Secretary: John H Finley III, Creative Development Co., 77 Franklin St., Boston, MA 02110.

Lawrence K Altman, M D, received the Rhodes Medal for "distinguished achievement in medicine" from the American Philosophical Association, which was cofounded by Benjamine Franklin Altman. Altman has been medical correspondent for the New York Times since 1969. J|A '09

Paul Baum and Barbara Bigelow Baum, B'60, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in june. In May, Paul received an honorary degree from the University of Colorado, celebrating his "elegant and lasting contributions to the field mathematics." A New Yorker review of Sallie Bingham's retrospective short-story collection, Mending (Sarabande), concluded that it convirms her place "in the front rank of practitioners of this elusive genre." J|F '12

In late February Nick Beilenson became the 2008 USSRA Hardball Squash 70+ National Champion, winning three matches at the national tournament at the Merion Cricket Club outside Philadelphia. M|J '08

Wilfrid Young Blacklow and her husband, Bob '55, M.D. '59, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary on December 7, 2008. "After Bob's retirement, we moved from Ohio back to the Boston area to be nearer family. I am active in volunteer activities and he continues some teaching at HMS. J|F '10

Bob Brooks writes, "I am very happy to report that my first full-lengtrh collection of poems, Unguarded Crossing, has just been published by Antrim House Books, and is available from their website at www.antrimhousebooks.com/brooks. Or simplyu go to www.antrimhousebooks.com and check the catalog." M|J '11

Elliott C Brown is "72 and still working full time! I guess/hope I'll still be working at 90, looking at my IRA/401(k)s disappearing." J|A '09

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HarperCollins has published a new edition of Adam Clymer's Edward M. Kennedy, A Biography, bringing the 1999 book up to date with Kennedy's role during the Bush Administration, the 2000, 2004, and 2008 campaigns, and his illness. S|O '09

Mary Costanza, M.D., writes: "Although now at last retired from clinical practice (twice), I am still at the university of Massachusetts Medical School part time doing NIH-fjunded research in cancer control—focused on women who are overdue for their annual or biennial mammograms, it involves a randomized controlled study of 26,000 women in a closed HMO setting. The purpose is to evaluate several methods of outreach (reminder letters or telephone calls, or telephone counseling and motivtional interviewing) in terems of completed mammograms and cost per mammogram. Approximately 25 million American women aged 50-64 have not had a mammogram in two years, despite years of public-health urging." M|A '10

Ingrid Guenther Daemmrich writes, "We have a new family member: Ji Lan Daemmrich, adopted from China by our son Arthur and his wife, Saiping. Ji lan is a delightful and challenging two year old." J|F '10

On March 13, Richard Dixon, Ph.D. '64, and Robert Myers, Ph.D. '64, gave invited talks on "Who [Really] Invented the Laser" at the Nicholaas Bloemberten Nobel Laureate Scientific Symposium and Ninetieth Birthday Celebration honoring their thesis adviser, Nicolaas Bloembergen; they emphasized his seminal, but underappreciated, contributions to the invention of the laser. The three-day celebration was sponsored by the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Bloembergen became professor emeritus at Harvard in 1990 and has been affiliated with the University of Arizona since 2001. The one-day symposium of scientific talks by colleagues and former students included contributions from three other Nobel laureates. J|A '10

Richard Dixon, Ph.D. '64, and Rosina (Berry) Dixon '64 (M.D. '68 Columbia) celebrated the wedding of their daughter, ERica Hoyt Dixon '95, on April 30. N|D '11

E Whitney Drake and his wife, Marie (Simmons '59), visited their daughter and her family in Beijing in March. "Besides 'tourist things' like walking on the Great Wall and in the Forbidden City, s well as a very interesting trip to Shanghai, we got to see grandchildren play tennis and softball as the International School of Beijing. Som advice for walking the Great Wall, especially at aged 70-plus: have well-padde3d, confortable shoes, and as little arthritis as possible." S|O '11

