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. .

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60 Alvin Platt, AM’60, retired as executive director of the Jewish Community Federation’s Palo Alto, CA, office after more than eight years. He is now director of development for the Mid-Peninsula Jewish Community Day School in northern California. The school recently began building a middle school. Platt and his wife, Barbara, live in Palo Alto, CA. In 1997, Fred Teren, SB’60, SM’61, retired from NASA after 35 years. At the time of his retirement, he was acting director of research. He is now an adjunct professor at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, OH, where he teaches physics and astronomy. Ruth M. Werner, AM’48, PhD’60, see 1942, Joann Mitchell Warfel.

61 Vernon R. Wiehe, AM’61, recently published his tenth book on family violence, Understanding Family Violence: Treating and Preventing Partner, Child, Sibling, and Elder Abuse. He is a professor at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

62 College alumni—Mike Einisman, AB’62, MBA’63, and Judith E. Stein, AB’62, AM’64, write: Signs of the times? This is how some of our classmates are connecting to the ’90s. Daniel Rosenblum, SB’62, MD’66, writes, “How’s this for a switch? Left brain to right, that is. I have been using my free time to learn to paint in watercolors and acrylics. I am actually a little more interested in the acrylic, but I love the lyricism of watercolor. I have been working with my uncle and some of his friends—all professional artists.” Dan loves “the challenge of being a beginner and having to start all over with something utterly unintellectual. Not painting what something looks like, but how it feels.” He finds it “new for me and a lot of fun.” Nathalie M. Ostroot, AB’63, AM’65, PhD’69, reports that during her annual odyssey across the U.S. to visit her children and other relatives, she told a cousin who studies the family’s genealogy about her current research on unmarried mothers and their children in Southern France 300 years ago, to which her cousin responded, “Incredible!...Did you know that our grandfather and great-grandmother would fit right in your study? That’s why Grandpa was reared by his grandparents. His mother didn’t marry until ten years after Grandpa was born.” And Nathalie’s response? “It’s great that I have now reached an age where having such a skeleton tumble out of a closet is not traumatic, but helps explain some previously puzzling family dynamics and isn’t the least bit earth-shattering.”

On a more somber note, Mike Einisman’s mother, Ada Joyce Einisman, died at 93 after a painful two-month illness. While “bad medical and nursing care was abundant at her neighborhood hospital,” he says, “the two weeks she spent at the campus hospitals on the South Side were remarkable in their thoroughness, brilliance, and level of thoughtfulness and competent care provided by everyone—including the nursing staff and the caregivers who assist them in treating patients. My mother deserved great care but she only received it at the U of C. I would recommend its medical center to anyone who must face a serious illness or who must coordinate care for a loved one. Rather than being impersonal, the hospital was holistic and patient-friendly. We should be proud of its work.”

In this season of good cheer, we wish each of you joyous holidays and a healthy 1999. Keep those cards, calls, and e-mails coming.

College alumni, please send your news to: Mike Einisman, AB’62, MBA’63, 477 Green Bay Road, Highland Park, IL 60035. Phone: 800/438-3901 (w). Fax: 847/433-5411. Or e-mail Judith E. Stein, AB’62, AM’64, at: JEStein62@aol.com.

63 College alumni—Meryl Dann, AB’63, AM’65, writes: For even more details on the class, check www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Library/1563. Bruce A. Shuman, AB’63, AM’65, married Ann Cameron Vitale on September 5. The couple lives in Dallas, where Bruce says he is “still trying to prove that I can write decent novels and short fiction, as well as all the library/informational science rubbish I’ve published so far.” Janet L. Mather, SB’63, SM’64, is recovering after cardiac surgery and says she is in good spirits “most of the time” and that by the time the University of Chicago Magazine is in our classmates’ hands, she should be back to work. From Lake Placid, site of a U.S. Olympic Training Center, Robert R. Trostle, AB’63, AM’64, writes that he is the CEO of a new computer manufacturing corporation, OCI, which employs amateur athletes to build computers and sell them primarily through amateur athletic programs throughout the country. You can learn more about Bob’s efforts by checking out www.digital- athlete.net and about the athletes he employs at www.americanathlete.net. E-mail him at shadows@capital.net. On September 12, Susan Freis, AB’63, married Richard Falknor in Alexandria, VA, in a civil (and civilized) ceremony with a few family members. Susan is a senior writer at Aspen Systems in Gaithersburg, MD, a published poet, and an avid naturalist. The couple will spend most of their free time at Scientists’ Cliffs, MD. During the work week, they can also be found at their Northwest Washington, DC, pied-à-terre. On September 27, Eliot A. Landau, AB’63, and I—along with other community residents—guided 30 entering first-year students during the University’s O-Week community service program as they labored in the Cornell Oasis, a community garden featured in our 35th reunion’s Friday night program. Pictures are available on our homepage. In July, Jane M. Whitehill, AB’63, worked in Ecuador with one of her two dissertation advisors, Thomas Croat of the Missouri Botanical Garden. “We were collecting individuals from our study family, the Araceae, to understand patterns of occurrence today and historically,” she writes. “This family includes the philodendron you have on your desk at work and the peace lily they put out in the mall and bank lobbies. When we worked in the northern part of the country, we were in an area that’s really an extension of the Chaco system in Columbia.” Of the western slopes of the Andes, she says, “You have to be careful when you walk or you’ll trample something new to science.”

