1970 – 1979
Reunion Weekend memories! Check out the photos under Class of 1972 and Class of 1978.
CLASS OF 1970
CLASS OF 1971
CLASS OF 1972
REUNION WEEKEND 2003 - photos courtesy of Rosalind Batchelor '72
Ros attended the Reunion weekend with husband John and father Jack (since deceased).
Rosalind Batchelor '72
CLASS OF 1973
CLASS OF 1975
MODS Relived by Bay Area F&ES Alumni/ae: Carmel Valley, August 2007
In connection with the ESA/SER meetings in San Jose in early August, F&ESers embarked on a two-day field trip to visit a vegetation restoration project at Tassajara Hot Springs in Monterey County, coupled with an overnight stay at Hastings Reserve, the University of California natural history preserve in Carmel Valley. This trip did not make the final cut as an official ESA/SER field trip, but F&ES alums made it their own mini-MOD.
The trip commenced from the San Jose–San Francisco area early on Saturday morning, August 4th, with a 14-mile drive into Tassajara along a mountain road through the Ventana Wilderness in the rugged Santa Lucia Mountains. Evidence of the 1977 Marble Cone and the 1999 Kirk Fire are visible on this route. At Tassajara the group viewed a variety of ongoing projects: native plant restoration, solar and geothermal energy systems and gray-water treatment wetlands. From there, it was lunch and an afternoon visit to the Japanese-style hot baths (or swimming pool).
In the late afternoon, the group returned out to Hastings Reserve in upper Carmel Valley, where they prepared dinner in a communal kitchen, then slept under the stars in tents at the research center. (This was augmented by such modern conveniences as bathrooms, showers and meeting spaces.) Mark Stromberg, Director of the Reserve, was on hand to provide a guided tour of the reserve and talk about some of the current research projects. Then the group met and mingled with another ESA/SER field trip group who were spending the night at Hastings.
F&ESers left Hastings around lunchtime and returned to the San Jose area by late afternoon.
Along for the fun were Andrea Cristofani Geurts ’98, Jessica Hamburger ’98, Libby Jones ’02, Ph.D candidate ’07, Marcia Tobin ’96, Ann Clarke DF&ES ’92 and Duncan Clarke, Léo and Marty Laporte, Flip Dibner ’75, and Diane Renshaw ’75.
The trip commenced from the San Jose–San Francisco area early on Saturday morning, August 4th, with a 14-mile drive into Tassajara along a mountain road through the Ventana Wilderness in the rugged Santa Lucia Mountains. Evidence of the 1977 Marble Cone and the 1999 Kirk Fire are visible on this route. At Tassajara the group viewed a variety of ongoing projects: native plant restoration, solar and geothermal energy systems and gray-water treatment wetlands. From there, it was lunch and an afternoon visit to the Japanese-style hot baths (or swimming pool).
In the late afternoon, the group returned out to Hastings Reserve in upper Carmel Valley, where they prepared dinner in a communal kitchen, then slept under the stars in tents at the research center. (This was augmented by such modern conveniences as bathrooms, showers and meeting spaces.) Mark Stromberg, Director of the Reserve, was on hand to provide a guided tour of the reserve and talk about some of the current research projects. Then the group met and mingled with another ESA/SER field trip group who were spending the night at Hastings.
F&ESers left Hastings around lunchtime and returned to the San Jose area by late afternoon.
Along for the fun were Andrea Cristofani Geurts ’98, Jessica Hamburger ’98, Libby Jones ’02, Ph.D candidate ’07, Marcia Tobin ’96, Ann Clarke DF&ES ’92 and Duncan Clarke, Léo and Marty Laporte, Flip Dibner ’75, and Diane Renshaw ’75.
Os Schmitz (F&ES Prof. of Ecology/Evolutionary Biology), Diane Renshaw ’75, Flip Dibner ’75, and Jean Thomson Black ’75 at the Yale University Press booth at ESA in August 2007
Jean Thomson Black ’75 reports that the Yale F&ES get-together went well and included a nice range of alumni/ae and Florencia Montagnini (Professor in the Practice of Tropical Forest). A venerable alumnus, Dr. Richard Jorgensen ’42, D.F. ’54, attended (he now writes Class Notes for the six living alumni from the Class of 1942) and shared some of his reminiscences with the group, including what it was like to be on a field trip with Harold Lutz. Introductions all around made this a great networking opportunity.
CLASS OF 1976
REUNION WEEKEND 2008
Together again!
REUNION WEEKEND 2003 - Photos courtesy of Gordon Smith '78, MPPM '79
CLASS OF 1978
Class Notes, Fall 2007
This past spring the second biennial Western field trip reunion took place in western Turkey. Andrew Schwarz, Loring LaBarbera, Tom Rumpf and wife Annie Tara, and Bob Gipe and wife Betsy Fine, along with Bill Hanson ’77 and Kate Troll ’77, met in the coastal town of Marmaris for the start of a weeklong cruise along the Mediterranean coast. Bare-boat chartering a 45-foot sloop, Bob served as captain, with other classmates serving as willing students. Sailing conditions ranged from no wind to too much wind, as the F&ES reunion members explored remote
peninsulas, ancient ruins and secluded coves. By the end of the week, the crew had mastered the vocabulary of
sailing. Early reports hint that the site for the next reunion will be western Thailand.
