Class Notes

1982

JUNE 2000 Rick Bercuvitz
Class Notes
1982
JUNE 2000 Rick Bercuvitz

Two laggards (Lord and N. Mass) followed by our River Cluster issue: Glenrn Water-man lives in Brookline, Mass., where she works as a freelance graphic designer. She has worked on reservations out West and this summer will be working with Habitat For Humanity on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Philippa Guthrie has changed jobs after 16 years of a one-hour commute and is now general counsel for the Indiana University Foundation. Mike Cummings lives in Cambridge, Mass., and works as a software engineer. Nancy Kricorian lives in New York City with husband James Schamus (film producer/screen- writer/ Columbia professor of film), and daughters Nona, 8, and Djuna, 4. She is working on her second novel. Gordon Cook and WendiTerlizzi Cook are "still in love" after 10 years, living in Atlanta with daughters Summer, 6, and Olivia, 4, and beach house in progress on the Georgia coast. Wendi will run the Peachtree and does yoga and gardening. Gordon is an "Execubo" with Airtouch, now Vodaphone, soon to be Bell Atlantic, but spends as much time as he can with his fishing pole.

Marrin Robinson teaches art at the American University in Cairo and is enjoying traveling in Egypt. She'll spend the summer in her studio in Vermont and will have a one-person show at the Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester, Vt. Steven Koch lives in Niskayuna, N.Y., with wife Susan Townsend and four children under age 7. Steve works for GE corporate R&D as an engineer. Beth HaffenrefFer Scholle, husband Ollie, and their three children have finally landed in Boston. Beth does competitive sailboat racing, has joined a moms' ice hockey team and recendy successfully completed three new moves on the flying trapeze (no joke!). Clearly, she has found the highest and best use for her M.B.A. EricRichardson and family just moved from Thetford to Norwich, Vt. Eric runs his own software consulting firm for audio and broadcast technology, finds time to play the occasional jazz gig, but mostly hangs with the family and enjoys the Upper Valley.

Judi Davidson Wolf works as an editor for a federal agency. Husband Allen, Lehigh '82, is a public defender for the State of Maryland. Daughters Rebecca, 12, and Leah Rose, 8, keep Judi busy with "the usual round of flute practice, Girl Scouts, ice skating, etc." She sends greetings to all. KarenCassidy recently traveled to Tokyo for Merck. Husband Bernard Thompson III has started a new business buying homes and rehabbing them. Kids Nathan and Nicole are doing well.

Bill Pahl lives in Etna, N.H., and will be married on May 6 to Janice Arruda at Rollins Chapel in Hanover. Walt Cressler received his Ph.D. from Penn in earth and environmental science and now is teaching science methods and geology at West Chester University. Walt and wife Claire Brill (Swarthmore '89) are expecting their first child in August. Bill Shertzer recently relocated from San Antonio to Syracuse along with wife Judy and daughter Kate, 7. After 10 years with Eye Care Centers of America, Bill retired for a year in 1999 and is now back in the fray as COO with Aspen Dental.

Eric Cline is moving to D.C. to take a job as assistant professor of ancient history and archaeology in the department of classics and semitics at GWU. His book TheBattles of Armageddon will be published in October. Son Joshua was born in 1999.

Grant Reeher is a professor in the political science department and Maxwell School of Citizenship at Syracuse University. He is working on research projects in health-care policy, legislative politics and social fairness. "Faculty life is good—more days like DeadPoets' Society than Who's Afraid of VirginiaWoolf."

I regret to report the death in September 1999 of James McCardie. An obituary will follow in a later issue.

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