Class Notes

Michael S. Sherry, LA67, wrote The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War (UNC Press, 2020). The book explores the political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies. In 2020, Sherry retired as the Richard W. Leopold Professor of History at Northwestern University, having spent 44 years on the Northwestern history faculty.

Pepper Schwartz, LA67, GR69, is involved in several startups, including Pulse and Keeper. She recently finished video and audio relationship casts, 20 short videos on intimacy and sexuality, and 10 brief audio files on maintaining relationships for GetPaired.com.

Perci Chester, FA67, had her “Now Is the Time/Time After Time and Drawings of Protest” show on display at the Traffic Zone Gallery in Minneapolis. The installation featured clock boxes, tree limbs and stone with anthropomorphic forms whose heads are vintage clock boxes, marking “time as no time — endless time — and the present time.”

Karen Adderton, GR67, is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in west St. Louis County. She works with adults and adolescents in the areas of trauma, life transitions and personal growth.

Eric Flamholtz, GB66, co-authored The Crisis Leadership Playbook (Vandeplas Publishing, 2020). The book provides practical guidance for leaders facing crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, based upon research it examined from both successful and unsuccessful companies in crisis, including American Express, Chrysler, Disney, Eastman Kodak, International Harvester and Sears.

Joshua Grossman, MD65, is a volunteer teacher for mid-level providers on cardiac arrhythmia recognition and for his community on his personal challenges and mistakes with Type 2 diabetes. He has been married for more than 50 years to Mickey Grossman, OT64, a licensed practicing occupational therapist.

Jerome Freedman, GR65, is an author, health-care advocate and bladder cancer survivor since 1997. He teaches about mindfulness in healing at the Pine Street Clinic in San Anselmo, Calif., and writes a blog, “Meditation Practices.” The author of Mindfulness Breaks: Your Path to Awakening (MICAH, 2018), Freedman was also a contributor to I Am With You: Love Letters to Cancer Patients (Bay Tree Publishing, 2015).

Dory (Diamant) Machtinger, LA64, GR66, was awarded the Leo Michuda IPO Award for Lifetime Service by the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra for her many years of commitment, guidance, support and advocacy. A volunteer promoter of the Chicago South Side orchestra since 1980, she writes that she is very proud of the status the orchestra has achieved.

Eldridge Hardie, FA64, released a book, The Sporting Art of Eldridge Hardie: Paintings of Upland Hunting, Angling, and Waterfowling (Stackpole Books, 2019). Featuring 150 paintings, and with a foreword by Paul Schullery and an introduction by Tom Davis, the book celebrates Hardie’s half-century as one of the country’s best-known sporting artists.

Don Oliver, DE63, GD67, writes that the 2020 protest movement and white awareness began for him as an undergraduate in 1957 when a young Martin Luther King Jr. gave a stirring address to an overflow crowd at Graham Chapel. Oliver says he is very grateful to Washington University, Dr. King and the sponsors for making this event and so many other opportunities possible for him — including meeting his future wife, Sandy (Wright) Oliver, LA61.