CLASS OF 1960 | 2014 | ISSUE 3

I read the notification in the most recent Wesleyan magazine that Rudy Kalin died on Aug. 16, 2011. Rudy initially came to Wesleyan from Switzerland as an exchange student. He served as a faculty member in psychology at Queens University in Canada for 33 years, which included 10 years as department head. He enjoyed playing golf in his retirement. He is survived by his wife, Jane, of 45 years, three sons and their spouses, and four grandchildren. On behalf of the Class of 1960, I offer our belated condolences to his family and friends.

Jay Levy was invited to be the keynote speaker at the annual science retreat at Wesleyan on Sept. 18, 2014. He reviewed the history of AIDS from discovery to future challenges. In addition, he met with students to discuss science as a career.

Congratulations to Dave Major, who received a Fulbright Scholar award to teach and do research at the University of Helsinki, Finland, for two months in each of the fall terms of 2014 and 2015. Dave’s research will focus on urban adaptation to climate change, especially in small- and medium-sized coastal cities.

Rob Mortimer wrote the following: “Mimi and I have been doing some academic tourism of late. Last fall (2013), we were in Algeria to attend a conference on the Algerian writer Assia Djebar at the University Mouloud Mammeri in Tizi Ouzou. The university is named for another Algerian author who was born not far from there in the Berber Kabyle region of the country. We knew Mammeri, who was an activist in the movement to celebrate Berber culture, from our days as grad students in Algeria in the 1960s, and we remain in touch with his widow and children. Then this past spring we traveled to the other end of the continent to give some talks at the University of Pretoria. Once a bastion of apartheid, the university now is a true rainbow institution celebrating South Africa’s diversity. We also spent some time at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and, of course, visited Mandela’s former home in Soweto, now a prime tourist attraction. We had been in South Africa in the early 1990s right after the release of Mandela from prison during the period that our daughter Amy ’87 was a Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho. South Africa has come a long way since then but much remains to be done. We spend a fair amount of time in France as well, thanks to a house exchange that we do with a French couple. Indeed, we have seen Charlie Smith and Bruce Dow in Paris over the past few years, and would always be happy to see other classmates who might be passing through that great city.”

Paul Tractenberg edited the recently published Courting Justice: 10 New Jersey Cases That Shook the Nation (Rutgers University Press, 2013). In addition, he wrote the introduction and one of the chapters. He is spending his sabbatical year working on a comparative study of public education reform processes in Ontario, Israel, and Finland, where he was appointed as a visiting professorial scholar at the law and education schools of the University of Toronto, Tel Aviv and Haifa Universities, and University of Helsinki, respectively.

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RUDOLF KALIN ’60

RUDOLF KALIN, 73, professor and head of the department of psychology at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, died Aug. 16, 2011. He received his degree with high honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and to Sigma Xi. After receiving his master’s and PhD degrees at Harvard University in the field of social psychology, he joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis, but then was recruited by his former Wesleyan professor W.R. Thompson to join him at Queens’s College, where they expanded the course offerings in social psychology. His interests focused on tolerance, discrimination, and prejudice. He later served as head of the department for many years. Survivors include his wife, Jane McKinnis Kalin, three sons, and four grandchildren.

CLASS OF 1960 | 2014 | ISSUE 2

Sue and Jim Dover went on a 10-week trip to Belgium, the Netherlands, and Norway from mid-April to June 2013. They were on a riverboat at tulip time in Holland and Belgium and later took a maritime cruise along the coast of northern Norway. Jim is working on a Shutterfly book that will document their travels and that will be useful for reliving the experience in their “old age.”

Chris Campbell wrote the following: “When I was a kid there was a radio announcer in Providence called Ernie Anderson (1923–1997). He was very funny and was a really popular radio personality. He did not stay long in Providence before being lured away by WHK in Cleveland.

