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Class Notes: 1964

Class of 1964 Cover of American Eldercide

Margaret Morganroth Gullette M.A. ’64, internationally known as an age critic and author of prize-winning books about ageism, has just published American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It (2024). The University of Chicago Press has nominated it for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, among others. Katherine S. Newman, Provost and Executive VP of Academic Affairs of the University of California, writes: “With unflinching detail, American Eldercide indicts government indifference and failed regulation during the COVID pandemic. Poignant portraits of real people bring us face to face with individuals who are all our responsibility. This powerful book should be read by anyone who cares about public health, dignified aging, and government accountability.”

Class of 1964
Watching for Dragonflies book cover

Suzanne Marriott recently published her memoir, Watching for Dragonflies: A Caregiver’s Transformative Journey, the inspirational story of her spiritual and psychological growth over the ten years she cared for her husband who suffered from multiple sclerosis. 

Class of 1964

Gayle Greene has a new book (her ninth), Immeasurable Outcomes: Teaching Shakespeare in the Age of the Algorithm (Johns Hopkins University Press), a defense of the liberal arts in the form of a memoir of teaching at Scripps College, including a chapter on being an undergrad at Cal. A high point of the chapter is her recollections of March 23, 1962, when John F. Kennedy intoned to a packed Memorial Stadium, “Your faculty includes more Nobel laureates than any other faculty in the world. This college from its earliest beginnings has recognized and its graduates have recognized that the purpose of education is not merely to advance the economic self-interest of its graduates. The people of California, as much if not more than the people of any other state, have supported their colleges and universities and their schools because they recognize how important it is to the maintenance of a free society that its citizens be well educated.” 

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