Class Note 1966
Issue
November-December 2024
We have more 50-plus-year marriages and other updates below.
Five Pi Lams have at least two things in common—they all have been married 50 years or more and they all gathered at the Newton, Massachusetts, home of brother, lawyer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Donny Glazer in late August to wish him a happy 80th birthday. Judy and Richard Abraham, Joan and Ben Cohen, Hera and David Johnston, Myra and Hector Motroni, and Debbie and Alan Rottenberg were there, loyal friends all for nearly 60 years.
Rick Olsen, professor of pharmacology at the UCLA school of medicine working on the structure and function of GABA (you know, those receptor proteins in the brain) married Ann Palmer in 1967. Then Ann’s sister Beth married Rick’s Phi Kappa Psi frat brother Joe Furstenthal ’67, which has made them fraternity and brothers-in-law for half a century. Rick’s grandson James Hood is a ’23.
New York City-based pulmonologist Dr. Paul Chrzanowski and hematologist and oncologist Dr. Katherine Hawkins renewed their vows after 50 years of marriage at St. Patrick’s Cathedral this summer. They have two sons and three grandchildren. “It’s much easier,” Paul observes, “to be a grandparent than a parent.”
Painter Jeff Brown, whose works are now on display at Gallery House in Menlo Park, California, has been married to, and traveling the world with, Claudia, for 50 years.
Mark Budnitz, professor emeritus at Georgia State University in Atlanta who has specialized in consumer protection law, married Paula 57 years ago with Dartmouth professor and rabbi Jacob Neusner officiating. They have three children and four grandsons.
After a career in the high-tech world (Intel and start-ups) John Calhoun serves on a variety of local nonprofits in Portland, Oregon. His main focus is lobbying the state legislature to make the state’s tax policy more equitable. He and wife Diana (41 years) have two grandsons.
After a lifetime of work in legal research and teaching, Bill Cooper and wife Bonnie are volunteering with dementia patients near their home in Williamsburg, Virgina. Their combined families include 15 grandchildren and—wait for it—16 great-grands!
Have news or views? Please send ’em along.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com
Five Pi Lams have at least two things in common—they all have been married 50 years or more and they all gathered at the Newton, Massachusetts, home of brother, lawyer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Donny Glazer in late August to wish him a happy 80th birthday. Judy and Richard Abraham, Joan and Ben Cohen, Hera and David Johnston, Myra and Hector Motroni, and Debbie and Alan Rottenberg were there, loyal friends all for nearly 60 years.
Rick Olsen, professor of pharmacology at the UCLA school of medicine working on the structure and function of GABA (you know, those receptor proteins in the brain) married Ann Palmer in 1967. Then Ann’s sister Beth married Rick’s Phi Kappa Psi frat brother Joe Furstenthal ’67, which has made them fraternity and brothers-in-law for half a century. Rick’s grandson James Hood is a ’23.
New York City-based pulmonologist Dr. Paul Chrzanowski and hematologist and oncologist Dr. Katherine Hawkins renewed their vows after 50 years of marriage at St. Patrick’s Cathedral this summer. They have two sons and three grandchildren. “It’s much easier,” Paul observes, “to be a grandparent than a parent.”
Painter Jeff Brown, whose works are now on display at Gallery House in Menlo Park, California, has been married to, and traveling the world with, Claudia, for 50 years.
Mark Budnitz, professor emeritus at Georgia State University in Atlanta who has specialized in consumer protection law, married Paula 57 years ago with Dartmouth professor and rabbi Jacob Neusner officiating. They have three children and four grandsons.
After a career in the high-tech world (Intel and start-ups) John Calhoun serves on a variety of local nonprofits in Portland, Oregon. His main focus is lobbying the state legislature to make the state’s tax policy more equitable. He and wife Diana (41 years) have two grandsons.
After a lifetime of work in legal research and teaching, Bill Cooper and wife Bonnie are volunteering with dementia patients near their home in Williamsburg, Virgina. Their combined families include 15 grandchildren and—wait for it—16 great-grands!
Have news or views? Please send ’em along.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com