ALSO INSIDE Winter–Spring How Catherine 2018 Newman ’90 wrote her way out of a certain kind of stuckness in her novel, and Amherst in her life. HIS

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The unfinished story of Harold Wade Jr. ’68 XXIN THIS ISSUE: WINTER–SPRING 2018XX 20 30 36 His Black History Start Them Up In Them, We See Our Heartbeat THE STORY OF HAROLD YOUNG, AMHERST- WADE JR. ’68, AUTHOR OF EDUCATED FOR JULI BERWALD ’89, BLACK MEN OF AMHERST ENTREPRENEURS ARE JELLYFISH ARE A SOURCE OF AND NAMESAKE OF FINDING AND CREATING WONDER—AND A REMINDER AN ENDURING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE OF OUR ECOLOGICAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM RAPIDLY CHANGING RESPONSIBILITIES. BY KATHARINE CHINESE ECONOMY. INTERVIEW BY WHITTEMORE BY ANJIE ZHENG ’10 MARGARET STOHL ’89 42 Art For Everyone

HOW 10 STUDENTS AND DOZENS OF VOTERS CHOSE THREE NEW WORKS FOR THE MEAD ART MUSEUM’S PERMANENT COLLECTION BY MARY ELIZABETH STRUNK

Attorney, activist and author Junius Williams ’65 was the second Amherst alum to hold the fellowship named for Harold Wade Jr. ’68.

Photograph by BETH PERKINS 2 “We aim to change the First Words reigning paradigm from Catherine Newman ’90 writes what she knows—and what she doesn’t. one of exploiting the 4 Amazon for its resources Voices to taking care of it.” Winning Olympic bronze, leaving Amherst to serve in Vietnam, using an X-ray generator and other Foster “Butch” Brown ’73, about his collaborative reminiscences from readers environmental work in the rainforest. PAGE 18

6 College Row XX ONLINE: AMHERST.EDU/MAGAZINE XX Support for fi rst-generation students, the physics of a Slinky, migration to News Video & Audio Montana and more Poet and activist Sonia Sanchez, In its interdisciplinary exploration 14 the fi rst African-American of the Trump Administration, an The Big Picture woman to serve on the Amherst Amherst course taught by Ilan A contest-winning photo faculty, returned to campus to Stavans held a Trump Point/ from snow-covered Kyoto give the keynote address at the Counterpoint Series featuring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy SONIA SANCHEZ Wesley Lowery, William Kristol 16 Symposium. and other journalists. Beyond Campus The Mead Art Museum received The “Alumni in the Field” video TRAVEL: Tomal Hossain ’17 studies a $3 million gift from John ’58 series catches up with Kirk music in the Muslim world and Sue Wieland to endow its Johnson ’82, who heads the CLIMATE: Butch Brown ’73 confronts director and chief curator position Smithsonian National Museum ecological issues with three nations and to support contemporary of Natural History, where he is art acquisitions. Works from the responsible for a collection of PSYCHOLOGY: Amy Summerville ’02 WIELAND COLLECTION conducts research on regret Wielands’ collection are currently more than 145 million objects. on display at the museum. Amherst Reads’ most recent 44 Amherst women’s basketball featured books are Why Poetry, Amherst Creates set a new NCAA Division III by Matthew Zapruder ’89, and NONFICTION: Justin Spring ’84 record for consecutive road wins, Without Precedent: Chief Justice profi les six culinary writers and a new program record for John Marshall and His Times, by HISTORY: King Philip’s War through consecutive victories. Joel R. Paul ’77. Native eyes WESLEY LOWERY PHOTOGRAPHY: Sabato Visconti ’09’s purposeful glitches FILM: The Ballad of Lefty Brown

EDITOR WE WANT TO HEAR ALSO INSIDE Winter–Spring Amherst (USPS 024-280) How Catherine 2018 Newman ’90 wrote her POETRY: David Ferry ’46 translates way out of a certain kind of FROM YOU stuckness in her novel, and Amherst is published quarterly in her life. The Aeneid Emily Gold Boutilier (413) 542-8275 Amherst welcomes by Amherst College at HIS letters from its readers. Amherst, Massachusetts magazine@amherst. 01002-5000, and is Please send them to 49 edu sent free to all alumni. Classes magazine@amherst. Periodicals postage paid at BLACK ALUMNI EDITOR edu or Amherst Amherst, Massachusetts Betsy Cannon Magazine, PO Box 01002-5000 and additional HISTORY Smith ’84 5000, Amherst, MA mailing offi ces. Postmaster: The unfinished 103 Please send Form 3579 story of Harold In Memory (413) 542-2031 01002. to Amherst, AC # 2220, Wade Jr. ’68 Letters must be PO Box 5000, Amherst DESIGN DIRECTOR 300 words or fewer College, Amherst, MA What would Harold Ronn Campisi 01002-5000. 112 and should address Wade Jr. ’68 have done the content in the had he not died young? Contest ASSISTANT EDITOR magazine. A physics test Katherine Duke ’05 SENIOR WRITER Katharine Whittemore XXFIRST WORDSXX

As you may or may not know, there is no shortage of writing advice. This makes a certain kind of sense, given that the peo- ple writing the writing advice are writers, and that’s kind of what writers do—write stuff. Much of this advice is dreary, pomp- ous or even, on a certain kind of day, embit- Write 1,000 words a day, 5,000 words a day. Write with a brown- tering. Much of it is contradictory. Write inked fountain pen in an unlined journal bound with the tanned hide what you know. Write what you don’t know. of your own insufficiency. (Sigh.) I am what I like to call a working writer, which means that I can’t enjoy the luxury, or so I like to grittily imagine, of such fainting-couch predica- ments as “writer’s block.” I have deadlines. There is copy to write—for women’s magazines, admission offices, the raisin people (don’t ask). But, then, I am lying a little bit, too. Because I re- cently pussyfooted into fiction, which I had written not at all since Judith Frank’s amazing Fiction 1 class in By Catherine Newman ’90 the spring of 1990, and I needed writing advice after all. Fiction was different, it turned out. Nonfiction is like those TV contests where you get a basket of pre- chosen ingredients to cook with: tangerines and meat and licorice, and it’s weird, but that’s what you have, so you make Anise-Scented Citrus Pork Chops. Or, in the real-life version, your baby barfed into the hood of your jacket, your best friend died, your raisin scones came out gritty. So those are the mandatory ingredients of your story. Fiction, on the other hand. My god! There are no constraints. The whole world is your oyster, and you can’t complain about the materials at hand, given that it is all the materials ever. I am circling back to writing advice here. Because what happened was this: I wrote a book in which boy-and-girl 12-year-old best friends Walter and Frankie contrive to stay overnight in an IKEA store. I wanted it to be like From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler—that favorite book of my own childhood, in which the main characters spend a series of nights in the Metropolitan Museum of Art—only with a modern twist. My own children were obsessed with the IKEA catalogue, are still, study it like scripture, like they’ll be tested on the differences between an EKTORP sofa and a KNISLINGE sectional. There didn’t need to be more than IKEA in the story, as far as I was concerned, because even in Mixed-Up Files, I hadn’t cared about the rich-old-lady-stolen- Michelangelo subplot: I only wanted to hear about the kids sleeping in the elaborate historical bed, admiring

2 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 the princess jewelry, washing in the famous fountain, friend of 40 years had died, saying all the exact same fishing the wishing coins from that same fountain. kinds of heartbreaking and funny things in hospice The fun parts. that Walter’s dad said when he was dying! And you are But something was missing from my book, and I likely thinking: This does not actually describe a very understood this even before my editor said, “Some- mystical process. It sounds more like the fortuneteller thing is missing from your book.” Something was in The Wizard of Oz amazing Dorothy with his insight wrong with my character Walter, and I didn’t know after secretly rooting through her basket of photo- CATHERINE what it was. “Something is wrong with Walter,” I said graphs. (“There’s a woman. She’s wearing a polka-dot NEWMAN ’90 to my husband in the middle of the night, as if Walter dress. Her face is careworn.” “That’s Aunt Em.” “Yes. is the author were a friend with a dark secret, and not a fictional Her name is Emily.”) of the middle- child of my own making. And so, in order to figure out But it was both things. grade novel One exactly what Walter’s problem was, I wrote. I did the I did and also did not know my own story. And so I Mixed-Up Night (Random House, kind of writing I learned in Professor Frank’s class: wrote my way out of a certain kind of stuckness in my 2017). pen-to-paper, stream-of-consciousness, uncritical, novel. I wrote my way out of a certain kind of stuck- unedited free-writing. The very kind of thing I hate to ness in my life. Grief is what you might properly call hear about, when fiction writers talk about their own that second kind of stuckness, and out is not exactly invented stories and characters as if they exist in some where I ended up. Closer to fine, though, if I can quote sort of Jungian stream that must be channeled into the the Indigo Girls (who were also a part of that Fiction under-irrigated fields of their own imagination. But 1 spring at Amherst). Closer, like Walter, to friend- I did exactly this. I wrote without knowing yet what I ship and memory than to obliterating sadness. For would turn out to know. me, writing a novel turned out to be part real and part Write what you know. Write what you don’t know. I made-up, with a big, annoying dusting of magic, like did both. Because what I found out when I wrote it someone had come around with the gigantic hocus- was this: Walter’s father has died. This was a crazy pocus mill to see if I wanted some freshly ground onto coincidence, because just months earlier, my own best my work. And I guess the answer was yes. I did. k

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ALSO INSIDE FALL The 1896 alum 2017 who unearthed our mammoth ONE VETERAN’S DAYS skeleton is still frustrating win a medal. Often it’s not decided and surprising scientists Amherst Thank you for “Veterans’ Days” today. until the last of seven races, and the (cover story, Fall 2017). During my bronze medal winner is so appre- first two years at Amherst, from ciative of the results. 1962 to 1964, my classmates and On a personal note, I well re- I focused on the country’s civil member standing on the medal rights struggle. The next year, we stand being very appreciative and

As the College’s turned our attention to the fighting first Army ROTC thankful, yet wistful, for what I was FUTURE student in two decades, Rebecca Segal ’18 is part of the long, rich, in Vietnam. During the spring of VETERAN complex story able to achieve. of Amherst and the military. 1965, we organized a teach-in on DONALD S. COHAN ’51 the war with Henry Steele Com- Blue Bell, Pa. mager as one of the speakers. At the start of our senior year, WILBUR IN WARTIME I volunteered to serve in the mili- In her review of Let Us Watch Rich- tary and to go to Vietnam as a foot ard Wilbur: A Biographical Study soldier. During my 13-month tour (Amherst Creates, Fall 2017), Tess in Vietnam, Amherst classmates It made me think of the unlikeli- Taylor ’00 mistakenly refers to were my best correspondents, and hood that something buried for Wilbur, who enlisted in the U.S. none was better than one of the thousands of years in coastal muck Army in June 1942, not long after leaders of the anti-war movement, would have as much chance of graduating from Amherst, as a Marshall Bloom ’66, who sent me turning up on Amherst’s campus Editor’s Note “conscientious objector.” In fact, Student articles about the 1966 as my own deeply rooted Florida Amherst magazine as we carefully explain in our book, commencement demonstration. son—but they’re both there, two will now be Wilbur’s prewar isolationist stance Many of my classmates served in dudes a long way from home. published in (in private and as chairman of the the military during Vietnam. After Amherst College is uniquely amaz- March, June, Student) changed immediately I returned from the war, several ing that way, and your magazine September and after the Japanese bombing of Pearl December. This Amherst faculty members invited brings me a little bit closer to puts us in line with Harbor; in an editorial on Dec. 8, me to speak to their classes. At understanding its magic and the the best practice he announced his support of our the start of the Iraq War, students world my son temporarily calls for periodicals, country’s declaration of war. As we invited me back to campus to home. Thank you for your wonder- in which each state in chapter 2, “Wilbur didn’t speak. The chance to reflect on my ful articles and insight. I look for- issue comes out disown his prior doubts about the as the new season military experience led me to write ward to every single issue. is approaching. wisdom of intervention; rather, he War Lessons. For these opportuni- ROBIN SILVEA P’20 The shift will also recognized their irrelevance” and ties, I am very grateful. Merritt Island, Fla. allow us to cover then “turned his attention to the JOHN MERSON ’66 commencement distant but inescapable problem of and reunion New York City AN OLYMPIAN WEIGHS IN reordering the postwar world so it shortly after they I am the only Amherst gradu- occur, rather would be ‘less combustive.’” TWO MAMMOTHS, FAR ate who can personally answer than waiting until More importantly, when talking FROM HOME your question, “Why do Olympic August. about those years, Wilbur never Reading “Loomis Illuminated” bronze medalists show higher applied the phrase “conscientious (Fall 2017), I was stunned to see levels of happiness than Olympic objector” to himself. Instead, as he that the very mammoth that has silver medalists?” (Contest, Sum- told Christopher Bogan and Carl served as the backdrop for count- mer 2017). I am an Olympic bronze Kaplan in a March 1975 interview less family photographs (as recent medal winner—1972, Germany, for the Amherst Student Review: as this fall’s Family Weekend) sailing. “Regardless of those isolationist was found just a few miles from The silver medalist could have a articles I wrote, with which there our home in Brevard County, Fla. better chance to win the gold and may have been some student agree- dwells on what might have been. ment, I suspect that we all felt we TELL US WHAT YOU THINK The bronze medal winner appreci- were going to get into it, and that ates their achievement and what it would probably prove on reflec- We welcome letter submissions it symbolizes and is satisfied— tion to be a just war. Our consciences that respond to our magazine articles. Letters should be 300 despite the “what ifs.” were easy about it [our emphasis]. words or fewer. Please send them In sailing, often it was clear that We were certainly not inclined to to [email protected] or the gold medal winner was going set ourselves up against the state, Box 5000, Amherst, MA 01002. to win the gold, and the bronze once war was declared, though as medal winner was scrambling to I recall we were all respectful of

4 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 The People in the Photo

Imagine my surprise when I saw myself in the photo on page 83 of the Fall 2017 Amherst magazine! Professor Carl Schmalz is indeed teaching our “Watercolor Painting” class outside during fall semester of my senior year. I am seated immediately to his right, concentrating hard, as I did not (and still don’t) consider myself an artist. It was one of those perfect New England fall days. I still have the painting I did for my final exam, when I used my roommate Mary Locke Snow ’86’s sewing kit for a still life. Thanks for bringing back the memories! JOANIE BREWSTER ’86 Fort Collins, Colo.

It was astonishing to see my husband’s photograph in the fall Amherst. Carl N. Schmalz Jr., professor of fine arts, emeritus, taught both history and practice courses. Here he was doing a demonstration, explaining as he painted. Watercolor dries fast enough to allow him this kind of instruction. I might add he was very good at it and it was amazing to watch. DOLORES T. SCHMALZ

Springfield, Va. ARCHIVES COLLEGE the few people who decided to be glow, though we also indulge our lumbia, we take over eighth place. conscientious objectors. They were slight envies by noting that if he’d In yet another Nobel season that not, of course, initially objecting been just a bit cleverer, he’d have brought disappointment and frus- to any peculiar injustice of World arranged to be born a year earlier, tration to me and Dave Morine ’66 War II, but to war itself. I think we so he would have been a member as we lay awake next to our tele- respected that, even as we trotted Corrections of the Great Class of 1966. phones in the wee hours, waiting off to enlist.” The Fall 2017 Amherst had an article (College for the call in which a husky voice Unfortunately, Ms. Taylor’s class notes incor- Row, Winter 2017) touting how its with a Swedish accent informs us focus on Wilbur as “a conscien- rectly referred then four laureates had qualified of our triumph, our hurt is nicely tious objector turned poet” not to a service for the College, in a Nature article assuaged by the fine showing of only presents an inaccurate and Ken Glover ’74. titled “Where Nobel Winners Get the Fairest College. It was a funeral misleading view of the man and service held in Their Start,” as the ninth-ranked STEVE MURRAY ’66 his conscience, but also disregards Washington, D.C. college or university in the world Goleta, Calif. our book’s discussion of Wilbur’s The notes also in- when measured by the rate the views on war—beginning with his correctly referred school produced Nobel winners TWO STATUES student days, throughout the war to Mike “Bubba” from 1901 to 2015. I strained my There are statues of Thurgood Wilson ’76 by his and postwar years, and into the classmate Dave mathematics ability to calculate Marshall and Donald Gaines Mur- Vietnam era, when he did oppose Blenko’s last that our four winners, equaling the ray ’34 outside the Maryland State the war yet still believed it was our name. published rate of .00019, meant House in Annapolis. Marshall was duty, if called upon, to serve our the authors reckoned our alumni of the mentee of Charles Hamilton country. those years numbered 21,053. The Houston, class of 1915, “the finest ROBERT BAGG ’57 pressing question, then, is the ef- that we have produced,” as Rev. MARY BAGG fect of Hall’s prize on this ranking. Philip A. Jackson ’85 told the class Worthington, Mass. Nature lists the top 10 schools, of ’21 (College Row, Fall 2017). led by the École Normale Supéri- Murray was the plaintiff when ANOTHER AMHERST NOBEL eure with .00135 (and with spunky Marshall successfully sued to inte- My classmates and I read with sat- Swarthmore at fourth). Amherst grate the University of Maryland isfaction that Jeffrey Hall ’67 won sits just behind Columbia, with School of Law, which had denied a Nobel (online story, September its .00021. But if none of the new him admission. Marshall went to 2017). We shine in his reflected batch of laureates attended Co- Howard University School a 111

AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 5 NEWS AND College Row VIEWS FROM CAMPUS

XXSTUDENTSXX Foreign Service Dakota Foster ’18 hopes to become national security adviser. But first she’ll be a Marshall Scholar.

6 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 ACADEMIC PUBLISHING

Thought Leader What does “peer review” mean? Amherst College Press, in an effort to standardize the term, may actually change the market. To understand Dakota Foster many years to a naval air station ’18’s path to becoming a Marshall —feeling the importance of ser- Scholar, you have to go back to vice. She says the wars in Iraq In this era of “fake news,” the Civil War. and Afghanistan influenced her when many don’t trust what Or, at least, to a reenactment academic interests, leading her to they read, the need for on an elementary school soccer ask, “Why are we fighting? How? verifiable, evidence-based field in Brunswick, Maine. Fos- Against whom?” scholarship is at an all-time ter—or, as she was known that “Ours is no longer a world of high. day, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant—was one-dimensional threats,” she Amherst College Press is in fifth grade, and a class lesson wrote in her Marshall application. already a pioneer in making on the Civil War culminated in a “We increasingly live in a multi- scholarly publications freely schoolyard battle, sparking her threat world, including the rise available to the public—it’s interest in politics, war and public of non-state actors, the return of an open-access press whose service. foreign fighters, climate change, motto is “Free Thought.” Foster is now among 43 and the growth of cyber warfare. Now it’s leading an effort students nationwide awarded It will become more and more to standardize one of the a 2018 Marshall Scholarship— difficult to combat these threats hallmarks of trustworthy named for another U.S. general, independently.” scholarship: peer review. George Marshall. Founded Foster’s favorite Amherst The Open Society Foundations recently awarded AC in 1953, the scholarship pro- courses have included one on Press a $33,000 grant to host a conference on scholarly nuclear security and publishing. That conference, organized jointly with The The wars in Afghanistan others in Arabic language. MIT Press, took place in January in Cambridge, Mass., and Iraq influenced Foster’s Last summer she interned with more than 30 participants. It was the first event of at the U.S. Army’s Com- a group called Peer Review Transparency, which is now academic interests. bating Terrorism Center. working to draft unified standards for peer review, and a “Part of my work was system by which readers are notified of work that meets gram funds graduate study for looking at foreign fighters,” she this standard. American students in the United says. “We had data from youth Over the next month, the group plans to contact uni- Kingdom. The list of previous who were going to fight for ISIS in versity presses and scholarly societies to invite them to Marshall Scholars includes two Iraq and Syria. [We were] analyz- this voluntary effort. Supreme Court justices, a Nobel ing that data, seeing what factors Participating presses would share a standard marker laureate and a NASA astronaut. were driving these kids.” for scholarly writing, certifying that the scholarship in the Foster will initially pursue a Foster has also interned with publication meets the stated criteria, in much the same master’s in war studies at King’s the U.S. House of Representa- way that food labeling assures that your milk is fresh or College London, and for her tives and the Washington Insti- your chicken is kosher. second year, she plans to study tute for Near East Policy. “It’s like an underwriter’s laboratory seal,” says Mark international relations at either At Amherst she was the only Edington, director of AC Press. Cambridge University or the first-year hired as a peer diversity Edington’s interest in peer review standards dates to London School of Economics. educator. She’s been co-president 2013, when he joined the College as the first director of A double major in political sci- of the Amherst Political Union, the new press. “Open access,” he acknowledges, “is widely ence and Asian languages and co-captain of women’s lacrosse seen as lesser in quality or rigor,” even though all AC Press civilizations, Foster is interested and a member of the College books are peer-reviewed. “There is no logical connection in a career in national security. Discipline Committee. whatsoever between the business model of open access She would like to work for the The leaders of tomorrow, and the review quality, but we realized pretty early on that U.S. State Department, Depart- Foster believes, “must be able we’ve got to address this reputation issue head-on.” ment of Defense or National to think globally.” They must Edington hopes that standard markers will make it obvi- Security Council. Her dream job: possess the insight to evaluate ous when a press does not do enough peer review. To put it national security adviser. complex problems from not just another way: an effort by AC Press to define itself in the Foster grew up in Brunswick— one perspective, but many. competitive market has resulted in setting a standard that

MARIA STENZEL a college town that was home for BILL SWEET may actually change the market. B.S.

Illustration by JAMES YANG AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 7 XXPHYSICSXX Create Your Own Adventure With pendulums, Slinkys and flippers, students tested their knowledge.

SLINKY TEAM When he’s not using Slinkys, PROJECT: “The Movement of a Slinky,” by Hanneke’s McKeegan, Navid Rahimi Larki ’21, lab develops quantum Ha Woon “Harry” Jung ’20 and Yordi De Leon ’21 control techniques for In their attempt to analyze the motion of a Slinky as molecules. it dropped, the students first had to figure out how to mark sections of the toy spring. They tried colored tape, but that method created gaps in the coils that Assistant Professor David Hanneke changed the motion. The team eventually decided caps his “Newtonian Synthesis” physics on neon spray paint. “It was like we were waiting for paint to dry,” said Rilla McKeegan ’21, explaining the course with a design-your-own adven- process during the class presentation. “Literally.” ture project. The aim: for students to experiment with physical laws in action. In groups, first-years and sophomores came up with tests to analyze motion, calculate translational velocity and This Slinky study momentum and gravity. Here’s did not walk what a few of them did. down stairs, but instead was carefully FRICTION TEAM measured as it coiled PROJECT: “Spring Constant Determination from the from above. Static Friction Coefficients of Various Surfaces,” by Fedor, Yusrah Kaudeer ’21, Amanda López ’20 and Renan Vianna ’20E

Students measured the pull of a block of wood across sandpaper, silk and other surfaces. Emily Fedor ’20 said she was surprised by how much the project taught her about the mechanics of physics. She thought being a math major would make her better BIG G TEAM at physics, she said. “I realize that’s like saying being good at calligraphy makes you better at poetry.” PROJECT: “Calculating G Using a Torsion Balance,” by Matthew Perkins ’21, George Spencer ’20, David Wang ’21 and Calvin Woods ’21

Students worked with a Cavendish balance so delicate The friction that when one group member casually leaned against team measured a countertop, the experiment had to be put on hold for the pull of 20 minutes so the apparatus could reset. “I’ve pretty a block of wood across much given them the apparatus, and I’m letting them sandpaper and figure out what to do with it,” said Hanneke. “It’s silk. gravitational force measured on small scales. After doing this experiment, you can see how long a year is, and weigh the sun, and look at how long it takes the moon to go around the Earth, and weigh the Earth.” RACHAEL HANLEY

8 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 Scanning the Amherst of Old

History in its rawest form is things people leave behind. COMMUNITY In preparation for the Col- lege’s 2021 bicentennial, Frost Library is digitally preserv- ing—and making public—what Finding Family Amherst of old left behind. An intensive first-gen program teaches This material includes the students they’re not alone. obvious (letters, publications, meeting notes), and the less so: pens, a shovel, even a cricket that Emily Dickinson saved. One by one, students trickled “In many the College’s Loeb Center Curriculum reports will be into a campus meeting room, instances,” says for Career Exploration and digitized. So will more than brushing snowflakes from one student, Planning and Tenzin Kunor of 300,000 negatives from College “we do not have their coats. friends or family the Office of Campus Diversity photographers, taken between The College had delayed who know the and Student Leadership, 1960 and 2005. opening until 11 a.m. because ins and outs of it featured sessions on The eventual goal is an easily of the weather, yet members college life.” communications skills, identity searchable database accessible of this group had tromped and more. to the public. through the snow at 9:30 a.m. to hear “Every student comes here with a tool- “So if someone’s saying, ‘I Chloe McKenzie ’14 speak about financial box of skills,” says Dufresne, “and every was on the basketball team literacy. student needs different tools, or their par- in 1972,’ they should be able Rather than use her hour to talk about ticular tools sharpened. The population we to type in ‘basketball 1972’ balancing a checkbook or creating a serve might need a more specialized set and pull up something,” says household budget, McKenzie discussed in- of tools, or direction on how to use their Michael Kelly, head of Archives clusive economies. And leveraging finance particular tools within our community. My and Special Collections. as a source of activism. And stock options. goal was that the Institute do some or all of “There’s a real academic au- And “dismantling the structures that cre- those things.” dience, but we’re really think- ate and perpetuate income inequality.” In the process, says Kunor, the sessions ing more in terms of the large “Cool, right?” said McKenzie, founder, generated pride and showed students popular audience.” president and CEO of BlackFem Inc., that there are others in the Amherst Some of the more colorful which provides financial services and community—students, faculty, staff and documents include 1830s disci- education to underserved communities of alumni—who share similar backgrounds plinary letters for playing cards color. “Those are the things your invest- and experiences. and drinking cherry rum. ments can do for you.” “College for us is uncharted territory,” There are limits to what can McKenzie’s talk was one event in the says Bryan Miller ’19, who not only took be made available. Trustee and Next Generation Leadership Institute, part in the event but helped to organize faculty meeting notes are pro- held Jan. 14–18 for “first-generation and/or and facilitate it. “In many instances, we tected by a 50-year embargo, low-income Amherst students to cultivate do not have friends or family who know for example. and highlight existing social and cultural the ins and outs of college life. I think the Some material is already capital in their personal and professional Institute, in some ways, might have helped up, including yearbooks (with lives,” as the organizers described it. us find our own family here on campus.” home addresses redacted). See

PHYSICS: MARIA STENZEL; NEXT-GEN AND ARCHIVES: TAKUDZWA TAPFUMA ’17 TAPFUMA TAKUDZWA AND ARCHIVES: NEXT-GEN MARIA STENZEL; PHYSICS: Envisioned by Casey Jo Dufresne of CAROLINE HANNA them at acdc.amherst.edu. B.S. XXART HISTORYXX Queen of Arts How the Louvre and Luxembourg Palace reshaped gender roles in France.

Was King Henry IV of France a feminist? Probably not. But Professor Nicola Cour- Courtright’s tright is studying how the art interest was and architecture of his royal sparked by this residences—from the Louvre 1603 medal that depicts King to Luxembourg Palace—may Henry IV and have elevated the status of Queen Marie his wife, and in the process as if they were re-envisioned gender roles in equals. She’s also early modern ruling culture. studied a Rubens painting, at Courtright, the William right, that does McCall Vickery 1957 Profes- the same. sor of the History of Art, is on leave this semester in Washington, D.C., where she is a senior fellow at the

10 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 National Gallery of Art, delving into archives that will inform her forthcoming book, Art and Queenly Authority: The Creation of Spaces for Marie de Medici. The book explores how Marie’s chambers, galleries and gardens, combined with artwork depicting her shared

sovereignty with the king, sent an MARIA STENZEL important message to the public: far from being merely the wife of Q&A: Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez, the king, Marie was a leader in her PROFESSOR OF SPANISH own right. Courtright’s research interest A WIDER LENS was sparked by a bronze medal, His book Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History made in 1603 by Guillaume Dupré, is the first to explore all the major cinematic periods in that depicts King Henry IV and the region, from silent to digital. It won a 2017 honorable Queen Marie as if equals. “They’re mention in a prize from the Modern Language Association. shaking hands, and they’re com- pletely balanced and equally weighted,” she says. The symbol- What’s something you learned from looking by region rather ism parallels the structures of their than by country? palaces, which in the 17th century It’s widely known that neorealism started in Italy and spread quickly in began to include expanded cham- Latin America. But the studies were about “How is Cuban cinema in bers for the queen, decorated to dialogue with Italian cinema?” or “How is this Argentinian director in emphasize her importance in the dialogue with that Italian director?” Nobody was looking at “How is this monarchic structure. Argentinian filmmaker in dialogue with a Cuban filmmaker who is in “It was for the safety of the dialogue with a Mexican filmmaker?” From this perspective, we can BY PETER PAUL RUBENS PETER PAUL BY monarchy,” Courtright reasons: speak of a Latin American neorealist cinema of the 1950s. Henry IV knew that if he died be- fore his son came of age (which he How does that deepen scholarly understanding? did), Marie would be the only one It shows that filmmakers constantly look beyond their own national to ensure the continuance of the borders, and so the idea of national cultures is not so much called into kingdom. question as it is placed in a broader context. Now, when I watch an The study of rooms and the Argentinian neorealist film, I see a specific manifestation of a global objects within them is at the movement. And these are not just artistic movements: the best filmmak- heart of Courtright’s art history ers use the medium of film to engage in cultural and political debates. seminar “Art, Things, Spaces and Places from the Renaissance to What’s one film that illustrates that? the Enlightenment.” Last year she The 1968 Cuban filmLucía . At the time, many Cubans found inspiration curated a similarly themed exhibi- in Soviet filmmakers of the 1920s and 1930s, who, among other things, tion at the Mead Art Museum. “I developed the first composite films. The fact thatLucía is a triptych is

DUPRÉ; PAINTING: HENRI IV CONFERS GOVERNANCE ON MARIE DE’MEDICI, HENRI IV CONFERS GOVERNANCE PAINTING: DUPRÉ; wanted to understand the envi- therefore not accidental, especially when we consider that each part ronments these kings and queens focuses on a female protagonist from a different social class: a 19th- lived in,” she says, “to get a whole century aristocrat, a 1930s petit bourgeois and a rural worker after the picture of what life was like.” Cuban Revolution. Taken as a whole, then, the film proposes a Marxist In her research on Henry and reading of Cuban history that culminates with the Cuban Revolution. Marie, she’s exploring floor plans, diaries and letters, as well as art What’s your next project? including a painting by Peter Paul I’m toying with different ideas. One is to do a companion book on docu- Rubens, commissioned by Marie mentary cinema. Another is to focus on the Baroque period in Latin after the king’s death, again show- America. (I taught a class last year on the Baroque roots of Latin Ameri- ing the king and queen as if equals. can culture.) The third idea is to do audiovisual academic research. This “He was really trying to see be- is a form of film studies, but instead of using words, one uses editing yond his death,” she says of Henry, software to create video essays. EMILY GOLD BOUTILIER “and to make room for women in ONLINE More from the interview: amherst.edu/magazine COURTRIGHT: MARIA STENZEL; MEDAL: PROPAGO IMPERI, BY GUILLAUME GUILLAUME BY IMPERI, PROPAGO MEDAL: MARIA STENZEL; COURTRIGHT: the future.” RACHEL ROGOL

AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 11 XXIMMIGRATIONXX Leaving L.A., Loving Montana An Amherst sociologist did a big study in Big Sky country. Turns out migrants may thrive more in rural areas than urban ones.

SHE STRUCK UP THE CONVERSA- tion by the frozen tortillas. This was back in 2005, on a Sunday evening in springtime, at Town & Country Foods in Bozeman, Mont. Leah Schmalzbauer was teach- ing at Montana State at the time. She’s now a professor of American studies and sociology at Amherst; immigration is her area. When she landed in Bozeman (her husband was there to create a strategic plan for Yellowstone National Park), she figured she’d have to ravelt else- where to study migrants up close— to more diverse places, to cities. But for weeks at Town & Coun- Bozeman, Mont. try, she’d noticed Latino workers shopping too, dressed for the construction trades, speaking Mexican-accented Spanish. It turned out there was a kind of Golden State. And undocumented “At first, they were terrified to Los Angeles-to-Montana pipeline. immigrants stand out. In this end- talk to me, because they were such Wealthy transplants, often from less landscape, they must drive a small number in the community, Scholars now California, were moving to hipster over long distances: that gives and here’s this white woman ap- study migration Bozeman and building houses. more chances for traffic stops. proaching them,” she recalls. But to suburbs But Montana employers couldn’t Mexican mothers in Montana as well as to Schmalzbauer chatted easily in cities, but find enough construction workers. often opted not to drive. “Women Spanish. She explained she’d been Schmalzbauer is Meanwhile, Mexican migrants would stay home,” Schmalzbauer to Mexico. She sowed rapport. among the first were getting pushed out of L.A., notes. “They would talk about “I wanted to learn more about to study rural where the market for laborers was home in this complicated way, too, this community, how it got to Mon- immigration. saturated. calling it a cárcel (jail). They just tana, because it was so not on my “There were parallel migrations were stuck in this space, lonely and radar screen even as someone who into Montana: the wealthy-lifestyle depressed. Yet they also said they studied immigration. What was people and the migrants coming felt safest there.” on my radar screen was New York, in to service those lifestyles,” says Schmalzbauer is among the first Boston, L.A., Miami, Houston—the Schmalzbauer. “And Mexicans in scholars to study rural immigra- places people had written about.” construction could double their tion. Depopulated villages are Schmalzbauer went on to con- wages in Montana.” attracting immigrants ever more: duct 82 formal interviews with The people she interviewed had she says the dairy industry in Wis- Mexican migrants in southwest mostly grown up in rural Mexico, consin, for instance, would kick Montana and write a book about she learned. In Montana, “they the bucket if it weren’t for Latinos, her findings. connected to what they perceived who largely milk the cows. Now, she has cast those same to be rural values, the landscape, “Some blue states that went red data in another light. With Univer- the clean air, the lack of density.” in the last election are rural states sity of Chicago sociologist Angela As one migrant told her, “Here, that have shifting demograph- García, Schmalzbauer co-authored it is more or less like Mexico. It is ics due to migration, and I think a January article in The Annals of peaceful and beautiful.” there’s a pushback,” she says. the American Academy of Political There are drawbacks, however. “Policy-makers—and scholars— and Social Science about Mexican White Montanans will sometimes need to look at these rural areas migrants in rural Montana and say, “In America, we speak Eng- and understand what’s happen-

urban Southern California. lish.” That rarely happens in the ing.” KATHARINE WHITTEMORE WIKIMEDIA COMMONS MONTANA: ROB MATTSON; SCHMALZBAUER:

12 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 EXPERT ADVICE Star Power: Tips for Effective Speaking By Susan Daniels / ASSOCIATE IN PUBLIC SPEAKING

During my years as an actor, director and theater producer, I noticed that what professional actors do to relax, focus and engage are the same skills public speakers could use to turn their talks from boring readings into dynamic performances. Today, I draw from my professional theater training and experience to help Amherst students, faculty and staff become more confident and compelling public speakers. Here are six public speaking tips that actors practice every day and that members of the Amherst community are now using in their own public “performances.”

BREATHE FROM THE BELLY Learn and practice breathing from the diaphragm, or what actors call “belly breathing.” Because we live in a “stress culture,” we have forgotten how to breathe. Instead, we live in fight-or-flight mode most of the time, causing our breath to go up into our chests. Speaking with your belly breath produces a deep, full, confident sound. It allows you to control how long you speak on one breath. It also increases your volume when you want to be louder; even if your microphone fails, the back of the room will hear you. As a bonus, research shows that diaphragmatic breath- ing relaxes you physically.

ROOT YOUR FEET Actors root their feet when they forget their lines, or when some- thing happens onstage that makes them feel unsteady. You’ll know you’re unsteady because one of your heels is up and you are jutting out your opposite hip. If someone bumped into you, you would certainly fall over. Instead, try rooting: Place your feet and your credibility will rise. If you have to look down to read flat on the floor, directly under your hips. Feel your feet in your your personal story, the audience will doubt its truth. Imagine shoes. Now, imagine that you have roots shooting out the bot- an opening-night audience seeing actors reading from their tom of your feet, through your shoes, through the floor, through scripts! A speech is not a reading; don’t treat it as one. the basement and into the ground. As if by magic, rooting helps you remember that lost line or, at the very least, gives you the CRAFT YOUR CONCLUSION appearance of confidence. Root when you are standing or sitting, When you end with a crafted, memorized sentence, the audi- whenever you feel nervous. I’ve observed Barack Obama rooting ence will applaud on cue. Saying “thank you” at the end of a when he speaks. It adds to a powerful presentation. speech because you have no conclusion is becoming common. In my opinion, this smacks of an apology. Why are you thank- START WITH THE FIRST WORD ing them? For tolerating you? For not throwing tomatoes? Can you imagine that instead of an actor beginning with his Imagine Romeo and Juliet ending in such a way: “For never lines, “To be or not to be,” he said, “Today, I plan to recite some was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo. lines from Shakespeare,” or, “I want to apologize for having a Thank you.” For heaven’s sake. Craft a conclusion, allow the cold,” or, “Hi, everyone,” or, “Bear with me, folks—I’m nervous.” applause—and then thank the audience. Treat your speech as you would a Broadway script. Respect what you wrote and begin with those words. I will bet money those REMEMBER: IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU! words are not “So,” “Um” or “Okay.” Create an audience-focused purpose for your speech; is it to instruct, persuade, inspire, entertain? Make sure your voice, MEMORIZE YOUR INTRODUCTION your body and your spirit are focused on the message reaching Now more than ever, audiences are easily distracted. We need your audience. When we focus on ourselves (by fidgeting, re- to grab their attention at the beginning. Start with a story, a peatedly clearing our voice, apologizing, listening to the nega- thought-provoking question, a quotation or a startling statement tive messages in our heads), we become self-conscious. When or statistic. Write it down in advance. Then memorize it so you you focus on someone other than yourself, you become less can have strong eye contact. Your audience will feel engaged, self-conscious, more “other-centered”—and highly effective.

Illustration by FLAVIO MORAIS AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 13 XXTHE BIG PICTUREXX Kyoto’s Golden Pavilion After First Snow

Mei Zhou ’18 caught this scene after “a miracle of a snow- storm,” three days before the end of her semester in Japan. It won in the “Landscapes and Landmarks” category of the 2017 photo contest spon- sored by Amherst’s Office of Global Education.

To see the three other winning photos, visit amherst.edu/magazine.

PHOTOGRAPH BY MEI ZHOU ’18

14 AMHERST 14WINTER–SPRING AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 2018 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 15 Music Beyond Campus

Man

Tomal Hossain ’17 is on a trek to study the role of music in Muslim-majority communities. Opposite page: Fuad Ko and Adeep Nahar, two of the musicians he’s interviewed.

16 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 XXTRAVELXX

He’s spending the year as a nomad, exploring the Teluk Intan was one stop on Hossain’s yearlong trek to study role of song in Muslim-majority communities. the role of music in Muslim- majority communities. With the help of a Watson Fellowship, the Los Angeles native plans to visit 11 countries total, in Asia, Africa and Europe. So far his journey has BY BILL SWEET taken him to, among other places, a jazz festival on Penang Island, Malaysia; a traditional wedding of the Minangkabau, a matrilineal ethnic group indigenous to West Sumatra, Indonesia; and an open- mic night in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In Indonesia, it took Hossain by surprise to fi nd that many religious leaders approve of music con- sumption—a contrast with what he saw growing up in the “compara- tively puritanical” Bangladeshi diaspora of Los Angeles. “I’ve really been amazed at just how frank people have been with me,” he adds. “People have told me all sorts of things about their personal lives and deeply held con- victions that I don’t think I would really have the courage to say on camera to someone I’ve only known for fi ve minutes.” What does he do when he’s not meeting musicians, recording interviews and planning out his

COURTESY TOMAL HOSSAIN TOMAL COURTESY journey? “As part of my morning ritual, which includes breathing Tomal Hossain ’17 was in a small village in Malaysia, en route to Penang, exercises, meditation, singing and when he met a most unusual band. coding,” he says, “I have kept up a The village was Teluk Intan, and the band was Kumpulan Sima’ Ge- regular habit of composing.” taran Hati, a pseudo-pop group that performs only Islamic music—and After this Watson year, Hossain whose oldest member is a septuagenarian. In a small house, the band hopes to teach and perform music. rehearsed a couple of songs for Hossain’s benefi t. His ultimate goal: to raise aware- “I was then taken to someone’s home for a formal dinner in which ev- ness of musical genres that are in eryone ate Malay food, except for me, as I was provided with homemade decline or subject to censorship. chicken cutlet, coleslaw and French fries in honor of my Americanness,” he says. Next he interviewed the band, press-conference style, and en- Tomal Hossain ’17 joyed a “breathtaking, engine-powered canoe ride at the local river.” The band’s leader explained to him that its lyrics consist entirely of MAJORS: excerpts from religious texts and the words of scholars—and that the Music and computer science rhythm and lyrics must, in Hossain’s words, “be able to touch one’s soul, solidly gaining control over one’s heart or feelings.” That’s no small task, In Malaysia, he but, as Hossain writes on his blog, the band “almost always makes at least interviewed a pseudo- one audience member at their events cry.” pop band whose eldest member is in his 70s. Bill Sweet is a writer in the College’s communications offi ce.

Photograph by MARIA STENZEL AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 17 Where

When he helps to run climate-

Beyond Campus change workshops for rural workers and leaders of the local indigenous communities, they make lists of re- Three Nations cent patterns they’ve noticed: more variability in seasonal weather, more agricultural pests, fewer fish in the rivers, less food to eat. He presents slides and acts out skits to illustrate how these changes relate to the trade winds, the water cycle and the ways that cattle ranchers and gold miners use the land. Meet After that, they make plans of action for the next year (such as “internships with our brothers from other ethnic groups”), five years (“aquaculture projects”) and 50 years (“reforestation of degraded areas”). XXCLIMATE In conducting these workshops, and in reaching the public through lectures, TV interviews and a news- Deep in the western Amazon, a scientist tries to save paper column, Brown finds that audiences can be di- the Earth—and, in his spare time, plays some rugby. vided into three groups. The first are the skeptics who deny that climate change is happening. The second acknowledge it but feel there’s little use in humanity trying to mitigate or adapt to such an enormous prob- BY KATHERINE DUKE ’05 lem. The third are the optimistic and creative people willing to find and implement solutions. Brown’s goal is to move as many people as possible out of groups Deep in the western part of the Amazon rainforest, one and two and into group three.

Foster “Butch” Brown ’73 works in a place where three Foster “Butch” Brown lives in Rio Branco, Acre’s capital and most nations meet: a region that encompasses the Madre Brown ’73 populous city, with his wife—Vera Reis, of Acre’s de Dios area of Peru, the state of Acre in Brazil and State Commission on Risk Management and Climate MAJOR: the Pando department of Bolivia. He also works in a Change Institute—and their cat. In his spare time, he Geology field where many different scientific, cultural, politi- plays on an amateur rugby team with men decades his cal, economic and psychological issues intertwine, as In January, junior. An alumnus of Amherst rugby and football, he he collaborates with the region’s people to confront Brown won an values the “emotional education” sports have given climate change. award from the him, teaching him how to work on teams with all State Public After more than 20 years teaching environmental Ministry for kinds of people and how to bounce back from defeat. geochemistry at Brazil’s Fluminense Federal Univer- personifying The Federal University of Acre and its Zoobotanical sity, Brown is now a senior scientist with the Woods a spirit of Park have a two-year MacArthur Foundation grant for “citizenship, Hole Research Center on Cape Cod and a faculty respect of what they call the MAP Resilience Project—named for member at the Federal University of Acre. Since 2005 others, of the three locations, Madre de Dios, Acre and Pando. he has worked with civil defense groups in the west- equality and of Brown and colleagues are using the money to develop ern Amazon to prepare for and respond to natural diversity.” a K–12 education program about water management. disasters exacerbated by climate change. “We aim to change the reigning paradigm from That was a year of historic drought and frequent one of exploiting the Amazon for its resources to tak- fires in the rainforest, as was 2010. In 2012, floodwa- ing care of it,” he writes. “To keep both our focus and ters devastated Iñapari, Peru, and in 2015, Brasiléia, sense of humor, we describe our project as one to save Brazil. And the possibility of epidemics of dengue, the Earth in two years, and then we will move on to chikungunya and Zika has made mosquito control a save Mars or Venus.” priority. “Extreme events,” Brown says, “are now

becoming a way of life in the western Amazon.” Katherine Duke ’05 is the magazine’s assistant editor. BROWN “BUTCH” FOSTER COURTESY

18 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 If Only

on people’s regrets and study how counter- factual thoughts affect social cognition and decision-making. If, for instance, subjects try to solve a series of anagrams, and then express regret at performing poorly, will they spend more time and effort on the next test? Her lab is also collaborating with her school’s College of Engineering, in the hope they can apply what they know about regret to identify simple teaching techniques that will help students pass prerequisites and stick with engineering. The Regret Lab has also attracted media attention: Summerville was interviewed on the NPR podcast Hidden Brain in September 2017 and quoted exten- sively in columns for The New York Times Magazine and Popular Science in December. Summerville—who “fell in love with the brain” and did a neuroscience thesis at Amherst—encourages the public’s engage- ment with science through her Twitter feed and the Regret Lab’s Facebook page. But, she jokes, “I never tell anyone at a cocktail party that I’m an expert on regrets.” Through X PSYCHOLOGYX personal experience and previous research, inspired in part by popular regret-related hashtags on Twitter, What happens in a Regret Lab? And why do so she knows that people tend to be more eager to share many people open up about their greatest regrets? stories of regret with others than to talk about other negative emotions such as anger or shame. Opening up about regret—sometimes to a degree that is awk- BY KATHERINE DUKE ’05 ward at parties—seems to be a way of fostering “social closeness.” Regret also reflects “in-group” vs. “out-group” biases. In reading about a texting-while-driving ac- A “Regret Lab” sounds like pretty much the opposite cident, Summerville says by way of example, you’re of a rewarding place to work. Amy more likely to learn a lesson—“In the future, I person- Summerville ’02 But psychologist Amy Summerville ’02 finds regret ally intend to turn off my phone while I’m driving”—if fascinating largely because it’s inherently hopeful. MAJOR: the injured driver is a fellow Amherst grad than if “Regret really is about helping us learn from our mis- Psychology they’re a Williams grad. takes,” she says. Her research has shown that “the Immediately after an action, Summerville notes, we “I never tell areas of life where people feel the most regret are the anyone at a may experience “hot regret”—an acute wish that we areas that they feel like have the most opportunity for cocktail party hadn’t done it. In the long run, though, studies show future improvement.” that I’m an that we tend to think more about things we haven’t Summerville leads the Regret Lab at Miami Univer- expert on regrets.” done but wish we had, whether romantic connections sity in Ohio, where she is an associate professor of we’ve missed or job opportunities we’ve passed up. To social psychology. She describes regret as consisting borrow from Robert Frost: we regret the many roads of two components: an unpleasant feeling and a not taken. counterfactual thought. “It’s obviously a negative If you get stuck repetitively ruing a past mistake, emotion,” she says, “but it’s also based on this Summerville suggests it may be helpful to consult a particular pattern of thought that I could have done therapist; such “ruminative regret” can be associated something differently, and that would have produced a with anxiety and depression. It’s best to learn from better outcome.” regret and then move on, applying its lessons to the She and her team of student researchers gather data road ahead. k

Illustration by MARTA MONTEIRO AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 19

21 Amherst Winter–Spring 2018

The inspiring, tragic, wistful story

of Harold Wade Jr. ’68, who

wrote Black Men of Amherst.

By Katharine Whittemore

Illustration by Rebecca Clarke His Black His- tory HEN YOU ASK the friends of Harold obituary, Gibson called the young man’s death “a tragic loss Wade Jr. ’68 what he might have be- not only for his family but for the entire city, with particular come, had he not died so young, they emphasis on blacks in the city.” get sweetly and painfully carried away. A few reading this, undoubtedly, knew Wade firsthand. “He would have run for office, and peo- Unlike the rest of us, you have the privilege of being able to ple would’ve voted for him and trusted conjure him whole in your mind, this tall, fearless, talkative, him,” says Adrian Johnson ’68. Cuth- funny, astute, politically progressive, jazz-loving, change- bert “Tuffy” Simpkins ’69 rolls out an making diehard Mets fan. The work-within-the-system W even loftier scenario: “Harold would’ve strategist who, tongue firmlyin cheek, sometimes signed been a candidate without the personal letters “H. Rap Wade.” (It was a play on the name of the flaws. An Obama, but much more savvy about how to deal radical African-American activist H. Rap Brown, who fa- with people who hate you no matter what you do for them. mously said “violence is as American as cherry pie.”) The A combination of Obama and JFK, without Kennedy’s per- same guy who, as the mayor’s aide, insisted that Manhattan sonal shortcomings and Obama’s naiveté.” parades should be routed through Harlem, rather than a Still others scale it back from the nation to the College— whiter neighborhood, because, as Simpkins imagines Wade but are no less wistful. Like Frank Motley, former assistant saying, “black people like parades too!” dean of students: “Harold would have spent much of his life Finally, and most notably to the Amherst community, making Amherst better than it was.” there’s Wade the archivist and writer. The one who asked If the name Harold Wade strikes a chord, it might be his readers to forgive him for possible “emotional excess” because you’ve thumbed a copy of the history book he in writing Black Men of Amherst because, when it comes to wrote, 1976’s Black Men of Amherst. Or maybe you’ve seen black history, “sometimes excess is necessary to counteract his smiling likeness on the Octagon mural. Or, to come at the sin of omission.” it sideways, you could have met up with one of the 21 Wade There are multiple sides to this black man of Amherst, of Fellows, African-American alumni representing the Wade course. But whether you knew Harold Wade in reality or by Memorial Fellowship, who have come back to Amherst reputation, it turns out there is more to learn about who he these past four decades to help students ponder potential was, what he stood for and how his legacy refuses to fade careers, possible lives. away. Let’s get to that story. If you’re well-versed in the illustrious, sometimes fraught history of African- THE OPINIONATOR Americans at Amherst, you know that arold Wade Jr. was born in 1948, the only Wade was a founder of the Afro-American child of Thelma Weekes Wade and Harold Society, the first black-majority organiza- Wade Sr. His parents divorced during his tion at the College and the forerunner to childhood, and he was raised mostly by his today’s Black Student Union. Some of you mother, a Jamaican immigrant who worked watched Wade become a rising star on for the postal service. He dedicated Black the political stage. In fact, when he died Men of Amherst to her. The Wades lived in in 1974, Wade was working as an aide to Queens, in the Springfield Gardens neigh- Paul Gibson Jr., New York City’s first-ever H borhood, a middle-class enclave that drew black deputy mayor. In the New York Times in many African-Americans from Brooklyn

22 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 and Harlem after World War II, enticing them with its For decades, Amherst’s African-American students newer homes, its greater space. either roomed together or got singles: it was understood A skinny, thoughtful, studious child, Wade excelled that a black roommate would make a white roommate in school and was tagged an SP’er (a “Special Progress” uncomfortable. David Glass ’68 was one of the fi rst white student) in junior high, a student stellar enough to skip a students housed with a black student, and this roommate grade. He arrived at Amherst a few months after he turned introduced Glass to Wade. The two were simpatico: Glass was 17, a product of Andrew Jackson High School, whose name also a liberal Democrat, a Queens-raised SP’er and a serious Wade, had he lived into our time, presumably would have fan of the fl edgling Mets (though he did not match Wade’s winced at. (Evidence: in one Black Men of Amherst footnote love of outfi elder Ron Swoboda). After he mailed in his ac- on naming traditions, he expresses disbelief at having an ceptance, Amherst sent Glass the standard questionnaire “Some- uncle “with the outrageous name of Jeff erson Davis Wade.”) about housing arrangements which, to modern ears, sounds times But this (now defunct) mostly African-American high decidedly coded. excess is neces- school had a strong reputation in its time, and was a feeder “I’ll never forget the way the question was phrased,” says sary to school to Amherst, one of the newly promising stops for Glass. “It was something like, ‘Many students value the op- counteract Dean of Admission Eugene S. Wilson, a Quaker who pushed portunity to room with a student from a diff erent ethnic the sin of to bring more black men here as the civil rights movement background. Would you like us to arrange such an experi- omission,” Wade once deepened, at the behest of President Calvin Plimpton. ence for you?’” Glass wrote that it didn’t matter either way, wrote. When Wade arrived on campus in the fall of 1964, he had and his “maybe” was bumped up to a yes. “It makes me re- alize how many said no,” says Glass. “There were clearly people uncomfortable with the idea of being integrated.” At Amherst, Wade pitched in at The Amherst Student and WAMF. Meanwhile, he grew even more confi dent academ- ically, gamely challenging professors from his freshman year on up. “He took on Baird fre- quently,” recalls William H. Hastie Jr. ’68, speaking of the formidable English professor Theodore Baird. “Harold had strong views early and could express and defend them. Most of us couldn’t do that at that point,” adds Hastie. He is the son of William H. Hastie Sr. ’25, the country’s renowned fi rst black federal judge—whom Wade asked to write the foreword to Black Men of Amherst. Wade did not fence his outspokenness inside the classroom. “Harold was mildly sarcastic and always intense,” recalls Hastie. “You could sense him holding in a

HLS YEARBOOK 1971 bit: that’s the mild part. But not all the time: that’s the intense part.” When it came a handful of friends from Jackson High, which eased the to racism, to be sure, that intense part held sway. For ex- various shocks of the transition. ample, Adrian Johnson remembers that one of the College’s Wade joined a class that then boasted the highest num- a cappella groups was still performing a minstrel number ber of African-American students of any class in Amherst called “Mississippi Mud.” Wade insisted they cut it from history. Today, the actual fi gure underwhelms—it seems their repertoire or their name would, indeed, be mud. Out there were 11—but it was a leap from previous years. went the song.

AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 23 THE TACTICIAN American cohort at Amherst, of course, wasn’t monolithic: POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR, Wade’s true “We ran the gamut from those completely in favor of non- passion bloomed in the nascent political violence to those a lot more in favor of Malcolm X’s view- movement among the College’s African- point.” Besides which, “we were the first group of black kids American students. Tuffy Simpkins spells who had not come from the moneyed black class,” adds out this moment of change, around 1965, as Johnson, whose mother was a maid. He and Wade, and sev- enrollment of students of color hit a new tip- eral friends, connected over their working-class roots. Most ping point: “When I got to Amherst, there of Amherst’s black students, before then, had fathers who was a weird rule that black students wouldn’t were judges, doctors, professors. A gather together, wouldn’t be more than three At some point, African-American students planned a pro- to a group. And that was because the whole test and President Calvin Plimpton got wind of it. He told idea was to integrate yourself.” As the student body spiked Simpkins he did not approve; it was too rogue. Simpkins from the standard eight African-American students to up- went to Wade, trying to figure out the next move. “Harold wards of 25, there was power—and comfort—in numbers. sat back and he stroked his chin and he said, ‘This is what “The burden was on us to integrate and be involved with you got to do: There’s this organization, Students for Racial everybody,” says Simpkins. “We just relieved ourselves of Equality. It was very active before, but now it’s just a shell. It that burden. We didn’t have to disperse ourselves among only has a president. And the president is really functioning everybody. We were going to sit and enjoy ourselves, and off-campus. But if we all join, we could just ask the president be with each other. And if anyone wants to come over and to leave. We would have a mailbox, we would have a budget, sit with us, fine, that’s great.” we would be within a structure right away.’” This burgeoning cohesion led to an “intensification of This was vintage Wade: acting behind the scenes, using something,” as Simpkins says, which led to the formation institutional tools to retool the institution. And, indeed, the of a student organization that started out mostly social, as initially mostly white SRE became the placeholder until a more robust organization could launch. “Harold was clever at doing things that are good,” says Simpkins. “He didn’t use guile for anything bad.” Meanwhile, Wade and other SRE members recruited African-American upperclassmen who had a good rapport with Plimpton, and asked them to try and win him over. Perhaps six months later (everyone’s memory is fuzzy), feeling the climate was right, Wade encouraged Simpkins to give a speech at a morning session at John- son Chapel, with Plimpton present. Simpkins stood up and movingly traced the heritage of African-Americans at the College on up to that very day (a topic already Wade’s “obsession,” recalls Bryan). He declared that the time had come for Amherst’s black students to formally establish their own advocacy group, not build one on the scaffolding of a formerly hite-dominatedw precursor. Then Simpkins said, “The masquerade is over: we are the Afro-American Society.” Plimpton was so moved, he had tears in his eyes. Using history as motivator, as explainer, as justifier: this became Wade’s signature. He knew how much the Five College black population (also growing) organized heritage and context mattered and, as such, decided to dances and parties. “These were soul gatherings, lots of back Simpkins over Johnson to become the first president celebrations of Motown,” recalls Johnson. “Before that, the of the Afro-American Society. It was a calculated move, or average campus party ended with The Beach Boys. That was maybe it was par for the course, picking the more main- not where we were coming from.” stream candidate. “Harold was unique in the sense that he Trevor Bryan ’67 recalls the backlash that resulted. These tried to bridge the gap between all the people at Amherst,” soul gatherings became “a point of consternation for some says Jacques Cook ’67, the son of Mercer Cook ’25, a French of the white students,” Bryan says, and The Amherst Student professor who became the ambassador to Senegal and gets ran editorials decrying such supposed self-segregation. “We many pages in Black Men of Amherst. had to convince them it was social and there was a need for Johnson, who went on to become a lawyer specializing that.” Indeed, African-American students countered that, if in prisoners’ rights, perched on the more radical end of the Jewish students had Hillel and Catholic students the New- spectrum (he’d often heard Malcolm X speak a few blocks man Society, why couldn’t they also forge an affinity group? from his home in Harlem). Yet Simpkins, who went on to “It was about ending the isolation,” says Johnson, “and become a physician and surgeon who also specialized in then social identity became more prevalent.” The African- violence prevention, came from a family that had sacrificed

24 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 The College has called for a reinvigoration of the fellowship named for Harold Wade Jr. ’68. It brings black alumni to campus to engage with current students.

The Wade Fellowship

“You might say Harold Wade was the first Wade Fellow,” reasons Alumni Secretary Betsy Cannon “These Wade Fellows Smith ’84. “He came back to campus often, out of a sense of obligation and goodness. What other helped show us how to reconcile the bless- students saw in him we wanted to honor and recognize.” The Harold Wade Jr. Memorial Fund was ing and burden of our established in 1976 by Wade’s friends and classmates. Since 1977, black alumni Wade Fellows have education, to take it returned to campus to engage with current students as informal career counselors, mentors and and do something for role models. our communities.” In 2016, the Loeb Center for Career Exploration and Planning transferred the fund to the newly — ADRIENNE created Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The chief of that office, Norm Jones, has called for a re- WHITE-FAINES ’82 thinking and reinvigoration of the fellowship, and the College has organized a steering committee of African-American alumni (Angela Brown ’00, Cuthbert “Tuffy” Simpkins ’69 and John Williams ’75) and staffers (among them, Bilal Muhammad ’98). “As a certified ‘old Here are the 21 Wade Fellows who have served thus far, and their current or most recent jobs: fogey,’ I delighted in regaling students with tales of what Amherst 2016–Present operations of the firm’s community nonprofit ChildSavers, which pro- was like for me back ANTHONY JACK ’07, sociologist, banking subsidiary vides child development and mental in the late 1950s and junior fellow at Harvard’s Society of health services early 1960s. I was Fellows 2000–02 confident they’d be ANTONIO PIERRE JACKSON ’78, 1982–84 shocked—and I was 2013–14 lawyer in private practice CUTHBERT “TUFFY” SIMPKINS II correct.” — HUGH B. KIM WYCHE-ETHERIDGE ’87, pe- KIM WYCHE-ETHERIDGE ’87 (see ’69, trauma surgeon, inventor, PRICE ’63 (WADE diatrician working in public health 2013–14) founder of the Violence Intervention FELLOW 1980-81) and assistant professor of pediatrics Program and author of Coltrane: A at Meharry Medical College 1998–99 Biography FRANK THOMPSON ’87, manager YVETTE MENDEZ ’84 (deceased), at- of HIV services, Kansas City Health torney, president of Massachusetts 1981–82 “One great success, Department Black Women Attorneys WAYNE M. WORMLEY ’72, profes- when I was a Wade sor and consultant specializing in 2011–13 1996–98 diversity management and culture Fellow, was an ‘alumni MARISSA E. HORNE ’00, director SUSAN PRATTIS ’80, veterinarian, change; president and CEO, The speed interviewing’ of employee technology, American educator, scientific editor, marketer, Wormley Co. event for current Airlines writer and veterinary medical re- students. It was an MATTHEW M. MURUMBA ’04, searcher 1980–81 example of the Wade actor, writer and producer at Kota HUGH B. PRICE ’63, retired non- Fellowship provid- Productions/Larrikin Productions 1990–92 profit executive and corporate direc- ing opportunities for RICHARD V. SIMS ’70, physician tor; formerly vice president of Rock- students to ask ‘silly 2008–11 specializing in gerontology, and efeller Foundation and president/ questions’ and make STANLEY FRANCOIS-CALHOUN professor emeritus at the University CEO of the National Urban League mistakes in a safe ’94, commercial real estate attorney of Alabama environment and then NICOLE D. SCOTT ’97 (deceased), CHERYL SINGLETON ’81, actor (see 1979–80 learn from those mis- senior director of new schools, New page 26) JUNIUS WILLIAMS ’65, lawyer in takes.” — MATTHEW York City education department private practice, instructor in lead- MURUMBA ’04 (WADE 1988–89 ership and community organization FELLOW 2011-13) 2006–08 KELLIE JONES ’81, art historian, cu- at Rutgers University (see page 29) KIMBERLYN R. LEARY ’82, Amherst rator, MacArthur Fellow, associate trustee, Harvard Medical School professor at Columbia University 1977–78 associate professor of psychology GUICHARD PARRIS ’27 (deceased), L’QUENTUS THOMAS ’97, director 1984–85 ran public relations division of the of Stonehenge Capital, managing L. ROBERT BOLLING ’82, CEO of the National Urban League

AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 25 much. White supremacists had—twice—bombed the Simp- kins’ homes in Shreveport, La., as his father gained a higher profile in the civil rights movement. Wade understood the heft of that personal history, and he always had the continuum in mind. He began digging into the backgrounds of Amherst’s black alumni, from Ed- ward Jones, who graduated in 1826; to Charles Hamilton Houston ’15, who hammered out the legal foundation for Brown v. Board of Education; to Charles Richard Drew ’26, who discovered the chemical method for preserving blood. Wade Fellow Profile CHERYL SINGLETON ’81 This history didn’t need to be relegated to scholarly ob- scurity, however. It could also enrich on a more accessible plane. Thus Wade’s first widely circulated publication, the College’s original recruiting pamphlet for African-Ameri- The Actor can prospects. Its tone? Modern, proud, personal. Its title? The Black Student at Amherst.

THE AUTHOR N HIS SENIOR YEAR, the College recruited “Terrifying, exhilarating, gratifying.” When Wade to recruit others. He became one of asked to choose three adjectives to de- several co-authors on The Black Student at scribe her career, that’s what actor Cheryl Amherst, along with Carl Galloway ’68, Wil- Singleton ’81 offered up. Singleton, whose liam Robinson ’68 and Arnold Kawano ’70. most recent role was Calpurnia in To Kill a The Black Student at Amherst was a bold Mockingbird at the Gloucester Stage Co., piece featuring charismatic photos and can- was a theater major at Amherst, where she did reportage on what it was like to go here, excelled as a stage manager. Her passion lay I with a bonus overview of standout alumni. We in acting, but the times weren’t in her favor. can’t know if Wade wrote this bit of pamphlet Unlike today, few productions at Amherst text, but it sure sounds like him: “All of these men together then featured nontraditional casting, so do not begin to represent a responsible share of the Nation’s while she did some sketch revues, she was promise to overcome its discriminatory history of educa- never cast in plays with parts ostensibly tion. Nor does the fact that sixteen men in the incoming slated for white actors. class are black out of three hundred. But this college is mov- After graduation this Brooklyn native re- ing and does not have to disown its past to do so.” turned to New York to reach for a career on Handed out at college fairs and high schools, the pam- stage and screen. She landed a part in Spike phlet soon became the model for similar recruiting efforts Lee’s 1986 movie She’s Gotta Have It. Talk at other colleges. “No question, that brochure was used on a about a fiery cameo: Singleton starred in regular basis, and with pride, in trying to attract and encour- a nightmare sequence, playing a vengeful age black students,” says Wayne Wormley ’72, who pored girlfriend who menacingly holds a lit match over it as a prospect and later handed it out as a green dean. to protagonist Nola Darling’s mattress. (Wormley went on to be a Wade Fellow in 1981–82.) As Singleton acted more, she also kindled “The Black Student at Amherst was very influential a prime reputation as a theater director and in my coming to Amherst,” says Richard Ammons ’74, stage manager. But competence can be a whose mother and father had gone to historically black curse. “If you’re a stage manager and you’re Howard University and Morehouse College, respectively. good, they want to keep you there,” explains “It didn’t sugarcoat what it meant to come to Amherst. But Singleton. “I really had to stop and say, ‘OK the attraction was that it was a place where I would not be now, I’m an actress and you need to think of a newcomer, because it had a long tradition of African- me in those terms.’” American students who had been there.” This led to a makeover move to Boston. The campus tour and pamphlet sealed the deal for Am- She got a job at a financial services market mons, but it mattered that he also held a vague but glowing research firm, where her people skills and impression of the College from childhood: “I was a bit of stage manager talents converted winningly; a nerd growing up. I read encyclopedias and came across she began as a receptionist and worked her Charles Drew, and Hastie and Houston, and in reading way up to the publishing division, and then about them, I saw that they all had gone to a place called human resources, staying for 25 years. Amherst,” says Ammons. Then he offers the punch line: “I’d Meanwhile, over the decades (often using never heard of a historically black college called Amherst!” her vacation time to do the shows), Single- Drew, Hastie and Houston, by the way, were all graduates ton has made a name for herself in the New of Washington, D.C.’s Dunbar High School, for many years England theater scene.

26 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 Singleton counseled students that acting “is a business like any other.”

She has acted with the New Repertory Theatre, The Huntington Theatre Co., Com- monwealth Shakespeare Co., the American Repertory Theater, Providence Stage and more. Her stage credits include Chekhov’s The Seagull and Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel, Melissa Sanchez’s Sonia Flew, the trans- gender-themed theater piece Home and the six-hour historical epic The Kentucky Cycle. Singleton has also done commercials and voice-overs, and she can sing, having ap- peared in musicals such as Rent and Passing Strange. Improv is also in her wheelhouse. At Musical Improv Boston, she has helped whip up three-act musicals on the spot (“so challenging and a ridiculous amount of fun”). In addition, she coolly played Con- doleezza Rice in David Hare’s Stuff Happens (a box office smash for the Zeitgeist Stage Co.) and hotly played Storm, the weather- commanding X-Men character, in the sa- tirical Superheroine Monologues (“also a ridiculous amount of fun”). In her online profile for StageSource, a networking site for the theater community in Boston, Singleton singles out her Wade Fellowship experience. She first learned about Harold Wade ’68, and Amherst’s history of African-American students, at her own first-year orientation. “That was a very important thing for us to be told that first week: ‘These are the people who came before you, and you should know that these are some of the things that happened, and ness of being a theatrical professional, “be- Singleton has hosted alumni-mentoring you may encounter racism while you’re cause that’s not something that we talked events for students in Boston, too. But the here. You probably will. It hasn’t left the about in the major when I was there,” she Wade experience is closest to her heart: “I campus.’” says. “I wanted them to know you really was just very proud of being chosen and During her 1990–92 fellowship, Singleton need to think about it as a business like being thought of as someone who could came to campus and spoke about the busi- any other.” carry that mantle.” K.W.

Photograph by MARK OSTOW AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 27 the premier feeder school for black students to Amherst. came back to his old Springfield Gardens neighborhood, For Black Men of Amherst, which he conceived at the College where he was asked to help chair the scholarship committee but researched and wrote mostly during his postgrad years of his home parish, the Springfield Gardens United Meth- at Harvard Law, Wade set to tracing the affiliation. odist Church. He took a job with Mayor Lindsay’s commis- This steered him to Dunbar’s foundational influencer, sioner of the Economic Development Administration, and principal William Tecumseh Sherman Jackson (Amherst then was plucked up by Deputy Mayor Gibson, who also class of 1892), who began steadily recommending Dunbar’s hailed from Queens—and, months later, would deliver top students—Drew, Hastie, Houston and more—to his Wade’s eulogy at Wade’s church. alma mater. Wade lionized the man in Black Men of Amherst: Those six years after graduation, this opinionator-tacti- Teachers like Jackson “instilled in their students a spirit cian-author-historian kept in solid touch with his Amherst of competitiveness and a desire for perfection unrivalled friends. “He was a loyal alumnus, and anyone who liked since. The result was phenomenal, as generation after gen- Amherst was a friend of his,” recalls Frank Motley, the for- eration of high achieving blacks came from Dunbar.” mer assistant dean. At one alumni event in Manhattan in Trevor Bryan says that Wade’s findings about W.T.S. Jack- the early 1970s, Wade’s mother made a big pot of chili for son spoke volumes to his classmates. “Harold really dug all who showed up. By 1974, Wade was in love with a young that info up. I don’t think anybody knew about the princi- woman he was thinking of marrying. His work was mean- pal’s role. That was unique.” Wade’s classmates were also ingful. He was making a name for himself. He was giving galvanized by what he was unearthing because it coincided back to his community. with 1966’s historic election of Massachusetts U.S Sen. To celebrate his upcoming birthday and mark this prime Edward Brooke, a Dunbar alumnus. “Edward Brooke was time in his life, Wade decided to take a vacation to Barba- fresh in our minds,” Bryan says. “Here was this first black dos, to visit his extended family and rest in the sun. senator since Reconstruction—and he was influenced by Just before he left, in June of that year, he had lunch with an Amherst guy!” David Glass, his Amherst classmate and fellow Queens native. They talked about the Mets and jazz, shared New THE HISTORIAN York’s political scuttlebutt. Wade had finished the first draft PON GRADUATION, Wade got accepted to of Black Men of Amherst. Harvard Law and began climbing a ziggu- “He became very animated talking about it,” says Glass, rat of opportunities. He spent one summer his voice oscillating happy-to-sad at the recollection: “I working in the office of Sidney Davidoff, an could see this was something that meant a lot to him. I aide to New York City Mayor John Lindsay. truthfully had no awareness how many prominent black Another summer, he became a researcher men had graduated from Amherst. What a brilliant idea with the nonprofit Resources for the Future, for someone to take this on and research it. As he got up to at which he wrote a report on the Model leave, I said I’d buy him lunch next time—and that I wanted U Inner City Community Organization led him to sign a copy of the book when he got back.” by civil rights activist (and Dunbar alum) A few days later, Wade was idly walking in the shallows Walter Fauntroy. It hired black architects and engineers to off a beach in Barbados. There had been a recent storm, as a build homes and stores in D.C. While at Harvard, Wade friend later learned, which had knocked over a sign warning also taught in its new Afro-American studies department. that the shallows gave way to a sudden drop-off. Like many More internships, then a clerkship, then Wade laid into African-Americans who, because of segregation and dis- being an aide to the powerful. He interned at the New York crimination, had little access to pools or beaches, and who law firm of Breed, Abbott and Morgan and, after law school, also bore the legacy of fear of the water from forebears who clerked in the court of Judge Barrington Parker (also a Dun- were never taught to swim, Wade too had never learned to bar alum) in D.C.: Parker would go on to preside over the swim. He drowned the day before his 26th birthday. trial of John Hinckley, the would-be assassin of President It was a tragedy, and it is hard to stand even all these years Reagan. later. Studying like a fiend at Harvard, bricklaying a striking Black Men of Amherst was published posthumously and résumé, Wade still took time out to research Black Men of reviewed in The New York Times, which called it “really two Amherst, sifting through archives, tracing leads. Because books, both fascinating.” On one level, the review said, “it the Amherst registrar didn’t categorize students by race, is the history of a series of extraordinary men” of the past. Wade corralled current students to go through all the Olio On another, it is the story of Wade and his peers, caught yearbooks, page by page, looking for black faces, recalls between old and new philosophies of civil rights activism. Ammons, who shared the legwork with Kenneth Glover But let us end with the words of the remarkable young ’74. (Note: Frost Library is working to make more copies man himself, writing in his hard-won book, his gift to the of Black Men of Amherst, now out of print, available to the ages: “In a fair and just society this history of black men at community.) Amherst would be unnecessary. One must deal with the Is Wade also delved into the Amherst-Dunbar pipeline and not the Ought, however; hence my black history.” k while he was in D.C. But his hometown was calling (how telling that his favorite song was John Coltrane’s dreamy Katharine Whittemore is Amherst’s senior writer. She wrote “Central Park West”). After graduating from Harvard, he the Fall 2017 cover story on the College’s military veterans.

