Tag: 1983

I’m sitting here on a Saturday night in early February just after the “winter storm of the century!” LOLs: we only had six inches! I’m listening to sappy Spanish love songs and writing these Class Notes. What can I say, Spanish love songs make me happy and I have no life! Judging from the few responses to my e-mail asking for info from everyone, I have to conclude you all are as busy as I am, running in too many directions. I’m in the homestretch, frantically writing, re-writing and rewriting (did I say rewriting?) my dissertation. I heard from just a few classmates, so these notes will be brief.

Glenn Lunden writes, “I was invited to visit the campus this past fall by the History Department, to give a lunchtime ‘History Matters’ talk to majors (and other interested parties). In my presentation, ‘History Track-Career Track-Railroad Track,’ I spoke about how majoring in history could be relevant to many different career paths. (Perhaps the real reason the History Department invited me to speak is that they were curious how a history major ended up in charge of scheduling New York subway trains.) The students asked a lot of insightful questions; everyone wants to know about the subway, it seems. Afterwards, my life-partner, Frank Meola, and I enjoyed a fine lunch with my thesis adviser, Ron Schatz, and the chair of the History Department, Magda Teter.” Thanks for the update, Glenn. I’d be curious to understand what safety measures the transit authority is taking to ward off any bad doings by bad people. Also, I’m curious about what you think of New Jersey’s infamous “Bridge-gate” affair!

Janet Lambert Preston writes “I teach at Unity College in Maine—the first to divest from fossil fuels!” Pretty cool, Janet. I wonder what other measures the college is taking towards ecological sustainability. It is certainly a growing industry and I hope one here to stay for the long haul.

John Fixx shares, “Two years ago I left a school in Waterbury, Conn., after having served schools as head for 15 years, and my wife and I moved to our beach house in Madison, Conn. Right back into the frying pan, I took a position as head of school at The Country School in town, relishing the short commute. I also coach cross-country and get exercise by jumping to conclusions and dodging the issues. My wife, Liza, and I have two children of the usual ages, with our son a senior at Boston University and our daughter a sophomore at the University of Vermont, near our vacation house, which is convenient for her and her marauding friends. In honor of our son’s graduation, we are off to France this summer for a spell and then back to work. I am up at Wesleyan once a week, training with a bunch of other geriatrics on the indoor and outdoor tracks. I’m so proud of what the Little University was and what it has become.” Agreed, John, “Who knew?!”

I hope to get back to Wes one day soon. I did visit Marina Melendez Virgadula, with my daughter, Hillary, a few winters ago. We had a great time catching up. Definition of a good friend: It may be years since you see one another, but when you do, it is as if no time has elapsed at all!

Heather Rae writes, “I’ve left Maine for Northern Virginia where my partner, Aubrey Gail, and I are building a functional health practice. I am studying for a health coach certificate with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and digging into neuro-endocrine testing and more, with intention of coaching Aubrey’s chiropractic patients along their wellness path.” I like the holistic approach, Heather.

I’ve been part of a medical legal partnership at a Newark hospital pediatric department, which is modeled after one in Boston. We provide ‘upstream’ service delivery, including assistance with medical and educational issues, and a complete social worker work-up to help low income children and their families get the public assistance and educational services they need in order to reduce family stress and improve medical outcomes for the child. (Phew, that was a mouthful!) I’m evaluating the program and as a sociologist also interested in the factors the enhance or constrain the collaborative processes across professional disciplines. Collaborative research is in its infancy and one I plan to research further. Mostly, I’ve been doing a lot of grant writing and talking to venture capitalists in order to find outside sources to keep this project and others like it up and running in Newark and the surrounding urban centers.

Eileen Kelly-Aguirre is enjoying good health after a trying 2014. She left the boarding school world, moved to Massachusetts, and is now executive director of School Year Abroad. Glad to hear the good news, Eileen. Be well!

Lastly, Cat Maguire (that is Maguire with a “g” not Maquire with a “q” as I mistakenly wrote last time—so sorry, Cat) shares she “has been teaching internationally for the Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies in Belgium and Mexico, along with her stateside teaching in Charlottesville, Va., and at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. It makes for a hectic schedule, but husband David Campanelli and youngest son Keegan have been doing a great job holding down the home front!

Thanks all for your contributions. Until the next time, Namaste.

