Class Notes

River Campus Undergraduate 1960s

1966

Cecily Drucker reports that in March, her company, Bottom Line Time, launched MonetaSuite, software that helps businesses and nonprofits raise worker productivity by tracking, tagging, and reporting how high-value workers spend their time. She adds that she has “no thought of retiring.”

1967

Margery McManus Leach has published a narrative account of her work aiding refugees from war-torn Central America in the 1980s and 1990s. Her book is called Sanctuary in Phoenix! A Narrative History of the Valley Religious Task Force on Central America, 1981—1998 (Harvest Publications, 2008).

1968

After 36 years working in the printing and publishing industry, John Herbert has written his first book, a work of creative nonfiction entitled Rules Get Broken (Oakley Publishing Co., 2009). The book tells the story of his wife who died shortly after being diagnosed with leukemia, leaving John with two children to raise, and the woman, a former neighbor, whom he calls upon just days later. John writes that the story is one of “love lost, love found, and the collateral damage along the way.”

1969

Ronna Burger is the chair of the philosophy department at Tulane, and has published Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates: On the Nicomachean Ethics (Chicago, 2008). In the book, she interprets the famous treatise by Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, as a dialogue between Aristotle and Socrates. . . . Ruth Balser writes that last fall she was re-elected to her sixth term in the Massachusetts legislature. This spring she was running for mayor of her hometown, Newton. The election will be held in November.

1973

Les Ezrati, a senior vice president in the tax division of Hewlett-Packard, writes that he has been named one of the 10 most admired tax directors in North America, according to results of an online poll of 7,000 leading tax and finance executives sponsored by the International Tax Review. . . . Hope Schreiber, a clinical neuropsychologist at Tufts Medical Center, writes that she has coedited Adult Learning Disorders: Contemporary Issues (Psychology Press, 2008), a collection of essays by clinical and research neuropsychologists, focusing on neuroscience and empirically based clinical practice for individuals who have learning disorders as they enter adulthood. . . . Steven Hahn, who is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, has written his third book, The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom (Harvard, 2009). The book emphasizes traditions of self-determination and self-governance among African Americans. . . . Anne Kruize Pitter is a partner at the Manhattan law firm Hartman & Craven.

University of Rochester

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