28 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 Wade Fellow Profile JUNIUS WILLIAMS ’65

The Activist

Once named among Ebony magazine’s “100 Most Influential Blacks in America,” Junius Williams ’65 became an indispens- able change-maker in Newark, N.J., and the youngest president ever of the National Bar Association, the country’s oldest associa- tion of African-American lawyers. His incline to influence was steep. In seg- regated Richmond, Va., he grew up “with the knowledge that white is power, and up- pityness had its consequences,” he writes in his 2014 book Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power. Williams arrived at Amherst in 1961 with a full schol- arship but felt unprepared for what he calls the “process” of higher education, in com- parison to most white, wealthy peers. “My black students hid under blankets as Fred against the city’s gentrifying urban renewal problem was that I had to learn the process Aronow ’67, who is white, thought fast and plans. He became executive director of the and master it at the same time, while my lied that they were on their way to Florida Newark Housing Council and then signed classmates had only to master it.” for a beach vacation. Williams and Aronow on as campaign coordinator for Kenneth To that end, he studied six hours a day, were both later arrested at the march. Gibson, Newark’s first black mayor. six days a week, and tried to fit in. “The Williams was the second Wade Fellow, In 1973, Williams opened his own law smile was both my offense and my defense,” serving in 1979–80—which meant he often firm, later working on Jesse Jackson’s writes Williams of his time here, when he spoke to students about the implications presidential campaign. At the National Bar became the first black student at Amherst of the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case in Association, he appeared in front of the to join Alpha Delta Phi. In 1963 he traveled which a white student sued the University United Nations to present a paper analyzing to the March on Washington. In the winter of California for denying him admission. “I the fledgling constitution of Zimbabwe. The of 1965 he helped organize a conference told them that affirmative action was not paper became the U.N.’s official position. on civil rights—even calling up Malcolm X over but that it was going to be harder, be- Over the decades, Williams has kept to come and speak. (The leader said yes, cause racism was on the rebound,” Williams up his advocacy, gone on speaking tours, in spite of the modest honorarium, but his recalls. “They were interested, because this taught and written his book. “I would love plane was fogged in that day, and he missed was their future. They knew the games to be a Wade Fellow now, because I have a the event.) that would be in play with their lives, and lot more to offer than I did in 1979,” says That spring, Williams joined students Amherst was just the first step, but not the Williams, in sight of a framed Wade Fellow from Amherst, Smith and UMass to head last, to get to some kind of professional ad- event poster in his office. “People like me, to Montgomery, Ala., to march on the state vancement and security.” who came through the movement, we know capitol, on the front lines with the Student Before Yale law school, Williams went to how to survive. I have always been able to Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In Newark to help mobilize African-American rebound, fall down, rebound and go on from South Carolina, the police pulled over the residents on issues of housing, schools and there. That’s the skill set that African- car—they were trying to head off college police abuse. He later launched the Newark American and brown people of all descrip- kids journeying south in solidarity—and the Area Planning Association, which fought tions need to have.” K.W.

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FANGDA WAN ’10 jumped from a law career into entrepreneurship. She credits Amherst philosophy courses with teaching her how to use sound analysis to critique previously held beliefs. PHOTOGRAPHED BY ALEX HOFFORD ON MARCH 2, 2018, IN BEIJING world’s factory to a market leader in areas such as mobile technology and artificial intelligence. A ballooning middle class has more power to con- sume than ever before. China is already the biggest exporter of both students and tourists abroad. It’s enough to make many curious, passionate young people want to shape, rather than just experience, the change. Here are the stories of three of them.

HERE WAN SAW POTENTIAL IN A lifestyle site, Eli Harris ’15 saw the same in hardware. After graduating W from Amherst with a degree in Asian languages and civilizations, Harris, who is from Santa Barbara, When Calif., moved to the southern Chi- nese city of Shenzhen to work for DJI, the world’s Fangda Wan ’10 returned to her largest drone maker. His first stint as an entrepreneur had been at hometown in China after living in Amherst, where he and three friends founded a the United States for eight years, she business that collected discarded dorm furniture faced a curious social pressure. She and appliances in May, cleaned them and stored had earned two degrees and a job at them to resell in the fall. Harris also started the club soccer team after successfully lobbying the a top law firm. Yet at the age of 27, her board of trustees to change a rule that disallowed top priority, according to her parents, club sports in the same sport as a varsity team. “It should be to find a husband. taught me: there’s no need to fit into existing molds if they don’t fit for you,” he says, “and it’s OK to Such advice is not uncommon in China, where build a community on your own.” a high premium placed on family translates to In China, Harris, who is fluent in Mandarin, first intense pressure for young women to marry. For tried his hand at other entrepreneurial endeavors. Wan, it also translated into a business idea. Wan There was the business trading ginseng root be- noticed how the Chinese Internet space was blos- tween the United States and China (“I lost a lot of soming with ample funding and fresh startups that money flying rich Chinese people to Wisconsin”), were creating rather than just copying (a common and the ones importing California wine to China criticism in the past). Sensing an opportunity, she and treating polluted water. None panned out. quit her full-time job as a lawyer in Beijing to start While at DJI, he became intrigued by batteries. her own company in 2014. Nis, whose name trans- The battery market had huge fuel generators that lates to “Yours,” is a mobile lifestyle platform that provide industrial energy, and pocket-sized power empowers young women to undertake pursuits banks that run your phone—but there was little in outside of the family through articles and an on- the middle. Through his job, he already had a few line community. Thousands of women signed up. connections to the local factories. Why not fill the “When I started the platform, I wanted to show gap himself? Thus was born EcoFlow Tech in 2016. my parents and everyone else that things could be The company makes portable batteries that can different,” Wan says. “The mentality that to find charge more than 10 mid-sized electronics, such as and keep a good husband is the ultimate goal of my mini-fridges and electric guitars, all at once. life—I found it unreasonable in a way.” Being physically close to battery factories has Wan is among a handful of young Amherst been key, because it speeds up the process from alumni who, in recent years, have lived, worked conception to manufacturing. Making a prototype and founded businesses in a rapidly transform- can take a week or a month for a global company. ing China. Over the past few decades, the world’s But for Shenzhen-based EcoFlow, the turnaround second-largest economy has grown from being the time is one day to one week. Shenzhen—the south-

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For ELI HARRIS ’15, being physically close to the factories has been key. Making a prototype can take a week or a month for a global company. For EcoFlow, the turnaround is as little as one day. PHOTOGRAPHED BY ALEX HOFFORD ON MARCH 1, 2018, IN SHENZHEN VERBATIM AGENCY VERBATIM

By default more than anything else, JASON KUNG ’08 considered careers in finance and law. But while teaching in China after graduating from Amherst, he came up with a business idea. PHOTOGRAPHED BY ALGIRDAS BAKAS ON FEB. 23, 2018, IN SHANGHAI

\ 34 \ AMHERST \ WINTER–SPRING 2018 \ ern Chinese megacity of more than 11 million pregnant walked into his office seeking advice on people—produces parts for nearly every consumer college planning. (He told her it was a bit early.) electronic in the world. It’s also a vibrant startup Today, he encourages students to look beyond hub and home to one of China’s three biggest In- grades. He’s worked with one student from a shan-

As China’s ternet companies. “There’s so much happening tytown outside Shanghai who is involved in local economy boomed here,” Harris says. “It’s really cool to feel like I’m art programs for migrants. Another student per- early this on the ground floor of being a part of that change.” forms stand-up comedy and created an augmented decade, funding EcoFlow now has more than $1 million in pre- reality startup (that was later sold to Microsoft). increased for order sales, has raised more than $4 million in He also helps kids with typical teenage problems— homegrown funding and plans to launch two new batteries this peer pressure, their parents’ divorce. “It’s fulfilling startups. year. Forbes named Harris a “30 Under 30” entre- for me to be an outside counsel for them, someone preneur in the energy sector for 2018. without an agenda,” says Kung. That’s not to say it’s been easy. When I ask him to name the hardest part of starting his own S CHINA’S ECONOMY BOOMED IN THE company, he replies, “Everything.” Harris says he 2010s, funding for homegrown start- sleeps four hours a night, averages 10 cups of cof- ups increased and innovation hubs fee a day and has not exercised or gone on a date in A abounded. Wan, attracted to the “en- months. “I know it’s unsustainable,” he says, “but ergy and spirit of entrepreneurs,” says we would not survive otherwise. Hardware is an she was the first person to ask her law unforgiving game.” firm for a first-year placement in Bei- jing, rather than in New York or London. Looking ARRIS CREDITS JASON KUNG ’08 WITH back on her jump into entrepreneurship, she cred- introducing him to the idea of living its Amherst philosophy courses for teaching her and working in China. Harris first how to use sound analysis to critique previously H visited the country through a summer held beliefs—and for giving her the confidence to exchange program that Kung had do so. That ability was essential to her business founded for Five College students. idea. Kung grew up in Hong Kong and Today, Wan maintains Nis as a side project after majored in political science. By default more taking a full-time job at a Chinese technology com- than anything else, he considered careers in pany in Beijing. One side effect of her first experi- finance and law. But while teaching in Hang- ment in entrepreneurship: it’s helped her parents zhou, China, after graduation, he came up with see their daughter not so much as an outlier but as the idea for the exchange program. His most a member of a growing population of independent cherished memories from that year include Chinese women who are choosing to wed later. befriending students (whose weddings he’s now It’s harder now to be an entrepreneur in China attended and whose babies he’s met) and living in than in the rollicking time just a few years ago. a small community amid rolling tea fields on the Tighter regulations and the dominance of huge outskirts of the city. “I had such a great experience companies make it more challenging for the little ONLINE Read being in a place that was so alive and different,” guys. (Kung attributes his success not only to good this article in he says. “I wondered: how could I recreate this for luck and a good idea but also to timing.) Still, these Chinese: amherst. other students?” are by no means insurmountable roadblocks. edu/magazine After running the exchange program for four “The big draw for me was not knowing what to years and also working in college counseling, Kung expect,” says Kung. “That allowed me to think of co-founded his own education consulting business possibilities I didn’t previously think of.” in 2015. Ivyuan mentors and prepares Chinese stu- Fear of failure—that nagging voice that stops dents to apply to and attend international univer- so many ideas from being executed—is not a sities. It has expanded internationally and now debilitating concern for Harris, Kung or Wan. The employs around 60 people. excitement of creating something new, in their Parents of only children in China plow signifi- eyes, trumps whatever may be seen as sacrifices. cant resources into their child’s education if they Wan has friends who told her it was risky to quit are able—a phenomenon detailed by Vanessa Fong a full-time job. But she doesn’t see it like that. ’96, Amherst professor and expert in China’s one- “I felt like, OK, if I really want to learn how to do child policy (see “Only Time Will Tell,” Summer this, I should just start doing it. Observing other 2017). For those who can afford it, studying abroad people is not going to help you to get there,” she is increasingly preferred to the hyper-competitive says. She’s now mulling her next startup idea. k and regimented education system at home. This has spawned a dizzying test prep culture: Kung says Anjie Zheng ’10 is a writer and former Wall Street that once, a mother who was only a few months Journal reporter in Hong Kong. In Them,

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36 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 To write a book about jellyfish, a former math major had to find

her own sense of wonder.

Interview by Margaret Stohl ’89

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AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 37 Juli Berwald ’89’s new book blends personal memoir with science writing to explore the world of jellyfish. She travels the globe to meet scientists who study jellies. She hitches rides on Japanese fishing boats to see the animals in the wild. She raises them in her own dining room in landlocked Austin, Texas. These elegant, adaptive, sometimes deadly creatures are also, she argues, a signal of our shared responsibil- ity toward the ocean. In a conversation with her college roommate and New York Times bestselling author Margaret Stohl ’89, Berwald explains how and why she wrote Spineless. An Amherst math major with a Ph.D. in oceanography, Berwald also reveals how math is like poetry, and why, in the name of science, she once crawled under the floor in Pratt Gym.

You were the first person I met on my first day at can explain science in a way that is relatable, interest- Amherst. I remember you, my father and me talking ing and simple, then I’m doing a service. That’s espe- in the hallway in James. cially true with the ocean, which is the focus of my Yes, in a corner. I remember that moment. book. Being terrestrial creatures, we tend to neglect it. The more I can connect what happens in the ocean You were a hilarious math major with an enormous to us as people on land, the better for our entire planet. brain. I’d write essays, and you’d have pages of math scribbles. I thought that was great, because I One of the hallmarks of growing up is being able came from a background of girls saying, “I’m bad at to see things that are not you. Spineless follows math.” And, by the way, I’m bad at math. an empathetic, accessible character—you—on a And, by the way, I know that at one point you were journey into another world, the ocean. good at math. There is a real issue with girls and math, Often when I’d finish reading a nonfiction book, with our sense of what we’re good at and what we’re I’d say, “Man, I could never write that.” One day, I not. At Amherst, I decided I was bad at writing, be- changed the infliction and said, “I could never write cause there were so many amazing writers around me, that.” The question then became: What kind of book like you. I was intimidated. Math can be intimidating, could I write? I could write a book that was more like too. I saw math, with its elegant forms, as mysterious, the fiction I loved to read—a little messy, where there’s Spineless: The romantic. a journey, a change in the character. I realized that a Science of book about jellyfish would somehow have to be about Jellyfish and the You were the first to explain to me that math at a me, too. I remember telling you about my jellyfish Art of Growing a certain point becomes poetry. idea, and you said, “You need to inject wonder into Backbone It is a language, and like any language you have to the story.” I didn’t think that was something authors By Juli Berwald ’89 learn it. could do. I thought authors of nonfiction had to be the Riverhead Books authority—and authorities don’t get to have wonder. Spineless conveys the ways in which jellyfish are scientifically complicated. It also conveys the ways I remember, on one of our visits, talking about the in which jellyfish are poetry. You seem to have an ear fact that you didn’t know how the book would end, for communicating the universe’s grand mysteries. and how that was part of the journey. Even the fact “The universe’s grand mysteries”—that’s a lot, but I of writing the book had its own adventure to it. do love to take complicated science ideas and make Once I made the decision to write a book, I knew I had them simple, or use metaphors to make them under- to find an ending. And I knew I had to get out of my standable. This is important, because science is going little office in the third bedroom of our house and go through a rough patch. People don’t believe in science find it in the world. anymore, which does not even make sense, because science is evidence-based; it’s not a belief system. If I When you got out there, what did you find? How do

38 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 Previous page photograph by BYBA SEPIT/GETTY IMAGES The book takes us through the story of how you became braver, how you grew your spine. It also presents a parallel journey about civilization’s own spineless mess. Berwald’s Right now, civilization is having a big Ph.D. is in party and not paying attention to its ocean science. retirement plan. We are using up ev- A textbook erything in our bank account, figur- writer and ing someone else will take care of us editor, she has also written for once the money’s gone. The problem Nature, Slate, is that we have to take care of our- The New York selves. In the book, I say we have to Times and grow up. Unfortunately, I don’t see other publica- that happening right now. I’m less tions. optimistic now about climate change than I was when I finished the book.

Your last chapter keeps wonder alive, when you say you have faith in us as a species. What’s changed in the year since you finished the book? We dropped out of the Paris Accord. The new tax plan opened up the Arc- tic Refuge for drilling. And here in Texas, we had this crazy storm Har- vey. The Gulf of Mexico was 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal. Harvey passed over the Gulf, picked up a catastrophic amount of water and dumped it on Houston. My Facebook pages were filled with the jellyfish speak to you, and what did they say— pleas from friends: “My house is flooding. It’s never about our oceans, about our future? flooded before.” “Please come rescue me.” “Please Translate for us. get the word out. I need rescue.” This is real, and it’s They said that we need to pay closer attention to what right now, not off in the future. I’m disheartened. That we are doing to our planet, especially the oceans. A said, the ice caps haven’t melted yet. We could turn lot of the things we are doing to the oceans—warm- things around. ing them, acidifying them, overfishing them, building carelessly along coastlines—are making life better for Who is the world leader in facing climate change? jellyfish. In places where You’ve mentioned this their abundances have to me before, and it’s “In places where their increased, which turns always surprising. out to be more than half I think it’s China. Chi- the coastlines on the abundances have increased, na’s leadership sees planet, jellyfish are a sig- that renewable energy nal that ecosystems are is the way of the future, damaged. It’s not hope- jellyfish are a signal.” and they want to be the less: We could curb our ones to supply it. It’s the CO2 emissions, which obvious future market. will improve warming and acidification. We could The future is not with fossil fuels. For us in the U.S., actually enforce fishing regulations. We could set up I am a huge fan of Carbon Fee and Dividend, which marine protected areas, which are like national parks places a fee on carbon that’s redistributed to taxpayers on land. We could create biological barriers when we on a per capita basis. Because it’s revenue-neutral it build canals between oceans that open up pathways has advocates on both the conservative side and the for invasive species. But right now we don’t have the liberal side—and I really think we need everyone to- political will to do any of that. gether to solve the problem of climate change. There’s

Photograph by MADELEINE TILIN AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 39 a great example of Carbon Fee and Dividend in British lem. They always have trouble with these exams.” Columbia, where it’s been in use for about five years, Which was a horrible thing to say and to hear. The and they’ve already drawn down their carbon foot- good part was, I got enraged, studied hard and passed print, and their economy is still doing fine. the second time. His comment acted as a motivating force. The math department was not a friendly place Speaking of protected areas, I took 36 English for women in the ’80s, or at least that was my per- classes in college. I clearly did not want to venture ception. I’ve learned that at Amherst today, almost out into foreign waters. But I recall you were always half of students who major in math or statistics are more of an open-waters type, right? women, which is really encouraging. I looked through To use the jellyfish metaphor, I slid around from sub- the math department faculty list before this interview, ject to subject, building a schedule that I was curious and there are a lot of women faculty now. We should about. It was more of a general education than a deep applaud change when it goes in the right direction. dive. But when I came back from Israel after study- ing abroad my junior year, I thought, “I should have What’s your take on the next generation, our future been doing biology this whole time.” I came up with caretakers? an independent study—a harebrained project that Compared to the people in charge right now, teenag- Professor Paul Ewald in the biology department ers and young adults are much better at recognizing agreed to oversee. He was an evolutionary biologist, priorities. I’m hopeful that they can do a better job not an expert in the ocean, but I wanted to study coral than we are doing. I just hope there’s enough material biomechanics. for them to work with. I came up with this “One great thing about idea to do an experi- Are you going to write ment in a flow tank. I the book to teach young found out there was a jellyfish is that they are at people how to save flow tank underneath the planet? Somebody the floor of Pratt Gym, needs to. which was the geology once angelic and demonic.” I’ve been thinking about building at that point. writing a book called The You had to crawl into Dead Zone, about all the the old swimming pool, which was underneath the dead zones in the ocean. These are places where there floor. It was drained, and there were two flow tanks is not enough oxygen for animals to survive—because that nobody was using. I figured out how to get them of both pollution and ocean warming. They have in- working. I don’t know where I got coral skeletons. I creased four-fold in volume in the last half century injected dye into different parts of the skeletons and and are now the size of North America. But that seems timed how long it took to wash out. It was a kooky kind of horrible. This article is adapted from experiment, and there were no results that came up. One of the great things about jellyfish is that they an interview Zero, nothing. But it was great, because I did feel like are at once angelic and demonic. They’re a signal of for the Am- I was doing real science. an ecosystem that has been disrupted, that is out of herst Reads whack. They’re toxic and have the ability to sting, and book club. In college, we all had the sense, in the best way, in some cases even to kill. But undeniably, they feel Listen to the full Q&A at that we could do whatever we wanted. If you like our heartbeat when we watch them. They’re gor- amherst.edu/ had something you wanted to pursue, there was geous. Their adaptations are phenomenal. They’re magazine. nothing to stop you from pursuing it, which is a rare the most efficient swimmers; they taught us how all institutional approach. animals swim in the ocean. They can see and react The size of Amherst allows for that to happen. That, to their environment in ways that are brilliant. I think and the academic open mind. we drift back and forth between these two places, and maybe one of the things we need to do is hold the Even considering the academic open mind, STEM demonic and angelic in our minds at the same time, in general does not have a reputation as being together. Maybe that’s what I’ll write about going for- particularly feminist-friendly. Did you find yourself ward. k having to evolve to survive? And do you appreciate my Darwinian metaphor? Margaret Stohl ’89 is the # 1 New York Times I very much appreciate your Darwinian metaphor. bestselling author of 11 novels for young adults, Yes, I did have experiences with STEM not being ter- including Beautiful Creatures. She also writes the rifically hospitable to women. At Amherst, I failed ongoing Mighty Captain Marvel comics and works in my comprehensive exam in math the first time I took the game industry. Her first children’s novel,Cats vs. it. I went to talk to a math professor about it, and he Robots #1: This Is War, co-written with her husband said, “Well, women math majors are always a prob- and illustrated by their child, arrives in September.

40 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 Since Spineless has been out in the organs like we do. Instead, inside is The pieces that look like veils or world, I’ve discovered one very sim- the very spinelessness of the jel- draperies are extended lips called ple jellyfish thing I never did: draw a lyfish, a gelatinous stuffing called oral arms. They contain a lot of jellyfish. Sure, I doodled jellyfish in mesoglea. stinging cells and lead to the mouth. the edges of my notes, and I sketched In the divots between the scal- The mouth is the only way in and out Picasso-esque outlines of loped edges of the bell are of the body, so whatever goes in and jellyfish on nametags and small organs called rho- can’t be used must come back out business cards so people palia, which have an out- the same way. The mouth leads to would remember that I Jellyfish sized influence on jellyfish a stomach, which branches off into was that person writing behavior. They are the digestive canals that take nutri- about jellyfish. Anatomy: animal’s sensory centers— tion throughout the animal. Eggs or But recently, readers like mini faces. Moon jel- sperm–jellyfish are either males or have suggested that a lyfish have two eyespots females—form in the gonads that labeled drawing would be A Primer on each of their rhopalia, are situated alongside the stomach. helpful. It’s not like jel- but famously, box jellies When the animal spawns, those eggs lies have any of the famil- By Juli Berwald '89 have six different types of or sperm travel through the stomach iar parts we recognize on eyes on each of their four and out the mouth. other creatures, things rhopalia, for a total of 24 Those previously mentioned sting- like arms and legs, or even ways to see the world. The ing cells, also called nematocysts or faces. A visual to show, say, the dif- rhopalia also contain fields of cilia cnidae, are at the center of a jelly- ference between tentacles and oral for sensing currents and chemicals, fish’s success story. They are highly arms makes good sense. and a balance organ that works like sophisticated pieces of biological So, I’ve attempted to draw my the balance organs in our inner ears. equipment that probably allowed first, admittedly amateur, jellyfish. Near each of the rhopalia is a jellyfish to remain fairly unchanged There’s a reason I’m a writer and not pacemaker that takes in all that sen- through more than half a billion rol- an artist. sory information and controls how licking years of evolution. The big domed part is usually called fast the jellyfish pulses. If it senses An undeployed stinging cell is the bell, or sometimes the umbrella. something unusual, the pacemaker mostly taken up by a capsule with In little jellyfish, the shape can be speeds up, and the jellyfish quickly a twisted-up hollow tubule inside. “I’ve anywhere from torpedo to saucer. In pumps away from danger. It’s guarded by a trigger made of a attempted to larger jellyfish, like the moon jelly I draw my fi rst, The tentacles are the skinny tas- bundle of cilia. The trigger is pulled attempted to draw, it has to be fairly admittedly sels that hang off the underside of only when it detects both the smell flattened in order for the hydrody- amateur, the bell. In some jellies they stretch and the sound of prey. Then the cell namics of its swimming to work. jellyfi sh. for feet or yards, but in this moon swells with so much fluid that a door There’s a Jellyfish have an ectoderm (outside jelly they are just a short fringe. The at its end flies open and the tubule reason I’m a skin layer) and endoderm (inside skin writer and not tentacles contain a lot of stinging unfurls with an acceleration five mil- layer), but no mesoderm to hold their an artist.” cells for capturing prey. lion times that of gravity and impales the unfortunate plankton. It’s the fastest known motion in the animal kingdom. The tubule is often armed with spears and claws, and poison is pumped out through holes in the end. The most important thing I learned in my years researching jelly- fish is that despite their unfamiliar- ity, these amazing creatures, with all those remarkable anatomical tools, aren’t as alien as they might seem. Indeed, they share our planet’s pre- cious seas with us. Their success in those seas can signal an ecosystem imbalance from overfishing, coastal development, pollution, the transport of invasive species, or ocean warming. But, all the jellyfish can do is signal. We are the ones who must take responsibil- ity for the ocean’s health, which, of course, is our health too.

AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 41 THE MEAD Art Museum sent 10 students to find NEW WORKS for its permanent collection.

Here’s WHAT THEY CHOSE, and how.

How do you know if an artwork is mu- By seum-worthy? Who decides, and how do they do it? Mary Ten students from the Interterm course Elizabeth “Collecting 101: Acquiring Art for the Mead” pon- Strunk dered these questions in January, during a whirlwind trip to New York City. Their mission: to think like museum curators and to choose potential new works for the Mead’s permanent collection. Most of the students had no formal background in art. The course deliberately does not require one— it’s a crash course in art-world terminology, the vagaries of the art market, and how museums manage and expand their collections. As part of the course, the students also received training and support from Amherst’s Center for Community Engagement and Writing Center.

THE SEARCH The trip began at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ART MUSEUM FISHER/MEAD STEPHEN on Fifth Avenue, where students explored the ques- I Exist Between Every Line tion of what makes an artwork both innovative and Cedar Kirwin timeless. With guidance from Mead staff members This lithograph detail is a Miloslava Waldman, a European-print specialist, self-portrait 42 and Danielle Amodeo ’13, who coordinates public AMHERST programs, the students then shopped for contem- WINTER–SPRING porary art prints at six galleries in Chelsea and two 2018 studios in Brooklyn. They also attended an exhibi- tion opening at International Print Center New York THE RESULTS (IPCNY) and met the show’s artists. After tallying the votes, Waldman announced that the By the time they returned to Amherst, the students pair of self-portraits by Ladha and Kirwin had won, had divided themselves into four teams. Each team closely followed by Villalongo’s Palimpsest. Waldman prepared an acquisition proposal, explaining why the then said that, because benefactor H. Nichols B. Clark Mead should buy a particular print. The winning print had increased the acquisitions budget, the Mead could would have to fit with the museum’s existing collec- acquire all of those three prints. tion and teaching needs, while also bringing something Gendelman was all smiles. “I’m just so incredibly fresh to the collection. grateful,” he said. “I would never have been able to do anything like this anywhere else in my own life after THE VOTE Amherst. I’m glad Mr. Clark decided to bring [Palimp- On Feb. 13, some 50 students, staff and community sest] to Amherst. I think a lot of people will enjoy it.” members crowded into the Mead’s William Green The class allowed students such as Gendelman to Study Room, where each work was on display. The impact the canon of art history, says Amodeo: “Buying artwork selection event is open to the public, and every this art supports the artists. More important, the works person who attends gets a vote. will be taught. They’re going to be written into history.” Jake Montes-Adams ’21, Cosmo Brossy ’19 and The annual student-driven art purchase is made Mount Holyoke College student Zahin Islam advo- SEE all possible by the Trinkett Clark Memorial Student cated for a pair of self-portraits—Shivangi Ladha’s 33 student Acquisition Fund, named in honor of the former Mead Self Portrait (2017) and Cedar Kirwin’s I Exist Between acquisitions: curator who died in 2006. Nick Clark is her widower. Every Line (2017)—which together explore what unites amherst.edu/ A decade ago, he underwrote the fund, which has now magazine humans across differences. allowed the Mead to acquire 33 new works by Ameri- Jacob Gendelman ’20 spoke for William Villalongo’s can and international artists. He attends the selection Palimpsest (2017), a screenprint that comments on event every year. recent and historical racism in the United States. The day after this year’s event, Clark reflected on the Skylhur Tranqille ’18, Camilo Ortiz ’20 and Mount experience. “I applaud all the students for their poise Holyoke’s Daphne Schneewind hoped the Mead would and passion,” he said. “That is the beginning of a true acquire Emma Amos’ Stars and Stripes (1995), and love affair with art.”k Davis Brown ’19, Matthew Ezersky ’21 and Stephen Johnson ’19 favored acquiring Reigning Queen (2017), Mary Elizabeth Strunk is assistant director of the grants a print by Diana Al-Hadid. office at Amherst. SHIVANGI LADHA SHIVANGI

Self Portrait Shivangi Ladha A screenprint with masking tape on Japanese paper GRAPHICSTUDIO/UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA GRAPHICSTUDIO/UNIVERSITY

Palimpsest William Villalongo The artist is known for reframing familiar images and themes ARTS Amherst Creates NEWS AND REVIEWS

NONFICTION Six Hungry Writers How a cast of characters demystified French cuisine. | BY RAND RICHARDS COOPER ’80

44 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 Illustration by LEO ESPINOSA his book follows six American in Paris, The Gourmands’ Way is Tculinary writers active in notably unromantic. Spring never France in the decades after World forgets that his subjects’ passions War II. The cast features Julia are professions, sparked by ambi- Child, chief propagator of our cult tion and necessity and shaped to of French cooking; Alexis Lichine, the realities of a commercial mar- a hard-charging wine merchant ket. Toklas started writing recipes who helped bring wine into U.S. for American magazines in order family life; A.J. Liebling, the to gain access, amid the straitened legendary New Yorker writer; Alice circumstances of postwar Paris, B. Toklas, an eccentric gardener to the well-stocked U.S. embassy and cook; M.F.K. Fisher, the commissary. Lichine’s success as novelist and memoirist marketed an evangelist for wine reflected not as a sultry epicure; and Richard only his love of wine’s beauty but Olney, a Midwesterner and self- his prowess as a “hustler” adept made gastronome. Very different at what Spring calls “flattery and personalities, they all served in intimidation.” PURIS JASON the effort, writes Justin Spring ’84, There is one odd person out to “democratize and demystify in this collection. While Spring writers from Baudelaire to Virginia French cuisine for Americans.” admires five of his subjects, he Spring’s prevoius Woolf, living simply in the French Thorough and informative, The treats Fisher with barely concealed book was a countryside, Olney presents an Gourmands’ Way illuminates top- contempt, calling her reputation National Book attractive combination of the Award finalist. ics ranging from the history of the as a leading authority on French His Amherst aesthetic and the ascetic. Spring Guide Michelin to the rise of the food “a gross misperception” and thesis was a admires the methodical way this U.S. processed-food industry. The deriding her 1969 Time Life pub- comic novel “thinker-writer-cook” educated lication, The Cooking of Provincial in the style of himself in French language and France, as “the most error-ridden Anthony Powell. foodways; his books for Americans For an account of book on French cooking ever were outgrowths of writings he had “ Americans in Paris, brought out by a major American already been producing for years— publisher.” Fisher wasn’t even in French, for a French audience. this book is notably much of a cook, Spring tells us. Ac- He was the real deal, in other unromantic. cusing her of chronic dishonesty, words, and his influence remains he challenges her account of one strong; Spring maps the direct Parisian trip, dismissing it as “a path from Olney, via his connec- splendors of the French table are vast heap of careless fabrications.” tion to Alice Waters and Jeremiah not stinted; Spring describes meals Spring’s demolition of Fisher Tower—who worshiped his writ- of pâté de campagne, foie gras, seems churlish and in places ten- ings—to the farm-to-table move- pheasant and on and on. But the dentious. He cites what he calls ment that dominates American book hangs on its portraits of our Craig Claiborne’s “denunciation” restaurant life today. “six hungry bon viveurs.” of The Cooking of Provincial France Spring notes that Olney grew I chuckled over how Toklas’s in The New York Times. In fact, that up in rural Illinois and liked to 1954 Cook Book unwittingly in- review praised Fisher (“She has serve his mother’s apple pie with The Gourmands’ cluded a recipe for hashish brown- authority, experience, memory, Way: Six a 100-year-old Château d’Yquem. ies, calling the chief ingredient “an and a pen to admire and envy”), Americans in This novel pairing of iconic Ameri- Paris and the obscure North African herb.” And I but Spring omits those lines. Birth of a New can and French products captures have long revered Liebling, a jour- Fisher’s admirers will wonder Gastronomy the spirit of The Gourmands’ Way. nalist of incorrigible wit (“I write why he lingers over flaws in her By Justin Spring Spring far prefers the studiousness ’84 better than anyone who writes lesser productions while giving a of Olney to the capering emotion- Farrar, Straus faster, and faster than anyone scant paragraph to her 1948 mas- and Giroux ality of Fisher, whom he calls “a who writes better”) and equally terpiece, The Gastronomical Me, a performer of her own life.” And if incorrigible gluttony. A war corre- luminous meditation on love and he is put off by that performance, spondent, Liebling witnessed the loss. I’m not saying Spring is wrong while others of us are enchanted, German surrender of Paris—then in his cavils about Fisher’s mercu- in the end that’s OK too. Chacun á personally “liberated” the Closerie rial personality, but the action with son goût. des Lilas, Hemingway’s favorite Fisher lies elsewhere, in a place he café, earning himself a precious chooses not to see. Cooper has been a New York Times bottle of scotch. Olney emerges as Spring’s ideal restaurant reviewer and a Bon For an account of Americans gastronome. A painter well-read in Appétit contributing editor.

AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 45 NONFICTION Modern History A professor takes a sweeping new look at a short but bloody war. | BY ROBERT E. WEIR

n adage holds that victors Awrite history. Actually, evidence writes history, and new evidence demands new narratives. But what do we mean by evidence? Associate Professor Lisa Brooks opens her sweeping new look at King Philip’s War with thoughts on what Jacques Derrida called “absence of presence.” How does one do justice to the “absent”? We must recover their voices to write what Jean O’Brien called “replacement narratives.” Brooks knows that sometimes absence of presence means scholars haven’t looked in the right places. In her meticulously researched and imaginative Our Beloved Kin, Brooks spends time (in her words) “reading in the archive,” but also “reading sce- narios” and “reading the land as archive.” Hers is a creative mix of history, speculative (and often poetic) impressions of the minds of landson, who penned a famed ac- Brooks created England was beset by all man- historical actors and inferential count of her 1676 captivity. an interactive ner of challenges, including ill- archaeology derived from per- A capsule view of King Philip’s companion functioning colonies, spillover to her book, ambulations of the sites where War holds that it began in 1675, ourbelovedkin. from political turmoil in England, 17th-century events unfolded. She when the Wampanoag sachem com, with maps declining religious piety, colonial admits it’s a complicated story Metacom (also known as Philip), and historical land hunger and colonial propen- and intersperses grounding maps disgusted by several years of hu- documents. sity for violence. The latter two throughout the book. miliation at the hands of Plymouth are the focus of Brooks’ account The core of Brooks’ gendered colonists, unified various Algon- as filtered through Native eyes. and racialized look at King quian tribes to exact revenge. Through this frame, iconized Eng- Philip’s War shines through the The conflict evolved into a New lish pioneers become land thieves, intersections of three biographies: England-wide war that raged until treaty-breakers, racists, murderers Weetamoo, a powerful female late summer 1676, when Metacom and enslavers. Brooks finds few Wampanoag sachem; James was killed and residual fires were cases in which Natives precipitated Printer (Wowaus), a Nipmuc and quelled. The war was short but violence, but plenty in which Eng- 1662 graduate of the Harvard bloody, with dozens of English lishmen broke promises in order Indian College; and Mary Row- settlements destroyed, nearly half to assert their interpretations of attacked and about 10 percent of justice and God’s will. Even Printer the region’s white male population was nearly hanged. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War killed. Many historians mark its Brooks challenges conventional

By Lisa Brooks, associate professor of end as the point at which Indian angles of view, including “naming English and American studies New England became European. war.” Weetamoo was as powerful Yale University Press Brooks agrees that the survival as Metacom/Philip, yet his name is of the English Northeast was by attached to the hostilities because no means a given in 1675. New Englishmen could not imagine a

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woman as the equal of a man nor GLITCH APPEAL Misaligned pixels inspire a that there were many opposition new kind of art. | By Rachel Rogol leaders, rather than merely one. Brooks’ boldest iconoclasm is her reinterpretation of Mary Row- landson’s narrative. Rowlandson Sabato Visconti ’09 discovered a new art criticized Weetamoo, her captor, form from a most unlikely source: a defective for failing to act as an English memory card. woman. Weetamoo, in turn, found Every image he opened appeared distorted Rowlandson sniveling, vain and with misaligned pixels, the same way the selfish—unlike an Algonquian screen of a TV with poor reception might woman. Both lost children on their look. “All of the photos were glitching by ac- mutual sojourn, but Rowlandson cident,” he says. “I thought it looked really could not see “the space of moth- cool.” erhood where the two women’s By definition, a “glitch” is a sudden, un- lives intersected, where condo- expected malfunction. In recent years, the lence might have fostered under- term has taken on new meaning for “glitch standing. In one sense, she simply artists” such as Visconti, who purposefully could not accept that an Indian distort images digitally. “It’s a new media would feel the same emotions as a practice,” Visconti says. “You find errors real human being like herself.” that happen seemingly randomly, and you There is little in Brooks’ book create an environment in which they can hap- that evokes pride for English an- pen at your wish.” cestors. Hers is a story of unspeak- In Visconti’s case, the defective memory card had changed the binary code of the digital photographs on it. He began applying Not even the notion of the same technique to other images, adding English ‘victory’ was zeros in their binary codes to see what would “ happen. Called “databending,” this technique entirely true. manipulates an image’s digital DNA. The pro- New York Times’ “American Dreamers,” a cess, he says, is somewhat random and up series of essays by young immigrants who to chance. “The art is finding these points benefited from the Obama administration’s able violence, innocents hanged, of ruptures and exploring them creatively.” 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, allies betrayed and enslaved, At Amherst, Visconti majored in political or DACA, program. He’s currently working on and murder under the pretext of science, which combined his interests in art, a series of glitch works titled DACALOGUE, negotiation. Not even the notion culture, history and economics. He also dab- inspired by his experience as a DACA recipi- of English “victory” was entirely bled in photography and took portraits of his ent. true; war lingered in the north friends, which led to a career in commercial Visconti recalls one of the first pieces of until the 1678 Treaty of Casco Bay film and photography production. glitch art he showed to his father. “Did your ended hostilities largely on terms Since 2011, he has created hundreds of computer break?” his dad asked. Visconti dictated by the Wabanaki. glitch artworks from photographs, film responded, “I broke it on purpose.” Indeed, Our Beloved Kin took me back to stills, video games, literary texts and other sometimes art is about finding the beauty undergraduate days and the deep sources. The works present new ways of in what’s broken. shame experienced when read- seeing and thinking about common life ex- ing of Great Plains Indian wars in periences. His Apocalypse Beach series, for Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. example, shows children and adults frolicking Our Beloved Kin is prelude to such on beaches, the pixels of their bodies glitch- injustices, and James Printer’s life ing with the surrounding waves and sunsets. a tragic foreshadowing. He lived His point was to juxtapose a seaside vacation until 1709, and I can’t imagine with the notion of climate instability. what went through his mind as His works have been published in Time, he recalled the events of 30 years WIRED and elsewhere, and have been shown prior. in art museums and festivals around the But I’ll bet Professor Brooks can. world, including Tate Britain and, most re- cently, the FILE Festival in his hometown of Weir, recently retired from UMass São Paulo, Brazil. Amherst, is the author or editor of In 2016 he contributed an essay to The

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SEE more images: sabatobox.com AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 47 FILM Big Sky Western On 35mm film, a new movie evokes the look and spirit of a classic. | BY JOSH BELL ’02

ig-screen Westerns have been But Edward isn’t the hero; he Ba relative rarity in recent Lefty finds gets shot and killed a few minutes decades, but writer-director Jared himself in the in, while attempting to bring in a Moshé ’01 has made two in five position to band of horse thieves who raided avenge his friend years: first his directorial debut, and partner, his ranch, and Lefty finds himself Dead Man’s Burden, and now The even though in the position to avenge his friend Ballad of Lefty Brown, spotlighting no one has any and partner, even though no one the kind of ornery old coot who confidence in his has any confidence in his abilities. might have been the sidekick in a abilities. It’s the It’s the perfect role for Pullman, perfect role for classic Clint Eastwood Western. Bill Pullman. who’s had occasional lead parts Bill Pullman plays the title char- but is mostly known for playing acter, who’s spent 40 years as the someone’s dad or boss or mentor. right-hand man to rancher and Like Lefty, he doesn’t get many AN A24 RELEASE OM FILMS PRESENTS A HIGHER CONTENT/ARMIAN PICTURES PRODUCTION A JARED MOSHÉ FILM BILL PULLMAN “THE BALLAD OF LEFTY BROWN” KATHY BAKER JIM CAVIEZEL CASTING MUSIC COSTUME EDITED JOE ANDERSON DIEGO JOSEF WITH TOMMY FLANAGAN AND PETER FONDA BY SUNDAY BOLING, CSA AND MEG MORMAN, CSA BY H. SCOTT SALINAS DESIGNER JONNY PRAY BY TEREL GIBSON PRODUCTION DIRECTOR OF CO- EXECUTIVE PRODUCED WRITTEN, PRODUCED DESIGNER EVE MCCARNEY PHOTOGRAPHY DAVID MCFARLAND PRODUCERS RACHEL WARD ELEANOR NETT PRODUCER NIRAJ BHATIA BY EDWARD PARKS NEDA ARMIAN DAN BURKS AND DIRECTED BY JARED MOSHÉ COPYRIGHT © 2017 BLEEDING COWBOY LLC lawman Edward Johnson (Peter chances to step up and prove him- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Fonda). Edward is an archetypal self, but when he does, he makes Western hero, introduced (with the most of it. Pullman’s Lefty is The Ballad of Lefty Brown Lefty at his side) rounding up one grizzled and cantankerous, but Written and directed by Jared last lawbreaker before heading he’s never a buffoon, and Pullman Moshé ’01 east to take his place as Montana’s finds the soul and honor in a man A24 Films first-ever U.S. senator (the movie is who’s constantly underestimated.

set in 1889). “You’re gonna stand tall, or you FILMS A24

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ain’t,” Edward tells Lefty as he’s ENERGY! COURAGE! PERSISTENCE! SUCCESS! EXCLAMATION preparing to leave his friend in POINTS! Amherst authors have what you need to power charge of the ranch, and at that through the long season. moment, Lefty seems like he’s leaning toward the latter option. But as he pursues Edward’s killers, along the way picking up his own sidekick and discovering a sinister conspiracy, the self- described “man who never got anything right” shows courage, demanding justice when almost everyone else has compromised or given up. Moshé splits the differ- ence between deconstructing the genre (mainly via the self-aware commentary on Lefty’s character type) and honoring it, with clearly delineated good guys and bad guys and a literal ride off toward the horizon for the hero at the end. Moshé stages some suspenseful gunfights and gives his protagonist

One glorious badass Late-season snow? Get busy Crafting the Resistance: 35 Projects for Craftivists, “ moment puts a gritty Protestors, and Women Who Persist, by Lara Neel ’01 and Heather Marano (Skyhorse twist on the principle of Publishing), or Taming the Wild Text: Literacy Strategies for Today’s Reader, by Pam Allyn Chekhov’s gun. ’84 and Monica Burns (Shell Education). Once the sidewalks are plowed, go out Discovering Princeton: A Photographic Guide with Five Walking Tours, by Wiebke Martens and Jennifer Jang ’91 (Schiffer). one glorious badass moment that Exclaim over Played!, by Michael A. Kahn ’74 (Poisoned Pen Press), or Clear!: Living the puts a gritty Western twist on the Life You Didn’t Dream Of, by Herman J. Williams ’80, M.D. (Atkins & Greenspan Writing). principle of Chekhov’s gun— although the middle of the movie Paul Ehrmann ’65 shows you the Arc of Triumph: A Novel of Courage, Cars and Love slows down too much, and the (Coachbuilt Press), and Paul Dimond ’66 introduces you to The Belle of Two Arbors eventual reveal of the true culprit (Cedar Forge). Caroline Patterson ’78 presents Ballet at the Moose Lodge (Drumlummon is slightly underwhelming. Institute), while Indigo Cox (pen name of Malana Moshesh ’92) guides you through Native A movie like this is as much Girl Rites (Metamorphosis). about atmosphere and local color as it is about narrative, and Moshé After John H. Perkins ’64 focuses on Changing Energy: The Transition to a Sustainable gives the Montana scenery a sense Future (University of California Press), Timothy C. Lehmann ’90 sorts out The Geopolitics of grandeur, populating it with of Global Energy: The New Cost of Plenty (Lynne Rienner Publishers). Also thinking globally entertaining supporting characters are Michael Merson ’66 and Stephen Inrig, as they take on The AIDS Pandemic: Searching including Kathy Baker as Edward’s for a Global Response (Springer), and Jeff T. Haley ’71 and Dale McGowan, who advocate indomitable widow, Tommy Flana- Sharing Reality: How to Bring Secularism and Science to an Evolving Religious World gan as Edward and Lefty’s haunted (Pitchstone Publishing). war buddy, and Joe Anderson as the sleazy mercenary who took Journey From Hell to Heaven: A True Story of Survival, Serendipity, and Success, by Edward down. Shooting on 35mm Werner Meudt as told to D. Merrill Laux ’54 (self-published). Then get tangled in the film, Moshé evokes the look of Ephebophile’s Web, by Aaron Colombo (pen name of Luis Bonano ’87) (CreateSpace), classic Westerns along with their before being Cashed Out, by Michael H. Rubin ’72 (Fiery Seas). spirit, making a worthy addition to a struggling but proud genre. In the end, Robert Hornick ’66 holds What Remains: Searching for the Memory and Lost Grave of John Paul Jones (University of Massachusetts Press). Josh Bell ’02 is the Las Vegas Weekly film editor.

Illustration by MELINDA BECK AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 49 POETRY An Aeneid for the Ages A poet resurrects an ancient tale. | BY PAUL STATT ’78

n 1894 Thomas Ethelbert Page, founding mythos of an empire, Ia very British schoolmaster, it’s an empire that Virgil and Ferry introduced the edition of The both see coolly—the course of an Aeneid against which, in 1973, we empire for liberty, or an accidental 16-year-olds still struggled in Latin empire, will not run smooth. It will 3. He wrote, “For an ordinary man, prove difficult (in Ferry’s transla- however, to discuss Virgil is almost tion) an impertinence.” ... to use your arts to be Now comes David Ferry ’46: a The governor of the world, to bring poet, and no ordinary poet. His it to peace, new Aeneid is a miraculous resur- Serenely maintained with order and rection of an ancient prophetic with justice, To spare the defeated and to bring tale, richer than mere translation. an end The Aeneid is perhaps discussed To war by vanquishing the proud. too much. It has been called the foundational epic of Rome, a Epic is timeless. The Aeneid can panegyric to Caesar Augustus, be a frustrating exercise in transla- propaganda in the Punic Wars and days of its month, behind the Ferry was in his tion—you, too, may recall—in part a screed against that nasty woman clouds.” 80s when he won because it mixes past, present, Cleopatra. Virgil’s Aeneid is a saga In doubts and uncertainties a National Book future and all the other confusing Award. Now of refugees of war risking their before battle, Aeneas “was all at he’s translated Latin tenses in a single poem or lives on small boats in the Mediter- sea in his mind.” And I love Ferry’s Virgil. stanza, sometimes in a sentence. ranean; in 2017, that plain fact is an masterly evocation of the fog of The historical present predomi- interpretation. war, as his bloody adversary slips nates. Is all this happening now? It contains multitudes, so the into a hypnagogic trance: Did it happen long ago? Will it devil, or anyone else, can cite The It’s as in sleep, in the quiet of the come to pass in the future? Yes, yes Aeneid for his purpose. As they did night, and yes. with scripture, medieval Christian Our languid eyelids close and in This dreamtime ubiquity only soothsayers opened their copies to their dream makes sense, even if it’s hard to random pages to foretell their Fate. Won’t tell wherever we are nor follow. Ferry’s Aeneid is an itera- where we’re going, By such bibliomancy, I could sum- Or trying to go, nor can we get there tion of a poem written 2,000 years mon hard Truth written in cold where- ago, by a poet recalling poems steel, or breathtaking Beauty, on Ever where might be and who sung by nameless bards hundreds any page of Ferry’s Aeneid. But in knows who it is of years earlier than that, about horror or delight, every line of his We maybe are, our legs gone weak, events that already were ancient no way majestic verse tastes metallic, the To get there where? It was thus with for Homer, and, for all that, it feels tang of melancholy. Turnus. as if it had been commissioned for When Aeneas encounters the our troubled times. shade of Dido in the mists of the Virgil’s Aeneid is difficult and The publisher’s blurb—wit- underworld but can’t quite make beautiful; so is Ferry’s. Ferry tingly?—offers a truly Virgilian her out: “... it was like seeing, / breathes life into the Latin in a way prophecy: “This is an Aeneid our Or thinking you were seeing, the that seems enchanted, as if he had grandchildren will be reading.” young moon rising / In the early collaborated with Virgil’s shade in Yes, but as a prophet warned Hades. Latinus, the king in Italy whom I love the gunmetal melancholy Aeneas overthrew to found Rome: The Aeneid of Ferry’s verse. The episodes of “Strangers are coming here / To By Virgil The Aeneid are tragic: sons burying be your sons.” And your grandchil- Translated from the Latin by David k Ferry ’46 fathers, fathers burying their sons, dren. University of Chicago Press good women done wrong, wars that might have been avoided, Paul Statt is a Philadelphia-based shipwreck and exile. If this is the writer.

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poetry course, taught by Professor Davy related, he turned to her and said, “We 1942 Morton, himself a minor poet. Strug- dare not err again.” Thus, the poet, even Our “Hurricane” class of 1942 is dwin- gling with an essay assignment early in on the tennis court! dling. We have now lost our celebrated the year, I needed a fellow freshman in A card from ERIC HAMP was a pleas- poet and translator RICHARD WILBUR my class to help me. I found that there ant surprise. Usually I have been able (see In Memory in this issue). Some of was only one such. It was DICK WILBUR, to communicate with him only through the others—ARTHUR RAYMOND, CLIN- in North Dorm, not far from my room in his daughter Juli Love. He says that he TON SCHARFF and JOHN REBER—are not South Dorm. He proved to be quite gra- is doing well in the nursing home, with reachable by phone, so whether they are cious and had a few suggestions that actu- “good conversations and visits” (former Merchants’ Row in still alive or not is unknown to me. This ally got me going. And then he read me colleagues and students)—some days Amherst, shown leaves us with BURT HARWOOD, ERIC his own paper, already written. It was at more restful than others. His wife, Mar- here in the 1860s, HAMP, ALAN MILLER and myself as that point that it became crystal clear to got, shares the apartment with him, and burned to the known survivors—a class size of some- me that it would not be wise for me to she is, at least, physically well. There are ground in July 1879. where between four and seven. contemplate taking a major in English. I “many activities” (in the nursing home)— A new Merchants’ I will begin with a couple of memories of sought refuge, and later prospered, in the so a “good life for 97.” Row was built the DICK WILBUR that I could not put in the In safety of an honors major in chemistry. BURT HARWOOD is having a difficult following year, Memory piece (space limits). Dick’s and Our paths did cross at Amherst re- time. An infection, originally thought to partially on the my paths did not often cross during our unions. At one reunion, probably in the be pneumonia, turned out to be a blood same site. Today Amherst undergraduate years. The one 1990s, I found myself on the tennis court infection with E. coli, and he was treated it’s home to La exception was in freshman year, when we with DICK WILBUR on the opposite side. and then sent home with continuing an- Veracruzana, both, exempted from the standard fresh- He was partnered with my wife, Adele. tibiotic treatments. He is not feeling all Collective Copies man English by a placement exam, found They were not winning. After losing a that well. Our thoughts and prayers are and Laughing Dog ourselves assigned to a modern English particularly painful point, as she later with you, Burt! Bicycles. COLLEGE ARCHIVES COLLEGE

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ALAN MILLER sends a charming card, success,” while Ted was a member of the game I (DICK BANFIELD) get out a report saying that “these days my adventures Amherst Glee Club and later received his and send it to all with whom I have an are local and indoors. The garden is put medical doctorate. email address. It is difficult to get news- to bed, but concerts flourish. The family Enjoyed a great talk with JOAN SEELYE, paper news of those games now. Another circle becomes closer, and we will have 20 who is managing quite well in Bethesda, way is to Google “Amherst College Ath- for Thanksgiving.” That verges on hero- Md., along with visiting her daughter, letics.” ism, Alan. He says that he enjoys our con- who is married to HAL SALZMAN’s son. GEORGANN MASTIN has been dis- versations about music, and that we know Joan also travels to, I believe, the Seelye turbed about campus behavior recently. each other now perhaps better than we family homesite in the Massachusetts She sent me the article about Williams ever did as undergraduates. Truly, one of Berkshires. I’m sending her a picture of and “a funny way of listening.” Contro- the benefits of survival. Talcott, SHERRY WARRICK and myself versial speakers have difficulties in this The responses from widows have also docking a sailboat in Essex, Conn., during land of “free speech.” been dwindling. Yet CAROLYN ALEX- a vacation recess from Amherst. BILL HUNTINGTON: Before homecom- ANDER favored me with two cards this Recently received a thoughtful reply ing 2017, I (DICK BANFIELD) went to past quarter, both reporting on Hurricane from HAL SALZMAN hoping we are sur- see Bill, who is in a nice facility outside Harvey. Luckily, she emerged unscathed viving the Florida heat. Sounds like, and Northampton. He’s having a tough time, by the flood in Houston, though James we hope, Hal has recovered from his re- but it was good seeing my old roommate. “My wife and I K. Alexander Jr. ’69 had a car that was cent Health Center ailment and is also I returned to Amherst to watch us defeat are grateful for flooded out. alert to those Fleet Landing Poker Game Wesleyan. The College had a tent for us Finally, a short report on myself: This attacks from BOB PREBLE. and nice refreshments, but no other ’46- every day we last quarter is marked by my final retire- EVAN FOTOS wished a happy Thanks- er with whom to enjoy them. are together,” ment from the active practice of psychia- giving and says he and Leman are fortu- > DICK BANFIELD try (Oct. 31). It seemed to me that to keep nate to be sharing a wonderful life experi- [email protected] writes Marty on seeing patients at the age of 97 was ence in Istanbul. Vogel ’48. verging on the ridiculous, if not the irre- Tina and I are moving to Indian River sponsible. It still has been a wrench, and Estates, assisted living in Vero Beach, Fla. 1947 a loss of contact with the ongoing lives of Meanwhile, I am still contributing WWII The College was notified of the passing some “old friends.” My greatest good for- experiences to a few museums. Just locat- of DAVE MOCK on Nov. 11, 2017. An In tune is that I still have a wife, not without ed a reference that two destroyers (Erben Memory piece will appear in a future is- some health troubles, but 14 years young- and my Stembel) are candidates for the last sue. er and very much alive. My own life is full bombardment of Japan (Kamaishi, Hon- Only one response for this issue: BUD of activities that I enjoy, and the time that shu) on Aug. 9, 1945, or just after the first GORDON writes that one of the residents is freed up by not working is soon swal- A bomb was dropped. at his retirement community is Joy Vien- lowed by other preoccupations. Unfortu- The class of 1944’s goal is to contribute tel, whose first husband was Allan Brandt nately, with advancing age, health main- news as long as possible, so thanks for a ’45. She is the sister of Sheldon Goidell ’48. tenance activities intrude more and more word or two whenever you get a chance. Bud has also been in touch with a former into my schedule—you might say that I am > GORDON “PETE” COLE patient, Nancy Cornell, whose father, Tim kept alive by artificial means. Luckily, I [email protected] ’44, was a good friend. Nancy and her sis- live quite close to the university medical ter, Abigail, played with Ben’s two oldest center. So life is not bad, and certainly girls when they were children. better than the alternative. 1946 Let’s try to send a few more responses in > RICHARD WARD ROBERT CAULKINS: “After hobbling March for the spring issue, please! [email protected] around on an arthritic knee for a while, I >HOWARD GELIN am considering having it replaced. I’m a HLGEL@ATT.NET long way from the distance runner I used 1943 to be (two Boston marathons).” Bob en- ALICE CARY reports that a former Am- tered family practice years before I (DICK 1948 herst House student, Doshisha Kitagaki, BANFIELD) entered ob-gyn. It wasn’t the I am sorry to report that EDWARD JELLI- ;Å now professor emeritus, is writing in Japa- war, but one year after med school you SON passed away on Sep. 19, at 91 years POET DAVID FERRY nese a biography of OTIS CARY. can enter family practice immediately. of age. Please see the In Memory section. ’46 PRESENTS A NEW ED LEARY says being old is not “gold- Gyn surgery was too complicated for me. BOB SCHLEIN reports: “All’s well on TRANSLATION OF JURGEN HONIG VIRGIL’S AENEID. en.” He doesn’t like being limited in “all : “My wife and I are the Florida scene. Looking forward to a actions and activities.” comfortably settled in a great retire- healthy and happy New Year!” Page 50 BOB MCADOO says his knees are still ment home, with wonderful neighbors. MARTY VOGEL writes that he just cel- working, but barely. He wondered how I am finishing a book in the technical area ebrated his 92nd birthday. “Still active, we’ll celebrate our 75th next spring. of critical phenomena,* participating in exercise daily, keep up with financials. BOB MERRELL says they are still active several civic activities, working out twice Planning to go to Sarasota, Fla., for four but “haven’t reached 100 yet.” a week, attending concerts and lectures. months mid-December. Was disappoint- BETSY SHENK VANSAND lost her hus- Mercifully, my health is good, except for ed at the last reunion—so few returned. band the day after her 97th birthday. a problem with my left knee.” *For those (How many are still with us?) My wife Unfortunately we have lost two more of of us who have no idea what critical phe- and I are grateful for every day we are our classmates. We lost SAMUEL PRICE nomena are: As the distance between wa- together.” on March 26 and SUMNER SILVER on ter and steam comes closer, eventually BRAD GAGE states that sooner or lat- Sept. 22. there is a point where it is almost indis- er one needs to retire, and on or about >MONTY HANKIN tinguishable. All hell breaks loose there, Dec. 1, 2017, he will have closed 40-UP and the mathematics of that area is where Tackle, “retiring” after 65 years in the Jurgen spends his time. Comprehenda? fishing tackle business. “Who knows? 1944 FRANK GIBSON: “Still on the farm and Maybe start another career—probably The tragic loss of two of our active class praying for a mild winter (Alexandria, to strike terror into helpless golf oppo- members, BILL HART and TED HALEY, is Ohio). Hope Amherst football is doing nents. Health still basically good, but recorded on the In Memory site. Bill was well. They don’t get much coverage in current knee problems probably limit an enthusiastic contributor to our football The Wall Street Journal!” marathons. But I walk to the mailbox for team and Chi Phi’s “athletic and social To all reading this: after every football the morning paper.”

52 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 Thank you for responding to the call monumental endeavor as I am! for information. I am appreciative, as A very interesting note from HERB KIN- 1950 are your classmates. Please send me in- NEY, who has moved to a retirement com- To start with, a recent note from JUDY formation on what you are doing or your munity in Eugene, Ore., to be nearer to KNODE in Sheridan, Wyo.: “Ralph passed thoughts about philosophy or politics or family. He and wife Betsie (Skidmore ’44) away on March 5 after a long battle with whatever. are both 95 and have been married for cancer. He had wonderful care at our local > CELESTE RINGUETTE W’48 72 years! He advises that he has a beauti- VA Hospital. He loved his years at Am- ful painting of Johnson Chapel that was herst and the lifelong friends [more than] done by ANDY KELEMEN’s widow, Ann, the liberal way it was heading!” 1949 which both Professors Morgan wished to JIM PIERSON: “I had my 90th birthday! It was a grim few months for many buy. Herb feels that the painting belongs I am sure there are many more in the class people around the country—hurricane, in Amherst, wants to donate it and asks of 1950. I am still working—crazy, right? floods, fire and terrorism. While class if anyone in our class knows a student or 67 years working and still driving, day members were not directly involved in alum from the Northwest who might be and night. I have five daughters and 10 the foregoing, we also had our share of traveling to the College who could carry grandchildren. Happy holidays to all of sad news, as we lost six of our shrinking the class!” team from New Hampshire to Hawaii. Off LLOYD SCHERMER: “Still working at As we so often say: our roster are TED WALKER (New Hamp- my art: in five months I finished a 9-foot- Small college, A sculpture ANDY LINN NICK shire), (Massachusetts), wide reach. by-4-foot antique-wood-type sculpture by Lloyd O’CONNELL (Washington), BILL EDISON that will be installed next July in the new (California), NAT POTTER (Hawaii) and Jefferson Memorial Arch Museum in St. Schermer BOB PRESTON (New Hampshire). Please it back. Any thoughts? Louis. The focus is on the Lewis & Clark ’50 will be see the In Memory section of this issue, From a zillion miles away, DAVE Expedition. A picture of the sculpture can noting especially Nick O’Connell ’80’s MEGIRIAN reports of another chance now be viewed on my website, schermer- installed next graceful tribute to his father, and NAT encounter where the conversation led to art.com.” July in the POTTER’s son, Bart’s, tribute to his fa- comments that made him recall his days JOHN SHREWSBURY’s wife, Joan, ther. We hope to have more information at the Fairest College. As we so often say: writes of his death Oct. 29: It “was not a new Jefferson about BILL EDISON in the near future for Small college, wide reach. surprise—he had both kidney and heart Memorial a later issue. Unfortunately, I learned as Some sad news from DON DUNBAR, failure for a long time, but was on his these class notes were going to press of reporting that his wife of 66 years, Dot, John Deere cutting the lawn in August! Arch Museum the passing of HORACE SELDON (Mas- died in September. He is now living with No pain and no dementia, for which we in St. Louis. sachusetts). his daughter in Maryland while ponder- were grateful—he greeted [Connecticut] Getting on to more cheerful news, the ing the future. This multi-letter athlete hospice care with the comment, ‘Why The focus is ever active BEN STOLTZFUS has two admits to being in difficult physical shape doesn’t everyone do this? This is great.’” on the Lewis “glad tidings” to share. Romoland, the at age 90 but still vertical and vocal. Fa- DAVE SINCLAIR reports: “I recently book that he and his wife wrote, was to miliar? attended a talk before the Darien Men’s & Clark be republished by a new company in time LINN PERKINS continues to be active Association by our classmate ED MEYER, Expedition. for Christmas, and his daughter Celia or- with family travels but wants to remind about his work in the airline industry as ganized a celebration for his 90th birth- us that our 70th reunion is coming up CEO of Trans World Airlines. He had day. The theme was Paris, the Eiffel Tower in 2019. I think most of the class real- many interesting things to say, including and Hemingway’s book A Moveable Feast ized that, but maybe Linn is already in his visit with Pope John Paul II during his to honor Ben’s career teaching French contact with his liquid supplier in New visit to the United States in 1979. I hope literature and his book on the subject. Hampshire. to have lunch in the near future with Ed, Champagne, souvenirs, the cancan and MARY-ANNE KOROMILAS (Pete’s who lives in nearby New Canaan.” appropriate cuisine completed the gala. widow) is still traveling the world, and KINGSLEY SMITH emailed me a richly For homecoming, both PETE MOYER WOODY KINGMAN’s widow, Claire, en- detailed reminder of how, between 1946 and your loyal scribe fought the traffic to joyed a marvelous long trip to Spain and and ’48, his Amherst fraternity and mine get there. Neither of us saw any others, but Portugal, returning home to care for her each dropped the national affiliation, to they may have been there. We had a pretty puppy, Everest, named in memory of her become a “local”: Delta Tau Delta be- good crowd, some of whom actually sat in husband. came Kappa Theta, since they wanted the stands for what was the warmest day Still a woodsman, CHAN OAKES was to invite some Jewish colleagues to join, at Pratt Field that I can recall. Wesleyan just back from his annual archery deer and Phi Kappa Psi turned into Phi Alpha had their best team in recent years. The hunt with his sons. For unknown reasons, Psi to welcome an African American col- officials kept it close, but the Jeffs scored at age 90, he seemed to require more help league named Tom Gibbs ’51. a victory (23–19) with two late long runs. than in previous years. He is still the un- “Over the next 25 years,” Kingsley not- From time to time, the PA announcer disputed “label king.” (See below.) ed, all the fraternities “went local,” soon would say, “First and 10 for the Mam- I hate to waste ink on this subject, but thereafter to become college dorms, but moths,” whatever that meant. are Chan and I the only ones who receive college congeniality apparently needs no From Vero Beach, Fla., where he saw these mailing labels? I discard hundreds national or “Greek” affiliation to thrive the Williams game, DON RIEFLER opined every week. For the record, I do not aplenty. Interesting how, during our post- that he thought the “Lord Jeffs would have have your addresses. The College does WWII years there, fraternities like his and beaten the Ephs.” the postcard mailing. The cards are not mine fostered the dynamic of “diversity” Taking pity on the secretary, Professor smooth vellum. Handwriting, like ev- which is now so featured by the College WALTER SPINK typed his news this time erything else, is deteriorating, but with we love. so that I might get the info correct. The a label, I would at least know where you REED STEWART reports: “91st birth- Indian Institute of Technology has been are and could communicate with you as day, lots of reading (books, journals, working for three years on a film on his needed. newspapers and magazines); town meet- research of the amazing Buddhist caves By the time you read this, it will be 2018. ing attender; playing with two Scotties in Ajanta (in western India), which has That’s a lot of years since 1949. We are all and feeding them; supervising minor been Walter’s life work. He has just fin- on the “back nine.” Stay well, drive care- carpentry; choosing gifts for children, ished a month of filming and will probably fully, and count your blessings. grandchildren, great- and great-great- have to go again in February 2018. I hope >GERRY REILLY grands; hoping our country turns toward that all of you are as impressed with this [email protected] politeness; talking with neighbors; sup-

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porting local charities, veterans and en- visits and stays overnight. Otherwise Sam of Greater Lafayette to fly from the Pur- vironmental groups.” is there caring for his clients who need his due Airport to visit the war memorials in Keep warm, this winter and always! help with computer programming and or- Washington, D.C. All expenses—meals, > EDGE QUAINTANCE ganization problems encountered in their ground transport, etc.—paid! No airplane [email protected] real estate and other businesses. Another security checks. No wives included, but daughter, living 12 miles away, is learning Charlie was assigned a 34-year-old Sam’s business skills with the idea of re- “guardian” who “donated” her costs to 1951 placing him when that time arises. Sam is accompany someone (Charlie, it turned Ten class members and eight wives at- in good shape, save for some macular de- out) on the trip. Weather was fine. Charlie tended the homecoming program in Oc- generation, but sees well enough to drive referred to it as a “perk” of small-town tober. Weather the whole weekend was and enjoy TV, newspapers, etc. life. No doubt it was an honor well de- perfect. Amherst won the football game PETER GREENE was in the midst of served. against Wesleyan with a late fourth- reviewing files and furnishings with his HENRY WILLIAMS and his wife, Joey, quarter touchdown. Friday afternoon’s wife, Judith, when we talked last fall. enjoyed last Halloween at the nearby memorial program was led by HOBIE CLE- They plan to downsize in anticipation of home of one of their three daughters. She MINSHAW and was attended by MOOSE moving to a condo or retirement com- and her husband live in a huge 100-plus- MCGRATH’s two nieces and nephew, chil- munity. He works only from home now, year-old mansion in the center of town dren of Greg McGrath ’52. Friday night’s keeping his hand in research projects that that is easily suited for a haunted house. Charlie dinner at Alina’s Restaurant in Hadley hopefully will result in new insights into Henry and Joey just sit in one corner and Tritschler featured rousing College songs led by certain human illnesses. One child is in watch their daughter and her husband FRED LUDDY. Dinner Saturday evening Hong Kong and the other near Boston. pass out 25 buckets of candies to dozens ’51, a Korean at the Luddys’ home is always a treat. Judy Peter favors Boston, should they decide to of variously dressed young folks who War veteran, and Fred go all out for those attending. be near one or the other of their offspring! seem to come from every part of town. The “Mammoth” didn’t appear! PHIL KNOWLES and his wife, Eileen— Then they drive home. No preparation was delighted LEE ALLEN, 92, finds he lives a slow- who, like a majority of us now, have de- or cleanup—just enjoy! With thigh prob- to accept an paced life but is quite content with it. He cided it’s time to downsize—put on the lems and wobbly knees, Henry can only always has another project to perform on market this spring the house of 21 or more remember fondly his high-jumping days, invitation his home, where he has lived for some years that they still continue to enjoy, and his favorite college sport. Otherwise, from the decades. No hurry to finish up. What retire to a nearby retirement community Henry is still Henry! would be next? He dines out nightly with in Lenox, Mass. No need for new doctors, ART YULL’s wife, Sharon, reports that Honor Flight his nearby lady friend of many years. Lee to leave old friends, etc.—a plus for those Art has his physical problems but gets of Greater learned, earlier on the day we talked, that in their situation. Phil, an old naval seago- about town on his own as needs arise. For his vision in his one good eye remains ing sailor, recalls fondly those days long decades Art has lived on the shore of Lake Lafayette to stable and should remain that way. Good past, but now is quite satisfied kayaking Huron, north of Detroit, in a spacious wa- visit the war news there. on nearby lakes in the Berkshire Hills. terfront home. Being very mechanically WALLY ANDERSON stays close to his JOHN MARTIN and his wife, Susan, re- talented, he delights in identifying and memorials in retirement community apartment. His side in the St. Louis apartment they have overseeing all repairs, updates, etc. Art Washington, son, living near Philadelphia, visits semi- enjoyed for many years. John is quite at is long retired from his surgical practice weekly to take him out and takes care of home with his schedule, or lack thereof. and thoroughly enjoys the flexibility of D.C. All whatever else needs attention. Wally still Little traveling, none of any distance: this stage of his life. expenses paid! enjoys regular gin rummy games with his Why fight the crowds? Driving around DON OSBORN reported that his wife of longtime lady friend who resides in the St. Louis is it. John and Susan focus upon 67 years passed away on Nov. 12. Our con- same community. TV, reading and keep- their four grandchildren, most of whom dolences to Don and their five daughters ing up with national and world events are are in college somewhere, offspring of and their families. part of his regular schedule. their surgeon son who lives close by. All During the fall we learned of the pass- NEBS BLAISDELL lives in rural Mary- four excel at one sport or another and up- ing of three more class members: DEAN land in a family homestead where his dad date their grandparents as to their latest BLANCHARD on June 8, 2017; DON SMITH once farmed the surrounding land, now doings on visits home. on March 1, 2016; and REGGIE FROST developed with housing. He is comfort- CHARLIE PITTMAN and his wife, Claire, on Nov. 4, 2017. An In Memory piece able being on his own, still drives, does survived Hurricane Irma, but were bused for Dean and Don appears in this issue. his own cooking, etc. Income traced to his from their Vero Beach retirement villa We learned of Reggie’s passing in mid- acting career is sufficient for his needs. No further inland to the Orlando area. All was November and couldn’t meet the Dec. more stage work, though, since remem- well except for sleeping on air mattresses 1 deadline for his remembrance. It will bering lines has become a problem. His for a couple of nights! Upon returning to appear in the spring issue. wife still works in the NYU theater depart- their Vero Beach home, all was OK—bet- > EVERETT E. CLARK ment in the Big Apple. ter safe than sorry! Charlie finds that most [email protected] When we talked, CHARLIE CHAPIN and of their engagements now are for medi- his wife, Kay, were about to pack up from cal appointments, with occasional trips to their Rhode Island summer residence food stores and less frequent restaurant 1952 and head south for their winter home outings. Sounds familiar! The class celebrated its annual fall get- on an island off Florida’s west coast that HAL SUTTON and his wife, Marjorie, together at the College on Friday and has no bridge to the mainland. Charlie are now living in a retirement commu- Saturday of the first weekend in October. enjoys gardening and yard work, so that nity in Le Grange, Ill. He is not yet fully It was a most remarkable turnout, con- keeps him in shape during the summer. retired from his research programs, but sidering that we are becoming reluctant Their boat in winter months serves as a that move isn’t far off. He leaves the driv- falling leaves from a stately and sturdy pickup truck for twice-weekly visits to ing to Marjorie, but enjoys good health tree. Included in the festive throng were stores, etc. Hope Hurricane Irma didn’t for our age group. One of their four chil- CLIFF ANDERSON, JEAN DOELLING, damage anything. dren lives nearby, so they see her and her JACK MACKENZIE and his grandson, SAM CROWE remains in the West Ches- family frequently. Six grandchildren are BOB and Betty ROMER, class prexy BOB ter, Pa., four-bedroom home that he has doing their thing. SKEELE and first lady Nancy, BOB and enjoyed for decades. Annually his son and Last fall CHARLIE TRITSCHLER, a Ko- Cookie STACKPOLE, JACK and Anne family visit from Asia for several weeks, rean War veteran, was delighted to ac- VERNON, DOUG WILLIAMSON and BILL and a daughter from Lancaster frequently cept an invitation from the Honor Flight and Bix SMETHURST.

