Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:04:57 -0500
To: hartj@indiana.edu
From: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Swarthmore Class of 1969 news
 
Dear classmates:
 
I hope you had a chance to see Bruce Fein on the Lehrer News Hour yesterday (Monday) talking about the Alito hearings. If not,
see:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june06/alito_1-09.html
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Joan and I will be in New York from tomorrow January 11 until January 18.  Anyone interested in having dinner or a drink, please
send an email.
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Here is some news from Dorothy Twining Globus:
Joan wrote to Dorothy about an exhibit on Lao textiles organized by Carol Cassidy
(see http://www.asianart.com/laotex/index.html) and got this reply ---

 
hi Joan,
\order the book for the big story, it includes a major section on lao textiles and then her story.
in a nutshell:
 
carol went to norway and studied weaving in high school there.  then university.  and a masters in fiber art from u mich.  she got a job as a weaving consultant for the UN in Mozambique.  set up a program for villagers raising and weaving angora wool.  and helping get it to market.  she met her husband in africa.  he was an economic consultant for the UN in setting up programs to get villages on revenue streams.
 
she went to Laos in the late 80s to work on a cotton project.  when she saw the calibre and breadth of the silk weaving traditions of laos, she began collecting the traditional textiles.  after doing a market study, she and Dawit ( he is from ethiopia) decided to start a weaving studio in vientiane for silk weaving.  she began by copying traditional pieces and gradually evolved the designs to expand on the traditional motifs, reworking them in more modern interpretations.  but always with the roots in the traditions.  there are over 200 ethnic groups and the range of  designs in great.  she modified the looms to make them more efficient and to weave cloth in sizes consistent with the western market.  she also made arrangements with a group in the north to raise silkworms again (instead of opium) and set up her own source of handspun silk.  her studio has about 50 people but when you add all the others involved, she has around 5000 people who benefit from her endeavors.  she gives all of her staff healthcare, helps with loans etc.  benefits unknown in this corrupt, impoverished country. she was the first westerner to set up a private business there.  laos was the most heavily bombed country in the history of war.  all the unexploded ordinance from US planes returning from bombing raids on Nam was dropped on laos.  remember the plain of jars?
 
the silks are superb to the touch and beautiful in color and design.  she is a great weaver.  I did a show at FIT,  three years into her business and it was important to getting her on the map.  in 04, I did another show at the SF museum of craft and folk art and the second book.  now she consults all over SE asia and has a second operation in Cambodia..  she is a remarkable person and now a close friend.  I went to Laos when I was working on the second book.
 
maybe you could just pass this on to jeff.  and include the website if he decided to write about it.
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Jan. 31, 2006
 
Dear Classmates,

Joan and I visited Dorothy Globus Twining and Adrienne Asch while we were in New York two weeks ago. 

Dorothy's museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, had an interesting show of objects made by Northwest Native Americans.
The Museum itself is in the process of moving to what used to be the Huntington Hartford Museum in Columbus Circle.
http://www.americancraftmuseum.org/

According to Dorothy, Penny Bellamy has retired from her law firm in Hartford.  I do not have a good email address for her any longer
so if any of you have it, please share it with me.

Adrienne has just moved from Wellesley to Yeshiva University to head up a new center on Ethics.  She will be building upon her
recent work on bioethics and her earlier work on reproductive rights and the rights of people with disabilities. 

Besides seeing Dorothy and Adrienne, we enjoyed going to theater and museums and catching up with other friends who live
in the area.  We can especially recommend the off-broadway production of The Room and Celebration, two one-act plays by
Harold Pinter.  The Sarah Bernhardt show at the Jewish Museum was a lot of fun too.

Jean Bell recently published a book about her mother, Teeta, based on her mother's personal letters:
http://www.llumina.com/store/LoveTeeta.htm
 
Tim Barker was involved in a national student training program involving the search for supernovae using Celestron telescopes.  He continues
this work using a much better telescope located in New South Wales Australia. See:
http://www.gco.org.au/wheaton/index.htm
 
Follow the URL to a recent poem by Kristin Camitta Zimet:
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/red_cedar_review/v040/40.1zimet.html
 
Carolyn Cymbalak Foster has been appointed to the Steering Committee of the Biochemical Pharmacology Discussion Group:
http://www.nyas.org/channels/committee.asp?channelID=1
She has been involved in recent discussions of the effects of statins on the lowering of lipids.
 
Paul Peelle appears to have recovered from his quadruple bypass operation and is back teaching math at Easthampton High School in Massachusetts:
http://www.easthamptonhigh.org/peelle/

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:48:11 -0500
To: hartj@indiana.edu
From: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Swarthmore Class of 1969 News
 

Dear Classmates,

I hope all of you will sign up for the Swarthmore Alumni online community at:
http://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/SWT/

I just succeeded in signing on myself and now have the email addresses of a bunch more of you.
If this is your first missive from me, please let me know if you want to remain on the list.

The Swarthmore online community appears to have more about people's contact
information  and jobs than I was previously able to obtain, so I think it would be great
if you used this resource to keep track of everybody's whereabouts rather than depend
on my infrequent updates of the address book.

I would like to thank those of you who I invited to join LinkedIn.com for joining that web
service.  If you want to be invited and I forgot to invite you, check the site out first and let
me know if you want to join.

