Class Notes

Judy (Schaefer) Thompson, FA62, GF81, is a practicing artist and has a studio in her home.

Jack Sanders, BU61, was inducted into the Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame for his volunteer activities after retirement from active military service. Sanders has worked with Habitat for Humanity Tucson for 26 years, serving on the board of directors, chairing the business affairs committee and acting as a purchasing agent — all while helping construct more than 400 homes. He has also worked at a Tucson hospital for 16 years, driving patients, staff and visitors throughout the hospital.

Gary Waldman, LA59, retired from teaching physics after 30 years at St. Louis Community College. He maintains a website, “The Liberal Hour” (garywald.net), which he describes as “the project of a retired physics professor — using statistics and quantitative data to puncture conservative myths.”

Stephen Hoyt, EN59, retired after 25 years at Ameren.

Robert Adler, DE56, who is retired, encourages any and all classmates out there to “give him a holler.”

Charlotte Obst Barbaresi, FA51, celebrated her 90th birthday with family and friends in Greenwich, Conn., in March 2020. Still active as a nonagenarian, she keeps up with news, friends and family through the internet and email, cuts the grass and trims the hedges around her home, and remains an avid fan of WashU and all things STL.

John P. Adams, MD45, had a professorship, the John P. Adams Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, named in his honor by the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Tapped as department chair in 1953, Adams watched in 2020 as the inaugural holder of the professorship was named. The professorship started as the John P. Adams Endowed Fund in Orthopaedic Surgery, thanks to a gift from Katharine Graham, former publisher of The Washington Post. A patient and friend of Adams, she made the gift in honor of his retirement in 1987.