Date: Thu,
Dear fellow Swarthmoreans,
I wanted to tell everybody to visit
the website of Frank Weissbarth that shows his photographs of trout in
Frank currently works on the
Division Staff of the Consumer Protection and Advocacy Unit of the Attorney
General of the State of
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Ellen Schall is Martin
Cherkassky Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Robert F. Wagner
Graduate School of Public Service at NYU. Her web page is: http://www.nyu.edu/wagner/faculty/schall.html
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Diane Batts Morrow teaches
history and African American Studies at the
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Mary Schmidt Campbell is
Dean of the
Date:
Dear Classmates, I got some replies
to the last email suggesting that at least some of you are interested in more
news so here goes:
Mike Vitiello is on the
faculty of law at McGeorge School of Law at University of the Pacific. You can
read about his accomplishments (by scrolling down the long page) at: http://mcgeorge.edu/faculty_profiles_page.htm
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Nancy Bekavac is President
of Scripps College. Her 50th birthday celebration was such a success that they
are planning to celebrate her birthday officially at Scripps on an annual
basis. There is a great picture of her at: http://www.scrippscollege.edu/~dept/srstaff/bekavac.html
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Darwin Stapleton is Director
of the Rockefeller Archive Center at Rockefeller University. You can read more
about this at: http://www.rockefeller.edu/archive.ctr/dhs95.newsletter.html
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Francine Cardman teaches in
the Systematic/Historical Theology Department of the Weston Jesuit School of
Theology.
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Liz Coleman is Director of
the Civil Rights Commission of the Anti-Defamation League. She has been
campaigning against the granting of nonprofit status to individuals/organizations
who deny the Holocaust ever happened. See a story on this at: http://www.adl.org/
Allen Dietrich is a member of the
Department of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth University. He
specializes in Primary Care Research and Prevention.
Hello again Swarthmore Classmates,
I am sparing you the long mailing list in the heading but if you want the
list for your own purposes, please let me know.
Tim Barker writes:
I'm Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Wheaton. News about me and the
astronomy program here is on our web site at:
http://www.wheatonma.edu/Faculty/TimothyBarker.html
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Barry and JaneWohl live in
Sheridan Wyoming.
There is a nice picture and information about Barry's activities at:
http://www.newpa.com/
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Miriam Friedlander Weiss is Associate Professor of Medicine
at Case Western
Reserve. Her specialization is nephrology. More about her at:
http://www.cwru.edu/CWRU/Med/medicine/FriedlanderMA.htm
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Bob Goodman is Professor in the Department of Physiology at Health
Science Center
of the School of Medicine at
West Virginia University.
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Tom Hammond is Professor of Political Science at Michigan State
University.
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Marilyn Holifield is a partner at Holland& Knight in Miami.
She litigates product liability cases.
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Michael Fields writes...
Great to hear from you. I don't have a web page so I didn't know if
was worth responding, but on your next e-mail you could let folks know that
I'm still with NPR, but now based in Atlanta, as NPR's Southeastern Bureau
Chief. I haven't been here very long, and I'm still getting settled but if
anyone is in the neighborhood, or passing through feel free to to get in
touch., either at this e-mail address or at
MFields@NPR.org
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James Ribe is a Senior Deputy Medical Examiner with the Los Angeles
County Department of Coroner.
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Laura Lein is senior lecturer and research scientist at the School of
Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin. She has a joint
appointment with the Dept. of Anthropology.
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Audrey Melkin is Vice President for Sales at CatchWord Ltd.
More about her at:
http://www.catchword.com/profile.htm
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Leonard Nakamura is an economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of
Philadelphia.
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Jeff Ruda is Professor Italian Renaissance and European Baroque Art at
the University of California at Davis.
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Michael Schudson, as almost anybody with a TV knows, is
Professor of Communications at UC San Diego.
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Robin Feuer Miller recently resigned as Dean of Arts and Sciences at
Brandeis. She returns
to her teaching in the Departments of Russian and Comparative Literature.
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Here are some new messages from our classmates:
This one is from Bonnie Gregory Inouye:
I am still working as a professional weaver and weaving teacher. I just
returned from the big international conference (held in even-numbered years
only) and the smaller session following (Complex Weavers Seminars) and taught
at both. I'm happy to share the news that my brand new book is selling very
well. I got the first copies from the printer on May 25th this year, self
published it, and have already made a profit.
You can read about my work on my home page. My 2 sons have graduated from
college. Brian is Swarthmore class of 1991 and now has a PhD and MS from Duke
and is on a postdoc at U. C. Davis. Kevin graduated from Earlham and is looking
into museum internships now. I'm still married to David and we are currently in
Colorado at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. I listened to our
answering machine today and was surprised to hear a fellow Swarthmore alum
asking for advice regarding folk dances for family groups-- I am still dancing,
too.
yours, Bonnie Gregory Inouye
Bonnie Inouye
http://www.geocities.com/bonnieinouye
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Nadia (Edna) Ilyin writes:
Well, Jeff, you are obviously swamped with replies from people who have
achieved much in the world. After some hesitation I decided to chime in in
order to represent that small number of classmates who have had interesting
lives but don't have lots of degrees, titles, awards etc. to wave around at
this point. I've had numerous careers in very different venues, and just in
the last two years, after firmly and finally chucking the management track,
I have attained a long-sought goal of becoming a very junior systems
engineer in a Silicon Valley software firm, InterTrust. I'm working and
going to school (C++, continuing ed), I'm old enough to be the mother of
many of the guys I work with, but I'm sort of the house crone (in a good
sense!). I don't have my own web page, but those interested in ecommerce
are welcome to check out www.intertrust.com
<http://www.intertrust.com>
.