“One of the songs that Ernie often played is etched in my memory and it comes back whenever I read about persistence in the face of enormous difficulty. The song was the sound of a military bugler during a charge. Every time he sounds the charge, his bugle is struck by a bullet or some other missile. For a moment there is no sound, and then the bugler sounds the charge anew only to be struck down again and again and again. The music becomes more and more ragged, but the charge continues through the song’s fade-out. The bugler seems almost impossible to halt and the listener gets the feeling that the bugler is indeed damaged but unstoppable. Every time Ernie Anderson played that song I laughed, but I also got a strong sense of how important it is to keep chugging ahead because none of the alternatives seems any better.

“After 65 we all become bugle players, charging into a fresh battle each time we step out of bed in the morning. It is what we do because the alternatives are dismal. Damaged or not we charge into battle because we never live so well as when overcoming something that could do us in.”

The 5th Bolivian Conference on Development Economics was hosted by Universidad Pravada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra on Nov. 14 –15, 2013. It was attended by about 330 persons (a 64 percent increase compared to last year) from 13 countries and consisted of three keynote lectures, a round-table discussion on energy, and 50 contributed research papers. The Bolivian Academy of Economic Sciences selected the best papers at the conference and was represented by President Enrique Garcia-Ayaviri.

The following message was received from Mario Damiata (mddamiata@aol.com): “My father passed away on the Wesleyan campus in June 1960 when he went into sudden cardiac arrest. He was an employee of the university at the time. I am writing to try and locate the two seniors who were on campus that day and tried to revive him. After all of these years I would like to express my gratitude for their efforts. I am sure those involved will remember the incident. Could you please pass along this message to members of the Class of 1960 in the hope that those students might still be alive and may contact me. Thank you. P.S.: I was accepted into the Class of 1970 but elected to attend another college.” Please contact Mario Damiata if you know anything about this incident in June 1960.

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2700 Kentucky St., Bellingham, WA 98229

F. PARKER BARTLETT II ’60

F. PARKER BARTLETT III, a banker and real estate agent, died Aug. 6, 2013. He was 74. A member of Alpha Delta Phi, he served with U.S. Army Intelligence. As vice president of Chemical Bank, he opened their first branch in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, later moving to Maine, where he became a real estate agent and was active in the Lincoln Arts Festival. He is survived by his wife, Frances Matko Bartlett, two children, and a large extended family.

Class of 1960 | 2014 | Issue 1

Jim Corrodi sent the following: “Gladys and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in August by renting a villa in Tuscany for a week, joined by our three children, their spouses, and seven grandchildren—15 of us altogether. It was terrific, but the hill towns were a bit exhausting for Pop-Pop. I slept well.”

Eliot Glassheim has written a book, Sweet Land of Decency, to “tell the story of American history as it illustrates centuries of struggle to move from darkness to light, from selfishness to common good, from exclusion to inclusion, from control by wealth to control by reason, from evil to good.”

Dave Major writes: “In Vienna recently for a Technical University review panel, I was delighted to have lunch with Sasha and Harald Kreid. Harald, an international student who was with us during our senior year and had many friends in our class, is now retired after a distinguished career in the Austrian diplomatic service. It was a pleasure both to catch up and to remember fine times at Wesleyan.”

Gus Napier writes: “In July, Margaret and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. Our daughter, Sarah, and her family came from Concord, Mass.; our son, Mark, and his family from Albany, N.Y.; and Julia and her family arrived from Buenos Aires. Including our six grandchildren, there were 14 of us for a week of hiking, canoeing, swimming, and team cooking. We had a great time together—the way we usually do, but enriched by our awareness of time’s fleeting passage.”

It is with sadness that I report the passing of Tad Bartlett on Aug. 6, after a three-year battle with cancer. After graduating from Wesleyan, he worked as a special agent for the Defense Intelligence Agency. He married the love of his life, Frances Matko, in August 1969.

Tad worked for W. R. Grace and lived in Europe before joining Chemical Bank in New York City. As a vice president he opened the first Chemical Bank branch in Calgary, Alberta, and lived there with his family from 1980 to 1983. While in Calgary, he loved to attend the Calgary Stampede and purchased one of his most prized possessions, a pair of cowboy boots.

