’70
40th Reunion: October 8–10, 2010!
John Campbell is still practicing law in estate planning in Cincinnati. He says he and his wife, Janet, are “looking forward with mixed emotions to the departure of our daughter, Diana, to college next year, leaving us both ‘home alone’ and ‘free at last.’” Their oldest son, Nick, is a musician in Asheville, N.C., with the band Arizona, and their other son, Jamie, lives in Seattle.
’71
Robert Redwine ’71 participated in the Adventure TEAM Challenge (formerly the Real Deal) in Vail, Colo. Rob took on the challenge with two disabled athletes. Teams were comprised of three able-bodied athletes and two people with disabilities, one of whom had to be non-ambulatory (a paraplegic athlete). Athletes participated in events on mountain bikes, in rafts, and on foot.
Mark Shadle participated in the 100th voyage of the Semester at Sea program. On sabbatical from his teaching position at Eastern Oregon University in LaGrande, Mark and the rest of the faculty met in Miami. They picked up the ship’s 740 students in Nassau, Bahamas, and continued on to Cadiz, Spain. Their trip included stops in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America, with 12 ports of call.
Robert Talbott and his award-winning vineyards were featured in an article in the Monterey (Calif.) Herald newspaper. Robert’s first vineyard was on a remote piece of land high above the Carmel Valley floor. Today, that site is the Diamond T Estate. He also owns the 450acre Sleepy Hollow Vineyard in the Santa Lucia Highlands and the 115acre River Road Vineyard nearby. The Diamond T Estate Chardonnay and Talbott Sleepy Hollow Vineyard Chardonnay both regularly win high ratings from national reviewers. The Diamond T Chardonnay is widely recognized as one of California’s consistently best Chardonnays. (See www.talbottvineyards.com)
’72
Class secretary:
Jesse Sokolow
Two Spaulding Lane
Riverdale, NY 10471-3212
jane.sokolow@lonetreemesa.com
Roland LaForge
After 25 years of federal service, Roland LaForge retired from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. He now works for William Lettis & Associates, Inc., a global geohazards company. His work involves analyzing seismic hazards for critical structures such as dams and power plants. He has two sons, one a high school senior and one out of college, and he enjoys fly-fishing in Colorado and playing in the Boulder-Nederland area with his band, Too Much Jones.
’75
35th Cluster Reunion: October 8–10, 2010!
Two members of the Class of ’77, Libby Kerr Michaud and Jane Eubell Meyer, and their families met on the Jersey shore in Mantoloking, N.J. It was their first reunion in 32 years.
’76
35th Cluster Reunion: October 8–10, 2010!
Fellow classmates and fraternity brothers John S. Howe and Frank Bowman both hold endowed chairs at the University of Missouri-Columbia. John has a chair in the College of Business; his graduate degrees are from Purdue University. Frank has a chair in the School of Law; he attended Harvard Law School.
’78
David Mason, an English professor at Colorado College, was named the 2009 Thatcher Hoffman Smith Creativity in Motion prize recipient. The $40,000 prize, given by the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences, is a biennial award honoring the creative process. The award gives Dave more time to focus on creating the libretto for the opera adaptation of his verse novel, “Ludlow,” which tells the dramatic story of immigrants caught in a labor struggle in southern Colorado, ending in the Ludlow Massacre in April 1914. Mason also had a poem titled “Fathers and Sons” published in the Sept. 28 issue of The New Yorker magazine.
Members of the Class of ’78 attended Ellen Goldschmidt’s art gallery opening in Portland, Ore., in August. From left, Robin McQuay, Anne Reifenberg, and Ellen Goldschmidt.
’79
Wendy Weiss presented “Landscape with Floating Biology” at the Cocoon Gallery in the Arts Incubator of Kansas City in May. Wendy and her collaborator, Jay Kreimer of Lincoln, Neb., described their new work this way: “We leave the constructed grid and make an alternative installation, a landscape of treelike, handwoven, naturaldyed cylinders, printed suspended figures, and natural forms.” Wendy recently returned from a FulbrightNehru Senior Research Award semester in India where she worked with master weavers to document the practice known as double ikat weaving. She teaches in the School of Textiles, Clothing, and Design at the University of Nebraska.