LAURIE Hills | lauriec@rci.rutgers.edu

Summer is over and I’m not sure where it went. Sending sophomores off to college is so much easier and less dramatic than last year. Phew! (Can’t wait till they come home for Thanksgiving.) In the meantime, I just moved to a new home in a quaint little town complete with a river and waterfall and no franchised businesses. I am ready for new beginnings and the new year. I’m not sure why the calendar dictates the new year begins in January. For me, it’s always been September. Seems like there are many changes for our classmates as well… 

Ruth L. Schwartz married her longtime partner, Michelle Murrain, in a small, unconventional riverfront ceremony on September 13th. Ruth is a writer, healer, teacher, and visionary. Check out her new project at hearforareason.org. Suzanne Smith is job hunting for the first time in years and in the middle of a divorce. Suzanne, I am going through one, too. It’s overwhelming, scary, and liberating at the same time. Thanks to Facebook, Suzanne stays in touch with Mike Steinberg, Susanna Sharpe, David Hill ’86, and hometown friends Staci Caplanson and Claudia Florian. She’d love to hear from Tricia Reilly. 

Ben Binswanger and wife Karen just moved to Fairfield, Conn., and look forward to more frequent visits to Middletown for dinners with Katie Binswanger ’15, Tim Israel ’16, Kiley Kennedy ’16, and Gabriel Weinreb ’18. Steve Sorkin and his wife, Aida, live in Lincoln, R.I., since 1997, also in close proximity to Wes. They enjoy visiting son Mathew ’15, who plays on Wes’s baseball team, which won both the Little 3 and the NESCAC Championship for the first time. Their daughter, Melissa, attends Boston College. Cat Maquire and David Campanelli’s son begins his collegiate journey at Brown University. Stephanie Oddleifson lives in Natick, Mass., and enjoys her job at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care as a data analyst in the Medical Informatics area. One of her daughters attends Colby College and the other is a senior in high school. Stephanie, remember when you introduced me to force blooming bulbs in the winter? Much thanks; I continue the practice. Other nature oriented news…

Naturalist classmate Timothy Brockett lives in Montana where “we arm ourselves for protection from bears and other large predators. Hunting season is a wonderful family time where everyone gets to enjoy the vast outdoors. Many families use the abundant deer and elk to supplement their diet. A few hunt bear but that is a fatty meat. Others hunt wolves and foxes just for fun. The gun laws are progressive so we carry weapons in our vehicles and on our person, and we shoot just about anywhere without a permit or violating the laws. Interestingly, Montana tends to be a very polite society with little crime.” After a long cold winter where the temperature dropped below 30 degrees for several days, and everything freezes within minutes, Tim spent a rejuvenating two weeks in Grand Cayman fishing, hiking, and swimming. And, after the fires that swept through Emigrant Gulch, just north of Yellowstone Park, he spent the summer mining for gold and recovered almost three pounds. Additional summer fun included… 

Susan Kelly, Barb Bailey Beckwitt, Sue Stallone Kelly, Karen Adair Miller, Gretchen Millspaugh Cooney, and Christine Tam Rosengarten Darcas met up in Maine in celebration of their friendship that began 35 years ago at field hockey practice. Barbara Miller Legate reports that while in Las Vegas she saw Chris Wink’s Blue Man Group at the Monte Carlo. Jonathan Chatinover spent the summer broadcasting home games for the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks (summer collegiate baseball) with son, Keith, assisting. While there, they crossed paths with Guy Davidson ’16 (current Wes student), son of Guy Davidson (our classmate).

Kenneth Schneyer and Janice Okoomian dropped their daughter off at Marlboro College in Vermont, and their son just started high school and is interested in architectural drafting. Ken didn’t actually win the Nebula or Sturgeon Award this year, but “it’s nice just to be nominated.” He just released his first science fiction collection, The Law and the Heart, and his earlier fantasy stories have been translated into Russian, Chinese, and Czech. Spanish and Italian translations are in the works. Tim Backer just finished a new disc, Platform for Dreams, in which he develops a branch of classical music founded by The Beatles and writes, “It is a great leap beyond my first rock classical album, The Subtle Dawn.” Other professional news…

Janet Milkman works on green building in Philadelphia and enjoys biking, kayaking, and being an empty nester. Cori Adler bike commutes to her faculty position at Antioch University in Seattle and the Cornish College of the Arts. Proud of her neighborhood, which was recently mentioned on NPR, Cori lives with her husband and “brilliant teenage daughter.” Other Wes folk in Seattle include Cliff Meyer ’82, Chris Meyer Wilsdon, and for an all too brief period, Dan Bergman ’85. All, according to Cori, “have a spouse and at least one child, are in good health, and are every bit as scintillating as [she] remembers.”

