean s Kyrgyzstan-during-acoup adventure, thank you very much. Fascinating places, though very poor and clearly in need of assistance from the West. Then in June I was named a lead author for the U.N. s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change one of about 800 or so scientists and economists worldwide who will write the U.N. s next assessment of the impacts of climate change around the world. Starting new work in Vietnam, Mozambique and Ghana. At home, my son turned 18 and started college in September, and my 15-year old daughter just returned from a mission trip to El Salvador. Ginny and I even had a couple of empty nest weeks to ourselves last summer we ll have no trouble adapting to that down the road. In the small-world category, discovered that a friend from Lexington was David Bader s baby sitter when he was growing up in Wayland freaky, but also a great source of incriminating stories. Also heard briefly from Sara Griffiths. Hoping to see her sometime in Boston. I ll be getting in touch with Jim and Mara as I m just starting to clear a parcel of land I purchased about 1,900 feet up off the valley floor here in upstate NY south facing, good wind and sun. Having to take all these troops in and out of the sand box all these years has me pushing to produce as much energy as I can myself. I see it as both an environmental issue and a national security issue, and I wish more people could find ways to move in the directions Jim and others in our class have championed over the years. Donna Ching answered my call to arms over Facebook for note fodder with a promise to get back to me in a few days. However since there are two high school football games I have to watch tomorrow I can t wait for last-minute updates this time around. She did give me some intel on Matt Viola, who was recently sworn in as a Circuit Court judge in Hawaii. I m sure I speak for the rest of the class when I say, Well done, Lad. I must say, nothing quite like traveling to 50-some-odd countries brings to light the importance of a true justice system, with a capital J and I applaud all those who help make those gears turn so judiciously here in the good old U.S. of A. Congratulations, Matt. My roommate Tom Graham has always been a humble man, and so I try not to take liberty with his personal s to me as a friend in passing information across here. However, I did want to share that he has moved from running the National Hand Center in Baltimore back to the Cleveland Clinic, where, from what I can gather from his last to me, he has taken over as chairman of Cleveland Clinic Innovations and vice chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery. So now those of you with those pesky golf and tennis and, yes, football injuries know where to find him. He ed saying after a particularly stressful week he sat down for a minute to catch his breath, and The Big Chill was on TV. I m thinking that came out sophomore year, and I remember watching it with Tom, Tim Hinkle, Joe Loturrco and Stuart Weinstein and coming out wondering what the future held for all of us. I do remember asking Stuart what character he thought I would be, and he just looked at me and said: The dead guy. I think I laughed for a week, and thinking about that walk home from Spring Street, I can t stop laughing now. I ll leave you as I started with you football and the fall. I didn t want you all to mistake what still lives in my heart. It isn t about past glories it never was about that. It was about finding something that was so joyful to me and remained so throughout my life and sharing that joy with friends and family. I found that same joy in flying years later, but as a young man, it was all about running around front yards with a small, funny shaped, brown ball. I wish all of you still have such joy in your own young hearts and that you ll never let go of the child in you. It s where the passion for life lives. So I leave you with a poem about football by Tonya Brown: Front yards all across this land is where football got it s start. The greatest game ever played begins in a young boy s heart. They stepped out

71 n their front door at an early age. I ll tell you what they saw, let me set the stage. The front yard grows in size to that of a football field. The air is filled with sounds and an eerie chill. You can almost see the coin as it s tossed in the air. All across America, front yards everywhere. The crowd is roaring loud, the kick-off starts the game. What was a favorite football shirt is now a jersey with their name. Of course with the winning touchdown they celebrate with style. Becoming the greatest player if only for a little while. So I tip my hat to the pros that dance and spike the ball. I don t really think it s them showing out at all. Maybe their just taken back to where they got their start. The end zone becomes a front yard, they play with a young boy s heart. Until next time. Fair winds and calm seas. Sean 1985 Wendy Webster Coakley 271 Pittsfield Road Lenox, MA secretary@williams.edu Congratulations to Hunsoo Kim, the first member of the class, I believe, to have a child join the alumni ranks! James Kim 10 celebrated his graduation one week before our 25th reunion; unfortunately, Hunsoo couldn t stick around since his younger son was graduating from high school on the West Coast. Hunsoo has been with Bank of America/Merrill Lynch for 15 years, heading up Asia Pacific research in the firm s Hong Kong office. Also in the proud pop department, albeit at the other end of parental spectrum: Larry Greenberg and Jeff Speck, who recently welcomed baby boys, future entry mates in the Class of Jonathan Greenberg was born on April 17 in Tokyo, and Roman Speck on June 2 in DC. After reunion, Danny Blatt drove cross-country to LA, visiting a cousin in St. Louis and seeing the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona along the way. Back home in LA, he had dinner with Sara Gross, who was midcommute: She divides her time between Mexico and London. Dan also met up with Gregor Kalas before Gregor returned to his University of Tennessee faculty position following a year-long research sabbatical at UCLA. Susan Leone who came to reunion with crutches and a determined smile reported that, after weeks of physical therapy, her orthopedic surgeon cleared her of surgery to repair her torn ACL. Her supporting muscles and ligaments were deemed strong enough to keep her knee stable, so no painful surgery or unsightly scars for her. I enjoyed meeting Susan s beautiful daughter Emma at reunion. Unfortunately, I missed her son Sam, who was taking a campus tour; if he ends up matriculating at Williams next fall he ll share a reunion year with both his mom and grandfather, Jim Leone 55! Susan is very busy as a board member of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, where her volunteer duties encompass strategic planning, education, event planning, fundraising and architectural/ interior design. She also runs the company boutique, building on her professional merchandising background and MBA in marketing. Daughter Emma dances with the company before and after school every day as well as all day Saturday and was invited to attend the Pacific Northwest Ballet s summer intensive program in Seattle. All this at the tender age of 14! Susan caught up with her Fayerweather freshman roommate and Fox Chapel neighbor Maria Mori Brooks at a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center black-tie event, where Maria s department chair was honored. More exciting news for Maria: Her son Carson is a member of the Class of 2014! (Carson s dad is Rob Brooks 84.) Peter Burghardt saw Kris Karlson last summer at a charity cycling event where he was a first-aid volunteer. Kris and her husband had just ridden 200 miles in two days on their tandem, Peter wrote. She was quaffing chocolate milk as a recovery beverage and looked as though she d barely broken a sweat. Sounds like our class Olympian is still in amazing shape! Congratulations to Margie Duffield on her summer project: directing a one-woman show, Viva La Evolucion: Growing Up Cuban and Queer in America, at the SoHo Playhouse. Starring comic actress Diana Yanez, the show makes mojitos out of the limones of her life in these hilarious tales of chaos, love and evolution in Miami. Chris Varrone and family have repatriated from Denmark, where they lived for five years, and settled in Irvington, N.Y., along the Hudson River, where Chris now runs Riverview Consulting, focusing on renewable energy technology. How appropriate that this recently published novelist should be living where Washington Irving once did. Lucy Gardner Carson has moved from the faculty secretarial office at Williams to development research, more in line with my previous life as an editor in western New York, she wrote. She also keeps her hand in publishing by doing freelance copyediting for small publishing houses like Tupelo Press and Chelsea Green. Husband John landed an IT job at the Clark Art Institute; they get together often with Donald Campbell 84 and his wife Meg Boyle Campbell 89, who run a working farm in southern Vermont. Like some of you, Bob Angevin missed the reunion book deadline: Chalk it up to the real estate depression, he wrote me after reunion. In 2000, after a career working for large shopping center developers in LA and Chicago, I started Starbuck Capital, a real estate development and investment company based in Chicago. We acquire historic urban retail and mixed-use buildings, preferably at intersections, and adapt them to new uses (think Faneuil Hall in Boston on a smaller scale). The organization is lean, with no partners or investors thus far, which makes decisions pretty seamless. It has been gratifying to see these developments anchor emerging neighborhoods, and I enjoy bringing great architecture back to life. The current climate has been brutal, but my lenders still like my projects. On a personal note, my greatest challenge has been the loss of several family members, including my older brother John. He had a larger-than-life personality, badgered me constantly on every aspect of my life, and I miss him greatly. Anne Melvin hosted an end-ofsummer potluck for a number of Boston-area Ephs, including Alec and Heidi Knight Brackenridge 86, Matt Dunne 86, Mark Evans, Meg Holliday Kelly, Will and Elizabeth Edwards Prickett, and Sarah Keohane Williamson 84. Mel also bumped into Diane Harkins Modesett at Logan Airport earlier in the summer, as Diane was en route to Houston after a trip to Maine, and Mel was returning from vacation in Michigan. 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72 CLASS NOTES Colocci informed me that she d be traveling to Berlin last summer, since Mike Coakley and I were also planning a trip there. Unfortunately, that didn t happen, but I did manage to get in touch with Jan Fischer, who has lived in the German capital since shortly after the Berlin Wall came down, and he was very helpful in offering suggestions of how to navigate this vast city and what to see. As bad luck would have it, Jan was headed out of town just as we were arriving, to join his wife who plays viola with the Berlin Philharmonic in Salzburg, but we did get together with a young Eph acquaintance of ours, Nate Winstanley 04, who works in the Berlin office of an American ad agency. The cultural highlight for Mike and me was seeing the bust of Queen Nefertiti from the cover of the massive coffee-table tome that was our Art History 101 textbook. No doubt many classmates can trace their back problems to carting that volume around! For the soccer-playing Coakley lads, the highlight of their trip to Germany came later, when they saw Paul, the World Cup-picking octopus, at an aquarium in Oberhausen. Richard Dimperio got the full World Cup treatment when he happened to be in Munich the day Germany beat Argentina to advance to the semifinals: The streets and subways were crazy with revelers, he wrote. Young guys were doing cannonballs from atop a statue in the center of a small fountain. I couldn t watch. However, it was another sport that brought Rich to Europe: curling! Specifically, he competed in the 45th Annual International Curling Bonspiel in Cortina, Italy. Took out Andorra and Luxembourg but fell to Switzerland and Italy, he reported. Finished 38 out of 60. But it isn t all about the competition: In curling tradition we followed each game by sharing drinks with our competitors. We weren t slackers in that department but, again, would have finished in the bottom half of the field. As my bemused husband will attest, your class scribe is one of those people who becomes absolutely obsessed with the sport of curling every four years (don t ask me to explain it), so being able to share Richard s news with you all is a genuine thrill. Enjoy the holidaze, dear classmates! 70 Williams People December REUNION JUNE 9-12 Brian Carpenter 6515 Wydown Blvd. Campus Box St. Louis, MO th The images are faint, the sensations dim, but I ll bet that even now you can recall the shadows gliding across the purple mountains, the sugary-cinnamon scent of honeybuns rolling out of Baxter, the not quite recognizable but maybe it IS the Beatles coming from the carillon in Thompson Memorial Chapel. In the latest batch of mail I ve had some tantalizing hints about who s headed to Williamstown next June (Vitale, Lane, Damstra, Martin, Geniesse, McElvey, Brown, to name a few), and as you read on, you ll discover more who plan to attend and news about classmates who are, as always, universally interesting. Paulette Blowe is beginning her second year as an assistant instructor in the Urban Teacher Education Program at the Rutgers campus in Newark. She has been redesigning the program, while managing a heavy teaching load. She also is consulting at William Paterson University, facilitating a three-year grant for the professional development of K-12 math and science teachers. Paulette is also completing coursework in a doctoral program, with a dissertation defense planned for Nancy Christoph is in her 16th year teaching Spanish at Pacific University Oregon, just outside Portland. She travels regularly to Mexico for research, enriching her courses in Mexican and Mexican-American literature and culture. Last year at a conference Nancy ran across Williams Spanish professor Gene Bell- Villada, a friendly connection and yet unnerving, because he hadn t changed in almost 25 years! Must be in the Williamstown water. Despite the notorious rain in Oregon, Nancy reports, I love living in a small town where I walk my kids to school, walk to campus, know everyone and even recognize students from behind by the coats they wear (sound familiar, anyone?!). Libby Miles is now chair of the Department of Writing & Rhetoric at the University of Rhode Island, where she also performs with the Cognitive Dissidents, a vocal trio of professors the university trots out for social justice functions, as long as we don t take ourselves too seriously. Each summer Libby continues to launch out on a new hiking adventure with her daughter Abra, and last year it was to Mount Rainier. She s seen Jurian Hughes, who is an instructor at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and Regina Kelly at a recent professional conference. (Regina is in a doctoral program in Arizona.) Bobby Lee is in his 10th year teaching medieval literature at Indiana University South Bend ( Chaucer rocks! ). What Bobby describes as his comfy gig followed the not all that comfy six years of grad school, before which he spent nine years working in the software industry. With their boys now 13, 11, and 9, Bobby and his wife Elaine have found that we can actually have relaxing vacations again, eating tapas, playing cards and people watching, with Happy Meals no longer even a remote consideration. Pete Dawson has been teaching for 20 years in the same school district, trying to reign in seventh-graders while expanding their knowledge of ancient history. Pete and wife Nan have two boys, Jack, 11, and Quinn, 9. Pete sees George Clements regularly, and, in fact, George, an architect, designed the remodel of part of their house. Sarah Thurber is back in school, attending a distance program at SUNY Buffalo to get a Master of Science in creative studies. She s been publishing in the field for 15 years, so the subject matter isn t new, but she says it s been fun to delve into its academic underpinnings. Sarah runs into Heidi Bloom, who is working at The Cradle, one of the Midwest s most respected adoption agencies. Cath Carpenter 79 coaxed Sarah into doing a sprint triathlon last year. Beth Choat s young adult novel Soccerland was released this year. The book is the first in her series for and about teenage girls who play sports. Since writing the book, Beth put full-time journalism behind her and leaped into a new career as a wait for it Las Vegas Metropolitan police officer. As Beth wrote, Yes, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, unless of course Officer Choat witnesses it. Then you re going to jail. I m in the final stages of training, which consisted of a seven-month paramilitary police academy and several months of field training. Looking back I

73 n From left, former Williams tennis team members Liz Kellison 87, Kevin Callanan 87 and Susan (Brown) van der Linden 86 met up at Wimbledon in June. can t believe I embarked on this at age 45, but somehow I survived. Come visit; just behave yourself or I will cuff and stuff you in my black and white! Yes ma am. Another book suggestion comes from Candace Andrews. Her friend Cornelia Read published Invisible Boy, which features a key character based on Eric Rosenbaum and his work with the Special Victim s Bureau in Brooklyn. Both Eric and his literary avatar Kyle are, according to Candace, dedicated to helping victims of crime, and both are very well dressed. Candace writes that she s relocated to Austin and is loving it. Ken Lafler wrote in from Cambridge, Mass., where he works at Harvard Law School as assistant dean for student financial services. His wife Selena Tan 89 works at a small company as VP of human resources/finance/ IT. If you want a vivid reminder of how much we ve aged, their daughter Alma was just 2 weeks old when she attended our fifth reunion. Ken was a vital force behind Music Fest at Williams, and he s still playing in a couple local bands. When you re in Boston, join the hip Lafler groupies and seek out gigs featuring Hillbilly Holiday or The Weisstronauts. Tara Kazak and her husband Fan participated last summer in the Chamber Music Conference and Composer s Forum of the East at Bennington College. Attending for over 15 years, Tara continues to make Williams connections, this year with cellist Shirley Be 77, Jean Donati (former music department secretary and manager of the Berkshire Symphony) and Stephanie Heath McCarthy, who just finished her master s in education and is living in Dalton and teaching in nearby Cheshire. Tara s special treat this year was the chance to study and perform a trio sonata she and her trio had commissioned from Leanna Kirchoff, an up-andcoming composer. Another friend in Tara s Long Island orbit, Winnie Martin, wrote in with an update on her work as director of communications, government relations and pro bono for Legal Services NYC, a nonprofit agency that provides free civil legal services to lowincome people. Winnie was also inducted as a member of the Staten Island Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. in April and elected VP of the Staten Island Women s Bar Association. Winnie keeps in touch with the globetrotting Erik Gunderson, who is always on the go for McGraw Hill, and she s trying to convince Mary Vaccaro to wrap up the semester teaching art history in Texas next spring and head up north to reunion. Finally, in January, Winnie and her partner Mickey Burns will celebrate their 10th anniversary, and they re headed to Disney World as part of the festivities. Was there a Williams discount? Dave Chua just got back from Disneyland and commented that it was a slight improvement from his birthday celebration earlier in the year at Chuck E. Cheese s. Yes, he has kids. His oldest son, Caleb, started first grade this fall, and his youngest, Jared, entered nursery school. Both attend a Chinese-immersion international school in Palo Alto. The latest addition to the family is a yellow Beta fish tended to mostly by Dave and his wife Christina, both thankful that the boys were satisfied with a fish rather than the puppy they originally wanted. Dave was in touch with Anne Wagman Kenyon, who is apparently doing well with her family in North Carolina. Don Murray described starting his own criminal defense law firm in 1996, which has since expanded to two locations around NYC. Don writes, It is a strange path that brought me to this point, but no doubt it has something to do with that project in Professor Wood s French Revolution class where I was required to defend the king at a trial. Don s wife is a trial lawyer for The Legal Aid Society in NYC, where Don originally worked and where they met. With an office about a block from hers, they have lunch together nearly every day, which might have something to do with why they ve just celebrated their 17th wedding anniversary. They have two girls, ages 15 and 11, and live in Sea Cliff, a tiny village tucked into the North Shore of Long Island. Don s Williams sightings include Mark Young, who is living in Brooklyn and working for the Long Island Railroad as CFO, and Art Xanthos, who works as a lawyer in NYC and lives in Connecticut. Another sign of the times, Don ran across Nate Newbury via a YouTube video in which Nate was describing some aspect of laser physics he s developing for the government. Don didn t find this the least bit surprising: If anyone is going to invent the Lightsaber, it is going to be Nate. An aside: Hey, Andrea Smith, don t forget to send in that photo you promised of you and Nzingha Clarke at the soccer game. Peter and Betsy McKelvey wrote, We have two children, both sophomores. Emily is at Duke despite her parents best attempts to interest her in Williams. Will is in high school our last chance. Betsy has been working as a librarian at Boston College for 15 years, moving to full time last summer. In charge of digital collections, her skills mean she s also in charge of solving all home IT problems. Last summer the McKelveys had a lovely time with Steve DeLano and his family on Martha s Vineyard. Tom Vitale provided an update on his family December 2010 Williams PeoPle 71

74 CLASS NOTES life: married with three daughters (ages 3, 5, 7), lived in Manhattan and loved it but recently moved to Westchester for the backyard. Tom has been working at the Syfy Channel for the last 17 years and is grateful that being an executive VP of programming & original movies can be so much fun. Following travel to Minnesota to visit family last summer, Peggy Carroll s kids had some adventures without mom: Marie, 13, spent two weeks at camp in Michigan, and Charlie, 11, went with friends to Mont Tremblant in Canada. Peggy has continued her streak of work at a series of media organizations (New York Times, Comcast, now Sun Times Media) and commented, The focus has shifted to selling digital advertising to extremely local businesses, and every day I hear firsthand the troubled stories of small businesses who ve taken the biggest beating in our tough economy. Antje Haussen Lewis reported from Vienna, where she s marveling that her 12-year-old son can have shoes twice her size. Though procrastinating on a master s thesis, Antje says her other work as a social worker is never dull. Another aside: Ancient though we are, it appears more classmates are on Facebook (Peggy Carroll, you can friend Antje Lewis, for instance). We re also planning a reunion Facebook page. Shelly Ball wrote to say she s still living in Berkeley, Calif., providing mental health services to kids and their families at a local middle and high school. Shelly writes, It s amazing work exhausting and rewarding and ultimately a real privilege. Shelly spent time last year with Steve Page, his wife Nancy and their kids, as well as with Bettina (Roth) and Paul Caluori (and daughter Nava) and with Robin Flagg and family. A high point in Shelly s summer: climbing Yosemite Falls. Ed Santella s 5-year-old son started pre-k at the Pike School in Andover, Mass., where Ed teaches fifth grade with an emphasis on science, and his wife Stephanie teaches third grade. Meanwhile, their 2-year-old daughter runs 72 Williams People December 2010 the nearby daycare ( and pretty much our house as well ). Ed inquired about the whereabouts of Erik Knutzen and Bruce Bullock and has resorted to Facebook contacts with their relatives. Martita Weil Fleming reports that the highlight of her 7-yearold daughter Jia s summer was acquiring a new cat. Besides the usual food and litter box responsibilities, Jia is a happy, healthy second grader who loves (on most days) school, swimming, soccer and learning Chinese. Martita was back in Williamstown last June for her husband Chris 25th reunion, a fun preview of our own festivities, and is looking forward to reconnecting with many friends (she specifically named you, Bill Craco). In the meantime, Martita is occupied with work for the PTA at Jia s school as well as volunteer work for a private trust with which her family has been involved for many years. Well connected with DC-area alums, Martita reports contacts with Kathy LaRiviere, Brad 85 and Leigh Repko Case 84, Amy Smith 84 and Chris Howlett 85. She also spent a few days with Kelley Lane and saw Sheila Dacey 85 when they trekked up to NYC over the summer to see Oranuj Tantimedh, who was visiting the U.S. from Bangkok. I received a message from Ora, who commented on how nice it was to see Martita, Chris and Sheila for dinner, along with Holly Kulka 85 and Eric Glatstein 87, who was in town from Chicago. Ora is working for TMB Bank Public Co. Ltd. EPHCOMPLISHMENT Libby Miles 86 was recognized with a University of Rhode Island Foundation Excellence Award in September. Miles is chair of the writing and rhetoric department within the College of Arts and Sciences at URI. in market risk management. Kelley Lane wrote, My family went with my husband s parents to Norway for three weeks to visit his relatives. It was quite an exciting trip. My son just started high school, and I also have a sixth-grade girl and twin girls in the third grade. Also, I just started a full-time job as the director of education at a Presbyterian church here in Richmond, Va. Amidst all the moves, transitions and twists and turns some people have experienced since graduation, Lindsay Brown s quizzical reflection on his life is that it s been oddly(?) stable. After graduation Lindsay started teaching at St. Andrew s in Delaware, and he s still there. In fact, now he s teaching students whose parents he once taught how s that for a stark reminder of one s age, I mean, seniority? Lindsay was back in the Purple Valley last spring for a crew reunion, picked up JP Conlan in NYC on the way north and had fun reconnecting with many others from the deeper past and nearer present. Jon Riecke has lived in the same house in Maplewood, N.J., for the past 17 years, still fixing things up (shower tiles, at last report). Jon s eldest daughter, Sarah, a sophomore at Oberlin, is studying creative writing, while his younger daughter, Elena, is a junior in high school, interested in psychology and almost as tall as Jon. Until last year Jon was at a startup he d been with for nine years, but now he s at some obscure company (Google) writing software. In neighboring Philadelphia, Dan Damstra is in his eighth year as general counsel for a diversified manufacturing company based in Norristown, Pa. His wife Inge is a child and adult psychiatrist practicing in nearby Paoli, Pa. Their three kids (twins John and Conrad, 16, and daughter Ellie, 12) are busy with school and other activities. Dan s latest role is driving instructor for the license-bound boys. In Jamestown, N.Y., Eric Williams sounded surprised when he said, After a lifetime of being a couch potato, I finally got in sufficient shape to run my first marathon in Erie, Pa. Eric plans to return for reunion, and no doubt you ll see him out on Gale Road at some point. Craig Kirby was back in the Purple Valley last April on a three-day, seven-school whirlwind with his oldest daughter. Craig and his wife Maureen live outside Chicago with their four kids. Craig was able to get a golf trip in with Ed O Toole last winter and has had an annual golf gathering going for years with Hoxsey Street housemates Alex Vitale, Peter Mitchell, Alan Posta, Brad Bissell, Paul Williamson, Jay Hickman and Chris Pappas, with occasional appearances by Jonathan Kraft and Tarek Sultan. Craig wanted to thank Alan for the Philly cheese steaks that he sent for the Blackhawks Stanley Cup victory over his Flyers. With her own Eph-inspired trip to report, Kathy Kirmayer described her nine-hour, 24-mile relay swim (you read that right)

75 n across Tampa Bay last April. Kathy was joined by John Young 97, Chris Kirwan and Rob Sticky Benson, both 87, Bill Couch and Jordan Lewis 79, all of whom swam at Williams under legendary coach Carl Samuelson. The swim raised money to provide swimming lessons to kids, and, as Kathy tells it, We didn t see any sharks (well, Coucher did), but we did get a dolphin escort at one point. No beer on board but lots of Advil. No surprise, we can t wait to do it again next year. Kathy also sent out a reunion invitation to stop by for snacks and drinks in June when The Slippery Banana Plus M el Mahoney Bissell, Deb Semel Goldenring, Ellenore Knight Baker, Madeline Hughes Haikala, Colleen Murphy Columbo, Martha Nikitas Stone, Carolyn Walker Niles and Kathy take up residence at Maple Hall. Anne Southworth Marsh conjectured that there may be a magnetic attraction among Williams alums, since on her vacation to Vieques with her husband David and kids Thomas, 12, and Elizabeth, 10, she ran into Josh and Sonali Swift on a remote beach. Anne said she s looking forward to other similar reunions next June. Meanwhile, she and her family still live just outside DC, and Anne helps synthesize environmental science for policy makers at The Heinz Center. Jan Spoor lives outside Takoma Park, Md. After two years at the National Counterterrorism Center followed by work as an intelligence analyst for SAIC Inc., Jan next hoped to finish his master s in strategic intelligence in the fall and start a new master s program in geoinformation technology and cartography at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Trip preparations have included the complicated arrangements necessary to take his three cats with him. Ever the traveler, Jan spent a week around Burlington, Vt., last summer, with adventures that followed to the northern Highlands of Scotland and Edinburgh. Jan was looking forward to attending the wedding of his ex, Chris Howlett, to her girlfriend of six years, Melissa Kuhnell, in DC. Jan also keeps tabs with people on Facebook, with Kat Strieby, Robin Wildfang and Paul Ketro making appearances on the wall. Another report on interesting summer travel came from Tim Pittman: My family and I took leave from Kyrgyzstan to visit grandparents in Bucharest and to rediscover Berlin, East and West, for the first time in 20 years, along with the island of Ruegen. We survived the April revolution in Kyrgyzstan relatively unscathed. As regional security officer, I spend most of my time lately preparing for trouble should it come to that during the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan. Tim met up with Jeff Lilly, who was there looking into the upcoming parliamentary elections. Tim s wife Mihaela has started teaching two courses at the American University of Central Asia, while daughters Elena and Sylvia are enjoying enjoy life in Bishkek. Tim said he s now bidding on his next assignment with the State Department, which is likely to bring him back to DC. Wouldn t you love to be able to introduce yourself at reunion by saying, I started 13 years ago working on Antz and then on Shrek. Well, that s what you ll hear from Stephanie Mulqueen, who works at DreamWorks Animation. Stephanie and her husband have two kids, Jason, 4, and Juliette, 7, who enjoyed catching up with Bobby Meyers- Lee and his wife and three boys over the summer. Stephanie also had the pleasure of seeing Libby Horne, who lives in LA with her husband and two children and works as an editor. At this writing Tom Geniesse was mourning the end of summer, as were his three children and frenzied wife Jan, who is parent s association co-president at Grace Church School. Tom is eyeing expansion for his relatively new business, Bottlerocket Wine & Spirit in NYC, and invites alums to drop in. Tom has seen Joanna Adler and Eric Westerlund around town and has been in touch with Will Cummins, who is making great art down in Barbados. I ll close for this issue with comments from Edith MacArthur, who expressed sentiments that may feel familiar to many people. Edith writes, The arc of my life in the years since 86 has seen both elevations and dips, though on balance life is good! I look forward to next summer, to introducing my husband to Williams, to sharing the beauty of the place with my three growing little girls. I am an awful correspondent, so I imagine it ll be like freshman year all over again, getting to know everyone. I m saddened to share news of the death of Derek Van Eck. After Williams, Derek attended Northwestern s Kellogg School of Management and, with his brother Jan, co-managed Van Eck Global. A talented commodities trader and global assets manager, Derek s contributions extended well beyond the office. He and his wife Deborah were involved in several charitable organizations and efforts, including The Institute for China, the Fred M. van Eck Forest Trust, and the Jericho Project, which serves homeless families and American veterans in NYC. In addition to Deborah, Derek is survived by his children Willem, 4, and Kathryn, 4 months, his brother and his parents. Our thoughts go out to Derek s family and friends and to those in our class whose lives were enriched by his many talents and his humanity. Looking forward to hearing from more of you for the next issue with your updates and plans for our quickly approaching 25th! 1987 Greg Keller 2810 College Ave. Berkeley, CA Rob Wieman 11 Jarell Farms Drive Newark, DE secretary@williams.edu Yo, sweet thang, mi-ya, mi-ya, bow-wow, hoooooooey. A picture of Jim Sadock in the last issue of People prompted Henry Grossman to recall that line and laugh out loud. Henry credits Jim, or possibly Jim s lunch lady, with the original saying and adds, I ve been muttering that, mantra-like, for the last 27 years or so, and (my 11-year-old daughter) Gabriella now says it as well! Henry and family live in the Boston area, where his work as general counsel for a local software company keeps him busy during the day, while his two girls activities (soccer, dance, swimming, middle school, etc.) help fill his evenings and weekends. Last year, Henry s older daughter Alessandra had her bat mitzvah, and Tim McKone and his 9-year-old son William visited from Houston for the occasion. Henry also reports, John Ciulla and I get together once every five years for a jam session. The last one was on my 40th birthday, so we re due for another one soon. 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76 CLASS NOTES ed at the beginning of the summer, just missing the deadline for Rob Wieman s last column. At the time, Chris had just completed the Whiskey Joe s Tampa Bay Marathon Swim along with five other Eph swimming alums, all of us a little wrong in the head. The event was a 24-mile relay race through the shark-infested waters of the Florida Gulf Coast, and presumably before the BP oil spill. Entering as the Angry Fish with their own purple-and-yellow logoed team hats, Kathy Kirmayer 86, Bill Couch 86, John Young 97, Rob Benson 90, Jordan Lewis 79 and Chris finished second in the event behind a group of former UNC swimmers while raising money for USA Swimming s Make a Splash program. Chris added, My wife called us the Midlife Crisis Swim Team, but she did not provide hats, so the name never really gained any traction. Chris s other Eph encounter was attending a show by the band Darlingside, an up-and-coming string rock quintet made up of members of the Class of He is now among their growing legion of fans and recommends them to any of us whose musical tastes extend beyond the alternative rock classics that are piped into Trader Joe s. Like Darlingside, Laura Booth spent part of her summer traveling around the Northeast. She attended her 13-year-old daughter s softball games all over Fairfield County (Conn.), saw Sue Scarborough at Shakespeare on the Sound s annual show, and spent time ( not enough ) in the Adirondacks, including some with Alec and Anne Noel Dawson and family. The Dawsons are normally the Booths next-door neighbors in Greenwich but have moved out while they re adding onto their house. Consequently, Laura and John are missing the frequent Dawson-Booth family dinners. John teaches history at the Brunswick School and visited Japan for two-and-a-half weeks last summer, both for fun and to prepare to lead a future student trip there. The country is still is as beautiful as ever, and Laura notes, As best we can tell, he didn t bring back bed bugs. Meanwhile, Alec joined Dave Prockop, Jon Deveaux, Mark Karlson, Rick Lipinski, Andrew Smith and Hunter Williams for a long weekend in Williamstown in July. Dave Paulsen and Don Dagnoli were also summoned 74 Williams People December 2010 for a round of 18 holes on the Taconic, where I m told that several of the participants compared their knee-surgery experiences. Hunter provided few details about the July weekend, but his , including formatting and third-person quotations, looks like an audition for the next term as our class secretary: Update from the great Northwest. After 11 years of supporting the steady march of progress in the art of selling books, videos and a million other things, Hunter Williams has left Amazon.com to join a new startup called Little Green Light. LGL is a web-based service that helps nonprofits track donors and prospective donors. Hunter and Kirsten Rooks will continue to live in Seattle, where their boys Nico and Aiden are in the sixth and fourth grades. Kirsten is going into her 10th year teaching science at Lake Washington Girls Middle School, where she enlightens sixth- to eighth-graders about the wonders of volcanoes, Puget Sound and evolution. Says Hunter, We didn t purposely move as far from Williamstown as you can get in the lower 48, but once we got here we just fell in love with the place. Paul Rardin, a former class secretary and current associate director of choirs at the University of Michigan, may be set for an even higher profile role. During a University men s glee club performance this year, former Wolverine head football coach and local legend Lloyd Carr provided a keynote speech and introduced Paul as someone who would make a helluva football coach. With that kind of reference, Paul writes, if Michigan doesn t win at least six games this year, I just might have a shot at a big opportunity right here in town. Suzanne Biemiller also knows what it s like to commit a fall afternoon to typing the class notes. She made my job easier this round, both by providing wide range of information and including a poem (per my request for news) as follows: How I Spent My Summer Kids away July Worked policy in City Hall Spent August on beach. The second line refers to Suzanne s relatively new job (January 2010) as director of policy for the city of Philadelphia, which she describes as interesting and fun and a great perch from which to view the goings-on in and outside of city government. The Haiku form was too short to capture Suzanne s other activities, including teaching a graduate-level course in nonprofit management at Drexel University and get-togethers with Jean 88 and Davis Fulkerson, Amy Jeffress and her husband Casey Cooper, Betsy Anderson and Barclay (Gessner) Schraff. The Fulkersons live outside of Boston, and when Suzanne and her husband Rob MacRae saw them for a long weekend in May, they were planning a family trip to Alaska for the summer. Amy and Casey also joined the weekend away and were preparing to relocate from DC to London, where Amy will be serving as the Justice Department s attaché to the American embassy ( think Spalding Gray in The Killing Fields ). Meanwhile, Betsy and her family visited Philadelphia from DC, where she continues to lead the American Society of International Law. In mid-august, Suzanne and her daughters (Caroline, 11, and Jane, 9) traveled up the turnpike to Manhattan, where they had a mother-daughter evening with Barclay and her two girls. The night out started with burgers and fries at the Shake Shack and culminated with a ride on the indoor ferris wheel at the Times Square Toys R Us. Following their New York stop, the Schraffs, including Barclay s husband Scott, were on their way to Scotland as a further respite from the summer heat in Phoenix. The Biemiller wire also reports that Sarah (Labaree) Churchill continues to work at the Genevabased Global Fund, Eric Wilson has relocated to NYC after two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Molly Bourne is still teaching art history at the Syracuse University program in Florence, Italy, but is now commuting from Mantua after moving into a house that she and her husband renovated. A.J. Mediratta and Sean Denniston each wrote to recommend spots for larger gatherings of Ephs in the New York and DC areas, respectively. A.J. is a fan of Tom Berton s sightseeing company, Manhattan by Sail, which offers cocktail outings on New York Harbor for groups of up to 150 people. According to A.J.: The cruises are good, civilized fun, and Tom lets us throw parties on his boats, which we do. Either through a frequent guest program or some other arrangement, A.J.

