From the September/October 2008 Issue

Earle R. Halsband writes: "I am still working as a maxillo-facial surgeon but spend most of my time in Florida perfecting myself as well as my golf and tennis games. I have become a student of the Yiddish language and literature. My wife, Carol, and I are proud parents of two, including Robin Halsband '92, and grandparents of three. Thanks for the memories!"

From the July/August 2008 Issue

Leonard J. Charney writes: "Thanks to those of you who sent in your $25 dues, which are still being accepted at: Class of '62, c/o Alumni Office, Box 1859, Providence, R.I. 02912. Check our Class of '62 Web site, which was updated in late April with lots of new class news and recent photos, and contact Dale Burg at: 145 East 84th Street, New York City 10028; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it ; or myself at: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it if you are interested in a mini-reunion in Florida, D.C., California, or elsewhere."

Samuel G. Friedman writes: "I am still working in our family real estate company. My son, Geoff, a recovering lawyer, has taken over. He's a tough boss. I have five kids and eight grandchildren."

Michael Goldfield writes: "I am practicing psychiatry in San Mateo, Calif. I also spent time with Paul Choquette '60 on a Brown Travelers' trip to France."

Brent D. Moore, Nate Chace, Carl Hally, and Tom Rutherford have annual summer reunions in Rhode Island. Last summer they met in Little Compton at the summer home of former President Barnaby Keeney, which Brent and his daughter Martina de Avila Moore '91 recently purchased.

From the May/June 2008 Issue

Gene Kopf writes that he spends winters fishing off Jupiter Island, Fla., in the Gulf Stream and farming in the North Carolina mountains in the summer. He is still studying film, literature, and current events at Florida Atlantic Univ. Gene and Linda are also traveling to Russia and the Baltic countries this year.

Susan Miller Maguire writes: "Paul '61 and I are enjoying retired life in a golf community in the town of St. James, N.C. We are both active in community activities, volunteer work, golf, tennis, and entertaining friends. We have had visits in the past year from Alison Borton Libshitz; Doug Whitney '61 and his wife, Martha; and Chuck Rood '61 and his wife, Shane. We are also enjoying trips to Africa, China, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Peru, and Costa Rica."

Elaine Remley Perachio writes: "Adrian '61 and I are both retired now and spend summers in Grand Lake, Colo., and winters in Houston, Tex. We also enjoy visiting our daughter, Nancy, and her husband, Bret, in Tyler, Tex. Our other daughter, Elise, and her husband, Josh, are in Seattle, and our son, Glenn, and wife Sarah, and especially our grandson Carson, are in London."

From the January / February 2008 Issue

Kyra Taylor Carswell writes: “I’m still happily living in California with my husband, John. I retired from the probation department to pursue a second career doing arts and crafts and to spend time in our vacation home in Pacific Grove, Calif.” Contact Kyra at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Allen Parkman writes: “The last few years have had some noteworthy events. With a concern for the effects of age, I finally climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in 2004 and walked the Inca Trail in 2006. After thirty years of teaching economics at the Univ. of New Mexico, I shifted into semiretirement in 2006, which means less teaching. More recently, I published my third book: Smart Marriage: Using Your (Business) Head as Well as Your Heart to Find Wedded Bliss (Praeger, 2007). It provides insights about better decision making before and during marriage based on my teaching in a business school for 30 years and being married for a similar period.”

Katharine Doyle Stanford and her husband moved to southern Oregon to be closer to their children and grandchildren. Contact them at 1430 Village Center Dr., Medford, Ore. 97504; (541) 857-6002; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

From the November / December 2007 Issue

Stanley Freedman and Harris Ullian ’50 of the jazz quartet Harris and the Boyz held a performance that was aired on the program Musica on Rhode Island’s interstate cable television network in late July.

Gene Kopf and his wife, Linda, write that they have sold their historic farm and downsized to a cottage in the North Carolina mountains. Their new summer address is 40 Stonecrest Ct., Flat Rock, N.C. 28731. They remain residents of Jupiter Island, Fla. 33469.

From the September / October 2007 Issue

Sally Robbins Bilder writes: “We’ve been living in Madison, Wis., for forty-two years. Luckily global warming is making winter more tolerable. I recently went back to graduate school for another degree, completing it in December as the oldest student in my class. Richard is emeritus at the Univ. of Wisc. Law School but is still teaching and writing. Our four married children have pretty busy lives: Mary Sarah ’87 is a professor at Boston College Law School; Anne is an attorney for the Univ. of Wisc. college system; David is a professor at UC Berkeley; Debby a public-radio producer in Philadelphia. We have ten grandchildren.”

