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HARVARD COLLEGE
Lowry Pei (1967, COL)
Lowry Pei (1967, COL) writes, "Old roommates Lowry Pei and Stephen Brown have created a music video: Steve performing his song "Minha Namorada" + photos by Lowry, turned into . . . well, you'll have to see it at this link: https://vimeo.com/47774598
There you can also find two other videos with Steve's piano as the soundtrack: "For No One Delta" and "Since I Fell For You." "
Submitted on Aug 29 2012
Dean Bauer (1967, COL)
Dean Bauer (1967, COL) writes, "Who ever thought I'd have a Medicare card? Signals that time is running short are almost a daily occurrence now. When my four year old grand nephew asked me why it sounded funny when I sneezed and I didn't have a satisfactory answer, he thought for a moment and then said "I think it's because you're old!"
Well ....... I may be older, but IT's not over yet. I've targeted 2015 (aged 70) to step aside from my dazzling accounting career. In the meantime I've started taking photography and writing classes and plan to have projects underway to keep me engaged for the next couple of decades or so.
My interest is in action / sports photography and the stories behind the people who immerse themselves in competition. Maybe you will end up in one of my projects." 
Submitted on Apr 25 2012
Robert Norton (1967, COL)
Robert Norton (1967, COL) writes, "It's birthday time for Larry, Gil and myself, so I made some phone calls. One thing led to another, and now I am writing this. I retired from surgery in 2005, and then spent a year doing hurricane-related repair work. From there I went to education classes, and now I am teaching IB physics, Anatomy/Physiology, and Earth Science to anyone who would listen. I find that I take myself less seriously when I am in the classroom.
Three of my older brothers have had, among them, a five vessel bypass, and 3 strokes, one dying from the stroke. Naturally, with my medical training, I am in total denial, and think that I shall live to be 90+, as mom did. One thing I have learned is not to complain about one's health
Daughters Megan and Kelly are doing well in their careers. My wife and I gently remind them that our biological clocks are tickng, but they ignore us.
In closing, I have this nagging sense that I am not done, that there is more to accomplish. One of the benefits of being with the students is that I forget sometimes how old I am, and that allows me to do things I might not otherwise attempt (I have given up climbing up on the roof to fix things)
Hopefully, I will have more to report in five years."
Submitted on Apr 23 2012
Daniel Levine (1967, COL)
Dan Levine (1967, COL) writes,
I’m writing six days before reaching what used to be the canonical retirement age. Yet work is not slowing down for me, and is still fun. I am co-chair of a 700-person neural networks meeting that will be in my back yard (Dallas) a year from August, and have recently been an invited plenary speaker at other professional meetings in China and India. And I direct a laboratory with four PhD students who are running experiments on emotional and deliberative influences in human decision making. Most satisfying, I have been getting my work published in journals that are socially relevant: Utopian Studies, Zygon (a journal of science and religion), Journal of Socio-economics along with a few articles in Tikkun (an alternative Jewish magazine) and being mentioned in an article on intuition for Oprah magazine.
But it’s not quite leading to the dreamed-of “beloved community” of scholars and activists working together to make the world better. Lorraine and I have stayed married and gotten closer over 33 (ouch!) years, and we keep in contact with many of the positive change agents in the conservative but cosmopolitan Arlington-Fort Worth area. Yet it feels like we are all spending so much energy just keeping the best institutions of our democracy alive. Everybody including us is chronically short of time, and even liberal institutions struggle to avoid slipping into authoritarian structures. So it’s hard to pour much energy into improving society, into fulfilling the dreams many of us had as students. Ultimately all this is rooted in income inequality, which in turn is rooted in technology growing more rapidly than the wisdom to deal with it. Yet I still, despite aging and hearing, seeing, and sleeping less well, hope to publish a general audience book about the brain and society that will be part of the solution.
Since China and India are two of the world’s rising powers, it was instructive and fun to see the differences between them. China is clean, tourist-friendly, and looks prosperous but has little freedom. India is a vibrant democracy with a free press but has a lot of visible poverty and dirt and few sidewalks or traffic lights. Both countries value education a great deal, seemingly more than the US does. Neither model for development seems better than the other.
