Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003

Dear Swarthmore Class of 1969 classmates,

I am adding Marcia Brubeck to the list. Here is her contact information.

Abador Associates, LLC
Marcia E. Brubeck, LCSW, Member
Phone: (860) 586-8530
Fax: (860) 570-0304
On the Web at www.abadorassociates.com
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Lauren Brubaker is finishing his Ph.D. dissertation on Adam Smith at the University of Chicago.  You can download a paper
he wrote called "Nature Needs Help: Nature, Human Nature, and Natural Liberty" at
http://www.src.uchicago.edu/politicaltheory/ptarch.htm

Leda Johnson Brubaker's father, Walter Russell Johnson, Jr., died in February.  Belated condolences to Leda.
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Here is a humorous article on black flies in Maine featuring quotations from Alan Brooks in the March 3, 2002 issue of the Bangor News:

Black fly breeders swarm to meeting in Machias

MACHIAS - Maine has weapons of mass destruction that simply get no respect, and rumor has it the federal government is considering exterminating them.But a group of people, all members of the Maine Blackfly Breeders Association, as well as some who have joined the Blackfly Civil Liberties Union, plan to press their case for freedom and equal rights for black flies before the nation's highest court.

At the fifth annual meeting of the breeders association Saturday, Woksinna Blackcloud, who was hired last year as the black fly hatchery manager, was the first to refer to the state's secret weapon.

"We are going forward with the implementation of the new cloning program," she said. "Research has shown that this is a viable way for us to introduce some of the strongest genes into the swarms." She said she couldn't get into details, but "Let's just say we have weapons of mass destruction."

During the convention, Blackfly Queen Dottie sat on her throne and bestowed baby bites to the faithful. The more than 100 blue-blooded breeders sported the brilliant red bite on cheeks, foreheads and arms.

Only two black flies were able to attend. They watched the proceedings from their glass jar.

The state does not yet appreciate the black fly, defenders say, and Alan Brooks, president of the Quoddy Regional Land Trust Inc., suggested Saturday that the Legislature offer appropriate designation to the black fly.

At the breakfast meeting, the land trust presented its "Model Conservation Easement on Essential Blackfly Habitat" to the group.

The easement protects black fly habitat "which may include the siting of human residences in close proximity to black fly feeding zones so as to reduce the need for black flies to commute to work," Brooks said.

The easement requires that structures be allowed "so long as they require long walks between house and car, house and garden etc. to ensure sufficient time for black flies to enjoy their lunch."

The new easement allows for the surface of the property to be altered in any way that "improves black fly breeding, feeding and roosting habitat," Brooks said.

Money raised each year from the association's brunch is donated to various organizations, including Down East Community Hospital, a hospice, a food pantry and the Down East Young Authors Conference.

To date, nearly $5,000 has been raised.
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Elizabeth Crawford specializes in translating German texts into English, especially children's literature.  Her latest translation credit on Amazon.com was for Freedom Beyond the Sea by Waldtraut Lewin published in 2001.  You can see the list of her translations at:
http://ez2find.com/go.php3?site=book2&go=Author=Crawford%2C%20Elizabeth%20D.
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You can read about Donald Coppock's activities as Assistant Director of Coriell Cell Depositories in Camden, New Jersey, at:
http://coriell.umdnj.edu/science/coppock.html
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I spoke with Sandy Zimmerman briefly by phone last month when Joan, Zach and I were visiting Brunswick, Maine, during a short tour of New England colleges.  Zach is a junior in high school and is thinking about what colleges to apply to.  Sandy has retired from practicing medicine but is now teaching medicine in Portland. Julie Biddle Zimmerman is a publisher of self-help books.  You can see a picture of her and view the list of publications of the Biddle-Audenreed Press at:
http://www.biddle-audenreed.com/
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July 30, 2003

Dear Classmates:
Here is some more news:

Dorothy Twining Globus just curated a new show called "Fleur on Flair" at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery
that ended on July 26.  You can read about it at:
http://www.metropolismag.com/html/urbanjournal_0703/fleuronflair.html
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Steve Yussen has become Dean of the School of Education at the University of Minnesota.  You can
read about him at:
http://education.umn.edu/faculty/dean.htm
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Dennie Palmer Wolf
Director, Opportunity and Accountability
dennie_wolf@brown.edu

