Class Notes

Ronald Klein, BU72, has had two stem cell transplants in the last decade and recently received a kidney from his wife, Susan Klein. He says his wife’s gift was “like getting half my life back.” Klein has been with CAMICO, the nation’s largest CPA-owned and -directed program of insurance and risk management for the accounting profession, for 35 years. He and his wife have a son, a daughter and three grandchildren.

David Dietrich, LA72, GR79, continues in the private practice of clinical psychoanalysis. Dietrich also supervises psychiatrists and psychologists who are in training at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and is on the clinical faculty of the Wayne State University School of Medicine.

Chung-Kwang Chou, SI71, earned the IEEE Standards Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his participation and leadership in the IEEE International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety for almost five decades.

“Terry” Richard Koch, LA70, continues his work with the National Lawyers Guild- San Francisco Bay Area. Currently the treasurer of the Bay Area Community Law Foundation, he helped start the legal observer program in 1984 to protect the First Amendment rights of protestors. Koch, who is semiretired, continues to represent severely mentally ill incarcerated individuals.

Daniel Freeman, LA68, penned The House Was My Home: My Life on Capitol Hill and Other Tales (Cadmus Publishing, 2020). The book covers the 30 years he spent as majority counsel and parliamentarian in the House of Representatives, where he worked on four impeachments and with three judges and a president. Freeman is a professor and fellow at American University’s Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.

Victoria Lonergan, LA67, and her husband, Richard, moved to Clayton, Mo., after 50 years in San Francisco. Lonergan writes that St. Louis is a much easier city to live in than San Francisco, and they don’t have to worry about drought or wildfires.

Perci Chester, FA67, displayed her “Body of Work” sculpture series at the NE SCULPTURE | Gallery Factory in Northeast Minneapolis in late 2020. 

Martha (Soloway) Zarkowsky, LA66, GR67, for 34 years has lived in a Chicago suburb with her husband, Bruce, a retired vice president of Walgreens. They live near their oldest child, who is an attorney, and five grandchildren.

Julie Wosk, LA66, professor emerita of studio painting, art history and English at the State University of New York, Maritime College, in New York City, self-published Playboy, Mad Men, and Me — And Other Stories (2020). The book is about her early career as a public relations and advertising copy writer for Playboy, her summer as a civil rights worker for Dr. Martin Luther King’s organization in Alabama in the year of Selma, and more. Wosk’s time at Playboy later inspired her book My Fair Ladies, about female robots and androids.

Carolyn (Fuchs) Perry, GR66, penned an anniversary edition of For Better, For Worse: Patient in the Maelstrom with a new afterword (Sunbury Press, 2020). In the book, Perry shares the story of how she and her husband, who was in the midst of chemotherapy, were marooned by Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans. Perry lives in New Orleans.