(You may have seen us in the business press recently because we just did a
big deal with AOL for securing digital content.)
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Bob Snow is Vice President for Development of
the Unitarian Universalist Association and is based in Boston.
The UUA website is at:
http://www.uua.org
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Tralance Addy works for Johnson and Johnson as Vice President
for their advanced sterilization products division.
Since our 30th last spring, I left the horror show job I had at EDS with a
pathologically two-faced, horrible manager, and have been working since
September 1 for Online Resources and Communications Corporation
(http://www.orcc.com/
has only company info, nothing about or by me). They
provide for smaller banks, nearly 400 so far, home banking and on-line bill
paying capability that smaller banks cannot do by themselves, so they can
compete with the large banks that can provide these services in-house. My job
is working on a data warehouse so the company can digest, utilize and report
on the very large body of data and information gathered about their customers
and their transactions. It is the polar opposite of EDS: the management is
wonderful, the job challenging and skill-enhancing, and it is nice to be
working for the company that has hired me, not for a contractor working for a
government agency. My son Roman, almost 10, has a mild attention deficit
problem, but has made great progress in the last year--if any of you is, or
knows someone who is, experienced in helping ADD kids, please get in touch
with me at PeterRush@aol.com
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Chris Grant as you know is our current class secretary and is in charge
of
items that go into the alumni bulletin. She is currently the head of the
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. There is good
biographical info about her at:
http://www.spry.org/Board/Grant.htm
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John Greenly is Senior Research Associate at the Laboratory of Plasma
Studies at Cornell. You can find out more about the Lab at:
http://pc3.lps.cornell.edu/
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I think I mentioned last time that Tralance Addy worked for Johnson and
Johnson.
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Bruce Draine is an astronomer at Princeton. His home page is:
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~draine/
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Jim Levin is Professor of Educational Psychology in the College of
Education
at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champlain. His home page is:
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/People/Jim-Levin/
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Alan Feldman, like Jim Levin, works on technology for education.
He works for TERC in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The URL for
TERC is:
http://www.terc.edu/
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Margaret Helfand is a partner in the architectural firm of
Helfand Myerberg Guggenheimer Architects. The firm designed
the new Kohlberg building on the Swarthmore campus. You can find tuns of
stuff about her activities by doing a web search with any major
search engine, but her firm's website is not really up yet. For
future reference, it will be at:
http://www.archmha.com
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Jane Koretz is Professor of Biophysics and Biology at Rennselaer
Polytechnic
Institute in Troy, New York. She is working on the growth and development
of the human eye. More about her at:
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/NewsComm/Renss_news/research/experts/koretz.html
Camille Smith writes:
Hi Jeff. I don't know how you
find the time to coordinate all this Class News, but it's fun to hear about
people. After some pleasant browsing I've gathered the courage to invite
you to view my web page at:
http://www.connact.com/~camille/
Ever since Swarthmore I've been
editing other people's work--most of the time at Harvard University Press
(www.hup.harvard.edu) where I'm now in my 23rd year. My website is dedicated to
the one book that's all mine. (I do have a coauthor, but he's a cat and in true
feline fashion let me do all the work.)
Cheers! Camille
Ginny Moore writes:
Thanks Jeff for helping to keep us all together. It has been fun to
check out websites and learn a bit about the eclectic interests and
talents of our class. It is only one thread in the rich carpet of our
lives, but to keep the ball rolling, I'll add the website of the
organization I help to manage and through which I provide educational
classes and materials: www.absn.com
Ginny Moore
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Peter Max Zimmerman writes:
Jeff,
Thank you for keeping us informed about the class. Here in Towson,
outside Baltimore, I am practising law, teaching, and representing the public
interest as "People's Counsel" in land use and environmental cases.
Best
wishes.
Peter Max Z
his email is: Petermaxz@aol.com
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Tom Hammond writes:
Jeff,
I've enjoyed learning about the websites for our Swarthmore classmates.
Even though you seem to have tracked down a URL for me, my guess is that
anyone who tries to get at it will get a "Permission Denied" or
something
like that; it's because there's nothing there. I plan to be working with a
grad student here (I'm still at Michigan State) to get a website for me up
and running some time this summer. I'll let you know when it's ready.
Thanks for all the hard work on this!
Tom Hammond
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Debbie Seeley Averill writes:
Now that Edna has come forward, I think I will add my
"non-achievement" to
the list. I am a social worker, currently working in child welfare in the
adoption of special needs children. Very rewarding (not financially, of
course). With recent federal legislation the landscape of child welfare is
in flux right now, but once the dust settles I think the system will be
more helpful for children.
I enjoy being a field instructor for M.S.W. students from Portland State
University, my only claim to academia these days. I would love to hear
from classmates.
Debbie Averill
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Carl Kendall is Professor of Medical Anthropology and International
Health
in the Maternal and Child Epidemiology Unit of the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His daughter just graduated from
Swarthmore.
more information at:
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/eph/mceu/Profile%20CKendall.htm
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Ron Krall is Senior Vice President for Clinical Development and Medical
Affairs at AstraZeneca, a pharmaceutical company. More about him at:
http://www.astrazeneca-us.com/about/executive.asp
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Karen Rosin Sollins is a research scientist at MIT's Advanced Network
Architecture Group. She is currently working on the Infomesh project,
"addressing the problems of creating a ubiquitous, long-lived information
structure, as a substrate for network and distributed systems and
applications."
