‘73 Class Notes - Summer 2024
This post will show up in the Williams People college publication early Winter 2024.
Class of 1973
Our class turned out 40 classmates to hear John Neikirk interview Janet Brown about the Presidential Debates. See our website for a write-up on Janet as “Classmate of the Moment” and hear the audio of the event.
And stay tuned for the next Class Conversation on October 10 – our webmeister Peter Pierson will demonstrate via Braver Angels how folks holding differing positions can have civilized conversations – a necessary skill during these fraught political times.
Carol Holland Lifshitz wrote to encourage anyone who has not yet seen “It Ain’t Over” to do so. The moving story of Yogi Berra’s life is now streaming on Netflix and is available through Amazon. It has garnered accolades and has a great cast: Billy Crystal, Derek Jeter and herself (!), talking about her early years writing TV commercial scripts and print ads for Yogi’s Yoo-Hoo Chocolate Drink. She found it “a thrilling adventure” and a departure from her current marketing communications and PR writing. She’d love to hear from old Williams friends, and especially anyone visiting San Diego where she and her hubby live.
Peter Farwell is spending his retirement (as of 7/1/23) putting papers and photos about his cross-country and track teams into the Archives in Stetson Library. As he coached for 45 seasons (let that sink in), he has quite a hoard of material to go through.
Allen Staver wrote that his daughter Elena is working as a research assistant at Boston Medical Center on the Boston Birth Cohort Study (started in 1998). His wife Kim and he have visited her often recently and are reminded why Boston is so enjoyable – important history of our country, restaurants, Fenway Park, and folks using public transportation.
John Alper ‘s son David started a new job as a sale representative for Red Rep, a top firm in LA, that represents film directors and editors in the commercial ad space. So they had a celebratory surf trip to the East Cape north of Cabo San Jose at the southern end of Baja – a fabulous time with one of his/their buddies. His daughter Lucy just landed a big movie “The Life List” for her music studio, Fall on Your Sword, in Burbank, with Adam Brooks directing. Two beautiful grandsons, Jonas (4) and Marlow (2). Sue is doing well. John keeps in shape surfing and playing golf and guitar – no complaints.
Mike Stevens had a seven-hour open heart operation at Mass General Hospital in Boston on March 11 to replace a bicuspid aortic valve (his new one Is from a pig!). He’s now three months into his recovery, jogging 30 minutes per day four times a week and walking 30 minutes each of the other two days. He’s immensely grateful to the talented surgeons and the wonderful care as well as the kind support of classmates like Scott Hibbard, Cecily Stone, Jill Millis and Carole Prest. He and Peg are helping to raise their seven-year-old granddaughter and twin two-year old grandsons with their daughter Katie ’05 when not working in Cambridge’s faith communities – he at a monastery and she at the Congregational Church. Please drop by.
The current Williams Magazine mentioned that “a new boat has joined the women’s fleet, named in honor of the late Nancy Storrs ’73 – one of the college’s and the world’s greatest rowers.”
