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Here is the belated 40th Reunion report for the 53 or so who “we know made it to Middletown and the rest of you who we had hoped would come.” Few classes break 50 attendees for the 40th, so we did well. If we can do it again in five years, we’ll beat the record. I’ll try to convey some of the flavor of the weekend.

First, thanks again to fellow Reunion Committee members who all showed up: Karen Freedman, class agent Steve Levin, Roger Weisberg, Charlie Stolper, Mark Schonberger, Dave Rosenblum, J.D. Moore, and Gary Steinel. Roger and Karen kicked off Friday night with a showing of Roger’s new documentary, Dream On, a funny and moving film about what the American dream means to people, and how it contrasts with their lives. Look for it on PBS. Gary reprised his beer tasting before the class dinner with an array of delicious samples. Over some brew, I caught up with Rook Van Nest and Jeff Dunn, both of whom are thriving in Weston, Mass.

Two shout-outs to classmates who led phenomenal WesSeminars: Mark Nickerson discussed his work with veterans and families dealing with PTSD. The room was packed, and it prompted a lively discussion of psychological and public policy issues. Cliff Chanin also riveted us with his heartfelt presentation about the September 11 Memorial site at ground zero and his role in it. His insights into the museum’s origins and design, how artifacts were selected and displayed, and the process and complexities of working with stakeholders were very moving.

There was also a terrific panel on co-education at Wesleyan that featured faculty and students from 1968­–1975. It was connected with an academic study of the second era of coeducation at Wes. What was most fascinating was hearing the faculty perspective on the impact of “co-educating” faculty, administration, and the student body all at once. While we experienced coeducation as students, the culture shifts were at least as challenging within the faculty and administration. We definitely lived through a transformative era at Wesleyan and in society.

Some things don’t change, however: Saturday afternoon I spied George Cole from Boston and Mark Schonberger from New York in their spandex biking gear lounging on the Arts Center lawn after a ride through the Connecticut countryside. They looked like they bike together every weekend. Later, a bunch of us (Steve Miller, Brad Kosiba, Martha Meade ’76, Pam Swing, Charlie Stolper, Debbie Kosich, Risa Korn, Janet Brodie, me and others) found a spot in the Arts Center with a great echo and sang all the rounds we could remember from undergrad days. It’s amazing the old stuff that sticks in your brain and can be retrieved in the right circumstances. Passers-by wondered.

Pat McQuillan made a connection at Reunion with Pam Swing and her husband, Marty Plotkin ’76. Pam lives in Concord, Mass., and is an anthropologist. Pat wants her to come present in his education classes at Boston College.

It was great to see Jim Daley, Bill Devereaux, Dave Rosenthal, and Dave Harrison at dinner, as well as Steve McCarthy and Jeff McChristian. Cutty Wilbur was there, and I got a brief chance to check in with John Tabachnick, Ken Busman, Arthur Paterson, and Paul Gionfriddo. Cathy Gorlin came from Minnesota with her husband, Marshall Tanick.

Graduation day, unlike in 1975, was splendidly sunny—in fact the entire weekend was an advertisement for spring in New England. It was inspiring to watch Beverly Daniel Tatum receive her honorary degree on the terrace below Olin Library. The commencement speaker, Lin-Manuel Miranda ’02, gave a moving and entertaining speech that combined trademark rap/hip-hop libretto from his Broadway show, Hamilton, with words of wisdom about his experience balancing a drive to seize the moment with patience to wait for the right time to act. It was a message that resonates at any age.

It was also a lovely morning to sit on the Usdan Campus Center balcony overlooking the ceremony, say goodbye to friends as they scattered, and catch up with a last conversation or two. I enjoyed talking with Dan Cantor and his wife, Laurel Masten Cantor ’76, who had come up from New Jersey.

Among those who hadn’t come to Middletown were Jeff Morgan and his wife, Jodie. We’d had our own personal reunion earlier, however, including Jodie and my husband, Bob. Jeff and Jodie gave us a tour of their Covenant Winery in Berkeley, which makes fabulous kosher reds, whites, and rosés. Jeff regaled us with the tale of his Wesleyan career (only a brief part of which he spent on campus), his years as a jazz musician in the U.S. and France, and his transition to wine writer and, finally, winemaker.