Dennie Palmer Wolf directs the Rethinking Accountability initiative. She heads a team that is developing a national accountability network along with tools and models for networks and for accountability systems. She also works with her team to educate and influence policy makers and the public about accountability, and to collaborate with other initiatives in the Institute and in Brown University education centers, as well as with organizations across the country. She will collect data from schools around the country to help identify better ways to improve achievement in K-12 schools.

Dennie received an Ed.D. and Ed.M. from Harvard University, and a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College. Prior to coming to the Institute, she taught education at Clark University and co-directed the Harvard Institute for School Leadership. She is also Executive Director of Projects in Active Cultural Engagement, a nonprofit organization based in Cambridge, MA. She will continue in that position while also working at the Institute. Dennie has been teaching, consulting, and doing research in education since 1971. Her areas of interest include standards, assessment, and school reform and cultural policy for youth. She is a member of the National Assessment Governing Board. Dennie is the recipient of numerous awards and grants and is an extensively published author in the field of education.
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Christine Grant is a vice president at Aventis Pasteur. Her previous work at Aventis Pasteur included creating the Public Business center of activity. Ms. Grant is now working on a number of domestic and global issues, including the creation of collaborative systems to manage a global or pandemic influenza outbreak. From 1999 to 2001, she was the New Jersey commissioner of health and senior services. In that role, she was New Jersey's chief health official, with responsibility for a 2,000 person, $2 billion agency. As a commissioner during Governor Christie Whitman's administration, Ms. Grant led New Jersey's efforts to manage the first North American West Nile fever outbreaks and handled managed-care company negotiations. She also created online public health systems for crisis management as well as communicable disease and bioterrorism reporting. Earlier Ms. Grant was a congressional aide and an executive at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She practiced law at McCarter & English. She has frequently written and commented on television about law and health care topics.
 

Source: http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.17059/pub_detail.asp

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To: hartj@indiana.edu

Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:42:05 -0600

Subject: Re: Swarthmore Class of 1969 news

From: Joseph G Boches <jgboches@juno.com>
 

Yo!   Very cool of you to put this together.  

Details last promised have changed so quickly wasn't worth the update. 

I divorced after 17+ years and working to maintain relationship with teen

daughters in neighborhood.   Teaching keeps me very busy, good at this

time.  I'm attending CSU not teaching there; I teach at Johnson & Wales

University in Denver.    Too little time for the mountains and

fishing...Best to all. 
 

Thanks.

Joseph G. Boches

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From: "Kristin Wilson" <kristin_m_wilson@yahoo.com>

Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:19:17 -0700
 

Hi Jeffrey,

I think I wrote previously about correcting the information you are providing about me.  I checked recently and you

at Sunflower Systems, a software company.

Thank you for correcting this.

 Kristin

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In the last news email, I forgot to add a note from Susan Tripp Snider from May 14:
 

From: "Susan Snider" <susan_sni@msn.com>

Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 11:02:49 -0400
 

Dear Jeff and classmates,
 

I just celebrated my first Mother's Day as a grandma!! Spent some time with both sons, their wives and babies (Opal, 7 months and Felix, 4 months) AND my mother. What a treat. I can't believe how lucky I am to have them all nearby. Earlier in the day, I was shoveling mulch in the rain and building garden beds, wet and muddy, happy as a clam.
 

It's 25 years today since I graduated medical school. I still love what I do... small town family practice, with med students from UNC and other schools rotating through the office periodically. Despite government hassles and paperwork, I can't complain!
 

Sue Snider

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Here are book notices from the latest Swarthmore Alumni Bulletin (June 2003):
 

Randy Holland, The Delaware State Constitution: A Reference Guide, Greenwood Press, 2002. State Supreme Court Justice Randy Holland divides this detailed work into two parts: The Constitutional History of Delaware and Delaware Constitution and Commentary.
 