Lori Kipnes received her master of arts in teaching with a concentration in Hebrew and Judaic Studies from Brandeis. She is the Judaic coordinator at the Frances Jacobson Early Childhood Center at Temple Israel in Boston. Prior to living in Sharon, Mass., Lori had lived in Chicago and Israel. At the time of our correspondence, all three of her daughters were in Israel and under rocket fire. Hopefully, by the time these notes appear in print, a peace settlement will have been achieved. Son Erez, who has Asperger’s and “more than a handful of learning challenges,” is participating in a therapeutic transition program and working part time. 

Mary Freeman lives in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., is director of workforce development for Southwest Solutions in Detroit, and is in the thick of Detroit renewal efforts, particularly with regard to adult education and training. Mary, let’s talk sometime…I, too, am involved in urban renewal in Newark, N.J. I’m writing a grant to open a community center with wrap-around services including healthcare, education, and job training and workforce development, in one of the city’s poorest sections. Perhaps we will meet at the next Urban Affairs conference.

Finally, many classmates expressed their sincere best wishes to Mike Whalen and his winning team. Until next time…Namaste.

LAURIE COHEN | lauriec@rci.rutgers.edu

Greetings, everyone. Sipping coffee at my kitchen table, looking outside at the daffodils and forsythia beginning to open, birds are singing in the background, and there is a pair of cardinals darting about the woods. Gonna spend the day in NYC with an old friend and kids are all doing well freshman year. Life is pretty good. Well, almost, —one gray cloud hovering, divorce. But, I recently got Reiki certified and am focusing on the positive energy. To that end, it is heartwarming as classmates continue to share their stories and thank me for compiling these notes. The truth is, I have to thank you…it’s wonderfully fun reading all the interesting paths everyone is on and catching up with former friends and acquaintances. Besides, it is easy…I just cut and paste (how did we ever survive with typewriters back in the ’80s?), and interweave a few connecting sentences to make it flow. Here now the news, which the editors have shortened to fit our allotted space. Please see the full notes at classnotes.blogs.wesleyan.edu/:

Children are a common theme. Marc Mowrey writes, “My son, Tennessee, graduates this spring and wife Susie and I will be in Middletown to see his senior thesis recital and again in May for graduation!” Mitch Plave shares, “My son, Aaron Plave ’15, is studying abroad this semester in Budapest at the Aquincum Institute of Technology (AIT), which is a computer sciences program for very serious students and professors. Aaron is a computer science major at Wes.” Mitch looks forward to visiting Aaron in Budapest and adds daughter Leah is a freshman at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and a thriving cellist. She received high honors on her recent boards, which confirms for her unbiased dad that she is extraordinary. Mitch’s legal practice as a banking regulatory attorney D.C. continues to interest and challenge him. Mitch is in touch with Liam Newberg, who does analytics for Anheuser-Busch in California and Beth Tractenberg, who focuses on complex estate planning matters as a partner in NYC at Katten Muchin, Rosenman.” Small world…because, I (Laurie) work with Beth’s dad, Paul Tractenberg ’60 at Rutgers and he is a Wes alumnus, too, and apparently a very good cyclist.

Keeping with the law theme: Todd Maybrown does trial work (mostly criminal defense) and teaches at the University of Washington Law School. His daughter is a first-year at Oberlin and a musician. Todd sees David Kauff who lives just down the block. Miriam Hiser celebrates 15 years of practice with her own law firm in San Francisco and spends her off time swimming in the San Francisco Bay. She did a relay English Channel Swim in 2011 and would enjoy hearing from other Wesleyan classmates. Karen Liepman joined the Office of Counsel at Arizona State University after 26 years in private practice of law. In her role, she assists ASU with intellectual property protection and complex transactions.

