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We are deep into the celebration season of 60! Happy birthday to all! Eric Leifer wrote to say that when he reflects upon those of us turning 60 this year, he thinks that we are the lucky ones. Salud!

Trish McGovern Dorsey shared news from a big Wesleyan gathering. She says, “We had a total of 19 people in Nashville over a holiday weekend, including our significant others. We sampled musical venues on Broadway (of course), saw some minor league baseball, took group line dancing lessons, exchanged joke T-shirts and books, and visited many of the city’s great museums. Most importantly, we picked up right where we left off the last time we were all together. It was special beyond words. Grateful to this group for the past, present, and future!” The group, photo below, included Trish, John Dorsey, Holly Campbell Ambler, Debbie Martin Gould, Chris Gould, David Igler ’88, Cindy Willard Igler ’88, Sue Romeo Malestein, David Glotzer, David Witkin, David Josephs, Dennis Mahoney, and Doug Koplow.

Ian Rosen has moved from his sustainability business to a pharmaceutical start-up, IntraBio, focused on treatments for neurodegenerative disease. Their flagship product received FDA approval for neurological manifestations of an ultra-rare disease; they are looking for European approval. They are busy with other applications to the FDA and Phase 3 clinical trials for other treatments. Ian’s eldest daughter, Isabel ’24, is working as a paralegal for an immigration firm representing asylum seekers, and he couldn’t be prouder. His youngest daughter is entering her senior year of high school and starting the university process. His wife continues her many business activities. All good!

After more than 20 years at CUNY, Rebecca Bratspies will be moving from the Big Apple to the Big Easy, leaving NYC and joining the faculty of Tulane Law School. She is the first holder of the Oliver Houck Endowed Chair of Environmental Law. She’d love to know if any Wes classmates are in NOLA.

Lisa Pavlovsky made some great class connections recently. She ran into Ron Fortgang at a Bay Area alum event and then joined his 60th birthday celebration on Zoom with Steve O’Neal. In April, Lisa met up with Elissa Wolf-Tinsman in Monterey. Elissa lives in Denver but was visiting her daughter in California where she teaches. They had a great few days catching up. In May, when Lisa was in NYC for her son’s college graduation, Vivian Trakinski gave Lisa’s family an amazing behind-the-scenes tour of the American Museum of Natural History, where she is director of science visualization. The Invisible Worlds exhibit she spearheaded is truly extraordinary.

Michael Bennet is currently serving as the senior senator from Colorado in Washington, but he is running for governor in Colorado in 2026, and many of our classmates are actively working for his election.

Muzzy Rosenblatt celebrated 25 years of leadership at Bowery Residents’ Committee—a nonprofit organization focused on helping those facing homelessness. At a BRC gala this summer, Michael Bennet was on hand to honor Muzzy. Those of us who knew Muzzy at Wesleyan thought he might be the NYC mayor eventually, and his work for BRC is right in line with our expectations. In August, BRC opened the Robert C. Wood Apartments, a housing development that honors Wesleyan professor Robert Wood, one of Muzzy’s key mentors. Who can forget Bob Wood, his government classes, and his wooden worry beads?

Anthony (“Tony”) Salerno was awarded the 2023 Ameriprise Client Experience Award, working in the financial services arena.

I have news of my own to share! I have recently earned my Certified Senior Advisor (CSA)® designation. This is not a career change, but an addition to the editorial and project management work I do in educational publishing. Like many of you, I have been getting the crash course in aging as I help my mom, and I see how stressful the health, social, and financial issues challenges relating to getting older can be. So many people are unprepared for these challenges and are forced to make critical decisions in moments of crisis. I am looking forward to helping people thoughtfully anticipate, understand, and manage their options. Hopefully, our own aging challenges are decades away, but there is so much we can do now to be prepared!

Happy 60!

Hello, Class of ’87!

For this column, I connected our updates with our college majors. See whether you find the through lines. And stay tuned for an interesting further class connection. 

Paulina Bren published her latest book in September, She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street, which tells the outrageous history of the women who came to Wall Street from the 1950s through 9/11. Her Wesleyan friends (Anne Dunham, Vivian Trakinski, Jeremy Mindich, Becca Gallagher, Adrienne Fitzgerald, Ralph Savarese ’86,and Pauline Frommer ’88) attended her launches in NYC, for which she’s grateful as always, she writes, because the trick is to plant allies in the audience, preferably in disguise. She-Wolves was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2024 by the Kirkus Reviews. Paulina was a College of Letters major.