Joe Frankel writes: “My wife, Sue, and I recently traveled to Japan on a Brown Travelers trip. Professor of Religious Studies Hal Roth led the trip. We learned a lot and had lots of fun. Mike Goldfield and his wife, Ronnie, were on the trip, which made it even more enjoyable. We spend the winters in Florida and summers in New Jersey and spend lots of time with our two children and five grandchildren.” Joe can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Stanley Freedman (see Harris Ullian ’50).

From the July / August 2007 Issue

David B. Casey writes: “I retired in 2000 as CFO of the R.I. Department of Health, and my wife retired this year from teaching at Woonsocket Middle School. We have six children: one Brown grad, Chris ’03, and three from UVM, one from PC, and one from Emerson. Two live in Los Angeles, two in Fairfield, Conn., one in Garden City, Long Island, and one at William & Mary Law. Three are teachers, one is a lawyer, one is at William & Mary Law. We have one lab and one Jeep. My mom, Emma Warner Kershaw ’37 is looking forward to her 90th. We hope to take her down the Hill in a wheelchair. Hopefully, we’ll have three generations of Brown alums in May ’07.”

Don Friary has been elected president of the Colonial Society of Mass., an organization of historians that publishes original documents and conference proceedings in early U.S. history.

Natalie Saltonstall Forbes writes: “Since retiring as vice president of development at EQIR Water Institute, I have redirected my life to the arts. I have just opened my second solo show here in Concord, Mass., and love the change!”

Michael Goldfield writes: “My daughter, Debby, graduated from Brown in 1993, and my son, Ari, graduated from Harvard in 1990 and Harvard Law in 1993. I practice full-time forensic psychiatry. My wife, Ronnie, is a retired art-gallery owner. I also won the U.S. Masters Squash Championships.”

Carol Tarlin Harrington writes: “After forty years of management consulting, Harold and I retired to the Pacific Northwest to garden almost year-round. I earned my Master Gardener designation within a year of moving here so now I’m really clear about what I don’t know. My lifelong hobby of knitting led to part-time work at a local needlework store where I design knitted garments and teach, as well as sell. We are almost through our ordeal of building our ‘dream’ house and will move in soon. I am six chapters into writing a romance novel that will be continued once we’ve unpacked. I won’t come east for the 45th, but the 50th is tempting.”

Priscilla Parmakian Kirshbaum writes: “In May our son’s new wife and her 7-year-old triplet girls moved to Denver from Tex. A month later, our daughter in New York City had a baby boy. With some helpful lodging advice from native New Yorker Dale Burg, we were able to locate a great apartment sublet for a few weeks just seven easy walking blocks away. Meanwhile, back in Denver, I have retired from my research business and am doing some volunteer work and looking for a new avocation. Howard retired from senior judging but continues to work full-time, doing mediation and arbitration for the Judicial Arbiter Group.”

Dorothy Pierce McSweeny writes: “As chair of the D.C. Arts Commission, I just returned from South Africa and earlier West Africa as a member of D.C. Mayor Williams’s Cultural and Trade Delegation. We also managed a safari afterwards. It was a fascinating experience!”

Bob Murphy writes: “I still enjoy supporting the Department of Defense IT clients as a program manager with Apptis Inc. I am as passionate about the Washington Capitals Hockey as I was at Meehan Auditorium on the Hill. My current thrill is quality time with my two granddaughters, ages 2 and 9 months, with a third one on the way.”

Susan Budnitz Sokoloff writes: “I recently had lunch with my twin sister, Sandy Budnitz Mosk, and Dale Burg. We reminisced about our ‘old’ times and former classmates. My husband and I celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary in June and are expecting our sixth grandchild.”

Patricia Linder Teele writes: “I have retired to southern Calif. to be near my daughter Cindy ’83. I enjoy traveling and have been to Japan, India, Bhutan, Peru, and the Amazon rainforest within the past two years. I love Pasadena, Calif., and would love to have old friends visit my new city.”

Frances Vincentelli Verstandig writes: “In 1999 I retired as executive director of the Ala. School of Fine Arts Foundation. Since then I have been transitioning off boards and now serve only on the boards of the Ala. Symphony, public radio, and a statewide children’s advocacy group. I travel a lot.”

