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From the May/June 2008 IssueAllan M. Gittleman was the executive producer of a recent documentary on Elvis Costello called Letter of Thanks. He writes: "What made the film such an enjoyable project was working with the talented writer/director, Doug Passon in Scottsdale, Ariz." Marie Langlois (see Elaine Berlinsky Fain '70). From the March/April 2008 IssueJon Small (see Daisy Wademan Dowling '96). From the January / February 2008 IssueBen King writes: “I had fun in September linking up with my Brown Glee Club director, Erich Kunzel ’60 AM, at the Ravinia Festival in Illinois, where Erich conducted an end-of-summer pops program. Backstage we relived some glorious (and inglorious) moments of Brown Glee Club lore from the early 1960s (I sang bass). It was gratifying to catch up, after 43 years, with this memorable gentleman.” Ben also writes that he sold his business, King Research Inc., and now works as a consultant to the company’s new Milwaukee-based owners while continuing to practice law in New York City. Contact Ben at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Allen Ward writes: “Last May, I had an enjoyable visit in Maine with classmate Roger DuBrock and his family, who had come from Anchorage, Alaska, for daughter Francesca’s Bowdoin College graduation. After eighteen months of renovations, I am almost fully moved to a condominium in Manchester, Conn. I have remade it into an 18th-century-style townhouse with three libraries, one for books and monographs on ancient history, one for Greek and Latin texts, and one for modern literature and social services. Since, as an emeritus professor, I no longer have a big office at the Univ. of Connecticut, it will be wonderful to have all my books available in one place.” Contact Allen at 441 South Main St., Manchester 06040; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it From the September / October 2007 IssueStuart Halpert '64 (see Andrew Goldsmith '99). Anne Hunter writes: "Having retired as a hospice physician at the Maine Center for Cancer Medicine in September 2005, I completed the training in the Episcopal deacon formation program last spring and was ordained a deacon in Portland on June 24, 2006. I am assigned to my home church in Rangeley, Me., for the summer and fall months, and I just finished my first winter near Charlottesville, Va." Anne can be reached from November through mid-May at 1593 Buck Mountain Rd., Earlysville, Va. 22936; and from mid-May through October at P.O. Box 986, Rangeley 04970. Her e-mail is This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it From the July / August 2007 IssueAndy Kiley, as a former president of the Brown Chorus, has maintained his interest in choral singing and will participate in the opening of the 2008 Olympics in China as a member of the Rochester (N.Y.) Oratorio Society. Andy can be reached at 100 Castlebar Rd., Rochester 14610; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Ronald T. Wilson writes: “I’ve retired after thirty years as a planner and administrator with the New York City Department of Mental Health. Luckily, my two sons and two grandsons are well and productive. Brown was good to me when I was there, and I am grateful. I still think it has the most attractive old campus in America, and most of the Brown grads I have met have been bright and decent.” Ronald can be reached at 700 Victory Blvd., Apt. 17-F, Staten Island, N.Y. 10301. From the May / June 2007 IssueAnne L. Hunter writes: “Having retired from my work as a hospice physician at the Maine Center for Cancer Medicine in Sept. 2005, I completed the training in the Episcopal Deacon Formation Program last spring and was ordained a deacon on June 24, 2006. I am assigned to my home church in Rangeley for the summer-fall months, and I’m now getting settled in a new wintertime home near Charlottesville, Va.” A. Thomas Levin, chair of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein municipal law’s land use and environmental compliance practice and former president of the New York State Bar Association, was appointed to the New York Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission for the Tenth Judicial District. From the March / April 2007 IssueCliff Adelman joined the Institute for Higher Education Policy in Washington, D.C., after working twenty-seven years as a senior research analyst for the U.S. Department of Education. He now roams the country doing presentations for entities such as the California State University System, the New Mexico State Legislature, and the College Board. He writes: “Within the first five weeks after leaving the government, I published three articles that the education department would never let me publish, including a critique of the report of Secretary Spellings’ Commission on the Future of Higher Education. It’s been like light streaming through windows.” Cliff has received awards for lifetime contributions to research on higher education from the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the Association for Institutional Research. It all started, he says, with designing the first student course-evaluation program at Brown in 1963. His wife, Nancy Kilpatrick ’65, continues as a designer and manager of education evaluation projects at SRI International in Rosslyn, Va. Jonathan Kagan still enjoys his ophthalmic practice in offices in New York City and Westchester. Sylvia Alonso ’01 has joined his practice, so he is now able to work