Michael Peter Edson has been working as a museum director and digital cultural strategist in the U.S. and Europe. He has focused on encouraging cultural institutions to address large-scale societal challenges such as climate action and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. In 2024, he finished four years as the founding director of the Museum of Solutions (MuSo)—a state-of-the-art facility in Mumbai, India. MuSo is dedicated to inspiring and empowering young people to solve the world’s most pressing problems. In its opening year, MuSo was named to Time magazine’s World’s 100 Greatest Places list and won the prestigious Hands On! Children in Museums Award bestowed by the European Museum Academy and the International Association of Children in Museums. Mike has been married to Leslie Spitz-Edson ’86, his TA for intro to music history sophomore year, for more than 30 years. He’s happy to talk with Wesleyan grads, especially those working in arts/culture and sustainable development! Mike was an art major. His thesis was a show of prints about television static—something that his kids can barely relate to!

Josh Calder, a government major, has finished the last Wesleyan-assigned book on his to-read list! He put it on the list on May 18, 1987, and finished it 37 years, 6 months, and 11 days later, in November 2024, if I have my math right. Josh has alerted Professor Burns that he is in the clear.

J.B. Davis is following one path of the common life patterns I’ve been noticing—as a milestone birthday approaches, many of us are planning retirement, but a significant number of us are planning their next professional acts. J.B. is in a graduate certificate program in nonprofit management. He’s using the classes and Case Western’s connections to the Cleveland community to transition from a 25-year career in corporate marketing to a sector that, now more than ever, needs to effectively deploy resources to fulfill their missions. J.B.’s kids are university students—Abby, creative writing at Iowa; Eli, pre-med at Case; and Josiah, 1L at Ohio State. J.B. and his wife, Rachel, celebrate their 25th in May. J.B. was a double major in government and American studies.

As for me, I was an American studies major, and I got certified to teach high school English through the Educational Studies Program while I was an undergrad. I didn’t have enough confidence at the time to be an English major. Later, I got a master’s degree in English. I taught for five years, including in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, and at the East New York High School of Transit Technology in the New York City Public Schools. I transitioned to a career in educational publishing. I worked for Pearson, mostly developing literacy curriculum for 6–12 English. Now, I work for myself as consultant and freelancer supporting nonprofits and developing curriculum. I am currently working on a reading program for McGraw Hill, and I have worked on social studies programs for states on both sides of the political spectrum. So, I am making good use of my degree. 

Johanna Maaghul is spending more time in the U.S. after six years of living primarily in Switzerland. She is still working as a literary agent to help publish books that focus on functional medicine, health, and healing, and institutional whistleblowers. Johanna extended her work to include film representation. She is eager to review any nonfiction works by classmates on their adventures in this space. Johanna was a government major with a minor in music at Wesleyan and reports it didn’t have much impact on her career.

So, what’s the “interesting class connection” about our college majors? As I pressed classmates for their majors, Johanna shared her professional interest in the same question. She and her husband are launching a new platform in 2025 that rewards people for sharing verified portfolios including education and career information online with their alma maters and former employers. She can be reached at johanna@nextwaveresources.com and will also share more on this in future notes.

Finally, Ralph Worrick ’88 shared late news that Alison Sprout passed away in November. They both lived in WestCo. They were never tremendously close friends, but he always enjoyed her sardonic humor and quirky kindness. He had a nice visit with her and her son, Peregrine, in 2012. Many of you have written to express condolences.

Until next time . . .

Hello, Class of ’87!

I got a significant wave of responses without much nudging. Must be that relaxed feeling that the end of August brings. Of course, you are reading this now in the throes of a different season. I hope all is going well.

Wesleyan has introduced a new and easier way for me to get in touch with you, but it is not without its glitches. Gabrielle Sellei sent in a “no news to report” note, but said she was happily living the life of a “relatively stable, long-married, middle-aged, empty nester.” When I wrote back, I mistakenly copied the whole class, which created a blip of hilarity for about a day. Many of you wrote back empathetically to me:

“Same here—middle-aged and living a fairly normal existence!”

