TH class of 1970 50REUNION Claremont McKenna College FROM 1970 TO 2020 <iP CLAREMONT McKENNA - COLLEGE - April 2020 Members of the Dear Classmates, 50th Reunion Committee Here is the reward for your gracious replies to our relentless pleas to fill out Class of 1970 the Reunion Memory Book questionnaire. Fifty-nine of you responded prior to the 1 February deadline Thus, almost 50% of the living members of our class took the time to respond. Thank you for your efforts. Dan Altemus, co-chair In addition to the individual responses, the Memory Book contains a class Dan Caton directory, obituaries for deceased classmates, and a list of classmates for whom we simply have no contact information (if you have a line on any of these John Elliott classmates, please let us know). Finally, and perhaps the most fun, are the collage of photos, some showing what we looked like then and others of how Mert Goldman some of us look now. Dave Officer,co-chair If you have not yet registered for our reunion, please do so now. While you should have received a reservation form in the mail, it is easier to go online at Brian Putt online.cmc.edu/alumni-weekend to register. We kick things off with an informal reception on Thursday evening, April 23 and wrap up the festivities Sunday morning, April 26. If you are pressed for time, prioritize Saturday, April 25. There is the annual Golden Medallion awards luncheon (everyone gets a medal) and the class photo is taken afterwards. Throughout the day there are both structured and unstructured events ranging from a one-on-one session with the College President, Hiram Chodosh, target shooting in Bauer Center, tours of the new Roberts Center, and plenty of time to just relax and catch up with your classmates and friends. A full schedule of the weekend can be found online at the above-referenced website. Saturday is capped off with the class dinner at the Athenaeum. We look forward to seeing you soon! Sincerely, Dan Altemus, Co-Chair Dave Officer,Co-Chair Contents The Campus in 1970 ...........................................2 The Campus Today ............................................4 Life Back Then ...............................................6 Where We Are Now ..........................................10 Where We Live Now .........................................84 Class Directory ..............................................86 Lost Alumni ................................................93 Remembering Classmates ......................................94 Commissioning Exercises ..................................... 111 Joint Baccalaureate .......................................... 112 Commencement ............................................ 114 It Happened in 1970 ......................................... 124 1 The Campus in 1970 A late afternoon view of the campus with Mt. Baldy in the background Professor John Roth Stinkey’s 2 Quiet times on the Quad I GlllSWOLDS Griswold’s The campus at night A break between classes on the Quad 3 The Campus TODAY Roberts Pavilion North Quad Claremont Hall Beckett Hall Bauer Center with Butler Plaza in the foreground Auen Hall 4 Green Hall Emett Student Center (The Hub) Collins Dining Hall Kravis Center Adams Hall with Roberts North and Kravis in the background 5 Life Back THEN Stags Baseball Squad – 1970 Paul Resnick, Collegian Managing Editor The Claremont Auto Rallye Enthusiasts Story House – Circa 1969 6 Casper Weinberger, Spring 1969 Dorm Football Speaker Saturday night dance at McKenna Auditorium Dan Caton, Junior Class President 1969 Varsity Football Team 7 Varsity Swim Meet John Volk – Pool Shark Deans McLeod and McClelland and Professor John Ferling Assistant Dean Smith Founders Day Ceremony – Painter, Payne, Riley, Hoskins, Elsbree, Quinones 8 CMC Coaches – Farnady, Sachs, Zinda, Ducey, Arce, Registrar Katharine Lowe Morandi and Reel Professor Orme Phelps President Howard Neville Remember This? The Great Jersey Heist 9 Where We Are Enjoyed backpacking until the knees complained too much. Have a Sunday morning coffee crew that has NOW sought to solve the world’s problems for 25 years, without success. What have been some peak experiences during JAMES L. this time? ALEXANDER The joys and headaches of raising a family, and everything that goes along with that. Home Phone: 760-726-5254 Residence: 1179 Via Santa In addition, with some swim team friends, we Paulo, Vista, CA 92081 set up a non-profit, raised some money, and built a vocational school in Western Kenya. A fascinating experience over several years that included four trips to Kenya, where I got to see the country in ways that most tourists never do. Is there a memory from your time on campus that DAN ALTEMUS you would like to share? Home Phone: 510-465-5274 November, 1967, weekend before Thanksgiving, Cell Phone: 510-301-8414 Bob Keatley ’70 and I take my well-worn 1960 Email: dan.altemus@gmail. Falcon for a burger at In-n-Out. Keatley decided