Lawrence H. Alexander celebrated his 107th birthday last April in Dover, Ohio. Friends and relatives arranged a card shower, and noted [DEMO]ng career in music at the local public schools, where he taught wind and percussion instruments, vocal music, and music appreciation. According to local Dover newspapers, he is best known for organizing the Dover Marching Tornadoes, and for composing the Dover High School's fight and alma mater songs.
Margaret Peg Palmer Doane says she was part of a group of several Obies who gathered in May at the Eugene, Ore., home of Carol King Van Houten '59 and Donald Van Houten '58, for the wedding of the Van Houtens' son, Eric. In [DEMO]ance were Elizabeth Tuckley Eddy; Eric's sister, Holly Van Houten '86; Larry Shrider '59; and Carol Eddy Shrider '58.
[DEMO]lark Lill has moved to Marquette, Mich., to be closer to relatives and friends. After her husband, Martin, died in October 1995, she decided to make use of her architectural training and experience, and designed her own new home "in a beautiful location," she says. "It's great to be here, in spite of record snows and cold!"
Bruce L. Bennet was named Volunteer of the Year for San Luis Obispo County, where, at the San Luis Obispo City Hall, he spends two days a week smoothing the path for the staff. He says he and his wife have been doing volunteer work since they arrived in California 11 years ago, as two of [DEMO]00 people enrolled in the Retired and Senior Volunteers program there.
* Frances and Sherwood Moran moved from Florida to Wisconsin in 1996 to be near their daughter. They say they enjoy swimming, walking, concerts, and the Unitarian Society in Madison, and that the area is greatly enriched by Oberlin alumni, "especially musicians." Address: Oakwood Village 606/08, 6209 Mineral Point Rd., Madison, WI 53705. Phone: (608) 233-8049.
Mary [DEMO]ettit exhibited her paintings at Studio West at the Renaissance in Olmsted Township, Ohio, from mid-May through August 8, 1997.
Carl F. Doershuk, a pediatrician, was honored last April in a day-long symposium commemorating his career as a leader in the national Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He headed the Cystic Fibrosis Center and research and training program at Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital, a division of Case Western Reserve [DEMO]sity Hospitals of Cleveland, from 1967 to 1984. A reception including some 250 patients, staff, and friends, followed the symposium. Among the guests at the special dinner that evening were his wife, Emma Lou Plummer '53, three of their children and their spouses, and two of their seven grandchildren, ranging in age from 8 months to 14. Carl developed one of the first pediatric pulmonary function labs in the country, and remains active in the program and in pediatric practice. He says that he has worked frequently over the past 20 years with Reeves Warm '53, a child psychiatrist involved with an educational project for community pediatricians funded by Maternal and Child Health.
Donald S. Condon began his acting career in 1991, and moved to New York for appearances in All My Children. In June 1995 he moved to Los Angeles where he has been doing commercials, modeling, and making films, and where he was recently booked in ABC's new series, [DEMO]Signs. "I'm doing a lot of industry coaching and it's quite rewarding, both in the entertainment and corporate world," he says. Address: 11730 Sunset Blvd. #329, Los Angeles, CA 90049. Phone: (310) 472-1947. * Stephen E. Ostrow experienced two significant personal events in 1996. One was his December retirement from the Library of Congress, where he had served as Chief of the Prints and Photographs Division for more than 12 years. During his tenure there he successfully proposed that Congress fund a multi-year endeavor to physically process and catalog a backlog of millions of items--prints, photographs, manuscripts, maps, recorded sound, motion pictures, and rare books--establishing a new focus for the library. The second event of 1996 was the establishment of the Stephen Ostrow Distinguished Visitors Program in the Visual Arts which allows Reed College to bring outstanding creative people to the campus. Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Jules Feiffer was this year's visitor, and Stephen and his wife traveled to Portland to participate in the inaugural events. Now retired, Stephen is working on a think-piece about digitizing historic pictorial collections for the Commission on Preservation and Access. He has also initiated discussions with Round House Theater, an equity group in dire need of help with fund-raising. Address: 3801 Inverness Dr., Chevy Chase, MD 20815. Phone: office (301) [DEMO]69; home (301) 656-3490.
Helen Thompson Taylor has been organist [DEMO]oir director of the Plymouth, Mass., Congregational Church for 17 years, conducting the adult and youth choirs and overseeing the children's choir. Her choruses have won awards from the American Choral Directors Association and the Musical Heritage Foundation, but, Helen says, those awards are not as important to her now as the concert series where her groups sing in different architectural settings. In April 1997 she took 95 high-school students to England and Wales, her fourth tour in the United Kingdom. She has also traveled with her choirs to Leipzig, Canada, and Scandanavia. Directing is not her only accomplishment: Helen also plays organ, piano, and harpsichord, as well as trombone, cello, string bass, and timpani.
Richard [DEMO]wles retired from the DuPont Company as director for industry outreach in September 1996 after more than 36 years with the firm. He had acquired 40 U.S. patents, and was plant manager for 13 years in Niagara Falls and Belle, W.Va., where he instigated a new program of looking at organizations as living, self-organizing systems, and the implications of this awareness on leadership, and the way organizations function. At Belle, he says, improvements in plant performance under this program were "astounding." The injury-frequency rate dropped 95 percent; emissions dropped 87 percent; productivity went up 45 percent and earnings rose 300 percent. He also says people felt much better about themselves under the program. Since retirement, he is an associate at Kellner-Rogers and Wheatley, Inc., where he consults and teaches this approach. Dick says he credits his Oberlin education with his "being open to this new way of seeing and being able to put it into place." E-mail: [DEMO]les@msn.com
Nancy Garniez has developed Tonal Refraction, an experimental performance technique which introduces a visually-oriented [DEMO]ce to the power of live music. At Carnegie Hall, May 2, 1997, Nancy premiered an art event designed to enhance her live piano performance with video, projecting color against a grid. Tonal Refraction addresses four aspects of music: resonance--expressed in the number of hues and their relatedness; harmony, expressed in vertical spacing; time, expressed in the horizontal spacing; and line, expressed in the shiftings of color within the horizontal bands of the grid. Nancy says the technique has changed forever the way she works with sound. * Kathleen [DEMO]on Kendall will be a fellow in the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard this fall, continuing her research on communication in the presidential primaries. She is on leave from the State University at New York at Albany. * Louise Luckenbill, associate professor of neuroanatomy at Ohio University's College of Osteopathic Medicine, has published a paper on how laminin, a component of the environment surrounding cells, stimulates growth processes in nerve cells. Last April Louise presented "What Factors Influence College Women to Stay In or Out of Biology" to the American Association of University Women's Gender Equity Conference. She has been awarded several fellowships and grants for her [DEMO]ch.
Lawrence Gilley has been working at Ifafa on the southern coast of Natal, South Africa, since the early '60s. He says he feels some kinship and continuity with the early missionaries and others who have produced Christian literature in the [DEMO]n languages of Mozambique. The books he prepares and prints are primarily for students, and few can afford to pay for them. By doing his own printing, he can keep costs down, producing as few as 100 copies at a time. He says his printing work is literally moonlighting, as he works at night, after the teaching day is over, when it is cool and there are no interruptions. "I like the feel of the paper, the smell of the ink, and the sound of the duplicator," he says.
* Jerome Mandel won first prize--$3000--in the PEN-UNESCO International Short Story Competition for 1997 for a piece called, "Third Time, Ice Cream." It was published in a Hebrew translation in Nativ (1995), and by the PEN [DEMO]ational Magazine in October 1997. He and his wife, Miriam, traveled to London from Tel Aviv for the prize presentation. He is at Skidmore College during the 1997-98 academic year as the sabbatical replacement for the medievalist. Jerome says that Miriam is finishing a second book and beginning a third. Their daughter Naomi '89 is working toward her PhD in English and American literature at the University of California, Irvine. Their daughter Jessica, a second dan in Tae Kwon Do, teaches English and martial arts in Israel.
* [DEMO]oyal retired from UC-Santa Cruz in 1993, but continues to teach a section of the university's Merrill College Core Course, "Americans in a Changing World," each fall quarter. He sings in a community chorus and says he is reminded of his former singing days at Oberlin: a little Musical Union, G & S, and lots of folk music. Address: 302 Nevada St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060. * [DEMO]Sweet teaches Latin American and church history at UC-Santa Cruz, and says he enjoys the company of his partner, Elaine Kihara, and his new granddaughter. * Bill Hickman says he is enjoying life, is involved in informal photography and hiking, and occasionally works part time.
David M. Gitlitz is a scholar-administrator who over the last two decades has divided his time among research on [DEMO]dic historical topics and Spanish Golden Age literature and university administration and teaching. He has taught at Indiana University, the University of Nebraska, the State University of New York at Binghamton, and, most recently, the University of Rhode Island, where he also served as provost.
Marcia Dutton Talley has happily given up the Annapolis-to-D.C. commuting she did for 15 years, and accepted a job as systems [DEMO]ian at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, just four miles from home. Husband Barry Talley works in Alumni Hall, just next door, and Marcia says that they actually see each other on occasion. Their daughter, Laura Talley Geyer '90, is in her final year of law school at American University, living in Rockville, Md., with her husband, David, and three-year-old Benjamin. Daughter Sarah teaches eighth-grade English near Baltimore. The Talleys still spend their leisure time sailing on Chesapeake Bay, and welcome crew for their Tartan 37 sloop. Address: 140 Cardamon Dr., Edgewater, MD 21037. Phone: (410) 293-6905. E-mail: mtalley@capaccess.org * [DEMO]Lawson is assistant professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany. She, her husband, Peter Henner, and their dog, Worf, live on a spacious stretch of land which includes a hill and a lake. Nancy completed her PhD in computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in August 1996, and, at last, she says, has time for hiking and rock climbing. Address: 60 Scutt Rd., Feura Bush, NY 12067. Phone: (518) 768-8234. E-mail: lawsonn@rosenet.strose.edu
Elissa Ananian married Robert Defeyter January 12, 1997. She is associate professor of art at Salem State College, "and exhibits oils and pastels throughout the New England area," she says. Address: 15 Ives St., Beverly, MA 01915. Phone: (508) 524-9691.
Teri-E Belf, formerly Teri Ellen Belf, [DEMO] years of human resources and training management experience and has spent 10 years as a coach, author, and group facilitator. As founding director of Success Unlimited Network, she coordinates a national coaching community and conducts a coaching certification program from Reston, Va., where she lives with her husband, Phil, and their son, Kim. In 1996 Teri-E served on the first board of the Professional and Personal Coaches Association, and has more than 20,000 hours guiding individual clients to achieve their goals and awaken their spirituality. Her book, Simply Live It UP: Brief Solutions, is reviewed in [DEMO].
* Judith McBride Bentley teaches English composition, children's literature, and Pacific Northwest history at Southern Seattle Community College. She, her husband, attorney Allen Bentley '67, son Peter, and four grandparents, including F. Russell Bentley '39, and Grace Van Tuyl Bentley '41, attended daughter Anne's graduation from Oberlin in May. For news of Judith's 14th book for young adults, see Issued. * [DEMO]Brown says that now that her children are grown, she keeps busy with numerous church activities and teaching English to newly-arrived refugees, especially those from Somalia, Vietnam, and Kurdistan. * Richard Shafer was named director of management and executive education at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) last March. Dick is an ILR alumnus with more than 20 years' experience in change management and senior-level human resources in corporate and professional-services environments. He recently developed a model to help organizations achieve a competitive advantage through agility--the ability to handle continuous and unpredictable change--with special emphasis on the integration of human-resource strategies.
[DEMO]a Forbes Purser and her husband, John, recently expanded the holiday house on the Isle of Skye they have used as a retreat for years and now live there permanently. They have sold their house in Glasgow, and Barbara has given up her cello teaching job, hoping to find substitute teaching in Skye; John plans to continue with his freelance work from home. Address: 3 Drinan, By Elgol, Isle of Skye, IV49 9BG Scotland. Phone: 01471 366262. * [DEMO] B. Westerberg joined a corporate publishing firm in April 1996 as manager of the cataloging section and all long-term microform collections, including special projects. Before moving to Primary Source Media in Woodbridge, Conn., Kermit spent 19 years in academic and research librarianship. His current firm started in 1966 as the official microfilmer for the London Times and the Times Literary Supplement. Kermit has editorial and indexing responsibilities, and is in charge of coordinating the publishing and shipment scheduling of the U.S. and U.K. products, including film, fiche, CD-ROM, and digital technology. Address: Lakeshore Apartments, 1077 Whitney [DEMO]Hamden, CT 06517-3449. Phone: (203) 562-7599; voice: (800) 444-0799. Ext.3112. Fax: (203) 389-0484. E-mail: kwesterberg@psmedia.com
R. Thomas Grotz has developed a practice in San Francisco in orturopedic surgery. He has specialized in "saving joints" since 1981 through orturoscopic reconstruction. Now an inventor, Tom is president of Ultra Orturo, or, as he calls the enterprise, "Orthopedics for the New Millennium." He works with a world-class coaching team, he says, "developing products to help more people get well faster." His family includes his wife, Lena; Christopher, 9; and Krishelle, 19. Address: 530 Bush St., 10th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108. Phone: (415) 398-2332. E-mail: tgrotzmd@aol.com
[DEMO]mstrong is a senior property manager with Koll, managing retail centers and office buildings in Cincinnati. She says, "My husband of four short years, Stewart, passed away February 2, 1997, after a 10-year battle with lymphoma." She knew when they were dating and when she married him that he had cancer, she says, "but one is never prepared for the end." He left four children, 17, 14, and 11-year-old twins. Jan's two sons are in college, and the rest of life "is rolling along fine." E-mail: Janarmst@aol.com * [DEMO]eth Cazden earned her MA at Andover Newton Theological School in May 1997. Her thesis: "The Modernist Reinvention of Quakerism: Independent Meetings in New England 1920-1950." A member of the Jonathan Edwards Society, she was recognized by the group as a student who showed academic excellence and promise of leadership. Betsy also received the Gerald R. Cragg Prize in church history. She plans to continue her history research and writing as an independent scholar while
maintaining her solo law practice, which specializes in civil appeals in Manchester. She says she and her husband also enjoy contra-dancing and hiking with their two teenage children. Address: 118 Walnut St., Manchester, NH 03104. E-mail: BCazden@aol.com * [DEMO]a Kim B. Hasse tested well as a potential guest on Jeopardy last fall, and was invited to tape a show February 24 for a July 16 airing. She said she was "pretty nervous" when she first arrived for the taping, but became less so as the morning progressed. The staff, she says, is remarkably good at making it all seem normal and fun. She says the fact that the scores are small and set up high in a different direction from the game board helps contenders to just concentrate on the answers and questions. All in all, she says, it was an enjoyable experience, although a bit expensive. She had helpful advice in advance from Deb Taub '78 and Deb Fink Peters '73, both ex-Jeopardites. Kim met Deb Peters on the Oberlin Alumni London Theater Tour last June, ("a total paradise for theater fans," she says) and they planned to meet again this year on the same tour. * Lisa [DEMO] Hilliard and her husband completed a traditional three-year Tibetan Buddhist retreat in June 1997. They were living with a group in an abbey on Pleasant Bay in Nova Scotia, and will share their new address when they resettle. * Ruth E. Norton, a heritage conservationist, has lived for the last three years in Vermont, working on preserving materials from Revolutionary War sites along Lake Champlain. While based there, she also worked in other states, conserving Australian Aboriginal paintings in Virginia; surveying collections at the Field Museum in Chicago; teaching art conservation at the University of Delaware/ Winterthur Museum and Buffalo State College; codeveloping a traveling exhibition of African past and contemporary cultures; and preserving Egyptian mummies--cat mummies, ibis mummies, and children and adult human mummies. She left last April for two years with the National Museum of Ethnology in the Netherlands, and welcomes Lowland travelers. Address: Conservation, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Steenstraat 1, Postbus 212, NL - 23-00 AE [DEMO], Netherlands. Phone: 31 71 516 8800. Fax 31 71 512 8437. * Tarvez Tucker is director of Cleveland University Hospital's Comprehensive Headache Center. She says several newer prescription medications help treat headaches now, including one initially available only as an injection, and now available in pill form. The center also prescribes a nasal spray, a local anesthetic which provides quick relief. "Those are the two new medications that have really changed my practice because they have made patients much more comfortable quickly," Tarvez says. Patients also are given extensive education about neck, head, and back posture while working, sitting, standing, and even sleeping.