Stephen Ross and John Yinger, The Color of Credit: Mortgage Discrimination, Research Methodology, and Fair-Lending Enforcement, MIT Press, 2002. The authors discuss mortgage-lending discrimination in recent years by reanalyzing existing loan-approval and-performance data and devising new tests for detecting discrimination in contemporary mortgage markets.

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I have completed a book on high definition and digital television that will be published before the end of the year by Cambridge University Press.  You can read about it at:
http://books.cambridge.org/0521826241.htm

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My next research project will be on the politics and economics of biotech industry.  I am hoping that some of you will help me out with this, as I am facing a very steep learning curve in coming to grips with the science behind this industry. 

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There is a new web site at MIT that provides a portal into a wide variety of types of information about the U.S. government. You can access it at:
http://open-gov.media.mit.edu/

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Here is some more news.  First an iterm about Joanne Luoto's research on condoms:

Critical Issues in Study Design of Research on Condoms and the Prevention of STIs
December, 2002. This workshop brought together scientists experienced in studying the effectiveness of condoms to prevent STIs in order to generate guidance for researchers lacking experience in condom or STI study design. For more information, contact Dr. Luoto (LuotoJ@mail.nih.gov, voice: 301-496-4926).
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Randy J. Holland became a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware in December 1986.

Prior to joining the Supreme Court, Justice Holland was a partner with Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell in Georgetown, Delaware. He received his BA from Swarthmore College and his Juris Doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he graduated cum laude and received the Henry C. Loughlin Prize for Legal Ethics. In 1998, he received an L.L.M. in the Judicial Process from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Justice Holland is President of the American Inns of Court Foundation, a Trustee of the American Judicature Society, a member of the American Law Institute, and chair of the Advisory Committee to the AJS Center for State Judicial Conduct Organizations. He is an adjunct professor at Widener University School of Law.

There is an interview with Randy (and a nice picture) about his role in the American Inns of Court Foundation at the following site:
http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/dec02ttb/interview.html
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Delaware Supreme Court Justice Randy J. Holland has been selected as a recipient of the American Judicature Society Herbert Harley Award. Named after the founder of the American Judicature Society, the Harley Award is the Society's premier state award and is reserved for individuals who make outstanding efforts and contributions that substantially improve the administration of justice in their state.

The Harley Award was presented to Justice Holland at the Annual Bench & Bar Conference on Thursday, June 5, 2003 at the Wyndham Hotel in Wilmington.
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At 09:18 AM 7/29/2003 -0500, Jim Levin wrote:
 

Hi Jeff,

   We're going to be moving from UIUC to UCSD later in August - I'll be a professor in the Teacher Education Program there.  We're driving to San Diego by way of eastern Pennsylvania, as we're dropping Tera [their daughter] off at Swarthmore for freshman orientation. 

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Holland & Knight partner, Marilyn J. Holifield, has been elected to the Harvard Alumni Association's Board of Directors. Each year six new members are elected to represent the alumni by mail ballot. Each of the 18 total directors serves a 3-year term. She received the second highest number of votes, 16,000, by an international Harvard Alumni community. 

She has been involved in Alumni Affairs as an active member of the Harvard Club of West Florida, the Miami Harvard Club, and the Harvard Law School Association of Florida.  Ms. Holifield will bring talent, experience, and an important perspective coming from Florida to her role as Elected Director.
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John Howard, leader of the Hamilton Trio, as violinist/violist performed with the Mostly Mozart Orchestra at Lincoln Center, NY, 1981-86, and with many other New York and New Jersey music groups such as the New Jersey Symphony and the New York Chamber Symphony. He was concertmaster of the Washington Heights Symphony, the New Brunswick (NJ) Chamber Orchestra, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and principal 2nd with Maine's Portland Symphony Chamber Orchestra. In Virginia, he has been concertmaster of Musick Virginia, Loudoun Chorale, and many Messiah performances and has played in the Fairfax Symphony and the Winchester Chamber Orchestra. He was the founding concertmaster of Loudoun Community Orchestra (now the Loudoun Symphony). Since his founding of the Hamilton Trio in 1986, John has developed much of the Trio's large and beautiful repertoire, and added many of his own arrangements to it. John is from Oregon and is a graduate of Swarthmore College. He continued with graduate-school musical studies, including violin with Paul Zukofsky, at SUNY Stony Brook on full scholarship. John taught violin and music appreciation at Franconia College (NH) for two years before becoming a full time performer. His special research interest is neglected 18th & 19th century American music, some of which he has performed and conducted. John teaches violin and viola privately in Lovettsville, Leesburg, and Purcellville (VA), and was on the teaching staff of Shenandoah Arts Academy, of Shenandoah University.