College alumni—your class notes come from the ’63 communication team of Joe Brisben, Susan Freis, Kit Kollenberg, Larry Lowenthal, Sue Ketola Reamer, Pearl Bloom Taback, and Meryl Dann. Volunteer for the communications team and/or send information to sfreis@smtpinet.aspensys.com, or larry@lowenthal.net, or Pearl Bloom Taback, 3001 Henry Hudson Parkway, Bronx, NY 10463-4717.

Other alumni news includes: After working for Amoco for 35 years, Peter C. Coggeshall, MBA’63, retired July 1. He and his wife, Sandy, sold their house in suburban Chicago and moved to Colorado Springs, where they are building their “dream home” with a mountain view. The Coggeshalls have two children—Nancy, 28, an elementary-school teacher in suburban Chicago, and John, 25, who works for the masonite division of the International Paper Co. in accounting and finance. John is moving from Danville, VA, to Chicago and hopes to earn his M.B.A. at night school. Dorsey D. Ellis, Jr., JD’63, retired this past June as dean of Washington University’s law school, a position he had held since 1987. To honor his contributions, Washington University’s trustees have called for a limestone boss of Ellis to be placed on the wall of Anheuser-Busch Hall, which was built during his tenure as dean. A group of alumni and friends have created an endowed scholarship bearing his name.

65 After 33 years in American University’s history department, plus a few years directing American’s general-education program, Robert L. Beisner, AM’60, PhD’65, was named professor emeritus. He took early retirement to devote more time to writing a book on Dean Acheson and the Cold War and to serving as editor in chief of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations’ two-volume annotated guide to the literature of American foreign-relations history. He gave papers at two conferences marking the centennial of the Spanish-American War. In March, he spoke on “Power for a Purpose: Truman, Acheson, and American Foreign Policy” as the 13th annual Russel B. Swensen lecturer at Brigham Young University. He writes, “Retirement is great: For the first time since I was about 6, I enjoy Sunday evenings!”

66 The Hospital Building & Equipment Company has named John H. Andrews, MBA’66, vice president of sales. He supervises sales efforts in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.

67College alumni—Deanna Dragunas Bennett, AB’67, writes: It’s been a year since I started doing this column. It’s been a wonderful experience e-mailing back and forth with so many class of ’67 alumni. We have such a communicative class that I am (almost) never short of material to fill or overfill the column. Please keep sending me your news via e-mail or snail mail.

Karen Drigot Stone, AB’67, left her position as director of development at the University of New Mexico. She is now the vice president of development for the Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan, a foundation representing the 4.8 million people in the 7 counties surrounding the Detroit metropolitan area. In September, Rudolf V. Perina, AB’67, capped a long career in the Foreign Service by becoming the U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Moldova (historically known as Bessarabia). Rudy notes that the country, located between Romania and Ukraine, has a temperate Black Sea climate and was the best wine-growing region of the former USSR. Although it had a small war after independence, Rudy assures us that it is safe to visit Chisinau, the capital, and he hopes classmates who come through will look him up at the embassy there. Robert F. Jaffe, AB’67, lives in Vero Beach, FL, where he is a lawyer specializing in mediation and arbitration. He has been happily married for over 20 years to Jacky, a French artist he met in New York. E-mail him at bugbear@gate.net. Judith McCrocklin Wright, AB’67, and her husband had a wonderful time in Greece, Jordan, Egypt, and Israel in April. They count themselves fortunate that they made the trip during a peaceful time in that region. E-mail her at jwright@govmail.state.nv.us. Warren E. Olson, AB’72, retired in March as the principal deputy comptroller of the Defense Security Assistance Agency. His wife got tired of him being at home, and he got tired of a golf game that was not getting much better. He is now a senior manager with Price Waterhouse Coopers in their technology solutions services area. Olson recently heard from Saul D. Levit, AB’67, who is a new daddy. One of Levit’s two sons is working for aramark and the other is finishing up at Penn State. Warren’s phone number is 703/516-8401. E-mail him at warren.e.olson@us.pwcglobal.com.