I’m looking forward to being back in Cambridge in the fall, to see everyone and reconnect with roots.
Submitted on Apr 23 2012
John Palfrey (1967, COL)
John Palfrey (1967, COL) writes, "Judy and I (Sean) have been housemasters of Adams House for the past 13 years, and love it. We are also still very active physicians and teachers. We have three children, all very busy, happy and successful, and four grandchildren. The Adams House website is here: http://adamshouse.harvard.edu/ and the FDR Suite website is here: http://www.fdrsuite.org/ Adams alums are always welcome and encouraged to stop by."
Submitted on Apr 22 2012
Gregory Craig (1967, COL)
Gregory Craig (1967, COL) writes, "A few important things to report:
(1) About us, we still live in Washington, D.C. Derry still does graphic design for her favorite client, the US Postal Service, and I have returned to the practice of law at Skadden Arps, LLP.
(2) About our kids, we are still watching (and some times helping) our children as they continue to move through various educational activities and numerous life challenges. Two have graduated from college -- one now works in Portland, Oregon, the other now works hard to find work in Washington, D.C. Three remain in the US educational system but are frequently outside of the US -- one just beginning college next year and two mid-way through the process. So the tuitions keep coming.
(3) The high point of my last five years has been my work for and with Barack Obama -- first in his presidential campaign, then during the transition and finally as White House Counsel.
Headline moment: The Saturday morning after the Inauguration January 2009. My family visited the President in the Oval Office. He asked our kids what the high point of the Inauguration was, and Mary Craig (aged 17) said, "When Bruce Springsteen bumped into me as he came out of the port-o-potty." Maggie Craig (aged 19) asked, "Mr President, what was your best moment?" The President said, "Right now. Meeting you guys."
And so it goes.
"
Submitted on Apr 16 2012
Douglas Kinney (1967, COL)
Douglas Kinney (1967, COL) writes, "I hope this finds my classmates busy and happy. Stephanie is again setting world land speed records at all she undertakes from conferences to aerobics. We had wonderful weeks on Eagle Island in Penobscot Bay and such island joys as gathering mussels and chanterelles and putting in ten-hour days with a quality Husqvarna chain saw. Stephanie also expanded her gardens, though how she had any energy left after leading her Vassar reunion is beyond her mate’s imagining. She continues to advise the American Foreign Service Association on professional issues and very much enjoyed teaching her fall semester course on sustainability, the intersection between energy, economics and environment, for the Maxwell School of Syracuse University—in particular her very capable Chinese graduate students. I continue my emergency management and business continuity consulting, international and domestic, with BDA Global. My team was embedded in 2011 in the Security and Business Continuity division of a major national financial institution, and I am now with an overseas-focused organization with some twenty-two operations abroad and an innovative approach to economic development. I also serve as a reserve officer with Diplomatic Security wrapping up a two-year effort to set up Personnel Recovery (PR) of Americans and Allies taken hostage abroad. I remain committed to Red Cross/Red Crescent disaster services at home and abroad as a Manager in Life Safety; the Rehab Squad of DC Fire & EMS; CERT; the Private Sector Emergency Exercises Task Force of Arlington OEM; and my Mountain Rescue Group. Saving the best for last: Mercier and her Redmond were married in August at Castello di Vicarello—a memorably wonderful time was had by both families and their many friends! http://redandmercier.shutterfly.com/pictures/5. The Tuscan weather obliged with beautiful breezes and vistas (http://www.vicarello.it/ ). We had the pleasure as well of visiting Red and Mercier at Christmas in their new home in Notting Hill off Hyde Park—quite near Portobello Road and the haunts of my youth. Spent Christmas Day and Boxing Day with Red’s family at Ilmington -- a wonderful family gathering. Manifold blessings and the small miracles that hallow our days. We wish you Peace.
