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Rob Ingraham writes that as well as attending our 40th Reunion, he also attended his daughter, Blair’s, graduation. She is now working in NYC. His son, Tucker ’16, completed his freshman year at Wes. Tucker is spending a second summer working for the Patriots under the watchful eye of Coach Belichick ’75. Rob is now 36 years in the sports marketing business. Stress reduction comes in the form of playing guitar in a ’60s/’70s R&R band. He also keeps busy with volunteer work focused on land preservation, as well as drug and alcohol programs aimed at students and parents in their community.

Carolyn White-Lesieur lives in the United States again after over 32 years in Paris—in Cambridge, Mass. She is very involved with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) as a teacher for their Family-to-Family course and on the steering committee of the Cambridge Middlesex affiliate. Just trained to become a family support group leader. To balance that out, she plays on two tennis teams at the Mount Auburn Tennis Club. She also interviews a few students every year for Wesleyan.

Judy Jay writes: ”After 27 years in [medical] partnership with my husband, Barry Shapiro, we closed our private otolaryngology practice two years ago. He joined a large multi-specialty group and I work part-time as a medical consultant for a private company doing medical coding review. I’ve enjoyed my free time and have been able to spend more time skiing, scuba diving, biking, and, simply living without the anxiety of running a medical practice. Our elder child, Rachel (Amherst ’09, Michigan law ’14), will return to NY in May with a job in a Manhattan firm, and our younger child, Rob (Cornell ’12), loves working at Group M ESP doing sports media marketing.

Ruthann Richter recently returned from Uganda as a global justice fellow with the American Jewish World Service. She has since been writing and speaking about her experiences and will be doing some advocacy in Washington to support U.S. polices that may have an impact on the conditions there, which were truly heartbreaking.

Chuck Gregory and Lorraine celebrated their 30th anniversary in March. Chuck continues to do Web development, publishing, and co-hosting The New American Dream Radio Show, which moved this year to Revolution Radio at freedomslips.com. Visit theshow.newamericandream.info.

Patricia Mulcahy is still an editorial consultant. See the website, brooklynbooks.com, for a look at projects. She is also a member of an indie editor group called 5E: Five Editors. Five Perspectives, and has started to do more workshops and teaching assignments. After 20 years living in Brooklyn, she moved to Jackson Heights in Queens—very multiethnic.

Victoria Ries writes: “After Wesleyan, I earned a PhD in Christian theology from the University of Chicago Divinity School. I have worked in the Archdiocese of Seattle for 35 years. For the last 25 years, I have been appointed by the Archbishop to provide leadership and pastoral care for two parishes. I have also been an adjunct faculty member at the School of Theology and Ministry at Seattle University. I married Sam Saracino ’73 in June 1975. We have lived in Seattle, Wash., since 1979. Our son, Daniel, 32, lives in Madison, Wis., with his wife and two young sons; and our daughter Martha, 29, is a prosecutor in Fresno, Calif.”

Charles Cocores writes: “I’m still working as the educator in residence and certification officer at Connecticut College. We have four grandkids. Carol and I are Habitat for Humanity Global Village leaders and between us have done or run trips to Kauai, Molokai, Big Island, Portugal, Guatemala, Honduras, and a few other U.S. locations as well. We’re planning a Jan. 2015 trip to Cape Town, S.A. Let us know if you’re interested.”

Joan Catherine Braun writes: “I am thrilled to have been chosen as a Bay Area CFO of the Year finalist in the nonprofit category. Not bad for an English and East Asian History major!”

Jan Eliasberg has moved “home” to New York City. Her daughter, Sariel, was accepted Early Decision at Barnard. Jan’s episodic television directing career continues to blossom. Her episode of Unforgettable was the show’s season premiere, airing on April 4th. The drama she directed in Charleston, S.C., Reckless, was aired in June. She is also writing and directing an indie feature entitled Traveling Light, adapted from her own novel, and is developing a television series. She will teach at NYU Film School in the fall.

Blaise Noto is living in Chapel Hill, N.C., and relocated his marketing and public relations firm to the Raleigh-Durham Triangle. He is teaching motion picture marketing and distribution at UNC School of the Arts’ School of Filmmaking (one of the top film schools in the country), and also teaches a number of Communication courses at William Peace University in Raleigh. Last year, he was nominated for an Emmy as a producer of the documentary feature film When the Mountain Calls: Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan.