Her URL is:
http://ana.lcs.mit.edu/anaweb/sollins.html
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Peter Schattner works at SRI International in Palo Alto. Like me,
he seems to have gotten interested in doing research on family
geneology on the Internet. I gather from his research that he is
distantly related to William Shatner of StarTrek fame.
His personal page is at:
http://www.spectel.com/PSchattner/home.html
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Ron Thomas teaches international business at Northeastern University
in Boston. More about Ron at:
http://www.cba.neu.edu/~rthomas/inb1803/bio.html
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Artley Swift Wolfson is the librarian and LAN coordinator at the
Weybridge, Vermont,
Elementary School.
more about her school at:
http://www.acsu.k12.vt.us/weybridge/
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Bill Tyndall teaches in the Bergen County, New Jersey, Academy
for Business and Computer Technology. For info about the Academy see:
http://www.bergen.org/ABCT/index.html
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At IU, besides Joan and me, there are two classmates:
Janet Kennedy teaches art history specializing in Russian Art of the
19th
and 20th centuries.
There is a long profile about her at:
http://www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/reeification/dec_99/page8.htm
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John McDowell teaches in the Folklore Department. His specialty is
the popular music of Mexico.
His faculty profile is at:
http://www.indiana.edu/~folklore/
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I have enjoyed the recent collection of classmate updates from you, and
appreciate the time you've spent compiling and distributing it all. It's
much better than the class news notes that get published in the College
Alumni Bulletin.
I'm afraid I don't have a personal web page to offer. I am Treasurer of
LNP Engineering Plastics, a medium-sized manufacturer of specialty plastic
compounds headquartered in Exton PA. (The company's site is LNP.com, but
you won't find any reference to me there.)
I live about 20 minutes from Swarthmore, so I can easily attend Alumni
Weekend every year. Last month I got to see quite a few friends from the
Class of '70, who were celebrating their 30th. A few of our classmates
were there also, including Paul Peelle, Don Fujihira, Barb Merrill, Bob
Snow, David Wright, and Judy Lorick.
Please keep me on your mailing list!
Thanks. Mark
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Phil Myers is a professor of Ecology and Systematics of Mammals in the
Department of Biology
at the University of Michigan. More about him at:
http://www.biology.lsa.umich.edu/people/faculty/pmyers.html
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Camille Smith is a senior editor at Harvard University Press. She
recently published a book
entitled Listening to Catnip in collaboration with Dr. Sigmund F.
Winnicat.
For more on this see:
http://www.connactivity.com/~camille/
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Sarah Vaughn Sayre is Assistant Professor of Biology and Chemistry at
Carroll Community
College in Maryland. More about this at:
http://faculty.carroll.cc.md.us/ssayre/default.htm
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Paul Williams, the founder of Crawdaddy, is still interested in
all things Rock, and is distinguished
in having a web site that incorporates his name:
http://paulwilliams.com/
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Rich Wolfson is Professor Physics at Middlebury College. He also
teaches in that school's
Environmental Studies Program. His home page is:
http://www.middlebury.edu/~wolfson/
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Ted Eisenberg is Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law
at Cornell University. His publications page is at:
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawlibrary/Faculty_Services/facbib/eisenber.html
I note for computer buffs that Ted published some key articles about
the computer "worm" that originated at Cornell.
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From "ellen daniell" <ellen_daniell@hotmail.com>
Subject Re more Swarthmore Class of
'69 news
Date Fri, 14 Jul 2000 122714 PDT
Dear Jeff,
As more news and additional URLs
keep pouring in I'm delighted that I told you I was interested in receiving it
all. I could too easily spend hours visiting web sites, and am enjoying being
reminded of classmates I haven't thought about recently. I don't have a site of
my own, but can add a news tidbit as other siteless ones have done. As Chris
included in alumni news, I left my corporate job in biotech patent licensing
three years ago. I'm now wondering where those years went and why I don't have
a book written yet-- but I'm plugging away at writing, incredibly happy to be
doing it after years of dreaming about it, and spending much more time with
family and friends than I was able to do when gainfully employed. I'm noting
with interest the addresses of some classmates who live close me, and imagining
that I might look them up-- but I promised to contact Karen Hazel when
we talked at the '99 reunion, and haven't done it yet! Time always seems in
short supply.
Thanks again for galvanizing this
flood of communication.
Ellen
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Date Thu, 13 Jul 2000 191639 -0400
From Ron Thomas
<rthomas@cba.neu.edu>
Subject Great links, Jeff!
Thanks for the links to so many old
friends. Here's my belated addition I've been on the Business School faculty at
Northeastern University in Boston since 1988, and am pretty deeply involved in
electronic commerce teaching,consulting, research,and (even) entrepreneuring.
Here's my faculty profile with links to MeetingWeb & EventKiosk, the key
products from the Internet-based conferencing software company my wife and I
founded. Take a look... Best wishes to all our classmates of '69.
Faculty Proflie http://www.cba.neu.edu/htbin/pbprofile?username=rthomas
MeetingWeb http://www.meetingweb.com/
EventKiosk http://www.eventkiosk.com/
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From DRAvila@aol.com (David Avila)
Date Wed, 12 Jul 2000 205407 EDT
Subject Swarthmore '69 News
Jeff,
I've spent the last few weeks as a
lurker, reading the news but not contributing. I'll add my bit now. I'm a
social worker, like Debbie, but working at the local hospital as the clinical
coordinator/supervisor for the non-MD staff for the outpatient clinics in the
behavioral health service. I have an e-mail address there, but it's better to
reach me at my personal address. Tonight I am getting my first night off in 2
weeks of late night work preparing DMH reports. Mental health is undergoing
radical change too, and it is going to be some time before sanity is restored
to the balance of power between consumers, insurers, and the MH providers.