John Felstiner, Ph.D. '65, has been presenting his new book, Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems, at bookstores and high schools. It was also featured on NPR's Morning Edition (www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId-102795472). He'll be at: the University of Portland, Ore., on October 5-6; the Kestrel Land Trust in Amherst, Mass., on October 17; the Lenox Library on October 18; and Poets House in Manhattan on October 20, followed by two evening seminars, and possibly at a Cambridge Forum climate change conference on November 14. S|O '09

The University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago has honore Morton F Goldberg, M.D. '62 by naming an endowed professorship for him. An endowed annual lectureship in his name was also initiated at the University of Illinois two years ago. Similarly, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore established an endowed professorship in his honor in 1999. Goldberg served as head of the department of ophthalmology at the University of Illinois from 1970 to 1989 and was director of the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins from 1989 to 2003, where he continues on the full-time faculty of ophthalmology. S|O '10

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Pittsfield (Mass.) Tree Watch, which Astrid Hagenguth chairs, has been invited to be a partner in the Harvard Forest's 2.5-million-acre Wetlands and Woodlands Plan. The city has also been awarded an Honorable Mention by the national Bicycle Friendly Community program, and Hagenguth wrote Pittsfield's master bike plan and is that task force's founder/chair. Pittsfield and Northamlpton (which also received an Honorable Mention) now lead Massachusetts as the first communities to be recognized at any level. "Now—on to bronze status and fully actualizing the plan!" she writes. "The Elm Street Project which I launched will includ a half-mile of tree-planting, a summer Sunday car-free Bike & Hike event, and creation of a business improvement district. N|D '09 Note; Astrid Hagenguth died this Spring. No obituary has yet been submitted. S|O '11

Harvey A Harris, J.D. '61, reports that his daughter, Linda Colfax '90 (J.D. '96 U.Mich.), has been elected a California superior court judge in San Francisco. "Judy and I will be there for the investiture in January." J|F '11

Stanley E. Harris Jr has been recognized by the State Bar of Georgia for 50 years membership. He practices in Savannah with the firm of Duffy & Feemster, LLC, engaged in transaction and litigation matters. J|A '10

George Kingsley Hatch writes, "New location is Westerly, R.I., from 40 years in the real world, the West, including SanDiego. I look forward t joning the mini-reunion in Texas. N|D '10

Radcliffe Secretary Elisabeth Hatfield (1 Potter Pond, Lexington, Mass. 02421; betsyhatfield@rcn.com) writes: "With the Radcliffe Quarterly becoming Radcliffe Magazine and planning to publish class notes only in an online version that is accessible to the general public, our class seemed better served by printing our notes in Harvard Magazine, with its password-protected online notes section." J|F '10 See also Gabriella Pintus Schlisinger

C Stephen Heard Jr writes, "Susan and I are enjoying South Carolina, especially with classmates John Winthrop and John Davis close by. We enjoyed Harvard's victory over the Eli, but we were lucky—they outplayed us." M|A '10

Krikor Der Hohannesian has written his first chapbook of poetry, Ghosts and Whispers (Finishing Line Press). His poems have appeared in many literary journals in the past few years, including the Connecticut Review, Atlanta Review, Peregrine, Hawai'i Pacific Review, the New Renaissance, and South Carolina Review. He also serves as treasureer of the New England Poetry Club. N|D '10

Katherine Mather Littell writes that she is "enjoying family history. The art museums, operas, and ballets of Tulsa are a great delight. Tulsa's Town hall enlightens us on current events!" J|F '10

Judith Johnson was honored at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs national writers conference held in New York City on February 2. Fellow authors and students discussed her work, including nine books of fiction and poetry, after which she read from her work. John is professor emerita of English and women's studiesn and former chair of bothe departments at the University of Albany, SUNY, where she taught from 1980 to 2007. She is editor-in-chief of 13th Moon press, which publishes poetry, fiction and two literary journals, 13th Moon: A Feminist Literary Magazine and The Little Magazine, a journal bridging experimental and traditional forms. M|J '08

Larry R Johnson writes, "Caucus and straw poll activities on the GOP side are heating up—without much light, unfortunately—in Iowa. It will be hard to match 2000: breakfast with Pat Buchanan and five others; bouncing basketballs with Bill Bradley and seven others." N|D '11

