Alumni News from All Over

  • After procrastinating for many years, Emily Wells ’72 is finally taking kazoo lessons.
  • Jacob Stein ’68 found his other pair of glasses.
  • Ernie Wallis ’10 and his wife joined a progressive political action committee which turned out to be a cult. It also partially explains why his note was written with his own blood.
  • Cynthia Hastings ’12 and her husband adopted a beautiful Labrador retriever named Bailey and are now in a legal battle with its birth mother.
  • This year marks the twenty-fifth year Nicholas Page ’78’s son has been living in his basement.
  • This year marks the twenty-fifth year Nicholas Page Jr. ’91 has been living in his parent’s basement.
  • His colleagues at the MIT Robotics department honored George Stanky ’77 with a lifetime achievement award. He and his wife, 38C-8D7 celebrated by taking a long-planned trip to Greece.
  • Now that their last child has flown the nest, it’s just Alice Lerthy ’95 and her husband, Lewis in “our beautifully restored 20-room Victorian house.” To give him more space, she’s building a 15-room “she shed.”
  • Tom Fortuna ’19 was honored by Subway for purchasing his 500th footlong sandwich.
  • Ron Neel ’05 reconnected with Mary Strickland-Souza ’05 at their 15th reunion. Pending her divorce to Phil Souza ’05, they plan to move to Manhasset.
  • Phil Souza ’05 is just beginning to get over the trauma of discovering his wife, Mary Strickland-Souza ’05 in Ron Neel ’05’s Holiday Inn room during their 15th reunion.
  • Ralph Willborne ’65 sold his company for 10 billion dollars. “To this day, I have no idea what we manufactured.”
  • Lilly Tosh ’07 wants all to know, contrary to what you may have read in the news, their daughter Tiffany “was accepted to our wonderful college on her own merit. Our $500,00 contribution to the school’s badminton program was purely coincidental.”
  • Tara Tinsley ’15 is currently on a book tour promoting her twelfth semi-autobiographical novel, “The Secret Life of a Lactose Intolerant Data Analyst.”
  • Steve Greely ’14 just found out he’s been playing Words with Friends for three years with a South American dictator.
  • Liz Strongkill ’67 has fully recovered from hip replacement surgery. “Just in time since husband Ed ’68 “will no longer fetch the TV remote for me.”
  • Patrick Belfour ’95 attended a Father-Daughter feminist retreat with Nora ‘21. It was one of the most enlightening experiences in his life, although he wishes they had served larger portions of food.
  • Evonne Lipman ’86 is thrilled to inform us that after harassing Professor Philbin for years, he finally changed her grade in Introduction to Sociology from Pass to Pass with Distinction.
  • Tom Chase ’93 visited Disneyland for the 10,000th time. Daffy Duck remembered him.
  • It was a drastic step on her part, but Sheila Kugel ’83 and husband Phil hired a deprogrammer to help transition their son from Presbyterian to Episcopalian.
  • To show there’s no hard feeling about his part in the 1968 takeover of Dean Shuler’s office, Bernard Krome ’69 says he’s returning the dean’s staple gun and 3-hole punch.
  • During his family’s Martha’s Vinyard vacation, James Taylor had Leo Mundell ’73’ arrested for trespassing on Sweet Baby James’ private beach.
  • Nina Friedman ’75 has moved into a co-housing complex. She couldn’t be happier, but wife Marybeth ’75 sometimes misses eating in silence.
  • It’s been one year since Carl Landers ’11 started his podcast about digestion.

Comedy writer Ben Alper has written for Jay Leno, David Letterman and others. He is the author of “Live From the Beginning of Time: Late Night Comedy Monologues Through the Ages”

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