“Hey, that’s an accomplishment in itself!”

So, if you haven’t sent in any news, but you’re doing okay, give yourself credit!

Now on to the news that was meant to be shared!

Tricia Dorsey reports on her annual get-together in Maine with Holly (Campbell) Ambler this July. Their kids joined them for the first time in many years as did Doug Koplow and his wife, Michele. These are special memories for all. Tricia also reports that her husband, John Dorsey, is on sabbatical from teaching and will spend much of the coming year doing art residencies. His first was a group ceramics workshop on Nantucket in July. The next will be independent time at a studio facility in Barcelona in September and October. Some guest studio assistant gigs and guest teaching gigs will round out 2024 while he waits to hear about applications for winter and spring 2025. In May, Tricia and John celebrated the graduation of their second child to attend Hamilton. No more tuition! So much for middle age, right?

Daniel Rauch writes in with news of his son Brian’s wedding in July. The celebration turned into a mini Wesfest. Traveling to Turkey for the wedding were classmates David Glotzer, Eric Leifer,and Eileen Deignan along with her sons, Andrew ’27 and Evan ’24. Dan’s daughter, Haley Rauch ’15, and her classmate, Hanako Rodriguez ’15, were there, too,plus Brian’s friend Zach Berkowitz ’18.  Daniel is now vice chair of pediatrics at Hackensack (New Jersey) Meridian Children’s Health, and he sees a lot of Wes faces at the hospital. He sees Steve Pereira, a surgeon, and Taya Glotzer, ’83, a cardiologist, in the halls at Hackensack. One of the new pediatric interns there is Anastasios Karras ’18. And as part of his work with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Daniel sees Joe Wright ’79 and Cheryl De Pinto ’83, both vice presidents at the AAP. Dan’s family has been in the Hoboken, New Jersey, area for about year. His daughter is a math teacher at Scarsdale High School, and his son lives in Brooklyn. Check out Brian’s band, Late Night Thoughts (lntmusic.com). They just signed with a label to produce an EP.

Beth Barnett Pathak wrote in to catch us up. She says, “It’s hard to believe we left Florida nine years ago already—time seems to fly ever more swiftly these days. My two younger kids (twins Aidan and Arya) are starting eighth grade, and my two older ‘kids’ (Kiran and Nina) are millennials navigating their late 20s and all that pesky adulting. Almost two years ago, I started a new position as a program director at NIH, which I am still enjoying enormously, and through which I’ve gotten to know Carlie Williams ’86. I stay in touch regularly with Sarah Projansky and Ellie Margolis but would love to hear news from other Foss 5/5.5 friends and my fellow river rats.

John Phillips and Kate returned to New York several years ago to raise three children, two of whom have had their own children, and he says they are lucky enough to have them all live nearby.  

Gennifer Weisenfeld recently published The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930,a book which provides analysis, context, and background about this critical design publication of 20th-century Japan.

Rich Gibbons, president of SpeakInc, recently caught up with Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky ’05, when Rich booked Smiley to keynote the Greater Public’s Public Media Development and Marketing Conference in San Diego. Rich has been a speaking agent for over three decades and is the past president of the International Association of Speakers Bureaus (IASB). Adam is the author of Friendship in the Age of Loneliness and a top keynote speaker on workplace culture, belonging, and the future of work. Despite graduating from Wesleyan just a few years apart, Rich and Smiley loved chatting about all things public speaking, NPR, and Foss Hill. 

John Penney lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter. After many years in media technology, John did an MBA at Berkeley, and he is currently a growth advisor to cleantech companies in SoCal.  John offers this memory of President Colin G. Campbell who died earlier this summer. “Looking back, when I arrived at Wes in 1983, I had a bit of a shock. The then-president of the University, Colin Campbell, had been assigned as my advisor, and I had no idea how it would play out. Despite my initial apprehension, President Campbell was very supportive of his advisees and did a lot to make us feel welcome and integrated into Wesleyan’s academic life. Just another reason why Wesleyan left such an indelible impression on me over all these years.”

That’s an amazing memory. It reminds me that my faculty advisor was Greg Pyke who was an admissions counselor. Wesleyan definitely had ways to build community at the school!

