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Thank you for your responses to the questionnaires. We are not only
getting older, we are getting better! Ron Majdalany is a veterinarian
who breeds llamas and peacocks in Great Barrington, Mass. He and his wife, Jane
Laning, have a daughter, 4. Ron enjoys skiing with Steve
Parsons. . . . Gwynelle Dismukes has been busy
writing, editing and working in mediation. She traveled to Africa last year and
read one of her poems for the president of Ghana. She publishes a monthly
paper, "Brite Moments," has written a book called The African-Centered
Family Unity Guide, and edited a book called A Common Sense Guide to
Urban Education. She also enjoys her two children, 8 and
11. . . . Betty Robinson is dean of the
Lewiston-Auburn College of the University of Southern Maine. She is
particularly impressed with the college's non-traditional students--the average
age is 32, and 80 percent are women. She reports that Bob Mayer is
working in information systems for Governor Angus King.
. . . Gail McKenzie Johnson is an accountant in
Princeton, N.J. She and husband Darryl have two children, 10 and 8. Gail
reports that she continues to be an aging hippie--shopping in health food
stores and using New Age healing arts. . . . Ed Hathaway
spent a day in San Francisco with Ellie Robison Kasch and former
roommate Gary Roy, Ph.D. Ed enjoys living and working in the Bay area,
especially biking with his son, Charles, 7 . . . .
Barbara Hoene is an anesthesiologist in Natal, South Africa. She works
in a 1,600-bed teaching hospital and loves living in
Africa. . . . Laura Lunardo is the chief financial
officer of The Optometrics Group, headquartered in Ayer, Mass. She has traveled
to China twice in recent years and adopted two Chinese children--Olivia, 4, and
Sarah, 2. She says, "Becoming a mom to two toddlers is a baptism by fire!--but
I wouldn't change it for the world!" . . . Robert J. O'Neil
was Wyoming's sole delegate to the Democratic National Platform Committee and
attended the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The convention gave him
a unique glimpse into politics at the national level, and besides that, it was
a lot of fun! He urges any of us who are interested in politics to attend a
national convention. . . . Susanna De Mers Liller is
the owner of the business Susanna Liller: Facilitation, Mediation and Training,
which is based in her home in Woolwich, Maine. She works with organizations to
do planning, make decisions and solve problems. She is co-author of a book,
Sea Change: Creating a High Performance Work Organization in
Maine. . . . Christi Pope is the mother of three and
daycare provider to 10 and has been a foster parent to 10 children over the
past seven years. She and her husband, Steve Capaldo '74, edit and publish
their church newsletter and travel often with their children's hockey and
soccer teams. . . . Wells Pile is the director of annual
giving at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. He and his wife,
Marguerite Ofria Pile, juggle the activities of their three children and busy
careers.
Ann Lyle Rethlefsen '71 received one of the 24 fellowships in the Bush
Educators Program for mid-career educators in
Minnesota. . . . Robert Diamond '73 was featured in
a Euromoney magazine article. He is director of the fixed income
division at the investment bank BZW. . . . Michael Roy '74
is the new president of the Maine Municipal Association.
. . . Gail Chase '74 was named treasurer of the Maine
Children's Alliance. . . . Elizabeth Knight Warn '76, has
been promoted to senior vice president in the retail mortgage department at
Peoples Heritage Bank. . . . Lynn Thommen '76 is
director of development for American Ballet Theatre. . . .
Steven R. Singer '79 joined the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as chief of
communications and principal spokesman.
Births: A daughter, Abigail Grace, to Neil and Donna Dee Genzlinger
'78.
Soaking Up Knowledge
The Flood probably won't do us in, but water--or
the lack of it--might. Thirsty big cities are expropriating more and more water
resources from rural agricultural areas and creating a wave of controversy in
the process.A century ago, rivers flowing from the mountains helped support year-round ranching in the South Park area near Denver. Today, says Cathy Kindquist '78, an assistant professor of geography at Radford University in Virginia, cities like Aurora, Colo., are buying up water rights to ensure their own growth, and ranchers are being devastated by the loss of their water. [CONTINUE]
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