Here is a note I got from Roger Wood:

Subject: RE: Interesting Business Tool
From: "Wood, Roger F." <rwood@dilworthlaw.com>
To: "Jeffrey Hart" <hartj@indiana.edu>

Jeff -
 
Thanks for thinking of me.  It will be interesting to see what develops through these connections.  Much better idea than chasing ambulances.
 
We have a daughter who is a sophomore at Northwestern, so we've driven back and forth through Indiana recently.  It's a longer drive from Philadelphia to Chicago than I imagined, but definitely worth the trip.
 
Thank you for keeping us updated on news about our class.  Your emails are always enjoyable reading.  Hope all is well with you,
 
Roger
 
Roger F. Wood
DILWORTH PAXSON LLP
3200 Mellon Bank Center
1735 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
voice: 215-575-7068
fax: 215-575-7200
email: rwood@dilworthlaw.com

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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:42:28 -0500
To: hartj@indiana.edu
From: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Swarthmore Class of 1969 (message from Ellen Daniell)
 

Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:21:53 -0800
Subject: AAAS meeting
From: Ellen Daniell <ellen_daniell@earthlink.net>
To: hartj@indiana.edu
 
Dear Jeff
 
I have waited until (or past) the last minute to think of this, but if anyone on your list is going to be in St. Louis for the AAAS meeting this weekend, I'm doing a "meet the author" event at the Yale University Press booth in the exhibit hall Sunday 10-1.  This is my first public "appearance" with regard to "Every Other Thursday."  Of course, I'd love to see anyone from the class who has time to drop by.
 
Best regards,  Ellen

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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:32:58 -0500
To: hartj@indiana.edu
From: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Swarthmore Class of 1969 News
 

Dear Classmates,
 
Joan and I were in San Diego March 22-26 and were fortunate to be able to visit Sue Smith of the Class of 1968 at her home at Jim and Sandy Levin and Mike and Sue Schudson at a very nice restaurant called Prado in Balboa Park.  I have attached a photo that shows, from left to right, Sandy Levin, Sue Schudson, Mike Schudson, Joan Hart, and Jim Levin.  I am not in it because I took it. The background includes the lily pond and the conservatory in Balboa Park.
 
Mike and Sue have three children aged 14, 17, and 20 (boy, girl, boy respectively).  Sandy and Jim's daughter Tera is in Botswana on an overseas semester (she is currently going to Oberlin College).  Mike has just started a new project on extreme exercises of free speech and regaled us with tales of his recent attendance of a convention for Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) officials.  Jim continues his work on the use of the web in education.  Sandy is writing adventure novels.
 
We had hoped to include Nancy Bekavac, who happened to be in San Diego for a Scripps College Trustees meeting, but the timing did not work out.  Better luck next time I hope.
 
Sue Smith is Provost of Muir College at UCSD after having served previously as chair of the Department of Art History (which at UCSD includes fine arts).  She and her spouse Sheldon Nodelman live in a very nice house in Solana Beach.  They are into cooking and food in a big way, with a library of cook books that would make any librarian proud.
 
Subhashini Ali and I exchanged a few emails when she discovered that we share the same date of birth.  She invited me to visit India, which I would very much like to do as soon as I can figure out a way to finance it.
 
Ellen Daniell wrote that the mention of her AAAS appearance in a previous email "resulted in several welcome e-mails, though nobody was at AAAS.  Anne Thompson of the class of 1970 came by completely by chance and recognized me, so I got a Swarthmore fix after all."
 
While at the International Studies Association annual meeting in San Diego, Joan and I bumped into Peter Katzenstein (class of 1968).  We didn't have much time to talk with him but he reported on the doings of his two daughters and on the fact that Mary, his wife, had gotten roped into becoming the chair of the Department of Government at Cornell.

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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:02:30 -0400
Subject: Swarthmore Class of 1969 News
 

Dear Classmates,

I have updated the archive.

Here are some messages from classmates:
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From: Frank Weissbarth <weissbar@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore Class of 1969 News
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:06:59 -0700

Hi Jeff and Joan,

A couple of updates.  My son Adam got his MA in statistics and his US 
Master chess rating over the winter.  He is teaching chess in Phoenix 
and is in the process of setting up an elementary school chess 
program in the Philly suburbs that will begin next fall.  In May I 
will be receiving this year's public lawyer of the year award from 
the New Mexico State Bar.  We are all in good health and life is just 
trucking along.  Hope you are doing well.

Frank
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From: "STEVEN J SCHOSTAL" <sjschostal@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 11:40:22 -0400

Just a “heads up.”   Shortly, my email address will change,
and the old internet junction email address will expire.

For those of you who wish to keep in touch, the new
email address is

sjschostal@verizon.net

Looking forward to hearing from you in the year ahead.

Steve
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From: "Robert Maxym" <maxymus@hixnet.co.za>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore Class of 1969 News
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 13:05:39 +0200


April 4, 2006
Emilozini, Mnandi, South Africa

Hi, Jeff!

Thanks for keeping us antipodal expats in the loop.  Was glad to be able to
help a Swattie Junior in her search for things to do in South Africa
recently.