[DEMO]rbiter has been playing with the Houston Symphony for the last 23 years and "enjoying it immensely." The orchestra just finished a tour of Europe. Eric recently retired from his 19-year teaching position at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music to pursue his second passion, photography. He learned his camera techniques from his good friend and Oberlin house-mate, Jay Jacobs. Eric had a one-man exhibit at the Cloister Gallery at Christ Church Cathedral July 1996, and is scheduled for an exhibit at Jones Hall, home of the Houston Symphony in May 1997. The show will present black-and-white photography from 1972 through 1997, including recent work from the orchestra's European trip. Eric is also staff photographer for the Musicians of the Houston Symphony's newsletter, Upbeat. The quarterly is one of the first symphony musicians' information periodicals, at http://www.planet-texas.com/~upbeat. Eric and his wife, Katherine, have two children: Daniel, 11, and Julie Ann, 8. E-mail: EArb501@aol.com * [DEMO]Kirwin is living in Georgia with two cats, a cocker spaniel, and her greyhound, as she continues her career in health-care management and writing. Address: 365 Briarwood Ct., Marietta, GA 30068. Phone: (770) 565-0357. E-mail: compuserve#74732,1502 * Gregory Mahler has left the University of Mississippi, where he was chair of the political science department, to become provost at Kalamazoo College. Before [DEMO]g at Mississippi, he had taught at the University of Vermont for more than 12 years and directed the university's international studies program. * Sandra H. Robinson was the first woman elected president of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., at its May 1997 meeting. Sandra received the Presidential Award at the National Bar Association's 71st convention last year in acknowledgment of her service to the organization. Senior trial lawyer at the firm of Jack H. Olender & Associates, she has won more than $20 million in jury awards in a single year on behalf of victims of medical malpractice. Among clients she has represented are children with cerebral palsy and other birth injuries brought on by negligent obstetric care, and victims of other catastrophic injuries.
[DEMO] Hirschboek Turner lives in Germany with her 12-year-old twins, Renée and Nicholas. She has been professor of singing at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen since 1992. Address: Zweigertstr 55, 45130 Essen, Germany. Phone: 02 01/ 79 68 19.
Rudy Dicks, formerly executive sports editor at the Chronicle Telegram in Elyria, Ohio, was named managing editor of the newspaper last February. * [DEMO]iedlander says he has made an extreme about-face in careers. He left his research-associate position with the Center for Agricultural Biotechnology in Molecular Systematics at the University of Maryland, College Park, to pursue a career in music. He teaches and performs flute in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, and is starting a business in piano tuning and repair. "Wish me luck!" says Tim. * [DEMO]inoza recently ended a career with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and joined the California Public Employment Relations Board in San Francisco. The agency administers public-sector collective bargaining, and Donn serves as an administrative law judge and senior appellate counsel; he also maintains a small practice in indigent criminal appeals, specializing in three-strike cases. Volunteering time in support of organizations promoting expanded health-care access for uninsured and indigent populations, Donn serves as a director for the National Health Law program and has completed chairing a successful $2.5 million capital campaign for Asian Health Services, a nationally-recognized community clinic in Oakland. * Everett L. Glenn became the first African-American in the Office of the City Attorney when he joined the City of Long Beach in September 1996. One year earlier, he remarried Debra Workeneh, a native of Ethiopia, and he says they expect a son in September. The three older boys, Justin, Jared, and Jonathan, are, Everett says, "fruit of the union with Jackie Bradley '76. God is good!" Address: 7815 Ring St., Long Beach, CA 90808. Phone: (562) 431-8397; (562) 570-2294, office. * Janet E. [DEMO]ger is teaching U.S. foreign policy at American University and writing her second book on the evolution of Americans' attitudes toward China. Her first book, Peacekeeping in Transition, was published in 1991. Janet earlier spent seven years on Capitol Hill and four years in the State Department. From 1986 to 1991, she worked for Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) covering regional foreign policy issues and foreign aid appropriations subcommittee issues and serving as his legislative director. The following year she was administrative assistant for Congresswoman Barbara B. Kennelly (D-CT). Address: 3828 Military Rd., Arlington, VA 22207. Phone: (703) 351-9028. E-mail: JHEINAN@AMERICAN.edu
Betsy Elsaesser has been granted tenure at Oakton Community College, where she has taught physical-therapist assistants for three years. She was recognized late last year as a treekeeper by Openlands, a regional conservation group. E-mail: ReegLeyj@aol.com
* Navy Petty [DEMO]r 1st Class Ernest T. Haden was recently awarded the Navy Unit Commendation for supporting the search and recovery efforts of TWA Flight 800 while assigned to USS Grapple. The award commends the ship for flawlessly and safely fulfilling every tasking of the mission with professionalism, integrity, and responsiveness. Homeported in Little Creek, Va., the salvage and rescue ship assisted the National Transportation Safety Board in its effort to locate and recover the plane's wreckage and its victims off the coast of Long Island. Throughout the effort, Ernest, who joined the Navy in March 1979, rendered support to Navy divers who helped locate and recover [DEMO]han 200 crash victims and over 90 percent of the aircraft wreckage.
Arthurie Edwards-Buraimoh completed a MS degree in public administration at Central Michigan University last December, and became a community planner in HIV prevention at the Southeastern Michigan Health Association. He began work on his PhD in September 1997. Address: 656 Lothrup #201, Detroit, MI 48202.
* [DEMO]y Ewing earned a JD from Boston University School of Law and an MS in public health at Harvard School of Public Health and is working toward a PhD in health policy at the Florence Heller Institute at Brandeis University. He began his career in music, then moved to sales management. In his spare time he practices law part-time, teaches, and spends time with his children. Address: 803 Parker St. #3, Boston, MA 02120. * Karen Loewi Jones is living in southern California with her husband and two stepchildren. She says she made the move to viola in 1984, and earned an MS in performance in 1986. Besides performing with the Long Beach Symphony, the Los Angeles Opera, and freelancing in the LA area, she is a computer trainer at a community college in Whittier. Address: 8682 Lariat Ave., Garden Grove, CA 92844. E-mail: klowi@rh.cc.ca.us * [DEMO]ch's daughter, Clara Kikue O'Connor, was born July 24, 1996. Ken bought a green-and-purple bus to park on his farm which he uses as an instant cabin. Ken is teaching a PERL programming class, and says he is still hacking UNIX tools for Moolah Boolah.
Shirleigh [DEMO]n Coronado says she is still fighting all the usual battles as reference librarian at Butte College, teaching overload drama classes, and directing an Irish dance group. "Hard to believe, but my son, Cameron, will be going to kindergarten in the fall! Yikes!" Address: 959 Oregon St., Gridley, CA 95948. Phone: (916) 895-2452. E-mail: shirleigh@bctv.net The Web site: http://www.cin.butte.cc.ca.us/~shirleig/ * [DEMO] Caron has been living in the Bay area for the past 10 years and performing as guitarist and musical director for jazz/blues pianist Charles Brown. He says he has recorded many CDs, including one with John Lee Hooker, produced by Van Morrison.
Address: 500 Fairbanks Ave., Oakland, CA 94610. Phone: (510) 834-9445. E-mail: mello dc@ aol.com * Scott Faigen says that in March he married "a Spanish girl" he met while touring with the Stuttgart Philharmonic. Address: Urbanstr. 84, 70182 Stuttgart, Germany 711-290731 * [DEMO]epler has moved on from consulting with IBM and last spring joined Oglivy & Mather Direct as a partner and database marketing consultant. His wife, Lori Moskowitz, works at J. W. Thompson in the general agency, so, Bill says, they are now a double-agency household. On May 11, 1996, their son, Jacob Moskowitz Lepler, was born. "Like his father," says Bill, "he seems to like computers, music, and golf. Fatherhood is terrific!" Address: 30 E. 9th St., #5G, New York, NY 10003. E-mail: william.lepler@ oglivy.com or blepl@aol.com * Carolyn [DEMO]Spivak is an electrical engineer with Lucent Technologies, currently designing high-performance, high-density, field-programmable gate arrays. Husband David, and son Paul, 8, have been bemused but supportive during her novice year in autocross, where she is gradually giving up a lock on dead last in Philly regional events. She wonders whether there are any other Obies involved in grassroots (or other) motorsports. E-mail: DSpivak@aol.com
Russ Baxter and his wife, Sharon, had their second child, William Reardon Baxter, December 9, 1996. William joins big brother Ian, 3. Russ was named executive director of the Virginia Conservation Network last October. Based in Richmond, the agency is a nonprofit network of conservation and environmental organizations. Address: 3302 Floyd Ave., Richmond, VA 23221. Phone: (804) 359-2446. * [DEMO]d Carlin is executive editor at Schirmer Book, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Macmillan. Schirmer is a specialty publisher of books on music for the trade, library, and college course markets. In his new capacity, he will be overseeing the entire list and planning for future development. He has served as senior editor since 1994. Address: 1633 Broadway, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10019. Phone: (212) 654-8414. E-mail: richard_carlin@prenhall.com * Michael Doyle, a reporter in the Washington bureau of McClatchy Newspapers, has been awarded a Yale Fellowship in Law for Journalists. He is one of four reporters attending Yale Law School for the 1997-98 school year, and will emerge with a master's degree in studies in law before returning to the D.C. bureau. Accompanying Mike to New Haven is wife, Beth, 8-year-old twin sons Matt and Brendan, and one-year-old [DEMO]er Margaret. * Rik Malone was associate producer and assistant engineer on the Minnesota Orchestra's recording, Stravinsky, which was nominated for a Grammy Award this year for Best Engineered Classical Recording. The disk was released by Rik's employer, Reference Recordings. Rik also wrote and produced a radio special on the classical Grammy nominees, which was syndicated nationally through NPR. He is enjoying playing principal viola in the UCSF Orchestra. E-mail: RikMall@aol.com * [DEMO]ah Murphy, vocal-music teacher and choir director at Largo High School in Upper Marlboro, Md., recently took 56 members of his 221-voice choir on their 1997 Spring British Tour, with visits to London, Bath, and Oxford; performance stops included the Brixton Theater in London. Last April Jeremiah was awarded the prestigious 1997 Washington Post's Agnes Meyer Outstanding Award for Prince George's County, Md.
[DEMO]Levine Arnold and Jeffrey are pleased to announce the birth of Sarah Denni Arnold on April 10, 1997. Sarah's arrival "caps a wonderful year," says Karen, in which she received tenure at Boston College, published Lives of Promise: What Happens to High School Valedictorians, (see "Issued" Summer 1997 OAM) and, with Jeff, backpacked 600 miles of the Appalachian Trail. E-mail: [DEMO]kc@bc.edu * Carol Benson, less than four weeks after successfully completing her final public oral for doctoral degree in art and archeology at Princeton, married Christopher Armbruster in a simple ceremony at the Oregon Park Lodge in Cockeyville, Md., October 19, 1996. Julie Miller '81 was among the guests. Chris owns a music store in downtown Baltimore; Carol has begun a Mellon Curatorial Fellowship at the Walters Art Gallery. "We are on the verge of buying our first house, a 110-year-old Maryland farmhouse in White Hall, and are very excited about it," she says. [DEMO]s: 2010 Corbett Rd., Monkton, Md. 21111. Phone: (410) 472-0185. E-mail: dxga76a@ prodigy.com * Lee Glickenhaus gave up a law practice to start T Lex, a business that creates private legal work-product databases and puts [DEMO]n the web. "That, and my two boys, have been keeping me busy," says Lee. Address: 105 Babcock St., Brookline, MA 02146. E-mail: leeg@tlex.com * [DEMO]a Gomez (Beth Aurelia Hausman) says she is working as the "junkqueen" at the Museum of International Folk Art in the Global Depot. She is "teaching everyone how to make folk art from junk," and is painting, writing more books, living in a funky house with views of three mountains, and enjoying the life of a dog owner. Address: Rte. 9, Box 160 #2 , Santa Fe, NM 87505. Phone: (505) 474-5330. E-mail: handsonart@nm-us.campus.mci.net * Peter Kirsch and Pat Reynolds say they finally had "too much inside-the-Beltway [DEMO] and have emigrated west with Nathan, 4, and twin sons Gus and Noah, born December 1996. When not "juggling three supercharged boys," Peter continues to practice land use and environmental law, and, since September, has also found time for his new role as president of the Alumni Association. Address: 805 Gaylord St., Denver, CO 80206. Phone: (303) 320 5500. E-mail: PKirsch@cslaw.com * Rachel Rutherford has worked for Xerox Parc, and Apple, and is now a video-game producer for Microsoft. She spent a two-year hitch at the Sydney, Australia, office, before returning to Seattle in June, and says of Australia, "It's magical!" Rachel has been with John Dimmick 14 years: "No kids, no marriage, going great." She practices Tibetan Buddhism, is turning 40, and says she's feeling good. She's considering a return to art school, but "designing software is so addictive." Address: One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052. Phone: (206) 882-8080. E-mail: [DEMO]chel@aol.com * Keith W. Strandberg will graduate from Antioch with an MA in film and screenwriting in December, and is shooting a short film, Your Money or Your Life, on and around the Bloomsburg University campus and in upper New York State. The film, he says, focuses on a mixture of action and characterization. Bloodmoon, for which he was writer and producer, had its world premiere on HBO in June 1997. The $3.5 million action thriller was shot in Wilmington, N.C., and New York City. Another of Keith's films, [DEMO]ights, was released in video stores in June. Address: 3634 Peregrine Circle, Mountville, PA 17554. Phone: (717) 285-3001. E-mail: KeithS821@aol.com * Susan Van Pelt was a guest artist last May as part of the Oberlin College Theater and Dance Program. Susan ran her own company in Columbus, Ohio, for seven years, and was on the faculty at The Ohio State University. She has been visiting artist at many universities in the states, Australia, and Taiwan, as company teacher for Cloud Gate Dance Company in Taiwan. * [DEMO]erbe, associate professor and chair of the theater studies department of Guilford College, recently directed Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus as the season's final offering. Recognized for his 13-years' experience at Shakespeare's Santa Cruz, a national company known for its adventurous treatments of Shakespeare, Jack's version introduced Faustus first as a nerd, then as a J. Crew model, a David Copperfield-style magician, and finally, a heroin addict. Jack says "the contemporary approach helps make the play more accessible and relevant to our 18 to 22-year-old college [DEMO]tuency."
Lynne Conner completed her PhD in theater history in 1994, one week after [DEMO] birth to son Roy, the younger brother of Miles, born in 1991. She is married to Peter deKlerk and directs the theater program at Pittsburgh's new History Center. She published her first book this spring. (See Issued, Spreading the Gospel of the Modern Dance.) * Carey [DEMO]d says she has wanted to be an artist since she was a child, and still has the picture she drew in answer to an ad that said "Copy this and we will train you to be a professional." Instead, after graduating with a degree in art and art history, she became a landscape architect. Her first children's book, Night Fell at Harry's Farm, is reviewed in [DEMO]. She and her two "very fine cats" live in Philadelphia. * [DEMO]. Nelson has left the Wall Street Journal to join the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, where he is initiating a journalism and mass media education program for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Still based in Paris, he is trying to find ways to improve the prospects and quality of economic and business publications and broadcasters in the less developed countries of the region. Address: 122 Ave de la Republique 75011, Paris. Work: World Bank, 66 av. d'Iena, 75116 Paris. Phone: 33.1/4069 3357. E-mail: mnelson@worldbank.org * Nancy [DEMO]yer and her husband, Jason Sholder, welcomed baby Katie Oyer Sholder on January 5, 1997. Katie joins her sister, Rachel, age 3. The family resides in Beverly Hills, Calif. * Steven Schindler has left Winthrup Putnam & Roberts, where he practiced law for the past 10 years, to become a founding partner of Schindler Cohen & Hochman LLP, a trial and appellate-practice law firm that concentrates in complex civil matters. Steve and his wife, Susan, have two daughters, Alexandra, 8, and Emma, 4. Address: 8 Tomkins Pl., Brooklyn, NY 11231. Phone: (212) 693-1700. E-mail: sschindler@schlaw.com
[DEMO] Beavers received tenure and a promotion to associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania last year, at the same time that his friend, Eric Orts '82, received tenure at the Wharton School. Soon thereafter, Herman was appointed director of the Afro-American Studies Program. After moving into their new home last summer, Herm and his wife, Lisa, discovered she was pregnant with their first child, born in early July. Address: 6 Spur Ct., Burlington, NJ 08016. Phone: (215) 898-0507. E-mail: hbeavers@dept. english.upenn.edu * [DEMO]arrell's composition, "But We See Jesus," an anthem for double choir, brass quintet, timpani, and organ, received its world premiere Easter Eve, March 29, 1997, at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan with Obie John Kennedy '82 on the kettle drums. This is the sixth of Neil's compositions to be performed at the same church that hosted Jackie Kennedy Onassis' funeral, at which Neil sang. Neil's first organ solo piece, "Prelude and Fugue on 'Adore te devote'" was the last to be so honored. His arrangements of the Christmas carols "We Three Kings" and "In the Bleak Midwinter" (Holst) were also premiered by the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola in December 1996 and 1997 respectively. Neil recorded Milton Babbit's "Four Cavalier Settings," released in 1996 by Koch International, on the CD [DEMO] duettine, with guitarist William Anderson. * Bass singer Nicholas Isherwood's recent activities include performing in the world premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's opera Freitag aus Licht at the Leipzig Opera; performances of chamber music for ensemble and bass voice by George Crumb and Giacinto Scelsi in London, Vienna, and Paris; and CD recordings of Arnold Schöenberg's [DEMO]de (2e2m records) and Edgar Varése's Ecuatorial on the complete works of Varése, recorded by Erato Records and conducted by Kent Nagano. The Schöenberg CD won the Grand Prix du Disque. His ensemble for vocal solos to sextets, VOXNOVA, is performing in Paris, and he has scheduled a concert at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Address: 28 rue du Chevalier de la Barre, 75018 Paris. * Sam Walker says he is spending the summer teaching philosophy and ethics in Beijing. He continues to teach in Denver, and to build guitars in his Boulder home. Address: 1000 36th St., Boulder, CO 80303. Phone: (303) 443-0516.
