From the July/August 2008 Issue

Gerold N. Borodach (see Emily Joan Wigod '88).

From the January / February 2008 Issue

J. Roy McKechnie can be reached at 1680 Fern Dr., Ogden, Utah 84403.

Willis H. Riccio has been named chairman of the securities regulation and enforcement section at Adler Pollack & Sheehan, a law firm in which he is a partner. He has also recently published two articles. He writes: “My wife, Donna, and I have reached an agreement. She will continue to attend Brown football games with me, provided I agree never to play bridge. Donna is an avid bridge player and a longtime member of the Bridge Club of R.I. Our two grandchildren, Nick and Danny, frequently attend the Brown games with us.” Contact Willis at 300 River Ave., Providence 02908; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

From the September / October 2007 Issue

Arnold C. Abramowitz can be reached at 17225 Courtland Ln., Boca Raton, Fla. 33496; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Carl Albert is working at Tahoe Valley Campground in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

William P. Hinckley writes: "It is fun watching granddaughter Olivia as she leads the golf team at the Kent Denver School in Englewood, Colo., playing as number one during her sophomore year. She is also very active in drama as an actress and director. My other granddaughter, Peggy, is among the top equestrian riders in the state, at age 14. She also attends Kent Denver. I am looking forward to the Colorado Carvers show in October, where I won best in division last year." William can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

From the July / August 2007 Issue

Socrates Mihalakos ’55 (see Charles Goetsch ’73).

Joan and John Monaghan and Betty Lou and Joe Blumberg toured Greece last summer. They found it looks pretty much the way professors Couch, Robinson, and Workman described it.

Willis H. Riccio writes: “I’m actively practicing securities law as a partner with Allen, Pollock & Sheehan. I teach and lecture on the subject nationwide—most recently at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. My wife, Donna, and I travel quite a bit. We attend Brown football games regularly with our ‘Brown Club’ grandchildren, Nick and Danny. This summer, Donna and I will celebrate forty-nine years of marriage.” Willis can be reached at 300 River Ave., Providence, R.I.; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

From the May / June 2007 Issue

John T. Houk is still CEO of the National Heritage Foundation, a charity established in 1968 to encourage philanthropy (www.nhf.org). John sets up foundations for individuals, corporations, and communities. He can be reached at Box 1776, Falls Church, Va. 22041.

From the March / April 2007 Issue

Alfred H. Phillips writes: “Val Jean and I have been married since September 1959. We continue to be involved in volunteer activities. We are also legislative advocacy volunteers for the American Heart Association (AHA) and have received AHA scholarships to travel to Washington, D.C., to assist U.S. senators and congressmen to make them aware of heart and stroke issues and to urge their support for funding research on heart-disease and stroke prevention programs. We still find time to travel fairly extensively.” They can be reached at 19442 Norwich Rd., Livonia, Mich. 48152; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Leonard Whistler and his wife, Kate Kissane Whistler ’58, are enjoying retirement after many years with the U.S. government. They plan to stay in the Washington, D.C., area to be near their three children and two grandchildren. They have been traveling extensively and sleeping late whenever possible.

From the January / February 2007 Issue

Don De Ciccio writes: “We have had a fine spring and fall at our Boylston, Mass., home, as well as a good summer at our Falmouth, Cape Cod, home. I’m going on a two-week safari in Africa (Kenya and Tanzania) with my wife, Sandy, and sister-in-law Linda Larson. We are also looking toward our December-through-May stay at our Naples, Fla., home. Life is good!”

Fred French writes: “The Cape Cod symposium on Addictive Disorders was held Sept. 7–10 in Hyannis, Mass., with more than 700 in attendance and eighty-five exhibitors. Our twentieth will be held on Sept. 6–9, 2007, in Hyannis. Our sister symposium, the U.K./European symposium on Addictive Disorders, will take place in London on May 17–19, 2007. The respective Web sites are www.ccsad.com and www.ukesad.org. I may be reached at 97 Bianca Rd., Duxbury, Mass. 02332; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it ”

J. Roy McKechnie writes: “We’ve moved! Again and finally! A mite short of Brunonians hereabouts, but we’ll manage. New contact information is 1680 Fern Dr., Ogden, Utah 84403; (801) 621-1569; cell: (800) 644-6897; fax: (801) 394-3257; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

From the September / October 2006 Issue

Mort Gilstein writes: “I missed the 50th reunion because of the sudden death of a very dear friend. I saw Don Leonard, who is also a widower. We make a comical duo, as Don is six foot, nine inches, and I am five foot, six inches. Prior to Christmas I had dinner with Rick Palombo, Bill Renzulli, and their wives, and we were joined by Joseph Tucci. I am still very active at Brown.”