Chris Moeller reports from Minnesota that last fall Lee Coplan had dinner with them. Their daughter got married in March. In May their son graduated from the Univ. of Minnesota with a degree in electrical engineering.

Jose Goico writes that he and Annie have three grown children. Jeremy, 30, owns a business, Black Tie Ski Rental Delivery Service, in Mammoth Lakes, Calif. Madeleine, 26, is the administrator of the Hebrew and Judaic Studies Department at NYU, where she did her undergraduate studies, and is completing a master’s degree in public policy and administration at the Wagner School. Sara is in Iquitos, Peru, completing two years of fieldwork for her PhD in linguistic and cultural anthropology at UC, San Diego. Annie is the CFO of the Connecticut Bar Foundation.

Jose continues to work directly with children, adolescents, and young adults, the last 11 years as an educational therapist, and 23 years as a bilingual urban classroom teacher. He continues to play lots of music, mostly live with a great cover band, The Cartells (thecartells.com). Last year he released Secret Sign, a CD of original music three years in the making. Look for it on iTunes.

And now… some photos from Reunion. Send me more and we’ll post them.

SHARON PURDIE | spurdie@wesleyan.edu

Phil Levien writes that “It was quite a year for my wife, Darlene, and me! Both of our children got married. Our daughter, Katie, married her longtime beau, Jason Babineau. They are settled in San Diego, where she works in social media for SONY, and where she and Jason met seven years ago. Our son, Josh, married his sweetheart, Simone Wyrick, and they are in New York, where he is working in digital marketing for Universal Music.” Phil says he also performed a 10-minute monologue written by his wife for a local charity event. It was a site-specific show based on a local historical figure. “It was the fourth time I’ve played a role she created and the first time I have acted for anyone but my students in almost 20 years,” he says. “I had a great time! Perhaps, I’ll do some more acting when I retire from my wonderful day job: teaching.”

Dana Barrows tells me “all is well” and he is still living in West Springfield, Mass., where he has been since starting law school in 1974. He has been with Northwestern Mutual more than 38 years as estate and business planning specialist. He says he is focusing on working with “high net worth entrepreneurs on all aspects of their personal business and estate planning.” He had navigated rotator surgery on both shoulders the past year-and-a-half and is pleased to say he is playing “quality golf again and will ski all winter.” Dana says his four daughters are “thriving, as are my two granddaughters living in West Hartford. I see them often. They are a joy and most precious gift.” Dana says he was “present for the thrilling victory over Williams for the Little Three championship, an elegant day on our beautiful campus.”

Rich Jasper enjoyed seeing folks at the 40th Reunion. “As the years pass,” he writes, “I am ever more thankful to have attended Wesleyan. I am particularly proud of the Wesleyan commitment to minorities during the turbulent 1960s. It was fascinating to view segments of the Grateful Dead in concert May, 1970. What a freshman year.” Rich says he was a panelist at Harvard Law School, Oct. 9th, 2013. The topic was capital punishment in America. Rich has been involved in federal capital defense for the last 20 years. He called it a “productive discussion of the issues.” He represented the defense perspective. He said a former federal prosecutor who tried Oklahoma City bombers represented the government perspective.

David Feldman has been doing a lot of work helping Mike Robinson, who is coping with Parkinson’s Disease. He writes, “From bringing him to our 40th class Reunion (and getting my car towed from in front of Granny Hale and Rich Jasper’s hotel in Hartford, and having to spend the night with Mike on Granny’s couch (Note to Self: Bring earplugs next time you sleep on Granny’s couch; he snores) to Mike’s surprise birthday party on July 22 in New Haven (with a lot of WesU brothers in attendance, along with Mike’s extended family), he’s the one I stay in most touch with.” David has seen Mike at least four times since our Reunion. “Since I was able to help get him physical therapy, his speech, eating, and ability to move have improved markedly—I’m very happy about that,” David says.

He also says his newest program, which he is teaching at the New York Open Center, is called Harmonica-Based Mindfulness. Its central thesis: “Breathing focus is the core practice of mindfulness, since it is the most reliable way to short-circuit unuseful fight or flight responses which cause anger and fear. When one cannot control anger or fear, mindfulness is impossible. The harmonica is the easiest way to teach groups or individuals breathing focus. Once breathing focus skills are achieved (called pranayama in yoga or Buddhist teaching), and anger and fear controlled, the more advanced steps of mindfulness become relatively easy. To find out more, go to: harmonicabasedmindfulness.com.” David is also doing a lot of work with thanatology (death and grieving issues), attending many funerals. His final deep thoughts: “Let old arguments and distancing go by, contact your friends and loved ones, apologize or explain as need be, and stay current with those you care about.”