77 n From left, Ragnar Horn 85, Joey Horn 87, Alex Ruah 87, Andreas Halvorsen 86 and Kristin Halvorsen 14 gathered in Oslo, Norway, in August. and Hans Humes have recently become silent partners in the business and now enjoy priority seating onboard. Sean s preferred venue for events is the Athenaeum, a historic art gallery in Old Town Alexandria, Va., which is owned and operated by the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association (NVFAA). As a recently elected NVFAA Board member, Sean is admittedly biased but encouraged any classmates who need to rent a nice gathering space in the area to take a look ( org). Otherwise, Sean is already contemplating the longer drive to Williamstown from DC for our 25th reunion ( seven hours and 45 minutes, according to Mapquest ), which seems like a major excursion after years of taking Route 2 from Boston. Joey Horn is also planning for June 2012 after attending husband Ragnar Horn s 85 class celebration in June. She reports that it was fun to catch up with so many people at one time and that a few things hadn t changed much, if at all, since the 1980s. For instance, Saturday evening ended with dancing to Burning Down the House and Williams Security arriving to shut down the party despite the best efforts of the crowd. Following the reunion, Joey and her family spent a few weeks in Norway, where they saw old friends, including Andreas Halvorsen 86, whose daughter Kristine was about to join the Class of 2014, and Alex Ruah, who visited Oslo to see the Horns. In June Liz Kellison s work at the Gates Foundation took her to London, where she met up with Susan (Brown) van der Linden 86 to attend Wimbledon. Liz described the day as tennis nirvana due to the gorgeous weather and the chance to be at the stadium for the recordbreaking Isner-Mahut match, which featured a fifth set. Another highlight was running into Kevin Callanan, who goes to all the major tennis tournaments for IMG, a sports and entertainment marketing firm. Kevin, Susan and Liz were all members of the varsity tennis team at Williams and continue to play competitively in local leagues in Cleveland, London and Seattle, respectively. Back in the Pacific Northwest, Liz and her partner Cris ( an adventure tour guide extraordinaire ) are teaching their twins how to camp and hike and be outdoorsy. Nathan and Lila, who are almost 5, have been on numerous family camping trips, and they each kept up with Cris and Liz in trekking to the tops of Blackcomb Peak and Whistler Mountain during a July vacation in Canada. Lisa Payne and Tom FitzGibbon are managing their own families of younger twins in the LA area. In August, Lisa hosted a 4-year-old birthday party for her daughters Jackie and Amanda, which featured a jumpy house, a piñata and two flavors of homemade ice cream. Somehow, the timing of the party coincided with my family s return trip from San Diego, and Tom arranged for our last-minute invitation. Lisa helps lead the Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing, which promotes affordable housing policies in the region, though she could easily moonlight as a kids party planner given how much fun the children and the adults had. At nightfall, we entered the coordinates for the FitzGibbon compound into the iphone and headed west to the Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, where we spent the night. Tom s new house is in the foothills of a canyon and is adjacent to a state park, providing easy access to mountain biking, and if you ride far enough, the beach. While his daughters Clare and Molly, both 3, are a little young for serious biking, I m sure that Tom and his wife Dara will be leading them across the single track soon. Finally, Rob Wieman ed about visiting his old neighborhood in Montclair, N.J., where he stayed with Dave Futterman and Marni Stetson. He recalls hearing how their various attempts to prolong youthful vigor have resulted in youthful injuries and learning that Keith Goldfeld and family are spending the year in Chile while Keith works on his dissertation. Dave provided a slightly different version of the evening as follows: Robbie Weiman and Dave Futterman spent the night together (it s not how it sounds) at Dave s house while Robbie was on his way to join his family on vacation in Maine. They stayed up late drinking beer (meaning they each had a beer and were in bed no later than 10:30) talking about how much funnier Dave was than Robbie. Not to mention taller. Until next time, enjoy the ride Britta Bjornlund 3406 Rodman St., NW Washington, DC Carolyn O Brien 241 Huron Ave. Cambridge, MA secretary@williams.edu Thanks to everyone who sent in their What I Did this Summer essays. Many of the submissions get an A-plus! Several classmates reported that their kids are now at the ideal age for international travel, defined by one classmate as old enough that they don t need constant watching yet young enough that they go wherever we want, without too many complaints. Mike Dawson, wife Ann 86, and their 12- and 14-year-old December 2010 Williams PeoPle 75

78 CLASS NOTES boys traveled to the WorldExpo in Shanghai and then to Vietnam. On the last day in Ho Chi Min city, Mike and youngest son traveled through the city s longest tunnel with a Vietnamese soldier as their guide. Mary Ulmer, with husband and two kids, traveled to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Singapore. While her family rode elephants (naturally), Mary enjoyed a Thai cooking class (yum). The family most enjoyed the city of Luang Prabang in Laos because of its lack of tourists and excellent hotel. Mary also reported of two glorious (OK, that was our word, but it sounds pretty good) kid-free weeks during summer-camp season. Now back at work, Mary s struggling with tennis elbow, ironically not from any real athletic activity but from too much time on the keyboard. (Take Rob Hallagan s 89 recent advice on Facebook ICE!) Speaking of ice, Nils Christoffersen took his family to drumroll please Norway. Ya, you betcha! The trip included swims and boat trips in Norwegian fjords, a grueling mountain-bike trip from the central Norwegian mountains to Norway s longest fjord and a long hike with his father in mountains near their family home. After returning to the U.S. of A., he and his father, uncle and two brothers headed into the Eagle Cap Wilderness in Northeastern Oregon to celebrate his dad s 75th birthday. Dave Kane took his wife Kay 89 and girls, ages 11 and 14, to the Galapagos, Hawaii and Greece this year. In Greece, the family celebrated the wedding of Dave s sister-in-law Vicky Fang 98. Dave has also been tracking Williams alumni in his blog and ran a three-week online seminar Beyond The Log. Kate Hogson gets the award for most advanced vocabulary (read on). She traveled a great deal last summer, including to Newfoundland, Calgary, Atlanta, Miami and Las Vegas for conferences, where she gave presentations on One Health. One Health is the integration of veterinary and family medicine to prevent zoonotic disease and injury and to strengthen zooeyia the human health benefits people get from pets. In addition to the conference travel, she and her family also traveled to England to explore the history of the Saxons, Vikings, Medieval castles, abbeys, minsters and stately homes and palaces. 76 Williams People December 2010 Beth Stein kept her family in North America along with husband Alan and 11-year-old daughter Sahalie, she spent nine days canoeing the 75-mile Bowron Lakes circuit in British Columbia. Calling her group Operation Poohstick, they enjoyed beautiful mountain scenery and swimming in the icy blue lakes. They even reported sightings of moose and bears. Although she did not enjoy the portages (one good reason, along with downstream currents, to stick to rivers), she found it to be a challenging and fun trip. She also reported on what she didn t do this summer: Hang out with my distant Williams buddies, whom I dearly miss. Katie Kessler Chatas, husband Geoff and children Sophie, 16, and Jack, 14, wrapped up the summer at Bald Head Island in North Carolina. Katie was enthusiastic about the nightlife, in this case two loggerhead nests hatching under the moon with 200 turtlelettes waddling their way to the ocean. Also enjoying the great outdoors last summer were Brooke Ackerley and Anne Brown, who took their annual hike up Mount Monadnock (N.H.) with their daughters one rising fifth grade, one off to her first year in college both brimming with independence. For those with younger kids, a popular travel spot was the beach. Lisa Gasiorowski, who lives in Fair Haven, N.J., has only a five-minute commute to the nearest sand where she and three children Pier, 2, Ronan, 6, and Jake, 8 spent most of the summer surfing, boogie boarding and building sandcastles. Her weekend guests included Marjorie Sweeney 87 with her son Ronan and husband Doug. Also with little ones, Tracy Heilman chose to spend three weeks in Maine. She enjoyed the annual visit from Carolyn O Brien and family, who are vying for the coveted title of most loyal visitors. Now back in Illinois, Tracey was preparing her kids, Boden, 5, and Luka, 3, to start kindergarten and pre-school, respectively, and herself to get back to work. She said it best, Summer is too short! Some people got to travel sans kids; Bill Schiano, who is an associate professor at Bentley College (Mass.), took a busman s holiday in Northern Europe for six weeks to teach a class at the Aalto University School of Economics (formerly the Helsinki School of Economics). He also spent time in Oslo with friends, working on research and touring the arctic for a week. He was spoiled by staggeringly beautiful vistas as far as the binocular-aided eye could see, reports seeing 32 polar bears (wow!), and traversed within 500 nautical miles of the north pole (why d you stop there, Bill?). He spent August thawing out at home in Massachusetts. Sister Theresa Lee was in Israel for six weeks last summer and returned to New Jersey to continue her work with young women discerning a religious vocation in the Salesian life. She reports that the Salesian Sisters, aka Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, are working this year with 21 women, including eight young women from all over the U.S. who are living in the convent during the first phase of the formation program. Esu Anahata (Howie Patlis) continued his work on behalf of the BARKA Foundation, concentrating his efforts on fundraising for an innovative water, sanitation and hygiene education project in a rural village of Burkina Faso, West Africa. This includes low-tech irrigation and a reforestation project, both aimed to address issues of chronic food insecurity, malnutrition, poor land-use management and climate change. Working with a dozen schools in New York, Maine and Massachusetts, he reports that the Berkshires continue to be a stronghold for the inter-cultural bridge building that is so core to our approach to sustainable development. Great Barrington recently approved BARKA s sistercity proposal, and in May they walked for water with almost 1,000 kids (grades 3-12) from four schools in Great Barrington and Pittsfield. Anyone interested in volunteering, visiting Burkina Faso or connecting him with new schools and communities is welcome to get in touch with him. Peter Ruggerio was one of two academic deans for Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at their Carlisle, Pa., site. CTY gives intense academic experiences to academically talented youth who study everything from ethics to genetics to game theory. His enthusiasm is impressive, as he writes, I don t think I ve been that excited about work in a very long time. The days were long, but I loved each and every one of them. Now he is back to the job hunt for the regular year

79 n and to his grad school applications for his PhD in education. Jody Abzug started a job as acting director of development at Riverdale Country School in Riverdale (the Bronx) on July 1. Two weeks later, her parents took her and her 11-year-old twins to Hawaii for two weeks where they visited Oahu and the Big Island. Their highlights were Volcano National Park and climbing Diamond Head. Upon their return, they moved into a new house in New Rochelle. They also had the opportunity to visit Cape Cod, where they saw Lisa Buxbaum. Mark Huffman also moved his family to a new home. Mark, wife Leah and son Asher moved clear cross country, from Arlington, Mass., to Sacramento, where he s from. In Sacramento he is working for a financial services firm, providing wealth management services for high net worth individuals and families. Brooks and Alison Foehl recently drove all the way to Williams College to drop off oldest son Taylor 14, who will be living, not coincidentally, we re guessing, in Williams E. Brooks describes this event as surreal. Hard enough to adjust to your son leaving for college; imagine being able to see his dorm from your office! They also made the annual trek to Madison, Conn., for the usual party hosted by Jim Elliott. Jim, Mark Raisbeck, Mike Harrington, Dekker Buckley, Bill Pike, Ray George and Jon Hollenberg were among those in attendance. Throughout the summer, Brooks and Alison also saw Tim Bock, Cary and Lew Collins, and Scott Berman and respective families in Williamstown. In addition they saw Anne Molleur Hanson during their visit to the Highland Lodge in Greensboro, Vt., where Anne is part of a group managing the inn. Mary Miller and family (Charley, Clara and Alicia) hid for a week at the end of a windy road in New Mexico and fished at Lake Roberts. Reliving college days, Steven Kargere played Hoyt Ludington in tennis. Steven reports that Hoyt finished building a house in Marblehead and is enjoying a life of leisure on the beach. He added that while they ve still got game, playing four sets, mid-day, under the beating sun is not recommended for people at our advanced age. Steven added that his main objective is to not allow Hoyt to bagel him (6-0). Hoyt also played against Pier Friend over the summer. Cindy Craig Johnson caught up with Ann Munchmeyer and Scott Healy while on a business trip to Boston. Cindy reports that Ann and Scott are doing great and are busy with their four boys, work and working out. Joe Thorndike failed to write in. Apparently he was too busy writing an op-ed piece for the Washington Post, which has a slightly larger readership than this publication. His piece, entitled, Americans don t mind taxes they hate tax loopholes, was published on Sept. 12. Joe directs the Tax History Project at the nonprofit group Tax Analysts in Falls Church, Va. In baby news: Carter Zinn and wife Karen welcomed Colton Jackson Zinn on Aug. 27 in San Francisco. Measured at birth at 21 inches (tall like his dad) and weighing 8 pounds, 4 ounces, Colton is reportedly good at sleeping, pooing, peeing, crying, cooing, hiccupping and keeping us in smiles Carter adds, He was worth waiting for. Carolyn O Brien saw Gerry Kirschner with his fiancée at a rocking first birthday party for Jordan Hampton s 87 daughter Grace. Britta Bjornlund administered a State Department program with Amy Searight as the project s academic director. Nicole Melcher was recruited as a guest speaker. Since everyone did so well in their essays, how about a little pop quiz? Who called her family s vacation Operation Poohstick? Which classmate now goes by the name Esu Anahata? And what exactly does zooeyia mean? Have a great winter, everyone! 1989 David Bar Katz 138 Watts St., Apt. 4 New York, NY Shannon Penick Pryor 3630 Prospect St., NW Washington, DC secretary@williams.edu First, the good news: Congratulations to Cassandra Kirk! On July 16 Cassandra was sworn in as an associate judge in Fulton County Juvenile Court in Atlanta, Ga. Now, the bad news: CJ Johanson has learned that he can no longer roller skate like he could in junior high. Still, he is supporting the Vette City Roller Derby as a non-skating official. Frankly, we were hoping for wonderful stories of your spectacular summer vacations and world travels (some of us have to travel vicariously), but the news is sparse this time. There were a few missives describing interesting summer trips, foremost among them Jon Bank s visit to the Wagah border flag-lowering ceremony. The Wagah Border Crossing is a joint border control post manned by the Pakistani Rangers and Indian Rangers about 20 kilometers east of Lahore. Since partition, this has been an area of tension. In 1961, the commanders on both sides of the border decided to add a little something to the daily flag lowering ceremony, having their troops rally themselves through a stylized show of force without gun fire, essentially showing which ceremonial unit is more polished, tougher and ready for action. This involves a lot of shouting, very high goose-stepping and stomping. Over the years, the ceremony drew larger and larger crowds on both sides resulting in two stadium-like complexes built on either side of the border crossing, holding thousands of Pakistanis and Indians who scream, shout and cheer. I was lucky enough to be given front row seats. Interestingly, the ceremony I watched on the 20th of July may be a turning point each side mutually agreed to tone down the ceremonies as the soldiers were suffering from injuries. Moreover, the ceremony was marked by a first smiles and handshakes between the Pakistani and Indian troops, sparking laughter and applause from the gathered crowds. Allison Robichaud had a very different vacation. She writes, We have a cabin in Cumberland, Wis., and were awakened by yet another severe storm. Our kids were smart enough to head to the basement, while the rest of us muddled through and checked our electronics for weather updates. We learned later that it was an F1 tornado! We have spent some time speculating about how many miles our big water flotation toys may have traveled. In July James McGill and his family moved to Luxembourg, where James wife Marianne is doing an accounting secondment. We are living in a small suburb close to the city and just a few miles from France, Belgium and Germany. The kids are enrolled in the local schools, getting immersion French or German, December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 77

80 CLASS NOTES depending on their age. I am house-husbanding for the time being and will be taking French classes in the fall so I can keep up with the kids. I don t like the odds, and once they all learn some German they should be able to conspire against me pretty effectively. Doug Hunt is eagerly awaiting Rich Ward s return to the civilization of Seattle from his years on Green Acres. We are also in the adoption pool, waiting to be chosen for a little girl. Otherwise it s the same old Seattle/Williams social limbo for Lani (Wishnie Wolfe) and me until Sarah Marcus Barton and Rachel Maiorano return from their summers on their respective beaches (the Hamptons and Hawaii, respectively). In November Liz Erickson, Jen Gosselin, Lani and a million kids [were to] have a reunion at our place in Port Townsend. Leslie Pelch writes, We are several major steps (the kind done by excavators) closer to finishing our house. The driving values behind this house project have been doing it ourselves and doing it with as small of an environmental footprint as possible. Here is what we came up with: as little concrete as possible, local rough-cut wood, as little plywood as possible, double wall construction with blown-in cellulose insulation (floor will be insulated as well), composting toilet system and we ll be using four 105-watt solar panels for power. I have been making plans and feeling overwhelmed by the potential for edible landscaping (fruit trees are expensive!) and can hardly wait to start harvesting berries, apples, grapes and vegetables from my own yard. It will be exciting to move from the 350-square-foot cottage where I have lived for the past 12 years into a real house, and Willa (going into her final year of preschool) is looking forward to having her own room! In the midst of all this, we will fit in a five-day canoe trip at French River Provincial Park (Ontario) and too many meetings now that I am the chair of the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission. Heather Martinez Zona is still working with kids in foster care at CASA; still playing soccer, though for how much longer I don t know, given the state of my various muscles; trying to 78 Williams PeoPle December 2010 Last July, Ephs from the Class of 89 and their families met up for a minireunion in Boston. plan a trip to Barcelona; but feeling the pull of surfing in Hawaii. Oh, and I ditched my iphone. It was somewhat traumatic, but I am back to being a Blackberry user. Laura Titus Tang writes, We are finishing our third year in Shanghai with two or more years to go. We spent five weeks in the U.S. last summer, including trips to Williamstown and to Wyoming. After the gorgeous weather we experienced in the States, it is nice to see blue sky in the big city courtesy of efforts to clean the air for the World Expo. I am now writing regularly for three magazines, including Chinese World, published in Chinese except for my feature article, which is published in English with Chinese translation. Blair Jones sent news (but not details) of a minireunion in Boston last July including Wayne Fritsche and his partner Curt, Jen Stayton and her husband Charles, plus Jen s twin sister Catherine (an Amherst alum), Bridget Baird and her partner Tina, Todd Pelkey, Jeff Somers and his wife Vivian, and Vicki Storrs and her husband Bill. I m sure I m not the only 89er heading back home for my 25th high school reunion in the near future. It doesn t seem like it could possibly have been that long ago, but I guess it was. Keep us informed about your trips, and please share with us news of your accomplishments, epiphanies, peregrinations and plans in the coming months Katie Brennan 2018 Rosilla Place Los Angeles, CA secretary@williams.edu Thanks to budget shortfalls out here in California, the school year seems to start later and later every year, but we ve finally got our youngest safely off to kindergarten, and I can procrastinate no longer the inaugural class notes as your class secretary. I m going to need your help folks! Please send me news and updates so I don t have to bore you with my own news or resort to threats and blackmail! First, a shout out for the Women of East I think we had a 50 percent showing at the reunion, thanks to the persuasive efforts of Madeleine Young Lowry, who brought her family of five from Minneapolis. Sue Abbott came from Boston, Tracy Muday from Coos Bay, Ore., Carola Poggenburg Tanna from Chicago, Beth Carey Joslins from Albany, Heather O Leary from Stone Ridge, N.Y., Stacey Smith Delamere from Sherman, Conn., and Margaret Callanan from Boston. Great to see everyone after so long! As Tracy commented, We all look the same, but the college kids are getting younger every year! Although Kathy Tierney and RJ Mackool had to cancel their reunion plans at the last minute, we had a lovely visit with them in Pelham, N.Y., where our four boys conspired to wreak some serious havoc. Heather O Leary has set up her own veterinary practice in the Hudson Valley, specializing in

81 n acupuncture and chiropractic services for horses and dogs. Tessaloo Veterinary Services is an ambulatory practice, which means she doesn t have a regular office. She loves that it allows her to travel and get to know her community. She also works with performance dogs, and, while not working, she plays agility with her two Jack Russell terriers. Occasionally Heather s travels take her to Williamstown, where she sees Marianne DeMarco 88 and Andy Munzer. Heather spent time on the Cape last summer with Laura Dalton, whose mother Marcia, sadly, passed away. A few 1990/1991 alums will remember wintertime visits to Marcia Dalton s house in Barnstable; snowy beach walks on the bay and roasting chestnuts on an open fire, just like in the Nat King Cole song. Heather was plotting a trip out to Portland, Ore., to visit Laura. Laura is working in the art department at Reed College, and I had a nice chat at reunion with her and Tiffany Holmes, at the University of Chicago, about the undergraduate experience these days. The debts that so many undergrads accrue have become such a burden, often overshadowing the college experience. We ve just finished paying for preschool, and if we could just keep setting aside that preschool tuition every month, for the next 13 years, we ll be set for college. Discipline, right?! Tiff has recently expanded her Chicago clan with baby Ada Belle Carter, born on April 19. Big brother Duncan, 3, is handling the adjustment well, but doggie brother Rocket is a little jealous of all Ada s lap time. Tiff is busy with her art practice and planned to show a new hacked solar toy sculpture at the 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, Calif., in September. You can read more at When she is not in her studio or chasing her toddler, Tiff is very happy teaching mostly graduate students as an associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was great to connect with old friends at the reunion, including Stephanie Carr Angelone, who came with her husband Ray, 10-year-old son Aeden and 8-year-old daughter Lilia. Ray and I coordinated an impromptu track meet in Lasell while the rain came down. Steph works at the EPA s New England office in Boston, overseeing cleanup of contaminated sites. I m so grateful to her for writing in that I have promised to stop naming my children after hers. Also at the reunion was Philip Harris. It was perfect timing for him, as he had recently returned from many years in Japan and was delighted to catch up with classmates. He came with wife Junko and daughter Kari, 3. Kari is enjoying American culture and still deciding whether Dad more resembles Barack Obama or DJ Lance Rock. What do you think? Philip is launching two new ventures, futures trading and Melaleuca marketing, and is enjoying the change of pace that comes from doing work that is focused on people and helping them achieve their goals. Philip was also especially grateful to be back in the U.S. when his father had a serious heart attack in DC. Philip and family live just a couple of blocks from the Charles River and invite anyone in town to look them up. They were planning to meet up with Molly and Joe Sheehan 92 for the Head of the Charles. The timing of Joanna Lowell s travels allowed her to attend the reunion. She is frequently in Zimbabwe, where she is working with the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency. I had last seen Joanna in 2003, when she was working across the street from me at Rockefeller University in NY on the causative agent of sleeping sickness. Since then, she has shifted from basic research into public health, and after getting her MPH from Johns Hopkins, she joined the USAID-funded Measure DHS (demographic and health surveys) Project. Joanna now travels regularly to Zimbabwe and is helping the statistics agency launch its fifth DHS. She and her colleagues were in the midst of training 126 interviewers, who, over the course of five months, will interview about 11,000 households all over Zimbabwe. The travel can get exhausting, but the work is rewarding. The reunion also was a chance to catch up with some people I hadn t known well the first time around. Walking in the parade, I had a fascinating chat with Steve Allen about world energy markets. Steve had been living in Moscow and working for the Russian oil company Lukoil for about six years. Although it was a great, unusual experience, he is looking for a change. He s been enjoying that liminal state where he s not sure what s next but now is thinking it s probably time to settle down. I ve discovered there are other Ephs out here in LA, including Timothy Sellers, living quite nearby. It has been a great year for the fruit trees in the back yard of Timothy and his wife Allison Achauer 93. Allison is building costumes for the LA Opera, with Il Postino coming next. Timothy has almost finished repairing side three of their 1901 house really old for LA. I have to say, LA has really grown on me over the years, and discovering some of the older sides of the city has really been a pleasure. Timothy is the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the band Artichoke. They ve been playing all over LA since 1999 and have recently come out with two more CDs, one being volume 2 of 26 Scientists and the other 26 Animals, which is a fabulous kids CD with an animal song for each letter of the alphabet. It is accompanied by a gorgeous songbook, illustrated in watercolor by Timothy, and with the lyrics to Aardvark, Beaver Lungfish and, yes, Zebra. The songs are great, and I urge you to check it out at Last summer my menfolk went traveling, so it was a pleasure to have Margaret Laster in town. She was here working at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, and we had a great afternoon hike in Santa Anita Canyon. She lives, and I work, on 12th floors, and we were pleasantly surprised to discover that taking the stairs a couple of times a week had gotten us in better shape than we had realized. Otherwise, Margaret is an art historian based in New York and has recently been awarded a fellowship from the Freer Gallery in DC to run an international symposium on the art of James McNeill Whistler. Erik Harris wrote from Missoula, Mont., where he completed his fifth sprint-length triathlon, finishing in just under 95 minutes. A Renaissance man, Erik is also acting and delivered a fierce performance as Roma in the Montana Repertory Theater s production of Glengarry Glen Ross. Tony Davidson wrote from Tuxedo, N.Y., relieved and proud to have finished his MBA from Cornell and graduated with distinction. I completed the EMBA program, with took me away from home one week each semester and then every other weekend over two years. It was exhausting December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 79

82 CLASS NOTES and a challenge on every front, but I m glad I did it. As a classmate said, It s the greatest thing I ve ever done that I never want to do again. No Eph sightings to report from Tuxedo, N.Y. I d love to see news from any of the 1990 Morgan West-Tyler crew they never, ever seem to appear in the alumni news. I find myself sadly out of touch, but I read every edition hungrily. Tony hoped to make it up to Billsville for a football game this fall, now that I can breathe again. OK Morgan West and Tyler, that s your cue. Drop me a line and share what you ve been up to! And that goes for the rest of you, too. I wish you all a lovely winter holiday season, and all the best for 2011! 1991 REUNION JUNE 9-12 Mary Moule 555 Edgecombe Ave., Apt. 9D New York, NY secretary@williams.edu My apologies to classmates who sent in news for the last issue, which was temporarily lost in cyberspace when I forwarded an incomplete column to the editors. Among the lost reports, Pam (Volpe) Jelaca wrote in from Chicago about some events from the past year, including the birth of her second son, Nicholas Anthony (named after her dad, Anthony Volpe 59). She also had a minireunion with Sage C classmates Katherine Stearns Sprenger, Kathy Munchmeyer Kendall, Shauna Steele and Alejandra (Fernandez) Stavrinides to celebrate their 40th birthdays during a long weekend in Lake Geneva, Wis. Alejandra and family live near Miami. Pam and Katherine live in the Chicago area, Katherine as a partner at her law firm, and Pam is now staying home with her children after several intense years of running GoPicnic, the company she founded. Shauna is a branch chief at the SEC in DC and had her third child in February. Kathy lives in Winchester, Mass., and welcomed her third child in August. Several other classmates added new family members. Fiona Dulbecco and her husband David welcomed their first child, Naomi Isobel Zeltser, on Aug. 17 in Mill Valley, Calif. Fiona is 80 Williams People December 2010 a cardiologist in San Francisco. Norah Shire and her husband Bernie also had their first child, Sofia Rebecca Shire Dardzinski, on Aug. 14. Norah is home in Blue Bell, Pa., enjoying an extended maternity leave from her pharmaceutical research at Merck. Nive and Tim Bailey s daughter, Taylor Kathleen Bailey, was born in Hong Kong on July 31, joining brothers Hayden, 6, and Lachlan, 5. Dan Skwire married Denise Fogg in Portland, Maine, on June 20. Dan reported: Cait Osborne was my best man (though she preferred the title best babe ). Also attending were John Seaman and Mary Richardson. Denise and I enjoyed a wonderful 10-day honeymoon in Italy, where we did not see a single Williams alum. I m now happily taking up my duties as a stepfather to her two boys, who are 4 and 15. So far the job description includes introducing the youngster to vintage Bugs Bunny cartoons and teaching the teenager to check his blind spot before changing lanes on the highway. Quite a change from my bachelor days! John lives near Philadelphia with his wife Lee, daughter Spencer, 10, and son Zach, 7. He is a partner at a boutique law firm in Delaware. Karl Galle married Sylvia Atalla, twice, and counting: Wedding #1 was an epic months-long saga of paperwork that crossed multiple government ministries and embassy and church offices, all in an attempt to bring peace to the Middle East, or at least unite two citizens of countries with rather different legal prerequisites for marriage. Wedding #2, by far the more enjoyable, was an April outdoor ceremony in a garden near the Saqqara pyramid just south of Cairo and was presided over by my sister. Wedding #3 is planned for the U.S. for people who couldn t make it to Cairo, but the timing is still dependent on when USAID will allow me to travel from Afghanistan, which my employer chose as a honeymoon and first-year-of-marriage destination for us. Thirty-five of Larry Callanan s family members and friends cheered him on at mile 14 of the 114th Boston Marathon last year. Qualifying and running was one of Larry s life goals, witnessed at the top of Heartbreak Hill by Harris Crist and Larry s sister Margaret Callanan 90. Back at home in St. Paul, Minn., Larry practices internal medicine and was named one of the Top Doctors 2010 in Mpls. St. Paul Magazine. He and his wife Stephanie met during their residencies in Boston, where Stephanie was in the same OB/ GYN program as Charley Rardin. These days, Larry and family, including Lily, 4, and Isabelle, 7, frequently get together with Andrew Beveridge, his wife Jae and their two daughters. Andrew also lives in St. Paul, where he is a math professor at Macalester College. Louise Price Kelly and Barbara Kirchheimer, Kirsten Staples and Elisa Dugundji Friedman got together last January to celebrate their 40th birthdays at Louise s place in Pelham, N.Y. Louise left ARTstor after nine years of juggling job and family and is enjoying spending more time with her children, Emmy, 9, and Austin and Andrew, both 7. She also launched a new blog, which has allowed her to explore some of her ideas and questions about religious belief. Blogger and labor lawyer Judy Conti and family hosted Ashley Smith during the summer, which Ashley spent doing a legal internship in DC at the Judicial Selection Project of the Alliance for Justice. Ashley reported: I can attest from personal experience to the excellence of many of the recipe creations posted on her cooking blog at www. foodislove-judy.blogspot.com. DC turned out to be a great place to run into Ephs: I watched the 4th of July fireworks from Arlington Memorial Bridge with vacationing Andrea Lee Ong and her son and spent a day wandering museums on the Mall with Susan and Bill Ayres and offspring. I also was able to get together with Kenneth Hodges 90, who was in town doing a summer program at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Back home in August, I spent a lovely evening with Christina Coughlin and Dan O Connor 89 and family when they hosted Barbara Elliott Super s son Matthew and husband Greg as part of Matthew s pre-senior-year-of-high-school, college-checking-out tour of the Purple Valley. Traci Miringoff Wolfe finally ditched Amherst College and started development work at the Williston Northampton School. Joel and I had dinner with Kate Queeney 92 and John Staudenmayer 92, Rob Spence 92 and his wife Catherine McGraw (a very patient woman!) and Dave Refermat 93. (Unfortunately his

83 n wife Mary Mihalopoulos Refermat 94 couldn t make it.) Among us, we have nine kids. Our son Teddy is a seventh-grader [at Williston Northampton] but I m going to try very hard not to embarrass him. I am thrilled that his geography teacher is Diane Williams 02, who is fantastic. Sumi Ports still runs her jewelry business, Lakesiderocks.com, and is now also directing an after-school program for kindergarten to fourth-graders at a public school in Patterson, N.Y., where she hopes to make them all art historians and artists as well as athletes before I m done with them. Scott Schwager and two fellow art PhD students at University of the Arts, London, piloted a new seminar series called The Practice Exchange at Ace & Lion Gallery, which Scott founded for collaborative art projects. He also collaborated in the Projects Parade in London and a BarCamp for KNOT, in Tempelhof Airfield, Berlin, as a member of Critical Practice. Scott explained that a BarCamp is a nonconference where participants speak on a topic of personal interest, followed by open discussion, and Critical Practice is a cluster of artists, researchers and academics supported by the Chelsea College of Art & Design. Scott welcomes visits from Ephs passing through London. Doug Skidmore and Heidi Beebe of Beebe Skidmore Architects are splitting their time between Portland, Ore., and Detroit, where Doug is attending Cranbrook Academy of Art. Their work remains in the Northwest. Heidi is on an advisory board for the Multnomah County Library in Portland with John Potter 87 and designing a glassy house addition for Dana and Dan Zuckerman 97 in Boise. Rand Jerris is now the managing director of communications at the U.S. Golf Association and also manages the USGA Museum and Arnold Palmer Center for Golf History. In addition to his editorial and public relations activities, he travels to golf events: My trip to St. Andrews, Scotland, for the British Open was particularly memorable in that I traveled there with my good friend John McPhee, who wrote a story about our little adventure that appeared in the Sept. 6, 2010, issue of The New Yorker. I was also involved recently in the filming of a segment about Alan Shepard s golf club that he used on the moon in 1971, which will be appearing soon on the Travel Channel s new show, Mysteries at the Museum. On the home front, it s back to school for the Jerris clan Noah, 9, Hope, 7, and Ben, 6. With the house now empty during the days, my wife Kate Newman Jerris 96 has resumed working part time at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, and she s also joined a synchronized figure skating club, so we ll be traveling throughout New England this winter to her various competitions. Chris Aylott and Deb Tomaselli 92 live in Austin. Chris designs card games and game cards for Zynga, the online game company most famous for unleashing Farmville and Mafia Wars upon the world. Deb is working at the library and finishing her Master of Library Studies, while daughter Katherine started elementary school at a nearby Montessori school. That sounds so easy and convenient, compared to Tom Morgan s report: I m mired in painful NYC elementary school applications for my son James, 4. All of these schools have lower acceptance rates than Williams, and the last time I had to write an essay was applying to business school in the 90s. Yikes! From what I can gather from other stressed-out NYC parents, James whole future (and even his likelihood of getting into Williams) will be decided by the time this notes gets published! Maybe David Nadel can share some advice for the halcyon postadmissions days. He still lives with his family in Brooklyn and enjoys weekend getaways to Litchfield County, Conn. His elder daughter just started kindergarten, his wife Nicole runs and David directs international investing at the Royce Funds. Ray Neufeld s family left NYC for West Hartford, Conn., following his wife Julia s new job. Ray s current commute to the CBS studios at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan is a lot longer, but their sons Liam, 4, and Gregory, 2, love having a big backyard in which to run around. Ray has exhibited his own art installations in galleries nationally and internationally, taught art and design at New York area colleges and also worked in theater scenic design (most recently for Measure for Measure at the Stonington Opera House in Maine and for Sweet, Sweet Motherhood at HERE Arts in New York), and as a technocrane operator and video utility for TV (including for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and the Rachael Ray show). Ray (our classmate, not the TV personality) had dinner with Jim Curry, who lives in NYC and is a portfolio manager at Seneca Capital. Jim s family joined Barry King 93 and Albert Garcia 92 and their families at the Jersey Shore in August. Jim reported: We relived our old swimming days by competing in the Belmar Ocean Mile Swim, where Albert and Barry placed 1st and 2nd in the 35- to 39-year-old age group, while I placed 3rd in the 40- to 45-year-old age group. Jessica Baraka Nolan and her husband did their part to stimulate the domestic economy by moving from San Francisco and buying and renovating a house in McLean, Va. She reported: The boys are very happy with their big back yard, but I m not sure we will ever be done unpacking. Deidre Goodwin Carovano also bought a house last fall, in Tampa, a few doors down from Michael Turnbull 85. Deidre is a stay-at-home mom, with husband Bill, daughter Zoe, 9, and son Nate, 7. In addition to the busy suburban mom life, she does some freelance graphic design and caught up with Ramona Liberoff when Ramona was in Tampa on business from London. Hilary Johnson moved with her family to Buenos Aires in August. We were sad to say goodbye to Peru after two-and-a-half years there, a place that we grew to really love and where two of our daughters were born. We expect to be in Buenos Aires for the next three to four years, and, at least for now, I m able to keep my Peru-based job with the International Finance Corp. (part of the World Bank). Lisa Kaestner also works for the IFC and moved her family to Istanbul. She ll still be traveling to Eastern Europe for work, but that will be a shorter commute than from DC. They slept on Ikea mattresses on the floor while waiting for their belongings to get through customs and spent two weeks at the beach first on the Aegean Coast and then on the Mediterranean. She reported: We are enjoying the friendly people and delicious food. The kids seem to like school, and we have found plenty of amenities in our neighborhood already a Starbucks, good local restaurants, a bookstore with plenty of English books and magazines and even a yoga studio (the best remedy I ve found for a back that is December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 81

84 CLASS NOTES toting around a toddler too much of the time). Our apartment does include a guest room, so I d be happy to host classmates! Perhaps our most well-traveled classmate is Vivian Lu Trembley, who wrote for the first time: After Williams and a few years working in NYC, I went back to school to Harvard Business School for an MBA, Princeton for an MPA (Master of Public Affairs) and spent some time working in Tanzania on microfinance projects and a stint in Mogadishu, Somalia, for the U.N. Then I lived overseas for another six years working for Citi and was posted in Egypt, Mexico, Philippines, Indonesia, Turkey, Prague and London. I decided to leave Citi and moved to the Cayman Islands, which was fun, but then got a little island stir crazy and went to NYC for a bit, where I worked for Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank. Ended up moving to San Francisco two years ago and took a job with Google. I met my wonderful husband Michael Trembley soon after I moved here while I was volunteering at the Marine Mammal Center. We got married last August and had an amazing honeymoon in Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. Over the years, I ve done lots of traveling (167 countries so far and many more to go!). Most recently, we went to Antarctica last winter and to the Arctic this past summer. Haven t been around to attend any of the reunions yet, but definitely looking forward to the next one! With all of that traveling, Vivian ran out of passport pages while traveling in Burkino Faso. The helpful member of the State Department at the embassy in Ouagadougou was Jon Habjan! Jon is now posted to Canberra with his family, where he is working on U.S.-Australia cooperation on issues including climate change, development and resources. He hopes to use next summer s home leave to attend reunion. Well, Vivian, the next reunion is June 9-12, 2011, and because it s our 20th, we re really pushing to include as many classmates as possible. Thanks to Christine Choi and Eph Alum, we even have our own Facebook group, the aptly named Williams College Class of (And despite the purple cow profile picture, I think we can trust Eph Alum not to fill our news feeds with 82 Williams People December 2010 Farmville postings, no thanks to Chris Aylott.) Please check it out for information and to post your own reunion travel plans. If you re interested in serving on the planning committee or have suggestions to help us celebrate, please contact the reunion cochairs Melissa Fenton Herrod, Maral (Apelian) Banks and Ashley Clarey Stephanie Phillips 241 Central Park West, Apt. 5A New York, NY secretary@williams.edu It s once again time for me to share what your classmates did on their summer vacations. From Josh Levenberg we learn that, as part of Jason Phillips 40th birthday celebration, Eric Matson and Wole Coaxum flew out to join Josh and Jason (and a few others) in Napa Valley: We didn t go wine tasting, though. Instead, we attended a professional driving course at Infineon Raceway and then raced each other in highspeed go-karts on a professional track. We capped off the evening at a San Francisco restaurant for a dinner that was kind of like a Williams rugby party in that it featured a whole roasted pig and lots of alcohol consumption. Well, not really that similar since in this case the pig was fully-cooked; instead of drinking from a keg, we drank good wine; and the only mushrooms consumed were the chanterelles and morels served with the rice. Josh also enjoyed a visit from Holly Hedeman, who came out for a quick Best Coast (N.B. that is Josh s term, and I don t necessarily agree) visit with her husband Paul and 1-year-old Olive. Josh s story about the weekend was confirmed by Eric Matson, who essentially wrote the same thing, to include the analogy to the rugby banquets of our youth. I m wondering whether whole roast pig will always conjure up images of the landfill? Frankly I m impressed they remember anything about those banquets at all. Back on the East Coast, Marisa Brett-Fleegler writes that she continues to be very busy here (as an attending in the division of emergency medicine at Children s Hospital) in Needham, outside of Boston, but got away with my whole gang (including three kids) to join up with Phoenix Wang in the south of France to celebrate certain significant birthdays and anniversaries, etc. It was a wonderful time to catch up, eat lots of goat cheese and olives and sample the wines from the local vineyards. Also reporting on a fun vacation, albeit one that is significantly less appealing to this editor, is Kent Wosepka. Kent writes that he, John Staudenmayer and another of Kent s friends completed a 70-hour adventure race in northern New Hampshire: The race was fun but quite long and difficult: trekking, mountain biking, canoeing and off-trail navigation for three days. On the second evening of racing without sleep, we were climbing a trail in the mountains and John yelled out, Bear! He stopped us and started blowing his whistle to scare off the bear. The bear didn t move because it wasn t a bear, it was a tree. The hallucinations continued for the rest of the race and included junkyards of cars in the woods, non-existent houses and about a thousand frogs (these might have been real). It was fun. Also Howie Carpenter knows a big halibut when he sees one. The rest of the notes are less about vacation and more about work (clearly we all need more time off). Eric Kaye shares that he was accepted into the Recording Academy and is now eligible to vote in the Grammys. Eric also produced and played upright bass on an album by a great Irish band, The Mickey Finns, It s Not The Whiskey. He reminds us the album is available for sale pretty much everywhere. From DC, Don Graves wrote in to share that he has been appointed by the President to be the deputy assistant secretary for small business, community development and housing policy. While that sounds super exciting and important, Don writes that unfortunately, the work schedule has put a crimp in singing and socializing (and exercise), but I do get to see Monica and Ben Bond-Lamberty 93, Ned 93 and Vanessa Johnson 95 and Peter Everett 96 every once in a while. My youngest daughter has also been attending the same day care as the son of Glenn Northern 91 and Caryn Nagler 88. Colleen (Boland) and Dave Toder write that Dave s business as a green architect is great, and he has designed seven zero-energy houses in New