54 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 We also had four guests attending zheimer’s disease. John had a very distin- the mouthwatering dinner at Valentine guished career as a physician in Georgia. Hall elegantly prepared by the dinner The Rev. LAURIE HILL reports from staff. The guests included our Saturday Tonganoxie, Kan., that over the past year morning speaker, Ron Rosbottom, with he has spent several sessions at the hos- his wife, and also Bob Bagg ’57 and his pital to ascertain the source of recurring wife, who have recently written an en- infections. He adds that he and DON JUD- grossing biography of Amherst’s great SON have stayed in regular touch despite poet Richard Wilbur ’42 (who sadly died all the rigors of advancing years. just a few weeks after our dinner). The CHUCK TREFREY, who says he will turn comments by Professor Bagg reminded 90 in December, writes that he is still hun- me of some almost forgotten ancient his- gry for education. Chuck is the manager tory. My Montclair High School English and an eager participant in the St. John’s teacher, Mr. Byrd, upon hearing that I College Annapolis Executive Seminar. In was going to Amherst College in the fall examining the Book of Genesis from the of 1948, earnestly said to me, “My two point of view of the Torah and Christian

favorite students, Charles Cole and Dick versions, he found little difference. What ARCHIVES COLLEGE Wilbur, went to Amherst. I’m sure you will surprised him was the difference in ter- emulate them.” Oh, well. minology for the supreme deity. “Hate to think it is our final jaunt to Eu- j A Little BOB ROMER is one of our most remark- Sadly, CLIFF ANDERSON informs us rope. Time will tell.” Night able classmates. Not satisfied with merely that his beloved wife of 62 years, Bebe, EARL TAFT, who, as Shakespeare said, Music being a distinguished physicist and the died in September. He recalls that he “[hath] nor youth nor age,” writes that he Student author of what my older son (professor met her on a blind date when she was a still submits mathematical papers for singers crowd of African American literature at UMass) freshman at Mount Holyoke. His frater- publication. He informs us that his eye- termed the definitive work on slavery in nity brother JIM JORDAN arranged the sight is great again after cataract surgery, around a Western Massachusetts, Bob has com- blind date. and he will be a resident scholar at UC piano in this pleted over two dozen marathons in his SISSEL NEWCOMBE proudly tells us Berkeley from January through April. undated middle age. Having finished a few mara- that her oldest grandson, Reid ’21, is Earl hopes that one of his grandsons, a photo. If you thons myself (many less than Bob), I am now a freshman at the Fairest College. student at Berkeley, will consent to have can identify overwhelmed by his guts, tenacity and His father, Andrew Shilling ’89; grand- an occasional lunch with him. After the any of these physical fitness. father DAVE, our classmate; and two academic sojourn in California, the Tafts Not to be excelled by Bob, GORDY HALL aunts are all Amherst graduates. Wow! will be off to Israel and Paris. Earl, just young men— forwards a report on another intrepid How impressive. reading the foregoing paragraph leaves or even the voyageur of our class. Gordy said that CHRIS BOYLE informs us from sunny me breathless. room they’re he had just talked with JOHN STOOKEY, Arizona that he is “doing pretty well: good From France comes a missive from in—write who told Gordy that he (John) had just health, busy, many new friends in my se- JEAN-PAUL DELAMOTTE, who still to us at finished paddling from Montreal to New nior living facility and frequent contact works as a writer and translator. He says magazine@ York City with his Kevlar canoe and a kay- with my nine grandchildren.” He ends his he is now 86 and slowing down a bit “but ak paddle. He did the long and exhaust- card by saying, “Still grateful to Amherst as OK as can be.” He sends his best wishes amherst.edu. ing trip in multiple stages, starting in May for preparing me to be a teacher for 50- to all ’52-ers over here in the states. As a and ending in early November. In addi- plus years.” writer and translator, Jean-Paul became tion to this intrepid ultra-marathon, John Poet Laureate FRANK RANDALL be- interested in Australia and its literature. has paddled the entire Erie Canal and the guiles us with a somewhat bittersweet He focused on the intellectual and artistic Northern Canoe Route, and the Indian lament that entwines advancing years life of the country and translated many Trading Route from northern New York and current politics: Australian works into French. In 1999 he State to Fort Kent on the St. John River in “I’ve reached the age of 85. received the Order of Australia, a very northern Maine. NICK EVANS summed I really shouldn’t be alive. high honor bestowed only on a select up John’s exploits quite neatly: “Phenom- But I want to live to hear the thump number of non-residents of Australia— enal! Hope he kept a logbook of travels, Of the silly flops of President Trump.” or citizens, for that matter. travails and triumphs.” Heard from JOHN GREENEBAUM 1952 was a great vintage in France but With all the ink that McCullough’s that he and Mary celebrated their 50th an even greater one at Amherst. biography of Grant is getting, you may wedding anniversary as guests of John > BILL SMETHURST remember that our own BILL MCFEELY Yarmouth, a Democratic congressman [email protected] won the Pulitzer Prize for his trenchant from Louisville, Mo., at the golfing re- biography of the same general and U.S. sort in Doonbeg, Ireland. They had a prexy a number of years ago. I doubt that great time, even though Donald Trump 1953 Bill’s work will ever become a Broadway owns the resort. JOE KATRA and Mary-Jane experienced musical as McCullough’s is likely to, but DICK SODER, living near one of his Hurricane Irma as a Category One storm it is still a must-read. daughters, still adores Chapel Hill, N.C. at their independent-living community, DOUG and Barbara WILLIAMSON are After an active business career involv- Stratford Court, in Palm Harbor, Fla. As selling their house in Sherman, Conn., ing international traffic, he now leads a the storm approached and winds hit up and have moved into a rural retirement quiet life of “reading, playing bridge and to 95 mph, they were moved to the hall- community in nearby Redding—but it’s dog-sitting.” After recovering from an ear way of their sixth-floor apartment for four still an easy schlep into New York City. flutter last year, Dick follows a program hours to avoid possible breaking glass and Doug and Barbara plan to spend the win- of light but regular exercise. He laments other problems. They were without pow- ter at their home in Florida. Doug adds the demise of Lord Jeff and says the class er for two-and-a-half days, meaning the that, in their current lifestyle, the term of ’52 remains his strongest attachment. elevators didn’t work. Joe says the staff “walker” has a much different conno- ALASTER MACDONALD and Sue en- was “fantastic” in providing meals and tation than it did in more active days of joyed a lovely and refreshing cruise up the other help to stranded occupants. Joe is youth and middle age. Danube River from Budapest to Prague troubled by spinal stenosis, which “makes PAULA DICKINSON informs us that her with a stopover at Nuremberg, where it difficult to move around.” Joe has also husband, JOHN DICKINSON, has just died Alaster was stationed 1952–55 with the lost vision to the point where he needs after a long and difficult struggle with -Al U.S. Army. Alaster reluctantly concludes, a lighted magnifying glass to read. He

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has given up driving, so others took the ampton and 10 days in Maine. When Church of Scotland parish as an outreach wheel when he and Mary-Jane traveled to home, Steve works two days a week as a worker to the university. Obviously, she Huntersville, N.C., in August to see their urologist at the Langley Air Force Base, is good at her job. first great-grandchild, Evren, born in De- where Margot works Friday mornings in Please write. cember 2016. the pharmacy. Both are Red Cross volun- > GEORGE GATES BOB GRAHAM checks in from Sarasota, teers and active in their church. [email protected] Fla., where he and June are residents of a PHIL RANSOM, once our devoted sec- senior community: “We were not hit too retary, is at the St. Andre Health Care seriously, more discomfort than anything Facility in Biddeford, Maine, to have 1954 else. We were urged to vacate our semi- full-time care for physical and balance is- We have lost three more classmates: JEF- detached villa and go to the main house. sues. His daughter, Lisa (Ransom) Lubarr FERSON “JEFF” KEENER, Sept. 8; WIL- Several of the villa inhabitants stuck it ’84, writes that he is doing well so far and LIAM “BILL” MEAD, Oct. 14; and JOSEPH out, but June, being a good citizen, de- keeps busy writing a book about his fa- “HANK” CARTER, Oct. 19. cided we should go. Brought a bottle of ther’s experiences as a volunteer ambu- All served in the armed forces after wine, found some companion souls and lance driver in France during World War I. graduation and went on to graduate had a bit of a party until it was bedtime. I The ’53 Beta Book Club lives on. This school. Jeff went to business school at sat in a chair all night and apparently lost year they gathered at the North Andover, Case Western Reserve and then became the ability to sleep upright. We emerged Mass., home of GEORGE EDMONDS and the executive of Chardon Rubber Co. in the next morning and found a number of Pat for two days and three nights in mid- Akron, Ohio. Bill went to the University of large trees were down, a 40-foot section September. Included were RICH GRAY Virginia School of Law and then worked at of a wall between us and a neighboring and Barbara; MANSON HALL and his wife, the firm Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens. community had collapsed, and there was Ann Ferguson; STERLING WEAVER and Hank went to Hahnemann Medical Col- 1955: While at the tree and brush debris everywhere. Un- Jean; and DEBORAH EAMES-STUART, lege and practiced obstetrics in York, Pa., Watkins Glen race- sightly but not life-threatening.” widow of ASH EAMES. At the first dinner, where he was active in Planned Parent- track last summer, From Naples, Fla., hard hit by Irma, they gave voice to “Great Wooly Mam- hood. Their richly fulfilled, productive, Bob Henderson MARK WEBER reports his seventh-floor moths,” Rich’s send-up of the much- active careers and extended families are competed in some beachfront apartment was spared except lamented “Lord Jeffrey Amherst.” Let detailed in the In Memory section. TOM races. During two for damage to a living room window. Mark George tell the rest: “The next day, Rich BLACKBURN wrote Jeff’s note; HANK events, over suc- heeded warnings and evacuated to Or- led the discussion of Julie Schumacher’s TULGAN wrote Bill’s obit; and Hank’s cessive weekends, lando for a day. comic epistolary novel, Dear Committee daughters Christine ’85 and Hope wrote he garnered two Irma also played a role in the last days Members, and Deborah followed with about their father. firsts, a third and of BOB CHIPMAN. He had developed dif- Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The DICK STURTEVANT writes that he has a fifth in his class. ficulty in walking, a wearisome cough and Handmaid’s Tale. Sterling and Jean led the survived back-to-back hurricanes, Mat- Bob’s racecar is a headaches, so tests were scheduled. The group discussion of J.D. Vance’s sociolog- thew in 2016 and Irma in 2017. “Both Toyota Scion FRS tests were canceled as Irma neared and ical memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, followed by times we had to evacuate, and both times made by Subaru with Bob and his companion, Edie Leckey, Manson with Richard Haas’ unsettling we’re blessed upon returning to find no a 200-horsepower evacuated. They returned to their Fer- analysis, A World in Disarray. The Beta flooding, and no major storm surge and engine. Bob is on the nandina Beach, Fla., home to find only Book Blast also included a lobster bake, no major damage—just a few trees and International Motor minor damages, but subsequent tests wine tastings, a museum visit and town branches down. Aside from that, we are Racing Research found cancer that led to Bob’s death. See tour, hill hike, garden viewing and enor- enjoying life together at CCRC Fleet Board’s governing the In Memory section of this magazine. mous amounts of conversation.” Landing in Atlantic Beach, Fla.” council (similar to And then there’s Harvey, the hurricane From Brookhaven on Long Island, JACK SHERMAN reports that on July 30 a library), which that visited Houston. From Sugar Land, DAVE WINSLOW checks in: “Still play- he slipped in the bathroom and broke his compiles the history a Houston suburb, BOB CARINGTON has ing golf and maintaining our substan- hip. After two months in the hospital and of motorsports. this news: “All rivers in East Texas flood- tial vegetable garden (now that I have rehab, he has moved to the home of his ed badly and caused extensive damage. eliminated two groundhogs that were daughter, Kristy, in Danville, Calif. His Luckily, they were miles from us, so we decimating it).” house in San Francisco is now up for sale. remained high and dry.” From West Hollywood, Calif., GEORGE JON LEIGH continues to live in New Evidently, President DAVE BLACK- MURPHY writes: “We live in a condomin- York City. He can’t drive anymore, be- BURN, Sharon and their dog Sarah were ium with no lawn to keep and few home- cause of eye problems, and his wife, the only ’53-ers returning for homecom- owner worries. Jane is a bit unhappy be- Bobbie, has been doing well after heart ing. In answer to my only question, Dave cause she has become a superb chef and surgery a couple of years ago. reports that no one was dressed up as a cannot grow all the herbs she would like. CARL PELLMAN is one of the few our mammoth to roam the sidelines, but a I am on the board of directors, chiefly be- classmates who continues practicing number of students wore T-shirts pic- cause I supply wine for the meetings. We medicine. Carl works part-time as a urolo- turing our new creature. have weekly paddle tennis and Kriegspiel gist in the nearby Northport, Va., clinic. For two years, STEVE ROUS and Margot games for me, weekly bridge for us, con- He also continues to sing bass in N’ashir have lived in Fort Monroe, Va., facing the certs, operas and dinners with friends, Chorale, a Hebrew chorus. His daughter, waters of Chesapeake Bay directly across time for our pet charity and many medi- Amy, is an L.A. Superior Court Judge, and from Naval Station Norfolk. The previ- cal appointments.” A European trip last his 60-year-old son, David, is a professor ous 35 years had been spent in various June had to be skipped when Jane devel- of pediatric oncology at Harvard and the New England spots. Writes Steve: “We oped severe pneumonia, but they will try Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. both feel that much of New England is for Spain shortly. George added: “We are MEREDITH PRICE, at the age of 84, just plain more beautiful than this part all in peril of becoming bores praising our thought it was time he dropped the nick- of the country, but the trade-off is that grandchildren”… so here goes. name “Curly.” Meredith has moved into our grandchildren and our oldest son and By the time this magazine arrives at assisted living with his wife, Nancy. After his wife are within 15 minutes of driving your door, your scribe will have been to 38 years of teaching English at Andover, time from our home here.” Steve says the Glasgow, Scotland, for the wedding of he has retired but continues to teach two real negative of Fort Monroe is hot, humid granddaughter Elizabeth Robson News- small courses on poetry and Fitzgerald weather from May to October, which they wanger (known to one and all as Lizy), and Hemingway in his new residence. try to beat by going away. Last summer, Mount Holyoke ’11, to Petri Simonen, a He commented on the exciting Williams it was a week in Brittany, a round trip on Finnish graduate student at the Univer- game, which he watched on TV, as being the Queen Mary 2 from New York to South- sity of Glasgow. Lizy is on the staff of a one of the most exciting games in which

56 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 Amherst came back to tie the score but to the Notch over the well-manicured base- shore of Long Island and has always en- lose in overtime. He cautioned that Wil- ball diamond and athletic fields. Four of joyed being near the water. He frequently liams, which had a losing season last year, us attended President Biddy Martin’s uses the heated pool in his complex. Bill had 10 freshman starters this year. I am briefing in Johnson Chapel before ad- spent two weeks on Aruba in December still haunted by the 1951 game, where Wil- journing to Pratt Field. The class of 1955 for the 21st consecutive year. He follows liams drubbed Amherst 40–7, and George congregated in a tent at the west end of the municipal bond market and is watch- Steinbrenner, their halfback and sports the field with other classes from our de- ing many bonds get pre-refunded. editor of the Williams Record, wrote a cade. Those classmates who were the CHIP MERRILL and Sue have relocated scathing letter criticizing Coach McLaury. beneficiaries of this wonderful day were to a retirement center in Mechanics- HANK TULGAN, our perennial sports AL MCLEAN, BOB GRANT, Diane and VAN burg, Pa. Chip is slowly getting assimi- score reporter, along with GEORGE WAT- SEASHOLES, Shirley and SAM DAVEN- lated to his new surroundings. Susie is SON, AUSTIN KENEFICK and spouses, PORT, Diane and DICK WRIGHT, BOB in the memory care unit. Chip is going were at homecoming and enjoyed the JEDREY, Katie and HUGH MOULTON, to sell their Florida home in the next few Wesleyan game, which the Mammoths months. Having done the cooking for the won in a comeback. Despite all the neg- last three years, Chip is able to live on his atives about the Mammoths, there is an What a wonderful, memorable own, but confesses that he frequently excellent, detailed book by John J. McKay, day for all. Homecoming 2017 buys meals-to-go at a nearby store. Discovering the Mammoth. For those of us was simply superb! JOHN HAMMOND lives in Plymouth, Bud Allen pre-meds who were exposed to Profes- Mass., where he represents his precinct ’55 says sor Albert Wood’s comparative anato- on the 100-person town meeting. Al- my course, this makes me think that the DAVE LEMAL and ROB SOWERSBY. We though this group formally meets only Hurricane story of the evolution of the mammoth, watched the football game from the brick twice a year, John serves on the open Irma was like the changes in Amherst, makes the wall in front of our tent. Since it appeared lands committee, which educates fellow Mammoth as a mascot pretty legitimate. Wesleyan had won, Al, Bob and Rob de- citizens on the value of undeveloped land. his 17th MARY ELLEN WALTER, Gene’s widow, cided to depart a little early to beat the John is a member of two book groups and hurricane, so sent along a note that she sold their house rush to the narrow exits. As we stood up continues to learn about playing the har- in New Jersey, where Gene had a collec- to start walking, we heard a great roar. monica. He still has a 16-foot boat that he he knows how tion of folk art and masks. Mary will be A Jeff player was racing toward the goal can sail and row. to prepare for retiring next year as a director of infection line in front of us, followed by 21 other The University of Rochester School of control at a 500-bed community hospital. players. He had broken through the line Medicine gave the 2017 Humanitarian them. Bud CYNTHIA MCCORMICK reports that the for a game-winning 51-yard touchdown! Award posthumously to BILL GAMBLE. did not lose many letters written to her when Doug Amherst won 21–17. What a wonderful, Bill was honored at an October dinner was in the Navy went to the Center for memorable day for all. Homecoming 2017 with CASSIE GAMBLE and her three electricity— American War Letters at Chapman Uni- was simply superb! children in attendance. The award rec- just had a few versity in Orange, Calif. She has shared On Sept. 23, Barbara and JIM BRAYER ognizes graduates who have contributed these with their children. The center is made the two-hour drive from outside to the betterment of the world by their blips in his collecting letters from all wars and can be Rochester to Clinton, N.Y., to watch the selfless alleviation of suffering among lights. contacted at www.WarLetters.us. Amherst-Hamilton football game. The those in need. The school said Bill had WALT BORDEN has published Wild visitors were victorious by a score of 36– been a beloved clinician and educator for Justice, about his experience as a foren- 6. Jim says it wasn’t even that close—the nearly 50 years. sic psychiatrist, and proudly reports that Jeffs dominated from the start. Jim cer- Shirley and SAM DAVENPORT both are his granddaughter graduated from Am- tainly is our class sports nut and continues active tennis players. Sam plays three days herst this year. to enjoy any and all Amherst competitions a week, always doubles, all year ’round, RICHARD WILLEMSEN reports that his played close to his home! both inside and outside. At his church wife and he are in the Caribbean and look BUD ALLEN says Hurricane Irma was his Sam works with the Men’s Ministry, which forward to doing some scuba diving. 17th hurricane, so he knows how to pre- provides home and yard upkeep and im- CHARLIE SMITH is enjoying his retire- pare for them. Bud did not lose electric- provement services for people who need ment. He sent the following note: “Mary ity—just had a few blips in his lights. He their assistance. This covers everything Anne and I look at the Nubble Lighthouse plays golf once a week. He uses the white from replacing wet ceilings and building each sunrise. The garden pond, book club tees, carries a six handicap, and regularly wheelchair ramps to pressure washing, nonfiction and church keep us busy. Thir- shoots his age or lower. When not on the painting and yardwork. ty DVD great work courses in chemistry, golf course, Bud enjoys his free time and After DON MARCUS retired following physics, math and history of medicine takes wife Anne out to lunch. 35 years in the neurology department of are shared with grandchildren. Recently BOB FOX lives in a retirement center the VA hospital in Coatesville, Pa., he I sailed with Ian ’86 out of South Freeport near Dartmouth in northern New Hamp- returned to the facility and now works on Casco Bay. We are putting an eleva- shire. There he serves on a few commit- three mornings a week in the mental tor in our four-story home so we can stay tees at the center and partakes in many health department. Don finds this activ- here longer.” of the programs that are offered. Bob sees ity both interesting and satisfying. This > BOB ABRAMS friends and often goes out to lunch with past summer Don went to Albany, N.Y., [email protected] them. He is able to get around using a for the annual Welsh language course. Al- four-wheeled walker. ways interested in languages, he takes a In the winter JIM DILLON lives in Na- course in French one night a week. 1955 ples, Fla., which is where Hurricane Irma For several years, June and JOHN A very different kind of Perfect Storm hit the mainland in September. There was CAMPBELL’s younger son and his fam- came together at Amherst College on no serious damage to their residence in ily have been living with them. John says, Oct. 21 for homecoming 2017. First of spite of the fact that Jim has 20 solar cells “In our house, every day is a circus.” He is all, the weather was unusually warm. on the roof. The Dillons spent six weeks learning the intricacies of modern bridge The morning temperature must have in Maui early in 2018. Jim and Sue are ac- and serves as a “consultant” to a friend started out in the mid-40s, but by mid- tive with their church parish, and Jim is who is writing a book about bridge. He afternoon it was easily in the mid-70s. It involved with the Order of Malta group. enjoys doing the yard maintenance on his was a day with bright sunshine. The Quad BILL NORDEN has resided in the same one-acre property, helping meet his com- was peaceful. Of course, that view from apartment on Shore Road in Long Beach, mitment to exercise 40 minutes daily. the War Memorial is priceless, looking at N.Y., since 1967. He grew up on the south Author WALTER MARKS has finished

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his latest book in the Jericho Amazon se- tery, since neither of had studied physics moved into a beautiful, first-class assisted ries, Amazing Detective. in high school. We had Professor Arons living facility in Marshfield, Mass., a mar- Although the College lists the ad- for lecture, section and lab, the ultimate velous place, not too far from their prior dress for SETH FRANK as a location in trifecta. Somehow, we both managed to home, where they “feed you too much. the East 80s in NYC, do not go looking survive the experience and graduated. We exchanged a nice view of Quincy for him there! Seth spends most of the Charlie immediately went to OCS at Bay for a nice view of a parking lot.” year in Europe. He continues to engage Newport in class 28, and, since the Navy They did away with their email, so they in philanthropy focused on education had heard of our performances as fresh- are now reachable only by phone and/or and directed at Amherst and the Ameri- men, they decided that one Amherst man U.S. mail. Like many of us, Champ has can Farm School in Greece. Seth keeps was enough for a class of 1,100 officer acquired a new hip and is currently in re- busy writing poetry, which he shares with candidates. I followed Charlie in class covery mode. Otherwise, they are both friends around the world, including the 29, and we maintained the peace for the doing well. next three years. Charlie was one of the When I checked in with JOHN ROYSE on sweetest men I have ever known, and his how his and Peg’s home on Sanibel Island, passing leaves a huge hole in the hearts Fla., fared during the wrath of Irma, he Canoe Believe It? of all of his classmates.” reported, “We dodged a bullet. The storm We have recently learned that PETER veered away from us at the last minute, 1956: Dick Winslow’s rafting, kayaking and canoeing ac- WRAY died in August 2016 in Mexico. Pe- and we were spared major damage. Oth- tivities come faster than your secretary can report them. ter’s brothers and his former wife, Gay erwise we are still upright and doing well Dick’s rafting on the Firth River in the remote area on the Firestone, still support a scholarship fund in our nice retirement community villa border of Alaska and Yukon Territories was covered in the at the College. connected to life care, where we have previous class notes. Since then, in August, he rafted a12- CHARLIE MORGAN writes: “Retired been for four years now. Finally, we are day trip on the Tatshenshini River, which runs through the (finally!) in September, celebrated with getting ready to sell our old home where Yukon and British Columbia and joins with the fast-mov- a cruise on the Dordogne River and a trip we lived for the 37 prior years.” ing Alsek River on the Alaska border, emptying into the to Lascaux and Sarlat. In mid-December Another Florida island, Amelia, on Gulf of Alaska, northwest of Juneau; he reported many we move to our Palm Beach home for the the East Coast, was almost 100 percent grizzly bear and bald eagle sightings. September found winter.” evacuated. JOHN FULTON says that, aside him on the River Spey in Scotland in a two-person canoe. BILL ELTON reports from the North- from many trees lost on the golf course, His next outing was in October, a canoeing weekend in west: “I recently retired from a 52-year his house survived relatively unscathed. Aroostock County, Maine, combined with hunting for practice of pathology and have quickly Sandra and John and the entire Fulton ground partridge. Not a bad year for an 83-year-old. become accustomed to it. Time seems to clan attended the wedding of their old- fritter away at least as fast as it used to. est grandchild/daughter at a wonderful The relatively small independent practice celebration in northern New Hampshire. College’s website. I’ve been a part of for the past 50 years has JOHN ELSBREE emails: “Not much hap- We are sorry to report the deaths of KIKO now been absorbed by a much larger en- pening with Anne and me. Just getting CUYLER and HOC NOBLE. Remembranc- tity, an inevitable product of continuing older. Grandkids, on the other hand, are es for these two very loyal classmates can change in the field of medical care. My active. Oldest granddaughter was mar- be found in the In Memory section. wife, Sherry, and I are doing well, with ried in September in Fairfield, Conn. > ROB SOWERSBY no serious maladies, enjoying increased Her brother started his M.A. architecture [email protected] togetherness and more opportunity to program at U of Colorado. Third-oldest visit friends and family.” grandchild is a freshman at Williams. Our The word from Vincennes, France, per traveling days are not over, but surely 1956 PETER “TIGER” WEILLER, is that post- are reduced. We managed a trip to Nova About the only reliable constant these retirement, AL SOMAN is in pretty good Scotia and Prince Edward Island in June days is the relentless passage of time, health, reads as much as his 80-plus-year- with Anne’s brother and [his] wife, our illustrated below by the loss of beloved old eyes permit and enjoys spending a lot regular traveling mates. Am amused by classmates and by such words and phras- of time at his local bridge club. The club the new mascot. Is there a new song to es as “while we can,” “retired,” “down- serves a dual purpose in that it also pro- replace ‘Lord Jeffery Amherst’? Perhaps sized,” “grandkids,” “just getting older.” vides Al his exercise, roughly a mile of a song emphasizing a ‘stomp.’” Evidently On the other hand, the passage of time walking each way. the fastest-growing sport in this country has its share of uplifting words and phras- LARRY YOUNG says, “I still get to Hous- is pickleball. I know this because of a es for ’56: “Golden Years,” “retirement,” ton quite often in my work and continue to conversation with NEIL HURLBUT, who “family,” “upright,” “celebrate,” “grand- advise NASA and keep us headed toward most certainly has been won over, playing kids,” “enjoy.” Let’s hope 2018 provides humans on Mars—whether in our lifetime about four times a week. Google it to learn us more pleasure than pain. or later. My highlight of the fall was a about it, if you are as uninformed about it ALAN LEVENSTEIN and GAGE HINDLE drive with Vicki all the way from New as your secretary. Neil hasn’t given up ten- died one day apart in early November. Hampshire to Irvine, Calif., to deliver a nis entirely, as he also squeezes a game or Interestingly, they also both had their car to my grandson. We took a month to two in between his pickle outings, though respective affairs in order to the extent do it and were never bored. That was my he evidently has discontinued his com- that each had made his contribution to first-ever drive across the United States— petitive tennis senior singles. the 2017–18 alumni fund prior to their de- and I highly recommend it to those who Your secretary had the pleasure of partures to the great beyond. Loyal sons failed to do it after Jack Kerouac’s book a meal with I.W. KLEIN, who lives in a of Amherst College, both doing their part appeared. Great art museums in Pitts- toney senior complex, The Sequoias, for the class of ’56. burgh, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas about eight blocks away from my tennis We also lost RUSTY FUNNELL. See the City, Denver and L.A. And other types club in San Francisco. I offered to pick In Memory section for personal remem- of museums—like the Museum of Flight him up, but he insisted on walking both brances of Rusty by TONI HUBER and AL in Dayton, Ohio, and the paleontology ways. He uses a cane for balance, but MCLELLAN. museum (if you liked Pratt, you will love otherwise moves right along. He lives in CHARLIE KLEM passed away in late this) in Hays, Kan. Add to this the Big Five a studio apartment on the north side of October. ARNIE POLTENSON penned National Parks in Utah, breathtaking no the building, the “cool” side. Being from this fond remembrance: “Charlie was matter how much of the Alps you have St. Louis and then a longtime resident my bench partner in freshman physics. seen in media or in person.” of NYC, he has an absolute aversion to How we ever were paired up was a mys- CHAMP and Donna YOUNG recently hot weather. Indeed, in 1999–2000 he

58 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 checked out Seattle and Portland before ERICH “DOC” CRAMER writes that he selecting San Francisco as his new per- used to be in ’56’s non-giving category, manent residence. Much of his time now but recently he has been able to rational- is occupied as a member of the Sequoias ize his way into HANK PEARSALL’s good Family Council, which is aggravating and graces: “Maybe I can help get the delin- rewarding at the same time, as manage- quent 3 percent in line so that we can all ment is far from fully effective. A most puff out our chests in achieving together enjoyable lunch. what none of us separately has ever been A short note from CHUCK WINKELMAN able to do: be perfect for an entire year. At informs us that he is now a Floridian—in our advanced age, this could be worth a Boca Raton, to be exact. He is taking a few more days of gracious living. Anyone cruise to Canadian waters and will spend interested in getting back to 100 percent an evening with LARRY YOUNG in Boston. or providing reasons for not doing so can Chuck further writes that he is recovering certainly contact me, and we can wrestle

from a dislocated hip. Paired with TIGER with this real-life issue.” ARCHIVES COLLEGE WEILLER at the Amherst-Williams game, DICK HAUSER “watched the Amherst/ the duo cheered the mighty Mammoths Williams game in Sylva, N.C., with KY TED RODGERS is in the midst of an in- j The Write to an OT loss. SYLVESTER, then spent a few days with teresting project: “I have been develop- Stuff LARRY YOUNG forwarded a link to a fas- STEVE MCGEENEY, who was visiting his ing some ‘musings’ built around episodes Students cinating interview of a friend of his from daughter in Lexington, Ky. I remembered of my ‘mayoralty’ in the mid-’60s in La put pens Harvard Medical School, who, among the Saturday four or five years ago when Honda, Calif. Some of the events involved to paper in other projects, is working to de-extinctify Steve and I went to a bar in New York City Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters and the the woolly mammoth. Perhaps in a few to watch the game. We owned the only Hell’s Angels. TOM SPENCER is editing this undated years there will be a real live mammoth gray-haired heads in the room, and most when he gets around to it.” shot. A close mascot on the sidelines at Pratt Field dur- of the alumni were the age of my grand- A slightly fishy report from WOODY look at the ing the Amherst-Williams football game. children. One of my twin granddaughters REICHERT: “Not a lot of news from Cleve- photo shows JOHN ZINK writes: “Cab and I seem has been married for two years, and her land. We are all in good health. Susie and that some of to be doing OK for old folks. We go to sister will be married next April. The time I had dinner with JOHN and Sandra FUL- their notes church, sitting in the back with a bunch is not too distant when I shall look at my TON a few weeks back. John and I went of old geezers in order to be closer to the wife of 61 years, and think, ‘Good grief, I fly-fishing for the day. We then enjoyed included first responders, in case lightning strikes.” slept with a great-grandmother.’” a late-fall trip to New England, enjoying mathemat- MIKE CRAMES emails: “All is well with From MIKE GOLDMAN: “My hat is off the fall colors and a number of favorite ical formulas, the Crames crew. Ellie and I celebrated to Amherst as a model of diversification B&Bs. On a terrificbut short fishing trip so this may our 60th in July with a lovely party of and to its president, the superlative Bid- to the Pere Marquette River in early Oc- have been friends and family. Kids are all fine, as dy Martin. Sorry, but it has to be seen in tober with seven other fishermen, we all a math or are our six grandchildren, two of whom light of relevant perspectives, school al- netted our share of salmon and had great have graduated from college and are gain- legiance vs. historical context, just as we warm weather in Michigan.” science class. fully employed; three more are in college, learned in freshman English.” Let’s keep the dialog going. and the youngest will be soon enough— From WIN DANIELSON: “No news—at > PETER LEVISON all growing up much too fast. Still live this age no news is good news. Had lunch [email protected] in Scarsdale, spend time in Gotham, with TED HARRIS in November.” partaking of theater and all that Lincoln A note from CHUCK LEACH: “Nothing Center has to offer, plus the Manhattan earth-shaking to report, but so far things 1957 restaurant scene. Travel is still a passion are going OK for us. Beginning our 50th We are sad to report the loss of CHARLES despite the increased hassle. Golf, daily year in our 1659 Farmington, Conn., “CHUCK” WELLS, who died on Oct. 31. walks and exercise are very much part of home, Both Joanie and I are active in com- An In Memory piece for him will appear our lives. Whenever I want a more strenu- munity organizations, and Joanie contin- in a later issue. ous workout, I simply close my eyes and ues to teach gerontology at St. Joseph’s U. Our class was well-represented at vicariously participate in GUY CHANCE’s Gave up skiing but still biking regularly, homecoming. BOB and Mary BAGG, activities. I’m pretty much retired from and Joanie is into racquet sports. Trips HOWIE BELLIN and Sheri Bush, PETER the practice of law and frankly don’t miss to England and Scotland last June and and Anne DAMON, RICK DEFILIPPI and the early-morning and late-night meet- dodged wildfires in Montana in August Lucy Arrington, Sandy GADSBY and Nan- ings one bit. We enjoy the NY Historical to visit ancestral stomping grounds. I’m cy Brown, TOM and Robbin LEVY, JIM and Society, as well as the many museums in a retired doc, though I still read the jour- Tanya MOLLENAUER, AXEL SCHUPF, town. Naturally, family comes first, and nals. Doing lots of family history. Art mu- Bob SHOENBERG and Jen Weiss, LINDA visits to our grandkids in college have seum docent. Writing a bit.” SMITH and BILL VICKERY attended. been a joy.” FRANKLIN BLOOMER is certainly mak- JIM CONNORS also showed up in good BILL SALOT checks in: “I’m comfort- ing the most of his golden years. Together enough shape that he could have dressed ably retired from an orthopedic practice. with Nancy, his significant other, they with the team, but his service was not Ann and I have a vacation home on Lake are consciously making an effort to stay needed, as Amherst beat the favored Michigan, where we spend quite a bit of active and enjoy their passions while Wesleyan team. time; four lovely daughters and seven they still are able. Recently they hiked GEORGE AMABILE will travel to Be- grandchildren. I do derive a great deal a north-to-south traverse of the “stun- lize with his partner, Annette, where he of pleasure from reading the class notes; ningly beautiful” Dolomite Mountains plans to finish another poetry book,Seeing keep them coming!” in northeast Italy, plus another 115 miles Things. His antiwar book of poems, Mar- A brief note from ROSS HOLLOWAY: of the Appalachian Trail. Later, “we drove tial Music, was nominated for the Lans- “RRH now has two granddaughters to Charleston, S.C., following a coastal downe Prize but did not win. He enjoys at Amherst: Augusta ’19 and Eleanor route from southwest Connecticut that working on his hundred-year-old house ’21. Another granddaughter is at the involved three ferries and the amazing and says: “Yardwork fills the mind with Queen’s University in Ontario and, I say Chesapeake bridge-tunnel; the tour was subtleties of sunlight on grass tips in the with blushes, is (with a partner) the Na- timed to allow us to view this year’s to- breeze. Food fills the stomach, but not tional Collegiate Debating Champion of tal solar eclipse, and happily the weather the desire for clarity before each day’s Canada!” gods cooperated.” erasure.”

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JIM VERNON had the adventure of a Amherst-Wesleyan game and the mini site for wanting to guide others?” lifetime: grouse shooting in Scotland, reunion dinner with 23 classmates. JONATHAN HELMREICH had just re- a dream of his forever. His group of 12 NORM CARR noted that we don’t talk turned to his winter home on Sanibel stayed at the estate of the Earl Cawdor, about our grandchildren very much here, Island, Fla., when I spoke to him. He ex- the same estate as the “Thane of Caw- other than mentioning the number. Ac- pressed relief that his home had not had dor”: Macbeth. cordingly, he proudly told me about some significant damage from Hurricane Irma. JOHN THOMPSON reported that as a of the accomplishments of his five grand- As with most areas that the hurricane hit, retired rheumatologist it only took him daughters. Three live in Nevada and are he noted the great amount of brush and five days to self-diagnose his giant-cell ar- accomplished debaters or skiers. Two live branches still waiting to be disposed of. teritis. Fortunately a former student and in Washington, D.C. One is on a traveling This summer, he took a trip back to his colleague (and now his treating doctor) soccer team, and the other is a champi- old home area of Brunswick, Maine, and agreed. One drug helped dramatically; on cross-country runner. Perhaps, in the spent time relaxing, “watching the lobster another put him in hospital, and he had future, we will each tell a bit about our boats,” and enjoying Bailey’s Island. to cancel plans for class reunion. He has grandchildren. JOHN HOPKINS started by saying since recovered. He and Ana celebrated SAM CHASE had just had his power re- he had nothing big to report and then their 60th anniversary and once again stored when I spoke to him (a bad wind- promptly contradicted that statement. hosted “Amherst at Stratford (Ontario)” storm had passed through New Hamp- In his travels, he had 10 excellent days week in August. shire and knocked down trees and tree in Tanzania’s Serengeti, observing 32 spe- John Hopkins CHUCK EVANS would like to tell any limbs). He is no longer working with the cies, ranging from lizards to elephants. ’58 had 10 medical experts in our class that he has economic development council of his He was in Oregon to observe “possibly been diagnosed with stage IV urethral town but rather is busying himself with the best of our 11 total eclipses,” viewed excellent days carcinoma and has begun immunization all the things needing fixing at his house in a totally clear sky. And he proudly com- in Tanzania’s therapy with Atezolizumab. (he’s got a new septic system too). He municated that his daughter Susannah is Please see the class webpage for very in- and I agreed that it seems as if we have at Columbia, deep into a Ph.D. program in Serengeti, teresting and longer reports from George much more to do around the house since epidemiology (already having had several observing and Jim. we turned 80. (Maybe we just do it more publications). > CARL GRAY slowly.) Sam is hard at work leading our Both of AMOS HOSTETTER’s daughters 32 species, [email protected] reunion planning. were married this summer. One wedding ranging from > BILL PATRICK In addition to working on the reunion, (Elizabeth to Matt Denison) in June was at [email protected] ALLEN and Whitney CLARK spent time in Squam Lake, N.H. The other (Caroline to lizards to La Foce in southern Tuscany. It was their Liam Walsh), in September, was on Nan- elephants. 10th visit to the area, and they do differ- tucket. The weather for both events was 1958 ent itineraries each time. They explore perfect, but Hurricane Irma hit Nantucket This paragraph about our upcoming re- the area in their rental car, visiting little 48 hours after the wedding. union is from ALLEN CLARK: “Plans are hill towns and Pisa, discovering museums BILL and Todd JACKSON put their far along for the Grand Cru 60th reunion, and a Michelin one-star restaurant in a lit- Amagansett, N.Y., house on the market following a very productive meeting at tle town called Sarteano. A South African and have found a buyer. Simultaneously, homecoming in late October. But, like diamond merchant owns the whole town. they have enrolled in a retirement com- the proverbial unwitnessed tree fall- Despite a period of drought affecting the munity in Essex, Conn., within 15 minutes ing in the forest, what good are plans if vineyards and olive groves, the people re- of daughter LAURA (JACKSON) BROPHY you aren’t there next May to participate main a joy to be among. ’84. Although this has been in the works in them? By the time you see this note, When I spoke to DICK DANIELSON, he for some time, they are a bit frantic in or- you’ll have at least one chance to let Al- had just returned from an October vaca- ganizing for the move, with the largest len know if you’re planning to attend. If tion at New Smyrna Beach, Fla., which he pile being “let’s continue to think about you have not yet done so, do Allen and describes as a “quiet beach town.” He and this.” Anyone who has moved knows what yourself a big favor: do it now! We won’t I discussed our experiences with Hurri- they are going through. have another 60th. Please email Allen at cane Irma. He lost his power for four days JOHN LAGOMARCINO is “holding on.” [email protected]. We will have a ro- but had no damage. That contrasted with He and Maureen are trying to down- bust, full-bodied, chewy time (to use a few his experience in 2005 when a hurricane size, not for the purpose of moving but of the adjectives in our Chateau Amherst “nearly destroyed half our house.” He and rather to clear stuff out (you know what 1958 wine file).” I recalled “blue roofs” when flying back they’re doing if you’ve ever been similar- TED ALCAIDE says he is well (now recov- into a hurricane area because of the blue ly inclined). One grandchild is in college ered from a couple of serious tick bites). tarps that are used in the repair of dam- (spending the semester in Scotland), and He plays a lot of bridge and continues aged roofs. Dick and Phoebe took a 30- the other is in the process of working on to improve his game. He takes part in a day cruise to the Caribbean and Europe applications. program that has him reading to shut- this summer (bringing back fond recol- DAVID LURIA proudly wrote that his ins. One of the corollary benefits is that lections of when Dick acted as the dentist Washington Photo Safari enterprise had he gets into interesting discussions with for a cruise line). its 35,000th participant this summer. interesting people. DICK FRANCK wrote me right after he They were also awarded Trip Advisor’s I asked JOHN BISCHOF about his sum- and Polly returned from a two-week tour Certificate of Excellence for the fifth year mer. He proceeded to tell me about an ex- of Sicily with Road Scholar. The tour pro- in a row, due to all the five-star reviews perience he had sailing his Laser on Dam- vided very good lectures on the history from customers. He is also an active par- ariscotta Lake in Maine. In a strong wind, and art of the island. They got around ticipant in the Resistance Movement in he tipped and “turtled” the boat (it turned by bus, but when at sites they walked— D.C., attending rallies and posting on upside down). It required the help of sev- over 50 miles, according to Dick’s iPhone. social media. eral people in motorized craft to right the There were also many hours standing at COLIN MAHER, in an effort to help me boat. Unfortunately, the rudder and til- ruins and museums. After the tour, they fill space, wrote a rather lengthy treatise ler were lost. John was still pretty upbeat visited friends in Trieste. One quote from on his post-Amherst life. It was most in- about the summer, having spent time with their suggested reading (The Leopard, by teresting, and he’s willing to share it with family at the lake. He continues playing di Lampedusa): “I am without illusions; you (get his email address through the bridge and riding his bike. He has three what would the Senate do for me, an in- alumni office). He also reported a recent grandchildren in college. Finally, I caught experienced legislator who the lacks the cataract operation at the Fyodorov Clinic him after he had just returned from the faculty of self-deception, essential requi- in Moscow.

60 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 PEYTON MCLAMB sounded just fine RICK ROBINSON presents a monthly developed a late passion for Emily Dick- despite the fact that he spent a portion program at his assisted living facility. The inson’s poetry. of 2017 recovering from surgery. He did programs are each devoted to some fa- PETE VAN DUSEN wrote that he is get to take his grandson to the Canadian mous person’s life/career. Thus far, he has healthy, active and enjoying life. In Au- Rockies over the summer, and his bucket ranged from Jesse Owens to Teddy Roo- gust, he had lunch with LYNN TRUES- list includes a future whitewater rafting sevelt. Speaking of Jesse Owens, Rick’s DELL and JOHN CARPENTER. He also trip with his granddaughters. He stays in long-jump record at Oyster Bay High went on an interesting group tour of touch with STEVE WAITE and ED TERI- School still stands. His newest hobby is the National Weather Service Office in NO, trying to entice them to enjoy a mini collecting, and listening to, CDs of music Chanhassen, Minn. reunion with him in South Carolina. He from the ’50s. HOWARD WOLF gave a talk on “Robert plays golf and heads for northern Arizona SKIP and Carroll ROUTH are doing fine. Frost and the Arc of Modern American in February. They did not travel this summer but did Poetry.” He just published a three-act NED MEGARGEE had just returned from get to spend time with their seven grand- play, Home at the End of the Day, and is the annual meeting of the board of direc- children in Massachusetts. They stay in putting together a collection of his short tors of the National Commission for Cor- touch with GEORGE VAN ARNAM and stories, all set in Israel (Under the Arc of rectional Health Care (on which he has family but have not been down to see War). His daughter is now teaching Eng- served since 1986). For the past year he them in North Carolina. lish in Israel. has been on a committee to revise the by- MIKE and Joan SPERO divide their time MOE WOLFF feels terrific. He was at Peter Parker laws of the association (for the first time in between Connecticut (weekends) and Amherst in the fall, having been invited ’58 is teaching decades), as well as the nominating com- Manhattan, with three winter months by the Hillel Society to speak on Raoul mittee for new officers. At this meeting, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Golf and Wallenberg. While there, he attended the a course called he was appointed chair of the board of long walks around the Central Park Res- homecoming reunion planning commit- “Physics and directors of the Certified Correctional ervoir are Mike’s main physical activities. tee meeting. He also attended the 100th Health Professional Program, which He continues to work on committees for anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s birth, Astronomy tests doctors, nurses, psychologists and Seeds of Peace, but is no longer on the which was celebrated at Amherst with Behind the other health care workers to determine board. Joan continues to serve on the Joseph P. Kennedy’s speech. Moe notes their ability to practice in prisons, jails board of the Wisconsin Alumnae Re- that he is one of a small number of people Headlines.” It and juvenile detention facilities. (Pretty search Foundation and the International to have had one-on-one meetings with covers topics heady stuff, if you ask me.) Center for Transitional Justice. Travel has both Robert Frost and JFK. Taking his inspiration from JOHN been curtailed this year as Joan recovers Finally, here’s an update on your co- ranging from HOPKINS, PETER PARKER is teaching from her second hip replacement. secretary Mickey’s last few months. In gravity waves a course in the Institute for Learning in PETER STRAUSS had two trips that he the spring, we took a small-boat cruise Retirement at Albertus Magnus, in New was excited to speak about. The first was through the Panama Canal and toured to multiverses Haven, Conn. The short course is “Phys- his and Nan’s annual trip to the Shake- Panama on a land trip. In July, we took our and ics and Astronomy Behind the Headlines” speare Festival in Ashland, Ore. They saw 14-year-old granddaughter on a week’s and covers topics ranging from gravity five plays, and the production of Julius trip to London. Traveling with a “young hurricanes. waves to multiverses and hurricanes. Caesar was the “best I have ever seen.” adult” without the parents along is a great Anne and Peter continue their quarter- In October, they ventured back east with experience. In the fall, we took a three- ly shift from Connecticut to California. stops in Montreal, New Hampshire, Ver- week tour of Laos and Myanmar. Both Being in the East during the fall allowed mont and Massachusetts. The Montreal countries are fascinating to visit. On the them to attend Amherst homecoming and stop was for several days, as they stayed less positive side, I needed arthroscopic the reunion-planning meeting. in “Old Town” and enjoyed wandering surgery on my knee for a torn meniscus. CHARLIE PATTERSON writes that his around all day. As they drove south, they In the weeks leading up to the surgery, I book Eternal Treblinka is mentioned in the were treated to the fall foliage extrava- had to restrict my physical activities. Now, first line of a film review in Varsity Mag- ganza. When I spoke to Peter, the fires in in recovery, I’m allowed to bike ride but azine (Oct. 27, 2017, issue). No surprise, Northern California were still burning, not run. That’s all from me. Hendrik is since the book has gotten consistently and a layer of smoke was covering San up next. good reviews and is now published in 17 Francisco/Oakland. >MICKEY SALTMAN languages (Brazilian Portuguese having WARD TILTON is now fully retired, hav- MICKSALTMAN@YAHOO. just been added). As he notes, that’s not ing given up his counseling practice (too COM bad for a book nobody wanted to publish. much red tape). He now devotes himself > HENDRIK GIDEONSE His present “problem” is to find a pub- to volunteer activities with a local food GIDEONSEMIDMAINE.COM lisher for his novel In Dante’s Footsteps: pantry. He says it’s a little different from My Journey into Hell. He laments that he most food banks where clients come in seems fated to write books that are hard and pick up a prepacked bag/box. Here 1959 to publish. He says it was fun to write the they come and shop for fresh produce, FLOYD FORTUIN is still practicing neu- book inventing a “hereafter that’s a fun, frozen meat, canned goods and house- rology part-time. Eleven grandchildren interesting place to be.” hold supplies. Many of the clientele are take up some of the other part. Travel JOHN PENDLETON has just self-pub- refugees, and Ward enjoys talking with is a passion, although he didn’t specify lished a book of family history, memoirs them and helping them to adjust (ever the destinations. Floyd is still flying a single- and poetry. What started as “just writing” counselor). He has three grandchildren, engine Bonanza. 20 years ago evolved into the published all at Ohio State University, two of them CHARLIE SHOEMAKER’s daughter, book. He attended the reunion planning playing varsity golf. class of ’91, joined him in attending the meeting in October and is looking for- GEORGE VAN ARNAM is enjoying life in homecoming football game with Wes- ward to the event. North Carolina. He has discovered that leyan, where they met TOM EIGHMY and DICK RAPSON writes that his and the changing leaves are “almost” as pretty his wife and talked to JIM SCOTT. After Elaine’s new book, What’s Next in Love as in New England. Life in their retire- the game, they attended the chemistry and Sex: Psychological and Cultural Per- ment community is tough to “suffer,” with department party. It made Charlie feel spectives, is due out next spring. They meals prepared, and educational and old, since many of the faculty who had are planning their retirement for De- cultural events on a daily basis. Peggy joined the department when we were se- cember 2018, at which time they plan a teaches jewelry design classes, George is niors are now retired. He enjoyed walking four-month voyage with Semester at Sea serving part-time at a small church, and around the campus, which has changed (their sixth). the grandkids are nearby. George has also considerably.

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KEN CRAWFORD reports that in re- wife June (Vassar ’59) moved to a small loons, but with its need for serious repair, cent years it has been his custom to at- apartment in Maryland in July 2012 to brings Bob back, spiritually, to his first tend music festivals in Europe, focusing downsize on their own terms, and live experience of working on an old house: on percussion, especially marimba. Al- close to their children and grandchildren. a small pondside house in North Ben- most without exception, U.S. students are In 2013 George gave up a kidney, and now nington, Vt., in 1967. That first purchase eliminated in the first rounds of compe- has an avocation of chasing malignant was a huge and lasting step away from titions. Despite the United States being bladder polyps. He seems to be winning academia for him. He has always loved obsessed with being number one, music that chase. June is deeply into genealogy, puttering around old houses, and here he education doesn’t even come close! Ex- and found that George’s line went back is again. Youthful. amples of students from other countries in this country to Plymouth in 1620. They Last January in Acapulco, Mexico, who have clearly benefited from early continue to be active in music and drama TOM GREEN and JIM SCOTT hatched a training in music fundamentals: 26 year- and are involved in some wonderful on- plan for an AD mini reunion in Amherst old Aya Suzuki from Japan is arguably the the-edge theaters, and George continues in the early fall. It came to pass on Oct. finest marimba soloist of her generation, to write about and react to LGBTQ issues. 6–7, with glorious weather and the Mam- and 16-year-old Lu Xida from Beijing is He was a co-founder of a Gender Iden- moths barely losing the football game to tity Clinic in Hartford, Conn., in 1975. By Middlebury. Those present included PE- the time he retired from practice in 2000 TER ESTY, GEORGE BETKE, Ann and DAN he had had contact with just shy of 800 BERNSTEIN, Judy and BILL GOLDBERG, That’s Amore persons. George helped face the dreaded Hanna and JIM BARTLETT, Barbara and bathroom issue, and they solved it with CARLILE BOLTON-SMITH, Bobette and 1960: After celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary little effort and great cooperation from RICK SEARS, Gretchen and TOM GREEN with our family in rustic Burr Oak State Park, Chris and everyone. He is beyond dismayed to see and Nina and JIM SCOTT. Festivities I (Dick Weisfelder) departed on our “second honeymoon,” how what was not a hard issue to solve started with a gathering at the Scotts’ on an Odysseys tour of Italy. We began on the Amalfi Coast then is now a national cause célèbre, and Friday evening, with generous libations and ended in Venice. The medieval Umbrian hill town Or- the unreasoning exclusion of transgen- and a chili dinner. Saturday we met for vieto, with its spectacular cathedral, was a wonderful sur- der persons from the military is tragic. morning coffee and pastries at the alumni prise. Chris fell in love with Venice. For me the highlights George sometimes feels he is back in the office, and then folks did their own thing were the Amalfi Coast, Pompeii and the Tuscan country- 1950s with respect to LGBTQ issues. His the rest of the day. The evening featured side. We ate far too many pasta first courses and enjoyed lesbian granddaughter is a college junior an elegant College-catered dinner in sampling ordinary local wines that were just great. Chris in Ohio, and she has met with resistance the faculty dining room and comments now keeps a bottle of Prosecco in our fridge. for advocating for “safe” bathrooms. He by MARK MARSHALL, the Class of 1959 thought we had come a long way since Professor of Chemistry. A good time was 1975, when his clinic was accused by had by all. We hope the celebration will an outstanding timpanist. According to some psychiatrists in Hartford of fulfill- continue next year at our 60th. Ken, “Those of us who value and/or are ing paranoid fantasies, and by clergy of The PAUL VONCKXes enjoyed a three- responsible for music education in the being sinful and disrupting God’s order. week trip to Europe in October: a week United States face quite a challenge.” But he guesses that a lot more work has on their own in Vienna, a week on a Vi- WARREN “SPIKE” OLNEY, at age 80, to be done. king River Cruise down the Danube and is starting a third career. From 1965 to Marian and JOHN DEMCISAK trav- another solo week in Budapest. They 1989, he was in TV news in Sacramento, eled to Minnesota to see 15-year-old, enjoyed being pampered on the Viking Calif.; San Francisco; Washington, D.C.; 250-pound grandson Jake play football. cruise with all of its organized shore ex- and Los Angeles, where he worked for the Jake plays defensive guard. They stopped cursions, but they also enjoyed time on CBS, NBC and ABC stations as political in Illinois to watch an Eagles game with their own in Vienna and Budapest. Next, editor, investigative reporter and occa- son-in-law Brian and grandson Phillip, a family vacation in Belize in January to sional anchor. Since 1992, he has been both rabid Eagles fans. Family lore is celebrate Paul becoming an “Octo-man”! at KCRW Public Radio in Santa Monica, that Phillip’s first word was “touchdown.” ALLAN LIPTON reports: “Life is good. Calif., first with the local showWhich Way, John chaired a marathon WaWa zoning Half the year in Portland, Ore., with L.A.?, which began after the riots of 1992 board hearing in October. 4-year-old grand-twins; half the year in and lasted until a couple of years ago, and Jane Monckton-Smith, director of the the Berkshires. Still keeping busy super- then with To the Point, which began in No- Centre for Learning & Innovation in vising lab at Hershey Medical Center in vember 2000 and has been syndicated Public Protection at the University of Hershey, Pa., and enjoying golf and swim- by Public Radio International. Nov. 10 Gloucestershire, said about JOHN LI- ming.” He sees JON ROUSH in Portland. was the last program, and he will shift to EBERT’s new textbook, titled Psychiatric Nan and Allan visited Scotland in 2016 a podcast, also to be called To the Point. Criminology: A Roadmap for Rapid Assess- and loved it, just as Dee and I did. Podcasting is different from broadcast in ment, “I have this book. It’s excellent. Is Jennie and SKIP RIDEOUT continue to significant ways, and he reports that he this book, therefore, not so provincial welcome visitors to their B&B, although has a lot to learn. His wife, Marsha Tem- and only for United States? How well they have slowed things down for them- ple, runs a nonprofit, the Integrated Re- are Canada and the UK prepared for mass selves, lopping off Mondays and Tues- covery Network, which is developing new violence?” The book is designed to bring days. Their spare time seems to be filled models for dealing with homeless people. combined best practices for emergency with visits to doctors’ offices for a variety More than 200 people with diagnoses of medicine and neuropsychiatry to where of aches and pains. Refilling their week- mental illness and criminal records now millions of patients now are in need— ly pill boxes is an ongoing chore as well. have homes, counseling when needed namely prisons, gutters, homeless tent They will take time off in January for re- and jobs. cities, military and VA facilities, school pairs, restocking and painting. In September, DEE SHIELDS and yours campuses, commercial airliners and over- Dwight Poler ’87 and Kirsten (Cooper) truly, LOU GREER, started a trip with the crowded emergency rooms. Poler ’88 dedicated two presidential total destruction of our car by a distracted In fulfillment of a long-term wish, Celia teaching professorships in English and driver, but made our flight to Scotland, and BOB TEARE bought a lakeside cottage philosophy in memory of their fathers, thanks to a ride to the airport from the in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, on R. John Cooper ’64 and HANK POLER. local police. We enjoyed a terrific cruise Lyford Pond, close to where they worked Hank’s wife, Gail, commented, “Hank from Edinburgh to Dublin. The highlight and where they have friends and family. would have enjoyed that honor, and our was the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. This is their sixth house. Buying this one, family celebration at the College.” GEORGE HIGGINS tells us that he and with its lawn down to the water and the “With rumors and tweets intensifying

62 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 that shortly,” says PHIL PRYDE, “I will there be oxygen available? 2. Will para- nity disputes involving neighbors, family transition from being 79 to being 70-10 medics be in attendance? 3. Will defibril- and divorce, workplace conflict, family (what is this ‘denial’ thing of which you lator equipment be present? 4. Will we be property, contractor/client, and the like. speak?), I figured this would be a logical expected to run that [deleted] Memorial Our mantra is: ‘We help people with diffi- time to start a new mini career. So I’ve Hill? Signed: A very flattered 79-year-old cult conversations.’ Challenging but very taken up being a lecturer (nine booked so class of 1960 graduate.” satisfying work!” Dick followed up, “We far) for the Oasis speaker program in the Still very pleased with their retirement had good fishing, lots of stories, my wife San Diego region, which offers talks on community and neighbors, DAVE and cooked us great dinners, and we didn’t every subject imaginable for mainly the Paula WOOD “passed the three-year mark make it past the third inning of any World over-50 crowd (you know, youngsters). at The Highlands in Topsham, Maine— Series game.” He added, “Roly even ‘me- To keep people wondering what’s coming just across the Androscoggin River from diates’ me when I claim my fish was big- next, so far I’ve given talks on the Russia- Brunswick. Since DAVE and Jan KEFFER ger than his.” (Roly’s fish did look bigger Ukraine dispute, bird migration, unique moved in across the street last year, the in the annual photos. Since they “gently San Diego and Mary Magdalene. The troll two Daves have made a regular habit of release” all their catches, perhaps some who stares at his notebook while I lie on walking into Brunswick early most morn- of the same fish return a bit larger to sub- the couch thinks I have either an eclectic ings for coffee and conversation—a cus- sequent year photos!) mainspring or possibly ADD. Sorry, what tom Dave W. brought from Rhode Island.” A documentary film based on BOB was I talking about? Oh yes, happy birth- (A good thing, since all Dave’s recent MADGIC’s book Shattered Air: A True Ac- day, everyone!” posted photos show him dining!) “Shortly count of Catastrophe and Courage on Yo- Happy and PETER ESTY experienced before the Keffers decamped for Florida, semite’s Half Dome has been launched by the October wildfires in Sonoma County, JOHN and Carol BULKELEY stopped by a film group. “It has gotten off to a strong the most destructive fire in California his- en route to a visit with a granddaughter start by interviewing on camera most of 1960: Reacting to tory. Their retirement community of 480 at Colby College. All three couples had an the key parties to the story. The next concerns for his residents was evacuated for two weeks. enjoyable dinner together in Brunswick. step, the major one, is to bring in inves- well-being, Don Pol- “With bone-dry land everywhere, flames A week later, SCOTT MACCONNELL and tors. Hopefully the project will proceed lock responded, “We and smoke were ever-present,” wrote Stephanie Mykietyn stopped overnight in to completion.” stayed in place, but Peter, “and shifting winds energized the Freeport, and we joined them for dinner.” EVAN HOORNEMAN notes his 24 years did not have any se- threat on an almost daily basis.” Happy Dave WOOD “taught a course last fall en- of “splendid retirement” with Mollie rious problems with and Peter are now safely back home. titled ‘Tall Ships Today: The Remarkable that previously included lots of travel, the hurricane. If it Their property was untouched by the Legacy of the Great Age of Sail’ at the local but now focuses more on visits to their had come at us at firestorm, and they embrace a keen new ‘Senior College’ in Mid-Coast Maine, and children and grandchildren. Their son, a 90-degree angle, sense of community and memories that will be teaching another in the spring on Ian, recently gave the keynote address at we would have evac- will never leave them. Peter added in ‘The Heroic Age of Polar Exploration and a UNESCO conference in Paris on mobile uated. It appears late November, “The world outpouring Discovery.’” He continues to sing in the learning. Sally ’89 is an executive director that the storms are of love, services and supplies has only Highlands Chorale, a group sponsored at the YMCA. Susan owns a residential becoming more fre- now begun to diminish.” by the retirement community, and is cleaning business in Dallas, where she quent. I am sure the > LOU GREER also a member of The Uncalled Four, a received an award from her national of- global warming will [email protected] barbershop-ish quartet that does occa- fice for “resale of the year.” Elizabeth is a make life in Florida sional gigs at The Highlands, but sings well-loved high school art teacher in Har- more hazardous. mostly for their own enjoyment. vard, Mass., and serves on the advisory For now, we are still 1960 SCOTT MACCONNELL also highlighted board of the Fruitlands Museum. Sarah Floridians.” BILL WEIANT died Sept. 24. BOB STEELE their dinner with DAVE and Paula WOOD started a foundation to aid families with and DAVE PENNOCK wrote the remem- and added that “DICK and Jelma HUBERT children who have cancer. In addition to brance posted online and printed in this drove down to have lunch with us in New frequent bridge games with TOM and Ro- issue of Amherst. They both attended his Jersey. We returned home to celebrate berta PAULSON, Evan belongs to a gym. funeral service. Dave noted, “The church Thanksgiving II—we celebrate the first He observed a picture of Arnold Schwar- was full of friends, family and colleagues, one in October—but this time Steph did zenegger in a swimsuit—abs turned to fat. including many tennis players from years the turkey. It almost didn’t happen, since “Beefy Arnold and I ended up with the past (Bill was captain our senior year) and we had a wicked storm that took out our same body, albeit by different routes.” Williams men from both Bill’s tennis and power. Fortunately, it was restored on “I just retired from Tabor Academy” business life.” Thursday morning and Steph did her (after 46 years on the faculty), wrote DAVE PENNOCK also reported, “Home- magic to have dinner ready on time. Now DICK DUFFY, and “now am working coming was successful though sparsely we’re in the middle of bins and boxes as part-time in the advancement office at attended. Biddy Martin paid tribute to Steph turns the house into our own per- the academy—attempting to raise funds Richard Wilbur ’42 in a most moving sonal winter wonderland.” In April Scott for the school, which keeps me in contact way. Amherst came from behind to nip and Stephanie made a two-week ocean with old grads. Much to my surprise, the Wesleyan. The weather was perfect. And crossing to Lisbon on the Star Legend af- athletic fields now carry my name—quite the new mammoth logo depicts a robust, ter “a few days soaking up sun in Puerto an unexpected honor. Another accolade I fearsome fellow whom Lord Jeff would Rico. It was a great respite from what we received was being elected to Tabor’s first no doubt have wanted on his team.” call ‘mud season’ in Nova Scotia.” Hall of Fame class last year—quite an im- Dave “saw HENRY and Sue NEALE and ROLY MILLER “just returned from my pressive occasion—many kind words de- also DAVE and Rosemary MACE, who annual steelhead fishing trip with DICK livered. What made this event even more said they’d seen HUGH JONES and JOE GERNOLD on some Lake Erie tributar- special was that my darling daughter Kate ZGRODNIK. Earlier at breakfast I ran into ies. Lest classmates think that all I do is flew in from California for the ceremo- KEN ROSENTHAL and JOHN SWOPE. fish, I also serve as an elected water com- ny—a genuine joy in my life.” A more com- PETER DEHAAS accompanied me to the missioner in Vineyard Haven, Mass., but plete account of Duff’s tenure at Tabor, event. Beyond that ’60 was absent, as spend even more time with a community featuring the full range of his contribu- were alums from most classes.” mediation program. I took the basic medi- tions, appears at www.taboracademy. After receiving Amherst Cross Coun- ation training in 2000 and then joined the org/page/news-detail?pk=978934. try Coach Rubin’s invitation to join in a Martha’s Vineyard Mediation Program in DICK and Jelma HUBERT were JON homecoming 3- or 5-mile run, TOM SHU- 2007. As trained neutrals, we mediate a FRIENDLY’s guests for the annual awards MAKER sent the following reply: “Before variety of cases in Small Claims Court dinner of the Alfred Friendly Press Part- accepting, I have a few questions: 1. Will and facilitate conversations in commu- ners, held at the National Press Club in

