Class Notes
Provost Michael Kotlikoff ’69: Named Acting President of Cornell University Michael Kotlikoff is serving as Acting President of Cornell University. He was named to the interim position on February 19, while President Elizabeth Garrett was on medical leave. Sadly, President Garrett passed away from colon cancer on March 6. In August, Michael was appointed provost at Cornell. The Provost serves as Cornell’s chief academic officer and chief operations officer, as well as the president’s first deputy officer. Previously, Michael was the Austin O. Hooey Dean of Veterinary Medicine since 2007. He first joined the Cornell faculty in 2000 as professor of molecular physiology and served as chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences from 2000 to 2007. Prior to Cornell, he was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania for 15 years, chairing the Department of Animal Biology from 1995 to 2000. He earned a B.A. in literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973, his V.M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981, and a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of California, Davis, in 1984.
from Atlantic City. Laurie is confident that teaching with an Apple TV and iPads in the classroom will change how she teaches, but more importantly, how her students will learn. She shares: “This is a very exciting school to be teaching in!”
1969 See article about Michael Kotlikoff above.
1970 See photo of Larry Hinds at right. Patricia Benner rescued a small house in Corvallis, OR that is the oldest in Oregon to be built by black pioneers. Patricia, a retired river ecologist and historian, and her husband, Tony Howell, purchased the house in 2004 as it was about to be burned as a fire department training exercise. With local historians, Patricia pieced together an account of the house at 641 NW Fourth Street and its original residents, Hannah and Eliza Gorman. In 2015, the Gorman house was added to the National Register of Historic Places and became part of a seven-stop bus tour by the Salem-based Oregon Black Pioneers Association. Deborah Rivel’s book, Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island, will be released on May 3.
1971 Judy Loane is enjoying her new position as a Partner Engagement Manager for the NJ Department of Labor & Workforce Development (LWD) in Trenton. She is SPRING 2016
involved in individual and team work on some strategic new initiatives for the Department to help simplify and streamline the job search process for NJ job seekers.
1970
Kurt Klaus reports that everything is lovely in Miami. Francie Bobbe Pearce earned a master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from Virginia Commonwealth University last year. Her thesis show “Into the Fray” was held in August at the Downing Gross Cultural Arts Center in Newport News, VA. In December, she wore a cap and gown for the very first time!
1972 Paul Harrison is finishing his fourth year as a major gifts officer at The Middlesex School in Concord, MA after 35 years of teaching history and coaching soccer. Paul is playing in an Over-57 league, and playing in an MFS alumni soccer game is still on his bucket list! His daughter, Nina, is a senior at Boston College; she has taken a position with GE which she will start this summer. His son, Sam, has just returned from the South Pole where he spent the past year running a telescope looking for the beginning of time. Paul is looking forward to the 45th reunion!
Larry Hinds lives in Hawaii and works part time operating tour boats. He is also a member of a Federal Disaster Medical Assistance response team as a medic. He still has a house in Florida, but spends less time in the Sunshine State. Larry is also playing a bit of music locally and does volunteer gigs at nursing homes and the VA hospital in Honolulu. He is helping his nephew build a house in Waimanalo, HI and enjoys being a pilot seeing the nice sights from the air. He wishes everyone at MFS the best.
1973 Gloria Borders is an Executive Producer on the new Vin Diesel/Samuel L. Jackson action movie XXX3, which began shooting in December in the Philippines.
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