85 n From left, former swim team members Jim Curry 91, Albert Garcia 92 and Barry King 93 competed in the Belmar Ocean Mile Swim in New Jersey in August. Paltz, meaning that the houses consume less energy than they produce through geothermal and solar energy. Colleen reports, I love my life, crazy as it is. The home school year will start soon, and I will be teaching a chemistry class for our oldest, who is a ninth-grader this year, and six other young people. Things can be difficult (toilet training, temper tantrums, financial tightness, etc.) but I live the life I always dreamed about, and we are happy. All eight of us Dave, me, Sol, Max, Kiernan, Martin, John Paul and Rose believe that the good Lord put us here for a purpose, and it is to love one another and have a great time doing it. What a blessing! Not quite as happy, but getting close, is Barb Allyn Behling, who has only a few more months to go to graduation from medical school. Allyn writes, The residency process is probably the most anxiety-ridden experience I ve had thus far! I cannot complain, though, as everything I ve done up to now has been just wonderful, with no regrets. I ve also recently become an aunt for the third time through the efforts of my brother and his wife, Gregory Behling 96 and Elizabeth Lambert 99. Audrey is now 5, Morgan, 3, and the newest edition Ian is about 3 months old. Allyn also occasionally hears from Arielle Kagan, who seems happy and busy with her kids and husband in northern Virginia, and she was glad to see her old suitemates got together for some R&R earlier this year. Allyn notes, I ve not had a vacation for a while, so I m looking forward to escaping Long Island for a bit when I graduate! Winning the (highly unscientifically awarded) prize for longest job held by a classmate is Scott Green, who writes, I finally left the first job I got out of college! After 17.5 years at Capital One I ve finally moved on. I ve chucked my old career in risk management and joined a startup called Offeretti, which in simplest terms is a service that enables merchants to reach consumers with deals in real-time. I absolutely love being an entrepreneur and expect to love it even more when we are able to pay salaries! On the personal front, my second of three daughters (ages 7, 5, and 2) goes to kindergarten in the fall, which is always a big deal. Not too many Ephs in Richmond, though I occasionally make it up to DC and see Tom Dupree, Doug Smith (who is stateside for now between foreign service postings), and Rebecca Ratner. And since a couple of you asked, I left McKinsey after five years and took a good, long vacation (five months, actually) before I joined the Robin Hood Foundation. I help provide funds and assistance to poverty fighting organizations in NYC. It s a nice change, and I m pretty psyched that the furthest I need to travel is Staten Island. Lastly, also in the category of not exactly a vacation, Valerie Roche wrote that in the past year she became a convicted criminal, sued a judge, got a state law passed, had a second baby and started The Simple Gifts Project ( a nonprofit fundraising company that helps schools raise money by helping children in need. Valerie lives with her husband and two sons (Clyde, 4, and Malcolm, 10 months) in Bozeman, Mont Chad Orzel 1570 Regent St. Niskayuna, NY secretary@williams.edu For the first time in a while, I ve managed not to find myself in an airport while typing up the class notes. I m not sure how I ll manage I may need to ask Kate to recite some security announcements in the background while I type. It was a relatively quiet summer hereabouts and seems to have been relatively calm in the rest of 93-dom. Also, soccer-filled, both for me, listening to the World Cup games while working in my office, and for Ethan Kline, who checked in with a host of information, including two trips to soccer matches in Europe, one in Germany with Elyse (Rubin) Katthagen 95 and her husband, and another with Greg Locroft and Ulla Pitha in London. Earlier in the summer Ethan attended Elyse s wedding and had a Sage F minireunion with Leah Hamilton, Michael Gross and Lee Schroeder 91, as well as met up with Greg Locroft and Amy Whitaker 96. EPHCOMPLISHMENT Liza Johnson 92 received the decordova Sculpture Park and Museum s Rappaport Prize in October. Johnson is a documentary filmmaker whose films draw on the tools of narrative fiction. She is an art professor at Williams, and her work has been shown at MoMA and at the New York, Berlin and Rotterdam film festivals, among other places. Ethan wins the frequent-flyer award for this round of class notes, as he also spent a weekend in Norway with Orjan Hult and his family and reports that Orjan had spoken to Tsholwane Mokoena, who is doing well in Johannesburg. December 2010 Williams PeoPle 83

86 CLASS NOTES Derek Catsam spent much of the summer in South Africa watching the World Cup. He tried to deflect jealousy by claiming it was research for a book on race, politics and South African sport, but I think you can all feel free to hate him. Amping up the jealousy factor, for those in academia anyway, his wife Ana just got tenure, meaning that they have achieved the academic Holy Grail of two tenured positions in the same department at the same university. If they can write a how-to book on that, they stand to make millions, or at least many thousands. John Dye spent some time in Switzerland at a family reunion that included brother-in-law Philip Prentiss 92. Back home in California, he s staff counsel for the State Lands Commission ( doing what I can to make the world safe for clean renewable energy ), and his son Wesley just started kindergarten, making his younger sister jealous. Greg Bowne went to Cologne, Germany, to swim in Gay Games VII as one of 9,000 athletes from 70 different countries. He didn t medal but recorded a bunch of personal bests. Erik and Patty (Pennebaker) Rutins didn t need a passport for their travel but did make a couple of trips to Williamstown to meet up with Dennis and Kathy Kuo and Lisa Masterman Michaud 95. They also took a vacation in the Catskills, now that their son Alex has turned 4 and is easier to travel with (something those of us with rambunctious 2-year-olds can only look forward to). Erik s company, Matrix Games, merged with an English games company back in the spring, and Patty continues to work as a web developer for Orvis, so they re plenty busy when not on the road. Kevin Weng lives in Hawaii, so he doesn t need to travel to make the rest of us jealous. He reports that he bought a house and is doing all sorts of stuff for his job that sounds like a lot of fun tagging fish, learning scuba-diving techniques making me sigh when I consider my windowless basement physics laboratory There are, of course, a number of new arrivals to note for the Class of In roughly chronological order, Kim Tresch and her husband Jim had a daughter, Charlotte Fiorenza, in July. After maternity leave, Kim will return to being a pediatrician in Boston, which hopefully makes it easier to remain sanguine about 84 Williams People December 2010 mystery ailments. Sharon Glick writes that she and Jess Carroll 96 had a daughter, June Catherine Glick, in late July, shortly after golf-ball-sized hail shattered their front window the joys of life in Montana. She says she never imagined staying home with a baby but is enjoying it for the moment and hoping for new picture-book inspiration. Last in the list of new births is James Burrell, whose wife Erinn had a daughter, Zoe Lee, in August. He said he was too brain-dead to add much more than that; given that he was writing barely more than a week after the birth, I m impressed that he managed that much. A few people had news that falls into the odd limbo between the date when the class notes are due and the date when they re published. Jennifer Galbraith was due to marry Dave Ryan 92 in early September a week ago, as I type this, but I haven t heard anything new which will bring a smile to anyone who remembers Gurgle back in the day. (Meat Loaf was on the must-play list for the reception, I m told.) By the time this sees print, Mike Lapin, Ethan Marin, Eugene Kim, Rob Van Gent and David Young will likely have spent a weekend in Vegas, though given the rules regarding what happens there, we probably won t hear any more details than that. Holly Bernstein is looking forward to a return to math teaching in the spring, after an 11-year gap. My own news is in this same category two weeks after I m now writing, but two months before any of you will read this, I ll be doing a swing through the southeast, giving four physics talks in two days, two at Berry College, where Dan Robb is now on the faculty, and two at the University of Alabama, where I ll be getting together with a bunch of people, including but not limited to Andy Lee, Jonathan KY Coleman, Ed McDermott, Mike Goodman and Collin and Lili Roche, along with John Faini, Jeff Bond and Pete Smack McEntegart from the Class of 92 to see the Alabama- Florida football game. I m also working on a follow-up to my book How to Teach Physics to Your Dog (which should be out in paperback by the time you read this and makes an excellent holiday gift ), to be published in late 2011 or early We ll end with a little prospective news of a nonprofit nature. Nancy Rodriguez writes in to say that not only is she taking classes to become a yoga teacher, but she s launching a nonprofit, the Women in Real Estate Foundation, whose goal is to harness the power of women in the real estate industry to help less fortunate women in the developing world. We will raise money among the real estate community, which has historically been very open to women, and distribute to organizations that promote women s health, education and economic empowerment in other parts of the world. They plan to begin operating in early 2011, and we wish them well. That s it for this edition, and I have to say that it s very pleasant not to be paying airport-bar prices for beer and snacks while writing one of these. January will very likely find me writing from an airport again, though. Until then, if you have news to share, you can me Elizabeth Randolph Rappaport 9 Killington St. Chappaqua, NY secretary@williams.edu This is a baby-laden update, so I ll just get to it. Kerry (Davenport) Fitzgerald reports that she gave birth in July to a baby boy, Jack Thornhill Fitzgerald. His big sister Kate, 3, is quite excited about his arrival. Cheryl Herman wrote in to share that she had her first child, Donovan Otto Kirmser, on Dec. 17 last year. Donovan was born in St. Vincent s Hospital in NYC, the same location Cheryl s father was born 70 years earlier. For those that are curious about the middle name Otto, Cheryl explains that it s given in honor of her great grandfather, Otto Herman, and the story gets better. He was an inventor the creator of the rotary motor that made it possible for the Wright brothers to take their famed first flight. Otto was also a pilot and good friends with Orville and Wilbur. He was present at Kitty Hawk, N.C., when the Wright brothers first flew on Dec. 17, 1903, the same date as Donovan s birthday 106 years later. Nell Winston Smith reports that she had her third child her first daughter Mary Elizabeth Smith, in March. Daughters are abundant. Brian Kim, who has been living in London for the past seven years, wrote in with lots of news. He got married in June 2008 to Sophie

87 n Dvignon, whom he met in New York but reconnected with in London. They had a baby girl, Eleonore, last October. She is an absolute bundle of joy, writes Brian, adding he hopes she ll join Williams in the Class of Brian also reports he visited California this past August and spent time with Jared Gross and his family. He said he keeps in close touch with several Williams folks, including Michael Kim, Matt Bliwise, Rich Whitcomb, Dan Casey and Tony Wu, and he is happy to report they re all doing well many with families of their own. Andrew Brennan also writes after 16 years of silence to report that he s living in Santa Monica with his fiancée of 10 years, Tonia, and his wheaten terrier. He is the chief operating officer of ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance a national commercial landscape maintenance company. He asks that if anyone comes to LA, look him up. Lastly, I moved from Brooklyn to Chappaqua, N.Y., last summer. I love having a house and can see lots of trees from all my windows. It s great to get back to the outdoor activities I used to do at Williams as well hiking on trails nearby and playing outside with the kiddies. Speaking of which, I had a second daughter, Josephine Rose Rappaport, in February. She s a happy, healthy, easy second child. Congrats to all, and please write soon! Happy Holidays! 1995 Anamaria Villamarin-Lupin 535 Arabella St. New Orleans, LA Nancy O Brien Wagner 1049 Linwood Ave. Saint Paul, MN secretary@williams.edu Greetings from St. Paul! As I write this, we are transitioning from sand-in-the-shoes weather to leaves-in-the-pockets weather, and by the time you read it, we ll have moved on to tissues-in-thelaundry. Of course, the following news will be timeless. I promised that the quirkiest news would get top billing, but I m afraid our fellow classmate s exploits made that difficult. Quirky wasn t quite right. Impressive, inspiring and cool fit better. However, one did deserve a bit of a drum roll, please. For Best Ying/Yang update, I present John Carlin and Sarah Newman. This is the first time John has written in, but he s been busy since college. He s been living in DC since law school, first as a federal prosecutor and currently as chief of staff to the director of the FBI. Sarah is the curator of contemporary art at the Corcoran Gallery. John explains that they missed the reunion because of the arrival of their first baby, Sylvie Rose Carlin. Congratulations! I predict Sylvie will make a fabulous Dan Brown heroine in 20 years. Equally fantastic, of course, is the news of other babies. I picture Catherine Dupree s life in LA as a Cirque du Soleil show when she writes My husband M-K O Connell and I shattered our daughter Aoife s blissful existence by having another baby on July 7, this one a white-haired boy named Lochlann Raif (we re keen on Gaelic names). The second one s a tad easier or else we ve just become cheerfully negligent so we decided to add some complexity: a puppy and a house-renovation project. Lochlann is learning to live (and sleep) with jack-hammers at 7 a.m., an exuberant 70-plus pound Rhodesian Ridgeback and a mischievous 3-year-old sister. Pretty awesome. Kristina Hansen Smith and her husband Kent welcomed their son Cooper on July 10. Big sister Lucy, 3, is so far enjoying having a brother, though we suspect that might change as soon as he s old enough to want to play with her toys! David Lee writes that his wife Angela gave birth to their first son, Alexander Thomas Lee, on Aug. 8. David encompasses the two extremes of parenthood: We couldn t be more excited, he writes, followed by, Maybe he can join the Class of 2032 with Matt Govenali s twins and Justin Griffith s boy, too, although I don t think I will be able to afford tuition at that point. A different kind of baby was due in November, when Dedrick Muhammad s first book, Understanding Racial Inequality in the Obama Era, was to be published by Interlink Publishing. Dedrick notes that 15 years later, he still relies on Melissa Steel King to edit his work and make him look good. We all wish we were that lucky. Dr. Lisa N. Michaud has a quick update: she was teaching marathon days first semester in the science department at Merrimack College and hoped to still have her sanity by the time these notes come out. Last fall, Melinda Reidinger launched the Czech branch of the successful Hungarian-American English teacher placement program CETP. She was placing adventurous adults of all ages with bachelor s degrees and TEFL certificates in schools outside of Prague. After offering a cultural orientation program and crash language course, Melinda will escort the teachers to their new schools and begin looking for new recruits. Celia Quezada and Tobias Lopez started the year off with a bang: getting married on Jan. 2. Joining the celebrations were Pamela Mishkin and her husband Nick Branstator as well as Narayan Becher 94 and his wife Joan Planchart. Celia and Tobias are both teachers in California, so they dutifully held off on their honeymoon until summer break, when they escaped to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. She returned to a new job last fall, working as an English learner resource teacher with fifth- and sixth-graders. She writes, Although these students have been labeled as trouble makers and at risk by their former teachers, I ve been blessed because they have been really great thus far. I suspect that might have something to do with Celia. Filed alongside Celia in the Making the World Better file is Ben Davidman, MD. Ben has flown under the radar since graduation but catches us up with the news that he did his psychiatry residency at NYU and psychoanalytic training at Columbia Psychoanalytic Center. I have a private practice in Manhattan and work mostly with college students. I specialize in working with personality disorders and people at high risk of self harm, and I teach psychiatric residents at NYU a course in diagnosis and treatment planning in psychotherapy. Ben lives in Maplewood, N.J., with his wife Nica, who is the behavioral consultant to the Clifton school district, and their kids Joseph, 6, and Julianna, 3. After work and parenting, there really isn t time for too much else, but I m happy and doing well. Mark Cordes is doing his part to fight the recession in Seattle. He reports that he bought a house a few years ago and has finally finished the interior remodeling as well as the exterior landscaping. He writes, Now I m ready to relax and enjoy the view over Lake Union with friends and December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 85

88 CLASS NOTES family. Flo Waldron concludes that motherhood is well suited to my inner DIY maven, whether perfecting old skills (cooking, namely gourmet organic locavore baby food), rediscovering lost ones (crocheting, starting with adorable hats for my darling daughter), or learning new ones (furniture refinishing, aka babyproofing beloved antiques-with-chipped-paint-ofindeterminate-age). Matt McHale forwarded a lovely shot from his August 2009 wedding to Charleen Hsuan. In attendance (and looking fabulous) were Jeremy Fox, Melinda Reidinger and her daughter Quintana, and Brinsley Fox 94. Since 2001 Becca Doucette has been in the Army National Guard, where she has been bugling with the honor guard for funerals, memorials and ceremonies. She wrote from Cairo, where she was attending a five-week immersion course as part of her Arabic language studies in the Defense Language Institute. She was at the top of her class and is to complete the 64-week program in December. After that, she will either be in Monterey teaching Arabic, heading to Iraq or teaching secret stuff in Utah. At the far end of my river, my co-sec Anamaria Villamarin-Lupin is busy training for her first triathlon and second fundraising ride for multiple sclerosis. With no irony, she writes, I am keeping myself quite busy these days between volunteering for my sons schools, working for a nonprofit developing social services programming and serving on a couple of boards. One of them is the board for Girls on the Run, a national girls program that uses training and workouts to encourage positive emotional, social, mental, spiritual and physical development. As you can tell, physical activity is dominating my schedule. I think chasing the kids around is actually producing positive energy. I am exhausted, but I am also sleeping really well! Here in St. Paul, since I have mastered my benchmarks for good parenting (the three children are alive and fed bonus points for clothed), I am starting a new Minnesota history consulting business called Bluestem Heritage, so you know whom to call if you have a question about Bob Dylan or bundt cakes. A little business from our intrepid head agent Sue LePage 86 Williams People December 2010 Wintner: She s got some openings for class agent positions and hopes you will volunteer your freshman year roommate for the job. Truly, it is a fun way to strengthen bonds with old classmates and not as awkward as you might think, so sign up. So I ll leave you with a final bit of advice from wise Jeremy Fox, who writes from Ottawa, where he and his wife Brinsley 94 were spending the fall while he is on sabbatical from the University of Calgary. We flew here with our cats. Here s a tip if you re planning to fly with cats: Don t. Two pieces of news arrived after these notes were submitted. As you have likely heard, our classmate Nicholas Marsh passed away on Sept. 26. Nick was a charming, brilliant, warm-hearted friend, and he is deeply missed by many of us. The formal obituary will be included in the next issue of Williams People. On the other end of the arc, Randall Friedman and his wife Tomomi announced the birth of their twin girls Myla and Sasha on June 29. Ogden Nash captured the bittersweetness of that juxtaposition well: When I remember bygone days, I think how evening follows morn; So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born. Welcome to the world, girls. We look forward to loving you REUNION JUNE 9-12 Lesley Whitcomb Fierst 245 Dale Drive Silver Spring, MD secretary@williams.edu As we approach this spring and our 15th reunion, Mitch Howell had this to say: After nine years of incredibly hard work, Krystal Williams has stepped down as head agent of the Alumni Fund for our class. After much cajoling, Krystal convinced me to take over the reins. This will be a big year for us, as our reunion is rapidly approaching and the College relies on reunion years to raise much more money. We will likely have a goal of over $100,000 this year, compared to $50,000 last year. So I m sure I ll be in touch with many people over the coming months. Also, our class has a new presence on Facebook, and we ll be using the page to coordinate reunion planning and other activities. Mitch has asked me to remind everyone to join the Facebook group; just search for Williams College Class of We currently have 105 classmates in the group, but if my dad can have 436 Facebook friends, then we ought to be able to have more than 105 people in our class group. (My dad does not really have that many friends. He actually does not even have a Facebook page, but he told me that he reads my column every issue, so I thought I d give him a shout-out by making a joke about him.) Thomas Rogers, his wife Hannah and their 4- and 6-yearold daughters traveled far from their home in Concord, N.C., where Thomas teaches at UNC Charlotte, to spend six months in Pernambuco, Brazil, this year. The girls had a great time learning capoeira, judo, gymnastics and a bit of Portuguese. I was teaching a graduate course on environmental history and doing research for a history of Brazil s 1970s ethanol boom. After years of gestation, my book on sugarcane agriculture and labor is now coming out with UNC Press (titled The Deepest Wounds). And after her world travels and East Coast barnstorming, Amy Whitaker will join Thomas in the teaching ranks. In the fall she was teaching economics in an MBA program at California College of the Arts. In the spring I ll be teaching economics to artists at the Rhode Island School of Design. The best part is that one of the RISD courses is studio art a drawing course in economics. I m in New York now and hope people in SF, Providence and NYC will get in touch! Corey Modeste has been getting into some hobby web design and asked if there had been any thought to moving class notes to some sort of electronic or wiki format. While he appears to be trying to put me out of a job, it s always great to hear from Corey, and I did pass his question on to the editors. If it were like Wikipedia, does that mean that people could comment on each other s updates? That could be pretty funny. I am limited here by both space and the fear of either inadvertently offending someone or writing something that seems funny to me but later on falls flat. Wiki could solve a lot of those issues. Others of them I d need therapy for. (Ba-dum-bum!) After spending most of the time since our graduation in Boston, Porter (Harris) May and her family

89 n moved to Bronxville, N.Y., when Porter s husband Peter got a new job in Manhattan. This means Porter will be haunting the streets of Bronxville (and particularly their coffee shops) with her two kids, Savannah and Henry. In August Karen (Robinson) Coyle and her three kids (Jack, Aedan and Libby) joined Porter and her kids for one last trip to the Museum of Science in Boston together before Porter moved out of town. Karen and her family had a great summer at the Cape, during which she met up with Tanya (Gogolak) Cote and Robin (Keller) Elliott and their kids in Sandwich one July weekend. Tanya, her husband Chris and their three kids (Ryan, Isabella and Annalise) are enjoying their new home in Colorado, and Robin, her husband Chad and their three kids (Charlie, Nathan and Ben) are still in Duxbury, which allows them to see Karen and her family regularly. Julie Greenwood fit in a super-busy summer of programming for the kids of New Haven at Squash Haven, a quick trip to Denver and a week in Germany with her family. Vanessa Wruble launched a new company re-branding Africa as the dynamic, hip continent it is, full of the freshest music (okayafrica.com). The launch event was a World Cup 2010 celebration in Prospect Park in Brooklyn starring The Roots and Talib Kweli, plus five bands from Africa, including Bajah + the Dry Eye Crew (which is co-managed by myself and Ginny Suss 99). 15,000 people came to the show. That s right. 15,000. She wrote from a plane on the way to Burning Man, where she expected to see Conrad Oakey 99, who is in her camp, Ashram Galactica. Bajah + the Dry Eye Crew was scheduled to play the next TED conference as well as shows throughout the East Coast in the fall. Yulia Chentsova-Dutton had a blast piloting studies and collecting data in Moscow, Russia, and Accra, Ghana, last summer. And Jen (Hallett) Sinsigalli wrote with the big news of her family s move from Massachusetts to the western suburbs of Minneapolis in the spring. Her husband Eric will have a new sales position but still remain with Ocean Spray. Her twin sons Jade and Luke were to turn 5 in November. Crazy how time flies. Brian and Amanda (Fay) Beckrich saved up some cash, quit their jobs, sold their cars and are now traveling the world for a year with their 5-year-old daughter Isabel. They left at the end of July, heading up to Canada before flying overseas, where they planned lengthy stops in England and Italy, among other places. Before they left, we had a fun blackberry and peach-picking day at a nearby farm with the Beckriches, James and Lydia (Vermilye) Weiss and their son Rex, Griz and Mary (Booth) Dwight 97 and their kids Cooper and Campbell, and Eyal and I, with our daughter Aviva and our new baby Eitan. The kids had a blast, despite the blazing sun, and we took a great photo of all five kids of 96ers in a wheelbarrow together, where Cooper Dwight s even got his hand on Aviva s knee it s pretty cute. Lydia and James and the Dwights co-hosted a goodbye party for the Beckriches a couple of weeks later. Lori and Wes Smedley and Heather and Henry Shinn made it, plus we heard Alexis Gilman and his wife Michele and Brian Lee and his wife Esther showed up after we left. Alexis left his longtime law firm Morgan Lewis in June and started a new job in July at the Federal Trade Commission in the Bureau of Competition. My group investigates mergers in certain industries, including hospitals, food and beverage, consumer/retail goods and funeral services and cemeteries (seriously). I m only a few weeks in, but I m really enjoying it. In other news, in August, I took my wife to Williamstown for the first time. We stayed with Dr. Jonnie Cluett, who has chickens and bees in his backyard. Penn Clarke made the drive from Boston to meet us there. We also saw Jon Snow, who is now a professor at the College and who came over to Jonnie s for dinner. The weather was great, and it was nice to hit Pappa C s again. Last March Purva Bedi got engaged to David Andrew Stoler (Brown 96), and the wedding was Oct. 3 in New York. Barbara Fusco was flying in from Boulder to be a bridesmaid. Purva is still our class s answer to Natalie Portman, combining brains, style and acting talent, as she just completed a feature film in Arizona (current title: Blissed Out) and will be filming episodes of Desiciti, a South Asian spin on the Sex & the City genre, in Canada later this year. Also in New York, Paul Burke plays soccer with a bunch of Williams soccer alums and according to his wife Christine gets hurt EVERY week. He just walked in with a new calf injury. It s kind of like Groundhog Day; every night he walks out the door optimistic that his legs feel good, and an hour later he walks back in with head hung low in frustration. I was manager of the L Occitane softball team. We were kicked out of the league after one rain out, one win and two forfeits. It s tough to muster together enough French employees to play softball. But I can assure you it is entertaining to watch when we do play. A circus on the bases is an understatement. This is one of the reasons I love this job. I had forgotten how funny she is. Thanks, Chris. Elizabeth Waugh-Stewart wrote: It was way hot in NC as a Southerner, I am used to heat, but this was ridiculous! We had a mini-williams C reunion in early August, when Joy and I took our daughters, Stella Rose, 4, and Callie, 19 months, to upstate NY. Tiffany Steinwert, who is now the dean of Hendricks Chapel at Syracuse University, is living in Syracuse with her husband Josh and their 1-year-old son Grady. Lisa Howard and her baby Nina, who was 6 months old at the time, also drove up to Syracuse from Warwick, N.Y. It was wonderful to be together Tiff, Lisa and I lived together for almost all of college. Seeing all the kids together was especially fun. Also, I just hung out with Jen Rubenstein in Charlottesville I was up there very briefly to celebrate my cousin s birthday, and so Jen and I were able to meet up for drinks. She is doing great still teaching in the poli sci department at UVA, running and enjoying her new office, which evidently has a view of Monticello (jealous!). Joan (Lee) Tarbutton wrote for the first time in a long time, explaining, I ve been pretty busy taking care of my kids all four of them! That s right I had my fourth kid on Jan. 18. Catherine Louise Bo-Rahm Tarbutton. We call her by her Korean name, Borahmie, which means a happy result. She gets a lot of attention from her sisters Seul-Gi, 7, and Goh-Unie, 2, and her brother Han-Gyul, 4, as well as from me and my husband Michael. I m a full-time stay-athome mom and enjoying every minute of it. I share SAHM war stories with Monica Patel. I met up with Monica and her 4-year-old son at the New York Hall of Science (not too far from where I live in Queens, N.Y.), when they December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 87

90 CLASS NOTES traveled up here to NYC in May. From Chicago, Allison Verderber Herriott wrote with news of a great The biggest event in our family was the birth of our second daughter, Madeleine Kathleen Herriott (joining big sister Louisa now 3 1 2), in March. I have been on leave from Skadden since that time and enjoying the time at home and traveling with my family (work starts again in September yikes). We spent the last week of July in Lake Tahoe with Barbara Shreve, AJ Bernheim Brush, Mike Brush, Peter Everett, Bryan Greenhouse, Kyle Nagle and our various spouses and children. Between a rainy hike, trips to the beach, miniature golf and time cooking and talking, it was great to catch up with everyone (and to see how everyone s kids have grown). Our daughter Louisa particularly had fun playing with Bryan Greenhouse s daughter Lucia (they are three weeks apart), and our youngest had fun with Peter Everett s daughter Anna (who is three weeks older than Madeleine). With all of the spouses and kids, our times together certainly are boisterous affairs. Now we are just excited for reunion next year to see even more of our classmates. And at reunion, I know who we can nominate to become our next class treasurer. In November Walker Stapleton was elected state treasurer of Colorado! Let s end with some more baby news. Lyn Aborn and her husband welcomed their daughter Sabrina on June 22. She is now laughing and cooing and changing every day, and my husband and I are madly in love. I am lucky enough to have a ton of time off stored up from my job in the ED, so I will be on maternity leave for a good long while to enjoy it all. And the bonus is that through the wonders of the SF mom s network, I discovered that Lana Choi and her little baby boy live practically around the corner from me, and neither of us had any idea it was really great to connect and see her and compare new mom notes. Michelle Eindhoven wrote of the birth of her third child, a boy named Sacha Nicholas Eindhoven, on June 14. He was born at home, with father Jeftha, sister Annalies and brother Julian in attendance. Both Vanessa (Seed) Melbye and Jenny Seed Reis wrote with news of new babies. Mike Reis 94 and Jenny welcomed their son, Owen Seed Reis, July 1, and Vanessa and Sverre Melbye had a baby girl, 88 Williams People December 2010 Serena Seed Melbye, Feb. 15. And as I alluded to earlier, my husband Eyal, our 2-year-old daughter Aviva and I became a family of four May 12, when our son Eitan Zachary arrived. Remember, join the 96 Facebook group and keep getting fired up for this June! 1997 Bahia Ramos Synnott 50 Biscayne Blvd., Apt. 701 Miami, FL secretary@williams.edu Greetings, Class of 1997! Shannon Farley and husband have been living in Adams since 2003 and enjoy being back in the Berkshires very much. They had their second child, Quentin, on Nov. 30, Shannon took the spring semester off to be with the baby and then returned to work on her PhD in comparative literature at UMass-Amherst. Long-time listener, first-time caller Jenny Schumi writes, I ve actually been feeling more connected to Williams in the past year, since after years of dodging calls from Jen Drake and Alex Carroll, I took the leap and tried to be a class agent this year. Wasn t as hard as I expected, really enjoyed the reconnections, and hope I wasn t too much of a pest! I m in DC, have been here since 2006, and love the random classmate sightings like Dave Turner performing at the Shakespeare Theatre in The Dog in the Manger (he was spectacular, no surprise there) and the easy connections with great people like Sylvia Park and Jeff Zeeman (who always seems to have a few more classmates in tow, most recently Brian Eng and Jon Zeppieri). My dad and I were in London in April during the volcano and caught up with the incomparable Kurt Knuppel over drinks and the lovely Liz Carson over afternoon tea. (The volcano unfortunately grounded Adrienne Lu stateside, so she was unable to make it over for Liz s daughter s christening that weekend.) Kurt gave my dad someone else to discuss the financial crisis with (my eyes had long since glazed over), and Liz filled us in on the difference between barrister and solicitor. And fortunately for both Kurt and Liz (and us), we did not end up crashing on either of their floors for a week. (The 12-hour bus ride to Amsterdam is another story, although we did get out with just a one-day delay incredibly lucky!) Jenny concludes, I ve been scheming to get a work trip to California for a while now to visit Bev Grossman (and her husband Dana Palmer and kids Tobin and Emmett) in the south and James Mura and Megan Moore (and now Miles) in the north. So far no luck on that front so I think I m seeing a road trip in my future. Phil Loring reports, A year ago I got my dream job as the curator of psychology at the Science Museum in London. Under my care is an extraordinary collection of psychological instruments that includes everything from IQ tests to a padded cell. I also authored six Flash games ( interactives in museum-speak) on the science museum s history of medicine website, Brought to Life. My pride and joy is the pop-up guide to the history of childbirth; check it out at tinyurl.com/2clhbsu and make sure your speakers are on. My other pride and joy is Blackstone Davis Loring (named for his maternal great-grandfather), who turned 2 a few months ago. My wife, blessed be she, is bearing the bulk of the childcare burden right now while hunting for work as a modern dance choreographer or professor. The London dance scene is thriving but difficult to break into. Sumi Loundon Kim and family were in Pusan, South Korea, for the summer, living and teaching at a Zen temple in the city. Last August, Sumi was ordained as a minister, and now she is the chaplain for the Buddhist community at Duke University and the minister to the Sunday Morning Buddhist Family Group of Durham, N.C. Balakrishna Narasimhan and wife Tracy live in San Francisco with their beautiful baby daughter Isla, who was born in December He works with Ryan Nichols, Iein Valdez and Mark Koenig 83 at Appirio. They ve had a number of visitors, including Brian Elieson, Brian Eng, Jeff Zeeman, Andrew Brown and Jeannette Kim. Dave and Kate (Hedden) Vosburg 98 are happy to announce the official adoption of their daughter Isabella in February 2010 after fostering her for the first 15 months of her life. They are now preparing their home, car and lives for another foster-to-adopt child, just as Dave is coming up for tenure at Harvey Mudd College.

91 n Julie Rapoport got married in Yosemite in late May. It snowed. Unexpectedly. She writes, Fortunately, the sun came out in time for the ceremony, and it was only toward the end that I began to match my dress, which was a lovely shade of blue. The traditional photo of the bride dancing with her father had the nontraditional elements of the bride wearing a down jacket and gloves. Ephs in attendance: Jen and Jason Meyers (and future Ephs Naomi and Eli), pediatrician and assistant professor at Colgate, respectively; Tom Reid, who is moving to California to start a palliative care position at UCSF; Mimi Epstein, law school student at William & Mary; Henry Roe, astronomer in Flagstaff, Ariz.; Kyle Downey 96, who flew in from Shanghai for a really short weekend; Bonnie Schulkin 96, who also lives in the Bay Area; and Holly Hodgson Stephens 96, who is living in the DC area with her husband and two kids. Ben Partan is still working in Beijing, designing China s future with millions of square feet of shopping malls, thousands of acres of new cities and millions of square feet of data centers for the online masses. Always something interesting or confusing, generally both, going on. Laura Christensen Guthrie and husband Trent welcomed their son Quinn Philip Christensen Guthrie into the world on Dec. 27, He was almost a month early, so we were caught unprepared, but we ve more or less caught up now. We re having a ball with him. He s a real sweet little guy. We can t believe how fast it s going! Stephanie Seale had a baby girl, Tabitha, on April 24, which is also Julie (Finch) McCaffrey s birthday. She wrote, Tabitha, her dad and I are doing great, and they were all looking forward to spending much of the summer just the three of us, enjoying the beautiful Bay Area. Emily Eldredge is hosting her own online radio show called Emily the Muse: Inspiring You to Commit to Your Joy. Check it out at Seth Bair, wife and daughter welcomed a son, Santosh Alan Bair, to the family last fall. They re living on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, where they frequently see Rachel Steel Cohn and her family at various kid-friendly activities. He reports that he is still gainfully employed at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. Seth Morgan and Andrea Bongiorno (sister of Jess Bongiorno) were married on July 17. It was, of course, a Jersey wedding, and they went to Hawaii for their honeymoon. It was strategically planned around the World Cup so that the groom would be present. And with that, 2010 has come to a close. Keep up the good work, class, and keep those updates coming. Until then xoxo! 1998 Andrea Stanton 2101 South Josephine St. Apt. 211 Denver, CO secretary@williams.edu We have a number of summer babies joining the 1998 family: Adam and Abby (Williamson) Fisher had twin daughters in May, Ana Chaisson and Lyla Sarpen, whose August baptisms were attended by Lauren (Guth) and Tony Barnes, Gwen Garber and Ann and James Kossuth. (Abby reports that James daughter Lucy attended in a tiara.) The twins godparents include one of Christopher Kraig s cousins. Melissa and Chris Elkington welcomed son Kellan on May 27 and have alternated taking time off to care for him, which Chris describes as a real treat ; in July the new trio traveled to LA for Seth Battis and Jordi Schuster s wedding. In June, Anita (Doddi) Gajula and husband added daughter Anika to their family, which includes 2½-year-old son Raul, and Traci and Derek Sasaki-Scanlon had a second daughter, Ellie. Phelps Peeler and Becca Whitely welcomed son Wilford Charles on Aug. 15. Cyd (Fremmer) Oppenheimer and her husband gave daughters Rebekah, 3½, and Ellie, 21 months, a younger sister, Klara James, on Aug. 25. Cyd is taking a few months off from her job as policy fellow at Connecticut nonprofit Voices For Children and notes that Klara s arrival means that her husband is now entirely surrounded by women, including two dogs and one cat. His only male companionship is the other cat, who hates him, she writes, adding: Any Williams men passing through New Haven are welcome to visit and heighten the testosterone in our household. Adam Gogolak and wife Leonora added son Miles Alexander to their family on Sept. 13. Summer travelers included Evelyn Spence, who finished her MFA in fiction writing in May after completing a half-ironman triathlon for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in memory of her father and then spent June at the World Cup in South Africa. Veronica Roberts visited Denver in August, and she saw Jill (Strassburger) and Adam Barkin and came away very smitten with their son Jake and dog Alton. (The Barkins reuned last summer with Seth and Annie (Faubert) Low and Sarah Malcolm and their children.) In August, Abigail (Wadsworth) and Adam Serfass 95 moved to Rome for the year. We have an apartment on the Gianicolo overlooking Trastevere and the Vatican, she writes, and we have an extra guest room for any Ephs who might be in the area. Julia Sunderland and her mother were their first guests they stayed with the Serfasses en route to a spa vacation in Casperia. Eliza Nemser and her husband came back to the U.S. after a year in Lisbon, where Eliza completed a postdoc on Iberia s earthquake hazards. They spent the summer catching up with East Coast friends, including Sarah (Lurd) Smith and Jeff Gould, Andrew Fagenholz and Michael Dannenberg, who all attended Pete Ireland s 97 annual pig roast. Now we re heading back out West, Eliza writes, trying to decide between Seattle and San Francisco. Ned Sahin also spent time on the road last summer, going on an 11-city, eight-country university lecture tour to discuss his research. He is now a fellow in cognitive science and has been focusing on furious data analysis in hopes of what might be another big break. Outside of work, he adds that he is absolutely loving married life and has been keeping up with Ephs as well: Chris Bell visited Ned and Nicole from Portland, allowing them to relive all sorts of Williams memories. (Chris, who sends much NW love to all, continues to have an active Eph social life, seeing, among others, Matt Wheeler, Mac and Stephanie Harman, and Honora Englander. He and fellow inveterate skier and wife Sally celebrated the early summer with a 33-mile telemark jaunt around Crater Lake, with one hand tied behind our backs. ) Most recently, Ned was in Spain for Lindsay Tucker s wedding along with December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 89

92 CLASS NOTES Gerht Lubitz, Brad Johnston, John Williams and Zach Mulley 99. Sam Young returned from a short trip to the Dominican Republic and reports: My beach reading was Fire, Kristin Cashore s 98 second novel, and Wild Hunt, Margaret Ronald s 99 second novel. He adds that this literary Eph shout-out was the last breath of freedom before my part-time LL.M. tax program resumed as did his full-time job. Sarah Nelson s summer travels focused on family: We took a 4-year-old s dream vacation in June, she writes, riding in a car, then on the subway, then on a bus, then on an airplane to cross the country to visit both sets of grandparents. While the 4-year-old in question loved the experience, Tate (who is 2) looked a little shell-shocked. After that trip, they stayed closer to home, although Sarah adds: We managed to pick the only extremely rainy three-day stretch of an otherwise beautiful summer to go camping which turned into a fun bunk-bed-jumping weekend for the two boys. James Kossuth and wife Ann also enjoyed daughter Lucy s travel fun: they took her to Cape May, whose nearby sights include a six-story, elephant-shaped building named Lucy. Lucy Kossuth has been hearing about Lucy the Elephant since her earliest days, so all three were thrilled to see her in the flesh. Hard to say how we can top that next year, James says. There is a house shaped like a duck somewhere on Long Island Janee Woods-Weber has taken a new position as a program director at Everyday Democracy, a nonprofit based in East Hartford. Husband Matt reports that she is also performing in a local production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. He is still at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and was busily training for the Hartford half-marathon. Their son Jakob began seventh grade this year, and daughter Avery started first grade. Matt Libbey also found himself with a new job: After four years of spending at least four days a week on the road, I told McKinsey this June that I was done with that life. He took the summer off, spending it with wife Garet (Asbury) 97 and their daughter; before he could begin job hunting, McKinsey asked him to return but to a desk position. I m the new head of operations for one 90 Williams PeoPle December Ephs and their children gathered in Pownal, Vt., last July. Pictured, from left, Anne (Faubert) Low, Seth Low, Adam Barkin, Jill Strassburger Barkin and Sarah Malcolm LaPerle. of our business units in North America, he explains, which means I will cover a much larger territory while traveling far less. Julianne Austin reports that she picked up another degree this one in bio-nanotechnology after her ER was forced into layoffs, and she is now working as a scientist near Pittsburgh. Jeremy Wilmer, who reports that he attended a few Eph weddings last summer with wife Anne (Dwyer) Wilmer 01, says: I had the pleasure of chatting with NPR last spring about a paper my lab published, showing that face recognition activity is mainly a genetic trait, with little influence from environment or upbringing. You can listen to the story at Beth Lambert, who with husband Greg Behling 96 had their third child, son Ian Charles, in March, published her first book in August. Titled A Compromised Generation: The Epidemic of Chronic Illness in America s Children, she writes: It explains why our country is experiencing epidemics of autism, ADHD, food allergies, asthma and other conditions in children. She s in the process of establishing a related nonprofit organization, Parents Ending America s Childhood Epidemic; you can learn more at Danielle (Bahr) Eason appeared on QVC to launch her Adult Myself Belts line there and says: What an amazing experience! She is still living in Connecticut but reports: We spent much of the summer in New Hampshire, where we had a nice visit from Kim Comeau. Derek Sasaki- Scanlon is now working full time at mypetchicken.com, which provides goods and services to urban and backyard chicken owners. Business has been really growing as more people are interested in where their food comes from and in connecting to nature a little more, he explains. (James Kossuth, who stopped at Derek s en route to Cape May and its elephant, recommends a visit: Its always good to see how they re doing and play with the chickens in the backyard. ) Sam French reports that his film project, Buzkashi Boys, has received U.S. government funding; he was to start shooting on location in Kabul in the fall. Hooray for the U.S. taxpayer! he writes, adding: This will be the first project of the Afghan Film Project, the NGO I recently launched, with a mandate to foster Afghanistan s film industry. He finished shooting a documentary for HBO and is working on a film for the British government on alternatives to growing opium in Helmand Province, as well as several other projects. Finally, Kai Collins and her Groundlings writing partner are turning a winning streak in commercial-writing contests into a LA-based business. The business is up and running, so Kai invites anyone who wants to laugh, or sell stuff to visit From travels to toddlers, it sounds like many 1998ers had rich and rewarding summers. I hope that the rest of you have equally sweet memories of summer 2010, and I look forward to your fall updates soon.