Herb Melendy retired from civil service in the Navy at the end of November 2004and from active naval service in February 1983. His two careers totaled forty-eight years. He writes that while he never got to graduate school, he did study Russian language for two semesters in the early sixties and Icelandic for two semesters twenty years later. He also says he had a lot of fun flying navy airplanes. Herb writes: “The 50th reunion was quite a treat except that I about walked my feet off. I still have twinges of plantar fasciitis as a consequence. Strange how that was not a problem back in the early fifties.”

George Ulrich has been happily retired since 1990. He and his wife of fifty years, Sally (Katherine Gibbs), live in Sara­sota, Fla. They have two children and seven grandchildren. He is busy with sailing, bird-watching, playing tennis and bridge, and, since 1994, working with Habitat for Humanity. He has heard from Robert Kenny, a fellow Sigma Chi living in Pittsburgh, who called after receiving the 50th anniversary yearbook. Another classmate from Dr. Quinn’s geology depart­­ment, Tom Butler, was highlighted in the local paper for his participation in the Winter Olympics luge events in the 1950s. He was pictured on the sled wearing his Brown football helmet. Tom is living in an adjacent neighborhood, and they have become reacquainted. Tom is an avid fisherman.

From the May / June 2006 Issue

Zig Dermer writes: “I’m spending at least a year in Nha Trang, Vietnam, getting to know the life of a Third World country from the inside out. Becoming acquainted with native Vietnamese from all walks of life, not to mention the excellent fresh food prepared for me by my live-in cook, is a delight as well as an adventure. Since I have rented a four-bedroom house, I’d welcome visits from classmates.” Zig can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

From the March / April 2005 Issue

Class secretary Nancy Schuleen Helle reports: “Your reunion planning committee is busy planning for our fabulous 50th reunion tour of the renowned Watson Institute for —a once-in-a-lifetime milestone! In addition to all the traditional events such as Campus Dance, Pops, class luncheons, dinners, and Commencement, we will have several special tours and presentations just for our class on Friday, May 27. Arranged by our class president, Chancellor Emeritus Artemis Joukowsky, these include a behind-the-scenes visit to the Brown Medical School (where we’ll learn about state-of-the-art research and a few tips for our own health), a lunch and International Studies, and a presentation by Brown’s acclaimed architect Frances Halsband on ‘Brown: The Next 50 Years,’ followed by a tour of the newest buildings and facilities on campus. We are excited that so many classmates have indicated plans to attend the reunion—some of whom have never attended a reunion before. We look forward to seeing you all in May! Your Reunion Committee: Ted Barrows, Bob Borah, Richard DePatie, Steve Ehrlich, Stu Erwin, Matt Fern, Nancy Schuleen Helle, Warren Ilchman, Art Joukowsky, Roy McKechnie, Dick Moore, Dick Nourie, Anne Murphy O’Brien, Gordon Perry, Barbara Grad Robbins, Julie Chrystie Webster, and Leslie Travis Wendel.”

Mark Land writes that he lives in Warren, R.I., with his wife of nearly 50 years, Barbara. His oldest son, Jon ’79, is a best-selling novelist and screenwriter whose first film, Dirty Deeds, will be released in 2005. Mark’s younger son, Charles, lives in West Palm Beach, Fla., and is a real estate developer. Mark says he looks forward to seeing classmates and friends at the 50th, especially his fraternity brothers from Pi-Lam.

Andrew Knowles Smith writes: “After graduation I was employed with Mobil Oil Company in various marketing assignments and Tenneco Oil Company in Houston for a combined tenure of 17 years. I started my own company, Evergreen Oil Company, in 1972. All four of my children are involved fulltime in our companies, and my wife, Melony, and I are free to spend six months in beautiful Evergreen, Colo., and six months on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, where we recently purchased a home. Melony and I are avid golfers and both of our homes are located on golf courses: Hiwan Golf Club in Evergreen and Kiahuna Golf Club on Kauai. I had openheart surgery, a triple bypass operation, last October. It set me back a little, but I’m improving and getting stronger. Won’t be long before I’ll be swinging the golf clubs again. I look forward to seeing old friends and fellow classmates at our 50th.” Andy’s address is 30880 St. Andrews Lane, Evergreen, Colo. 80439.

