Class Note 1973
Issue
November-December 2021
Another long year bows out!
Michael McKinley is a Florida attorney based in Punta Gorda, having earned his J.D. at the University of Florida in 1978. Since 1981 he has served as attorney for the school board of Charlotte County and also represents the school boards of Glades and Hardee counties as well as the supervisor of elections for Charlotte County. Mike has developed extensive experience in local government, real estate, business and land development, and corporate law. He is active in the community and currently serves on the board of trustees of Goodwill Industries.
Lee Rosengard spent pandemic time teaching. “Although retired as a litigator from the firm where I spent my entire professional career, I continued as an adjunct professor at Penn Law School (year 10) and Villanova Law School (year 20), all on Zoom. The most fun was teaching nursery school with my wife, Andrea. Two of our three daughters and their families live in the Philly suburbs a few blocks apart, and both families have little girls who turned 3 years old in 2020. Their nursery school was closed for most of the 2020-21 school year, so we formed a Covid bubble. We spent three mornings a week teaching in one of their basement playrooms turned into a preschool. It’s hard to say who benefited more; two granddaughters, who learned their ABCs from adoring grandparents, or Andrea and I, who kept our sanity and sense of humor by being with little kids! Each of our preschoolers has a sister, one age 7 and one age 1, and we got to spend time with them as well. We resorted to FaceTime to stay connected to our Santa Monica daughter’s family with their two kids, ages 3 and 1.”
Ron Bast and Leslie “Mac” Rood operating as Bast & Rood Architects maintain architectural offices in Warren and Hinesburg, Vermont. Both have been involved with Yestermorrow Design Build School in Warren, where Mac is a teacher as well as on the board of directors. He is married to Bobbie Cohen Rood, a Wheaton exchange student our junior year. Mac collaborated with William McDonough on the Innovations for a Circular Economy House in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum. Bill serves on the advisory board at Yestermorrow. Ron has served on the Hinesburg planning commission, including a term as chair, as well as two stints on the Hinesburg selectboard, with multiple periods as chair. Ron also has been president and a board member of the Vermont League of Cities and Towns and currently is chair of the board of directors at the Snelling Center for Government, which is dedicated to fostering responsible and ethical civic leadership, encouraging public service, and promoting informed citizen participation in shaping public policy in Vermont.
Weymoth Crowell succumbed to a pulmonary embolism in July. T.W., a key member of the 1970-1972 Ivy football championship teams, practiced anatomic pathology and family medicine in Louisiana and Mississippi.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu
Michael McKinley is a Florida attorney based in Punta Gorda, having earned his J.D. at the University of Florida in 1978. Since 1981 he has served as attorney for the school board of Charlotte County and also represents the school boards of Glades and Hardee counties as well as the supervisor of elections for Charlotte County. Mike has developed extensive experience in local government, real estate, business and land development, and corporate law. He is active in the community and currently serves on the board of trustees of Goodwill Industries.
Lee Rosengard spent pandemic time teaching. “Although retired as a litigator from the firm where I spent my entire professional career, I continued as an adjunct professor at Penn Law School (year 10) and Villanova Law School (year 20), all on Zoom. The most fun was teaching nursery school with my wife, Andrea. Two of our three daughters and their families live in the Philly suburbs a few blocks apart, and both families have little girls who turned 3 years old in 2020. Their nursery school was closed for most of the 2020-21 school year, so we formed a Covid bubble. We spent three mornings a week teaching in one of their basement playrooms turned into a preschool. It’s hard to say who benefited more; two granddaughters, who learned their ABCs from adoring grandparents, or Andrea and I, who kept our sanity and sense of humor by being with little kids! Each of our preschoolers has a sister, one age 7 and one age 1, and we got to spend time with them as well. We resorted to FaceTime to stay connected to our Santa Monica daughter’s family with their two kids, ages 3 and 1.”
Ron Bast and Leslie “Mac” Rood operating as Bast & Rood Architects maintain architectural offices in Warren and Hinesburg, Vermont. Both have been involved with Yestermorrow Design Build School in Warren, where Mac is a teacher as well as on the board of directors. He is married to Bobbie Cohen Rood, a Wheaton exchange student our junior year. Mac collaborated with William McDonough on the Innovations for a Circular Economy House in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum. Bill serves on the advisory board at Yestermorrow. Ron has served on the Hinesburg planning commission, including a term as chair, as well as two stints on the Hinesburg selectboard, with multiple periods as chair. Ron also has been president and a board member of the Vermont League of Cities and Towns and currently is chair of the board of directors at the Snelling Center for Government, which is dedicated to fostering responsible and ethical civic leadership, encouraging public service, and promoting informed citizen participation in shaping public policy in Vermont.
Weymoth Crowell succumbed to a pulmonary embolism in July. T.W., a key member of the 1970-1972 Ivy football championship teams, practiced anatomic pathology and family medicine in Louisiana and Mississippi.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu