Class Notes – Nov/Dec 2021

Your scribe reports that he will be in attendance at the upcoming playing of The Game in New Haven. I am looking forward to another win (perhaps not as heart-stopping as the last one), and hope to see you there. I expect there will be a 1969 tent across from the Bowl….good place to meet classmates! And now the news.

Bruce Mazo belatedly reports:

“Beginning of 2018 I moved my residence and my office to Rhinebeck, “Jewel of the Hudson,” 100 miles upriver from NYC. I live in “downtown” so – post-Pandemic – Bread Alone is a 60 second walk if anyone is driving through and wants to grab coffee.”

Brad Gascoigne reports:

“Three years after we graduated in 1969, classmate Frank Shorter would win the gold medal in the men’s marathon in the 1972 Summer Olympics. His book My Marathon, coauthored with John Brant, tells how Frank prepared for and won that race as well the fascinating story of his life before and after Munich.”

A full review of the book, with pictures, is available on the Class Website.

Felice Pace reports:

“As the years have progressed, I’ve looked forward more and more to reading Class of ’69 Alumni Notes. And so I too want to share a bit about my life and current pursuits. For the past ten years I’ve been working to reform public land grazing via the Grazing Reform Project (www.grazingreform.org). It helps keep me out doing what I love best, that is, walking in the wilderness and wandering off trail. It makes no sense to damage our headwater wetlands, streamflows and water supplies to help produce less than 1% of the beef supply on public lands.

I’ve also been working as the water chair for the North Group Redwood Chapter of the Sierra Club to get the Clean Water Act actually implemented on the ground. When it comes to agriculture and forestry, the Act has only been implemented on paper and that’s why agricultural pollution remains the #1 reason our estuaries are all so polluted, mainly with nitrates. Almost all this work is as a volunteer; not a problem because my needs are modest.”

Chris Hoffman announces the publication of The Hoop & The Tree: A Compass for Finding a Deeper Relationship with All Life, his best-selling book on ecopsychology.  This is a revised and expanded version of the original, published 20 years ago. Full details appear on the Class Website. As noted on the website, “Chris is a long-time student of Zen and T’ai Chi and is interested in traditional healing practices and sacred dance. His wilderness experience includes backpacking, mountaineering, and river running. He lives with his wife in Boulder, Colorado.”

Richard Seltzer reports: “My novel Shakespeare’s Twin Sister was just published by All Things that Matter Press.” More information on all of Richard’s books (he writes fiction full-time) appears on the Class website. Richard took creative writing classes at Yale with Robert Penn Warren and Joseph Heller. That worked out pretty well….

This is all good news…keep it coming!