Class Notes

Lilita (Zvejnieks) Hardes, SW76, published her mother’s WWII experiences in A Memoir of Home, War and Finding Refuge – Biruta’s Story. A first-generation American, Hardes documented her maternal family’s flight from Latvia in 1944 when the Soviets occupied the Baltics. Hardes, who is a licensed clinical social worker, counselled children and families in the Milwaukee area for 36 years and recently retired to San Diego. Website: www.lhardes.com.

David Goldman, LW76, is the author of several books that are used as textbooks by medical schools: The Goldman Guide to Psychiatry with DSM-5 Update (Goldman Group, 2016 and 2017), The Goldman Guide to Medical Jurisprudence and Medical Ethics (Goldman Group, 2014) and The Goldman Guide to Psychiatry Review Guide (Miracle Press, 2012). He also won the Midwest Magic Jubilee competition in 2019.

Ruth DeFries, LA76, wrote her second book, What Would Nature Do? A Guide for Our Uncertain Times (Columbia University Press, 2020). In it, DeFries details how a handful of fundamental strategies — investments in diversity, redundancy over efficiency, self-correcting feedbacks and decisions based on bottom-up knowledge — enable life to persist through unpredictable, sudden shocks. 

Alisse C. Camazine, LA76, was named one of the top 10 lawyers in Missouri and Kansas by Super Lawyers, the only woman and the only family law attorney on the list. Camazine is a principal with Paule Camazine & Blumenthal, P.C., in Clayton, Mo.

David Mason, AR75, was appointed to the board of directors of The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. Mason’s civil and structural engineering firm is stewarding the site development for projects for The Mann’s 22-acre campus in Fairmount Park.

Jane Hoyt Sanders, LA74, GR77, is a counselor at Southwestern Community College and continues to enjoy drawing and painting.

Rebecca D’Harlingue, LA74, GR76, penned The Lines Between Us (She Writes Press, 2020), a dual-timeline novel set in 17th-century Spain and Mexico, and in 1992 St. Louis. The book was a finalist in the best new fiction category for both the Best Book Awards and the International Book Awards in 2020. Kirkus Reviews called D’Harlingue’s book “an ambitious, engaging novel that explores the power of finding personal connection to the past.”

William Campbell, GA74, retired as a licensed architect/city planner.

Gail Capper Altman, UC73, earned a graduate of arts degree in teaching English as a second language from Avila University, Kansas City, Mo., in August 2020.

Jayprakash Raisoni, SI72, SI74, writes of his appreciation to WashU for making events available online during the COVID-19 crisis.