CLASS OF 1978 | 2025 | FALL ISSUE
1978 ARCHIVES | HOME
← 1977 | 1979 →
Susie writes for this issue.
Greetings, Classmates,
It’s the first of August as I pen these notes and summer is in full force, but by the time the Wesleyan Magazine arrives on your doorstep, autumn leaves will be falling. I hope you and your families are doing well. We have a mixture of happy and sad news to share in this go-around.
Lucy Mize wrote to share very difficult news for her and her family: “My news is unbearably sad as I have to report that my daughter, Belle Brown ’22, died by suicide on March 27 of this year. She was a bright star, and we are gutted and rudderless.” Lucy said there was a memorial for Belle in Vermont over the summer. It has been a tough year for Lucy, as she also lost her job at USAID. We extend our condolences to Lucy and her family on their loss.
Elizabeth Weiss Ozorak has become a late-blooming competitive ice dancer. She sent a photo with her pro partner, Garrett Brockert, at the ISCC Open Competition in June where they won a gold medal. She would love to hear from any other adult skaters among us at eozorak@allegheny.edu.
After 37 years at her CPA firm, Jeanne Rosadina retired at the end of 2024, and she is loving her retirement. She still does volunteer work with the Gundalow Company, a Portsmouth nonprofit that protects the area’s maritime heritage and environment through education and action. Jeanne will be traveling to England this fall to visit with family. She sends best wishes to all and says, “Life is good!”
Tim Hollister had two news items to share: “First, my daughter, Martha ’15, is engaged to Callum Howell. They live in London, where Martha works for Deloitte and are getting married April 30, 2026, in Callum’s hometown of Bournemouth, England. Second, many of you will recall the passing of my son, Reid, in a car crash in 2006, which led to publication in 2013 of my book Not So Fast: Parenting Your Teen Through the Dangers of Driving (Chicago Review Press). A second edition, with co-author Pam Fischer, was published in 2018. But after a decade of progress, teen driver crashes and fatalities have increased throughout the pandemic years and since, so Pam and I have now written a third edition, to be published in October 2025, and this time in collaboration with the American Automobile Association, which will promote the book to its nationwide federation of clubs as the ‘parent piece’ of their teen-driver training classes. So, the public service resulting from Reid’s crash continues and will multiply.”
Jim Washington Jr. wrote to share news of his retirement from the admissions profession, in general, and as senior advisor to the vice president at Dartmouth College, in specific, after 25 years. Soon after his Wesleyan graduation, he worked at the University of New Hampshire, eventually as director of admissions for the Durham and Manchester campuses. He was proud to be the first African American to hold this position and remain the one and only. In between stints at UNH, he worked for three years at the Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School (Cambridge, Massachusetts) as director of college counseling, and Upper School English teacher.
He arrived at Dartmouth in 2000 and reconnected with Karl Furstenberg ’67, former Wesleyan dean of Admissions and Financial Aid who carried the same title at Dartmouth. Together they worked tag-team style on the mission to enhance undergraduate student diversity and excellence.
Jim sent a photo from his Dartmouth retirement dinner in June, where he stands proudly between Lee Coffin, vice president and dean of Admissions and Financial Aid who capped his Dartmouth career, and Karl Furstenberg. Jim is enjoying his retirement and getting back into poetry writing, which he looks forward to stepping up to as a lifelong career. We wish Jim all the best in his next act.
As always, we love hearing from you (and so do your classmates!), so please send us your latest news.
SUSIE MUIRHEAD BATES | sbatesdux@hotmail.com
KEN KRAMER | kmkramer78@hotmail.com