Class Note 1957
Issue
November-December 2020
Let’s get to the news.
The Eric Kunzel Class of 1957 Award was presented to Ida Claude ’22, Jacob Donaghue ’22, and David Lucas James ’21 at the Hopkins Center annual awards ceremony. Abigail M. Kott ’20, beneficiary of our 1957 Scholarship Fund, graduated as an economics major during the College’s virtual Commencement ceremony. Honorary classmate Steve Swayne continued to make us proud with his introduction to Aida on YouTube, plus online exploration of opera’s best-known music in award-winning films. John Roberts’ accomplishments as longtime director of the Massachusetts ACLU were captured in a film celebrating the organization’s 100th anniversary. Walt Burgin, in a special article for the Dartmouth College Fund, traced the roots of his 40-plus-year career in education to John Kemeny’s personal mentoring.
Our ’57 listserv continues to entertain and inform: Bill Woodbury and Sherman Mills remember serving in Vietnam, including visits from Chris Wren when he covered that war for Look magazine; Jay Greene describes the stevedoring and long-shoring trades back in the days before fork lifts, containerized ships, and heavy cranes; and Herb Roskind recalls his behind-the-scenes look at business in China as he experienced its newly emerging capitalism.
You’ll remember Bruce Sloane reported his cochlear implant was a life-changer. Now Carl Schmidt reports his own lifesaver: After falling and bleeding from the head, Carl’s lifeline medical alert system notified the emergency response team, which successfully rushed him to the hospital. And world-renowned urologist Jerry Weiss has authored the book, Breaking through Chronic Pelvic Pain, a Holistic Approach for Relief.
Finally, can there be any good news relating to the pandemic? A previous column noted the success of Bill Davidow’s book, The Autonomous Revolution, but failed to mention another item of great significance. Back in 2011 Bill and two colleagues licensed a new technology from the University of California, founded a company to pursue its use, hired some great biologists to search for applications and…yep…along came Covid-19. That company, Berkeley Lights (BLI), has just gone public and is being used to develop vaccines and treatments for Covid-19!
—John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnwcusick @aol.com
The Eric Kunzel Class of 1957 Award was presented to Ida Claude ’22, Jacob Donaghue ’22, and David Lucas James ’21 at the Hopkins Center annual awards ceremony. Abigail M. Kott ’20, beneficiary of our 1957 Scholarship Fund, graduated as an economics major during the College’s virtual Commencement ceremony. Honorary classmate Steve Swayne continued to make us proud with his introduction to Aida on YouTube, plus online exploration of opera’s best-known music in award-winning films. John Roberts’ accomplishments as longtime director of the Massachusetts ACLU were captured in a film celebrating the organization’s 100th anniversary. Walt Burgin, in a special article for the Dartmouth College Fund, traced the roots of his 40-plus-year career in education to John Kemeny’s personal mentoring.
Our ’57 listserv continues to entertain and inform: Bill Woodbury and Sherman Mills remember serving in Vietnam, including visits from Chris Wren when he covered that war for Look magazine; Jay Greene describes the stevedoring and long-shoring trades back in the days before fork lifts, containerized ships, and heavy cranes; and Herb Roskind recalls his behind-the-scenes look at business in China as he experienced its newly emerging capitalism.
You’ll remember Bruce Sloane reported his cochlear implant was a life-changer. Now Carl Schmidt reports his own lifesaver: After falling and bleeding from the head, Carl’s lifeline medical alert system notified the emergency response team, which successfully rushed him to the hospital. And world-renowned urologist Jerry Weiss has authored the book, Breaking through Chronic Pelvic Pain, a Holistic Approach for Relief.
Finally, can there be any good news relating to the pandemic? A previous column noted the success of Bill Davidow’s book, The Autonomous Revolution, but failed to mention another item of great significance. Back in 2011 Bill and two colleagues licensed a new technology from the University of California, founded a company to pursue its use, hired some great biologists to search for applications and…yep…along came Covid-19. That company, Berkeley Lights (BLI), has just gone public and is being used to develop vaccines and treatments for Covid-19!
—John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnwcusick @aol.com