Submitted on Apr 14 2012
John Berman (1967, COL)
John Berman (1967, COL) writes,
Twenty years ago I read what classmates were doing. It was wonderful sociological window on America with regard to those who had wonderful opportunities in life. For me the imperative has changed, and I now understand what older, wiser folks were saying. I have practiced law for 40+ years, over 25 as a sole practitioner, while engaging in some business interests. Great wealth was never a goal, and I always figured that if one did what one should do, sufficient financial resources would result. So, I will never give Harvard a meaningful gift, even though it has given me many. So at times I contribute as a statistic.
My daughter graduated with the Class of 2000. She played soccer all 4 years, and that was wonderful to share and experience. Although her athletic ability got her recruited adn admitted, it was never a job, and always a pleasure for her. That is the essence of Harvard. I remember when she was accepted, and a booklet was sent explaining Harvard's concept of tolerance. It included all facets of personal choices, including gay and lesbian life styles. When I read it, I realized that Harvard still had much to teach, as I reflected on how many prejudices I retained, and how ignorant I was of them. I have read with pleasure Drew Faust's communications. She is a giant personality and talent among many. I have read Professor Lisa Randall's two books about particle physics, and appreciate what the mind is capable of doing. I compare that to the current political "dialogue," (idealogue?) and wonder how the divide can be so great. It does occur to me that Drew Faust and Lisa Randall are representatives of the "fairer" gender, in all senses of the word.
So, I am well, my family are well, my current life includes being entertained with raising a young man who is now 14. And, if anyone is in Portland, Oregon, even if you have no idea who I am, I love to meet new people, to eat at wonderful restaurants, and to probe the minds of others. I am shamelessly curious about virtually everything. If someone were to come to Portland and say, "We were classmates, how about dinner?" I would respond, "What time, do you like seafood?"
Submitted on Apr 14 2012
Donald Arbuckle (1967, COL)
Donald Arbuckle (1967, COL) writes, " In 2006 I retired from 30 years of federal service, the last 25 spent surviving in the White House Office of Management and Budget. Between 1996 and 2006, I was the career executive responsible for federal regulatory, statistical and information policy, a ridiculously impossible job.
Since 2006 my wife Carlisle and I have been living in Allen Texas, where the town is spending $60 million to build a new high school football stadium. I am teaching at the University of Texas at Dallas, a small gem of a school where the students do not feel bad because they did not get accepted at an ivy league college. Carlisle retired in October 2011 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office where she had been an administrative intellectual property judge.
Our 3 children and 5 grandchildren are spread between Waco and Austin TX and Jacksonville FL. We have a summer house on the Chesapeake Bay and I teach a summer course in DC for Texas students, so we get to spend a good deal of time in Virginia, where we lived for 30 years. My parents, 4 sisters, and 4 step-brothers mostly live in Maine or northern Vermont. We get back to New England at least a couple times a year as well.
We are healthy; our children are employed; our grandchildren are cute as buttons. I am grateful to be here.
"
Submitted on Apr 13 2012
John McBride (1967, COL)
John McBride (1967, COL) writes, "After 19 rewarding years as a pediatric pulmonologist at the University of Rochester, my wife Margaret, a pediatric neurologist, and I moved back to Ohio to assume clinical and administrative roles at Akron Children’s Hospital in 1999. Since then we have enjoyed and benefited from the growth and development of the hospital. Although still enjoying our work, we are now successfully slowing down and enjoying more time for travel and visiting with family and friends. Our greatest achievements, our two daughters, Laura, a lawyer in Cleveland, and Lindy, an evolutionary biologist postdoc at Rockefeller University, and Lindy’s partner, Kara, keep us busy and appropriately involved in their successes and challenges. For both Margaret and me, academic pediatric careers have proved to be rewarding opportunities to learn, to participate in the education of a great variety of trainees, to contribute to new knowledge, and, most importantly, to have the privilege of caring for many remarkable children and their families. "
Submitted on Apr 2 2012
Donald Lewis (1967, COL)
Donald Lewis (1967, COL) writes, "I suffered a great loss on December 10, 2011. My darling wife, Nadine, passed away after a long suffering illness. She is deeply missed and I sometimes have a very difficult time coping.