Reunion was full of moments that reminded me how formative the college experience is for each generation. My nephew was at Wes for his 5th Reunion, single, staying on campus, and ready to party until the wee hours—unlike most of us who headed for hotels or home. I noted that we are no longer the alumni pushing strollers or wrangling children around the campus. And it is amazing how young the 50th Reunion class looks now, compared to how ancient they seemed when we were graduating. However many years go by, there are several hundred people who shared that time and place at Wes in the early ’70s. We are moving along life’s path, dealing with the sometimes messy work of trying to live well and perhaps make some difference in a complicated world.

I know there are those of you whom I have not had space to mention in these notes, and details of the news you shared with me on campus that I did not write down and now can’t recall accurately enough to feel comfortable publishing it. So please help embellish this account by sending me reminders of your news, e-mailing your impressions, or chiming in if you weren’t at Reunion.

Cynthia M. Ulman | cmu.home@cmugroup.com

860 Marin Drive. Mill Valley, CA 94941-3955

Class of 1975,

With Reunion around the corner, I’m hoping many of you plan to spend May 22–24 at Wes. It’s such a great opportunity to reconnect in more than the twosomes and threesomes we’ve stayed in touch with across the years. Beyond seeing the folks you remain close to, it’s especially fun to spend time with people you never got to know as undergrads. That only happens at Reunion. So if you haven’t signed up, get online and do it now!!

Mark Nickerson has released his book, The Wounds Within, about the nature and impact of post-traumatic stress disorder and the veterans, families, and clinical and policy issues involved. Mark majored in psychology at Wes and stuck with it. He has practiced individual and family psychotherapy in Amherst for 30 years and consults widely on trauma and other topics.

For a more specialized audience, Bruce Pyenson was lead author of an actuarial analysis of lung cancer screening and its cost/benefit for Medicare. Bruce and a team from his actuary consulting firm, Milliman, Inc., and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai determined that using low-dose computed tomography imaging to screen Medicare beneficiaries (soon-to-be-us!) for lung cancer is a low-cost, cost-effective strategy to extend lives and reduce cost.

J.D. Moore is approaching his first anniversary on the Connecticut Superior Court. Who says there’s no justice? He has three Wes colleagues on the bench, Bob Nastri ’77, Cesar Noble ’80, and Irene Jacobs MALS ’80, and they were all sworn in together last April. His judicial work has thus far taken him to Hartford criminal court and Litchfield civil court. J.D. organized a mini-reunion in January to take in a concert by Orleans with Steve McCarthy, Paul Margolin, Joe O’Rourke, and all the wives. He’s working on lining up a post-concert meeting with John Hall.

Corinne Kratz started with our class and took the scenic route, graduating with a BA/MA in ’77 and going on to earn a PhD from the University of Texas-Austin. She reports that she’s living in Santa Fe, where she writes and does research, working with Emory University’s African Critical Inquiry Program to support annual workshops and student research in South Africa. She is a professor emerita of Anthropology and African Studies at Emory.

John Tabachnick and his wife, Sherry, look forward to seeing everyone at the 40th. They’ll be coming with son Jeff Tabachnick ’05 and family for a shared reunion (and maybe an intro to Wes for Jeff’s two kids). John has 32 years of private practice in family medicine behind him. He’s chairing a department of 29 primary care doctors in a group of more than 400 mostly specialty physicians.

Ed Van Voorhees is on the move. With children and grandchildren in L.A. and D.C., plus one in Nashville (his hometown), he gets around. Ed and Linda have cut back on work to allow more time for grandkids, and Ed spends a day per week working with The Bootstraps Foundation, which provides scholarships to young people who have pulled themselves up by . . .

Compared to Rachel Adler Hayes, Ed is standing still. Her passport has recently taken her to Italy, Spain, Istanbul, and Dublin. A stop in Seattle included visiting high school classmate Bruce Ferguson ’73. The travel is mostly for Oxfam America, where Rachel is senior director of communications and engagement. Vacations are closer to home, in California and Marblehead, Mass. Rachel’s son is a junior in high school, enamored with basketball and just starting the college search. Besides work and family, Rachel is doing major home projects, but she promised to take a break and come to Middletown this May.

