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class notes I am launching a not-for-profit . . . that will fund the placement of graduate students in psychology in Chicago public schools for practicum. I am a clientcentered therapist and provide supervision to the students I place as well as to license-eligible counselors working in schools. I still lift weights regularly and I am happy to report that 'the mom' is doing great." Michael Cleavenger recently became vice president of development for La Rabida Children's Hospital "a 113-year old institution . . . dating from the days of the Colombian Exposition and serving some 10,000 chronically ill children and their families who are provided for with Medicaid dollars. It's truly God's work and I am thrilled, these 40 years out of Latin, to be provided with such a gratifying task." Aritetta Slade "can't believe that we are approaching our 40th reunion. In ways that surprise me, graduation seems like just yesterday. I am well, still living in northwestern Connecticut, still full time faculty in clinical psychology at the City University of New York, also at Yale Child Study Center, also in private practice. Middle age has been quite a shock, but I'm surviving . . . mostly! My stepson, Daniel, is a chef in New York, and Sam and I are enjoying life with our aging dog and adorable/crazy cat. Life is full of blessings, chief among them – in my view – Barack Obama!" Erik Petersen has "three children, the oldest is 31 and finishing her Ph.D. at the University of Leiden in Holland this December – her specialty is biochemistry and something with DNA and cancer. The middle one is also a girl – she is very special, born with a chromosome deficiency and has a very rare syndrome (cri du chat) a lovely girl, in her own world at 28. The youngest is 25 and a business college student and a tradesperson. I became an engineer ages ago and went into computers and telecom. Both have been very good to me and I now enjoy life sailing and skiing. I hope that my life within the next three to five years will allow me to be a live-aboard-sailor in the Med." Linda Cohn has "joined classmates Gail Dugas, Michael Cleavenger, John Himmel, John Friedman and Sue Sills while visiting from Cambridge, to frequent Rick Kogan's scintillating "Conversations with Extraordinary People" monthly at the old Maxim's restaurant near the once-upon-a-time Scott St. digs (Now the Nancy Goldberg International Center at 24 E. Goethe). Currently, I am exhibiting three large-format paintings 32 Latin Magazine in a show titled "Night Train," inspired by a Duke Ellington riff, at Chicago's Hyde Park Art Center through May 24. I would be glad to meet up there with any Latinites to tour the building and have a cup of java and gelato in the cafe. Let's all mark our calendars for our 40th!" Crans Baldwin is a happy man with his son, Rosecrans back from Paris, France and about to publish his first novel. His radiant daughter Leslie works for Reader's Digest in the Big Apple. Crans glowed: "It is amazing that 40 years has passed. And we are brothers-in-law! Odd but good. Am in Las Vegas headed home after giving a speech. As president/CEO of both Donghia Inc. and Bergamo, I have some gravitas for designers which allows me to give speeches about how they can generate more biz right now! Sort of a 'glass half full' tour. But my most important things are 25 years of sobriety and 34 years of marriage and great kids!" Ron Pen can be found at the University of Kentucky where he serves as director of the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music. From his upstairs porch, he and his wife Hooey gaze out on the snaky green Kentucky River as it twines through the Appalachian Mountains and the verdant Bluegrass. (Editor's Note: Our apologies to Ron. Because of the constraints of magazine space, some of the lovely prose about the Class of 1969 was cut. To read a full, unedited version, of Ron's class notes, please go to the 1969 class page at www.latinalumni.org.) 1970 Carol Carpenter Anderson Greta Weil sends her best from New York along with these updates: "I have a small architectural practice in Manhattan and I have been married for 20 years to Richard Conway who has an investment firm. My oldest daughter, Signe, is a sophomore at Harvard College and my younger daughter, Augusta, is in seventh grade. Charles A. Bane lll, son of Charles Bane, Jr., just returned from a high school senior debate tournament at Harvard University where he was a finalist.