As for me, I’ll go anywhere to see the Mets play, and I was lucky to travel in June for the London Series, a big deal for Major League Baseball. You may recall that Liz Rabineau had initially told me she wanted “no part of those shenanigans,” but it turned out she joined me at the game. I think she secretly liked it! Beyond taking in America’s pastime in London, Liz also opened her home and neighborhood to my husband and me, and we took in several museums as well.

By the way, a ballpark is a great place to run into old friends. Steve Shackman and I often meet at CitiField.

Until next time . . .

Hello, Friends!

We’re in a transitional stage of our careers . . . some of us are winding down, while others changing lanes and revving up for more adventure.

After 35 years in K–12 public education, Tim Sullivan will be retiring in June from his position as superintendent of the CREC Magnet Schools in Hartford, Connecticut.

Linda Ryden is making career changes after 20 years as the peace teacher in the Washington, D.C., schools. While there, she created a curriculum integrating mindfulness, brain science, conflict resolution, and social justice. In 2018 she formed a nonprofit to share the curriculum. Now she works there full time as creative director, and the curriculum is in schools across the country. Linda has a series of books, a YouTube channel, and a podcast for kids. Check out TeachPeaceofMind.org. 

David “Prahas” Nafissian has released an ebook, Becoming the Butterfly that you can download for free. Here’s the tag line: “Is humanity really doomed? I think not!”

This story features me in a surprising role. Steve Shackman, Ira Skolnik, and I often text about our beloved Queens-based baseball team. (If you know, you know. I’m still a little obsessive . . . will travel to London in June to see them play! I’ll see Liz Rabineau there. She is not interested in any of my “baseball shenanigans.” But I digress . . . .) In November, knowing Ira’s passion for U2, I asked if he planned to see the band in Las Vegas. At that time, it seemed a popular adventure. Inspired, Ira created his own Wesleyan reunion. He quickly had six Wesleyan friends signed up for a February weekend. He’ll take it from here: “We had Shack from New York City, Dan ‘Jughead’ Levy ’88 from Philadelphia, Scott Ades ’88 from New Jersey, Bill ‘Hooter’ Houston from Florida, Ed ‘Eduardo’ Thorndike ’89 from Connecticut, and, the biggest treat, Rich Pham ’88, who was traveling from Vietnam for a Vegas business trip that weekend. Since many of us had not seen each other in many years, it was three days of nonstop laughter and reminiscing. We are six ‘old men’ who still think we are college age. No arrests were made, no one went missing, and we made it back with our teeth intact.”

Kurt Lyn reports that he and his wife, Michelle Anderson Lyn ’84, MD,are still enjoying their professional careers, but they recently took a Wesleyan-type detour: launching a vineyard and winery close to their ranch about an hour from Houston, Texas. They invite all their Wesleyan friends to try their wines, Chapelton Vineyards, now available in local supermarkets and fine restaurants.

Erika Ranee (Cosby) checks in for the first time! She has been a professional artist since receiving a 1993 MFA from UC Berkeley. She started teaching at NYU in 2007, when Lyle Ashton Harris ’88 recommended her for the job. In 2023 Erika was one of 15 woman-identifying artists awarded a $25,000 grant from Anonymous Was a Woman. Her solo exhibition with the NYC gallery Klaus von Nichtssagend in 2024 was well reviewed in Artforum. This winter, Erika was selected to show in the 200th anniversary celebration of the Brooklyn Museum. That exhibit opens in October 2024.

You can findYouTube clips of David Abramson’s new storytelling skills. He talks about odd encounters with people from the former Soviet Union, finally tapping into a performance angle of his Russian major! David remembers a miserable foray into theater at Wesleyan when he played a tree in a rendering of Lorca’s Blood Wedding during sophomore year. He works as an analyst of Russian foreign policy at the State Department. His daughter, Hazel ’23, graduated from Wesleyan as an art history major —she lived next to his senior year home across from West Co and the science library. His daughter, Daisy, is a sophomore at Bryn Mawr. He’s in touch with Janet Ginzberg, Skip Lockhart, Jessica Miller, Cheryl Duncan, and Becky Riccio.