George H. Wales Jr. writes: “My daughter Lauren ’90 had a second daughter in Oct., and my daughter Katie ’90 earned her MSW in May—first in her class. My son Herrick (Colby ’87) has two boys and teaches in Marblehead, Mass. My wife, Judy, and I, now fully retired, travel and enjoy Tucson. We often see Chuck ’61 and Shane Reed, and Sally Campolucci, widow of Roger Campolucci ’61.”

From the May / June 2007 Issue

Leslie Armstrong is alive and well in New York City, still practicing architecture and interior design, and teaching at F.I.T. She remains in touch with Elizabeth Diggs ’61, Emily McCully ’61, and Joyce Reed ’61, ’65 AM.

Ernest Lampe and Susan have moved to downtown Minneapolis. Ernest continues to practice general surgery, now in a single specialty group of eight that allows him to keep his own pace. Their son, Ernest ’97, is an electrical engineer in San Jose, Calif. Both are planning on attending their respective reunions this May.

From the March / April 2007 Issue

Susan Chipman Kline writes: “I have officially retired from my job in senior management with the nation’s second-largest visiting nurse association, but continue to work on publications, which was always my favorite facet of the job. I recently completed a full-color publication devoted to the agency’s hospice and palliative-care program, for which I wrote the copy and took all the photographs. It has been a rich privilege for me to meet and interview patients and their families over the years. Rob ’61 is still working in commercial real estate appraisal, his second career. Our son is in the yacht business on the Chesapeake, and our daughter is an executive with the Home Depot in South Jersey. In our leisure we enjoy choral singing, sailing our Sanderling on the Shrewsbury River, duplicate bridge, and travel. We’re active in the local Brown club and would love to hear from other class members who live in central New Jersey.”

William W. Porter writes: “I’m privileged to be a lay preacher for the Presbyterian Church. I preach regularly in churches in upstate New York.”

Ralph E. Steuer, professor of finance and chair of business at the University of Georgia was a keynote speaker at the 21st European conference on operational research held at the University of Iceland July 2-5, 2006.

John R. South writes: “The big item is the marriage of our baby, Julie (now 35), to Matt Gerstle on Memorial Day weekend 2006. They now live in Haverhill, Mass. Julie is a marketing manager with IBM (Web Portal software). We now have two grandchildren. Will is six, born very premature (at week 26, weighing one pound, nine ounces) and is doing well. Laura (his mom) got out of the production business, but ‘outsourced’ by adopting a beautiful girl from Korea. Abigail was two in October. Martha and I just returned from my high school reunion in Rio de Janeiro. We had a wonderful week in a beautiful place, but one that’s a lot less safe than when I was growing up there. Aside from having our camera slashed off my shoulder, we enjoyed ourselves immensely. By the way, Peter Franaszek attended Julie’s wedding with his wife, Ann. Hope to see many of our classmates at the reunion in May.”

From the January / February 2007 Issue

Bob Traub and his wife, Pat, journeyed to Nantucket Island to visit Bob’s daughter Anne-Marie as they usually do in late September/early October, but this year the occasion was special: Anne-Marie was married to Bruce B. Conlin, as witnessed by approximately 135 friends and relatives from all over the U.S. and various international locales.

From the September / October 2006 Issue

Steve Foote writes: “I married Josie Pickard (Vassar ’65) on April 22. Tris Coffin was at the wedding. I met Josie in France in 2001 on a painting trip, actually over 9/11. She is a former librarian at the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum in Kansas City, Mo. She is an accomplished painter and has work on display and for sale in Kansas City galleries from time to time. Josie has a son and daughter living in Kansas City, along with her one-year-old grandson. Our families fit together beautifully, as her children are just months different in age from my two daughters, and my grandsons are 5-months- and 5-years-old respectively. We live in Cambridge, Mass., but will be dividing our time between Shawnee Mission, Kans., and here in the future. My architectural practice at Perry Dean Rogers|Partners in Boston is thriving, and what with music, painting, and sailboats filling in the extra time, life seems busier and better than ever before.”