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In 2008, Rosalind Axelrod Kochman's daughter, Debbie '87, added a new grandson, Julian Sebastian Whitney, to their family. M|A '10

The secretary reports that the class will have a mini-reunion in late February or early March 2011 in Fort worth, courtesy of Ted Mack, J.D. '61. "The city has three wonderful museums; it's a lively town! More willl be forthcoming. J|A '10

Kenneth E MacWilliams, M.B.A./J.D. '62, reports, “As an investment banker, I was surprised and pleased to be nominated to a three-year term on the American College of Surgeons' Health Policy Institute's advisory board, which develops their policy positions on major national medical issues relating to surgeons and surgery, as well as on new surgical techniques, devices, and procedures. The board is composed of physicians and surgeons experienced in national health care policy, and I may be the only one on the board who is not a health care professional, so I should certainly be challenged. In terms of health care and health policy developments and decisions, the next thee years may be the most significant in our nation's history. This nomination provides a ringside seat for this, as well as the possible opportunity to contribute in some small way to solving the country's seemingly intractable national health care problems. S I have accepted this new assignment with great enthusiasm. And I warmly welcome any help, guidance or comments I can get from any of the components of the collective wisdom of the great class of 1958. M|A '11

Charles G. Mallonee reports fthe marriage of his daughter Caroline J Mallonée '97 to lLELric Heinze Huebner on June 19, 2010. M|A '11

James H. Manahan, J.D. '61, of Manahan, Bluth & Kohlmeyer Law Office, Chartered, has been selected by his peers for the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of family law. He has been listed for more than 10 years. Through mid December, he taught law at the University of the Andes in Santiago, Chile, and also English. He has traveled extensively in Central and South America, teaching trial skills at many law schools. J|F '08

Lawrence Marwill writes, "I have almost retired—ophthamology practice one day per week and grandparenting when necessary. Hobbies include dancing, sailing, and travel, at home in Albany and Lake George, N.Y." M|A '10

Bill McGill, Ph.D '61, received the 2009 Society of American Baseball Research/McFarland Award for his research article on George Sisler. "That's a long way from my dissertation subject: Prince Kaunitz."

John R.. McGinley writes “I use my facebook page (www.facebook.com/jmcgoo) to post my occasional stock market memos and bird pictures. In the Notes section is my memo "Observations on Seeing Cuba for the First Time," a report on our birding trip last year. We saw 27 of the 28 endemics and over 200 different species! (Also see my brother's site: www.arives.exposuremanager.com for more beautiful bird pictures). N/D '10

The seventh edition of Dinah L. Moché's Astronomy, A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley) has been completely revised and updated, with more than 100 new photographs and lin ks to the best astronomy resources online. Moché is professor of physics and astronomy at CUNY and an award-winning author and lecturer whose books, designed for the general reader, have sold more than 10 million copies in seven languages. M|A '10

We are sorry to report the death of Cornelia Montgomery's partner, Dave Engman, on November 2, 2008, after five years of dealing with Lou Gehrig's disease. J|F '10

Physicist Rodney W Nichols recently published a paper on "Ethics in Science and Technology" in Technology in Society. Nichols, the former president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences, is now a consultant on science and technology policy. N|D '10

Jane O'Reilly reports, "I am pleased to be in the company of 32 quite impressive women who make up the contributors to a book just published by Simon & Schuster, In The Fullness of Time, 32 Women on LIFe after 50. We are mostly way beyond 50, and the reflections are rueful and funny and sad. ike life. I like living in East Bostn, near my enlarging family, and traveling to Berlin to see the family enlargments there. And I tremendously enjoy making prints." J|A '10 See also Gabriella Pintus Schlisinger

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Roger W Smith, L.D. '61, presented a lecture on "Legislating against Genocide Denial: Criminalizing Denial or Preventing Free Speech?" to the St. Thomas School of Law on February 5. Publication in the St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy is forthcoming. On March 24, he presented a lecture to the department of demography at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, on "The World Turned Upside Down: Economics, Demography and Genocide." From April 22 to 24 he participated in an international conference at the University of São Paulo on "The Armenian Genocide: Prototype of Contemporary Genocide" and gave a presentation on "Genocide and Denial." And from May 27 to 29 he attended a conference at the University of Caen, France, that dealt with the many representations of war in the modern world. His paper was on "George Steiner and the War against the Jews: A Study in Misrepresentation." S|O '10