Tom Pfeiffer also enjoyed seeing many of you at the 40th Reunion, adding “I’m alive and kickin’ up here in Wisconsin after an unusually long winter that is loath to give way to spring.”

David Swanson is a grandfather: “Our first grandchild came into the light at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan July 2013. How wonderful!”

On that note, my oldest daughter, Jennifer, is expecting a second child named Zoey at this writing in April, so Connie and I will soon be grandparents for a second time. Our first granddaughter, Taylor, is 14.

John Bocachica tells me he is in “semi-retirement” and notes he is “only working a few days per month by choice and looking forward to my 40th anniversary with my dear bride.”

pETER D’OENCH | Pgdo10@aol.com

This rough winter was particularly rough on the Class of 1972. On Feb. 15, Michael Heilpern died peacefully at his home in Claremont, Calif. Michael and his wife, Linda, started a typesetting business in California in 1979, and saw it grow and change into a Web consulting company that serves membership organizations, public agencies, and local businesses. He was actively involved in establishing online communities—spaces where people with common interests, devotion to a shared cause or geographic proximity, could connect. Among these were ClaremontCalendar.com, featuring community events in his home community, and LAjazz.com, a resource for Southern California jazz musicians and aficionados. He was involved in a variety of community and conservation causes, most recently a public policy document outlining a responsible strategy for the maintenance of Claremont’s trees.

On March 13, Eddie Ohlbaum lost his fight against cancer. Eddie was a professor at Temple Law School for years. He ran the school’s highly regarded trial advocacy program, founded Temple’s innovative LL.M. in Trial Advocacy program, and was a founding board member of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project at Temple. More importantly, Eddie was profoundly loved and respected as a teacher and mentor by decades of Temple students. Check out the outpouring of tributes at law.temple.edu/SitePages/Ohlbaum-Tribute/. But here’s mine:

“Eddie was my classmate at Wesleyan and we lived on the same hall freshman year. He was an always active, exciting, funny, energetic guy, who was ever true to his principles. Even then he was a true champion of justice and equality, and lived his Jewish faith every step of the way. I have many fond memories—wild times in the hall, sleeping on the same floor for the November 1969 peace march in Washington, his unannounced and unsanctioned visit to our archeological dig in Beersheba (and his unceremonious ejection from the camp by the head archeologist’s wife), and his constant, positive presence on the Wesleyan campus. He was truly one of a kind and he will be sorely missed.”

And this note from David Layne ’10, the secretary of his Wes class and Eddie’s student at Temple. David compiled portions of remarks he made at the tribute at Temple: “Professor Ohlbaum was a brilliant educator, but his brilliance was about more than how incredibly knowledgeable he was with the rules of evidence and its caselaw. He was brilliant as a professor and advocate because he had an uncanny knack for understanding what it takes to connect with people. Couple that with the fact that class with him was never dull. I’ve spoken with friends at other law schools who’ve told me how they hate evidence class, and that I am crazy for having loved it so much, and that’s 100 percent Eddie’s fault. His enthusiasm was infectious, and he brought the mundane to life whenever he was behind the podium for lecture (although I always found it ‘curious’ how he managed to consistently weave himself into his criminal fact patterns, such that our first exposure to the excited utterance was Eddie jumping in front of the podium, with a fictional knife in his back screaming ‘Ohlbaum did it!’)…I can say with confidence that Eddie Ohlbaum epitomized what it means to be a Temple lawyer and a Wesleyan Cardinal. No one believed in the students more here at our law school, or cared more about their success ,than Professor Ohlbaum. He was absolutely cherished here at Temple Law—and he will be missed—but his legacy carries on in scores of students who are unquestionably better trial advocates for having known him.”

Mike Busman’s first book, American Moment, has been released on Amazon and Kindle, and is going into wider distribution. The book lays out the case for a new party that will follow a reasoned, middle path towards a sustainable future. Favorable reviews and comments have been piling up, and you can also check out Mike’s blog at AmericanMoment.net where you can read more and get personally involved.

