class notes
In August, Clarkies from the ’80s gathered in Maryland in memory of their classmate Larry Gary ’85, who passed away on June 12, 2018. Back row, from left: Glenn Marrow ’84, Eric Fields, Mark (C.B.) Cummings, Jill Sege ’85, Mike Reaves ’87, Tyrone Hicks ’86; front row, from left: Darling Richards ’85, Lynne (Howes) Marrow ’84, Crystal (Wheaton) Avakian ’84, and Jackie (O’Connor) Woods. Not pictured: Scott Darling ’84.
1959
WILLIAM ROGERS, a retired analyst and later independent contractor with the Central Intelligence Agency, has published “The Penitent Spy,” co-authored with David T. Lindgren, a professor at Dartmouth College and CIA consultant. The book tells the story of a young man who flees the Sudetenland with his family to escape anti-Semitic persecution in 1938 and eventually becomes an American CIA operative. It is available wherever books and e-books are sold.
1964
THOMAS F. LEE, M.A. ’64, PH.D, has published the novel “In the End,” available on Amazon.com. In it, a retired Irish-American detective searches for his lost faith as he tries to solve a brutal murder on a troubled Catholic college campus.
1968
HARVEY KAPLAN was honored by the Open Avenues Foundation of Boston with its Humanitarian Award. Kaplan, an immigration attorney, has represented thousands of individuals, families, and employers over the course of more than four decades in defense of immigrants’ rights. In 2013, Nancy J. Kelly of Greater Boston Legal Services described him as “one of the giants of asylum law in the United States.” Among his accomplishments, he advocated for Haitian boat people in the ’80s and ’90s, insured the rights of immigrants in the face of post-September 11 backlash, and rushed in when 300 workers were arrested in a 2007 New Bedford, Mass., factory raid and sent to detention centers on the Texas border.
1971
Glenn Parish ’71, and wife, Leslie, sponsored a gathering for Clark alumni and friends on Nov. 11, featuring a lecture by Thomas Kühne, Ph.D., director of Clark’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Co-promoted by Florida International University, and hosted at the Jewish Museum of Florida in Miami, the public forum was attended by nearly 60 people. As a member of President Angel’s Regional Leadership Council of South Florida, Parish underwrote the lecture to help widen the recognition and appreciation in the region for Clark’s renowned scholarship. DAVID VOGELSTEIN has been a criminal defense attorney in Marin County, Calif., for 42 years. At Clark, he met his wife, VIVIAN SHERMAN ’69; they had their first date at the Woodstock music festival and have been together ever since. David has been the attorney coach for the record-setting Tamalpais High School Mock Trial Team for over two decades, and has received numerous awards for empowering and leading high school kids of all kinds. Vivian is an educational therapist for learning-disabled children. Their son Eric is a professor of medical and bio-ethics at Duquesne University and daughter Sarah is a special education teacher and supervisor in Oakland. While at Clark, David, along with other students, took over a draft board in Worcester at the height of the Vietnam War and served 10 days in solitary confinement at the old Worcester County Jail. David writes, “Our family has dedicated our lives to the moral paradigm set by my parents, survivors of the Holocaust — my father going back to Germany as an American soldier, fighting at the infamous Battle of the Bulge: Your purpose on the planet is to help others.”
’87
Some of the rockin’est Clark blues fans united at the Brother Kerry and the Hoptones concert and CD release party held at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts (Hopkinton, Mass.) in September. KERRY KEEFE ’87 released his third CD, “Over the Influence,” which is a compilation of blues covers from his music heroes. The hippest of the hip who attended were, from left: Gerry Bingham ’90, Mel Higgins ’87, Dave Luria ’87, Andy Liverant ’87, Allison Modi-Insall ’87, Bro. Kerry Keefe ’87, Dan Morse ’87, George Caccavaro ’87, and Jeff Cicone ’87.
1976
STEVEN GREENBAUM has been named a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, which is the highest faculty recognition within the City University of New York system. Steven, a member of the physics faculty, is an internationally recognized leader in the development of new materials for electrical energy storage. Also acclaimed for his pioneering work in the field of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, he is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring; and in 2014-2015, he served as a Jefferson Science Fellow in the U.S. Department of State. He also is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Steve is serving as a consultant and senior adviser at Ionic Materials, a battery startup company outside of Boston.
1978
JIM DEMPSEY, M.A. ’78, co-authored the catalogue for a successful art exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His essay accompanied “Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection,” an exhibition of about 50 nude drawings by eminent artists of the time, which were owned by prominent Worcester-born art collector Schofield Thayer (Thayer donated part of his collection to the museum upon his death). Dempsey wrote the biography, “The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer.”
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