From the November / December 2004 Issue

Martin Malinou writes: “On a very hot July 31 I accepted my friend Barrie Shore’s invitation to avoid the city in favor of his breezy East Greenwich yard and vegetable garden, seventy-eight-degree pool water, and grilled salmon and swordfish. His wife, Rula Patterson Shore ’67, shared her Brown news and listened to me explain that fifty years since graduation must be neatly summarized in 100 words for the reunion yearbook. Earlier in the year I had spent a few minutes with our class president, Art Joukowsky, at the University Club in Providence, where the Boston Univ. School of Law honored his service. I have no plans to retire from law practice.”

From the September / October 2004 Issue

Class secretary Nancy Schuleen Helle reports: “The reunion committee is delighted with the response to the last newsletter. Almost every day brings a letter or e-mail from another classmate. As of May 11, nearly sixty 55ers have responded with news and/or dues, and the majority plan to attend our 50th reunion.”

Nancy is “still doing public relations for several clients, and on the advisory boards of the Lockwood Mathews Mansion Museum in Norwalk, New Canaan/Darien magazine, and Family ReEntry, a Norwalk-based agency that provides counseling and helps recently released prisoners successfully rejoin their families and communities.” She is also on a new committee to expand programs for New Canaan television, the local public-access station. She and her husband, Herb, spent two weeks in southern Africa, including the Cape Town area, and safari camps in Botswana and Zimbabwe. Class news can be sent to 351 Cedar Lane, New Canaan, Conn. 06840.“Carol Orkin Agate writes: ‘Having started my career late, and loving my work, I kept joking that I would never retire. In April, after turning 70, I took the drastic step of cutting back to three-quarter time as an administrative law judge in California. It’s wonderful to have a job that allows me to slide gently into retirement.’ Carol can be reached at 2950 Neilson Way, #410, Santa Monica, Calif. 90405.

Robert (Tony) Barron retired in 2002, after thirty-two years with Smith Barney Inc. He has since served as a consultant and expert witness in federal securities law matters. His wife, Selena Winicour Barron ’57, retired four years ago and is active in the American Association of University Women. Tony writes, ‘We were saddened by the passing of our longtime friend and classmate Eric Schwartz, of Villanova, Pa.’ The Barrons can be reached at 9 Edgewood Rd., Hartsdale, N.Y. 10530.

Dick DePatie, class treasurer, thanks classmates who have already sent in their dues and urges the rest to ‘keep those checks coming.’ A high percentage of dues paid in advance will help keep costs down for our 50th reunion. Dues may be sent directly to Brown: Class of 1955, Box 1859, Brown University, Providence 02912. Dick retired after forty years in the insurance business and is now the parish administrator at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in New Canaan, 569 Weed St., New Canaan, Conn. 06840.

David ’66 MAT and Jan Riley Halvorsen are both retired and both doing volunteer work for St. David’s Episcopal Church. David has been director of the Friends of Dennis (Mass.) Senior Center for fourteen years and chairman of the board of trustees at Sesuit Meadow Condominiums for nineteen years, and enjoys golf. Jane, a professional quilter, still quilts every day and has taught for sixteen years. They see Brown people often at the Cape Cod Brown Club luncheons. David and Jan spend a winter month in Bermuda each year and recently traveled to England and France. They can be reached at P.O. Box 1451, Dennis, Mass. 02641.

R. Dudley Harrington is still working in the investment business. Most of his avocational time involves water activities: he’s a recent past commodore of Edgartown Yacht Club and a trustee of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and was recently elected to the board of Sail Newport, which, with its fleet of 100 boats of all sizes, promotes sailing on Narragansett Bay. He can be reached at 18 Burying Hill Rd., Greenwich, Conn. 06830.

John T. (Dock) Houk is still CEO of the National Heritage Foundation, a charity established in 1968 to encourage philanthropy (www.nhf.org). John sets up foundations for individuals, corporations, and communities. He can be reached at Box 1776, Falls Church, Va. 22041.