Martha Faller Brown and Bruce Paton checked in from different corners of the Bay Area, letting me know they stayed warm and dry amid the downpours and demonstrations of December. Not long after, the holiday e-mails began to arrive. Brad Kosiba is ensconced with Dorothy in Chapel Hill, retired from his bio-tech industry career, and doing lots of house, community, and family projects. With sons 21, 23, and 26, their nest is mostly empty these days. Like many of us, Brad has replaced the day-to-day parent responsibilities with day-to-day responsibility for aging parents. Debbie Kosich, Brad’s Wes mailbox-mate, is in the same boat—retiring from her geology career with Exxon in Houston and dealing with her mother’s aging. She plans to split her time between Houston and her condo in the Rockies, along with trips to check on mom in Massachusetts. Brian Steinbach hasn’t retired from employment law, but he and Mary also have projects on the home front. This year they achieved something many of us only dream about—paying off the mortgage!

It was terrific to hear from David Leisner that Facts of Life, his latest CD, was released in February. It includes world premiere recordings of works that David commissioned from David Del Tredici and Osvaldo Golijov, whom he considers “two of the most important composers alive today,” plus his own arrangement of Bach’s “Lute Suite BWV 997.” The fruit of many years’ work, the album’s release is a moment of great pride for David, as it should be. The review on Amazon says, “Mr. Leisner is an extraordinarily versatile musician with a multi-faceted career as an electrifying performer, a distinguished composer, and a master teacher. Recent appearances have taken him around the USA, Puerto Rico, Oceania, Europe, Japan, and Mexico. He also serves as artistic director of the Guitar Plus series in New York, a series that features chamber music with guitar.” And his 2011 release, Favorites, was named one of “2015 Records to Die For” on stereophile.com. Congratulations, David!

Thinking back to those undergraduate days listening to David play reminds me that we should note the loss of Jean Redpath (artist-in-residence 1972–1976), who died of cancer at age 77 last August. Jean brought her beautiful voice, deep knowledge of Scottish music, and a biting (and often off-color) wit to liven up any class, concert, or social gathering in our era. I still sing songs I first learned from her.

I had the opportunity to bid on an auction item with a Wes connection at my synagogue’s gala last spring, so I expect to be meeting up soon with Jeff Morgan and his wife, Jodie, for a tour and tasting at their Covenant Winery. They moved from Napa to Berkeley last year, where Jeff built an urban winery to get back to “civilization” and complement the Napa site. For his eighth cookbook being released in March, The Covenant Kitchen: Food and Wine for the New Jewish Table, his editor at Random House happened to be Lexy Bloom ’99.

Retirement is a distant dream for me. My travels now are between home near San Francisco and my mother near Boston. The October trip was a glorious mother-son weekend road trip looking at colleges. Six schools, three-and-a-half days, 700 miles, and lots of talk time. When you read this, Ethan’s college decision should be made, and we’ll all breathe a bit easier.

Thanks in advance to my fellow members of ’75’s Reunion Committee: Karen Freedman, Steve Levin, Roger Weisberg, Charlie Stolper, Mark Schonberger, Dave Rosenblum, J.D. Moore, and Gary Steinel. It’s going to be a great weekend, so bring your family, invite your Wes friends, and don’t miss it!

Cynthia M. Ulman | cmu.home@cmugroup.com
860 Marin Drive. Mill Valley, CA 94941-3955

Perhaps I’m not middle-aged anymore. Perhaps your trusty class secretary is slipping. The reminder message I thought I’d sent to all looking for news got composed but didn’t actually get sent at all! So watch for a message in your e-mail box soon, and if you send me updates, there will be notes for ’75 in the next issue.

In the meantime, here are the few tidbits I received over the transom: David Leisner sent a little preview of his recently released solo CD for Azica. There’s also a six-minute video that he had fun making on location in Abiquiu, N.M., in the beautiful Plaza Blanca (White Place). The inspired music is the third movement, “Farewell, R. W.,” of Facts of Life by David Del Tredici, whom David calls “one of our best living composers.” (Search for “Farewell, R. W.” on youtube.) Mitch Marinello ’76 may have this story, too, but ’75 comes before ’76 in class notes, so I get to scoop him.

Cathy Gorlin hosted a wonderful gathering of Wes friends at her summer place near the corner where New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut meet. Split between classes, the guest list was Liz Gissen Holder ’76, Ed Papier ’76, and our own Christine McCoy McNeil. She and Cathy reminiscing about Wes days living at Kappa Alpha and a spring ’75 trip to Cathy’s summer place almost 40(!!) years ago.

