Class Notes

Stephanie Stevens, GR79, has worked as a volunteer trustee, vice chair and chairman for several nonprofits in the United Kingdom. She is completing a certificate of executive leadership at Oxford University’s Said Business School. Stevens writes that WashU is a superb university, where she earned her most cherished degree. She lives in the Wiltshire countryside in southwest England with her second husband and three dogs.

Joan Naylor, OT79, is retired from occupational therapy and has a new focus: volunteering to help refugees. She and her husband have volunteered in multiple locales, including the Calais Jungle refugee and migrant encampment in France and at Camp Moria in Lesvos island, Greece. Scheduled to return to Lesvos in June 2020, they were unable to go due to COVID-19. That has not stopped their efforts to help. Creating “Sharing With Refugees,” the couple is selling Naylor’s paintings, handmade hats and other creations for such endeavors as opening a sewing school in Kabul to help women learn a trade: www.sharingwithrefugees.com.

Thomas Goodmann, LA79, is executive director of The New Chaucer Society, a forum for teachers and scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his age, and president of TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies). Goodmann is an associate professor and director of graduate studies at the University of Miami, where he teaches courses on medieval British and European literatures, and on literature and environment.

Gary Feldman, LA79, was named to the 2020 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list, 2020 Chambers USA list and the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. A shareholder with Davis Malm Attorneys in Boston, he focuses on employment practice.

Robert Choplin, HS79, is still at WashU after 41 years, working remotely as a radiologist while living in Virginia. In his free time, he enjoys pickleball, bicycling and working as a member of the League of Women Voters to protect and promote the constitutional right to vote.

James Ritland, LW78, has practiced law in Black River Falls, Wis., for 42 years, and he says he’s not ready to quit yet.

Laura David, MD78, and her husband, Thomas Murphy, MD78, have retired and moved to Reston, Va., to be near their granddaughter. They report that retirement is great and being grandparents is even better.

Barry M. Wyman, DE76, writes that he “finally hung up his handpiece on July 1, 2020, after 44 years of a mostly enjoyable dental career.” Wyman served 22 years in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy as a general dental officer and practiced with the U.S. Public Health Service in Alaska for 22 years. He still calls Alaska home but says he may be open to other options in the future.

Susan (Schonfeld) Silver, LA76, GR77, is a psychotherapist in Chicago specializing in couple’s therapy, women in transition, and grief and depression. Silver and her husband love traveling the world and spending time with their three children and two grandchildren. As a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, she is involved in educating people about climate disruption.

Neal Robbins, LA76, who majored in Chinese and Asian studies, has published a book, Venice, an Odyssey: Hope, Anger and the Future of Cities (Local Secret Publishing, 2020), which has been called “an evocative, engaging and perceptive portrait of Venice, Italy — the ultimate city, a place with stories on every street and in every doorway, nook and cranny.” Website: https://localsecrets.com.