1972 Emily Medine CS 1800 Beechwood Boulevard Pittsburgh, PA 15217-1703 emilymedine@aol.com Pamela Perkins CS 340 East 51st Street, #7K New York, NY 10022-7819 pamelaperkinsny@gmail.com
1973 Barbara Michelson CS 89 Steele Road Peterborough, NH 03458 highlylikely@gmail.com
class notes
my sister Carolyn Ward ’74 and I traveled around South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswanna. It was the trip of a lifetime. Anyone interested in seeing 5000 photographs? Now that Mindy Fisher’s son, Daniel, has graduated from high school, Mindy is back studying full time to become a Rabbi. Daniel spent a year volunteering as a medic in Israel before heading off to Yale. Tim Scudder wrote that “Phil Schwartz’s retirement really telescoped time” for him. Tim’s career in medical research has morphed into information technology. During the last 15 years, Tim has been in the pharmaceutical industry. He is currently working for Pfizer developing and automating process for the global IT organization. Tim and his wife Deb celebrated their 36th wedding anniversary this year. They are “blessed” with three adult daughters, Kristen, Caitlin, and Annie and are involved in their church. Tim’s last two years have been particularly busy as he served on the team that ran their church’s $20 million dollar construction project in Fairfield, Conn. In November 2013, Richard Horwitz, Barry (alias Richard) White, Lindsay White, and David Medine visited Nelson Chang ’70’s ranch in Montana. Richard reported that they had “a nostalgic and joyful weekend together. Everybody is doing great” and looking forward to our 45th reunion. Richard, who was given two years to live 20 years ago writes the he “can honestly say it is great to grow old together.” I second that!”
Lisa Ernest Mierop CS 120 Walnut Street Montclair, NJ 07042 ljmierop@yahoo.com
1974 Norman Feit AC Goldman, Sachs & Co. 200 West Street New York, NY 10282-2198 norman.feit@gs.com Kenneth Grossman CS 18 Norfolk Road Great Neck, NY 11020-1716 kensgrossman@gmail.com Ivy Baer Sherman CS 45 Park Avenue, #301 New York, NY 10016 ivybaer@vintagezine.com Ivy Baer Sherman writes, “We have a mayor in our midst—congratulations to Greg Letica on his re-election as Mayor of Village of Asharoken, on Long Island, NY. Carolyn Ward and her sister, Laura ’71 “spent much of May in South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Our focus was going on safari. What a magical experience it was! And that was the reason I missed our 40th reunion. For more comments on the trip, see Laura’s take in Class Notes from ’71.” Stateside, Carolyn and Peter Hardin ’70, took a day trip from DC to Allentown, PA to visit Paul Reeder. “He showed us around the retirement community where he lives, we saw part of the Muhlenberg
campus and downtown Allentown, and went out for lunch. Paul remains intellectually engaged and the three of us had a lovely time catching up.” Laney McHarry is “still working as a social worker for Montgomery Hospice, hard to believe it’s been 10 years since we moved down! Cancelled my subscription to The Washington Post after they printed the 4th article in a year trashing hospices in general. Wrote them an irate letter to boot but they declined my suggestion to publish it. Sigh. Am still enjoying The New York Times and The New Yorker, though. My wife, Kate, and I just got back from a week away near Kitty Hawk, NC. Beautiful weather, dog-friendly beaches. With our 12 and 15-year-old goddaughters, I actually took part in: hang gliding, parasailing, and kayaking! Am now recuperating....” Deirdre Donchian sends an update from Maine: “As much as I love and value the arts, it has been very challenging making a consistent living in the craft market even though when I started it was something that could be done. Changing landscape in US manufacturing, world trade, down turns in the economy all affected the little guy too. When my children were younger and in a Waldorf School I discovered two alternative therapies for people who struggled with cognitive and executive functioning issues, such as dyslexia, ADD/ADHD, memory recall, sensory integration. I remembered how much I was attracted to psychology and sociology in my late teens but due to my undiagnosed learning is
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