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Washington, D.C., in September. This flected an undue bias that might preclude while, Dick, Sandy and their pets elected nonprofit commemorates Jon’s father, objectivity in the classroom. DICK WEIS- to evacuate their home in Sonoma for four Alfred Friendly ’33, a Pulitzer Prize win- FELDER and DICK HUBERT took the af- days, which they spent in San Francisco ner and former managing editor of The firmative position. SCOTT MACCONNELL with one of their sons and his family. Washington Post. Each year it brings felt the use of the word “progressive” gave Fortunately, their personal property and young news reporters from countries it a liberal tilt. JON BAKER argued that the home were spared, and they are well. Nev- where press freedom is under duress to value judgments skewing the objectivity ertheless, it was more than disconcerting spend six months in an American news- of course descriptions are hardly new. He to look out one’s living room window and room working alongside American pro- observed, “While we were at Amherst, see homes ablaze in the distance. fessionals. For the past three years Dick Earl Latham was working for JFK. Eisen- Charlie also spoke with BOB BROWN- has been a mentor to a Friendly Fellow, hower was certainly not admired by vari- ING to find out how he and his family were Sahar Majid from Pakistan, who com- ous people in the faculty. All of which is affected by Hurricane Harvey. Fortunate- pleted her fellowship, returned to work to say that it is not particularly shocking ly, Bob’s home in the Houston suburb of in Pakistan, then completed a graduate that the faculty at one time or another has Missouri City suffered only minimal dam- degree in journalism at the University had a left- or right-wing bias.” CARLTON age. Naturally, our concern, thoughts and of Missouri and is presently working for RUSSELL remarked, “Perhaps I am over- wishes for their well-being go out to all the Voice of America’s Urdu TV service ly optimistic about Amherst; however, I the individuals, families and communi- to Pakistan. Dick was recently inducted trust that, despite inevitable differences ties impacted by these disasters. “There was into the Westchester County Senior Hall in appearance from our undergraduate Louise and BOB KUKLIS became proud acrid smoke in of Fame in recognition of his service as a curriculum, Amherst’s current faculty grandparents again with the arrival of volunteer newspaper reporter and colum- is still focused on teaching students to granddaughter Zoe Louise in October, the air for two nist while a retiree. think—something perennially central to and a week later 8-year-old grandson weeks, and SANDY SMITH’s monthly chatter posts the educational process, but urgently so in Brady and his parents joined the family and challenging anagrams and math today’s national climate of emotionalism, get-together from Vermont. Much earlier we couldn’t puzzles continue to generate news from tribalism, ‘alternative facts,’ and preju- in the year, Bob had lunch at the Lord Jeff go outside classmates. His “Math Christmas” po- dice in high places.” “Well said to you, with Ellen and PETER BEREK. In January, ems and rhymes are posted on our class Carlton,” wrote HUGH KNAPP. “I read the Bob; Robert Siudzinski, director of Am- without news link. He and Barbara continue to course description to my son, Ethan, who herst Careers in Education; and a group facemasks; at work with the “warming center,” located teaches English at Ohio State; he thought of 10–12 Amherst students considering in their church, that provides refuge for it sounded pretty good, like a modern so- such careers will visit several graduate times, the sky Carpinteria, Calif.’s homeless on cold or ciology course.” DON POLLOCK added, “I programs and schools in New Orleans. was a weird rainy nights from December to March. He would like to attend this class to explore Susan and JIM NOYES stopped off in and Barbara “are in pretty good health what differing backgrounds and person- North Andover, Mass., to visit SongRe orange-brown and are moving along reasonably well for alities women have that lead them to and ROGER PENNINGTON on their an- color, and our age. (Yikes—close to 80).” Confirming choose left- or right-wing values.” nual trek south from Brooklin, Maine, recent studies showing the health ben- I hope 2018 is treating you well. In any to Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Since Roger ash fell like efits of having a dog, they “take our dog, event, more news and photos are need- already had a “My Name is Jeff” button, snowflakes.” Tipper, out each day for walks, runs and ed, as my next deadline will come all too Jim and Susan brought him a purple-and- sometimes trips to the beach.” soon. white pillow cover that reads “Amherst HUGH KNAPP replied that he and Eli- > DICK WEISFELDER Mammoths Est. 2017” on one side, and nor are surmounting the typical health RICHARD.WEISFELDER@UTOLEDO. “We’re Lean, Mean, and Pleistocene” on problems of aging and noted that “fall is EDU the other. Roger noted, “As you can see, turning out to be beautiful here in North we’ve both come a long way!” Carolina. My new activity is taking up the Although BILL RAPP has resumed most cello after years of abandonment … . I am 1961 of his activities since being struck by a a total amateur, but it is fun. Elinor was CUSH ANTHONY’s wife, Karen, developed car and breaking his leg last spring, his a piano teacher, and we try duets. I also Alzheimer’s disease five years ago and hip bursitis requires a few more months play in a string ensemble that prepares died peacefully last spring after a long, of physical therapy. “Still, I have overall pieces for church services.” They flew slow goodbye. During that process, Cush made great progress from where I was.” In to New York “for Thanksgiving with our renewed an old friendship with Maureen fact, Bill attended an international busi- sons, Toby ’91 and Ethan, and daughter Anthoine, a retired social worker who had ness conference in Taiwan, presented a Leonora and their three grandchildren. been single for many years and lived on case study, and won a special award as Toby went to homecoming and seems the water in Harpswell, Maine. Cush and best commentator (no surprise there!). enthusiastic again (serving as an alumni Maureen were married in September and More recently, he has been invited to fund worker) after being perturbed by live on Blueberry Cove in nearby Yar- participate in this year’s Chicago Federal the displacement of Lord Jeff as mascot.” mouth. As Cush put it, “Life has brought Reserve Bank Forecasting Conference. A three-hour power outage almost dis- me many changes, with a happy ending.” Theresa and JOE RICHARDSON got rupted STAN RHODES’ birthday lunch, CHARLIE HUSBANDS spoke with RICK stuck on Block Island, R.I., by Tropical but was “so little in comparison to the LUTTMANN and DICK DREW about the Storm Jose, which hung around with gale- fires and hurricanes bringing hardship tragic wildfires that ravaged northern force winds and closed the ferry to the and tragedy to so many recently.” He ob- California in October. Rick reported that mainland: “It’s mighty hard to walk into served that “even small towns have their Sonoma State University had to be evac- a 45-m.p.h. wind, as I discovered, but we drama,” noting the furor over a botched uated and remained closed for 10 days. still made it to the nearby restaurant, and local police response to a suicide. Na- Although his evacuation from Rohnert it sure made the beer taste good.” Joe’s tional news also impinged on his weekly Park did not become necessary, two of volunteer work continues to keep him current events discussion group, because Rick’s math department colleagues, 44 busy, and he is grateful to ED BARBER a member had been at the scene of the students and 25 faculty/staff, including and DICK KLEIN for introducing him to terrorist attack in Manhattan with the the university president, lost their homes. the Huffington Post. rented truck. Furthermore, Rick added, “There was ac- In celebration of the 10th anniversary of A somewhat wider chatter group con- rid smoke in the air for two weeks, and we the Rosengren Scholarship Fund, and to sidered whether the description of the couldn’t go outside without facemasks; at ensure the continuation of the Rosengren Amherst course “Contemporary Debates: times, the sky was a weird orange-brown legacy, JON ROSENGREN’s widow, Rose- Women and Right-Wing Populism” re- color, and ash fell like snowflakes.” Mean- mary, recently presented a $350,000 gift

64 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 to the Fergus Area College Foundation to a necessary project, and Anne won’t let SAM TEACHOUT, in his familiar, self- fund the Chester G. and Jon Rosengren John venture out onto the roof anymore, deprecating manner, reports that after Endowment fund. This scholarship pro- leading John to say, “Growing old isn’t completing another New York Marathon vides graduates from Jon’s high school, fun, but it sure beats the alternative.” this fall, he rediscovered the folly of trying who are motivated but in financial need, Alison and ED BARBER have been very to run a marathon without proper long- an opportunity to achieve their academic busy raising their 9-year-old granddaugh- distance training runs. He writes, “I fin- goals; to date, 100 students have benefit- ter, who is a ball of energy, but most of ished, sopping wet and miserable, in well ted from this program. the credit goes to Alison. Ed, on the other over four hours (20 minutes slower than PAUL STEINLE and wife Sara Brown hand, now boasts of two shiny new knees, last year), stopped dead in my tracks mul- recently completed a 3,200-mile swing but is not yet ready to compete in the tiple times during the last three miles with through the Northwest, including Ore- 100m hurdles. Both Alison and Ed are still excruciating and paralyzing leg cramps.” gon, Washington and British Columbia, working part-time, and haven’t been able Despite his “poor performance,” he came in a new travel trailer. The highlight of to visit with classmates, but they wished in eighth overall in “our” age category the trip was their visit to the Tamástslikt us all happy and healthy holidays. (out of 50), and third among American Cultural Institute at the Wildhorse Re- Lastly, “note taker” DICK DIMOND and runners. Sam also reports, “Our daughter, sort & Casino in Pendleton, Ore., which Zephyr, has been one of the lead attorneys honors the ancient Umatilla and Nez (and the principal architect) of the CREW Ed Barber ’61 boasts of two Perce tribes. In one video, a 21st-century lawsuit against Trump for violation of the shiny new knees, but is not At age 72, Dan Umatilla woman summed up her tribe’s ready for the 100m hurdles. Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitu- Trumble ’61 10,000-year legacy: “The land is what tion. It is a long shot but a shot worth tak- we are, and what we’ll come back to, and ing.” Please refer to the website for more decided to get what we’ll always be.” The real history of Anne Welles thoroughly enjoyed their of Sam’s discussion of the lawsuit and for serious about this corner of our country is rich and long recent eight-day, seven-night cruise on the feedback he received from the class and has been poorly documented for us the Danube from Budapest to Nurem- on English I–II. his writing, greenhorns. berg. Highlights included Budapest’s JOHN KIELY reports that he had a good and now he DAN TRUMBLE and Barbara, his wife Great Synagogue and the Memorial of visit with ED and Sue HUGHES in Chicago of 56 years and a retired nurse family the Shoes on the Danube Bank; a Mozart and that there is nothing wrong with Ed’s has published practitioner, have two sons; have moved and Strauss concert in the Schubert Sa- memory! John and Pam are joining their 12 novels on 15 times over the years, including stops lon of one of Vienna’s oldest music halls; son Joss on a graduation trip to Bali and in Western North Carolina, Buffalo and Gottweig Abbey, an idyllic, 900-year-old other islands to celebrate his doctoral de- Amazon’s Chicago; and recently returned to San working Benedictine monastery high fense and graduation from the University Kindle. Diego for the third time. Dan was a re- on a hill overlooking a valley of ripen- of Michigan. John said that he “also had a porter, promotional writer, director of ing grapevines in Krems, Austria; the good call with CORKY and Vanessa BRIT- six ad agencies and freelance writer for charming towns of Passou and Regens- TAN about their fascinating pump stor- about 50 national brands. At age 72, he burg, Germany; and an absolutely deli- age renewable energy project in Idaho. decided to get serious about his writing, cious, gluten-free, fresh-baked Nurem- We should all be so far-thinking.” and now he has published 12 novels on berg gingerbread cookie. MORTY BERMAN continues to be a Amazon’s Kindle. > DICK DIMOND faithful correspondent, for which the CHARLIE UPDIKE returned to Amherst [email protected] class secretary is grateful. He writes that with his grandson, who is a high school he is recently back from a two-week trip junior sniffing colleges. The weather was to Lisbon and Porto, Portugal, and San Se- beautiful; the football game was spirited 1962 bastián and Biarritz, Spain. He had origi- and featured an unlikely comeback vic- LARRY BECK reports that the 55th reunion nally planned to include Barcelona but tory. While there, Charlie caught up with committee had its final dinner meeting at canceled while in Portugal because of the TED ELLS and Susan and JIM NOYES, who the Lord Jeff on homecoming weekend, to unrest and demonstrations there. “Life is were chipper and ambulatory. Charlie will celebrate a successful reunion and a thrill- good,” he writes. “[We] have seven grand- visit soon with JOHN TURNER in Arizona, ing come-from-behind victory over Wes- sons, one granddaughter and three grand where they certainly will have some fun leyan. Present in addition to Larry and dogs. What could be better?” but also lament the passing of hockey Joan were class president GEORGE CAR- Another travel report was received from teammate HARRY NEIMEYER. MANY and Judy, JOHN MCDERMOTT and JEFF EPSTEIN: “Renee and I took a won- BOB “ROBIE” FULTON has been in Emily, CRAIG MORGAN and Sing-huen, derful trip to Bryce, Zion and the Grand touch with BOB BARRETT and his wife, ROBIN MAHAR and Emily, SKIP FRIED- Canyon [national parks] in the beginning Christine, who will be on their way soon RICH and Krista. “Some of us also got to of October. Age is definitely catching up, to Australia. Robie has kept in touch with catch up with JEFF EPSTEIN and JOHN because there were a number of hikes we DAVE HAMILTON as well, discussing DURYEE, who were on campus for part of would not even consider.” books and poetry, etc., and added that JIM the weekend.” Larry and Joan resettled to Word has it that a number of classmates BOOKWALTER continues to chug along as Florida late in October, in time for him to with spouses got together in Washington of this past October. Robie and Betty have prepare for a tetrad of concerts. in October. Among the co-conspirators logged trips to Puerto Morelos, Mexico, CORKY BRITTAN recalls a talk Ben De- were HARVEY WEBSTER, DAVE ROLL, and Costa Rica (all over), and now are Mott gave at the Jones Library (in town) GIL FIELDS, FRED WOODWORTH, CRAIG looking at Portugal or the Dordogne val- when we were students about class secre- MORGAN, RICH LANDFIELD and PK ley, adding that travel suggestions from taries (my ears and fears jumped to atten- WHEELER. Upon further inquiry I found classmates will be appreciated greatly tion). As Corky recalls, Professor DeMott my way to Gil, who explained the origins (but not paid for). In the meanwhile, “Let had “gone through years of alumni mag- of the party. On a regularly scheduled trip the march to oblivion be accompanied by azines and picked out memorable class to Washington, he threw a garden cocktail the marvels of life.” notes and secretaries, putting them in the party for two of his granddaughters, who Anne and JOHN WHITNEY still live in more general context of some reflections are or were students at Georgetown; their Atlanta, as do their two sons and five on the character of our lives.” Corky won- friends; and Messrs. Webster, Wood- grand-children, and in the same ranch ders if anyone has collected Ben’s talks, worth, Morgan, Landfield and Wheeler. house they bought in 1970, which turned commenting that “they were wonderful “This cocktail party was a good way of out to be just the right size for them now (although occasionally filled with small catching up, seeing classmates and their as “empty-nesters.” Downsizing and sim- bits of rancor, as in his … defense of [F.R.] spouses, retelling old school tales and plifying their lives in other ways became Leavis’ attack on C.P. Snow).” learning what exciting post-retirement

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lives these classmates are enjoying.” A KENT FAERBER and wife Scottie, HANS New Braunfels, Texas, with son Chris. photo of them (without Dr. Wheeler) will BERGMANN and wife Harriet, JOHN HAY “The area has a large German popula- be posted on our website. Gil adds that and wife Carol, and TOD HOUGHTLIN and tion, so it’s basically their Oktoberfest.” “since retiring I have invited all members wife Helen Burton converged on Berlin On Thanksgiving he went to Dallas to be of the family for an all-paid trip to Italy in October for a mini reunion, savoring with son David: “There we spent Black the last week in June every year. We visit the delights of a lively and prosperous city Friday at the mall.” different regions to learn about foods, reborn out of the ashes of WWII. Kent re- MIKE LAUX has been coaching swim- culture and days of the city-state before ports: “Memorials to the Holocaust ev- ming, and his Staples High School Girls Garibaldi.” For more information about erywhere were a reminder that, despite Swim Team in Westport, Conn., this fall Gil, please refer to the website. the xenophobia rearing its ugly head, ‘of- finished third in the State Open Champi- Patricia and I remain active—she with ficial’ Germany has done a credible job of onship. “We set five school records and her church organ job, Meals on Wheels, acknowledging its past. The group were three league and state records and had docent work at the Baltimore Museum of also struck by the effect of advancing age All-American consideration swims in Art, four semester courses at Baltimore’s on the difficulties of mastering new ter- the 50, 100, 200 medley relay and 400 Renaissance Institute, the Johns Hopkins rain; no one got lost on the U-Bahn, but free relay. But now I am exhausted and Choral Society (the DurufléRequiem is in there were some close calls.” have to get things moving on reunion,” their sights) and church mission respon- Hans added these impressions: “Muse- Mike wrote. sibilities. I join her in singing with the ums and concerts and new and old archi- MARK MEYERSON and wife Joan spent Mark Hopkins Choral Society and the church tecture, walking and walking, laughing three weeks in Europe, visiting Venice, Meyerson choir, help run a local Rotary Club and do together at department store KaDeWe. Strasbourg and Paris. “A highlight was yardwork and handyman chores. Our sad Funny breakfasts, picnic suppers in our taking the Orient Express overnight from ’63 and wife news is that our church of 40-plus years apartment hotel. … All happy times in this Venice to Paris: très élégante, and murder- Joan spent has run out of money and is merging with great city with its dreadful 20th-centu- free,” Mark writes. another. I have been tasked with being ry history. Most astonishing fact? Over three weeks responsible for the sale of a Holtkamp 40,000 Jews now live in Berlin, with more “We set five school records organ and some other personal property. coming every year.” in Europe. and three league and state We had a delightful visit and lunch in Another, more regular mini reunion records...” “A highlight Northampton with SHERRY WILSON took place later, during the College’s was taking in November. Sherry is staying busy. homecoming, at KENT FAERBER’s Am- When we saw her, she was moderating herst home. Present were BILL AMEND ALLAN OLIVER and partner Gary Si- the Orient a course on Jane Austen at the Five Col- and wife Connie, BOB APLINGTON, NAN mundson this fall visited Mexico to learn Express lege Learning in Retirement Program. KING and wife Frieda, TAD LARRABEE about that country’s history and the Day When weather permits, such as the day and his son David (’91) and David’s wife, of the Dead. They stayed in a Benedictine overnight this was written, she gardens—she is a Heather; MIKE LAUX and wife Marisol; retreat center in Cuernavaca. One day from Venice master gardener. ALAN “ONNIE” MACKENZIE; LAURIE OS- they took supplies to earthquake victims > SANDY SHORT BORN; FRANK POOLE and wife Marga- in a nearby city, Jojutla, which was near to Paris: très [email protected] ret; JIM TASHJIAN and wife Paula; BILL the epicenter of a quake on Sept. 19. He élégante, and WOOD and wife Pamela; and AL HERZOG. described the visit on the class listserv: Added Tad: “Unfortunately there was “Most of the people we talked to were murder-free.” 1963 little fall color except occasional trees. doing the best they could. Many have The 55th reunion of the class of ’63 will Drought has made many trees brown, but family members close by and count on take place May 23–27, 2018. Reunion chair fall was a lot later this year.” However, all them to help take care of their needs. Ev- MIKE LAUX says his committee has been enjoyed the Wesleyan Cardinals receiv- eryone agrees that the federal and state busy. TAD LARRABEE is rounding up sou- ing defeat (in the last moments) from the governments have done very little beyond venirs, DAVID SILVER working on food Amherst Mammoths—the logo of the new bringing in the tents for temporary hous- and beverages, JOHN NORTHUP dealing mascot was unveiled over the weekend. ing. Whatever order has been established with facilities and lodging, and LAURIE RALPH HANNA reports “only dull stuff” comes from the community itself, serving OSBORNE putting together the program, in Oxford, England. He did little except meals and taking care of kids in a centrally which should include presentations by have three books published. In addition, located facility.” TED TRUMAN, HUGH PRICE and others. this book came out: Pursuing Middle Eng- LAURIE OSBORN and wife Wendy were The best part will be just getting togeth- lish Manuscripts and Their Texts: Essays in Florida, supporting his brother Ned er. Based on usual attendance at 55th re- in Honour of Ralph Hanna. According to and family in a hospice as the final step unions, about a third of the class will show the publisher, Brepols, “Ralph Hanna has in his brother’s battle with an aggressive up, which would be about 60 classmates. made an enormous contribution to the esophageal cancer. Laurie wrote that he But maybe we can beat that. study of Middle English manuscripts; was losing a close friend, confidant and Do make the effort to come. This year his numerous essays and books have soulmate brother. our headquarters will be at Chi Phi (now discussed the development of London TED TRUMAN and wife Tracy went to named Lipton House for the father of an literature, alliterative poetry (especially South Korea for the 20th anniversary of alumnus: the Ohio beer and wine dis- Piers Plowman), regionalism and the pro- the Asian financial crisis of 1997. “For the tributor Sanford Lipton, not the knighted duction and circulation of manuscripts.” first time in 11 trips to Korea, we ventured Scottish grocer Thomas who sold tea). If Ralph’s reaction to this praise: “Embar- out of Seoul to Jeju Island and Gyeongju you haven’t received the reunion com- rassing.” as well as Seoul. We are a lot more knowl- mittee’s postal mailing, you should soon. WYTHE HOLT went to Melbourne, Fla.— edgeable about 2,000 years of Korean his- Now for the news: which he tells us was actually named after tory as a result.” Ted continues to teach a BEN AURAND wrote on the class listserv Melbourne, Australia—for Thanksgiving seminar at Williams College. (which you should check if you don’t al- and had a warm and relaxing time, with STEPHEN GRANT continues book tours, ready): “Three days ago we were visited by no one having to cook. “Eating Turkey this time in the United Kingdom, telling four pine grosbeaks for about 30 seconds Day dinner at a nice restaurant turned out the Henry Folger story that he wrote near our bird feeder. Most of you might to be remarkably copacetic and relaxing,” about. Among his stops were Oxford and shrug, but if there are any birdwatchers he discovered. Cambridge Universities, cultural centers amongst us, you can appreciate my excite- MAL JOHNSON last fall spent a month in London and Bath, the Shakespeare In- ment at this rather rare occurrence even visiting his sons and their families. A stitute in Stratford-upon-Avon and the up here in northern Minnesota.” highlight was spending Wurstfest in University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

66 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 In Oxford, RALPH HANNA devoted half a day to guiding Steve and partner Abigail 1964 Wiebenson around as no one else could Sadly, BILL NADEL passed away in Sum- have done. mit, N.J., on Nov. 25. An In Memory piece ALLEN SWARTZ has been busy writing appears in this issue, and friends can add verse, dancing tango, modifying a new their remembrances by logging into the Subaru WRX and helping a friend finish College’s online In Memory section at an addition on a house. He has also been amherst.edu/magazine. doing what he can on the opioid crisis, In August, Amherst published an online advocating for safe injection facilities and article on “JFK100: Of Poetry and Power.” better death data collection. “I would wel- TED NELSON and MARK SANDLER were come any help from my classmates who on a panel with three students discuss- live in Massachusetts and want to wade ing Robert Frost and President Kennedy into the opioid crisis. If you are interest- and their interactions. Also in attendance

ed or even just have some ideas, let me were Jan Nelson, ROGER MILLS, SMOKEY ARCHIVES COLLEGE know,” he says. (Allen’s email address and Kit STOVER and NEIL and Judy BICK- is available through the College’s online NELL. These classmates are working on they’ve sold rights to the North Olym- j Put Me In, alumni directory or alumni office.) the documentary film The President and pic Land Trust. Their three children, 10 Coach LEON GIBBS was the subject of a lengthy the Poet, about the impact of Kennedy’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren Professor article in the homecoming edition of speech on Oct. 26, 1963, at Amherst. Ar- love to visit. Tim’s new book, News from of Physical The Amherst Student this fall. It recounts chivists consider the speech Kennedy Rain Shadow Country, recounts his life on Education Leon’s pioneering career as an African delivered on privilege, responsibility and the farm and includes “my many amusing American in international business at service, and his reflections on the rela- adventures at Amherst College.” Rick Wilson Pfizer, IBM and Johnson & Johnson, tionship between the arts and political DAVE and Barbara BUNTING miss the (back row, far and as a trade promoter at the American power, to be among his most enduring convenience of their children (Sarah and left) coached embassy in Kingston, Jamaica, during the and eloquent words. Dave Jr.) sharing a home in Brooklyn with basketball Reagan Administration. It also tells how Dotty and DOUG REILLY both retired 10 their respective spouses. Their golf out- at Amherst Leon, along with BILL DAVIS and HUGH years ago, but have kept as busy as when ings are fewer (new balls don’t travel as from 1948 PRICE, initiated the funding of the Asa J. they were employed. Doug has taught far), and they are winding down their var- Davis Scholarship Fund at the College. physics in a private school in Santa Fe, ious board and charity positions, while to 1977—a It mentions that five African Americans N.M.; tutored kids in math and science; spending time in Cape Cod, Mass., and total of 543 were admitted to our class (2 percent): and been a judge at science fairs in the Naples, Fla. “General health is good, but games. He’s two dropped out; Leon, Bill and Hugh Santa Fe area. He and Dotty help with ‘spry’ is a used-to-be term.” shown here graduated. The class of 2017 has 57 Af- meals for shut-ins and relax in Maine as GEORGE MCDOUGALL called me over with the 1964 rican Americans (12 percent). volunteers at the Coastal Maine Botani- the Thanksgiving holiday and updated -65 team. JOHN DERR’s son Nathan Derr ’98, an cal Garden. me on his status, carefully noting that assistant professor of biology at Smith JOHN PERKINS, another class author, both the Cubs and the Bears would be College, married Shannon Audley, also recently had Changing Energy: The Tran- playing ball in Tampa, Fla., in the same an assistant professor there, on Smith’s sition to a Sustainable Future published. week, an extremely unlikely confluence “Mountain Day” in October. Presiding The book outlines how humanity es- he was determined to attend. Hurricane was Smith emeritus professor Thomas tablished the current energy economy Irma mostly bypassed Puerto Rico, and Derr, John’s brother. The ceremony was through three previous transitions, and Maria struck hard while George was in held in the garden of Smith College Presi- how we now stand poised for a neces- Tampa. George and Loida spent the au- dent Kathleen McCartney, who was in at- sary fourth transition. Human societies tumn in Delray Beach, Fla., in a leased tendance and tweeted the event. Given around the globe have received immense house near their recently married daugh- very short notice, John drove three hours benefits from use of coal, oil, gas and ura- ter. We are glad you are both safe, George. each way from Squam Lake, N.H., to at- nium sources, yet we must now rebuild TERRY SEGAL’s family has a long Am- tend. “Altogether, a beautiful and happy our energy economies to rely on renew- herst history. At least 10 Segals preced- day,” John writes. able sources and use them efficiently. It ed him at Amherst and together set up Your scribe, NEALE ADAMS, has been is available at Amazon.com with a five- a scholarship in the ’80s to be given an- elected chair of an environmental group, star rating. nually to a resident of Massachusetts or the Suzuki Elders, in Vancouver, Cana- In October, AL and Virginia FURTWAN- Israel. There have been many impressive da. The group is affiliated with the David GLER had dinner with DOUG LOWY and recipients, according to Terry, but a cur- Suzuki Foundation, an organization that his wife, Bev, in Portland, Ore. Doug is rent holder has scored six touchdowns, does environmental research and advo- the recent recipient of the 2017 Lasker- including four game-winning passes, cacy in Canada, and which was founded DeBakey Clinical Medical Research and can leap tall buildings. Sophomore by David Suzuki ’58. The Elders, about 80 Award for his role in developing technol- James O’Regan, wide receiver, is from in number across Canada, also advocate ogy that led to three FDA-approved HPV Wilmington, Mass. In October, Terry and for environmental action and education vaccines. Amherst grads in attendance BILL PITE attended a memorial service and support the foundation as they can. at the presentation ceremony included for BILL LEWIS in Marion, Mass. At first reluctant, Neale has decided to ac- ROGER HIRSCHBERG and wife Judy, DAN JESSE and Laren BRILL’s children are cept the designation of “elder” with grace. and Barbara ROSENN, BOB and Arleen on the move; one daughter and her son Sad news is that two of our classmates LEIBOWITZ, Marty Lowy ’61 and wife are moving from Maui to Jackson, Wyo., died recently: RICK CROSBY, who had Louise, and Josh Parks ’95 and Stepha- and his daughter Wendy ’04, her husband been battling cancer for some time, on nie (Lowy) Parks ’95 (Doug’s daughter). and two little ones are moving from Man- Oct. 2, and JOHN MILLER, who we learned Rounding out the Amherst celebration, hattan to Jesse’s guest house in Berkeley, died on April 17. Their obituaries will Harold Varmus ’61 wrote a very wonder- Calif. Jesse is still chasing down soft balls appear in the In Memory section of the ful article in the journal Cell about Doug’s hit 300–350 feet by his younger friends in magazine. research and its significance. Oakland. He is convinced that the hand, And don’t forget: reunion this May from TIMOTHY and Joyce WHEELER live on eye and leg coordination for “shagging the 23rd to the 27th! his family’s former dairy farm in Sequim, balls” is keeping his brain sharp. > NEALE ADAMS Wash., in the shadow of the Olympic I hosted a dinner (with the culinary [email protected] Mountains. To preserve its agrarian use, leadership of my friend Donna) for BOB

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and Muffie KNOX and STEVE and Robin of his son Andrew’s wedding in Ayuttha- ER created Negotiation 360 to enhance DROTTER. This was our second San Diego ya, the old capital of Thailand, to Joob, a ability to reach agreement and resolve mini reunion. Veal Marsala was the fea- Thai who speaks four languages and has disputes. The app generates a personal- tured entrée, accompanied by wines from lived in the United States and China as ized profile of relational and problem- the Provence region of France. Steve and well. The wedding was performed in a solving skills, highlighting strengths to Robin are remodeling a house in Healds- mosque. Lee points out that conserva- build on and other areas where one can burg, Calif., which fortunately was not tives like himself are often not the big- improve. A scorecard feature that creates impacted by fires that devastated homes ots they are oft labeled; he rejoiced in this a means to learn the right lessons from nearby and in Santa Rosa. They expected melding of cultures that his son’s wedding your own experience. Wheeler and SAM to be in their new dwelling around the end represents. ELLENPORT met for a class at the Harvard of 2017. Bob recounted a mini reunion he Alas, DUNCAN MCDOUGALI reports a B School that used jazz to teach lessons had with FARZAM ARBAB and PHIL AL- second stroke that occurred in May. But it on corporate innovation and culture, fol- LEN, his Berkeley graduate school physics eased lingering effects of his clot-caused lowed by lunch. “Terrific!” says Sam. mates during the ’64–’65 academic year. stroke of September 2016. Duncan still HOWARD BLOCH’s vivacious knowl- After one year, Bob switched to the MIT- walks and drives and made a 10-day trip edge of Gothic cathedrals is available back to Romania in September to join to all at coursera.org/learn/age-of-ca- friends made during his Fulbright year, thedrals. ’08–’09, in Cluj! MARK PERRY is involved with a non- Double Booking Our Denver friend ROB LONGSWORTH profit that has the potential to change was off to Connecticut for Thanksgiving the cycle of poverty in our country. Up- 1967: Joe Kimble has been having great fun going into to see his first granddaughter. After tir- stream USA’s basic concept is that un- elementary school classes to read and discuss his new ing gym time, Rob will walk more or less planned pregnancies result in a young kids’ book, Mr. Mouthful Learns His Lesson. Kids are so normally for the first time in four years. woman dropping out of school or her enthusiastic at that age, and they seem to like the book. He hopes that he and I might again, as we job and remaining stuck in the cycle of His new law book, Seeing Through Legalese: More Essays on did a few years back, walk the path to the poverty. Upstream’s clinics offer all forms Plain Language, has come out at the same time. He didn’t “lucky log,” a fallen tree on a gorgeous of birth control, which results in a signifi- plan it that way; it just happened. He’s still writing and high mountain meadow out of Gunnison, cant reduction in the number of births to blogging about judicial interpretation. He enjoyed seeing Colo., where we waited for elk that did mothers who rely on Medicaid for health everyone at reunion and thought the events and book not appear in the crosshairs of our expen- care. Upstream has a seven-year plan to were outstanding. sive rifle scopes. I am sure the animals train clinics in five states that will serve still chuckle in bovine amusement at our 1.5 million women annually. Mark joined expensive and exhausting efforts to avoid the board along with Jack Markell, for- Woods Hole oceanography program for the meat counter at our local Safeway. mer governor of Delaware. Helping young his Ph.D. Farzam and Phil completed their TOM POOR’s daughters at Princeton people to take responsibility for their own degrees at Berkeley. It had been 52 years and Harvard were due home for the lives is as rewarding an undertaking as since their last dinner together, but they holidays, bringing international friends our classmate can imagine. Mark’s first plan not to wait so long for the next one. from school. They emphasize vegan diets board meeting was in Boston, where he > VINCENT F. SIMMON and lots of exercise, along with mounting met MIKE WHEELER. Mark stays close to [email protected] concern for the environment. Jessie and the lives of his and Mauree’s nine grand- Tom’s squash tournament season had be- children: One granddaughter at Williston gun. The whole family looked forward to Northampton School is an actress there; 1965 Christmas in Morocco—a change of pace a grandson in Maryland was rated a top Response to my solicitation for news from familiar Caribbean haunts. high school freshman lacrosse player; equaled response to a promotion of a One of TOM FURNISS’ cases has be- another granddaughter, in Boulder, was $29.99 watch that looks like a Rolex. come “the most important tangible voted MVP of her eighth-grade volleyball But let’s try… achievement I have had as a lawyer,” team; and a ninth-grade grandson in Sil- DAVID MACINNES’ 25 years in Vancou- Tom writes. The dispute was a product icon Valley is pilot for his high school’s ver have been “great.” He holds both of the harsh legislative reactions around championship robotics team. With the ;Å United States and Canadian passports, so the country to the assault of 7-year-old pessimism in the country today about “PEOPLE LIKE ME, Canada is home and the United States is Megan Kanka in New Jersey in 1994. Tom ineffective leadership in Washington, WHO CAME THROUGH his country. His closest, oldest friends are flew to Florida to argue the case for a man Mark is compelled to get involved with THE MOVEMENT, WE KNOW HOW TO SUR- far away, so email is a vital part of David’s who misguidedly took a plea in Connecti- projects of hope, with visionary charities VIVE,” SAYS JUNIUS life—though electronic communication cut a decade ago and was now forced to and exciting young people. WILLIAMS ’65. does not preclude travel and “fun” visits. register as a sex offender in his new resi- At our 50th, someone mentioned that, Page 29 SHERMAN KATZ was in Nairobi in No- dence of Florida. Tom won the case. A at the time we were admitted to Amherst, vember to talk about U.S. trade policy double injustice was undone. it was the most difficult college from with the Kenya Private Sector Alliance. One wonders if the current tsunami of which to get an acceptance letter. I was Sherman caught up with Harvey Croze ’64 sexual harassment announcements will likely admitted by clerical error. and his wife on a safari in Maasai Mara. result in similar rushes to judgment. Cer- But if our class was the chosen few, Sherm reports: “On the broad savannah, tainly Amherst College has not been ex- we have become fewer recently with rolling hills in the distance and endless emplary here. the passing of MAURICE KING, whose cerulean sky, herds are large—imagine gi- SANDY WASHBURN praises Amherst In Memory will appear next issue. At a raffes gliding across the plain with back- and Biddy Martin for reaching out to distance, it is easy to adopt the mantle ground of countless impala, gazelle, zebra military veterans as potential students. of cheerful acceptance of mortality and and wildebeest. Majestic lions, lionesses Sandy’s four years as a deck officer in the to recite a buoyant slate marker up in and cubs loll in the grasses. Elephants, U.S. Navy inform this. He remains less Greenfield that JIM HANNAH and I dis- baboons, warthogs, jackal and buffalo are happy with the adoption of the Mammoth covered: “Death is a debt / To nature due nearby. Two darker scenes appear of tens as mascot, as his own research, like Don / Which I have paid / And so will you.” of vultures, eagles and storks devouring MacNaughton’s, shows that Lord Jeffery And, of course, John Donne’s directive to remains of a recently killed zebra and a was in fact a leader of genuine worth in ask not for whom the bell tolls, as “It tolls buffalo. … An enormous full moon emerg- the beginnings of our country. for thee,” is fluently quoted. es, as is only possible near the equator.” Harvard Business School professor and But, boys, when “thee” changes to ROBERT “LEE” WILLIAMS sent a video award-winning author MICHAEL WHEEL- “me,” the going gets real. Numbers atop

68 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 a page handed over by a urologist told that in (or just follow) the discussion. Young, the Nobel Prize in physiology and there was no luxury of detachment a for ELLIOTT ISENBERG’s primary goal medicine. Full details are available in oth- this particular Amherst graduate, hus- is “to develop emotional intelligence,” er Amherst publications. He is the fifth band, father, grandfather and six-day which is more attuned to compassion Amherst alumnus to win a Nobel. Con- bicycle rider. Blood in arteries turns to and wisdom. gratulations to Jeff! ice, one watches absurd television into the JOHN COX MERSON planned to leave JON PEIRCE has just finished appearing long-jawed nights, but there is no escape for Vietnam shortly after the Howard in Isabella, a play about the Halifax Explo- from the tentacles of diagnosis. The fact is celebration. He is an active volunteer sion, written and directed by Karen Wa- no longer Frost’s “the sweetest dream that and a board member of the Children of terfield, who grew up right near the part labor knows” but an uncertain outcome. Vietnam organization. COV helps Viet- of the Nova Scotia city most severely dev- Encouragement by “But, Paul, you’re in- namese children with disabilities and astated by the blast. Jon played the part of destructible…” can cause one to rudely single mothers. Mr. Kemp, a kindly, avuncular gentleman walk away. Now, in the map of cancer’s When the class left Kirby Theater, R.A. who likes to help others—and who was threat, mine was less predatory; I am com- RUBENSTEIN stayed for a homecoming blown to bits in the explosion. He reports passionate to those heavily afflicted. The gathering for past and present Zumbyes, that it was a marvelous experience help- treatment I received may have a positive two of whom were his son, Andrew ’07, ing to recreate this piece of local history. outcome—chances seem good right now. and his nephew, class of ’19. Offstage, he’s had a couple of gigs as a No courage or gallantry as demonstrated SIEG LODWIG’s recovery from heart simulated patient for Dalhousie Medi- by those, as I say, so much worse off. As we surgery continues to be uneventful. He cal School, and will be teaching a writing have known each other three times longer is now recovering from a much-desired course for the Seniors College in Truro than we have not, I share this and hope back surgery. According to Sieg, “This next year. Finally, a piece he wrote about none of you share my condition, but if you was to fix my leg pain (sciatica) and my his childhood (ages 9 and 10) Christmas 1965: Jeff Titon do, I hope you also share confidence that inability to walk without great difficulty. card and writing paper business has been was presented between family, friends and classmates, The operation lasted less than an hour accepted for one of the Chicken Soup an- the Outstanding one’s life does not play to an empty arena. and the final closure of a very small hole thologies, and will be appearing some- Achievement Award > PAUL EHRMANN next to my spine was done with super glue time next summer. by his graduate [email protected] (no kidding!). Such surgery is now an out- GEORGE NASH wrote that he was just school alma mater, patient procedure.” completing another year filled with the University of JAY BUECHNER is the director of evalu- travel. The longest trip, in late January Minnesota, for 1966 ation and improvement at Neighborhood and early February 2017, was to Japan. his research and On a glorious fall homecoming after- Health Plan of Rhode Island. He had been He was invited to lecture there about teaching on the noon, a celebration of KEN HOWARD’s chief health statistician in the state’s De- the history and current configuration of relationship of life was held outside and inside Kirby partment of Health. Jay has also held a American conservatism in the new era music, environment Theater with a plaque, a new maple tree clinical assistant professorship of com- of populism and the Trump presidency. and society. He is a and remembrances of Ken. Eighteen munity health at Brown University. He gave a public lecture in Tokyo, con- professor emeritus classmates—DAVID BROWDER, RUSS DAVE MORINE was not present at home- ducted a seminar with 15 scholars from at Brown Univer- CLARK, ART DIMOCK, PAUL DIMOND, coming, due to a ruptured appendix. He all over Japan, and held a series of meals sity, where he has DUSTY DOWSE, DAVID GREENBLATT, and Ruth had another pleasant summer and consultations with academics and directed the Ph.D. JON HUBERTH, JOHN JACOBY, TED LE- in Maine. It included a wonderful evening opinion leaders, including the prime program in ethno- RCHEN, R.C. LYSTER, DAVID MARTULA, with Forbes ’65 and Kim ’67 McMullin. minister’s chief speechwriter. A leading musicology for 27 JOHN MCKENZIE, JOHN MERSON, JOHN On March 1 Dave will receive the Lufkin Japanese newspaper interviewed him for years. PASSMORE, ALLEN ROSINY, RICHARD Prize for Environmental Leadership from a feature article; the interviewer was an A. RUBENSTEIN, PETER SAWYER and the National Audubon Society. Sir David Amherst graduate! In Kyoto he received FRED TESCH—were present. They were Attenborough will be honored at the same a tour of Doshisha University, including joined by another 20 alumni, 20 wives and event. Amherst House. In April he flew to France partners and longtime basketball coach DAVE MCCANN also had a good time to participate in an international confer- David Hixon ’75. Kudos to Paul, Jon and up in Maine last August. It included a ence near Paris marking the 100th anni- Peter for putting his event together! Spe- chance for him to read from his book, versary of America’s entrance into World cial thanks to Jon for posting three videos Same Bird, at the Higgins Beach Market’s War I. His contribution focused on Her- on YouTube. The first is a tribute video, wine-tasting, which was a new and differ- bert Hoover’s remarkable humanitarian the second remarks by DAVE MORINE and ent experience. work in Europe during and after the Great the third remarks by attendees. In my last column I reported that Dave War. Other events of note during 2017 In May JON HUBERTH was elected to his had a letter to the editor printed in The included giving lectures at Wesleyan, fifth term on his district’s school board. Boston Globe. These notes conclude with Dartmouth, the University of Georgia and He continues as its president. Jon served news that DEAN WASSERMAN has had a George Fox University, as well as at con- on the Monroe Conservation Commis- letter published in the same paper. It dealt ferences in Chicago, New York City and sion for 10 years, many of them as chair. with the necessity to purchase health the Hoover Presidential Library in Iowa. Jon is also an adjunct professor at Man- care insurance to fulfill a societal need: (The last was covered by C-SPAN.) In July hattanville College. insuring that all sides are protected when he attended (as a guest) part of the annual Another reason to travel to Amherst was health emergencies arise. In January 2017 summer encampment of the Bohemian a chance for RUSS and Janie CLARK to Dean retired from a career in health care Club in Northern California. September visit with their son, Ian ’93, and his family. when left the Sierra Vista Group LLC. found him in Oregon for a professional Cambridge, Maine, resident DUSTY From 2001 to 2013 he had been the ra- engagement, followed by an excursion DOWSE coauthored five papers with Jeff diology chief and executive director of along the Oregon coast. On the academic Hall ’67, Amherst’s latest Nobel Prize re- AlantiCare Medical Center. front, he has just contributed an essay on cipient. Jeff moved to Cambridge when > JOHN D. MCKENZIE JR. Herbert Hoover to the new book American he retired from Brandeis. [email protected] Exceptionalism in a New Era. Also, his 2016 Dusty continues to monitor the class published article, “American Conserva- listserv with your secretary (amherst.edu/ tism and the Problem of Populism,” has alumni/classpages/1966/listserv_1966). 1967 just been published in an expanded and Of the 255 alumni associated with the Of course the big class news, if you still updated form in the volume Vox Populi: class, only 153 are subscribers. We encour- haven’t heard, is that JEFF HALL has The Perils and Promises of Populism. age additional classmates to participate won, with Michael Rosbash and Michael Following reunion, DICK PIERPONT

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met up with MIKE KEISER in Cape Breton WEHNER has turned his interest in eco- definitely,” Mike writes, “but the sirens on what is probably the most incredible nomics, philosophy and political theory of golf, travel and extended leisure I find golf course, Cabot Cliffs, and then met up into a considerable amount of writing, increasingly grab my attention.” with COLIN BLAIR in Boston in October including three novels and many essays. The sad news is that Mike’s wife of 30 on his drive south. Both men continue to His latest is an essay about the idea— years, Maria, died six years ago of can- be in fine mettle. “somewhat provocative,” as he ob- cer. Their daughter, Irene, is an artist who JEREMY WILLIAMS planned to attend serves—of a guaranteed basic income for studied at Guilford College in North Car- the 50th reunion with DAVID GREENE, but all citizens. Having ensured its German- olina. Now, says Mike, she is busy shuck- he had to abort the trip because of a back language publication last fall, Burkhard ing oysters with her new husband, Dylan injury. So they made an Amherst pilgrim- was at work convincing the publisher to Salmon, at their new Baltimore restau- age of their own, returning on an ordinary release the essay in English as well, under rant, Dylan’s Oyster Cellar. Mike took day in October. And what a beautiful visit the title “The Political Logic of Uncondi- GORDON RADLEY and JACK WIDNESS it was—two old roommates, still closest of tional Basic Income.” Eight years ago, af- there after they interviewed him for the friends, moved by shared memories and ter having spent most of his life as a teach- reunion video series. “I took them there,” excited to see the Amherst of today. They er, businessman and writer in Hamburg, Mike notes, “but they paid.” enjoyed what hadn’t changed, such as the Burkhard moved with his wife some 30 Mike and Maria’s son, Frank, studied old freshman quad, and the idyllic view miles out into the country. He regrets that vocal music at Randolph-Macon College. from Memorial Hill. And they enjoyed he’s likely to miss the reunion next May, “That sounds like his Amherst Glee Club To the what had changed, primarily the wonder- although there’s a small chance. dad. The difference is, he has talent. He surprise ful and obvious diversity of the students. Despite living in Danbury, Conn., which was a soloist. I was hiding among the oth- To their surprise and delight, one thing is somewhat closer to Amherst than Ham- er spear carriers.” Frank also was an All and delight that hadn’t changed was the presence burg is, MATT MILLER has managed to Old Dominion Athletic Conference ten- of Jeremy of Professor Pritchard teaching poetry! miss most of our reunions, but he expects nis player. “So now he is neither singing They found him in his office in Johnson to make the 50th. “I visited fairly often nor playing tennis. He is a banker with Williams ’67 Chapel, preparing for a class. They remi- when my kids attended,” wrote Matt, M&T Bank. He assures me in the near and David nisced about English 1 and other topics “but that was eons ago.” Matt repeats future he will do more singing than ka- old and new, giving them a special feeling an increasingly common theme about raoke at local bars and that he will play Greene ’67, of continuity that deepened their experi- how several of us are finding ourselves tennis as well.” one thing ence. And then they searched high and in touch with classmates we may not have Romance is still possible. Mike has been low for the location of the Zumbye re- known well (or at all) when we were un- dating a retired University of Pennsylva- that hadn’t hearsals in their day. They think it was dergraduates. One is fellow doctor MICK- nia anthropology professor, Peggy Reeves changed about in the basement of the Octagon but re- EY HELBRAUN, for whose daughter Matt Sanday, whose specialty is matrilineal main unsure. They welcome the answer provided a useful professional connec- societies and—remarkably timely at the Amherst was from anyone who can solve the mystery! tion when she was seeking a residency. December deadline for these notes— the presence > LEE KEENER “We have great political arguments via sexual harassment. “She wrote one of [email protected] email!” Matt added. the earliest books on the subject, Frater- of Professor The Classmate of the Month video nity Gang Rape, about an incident at Penn. Pritchard series has produced a rich assortment That made her persona non grata at Penn 1968 of connections and reconnections. One for a while. She has since been honored a teaching On a gray November morning, one of your COTM long absent from these notes is number of times for that book.” Travel, poetry! secretaries went spelunking for news of MARC CHINOY. Marc’s first career after says Mike, includes Austria, Montana at a long-lost classmates, found a phone num- Amherst focused on filmmaking and pro- dude ranch (“I played golf”), Glacier Na- ber for one and called him up. Classmate duction, but for the past three decades tional Park, Banff and Lake Louise, Den- allowed as how he’d just as soon stay out his main work has been as a mediator. He ver, Kennebunkport and Monhegan Is- of print here. Secretary complies. writes, “I have facilitated the decisions of land in Maine, and Dylan’s Oyster Cellar. Others are willing to be heard from, complex groups.” Among those are the A welcome phone conversation with however, and the November/December Bell Telephone companies in consortium, DAVE TOWNSEND caught us up on life pleas from your secretaries and ED LYNN patent leaders, health care universities in Oyster Bay, Long Island. Since retir- for contributions to the forthcoming 50th seeking common standards for nursing ing from Merrill Lynch, Dave has made reunion book elicited some responses for education, the American Bar Association considerable use of his resonant voice these notes as well. board of directors and countries. and acting ability, doing voiceovers and Among them came one from EMMANU- In Toronto, LEW CHESLER keeps on-camera acting in film and video. Cur- EL (formerly Seth) ARONIE, whose recent turning out entertaining films for the rently he reads for the visually impaired, work as manager of an online toy com- Hallmark Channel, many with holiday especially The New York Times Magazine pany led him to start a fund to send toys to themes. In 2017 his company, Chesler/ and other publications. He serves on the Syrian refugee children. He wrote, “I was Perlmutter Productions, started early, re- board of Preservation Long Island and the in a unique position to identify, locate and leasing The Christmas Cure last July. Plot: Oyster Bay Community Foundation. His send toys for about 225 kids, which ended Overworked L.A. doctor goes home for wife, Liz, is a longtime board member of up as five boxes of toys that went in sepa- small-town Christmas, discovers her old Save the Children. Both Townsends do rate shipments to Northwest Syria (actu- boyfriend still can ignite a spark, gets an their part in preserving awareness of his- ally a safe area) and to Istanbul (safer).” urgent message from her boss telling her tory: Dave is involved with the Townsend As Emmanuel observed, the toys “might she’s up for a major promotion review on genealogical society—one family mem- in some way help these children find their Dec. 23. Will she fly back, or take over her ber belonged to a spy ring organized by way back to their childhoods.” Emmanu- father’s local medical practice? In Decem- George Washington—and Liz has worked el’s travels also took him to the Ukraine. ber, Chesler/Perlmutter premiered Magi- with an organization that preserves a fine Back in Massachusetts, his adventures in- cal Christmas Ornaments, about a heart- old house on Long Island. cluded dinner with Sam Lovejoy ’69 and broken book editor dreading yet another MATT ROEHRIG has sung countless wife Kathy. “So the circle is both small Christmas season. Her mother sends her roles with the Amherst-based Valley and very wide. I look forward to May and some sentimental ornaments, and sure Light Opera. The VLO usually specializes catching up to you all and getting a feel enough, she falls for someone. Must be in Gilbert & Sullivan, but this year their for the other couple of hundred lives that some magic in those ornaments.… big November production was Lerner & I joined so many years ago.” In Baltimore, MIKE DONNELLY is still Loewe’s My Fair Lady. Cast in one of the At home in Germany, BURKHARD practicing law. “I hope to continue in- juiciest parts in the history of Broadway,

70 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 Matt played and sang the role of Alfred noticed that the new Science Center at P. Doolittle, father of Eliza. Amherst will include the Larry and Susan Homecoming came along as usual this Kahn Indoor Garden. year, only more so, given the obvious ne- More than a hundred miles north of cessity of a planning meeting to discuss Larry, MIKE and Nancy GODFREY live the 50th in May. Too bad no one video- on Florida’s Space Coast, having moved taped the meeting; we probably could back there after many years in California, have sold such a video to Harvard Busi- where Mike taught information systems ness School as an illustration of how a at the Long Beach campus of California bunch of mature people can discuss busi- State University. Their official address is ness without anyone feeling interrupted, in Indialantic, near Melbourne (where discounted, inflated or tired. Reunion Mike went to high school) and Cape Ca- chairs MIKE MULLIGAN and ED SAV- naveral. He says his occupations now AGE, president GORDON RADLEY, trea- include “keeping a weather eye toward

surer BOB HOLLOWAY, secretaries DAVID those pesky exo-planets.” ARCHIVES COLLEGE GLASS and JOHN STIFLER, reunion book STEVE SUMIDA retired in 2016 after editor ED LYNN, volunteer BILL HEANEY many years of teaching at the University j Snow 1969 and the by now internationally famous of Washington, but his work on Asian- Mobile? video production duo of JACK WIDNESS American literature continues well be- Hawaii architect PAUL MORGAN reported Six men DOUG PITMAN and sat around the big ta- yond the classroom. Last fall he was writ- he was in training for a trip this April on drive around ble in the Pontypool meeting room—free ing a chapter for a book about No-No Boy, the three-masted tall ship Oliver Hazard the wintery Mammoth paraphernalia will be award- a 1957 novel by the Japanese-American Perry. “The participants help sail the ed to any classmate who knows where writer John Okada about the internment ship, stand watches, learn navigation, Amherst Pontypool actually is—talked a lot, and of Japanese-Americans during World War etc., something I’ve wanted to do since I campus— were smart enough to listen to sage advice II and the aftermath of that episode. was about 10 years old,” Paul wrote. He apparently handed out by Sandy Riley, our alumni At Cornell, DICK BOOTH is still teach- added that he was envisioning himself without need office liaison, who has an extraordinary ing the legalities and practicalities of land “hanging out there on a yard arm trying for hats, ability to understand the class of 1968. use, as well as a freshman course in writ- to help furl a sail.” The trip will take him gloves or a Later, out by the football field, it was ing. Until recently Dick also served on the from New Orleans to Annapolis. “I know easy to find JIM LYNCH, DICK SALEM, Adirondack Park Agency, the mission of a 70-year-old on a home repair ladder is roof—circa BOB WARRINGTON and DAVE DAVEN- which is to develop long-range plans for bad enough, so we’ll see. Anyway, this 1970. Were PORT, together as they frequently man- use of public and private lands within the may cure me of my romance with sail.” you among age to be at such events. Dick still prac- boundary of the park. STEVE COHN, longtime economics pro- them? Share tices law in Leicester, Mass. Dave retired On Martha’s Vineyard, MICHAEL fessor at Knox College in Illinois, reported memories at from his legal work with the Massachu- HAYDN continues to play guitar and pia- that his new book, Competing Economic magazine@ setts Department of Revenue but got no in several genres, recently including Paradigms in China: The Co-Evolution of pulled back into law work in a private folk blues instrumentals. You can find 19 Economic Events, Economic Theory and amherst.edu. firm. Bob continues to enjoy retirement in of his tracks on the Soundcloud website. Economics Education, 1976–2016, has Burlington, Vt. As for Jim, see last issue’s In Newton, Mass., MARCUS PARSONS been published by Routledge. “Marxist note about how he and Ellen provided a has exhibited his stunning color photo- theory in China has frequently been de- comfortable mattress and delicious din- graphs several times at local shows and graded by its opportunist use as a legiti- ner for Secretary Stifler and spouse Lou- galleries. This fall he and wife Ellen held mizing ideology for the Party state, rather ise when John’s Appalachian Trail hike an informal exhibit at their own house. than a creative paradigm for thinking entered New Hampshire. “A nice change from our gallery shows.” about history and social change,” Steve Also at homecoming: NILS BRUZELIUS, DAVID FUNNELL reports, “I am still in wrote by way of explanation. He added visiting his sister, who lives in Amherst remission from the colorectal cancer di- that his son was doing graduate work in and teaches at Smith, having dinner with agnosed in third stage in May 2014. While orchestral conducting, “which seems a JON SOLINS and JOHN STIFLER and be- on the subject,” Dave adds, “the progress very interesting life.” ing in one of Doug and Jack’s videos; BILL of biology that I wanted to study in 1966 STEVE MCNEARY reported that he and ;Å BROOKS, down from his home in St. Al- has come around finally to justify Profes- his wife spent two months in Kunming, LEARN THE TRAGIC ban’s, Vt.; walking the gymnasium halls sor (Tom) Yost’s emphasis on genetics and China, studying Mandarin. Steve, who BUT INSPIRING JIM STORY OF HAROLD and Pratt Field grass with and Debbie cytology.” lives in Durham, N.C., did not explain WADE JR. ’68, WHO BRENT; and JOE SCHELL. We are sad to report the deaths of EL- what possessed them to take on such a WROTE BLACK MEN Class vice-president LARRY KAHN LIOTT ANDREWS, PETER MCCLELLAN challenge, but he did report two years OF AMHERST. missed homecoming but promises to be and BILL BURT. Elliott transferred to Am- ago that he was spending much of his re- Page 20 at reunion. In fact, he and Susan visit the herst from MIT in 1965 as a sophomore. tirement time teaching English to older Valley from time to time, as their son is He died in August, after 22 years of bat- Chinese men and women who had come a radiologist with a practice in Spring- tling three different types of cancer. Peter, to the Research Triangle area to babysit field, Mass. Larry continues to work as who was at Amherst only our freshman their grandchildren. Maybe that’s what a building contractor in and around Mi- year, died in August. Bill died in October, got them started. ami, these days focusing on substantial after nearly two years of fighting gastroin- RICK CARROLL and wife Susan returned private homes like the beautiful house testinal stromal tumor cancer. His regular from a “wonderful Baltic cruise” to their that he and Susan built for themselves emails, chronicling a long search for use- new home in Florida only to run into Hur- in Coral Gables. Secretary Stifler and ful treatments, reflect stoic courage to a ricane Irma. Rick said they rode out the Louise, flying to Miami in November to degree that is hard to imagine. Tributes to storm, which was frightening but did no visit Louise’s younger daughter, visited these classmates, as well as BILL SMEAD’s damage. Rick is still practicing pediatrics Larry and Susan at their home and had tribute to PETER DORLAND, whose death part-time in Connecticut. He plans to re- lunch near the condo they keep at the Ritz was noted in the last issue, appear in the tire completely at the end of 2018. on Key Biscayne. Larry’s involvement in In Memory section. Lisa Conn, the 28-year-old daughter volunteer boards and charitable causes > JOHN STIFLER of HOWARD CONN, has been named to now includes being chair of the board of [email protected] Forbes Magazine’s 2018 30-Under-30 list the Miami Cancer Institute. In a previous > DAVID GLASS of “600 of the brightest young entrepre- issue of this quarterly, you may also have [email protected] neurs, innovators and game changers.”

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Lisa, a graduate of NYU and MIT’s Sloan crystal clear” Aegean. “It was a part of the marked the 40th anniversary of his School of Management, recently joined world I’d never seen (and was beginning founding, along with Dr. Rick Richard, Facebook to lead their civic leadership to think I wouldn’t),” John wrote. of the medical activist organization DOC team in its community partnerships pro- SANDY MOHLMAN and wife Bonnie (Doctors Ought to Care), the first physi- gram. She is one of 30 awardees in Forbes’ traveled to Thailand, Cambodia, Laos cians’ international anti-smoking orga- Law and Policy 30-Under-30 subdivision. and Vietnam in the fall. On returning, nization. “At its peak in the 1990s,” Alan A nasty rainstorm along midcoast they planned to move into a suite daugh- wrote, “DOC attracted more than 5,000 Maine knocked out power at STEVE ter Heidi ’96 was building onto her house physicians and medical students in over WARD’s home for more than a week. in Montpelier, Vt. The Mohlmans spend 120 chapters at medical schools and fam- “When I lapse philosophical,” Steve about four months a year in Vermont and ily medicine residency programs.” The wrote, “it gives me new sympathy for the rest of the time in Fort Myers, Fla. national office closed in 2002, but several the hurricane victims in Texas, Florida, COLBY SNYDER wrote that his son, chapter remain open, he said. the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, but who has been working in London the past DENNIS AFTERGUT, who stepped down most of the time I’m worrying about how three years, was married in September to as San Francisco’s deputy city attorney our generator is doing and whether we’re an Englishwoman. The weather for the in 2000 to devote his energies to school- going to have to sacrifice everything in wedding in Devon was “the best sunshine ing his two children and others like them the freezer.” Steve added, “It’s a shock that England has to offer,” he wrote. TOM with difficult learning issues, is back in to find oneself stuck in the 18th century KELLEY, in London for a media law con- the game of law. A year ago, Dennis co- Jon Tobis ’69 whenever the generator is turned off.” ference, and his wife, Linda, were able to founded a nonprofit called the Coalition successfully DAN GOLDSTEIN, who moved from attend the wedding. to Preserve, Protect and Defend. Its latest Baltimore to a lake house in southern SANDY HEINLEIN, our well-known dev- action, along with several law professors completed New Hampshire as he wound down his otee of all things Japanese, wrote that he and activist lawyer groups, was to file an a hike in law practice, said an unexpected joy of was mounting an exhibition of his callig- amicus brief opposing, on constitutional the move was getting to know JIM GID- raphy at the John F. Kennedy Memorial grounds, President Trump’s pardon of October to the DINGS and his wife, Petey. “Their gallery Public Library in Piscataway, N.J. He was Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona. Dennis’ Mount Everest [in nearby Brattleboro] is fabulous, and hoping the exhibit would cover two whole group lost the first round, but round two they are generous with the wild mush- walls. Earlier in the fall, Sandy also sent is on appeal, he said. base camp at rooms they forage,” Dan wrote. He said along a photo in which he is shown hand- In September, FRED HOXIE, FRED- Ama Dablam, he had a chance to visit with CHIP MOR- ing a framed, two-part calligraphy to the ERICK BARON, LARRY DILG, RICHARD GAN in Concord, N.H., and had dinner headmaster and the school historian of MCCOMBS, KENT PETERSON, JON TO- elevation with RALPH TATE and JACK LEVIN and Rutgers Preparatory School. Sandy is an BIS, ROBERT FEIN, JIM DICK, BARRY 15,000 feet, in their spouses in Greenfield, Mass. alum, and his father was headmaster of KEATING, STEPHEN COLLINS and I got JON TOBIS successfully completed a the school from 1953 to 1978. together on the shores of Lake Home and Nepal. He sent hike in October to the Mount Everest base BILL MANN checked in, tersely as usual, another lake whose name I don’t remem- along a photo camp at Ama Dablam, elevation 15,000 from his wooded perch in southeastern ber, in “up-north” Wisconsin for a three- feet, in Nepal. He sent along a photo of Virginia, that he was “still caring for the day celebration in observance of our 70th of himself himself wearing a 40-plus-year-old Am- great unwashed of our community and birthdays. A good time was had by all. The wearing a herst stocking cap. In the background are making America great again.” Bill, a re- event was organized by FRED HOXIE at Mounts Lhotse, Nuptse and Everest. “Not tired academic gynecologic oncologist, some personal and financial risk. BAR- 40-plus-year- bad for an old guy about to celebrate his runs a clinic for the uninsured and un- RY KEATING brought a video of Bat Out old Amherst 70th,” Jon wrote. Jon, a cardiologist, stays derinsured. He also reported that, while of Hell’s final London performance, but in good physical shape and follows a salt- out hunting for deer, he spotted a black efforts to reach playwright JIM STEIN- stocking cap. free diet. Just saying. bear running across his field of vision. “I MAN by phone failed. Jim’s 48-years-in- Physician CHRIS LEININGER wrote that knew we had coyotes, foxes, bobcats and the-making show moved from London he was continuing to operate his “Clinic boars, but this is a first!” to Toronto in the fall. It appeared to be of Strange Diseases” in Seattle. “Patients TOM KELLY wrote that he was plan- doing well during its limited run, but at with unusual and undiagnosed condi- ning to retire next May after 37 years in least one Toronto reviewer was snarky tions come to see if we can make sense the education department at John Carroll about Jim’s dialogue: “The story is so ri- of their symptoms. About a third of the University in Cleveland. “I am happy to diculous—and so lacking acknowledge- time we figure out what they have and report that it is the relatively harmless ment of its own excess,” he wrote. Some it’s treatable. A third of the time we can roar of relief from students and a mes- headlines referred to it as the “Meat Loaf identify what is ailing them, but there is sage of ‘It’s about time’—and not another musical.” Please. no treatment at present. And a third of the weather disaster—that might account for > DAVID L. MICHELMORE time we are all left scratching our heads. I any thunderous noise emanating from the [email protected] find it rewarding.” Chris and his wife, Jyl, shores and surf of Lake Erie.” Tom said are continuing to perform in jazz clubs he would be settling in Vermont with his around Seattle. partner of more than 15 years. 1970 After a “most enjoyable” trip to Portu- FRED HOXIE, whose crop of grandchil- We are operating this quarter on two up- gal, ROB KLUGMAN reported that he had dren has now hit five, reported that the dates that arrived in the old-fashioned taken a sudden liking to river cruising. family’s annual tree-trimming party, way—the U.S. mail—since my computer “I’ve done some ocean stuff (back when helped by many little people, was a great “restored” itself and wiped out all my I was working); there were a lot of days success. “And our tree looks great, but all files. We are rebuilding everything, so we when all you could see was the sea. On the ornaments are 4 feet above ground or should be back in full gear next quarter. rivers, you can see the banks and can stop lower,” Fred wrote. RICHARD SIMS reported that, since he re- and tour cities,” he said. He was headed BOB JONES reported that he and wife tired in 2014, he has been working part- for the Danube next. Beckie were already planning for and time providing general internal medicine JOHN MCDOWELL and his wife, Cathy, booking hotel rooms for their younger services at a local indigent clinic. He and much enjoyed a Venice-to-Athens cruise granddaughter Idalee’s bat mitzvah in Michele celebrated their 35th anniversary in October that made many stops along May. Bob and Beckie are the chief cooks this past July. As far as current events are the Dalmatian Coast. They also stopped and bottle-washers for Idalee and her concerned, he declares that he is “aghast” for four days in Athens, including a day- sister while the girls’ parents work as at Alabama politics. long ferry trip to the island of Hydra and physicians. HUGH LAURENCE checks in from To- a swim in the “warm, emerald green and ALAN BLUM wrote that September ronto, saying that “despite advancing age

72 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 and crumbling facilities,” he continues to tion to full professor (SMU Law) in Sep- he proudly became a member of the Old work full-time as a professor in business tember. Now I can stop receiving campus Guard: “Hard to believe that in a few years management at the University of Toronto. mail addressed to ‘Ass Prof Tom Mayo.’” we’ll join that venerable group. Perhaps Both their daughters live near them, so MICHAEL MARINO writes to say: “I am that’s why I write for the first time. I re- they can “admire and spoil” their two in relatively good health and enjoying an tired in 2001 right after 9/11. Ultimately granddaughters frequently. active retirement with my wife, Marykay. I found myself back in Woodstock, Vt., JON EINHORN joined in celebrating the Four grandchildren keep me energized where I had a vacation home high in the holidays with the tradition of playing Arlo and thinking young. Sadly this has not mountains. By that time I was enjoy- Guthrie’s song “Alice’s Restaurant.” Jon impacted my ongoing goal of improving ing the simple life as a single man. Last encourages all of us to enjoy this ode to my golf game. I continue to serve on the September, however, the worm turned, the ’60s (it was recorded in 1967) as we board of directors of CRIS (Connecticut and I came in contact for the first time gather with friends and family during Radio Information System), a news and in almost 50 years with my high school/ these holidays. The song is readily avail- information nonprofit serving persons Amherst sweetheart. Those of you who able through YouTube. who are blind and print-handicapped. remember my date at the 1969 Toga Party So, with sincere apologies to those who This is an extension of a career serv- at Theta Delta Chi will certainly know of sent updates that I found a way to delete ing persons with disabilities. Thanks to whom I speak. By October we had closed inadvertently, please resend your news the outreach of RON MARINUCCI, I stay the loop and to my wonderful surprise we so we can add it to next quarter’s report. connected with many alums who played were married earlier this year. We’re very > JEFF ZIMMERMAN baseball on the late ’60s and early ’70s, happy residents of Hilton Head Island in [email protected] including TOM LANDERS, RICH BEDARD South Carolina and are enjoying our last and BARRY RODERICK. Looking forward years on one of the more beautiful islands to our 50th reunion.” in our country. I look forward to the pos- 1971 Former antiquities dealer JEAN-YVES sibility of celebrating our own initiation 1972: Ted Peters DAVE CRIMP lives in the Oregon coast LHOMOND sends news: “I am retired and into the Old Guard. Regards to you and to hosted a Philadel- range, 100 miles south of Portland, a almost lost in the deep center of France. those who might remember me.” phia reception for civil engineer for water and wastewater I have been sorry not to be able to go to Charleston, S.C., resident GARY RO- Amherst lacrosse projects. His wife, Erica, runs a family MIKE SIMKO’s daughter Kate’s wedding GALSKI recently had a memorable expe- coach Jon Thomp- counseling business in Corvallis. Their last October in Philadelphia.” rience: “Spent a great late-summer week son and local older son, Ryan, works with a Buddhist GREGORY LANDON left Army Materiel fishing with Amherst roommate George parents and friends rinpoche in California, and their younger, Command in 2007 and went to Lexing- Siguler ’70 and his boys in Ketchikan, of the program. Ben, is a budding artist in their country ton, Ky., with his wife, Kay (Mount Holy- Alaska. As a prelude, fog-laden weather Also attending were community of Summit. Dave writes, “I oke ’66), where two of their sons, now forced our vintage Beaver de Havilland lacrosse alums still take on engineering jobs if they’re fun attorneys, were living. “Since then our float plane to ditch in cold, choppy wa- Happy Manstein, and would meet an environmental goal. third son, a Ph.D. electrochemical engi- ters en route to the lodge, which led to a Rick Manstein ’74 But I avoid jobs where I don’t like the proj- neer, has joined us as a university research gut-wrenching rescue mission. To make and Rob Minicucci ect or the bureaucracy. I enjoy our forest manager and owner of a tech firm. Kay matters a bit worse, later in the week, ’75. Ted notes that properties and building projects because and I keep busy but at a reduced pace.” George’s son spent four hours landing a Jon has built the they’re physical and hands-on.” JOHN HENDRICKS writes, “2017 has 200-lb. halibut that was 1 inch too short Amherst lacrosse In early October, Dave and Erica ren- been a banner year for the Hendricks to keep, and the guide made him pitch it!” program into a dezvoused on the North Carolina Outer family. My oldest daughter, Jennifer, de- RUSSELL RYAN writes: “Susie and Division III national Banks with social dorm roommates ROB livered her first baby, Maureen’s (Smith I have been cooking and dealing with power. HARDING, FRED SCHOTT, HARRY LAR- ’73) and my first grandchild, in August. family matters. We had dinner with MA- ACUENTE and Dave Tritschler ’72 and His first name is Hendricks, ensuring sur- SON DARING a week ago. Last evening we wives. Later, Harding and Crimp went vival of the name for at least one more all went over to recent New York Mara- into the ocean, the area of bad storms and generation. My middle daughter, Kate, thon winner Shalane Flanagan’s home many shipwrecks: “People on the beach was married in October in New York City. to congratulate her. Yes, I did get to heft are watching while you try to exit the surf My youngest daughter, Alex, received her the medal. I surprised myself yesterday with dignity.” Fortunately for both adven- MBA from Wharton in May and is now a by running, without too much practice, turers, Rob owned the beachfront house marketing manager with General Mills in a local 5K in 22:44. I have been most for- and is familiar with the local hydraulics. Minneapolis. Meanwhile, LEIGH MACK- tunate with a lack of infrastructure prob- BOB ELLENPORT writes, “My partner, AY and I continue to play lots of golf on lems. Knock on wood. Sandy, and I recently traveled to Beverly the Treasure Coast of Florida, and have “I recently left hospital, night and week- Hills, Calif., since my daughter was giv- now been joined by TOM TAYLOR and end call duties, major surgery and work- ing birth to my second granddaughter. Chris Dunn ’72.” ing on Fridays, and remain employed Rather than fly directly back to New Jer- TONY HOM spent a family vacation in by Mass General Surgery, working four sey, we drove out to Sedona[, Ariz.,] and Bangor, Maine, during the latter part of days a week. I got used to not working on arranged to spend a delightful afternoon August. “I saw David Turesky ’72, who Fridays in a nanosecond. You may all be with MARTY BOXER, who had recently gave us a wonderful tour of Portland. astounded that I am taking a mindfulness lost his companion. Marty had driven Also went to Acadia National Park and course and am enjoying it.” out from his home in Prescott, where Bar Harbor. I’m still practicing law in RICK TEICHGRAEBER is writing about he retired from ASU, and was enjoyable Manhattan (now doing asylum work in the history of Amherst, with two pieces company as always. Our afternoon visit immigration courts) and managing our in the works: the first on Amherst dur- was too short, although we did manage to apartment building. I attended DAVID ing World War I, the second about the recollect a number of events from fresh- RIMMER’s memorial service in Central huge controversy created in 1923 by the man year. I journeyed back to New Jersey, Park this past summer. What a sudden forced resignation of President Alexan- where I’m trying to close up my law prac- and tremendous loss for our class. David der Meiklejohn. He reports on “a long- tice as well as figure out how to dispose had such great talent, humility, humor overdue first visit to Venice—with my wife of items accumulated over the years, in- and kindness of soul.” and with CHUCK SIMS as our guide (he’s cluding thousands of 78 records that my COREY LERNER is happy to report that been three times). It took only a couple of uncle left me.” his daughter April ’08 was recently wed seconds to understand what Henry James TOM MAYO reports, “I experienced in NYC. meant when he said ‘the mere use of one’s two milestones this year: double knee- JOE RIZZO remembers visiting Am- eyes in Venice is happiness.’” replacement surgery in June and promo- herst with his father (’43) when in 1993 Reflecting on his good fortune in life so