After Calgary, Tad and his family moved back to the U.S., first to New York and later to Maine. Tad loved Maine and enjoyed many summers at their home on Southport Island. He and Fran moved full-time to Boothbay Harbor in 1995, where he was famous for his lobster dinners and blueberry pancakes. He worked as a realtor there.

Tad’s passion was music of all kinds, particularly classical and opera. He was very active in Lincoln Arts Festival, where he was a board member for over 15 years and served as president for two terms. He sang in the Lincoln Festival Chorus and Sheepscot Valley Chorus, as well as with the Our Lady of Peace choir and the Methodist Church choir for many years.

Tad is survived by his devoted wife of 44 years, Fran Bartlett; daughter Jennifer Valerie Bartlett and her partner; and son Philip Loomis Bartlett and his girlfriend. On behalf of the Class of 1960, I offer our condolences to his family and friends.

SAL RUSSO
2700 Kentucky St., Bellingham, WA 98229
salandjudy@hotmail.com

NICHOLAS J. TURRO ’60

The William P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, died Nov. 24, 2012, at age 74. He was a member of Delta Sigma, and he received his degree with high honors and with distinction in chemistry. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa and to Sigma Xi, he received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology. He had been on the faculty at Columbia University since 1964. He also held professorships at the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering.

Widely recognized nationally and internationally as a leader and pioneer in the area of supramolecular chemistry, organic photochemistry, molecular spectroscopy, host-guest chemistry, and magnetic effects on photochemical reactions, he was the author of two textbooks, one of which is considered the “bible” of the field, and numerous articles.

Posthumously, he received the Inaugural George S. Hammond Award of the Inter-American Photochemical Society, given in recognition of the breadth and depth of his many crucial contributions to the photochemical sciences and his singular impact on worldwide dissemination of photochemical knowledge through his many collaborations and his pioneering textbooks. Among those who survive are his wife, Sandra Misenti Turro, two daughters, five grandchildren, and two sisters.

WILLIAM V. TRIPP III ’60

WILLIAM V. TRIPP III, a tax and estate attorney, died Nov. 7, 2009, at age 71. He was a member of Eclectic and was the son of William V. Tripp Jr. of the class of 1924. He served in the U.S. Navy for four years, after which he enrolled at Cornell University, where he received his MBA and law degrees. Most recently associated with Nixon Peabody, he served on numerous charitable boards. Among those who survive are his wife, Roberta Allen Tripp, two children, four grandchildren, and three siblings.

EDWARD A. SORENSEN ’60

EDWARD A. SORENSEN, M.D., a psychiatrist in the Albany, N.Y., area for 40 years, died Mar. 1, 2006. He was 68. A member of Chi Psi, he received his medical degree from Albany Medical College and served in the U.S. Army. He was a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Among those who survive are his wife, Linda Bowen Sorensen, three children, five grandchildren, a brother, and two sisters.

BERTOLD K.G. PUCHTLER ’60

BERTOLD K.G. PUCHTLER, 71, who worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Alaska Area Native Health Service for more than 25 years, died Apr. 18, 2008. A member of Alpha Delta Phi, he received his degree with honors. After receiving a master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, he was part of the first Peace Corps group in Nepal. He then worked for U.S.A.I.D. in Laos before moving to Alaska. At age 67 he became a certified snowboard instructor. Survivors include two sons, a grandson, a brother, and his former wife, Catherine Short.

JOHN W. ENGROFF JR. ’60

JOHN W. ENGROFF JR., the executive director of the Franklin-Grand Isle (Vermont) Community Partnership and an educator, died July 4, 2008, at age 69. He was a member of the Commons Club, received a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He had also been associated with several educational and social service institutions in northern Vermont. Among those who survive are his wife, Audrey Reinehr Engroff, two children, a granddaughter, a brother, and a sister.