April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College
April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College
April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College
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CLASS NOTES<br />
as Duke undergrads. Ever the<br />
responsible father, Jim checked<br />
Nate’s sports credentials and<br />
found them to be solid. (Big<br />
Duke sports fan, was its football<br />
equipment manager.) He has<br />
given his blessing to the union.<br />
Jim’s younger daughter<br />
Sarah is a first-year at UT<br />
Southwestern, and, so far, so<br />
good.<br />
Jim and Cathy continue to be<br />
well. He likes his work at the<br />
VA, where the residents push<br />
him, but make no mistake, they<br />
can’t get anything by the old<br />
man—not a “pimp” question<br />
on rounds nor a forehand smash<br />
on the tennis court. His Little<br />
League team made it all the way<br />
to the league championship,<br />
only to fall in the last game. Jim<br />
also noted he is “about halfway<br />
through my stent” as deacon of<br />
his Presbyterian Church. (When<br />
I first saw this I thought it was<br />
a typo, but maybe not.) Cathy<br />
divides her time between being<br />
a practicing pediatrician and<br />
serving on the board of El Buen<br />
Samaritano, which helps out<br />
immigrant families in Austin.<br />
Jim Norton gave an update<br />
from Santa Fe, N.M. He<br />
completed an eight-year stint as<br />
director of the Environmental<br />
Protection Division for New<br />
Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.<br />
He is now teaching biology<br />
and physics at the Gonzales<br />
Community School. His wife<br />
Katie (sister of Todd Jebb) is<br />
also a teacher, in the Santa<br />
Fe Public Schools. They have<br />
two kids in college: Molly, a<br />
senior at the University of New<br />
Mexico; and Jebb, a sophomore<br />
at Middlebury. Jim still plays<br />
hockey every Sunday (along with<br />
John Bessone) for the Santa Fe<br />
Old Timers Hockey Club, which<br />
he founded 12 years ago.<br />
Bill Schultze, chair of the<br />
management department at<br />
University of Utah, has seen<br />
enrollments up and a rise in<br />
his department’s ranking to<br />
number 16 nationally. Bill is<br />
bullish on new approaches to<br />
entrepreneurship, particularly<br />
The Foundry, which has received<br />
a nice bit of attention in the<br />
press. Essentially a community<br />
service, the Foundry takes a new<br />
approach to teach students how<br />
to rigorously develop, validate<br />
and test business ideas. They<br />
don’t charge fees, or take equity,<br />
or give them any money. In the<br />
past 18 months, the students<br />
have worked on 114 business<br />
ideas, market tested 69 business<br />
concepts, incorporated<br />
58 | <strong>Williams</strong> PeoPle | aPril <strong>2012</strong><br />
and launched 53 companies,<br />
of which 43 are active and 22<br />
revenue-positive. Total sales<br />
(for all companies) exceeds $8<br />
million, and 75 (and counting)<br />
jobs have been created. One of<br />
the companies that came out<br />
of Bill’s five-week MBA class<br />
last fall, ipadenclosures.com,<br />
makes kiosks for ipads. The<br />
company was recently chosen as<br />
the sole provider of kiosks for<br />
Macworld! Bill exults, “They’re<br />
knocking it out of the park.”<br />
The Foundry has already gone<br />
international. Recently some<br />
of Bill’s kids went to Armenia,<br />
where they ran a Foundry bootcamp<br />
for women entrepreneurs,<br />
and they are already up and running.<br />
Another group is headed<br />
to Ghana in the spring. Another<br />
half-dozen universities have<br />
established Foundry programs.<br />
Bill was in Denver and had<br />
Thanksgiving with Richard and<br />
Maggie Luck, among other folks.<br />
The Lucks are doing terrific and<br />
spent most of last summer leading<br />
hikes in Rocky Mountain<br />
National Park.<br />