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far, Rick observed: “It’s foolish to think ity. This organization drafts guidelines job in Saudi Arabia in April. Sounds as I’m the one primarily responsible for all for lawyers across the nation and issues though he’s ready, based on recent com- that. Saying I’ve been extraordinarily opinions on the rules governing their re- munications: “Desperate for my home, lucky, however, doesn’t prevent me from sponsibilities to the law, clients and the my condo and my pup, occasional Sunday also saying I’ve grown increasingly grate- courts. Congratulations, Michael! church service and the Sunday NY Times, ful for a life of good luck during the last BRUCE HERZBERG has plans to retire and so missing Saturday’s college football few years. If life is a lottery in which, as next June. He and Judy have moved to games.” It may be a good time to leave, as you go along, you get handed beans that beautiful Vermont (close to Williams, as rockets fired from Yemen have exploded it happens). Bruce observes, “The folks near Riyadh airport…. here like having property, so we wound After a year of living cinematographi- up with a house on a couple of acres of cally with the help of two young filmmak- Sweaty Season land. After condo living in Boston, I was ers, STEVE CADWELL announces that apprehensive, but it is turning out to be his play Wild and Precious has become 1974: David Smilow completed another long-haul season quite nice—and it will give me plenty to a film! Steve describes the experience: of theater, playing Heisenberg in a production of Michael do after retirement.” “Used four seasons on the family farm Frayn’s Copenhagen (with rehearsal, that took him from Facing retirement and with a pre-high- in Vermont as the major character. My May through September). Then, in a rather vivid shift in school teenager living at home, JIM BIT- story is the voiceover … with some mo- gears, he played Orgon in Tartuffe. And since we all asso- TMAN and wife Laura said, “Let’s move.” ments under chandeliers in the barn sing- ciated Buddha with sweat, be informed: “Being onstage, They bought a house in north suburban ing at the grand piano. NICK BROMELL under the lights, for two and a half hours in Copenhagen, Chicago. The plan is to move there in saw it and says it’s a ‘masterpiece’ Small wearing a suit, had me sweating,” David says. “But that the summer, spend some time getting bias, perhaps? ERIC BIGGS also co-stars was nothing compared to donning the period piece of a acclimated to the new “hood” and then in that youthful scene.” Steve is entering coat (and britches and vest and lace at the throat and send daughter Grace off to the new high it in film festivals all over. If you have a wrist, all borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera, I was school in the fall. Other than the pending favorite one, let him know! told) for Tartuffe.” change in life and getting in some inter- JOE HARTZLER writes, “Now that our esting travel, all is going well for our sec- three sons are on their own, Lisa and I are retary emeritus. catching up on iconic movies we missed can be made of gold, silver, copper, just BERNIE BARBOUR spent the week of while in school or raising children: Bar- rusted metal or dissolving cardboard, Labor Day on a pilgrimage to Cuba. He barella (so goofy it’s funny); Blade Runner mine have been old gold for more than met with young people in Havana, San- (dark, figuratively and literally); andThel - 67 years now.” ta Maria and Matanzas, and managed to ma & Louise (a timely and timeless mes- Thanks to all who have contributed. fit in some time at a couple of beautiful sage to Harvey Weinstein and others).” > JEFF CARTWRIGHT-SMITH beaches as well. At the time these notes were being com- [email protected] JEFF CRAVEN has shifted gears slightly piled, GARY CLAMURRO and wife Susan in Cincinnati, eschewing completely the were just returning from two months of world of unscheduled medicine (ED and cruising and touring the South Pacific, 1972 urgent care) to focus fully on working Australia and New Zealand. Clams failed A modest-sized but enthusiastic contin- with addiction patients. He says, “It’s to sight any koalas or kiwis, however. gent of classmates gathered under the still a challenging 25–40 hours per week, As for me, your faithful class secretary, tent with old-timers from other vintage just a different set of stressors. The epi- I can now claim to have the fastest 1-year- classes at homecoming on Oct. 21. demic marches on, so for now it’s quite a old triplet grandchildren on the planet. Several lamented the “retirement” of busy space. Guiding 10- and 14-year-old Their mom (our daughter Ann Marie) re- past master-of-ceremonies ROB YAMINS daughters through the teen years with cently completed her first half-marathon and the related absence of our unofficial my wife, Andi, is even more interesting. in Guinness World Record time of one class princess, Sienna. Attendees in- Life has no real time-outs, and the pres- hour and 48 minutes for running-while- cluded TONY CHAN, ERIC and Christine ence of consciousness renders anxiety in pushing-a triple-pram-loaded-with-kids. CODY, STEVE and Gail GANG, DOUG and some form inevitable. Coping, crafting You can’t make this stuff up. Please keep Betsy JOHNSON, PAUL KOULOURIS and responses and creating good decisions me posted on your own amazing vicarious Susan Huettner, MARK MILIOTIS and will get us all by.” accomplishments! GREG ORR. BRUCE THOMPSON retired from > ERIC CODY A few others may have opted out of the AT&T’s Internet of Things solutions [email protected] tent experience and focused on the game, group at the end of December. Next thereby escaping notice. After trailing for up: downsizing from his Mercer Island, most of the game, the Mammoths staged Wash., home and moving to shared space 1973 a late fourth-quarter comeback to beat with a friend in a home nearby. He plans Writing these notes as the snow is falling Wesleyan on a stunning, late-summer- to spend more time in the family’s Cotuit, in Boston. Planning for our reunion next like day. Mass., home, maintaining a bicoastal life- May is under way, and we are hoping for Needless to say, it seemed strange not style for the next several years at least. a strong turnout so we can all catch up on to hear our once favorite and always fa- PHIL BARR reports that he has “noth- the last five years. mous song rising into the autumn air and ing glamorous going on.” He continues STEVE KLUGMAN presided over the echoing across the field after each touch- tutoring in math, mainly algebra and ge- 1973 tent at homecoming weekend in down, although some diehard alums in ometry. Phil has a housemate, the grand- October on a sunny day when Amherst the crowd still sang it boisterously in un- daughter of a good friend, but hardly ever defeated Wesleyan in an exciting game. muted protest. sees her between her college studies and Steve is enjoying life in New York City, Many in our class continue to experi- her shifts at Starbucks. He recently sold where he is happily retired from the prac- ence life transitions and embark on new his collection of 200 vintage records in tice of law. adventures, as evidenced by the latest San Francisco and advises that if you hap- ERIC WHYTE is still living in Colorado in dispatches from our respective front lines. pen to have Exile on Main Street by the a suburb of Denver. Eric is now enjoying MICHAEL RUBIN, a member in Mc- Stones, look around for the postcards that retirement, although he is facing serious Glinchey Stafford’s Baton Rouge office, came with the album. They significantly health issues, including bladder cancer has been appointed to the American Bar increase the value! for which he endured a round of unsuc- Association’s Standing Committee on JOHN TORRANCE-NESBITT expects to cessful chemotherapy. Eric reports that Ethics and Professional Responsibil- be coming home from his extended-time he and his oncologist are looking into

74 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 alternative therapies and remain hope- a treadmill, which he says he actually uses play lots of tennis (so I can hit something ful. Eric’s wife, Michelle, and their three for its intended purpose as opposed to a at somebody) and spend my days putting daughters are doing well. He stays in clothes hanger for his suit jacket! Dave together and taking apart our restaurant touch with Amherst grads including Andy was off to Africa with his wife on a safari. companies.” Tuck ’74 and Henry Eakland ’74. Eric Alan spent a happy Thanksgiving with DICK LIPTON’s granddaughter Olivia hopes to join us for reunion and would Tina and ANDY ADDISON at their home arrived in August, with Dick and Jane enjoy hearing from classmates. in South Hadley. The Addisons and Alan splitting to visit Italy in September and BILL LENZ is also retired, having spent enjoyed a great concert at Buckley Recital Hong Kong in October. With the new tax 35 years at Chatham University in Pitts- Hall with Israeli jazz clarinetist Anat Co- legislation, he’s going to be a busy Chi- burgh, where he held the Charles and Ida hen and her group on a Saturday night cago lawyer. Pontious Chair in English, and served in late September. He is looking forward MARK DUVALL matches and raises the his last year as Dean for Undergradu- to our 45th. Liptons. “I became a grandfather for the ate Innovation and Special Assistant to TED LEVIN published a new book re- first and second time this year and find the President as Chatham transitioned cently, The Music of Central Asia. This is a it delightful. Why didn’t anyone tell me to coeducation. Bill and Bambi Welch beautiful and informative book offering a about this? My daughter had a daughter (Mount Holyoke ’72) traveled to Costa detailed introduction to the musical heri- and my son had a son, and each is great.” Rica and Hawaii and plan to visit Alaska tage of Central Asia. It is supplemented And, as he turns 65, he is mulling law firm and Machu Picchu in 2018. Bill adds that with boxes and sidebars, musician pro- retirement but will probably stick with it “I became a he has adapted very easily to retirement files and an illustrated glossary of musical a few more years. He’s at a Washington, grandfather and recommends it to all readers of these instruments. I spoke with Ted recently; he D.C., environmental firm. class notes who are still grinding away. continues to teach in the music depart- MARK MANSTEIN notes, “There was a for the first His blood pressure dropped to 120/80 ment at Dartmouth College. small event for Amherst lacrosse held at and second within three months! Please add our reunion dates to your cal- Merion Golf Club. The coaches were there KEVIN HAGGERTY is on his way to Abuja endar: May 23–27, 2018. I’ve been working and a bunch of parents of current players time this year to try to solve some contractual issues on a on programs for reunion weekend and in and some alumni, such as Ted Peters ’72, and find it World Bank-funded project that his orga- touch with many of our classmates. This Rob Minicucci ’75, my brother and my- nization, ACDI/VOCA, an international should be an interesting and fun reunion. self and some younger alums. We did not delightful. development nonprofit based in Wash- If anyone has suggestions for activities, sing ‘Lord Jeffery Amherst,’ but we should Why didn’t ington, D.C. (of which Kevin is CFO), is please get in touch with me or PAUL have. No one thought of it. I am planning implementing in the north of Nigeria. KOWAL, our reunion chair, at paulkow- on trying to play in the alumni game on anyone tell me Kevin just came back from Mali doing the [email protected]. Feb. 24. Hopefully it will snow during the about this?” same thing on a USAID-funded project. I hope everyone has a good winter sea- game, which will make it easier to cover He adds that West Africa is so beautiful, son, and please keep the news coming. It guys 40 years younger.” with such wonderful people, it is sad to is great to hear from everyone! CHARLIE TRAUTMANN, say it ain’t so! see all of the problems coming at them. > WILLIAM H. WOOLVERTON “I’ve passed the reins, after 26 years as Kevin is proud that the U.S. government WILLIAM.H.WOOLVERTON@GMAIL. executive director of the Sciencenter in remains committed to making things bet- COM Ithaca, N.Y., in April and currently have a ter for the people of West Africa. fellowship from the Alexander von Hum- PAUL SALERNI and the class of ’73 were boldt Foundation to study the impacts of well represented in the Second Annual 1974 environmental education and am based New American Art Song Concert given by Where does our friend CULLEN MUR- at the Rachel Carson Center for Environ- the Bowers/Fader Duo at the Tenri Cul- PHY find the time? One had to wonder ment and Society in Munich. Nancy and tural Institute in Manhattan on Oct. 13. at a lovely book party in New York City I had four amazing weeks of hiking and The recital consisted of art songs recently thrown by his outgoing Vanity Fair boss, climbing in the Alps and Dolomites over written by living American composers for Graydon Carter, upon publication of Car- the summer, including glacial traverse this great mezzo and guitar duo. SCOTT toon County: My Father and His Friends in on the way up the Zugspitze, Germany’s WHEELER witnessed a premiere of his the Golden Age of Make-Believe. Your du- highest peak. Sadly, it is melting quickly beautiful setting of three Italian poems, tiful class secretaries, MARK LONDON and expected to disappear within the next and Paul had two premieres: a cycle enti- and BRUCE ANGIOLILLO, made it, as did decade.” ;Å tled “Finding One Self” and a song called President Biddy Martin and predecessor PAUL ANTONUCCI has been dealing FOSTER “BUTCH” “Beyond Words” (poem by Kevin Young). Tony Marx (and a chunk of the sprawling with “a messy divorce, prostate cancer BROWN ’73 SAVES THE AMAZON RAINFOREST “Finding One Self” sets four poems by army that is the extended Murphy family). and the disappearance of my job. Other (AND PLAYS RUGBY IN Amherst’s David Ferry ’46. (See the article CHRIS HANKIN discloses that he retired than that, I’ve been fine.” He doing lots HIS SPARE TIME). “Poetry’s Musical Notes” in the Winter from the public policy world last winter. of dance and music and is happy that his Page 18 2017 Amherst magazine.) His wife is still working, so he is finally two boys “are actually both employed (!), ART BOOTHBY reports that his moth- cooking dinner, though hers are better. as one might guess in low-paying, aes- er turned 102 on Sept. 21 and that she He’s doing some part-time work at Strath- thetically rewarding jobs (music and goat happens to share that birthday with Bill more Art Center, a local concert venue; farming).” He’s seen SUSAN (MOCH) PO- Thurston, our former baseball coach. volunteering at the county animal shelter; IRIER and JEFF GOLDEN, playing a birth- Art’s mom is doing well and still lives in- helping his 96-year-old Dad (class of ’43); day concert for Jeff via Skype. “Thank dependently. He adds that she still bakes “and other odds and ends. Political news goodness I still get a lot of exercise, al- and knits and will beat you at Jeopardy! is constantly depressing, but I still enjoy though it makes me worry that I will out- any day of the week! the Poynter newsletter. Keep up the fight live my savings.” It was good to hear from ALAN GOOD- for accurate news!” Our renowned photographer GORDON MAN, who reports that he had lunch with BILL LIEDTKE drove his youngest in a U- WILTSIE, long a proud Montana resident, DAVE WOJCIK in Worcester, Mass., this Haul to Chicago, where she’s been look- headed west to California and lived in summer after a conducting a deposi- ing for work and interviewing with law several places with wife Meredith but now tion in his building. Dave is enjoying a firms after laboring with him for the last has got a new home and office in Mon- scaled-back practice of law and is still few years. She graduated from the Schief- tara, a tiny coastal town just north of Half town counsel for Ware after 40 years. fer School of Journalism at TCU in 2014 Moon Bay. He’s surrounded by fine art Alan’s late father, who was chairman of with a major in advertising and a minor in prints that he’s made for ongoing gallery the Board of Selectmen, appointed him. history. “We are now true empty-nesters, exhibits and is looking to make room, so Dave has a stand-up desk in his office and which is mentally sinking in slowly. I still is dramatically reducing his price for any

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of us who might be interested (and will the school. Nathaniel has been “getting lutely amazing dinner with class trustee ship for free). They include some of his around on weekends—sand surfing and PAUL SMITH and former diplomat ex- favorites. His website is alpenimage.com. camel riding in Mongolia and more.” traordinaire ANDREW STEINFELD. Paul Cheers from Chicago until next time. Wife Cynthia is wrapping up her Master was a bit jet-lagged, having just returned > JIM WARREN Gardener training and is now available from Guam, where he was the speaker in [email protected] for questions on trees, grasses and other the University of Guam’s annual Presi- plants. Late October brought an annual dential Lecture Series. His topic: “Arguing bike trip, this year to Tucson and points Civil Rights at the U.S. Supreme Court.” 1975 south: “90-plus-degree heat, lots of Bor- Earlier in the month, Paul had argued the Class president ANDY MANN led a small der Patrol agents and vehicles, Spanish plaintiff’s side before the court inGill v. but loyal contingent of the class of ’75 at missions, cacti and more. It is fascinating Whitford, aka the Wisconsin partisan ger- the October homecoming game against country and good biking, even with too rymandering case. Although it is always Wesleyan, where the Lord Jeffs (as Andy much chip seal on the roads.” hard to read the oral-argument tea leaves, prefers) or the Mammoths (if you’re on > SCOTT BRADBURY Paul says that he is “hopeful” about the board with new developments) won the [email protected] ultimate result. game with a late touchdown. The group of Meanwhile, it sounds like Andrew is singers of “Lord Jeffery Amherst” includ- thoroughly enjoying retirement while ed, in addition to Andy, JEFF DYKENS, 1976 he tries to figure out his next gig. His Paul Smith STEVE KRAMER, ERNIE WILLIAMS and On a beautiful October Saturday that latest project: a high-end kitchen resto- ’76 was the your co-secretary SCOTT BRADBURY. might be described as “Indian sum- ration. But that’s not to say that he isn’t “The Old Guard Strikes Back,” as my son mer on steroids,” class notes took to the also keeping his diplomatic oar in. In early speaker in the Mason ’10 quipped. Andy hopes that we road. First stop: Amherst homecoming. October, Andrew was a featured guest on University of will get a bigger showing next year as we I missed the unveiling of the new Mam- NPR’s On Point call-in show, on a program begin the preparations for our 45th, un- moth logo on Friday evening but arrived titled “Rating Rex Tillerson as Secretary Guam’s annual der the steady guidance of reunion chair in time Saturday morning for an informa- of State.” Said Andrew about our current Presidential PETE HUNTER. tive talk by CFO Kevin Weinman on the (but for how much longer?) top diplomat: GREGORY SPECK continues to lead the financial state of the College. The bottom “He certainly knows the world, but he Lecture “life electric” in NYC, writing in the New line: it’s “strong” (although Kevin did ex- knows the world from a very narrow per- Series. York Post about Picasso’s secret love life press concern—prescient, in retrospect— spective of business, of cutting deals, and and on New York Social Diary about Joan about the movement in Congress to tax often in very shady places. There seems His topic: Rivers’ sweet private life. In between gala college endowments). to be a view that diplomacy is something “Arguing Civil soirées and a variety of concerts and un- Later, walking down Memorial Hill to- that anyone can pick up and do, but, as a derground events, he recently had a visit ward the gym, I decided to stop by the rug- former senior diplomat, I don’t buy that.” Rights at the from JOHN REILLY and spent time catch- by game in progress on the off chance that Speaking of retirement, there’s a new U.S. Supreme ing up. RORY MACNEIL might be there cheering one to report. “After 45 years in the health Since last April, GREG HARPER has on his son Seumas ’19. Sure enough, both care field as a technologist, then clinical Court.” been spending a lot of time in Amherst, Rory and wife Sauming were there tak- engineer and finally pathologist,” writes creating the technology for a grad-level ing it all in as the squad handily defeated MARK GUSACK, “I finally decided it was distance-learning project between UMass Wesleyan. time to leave. I retired from the VA in and students in Shanghai. “It’s been very By the time I got to Pratt Field, the tem- mid-July and haven’t looked back.” strange heading up to Amherst only to perature was in the high 70s. But the class Mark continues as an adjunct professor work down the road at UMass, but I’m tent we shared with the other mid-70s and lecturer at a nearby medical school. enjoying it nonetheless. I’ve pretty much classes was well-stocked with food and But his major project these days is his been at Amherst every other week since drink. (Kudos to RICK WILLIAMS, who new publishing firm. “I have two books April, so it felt like I’m almost back in our supplied our class’ contribution to the almost ready for publication. The first is a fair college,” he writes. “I enjoy sitting on beverage stockpile.) At the tent, I had cooperative effort with my two daughters: the porch at the Lord Jeff, having a great interesting conversations with DAN LUN- an illustrated children’s book of poetry meal and a nice glass of wine just a cou- DQUIST (about his Hudson River Valley which has garnered very good reviews in ple of steps away from Boltwood House, farm), ELIOT DUDLEY (on how his years the draft version. The second is a work where I lived for two years.” After a trip in the Army after graduation gave him of science fiction, which I have always to China, Greg planned to be back in Am- entrée to the burgeoning electronics in- wanted to write.” herst starting in January, when he hopes dustry where he works to this day), as well Orange County Superior Court judge to have more time for college events. He as BILL DWYER; his wife, Linda (sporting GEOFF GLASS isn’t quite ready for retire- also reports that son Patrick ’07 and his one of the new purple pins with the Mam- ment, but he is certainly thinking about wife, Adrienne (Mount Holyoke ’07), had moth logo on it); and their son (and our it. “I am counting down to a comfortable their second child, Wesley Harrison, in 45th reunion bartender) Michael ’18. (We pension in about 18 months, although I March, so Greg and wife Kathleen are now discussed Michael’s soon-to-be-complet- actually have one more election to go in proud grandparents twice over. ed music-composition thesis). Oh, yes, 2018, if someone runs against me.” Your For ANDY BALDER and family, this and Amherst won the football game. class secretary thinks a music career may year has brought both loss and new op- Rick sends in some additional class- be in Geoff’s future. “My daughter, Han- portunities. He writes, “My sister died in mate and near-classmate sightings at nah, works at Pandora, analyzing music mid-October after a difficult year with a homecoming: “My son Derek ’17 was and playing violin for a trance music DJ, sarcoma. The year took me back to our there to be with his lacrosse team breth- a tango orchestra and others in the Bay Cancer 360 reunion session and some ren, who had their season review, high- Area. My son, Elliott, is studying locally of the lessons from family members and light film and awards presentation, which and is a studio drummer. My wife still others. My role seemed to repeatedly shift was epic and well-attended. I also saw teaches piano, and, through a variety of back and forth from brother to physician MARK BARONAS, Jeff Osborn ’74, Jeff events, we now own three grand pianos to intermediary with the health care insti- Dykens ’75, Andy Mann ’75, Dave Wray and a studio piano, as well as at least four tutions.” His son Nathaniel, however, has ’78, Bob Waskowitz ‘82, Dave Curry ’82 electronic keyboards. Plus three accordi- embarked on a new adventure as an Eng- and Mark Ford ’85. Hope to see all those ons (an embarrassment for me). Add to lish teacher in a Beijing boarding school again and then some next year.” that my own modest collection of bass- with 3,000 students, 600 of whom are A work trip to Washington, D.C., the fol- es, guitars, amplifiers, two sets of drums in the English language subsection of lowing week was the occasion for an abso- and miscellaneous other instruments.

76 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 Our budget has line items for strings survivor of nonfiction purgatory, I hold a and tubes.” special place in my heart for people who Of course, many of us remain hard at valiantly cloister themselves in research work. MARK SHAW continues at Kayne rooms and home offices for lonely months Anderson Capital Advisors, a private at a time with the lofty end of weaving equity firm based in Los Angeles. “I love ideas into books. what I do, but I am as busy as I have ever How warming and humbling, then, been, and sadly my golf game reflects that to relay the news that DAVID FRIEND fact,” he writes. Sounds like the big news and JOEL PAUL have each produced in Mark’s life recently is on the family acclaimed and sprawling explorations front: “If the medical prognosticators are of America’s distant and not-so-distant accurate, I will have observed Pearl Har- past that truly reassert the magnum in bor Day with my first grandchild. Many magnum opus. Joel’s biography Without friends ask me if I am excited about this Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and impending development, to which I reply His Times hits the stands Feb. 20, heralded that I am mainly thrilled that my wife is by a starred Kirkus review that deems it “a going to be a grandmother, because five well-informed, perceptive and absorbing

years of empty-nesting have proven that biography of a titan of American history” ARCHIVES COLLEGE she clearly needs a child, and I am tired and singles out its “easygoing prose style of being mothered.” that neither condescends nor bogs down bus tour with anthropologist Helen Fisher j Active Meanwhile, our own TIM SAUNDERS, in legalese.” and 53 disciples of the gospel according Listening vice-president of finance at Tintri, an As he readies for a March book tour to Carrie Bradshaw. Barbara enterprise cloud computing company (check his website, www.joelrichard- I was also delighted to hear from class Ansbacher based in Mountain View, Calif., was one paul.com, for dates and locations), Joel president KERRY BRENNAN, who was in engages with of the financial executives quoted in a re- continues to tinker with a musical adap- top form at last June’s class reunion and cent article on the Dow Jones’ financial tation of his much-lauded previous book, has just been elected for his third term students in information website MarketWatch. The Unlikely Allies. The show, for which Joel as president of the International Boys’ March 1977. subject: implications of new—more strin- has contributed the libretto and lyrics to Schools Coalition, an organization repre- An author gent—accounting standards for reporting a score by Martin Rebett, is targeted for senting 280 schools and 250,000 students and member company revenues. “The expression ‘lost a February workshop in San Francisco around the globe. Kerry is eminently of several revenue’ will become a very familiar one and a July workshop in New York. “Hav- qualified and then some: he is charg- symphony to CFOs, financial analysts and investors ing no musical talent whatsoever,” Joel ing through his 14th year as headmaster soon after the standard goes into effect, concedes with Amherstian humility, “it of Roxbury Latin, which, he hastens to orchestras, although the phrase is virtually unknown has been a real education for me learning add, is “the oldest school in continuous she taught today,” said Tim. “Companies will high- to write lyrics.” Joel says he was sorry for existence in North America.” Who knew? in the music light the effect of deferred revenue that his 11th-hour withdrawal from last sum- Congratulations, Kerry. The school and department they can’t take to their income statement mer’s class reunion to care for his ailing the coalition are most fortunate to have from 1975 to in explaining revenue fluctuations once partner, Charles, who, one is relieved to you at the wheel. 1982 and died the standard has taken effect.” (Hat tip hear, is doing well these many months Heartfelt thoughts go out to ROBERT to DAN LUNDQUIST for sending me this after a heart transplant. A standing O to DIAZ, who wrote from Oklahoma with in 1987. item.) you both. the distressing news that his wife was in Finally, JIM FULMER checks in from What a kick it was to tune into WNYC’s her fifth week of hospitalization for ITP. a hurricane-battered Jacksonville, Fla. Leonard Lopate Show one afternoon and “However,” he offers on an encourag- “Thankfully, we survived the two hur- hear DAVID FRIEND in sparkling conver- ing note, “she recently went through a ricanes last fall without any property sation with The Washington Post’s Jona- surgical procedure and now appears to loss, despite widespread flooding in our than Capehart on the subject of David’s be on the mend. I was a religion major area. It was quite an experience being fiendishly entertainingThe Naughty Nine- at Amherst, so allow me to say, ‘Thanks stranded at my hospital for four days, ties: The Triumph of the American Libido. to God!’” surrounded by floodwaters.” After the Having trafficked the feeding grounds of Robert also wrote that “we are raising a waters receded, Jim and wife Susan Gallo buzz-makers for years as an editor at Van- 12-year-old boy who has become our own (Smith ’76) spent an enjoyable weekend ity Fair, David has garnered the buzz of an since my brother-in-law passed away last with BILL FLEURY and MARK GREENE author’s dreams with his stunningly pre- year. We also care for a deaf/mute aunt in Canada. The occasion: the opening of scient book, which assembles an improb- of 72 years who was like an older sister to an exhibition at the Aurora Museum and able ensemble of 15-minute celebrities my wife when she was a child. So I do not Archives outside Toronto celebrating the (Heidi Fleiss, anyone?), who, along with a see retirement coming anytime soon.” On contributions of the agricultural-imple- notoriously randy Democratic president, that score, Robert, you are in good and ments manufacturing company founded stirred the pot of amorality that has now crowded company. Warmest wishes to by Bill’s great-grandfather in Aurora in boiled over into the Trumpian slop of the one and all at the Diaz encampment. 1859 (makers of the famous Fleury Plow). libertine teens. In other family-related bulletins, the in- Today, entrepreneurialism takes differ- David commanded an array of Amherst trepid DAVE QUINTO wrote that he was ent forms. Readers of class notes may re- loyals and literati on his national publicity hatching a Christmas holiday trip south member that, some years ago, Jim and round, which, he reports, “has taken me to Antarctica and South America with his Susan created a hospital-themed board from N.Y. to L.A. to S.F. (where PETE SUL- 16-year-old daughter, “in search of longer game called Doctor Wars. The original LIVAN showed) to Chicago (where Scott days.” Dave bailed from law-firm prac- game has sold out, but they have now cre- Turow ’70 showed) to Boston (where tice in August 2016 and transitioned to a ated a card-game version that is available Cullen Murphy ’74, MARK KOTFILA and post as general counsel of a Utah-based on Amazon.com. LESTER SCHWALB’s son Nate showed).” startup company (VidAngel) that “allows > BOB HOWARD The Boston leg of the tour was organized families to watch movies while choosing [email protected] by PR wizard JAN SARAGONI. One can what they don’t want to see or hear, e.g., only hope the tour was half as memo- nudity, sex, vulgarity, smoking, drinking, rable as the field research for the book, bullying, etc.” At the time of Dave’s ar- 1977 which included dinner at Olive Garden rival, the company (to its enduring credit) As a career arts journalist and two-time with Paula Jones and a Sex and the City was being sued by Disney, Warner Bros.

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and Fox. “That was something like join- immigrants make good. Plenty of money herst Black Cats, an ambulance unit that ing a ship’s crew as the first mate after the to keep the infrastructure in good repair. served in France during World War I. My ship hit an iceberg,” Dave commented. People are tolerant, respectful, reserved. grandfather was a Black Cat, having left “The job is both a ton of fun and a huge The new president (the office rotates, and Amherst after his freshman year. He kept challenge.” he gets to serve for only one year) said, a diary and many photos and letters. The Following up on his news from the fall ‘We have to make an effort to understand College archive is a rich source of infor- edition of Amherst, SAM “KERR” LOCK- each other in this diverse country.’ I won- mation on the Black Cats, and I’ve trav- HART reports that the staged reading of der where, and when, the United States eled there multiple times. One of the most his play Page Count, starring Drama Desk lost its moorings.” spectacular items there is the unit’s flag, a winner Jim Brochu, was a big success. The “Retirement is just as busy as work finely embroidered silk masterpiece that reading was produced at SOPAC in South was!” says DEBI CLARK. “Maybe once I’m hoping will be restored in time for the Orange, N.J., by smilin’ JIM VAGIAS for the projects are done and the board meet- College’s 200th anniversary in 2021.” See his American Stage Co. While Sam awaits ings no longer happen, things will quiet www.greenharbor.com/blackcats/black- plans for a full production, he was ready- down.” cats.html. ing a reading by the St. James Players in FRAN KELLY faithfully reports, “TOM CAROLINE (PATTERSON) HAEFELE has Upper Montclair, N.J., of his new play, Pe- MITCHELL and I were captains of our Am- been running around Montana reading ter Cratchit, Esq., which he describes as herst College golf team in ’77 and ’78. DA- from her story collection, Ballet at the a “sort-of sequel” to A Christmas Carol. VID WRAY was on the team, Tracy Mehr Moose Lodge, while finishing a novel and Jim Hamilton Should he make a return appearance, per- P’88, ’84, was our legendary coach, and working on the Missoula Children’s Po- ’78 writes haps the Ghost of Christmas Past could we were pretty good. Three out of our four etry Map project for the nonprofit Mis- be played by former Gov. Christie, who years, we won the Little Three. Freshman soula Writing Collaborative. The project that he is resides just a traffic snarl or two away. and senior years we went to the Division consists of a digital map featuring 2,000 “deep into the Since I have not contributed personal III National Championships. We are now children’s poems about particular places news to the class notes since my hair was continuing to build our Amherst College in Missoula. “What am I thinking about? research on its original color, I will grab the micro- ’78 golf team in our old age, including The wild political scene—each day an- a book about phone to announce that my husband, some outreach to other classes. Tom, Da- other ghastly revelation about political or Matthias Leutrum, and I will be leaving vid, TED BENESKI, DREW CASERTANO, sexual misdeeds; I want to write about it the Amherst our beloved colonial money pit in Lev- JIM BERTLES and I play in Florida each but don’t honestly know where to start.” Black Cats, an erett, Mass., just north of Amherst, for May. We get in four or five rounds in three JOE EDELBERG begins, “It’s a beautiful another money pit in Millbrook, N.Y., the days. This summer we also had numer- day in Berkeley, warm, sunny, but with a ambulance Dutchess County mecca of horse farms, ous matches in New England and enjoyed bit of a snap in the clear air. I’m looking unit that hedge fund nabobs and Liam Neeson. involving Brian Conway ’80, Jim Still ’79 at photos and footage of the wildfires in The New England commute was becom- and Walter Donovan ’85. We traveled to Southern California and can’t help but re- served in ing altogether too punishing (thank you, New Jersey and Pennsylvania to get John member when fires raged in Santa Rosa, France during Amtrak) for both Matthias, an artist who Middleton ’77 onto the squad. Jim and I slightly north of here. The air quality in is making a vertiginous leap from teach- won’t reveal who won, because we don’t the Bay Area got to be pretty bad. Some World War I.” ing at New York’s Gateway School to be- want to upset Middleton and Beneski. of us wore masks outside. I find myself coming a Jungian psychoanalyst, and me, Now in negotiations with ROB CRARY, feeling oppressed by the disaster. It’s dis- as I continue to churn out my little squibs ERIC FORNELL and DAVID SELBY about orienting, and worrying. The Santa Rosa on fiction forThe New York Times Book Re- a new gathering next fall. It’s been re- Symphony, the orchestra in which I play view. Should we weather the move intact, warding to take a passion we developed concertmaster, had to cancel two concerts expect more class notes in May. at Amherst and keep it alive. If others love because of the fires. Many players, staff > JAN STUART to play, let’s connect.” and board members were evacuated in [email protected] “Here’s what I see out the window,” great haste from their homes, and some states JOHN HOWE. “Neighbors, in our lost their homes entirely. Going back up dense and urbanized Cambridge neigh- there to play the fire relief benefit concert 1978 borhood. We made the downsizing move three weeks later was sobering. We played I am reporting this time around from Mar- from the leafy suburbs in 2014. I told Tere- Beethoven’s third symphony, Eroica, and ;Å rakesh, where I have been a moderator at sa I would mourn for two years leaving the it seemed exactly right.” PAUL STATT ’78 the OCP Atlantic Dialogues conference big family house, but after four months I JEFF NEUSTADT is feeling “optimistic,” CONSIDERS THE on the emergence of Africa. There is a felt unburdened and rejuvenated! What I having just watched Ken Burns’ PBS se- “MIRACULOUS RESURRECTION OF lot of psychic energy among class mem- see in the mirror: still recognizable, but it ries The Vietnam War. Some things come AN ANCIENT bers around our upcoming 40th reunion. gets harder to keep the body from thick- to mind, memories of growing up during PROPHETIC TALE.” If you are coming, great. If you are still ening and the hair from thinning. Grand- those turbulent years: “the music of the Page 50 thinking about it, just come. We don’t get kids, our first—a boy, to our son Sam and Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, a second chance for some opportunities his wife, Casey—is on the way. My fond Stills and Nash; Walter Cronkite’s sincer- in life. Whether this is a moment to rein- hope is that he will inherit a livable world, ity, my neighbor’s big brother not coming force or redefineyour relationships, the despite all the insult our generation con- home from the war, and the thought that, reunion can be a creative way to connect tinues to inflict on it. Workwise, after as bad as people think things are now, it’s with a part of your own past and celebrate years in the world of clean energy, my not nearly as f—-ed up as it was then. I am it—or even improve it. Please come. professional focus has shifted to water. not sure how we were able to heal, but if Now for the news. My prompt this time In early 2016 I joined Poseidon Water, a we got out of that mess, we will get out of was to look at the window, or look in the Boston-based team that led development this one too.” Jeff and I spent a very cool mirror, and report on the view. of the nation’s largest seawater desalina- week in Lisbon in November, celebrating JOHN BENDIX celebrates good vibes tion plant, near San Diego. Traveling in friendship, checking out the street art and from Switzerland, his home: “I feel May to Sicily and Burgundy.” drinking some very good cheap wine. sometimes like I’m living in a place that A very sad note: KURT DOELLING “After seeing that Amherst was creat- is more American than America is any- passed away on Sept. 17. Back in 2013 Kurt ing a digital archive,” DAVID DICKINSON more. People from 178 countries living wrote in the notes that he and others in writes, “I did go online and look through here. Unemployment is ridiculously low. our class met in San Francisco and were a few issues of the Student from the days Substantial budget surpluses. The middle enjoying the butterflies. we were there. Interesting to see what was class is solid, not pulled apart. The edu- JIM HAMILTON writes that he is “deep being printed back in the ’70s. Somebody cation system is permeable. Children of into the research on a book about the Am- lauding his eternal bond with his broth-

78 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 ers at Chi Phi. Something negative about of Finely Grace. Jim proclaims, “It is bet- the sprinkler. Officer [Bob] Keyes enjoyed Valentine. Ads for pizza delivery and por- ter than everyone says it is.” watching one game. I think the second no movies. Sports headlines trying to be Hope to continue hearing from the class time we were shut down by campus se- clever. Couldn’t find the articles on co- on the subject of gratitude toward Am- curity. … It was totally nuts.” education or the famous Sleazing piece or herst. Just over one year from now we will (In case Fireball strikes anyone as so its then-famous response. Those would have our 40th reunion. Yikes! bonkers that it might well be a halluci- be interesting in light of today’s climate > SAM D’AGATA nation, a bit of quick research turns up its on gender.” [email protected] probable origin in the Yogyakarta, Bogor, > DAVID APPLEFIELD Tasikmalaya and Papua regions of Indo- [email protected] nesia, where it’s played under the name of 1980 sepak bola api as a Ramadan ritual, com- Intending to steer completely away plete with flaming coconut-shell ball. An- 1979 from—yes, that topic that nobody can other shot to the back of the net for Am- Notes are short and sweet this quarter. At avoid obsessing about these days, we all herst’s worldwide cultural-anthropology the time a call was made for news from know the one, the Name that Must Not expertise.) our class, we were celebrating Thanksgiv- Be Mentioned Here—we floated an idea John Gulla ’79 also recalls Fireball: ing. In light of that, I reflected on what I about new sports. With Amherst’s teams “What does it say about my reputation was most thankful for as it pertained to now going by Mammoths (the name that with you that you volunteer me as one “Henry my Amherst experience: we’re getting used to mentioning here), who would remember such an insane Mishkin’s I am very grateful to former Amherst the next frontier is logically some newly game? What does it say about me that baseball coach Bill Thurston for recruit- minted sports themselves, right? In our I do remember it? I played once, and it 8 a.m. music ing me to the College. Amherst was not day Ultimate became a real thing, and is, best I can recall, as Doug describes appreciation on my radar, as I was planning to attend frisbee golf perhaps a surreal thing. These it, though I seem to remember it being Harvard. A visit to the school on a cold, days, apparently students who grew up on called something other than Fireball, course: I’ve raw, foggy March day did not dampen my Harry Potter play quidditch. Surely we can but I wouldn’t swear on that, and I cer- never listened enthusiasm to attend. Later on, after Am- add to the list, we figured. tainly have no memory of the details of herst, our careers intersected when Bill We overestimated this. the preparation as recounted by the good to Bach or participated in my local sports medicine “Rather than new sports,” comments Mr. Bishop. I think it was Mark Newton Beethoven— pitching clinic. DAVE SCHRIGER, “perhaps our class ’79 who knew of the game’s existence and DAN MULLANEY responded to my led me there, and I do remember we ar- or any music, Thanksgiving solicitation reports. “Am- rived with the game already in progress, “Everyone got completely for that herst: A few of the things I am grateful for because the view from the top of Memo- soaked. Then the ball and matter—the and why: Henry Mishkin’s 8 a.m. music goals were lit on fire...” rial Hill of the goals (which are exactly appreciation course: I’ve never listened as Doug described them) and the flam- same way to Bach or Beethoven—or any music, for ing ball was so memorable. Much of the that matter—the same way since. More could come up with some new slogans rest is lost in a haze of… fierce competi- since.” than justified the start time. Amherst Glee for Mammoth mascot T-shirts (for next tion? Deluded recall due to the pre-game Club: the friends, the music, the travel. reunion?). I humbly offer the following: preparations? Who knows…? It seemed Austin Sarat’s political courses: enthusi- ‘Large, slow and extinct is no way to go to me the game had a large contingent of asm for learning. Fall in the Valley: noth- through life. —Dean Wormer.’” rugby players and Zoo residents. I don’t ing like it, before or since.” DOUG BISHOP is the sole classmate who remember anyone getting badly burned, News from ERIC SWETT: “My wife, recalled a sport that’s actually new. It’s a but I do remember some singeing.” Christine, and I are now living in Mar- scorcher. “Remember Fireball? I played Returning now to sports somewhat seille, after several years in Arizona. Big twice and thought it was the best thing less likely to kill their practitioners, RICH change. I’m working for CMA CGM, a ever at the time. I think it was organized READ “caught the Biggest Little Game shipping company, in legal and compli- by JOHN SMUCNY. I imagine it’s been a over a breakfast-pizza brunch here in ance. Marseille, a vibrant and increas- while since there has been a game (for Portland, Ore., on Saturday with a rela- ingly hip city, is a wonderful base for good reason). … The goals were made of tively large contingent of Williams alums weekend trips around southern France. three 2x4s set up in a tipi shape. To prep and a smaller group of Amherst cohorts, ;Å Paris is three hours away by train, so it’s them, one made a trough out of bricks including two proud dads of Amherst RAND RICHARDS pretty hard to complain! Our kids, in- lined with black plastic and filled with football players. The dads sat cheering COOPER ’80 SERVES UP A REVIEW OF THE cluding Catherine ’16, are in the States, kerosene. The 2x4s were soaked in the and groaning at the bar, fixated on the GOURMANDS’ WAY. working and studying. Reading the news trough for two days. The ball was made of game as Amherst lagged and the rest of Page 44 from Washington, D.C., quickly cures any strips made by ripping up bedsheets and us gabbed. ‘Later on as the crowd thinned homesickness we might feel from time wrapped like a ball of yarn. The diameter out I was just about to do the same,’ as to time.” of the ball was something like 2 feet. The someone once sang. And then Amherst From DAVID TURETSKY: “Big change. ball was then placed in a wastebasket full tied it up on the pass interception. And After about 24 years in the Washington, of kerosene. The day of the game, the ball the dads whooped and cheered. And, D.C., area and a career in law, govern- was removed from the soak and the sur- dang it, Amherst lost, and we faded into ment and business, we sold our house and face allowed to dry. the Portland rain. But good times, 3,000 moved to Albany, N.Y., where I became “The game was played at the foot of Me- miles away.” a visiting assistant professor at the Col- morial Hill. The field was watered down From the autumnal/holiday social lege of Emergency Preparedness, Home- ahead of time, and two sprinklers were whirl: TIM MCKENNA was “disappointed land Security and Cybersecurity, which is on. Players showed up in blue jeans; most by the class turnout at homecoming. Only part of SUNY Albany. Wanted to return guys played shirtless. Everyone got com- saw DAVID LEITH and Jim Barr ’81 (but to some sort of service, had strong family pletely soaked. Then the ball and goals enjoyed their company).” On the other ties in the nearby Catskills and reasons to were lit on fire. The rules of the game hand, the great class of ’80 was better be up this way, and it was a good time to were basically like soccer, except when represented than usual at this year’s NYC leave DC. I’m enjoying teaching and new the ball burned to a small enough diam- alumni holiday party at the East Village’s challenges, and we are happy for this new eter you were allowed to pick it up and Penny Farthing: along with scribe (and adventure!” throw it in the direction of the goal. The EV resident/PF regular) BILL MILLARD, JIM and JILL STILL became ecstatic smell of burning hair wafted about, re- the crowd included LORI SUBAR EICHEN- grandparents this past June with the birth minding players to take a time-out under FIELD (visiting from San Diego), JEFF

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VON DER SCHULENBURG, CHRIS TEARE of landline (and often rotary) phones, a calamitous one.” Read it yourself, ide- and ANNE MELISSA DOWLING. Lori and coin telephone booths, typewriters and ally on your smartphone, at www.com- LARRY EICHENFIELD’s house, at least at cameras that required film. But the re- monwealmagazine.org/swiping-back- this writing, has been safe from the fires cent arrival of Apple’s iPhone X got me big-phone. in that area. Jeff vdS has recovered from a wondering: Just how different would col- That’s all for now; many thanks to ev- bicycling injury (not incurred, by the way, lege have been, from 1977 to 1981, with eryone who wrote back this time, and on RICH MILLER’s alumni ride earlier this smartphones? didn’t just phone it in. Please stay in touch: year, but shortly afterward in always-haz- ERICA MARTIN: “I’m glad there weren’t “It’s the next best thing to being there!” ardous Connecticut). Although Rich him- smartphones and social media then, so > CAM HUTCHINS self had to miss the PF gathering in favor my youthful indiscretions are not Google- [email protected] of a Con Ed work wingding, he mentions able. Is that a word? In other news, I’m he’s hoping to organize another bike out- currently in Paris, showing photography ing in the spring; NYC-area velocipedists work at Fotofever, which is taking place 1982 should watch the usual alumni channels under the Louvre. The series is about a STU GOLDBERG wrote that he clowned for an announcement. metaphorical road trip through the Amer- again (seventh time!) this year as part of ican psyche, at our current crossroads, the Distinguished Clown Corps in Tole- and is portrayed in black-and-white im- do’s holiday parade. Donations are made ages from recent road trips through the by clowns to be in it, and the money sup- Kerr and Compassion Southwest. Also, an excellent excuse to ports children’s charities in town. He stat- eat éclairs.” ed that his group started toward the front 1983: Evan Thompson wrote to say that, as the co-chair KEVIN ELLIS: “Hold the phone! Son of the parade, but he fell farther and far- of the Steering Council for the Mind & Life Institute, he Jackson, 30, was married to Lisa Harmon ther behind the group of 107 clowns, and had the honor to help create and decide the winner of a of Egypt in our Vermont backyard in Oc- finished not only behind all of them but new award established in memory of Catherine Kerr ’85, tober. Tips for parents—no one notices after the final float carrying Santa, which who died in November 2016. The Catherine Kerr Award that the caterer is fighting with the wed- he declares is the test of who’s doing the for Courageous and Compassionate Science honors her ding planner. They’re having too much most clowning around! After finishing the outstanding contributions to the Mind & Life community. fun. And it is all about the couple and the parade, about 10 clowns visited three or John Dunne ’84 was also on the Steering Council. bride’s parents. Wife Kimberly and I are four different homeless shelters, where off on a cross-country adventure, driv- they left gifts and some balloon animals, ing from Vermont to California, having and he did a little magic for them. Lots of Others had equally good reasons to Christmas in Point Reyes, near San Fran- smiles, a great day. Thanks for sharing, miss it: “hosting a party for a congres- cisco. We are taking the southern route to Stu—what a wonderful way to give back. sional candidate in my voting district of be warm and are towing a small trailer. Stu also wrote that his sister-in-law, Virginia, Leslie Cockburn” (JANET DOR- So any Mammoths along the route from Carol Siegel Gaston, attended a junior MAN BRUCE), a book talk by Jaron Lanier D.C., New Orleans, Austin, Santa Fe, Ve- league authors program in Charleston. and Maureen Dowd (FRED HUNTER) and gas, Lake Tahoe and San Fran—we are “She wrote me that one of the writers assorted preholiday schedule collisions glad to stop by. We will spend a month was an Amherst alum. Do I know him? (TARA FULLER LAMOURT and BRODIE in California with Parent Coach Kimberly CHRIS BOHJALIAN? Carol is a flight atten- JOHNSON). doing ‘Parenting U’ workshops. We will dant, and Chris has a book coming out this Laura Paradise, who’s married to TOM likely spend two weeks in Santa Cruz so spring with the title The Flight Attendant. BENNIGSON, writes in support of their I can surf and just because.” Carol got a chance to meet with Chris af- project Open Heart Safari, which Tom LISA GOREN: “Of course, I totally re- ter the talk, took a couple of pictures they created “to give people a more conscious member your Mickey Mouse phone!” both shared with us, and Chris has a new safari experience. The majority of peo- MARTY HONIGBERG: “I really wish we’d fan, and possibly an inspiration for a se- ple who go on safari enjoy the wildlife had smartphones in college because the quel to that book.” but learn little about what’s behind the ability to access information immediately CHRIS BOHJALIAN responded to my creation of national parks and game re- would have been tremendously useful. It call for news with the following: “I always serves—the displacement of local people, would have saved us all countless hours feel a little ‘me-me-me, look-at-me’ when ;Å loss of access to their livelihoods and to on research and other academic work, I answer class notes, but here goes. I have THE “TERRIFYING, game. In addition to awesome wildlife ex- which we would have used for both good a new novel arriving on March 13. That’s EXHILARATING, periences, along with meditation, yoga and bad alternative activities. But I’m re- not news: it’s my 20th. But I want to give GRATIFYING” CAREER OF ACTOR CHERYL and group process, Open Heart Safari ally glad we didn’t have smartphones be- a shout-out to a few people many of us SINGLETON ’81 integrates conversations with conserva- cause… pictures!” know who were important in its creation. Page 27 tion activists (including a Goldman En- WILSON COMPTON: “I’m really glad The novel is called The Flight Attendant, vironmental Award-winner), community there weren’t smartphones at Amherst in and it’s about a great many things, includ- groups, villagers, chiefs and elders. Peo- 1977–1981, because many, many, many, ing Russian (and American) espionage, ple who travel with us get deeper insight many things don’t deserve Instagram alcoholism and just how despicable some into cultural and natural history and get (and are better left to fading memories). passengers are to flight attendants. But to learn more about what’s happening … In other news, I’m busy working on gov- it probably wouldn’t exist were it not for to preserve traditions, land and wildlife. ernment responses (especially research) some of the novels I read with Stanley Little of this topic makes international to ameliorate the U.S. opioid crisis. For- Rabinowitz and the love of Russian litera- press! Tom is a quiet activist and a great tunately, this doesn’t seem to generate ture he instilled in me. Yes, the novel be- trip leader. Here’s the website: openheart- partisan political responses, but we also gins with a murdered money manager in safari.com.” Tom is the latest recipient of haven’t solved the overdose and addic- a bed and a flight attendant with a whale our quarterly IMNBDDB award. tion crisis. Much more to do.” of a hangover, but the novel actually ref- > BILL MILLARD Finally, just as we were getting ready erences Pushkin, Turgenev and Goncha- [email protected] to go to press, I read an article, “Swiping rov. Also? I must have asked dozens of > TREI MASSIE Back at Big Phone,” by Rand Cooper ’80, questions of J.J. GERTLER and Adam [email protected] in Commonweal, in which he admits he’s Turteltaub ’83 while writing it, learning “a smartphone refusenik.” “Hardly a day from them all about drones and Dubai. passes,” he writes, “without my thinking So mostly what I want to say here is this: 1981 that what I have elsewhere called ‘the Thank you Stanley, J.J. and Adam.” We lived in a strange, exotic time, one smartphone bargain’ is a bad deal, even DAVID QUINN wrote with the exciting

80 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 news that he has written a children’s book lege, “seems to like to study in Europe, Jon thinks the rule of thirds applies: 1/3 entitled Go to Sleep, Little Creep. The book and in exchange for making the tuition like it, 1/3 don’t, and 1/3 really have no dramatizes the bedtime rituals of classic payments, we get to visit her—we went opinion one way or the other. Building- monster babies like Dracula’s daughter, to Spain (Salamanca and Madrid) for wise, the new Science Center and Green- Frankenstein’s monster, JR, etc. It has almost a week in early November. We way Dorms have really changed the ap- been sold to an editor and will be distrib- also went to Italy (Perugia and Florence pearance of the east side of campus. Jon uted by Crown Books for Young Readers and Rome) last summer when she was says, “I was delighted to see classmates in the summer of 2018. David also wrote studying there.” Mike and Deb’s other (in no particular order) ROB PETERSON, he was pleasantly surprised to learn that two daughters live in Somerville, Mass. ANNE DIVER DIEHL (and her terrific boys his new editor was Phoebe Yeh ’84. Small (where Mike and Deb lived when they and dog), JEFF THOMPSON, ROBIN LAN- world. were just starting out). Cara ’11 is writing SINGER, LISA (RANSOM) LUBARR, LIBBY > ANGELA SCOTT for AtlasObscura.com and the Amherst LIGHT, MIKE SIEGEL, LEE SEHAM, GEOFF [email protected] ’11 class notes, and Tori is at Harvard Ed UNDERWOOD, BILL AMEND, NANCY School after retiring from a three-year HALLAM and BETSY CANNON SMITH teaching career. Mike said he’s looking (thanks for taking excellent care of the 1983 forward to our reunion, and that, when class of 1984).” It was nice to hear recently from RUTH- he and Deb went to her reunion in May, BRANKO RADULOVACKI’s wife, Susan, ANNE DEUTSCH, who noted that to her it was interesting that the ’82 folks, who tells us that Branko recently was voted surprise she’s been up to Amherst three used to be barely older than us, are now one of Atlanta’s “Top Docs” for the 10th times already this fall. She helped her son really ancient (except, he said, for Deb consecutive year. To be voted a “Top Benjamin Aliaga ’21 move in, and went and the eternally youthful Paul Simmons Doc’ 10 consecutive times is absolutely for homecoming and again for Family ’82). Noting that maybe it was his lumbago incredible—and very rare. Branko is a Weekend. “Every trip was a joy and an that was influencing his perspective, he psychiatrist in private practice in Atlanta. opportunity to encounter classmates and also commented, “All those people years He treats adult and adolescent patients, professors—going back to college without ago who told me that running so much specializing in the care of those with de- 1982: Beverly Floer- having to take classes is the best! Coolest would give me knee problems when I pression, bipolar and anxiety disorders, sheimer let me know was to meet classmates’ kids who are so was older were wrong—the ones who said schizophrenia and various forms of ad- that she and Dan are poised and intelligent, like the daugh- back problems were correct.” diction. currently residing in ter of ANDY KAYTON and the daughter MAJA MOKOENA wrote from where he We are fortunate to have another “Top Florida. She wrote of PAULINE HOPPER,” she said. Ruth- lives in the Southern Hemisphere, Leso- Doc” among our classmates. JIMMY that she missed the anne also mentioned seeing GLORIA tho, to say that it snowed in the middle of GREENBERG is an associate professor fall in New England, NUSSBAUM, FRANCESCA MORSELLI- summer—November—this year! on the faculty at Harvard Medical School but is starting to get SINNOTT, ESTHER TRAKINSKI, JAY LISA OSOFSKY wrote that she was look- and, since 2000, has been the chief of gy- used to island life. DWIGHT and SAM MAWN-MAHLAU, who ing forward to seeing DANA KORNFELD necology at the Faulkner Hospital and a They are looking for- were at homecoming, busily planning our after Thanksgiving, as part of a trip to vice chairman of obstetrics and gyne- ward to an Amherst upcoming 35th reunion. In non-Amherst Washington, D.C., to attend a conference cology at Brigham & Women’s Hospi- get-together at Art news, Ruthanne said that her appellate on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. tal. Several times over the past decade, Basel in December. practice is gig-based and virtual, so she Thank you to all who wrote! Boston Magazine has named Jimmy a Other than that, can write briefs anywhere in the world— > BETSY (HAUSER) ABERNATHY “Top Doc” in the Boston area. For the their youngest son is but some gigs are worth traveling to. “If [email protected] past eight years, Jimmy has been travel- thriving at Amherst and when I get a Supreme Court argu- ing to Rwanda to teach physicians and and is extremely in- ment, I’ll make sure to be in D.C.!” medical students about safe techniques terested in psychol- Speaking of our reunion, please try 1984 for performing Caesarian sections in a ogy and economics. to come up on May 23–27, 2018, for our We’re now a little more than a year out low-resource environment. His team is 35th! Attendance co-chairs DHUANE from our 35th reunion. Our reunion com- in the early phases of a trial at two Rwan- (GEBAUER) STEPHENS (dhuane.ste- mittee is gearing up to make it a great dan hospitals to assess the value of their [email protected]) and JOHN SNOW event, and we hope to see a quorum (sorry approach in preventing maternal and ([email protected]) would for the legalese). Anyway, enough law for newborn morbidity and mortality. love to hear from you if you know you’re the time being. JOE SHRAGER, chief of the division of coming (registration will officially open This edition of the notes begins not with thoracic surgery and thoracic oncology on Jan. 5) or if you’d like to help and get lawyers, but with a few of our classmates CCP Leader at Stanford University’s involved. who are actually beneficial to society. In School of Medicine, writes from sunny AMY VENNEMA’s helping with reunion fact, these classmates are recognized by Stanford, Calif., to apologize for missing too. She noted that it might have been her their peers as being among the top of the get-together at homecoming, and par- 55th birthday disco dance party in New their field. ticularly missing the opportunity to wear York City—for which her guests braved JON BEKENSTEIN, an associate profes- a Mammoths T-shirt ironically, which the 2016 blizzard that shut the city down— sor of neurology at VCU Health System, MIKE SIEGEL advises is, in fact, possible. which encouraged guest SUE SIGDA to ask continues to treat patients with neurologi- “The Shrager kids have truly gone ‘Left her to help with entertainment for the re- cal problems and teach medical students, Coast’—one attends USC (‘the evil em- union. “Get ready to reminisce about the residents and fellows at VCU School of pire’), one is at UC Santa Cruz, and I think music of our time, and get ready to boogie Medicine in Richmond, Va. He works my high school junior, Chloe, may end up down!” wrote Amy. If you have particu- in the hospital where he was born. Also, being my Stanford girl.” Joe warned that lar requests and favorite songs from the Richmond Magazine named Jon one of its there would be a gathering of several Am- era, please email her at amy@avmaxac- 2017 “Top Docs”! herst friends at the Shragers’ chateau/ski cessories.com. Jon reports that homecoming 2017 was cabin in Tahoe in mid-January—includ- It was great to hear from MIKE GIAIMO, a great get-together for the class of 1984 ing DAVE BUCKMAN, JESSE HERMANN, who said, “I’ve now been practicing law and that the new Mammoth mascot was DAVE HOLLISTER, MIKE SMITH and per- for 28 years. That’s 28 years longer than unveiled. Football-wise, the Amherst haps even Ambassador (and Californian) I expected to practice law when I applied Mammoths came back in the last minute Jeff Bleich ’83. to law school. I am almost ready to stop and a half to beat Wesleyan. Some of the Incidentally, Joe’s been identified as practicing and really law.” He noted that alumni homecoming classes sang “Lord one of “America’s Top Doctors” and one his and Deb Gfeller ’82’s youngest daugh- Jeffery Amherst” at the end of the game, of “America’s Top Doctors for Cancer” ter Mari, a junior at Connecticut Col- to the surprise of others. Mammoth-wise, for several years running. Impressively,

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he has been awarded U.S. News & World the better part of last year. She got to- ues his role as news anchor Chuck Pierce Report’s “Top Doctor” recognition every gether with LINDA (VOLPERT) GROSS on the NBC comedy Great News.” year since that rating system was inaugu- and DEAN SCHRAMM and Dean’s wife, “As far as I’m concerned, busy is always rated in 2012. Wendy Greuel. Now that she has returned better,” wrote JONATHA BROOKE. And On to authors: The Gourmands’ Way: Six to New York, she’s gotten together with busy she is: “We’re finally feeling settled Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New LAURA MACLENNAN and her husband, after a year in Minneapolis, and surviv- Gastronomy, JUSTIN SPRING’s recently Tim Naylor; BRADLEY CLEMENTS and ing a kitchen remodel. It was a bit of a released book, has been garnering glow- her husband, John Moore; KEITH JACOB- shock after 16 years in New York City, but ing reviews. Justin’s book is both a criti- SON; and BRANKO and Susan RADULO- the city has truly embraced me. I have a cal and a highly entertaining chronicle, VACKI. regular residency gig at the Dakota Jazz beginning in the aftermath of World War ALEX SOSNKOWSKI has added a puppy Club downtown, I’ve been guesting on a II, when the French began to recuperate to her household! Alex writes, “I had said few New Standards shows, and My Mother from the German occupation and felt no puppies and no blondes, but we now Has 4 Noses (my one-woman musical play) quite gourmand themselves after years of have a sweet golden retriever pup.” Alex’s is being produced here at the Jungle The- food deprivation—a perfect moment for daughter is applying to colleges. ater. One of my other musicals in progress a handful of American epicures to arrive JOHN DUNNE left Emory University in had a workshop/reading at the University on the scene and stake their claim in it. 2015 to take a position at the University of Texas at Austin in January. I’ll be tour- HARLAN COBEN tells us that he and of Wisconsin—Madison, where he now ing and teaching a fair amount in 2018, so John Michael Anne Armstrong-Coben ’85 are holding holds the distinguished chair in contem- check jonathabrooke.com for dates and Higgins tight to (or perhaps more à propos, not plative humanities. This is a newly en- come say hi.” letting go of) the last of their four children. dowed position in the Center for Healthy STEVE HARRIS also relocated. “After 25 ’85 returns Three have already left the nest. Harlan Minds. John and his wife, Anna, are happy years in Massachusetts, my wife, Wendy to movie writes, “I’m serving as creator and execu- to be back in Madison. They also travel (Brown ’87), and I moved from Welles- tive producer of a TV show now airing on a fair bit, most recently spending two ley to Boca Raton, Fla. We are officially screens as a Netflix, a 10-episode crime drama called months in Kathmandu. empty-nesters. Our youngest, Graham, competitive The Five. I’m also filming a new Netflix That’s it for this edition. Looking for- is a freshman at Davidson College and Original drama, called Safe, with Michael ward to hearing more from you and to was high school friends with both PAUL a cappella C. Hall (Dexter) and Amanda Abbington seeing you all in 2018! SPINALE’s daughter, Emma, and CINDY commentator (Sherlock).” If you haven’t picked it up yet, > TONY QUINN PETERSON’s son, Jamie Mazzola ’21. We Harlan’s new book, Don’t Let Go, is a great [email protected] also have a daughter, Christina, a senior in Pitch Perfect read. I’d subtitle it: Can’t Put Down. > DIANE SCHWEMM at Santa Clara University, and our older 3 (once a DAVID CHINITZ is an associate profes- [email protected] daughter, Anna, just got her master’s sor of English at Loyola University. His degree in education from Boston Col- Zumbye, new book, The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot, lege and teaches first grade in Welles- always a Vol. 6: The War Years, 1940–1946, which 1985 ley, Mass. I took a VP sales position with he co-edited, was published in October. Here’s all the not fake news that’s fit to a private equity-backed after-market auto Zumbye). That same month, David and Lisa visited print; at least it’s what I was sent. manufacturer. We live a block from the their daughter, Raina ’20, at Amherst over Having worked in Washington for beach and have relatives both in Naples Family Weekend, and were introduced to years and higher education for decades, I and near St. Petersburg Beach. We’re en- the Mammoth. Over Thanksgiving week, thought I knew every acronym, but when I joying Florida and are open to Amherst Chris Castiglia ’83 and CHRIS REED vis- heard from SCOTT G.G. HALLER, MPSE, I visitors! I have stayed in close touch with ited David and Lisa, in Chicago. David was stumped… “Member of Parliament”? MARC MASTRANGELO.” Marc told me writes, “but for the most part I see our Do I need to get to the West Coast more? that he and his wife, Lucille, are planning classmates on Facebook, which really just Does everyone else know that “MP” to visit Steve and Wendy this spring and isn’t good enough!” stands for “Motion Picture”? Scott’s “pro- added, “Steve has given my son Joseph Also at Family Weekend were PETER fessional news is that while continuing to great advice about the recruiting process HIRZEL, RICK NIXON, HEIDI GILPIN and perform sound editing on TV series from for student-athletes at NESCAC and Ivy GEOFF UNDERWOOD. For the adventur- fellow USC film school graduate Shonda League schools, because his son just went ;Å ous, Geoff recommends the paved Rails- Rhimes—Scandal and How to Get Away through it.” JUSTIN SPRING ’84 to-Trails bike path running from Amherst with Murder—I have slowly worked my MARK FORD “wanted to report that PROFILES SIX AMERI- to Northampton along the former Central way up to supervising sound editor on in November I played golf with STEVE CAN CULINARY TSECKARES WRITERS WHO Massachusetts Railroad’s right of way. some episodes, which results in my name and had a great six hours DEMYSTIFIED And for the even more adventurous, actually being in the end credits. Granted, catching up.” He also enjoyed “tailgat- FRENCH CUISINE. LAURA (MCPHIE) OLIVEIRA and her hus- they are usually pushed to the side and ing with TOM JORDAN, Tim Hoisington Page 44 band, Greg, took a bucket-list cruise to sped up to ludicrous speed during the ’86, CHAD EWING, Bob Waskowitz ’82 the Galápagos Islands (who would have broadcast, but the home video audience and PETE DAMON all the way in from thought that the ILS course “Evolution can witness my prestigious status for California. Great win against Wesleyan and Revolution” had an application 35- slightly longer. Armed with show-busi- and an even better time seeing lots of plus years after it was taken?). They swam ness money and enabled by the summer ’80s people!” with penguins, sea turtles and sea lions; break, I was able to spend a month in Scot- In other Marc/Mark news, MARK walked with 150-year-old tortoises; and land. Besides driving around the verdant KAUFMAN wrote: “One son’s a senior in saw exotic birds ranging from blue-footed countryside and attending numerous college; the other’s a senior in high school, boobies to magnificent frigatebirds. performing arts festivals in Edinburgh, I ready for his gap year. Law practice is At the parents’ weekend for the Univer- tracked down miniature golf courses (the good, and I’m playing sax in an R&B/ sity of East Anglia in Norwich, England, locals call it ‘crazy golf’) and brought my soul band. I did 12 races this year (triath- SANDY SILVERMAN and GEOFFREY own Amherst ball to play with. I’m plot- lons, marathon, other running races) and CANTOR hoisted a pint or two together ting Argentina for next summer. Perhaps got onto the podium five times. I’m not at a pub to celebrate their respective there is mini golf to be played there, too. … getting faster, just aged up into a more daughters’ terms abroad from Dickinson In other Amherst entertainment-related select bracket.” College. I’ve heard that Geoff broke into news, JOHN MICHAEL HIGGINS returns COREY WASHINGTON provided this up- songs and dance from My Fair Lady after to movie screens as a competitive a cap- date: He sees Mark Costello ’84 and PHIL downing a few pints. pella commentator in Pitch Perfect 3 (once JACKSON regularly, and added “kudos to LISA GARSON was in Los Angeles for a Zumbye, always a Zumbye) and contin- Phil—and to Amherst—on Phil’s election

82 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 to the board of trustees. Nat Larson ’84 standing contributions to the Mind & Life recently beat the outdoor track American community and is given biennially to a age group (55–59) record for the 3,000 researcher from any academic discipline meters by a few seconds (9:18.95). Unfor- who has made significant contributions tunately, the time didn’t count, because to the scientific study of contemplative there wasn’t a technical test of the auto- practices and who exemplifies the quali- matic timing system before that meet. Nat ties and character that Cathy brought to is nice enough to slow down when we run her work, including courage, heartfulness together.” When back in Amherst, Corey and bold innovation.” What a lovely trib- runs with both Nat and Al Ladd ’81, but in ute to Cathy’s life and work. New York City he keeps missing ELLEN Far too often I’ve begun this column on DUBIN. Two years ago, Ellen took amaz- a somber note; this time I close with the ing photographs of Corey and Elena’s very sad news that at least three class- daughter, Charlotte. They are overdue for mates’ fathers from the class of 1956 another photo shoot, as they now have have died. For me, Charles Klem Jr. ’56

two more children, Aristarchus, age 2, was a quintessential Amherst alumnus— ARCHIVES COLLEGE and Kaya, born in November. Corey has smart, funny, involved, informed, fun and a combined human judgment/AI startup incredibly loyal. My parents weren’t re- and his wife, Kelli, accepted a posting in j Face to company, Vertexer.com, which has devel- ally connected to their colleges; seeing Rome, working with the Department of Face oped a product for recruiting, starting the love and dedication that Charlie had State. They’ve enjoyed the past several An art with university and private-sector hiring. for Amherst made a real impression on years based in Vilnius, Lithuania. student looks I learned that DORRIN B. ROSENFELD is me. Over the years, Charlie and Sheila BRIAN ALSTON writes that “with the her creation part of Pathways, Amherst’s alumni-stu- had three different properties within an most recent flood of exposures regard- dent mentoring program. She wrote that easy distance of campus, and most of the ing inappropriate male behavior, I’ve in the eye. “this encounter was not through the men- times my family and I came to reunions, been blessed the last few years to par- Who is she? toring program, but it was very satisfying! we stayed with them. They hosted my ticipate in the organizing, gathering and Whose I was contacted recently by Jack Reynolds family at other times as well. We enjoyed discussions of men to maintain appropri- likeness ’13. He was searching the fields of medi- their company, their generous hospitality, ate higher standards of behavior in per- was she cine and law for what he wanted to do. their proximity to Bub’s BBQ and their sonal, family and community life” at the sculpting? He was an English major at Amherst. He storage space. The Klems literally ware- Kauai Men’s Conference. wants to explore chiropractic! I gave him housed all my college furniture and box- JONATHAN HIRSH, director of orches- Where was enough websites, contacts and informa- es… for years. I forgot about this until I got tral and choral activities at Smith College, this studio tion to keep him busy until he starts. We a gentle reminder from Charlie when they has a great “six degrees” Amherst story. located? had a great initial chat, and we both plan needed the space for a renovation. In the He spent two weeks in October working Tell us at to keep in contact through the process. He fall 2017 Amherst magazine, I read the In in Chile, conducting two orchestras, the magazine@ says, ‘Go, Mammoths’; I say, ‘Go, Upper Memory piece about Peter Saybolt ’56 and Youth Orchestra of Puente Alto (a suburb amherst.edu. Cervical Chiro’!” I thought the search for saw the name of William B. Funnell ’56. of Santiago) and the Chamber Orches- a new mascot was pretty exhaustive, but I send my condolences to PAM KLEM, tra at the University in La Serena, in the clearly there were some choices that got ANNIE FUNNELL, DAVE SAYBOLT, their northern part of the country. One of his overlooked. Go, UCCs? Why not?! families and their friends. Be well, every- hosts was a horn player who studied at In other close encounters of the Am- one. the University of Santiago. herst kind, last October MARTHA (BALL) > KATE FOSTER-ANDERSON The professor of horn is an American POLSTEIN and John Polstein ’84 visited [email protected] man named Edward Brown. Mr. Brown’s their daughter, Emily, in El Paso, Texas. wife came to one of their rehearsals and Emily arranged for them to have coffee told Jonathan that they had visited Am- with Bob Hepner ’86 and Lauren Rosen- 1986 herst over the summer because her hus- berg ’86. Their daughter, Bess Hepner, BILL WARDEN reports that his son, Matt, band grew up there. She showed him a and Emily Polstein became friends while is a freshman at NYU film school having photo of 58 Woodside Avenue, Brown’s living in Seattle. Martha wrote that Lau- too much fun, and daughter, Alice, still childhood home. He lived in this college ren and Bob “were absolutely warm and in the nest. house because his father was Dr. Brown, lovely. They have been very kind to Emily JACQUI SADASHIG spent winter break the campus physician (likely Dr. Lane’s since she got out there; they drove an hour in Southeast Asia, celebrating New Year’s predecessor)! to see her and take her out to dinner. We Eve with elephants! But the plot thickens. Jonathan’s host, met in Las Cruces, N.M., where Lauren JOANIE BREWSTER is job hunting but Alejandro Melendez, who teaches at the is a professor and associate head of the otherwise loving life at low elevation University in La Serena, upon learning English department. Bob is doing a lot of (5,000 feet). She crossed paths with Jack that Jonathan lives in Amherst (he is vis- art. It was very fun to see them, and quite ’84 and ANNA SOMMERS, who were vis- iting now to complete the exchange), told a blast from the past.” Emily is working iting Breckenridge, Colo., when she was me that his stepfather had something to at Annunciation House, a nonprofit vol- there for book club, and then the very next do with Amherst. Jonathan arrived to unteer organization that primarily helps night she and her husband got to see DAN stay for the week in La Serena at Alejan- migrants and refugees. BROWN at his book tour stop in Denver. dro’s mom’s house, and met her second Dr. Evan Thompson ’83 of the Univer- MICHAEL SIMON’s daughter (17) is in the husband, Brooke Gregory ’63, who has sity of British Columbia told Betsy Aber- college search process, his two sons (15 lived in Chile since around 1980! “I just nathy ’83 that, as co-chair of the steering and 12) are in the adolescence process, couldn’t believe these Amherst coinci- council for the Mind & Life Institute, this and his parents (Michael and Fifi) are dences.” year he had “the honour of helping to cre- breathing deeply. > JORDAN LEWIS ate and decide the winner of a new award LAURA STEUER’s daughter is applying [email protected] established in memory of CATHERINE to college. Laura says she’s exhausted KERR. You can read about the Catherine from parenting and ready for major life Kerr Award for Courageous and Compas- change. 1987 sionate Science, and the first recipients, MICHAEL KETOVER accepted an ap- Greetings from not-so-warm Texas, at www.mindandlife.org/catherine-kerr- pointment as Peace Corps director in which recently received quite a bit of award. The award honors Cathy’s out- Kiev, Ukraine, starting in March 2018, snow in its more southern regions. Of

