43 The Class of 1943 celebrates its 55th reunion on June 5–7, 1998.

College alumni—Beata Hayton, AB’43, writes: Among those planning to attend reunion for the Class of 1943 is Harold P. Green, AB’42, JD’48, a professor emeritus of law at George Washington University. He retired from the practice of law in 1994, moved to Boca Raton, FL, and started “some serious writing—a book dealing with major science-related policy issues” in which he has been involved. He adds, “Remarried in 1994, and am looking forward to introducing my bride to the University.” Also planning to attend reunion is Jean Audrey Metzger Ellman, AB’43, AM’46. Last fall she added a Ph.D. in educational administration and education from Roosevelt University. She is the coordinator of private-school placements and a school social worker for the north-suburban special-education district in Highland Park, IL. Another classmate who may attend reunion is the Rev. Dr. C. Theodore Roos, AB’43, who also holds M.Div. and D.Min. degrees. Since retiring from the Winnetka Congregational Church in 1987, Roos has served six interim ministries in area churches, and he is now in the seventh, at the First Congregational Church of Berwyn, IL. Some reports from other classmates: Kinereth Dushkin Gensler, AB’43, still teaches poetry writing at the Radcliffe Seminars in Cambridge. Bradley H. Patterson, Jr., AB’42, AM’43, was elected to represent the mid-Atlantic states on the national board of trustees of the Unitarian Universalist Church. The Brookings Institution Press has contracted for a second edition of his book Ring of Power, about the workings of the modern White House staff. He and his wife, Shirley DoBos Patterson, SB’43, have four children, eight grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. Seymour Slive, AB’43, PhD’52, has retired as the Gleason professor of fine arts and director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. His book Dutch Painting: 1600–1800 was published in the Pelican History of Art series in 1995; it was scheduled to appear in paperback last fall, and a Portuguese translation is in preparation. How about you? Achievements? Honors? Enjoying retirement?

College alumni, please send your news to: Beata Hayton, AB’43, 1020 Grove St., Evanston, IL 60201-4235. Fax: 847/475-5969.

News from College reunion questionnaires: Carl F. Christ, SB’43, PhD’50, author of several books and numerous articles in economics, writes that he is “half retired” and teaching part time at Johns Hopkins University. He and his wife, Phyllis Tatsch Christ, AB’45, have three children—including Joan E. Christ, AB’77, and Alice T. Christ, AM’79, PhD’92—and five grandchildren. Joan Augustus Dix, SB’43, see Laurence Finberg, 1944. Since retiring from the U.S. Department of Commerce, A. Lawrence Grabham, SB’43, has not only taught business at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, MD, but also worked as a bank courier at the First Union Bank Credit Union and a cashier at the Shirley Tennis Club in Springford, VA. “Assisted” by their four children, six grandchildren, three Jack Russell terriers, one basset hound, and two horses, Frank D. Kenney, AB’48, JD’49, and his wife, Virginia Banning Kenney, PhB’44, are enjoying a “peaceful” retirement in Barrington, IL. Six children and two grandsons—traveling from Portland, OR; Boise, ID; Denver; St. Louis; Elburn, IL; and Huntley, IL—will visit Marjorie Sullivan Lee, AB’43, and her husband on June 12 to help celebrate the couple’s 50th wedding anniversary. Edward H. Morganroth, X’43, a retired vice president of Mitsubishi’s international corporation division, has been married 47 years and has two children and two grandchildren. He enjoys tennis and travel. Gloria Harnick Parloff, SB’43, a self-proclaimed “e-mail and Internet aficionado,” would enjoy hearing from classmates. She’s at mparloff@aol.com.