Speaking of 40, we have another Reunion coming up, so start thinking about making your way back to Wes next spring.

On the creative front, Kate Ballen has a new play that was produced in New York as part of the Fringe Festival in August. No One Asked Me is about undocumented teens living in the U.S., based on true stories of NYC students. Kate should know. She has been a college counselor at a Bronx high school for the past 10 years and has helped dozens of undocumented students navigate the immigration and college process.

Cynthia M. Ulman | cmu.home@cmugroup.com
860 Marin Drive. Mill Valley, CA 94941-3955

At age 60, I tried a personals ad to fill a void in my life, and it worked! Here’s what I wrote to my Wes classmates: “Middle-aged, married, female Secretary seeks news to share. Births (probably grandchildren these days), marriages (kids or yours), worklife changes, retirements, travels, and other doings all welcomed. Class Notes deadline looming; write soon!” Sixteen folks responded pronto, and their news follows.

David Weinstock wrote from the Vermont Studio Center, where he was spending an intensive week with 60 other writers and artists, including Jake Nussbaum ’10 and Hilary Mullins ’84. He was waiting to receive from Olin Library a pdf of his long-lost senior thesis, “New Poems, 1975.” Older son Ben is graduating from Wheaton College (an English major) and younger son Dan is completing his first year at Lehigh University (materials science and engineering). David’s wife, Ann, has returned to Middlebury College’s development staff, now representing her alma mater’s graduate and special programs (Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Language Schools).

Bruce Paton’s term as chair of the management department at San Francisco State University is ending, and he’ll take over as faculty director of graduate programs for the College of Business. He’ll run SFSU’s MBA program, the MS in Accounting, the executive MBA program, and hopefully revive a dual degree program with the University of Nice in France. Bon voyage, Bruce?

Jane Hutchins and Janet Brodie planned to get together in Boston with Risa Korn in mid-May. Details to follow.

I received a reciprocal personals-ad-style reply from Ed Van Voorhees: “Cranky classmate enthralled with birth of first grandchild, Lucy, Denver, Colo., born April 2 to son and daughter-in-law (what’s-their-names).” Their names are now Lucy’s Mom and Lucy’s Dad.

Len Burman writes, “I am not in the habit of responding to personal ads,” but respond he did, although he’s still married to Missie. (They met at Wes.) “I returned to D.C. to head the Tax Policy Center (again) after a four-year stint at Syracuse University. I’m still teaching one course for SU, in Washington over the January short term, and currently hold the Paul Volcker Chair there. We have a 2-year-old granddaughter, who lives in upstate NY and is completely adorable. Two of our four adult kids live in DC. One is finishing up an MPA at Syracuse and hoping to get a job here.”

For one of the first times in 39 years, David Nelson checked in. David’s finishing his sixth year as rabbi and faculty member in religion at Bard College in the Hudson Valley, a position he loves. “Marrying off our youngest son in June—in attendance will be, inter alia, our grandson who will be 17-months-old at that point. The sad news came a couple of weeks ago when I heard of the death of Chuck Raffel ’72, who was very involved in Jewish life at Wesleyan and with whom I had stayed in touch over the years.”

Bliss White McIntosh and Maryann McGeorge found one another serving on the same small board of directors of a classical music organization called Music From Salem. Funny thing is that they never knew each other at Wesleyan!

Given local seismicity, it’s reassuring to hear from a Bay Area classmate, “No earth-shaking news from me!” Paul Bennett is still working at Chevron after 34 years, still married after 28 years, and has two 20-something sons living in NYC; one in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn and one (Wes ’13) in Manhattan. Paul is grateful for the excuse to visit NY a couple times a year. Now that they’re fully empty-nesters they’ve started working through the “one of these days” trips—two years ago was Slovenia/Croatia, and Botswana Safari/Cape Town; last year was hiking the Cotswolds in England; this year is Ireland and Turkey.

Jan Schwaner writes, “I am enjoying retirement from the hectic world of front-line pediatrics. I have thrown away my alarm clock and spent over 1/3 of the days last year out of state, visiting family and friends as far away as Australia, keeping track of my ailing parents, attending chamber music camp at Bennington College, and paddling my kayak. I plan to play baroque trios at Bennington next summer with Scott Brodie ’74.” Jan’s husband, Tim Hill has retired from the computer industry and is running a duplicate bridge club full time and directing tournaments. In that role he crosses paths with Peter Marcus ’77, a fellow tournament director. Jan and Tim flew to Sydney in March to meet their 2-week-old granddaughter, “the most fabulous baby ever born.” When she moves with her parents to Philadelphia in September, the Schwaner-Hills look forward to becoming interfering grandparents. Younger son, Peter ’08, plans to marry his boyfriend in June, coincidentally on Jan’s and Tim’s 39th anniversary.

