CLASS OF 1969 | 2024 | SUMMER ISSUE
Ted Sanderson “directed Rhode Island’s Historic Preservation Committee for 40-plus years. Now, rehabbing a one-level modern home. With three children and three grandchildren, there’s plenty of visiting. Find us at the Newport mansions.”
Charlie Morgan published a book on Massachusetts’s constitution. “A bit of drama with the Mayflower Society and my HOA. Otherwise, healthy and busy with nonprofit and consulting clients.”
Steve Gleich “volunteers, teaches Buddhism, and admires his solar panels in rural Nova Scotia. Lily and I take care of each other and stay in touch with our foster son, Andrew, 42, and my brother, Dan ’72. Love to you all.”
Jerry Martin “retired to Vermont with daughters, Lyllah ’99 and Sarah, and four grandkids. On a sheep farm with ominous clouds of tyranny threatening, we are hopeful.”
From Ken and Visakha Kawasaki, “We continue our food distribution in unstable Sri Lanka. Be well, peaceful, and happy without enemies, worries, or troubles.”
Bill Eaton’s novel, Outward Bound, is available. Look for forests, murder, and love in a trip across the country. “We’ve been married over 50 years, with two sons and five grandchildren.”
Lynn Kozlowski is “fully retired from the University of Buffalo. I write 50-word stories and was in the running for a Story of the Year Award.”
Bill Demicco wrote, “Marie and I returned to St. Croix for the eighth time. Golf and gardening await better weather. Our daughter is a full professor of pathology at the University of Toronto. I spoke with Phil Wallas—he and Lynn just back from a month in Africa.”
Tony Mohr is now the managing editor of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Social Impact Review. Tony also wrote an essay, “The Last Carefree Summer,” which was published in the Loch Raven Review. Recently his memoir, Every Other Weekend—Coming of Age with Two Different Dads, which was published last year, placed second in the memoir category for the Incipere Awards. (In Latin, “incipere” means “to start” or “to begin.”)
Dave Dixon said he “spent a wonderful week with my two-year-old grandson and his father in Amsterdam and nearby cities, appreciating a life in which a car is truly an afterthought. Got together about two months ago with Jeffrey Richards, Rob Pratt, and Bruce Holstein ’70 for a Wesleyan benefit performance of Purlie Victorious on Broadway (produced by none other than Jeffrey Richards).
Charlie Ingrao recently became an Italian citizen.
Fred Coleman said, “We are all well; Wendy and I, kids and grandkids [have] recovered from various ills.” Fred is still [working] with refugee programs, clinic consults, and Global Mental Health Learning Collective. In October he attended a conference in Entebbe, Uganda. “Other than a 52-hour plane delay (but that’s another story) it was great. Working on a project to use dignity as a lens for looking at human rights in mental health care. If any of you in health care, legal world, education, or other fields have reflections on dignity as a [central] ethical principle, please drop me an email.”
Barry Checkoway wrote that he his book, Youth Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity: Challenging Segregation, Strengthening Diversity, was just published by Oxford University Press.
Bryn Hammarstrom was “looking forward to 55th.” His “open-heart surgery in 2020 went well, and I’m back to chainsawing and splitting the firewood that heats our home all winter.”
Darius Brubeck didn’t make our ’69 Reunion. Instead, he was playing in Switzerland at Marians’ Jazz Room with his brothers, Chris and Dan.
Ron Reisner was in Baton Rouge for Easter with his wife to visit her son, a junior at LSU. “Last month we all went to Belize for spring break and a beach vacation. We leave here for Scottsdale to visit my high school basketball teammate and some golf dates there at McCormick Ranch. . . . Also spent some days in the fall at Pinehurst and golfed with my Wesleyan teammate, Fran Spadola. Fran . . . can still hit that golf ball a long way (after all he was a real slugger in the Red Sox farm system). Such an enjoyable fun day with a really class-act teammate and friend from Wesleyan.”
David Freedman spent the winter in Puerto Rico with his wife, Carmen. “We still have good friends there and enjoy the holiday party season and new restaurants that have sprouted post-pandemic.” He also wrote that he “worked on a potable water project sponsored by a local Rotary Club in Puerto Rico . . . there are pockets of poverty that don’t have drinking water. If any of our classmates have experience in this type of relief effort, please share. My email is lcdodavidfreedman@gmail.com.”
Paul Dickman died just before Reunion. He and Fran lived in Phoenix, where he led the pathology department at the Children’s Hospital. Paul was a re