Class Note 1970
Issue
September-October 2024
Global legal work and international banking sent two of our classmates ’round the girdled earth.
Wallace Ford takes comfort in knowing that he’s still the youngest member of our class. That didn’t seem to be an obstacle to him spending most of the past 54 years as a judicial law secretary, venture capital executive, N.Y.C. and New York State commissioner, and international attorney in Africa and the Caribbean. He writes, “I’m now a tenured professor at Medgar Evers College in the City University of New York. I live in the Bronx with my son, Wallace.”
Kadita “A.T.” Tshibaka writes, “I was with Citibank for 33 years in various international executive positions in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America that was followed by three years with Lloyds Banking Group in London. I retired to Virginia in 2008 with my wife, Priscilla (a.k.a. ‘P.T.’). I served on a number of boards, both nonprofit (Opportunity International, Eleazar Wheelock Society, Africa New Day, Tucker Foundation) and for-profit (Ecobank Transnational, a pan-African institution). We have a son, daughter, and seven grandkids.”
Here are updates from classmates who stayed stateside.
Richard Porter managed to sustain being both married for 50 years and practicing law in Wisconsin for the same duration. He was engaged with a lot of nonprofits, including the Urban League, NAACP, Goodwill, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and Cabot Theater. Now retired, he moved to the D.C. area in 2014 to be closer to his son’s family. For the past several years he’s been president of his 450-unit condo association (with 2,300 residents!). He’s proud of his 11-year-old grandson, who is Virginia state chess champion for his age group.
Thomas Walker shares a deep look back at his path from then-segregated Corpus Christi, Texas, to Dartmouth and his career. “I was the youngest of five siblings of a single mother who worked a domestic day job. At night she crafted gowns on her foot pedal-powered Singer sewing machine. I learned a lot about attention to detail by watching her alter patterns.
“My time at Dartmouth was the start of a lifelong journey of exploring possibilities I couldn’t have imagined in my youth. I majored in art with an emphasis in architecture. Classmates I looked to for support were Herschel Johnson, Keith Jackson,and Wallace Ford.
“I graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago with a degree in architecture. That led me to a job at the office of world-renowned Mies van der Rohe. After a brief stint in Dallas I returned to Chicago to work on the approval and execution of the master plan for the Cityfront Center, a major mixed-use development in downtown for the Chicago Dock and Canal Trust. I’m now fully retired and enjoy working in my own yard and a nearby community garden.”
—Stuart Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, NY 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com
Wallace Ford takes comfort in knowing that he’s still the youngest member of our class. That didn’t seem to be an obstacle to him spending most of the past 54 years as a judicial law secretary, venture capital executive, N.Y.C. and New York State commissioner, and international attorney in Africa and the Caribbean. He writes, “I’m now a tenured professor at Medgar Evers College in the City University of New York. I live in the Bronx with my son, Wallace.”
Kadita “A.T.” Tshibaka writes, “I was with Citibank for 33 years in various international executive positions in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America that was followed by three years with Lloyds Banking Group in London. I retired to Virginia in 2008 with my wife, Priscilla (a.k.a. ‘P.T.’). I served on a number of boards, both nonprofit (Opportunity International, Eleazar Wheelock Society, Africa New Day, Tucker Foundation) and for-profit (Ecobank Transnational, a pan-African institution). We have a son, daughter, and seven grandkids.”
Here are updates from classmates who stayed stateside.
Richard Porter managed to sustain being both married for 50 years and practicing law in Wisconsin for the same duration. He was engaged with a lot of nonprofits, including the Urban League, NAACP, Goodwill, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and Cabot Theater. Now retired, he moved to the D.C. area in 2014 to be closer to his son’s family. For the past several years he’s been president of his 450-unit condo association (with 2,300 residents!). He’s proud of his 11-year-old grandson, who is Virginia state chess champion for his age group.
Thomas Walker shares a deep look back at his path from then-segregated Corpus Christi, Texas, to Dartmouth and his career. “I was the youngest of five siblings of a single mother who worked a domestic day job. At night she crafted gowns on her foot pedal-powered Singer sewing machine. I learned a lot about attention to detail by watching her alter patterns.
“My time at Dartmouth was the start of a lifelong journey of exploring possibilities I couldn’t have imagined in my youth. I majored in art with an emphasis in architecture. Classmates I looked to for support were Herschel Johnson, Keith Jackson,and Wallace Ford.
“I graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago with a degree in architecture. That led me to a job at the office of world-renowned Mies van der Rohe. After a brief stint in Dallas I returned to Chicago to work on the approval and execution of the master plan for the Cityfront Center, a major mixed-use development in downtown for the Chicago Dock and Canal Trust. I’m now fully retired and enjoy working in my own yard and a nearby community garden.”
—Stuart Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, NY 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com