You can read more about the Hamilton Trio at:
http://www.classicaltrio.com/
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There are some nice pictures of Bonnie Inouye and her sons and daughters-in-law at:
http://www.geocities.com/bonnieinouye/family.htm
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Elizabeth Hawkins Jewett is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth.  More at:
http://cobweb.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~dms/facultydb/profile_read.pl?uid=1037

Her husband also teaches at Dartmouth.
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Gabriella Boden Kaye organized a conference on children's literature about Native Americans at the Mashantucket
Pequot Museum where she is the Children's Librarian.  More about the conference at:
http://cla.uconn.edu/proceedings/materials.html
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You can listen to Rachel Kitzinger reciting various passages from Greek authors at:
http://people.bu.edu/bobl/ancientgreek.htm

Her father passed away in February.  Here is the NYT obituatry:

NY Times 2/9/03
Ernst Kitzinger, Professor and Writer on Byzantine Art, Dies at 90
By KEN JOHNSON

Kitzinger, one of the 20th century's foremost historians of Byzantine, early Christian and early medieval art, died at his home in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on Jan. 22. He was 90.

Dr. Kitzinger, who taught at Harvard for many years, was one of the last surviving members of an influential generation of German art historians who fled their country with the rise of Nazism. Others included Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Rudolf Wittkower and Julius Held. Along with them Dr. Kitzinger brought to the study of art a methodologically rigorous and intellectually ambitious attention to iconography, style and factual evidence that affected the practice of art history in the English-speaking world. At the same time, the lucidity and grace of Dr. Kitzinger's writing in English, his second language, offered his scholarship to a wide audience.

The virtue of Dr. Kitzinger's work, said Dr. Irving Lavin, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and one of Dr. Kitzinger's first students in the United States, was its ability "to connect what was happening visually to what was happening conceptually; the history of art became a history of ideas." Writing on subjects like the floor mosaics of early Christian churches, the phenomenon of iconoclasm and medieval art in northern England, Dr. Kitzinger traced "a fundamental shift from a humanistic to a spiritual view of the world." His work transformed the conventional view of art of the Middle Ages as an incoherent decline from the art of classical antiquity.

Born in Munich on Dec. 27, 1912, Ernst Kitzinger studied at the universities of Munich and Rome. He received his doctorate in 1934 for work on Medieval painting and mosaics in Rome. Shortly afterward, he went to England, where he was hired by the British Museum. There he immersed himself in the Anglo-Saxon arts of northern England and southern Scotland, and in 1940 he published "Early Medieval Art at the British Museum," still considered one of the best introductions to the art of the Middle Ages.

At the start of World War II, Dr. Kitzinger was interned as an enemy alien and sent to Australia. After his release in 1941, he came to the United States, where he became a junior fellow at the new Center for Byzantine Studies at the Harvard Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington. During the war he was a research analyst for the Office of Strategic Services in Washington and London.

Returning to Dumbarton Oaks in 1946, he became a professor of Byzantine art and archaeology and from 1955 to 1966 director of Byzantine studies. During his tenure, Dumbarton Oaks became the world's leading institution for Byzantine studies. In 1967 he went to Harvard's campus in Cambridge, Mass., to teach until his retirement in 1979.

Among Dr. Kitzinger's many honors was his appointment as Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge. In 1974 and 1975 he gave a series of lectures that became a widely read book, "Byzantine Art in the Making" (Harvard University Press). In 1976 a collection of his published articles appeared as "The Art of Byzantium and the Medieval West: Selected Studies" (Indiana University Press).

