1964 On August 8, 2014, at its Annual Conference in Washington D.C., the American Psychological Association bestowed the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Independent Practice to TOM WOLFF, Ph.D., of Tom Wolff & Associates in
Amherst, Mass. The citation read in part: “His practice, anchored in the values of social justice and collaboration, has focused on building strong communities and by doing so strengthening the well-being of people within them. His work has had a profound and enduring impact on American society. He pioneered the concept of local community coalitions, which have become national models for community-based health and human service delivery.” Dr. Wolff has published numerous
RICHARD ECKHAUS ’72 writes: “My wife, the amazing Kate Frew-Eckhaus, and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary in Scotland by visiting her family’s ancestral home at the Fords of Frew near Sterling, and my rejoining the ranks of the upright and mobile after my twelfth spine surgery by climbing the 528 steps (28 stories) to the top of the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. After returning home to Alameda, Calif., without earning an ASBO [anti-social behavior order!], and finally free of prescription pain meds, I have resumed work on a long-neglected novel. Life looks good again.”
Professor David C. Major, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Helsinki’s Department of Environmental Sciences, and his wife, PATRICIA HART ’76, M.A.Ed. ’78, joined Mark C. Miller, professor of political science at Clark, and 35 Fulbrighters at Miller’s apartment for Thanksgiving. Professor Miller is spending the academic year teaching at the University of Helsinki’s North American Studies Program as the Fulbright Distinguished Bicentennial Chair. Patricia was an administrative officer with the International Development Program at Clark from 1980-83. Professor Major was research professor in the Environmental Affairs Program at Clark from 1980-84.
self-help resources. His most recent is “The Power of Collaborative Solutions — Six Principles and Effective Tools for Building Healthy Communities.” He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, which granted him its 1985 National Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Practice in Community Psychology, and its 1993 Henry V. McNeil Award for Innovation in Community Mental Health.
1965 GEORGE ROBERT MINKOFF has sold an option to
Francis Ford Coppola at American Zoetrope and Lone Dog Limited to produce a television mini-series, or possibly a motion picture, based on George’s trilogy “In the Land of Whispers.” The three volumes of the trilogy are: “The Weight of Smoke,” “The Dragons of the Storm” and “The Leaves of Fate.” George quips that after paying the
MIKE DAVIS, M.B.A. ’77, writes that last
October he and his wife, Mary, took a cruise in the Aegean, stopping on the Greek island of Santorini. Strolling through the town of Fira, they stopped to look out at the bay and struck up a conversation with a family sitting on a nearby bench. Mike asked where they were from: Bangkok was the answer. A young woman on the bench posed the same question to Mike and Mary: Keene, N.H., she was told. Mike writes: “She replied, ‘I know where that is because I went to graduate school in Worcester.’ My next question was: What school? When she replied ‘Clark,’ we had a wonderful conversation. She thought that I was a professor. Further, she had never met anyone other than her friends and people on campus who had attended GSOM.” Mike did not get the woman’s name, but he sent along a photo of the two snapped by Mary that afternoon. How about it, GSOMers, can you identify the mystery Clarkie?
legal fees for these contracts, he is now totally
University.
1979 KENNETH FREUNDLICH, managing partner of
Morris Psychological Group in Parsippany, N.J., has been elected president of the New Jersey Psychological Association. NJPA is a professional association for psychologists offering a network of resources for the public and media, advocating for psychologists in the state, and acting as an influential presence helping shape mental health
PAUL SUSMAN, Ph.D. ’79, shares that his daughter, SASHA SUSMAN ’10, married Gerardo Garduño on April 5, 2014, and it was “a Clark fest.” In attendance were (front, from left): Allyson Trull ’10, Elizabeth Yelle ’09, M.S.P.C. ’10, Stephanie Tedesco ’09, Alyssa Tanner ’10, Sasha, Ashley Trull ’10, Sophie Crafts ’10; (back) Aaron Crootof, Amy Horton ’10, Caitlin Fortin ’10, Rachael Claborn ’11, Kai Doo ’10, M.A.T. ’11, Jo Anne Shatkin, M.A. ’91, Ph.D. ’94, Paul, and Michael Cohen ’79, P ’12.
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Robert Minkoff Relief Fund, made out to Clark
spring 2015
broke and suggests sending checks to the George