[DEMO] Bock was notified in May 1996 that she has been selected from among 200 candidates for a tenure-track position in fine arts at the University of Connecticut-Storrs. Nickie and husband James J. Hughes '83 have moved from Chicago with their two children, Thea and Tristan, where they are recovering, they say, "from urbanites' withdrawal." J. is teaching research methods in the sociology departments of the universities of Connecticut and Hartford. Address: 1310 Storrs Rd., Storrs, CT 06268-2227. Phone: (860) 429-4932. E-mail: jhughes@changesurfer.com; mbock@finearts.sfa.uconn.edu * Conductor Gary [DEMO]letts says that he and three other Obies, pianist Timothy Shafer, soprano Alison Roth Mekeel, and oboist Warren Mickley '75, performed in Beethoven's [DEMO] Fantasy to celebrate the restoration of the 1898 Steinway "A" piano at the First Presbyterian Church in Lancaster, Pa., last November. Gary is director of music ministries at the church, where he is organist, directs a multichoir program, and administers the church's Abendmusiken concert series. Tim is associate professor of music at Penn State University Park, and made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1995. Alison teaches voice at Elizabethtown College and is music associate at the church. Warren is a freelance oboist in the Lancaster area. Address: 3080 Todd Ln., Lancaster, PA 17601. Phone: (717) 285 3498. * Allen Mathis is moving to Philadelphia after more than 11 years in San Francisco. He spent the last seven years as a [DEMO]orker/massage therapist, and plans to complete a two-year master of science degree in physical therapy at Beaver College. He says he hopes to write a book on carpel tunnel pain management and self-healing--"probably not the great American novel." * Jane Millikan says she and Scott Curfman are the happy parents of Noah Millikan Curfman, born April 16, 1996. Address: Box 128, Gaackle, ND 58442. E-mail: duck995@daktel.com
Annette Edwards Grasty has been appointed principal of Fairview Elementary School in Sunnyvale, Calif. She and her husband, Derek, principal of Treeview Elementary School in nearby Haywood, combine their careers with attempts to keep up with sons Parker, 6, and Marshall, 3. * [DEMO]Luhrs, president and founder of Luhrs and Associates Communications and Management, was named to the 26th edition of Who's Who in the East 1997-1998. She recently received the New Jersey Women of Achievement Award from Douglass College of Rutgers State University of New Jersey and the New Jersey Federation of Women's Clubs for her outstanding contribution in the community and to business. Other recent honors include the Teal Heart Award from the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners (NJAWBO) in recognition of outstanding service and dedication to the organization and the community; special recognition of her accomplishments and leadership in business and the community at NJAWBO's Salute to Women Leaders; and an invitation to serve on the organization's board of directors as cochair of chapter public relations. The nonprofit organization that Joyce founded, Resource Reutilization Network, Inc., received the Volunteer Center Service Award in the category of Adult Volunteer Group. Address: Luhrs & Associates, P.O. Box 413, Leonia, NJ 07605-0413. Phone: (201) 592-9126. * [DEMO]kesell Riley and his wife, Sara Laschever, are awaiting the birth of a baby. Tim has a new job as senior editor at the search engine on the web, www.lycos.com. He's says he's also finishing his fourth book on rock and gender, which St. Martin's Press will publish in 1998.
Richard E. Jankura, Jr. and his wife, Janet, welcomed Cartier Maxine Jankura March 24, 1997. Richard says their daughter gained nearly a pound in a little over three weeks after her birth. * Lizz Kjos has left the College after 17 years as administrative assistant in the assistant deans' offices at the conservatory. She [DEMO]ed to her hometown of Lacrosse, Wisconsin. * Aileen Liu and Henry Willmore say their son, Andrew Tian, born September 10, 1996, is walking now, and that he and his sister, Lindsay, 4, make a "fearsome twosome." Henry is a senior economist at BZW Securities, and Aileen is a telecommuting working mom. Address: 54 Tall Oaks Dr., Summit, NJ 07901. Phone: (212) 789-4265. E-mail: hglw@ix.netcom.com * [DEMO]Martin and his wife, Maria Isabel, have a new daughter, born January 16, 1997. "Breanna Sachiko Martin is a happy and healthy baby," says Brian. Address: 120 Trailcrest, San Antonio, TX 78232. * Susanna Peters married Charles Wallace in Pt. Reyes, Calif., last summer with Obie guests Jean Lutwak and Natasha Maidoff and Jean Milmar, both '85, present. Natasha, a filmmaker, made a "great video" of the wedding, says Susanna. The couple has moved to Michigan, where Susanna teaches at Wayne State University Law School. Their baby daughter, Cecelia Ruth Peters Wallace, was born January 2, 1997. [DEMO]s: 825 Sylvan Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Phone: (313) 995-9742. E-mail: wallace@ eecs.umich.edu
Tod Hale graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 1995 with an MS in biological sciences. While he was there, he taught classes in plant physiology, and played fullback on the rugby team, breaking two ribs and a finger in a match against The Citadel. Since leaving FAU, he has decided not to play rugby any more. Now he plays in a baseball league with "a lot of washed up minor leaguers" in Sarasota, where he has been running his own firm, T. Matthew Consulting. He is off to Hawaii this fall to begin a PhD, working with a tropical winged bean (Tilapia), in the production of higher yield feed for agriculture applications. "I really miss Oberlin, especially in the fall!" says Tod. * [DEMO] Sternlieb and her husband, Spencer, have moved from Philadelphia to the wine country of California. They've joined a co-housing community that broke ground in Sebastopol last May. Address: P.O. Box 2312, Sebastopol, CA 95473. Phone: (707) 824-4801. * Amy Worden is in New York, working as a producer for Fox News TV. She says she's adjusting to the Big Apple shoebox she shares with beau Bill and four cats. Address: 333 E. 43rd St., New York City, NY 10017. Phone: (212) 490-0274. E-mail: worden@ foxnews.com
Rebecca Whitney Leedy and her husband, Robert Leedy '87, [DEMO]to the Orlando area in 1992. They have had three babies in the meantime: Rebecca gave birth to Caleb Scott Leedy in 1993 and to Deborah Grave Leedy in 1996, and is presently a full-time mom. The other baby: "Leedy's Books," a store for used and antiquarian books, which Robert opened in the spring of 1993. Store address: 1455 Semoran Blvd. Suite 137, Casselberry, FL 32707. Phone: (407) 677-4686. * Karen Merrill and her partner, Martha Umphrey, have a son, Theo Jackson Umphrey Merrill, "who's been a total delight!" says Karen. After a year on leave, Karen will return to Princeton where she teaches American history, while Martha will be on leave from teaching at Amherst for the year. * [DEMO] Vernon has been awarded a $180,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The three-year grant will fund two student assistants each summer, purchase needed research equipment, and pay for various other expenses related to Daniel's continuing research on developmental mutants in the emb88 gene in the Arabidopsis plant. Daniel says many plant biologists are currently studying different aspects of this plant, with each scientist contributing to the overall knowledge of how and what different genes do. Ultimately, the combined research will have a great deal to tell about how genes and their mutations affect the plant at a molecular level.
[DEMO]rsuaga married David Neubert in New York City April 19, 1997, in a small ceremony at "a great restaurant in Manhattan." Obies present were Carla Capretto, David Waserberg, Nigel Wolters, and Curt Pajer, who accompanied singer Chris Robertson '86; Maritere Arsuaga '90; Jennifer Moser '89; and Deanna Chui, Andrew Manitsky, and Nicole Wilke, all '88. The couple's new address: 200 W. 79th St., 12N, New York, NY 10024. Phone: (212) 721-6765. * [DEMO]Brenner has accepted an assistant professor position at University of North Carolina-Wilmington, in a new creative- writing MFA program. Her book of stories, Large Animals in Everyday Life, was reprinted in paperback by Norton last July. * [DEMO]napp and his wife, Laura, announce the birth of their second child, Anna Lee Knapp, on April 10, 1997. Karl works for the North Carolina legislature as a fiscal analyst on transportation issues. Address: 511 Carriage Ln., Cary, NC 27511. E-mail: karl@ms.ncga.state.nc.us * Virginia Kunch graduated from veterinary school last May, and moved to Alaska for a small-animal/exotics practice. She says she still hopes to do zoo-animal medicine some day. * [DEMO]Ritter married Karl Frerichs in July 1995, and, she says, they happily reside with two cats in Cleveland. Marin graduated from Case Western Reserve School of Law in May 1996 and practices immigration law with Rosner & Associates. Karl teaches Latin at a private school on the East Side. Address: 2522 E. 126th St., Cleveland, OH 44120. Phone: (216) 771-5588. E-mail: mkr2@po.cwru.edu * Jacqui Lawler Shambaugh and her husband, George Shambaugh '85, moved to their new home last June. George is an assistant professor at Georgetown University, and Jacqui, a consultant with Watson Wyatt Worldwide in Washington, D.C. Address: 2806 Rifle Ridge Rd., Oakton, VA 22124. Phone: (716) 716-1798. * [DEMO] Miller, after eight years at radio station WHMP in Northampton, Mass., and four memorable seasons on the UMass basketball radio network, has moved from the hardwood to the diamond. He was the play-by-play voice for the Pittsfield Mets, the New York Met's Class A minor league team, on WBRK in Pittsfield, Mass., last summer. He has also done some sports correspondence for UMass' NPR affiliate, and written for a western Massachusetts monthly, Optimist Magazine. Last March, George was a contestant on Jeopardy. He says that the experience on the show did not leave him financially secure for life, as he had hoped. "The truth of the matter is that I finished third, and won a camcorder, along with the inevitable multivitamins, and a set of press-on nails." Address: 10 Ferncliff Circle, Northfield, MA 01360. Phone: (413) 498-5949. E-mail: DirSport@aol.com * Marci [DEMO]ick Taub and her husband, Adam, welcomed the birth of their daughter, Kyra Halle Taub, April 5, 1997.
See the Class of 1997 for news about Edward Buatois * [DEMO]ilberlicht Epstein and her husband, Ari, moved to Maine in August 1996, where Joan is doing artwork and writing children's books, and Ari teaches in the physics department at Bowdoin College. They say they both enjoy the area and their work, and have expanded their family by adopting Baxter, a dobe/shep/lab. They're still trying to figure out how to include Baxter on their tandem bike trips. The couple recently celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary and the opening of Ari's exhibit about the Georges Bank fisheries at the New England Aquarium in Boston. Address: 25 1/2 Federal St., Brunswick, ME 04011. Phone:(207) 721-8597. E-mail: jepstein@ bowdoin.edu * Michael Gallagher and Karen Ripley Gallagher '89 announce the birth of their daughter, Fiona Marie, born March 18, 1997. Michael has started a new job at Gliatech, a biotechnology company in Beachwood, Ohio, where he is using molecular biological approaches to study Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. Address: 17911 Lomond Blvd., Shaker Heights, OH 44122. * [DEMO]im married Paul Miller October 12, 1996, with Eileen Kahaner as maid of honor, and Young Kim '85 in attendance. Young's wife, the Rev. Sezelle Lynch, conducted the ceremony. In 1996 Yoon earned an MS in biochemistry and molecular biology at Emory University, and is working as a research specialist at the Emory University School of Medicine in the division of Infectious Diseases. * Jeanne E. Quinn has spent the past year teaching ceramics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She says that, although this is her first year of teaching, she is still seduced by academia after so many years as a student. She headed to Seattle in the fall to prepare for a show at the Foster/White Gallery. [DEMO]gh she's on the move, her e-mail remains constant. 102713.2057@compuserve.com * Rachel Filene Seidman and her husband, Benjamin Filene, celebrated their daughter's first birthday April 10, 1997. The youngster, Eliza Johnson Filene, and her parents moved last summer to St. Paul, where Benjamin is curator at the Minnesota Historical Society and Rachel hopes to find a position teaching history.
John Anderson and four others left last March for six months of volunteer service in the Yucatan Peninsula. After training for six weeks, John spent his time teaching local Mexicans to work as [DEMO] guides and environmental educators in several nature parks and reserves. The program, a collaborative effort between WorldTeach and the RARE Center for Tropical Conservation, has 1800 volunteers. * Laura Albert Antar was doing preliminary anthropological fieldwork six years ago in Greece when she met and married Khochnaf Antar, a Kurd from Kamichli, Syria. Laura is now at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the MD-PhD program in neuroscience. She was recently elected president of the AECOM branch of the American Medical Women's Association. Address: 1925 Eastchester Rd. #8G, Bronx, NY 10461. Phone: (718) 409-6223. E-mail: antar@aecom.yu.edu * Barry [DEMO]ik, in Israel since graduation, recently earned an MA in public policy from Tel Aviv University, and works now for the Israeli Ministry of Social Affairs in Planning and Policy. "The best thing, however, is that I just became engaged to Naomi Baker, the most wonderful person there is," says Barry. Address: Rehov Rabbi Meir 8/6, Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: barynomi@netvision.net.il Web site: geocities.com/soho75163 * Alex Citron married a writer, Robin Kisiloff, in March 1995. While Robin pursues a BS in social work at the State University of New York at Brockport, Alex teaches piano and computers, and anticipates fatherhood. Hal Leonard Publishing [DEMO]elease his book of simplified popular songs next year. Alex has been accepted to a doctoral program in piano pedagogy at the University of Miami, and plans to attend during the next two years. E-mail: pianobyear@aol.com * [DEMO]l Cross-Barnet and his wife, Caitlin '91, celebrated the birth of their son, Joshua Paul Cross-Barnet, in January. The family of four, including 3-year-old daughter Emily, live in the Los Angeles area, where Mike is a copy editor for Copley Los Angeles Newspapers, and Caitlin teaches English and creative writing at Harvard-Westlake School. * [DEMO]Jay Eisman recently returned from Bosnia where, for six weeks, he served under the auspices of the United Nations as senior adjudicator supervising the country's municipal elections. "The experience was fascinating and very challenging on many levels," he says. Back in New York, he is working as cochair on the development of the Committee on Solo and Small Firms Practice at New York County Lawyers' Association. He says that the difficulty of running his own law firm has been matched by the exciting opportunities it has brought to him. Address: 36 W. 44th St., 310, New York, NY 10036. Phone: (212) 944-8057. * [DEMO]ackeen and her husband, Scott McKeown, celebrated the birth of their son, Ian Thomas McKeown, with a traditional Sengalese baptism (Guinte). Ian was born January 23, 1997, joining his sister, Julia Isabelle, age 3. The family lives in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, where Lysa and Scott run a public-health training project. They've been in Dakar three years, since Lysa completed her MA in public health at Tulane University, and expect to remain for another year. Address: USAID/Dakar, Washington, DC 20523. E-mail: Mckeown@sonatel.senet.net * Cora Guss Pearl and Joshua [DEMO]itz Pearl announce the birth of Isaac's little sister, Fiona Moon Pearl, born peacefully into a pool of water at home April 10, 1997. Address: 330 E. 71st St., 2H, New York, NY 10021. Phone: (212) 988-4348.
