Here’s news from one of our classmates who has done more to make news accessible to more people than just about anyone else: Peter Prichard. During the past 40 years Pete has done it all in journalism, from the police and sports beats at the Greenwich (Connecticut) Time, the third largest daily in Fairfield County, to editor-in-chief of USA Today, America’s largest newspaper. During Pete’s record six-year stint at the helm, USA Today passed the 2 million circulation mark. 


He was a key member of the team that created the Newseum, the world’s only interactive museum of news, and was its president from 1997 to 2008. “I still serve as chairman of the Newseum,” Pete reports, “which attracts about 800,000 visitors a year in Washington, D.C., and gets good reviews from the public.”


Pete and Ann now live in Essex, Connecticut, about halfway between Oliver ’98, who works on Wall Street, and Lindsay, a social worker in Boston. “Our kids have both ends of the economic and political spectrum covered.” Ann and Pete stay busy with area nonprofits.


Here’s an incident many of us might identify with. Son Oliver visited Hanover with his daughter Polly and they looked Pete’s picture up in the ’66 Green Book. “Why does Popsie have such dark hair?” Polly asked. “It’s blond now.” When word got to Pete he “felt immediately younger.” A whole bunch of us are “blonds” about now!


William Koelsch earned his M.S. in “informatica” from the Pontificia Universadade Catolica de Rio de Janeiro in 1977 and stayed in Brazil for another 13 years to work in the computer software field and to raise a family. He now lives in Pasadena, California, near his sons Marcelo and Fabio, with his new wife, Andrea, and stays busy as a substitute high school teacher, “beefing up” the postage stamp collection first nurtured by his dad and grandfather and volunteering at the Pasadena Beautiful Foundation.


It hardly snowed in New York this winter. If this causes you to worry about the climate you may wish to reach out to Pete Chilstrom, a.k.a. “Swami Rapasananda,” at the Lakeshore Interfaith Institute in Ganges, Michigan. “My concern is the biosphere,” Pete explains. Find out more at www.motherstrust.org.


It is with regret that we announce the passing of Dr. Paul Rosendahl at his home in Hilo, Hawaii, with family and friends close by on March 19. Paul went to study at the University of Hawaii and never left, working as an archaeologist in the islands and Pacific Basin for 40 years. Our deepest sympathies to his wife, Shasta, his children, grandchildren, brothers and friends.


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com