a five-day week in four days. He spends long weekends with his wife, Ginnie, at their cottage in New Milford, Conn. He writes: “Deborah is a feng shui consultant in Los Angeles; Ali is getting her master’s in elementary education and English as a second language, and Jo gets her doctorate in physical therapy next year.” Jonathan can be reached at 7 Captains Ln., Rye, N.Y. 10580; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Susan Rosenfeld ’65 AM is a historian with the Air National Guard and principal consultant with the Society of Former FBI Agents oral history program. Her husband, Fred Stielow, is dean of libraries and educational materials for the online American Public University Systems/American Military University. Daughter Debbie Falb ’87 lives in California, and daughter Abigail Benioti lives in Israel with her husband and eight children. Susan can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Richard R. Rulon, a founding partner of the business-immigration law firm of Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer, LLP, was recognized by the American Immigration Lawyers Association at its 60th anniversary as one of ten members who contributed significantly to the organization. He has played an active role in shaping federal immigration law. He is a past chairman of the board of trustees of the American Immigration Lawyers Foundation and a former chairman of the Philadelphia chapter. From the January / February 2007 IssueMaida Waldner Genser is leading a campaign in South Florida to allow pets in condos. She has amassed more than 7,600 signatures and is trying to produce a bill, like the one in California, that allows people in condos to have a least one pet. Visit her Web site at www.petsincondos.org. Allan M. Gittleman writes: “Ellen and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary in May. We won the mixed golf championship in our division at Potowomut (R.I.) Country Club in September. I still keep my hand in the investment game as vice president of Janney Montgomery Scott, LLC.”
From the September / October 2006 IssueThomas Levin was honored with a 2006 Public Interest Attorney of the Year award by the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center (Huntington, N.Y.). Levin is a chair of the municipal law, land use, and environmental compliance group of the Mineola, N.Y.–based law firm of Meyer, Souzzi, English, and Klein. Lawrence A. Rand writes: “The voters in Rye Brook, N.Y., reelected their mayor— that would be me—to another two-year term. My two running mates on the slate for village trustee were also elected. This means that my political party, Rye Brook Together (www.ryebrooktogether.org), will occupy all five seats on the village’s board of trustees. The election was never really in doubt; our slate ran unopposed. Either we are doing something right, or else other people are too smart to get involved in local politics. By the way, founding fathers (and mothers) of Rye Brook were clever enough to prohibit national political parties from running candidates for village office.” Susan Rosenfeld ’65 AM writes: “Since September I’ve been a historian with the Air National Guard. I continue serving as principal consultant to the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI Oral History Project.” Susan can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it David Rumsey writes: “I retired from U.S. Marine Corps Reserves as a colonel with active duty in Vietnam and Desert Storm. I also retired from the courthouse after twenty-five years as a family law master. I am now working part-time in a private law firm. My wife, Michele, and I are both in good health, enjoying travel, baseball (Orioles and Nationals), walks, and spending time with eight children and eleven grandchildren.” David can be reached at 15605 Croom Airport Rd., Upper Marlboro, Md. 20772; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it From the May / June 2006 IssuePhil Newman writes: “I’m still practicing cardiology full-time in Orange County, Calif. with the same group I’ve been with for the past fourteen years, and I’m still living in Newport Beach, Calif. In September 2004, I had one of the most memorable weeks of my life when I was invited to a teaching hospital in Japan as a visiting lecturer and consultant in cardiology. As I told them, I only hope that I was able to teach them as much about cardiology as they taught me about how to host visitors and treat people. I’d love to hear from classmates and others who were at Brown while I was there.” Phil can be reached at 1880 Park Newport, #305, Newport Beach, Calif. 92660; (949) 644-6170; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it From the November / December 2004 IssueLucy Jefferys Greenblatt writes: “I am happily employed as a certified nursing assistant at the Pocopson Home, a long-term care facility. I am also happily active in my church, where I often sing and play guitar.” Lucy can be reached at 350 N. Milford Rd., Downingtown, Pa. 19335. A. Thomas Levin writes: “I have completed my term as president of the 73,000-member New York State Bar Association and have returned to full-time practice at Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein in Mineola, N.Y. In August I was elected to the executive committee of the National Conference of Bar Presidents and also took office as president-elect of the National Caucus of State Bar Associations.” He can be reached at atlevin@ nysbar.com. From the September / October 2004 IssueA. Thomas Levin reports that he completed his term as president of the 72,000-member New York State Bar Association in June. In August he became president-elect of the National Caucus of State Bar Associations. And last May, NYU School of Law named him alumnus of the month. