Class Notes

1954

JANUARY 2000 Don Berlin
Class Notes
1954
JANUARY 2000 Don Berlin

January 1956:Asreported in the DAM: Herb Gidansky to Kate Yaeger, Dick Wright to Susan Logan, Don Brief to Beth Rosenberg, Bob Boyd to Barbara Shaw, Ned May to Mary Waterfall, NeilKing to Gretchen Goit, Joel Wertheim to Lois Shephard and Stearns Martin to Patrica Lee Davis. The class was serving the country "around the girdled earth": Howie Aronson in Okinawa; Tom Campbell and Bob Collimore in Waco, Tex.; Dick Franklin in Japan; Dick Fowler at Tyndall A.F.B. in Florida; John Varnum and Gregg Graml at Fort Dix; Skip Weymouth at Scott A.F.B.; Neal Farrel in the Mediterranean; Norm Bander in San Francisco; Ed Winnick in Cuba; and JackTuck in the Antarctic. Still studying: BobLevy at Tufts, Charlie Morrison at Harvard Law School, Bill Walls at Yale Law School.

Jon Moore has authored a new book, "Hard Choices, Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention." The book details the complexity of today's international interventions to stop bloodshed, restore peace and rebuild shattered economies. Jon's book puts together the views of 16 experts in their fields, all involving some aspect of international intervention—including U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan; Richard Goldstone, former chief prosecutor for the U.N. International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda; and lan Martin, deputy high commissioner for human rights in BosniaHerzegovina. Jon is now at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard.

Kev Sullivan was highlighted in an article in the Buffalo (N.Y.) Business First: "Who Runs Western New York Business." Kev is president of Medaille College in Buffalo.

Dartmouth Medicine reports on the travels of three doctor classmates (I will take news, old and new wherever I can get it): Fleur and Jay Chandler to Sicily, Bruce Pattee (now retired) to Sweden, Norway and Denmark; and Bob Spears to Israel, Europe and Mexico. Bob married in a 1998 trip to Mali aboard the Queen Mary from Long Beach, Calif. He is chairman of the board of Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Care and works part-time for USC.

Bob Buchanan has again been elected as moderator of Weston, Mass. Bob has previously served Weston as chairman of the Weston Historical District Study Committee and chairman of the Weston Finance Committee. He is a partner at the Boston law firm, Sullivan & Worcester.

An article in The New York Times last March, "Not an Age, but an Expanding State of Mind," quoted Bill Mansfield and John Heston about retirement. Bill indicated that he retired three times, in 1989 from the State Department, in 1992 from the United Nations and in 1997 from Wordwatch, but still takes on some consulting assignments. John indicated that he was retired from his career in advertising and communications for three years and he "goes with the flow," doing paid consulting.

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