Warren Ilchman is getting reacquainted with classmates while organizing the 50th reunion. After many years in higher education and philanthropy, he now manages a charitable trust, the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, based in New York City. Every year the trust makes thirty two-year grants for graduate study to immigrants and their children. In its seventh year of operation, there have been over 200 Soros Fellows at thirty-nine universities. His wife, Alice, has retired after eighteen years as president of Sarah Lawrence College and later as chair of the board of the Rockefeller Foundation. She now administers a program under the Thomas Watson Foundation that provides summer internships for inner-city college students to make them more competitive for graduate programs and selective fellowships. For the last two autumns they have been resident at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, where they have written a book on competitive scholarships entitled The Lucky Few and the Worthy Many (Indiana Univ. Press). The Ilchmans can be reached at 18 Highland Circle, Bronxville, N.Y. 10708.

Richard Khachian sold his Ford dealership and retired in late 2000 after thirty-seven years in business. He now spends part of his time managing the real estate he has accumulated over the years. He winters in Anna Maria Island in Florida and enjoys golf and short trips in the summer. He can be reached at 213 Hollydale Rd., Fairfield, Conn. 06824.

Roy McKechnie reminds classmates to respond to the letter asking for your help in compiling the information and illustrations for the 50th reunion class history yearbook. The plan is to mail this publication to all class members well before the 50th reunion. With 517 classmates to accommodate, it is important that you respond as quickly as possible.

Socrates H. Mihalakos went into semi-retirement in December after serving twenty years on the Connecticut bench, fifteen as a Superior Court judge and five as an Appellate Court judge. He now serves as a senior judge on the Appellate Court for approximately five months a year. He and his wife, Joani, spend five months a year in Vero Beach, Fla. He invites classmates to call or drop by. Socrates can be reached at 220 Harwood Rd., Waterbury, Conn. 06702; (772) 567-4223.

Roger Mitten is still practicing law at home, part-time, and is chairman of the board for the Valley of the Sun School and Habilitation Center, a $12 million charity in Phoenix. He plays in many golf tournaments and often plays with Brown classmate Tom Jones ’57. This summer Roger and his wife, Barb Hobart Mitten ’54, plan to take their family on a cruise of the Baltic to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary a year in advance. They also plan to attend Barb’s 50th Pembroke/Brown reunion this spring. They can be reached at 6204 Hogahn Circle, Paradise Valley, Ariz. 85253.

Doris Kaplan Morgenstern writes: ‘I am still the director and owner of Communicative Health Care Associates Inc., a private practice serving children, adults, and seniors with speech/language, occupational, and physical disorders. About forty associates work with me in early intervention, Head Start, public and private schools, acute-care hospitals, nursing homes, and in our outpatient facility in Waltham, Mass. Thanks to modern communication technology I can spend the winter in Florida and the summer on Cape Cod. We spend February in Aruba, where we enjoy snorkeling, tennis, and the Arubian community. While in Florida, we participate in water aerobics, play on a tennis team, and volunteer at the VA Hospital in West Palm Beach. I am looking forward to our class reunion, but I think we’re all still too young for our 50th.’

W. Peter Pemberton retired after thirty years as director of sales promotion at the Speidel Division of Textron. A member of Warwick Country Club, he served on the board of governors as golf chair from 1999 to 2002. Current activities are traveling, gardening, cooking, golfing, sailing, and skiing in Davos, Switzerland, and Franconia, N.H., where he and Don Creamer ’47 have enjoyed ‘many years of out-of-control skiing on every trail.’ More recently he helped develop Buttonhole, a nine-hole golf course and teaching facility in Johnston, R.I. It’s been open for a few years now, and more than 2,000 children went through its golf program in 2003. W. Peter can be reached at 19 Creston Way, Warwick, R.I. 02881.

Veronica Stinnes Petersen retired from pediatric practice at Harvard Vanguard in 2000 and is teaching third-year pediatric students at Children’s Hospital (Harvard), where her husband is still working full-time in pediatric ophthalmology. She has taught Introduction to Clinical Medicine at B.U. Medical School, and for the past few years she and her husband have worked as medical volunteers in India for a month during the winter. They can be reached at 975 Memorial Dr., Cambridge, Mass. 01238.

Ken Peterson was part of a group photography show at the Photo District Gallery in New York City. The show, entitled Timelessness, featured several of Ken’s art photos juxtaposing classical and Renaissance objects. The show closed April 12.“Leo Setian is still teaching engineering at John Brown University and plays hockey weekly. He can be reached at John Brown Univ., 3058, Siloam Springs, Ark., 72761.

Joel Shapiro’s son graduates from Brown this year. Joel is still president of JL Shapiro Associates, a medical education company, and Health Communications, a medical publisher, both in New Jersey. Joel and his wife have just returned from a cruise on the Queen Mary 2. Their winter home is in Hillsboro Beach, Fla., and their summer address is: 201 W. 70th St., New York City 10023.

