Class Notes | 1970s2014/07/032014/12/03

CLASS OF 1974 | 2014 | ISSUE 2

Rob Ingraham writes that as well as attending our 40th Reunion, he also attended his daughter, Blair’s, graduation. She is now working in NYC. His son, Tucker ’16, completed his freshman year at Wes. Tucker is spending a second summer working for the Patriots under the watchful eye of Coach Belichick ’75. Rob is now 36 years in the sports marketing business. Stress reduction comes in the form of playing guitar in a ’60s/’70s R&R band. He also keeps busy with volunteer work focused on land preservation, as well as drug and alcohol programs aimed at students and parents in their community.

Carolyn White-Lesieur lives in the United States again after over 32 years in Paris—in Cambridge, Mass. She is very involved with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) as a teacher for their Family-to-Family course and on the steering committee of the Cambridge Middlesex affiliate. Just trained to become a family support group leader. To balance that out, she plays on two tennis teams at the Mount Auburn Tennis Club. She also interviews a few students every year for Wesleyan.

Judy Jay writes: ”After 27 years in [medical] partnership with my husband, Barry Shapiro, we closed our private otolaryngology practice two years ago. He joined a large multi-specialty group and I work part-time as a medical consultant for a private company doing medical coding review. I’ve enjoyed my free time and have been able to spend more time skiing, scuba diving, biking, and, simply living without the anxiety of running a medical practice. Our elder child, Rachel (Amherst ’09, Michigan law ’14), will return to NY in May with a job in a Manhattan firm, and our younger child, Rob (Cornell ’12), loves working at Group M ESP doing sports media marketing.

Ruthann Richter recently returned from Uganda as a global justice fellow with the American Jewish World Service. She has since been writing and speaking about her experiences and will be doing some advocacy in Washington to support U.S. polices that may have an impact on the conditions there, which were truly heartbreaking.

Chuck Gregory and Lorraine celebrated their 30th anniversary in March. Chuck continues to do Web development, publishing, and co-hosting The New American Dream Radio Show, which moved this year to Revolution Radio at freedomslips.com. Visit theshow.newamericandream.info.

Patricia Mulcahy is still an editorial consultant. See the website, brooklynbooks.com, for a look at projects. She is also a member of an indie editor group called 5E: Five Editors. Five Perspectives, and has started to do more workshops and teaching assignments. After 20 years living in Brooklyn, she moved to Jackson Heights in Queens—very multiethnic.

Victoria Ries writes: “After Wesleyan, I earned a PhD in Christian theology from the University of Chicago Divinity School. I have worked in the Archdiocese of Seattle for 35 years. For the last 25 years, I have been appointed by the Archbishop to provide leadership and pastoral care for two parishes. I have also been an adjunct faculty member at the School of Theology and Ministry at Seattle University. I married Sam Saracino ’73 in June 1975. We have lived in Seattle, Wash., since 1979. Our son, Daniel, 32, lives in Madison, Wis., with his wife and two young sons; and our daughter Martha, 29, is a prosecutor in Fresno, Calif.”

Charles Cocores writes: “I’m still working as the educator in residence and certification officer at Connecticut College. We have four grandkids. Carol and I are Habitat for Humanity Global Village leaders and between us have done or run trips to Kauai, Molokai, Big Island, Portugal, Guatemala, Honduras, and a few other U.S. locations as well. We’re planning a Jan. 2015 trip to Cape Town, S.A. Let us know if you’re interested.”

Joan Catherine Braun writes: “I am thrilled to have been chosen as a Bay Area CFO of the Year finalist in the nonprofit category. Not bad for an English and East Asian History major!”

Jan Eliasberg has moved “home” to New York City. Her daughter, Sariel, was accepted Early Decision at Barnard. Jan’s episodic television directing career continues to blossom. Her episode of Unforgettable was the show’s season premiere, airing on April 4th. The drama she directed in Charleston, S.C., Reckless, was aired in June. She is also writing and directing an indie feature entitled Traveling Light, adapted from her own novel, and is developing a television series. She will teach at NYU Film School in the fall.

Blaise Noto is living in Chapel Hill, N.C., and relocated his marketing and public relations firm to the Raleigh-Durham Triangle. He is teaching motion picture marketing and distribution at UNC School of the Arts’ School of Filmmaking (one of the top film schools in the country), and also teaches a number of Communication courses at William Peace University in Raleigh. Last year, he was nominated for an Emmy as a producer of the documentary feature film When the Mountain Calls: Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan.

Chris Moeller reports from Minnesota that last fall Lee Coplan had dinner with them. Their daughter got married in March. In May their son graduated from the Univ. of Minnesota with a degree in electrical engineering.

Jose Goico writes that he and Annie have three grown children. Jeremy, 30, owns a business, Black Tie Ski Rental Delivery Service, in Mammoth Lakes, Calif. Madeleine, 26, is the administrator of the Hebrew and Judaic Studies Department at NYU, where she did her undergraduate studies, and is completing a master’s degree in public policy and administration at the Wagner School. Sara is in Iquitos, Peru, completing two years of fieldwork for her PhD in linguistic and cultural anthropology at UC, San Diego. Annie is the CFO of the Connecticut Bar Foundation.

Jose continues to work directly with children, adolescents, and young adults, the last 11 years as an educational therapist, and 23 years as a bilingual urban classroom teacher. He continues to play lots of music, mostly live with a great cover band, The Cartells (thecartells.com). Last year he released Secret Sign, a CD of original music three years in the making. Look for it on iTunes.

And now… some photos from Reunion. Send me more and we’ll post them.