Bonnie Krueger is directing Hamilton College’s Paris program for the ninth time, located in the same Reid Hall where she studied in 1971. “Back then, we wrote aerograms and never called home; now students Skype and post selfies to Facebook. But Paris still works its magic.”

Roger Jackson has begun a three-year phased retirement from Carleton College, looking forward to more time for writing, travel, and teaching in other contexts. In that spirit, he spent the fall of 2013 as Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies at McGill University in Montreal, where he and his wife, Pam, lived downtown, enjoyed the city’s many delights, and tried their best to translate Québecois into Parisian French. Roger continues his work on Tibetan meditation traditions, Buddhist poetry, and the place of Buddhism in modernity. In recent years, he has reconnected with Frank Levering ’74, whose 60th birthday he helped celebrate by scaling Long’s Peak with him, a slog of epic length that proved neither of them are in their 30s anymore, in body if not in spirit.

Pete Clark’s book, Masterminding the Deal, came out in August. It was covered in the Economist, Institutional Investor, and Financial Times, and Pete was interviewed on BNN TV Canada.

From Win Watson: “Win Watson update. Three grownup kids. Two grandkids. Farm in Madbury, N.H. Full professor at UNH. Just had my first successful radio-controlled airplane flight. More importantly, just received the Brierley Award as the Best Teacher at UNH this year.”

Last June, Yale University published Steve Alpert’s collection of Indonesian art and textiles, Eyes of the Ancestors: The Arts of Island Southeast Asia from the Dallas Museum of Art. The book has a number of authors, including Steve, and has been critically well-received. Sir David Attenborough has called it “the best book ever written on Indonesian art.” To celebrate Indonesia, and the book’s launch, a Who’s Who of Wesleyan alums and master gamelan players, led by Professor I.M. Harjito, his wife, Denni, Wayne Forrest ’74 and Sam Quigley ’74—and Alec McLane (director of the World Music Archives), Joseph Getter MA ’99 , Chris Miller MA ’02, Anne Stebinger, Barry Drummond, Leslie Rudden ’77, Mark Perlman PhD ’94 and others—all brilliantly accompanied famed Indonesian puppet master, Ki Purbo Asmoro, while he performed under the stars at the Nasher Sculpture Garden. Eyes of the Ancestors was awarded the 2013 Prix International du Livre d’Art Tribal. Wayne wrote to say “that the ghost of David (McAllester) is shining on us.” “Amen,” says Steve. “Wesleyan, largely through its dedication to world music, including its gamelan orchestra, gave many of us our first glimpse of one of the world’s most fascinating countries and its many diverse cultures.”

Finally, I was honored to be part of a most unusual event last December. Andy Feinstein celebrated the 50th anniversary of his bar mitzvah by having a second bar mitzvah! Along with Rich Easton and Paul Vidich, I was present as Andy led the sabbath service, read from the Torah, and (surprisingly) held forth on many topics of great meaning. Andy’s journey through life has not been an easy one, and this occasion marked the celebration of his coming to terms with that journey and himself. In his own words:

“This transition is to a higher level of personal honesty, to accepting and being compassionate with myself, to being comfortable in my own skin, to accepting love from others, and to loving others for who they are. This Bar Mitzvah is a celebration of my journey… Over the last 50 years, I have overcome challenges that I thought would kill me. You have, too. We have survived hardship and felt joy. We have buried people close to us and have welcomed new, fresh souls into our lives. We have gone through a lot. And, we are here. So, because you and I have made it to the Winter Solstice of 2013, it is right to have a big party.”

A big party of which I was honored to be a part.

SETH A. DAVIS | sethdavis@post.harvard.edu
17 Wolf Road, Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520

Aloha; just a little news this time. Many of you are recovering from a really bad winter, hope you fared well. It is any wonder why some of us left winter for permanent summer time, but I won’t rub it in.

Peter Michaelson says, “I don’t have any significant news for the class notes, as I think my comings-and-goings have been (too) well chronicled over the years. Becky and I were talking about you at dinner the other night, reminiscing on the fun time we had with you at the last Reunion, and we’re looking forward to the next one….” Yes the next Reunion is only two years away.

Ed Swanson writes, “I thought you might enjoy an article I wrote about the day that Leigh Ann and I fished on the River Itchen in England last fall. The Wilderness Fly Fishers was kind enough to publish the article in the March issue of Mending The Line.” If you enjoy fly fishing or even if you never have done it, the article is certainly enlightening. He talks about fishing on one of the best chalk rivers in England. If you have ever seen pictures of southern England’s rivers, they are crystal clear because of the limestone.