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it William Levine (see Jeffrey W. Goodman ’96). Bob Martin has been appointed to the board of Amedia Networks. He retired as chief technology officer at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs in September 2003 and has served on a number of panels, including the FCC technological advisory board. Lawrence Rand won the Rye Brook, N.Y., mayoral election on March 17. David Westfall has been appointed dean of the college of science at the Univ. of Nevada. In October he begins an eight-week fellowship at Oxford Univ. to discuss higher-education strategies and his studies of neurotransmitters affecting urinary bladder function. Jo-Anne Palumbo Vaughn reports that over the past forty years she has been a language teacher, counselor, director of a community mental health organization, and a community-liaison officer in U.S. embassies overseas. She has worked in the state department as an evacuation and crisis officer and has trained embassy personnel in crisis management. While her husband, Tony (Yale ’61), was in the foreign service, they spent twenty years overseas, living in Haiti, Germany, and other countries. In Indonesia, in the 1970s, they adopted two daughters, Tonya and Sarinah, who “now live and work in Washington, D.C., and New York City, respectively,” Jo-Anne writes. “Andrea, our youngest, is currently in the Peace Corps in Ecuador and will soon return to attend law school. In 2002 we left the Washington, D.C., area and are now semi-retired on the Eastern shore of Maryland. Tony and I are both very busy with several volunteer activities. I have also returned to teaching English as a Second Language at Chesapeake College.” From the July / August 2004 IssueCarolyn Gahagan Carroll is celebrating a fortieth wedding anniversary in addition to the 40th reunion. She has lived with her husband, Michael M. Carroll ’65 PhD, the McMurtry Professor of Engineering at Rice Univ., in the Houston area for fifteen years. Their children, Patricia and Timothy, were married in 2002 in the San Francisco Bay Area, where they now live. Carolyn and Michael regret not being able to attend reunion festivities, but they were in Ireland, where Michael is on a visitor’s fellowship at the National Univ. of Ireland, Galway. Larry Kerson writes: “Because our family (Toba Schwaber Kerson and Jennie Kerson ’00) has to be early for everything, and we believed Parisians like to start on time, we were the first to arrive at our table at a large communal Passover Seder in Paris at le Pavillon Dauphine on the edge of Bois de Boulogne. As the remaining people sat down, we began introducing ourselves. Except for two genuine Parisians, the rest of us soon realized we were the ‘American table’ among more than thirty tables. Without any prior arrangement, it turned out that four of the nine people at the table were Brown grads, and two of us were classmates planning to return to Brown for our 40th reunion. At the table, in addition to our family and two Parisians, were Lisa and Joel Cassel ’62 and Isabel and David Brodsky. We all marveled at the remote odds of our meeting. Unspoken was the sense that a ‘higher authority’ or perhaps Josiah Carberry had orchestrated the scenario.” Larry can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it David Lovenheim writes: “Since 2002 I have served as group chief executive of WR2 Companies, based in Indianapolis and in Glasgow, Scotland. WR2, which Bobbi and I helped found in 1993, builds non-incineration environmental equipment for safe disposal and recycling of biological and biohazardous waste. Between 1979 and 2002 I was a partner of a New York State law firm, Harris Beach, in Rochester, N.Y. Also, for the past three years, and after a long absence from Brown, I have enjoyed serving as director of a promising Rhode Island company, FarSounder Inc. of Providence. Founded by two top ocean-acoustics experts from URI, FarSounder has developed affordable, real-time, forward-looking sonar for maritime vessels of all kinds. Seeing David and Toby Parker London ’65 and Lynne and Alan Brenner on trips east for board meetings has been a special treat.” David can be reached at 11056 Windermere Blvd., Fishers, Ind. 46038; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it From the May / June 2004 IssueThe 1964 Reunion Committee reports: “Our reunion plans are complete, and we hope to see you back at Brown on May 28–31! Join fellow classmates for a great reunion weekend. Please make your reservations now. You can register online at alumni.brown.edu. Any questions? Call or e-mail reunion headquarters at (401) 863-1947 or reunions@brown. edu.”Jeffrey L. Ballon writes that he has been appointed to the City of Huntsville’s human rights commission. He received an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion a few years ago. He also had lunch in Ashville, N.C., with Tom Sanders, a member of the religious studies faculty at Brown in the ’60s. Earl Bradley (see Carolyn Adams Bradley ’46). JoAnne Rabold Connell ’64 (see Kristen Connell ’93). From the March / April 2004 IssueThe 1964 reunion committee reports: Our reunion plans are complete, and we hope to see you back at Brown on May 