72 College alumni, please send your news to: Dorthea H. Juul, AB’72, PhD’89, 1115 South Plymouth Court, #302, Chicago, IL 60605. Phone: 847/374-4204 (w). Fax: 847/236-4304. E-mail: djuul@abpn.com.

Other alumni news includes: At its November meeting in San Francisco, the American Academy of Religion presented to William L. Hendricks, AM’65, PhD’72, a Festschrift titled Baptist Reflections on Christianity and the Arts (Mellon Press). Hendricks is the director of Baptist studies and a theology lecturer at Texas Christian University’s Brite Divinity School.

73 The Class of 1973 celebrates its 25th reunion on June 5–7, 1998.

After 11 years with the nonprofit Balboa Art Conservation Center in San Diego, Gary W. Alden, AB’73, resigned as executive director. Having divorced, he has also moved to Santa Barbara, where he is a paintings conservator for the Fine Art Conservation Laboratories. “The old craft still amuses,” writes Thomas A. Bass, AB’73, whose books Vietnamerica and Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa are due out soon in paperback. A movie of his first book, The Eudaemonic Pie, is in the works, and another book, The Predictors, is “on the way, ” due out this year from Holt. Richard P. Berger, AB’73, has recertified himself in emergency medicine, which he says was “tougher than the MCATs.” Wife Rebecca plans to resume her work in special education. They have three children: Rachel, a first-year at Emory University; and Sara, 16, and Michael, 10—both avid ice-hockey players. Susanna Greer Fein, AB’73, earned a Ph.D. in English from Harvard in 1985, is an associate professor of medieval English literature at Kent State University, and is married to fellow medievalist David Raybin, a professor at Eastern Illinois University. The couple lives in Kent, OH, with their three “energetic” children—Elizabeth Fein, 17; Carolyn Fein, 14; and Jonathan Raybin, 7—and a cat named Ooky. Fein, whose book Moral Love Songs and Laments was published in October, received a research grant last year from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The American Associates of Ben-Gurion University honored Albert A. (“Bert”) Foer, JD’73, for building its Washington, DC, organization over the past decade. Foer has also been elected vice president of the ACLU’s national capital affiliate.

Mitchell Glass, AB’73, MD’77, left his position as vice president at SmithKline Beecham and, with wife Anne, has been enjoying a “sabbatical” focusing on family, friends, and volunteer work. Alphine W. Jefferson, AB’73, who chairs the history department at the College of Wooster (OH), was recently promoted to professor there. A fellowship from the Consortium for Inter-Institutional Collaboration in African and Latin- American Studies (CICALS) has in the past three years taken Jefferson to Michigan State University to learn Portuguese and Swahili, as well as to Europe, Africa, and Brazil. He welcomes visits from old friends to his home in “the world’s largest Amish community.” Theodore L. Johnson, AB’73, see Helen Peterson Johnson, 1938. Miriam A. Kalichman, AB’73, and Charles Finke, AB’73, have two sons, both in the U of C’s Lab Schools: Sam, 13, and Frank, 7. Kalichman describes herself as: “Juggling soccer mom, doctor, administrator, and breathing. Happy.” David A. Kandel, AB’73, an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland’s social-work school and the Shriver Center for community organizing, community service, and social justice, says he is “still working to change the world.” He and his wife, a social-justice advocate, have two daughters. Janet Landay, AB’73, the curator of exhibitions at Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, is married to poet Edward Hirsch. They have one son: Gabriel, 9. James L. Levenson, AB’73, vice chair of psychiatry at the Medical College of Virginia, lives in Richmond, VA, with his wife, Janet, and their three children, Zach, Carly, and Joe.

Deborah A. Levey, AB’73, reports, “Combining two irresistible components—pickles and electricity—Crispin B. Weinberg, SB’73, SM’73, has developed a science demonstration that electrifies elementary-school audiences as well, causing the kids to jump up and down with excitement.” In Weinberg’s homemade Pickle Blaster, sodium ions and electricity make a pickle glow bright yellow. Levey notes, “Of the many science demonstrations he’s brought to classes over the last 10 years, this one has created the most excitement.” Richard P. Meier, AB’73, is associate vice-president for research at the University of Texas at Austin, where his wife, Madeline Sutherland-Meier, is department chair for Spanish and Portuguese. The couple’s daughter, Erica Lauren, was born in March 1996. Though he lost the 1994 election for president of the Cook County (IL) board, Joseph A. Morris, AB’73, JD’76, became president in 1997 of the Midwest region of B’nai B’rith. Elected township supervisor in Crystal Lake, IL, last year, Charles O. Nelson, AB’73, is active in conservative Republican politics and coaches a youth football team on which his three sons play. David I. Novick, MBA’73, and Laura Ann Kamm run an inn on the Seine in Paris. A houseboat docked in the river, La Vie en Rose houses just one couple at a time. Paul Seeley, AB’73, married Iris Levenshon on September 1, 1996. They live in Deerfield, IL.

75 After 12 years as a historic-preservation planner with Pittsburgh’s Historic Review Commission, Michael D. Eversmeyer, AB’75, resigned in August to accept a position with Perkins Eastman Architects. In November, Preservation Pittsburgh presented Eversmeyer with its James D. Van Trump award for his achievements while with the commission, including extensive work in creating and compiling the Pittsburgh Register of Historic Places.

77 College alumni—Tony P. Mayo, AB’77, MBA’78, writes: James R. Cooley, AB’77, reports, “I have been bit-fiddlin’ for the past ten years for a large, faceless, soulless corporation, trudging across those vast intellectual deserts Allan Bloom said I was destined to traverse. Can’t seem to stay married. Like Paris, go there a lot.” For 17 years, Scott R. King, SB’77, at scott@plasmaseal.com, has been in San Francisco, where he is president of PlasmaSeal, a medical research company. His Mass in A, written for St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, was recently released on CD.

College alumni, please send your news to: Tony P. Mayo, AB’77, MBA’78, 10915 Thanlet Lane, Reston, VA 20190-3922. Phone: 703/742-0845 (h). E-mail: tm@mayogenuine .com.

Other alumni news includes: Joan E. Christ, AB’77, see Carl F. Christ, 1943.

78 The Class of 1978 celebrates its 20th reunion on June 5–7, 1998.

Marco Hanig, AB’78, a managing director of mutual funds at First Chicago NBD, lives in Winnetka, IL, with his wife, Courtney, and their two daughters, Mallory, 5, and Lindsey, 4. Samuel M. Scheiner, AB’78, SM’80, PhD’83, has moved to Phoenix. He is an associate professor at Arizona State University.

College alumni, please send your news to: Kent Maynard, AB’78, MBA’81, 2041 West Dickens Ave., Chicago, IL 60647-4530. E-mail: KMaynard@ petersonross.com. Phone: 773/342-5845 (h).

Other alumni news includes: Peggy Snellings Rampersad, AM’63, PhD’78, is in her fourth and final year of the U of C’s Basic Program.