Big news from south of the African equator is that I have been named MUSIC
DIRECTOR, SOUTH AFRICA for the April 2007 MIAGI (Music Is A Great
Investment) Festival, the first performances on the African continent of
Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony, the "Symphony of a Thousand".  Our
international partner is the Bruckner Orchester Linz, Austria, which will be
bringing about 45 musicians.  The South African contingent, which is my
responsibility to prepare, includes four adult choirs of 300 (total) voices
in Johannesburg, Durban, and Capetown, plus the world-renowned Drakensberg
Children's Choir from KwaZulu Natal, and about 95 orchestral members
comprised of portions of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra in Capetown, the
KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in Durban, and MIAGI orchestral cadets,
youthful aspiring musicians.

Our performances will be on April 3 (CPT), 5 (DBN), and 7 (JHB), 2007, with
the final performance as an all-Africa broadcast.

Anyone want to organize an alumni cultural trip? You're all welcome in any
case, for an unforgettable world music event.

Best wishes to all,

Maestro Robert Maxym '69
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I would like to hear from new members of the list like David Crockett and old members whose new emails I
finally located like Karen Hazel and Barbara Skavinsky Fisher.  Congratulations to Ellen Daniell on the publication
of her new book, Every Other Thursday:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300113234/sr=8-1/qid=1144385773/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-7966181-4235952?%5Fencoding=UTF8

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Subhashini Ali entry in Wikipedia:
 
See also:
for recent movie role
 
Announcement of Adrienne Asch's new job:
 
Judith Ashkenaz is a freelance editor in Beverly, Mass.
 
Ann Ethelynn Blakely is a radiologist who works at Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital in Tucumcari, New Mexico.  I think she and her husband live in Raton, NM, but I do not have an email for her.  Does anybody else have it?
 
Diane Pennell Cook is a regulatory compliance manager for Sutter Connect in Placerville, California.  Again, I do not have an email address for her.
 
Stephen Cook is a software designer for Mahr Federal in Providence, RI.
 
David Crockett is a manager at a Pak Mail in  Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
 
Ellis Dudley works for IBM in Georgetown, Kentucky.
 
David Duncan works at the Cathedral Center Corp. as a development associate.

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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:54:24 -0400
To: hartj@indiana.edu
From: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Swarthmore Class of 1969 news

 
Dear classmates,

Here is a message from Belle Brett:

From: "Belle Brett" <bellebrett@comcast.net>
Subject: Swarthmore Class of 1969 News
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 14:44:42 -0400

Dear classmates: While we enjoy reading about the accomplishments of our classmates and their children, we would like to encourage a new trend for sharing perhaps less exciting, but not necessarily less meaningful information from our day-to-day lives. So in the spirit of non-accomplishment and non-news with a dash of procrastination, Belle Brett and Artley and Rich Wolfson submit the following item, much of it focused on food:

In Summer 2005, Rich and Artley’s daughter Carrie, a Carleton student, pursued a publishing internship in Boston and set up house in Somerville, near Belle. At the very moment Rich realized that the desk they had bought for Carrie was missing certain key pieces, Belle arrived serendipitously on Carrie’s new doorstep with the news that she had the perfect small desk for Carrie. Rich and Artley came to visit later in the summer, and we all had a non-reunion reunion (Artley and Belle had not seen each other since the 30th reunion) involving tea in Belle’s garden, a superb seafood dinner in a small Somerville restaurant (Out of the Blue), a sweet movie in a very sticky-floored theater, rich ice-cream in a brand new ice-cream shop, and one of the best breakfasts any of us has ever had (amazing omelettes and chocolate coconut pancakes) at Sound Bites (usually too packed to get in). Belle’s husband (seen on the previous night in his black and white photographer’s garb) joined us for the latter. Artley and Rich stayed at Belle’s house, along with a small stuffed dragon, in a room decorated in turquoises and oranges that she has dedicated to her mother, who was a painter.  In addition to catching up and talking about the state of the world, we had a good laugh about Belle's imaginary future career as life care tour guide for senior citizens. Right before Carrie left Somerville, Belle took Carrie out for ribs at Redbones, since most of her housemates were vegetarians.

We look forward to similar stories from others.

Belle Brett
Artley Wolfson
Rich Wolfson
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I strongly endorse this request from more non-achievement related news. 
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From: "Malka Schaps" <mschaps@macs.biu.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore Class of 1969 News
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:58:14 +0300

Dear Jeff,
     We have logged two more grandchildren and a few miscellaneous articles.  I am dusting off my Arabic (newspaper reading only) preparatory to revising my novel on the splits in Israeli society.  I just finished reading Jean Bell's book about her mother, Love, Teeta, which takes one back to a very different era. 
                                    Sincerely,
                                     Mary Schaps
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From: "Randall Larrimore" <rwlarrimore@yahoo.com>
To: "Larrimore Randy" <rwlarrimore@yahoo.com>
Subject: Moving to Delaware
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:49:52 -0500
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626

Dear Friends,
 
Big news.  I sold my condo in Chicago and will be moving to South Bethany, DE.  As many of you know, I’m dating Eileen Madden Bratz – my Seaford, DE high school sweetheart, who lives in Alexandria, VA.  We’ve been seeing each other every few weeks, traveling together and really enjoying each other’s company.  Now we want to try a more permanent situation and decided to move into a beach house I’ve been building over the last year.  If also we find we enjoy each other 24/7, eventually we would probably buy a town house in Alexandria, VA as well.
 