Sol Solomon, M.D. '62 Rochester, who recently received the Founder's Medal of the Southern Society of Clinical Investigatin in New Orleans, has learned that the Medical Student Research Training Grant at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, of which he has been PI since 1980, will be funded by NIH through 2015, which will be its thirty fifth year. To date, 700 UT medical students have particiated in summer research. J|A '10

Dismantling America (Basic Books), by Thomas Sowell, is a collection of essays deling with the breakdown of traditional American values and institutions. Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst, and other academic institutions. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution. J|F '11

Roger W. Smith, L '61, reports that he gave a talk on "The Concept of Genocide: Origin, Meaning, Related Concepts, Denial" at a May10 conference in the Old Parliament (1821) in Athens. The theme of the conference was "One Genocide, Three Perspectives: Armenian, Assyrian, Greek." On September 4, he is scheduled to lecture on "Professional ethics and the Denial of the Armenian Genocide" at the Armenian Genocide and International Law conference at Haigazian University, Beiruth. Smith is professor emeritus of government at the College of William and Mary. S|O '09

William Allin Storrer, Ph.D. '68, will present "Aesthetic Principles of Design in the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright" at the Twenty-First Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics in late August. He will also visit the Cathedral of Notre-Dame of Amiens, the largest French Gothic church, to document the comlpeted restoration of the structure. His catalog of Wright's built work remains a standard reference in the field, and his more extensive documentation of Wright's opus, The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion, remains available in foreign-language editions in Italian, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese, and will soon be joined by a version in simplified Chinese. J|A '10

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Daniel R Swett, LL.B '61, send word that he has recently published an e-book on Kindle, Protecting Religious Diversity to Achieve National Unity, A Fantasy Memoir of George Washington. "The book analyzes Washington's letters to religious groups in 1789 and 1790, beginning immediatelly following his first inauguration. I believe it's the first time that these letters have ever been considered as a group in an accessible document. It's an unusual kind of h istory book because George himself—the fantasy—providesthe narration and the analysis. I tried to werite the book that George would have written had he been around today, speakingin a twenty-first century idiom. Eric Rothschild, G '59, provided imlportant editorial assistance." N|D '11

Duane Wadsworth writes, "My post-semiconductor-industr retirement career, voice-over narration, has reached a new plateau with some high-visibility jobs. If you're in San Francisco and to to Pier 39 on Fisherman'sWharf and take a Blue and Gold Fleet's cruise boat for an aquatic tour of San Francisco Bay, fyou'll find your truly as your audio guide. I did this one-hur audio tour for the leading global audio tour company. Antenna Int'l, in NYC. For the past two years I've been coached at VoiceTrax San Francisco. Fortunately, my voice doesn't sound as old as the body I inhabit. I'm having freat fun and it keeps me busy exercising—my vocal chords." S|O '11

Nancy L. Walsh writes: "I am officially retired. Got pink sliop in 2006, job went to India; five years of substitute teachin in public education per diem. You gotta know when to fold 'em. Hard to live on interest, but must. Glad I am not young in this country. Life was beautiful. Gandhi united Hindus and Muslims long enough to get the british out of India; we someone to unite Democrats and Republicans long enough to save the middle class. Gandhi said in 1947, 'Leave India to God. The British must go.' That is true of the corporate stranglehold in the U.S.A. J|F '12

Eleanor Wilson Williams '83 writes, "I continue to be delighted with Sarasota—the opera, ballet, theaters, swimming, fastwalking half marathons, tap-dancing, keyaking, golf, and the Yacht Club Bowling League! I am improving my Spanish through my active involvement as a board secretary for Latino Excellence of Sarasota. As a regional interviewer for the College, I meet top-notch kids here. This year Sarasota had three admits and three wait-lists, last year one admit (my gal) now in Eliot House and thriving. The Sarasota Harvard Club is the third largest in the United States. J|A '10 See also Gabriella Pintus Schlisinger