College alumni, please send your news to: Deanna Dragunas Bennett, AB’67, 1622 El Tair Trail, Clearwater, FL 33765. Phone: 813/796-8807 (h). E-mail: vcdr72b@prodigy.com.

Other alumni news includes: In a recent trip to Poland, Bobbie Cotton-Murphy Anthony-Perez, PhD’67, included visits to the original and extended Auschwitz concentration camps, the former Warsaw and Crakow Jewish ghetto sites, and the shrine of the Black Madonna. In Germany, she visited the remaining portions of the Berlin Wall and the Chamber of Horrors. She writes, “Although I visited other Polish and German cities and also Austria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, the places cited above made history come alive and really created a sense of sorrow within me with respect to the atrocities of the 1940s in Europe.” Joseph J. Rishel, AM’67, curator of European painting before 1900 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, along with two curators from the Louvre in Paris, authored an extensive introduction to the catalog of the exhibition “Eugene Delacroix, the Late Work” organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Reunion des Musees Nationaux. Celebrating the bicentennial of Delacroix’s birth, the exhibit opened in Paris and is showing in Philadelphia until January 3.

68 College alumni—Michael Nemeroff, AB’68, writes: Leo Schlosberg, AB’70, writes that he still has one child, an eighth-grader, at home. His middle son is studying Talmud in Israel for a year, then plans to enter the U of C as an undergraduate. His oldest son is a Java programmer. Schlosberg’s wife of 22 years, Maralee Gordon, recently finished course work for her second master’s degree at the U of C on her way to becoming a rabbi. Leo found himself in the architectural precast concrete business a number of years ago, and desperately seeks employees of many types. He says he’s particularly partial to young, lost souls, having been one himself once. E-mail him at hamsa@mc.net.

College alumni, please send your new to: Michael Nemeroff, AB’68, Sidley & Austin, 1722 I St., NW, Washington, DC 20006. Phone: 202/ 736-8235 (w). E-mail: mnemerof@sidley.com.

Other alumni news includes: Keith R. Ballantine, MAT’68, teaches mathematics and computer science at Lajes High School in the Azores Islands, Portugal. The school is a Defense Department school for children of military personnel who are stationed at overseas bases. Edward M. Chikofsky, X’68, received the Thurgood Marshall Award of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York for 15 years of service as pro bono counsel for Death Row inmates throughout the country. B. J. Evans, PhD’68, was awarded the U.S. Presidential Award for excellence in science, mathematics, and engineering mentoring. On the faculty of the University of Michigan, he is spending a year at Morehouse College in Atlanta. On August 16, Vincent K. Pollard, AM’68, graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a Ph.D. in political science. He is a visiting fellow at the East-West Center and is also teaching American politics and global futures at the University of Hawaii. The Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute awarded Janet Ahner Rubinoff, AM’68, a six-month postdoctoral fellowship to research the traditional system of inland fishing and the development of modern prawn farming in Goa, India.

69 The Class of 1969 celebrates its 30th reunion June 4–6, 1999.

Robert D. Auerbach, AM’67, PhD’69, recently joined the faculty of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He had been an economist with the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Financial Services. He also served as an economist in the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Domestic Monetary Affairs during the Reagan administration and as a financial economist with the U.S. Federal Reserve System during the Ford administration. He has taught at both American University and the University of California, Riverside, and has written 29 articles and two books. Charles M. Cutler, AB’69, was named president of the Prudential Center for Health Care Research. He had been the center’s medical director and vice president of medical services for Prudential HealthCare.