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Greetings from D.C.!
Congratulations to Jerome Copulsky on the publication of his book, American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order. Kirkus Reviews calls it “A chilling consideration of persistent mutations of American thought still threatening our pluralist democracy.” See the full review here.
This semester starts Laura “Lu” Schiavo’s 15th year teaching in the Museum Studies program at George Washington University, and she recently added administration to her portfolio as deputy director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at GW. Laura’s book, U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation: Never Neutral, came out earlier in 2024.
Laura experienced college drop-off as a parent for the first time (at Kenyon), and reminisced that she entered Clark as a frosh an impossible 37 years ago! In another full-circle moment, Heidi (Moore) Tucker was in D.C., from Bath, Maine, to help her daughter start her adult life, much like Laura, Heidi, and many others did back in 1991. One of those many others was Jake Lesser, who Laura saw in August. Jake is general counsel for the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board and has one daughter finishing college and one daughter starting.
Up the road in Baltimore, Elena Wethers Thompson also experienced her first college drop-off, with a senior in high school still at home. Elena is approaching 17 years at The Johns Hopkins University, now as senior associate director of Identity and Shared Interest Communities.
Rajal Cohen was promoted to full professor at University of Idaho, where she teaches psychology courses and conducts research on the interconnections between movement, posture, and thinking, with a focus on how mental factors contribute to musculoskeletal pain and to mobility and balance in older individuals. Rajal’s 2024 personal highlight, though, was “accompanying my daughter (with guitar) on her vocal solo in a Valentine’s Day concert.”
In June Tara I. Allen was announced as federal public defender for the Districts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Prior to her appointment, Tara was the Bruce I. Kogan Distinguished Service Professor of Law, Roger Williams University School of Law in Rhode Island. Read the full press release here.
Ann Goebel-Fabbri and Bill Fabbri attended a mini-reunion of their senior year InTown 21, hosted by Zak Raley and his wife, Amy Law, in Telluride, Colorado. Others who gathered included Marni Beck Pedorella and her husband, John, and Achilles “Kiley” Papavasiliou. They distinctly missed the rest of the extended InTown crowd of Deborah Skolnik Rosenberg and Aimee Salyapongse ’93. The reunion coincided with Telluride’s famed jazz festival, and the group enjoyed daily hikes and lots of downtime catching up with each other’s lives.
Michelle Lockhart writes from Texas that “our son, Billy, just graduated from college and reports to Quantico in early September for Marines Officer Candidate School. Our daughter, Eleanor, spent the summer working at home and returns East for her junior year in college. It was a treat to have them home together briefly earlier in the summer.
In September Chris “Kiff” Gallagher launched the Global Heat Reduction Initiative (www.heatreduction.com), a groundbreaking climate finance and accounting platform focused on measuring and reducing near-term atmospheric heat over the next decade, and avoiding irreversible environmental tipping points.
Morgan, Brown & Joy attorney James M. Pender has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America for 2025, recognizing his work in employment law and litigation (labor and employment).
Scott Moore is spending the back half of 2024 in Boulder and Breckinridge, Colorado, but not without travel, including August in Boston to celebrate Joe and Cara Dalton’s 25th anniversary and visit with LA-based entrepreneur Zafar Khan in Falmouth. In November Scott gets to finally visit the ProjectZawadi.org team in Tanzania, an organization where he serves on the board.
As for me, I spend my time working as a professional genealogist and historical researcher. I also co-lead a campaign to advocate for historical records preservation and access via https://www.recordsnotrevenue.com/.
I appreciate you all writing, because it was duly noted that the last issue was blank. A classmate laughed and sent me a message saying, “THIS IS THE MOST GEN X THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!” Can you break the Gen-X mold and write me something for the next issue?
RENÉE K. CARL | rcarl@wesleyan.edu