CLASS OF 1971 | 2017 | ISSUE 1
Aloha, classmates. With a little prodding, here are the notes.
Grant Hawkins is starting his 17th year on the bench in Indianapolis. He presides in a court where only major felony cases are filed. Michael Mullally, after 25 years in the film industry, has moved to Woodstock, where he owns a design-build company. He has two grown children. Henry Saunders is looking forward to easing into retirement this year after 33 years practicing general internal medicine in Conway, S.C. He will still work as a hospice medical director. He and wife Donna live in North Myrtle Beach. He notes that “the Grateful Dead have their own channel on XM Radio. What a wonderful world!”
Alvin and Cynthia James are semi-retired and living in Cedar Hill, Texas. Andy Glantz and his wife, Roberta Adams, recently returned from a snorkeling trip to Raja Ampat, in West Papua, Indonesia. The area is one of the premiere snorkel and dive sites in the world, and the trip was “unbelievably great.” After many years as a board member and president of the Furniture Society (classmate Miguel Gomez-Ibañez is a past-president, too), his six-year term ended. He is also active with a local school in the Phoenix area, the Southwest School of Woodworking.
Vic Pfeiffer was sorry to miss our 45th Reunion, but he was on a wonderful cross-country driving trip—Atlanta to Vancouver via Michigan’s UP—with Marc Pickard ’70. Vic and wife Patricia are grandparents for the second time. Daughter Alex ’06 lives in San Diego, where they will spend March and August. Lew McCreary is living in Hull, Mass. Kind of retired, but wrapping up his fifth unpublished novel. John Holden is loving retirement on Cape Cod with Joan, his wife of 40 years. John rode his recumbent bike across country from San Diego to St. Augustine, Fla., in spring 2015.
Bill Bruner’s son, Andrew ’04, and his wife, Elizabeth, had Bill’s first grandson, Colin Griffith Bruner (class of 2038?) last April. Mary McWilliams’ son is getting married, and her daughter had a baby boy, named after her late husband. “I continue to enjoy a welcome balance of boardwork, travel, and leisure. Later, I’m headed to NYC for shows, to South Africa for a combined safari and wine tour, and to France for the Provençal lifestyle. What’s not to like?”
Blake Allison says, “All good here in Cambridge. Still at my architecture practice. Two grandchildren so far. Our reunion poker games keep me in touch with Bob Julier, Peter Woodin, Job Potter ’72, John Abrams ’75, Dusty Carter ’69, and George Amarant ’69. Still traveling, mostly to Italy where we lived for a year. Next trip is driving the USA coast-to-coast for two months this spring.”
Mark Wallach’s third grandchild was born: Ettie Jan Wallach. Fran Pawlowski and wife Delphine enjoyed Reunion and were blessed with the presence of Professor Herb Arnold and his wife at our Saturday class dinner. “My life became more complete because of them. When I think of the university, I see the Arnolds and I always smile.”
Alan Epstein is still a professor of pathology at USC Keck School of Medicine in LA, and working hard on developing new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to treat cancer using immunotherapy. He started a new biotechnology company, Cell Biotherapy, Inc. His son, Aaron ’01, is an assistant professor of OB/GYN, maternal fetal care at USC, making us the only father/son physicians on staff. Alan has four grandchildren. He has kept in touch with Jeff Kraines, who recently took on a new position at Eli Lilly.
Mike Thompson is living happily in the San Francisco Bay Area, still doing some fundraising consulting with private schools. He has three grown kids (30, 32, and 34) and one wonderful son-in-law; and a beautiful lady friend. He keeps in touch with Pat ’71 and Ann Callahan ’79, Jake Weiss, and Jon Felt.
Jack Lebowitz was reelected as a director and counsel of The Mockingbird Foundation, an all-volunteer charity of Phish fans, which has donated over $1 million to support music education programs for underserved children and young adults. The Foundation recently published and sold out a 10,000 copy printing of its authoritative hardcover book on Phish’s music, The Phish Companion, 3rd Ed.
Jay Resnick emerged from retirement to become a real estate agent with Berkshire Hathaway in Annapolis, Md. He also designed and taught a class, Introduction to Yiddish Literature, at Anne Arundel Community College.
Dave Lindorff’s daughter, Ariel ’05, got her PhD. in international education at Oxford! Son Jed graduated with a degree in film from SCAD. “He is raising hell with ThisCantBeHappening.net, the collectively run news site I founded.”
That’s all for now. Keep the news coming. Aloha.
Neil J. Clendeninn | Cybermad@msn.com
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