Heard from Vic Pfeiffer, who writes, “Like most other classmates, I intend to send you something, and then it never gets to the top of the list of ‘to dos.’ I just finished a really good book by Katy Butler called Knocking On Heaven’s Door. If you haven’t read it, you ought to. She combines the very touching story of her mother and father’s deaths—Jeffrey Butler was a Wesleyan professor—with the issues of dying and medicine in America today. Very well done and recommended to our classmates. I’m ‘retired’ (as of 2008) from a career consulting around health issues in Washington, DC, and now live on Maryland’s Eastern shore where I job coach (now just three days a week) adults with intellectual disabilities. My wife (33 plus years) and I have a 27-year-old autistic son, so we know the issues. Our daughter (Wesleyan ’06) lives in San Diego and we are expecting our first grandchild next summer. Wow! Thanks for doing the class notes job and for doing what you can to make them interesting. I missed our last Reunion, but perhaps 2016. The numbers get depressingly large.” So if you haven’t begun thinking about Middletown in May of 2016, know that at least two of your classmates are!

Leo Au and wife Melina are retired and hanging in SW Florida. “I am still actively involved with the Wes alumni association as co-vice chair and sit on a number of committees. Before the year is out, I wanted to pass along that in February that I attended Mike Yamashita’s talk at the Asia Society in N.Y., where I encountered our classmate Howie Dubner who has been working in the legal publishing business in New Jersey.” Well, that is it for this time. Aloha from paradise!

NEIL J. CLENDENINN |Cybermad@msn.com
PO Box 1005, Hanalei, HI 96714

Aloha, all.

Again, I have the sad duty to report the loss of two classmates, Paul Macri and Doug Maynard.

We lost Paul to leukemia on April 9th. After Wesleyan, Paul graduated from the University of Maine School of Law, where he was an editor of the Maine Law Review. He then clerked for the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. To quote from his obituary, “It is widely thought to be true among members of the Maine Bar that he argued more cases before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court than any other private practitioner in Maine history.” (MORE ONLINE)

Charlie Holbrook said of Doug Maynard, “He was my roommate freshman year. Doug was a great lacrosse and soccer player and always fun to be around. He will be missed by all who had the privilege to know him.” I regret that that’s all I know. Our condolences to the family.

Charlie also wrote: “This summer I will be auditing a graduate history course from Professor Nat Greene. This will be the fourth graduate course I have taken from him.” (MORE ONLINE)

Tony Balis writes that “The Humanity Initiative soon will launch a grassroots effort to end war by 2020. Comments and suggestions from Wes classmates are more than welcome (tony@humanity.org). The intent is to encourage tens of thousands of monthly tea gatherings in villages and towns across the continents to create their own action agenda around ending war. THI has trademarked “humanitea, an infusion of peace” and is sourcing our first tea from a sacred mountain in Sri Lanka, where 80,000 people have died in a recent civil war. 100 percent of the revenue will be returned to Sri Lanka to establish interfaith councils of young leaders dedicated to the dialogues of peace, rather than the monologues of war. The new web site is humanitea.org.” My hat’s off to you!

Ted Reed (class correspondent emeritus), wrote up his news. Thanks, Ted. “Early this summer, Ted Reed had lunch with Mark Mintz in Hoboken, Jeff Sarles in Charlotte, and John Yurechko in Charlotte. Ted was preparing to fly on the first non-stop flight ever from the U.S. to Chengdu, the fourth largest city in China, on a United press junket on June 9th.” (MORE ONLINE)

Heard from Steve Talbot, who reports his married son Dash lives in L.A. and is working as a lawyer for the nonprofit Children’s Law Center, where his clients are all kids. . . . Daughter Caitlin, runs a yoga studio in Hollywood (Asks Steve: How Southern California can you get?) and acts as often as she can. Thula, a short narrative film she produced with her friends in Cape Town, was just accepted into this July’s Durban International Film Festival, the biggest and oldest in South Africa. Wife Pippa enjoys retirement and, “I’m still happy to be making documentaries and news stories for PBS and other broadcasters.” Check out his sister Margaret’s book about their father. It’s called The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father’s Twentieth Century. (MORE ONLINE)