Mindy Dalmas Cutcher was recently named principal harpist for the Pennsylvania Ballet. She and her husband, Steve, have purchased their first house. Address: 1305 Church Rd.,Oreland, PA 19075. Phone:(215) 887-5106. E-mail: mcutcher@ harpcolumn.com * Pianist Jeremy Denk won the 1997 Young Concert Artists International Auditions soon after receiving critical acclaim at his New York debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tulley Hall April 3, 1997. His summer schedule included a recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and performances at the Caramoor and [DEMO]ro Festivals. Jeremy has also participated in the Aspen Music Festival, the Marlboro Chamber Music Festival, and the Ravinia Young Artists Institute. Later this year, Altarus records will release a recording of Jeremy performing Charles Ives' Concord Sonata and the Elliot Carter Piano Sonata. He serves on the faculty of Indiana University's School of Music, and is also a doctoral candidate at The Juilliard School. * Michael Edward [DEMO]ki has been a news reporter and DJ for the past year for radio station WMWV in New Hampshire, and, in the spring, was "The Morning Show" host for WBNC in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Before those assignments, he had been working with NPR affiliates while attending the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He says he has been so busy in radio that he hasn't had time to audition for theater, film, or TV, but still does voice-overs for commercials. Address: P.O. Box 605, Conway, NH 03818. Phone: (603) 367-4703. * [DEMO]dra Hattemer married Robert Persiko in March 1997 in California, and has moved with her husband to the Washington, D.C., area. Lexi is working for Sylvan Learning Systems in international operations. E-mail: ahatteme@educate.com * Michael S. Hobbs earned an MD at the Medical College of Wisconsin in May. During his senior year, Michael was selected by his classmates to receive the Millmann Award for best exemplifying the characteristics of the ideal physician and for being considered the outstanding candidate for the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He was also elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, National Medical Honor Society, based on scholastic excellence, integrity, leadership, and compassion. * Rebecca [DEMO]e L'Bahy tried a number of options--as a paralegal, grass-roots-political organizer, a museum worker, a worker for a nonprofit organization for retarded citizens, and as a nanny--before discovering that what she really wanted to do was to write fiction and poetry and teach. She is enrolled as an MFA candidate at Emerson College, and enjoying life with Hassan L'Bahy, whom she married June 28. Hassan is from Morocco, so the wedding was a composite of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions. Rebecca says she loves Boston, and hangs out often with Vered Tsarfaty, a first-year law student at Northeastern, who was an attendant at the wedding. Address: 21 Carney St. #2, Medford, MA 02155. Phone: (617) 391-4616. * [DEMO]Segar has been in Russia this year, teaching sociology at Ural State University in Ekaterinburg as part of the Civic Education Project. Other Obies teaching in the program this year are Aileen Rambow '85, also in Russia, and Eric Hosken '91, in the Ukraine. Karen attended Russian Summer School in Samara on Gender and Women's Studies, and is now back at Indiana University to continue work on a PhD in sociology. E-mail: ksegar@indiana.edu * Kimberly Irvin Snow says that although her pregnancy was very uncomfortable, she and her husband, Mark, think that the baby, Nicholas Irwin Snow, is "the greatest little boy in the world." Kimberly went back to work as a policy analyst at the University of Southern Maine's Muskie School for Public Service after a three-month maternity leave. She's helping to develop a managed-care program for the elderly and people with disabilities on Medicaid in Maine. E-mail: Kim@muskie2.usmacs.maine.edu
[DEMO]heslow married Shelly Melissa Prince April 5, 1997, in Atlanta, Ga., with Jason Bivins, and Heather Keith and James Garfield, both '92, among the guests. The [DEMO]ole Trio supplied the music. Alan says his "wonderful and beautiful bride" is a benefits analyst for Cigna Healthcare and that he is a consultant, developing an international internet for Lanier Worldwide. Alan and Shelly recently bought a house in Marietta. Address: 1585 Greyson Ridge, Marietta, GA 30062. Phone: (770) 552-5552. E-mail: acheslow@mindspring.com Alan's Web site: www.mindspring. com/~acheslow * Tonia Pizer Luo earned an MA in international affairs at UC San Diego's School of International Relations and Pacific Studies in June 1996. While looking for what she calls "that elusive dream job," she works as a research assistant and ESL tutor. Tonia and Roger Luo were married April 20, 1997, in an outdoor ceremony in Hillsborough, N.C. Alice Tien '90 played piano for the ceremony, and Jeanine Zenge '61 was among the guests. Address: 2525 [DEMO] Creek Rd. Apt. 5F; Chapel Hill, NC 27514. Phone (919) 933-4092. * Lars Negstad left Cambodia in August 1996 and moved to Washington, D.C., where he works as a researcher for the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union. He says he loves the work, which basically entails "thinking up ways to kick corporate butt." He spends his free time helping with union-organizing efforts at Borders Bookshops, his former employer, and traveling frequently to New York. Address: 200 Connecticut Ave NW, 504, Washington, DC 20008. Phone (202) 393-4373. E-mail: LNegstad@aol.com * Jonathan Sonne, a student at New [DEMO]edical College, was recently inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society, and elected president of the organization's Iota Chapter. Address: 532 E. 82nd St., Apt. 18, New York, NY 10028. E-mail: jonathan_sonne@nymc.edu * Michael Tritter and fellow alum Daniel Radosh had fun last fall putting together a parody website called "Stale," (stale.com) which "received as much undeserved attention as its target, Michael Kinsley's "Slate," (slate.com). Since then he says he's "done little of import other than making web sites for Warner Brothers' films, which keeps me out of trouble." Address: 220 E. 24th St. Apt. 7A, New York, NY 10010. Phone: (212) 636-5126. E-mail: mtritter@interport.net Web site: www.tritter.com
[DEMO]alsano split his first year out of Oberlin between working for the government at the Argonne and the Los Alamos National Labs. Now, he says, he's having fun operating a radio telescope, "looking for counterparts to gamma ray bursts--a hot topic in astrophysics these days." When he's not in the lab, he likes to run, bike, practice aikido, and cook. He's thinking about teaching physics and math in the Peace Corps after graduation in another year.
* Jennifer Goodstein and Kenneth Litwin were married October 5, 1996, with Ken's brother, Mark Litwin '96, as best man. Alumni at the Pennsylvania wedding included Allison Jenson, Karl Kellner; Suzannah Schatt '94; Ken's aunt, Carol Barron Premack '68; and his mother, Linda Barron Litwin '64. A week [DEMO] Jennifer was a winner in the New England Regional Finals at the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition. She was also a recent winner in the 1997 Liederkranz Foundation Vocal Competition in New York. Jennifer is an associate with AIG Financial Products Corp, while Ken completes his first year of internal medicine/primary-care residency at Yale. Address: 30 Rogers Ave., Milford, CT 06460. Phone: (203) 878-1179. Ken's e-mail: klitwin@pol.com Jen's: Litwin@westport.msmail.aigfpc.com* Joe Kenan graduated with an MD degree from the Oklahoma University College of Medicine June 1997, and has moved to Los Angeles to train at the department of psychiatry at UCLA. E-mail: [DEMO]joe@usa.net * Kyung Hyun Kim, as of mid-July, is a tenure-track professor of East Asian language and literatures at the UC, Irvine, primarily engaged in cultural studies. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the film studies program. Kim completed his dissertation for a PhD on Korean cinema at USC School of Cinema-Television, Critical Studies Division. E-mail: khkim@scf.usc.edu * Jonathan Rosenn graduated magna cum laude in July 1966 from University [DEMO]mi Law School, where he was a member of the university's Law Review, which published his article "The Constitutionality of Statutes Permitting and Prohibiting Physician-Assisted Suicide" in May 1997. He is doing transactional work with Brazilian clients in the law firm of Freeman, Butterman & Haber in Miami. Address: 2101 Brickell Ave. #319, Miami, FL 33129. Phone: (305) 860-0634. * [DEMO]e Sawyer, since graduating from UC Berkeley with an MA in journalism, has "shunned New York one more time," she says, and has accepted a job at MacUser magazine as desktop media editor. Address: 5724 Ayala Avenue, Oakland, CA 94609. Phone: (415) 547-8022. E-mail: ssawyer@macuser.com
P. Seth Bauer returned to Oberlin this spring to teach master classes in playwriting through the creative writing department. He said to Stuart Friebert's students, "All of your most important colleagues in the future are sitting around you now. They are your producers, editors, directors, and supporters." The proof? Fellow Obie Ron Russell '92 will direct Seth's play, The Tip, in its New York premiere this fall. Seth and his wife, [DEMO]ne, are planning a move to New York City. * Eli Greenberg, after two years of post-bac, premed work at Columbia, followed by a year of loafing with part-time work at A Different Light Bookstore in Chelsea, is attending Stony Brook School of Medicine this fall. Over the past four years, he has become, he says, an avid collector of old postcards and photos of Oberlin, and has about 100 dating from 1860 to 1950, many with writing on the back. He says he plans to bequeath the collection to the College from his deathbed at Kendal. "Medical school can be a lonely place," says Eli. He hopes to hear from anyone who ever had a crush on him, because, he says, "It's never too late." Address: 196a/1d Jefferson Ave., St. James, NY 11780. * [DEMO]n Hasan's article "Islam and the Limits of Rational Religion" was recently published in Star Magazine in Bangladesh. He says the piece argued against a particular brand of Muslim conservatism, which holds that its own positions are based upon a completely logical interpretation of Islam, and hence, undeniable. E-mail: zeeshan@citechco.net * Trombonist [DEMO]Jackson completed a world tour with Ray Charles last January, and was invited to attend the Thelonius Monk Institute Colony in Aspen, at Snowmass, Colo., in July. Now back in New York, he is freelancing and preparing to audition for the Colorado and San Antonio symphonies. Address: 345 West 145th St. #11A2A, New York, NY 10031. E-mail: jacemus@aol.com * [DEMO]ai Moore says he is still selling at Case Paper in New York, and spending his spare time preparing a guide to all the Jewish organizations in New York that draw a significant following among men and women ages 25-35. Address: 630 Ft. Washington Ave., Apt. #3A, New York, NY 10040. Phone: (212) 781-3465. * Nkeiruka Okoye heard her own orchestral score performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in May. Her composition, "Ruth," is one of only five pieces chosen in a national search for emerging African-American composers, and she was the only composer selected from the Northeast. She has done extensive research on the number of black women in music; her most recent survey of active, publishing black women composers stands at about 40. * [DEMO]"Spooter" Stern participated in Glimmerglass Opera's Young American Artist program in Cooperstown, N.Y., in summer 1996. In February she won the Fresno Regional auditions for the National Society of Arts and Letters, and competed in the finals in Birmingham. Emily is performing the title role of Carmen for the San Francisco Opera Guild's school outreach program. Address: 1460 Sutter St. #16, San Francisco, CA 94109. Phone: (415) 931-5712.
Stefan Agamanolis copresented a work in progress at [DEMO] Consciousness Reframed conference in Newport, Wales, and then took time out to explore the Greek islands before returning to his research position at the MIT Media Laboratory. Stefan took a scuba-diving class last fall and is now well into his second pottery class. E-mail: stefan@media.mit.edu Web site: http://www.media.mit.edu/~stefan * Tijuana D. Glover says she is not a missing person after all. She works for TRW Inc. in the integrated engineering division as an engineer/scientist, doing software development, and, occasionally, web development. She lives about 15 minutes from Washington, D.C. Address: 1 Federal Systems Park Dr., Fairfax, VA 22033. Phone: (703) 968-1184. E-mail: tglover@ qualitas.fp.trw.com * Rachel Herr has returned from the Peace Corps in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, where she was a rural health educator working primarily on infant nutrition projects, training local village health workers to counsel [DEMO]s and families. "It was a fabulous experience," she says, and it prompted her to enroll this fall at Johns Hopkins University to earn joint masters degrees in international health/nutrition, and international economic development and social change. She expects to graduate in 2000. "I'll probably end up spending the rest of my life telling kids to eat their veggies!" she says. Base address: 5 Thistle Lane, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Phone: (505)984-0771. E-mail: fiatlux@earthlin * Robert Levy says that after three years of hiking and skiing in Colorado, "using the lame excuse that I was going to graduate school," he is now museum-, club-, and restaurant-hopping in D.C., "using the lame excuse that I have a job." He is working as a meteorologist, monitoring African precipitation pattern for the Famine Early Warning System. He plays ultimate frisbee in his spare time, dreaming of the day, he says, when he can turn professional. Address: 1340 Vermont Ave. NW #1, Washington, D.C. 20005. Phone: (301) 763-8000. E-mail: rlevy@sgi42.wwb.noaa.gov * Kelly [DEMO]n says she was very excited to head for Niger last June for Peace Corps Service in the Health and Nutrition Program. She had been working in female reproductive biology labs at Harvard Medical School and Massachussetts General Hospital since 1994. * Erica Rome spent seven intensive weeks this summer as an associate in piano at The Quartet Program in Lewisburg, Pa. After three years in Baltimore working as a freelance accompanist, she has enrolled at the New England Conservatory to earn an MM in collaborative piano. * [DEMO]er Sable completed her degree in cognitive psychology at the University of Delaware in September 1996 and is a research analyst for a computer consulting firm in Alexandria, Va. She works on a contract for the U.S. Department of Education, researching and helping to author an annual report on the condition of U.S. education. * Mark Stempler and his wife, Cashy, announce the birth of their second daughter, Esther, March 3, 1997. Mark has passed his pediatric surgical boards and practices in Staten Island, N.Y. Phone: (718) 338-5613. * Joe [DEMO]rd says he spent 18 months as "the music slave--organist, music teacher, choir director, and much more"--for a Catholic church and school in southeastern Mass., and has migrated north as an elementary-school general-music teacher and "devout Unitarian Universalist." He visits Boston and Northampton whenever he can, and says he occasionally braves the "Moose Crossing" signs on I-93 to visit Oberlin's "lone representative in northern New Hampshire," Mary-Lynne Allen. Address: 3 Westminster St. #2, Ashburnham, MA 01430-1660. Phone (508) 827-1198. E-mail: J1STODDARD @umasscl.edu
[DEMO]Craig completed her MM in viola performance at Rice University, where she roomed with pianists Laurel Belcher and Ed Kane, who also graduated with MM degrees in May 1997. She says they hosted lots of crazy parties attended by Brian Doyle, Rochelle Oddo, Jane Vanderschaaf, Colleen Jennings '96, and John Noel '93. In summer 1996 Ellen had a grant to study in Italy, and this summer a fellowship to study at Aspen. She says she's been visiting Matt Gologor, [DEMO]Tannenbaum, Nancy Weissman, Robin Zeh, Alisa Regelin '96, and Claire McGrath '93, and plans to keep auditioning for orchestras. Address: 9709 Laurel St., Fairfax, VA 22032. Phone: (703) 323-1394. * Nicole "Mozelle" Hirt is working toward an MM degree at the University of Oklahoma, and has performed with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. She also gave a recital last semester, including works by Telemann, Beethoven and Prokofiev. When her violin teacher relocates to Florida State University this fall, Nicole will transfer to [DEMO]ue her studies with him. Her cat, Miss Piggy, just celebrated her first birthday. * Susanna Lu is earning a master's degree in group counseling and organizational dynamics at Allegheny University (formerly Hahnemann University) in Philadelphia. She is also interning in group therapy at the Belmont Center for mentally and emotionally disturbed adolescents. * Melinda Polner Rothstein not only began a new job in June at an industrial supply company, Master-Carr, but she and her husband, Andrew, moved in July to a new address: 2604 Hampshire Rd., Cleveland Heights, OH 44106. Phone: (216) 579-2029. [DEMO]: adr7@po.cwru.edu * Kari Sasportas is a member of the Watershed Restoration Team, involved with stream-improvement in the mid-Columbia region under the auspices of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The group works with fifth-to-seventh graders to facilitate forest-education programs, and has recently completed a restoration of Swale Creek near Goldendale, Wash. Kari is a member of the Community Relations Committee, and has planned a Trout Lake Arbor Day celebration, a songbird celebration at Mt. Hood, and a bike-a-thon to raise funds for local charities. * [DEMO]Zeh won the Mannes (College of Music) Concerto Competition in February 1997, performing Ravel's Tzigane. The performance was broadcast on WQXR as part of the Young Artists' Showcase. Robin graduated with an MM from Mannes in spring 1997.
Elizabeth Norman works in [DEMO]velopment office of a school on the fringe of New York City. She says, "It's strange to be working at a boarding school, but I love it," and manages to get into the city almost every day. Address: P.O. Box 423, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522.
Edward Buatois participated in commencement exercises at Oberlin this May, although he was originally a member of the Class of 1988. Academically burned out, he took some time out, and moved to New York City, where he ventured into a cyberspace career. He never dreamed so much time would elapse before returning to Oberlin, but he wanted to complete his degree in psychology when he found he was ready to move on to graduate school. Edward is the 29th member of his family in five generations to graduate from Oberlin. The first family members, Edward's great-great grandparents, graduated in 1864 and 1865. Address: 14504 Glencliffe Rd., Cleveland, OH 44111. Phone: (216) 251-4680.
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Class Notes:
The obituary of William T. Cooke '25 inadvertently omitted listing among his survivors his son, Robert, and daughter, Carolyn, He also left several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. His wife, Antoinette, preceded him in death.
Alicia Jacobs ' 77 is not chair of the African-American Alumni Committee, as reported in "Presence, Persistence and Success." Alicia chaired the group's Reunion Committee. Dawn Alexander '82 is chair of the committee, now an Alumni/ae Association affiliate group--the African American Alumni/ae Association.
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Commencement-Reunion Weekend will be held on campus May 22-25, 1998. For more information, call or write the Alumni Association (see page 47 for the association's addresses).
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hen Oberlin's revered naturalist and native son, George Jones '20, turned 100 on August 27, 1997, the event escaped neither local nor national attention.
The most public notice George received came that morning, when NBC weatherman Willard Scott [DEMO]tulated him during the Today show's birthday segment. A week earlier, the Oberlin News-Tribune had run a story about George and his wife, Mary Burwell Jones '23, who would celebrate their 73rd wedding anniversary on George's birthday. And on the afternoon of the 27th, family and friends gathered at the couple's home for a birthday celebration, during which biology professor David Miller, George's next-door neighbor, presented the Joneses [DEMO]n Oberlin City Council proclamation commemorating the day.
George's long teaching career at Oberlin College began during his days as a student, when he worked as an undergraduate assistant for his father, Lynds Jones, who taught at Oberlin for nearly 40 years. George joined the College faculty as a botany instructor in 1924, and quickly advanced through the ranks to full professor. Although he retired from the faculty in 1963, he continued to teach for many years, curating Oberlin's herbarium and accompanying professors and students on field trips. His legendary Sunday walks through local natural areas and [DEMO]pular and informative tours of the trees on Tappan Square during commencement-reunion weekends continued to attract crowds of participants until just a few years ago, when he had to give them up.
One local Sunday-walk devotee, Doug Hill, talked about George with College staff writer Betty Gabrielli for her profile of the Oberlin legend ("Sunday in the Woods with George," Fall 1991 OAM). "If the United States were to inaugurate a practice of designating living treasures," he said, "George might be one of the first [DEMO]tees."
l i n d a g r a s h o f f is editor of the [DEMO]er, Oberlin's faculty and staff newspaper.
