Class Note 1979
In March Tim Ehrsam joined more than 30 Alpha Delta alumni in Sarasota, Florida, for an annual Third Monday meeting. Third Monday is a corporation whose mission supports medical care and rehabilitation of children injured in war-torn countries. Bill Holmes, who traveled from Afghanistan, is the point surgeon for Third Monday’s humanitarian efforts. Other ’79s who attended are Dave Daniels (practicing law in Pawling, New York; he and his wife, Susan, have five children and a grandchild), Doug Hodge (he and his wife recently moved from Tokyo, pre-earthquake, to California; they have seven children including two who are recently adopted), John Wetenhall (president of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh; he attended with his wife, Tanya) and Dave Wilson (at UCS Finance; he and his wife, Myra, have two children at Stanford). Tim is in his 22nd year at Oracle and is a soccer referee in Vienna, Virginia. His wife, Marsha, is a high school teacher and field hockey coach, and they have three children. Max is a high school junior, T.J. is a Louisburg College freshman and Monica graduated from the University of South Carolina.
Margot Schaaf Barker has been in Seattle since 2006. She is an executive assistant in the University of Washington medicine advancement office, which is responsible for fundraising. Margot moved there after living in Florida for 20 years. Her son Charlie, 27, has a master’s in mechanical engineering and works as a structural integrity engineer. Her son Brad, 25, is working on his Ph.D. in Physics at UC Berkeley. Since Margot’s 2007 divorce from Kirk Barker ’76 she enjoys dancing (swing, salsa, waltz) in her spare time. Margot has been in touch with many classmates: She has attended mini-reunions at the Seattle home of Tim Higgins, and one of her colleagues rows every morning with Tom Hull. She sees Carol Anderson Shaw, and also gets together with Mark Schneider, an attorney who was a classmate of Margot’s in Illinois, beginning in kindergarten. She had dinner earlier this year with Peter Greulich, who lives in Chicago but was in Seattle on business, and she stays in touch with Gwen Kujala Stein, an attorney in the Chicago area who went to junior high and high school with her. Finally, Margot stays in touch with her freshman roommate, Debbie Sortor Parnon, who lives in Darien, Connecticut. Debbie and her husband, Tom ’76, have three sons.
Bruce Peyser is an associate professor of medicine at Duke. He spends about half his time seeing patients and the rest of his time teaching residents and medical students. He is also heavily involved in faculty development programs and helps run an innovative program that is training medical students to become leaders in the field of primary care medicine. Bruce is married to Cynthia Shortell ’80. She is at Duke as well, where she is the division chief of vascular surgery. Bruce and Cynthia have three children: Their oldest, Chris, attends the University of Georgia, Cara is 16 and Tim is 14.
—Deborah Krieger Jennings, 34 Godfrey Road, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043; (973) 744-2582; djennings@mka.org