Back to kids: Ken Fuchs reports, “I am now closer to Wes than ever, as my son, Ike Fuchs ’17, is finishing up his freshman year. I returned to campus a few times during fall to watch him play for our amazing NESCAC and Little 3 Champion football team.” Ken is proud of Ike and our classmate Mike Whalen’s team! Ken attended Homecoming and got re-acquainted with many old friends, including Alan Dorsey, Glenn Duhl and Mark Armstrong, and hung with his siblings and cousin, Fred Fuchs ’77, Paula Fuchs ’78, Ike Fuchs ’17, Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer ’74 and Marni Pedorella ’90. I (Laurie, again) was fortunate to see Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer, who happens to be my former babysitter, and her beautiful daughter when I last visited Wes, a few years back.

Ken Fuchs adds, “I’ve been working in production since graduation and I love my job as a television director. I am fortunate to work on three hit shows: The Bachelor/Bachelorette (29 seasons), Family Feud (13 seasons) and Shark Tank (6 seasons). It’s hard to believe I get to do something I love so much for a living and never had to grow up and get a real job.” Ken credits Wesleyan with helping him see the endless possibilities available in life. He has lived in Los Angeles since graduation and sees and works with Matt Ember, Laurie Sklarin Ember ’84, Murray Oden, and childhood friend Richard Saperstein.

Sharon and Michael Steinberg relate, “Our three daughters are now young adults: Hannah Steinberg ’16 attends Wes and her twin sister, Kayla, is a student at Macalester College in St. Paul. Our eldest, Davia, will attend the Ph.D. program in clinical psychology at Wayne State University in Detroit next fall. We are excited to have another psychologist in the family and to enjoy her company close to home.” Additionally, Sharon writes she has a thriving psychotherapy practice in Ann Arbor and after leaving the University of Michigan, she co-founded Partners in Healing in 2011, which offers training and consultation for therapists who are interested in enhancing their emotional resonance with clients and in integrating psychodynamic and mind-body approaches in the treatment of trauma. Michael Steinberg shares, “In addition to my duties as legal director of the ACLU of Michigan, I am a visiting professor this semester at Wayne State University Law School, where I teach a civil rights clinic.” He also teaches public interest litigation at the University of Michigan Law School.

Michael Sommer and Taya Glotzer write: “Our son Adam, 22, is graduating from Duke in May with a double major in computer science and public policy, and will settle in DC working as a software engineer at a company called Appian. Our daughter, Carolyn, 20, is a junior at the University of Michigan and in Rome for a semester.” Taya practices electrophysiology in northern New Jersey and New York, and conducts research and writes for the Heart Rhythm Society, a national organization for the diagnosis and treatment of heart rhythm disorders. Michael practices law at Wilson, Sonsini in NYC.

Holly Gruskay is raising two busy teenagers on her own in Westchester…and this school year her company partnered with a major Wall Street firm to start a FIRST Robotics team at the local high school. Both her kids are getting turned on to engineering, as are the other 20 in the club. In April the team competes at the Javits Center in NYC where Holly is one of the program emcees.

In addition to raising families, classmates have pursued a host of fascinating career paths and are award winners in diverse “spaces”: Ken Schneyer is nominated for the Nebula Award for his short story “Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer.” The story originally appeared in the anthology Clockwork Phoenix 4, and has since been translated into Chinese and read aloud on a podcast. Ken is also chair of a university speaker series that lets him chat with fascinating people. His wife, Janice Okoomian, teaches gender and women’s studies at Rhode Island College; daughter Phoebe Schneyer Okoomian is choosing among several colleges for the fall; son Arek Okoomian Schneyer is acting, writing, and taking a deep breath before the start of 9th grade.

Nancy Rommelmann writes that her e-book, “Going to Gacy: A cross-country journey to shake the devil’s hand”, about a trip she took to interview the serial killer John Wayne Gacy before his execution, will be released in May 2014. She is working on her next book, “To the Bridge” about a filicide in Portland, Ore., and she writes book reviews for the Wall Street Journal. Keeping with the author theme, Pat Roth’s recently published book, The End of Back Pain, came out in April 2014.

Alice Jankell is the creative director of FAB (For, About and By) Women, a theater company under the Off-Broadway umbrella of The Barrow Group in NYC. The company is 100 women strong, all professional actors, directors and writers, ranging in age from the 20s to 70s. Janet Lambert Preston entered the workforce again and teaches at Unity College in Maine. She and husband David Preston ’81 are celebrating their 28th anniversary and have two children, Elizabeth, 22, and Richard, 17. The Preston family enjoys life on China Lake—especially in the summer! Karen Adair Miller, resides in Lake Placid, N.Y., home to a number of Sochi medalists and enjoyed the town’s giant parade honoring all the winter bobsled, luge, skeleton, alpine/nordic skiing, biathlon, and snowboarding athletes.

