Class Notes

River Campus Undergraduate: 1960s

1960

Earl Ingersoll writes that he has published Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood (Ontario Review Press) and Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee (BOA Editions).

1961

Jon Freckleton is the owner of Freckleton’s Tree Farm at his home in Penfield, N.Y.

1962
45TH REUNION
OCTOBER 19–21, 2007
http://www.rochester.edu/alumni/reunion2007/?y=1962

Steven Price writes that he has published 1001 Best Things Ever Said About Horses (The Lyons Press), which he describes as “a collection of quotations that reflects the variety of our fascination with and love of horses, from classic Greek and Roman texts, the Bible, and the Koran through Shakespeare, Cervantes, Twain, and Will Rogers, to such contemporaries as Jane Smiley, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Mr. Ed.”

1966

Lewis Kaplan, a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, received the Stanley H. Fuld Award from the New York State Bar Association’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section for his work in antitrust, litigation, and intellectual property law. He is a judicial fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, judicial liaison to the Council of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, and a member of the American Law Institute.

1967
40th Reunion
OCTOBER 19–21, 2007
http://www.rochester.edu/alumni/reunion2007/?y=1967

Alfred (Fred) Aman Jr., a former law school dean at Indiana University, has been named the new dean of the law school at Suffolk University. An internationally known scholar and director of Indiana’s Institute for Advanced Study, Fred served as law school dean at Indiana from 1991 to 2002.

1968

Harvey Green writes that he has published Wood: Craft, Culture, History (Viking Adult). Harvey teaches history at Northeastern University in Boston and works with wood at his shop in rural New Hampshire. He is a two-time Fulbright scholar and the author of three well-regarded books on American material culture. . . . Carol Shiffman, an administrator for several multidisciplinary arts organizations over the past two decades, has been named dean of the School of the Arts and Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase College.

1969

Michael Isaacs has been reelected president of the town council in East Greenwich, R.I. He writes that he “received the highest number of votes in the Republican primary and in the November general election, in which all candidates run at large.” Michael is an attorney in private practice. . . . Robert Lunn, a Rochester State Supreme Court justice, has been named a justice of the Fourth Department Appellate Court, which presides over courts as far east as Utica, N.Y. He has been a State Supreme Court justice in Rochester since 1995. . . . Lois Hecht Oppenheim has returned to full-time faculty status as a professor of political science in the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. She recently published two books, After Pinochet: The Chilean Road to Democracy and the Market (co-edited with Silvia Borzutzky; published by University Press of Florida) and a third edition of her book Politics in Chile with a new subtitle: Socialism, Authoritarianism, and Market Democracy. Lois also continues to contribute the yearly Chile entry to the Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year. She writes, “On a personal note, I’ve now been living and teaching in Los Angeles for 30 years, and, while I have enjoyed it immensely, I’m starting to think about the next phase of my life. I’m currently enrolled in an acupressure certificate program in Berkeley and enjoy learning about traditional oriental medicine. Guess this means that after 30 years here, I’ve finally become a Californian!” She enjoys spending time with her son, Benjamin, and his wife, Liz, who live in the Berkeley area.