93 1999 Erik Holmes 808 Alabama St. Huntington Beach, CA Nat White 11 Interlaken Road P.O. Box 800 Lakeville, Conn Nat here. Apparently I need to be careful what I ask for; you guys came through with lots of news right before the deadline. I ll start with first-time contributor Jon Whalen, who is living in Brussels, Belgium. Jon teaches middle school social studies at the International School of Brussels, and he reports that their baseball team won the championship in Cairo last spring. Also based in Brussels is Chris Rodriguez, a political officer in the U.S. embassy. Chris, wife Amanda and daughter Julianna have been there since September of 2009 and will remain for one more year. They re enjoying good food, even better beer and the opportunity to travel Europe with relative ease. Speaking of embassies, Ifie Okwuje is frantically learning Spanish in preparation for her impending move from DC to Caracas, Venezuela, to work as a consular official for two years. Ifie and her husband Joachim Bruess are greatly enjoying watching son Jan grow. Speaking of children, there are more to report. In reverse chronological order, here they are. Sneaking in right at my deadline is Jacob Ian Chang, born on Sept. 18 to June Wang and her husband Ed Chang, in Mountain View, Calif. On Aug. 28, DC-area residents Emily (Christiansen) and David Glendinning welcomed Olivia Marie Glendinning into the family, joining older sister Charlotte. On Aug. 12, Clarissa Shen, James Lin and their daughter Maia welcomed Lucas Xiang-yo Lin. Clarissa and the family live in Palo Alto, and she works in SF. August Nicholas Francis was born on July 31 in NYC. Parents Jon and Julie (Cantatore) Francis could barely keep a very excited 3-year-old Nolan from jumping on his new baby brother. The Francis clan had visits from Chris Rodriguez and his family, in from Belgium, and from Jon Shade, his wife and 2-year-old son Beckett, who live a mile from the Francises. On July 28, Robyn (Markham) Harrington, hubby Shawn, and son Taylor welcomed Graham McCartney Harrington. They are all doing well and loving life in Vermont. Ethan Maddox Schwartz was born July 26 to Lindsay Renner Schwartz and her husband Jason. Big brother Jacob is adjusting, and Lindsay is still working one day a week in her private psychotherapy practice. She did, however, take maternity leave through November from her other job as a school counselor at Weston High School. Lindsay compares notes on life with two kids under 3 with Jill (Morris) Green, who lives near Denver. Jill reports that her life is filled by being a mom, but she did manage to see Margaret (Tedeschi) and Andy Kyle and their kids George and Virginia last summer. Andy has a new job, and Margaret is still teaching cooking classes to kids and adults. Corey William Edwards arrived on the 4th of July to proud parents Erik and Annabel Muenter Edwards. Christina Williams made the trek south from Cleveland to meet Corey and see Annabel, a chemistry professor at Denison. Christina also got to meet our son Jasper while Julie Rusczek and I drove from Milwaukee to our new home in Lakeville, Conn. We joined Christina, a surgical resident, for breakfast at Metro Hospital on our way through Cleveland. We missed southeast Michigan resident Liz (Claflin) Wyderko on our trip east, but she was occupied with new daughter Leah Marie, born in April, and 2-year-old son Zachary. Kat Liao reported on the birth of her daughter, Lauren Liao Rhee, on March 26. She then backtracked to report on her wedding in November 2008 to Eugene Rhee. Kat and her family live in Boston, and she sees Sabrina Assoumou, Anh Nguyen and John and Imelda Berry-Candelario, both 00, regularly. Saskia Nesja reported happily on the birth of her daughter Lily in August My request for news found Saskia in her second day back at work at the National Army Museum in London, after 13-plus months off, so she was missing Lily rather badly. Laura Jacobs Kravis also started back to work at her charter school in DC after taking last year off. She reports that William, at 10 months, should be great at daycare, since he s already a social butterfly who loves to wave to everyone he sees. Jon Kravis has finished his stint in the White House Counsel s Office and is back in the DC U.S. Attorney s Office. He s excited to be getting n back into court every day. Kate Nolan Joyce sent in sentiments shared by many of the parents in the class, reporting that she could talk endlessly about her son Keghan, but there isn t much in the way of her own news. Others among you have different kinds of new babies. After five years at United Talent Agency, Yuli Masinovsky left to start his own management/production company called Silver Lake Entertainment. He works with screenwriters, novelists, journalists and writer-directors to either sell their work into the movie and TV worlds or develop them himself. Yuli reports that starting a small business is simultaneously the most challenging and most rewarding thing he has ever done professionally. Yuli also reported on his visit with SF-based Jeremy Shaw, also a new entrepreneur. Jeremy started a community farmer s market in the Mission District. Yuli also reported on the multitalented Kim Nguyen, who holds down a successful veterinary practice and uses her free time to weave wool and build guitars and electric basses, and physicist John Mahoney, who is starting a postdoc at UC-Merced. Philly-based Jess Richman has started on several new ventures: She won her first boxing match in May, completed her first sprint triathlon, competed in her first jiu jitsu tournament and has started her own sports agency, representing mixed martial arts fighters. She s already succeeded in placing a client into a nationally televised event. Because these are all clearly side projects, she did mention that she was included in the Super Lawyers Rising Stars 2010 for Pennsylvania. Rivaling Jess in terms of number of balls in the air is Jen Hurley, who lives in Butte, Mont., with her husband Nick and children Nikko and Keira. Besides being parents, Jen and Nick are remodeling a historic building in uptown Butte, with 34 rental apartments set to open in October and commercial space and a children s science museum to follow shortly thereafter. Their burrito shop next door to that building is doing well, and Jen is still working part time as an attorney with the Office of the Appellate Defender. Austin Chang started a company in NYC called the Fridge ( which helps people create private social networks. He has gotten some good press. Austin also reported that Snehal Patel has joined a startup in NYC and that Albert December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 91

94 CLASS NOTES Dang has moved to Hong Kong. Zach Niman wins the brevity award this time around: I guess I did have a pretty busy month. I finished my residency at NC State in veterinary neurology, got married in Wilmington, N.C., to my lovely wife Natalie (lucky Ephs present included Mike and Stine (Caveney) Goldstein, Jessica Green Murphy and Ted Mann), and then I moved to Chicago to start in private practice. Jess reports that she, husband Patrick and kids Molly and Brady loved the trip, despite the shock of heat and humidity to their Seattleacclimated systems. Jess didn t get as much playtime as she would have liked last summer, having broken her ankle playing softball in May. Jess is among the disbelieving 99 parents who sent children to kindergarten in the fall. Sarah (Cooper) and Eric Anderson have moved from Washington Heights to Grand Rapids, Mich., where Eric is an assistant professor at an art school called Kendall. Eric is teaching architectural history and design history, and Sarah will be helping the school s master s of art education program in outreach to the city schools. Sarah is also working on a master s in education leadership so she can apply for principal positions. In her spare time, Sarah is mom to Lucy and Theo. Before the move, the Andersons got to spend time playing on the beach with Paul Benzon, Sarah Sweeney and their two kids. They also made it out to Portland, Ore., to see Jon Baldivieso, Francesca Monga, Ray Hartwell and Laurel Hickock 02. Jodie Hearn reports that she and Bob Wilson moved to Princeton, N.J., last October for Bob to do a postdoc in neuroscience. Jodie is excited to have found communications work at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and they are set to abandon apartment living for a house. Jodie also made sure to mention that Heather Kovich and her husband Andrew Weber have moved to Shiprock, N.M., where Heather is a physician for Indian Health Service. Ethan Gutmann has taken a position at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and he also competed in his first triathlon, in Steamboat Springs. Co-secretary Erik Holmes had a stressful week leading up to his wedding; he was laid off from the local news startup where he had been working. For a change of pace, Erik is now working as a 92 Williams People December 2010 jury consultant for a small firm in Orange County, Calif., and he s enjoying it. They conduct focus groups to test how jurors will see a case. Minneapolis resident Molly Moore Jeffery has started a PhD program in health economics. She saw Edward McPherson and his wife Heather at an event with professor Jim Shepard. Edward and Heather are both working on MFAs. The final official 99 wedding to report this time around is that of Roosevelt Bowman to Molly Gise in Tulsa, Okla., on June 26. Attending the festivities were Mark D Arrigo, Josh McNutt, Jeff Kaye, Kendra Field, Molly Chase 00, Christine Chan, Matt Grainger, Matt Terzella and Karen Hu. That said, Alex Jarvis wrote in for Alex Hassinger 00, who started with us. Alex H. got married Aug. 21 in Rhode Island, with Alex J. as his best man, and Jon Soslow, Josh Fincke, Dan and Beth (Powers) Niedzwicki 01, and Pete and Alice (Stout) Jones, both 01. Alex J. is still living in LA, working for Disney Online Studios and playing lots of soccer. He took an awesome trip to Spain in late June. The Class of 99 was full of travelers last summer. Phillipa (Johnson) Martin and Sandina Green were joined by Sadaf Ahmad 02, Erika Beltran 01 and Vanea Norris 01 for a fun-filled getaway in Mexico. Sandina is in her final year of law school at Georgetown, and she ran into Rich Ota on U Street earlier in the summer. Jen Hurley and clan met up with Zack Grossman, his wife Amy and sons Micah and Levi in Sayulita, Mexico, in June. After returning from the Dominican Republic for a second straight summer as a leader of a global service program through Lakeside School in Seattle, where he teaches math, John Platt and his fiancée Amy Weber spent three days in Detroit visiting Nick and Kristen (Curtis) Swan and their children Trevor and Maren (John s god-daughter). It must have been a fun visit, because I heard about it from both John and Kristen. Vivian (Wang) Lin, who lives in Taiwan with her husband and two kids, spent a month visiting the U.S. She got to see a number of good friends along the East Coast, including Anazette (Williams) Ray and her daughter Addison. Vivian is juggling being a mother of two with working as the general manager of her family s fashion design company and taking advantage of the ease of travel to places like Japan and Hong Kong. Anazette also reported the brief visit she had from Becky Logue-Conroy and her twin daughters, Maeve and Meiris. Becky spent the summer back in social work grad school at Smith after a year s hiatus to be a full-time mom. She has now started an internship doing child and adolescent outpatient therapy at the Brien Center in Pittsfield. World traveler Laura (Moberg) Lavoie finally made it to Italy 11 years after finishing her art history degree at Williams. She and her husband Brian spent 10 days touring the country. Laura managed a weekend in Chicago with Emily Palmer Janz, Aaron DeCamp and their spouses, brunch with Bronwen Halacy Sandor and her daughter Reese, and a baseball game in SF with Will Slocum, Leigh (Winter) Martin and their spouses. Leigh got to see Will, Paul Alsdorf and Kenric Taylor 00 at a Williams SF Happy Hour, and she got to attend a closedto-the-public 49ers practice and meet Mike Singletary. As a Bears fan, it was a great moment, and she got to share it with Mark Hamachek 97. Harvard postdoc Laura Brenneman was also planning to put her art history courses to good use, as she, wife Kathy and 5-month-old son Luke headed to Greece and Crete for a conference. Laura has been slowed by Luke s arrival, but she still keeps quite active and busy, surprising none of us. Touring throughout the fall was Nick Zammuto. The new album from The Books is doing well, and Nick had the honor of singing a duet, Ingrid Bergman by Woody Guthrie, with Jeff Tweedy at the Wilco festival at MASS MoCA. Holly Smith spent five weeks last summer at Mercer University in Macon, Ga., studying cotton culture with other teachers. She is starting her ninth year of teaching literature at her alma mater, McNair Academic HS in Jersey City. Also in NJ is Dan Nehmad, who continues to recover from his traumatic brain injury. Dan was taking a graduate class at Rutgers in the fall while working at Wegmans and tutoring Russian at Mercer County Community College. Believe it or not, we do have some folks who are staying put. Dan Suver is in Seattle, in the seventh of eight years of surgical training (five years of general surgery, followed by three years of reconstructive and plastic surgery). Dan did go to Chicago to

95 n take his final board exams. Dan s wife Juli works as an architect in the same firm as Amy (Withers) Jain 98, and they also see other 98ers regularly. Matt Whalin is in his third year of residency in Atlanta, finishing a stint in cardiac anesthesia. Sarah (Moline) loves her work as a staff attorney at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, and their son Benjamin takes up all of their free time. Josh Lewis continues to live in Needham and work at Digitas, where he hosted an OCC event last summer. His children Rachel and Adam are growing up too fast for Josh s liking. Also in marketing in Boston is Eddie Murphy, who works for Eons Inc., targeting ads to baby boomers and promoting Meetcha. com. Eddie continues to write music for fun, and he urges you to check out the Facebook page on which he posts the songs. Final word goes to Arlene Spooner, who got a new Sheltie puppy and is planning a wedding. No more space; keep the news coming Jon Pearson 33 Chester St., Apt 2R Somerville, MA secretary@williams.edu Is it completely against the rules for me to start with my own news? Probably, but I m doing it anyway: On Sept. 15, I joined 5,188 of my best friends at Fenway Park, where we were all sworn in as U.S. citizens. The coolest part of the day was hearing the presiding judge list all 151 countries represented at the ceremony; needless to say, the Brazilians and the Dominicans livened up the proceedings. My fellow Canadians were, true to our reputation, discreet. On to more important matters your updates. It s going to be a relatively brief journey today, and here s our itinerary: We re going to set out from Babytown, take a break for some weddings and then conclude with a good set of advanced degrees, random gatherings and job news. Everyone approve? OK then: FIGHT! Alfonso Gonzalez del Riego and Pelagia Ivanova 01 are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Kristina Gonzalez del Riego. I have seen many pictures, and she is the cutest Peruvian- Bulgarian child I have ever known. Anna Frantz and Matt Levy welcomed Elliot McLean Levy on Sept. 5, weighing in at a compact 6 pounds, 5 ounces. Surprising no one who knows him, Matt has already dressed his son in an I Poop on LA Lakers onesie. Alexis Scott Faber is happy to report the birth of her first child, John Scott Faber, on June 20. Jack arrived six weeks early, weighed 4 pounds, 8 ounces, and as of this writing was tipping the scales at a very healthy 10 pounds. Deb (Frisone) Young welcomed her second child, Nora Catherine, on June 26 a mere 13 days after leaving reunion. Deb, we didn t even notice you were pregnant! (Note: I am now officially in trouble with Deb for the second time in two editions.) Steve Gray and his wife Ariel became the parents of the cutest baby boy ever, Zachary Joseph Gray, on Aug. 28. Zachary was born at the hospital in Davis, Calif., where Steve works. Kate (Flynn) Grant is now seriously outnumbered in her home as she and Tom Grant welcomed a third son on June 30. Declan Grant weighed 9 pounds, 4 ounces, and joins big brothers Quinn, 4, and Cole, 2, who are trying to get Declan to play trucks with them already. Elise (Estes) Morgan welcomed a baby boy, Erik Russell Morgan, on July 24. She and her husband are doing well, adjusting to life as a family of four. Elise and company had a very fun play date with the aforementioned Ms. Faber and Jack in Cambridge over the summer. We re done with the babies, but once again I encourage you to keep adding to our flock. The more, the merrier. Now, to the weddings: John Wiedower did not get married recently, but he came through with a report of brother Reed Wiedower s June 5 wedding to Alexa Hirst at the Meridian House in DC. Notable highlights included a reading from Camus, French 75s and globe-trotting guests dressed to the nines. In Boston, Sara Cofrin married Alan Walsh on July 24. Williams alums in attendance were Andre Mura, Dave S. Adams, Katie Sullivan, Malana Willis, Phil Groth and Abbey Eisenhower 01. Sara and Alan enjoyed a wonderful twoweek honeymoon in Greece and Turkey following their nuptials. Wow, that s all the weddings we have this time. I thought there were more need to fill some space. Time for some schtick! On Sept. 16, Jon Pearson married the delicious plate of pasta he just ate for dinner. Hmm, that wasn t very funny. I ll try to salvage that one later. Moving on, then! We will end this unusually short edition of notes with a little pot-pourri. Who better to kick this section off than someone I wish I could hear more from, Porter McConnell. She has a blog at SlowChristmas.org that you should read. Just listen to Porter herself: For Christmas stories, recipes and advice on keeping your parents/children from driving you crazy this yuletide season, check it out. Porter still lives in DC with her husband and cat and works for Oxfam. Congratulations to Heather May Eckert, who received her M.S.Ed. in educational leadership at Penn. Eleanor Hero 96 and Kiri (Swanson) Harris 88 were in her 30-person cohort. Class Literary Celebrity Carrie Ryan s third novel, The Dark and Hollow Places, will be released by Delacorte in March. She will be touring again, hoping to run into more of us. Not only that, but she has also sold three more books to Random House, which means that I get to put my law license into inactive status since I won t be practicing law for a while. Kristy Grippi Litman reveals no surprise that she and Albert Naclerio have already started planning the planning process for our 15-year reunion over drinks. Thank goodness for both of you. Kristy is also an expert at finding little minireunions all the time, having held a barbecue over the summer with Kim (Massimiano) and Mike Paolercio, Emily (Eustis) Liggitt, Kristin Walker Treadway, Jenny Heller and many Eph progeny belonging to the attendees. In fact, according to Kristy, hanging out with 11 children under 4 years of age was the best birth control exercise that ever existed. I can top it, I think: Try having your office in the Boston Children s Museum. I now bring you Class Notes All-Pro Raph Rosen in his unedited glory: My only update is that I am getting used to the blinding sunlight of LA and am now in love with the Korean and Filipino food trucks. But would you marry them? See what I did there? Chris Foxwell is continuing with his Obi-Wan impression out in the desert of Jordan, having agreed to extend his Peace Corps service for a third year. Starting in October, he will be acting as the primary trainer for the new group of incoming volunteers, and in February he will December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 93

96 CLASS NOTES transition into his full-time job of teacher training and workshop organizing in the Karak and M an districts. He also spent two weeks on vacation in Turkey in August, where he fell in love with the Hagia Sophia and Göreme s Dark Church. Fellow world traveler Alan Fitts continues to work at the White House for Michelle Obama, as he has since February According to Alan, it has been a busy 20 months. I ve been on the road almost continuously, and it s been one adventure after another. We have a slew of events around the country related to the mid-term election and some significant international travel planned with the president. One of these days I ll have time to catch my breath! He had the chance to see Brian Connors in Beijing last fall while traveling with the president and reports that Brian was a tremendous resource for White House staff. Steve Roman remained consistent by using a bulleted list to deliver his update. This is clearly a considerate gesture, as he understands that as a consultant I am fluent in Bullet. Let s see how it sounds in prose: Steve had a fun birthday celebration in August with Becky Iwantsch, Becky Hermes, Drew Sutton and Grace Rubenstein 01. During the same weekend, he was also able to catch up with Jeff and Mariya Hodge and their daughter Zoe. Also in August, Steve enjoyed a meet-up in LA with Will Darrin. Last but not certainly not least, Leigh Greenwood Radlowski wrote claiming to have no updates, but she slipped and mentioned that she has successfully potty trained her son Matt. Now you all know. The dangers of ing the class secretary! 2001 REUNION JUNE 9-12 Katie Kelly Gregory 2642 West Cortez St., #3 Chicago, IL secretary@williams.edu Our class had a bit of a baby boom over the summer! My husband and I welcomed our son Harrison William Gregory on June 19, while Grayson Myers and Adrienne Wiley welcomed son Nathaniel Roberts Myers on June 22. Jessica Liebler and her 94 Williams People December 2010 husband Alin welcomed daughter Maia Sofia Tolea on June 23, and Jessica wrote that Ellie (Carothers) Kelly had a son named Will born on June 27. Matt and Meg (Cooley) Garin welcomed their first child, Peter Joseph Garin, on Aug. 24. Adam Thalhimer and his wife Becky welcomed son Benjamin Isaac Thalhimer on May 7. Hagan (McCurdy) Kappler and her husband Jeff welcomed daughter Kiernan May Kappler on Sept. 3. Lizzie Jacobs and her husband Mangesh welcomed Henry Narayan Hattikudur on Sept. 12. Rob MacDougall s daughter Helena Regan was born Aug. 10, and Rob is looking forward to meeting her when he returns home from his fourth deployment in four years with the Marines. Corey and Kyle Goodrich welcomed their son Holden on July 13. Corey wrote that big sister Haven, 3, has already been talking about being faster than her little brother on the ski slopes and that both kids are very sweet and very stubborn all at once! Several classmates wrote in with news of recent weddings. Ryan Spicer got married in August in Stockholm with several alumni in attendance, including Steve Owen, Bobby Moss, Dorian Baker, Mike Cortese and Casey (Matthies) Owen 02. Ryan and his wife live in New York, where he works in the ad sales group at Turner Broadcasting. Jennifer Berylson married Jonathan Block (a Dartmouth graduate) at her family s home in Cape Cod in June. They live in Boston with Leo, their Saint Bernard, who served as ring bearer during the wedding. Nate Foster had a very busy summer. He completed his postdoc, moved to Ithaca, N.Y., started a faculty position at Cornell and got married in New Hampshire in a celebration that included not one, but two bluegrass bands. Courtney Benningson graduated from law school at Cornell in the spring and took the Massachusetts bar exam over the summer. She married Adam Batliner in Boulder in September, and the couple moved to Boston, where she works for Holland & Knight. Betsy Spear got married in October in Philadelphia. Michele Kovacs finished medical school at USC in May and married Scott Goldberg 02. The couple lives in Venice, Calif., and Michele started a residency program in family medicine at Kaiser in Woodland Hills. Scott works at the NFL. Peter Newcomb married Marianne Van Brummelen over the summer in the presence of a small Williams contingency, including Nate Foster, Xavier de Borja, Dave Kinsley, Rob Houle, Pepper and Gabby Whitbeck 00, Scott Snyder 99, Cathy Warren 99 EPHCOMPLISHMENT In September James Moorhead 01 received the Grand Marketer of the Year Award from Brandweek magazine. Moorhead, a brand manager for Procter & Gamble, supervised the repositioning of the Old Spice Smell like a man, man campaign, which is credited with doubling the sales of the body wash in a six-month period. and Bobby and Becky Walker 95. Tony Salerno married Laurie Rich, whom he met when the two were Peace Corps volunteers in Uzbekistan in Over the summer Tony and Laurie moved to Hartford, Conn., where he works as an attorney for Hartford Financial Services Group. Josh White took a break from working on his PhD last summer and got married in June in Tennessee. Matt Kim was a groomsman. Ian Lewis got married in October in LaJolla, Calif. His groomsmen included Fyfe Hall, Joe Seavey, Erik Holmes 99 and Forrest Wittenmeier 02. Ian wrote that he was a groomsman in Fyfe s August wedding in Wilmington, N.C., where the reception ended with a killer karaoke version of Killing Me Softly. Ian s been busy working with his wife s son Joshua to become a serious athlete but has found that Joshua is a bit more interested in video games than athletics. Grace Rubenstein and Hilary Williams traveled to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons over the summer, and the two then met up with Dan Center and Bailey McCallum for a weekend in Bozeman, where Dan lives. Mark Lees wrote that he is enjoying life in sunny Solana

97 n From left, Mark Heinrich-Wallace 04, Meredith (Olson) Wallace 04, Dave Olson 71, Karen Olson 07 and Morgan Cronin 07 took in the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul last summer. Beach, Calif., with his wife Caitlin and dogs, Hank (a pug) and Lola (an American bulldog). He spent most of his free time over the last year laying patios, building fences, planting gardens and picking up Torrey Pine needles from his backyard. He reported that both Dan Newhall and Chris Ripley visited in recent months, and he would love to have more visitors! Dan Newhall and a partner bought a small, startup recruiting company about two years ago that focuses on the medical device industry. Before purchasing the firm, he worked for a couple of law firms and other corporations after pursuing a master s degree in psychology. He s been in San Francisco since graduation and lives with his girlfriend in the NOPA section of town and completed the San Francisco Triathlon at Alcatraz over the summer. He wrote that he sees Artie Ambarik frequently and visits with Chris Ripley and Mark Lees when they re in the area. Seth Brown has finally released his book From God To Verse, which he started writing just after graduating back in Who knew it would take so long to translate the Torah into rhyming couplets? You can check it out at Jessica Liebler completed her PhD in public health at Johns Hopkins in the spring. Hagan (McCurdy) Kappler left her job at McKinsey & Co. to join Starbucks. She s in a marketing and strategy role and loves it! Grayson Myers and Adrienne Wiley also live in Seattle, where Grayson works at Microsoft and Adrienne teaches second grade. Kivlina (Sheperd) Block and her family are living happily ever after in Alaska. She wrote that she can t see Russia from her backyard and doesn t know Sarah Palin. Verena Arnabal and family traveled to Rochester at the end of the summer to visit Roshni (David) Guerney and her family for Roshni s birthday and to spend the weekend keeping Verena s daughter Maya and Roshni s son Liam entertained. Josh Burson received a full-time teaching position at Southern New Hampshire University and spent the last week of August frantically preparing syllabi. Anjali (Luna) Williamson reported that she and her husband Dan have been enjoying the past year living in DC. She wrote that they occasionally run into classmates on the street. Dan is in the final leg of his PhD in art history, and Anjali is completing her last year of residency in pediatric dentistry at Children s National Hospital. Art Munson finished his PhD in computer science in May. He and his wife Katy (Miyamoto) Munson moved to Livermore, Calif., in June. Art works for Sandia National Laboratories. Since their move, they visited with Todd Gamblin 02 and Steve Biller 02 and look forward to meeting and catching up with other Ephs in the Bay Area. Elizabeth Hoover received her PhD in anthropology from Brown in May, spent the summer traveling across the country and then in China, Vietnam and Tibet. In the fall she and her fiancé moved to Minneapolis, where she is spending a year as a postdoc at St. Olaf College in the sociology/ anthropology and environmental studies departments. Jen Hahn traveled to China over the summer with other history teachers on a trip sponsored by the Freeman Foundation. She then backpacked through Japan. Jen reported that the highlight of the summer was camping on the Russian River with Elizabeth (Hamachek) Herrick, Ellen (Jacobson) Sheedy and Robyn Goldman. Todd Rogers and his wife Dana planned to spend the fall dressing up their daughter Caroline in Eagles gear and watching NFL games with Jon and Laura (Jacobs) Kravis 99 and their son Will. Tom Douglas finished his residency in orthopedic surgery and is working at a Naval hospital in Yokosuka, Japan, where he is stationed. Thanks to all who wrote in for this issue, especially to the firsttime contributors! 2002 Holly Kohler 1454 Beacon St., Apt. 442 Brookline, MA secretary@williams.edu Well hello there, classmates. Pats on the back all around for the enthusiasm with which you sent in news. The Class of 2002 has successfully made up for lost time. And it s been a privilege to get first look at all the updates. I last wrote for a Williams publication 11 years ago as an anonymous and transient provider of the word-of-the-day for everybody s favorite lunchtime reading: The Daily Advisor. Now a veterinarian, I m grateful for this opportunity to use non-medical vocabulary and to practice the fine art of the segue. The fine art of carpentry is what Sophie de la Barra completed her training in at Otago Polytech last March. She now resides in Dunedin, New Zealand, with her fiancé Miguel Molina Lagos, a folk musician from Chile. Rolando Garcia is engaged to Beth Topf. Rolando has launched a website for his documentary about a group that ran 4,000 miles in 72 days, with each mile dedicated to a soldier killed in Iraq ( com). The film is expected to be complete next year. Rounding out the engagements is that of Peter Krause to fellow NESCAC alum Alissa Goldhaber. They are living near Coolidge December 2010 Williams PeoPle 95

98 CLASS NOTES Corner in Brookline, Mass. After completing field research in Lebanon over the summer, Peter is working as a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. That famed Cambridge, Mass., university is the employer of several other classmates. Mark Robertson is working in development/communications at his other alma mater, the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He enjoyed summer visits from Mike Paarlberg, Ben Chaffee and Shenil Saya and his wife, back from Kuwait. He regularly sees Boston-based Andrew Mitchell, who performs across the city as a singer/songwriter. Justine De Young joined the faculty of the Harvard College Writing Program, where she teaches two writing-intensive art history seminars. She and husband Alex Glenday celebrated their fifth anniversary with a summer trip to San Francisco, where they met up with Steve Biller and Todd Gamblin for an excellent Burmese meal. During a weekend in DC, they enjoyed brunch with Miranda Whitmore and Iva Borisova. Also in DC is Andrea Lee, who made the move after spending many summers in the city as an intern. She is now working as a law clerk to a judge. Brad Nichol is busy in continued efforts to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics in sailing. He traveled to Brazil, Italy and England over the summer to compete in major regattas, and he and his teammate were the top U.S. finishers at the World Championships, European Championships (second out of 132 boats) and the Olympic Test event. Brad was on land long enough to enjoy wine and cheese on Nob Hill with Terri O Brian, Brad Howells, Derek Ward and Ben Chaffee, as well as a 4th of July BBQ at Brad & Terri s in Berkeley. Nick Minekime is in a new role at Capricorn Investment Group, where he s focusing on early-stage renewable energy investing. He has been spending a lot of time working from the firm s NYC office, which also allows him to see girlfriend Andrea Nogales 04. When home in SF, Nick frequently sees Nick Hiza, Kate Desormeau and Jenny Roizen 03. He still travels to Asia regularly, returning thrice over the summer. Kitiya (Sophonpanich) Seneewong na Ayndhaya is being kept busy by many projects around Bangkok, including 96 Williams PeoPle December 2010 Last summer, CC Ciafone 02 (standing, far left) hosted a gathering of classmates at her family s lake house in Stoddard, N.H., to celebrate their 30th birthdays. Also pictured, from left: (front) Katie (Worth) McCarthy, Rachel Brodie, Jess Paar, Katie Effler, Laura (Brand) Harrison; (back) Laura Crum, Jess (Poch) Foley, Carrie Nesvig and Amanda Gramse. a bookshop/café/bar called Bluedoor, a forest restoration foundation she s been running for the past three years and Lamun, a soy ice cream brand she created with friends. At submission time, she was off to London with her husband and 2½-year-old daughter. Noëlle Ho-Lam was nominated earlier this year to head the Williams Hong Kong alumni association, with Jon Isaacs 00 as VP. In May more than 30 Ephs were among those attending an event held to mark the launch of the NESCAC Club of Asia. Noëlle s son Noah turned 1 in June. Meredith (Fruchtman) Kendall prepared for the arrival of her first child by passing her UK driving test and buying a used Honda Civic, which she thought might be better than her bike for toting around the new sprog. Her son Matthew Alexander was born Oct. 11. William Davidson and his wife Blaire celebrated the birth of their daughter Lucy Jane on July 1. William is an agency attorney at the NYC Office of Emergency Management. Evan Sandhaus was promoted to lead architect of semantic platforms at The New York Times Co. Fred Hines is a new resident of the West Village, having moved to the city to start a job with Deutsche Bank. Tron Wang is still living in NYC but now gets the early morning joy of a reverse commute to his job at a hedge fund in Stamford, Conn. He enjoyed catching up with Jon Othmer and his wife during a visit to the Whitney Museum earlier this year. Tron reported that Num Assarat has moved back to Boston to get a master s in education at Harvard. Elizabeth Velez and her husband Darik Velez 01 are starting their second year of teaching at the American International School in Cape Town. Jessica Grogan and Kate Alexander came to visit in May, as did sister Karin Velez 96. Petting a cheetah and chasing penguins kept them busy, as did the birth of River Zaziwe Elizabeth Velez on June 14. Her arrival was marked with vuvuzelas during the World Cup game that night. Jessica Ohly is living in Boston and at the time of writing was celebrating her fourth first day of school as a fourth-grade teacher at the Broadmeadow School in Needham, Mass. She had a blast running the Boston Marathon last spring and looks forward to doing it again. In New Haven, Morgan Barth has begun his third year as principal of Elm City College Prep. The public charter school has been ranked #1 for African American student performance and as the best urban school in Connecticut for two years in a row. Morgan had recently dined with Whitney Roe, who teaches near Hartford, and has been working with Robert McClean 84 and Julie Greenwood 96 to reinstate the New Haven Area Ephs organization. Over the summer, Morgan attended the Connecticut Folk Festival in New Haven and

99 n 2002 watched Molly Venter and her new band, Red Molly, perform an amazing bluegrass set. Ben Isecke is enjoying his job teaching vocal music at a high school for the gifted in Jersey City. Over the summer he attended the wedding of Amy Yee and Steve Harsany. Kim Massare was married in March. She and her husband Ben live in South Philadelphia, where Kim works at Bartram s Garden, a historic garden and National Historic Landmark. In April, Bryce Gillespie married Darria Long in her hometown of Chattanooga, Tenn., with Adam Sischy as a groomsman. Bryce is a chief resident in orthopedic surgery at Harvard, and Darria is completing her residency in emergency medicine at Yale. If, like me, you subscribe to a nytimes.com alert for all things Williams, you may have read the story of their meeting in The New York Times Weddings and Celebrations section. Jon Salter got married on June 5 and is living in Chapel Hill, N.C., where his wife Anne attends law school. Jon Othmer and Karen Lichtman both attended the ceremony. On June 6, 2009, Laura Bennett married Paul Majsztrik. The ceremony occurred just 10 days after Laura completed her PhD at Princeton in the field of religion in America. In February of this year, she and Paul moved to Oak Ridge, Tenn., and bought their first house, the renovations to which are keeping them busy. Laura is currently using her hard-won PhD to serve as a temp, which she assures me is better than it sounds. Another June wedding this year was that of James Kingsley to Lauren. Many Ephs from 02 to 05 joined the celebration on Martha s Vineyard. Most of the same folks traveled up to Stowe, Vt., in August for the wedding of Adam Sigrist to Lindsay. James described it as a very cool wedding, with the reception in a barn with a sweet bluegrass band entertaining us all. One of those being so entertained was Mike Minnefor, who shared the news of his move to Hoboken to work at a small law firm in North Jersey. Jenny Veraldi was asked to organize Michael T. Simerman s bachelor party in July and sought manly assistance from Jon Wiener and Josh Burns. A large crowd gathered in the Sierras for the event. Laddie Peterson helped design the invitations, which were shaped like Sierra Nevada beer bottles, and Eric Moore and Garry Sanders created an orienteering course, described by Jenny as great, except for the moose. Eric and Jon also attended Garry s wedding to Carly, which Eric reports took place at the Land of Melons Ranch in Terrebonne, Ore., on Aug. 14. Malcolm Perry was also there to participate in the G-rated farm/ ranch-themed festivities, which included barebacked pony rides, hayloft hide-and-seek, a cucumber hunt and skeet shooting. Eric completed his PhD in earth sciences from Boston University earlier in the summer. On Aug. 28, proving that the JA handbook doesn t always know what s best, former co-jas Cynthia Posner and Andy Herr finally made it official. A whole slew of Williams friends and family joined the celebration of their nuptials in Lake Placid, N.Y. Laura Bothwell attended Susan Fulmer s wedding in the Finger Lakes, where she saw Annie Weiss, Hilary Hackman and Katie Sharff and her husband Dan Clayborn 01. Laura finished her residency in emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center and is excited to finally be an attending. Jen Nierman married Oren Knishinsky on Sept. 5 and, in a show of true dedication to the class notes, wrote in from her Tuscan honeymoon. She was to be starting a job on the faculty at the NYU School of Medicine in the general internal medicine department at Bellevue Hospital. Minister Joshua Weinstein presided over Britta Hult and Jed Mularski s wedding. They got hitched in San Diego with many fellow Ephs, 35 peacocks and one cream pie in the face. At the ceremony, Valentin Von Arnim gave an exquisite first reading of his newly released tale Two Eichhörnchen. At submission time, Brian Michener was two weeks away from his wedding to Laura Bauers. He and Laura met in the architecture graduate program at Washington University in St. Louis and moved to Philadelphia last year to begin work at separate firms. Brian was looking forward to celebrating the big day with many Ephs. Luis Taboada attended Adam Sischy s wedding in San Diego in September along with a number of other 02ers. Luis was settling into his new position as a hospitalist attending at Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, where his former JA Erin Morrissette 00 was a new colleague in the division of internal medicine. He reported helping Josyln Nolasco move into her new house in San Francisco; Josyln is finishing a pediatrics residency at UCSF. Luis was one of several Ephs helping Andrew Woolf celebrate his 30th birthday in NYC. By my calculations, this year marked the big 3-0 for many classmates. Happy Birthdays all around! Dan Elsea rang his in over a Provençal rosé and mussels in Villefranche-sur-Mer with Liz Sterling. Dan is now living in London, working as creative director for AECOM Design + Planning, the land planning and urban/environmental design consultancy. He took a visiting Shenil Saya to the Serpentine Pavilion. Ten Williams women celebrated their joint 30ths this past July. Jessica Paar, Amanda Gramse, Carrie Nesvig, CC Ciafone, Laura Brand Harrison, Katie Effler, Laura Crum, Jessica Poch Foley, Rachel Brodie and Katie Worth McCarthy, plus one Eph hopeful, Ella Brand Harrison (10 months), gathered at the Ciafone family lake house in Stoddard, N.H., for a weekend of kayaking, swimming, reminiscing, a lively game of Williams character charades and toasting to many more years of friendship. Sadaf Ahmad reunited with Phillipa (Johnson) Martin 00, Sandina Green 00, Erika Beltran 01 and Vanea Norris 01 on vacation in Cancun, Mexico, where they encountered iguanas, turquoise blue waters and opportunities to perform Kusika African Dance moves. In Santa Cruz, Tenaya (Plowman) Kolar has discovered that a baby is a real visitor magnet. She sees Sarah (Barger) Ranney and Brooke Ray Smith fairly regularly as well as Malin Pinsky and Kristin Hunter- Thomson, both 03. In April, she enjoyed a beach weekend reunion with Sarah, Brooke, Jenny Wetzel, Hilary Hackmann and Annie Weiss. Johanna Heinrichs and Kristin Moo traveled around Portugal in June, soaking up great wine, food, weather and World Cup fever. Johanna had been there for a conference, and Kristin flew over from Chicago. Johanna is still living in Philadelphia, a few blocks from Carolyn Shank, and working on her PhD at Princeton. Dana Nelson is finishing her doctoral program in clinical psychology at Penn State, doing an internship at the university s December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 97

