Class Note 1964

This article features two classmates: one retired, Huntley Whitacre; one still working, Len Glass, M.D.

Hunt and wife Lynne live in Hanover and really enjoy nearby college friends and activities. His oldest, Kerry ’94, lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with two girls aged 13 and 11. Their other daughter, Kate, lives in Tucson, Arizona, with two boys aged 14 and 13. They all vacation every other year all over the world to educate and broaden their horizons, this year on their 50th anniversary. Hunt retired in 1999 after three careers, all finance related, starting on Wall Street with Kidder Peabody in security analysis, then Nabisco in corporate development, and finally RJR Nabisco as senior VP.Post-retirement has been productive and fun. He and Lynne travel in the United States (visited 13 presidential libraries) as well as overseas. For 17 years he has played a variety of trustee roles for Northern Stage Theater, a professional regional theater. It recently built a new theater, sparking a renewal of White River Junction, Vermont. He is on the investment committee of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and on the Ledyard Bank investment advisory committee. He has been a class officer for at least 16 years, and currently is vice president.

Len Glass, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, still practices in Newton, Massachusetts, and teaches at Harvard Medical School and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where he served as president. He and Peggy (Bennington ’68) celebrated their 50th anniversary last June. Peggy is a food writer who has published two cookbooks, taught cooking classes, and written a newspaper column. They have three children: Adam (Carnegie Mellon ’94), Rebecca (Harvard ’98), and Noah (Yale ’03) and five grandchildren. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s assertion notwithstanding, Len embarked upon a “second act” in his professional life these past two years. Alarmed by the statements and behavior of candidate Donald Trump, Len posted critical observations based on his training and experience that predicted impulsive actions, vengeful and chaotic outbursts, and an inability to collaborate with others or learn from divergent views should Trump’s campaign succeed. In a letter published in The New York Times, he and colleagues bemoaned that, among a plethora of speculation about the president’s mental state by pundits, there was a notable lack of commentary by psychiatrists, the experts in this field. They ascribed this to the Goldwater Rule, the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) prohibition against “diagnosis from afar.”

Unwilling to be “gagged,” Len unsuccessfully called on the APA to modify its ruling, so he resigned in protest after 41 years of membership and recognition as a Distinguished Life Fellow. Len continued his protest and articulated his perspectives on what he saw as Mr. Trump’s psychological unfitness in a peer-reviewed professional journal, then in several op-eds in The Boston Globe, Politico, and STAT and wrote a chapter for the book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, which appeared on The New York Times and Amazon bestseller lists. He also was interviewed on PBS, CNN, NPR, and other media, including some international networks.

—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com