From the May / June 2006 Issue

William E. Boutelle writes: “So, after almost forty-four years, I’m getting around to writing to BAM. The occasion is my recent (December) retirement from the VA health care system after thirty-three years of federal service. After graduation I earned my MD at the New Jersey College of Medicine, and then trained in psychiatry at both the New York Hospital and Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital. After two years in the Navy, I joined the VA and became interested in the administration of health care. Since 1994, I had been the chief of staff of the 300-bed VA Medical Center in Northampton, Mass., as well as a practicing psychiatrist. During my tenure at the VA, I found time for some research, as well as clinical teaching at Boston University, Harvard, and Yale medical schools, turning in my last faculty appointment a couple of years ago. It’s fair to say that my family qualifies as a Brown family. My father, also William, was class of ’31. My three children—Jonathan ’97, Laura ’98, and Alexander ’05—have all profited from their experiences at Brown. Jonathan and his wife, Rashmi Sinha ’99 PhD, were married in India in 1999, and have founded a software consulting business, Uzanto.com, based in Mountain View, Calif., and Delhi, India. Laura trained in architecture at UC Berkeley, and now works in that field in Berkeley, Calif. Alexander works for Goldman Sachs in New York City. The only non-Brunonian in the family is my dear wife of thirty-eight years, Annie Boutelle, a poet (Becoming Bone and Nest of Thistles, two volumes published in 2005) and English professor at Smith College. Together, we spent over twenty years on a farm in the Berkshires raising animals and children, but have now moved to a less labor-intensive lifestyle in Northampton. Retiring from the government does not mean retiring from life or from medicine. I’m currently working in two different psychiatric clinical positions in the Northampton area, and I very much hope that my strength and health allow me to continue trying to help people for some time to come.”

Bob Traub and his wife, Pat Stewart, will journey as usual at the end of May to Nantucket Island to visit Bob’s daughter Anne-Marie and their two grandsons. In addition to the family visit, Bob will be assigned to garden and border duty in preparation for summer boarders at the main house. Pat will be assigned cooking and child-care duties to give her daughter-in-law a break. A shipment of blueberry bushes is expected to augment the extensive raspberry patch.

From the March / April 2005 Issue

Members of the classes of ’61, ’62, ’63, and even some representatives from ’64 and ’65 gathered Oct. 17 at Harbour Lights in New York City’s South Street Seaport. There are plans to organize similar gatherings this spring in Washington, D.C., and/or Boston. Contact Dale Burg at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it if you’re interested in participating.

From the September / October 2004 Issue

Class officers are planning a mini-reunion brunch in New York City on Oct. 17. If you plan to visit Manhattan, make us part of your weekend. We’d like contiguous classes to join us. RSVP and send suggestions, comments, or questions to Dale Burg, 145 E. 84th St., New York City l0028; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

John Seely Brown has been elected to serve on Amazon.com’s board of directors. He is the eighth board member and the seventh independent member.

Bob Traub and his wife, Patricia Stewart, visited Bob’s daughter Anne-Marie and first grandchild, Ellery, over Memorial Day weekend. Anne-Marie has been a resident of Nantucket for the past twelve years, following her graduation from Virginia Commonwealth Univ. and Northeastern.

From the July / August 2004 Issue

Class president Dale Burg writes that the class of ’62 will hold a New York City reunion at noon on Oct. 17, with brunch at a restaurant to be announced. “We would love to have contiguous classes join us,” he says. Dale can be reached at dalerondaburg @aol.com.

Don Friary retired on Dec. 31, 2002, after twenty-eight years as executive director of Historic Deerfield Inc. He is now director emeritus and senior research fellow at the Western Massachusetts Museum and has established a consulting practice called History for Hire. He can be reached at Box 266, Deerfield, Mass. 01342; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

From the May / June 2004 Issue

Kenneth Blackman, Alan Grace, and Neal Kurk (see Karen Grace ’94).

From the March / April 2004 Issue

Jane Levin Mallow and Helen Nathan (see Heather Mallow ’91).

Carol Markovitz Raskin (see Eve Raskin Anderson ’91).

From the January / February 2004 Issue

Marion Otis Barnes writes: “After twenty-five years, I’m retiring from teaching at a small, artsy elementary school. I’m looking forward to having blocks of time to create, but I’ll miss the daily contact with those kids.” Marion can be reached at 15724 Puckett Rd., Dade City, Fla. 33525.

Randolph Steinen ’73 Ph.D. writes: “I retired from the geology department of the University of Connecticut in 2002. I work part-time at Sharpe Hill Vineyards in Pomfret, Conn., as a stonemason and vineyard help.” Randolph can be reached at 44 Birchwood Heights, Storrs Mansfield, Conn. 06268; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

From the November / December 2003 Issue

Rosemary Shea Caputo (see Lisa Caputo Morris ’86).