The new owners wanted to close no later than May 1 so I’m moving out of my condo on April 20.  I will be staying with friends in Winnetka until April 26 when I will drive to St. Louis for an Olin Corporation board meeting.  From there I’ll drive east and be staying in Alexandria or with family in Delaware until I’m able to move in to the new house I built in South Bethany.  The builder thinks they’ll be done by May 15, but I imagine it will be a week or two later before I can really move in.
 
Leaving Chicago was a tough decision – I’ve lived here 22 years.  However, I still have family and friends in Delaware, so I feel like I’m returning to my roots.  I also know I’ll be back regularly to see my son, Jake, visit friends and to meet with my doctors, financial advisors and business contacts, so I won’t really be leaving Chicago. 
 
I hope you’ll come visit us.
 
Warm regards,
 
Randy
 
Randall W. Larrimore
NOTE NEW ADDRESS (Effective May 1, 2006)
P.O. Box 1180
Bethany Beach, DE 19930
302-537-1506 (probably not effective until May 22 or so)
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I am slowly accumulating information about classmates from the Swarthmore alumni on-line community directory:

Judith Ashkenaz is a freelance editor in Beverly, Mass.
 
Ann Ethelynn Blakely is a radiologist who works at Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital in Tucumcari, New Mexico.  I think she and her husband live in Raton, NM, but I do not have an email for her.  Does anybody else have it?
 
Diane Pennell Cook is a regulatory compliance manager for Sutter Connect in Placerville, California.  Again, I do not have an email address for her.
 
Stephen Cook is a software designer for Mahr Federal in Providence, RI.  I hope he is enjoying receiving these emails.

Anne Lowry Klonsky has joined the list.  She and her husband Fred live in the Chicago area where both are teachers.  Fred has his own blog which you can find by simply googling his name -- Fred Klonsky.
 
David Crockett is a manager at a Pak Mail in  Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
 
Ellis Dudley works for IBM in Georgetown, Kentucky.
 
David Duncan works at the Cathedral Center Corp. in Southern Calif. as a development associate.
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Check out the Subhashini Ali entry on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhashini_Ali
 
See also:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1064598/
for her recent movie role.
 
See an announcement of Adrienne Asch's new job at:
http://newatwurz.blogspot.com/2005/11/dr-adrienne-asch-joins-wurzweiler.html
 
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:44:38 -0400
Subject: Swarthmore Class of 1969 News

Dear Classmates,

I will be in Washington, DC, April 20-22.  Anyone interested in dinner on April 20?  I will be giving a talk at the National Academies on April 21 at a conference on The Globalization of Innovation:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/step/

Joan and I will be in France, mostly Strasbourg area, from May 1 to May 29.  So rest easy, the volume of e-mails will diminish soon.

Here are some recently received messages:

Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:57:30 -0400
From: "Terry Weisser" <tweisser@thewalters.org>

Hello Jeff and classmates,
 
I have enjoyed following everyone's doings and especially like the non-accomplishment (everyday life) news.  I am married (over 32 years) to Robert, a computer programmer/music composer (no, he does not combine the two) and have a daughter, Sarah, who graduated from Kenyon College with a major in political science.  She is now a wine associate and knows much more about wine than my husband or I do.  She says she eventually wants to teach history and American Government and will go back to school when she gets bored with wine.  It was quite strange to see her get excited about studying the historic era of our days at Swarthmore.
 
I am still head of the conservation and technical research laboratory at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.  My specialty in the preservation of archaeological and decorative arts objects has led me to some interesting adventures.  One of my current interests is the identification and preservation of various kinds of ivory.  I teach a class on the subject to graduate students at the University of Delaware/Winterthur Conservation Training Program.  I am also a consultant on the cargo of water-logged ivory sculptures and plaques from a 1601 Manila galleon shipwreck.  It is a challenge to prevent the ivory from falling apart as it dries.  The ivories were carved in China or the Philippines by Chinese craftsmen using European designs of Christian religious subjects and were headed to the New World probably to be used by missionaries.  For the month of May I will be mentoring two scientists from the Iraqi National Museum on the treatment of ancient ivories damaged during the wars.  This will be a challenge in many ways, but I am looking forward to helping in whatever way I can.  It makes me sad to see what has happened to the Nimrud ivories I studied in art history at Swarthmore, but the sadness is eased by the fact that my expertise may help save these objects.
 
I look forward to reading about the adventures or quiet lives of other classmates and extend an invitation to visit whenever any of you find yourselves in Baltimore.
 
Terry Drayman-Weisser
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From: "subha5" <subha5@satyam.net.in>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore Class of 1969 news

dear jeff

thanks for letting me know about this encyclo[pedia].  they had my name spelt wrong etc. and i have sent the corrections but it is quite impressive!!

i have a 31 year old son, Shaad, who is a filmmaker and has made a very entertaining film called Bunty aur (and) Babli (these are very popular nicknames in small town India among hopeful upwardly mobiles there who spend a lot of time fantasizing!) which has been showing even in the US!!  He got married in january to someone he has known forever but they fell in love just a year ago at the premiere of the film.  Her mother who died tragically of cancer was Rumanna Husain and Brandeis U is planning a retro of her work....my daughter in law's name is Shazmeen and she is a professional photographer. 

but it is work that keeps me busy and travelling endlessly.  mostly work connected with the womens orgn. i belong to.

i keep forgetting to say this - but if anyone is planning to visit india, please let me know.  it would be wonderful to meet and maybe i could help you with plans and bookings etc.

love
subhashini
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:54:48 -0400
From: George Caplan <gmcaplan@earthlink.net>

Hi Jeff:
A couple of weeks ago at a physics conference at Boston University, I was happy to see Tim Barker.
He is professor of astronomy at Wheaton College (the one in Norton, MA *not* the one in Wheaton, Illinois).