After 50 years in education, John W. Ragle, SB’43, retired on June 4. Having begun teaching English and French in 1947, Ragle taught for 19 years in a public high school, six years at Dartmouth College, and 29 years in independent schools, including 11 years as headmaster of the Governor Dummer Academy, the nation’s oldest boarding school for boys. Alexander P. Remenchik, SB’43, MD’51, and his late wife, Mary Remenchik, AM’51, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on April 19, 1997, just before Mary’s death on May 14. He writes, “We had done a lot of traveling the preceding 25 years. When I pull myself together, I hope to go to countries we had planned to visit.” Since retiring from the National Science Foundation, George W. Tressel, PhB’43, has been a management consultant for museums, zoos, and broadcasting projects. Also skilled at computer graphics, he has used them to restore antique photos and to create a three-dimensional image of the propylon—the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens—as evidence suggests it looked circa 500 BC. Manuel J. Vargas, AB’43, AM’44, PhD’52, was chief psychologist of the Lake County (IL) Mental Health Clinic from 1964 to 1976 while also teaching at Indiana University Northwest. He then maintained a private practice until retiring in 1992. A first-section violinist in the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra from 1964 to 1985, Vargas writes, “I still study the powers of the mind and play my violin.” Minna Sachs Wurzburg, AB’43, and her husband, A. Hart Wurzburg, AB’41, moved from Longboat Key, FL, to Sarasota, where they enjoy being near “concerts, theaters, and all that goes with city living.”

45 Phyllis Tatsch Christ, AB’45, see Carl F. Christ, 1943.

47 College alumni—Norman L. Macht, PhB’47, writes: Hugh G. Casey, PhB’47, AM’51, JD’56, renewed his acquaintance with the open seas last fall. He took passage on a sailing ship from Lisbon, Portugal, to Barbados, his first time at sea since his days as a merchant seaman 50 years ago. If you’re ever in Davidson, NC, and you sniff a whiff of yeast, chances are Casey is at home, baking bread and brewing beer. Drop in. You can keep up with Jack L. Cross, AB’47, AM’49, PhD’57, and his latest work at any of three Web sites he maintains. My manual typewriter recoils at inscribing compspeak; you can find them by e-mailing Cross: jakalc@io.com. Bruce G. Bixler, AB’47, reports on another kind of reunion in ’97: Acrotheatre participants got together in Miami to honor longtime gymnastics coach Erwin F. (“Bud”) Beyer, AB’39. Paul A. Rosenblum, AB’47, JD’51, launched his fourth life in December. After careers in real estate, real-estate law, and estate planning, he and Miriam Abbell Rosenblum, PhB’49, AM’53, moved to Jerusalem, where four of their five sons live with their families. Robert B. Silvers, AB’47, coeditor of The New York Review of Books, was profiled in The New York Times on December 1.

College alumni, please send your news to: Norman L. Macht, PhB’47, 5910 Smith Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21209-3614. Phone/fax: 410/664-2542 (h).

News from College reunion questionnaires: Leon A. Gordon, PhB’47, SB’48, MD’52, see 1948, Elsa Leiter Gordon.

48 The Class of 1948 celebrates its 50th reunion on June 5–7, 1998.

College alumni—Marilyn Corliss Durst, PhB’47, writes: David H. Krinsley, PhB’48, SB’50, SM’50, PhD’56, retired from the geology department at Arizona State in 1991 and now has a research appointment at the University of Oregon, doing work in sedimentology as related to electron-microscopy. Janet Benson Kaye, AB’48, AM’67, is retired but remains active with volunteer work for her church and three museums. Richard L. Williams, AB’48, retired in 1994 after several decades as a career diplomat with the State Department. Highlights were serving as ambassador to Mongolia and consul general in Guangzhou and Hong Kong. He now teaches China-related, graduate-level courses at Columbia and NYU. Howard B. Lord, AB’48, although retired, continues his teaching career at New College of Hofstra University as an emeritus associate professor of drama and literature. Arthur J. Sorensen, Jr., AB’48, AM’52, has for 12 years been a vocational evaluator for Goodwill Industries in Chicago. Harris L. Wofford, AB’48, is CEO for the Corporation for National Service in Washington, DC, the agency running the domestic volunteer program AmeriCorps. At the age of 70, Nathaniel S. Eek, AB’48, will be inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame. Robert A. Adams, AB’48, AM’52, serves as a lay volunteer hearing officer for the Supreme Court of Illinois, hearing cases in which lawyers are charged with ethical violations of the state’s rules governing the practice of law.

College alumni, please send your news to: Marilyn Corliss Durst, PhB’47, 17 Stone Wall Way, Falmouth, ME 04105. E-mail: thedursts@ aol.com. Phone: 207/797-5987 (h).