100 CLASS NOTES student counseling center while simultaneously completing her dissertation. She returned to the Purple Valley in the fall of 2009 to attend the New England regional conference for the Society of Psychotherapy Research, which was held in the Bronfman Science Center and hosted by professor Laurie Heatherington. Julia Snyder has just begun her PhD at the University of Edinburgh. In August she caught up with space expert Sarah Reynolds, who gave her a personal guided tour of the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kan. Sarah will be finishing her PhD in physics at the University of Kansas this year. In year two of her doctoral program in English at the University of Michigan, Lisa Jong divides her time between Ann Arbor and Brooklyn, N.Y., and between reading books and reading articles. Ronit Stahl, also in grad school at Michigan, is now officially a doctoral candidate after passing her prelims over the summer. She hoped to defend her dissertation prospectus in the fall and head off to the East Coast for research this winter. In hindsight, she regrets not choosing to write about Caribbean history. John Phillips got his PhD in political science from Brown in May and is now visiting faculty in the joint philosophy politics and economics program at Duke and UNC. He helped out Jeff Crudup with his fantasy football draft, noting that this did not require a PhD. John reported that Steve Biller, biology PhD from Stanford in hand, was returning to Massachusetts with his wife Julie to begin work in a lab. John had plans to visit Charlie Doret in Atlanta, where he continues his physics postdoc. According to John, Charlie moved there to not live with his wife Lida (Ungar), who is enrolled at Emory Medical School but has been preparing for medical exams in Florida. Charlie notes that this unfortunate geographical circumstance should resolve itself soon-ish. Though Lida missed it, he was able to attend an annual alumni camping trip. Classes from 01 to 05 were represented, including Kate Alexander, who joined Charlie in some memory-rousing tennis. Benjamin Birney began his first semester at the University of Maine School of Law, and Derek Chapman graduated from Babson College s MBA program. Derek is now working in Portland, Maine, 98 Williams People December 2010 with the startup Putney, a provider of generic pharmaceuticals for companion animals. Jess McLeod is starting her final year in Northwestern s MFA directing program. Her production of Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks is to play the Steppenwolf Garage next May. Meghana Gadgil moved to Baltimore to begin a fellowship at Johns Hopkins, only to discover that Travis Hobart is in her MPH program. Jon Wiener was due to move down in the fall; Meghana notes that the Maryland contingent would love visitors! Last year, Alex Garceau moved from Atlanta to Boston for his wife s medical residency. Alex started a new job with Partners HealthCare in their Capital Markets group. After finishing her first year of residency in San Diego, Sarah Philipp was headed to Pensacola, Fla., to attend flight school for seven months. After learning how to fly planes and helicopters, she ll act as a Navy flight physician, taking care of fighter pilots and air crews. Renee Robinson has returned to Toronto, where she holds the position of head of programming and business affairs at Women in Film and Television-Toronto. She sees Sharifa Wright 03, who has been jet setting back and forth between Toronto and Jamaica, and in August caught up with Jen Sawaya. Jen, doing her PhD at Rutgers, came to town for the Caribana (carnival) festivities, and both of their costumes consisted of nothing but feathers and glitter. Henry Mathieu lives in Charleston, S.C., where he writes and directs commercials for Rawle Murdy, an independent marketing and communications firm. It is thanks to digital media that I heard from Rachel Seys, who wrote from her Zambian hut with an open invitation for classmates to visit. She and Austin Duncan are both serving in the Peace Corps in Africa. Austin was to finish his service in Cameroon in November, and Rachel was just beginning her work in rural education development in Zambia. Last January Eric Olson-Getty attended the African Great Lakes Initiative annual gathering in Burundi as part of a team sent by his wife s office, the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School. Leaders from churches and NGOs from around the region gathered to discuss peacemaking, conflict resolution and trauma healing. Eric works at a small nonprofit in Durham, N.C., and plays occasional gigs around the Triangle region with a jazz quartet/quintet. He invites jazz-seekers in the area to check out his Facebook page for updates. Another Facebook mention came from Yobelin Fernandez, who is happy to have reconnected with more Ephs. Yo started her own massage therapy practice in NYC and works in East Midtown. If you, too, want to combine your loves of Williams and Facebook, why not join our class group? Search under Williams College Class of See you there! 2003 Anri Wheeler Brenninkmeyer 280 Riverside Drive, #GB New York, NY secretary@williams.edu The summer brought with it wedding bells for several classmates. Amy Graham got married in June in Mason, Ohio. Jen Nail was one of her bridesmaids, and Sheila (McMurrich) Greenlaw also attended the wedding. Amy enjoyed catching up with both of them. Amy and her husband Doug Mohl spent a fabulous honeymoon in Anguilla and St. Lucia and are now back in Peoria, Ill. Amy is still practicing at a local small-animal hospital, and she and Doug are busy training their new puppy. In July, Jason Deaner married Brianna Shelby in Portland, Ore. In attendance were best man David Mihm and Matt Grunwald. Jason and David both live in Portland, and Matt was visiting from the East Coast. Jason is currently teaching third grade while his wife teaches second grade. Emily Rose Martin married Richard Gillespie Proctor in Dothan, Ala., on July 25. Several Ephs were there, including Bethany (Sayles) Yu, Kate (Austell) Elortegui, Jenny Roizen, Karin Rosenthall and Ryu Yokoi 01. Richard and Emily live in Baltimore, where Emily serves as the associate pastor to Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, though they will be spending quite a bit of time in NYC while Richard completes his Master of Sacred Theology degree at General Seminary. Tamika Murray got married in

101 n From left, Jenny Roizen 03, Emily Martin 03, Kate Austell Elortegui 03, Ryu Yokoi 01, Karin Rosenthal 03 and Bethany (Sayles) Yu 03 celebrated Emily s wedding in Alabama in July. August. Nikiya Asamoah was one of her bridesmaids. Tamika also got shout-outs from Terrinieka Williams and Ana Yailyn Martinez, who should have attended but couldn t make it. Also in August, Maggie Popkin married Elliot Morrison 04. There were a lot of 03ers in attendance, including Adrienne Ellman, Anjuli Lebowitz, Anna Crowley, Chris Durlacher, Dave Thal, Emily Siegel, Eric Schoenfeld, Jae Cody, Jasmine Mitchell, Jeremy Redburn, Nicole Theriault, Krishna Kannan, Rob Gonzalez and Will Edgar. Maggie and Elliot had an amazing weekend surrounded by many more Williams folks. In October, Maggie moved to Rome to start a Fulbright Fellowship for her dissertation research and is hoping to have lots of visitors. Liz Campos married Russell Pearce in October 2009 at Disney World, where they partied it up with Emma (Herries) Purdy, Anne Mayall, Lucas Goodbody, Luke Hyde, Jackie Dinzey and Elena Simon. Liz lives in Nashville, Tenn., and is in residency for otolaryngology/head and neck surgery at Vanderbilt. The Pearces just bought their first house and love Tennessee, where Liz has found more people have heard of Williams than in Texas. Patrick Zimmerman and Kate Carroll welcomed their first child, Luke Carroll Zimmerman, on Aug. 30. They are living in Altoona, Pa., where Patrick is in residency and Kate continues to work on her PhD dissertation. Dave Brenninkmeyer and I welcomed a daughter, Summer Jane Brenninkmeyer, on June 25. In August we took Summer to Williamstown for her first visit to the Purple Valley. In September, we spent 10 glorious days in the Pacific Northwest, visiting Orcas Island and Seattle. Peggy and Rob Sica moved out of NYC to Long Island. Their daughter Megan turned 1 in October. Nina T. Chaopricha is now the proud owner of both the largest and the smallest dogs in her neighborhood. She is teaching them both to pull wagons, one big and one tiny. Jenn Yee received her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management in June. She had her diploma handed to her by former Williams president Morty Schapiro, who is now the president of Northwestern. She is convinced he is following her, or the many Ephs in her class at Kellogg, including Katherine McGrath, Stacey Starner, Mike Recht 02, Kelsey (Peterson) Recht 04, Viv Rettke 02, Steve Rettke 02, Franklin Reynolds 02 and Reid Phillips 05. Jenn is currently working at a social impact strategy consulting and technology firm in Chicago. Michael Ebell graduated from George Washington University Law School in May. He received his JD with highest honors and was inducted into the Order of the Coif, a national legal honor society. He was also on law review and the moot court board during his time in law school. Ben Angarita graduated from Cornell Medical School last year and is now a resident at Mount Sinai in NYC. He is part of the physician-scientist track in the department of psychiatry. Ben s research focuses on reducing racial and economic health disparities in child and adult psychiatry. He plans to complete a residency in adult psychiatry and then a fellowship in child psychiatry. Ben sees Marlon Williams and Jose Marrero 06. Marlon is still a VP for the United Way, and Jose is still living in Ben s homeland, Medellin, Colombia. Jon Hatoun moved to Boston to start his pediatrics residency at Children s Hospital Boston and Boston Medical Center. Jon and his girlfriend Louisa took a trip to Buzzards Bay and enjoyed a dinner of monster-sized, homecooked lobsters with Austin Lehn. Binney McCague is in the third year of her med-peds residency at MetroHealth/Case Western Reserve in Cleveland. She ran into Samir Thaker 04 while they were both working in the ER last winter. Binney also saw Brigitte Teissedre, Lisa Marco and Linda Lau in Philly for a girls weekend. Joe Lucia graduated from law school in May 2008 and completed two judicial clerkships (one at the Massachusetts Appeals Court and one at the Massachusetts Superior Court). He now practices civil litigation as an associate at Foley Hoag in Boston. Joe was able to meet up with Jen Doleac while she was visiting Boston and has also reconnected with Katherine McGrath, who moved back to Boston after receiving her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. Joe also caught up with George W. Adams IV 04 and Becca (Kiselewich) Haciscki 04 at George s wedding in Ipswich, Mass., in August. Joe was planning a week-long vacation to San Francisco in October and was looking forward to reconnecting with Jen Doleac and Daniel Klasik while there. After a year in Columbus, Ohio, Jeff Garland moved to NYC to clerk for another judge and runs into Williams folks left and right. Jordan Goldwarg moved to Seattle to join his boyfriend, who moved there last summer for work. Jordan started work in the fall at Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences, where he is their ninthgrade coordinator. He would love to connect via with other Ephs in the area. Foster Cronin started teaching special education at Mariana Bracetti Charter School in Philadelphia. Vivien Shotwell had the great pleasure of singing in a concert December 2010 Williams PeoPle 99

102 CLASS NOTES in Williamstown with Paul La Rosa 02 and Richard Giarusso 00. They performed scenes from Debussy s Pelleas et Melisande with The New Opera, and it was a wonderful musical reunion. Danni Lapin is running a satellite outpatient mental health program in a local elementary school in Yonkers, N.Y. She is trying to expand their services, aiming to combat the stigma of mental illness and do more preventive work with children. Over Labor Day weekend, Danni visited California with Meredith Jacob. The two took in baseball games in LA and San Diego (adding to Danni s baseball park tour count), caught up with Whitney Hosty and her daughter Lillian and attended the wedding of Adam Sischy 02. Whitney wrote in about the weekend saying she had a wonderful time with Danni and Meredith and enjoyed introducing them to Lillian Kathryn Hosty, who was born in February. Whitney is still living in Kansas City and enjoying her work with the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Roger Salinas submitted to class notes for the first time, saying that he hasn t seen or spoken to many classmates since graduating, though he keeps up with Simon Maloy, Seth Borland and Iskra Valtcheva. Roger has been enrolled in the MFA film production program at the University of Texas-Austin for the past few years. He spent the first two weeks of June shooting principal photography for his thesis short, and he was planning to spend the next four to nine months locked up in his editing suite working on post production. He hopes to be graduating sooner rather than later and loves being a broke, independent filmmaker in Austin with nothing to lose and everything to prove Nicole Eisenman 53 Boerum Place, Apt. 3H Brooklyn, NY Cortney Tunis 51 Chestnut St., Apt B North Adams, MA secretary@williams.edu Keith and Joanna (Touger) Olsen welcomed their son Connor David Olsen into the world on Aug. 25. They are very excited for Connor to meet his extended Williams family. In June, Keith 100 Williams People December 2010 hosted Elliot Morrison, Nick Bamat, Joe Buccina, Adam Grogg, Jeff Nelson, Scott Grinsell, Jon Lovett and many 03s on Canandaigua Lake for Elliot s bachelor party. Meg Inners got married in August in Santa Margherita Ligure on the Italian coast. She and her husband Steve have been living in Genoa, so they celebrated Italian-style with a small group of family and friends. They planned to move to Houston in the fall, and Meg was excited to hang out with Alix Banham Waugh. Tim Patterson met up with Ryan Driscoll in Amman, Jordan, while en route to Syria. Tim is moving home to Vermont to work for Sterling College, the smallest private college in the country. Sarah Dickens spent the 10-year anniversary of our first day at Williams moving into an apartment in San Francisco, after graduating from Stanford Business School in June. To celebrate, she traveled around the U.S., to China and to Greece to be with her brother Daniel s 01 family for the baptism of their youngest son. She now works for KKR, a private equity firm. Diego Cob moved back to Costa Rica after being away for 10 years. He is teaching meditation and leadership training with the Art of Living. He spent Labor Day in Disney World celebrating his niece s 3rd birthday. Just as Denver Brown was starting her second year of medical school at Howard University, she met up with a bunch of classmates at Nigina Turnbull s wedding. The bride (and groom) looked amazing, and they all had a great weekend celebrating. After six years of investment banking at J.P. Morgan s Tokyo office, Yosuke Nishibayashi entered the MBA program at Harvard. Nishi looks forward to being back in Massachusetts, reconnecting with Williams friends, and hopes to return to the Purple Valley more often. Sarah Iams visited Briana (Halpin) Lachman in North Adams in July. They were joined by Elaine Denny and had fun snagging tart cherries from a neighborhood tree. Elaine and Sarah headed on to the Adirondacks, where their bear canister was torn open at Colden Dam. Yes, bears really do eat soap (but not lentils). Having moved to NYC for a job with Amnesty International, Elaine Denny has had many adventures with local Ephs. Highlights include: a 40-mile bike ride with Jonathan Landsman 05 and Julia Brown 05, sailing Pete Seeger s boat up the Hudson with Jaime Hensel 05 and Sara Martin 05, helping Alexa Holleran 05 move massive timbers to build her island cabin in the St. Lawrence Seaway and sharing fried chicken with Sarah Godbehere while cheering on freshman roomie Caitlin Canty at her new album s debut. Elaine s fire escape has also been graced by Gavin McCormick 05 and Holly Dwyer 12. Margaret Pigman 07 will also be passing through after two years with the Peace Corps in Benin. Chigozirim Prosper Nwankpa is engaged to a non-eph. Ben Fash married Assal Araghian on Aug. 7. In attendance were Justin Blanch, Brian Teixeira, Guy Smith, Dave Conyers and Matt Goethals. After getting married in Williamstown in May, Mark Heinrich-Wallace and Meredith Olson spent the summer traveling in Africa and Europe, including a week in Istanbul, Turkey, with Karen Olson 07, Morgan Cronin 07 and David Olson 71. In Boston Mark continues his work building restaurants, and Meredith began a master s of public health program at Boston University. Ashley Carter moved into an apartment in Cambridge with Matt Goethals. She s coaching the ski team at Boston College and taking classes to go back to school for nutrition. She attended Mark and Meredith s wedding, where she spent some quality time with the ski team and other 04s. Ashley gets to see Cortney Tunis whenever she comes to Boston, which usually results in the two of them trying to act like they re in college again. As the following day indicates, they are not. Cortney was pleasantly surprised to see Anders Haugen and Cliff Huang in Pittsfield for a concert with Caitlin Canty and Darlingside (also Williams alums 06-09). Ashley is also excited for the Williams ski team wedding of Tim Stickney and Sarah Torkelson, who were to be married in the fall. Tim tells us: It s been the summer of Eph weddings. I had the privilege of attending the weddings of: Lydia Crafts and Nate Putnam, Mark Wallace and Meredith Olson, Amelia Bishop 06, and Lexi Lee and Justin Sullivan. Shamus Brady is now a middle school principal in Massachusetts. He spent Labor Day weekend with Eric Engler and some other friends on the Cape. Missed as always were Matt Winkler

103 n Ephs gathered in August at the wedding of Ben Fash 04 (fifth from right). Also pictured, from left, Justin Blanch 04, Jake Clapton 05, Matt Lindsay 01, Brian Teixeira 04, Ryan Crisp 01, Guy Smith 05, Tim Albrecht 01, Dave Conyers 04, Leanne McManama 03 and Matt Goethals 04. (married), Lance White (out of the country) and Mitchel Baker (coaching someone somewhere). Eric is working for Reservoir Capital in New York. He has been working on a number of events for the New York regional alumni association as a co-president with Phil Michael. Audrey Lumley-Sapanski changed her name to Yusuf Islam. Her latest hits are available in Starbucks. (Additionally, she lives in Chicago and hates the snow and friendliness.) Christie Schueler (soon to be Dr. Shmistie Schueler PhD major braingenius in the field of other people s brains) and Chrissy Draghi traveled to Bellefonte, Pa., to meet up with Audrey in a toasty hot tub. Chrissy is enjoying her career in architecture in the Big Apple. Hannah Harte is employed at the LA Times. If you saw the controversial Kobe shoot, that was her! Annie Moore is moving to New Orleans with her girlfriend to work for an organization that s rebuilding flooded homes. She d love to be in touch with Williams folks in the Big Easy. Joe Reardon and Jennifer Garabedian 01 were married in June at Thompson Memorial Chapel in Williamstown. They celebrated with Brian Catanella, Matt Dahlman, Dan Giardina, Graham Goldwasser, Whitney Hayes, Hayden Lynch, Andrew Maurer, Bill McGrath, Phil Michael, Jake Moore, Ryan Paylor, Mike Rabiner, John Schneider, Baemen Vertovez, Andrew Zimmer and Justin and Lexi (Lee) Sullivan along with many other Ephs and Coaches Dick Farley and Mike Whalen. Thirty-seven Ephs descended upon Springfield, Mass., for the wedding of Elliot Morrison and Maggie Popkin 03. Nick Bamat had the rehearsal dinner in stitches (but nearly gave Elliot s grandmother a heart attack) reading passages from letters containing Elliot s then-13-year-old views on women and love. Adam Grogg and Jeff Nelson followed at the reception with stories of Elliot lighting his hand on fire at homecoming, among others. The other Williams celebrants included: Ali Orme, Emily Isaacson, Heather Foran, Joe Buccina, Jon Lovett, Josh Earn, Nick Borja, Ohm Deshpande, Rana Suh Kannan, Sam Gilford, Scott Grinsell, Steve Seigel and Zach Yeskel along with Ephs from the classes of 02, 03, 05 and 07. In late June, on a farm in coastal Maine, Emily Isaacson married Matthew Tzuker. As part of the celebration she was serenaded by Professor Brad Wells, Steve Spinelli 07, Adam Grogg, Keith Olsen, Steve Seigel, Kristen Engelbrecht Bleem and Loren Silvertrust; hoisted in a chair by Ohm Deshpande, Elliot Morrison and Jeff Nelson; twirled to her heart s content by Nicole Eisenman, Maggie Popkin, Joanna Touger Olsen, Annie Moore and Heather Foran; and chased by Zach Yeskel in a gorilla costume. Jeff Nelson graduated from Wharton in May and is now working in real estate development for the NYC Economic Development Corp. He had a great summer in NYC, bookended by the two Williams weddings mentioned above. Jeff was looking forward to seeing Maria Lapetina, Nicole Eisenman and other Ephs return to NYC. Kristen Englebrecht Bleem is in Seattle, being visited by many lovely folks, including Emily Isaacson and her dashing young husband Matt. Jesse Geller reports: In July, I quit my job in NYC and moved to San Francisco to pursue a master s in design at California College of the Arts. Anyone else in the Bay Area should hit me up! Georgina Calderon has begun her residency in emergency medicine at the Alameda County Hospital in Oakland, Calif. She has been hanging out with Khari Stephenson since he came back to the MLS to play for the San Jose Earthquakes. Michelle Cuevas spent May in Berlin visiting Nate Winstanley. It was time well spent around speakeasies, schnitzel and delicious beer. With a wine glass in one hand, Michelle defeated all her über-athletic classmates Carly Massey, Erin Kempster and Corie McDermott in a croquet tournament in the Berkshires last summer. Corie earned her master s in literature from Middlebury s Bread Loaf School of English in August. She continues to teach, coach and houseparent at Portsmouth Abbey School in Rhode Island. Brendan Docherty traveled all summer for work. The fun part was going to Orlando for the Harry Potter theme park and drinking iced butterbeer and to Portland and Germany for real beer. The less fun part was a red eye with two layovers to Bentonville, Ark., and Spencer Wong screwing him over when he bailed on giving Brendan a ride to the airport for his Fantasy Football draft/magic: The Gathering tournament. In July, Mike Henry joined Debbie Eames, Susi Mitchell, Torrey Wolff, Kari Lock, Eric Engler, Jackie Hom, Krista Harrison and Matt Hoffman for Jen Vorse and Matt Wilka s 06 wedding in Burlington, Vt., which was officiated by Williams Chaplain Rick Spalding. Claudia Arzeno Mooney got married in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 12 to Michael Mooney (Holy Cross). Ephs in attendance included Kelsey Peterson, Nora Burns, Violeta Archilla, Ronni Weinstein, Mike Recht 02 and Jarod Kidd 02. While working on his law degree at American University, December 2010 Williams PeoPle 101

104 CLASS NOTES Christopher Calfee spent the summer working for the Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission in Port of Spain and had the opportunity to meet up with Silvero De Silva and Tisha Joseph. Anna Brittain served as the facilitator for the International Honors Programs Health & Communities program. She traveled from DC to Tanzania to Vietnam and stayed on in Hanoi to work for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Anna spent the summer interning in Geneva, Switzerland, at the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development. In September she returned to her last quarter of her master s degree in environmental management. Gianna and Keith Marzilli Ericson traversed the midwest on an old-fashioned road trip in August where they saw Nina Trautmann Chaopricha 03 and her husband Pat, and Dan Bahls, Carolyn Dekker 05, Leon Webster and Sarah Nichols 03 before heading back toward New England. Keith is about to embark on year five of his PhD program. Gianna, meanwhile, is still working as a design strategist, which was to take her to Chicago, New York and Berlin in the fall. Leo Salinger just graduated from University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, took the Missouri bar, and will be practicing at Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP in Kansas City, Mo. In Philadelphia, Leo convinced Omri Bloch and Bryan McCoy to crash a wedding as his guests, though the fist-pumping would have been stronger had McCoy not been jumped while in Mozambique. Rene Hamilton enjoyed a thrilling summer at the University of North Carolina-Asheville campus, working on Middlebury s English literature master s at the Bread Loaf School of English. He looks forward to continuing his studies at Oxford next summer after another year teaching at the Fieldston School. In September Ally Matteodo performed at the Mackenzie Theater in Burbank, Calif., in a show called B.Y.O.B. For her birthday Ally celebrated at the karaoke bar Brass Monkey with Andy Edstrom 03, Hilary Barraford 00 and Justin Dittrich 03. Ally also recently attended a Drinks LA event thrown by Perry Kalmus 03. While there, Ally met Lucia Bartholomew for the first time, and they got along swimmingly. Mark Orlowski promised Ally he would come visit the West Coast, 102 Williams People December 2010 so she looks forward to seeing him. Myriam Southgate is living and working in the 17th arrondissement in Paris. And even though she travels a lot for work, she s enjoying life a la parisienne. Emily (Clinch) Bryk is living in Brooklyn, teaching elementary school science at a private school in Manhattan. Last spring she went out to LA to film an episode of Jeopardy!, and while there she met up with Spencer Wong. She writes: I lost on Jeopardy!, duh. I was in the lead until final Jeop, but it all came down to betting. There is a reason I am a science teacher and not a professional gambler. Charlie Davidson, Kam Shahid (with his wife Charlotte and new baby boy Kam Jr.), and Matt Rade went to Chatham, Mass., to stay with Rob Follansbee and his wife Katie (Joyce) Follansbee 05 for a long weekend. Charlie writes: It was a particular joy to get to meet Kam Jr., my new godson and new favorite Shahid. After the weekend, Bee joined me on Nantucket for a few days, where we went undefeated in a washers tournament against my dad Max Davidson 61 and Pat McCurdy 02. Charlie and Matt also got to see Jabe Bergeron play a couple of games for the New Jersey Jackals. Broderick Dunn celebrated Tony Gulati s pending nuptials with an impromptu bachelor party in DC along with Brett Hammond, Hugh Green, Matt Webster and Sean Mulrenan. Janette Funk started a clinical psychology private practice in Rochester, N.Y. Virginia Newman has recently moved to the Jackson, Miss., area. Any local Ephs should her at VNewman@umc.edu. Andy (Xiao) Huang writes: After spending three years teaching business/mandarin Chinese in the Philippines, I returned to NYC last year and have been working at tech/education startup company Knewton. Knewton was named as one of the 2011 technology pioneers by the World Economics Forum in Davos. If anyone is looking for help on the GMAT or the LSAT, or have siblings who need help with the SAT, look to Knewton.com! Sam Arons continues to work at Google on the Green Business Operations team. Recently he partnered with the Google Finance team to launch companies carbon scores in Google Finance (see the Key stats and ratios box), and he is currently coordinating the installation of smart electricity meters across six of Google s international offices. In his free time, Sam can be found biking the Bay Area hills! Scott Grinsell finished his clerkship last spring on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in NYC, traveled last summer in Europe and was headed back to New York in the fall to start work at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Steve Seigel ran into Jeremy Renner in the Kabul airport. Otherwise he says that life is humdrum and wedding-filled. Ronni Weinstein finished her year as a first-year associate at a law firm and now is clerking for a judge in NY Aron Chang th St. New Orleans, LA Charles Soha 2500 Wisconsin Ave., NW Apt. 619 Washington, DC secretary@williams.edu Let s begin in Williamstown, where Ashley (Ulmer) and James Cart are raising their 15-monthold daughter. Ashley is at the alumni relations office on campus, and she and James were looking forward to a true fall, complete with foliage, hiking, apple cider and home football games! Amy (Shapiro) Sosne bought a home in Williamstown with husband and Berkshire native Ben, and they live with two puggles named Peanut and Butter. Aaron Helfand is in nearby Northampton but will soon pursue a master s in architectural history at Cambridge University while endeavoring not to acquire a British accent in the process. Rachel Berlin brings greetings from UMass-Worcester and the depths of medical school, where Katie Joyce is one of her classmates. In Cambridge, Kurt Brumme has returned from a year in Brazil and hopes he remembers how to study while attending Harvard Business School. Also at HBS, Fran-Fredane Fraser, Tameka Watler and Rosemary Kendrick have kicked off their second year. Last summer, Fran met up with Ben Rah, Chris Sewell, Owuraka Koney and Rod McCleod in NYC. Rounding out the Crimson Bubble is Phil Enock, who is investigating social anxiety and excessive worrying via handheld phones (see

105 n handheldtrainingstudy.com). Phil tried surfing in LA last summer and caught up with Tim Atwood and Mike Suh. Meg Bossong took up running last spring and is now the proud owner of a collection of commemorative race T-shirts. Meg also hoped that she and Papa Adams could remain friends despite the embarrassing fantasy football beatdown she planned to put on him. Kate Ambler spent a chunk of the summer in Boston, where she and Meg visited over World Cup games. Meg saw Abigail (Nessen) Bengson and her husband play a fabulous concert in Cambridge. Abigail wrote with news of her third year of wedded bliss to my husband and collaborator Shaun Bengson. They are on the road touring their band, The Bengsons. Check them out on Facebook or www. bengsons.com. Zach McArthur pines to teach calculus and geometry at St. Sebastian s School in Boston but alas is still the math department s young un and teaching his fifth year of algebra. Zach worked in Rochester last summer, visited Ned Wydysh 04 in Baltimore and Matt Slovitt 06 in Chicago, and drank $1 martinis at 1 a.m. with Colin Bruzewicz and Whitney Johnson 06 in New Haven. Jonathan Landsman dominated Zach in a game of online cribbage. He s also playing pinball competitively, teaming up with Matt Spencer before the reunion for a split-flipper game. He ran the last Williams Trivia contest as radio man alongside Alan Cordova 06 on a team including Suzanne Walsh, Brian Hirshman 06, David Letzler 06, Ronit Bhattacharyya 07, Laurie Brink and Stephen Webster 11. Roger LaRocca and Alison (Burgner) LaRocca 06 were enjoying late summer in their Melrose home along with their dogs Hazel and Lucy. Bart Clareman, Steve Rahl, Mike Chaberski and Ben Fleming 04 spent a week on Martha s Vineyard to end summer. David Seligman tricked the group once by arriving unannounced and then again by leaving first thing in the morning on Friday, citing the impending start of Rosh Hashanah. Elsewhere in New England, Carolyn Dekker backpacked the Long Trail. After an amazing view from Mount Mansfield, she s settling into a year of no mountains, dissertation writing and teaching freshman composition. Katie (Davisson) Dolbec is in residence at Maine Medical in emergency medicine. Jaime Hensel was to start her master s in nursing at Yale and hoped to get together with Marissa Doran, who moved to New Haven to start law school. Noah Capurso is applying to residency programs as he finishes his final year at Yale Medical School. He jams with Jeremy Oldfield, who lives nearby. John Harris attended the wedding of Dan Austin 06 (honorary 05!) to Julianne Mifflin in Connecticut on July 3. Paul Skudder, Marcos Gouvea, Caleb Bliss, Robin Young, Mark Gundersen 04, Nathan Elwood 08 and Matt Campanelli 00 and wife Beth were also in attendance. Zach Sullivan moved from New York to New Hampshire to start a new job in disaster response training and readiness management with the Red Cross. Lindsey Taylor finished the first year of her MBA program at Tuck and completed an internship at the Green Mountain Horse Association in South Woodstock, Vt. Fellow Tuck classmate Annie Snodgrass visited DC for a wedding last summer. She and I caught up by the Odwalla juice display at Whole Foods I promised our encounter would make it into the notes! News from the Big Apple: Stephen Dobay is freelancing and busy with a couple of promising new plays at the NYC Fringe Festival. Karl Johanson is bitter that someone stole my crew Nalgene from next to the water cooler at reunion. This news, purely coincidental, came coupled with the story that Vishal Agraharkar, Jay Ross and Eliot Peyster tricked me into drinking spiked lemonade that they had left on the roof for three months for mosquitoes to breed in. On a more cheerful note, Barry Fulton had a fantastic summer as director of Camp Rising Sun in Red Hook, N.Y., an international leadership camp for young men and women ages where both he and Chris Sewell were campers in their youth. He continues to work at the Pennington School during the school year. Jason Davis celebrated his graduation from Columbia Business School by having a blast at reunion with Maryl Gensheimer, spending 10 days sailing in the British Virgin Islands with Kevin Kingman and Abby Wattley, followed by three weeks in Spain and Morocco. Now he is back at work, and Maryl continues her dissertation research. Justin Cho lives in Brooklyn with his girlfriend while attending the Pratt Institute s School of Architecture. Justin notes sadly that Pete Holland and Jiwoo Han have moved west, but he was looking forward to meeting up with Chloe Turner, who moved to the New York area. Deborah Hemel also moved to NYC last summer to start her residency in internal medicine at NYU/ Bellevue. Jessica Yankura started her preliminary medicine year at Hahnemann Hospital in June. She writes, Enjoying Philly but definitely looking forward to my residency in dermatology back at Penn State College of Medicine. Veronica Mendiola writes from the nearby Wharton School, where she started her first year along with CJ Bak. Jordan Rodu is her stat TA! In DC, Scott Pierce has transfered to American University in DC for his second year of law school and lives with his girlfriend Jessica in Bethesda, Md. Joanna Lloyd spent the summer on an island in the St. Lawrence River with Alexa Holleran, laying the groundwork for Alexa s timber-framed cabin. Her second year of veterinary school begins after learning to cook, garden and fire a.22 rifle. Chris Eaton moved to Ann Arbor from Seattle to start law school. He s been hitting up local breweries with Kate Ambler. In Chicago, Jeff Delaney capped off the summer by getting engaged and was preparing for his second year of business school at Kellogg. He celebrated the engagement in NYC with Chris Sewell, Marquis Daisy, Kellen Williams, Yosef Johnson 07 and Estelita Boateng 04. Alice Brown graduated with her MA in social science from the University of Chicago in June. She moved to Madison, Wis., to start a job. Eric Hsu lives in the Windy City and rocked out at Lollapalooza last summer with Anna Siegel. Andrew Leeser and I ended our nearly decade-long saga of being room/suitemates just prior to the reunion. He s off to Booth at Chicago and recently returned from a trip to Peru, where he played Beirut at Machu Picchu. Leisa Rothlisberger also visited there, followed by a dissertation research trip to Mexico City. It was a great summer, but now I m back to the Happy Valley that is State College, Pa. In other dissertation news Melanie Kingsley is moving to Guatemala to conduct December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 103

106 CLASS NOTES archaeology research. She was there from May to July to help uncover an Early Classic royal tomb. Nothing makes you feel more Indiana Jones-esque than climbing down a dug shaft and peering down a tiny hole into a vaulted tomb to see gorgeous full vases and pots with sacrificed children inside from about 1,700 years ago. Gavin McCormick started a PhD program in environmental economics at Berkeley. JJ O Brien headed back to Palo Alto, sulking all summer after losing in the semifinals of the 05 Beirut Tournament. After rediscovering his inner strength at Burning Man, JJ was ready as ever for his final September as a student. He welcomes Megan Henze to the Bay Area and any other Ephs that pass through. Amy Shelton and Daniel Krass are also starting new careers in San Francisco. Amy s at a nonprofit that outsources work from big companies like Google globally to women and refugees. Dan s still pounding the pavement while also looking to break into the music scene. Reuben Albo lives with his partner in Oakland, Calif., relaxing his work schedule so I can spend more time with the family. I had a beautiful baby girl on July 13. Her name is Milena Ajanaya Albo. She is healthy and alert and lots of fun. Emily Bloomenthal saw glaciers, humpback whales, grizzly bears, rainbows and beautiful sunsets traveling in Alaska last August. Liz Gluck went camping and hiking in Colorado with her boyfriend Greg. After bagging our first 14 er (Snowmass Mountain), we met up with Sarah Meserve, Katie O Brien and Katie s fiancé Alex in Aspen for an awesome lunch/ mini-williams reunion before heading down to the Sawatch Range to climb Mount Huron. Anna Swisher still lives at 7,700 feet in sunny Gunnison, Colo., having a blast with Trey Wright 03. She is in her first year on the faculty at Western State College in the exercise and sport science department and continues to coach the throwers on Western s track team. She planned to school Ashok Pillai, Chris Mishoe, Mike Silverstein and Matt Resseger in fantasy football. Game on! Zinnia Wilson spent a hot Salt Lake City weekend mountain biking, hiking and wicked windy kite-flying with Addie Robinson, Laura Cavin, Katie Niccoll and Eric Tietze 03. Now Zinnia is on to studying after another summer 104 Williams People December 2010 with the USDA Forest Service. Ross Smith traveled to a perfect wedding in Yosemite and to nearby Banff for orienteering and sightseeing, where he caught up with Zan Armstrong 04. Ross then spent part of August in Trondheim, Norway, to compete in the World Orienteering Championships. He and his girlfriend are contemplating graduate school in Oslo. Paul Sonenthal was with his family at the beach in North Carolina, where Andrew Marks paid him a visit. He was soon to leave for Botswana to do HIV research as part of a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship through UPenn. Julie O Donnell is excited to move from Tanzania to Chapel Hill, where she s a PhD student in epidemiology at UNC. She is, however, skeptical about living below the Mason-Dixon Line for the first time. Fear not, Julie soon you will be very familiar with this third-person plural possessive: Y all ses. All is well with Jane McCamant, who was starting her second year teaching earth science in Dallas but was happy to escape the heat last summer at reunion and then with a sailing voyage from Honolulu to San Francisco, where she spent a day with Dan Krass. Desiree Gonzales is still in Miami but switched from studying accessory design to fashion design. Paul Simon and Angelica Cortez have left New York for small-town life in Alexandria, La., where Paul is clerking for a federal district judge and Angelica is teaching high school Spanish. They have a guest room with a comfortable bed if anyone wants to visit. Aron Chang is down in the bayou as well. My third semester teaching at LSU is well under way. I don t recall searching online for information on my professors while in college, but my students do so, brazenly commenting on my past even as I stand there. Alexis Chernak reports from Cambodia: I recently moved to the Mississippi Delta (Clarksdale to be exact) for a fellowship, and I welcome visitors any time. This begs the question with all of this southern hospitality going round, will the next Crawfish Boil be at Paul and Angelica s or Alexis? It s not every day that one wakes up to an offering a free round-trip ticket to accompany a good friend to the Indian Himalayas. Such determined my fate, and we had a great time in July/August exploring gompas, nunneries, high mountain passes, imbibing bottomless cups of chai at homestays and even negotiating the disarray resulting from a particularly potent Asian monsoon cycle, writes Robert Hahn. Also traveling in Asia last summer, Vishal Agraharkar went to the famous full-moon party in Ko Phangan. I was so tired when I got there that I fell asleep on the beach at 11 p.m. in the middle of the party and missed the entire thing. When I woke up someone had stolen one of my flip flops. A flashback to studying abroad in Australia in 2003, perhaps? Vishal moved to Little Italy in NYC and works at a civil rights organization downtown. Before heading back to Princeton to finish his PhD, Justin Brown spent two weeks in the land down under last summer, where he met up with Paul Hess 08 at the International Conference on Atomic Physics. After the conference, they visited the Great Barrier Reef and met again in Sydney. Joyia (Chadwick) Yorgey left directly from the reunion for England. Her husband Brent worked in Cambridge while she cycled, ran, played volleyball and learned to scull. Joyia also learned how to make jam the proper English way i.e., without added pectin with the abundant fruit from their garden. She and Brent saw Vicky Van der Geer-Bock 04, whom they visited for a weekend in Leiden, The Netherlands. Please join Aron and me in congratulating Isabel (Izzi) Stone and David Seligman in tying the knot last June. The Williams crew from the wedding in attendance included Margaret (Magoo) Stone 82, Jordan Bate 06, Annie Snodgrass, Alexis Chernak, Stephanie Wai 07, Sarah Jenks 07, Courtney Gordon, Suzi Stone 76, Henry Drewyer 14, Tomas Stone 80, Jen Foss-Feig 04, Jonathan Brajtbord 06, Shomik Duta, Vickie Fernandez 06, Stephen Rahl, Ariel Zetlin-Jones 04, Patricia O Reilly 07, Kaitlin Brandt 02, Ben Fleming 04, Alex Smith 06, Devin Fitzgibbons 04, Papa Adams, Jimmy Stone 08, Mike Chaberski, Nick Brandt 02 and Cameron Marshall. This concludes this season s edition. I hope that you all enjoyed the read, and we look forward to chronicling your lives over the next five years. By the time our term is over, we hope that you ll be proud to call us former classmates, recommend us with no qualifications and waste no time in nominating us for a second term! Peace, we out.

