Class Notes

Lawrence Altman, EN73, was part of a successful grant application to the United States Department of Education to prepare and increase the number of mental health professionals in Oklahoma’s rural schools. Altman was also appointed a legal consultant to the board overseeing the grant.

Bruce Levenson, LA71, was named chairperson of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 30th anniversary commemoration, to be held April 20 in Washington, D.C.

Joseph Heyman, GR71, GR75, in 2022 was inducted into NASA’s Langley Research Center Hall of Honor, a prestigious accomplishment. The 105-year-old center has had more than 10,000 employees, only 60 of whom have been tapped for this recognition. Heyman’s visionary work as an inventor and leader in nondestructive evaluation to test aircraft and spacecraft materials and structures made an impact on NASA Langley and helped the space shuttle fleet safely return to flight after accidents. He retired in 2002 as Langley’s senior technologist.

Michael Weiner, LA69, LW73, authored In My Expert Opinion: Becoming an Effective Expert in the Financial Services Industry (Luminare Press, 2018). The book, his first, followed his long career in securities, futures and derivative law that began in 1973 at the now-defunct Commodity Exchange Authority. Prior to his retirement from Bates Group, LLC, Weiner served as an expert witness in state and federal courts. A frequent traveler in search of scuba opportunities, he lives in Portland, Ore., with his wife, Kathy.

J. Clay Singleton, LA69, was honored by Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., with the endowment of the Singleton and Orchid Chair in Finance. Now retired, Singleton taught at the college’s Crummer Graduate School of Business, where he was the George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Professor of Finance from 2002 to 2020. Singleton and his wife, Kathy, live in Ocoee, Fla.

Harriet Entin, LA68, who specializes in helping clients understand and heal through complex trauma, continues to enjoy her private practice in St. Louis. A longtime teacher of tai chi and meditation, Entin integrates these healing arts with modern psychotherapy. In her free time, she is a devoted gardener and equestrian, and was awarded the Dressage Foundation’s Century Club Award following her dressage ride with her equine partner, Tre Awain Medelago (“Mellie”).

John S. Douglas Jr., MD67, professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, was recognized with three awards prior to his retirement Dec. 1, 2022: the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College of Cardiology, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of the South, and the Mason F. Sones Jr. MD Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.

Charlotte McDaniel, LA65, received the coveted Fulbright Association Award for Outstanding Chapter Leader at the organization’s 2022 annual conference in Bethesda, Md., in early October 2022. She was recognized for her earlier presidency of Georgia’s Fulbright chapter.

Marilyn Levin Brown, LA62, is an artist and author whose 18th book was published in 2022. A couple of others, Brown writes, “went to a landfill.” Digital Clay and Digital Clay 2 are among her books that survived.

Ray Killebrew, LA56, and his wife, Helen, celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary last August. Killebrew retired in 2018 as an assistant professor of communications after teaching at Missouri Baptist University for two decades. Earlier, he spent over two decades with Maritz and almost three decades in entrepreneurial marketing communication ventures. The Killebrews reside in Kirkwood, Mo., and enjoy community activities; long walks; family time with their two children, three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; and staying healthy.