George Caplan
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Here is some fragmentary classmate info gleaned from the Swarthmore alumni online community database:

Dorothy Duncan is a musician, composer, clarinetist.
 
Jonathan Ellis is VP at BankNorth and chairs a conservation commission in Brentwood, NH.
 
Chris Adler Fernsler is a 2nd grade teacher at Sidwell Friends Lower School.
 
Carol Reid Gill works for the State of Colorado in Colorado Springs.
 
Karen Johnson Guilmartin is a social worker for the Newark Board of Education.
 
George Harrison is a banker who works for the Washington Township Public Schools.
 
Karen Hazel is an attorney and legal counsel for the Kaiser Foundation in the Bay Area.
 
Don Lyon is a physician who works for Emergency Consultants, Inc. He and his wife Karen live in Limerick, ME.
 
It turns out that besides being a bell ringer at the Unitarian church in Hingham, Mass., John McKendry does computer work for Digital Equipment.
 
Paul McMahon is an attorney and works for Hamilton Robinson Company in Stamford, CT.  He was formerly CEO of National Retail Services and on the board of advisers to Cygnet Capital Partners.
 
Jeanne Moon is a manager at IBM in Virginia.
 
Kathleen Moore is a web-page designer and lives in Somerville, Mass.
 
Martha Morris is an attorney who works for Vitas Hospice. She lives in Orlando, FL.
 
Karen Oliver is an English teacher in Vancouver, BC.  I still do not have her email address.
 
Candy Putter is a consultant and Juvenile Justice Services Planning Manager for the Philadelphia Mental Health Care Corporation.
 
Harry Stuart Reasoner was editor of the Times News in Hendersonville, NC, but no longer occupies that position.  Anyone knowing his more recent activities, please report. I do not have his email address.
 
Rich Rinaldi is a Labor Relations Consultant for the IRS.
 
Linda Robinson is an administrator and project coordinator for Chlorox Corporation. 
 
Judy Shenker is an attorney specializing in real estate in New York.
 
Bill Shorter is an engineer, now retired, formerly employed by Verizon.
 
Besides her work as illustrator for books on wildflowers and wild shrubs, Deborah Prince Smith works as an editor at Digital Equipment.
 
Donald Stewart is Manager of Database Services for the Scripps Foundation for Medicine/Science in San Diego.
 
Mary Artymenko Stokes is a teacher at William Penn High School in Ocean View, Delaware.  I do not have an email address for her.
 
Christopher Taylor is executive director of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board in Washington, DC.  He and his wife Dahri live in Alexandria, VA.
 
Peter Warrington is an osteopath.  He and his wife moved to Philadelphia (when?).
 
George Xydis is an architect with Horodomi Architects & Planners in Athens.  I could not find George or the firm on the Internet so does anyone have further information?
 
Anne Yarbrough is a pastor with the United Methodist Church.  The email I have for her does not work. She and her husband are listed as living in Milton, Delaware, but Google says she is working in Washington, DC.  Does anyone out there know her current whereabouts?

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:19:26 -0400
To: hartj@indiana.eduFrom: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Swarthmore Class of 1969 News
 

Dear classmates:
 
Last Thursday I was able to have dinner with Terry Lewis in Washington, D.C.  Terry is currently VP of the National Cooperative Bank.  She married Erik Blumberg in her sophomore year at Swarthmore and then went to law school at the University of Michigan with a small child.  She and Erik divorced during her first year of law school but she was able to finish law school and went on to practice real estate law.  Her first love, however, was cooperative housing.  As a child growing up in the Detroit area, Terry's family was able to enjoy summers at a small house that was part of a summer residential cooperative.  When her son Seth went out into the world on his own, Terry switched from law to being the president of a national cooperative housing organization and then on to the banking position she now occupies.  The National Cooperative Bank (NCB) has about $3 billion in assets. Anyway, Terry has avoided reunions but has kept up with her former roommate, Barbara Wilson, and wants to get back in touch with other classmates.

 
Here are some messages received recently:
 
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:31:51 -0400
From: "Kathy Moore" <kathyemoore@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore Class of 1969 News

 
Jeff,
 
Yes, it's a relief to hear from some classmates who aren't heading
departments or curing cancer. With all due respect to those who are...
 
I'm living in Somerville, Massachusetts. I found a teaching job here
in 1971 and grew terribly attached to the place back when it was known
as Slummerville. It's a great mix of down-to-earth people who didn't
come here to go to school and Cambridge-spillover types who maybe
did--and that's what it was even when half the stores in Davis Square
were boarded up. In about 1976 I went out to do some of my Christmas
shopping on foot in the square, and it seemed as though every merchant
I visited gave me a Christmas present.  Belle Brett, who started this
welcome departure from ceaseless achievement, seems to be in the
neighborhood.
 
