Class Notes

Ruth DeFries, LA76, wrote her second book, What Would Nature Do? A Guide for Our Uncertain Times (Columbia University Press, 2020). In it, DeFries details how a handful of fundamental strategies — investments in diversity, redundancy over efficiency, self-correcting feedbacks and decisions based on bottom-up knowledge — enable life to persist through unpredictable, sudden shocks. 

Alisse C. Camazine, LA76, was named one of the top 10 lawyers in Missouri and Kansas by Super Lawyers, the only woman and the only family law attorney on the list. Camazine is a principal with Paule Camazine & Blumenthal, P.C., in Clayton, Mo.

David Mason, AR75, was appointed to the board of directors of The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. Mason’s civil and structural engineering firm is stewarding the site development for projects for The Mann’s 22-acre campus in Fairmount Park.

Jane Hoyt Sanders, LA74, GR77, is a counselor at Southwestern Community College and continues to enjoy drawing and painting.

Rebecca D’Harlingue, LA74, GR76, penned The Lines Between Us (She Writes Press, 2020), a dual-timeline novel set in 17th-century Spain and Mexico, and in 1992 St. Louis. The book was a finalist in the best new fiction category for both the Best Book Awards and the International Book Awards in 2020. Kirkus Reviews called D’Harlingue’s book “an ambitious, engaging novel that explores the power of finding personal connection to the past.”

William Campbell, GA74, retired as a licensed architect/city planner.

Gail Capper Altman, UC73, earned a graduate of arts degree in teaching English as a second language from Avila University, Kansas City, Mo., in August 2020.

Jayprakash Raisoni, SI72, SI74, writes of his appreciation to WashU for making events available online during the COVID-19 crisis.

Ronald Klein, BU72, has had two stem cell transplants in the last decade and recently received a kidney from his wife, Susan Klein. He says his wife’s gift was “like getting half my life back.” Klein has been with CAMICO, the nation’s largest CPA-owned and -directed program of insurance and risk management for the accounting profession, for 35 years. He and his wife have a son, a daughter and three grandchildren.

David Dietrich, LA72, GR79, continues in the private practice of clinical psychoanalysis. Dietrich also supervises psychiatrists and psychologists who are in training at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and is on the clinical faculty of the Wayne State University School of Medicine.