107 n Ephs from the classes of 2003 to 2006 gathered on campus in August for their 11th annual Fantasy Football Draft REUNION JUNE 9-12 Ariel Peters 226 W. Rittenhouse Square Apt Philadelphia, PA We re about to play a version of Where s Waldo, except that instead of hunting for a strangelooking man in red pajamas, be on the lookout for something that not too long ago would have seemed just as out of place: the word wedding. It appears over a dozen times in these notes! Andres Schabelman is at Google. I do uninteresting things, he says, but there are massage rooms, meditation rooms, napping pods and kitchens stocked with goodies (hence the term The Google 15 ). San Fran suits him, and so does losing to Zack Ulman at video games. He and Matt Kane 07 ride the shuttle to work, and he sees John Hillman 07 and Kristen Lemons 07 around Google HQ. Meredith Singer jumped off the corporate ladder to found Primo Multimedia, a digital network and multimedia production company. Despite living the lean startup lifestyle (she s back to eating Easy Mac), she was able to travel to NYC in September to fine dine with Mary Singer and Pamela Good. If you re interested in catching some SEC action, she has a spare room at home in Auburn, Ala. Still, the 88,000- person spectacle that is college football here in the South often makes me long for laid-back Doughty cookouts by the field. Megan O Malley still works at MKTG, an experiential marketing agency in Manhattan. She celebrated her birthday at the Frying Pan with Sydney Streets, Galen Glaze, Cecilia de la Campa, Kristyn Bretz 07, lots of sangria and a bucket o mussels. Mary Singer, Pamela Good, Ainsley O Connell and Gillian McBride celebrated Pam s birthday and the last days of summer with a rooftop barbecue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in September. Ainsley, Hayley Wynn and April Champion were also happy to have Mary Catherine Blanton in New York over the summer, which involved a 4th of July fireworks booze cruise, braving the rides at Coney Island (though some were not so brave) and an especially informative conversation about JFK s milliondollar toilet. It was weddings, moms and babies all summer long for Joel Bradley, who attended the wedding of Amelia Bishop to her fiancé Michael, began his first clinical rotations in OB/GYN and pediatrics and perhaps is planning a wedding of his own. Life with Elissa Rehm is wonderful and full of adventure, though she has to keep an eye on the nearing potential for Joel s entering into a common law union with roommate Tom Kramer 03. I was listening to my favorite Pandora station when I got Blair Coffman s telling me that she had started a new job in sales and business development there. In July she and Laura Carroll completed a sprint triathlon in Greenwich, Conn. The post-race brunch has them promising they ll be back next year. In September, those two and many others attended the wedding of Kent Sands and Sarah Reinus in Rye, N.Y. Christine Hunt married her fiancé Aaron in Wellesley, Mass., in July. Leah Weintraub, Travis Vachon, Ellen Crocker, Elissa Klein, Lucy Cox-Chapman and Katie Lewkowicz were there. Two different people wrote that it was a beautiful wedding, so it must be true! Leah marked the end of her part-time master s program at UVA by taking a road trip out west with her brother to see some friendly faces: Robin Stewart (they drove to Clara Hard s fieldwork base camp and photographed some frogs, who were accommodating ), Carolyn Reuman and former JA Brendan Docherty 04. As of the fall, she was back in DC with two new Eph roommates Meg Giuliano 05 and Ari Schoenholtz 05 and was looking forward to starting a new school year. Lucy Cox-Chapman moved from DC to Boston; she s at BU for a master s in public health and hangs out with Sarah Beach, Katie Lewkowicz and former roommate Yariv Pierce. She also vacationed out west, but with her boyfriend; she met up with Clara, Robin and Heather Casteel in Seattle. Robin is working on ipad apps, including a new incarnation of the graphing software he started while at Williams. Erika Latham went from being a single student to a married doctor in the course of a week. She graduated from veterinary school on May 23 and then, on May 30, she married David Butts in Williamstown. The ceremony took place on Sheep Hill with Joe Shoer as the best man, and Seth Daniels, Lisa Lindeke and Mary Beth Anzovino were there as well. Taya Latham 07 and her violin made an appearance, and Alden Robinson s fiddling led what, in Erika s words, must have been the longest recessional ever, all the way to the reception at Mezze. Erika moved to the Hudson Valley and started her internship at an equine practice in Rhinebeck, N.Y., a week later. She and Dave traveled to Ireland in August for Taya s wedding, and over Labor Day weekend Dave and Jared Strait 07 visited Joe for the Ithaca Brew Fest. Joe is finishing his graduate research. He and his lab team were planning on traveling to Houston at the end of September December 2010 Williams PeoPle 105

108 CLASS NOTES to run experiments in zero-g. It was to be his second time in the Vomit Comet. Ashleigh Theberge and James Brittin were married on May 29. The wedding was held on Bailey Island, Maine. After a honeymoon in the Adirondacks (they camped and canoed), they moved to Muncie, Ind., where James has started his residency and Ashleigh s hard at work on her dissertation. Matt Greenawalt married fiancée Anna, a fellow teacher, on June 26. Ben Brown was the best man in the wedding, Alex Smith was a groomsman, and Yariv Pierce, Adam Ain, Adam Bloch, Meghan Ryan, Martine Neider, Geoff O Donoghue and Vickie Fernandez were in the audience. Elizabeth Adams married fiancé (and fellow math nerd) Daniel on July 24; they met during the SMALL math research program at Williams. The wedding was in Seattle in her parents backyard. Alex Chan, Reed and Annie Harrison, Allison Farley and Stephanie Vano attended. Kim Heard and Chris Geissler were married in July in Chapel Hill, N.C. A big Williams crowd braved 100-degree heat to be with them. Kim and Chris are both in the third year of their PhD programs he s at Duke for econ, she s at UNC for health policy. Chris refuses to root for Duke basketball, so life at home is peaceful. Speaking of basketball, Kim and Chris recently met up with Christine Hunt (now Kearsley, see above!) for dinner and a Durham Bulls game. Rob Cooper has lost a centimeter or two now that he s wearing footgloves, and he almost flatlined while giving blood. (Actually, this happened twice!) He recently went out to dinner in Princeton with Justin Brown 05, Fred Brasz 09, Charles Cao 09, Will McClain 09, Steven Jackson 10 and Cristina Florea 10. Chris Yorke is entering his third and final year of an architecture master s program at Princeton. Over the summer he helped a professor prepare his materials for the Venice Biennale; the work was installed in an exhibition called Workshopping: An American Model of Architectural Practice. Jonathan Dowse was planning to finish architecture school in December with M.Arch. and M.U.D. degrees and was looking forward to job hunting. He spent last summer in the studio in San Diego and took day trips to Tijuana. A week in Mexico City 106 Williams PeoPle December 2010 The day after his wedding last summer, Matt Greenawalt 06 (standing, second from left) gathered with classmates in Central Park. Also pictured, from left, are (standing) Yariv Pierce, Vickie Fernandez, Meghan Ryan, Ben Brown, Martine Neider and Adam Bloch; (kneeling) Alex Smith, Geoff O Donoghue and Adam Ain. capped things off. George Rodriguez married fiancée Ashley over the summer. John Symanski was the best man; Drew Raab, Todd Shayler, Jamie Kingsbery, Sean Clifford 05, Meredith Clifford 04 and former track and field coach Ralph White also attended the wedding, as did Brian Lowe, but he missed the photo op because he was swimming in a duck pond. George is the assistant director of athletics at Drew University in Madison, N.J., where he and Ashley live. Speaking of aquatic adventures, Drew Gottenborg tells me that Paul Calluzzo is kayaking in Long Island Sound, trolling for clams. You can t make this stuff up! Maybe. Last summer Adam Bloch went to Edinburgh and worked for doctor named MacFarland: When I discovered that he taught his students anatomy with stolen corpses, I decided I wanted no association with such grisly doings. But my conscience went to war with itself when I saw the aid the doctor offered to patients with his illgotten medical knowledge. Soon I was in over my head, but a tragic encounter with the seamier side of med school helped me get out before I was in too deep. Brad Brecher and John Silvestro are students at the Marine Corps Basic Infantry Course in Quantico, Va. John s going to be a pilot, and Brad s going to be a lawyer for the Marines. Evan Bick is officially Out of the Army Now; he started worked at the Natick Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., in June. He does outreach and education for the program that develops food for the Department of Defense. Wife Gillian Sowden is in her fourth year of med school, and Evan s pretty sure they still live with Keith McWhorter, but they haven t seen much of him since Keith started business school at Babson. Meg McCann started at Wharton in August and caught up with Phil Foxworthy, now a second-year. Liz Woodwick is also at business school at the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota; she ran into Sara (Kazanjian) Martin and Maryanna McConnell at the Forte Foundation conference for women in business in June. She spent the rest of her last summer of freedom working at the new Twins stadium and making the most of the beautiful weather and our 10,000 lakes. Brad Chu started his residency in pediatrics at NYU over the summer. He s still getting peed/ pooped/spit on, but now he gets paid! He s also been attending some pretty high-profile sporting events. In June he got lucky in Kentucky and picked Super Saver to win at the Kentucky Derby, but the real win was meeting Chris Richardson s family, their dogs, chickens and two mini horses. Repeat: MINI HORSES. Amazing. In September, Brad, Steve Myers and Hayley Wynn sat next to the Serbian cheering section at the U.S. Open men s semifinals. Every time Djokovic won a point we were serenaded by a bunch of guys with oversized sunglasses clapping and shouting

109 n Serbia! Serbia! Serbia! I was thrilled to attend Jim Prevas and Helen Selonick s 07 May 29 wedding on Maryland s Eastern Shore and witness Jimbo s Michael Jackson impersonation. Jimbo graduated from med school at the University of Maryland last spring. Johannes Pulst-Korenberg started med school at Michigan: It s AMAZINGLY fun. David Rogawski 08 is a classmate, and Brian Hirshman swung by on his cross-country trek to UCSD, where he s also a first-year. Ilya Feldsherov is back at Michigan as a 2L after a summer at the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn. He flew to LA for his former students middle-school graduation in June, except that when he got there he found out that the school district had shortened the school year, and graduation had been moved up a week. A subsequent trip to Nairobi, Mombassa and finally London (he and Joe Hutchinson went to a concert in Hyde Park) made it all better. Neal Holtschulte is now in a PhD program in computer science at the University of New Mexico. He s met up with Linda Gutierrez and Marita Campos-Melady, who are also at UNM. Vojislav Sesum received a PhD in finance from Stanford Business School in June and has started working in downtown San Francisco. Alissa Caron was on her way to Siem Reap, Cambodia, at the beginning of October to help her Thai NGO start a new health and community development program in local villages. She spent a month stateside in DC, Boston and Williamstown, reuniting with Juan Baena, Sarah Steege, Miriam Lawrence, Cassie Montenegro, Tamara Springle and Elissa Hardy. Katie Belshé is back in Israel and is in her third year of directing the choir program at the American International School and her second year of dog ownership. Meanwhile, Devon and Jackie O Rourke have moved to Jordan! They are living and teaching at a boarding school outside of Amman, and their spare room is up for grabs in case you re interested in planning a trip to the Middle East. Before they moved they were lucky enough to have visits on the Cape from Charles Bellows, Wendy Stone 05, Greg Shultz 07, Chris Fahey 09, Joey Lye 09 and Samantha Tarnasky 09. They re hoping to see some of Poker A next summer. Moe Springfield Sally Vandermyn is playing on as many hockey teams as there are in Springfield, Rachel The Fireman Barr is pursuing a degree in nursing ( which is no surprise for our favorite gentle giant, says Jackie) and Ellissa Poops Popoff is still working in the athletics department at North Yarmouth Academy in Maine. Sasha Gsovski was a field organizer for the Colorado Democratic Coordinated Campaign in Colorado Springs in the fall. (Blake Albohm held down the fort in DC.) She spent Labor Day weekend in NYC, where she grabbed lunch with Emily Casden. Gillian Weeks cooked Sasha and Blake a lovely, all-local, homemade brunch in Brooklyn, and Sasha stayed with Laura Borland and husband Seth 03 in Chicago after a 13-hour drive from the East Coast on her way to the Centennial State. Jay Bid, Geofre Schoradt, Ian Schulte and Thomas Kunjappu celebrated the end of Geof s bachelorhood the first weekend in September in Boston. Geof and Mary Etta Burt 05 were planning on an early October Williamstown wedding. Laura Kolesar and Dan Gura are engaged! Nat Bristol, Alex Chan, Jessie Kerr, Ben Berringer, Parker Shorey, Peter Desloge, Nadia Moore, Stephanie Vano, Eliza Davison, Emily Russell-Roy, Maryanna McConnell, Jimmy Crowell 05 and Veronica Mendiola 05 helped them celebrate. Finally, it was quite an adventurous summer for the boys of Morgan East basement. Sam Sawan was the best man in Joseph LaPaglia s wedding in Dracut, Mass. Joey committed quite the sin by not marrying a fellow Eph, Sam says, but wife Hila looked radiant. Sam s speech ended with the words Ani Ohev Otach, and it was probably the best speech I ll ever give. Marcus Burns, Jon O Hanlon, Andrew Bisset, Christine Williams, Katie Fulton, Eric Markowsky, Michael Saracco, Ryan Belmont 05 and Liz Pierce 07 were witnesses. The following weekend, Sam, Eric and Andrew played in the alumni rugby game in Williamstown. Sam says that Andrew ( The Kaiser ) scored multiple tries; others had great games, but their nicknames are so vulgar and evil that decorum prevents me from listing them here. Instead of a rugby match, at this time next year I ll be recapping our fifth. Or maybe decorum will get in the way of that, too? Here s hoping. Happy reunion year, everyone! 2007 Diana Davis Brown University Math Department, Box 1917 Providence, RI secretary@williams.edu Matt Earle is moving into a L Auberge Espangnole-style apartment in SoHo, NYC, with six strangers from several countries. Ben Isaac graciously hosted him for many nights during his protracted transition to the city. Matt reports that he is now the director of special projects at Freshpair.com, which is every bit as mysterious as it seems. He also observes that he runs into people he knows much more frequently in NYC than in Boston, which surprises me, because I m pretty sure Boston has a higher Eph/civilian ratio. Yes, we have many classmates in NYC: Joe Shippee has one year left before receiving his master s in piano performance at NYU. Last summer, he was a featured pianist in two international piano festivals: one in Fort Worth, Texas, and the other in Gijon, Spain. He and Paul Rogers spent a week visiting Jan Zankowski in his native Poland. Stephanie Dockery moved to NYC, where she is the membership associate and manager of Emerging Leaders of New York Arts at the Arts and Business Council of New York. She is also working as the marketing director of Literal Latté, an online literary magazine. She was planning to attend the wedding of Amanda Boote in Eagles Mere, Pa. Andrew Lazarow also moved to NYC, where he is starting his master s degree in interactive telecommunications at NYU s Tisch School of the Arts. Previously, he worked in Seattle at the Satori Group, a theater company he co-founded with Lauren Hester, Caitlin Sullivan, Greta Wilson, Spike Friedman, Alex Matthews and several others. On her way out of NYC is Hannah Foote, who left for Burlington, Vt., to start medical school at UVM. She hosted Hallie Davison, Andrew Pizzi, Ariel Ramchandani and Will Walter for a weekend of fresh air, fresh food and fresh perspective. They also ran into Colleen Gerrity and Alex Hogan at a diner. And who are our classmates in Boston? Whitney Hunter- December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 107

110 CLASS NOTES Thompson was squatting outside Boston as she transitioned between living in Chicago for the past two years and moving to NYC in early fall. She was excited to catch up with fellow Ephs in the area. Min Kim moved to the Boston area in March, where he started a job as a risk analyst for a power company. He was living in his hometown of Belmont but moved to Somerville in May. Min spent most of the summer weekends playing Ultimate Frisbee. David Brown is living in Boston and has started business school at Babson. Karen Olson has moved to a new apartment with Sheryl Brea in Beacon Hill. After her sister s wedding last spring in Williamstown, Karen took a three-week trip to Europe with her family. Morgan Cronin flew over from Madrid to join them for a week in Istanbul. Haley Tone moved from Boston to San Francisco in July after traveling to South Africa for the World Cup and some safari adventures. Her first week back in San Francisco, she ran into Alden Conner at a Giants baseball game. Down in Providence, we find Joanna Korman, who reports: When she is not at the home she shares in Little Rhody with Allison Smith, Emily Button and Dan Klein 06 playing with (and experimenting on!) Schroedinger and Murmur, Allison s illustrious cats (formerly owned by Seth Zeren 05), Joanna Korman is eagerly awaiting her far-between Skype dates to Pakistan with Samreen Kazmi 08, walking on rough-rocked Rhode Island beaches with Elysia Alleman, eating Indian food with new Providence resident Katy Dieber and working on her PhD at Brown s shiny new Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences. I (Diana Davis) am also in Providence at Brown, in my third year of a math PhD program. I spend a lot of time drawing polygons and lines ( math research ), and this semester for the first time I am teaching my own section of calculus to Brown undergraduates! Megan Bruck and her fiancé Lakshman Syal hosted an engagement party with many 07s in attendance: Ally Holmes, Lisa (Davenport) Reggiannini, Lindsay Ting, Sara Jablonski, Diana Davis, Sean Hyland and Chris Furlong. Megan began her second year in the planetary science PhD program at Brown. Ally reports that she is moving, interviewing for another job and starting her 108 Williams People December 2010 second year of law school. One of her professors is a Williams alumnus (R. Baker 64). Sara saw Lauren Moscoe and cross country coach Pete Farwell 73 at Williams on the way to Boston for the engagement party. She then moved to East Lansing, Mich., to start her graduate assistantship at MSU, where she will be taking classes on community agriculture. Chris has now moved from Boston back to his hometown of DC. His new job is in real estate research, and he unwinds by playing kickball on the national mall. Andy Stevenson is excited that Chris has moved to D.C., where Andy is still working for the environmental policy think tank Resources for the Future. He says, Probably the most exciting thing I ve done recently is represent team NO BRAKES during the Headwaters Relay in Montana. Colin Carroll reports that 15 Williams alumni ran in the relay, including Steven Wills, Sean Hyland, Mike Davitian and Matt Kane in addition to Andy and himself. At the time of writing, Colin was in Austin, Texas, helping Karin Knudson 09 and John Chatlos move into a new apartment, which Sarah Hill 09 planned to join shortly. John is beginning work at UT on a PhD in math. Abby Taylor is applying to veterinary school. Alyssa Howard reports: After a few years of bouncing around between parttime, freelance music jobs and theater internships, I ll be starting at the Yale School of Drama s stage management program in the fall. I paid a visit to Jessica (Phillips) Silverstein in NYC over the summer and dropped in on Charlotte White 08 when I went to see a performance at the Williams College Summer Theatre Lab. Other than that, I ve spent most of the summer living a Romantic existence as a hermit in the middle of the woods back home in anticipation of selling my soul to New Haven for the next three years. Also in academia, Katie Montgomery finished her second year of graduate school at the University of Iowa, studying long 19th century British literature. In August she attended the amazing Dickens Universe conference at UC Santa Cruz and was super happy to find that Matt Steding was also attending! Dan Binder is moving to Chicago, where he is going to Northwestern Law School. In May, Mike Fairhurst stopped by to visit Dan for a day before heading out to Amherst for his brother s graduation. Dan explains: This summer I didn t go on a cross-country road trip like last year, but I did drive around the Northeast to visit several friends, including Matt O Donnell, down in Pennsylvania. I also took a trip out to Washington, meeting up for coffee with Matt Kane during a fourhour layover in San Francisco en route to Seattle. I also spent a little time up in Maine. Devin Schweppe visited Ananda Burra in London last summer for a reprieve from graduate school, which is still ever consuming. Ananda says that the two of them drank many a beer and walked many a mile. Devin plans to be in DC this New Year s Eve to visit Dan Aiello and see how his new job at the treasury department is treating him. Ananda further reports: Cashing in on one of the biggest perks of grad school, I took a grant to go London for two months to do research at the National Archives. The trip was made even better thanks to a long-delayed reunion with my former entrymate Daumantas Mockus and fellow South Asian star Ridhima Raina. Williams reunions continued on my return to New Delhi, where I got a chance to hang out with Jasjit Singh 08 and Harsh Sodhi 10. I m just heading back to Ann Arbor to continue a history-law PhD-JD, with my first year in the law school. Now for your Darlingside update. Dave Senft wrote from Amsterdam, where he, Daniel Yudkin 08, Aroop Mukharji 09 and Auyon Mukharji were on a European busking (street performing) adventure as part of a larger project that they call busk till dawn (having rejected the name the duskbusters ), which they documented in a video blog at Auyon reports that the band (including Sam Kapala 09, Harris Paseltiner 09 and Don Mitchell 06) went on a two-month, 35-show tour across eight states of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. They released their first EP at the beginning of June. Auyon reports that they were hunkering down and writing for most of September and October before hitting the road again in November. Dave adds: I can t say enough about the unbelievable support that we ve seen from the Williams community, old and young. Over on the West Coast, Nathan Friend reported: I m winding

111 n down the summer internship program I run at KUOW, the NPR member station in Seattle. Every year since the start of college I ve been managing six high school students as they learn the ropes of radio journalism and produce their own stories, interviews and podcasts. At the end of August I ll go back to Mercer Island High School to start my second full year of teaching radio broadcasting. Sara Morrissey is still in Portland, Ore., riding her bike daily to her position as a planner at the Oregon Department of Transportation. She made a quick trip east and was able to stop by Boston to see Brett Marinelli, Jake Randall, Dave Eisenson and Chris Sherman at the Liberty Hotel. As of this writing, she was exploring Alaska for two weeks. She started in Homer (where she caught a lot of halibut and hit up the Salty Dog), then visited Kodiak and finally headed to Denali to do some backcountry backpacking. Beginning this fall she will be a full-time master s student at Portland State University in the urban and regional planning program, and she is planning on specializing in a masters in transportation planning. Hiking on the other side of the globe is Anna Edmonds. Anna reports: I just got back from a long bikepacking venture in Nepal. I flew into Lhasa hoping to ride to Kathmandu, but the Chinese military wouldn t have any of that, so I ended up attempting to tackle Everest Base Camp from the Nepali side. That went even less well than I d imagined it would. I didn t ever see Everest because of monsoon season, but I met lots of leeches and carried my bike up about 18,000 vertical meters. The next portion of the trip, biking around the Annapurna Circuit, went much better, if wetly. It s hard to get accurate information about just how bikeable places will be. It s so tough because everybody, cyclists and locals included, says of almost every place I visit that it will be impossible to do it by bike. Sometimes this turns out to be true, and sometimes it s not. Last summer I did Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia largely off-road through the high Andes, and that was highly bikeable even though folks said it was impossible. This time they were right! It was still swell, though. Now I m starting my third year of philosophy PhD camp at the University of Michigan. Wow! In other international news, Tessa Kelly worked for an architecture firm in Copenhagen and met up with Kate Dineen 05 doing research in Berlin. Gurcag Poyraz, Nasser Al-Sabah 05 and Jiayang Fan 06 got together in Istanbul in July. Brian Van Wyck wrote: It s been a few issues since I wrote in, so here goes: After finishing my Fulbright year in Germany, I moved to Budapest, where I m getting an MA in nationalism studies at Central European University and grappling with another maddening vowelless language. Any Ephs in the Central European area are more than welcome at my place, conveniently located directly above the Budapest IKEA. Don t miss the Wedding Album section of this magazine, because several of our classmates are featured: Taya Latham traveled to Ireland in August and married John Kent in sight of the Aran Islands and the Cliffs of Moher. They somehow managed to have a perfectly blue day for the occasion. Taya is already thinking about her next trip there and can t wait to go back! In attendance were Dave Butts 06 and Erika Latham 06. Shea Chen reports: I got married to a wonderful girl I met out here in the San Francisco Bay Area, which I suppose is the big news of the summer! Attending the wedding were Whitney Hunter- Thomson, David Senft, Eugenie Du, Daniel Wollin, Auyon Mukharji and Merritt Edlind. For their honeymoon, Shea and his wife Frances visited Orlando and took a weeklong cruise to the West Caribbean. Eugenie reports: I usually don t remember to write back, but I figured that this was good news that should really be shared. Dan Wollin and I got engaged on April 1 (yes, I know, April Fool s Day). He proposed on Chapin steps at 3 in the morning after we watched a Darlingside concert in Northampton, Mass. There was moonlight and music, so it was very romantic all around. We re planning on a Chicago wedding next April. Eugenie and Dan were on a monthlong hiatus from Chicago, doing away rotations at Boston-area hospitals in their respective medical specialties during their fourth (and FINAL!) year of medical school. They stayed with Whitney Hunter- Thomson and hoped to find time to see Boston friends Chris Lee, Sura Tilakawadane, David DeVaughn and Andrew Platt while they were there. Laura Lee slipped us a covert tip: If Angela Doyle doesn t tell you herself, she s getting MARRIED in October! Jen Menzies and I will be there for sure. Laura has been living in San Diego for a year now. Last summer, she went to Malaysia for a conference, then explored Phnom Penh and Hong Kong with Ben Scent 06. She also spent a week in Mexico City leading some training for college students doing summer mission work. Kate Scheider and her fiancé Spencer Powlison were to be married in October in Lyons, Colo. Hallie Davison had an epic summer-long adventure, burning through 30 different states meeting up with dozens of exceptional Williams alums (too many to name) for How d You Get There? She planned to make it back to NYC just in time to fly out to Michigan for the wedding of Andy Hobbs, fellow member of Sage Bravo. Congratulations to everyone on these marriages, and please send pictures! 2008 Julie Van Deusen 90 West Cedar St., Apt. 5F Boston, MA secretary@williams.edu I ll start us off big with a couple of Eph weddings. Not only was this past summer a great time to get married, but June 26 was the day to do it. Jane Kelley and Alec Schumacker had a wonderful wedding in Jane s yard in Honolulu, Hawaii. Matt Allen was the best man, Lars Ojukwu, GP LeBourdais and Paul Woodard were groomsmen, and Annie Schniedman, Katrina Ferrara and Allie Rottkamp were bridesmaids. The Springstreeters even sang while some of Jane s aunts danced a hula. And Don Wieczorek and Christina Stockwell tied the knot on that same date in Atlanta, Ga. Over 30 Williams alums made it down for the festivities, including Gary Simonette, Matthew Neuber and Brendan Conley as groomsmen and Fatima Sammy as a bridesmaid. Meanwhile, Don is enjoying operating his commodity trading business, Purple Valley Capital Inc., while golfing and fly fishing in his free time. And Christina is staying busy, keeping up with their puggle puppy (Goose) and her second year of med school at Emory. After a two-year break, many 08s have decided it s now a great December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 109

112 CLASS NOTES time to return to school. Last fall, Nancy Haff started med school at Penn. Eric Ballon-Landa began med school at UC-Irvine and reports the lecture hall is just as comfortable as it used to be, and despite the instant finals-week-like pace of studying, he s managing to stay mostly alert in class. He s enjoying the many perks of Southern California, including the ability to go home for a night (and have his mom do his laundry) and to head to the beach after morning exams. The only bad thing is that he s so far from everyone on the East Coast. He s hoping to exert the pull of California (sunny and 65 in the winter!) on everyone but hasn t quite mastered those magical powers of coercion. Although it sounds like the California pull worked on Emily Siegel, who left Boston after two years of clinical research at MGH to start med school at the University of Southern California. She is very much enjoying the ability to be outside again. Alex Horne began med school at the University of Colorado. He and Louisa Berky are living in Denver, and Louisa s working at lululemon athletica, a yoga and sports clothing company. Amanda Zaitchik started grad school at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where she ll be getting a master s in interior design. After two years of teaching in NYC, Jeff Lin started law school last fall at the University of Washington in Seattle. At the end of July, he drove cross-country back to the West Coast. He definitely misses all of his Williams friends in New York but is also looking forward to life in Seattle. Sesh Sundararaman spent the last month of his summer in a village in Gambia studying access to healthcare. He recently began his PhD in microbiology but hopes to spend at least one half day a week at an outpatient pediatrics site to keep in touch with the clinical side. And it sounds like some of you were able to make the most of your summers before hitting the books. Kristina Brumme wrapped up research at Children s Hospital in June and then went on a fantastic 18-day vacation to Hawaii to the Big Island, Maui and Lana i with her family as a last hurrah before both she and her brother started grad school. In August, Kristina moved in with her older brother (Kurt Brumme 05) and started med school at Boston University. Over the summer, David Rogawski traveled through Spain, France, Italy and 110 Williams People December 2010 Greece with his sister Liz. In August he started med school at the University of Michigan. He s in the same class as Johannes Pulst-Kornberg 06 and has enjoyed reminiscing with him about Williams they re both nostalgic for the odd quad. Erin Brown started graduate school at the University of Chicago, where she s earning a master s in public policy with concentrations in nonprofit management and international policy. In September she ran the Chicago half-marathon and was excited to have Constantine Mavroudis cheering her on. Constantine started his third year of med school at Loyola Stritch in Chicago and is beginning his surgery rotation. Erin and Constantine had a great vacation to Croatia last summer and hope to get back there really soon It s gorgeous! Ariel Heyman spent the summer in Claremont, Calif., with Lizzy Koltai 07, and she kept herself busy being a nanny for her little sister Emma. Ariel is in San Francisco and at a graduate program at Mills College and wants Williams people in the area to look her up! Jesse Levitt spent the summer biking the West Coast. He saw Peter Nunns off as Peter returned to New Zealand for a master s, and Jesse joined Myron Minn-Thu-Aye 07 in the LSU math graduate program for the foreseeable future. Uzaib Saya and Didem Ilter moved across the Charles from Brookline to Cambridge, where they ve run into many 08s, including Kendall Newman and Prassanna Raman. Over the summer, Uzaib spent six weeks traveling to parts of the Middle East. He spent most of his time in Syria taking Arabic lessons and then traveled to Beirut, Jerusalem and later Amman, where he had dinner with Abdullah Awad 13. Meanwhile, in Cambridge, Uzaib started his master s in health policy at Harvard, and Didem is continuing her studies toward a PhD in cell biology at Harvard. Eugene Korsunskiy spent the summer doing a cross-country Bike & Build trip and has moved out to Stanford for design grad school. To send Eugene off with a bang, Joseph Song, David Kessel and Polo Black Golde took him backpacking in the Catskills. They inadvertently wound up on exciting night hikes, ate excessive amounts of jerky and gorp and honed their already impressive bear-bagging skills. Despite valorous boasts, the lack of local fauna prevented bare-hands trout fishing or other such angler-spectacles of game-catching. However, during the trip, Joe rediscovered his love of dried meats, compelling him to start his own artisanal line of beef jerky in NYC. While some are getting started, many others are well into (or recently finished) their graduate programs and are deciding what to do next. Melissa Iacobucci is in her last year of law school at Temple University in Philly. She s hoping to practice criminal defense after she graduates. Jeremy Doernberger is in his third year of law school, after a summer working in North Carolina at a prosecutor s office and planning his wedding with Elizabeth Upton. Liz is in her third year of medical school, so she s traveling around the state mercilessly hunting down sick people and curing them. Jeremy reports that it was great being in North Carolina so he and Liz could start tackling wedding planning but that it s also nice to be back in DC, living with Ben Bullitt and seeing Pete Daniel Clements, McLane Daniel and Mike Kirwan on a regular basis. Katie Stack started her third year as a geology PhD student at Caltech. Over the summer, she did a lot of traveling all for school of course. She also spent some time on the East Coast catching up with Caitlin Higgins and Ben Sykes in NYC. In the fall she participated in a workshop to choose the landing site for the next Mars rover! Will Jacobson is a second-year student at Stanford Law School, where he s a member of the Stanford Law Review. He interned with the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball after graduation and with the entertainment law firm of Nelson Davis Wetzstein in Santa Monica, Calif., the last two summers. Madeleine Outman got her master s this past summer and is now an assistant track coach at Emory University in Atlanta and also competing professionally in track and field for Asics. Laura Walls finished an MPH in nutrition from UNC-Chapel Hill in August. She loved the area so much that in mid-july she began working for UNC s Children s Hospital as their pediatric gastroenterology research coordinator. She s been trail-running and took up yoga to avoid this past summer s heat, and she s completed her applications for physician assistant programs. Also in Chapel Hill, Kate Nolfi is working on her PhD in philosophy and finding various uses for the 50 pounds of peaches

113 n she procured at a Raleigh farmer s market at the end of the summer. (I definitely wish I were in NC to reap the benefits of that!) And a bunch of 08s have returned to the classroom to teach. Abby Weir left Boston for Brooklyn this past summer. When she s not teaching eighthgraders in Crown Heights how to read and write at one of the Achievement First charter schools, she spends her time exploring BK s many parks. In her homeroom, they chant the Williams women s crew regatta cheer, sing the chorus of The Mountains and routinely solve Eph-trivia-related word problems. Scott Hertrick is settling in to island living and trying to keep pace with his eighth- and ninth-graders. He s finding time between classes to make it to the beach and take advantage of the lovely Florida weather. Jarrad Wood is teaching English in France through April. After serving as a counselor at Seeds of Peace international camp for his fifth summer, Matt Simonson moved to Boston to work at Milton Academy, where he s teaching high school math, serving as a dorm parent and coaching cross country and track. And after a two-year hiatus, he returned to his hobby of leaping over giant steeple barriers and water pits, running as an unattached runner in college meets throughout the spring, shattering his personal bests from college in the Steeplechase. Whitney Livermore is working in the fourth grade at Katherine Delmar Burke School (an all-girls private K-8 school) in San Francisco for the next two years. She s excited, because this means she gets to stay in this delightful city that much longer! In the spring, Whitney and Eric Ballon-Landa ran into Ted Wiles and Liza Gardner at one of their favorite spots in SF, a Senegalese restaurant that features a lively dancing scene and delicious drinks as well. Additionally, a number of our classmates have relocated recently, be it internationally, across the country or just around the city. After two years at JPMorgan, and a final send-off at Darlingside and Caitlin Canty s terrific concert at the Brooklyn Bowl, Katherine Huang moved from New York to Hong Kong in June to take on a new role at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in their financial services practice. She has subsequently been traveling frequently between Hong Kong, Shanghai and Dalian for work, and she reports that it has been a fascinating cultural (and professional) experience. Katie Quinn and her fiancé Bryan Eckelmann 09 moved into an awesome Chicago high-rise right on the lake. Katie s starting her second year teaching second grade at a charter school on the south side. She and Bryan hung out with a number of Ephs at Lollapalooza 2010 in Chicago, including Liz Pierce, Amanda Zaitchik, Jonathan Dahlberg 09, Alex Hoerman 09, Melissa Barton 09, Cat Vielma 10, Andy Quinn 13, Aimee Dennett 13 and Jack Saul 13. And, yes, all of them were at the Lady Gaga show. Katie s also super excited that Erin Brown has finally moved to Chicago! Ben Rudick moved to Cambridge, England, to join his fiancée Sarah Fink and to take a new job in solar energy. With a friend who does manufacturing in China, he ll be supplying the UK government with 8,000 residential solar systems over the next year the largest residential solar installation in UK history! And Charles Christianson is keeping himself busy finding snow wherever it is on earth. At the end of the summer, he returned from New Zealand and soon after headed down to Chile! Over the summer, Stephanie Lin did an internship at the health and psychophysiology lab at Harvard University under Wendy Berry Mendes. In the fall, she moved back to Palo Alto and started working as a research assistant doing psychology research at the behavioral lab at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Similarly, Thai Nguyen was in Boston for the summer working for Accenture, an IT consulting firm. In August, he left Accenture and relocated to San Francisco, where he s working in the production development department for Intuit in Mountain View. Also in the Bay Area, Eugene Berson finished his two-year analyst program at Morgan Stanley and joined a start-up in San Francisco (he s employee #6!). Eugene went to a Giants vs. Mets baseball game with Jimmy Bierman, Eric Ballon-Landa and Aaron Mieszczanski, followed by a night of mayhem and debauchery in SF. Dani Wolinsky spent much of the summer in NYC, Costa Rica and San Francisco with friends from Google. Over the summer, Paul Hess spent a few weeks in Australia for a physics conference/vacation, where he met up with fellow physics major Justin Brown 05. They spent their time enjoying the beautiful landscape while eating its native creatures, especially the Aussie BBQ trio of kangaroo, crocodile and emu. Angie Blanchard-Manning s summer was very busy. She developed a summer program for her teens and helped facilitate a teen employment program. As for a vacation, she started her adventures in NYC and met up with Megan Brankley, Aatif Abbas, Uzaib Saya, Ben Sykes and Jeff Lin. She then made a trip down to Austin for a weeklong theater training and ended her air travel with a couple weeks out to Germany to visit her sister, who s back from Afghanistan. Aside from work, Sean Hayes has been writing and illustrating his own web comic. He started putting together a collection of the comics for self-publishing earlier in the fall. Stephan Ramos is flightinstructing in St. Petersburg, Fla. In early October, Taryn Rathbone was to run her first marathon the Wineglass Marathon in Corning, N.Y. And Whitney Leonard and Kim Taylor are happy as clams in Montana, where they are working, hiking, fishing, camping, biking and eagerly awaiting the start of ski season. A full year after the big move, they still can t believe they get to live (and work) in paradise. Over in the Peace Corps, Jared Oubre is practicing the fundamentals of living, including growing food to eat, carrying water with which to bathe and learning how to fix things rather than buy them new. He and Dan Golub (who s extending his service in the Dominican Republic) have teamed up to design bottle rockets, fabricate cardboard boats that can carry someone across a river, and encourage 10- to 14-year-old boys in their engineering interest all part of a youth engineering initiative Dan has put together for rural communities. Jared states, We re kids again! And Dan encourages people to come visit. As always, thanks for staying in touch and sending such great updates. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon Mijon Zulu 377 East 33rd St., Apt. 8H New York, NY secretary@williams.edu If Labor Day was not sign enough, then the clichés of fall: December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 111

