Class Notes

Larry Altman, BS ’73, co-authored an article, titled “What to Do After a Crisis,” that was published in the winter 2025 edition of Rethinking Behavior magazine.

Mark Edelman, AB ’72, publishes a monthly theater column in several Washington, D.C.– area newspapers and hosts a podcast on the subject titled “Onstage DMV.” His play Four Children was published by Theatrical Rights Worldwide. The organization he founded in Kansas City — Theater League — provides funding for Shakespeare festivals and children’s theater programs around the country. This year, the league honored him with the creation of the Mark Edelman Theater Fund, a $20 million endowment for the performing arts.

J. Stuart Showalter, JD ’71, published the 10th edition of his textbook, The Law of Healthcare Administration (ACHE, Health Administration Press) and, with co-author Sallie Thieme Sanford, is working on the 11th edition. Showalter taught health law at WashU in the health administration program in the 1980s and ’90s. He is retired and lives near family in Williston, Vermont.

Gary Nichols, BFA ’71, is past president and current board member of the Summit County Arts Council, a nonprofit organization with the mission of promoting the arts of all types in Summit County, Colorado. He is also a member of Arts Alive, a co-op art gallery in Frisco (where he lives part time; his primary home is in Denver). When not painting (watercolors), he spends his time hanging with his grandchildren, skiing, golfing and fly fishing.

John Sheridan, AB ’70, a Vietnam War veteran, returned to Vietnam in October 2024 with a group organized by Veterans for Peace and was featured in a long article in Der Spiegel magazine published April 12. The trip focused on reconciliation and research about the ongoing Agent Orange and unexploded ordnance remediation programs.

Jack Nasar, AB ’69, penned his seventh book (under the pen name Leona Victor): The Right Angle: A Retort to Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead (Vikinc, July 2024). Nasar is an academy professor in the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University. His previous books include Design by Competition: Making Design Competition Work; The Evaluative Image of the City; Designing for Designers; and Environmental Aesthetics: Theory, Research and Applications.

Lawrence Millman, AB ’68, penned Drinks With God (Austin Macauley Publishers, May 2025). The book is a satire about having fictional drinks with the supreme being, during which he confesses he’s an almighty bumbler — if a mistake can be made, he will make it.

Joel A. D’Alba, AB ’66, received the 2023 Arvid Anderson Public Sector Labor and Employment Attorney of the Year Award from the American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law. The award recognizes an attorney whose career substantially contributed to the development of public sector labor law as exemplified by Arvid Anderson. The selection committee includes the co-chairs of the state and local government bargaining and employment law committee.

Robert Zaller, MA ’63, PhD ’68, a distinguished university professor emeritus at Drexel University, has published an article, “Misotheism in Robinson Jeffers’ Construction of Divinity,” in South Central Review, a journal of Johns Hopkins University Press. He has penned two books of poetry, After the Fire and The Dresden Zoo, both with Moonstone Press.

Ron Fischer, BS ’62, retired in January 2024 as owner of Professional Engineering Co. Patron Services, Inc. and is living in Summerville of St. Andrew’s retirement community in Eureka, Missouri.