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September-October 2026
Class Note 1979. What were the chart-topping songs when we returned to campus in the fall of 1976 50 years ago? Remember “A Fifth of Beethoven”?
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July-August 2026
Class Note 1979. There are two questions I’ve been asking myself, our ’79 classmates, and random people around our age if they make eye contact: If you can retire, why would you work; if you can work, why would you retire?
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March-April 2026
Class Note 1979. “It’s very important to be one’s age,” poet W.H. Auden reminds us. “You get ideas you have to turn down—‘I’m sorry, no longer’; ‘I’m sorry, not yet.’ ”
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January-February 2026
Class Note 1979. Our own Sue Astolfi Mack has—for the sixth consecutive year—been named a “Best Lawyer in America” by her peers (her national practice involves arbitrator appointments in life, health, and property/ca
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July-August 2026
Tamara Lee Skye Chiarella ’79
Tamara Lee Skye Chiarella ’79 of Boscawen, New Hampshire, died on February 20 after a long illness. Tami was born on March 27, 1957, in Cornwall, New York, and attended James I.
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May-June 2026
Mark Allan Miles ’79
Mark Allan Miles ’79 died from neck and throat cancer on December 31, 2025. He lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where he grew up.
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January-February 2026
Jon Patrick Gould ’79
Jon Patrick Gould ’79 died on September 9, 2025. Jon was born on January 17, 1957, and grew up in Hawaii, where he attended Punahou School. At the time of his death, Jon lived in Seattle.
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January-February 2026
Robert Raymond Rauch Jr. ’79
Robert Raymond Rauch Jr. ’79 , M.D., died on June 13, 2025. Bob grew up in Lenox, Massachusetts, and went to Lenox High School, where he was class valedictorian.
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July-August 2025
Robert Miller Brown ’79
Robert Miller Brown ’79 died on May 20 from a fast-moving brain tumor. Bob lived in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife Julia Fitch Brown ’79. Bob was born on February 25, 1957, and grew up in Pittsburgh.