New Radcliffe class treasurer Judy Games Wilson writes, "This Winter I agreed to step into the large footssteps left by Sue Williamson, who is greatly missed. I am glad to have the opportunity to connect to our class and the College." J|F '10

Griffith J. Winthrop reports, "Last October, I retired as supervising attorney for the department of children and families in Seminole County, Fla, after six years. On March 11, I was appointed general magistrate for the Dependency Court in Seminole County, involving abused and neglected children. J|A '09

REPORTED AS DECEASED since the 55th Reunion Anniversary Report;

Walter Arnold Baker mcl LLB '61 died May 24 in Glasgow, Ky. He was a Glasgow attorney who served for 22 yeas in the Kentucky state legislture, first as a state representative and hen as a state senator. Known for his nonpartisanship, he was one of only three Republicans who voted for the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990, having served on the task force that drafted it.After his last term as state senator, in 1996, he served briefly as a justice of the state supreme ourt.He was a former lieutenant colonel in the air force and a fomer jdge advocate with the Kentucky Air National Guard. He eaves his wife, Jane (Helm), a daughter, Ann Philips, a son, Thomas and a brther, James. S|O '10

Marcia Heintzelman Connolly M.A.T '59 of Wayland, Mass., died March 15. She was retired associate director of admissions at Harvard College. A longtime summer resident of the Chautauqua Institution, in upstate New York, she was a trustee of the institution from 1990 to 1998, chaired its annual giving fund from 2001 to 2005, and was a tireless supporter of the Chautauqua Opera. She was an ardent golfer. She leaves her husband, John '58, M.B.A. '60, a daughter, Melissa Orlov '81, a son, John '84, and two sisters. J|A '08

John Todd Copeland died February 12 in Very Beach, Fla. A gifted athlete who lettered in both football and h ockey at Harvard, he later earned tryouts for the Boston Red Sox and the Brooklyn Dodgers and played catcher for the Cape Cod Baseball League. He had a long career in the automotive industry, beginning as a field manager for Ford MotorCo. in Glen Rock, N.J. After returning to Massachuestts in 1970 , he founded Copeland Toyota of Brockton and owned two other dealerships, Framingham Ford and Village Chevrolet of Needham. Sports remained a passion; he coached championship teams in Greater Boston, including in WQellesley, where he lived for 40 years, and he was also an avid, five-handicap golfer. He leaves his wife, Vinnie (Redd), two daughters, Carrie Luke and Robin Barker, a son, Todd, and a brother, Robert. M|J '10

Henry Saltonstall Dakin died August 25 in Ukiah, Calif. A fourth -generation Californian, during the 1960s he did research in health physics at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, designing a pocket radiation detector that is still in use today. Tragedy befell him in 1966, when seven members of his family, including his father and brother, died in a plane crash. Thereafter, his wide-ranging interests, from parapsychology to enviornmental conservation, generated a succession of innovative projects. He explored early desktop publishing technology, wrote a book on Kirlian photography, and published religious documents smuggled from Soviet political prisons. Eventually he transformed a San Francisco auto-body shop into a multimedia and cultural networking center for the use of citizen activists. The center incubated a variety of fledgling nonprofit groups over the years, providing them with technical support, funding, and office space. He and his wife also helped Bay Area parents establish the San Francisco Waldorf School, which became the largest in North America. He leaves his wife, Vergilia (Paasche), three daughters, Adriana, M.P.P. '03, Rose, and Julia Frech, a son, David Platford, and two sisters, Susanna Dakin and Mira Sadgopal.. J|F '11

Brenda Lee Danet, Ed.M. '59, died November 22, 2008, in New Haven. She was a professor emerita of sociolog¥ and communication at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she had been a member of the faculty sinc 1967, After retiring in 2000, she became a research affiliate in the department of anthropology at Yale. An authority on Internet communication, she was the author of Cyuberpl@y: Communicating Online and coauthor of The Multilingual Internet: Language, Communication, and Culture Online, as well as a 1989 book, Pulling Strings: Biculturalism in Israeli Bureaucracy. She was a former member of the international advisory board of New Media & Society. She leaves her husband, Walter Cahn, a stepson, Claude Cahn, and a brother, Burt. M|A '11

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