114 CLASS NOTES scarves, sweaters, leaves, leaves and more leaves should help us transition away from the cutoffs, shorts, summer dresses and, of course, white pants. We are not all heading back to school, but fall is surely still a time marked for new beginnings. Many of us are changing the plans we made a year ago and starting over. Others are not, but whatever we are doing we must not fear failure. Writing these notes has helped me realize that everyone s lives are changing so fast that we find ourselves in places of which neither our friends nor us even dreamed. Thus, we must trust doing something, rather than nothing, will still lead us to success. Consider Chung Truong. Mr. Truong spent four months working with a producer in Vietnam and released a CD, The Language of Love, in Vietnam, which can be found at his website hoaichung.com. Recall Aroop Mukharji, the guy who spent the summer street-singing in Europe. Mr. Mukharji is also a Marshall Scholar and will spend the next two years at LSE studying international relations. Kristen Milano and Cary Choy are both teaching in France. Kat Conoway and Lindsay Bouton are doing the same in Sofia, Bulgaria. Taylor Nelp and Nick Manice moved to Bhutan to work in a national hospital and establish a trauma registry for the country s ministry of health. Matt Felser is returning to Tahoe from his Overland trip to Peru. And Stacey Baradit. She is still in Shanghai but is studying for her GREs and is soon to transition into business school. Internationally, we 09ers are moving, changing and growing. In America, the theme continues. Remember Jess Kopcho, who answered Allison Prevatt s call for visitors. Ms. Kopcho moved in with Rob Buesing in NYC and put teaching aside to research adolescent personality disorders at Mount Sinai. Riki McDermott arrived in NYC from Thailand to work in marketing at ESPN. Toni Kraeva has settled into the city at Barclays but now divides her weekends between NYC and San Francisco. Cam Henry is now short a roommate, as Helen Hatch returned to England. Julian Mesri s career is picking up speed as he completed the first part of his Van Lier Fellowship at Repertorio Español. Mr. Mesri U.S. premiered the Argentine play La Estupidez and is working as a literary assistant at New York Theatre Workshop. Jordan 112 Williams People December 2010 Landers took her first step into the forever of her PhD in oceanography and geochemistry. Ms. Landers exercises other parts of her brain taking swing dance classes. Augusta Caso spent the past year fending off hipsters in BK (Brooklyn) with Eve Streicker. Zach Safford left NYC and moved to Northern Scotland to start a master s in design ethnography. Elissa Brown paused her international travels and is now in Connecticut working as an educator at Teva Learning Center in Conn. Claire Whipple traveled to Umbria, Italy, with Jake Koshland before beginning work at New Canaan Country School as an apprentice teacher. Kelly Kirkpatrick hiked Mount Fuji with Tavis Moonan 08 and South Korean-based English teacher Andy St. Louis. Ms. Kirkpatrick also visited Nick Manice and Taylor Nelp in Bhutan before returning to Stowe, Vt., to work as a ski coach and science teacher. Ed Newkirk moved to Providence to start a PhD in math. The story of Darlingside continues as Sam Kapala and Harris Paseltiner returned from summer adventures and began gearing up for the next tour. Near Billsville, Sam Tarnasky returned from a backpacking trip in Yosemite to start another year at Millbrook, not far from Williams new interim coach of women s varsity hockey, Ms. Joey Lye. Ms. Lye will have her hands full as one of the youngest coaches in NCAA hockey. I am sure she will take it in stride, considering that she spent summer playing softball with Team Canada who placed third in worlds and summered on the Cape with Jackie and Devon O Rourke 06, Sam Tarnasky, Chris Fahey and Greg Schultz. Ms. Lye s neighbor Liz Kantack is in her second year working at Overland and is excited to have her former Poker E flat-mate Meg Conan move back to Williamstown to work as the assistant women s crew coach. In Boston, Molly Klaisner pursues a PhD in comparative literature and hangs out with Mary Haas. Emily Flynn took a job as a sustainability consultant with Sustainable Endowments Institute and moved into a Cambridge cottage in Harvard Square with Denise Duquette and Ryan Jane Jacoby. Ms. Duquette is working as a teacher for Young Entrepreneurs Alliance, run by Julie Nessen 82. Ms. Duquette is joined by Kevin Dewar at Young Entrepreneurs Alliance. Ms. Grace continues to work at the Initiative for Responsible Investment at the Harvard Kennedy School and frequently visits Everett Case 10 in NYC. All three enjoy visits from Dan Pesquera, Emily George, Lori Griffin, Sarah Moore and Rachel Ko. Courtney Asher said goodbye to Allston and moved to Boston s South End and in with her JA Suzanne Geer 07. Andy Ward is in Beantown getting a large dose of cognitive science in his Alzheimer s research at Mass General, and Kari Lyden-Fortier spent the summer in Ireland before moving to Boston to get a MA in speech and language pathology. A major change in Boston originates from the crew of Ephs who spent last year at MATCH Public Charter Middle School Emma Bene, Kevin Connolly, Abi Weir 08, Stew Gilson 08 and Mijon Zulu (whoever that guy is). Ms. Bene, Mr. Connolly, Ms. Weir and Mr. Gilson will teach in Memphis, Tenn., Scottsdale, Ariz., Brooklyn and India, respectively, while Mr. Zulu moved to NYC to work at a law firm with Ben Howard, Jon Galinsky 10, Steph Kim 10 and Meg Zisser 10. MATCH, however, managed to secure one more Eph in the form of Alex Kopynec, who now works in the Teacher Residency Program at the MATCH high school. Gosh! All these Ephs in the Northeast make me wonder about the rest of the country, and I am happy to see that some people are still where we left them. DC is still home to Ben Bodurian, Bonnie O Keefe and Matt Lincoln. Ms. O Keefe was gearing up for the midterm elections at the Women s Campaign Forum, and Mr. Lincoln is starting a fellowship in art history at the University of Maryland. Lindsay Millert screamed I Will! as she accepted a new position at Under Armour and continues to love life in Baltimore. Dubbs Mollen was a semester away from finishing her MA in teaching history. Teaching allowed Jacob Cerny to work at summer camp for the ninth straight summer. Mr. Cerny is still hard at work as an eighthgrade math teacher and part-time sports announcer. Morgan Phillips-Spotts spent the summer in North Carolina working at a summer camp before returning to Atlanta, where she started an apprenticeship in acting with the Horizon Theater Company. Elise Piazza and Catalin Iordin, in San Fran, tackle their second years

115 n for PhDs in visual science and computer science, respectively. Wes Johnson and Dave Aitoro are living together in Chicago. Patty Liao is in her second year of grad school at University of Michigan Ann Arbor, pursuing a dual master s in natural resources and mechanical engineering and is rooming with Theresa Ong. Fiona Worcester is teaching two English classes (ninth and 10th) at her old high school in Anchorage, Alaska, while working on coursework toward her master s in teaching. Finally, George Miller is still in Kansas City at the Kauffman Foundation. Hurray for some consistency. Change, nevertheless, runs rampant in other parts of America. Ali Tozier let go of LA and moved to Michigan to work at Leelanau Outdoor Center an outdoor education camp. This new path, says Ms. Tozier, is more suited to her, and she hopes to move to Boston to pursue work in international cultural education. Sarah Riskind is in Madison, Wis., in a master s program in choral conducting. Zach Quay-de-la-Vallee spent half a year in Guatemala and half a year at home before medical school at USC with Emily Siegel 08. Emily Olsen left Cali for a graduate residency at an outdoor science school in McCall, Idaho, through AmeriCorps and University of Idaho. Lauren Bloch moved out to Tucson, Ariz., in December 2009 to work with health spa Miraval as their corporate marketing coordinator. Steph Reist is in her first year at Duke, pursuing a PhD in Latin American literature. Finally, Sarah Hill cannot keep still. This time, after completing a year in Cincinnati, she drove her car down to Austin, Texas, before popping across the pond to attend her sister s wedding in England. Now that she has returned, Ms. Hill will get an MA in exercise physiology at UT and lives with John Chatlos 07 and Karin Knudson. Ms. Hill also managed to arrange a major minireunion at her sister s Connecticut wedding celebration. Party-goers included Mindy Misener, Julie McNamara, Ms. Kirkpatrick, Rachel Asher, Jay Cox-Chapman and yours truly. This event reminded the group of the value of coming together with both family and friends. This value is shared by Katie Jordan, who reported her minireunion with Ms. Bene, Becca Gordon, Mallory Green and Avalon Gulley in Boston. What s more, minireunions tend to be contagious. When Andre Martinez, Brian Bistolfo, Eric Muller, Kevin Coombs and Mike Gerbursh went to New Orleans they ran into Johnny Greenwald 08, Caralyn Quan 08, Cary Bearn 08 and Elspeth Macmillan 08. If we are lucky, this reunion fever won t relent anytime soon. I hope you were all able to clear schedules and get your behinds to homecoming! With that, my friends, I hope you have perused a bit of the lives of some people that share a special part in your history. If not, harass your friends and tell them to submit. Better yet, also tell them to donate to the Alumni Fund. You are better than you know. Your Class Secretary Ethan Timmins-Schiffman 100 Memorial Drive, Apt. 5-6B Cambridge, Mass secretary@williams.edu The following class notes are organized by geographical region in some cases, nature of job in others and by train of thought in a few places. They begin in Ghana, make stops in NYC, Boston, Hong Kong, Wilmington, Del., a Dungeons-and-Dragonsthemed building in Wisconsin, but eventually conclude where it all started: in Williamstown. John Dingee flew to Ghana in early September to continue his plan to alleviate poverty and increase educational and financial opportunities in the Ashanti region through his business, 5Cee Clothing. There are two statefunded schoolhouses in Ampento, the rural town on which John is focusing his efforts. John is doing research on microfinance in the region and consulting the town s residents to determine the best course of action for the future. See updates at facebook. com/5ceeclothing and donate clothes by contacting the man himself at dingeej@gmail.com. To begin her master s program in comparative women s studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Tracey Vitchers spent two weeks in Feminist Boot Camp in Granada, Spain. She is now living in Amsterdam, studying the sociopolitical implications of legalized prostitution on European Union countries. Marco Sanchez wrote from Switzerland, where he learned how to say chuchichäschtli, the Swiss German word for kitchen cabinets. Blake Schultz took his talents to Germany, where he now plays for the Hertener Lions of the Professional B Basketball League. Back in the States, Will Hardy is also sticking with the sport he knows and loves, though he has traded in his sneakers for whatever kind of shoes are worn by people at the managerial level. Will works as a basketball operations intern in the general manager s office of the NBA s San Antonio Spurs. Besides being in perpetual beast mode (his words; mine, too) Charlie Cates works as a personal trainer at the Gold Coast branch of Chicago s Fitness Formula Club. In his spare time he studies for the certified strength and conditioning specialist exam, takes yoga classes and updates his blog at selfmadefitness.com. Cat Vielma, also residing in the Windy City, underwrites realestate investments at a nonprofit tax credit syndicator. In her off time she hangs out with Wes Johnson 09, Dave Aitoro 09, Maddie Jones 09 or roommate/ friend extraordinaire Katie Blankshain. If the building you work in has a Dungeons and Dragons theme and your company s motto is Do good. Have fun. Make money, then your name might be Meredith Craven. Calling Madison, Wis., her current home, Meredith works as a project manager at Epic, a medical-software firm. Audrey Bell is on an art-making adventure in Durham, N.C., with Shelley Williamson. The pair are living it up with lavish dinner parties and Harrison Ford film festivals, all while dabbling in organic farming. Upon moving south of the Mason-Dixon, Shelley has settled for the modest goal of completing 1,000 Sudoku puzzles in less than two weeks. Amanda Widing is WWOOFing (taking part in the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) in Sweden. Highlights include learning about growing over 30 varieties of tomatoes, installing a roof and swimming by moonlight. She is next headed to a donkey sanctuary in Spain. Jamie Pickard spent the summer as a counselor at Maine s Kamp Kohut. In mid-august she and Hanna Geez Gisel drove across country, meeting up with Christina Sanders, Simon Kloeckner, Ben Mackinnon, Henry Montalbano and Brianna Wolfson December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 113

116 CLASS NOTES in NYC. Stops along the road included Dollywood in Tennessee, Graceland, the Sanders residence in Santa Fe, N.M., an LA, where she picked up Anna Mosely and visited Joe Geoghegan. Her epic journey ended at her house in the Bay Area, where she met with Blake Schultz, Chelsea Kubal, Ben Kelley and Will Pettingell. Jamie is now off for a year in Cape Town, where she will volunteer for mothers2mothers communications department. She is grateful that Mike Moorstein has already settled in to the city. In Cameroon Jess Clarke works as an agroforestry volunteer for the Peace Corps. Bret Scofield is volunteering in Nu uuli, American Samoa, where she reports that there are twice as many feral pigs as there are humans. Bret teaches welding to high school students and coaches a running club. Teri Hoffman works in the Promontory Financial Group alongside Sam Empson 09 in Dubai, where Teri got together with Narae Park and had a mini- Pratt 4 reunion. Back in the States, Casey York works as a marketing resident at Playwrights Horizons, an off- Broadway theater that produces new plays and musicals. She is also a hostess at P.J. Clarkes in Lincoln Square and was to assist David Morris 96 on a show in the fall. Recent activities include terrorizing Las Vegas with Leland Brewster 11, Jenny Schnabl, Kallan Wood, Liza Curtiss, Chloe Brown and lots of Williams men s crew folk. Speaking of men who once rowed for the crew team and theater in the Big Apple, Eben Hoffer interns for SITI Co., where he will take classes from the company, learn to organize artists, write grants and work in sound design. Eben lives with his older brother and Eric Kang 09. Sidhant Mehra, also known as DJ Tonic, is perusing hats in Brooklyn. By the time you are reading this he has most likely moved on to another article of clothing. Perhaps the highest concentration of Williams alumni in one apartment may be found in Brooklyn, where Bethany Baker, Hannah Rosenthal, Steph Brooks and Lauren Yesier reside. Steph works as a paralegal at a law firm in Manhattan. Hannah works alongside Esther Jun. Esther s note was cut short by a sudden urge to continue her job removing, cutting up, staining and analyzing 114 Williams People December 2010 mice brains in a lab where she researches multiple sclerosis. John Withers is working at JP Morgan Chase and looking to continue pursuing his interests in martial arts classes, a Chinese blog, break dancing, reading and chilling with friends. John lives with Jimmy Nguyen. Sophie Glickstein lives with Hannah Smith-Drelich and Miriam Chotiner-Gardner in Park Slope and works at a law firm that handles wrongful conviction cases. Julia Reiser and Meg Macdonald found themselves in NYC tortoise-sitting Lily Zhou s gender-ambiguous turtle Francis/ Frances while Lily was in China. Julia also reports that Lily is considering going into advertising, but everyone else knows that her true calling is muffins. Samim Abedi is staying busy with work in NYC. He misses having all of his friends from Williams nearby, but modern technology has allowed him to stay in touch. Adrian Rodrigues works for Morgan Stanley, lunches with Jon Galinsky and Liz Kheim and takes the train to NJ to sample beer brewed by Alex Beecher. Not far from the city, Toby Eyre is a kindergarten assistant teacher at Greenwich Academy, where she will also help coach the high school squash team. Dan Fast is teaching a middle school computer class at Wilmington Friends School in Wilmington, Del. Dan uses educational video games in his lesson plans and spends 45 minutes every Thursday in silent prayer at the school s mandatory weekly Quaker Meeting for Worship. At the Chinquapin School in Highlands, Texas (outside of Houston), Amulya Iyer teaches middle school science. Amulya lists his fellow teachers, his students and the potential adventure that every day presents as perks to the job. Charles Shafer decided to bookend his Williams career with another stint at his alma mater Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh, this time as a dorm parent and teacher of introductory chemistry. Alice Nelson is teaching geology at Swiss Semester, a study abroad program for high school sophomores in Zermatt. Before traveling to beautiful Sweden, where she can look at the Matterhorn every day, Alice reached the summit of Mount Rainier with Daniel Gura and visited Amy Siedlecki in Portland, Ore. In Ho Chi Minh City Dae Selcer teaches American literature at the American Pacific University International School. Activities include discussing sestinas with 12th-graders, riding motorbikes and trying to navigate the nasty minefield that is business casual. In LA Kallan Wood teaches 11thgrade U.S. history at The Archer School for Girls, is assistant director of dance and dabbles as the equestrian team coach. A few miles inland Kayla Elliot works as a math teacher at the Thatcher School. Aaron Mieszczanski 08 (Kayla s former JA) also works at Thatcher, which happens to be the alma mater of Whitney Livermore 08 (Kayla s other JA). Allegra Hyde teaches human ecology at the Island School in the Bahamas. Activities include working on her tan and cracking coconuts. Gigi Campo is a teaching assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In Madrid Jamie Havlin works as an assistant teacher in Spain s Bilingual School system but still plans on attending culinary school to become a baker. Also teaching in Europe is Andrea Currie, who is a high school English teaching assistant in Caen, Normandy (France). Chloe Blackshear works as a full-time tutor, dorm parent and theater/musical coach at Darrow School in New Lebanon, N.Y., only a short drive away from the Village Beautiful. She works alongside Jenna Barbary 08. After spending the summer interning for a New York Times national reporter in Tampa, Fla., Cortni Kerr will be teaching English for 15 months in Bahrain, where she will be a short plane ride away from Adam Baron, Greg Ferris and Paul Fraulo. Tommy Coleman is getting a PhD in math at University of Missouri and dropping knowledge on firstyear students in freshman algebra. Allie Gardner is working on her M.S. in epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Andrew Forrest volunteered for the Cuomo for N.Y. Governor campaign, for which he did policy research. He is now getting his master s in politics at Cambridge University, where Asheque Shams is also continuing his education. Rob Smith is attending law school at Georgetown University. The Knight of the realm of Lambert House, or Arjun Ravi

117 n 2010 Ephs from the classes of 2007 to 2011 constituted two teams at the July 31 Headwaters Relay in Montana. One group, made up of 2010 classmates and their friends, finished second, while the other team of Ephs finished third. Narayan as mere mortals know him, is working on a PhD in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania. By enrolling at England s Durham University, Whit Thayer found a way to stay in school and continue playing the beautiful game she is pursing a master s in education and is a member of the lacrosse team. Whitney Hitchcock attends medical school at Dartmouth, where chance meetings with Evan Seely and Betsy Laurin brighten her day. At Brandeis University outside of Boston Michael Drzyzga is working on a PhD in chemistry and realizing that his days of freedom may be numbered before his studies take over his life. Now for the Boston people: Tony Coleman attends the Harvard Divinity School and lives with George Carstocea. Cambridge residents include, in addition to yours truly, Lydia Barnett-Mulligan, the threesome of Nora Mitchell, Erik Tillman and Heather Bemis 09, and Sophie Vargas, who works for Forrester Research as a research associate. Sophie is becoming acquainted with life in a cubical, fancy business shoes and cooking disasters. Nora works as a research assistant in a vascular biology lab through Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. I work at ConnectEDU, where we put technology in students hands, thereby empowering them to launch their college and career goals. Patty Cho works at the MATCH Charter Public School in Boston. For fun she grades papers and helps her kids with their homework. After spending her summer selling used cars in Las Cruces, N.M., Maria Tucker is hitting the books for a master s program in comparative religion at Harvard. She lives with Kait O Brien, who works at Brigham & Women s Hospital (along with Lisa Chu) and takes pre-med courses at Harvard. Laura Caccamo works as a research assistant at Children s Hospital Boston. She lives in Brookline with Kaitlin Konkel and David Caparrelli. Also in Brookline are Sam Jackson and his friend Bri, who work for the software development company CSN Stores. Emily Porter works as a research assistant at BU Medical School. She lives with Christina Metcalf and Ali DeMarchis in Somerville. Kim Cheng lives in Boston s North End with Joanna Hoffman, who works as an associate at a consulting firm. Chris Warren works at Cambridge Associates, an investment-consulting firm. Natalie Smith was last heard of living with mom and dad in Essex Fells, N.J., taking pre-med courses and applying to post-baccalaureate premedical programs. Dave Kulik lives in Lawrenceville and works as a business associate at ZS Associates in Princeton. Alex Rubin works as a research associate for CoStar Group in Bethesda, Md., not far from his home in Chevy Chase. Alex is not afraid to press pause on the real estate world and blow off some steam at the gym. Amanda Huey just moved to Bethesda, where she works at the National Institutes of Health. Now that she is settled in she is looking for a roommate, so get in touch if you are in the area! In DC are Charlotte Healy, who is in a curatorial internship at the Phillips Collection, Natalie Friedman, who works as a desk assistant at the PBS NewsHour (formerly the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer), and Christina Liu, who works as a paralegal specialist for the Department of Justice in ENRD s Environmental Crimes section (can anyone say BP?). Elizabeth Irvin works for the Sierra Club in our nation s capital. Liz enjoys the change in weather and is looking for a music group to join. Chris Law is also in DC and works for the U.S. Green Building Council. Also in green energy, though on the other coast, is Alex Mokover, who works for a startup that functions as an online location for green technology startups to find funding. Graduate school in Hip-Hop studies may be on the horizon. In between cooking New England clam chowder and apple bread for her roommates in LA, Eva Flamm interns for a film company and kicks it at the beach. A few hundred miles north on Highway 5, Bex Gilbert works at an environmental consulting firm in the Bay Area. If you re in the Bay and looking for a roommate, let her know! After biking cross country over the summer, Abby Islan is settling into Seattle. Plans include scoping out the many Starbucks in the Emerald City for possible employment. Abby Wood works as an editorial assistant at Berkshire Living magazine in Pittsfield. For a slice of the arts, culture and general living experience in Berkshire County check out her blog at Also staying in the Berkshires is Caitlin Eley, current Williams Fellow at Pine Cobble School. Caitlin is the head teacher of history and drama, dabbles in assistant teaching for various subjects and gets overall exposure in grades K-9. December 2010 Williams PeoPle 115

118 Wedding album All dates Abebe 96 Wolpaw: May 22, San Francisco, Calif. All 96 unless noted, left to right: Paige Patterson Duff, Betty Abebe, Jed Wolpaw (groom), Nina Demeksa, Sarah Heidel 02 Adams 06 Walton: July 24, Seattle, Wash. All 06 unless noted, left to right: Allison Farley, Stephanie Vano, Alex Chan, Daniel Walton (groom), Elizabeth Adams, Reed Harrison, Annie Denison Harrison 03 Araghian Fash 04: Aug. 7, Shediac, New Brunswick, Canada Assal Araghian, Ben Fash Arzeno 04 Mooney: June 12, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico All 04 unless noted, left to right: Jarod Kidd 02, Violeta Archilla, Ronni Weinstein, Claudia Arzeno, Michael Mooney (groom), Nora Burns, Kelsey (Peterson) Recht, Michael Recht Williams People publishes photographs of weddings, commitment ceremonies and civil unions. Photos must be received within six months of the ceremony and may not be altered digitally Williams People December 2010

119 Berylson 01 Block: June 26, West Falmouth, Mass. All 01 unless noted, left to right: (seated on couch) Jennifer Berylson, Jonathan Block (groom), Elizabeth (Walsh) Keenan; (back) C.J. Navins, Michele Kovacs, Kathryn Dingman Boger, Kristen Sullivan, Casey (Matthies) Owen 02, Hillary (Weinblatt) Chapman 02, Sarah Rutledge Crump, Robert Moss, Sean Keenan 00, Lisa (Knappen) Ridd 00, Chris Ripley, Stephen Owen, Jason Chapman 02, Sarah Marks 00, Megan Doherty Kelley 00, Ryan Spicer, Whitney (Hallagan) Gilchrist 03, William Gilchrist Cho Chen 07: July 17, San Francisco, Calif. All 07 unless noted, left to right: Whitney Hunter-Thomson, David Senft, Eugenie Du, Daniel Wollin, Frances Cho (bride), Shea Chen, Auyon Mukharji, Merritt Edlind Estorge Gutmann 99: March 27, Estes Park, Colo. Rachel Estorge, Ethan Gutmann Frentzel 98 Regen: May 8, Leesburg, Va. All 98 unless noted, left to right: Stephanie Kampf, Udai Haraguchi, Kristin Frentzel, Jeffrey Regen (groom), Laurie Townsend, Helen Hong December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 117

120 Wedding album All dates Garabedian 01 Reardon 04: June 19, Williamstown, Mass. All 04 unless noted, left to right: (kneeling) Joe Reardon, Jennifer Garabedian 01; (middle) Alice Thomson 01, Stefanie (Noering) Alfond 03, Amanda Robinson 01, Hilary Webb 01, Kate DeLuca 03, Matt Dahlman, Allison Stepp 01, Gina Ruebensaal 01; (back) Tailer Senior 01, Jere Thomson 65, Brian Catanella, Peter Thomson 03, Mike Rabiner, Graham Goldwasser, Dan Giardina, Hayden Lynch, Chris Ripley 01, Jake Moore, Phil Michael, Andrew Zimmer, Andrew Maurer, John Schneider, Josh Schwimmer 01, Lexi Lee, Justin Sullivan, Whitney Hayes Heard 06 Geissler 06: July 24, Chapel Hill, N.C. All 06 unless noted, left to right: (seated) Kimberley Heard, Chris Geissler; (standing) Matt Hsieh, Meg McCann, Jim Prevas, Helen Selonick Prevas 07, Liz Killien, Katie Belshe, Sara (Kazanjian) Martin, Robert Koegel 73, Matt Teschke, Alyson Lynch, Todd Shayler, Heather Casteel, Nick Perry 04, Anne Louise Ennis, Kirsten Staples 91, Robyn Geissler 75, Tom Geissler Hendry 04 Sheehan: July 10, Ann Arbor, Mich. Left to right: Flynn Boonstra 04, Tory Hendry 04, Michael Sheehan, John McCormack 12 Hopke Kingsley 02: June 5, Edgartown, Mass. All 02 unless noted, left to right: (front) Mike Minnefor, Matt Dahlman 04, Lauren Hopke (bride), Adam Sigrist, Derek Chapman, John Vance; (back) Hayden Lynch 04, Colin Brooks, Marshall Creighton, Sean Collins, James Kingsley, Thomas Welling, Conan Leary, Jimmy Crowell 05, Erik Fagan, Larry Crowell 05, Veronica Mendiola 05, Caroline (Norton) Vance Williams People December 2010

121 13 Hult 02 Mularski 02: Aug. 21, San Diego, Calif. All 02 unless noted, left to right: (front) Trevor Babb 00, Joshua Weinstein, Jed Mularski, Britta Hult, Jason Pack, Edin Randall, Cristin Brennan Kazarnowicz; (back) Amber Moore, Jeff McBride, Megan Samenfeld-Specht, Valentin Von Arnim, Maggie Clark, Rachel Brodie Isaacson 04 Tzuker: June 20, Bristol, Maine All 04 unless noted, left to right: Betsy Burris (non-alumna), Brad Wells (Williams Clay Artist in Residence, director of choral activities and music lecturer), Loren Silvertrust, Steve Spinelli 07, Ohm Deshpande, Keith Olsen, Joanna Touger Olsen, Maggie Popkin 03, Elliot Morrison, Nicole Eisenman, Adam Grogg, Heather Foran, Emily Isaacson, Matt Tzuker (groom), Zach Yeskel, Kristin Engelbrecht Bleem, Annie Moore, Steve Seigel, Jeff Nelson Jain 99 Weber: May 15, Memphis, Tenn. All 99 unless noted, left to right: Brian Slack (non-alumnus), Kristin France, Sarah Carr, Brett Linck, Eric Weber (groom), Neelam Jain, Shanna Renzi, Juli Suver (non-alumnna), Jason Adamski (non-alumnus), Dan Suver, Josh McNutt Latham 06 Butts 06: May 30, Williamstown, Mass. Left to right: Alden Robinson 06, Taya Latham 07, Steve Birrell 64, Jay Pasachoff (Williams astronomy professor), Mary Beth Anzovino 06, Bob Beck 75, Lucy Beck 75, Erika Latham 06, David Butts III 06, David Butts 73, Lisa Lindeke 06, Joe Shoer 06, Larry Shoer 73, Seth Daniels 06, Steve Hobbs December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 119

122 Wedding album All dates Latham 07 Kent: Aug. 10, County Clare, Ireland Left to right: David Butts 06, Erika Latham 06, Taya Latham 07, John Kent, Rick Latham, Ann Latham 18 Kelley 08 Schumacker 08: June 26, Honolulu, Hawaii All 08 unless noted, left to right: (kneeling) Courtney Bartlett 06, Katrina Ferrara, Grace Baljon 10, Annie Schneidman, Allie Rottkamp, Julie Greenwood 96, Alison Swain 01, Matt Allen, David Eisenson 07, Richard McDowell 09, Eben Hoffer 10, Edmund Rucci, Lars Ojukwu, Nathaniel Basch-Gould 11, Michael Kamida, Debbi Kang; (standing) Gavin Watson 78, Alice (Marbach) Watson 78, Tom McEvoy 76, Connie Tirrell McEvoy 76, Scott Schumacker 76, Cynthia Schumacker 77, GP LeBourdais, Eric Phillips 09, Dan Greenberg, Tim Geoffrion, Dan Wong, Paul Woodard, Michael Eisert, Holly Crane 12, Evan Maltby 11, Chuck Shafer 10, Jane Kelley, Alec Schumacker, Tom Anderson 06, Scott Murray 07, John Chatlos 07, Eric Kang 09, Mijon Zulu 09, Thomas Zimmerman 06, Matt Earle 07, Caitlin O Connell, Michal Crowder, Frank Reiche 51, Dean Reiche 81, Jock Wright Murray Dreeben 06: Jan. 30, Kerrville, Texas All 06 unless noted, left to right: (kneeling) Evan Miller, Alison Davies 07, Leah Weintraub; (standing) Daniel Rooney, Ari Schoenholtz 05, Jacob Eisler 04, Elaine Murray (bride), Sam Dreeben, Lucy Cox-Chapman, Sara Beach, Kai Steverson, PJ Bonavitacola, Brendan Dougherty 20 Palmer Rodriguez 06: July 17, Westfield, Mass. All 06 unless noted, left to right: Drew Raab, Jamie Kingsbery, Todd Shayler, Ralph White (former Williams track and field coach), Ashley Palmer (bride), George Rodriguez, John Symanski, Meredith (Jones) Clifford 04, Sean Clifford Williams People December 2010

123 21 Pica Friend 03: June 12, New York, N.Y. All 03 unless noted, left to right: Sheldon Woodbury 75, Chris Ripley 01, Nicole Bouvier 92, Nick Goggans 01, Natalie Pica (bride), Ryan Friend, Jamie Gerrity, Sumant Bhat, John Kelly, Tom Kramer, Justin Dittrich, Tim Folan, Justin Sullivan 04, Michael Provost, Andrew Fuller, Lexi Lee 04, Guy Danella, Chris Hayes, Rob Hassell Popkin 03 Morrison 04: Aug. 21, Springfield, Mass. All 04 unless noted, left to right: (front) Elliot Morrison, Maggie Popkin 03; (second row) Scott Grinsell, Ohm Deshpande, Emily Siegel 03, Adrienne Ellman 03, Anjuli Lebowitz 03, Jasmine Mitchell 03, Anna Crowley 03, Nicole Theriault 03, Jae Cody 03, Jon Lovett, Rob Gonzalez 03, Rachel Berlin 05, Rana (Suh) Kannan, Krishna Kannan 03; (third row) Heather Foran, Steve Seigel, Molly Popkin 05, Ali Orme, Adam Grogg, Chris Durlacher 03, Zach Yeskel, Joe Buccina, Sam Gilford, Suzanne Geer 07, Rohan Mehra 07, Craig Tamamoto 02; (back) Jeff Nelson, Emily Isaacson, Josh Earn, Nick Bamat, Eric Schoenfeld 03, Jeremy Redburn 03, Nick Borja, Dave Thal 03, Will Edgar Quezada 95 Lopez: Jan. 2, San Juan Bautista, Calif. Tobias Lopez, Celia Quezada Rapoport 97 Derouin: May 22, Yosemite, Calif. All 97 unless noted, left to right: Bonnie Schulkin 96, Mimi Epstein, Tom Reid, Julie Rapoport, Jason Meyers, Tim Derouin (groom), Jen Laundy Meyers, Holly (Hodgson) Stephens 96; Kyle Downey 96, Henry Roe 24 December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 121

124 Wedding album All dates Rutledge 05 Schiappa: June 6, Pasadena, Calif. All 05 unless noted, left to right: Samatha Goldman, Deborah Hemel, Gene Schiappa (groom), Kate Rutledge, Grace (Wells) Tomooka, David Rutledge 73, Emily Joiner, John Freese 52, Jackie Hom 04, Margaret Ross 26 Selonick 07 Prevas 06: May 29, Stevensville, Md. All 06 unless noted, left to right: (front) Elizabeth Spragins 07, Rachel Jordan 07, Megan McCann, Stuart Selonick 71, Helen Selonick 07, Jim Prevas, Ariel Peters, Kimberley Heard, Matthew Teschke; (back) Frank Murray 71, Bryan Dragon, Matthew Hsieh, John Bennett, Drew Newman 04, Anne Louise Ennis, Chris Geissler Shelby Deaner 03: July 16, Portland, Ore. All 03 unless noted, left to right: David Mihm, Matt Grunwald, Jason Deaner, Brianna Shelby (bride) 28 Smith 07 Selden 06: June 5, Indianapolis, Ind. All 06 unless noted, left to right: (sitting) Opal Thompson, Greta Wilson 07, Sara Ossi, Annie Smith 07, John Selden, Richard Sosa, Cece Lederer, Lauren Hester 07; (standing) Daniel Rooney, Sara Carian 08, Brendan Dougherty, Michael Silverstein 05, Jess (Phillips) Silverstein 07, Miles Klee 07, Spike Friedman 07, Rob Terchunian, Andrew Lazarow Williams People December 2010

125 29 Stayton 89 Mead: Jan. 2, Austin, Texas All 89 unless noted, left to right: (kneeling) Craig Green (non-alumnus); (standing) Jane Britting, Curt Johnson (non-alumnus), Ann Carson, Wayne Fritsche, Jan Blacka, Paul Roycraft (non-alumnus), Charles Mead (groom), John Stayton 63, Jennifer Stayton, Todd Pelkey, Vivian Liu-Somers (non-alumna), Gordon Jones, Catherine Stayton (non-alumna), Blair Jones, Jeff Somers Stockwell 08 Wieczorek 08: June 26, Atlanta, Ga. All 08 unless noted, left to right: (front) Mike Vance 82, Mary Vance 82, David Ramsey 09, Don Wieczorek, Christina Stockwell, Fatima Sammy, Lauren Kennedy, Molly Olsen; (middle) Brendan Conley, Ned Hole 05, Jessie Freeman, Charlotte vanwagenen, Scott MacKenzie 06, Crissy Haley, Sarah Nowakowski, Charles Christianson, Mike Lewen, Janezee Bond, Sophie Scully; (back) Matthew Slovitt 06, Brian Nelson 07, Greg Schultz, Gary Simonette, Matthew Neuber, Ben Bullitt, Henry Felker, Zach McArthur 05, Dixon Hargrove, Steve Bruch 31 Turnbull 04 Rau: Aug. 7, Takoma Park, Md. All 04 unless noted, left to right: (front) Annie Snodgrass 05, Jen Foss-Feig, Antoinette Lockett, Denver Brown, Nigina Turnbull, Brendan Rau (groom), Hong Ngo, Ame Igharo 02, Michael Turnbull 85; (back) Jessica Beck 08, Carlyle Massey, Kristen Lacey, Charlette Steed, Ashley Kindergan, Nora Burns, Emily Maglio Theberge 06 Brittin 06: May 29, Bailey Island, Maine All 06 unless noted, left to right: Tom Smith 88, Wen-Hsin Kuo, Robert O Loughlin 07, Seth Daniels, Lisa Lindeke, Nora Matell, Karl Naden, James Brittin, Ashleigh Theberge, Peter Wells 79, Mary Beth Anzovino, Emily Fertig, Robin Stewart, Alexandra Grier 32 December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 123

126 Wedding Album All dates 2010 unless noted 1956 Robert D. Schumacher & Anne Oliver, Dec. 5, Babette Jenny & James H. Cornell, Dec. 14, Stanley L. Fri & Colinthia R. Whyms, April James A. Roe & Catherine O. Becker, June Liz Beshel & Samuel Robinson, June Elizabeth Allison & Eric Biber, Oct. 24, David J. Ryan & Jennifer J. Galbraith 93, Sept Elizabeth R. Lewand & Chris Gray, Oct. 3, 2009 Keely Maxwell & Mike Rahnis, Oct. 4, James A. Lennon & Tori Shockley, April Joshua T. Gordon & Alyssa Barrett Litoff, July Bethlehem Abebe & Jed T. Wolpaw, May Noah M. Harlan & Micol Ostow, Dec. 5, 2009 Seth J. Morgan & Andrea L. Bongiorno, July 17 Stephen G. O Grady & Mary Katherine Lynch, Aug Jordana Schuster & Seth D. Battis, July Richard W. von Bargen & Suela Nako 00, June Damian Delafield Zunino & Britt Lofgren, Jan. 2 Tracey L. Rocha & David Phelon, May 30 Asha Awad & Kevin Santos, June 5 Malana P. Willis & Sawyer Bailey Haig, July 3 Katharine Lusk & Nicholas Stipinovich, July 17 Sara J. Cofrin & Alan Walsh, July Elizabeth S. Jacobs & Mangesh D. Hattikudur, May 16 Jennifer Anne Garabedian & Joseph P. Reardon 04, June 19 Jennifer Berylson & Jonathan Fredric Block, June Chris Warshaw & Carolyn Snyder, Sept. 6, 2009 Britta Joanna Hult & Jedrek Putta Mularski, Aug Ryan N. Friend & Natalie M. Pica, June 12 Jeremy A. Redburn & Jennifer Deal, July Meredith Olson & Mark Heinrich-Wallace, May 22 Kathleen Kiernan & Ivan Peter Harnden, May 30 Claudia Arzeno & Michael Trip Mooney, June 12 Alexandra Lee & Justin P. Sullivan, July 17 Emily P. Ludwig & Andrew Serazin, Aug. 7 Rachel Elizabeth Outterson & Jason Reed Saleh, Sept Katherine Elizabeth Rutledge & Gene Andrew Schiappa, June 6 Natalia Romano & Sushil Kumar Gehlot, June Sara Kazanjian & Dustin J. Martin, May 15 Ashleigh B. Theberge & James J. Brittin, May 29 Erika B. Latham & David L. Butts, May 30 John A. Selden & Anne E. Smith 07, June Ashley Katrina Brown & Juan Anthony Burns, Jan. 29 Lisa Davenport & Brian P. Reggiannini, June 12 Amanda A. LaSane & Tai Jun Ali, June 27 Shea D. Chen & Frances Yun Jae, July Williams People December 2010