However, my current community has been extremely supportive and I am continuing to arrange History Club trips for them to the many historical sites in the Southern Virginia area. That and my mostly futile search for the elusive “birdies” on the golf course have kept me busy and entertained.
I also volunteered to arrange special event trips for the Christopher Wren Association of the College of William and Mary. I also attend classes provided by the Association for continuing education.
"
Submitted on Mar 22 2012
Walter Keats (1967, COL)
Walter Keats (1967, COL) writes, "I am fortunate to have been making a living doing what most people want to do in their "golden years." In the last year I have been to China numerous times, taken the new high-speed train from Shanghai to Nanjing,vacationed in Puerto Vallarta with classmate Steve Teaford and his wife Barbara, been to two "meetings" in Las Vegas (not my favorite town), and most recently spent a week with my family in Glacier National Park, taking Amtrak (in a compartment) back to Chicago, the 1st train since the record-breaking flooding in Minot, ND. In addition I have been to North Korea a bunch more times, bringing my total visits to 25 to date with several more trips planned for this fall. Then off to Chiapas, Mexico in October for a combination meeting and visit to Tila, Chiapas where I did field research for my undergrad honors thesis in 1965-66. In the "old days" you had to fly in by single-engine bush plane to a nearby grass landing strip and then still walk two hours to town. No electricity or telephones then. Now I can supposedly drive and stay at a "hotel!" We'll see. Next year will be even busier with the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung in North Korea, and special groups to Japan and China."
Submitted on Jul 21 2011
Walter Keats (1967, COL)
Walter Keats (1967, COL) writes, "With over 33 years in the travel industry focusing on upscale custom travel to East Asia I have been elected to the Industry Council of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), headquartered in Bangkok."
Submitted on Jul 21 2011
Anthony Marks (1967, COL)
Anthony Marks (1967, COL) writes, "
Retired from running things after a great final stint starting an airline for Richard Branson. Pretty special when you've hit the big 6..0. Now trying hard to be a progressive Director of several companies focussing on food, ( avocado oil ) cider , travel - both an airline Polynesian Blue Airlines - ( the airline of Samoa ) , New Zealand's largest travel agent,chilled fish and kiwifruit. Keeps the brain stimulated and helps pay the bills.
Still love following soccer ( Arsenal ) , the Patriots and am an unreformed rocker much to the amusement , not always hidden , of 8 grandchildren.
Recent earthquake was very localised so come on down. It's a BEAUTIFUL country
Regards to all
Tony Marks"
Submitted on Oct 7 2010
Anthony Marks (1967, COL)
Anthony Marks (1967, COL) writes, "
Greetings from New Zealand
I am after a favor ( favour !) from anyone living in Dallas. Just need them to act once on my behalf to try and get me out of a jam.
If you can help , please drop me a note on tonymarksnz@gmail.com
I'd be very grateful
Tony Marks"
Submitted on Oct 7 2010
Gerard Sarnat (1967, COL)
Gerard Sarnat (1967, COL) writes, "Recently I unearthed that I'm the great-great grandson of Jacob Ben Isaac Gesundheit, the High Rabbi of Warsaw, and shtetl lowlifes, Nahum Z. and Yente Liebe Sarnatzky.
A virginal poet at the tender age of sixty-four, during 2008 my work was published in sixty journals and anthologies, and was commended or won many poetry competitions and prizes both inside and outside the US. In 2009 I began editing literary journals.
My first book, "HOMELESS CHRONICLES from Abraham to Burning Man," is available at http://www.calartsandletters.org/homeless-chronicles/, and will be listed on Amazon starting April 20.
Gerry’s a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He has been a professor at Stanford Medical School, and CEO/chief medical officer for national healthcare companies. Gerry has set up and staffed homeless clinics, served on international nonprofit boards and chaired community organizations caring for the disenfranchised.
