Class Note 1957
Issue
Some of us made a career out of teaching, others taught a course or two as an extension of our work and still others first taught after retirement.
Doug Brew taught at a number of colleges, including 19 years in the geology department at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He then turned to house building for Habitat for Humanity in Colorado and Poland. He also sings in the Durango Choral Society—including a performance of the Mozart Requiem in Carnegie Hall last year.
A former distinguished teaching professor at the State University of New York-Fredonia, Dick Gilman found himself back in a classroom with 60 students after a sudden death in the geo-sciences department. He still plays fiddle and banjo, builds mountain dulcimers and has helped to restore the 1891 Fredonia Opera House where he volunteers.
Mike King has a similar interest. Since his retirement from Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, where he created the school’s first art department, he has been involved in renovating the Park Theatre in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. It’s a former vaudeville and movie house in the process of becoming “a regional center for the arts.”
While teaching modern European history at Hofstra University John Jeanneney developed an interest in the use of leashed tracking dogs for the humane purpose of finding wounded big game. He has a Web site (www.born-to-track.com) and is the author of Tracking Dogs for Finding Wounded Deer.
After a career in information technology at IBM in Providence, Rhode Island, Phil Lippincott is active in Common Cause at the state level. Phil describes it as a nonpartisan organization “working toward open, ethical, accountable and effective government.”
Duncan Barnes, retired as editor of Field & Stream magazine, remains active in the out-of-doors. He is currently a director of the Maine Coastal Conservation Association, which works to conserve the state’s saltwater sport fisheries, and is also a founding board member of Stripers Forever, an Internet-based organization with nearly 20,000 members from Maine to North Carolina that advocates game fish status (no commercial harvest) for the wild striped bass all along the Atlantic Coast.
Last December Bob Grey, former U.S. representative to the Conference on Disarmament, spoke about the new START Treaty at the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in Washington, D.C.
Marty Anderson and his wife, Annelise, have co-authored a new book, Reagan’s Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight To Save the World from Nuclear Disaster, from Crown. Both are fellows at the Hoover Institution.
Dick Mason sings with the Joyful Singers, a Worcester, Massachusetts, chorus of men and women in their 70s.
Dave Jenkins was a general trial judge for the state of Vermont. Asked what he does nowadays, he says, “I try cases.” He is still a part-time judge on civil cases “when they ask me.”
Retired from a career in environmental engineering, Bob McCollom serves as a regional board member for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and is active with the Vermont Humane Federation.
—Michael Lasser, 164 New Wickham Drive, Penfield, NY 14526; rhythm2@frontiernet.net
May - June 2010
Some of us made a career out of teaching, others taught a course or two as an extension of our work and still others first taught after retirement.
Doug Brew taught at a number of colleges, including 19 years in the geology department at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He then turned to house building for Habitat for Humanity in Colorado and Poland. He also sings in the Durango Choral Society—including a performance of the Mozart Requiem in Carnegie Hall last year.
A former distinguished teaching professor at the State University of New York-Fredonia, Dick Gilman found himself back in a classroom with 60 students after a sudden death in the geo-sciences department. He still plays fiddle and banjo, builds mountain dulcimers and has helped to restore the 1891 Fredonia Opera House where he volunteers.
Mike King has a similar interest. Since his retirement from Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, where he created the school’s first art department, he has been involved in renovating the Park Theatre in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. It’s a former vaudeville and movie house in the process of becoming “a regional center for the arts.”
While teaching modern European history at Hofstra University John Jeanneney developed an interest in the use of leashed tracking dogs for the humane purpose of finding wounded big game. He has a Web site (www.born-to-track.com) and is the author of Tracking Dogs for Finding Wounded Deer.
After a career in information technology at IBM in Providence, Rhode Island, Phil Lippincott is active in Common Cause at the state level. Phil describes it as a nonpartisan organization “working toward open, ethical, accountable and effective government.”
Duncan Barnes, retired as editor of Field & Stream magazine, remains active in the out-of-doors. He is currently a director of the Maine Coastal Conservation Association, which works to conserve the state’s saltwater sport fisheries, and is also a founding board member of Stripers Forever, an Internet-based organization with nearly 20,000 members from Maine to North Carolina that advocates game fish status (no commercial harvest) for the wild striped bass all along the Atlantic Coast.
Last December Bob Grey, former U.S. representative to the Conference on Disarmament, spoke about the new START Treaty at the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in Washington, D.C.
Marty Anderson and his wife, Annelise, have co-authored a new book, Reagan’s Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight To Save the World from Nuclear Disaster, from Crown. Both are fellows at the Hoover Institution.
Dick Mason sings with the Joyful Singers, a Worcester, Massachusetts, chorus of men and women in their 70s.
Dave Jenkins was a general trial judge for the state of Vermont. Asked what he does nowadays, he says, “I try cases.” He is still a part-time judge on civil cases “when they ask me.”
Retired from a career in environmental engineering, Bob McCollom serves as a regional board member for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and is active with the Vermont Humane Federation.
—Michael Lasser, 164 New Wickham Drive, Penfield, NY 14526; rhythm2@frontiernet.net