Class Notes

Richard Thoma, LA80, is the senior editor of 100 Years of the Webster Groves Nature Study Society. The book is a history of the society from its formation in 1920 to its present as one of the premier nonprofit natural history organizations. For more, visit WGNSS.org. Thoma recently retired as a protein biochemist after a 35-year career that included time at Washington University School of Medicine.

Scott Serota, HA79, is an executive adviser for Castlight Health, focusing on product and market strategy as well as new opportunities in the health-plan market. Serota retired as CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association at the end of 2020.

Lucinda Marshall, AR79, is an artist, writer, activist and founder of the DiVerse Gaithersburg Poetry Reading and Open Mic. She penned a new collection of poetry, Inheritance of Aging Self (Finishing Line Press, 2021), exploring the impact of the aging, illness and death of elder loved ones, and our grieving for them, on our sense of identity and place as we in turn age.

Steven Boggs, MD, LA79, is chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He and his program director
re-established a residency program at the center after an 18-year hiatus. Boggs has served as president of the Tennessee State Society of Anesthesiologists and continues his work on developing a training curriculum for remote learning and teaching of anesthesia providers in sub-Saharan Africa.

Ira Spector, EN78, EN78, is co-founder and CEO of SFA Therapeutics, a development-stage biopharmaceutical startup focused on a new advancement — the use of microbiome-derived metabolites as drugs — in the treatment of chronic inflammatory disease. Spector and his wife, Donna, frequently visit his daughter and grandchildren in St. Louis.

Greg R. Scott, SW78, retired after 30 years as professor and program director of social work at Kuyper College in Grand Rapids, Mich. Scott was instrumental in starting the first school of social work in Liberia and taught international social work in the Dominican Republic. He moved to Bethlehem, Pa., to be near his grandchildren.

Janet (Loft) Reinhardt, BU78, for decades has volunteered to fulfill her passions for advancing women in society, disease research and church missions. She relocated to Nashville, Tenn., with an array of devoted Kappa Gamma sorority friends who share her penchant for needlework. 

Jim Kilberg, BU78, and his wife, Lori (Eisenberg) Kilberg, LA77, have completed their Seattle adventure and returned to Atlanta. Jim retired from Weyerhaeuser where he oversaw real estate, energy and natural resources; Lori retired as an equity partner from Hartman Simons where her practice focused on commercial real estate. Lori is chair of the Atlanta-Fulton County Library Foundation, and Jim oversees their family investment business. They’re about to enjoy their fifth grandchild

Rick Eisen, LA78, a founding member of Growe Eisen Karlen Eilerts LLC in Clayton, Mo., for the past several years was named to the Super Lawyers Missouri and Best Lawyers in America directories in the area of family law. He and his wife, Marci, live in University City, Mo., and their three children reside in St. Louis, Denver and Detroit.

Allan Trautman, LA76, performs two regular characters in the latest The Barbarian and the Troll series on Nickelodeon (also streaming on Nick.com): General Skelly and the wizard Horus Scrumm. You can also see his work on Disney+, which is streaming the original Dinosaurs series from the 1990s. Trautman is Fran’s puppeteer as well as many other characters. And you can still stream Earth to Ned on Disney+, in which he is the lead animatronic performer for Ned.