28–31! Join fellow classmates for a great reunion weekend. Registration information will arrive soon, so please make your reservation early. Register online at alumni.brown.edu and address any questions to reunion headquarters at (401) 863-1947 or This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Robert Case Liotta writes: “With my older son Ben ’07 at Brown, I now have the pleasure to be reinvolved with an institution I have always loved and an excuse to visit the campus without feeling like someone trying to relive his past. My wife, Barbara, and I spent part of our 20th anniversary at Parents’ Weekend, and it was great. Now I hope to kindle the same interest in my 16-year-old son, Joey, who decided Brown was ‘cool’ after a weekend visit with his brother.” Robert can be reached at 3726 Harrison St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20015; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it David London (see David Parker ’69). Charlotte Shoemaker writes: “I’m living in Berkeley and doing well these days, having just walked through the fire. My beloved partner, David Kibbey, died nearly three years ago of cancer. Now I am coming out the other side, a new, stronger me. I’m a curator of dance films for San Francisco Performances, which entails tracking down films from around the world and then presenting them here. I get to see an enormous amount of fabulous dance in addition to all that I see on stage.” Charlotte can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it From the January / February 2004 IssueClass president Joe Green reports: “The countdown has started for reunion weekend, May 28–31. Your class reunion committee is planning a great reunion and there is still time to become involved. If you would like to become actively involved in the reunion planning, please contact me at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it ; (508) 764-0410 (work); or (860) 974-9801 (home); or Larry Kerson at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it ; (610) 525-8874. Mark your calendars; your registration information will arrive in the spring.” Lee Eliot Berk plans to announce his retirement as president of Berklee College of Music following the 2004 spring commencement. He is the second generation of the family to lead the college, which was founded by his father, Lawrence Berk, in 1945. Lee was appointed president in 1979. He and his wife, Susan, are retiring to Santa Fe, N.Mex. From the November / December 2003 IssueRobert Falb, a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP, has been named vice chair of the Shakespeare Theatre board of trustees. The theater is a major cultural institution in the Washington area.A. Thomas Levin began his term as president of the New York State Bar Association in June. Judith Wilkenfeld was awarded the C. Everett Koop Unsung Hero Award from the American Lung Association. Judith administered the Federal Trade Commission’s Tobacco Program and served as Special Advisor for Tobacco Policy at the Food and Drug Administration. From the March / April 2003 IssueWalter Ingram, of Bellingham, Wash., writes: “I’m still in the salmon business, but also spend half the year cruising on our catamaran. We are sailing throughout the Mediterranean as I write this.” From the July / August 2002 IssueDavid Farley writes: "I retired from Fleet Financial Group three years ago. I currently volunteer as a track and cross-country coach at Brown. My wife, Patricia '01 R.U.E., graduated from Brown magna cum laude in anthropology/archaeology!" David can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Richard Jones wrote in February: "I'm still professor of computer science at Western Connecticut State University. My fifth book was published by Prentice-Hall a couple of years ago. My wife, Wendy, is the tax collector in our town, Bridgewater, Conn. Daughter Karen is a medical student at Georgetown. Son Ed graduates in June from the University of Connecticut with a master's degree in mechanical engineering." Peter Stergios has joined the law firm of Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder. He will focus on labor law. From the May / June 2002 IssueJoAnne Rabold Connell (see Torri Connell Horovitz '90). Madeline Ehrman '65 A.M. writes that she recently returned from three weeks in Turkey, where she delivered a plenary address to the Turkish English Language Teachers Association's annual meeting. She led workshops and gave lectures on cognitive styles and language learning autonomy at universities around Turkey. The trip was sponsored by the State Department's public diplomacy program. A. Thomas Levin, director of the Mineola, N.Y., law firm of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein has been named president-elect of the New York State Bar Association. He will become state bar president in June 2003. From the November / December 2000 IssueJoyce Leffler Eldridge writes that her daughter, Nicole, married Jeff Marcus of Miami in August. “Although both the bride and the groom are Yalies,” she reports, “the wedding attracted a sizable contingent of Brunonians to Boston. Sister Robin ’01 was the maid of honor and gave an eloquent toast, while bridesmaid Sarah Grabel ’95 painted the wedding program cover. My classmates came from both coasts: Dorothy Sherman Berman, Judith Skeist Goodman, Judy
Seidel Jacobson, and Toby
Levenson Sherwood. Other Brown guests included uncle Stuart
Leffler ’69, Alex Jacobson ’93, Sarah
Goodman ’96, and Max Minzner ’96.”