Grattan Baldwin files a slightly sarcastic report: “It is with deep shame that I report that my daughter, Annika, is a senior at Amherst; I console myself knowing at least it is not Williams. The good news, Amherst now has my last undergraduate tuition payment. Well, maybe not the very last . . .  in 2023 my wife, Cristina, brought forth our own personal sleep disruptor. Maria Luce Frederica Baldwin is a beautiful bundle of “feed me now.” A few early photos suggest the need for an exorcism, so we found the perfect priest in Milan to do the job. We were pleasantly surprised that in front of God and family, lightning did not strike, an earthquake did not hit, and the holy water did not boil. I consider this a good start. Now that she was freed from original sin, we hoped our overnight tormentor would sleep better; apparently that is not how that works.” 

Hello, classmates!

Here’s some exciting news you’ve shared with me recently.

Eileen Deignan reports that she has two kids at Wesleyan now. Her son, Evan, is a senior, and her son, Andrew, is a frosh. They are having a great time experiencing Wes together.

            Around Thanksgiving, Eileen returned from a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. She went on a month-long expedition to Antarctica with an international group of 85 women leaders in STEM fields. The sponsoring organization is Homeward Bound Projects. She is “still wrapping my head around all that we learned and saw there.” What an experience!

Chuck Taylor reports that he and his wife, Liz Martin Taylor, got together with Jay Valley recently. Jay remains a step ahead of the rest of us, having already mastered the snowbird routine between Massachusetts and Florida despite not being retired from his job as product development manager at Greenlee Diamond Tool Co. Jay and Chuck saw Elvis Costello and the Imposters in concert the first day of his visit, and on the next day they went to Wesleyan.

            It was Jay’s first time on campus this century, so as they wandered, Liz resumed her former role of Cardinal Key tour guide and pointed out the changes for him. And while they decided to skip the Freeman Athletic Center, which sits where the senior year house where Jay and Chuck lived once stood, they managed to get into all but one of the places they wanted to revisit. They were only caught when Jay decided he wanted to see whether the Language Lab was still where he left it. It wasn’t, but the employee who Jay and Chuck surprised when they barged in kindly tolerated them rather than contact Public Safety. As a former Language Lab employee, I can say that I went looking for that place during reunion, too. Who wouldn’t want to see the place where people studying Japanese or French would record their dictations aloud?

Johanna Maaghul writes in to give us a lot of news! First, she and her husband, Rich, spent the bulk of the pandemic in Switzerland working on their education platform, ODEM.IO. They split their time between there and traveling the U.S. by car, where they had the opportunity to see many different perspectives on what the COVID crisis has brought to our country and the health and economic challenges many are now facing. They are excited to have their education platform be part of the solution of rebuilding.

            Johanna is also continuing an almost 10-year career as a literary agent with a focus on nonfiction health and healing. She still thanks Julia Druskin for teaching her the role and value of literary agents!

            She is currently agenting a screenplay that she is very excited about. She is eager to be in touch with Heather Rae ’83, and she is happy to review any nonfiction projects with big aspirations from any of us. Finally, Johanna enjoyed having dinner recently with Sara Walpert Foster. 

Amanda Jacobs Wolf spent five wonderful days in Washington, D.C., this past November, staying with Matt Paul and Naomi Mezey. They cooked a lot and laughed a lot, and Naomi even let Amanda braid the challah she so skillfully made. And then to “top” the long weekend off, Mitchie Topper joined the group for dinner one night, as she was also in town. Such a fun Wes reunion. Everyone is thrilled Matt and Naomi’s daughter will start Wes next fall, keeping the dream alive for some future Foss Hill hangouts.

Grier Mendel has successfully moved from Seattle, Washington, to Longmont, Colorado, and is beginning her retirement. Grier is volunteering at a farm rescue and getting to know her new surroundings. Great new adventures ahead for Grier!

Pauline Frommer ’88 is getting a lot of our classmates into the music scene as her daughter’s band, Melt, tours the country. Jim Witz saw them in Denver, Trish Dorsey saw them in Boston, and Bruno Oliver ’88 was disappointed that the Los Angeles show was canceled.

Finally, I have the sad job of reporting that Brad Vogt died unexpectedly this fall, and so many of his classmates have fond memories of him. Frank Barrett wrote that Brad was a terrific and decent family-first person and sports enthusiast. Brad was an admired friend of friends who Frank ran into in the best ways at many parties and establishments. Beth Pitcher also said that Brad often traveled with her between D.C. and Wesleyan and felt that she couldn’t have asked for a better companion for the numbers of times her car broke down on the journey. Sending love to his family and those who knew him at Wesleyan.