Submitted on Mar 11 2010
Robert Gordon (1967, COL)
Robert Gordon (1967, COL) writes, "Since our 40th, life continues to be good for me and Ellen, notably our first grandchild Benjamin Jackson Gordon was born December 2008. He is conflicted between Hanover and Cambridge.
In June 2009, after nearly 9 years as CFO, I was elected the Treasurer and Secretary of The New England College of Optometry (founded 1894). Besides working with our Board of Trustees, I have found it very fulfilling to have established eye care programs for employees of a major university and teaching hospital as well as expanding our eye care screening programs for the underserved within the Boston and other local public school systems."
Submitted on Oct 19 2009
William Nelson (1967, COL)
William Nelson (1967, COL) writes, "It is with sadness that I write to report the death of Barbara Livingston Nelson (Radcliffe, '67) on October 4, 2009. Barbara had lived for 16 years with breast cancer, most of them very good years: She continued to work, run marathons (5), take bicycle trips, and enjoy her family and friends.
Bill Nelson, '67"
Submitted on Oct 17 2009
Michael Wolfram (1967, COL)
Michael Wolfram (1967, COL) writes,
I was elected a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Law in summer 2009. After 30 years in mega-firm management-side labor and employment law practice, I now work primarily as a mediator, independent workplace complaint investigator, expert witness and consultant throughout California from my home office in Santa Rosa Valley. Amy teaches pilates and aerobics and cares for her assortment of animals and tends her vegetable gardens and fruit trees. Sons Matt and Brad are a civil engineer in Los Angeles and a medical school student in Albany, NY, respectively.
Submitted on Jul 30 2009
Victor Friedmann (1967, COL)
Victor Friedmann (1967, COL) writes, "After a serious ski injury in January 2007, I battled pain and depression by writing a book. Now I am fully recovered and the author of the world's first book that combines financial planning, humor, and cooking in one publication.
In honor of my Mom and friends whose lives have been touched by this insidious disease, I will donate:
100% of all profits to cancer research!!
The book is available now directly from the publisher and will soon be available in all book shops. You may preview and purchase the book from this direct link:
http://books.lulu.com/content/1143371
Thank you in advance."
Submitted on Oct 5 2007
RADCLIFFE COLLEGE
Susan Fischer (1967, RAD)
Susan Fischer (1967, RAD) writes, "After finally selling my house in southern California, I have relocated (faster than I thought possible) to Manhattan; I have a co-op a block from Lincoln Center. I will have affiliations with NYU and CUNY in linguistics, and will continue doing research and writing about sign languages. Looking forward to catching up with classmates in New York."
Submitted on Mar 4 2013
Susan Fischer (1967, RAD)
Susan Fischer (1967, RAD) writes, "I've just sold my house in Del Mar, near San Diego, and will be based in Oakland until I find a place in Manhattan. Would love to see classmates in either place."
Submitted on Sep 13 2012
Annie Gottlieb (1967, RAD)
Annie Gottlieb (1967, RAD) writes, "I'm just laughing and sighing reading about those who are 'retired.' I'm working as hard as I ever have in my life, copyediting for two science magazines (Natural History and The Scientist) and as many book publishers as will have me. Science editing is something of a new (5 years) career for me (which I originally owe to classmate Susan King Brown), and almost a complete second education. I always had a head for and a love for science yet did not want to BE a scientist, so this is perfect -- I get to kibitz. It's rather amazing to be working this hard at this age, but perhaps that's only because of expectations set in the 1950s when people retired, with pensions, at 55 -- and often died soon after. Since I am fortunate enough to be fit and healthy, I describe this time of life as "like being young again with sore knees." Life with my husband Jacques, a streetwise Soviet Gulag survivor, PTSD sufferer, boxer, jazz bar owner, writer, actor, and his ten-year final illness was rich in every way except financially, so I shrug and tell people, "I'm still paying my student loan.""
