Class Notes

River Campus Undergraduate: 1960s

1960
Constance Gerhard Brown is the author of In a Man’s World: Faculty Wives and Daughters at Phillips Exeter Academy 1781–1981. . . . Anne Loveland has published From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History. She is T. Harry Williams Professor Emerita at Louisiana State University.

1961
Robert McCaughey, a professor of history at Columbia University’s Barnard College, is the author of Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754–2004.

1965
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, a history professor at Cornell University, wrote Kansas Charley: The Story of a 19th Century Boy Murderer, which was published in September. . . . Juanita Gidada writes to report that her husband, Solomon Gidada ’67 W (Mas), a former Ethiopian ambassador to Great Britain, died on June 17, 2003, in Los Angeles. . . . Karen Besenfelder Howland writes, “My work at QuickSAN in Rochester is varied and includes research, writing, and editing; I like being the Mac expert in the group. My e-mail is wise.guy (at) mac (dot) com; family photos and more are on my Web site, http://homepage.mac.com/wise.guy.”

1966
Bruce Crockett has been named chairman of Captaris Inc., a business data management company headquartered in Bellevue, Wash. He has been on the Captaris board of directors since September 2001. Bruce is also a member of the University’s Board of Trustees. . . . Marc Holzer, a professor of public administration at Rutgers University, has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. The nonprofit organization chartered by Congress provides government leaders with advice and analysis on issues of governance and management. . . . John Hubbard’s and Anita Huray’s computer science textbook, Data Structures with Java, was published in November. John is a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Richmond. . . . Gaylord (Chip) Thayer has been appointed to the board of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.