Class Notes

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.

Robert B. Keiter, AB ’68, penned Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone: Controversy and Change in an Iconic Ecosystem (University of Chicago Press, July 2025). The book traces the evolution and application of fundamental ecological conservation concepts tied to the Yellowstone country. Highlighting both conservation successes and controversies connected with this storied region, it explores the restoration of endangered species like the grizzly bear and wolf and the protection of elk, deer and park bison.

Deborah Hirschfelder, AB ’68, was recognized as a 2025 Jewish Light Unsung Hero. She is deeply involved in hands-on and organizational volunteer work. Since the May 16, 2025, St. Louis tornado, she has regularly delivered homemade and donated food — serving 300 to 500 people daily. She coordinates with 48 volunteers, collects and distributes meals from homes and her synagogue, Shaare Emeth, and meets with local leaders. She also helped residents apply for FEMA assistance.

Earl Hearst, AB ’66, MD ’69, won silver medals in the Maryland State Senior Olympic Games in July 2025 in men’s doubles and mixed doubles table tennis. He also won a Maryland pickleball silver medal in mixed doubles and a bronze medal in men’s doubles in May 2025. In the Florida senior table tennis Olympic games in April, he won a gold medal in men’s doubles and a silver medal in mixed doubles.

Don Joseph, BS ’64, moved to an independent living center in Lincolnshire, Illinois, and has met several residents with WashU ties.