Administrative work for providers has gone from about 20% of time to about
40-50% now, while reimbursement rates have dropped dramatically. But enough of
that...
It is good to know that our class
is alive and active. What has struck me at the couple of reunions that I have
attended is that everyone is so much fun to talk with. I came away renewed in
my appreciation of our school and my experience there. I am constantly
surprised by how much Swat's philosophy comes to mind in my daily work, and by
how profound a force it was in shaping my whole life. Maybe it's age that's
causing this nostalgia, but I find that development of values by witnessing
quiet living example is a powerful force too often honored in the absence in
our current social climate. Again, enough of this...I'll just shut up now and
wish all a good summer.
Dave Avila
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Date Wed, 12 Jul 2000 135638 -0400
To hartj@indiana.edu
From Rich Wolfson
<wolfson@panther.middlebury.edu>
Subject Web page
Well, you've tracked me down!
Unfortunately, I haven't touched that web page in nearly 4 years! Made it in a
workshop for faculty about making personal web pages, but have had simply no
time to maintain it since.
Perhaps this will motivate me!
Rich W
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Date Wed, 12 Jul 2000 123054 EDT
Subject Re more Swarthmore
"news"
To hartj@indiana.edu
From Michael Hattersley
Hi Jeffrey, thanks for doing this.
Brief summary
After Swarthmore, I started
graduate school at Yale, got drafted, and worked as a CO for two years in a
psychiatric hospital. When I finished, I took a year to backpack around the
world, then returned to Yale and got my doctorate in '76. I taught literature
at Yale and Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, took a few years off academia
to work in NYC in cultural/economic development, then ended up heading the
communications course at the Harvard Business School until 1993 -- a career
track that surprised me. Throughout this time I was writing -- poetry,
articles, professional/consulting stuff. I left HBS because my partner of
many years, David, developed full-blown AIDS (I'm fine) -- I'd been living
half-time at our home in Provincetown but moved down full time to take care of
him and pursue my writing. David died in 1997. I've published a couple of books
in the last few years, a textbook, Management Communication, and a
volume of poems, Cape Cod Light. I also write for a number of publications
including Harvard stuff and The Gay and Lesbian Review. I've also been
very active in the arts in Provincetown, organizing an annual Fall Arts
Festival, heading the theatre company here, helping to run the town government,
etc. My current project is Campus Provincetown, an attempt to pull the various
international-class arts and environmental organizations in town together into
a sort of "Provincetown University" -- it's aimed at preserving and
fostering the cultural history and future of the town while generating
off-season economic development (modern American theatre and a lot of abstract
expressionism, etc., were invented here). Our first full academic year starts
next September -- check it out at
http://www.campusprovincetown.org/
Has anyone heard from Steve
Schostal? He called and left a message a few weeks ago, but it was blurred
and the number I had for him didn't work. The last classmate I saw was Nancy
Bekevac, the fearless leader of our College Bowl team on which I was
honored to serve, who stopped by for a glass of wine and an excellent visit
about three years ago, though I am in touch with Swarthmoreans from other
classes.
My personal address is mehatt@aol.com. Hope all is well with all of
you -- Michael.
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Mark Vonnegut is a
pediatrician in Quincy, Massachusetts. I do not have an email or web site
address for him. However, there is an interesting story about him and his views
on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in
http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/pick_99/hlta0906.htm
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Lynne Oakland Liptay is also
a pediatrician practicing in the Hudson Valley.
More about her at
http://www.hvmedweb.com/cmg/liptay.htm
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Kristin Camitta Zimet is a
poet. I have not been able to locate her home page but many of her poems are on
the web and she has published a few collections as well.
One very nice poem is at
http://faculty.washington.edu/jnh/vol4no2/paolo.htm
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Lew Pyenson has been a
prolific author of books about the history of science. Currently he is Dean of
the Graduate School at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His
coordinates can be found at
http://www.usl.edu/Academic/GradSchool/staff.html
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Tom McKay sent this to me
but it got lost in my in basket (apologies to Tom)
Date Thu, 29 Jun 2000 200931 -0400
From Tom McKay <tjmckay@syr.edu>
Hi Jeff
Here is one for the next round
(whenever that is). I have been Chair of the Department of Philosophy at
Syracuse University for the last five years (and for just two more to come). A
short blurb on the website
http://www-hl.syr.edu/phil/McKay.html
Tom
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Dear Jeff
What a delight it is to see what
has become of us. After working for many years in the world of conflict
management for community building and public infrastructure, I have recently
joined the private sector and am engaged in building airports and a new
company. Website address is
Have also raised two sons (with Ron
Feigin, '67) and am the proud grandmother of Oliver Amini Feigin, born on
Leap Day 2000. Have had some contact with a few Alaskan alum including Ted
and Ginny Moore '69, and Alden Todd '49 or so. Many thanks for your efforts
in re-linking this community of remarkable people.
Sarah Barton
--
Sarah Barton
Senior Vice President
Rise Group, LLC
120 South LaSalle Street, Suite
1750
Chicago, Illinois 60603
Tel 312 917 1000
Fax 312 917 1572
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From Tom Hafkenschiel
Subject RE more Swarthmore Class of
'69 news
Date Sun, 16 Jul 2000 082143 -0700
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for the great work you have
been doing. I don't have a web site at this point. I live in Portola Valley, CA
and practice emergency medicine at the county hospital in San Jose. I am on the
voluntary clinical faculty at Stanford Medical school. I have two children, one
of whom is going back east to Prep school this year. I design and build
loudspeakers for fun.
