SLATER SOCIETY

ALL POST-50TH REUNION CLASSES
OCTOBER 12-14, 2001

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Judge Carl Paul, Jr. writes that he attended the litigation conference of the Federal Bar Association, held at the Golden Nugget Hotel in Las Vegas in February. A member of the Federal Bar Association's National Council for many years, Paul served as president of its District of Columbia chapter between 1965-66. In April 2000, Paul received the John Hay Award from the George Washington University chapter of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Created by Abraham Lincoln in honor of Hay, a U.S. statesman and a Theta Delta Chi (Brown Zeta Chapter) member, the award has been given to only three other people. Paul also notes: "On June 10, I turned 90!"

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65TH REUNION
OCTOBER 12-14, 2001

'37

Ruth Goodman Rapport sent a photo from a Class of '37 lunch last spring. She notes: "The waitress had fun looking at our yearbook photos and then at us!" Pictured are (bottom row, from left to right) Winifred Dinsmore Alles, Eleanor Nicholson Humphrey '41M (MD), Ruth Parker Oakley '41M (MD), Helen Shaddock Rockwell, and Ruth Rapport; (center) Eleanor Alexander Drake; (top row) Eleanor Van Deusen Merrill, Barbara Brown Gorton, and Marion Karle. Also in attendance was Miriam Klonick Corris.

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60TH REUNION
OCTOBER 12-14, 2001

'43

Betsy Phillips Fisher, a former features editor of the Tower Times at Rochester, reports that she still enjoys writing and has had 35 poems published in the Columbia, Md., monthly Village News since 1997. Fisher is a certified caregiver for children who have been affected by disasters, and she works with the United Methodist Committee on Relief and Disaster Child Care, Church of the Brethren. She also is a chaplainry associate at Howard County (Md.) General Hospital, where she does bedside visits and volunteer work for the local psychiatric rehabilitation day program. In January, she was one of six child caregivers called to the site of the Alaska Air crash near Los Angeles to care for the children of families of the 88 victims. Currently, there are 26 people trained to be on-call for Child Care in Aviation Response, of which she is a part, and each team of six is asked to be on-call for two or three months out of the year. . . . Mildred Newhall O'Laughlin '46W (MS) writes that she met with some Rochester alumni aboard the cruise ship Yankee Clipper when it put in at Grenada, West Indies. She reports that they were having a magnificent cruise in the Caribbean. Mildred and her husband, Earl, were aboard their yacht, Sequin, and were docked at the Grenada Yacht Club this spring. . . . Mary Louise Head Sottong wrote the lyrics to the nine-minute piece Twilight Voice composed by Mario Abril and performed by soprano Diane Owens and the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra last February.

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C. William Tayler, community outreach chair of the D.C. Affairs Section of the District of Columbia Bar, was a co-winner of the section's award for Best Bar Project 1999-2000 for the Youth Law Fair held at the D.C. Courthouse last spring. Tayler was responsible for organizing and presenting the program to almost 300 D.C. teens and their parents as well as attorneys and other professionals working with teens. Featured were opening and closing youth speakout sessions, teen law seminars, youth court demonstrations, courthouse and cell block tours, law-related career information and tabletop exhibits, and a seminar on the juvenile justice system for attorneys and other professionals working in the system. A separate track of programs was presented in Spanish by the Hispanic Bar Association. Tayler also chairs the D.C. Legislative Action Committee of the Community Associations Institute, which provides education and legislative advocacy services to condominiums, cooperatives and homeowner associations in the District.

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55TH REUNION
OCTOBER 12-14, 2001

Bruce and Elizabeth (Tad) Krihak Lansdale '47 report that they have had a busy year. Last October they conducted seminars in Kosovo for Mercy Corps International, part of a series they have presented over the last decade. Bruce's new book, Cultivating Inspired Leaders: Making Participatory Management Work, was published on April 1 and is available on the Web at www.kpbooks.com. They add: "With the publication of the new book, we are anticipating more seminars in fascinating, out-of-the-way places!"

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Elizabeth (Tad) Krihak Lansdale (see '46 undergraduate).

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Gloria Patchen Alexander (see Alumni Gazette, Mom to Mom).

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