Ben King (see Jennifer King
’96). From the September / October IssueMichael Diamond’s litigation firm, Diamond & Ostrow, has been acquired by the international law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. Diamond & Ostrow focuses on securities and general corporate litigation; its clients include PaineWebber, General Electric, and Revlon. Alan Sondheim ’69 A.M. teaches Bloom-field College’s weekend course on Internet culture and community, according to the Glen Ridge (N.J.) Voice. The course examines the psychological, political, historical, scientific, and creative implications of the Internet. Alan is also the virtual writer-in-residence for the Trace Writing Community at Nottingham Trent University in England and has taught at the University of Texas and UCLA. From the July / August 2000 IssueThe Orange County Bar Association awarded Lee Bennett the William Trickel Jr. Professionalism Award. A shareholder with the firm of Gray, Harris & Robinson, Lee is former president of the Orange County Bar Association and currently serves as its delegate to the American Bar Association. Jerry Dubnoff (see Mark Dubnoff ’91). Michael Kupersmith (see Samuel Press ’76). Elizabeth Kline Landers, of Sausalito, Calif., writes: "In February I joined Citigroup in the Citibank Financial Center in Mill Valley, Calif. I’m a CitiBusiness manager working with businesses in Marin County on loans, investments, retirement plans, insurance, and the whole spectrum of financial services." From the May / June 2000 IssueCheryl Laney, widow of David Laney (see Obituaries) writes that memorial donations may be made in her husband’s name to the Haddonfield Foundation, Haddonfield, N.J. 08033 (Attn: William Reynolds). David Feinstein writes: "It is never too late." He and his wife, Wei Pan (Beijing University of Science and Technology ’89, University of Alabama ’99 M.S.), announce the birth of Joseph Pan Feinstein, on Dec. 27. Joey joins brothers Dan (Colgate ’89, University of Alabama ’94 L.L.D.), Doug ’91 (University of South Alabama ’98 M.D.), and Joel (Washington University ’99). David has worked since 1980 at the University of South Alabama, where he is dean of the school of computer and information sciences. "Y’all come and visit," he writes. David can be reached at 1984 Post Oak Ct., Mobile, Ala. 36695; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it A. Thomas Levin, of Rockville Centre, N.Y., writes: "I have been re-elected to a third term as vice president of the New York State Bar Association." From the March / April 2000 IssueBob Dickman, of Newton, Mass., writes: “My son, Jesse ’95, and his wife, Caren Exelbert ’96, are fourth-year medical students who worked for a month at Tufts, where I am chief of family medicine. We have reconnected with classmates Dave Garbus and Geoff Sherwood and would love to hear from others. We moved from Israel in Sept. 1998, and while nothing compares to Jerusalem, Newton is a close second. Starting family medicine in a Boston academic health center is a real challenge; I am certainly not bored. Our two other sons are doing well in San Francisco and New York City.” Bob can be reached at 63 Grafton, Newton Centre, Mass. 02459; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it John S. Haskell, a.k.a. Dr. Revenue, has published Profit Rx, in which he prescribes “medication” to ensure a profitable business. The book guides companies through the marketing and sales-development process. The reader can also receive interactive support at the book’s Web site (www.profitrx.com). From the January / February 2000 IssueLee I. Cherney writes: "After an absence of twenty-three years, during which we lived in North Carolina, Florida, and Illinois, I find myself back in Columbus, Ohio, where I am manager of organic operations at GFS Chemicals." Lee can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it JoAnne Rabold Connell (see Torri Connell Horovitz '90). Jonathan A. Small will become executive director and president of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York in April. He has served on its board, as well as on the boards of Brearley School and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. He has also chaired the New York State Bar Association's tax-exempt organizations committee and has been active in the Nonprofit Forum and the Practicing Law Institute. He has been an attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton since 1969 and a partner there since 1976. He lives in New York City with his wife, Cornelia, and daughters Anne and Kate. From the September / October 1999 IssueAnn W. Acheson writes: "For the past several years I've been pursuing a somewhat 'mixed' career path, combining my long-term experience in mental health with my graduate degree in anthropology. This has included a return to teaching anthropology part-time at the University of Maine. Concurrently, I held a part-time temporary position on a research project at the Office of Substance Abuse in Augusta, Maine, followed by a part-time position in