Dr. Kitzinger continued to work after retirement, dividing his time between the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and Oxford. In his 80's he finished a lifelong project with a six-volume photographic survey of the Norman mosaics of Sicily.

Dr. Kitzinger's wife, the former Margaret Susan Theobald, whom he married in 1944, died in 2000. He is survived by his children, Stephen Anthony Kitzinger of London, Margaret Rachel Kitzinger of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Adrian Nicholas Kitzinger of Manhattan, and by three grandchildren.
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I found the PR news release about Ron Krall's new position at GlaxoSmithKline at:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/02-06-2003/0001886516
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Rich Laquer recently defended an individual who had his property expropriated in a mistaken drug bust.  He won
an earlier case that was similar and his client received a $1.4 million settlement.  This time Rich  is shooting for
over $2.6 million.  You can read about it at:
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/041203/new_drugmoney.shtml
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Diane Batts Morrow is the winner of the 2002 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize of the Association of Black Women Historians
for her book, Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time. More about it at:
http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-5518.html
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:34:24 -0400
From: "Karen R. Sollins" <sollins@lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore Class of 1969 news

Hi Jeff,

I really enjoy the little missives from you.  This is such a wonderfully eclectic and interesting group of people.  So, its time for a little news from me.

I am a principal research scientist at MIT, at what was, until June 30, the Laboratory for Computer Science, but has now merged into the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL is the only way to say it).  My general area of research is computer networks.  Last year I received a $1M grant from the NSF over 3 years, which is wonderful news, but not enough (in research whatever one has is never enough). In this case, because I'm completely on soft money and also need to support my students, this really isn't enough, so we piece together other things.  One of the key people I work with is Dave Clark (Swarthmore '66).  If you are particularly interested in research on computer networks, look at http://krs.lcs.mit.edu/regions, to learn about this particular project.  I have to say that the best part of doing research like this is getting to work with students; they are always surprising me. The other exciting bit of news related to MIT is that we will be moving into a new Frank Geary building in January!  It will be interesting to see what it is like spending one's working hours inside a "work of art".

In other news, Mike Sollins' (also '69) and my son, Peter( Swarthmore '98) married Amy Tapia (Swarthmore '97) in June this year.  Pete is a grad student in Astronomy at Harvard, and Amy a law student at UConn, but they live here in Cambridge.  In fact, Amy was awarded a fellowship at UConn Law specifically earmarked for Swarthmore grads.

In addition to this, I am the chair of the board of directors of the Scherman Foundation, based in New York, where all the rest of my family is.  This was created by my grandfather eons ago (1940's). The areas in which we give grants (between 120-160 a year) are: social welfare programs in New York, the arts in New York, family planning and population control, the environment, peace and disarmament, and human and civil rights.  We only give to non-profit organizations (not individuals, like individual artists) and generally only for general operating expenses.  Needless to say, this is a totally different world than doing science/engineering research at MIT.

A few years ago, i thought I would try to find a way to merge these two kinds of activities, and spent 2 years as a program director at the National Science Foundation, giving out grants in my research area.  I learned the hard way that there is really no similarity between giving grants in the private sector and doing it from inside the federal government.  The difference has nothing to do with the subject matter of the grants, but rather is reflected in part in the size of the organization but perhaps more in the fact that one is spending the public's money and therefore has to be endlessly explicit about every detail of every decision and then follow-up with endless reports about the value of spending that money.  (All of this makes sense, but it really does get quite burdensome.)

