Class Notes

Steven Bloomfield, LA67, and his firm, Bloomfield/Schon, were recognized by the state of Ohio for the renovation and repurposing of the Peters Cartridge Factory into a mixed-use community. It was the firm’s fifth major historic renovation project.

William J. Betz, LA65, has retired.

Robert Zaller, GR63, GR68, penned The Atom to Be Split: New and Selected Essays on Robinson Jeffers (Tor House Press, 2019); The Dresden Zoo, a poem with commentary about the firebombing of Dresden (Moonstone Press, 2019); and a new version of Euripides’ classic text that sharpens its themes for a modern audience, The Bacchae (Somerset Hall Press).

Reinhard A. “Bud” Wobus, LA62, retired last summer after 55 years teaching geology at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. A group of former students honored him by organizing a daylong technical session at the Geological Society of America’s 2021 annual meeting in Portland, Ore., in October.

Michael J. Kearney, EN62, enjoyed lunch recently with three fraternity brothers from WashU’s Beta Theta Pi chapter. Joining Kearney in Schaumburg, Ill., were John Jackson, BU62, Bill Kelley, LA62, and Gary Bayer, LA63.

Frank S. Thomas III, EN52, celebrated his 92nd birthday last July. His career included 30 years at Universal Match and McDonnell Douglas, then 28 years at First Financial Planners. Along the way, he sang with the Washington University Civic Chorus for about a dozen years, performing in Washington, D.C., and in New York City at Carnegie Hall. He and his wife live with their adult son, who is their caregiver. 

Burton “Buddy” Resnic, LA50, retired as an active lawyer in 2019 at age 91. He sends greetings to his classmates, calls WashU “a great school” and shares his fond memories of Zeta Beta Tau. Resnic’s daughter, Joanne (Resnic) Lippman, LA87; son-in-law, Neil Lippman, LA87; and granddaughter, Carly Lippman, LA15, are also WashU alums.

Nathan Card, LA21, is a park ranger with the National Park Service, currently at Cape Hatteras National Seashore. His duty station is in Buxton, N.C.

Noah Offenkrantz, LA20, along with Anish Naik, EN19, SI19, Ben Green, BU20, Francis Serrano, LA20, and Spencer Stewart, LA21, created Find Your Farmer in May 2020. The venture is an online farmers market that delivers fresh meats, cheeses, fruits and produce from more than 40 sustainable family farms and artisans in the St. Louis region. Website: find-your-farmer.com

Nathaniel “Trey” Lampley III, LA18, a third-year medical student at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, was accepted as a 2021–22 visiting predoctoral research fellow in the Department of Dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. After his research year, he will return to the University of Cincinnati to complete his final year and apply for a dermatology residency.