Class Notes

1958 Alex Stoesen (MA) died in November in Greensboro, North Carolina, his daughter, Lyn Stoesen, reports. After earning a master’s degree in history from Rochester, Alex earned a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and went on to teach American history for 33 years at Guilford College, where he won multiple awards for teaching. As a longtime member of the committee that advises the state of North Carolina on historical markers, Alex was instrumental in obtaining a marker on Elm Street in Greensboro at the site of the sit-ins at the Woolworth lunch counter in February 1960. After his wife, Carol, died in 1999, he volunteered for missions and projects with the Unitarian Universalist Church as well as with Habitat for Humanity. He went on 28 Habitat for Humanity missions to six continents.

1970 Calvin Kalman (PhD), a professor of physics and the principal of the Science College at Concordia University in Montreal, writes with news that two of his books came out in second editions in 2017: Successful Science and Engineering Teaching in Colleges and Universities (Information Age Publishing) and Successful Science and Engineering Teaching: Theoretical and Learning Perspectives (Springer).

1974 Thomas Perry (PhD) published The Bomb Maker (Mysterious Press) in January. He has written more than 20 novels, for which he has received numerous notable awards and accolades, including an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

2005 Tara McCarthy (PhD) published Respectability and Reform: Irish American Women’s Activism, 1880-1920 (Syracuse University Press) this spring. An associate professor of history at Central Michigan University, Tara explores the roles, motivations, beliefs, and strategies of Irish immigrant women in American reform movements such as temperance, labor reform, suffrage, and Irish independence.