From the March / April 2003 Issue

Joe Frankel writes that he recently retired from Prudential Financial after thirty-three years at the company. Joe was vice president and New Jersey counsel. Joe and his wife, Sue, live at the Jersey shore and Jupiter, Fla. Their two children have made them the proud grandparents of four. Joe can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Randolph Steinen ’73 Ph.D. writes that he became an emeritus faculty member in June after thirty years at the Univ. of Connecticut. He works part-time at a local vineyard, Sharpe Hill, doing vineyard and winery chores and rebuilding old stone fences. Randolph can be reached at 44 Birchwood Hts., Storrs, Conn. 06268; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

From the November / December 2002 Issue

Harvey and Peggy Snyder Hinman (see Page Sargisson '97).

Stuart Sargisson (see Page Sargisson '97).

Barbara Bromer van Achterberg (see Meg van Achterberg '93).

From the September / October 2002 Issue

Martha R. Reeves writes that she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the New England School of Law's ninety-first commencement on May 24. Reeves, who has served as an administrative law judge for the Social Security Administration since 1991, was recognized for her advocacy work in her criminal defense practice and for her active involvement in social security issues. Martha can be reached at 56 St. Botolph St., Boston 02116; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

From the May / June 2002 Issue

Report from reunion headquarters: "Reunion plans are complete. We hope to see you at Brown for a great weekend May 24-27. Join us at your class events, Campus Dance, the Pops Concert, and the Commencement March. Register at alumni.brown.edu. If you haven't received your reunion mailing, please contact (401) 863-1947; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it "

Leslie Armstrong writes: "I am teaching design at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and practice architecture and interior design part-time. I divide my time between New York, Springfield, Mass., and London. I continue to serve Robert College of Istanbul as trustee and cochair of its building committee and the Helicon Foundation as an adviser." Leslie can be reached at 333 West 70th St., New York 10023.

From the November / December 2000 Issue

Donald R. Friary, executive director and secretary of Historic Deerfield, celebrated his twenty-fifth year at the helm of the western Massachusetts museum village. Donald also serves on several museum and academic boards and lectures throughout the country about Historic Deerfield, American history, and American decorative arts.

From the September / October 2000 Issue

Joe Frankel writes that he celebrated thirty years at Prudential. He is vice president and New Jersey counsel in charge of New Jersey government relations. He has also served five terms as mayor of Eatontown, New Jersey. Joe and his wife, Sue, have two children and two grandchildren, Sarah and Will. Joe can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Ray Rhinehart has published Princeton University: An Architectural Tour (Princeton Architectural Press), a 198-page guide to the university’s architecture. Ray writes that the guide, which includes a foreword by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, is the most recent installment of a series that highlights college campuses of unusual architectural distinction. A guide on the architecture of Brown is in the planning stage.

John Sedgewick (see Rose Whelan Sedgewick ’25).

From the May / June 2000 Issue

Bob Ashcom ’69 M.A.T. published Lost Hound (Derrydale Press), a collection of foxhunting stories and poems. Bob is an assistant professor of English at Lord Fairfax Community College in Warrenton, Va. He has a 116-acre farm, on which he runs a cow and calf operation with his wife.

Carol Cargill writes that she continues to teach at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg. She researches language acquisition and language attrition, especially in the case of Alzheimer’s disease. She is working on three more books: Americans Crossing Cultures, French Stories for Children, and Insights into Teaching American English. Most of her work involves arranging for student and scholar exchanges through U.S.F. or through her research and consulting group, the Pan American University Foundation in Largo, Fla. Alhough Carol lives in Florida most of the time, she maintains a home in Narragansett, R.I. She has two grandsons, ages 9 and 6, and a daughter in Cambridge, Mass. She writes: "To any of you in Florida, keep in touch." Carol can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Robert Herstoff, of Huntington Beach, Calif., writes that he retired after twenty-five years with the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. He now devotes his time to sailing, woodworking, and other interests. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Richard Kostelanetz has published Political Essays (Autonomedia). A second edition of his Dictionary of the Avant Gardes (Schirmer) is slated to be published this season, as is his Thirty Years of Visible Writing (BGB Press) and reprints of his Another E.E. Cummings (Liveright) and John Cage, Writer (Cooper Square). He writes: "An East Village Barnes & Noble recently exhibited my Word Prints."

Neal Kurk (see Kendra Kurk Anderson ’89).

John Payne, of Los Angeles, writes that he celebrated his twenty-fifth year on the faculty of the California Institute of the Arts, where he is assistant dean of the music school and director of the program in music technology. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

From the March / April 2000 Issue

Michael Davis (see Jon Davis ’90).

From the November / December 1999 Issue

Kenneth Blackman (see Susan Blackman Tilson '89).