Submitted on Mar 31 2012
Linda Mathews (1967, RAD)
Linda (McVeigh) Mathews (1967, RAD) writes that she and her husband, (Thomas) Jay Mathews '67, moved in December 2011 to Pasadena, CA. She retired as investigations editor at USA TODAY but will continue to write books and magazine articles. Jay, who says he's too immature to retire, works long-distance for the Washington Post as an education columnist and blogger."
Submitted on Feb 3 2012
Jean Goodwin (1967, RAD)
Jean (McClung) Goodwin (1967, RAD) writes, "Jim and I enjoy our house on Galveston Island and now the one just built in New Mexico. We are coming to the reunion and hope to talk with everyone then. "
Submitted on Jan 14 2011
Jean Goodwin (1967, RAD)
Jean (McClung) Goodwin (1967, RAD) writes, "Jim and I continue to love our house on the water on Galveston Island. We have also finally finished our house in New Mexico. The kids are all married except for Lizzie who is in New York somehow supporting herself as a journalist. I keep working with a number of dissociative patients and a number of people in analysis. Jim and I talk of writing books. A recent idea is How to be 80. But I don't know what we will get around to."
Submitted on Jan 14 2011
Judith Brice (1967, RAD)
Judith (Alexander) Brice (1967, RAD) writes, "Since retiring from the private practice of Psychiatry which I was in for over 30 years, I have been very active in a very diffent pursuit in my life. I have beoomce seriously involved in creative writing, mostly poetry, but now non-fiction as well, and have been attending workshops and classes at two universities in Pittsburgh. I love it!I currently have a manuscript of poems looking for a publisher and am writing a memoir about the collision of my career with Severe, Life threatening illness.
My artist son, Ariel is now 30 and married to a gem of a woman who si a fashion designer and architect. My husband, a fun-loving and brilliant man, shifted over from the practice of psychology and is now retired and he, too, has become a writer.
We currently live in Pittsburgh in the winter with a summer home in northern MI where we spend the majority of our summers. I would love to see any and all of you who would like to visit."
Submitted on Jul 30 2010
Janis Richter (1967, RAD)
Janis Richter (1967, RAD) recently accepted a position at Forum for Youth Investment located in Washington, DC as Editor Emeritus. Janis recently was employed at retired. "After thinking I had retired to a life full of gardening and grandchildren, I have returned to work part-time, writing the e-newsletter I started years ago - Connect for Kids, soon to be called SparkAction Update."
Submitted on Nov 6 2009
Janis Richter (1967, RAD)
Janis Richter (1967, RAD) recently accepted a position at Forum for Youth Investment located in Washington, DC as Editor Emeritus. "After thinking I had retired to a life full of gardening and grandchildren, I have returned to work part-time, writing the e-newsletter I started years ago - Connect for Kids, soon to be called SparkAction Update."
Submitted on Nov 6 2009
Nancy Bardach (1967, RAD)
Nancy (Fletcher) Bardach (RAD 67 [did not graduate]; 1971, Harvard Extension) writes, "Forty years of news: Raised 3 wonderful children (biologist, philanthropist, and pediatrician) and am starting to enjoy grandchildren. Retired from grueling but rewarding architectural career in August 2006. Now traveling, art quilting, living, and resting. Residing in Berkeley for 35 years now, with sabbatical years in Washington DC, Jerusalem and Chicago. Gene still teaching, writing, consulting in Public Policy although he too retired last summer. "
Submitted on Apr 30 2007
Susan Fischer (1967, RAD)
Susan Fischer (1967, RAD) writes, "Many changes: I just retired after 27 years at RIT, and am now staying in Del Mar, CA, with my husband (for a change). I'm retired, but not retired-retired, so just got back from Hong Kong where I gave 3 talks in 6 days, and am getting ready to spend 2 months in the Netherlands helping to train deaf linguists from developing countries. After 3 months back, I'll be spending 6 months as a visiting scholar and researcher in Kyushu, Japan. So about a year from now, I'll be ready to move to a real city and settle down. The attached pic is from a Harvard-related event a year and a half ago."
Submitted on Sep 7 2005
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