John Summerfield is retired and involved in ministry at the First Presbyterian Church of Naples, Fla. He and his wife spend winters in Naples and summers in Park Ridge, Ill. They can be reached at 22 Park Lane, #421, Park Ridge, Ill. 60068.

Joel Thea is still working full time with two sons, Mark and Billy, in the family business. Carol, Joel’s wife of forty-seven years this June, is a psychotherapist with a private practice in Manhattan. Joel is still an active skier and golfer and travels as much as possible. He can be reached at 975 Park Ave., New York City 10028.

Jim Webster writes that he is ‘still slugging it out in the investment trenches, now in the twenty-fourth year at Gabelli.’ He is chairman of the subsidiary Gabelli & Co. Inc. In his spare time, he is serving his fifth year as chairman of the Community Foundation of Western Nevada. He can be reached at 165 W. Liberty St., Reno, Nev. 89501.

Richard B. Wolfson is still working full time as a vice president of AG Edwards & Sons in Fall River, Mass. For the past six years he has spent a lot of time on campus renewing old friendships. He looks forward to our reunion and the graduation of daughter Amy in 2005, which follows the graduation of her sister Julie in 2003. Richard can be reached at 402 Weetamoe St., Fall River, Mass. 02720.”

Willis H. Riccio reports that after twenty-seven years at the SEC (eight heading the New England regional office, fifteen as NASD vice president and director, and seven years as a special assistant U.S. attorney), he has gone into private practice with the Providence–Boston firm Adler Pollock & Sheehan. He teaches securities law at New England School of Law, lectures throughout the U.S. (including at Brown), and has had a number of articles published. He and his wife, Donna, celebrated forty-six years of marriage on July 5. They have three children, Jeff, Chris, and Betsy; and two grandchildren, Nicholas and Daniel. “I have season tickets to Brown football, where I run into many alumni and friends.” In seventeen years as a football official, he notes, “I never was able to do a Brown game.”

From the July / August 2004 Issue

Barbara Schoen Silverman writes that since retiring from teaching in the late 1980s, she has been thoroughly enjoying life in beautiful Florida. She looks forward to the 50th reunion in 2005. Barbara can be reached at 802 Bayport Way, Longboat Key, Fla. 34228.

Sally Delaney Snyder writes that in January she and her husband, who are both retired, moved into a lovely hillside adobe home and are raising avocados. Their seven children are scattered from Arkansas to Alaska, and the couple travels frequently in the United States and abroad. Sally can be reached at 2240 Via Oeste, Fallbrook, Calif. 92028; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Louis Tanner writes: “On Oct. 30 we will have been living in London for thirty-four years—and we enjoy it more all the time. The ballet and modern art take up our leisure time, but we are still running a successful European investor-relations consultancy for U.S. companies.” Louis can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

From the May / June 2004 Issue

Class secretary Nancy Schuleen Helle reports: “Herb ’52 and I rented a house in the picturesque little town of Le Bugue, in the Dordogne, France, last October with Dick and Leslie Travis Wendel. John Lawson, of Paris, was a guest for a few days. We all enjoyed seeing the prehistoric drawings we studied in art class in the caves at Lescaux, as well as visiting many historic chateaux, including the home of Josephine Baker. We all spent a week in Paris, and Herb and I also explored Bordeaux.

“Anyone visiting Sarasota, Florida, who is interested in a great tour of Old Master paintings at the Ringling Museum should call ahead to see when volunteer docent Robert Anderson ’47 is on duty. We took his tour last year and were happy to discover our mutual Brown connection.

“I enjoyed seeing classmate Tom Jones, of Arizona, at the home of mutual New Canaan friends last fall. Herb and I can be reached at 351 Cedar Ln., New Canaan, Conn. 06840.”

Matt Fern, of New York City, writes that he and Sue had a mini-reunion last summer in Cape Cod with Ken Chambers and Dick Nourie. Unfortunately, he missed the surprise birthday party for Ted Barrows, which he heard was a great success. The Ferns also attended a Classes of the ’50s dinner in New York City chaired by Gerry Borodach and his wife, Ardell Kabalkin Borodach ’57, at Brasserie Julien, which is owned by Cecilia Pineda Feret ’86. Others attending included Phyllis Gushae Lynch and Judy Kahn. The Classes of the ’50s meet for dinner every few months. Those interested should contact Gerry Borodach at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it ; (212) 737-6988.

