Class Note 1970
Issue
March - April 2024
Lacking a theme for this issue, I played the equivalent of Wheel of Fortune, flipping the pages of our freshman Green Book. I landed on the classmates below.
David Gilmour flew south in the winter of 2022, although a bit further south than most, “spending two months with my daughter and her family near Auckland, New Zealand. After two years with no physical contact due to Covid, it was good to connect with my Kiwi grandsons. I joined them during their summer holiday, ‘glamping’ near Tauranga and lying on the beach in the Cook Islands. I’m still living in southern Oregon and enjoy Cannon beach with my lady friend Pam.”
Bruce Rich writes “Following graduation and law school at Penn, I spent 46 years at Weil, Gotshal and Manges in New York City. That culminated in building a media and intellectual property practice that was at the cutting edge of internet and digital media.” During that time he joined the board of an education reform organization that sought to transform K-12 education. Today he’s board chair of EL Education Inc., which is helping shape the lives of a million students. He was also “fortunate to transition from a law practice to a Harvard-conceived project, Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI). ALI fellows spend a year in residence with access to all graduate school courses and the goal of furthering social entrepreneurship. It has given me a passion to stay relevant.”
Tom Reddy checked in from Berkeley, California, where he has lived since going to law school there. His practice was in banking, finance, and regulatory law. “Our two sons, graduates of Colorado University Boulder and University of California, Berkeley, are still local. Classmates Peter Logan and Scott Anthony live in the area. I finally retired during the pandemic. I play golf and sail on other people’s boats in San Francisco Bay. I share the cooking with Linda and have a book club with old friends. The days go by quickly.”
Michael Smith and his wife Jan live in Eugene, Oregon. He’s part of the volunteer Scorpions 30 trail crew, which clears wilderness trails using no power equipment (see photo in e-newsletter). He has a crossed saw certification, leads a crew, and never thought he’d be involved in work that requires hiking, carrying, and cutting. He’s also a trails volunteer, snowshoeing to place route markers and lead hikes.
Brent Petty left Dartmouth after sophomore year and transferred to Stanford. He writes, “The two institutions had very different strengths and weaknesses. I believe I had the greatest college experience in America from the combination. Medical school was at the University of Utah and Johns Hopkins for my residency.” In 1977-79 I was in the U.S Army as an internist at Fort Hood, Texas.” Petty returned to Baltimore to Hopkins’ general internal medicine faculty. He sees classmate Dr. Paul Ladenson in common clinic space, where they share some patients.
—Stuart Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, NY 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com
David Gilmour flew south in the winter of 2022, although a bit further south than most, “spending two months with my daughter and her family near Auckland, New Zealand. After two years with no physical contact due to Covid, it was good to connect with my Kiwi grandsons. I joined them during their summer holiday, ‘glamping’ near Tauranga and lying on the beach in the Cook Islands. I’m still living in southern Oregon and enjoy Cannon beach with my lady friend Pam.”
Bruce Rich writes “Following graduation and law school at Penn, I spent 46 years at Weil, Gotshal and Manges in New York City. That culminated in building a media and intellectual property practice that was at the cutting edge of internet and digital media.” During that time he joined the board of an education reform organization that sought to transform K-12 education. Today he’s board chair of EL Education Inc., which is helping shape the lives of a million students. He was also “fortunate to transition from a law practice to a Harvard-conceived project, Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI). ALI fellows spend a year in residence with access to all graduate school courses and the goal of furthering social entrepreneurship. It has given me a passion to stay relevant.”
Tom Reddy checked in from Berkeley, California, where he has lived since going to law school there. His practice was in banking, finance, and regulatory law. “Our two sons, graduates of Colorado University Boulder and University of California, Berkeley, are still local. Classmates Peter Logan and Scott Anthony live in the area. I finally retired during the pandemic. I play golf and sail on other people’s boats in San Francisco Bay. I share the cooking with Linda and have a book club with old friends. The days go by quickly.”
Michael Smith and his wife Jan live in Eugene, Oregon. He’s part of the volunteer Scorpions 30 trail crew, which clears wilderness trails using no power equipment (see photo in e-newsletter). He has a crossed saw certification, leads a crew, and never thought he’d be involved in work that requires hiking, carrying, and cutting. He’s also a trails volunteer, snowshoeing to place route markers and lead hikes.
Brent Petty left Dartmouth after sophomore year and transferred to Stanford. He writes, “The two institutions had very different strengths and weaknesses. I believe I had the greatest college experience in America from the combination. Medical school was at the University of Utah and Johns Hopkins for my residency.” In 1977-79 I was in the U.S Army as an internist at Fort Hood, Texas.” Petty returned to Baltimore to Hopkins’ general internal medicine faculty. He sees classmate Dr. Paul Ladenson in common clinic space, where they share some patients.
—Stuart Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, NY 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com