Class Note 1977

Joseph Swain has published a work of traditional music criticism titled Listening to Bach and Handel. The book asks why these two composers, born one month and 125 kilometers apart, could compose so differently from each other and their colleagues and yet both achieve universal acclaim. Their work underlies, in many ways, all the music that came after them. The book is for all lovers of music in the Western tradition and is available through Pendragon Press.

Alan Trefler gave a fireside chat this fall at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network in Boston, a program of the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship. Alan is a technology change-agent, innovative philanthropist, chess master, best-selling author, and business advisor. Alan founded Pegasystems in 1983 and has built the company into a global provider of strategic applications to improve customer experiences and automate business processes. Today, Pega has $840 million in revenue, a market cap of $4.24 billion, and employs more than 4,500 professionals in 30 offices around the world.

Brian Deevy has been inducted into the Broadcast and Cable Hall of Fame, class of 2018. Brian is a member of the board of directors of Liberty Media Corp. as well as the Daniels Fund. He also serves on the board of the U. S. Olympic and Paralympic Foundation. Brian was the head of RBC Capital Markets’ communications, media, and entertainment group. During his tenure, Brian led the firm to more than 2,000 transactions valued at more than $185 billion. (FYI, most of the above information came to your news-hungry secretaries via press releases, rather than from the classmates themselves. Everybody’s modesty makes this a tough column to write. It would not kill you to share some news with us.)

Nicole Lewis-Oakes has moved to New York City, where she and her husband, Jerry, see Brian McLaughlin and Merily Hendrickson McLaughlin for cultural outings from Shakespeare in the Park to exhibitions at the Guggenheim.

Get ready for our 65th birthday bash in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from August 27 to 30, 2020. Classmates Phil Hanlon and Gail Gentes plan to attend. If you would like to participate in organizing this event, please contact Amy Cholnoky or Ted Lapres.

—Robin Gosnell, 31 Elm Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540; robins.nest@icloud.com; Eric Edmondson, Signal Hill Capital LLC, 425 California St., Suite 19, San Francisco, CA 94104; eweedmondson@gmail.com; Drew Kintzinger, 2400 M St. NW, Apt. 914, Washington, DC 20037; akintzinger@hunton.com