Class Note 1968

Hope your mid-winter is going well. A backlog of news to share: George Spivey wrote from Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. He received the Falmouth Historical Society Heritage Award for his appreciation for history, education and civic involvement, and even had a George Spivey Day proclaimed by the Falmouth selectmen. He is on the board of the Cape Cod chapter of the NAACP and the Zion Union Heritage Museum and volunteers as a youth program coordinator for the Cape Cod chapter of Concerned Black Men, doing a wide range of mentoring activities. And he has time for a day job with the local school administration as a human rights officer. Way to go, Brother George! Roger Witten moves up and down the Northeast, finding time for lunch with Bill Kolasky in D.C., lunch with Bill Adler in New York City and dinners in New York with Dave Cooperberg and Cliff Groen. Roger still practices law with WilmerHale, at least through this year of 2012. Roger and Jill equally love their time in Stowe, Vermont, where both serve on boards with Alan Thorndike. Jill is immersed in music in both Vermont and New York. Michel Zaleski has been heavily involved as a director with the Soros Economic Development Fund, which invests in businesses and funds that help provide jobs, services and productivity for the poor in places that are transitioning from conflict to stability and totalitarianism to democracy. They are in more than 20 countries, including the West Bank, where he and Caroline recently visited. On the family front, daughter Katherine ’03 just married Rufus Lusk ’04. They live in Washington, D.C., where she is the executive director of digital news for The Washington Post and he is a videographer making Internet documentaries and ads for large companies. Daughter Olivia ’06 works in New York at the Daily, a News Corp. iPad newspaper as an on-camera anchor, journalist and producer. Dan Bort wrote as he prepared for the Head of the Charles regatta this past fall. He did very well in recent events, winning his fourth and fifth national singles titles at the Masters National Rowing Championships in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, last August, winning both the lightweight and heavyweight trophies in the 1,000-meter events in the 65-plus group. Like many of us he tried to retire–as an attorney in San Francisco last June—but was persuaded to move to part time, and still enjoys it. He and Diana moved to more modest quarters in Point Richmond, California, which is working well. Dan is hoping to get back into community theater and Diana continues to make videos about natural home childbirth through her nonprofit, recently renamed Love Delivers Inc. Their three kids include a landscape architect, an assistant track and cross country coach and a production manager at the New Jewish Theater in St. Louis, Missouri. Sad news: Two more classmates have passed, Lew Sayers in Dallas and Nik von Rosenvinge in Washington State. Check the online obituaries for more. Keep the news coming.


—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@ childrens.harvard.edu