                        Karen
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Karen R. Sollins, Ph.D.
Principal Research Scientist
MIT Computer Science and Artifical Intelligence Laboratory
200 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
V: +1 617 253 6006
F: +1 617 253 2673
E: sollins@csail.mit.edu
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Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003

Dear Classmates:

Here are some news items.
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Mark Vonnegut gave an interesting speech at the annual meeting of the National Association for Mental Illness (NAMI) in May.
You can read it at: http://www.namimass.org/conv2003/mvspeaks.htm

Mark has also been exhibiting his art.  For more on this see:
http://www.miltontimes.com/News/2002/1024/Happenings/gallery.html

Mark has formed his own pediatrics practice called Mark Vonnegut Pediatrics. The website is:
http://www.beansprout.net/pediatrics/Welcome.asp?AT=1_58*3~-107922380&FTS=True
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Dana Wakefield is a judge in the Denver Juvenile court.  There is a story about his efforts to deal with truancy at:
http://www.dpsk12.org/news/press/2002/05/13.shtml

If anyone out there knows Dana's email address, please share it with me.
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Chad Stone is currently an economist on the staff of the Joint Economic Committee.  He recently compiled some
statistics about the economic performance of the Bush administration for the JEC democrats.  You can read about
it at: http://jec.senate.gov/democrats/Documents/Releases/dc26june2003.pdf
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Steve Schostal is a psychiatrist living in Florida.  Here is something he wrote about patients with Lupus:
http://www.geocities.com/sarahmcraig/fam_friends.html
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Miriam Friedlander has been involved for many years in research on dialysis and renal failure.  You can access
her recent publications at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=Weiss+MF[au]&dispmax=50

Her son Orion is doing very well as a Juilliard-trained concert pianist.  You can read about him at:
http://www.fif-lso.org/cfce/orion.htm
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Avery Rome, editor of the Sunday Magazine of the Philadelphia Inquirer, was injured in a fall in late 2002.  While she was out
recovering, there was a story about the closure of the Magazine (see below).  Best wishes to Avery for a speedy recovery, physical
and occupational.
http://citypaper.net/articles/2003-04-17/om.shtml
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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:24:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: nadia913@earthlink.net [Nadia Ilyin]

Hi Jeff,

Well, as usual, I am not as illustrious as my compatriots, but I am happy to report that after a year and a half of unemployment and hit-and-miss small contracts in the wake of the Silicon Valley crash, I am once more employed full time, as the very faint beginnings of a turnaround appear here.

I'm doing both technical and marcom writing at Veraz Networks in San Jose, and eventually I may do training as well if I can be stretched far enough. It's my first shot at telecomm after years in other kinds of systems writing, and I'm drowning in a sea of acronyms.

More as things unfold--or maybe I'll unfold first!

Thanks for including the obit of Dr. Ernst Kitzinger, whom I knew, because Rachel and I were friends all through high school. He was not only an eminent scholar but also a delightful gentleman.

--Nadia (Edna) Ilyin
Original message attached.
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This came in a few days ago from Steve Yussen:

Jeff,

 I'd be pleased to be on the email list.  Feel free to share the address with members of the class of '69.  Hope all is well with you and your family.  Suzann and I just keep circling Midwest college towns.  After grad school here at Minnesota (69-72), an extended life as a faculty member at the UW-Madison (1972-91), then a deanship at the University of Iowa (91-98), we're back in Minneapolis, 5 years come August.  Again, I'm dean of the Ed School and a faculty member in the department where I earned my Ph.D.

Take care,

Steve
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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003

Dear Classmates,

Ron Martinez has moved from the University of Minnesota to Brown University, where he will be
Professor in Italian Studies.  The Departmental site is:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/people.html
and Ron's new email is Ronald_Martinez@brown.edu
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From: MCMaye@aol.com (Marilyn Allman Maye)
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 08:40:42 EDT
Subject: Re: Swarthmore Class of 1969 news

Dear Jeff,

This is a very accessible format for class news.  Thanks for doing it.  I was heartened to see Edna's comment about not seeming as illustrious as others in the class; I was hesitant to report in, feeling the same way. 

Anyway, I am pretty pleased about earning a doctorate in education, (Teachers College, Columbia U, 2003) - something I got motivated to do only in recent years, from my experiences in parenting.  My dissertation was about study group collaboration among high-achieving students of African descent in studying mathematics at selective colleges.  I see we have a lot of educators in the class, and I would love to hear from anyone who might be interested in any aspect of that topic. 

After a few years working with Joyce Frisby Baynes ('68) running an urban school district, I am currently teaching educational leadership at New Jersey City University, a predominantly Hispanic- serving institution in NJ. 