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course, it is relative, so I will equate our sleeps…. I do miss my typical run-in with with ROSS BUCHANAN in Chicago for 2–5 inches to the 10–12 inches of snow DEREK WITTENBERG and his wife, Mary, a burger and friendly banter—forever a often “sprinkled” in the Northeast. My on the streets of the Upper East Side. It Chicagoan, it seems, and none worse for company’s secondary headquarters is in was shocking how many times, on some the wear. Fun to see him and wonder what Austin, so I was provided a few photos random trip of mine to NYC through the life would be like in Chicago, riding the L. of the dusting that fell there. Speaking of years, I would happen to pass Derek as Seems LISA PECK has been jetting Austin, I discovered at reunion that one we each roamed along the avenues there. around too. Peck visited MARY (HIGGINS) of our esteemed classmates, CLAY JOHN- Unfortunately, my “celebrity sightings” DUNNE in Wellesley about a month ago, STON, now resides there, where he serves are few and far between. Ha! where CHUCK BARTLETT, STEPHANIE as the inaugural dean of the Dell Medical On the topic of celebrities, it seems the PASTERNAK and BEA SANDERS joined School at the University of Texas. I could son of ELENA (KUGLER) SANDS and her them for a night out on the town. The pho- not be more thrilled for Clay and for the husband, Geoff Sands, has become a ce- tos I saw suggested fun was had by all.… foundation of this medical school in the leb. All four of Elena’s kids are soccer su- I ventured to the Boston area a week land of the Longhorns. Hope to catch up perstars, with the girls playing NESCAC ago. Stayed at the “Inn of MARY DUNNE,” with him in person on one of my trips soccer and the two boys playing at the as well. Funny thing, though: I ran out to down to my state’s capitol. U-17 level. But their son James went on a store to get munitions for the evening— Speaking of Clay—CLAY SMITH, that to play in the World Cup on the USA U-17 not even sure where I was; just let Google is—I was able to catch up briefly with team! Elena and Geoff traveled to India Maps guide the way—and lo and behold, him when I lobbed in a call to wish his for the World Cup to watch the tourney. I ran into JOHN FOLEY. Sorry, Foley—too wife, KAVITHA MEDIRATTA, a happy Proud family. amusingly random not to include. He said birthday in October. In reality, he up- Another former classmate (and Stea- he’d bumped into JOHN VANDER VORT dated me on Kav, since she was across rns and TD housemate of mine) in the not long ago at a school-related gathering. the pond in London for a conference. northern regions would be JENNIFER Small, small world. Seems her new role as executive direc- (EPP) MERRELL, who has recently left the That’s it for now from here. Next notes, 1989: From Suzanne tor for Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity immediate Boston area to move north to Peck and I want to hear from more from (Demcisak) Stein- is keeping her busy, with annual birthday New Hampshire with her husband and you directly. Please send notes! Also, next berg: “I finally did it. sojourns to London. Probably no time for two dogs. The “kids” are off at college notes will include trips west, I hope. There As of August, I am a tea with the Queen, but kudos to Kav on and boarding school, so it seems days are certainly some fabulous classmates candidate for a mas- her appointment. Otherwise, Clay, Kav are spent watching the dogs play in the on that side of the country. ter’s degree in social and their son, Jai, are doing well in their snow and admiring the gorgeous scenery. > LISA W. MILLER ’87 work from Widener home in northern Manhattan. That is, aside from their day jobs as doc- [email protected] University. My goal Just a hop up from northern Manhat- tors, of course. is to become a men- tan is LUISA (KAYE) HAGEMEIER, who Speaking of doctors, it seems another tal health therapist. has recently left her lifelong perch on the one of our classmates, ALICE (LAWRENZ) 1988 Three-and-a-bit Upper West Side for a new homestead in FUISZ, has recently been awarded Mas- First, notes from around the globe… years from now, I’ll the northern borough of the Bronx. Still tership in the American College of Physi- JOHN WOODWARD “recently returned have my grubby lit- a member of the legal world as a partner cians, the national organization of inter- from a work trip to the Cerro Tololo In- tle paws on a diplo- at the firm bearing her maiden name, Lu- nists. This honor is given to those who ter-American Observatory in Chile. The ma and an LSW, and isa has taken a turn to hone her culinary have made significant contributions to mountains were amazing, and the tele- I’ll be looking for a talents at the Institute of Culinary Educa- medicine and is in recognition of their ex- scopes were pretty cool too, and it was new job. I’m looking tion. I met up with Luisa and JON DAMON traordinary career accomplishments. The my first time seeing the southern stars.” forward to it.” and Damon’s now husband, Oswaldo Lu- award follows others Alice has received FLORA STAMATIADES had a “great ciano, a few years ago for brunch at Le for her work, including the ACP D.C. work trip to Zagreb this year, with a side Pain Quotidien in NYC. My recent travels Chapter Leadership Award and the Ma- trip to Budapest.” Sounds very interest- there have been work-crazed for the most her Memorial Laureate Award. Prior to ing. part, but I would love to catch up with my that, Alice received the Founders Alumni JOHN REID writes, “In March, I stepped Stearns third-floor hall-mate soon, and Award from Georgetown University and down from Conservation Strategy Fund, any other classmates who might have was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha an international conservation NGO I some time. Honor Medical Society. Congrats, Alice! founded in 1998 and ran for the ensu- And, yes, that includes JON DAMON, as A significant accomplishment by JEFF ing 18 years. Whew! It was an amazing previously mentioned, whose sweet son, SPADAFORA is one of great heights—lit- ride that introduced me to extraordinary Allan, is giving Jon and Oswaldo a run for erally. As per his blog, Jeff relayed his ad- environmentalists from 90 countries their money in the cuteness camp. Not ventures in Ecuador just a few days pre- around the world and turned more than sure Allan can still fit into that NY Mets viously at 19,347 feet. Having traveled a few hairs gray. Now I’m consulting on pajama outfit he wore as an infant, but to Ecuador with his wife to visit their conservation strategy and economics is- maybe he can bring a bit more luck to that daughter and her new husband, it seems sues, mostly in the Amazon, and enjoying team as he grows up! Jeff took what could be seen as a dare— a simpler life. My daughter, Jessica ’20, is Others in the NY area I owe a visit or simply a challenge from an adoring a second-year student living at the Marsh include KATHERINE (SCHUPF) KIM, daughter—and faced Cotopaxi, a moun- Arts House, studying Russian and geol- Connecticut-based mom of an Amherst tain closed for two years due to volcanic ogy and working at Amherst’s farm, which alumna now. Just “yesterday” (also a few activity, for the climb of a lifetime. As his I used to walk by every day. … I have a boy years ago), I grabbed a quick lunch with blog indicates, Jeff was prepared, having about to graduate from college, so Carol the two of them near Central Park after stayed in shape all these years (as those Andrews ’89 and I are empty-nesters here a run—theirs, not mine—I believe. How of us at reunion duly noted), and was in Sonoma County (where our house is time flies…. And ANN HUSE, with whom I in good hands, having chosen a skillful still standing). I do a lot of photography had coffee in Midtown several years ago, guide. Success was his reward, as well as and mountain biking and am always glad but now need to pop out to her home in the love of family. Not sure I will ever see to receive visitors who would like to see New Jersey so that we can continue to 19,000 feet from anything other than a our trails.” compare canine stories. Of course, Ann’s plane, but I have great admiration for such From ELIZABETH HOAK-DOERING: tenure as assistant professor at John Jay an accomplishment. “I’m still based in Nicosia, Cyprus, but College in Manhattan has provided some As for planes, I have been on plenty the I come back to visit my parents in Phila- of us with a “colorful insight” into teach- last six months of my newish job. Dur- delphia twice a year. Last year I took a ing in the middle of the city that never ing the summer, I was able to catch up sabbatical in Berlin, and of course loved

84 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 it in Kreuzberg. … A few exhibitions in K families. So much fun seeing the little Germany kept me busy for the year: in ones! I have had a great time reconnect- Leipzig, then Berlin and Münster, and ing with class of ’88 friends KATHERINE there’s one still on at the European Cen- FREEDMAN, JULIE GALDIERI and FLORA tral Bank in Frankfurt. My work has STAMATIADES in NYC. Would love to focused on the perceptual content and reconnect with other NYC classmates!” boundaries of drawing and writing, so Thanks to Flora, Sandra is on the class of graffiti and inscriptions have lately been 1988 Facebook page, and she encourages my main sources of visual inspiration us all to join. and publications. While I was in Berlin LISA WOLF: “I am about to empty my I developed archives of modern inscrip- house out—my oldest graduates from tions for two memorial institutions from Marlboro College this spring (and heads the GDR period, and I’m still working on off to graduate school), my middle kid that material…. graduates from high school, and my “When I returned to Cyprus in Sep- youngest graduates from middle school. tember I was elected to full professor in Anybody need a five-bedroom house, 4

sculpture and new media at the Cyprus miles from the Fairest College? ARCHIVES COLLEGE University of Technology. It’s a new pro- “I’m still working as the director of re- gram, the first public (state-funded) fine search for the Emergency Nurses Asso- homecoming with this: “Our sons Bobby j In the arts B.A. program in Cyprus. … I’m still ciation, and working per diem at a local ’19 and Nat ’21 are thoroughly enjoying House regularly swimming long-distance in the emergency department to fund my fenc- their fall at Amherst, and we visited them Recognize sea for exercise, backstroke, steering my- ing habit (which is now shared with James, at homecoming. The highlight of home- anyone in self from landforms like the Temple of my youngest). We both competed at the coming for me was George showing off this 1989 Aphrodite, which is up the road from the Crescent City Open in NOLA in October his T-shirt quilt, commemorating some new university. If anyone remembers that (James in Y12 and me in the Veteran cat- fantastic parties and Amherst lore. The gathering I was rowing the whole time at Amherst, egory), and earned matching silver med- Shogrens are looking forward to Julia Pike of students they may well wonder why I always have als. And beignets.” ’19, AMANDA (BRACKETT) PIKE’s daugh- in Charles to exercise backwards. It’s a good ques- RON BASHFORD writes, “Having re- ter, returning from her semester away in Drew House? tion. cently earned tenure in the theater and Sweden, not only for her delightful pres- Chime in at “Warm greetings to all my great friends dance department at Amherst, I spent the ence on campus, but because that will magazine@ and classmates—I’m reminded of our es- summer directing the world premiere of again bring Amanda and Niko Pfund ’87 capades a lot, and think of you often.” the new opera The Scarlet Professor, with to campus for events. Great time talking amherst.edu. KIRSTEN (COOPER) POLER: “The news music by my colleague Professor Eric to STEVE MUGFORD, who is again swim- (Of course, is that, after 18 years in London, the Polers Sawyer in the music department.” ming competitively. A throw-down to all that’s Drew are moving back to Massachusetts. We On a personal note, it’s been a difficult of us weekend-warrior athletes if ever himself in the left for London with two small children year for my family. My husband, Corky, there was one.” Way to go, Mugs. portrait in and two cats; we will return with two big passed away in May. I am thankful that And Beth was kind enough to throw in the top right children, one medium child, three cats, our son, Will, and I have begun to re- this bonus report of summer cavorting three dogs and five horses—we are antici- gain a positive outlook on life because with Amherst friends in California: “In corner.) pating we will need an ark! We look for- of the support of our wonderful family June MIKE ‘SHAGS’ SHOGREN and I had ward to spending more time at Amherst, and friends. Best wishes in the new year. the opportunity to go to Sonoma County although unfortunately our timing is such Hope to see everyone at reunion. pre-fire to visit with my matesJEN RADIN, that Greta ’19 will be in her final year at > WRITTEN BY CHRISTINE BOYD EMILY TODD, KIRSTIN DOUGALL, AMAN- Amherst by the time we get back. So we’ll [email protected] DA (BRACKETT) PIKE and all spouses but have to make the most of her senior year!” > STEVE SPECTOR for Niko Pfund ’87. There was a lot of wine Closer to home, AMY (SIMON) HOP- [email protected] and delicious food, and laughs all around. WOOD has been “working on a part- All offspring are doing well, and some time project with the Korean collections of us are nearly empty-nesters (gasp!). at the Newark Museum. It has been a 1989 The only classmate missing was DAVID great way to get back into museum work Let me start with homecoming, the warm- FRANK, who is a rising star in the City of and to launch my full-time job search. I est I can remember, a gorgeous 70-ish Minneapolis Community Planning and have seen a lot of JENN (CODY) EPSTEIN day in October. My wife and classmate, Economic Development Department, and SARA MIERKE this fall. I’ll be visiting DEBBY APPLEGATE, and I were there, and is thriving here in the Bold North.” Amherst for a tour this winter as my son with not only my father, Henry Tulgan Thanks, Beth! Stefan is a junior and we are getting into ’54, but also Debby’s parents, Julie and And this from Amherst resident JON- the college search process.” Paul Applegate (who visited us from Or- ATHAN S. SHEFFTZ: “Caught up with KATHY CHIA’s architecture firm, Desai egon for the month of October). In at- many Amherst friends during an Octo- Chia, collaborated on an amazing house tendance, I spotted the following: BETH ber business trip to D.C., including ’89 in Michigan. I wish we could include (MOON) SHOGREN and MIKE SHOGREN, classmates DAVE NICKLES and JOHN photos! Check out the feature at Dwell. DREW SHILLING, KEMPTON INGERSOL, HANSHAW, then enjoyed a visit here a com, and search “Ash Trees.” The unique SARAH (THOMAS) MALDONADO, SARA week later from BECKY (SKILLMAN) CAR- home features ash trees from the property DIAMOND, STEVE MUGFORD, DANI RU- PENTER while she was at a UMass confer- that were given a new life, and uses the RAN, GEORGE BISCHOF (with his father, ence. In potential class of, let’s see, 2032 Japanese art of shou sugi ban to create a John Bischof ’58) and STEVE CAMPBELL news, our daughter is currently enjoying charred cedar exterior. (who reported he was arriving directly second grade, yet is expressing many res- SANDRA (STERNLIEB) EFFRON writes, from a brief but enthusiastic visit with ervations about middle school, although “My kids are at Columbia Grammar and CHRIS GLOWACKI and our fearless class I trust we’ll get that all sorted out over the Prep School here in NYC: Sabrina, 14, and president KRISSY CAMPBELL in Nan- next five years.” Jimmy, 12. The loves of my life! I have tucket). Amherst beat Wesleyan, and it Meanwhile, also reporting from Am- been busy doing a lot of volunteer work was a superior day all the way around. (To herst, SONYA CLARK and her husband, there. As a volunteer, I run the Commu- any ’89-ers who were there but somehow Darryl Harper ’90, are back on campus for nity Service program for grades PK–7. I’m escaped my eyeballs: Please forgive me.) the year, Sonya as a Distinguished Artist- also a tour guide for prospective PK and BETH (MOON) SHOGREN followed up in-Residence in the art and history of art

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department and Darryl as the Valentine enjoying working with the inpatient And finally… at the time of this writ- Professor of Music. clinical teams on morning rounds and ing, BEN GUNDERSHEIMER, alias “Mr. From JOHN PALUSKA: “Still living in providing research and educational sup- G,” was kicking off his Chanukah Tour Mill Valley, Calif. Our older son, Wes port for hospital personnel, especially the in Atlanta. (16), is a junior in high school, and our residents, nurses and associated care pro- Until next time, please send news. With younger son, Pablo (6), is in kindergar- viders. CM is an independent, nonprofit, love for Amherst and the class of 1989, ten. Our restaurant, Comal, recently charity-funded pediatric hospital with > BRUCE TULGAN celebrated its fifth anniversary, and we the motto ‘For all children, everywhere.’ BRUCET@RAINMAKERTHINKING. are adding a casual taqueria next door For the past 120 years, it has never turned COM in early 2018. A few months ago, I had away a child for ethnicity, sociocultural the pleasure of catching up with several background or ability to pay. I’m proud classmates (BRANDON LUCE, NEAL RU- to be employed here. 1990 BIN, AMY RABBINO) at JON FELDMAN’s “Additionally, with support from CM, Let’s be honest—I mean, after 31 years, we groovy house in SF.” I am undertaking a part-time, online can be honest with each other here, right? From JOEL DAVIDOW: “I experienced master’s degree in instructional design With everything happening these days, from Western Governors University. I’m my heart is in a constant, turbulent riot. basically just working and studying right The most grotesque and fantastic con- now, but it will be well worth the effort. ceits haunt me in my bed at night. Downward Bound? I’ve recently submitted a grant proposal And it’s not just me, either: Your class- to expand health literacy education and mates don’t have time to send me up- 1991: In truly death-defying news, Homer Robinson rap- awareness in CM and the Kansas City dates, nor I to write them up, nor the pelled 29 stories down Two Commerce Square, a building community and hope to continue to cre- alumni office to send them back to me for in Philadelphia, this fall to raise money for the Philadel- ate opportunities to support high-quality, being—and I quote—“utterly insensitive/ phia Outward Bound School. Both Homer and his wife, evidence-based family- and child-cen- inappropriate.” I definitely don’t have Lisa, are Outward Bound alumni—and the trips they did tered care.” time to then rewrite them from scratch, as teenagers had a profound impact on them. He recorded The Doctors Co., the nation’s largest and you, of all people, most certainly the whole thing on a GoPro camera for others to live physician-owned medical malpractice in- don’t have time to read this. (Stopped through vicariously. surer, announced the selection of CRYS- already, dintcha?) TAL (JEAN) BROWN as senior vice pres- Just one illustration: In the time it took ident of underwriting. In her new role, me to draft the above, another congress- the spectacular Aug. 21 total solar eclipse Crystal leads the company’s underwriting man was driven from office. By the time atop a grassy plateau on a farm south of operations nationally. you read this, his replacement will be Douglas, Wyo. In mid-September, I had JULI BERWALD’s book Spineless: The gone too. I can’t even. nine wonderful days paddling solo in Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Grow- And yet, if we can put all that aside for Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario, Can- ing a Backbone was finally released Nov. one moment, let’s get on with it, shall we? ada. In my free time, I continue to chip 8 and has been getting rave reviews ev- JIM MORGAN’s expanded his role at away at learning to salsa dance, contin- erywhere. The book had a huge feature in Hebrew SeniorLife to include one day ue as a Security Fellow with the Truman The Wall Street Journal and also has been working with Russian-speaking patients Project and serve as a commissioner on featured on NPR and in Cosmopolitan, Sci- in long-term care and rehabilitation, in the Judicial Performance Commission of entific American, Publishers Weekly and on addition to his ongoing work as rabbi and Colorado’s 20th Judicial District.” and on and on! chaplain for independent supportive- From DANI RURAN: “In June 2016, I In “Holiday news”: housing facilities. He says he’s thankful joined Fletcher Tilton PC in Framingham From MARK RIGG: “As some folks may for his Russian study at Amherst, “since and Worcester, Mass., where I continue to know, 2017 was the 500th anniversary I’ve been able to take advantage of the practice trusts and estates / estate plan- of the Reformation; this is a big deal, es- linguistic and literary skills I gained in a ning and estate administration law, as an pecially for us Lutherans. Martin Luther remarkable range of capacities. Among ‘officer’ at the firm. In addition, in June posted the 95 theses on Oct. 31 in 1517. In all my imaginings as an undergraduate, 2017, my wife, Wanda Phipatanakul, who my own corner of the world, I organized I never considered that I might end up ;Å is an asthma, allergy and immunology an ecumenical commemoration of the having the privilege of helping Russian JULI BERWALD ’89 physician at Boston Children’s Hospital, Reformation that was led by clergy and speakers grapple with spiritual issues at TALKS JELLYFISH was promoted to full professor of pediat- laypeople from five different denomina- the end of their lives.” WITH HER FORMER ROOMMATE rics at Boston Children’s Hospital / Har- tions and was attended by over 500 peo- He and wife Michele Baker still live in MARGARET vard Medical School. And my daughter, ple from dozens of congregations. Most Brookline “with our two adolescent (oy!) STOHL ’89. Hana, had her bat mitzvah on Nov. 11 at significantly, the event was held at St. Ig- sons” and co-coach the younger’s youth Page 36 Temple Israel in Natick and had a great natius Roman Catholic Church nearby. It hockey team: “family togetherness at the Saturday night dance party in the large is hard to overstate how groundbreaking rink!” ballroom at Doubletree Hotel in Westbor- and how historically recent such events JEFF GLASS was back on campus for ough, near our house in Hopkinton, with are. Pope Leo excommunicated Luther; an Austin Sarat-led voting-rights sym- 75 of her closest friends from Hopkinton Luther repeatedly called the pope the an- posium last fall. “He had some terrific Middle School and many relatives and ti-Christ; in our grandparents’ time, Lu- speakers in the trenches of understand- family friends. Also, our family (including therans and Catholics literally would not ing the many ways both parties have our son, Jack) went to 2017 homecoming set foot in each other’s buildings. So, to attempted to manipulate voting laws at Amherst and watched the football and have a Protestant/Catholic Reformation to their advantages. It was great to be soccer games on a beautiful day—where service in a Catholic Church… incredible! reminded of the intellectual depth that we hung out with Erin (Kinsella) Robson “For Thanksgiving, Debby and I had the Amherst always provided us.” The dinner ’90 and her family—and we look forward pleasure of spending some of the Thanks- keynote speaker, Paul Smith ’76, recently to attending several Amherst basketball giving week with ELEANOR LEGGETT argued the case against gerrymandering games (men’s and women’s) this season, SWEENEY and her family (El and John’s at the Supreme Court: “Super cool. Fun to support Amherst!” kids, Ian and Kate, are each still residing to meet some of the current students and From JENNIFER LYON: “As of Janu- in New Haven). We joined the Sweeney hear about current life at Amherst. Seems ary 2017, I moved to Kansas City, Mo., family for dessert on TG at Kate’s place like things are in a decent place. to take a clinical librarian position at … . A ridiculous quantity of pie was had “Also, I did pull a hip muscle playing Children’s Mercy Hospital. I’m greatly by all.” basketball last week.”

86 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 BILL LIENHARD and his wife, Launa K–12 education. MAT SHAPIRO was the tral and South Asia circa the 14th century Schweizer ’91, are recording their second non-educator outlier, yet many of us CE to the present. His published work is album, but with a new band, New Yeller, would agree that he continues to teach concerned with the study of Sufism and for release before his 50th in May. “Song the rest of us so much. Shi’ism, messianic movements originat- topics include: regret; a dolphin dying in Craig reported that he and COLIN HAM- ing in Islamic contexts, among other fas- the Gowanus Canal; realizing that other ILTON run into one another in the Minne- cinating things. people’s subjective experiences are at apolis-St. Paul area, where they both live KAREN FOX, whom I’m about to have least as important as your own; a bad (and their children are friends). Another the good fortune to visit while in D.C. for band break-up. Should be a real party!” thing they have in common, according work, is often a wonderful source of class- ANDREW THOMASES is now head of the to Craig, is that both have taken up the mate information and social knowledge. intellectual-property litigation group at popular sport of curling. However, when I recently reached out to Ropes & Gray, which is “an honor but will I am excited to report that I recently her to gather data, she was uncharacteris- also likely mean lots more administrative realized that I am a member of the same tically short on details and verifiable facts. work.” Andrew crossed the equator to ski health club as RAY SISON. Imagine my de- The first bit of news she shared was ac- in Chile last July/August: “Ten great days light when I was running in to catch a spin tually “non-news,” because she reported in country, seven days skiing the Andes class and bumped right into Ray and his that she was sadly going to miss having a and lots of good food and super-nice wife in the lobby. Their adorable daughter chance to hang out with REBECKA PEE- people.” His plan for turning 50: ski trip is very active in dance, gymnastics and BLES at a wedding they were both invited “We started to Jackson Hole with five buddies, includ- other insanely cute classes, and they take to because Karen had a travel conflict. looking for ing BILL KLIPSTEIN. DARRYL HARPER’s advantage of that time by working out (or KATEY (DUNKLE) SCRIMGEOUR wrote back at Amherst as visiting music profes- sitting in the adult lounge relaxing, as I to say that she and husband JAMIE a dog to sor, with his wife, Sonya Clark ’89. They caught Ray doing later that night). Now… SCRIMGEOUR are still living and working rescue, and find the students “eager, curious, a real if only their being there would get me to in Connecticut. “Our home in West Hart- pleasure to teach,” and faculty colleagues exercise more often…. ford is 2 miles from the Dunbars—NANCY finally found warm and welcoming. They’ve been Jonathan Arnold ’93 gave me a sweet (STREET) DUNBAR and MATTHEW DUN- an adorable catching up with the handful of their old shout-out on Facebook in order to point BAR—so we see them almost weekly. I profs still teaching and “enjoying in equal me to a New York Times review of The just ran a half marathon up in Amherst young measure the many changes to the College, Band’s Visit starring our very own JOHN on Nov. 12. The course was beautiful, but a standard and the bouts of nostalgia that wash over CARIANI, whom the Times called “deeply lot hillier than I remember. Anyone living us as we walk the campus.” affecting.” John is acting alongside Ka- in the area should consider doing it next poodle whom Welp, that’s about all I have for you trina Lenk, Tony Shalhoub and a gifted year. It’s a really well-run event.” we named people right now. Thanks for distracting cast. The Times review claimed the show Here’s to a happy and healthy 2018! May me from the news feed for 47 minutes. is “one of the most ravishing musicals you all your wishes come true. MacCloud,” Wait! One more thing: The alumni of- will ever be seduced by… a Broadway rar- > RISA SACKMAN writes fice nixed part of this (true story!), so I ity seldom found these days outside of the [email protected] have space for a blind item, torn from canon of Stephen Sondheim: an honest- Stephanie the off-limits (for notes purposes) pages to-God musical for grown-ups.” Jonathan Turner ’91. of Facebook. also added, “We loved this show, and 1992 Which ’90 recently posted this, from would recommend it even if we didn’t Greetings and a happy winter to all our “Our new Miami Beach?: “After years of frustrat- know and adore John.” classmates! Sadly, neither of us was able home feels ed attempts, I decided to school the boy JEFF KOPF wrote, “My wife, STEPHA- to make it up to homecoming this fall, but in the fine art of lizard catching. Much NIE COGEN, has started a job as the de- we still have news to share with ’92-ers complete!” success!” velopment coordinator at an organization far and wide. > WRITTEN BY MIKE AVITZUR called Future Chefs, in Boston. Their mis- To start, HEATHER WOLFE reports an [email protected] sion is to help prepare teens for life and unanticipated but pleasant meeting with > SARAH WADE SWANK work after high school. It’s a nice change JEFF WILENSKY this November. “Our [email protected] for Stephanie after years practicing labor/ work lives unexpectedly collided when employment law. one of his colleagues invited me to Pro- Meanwhile, I just started my 20th year Quest to give a talk on a Folger project. 1991 as an attorney at the U.S. Environmental Jeff introduced me, I gave my talk, and I’d like to begin with a few examples of Protection Agency, doing mostly Clean then we wandered around campus and how wonderful it is to connect with Am- Water Act work. Needless to say, work- downtown Ann Arbor in the rain, with a herst friends. My husband, Jeff, and I had ing there right now is… interesting. Our long stopover in Zingerman’s to sample a truly lovely dinner with HEATHER CRIS- older son started his freshman year at Yale all of their wonderful artisanal chocolates TOL, JON GOLD, MAT SHAPIRO, CRAIG this fall, and our younger son continues to while discussing the joys and mysteries ELIASON (and daughter Emi) and MATT enjoy his sophomore year in high school of raising kids.” BUTTERFIELD in Philadelphia. Craig was after spending the summer travelling in Jeff explains that it was not quite so for- in town on college visits with his daugh- Vietnam.” tuitous, as “I told people at ProQuest that ter, and one thing led to another, and I “STEPHANIE TURNER sent me an email Heather would be an awesome speaker— was lucky enough to be invited into this with the following news: “We celebrated which she was—so it was somewhat or- fun mini reunion. At some point in the our one-year anniversary in Denver in No- chestrated vs. coincidence. It was great evening we realized that 50 percent of vember. As soon as we bought our house, seeing Heather and hearing about some this gang were now college professors we started looking for a dog to rescue, and of the amazing work that she is doing at who were shaping the minds of young finally found an adorable young standard the Folger, and how they’ve built a com- scholars: Jon is an associate professor of poodle whom we named MacCloud. Our munity to crowdsource the transcription religion and Behrman Faculty Fellow at new home feels complete!” of handwritten sources from hundreds Princeton University, Craig is a professor JEN JANG sent me a link to an incred- of years ago, opening new sources for of art history and facilitator of Type Tues- ibly interesting update on SHAHZAD research globally.” Next on Jeff’s plate is days at the University of St. Thomas, and BASHIR, who is the Aga Khan professor getting through his daughter’s bat mitz- Matt is an associate professor of music at of Islamic humanities at Brown Universi- vah, which by press time will undoubtedly Franklin & Marshall College. In addition, ty. Shahzad specializes in Islamic studies be a pleasant memory, but as of late No- 33.33 percent of the group (Heather and with a focus on the intellectual and social vember there was “still a way to go before Risa) had dedicated much of our life to histories of the societies of Iran and Cen- it’s all done.”

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One of your class secretaries, JOSH down and helped us pick up our boots.” looking forward to the following at re- MORA, had a similar moment in which He thanked those gathered for loving on union: “Does ‘not being in charge’ count? he was awed by the talents of a classmate. him for decades and for “bending down Hoping it isn’t 95 degrees!” Thank you PETE GIORGIO served as a distinguished and helping me pick up my boots.” Judge again for your sweaty service last time, panelist at the Worth Group 2017 Sports Epps also thanked his new judicial col- professor! Summit in Orlando, which, by happen- leagues for “this enormous opportunity Both MATT MICCICHE and NICK FIN- stance, was co-sponsored by Josh and to serve our community, our state and our KELSTEIN are working in education— Full Sail University. Pete, representing nation.” He pledged to “strive to be fair Matt as a head of school and Nick as a Deloitte Sports Consulting, joined exec- and impartial and to seek justice.” special-education advocate (combining utives from NBC Sports Group, Eleven We leave you on that final note of con- his legal training and experience with Sports, NFL Media and Electronic Arts to gratulations to Judge Epps, and look for- public education). In my role as program- discuss the evolution of sports consump- ward to hearing more about the class of ming chair, I’m hoping to get some kind tion. “Pete’s observations were just so ’92 over the next three months. of education panel together, perhaps on sharp and insightful about the changing > NATE GORDON the general topic of making middle and way in which audiences, particularly Mil- > JOSH MORA high school suck less for parents, students lennial and Gen Z audiences, approach [email protected] and educators/advocates, et al. (Matt is a sports content, and how that fundamen- good sport and did not disapprove of the tally alters how the business must pres- language at first reading.) Our former ent content. We also got to horse around 1993 Can we talk politics in May? Can we pos- class president in social hours, which we haven’t done This will likely be the last class notes you sibly avoid it? I will not bore you with ex- outside of reunions in years. It was really read before we see one another again in cerpts of my exchange with CRAIG JOHN- is now to be great to share that time.” person in May. We will see you, yes? SON handicapping the odds of the tax bill addressed as As for your other class secretary, a week Because we are old now, I’m hearing passing (it was very close to doing so as before said homecoming, I, NATE GOR- from multiple people who have conflicts of this writing), but he volunteered for a “Your Honor”! DON, was busy competing in my first with high school graduations. As in, their public gab session. Willie Epps Olympic weightlifting meet. This was a children’s. I am a bit slow on the parent- Meanwhile, Craig’s Long Island neigh- brand-new world for me, and the focus ing draw, so I’m trying to figure out how bor, YASMEEN (AHMED) PATTIE, noted ’92 is the of having only three shots to lift a weight much sense it makes to bring a toddler that she’s working with her local Demo- first African- and not being able to make up later for a who naps and goes to bed at 7 p.m. Feed- cratic club to help get candidates elected mistake is very different from swimming back welcome. for town and county offices. I know HAR- American ever or from anything else in which I’ve com- Meanwhile, here is what some of you are MONY WU does this work too. Are there to serve as a peted. While I was a little disappointed in looking forward to most about reunion: others of you active in hyperlocal politics? my clean-and-jerk lift, I got that barbell MAURA STEVENSON hasn’t been in If so, please let me know. This one has magistrate up on my final attempt and (by the skin a while due to relocations, geography, the makings of an interesting discus- judge on the of my teeth) qualified for the American etc., so she’s most looking forward to sion—how to start at the neighborhood Open Series next year in my age group simply seeing everyone. She recently level if we are exasperated by the tone in U.S. District and weight class. Plus, I didn’t look as changed jobs and is now chief human Washington and lack of any forward mo- Court for embarrassing in my singlet as I expected. resources officer at MedVet, a medical tion there, in any direction, on the issues As we write these notes, CHET HARDING and cancer care veterinary services con- that matter most. the Western is adjusting to jet lag in Shanghai, where cern. They have 20 hospitals so far. Her ROBERT COOPER, who panelized about District of he is leading a corporate training program dog recently came to work with her for college costs at a past reunion, is now deep for Harvard Business School through Im- the first time. in the thick of figuring them out in his own Missouri. prov Asylum’s “IA Innovation” division. She reported a recent LAURA ROBERT- family. His daughter Amanda is applying “We have been working with Harvard SON and FRANK TAN sighting, at a break- this year (and is one of the ’93 kids with a for programs for leaders in Qatar for the fast they shared while the pair and their high school graduation conflict reunion past few years, and the sessions have been twins were in Columbus seeing Laura’s weekend, though Robert hopes to get to amazing. It’s exciting to see how the prin- sister. Amherst by Saturday). In all his copious ciples of listening, connecting and trying I heard from ADAM WEBSTER, who re- spare time, he’s now up to 13 completed to work off of each other really resonate ports that he, RYAN SCHETELICK, MIKA marathons in 11 states. across cultures (and laughter as well, of COURT and MATT DANE are thinking of AMY (CLARK) EAGLE left her job with course). They recently asked if we could renting a house during reunion. The Zu, the Michigan Department of National Re- go to China and conduct the workshop in it seems, is not open for guests the last sources two years ago for a nonprofit gig Mandarin and, as improv sort of dictates, week in May. at the Forest Stewardship Council, which we said yes.” Also on the lodging front, BRIAN BEE- focuses on certification of responsibly This trip came to our attention when BE, who will be bringing two teenagers managed forests. She describes it as a sort Chet wrote that he had recently attend- along, said, “Strangely, against my wife’s of Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval ed the swearing-in of WILLIE EPPS as a wishes, I’m looking forward to staying in for forestry, and she helps maintain and United States Magistrate Judge. Yes, our the dorms, which are now majestic (air monitor standards in the United States. former class president is now to be ad- conditioning?) compared to Spartan She too has a senior in high school at dressed as “Your Honor”! Willie is the 1989-era accommodations.” home, and it looks like she’ll be apply- first African-American ever to serve as This was (good) news to me, and our ing to Amherst. And she too is graduating a magistrate judge on the U.S. District reunion planning guru, JASON OX- reunion weekend, but Amy is hoping to Court for the Western District of Mis- MAN, confirms that we will be staying sneak away for a few of the early reunion souri. Surrounded by family, mentors, in the new Greenway Dorms down near days. As of this writing, she was looking former teachers and hundreds of friends, where Milliken used to be. His tempera- forward to spending the holidays with including Professor Tom Dumm, CHET ture report, for those who still have heat brother IAN CLARK and family. HARDING, JONATHAN LEHR and Chaka stroke from the 20th reunion: “They are SARAH LANDFIELD reported in from Patterson ’90, Judge Epps quoted Jus- climate-controlled rooms. Not actual air Washington, D.C., where she and her tice Thurgood Marshall: “None of us conditioning, but I am told that there is daughter have settled in. She commutes got where we are solely by pulling our- a computerized climate-control system to New York for work and is busy with selves up by our bootstraps. We got here for cooling and heating—and that it works the juggle and the challenge, like all of because somebody—a parent, a teacher, quite well.” us, but reports that it is all good on their an Ivy League crony or a few nuns—bent Former guru J.P. EGGERS says he’s end. “We’d love to see more of the D.C.

88 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 Amherst contingent!” she said. veritable road trip. Highlights included a a great spring break! Send news, so I have JENNIFER (SIGNORE) BEECHEN is still stop in New Jersey to show Jeffy the Thai more to say. living near Boulder, Colo., with her hus- restaurant where his parents got engaged, > LEO BERNSTEIN band and two daughters, ages 17 and 14. and dinner in Delaware in an 1828 build- [email protected] She’s now vice president of marketing at ing that was originally a harborside hotel Green Chef, slugging it out in the meal- (and/or brothel, per our waitress). Jes- kit industry. Reach out to her for a free sica’s stay at my home in Baltimore was 1995 trial week! short: she caught a flight the next morn- A big thanks to all of you who sent us up- (I did not manage to extract firm re- ing to Portland, Ore., where she hosted a dates after our plea. We now have a lovely union commitments from Jen or Sarah— reception for a group working to increase batch of news to delve into, in as random please nudge them if you are so inclined!) access to careers in science (particularly order as possible, from the journalists, Finally, CHRISTINE BADER has been on for women and minorities). Anthony and writers, scientists, lawyers, doctors, Jeffy got to stay long enough to enjoy the professors, performers, outdoor explor- Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum. I’m ers, aid/development workers, farmers “... it’s centering to revisit grateful to have seen them, even just (!), parents and dog rescuers among you. places that brought me so DAN SALTZSTEIN much joy ...” briefly, since Anthony’s health care ad- Starting us off is , now vocacy that week had threatened to can- in his 18th year at the Travel section of cel their trip altogether (it’s been a busy The New York Times. Dan remarked on Congrats the beach, literally (at last check-in, she year for health care advocates). Finally, having “recently edited a wonderful to Andrea and her husband and twins were wander- in October we had a wonderful visit with story by Mark Vanhoenacker ’96 about ing the empty beaches of the Outer Banks John ’85 and CATHY (MILLER) MANLY and his experiences piloting the 747, which Dutton ’95, of North Carolina), as she contemplates their sons, Miller (12) and Nathan (8), at is slowly headed toward retirement.” who has been her next move after her stint at Amazon their home in South Hadley. From dinner Dan is looking forward to a couple of in Seattle. “As I enjoy the family time and in a newly refurbished Valentine Dining trips lined up in 2018. He and his wife recognized wonder what I’ll be when I grow up, it’s Hall to hiking on the Robert Frost Trail and his daughter, who just started kin- as one of the centering to revisit places that brought me (with Atkins Farms cider donuts as a trail- dergarten, moved within their building in so much joy and played such a big role in end treat), we enjoyed every minute of Woodside, Queens. “The worst part was “25 People making me who I am,” she writes. “Can’t our time together. Happiness is watch- losing our amazing view of the Manhat- Shaping the wait to be there with you all!” ing your kids and your friends’ kids skip tan skyline; I had one of the great sunsets I can’t wait either. Let’s set an atten- stones together in Amethyst Brook—es- we got regularly emblazoned on my arm Future in dance record, shall we? pecially since skipping stones means in tattoo form as a tribute.” Dan also re- Tech, Science, > RON LIEBER they’ve taken a break from trying to do ports having a lovely time grabbing drinks [email protected] parkour off the bridge.” with Blossom (Beatty) Pidduck ’96 and Medicine, I heard from my Stearns floor-mate her husband, Brian, who were in town for Activism (third floor rocks!), CHARLIE GLASSEN- a few months. 1994 BERG, who “had a very ‘sandwich genera- KATIE GALIE got a puppy for her birth- and More” in Winter 2017. I’ve been busy. Recall that tion’ year—my eldest daughter became day. Jack is a 7-month-old German Shep- Rolling Stone. I’m a 46-year-old entrepreneur. Let me a bat mitzvah in March, one month after herd-looking mix the family got from the share a couple of updates. My wife, Dr. my father died at the age of 90. ADAM pound. Katie’s 5- and 6-year-old kids Michelle Doty, continues her impor- BONIN proved once again that he is one adore him. “He is the best dog and very tant work at the Commonwealth Fund, of the true mensches of the world by flying tolerant. He has only eaten one Lego that an independently endowed research to Boston from Philadelphia to console we know of and didn’t steal the turkey on and grant-making think tank focused me during shiva. He brought a bag of hot Thanksgiving, which has happened with on health care policy. Michelle over- pretzels, which earned him the lasting ap- past dogs in our family.” Photo of the sees the research department. Times preciation of my daughters. I was just glad adorable pup is on the Amherst College are difficult for those working for better to see Adam and awed by his generosity in class of 1995 page on Facebook. health care outcomes for all Americans. coming to be with me. I’m good with the Congratulations to ANDREA DUTTON, I continue to work on my cloud-hosted Mammoths, but that may be the geology who has been recognized as one of the commercial insurance software startup, major in me speaking.” “25 People Shaping the Future in Tech, LineSlip Solutions. We’re in beta with a Classmates, I am not good with the Science, Medicine, Activism and More” number of different insurance brokers, Mammoths. That’s an uninspired milque- in Rolling Stone, for her continuing work and we’re extremely excited about 2018. toast mascot, but I clearly don’t speak for to deepen our understanding of rising sea I’d be honored and thrilled to show our anyone but myself. levels associated with increases in global solution to any classmate interested in Our fearless class leadership—JAY temperatures. You can read the article, what we’re doing. Should you know any MOORE, SUZANNE SCHINDLER, GREG dated Nov. 17, 2017, on the magazine’s principal at an insurance brokerage firm, I GRUNBERG, RICH KWON, ERIN COWHEY website. would definitely want to speak with them. and I—have begun the reunion planning Outdoorsman JIM DUBINSKY “only On the personal front, I took my growing process with a conference call on how hiked a little over a thousand miles on the boys, Nico (10) and Asher (8), skiing in to begin. The class of 1994 is in capable Pacific Crest Trail this summer” and end- Deer Valley, Utah, in early January. GREG hands. In the coming months, we’ll be ed his trip in “the beautiful Pacific North- GRUNBERG, ALEC “AL” GREEN, JARED doing some outreach to recruit (or sec- west,” where he caught up with CALLIE BOIGON and I will all head to Park City, ond, depending on your perspective) GREENFIELD over dinner in West Seattle. Utah, for a long weekend of skiing, chill- some energized classmates to join our “We both regretted that MAX SEVAREID ing and grilling. News on the old Hamil- many committees. No reunion planning wasn’t there, and resolved to try and orga- ton room group come spring 2018 notes— is complete without groups of folks on nize something next time we were all in censor yourselves, boys. conference calls and planning sessions. town (this may be news to Max).” Jim was DEBBIE STEINIG writes from Baltimore I hope to see many of you. I still recall headed back east on a job hunt. Wishing that she was lucky enough to see all of her joining my father, Alan Bernstein ’63, at him well with that! Amherst roommates in 2017. “In early Au- his 25th reunion. Some student working Further up north from Vancouver, Can- gust, Anthony ’93 and JESSICA (WILCOX) the reunion served me a lot of beer, and ada, JAMES CHEN reports that their new WRIGHT, with their son, Jefferson (then I vaguely recall waking up on the lawn in children’s hospital opened up recently. still 10), helped me turn the usually dull front of Hamilton. Yikes. James was part of the hospital’s design drive from New York to Baltimore into a Happy New Year! And I wish everyone team, and he’s finding the work reward-

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ing: “It’s giving me a chance to do more about the work to many audiences within Laos, where he is now deputy project on the administrative leadership side of the government, and is preparing to pub- manager. Phong is working to “develop things, while still … having fun taking care lish the results. the first self-sustaining civil-society orga- of kids in the OR.” His own kids are 7 and Our former class secretary, JORDAN VI- nization in Huaphanh Province.” 9, and the family is looking forward to a NARUB, is enjoying life in Orange County, Along the way, Phong married Vat- three-month trip to Europe next summer. N.Y., with wife Deborah and their kids— vong. Their current family comprises a Classmates with European house-swap Jackson (13), Julia (11) and Owen (9)—and grandmother, a mother, two dogs and a or living experience are invited to share dogs Daphne and Roxy (a rescue). “My library—the first of its kind in the district, any advice with James. boys are into diving, and … practice in the supporting children from 17 surrounding If you are in the Philadelphia area same club as the last two state champions villages—which was built for the high next year, don’t miss SHREEYASH PAL- from New York. My daughter is focused school where Vatvong teaches. Phong SHIKAR’s new show he has created com- on art and theater, and was the lead in welcomes visitors and looks forward to bining Indian dance and storytelling. This her school’s production of Dear Edwina.” the next big reunion. follows his 2017 show, which he co-cre- Jordan took a new position with T. Rowe Wrapping up from Bangkok, I, EMA ated, combining magic and storytelling. Price to head the development of its new NAITO, recently recorded a few bizarre Shreeyash mentioned that he’s happy NYC Technology Development Center. Gesualdo madrigals for a Thai horror to perform in other cities; contact him “Since the firm is based out of Baltimore, film soundtrack and sang Handel’sDixit for more details. He reports enjoying I’ve found myself getting plenty of speed- Dominus, including some solo bits. Both the Philadelphia suburbs, where he sees ing tickets driving between the Gramercy were the hardest choral pieces I have ELAINE CHIANG, Michael Kolodner ’96, Park and the Baltimore Inner Harbor. It’s ever had the pleasure of singing. A spe- Jennifer (Baltaxe) Kolodner ’94, Linda been good to connect with ERIC BONE and cial shout-out to Mallorie Chernin, re- Lee ’94 and STEPHEN WIIST. his son Dean, who live in nearby Colum- tiring longtime director of the Amherst 1997: Sarah JEMMA LEVY has added a new job to her bia, Md.” Choral Society—I am forever grateful for (Hultman) Dunn list: playwright. Jemma “spent this past Moving westward, CHANDRA TOBEY all that she taught me about good choral checks in with the term … doing research and script devel- reports: “I continue to run my record singing and for all the joy that it still brings great news that, opment in Scotland and Canada on my label and music distribution business, to my life. after a very busy play Queen Margaret, and tweaking my Darla Records, with my husband. We’re Keep the updates coming! year with lots of other play, Believe None of Us. Writing is homeschooling our two daughters, 6½ > MARGARET SANTANA support from fam- harder for me than teaching or directing, and 10, for the second year. In 2010, we > EMA NAITO (WRITING) ily and friends, she but I am slowly learning to love it too.” bought a macadamia nut orchard on the [email protected] made a successful She’s also assistant professor of theater east side of the Big Island (Hawaii Island, bid for public office. at Washington and Lee University, artistic Hawaii), which we’ve developed over the On Dec. 4, she was director of Muse of Fire Theatre Co. and years, building a house on the property 1996 sworn in as a mem- a freelance director. She offers any alums and adding more crops, such as cacao and Amherst class of 1996 hoooooo! I lobbied ber of the Radnor with college-bound kids looking at W&L lychee. As I write, we are in the midst of to have “2018 hoooooo!” on our holiday Township School a place to stay, and she’s “always happy to loading our household onto a shipping card but was unsuccessful. Semi-related: Board along with all see another Amherstian (should we say container to move over full-time from I may have just gone down a Thundercats three of her slate- ‘another Mammoth’ now?).” our home of 15 years in North San Diego YouTube rabbit hole. mates. Well done, Checking in from New York City, where County, Calif. It’s a task and a half! We’ll We begin with our friend CAROLINE Sarah! she’s been living for “21 years and count- continue to run our music business … and PRUGH, who in December 2016 suffered ing,” VICKI RAIKES celebrated exciting we’ll add farming to our list of things a stroke during surgery to address a con- changes this past year: “I moved down keeping us busy. We’re looking forward genital heart condition. Caroline con- to Wall Street with my two boys (ages 10 to lots more time staying healthy outside tinues to rehab and has shown remark- and 6) and formed a law partnership, and away from screens, and to big family able recovery. She reports that she feels Kirkham Raikes PLLC. My partner, Ash- adventures in the middle of the Pacific.” healthy and gets stronger every day. She is ley Kirkham, and I do wills and trusts, pri- On the other side of the Pacific, MATT teaching a class to MFA students at Long marily for downtown families and indi- WALKER updated us from Singapore, Island University on theatrical entrepre- viduals. It’s really rewarding work, and I where he currently lives and teaches neurship and spends the rest of her time love being my own boss!” Cheers to that! philosophy at Yale-NUS College. Matt writing plays, several of which are in vari- NAIM D. BULBULIA is a partner at a recently enjoyed catching up with JOSH ous stages of development. She’s part of a 20-lawyer firm and practices as a trusts COMAROFF, “who co-curated an interest- post-cardiac rehab study that requires at and estates attorney in New York and ing exhibition in town entitled Disciplin- least 60 minutes of exercise three times New Jersey. “We recently opened an of- ing the City.” Matt’s book, Aristotle on the a week and, despite not always being an fice within five minutes of my house, so Uses of Contemplation, will be published athlete, she has discovered the joys of I am very happy with my new commute. by Cambridge University Press in the working out. She expressed her gratitude It helps me make time for my three chil- spring of 2018. for all the classmates who helped make dren.” The proud dad reports: “Jacob (15) Another ASEAN resident wrote in for her recovery possible. Awesome news, won the national championship in squash the first time (hooray!): PHONG HUYNH Caroline. I’m not crying… you’re crying! for under-15-year-old boys last spring. He sends his greetings from Xamnua City, DENA MARSHALL wrote in from Port- and I are starting to have some good bat- Huaphanh Province, a “northeastern land, Ore., where, regardless of when you tles on the squash courts. Dylan (13) is an province of Lao PDR with the distinction are reading this, it is raining. She and her avid baseball player; Maddie (11) enjoys of having received the heaviest bombing family celebrated her daughter Niomi’s running and squash.” The family has also per capita in human history.” He’s had bat mitzvah, and SARA NOSANCHUK “rescued two dogs in the last three years.” quite a journey to get there: after Amherst, and ERIC HESSE joined the fun. Dena is In an update from the Defense Against Phong worked on his master’s and doc- very active with the charitable program the Dark Arts, HENRY SANFORD “SAN- torate in molecular and cellular biology SwimTayka, which promotes swimming DY” GIBBONS has been leading a study at the University of Connecticut. How- and drowning prevention and clean water involving three Department of Defense ever, the passing of his father “provided stewardship in South America, Central laboratories “that will result in a stan- the shock needed for self-evaluation” and America, North America and Asia. dardized method for preparing very dead led to a career change. After obtaining his ALYSSA (EARLE) GOODWIN dropped a spores of anthrax for use as reference ma- master’s in development specializing in line from Brunswick, Maine, where she terial in the development of detection and food security and rural livelihoods, in is a primary-care pediatrician. Alyssa, I diagnostic methods.” Sandy has spoken 2012 he joined the Bamboo Project in know from the Book of Faces, is a big run-

90 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 ner and in November ran the NYC Mara- familiar, it is because Jim will follow in the thing. Some back-of-the-envelope math thon. What an accomplishment! She got footsteps of GREG SCHNEIDER, who, after suggests that Savannah (age 10), Henry a hug at mile 22 from MOLLY (WASOW) 11 years as head of school at Berwick, will (age 8), Scarlett (age 5) and Mom and Dad PARK, which propelled her to the finish. become head of school at Belmont Hill clocked in at about 300,000 steps over Chicago is up next, in 2018. In the rare School in Belmont, Mass. Heads of school five days in the parks. We will now launch instances when she comes to a stop, she abound in the class of 1996! our Disney consulting side business since, is head coach of the local Girls on the Run Once I crossed the solicitation Rubi- you know, no one else offers that service. chapter. So, you know, just making the con, I couldn’t go back, so I reached out In conclusion, do you feel that glow in world a better place. to ELLIOTT DELOACH, who I knew, based your heart? It’s your 1996-ness filling you NASH HURLEY wrote in to say that he on technological intel involving people’s with pride and joy. Nice work, people. hung out with CHRIS BOUTON and… faces and books, attended a mini Amherst > WRITTEN BY PETER MAY me. He’s so cheeky. Does anyone else lacrosse reunion hosted by BRAD STROH [email protected] feel like, as we get older, our Amherst and his wife, Brandy. DEREK BUTTS also > MEGHAN (O’BRIEN) MCRAE friendships become more and more im- attended, along with other Amherst lax [email protected] portant? I’m not crying… you’re crying! players (which sounds better than laxers, Nash continues to do incredible green IMHO). Elliott and his wife, Liz, are kept building design work via his company, busy by the little ones, Rose and Elliott. 1997 Vital Environments. Bouton also has his With active reach-outs now fair game, Greetings, class of 1997! My big news is own company, Vyasa Analytics, which of- I went straight to the source of all things that I survived my first season as an offi- fers analytics that leverage deep learning. 1996—HEIDI (MOHLMAN) TRINGE. What cial “football Mom,” managing to simul- Sorry I dumbed that down to my level, a dynamo. A whirling dervish, if you will. taneously learn a tremendous amount Bou. Also, TOM GLYNN has his own film She’s a road warrior, which enables her to about tackle football and totally embar- company, Gauge Theory Creative, so if stay in touch with ’96-ers aplenty. This rass my 9-year-old. you’re keeping track, I’m the only Stone fall she visited with MEGHAN (O’BRIEN) Beginning-of-the-season conversation “His voice was 301 guy without my own company. (I have MCRAE and her daughter, Maddie, who, went something like this: so familiar, a shiny red car, though.) Heidi reports, may be the cutest baby Me to 9-year-old: “I really like it when I received a pigeon with a message ever. She also saw BETH (FOLEY) SWAN- you do that thing where the kid on the I had to ask from STEVE AHLGREN who, after a brief SON and her family. That, evidently, was end runs around and, ummmm, runs if he went to reminiscence about Frisbee battles in the insufficient, because she later met Beth away from the other kids.” James third-floor hallway, regaled me for drinks in Washington, D.C. Beth con- By the end of the season, I was clearly Amherst!” with tales of his largely off-the-grid life- tinues to do amazing things at the Joyce an expert: style with his family in the hills of North Foundation. D.C. also led to a breakfast Me: “If you’re going to run a sweep, your Carolina. Steve’s day job in software is and shopping with LISA (FRANKLIN) running back needs to be in full motion, engaging and allows him time with his TOPCHIK, who convinced Heidi that not half motion… and your down blocking chainsaw and mountain bike. He reports leggings are OK. Over a Thanksgiving outside the play-side tackle really needs he has embraced the world of wild forag- road trip, the Tringe family stayed with to improve.” ing and mycology (which, in a notes first, RACHEL (WEISS) FISHKIN and her family 9-year-old: “OK, Mom! Got it.” required me to consult a dictionary—it’s of six. Heidi was reminded how grateful Me: “Otherwise you’ll never open up the branch of biology dealing with fungi). she is for Amherst friendships. Not cry- the defense.” Steve is winning. ing, etc. etc. 9-year-old: “Mom?” In another notes first, I used a propri- Thanks to a family Disney trip utterly Me: “Wrap ’em up and take ’em down- etary class secretary algorithm to de- blowing my deadline, I was able to sneak town!” termine that BLOSSOM (BEATTY) PID- in a couple of bonus submissions, includ- 9-year-old: “Mom, please, please DUCK’s life was simply too interesting ing EMILY (STEWART) LAKDAWALLA, stop….” not to share. So I solicited. It was super who reported that her book manuscript Oh, son, if you knew this was only the effective. Blossom, husband and 9-year- has been submitted and is available for beginning! But don’t let me get too car- old twins set out for a one-year sabbatical pre-order on Amazon! The Design and En- ried away; our classmates are doing some from the Thacher School in Ojai, Calif. gineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover amazing stuff. They headed to NYC, where Blossom in- Performs Its Job will be released in spring ERIK RENANDER writes that he works tended to take classes at Columbia, but 2018 and, as of the writing of this column, for a small investment firm in Africa and these plans took a left turn when she was it was the number-one best-seller in the has spent the last year living in beauti- summoned back to Ojai as a candidate for Aircraft Design & Construction category ful Cape Town or, as he calls it, “the San head of school. This proved a good detour, on Amazon. Francisco of Africa.” In June of this past as our own Blossom was named head-of- Speaking of 1996 authors, TONY BRA- year he moved on to London for work. school-elect on Oct. 9, first female head SUNAS and his wife, Pamela, welcomed SUSANNE SANTOLA MULLIGAN re- of Thacher in its 129-year history. She’ll son Corin in April. Tony started a new ports that she was recently in Las Vegas start post-sabbatical in June 2018. job in July at a San Francisco-based en- for a conference, waiting in line at a res- Back in NYC they have been exploring ergy startup called Sighten, where he is taurant called Egg Slut. Apparently, as she and met up with AMANDA FIELD, who the oldest of two dozen employees. Well, was trying to decide if she was going to took a break from her M.F.A. program in we knew this day would come. By which I order the Slut, their most notable dish, or photography at Parsons to show the Pid- mean the day 1996 awesomeness erupted if she was too appalled to order anything duck family the best of Brooklyn. Next like Vesuvius. Tony… en fuego. by that name, she recognized the voice of stop will be Colorado, followed by the As for me, I had the most wonderful din- the gentleman in front of her. “His voice non-U.S. portion of the adventure. Then ner with yet another class author—CASEY was so familiar, I had to ask if he went to she will assume command. Boom! (WATTS) ROBINSON—whom I am declar- Amherst!” The person in question was Now, as you may know, we ’96-ers are ing a national treasure. Her book Iver and none other than Darren Malhame ’98. brimming with accomplishment. So it will Ellsworth comes out May 22, 2018, and is They had a great chat, during which Su- not surprise you to hear that Blossom was available for pre-order now. In case you sanne gave him some pro tips on his up- not one of two but one of three heads of haven’t guessed it already, Casey and I coming 20th reunion in May 2018. school named within our class in the past talked about how important old friends As you can see, this edition of notes is few months. JIM HAMILTON was named are. I have something in my eye. pretty short, although I doubt any other head of school at Berwick Academy in Otherwise, as noted above, the Mays entry in the forthcoming volume will have South Berwick, Maine. If Berwick sounds hit Disney and, well, we did the whole as many “slutty” references! I look for-

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ward to hearing from all of you over the assistant professor of biology NATHAN MAN had their annual get-together in Ten- next five years, so please don’t hesitate to DERR. Nate was married to fellow Smith nessee, calling it “Manassee.” The revelry let me know what you are up to. assistant professor (education) Shannon included lots of ribs and hot chicken, a > KATE (STAAF) OWEN Audley in a surprise ceremony on Smith’s 13-mile “death march,” pong and tunes. [email protected] Mountain Day (Oct. 3). It was a Smith fam- They even had a surprise visit from Irakli ily affair—Nate’s uncle, a Smith professor Gaprindashvili ’98, who recently moved emeritus, officiated; Nate’s sister Beth, a to Nashville. He attached a photo, which 1998 Smith grad, and both the groom’s and the none of you can see, but it was a good one. What’s new with our class? Books! Babies! bride’s children participated. The happy Our classmates were with Alex’s daugh- Bitcoins! Oh my. event even made the Smith College twit- ter, Reeves, class of 2035. In the photo, Pomona College associate professor of ter feed. Wishing you all joy, Nate. too, Graham was rocking a Mammoths politics SUSAN MCWILLIAMS BRANDT And one more announcement of all joy: T-shirt, which I’m sure would send us into is the editor of a new volume, A Political veterinarian to the stars, New York’s own our bunkers about how we feel about the Companion to James Baldwin. In the book, KIMBERLY KAHN, and her husband, Sa- new mascot. Sue and other scholars investigate Bald- tadru Pramanik, have welcomed Ananke Passions have seemingly died down win’s work and emphasize his contribu- to the world. Ananke was born in early regarding the Amherst mascot. I have tions to political and democratic theory. September. When asked whether a baby to say that the fierce Mammoth logo is In other academic news, CHRISTINE human was easier or more difficult to care well done. HATCH was promoted to associate profes- for than all the pets of New York, Kim sug- As always, we hope you’ll join us in the gested we check back in 18 years. Con- next edition of the notes with updates and gratulations, all. highlights. We appreciate your participa- I’m not going to tell you who’s been in- tion and are sure your fellow alumni do Researching Resilience vesting in Bitcoins, but trust me—as far too. Peace. as I can tell from the Internet, we are an > CHRIS WEBB (WRITING THIS TIME) 1998: Amy L. Stone, associate professor of sociology and interesting class. So keep the news com- AND INA SUK anthropology at Trinity University, has been selected as ing, and start planning for our big reunion [email protected] part of a three-person team of interdisciplinary research in 2018. Who knows? You might just be leaders under a University of Minnesota leadership de- nominated to be the next alumni class velopment program, with support from the Robert Wood secretary. 2000 Johnson Foundation. They will research LGBTQ resilience. > CAROLYN CHERNOFF So… Beth and I have noticed some non- Stone is deputy editor of Gender & Society and co-chair of [email protected] responsiveness to our requests for news Trinity’s Women’s and Gender Studies Advisory Commit- recently. I wonder: Is this part of a general tee. She is author of Gay Rights at the Ballot Box; Out of the trend, triggered by the onslaught of news Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories; and 1999 and demands for our time coming at us Cornyation: San Antonio’s Outrageous Fiesta Tradition. Since this set of notes was written toward through our digital devices? Or perhaps the end of the year, perhaps the holidays it’s something specific to, but typical of, brought on some introspection and quiet. alumni of our age: are we not entering into sor in the geosciences department at the Our submissions were few and also short the midlife-crisis decade? We are juggling UMass Amherst extension school. What and sweet. Here we go… and task-switching and doing so with with our 20th year reunion coming up, ANDREW TASSLER can’t remember if bodies that aren’t as agile as they used Christine has taken class loyalty to the he’s ever sent in an update, so let’s give to be. Many of us are dealing with family next level: consumer behavior. She writes, him top billing for this one. Andrew’s liv- challenges that are coming simultaneous- “In the spirit of reminiscing about 1998, I ing in Manhattan with his wife, Jennifer, ly from our children and our parents. So I have purchased a car from… wait for it… and two daughters, Reese (age 7) and Eli- can definitely understand why we might 1998! But the best part about it is that it nor (age 3). In November, he met up with be collectively a little quieter right now. has a cassette tape deck! And wouldn’t MIKE BECKER and EDGAR ORTEGA BAR- To that point, I’m in my own hunker- you know it, my parents were recently RALES for dinner. Mike was visiting from ing-down period. Short version: Working- cleaning out their garage and found a Ireland with his wife and two daughters parenting as a lab rat postdoc is marked bunch of old mix tapes, the women’s ice after having lived in England to finish his by moments of complicated happiness. hockey warm-up tape from 1998 and so Ph.D. Edgar is in Brooklyn with his wife I did get my first long break from mom- much more.” Sounds like there are a lot of and daughter. ing (aside from the omnipresent breast connections to ol’ Amherst for Christine, In previous notes, NEELY STEINBERG pump) when I flew solo to California for who still plays hockey with former college let us know that her second daughter, the wedding of Levi Ledgerwood ’01 to coach Kay Cowperthwait, saw teammate/ Lila, was born in early 2017. She reports Katelyn in October. Sylvia Heredia ’99 fellow Zu dweller JESS FRISCH recently that having two kids within 18 months and I enjoyed a weekend of leisurely in D.C., and, as befits a denizen of the of each other has been exhausting, but mealtimes, movie streaming and the Pioneer Valley, drives by the Amherst she has hope that they will be playmates mini Amherst reunion of Guy Johnson campus several times a day, whether for for years to come. Neely continues to run ’99, LIZ FULLER-WRIGHT and Edwin work or play (at the geology building, her dating coaching and image consulting Macharia ’01 (plus the chance to hang which is both). business for single women and asks that, with each of their “better halves”) dur- Bridging books and babies is this jaw- if you or someone you know needs her ing the reception. dropping news from JEN COMBS, who services, you reach out to her via thelove- Liz has been settling into her new job writes, “I think I’m the first from class trep.com. Make sure you write “trep.” I at Princeton University, where she’s the of 1998 to also be an Amherst parent— read it as “trap” and wound up on a wholly science writer for the Office of Commu- Wesley Combs, class of ’21 is enjoying different website. Luckily it was clean. nications. She spends most of her time his freshman year at Amherst and is up- KATIE RUBIN writes in that she’s now entertaining the world’s cutest 2-year-old, holding the Singing College tradition by teaching part-time continuing-studies which often takes the form of long family joining the Zumbyes. We got to see him at courses at Stanford, which makes her feel walks through Princeton’s gorgeous ar- both homecoming and Family Weekend “fancy.” Her dogsitter lost her dog, so she chitecture or countless local farms. this year and loved revisiting campus in was also mourning that as of her writing. In a panic to find any other news (this is the fall!” ALEX HAWKINS wrote in that he, GRA- after I requested an extension from our I received a sweet piece of inter-class HAM HOWLAND, PEDRO MARQUES, notes liaison, which really brought me news from John Derr ’63, father of Smith DANIEL RICHENTHAL and DAVID BER- back to the days), I emailed the other

92 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 class officers to go for an “Officer’s Up- Less Boring in College Notes’: I just got date” theme for the winter notes. back from India. For a number of years President JEN O’CONNOR was out of now, I have been engaged to Padma, who town for a conference, so no luck there works for the Indian Council of Medical this time. Research. We met through Danny Liss Vice president JOE GRACEFFA shared ’03 and Lisa Ing ’01. Padma is finishing this from the Pine Tree State: “My wife, up a Ph.D. over there, and so we spent a Elsa, and I moved from Venice, Calif., to romantic weekend in Cochin editing her Falmouth, Maine, a few weeks ago. We dissertation. Afterwards I spent a week in bought a house around the corner from Bangalore at a conference with various my brother, Chuck Graceffa ’95, and his other academic computing folks to dis- family. Elsa is due in February with our cuss a wide variety of under-the-hood and first child (a girl), so we’re excited to be big-picture topics with the engineers at near family. We’re still adjusting to the the Micro Focus Bangalore Development temperature, the absence of Uber Eats Centre. The trip finished with a weekend and the fact that nothing is open past 9 in Chennai to visit Padma’s family. I had p.m., but other than that, we’re doing not previously met her grandmother, great.” who once worked side by side with Gan- Joe earned himself the title of honorary dhi’s wife at his ashram, and was greet- co-secretary by gathering these updates ed warmly. Padma’s daughter greeted from his circle of friends: me less warmly by attempting to get the

