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I heard from so many classmates in this last call for class notes, so I got that goin’ for me, which is nice!
Marc Stein has been elected the vice president of the Organization of American Historians, on track to serve as president-elect in 2025–26 and president in 2026–27. He recently was interviewed by John Yang ’80 on PBS News Weekend. He writes about his time at Wesleyan in his 2022 book, Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism (University of California Press), and is currently working on a book about the U.S. Bicentennial, which he hopes to publish before the U.S. Semiquincentennial (which he says he keeps mispronouncing because of the Wesleyan sesquicentennial).
Hillary Jacobs Hendel writes that she continues to be in touch with Wes friends Lucy Lehrer, Tracey and Robert Pruzan, Andy Behrman ’84, John Nathan, and Marc Sholes ’84, and more: “I continue to practice psychotherapy. My book on how to tend to our emotions for improved mental health, It’s Not Always Depression, continues to sell well in the U.S. and abroad. I have new book coming out in 2025 on emotions and parenting. I offer classes and curricula on emotions and house many free resources for those interested in emotional health on my website at hilaryjacobshendel.com. I spend half my time in Connecticut and the other half in NYC. Thought to include a pic of me, Amanda Wolf ’87, my sister, and our children (minus one who lives in Minnesota).”
Although Gary Crump did go to law school, that’s not what brought him to the Supreme Court. Instead, Gary, who teaches social studies in Buffalo, “attended an amazing program at the U.S. Supreme Court with other educators from around the nation. The Supreme Court Summer Institute (SCSI) is a program sponsored by Street Law, Inc. and the Supreme Court Historical Society for teachers to examine and analyze how the court processes cases.”
K.T. Korngold is a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls. K.T. expects to defend her dissertation on the presence of agency in infants in the spring of 2025.
You know you lived at 230 Washington Street your freshman year if you get an email that opens, “I was just thinking about ‘Boot House’ the other day.” This one was from Ken Goldschneider:
“September 15, 2024, marks the 25th anniversary of my founding the Pediatric Pain programs at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital (currently the #1 ranked Children’s Hospital in the country). Over the past 25 years, we have grown to be one of the biggest and most comprehensive pain and palliative care programs in the world for children and young adults. We have provided care to many thousands of pediatric patients, trained numerous practitioners, and published two books and hundreds of scientific articles. We are very excited about and proud of all of it. I have always said that what I have been most proud of in my professional life are the teams that I have assembled, which have been extraordinary and extremely high functioning as well as comprising the most wonderful human beings. I have always considered them an extended family. It has been one of the great privileges in life, because to have teams that work that well together and can remain friends and friendly colleagues for over two decades is not common. The sad part in some ways is that I will be stepping down from my role as director of the Pain Management Center. On the other hand, I have a large number of hobbies to pursue and never seem to have enough time to pursue them to the level I want to do. That’s a privileged thing to say, so I am not complaining. But with the kids grown and launched into their respective lives and careers, the hobbies will become a crucial part of my survival, because if I don’t get out of the house regularly my wife (Jennifer Metters Goldschneider ’84) will probably run me over with a Zamboni.”
Rich Stoller also picked up the retirement theme, writing that he is entering his “final year of gainful employment, as interim associate dean of Penn State’s honors college, after which I will retire to gardening and Facebook rants (not about gardening). I last visited Wesleyan three years ago, and when my daughter (then looking at colleges) pronounced the campus unlovely, I said that it was a protest against injustice in the world. She believed it and to some extent I did too, but it was probably just the construction.”
Finally, I had the good fortune to spend a long weekend in Nags Head, North Carolina, with Hillary Hess and Jolynn Jones (speaking of Boot House!). We had a wonderful time walking on the beach, drinking champagne, and just generally catching up on life, love, and the world. It was probably more sedate in some ways than our weekends at Wesleyan were, but we probably laughed just as much.
Start thinking about our Reunion in the spring—it’s always so much fun!
Take care, ’85ers,
Caroline
CAROLINE WILKINS | cwilkins8530@gmail.com