Also, my husband Warren and I have also written a book about rites of passage for youth of African descent in America (Orita: Rites of Passage...), and our son Richard is returning to Harvard to complete his BA after a year away pursuing hiphop music producing in NYC.

Marilyn Allman Maye '69
(mmaye@njcu.edu)
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From: Mehatt@aol.com (Michael Hattersley)
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 11:37:23 EDT
Subject: Re: Swarthmore Class of 1969 news

Jeff -- I've just finished a novel, The Last of the Medicis, and found an
agent for it, so we'll see.  Currently I'm organizing the Lambda Literary
Festival, the annual national gathering of gay writers, which will take place this
Columbus Day weekend here in Provincetown -- anyone interested in it can get
in touch with me at mehatt@aol.com or 508-487-2041 --Best --

Michael Hattersley.
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Bill Reiner recently testified in a trial dealing with some interesting transgender issues:
http://www.gazette.net/200327/weekend/a_section/166647-1.html
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Juan Quintero recently coauthored a piece about eco-tourism in Ecuador (Galapagos):
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/lac/lacinfoclient.nsf/8d6661f6799ea8a48525673900537f95/b299a48ecc01c57685256d43007ad1ed/$FILE/Jun03%20-%20Galapagos%20Tourism%20EN.pdf
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On March 9, 2004, Mike Quick is scheduled to give a lecture on George Inness at the San Diego Museum of Art:
http://www.sdmart.org/calendar-masters.html
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In June, Warren Phinney performed acoustic folk music at Papyri Books in North Adams, Massachusetts:
http://www.iberkshires.com/advocate/story10320.html

I would be very grateful if anyone on the list knows where Warren lives currently and could share his contact
information with me.
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Lenny Nakamura, still at the Fed in Philadelphia, has written a short paper on decentralization:
http://www.phil.frb.org/files/br/brq103ln.pdf
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:10:38 -0500

Dear Classmates,

Here is a bit more information about the recent activities of Fania Davis:
http://www.5thworld.net/traditionalknowledge/Students/Sd_FaniaDavis.html
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Anna Maria Anderson Borg became Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy, Sanctions and Commodities in August 2000.  She was also named the State Department Coordinator for Conflict Diamonds.  From 1999 - 2000 she served as Director of the Office of United Kingdom, Benelux and Ireland Affairs. Prior to this, she was Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.

Anna Borg began her Foreign Service career in 1978 after working at the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.   Her Washington assignments included Special Advisor to the Deputy Secretary, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Deputy Director of the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh Office, Italy Desk Officer and OECD Desk Officer.  Overseas assignments included Accra and Rome.  Promoted to the Senior Foreign Service in 1993, she speaks Italian and French.  She has received four individual Superior Honor Awards and the 1988 Dunn Award for Outstanding Mid-level Officer.

She received a B.A. from Swarthmore College, M.A. from George Washington University, D.E.A. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and also attended the National War College.  She is married to Ambassador (retired) Parker Borg; they have three daughters.
Source: http://www.ostp.gov/whdc/bio-pres.html

Here is some information about Anna's husband, Parker Borg:

• Parker W. Borg is a retired Foreign Service Officer, who served as US Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland from 1993 to 1996 and to the Republic of Mali from 1981 to 1984.
• Other senior diplomatic assignments during his 32 years with the Department of State included Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Narcotic Matters (1989-91), Acting Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy (1987-89), Deputy Director of the Office for Combating Terrorism (1984-86), and Director of the Office of West African Affairs (1979-81). Earlier in his career he served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of State (1974-75). Overseas he also served as a diplomat in Zaire and Malaysia and as rural development officer in Vietnam. He began his government service as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines.
• Ambassador Borg was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended Dartmouth College (BA) and Cornell University (MPA). During his State Department service, he was selected to be a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York (1978-79) and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington (1886-87).
• Parker Borg is married to the former Anna Anderson Lehel, also a career Foreign Service Officer. They have three children and reside in Great Falls, Virginia.