My Email is
Regards,
Tom Hafkenschiel
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Mary (Malka) Kramer Schaps
writes:
Dear Jeff,
In order that I shouldn't feel
egregiously primitive, I just spent three hours making myself a web page so
that you could list it
http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~mschaps/
For those classmates who, like
myself, are not web-browsers. David '67 and myself are still both teaching, at
Bar-Ilan University, he in classics and I in mathematics. We have married off
both our children and two of our four foster children. I am still writing in my
spare time (evenings) and still enjoying it very much. When I finish my current
novel (based on the secular-religious conflict in Israel and set in the last
Israeli election year) I hope to write one called <I>Bridges across the
Years</I> about a female mathematician who reestablishes contact with her
college room-mate after a fifteen-year separation, and finds that their common
experiences with cross-cultural adoption give them grounds on which to rebound.
Regards to everyone, particularly
my room-mates,
Cordially,
Mary Kramer Schaps
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:49:14 -0500
Greg Englund is a tax
attorney practicing in Boston. There is biographical
info about him at:
http://www.bminteract.com/berk/index1.htm
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Peter Warrington is an
obstetrician/gynecologist in Kingston, Pennsylvania. He
is on the medical school faculty at
the Wyoming Valley Family Practice Residency
Program. There is info about
him
at: http://www.wvfprp.com/faculty.html
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Dorothy Twining Globus is
director of the Museum of the Fashion Institute of
Technology in New York. There
is a profile on her at:
http://www.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/archive/98/dec98/profiles.html
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Clinton Etheridge is loan
officer and product manager at the California
Economic Development Lending
Initiative. I do not have an email
address for Clint, but there is
info about his organization at:
http://www.shelterpartnership.org/homelessness/1297-14.htm
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John Rolle maintains a large
number of buildings on the UC Berkeley
campus in Maintenance Zone 1.
Info about this at:
http://physicalplant.berkeley.edu/ppcsweb/Pages/zone_1b.html
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Danny Nussbaum is director
of the School of Human Services at
Springfield College in Springfield,
Mass. More about the college at:
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David Wright sent me the
following:
I’m pleased to tell you that my
wife, Pamela Bristah, has been named the
new Music Librarian of Wellesley
College. This means that we are
relocating once again.
Here are my new address and phone
numbers in Wellesley, Mass., effective
July 31, 2000:
David Wright
63 Smith Street, 1st floor
Wellesley, MA 02482
phone (781) 235-0349
fax (781) 235-0681
Effective immediately, my new
e-mail address is:
While my computer is traveling
cross-country, I won’t be able to access
e-mail often, but I’m reachable by
phone in Santa Barbara (805-969-6471)
through Thursday, July 27.
I’m very happy for Pam and looking
forward to living near a great music
town.
Best wishes,
David Wright
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Peter Dikeman is Vice
President of Engineering for Corex Technologies and is responsible
for the design and development of
the CardScan technology. CardScan is a nifty computer
peripheral that lets you scan
business cards directly into your computer address book.
Info about Peter at:
http://www.cardscan.com/_company/mgmt.htm
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Bill Reiner is Assistant
Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical Insittutions
in Baltimore. Web info about
him at:
http://ww2.med.jhu.edu/pediurol/pediatric/staff/reiner/reiner.html
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David Hilgers is Director
and President of Hilgers and Watkins law firm in Austin, Texas.
More about him at:
http://www.hwlaw.com/attorneys/hilgersd.html
I found some stuff about Joan
Glass Hilgers on the web but no single best site to
direct you to. Maybe David
and Joan will send me something.
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Jeffrey Jones is active in
the theater. He is an instructor at the
Yale School of Drama. His
home page is at:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Diogenes_/proginfo.htm
He wrote a play in 1997 called
"J.P. Morgan Saves the
Nation." Information about this at:
http://www.sunmoon.com/atl/jones_morgan.html
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Bruce Fein is on the faculty
of the School of Law at the University of Toronto.
More about him at:
http://www.campuslife.utoronto.ca/groups/tsa/fein.htm
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Judy Lorick lives in France
and continues her career as a jazz artist.
See:
You can buy one of her CDs at:
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Lyon Evans is on the faculty
of the English Department at Viterbo
College in La Crosse,
Wisconsin. A short bio can be found at:
http://www.viterbo.edu/personalpages/faculty/RRuppel/Dept/Faculty.html
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Leda Johnson and Lauren
Brubaker live in Chicago. Lauren is a participant in the
Political Philosophy program at the
University of Chicago. I think Leda is a
physician but could not find
anything about her on the web. I would appreciate
hearing from them directly.
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Paul Peelle is very active
in Swarthmore alumni affairs and continues to run
in marathons and 10 milers, but I
was not able to find out much more about
his recent activities.
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Jean Bell was teaching until
recently on the Engineering faculty at the
Colorado School of Mines. She
got heavily into the computing side of engineering
and published some things about
statistical computing issues. Joan and I spoke with
her at the 30th reunion where she
told us that she had resigned from the School of
Mines in connection with a gender
discrimination case and was earning income by
doing computer consulting. If
I got that wrong, Jean, please let me know. I do not
have a web site for her.
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From:
"FOSTER, CAROLYN" <CAROLYN.FOSTER@spcorp.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 08:30:00 -0400
Jeff- You are doing a wonderful
job! Now almost every day when I arrive at
work, there is a treasure of
Swarthmore news to enjoy. Here's my story. I
am a biochemical pharmacologist at
Schering-Plough, a drug company in New Jersey,
working on therapies for
cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases.