Although George Jones (right) was retired when David Benzing (left) joined Oberlin's biology faculty in 1965, he showed the new professor around Oberlin's prime field areas and for years helped collect specimen's for Benzing's botany classes. George's great-granddaughter, Talia Doucette (center), was either enthralled by the botanists' birthday-party reminiscences or hoping for a taste of one of her great-granddad's gifts--an extra-large chocolate bar.32 F A L L 1 9 9 7
n extensive national search for someone to lead its Mathematical and Physical Sciences unit led the National Science Foundation to its own physics division director--Robert A. Eisenstein '64. Bob began his new duties in September.
Bob is one of the NSF's six assistant directors, who are responsible for almost all of the research and educational areas sponsored by the foundation. As MPS assistant director, Bob oversees funding programs for astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, material research, and physics. The MPS budget is several hundred million dollars, all of which "is used to support reasearch and education at universities and colleges all over the U.S.," he says, noting that "Oberlin is a frequent NSF grantee."
A former professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Illinois, where he directed the Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Bob had a well-recognized background in nuclear and particle physics when he joined the NSF in 1992. As division director, he played a significant role in managing large-scale projects, such as the Laser Interferometer Gravity Wave Observatory (LIGO), and in establishing physics-division initiatives in biological physics and complex phenomena. He also led the division's efforts to involve more undergraduate students in its research.
During his years in the physics division, Bob earned a reputation as a sound manager and [DEMO]tor in science funding. "Bob has the leadership and wisdom to help pave a new road for integrative, multidisciplinary, and increasingly interdependent science and engineering," says NSF director Neal Lane.
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PHOTO [DEMO]EY OF BOB EISENSTEINBob Eisenstein (right) and his sons, Bill '94 (center) and Daniel.
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his fall, 34 legacies--up from 24 last year--enrolled at Oberlin as members of the Class of 2001. This year's entering class has more legacies than did any other during the last decade; they are: Adam Carl Fuller, son of Alia M. Johnson and Robert W. Fuller '56; Harry Luke Shaefer, son of Harry F. Shaefer III '61; Christohper Edward Dudley, son of Robert E. Dudley '64; Mark Alan [DEMO], son of John R. Kramer, Jr. '64; David Charles Oertel, son of Mary and Richard P. Oertel '64; Katharine Elizabeth Kort, daughter of Louis F. Kort '65 and Charlotte Wyche [DEMO]67; Joshua Layton Hart, son of Donna and Thomas J. Hart '67; Caitlin Campbell Lamb, daughter of John Lamb '67 and Kathleen [DEMO]amb '73; Julius Aaron Carlson, son of Daniel L. Carlson '68 and Sheri Reder; Shannon Catherine Harman, daughter of Emily Gearhart Owens '68 and Richard S. Harman; Benjamin Victor Harman, son of William P. Harman '68; David Robert McClelland, son of Kent A. [DEMO]land '68 and Katherine Howard McClelland '69; Meg Elizabeth Arenberg, daughter of [DEMO]enworthy Schorsch '68 and Richard Arenberg; Christian Roderick Wyman, son of Walter E. and [DEMO]atheson Wyman, both '68; Jason Zener Edwards, son of William M. Edwards '69 and Ann Zener Edwards '67; Anna Mehlhop Strong, daughter of John S. and Sarah [DEMO]p. Strong, both '69; David Bergmark Andalman, son of Elliott D. Andalman and Martha Bergmark '70; Robert Samuel Hopkins, son of Robert B. [DEMO]s '70 and Terri Miller Hopkins '71; Loren David Halter, daughter of Jeffrey and Ellen Kuper Halter '70; Gillian Claudia Malek, daughter of Thaddeus B. and Eugenie Adamec Malek '70; Alexander Xuande Pfeifer, son of Harry Pfeifer '70 and Annie Hing Ying Pfeifer '74; John Nelson Rogers, son of Edward H. and Patricia [DEMO] Rogers '71; Rebecca Allison Rich, daughter of Lucille A. and Robert F. Rich '71; Aaron Forest Dawson, son of Steven L. and Margaret Metcalf Dawson, both '72; Christina Dominique Hatzidakis, daughter of [DEMO]el Hatzidakis '72; John Sanford Limouz, son of Henry S. and Susan Cooper Limouze, both '72; Allan Raymond Bernstein, son of Maria and Howard H. Bernstein '73; Christopher Michael Irish, son of Paul Irish '73 and Susan Duprey; Peter [DEMO] Mellman, son of Ira S. Mellman '73 and Margaret D. Moench; Jennifer Rachel Spitulnik, daughter of Charles A. Spitulnik '73; Jaime Robert [DEMO]rns-France, son of Robert K. France '74 and Donna Burns; Kristen Elizabeth Bell, daughter of Michael Bell '75 and [DEMO]tiles Bell '74; Kelsey Anne Cowger, daughter of Leslie Carter '76 and Michael Cowger; and Michael Andrew Cardiff, son of Kevin P. and [DEMO]Walker Cardiff '77.
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f you scanned the arts & leisure section of the New York Times this summer you would have seen not one but two glowing feature [DEMO]s dedicated to A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, a documentary film codirected and photographed by Oren Rudavsky '79, and narrated by Leonard Nimoy and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the film explores how a religious people known for reclusion have adapted enough to survive in America. The work premiered in January at the New York Jewish Film Festival and is scheduled to air on PBS later this year.
A Life Apart and its attendant notices--"beautifully shot, startlingly intimate interviews;" a "stunning documentary"--prove that years spent toiling in the trenches of documentary making can pay off if one has Rudavsky's talent, grit, and vision.
[DEMO] Jewish Week: "Not only is Rudavsky a highly experienced and well-regarded filmmaker with a resume that includes several excellent Jewish documentaries, most notably At The Crossroads: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today, he also has an outsider's perspective on the Hasidism."
Oren has brought an outsider's perspective to each of his projects. He is driven, he says, by a consuming desire "to give a voice to those who don't have one." Oren began his first documentary while enrolled at Oberlin.
A caregiver at Lorain County's mental-health agency asked him to make a film showing the real people behind the stereotypes of the [DEMO]ly ill. Oren created a highly original 28-minute short: Dreams So Real: Three Men's Stories. A portrait of three men, featuring the animated films they created, the documentary went on to take first place in the 1981 New England Film Festival and win several other awards.
"I went to Oberlin to seek out a community that was not about just its own needs. The cross pollination between my work in the county and Oberlin's tradition of social action opened my eyes," he says, "and led me to what I do now."
In the 16 years between Dreams So Real and A Life Apart, he has seen his work as a producer, director, and/or cinematographer air on ABC, CBS, PBS, (including the station's prestigious POV series); and on several cable networks. His work has also been seen in England, presented by the BBC, and on Japanese television. A-list film festivals that have frequently chosen to present his work include the Berlin, Telluride, and Sundance.
None of this means that Hollywood is knocking on his door, or even that he wants it to. But it does mean is that Oren, at 40, is still committed to a very special perspective that has [DEMO]d him through the ups and downs of a satisfying, yet grueling, career choice.
Last March he began filming his latest work, a joint project with his wife, Judy Katz, a free-lance producer formerly with National Geographic. The outsiders this time are Manhattan women who, despite the barriers thrown up by society, became single mothers by choice. Oren says that by telling their stories he hopes to distill what it means to want to bring new life into the world. And he should know. He and Judy Katz met while the film was in development. They married June 12, 1994, and their first child, Eli Katz Rudavsky, arrived April 24, 1995.
B e t t y G a b r i e l l i is senior staff writer for the Office of College Relations.
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Alums Volunteer for a Marathon Day of Community Service
orty-five Chicago alums got together last spring for a unique and innovative regional alumni event--a day of community service. Upholding a commitment to community action is "really the Oberlin way to go," says Chicago alumni chapter co-coordinator Barb Distler '84.
She and her co-coordinator, Leah Robinson '82, accommodated volunteers' varying interests and physical capabilities by offering several sites for them to choose from, including an AIDS-patient residence, a homeless shelter, a food depository, and an environmental organization.
The volunteers responded to the opportunity--dubbed the Serve-a-thon--with [DEMO]g enthusiasm. So successful was the effort that Barb and Leah were named Regional Coordinators of the Year during September's Alumni Council Weekend (see [DEMO]berlin They Remember," on page 34), and they have decided to make the Serve-a-thon an annual event. For more information about the Serve-a-thon being planned for spring 1998, call or write Barb and Leah at the addresses listed in "Your Alumni Association" on page 43.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF [DEMO]ISTLERFront row: (left to right) Lisa Rosenthal '93, Florence Tang '95, Katie Green '93, David Loren '87, Leah Robinson '82, Tom McClurg '82. Second Row: Ted Brandt's son and his friend, Bruce McNeil's daughter, Ben Johnson '93, Willi Horner Johnson '95, Debbie Heirich Maddox '89, Barb Distler '84. Third Row: Susan Walker '75, Bonnie DeSimone '79, Dodie Morris '90, Bruce McNeil's daughter, Stacey Rutledge '89, Neil Stern '81, Jesse Wing '87, Misty Bauman '81, Sarah Leupin '93, and her partner, Dave Shriberg. Back l.c.r. Row: Susan VanDermilen '74, Arthur Myer '94, Ted Brandt '84, Kevin Liu '94, Evan Forman '96, Noah Berlatsky '93, Bruce McNeil '78, John Henderson '91, Ron Siebins '49, Ian Meyer '90.
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There are various categories of membership: Student ($1); Recent Graduate ($5); Friend ($25); Couple ($30); Associate ($50); Sponsor ($100); Patron ($500); Benefactor ($1000). Checks should be made payable to Oberlin College and mailed to the Friends at the address below. Donating book collections or other materials to the library is another way to become a Friend. Members may designate their gift to underwrite the acquisition of library materials in certain fields, to assist the preservation program, or to support other [DEMO]y-related special interests. Membership contributions are tax deductible.
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10th REUNION '98
10th REUNION '98
By Midge Wood Brittingham '60
lumni Council Weekend, held on campus September 19-21, began and ended with glorious, bright September sunshine, marred only by a series of intense downpours on Saturday as council members trooped from meeting to meeting across the soggy campus. One member arriving at the Oberlin Inn, thoroughly drenched, said with a broad smile, "This is the Oberlin I remember."
Although council members kept busy with council business, which included the installation of a new association president, Peter Kirsch '79, they took time for socializing and for recognizing their peers' outstanding efforts.
[DEMO]Winners
Leanne Wagner '76 was recognized as Alumni Recruiting Network Coordinator of the Year. Managing a team of as many as 12 alumni recruiters, she coordinated the Northern New Jersey area, and, on her own, organized fall and spring preview receptions for admitted students. A member of the Admissions Advisory Committee, she also found time to train new alumni coordinators, and helped locate potential network coordinators for other geographic regions.
[DEMO]a Distler '84 and Leah Robinson '82, coordinators for the Chicago alumni group, were named Regional Coordinators of the Year for their many hours of behind-the-scenes work arranging last spring's Serve-a-thon (see "A Chicago First," on page 31).The marathon day of community service proved so popular, Barb and Leah plan on [DEMO] it an annual event. They're also working on seeing another of their ideas through to fruition: a family weekend retreat at a camp in southern Wisconsin.
Bill Loerke '42 was recognized as Class President of the Year. The success of the Class of 1942's 55th reunion last May, was due in large part to his organizing skills. [DEMO]s arranging the Class's Commencement symposium, What We Teach and Why We Teach It, Bill helped classmates Tom Piriano and Doug Handyside organize Saturday's class dinner and arrange music for Sunday night's. He also assisted Ellen MacDaniels Speers in sharing her history of the Cox and Finney families in an informal presentation. Bill has somehow managed to attend every Alumni Council Weekend during the past five years, and he has distinguished himself by turning out every class letter punctually.
Class Agent of the Year honors went to Katz '71 for what Oberlin Fund associate director Claudia Jones calls his ambition and vision in encouraging recent graduates to make pledges to the College. During last year's Alumni Council Weekend, Joel made a unique offer to Class of 1996 agent Ben Jones: if he could involve 35 percent of his classmates in giving to the College, then the Class of 1971 would make a contribution to their senior-class gift--the Lorain County Scholarship Fund. Although the 1996 class officers' intensified efforts weren't enough to make the 35-percent target, they did raise participation to 28 percent--far higher than the norm for new classes.
[DEMO]oard Hail and Farewells
Two members rotated off the Executive Board: Sharon Davis Gratto '66 and Mary Heller Cope '56.
Sharon has energetically chaired the Conservatory Alumni Committee for three years. One of her committee's more innovative goals was to encourage more Alumni Council members to sing--not [DEMO]y task. Still, after President Nancy S. Dye's remarks about Oberlin's long-range plan during Friday evening's dinner, Sharon led the group in singing some of Oberlin's traditional songs. Hugh Flood, the conservatory's newly appointed choral director, followed Sharon, conducting council members in a rousing version of the "Alleluia Chorus" of Handel's Messiah. Sharon will remain active in the association as president of her class.
Mary, who remains on as a class agent, completed her three-year term as an at-large member of the board. She has been instrumental in organizing the last three Alumni Council Weekends: moderating student panels, serving [DEMO]mni panels, and planning the discussion of Oberlin's long-range planning report, "Broad Directions for Oberlin's Future."
New executive board members include Amy Steingart '86, [DEMO]r of the Oberlin Lambda Alumni Affiliate Group, and Dawn Alexander '82, former chair of the African-American Alumni/ae Committee. The committee recently reorganized as an affiliate group of the Alumni Association--the [DEMO]n American Alumni/ae Association--which Dawn will also chair.
M i d g e W o o d B r i t t i n g h a m is executive director of the Oberlin College Alumni Association.
PHOTOGRAPH BY RICK SHERLOCKKatzOutgoing alumni association president Danette DiBiasio Wineberg '68 (right) handed the gavel over to Peter Kirsch '79, who [DEMO]ead the group through 1999.
PHOTOGRAPH BY RICK SHERLOCK
Award winners and their loot--Oberlin College plates: Gratto, Distler, Cope, Wagner, Robinson.PHOTOGRAPH BY MARGARET ERIKSONDown time: Dawn Alexander and Bill Loerke take a moment to relax.
Oberlin has six fellowship funds for alums about to enroll in graduate school or those already pursuing advanced degrees. [DEMO] are normally given to applicants who have graduated from Oberlin two or more years before the time of application. Candidates need not be U.S. citizens.
Transcripts and letters of recommendation are required; we encourage applicants to begin the application process early.
Application materials are available from the Alumni Graduate Fellowships Coordinator at the address below.
Application deadline: February 15, 1998
The Alumni Graduate Fellowships [DEMO]nator can help you identify and apply to other funding programs. For more details, call or write:
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[DEMO]d Officers
President: Peter Kirsch '79, Cutler & Stanfield, 805 Gaylord St., Denver, CO 80206. Phone: (303) 320-5500 (home), (303) 825-7000 (work). Fax: (303) 825-7005 E-mail: pkirch@cslaw.com
Past President: Danette DiBiasio Wineberg '68, 2506 Kimberley, Ann Arbor, MI 48104; Phone: (313) 995-0478 (home), (313) 983-6232 (work), (313) 983-6171 (fax)
Treasurer: Clyde Owan '79, 4390 Lorcom Lane #802, Arlington, VA 22207; Phone: (703) 525-9486 (home), (202) 231-4762 (work)
Regional Coordinators
Regional coordinators keep Oberlin alumni in touch with the College and one another. Please call or write to them or Dale Preston for information about regional activities.
[DEMO]a: George Rainbolt '84, PO Box 586, Pine Lake, GA 30072; Phone: (404) 508-4510 (h), (404) 651-2272 (w), E-mail: phlghr@panthers.
gsu.edu
Boston: Kelly Keegan '90, 76 Euston Rd. #12, Brighton, MA 02135; Phone: (617) 787-1238 (h), (617) 498-8244 (w); E-mail: kkeegan@
genetics.com
Alexandra Samuel '92, 21 Ellery St. #12, Cambridge, MA 02138; Phone: (617) 354-4654 (h); E-mail: samuela@husc.harvard.edu
Chicago: Barb Distler '84, 411 W. Fullerton Prkway, #1404W, Chicago, IL 60614; Phone: (773) 871-9243 (h), (312) 996-3490 (w);
E-mail: bdistler@uic.edu
Leah Robinson '82, 336 W. Wellington, #901, Chicago, IL 60657; Phone: (773) 404-6154 (h), (312) 424-8331 (w); E-mail: robinson@bases.com
Cleveland: Sean Tucker '89, 16817 Lomond Blvd., Shaker Heights, OH 44120; Phone: (216) 561-0618 (h), (216) 522-2578 (w)
[DEMO]us: Cindy Brown '74, 196 S. Parkview, Columbus, OH 43209; Phone: (614) 253-5848 (h)
Dayton: Sarah Spicer '90, 21 E. McCreight Ave., Springfield, OH 45504-1460; Phone: (937) 525-9686 (h), (614) 222-3531 (w); E-mail: SarahS1@aol.com
Denver/Boulder: Candace Ellman '89, 7271-D S Xenia Circle, Englewood, CO 80112; Phone: (303) 779-0289 (h), (303) 793-6568 (w);
E-mail: cellman@uswest.com
Houston: Alice-Gray Hopkins '93 & Jeff Hopkins '92, 2711 Stoney Brook, #900, Houston, TX 77063; Phone: (713) 266-1273 (h); E-mail: jhopkin2@Central.UH.edu
Kentucky: [DEMO]erauld '69, 2317 The Woods Ln., Lexington, KY 40502; Phone: (606) 269-1347 (home); E-mail: Jerauld@aol.com
Los Angeles: Bob Cartland '88, 2927 S. Hoover St., Los Angeles, CA 90007; Phone: (213) 744-0223 (h), (213) 740-4324 (w); E-mail: bobc@photonics.usc.edu
Miami: Barbara Rostov '61, 12051 SW 69 Place, Miami, FL [DEMO]5429; Phone: (305) 661-9438 (h); E-mail: ebrostov@worldnet.att.net
Milwaukee: Robert Burko '78, 3120 S Pennsylvania Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53207-2914; Phone: (414) 483-8115 (h), (414) 963-5208 (w); E-mail: rob_burko@deluxedata.com
Minneapolis/St. Paul: Lisa Caten '91, 3209 Girard Ave. South, #5, Minneapolis, MN 55408-3423; [DEMO] (612) 823-8639 (h); E-mail: caten@freenet.msp.mn.us
New Haven: Mark Smith '90, 76 Nash St., New Haven, CT 06511-3942; Phone: (203) 772-3302 (h), (203) 432-3591 (w); E-mail: m.w.smith@yale.edu
New Jersey: Kimberly Sypeck Bloom '85, 30 Haddonfield Rd., Short Hills, NJ 07078; Phone: (201) 258-9618 (h), (908) 423-4079 (w); E-mail: kim_bloom@merck.com
North Carolina: Rebecca Longley '86, 3908 Wynford Dr., Durham, NC 27707-5316; Phone: (919) 493-6503 (h), (919) 544-6348 (w), (919) 941-6388 (fax); E-mail: [DEMO]a_longley@rocky.eisai.com
Philadelphia: Sara Savitz '71, 716 S. Third St., Philadelphia, PA 19147-3311. Phone:
(215) 922-5830.
