CLASS OF 1984 | 2016 | ISSUE 2

Roger Pincus is covering the class news this issue:

We begin with Charisse Deutch Litchman, who reports her biggest Wes news: her middle daughter, Tess Litchman ’16, graduated from Wesleyan this year and is going on to medical school. Charisse and her husband, Mark, are also very proud of their oldest daughter, who is a third grade teacher in an underserved school system in Michigan, and their son, who is a freshman at Cornell, pursuing engineering. Charisse and Mark are physicians; she is still practicing as a neurologist with a subspecialty in headaches, and he is an allergist and immunologist. As empty nesters, they’ve sold the big house and built a small one on the water in South Norwalk with magnificent sunrises and sunsets

The pipeline of class-of-84 children entering Wesleyan remains strong. Hsiao-chiung Li is pleased to report that her son, Franklin Gu ’20, will be on campus as a first-year student this fall.

Tyler Anbinder has finished work on his third book, City of Dreams, a history of immigrant life in New York City from the first Dutch settlers to the present. It will be published in October by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Felicia Bianchi spent some time with Greg Robbins ’83 and Liz Overton Robbins ’83 shortly before she ran the Boston Marathon on April 18. Felicia ran in memory of her dad who passed away Marathon Monday 2015. She reports that she was “super slow” but that it was worth it. Felicia is still in Atlanta working as a program manager at Emory University. She sometimes sees Steve Sencer on campus.

Susan Freeman-Weiner and Michael Weiner are enjoying an empty nest in Charlottesville, Va., where they’ve lived for a dozen years. Susan is on her third career and is now building the Orange Dot Baking Company, a gluten-free bread company, and developing a network of commercial kitchens called The Kitchen Network. Michael invests in distressed companies with a small Charlottesville firm, recently completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training, and still enjoys gluten. In the fall, all three of their children will be in college, including Max Weiner ’17, who will be a senior at Wesleyan.

Finally, in April, class co-secretary Michael Steven Schultz released a five-song CD entitled Quiet Revels (writing under his professional name of “Z. Mulls”). The CD is co-written with Michael G. Ronstadt, an accomplished cello and guitar player. It features unusual and eclectic songs that feature Michael Steven’s lyrics and (rather shockingly) his vocals as well (the two Michaels collaborated on the music). It’s only available through Z.’s website, zmulls.com, for download or mail order. Almost at the same time, Jen Foster (indie rocker from Nashville) released her double CD, The White Room Sessions, also featuring one of Z.’s lyrics. In other news, son Garrick will be going to Kenyon in the fall and older son Quinlan is finishing his second year at Hampshire.

Roger Pincus | rpincus84@wesleyan.edu

Michael Steven Schultz | mschultz84@wesleyan.edu