Mort Gilstein writes: “It saddens me to report the loss of my wife, Maureen, on Feb. 9, after six years of gallant struggle against ovarian cancer. Maureen was an active participant in Brown events and will be sorely missed at games and reunions. Representing our class at the funeral were class president Art Joukowsky, Marty Malinou, John Monaghan, Roy McKechnie, Margaret Going Settipane, Don Leonard, and Richard Palombo. Other Brunonians attending included Ann Matteodo Dupre ’61, Bill Corrigan ’58, Joan Fitzgerald Golrick ’47, Bob Blackburn ’67, ’68 AM, Larry Smith ’68 ScM, Bernie Bell ’42, Tom Brady ’51, Bob Kotlen ’49, and professor Luiz Valente ’83 PhD. My deepest thanks to my wonderful classmates and friends at Brown.” Mort lives at 84 Gentian Ave., Providence 02908.

Last year, Art Joukowsky and Martha Sharp Joukowsky ’58 devoted their eleventh summer to archaeological excavations in Petra, Jordan. Art, our chancellor emeritus, maintains an office at Brown and participates in daily activities at the University, not the least of which is organizing the class of ’55’s 50th Reunion in 2005. Martha is planning to add the word emerita to her title following Commencement in order to pursue her archaeological work and publish her magnum opus. The Joukowskys live at 79 Prospect St., Providence 02906.

John Lawson is in his fifth year back in Paris. After surviving two rounds of cancer, he writes that life is good, and Paris is a great place to have visitors. Julia Chrystie Webster is hoping to travel to France this spring to visit John and also to make an excursion to Giverny to see the famous Monet gardens. John’s address is 54 rue Dombasle, 75015 Paris, France. Julie’s address is 62 Burdick Hill Rd., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850.

Dolores LaPorte Nazareth writes: “My granddaughter Stephanie Minor ’07 makes us a three-generation Brown family. My daughter Annette Nazareth ’78 was a forum speaker at her 25th reunion. She is the director of market regulation for the Securities and Exchange Commission. I was delighted to share my pride with Margaret Going Settipane and Bob and Nancy Stevens Carlson, who attended the forum.” Dolores lives at 22 High Ridge Dr., Cumberland, R.I. 02864.

Dave Zucconi (see William J. Gilbane III ’99).

From the January / February 2004 Issue

Artemis Joukowsky (see Jan Zlotnick ’77).

W. Peter Pemberton writes: “I retired in 1997, after thirty years managing a once- world-famous jewelry company headquartered in Providence. On Nov. 21, 1997, we were asked to vacate our offices and leave the building that same day to satisfy a financial consolidation dictated by the company’s new owners. The company has gone from $95 million to $25 million in six short years.” He can be reached at 19 Creston Way, Warwick, R.I. 02886.

Al Phillips writes: “Since my early retirement because of heart problems as business manager of a General Motors facility in the Detroit area, my wife, Val Jean, and I have been significantly involved in a variety of volunteer activities. Particularly satisfying is my work with the American Heart Association and Mended Hearts, Inc. We travel extensively, including trips to South America, New Orleans, New England, and California.” Al can be reached at 19442 Norwich Rd., Livonia, Mich. 48152.

From the September / October 2002 Issue

Richard Wolfson has been elected chair of the Bristol (Mass.) Community College Board of Trustees. Richard, vice president of A.G. Edwards & Sons in Fall River, Mass., joined the college as a trustee in 1996. He has served on a variety of community boards and is the parent of Julie Wolfson '03 and Amy Wolfson '05.

Dave Zucconi (see Jeannie Stewart '45).

From the July / August 2002 Issue

Ron Kramer (see Dan Kramer '84).

From the September / October 2000 Issue

Art Joukowsky (see Mary E. Holburn ’50).

From the July / August 2000 Issue

Patricia Wolff Gross writes: "Steve and I still live in New York City for the greater part of the year. We enjoy weekends at our house on the Great South Bay in Bellport, Long Island. Our three daughters have initiated us into grandparenthood all at once; we have five grandchildren ages 5 and younger and a sixth on the way. It is great fun."

William Kelley, who won the Academy Award for screenwriting for the movie Witness, has published The Sweet Summer (Westminster John Knox Press). The novel is about an amateur middleweight boxer who is the only white fighter on a U.S. Air Force team touring the South during the Jim Crow era.