Wishing everyone well as I wrote a message in December that you will read in the new year!

Hello Class of ’87. August was winding down as I wrote this, and you had news to share!

John Barney had a recent intergenerational Wes moment in Albuquerque when he ran into Quinn Mendelson ’17 at an urban agricultural garden cleanup and public meeting. Quinn is a team leader for Rocky Mountain Youth Corps, and John is the planning manager for Bernalillo County Parks and Recreation. They are working together with many other local stakeholders to re-create urban alleyways as green spaces and safe spaces for the unhoused in the International District—the densest and most ethnically diverse zip code in New Mexico.

Michael Morris reports that he had the great fortune to grab a cup of coffee and a bagel while reconnecting with his awesome classmate and former tennis partner, Jeremy Mindich, in NYC in May. They caught up on 35 years and had a great time laughing about their time together back at Wesleyan.

Rebecca Bratspies published a book titled Naming Gotham: The Villains, Rogues, and Heroes Behind New York Place Names. It is a fun, gossipy history that raises some serious questions about who gets to decide what counts as history.  As the founding director of the CUNY Law School Center for Urban Environmental Reform, Rebecca is the author of a comic book series, The Environmental Justice Chronicles. The EPA awarded the series, made in collaboration with artist Charlie LaGreca-Velasco, its 2023 Clean Air Excellence Award for Education/Outreach. She also reports that she has a rising senior looking at colleges, and her Allen continues to compose while recovering from an illness.

Steven Kaminsky and his family recently moved back to Charlottesville, Virginia, after 20 years in Los Angeles. Steven continues to work in the movie business. His wife, Leslie Repetto (UVA ’96), works in advertising PR. Their daughter, Juliet, is in third grade and absolutely loves living in the country as much as he does.

In June 2022, Ken Mathews retired from 35 years in public education. Ken ended his career as the math supervisor for New Haven Public Schools, one of Connecticut’s largest and most economically challenged school districts. Ken’s wife also retired and they’ve done a bit of traveling. They hiked the Canadian Rockies at Banff National Park and they are regularly enjoying time in Punta Cana. Still, Ken didn’t rest for long! In September, Ken began work as a practitioner in residence at University of New Haven, teaching calculus. Ken has made good use of technology, filling his syllabus with hyperlinks to support his students. Instead of Khan Academy, he’s thinking he is more Ken Academy. (And that’s Kenough?) On the family front, Ken’s got a full house with three 20-somethings. In November, his son Alex, who moved out five years ago, will be moving back home. His daughter moved back in April, and the middle son never left. Ken is looking for advice from anyone who has more successfully mastered the art of getting their kids to leave permanently.

For many years, in her role with AARP, Grier Mendel lived in Seattle but worked on Washington, D.C., time. She retired from her position as communications manager in June and is testing out a life where she wakes up at home without worrying what time it is on the East Coast. This cavalier awareness of the clock didn’t last long as her daughter started school at Loyola University Maryland in the fall.

In March, Grattan Baldwin and his wife, Cristina, welcomed their daughter, Maria Luce Baldwin, into the family. He will be spending this fall on paternity leave. When he’s not on leave, Grattan works at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore where he is an associate professor of education.

As for me, I was re-orged out of a job during COVID. I started my own business, RZG Editorial Solutions, in 2020. I mostly work in educational publishing and I have done research, writing, and editing work on K–12 social studies and literacy programs for various clients. I’m expanding my base to include work with start-up nonprofits and really enjoying the work. I’ve also been doing some rewarding volunteer teaching with an organization that helps first-generation college students make the move from college to career. During each semester, I facilitate a cohort of students during a course to help them learn about networking, interviewing, and creating resumes and cover letters.

Finally, I have sad news to report: We recently learned that Joy M. Lambe passed away on May 3, 2018. Joy kept a journal that has been published as the book Finding Joy on the Path of Divine Health and Wholeness, documenting her experience with a terminal illness. Sending love to all who knew Joy.

As we were going to press, I received news that Brad Vogt passed away unexpectedly on September 20, 2023. His obituary can be read here. Condolences to his wife, children, and extended family.

Hope everyone is well. Go Wes!