Edith Robertson (PAL’36, SED’58) of Winter Park, Fla., celebrated her 94th birthday in August. After teaching business in Massachusetts schools for 40 years, Edith retired to Lake Winnisquam, N.H. She moved to Florida in 1999. “An avid letter writer and raconteur, Edith corresponds with friends from New Hampshire and former students, swims regularly, and drives around town — but not on the Interstate!” writes Maura (Jones) LeCroy (COM’83), who attended her birthday party.

Kathryn (Junkin) Olson (SED’40) of Fergus Falls, Minn., would love to hear from fellow members of the Class of 1940 master’s program. E-mail her at audreyolson@aol.com.

John Seward Fielden (GRS’49,’54) of Fort Pierce, Fla., and his wife, Jean Dickinson Fielden, coauthored Two Lives, One Love (Pioneer River Press, 2008) under the pseudonym Jay Dickinson. The novel was recently named the year’s best adult fiction book by the Florida Publishers’ Association.

Sandy (Bailey) Kendall (CFA’55) of Belmont, Mass., retired from the Belmont Public Schools, where she had been accompanying choruses for 60 years, starting in eighth grade. She is still minister of music in the First Baptist Church of Belmont, secretary of the Rotary Club of Belmont, and a director and actress in community theater programs, among her other activities. She enjoys spending time with her six grandchildren at her summer home in Maine. Contact her at sandykendallco@aol.com.

Matthew Cohen (DGE’54, CAS’56, SED’61) of Portland, Ore., a retired mental health therapist, is the director of mentees for the Portland chapter of Minds Matter, an all-volunteer tutoring and mentoring program for economically disadvantaged teenagers. Visit www.mindsmatter.org to learn more or to get involved in your city.

Geraldine A. Schilling-Nordal (CFA’56, SED’57) of Agawam, Mass., exhibited her photography at the Agawam Public Library.

Maida Sperling (CAS’57) of Great Neck, N.Y., exhibited film images in Visibilities: The Eighth Annual Summer Photography Show in the lobby of the Philip Coltoff Center of the Children’s Aid Society in New York, N.Y. A silent art auction was held to benefit the organization.

Marvin Starkman (CFA’58) of Brooklyn, N.Y., cowrote a play with Bob Feinberg. Eddie, which premiered in May at the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue, chronicles the life of Eddie Jacobson, a longtime friend of Harry Truman, who influenced the president’s views on the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. Years ago, Marvin and Bob collaborated — with help from Michael Lombard (MET’60) and the late John Cazale (CFA’59) — on The American Way and The Box, two short films that are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Carl D. Chiarenza (COM’59, GRS’64) of Rochester, N.Y., published Pictures Come from Pictures (Godine, 2008), a collection of his photographs from 1955 through 2007. His work is on display in Peace Warriors and Solitudes: Recent Photographs by Carl Chiarenza at the University of Richmond Museums in Richmond, Va. Carl is the Fanny Knapp Allen Professor Emeritus and an artist-in-residence at the University of Rochester.

Phyllis Hill (CFA’60) of Chicago, Ill., retired from the piano faculty of Roosevelt University, where she taught for 46 years.

Bill Hennessey (SMG’61) of Morgantown, W.Va., has been executive director of the Foundation of Monongalia General Hospital since 1990. He recently raised $13.3 million for the hospital’s capital campaign to fund a $92 million expansion and renovation project. E-mail Bill at Hennessey@monhealthsys.org.

Mike Leven (COM’61) of Atlanta, Ga., was appointed CEO of the Georgia Aquarium, the world’s largest aquarium, in September. He had served as interim CEO since May, during which time he brought to Atlanta the exhibition Titanic Aquatic and several new animals, including Nandi, the first manta ray in an American aquarium.

Frederick E. Miller, Jr. (GRS’61), of Fairfield, Conn., was honored for 50 years of membership in the St. Augustine Council #41 chapter of the Knights of Columbus in Stamford, Conn. Frederick is retired and lives with his wife, Louise, the registrar of the Fairfield College Preparatory School.