com he would like to see his girlfriend at the time, Are you planning to attend so we picked a burger and drove to Boulder, Colorado. Seemed like the right thing to do. reunion?: Yes Spouse/Partner: Marie Beyond that, memories from long-gone places like Riehle Story House, the Wash, the Midway, and the Hub (which may still be there). Lots of good times, Children: Steve, Ted some not-so-good with a good group of people. Residence: 735 Rosemount Rd., Oakland, CA 94610 What were you doing during the summer of 1969? What have you been up to over the past 50 years? Working for a pipe fabricator in Concord, CA—many hours of grinding welds and mixing Managed to get through law school and practiced gunite—all very forgettable!! labor law for about 25 years. Thereafter, I set up my own labor arbitration practice which Who was the most memorable CMC staff person continues, albeit on a part-time basis. that you knew (e.g., professor, coach, administrator, As I work out of my home, I missed the water- etc.)? Why? cooler camaraderie of a large office. To offset Many candidates— that and be with regular people (i.e.,non-lawyers) I got active in a couple service clubs, became a • Virginia and Aurora, two kind-hearted docent at a local museum, and joined a Masters women (although Virginia could be swim team. grouchy!!) who kept our living space habitable; 10 • Gunny Sacks, an oracle of common sense and STEVEN J. ASHBY good cheer; Home Phone: 480-991-4624 • Dick Wheeler, a good professor who lived on Cell Phone: 602-292-1250 campus and was friendly to all; Email: [email protected] • Clif MacLeod, an erstwhile Dean of Students Residence: 7500 E. who watched the social world change on his McCormick Pkwy., watch; Scottsdale, AZ 85258 And many good teachers, too numerous to name, who were generally available to assist. What course proved to be the most influential in RICHARD C. BANKS your career? Why? Home Phone: 805-957-1791 No one course stands out, but the requirement Email: richardbanks@ in most courses to prepare written papers was richardcbanks.com invaluable. While they seemed like a pain in the Residence: P.O. Box 5146, butt at the time, learning to express oneself with Santa Barbara, CA the written word paid off in the long run. 93150 The one course I did not take, Labor Economics, with Orme Phelps, was a missed opportunity as I wandered into the world of labor law a/k/a the domestic relations of business. PETER BARKER Describe any events of serendipity you experienced over the last fifty years that fundamentally changed Home Phone: 805-969-6779 your career or personal life. Cell Phone: 310-387-1784 A serious family illness twenty years ago caused Email: [email protected] a fundamental re-orientation of what was Are you planning to attend reunion?: Undecided important and what was not. Spouse/Partner: Robin Children: Kelley, Todd ’01, Ryan Residence: 1284 East Mountain Dr., Montecito, WILLIAM W. ANDERSON CA 93108 Cell Phone: 813-995-9504 What have you been up to over the past 50 years? Residence: 9636 Indigo Creek Blvd., Murrells • Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co. 1971–2009. Inlt, SC 29576 • Chairman of California for JP Morgan Chase 2009–2013; LAWRENCE M. ANDERSON • Retired 2013. Cell Phone: 661-319-8714 • Corporate Boards: Irvine Company; Avery Email: [email protected] Dennison; Franklin Templeton; Riverstone Residence: 4029 W. Hillsdale Ct., Visalia, CA Energy Ltd; Fluor Corp; Auto Club of 93291 Southern California. 11 • Philanthropic: Past Chairman of CMC DAVID BEEBE Board; Past Huntington Library Trustee; Member, Board of WM Keck Foundation; Cell Phone: 413-658-4092 and President, Fletcher Jones Foundation. Email: [email protected] Are you planning to attend What have been some peak experiences during reunion?: Yes this time? Residence: 1 Chadwick Ct., Chairing the Board of CMC. Amherst, MA 01002 What were you doing during the summer of 1969? Summer of ’69 chasing my now wife at the beach What have you been up to over the past 50 years? in Oceanside. Married following summer!! The usual stuff…stumbled into a local law 50 years in June!! school, where I completed the program in less than the expected five-year plan, got a job in a three-person law firm as a clerk while completing my degree…upon passing the bar, worked in that firm for a couple of years, then moved on to another firm for another couple of years before opening my own practice…from 1982 until 2013, did nothing but real estate title work. Is there a memory from your time on campus that you would like to share? I was an experienced student when I arrived at TERRENCE B. BARNES CMC, three years of prep school, a post-grad year in Europe…at 19, I was not really worried Cell Phone: 909-591-7511 about the academic life, until I was dropped in Email: terrybarnes1@ Granville Henry’s calculus class and I was lost… verizon.net it might as well have been Martian, single digits Residence: P.O.