After five years in other parts of the family dog to bark at me and, being un- SHEPPARD CHRISTINA country, TIM QUINN has returned to New successful, apparently spent the next day England, where he is the chief academic castigating it for its ‘unfaithfulness.’ Such and general carpentry skills and sailing, j Sock It To officer at Miss Porter’s School in Farming- is the life of a future stepfather. and which offers social work, tutoring and Me ton, Conn. Tim’s wife, Sarah, is the direc- “Beyond this adventure I recently had other services. From the JUSTIN CURZI tor of admissions at Porter’s. His children the opportunity to escort the aforemen- wrote in for the first 1960s (7-year-old Connor and 5-year-old Annie) tioned Ms. Ing and her husband, Matt, on time in a long time with perhaps one of basketball are enjoying a busy life of school, hockey, a day around New Orleans. I live about the greatest class notes updates to date, soccer, gymnastics and lots of time with two and a half hours away from that city, which I am copying here almost verba- players their grandparents. which in Florida terms is right next door. tim: “Everything anyone needs to know pictured on HUGH QUATTLEBAUM moved to At- Should you ever wish to spend time in about me can be summed up from this VM page 67 to lanta this past spring with his wife, Whit- New Orleans or lie on the World’s Whit- received 2 a.m. at JASON CAMPBELL’s this rugby ney, and sons (4-year-old Broxon and est Beaches here in Pensacola, I will be (second) wedding. Transcript below. Liv- enthusiast 19-month-old Hayes). Hugh has been more than happy to put you up and show ing in Crossett, Ore. at a student working as a swing instructor to multiple you around.” “We’re downstairs, Domino’s will be here college and professional baseball players. Until next time, please take care of your- in two minutes. activities GENNY FURST is about to graduate selves and reach out to each other. Seriously get your … get you and your felt fair circa from the Duke University School of Nurs- > SHIN-YI LIN suit down here. 2000, striped ing with an accelerated bachelor of sci- [email protected] … And your man purse. socks are a ence in nursing. She will be working as an Please. timeless look operating-room nurse at Duke following Ughhhhh.” for Amherst graduation. 2001 Thanks, Justin, for livening up this ANDY KAY is living in Dallas with his I imagine many of us are glad for a fresh page for once! (Note: there was an actual athletes. wife, Le, and children (7-year-old Maiya start in 2018. Unfortunately, we write voicemail attached to his email update. and 5-year-old Hunter). He has absolutely initially with sad news regarding the re- We welcome this kind of creativity in fu- nothing to report but seems good. cent passing of NICHOLAS ALEXANDER ture notes.) LARRY MILES has spent the last few RIESER. As you may have seen from the CANDACE TAYLOR also had some years building AdvicePeriod, a fast- last class notes update, Nick passed away news to share. Candace and her husband, growing wealth management firm that unexpectedly on Sept. 5 in New York City. James Patchett ’02, welcomed their sec- has won “best place to work in Los An- A good friend of Nick’s from Amherst, ond child, a daughter named Caroline, in geles” awards. Larry has been traveling Darren Reaume ’02, kindly prepared an August. Candace reports that big broth- a lot between Los Angeles and Park City, In Memory piece in collaboration with er Jamie is adjusting well, and that, as of Utah, where he’s been living for the past Nick’s family, which appears in this is- this writing, Candace was preparing to year with his wife, Dani. sue. Other ’01 classmates also wrote in go back to work as a reporter at The Wall RACHEL (BERNSTEIN) SHEIKH lives in to note how much Nick would be missed, Street Journal. KRISTIN OSBORN CAHILL Arvada, Colo., with her husband, Tariq including JUSTIN CURZI, who remem- and AMANDA MUIR also recently visited Sheikh, and their 4-year-old daughter, bered what a “fantastic guy” Nick was, Candace in Brooklyn to meet Caroline. Ari. Rachel recently opened her own law and PRIYA JOSHI, who wrote in with her OWEN MUIR wrote in to update us that firm (RBS Law, LLC), where she special- condolences to Nick’s family. he is now a fully board-certified child, izes in estate planning, probate and trust In more uplifting news, our class pres- adolescent and adult psychiatrist after administration. ident, PETER BEARDSLEY, wrote in to having completed an NYU child psy- As for our treasurer, ANDY JONES, he share that he and his wife, Rachel, are chiatry fellowship in July 2017. Owen is is living in Nashua, N.H., with his wife, still living in Brooklyn, N.Y., working in currently the medical director of his pri- Tracy (Montigny) Jones ’05, and their new BigLaw, and at the time of writing were vate group practice for mental health, baby girl, Acadia (born in June). Andy is “trying to figure out how to cook for fam- Brooklyn Minds, located in Williamsburg. the assistant coach for the perennial pow- ily for our first-ever Thanksgiving host- More importantly, Owen confirmed what erhouse UMass Lowell hockey team. ing duties next week.” Outside of work, many of us on Facebook knew to be true: Our reunion chair, JOHNNIE ODOM, Peter is still sailing whenever he’s not “My 18-month old twin kiddos, Trent and came in with this just under the wire: working, and joined the board of a not- Quinn, are adorable.” He and his wife, “The request to write in actually comes at for-profit this summer called Rocking the Carlene MacMillan (Harvard), love hang- a pretty good time, as I have news that falls Boat, which works with kids in the South ing out in Brooklyn. into the genre of ‘Boring Folks Sounding Bronx after school to teach boat building GILLIAN WOLDORF had much to report

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from the Pioneer Valley. Continuing the SON and his wife, Ashley Pearson; WAR- Finally, although they didn’t write to recent pet adoption trend, Gillian reports REN SEUBEL; MICHAEL LERARIS with his us directly, my intrepid co-secretary, SA- that her family adopted a female Russian wife, Rory Leraris ’03; plus my uncle Pete NAM KHAMNEIPUR, spotted news stories tortoise from a local turtle/tortoise res- Damon ’57. “Other than our hairlines, you about several classmates, which we share cue: “Reptiles are very strange pets, and could almost squint to see us as we were here with the hopes that our classmates this particular tortoise is surprisingly back in ’01 … except for Pearson’s totally will write in with more info. affectionate.” Gillian also had a visit unexpected full-on beard.” Scott also let According to a recent Houston Chronicle from RACHEL (RUBIN) MACLAY and her us know that he has been working as the article, JOHN ABODEELY was hired this younger daughter, Poppy, for homecom- director of business development for the past September by the Houston Arts Al- ing this year. They went to the bonfire to last two and a half years at Thrive Com- liance to be its new CEO. John spent the see the unveiling of the mascot design, merce, a fun tech startup that isn’t really prior four years serving on the President’s and Gillian said, “I don’t think I’ve ever a startup anymore. It’s been a very cool Committee on the Arts and Humanities. been so excited to see a tarp come down. experience, and Scott doesn’t see going Congrats, John! Please write in soon with Go, Mammoths!” Gillian also finished her back to big corporate work until Thrive more news from Houston! clinical psychology internship in August is that big corporation! Sanam also spotted a wonderful profile and is now a postdoctoral fellow in a small Scott also reports on a recent conversa- piece on our own ANNA BENDER on Me- group practice in South Hadley, Mass. In tion with JASON BLUMBERG. After much dium, about her family-friendly pediatric her spare time, Gillian continues to play training and preparation, Jason has de- and adolescent dermatology practice in “Who with various community theater pit or- cided to give up the life of a flashy finan- New York. In the profile, Anna describes would have chestras, most recently with Valley Light cier/Master of the Universe to pursue her evolution from an interest to veteri- Opera’s My Fair Lady in Northampton in thoughtful contemplation as a mindful nary medicine, to her major in neurosci- expected, November. She has another show with meditation guru in Peru. Wow! ence, medical school at NYU, and the last when Exit 7 Theater in Ludlow lined up for JASON SHINODA also broke his streak five years of her practice at Weill Cornell. the spring. of no updates with some great news about The article notes, “Her passion and en- Jonathan PRIYA JOSHI has been in Paris for the his move back to the States and his recent couragement are both key factors that and I roomed last three and a half years and notes, “How marriage. He married his partner, Jack, allow her to connect with patients of all I wish I had taken my French lessons (I in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Sept. 23. In ages.” Having rowed with Anna many together in think with Sanam?) at Amherst more se- attendance was DAVE WYNNE. Jason met years ago, I can attest that to be true! Crossett some riously!” Priya has finally finished writ- Jack about four years ago when he was ALEGRA EROY-REVELES has also been ing the papers from her dissertation data still living in London. They were long- busy, according to a recent piece in Science 19 years ago, collection. The research was on the con- distance for almost two years until Jack magazine. She has been hard at work as a that our kids sequences of private schooling growth moved out to L.A. in June of 2016. (Ja- chemist and continues to mentor under- on the public sector, parental choice, son was in London for nearly seven years represented students, now with a focus on would ride and system-wide equity. If anyone is in- and moved back to L.A. in 2014.) Jason those hoping to find a career in science. the bus and terested in hearing more about it, Priya currently works as a landscape architect According to the piece, after majoring in would be happy to talk with you or to share at a multidisciplinary architecture and chemistry and Spanish at Amherst, Alegra finger paint her website (works.bepress.com/pjoshi). design firm in L.A. called Rios Clementi made a leap from postdoctoral work as a together?” Priya currently works at the Global Edu- Hale Studios, mostly on large-scale public chemist at UC San Francisco, to a role as cation Monitoring Report as a researcher, and commercial work around California. an assistant professor of chemistry and and has worked on education’s role in the Jack works in TV and film development biology at San Francisco State University, United Nations Sustainable Development and is also an independent writer and film where she focuses her teaching on build- Goals (SDGs), accountability in education director (not a bad fit for L.A.…). Jason ing a supportive environment for under- and currently the linkages between edu- enjoys living back near family, and both represented and minority students and cation and internal migration. After more are enjoying being back under the SoCal confronting stereotypes in the profession. than three years in Paris, though, Priya is sun after years of rainy England. Fantastic work, Alegra. Please write in eager to move back, noting, “Who knows CATHERINE PFAFFENROTH wrote in with more detail! what the future holds? Perhaps a book on with a quick but important update: On We also learned about what SHEENA education in the SDGs?” Great idea! Oct. 8, a surprisingly hot and humid day HADI has been up to since we last heard ;Å SCOTT STUEBNER wrote in after a long for autumn, Catherine married Dave from her several years ago, by spotting the JOSH BELL ’02 hiatus: “Been a long time since I wrote in, Higgs in a small ceremony in Washing- October 2017 issue of Newsline. Sheena is REVIEWS A BIG- but it’s been a helluva stretch (in a good ton, D.C. Catherine attached a beautiful the executive director of Aahung, a Kara- SCREEN WESTERN WRITTEN AND way), so figured I’d share.” Scott got mar- photo of the event (I’m trying to figure out chi-based NGO working to improve the DIRECTED BY ried on Sept. 17 to Jessica Stuebner, and whether we can include the occasional sexual and reproductive health and rights JARED MOSHÉ ’01. couldn’t be happier or luckier to have photo in future class notes updates). of people in Pakistan. Sheena received the Page 48 found a partner who is so wholeheart- MAGGIE BYRKIT also sent some up- Joan B. Dunlop Award in March 2017 from edly supportive and loving of him and his dates from Portland. Maggie is teaching the International Women’s Health Coali- son, Chace (5). Chace, along with Scott’s highly gifted and “twice exceptional” tion. Congrats! Sheena is on the gender two stepsons, Zachary (5) and Gabriel (2), kids in an alternative public school. This advisory panel of the World Health Or- walked Jessica down the aisle, and he may is definitely making her reflect on what ganization, and is involved in a variety of have cried just a little bit. They are plan- her “exceptional” qualities are: “Mainly United Nations and international confer- ning a honeymoon on Grand Cayman my love of puns and ’90s pop music. Or ences. Hopefully, she will write in with Island just before Christmas. perhaps I just have Amherst to thank for more details soon. Scott currently lives in Philadelphia, those things.” Maggie also regularly sees On Oct. 20, during homecoming where he sees JONATHAN KRAUSE; his KERRY SCHAEFER, who is in fact Mag- weekend, the new Mammoth mascot wife, Darcy; and their kids quite often. gie’s doctor and “refreshingly calls West- logo made its debut on Valentine Quad. Scott’s and Jonathan’s sons, Chace and ern medicine on its bullshit, while con- Whether you’re still getting used to our Nathan (5) have been friends for years tinuing to take insurance. She’s a hero!” new mascot, or voted for this monumen- and are actually in the same school and Maggie also reflects on her own children tal creature as your top choice, I think we grade. “Who would have expected, when being 3 and 6, noting, “Please send help can all say: “Go, Mammoths!” Jonathan and I roomed together in Cros- immediately.” I hear you, Maggie. With > JULIETTE NIEHUSS (WRITING THIS sett some 19 years ago, that our kids would an almost 3-year-old and a 6-year-old of ONE) ride the bus and finger paint together?” my own, life is chaotic at best somedays. > SANAM KHAMNEIPUR Also at the wedding were MATT PEAR- Chin up! [email protected]

94 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 and cannot wait to go skiing. “Looking age, so we like to compare developmental 2002 forward to planning our 15th-year reunion stages on Instagram.” This version of class notes is abbreviated, with some great people,” Jose adds. A succinct update from CRAIG MC- due to a mix-up with my email account. Meanwhile, JUN MATSUI and her hus- BETH, and given the update, it’s not sur- I blame Millennials. Not sure why, but it band, Patrick Spencer, announce that prising that it’s to the point: “On Sept. 3, just felt good to say that. So, without fur- they just had their first child, daughter Clarena gave birth to our third daughter, ther ado, here are a few brief but quality Hadley Naoko, in July. Jun continues to Isla. She joins big sisters Blanca and Ca- updates: work as an orthopedic hand surgeon at milla. Things are going well so far.” Glad MONICA KAITZ had a flurry of news, in- Kaiser in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jun to hear it, Craig! Congratulations to Clar- cluding marrying John Tilly in April 2017, adds that she got to see BIAN YU and her ena and you. giving birth to her son Zach on July 11, family this summer. So glad to hear from people we haven’t buying a house in Los Gatos, getting a new That’s it. Peace out. heard from awhile: PAVEL CHERNYSHOV car (Honda Pilot) and starting a new job > RYAN ROMAN checks in with some big news as well, say- as an urgent care doctor. Congrats on all [email protected] ing, “I don’t write often with updates, but the milestones, Monica! Can’t wait to see definitely want to share big life events. My what 2018 has in store for you. wife, Anastasia, and I welcomed Mark in MATT WEBER is coming up on two years 2004 July. Andrew loves his little brother very as a data scientist in the Princeton office It is 2018. Just let that sit for a minute. much. Between Mark and Andrew, we “Whenever of Bloomberg LP. He has three children, OK, done? Good! Hope you all had an hopefully get to be proud Amherst par- Ceci sees ages 6, 4 and 1, with his wife, Shin-Yi Lin awesome, drama-free holiday season. ents twice!” Congrats to Anastasia and ’00. He writes that “life on the home Let’s dive right in, shall we? you! Looks like a strong next generation something front is pretty quiet right now; we get to- Class agent MATT MURUMBA checks is emerging. purple, she gether with Liz Fuller-Wright ’00, CHRIS in at long last: “I’m continuing to have a To expand on MATT MURUMBA’s up- MALOOF and their families when we get great time in L.A. and am excited about a date, JASON BLYNN himself checks in: says, ‘Daddy, the chance, and we’ve done some visit- couple of projects I’m developing/pitch- “Just wanted to send a quick note ‘cause it’s your ing with Holly (Barnard) Lindley ’01, Nick ing to networks. Happy to have recently I’ve just released my first-ever solo re- Lesiecki ’00, Lisa Ing ’01 and Julia Sable been in touch with quite a few classmates. cord. It’s called Yay Blinn, and it came out favorite!’ ’00 in the last couple of months as well.” AUGIE HOWE is having great success in last Friday and was featured on the Apple Which is He also notes that he got a novel out on Boston as his private psychotherapy Music singer/songwriter page. Have a lis- Kindle. “It is a swashbuckling epic wuxia practice thrives. I’m looking forward ten!” This humble writer is enjoying a lis- true!” fantasy called The Eighth King; think Game to a planned trip to Connecticut to see ten (and a break from the holiday music) of Thrones by way of The Three Musketeers CRAIG MCBETH and family in late De- as she types. Awesome work! with mood lighting by Avatar: The Last cember. JASON BLYNN and Peter Harper From human and creative births to Airbender. Hopefully it will be available ’05 continue to play together as the band marriages (and someone who attends hu- in paperback by the time this sees print. Motor Sales and, if I’m not mistaken, plan man births): NICOLE HEIG writes, “I was Now all I have to do is find time to finish to hit the road on tour in 2018. Jason also married to B Mckee in October in Rhode the next book.…” Matt, I have no idea how has a solo project called Yay Blynn that has Island with some dear Amherst friends you have time to work, raise three kids recently gotten Spotify love. I was a big fan present. MARCI BRENHOLZ, ALISON and write a book, but that is amazing— of PETE CALLOWAY’s brilliant work on (SQUIRE) SOWERS, GABI ARONOW and can’t wait for the release of your book! the FX show Legion and am looking for- POLLY HALL all traveled to attend, and I WIN SMITH writes that his family is do- ward to what comes next. Also really en- hope they enjoyed the Atkins cider donut ing well. “My wife, Shell ’05, is still pretty joying ANDREW MERLE’s growing body favors. Otherwise I continue my work in awesome and we get out to see fellow al- of work for the Huffington Post, TIME. midwifery and will catch my 600th baby ums often. My son, Win IV (aka Winnie), com and the New York Observer, among soon. I am also proud to be a part-time is a rad little dude and full of life and spirit. other outlets, all while he continues in his clinician at Planned Parenthood.” Huge He is running now, so life is officially over marketing position at New Balance. Also milestones, Nicole! Congrats on all fronts. for Shell and myself!” Sounds like you and glad to have recently been in touch with First-update-ever alert (I checked the Shell have your hands full, Win! MIKE ALLISON, GOPI MOHAN, MIKE BRY- class notes Gmail archive): It took almost Finally, I saw JACOB SCHULZ recently ANT, ALEXEI KUDLA and MIKE LANGER, 14 years, but TOM SCOTT-CRAIG has just ;Å in New York when I crashed his Friends- among others. Very proud of the class of personally shared news of his life. “I’m SOME PEOPLE TRY TO giving dinner. He continues to be as funny 2004 beating all classes (by a lot!) in dona- not sure if I’ve ever written in for class AVOID REGRET; AMY SUMMERVILLE ’02 as he was in college, and his wife, Lauren, tions during the Biggest Little Challenge notes. So, um, er, sorry about that. But STRIVES TO UNDER- and son, Alex, are great, so all in all, ev- this year!” things are great, and I do have cool up- STAND IT. erything is coming up Schulz. Another voice that we haven’t heard dates to share with our friends and awe- Page 19 That’s it for now—I promise the next from in a while, CAT ITAYA, shares check- some classmates. Megan and I have two update will be longer. Best wishes in the ins with multiple classmates as well: “I daughters, Cecilia (2 years, 9 months) new year. was sorry to hear about the death of poet and Fiona (9 months). At our 10-year re- > RAJIV D’CRUZ Richard Wilbur (’42), but I have enjoyed union I bought a tiny Amherst hoodie at [email protected] reading updates about him in the class Hastings, since we’d just found out that of ’42 notes. It reminded me to write in Megs was expecting. Whenever Ceci sees myself. I recently ran into my freshman- something purple, she says, ‘Daddy, it’s 2003 year roommate, MELISSA MARTINEZ, your favorite!’ Which is true! They are the This is the shortest class notes of my near- on a subway platform in New York! We most bestest girls in the world. :) Megs and ly 15-year tenure as class secretary. So I’ll planned a long-overdue reunion visit. It I are both faculty physicians at U of M; I’m keep the intro short. Here we go: was easy to recognize Melissa, because internal medicine primary care, and she’s After working at UC Davis Medical she looks exactly like her freshman- developmental behavioral pediatrics. We Group for five years, JOSE ABAD decid- year self. JORDAN KRAVITZ and I also both chose specialties that don’t require ed to change his position and join Kaiser caught up with JIM BECK in New York last middle-of-the-night emergency proce- Permanente’s Salud Clinic in Sacramen- month, and we’re planning to see EZRA dures; nothing I’ve ever done, including to. Jose hopes to be back to teaching resi- GORDON after Thanksgiving. Dr. DENISE Smash Bros., is so fun that I would want dents once the family medicine residency (DROHOBYCZER) KOHEN and her beauti- to do it regularly at 3 a.m. To any current program is up and running. He and his ful family are also in our travel plans—her Amherst students who are considering family bought a second home in Tahoe (human) son and our dog are the same med school, I’d say that it would be the

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second-best call they’ve ever made, only motivated and inspiring. To that end, he’d Despite the wardrobe adjustment, he behind going to Amherst. Hmmm… kids, love to hear from any Amherst alums who was surprised to find producing suited job: that about sums it up!” Sounds busy want to learn more. him well enough that he’s opened up an and awesome, Tom! Don’t wait so long So we end, once again, with that com- office for his production company, Out- next time. mon theme: apart but eager as ever to door Voices. Find their work at outdoor- NICK ECHELBARGER and I continue to reunite. voicesfilms.com. live the suburban PNW life. We’ve broken > MATT LANGIONE After years of reporting across the out the raincoats and said goodbye to the [email protected] Americas, an early-career fellowship at sun until July. It was great to see CHRIS- M.I.T. and a baby boy, ALESZU BAJAK TIAN EATON get hitched to Christine is now running the graduate programs at Francis in September and catch up with 2006 Northeastern University’s School of Jour- MICHAEL MILES and JON EDWARDS. All If one co-secretary’s experience is any in- nalism, where he also teaches classes on are doing well. Hope you all have a very dication, the class of 2006 is getting very science writing, coding and, if you can happy start to 2018! little sleep these days. That bleary feeling believe it, Twitter. > CAITLIN ECHELBARGER when you hand in your final paper min- And last but certainly not least: AN- [email protected] utes before it’s due because you started DREW WILCOX and ERIN O’HARE were reading the book the paper was supposed engaged over the summer after reuniting to be on after dinner at Val the night be- for the first time at our 10-year reunion, 2005 fore? That’s a familiar feeling when you where they spent the night dancing away With the grass under full cover of frost share a home with a 0-to-6-month-old. (after Antonio’s, of course). Andrew pro- and leaf, we approach the holiday sea- All this is to say that this was the season posed on Monhegan Island, Maine, and son—this one the 12th year of our exile of baby news for the class of 2006, with they’ll be getting married this summer. 2008: Brandon from little Eden in the little valley. And a few cool career updates from around > SARAH ROTHBARD Jones and his wife, yet to read through these anecdotes each the world. [email protected] Kim (Smith ’08), quarter is to be encouraged that we’ve all Babies of the future: TOMMY GON- recently welcomed managed to get on. It is indeed a pleasure NELLA and Lisa (Rubinger) Gonnella their daughter, to share them with you all in the hope that ’07 are expecting a baby boy in January; 2007 Amelia, to the world. it brings you back, if only for a brief, en- their 2-year-old daughter, Lana, is very There are a lot of exciting updates this She is long, strong, chanted moment, into the warmth of that psyched for the new addition. And WES- quarter. Let’s get started with some fun and just as active original glow. LEY DARDEN and his wife are expecting baby news. SARAH HARPER and hus- outside the womb Let’s begin with TRACY (MONTIGNY) their first baby in April. band Sean Fulford are expecting their as she was on the JONES and Andy Jones ’00, who wel- Babies of the present: LEAH (KAPLAN) second child (a boy) this February. Lou- inside. Congratula- comed their first daughter, Acadia, into CORRADI and Jesse Corradi ’08 welcomed ise is excited to become a big sister! Sarah tions! Brandon also the world in June. Tracy notes that Aca- their son, Luca, on Nov. 21. And LINDSAY is enjoying her new position as a train- started doctoral dia is looking forward to meeting all the (POTANKA) FITZGERALD and her hus- ing and development specialist at Mayo work in counselling other Amherst women’s soccer babies band, Matt, welcomed their first child, Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and Sean’s and psychology, now crawling about the fields. For the last Theodore (“Teddy”), in August. Teddy winery restaurant at Four Daughters because who needs couple of years Tracy and Andy have been is very excited to be featured in his first Vineyard recently earned third place in sleep anyway? living in Nashua, N.H. Andy is a hockey Amherst magazine, a publication that has USA Today’s 10 Best Winery Restaurants coach at UMass Lowell, and Tracy runs an decorated Potanka family bathrooms Reader’s Choice Poll. Sarah hopes to find online vintage clothing shop called Twig for generations. But he’s equally excited the time to visit Western Massachusetts & Spoke Vintage. to meet fellow mini Mammoth Henry in the near future to visit with Meg Sul- Next we hear from MARGARET (CA- Thomas, who was born in September, livan ’05, Coach Michelle Morgan, Aleszu HOON) LINKOUS, who left her job at a the son of SERA (REYCRAFT) HOFF- Bajak ’06, Peter Murphy ’08 and Kate Gor- Chicago law firm for a new position as real MAN and her husband, Henry. “We can don Murphy. estate counsel at General Motors in De- only assume that Teddy and Henry will RACHEL (CARR-HARRIS) ALDRICH troit. Margaret and her husband, Derek, be Amherst roommates like their moms!” and her husband, Nic, welcomed baby live in the city with their 19-month-old adds Lindsay. Henry into the world on Oct. 25. Rachel son, Daniel, who betrays no understand- Babies of the past: JACK GREELEY is is a principal consultant at Capco, work- ing of how things are set to change when living in the suburbs of Boston and re- ing in the finance, regulatory and com- his brother arrives in March. cently bought a bouncy house for his pliance division. She is currently home MAURA (HUMANN) KLUGMAN also 3-year-old Caroline and 1-year-old Mat- with Henry until mid-March and is enjoy- writes in with a new job and a new abode. thew. “The price of bouncy houses has ing watching him grow and change every This past summer, she and her husband, gone up, but that’s mainly due to infla- day. She’s also learning how to function Adam, moved to D.C. so that she could tion,” Jack writes. on very little sleep. Nic is a global market- take a position at the Judge David L. Ba- Lest you think our class does nothing ing manager at Stryker Orthopaedics. He zelon Center for Mental Health Law. The but reproduce: WILL GREENE is coming has been focused on new technology for couple misses New York City, but trading up on his fourth year of living in Saigon. knee revision surgeries and spends time a 500-square-foot apartment for a home He started a marketing and strategy con- with fellow dad Dr. DAVID BECK at vari- in Bloomingdale, where they have, for the sultancy that helps health care organiza- ous orthopedic conferences. first time, room to host guests, was a wel- tions in Asia and is currently working on ERIK LUND and his wife had their first come development. Their next guest will projects in Singapore, Taiwan and Aus- kiddo, Henrik, last January. They are be Victoria Cuddy ’04. tralia. He occasionally runs into Amherst currently living in Tampa, Fla., as Erik We conclude with MATT JONES, who people, though not often. completes a one-year orthopedic trauma was hired this fall as the assistant director This fall, DANIEL MARKS worked his fellowship. Hopefully they will be head- of reentry at the Bard Prison Initiative, first job since graduating that required ing back to Minnesota after that for the which creates the opportunity for incar- him to wear pants: producing an anthol- long term. cerated men and women to earn Bard ogy series of horror shorts for Hulu, called TOM CHEN and his wife are enjoying be- College degrees while serving their sen- The House. He wrote and directed one of ing new parents to Oliver, who was born tences. It’s a “dream job” for Matt, who the episodes, “The Projectionist,” and in May. Tom is starting his 10th year as is serving a cause about which he is very also shot three of them, which allowed a teacher in Providence, R.I. He is also passionate. He adds that one facet of his him to return to his customary cargo completing his master of education in job is to find opportunities for the bright, shorts / director of photography attire. administration at Providence College.

96 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 LEE MOULTON is the global head of MEREWITZ, who wrote that his only up- partnerships at SeatGeek, the fastest date is that he is excited for reunion! I growing ticket marketplace in the world don’t feel 10-years-out-of-college-old and a Forbes next billion-dollar startup. yet, but there are a lot of babies being born He is also an investor and advisory board in the notes below, so it seems that we are member for Uncle Nearest, a premium right on schedule. Let’s dig in! whiskey brand inspired by the Tennes- PETER MURPHY and his wife, Kate see slave who taught Jack Daniel how (Mount Holyoke ’08), welcomed their to distill. Last year Lee was inspired to beautiful daughter, Annemarie, in May. '09 CHARLES QUIGG start a new initiative, the New York Courts Peter delivered her himself! (Kate did all Partnership (NYCP), after a tour of Man- the work, though.) Congratulations! Surya Kundu ’09 and assorted family. j Fair Point hattan’s outdoor basketball courts. Due KEITH ERZINGER and his wife, Katrina Things are going pretty well for MARINA Two young to budgetary constraints and other is- (Mount Holyoke ’08), are thrilled to an- WEISS! She is loving her first semester women sues, the courts were missing nets, had nounce the birth of their fourth child, of her Ph.D. program in clinical psych at converse splintered backboards and were in need John, born on Oct. 16. Congratulations! Adelphi University, and just presented at a career of resurfacing and paint, especially the Their other three (Evie, Spencer and a poster at the International Society for courts in lower-income neighborhoods Rosie) have been great helpers and are ad- Traumatic Stress Studies’ annual meet- fair, in front throughout the borough. NYCP raises justing to the change very well. Keith and ing, which means Marina is just a few of posters money for the systematic refurbishment Spencer attended the Amherst vs. Wil- pieces of paperwork away from finish- displaying and maintenance of Manhattan’s 115 out- liams telecast party in Chicago and had a ing her master’s thesis! She is buried un- photos from door basketball courts, starting with the blast even though they lost. Spencer was der piles of homework, but also excited Brazil. We courts most in need of care. excited to tell Annie ’09 and MATT DUN- to be training as a multimodal therapist wonder ANTHONY JACK is very happy that he LEAVY; Kara MacLaverty ’09 and Gene and clinical researcher. She is back in got the chance to spend time with ME- Settoon; and Jill Whiting ’10 all about his Brooklyn, where she sometimes gets to where their KKA SMITH and WILL PRUITT at his new toy cars and his love of Star Wars while see all-stars like ASHLEY FINIGAN, Am- careers have spot in Cambridge, Mass. “Nothing like high-fiving everyone after touchdowns. rita Vijayaraghavan ’07 and Loren Crary taken them sharing a nice red from the Rioja region Keith and Katrina will be road-tripping in ’07 when she tunnels out into the light. since this with great friends.” Now he is trying to the minivan with all the kids to Colorado LAWRENCE HAMBLIN went to the Li- evening in get TASHA HINES to make the trek up for Christmas to visit family and meet the brary Fair & Forum in Yokohama last year 2006. from Florida. Tony spends his time work- kids’ very first cousin, as his sister Nell to learn about Japanese libraries, and also ing, writing and talking, and comments: and her husband, Kyle, are due in mid- got to visit the National Diet Library and “Sometimes I say something smart.” December. some rare-book stores in Tokyo, among The New York Times definitely thought WHITNEY (KOUVARIS) KILROY and her other places. Lawrence had a mini re- so in their recent article about first-gen- husband, Tom, are expecting their second union of sorts, seeing Kana Takahashi eration college students, “Are You First baby, due in April of next year. Their son, ’06, Pat and Sawa (Matsueda) Savage Gen? Depends on Who’s Asking .” Tony Archer, is looking forward to being a big ’07 and Angelica Oung ’03 while he was is very excited to work on behalf of fellow brother. They couldn’t be happier about there. Lawrence has been really busy, first-generation college students across baby number two, but sadly will miss out leaving for another work trip soon after the country. on coming to Amherst for our 10-year re- returning and adding Korean studies to ALEX BRIDGES and Leslie Moclock ’09 union. Congratulations! his previous duties in Japanese studies at recently went razor clamming with CO- DAVID WONG is living in Columbus, his library. Because of Lawrence’s travels, LIN LINDSAY and Rebecca Touger ’08, a Ohio, with his wife, Stephanie Price- he missed the Amherst-Williams game bone-chilling ritual that apparently oc- Wong. David is teaching/performing/ for the first time since 2011. He assumes curs exclusively when it’s raining, windy freelancing on violin and keeping abreast this is why they lost. and dark. Alex writes, “The clams were of the latest craft beer trends (@beerolin DAVE SULLIVAN’s time in New York largely victorious, but we caught a few. on Instagram). He is hoping to find more (where he has been living with Michael Did you know that in Long Beach, Wash., work in that field, but hasn’t been lucky Holsey ’09) is officially coming to an end. the beach is a state highway?” finding the right job yet. David and Steph- In December, Dave moved to Fort Myers, MIKE WOHL and CHARMEL MAYNARD anie are also expecting their first child, in Fla., where he will be working as an assis- ;Å celebrated Charmel’s becoming the May 2018! Congratulations! tant United States attorney for the Middle JASON KUNG ’08’S youngest treasurer of any of the Power NICK AVILA; his wife, Christine; and his District of Florida. No more winters! BUSINESS PREPARES MIKE SALERNO SIMONE BURKE KHALILAH LICORISH CHINESE STUDENTS 5 conference schools. daughter, Casey, are still living in Serbia. , , TO ATTEND sent his love on the matter via text from Nick is about to finish writing his thesis for SHAINA POLLACK and I attended NORA INTERNATIONAL Rocky Top, where he also instructed all an M.A. in international studies. They are HANDSHER’s wedding in Napa this past UNIVERSITIES. the skinny kids to hit the gym. Much like still living the expat life in the Balkans and September. Nora was the most stunning Page 30 the new mascot for the College, Salerno exploring Europe as much as they can, (and low-key!) bride in the world, and is adopting a new favorite word. The three while they still have the chance. The Avila her friends are so, so happy for her. Sim- finalists were tennacious, tennder and family has another year in Serbia before one graduated from Stanford Graduate tennsities, each a common word with an heading out to some new adventure, loca- School of Business in June and is now added letter n. Always keeping his cool, tion as yet unknown. living in San Francisco and working in Salerno chose tennacious over tennder MIKE DONOVAN is still brewing at brand management at Constellation, because you can be tennacious as both a the Oozlefinch Craft Brewery. They re- where she manages the marketing and lover and a fighter. cently signed a distribution contract to strategy for their popular wine and cham- As always, thank you, everyone, for expand their territory into Richmond pagne brands. If anyone else is living and/ keeping us in the loop. Keep sending and Northern Virginia, so by the time or working in SF, please reach out! your news. these notes come out, Amherst grads in DAN CLUCHEY and Miriam Becker- > LAURA GOLDEN BARKER those areas should be able to find some Cohen ’11 are still in New Haven, where [email protected] of his beer at select craft beer bars. They Miriam is finishing up her last year of law are releasing their first barrel-aged school before their triumphant return to sour beer in a couple weeks, which is whatever remains of D.C. Dan is finishing 2008 where Mike’s heart really lies. Aside up the manuscript of what he sure does Our 10th reunion is fast approaching. I from work, Mike just enjoyed a lovely hope might be his second novel, but is hope all of you are as excited as BENJY Friendsgiving with CHRIS GILLYARD, mostly playing with their dog, Bowie. It’s

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been great getting to hang with esteemed skills and thoughtfulness. (Those who JOANNA RIFKIN finished up her Ph.D. New Haven visitors like ACE ROESCH, played at the Wildwood beach tourna- at Duke University this June, shortly af- and hopefully they’ll have more Amherst ment this past summer—ERIN (SIMPLER) ter her partner, Matt Dougherty ’08. At folks rolling through before too long. KELLETT, Mike Kellett ’10, Sarah Skeist the beginning of July, the newly minted I (GUDRUN JUFFER) recently went to ’09, Geoff Giller ’10 and many others—all doctors relocated to Toronto, where Jo- the superfluously beautiful wedding of have larger matching ones.) Joanna and anna has started a postdoctoral research Maddie Tamagni ’09 and NAT GRYLL in her toddler, Miles, know what they’re fellowship at the University of Toronto. Carmel, Calif. wearing to the 10-year reunion, and they They’re both having a great time settling Their wedding was a truly gorgeous af- hope to see everyone there. (And I hope in, making new friends and bracing them- fair, and not just because of the stunning you all are already thinking about your selves for their first Canadian winter. location. It was also a veritable cornuco- outfits!) JACKIE DE LA FUENTE recently moved pia of Amherst folks (and friends): DAN MATT DUNLEAVY is doing OK. to Philadelphia and would love to con- GUARIGLIA and his wife, Andi; Annie > GUDRUN JUFFER nect with any Amherst folks who might ’09 and MATT DUNLEAVY; TIM GROSE [email protected] be around! and his wife, Lydia; MIKE LYONS; ROB GRAHAM MCKEE spent his Thanksgiv- GRAMMER and his wife, Catherine; ing holiday golfing and playing squash at WILL BOYSEN; JONATHAN PRYOR; SA- 2009 the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla. MANTHA MILLER; Natanya Khazzam What a year! I’m sure I speak for all of us in After eight years in D.C., JULIA STEIN- ’09; RIVES KITCHELL and her husband, saying that 2017 easily was the most suc- BERGER moved back to her hometown, Eric; LIZ (WILKES) SINGH and her hus- cessful 12-month span on record. As the Portland, Ore., to work on higher educa- world enters 2018 with optimism, unity tion policy for the state government. She and stability at an all-time high, we can’t regularly sees ANNELIESE KOEHLER for wait to hear what amazing new adven- book group and dinner club, and the two A Dam Good Book tures our classmates will be up to. Thank of them had a lovely visit from LOUISE you for sending in your fantastic updates. STEVENSON this summer. 2009: Ben Goldfarb is writing a book about the social and ALEXA PRINCI SERPA and her hus- CARMELLA GUIOL is currently doing natural history of beavers—yep, beavers—scheduled to be band, Felipe Serpa ’10, had their first a Fulbright in Cartagena de Indias, Co- published in June 2018. He promises Eager: The Surpris- child, John Fernando, on Aug. 20. They lombia. Carmella is loving the city and ing, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter will make were thrilled to take their first plane ride life on the Caribbean Sea! Her days are a great holiday gift for the 19th-century fur trapper in with him to celebrate the wedding of full of fresh fish and a constant stream your family. To promote the book, Ben will be bicycling MADELINE TAMAGNI and Nat Gryll ’08 of fun activities. this summer to Beaver Creek, Colo.; Beaver Falls, Ariz.; in California. My co-secretary, AYYAPPAN VENKA- and Beaverton, Ore., while dressed in a costume made of Over Labor Day weekend, GARRETT TRAMAN, released his newest album, felted North American beaver fur. SNEDEKER married Meghan Tente on the a self-produced compilation of inspi- campus of Brown University. Among the rational songs entitled Ayyappan of the ’09s were MIKE GUTTILLA (groomsman), Tiger. As for me (RAJ BORSELLINO), my band, Dhruv; Alexa Princi Serpa ’09 and JOSIAH BETHARDS, BEN BISHOP, JACK time is mostly spent counting down the Felipe Serpa ’10; Lesley ’07 and GREGG KILEY, SARA MEEGAN and MIKE NEFF. days—528 as of this writing—until we all ADAMO; Scott Bronner ’06 and his wife, Other alumni guests included Alek Vey get back together for our 10-year reunion. Allyson; Jackie (Tyler) Brown ’10 and ’07, Travis Scoles ’08, Dan Cluchey ’08 That’s all for now! Keep up the great her husband, James; Jillian (Masi) For- and Miriam Becker-Cohen ’11. work, folks! tin ’11 and her husband, Steve; Samantha Even the faculty was represented by > RAJ BORSELLINO Presnal ’11; Steve and Lynn Gryll P’08; Professor Emeritus Hadley Arkes, with [email protected] Sarah Gryll (Yale ’06); and Lucy Schul- whom Garrett works in Washington, son (Friend of Amherst ’08 / Brown ’08) D.C., at his nonprofit, the James Wilson and her husband, George. Maddie, ever Institute. Not to be left out were the two 2010 the California girl, served In-N-Out at the incredible photographers, the Amherst Greetings from chilly Cambridge, Mass., after-party, which was very welcome after duo of Sam Masinter ’04 and Kate Berry where I have given up my lofty plans for ;Å a night of dancing. ’12. Garrett and Meghan were blessed high-end hot cocoa from a local choco- WHY SABATO Nat and Maddie’s wedding rounded out with a beautiful day, a gorgeous venue latier and settled for second-rate Dunky’s VISCONTI ’09 my year of 2017 weddings, just in time for and company that could not be better. instead. Mistake. Without further ado, I MESSES UP HIS PHOTOS me to start planning my own! My part- After the wedding, they spent their hon- present the results of our third-ever class ON PURPOSE ner, John Gramila (Lawrence ’08), and I eymoon in Norway and Denmark. If you notes poll: a whopping 45 percent of re- Page 47 are getting married next summer. I am enjoy stunning scenery, friendly people spondents would like to see the Lord Jef- completely delighted (and grateful that and a 25 percent tax on your restaurant fery Inn renamed “something innocuous, so many Amherst friends have given me bills, these two Scandinavian countries like the Amherst Inn,” while 22 percent so much planning fodder with their own are right up your alley. would prefer “the Dickinson Inn.” A more gorgeous weddings). Other than that, life SARA MEEGAN got married on Nov. 18 adventurous 11 percent would call it “the in Chicago is generally grand (though I to Richard Bondi in Pittsburgh, and the Mammoth Inn,” and another 22 percent miss ASHLEY FINIGAN something fierce). happy newlyweds closed out 2017 by had their own suggestions, including I recently had a visit from KATHARINE moving back to New York City. “The Forbidden Mountain.” KELLY, who is finishing up med school After being prohibited from enter- Out on the West Coast, SHAYLON and was in Chicago interviewing for resi- ing the Gadsden Mall in their adopted STOLK reports being hard at work as a dency. Graduation is not Kat’s only mile- hometown of Gadsden, Ala., SAM CUT- data scientist for Zonar Systems in Se- stone coming up—she and her wonderful LER and MONTY OGDEN are working with attle. partner, Martin, just got engaged! Kat and developers to build an entirely new mall “I’ve also been active in the Indigenous I went to high school and college together, in Gadsden. They’ve already hired a mall environmental organization Mazaska and it is delightful to continue to move Santa Claus, who is scheduled to debut in Talks and participated in the Oct. 23 ‘Di- through life in tandem. mid-April, and they would love to hear vest the Globe’ action to push for mass JOANNA WASIK recently received a de- from any Amherst alumni who would be divestment from the fossil fuel industry lightful surprise gift in the mail: a 2T-sized willing to move to Gadsden for an unpaid by big banks.” Kudos, Shaylon! T-shirt stenciled with a fierce Mammoth internship to help get this exciting new More than one ’10 has been involved on it, courtesy of Josie Pratt ’09’s artistic project off the ground. in environmental action: CARTER HALL

98 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 is back in Washington, D.C., now work- Over in Boston, JOSEPH SMEALL-VIL- Tom’s sister, Julia Burnett ’20, is currently ing as an associate attorney in the Clean LARROEL is thrilled to have been invited a sophomore. Energy program at Earthjustice. He had to tell his scary Passover Horseradish sto- Further congratulations to BECKY previously spent a year clerking for the ry for the “Holiday Horrors” episode of DAGO and CHARLIE CROSS, who re- Hawaii Supreme Court in Honolulu. PBS’s standup-storytelling show Stories newed their vows at the University of Congrats! from the Stage. Check it out on TV, online Chicago’s Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Up north in New York, SEGUIN STROH- or even if you just cross paths with Joseph: on Oct. 22. Charlie is a naval flight officer MEIER started a new job as an associate he will gladly regale you with the particu- based out of Point Magu, Calif., and Becky at Kaplan & Co. LLP, and in October, she lar agonies of mistaking horseradish for is a second-year psychiatry resident at and her colleagues filed a lawsuit against cranberry sauce. UCLA/Sepulveda VA. They were legally the white supremacist organizers of the As for me, well, I can’t resist a trend: married in March 2016 but had to post- Charlottesville, Va., “Unite the Right” in October I married Nick DeSimone, pone the celebrations until after Charlie’s rally. That same month Seguin also at- my longtime S.O., in a feminist-Jewish- West Pacific deployment. MATT ROSEN- tended EVAN BRAUN’s wedding in North atheist ceremony in Johnson Chapel, fol- BAUM, VICTOR ZHU and MADDIE WEIN- lowed by a reception at the Lord Jeffery GARTEN were part of their wedding party. (Mammoth?) Inn. It was an all-Amherst ASHLEY SOTO, CAROLINE STERN, TOM Nic Zhou ’10 got married in weekend, with an Antonio’s/Atkins cider BURNETT, DANA THOMAS, MALU DEE New Delhi, India, in a multi- CAMILA SARMIENTO day extravaganza. donuts menu at our rehearsal dinner in and also came to David the Octagon, bridal party photos on Me- help the couple celebrate. Emmerman ’11 morial Hill and a post-wedding brunch at GREGORY CAMPEAU wrote in with two Carolina, where she caught up with alums Val (naturally). SARAH FARRON, SINDHU updates. This summer was his first as an is enjoying his like PETER TANG and ALEX GONZALEZ. BODDU, ANGELICA BRISEÑO and YAS- M.A. candidate at Bread Loaf School of second year Fellow New Yorker GINA RODRIGUEZ MIN NAVARRO stood by my side as brides- English, a graduate school of Middlebury. writes that, after marrying Adam David maids, and JONATHAN THROPE, ALEX The school is unique in several regards: with Boston ’06 last May, she officiated at the small, WECKENMAN, SAM MILLER and AARON courses take place only during the sum- Consulting intimate wedding of her younger broth- BOZZI carried our chuppah. A number of mers; courses take place more or less er—now Oscar Suh-Rodriguez—in Octo- additional Amherstians attended, includ- simultaneously across three campuses Group, ber. “This past Thanksgiving was the first ing former dean of students Ben Lieber, each summer (Santa Fe, N.M.; Ripton, currently holiday my parents hosted with these two and we feel so lucky to have been able to Vt.; and Oxford, UK); and the school of- new family members, and of course the host our wedding in such a special place. fers degrees only in English literature and working on two beloved family dogs.” Performing a Much love from your friendly neighbor- language. The vast majority of students at a long-term loved one’s wedding is quite an honor— hood yenta, Bread Loaf are English teachers in middle I’m sure you did an amazing job. > ROBYN BAHR or high schools. It’s a very special com- project in Amherst weddings abound! Many con- [email protected] munity of educators who take seriously Sydney, gratulations to MARY DORIS (REGGIE) the twin tasks of learning and teaching. EBERHART and Matt Eberhart ’11, who Gregory spent his first summer (of five) in Australia. married in New Orleans on Oct. 20. Matt 2011 Santa Fe. He didn’t encounter any fellow If anyone is started his MBA at Southern Methodist Everyone must have been hunkering Mammoths there, but he does wonder if University this past August and Mary down for the winter, because I only heard there are any at the other two campuses. Down Under, Doris is working at ExxonMobil as a tax from a handful of you. Here goes: Second, Gregory changed jobs. He’s now give him a attorney, having moved from Houston to Congratulations to my dear friends teaching sixth- and seventh-grade Eng- the Dallas office. I’m sure it was a beauti- MIMI (BELL) FITZGERALD and REID lish language arts at Stratford School, a shout! ful affair. FITZGERALD on their beautiful October STEAM-based private school of nearly Mazel tov to NIC ZHOU, who married in wedding in Sea Island, Ga.! It was won- two dozen campuses that has an ever- New Delhi, India, over Thanksgiving. He derful to hang out with many, many Am- expanding geographical footprint across and his wife are relieved to be done with herst alumni there, from the class of 2011, California. “I represent, with any hope the multi-day extravaganza, and are very the swimming and diving teams and the somewhat valiantly, the beleaguered A thankful that many of their friends could tennis and squash teams. in that five-letter acronym,” he writes. join them, including MASON BRADBURY, More wedding congratulations are in Good luck! ;Å ERIK SCHULWOLF, JULIE WRIGHT and order for CAROLINE STERN and TOM Now a few rapid-fire updates: DAVID FANGDA WAN ’10 USES JANNIE TAN, as well as Adam Garmezy BURNETT, who got married over Labor EMMERMAN is enjoying his second year MOBILE TECHNOLOGY TO EMPOWER THOU- ’11, Andreas Shepard ’11, David Vaimberg Day weekend. The women’s crew and with Boston Consulting Group, currently SANDS OF YOUNG ’11, Phil Johnson ’11, Jackie Berkley ’11 and men’s rugby teams were well represent- working on a long-term project in Sydney, WOMEN IN CHINA. Haley Castro ’11. “We’re grateful that so ed. The newlyweds took a trip after the Australia. If anyone is Down Under, give Page 30 many of you made the trip to New Delhi wedding to the Grand Tetons and Yellow- him a shout! TRACY HUANG passed the to celebrate with us, and also were able to stone National Park for a week of hiking, yearlong mark for meditating every day. keep me sane through the week! Looking geysers and bison-spotting. They didn’t JARED CRUM is heading into his final forward to many more trips together to see any bears on the trails, but, at the winter/spring terms as a law student at ever more exotic destinations.” start of their hike to Lake Solitude in the Stanford. He was offered and accepted Speaking of weddings, JENNIFER RY- Tetons, a moose with giant antlers silently a judicial clerkship down in Laredo for a BAK KIERNAN would like to extend her emerged from the trees a few feet away federal judge in the Southern District of congratulations to RACHEL WILLIAMS, from them. It didn’t seem to notice them Texas. He will be there from 2018 to 2019, who is recently engaged. (And congrats and proceeded to walk along the hiking and after that will return to D.C. for his from me, too!) trail for a while before disappearing into firm, Hogan Lovells. CAIT (PATTERSON) HAUGHT writes the woods again. Finally, on a personal note, PETER that she and SPENCER HAUGHT wel- Back in New York after a year of living KRENSKY and I, NICOLE (PANICO) KREN- comed their little girl Ellery Louise this in Washington, D.C., Caroline just started SKY, are expecting our first baby, a boy, past July. “We are very much enjoying her her third year as a litigation associate at in April 2018. We can’t wait to meet this company, and she is already sporting the Davis Polk, and Tom recently joined the future member of the Amherst College Amherst purple. Looking forward to her litigation department at Kirkland & El- class of 2040! following in her parents’ footsteps and lis. They’re excited to be living in Park Best wishes to you all over the winter! joining the class of 2038!” Welcome to Slope for the foreseeable future and > NICOLE (PANICO) KRENSKY the AmhFam, Ellery! look forward to visiting Amherst, where [email protected]

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and consultancy after recently moving to by Frost Opera Theater and Ensemble 2012 NYC from Austin, Texas. If you’re in the Ibis at the University of Miami in April I recently found a copy of my roommate area, she’d love to catch up. 2018. Dana admits to still seriously lack- contract from freshman year. When we REBECCA EPPLER-EPSTEIN, my ing knowledge in the realms of cooking were given the form to fill out, JILLIAN erstwhile Harlem roommate, moved to and parallel parking, but she can tell you KOCHANEK took one look at it, wrote Boston and regularly sees BEN LIN, DAN all about that time Kim Kardashian lost “LOVE!” across all the terms and con- BARNES, Jenna Iden ’13, Jeremy Simon a diamond earring in Bora Bora. Of her ditions, underlined the word twice, and ’13, Emily Jackson ’13, Luca Antonucci freshman roommate, KIMONA CAMER- gave it to our Williston RC, the inimitable ’14, Scott Smith ’09 and Deidra Mont- ON, she can only say that “every memory Romain Cames ’09. He tore off the yellow gomery ’10, among others. Of her fresh- is my favorite memory.” I hope some of receipt to return to us for our own records, man roommate, the legendary SIOBHAN those memories involve bonding over and let us carry on. MCKISSIC, she was at a loss to choose a reality TV. Jill introduced me to Veronica Mars and favorite memory. “Perhaps our roommate BETHANY GOODSON has a new room- turned a blind eye when I took Twizzlers contract in which it was specified at which mate, of sorts…: This summer, she gave from her secret stash. We went to Judie’s hours I was allowed to play guitar (badly). birth to her second child, a girl named and ate popovers whenever we were feel- Late-night talks, impromptu Photo Booth Phoebe Winifred! “I had another natural ing celebratory. She was a delightful hu- sessions, the magic of the first Amherst birth and felt like a rock star.” Congratula- man being to live in a roughly 11x15 room snowstorm, dragging her on a bike ride tions to you and Noah, Bethany! For her with, even after I accidentally killed her to Flayvors ice cream … and eternal love.” To add “pizzazz” to life in Princeton, doctoral Japanese fighting fish over winter break. You guys are soulmates (as is proven by ANNEMARIE IKER got a puppy this sum- Jill did not hold a grudge. A fun fact: she the fact that you’re still engaged on Face- mer. “Winslow now occupies most of my dissertation, has gotten into the habit of doing Iron(wo) book, after all these years). waking thoughts (can a poodle-mix with Dana mans in her spare time. CONSTANCIA MAVODZA’s room- a sock fixation be the subject of my dis- TIM BUTTERFIELD spent his freshman mate, RICHELLE SPAULDING, took care sertation?), and he has more Instagram Kaufman ’12 year at the building next door to me and of her when she was homesick and go- followers than I do. I’m looking forward is writing a Jill, and wrote to say that his 2008–2009 ing through culture shock. Constancia now to having my pup accompany me on a roommate, GREG BARRETT, remains is used to coping with the curve by now, research trip this summer in Spain. … Af- one-act opera one of his closest friends. “Affection- though—she’s back in the United States ter all, what is life without a book in your (dubbed Opera ately dubbed ‘Garrett Bergman’ during after finishing up her master’s in South hand and a dog at your feet?” (Amen.) his nightly sleep-talking episodes, Greg Africa at the University of Cape Town, GRACE BOOTH also has a case of wan- Kardashian) spilled his deepest secrets to me in North and is currently working as an Interna- derlust. “This year, I spend much of my about 413 as I stayed up late reading about the tional Global Health Corps Fellow at the time on the West Coast in continued de- Weimar Republic for Allen Guttmann’s Center for Health and Gender Equity. velopment of Jane Doe in Wonderland, an tragedy and ‘Nazi Olympics’ first-year seminar. Upon MICHELLE LI also got by with a little educational play I co-wrote and produced the human waking, Greg would join me in hollering help from her freshman roommate, who with theater-makers and sex-trafficking the ESPN highlight sound out our open taught her how to dance. These days, survivors through Northern California condition, window at the football player in Willis- she’s working as an attorney at Cravath, and Southern Oregon. When not in the as told ton who always, and I mean always, had Swaine & Moore LLP. Kudos for making Pacific Northwest, I lead a nomadic life- SportsCenter playing in his room.” Com- it through law school! (Did the dancing style, traveling between St. Louis (the through the mitment is a theme here. help to wash away the 1L pain?) home of my partner, Andrew) and West- Kardashian A Southerner, KEITH WINE, also fondly SARAH SCHEAR similarly hosted im- ern Massachusetts (where I grew up and recalls his days sharing space in the quad. promptu dance parties with her room- my family still lives).” clan. When asked what he missed about his mate, MELISSA GREENBERG, on James’ I hope you feel inspired to locate your roommate, he replied, “Just everything third floor, and more spontaneous danc- freshman roommate and/or to revisit about TAWANDA TASIKANI. Where ing is in order for the near future to cel- your roommate contracts for original are you, buddy?” He managed to locate ebrate Sarah’s graduation this semester New Year’s resolutions. For instance, other ’12s over the summer, when he (“knock on wood!”) from UC Berkeley take out the trash! Beware of excessive caught up with BENJAMIN ALVARADO, with a master’s in health and medical noise! And remember, “The key to every ANDREW KELLY, CAMILLE RAMOS-KLEE sciences. “My thesis is based on inter- relationship, including the one with your and Charles Olowunmi ’13 for wine and views with palliative care providers in roommate, is communication. You need cheese in New York. “Dash King ’13 is a Kerala and Uttarakhand, India. It ex- to be open—ask, listen, and discuss. Don’t bad friend and flaked on us! However, I plores challenges and strategies in their wait until things build up inside you and did get to see him perform in the Shake- work to bring pain relief and support to get out of hand. Before it gets to that point, speare in the Park production of Julius people with serious illness.” Sarah is look- TALK IT OUT. Explain in a mature fash- Caesar. Bravo!” A sliver of redemption. ing forward to seeing TAYLOR HANEY, ion what is bothering you and help your Keith shared Thanksgiving with his ALISON ROGERS and AFTAAB DEWAN in roommate(s) understand why.” Amherst longtime girlfriend Emma’s family in Washington, D.C., soon after graduation is the gift that keeps on giving, sometimes Connecticut, “which is chock-full of (“I may also request to practice checking in all caps. Amherst alumni: Chris Knowlton ’84, their reflexes”). In the new year, she’ll > OLIVIA CHASE Scott Knowlton ’81, Sally deGozzaldi ’84 move to San Francisco to begin medical [email protected] and Jane Knowlton (widow of the fondly clerkships at UCSF. remembered Carlisle ‘Sandy’ Knowlton DANA KAUFMAN wrote in that she is ’52).” His work at comScore continues to in the final year of working toward her 2013 be challenging and fascinating. “I never doctorate of musical arts in music com- SAM KIKI hired BRENDAN BURKE to work thought my Russian major would take me position at the University of Miami Frost at Aesir Capital as a research analyst. where it has.” School of Music. For her dissertation, she Brendan moved to Sydney, Australia, in Also writing from New York, AMANDA is writing a one-act opera (dubbed Opera January 2018. VILLARREAL reports that both she and Kardashian) about tragedy and the hu- GABRIELA MATEO finished her mas- her brother had freshman roommates man condition, as told through the Kar- ter’s in sport science in the Netherlands. named Zohar (Amherst’s Zohar being dashian clan. The opera, small portions She is looking for a job, but meanwhile none other than ZOHAR PERLA). “Co- of which premiered as part of a song cycle is going back home to Costa Rica to get incidence? I think not!” Amanda is now at New York Opera Fest / National Op- her ISA surfing instructor certificate. working at a design and innovation studio era Center in June, will be workshopped Any alumni that are around are more

100 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 than welcome to reach out to Gabriela! fall traveling around New Mexico, gath- She is very happy to show you the beach 2014 ering signatures to get candidates on the and the jungle. This round, we heard from ANDRE WANG, ballot for the midterm elections, and is CHRISTINA ANDERSON did a soft who is currently hard at work on his dis- looking forward to an exciting 2018 elec- launch of her new personal/virtual as- sertation as a Ph.D. candidate at the Uni- tion cycle. She is also looking forward to sistant business, Christina Collabo- versity of California Davis. He just pub- a visit from none other than the amazing rates. The idea is she will be an extra set lished his first original social psychology CHRISTINA WON! of hands to help individuals, families or research paper as a lead author, with an- Christina has spent the past couple businesses in her local community, and other paper forthcoming. of months settling into a new job at the anyone she can connect with via the In- CLAIRE DIMARIO passed the bar exam Discovery Channel, where she is working ternet, keep their lives organized and on and moved to Washington, D.C., to start on ethics issues. She also celebrated her track. She has acquired a variety of skills a new job at a law firm. “I started paying older brother’s wedding in the Bay Area over the past few years and hopes to be off my student loans,” she said. “Does this last month, and is thrilled to have a new of use to some fellow alumni! mean I’m an adult now?” sister-in-law. DEVON GEARY was named the Ful- WADE MCNAMARA joined a renewable ELI HARRIS has had a whirlwind year— bright alternate for the University of energy infrastructure private equity team he is living in Shenzhen, China, and is the Birmingham this year and is currently at BlackRock in New York. Over the past co-founder and CEO of EcoFlow Tech, a pursuing an M.A. in Shakespeare and year, his team has raised a new $1.7 bil- socially responsible inventor and manu- Federico creativity at U of B’s Shakespeare Insti- lion fund, bringing their total assets under facturer of portable solar-powered gen- Sucre ’13 tute, funded by the U of B and Amherst. management to $4.9 billion, all dedicated erators and foldable portable solar panels. She lives in Stratford-upon-Avon in an to financing and constructing large-scale Eli was recently selected by Forbes as started an adorably lopsided house with two Eng- renewable-energy-generation projects one of the “30 Under 30” energy entre- MBA program lish postgrads and is working closely with globally. preneurs who are fueling a more sustain- the RSC and the local homeless / rough- LOUIE ZUNIGA reports that he is “leav- able future. at Stanford sleeper community. ing New York for African pastures in Janu- Forbes’ “30 Under 30” is “the defini- Graduate She has had to pinch herself to make ary.” He planned on traveling for a bit be- tive search for the world’s most inspiring sure this isn’t all a dream. Devin is looking fore moving to Cameroon to teach high young innovators, bright rising stars and School of into Ph.D. options locally and in New Zea- school English with the Peace Corps in the leaders of tomorrow who are trans- Business in land. If anyone is in England this year, es- May. “I foresee fewer visitors than I’ve forming the world.” They select “young pecially Stratford or Birmingham, please had in NYC, but my Cameroonian couch leaders who have already made an impact fall 2017. He let her know. She’d be happy to play local will still be open for a good surf to anyone or those who are just about to make it big. is joined by tour guide! passing through!” Although their objectives are different, TOM VU and SABRINA (SONG) VU got Although he did not report this himself, their missions remain the same: to change Christina married on June 10 in Johnson Chapel, we heard some exciting news about CAR- the world.” Croak ’13 and with the reception at the Lord Jeffery LOS ADOLFO GONZALEZ, a Gates Cam- We are so incredibly proud of you, Eli, Inn. The wedding party included LEO bridge Scholar. Carlos has been appointed and we also know you are just getting Devin Pence BASTONE, OMAR BROWN, JOHN CHO, as a commissioner on the Pennsylvania started! ’14 in the CANDICE KIM, JULIA KIM, ESTHER LAM, Governor’s Advisory Commission on ALEX SOUTHMAYD completed his JEONG-EUN LEE, RICHARD WONG and Latino Affairs, representing Lancaster second year with Teach For America in Stanford MBA Cathy Amaya ’14. Many other Amherst County. Congrats, Carlos! June and received his master of educa- class of 2019. alums were also present. MATT DEBUTTS is still living in Beijing tion degree from Boston University in Tom and Sabrina went on their hon- and is happy to report he has survived the August. He currently serves as the busi- eymoon to Italy, making stops in Rome, 19th Party Congress. He sees Ricky Altieri ness development lead for Lyft in Boston Cinque Terre and Venice. Highlights of ’15 and Noah Lerner ’16 regularly. and oversees driver growth in New Eng- their trip included meeting Pope Francis, In Boston, CHRIS FRIEND hosted a holi- land. Since he began in July, his program hanging out with BERNARDO RIOS and day party, which became a mini Amherst has increased driver supply in Boston by kayaking through the canals of Venice. reunion. We all felt honored to sample his as much as 30 percent week over week, The couple moved from Boston to Chi- family’s ancient glugg recipe. bringing safe, affordable rides to thou- cago at the end of July. Sabrina is now DAN WEBBER was also in attendance, sands of people every day. Keep up the ;Å studying toward her master’s in theology and reported that he was enjoying teach- great work, Alex! LEARN MORE ABOUT through the Augustine Institute, and Tom ing philosophy to undergrads in Pitts- In January ALEXANDRA BURKOT will ELI HARRIS ’15 AND THE COMPANY HE is serving in the U.S. Navy as a dentist. burgh, but is still crossing his fingers that be finished with her master of music de- FOUNDED IN CHINA. They recently adopted a new puppy and he made the right decision. We believe in gree in vocal performance and musicol- Page 30 named her Katsu. you, Webby. ogy from the University of North Texas. SOPHIA MEYERSON and DYLAN HERTS As for me, I’m having a blast living in She reports: “Immediately afterwards, I would like to share the happy news that a house with four guys in Somerville, am moving to Boston to pursue a career in they’re engaged to be married sometime Mass., and enjoying the struggle of my arts, both on stage and behind the scenes, next year. They currently live together in first year teaching in Lexington. I’ve also get a Ph.D. in musicology and reconnect Cambridge, Mass., where they both at- been doing improv comedy shows on the with all of my Choral Society friends who tend graduate school. side, which helps with the teaching, be- are still in the area.” Safe travels and all FEDERICO SUCRE started an MBA cause seventh-graders are hilarious little the best in your new adventure, Alexan- program at Stanford Graduate School of humans with infinite amounts of energy. dra! Business in fall 2017. He is joined by fel- Keep the notes coming, 2014s! Hope to ASHLEIGH (STODDART) MCBRATNEY low Mammoths CHRISTINA CROAK and hear from you soon, and Ben McBratney ’12 were married on Devin Pence ’14 in the Stanford MBA class > MARIA FERNANDA KIRIGIN Sept. 30. Our whole Amherst family was of 2019. Before moving to Palo Alto, Fede [email protected] there. The wedding party included SA- spent seven months working in the Minis- BRINA LEE, Charlotte Chudy ’16, Em- try of Education of Buenos Aires, Argen- ily Hyde ’16, CONNOR SHOLTIS, Bart tina. SARAH YEE and NATE THOMAS are 2015 Federak ’12, Ryan Lichtenfels ’12, Mike happy to announce they got engaged this The class of 2015 continues doing excit- O’Connor ’12 and Mark Petros ’12. It was October in Los Angeles. ing things all over the globe, and staying an incredible day full of Amherst love > CHLOE FICO ’13 interconnected across the distances! and, of course, “Williams sucks.” Con- [email protected] KYRA ELLIS-MOORE spent much of her gratulations, Ashleigh!