David Jacobs (COM’63) of Sharon, Mass., recently donated his folk music recordings to the American Folklife Collection at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He made most of the recordings — of local legends and visiting performers during Boston’s and Cambridge’s booming folk scene in the early 1960s — for his radio show on WBUR, then BU’s student-run station. A duplicate set of the recordings resides at the Passim Center at Club Passim, the descendant of Cambridge’s Club 47. Contact David at david@jacobscommunications.com.

B. Amore (CAS’64) of Benson, Vt., edited the book Carving Out a Dream, which commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center that she founded. In November, she helped organize the American Italian Historical Association conference Small Towns, Big Cities: The Urban Experience of Italian Americans, held at Southern Connecticut State University.

J. V. Fazio (CFA’64) of Methuen, Mass., is a composer and a musician. J.V., a guitarist, pianist, and singer, recently performed at the Hampton Beach Half/Shell in Hampton, N.H., in Berklee’s Concert Noon Series. In his early performing years, he was a member of the entertainment trio the Young Vagabonds, which toured the Northeast for the U.S.O. and other institutions. He also was an instructor at Berklee College of Music in the 1960s and later a public school music and English teacher.

Ronald (Courtemanche) Court (CAS’65) of Essex Junction, Vt., was reelected president and CEO of the Booker T. Washington Society, a national nonprofit group he cofounded to help students become leaders. For more information, visit www.btwsociety.org or e-mail Ronald at court@btwsociety.org.

Joel Asher Dorfman (CFA’65) of Sherman Oaks, Calif., recently completed the documentary Global Warming: Solutions. An earlier version was an official selection in the Ann Arbor and the New Zealand film festivals and received a Katherine Knight Award at the EarthVision Environmental Film Festival in Santa Cruz, Calif. E-mail Joel at joelasher@aol.com.

Risa Roberta Goldberg (CAS’66) of Crest, Calif., runs Simply Marvelous Organizing, an organizing business. She recently cofounded Your Estate Settlers (the Y.E.S. Team), which consults on all aspects of handling an estate. Risa lives just outside San Diego with her cat and an army of gophers and rabbits. E-mail her at risa@marvelousorganizing.com.

Zvi Sesling (COM’66) of Chestnut Hill, Mass., won first prize in the 2007 Rose International Poetry Competition. He was also selected by Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish to read his poetry at the New England PEN Discovery event. Contact Zvi at skipsesling@comcast.com.

Herbert J. Paine (DGE’65, CAS’67) of Phoenix, Ariz., was named executive director of the Arizona Humanities Council in July. Herb is president of Paine Consulting Services, a 19-year-old enterprise specializing in organizational development, turnaround management, governance, and mergers.

James F. Kaiser (CGS’66, CAS’68) of Norwood, Mass., recently returned from Korea, where he taught coordinated sciences at the International School of Busan. Previously, he was a faculty member at the International School of Penang-Uplands in Malaysia, where he taught physics and general science. After teaching science in Massachusetts, James writes, he is substituting as needed in various international schools and exploring foreign countries.

Susan Marx (CFA’68) of Orange, N.J., painted in Giverny, France, this past summer. When she wrote, she was looking forward to exhibiting her paintings at the Jewish Community Center in West Orange, N.J., in November and December. E-mail Susan at thisissusan@aol.com.

Winslow Myers (CFA’68) of Stowe, Vt., exhibited his paintings in a self-titled show at Gallery 170 in Damariscotta Mills, Maine, last summer.

Susan (Raffer) Gersh (SED’69) of Burlington, Mass., is a speech therapist in Lowell, Mass. Both of her daughters recently married. “Whew! What a busy couple of years,” Susan writes. “I’m now ready to relax and try a little traveling.” Contact her at fudgecat@aol.com.

Karen R. Koenig (SED’69) of Sarasota, Fla., published What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Treating Eating and Weight Issues (W. W. Norton, 2008), a guide for clinicians. Karen, a cofounder of the Greater Boston Collaborative for Body Image and Eating Disorders, has studied the psychology of eating for more than 30 years.

Andy Plotkin (DGE’67, CAS’69, COM’71, GRS’77) of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., and Philip Fishman (CGS’68) of Boca Raton, Fla., cofounded Advanced Biographies, which offers writing seminars and memoir-writing services. They are writing the memoirs of a prominent Palm Beach County physician. Contact Andy at aplotkin@bellsouth.net.