Susan Beebe is still working as<br />
an art instructor in Rockland,<br />
Maine. If the fancy strikes, you<br />
can take one of her workshops<br />
at the height of the summer season<br />
up there—Aug. 3-9—where<br />
she will give a class on en plein<br />
air oil painting. Check her out at<br />
coastalmaineartworkshops.com.<br />
Glenn Shannon and his wife<br />
Lori joined newlyweds Miranda<br />
Heller and Mark Salkind<br />
for brunch in San Francisco<br />
and then went to see David<br />
Mamet’s play Race, featuring<br />
Kevin O’Rourke in the role<br />
of Charles Strickland. Glenn<br />
notes a number of his friends<br />
described Kevin’s performance<br />
as superb: Starting as a rich,<br />
white, arrogant and completely<br />
unsympathetic figure, by the<br />
play’s end he was still rich and<br />
white but emotionally shaken<br />
and somewhat sympathetic. At<br />
the show they ran into Anna<br />
Waring, and afterward they went<br />
with Kevin to meet up with Edith<br />
Thurber and their sons Charlie<br />
and Peter.<br />
Well, the column is done, and<br />
I think I’ve earned a beer and<br />
the right to indulge my sweet<br />
reverie. Ah, those spring breaks!<br />
If the moral and educational<br />
development of a <strong>Williams</strong><br />
undergraduate’s four years can<br />
be likened to a kind of Pilgrim’s<br />
Progress, those Naples trips<br />
didn’t quite fit that kind of journey.<br />
No, they were more like our<br />
own Canterbury Tales—by turns<br />
funny, ribald, even shocking<br />
and not to be discussed in polite<br />
company. Too bad—um, I mean,<br />
thank goodness—no one ever<br />
wrote them down.<br />
1979<br />
Barbara H. Sanders<br />
3 Stratford Road<br />
White Plains, NY 10603<br />
1979secretary@williams.edu<br />
Well, it was a very pleasant<br />
and welcome surprise to hear<br />
from Peter Sachs: “It’s been a<br />
really long time (since about<br />
1979) since I wrote. I have<br />
been wonderfully married for<br />
28 years. Hilary and I have an<br />
amazing 21-year-old son, who is<br />
a computer science and physics<br />
major in his junior year at the<br />
University of Chicago. Hilary<br />
and I spent 24 years in Cleveland<br />
raising Jacob and working—neuroscience<br />
research at Case School<br />
of Medicine (Hilary) and radiology<br />
department at University<br />
Hospitals (Peter). Two years ago<br />
we left the suburban Cleveland<br />
life and moved to Denver. We are<br />
both working harder than ever,<br />
Peter as section chief of thoracic<br />
imaging/vice chair of informatics,<br />
and Hilary in a vibrant and busy<br />
neuroscience lab working on MS<br />
research, both at the University<br />
of Colorado, Denver. We live in<br />
an old schoolhouse in the city<br />
and are reveling in the outdoor<br />
lifestyle here. Three-hundred days<br />
of sunshine and easy access to the<br />
mountains makes every weekend<br />
seem like a vacation!”<br />
Donna Staton and her new<br />
husband Richard Tedlow are<br />
enjoying life in Los Altos Hills,<br />
Calif., since he has taken a job<br />
at Apple. Donna is devoting her<br />
time to many global health projects,<br />
including work in Liberia.<br />
She visited with Martha Constable<br />
in Westport, Conn., and both<br />
enjoyed the chance to catch up<br />
on each others’ lives.<br />
Brad White sends greetings<br />
from the “green hills of Africa,<br />
in Bomet Kenya. My original<br />
plan was to be able to retire from<br />
orthopaedics (after 22 years) in<br />
2011. Well, that time has passed,<br />
and since that momentous occasion<br />
I have been mixing things<br />
up a bit. This winter I did a onemonth<br />
stint at Tenwek Hospital,<br />
a mission hospital just west of the<br />
Great Rift Valley. Unfortunately,<br />
in 2007 cheap bikes flooded the<br />
Kenyan market, and since then<br />
the number and severity of road<br />
traffic accidents has skyrocketed—a<br />
common problem
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