Class Notes

Nathan Byers, EN82, who has led Seattle engineering consulting firm Sider + Byers as the managing partner, is transitioning to retirement, working part time to smooth the ownership transition. He is looking forward to having more time to spend with his lovely wife, Page, and on his avocations.

Rita Fullem, SI81, is a sales associate at Patuxent Nursery in Odenton, Md.

Laura (Greene) Wiegand, LA80, is a retired general internist. She has two children and three grandchildren.

Steven Nadler, LA80, is the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy and Evjue-Bascom Professor in Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught since 1988. A Pulitzer-Prize finalist for his book Rembrandt’s Jews (University of Chicago Press, 2003), Nadler was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

David Compton, LA80, is director of toxicology at PCT Therapeutics (USA). He has represented his company on the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations gene therapy working group the past two years. Compton was a founding member and is on the board of the  Cross-Company Abuse Liability Council, which works with the FDA on issues in the industry on assessment of abuse potential for new medical entities.

Susan (Kennedy) Moran, LA65, retired as a high school guidance counselor.

Anna Katherine (“Kay”) Behrensmeyer, LA67, is a senior research geologist and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian Institution. She is known for her pioneering research in taphonomy, the branch of paleontology that deals with the processes of fossilization. Much of her career has involved paleontological and geological field research on the ecological context of human evolution in the later Cenozoic era of East Africa.

Allan Trautman, LA76, was the lead animatronic puppeteer for the title character in “Earth to Ned,” a show on the Disney+ streaming service that follows Ned, a blue-skinned alien, and his lieutenant Cornelius, who were sent to scout Earth for an eventual invasion.

William Sitzer, GL79, retired from law practice. A volunteer docent at the Saint Louis Art Museum since 2014, he became the director of the National Docent Symposium Council in 2019.

Shel Silver, LW79, is semi-retired and relocated to Boynton Beach, Fla.