[DEMO]urgh: Andrew Peters '91, 1 Afton Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15205; Phone: (412) 937-0738 (h), (412) 695-3300 (w)
Krista Wagner-Naragon '88, 5332 Spring Valley Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15236; Phone: (412) 882-2332 (h), (412) 695-3422 (w)
Providence: Bill Cheney '60, 15 Fairfield Dr., N. Kingstown, RI 02852; Phone: (401) 884-0181 (h), (401) 825-2222 (w)
Rochester: Jan Phillips '56, 41 Harper Dr., Pittsford, NY 14534; Phone: (716) 381-8978 (h), (716) 442-1500 (w)
San Diego: Karen Gunther '92, 221 Smilax Rd. #220, Vista, CA 92083; Phone: (760) 727-6459 (h); E-mail: Kgunther@psy.ucsd.edu
San Francisco: Anita [DEMO]ky '82, 1419 Irving St., #2, San Francisco, CA 94122; Phone:
(415) 731-6505 (h), (415) 252-5251 (w), (415) 552-0911 (fax); E-mail: ab@unx.berkeley.edu
Rebekah Bloyd '83, P.O. Box 170014, San Francisco, CA 94117-0014. Phone: (415) 221-6172 (h). E-mail: rbloyd@juno.com
Seattle: Connie Brennand '51, 2038 139th Pl. SE, Bellevue, WA 98005; Phone: (425) 746-4324 (h); E-mail: CBrennand@aol.com
Washington, D.C.: Sophie Richardson '92, 126 Kentucky Avenue SE, Washington DC 20003-1446; Phone: (202) 546-2941 (h), (202) 797-4944 (w); E-mail: Sophie@ndi.org
Westchester/S. Connecticut: Kiki Eglinton '51, 330 Highbrook Ave., Pelham, NY 10803-2207; Phone: (914) 738-2360 (h); E-mail: kikieg@cyburban.com
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Margaret Schwarz Kaulback died in Girard, Ohio, August 17, 1996. She graduated from Oberlin's Kindergarten Training School and later worked at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, as director [DEMO]earch and archives.
Frances Loveless McCrea died at age 98 on April 13, 1997, in Gig Harbour, Wash. She taught high school in Coeur d'Alene and Spokane for several years before moving to Tacoma with William McCrea, her husband of 64 years. She was widowed in 1992. She leaves two daughters, six grandchildren, and six [DEMO]grandchildren.
Martha Beck Carragan died at age 97 in Troy, N.Y., on February 16, 1997. A composer and piano educator, Mrs. Carragan taught piano and theory at Emma Willard School, and later in her home, while devoting herself to composition and to community activities. At the time of her death she had published more than 100 pieces, some of which took national prizes. In the 1960s and 1970s, she produced three large-scale historical cantatas under commission from local groups. On her 90th birthday in 1990, the Friends of Chamber Music of Troy sponsored a retrospective concert of her works [DEMO]ed over the previous 71 years. Survivors include a son and a brother.
Mary Helen Hummons Anderson died in Sandy Springs, Md., April 2, 1997. She had spent 50 years in Gary, Ind., before moving to Maryland nine years ago to be closer to her daughter, who survives her. Mrs. Anderson taught secondary and college English in Gary, where she was also active in civic and church work.
Annie Corbin Keep died December 25, 1996, at a care center in Lee's Summit, Mo., three days after her 101st birthday. Born in Shansi, China, she majored in zoology at Oberlin, graduated with a degree in nursing from Presbyterian Hospital in North Carolina, and continued her studies at the University of Maine.
Mabel Mott [DEMO]n died March 30, 1997, in Savoy, Ill., at 92. After more than 20 years as executive director of the YWCA in New Brunswick, N.J., she retired in 1971. A year later, the board of directors named the newly-opened pool complex the Mabel Mott Jackson Pool in honor of her vision and dedication. She was further honored with a reception and dinner on the 10th anniversary of the pool's opening. Following retirement, she volunteered in the Covenant Hospital Hospice program, and served as a consultant to the YWCA in Plainfield, N.J. In 1974 she moved to Champaign, Ill., where she remained until her death. Surviving are her daughter, Marilyn J. Nichols '59, who lives in Champaign with her family; her son, Charles W. '55; three granddaughters, among them Laura Jackson '83; five [DEMO]granddaughters; and Charles' wife, Nancy Carnarious '53.
Carolyn Coulter Horn, 87, died March 22, 1997, in Indianapolis. Mrs. Horn was an elementary school teacher for more than 30 years in Ohio, retiring in 1964. She was predeceased by her husband, and is survived by two daughters, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Helen [DEMO] Faunce died at age 88 in Akron, Ohio, May 24, 1997. She joined the League of Women Voters of Akron in 1941, and held all offices in the organization, including that of president. Mrs. Faunce was class agent from 1969-1973; vice-president of her class of 1930 from 1981 to 1985; a life member of the John Frederick Oberlin Society; a member of the Alumni Board from 1954-1956, and president of the Oberlin Women's Club in Akron. Her community endeavors included volunteer activities for the United Community Council, the United Way, Planned Parenthood, and the Air Pollution Control Agency. Mrs. Faunce [DEMO]d her body for medical research to Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine. She is survived by her husband, James, a son, a daughter, and three grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the Helen Cooper Faunce Scholarship Fund, Oberlin College Office of Development, 50 W. Lorain St., Oberlin, Ohio 44074.
Kate Inge Fuller died January 27, 1997, in East Orange, N.J., at age 92, after a short illness. She began her career in Memphis, where she taught high-school students for several years before returning to school, graduating from the Newark State Teachers College in 1952. She later was employed by the National Association for Retarded Citizens as a teacher, and, at age 71, won the association's Teacher of the Year Award.
Margaret Ralston Kirshner, a retired [DEMO]ian,
died May 14, 1997, at her home in Summerville, S.C. She was 88. Others in Mrs. Kirshner's family who attended Oberlin include her husband, Charles Henry Kirshner '30, who preceded her in death in 1994; her sisters Alice and Florence, both '19; her brother George '22; a niece; three nephews; and a grandnephew. Two daughters survive her, as do six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Ruth Wharton Standen died March 12, 1997, in Olmsted Township, Ohio, after a [DEMO]llness. She was 99. After WWII, she joined the Elyria (Ohio) Service League, organized to meet the charitable needs of her hometown. One of the group's first projects was establishing the Center for the Sightless. For 75 years Mrs. Standen belonged to the Elyria YWCA and served on its board of directors. Survivors include a daughter, a son, three grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Blanche Bruton Novotny died March 6, 1997, in North Haven, Conn., at 86. The year following her graduation, she married Charles Karl Novotny '30. During WWII she was in the Civil Air Patrol, and, during and after the war, in the Red Cross Motor Corps. Mrs. Novotny also obtained her private pilot's license during this period. She and her husband lived for many years in Akron, where Mr. Novotny was executive vice president of Armstrong Rubber. Mrs. Novotny attended Akron University after her marriage to learn more about home management through classes in home economics and interior decorating. Her husband preceded her in death.
[DEMO] C. Dickinson, Jr. died of cancer at age 82 on February 3, 1997, in Claremont, Calif. He was raised in Eaton, Colo., a southwestern silver-mining area, where his father, who earned his degree at the Graduate School of Theology in 1890, was pastor. Mr. Dickinson followed in his father's footsteps, graduating with BA and M.Div. degrees from Oberlin. In the 1980s, following his service as pastor in Colorado, Nebraska, Illinois, and Minnesota, he and his wife, Dorothy, were volunteer missionary teachers in the Marshall Islands. He is survived by his wife; three sons, including David '71, and Selden '67; and six grandchildren.
Virginia Curtis Scoville[DEMO]died in Naples, Fla., March 16, 1997. A long-time resident of Rocky River, Ohio, she had worked as a librarian at Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights before starting a family. Survivors include her husband of 58 years, Warner '38; a son, Curtis '63; two daughters; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Sidney David Bowdler died March 28, 1997, in San Antonio, Tex., at age 85. He was a captain in the U.S. Army Ordinance Dept. and, later, a truck manager for Smith Motor Sales in San Antonio. He is survived by his wife, Celine.
[DEMO] Francis Diehm died at age 81 on March 22, 1997, in Cleveland. Mr. Diehm served as chair of the Class of 1939 Reunion Gift Committees for the 50th, 55th, and 60th reunions. One of the early pioneers of Oberlin's gay movement, Mr. Diehm was a member of the Gay Alumni Task Force, which evolved into the Oberlin Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Association, now known as the Oberlin Lambda Association. An attorney, he was an insurance executive until his retirement in 1976. He leaves his life companion, Donald Bramkamp, two sisters, an uncle, and a cousin. Memorial gifts may be made to the [DEMO]n College Office of Development, 50 W. Lorain St., Oberlin, OH 44074.
[DEMO]iro Hirose died of pneumonia on March 2, 1997, at age 83 in Yokohama, Japan. After World War II, he served as an interpreter with the American Occupation Force. He later worked with an industrial cement firm as an overseas project director. Following his retirement, he was a consultant for Australian and British building materials companies. His survivors include his wife, Sumiko, a son, and two granddaughters.
Carolyn Preibe Squire 79, died March 25, 1997, in Warren, Ohio, following a long illness. She was a member of several community and church organizations in Warren. Her husband, Donald '38, died in 1996. Survivors include two sons, two daughters, eight grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Hanns Kurt Anders was 79 when he died of complications of Alzheimer's disease March 17, 1997, in Bowling Green, Ohio. He was a chemistry professor at Bowling Green State University from 1957 until his retirement in 1980. Long captivated by the Georgian Bay area of Ontario, he never missed a summer at [DEMO]ottage," the home he purchased there 1963, until his last trip in the summer of 1996. His wife, Edith, survives him, as do three daughters and nine grandchildren.
Betty Blunt Bailey died in Holden, Mass., on May 5, 1997. She was 78. An accomplished pianist, Mrs. Bailey accompanied the Juilliard String Quartet and Dorothy DeLay '37, a world-renowned violinist and instructor. In her free time, she volunteered at the clothing shop of the local Congregational church. She leaves her husband of 54 years, Carroll; a son, a daughter, and a granddaughter.
James Addison Moser died at age 77 on March 16, 1997, after an extended illness. Born in Clyde, Ohio, he joined the U.S. Navy immediately after graduating from Oberlin, ending his term as lieutenant. Before retirement he had worked for Michigan Bell as a negotiator in labor relations for 35 years. He is survived by his wife, Marie, a son, a daughter, and six grandchildren.
Elizabeth [DEMO]Herdman died April 4, 1997, in Sarasota, Fla., at 76 years of age. She was the daughter of former Oberlin College professor Ernest Rice Smith, and wife of Donald L. Herdman '42, retired dean of academic affairs at Berkshire Community College. She leaves, besides her husband, two daughters, including Marcia Graham '76; a son; and several grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her mother, Maysie Summers Smith, and her aunt, Shirley Smith, both members of the Class of 1912.
Margaret Thompson Swart, 78, of Aberdeen, Wash., died of cancer at her home February 12, 1997. An avid golfer, she had also studied and enjoyed composing. Her husband and two sons preceded her in death. Mrs. Swart is survived by a grandchild and a great-grandchild.
Annabel [DEMO] Kuhn died in Lakeway, Tex., May 10, 1997, at 74. She was a leader in many community and church organizations, and an accomplished stained-glass artist and miniaturist. She is survived by her husband of 53 years, E. Michael two daughters, and three grandchildren.
Eleanor Vickers Harper died in Los Altos, Calif., April 13, 1997, at 72 years of age. She worked for 13 years as a machine programming mathematician at the National Aeronautics and Space Agency at Moffett Field, Calif., and, in 1950, married Charles Harper, an aeronautical research scientist for NASA. Her husband survives her.
Phyllis [DEMO]er Frank died January 24, 1997, at 72. She was a resident of Chesterland, Ohio, and was a retired social worker. Until 1989 she worked in the foster care section of the Geauga County Department of Human Services. She was predeceased by a brother, Clair E. Bassinger '43. Surviving are her husband, James, and two sons.
Maxine Lipman Jaffee died January 14, 1997, in Ardmore, Pa., at 70. She taught piano, and was organist and choir director at Main Line Reform Temple in Wynnwood, Pa. Mrs. Jaffee's husband predeceased her. Her twin daughters survive.
Margot Elisabeth Lutz, born in Germany, died in Newton, N.J., September 17, 1996, at 75 years of age. Miss Lutz earned a master's degree at Oberlin in languages, majoring in German and French, after graduating from Adelphi College. She later worked for a news-clipping service in [DEMO]tan.
Lauritz Walt Muelhbach, a naturalist and consultant in rangeland ecology, died December 31, 1996, in Chino Valley, Ariz., after a long illness. He was 70. After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946, he returned to Oberlin to complete his BS in botany, and went on to earn a MS in vertebrate zoology at Ohio State University in 1954. As a field representative for the Nature Conservancy between 1954 and 1964, he did work in forest ecology, forest insect research with the U.S. Forest Service, upland game bird research with the Ohio Division of Wildlife and later with the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks. In 1964 he was a specialist with the University of California School of Public Health, and state agencies. Mr. Muehlbach took a disability retirement in 1969 and relocated to Arizona where he continued to pursue his lifelong interests until his death. He is survived by a sister, two nieces, a nephew, and several grand-nieces and grand-nephews.
[DEMO]s F. Petree died of a sudden heart attack December 10, 1996, in Cincinnati. He spent his entire business career, from 1948 until his retirement in 1984, with Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble, Inc., managing engineering and new construction projects. Mr. Petree was also a professional tenor soloist, and at 16 of the firm's annual Dividend Day celebrations, he led the company in singing the national anthem. He is survived by his wife, Winifred Crawford Petree '47, two sons, a daughter, and five grandchildren.
Henri Marc Yaker died April 6, 1997, at age 74, in Oberlin. He was a university professor, psychologist, and scholar, and taught at several universities, including Lincoln, Hobart & William Smith, and Seton Hall, where he was a clinical psychologist and mental health administrator. A member of 12 professional associations, he is listed in [DEMO]Who in the East and American Men of Science. He authored articles in many publications, and edited a book, The [DEMO] of Time, published by Doubleday in 1971. Active in Oberlin alumni affairs for many years, he served as a career counselor, alumni recruiter, and class agent before retiring to Oberlin, where he continued to serve as class agent. Predeceased by his wife, his survivors include his daughter, Naomi '71; her husband, Ali '69; and four grandchildren, including Hisham and his wife, Maren, both '95.
[DEMO]eynold Johnson died in Holly Springs, N.C., January 19, 1997, at age 68. After earning an MS degree at North Carolina State University, and a PhD at the University of Chicago, he was a professor of economics at North Carolina State University. He leaves his wife, Suzanne, a son, and two daughters.
Nellie Marie Stuart, age 83, died February 21, 1997, in Champaign, Ill. She taught voice at several [DEMO]es and state universities, including the University of Illinois and Oberlin. She was a music specialist in Champaign from 1960 until her retirement in 1973. Miss Stuart appeared as a soloist with the University of Illinois Symphony, the Champaign-Urbana Civic Symphony, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 1935, she won an award as best woman singer with a solo appearance at Soldiers Field before an audience of 93,000 people.