Source: http://www.ciponline.org/nationalsecurity/staff.htm

I do not have an email address for Anna Borg so please send it to me if you have it.
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Deborah Seeley Averill is a member of Encore, a women's vocal group in Portland, Oregon.

An East Coast native, Debbie grew up listening to the Philadelphia Orchestra and attending musical theater. She began her own musical career in a church-based "cherub choir" at age five and later played flute in school ensembles. She made her solo debut in high school, singing the alto solo in Mozart's Missa Brevis in F. While a student at Swarthmore College, Debbie performed in the chorus at a PDQ Bach concert and sang with the college choir at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. She has performed with the Philadelphia Chamber Chorus, the Handel Choir of Baltimore, and The Voices of Mel Olson (Omaha). In "real life" Debbie works with abused children, and she finds singing with Encore refreshing for her spirit.

Source: http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:y9WFjYGuSWsJ:www.encoresings.org/memberbios.html+Deborah+Averill,+Portland,+OR&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
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Arisika Razak (Donna Allen), RN, CNM, MPH, has been a midwife, healer and spiritual dancer for thirty years. An Associate Professor of Women's Spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Arisika has led spiritual and healing workshops for women for over 2 decades. Her dance celebrates the physical body of woman, and the blood mysteries of childbirth, menstruation, sexuality and menopause. She has contributed to several books, and is a featured dancer in the films A Place of Rage and Fire Dancer.
 
Source: http://www.ciis.edu/graddegree/wsejourneys/florida2004.html
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From: Lorick4jaz@aol.com
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 08:58:42 EDT

Hi Jeff,

Another thank you for taking the time and energy to keep us all connected.

It looks like, after more than 15 years, I've decided that I'm actually going to remain on the Côte d'Azur for a while. My partner, Heiner, and I, are having a house built here in Mougins; a wild ride, to say the least! My son, Sergio, has left the Ballet Preljocaj in Aix-en-Provence to join the cast of Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, the musical comedy that will premiere in Paris late September. I'm still moving back and forth between my two careers. At the moment, music is in the background while I wait for the arrangements for my next CD. I'm hoping they'll be finished in time to re-launch next year. In the meanwhile I continue to work both independantly and as adjunct faculty with several european management institutes in the area of leadership, interpersonal skills and team development, and executive coaching. In the last few years I've managed to have a great time mixing the two areas by using music as a metaphor in programs on high performance teams and leadership.

Hoping to see you at the reunion.

Judith Lorick
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:00:42 -0500

Subject: Student protest at Swarthmore
 

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Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:14:37 -0500
I just received the following message from Felix Rogers:
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From: Fjrogers@aol.com
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 22:12:27 EST
Subject: Reunion

Dear Jeff,

Paul Peelle's up to his elbows in a production of H.M.S. Pinafore, so he's
asked me to present this information about our class reunion and poll the
members on one or two issues.

First of all, everyone, please save the date: our 35th class reunion will be
held on the weekend of Friday, June 4, 2004.

At the moment, Paul is planning to have our reunion dinner on Saturday, June
5, 2004, on the stage of the Lange Performance Center.  We are planning a
catered dinner, and a soft (easy listening) jazz trio to set just the right tone. 
Of several menu choices, we're going to avoid anything that seems to resemble
picnic fare, since we'll get that for lunch.  We hope to get just the right
balance, with a buffet style dinner and upscale cuisine at a reasonable price. 
Let this Midwesterner know if that sort of thing is feasible on the East
coast.

Would you be interested in putting together a memorial book to acknowledge
our deceased classmates?  How about an update on our yearbook?  That is, a
compendium of where we are as a class, with or without photos, which we could
e-mail to a central location to be compiled in time for the reunion.  This would
work best with a volunteer to coordinate this, preferably someone with a few
skills in this area.

Both Paul and I are geared up to promote this as a special event.  And we're
looking for a lot of volunteers to assist us to make this a memorable
occasion.  Please drop us a note if you can help. And please send your feedback about
these preliminary plans that I've outlined.

Cordially,

Felix John Rogers

Paul Peelle:    peelle@alum.swarthmore.edu
Felix John Rogers:  fjrogers@aol.com
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