the crisis program at Community Health and Counseling Services in Bangor, Maine, where I was involved in policy writing, setting up data-collection and quality-improvement systems, data analysis, and report writing. In May I left that job for a full-time 'soft money' position at the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy at the University of Maine. I am field coordinator for a large longitudinal survey research project focusing on children's health (especially mental health) and service needs. My husband, Jim (University of Rochester '70 Ph.D.), continues with his joint appointment as professor of anthropology and marine sciences at the University of Maine. Daughters Liz (Vassar '96) and Kate '97 had three-month international adventures this summer. Liz left for Guatemala in July and Kate went to Turkey in June. Son Dan '01, a cognitive neuroscience concentrator, is in the Brown Derbies and the Rugby Club. He appeared in Brown's production of Sweeney Todd his freshman year and in the Ocean State Lyric Opera's production of Rigoletto last fall. He has been invited to participate in the lyric opera's production of La Bohème this fall. He spent the summer in Providence as an intern in Brown's sleep lab at Butler Hospital. I am also stepmother to four lovely young adults - Helen Rich, Julianna Acheson-Field, James Acheson Jr., and Marion Arris - and 'grandma' to their eleven children, ranging in age from newborn to 11. Life is never dull!" Ann can be reached at 246 Maple St., Bangor, Maine 04401; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Michael S. Kupersmith was retained by the Vermont General Assembly for a third six-year term as district judge. He writes: "Over the past twelve years, I have been assigned to civil, family, and criminal dockets in the northwestern quadrant of Vermont. The work still intrigues. Just when I think I have seen it all, a new variation appears. I must say that family court work is becoming more difficult for me, as well as for most of my colleagues, as people turn more and more to the courts to micromanage the lives they cannot control themselves. I see Dean Pineles '65, a fellow district judge, regularly and share news of Brown fortunes and/or misfortunes. Helen Wagner '80 does a creditable job as Vermont's director of judicial operations." Wendy Herlihy Raskind, of Seattle, writes: "My husband, Murray, is professor of psychiatry at the University of Washington, chief of psychiatry at the Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System, and director of the Mental Illness, Research, Education, and Clinical Center. His research focuses on aging, Alzheimer's disease, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Many years ago I left my job as a computer programmer and enrolled in an M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Washington. In my current capacity as associate professor of medicine, I research medical genetic disorders as diverse as learning disabilities and bone tumors. Our eldest son, Daniel (Brandeis '91, Chicago Medical School '95), is an internist at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. Son Peter '95 is a chef in Seattle and is taking classes with a plan to apply to graduate school in geology. The youngest, Lily (RISD '98), moved to New York to make her way as a textile artist. We enjoyed our visits to Providence during the seven years when our Brown/RISD children were in college. We regret that we weren't able to come to the reunion - three research grants were due between May and July." Wendy can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it From the May / June 1999 IssueJohn Hartman attended a reunion of U.S. Marine Corps pilots and crew members at which the memory of Mike Carley '62 was honored. Mike was killed in action in 1967 while co-piloting a helicopter in Vietnam . Kitt Johnson achieved his goal of early retirement from the Arthur D. Little international consulting company, where he was a vice president. He plans to focus on civic activities for the next few years. He is a member of the Edgartown finance committee on Martha's Vineyard and the board of governors of the Cape Light Compact, one of the new electric utilities set up in response to utility deregulation. Kitt and his wife, Judith Humphrey Johnson '66, moved from Lexington, Mass., to Spy Pond in Arlington, Mass., to facilitate Judy's continuation of her part-time health-law practice in Boston. Kitt writes: "One of my two daughters described it as going from twelve closets to three." Kitt spends most of his time at their Chappaquiddick residence. He encourages friends to contact him at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Major General William B. Lynch was recently nominated to serve on Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge's cabinet as adjutant general. He will oversee one of the largest U.S. National Guard and veterans' programs in the nation. A command pilot, he flew 100 unarmed combat reconnaissance missions over North Vietnam. Carl Schulkin (see