I missed two visits from classmates. KNK brother Michael Hunter visited Hawaii in December while I was on the Mainland and Mark Geannette wrote: “Just got back from the Pride of America cruise of the Hawaiian Islands. . . . My wife, Gloria, and I are trying to fit full-time jobs around lots of travel. . . . “ (MORE ONLINE)

Old KNK brother and Meriden boy Jerry Cerasale wrote, “At last I retired!” He testified before the Senate Commerce Committee on his last day at work. “Jan and I now live on Cape Cod and love life without alarm clocks. As I say, ‘If you’re lucky enough to have a house at the beach, you’re lucky enough.’” Enjoy!

Better Late Than Never category: John (Jack) Ingraham wrote, “I graduated from Fordham Law School in 1975, where I shared an apartment with cousin Steve Ingraham and Bruce Hearey ’72. After a couple of brief stints in the public sector (law clerk to a federal judge in Tulsa, Okla., and assistant district attorney in New York County, N.Y.), I settled into private practice with Conner & Winters, in Tulsa, Okla. (1980 to present), specializing in trusts and estates law. My wife, Judy, and I have three children, Andy (31), Rob (28) and Nicole (15). The boys are living out my college fantasy as budding rock stars with, respectively, Bravo Delta, based in Las Vegas, and The Revivalists, based in New Orleans.” Thanks for the update, Jack.

Another classmate sent me ready-made info, and has my thanks. “Gerald Everett Jones has already had one humorous novel published this year, Farnsworth’s Revenge, which was released (appropriately enough) on April Fool’s Day. It’s the third screwball saga in what he calls the Rollo Hemphill Misadventures series. Another novel, also humorous but based on a true story, will come out in early September. Mr. Ballpoint is about the consumer craze over the introduction of the first ballpoint pen in the United States in 1945. Some critics have compared Gerald to Kurt Vonnegut and the wry tone of his humorous fiction to John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces. Gerald blogs about male-centered comic fiction at boychiklit.com.” Thanks for the news, Gerald. (For those who may not know, boychik is Yiddish for “boy” or “young man.”)

Yiddish lesson #2 as Mark (Marcos) Goodman wrote that he’s “returned to living in Buenos Aires where he’s been obsessed with dancing salsa and rueda de casino [a kind of salsa round dance] every day. Lots of moves to learn and young girls who smile at the alter kacher!” My research defines that as an old complainer. In this case, maybe a bit meshuggenah to be dancing that much? Watch your back, boychik.

Also heard from Prince Chambliss that he was in Cambridge, Mass. recently “for the Harvard College graduation of the daughter of a law school classmate. Harvey Yazijian was kind enough to drive in from Wayland so that we could visit for a few hours.” Reliving hitching days in college and reminiscing, Prince plans to attend our upcoming 45th Class Reunion next year and urges you to attend. He plans to have another book ready for the occasion, while hoping the first book may be made into a movie.

A note from Bill Rodgers indicated that he, Amby Burfoot ’68 (and Boston Marathon Champ of 1968), and Jeff Galloway ’67 (and American Olympian) “joined well over 1,000 runners and walkers at the first Legends Run Half Marathon in Middletown on April 6th. A number of folks from Wesleyan joined us at this terrific new event!” A big salute to all of our age or older who can run without pain!

In February 2013, John Sheffield made an unusual move, from St. Simons Island, Ga. to New York City. John reports he retired from a career in tennis coaching and administration in December 2012 “only to turn around and start up a new self-employed career as a yacht delivery and charter captain.” He’s enjoying his first grandchild (Ryan), born in New York City in March, 2013, and reports he’s “[s]till happily married to my high school sweetheart, Bunny. Two daughters live in New York City and Wellington, New Zealand, respectively.”

Thanks to Barry Gottfried who wrote to say that “on February 11, 2014, my wife and I became the proud grandparents of Charles (‘Charlie’) Royce Gottfried, born to David Gottfried ’04 and his lovely wife, Elizabeth Barrett Topping, Dartmouth ’02. We’re enjoying every minute of it!” Congratulations!

Until next time, I wish you all safe and productive lives. Write if you have news or if you’re coming to Kaua’i. Full column at classnotes.blogs.wesleyan.edu or on WesConnect.

Russ Josephson | russ_josephson@yahoo.com
P.O. Box 1151, Kilauea, HI 96754