1980

1980

Jeff Citrin and his wife, Rona, moved from their longtime home in Greenwich, Connecticut, to a new house they built in Aspen, Colorado, a couple of years ago. With all three children living in New York, they still spend time back East. Jeff and Rona’s daughter, Alex, and her husband, Chris, gave them their first grandchild last July. They celebrated the family-only wedding of son Andrew ’ll a month later. Son Charlie T6 is midway through business school in N.Y.C. Jeff concluded his four-year term as the Hood Museum’s board chair in June of2020 and urges all of us to pay a visit to the renovated museum. Jeff completed late lastyear the sale ofthe N.Y.C.-based real estate investment firm he founded in 2006, then launched another private real estate investment platform.

Fred Meyerson ran the virtualBostonMarathon in September of 2020 as a trail run on the NorthSouth Trail in Rhode Island. Fred’s first Boston was back in 1984. He was time-qualified and registered for the New York and Chicago marathons in 2020. Those were canceled, and he has deferred the two races. Fred has fingers crossed for this year’s Boston, scheduled for October 11. Fred was able to run the Canadian Ski Marathon again, albeit virtually, in a window of February snow in northwest Rhode Island, camping out in freezing rain between the two days to earn his Gold Coureur de Bois. Fred’s two sons are undergraduates at Brown and NYU. Writing this last paragraph has your undersigned secretary feeling both exhausted and cash strapped.

Carl Baum ’81 scanned a bunch of slides from the 1979 “Rox Stretch.” Email Carl at carl.baum@ yale.edu if you would like some photos.

Kids in Need of Defense recognized Carol Burns as part of a pro bono team of the month for May. Carol helped represent a child who sought asylum and special immigrant juvenile status. Because of the team’s dedication and preparation of written briefs and their client’s testimony for the asylum interview, the asylum office approved their client’s application. Their client is now an asylee living safely in the United States.

Emily Katz Anhalt has a new book, Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny, combining narrated tales, drawn from the ancient Greek texts, with analyses accessible to non-specialists. Democracy as a concept did not exist until the Greeks coined the term and tried the experiment. Tales told in ancient Greek epics and tragedies provide an antidote to the tyrannical passions oftoday. Emily is aprofessor of classics at Sarah Lawrence College.

I am running for U.S. Congress as a Democrat in Georgia’s First Congressional District. The incumbent, a fellow church member, sued the State of Georgia to overturn the election results here, even though he won his race. On the night of January 6, he stood on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to oppose the election. Maybe I will give him a copy of Emily’s book. This last paragraph is not a joke.

—Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9848, Savannah, GA 31412, (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com; Meg Coughlin LePage, 8 Brookside Drive, Cumberland, ME 04021; (207) 791-1382; mlepage@ pierceatwood.com; Rob Dinsmoor, 14 Rust St., South Hamilton, MA 01982; (978) 269-4069; dinsmo@ earthlink.net

Wade Herring