Carl Sundberg works in Fukushima, Japan, on a cloud-computing start-up, “Smart Technology Partners,” that predates the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters by several months. His idea had been to de-centralize Japan’s computing infrastructure from its over-concentration in the Tokyo earthquake/volcano risk area. Little did he think he was walking into a more immediate and global disaster! Carl writes working with the refugees and helping them to find new careers has been rewarding even if the business plan execution has had its set-backs. Carl is recycling abandoned elementary schools that were closed due to rural aging and de-population trends and refurbishes them cheaply to use renewable energy and air cooling to reduce the overall cost of the computing infrastructure as well as to create local, sustainable jobs. He adds, “The liberal side of a Wesleyan education obviously weathered a long career in banking as a CIO and is emerging intact if slightly aged!” Go, Carl!

Helen J.C. Uddoh Matausch is president and chief operations officer for Infinilytics— an analytics company based in Silicon Valley, Fremont, and Canada. She and her husband reside in Sonoma County, an hour outside of San Francisco. Hey, Helen, we were roommates sophomore year, so when I visit my daughter at Berkeley next year, may I take a side trip?) According to Bob Gordon, other West Coasters, “Bruce Glassman and Tracy Hughes are now empty-nesters. Son Nate studies film at NYU, and daughter Emma studies communications in the honors program at Emerson in Boston. Bruce publishes books in the food industry (chef bios, cookbooks, and the like), and is something of a local celebrity in San Diego’s craft beer industry (having written the leading guide). Tracy is a successful clinical psychologist.” Bob Gordon’s other news: Brad Galer is married to Lele Herron Galer for 25 years. They live in Pennsylvania and own an award-winning winery: Galer Estates. Chuck Schneider ’84, a highly regarded oncologist in Pennsylvania, writes fiction (check out A Portrait in Time—it’s terrific) and travels the world with soon-to-be wife, Dessi.

Notably, many of our classmates have pursued careers in education, including yours truly. I continue to conduct research at Rutgers on education reform. My latest endeavor is to map education (PreK-12 and post-secondary) and work force attachment which requires lots of state and federal agencies to cooperate and share data, which is easier said than done. Mark Kushner and wife Dr. Mimi Winsberg reside in San Francisco and have two wonderful kids (Kyra, 11, and Tor, 8)! He teaches at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Graduate School of Education, and is opening cutting-edge high tech “blended” preK-12th grade charter schools in a number of states and D.C. Marc is always looking for Wesleyan educator talent (e-mail him with résumés at mkushner@k12.com) and he recently saw fellow Wesleyaners in D.C., including Ben Binswanger, Billy Weinreb, Lisa Goodman, Akiva Goldsman, Ted Kennedy, and Scott Pearson ’84.

Susanna Sharpe is the communications coordinator at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and Benson Latin American Collection (aka LLILAS Benson) at the University of Texas at Austin. The Benson houses the largest collection of books, publications, and archives from Latin America outside of the Library of Congress and the institute offers interdisciplinary degrees in Latin American studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as scholarly exchanges. Susanna continues to perform Brazilian music in Austin. Eileen Kelly-Aguirre works at The Gunnery, a coeducational college preparatory boarding and day school for students in grades 9–12/PG. Eileen heads up the strategic partnerships and global/summer program development. She had a great time at last year’s Reunion with Eclectic residents (absolutely delightful reunion buds), as well as with dear friends Cindy Robinson, Rick Velleu, Alice Jankell and Bennett Heart. Diagnosed with colon cancer last June, Eileen was declared disease free a few weeks ago. She would love to reconnect with more classmates via Facebook. On behalf of the class, I wish you continued health and strength, Eileen.

I have so gone over my space allotment. Forgive me if I did not include your information; I’ll add it to the next issue. Until then, Namaste.