From the May / June 2000 Issue

Stu Erwin, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., writes that he became a board member of KPBS television and radio in San Diego. He is executive consultant on PBS Hollywood Television, a national drama series produced by KCET in Los Angeles.

Peter Lisbon writes: "I recently retired from my forty-year career at Harvard’s Widener Library, where I was chief subject cataloger. I continue to work there a few hours a week, but I spent the winter in San Diego, as I have for the past few years. My home continues to be in Cambridge, Mass., but there is a possibility I will migrate to San Diego one of these days. I would be happy to hear from classmates." Peter can be reached at 24 Woodbridge St., Cambridge, Mass. 02140; (617) 491-0895.

From the March / April 2000 Issue

Class president Anne Murphy O’Brien reports: “We encourage you to join classmates at a milestone reunion on May 26­29. Your reunion committee is planning a great weekend. Registration forms will arrive soon, so mark your calendars and make arrangements to attend. If you have any questions, contact reunion headquarters at (401) 863-1947; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it ”

From the January / February 2000 Issue

Class president Anne Murphy O'Brien reports: "May 26-29 will be our 45th reunion. Save the dates. Jim Egan and the reunion committee have been planning many events for the long weekend. Committee members are Richard DePatie, Anne Murphy O'Brien, Barbara Grad Robbins, Bob Borah, Bob Louttit, Mort Gilstein, Mattis Fern, Gordon Perry, Lucy Brubaker Tortolani, Roy McKechnie, Socrates Mihalakos, Margaret Going Settipane, and Ted Barrows. We'll send more information in the next few months. We look forward to a record attendance.

"My husband, John, and I held a summer reunion cocktail party at our home on Cape Cod. Attendees included Dave Halvorsen '66 M.A.T. and Jan Riley Halvorsen; Robert and Nancy Stevens Carlson; Dick and Reenie Hogan Nourie; Phyllis Gushae Lynch; Richard Valicenti; Barbara Pease Peterson; Terry McGowan Heavey; Barbara Perrino Piscuskas '56; Ed Kiely '50; John Prendergast '49; and Jim Kelley '56."

Class cosecretary Nancy Schuleen Helle reports: "Several classmates attended a reunion planning meeting during Homecoming Weekend. Highlights of our 45th reunion will include a class picnic (and possible croquet tourney) on Block Island at the home of Bob Louttit and his wife, Carol; a pre-campus dance cocktail and dinner fete at the home of Artemis 'Art' Joukowsky and his wife, Martha Sharp Joukowsky '58; a pre-pops concert dinner at the Faculty Club; and a Sunday clambake at the Barrington home of Gordon Perry and his wife, Chris. A class newsletter with more details is in the works.

"Art is reunion campaign chair, chancellor emeritus, and a University fellow. He has also received the Brown Bear Award. Art writes that he and Martha, a professor of archaeology at Brown, "have lived in Providence for twelve years and enjoy life here immensely." Martha has just completed her seventh year of excavations in Petra, Jordan, and has published a book about her experiences. Art works with Martha on all aspects of the excavations, especially the photography. Visitors to the site in recent summers have included Queen Noor of Jordan; her stepson, Prince Feisal Hussein '85, son of the late King Hussein; and President E. Gordon Gee and his wife, Constance. Last year, Art represented Brown at the 100th anniversary of Peking University, which is developing an faculty- and student-exchange program with Brown. Art has also traveled to England, France, Japan, China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait as part of Brown's global networking strategy.

"Two other classmates have recently garnered awards from the University. At the library's annual meeting in April, Bob Kenny Jr. and Leslie Travis Wendel each received a William Williams Award for extraordinary support of the library. The award commemorates the efforts of William Williams, class of 1769, who sequestered the College library at his home in Wrentham, Mass., throughout the Revolutionary War. For the past six years Bob has volunteered at least three days a week, helping to manage the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, the largest collection of its kind in the world. Bob helps with exhibitions, events, greeting the public, and preserving and acquiring resources. He enjoyed a career in business and served in the U.S. Army, retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel. His military interest brought him to the Anne S. K. Brown Memorial Lecture in 1993, where classmate Leslie Travis Wendel recruited him as a volunteer.

