1960

Robert Graves writes that he retired from the Boeing Company in Seattle in February and has since been traveling. "In May, we visited Fred Conta. He has a nice pad and a nice chick in Tiburon, Calif. He has traded in his sporty wheels for sails. No longer pushes threads but works for a company where he is the only male," Robert writes. "I am living in Yarrow Point, Wash., across Lake Washington from Seattle, playing some golf, enjoying the opportunity to take long trips and visit old friends."

Rochester defense attorney John Parrinello, a member of the Trustees’ Alumni Council of the College, was featured in a City newspaper article in July. He was chosen by his peers for inclusion in the reference book, The Best Lawyers in America.

1962

Jerry Saffer published Wednesday Evenings and Every Other Weekend: From Divorced Dad to Competent Co-Parent with F. Daniel McClure. The two clinical psychologists, neither of whom has been divorced, offer advice based on years of counseling children and parents.

1963

40TH REUNION
OCTOBER 10-12, 2003

Dorothea deZafra Atwell writes that on August 11, 2001, she married Wilbur Atwell, a retired professor of social psychology at Howard University who specialized in drug abuse prevention and treatment. Harriet Johnson London and Phyllis Lyons Valdes-Cruz ’64 attended the wedding. Dorothea retired in June after a career in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as science education program director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. "To those of my classmates who thought I would never marry, it’s all a matter of the right person, the right time, and the right circumstances," she writes. "Wil and I like to tell people that the circumstances (obviously) were ‘alcohol’ and ‘drug abuse.’ "

Several alumni have written to note the July 2 death of Elliott Wilk, a longtime state judge who sat on both the Civil Court and State Supreme Court in Manhattan, where he often had confrontations with the rich and powerful. In 1990, he assessed damages of $4 million against the publisher of Penthouse magazine for requiring sexual favors from an employee, and in 1993 he presided over the custody fight between filmmaker Woody Allen and his wife, Mia Farrow. Noted for his leftist outlook, he was a defender of tenants’ rights and at one time blocked the City of New York from ending remedial education.

1965

Ronald Epp sends an update. He took a job as director of Shapiro Library at Southern New Hampshire University following eight years as director of libraries at the University of Hartford.

1966

Susan Burke Aglietti writes, "On June 14, 2002, in the presence of my husband, three grown children, and about 20 close friends, I was sworn in as an attorney. This followed notification of my having passed the California bar on my first try at the age of 57! Anything is possible!" She notes that she plans to focus on consumer law and consumer education.

Harrington (Kit) Crissey Jr. sends an update. He had an article titled "Bassoonists I Have Known" published in the International Double Reed Society journal The Double Reed.Bassoonists mentioned in the article included Phillip Kolker ’63E, ’67E (MM); Stephen Margolis ’67; and K. David Van Hoesen ’50E; as well as trumpeter Joseph Koplin ’65. Harrington also contributed the sheet music for five pieces of Russian band music for two concerts given by the Goldman Memorial Band in New York City June 8—9. He notes that several Eastman alumni are members of the band.

1968

35TH REUNION
OCTOBER 10-12, 2003

Charles Norris, chairman of the board of directors of Glacier Water Services Inc. and Day Runner Inc., was elected to the board of directors of The Sports Club Company of Los Angeles. He retired as president of McKesson Water Products, a bottled water company, in October 2000.

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