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Michelle Regalado Deatrick wrote: “I spend much of my time on my work as the elected chair of the DNC Council on the Environment and Climate Crisis, which I founded five years ago. We are building out a network of state and local democratic environmental caucuses, working to elect Dems, advocate for climate policies and candidates, and resist climate disinformation. I was also recently elected vice president of my area labor federation, AFL-CIO, and serve on several national boards and advisory boards related to the environment. My husband and I farm on 80 acres in southeast Michigan, where we’ve planted over 1,000 native trees and have rewilded five acres of native prairie grasses and flowers (yes, the edge of the prairies once extended this far east!)”
John Goldberg was named Harvard Law School dean in June. John has been a member of the faculty since 2008 and has held several positions at HLS, including chairing committees and serving as a deputy dean. Read the impressive article here: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/06/john-c-p-goldberg-named-harvard-law-school-dean/
Nancy Rommelmann shared: “My newest book, Forty Bucks and a Dream: Stories from Los Angeles, was released in September, and my podcast, Smoke ’Em If You Got ’Em, with Dallas journalist Sarah Hepola, just entered year three!”
Glenn Lunden wrote: “In my retired/not retired state (I am back working part time for my former department at the New York MTA), I recently found myself serving for the very first time as an expert witness. Yes, I am indeed telling you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I spent a day in the New York County Supreme Court building (think Law & Order), testifying on behalf of the MTA about New York subway operations and history for the MTA in a civil trial. It was a fascinating and sometimes nerve-racking experience, and I learned a lot about how trials work—or don’t work. We lost, of course (New York juries never find for the MTA), but I’ve been told my testimony will end up being an important factor in the inevitable appeal. (Dah, dum!)”
Megan Norris said: “My family and I, like so many others, are trying to wrestle with feeling really fortunate in so many ways (good friends, fun travel, silly dogs, daughter who still tolerates us), and watching the world, or at least our part of it, seemingly go to hell in a hand basket. I was on campus for Reunion & Commencement weekend in May and recently saw a number of Wes friends at a function on the East Coast; and I always come away from those encounters with renewed spirit. But I am aware that so many are hurting or afraid, there is no immediate fix, and the worst is probably yet to come. What seemed unfathomable is now here, and for the first time in my life, I’m not sure we can turn this around.
“But I take great joy watching Wes folk, known to me or, as one of my colleagues says when called for a reference, known by reputation, all over the globe (and some close by in Detroit) doing great things. Our daughter is now teaching science in the Detroit Public Schools, which is a handful. And for the first time in quite a while Howard and I took a trip overseas and managed to get caught in the Iberian Peninsula blackout, which was actually a fun adventure. So, we will carry on.”
Jay Ash let us know that “the Duke Snyder memorial service was extremely well attended by players from the 1970s through the 2000s. Duke influenced all of us as hockey players and young men. The bonds we formed during each of our four years on the team remain to this day, and it was a blast to see so many of my former teammates this past April. For fear of leaving someone out, I won’t try to list everyone that I reconnected with.” CAPTION: From left to right: Chris Kincaid, Kyle Vietze ’81, Paul Godfrey ’81, and Jay Ash.]
David Frankfurter contributed: “Anath (Golomb) and I still live in Durham, New Hampshire, enjoying the mountains for hiking and the coastline for kayaking. We are both happy in our jobs (respectively, private clinical psych practice in Portsmouth and professor of religion at Boston University), although [the current political climate] is putting new stresses on teaching and therapy both. Our children have recently moved back East: Sariel to teach writing at Princeton and Raphael to do his residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Raphi and his wife also have a toddler, Sidonie, whom we get to see quite often. Everybody also has dogs, which makes for boisterous visits.”
We are hoping that one or two of you will volunteer to become your class’s new secretary—it’s a terrific way to connect with fellow ’83ers. If you are interested, please email the Class Notes editor, Liz Taylor ’87, at classnotes@wesleyan.edu. Thanks!
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