Class Notes

Thomas Countryman, LA79, retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2017 after a 35-year career. He currently is a volunteer chairman of the board of directors of the Arms Control Association.

Joseph Stahl, GB78, is a co-author of Faces of Union Soldiers at Antietam (History Press, 2019). The book examines the routes of some of the units on the field through the individual stories of 36 soldiers who fought in one of the bloodiest days in American history. 

John Barnes, LA78, GR81, is a data-science analyst at 20/20 Tax Resolution in Broomfield, Colo., after working many months as an extremely old data-science intern.

Jordan Goldrich, SW77, GR77, wrote Workplace Warrior: People Skills for the No-Bullshit Executive (Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2019). In the book, Goldrich challenges readers to become better leaders by measuring themselves against the greatest warriors on the planet: the Navy SEALs and the Green Berets, who desire to succeed, are committed to taking charge and focus on accomplishing the mission.

Nancy (Lieberman) Abeles, FA77, propelled first by necessity and then fascination and activism, got involved in local and regional transportation planning and policy. She is currently chair of the committee for road and transit infrastructure projects necessitated by the consolidation of Walter Reed and the National Naval Medical Center. She is also the chair of the citizens advisory committee for the Washington, D.C., Council of Government’s Transportation Planning Board.

Henry Macfarland, HA76, is executive director of Harvesters Reaching The Nations, in Plano, Texas. The 20-year-old, nondenominational ministry operates two orphanages, two primary schools, a vocational training center and a hospital in South Sudan, as well as a primary school at the Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement near Arua, Uganda. Previously, Macfarland had a 30-year career in hospital administration. www.hrtn.org.

Charles Medalie, GR75, is retired and living in Moreno Valley, Calif., holding his breath until COVID-19 goes away.

Robert Lowes, LA75, a longtime journalist, published his first collection of poetry, An Honest Hunger: Poems (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020), which reviewers called “a joyful dance with everyday life” and “a book of great heart.” In the book’s acknowledgment, Lowes credits the late Donald Finkel, a poet and professor of English literature at WashU, with expanding his vision of what a poem could be.

George J. Kimmerle, AR75, earned a doctoral degree in urban planning and public policy from Rutgers University in May 2020. He founded his New York City and New Jersey architectural, urban design and planning practice in 1990. A former faculty member of New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, Kimmerle is a visiting lecturer at Rutgers’ Edward J. Bloustein School.

Wayne C. Koff, LA74, is president and CEO of the Human Vaccines Project, a nonprofit consortium working to decode the human immune system to accelerate development of vaccines and therapies for major global diseases. Koff was recently honored by Foreign Policy in its 10th anniversary special edition of Global Thinkers — along with Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Bill and Melinda Gates, and others — as one of the 100 thinkers and doers who had a profound impact on the planet.