Garret G. Ackerson III died in Grand Rapids, Mich., May 18, 1997, at the age of 67. He was the retired president, chair, and chief executive officer of McDonnell Douglas Canada, Ltd. Garry earned an MBA at the University of Virginia, and was a fighter pilot and flight instructor with the United States Marine Corps during WWII. His community activities in Grand Rapids after his retirement included volunteer positions with Planned Parenthood, Goodwill Industries, and in his church activities. His wife of 43 years, Ethel Goodrich Ackerson '53, survives him, along with two daughters, five grandchildren, and several nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Clarke [DEMO]on died February 18, 1997, in Cincinnati at age 67. In the late 1950s he taught piano at the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, and studied with Santos Ojeda, a world-renowned pianist. Mr. Robinson worked at Cincinnati State and Technical College from 1979 until this year as an administrative assistant to the president. He was a church organist for 35 years, and enjoyed opera and contemporary music, but was a classical music enthusiast. Survivors include a nephew.
John C. Atwood died February 28, 1997, in Richmond, Va., at 66. As a part-time faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University's Community School for the Performing Arts, he taught voice from 1978 to 1994. His other teaching positions included chair of the music departments of Virginia Intermont College and of Stratford College from 1968 to 1972. As a tenor soloist, he performed with several Richmond-area church choirs. He is survived by his wife, June; a daughter; and two brothers.
[DEMO]Clendenin Robertson of Arlington, Va., died of a brain hemorrhage April 16, 1997, while attending a conference in Orlando, Fla. He was 61. A 1969 Yale law school graduate, he was appointed as executive director of the Mississippi Commission on Human Rights, and in 1979 began consulting with private companies on employment equity matters. In addition to his work in the United States, he consulted for the British and Canadian governments, and worked in several political campaigns. More recently, Mr. Robertson worked full time for Organization Resources Counselors in Washington, D.C., a human resources management company. Surviving are two children, a grandson, his former wife and longtime friend, Ruth Blau '59; and two brothers. Memorial donations may be sent to the Office of Development at Oberlin College, Office of Development, 50 W. Lorain St., Oberlin, OH 44074.
E. [DEMO]Robinson died in Chicago March 9, 1997, at 44. He was a partner in the law firm of Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, where he focused on real estate, land use, municipal, and corporate law. Mr. Robinson served from 1986 to 1990 as chair of the Chicago Planning Commission. In 1986 he was acting corporation counsel for the City of Chicago. He resigned after only two days when some questioned whether he had enough political experience to assist Mayor Harold Washington in this role. He was a trustee of Columbia College, the Goodman Theater, the South Side YMCA, The Field Museum Support Group, and the Harvard Law Society of Illinois. Survivors include a son, his mother, three sisters, and two brothers.
Ronnie [DEMO]alloway died March 19, 1997, in Dayton, Ohio. He had worked as a business manager for the Diversion Alternatives for Youth in Dayton. Mr. Galloway credited Oberlin College with his awareness that, for African-American young people, education was the essential factor for success.
Alon Ivan Dawson died January 29, 1997, at age 26, in Westchester Medical Center, N.Y., after a lengthy illness. A vocalist, he also played piano, flute, and clarinet. For three years, he entered and won the regionals of NAACP competitions for the flute, and won the Silver Medal, in Washington, D.C., at the NAACP National Convention for vocal music in both 1987 and 1988. Mr. Dawson also performed with the Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra. Before his illness, he was employed by the New York City Board of Education. Mr. Dawson is survived by his mother, three [DEMO]rs, and his grandparents.
Office of the
Oberlin Alumni Association
Bosworth Hall 105, 50 W. Lorain St.,
Oberlin, OH 44074-1089;
Phone: (440) 775-8692;
Fax: (440) 775-6748
E-mail: alumoffc@ais.alumdev.oberlin.edu;
URL: http://www.oberlin.edu/~alumassc
Executive Director[DEMO]e Wood Brittingham '60
Director, On-Campus Alumni Activities: Margaret Sahs Erikson '62
Director, Regional Alumni Activities:
Dale Preston '83
Elected Officers
President: Peter Kirsch '79, Cutler & Stanfield,
805 Gaylord St., [DEMO], CO 80206. Phone: (303) 320-5500 (home), (303) 825-7000 (work). Fax: (303) 825-7005 E-mail: pkirch@cslaw.com
Past President: Danette DiBiasio Wineberg '68, 2506 Kimberley, Ann Arbor, MI 48104; Phone: (313) 995-0478 (home), (313) 983-6232 (work), (313) 983-6171 (fax)
Treasurer: Clyde Owan '79, 4390 Lorcom Lane #802, Arlington, VA 22207; Phone: (703) 525-9486 (home), (202) 231-4762 (work)
Regional Coordinators
Regional coordinators keep Oberlin alumni in touch with the College and one another. Please call or write to them or Dale Preston for information about regional activities.
Atlanta: George Rainbolt '84, PO Box 586, Pine Lake, GA 30072; Phone: (404) 508-4510 (home), (404) 651-2272 (work), E-mail: [DEMO]@
panthers. gsu.edu
Boston: Kelly Keegan '90, 76 Euston Rd. #12, Brighton, MA 02135; Phone: (617) 787-1238 (home), (617) 498-8244 (work); E-mail: kkeegan@
genetics.com
Alexandra Samuel '92, 21 Ellery St. #12, Cambridge, MA 02138; Phone: (617) 354-4654 (home); E-mail: samuela@husc.harvard.edu
Chicago: Barb Distler '84, 411 W. Fullerton Prkway, #1404W, Chicago, IL 60614; Phone: (773) 871-9243 (home), (312) 996-3490 (work); E-mail: bdistler@uic.edu
Leah Robinson '82, [DEMO] Wellington, #901, Chicago, IL 60657; Phone: (773) 404-6154 (home), (312) 424-8331 (work); E-mail:
robinson@bases.com
Cleveland: Sean Tucker '89, 16817 Lomond Blvd., Shaker Heights, OH 44120; Phone: (216) 561-0618 (home), (216) 522-2578 (work)
Columbus: Cindy Brown '74, 196 S. Parkview, Columbus, OH 43209; Phone: (614) 253-5848 (home)
Dayton: Sarah Spicer '90, 21 E. McCreight Ave., Springfield, OH 45504-1460; [DEMO] (937) 525-9686 (home), (614) 222-3531 (work); E-mail: SarahS1@aol.com
Denver/Boulder: Candace Ellman '89, 7271-D S Xenia Circle, Englewood, CO 80112; Phone: (303) 779-0289 (home), (303) 793-6568 (work); E-mail: cellman@uswest.com
Houston: Alice-Gray Hopkins '93 & Jeff Hopkins '92, 2711 Stoney Brook, #900, Houston, TX 77063; Phone: (713) 266-1273 (home); E-mail: jhopkin2@Central.UH.edu
Kentucky: Jean Jerauld '69, 2317 The Woods Ln., Lexington, KY 40502; Phone: (606) 269-1347 (home); E-mail: Jerauld@aol.com
Los Angeles: Bob Cartland '88, 2927 S. Hoover St., Los Angeles, CA 90007; Phone: (213) 744-0223 (home), (213) 740-4324 (work); E-mail: bobc@photonics.usc.edu
Miami: [DEMO]a Rostov '61, 12051 SW 69 Place, Miami, FL 33156-5429; Phone: (305) 661-9438 (home); E-mail: ebrostov@worldnet.att.net
Milwaukee: Robert Burko '78, 3120 S Pennsylvania Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53207-2914; Phone: (414) 483-8115 (home), (414) 963-5208; E-mail: rob_burko@deluxedata.com
[DEMO]polis/St. Paul: Lisa Caten '91, 3209 Girard Ave. South, #5, Minneapolis, MN 55408-3423; Phone: (612) 823-8639 (home); E-mail: caten@freenet.msp.mn.us
New Haven: Mark Smith '90, 76 Nash St., New Haven, CT 06511-3942; Phone: (203) 772-3302 (home), (203) 432-3591 (work); E-mail: m.w.smith@yale.edu
New Jersey: Kimberly Sypeck Bloom '85, 30 Haddonfield Rd., Short Hills, NJ 07078; Phone: (201) 258-9618 (home), (908) 423-4079 (work); E-mail: kim_bloom@merck.com
North Carolina: Rebecca Longley '86, 3908 Wynford Dr., Durham, NC 27707-5316; Phone: (919) 493-6503 (home), (919) 544-6348 (work), (919) 941-6388 (fax); E-mail: rebecca_longley@rocky.eisai.com
Philadelphia: Sara Savitz '71, [DEMO] Third St., Philadelphia, PA 19147-3311. Phone: (215) 922-5830.
Pittsburgh: Andrew Peters '91, 1 Afton Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15205; Phone: (412) 937-0738 (home), (412) 695-3300 (work)
Krista Wagner-Naragon '88, 5332 Spring Valley Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15236; Phone: (412) 882-2332 (home), (412) 695-3422 (work)
[DEMO]ence: Bill Cheney '60, 15 Fairfield Dr., N. Kingstown, RI 02852; Phone: (401) 884-0181 (home), (401) 825-2222 (work)
Rochester: Jan Phillips '56, 41 Harper Dr., Pittsford, NY 14534; Phone: (716) 381-8978 (home), (716) 442-1500 (work)
[DEMO]ego: Karen Gunther '92, 221 Smilax Rd. #220, Vista, CA 92083; Phone: (760) 727-6459 (home); E-mail: Kgunther@psy.ucsd.edu
San Francisco: Anita Belofsky '82, 1419 Irving St., #2, San Francisco, CA 94122; Phone:
(415) 731-6505 (home), (415) 252-5251 (work), (415) 552-0911 (fax); E-mail: ab@unx.berkeley.edu
Rebekah Bloyd '83, P.O. Box 170014, San Francisco, CA 94117-0014. Phone: (415) 221-6172 (home). E-mail: rbloyd@juno.com
Seattle: Connie Brennand '51, 2038 139th Pl. SE, Bellevue, WA 98005; Phone: (425) 746-4324 (home); E-mail: CBrennand@aol.com
Washington, D.C.: Sophie Richardson '92, 126 Kentucky Avenue SE, Washington DC [DEMO]1446; Phone: (202) 546-2941 (home), (202) 797-4944 (work); E-mail: Sophie@ndi.org
Westchester/S. Connecticut: Kiki Eglinton '51, 330 Highbrook Ave., Pelham, NY 10803-2207; Phone: (914) 738-2360 (home); E-mail: kikieg@cyburban.com
ernard L. Gladieux, "Bun" to many of us, truly was a son of Oberlin. In his decades of devotion to this institution, his legendary dedication to public service, his exquisite sense of what [DEMO]t, ethical and fair, and his distinguished and trail-breaking actions in private business, Bun's quality of living exemplified what we might hope all Oberlin sons and daughters will manifest.
Unfortunately, no current trustee of Oberlin had the privilege of serving as a trustee during the 12 years, 1955-1967, when Bun served as an alumni-elected trustee. But from his constant and effective service as an honorary trustee for 30 more years we knew of and benefited richly from his understanding, insights, and intelligence. And his service as a trustee was just a small part of his total contribution to Oberlin. A member of the Alumni Board, treasurer of the Alumni Association, president of the D.C. Alumni Club, member of the Alumni Fund Committee add just a few more of the many details of his constant service to Oberlin. For this kind of service and his life of exemplary accomplishment the Alumni Association awarded him the Alumni Citation long ago in 1953, and the College awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1985.
One can wonder how a person who gave so much of himself to Oberlin had time to attend to the necessities of earning a living. But for Bun, earning a living was not just a necessity, it was an opportunity to give more of himself to service. Arriving on the scene in Washington, in the late '30s, he [DEMO]rst a budget examiner, then chief of the War Organization Staff in the Executive Office of the President, chief executive officer of the War Production Board and a founding spirit behind such other agencies as the Office of Strategic Services and the Office of Price [DEMO]stration. Bernard Gladieux served, as well, as executive assistant to three Secretaries of Commerce.
In private enterprise, Bun also had a distinguished career. He eventually helped to establish the Ford Foundation and was its first full-time employee and administrative manager. Over time he served as a consultant to seven foreign governments, 12 state governments and more than 30 local governments, and to numerous federal agencies and nonprofit organizations.
In his civic life beyond Oberlin College, Bun Gladieux gave enormously of his professional skills and knowledge. One need mention only a few to get a better sense of the man--founding member of the National Academy of Public Administration, chair of the National Civil Service League, [DEMO] of the Committee for Economic Development.
Such was the reach and span of Bernard L. Gladieux. We and all whose lives he touched are diminished by the passing of this great human being.
w i l l i a m r. p e r l i k is chair of the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College. This Memorial Minute was adopted June 14, 1997, by a rising vote of the board. Mr. Gladieux died May 18, 1997, at age 90 in Oberlin. His wife, Persis Skilliter Gladieux '30, predeceased him. He is survived [DEMO]r sons, including Lawrence '65.
Memorial Minute
By [DEMO]m Perlik '47
Clayton Miller died of cancer in Bethesda, Maryland, at age 88. One of Oberlin's most dedicated volunteers, Mr. Miller found time for his Alumni Association activities even though his professional life took him from China to Washington, D.C., where he spent many years working for the U.S. government. In retirement, he returned to the town of Oberlin for several years before moving to Maryland. There, he continued to devote countless hours to his alma mater.
Mr. Miller worked for the U.S. Army in a civilian capacity, and, during World War II, for the War Dept., the Agriculture Dept., and the Office of Production Management before serving with the 14th U.S. Air Force in China.
After a decade with Radio Free Europe in New York and Ford Motor Company in Detroit, he joined the State Department, where he developed management programs until 1966. He worked for the Interior Department for two years before joining the Veterans Administration in 1968, [DEMO]he worked until his retirement.
His strong link to the College included his work as class agent and class president for several years, and special work toward the success of the 50th Reunion of the Class of 1930. Ten years later, he shepherded his class to distinction with 100 percent participation its 60th Reunion gift. In 1976 he was elected to the Executive Board of the Alumni Association, serving as treasurer before assuming the role of president, and was chair of the committee planning the celebration of the association's 150th year. In May 1990, Mr. Miller was presented with the Alumni Medal for Outstanding Service to Oberlin College--the association's highest award.
Mr. Miller is survived by his wife Louise; a son, a grandaughter; his brother Martin '27; and a niece, M. Ann Miller Sperry '55.
rover Amen was a poet of striking originality and natural authority. He always went his own way. Classmates at Phillips Exeter Academy recall that Grover was the one student who thought for himself and did not borrow his opinions from teachers or others. Three months before he was to graduate from the academy, of which one of his grandfathers had been a headmaster, Grover took off for [DEMO]leans to write, free from the expectations and pressures of school and home. There, he lived in a boarding house, and worked as a bartender and waiter. He wrote a short story, "The Scholar of Bourbon Street," that was eventually published in The New Yorker, and later became the partly autobiographical novel, "The Prophet of Bourbon Street," on which he worked until his death.
Grover came to Oberlin by default when then President William Stevenson overlooked Grover's lack of a diploma and admitted him. For several years after [DEMO]tion, Grover made a living as a journalist in Connecticut and New York, and, from 1960 to 1969, as Talk of the Town reporter at The New Yorker, where his poems and fiction began to appear.
It was at The New Yorker, where I worked for a few years, that I met Grover. But it was only years later, after he sent me a copy of his collected poems, F Train Ramble, that our friendship took root. We would meet in the Village and talk over a pizza and beer, until he stopped drinking and we drank cokes. During those years he was teaching English as a Second Language at a branch of the City University of New York.
Grover was never a networker. He seemed to shun taking any step that might win him a wider hearing or audience. He simply wrote and sent out his poems. After his [DEMO]rker years, Grand Street published two of his poems--"Hotel Paintings" and "On the
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I knew an airport security guide who let
me through Gate 457, with eastbound passengers
crossing the Atlantic, out to the landing field
where at the edge of the runway, beyond
the blinking lights, the blue warning
zone, as they bellied across the bay and
burst with a braking [DEMO]so close
I could feel the engine dust, the
warm asphalt wind in my ears and eyes,
over and over. Every forty-five seconds
gauging their nightweight and speed, I
welcomed the tons of arrival, I the secret
air traffic controller, roused from my
Brooklyn bed to celebrate the might of
souls in commerce, [DEMO]ging, delivered
to my sunken patch of welcome, an almost'
underground cell charged with secret
connections to water and darkness. With each
flight down, I could have gladly gone
under for good, etched [DEMO]nite and
rock, a grateful fossil, a shining
tattoo, last specimen of a species pounded
to sleep in a bedrock of print. As I tried
for some wound long inside to be touched,
if not healed, I craved the jet speed, with
each surge as it came, to become the
pain and then free. But it was hard
to keep the faith when the first high failed and
left me crazed and unsure, like a [DEMO]ct monk
craving the power to bless. Yet, it wasn't crazed
to add a slight push or prayer to powers
already there, after prying so long against
them, and it was a wider space to keep watch
than my moonlight pillow. So even if there was,
in my runway vigil, more drama than grace, I stayed [DEMO]the first gray, when I left by the gate
I'd come, like a straggler just landed, a late
passenger, grateful to step from a long flight
down onto another quick morning on earth.
By Jon Swan '50
By Grover Amen
By Ted Gest '68
rank R. Parker, a pioneer in American civil-rights law, died July 10, 1997, in Lexington, Va., of complications from an aortic aneurysm. He was 57.