127 births & adoptions All dates 2010 unless noted 1973 Stella Georgia & Eva Nelle Ruf to Frederick J. Ruf, Jan Daniel Jacob Cristofaro to Anna (Simas) Cristofaro, July Sarah Grace Hultman to Lauri Munroe-Hultman, July 25, 2008; adopted Aug. 3, 2009 Joseph Ambrose Brown to Peter H. & Laura Feitzinger Brown 87, March 2 Roman Ostino Speck to Jeff B. Speck, June Nora Ann Dodge Hopkins to Jane P. Amidon, March 26 Amelie Rousseau Perrott to Jeffrey H. Perrott, July Philippa Randolph Tarses to Matthew Tarses, March 10, 2009 India & Guy Reiss Gendell to Bradley H. Gendell, July 10, 2009 Iver M. Mountjoy McLaughlin to Michael Erard, Nov. 9, 2009 Elizabeth Mia Friedman to Jeffrey Friedman, Feb. 8 Margaret Dahl McLeod Sorensen to Mark A. Sorensen, April Sofia & Alexander Sorensen to Ellen Highstone Sorensen, Oct. 20, 2009 Cullen James Moriarty to James J. Moriarty, Aug Jacqueline Alyse Levenberg to Joshua S. Levenberg, Oct. 29, 2009 Jacob Paul Balter to Bradley R. Balter, Dec. 4, 2009 Finley Hutchins Taptich to Brian E. & Rachel Lyons Taptich 94, April Anna Helen Tilton to Eric (Small) & Margaret A. Tilton, Nov. 5, 2009 Andrew Wynn Kwame Zuckerman to Ethan R. Zuckerman & Rachel Evelyne Barenblat 96, Nov. 28, Summer Hampton Hoenick to Brittany Star Hampton, Oct. 27, 2009 Emme Quyen Catanzano to Gregory P. Catanzano, Nov. 1, 2009 Owen Seed Reis to Michael J. & Jennifer Seed Reis 96, July Ethan Jonas Wichman to Karin Meitner Wichman, Sept. 9, 2009 George Perrin Eades to Jonathan Eric Eades, Nov. 16, 2009 Patrick Thomas Benton to Shelby Hallam Benton, Jan. 9 Lucy Anne Frances Kurtz to Martin H. Kurtz, April Maya Belle Hristic to Holly Maginnis Matthews, Oct. 4, 2009 Molly Schriber Sullivan to Alison Poett Sullivan, Nov. 4, 2009 Miles Owen Heard to Anna Cederberg Heard, Nov. 19, 2009 Clara Ann Kozuch to Ana Maria (Zavala) Kozuch, Dec. 7, 2009 Serena Seed Melbye to Vanessa Seed Melbye, Feb Sky Hirano Wittkamper to Jonah C. Wittkamper, Dec. 13, 2009 Lauriston Alexander Egy St. Clair to Alexander Walker St. Clair, June 8 Lachlan Arthur Oei-Johnson to Sabrina B. Oei, Aug Mary Pope to John B. & Kathleen (O Connell) Pope, June 30, 2009 Alexander Dean Yu to Edward H. Yu, Oct. 15, 2009 Sarah Charlotte Low to Anne (Faubert) & Seth C. Low, Nov. 2, 2009 Riley Kathryn Bell to James & Caroline (Nesbit) Bell 99, Jan. 2 Neko Mei Wienert to Maya Hu DeHart, April 23 Colter Curtis McPhail to Graham Morgan McPhail, May 4 Eliza Deane Freitas to Micaela H. Coady, May 12 Caley Anne Rice to Jessica Caley Rice, May 18 Kellan Thomas Elkinton to Christopher Neil Elkinton, May 27 Anika Gitanjali Gajula to Anita Doddi Gajula, June 13 Ellie Bea Sasaki to Derek Sasaki-Scanlon, June Otis Hunter Eastman to Katama (Guernsey) Eastman, Jan. 20 Lauren Liao Rhee to Katherine P. Liao, March 26 Virginia Marie Rubio to Christian A. Rubio, April 28 Lucas Xiang-Yo Lin to Clarissa Yu Shen, Aug Devin Julian Sunderam to Arjuna Sunderam, Oct. 11, 2009 December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 125

128 births & adoptions All dates 2010 unless noted Gwendolyn & Joseph Satterthwaite to Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Dec. 27, 2009 Molly & Andrew Gorges Manchester to Torie Gorges, March 19 Catherine Mary Paolercio to Michael A. & Kimberly Massimiano Paolercio, March 20 Harper Lofgren Zunino to Damian Delafield Zunino, March 24 Emilia Kate Liversidge to Norm Liversidge, March 26 Beatrice Kanner Fineman to Matthew J. Fineman, April 27 Declan Seamus Grant to Kate (Flynn) & Thomas D. Grant, June 30 Henry Bowman Scott to Mary (Cummins) & Richard S. Scott III, July 8 Zachary Joseph Gray to Stephen M. Gray, Aug Ralph Paul Marsh to Aaron Marsh, Feb. 3 Cole Tilley Creighton to Elizabeth (Tilley) & Marshall K. Creighton 02, March 11 James Robert Henrion Weir to Victoria Henrion Weir, March 29 Kiernan Mary Kappler to Hagan McCurdy Kappler, Sept Zahra Fatima Ahmad Powell to Josef P.M. Powell, March 10, 2009 Patrick Ryan Holland to Matthew B. Holland, July 30, 2009 Dashiell Knight Kolar to Tenaya Plowman & Nathan Kolar 05, Sept. 24, 2009 Wyatt Wellman Hood to Alexander N. & Kate Leonard Hood 03, July Summer Jane Brenninkmeyer to David R. & Anri Wheeler Brenninkmeyer, June 25 Luke Carroll Zimmerman to Katherine L. Carroll & Patrick W. Zimmerman, Aug Connor David Olsen to Keith Curtis & Joanna Touger Olsen, Aug. 25 OBITUARIES All dates 2010 unless noted 1931 Austin J. Ehleider of Rutland, Vt., June 28. A lifelong resident of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Ehleider was a dentist and oral surgeon and on the staff of St. Francis Hospital and Vassar Hospital, where he served one year as chief of staff. He was a pioneer in dental implants. At Williams he belonged to Outing Club and the wrestling and football teams. He received DMD and DDS degrees from Harvard Dental School (1935). He was a U.S. Army Air Force captain (WWII). He was president of the Dutchess County Dental Society and a member of the American Dental Association and the Academy of General Dentistry. As a Williams alumnus he was a class secretary and president. Among his survivors are three children, six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren F. Woodward Prosser of Chatham, Mass., July 30. Prosser worked in the insurance business in NYC for many years, retiring as departmental superintendent of The Continental. Early in his career he worked in the photography studio of Ansel Adams. At Williams he belonged to Delta Phi. He served in the U.S. Navy ( ). He received a law degree from University of Virginia (1953). He served on the Tenafly, N.J., Board of Education and the Chatham School Committee, was secretary of the Chatham Fish Pier Committee and was a board member of Westgate Foundation. As a Williams alumnus he was VP of the Cape Cod regional alumni association. Among his survivors are three children, including Robert W. Prosser 76, and six grandchildren prosser H. Fred Mercer Jr. of Verona, Pa., Aug. 14. Mercer was an attorney in private practice in Pittsburgh for more than 60 years, specializing in civil trial/personal injury 126 Williams People December 2010

129 litigation. He received a law degree from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Law. He belonged to the judiciary and ethics committees of the Allegheny Bar Association, the House of Delegates of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and several other professional organizations, including the American Bar Association, the American Judicature Society and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Among his survivors are three children and four grandchildren Winslow H. Robart of New London, N.H., June 4. Robart was a painting contractor with E.A. Robart & Sons of Brookline, Mass. He spent three years at Williams and belonged to the track team and Delta Phi. He was president of the Brookline Kiwanis Club and master of the Brookline Masonic Lodge, receiving his 50-year pin from King Solomon s Lodge. As a Williams alumnus he was chair of his 60th reunion committee and class gift planning chair. He was a member of the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are four children, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren Edwin B. Heyes Jr. of Somers, N.Y., May 17. Heyes was a commercial banker with Chase Manhattan Corp. He also was an instructor at the American Institute of Banking in NYC. At Williams he belonged to Cap & Bells, the soccer and swim teams and Phi Delta Theta. He was a U.S. Navy lieutenant (WWII). He received a master s in business administration from New York University (1950) and a degree from the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers. He was treasurer of Friends in Service Helping. As a Williams alumnus he was class treasurer and secretary. Among his survivors are four children, five grandchildren and one great-grandson. William L. MacVane Jr. of Falmouth, Maine, Aug. 1. MacVane was a general and thoracic surgeon in private practice and a mayor of Portland. He also was a physician surveyor with the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals. At Williams he belonged to the lacrosse and swim teams and Sigma Phi. He received a medical degree from Johns Hopkins (1941). He was a U.S. Army major, serving with the 61st Portable Surgical Unit ( ), receiving a Bronze Star Medal. He was president and chairman of Mercy Hospital medical staff and director of medical education at Mercy Hospital. He was on the Portland City Council, was a member of the Portland school board and transit authority, and was chairman of the Portland Bicentennial Committee and public library building committee. He was a trustee of many Portland organizations, including the YMCA and local American Red Cross. He was a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and the American College of Surgeons and president of the Maine Thoracic Society, among his many professional affiliations. As a Williams alumnus he was class president and a member of his 50th reunion committee. Among his survivors are five children, 10 grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and cousin Stephen B. Nelson Henry M. Dunham of Seaford, Del., June 12. Dunham was an engineer with dupont Co. He received a master s in chemistry from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1939). Among his survivors are his wife Jean, a daughter and a granddaughter. Howard G. Fleisher of Jenkintown, Pa., April 24. Fleisher worked at Modern Heat & Fuel in Philadelphia before founding Printing Services of Philadelphia. He was a Big Brother and a volunteer with The Association for Independent Growth. He was named Man of the Year by the Wingate Lodge of B nai B rith (1996). Among his survivors are four children, nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren macvane Bayard R. Hand of Darien, Conn., Aug. 2. Hand was marketing director for Roper Organization; director of products and marketing planning and, later, director of mergers and acquisitions for Fairfield Camera & Instrument Corp.; and VP of finance and December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 127

130 OBITUARIES All dates 2010 unless noted administration at Research Corp., from which he retired. He also founded the catering company Reddy Fox. At Williams he belonged to Chi Psi. He was a U.S. Air Force captain (WWII). He attended Wharton Business School. He was active with the Darien Democratic Town Committee and boards of education, selectmen and finance. He was president of Meals on Wheels and treasurer of Person to Person, receiving special recognition for 25 years of service (2005). He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Darien Chamber of Commerce (1993). Also in Darien, he was treasurer of the senior center, president of the Darien United Way and board member of A Better Chance. As a Williams alumnus he was a member of his 50th reunion committee and 50th reunion fund committee, chairman of the 55th reunion and a class agent. He belonged to the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are his wife Elizabeth, three children, nine stepchildren and six grandchildren, including Julianne Mann Mark S. Wellington of Marlborough, Mass., July 9. Wellington was a physician and internist on the staff of Framingham Union Hospital. At Williams he belonged to the cross country team and Psi Upsilon. He received a medical degree from Harvard (1943). He served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps ( ). He belonged to the Framingham Conservation Commission, Massachusetts Medical Society and American College of Physicians. He was a longtime member of The Speckled Band, Boston s Sherlock Holmes Society. As a Williams alumnus he belonged to the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are four children, including Laurence C. Wellington II 70, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren Walter F. Crandall of Suntree, Fla., July 19. Crandall was VP of Wire Rope Corp. of America of New Haven, Conn., and then St. Joseph, Mo. Previously he was assistant production control manager for U.S. Electric Motors. At Williams he belonged to Cap & Bells, College Council, Undergraduate Council, the soccer team and Phi Sigma Kappa. He was a U.S. Army Air Force captain ( ). Among his civic activities, he was president of the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce and United Way, board chairman of the Morris Plan and a member of Service Corps of Retired Executives. He belonged to the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are two children and two grandsons. John W. Lund of Worcester, Mass., July 31. Lund was president of New England Envelope Manufacturing Co., S&S Paper Co. and Worcester Converting Co. At Williams he belonged to Outing Club, the Record, WCFM and Zeta Psi. He served in the American Field Service ( ) and with the U.S. Merchant Marines ( ). He was a director of Concordia Co., International Packings, Mechan Bank and Memorial Hospital, founder of Greater Worcester Community Foundation and trustee of Becker Junior College. He established the John W. Lund Fund Community Achievement Award with Clark University and the Renaissance Award Fund with the Greater Worcester Community Foundation. He received the Parker Trowbridge Founders Award for his contributions to the Massachusetts Easter Seal Society, of which he was president and honorary life director. Among his survivors are three daughters, two grandsons and a greatgrandson. Robert W. Taylor Jr. of Victor, N.Y., May 15. Taylor was a physician in private practice and chief of medicine at Auburn Memorial and Mercy hospitals. At Williams he belonged to the football, lacrosse and swim teams. He received a medical degree from Harvard (1944). He was a U.S. Army captain ( ). He belonged to several professional organizations and was president of the Cayuga County Medical Society. As a Williams alumnus he was a class agent. Among his survivors are four children, including William G. Taylor 67 and Roger K. Taylor 73, 10 grandchildren, including David T. Brown 07 and Ashley W. Taylor 11, and three great-grandchildren Herbert Holden Jr. of Columbus, N.C., Aug. 30. Holden was senior VP for the petroleum division of Citi Bank. At Williams he was a junior advisor and belonged to College Council, the lacrosse and football teams and Chi Psi. He was a U.S. Marine Corps 1st lieutenant ( ) and member of the Blacksheep Squadron. He was a board member of First Reserve Corp. and American Gas & Oil Ltd. As a Williams 128 Williams People December 2010

131 alumnus he was class agent and member of his 50th reunion fund committee. Among his survivors are his wife Nan, four children, five grandchildren and a greatgrandson. holden Warren G. Hunke of Williamstown, Mass., July 29. Hunke was a choral director and arranger, serving as director of music, chairman of the arts department, alumni director of development and senior house master at the Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y., and as director of the Village Chorus of Millburn, N.J. He later was music director at WKOB in North Adams and director of development at Historic Deerfield. Most recently, he sang and played solo benefit concerts for numerous Berkshire County organizations, including Greylock ABC and Berkshire Food Project. At Williams he belonged to Cap & Bells, College Council, Undergraduate Council, Sketch editorial board, Glee Club, choir, Beta Theta Pi and Octet, of which he was a co-founder. He was a U.S. Army Air Force 1st lieutenant ( ). He received a master s in music from Columbia (1962) and studied choral directing at Juilliard and the Berkshire Music Center. As a Williams alumnus he was director of the Williams Alumni Octet and belonged to the Williams Club. He has no known survivors. hunke G. James Williams of Delray Beach, Fla., May 20. A lifelong resident of Midland, Mich., Williams spent his career at The Dow Chemical Co., retiring in 1980 as financial VP and a member of the board of directors. At Williams he belonged to Phi Sigma Kappa. He was a U.S. Army Air Force 1st lieutenant ( ). He received a law degree from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1948) and an honorary degree from Saginaw Valley State College (1979). He was a board member of Dow Corning Corp., Chemical Bank & Trust, Sealed Power Corp. and the National Association of Manufacturers. Among his civic activities, he was involved with the Midland Board of Education, Saginaw Valley State University, the Michigan YMCA and the Midland Center for the Arts. As a Williams alumnus he belonged to his 50th reunion fund committee and the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are three children, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren Walter R. Griffin of Southbury, Conn., April 9. Griffin was an attorney in private practice who was admitted before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the Interstate Commerce Commission and the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service. He was a U.S. Army 1st lieutenant ( ). He received a law degree from University of Virginia (1948). He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Connecticut Bar Association and president of the Waterbury Bar Association. He was chairman of the Waterbury Housing Authority, member of the Waterbury Board of Public Welfare, chief moderator of elections in Waterbury and census director for the 5th Congressional District of Connecticut. He was a founding director of the Connecticut Attorney s Title Insurance Co. and chair of the board of directors of Waterbury Hospital. Among his survivors are his wife Marie, three children, including Gregory J. Griffin 71, 11 grandchildren and two step-grandchildren. William A. Klopman of Greensboro, N.C., July 25. Klopman was president, chairman and CEO of Burlington Industries. At Williams he was a junior advisor, chair of athletic council and member of the wrestling and soccer teams and Alpha Delta Phi. He was a U.S. Navy lieutenant, junior grade ( ), receiving a Victory Medal and Bronze Star Medal. He was a director of NationsBanc Montgomery Securities and Western Electric Co., chairman December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 129

132 OBITUARIES All dates 2010 unless noted of American Textile Manufacturers Institute and trustee of North Carolina State University and served on the board of governors of the Center for Creative Leadership. As a Williams alumnus he belonged to his 50th reunion fund committee, the Williams Club and the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are five children, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Donald Shriver of Portland, Maine, and Forestburgh, N.Y., Aug. 8. Shriver was an executive with AT&T for more than 30 years. At Williams he belonged to the Record, Phi Delta Theta and the squash team. He was a U.S. Navy 1st lieutenant ( ). He volunteered with the American Red Cross. Among his survivors are two children and four grandchildren Robert J. Buck of Marietta, Ga., July 19. Buck worked in marketing, including as VP of Dancer- Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency, president of GenPar Inc. and marketing director at The Coca-Cola Co. At Williams he was a junior advisor and belonged to the band, WCFM, flying club, Delta Upsilon and the lacrosse and soccer teams. He served in the U.S. Navy (WWII). He graduated in 1946 after completing Navy V-12 studies at Hobart. He was chaplain of the Piedmont, N.Y., chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. Among his survivors are his wife Ruth, three children, cousins Robert T. Buck Jr. 61, Roger Buck Jr. 63, William L. Buck 61, five grandchildren and one great-grandson. Josiah Howe Vose Fisher of Chapel Hill, N.C., July 29. Fisher worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and later as an environmental consultant. At Williams he belonged to the ice hockey team and Theta Delta Chi. He was a U.S. Army major ( , ). He was a member of the National Ski Patrol, the Nature Conservancy, AMC and American Birding Association, VP of the board of the New Hampshire Audubon Society and board chairman of the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center. As a Williams alumnus he belonged to the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are three children and several grandchildren. Paul E. Wilkinson of Oak Ridge, Tenn., June 13. Wilkinson was a physicist and spent 40 years as technical administrator at Y-12 National Security Complex, operated by Union Carbide Nuclear Co., working on secret projects that included developing the Apollo lunar sample return container. At Williams he was a junior advisor and belonged to WCFM and Garfield Republican Club. Among his survivors are his wife Dorothy, four children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren Harry M. DePan of Queensbury, N.Y., May 26. DePan was a surgeon in private practice in Glens Falls and senior attending surgeon at Glens Falls Hospital. At Williams he belonged to the lacrosse team and Beta Theta Pi. He received a medical degree from Cornell (1947). He was a U.S. Navy lieutenant ( , ). He was a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of several medical societies. He was a volunteer with the Glens Falls Medical Mission Foundation, traveling to Guatemala, Somalia and Saipan. Among his survivors are his wife Martha, four children and six grandchildren. Everett F. Gidley Jr. of New Canaan, Conn., July 11. Gidley left Williams the spring of his freshman year to join the U.S. Air Force, serving as lieutenant. He was shot down and became a prisoner of war in Nuremberg. He later returned to Williams, graduating with the Class of He was a partner with the real estate firm E.F. Gidley Co. Previously he worked for The Coca- Cola Export Corp. in South America and the Caribbean. At Williams he belonged to the band, College Council, Delta Kappa Epsilon and the football, ice hockey and track teams. He was a volunteer in many Darien community organizations, including the Beautification Commission, YMCA and the Depot. As a Williams alumnus he was class president, agent and secretary. Among his survivors are three children, five grandchildren and nephews Peter G. Rice 68 and Peter M. Rice 92. Jeffrey H. Harris of Harvard, Mass., June 23. Harris was a physician in private practice and later on staff at Fort Devens. At Williams he belonged to Sigma Phi. He was a U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant (WWII). He received a medical degree from Boston University (1950). He was chairman of the town of 130 Williams People December 2010

133 Harvard s Board of Health, the Harvard Elementary School Council and the Bromfield School Council and was a trustee of the Harvard Public Library. He was instrumental in the building of Nashoba Valley Medical Center, for which he was on staff and served as chief of anesthesiology. He belonged to several professional organizations and was president of Worcester North District Medical Society and board president of the Massachusetts Anesthesia Council on Education Inc. He belonged to the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are his wife Ragnhild, three children, seven grandchildren and two great-granddaughters Norman E. Ott of Williamstown, Mass., and Lake Worth, Fla., April 17. A longtime resident of North Adams, Ott was president and general manager of Brewer-Perkins Inc. international truck retailer. Previously he was a salesman with NCR in New Haven, Conn. He attended Williams for one year and graduated from Wesleyan (1948). He was a U.S. Army Air Corps fighter pilot ( ), receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with eight oak leaf clusters. He was a member and secretary of the New England Chrysler-Plymouth Dealer Association, president of North Adams Rotary Club, North Adams Chamber of Commerce and the United Fund, trustee of North Adams Regional Hospital and member of the North Adams Planning Board. He was a founding member of the North Adams State College Foundation and a director of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. He was a national ski patrolman at Dutch Hill in Vermont. Among his survivors are his wife Ann, three children, three grandchildren and two great-granddaughters Arthur E. Ellison of Shaftsbury, Vt., May 23. A longtime resident of Williamstown, Ellison was an orthopedic surgeon in private practice and a pioneer in sports medicine. He was physician for Williams athletics and team physician for the U.S. Ski Team, including during the 1980 Winter Olympics, and he served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Albany Medical College. At Williams he belonged to College Council, Outing Club, the Record, Young Republicans and sailing club. He received a medical degree from Harvard (1951). He was a founding member of the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine and a member of several professional associations. He was a consultant to the U.S. Surgeon General on skiing injuries and a member of the U.S. Surgeon General s Advisory Committee on Accident Prevention. As a ellison Williams alumnus he was a class agent, gift planning chair, secretary and member of his 50th reunion fund committee and the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are his wife Winifred, five children and two grandchildren. Thomas C. Woodward of Butte, Mont., April 5. A longtime resident of Casper, Wyo., Woodward was a geologist with Wold & Jenkins and later Evergreen Enterprises. Previously he worked at Gulf Oil and Amoco Oil. At Williams he belonged to WCFM and Zeta Psi. He was a U.S. Navy lieutenant, junior grade ( ). He received a master s in geology from Colorado School of Mines (1950) and a PhD in geology from University of Texas at Austin (1955). He belonged to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Wyoming Board of Professional Geologists. Among his survivors are his wife Lucy, three children and 15 grandchildren Henry W. Estabrook of Hamden, Conn., May 15. Estabrook worked in sales before joining the Yale Alumni Fund, where he became a pioneer in planned giving and managing director and later university director of planned giving. In retirement he worked as a fundraising consultant. At Williams he belonged to the ice hockey team and Delta Psi. He was a U.S. Naval Aviator flight instructor (WWII). He was active with the Boys & Girls Club of Connecticut and American Red Cross and was a trustee of Taft and Westover schools. As a Williams alumnus he was an associate December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 131

134 OBITUARIES All dates 2010 unless noted agent, planned giving chair and a member of the 50th reunion fund committee and Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are his wife Mary, three daughters and four grandchildren. Andrew L. Goodrich of Oakville, Ontario, June 19. Goodrich was a U.S. Army Air Corps lieutenant ( ) before enrolling at Williams, where he belonged to the squash team and Chi Psi. He was president and general manager of Brevel Motors Canada Ltd. Previously he worked in upper management with McGraw Edison and Eaton Manufacturing Co. He was director of the Automotive Industries Association of Canada and a volunteer with the Oakville branch of the Canadian Red Cross. Among his survivors are three sons, including John B. Goodrich 79, and seven grandchildren. David Rockwood of Osterville, Mass., Aug. 2. Rockwood was founder and president of Old Cape Cod Insurance Agency. At Williams he belonged to Phi Gamma Delta. He was a U.S. Army Air Corps flight officer ( ). He was president of the Cape Cod visiting nurse association and the Cape Cod Conservatory of Musical Arts, chairman of the Barnstable Housing Authority and board member of the Cape Cod Symphony. He belonged to the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are his wife Patricia, three sons, three stepchildren, four grandchildren and five stepgrandchildren Thomas L. Mitchell of Buffalo, N.Y., and Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada, April 9. Mitchell was Detroit manager for J.W. Clement printing company in Buffalo and then eastern sales manager for E.F. Schmidt Printing Co. in Detroit. He was a U.S. Army Air Force sergeant ( , ). At Williams he belonged to the baseball and ice hockey teams and Delta Psi. An avid golfer, he was creator and editor of From the Hill, the newsletter of the Fort Erie, Ontario, Cherry Hill Club, for which he was awarded a lifetime membership. He was a director of Professional Corporation Digest Inc. Among his survivors are his wife Patricia and three daughters. Howard R. Simpson of Baltimore, Md., Aug. 12. Simpson was a stockbroker and bond specialist who spent most of his career with Blyth, Eastman & Dillon Co. He left Williams to serve in the U.S. Army ( ), after which he returned to the College and belonged to Purple Key, WCFM, Outing Club, Phi Sigma Kappa and the ice hockey and lacrosse teams. He was a member of the Baltimore chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society, the Bond Club of Baltimore and the board of the Baltimore Boys Latin School, receiving the school s Distinguished Alumnus Award (2004). He was an avid hiker simpson and with his wife owned Chairback Mountain Camps in Greenville, Maine. As a Williams alumnus he was a class agent and belonged to the Baltimore regional special gifts committee, the Williams Club and the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are his wife Kitty, four children, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Stuart K. Wood of Yarmouth Port, Mass., July 26. Wood was a marketing executive with firms including U.S. Rubber and Avon before starting Stuart K. Wood Fuels home heating oil company. He later worked part time as a dispatcher for the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority. He was a U.S. Army Air Force 1st lieutenant ( ), earning an Air Medal prior to entering Williams, where he spent a year and belonged to Chi Psi. Among his survivors are his wife Dee, four children and three grandsons A. Bruce Brackenridge of Bronxville, N.Y., June 27. Brackenridge was executive VP and head of administration at JP Morgan & Co. At Williams he belonged to Gul, the brackenridge 132 Williams People December 2010

135 golf team and Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was a board member of Bayer Foreign Investment Corp., Parsons School of Design, Lycee Français of New York and Doctors Without Borders. Among his survivors are his wife Barbara, three children, including Alexander Brackenridge 85 and Katie Brackenridge 88, and seven grandchildren. Charles E. Dinkey III of Fort Collins, Colo., April 21, Dinkey was a financial planner in Florida and later worked in financial management for several cruise lines, most recently Commodore Cruise Line Ltd. At Williams he belonged to the sailing club and Zeta Psi. He was a U.S. Air Force lieutenant ( ). He received an MBA from SUNY-Buffalo (1968). He was a volunteer counselor with the Consumer Credit Counseling Service. Among his survivors are four children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. George M. Steinbrenner of Tampa, Fla., July 13. Steinbrenner was principal owner and chairman of the New York Yankees. Previously he was chairman of the board of American Ship Building Co. and operated the Cleveland Pipers basketball team. He also was a partner of the New Jersey Nets and the New Jersey Devils. Earlier in his career he coached high school football and basketball in Ohio and was assistant football coach at Northwestern and Purdue. At Williams he belonged to Purple Key, the Record, band, Glee Club, travel bureau, athletic council, Gargoyle, Purple Knights, Delta Kappa Epsilon and the football and track teams. He was a U.S. Air Force 1st lieutenant ( ). He received a master s degree from Ohio State University (1954) and an honorary degree from the College of New Rochelle (1979). He was a board member of the Chicago Bulls, Tampa Bay Downs Horse Track and Trans-Marine Management Corp., a trustee of Florida Foundation and NCAA Foundation, vice chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee and chairman of the U.S. Olympic Overview Commission. He was a member of the Ohio Board of Regents and chairman of the Florida State Fair Authority. He received several awards, including the General Douglas MacArthur Award from the U.S. Olympic Committee (2000), and he was inducted into the Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame (1976). As a Williams alumnus he received the Kellogg Award for lifetime career achievement (2002), and he belonged to his 50th reunion fund committee and the Williams Club. Among his survivors are his wife Joan, four children, including Harold Z. Steinbrenner 91, and several grandchildren steinbrenner Donald G. Marshall of Edina, Minn., May 28. Marshall was an attorney and, for more than 40 years, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. At Williams he was a junior advisor, belonged to the track team, Adelphic Union and Undergraduate Council and was president of Phi Beta Kappa. He served in the U.S. Army ( ). He received a law degree from Yale (1960). Among his survivors are three sons marshall J. Monroe Hawkins of Bronxville, N.Y., March 1. Hawkins was assistant VP for Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. At Williams he belonged to Phi Gamma Delta. As a Williams alumnus he belonged to the Williams Club. Among his survivors is brother Ira A. Hawkins III 51. Kenneth L. Sperling of Peapack, N.J., May 6. Sperling was a self-employed management consultant and software developer. Previously he was director of organization and career development at Warner- Lambert Co. At Williams he belonged to the cross country and track teams and Purple Key. He served in the U.S. Army ( ). He received a master s in personnel administration from NYU (1957). He was a member of the International Association of Applied Social Scientists December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 133

136 OBITUARIES All dates 2010 unless noted and a director of Executive Study Conference and the Educational Assistance Fund of Morris County. He sat on the national panel of arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association and was a member of the American Psychological Association. He belonged to the Williams Club. Among his survivors are three children. Thomas E. Stephens of Woodbury, Conn., June 5. Stephens was a salesman, most recently manager at Boddington Lumber Co. in Albuquerque, N.M. At Williams he belonged to WCFM and Sigma Phi. He served in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps (Korean War). Among his survivors are his wife Bonnie, three children, two stepchildren and six grandchildren. William T. Weeks of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., May 22. Weeks spent his career with IBM Corp., retiring as a member of the senior technical staff and considered an expert on circuit analysis programs. At Williams he belonged to Outing Club, WCFM and Phi Beta Kappa. He received a master s (1956) and PhD (1960), both in physics, from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He belonged to the American Physical Society. He was an early member and president of the Family Skimeister Club. Among his survivors are his wife Ann, two children and two granddaughters Marvin H. Hoffman of New Paltz, N.Y., March 3. Hoffman was executive VP of Pinnacle Books Inc. and president of Packard Press and Princeton Academic Press Inc. He spent two years at Williams and belonged to the band, the lacrosse team and Phi Gamma Delta. He served in the U.S. Air Force ( ), receiving the American Spirit of Honor Medal. He graduated from Columbia (1962). Among his survivors are his wife Barbara, three children and eight grandchildren Duane R. Batista of Wellesley, Mass., Aug. 23. Batista was a partner with the law firm Nutter, McClennen & Fish, specializing in labor and employment law and appellate litigation. Previously he worked for the National Labor Relations Board. At Williams he was manager of the cross country team and belonged to Adelphic Union, debate team, news bureau and Psi Upsilon. He was a U.S. Air Force captain ( ). He received a law degree from Harvard (1963). He served on the Wellesley School Committee and was a trustee of the Wellesley Free Library. He belonged to the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are his wife Margaret Jane, three sons, including Gregory J. Batista 86, and four grandchildren. batista David J. Loomis of Prescott, Ariz., July 12. Loomis worked with severely handicapped children and adults. He was an ordained Presbyterian minister and worked as Protestant chaplain at University of Maryland and director of Christian education at the Christian Community Presbyterian Church in Bowie, Md., among other positions. At Williams he was a junior advisor, president of the Chapel Board and belonged to Gargoyle and Delta Psi. He received a master s from Harvard and a PhD from University of Maryland. He wrote Happiness: Use It or Lose It (2005). Among his survivors are his companion Denise Kaldis, two sons, brother John M. Loomis 54 and nieces Jennifer L. Deal 84 and Abigail E. Deal 13. John G. Taylor of Glencoe, Ill., Aug. 8. Taylor was a managing partner at the brokerage firm Chancellor Dougall & Co. At Williams he belonged to the swim and track teams and Delta Upsilon. He was a U.S. Navy lieutenant ( ). He received an MBA from Northwestern (1961). As a Williams alumnus he served on his 25th reunion fund committee and belonged to the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are his wife Gay, five children, six grandchildren, brother David L. Taylor 59 and niece Alex R. Montgomery Thomas A. DeLong II of Southport, Conn., July 12. DeLong was CEO of Sasco Associates. Previously he worked in management communications at Olin Corp. and Pfizer Inc. At Williams he was editor of 134 Williams People December 2010

137 the Record and belonged to Outing Club, WCFM and Phi Sigma Kappa. He received a Master of Arts from Columbia (1959) and an MBA from New York University (1969). He served in the U.S. Army ( ). He was director of Tameme Corp., served on the Westport Historical Society Advisory Council and was chairman of the board of trustees for the Westport School of Music. He was the author of 10 books, including John Davis Lodge: A Life in Three Acts, which received Fairfield County Reader s Choice Award for the Best New Book of the Year (2000). He belonged to the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are his wife Katharine, two daughters, four grandchildren and cousin Howard DeLong Eric L. Malnic of Altadena, Calif., July 27. Malnic was a reporter, staff writer and editor with the Los Angeles Times for 44 years and was part of the team that won Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the 1965 Watts riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Later he was adjunct instructor at University of Southern California. At Williams he belonged to Outing Club, WCFM and Zeta Psi. He was in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps ( ). He was a director of the Old Mill Foundation. He belonged to the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are his wife Martha, two sons, two stepchildren and three grandchildren Stephen Beal of Loveland, Colo., April 26. Beal was a fiber artist and poet. Previously he taught at Lake Forest College in Illinois, where he also worked in editing and copywriting before taking a job at Interweave Press in Loveland. At Williams he belonged to All Campus Entertainment, Phi Beta Kappa and Theta Delta Chi and he received the Henry R. Conger 1899 Memorial Prize for Literature (1959). He attended Exeter College of Oxford. His book of verse The Very Stuff (1997) received the poetry award from Colorado Center for the Book (1997). He was also the author of the poetry collection Suddenly Speaking Babylonian (2004). His needlework was exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. He received the Lillian Elliot Award for Excellence in Fiber Arts by the Textile Society of America (2008). Among his survivors are a brother, stepsister and several cousins. Thomas S. Stewart of Newtown Square, Pa., Aug. 25. Stewart was chairman of Provident Capital Management. He later was managing director of Stewart Associates. At Williams he belonged to Outing Club, Gul, College Council, news bureau, French club, the baseball team and Kappa Alpha. He was a U.S. Navy lieutenant ( , ). He was vice chairman of the board of trustees of Philadelphia Hospitality Inc. and board member of R.M. Shoemaker Co., Financial Analysts of Philadelphia Inc., West Philadelphia Alliance for Children and the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. Among his professional affiliations, he was president of the Philadelphia Corporate Fiduciaries Association and headed the trust and investment management division of the American Bankers Association. As a Williams alumnus he was an admissions representative, class secretary and member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Alumni, his 50th reunion and reunion fund committees and the Ephraim Williams Society. Among his survivors are his wife Cynthia, three children and six grandchildren stewart E. Mark Williams III of Holden, Mass., April 16. Williams was account VP at Paine Webber Inc. Previously he was an engineer at Sprague Electric in North Adams. At Williams he was manager of the football team and belonged to WCFM and Phi Delta Theta. He was senior warden of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Holden and served as a trustee of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts. He was investment chair of the executive committee of Worcester Children s Friend Society. As a Williams alumnus he was an admission representative, treasurer of the Worcester Regional Alumni Association and member of the Ephraim December 2010 Williams Pe o p l e 135

138 OBITUARIES All dates 2010 unless noted Williams Society. Among his survivors are his wife Jane, three daughters and four grandchildren James N. Wood of Los Angeles, Calif., June 11. Wood was president and CEO of J. Paul Getty Trust. Previously he was director and president of the Art Institute of Chicago for 25 years. He also was director of St. Louis Art Museum, associate director of Albright-Knox Art Gallery and assistant curator at Metropolitan Museum of Art. At Williams he was a junior advisor and belonged to the rugby, ice hockey and football teams and Kappa Alpha. He received a master s in art history from New York University (1966) and an honorary degree from Williams (2001). He was president of the Intermuseum Conservation Association and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, board member of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and the Institute of Fine Arts at NYC and a member of the visiting committee of the University of Chicago. As a Williams alumnus he was a member of his 25th reunion fund committee and the WCMA Visiting Committee. Among his survivors are his wife Emese, two daughters, including Lenke H. Wood 92, and niece Ashley N. Wood William F. Rhame Jr. of Pea Ridge, Ariz., June 19. Rhame was a U.S. Army counterintelligence officer, working throughout the U.S., Asia and Europe for 25 years and receiving numerous commendations, including the Bronze Star Medal and a Meritorious Service Medal. He retired as a lieutenant colonel. He later was an administrator for the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency and a U.S. Army consultant. He spent three-and-a-half years at Williams and belonged to Outing Club, Little Theater, the wrestling team and Delta Psi. He received a bachelor s of science (1973) from Southwest Missouri State University and a master s in public administration (1980) from University of Missouri- Kansas City. Among his numerous civic activities, he was active with the Boy Scouts of America and the American Red Cross. He was the technology volunteer coordinator for the Pea Ridge School System. Among his survivors are his wife Carolyn, three daughters and a grandchild Carolyn D. Forman of Minneapolis, Minn., July 27. Forman was an attorney with Rosenman & Colin in New York before focusing on charitable organizations, including the DC-based Fund for the Improvement of Post- Secondary Education, Capital Children s Museum and Options Public Charter School as well as the Center for School Change at the Humphrey Institute in St. Paul, Minn. She later was affiliated with William Mitchell College of Law. At Williams she belonged to the squash, soccer and tennis teams and Phi Beta Kappa. She received a law degree from Stanford (1987) and a master s in taxation from New York University (1990). As a Williams alumna she was career counseling representative for the New York Metropolitan Alumni Association and an associate class agent. Among her survivors are her father and two siblings Katie M. Miller of Black Butte Ranch, Ore., June 5. Miller was an elementary school teacher in Connecticut and California. At Williams she was a junior advisor and belonged to the squash team, Outing Club, Record and Gargoyle. She received a master s in education from Stanford (1985). As a Williams alumna she was an associate class agent and admission representative. Among her survivors are two sons. Other Deaths Joseph L. Miller Jr. 31 of Portland, Ore., July 2, 2007 Ralph E. Swanson 31 of Barrington, Ill., June 8 Joseph Williamson 40 of Portland, Maine, Dec. 13, 2009 Edward W.Y. Dunn 41 of Atlantic Beach, Fla., Nov. 18, 2007 Deane Flader 45 of Northport, N.Y., Nov. 19, 2007 Richard T. Dickerson 46 of Daytona Beach, Fla., June 2, 2007 Keith L. Parker 76 of Dallas, Texas, Dec. 13, 2008 Brian M. Vanicky 78 of Morristown, N.J., May 12 Obituaries are written based on information that alumni and their families have supplied to the College over the years. 136 Williams People December 2010

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