Class High Notes

1933
On December 26, Stanley Mosk, PhB'33, X'35, set a record for the longest service on the Supreme Court of California--35 years, 118 days. He continues to serve as a justice on the Court.

1945
In the November 1999 issue of Aviation History, Harrison T. Beardsley, X'45, recounted the story of his mission over the jungle of New Guinea as a B-25 pilot during World War II.

1948
This past year, Ruth Goodman Waskey, MBA'48, traveled to Malta and Egypt, up the Mississippi on a paddle wheel steamer, and to Salt Lake City for a conference. In 1997, she celebrated her 80th birthday by taking a trip to Australia, where she was stationed earlier with the Red Cross.

1959
Linda Rosenberg Sher, AB'59, associate general counsel for enforcement litigation at the National Labor Relations Board, received the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive from President Bill Clinton.

1962
This past November, J. Hayden Boyd, AB'62, traveled to Tokyo for the Department of Commerce. There he testified at a market-access hearing, seeking repeal of a Japanese road-traffic law that limits the market for American motorcycles.

1971
Dennis C. Friedman, MBA'71, traveled to Vladivostok, Russia, as a volunteer expert for a USAID Entrepreneurial Project.

1976
Judith Feinman Roland, AM'76, heads her own New York-based corporate communications firm, Judith A. Roland Public Relations. She specializes in business writing projects, and with a client recently wrote a book--published by Oxford University Press in April--on CEO succession planning.

1980
Ralph P. Locke, AM'74, PhD'80, professor of musicology at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, won the 32nd ASCAP--Deems Taylor Award. Locke, who has won the award twice before, was honored this time for his article "Cutthroats and Casbah Dancers, Muezzins and Timeless Sands: Musical Images of the Middle East."

1984
In May 1999, Elizabeth Fichtner Pector, MD'84, started a family practice in Naperville, IL. She also contributed several articles to Medical Economics and was a panelist at its annual board of editors meeting this March.

1992
Tina Tang, AB'92, a former Wall Street trader at Goldman Sachs, now runs Tina Tang. feminine handmade jewelry, a jewelry-design company. She has been featured in media outlets from CNBC to the Bergen (NJ) Record.

1998
Katherine B. ("Kate") Malone, AB'98, AM'99, is part of a new film production company called Three Maroons, founded by three U of C graduates. It begins filming its first feature-length film in Chicago this summer.