David ('70) and I just
celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary, and we have a 17
year old daughter, Meri, who will
be a senior next year. Of course, we are
hoping she will be interested in
Swarthmore and that Swarthmore will be interested
in her, but who knows?
Carolyn Cymbalak Foster
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:27:18
-0400
From: John Greenly
<jbg2@cornell.edu>
Subject: some news
Hi- I'm really enjoying your news
distribution. I had never looked at my own
web site- thanks for finding it for
me! There's not much there (I'm the old guy
with the gray mustache in a
picture), so let me add this: I've been married for
10 years now to Katrina, a
wonderful painter, garden designer and newly-elected
town councilperson in the small
town we live in outside of Ithaca. I feel a
bit as if just emerged from some
sort of time-warp as I read about kids
graduating from Swarthmore and
suchlike, while our 5-yr old son (the joy of my life!)
graduated from kindergarten this
year! I particularly enjoy news of
musicians in our class (Judy
Lorick's web site has some gorgeous song clips) as I still
play clarinet a bit- at the moment
having lots of fun playing with good grad
student players in the Ithaca
College wind ensemble. My work at Cornell has been for
20 years concentrated on the
physics of very high-current ion beams, and I'm
pleased that just now we are
finding something we've been looking for all
these years, that is of interest to
fusion energy production. I'm also working on
applications that can improve
medical instruments, machine tools and other
useful things (I hope).
Best Regards,
John Greenly
jbg2@cornell.edu
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Ellen Schall writes:
Robyn Govan has moved west.
She's in seattle, email address is
grobin@uswest.net
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Liz Coleman wrote that her
actual title at ADL is
National Director of the Civil
Rights Division
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James Ribe wrote to remind me to
say that
Beth Pinkston is an
economist for the Congressional
Budget Office in Washington.
Her email address is:
Bethp.crd@cbo.gov.
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Farrell Bloch is also an
economist with his own consulting
firm, Farell Bloch and
Associates. He frequently testifies before
Congressional Committees on
affirmative action and
employment discrimination matters.
You can read about his book about
Antidiscrimination Law and
Minority Employment at the following
Amazon site:
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226059839/abassociates/002-4309850-
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Don Fujihira writes:
Subhashini Saghal is now Subhashini
Ali. I don't know whether she retains
"Saghal" as part of her
name. Her email address at the time of our last reunion was
shaad@lw1.vsnl.net.in.
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Darwin Stapleton sent me the
following regarding Chad Stone:
Chad Stone is listed as one
of the Senior Economists on the
Staff of the Council of Economic
Advisers.
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/CEA/html/staff.html>
Perhaps you ought to contact him
just to make sure that he is THE Chad
Stone.
Best regards, Darwin
----------------------------------------------
In a separate message, Darwin
writes:
By the way, I cannot recall whether
Alan Lee graduated with the
class, but he should be regarded as
a 69er. Have you already listed him?
Last I knew he was retiring from 25
years of teaching in the Philadelphia
schools and expected to use his
Ph.D. to do some adjunct teaching at Penn or
perhaps Temple.
Darwin H. Stapleton, Director
Rockefeller Archive Center
15 Dayton Avenue
North Tarrytown, NY 10591-1598
phone (914) 631-4505
fax (914) 631-6017
email: stapled@rockvax.rockefeller.edu
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From:
maxymus@hixnet.co.za (Robert Maxym)
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 21:27:58 +0200
Hi, it's Friday evening, July 21,
and I have been enjoying the burgeoning
correspondence and news. I
think I'll finally join in. I greet you and
all classmates who may be
"listening" with a large wave from the southern
tip of Africa. I've become
accustomed to a life as a perennial expat, it
seems, far from all I knew as a
young(er) man, but in case any of you
old(er?) friends and acquaintances
are ever in this neck of the world, do
give a shout, and I'll be more than
glad to put you and the family up on my
"plot" (2 hectares+)
midway between Pretoria to the Northeast and
Johannesburg to the
Southeast. The Big Five and every other conceivable
game are about 90 minutes
northwestwards in the volcanic crater of
Pilanesberg National Park, a great
day trip.
For the telephone book, from the
States, it's 011-27-12-668-1852
(T)///011-27-668-1024 (F)///email:
maxymus@hixnet.co.za
Keeping this message short, I'll
write news another time. Right now I
should see to keeping the fireplace
stoked, as we are having the coldest
winter on the Highveld in 100
years, so they say.
It's bloody freezing here, and one
wants to be near the fire.
Best regards (to everyone),
Robert Maxym
----------------------
Date: Mon,
24 Jul 2000 21:44:07 -0700
From: Dwight Souder (Jean Bell)
<jeanbell@eni.net>
Jeff,
How nice of you to take the time to
bring so much news together, and in
such a short time. Isn't the
web incredible! In your last email you
had a list of people you couldn't
find yet, and it only had 15 people
on it. Out of the entire class of
'69, I am amazed.
In your last email, you recapped my
recent work history. You remembered
it remarkably well from our
chat at the last reunion. I taught
computer science at Colorado School
of Mines, from 1983 to 1997.
I left and sued the school because
of gender discrimination; we
settled out of court in
November. I think it was important to stand up
for myself and for the rights of
women, but I am also glad that the
lawsuit is settled and I can get on
with my life. Now I work for
Rational Software, in Boulder,
teaching and writing courseware about software
development. I don't
have a website of my own, but Rational's is
I live with my husband, Dwight
Souder, on the ranch that his
grandfather homesteaded in
Evergreen, Colorado. Our son Don was a
freshman last year at the
University of Northern Colorado, in Greeley.
