We have updates from classmates.
Dave Hanson got his Ph.D. at Cal Tech. His career was primarily in the chemistry department at Stony Brook University. His service includes director of undergraduate studies, director of graduate studies, associate department chair, and inaugural director of Stony Brook’s new learning communities program. He produced more than 150 research publications with ongoing grant support from the National Science Foundation and received awards for his methodology and excellence in teaching, the Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship, and the NATO senior fellowship in science. Dave and his wife of 61 years, Colleen, have moved to 19 acres on a limestone bluff overlooking the Missouri River outside of Rocheport, Missouri.
Jim Verdier after graduation studied at Oxford University for a year and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1968. He was a legislative assistant for U.S. Rep. Henry Reuss (D-Wis.) from 1968 to 1972 and Sen. Walter Mondale (D-Minn.) from 1973 to 1975 and worked at the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, heading the tax analysis division from 1979 to 1983. He taught public management and policy analysis at the Harvard Kennedy School. Finally, he was a senior fellow at Mathematica, a social policy research and consulting firm, from 1997 until his retirement in 2023. His work there focused on Medicaid, Medicare, and state health policy. He was also a visiting lecturer at the Princeton Woodrow Wilson School from 1998 to 2016.
Bill Hamm and his spouse, Kathleen, left California in 2022, after 45 years, and moved to Alexandria, Virginia. They now live in a newly constructed condominium building with an expansive view of the Potomac River and easy access to the parks and walking trails along the river. He is still working as an economic consultant specializing in commercial litigation. They are regulars at the Kennedy Center and sporting events. They also enjoy travel. This year their destinations include N.Y.C., Florida, London, Paris, Lake Tahoe, the Great Lakes, and Maui, Hawaii.
Congrats to Bob Cahners, who won two gold medals with dance partner Sonia in a recent dance competition in Naples, Florida. Please email me your update.
—Robert Goodman Jr., Kaufman & Canoles, P.C., 2101 Parks Ave., Suite 700, Virginia Beach, VA 23451; (757) 624-3238; rcgoodman@kaufcan.com; Hal Rabner, 14 Burnside St., Montclair, NJ 07043-1325; (973) 868-5417; hrabner@gmail.com