CLASS OF 1969 | 2023 | SUMMER ISSUE
Charlie Ingrao said, “Kathy and I focus on Third World travel. One hundred eleven countries off my bucket list. Our tour guide in Gambia was Momodou Ceesay’s ’70 younger brother.”
John de Miranda’s son Colin is a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador. “We will visit him in July and look for property in Mexico. I continue to teach at UC San Diego in addiction research.”
Jeff Richards “is as busy as ever. Did Ohio State Murders with Audra McDonald, Pictures from Home with Nathan Lane, and projecting a revival of August: Osage County with Wes alum Bradley Whitford ’81.”
Darius Brubeck “prepares for late spring launch and tour for a memoir, Playing the Changes. I will see Wes people at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club when my quartet plays. Keep talking about retirement but. . . .”
Roy Willits and his wife “went fishing in Alaska. Travel is a major focus, though health concerns can change plans. When working, I enjoyed writing code and mentoring new programmers.”
Steve Knox and his wife live in Asheville, North Carolina. “Both our daughters and their families live within walking distance of us. This is a liberal oasis. Sizeable sums are set aside for potential reparations. After my years of law and civil rights, Asheville is a good place to retire.”
Bob and Jane Watson still enjoy seeing patients in their psychoanalytic practices. “Daughter Joanna has opened a clinical psych office near us in NYC. Her husband attends NYU Medical School. Our son operates a tourist business in Cartagena. We celebrated my 75th in Italy and learned that Dan Jones is in NYC and Venice.”
Pete Pfeiffer wrote, “Thanks for keeping track of this dwindling herd. Gordon Holleb, engaging and compassionate, passed away after a long, debilitating illness. I will miss him. Solastalgia, my current take on Maine loggers, is on Amazon.”
Dr. David Siegel received the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. “This award is based upon scholarly accomplishments, social activism, and community involvement.”
Ken Elliott said, “In my Maine town, population 1,400, I’m on the Aging in Place and Broadband Committees. Solo aging and the study of the Japanese language are avocations. I’m looking forward to some immersion studies soon and Japan’s excellent hiking trails.”
Harry Nothacker eulogized Doug Bell ’70, who passed away this spring. “Doug and I were close friends over the past two decades. Our annual meeting was in Florida, where Doug was a successful entrepreneur. He was a wonderful person, and we will miss him.”
Charlie Morgan “is in the publishing queue at West Publishing for his book Guarantees in the Massachusetts Constitution. . . . Life continues to be an adventure.”
Tony Mohr’s memoir, Every Other Weekend: Coming of Age with Two Different Dads, rose to #1 in its Amazon category. “I’ve enjoyed my 15 minutes of fame.”
Harold Davis “is well. We visited Nice, Cannes, and Nuevo Vallarta, while enjoying family and friends. I’m participating in photography shows and selling a few.”
In early March Peter Cunningham was interviewed by David Remnick for the New Yorker Radio Hour about long-forgotten photos of New Jersey taken by well-known French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. (Peter was Cartier-Bresson’s assistant for a documentary.) You can listen to the full story here:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/segments/jersey-cartier-bresson
Jim Weinstein “career coaches, sings, and travels—France, Italy, Iceland, Ecuador, Tanzania, Rwanda, and the Dominican Republic in the last year. I maintain regular contact with Bill Currier and Steve Mathews, who are both healthy, happy, and fully engaged in their lives.”
Stu Blackburn’s new novel, All the Way to the Sea, is available from Amazon.
Ken and Visakha Kawasaki’s Buddhist Relief Mission is bringing food to widespread areas of Sri Lanka where there are nutrition problems.
Nick Browning: “My wife [Rebecca Ramsey ’75] and I are living for three months this spring in a condo we own in Fort Collins, where our daughter lives with her husband. She had a baby at the end of January (our first granddaughter after five grandsons) and we’re both reveling in the best compensation for aging, which has been the joy of grandkids. We moved a couple of years ago from Lexington, Massachusetts, to Vermont, just outside of Woodstock, and have loved living up there. We’re both psychiatrists and have discovered we’ve been able to work quite well remotely, which seems very fortunate because it’s allowed us so much flexibility. Our life with family and friends continues to be wonderful and rich, but at the same time, we worry endlessly about the larger world.”
We’re just back from a poetry reading at the senior center. Elsewhere, two banks failed. Russia and Ukraine destroy each other. The Sox shine in the Grapefruit League. Basketball and hockey approach their playoffs. Read Pete and Stu’s books.
Google: florencegriswoldmuseum.org. If you’re in the Old Saybrook area, don’t miss it. We have lots of guest passes.