"Leslie was lauded for her many contributions as coordinator of the Friends of the Library, a position she held from 1991 until she retired in 1995. She lives in Chestertown, Md., with her husband, Dick. Leslie was director of communications and donor relations in Brown's development office from 1978 to 1986, where she helped launch a most successful library-campaign kickoff party - a luncheon and musical revue aboard the Royal Viking Sky. As coordinator of the Friends, she launched the Carberry Cookbook, the holiday-card catalog, and the "Hunk of the Hay" promotion, in which chunks of marble steps from the John Hay Library were sold to alumni. To date, more than 200 'hunks' have been sold, netting more than $2,300 for the library."

Irwin Sydney, of Brookline, Mass., received the Ma'asim Tovim award for good deeds from the New England region of the Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs. A thirty-year member of Temple Emanuel, he is a grandfather of five who enjoys visiting his three children and their families.

David Zucconi (see William J. Gilbane III '99).

From the November / December 1999 Issue

Judith Thorsen Chusid writes: "I have been president of PIC Consultants for approximately ten years. We provide human-resources consulting to companies, as well as career planning and personal marketing to executives, managers, and professionals. The company, based in Vancouver, B.C., has been in existence since 1975. Unlike at our previous company, which was based in Chicago, we find that many of our clients are immigrant professionals and managers. It seems that whatever is happening in the world, we see the effects of it in our office - from the Prague Spring and the beginning of the South African 'brain drain' in the 1970s to Ismailis from East Africa to clients who had been part of the Shah's court. We've also seen Polish professionals who left during the solidarity movement, Chinese academics who left after the Tiananmen Square massacre, and, most recently, we've seen the effects of the Serbian 'brain drain.' Connecting across the cultural divide with these people has been fascinating and challenging. Providing significant assistance to them has been even more of a challenge. On the personal side, our four kids are married, separated, or repartnered (or whatever the correct terminology is), and we have somewhere between eight and twelve grandchildren, depending on whether you count the partners' kids. With a few exceptions, I've been out of touch for a long time with my friends at Brown and would love to hear from you." Judith can be reached at 1726 Province Rd., Point Roberts, Wash. 98281; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

From the May / June 1999 Issue

Dick DePattie, class treasurer, and Nancy Schuleen Helle, co-secretary, report an overwhelming response to the November class newsletter, both in news and dues! They are hard at work on another newsletter to publish everyone's news, as well as a few reunion plans.

Mattis I. Fern (see Jacqueline S. Fern '83).

From the January / February 1999 Issue

George C. Calnan retired for four years ago after thirty years of teaching in California, most of them in Santa Rosa. He and his wife, Gisela, can be reached at 545 Amber Way, Petaluma, Calif. 94952.

Warren F. Ilchman has co-edited Philanthropy in the World's Traditions (Indiana University Press). Warren is the past executive director of the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy.

Artemis Joukowsky and Finn Caspersen '63 joined to help the Lawrenceville School and the Peddie School, their respective prep schools, build a joint boathouse in West Windsor, N.J. The new three-bay boathouse, which was dedicated on Sept. 19, provides a home for the two schools' crew programs, which have been homeless for more than a decade.

Dave Zucconi (see Ben Ballard '42).

From the November / December 1998 Issue

Janet MacPhail Smith writes: "A trip back to Brown in July with four of my grandchildren reminded me I need to bring my own and my husband's classmates up-to-date on our comings and goings. George '53 and I have been retired for six years. I taught for more than twenty years as an elementary special-needs teacher, despite having to live with multiple sclerosis for the past thirty years. We have managed a great dealing of traveling since retiring, including a safari in Africa and boating with polar bears in the Northwest Territories. George worked summers for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation from 1984 to 1992. He was part of a physics team that went to colleges and universities all over the country to give workshops to local high school teachers. After he retired, he was a consultant to a three-year high school physics teachers' National Science Foundation grant at the University of Massachusetts. We have a summer home in Eastham, Mass., and have been in touch recently with Nancy and Bob Carlson. We are thinking of downsizing to just one home on the Cape. After forty years in South Hadley, Mass., we are facing a difficult decision. We try to see Janice Kennedy Doctor every other year, and give Shirley Morse Richmond a call when we are in Pennsylvania." Janet and George can be reached at 78 Hadley St., South Hadley 01075.

From the May / June 1998 Issue

Stuart P. Erwin Jr. and his wife, Diane, moved to Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Stuart is chairman of the board of Park City (Utah) Performances and on the executive committee of KWED, the PBS station in Salt Lake City. He can be reached at P.O. Box 7295, 6727 Las Colinas, Rancho Santa Fe 92067.