Our daughter Heni and 5-year-old
granddaughter Ali also live on the
ranch. Spending the afternoon
playing with my granddaughter is my idea
of a great time!
Regards to all,
Jean Bell
-------------------------------------
George Caplan writes:
Hi Jeff:
I now have a rudimentary Web page. It is:
http://www.channel1.com/users/gcaplan/
Check it out. If it's OK, then tell the Swarthmore folk about it.
Cheerio.
George Caplan
----------------------------------
Subhashini Ali writes (sorry about the previous flub):
Dear jeff - i'm another one of those without a website but the orgn i work with
- the all india democratic womens assn - the largest womens orgn in india
(membership - 55,00,000) which is not repeat not an ngo - no funding whatsover
-
has a website: http://www.aidwa.org
i am in the communist party of india (marxist) since l969 (imm on return from
swarthmore!)
if any of you visits india or is likely to do so - please get in touch, come
and
stay, let me help with anything you need help with. Love Subhashini
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John Yinger writes:
Dear Jeff,
It
has been fun finding out about classmates. Thanks for your
efforts.
Here's my website, in case anyone wants to find out what I have been
up to. My latest adventure is
involvement in a fight to change the
Constitution so that naturalized
citizens can vote. This change would
affect my son, now age 3, who was
born in Vietnam. Details are on my
website.
http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/~jyinger
Cheers,
Johnny
John Yinger
Professor of Economics & Public
Administration
Center for Policy Research, Eggers
Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
Phone: (315) 443-9062
Fax: (315)
443-1081
-----------------------------------------
Marilyn Holifield writes:
Your updates on what people are
doing are great!!! Just a note to say
thanks for sharing your time and
the info.
Marilyn J. Holifield, Esq.
Holland & Knight LLP
701 Brickell Avenue, Suite 3000
Miami, Florida 33131
(305) 789-7730 (Telephone)
(305) 789-7799 (Fax)
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Joan Glass Hilgers writes:
Jeff, thanks for all the hard work on the news. Joan is an absolutely
fantastic fourth grade teacher in Austin. She even has the kids reading
and performing "A Midsummer Night's Dream". She went back to school
after
the two girls reached school age and got her teaching certificate
(requiring 60 hours of additional college work, which is necessary in Texas
even though she had a masters in social work). She has now taught for 10
years--seven at a predominately minority school in Austin and the last
three at a middle class school. The contrast is very interesting. She
also did a tremendous job as the primary care giver to our two daughters.
They have been a great joy. Our oldest daughter graduated from Swats in 99
and just spent last year teaching English in Morocco. We just returned
from visiting her in Morocco; an illuminating adventure. Our other
daughter just finished her first year at Pomona and is having a great
experience. We were very sorry to hear about Steve Parsons. I did have a
short talk with him at the reunion. He must have been in great pain, but
hid it very well.
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Judy Lorick writes:
Dear Family, friends and colleagues,
We'll be moving on August 1st, so we'll be off line for a few days. Please
see new contact information below. Sorry to be so brief, but I'm up to my
neck in boxes!
Judith
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Les Hauts du Golf tel: +33 (0)4 92 28 05 83
760 Chemin de la Tire cell: +33 (0)6 60 11 86 59
06250 Mougins fax: +33 (0)4 92 92 07 81
France email: lorick4jaz@aol.com
website: http://www.flohr.net/judith
----------------------------------------------------
Here is some correspondence I had
with Jeffrey Jones:
Date: Tue,
5 Sep 2000 10:34:15 -0400
From: Diogenes_@compuserve.com
Yes and no. I am the Jeffrey
Jones who would have graduated from
Swarthmore in 1969 if he hadn't
transferred to Pomona in 1967.
[ok thanks for the correction
I had forgotten about the transfer
how are you doing more generally?]
More generally, I am doing ok for a
52 year old guy. I guess.
Swarthmore pretty much dropped me
off its lists when I transferred so I am
grateful for the URL.
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Chris Grant wrote on October
24:
I'm going to step down as secretary
but the notes will mention
the "informal "e-mail
" as a terrific complement to the "formal notes"
Chris as you probably know already
is the head of New Jersey
Department of Health and Senior
Services. Her job includes dealing
with unexpected events like the
recent "Nile virus" scare. You can
read a brief thing about her at:
http://www.spry.org/Board/Grant.htm
I hope you will all express your
appreciation to Chris for her years
of service as class secretary.
Her email address is:
cgrant@doh.state.nj.us
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Also, here is a note from Marguerite
(Peggy) Ross that I received in September
but failed to forward to you all
until now:
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 23:53:40
-0400
From: "M.A. Ross"
<maross@mindspring.com>
Subject: greetings to class of 69
It has been a real treat to receive
news from so many folks, thanks
especially to Jeff's efforts. Of
course, the news about Steve Parsons's
death was the painful exception.
One of my regrets is: if only Steve had
been part of the healing Meeting at
our 30th reunion! I knew Steve to be a
caring, gifted man, and would be
grateful for messages from anyone who has
further information such as on how
condolences may be relayed to Steve's
surviving family and/or who would
like to join me in proposing some sort of
commemoration for Steve, may he
rest in peace.
Another favor I'd be grateful for
is to be kept in your thoughts and prayers
next Tues., October 3, when my
appeal of the lower court's adverse ruling
in my case against the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore will be argued
before the Maryland Court of
Special Appeals. I have been fighting a long,
rather lonely, legal battle to have
upheld the provisions of the civil
service (merit) system for
employees of Baltimore City, which I contend were
grossly violated when I was laid
off from and then replaced in my city
planning position in 1996. Should
any of you good government folks take an
interest in such matters, please
contact me.
