Class Notes Charles Halsted ’54 reports, “After two years at RLS, my family moved to Los Angeles where I completed high school. With my rigorous RLS standards of scholarship, I attended Stanford where I majored in modern European history with a minor in pre-med. After spending the summer of 1958 hitchhiking through western Europe, I obtained my medical education at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, followed by internship and residency training at the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital. My two-year military obligation was spent performing clinical research at the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit in Cairo, Egypt, where I witnessed firsthand the Arab/Israeli War of 1967. Subsequently, I completed specialty training at Johns Hopkins and embarked on a career in academic medicine. Due in large part to my scholarship grounding at RLS, my medical research output exceeded more than 200 original research papers, book chapters, and reviews up until my retirement five years ago. Since then I have embarked on a new career in poetry, with two published books, a third in press, and two more ready to go early next year. Looking back I can fairly attribute most, if not all, of my achievements to the intellectual grounding I received at The Roxbury Latin School.” John Kenney ’81 published his fourth book of poetry titled, Love Poems (For the Office…or Wherever).
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John reports, “My publisher is calling it ‘the wrong book for the wrong time by the wrong author,’ which I’m excited about.” The photography of Chris Payne ’86 was featured in a double spread of The New York Times Magazine on November 28, 2020 for a feature, How to Make a Guitar, documenting the Martin Guitar factory for The New York Times for Kids publication. Tino Poggio ’96 is a professor of physics and chair of the Physics Department at the University of Basel, where he leads a group focusing on nanomechanical sensing, nanomagnetism, and sensitive scanning probe microscopy. Tino is a winner of a 2013 ERC Starting Grant and serves on the board of the Swiss Nanoscience Institute. Tim Pingree ’02 and Lucas Robertson ’00, co-founders of SHAKE Architecture: Construction, were featured on the cover of The Boston Globe Magazine in October, for a recent renovation project in Charlestown. Zack Hardoon ’05, Kevin Mullin ’10, and John Noonan ’10 have worked in the past at SHAKE with Tim and Lucas. John Lawrie ’03 and his wife, Courtney, welcomed their first child on November 28—a boy, John Robert Lawrie, III. Mom, Dad, and baby Jack are all doing well. Richie Iskra ’08 shares that his “extraordinary wife, Tatum, gave birth to a baby boy—Samuel Patrick—on
October 29. Mum, Dahd and Big Sister, Etta, are all happy and healthy.” Rishabh Sinha ’08 and Simran Virk were married in a small, COVID-safe ceremony with parents and siblings present, overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Southern California. The couple looks forward to having a big wedding celebration in 2022. //