Daryl Twitchell '93). Alan L. Stanzler was elected to the board of trustees of Emerson College. He is a partner in the Boston law firm Maselan, Jones & Stanzler, specializing in corporate finance and international business law. From the March / April 1999 IssueRemember the excitement when you first walked onto campus as an incoming freshman? Relive that experience when you return for your 35th reunion on Memorial Day weekend, May 28-31. Joe Green, Larry Kerson, and Mark Shapiro, your reunion cochairs, have a weekend of activities planned. A reunion packet with all the details and registration materials you need is headed your way. Please call reunion headquarters at (401) 863-1947 with any questions. Carolyn Gahagan Carroll writes: "As our class celebrates its 35th anniversary, I celebrate thirty-five years of marriage to Michael M. Carroll '65 Ph.D. He and I have lived in a suburb of Houston for ten years, after twenty-three years in Berkeley, Calif. Mike is back to teaching and research as the McMurtry Professor of Engineering at Rice University, after ten years as dean of engineering. I am again doing artwork in a downtown studio in Houston. Our two children, Patricia and Tim, are live and work in the San Francisco East Bay area. Mike and I hope to travel more now to see the kids and our families in New York and Ireland." Mara Gailitis Koppel has published Women of the Pits, the stories of fifteen women in the futures industry, including the first woman in the world to trade in a pit and the only African-American pit trader. Mara, a painter, runs a gallery in Chicago, where she lives with her trader/writer husband and two children. She is at work on her next book and can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it John Ogden received an honorary doctorate from the University of North London on Dec. 3, becoming only the second American to receive an honorary degree from the British university. John oversees eighteen study-abroad programs and international exchanges at SUNY-Cortland, including a unique program allowing Cortland students to do their student teaching in London. John was previously a Fulbright lecturer at Omar Bongo University in Gabon and taught at the University of Michigan in Flint, where he chaired the foreign language department. From the January / February 1999 IssueBruce W. Bean writes: "In June, after three and a half years in Moscow as managing partner of the Coudert Brothers office, I joined Clifford Chance, the largest law firm in Moscow. I am responsible for corporate and commercial matters, principally in-bound investments by multinationals. Clifford Chance is currently an English firm, but I will endeavor to make it more American. I continue to enjoy my quasi-political role as chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia. All that work in professor Elliot Goodman's Poli Sci 101 and 106 is finally paying off. The family loves it here. Austin graduates from high school in 2000; Ashley insists she will stay through graduation in 2002. Then perhaps we shall consider returning to the U.S." Bruce can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Madeline Ehrman, Arlington, Va., has just published Interpersonal Dynamics in Second Language Education: The Visible and Invisible Classroom (Sage Publications). She is the director of research, evaluation, and development at the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute, where she oversees language-proficiency testing, staff development, institutional research, and learning-style consultations for students of sixty foreign languages. Allan Gittleman and wife, Ellen, Providence, celebrated a wonderful Newport wedding of daughter Rachel in June. Several Brown alumni attended. Peter Levin, Chevy Chase, Md., writes: "My son Daniel graduated from Yale in May, following his brother, Jeremy, Yale '96. Alas, I could not persuade either of them to choose Brown. But the truth be told, Yale was a great experience for both boys. Brown will just have to wait until the next generation." Thomas J. O'Neil III and Judith A. McIntosh O'Neil (see Christie O'Neil Harrison '91). Allen Ward, Storrs, Conn., retired in June 1997 after twenty-eight years of teaching ancient history, Greek, and Latin at the University of Connecticut, where he continues to teach part-time. He writes: "In July, Prentice Hall published the third edition of A History of the Roman People, which I have extensively revised and expanded since the deaths of Fritz M. Heichelheim and Cedric A. Yeo, who authored the first edition in 1962. A month earlier, while attending the annual meeting of the American Classical League in San Francisco, I met fellow Brunonian and classicist Rod Dashnaw '58, who keeps alive the spirit of Professor John Rowe Workman by teaching Latin in Phoenix. He kindly lent me Professor Robert Scholes's new and provocative book, The Rise and Fall of English, which not only sheds much light on problems in the discipline of English and what to do about them, but ought to be read by anyone interested