I'm currently very happy working as a web designer at Boston
University's School of Management, following some truly hairy years
after the burst of the dot-com bubble.  (I usually worked on
educational sites, honest!) Frank and I divorced early in the
nineties. Daughter Robin is a nurse practitioner in law school at
Northeastern, and Janet is a junior at Oberlin, where she's studying
biology.

 
I still swim and sing folk songs, occasionally at the same time. My
politics haven't changed but my priorities have, for better or for
worse.

 
Kathy Moore
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From: Alan Feldman <afeldman@stoneridgecms.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:53:50 -0400

 
Hi Jeff,
 
By way of appreciating your efforts at keeping us linked...
I read in a recent message from you that Judy Ashkenaz now lives in
Beverly, our home for 20+ years. I contacted her, and she and her
husband came over this past weekend to our home. We had a wonderful
afternoon together, and look forward to seeing them again.


 

Judy and I were not sure we even knew each other back then...but
there is a shared set of values that was rewarding (and not
surprising) to discover.

 
Thanks!
Alan

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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:25:57 -0400
To: hartj@indiana.edu
From: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Swarthmore Class of 1969 News

 
Dear Classmates,

I am sorry for the long lacuna in messages but we were away in Europe and only now getting back to normal.
Many of you sent corrections to the address list that I sent out earlier -- thanks very much and I will make the
corrections soon and send out a new version.

I received quite a few emails from classmates after my last message in April, so I think I will just relay those for now:
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:01:09 -0400
From: "Meredith A Shedd-Driskel" <mdri@loc.gov>
To: <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore Class of 1969 News

Hi Jeff:

Thanks for all your hard work on behalf of Swarthmore!  Whenever you have time to edit the Class of 1969 Excel address book, my job title has changed: I am now the curator of rare books at the Law Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Meredith Shedd-Driskel
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:10:57 -0400
From: farrbloch@aol.com

[I asked Farrell how his novel was received.]
Pretty well for a first novel, Jeff, thank you. About ten newspapers reviewed it, and a couple of movie producers considered it, but it never attained anything close to smashing success. Like most novels, its publicity was short-lived. I don't have another in progress, but I have written a few short stories.

Bon voyage to you and Joan,

Farrell
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:56:19 -0400
To: hartj@indiana.edu
From: Fran Putnam <fcsputnm@sover.net>
Subject: Class of 69 news

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for including mein the class news.  Here's a short contribution:

Today is my 59th birthday, and I'm sure many people reading this will relate to this stage in the life cycle.  For me, it's a time for summing up and looking backwards, as well as forwards.

I feel absolutely fortunate today because I was able to celebrate with my closest family:  my husband, Spence Putnam, by son Benjie, and his wife, Erin, and my daughter Chris, and her husband, Matt.  We had brunch together on a brilliantly sunny, warm Vermont day in the same inn where Spence and I had our wedding reception in June, 1969. My children have moved back to our area and we're enjoying them all a great deal.

I'm retiring in June from the preschool with which I've been associated for 24 years as a founder, teacher, and director.  It feels like a great load is being lifted from my shoulders, but it's been a very satisfying career.  I'm going to keep on working part-time one-on-one with two young boys who have autism.

I am feeling very grateful to have my health, my family, and many special friends, both near and far.  I no longer take these for granted.

My best to everyone who reads these messages, and a special thanks to my friends Belle Brett and Artley and Rich Wolfson (my neighbors in Weybridge, Vermont) for suggesting the new theme.

One last note:  our classmate, Peggy Hollyday, is quite ill and I think she might appreciate a note if anyone feels inclined.  I don't want to invade her privacy, but I don't think she would mind.  If you want to write to her, send me an email at <fcsputnm@sover.net> and I'll let you know how to get in touch with her.

Best,

Fran Putnam
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:31:55 -0400
From: Peter Warrington <peter.warrington1@verizon.net>

Thanks Jeff for the notes.  I am an osteopath and am presently working as a geriatrician, teaching in a family practice residency program.  My office work with outpatients and nursing home work is in Chester Pa so I drive by campus frequently.  When I can make time I jog on the track on campus, exercise in the tennis building.  Jean Murdock and I have been married 33 years.  Our youngest, daughter Lucy, likely will be a freshman at Swarthmore next sept.  Our oldest Ian is a freshman med student at Tufts.  Our middle son Ben is studying radio journalism at Temple.  Springtime here in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia is rejuvenating.  We welcome visitors to the area.  

Peter
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Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:47:48 -0700
From: "Arisika Razak" <arazak@ciis.edu>

Dear Jeff:
 
After working as a home and hospital based nurse-midwife for over twenty years, I am now the Program Director of the Integrative Health Studies Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a small graduate institution in San Francisco. I am also an Associate Professor in the Women’s Spirituality Department there. You can look us up on the web (www.ciis.edu). I have a sabbatical coming up this fall and will be working on a book on womanism (Black feminism) and taking a trip to Malta in the fall.
 
I married another Swarthmore grad – Osha Neumann – who graduated several years before I did. We are coming back to Swarthmore in a couple of weeks (June 2) because he’s received an award. Does anyone have any whereabouts for Bunty Barus, Carl Barus’ wife? She and Carl were very supportive of me and I met with her about a year after Carl died almost 15 or so years ago.
 
Wishing you well, and thanks so much for sending out this e-mail.
 
