Class Notes

River Campus Undergraduate: 1960s

1961
Donald Barra conducted “A Tribute to Leonard Bernstein” with the San Diego Chamber Orchestra last April. It was his last program as artistic director before his retirement. He also is professor emeritus at San Diego State University.

1964
Bill Kaplin is the author of American Constitutional Law: An Overview, Analysis, and Integration. Bill is a law professor at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

1965
Sue Jacobson Kutz (see ’66).

1966
Debra Newmark Chwast writes, “I was divorced in 2003, went to Dubai, and rode camels. I produced a DVD about my autistic 21-year-old son creating a painting of a red horse that was screened at the Ohio Independent Film Festival last year. I study five hours a week by telephone with a Kabbalist in Israel. I talk with Anne Mitchell Hawkins ’67, ’78 (PhD), my best friend, every week. I am very happy.” . . . Julie Wilson Rothschild writes, “For the past 36 years, I have made my home in New Mexico. A few years ago I met the mother of a lovely young woman my son was dating, and I felt an immediate connection with her. Sue Jacobson Kutz ’65 and I have seen our kids marry and begin a family together, and all along I have felt very comfortable with her, even though our lives are quite different. I am a small-town person, a hiker, and a weaver, and Sue is a very successful clinical psychologist married to a well-known Israeli psychiatrist, living most of the time in Tel Aviv. How then to explain this connection with someone from a different world? It turns out we both graduated from Rochester! I don’t think our paths crossed at the time, since she was married to a graduate student and was a member of the Class of 1965. We are good friends now and have even more in common—our darling granddaughter, Revely Joy Rothschild. My husband, Henry (‘Saki’), who received his R.N. degree from Santa Fe Community College a few years ago, and I have two sons, both musicians; two daughters-in-law, both artistic; and another grandchild on the way. We live in Santa Fe for part of the year and in the mountains near Lake City, Colo., for the other part.”

1967
Anne Mitchell Hawkins (see ’66). . . . Joanne Orth was named associate dean for faculty at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Joanne also is professor of anatomy and cell biology, has a research program in reproductive biology, and is first-year coordinator for the medical school curriculum. She and her husband, J. Clifford Schultz, breed champion Scottish terriers under the name “Glengala.” She writes, “We look forward to a new brood of puppies sired by CH Motherwell’s Alberta Clipper (Clinton), papa to the newest White House Scottie addition, Miss Beasley.” . . . Dace Viceps Madore is one of three scientists to receive the Discoverers Award from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America for the development of the pneumococcal vaccine Prevnar. While working for Wyeth in Rochester, Dace led a team of scientists in assessing the immune potency of the vaccine in clinical trials. Prevnar is based on technology developed at the University.

1969
Suzann Smart was elected director of the Hortense and Louis Rubin Dialysis Center, which has locations in Troy, Clifton Park, and Saratoga Springs, N.Y.