Cathy Gorlin vacationed in Florida this spring, in Naples where she enjoyed dinner with Bill Hutchins ’73 who is a radiologist in Naples and fellow Minnesota native. They recalled Wesleyan Minnesotans getting together on occasion to watch Mary Tyler Moore on TV throwing her hat up in the air on Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis. In mid-August, Cathy’s son, Ross, will be moving from Hawaii to Denver and will be looking for an emergency medical services job; let Cathy know if you have connections in Denver that can help him find work in that field. Ross will be traveling around Asia for two months prior to moving back and spending a few weeks of August with Cathy and her husband. Their daughter, Lauren, got her MBA from NYU last May and works for Google in NYC. Cathy continues to head the family law department at Best and Flanagan and to practice family law full time in Minneapolis. She vacations at their summer home in Copake, N.Y., so she welcomes opportunities for visits there or in NYC.

It was wonderful to hear for the first time from Carole Evans Sands in Keene, N.H. A highlight of her spring was meeting her three-time Wes roommate, Jill Rips, with Jill’s daughter, Sian, and Carole’s daughter, Alyssa, in Somerville for a long evening of Wes stories and lots of laughs. They hadn’t seen each other in a dozen years and missed old friends Dana Asbury and Wendy Goldberg. Jill was touring colleges with Sian, a junior at a U.N. model high school in San Antonio. Jill is still “the heart, soul, and brains of the San Antonio AIDS Foundation.” Carole left Keene State College’s Child Development Center last June after 25 years. She writes, “You get a clock at 25 years; decided I just didn’t need or want to hang in for 30 and a rocker. Our home was also becoming an empty nest with son Evan off to Pace University Lubin School of Business in Manhattan this year.” (Alyssa graduated from Wheaton in 2011 and works at Education First in Cambridge.) Carole now enjoys a full-time position with much less responsibility at Little Harrisville Children’s Center—a 40-plus-year-old nonprofit child care center, where farm families and professionals and lots of artists and assorted entrepreneurs make up the small friendly community.

Tina Hahn Jacobson has joined the “One Grandchild Club.” Two of Tina’s kids are in Atlanta, and one is in NYC. Check out her painting: Tinajacobsonfineart. While retirement is not yet in sight for her husband, it is an occasional topic of conversation.

Roger Weisberg reports that their oldest daughter, Allie ’05 and her husband, Peter, have a 1-year-old baby. Allie founded Recess, an arts organization, five years ago, and Peter works as an attorney for MFY Legal Services. Middle son, Daniel, is graduating from Yale Medical School and starting his residency in internal medicine at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Youngest daughter, Liza, is completing a two-year stint as a trial preparation assistant at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and will start law school at Harvard in September. Roger and Karen continue their respective work in filmmaking and foster children’s advocacy. Roger’s current project is editing a new PBS documentary, Dream On, about the vanishing American Dream.

Tracy Winn just completed a residency at the MacDowell Colony for the Arts where she worked on a manuscript for a second book of linked short stories. She is (like many of us) helping her mother prepare to move into a continuing care community and cleaning out the family home.

David Bickford’s news may surprise those who knew him at Wes. “I coached an All-Star game of the Los Angeles Derby Dolls, one of the top ranked track all-female roller derby leagues in the country, so their ‘all stars’ are some of the best players in the sport. I like to think my rousing halftime speech inspired the come-from-behind win.”

On May 1, Paul Gionfriddo became president and CEO of Mental Health America, the oldest national mental health advocacy organization in the United States. MHA is based in D.C., and has 228 state and local affiliates. Paul and Pam now live in two places—their home in Palm Beach County, Fla. (where Pam is still CEO of the county MHA affiliate), and an apartment in Alexandria, Va. (MHA has become something of a family affair—daughter Lizzie works for the Connecticut affiliate.) Paul’s new book, Losing Tim: How Our Health and Education Systems Failed My Son with Schizophrenia, now has a firm publication date from Columbia University Press: October 2014.

