American Magazine: November 2013

1960s
Jeffery King, SPA/BA ’64,
published a new book,
Kill-Crazy Gang:
The Crimes of
the Lewis-Jones
Gang, about the
violent Lewis-
Jones gang of
the 1910s.
Stephen
Morton, CAS/
MA ’64, was inducted
into the Bowling Green State
University Athletic Hall of
Fame as a member of the 1959
National Small College Football
Championship team.
Connie Morella, CAS/MA ’67,
president of the U.S. Association
of Former Members of Congress,
received the Knight Commander’s
Cross of the Order of Merit from
the Federal Republic of Germany.
The award is Germany’s highest
honor. She received the award
for her commitment to fostering
dialogue and better understanding
between the United States and
Germany.
Dennis Grubb, SIS/MA ’68,
former alumni board member,
participated in the June 17
ceremony for the transportation
of the John F. Kennedy Eternal
Flame to Ireland. The event
commemorated the 50th
anniversary of Kennedy’s visit to
Ireland. Grubb attended AU after
serving in the first Peace Corps
contingent to Colombia in 1961.
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Abraham J. Peck, SIS/BA
’68, SIS/MA ’70, coauthored a
historical memoir, Unwanted
Legacies: Sharing the Burden
of the Post-Genocide
Generations.
References to
Peck’s time at
AU during the
tumultuous
1960s are
included in the
book.
Pamela Elliott,
CAS/BA ’69, published
a clinical text, I Got
the Leftovers: Case Study of
Traumatic Brain Injury.
-1969-
TIME
CAPSULES
TOP TUNE
“Sugar Sugar,” The Archies
TOP GROSSING FLICK
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
IN THE NEWS
The United States, Soviet Union, and
100 other countries sign the nuclear
nonproliferation treaty; Apollo 11
astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz
Aldrin become the first men to walk on
the moon; Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi
Hendrix perform at Woodstock
FROM THE AU ARCHIVES
The Kay Spiritual Life Center hosts
a workshop on draft alternatives:
“deferments, conscientious objection,
emigration (Canada and Sweden),
resistance, and jail.”
1970s
Demetrios Pulas, SPA/BA
’70, former Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission senior
enforcement attorney, joined the
energy regulation team of Husch
Blackwell LLP.
Theodore “Ted” Simon, Kogod/
BS ’71, has been installed as
president-elect of the National
Association of Criminal Defense
Lawyers.
Jeffrey Citron, Kogod/BSBA ’72,
comanaging partner of Davidoff
Hutcher & Citron LLP, was
named “best attorney” by the
New York Enterprise Report.
Citron was selected from more
than 80 nominees.
Patrick Hagan, WCL/JD ’75,
was selected Philadelphia’s
Patent Lawyer of the Year 2013
in a peer-review survey by the
editorial board of Best Lawyers.
He specializes in pharmaceutical
patent law at Dann, Dorfmann,
Herrell & Skillman.
Jay Lenrow, WCL/JD ’77, was
elected as a member of the Johns
Hopkins University Board of
Trustees.
Susan Ellis Wild, SPA/BA ’78,
was named among the top 50
female lawyers in Pennsylvania
on the list of 2013 Pennsylvania
Super Lawyers. Wild’s practice
focuses on the defense of
healthcare practitioners and
hospitals as well as personal
injury defense, civil rights claims,
and employment matters.
Jeff Baxt, SOC/BA ’79, was
interviewed by Rep Radio, an East
Coast podcast network, on his
start as an actor.
-1975-
TIME
CAPSULES
TOP TUNE
“Love Will Keep Us Together,”
The Captain and Tennille
TOP GROSSING FLICK
Jaws
IN THE NEWS
Vietnam War ends after nearly 20 years
of fighting; President Gerald Ford escapes
two assassination attempts within 17 days;
Saturday Night Live debuts on NBC
FROM THE AU ARCHIVES
More than a dozen disgruntled former
Student Confederation leaders—frustrated
with campus politics—form the Rooster
Club. The only grounds for expulsion:
“reinstatement in one’s former post.”
1980s
Simon Carmel, CAS/MA
’80, CAS/PhD ’87, published
a 400-page book, Invisible
Magic: Biographies of 112 Deaf
Magicians from 28 Countries. In
2008, he published Silent Magic:
Biographies of 59 Deaf Magicians
in the United States from the
Nineteenth to Twenty-First
Centuries.
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