News from College reunion questionnaires: Donna Myers Ambrogi, AB’48, AM’52, spent two years in South Africa volunteering in a national public-interest law program and working with Black Sash, a women’s organization focused on human-rights issues. Since returning to the States, Ambrogi has been an “emeritus attorney pro bono” with California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. Martha Davis Basu, PhB’48, has moved from Pennsylvania to Los Angeles. Harold D. Bornstein, Jr., PhB’47, SB’48, SM’49, retired from his private solo pediatric practice in August. Still the school medical adviser for North Haven and New Haven, Bornstein is also an active alumnus of Yale’s medical school. Having retired in 1995 after 12 years as a family-court judge, Minna Rodnon Buck, AB’48, X’50, keeps busy with community activities, primarily child advocacy. She and her husband of 50 years, Earle E. Buck, JD’50, enjoy visiting their three children and six grandchildren. Padraic Burns, AB’48, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and medical educator at Boston University’s medical school, is reducing his academic-administrative responsibilities this year, but continues to practice and teach. John J. Dolan, PhB’48, is a principal of Heartland Research, a consulting firm in the oil- and gas-energy industry. Before attending the College, John T. Dwyer, PhB’48, served in the Office of Strategic Services during WWII. With his G.I. Bill funds depleted, he left the U of C for the University of Paris, where he was a doctoral candidate in literature. Dwyer completed an M.S. in math at DePaul University. He and his late wife, painter Shima Takaoka, had three children. Their daughter died several years ago, and their sons live “at opposite ends of the U.S.A.”

Joseph L. Fearing, AB’48, AM’53, a professor of educational leadership at Texas Women’s University, is evaluating the National Science Foundation’s engineering-education consortium. He and his wife of 48 years, Margaret McLain, have three daughters, two sons, and 11 grandchildren. Elsa Leiter Gordon, PhB’47, SB’50, MD’52, and husband Leon A. Gordon, PhB’47, SB’48, MD’52, participated in their 50th College and 45th medical-school reunions last June. Now retired—she from adolescent and child psychiatry, and he from general surgery—they enjoy golfing, skiing, traveling, and spending time with their eight grandchildren. Roy E. Nordstrom, PhB’48, SM’51, retired in September as a contract administrator for the city of Grand Rapids, MI. Ruth Lundeen Mackenzie Saxe, PhB’48, AM’52, works with the J. W. Saxe Memorial Fund, which awards prizes to college students for internships with public-service or public-interest groups. Gerald A. Somers, BLS’48, retired in 1987 after 19 years as director of the Brown County Library in Green Bay, WI.

Richard A. Strehlow, SB’48, has retired after 35 years as a materials scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. As chair of standards within the terminology committee of the American Society for Testing and Materials, Strehlow continues his six-decade interest in semantics. Since retiring, Marion Hecht Sussman, PhB’48, AM’51, has attended seminars at the Newberry Library as well as events at the U of C, the Chicago Cultural Center, Court Theatre, and the Shakespeare Repertory Theatre. “Best of all,” she notes, “are all the fun times with my three grandsons. When did I ever find time to teach?” Fred C. Sutton, PhB’48, has retired after 48 years of teaching, mainly at community colleges and in industry settings. Patrick W. Swaney, Jr., PhB’48, holds an M.S. in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He retired in 1989 from the avionics division of TRW, Inc., where he helped design real-time control software. These days, he spends 12 to 15 hours a week ballroom dancing. Conrad G. Thurstone, PhB’48, MD’53, reports that his son, Christian Conrad Thurstone, is a fourth-year medical student at the U of C. Irwin Weil, AB’48, AM’51, formerly an interpreter of composers’ talks on Russian music and literature with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has also lectured on Russian and American culture at Russia’s New Humanities University and Moscow State University. In the U.S., he has created exchange programs for Russian and American artists, scholars, and students. After 40 years of teaching at the University of Kansas, George J. Worth, AB’48, AM’51, is in his third year of retirement. He enjoys reading, writing, gardening, and traveling. Having emigrated to Israel 30 years ago, Margery Stone Zeitlin, PhB’48, has worked at Tel Aviv University and is now with the Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She devotes her time to her 25 grandchildren and to political activity. Karl P. Zerfoss, PhB’48, AM’50, retired last year after 47 years of security analysis and university management. Now active in a new business, Zerfoss also enjoys reading, taking music lessons, and “cliff-dwelling” at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as well as spending time with his four grandchildren and his wife of 47 years—who, he writes, “has not (yet) retired from me.”