A native of Mount Pleasant, Pa., Mr. Parker developed much of his interest in civil rights while studying at Oberlin. Gary Schwartz, a classmate of Mr. Parker's at Oberlin and later at Harvard Law School, recalled that both men found opportunities at Harvard to put into practice "the civil rights interests that Oberlin fostered in us."
For Mr. Parker, that meant starting as a first-year law student researching issues for lawyers who were doing [DEMO]rights work in the South--including the defense of people arrested for sit-ins at restaurants that barred blacks. He took a year off to study at Oxford University. By Mr. Parker's third year in law school, he and Schwartz had become two of the four founding editors of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, which has since become a fixture among legal publications. The review was established with the backing of the late Erwin Griswold '25, longtime Harvard Law dean and Oberlin trustee.
After Harvard, Mr. Parker went to work for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. One of his major projects was writing a study that challenged the federal tax subsidies won by segregated academies in Mississippi and elsewhere. After two years at the commission, yearning to test his theories in the real world of litigation, he moved to Jackson, Miss., to work for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a "quite heroic" career path for a young lawyer in 1968, said Schwartz, now a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.
"He wanted to put his ideas into practice--to argue that the subsidy was unconstitutional," says William L. Robinson '63, a current Oberlin trustee and a longtime colleague of Mr. Parker's. He not only won his case against the segregated academies but also successfully challenged poor conditions at a state prison and desegregated the state highway patrol. "These were monumental achievements," said Robinson.
In 1981 Robinson, who was then executive director of the Lawyers' Committee in Washington, persuaded Mr. Parker to return to D.C. Conservatives had [DEMO] control of the White House and the Senate, and the landmark federal Voting Rights Act faced a tough reauthorization battle. Robinson, knowing of his colleague's longtime efforts to insure fairness for blacks in legislative elections, called on him to fight for the law. Mr. Parker was a key figure both in providing the legal framework for revising the statute and in defending it when it was tested in court. "Frank stepped to the forefront," Robinson said. "He handled more voting-rights cases--and handled them better--than any other voting-rights champion in the country."
During the 1980s, Mr. Parker became one of the nation's foremost authorities on voting rights. He wrote a widely-noted book, Black Votes Count: Political Empowerment in Mississippi After 1965, published in 1990. He was instrumental in enactment of the 1993 legislation known as the "motor voter law" that made voting registration easier. In 1992, Mr. Parker joined the faculty of the District of Columbia School of Law. He also wrote a book on affirmative action for the Joint Center for Political Studies in Washington.
At the time of his death, Mr. Parker was a visiting professor of law at Washington and Lee University. Among survivors are his wife, Ann Burlock Lawver, four children, and his father. Mr. Parker was "an activist-scholar in the finest Oberlin tradition," said Robinson. "At Oberlin, many people think they can change the world. Frank did."
T e d [DEMO]t is senior editor at U.S. News & World Report in [DEMO]gton, D.C.
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Runaway." Parassus: Poetry in Reciew published two others-- "In the House of the White Mambo" and "The Giant." But it is in [DEMO]n Ramble-- self-published by Reluctant Buddha Press with a little blurb supplied by appreciation of Grover's great gift.
Grover was sixty-four when he died on June 13, 1997. He is survived by a son, a sister and his loving friend for many years, Elizabeth Albrecht. The funeral service was held in Brooklyn, where Grover lived and which he loved.
j o n s w a n is a longtime friend of Grover Amen. A poet and freelance writer, he lives in Southfield, Massachusettes.
American Astronomy:
Community, Careers, [DEMO]wer, 1859-1940
By John Lankford '56
University of Chicago Press, 1997
In this collective biography of the more than 1200 individuals who engaged in astronomical research, teaching, or practice in the U.S. between 1859 and 1940, the author paints a detailed portrait of a complex scientific community. The period saw fundamental changes in the nature and content of astronomy, including the rise of astrophysics, and Lankford addresses the question of power [DEMO] the community--what it meant, who had it, and what they did with it. He illustrates how the changing structure of a scientific community can alter the career paths of its members and the nature of the scientific research they choose to pursue. John Lankford is an adjunct professor of history and assistant to the provost at Kansas State University. He is editor of the Encyclopedia of the History of Astronomy, and coeditor of Essays on American Social History.
The Selfish Gene Pool:
An Evolutionarily [DEMO] System
By Donald M. Wonderly '50
University Press of America, 1996
Wonderly wrote this book to encourage dialogue on the "selfish gene" theory, which postulates that people are destined to act selfishly in all situations, whether they are aware of it or not, because their fitness in resulting generations depends on it. He presents an overview of a motivation model designed to support a positive interpretation of altruistic behavior. The first alternative explanation for altruistic behavior, the model specifically denies the claims of the selfish gene theory, and provides a thorough rebuttal of their argument. Wonderly is corporate executive officer at PSI Associates Inc. in Twinsberg, Ohio.
Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in
New [DEMO]1880-1939
By Daniel Soyer '79
Harvard University Press, 1997
Daniel Soyer examines how Jewish immigrant hometown associations (landsmanshaftn) transformed old-world communal ties into vehicles for integration into American society. Focusing on New York--where some 3000 associations enrolled nearly half a million members--this study is one of the first to explore the organizations' full range of activities, and to [DEMO]trate how the newcomers exercised a high degree of agency in their growing identification with American society. Soyer is assistant professor of history at Fordham University.
The Reluctant Sheriff:
The United States After the Cold War
By Richard N. Haass '73
Council on Foreign Relations Books, 1997
The Cold War came to an end in 1989, and still there is no name for the present era--much less an American foreign policy to replace the now obsolete doctrine of containment. This is the first book to provide both a comprehensive understanding of the post-Cold War world and a compass to help the United States navigate it. The author, a former official in both the State and Defense Departments, proposes that the United States adopt a new foreign policy--"regulation"--and work to promote order in an often unruly world. Haass believes the United States will frequently need to assume the role of global sheriff, forging coalitions for specific tasks, as with Operation Desert Storm. He feels that American unilateral action will rarely be a viable option; alliances and international organizations will be able to play a useful but limited role. Haass, a consultant to ABC News, and author of numerous books and articles on American foreign policy, is [DEMO]or of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He has been director of National Security Programs and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,
Night Fell On Harry's Farm
By Carey Hedlund '80
Greenwillow Books, 1997
This illustrated book for young children begins with a simple-sounding invitation. "Please come to Harry's for dinner today." But the trip to Harry's farm turns out to be anything but simple. Winding roads, wrong turns, and unexpected delays [DEMO] causes Harry's guests to miss dinner. They finally make it in time to dine with the fireflies, tell scary stories, and sing silly songs, and a good time is had by all. Hedlund says she has wanted to be an artist since childhood. This is her first book; The rest of the time she works as a landscape architect, and lives in Philadelphia.
Secrecy and Deceit:
The Religion of the Crypto-Jews
By David M. Gitlitz '63
The Jewish Publication Society, 1996
Thousands of Iberian Jews converted to Catholicism, largely under duress, in the 14th and 15th centuries. Although many of the converts quickly melted into the Catholic mainstream, thousands of others and their descendants [DEMO]ted to preserve their Jewish culture despite efforts of the Inquisition to suppress them. The author explores how the crypto-Jews evolved their own idiosyncratic religion that replaced its Jewish core with concepts and practices borrowed from the surrounding Catholic culture, even as it remained cloaked in a veneer of Jewish theology. Secrecy and Deceit won the 1996 Jewish Book Council award for the best book in the area of Sephardic Studies. Gitlitz is the author of numerous articles on Spanish Golden Age poetry, prose, and theater, as well as topics related to the Spanish Jews.
The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook for Prairies, Savannas, and Woodlands
Edited by Stephen Packard &
Cornelia F. Mutel '69
Island Press, 1997
This volume is [DEMO]s-on manual that provides a detailed account of what has been learned about the art and science of prairie, savanna, and oak woodland restoration. Written largely by ecological-restoration pioneers whose primary work is the remaking of midwestern natural ecosystems, the handbook explores a myriad of philosophies and techniques and is an essential resource for anyone working to nurture wild landscapes back to a state of health. Cornelia Mutel lives in Solon, Iowa, with her husband Robert, and is a scientific historian and writer at the University of Iowa.
Spreading the Gospel
of the Modern Dance:
Newspaper Dance Criticism in the United States, 1850-1934
By Lynne Conner '80
[DEMO]sity of Pittsburgh Press, 1997
Conner explores the history of newspaper dance criticism in the United States as a history of the development of two American cultural forces: journalism and modern dance. The author shows how dance criticism in the American daily press was transformed from a haphazard and largely throwaway subspecies of music criticism to a specialized field of arts-reporting and commentary. This transformation established a point of intersection between artistic and journalistic development that has been a primary influence on the particular shape of 20th-century American concert dance and its critical discourse. A dance critic, Conner is also director for the Museum Theatre Program at the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center.
Having It All/Having Enough
By Deborah Lee '70
[DEMO], 1997
Working parents who have burned out trying to attain the ideal of having it all can strike a balance between career and family needs. The author presents practical ideas for achieving that balance by sharing the stories of 40 individuals who created a degree of balance and satisfying lives that include work and children. Their experiences show how to drop unrealistic goals, establish priorities, and learn just how much is enough to make life comfortable and enjoyable. Lee is a social psychologist who works with individuals and families. She is the author of two manuals on training peer-support group organizers and facilitators.
Data Mining Techniques
For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Support
By Michael J. [DEMO]'78 & Gordon Linoff
John Wiley & Sons, 1997
A small business builds relationships with its customers by noticing their needs, remembering their preferences, and learning from past interactions how to serve them better in the future. A large enterprise can accomplish something similar, say Berry and Linoff, through data mining: collecting, analyzing, storing, and retrieving the same information about one's customers that small-shop proprietors keep in their heads. The authors describe various techniques for collecting customer data from the myriad of sources that interconnect our increasingly electronic world. Berry and Linoff are principals at MRJ Technology Solutions, a Pennsylvania-based firm specializing in data warehousing and data mining for business application.
[DEMO]Friend":
Thomas Garrett & William Still,
Collaborators on the
Underground Railroad
By Judith McBride Bentley '67
Cobblehill Dutton, 1996
Before the Civil War, Thomas Garret, a white Quaker from the slave state of Delaware, and William Still, a free black from Philadelphia, were two of the many "friends of humanity" who helped slaves travel north on the Underground Railroad. A steady correspondence developed between the two men, as did a close friendship as they worked together in the cause of the oppressed. A compilation of their letters, Dear Friend tells their story as well as those of the slaves and their desperate flights to freedom. Bentley is a freelance writer and teaches at Southern Seattle Community College. This is her 14th book for young adults.
[DEMO]inese Way to Healing:
Many Paths to Wholeness
By Misha Cohen '73
The Berkeley Publishing Group, 1997
According to Misha Cohen of San Francisco's Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine Clinic, Jewish mothers have long believed that the best medicine for a head cold is rest, fluids, and steaming hot chicken soup. But when it comes to PMS, chronic fatigue, and HIV-related diarrhea and anemia, Jewish folk medicine stops where Chinese medicine has barely begun. Cohen believes Eastern practices, including acupuncture, massage, proper nutrition, meditation, and herb therapy can improve vitality and ward off disease, and some mainstream health professionals are beginning to recognize that Chinese medicine can help where Western treatment falls short. At her Mission District clinic, the author treated up to 10 percent more referrals from medical doctors in 1996 than in 1995, and many of her new clients are doctors and nurses with aches and pains of their own.
Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons:
Images of [DEMO]g-Class Detroit, 1900-1930
By Kevin Boyle & Victoria Getis '87
Wayne State University Press, 1997
In the first three decades of the 20th century, working-class people made Detroit into one of the world's greatest industrial cities. Their stories, often overlooked, are told here, in text and through nearly 90 unpublished photographs that offer glimpses of a life that has all but disappeared--the boarding houses where immigrants slept between shifts, the backyards and empty lots where children played, and the kitchens where women labored. The photos also show workers on the job--in auto factories and at construction sites, on the highest peaks of the Ambassador Bridge and in the tunnel beneath the Detroit River. Despite the often bleak and harsh life portrayed, Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons is about the victories of the city's working people. Boyle and Getis live in Amherst, Mass. where Boyle is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts.
Tangled Tassels: Tales of Academe
By Richard [DEMO]n '37
Mayhaven Publishing, 1996
In a collection of 20 short stories, the author--a professor of English now retired from North Central College--paints a satirical picture of life in and around small, mostly Midwestern, liberal arts colleges. Vignettes include negative student evaluations changing the way a professor teaches, the disaster of hiring a celebrity to increase a college's endowment, and the near-destruction of a school by a brilliant but lazy administrator. While irony abounds, Eastman also shares that marvelous moment when a teacher breaks through to reach a student, when academic life does indeed seem to be that "intellectual and human adventure" which--despite its foibles--Eastman loves.
Murder & Sullivan
By Sara Hoskinson Frommer '58
St. Martin's Press, 1997
In the author's third Joan Spencer novel, the symphony violist and amateur sleuth saves a little girl when a tornado sweeps through their hometown of Oliver, [DEMO]a--and then witnesses the on-stage murder of the girl's father, a prominent local judge. Joan and police lieutenant Fred Lundquist follow the trail of clues to a fateful confrontation with a man obsessed with vengeance. "Sara Hoskinson Frommer writes of small-town Hoosierland with unsentimental affection and observant eye for evocative detail," says the Washington Post Book Review. The author's [DEMO]us Joan Spencer mysteries are Murder in C Major and Buried in Quilts.
Simply Live It Up: Brief Solutions
By Teri-E Belf '67 and Charlotte Ward
Purposeful Press, Revised 1997
The authors offer Simply Live It Up as a tool for continuous personal and professional improvement for those who are serious about experiencing [DEMO]s in the art of living. Belf, [formerly Teri Ellen Belf] has facilitated seminars and presentations on the subjects of life purpose, self-management, personal organization, spiritual empowerment, career transition, and goal-setting. Ward facilitates personal problem-solving and life management.
Inside Early Music:
Conversations with Performers
By Bernard D. Sherman
Oxford University Press, 1997
A collection of interviews with some of the leading figures in the early-music revival, Jeffrey Thomas '78 among them, [DEMO] Early Music will be of interest to everyone interested in early music, including devotees. The time period and repertory covered by the book stretches from early Medieval chants to Brahms, and each interview is concluded with a brief discography of the interviewee's work and a book list for further reading. Bernard D. Sherman is a freelance writer whose work appears regularly in journals such as Fanfare and Historical Performance, and occasionally in the OAM (see Fall 1994 and Spring 1996). Walter Frisch of Columbia University calls [DEMO]ne of the shrewdest, best informed and most sensible commentators on the early music scene."
The Book of Jonah: Newly Revised
By R. O. Blechman '52
Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1997
Being God is no picnic--but neither is being His chosen spokesperson, according to illustrator and humor writer R.O. Blechman in his wryly contemporary update of the classic biblical tale of Jonah. Even if you've just held the Nabatean Junior Boosters spellbound. Especially if you're a prosperous schmatta merchant without the slightest [DEMO]ation to cry out against the wickedness of Ninevah. Most especially when an attempt to dodge the assignment results in a sojourn in the belly of the proverbial whale, dreaming in vain of crown roast and brandied figs à la mode. But such is Blechman's story of Jonah, complete with the wrath of God in the form of Goliath Anti-gravity Bolts, Tower of Babel Busters, and "smart" lightning.
Grace Notes for Organ
By Timothy Albrecht '73
ACA [DEMO]l Recording, 1996
Recorded at Emory University on the Casavant Organ, this CD consists of Albrecht's short organ compositions based on well-known hymns. Many found their origins in improvisations for church services preceding congregational singing. The techniques employed in this collection range from ritornellos to quotation music, where motifs of Bach, Tchaikovsky, Debussy and others are quoted; from simple reharmonizations to canons and fugues.
Organs of Duke Chapel
Featuring David Arcus '81
Gothic, 1997
Performed on the Aeolian and Flentrop organs at Duke University, the program includes works of Karg-Elert, Bach, Gigout, Vierne, Walton, Mouret, Handel, Gastoldi, and Widor, as well as Arcus' own.
When Men Revolt & Why, edited by James Davies '39, is a reissue of the 1971 volume with a new and expanded introduction by Davies, outlining his theory of political development and revolution as they generate over centuries. Transaction Publishers, 1997.
Smart Self-Publishing: An Author's Guide to [DEMO]ing a Marketable Book, by James and Linda Grotke-Salisbury '64. Second edition of award-winning book by the founders of Tabby House, an independent press that specializes in book production for self-publishing authors and other publishers. Tabby House Press, 1997
The Devotional Heart: Pietism and the Renewal of the American Unitarian Universalism, by John C. Morgan '66. The Universalist theologian Hosea Ballou once urged, "We must not look for religion in creeds or formularies of human invention. We must look for it in the honest, the pious, the devotional heart." Morgan brings to life the inclusive piety that is the heritage of Universalism. [DEMO]r House Books, 1995.
Ambassadors And America's Soviet Policy, by David Meyers '74. Myers details the ambassadorial appointments, their place in the policy hierarchy, and the information they reported during the 75 years of Cold War diplomatic relations with the Kremlin from their seldom-explored vantage point. Oxford university Press, 1997. 
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