Warmly,
Arisika Razak
IHL Program Director
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Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 19:16:14 -0400
From: farrbloch@aol.com

Dear Jeff and Classmates,

On May 2, my wife Miriam (Smith '87) gave birth to twins, Joseph and Gila (Hebrew for "joy"). We married in April '05 (her first, my second, no prior children). Continuing to work from a home office as an economic and statistical consultant, I take frequent work breaks to change diapers.

Last October I enjoyed lunch with Beth Pinkston and Chad Stone, my first meeting with classmates since Peter Max Zimmerman and I watched a soccer match during the '02 World Cup. On visits to Philly, I often stop at the Swarthmore campus, where I very much miss seeing my favorite professor, the late Bernie Saffran.

All best,

Farrell Bloch
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From: MCMaye@aol.com
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 00:57:17 EDT
Subject: trying to find two classmates

Hi Jeff,
I will be traveling in Panama this week.
By any chance, have you any contact information for Ferdinand Warren, 1969, an engineering major from Panama?  He married Bridget Van Gronigen, class of 1970, biology major, and they returned to Panama and raised a family there; but I've lost track of both of them.  If you find anything, I'd be grateful.  [Marilyn wrote later that she located Fred on her own.]
 
Thanks.
Marilyn Allman Maye, 1969

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From: "Mark Dean" <mdean3201@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: Swarthmore Class of 1969 News
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:38:56 -0400

Hi, Jeff.
 
Fran Putnam’s note included in your last communication indicated Peggy Hollyday was quite ill.  Unfortunately she died Friday – following is the text of the e-mail message sent to Bryn Mawr faculty and staff by President Nancy Vickers yesterday:

 
 
Dear members of the Bryn Mawr community,

It is with deep regret and sadness that I write to inform you of the death of Margaret Anne Hollyday, Professor of Biology and Psychology, on Friday, July 14, after a valiant battle with cancer.  My thanks to Professor of Biology, Karen Greif, who supplied much of the substance of this message.

Peggy's daughter Rachel was at her side when she died.  Rachel and her twin brother Jed are with their father, Paul Grobstein.  Other surviving family members are her mother, Helen, and brothers Bill and John.

Peggy was born in
New Jersey on June 23, 1947.  She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1969 and earned her Ph.D. at Duke University in 1974.  After postdoctoral research at Washington University in St. Louis, Peggy joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. She became Professor of Biology and Psychology at Bryn Mawr in 1987. Her research, supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, addressed questions of early pattern formation in the developing nervous system.  Peggy was an avid choral singer and a regular participant in the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Chorale.

Peggy was a fine scholar and teacher, and an extraordinary friend and colleague to so many of us.  She will be greatly missed.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, July 22 at 3 pm at the Main Line Unitarian Church, 816 South Valley Forge Road, Devon. Another memorial event will be held at the College in the fall.

Sincerely,
Nancy Vickers
President
Bryn Mawr College
101 N. Merion Ave.
Bryn Mawr, PA  19010
(610) 526-5156
fax (610) 526-7450
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Martha and I just returned from a two week trip to Nicaragua to visit our daughter Kate who lives and works in Managua.  She taught English lit and composition in a bilingual Catholic high school last year, and this year will be teaching 7th grade Latin American History at the American Nicaraguan School, another private bilingual school in Managua.  Her students are mostly upper-class Nicaraguan kids, some of whom have lived in the US.  Kate enjoys the work, though she doesn’t have any formal teacher training.  Her Spanish is excellent, so good that many people meeting her have thought she might be Nicaraguan instead of American.
 
Our son Dave graduated from NYU Law School in May, and has moved to Miami.  He will take the FL bar exam at the end of this month, and then start his job in the Miami Public Defender’s Office.
 
We missed the Swarthmore Reunion this year, even though it was Martha’s 35th.  We did have Sunday breakfast with John Baer ’71, however, who had come up from Baltimore for the weekend.
 
That’s about it from here.  Martha continues to enjoy her work at Bryn Mawr as Director of Development, and I’m enjoying retirement. 
 
Thanks for all your work keeping our class members in touch.  I look forward to receiving your e-mails.
 
Mark
 

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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:07:51 +0300 (IDT)

 
Dear Jeff,
     Current events:  We have two foster sons, both grown up and married, who live in the north of Israel.  After spending a night in the bomb shelters because their town was hit, one of them moved in with us last Tuesday together with his wife and two children.  His wife is now in the
hospital giving birth.
     Haifa is built on Mount Carmel, with the port and the oil refineries between the mountain and the Acco promontory.  Our son Maor lives on the 13th floor of a high rise apartment building on the north slope of Mount Carmet.  On the 15th of July, when this all started, he was supposed to in to the office of the job he had just left to pick up his salary check, from the previous month's work, but the office has been closed ever since the bombs started falling.  So has the store where he started to work on the 1st of July.  So are the post office and the grocery store. My biggest worry for the last week was how to send him either money or food.  He was afraid to leave Haifa because he didn't want to lose his new job if the boss should suddenly call him, and the radio was trying to tell them to carry on their regular lives.  After the last attacks an hour or so ago, they gave that up and told all Haifa residents to stay in shelter.
     He wife, from whom he has separated, has now given him their toddler, because his building is safer than hers.  Two hours ago, a bomb exploded one building away from her apartment, so she is now in the bomb shelter. I can't even figure out how to send them money to flee, because he can't go out with the baby and she would be afraid.
     Now back to the hospital waiting room to worry about my daughter-in-law.

