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What’s the news? We are always eager to receive
your news at the Magazine, care of the Class News Editor, University
of Chicago Magazine, 1313 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637, or by
e-mail: uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu.
No engagements, please. Items may be edited for space. As news is
published in the order in which it arrives, it may not appear immediately.
Please specify the year under which you would like your news to
appear. Otherwise, we will list: (1) all former undergraduates (including
those who later received graduate degrees) by the year of their
undergraduate degree, and (2) all former students who received only
graduate degrees by the year of their final degree. .
1930's
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The Class of 1934 celebrates its 65th reunion on June 4-6, 1999.
In May, Irving M. Wolfe, PhB'34, and his wife, Evelyn, joined
the "Iraq Sanctions Challenge" group of nearly 100 Americans who
took $4 million worth of medicine to Iraq to protest the U.S. sanctions
and travel ban. Because of the prohibition on flying into Baghdad,
they had to drive 21 hours across the Syrian Desert from Amman,
Jordan. "We were all shocked to see irrefutable evidence of the
continuing genocidal effects of the sanctions seven years after
the cessation of hostilities," he writes. "At 85, I had some notoriety
as the oldest member of the delegation."
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Ralph O. Baird, SB'37, and his wife, Betty, have been married
for 70 years. Baird worked on a Navajo reservation as an agronomist
in charge of revegetation before transfering to the grazing service
as a regional range examiner in Wyoming. After military service,
he joined the Bureau of Reclamation as chief of lands, retiring
in 1953 after a heart attack. Baird has built two adobe houses.
He continues to enjoy good health and gets around with a cane as
a "third leg." He writes, "Our door is always open to U of C grads
here in Tubac, AZ. Stop by." Florence Wissig Dunbar, AB'37,
MBA'39, of Orlando, FL, who holds a J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics
and industrial engineering, has taught business law, worked as an
industrial psychologist, and lectured on the law, ethics, and animal
rights. She served on the State of Illinois Governor's Advisory
Council, was invited by Sandra Day O'Connor to be admitted to Supreme
Court practice, was an adviser to the NIH, and is adjunct professor
of ethics and jurisprudence in the veterinary pathobiology department
at the University of Illinois.
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College alumni-George C. McElroy, AB'38, AM'39, writes:
Dale C. Hager, SB'38, MD'41, is "just holding on." Vera Miller,
AB'38, AM'40, PhD'47, retired as vice president and director of
research for the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union
only to take over her late husband's music production and publishing
company. She finds the change refreshing and pleasant, not least
because it sends her abroad several times a year. Her daughter "is
flourishing in the wine business." George J. Rotariu, SB'39,
SM'40, was given a certificate of appreciation this March by the
American Nuclear Society when it designated the Morton Grove, IL,
irradiator he designed for Cook Electric Co. a Nuclear Historic
Landmark. For 20 years, the irradiator has used gamma rays to sterilize/pasteurize
food, cosmetics, and medical supplies. Muriel Levin Siegle,
AB'38, retired in 1979 from teaching English and music in the Newton,
MA, schools, and until 1992 directed volunteers and edited the newspaper
for the Massachusetts chapter of the ACLU. Until recently, she played
in chamber music and solo piano recitals. Peter E. Siegle,
AB'38, PhD'59, after using his French and German in a small group
of WWII "disinformation pioneers," taught with wife Muriel in universities
in Bordeaux and Nancy, France; in Holland; and in Scandinavia. In
1982, he became an Africanist, spending six months every two years
in the bush of Sierra Leone as Begu (elder and chief) of the Safroka
Limbas. Now at Ethnikon, cross-cultural consultants, he's editing
his field notes into a public document. Elizabeth Lee Strong
Simmons, SB'38, is "enjoying retirement" from her job as a librarian.
Robert D. Solomon, SB'38, retired after 56 years as a pathologist
and scientist. Thirty-eight years ago, he proved the reversibility
of atherosclerosis, then experimented with carcinogenesis, aging,
and chemotherapy while holding full professorships at three universities.
College
alumni, please send your news to: George C. McElroy, AB'38,
AM'39, 1411 E. 54th Place, Chicago, IL 60615-5404. Phone: 773/288-4918
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