Jul/Aug 2011
Our own Robert (Bobby) Haas was featured in the March/April 2011 issue of the alumni magazine. Bobby’s first career was in finance, and for a second career, he has become one of the world’s most renowned aerial photographers. His recent work is contained in three books published by National Geographic, and it is simply stunning. If you have already tossed the mag, some of his pictures can be found online with a little Googling. Copy and paste this address in your browser to see one of my favorites: http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/promos/vikings_p050_800.jpg. Your normally tight-fisted scribe was inspired enough to buy the book with this photo.
Eugene Linden was also mentioned in the same magazine issue. He has published The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples Meet (Viking). The alumni magazine says: “For the past four decades, environmental journalist Linden has roamed the world, sending back award-winning dispatches about how nature and local peoples change in the wake of economic development.”
Mark Klugheit is mostly retired from law and lives in Tucson. One of his more impressive achievements in his legal career was serving as special counsel in the Alcee Hastings impeachment proceedings in the U.S. Senate. Hastings was one of a handful of federal judges ever impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives. The judge was tried and convicted by the Senate and removed from office. Hastings now has a second career as a congressman representing a Florida district. Mark has a second career as an actor, having appeared in regional theater in Tucson, and in several “indie” movies, including one he is shooting in 2011. You can find out more about Mark’s acting career at www.nowcasting.com/mklugheit.
Tom Tsui sent in a picture with this caption: “Here’s a picture of three of us from Class of ’69 who—after a very long hiatus—got together last week for a lunch at Union Station, Washington, DC, to catch up on 15-plus years of absence. In the front is Ted Van Dyke (he was known as Stuart Hope Van Dyke Jr. back at Yale, but he’s obviously disguising himself for some reason!), Tom Tsui on the right, and John Nelson in the back. We ate at America restaurant and had such a good time that we decided to humiliate ourselves by playing doubles tennis in 33-degree F. weather outdoors on Saturday, March 26. Believe it or not, we actually acquitted ourselves fairly well! Now that we’ve caught up, we have plans to get together more frequently. Others in the Washington, DC, area who would like to join us for food or doubles tennis, write me at tennistsui@gmail.com—we’d be glad to bring you in and humiliate you. Or, the other way around.”
“Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’ / We are not now that strength which in old days / Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are, / One equal temper of heroic hearts, / Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”—Tennyson, “Ulysses.”