Class Notes

from The Newsletter: Winter 2020

Aiming for Another Record-Setting Year: The

1954 Jared Diamond’s most recent book, Upheaval—about national political crises viewed in light of personal crises—was published in May 2019. Jared is still teaching geography to undergraduates at UCLA (even though, as he says, the lowest grade that he received at Roxbury Latin was in Mr. Whitney’s Sixie year geography class!)

Robert English, brother of the late Richard John English, recalled: “During the 300th anniversary—75 years ago, at age five, while living on St. Theresa Ave.—I vividly remember observing the multitude of automobiles parked on the lower field during one of the many weekend celebrations!”

1958 Arthur Gold mourns with classmates over the unexpected death of Robert Smith on January 3, 2019. Despite some recent medical interventions—melanoma surgery and open heart surgery—Arthur feels healthier and stronger than ever. He looks forward to continuing his two careers as a financial consultant to real estate professionals and as a voice-over performer.

1963 David Scheff is still practicing pediatrics, around the corner from RL, at 2020 Centre Street, and thoroughly enjoying it.

1967 Steven Rand and his wife, Paula, became grandparents in July 2019. Grandson Lucas made his debut in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and is packing on weight fast. He is already being groomed by “The Spah” for a forward position on the RLS lacrosse squad. Steve and Paula are still in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but retirement is only a year away and will occasion a move to Waterloo, Ontario, in Canada, their place of origin. Review for “best practices” for culturally sustaining and revitalizing teaching, PdH believes in the potential of children, culture, and language in a local, regional, national, and international context. PdH is an International Baccalaureate Candidate School serving students in grades K-12.

1971 Louis Kaplan is an associate professor of nursing at Simmons University in Boston, right next door to the “other” Latin School. He looks forward to seeing his classmates at their “big” reunion next spring.

1977 Members of the class of 1977 gathered for their 42nd consecutive Thanksgiving Eve: Jeff Ganem, David Mix Barrington, Michael Price, Bruce Rosengard, Jack Englert, Dave Astrue, Jack O’Loughlin, Craig Newfield, and Jim Joyce.

1983 Kurt Bekebrede Gantrish and his family are doing well and living in Hanover, New Hampshire. He has two sons out of college, one in college, and two finishing high school. He recently installed solar panels on the house, which generate 60 percent of their power needs annually.

1986 Brian Buckley is in Flagstaff, Arizona, focused on nonprofit work at Puente de Hozho Puente de Hózhó (PdH) Elementary School. PdH has two duallanguage programs comprised of a Navajo Immersion Language Program and a Spanish-English Bilingual Program. Featured in the Harvard Education

1999 Oliver Libby lives in New York, where he manages an international venture called H/L. He is co-founder and chair of the board of The Resolution Project, which fosters youth leadership development around the world through collaborative social entrepreneurship. Oliver is engaged to marry Ms. Sabrina Tharani in 2020.

2000 On October 13, 2018, Wyatt Lipman married Maria de Cesare at the Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts—the historic home of Edith Wharton, and the first place the couple visited together. (“I’ll always remember reading Wharton’s Edith Frome in Class III English with the late, great master, David Frank!” writes Wyatt.) Oliver Harper and Amit Paley celebrated at the wedding with Wyatt and Maria, who now live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Maria is the Head of Business Affairs for Google’s Creative Lab, and Wyatt is Associate General Counsel for Content Strategy & Media Partnerships at Facebook.

2004 Mike O’Brien and his wife, Drew, welcomed their daughter, Brooke, on August 19, 2019.

See photo on page 51.

Photo: Patrick Beaudouin, Hoover Institution

Josh Rauh ’92 Named Principal Chief Economist to President’s Council of Economic Advisers

Alumnus Joshua Rauh, Class of 1992, has been selected to serve as principal chief economist of President Donald Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). Josh is a senior fellow and director of research at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and the Ormond Family Professor of Finance at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. The CEA is charged with offering the president objective economic advice on the formulation of both domestic and international economic policy.

Josh formerly taught at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and the Kellogg School of Management. He has studied corporate investment, business and individual taxation, unfunded pension liabilities, and investment management. He is a recipient of the Brattle Prize and the Amundi Smith Breeden Prize, both awarded by the American Finance Association. His work has appeared in top academic journals including the Journal of Finance, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Political Economy.

Josh’s research has received national media coverage in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Financial Times, and The Economist. He has presented his work in numerous academic and public forums and has testified before Congressional committees on unfunded pension liabilities.

Josh earned his BA in economics, magna cum laude with distinction, from Yale University and his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. //

2005 Luke Joyner lives in Chicago, where he teaches about architecture and cities. For the past three years, he has taught college students at the University of Chicago, in addition to high school students.

2006 John Spatola and his wife, Jill, welcomed a baby girl, Martha Jane, on January 12.

2009 On November 9, John Collins married Madeline Buckley (daughter of faculty member Brian Buckley) in Portland, Maine. A number of Roxbury Latin friends were among the 150 guests, including best man Nick Poles.

2012 Andrew Kingsley was featured in The New York Times’s “Who Made

My Puzzle?” on November 20 as the publication’s crossword puzzlemaker of the month.

2015 On October 29, Anthony Giordano appeared as a contestant on Jeopardy! In an impressive match-up against the returning champ—and correctly responding to the Final Jeopardy answer with: What is Rear Window?—Anthony unfortunately lost by $2.

2018 Ben Bryant was profiled by Harvard Athletics for his extracurricular involvement as Director of Programs for a startup educational non-profit called United 4 Social Change (U4SC), which offers internships, courses, and videos on topics such as Philosophy, Public Speaking, and Argumentative Writing.

2019 Former faculty members Sally Stevens and Phil Kokotailo met Tomas Gustafsson and Erik Zou for dinner in London. Tomas is on a gap year and was working in London as an intern. After a New Year’s trip to Iceland, he headed to Spain for the next leg of his internship. In the spring, he’ll be in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Erik is currently attending Eton College as Roxbury Latin’s Hennessy Scholar before matriculating next year at Harvard.

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Erratum Stephen P. Koster ’67 was accidentally omitted from the list of Clarence W. Gleason Society leadership donors in the Annual Report. We sincerely thank him for his continued generous support of the school. //

Clockwise from top: Wyatt Lipman (center) with RL classmates Oliver Harper and Amit Paley; John and Jill Spatola’s baby girl, Martha Jane; Mike and Drew O’Brien’s daughter, Brooke; Members of the class of 1977 gathered for their 42nd consecutive Thanksgiving Eve; Anthony Giordano appears on Jeopardy!; John Collins with new bride, Madeline Buckley; Sally Stevens and Phil Kokotailo with Tomas Gustafsson and Erik Zou in London.

Founder’s Day Pub Night November 7: Clery’s Pub, Boston