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52 Since May of last year, Lo-shu Fu, PhD’52, of Pittsburgh, has been recovering from broken leg bones suffered during an automobile accident. .

53 College alumni—J. Ward Wright, AB’53, JD’56, writes: Anne Jeffries Dvorak, X’53, graduated from DePaul University’s School for New Learning last June at the age of 63 and has been attending seminars in holistic health. Arthur S. Elstein, AB’53, AM’56, PhD’60, is a professor of medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In October, he received a career achievement award from the Society for Medical Decision Making. He continues to serve as editor-in-chief of the journal Medical Decision-Making. Brucia Fried Witthoft, AB’53, a retired Framington State College professor, reports that she and her husband, William G. Witthoft, PhB’47, SB’55, SM’58, greeted the arrival of nine Labrador puppies in January, which, together with three grandchildren and three full-sized Labrador retrievers, keeps them on their toes. Averil Stephenson Schreiber, AB’53, a retired nursing-home administrator, was recently recognized by the De Kalb Athena awards committee as one of five women of accomplishment. She reports that she is thoroughly enjoying retirement, has traveled extensively with her husband, and has been involved in a variety of local civic projects.

College alumni, please send your news to: J. Ward Wright, AB’53, JD’56, 148 Lakeshore Drive, Richmond, KY 40475. Phone: 606/623-8953 (h).

55 Last June, William H. Jones, DB’55, received a doctorate of ministry from the Ecumenical Theological Center in Detroit. (This corrects information published in the April/98 issue.—Ed.)

56 William R. Brace, AM’56, see 1972, Peggy Sullivan. Concluding 40 years of teaching, David S. Gochman, AB’56, AB’57, is retiring this summer as a professor of social work at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Gochman volunteers at the J. B. Speed Art Museum, where he hopes to become a docent later this year. Maggie Nash Kast, AB’56, AB’58, presented the paper “Liturgy and Performance” at the sixth annual Built Form and Culture Conference at the University of Cincinnati architecture school. She also participated in “Dissonance,” a November performance tour by the Robin Lakes/Rough Dance company, in memory of Kristallnacht. Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia, awarded an honorary doctorate in education to Pavel Machotka, AB’56, a professor emeritus of art and psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for contributions to the psychology of art.

57 College alumni, please send your news to: George Karcazes, AB’59, JD’60, 30 N. LaSalle St., Ste. 4020, Chicago, IL 60602. Phone: 312/332-4550 (w).

58 After 25 years, Donald S. Broder, SB’58, MD’62, left the private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in 1994 to work for the California Youth Authority. As president of Chassman Barnhart Consulting, Deborah Mines Chassman, AB’58, focuses on welfare reform. She also teaches welfare law and policy as an adjunct professor at George Mason University Law School. After receiving a master’s at the U of C, Carol Greene Duncan, AB’58, AM’60, moved to New York and finished a Ph.D. in art history at Columbia University. She has taught since 1969, mostly at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Her most recent book was Civilizing Rituals (Routledge, 1995). After 33 years with Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., Edward E. Gaines, SB’58, retired in 1994 as a space physicist. He now consults in the field of space radiation physics. In April, Columbia University Press published the second edition of Classic Hundred Poems: All-Time Favorite Poems, edited by William R. Harmon, AB’58, AM’68, who reports it will also be available as a CD-ROM—with readings, illustrations, and “lots of scholarly apparatus.” Nina Dubner Hertzson, AB’58, retired last year after 28 years of teaching elementary school. She has four children and five grandchildren. With nearly 30 years of civilian work for the federal government, Carol Scott Jackson, AB’58, AM’61, has retired and is updating her computer skills to prepare for her next career. In 1990, Martin A. Kuhre-Nettleship, AB’58, AM’58, and his wife, Bekki, of New Marshfield, OH, founded the Church of Earth Healing, a church of earth-centered spirituality that operates on shamanic principles. In 1994 and 1995, the two took names inspired by their spiritual work: Bekki Shining Bearheart and Crow Swimsaway.