1936
Eleanor (Lowry) Parker (CAS’36) of Dover, Del., would like to hear from her classmates. “I’m now 94,” she writes. “I keep house, drive, volunteer at the library, visit three shut-ins a month, and go to three clubs. Anyone want to tell me about themselves?” Write to Eleanor at 101 Mifflin Rd., Dover, DE 19904.

1952
Kenneth Rosen (SMG’52) of Miami, Fla., published Investing in Income Properties: The Big Six Formula for Achieving Wealth in Real Estate (John Wiley, 2008). Kenneth is founder and president of Kendar Realty, Inc. Learn more at www.investinginincomeproperties.com.

1953
Morton Gold (CFA’53,’60) of Springvale, Maine, conducted the premiere of his concert march The Spirit of the Guard, in April with the Strafford Wind Symphony in Rochester, N.H. Since relocating to Springvale in 2007, he has become a music-drama critic for the Biddeford Journal-Tribune, a substitute teacher in Sanford schools, and an organist at St. George’s Episcopal Church. The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers recognized his compositional efforts with its annual award for creativity. Morton writes that although he is old, he wants to continue doing what he knows best for as long as he can.

1956
Janice Feagin Olson Britton (SON’56) of Spanish Fort, Ala., was honored by the Gulf Coast Chapter of the Korean War Veterans Association for her military service as a flight nurse from 1945 to 1952. Janice served in the U.S. Air Force, flying into combat to transport wounded soldiers and retiring as a captain. “I felt I did a good thing,” she told the Mobile, Ala., Press-Register. “I felt it was good to bring people from a bad place to a better place.” After retiring as a nursing educator, she joined the Peace Corps, serving from 1998 to 2000 in Zambia.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (GRS’56) of Boulder, Colo., published A Heart Afire: Stories and Teachings of the Early Hasidic Masters (Jewish Publication Society of America, 2009).

1957
Sylvia Karkus Furash (CFA’57) of Yarmouth Port, Mass., is a nationally certified teacher of piano and theory. She has taught for 55 years at her private studio. A recitalist, adjudicator, and active member of her professional organizations, Sylvia was recently named to the faculty of the Cape Cod Conservatory. She and her husband, David Furash (GRS’63), relocated to Yarmouth Port from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She would enjoy hearing from classmates. E-mail her at syl10on88@gmail.com.

1958
John Stewart (DGE’56, CAS’58, GRS’59) of Newton, Mass., managed and played on a 75 and over softball team that won the 2008 Cape Cod Classic Tournament, defeating a squad from Pennsylvania in the final game. He has played in the EMASS Senior Softball League since it was created in 1995. John retired from the Kennedy Library in 1999. He also served on the Newton board of aldermen for five terms. E-mail him at johnstewart@alum.bu.edu.

1960
Eleanor (Kemler) Feinberg (CAS’60) of Champaign, Ill., graduated from the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and continues in private practice in Champaign, where she lives with her husband, Walter Feinberg (CAS’60, GRS’62,’65). Walter is the Charles Dun Hardie Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1963
Cynthia Maurice (CFA’63,’65) of Newton, Mass., showed her paintings and drawings in the exhibition Fresh Cut at the Newton Free Library this past June. She also showed a drawing at Framingham’s Danforth Museum annual juried exhibition this summer.

1964
B. Amore (CAS’64) of Benson, Vt., showed her work in three exhibitions this summer: Home Is Where the Art Is, which was sponsored by Children’s Hospital Boston; the 2009 National Affiliates Exhibition at Soho20 Gallery, in New York; and Change and Transformation, at the Boston Sculptors Gallery, in Boston.

1968
Domenic Cretara (CFA’68,’70) of Long Beach, Calif., is the resident director of the California State University International Program in Florence, Italy. He showed his paintings and drawings in a CSU exhibition in Florence this past summer. E-mail Domenic at domnbetty@aol.com.

Ilka (Gottlieb) Gordon (SED’68) of New York, N.Y., invented a protective stroller sun-shade called “bébé soleil.” “When I would wheel my grandchildren in their stroller on sunny days, they would cry if they were facing the sun,” writes Ilka, a grandmother of eight, including two sets of twins. She turned to Lindsey Frick, an engineering graduate of Cleveland State’s Fenn College, who used magnets to attach the shade to any stroller canopy. Visit www.bebe-soleil.com.

Sue William Silverman (CGS’66, COM’68) of Grand Haven, Mich., published Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir (University of Georgia Press, 2009). Learn more at www.suewilliamsilverman.com.

1969
Jerilynn Prior (MED’69) of Vancouver, B.C., published The Estrogen Errors: Why Progesterone Is Better for Women’s Health (Praeger Publishers, 2009), with Susan Baxter. Jerilynn is a professor of endocrinology at the University of British Columbia’s department of medicine.