Class Notes

Jonathan D. Moreno, PhD ’77, wrote Absolutely Essential: Bioethics and the Rules-Based International Order (MIT Press, September 2025). The book explores the field of bioethics as both a creature and a key element of the post-World War II rules-based order. According to this order, international relations are to be organized according to principles of open markets, liberal democracy and multilateral organizations.

Eric Haesloop, AB ’77, co-wrote Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects: Land and Light (Rizzoli, September 2025). The monograph covers the work of the firm led by partners Haesloop, Mary Griffin and Stefan Hastrup during the last 27 years of their San Francisco- and Berkeley, California-based architectural practice. The book includes a foreword by Paul Goldberger and essays by Dan Gregory and Donlyn Lyndon.

Linda Rudorfer, AB ’76, retired after two decades as a counselor at William Cullen Bryant High School in Long Island City, New York. She performs with the Senior Theater Acting Repertory and other community theater productions in Queens and
Nassau County.

Sandra M. Moore, AB ’76, JD ’79, was honored with the Pinwheel of Excellence Award by the Flance Early Learning Center in north St. Louis in June 2025. Moore is a longtime champion of Flance’s mission to provide excellence by educating and nurturing young children, supporting families and strengthening community. Flance is an award-winning, nationally recognized early childhood education center near the Carr Square neighborhood. Moore is managing director at Advantage Capital.

Terry Martin, BS ’76, MSW ’77, penned Chaos in Paradise (independently published, July 2025). The book’s main character is a clinical psychologist haunted by his past and hunted by a criminal mastermind whose reach has
no borders.

Donald G. Tye, MSW ’75, JD ’75, a founding partner at Prince Lobel, was named to
the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly 2025 Go To Family Lawyers list. The section highlights leaders in the family law field in Massachusetts.

Barbara Langsam Shuman, AB ’74, recently received the Best Documentary Short award from the Miami Women Film Festival for her film Mr. Z: What Happens Early in Life Lasts a Lifetime. Her husband, Michael Shuman, JD ’82, is a retired attorney who tutors elementary students and volunteers at a food pantry. Their daughter, Amanda Shuman, MAED ’13, MSW ’14, teaches 4th grade English language arts at Jackson Park Elementary School in University City, Missouri, the alma mater of her late grandma, Esther Salzberg Langsam, BSBA ’51.

Lawrence J. Altman, BS ’73, received the 2025 W. Oliver Rasch Award from the trustees of the Missouri Bar Foundation for the article he wrote in the Journal of the Missouri Bar, titled “U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling concludes Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 is constitutional.”

Charlotte Decroes Jacobs, MD ’72, penned her third biography, 90 Seconds to Midnight: A Hiroshima Survivor’s Nuclear Odyssey (University of Nebraska Press, June 2025). With the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, 13-year-old Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow lost almost everything except her indominable will. She set out to abolish nuclear weapons, resulting in a United Nations treaty banning them and an invitation to deliver a Nobel Peace Prize lecture. Jacobs also authored Jonas Salk: A Life and Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin’s Disease.

John Sheridan, AB ’70, and his wife, Andrea DuFlon, began a search for a one-story smaller home after a near-fatal heart attack in April 2025. The couple now lives at the Hillside retirement community in McMinnville, Oregon. Classmates interested in the journey should read Atul Gawunde’s Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, with its lengthy description of senior planning and care.