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Thank you for sharing your celebration Come say hi if (God forbid) you’re ever swimming in his free time. He is current- with us. in Monmouth County.” ly working at a nonprofit called Journey ANDERS LINDGREN became founding That is so many books! We are sure you Home, which coordinates and builds con- director of operations for Baltimore Col- will have some good recommendations nections among service providers for the legiate School for Boys in 2015, helping for Katharine. Congratulations on your homeless (shelters, clinics, hospitals, etc.) Jack Pannell ’80 turn a dream into an all- graduation, and all the best on your next of the Greater Hartford, Conn., region. boys college preparatory public charter adventure! Greghan works with various medical, school with grades four to eight, 440 stu- > KYRA ELLIS-MOORE housing and Social Security-centered dents and some of the best test scores in [email protected] initiatives and enjoys the variety of work. Baltimore. He is reading The Periodic Table, by Primo Josh Eastright ’99 and Geoff Hengerer Levi. It was a gift from his thesis advisor, ’99 served as board members, Mabel 2017 Professor Hansen, and he has been tak- Lajes-Guiteras ’99 and Juma Crawford Last winter, I remember one snow day ing it one thought-provoking chapter at ’99 as advisors, Matt Micciche ’93 as at Amherst. Physically warm inside the a time. Strategic Planning Committee chair, dorm, the day provided surprising inner ZACHARY YANES loves his job teach- while Josh Russakis ’13 and Ofori Am- warmth from the dorm community. Too ing English at the Pierrepont School in ponsah ’13 volunteer to spur community wearied to venture out, we streamed into Westport, Conn. Right now, he’s reading engagement and coach writing, respec- the common room and roasted marsh- Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, and Katharine tively. Enrique Robles ’17 is a Collegiate mallows over the fire. We talked and rest- the King James Bible. Rudzitis ’15 Teaching Fellow and aspiring teacher. ed as the light flickered into embers. Not LAUREN BENJAMIN is also teaching—in All the best on this Amherst endeav- all my memories from Amherst are this Tbilisi, Georgia. She teaches “Personal, is on a quest or, Anders. Please continue keeping us rosy. However, upon reading your stories Social, Health and Economic Education” to read 365 posted! and entering your lives, I feel once again at a small private school in the city. She TONY RUSSO’s been working through a surprising warmth that brings me back is interested in pursuing international books in 2018, Michigan Law and is surprisingly enjoy- and moves me forward. development through education and is so please send ing it. Give him a shout-out if you’re in the Speaking of snow, JOSH YOUNG is cur- grateful for the opportunity to teach in a area. Thank you, Tony—we will! rently making snow at Eldora, a ski resort country that has become another home across any ANDREW HURN is about to celebrate in the Rocky Mountains. He is also read- for her. recommend- his first year in Washington, D.C., and ing A Theology of Liberation, by Gustavo Lauren is reading The Butterfly’s Way, it’s been quite the wild ride. He reported, Gutiérrez. a collection of poems and short stories ations you “Drink Co. is putting together our third In Sheet’ka (Sitka), Alaska, SIRAJ SIND- written by authors of the Haitian diaspora have. iteration of Miracle on 7th Street, the HU is working with local organizations to and edited by Edwidge Danticat. Christmas-themed pop-up bar that will provide legal representation to survivors Another traveler, JO MOORE, finished conclude our amazing year that included of domestic violence and sexual assault. a six-week road trip (across Canada and other themes such as the Cherry Blossom He’s also working on a community project the upper United States) at homecom- Bar and the Game of Thrones Bar. Our with the Sitka Tribe of Tlingit and Hai- ing. She made it back to the East Coast sister bar, The Columbia Room, has also da peoples to address colonial traumas to enjoy having someone else organize a won accolades for being the best cocktail and continuing oppression in Southeast friend reunion. While the national parks bar in America for 2017! I’m incredibly Alaska. of both countries were spectacular, there proud of all the work we’ve done and hope He shares the rest of his time with the is something about New England that is I get the chance to have some of you come mountains, ravens, humpback whales, keeping her there for a while longer! Jo is visit the District!” otters, eagles and humans of the region. currently reading Canoeing with the Cree, Congratulations and thank you, An- Siraj is also slowly reading Louis Althuss- by Eric Sevareid, which, unsurprisingly, drew! We hope some ’15s will have the er’s On the Reproduction of Capitalism and is about an epic Canadian canoe trip. opportunity to visit. David Sedaris’ Let’s Explore Diabetes with Her nightstand has held Go Set a Watch- KATHARINE RUDZITIS is on a quest to Owls. man for a good bit, since she is unsure read 365 books in 2018, so please send CAM WADE started his career at M&T whether she’ll enjoy it as much as To Kill across any recommendations you have. Bank in retail branch management in a Mockingbird. ;Å She’s also excited about a summer visit Baltimore. Over the summer, he met up On EVELYN TING’s nightstand is No Is “PEOPLE HAVE TOLD to Ireland/Scotland and the next reunion with some Amherst friends in Boston and Not Enough, by Naomi Klein, and Karl ME ALL SORTS OF with CHRISTINA WON, SELENA ALONZO, NYC and around Delaware, Maryland Marx’s Theory of History, by G.A. Cohen. THINGS ABOUT CLAIRE JIA KANE WILLIS THEIR PERSONAL and . Good luck and Virginia. Evelyn is enjoying her work as a software LIVES,” SAYS TOMAL on your quest, Katharine! He’s looking forward to not only grow- developer at Civis Analytics. She codes HOSSAIN ’17. RYAN MCRAE ARNOLD repatriated in ing within his field but also contributing features for a data science platform that Page 16 July 2016 after earning his M.Phil. in criti- as much as he can to his community, by helps companies, political campaigns and cism and culture from the University of mentoring young kids, for starters. With- nonprofit organizations make decisions. Cambridge. out question, he will keep in touch with She is also in Chicago and hopes that peo- He reports: “I now live at home in his Amherst homies near and far. They ple will reach out to her when they visit Manasquan, N.J., a town characterized are always welcome to visit Charm City the city. She’ll show you around the art equally by its mediocre beachfront and to receive royal treatment. He knows fairs, great Mexican food, aesthetically its pure culture of misology. And so I’ve that each one of his classmates will flip bookish cafés and glittering dance floors spent the past year cultivating my soli- the world on its axis. with disco-ball slushies. tude like a garden. At present, I’m in the MELISSA SHETH is finishing up her first Once again, thank you for all the sub- midst of applying to Ph.D. programs for semester at the University of Wisconsin— missions. I am excited to read the books the second time; thoughts and prayers Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, that you’ve mentioned, and I am inspired are appreciated (but only in lieu of any and she is loving it. Madison is gorgeous by the work and spirit behind your en- meaningful legislative reform). Mean- and lively, her classes are exciting (espe- deavors. while, I’m working at a Barnes & Noble, cially developmental anatomy!), and she If you would like to contact a classmate, where I drink a lot of free iced coffee, gets to work with cute animals on a regu- please write! And please write if you have which is nice. When I’m not laboring for lar basis. She’s currently reading Dune, by comments or questions. a wage, or fretting about the rise of fas- Frank Herbert. > EVELYN TING cism in America, I read books; in 2017, Another pre-med graduate, GREG HAN CLASSNOTES.AMHERST2017@ I read 48 books! That’s so many books. is applying to medical school as well as GMAIL.COM

102 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 Visit the interactive In Memory site at www.amherst.edu/magazine to post remembrances of fellow alumni, view a listing of alumni who have recently died In Memory and read unabridged In Memory pieces well before the print obituaries appear.

over for us to listen to, one of his to Theda Xi. He was employed at John D. Cordner ’39 most loved during those evenings of Richard Purdy Wilbur ’42 Honeywell as manager of budgets My mother said it was hard to imag- solitude. As he closed his eyes and Sadly, one of our most distinguished and measurements and from 1976 ine the world without my father, but hummed along, I saw tears and knew classmates in the “Hurricane” class to 1982, he was in the finance depart- even the strongest oak tree eventu- he was moved by the music and feel- of ’42 has left us. Richard Purdy Wil- ment. From 1950 to 1976, he was the ally falls. His body showed the wear ings of those youthful days now gone. bur, the illustrious poet and transla- accounting liaison at General Elec- of 99 years, but his mind was sharp My beloved dad was a professor tor, passed away Oct. 14 at the age tric. Edward and his wife, Cynthia, and clear—his ready wit and sense of and C.P.A. in his professional life. He of 96. Born in New York City, he retired to Pinetop, Ariz.—Celeste fun as well as a love for serious dis- preached God’s Word, and it was his was the son of Lawrence L. Wilbur Ringuette W’48 cussions never failed him. He always love and devotion to Jesus that will and Helen Ruth (Purdy). Dick came appreciated the classical education be remembered by those who knew to Amherst from Montclair High he received at Amherst and shared him. His wife and my cherished School in New Jersey. At Amherst his Andrew M. Linn Jr. ’49 with his family a love of learning mother, Doris, didn’t live to see the talents in English were immediately At age 92, after a lifetime of con- and a respect for Amherst’s found- world go on without him, but his son evident. He assumed a leading role tentment, teaching and humanity, ing seal and motto, picturing a sun (recently deceased and with them) in the Amherst Student (the college Andy passed away on Oct. 19 in New and open Bible illuminating a globe, and I did, and he is sorely missed. newspaper), Touchstone (the literary Hampshire. He suffered congestive with the words “Let them enlighten In the mid-1980s they moved to Se- magazine) and, later, the honor soci- heart failure for four years, was di- the lands.” attle (near me) and in 2001 moved eties Scarab and Sphinx, and the Po- minished physically but was still Dad shared many memories of to Sun Lakes, Ariz., where I also litical Union. His fraternity was Chi sharp as a tack, Janet told me, until his college years. The one I remem- had a home. Home was where they Psi. During World War II, Dick served the end, composing letters to the New ber most was his going alone in the hung their hats, but a part of them in Italy and France, after which he York Times, planning to teach another evening to the music room to listen remained on the East Coast and with earned an M.A. at Harvard (1947). course and enjoying his granddaugh- to the power and beauty of favorite their dear son and his family. I was In the celebrated career that fol- ter’s wedding in September. composers. A week before he died, blessed to have had them nearby for lowed, Dick taught at a succession of After two years at Washington & I brought Brahms’ First Symphony many years.—Nancy Cordner colleges—Harvard, Wellesley, Wes- Jefferson College, he came to Am- leyan, Smith and finally back in Am- herst, where he studied philosophy herst—while at the same time writing and Greek, joined Beta and soon and publishing multiple collections began a lifetime of teaching, mostly of poems, from The Beautiful Changes mathematics. He taught at all levels, Death notices received by the College since the and Other Poems (1947) to Anterooms fifth grade to college freshman. He last issue of Amherst magazine (2010); translating Molière, Corneille and Janet were married in 1954 while and Racine; and writing lyrics for the teaching at Hamden Hall in New Ha- theater (Candide). His work brought ven and then were at Miss Porter’s Charles W. Avery ’41 Richard G. Harris ’51 him increasing renown and numer- School in Connecticut for 20 years. David A. Wilkinson ’41 Stuart E. Methven ’51 ous honors, including Poet Laureate Andy was a frequent speaker at math Merideth P. Wiswell Jr. ’41 Donald W. Smith ’51 of the United States and two Pulitzer teachers’ meetings and authored sev- Mark Norris III ’42 Glenn G. Gardner ’52 Prizes for poetry. Equally important eral articles in journals. Richard P. Wilbur ’42 Robert K. Chipman ’53 in his impact on those who knew him His interests included classical Donald S. Pratt ’43 Joseph H. Carter Jr. ’54 was the generosity, civility and gra- piano, guitar and recorder. Active Sumner Silver ’43 John T. Ewing ’54 Ralph E. Weber Jr. ’43 William G. Mead ’54 ciousness that infused his relation- in scouting, he joined a troop in John G. Chapin ’44 Lewis C. Cuyler ’55 ships with students and colleagues 1937 and held most of the possible John P. Denio ’44 Robert E. Grant ’55 wherever he lived and worked. positions for volunteers, serving as John M. Favour ’44 Holcomb B. Noble ’55 His wife of 65 years, Charlotte scoutmaster of seven different troops Theodore R. Haley ’44 Peter G. Hindle ’56 Hayes Ward (Smith ’43), died in 2007. in four states, only retiring at age 70. James S. Fishler ’46 Charles Klem Jr. ’56 David G. Mock ’47 Alan P. Levenstein ’56 Supported by his children—daughter Not surprising was his everlasting Charles L. Gaskill ’48 Charles A. Wells Jr. ’57 Ellen and sons Christopher, Nathan love of the outdoors. He considered Edward W. Jellison ’48 William C. Hannemann ’58 ’73 and Aaron—Dick continued to live nature study his principal “hobby” William M. Edison ’49 William M. Weiant ’60 and work in his Cummington, Mass., and was a member of the Appala- Andrew M. Linn Jr. ’49 Richard W. Crosby ’63 home. This summer, he moved to a chian Mountain Club. Since mov- Nathaniel R. Potter Jr. ’49 William R. Nadel ’64 Robert E. Preston ’49 Robert T. Abbott ’66 nursing home in Belmont, Mass., to ing to New Hampshire, he was an Horace Seldon ’49 George B. Leach Jr. ’66 be nearer his children. There, he qui- enthusiastic attendee at the Learn- Jerome Balmuth ’50 David W. Smith ’67 etly came to the end of his rich life.— ing Institute at New England College Don D. Canfield Jr. ’50 Elliott S. Andrews ’68 Richard Ward ’42 in Henniker, where he taught courses David P. Cooney ’50 William E. Burt ’68 in philosophy and art history. George Y. Eastman ’50 Richard B. Dunlap ’68 Anchoring this wonderful life was David H. Judge ’50 Peter H. McClellan ’68 Edward Wallace Jellison ’48 Ralph H. Knode Jr. ’50 Craig G. Dunkerley ’69 his Quaker faith and his participation Carl E. Meyer Jr. ’50 John G. Lawlor ’69 Edward Wallace Jellison was born in on boards of historical societies in the John R. Shrewsbury ’50 Kurt N. Doelling ’78 Freeport, Maine, on Aug. 16, 1926. He state, working with a homeless shel- Dean Blanchard Jr. ’51 William R. Loyd ’88 attended Freeport High School and ter and food bank. Those of us who Reginald R. Frost Jr. ’51 Justin Hamano ’10 graduated from Admiral Farragut have spent our careers in the field Academy. At Amherst he belonged of commerce look upon Andy’s life

AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 103 with true admiration—an inspiring language and genial, generous and trip to Provence and a three-week Renaissance Man. What a credit to fair-spirited nature. “People-to-People” golf trip to Aus- John R. S. Shrewsbury ’50 our class. —Gerry Reilly ’49 Born Aug. 27, 1924, in Rochester, tralia and New Zealand. He topped John was a family man first and fore- N.Y., Nat graduated from Phillips this with a three-week “Grand Tour most. His advice was sound, support- Academy Andover 1943. He then en- of Europe,” covering 10 cities three ive and given with his trademark wit. Nicholas B. O’Connell Jr. ’49 tered the U.S. Army Air Force, got his years later. For 35 years he labored That loving, dry sense of humor was Nicholas “Nick” Brown O’Connell Jr. wings and served two years with time in the paper and packaging industry. in full force right up until the last few passed away peacefully surrounded as a flight instructor. A member of I caught up with Pat and Ted in Vero days of his life. His passions for hik- by his family on Aug. 11 at age 88. Psi Upsilon at Amherst, he majored Beach, as he was one of a half doz- ing, boating and friendship are in- He will be remembered as a loving in English and minored in architec- en from our class who moved to this grained in all of his family. He was husband, devoted father, terrific ture. Nat was ever faithful to his dear lovely spot in retirement. He played the salt of the earth, an old-school friend and a fair, judicious attorney Amherst and for many years aided in tennis for many years and then got gentleman and true to his word … and judge. recruitment of new students and in really serious with his golf. He and always. John died Oct. 29 in Con- He enjoyed a long, productive and alumni initiatives. Chuck Winans ’50 were mainstays necticut Hospice: “No pain and no immensely interesting life. He was While at Amherst Nat met “the love on the alumni gold team for the dementia, for which we were grate- born Aug. 19, 1928, to Nicholas Brown of his life,” Gail Caricof, a Hawaii girl annual match against Williams in ful,” writes Joan, his wife of 63 years. O’Connell and Janet O’Connell in attending Bennington College in Vero Beach, which I believe we usu- After a brief spell in the Midwest, Brooklyn, N.Y. His father took him Vermont, and they wed in Septem- ally won. He was a true delight to be they chose a happy lifelong residence to Dodger games at Ebbets Field, ber 1948. The two moved to Hawaii, with, both in college and the later in Guilford, Conn. John sold insur- igniting a lifelong love of the team. where they built a house on a moun- years. —Gerry Reilly ’49 ance and real estate before com- Nick was graduated from Amherst tain overlooking Honolulu. This is muting to Hartford to sell municipal in 1948 and said of the college, “At- where they had kids and where Nat bonds at Hartford National Bank. For tending Amherst helped me hone forged a successful career in the ce- David H. Judge ’50 more than 40 years John had a se- an already inquiring mind and to ment business and a life based on David H. Judge died at the age of 89 ries of boats docked at the Guilford broaden my intellectual curiosity. service to the things he held most on Nov. 15. He was born and raised in marina, whence they all fished and Professors Salmon and Packard in- dear and important. South Hadley, Mass. He was the son swam in Long Island Sound. He and stilled a passion for military history. Nat was a community leader and of Gerald A. Judge ’20, and brother Joan traveled throughout the western My Amherst education opened up community builder. He was pillar of of Robert S. Judge ’46. Dave and states and Europe during the ’80s and many vistas of interest and inquiry. the Cathedral of St. Andrew, serving Bob were proud of having followed ’90s, but a special fraternal mobil- It forever changed me and expanded under six bishops as senior warden, in their father’s Amherst footsteps. ity was described by John at his 50th my horizons.” board member and lay reader; he After graduation Dave went on to Amherst reunion: “Several years ago He went on to graduate from served on the boards of numerous study at the University of Chicago, I was invited to join a retired—male Columbia University Law School professional organizations, his busi- where he received a master’s degree only—hiking group that hikes the (L.L.B., J.D.) in 1953. On June 6, 1953, ness club and several nonprofits, do- in education. Blue Trails of Connecticut every he married Marie Kearney of Boston. ing stints as president on most. He was employed for four years by Wednesday all year, with only heavy In 1955 Nick and Marie set out for the Words that Nat wished to be re- Travelers Insurance Co. in Hartford, rain canceling a hike. Occasionally Pacific Northwest and settled in Se- membered by: “Thank you, Lord, working in its publicity and methods we stray a bit—we have hiked in attle. Nick was a member of the New for my wonderful life!” department. He then moved to West Staten Island, downtown Manhat- York State Bar Association and the See the online In Memory sec- Springfield, Mass., having changed tan …, taken the cliff walk in front Washington State Bar Association. tion for a longer remembrance. employment to the Eureka Blank of the great mansions in Newport, He was recognized by the Washing- —C. Barton Potter Book Co. (now Eureka Lab Book, R. I., and once a year hike a short ton State Bar for 55 years of distin- Inc.), a paper converting firm in Holy- distance on the Appalachian Trail guished service in the legal profes- oke, Mass. He became treasurer of in northwest Connecticut, crossing sion. He served as a U.S. government Theodore G. Walker III ’49 the company in 1964 and held that into New York and Massachusetts the lawyer for the Federal Trade Com- I am very sad to report that our ever position until he retired in 1996. same day.” Frank discussion among mission. Washington State assistant cheerful and official head cheerlead- Dave was a member on the Town this fraternal group covered a lot of attorney general, private practitio- er, Ted Walker, passed away on Aug. Finance Committee in West Spring- ground too. ner, corporate counsel for the Boeing 26 after a battle with Alzheimer’s field. He was a charter member of the Joan generously shared several Company and judge pro tem for the complications. Ted came to Amherst West Springfield Kiwanis, serving a documents with me for this In Mem- King County Superior Court. He also after a challenging youth wherein he term as president. He also served on ory piece, which, Joan adds, “we al- served in the U.S. Naval Intelligence moved 32 times before he was 21! He the town’s Library Building Commit- ways fought over when it arrived!” and the Central Intelligence Agency. served in the air force as pilot and sec- tee. —Edge Quaintance ’50 He will be remembered for his love ond lieutenant from 1943 to 1946. After Dave’s brother Bob died in of family, keen intellect, courage, A member of Psi U at Amherst, 1971, Bob’s son, who is also named integrity, honesty and lively, acer- he was on the swimming team and Bob, and Dave became very close. G. Alan Steuber ’50 bic wit. He is survived by his wife, Student Council and began a lifetime Bob wrote, “My Uncle Dave was like a Al Steuber died from complications Marie; children Catherine, Nicho- love affair with the small dimpled second father to me. When my father of prostate cancer on Feb. 19, 2017, at las III ’80, Anne and Richard, all of ball and the broad green fields. For died many years ago, my Uncle Dave the age of 88. Thanks to the wonders Seattle; and 11 grandchildren. —Nick a bit of adventure one day, he took and I developed a close relationship of the Internet, his moving memorial O’Connell ’80 Doc Tingley ’49 and Woody King- that lasted until the night he died. He service in Savannah, Ga., was avail- man ’49 for a ride in an AT-6 from gave me sound advice over the years, able online. Westover Air Force Base. The two but never unsolicited. That was one Al came to Amherst from Brigh- Nathaniel Restcome passengers barely survived. But all of his many good traits.” Bob went ton High School in Rochester, N.Y. Potter Jr. ’49 remained good friends, as Woody, on to write, “He never sought at- He joined Alpha Delta Phi and had Nathaniel “Nat” Restcome Potter Jr. along with Linn Perkins ’49, were tention for himself, but only for the many friends in the class. Al was a passed away peacefully at his home ushers at his wedding to Pat in 1951, many people who have loved him. I fine lineman on the Amherst foot- in Honolulu on Oct. 29, in the com- and Kirk Munroe ’49 was best man. will miss him every day until I see ball team. He was good enough to pany of his wife, their daughter and Fraternity bros all the way. him again.” be drafted by the Baltimore Colts. two sons. He was 93. Ted and Pat had four children, the Dave is survived by two daughters, Al, the late Fred Hollister ’50 and Nat is remembered fondly for his usual array of grandchildren and Elizabeth “Betsy” Weldon and Patri- I toured the West one college sum- commitment to family, church, com- traveled whenever they could. The cia Amy Judge, and two granddaugh- mer in an old car with sleeping bags munity and his profession as well as British Isles were a particular favor- ters, Laura Weldon and Amy Morris. and little money. You could not have for his wit, sense of humor, love of ite, and they also enjoyed a college —Andy Scholtz ’50 had a more companionable traveler

104 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 than Al. After Amherst he went to items—his favorite hobby, pursued it seemed that their wonderful, enjoy his life. He succeeded. —George Harvard Business School and served until his final illness. rambling home (Jeannie’s ancestral Gates ’53 as a gunnery officer on a destroyer Ironically, in retirement, Dean’s home) was often literally in the shad- in the Navy. reading turned to historical subjects. ow of their dry-docked boat, waiting Following stints with GE and IBM, (Lawrence Packard had it right af- for the coming of another season of Bertram W. Justus ’53 Al joined Bankers Leasing, which was ter all!) Helping others in their lives sailing adventures. My father, Bertram W. “Bert” Justus subsequently bought by Prudential seemed to be his specialty. What a lively mind Norm had! Or- ’53, passed away on May 5 after com- Insurance. The name was changed —Everett Clark ’51, Charlie Chapin ganizing the speaker program for plications following surgery. to PruLease, where Al functioned as ’51 and Chuck Longsworth ’51 the MIT Club of Boston, Norm not Dad came to Amherst from St. Lou- president as well as vice president of only invited the speakers but became is, where he attended John Burroughs Prudential. He first retired to Cape educated in their accomplishments School. He majored in organic chem- Cod and then moved to Savannah. Donald W. Smith ’51 before introducing them. He was al- istry, going on to medical school at He enjoyed woodworking in a com- Don Smith passed away on March 1, ways interested in new things, from Washington University School of pletely outfitted shop, plus golf. In his 2016. His death was unknown to the the latest astonishing developments Medicine. He did his internship mid-40s Al became very interested in College until early last fall. in biology and low-temperature at New York Hospital in New York Christianity. Later he helped found Born on May 16, 1926, in High- physics to the current activities of my City, where he met and married my a new church in Savannah. He also lands, N.J., he graduated from high grandchildren as well as his own. He mother in 1959. After his stint as a served as a reader for the blind on school in 1944 and immediately will be missed. —Robert H. Romer ’52 captain in the U.S. Army Medical Georgia Radio Service. joined the Navy to serve for three Corps (including a year in Korea), our After his first date with Jane Fraser years or so before matriculating in family settled in California in 1962. in 1954 (a blind date, I might add), 1947 with the class of 1951. Like some Robert K. Chipman ’53 He completed his residency at UCLA he knew she was the girl he was go- other vets in our class, Don decided to In the class of 1953’s 50th reunion and moved to Fullerton (north Or- ing to marry. Throughout the years forgo the fraternity lifestyle. He and book, Bob Chipman wrote: “I have ange County) where he joined a new they celebrated the day they met in his wife, Shirley, an R.N., lived and had a lot of fun, and I would catego- group of internists that subsequently contrast to their wedding day. Al worked up and down the New York rize myself as having lived a good grew into the largest internal medi- is survived by Jane; brother Harry Hudson Valley area. They had a va- life.” cine clinic in the county. ’56; three children—Harry Steuber, cation condo on Jupiter Island, Fla., In the years following 2003, Bob Dad practiced internal medicine Laura Dalton and Amy Jablonski; and retired to Arlington, Vt., where continued to enjoy life accompa- and hematology for the next three eight grandchildren; and three great- they lived for many years—just over nied by Edie Leckey, his partner and and a half decades. He served as grandchildren. —John W. Priesing ’50 the Saratoga Springs, N.Y., border. “soulmate,” until early September chief of medicine for the area’s ma- Don was stepfather to Shirley’s when tests showed he had developed jor hospital and was instrumental in three children. He was remembered terminal brain cancer and lung can- establishing hospice care in Orange Dean Blanchard ’51 for his quiet, gentle nature, his mar- cer. Bob was immediately moved to County. He retired in 1990 to spend Dean passed away on June 8 after bat- velous quick wit and his talents as a hospice facility in his hometown of more time with family, read (he loved tling kidney problems for some three pianist, magician and mathemati- recent times, Fernandina Beach, Fla., history and science fiction), ravelt years. His wife, whom he married in cian. —Everett E. Clark ’51 where he died on Sept. 28. and garden—especially tending to 1953, and one of their two daughters, Bob was born in New York City his vast collection of orchids, which predeceased him. and grew up in Connecticut and he began cultivating in the 1970s. His surviving daughter and her Norman Doelling ’52 New Orleans. He came to Amherst Amherst always evoked fond mem- family live in Brooklyn, Conn. Dean Norman Doelling, 86, died on March from Newman High School in New ories for Dad, and he was proud to be took up residence in the house next 30, 2017, at his home in Newton, Orleans. At Amherst, he was treasur- a Lord Jeff (I’m not sure how he would door for the last years of his life, Mass. Entering Amherst in 1948, er of Phi Delta Theta and majored in have felt about the Mammoth …) and thereby enjoying his daughter and Norm was one of a handful of Am- biology. was even prouder when both my sis- her family, which he stated was a herst students who took advantage His education continued at Tulane, ter and I went to Amherst. big plus for him. of the Amherst-MIT “3-2 Plan,” where he earned M.S. and Ph.D. de- He is survived by Ellen, his wife While at Amherst, Dean kept a low emerging in 1953 with degrees from grees in zoology, preparing him for a of 58 years; son Brad ’82 and Wen- profile but was a dependable friend both institutions. With a master’s teaching career that included stints dy Justus; daughter Andrea ’85 and for those he could help in any way. In from MIT in 1955, Norm remained at the State University of New York Greg Kann; and four grandchildren. hindsight he appreciated the “New an ardent supporter of both his alma at Plattsburgh, the University of Ver- —Brad Justus ’82 Curriculum” but struggled, as did maters throughout his life. He is sur- mont and the University of Rhode Is- most of us as freshmen, with Eng- vived by his wife of 40 years, Jean land. At URI, he was zoology depart- lish 1. He questioned history 101 but Macmillan Doelling (they had met ment chair. Joseph “Hank” Carter ’54 excelled in and majored in math. Af- again, 25 years after they had dated at Upon retirement from teaching, During his career at York Hospital, ter two and a half years in the Army Amherst and Smith), and three sons: Bob operated the Green Frog Garden Hank Carter held and welcomed and several jobs he found unsuitable, Peter, Kurt ’78 and Eric. He also had Center in Bradford, Vt., a business he thousands of babies into the world, Dean turned to private school teach- four stepchildren. later restricted to growing perennials and so it is with profound sadness ing—four years at the Tilton School in Norm worked for Bolt, Beranek for the wholesale trade. that we report the passing of Dr. Jo- New Hampshire and then 32 years at and Newman and then Digital Equip- Bob loved to take long trips around seph Hankinson Carter Jr., who died St. George’s School in Rhode Island. ment Corp. and founded Doelling the country in a large trailer, heading on Oct. 19 following a 10-month bat- Math was his specialty. He picked up Associates, enabling alliances be- south to avoid Vermont winters. In tle with squamous cell carcinoma. a master’s along the way, and as com- tween Japanese and American com- Edie, he found the perfect compan- Hank Carter adored Amherst Col- puters became the rage, he tried to panies. A skier while in college, he ion for his many travels. After some lege. He was a member of Chi Phi keep one lesson ahead of his com- took to the water after college, row- searching, they settled happily in and loved telling his children stories puter students, budding with future ing his Alden scull in the Head of the Fernandina Beach at the Georgia about life at the fairest college. Af- programmers. Charles regatta and spending the last border. ter graduating in 1954 and marrying Dean also coached three sports for 20 years of his MIT career with the Late in life, Bob developed a new Tracey Cushmore in 1955, he served many years. His teaching and school Sea Grant Program. And then there hobby—creating stained glass win- in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and obligations left little time for other was sailing, as he competed several dows. was stationed in San Antonio, Texas, interests during the school year, but times in the Newport to Bermuda Bob was twice a widower. He is sur- during the Korean War. Hank gradu- in the summer, he and his wife trav- race. Sailing became a passion for vived two sons, Robert Jr. and Clay; a ated and completed his residency in eled, and he could devote time to Norm and Jeannie, as they explored brother, David; four grandchildren; obstetrics and gynecology at Hahne- furniture woodcraft—corner cabi- the New England coast in their 38- and a great-grandchild. mann Medical School, and in 1970 he nets, slant-front desks and smaller foot sloop. During winter months, He was a free spirit determined to opened a private practice in York, Pa.

AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 105 Hank served as the medical di- Comments from John’s peers ex- lived for years in the same Brook- found his future in the newspaper rector for Planned Parenthood for tolled him “as a thoughtful, kind, lyn Heights Willow Street house as business, a career that took him to 25 years. He retired from private gentle person with a great deal of hu- Henry Ward Beecher, class of 1834, Western Massachusetts and mar- practice in 1998. Most recently, he mility” and, as one said, “He may be passed on Oct. 14, 2017. riage to Jane Warren, whose brother worked as an attending physician at gone now, but his legacy will live on Bill attended Saint Thomas Choir was fellow Theta Delt Bill Warren ’55. Wellspan ob-gyn clinic from 1999 to in our communities and in the beauty School and Trinity Pawling. At Am- After a short detour working for 2017, where he dedicated his time to of our state.” herst he majored in history and the secretary of Amherst College, teaching residents and seeing pa- In all his activities, he was support- joined Chi Phi. We served on the In- he joined the North Adams Transcript tients, something he loved best. ed by his second wife, Jane, who was tramural Council together. Not sur- and moved with Jane and their two A compassionate physician, Hank a commissioner of the City of Bur- prisingly, he became a member of the children to Williamstown, Mass. As was a staunch advocate for women’s lington. Between them, they had Zumbyes. He served three years as a time went on, Kiko became city edi- reproductive rights. He loved to trav- eight children and 12 grandchildren. U.S. Army Ranger, rising to the rank tor of the paper. el but always found himself back on —Hank Tulgan ’54 of captain. On New Year’s Eve 1974, Kiko met Long Beach Island for a few weeks in Bill received his law degree from Harriet Buechner, whom he married the summer, where he listened to the the University of Virginia using the in 1975. Together they survived his waves and read spy novels. He loved Jefferson Ward Keener ’54 G.I. Bill and practiced for more than sudden resignation from the Tran- going fast in cars with big engines. Jeff died on Sept. 8 in Akron, Ohio. 35 years in the corporate arena in New script when he declined to cut his He enjoyed wildlife photography and For the past several years he coura- York City and abroad. In New York, staff in half. He began to enjoy row- collecting African masks. A passion- geously managed a busy life despite he was a member of the University ing, skiing and freelancing. In 1999 ate gourmand, Hank adored tasting, the dual challenges of Parkinson’s Club. He continued singing for many they formed Berkshire Sculling As- sharing and buying wine. disease and lung cancer. Born in years in the Brooklyn Heights Grace sociation, sold shells and competed Hank was predeceased by his wife, Akron, Jeff went to Western Reserve Church choir. He also was a skilled in many regattas here and abroad. He Tracey. He taught all his children that Academy, later serving on its board guitar player and prided himself on wrote books and eventually returned the greatest gift is in caring for oth- for nearly 30 years. At Amherst, Jeff speaking four languages, as noted in to newspapering as the Berkshire Ea- ers; he is survived by his four children majored in economics. He earned our 50th reunion yearbook, Strang- gle business editor. and nine grandchildren. And so we an M.B.A. at Case Western Reserve ers Once. Always enthusiastic, Kiko worked “raise the rosy goblet high” to toast University. While still at Amherst, In 1959 Bill married Mary-Chilton hard, played hard and loved life. a life well lived. He will be missed. Jeff joined the U.S. Naval Reserve Winslow, known as Mimi, a Radcliffe Unique and admirable, he was a —Christine Carter ’85 and after graduate study was called graduate, journalist, syndicated col- wonderful friend. —Jan Farr ’55 and to active duty. After attending OCS umnist and director of corporate David Mermelstein ’55 at Newport, he became a lieutenant communications for the Dreyfus John T. Ewing ’54 on destroyer duty, including a six- Corp. Mimi predeceased him in 2014. Labeled “a Vermont treasure” by nu- month cruise in the Pacific. At the They traveled extensively around the Holcomb B. Noble ’55 merous people in the Green Moun- end of that cruise, he married Kath- world and lived for two years in Brus- Holcomb B. Noble—Hoc, to all who tain State, John Ewing died on Nov. leen Cullinan, his wife for 55 years, sels, Belgium. In addition to their knew him—was a distinguished jour- 25 after a lengthy battle with bone who predeceased him. Jeff is survived Brooklyn home, they had one that nalist. As science and health editor marrow cancer. He came to Amherst by three daughters, a son, four grand- they enjoyed in Stillwater, N.J. for the New York Times, he shared from Rydal, Pa., after graduating children and two brothers. I recall Bill’s coming to homecom- in two Pulitzer prizes—one on Star from George School. He joined Chi Returning to Akron after the Navy, ing with his daughter shortly after Wars, the other on the space shuttle Phi, received his ’54 in swimming and Jeff began a career in the rubber tire Mimi’s passing. I don’t believe that Challenger. He authored dozens of majored in political science. He was business and in 1978 struck out on his he had further visits to the campus. other stories, including many on president of the Prelaw Club and ac- own, purchasing the Chardon Rub- She (Elizabeth) and her husband, Lyme disease. In addition, he wrote tive in debating societies and on the ber Co. He ran the company with William Stowell, and his two sons; obituaries of such notables as C. Student. After Amherst, he attended great success for more than 30 years. Malcolm and his wife, Kathleen; Everett Koop, Milton Friedman and Yale Law School, graduating in 1957, Jeff and I met early in our freshman and George and his wife, Jane, and John Kenneth Galbraith, often after and settled in Vermont. year, when we played on the fresh- six grandchildren, Eleanor, William, having interviewed them in person. After a stint in private practice, man football team and competed Angeline and Nathaniel Mead and He also authored Next, the Coming John served in the banking industry for a share of the 167-pound class as Carl and Timothy Stowell, survive Era in Medicine and Cheney’s War from 1972 to 1995, rising to become frosh wrestlers. We both pledged Psi him. —Hank Tulgan ’54 Crimes: The Reign of a De Facto Pres- president of the downtown Burling- U and enjoyed a friendship deepen- ident. ton Savings Bank, which had several ing there and continuing after we Music was an important part of incarnations, finally becoming part graduated. One of our last Amherst Lewis C. Cuyler ’55 Hoc’s life. He not only sang in the of KeyBank. During his banking ca- exploits was a group “borrowing” of When he came to Amherst, Lewis renowned University Glee Club of reer, John was very supportive of the clapper from the Johnson Cha- Carter Cuyler was known as “Kiko,” a New York City but also was a trust- community-based projects and was pel tower. In his notes for our 50th nickname given at South Kent School ee of the internationally acclaimed called “a banker with a conscience.” reunion book, Jeff claims credit as after the cartoon character “Kiko the Young People’s Chorus of New York As a result, Vermont’s then-gover- the instigator of that nefarious plot. Kangaroo.” He joined Theta Delta City. When Amherst groups visited nor, Howard Dean, appointed John More seriously, Jeff praised the Am- Chi freshman year. In his autobi- him at his apartment, he would soon as member and chair of the Vermont herst faculty and our treasured core ography, he wrote that he loved his sit down at his piano and get every- Housing Conservation Board and curriculum for the depth and range years at Amherst. He became a mem- one singing. chair of the Vermont Environmental of the education that served him so ber of the Amherst crew, continuing Hoc was an avid skier and an ex- Board, where he served from 1998 to well throughout his life. He remained a sport which he had begun earlier cellent tennis player. David Mer- 2013. Furthermore, he was an early deeply engaged with the College, and which became a stable part of melstein ’55 can attest to his tennis supporter of the Vermont Chapter never missing a reunion, and meet- his life for many years. As a senior, prowess, having lost to him regularly, of the Nature Conservancy, helped ing often with his Psi U brothers of Kiko served as coach of the freshmen first near his earlier home in Pelham found the Lake Champlain Land ’54. —Thomas H. Blackburn ’54 crew. The social scene was different and then for many years at various Trust and was a founder of the Ver- from prep school, and his humor and courts in New York City after he mont Forum on Sprawl. gift for storytelling made him a wel- moved there. He received the Arthur Gibbs William Grimston Mead ’54 come companion. His very presence Hoc entered Amherst in the class Award from the Vermont Natural Another of the 10 Brooklynites who lit up a room, and his singing capped of 1955, but since he spent his senior Resources Council in 2012 for in- entered Amherst in September 1950 a joyful evening. year in France, primarily skiing, so dividual leadership as the longest- has died. Following two dreary years in the he once said, he graduated in 1956. serving member of the Two Boards. Bill Mead, who grew up and Army stationed in Germany, Kiko Ever loyal to Amherst, he attended

106 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 reunions of both classes and devel- Huck Finn Rusty “borrowed” a dump percent of his life. At Deerfi eld he oped close friendships with members truck for a ride home from a bar one was a wonderful and popular math Charles Klem ’56 of each class, bringing them together evening. “Home” was the JMH teacher and also coached both soc- Charlie Klem ’56 died peacefully in in an enduring camaraderie. guesthouse. I told him he’d better cer and golf. the early hours of Oct. 26, after strug- He is survived by his first wife, disappear it fast! An Alpha Delt at Amherst, Gage gling with bladder cancer. Clue; their children, Carolyn and Jon His fi rst car was a 1945 Ford woody. played on the squash and golf teams, Over the last two decades, many “J.H.” Holcomb ’89; three grandchil- He sold to it me, then he bought a sang with the Zumbyes and was our classmates visited with Charlie and dren; and his second wife, Lindsay monstrous green Buick—which he class choregus. One of his passions his wife, Sheila, during reunions, in Davidson. traded to me for his original Ford was Gilbert and Sullivan, and indeed their “house on the hill” in Amherst Hoc was spirited, youthful (navi- woody! His prize car was a 1937 Ford John Royse ’56, his good friend and on Plum Tree Road, and he regularly gating Manhattan on roller blades phaeton, which he charmed out of an roommate at both schools, recalls his enjoyed watching the Jeff s, and then in his 60s), engaging, witty and older lady in Lakeville, Conn. stirring bass performance in the title the Mammoths, play basketball. thoughtful—a wonderful friend. Rusty and I used to watch Al play role of The Mikado at Deerfi eld. Charlie also served as site super- —David Mermelstein ’55 and Tom lacrosse, Rusty always in his brown- Upon retirement, Gage spent most visor for Pioneer Valley Habitat for Spencer ’56 and-white saddle shoes and khaki of his time at the New Bedford Coun- Humanity projects in that time and raincoat. Then on to Barselotti’s for try Club playing many rounds of golf actively participated in the area beer and pickled eggs. In the army until his knees finally forced him Learning in Retirement community. William B. Funnell ’56 one day, I was watching new guys ar- off the course to the clubhouse. He Charlie leaves wife Sheila, of South Al: Rusty was my freshman room- rive—among them, Rusty! We drank rued the fact that, although he came Hadley; daughter Pamela Klem ’85, mate. For hazing I was driven blind- a lot of 3.2 beer, Rusty’s theory being within two or three strokes of shoot- son-in-law Thomas Dubin ’84 and folded and dumped in the Athol that a waft of stale beer would con- ing his age, his aging joints cut his grandchildren Emma, Jonah and woods. I called Rusty. He came in a vince the inspecting captain to move playing days short of achieving that Stella Dubin; and son Timothy Klem, “borrowed” car. I doubt the owner on. Rusty, with his placid nature, was feat. However, as a life member of daughter-in-law Lynda Klem and knew his car had been borrowed! a modern Good Soldier Schweik. his club, Gage continued to dine and grandchildren Caesar Sandt, Hadri- Rusty knew my wife before I did. Looked like him too! schmooze with his buddies four or an Sandt and Sarah Klem. His brother He was fetching Sunday dates from We miss Rusty, a wonderful charac- fi ve days a week. It is hard for any- John and sister-in-law Elinor live in Smith, and I suggested Willa, whom ter and friend. —Al McLellan ’56 and one to think of him without recalling Armonk, N.Y. —Pamela Klem ’85 I’d spied among the freshmen. When Toni Huber ’56 his biting wit, his booming voice and we got married, Rusty couldn’t make the distinctive pleasant aroma of his it because of an accident, but he did ever-present pipe. Alan Levenstein ’56 visit us in Canada for our 25th. I am Peter Gage Hindle ’56 He is survived by three nieces, Kar- Alan Levenstein died of pancreatic daily reminded of Rusty: he once Gage died peacefully in South Dart- en Donoghue, Gail Hindle and Susan cancer on Nov. 6, surrounded by his rescued a “French gravure” entitled mouth, Mass., perhaps 10 minutes Wilson of Massachusetts; two neph- adoring family: Gail, his wife of 54 Naissance de la Voile, a gull morph- away from his birthplace in New ews, Russell Hindle of North Caro- years, and children Miranda, Jessica ing into a wind surfer, from a dump. Bedford. Prep school at Deerfield lina and Gage Hindle of California; ’91 and Tony. This “garbage” hangs over my fi re- Academy, college at Amherst, a 44- and a sister in-law, Sarah Hindle of His four years at Amherst shaped place today. year teaching career at Deerfi eld and Massachusetts, all of whom will miss Alan in profound ways. An English Toni: Rusty loved cars, “borrowed” retirement in 2000, which sent him Uncle Peter’s wonderful sense of hu- major, he formed a lasting friendship or not. In Borger, Texas (working at back to South Dartmouth, probably mor and entertaining jokes. —Peter with Professor Benjamin DeMott, for the JM Huber Carbon Black plant), keeping him in the Bay State for 99 Levison ’56 whom he wrote a senior thesis on the

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AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 107 plays of George Bernard Shaw. Alan Suzanne and adored father of Dana Bill considered Amherst the most He is survived by his sister, two marked his gratitude by establishing Gray Moodey ’84 and the late Deb- formative experience of his life and nieces, four great-nieces and a the DeMott Lecture, an annual fea- orah Gray Wood, he was loved and gave back generously to the College. great-nephew. There was no fu- ture of first-year orientation at the admired by his five grandchildren He played squash, was captain of the neral, by Rick’s request. His ashes College, emphasizing issues of social and recently became a proud great- tennis team, served as vice president were scattered by friends in several and economic inequality, racial and grandfather. of DU, was active in WAMF, Kirby places, including in Mazatlán on the gender bias and political activism. Doug was born in Waterbury, Theater and Olio and was co-sports west coast of Mexico, on the beach. Alan also sang with the Glee Club, Conn., and raised in Waban, Mass. editor of the Student. —Neale Adams ’63 pledged Beta Theta Pi, graduated Phi He attended Rivers Country Day Bill was poised, almost unflap- Beta Kappa and magna cum laude School. While at Amherst, Doug ma- pable, with a sharp intelligence and and formed lifelong friendships. Es- jored in economics, participated in quick wit, and an easy, disarming John Holmes Miller ’63 pecially dear to him were Ed Nygren the student council and was inducted laugh. He was a skier and golfer, John Holmes Miller, a scholar of ’56, Dick Pollak ’57 and Bill Salot ’56. into the Sphinx honorary society. He loved the opera and symphony and Japanese and East Asian history After Amherst, Alan embarked on joined Alpha Delta Phi and enjoyed enjoyed playing the piano, reading who served for 25 years in the U.S. a long career in advertising, creat- close Amherst friendships that con- and traveling. He was on the board Foreign Service, died April 5 after ing award-winning strategic plans tinued throughout his life. In 1956, of the Riverview Medical Center, was a lengthy illness. He was known by and advertising campaigns, includ- Doug married his childhood sweet- active in various clubs and supported some at Amherst as “Holmes.” His ing the marketing and communica- heart, Suzanne Van Mater, and the numerous causes. interest in the Far East began at the tions partnership that resulted in the couple moved to a small apartment in Bill believed he had been fortunate College. Rick Fried ’63 recalls that turnaround of Chrysler Corp. When Amherst. Sue taught nursery school in life but most importantly in marry- John’s honors thesis was about a he retired as vice chairman and chief at the Little Red Schoolhouse while ing Joan and in the family they raised 1921 Washington Conference that strategy officer at Bozell Worldwide Doug finished his degree in 1957. together. He is survived by Joan; two dealt with naval power in the Far in 1999, Alan devoted himself to pub- Following his graduation, Doug daughters, Callie ’90 (Fritz Holle- East. “That obviously helped set his lic service and teaching, establishing served in the U.S. Navy as an air in- man of Boulder, Colo.) and Pam (Wil- course though life,” said Rick, who the American Musicals Project at the telligence officer stationed at Quon- liam Campbell of Honolulu); and five recalled that John “had a dry and New York Historical Society and set Point, R.I., for three years. Doug grandchildren, including Claire ’21. ironic sense of humor about histori- teaching at Columbia University’s and Sue moved to Duxbury to raise —Bob Steele ’60 and Dave Pennock ’60 cal and other matters at Amherst.” Mailman School of Public Health. their daughters and remained as ac- John—the son of Professor John C. A diehard liberal in Saville Row tive members in the community for Miller, a historian at Stanford, and suits, Alan cut a dashing, unforget- 55 years. Doug started his career at Richard Wheeler Crosby ’63 Gladys Viola (Johnson) Miller—was table figure. He was a consummate Smith Barney & Co., working for 18 Richard Wheeler Crosby, who stayed born Nov. 21, 1941, in Bryn Mawr, Pa. New Yorker and an enthusiastic afi- years in Institutional Equity Sales. He a bachelor all his life and loved to He went to Punahou School in Ho- cionado of literature and the per- then spent 18 years at Merrill Lynch travel to visit friends, died Oct. 2 in nolulu and later to Menlo-Atherton forming arts, but his deepest pas- as a director in Municipal Bonds Pozos, Mexico. High School near Stanford. sion was for his family. He and Gail Sales. He was respected by his col- Rick began to spend time in Pozos a At Amherst John went out for base- were a perfect match, both witty, leagues, who admired his work ethic few years ago after living in Beaufort, ball and crew. He was a rushing chair- warm and charming, and they en- and the high moral standards that S.C., and retiring from his job as ad- man one year for Kappa Theta. tertained often and traveled widely. guided his business decisions. ministrator of Webster University’s After graduating, John went to Alan was an active, devoted father Upon retiring, Doug thoroughly en- extension division in Beaufort. Stanford for a master’s and on to to Miranda, Jessica and Tony, and joyed winters spent in Boca Grande, Rick “was very much his own per- Princeton for his doctorate in Japa- was besotted by his granddaugh- where he dedicated himself to per- son, who did what he wanted to do nese history. He joined the Foreign ters, Willa and Alice Davis. His in- fecting his golf and tennis games. and always enjoyed what he was do- Service in 1975. He held posts in Ja- tellectual curiosity, civic engagement Above all, Doug was a family man. ing,” said his sister, Ruth Grayson of pan, South Korea, the Philippines and loving relationships charac- His loyalty and devotion to his par- Greenville, S.C. and Canada, and served as the Bur- terized a life lived to the fullest. ents, siblings, wife, daughters, sons- The son of Richard and Elizabeth ma desk officer in Washington, D.C. —Jessica Levenstein Davis ’91 in-law, grandchildren, great-grand- (Wheeler) Crosby, Rick was born In 2000 he returned to Honolulu daughter and close friends—many Nov. 15, 1940, in Ithaca, N.Y. He at- and the Asia-Pacific Center for Secu- with connections to Amherst—were tended the Indian Springs School in rity Studies, a U.S. Navy institution, Stephen B. Flood ’57 remarkable. —Dana Gray Moodey ’84 Helena, Ala., south of Birmingham. where as an associate professor he Steve Flood died July 23. He had suf- At Amherst, Rick majored in Amer- specialized in Japan’s foreign rela- fered from Parkinson’s disease for ican studies. He taught political phi- tions and East Asian security issues. 34 years. His survivors include his William M. Weiant ’60 losophy at Colgate in New York State There he wrote two books: Modern wife, Cynthia; daughters Dr. Pamela William Morrow Weiant, 78, died on from 1965 through 1979, and earned East Asia: an Introductory History Flood-Shafer ’85 and Courtney Flood Sept. 24 after a short illness. Bill grew a Ph.D. in government studies from (2008) and American Political and Bennett; and five grandchildren. up in New Jersey, where he attended Cornell in 1970. Cultural Perspectives on Japan: From Steve majored in political science. Metuchen High School. He received Rick’s passion for classical music Perry to Obama (2014). He was a member of Delta Kappa a B.A. from Amherst in 1960 and an led him at age 38 to leave his teaching John is survived by his wife, Mioko; Epsilon, and his extracurricular ac- M.B.A from New York University in job and move to Charleston, S.C., to daughter Katherine; son John; two tivities included football, the Outing 1964. He served in the U.S. Air Force. open a shop to sell high fidelity audio brothers; and a niece. A private fam- Club, the Sailing Club, the Debate He married Joan Eberstadt in 1967. equipment. This venture lasted only ily service was held last summer on Council and the Rotherwas Society. The couple settled in Little Silver, three years, after which he went back San Juan Island, Washington State. Steve graduated from the Univer- N.J., an area he had fallen in love with to academic life. —Neale Adams ’63 sity of Michigan Law School in 1960 when he spent two college summers Rick retired around age 70 settled and practiced law for 30 years. He there as an assistant club tennis pro. in Pozos, an old silver mining town was widely respected and served as An economics major, Bill started a about 170 miles northwest of Mexico William R. Nadel ’64 chairman of the Securities Law Com- 47-year career in finance at Eastman City. Bill passed away on Nov. 25 in Sum- mittee of the New York City Bar As- Dillon and then worked at First Bos- According to Ruth, Rick traveled mit, N.J., his family at his bedside. sociation. —Bill Patrick ’57 ton, Dillon Read and Morgan Stanley, the world. He especially enjoyed time Born on June 15, 1940, in Irvington, from which he retired as a manag- in New Zealand, Wales and South N.J., he received his M.D. from Case- ing director in 2007. He specialized Africa. On his travels, he made and Western Reserve Medical School in Douglas M. Gray Jr. ’57 in bank mergers and acquisitions and often visited many friends. He main- 1968. Douglas Mintie Gray Jr. died peace- was ranked as one of the leading bank tained a condominium on Santa Hel- It was at Amherst that Bill met Vir- fully on April 21. Beloved husband of analysts on Wall Street. ena Island in South Carolina. ginia “Ginger” Bunzl, who would go

108 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 on to be his life partner. Upon finish- Rarely was he wrong, but he once Carol Foxman. The Segal family has ing his residency, Bill began work as thought the famous book was Twenty deep ties to the College including William Edward Burt ’68 deputy commissioner for the City Years before the Mast instead of Two uncles Robert’36, Edward ’39 and Ending a nearly two-year battle of New York’s Department of Men- Years before the Mast. When shown Irving’42; cousin Terry ’64, nieces with a particularly virulent cancer, tal Health and Mental Retardation. the correct title, he exclaimed that it Jessica ’95 and Nicole Huvelle ’01; Bill Burt passed away peacefully on In 1977, he moved with his family was the condensed version. and nephew Adam ’03. Oct. 16 in Toronto, his adopted home to Summit. After four years at Fair Al had an abiding love for Amherst In the early 1980s the Segal family since graduation. With him were his Oaks, Bill became chief of psychia- and Beta Theta Pi, of which he was established the Segal family scholar- second wife, Judy Thomas, and his try at Muhlenberg Regional Medical president. He was invaluable to his ship for residents of Israel and the sons Steven and Geoff. Center in Plainfield, N.J., where he fraternity brothers, as he knew which Worcester region. Several months before graduation, worked until his retirement in 2006. classes required the least work. Alan also will be remembered for Bill told me that he wanted no part He continued a private practice until An unflagging booster of Shaker his kindness, humor and abiding of the Vietnam War; before the ink shortly before his death. Heights and Cleveland, he hosted friendships. His memory will be a was dry on our diplomas, he was in Bill worked tirelessly to raise two mini reunions there: In 2006 he blessing to all who knew him. —Terry Canada, where he renounced his awareness about mental illness. He showed us the Rock and Roll Hall of Segal ’64, Michael Boxer ’67, Sumner American citizenship. Ironic that the was a member of the American Medi- Fame, gave an insider’s tour of the Segal and Meryl Segal one Goldwater conservative among cal Association and the New Jersey city and took us to an Indians game my friends was the one to do this, Psychiatric Association and was a at Jacobs Field. In 1993 he hosted us but Bill always marched to his own fellow of the American Psychiatric at the soon-to-close Cleveland Sta- Elliott S. Andrews ’68 drummer. Politically he was more a Association. dium. One of his favorite stories was I knew Elliott only slightly at Cran- libertarian, with a small ‘l,’ and once He served on the Union County the arrest of one of us for scalping brook and Amherst, but in the past with a capital L, when he ran for Par- Mental Health Board and frequently extra tickets. 10 years MaryAnn and I became liament and garnered a respectable lobbied both the United States and Al was predeceased by his parents, good friends with his wife, Jill, and 1 percent of the vote. New Jersey legislatures to increase James and Helen, and brother Bruce with him. In 1978 he quit his stockbroker job funding for mental health program- ’59. He is survived by brother Doug We saw Elliott three times in the to bicycle through the Himalayas for ming and care. More broadly, Bill ’61; niece Lauren Havighurst Tack- last couple of months, while he was a year. Upon returning, he set two witnessed growing health dispari- ett ’96; nephew Bryan Havighurst; in hospice. The first time, he was in goals: to meet a girl who shared his ties as the medical field shifted from significant other/legal associate his big barn and garage, working to love of running and to be retired by patient-focused care to a more busi- Martha Lee; and former wife, Julie get three motorcycles ready to take age 40. He achieved the first by start- ness-oriented model. He noted in Morse Havighurst. His late uncle to a motorcycle event the next day ing a runners club, where he met his public hearings that this shift would Alfred Havighurst was an emeritus in Battle Creek. He was having dif- first wife, Michelle, and the second by have negative impacts on healthcare professor at Amherst. ficulty walking by then, but he could becoming a commodities trader and, for all, but particularly for poor com- Ghurst’s memory lives in the sit on a rolling seat and work. One in classic Bill Burt fashion, making a munities. hearts of many who loved and miss of the cycles was giving him and a fortune by going contrary to conven- There is little that Bill loved more him dearly. —Douglas Havighurst friend trouble until Elliott shot some tional wisdom. than spending time with his family; ’61, George Fleming ’67 and Michael silicone into a cable and freed the He bought a small farm near Lake his grandchildren have given him Boxer ’67 throttle. He smiled broadly when Ontario and turned to philanthropy; great joy. Bill is survived by his wife it fired up. The three of us wheeled in 2009 Bill established and funded of 53 years, Virginia; a sister, Nancy the bikes into a trailer, and Elliott tied the Burt Award, for novels by bud- Greenberg of Riverside, Calif.; a Alan F Segal ’67 them down with bungee cords. They ding authors in developing countries, daughter, Helen; a son, Joshua; their Alan died peacefully from complica- were ready to travel. as part of a broader pro-literacy ini- spouses, Joel Zarrow and Evanthia tions of chronic lymphocytic leuke- We saw him the last time just a few tiative. Throughout his final illness, Canoutas; and four grandchildren, mia, which he had for several years. days before the donation of a 1911 Bill sent a series of emails to family Isabel Cayla and Felix Livingston He was a scholar of the history of re- Flanders 4 motorcycle to the Chelsea and friends, describing, with clinical Zarrow, and Sofia Ariadne and ligions and was the Ingeborg Rennert Historical Society. Read that story at detachment, and not a trace of self- Rafael Nikolaos Canoutas-Nadel. Chair in Jewish Studies at Barnard chelseahistory.org/1911-flanders- pity, how the body he always kept in —Vince Simmon ’64 College. He was the author of many motorcycle-refurbished. superlative shape was betraying him. books and articles that were scholarly Elliott transferred to Amherst from One such email began with a Maori in intent but nonetheless attracted a MIT in 1966, joined Phi Psi, ran track proverb: “Turn your face to the sun, Alan W. Havighurst ’67 broad readership. His particular in- and cross-country and opened his and the shadows fall behind you.” A Al Havighurst—the “Ghurst” to Am- terests were the relationship between own motorcycle shop while still at perfect metaphor for a life well and herst friends—died peacefully five rabbinic Judaism and early Christi- the College. fully lived. —David L. Glass ’68 days after being diagnosed with anity, which he viewed as sibling de- After graduating, he built motor- pancreatic cancer. velopments from the same biblical cycles and raced professionally until A consummate raconteur, he re- tradition, as well as the life of Paul. 1982, when he joined the engineering Peter Grant Dorland ’68 galed those of us from more humble His magisterial study Life after Death: division at Caltech as chief adminis- Peter Dorland died of cancer on Nov. backgrounds with stories of his be- A History of the Afterlife in Western Re- trator and mechanical engineering 4, 2015, in Jackson, Ga. We kept in loved University School and Shaker ligion has become the seminal text advisor for the remaining 22 years of contact for a decade after Amherst Heights high society. on this field. his work life. despite intense training and duty After Amherst, he taught at Uni- Alan received master’s degrees Elliott was a terrific guy—smart, schedules, but we gradually lost versity School before starting a solo from Hebrew Union College and possessed of a wry wit, accomplished touch as careers and geography in- law practice in Cleveland specializ- Brandeis University and a doctoral but modest and kind. A national class tervened. ing in taxes, probate and estate plan- degree from Yale. At Amherst he was runner and marathoner, he exempli- Peter was born on St. Patrick’s Day ning. Old-school Ghurst would make a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He fied the definition of a scholar-ath- 1946 into a career military family that home visits to elderly clients. served as president and board mem- lete-mechanical wizard. included four West Point graduates. Our longtime class secretary, he ber for many professional societies Elliott’s legacy will be carried for- He came to Amherst as one of three had a delightful sense of humor and and was the recipient of many hon- ward by his three daughters, Gillian prep academy graduates from Nash- an encyclopedic memory. His trivia ors, lectureships and grants. Andrews, Sylvie Andrews and Ariel ville, along with John Stifler ’68 and quizzes were a reunion highlight. Alan was born in Worcester, Mass., Andrews Raupagh, as well as his two me—and as one of those 1,352 gui- (“Quickly: Which U.S. president went to Rose (Sadowsky) and Bennet Se- grandsons, Nolan, 5, and Alex, 2. We tar pickers in the Lovin’ Spoonful’s to Williams? What was the probation gal. He is survived by his wife, Meryl; should all hope to face the end with “Nashville Cats.” He performed at in Animal House that Dean Wormer sons Ethan ’99 (Kelly) and Jordan ’02 the grace and dignity that Elliott did. college venues with Tom Jones and imposed on Delta House?”) (Abbey); brother Eric ’71; and sister —Joe Kimble ’67 Paul Stumpf ’67, and he shared his

AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 109 sophisticated stereo system and rock James McClellan III and Andrew While at Amherst, he came to know said, “I found a picture of us at your and country record collection with McClellan; their wives; and many be- Bob, the Stone custodian who then wedding, and it looks like it’s you his roommates, fraternity brothers loved nieces, nephews, cousins and became the unofficial Stone sage and me getting married. Let’s face and, often, across campus, utilizing friends. He was preceded in death by on issues of women, sex and rela- it. We basically are.” Julie and I saw the volume control knob. his father, James McClellan Jr., and tionships. Bill befriended campus each other through a lot of life. When Pete majored in biology and was a brother, Mark McClellan. —John security officers and the folks at I lived with her in LA, one day she active in Chi Phi and the Glee Club. Stifler ’68 Miss Florence’s diner, and formed came into my room and said, “You A deeply competitive member of lifelong relationships with several wanna go to Nepal?” “Okay,” I said. the wrestling team, he trained hard, College administrators and profes- She was down to half a lung at that spending hours in the steam tunnels Craig Gordon Dunkerley ’69 sors. After Amherst, he befriended point. We struggled at the back of the in a rubber suit to make weight for We were saddened to learn that staff at his favorite restaurant/hotel pack, but completed the trek. matches. (Check COTM#6 with John Craig Dunkerley died Sept. 17. As in Boston (the “Old Ritz”) and all The day after she died, a white but- Davidson ’68 for inspiring details.) his roommate with Rob Simpson the townspeople in York, to name terfly landed on my heart and just sat. Following graduation, Peter en- ’69 in our freshman year, I was im- a couple of examples. His funeral I said, “Hi Julie!” She continues to tered Officer Candidate School and pressed by Craig’s brilliant personal- attracted the wide range of people visit me, and I know many share my volunteered for helicopter train- ity. He brightened our time in Pratt he cared about, from his clients and gratitude for having known her de- ing and medical evacuation. As a through his intelligence, virtuos- law firm partners to the person who termination, humor, intelligence and medevac pilot in Vietnam with the ity and delightful style. He was ex- passed him out jogging that morning, acceptance. —Laura Scandrett ’88 101st Airborne, he was awarded the tremely well read. Despite the work- paying testament to the connections Bronze Star, 10 Air Medals and the load of the freshman curriculum, he he constantly made. Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gal- seemed to inhale one or two books Few will forget Bill’s rant at our Nicholas A. Rieser ’01 lantry. He served his country with a week. The range of his interests in 40th reunion, when he urged our Nicholas Alexander Rieser ’01 died honor and great distinction, evacu- books was boundless—from histo- class to take to the streets to protest unexpectedly on Sept. 5 in New York ating wounded soldiers and civilians. ries of Rome through Malcom X to the government’s foreign policy de- City. Some of us will remember him Returning stateside, he accepted an Ian Fleming and Tom Wolfe novels. cisions and to use our class as the as a keen debater; others as a talent- assignment to the U.S. Army Center Also compelling was his passion for cauldron for beginning a national ed, stoic goaltender; or, for those who of Military History, where he wrote theater, evident in his early involve- movement—which of course brought knew him after Amherst, as a loving Dust Off: Army Aeromedical Evacu- ment in Kirby Theatre. Craig had to mind his infamous birthday cel- father and husband. But we will all ation in Vietnam. After 20 years, he a wonderful ability to describe the ebration and march our senior year. remember him for his genuineness retired as a major and master avia- inherent drama and humor around In fact, Bill was always preparing for and loyalty to all the people in his life. tor. Following his Army service, he him; his wit spared no one. He was our next reunion. He would arrange Nick grew up in Northfield, Ill., owned and managed a home con- particularly amused by well-heeled and pay for reserved rooms for eight and came to Amherst after graduat- struction company near Atlanta. suburban Amherst students dress- classmates well before any of us had ing from Phillips Andover Academy. He leaves his wife, Beverly; a ing like Mark Trail lumberjacks in committed to attending, leaving us While he majored in LJST, there daughter and son-in-law; and a work boots. He was intrigued by the no option but to attend. were few subjects that failed to pique granddaughter. —Bill Smead ’68 dramatic flair of fencing, which he The center of Bill’s universe was his curiosity and serve as potential pursued throughout the year. Un- his wife, Susan, whom he married at debate fodder. An immense grin of- derlying his lively personality was a Johnson Chapel, and his two daugh- ten broke out on Nick’s face when Peter Hopkins McClellan ’68 bedrock commitment to scholarship. ters, Emily ’05 and Kate ’12. His spirit he overheard a poorly formulated Peter McClellan died Aug. 4 at the I don’t know the actual stats, but my will remain forever with those many argument. Nick embraced these Lahey Clinic Hospital in Burlington, recollection is that Craig routinely he touched.—Rob Duboff ’70 debates in the best spirit of Am- Mass., after a brief illness. Raised in made the Dean’s List. herst—no matter how heated they Harvard and Pepperell, Mass., Peter After Amherst, Craig went to the became, they were never personal, came to Amherst from North Middle- Fletcher School of Law and Diplo- Julie R. Engelsman ’88 and you were still his friend, team- sex High School, where he had been macy at Tufts and then joined the Julie Engelsman passed away July mate or classmate. Nick’s loyalty was football captain. He was at Amherst Foreign Service, posted early on in 25, 2016, peacefully in her home in unquestionable. only our freshman year, but he left Southeast Asia and Japan and later in Los Angeles, Calif., from metastatic Nick was also an exceptional ice some enduring impressions, notably Europe. Ultimately rising to the rank breast cancer. Earlier that day, she hockey goaltender, steady and re- including that of his considerable of ambassador, he was centrally in- opened her eyes briefly, looked into liable, and earned First Team All- athletic ability. By one classmate’s volved in negotiations influencing mine and asked, “Am I awake?” NESCAC Honors as a senior. He account in the spring of 1965, he went American policy toward Europe and “Yes,” I said. “You are awake.” embraced being a goaltender as out for track, picked up a javelin for NATO after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Julie was the most awake person I part of his identity. Yet far from being the first time in his life and threw it He retired in 2003. Craig is survived knew for the five decades we were the stereotypically aloof goalie, Nick far enough over Pratt Field to attract by his wife, Patricia Haigh, a fellow friends: keenly perceptive, deeply loved his teammates and reveled in serious notice. diplomat, to whom we extend our empathetic, seriously funny and ex- being part of the team. After leaving Amherst, Peter condolences. Clearly, we were all ceptionally adventurous. She created Following college, Nick was re- worked as a cab driver in Boston and fortunate to have been represented her perfect career as a costume de- cruited by several minor league attended Northeastern University, in the aftermath of the Cold War by signer for film and television. Julie professional hockey teams—a rare graduating in 1972 with a B.S. in busi- a diplomat with the nuance and bril- always said she got her professional feat for even the best Division III ness administration. He lived in the liance of Craig Dunkerley. —Robert start meticulously constructing cus- athletes—and played briefly in the Boston area, on Cape Cod, and in San H. Brown ’69 tom outfits for her Barbie dolls as a East Coast Hockey League. He then Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he child. moved on to a career in the financial taught English to Mexican business- Julie and I met in kindergarten in St. industry, starting out at FBR Capi- men. According to the obituary in the William J. Eisen ’70 Louis, Mo., and were often rivals on tal Markets and Lehman Brothers. Harvard Press in Harvard, Mass., Pe- One of our most remarkable class- the playground. She changed schools He joined the Financial Institutions ter was a “kite builder … , gardener, mates, Bill Eisen, died on Aug. 10 in fifth grade, and we saw each other Group at Barclays from 2007 to 2015. cook, bridge club player, carpenter, from a heart attack while jogging in only occasionally as teenagers. One Most recently, Nick served as a man- reader, writer and a keen, passionate, York, Maine. gray winter day at Amherst, we found aging director at the Hovde Group, a observer of current events … [and] Bill was unforgettable—brilliant, ourselves walking toward each other financial advisory group. not only creative but also generous quirky, empathetic, irascible, mag- on an empty quad in overcoats. It felt Nick is survived by his wife, Ilene, and caring.” nanimous. He had a rare quality of like a Sergio Leone movie. We started and his twin daughters, Hannah and Peter is survived by his mother, finding common ground for fellow- talking and never stopped. Lily. —Darren Reaume ’02 and men’s Constance McClellan; brothers ship, regardless of position or status. A few years ago, she called me and hockey teammates

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of Law instead, where Houston was the Mystery dean. I pass both statues on my way to solved: work in the State House. They remind Professor Bruce B. me, as Rev. Jackson said, “to take ... Benson [their] legacy and treat it like the gift that and three it is.” ’64 physics SANDY ROSENBERG ’72 majors check out a powder Baltimore camera Rosenberg is a member of the Maryland mounted House of Delegates. on an X-ray generator. NOT A MYSTERY

Your “Mystery Machine” (Classes, Fall ARCHIVES COLLEGE 2017, page 51) is a Debye-Scherrer pow- der camera mounted on an X-ray gen- erator. The generator is in the cabinet at fracted beams. The data is output on a major in physics, and taking the second the bottom of the picture, and the X-ray chart recorder, which is not shown. half of the famous Introductory Physics tube is in the square column sticking up CARL FRANCIS ’71 curriculum, which concentrated on topics just to the right of the student pictured Braintree, Mass. in electricity and magnetism. Professor second from left. The circular plate at Francis is curator of the Maine Mineral & Benson was a superb teacher. He sat on the top (facing the viewer) covers a port Gem Museum. my senior honors examination, where he where an X-ray beam can come out if had a great capacity to ask the profound another camera (film type) is mounted That picture brings back memories. I question—not necessarily the difficult on the rectangular slide mount project- made many hundreds of X-ray diffrac- question, but rather the profound one! ing towards the elbow of the student at tion patterns on just such a Norelco DAVID F. ALDRIDGE ’75 far left. The camera in use is the large X-ray machine—not at Amherst, but Albuquerque circular unit just above the instructor’s after enrolling in the Graduate Geology Aldridge is a geophysicist. hands. The cylindrical tube in front of Program at Columbia. In fact, a fellow the student on the right is a scintillation grad student and I designed a hot sample My recollection, I hope not clouded by counter, which is used to record the X-ray stage for the diffractometer, like the one too many years away from Fayerweather, diffraction maxima from the powdered shown set up in the picture, so we could is that of beloved Professor Benson shar- sample mounted inside the camera. study the effect of temperature on the ing his excitement over the latest equip- JOEL MAGUE ’61 density and crystal structure of quartz. ment with physics majors and ’64ers New Orleans When I took a position at the University Peter Wintersteiner, George Burnett and Mague is a Tulane chemistry professor and of Rochester, the first thing I did was to Gerald Patrick. I’m guessing the true ori- director of its X-ray Crystallography Lab. buy two Norelco X-ray machines so my gin of the photo is 1963, not 1943. Affec- students and I could run eight diffraction tionately known as “B-Cubed” or “Old This apparatus produces “hard” X-rays cameras simultaneously with samples Whalebones,” Professor Benson gradu- that are used for diffraction experiments. squeezed between diamond anvils, so ated from Amherst in 1943, which may be It is quite different from the “soft” X-rays we could determine the effects of pres- the source of the mistaken dating. used to image teeth and bone. The wave- sure on the densities and structures of DICK LEAVITT ’64 lengths of X-rays are on the same order minerals considered to be constituents of Intervale, N.H. as the distances between atoms in crys- the Earth’s interior. Those old machines tals, so these machines have been used were great workhorses that provided us I remember Professor Benson well. extensively to study atomic structure of with exciting research opportunities for He built his own high-resolution mass crystals, including minerals. An X-ray understanding planetary interiors. spectrometer and did first-rate research powder pattern is a fingerprint for identi- BILL BASSETT ’54 with it. He was a demanding but caring fying crystalline substances. Ithaca, N.Y. teacher. I felt that I had let him down An X-ray diffractometer is an elec- Bassett is a professor emeritus of geology when I did poorly in one of his courses. tronic device that improves on the strictly at Cornell. I went on to have a career as a physics mechanical X-ray camera. The film is professor, which led me to appreciate the replaced by a Geiger counter as a record- The man on the right, instructing three dedication he and other Amherst physics ing device. This is the cylindrical compo- students, is Professor of Physics Bruce B. teachers showed to us students. They had nent below the chin of the second man Benson ’43. I first met Professor Benson the ability to instill in us some of their from the right. It is gear-driven through (who commonly initialized his com- own intellectual aspirations. a vertical arc so the Geiger counter can ments/corrections to assignments as B3) JOSEPH L. SNIDER ’56 measure the intensity of the various dif- in 1972. I was a freshman, intending to Southwest Harbor, Maine

AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 111 XXCONTESTXX Physics Test BY RACHAEL HANLEY

What does it take to move into a new 255,000-square- YOUR foot Science Center? It’s CHALLENGE: not only about packing the This object, invented belongings of 80 faculty in the late 18th members and the contents of century, was used in 23 research labs; it’s also about introductory physics classes and features delving into the accumulated two heavy steel balls. storage from two centuries What is it? What of research and classes. In did it do? Send your preparation for the move, answers to maga- physicist Thomas Greenslade [email protected] or Amherst magazine, ’59, an expert in early physics Box 5000, Amherst teaching objects, sifted MA 01002. All who through troves of material in answer correctly will Merrill Science Center—and be entered to win an Amherst T-shirt. found 100 museum-quality Greenslade’s pieces. When the Science explanation will Center opens this fall, these appear in the objects will find a new home next issue. there, too.

XXLAST QUARTER’S ANSWERSXX . GIFT OF THOMAS P. WHITNEY ’37 WHITNEY ’37 GIFT OF THOMAS P. .

David E. Little, director and chief curator of the Mead Art Museum, asked readers to consider these three objects from the collection and identify key facts about each.

a1 a2 a3 Les femmes du Maroc #14, a 2005 photo- Autumn, a painting made in 2000 by Russian Marriage (Mariage russe), by graph by Lalla Essaydi, references Édouard Michael Mazur ’57, attests to the artist’s Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin, is a Manet’s Olympia. As the Mead label explains, “mastery of gestural abstraction to suggest drawing made in 1924 with opaque Essaydi’s work “challenges restrictions placed nature’s colorful dynamism,” according to watercolor and metallic pigments on on women in many Arab societies and criti- the Mead description. “Layers of emphatic paper. Korovin, who was born in Moscow cizes the Orientalist tradition of exoticizing brushstrokes” in this oil-on-canvas and moved to Paris in 1923, and eroticizing Eastern women. In achieving “suggest swirling leaves and whispering was a leading Russian Impressionist the latter, Essaydi adapts poses from well- grasses in an astute evocation painter. The Mead has five Korovin known art historical works.” of fall colors.” works in its collection.

The physics contest is a special print edition of a weekly online contest featuring items from the Merrill trove of physics objects. Enter each week on the College’s Facebook page (@AmherstCollege), and look for Greenslade’s answers on the Science Center Facebook page (@AmherstScience) every Monday. PHYSICS OBJECT: MARIA STENZEL. MEAD OBJECT 1: PURCHASE WITH WISE FUND FOR FINE ARTS; 2: GIFT OF GAIL MAZUR AND MICHAEL MAZUR; 3 GIFT OF GAIL MAZUR AND MICHAEL MAZUR; 2: FINE ARTS; PURCHASE WITH WISE FUND FOR 1: MEAD OBJECT MARIA STENZEL. PHYSICS OBJECT: 112 AMHERST WINTER–SPRING 2018 Deans’ Days and Student-Dean Conversations for Children of Alumni

Deans’ Days Student-Dean Conversations

THE OFFICE OF ADMISSION has scheduled ALUMNI CHILDREN who are rising high three Deans’ Days for 2018. Designed school seniors may also arrange for a expressly for Amherst alumni parents personal conversation with a senior and their children who will be high member of the Office of Admission. school seniors in 2018–19, these events These meetings allow a more detailed, provide an opportunity for Amherst individualized exploration of the student’s families to learn more about Amherst and interests and aspirations, with an eye our admission policies. Each program toward being as helpful as possible to includes a group conversation for parents an alumni child who is navigating the and students, a student-led tour of the college admission process. In order for our campus and a light lunch. In 2018, Deans’ Admission deans to provide substantive Days will be held on Friday, May 25; and specific advice, the student will Thursday, July 19; and Thursday, Aug. 16; be expected to provide any available each program is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. standardized test results, a transcript to 12:45 p.m. (Note: The May 25 session, through the junior year and a list of senior- during Reunion Weekend, will also be year academic classes one week prior to open to students who will be high school the scheduled meeting. Accordingly, the juniors in 2018–19.) ideal time for student-dean conversations PREREGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. To is between June 1 and Labor Day; they are register for one of the three Deans’ Days, offered Mondays through Fridays only please contact Marcy Dyer at (413) 542- and will not be available after Sept. 30. 2609 or [email protected]. Detailed TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT for a information will be mailed to registrants student-dean conversation, please contact two weeks prior to the event. Marcy Dyer at (413) 542-2609 or mdyer@ amherst.edu.

PLEASE NOTE that a few time slots for student-dean conversations are available on a first-come, first-served basis on the afternoons of the Deans’ Days listed above. An appointment for one of those student-dean conversations should be requested when registering for Deans’ Days; participation in one of the Deans’ Days does not automatically include an appointment for a student-dean conversation. Amherst PO Box 5000 Amherst, MA 01002

“At first, they were terrified to talk to me.” PROFESSOR LEAH SCHMALZBAUER, PAGE 12

“I was provided with home- made chicken cutlet in honor of my Americanness.” TOMAL HOSSAIN ’17, PAGE 17

“She simply could not accept that an Indian would feel the same emotions as a real human being like herself.” PROFESSOR LISA BROOKS, PAGE 46

“The smile was both my offense and my defense.” JUNIUS WILLIAMS ’65, PAGE 29