River Campus Undergraduate: 1960s

1960

Earl Ingersoll has published Waiting for the End: Gender and Ending in the Contemporary Novel (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press).

1963

Dorothea de Zafra Atwell sends an update: She has won two capstone honors in her retirement from federal civil service. Dorothea writes, “The first was an invitation to be the 2006 commencement speaker at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Pittsburgh, together with the school’s Alumni Association Volunteer Service Award for my ‘enduring commitment to public service’ and for service to the school. The second was biographical inclusion in the current (2007–08) edition of Marquis Who’s Who of American Women. Retirement finds me growing into married life with husband Wilbur M. Atwell—and eagerly anticipating becoming a step-grandmother early in 2008.” Dorothea also noted that her mother, Dorothea Michelson de Zafra, celebrated her 98th birthday (see ’29).

1964

Bill Kaplin writes that he has been named a Distinguished Professorial Lecturer at Stetson University’s College of Law in DeLand, Fla., and a senior fellow at Stetson’s Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy. He also continued on the faculty at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Last fall, Jossey-Bass/Wiley & Sons published the fourth edition of his treatise The Law of Higher Education (two volumes, with Barbara Lee). . . . Nancy Zingale received a Distinguished Service Award from the University of St. Thomas in recognition of her 30 years as a teacher, administrator, scholar, author, researcher, and pundit.

1969

David Adler has received the Tufts University School of Medicine’s Distinguished Faculty Award for 2006, given to those who have made outstanding contributions to the medical school in teaching, scholarship, and service. The award recognized David’s 30 years of experience in roles at several institutions, his writing on clinical practice, and his research in the detection and treatment of depression in non-mental health settings. David is a professor of psychiatry and medicine at Tufts, where he also serves as senior psychiatrist and director of mental health services research at Tufts New England Medical Center.