Ellen Baum writes: “My youngest son attends Yale College. Dropping him off gave me a chance to visit Sage and find my class picture. I am a senior scientist with the Clean Air Task Force, a small nongovernmental organization
that works on climate and air quality. My work ranges from looking at the role of non-CO2 climate forcings in the Arctic, to getting the whole story on biofuels, to figuring out if biochar can actually benefit climate and soils. It keeps me on my toes and gives me some fleeting moments of optimism.”
John Hoffnagle has served as the executive director of the Land Trust of Napa County since 1988. Last spring, John was able to attend the Stanford Business School’s executive program for nonprofit leaders, which he highly recommends. The family vacationed in Europe for the first time this summer and was able to spend a day en route with Sheila and Ed Becker at their home in Topsfield, Mass. John hosts the F&ES reception at Land Trust Alliance rallies, which occurred this year in Denver. The big news is that John’s daughter, Elena, is attending Yale this fall as a freshman. She’s in Morse College.
Dora Lee writes: “I have taken on a new assignment with Exelon, a large utility based in Chicago with generation facilities in Illinois, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Texas. For the last several years, I have been working on a variety of assignments on strategy and operations. The new job has an unusual title – FERC licensing support manager. What this entails is managing the recreational facilities located in the watershed of our hydropower station on the
Susquehanna. We have 6,800 acres of land on both sides of the Susquehanna, 700 of which are actively managed. I will be working on getting the recreational facilities up to our commitments as we get ready to apply for a new license. It is a fortuitous assignment on the eve of our 30th graduation from Yale – a homecoming, of sorts, after wandering around the world doing different things. I live in Chester County in Pennsylvania, have taken up dressage as a sport and am absolutely smitten by a pony named Moonie.”
Emly McDiarmid, director of admissions at F&ES, was one of a delegation of 100 students, faculty and administrators who went to China in May, led by Yale President Richard Levin. Invited by President Hu of China at
his visit to Yale in April 2006, the group included representatives of all the university’s schools, as well as several Yale students from China and others who had studied there. The delegation visited Peking University and Tsinghua University in Beijing, Fudan University in Shanghai and Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi’an. In addition to interaction with Chinese students and scholars, the delegation met with government leaders, toured major cultural and historical sites in Beijing and Shanghai and explored historical sites in the ancient city of Xi’an.
Joshua Schwartz is an associate professor of biology at Pace University in Pleasantville, N.Y. His research focuses on the communication of frogs. He lives in Kent, N.Y., with his wife, Leslie, and three turtles.
This past spring the second biennial Western field trip reunion took place in western Turkey. Andrew Schwarz, Loring LaBarbera, Tom Rumpf and wife Annie Tara, and Bob Gipe and wife Betsy Fine, along with Bill Hanson ’77 and Kate Troll ’77, met in the coastal town of Marmaris for the start of a weeklong cruise along the Mediterranean coast. Bare-boat chartering a 45-foot sloop, Bob served as captain, with other classmates serving as willing students. Sailing conditions ranged from no wind to too much wind, as the F&ES reunion members explored remote
peninsulas, ancient ruins and secluded coves. By the end of the week, the crew had mastered the vocabulary of
sailing. Early reports hint that the site for the next reunion will be western Thailand.
Ellen Baum writes: “My youngest son attends Yale College. Dropping him off gave me a chance to visit Sage and find my class picture. I am a senior scientist with the Clean Air Task Force, a small nongovernmental organization
that works on climate and air quality. My work ranges from looking at the role of non-CO2 climate forcings in the Arctic, to getting the whole story on biofuels, to figuring out if biochar can actually benefit climate and soils. It keeps me on my toes and gives me some fleeting moments of optimism.”
John Hoffnagle has served as the executive director of the Land Trust of Napa County since 1988. Last spring, John was able to attend the Stanford Business School’s executive program for nonprofit leaders, which he highly recommends. The family vacationed in Europe for the first time this summer and was able to spend a day en route with Sheila and Ed Becker at their home in Topsfield, Mass. John hosts the F&ES reception at Land Trust Alliance rallies, which occurred this year in Denver. The big news is that John’s daughter, Elena, is attending Yale this fall as a freshman. She’s in Morse College.
Dora Lee writes: “I have taken on a new assignment with Exelon, a large utility based in Chicago with generation facilities in Illinois, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Texas. For the last several years, I have been working on a variety of assignments on strategy and operations. The new job has an unusual title – FERC licensing support manager. What this entails is managing the recreational facilities located in the watershed of our hydropower station on the
Susquehanna. We have 6,800 acres of land on both sides of the Susquehanna, 700 of which are actively managed. I will be working on getting the recreational facilities up to our commitments as we get ready to apply for a new license. It is a fortuitous assignment on the eve of our 30th graduation from Yale – a homecoming, of sorts, after wandering around the world doing different things. I live in Chester County in Pennsylvania, have taken up dressage as a sport and am absolutely smitten by a pony named Moonie.”
Emly McDiarmid, director of admissions at F&ES, was one of a delegation of 100 students, faculty and administrators who went to China in May, led by Yale President Richard Levin. Invited by President Hu of China at
his visit to Yale in April 2006, the group included representatives of all the university’s schools, as well as several Yale students from China and others who had studied there. The delegation visited Peking University and Tsinghua University in Beijing, Fudan University in Shanghai and Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi’an. In addition to interaction with Chinese students and scholars, the delegation met with government leaders, toured major cultural and historical sites in Beijing and Shanghai and explored historical sites in the ancient city of Xi’an.
Joshua Schwartz is an associate professor of biology at Pace University in Pleasantville, N.Y. His research focuses on the communication of frogs. He lives in Kent, N.Y., with his wife, Leslie, and three turtles.
