Class Notes

Thomas S. Chang, MD85, was tapped for the Gold Medallion Award by the Pennsylvania Radiological Society for his contributions to society and the field of radiology.

Pete Woods, LW84, was recognized in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the practice areas of family law and commercial litigation. Woods is the managing partner and a family law and commercial litigation attorney at the St. Louis firm Haar & Woods, LLP.

David Rubenstein, EN83, and his wife, Debra Levine, BU83, who after 15 years were weary of New England winters, now live in El Dorado Hills, Calif. David is an aerospace engineering consultant, currently working on flight-control algorithms for reusable launch vehicles, including Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. Debra, a retirement plan consultant, works for a small, private firm based on the East Coast. The couple loves hiking in the Sierra foothills, visiting state and national parks, and exploring California’s wine regions.

Jeanette Meyer, LA83, of RE/MAX Alliance, earned the RE/MAX Lifetime Achievement Award honoring highly successful agents who have completed at least seven years of service with the company.

Lawrence “Bud” Wittels, LA81, LW84, joined the Mediator Panel of United States Arbitration & Mediation, the country’s leading provider of mediation and arbitration services.

David Simkins, EN81, and Eileen Zornow, FA82, write that they’re the proud grandparents of two girls and a boy.

Thomas Liu, SI81, in 2018 earned a doctor of ministry degree from Houston Graduate School of Theology. Liu is donating the proceeds from his recent book, Alzheimer’s & Theology: Theological Dynamic of the Human Experience of Dementia (Authorhouse, June 2021), to Alzheimer’s research.

Cletus Glasener, LA81, retired from Elbit Systems of America, Fort Worth, Texas, after serving a long career in the aerospace and defense industry, including 13 years as the company’s CFO. He and his wife, Rona, look forward to spending more time at their ranch in central Texas and participating in activities to help people. They have four daughters living in the area.

Nancy Ellis-Ordway, SW79, coedited Weight Bias in Health Education: Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice (Routledge, September 2021), in addition to writing one chapter and co-writing two others. She is also the author of Thrive at Any Weight: Eating to Nourish Body, Soul, and Self-Esteem (Praeger, 2019). Ellis-Ordway has a private psychotherapy practice in Jefferson City, Mo.

Nina (Gilden) Seavey, LA78, an Emmy award-winning documentarian, is the host of the eight-part podcast “My Fugitive,” which recounts the long-ripple effect of the May 5, 1970, burning of the Washington University ROTC building. Seavey’s father, longtime civil rights attorney Louis Gilden, was the attorney for Howard Mechanic, one of the students arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for his participation in the riot. The series rose to No. 3 on the Apple History podcasts. Website: myfugitivepodcast.com