P.S. As for the basics: I don't
have a web site, haven't caught Julian on
t.v. but might possibly catch Tom
in his cardinal role, still live in
Baltimore, still work at Chase
Brexton Health Services here, still study
towards a master's in theology in
the Ecumenical Institute's evening program,
still love Kristin Camitta Zimet's
poetry, and still hold my Swarthmore
classmates in my affections.
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Laura Blankertz is currently
Director of Research at Matrix Research
Institute in Philadelphia.
There is a blurb about her at:
http://www.eers.org/newslet/winter99.htm
You have to go pretty far down the page to find it though.
Also, I have added Kristin
Wilson to the list. Her email is:
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Date: Mon,
02 Apr 2001 17:34:13 -0500
To: hartj@indiana.edu (Jeff Hart)
From: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: more Swarthmore news
Check out the following story on Swarthmore poets that includes a poem by Kristin
Camitta Zimet:
FIVE SWARTHMORE POETS presents poems and profiles of five Swarthmoreans who are
published poets: W.D. Ehrhart '73, Marc Elihu Hofstadter '67, Susan Holahan
'61, Angela Shaw '90, and Kristin Camitta Zimet '69.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/mar01/poets.html
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From: "Carl Kendall" <ckendall@tulane.edu>
To: "Jeffrey Hart" <hartj@indiana.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 09:53:47 -0600
Dear Jeff,
Don't know if I told you that we've moved back to New Orleans. Didn't
bother responding to the football controversy, since it ranks up there in
stupidity with the gag rule and Bush's environmental policy.
Carl
office address:
Carl Kendall
Professor of Medical Anthropology and International Health
Department of International Health and Development
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Tulane University
1440 Canal St.
New Orleans, LA. 70112
ckendall@tulane.edu
(504) 588-2334
home address:
1308 8th St.
New Orleans, LA 70115
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 10:36:43 -0800
To: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
From: Peter Seixas <Peter.Seixas@ubc.ca>
Jeff-
I have a new position here at UBC as Canada Research Chair in Education,
from which I'll work on problems of collective memory and historical
consciousness. Also a new edited book entitled Knowing, Teaching and
Learning History, from NYU Press.
Not exactly football, but that is as it should be.
Peter
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From: Leonard.Nakamura@phil.frb.org
To: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: please send news and views on Swarthmore football controversy
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:51:59 -0500
Dear Jeff,
I never attended a football game while at Swarthmore, but I did wrestle two
seasons in the JV. Although I was a really bad wrestler, I greatly appreciated
being able to wrestle in college.
Nevertheless, I very strongly support the College's decision to eliminate
football and wrestling, because I do think that the competitive/vocational
aspect of athletics has become too important at the varsity level. It is
remarkable to me the extent to which admissions policies at top schools have
become warped by athletics, at a time when education has become so important in
our lives and to our pocketbooks.
I guess I wish there was a possibility of having intercollege competition with
"amateurs" -- a "scholarship"-free league. But I know that
that is hard to do, since such a high proportion of all students get some form
of financial aid, and I think schools should have some ability to
differentially admit students for nonacademic reasons, whether it be
personality, family, or athletic ability.
Leonard Nakamura
----------------------------------------------
Date:
From: Belle Brett <bbrett@bigplanet.com>
Subject: me
To: hartj@indiana.edu
Jeff--Chris Erb sent my your latest e-mail to classmates. I guess I'm
not on the list. My e-mail is bbrett@brettconsulting.com
(that's my domain, but not my server; please use it because I plan to change
servers, and it will get to me there.Add me to the list!
So, you found me on the web. Interesting! I haven't done one of those ego
searches. After I left the National Center for Improving Science Education,
where I was Evaluation Policy Analyst or some such fancy title (I did
evaluation of science programs and staff development programs in science funded
by the US Dept of Energy), I was Director of Research and Systematic Learning
for CIty Year, Inc., a national community service program for young people, and
the largest AmeriCorps program. In summer of 1999, I left to start my own
business (Brett Consulting Group) the in the areas of research and evaluation.
My work is generally with higher education institutions and non-profits and
varies in content (from hands on GED math education to youth involvement to
coexistence to staff development, etc....) I generally take on longer contracts
of a year or more. Business has been good. Actually, I see Laura Blankertz
at the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association. The reference
to writing about women in science was to my work prior to NCISE at the
I have a good friend who was Swarthmore class of '90--Liz Clarke O'Neil. She
was a star athlete at Swarthmore (basketball) and was very interested in the
football controversy.
Hope all is well. So do you go roaming around the web looking for classmates?
I do come regularly to our five year reunions by the way. I think I've been to
every one since we graduated.
Belle
-------------------------------------------
Date:
From: Jack Lohr <pcfl@internexus.net>
Subject: Re: please send news and views on Swarthmore football controversy
Jeff,
My involvement with the wrestling team was one of the more
significant parts of my life at Swarthmore. I spent more
time with coach Gomer Davies than with any professor, and he
taught me more about personal integrity and discipline than
any class. The importance of the team had nothing to do with
our "competitiveness."
--
Jack Lohr pcfl@internexus.net
Presbyterian Church at
http://www.pcfl.org
--------------------------------------------
Date:
From: Kenneth Roberts <kenarobs@yahoo.com>
Subject: thanks & change of address
To: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Jeff,
Thanks very much for coordinating all the alum
news. My new e-mail address is
Kenarobs@yahoo.com
No big news now, no website. I'll be in touch in
the future. Again, thanks. Ken Roberts