With respect to my “personals” ad, a few folks took a cheap shot at whether I qualify as middle-aged. While many of you are retiring and counting grandchildren, I still have a kid in high school, and several years of college tuition in my future. If that doesn’t make me middle-aged, I don’t know what does. I’ll just have to live to 120 to prove it!

Cynthia M. Ulman | cmu.home@cmugroup.com
860 Marin Drive. Mill Valley, CA 94941-3955

It looks like the Class of ’75 has turned some sort of corner. I find myself writing increasingly about retirements, children’s graduations and marriages, and classmates becoming grandparents. The thing that goes along with those milestones, however, is more frequent reports of classmates who have died. This column has the sad distinction of covering fewer activities of our living members than departures. While most of us have crossed the six-decade mark, it’s way too early for our notes to take this turn. With that, I report the passing of three classmates.

James “Scooter” Eaton Jr. died Oct. 24 in his Williamsville, N.Y., home after a short struggle with cancer. Jim was owner and CFO of Eaton Office Supply, founded by his grandfather in 1915. Jim also had executive roles in three of the company’s divisions, Prentice Office Environments, Office Furniture Center, and BGI Interiors. He was a fourth-generation Wes alumnus and a member of DKE. After Wes he earned his MBA and worked for Price Waterhouse before joining the family business. His volunteer commitments included the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York and his local parish, the Buffalo Renaissance Foundation, the Family Justice Center, Friends of Night People, Habitat for Humanity, and Big Brothers. He also coached children in soccer and baseball for local leagues. Jim’s wife, Norine Hibschweiler, and children Tim, Mark, and Alana survive him, as do his mother and five siblings.

June Jeffries let me know that George Jett ’72 lost his wife and our classmate, Lynn MacFarlane, on Nov. 1, after a terrible seven-month illness. George observed that Lynn “lived a life full of love, intelligence, humor, professionalism, generosity, civility and family,” describing her as “exceptional in everything she did” as a corporate executive, mother, daughter, sister, wife, colleague and friend. Lynn, June, and three others lived together sophomore year in East College and junior year in the William Street high-rise. Services were held in Connecticut, and Lynn was buried in her native Ohio. The Lung Cancer Research Foundation was designated the charity of choice for anyone wishing to make a memorial donation in Lynn’s name.

Steve Pippin reported that Dave Morse passed away in July under hospice care in California. Dave had been in declining health for some time, but he lived to see the Supreme Court legalize gay marriage, and he tied the knot with his partner, Joe.

On a brighter note, I am on a bi-monthly commute to Massachusetts to see my mother, now approaching 93. I try to see Wes friends each time I go. On the home front, our daughter, Julia, has happily immersed in freshman year at Stanford. Ethan, 17, is in the throes of an academically intense junior year in high school relieved by his favorite class, Auto Shop, and his athletic endeavors as a springboard diver.

Steve McCarthy has stayed in touch with several NYC area ’75ers this year, including Steve Ross, Harold Levy, Cliff Chanin, Seth Gelblum, Joe Morningstar, Randy Sellier, Roger Weisberg, and Mark Schonberger, to name a few. The landmark event this year was celebrating his 25th anniversary with his wife, Kathleen. Along with their children, MaryKate (23) and Kevin (20), they celebrated in Belize at FFC’s Turtle Inn resort. Working with “the world’s top media legal experts at Loeb and Loeb—Seth Gelblum and partners” Steve is walking the path of a co-lead investor and executive producer on two corporate bio-documentaries, Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s in 2013 and I’m Crazy About Tiffany’s in 2014. He’s working on additional projects in wealth management/ philanthropy/social entrepreneurship/film/theater and enjoyed seeing Steve Ross at Ohio University film school. Steve also planned to attend the Wesleyan Alumni in Philanthropy and Public Service (WAPPS) program at Homecoming Weekend, having been deeply involved in WAPPS’ development and programs. He sends along the following wish: “May all us Cardinals enjoy our “sexagenarian birthdays” this year…. I’m hoping for 25 more!”

I second that emotion! Keep more of the good news coming in 2014, and please stay healthy. In the meantime, let us know how you celebrated turning 60, whether with revelry or reflection.

Cynthia M. Ulman
860 Marin Drive. Mill Valley, CA 94941-3955
cmu.home@cmugroup.com