LAURIE COHEN | lauriec@rci.rutgers.edu

I write this sitting at my kitchen table on the first cold night in mid-November. The house is suddenly very quiet ever since my trio started college in the fall. Realizing my kids would soon leave the nest, I threw my hat in the ring last spring and offered to be class secretary; I figured I would have some free time. I must admit, being an empty nester is quite nice. Yes, I miss the kids and the hustle-bustle, but it is rather nice going to the supermarket every two weeks and having a clean house. Besides, only 16 more days until Thanksgiving…but I’m not counting! Professionally, I’ve returned to my Wes roots for a PhD in sociology, have been working at Rutgers University, the School of Public Affairs and Administration, conducting research on urban education and school reform, and am writing a dissertation. What was I saying about free time? Here now, the news:

George Russell writes: “I live in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with my partner, Dave, and my dog, Buck. I do bodywork, movement analysis, teaching and chiropractic in the Flatiron district of Manhattan. In July 2013, I directed a dance/theater version of a play by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin called Savage/Love. It was produced by a performance space called HERE in Soho, and performed by De Facto Dance, which included Meg Fry ’91 and Kelly Donovan ’93.” George adds he recently saw Heather Masri, who works at NYU and is writing a book on science fiction writers; Carol Einhorn ’84 and her son, Griffin, age 5; and Melissa Wood, who teaches art at the Kent Place School in Summit, N. J.

Lee Hass reports she moved to Tasmania in 1993 and runs a nonprofit, Future Tasmanai, which works to help transition Tasmania towards a sustainable future, economically, environmentally, and socially. Kirsten Wasson has been transplanted, too. Kirsten has run away from upstate New York to the City of Angels and has landed in Beverly Hills. She works at a juice bar, seeking fame and misadventure. Kirsten’s son is also in Southern California and both are available for life-crisis consultation. Former class secretary, Cheri Litton Weiss, is also on the West Coast. Cheri recently enrolled in a graduate program in cantorial studies at the Academy for Jewish Religion in Los Angeles and continues to be the broker/owner of a real estate firm, Top Coast Properties.

Back to the East Coast: Jonathan Chatinover is the swim coach for the Martha’s Vineyard High School co-ed swim team and Craig Edwards, married to Mary K. Bercaw, lives in Mystic, Conn. Craig continues to perform, tour, and teach music (private fiddle lessons at Wes) when he is not developing exhibits and soundscapes for the Ellis Island, Lyman Allyn, and Mystic Seaport museums. David Frankfurter and Anath Golomb live in Durham, N.H., with their dog, Sadie. David is chair of the Boston University’s Religion department and Anath maintains her private psychotherapy practice in Portsmouth. Their daughter, Sariel, is in her second year at Columbia and their son, Raphael, graduated from Princeton last year and is the executive director of Wellbody Alliance, an NGO based in Sierra Leone.

Pam Dolin Mitamura shares that her oldest daughter is a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, the middle one is a sophomore at Vassar, and the youngest daughter is a senior, applying to college. On behalf of the class of ’83, I want to express our condolences to Pam on the passing of her mother last year.

Also, our condolences to Kate Rabinowitz and Rameshwar Das ’69 on the tragic death of their 14-year-old daughter, Anna Mirabai Lytton. The full obituary can be found here. May their memories forever be a blessing in your lives. Kate wrote: “This year is beginning a new life, after the death of our 14-year-old daughter this summer from a tragic bicycle accident. Rameshwar Das ’69 and I have two children, James, 16, and Anna, 14. It is the greatest loss, as she was the greatest girl. She was the joy of all of us, smart and funny and independent and creative, beautiful and ‘better’ than her parents…she got the best of us, and took it much further. In her brief life, she lived in a beautiful oceanside retreat near New York City, traveled to India, Italy, England, Scotland, Canada, and all over the US. She experienced city life and the wilderness through the farm and wilderness camps in Vermont, camping with her family, and adventuring all over the West. What a gift that she had so much experience and joy to live and share. It is not for any of us to know how long we are to live.

We miss our dear Anna more than words can say.

A foundation has been established in her name that promotes arts and wellness programs for underserved populations in schools and community centers. Contributions can be made to Anna Mirabai Lytton Foundation, PO Box 625, Amagansett, N.Y. 11930.”

Thank you to everyone who sent me information for these Class Notes and/or a private e-mail to catch up. I’ve enjoyed checking e-mails these last few weeks and reconnecting with Wes folk. Until the next installment…stay in touch.

LAURIE COHEN
lauriec@rci.rutgers.edu