in the perilous state of the liberal arts in education today. (See "Does English Matter?" in the September/October BAM.) During the next two years, I hope to help restore and renew the classical part of the liberal arts as chairman of the National Committee for Latin and Greek, whose recent efforts have helped fuel the resurgence of Latin and Greek in secondary schools." From the November / December 1998 IssueIt's that time again - time to join fellow classmates back at Brown. Mark your calendar now for May 28-31, weekend of our 35th reunion. Plans are underway, so look for the fall mailing about reunion weekend and see you in the spring! From the September / October 1998 IssueA. Thomas Levin was elected vice president of the New York State Bar Association for the 10th Judicial District, which comprises Nassau and Suffolk Counties. He is head of the government law department of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein. Leona Adler-Sidman Phillips (Stanford '83 Ph.D.) was named a full professor at Springfield College's School of Human Services where she has held a variety of administrative and faculty positions since 1985. She reports that becoming a full professor is almost as exciting as training teachers in South Africa during President Nelson Mandela's first year in office. Leona is on sabbatical during the upcoming year and will use the time to develop an Internet course on survey design. Leona, the daughter of Esther Kuldin Adler '36, can be reached at 1310 S. East St., Amherst, Mass. 01002. Lawrence A. Rand received his Ph.D. from New York University in May. He qualified for the degree in 1968 but did not resume work on his dissertation until he was readmitted to the N.Y.U. Graduate School of Arts and Science in 1996. Lawrence, a founding partner of Kekst and Co., a New York-based corporate communications and crisis management counseling firm, was reelected chair of the ethics committee of the village of Rye Brook (N.Y.). He was honored earlier this year by the ALS Association with the Jacob Javits Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on behalf of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) patients and their families. Michael Samuels has published his fifteenth book, Creative Healing (HarperSanFrancisco). Michael writes: "It is about how anyone can use art, writing, music, and dance to heal body and soul. I presented at pediatric grand rounds at Brown last year, and helped with art and healing events in Providence for a conference at Children's Hospital." From the July / August 1998 IssueJoyce Leffler Eldridge, West Newton, Mass., has won six national and regional awards since her move to Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Mass. Her awards - from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, the Educational Press Association, and the Publicity Club of New England - are for publications and media-relations programs she produced. Daughter Nicole graduated from Yale in June 1997, daughter Robin '01 is a first-year student at Brown, and son Ross is a Connecticut College graduate. Joyce's husband, Larry, has begun a "twilight career" as a teacher in the public schools. Joyce enjoys interviewing for BASC.Michael Lee Gradison, Indianapolis, was honored with a 1998 Jefferson Award for his civic and civil-rights activities. He has been a board member and executive director of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union and has served on the boards of the Urban League, Indiana Repertory Theater, Planned Parenthood of Central and Southern Indiana, and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Indianapolis. Geoffrey W. Torrence's daughter got married last spring. Geoffrey, who has retired from the University of Texas, is a cofounder of a satellite communication research company and is building an astronomical observatory on a mountaintop in New Mexico. "Life is good," he writes from Austin, Tex. From the May / June 1998 IssueSteven B. Karch, Berkeley, Calif. published the Drug Abuse Handbook and A Brief History of Cocaine (CRC Press).A. Thomas Levin, Rockville Centre, N.Y., has been elected vice president of the New York State Bar Association for the tenth judicial district (Nassau and Suffolk counties). He is also serving as a member of the board of the Long Island Community Foundation. From the May / June 1998 IssueSteven B. Karch, Berkeley, Calif. published the Drug Abuse Handbook and A Brief History of Cocaine (CRC Press).A. Thomas Levin, Rockville Centre, N.Y., has been elected vice president of the New York State Bar Association for the tenth judicial district (Nassau and Suffolk counties). He is also serving as a member of the board of the Long Island Community Foundation. From the March / April 1998 IssueMartha Curit Hough has been named director of development for the Rocky Hill School in East Greenwich, R.I. Previously she was development director at the Lincoln School in Providence. Martha is married and has three children.
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