Class Notes

Joshua Grossman, MD65, is a volunteer teacher for mid-level providers on cardiac arrhythmia recognition and for his community on his personal challenges and mistakes with Type 2 diabetes. He has been married for more than 50 years to Mickey Grossman, OT64, a licensed practicing occupational therapist.

Jerome Freedman, GR65, is an author, health-care advocate and bladder cancer survivor since 1997. He teaches about mindfulness in healing at the Pine Street Clinic in San Anselmo, Calif., and writes a blog, “Meditation Practices.” The author of Mindfulness Breaks: Your Path to Awakening (MICAH, 2018), Freedman was also a contributor to I Am With You: Love Letters to Cancer Patients (Bay Tree Publishing, 2015).

Dory (Diamant) Machtinger, LA64, GR66, was awarded the Leo Michuda IPO Award for Lifetime Service by the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra for her many years of commitment, guidance, support and advocacy. A volunteer promoter of the Chicago South Side orchestra since 1980, she writes that she is very proud of the status the orchestra has achieved.

Eldridge Hardie, FA64, released a book, The Sporting Art of Eldridge Hardie: Paintings of Upland Hunting, Angling, and Waterfowling (Stackpole Books, 2019). Featuring 150 paintings, and with a foreword by Paul Schullery and an introduction by Tom Davis, the book celebrates Hardie’s half-century as one of the country’s best-known sporting artists.

Don Oliver, DE63, GD67, writes that the 2020 protest movement and white awareness began for him as an undergraduate in 1957 when a young Martin Luther King Jr. gave a stirring address to an overflow crowd at Graham Chapel. Oliver says he is very grateful to Washington University, Dr. King and the sponsors for making this event and so many other opportunities possible for him — including meeting his future wife, Sandy (Wright) Oliver, LA61.

Judy (Schaefer) Thompson, FA62, GF81, is a practicing artist and has a studio in her home.

Jack Sanders, BU61, was inducted into the Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame for his volunteer activities after retirement from active military service. Sanders has worked with Habitat for Humanity Tucson for 26 years, serving on the board of directors, chairing the business affairs committee and acting as a purchasing agent — all while helping construct more than 400 homes. He has also worked at a Tucson hospital for 16 years, driving patients, staff and visitors throughout the hospital.

Gary Waldman, LA59, retired from teaching physics after 30 years at St. Louis Community College. He maintains a website, “The Liberal Hour” (garywald.net), which he describes as “the project of a retired physics professor — using statistics and quantitative data to puncture conservative myths.”

Stephen Hoyt, EN59, retired after 25 years at Ameren.

Robert Adler, DE56, who is retired, encourages any and all classmates out there to “give him a holler.”