Congratulations to the Classes ending in 4's and 9's, who are celebrating their reunions in the 2014-2015 school year!
RIVERDALE ALUMNI
1965 Please send your news to your Class Correspondent(S) before MAY 1, 2015. 1965 Gail Hart York86@aol.com Melissa Gordon melmelg48@aol.com
1966 Be a QUAD Class Correspondent*
1967 Mary Lou Scott marylou.scott@gmail.com
1968 John M. Davis johnmdavis3@gmail.com
1969 Nancy Duff Boehm nduff611@aol.com Susan Tembeck Riccardi Plookie51@gmail.com
Members of the Class of 1969 enjoyed reviewing their yearbooks at Reunion 2014.
From Richard Aronson: “We had a great mini-reunion phone call last year with Robert Krulwich, Javier Sanjines, John McDowell, John Siffert, John Brendler, Hank Allen, and Calvin Hill. We hope to have another one in 2015, so please let me know if you’d like to join; e-mail raaronson69@amherst. edu.” This fall, Calvin Hill addressed Upper School students at an assembly as part of the Class of 1957 Alumni Speaker Series, funded by members of the Class of 1957 to bring alumni to campus to address students, faculty, and fellow alumni. (The Series is a dedicated program committed to bringing Riverdale alumni speakers to campus to share their experiences with the community through broad lectures as well as more specific engagements with individual classes.) Calvin also spent time with Riverdale’s coaches and captains while he was here.
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Class Correspondent Mary Lou Scott notes that classmate “Hillary Brown has just published a fascinating book, which I think the school at large will be interested in.” Called Next Generation Infrastructure: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works, the book offers innovative but little-known examples from around the world of highly effective infrastructure initiatives that do
more with less and promise to provide effective service long into the future, even in the face of climate change, according to book publisher Island Press. You may order the book online at www. islandpress.com. Mary Lou headed down to the Bitter End Yacht Club at the end of October for the fourth year to participate in the Pro-Am Sailing Regatta. Guest skippers included Dave Ullman (Rolex Yachtsman of the Year) and Dave Perry, the sailing rules authority who is also on the Board of Directors at Oakcliff Sailing in Oyster Bay, NY.
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From Class Correspondent John M. Davis: “My childhood friend (whom I met at Riverdale when we were 10 years old), Dr. Jeffrey D. Rosenbaum, and his wife Nancy became proud grandparents to a baby girl in early August. The parents are their daughter Emily and her husband Aaron Miller (whose wedding I attended in Cleveland).”
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From Peter Kazaras: “Unfortunately, I will be working in DC (directing a new production of La Bohème for Washington National Opera) and won’t be able to attend the reunion. I’m busy in LA as head of the opera studies program at UCLA, with occasional jobs as a stage director across the country, both for professional companies and for music school programs. I’m still with my husband Armin Baier (going on 38 years) and life is fine in LA.” Alexander Vrachnos writes from Athens, Greece: “I have had a diverse, mainly engineering career, as I hold a B.S. in chemical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a M.Sc. in metallurgy from MIT. I am married and have a daughter (24) who is a
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lawyer and a son (14) in high school. “For the past few years, I have been a partner in Tropical S.A., a small, innovative company producing hydrogen (H2) technology products (mainly power generators), and designing systems for production of H2, storage of H2, and the power generators that use H2 for production of electricity. We are at the forefront of this complete zerocarbon electricity and hot water production system technology. This is sustainable development in full force. We are always looking for companies or other entities (universities, research centers) with interests in applications of such systems or involved in H2 technology development and products.” Alexander can be reached at vral@ tee.gr. From Class Correspondent Nancy Duff Boehm: “The Class of 1969 had an extraordinary reunion this year. Turnout was powerfully enhanced by the advance virtual reunion suggested by our Class Correspondent, erstwhile Class President Tom Elkind, and kicked off by Doug Booth with his amazingly rich and humble brief autobiographical summary of the past 45 years. Kevin Ellman responded in kind, and we were off and running, boys and girls alike. In the end, 31 of us posted sketches of our lives, each becoming a facet in this complex, diverse, and moving story of the progress of our class through time. When we did convene on Saturday, we already knew so much about each other that the catching up process was shorter, the connections were quicker, and conversations more personally meaningful than time would have allowed otherwise. “The following Monday, October 20, many of us reconvened. Classmate Cathy Lind Hayes was scheduled to perform her