 
Shalom,Mary Schaps
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:09:01 EDT
Subject: Peggy Hollyday
To: hartj@indiana.edu
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Jeff,

Fran Putnam, Artley Swift Wolfson, and I attended our roommate Peggy Hollyday's memorial service on Saturday, driving to Pennsylvania together from our respective homes in Vermont and Massachusetts.  We celebrate Peg's life, and we grieve for her and for her family.

Peg continued to teach biology at Bryn Mawr until March and to do research at home until a few days before her death.  One of her former students, now in the same field, flew in from California on short notice.  She spoke with us at length about Peg's accomplishments in the field of neurobiology and about Peg's influence upon her own work.

Peg's goal was to live long enough to attend her twins' graduations from college this spring.  She did so, I think, by sheer will.  So I'd like to write a few words about her children.

Rachel Grobstein graduated from Bowdoin in May, after studying philosophy and painting.  An art-related job enabled her to work at home this summer and be with her mother these last weeks.  During her junior year abroad she biked across France and Spain, studied philosophy at Oxford, and took extraordinary photographs of Rome.

Jed Grobstein graduated from Pomona, also in May, studying philosophy, politics, and economics, and was elected to be the class speaker at his graduation.  His speech, his mother said, contained "just the right amount of humor and from-the-heart",  and included a tribute to her for the encouragement she had always given him.  He was active in many musical and dramatic productions, and is currently teaching math to high-schoolers in the South Bronx.

As noted in the Philadelphia Inquirer [ http://www.macon.com/mld/inquirer/news/obituaries/15069218.htm] and the message recently forwarded by Mark Dean, there will be another memorial service for Peg in the fall at Bryn Mawr.  There is a lovely picture of her at http://www.brynmawr.edu/biology/hollyday.html.

Thank you, Jeff, for this opportunity to write.

Chris Erb

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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:26:39 -0400
To: hartj@indiana.edu (Jeff Hart)
From: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Swarthmore Class of 1969 news

Dear Classmates,

I have a special request from Peter Warrington for information regarding the details of the memorial for Peg Hollyday at Bryn Mawr in the fall.
Would anyone who has this information please pass it along to him directly at peter.warrington1@verizon.net?

I wanted to second the suggestion of Glenda Rauscher that all items suitable for inclusion in the Swarthmore Alumni Bulletin be copied to
her at glendarauscher@juno.com.  Speaking of the Bulletin there was a nice piece in the June issue about the recent doings of Lew Pyenson.
I would give you the URL but I could not find it.

Here is a short note that I received from Adrienne Asch last month (sorry for the delay):

From: "Adrienne Asch" <asch@yu.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:24:27 -0400

I read with sadness and a true sense of loss the news of Peggy's death.  I can't say that I knew her well when we were actually at Swarthmore, but we had a truly wonderful connection during a reunion, the 25th I think, and that connection confirmed for me how glad I was to have attended a reunion at all and how much I cared about Swarthmore and all the people I had known there.  To those of you who knew Peggy well, as someone who had only brief acquaintance with her, I can tell how fine a person she was and what a loss you must feel.

I know how very much it means to me to be part of the Swarthmore community and of this class.  Perhaps Swarthmore is the only institution, certainly one of few institutions, that I have been affiliated with of which I feel truly, unabashedly proud.  What a club to be a member of, as the world gets more and more troubling!

Adrienne Asch
Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics
Wurzweiler School of Social Work
Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Yeshiva University
2495 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10033
Tel: 212-960-0834
Fax: 212-960-0821
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:59:31 -0400
 
Dear Classmates,

 
I have been following the efforts of Bruce Fein to prevent President Bush from expanding the powers
of the Presidency in the name of national security.  Here is a typical piece by him:
   
Bryn Mawr produced the following tribute to Marget Hollyday:
 

Here are the wikipedia entries for some of our classmates:

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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:38:11 -0500
To: hartj@indiana.edu (Jeff Hart)
From: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Fwd: bulletin: Peggy Hollyday Memorial

 

Dear fellow members of the Swarthmore Class of 1969:

I am forwarding the message below from Mark Dean about the memorial for Peggy Hollyday.

 
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Bryn Mawr has announced the memorial service for Peggy Hollyday -- it will be on Saturday 12/2.  Details below.
Unfortunately Martha and I will be out of town that weekend, and unable to attend.
 
Mark

 
Bryn Mawr College

A Memorial Gathering for
 
Margaret Hollyday
 
Professor of Biology

1947-2006
 
Saturday, December 2, 2006
 2:00 p.m.
 
Music Room, Goodhart Hall

 
Musical interludes and
Reminiscences by colleagues, family and friends

 
For Singers interested in performing Brahms'How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place,
a brief rehearsal will be held at 1:30 in the Music Room
Reception immediately following in the Common Room
For further information, please call 610-526-7459

 

Donna W. Hecker
Events and Special Projects Manager
President's Office
Bryn Mawr College
101 North Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA  19010
 

Phone:  610-526-7459
Fax:      610-526-7450


Also I want to let you all know that Joan and I have moved to a new home. Our new home address is:

5077 E. Heritage Woods Road
Bloomington, IN 47401

Our phone numbers remain the same.
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