Barbara Bromer Van Achterberg (see Meg Van Achterberg '93).

Richard Holbrooke (see Jennifer Lewis Yamron '90).

From the May / June 1999 Issue

John Andes writes: "Well, it seems that our classmate, Richard Holbrooke, has done it again. First he ends a war that continues to kill hundreds, and now he becomes two people in one. Working for Credit Suisse First Boston and the State Department, he arranged, via the U.S. Embassy, meetings with South Korean officials within a year of stepping down as assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian affairs. This clearly violates the conflict-of-interest laws. Mr. Holbrooke has a long way to go to reach the multiplicity of Eve, who had sixteen faces. This violation cost Mr. Holbrooke only $5,000. Now Mr. Holbrooke can take the Clinton brand of honesty into the United Nations. Ah, ain't politics grand? Stay tuned for more of 'See Dick Ruin'."

Ray Merson (see Dave Merson '89).

From the September / October 1998 Issue

Eugene Straus has published Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel Laureate: Her Life and Work in Medicine (Plenum). Eugene, formerly a professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, is a professor of medicine and chief of digestive diseases at the State University of New York Health Sciences Center. He lives in New York City and is a contributing editor and columnist for the Earth Times newspaper.

From the July / August 1998 Issue

Richard Kostelanetz, New York City, edited the anthology Another E.E. Cummings (Liveright). Richard writes: "It is dedicated to S. Foster Damon, my great teacher some forty years ago, who should not be forgotten. I also edited a Virgil Thomson reader that is dedicated to Damon for the same reason. It should appear in the next year or two."

From the May / June 1998 Issue

Michael D. Shapiro and his wife, Ann-Louise Sticklor Shapiro '80 Ph.D., bicycled on Coastal Highway 1 from San Francisco to Santa Barbara this fall. From there, they traveled to Los Angeles, where they visited Michael's sophomore roommate, Joel A. Cassel, and his wife, Lise. They were joined for dinner by Anthony Rosenthal and his wife, Lyn. "Our California friends were shocked that we undertook this trip without a support van or even a cellular phone," Michael writes. Michael continues to practice law in New London, Conn., and Ann-Louise is a history professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. They can be reached at 65 Shore Rd., Old Lyme, Conn. 06371; (860) 434-9966.

From the May / June 1998 Issue

Michael D. Shapiro and his wife, Ann-Louise Sticklor Shapiro '80 Ph.D., bicycled on Coastal Highway 1 from San Francisco to Santa Barbara this fall. From there, they traveled to Los Angeles, where they visited Michael's sophomore roommate, Joel A. Cassel, and his wife, Lise. They were joined for dinner by Anthony Rosenthal and his wife, Lyn. "Our California friends were shocked that we undertook this trip without a support van or even a cellular phone," Michael writes. Michael continues to practice law in New London, Conn., and Ann-Louise is a history professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. They can be reached at 65 Shore Rd., Old Lyme, Conn. 06371; (860) 434-9966.

From the March / April 1998 Issue

Don Friary's son Richard '97 graduated last May. Since 1975 Don has been executive director of Historic Deerfield Inc., a museum of New England history and art located in Deerfield, Mass. He also serves as president of the trustees of the Williamstown Art Conservation Center. Don was elected to resident membership in the Massachusetts Historical Society last April.

Earle Halsband is happy to announce the engagement of his daughter, Robin '92, to Jeremy Spector (Yale '92). Jeremy is the brother of Adam Spector '90, who is married to Sylvia Katzner (RISD '89), daughter of Louis Katzner. Robin is studying for her master's degree at the Yale University School of Management. A June wedding is planned, and all the Brown alums are looking forward to a reunion.

Richard Kostelanetz reports that a chapter about his fiction appeared in Larry McCaffery's Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors (University of Pennsylvania). The Medicine Show in New York City staged a reading of his Minimal Audio Plays in May. Richard's work also was featured in a visual poetry exhibit at the John Hay Library last winter, and Schirmer Books has published his Writings on Glass, A Frank Zappa Companion, and A B.B. King Companion. "Individual entries on me appear in both A Reader's Guide to 20th Century Writers (Oxford) and the Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, where my name is one of ten thousand from all time," he writes. "The only other Brown alumnus I can find in either of these last two books is Nathanael West." Richard can be reached at P.O. Box 444, Prince St., New York City 10012.

Lillian Robinson '62 A.M. has published In the Canon's Mouth: Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Indiana University Press). She is a professor of English at East Carolina University.