Class of '60

Our reunion committee is working hard to plan a memorable 40th reunion. We still can’t believe that forty years have passed since we strolled around the UVM campus as students. Things will have changed, but the great friendships we had have not. See you on campus June 1-4, 2000. Daniel Bean was awarded the Water Environment Federation’s Harry E. Schlenz Medal for promoting the need for water pollution control during the federation’s recent meeting in New Orleans. Dan’s work with school teachers and his establishment of a web site for continuing education and information exchange earned him the award. While in New Orleans, Dan visited his son, Jonathan ’90, associate professor of history at SIU-Carbondale, and his two granddaughters. Biology professor emeritus, Dan recently retired from St. Michael’s College. He is primary caregiver for his wife, Joanne ’58, who has Alzheimer’s. He also stays busy as executive director of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences. Gene Parent wrote from Brookfield, Vt., that he would like to hear from Clair “Harvey.” Charles Joachim of Vicksburg, Miss., is the co-author of “Using Miniature-Scale High-Explosion Experiments to Study Weapon Effects,” which was published in the September-October 1998 issue of Army RD&A.

Class of '62

Elliott Rosenbaum was the recipient of the Small Business Person of the Year Award from the Valley Stream Chamber of Commerce for 1998-99. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Valley Stream Chamber of Commerce for the past seven years, and his law firm is their legal counsel. Every month, he writes a law article in his local newspaper, giving free legal advice and information to the public as a community service. Elliott and his wife, Mary, and their children, Toni and Troy, continue to make their home in North Valley Stream, N.Y. He would like to hear from classmates and other UVMers and wishes one and all good health and much success and happiness.

Class of '63

Mary Rivard of Littleton, N.H., let us know that she has created two web sites: http://members.xoom.com/mtrmshlk/UVM.htm (alumni web page and chat room) and http://members.xoom.com/mtrmshlk/UVMNNE.htm (Northern New England web page and chat room). Mary recently completed all the requirements for an MS degree in human services at Springfield College in Massachusetts.

Class of '64

I am happy to report that the responses from classmates are up. Many are coming via email—easy to do. Keep up the good work. Peter Bigelow wrote that his son, Todd, joined him in The Foresight Group. So far, their skills complement each other, and they are working well together. Peter is interested in finding out about Bruce Lirkey, Yvonne Bergivin, Fred Cummings, and Mark Chalkin. Pat Farrand Harner lives in Philadelphia. Her youngest child is twenty-five and living in Chicago, and she has one grandchild. Pat has changed from a long-term career in health care marketing to the non-profit side. She is executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Thomas Bishop is still living down the hill from UVM. He doesn’t do email or fax but would like to see anyone passing through Burlington. Give him a call. In the fall issue, I wrote a short update about Ruth Lichten Harris, but, unfortunately, her name did not appear with her news. Ruth and her husband have lived in Malibu, Calif., for two years. Their son was recently married. Ruth is coordinator of clinical services for the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences at California State University-Northbridge. Diane Rich Ladd has been living in Clermont, Fla., with her husband, Jeff, since 1967. She is in her 33rd year of teaching French and Spanish. Their son, Todd, graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1998, and he is a 2nd Lieutenant, stationed at Travis Air Force Base in California. And, last but not least, I would like to announce that our daughter, Wendy Barber ’93, was married on October 2 in Warren, Vt., with a reception at The Inn at the Round Barn Farm in Waitsfield.

Class of '65

Dave Goode is a senior vice president for Catholic Health Initiatives, the third largest health system in the country. Based in Minneapolis, Dave is responsible for fifteen acute-care hospitals in five Midwestern states. Dave makes his home in Mound, Minn.

Class of '66

Your classmates would like to hear more about you. The years roll by, and it seems more important than ever to keep in touch. What better way than to send some news about yourself to me at the above address. The National Cancer Institute’s intramural and extramural radiology research programs will be coordinated for the first time under a new NCI position filled on July 1 by Norman Coleman. Norman currently heads the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy at Harvard Medical School. Nancy Castellanos Miller of Saratoga, Calif., and I recently spent a day together at my home. Nancy and I lived at Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, and my husband, Ken McGuckin, served as dishwasher there thirty-three years ago. Time flies.

Class of '67

Carol Green, Linda Heller May, Ellen Werner, and I got together in Blue Hill, Maine, last summer. Carol, a nurse practitioner in Burlington, was studying at Kneisel Hall, the music school and festival in Blue Hill, of which Ellen is executive director. Linda has devoted the past several years to renovating and decorating a property that she and her husband purchased in East Blue Hill. I had no good reason to be there other than to enjoy their company. Howard Solomon, MD ’71, wrote that he recently enjoyed a fishing vacation at the Tropic Star Lodge, located on the Pacific coast of Panama along with Argie Economou and Bill Belville. Bill is currently a professor of surgery (urology) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Argie remains in Burlington as the manager of Dean Witter for all of Vermont. Howie has been in the private practice of urology in Seguin, Tex., for the past twenty years, after finishing his military career in 1979. Philip Veysey has a new job as director of educational policy and programs at the Massachusetts Federation of Teachers in Boston. He recently completed his 30th year of teaching science in Boston public schools.