Class Notes: 1966
Michael Ackley ’66 has published his second book of poems, following "A Contemporary Bestiary" with "The Birch Whistle and other Poems." He says, "What remains of the class of '66, at least those NOT keeping the faith with their youthful selves, might appreciate a collection of rigidly formal verse . . . as we all will become formally rigid not too long hence." You can find it on Amazon.com.
Roberta Satow ’66, Ph.D., is a practicing psychoanalyst in Washington, CT. She is a senior member of the faculty and control analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Roberta is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In addition to her non-fiction book Doing the Right Thing: Taking Care of Your...
Michael Ackley (Journalism, ’66) has self-published "A Contemporary Bestiary," poetry about things learned from animals. (Available via Amazon.) His introduction says, in part: “It is common for the aged to look back over the scribblings they have collected . . . and decide they really ought to be shared. As I am no different in this regard than any other aged person, I have been pleased to...
Despite COVID-19, the Class of ’66 had an extraordinary reunion in October. As of press time, we’re setting a record for giving at a 55th reunion: $6.9 million—and still growing! For classmates who want to donate to our successful endeavor, log on to give.berkeley.edu/funddrive/243. Although COVID-19 kept us from breaking a 55th reunion attendance record, we did have the largest number of...
More news from our 55th reunion in October: The Class of ’66 has raised $7,188,066, which breaks the record for prior Classes’ 55th reunions. To achieve that, we had 612 donors—another record! Barbara Frost Nilmeier is happily and fully retired from the travel industry after 30-plus years as an agent in Walnut Creek. She has been a Cal football season ticket holder since 1966 but will miss...
The 50th anniversary of iconic rock magazine Rolling Stone arrived in November, and the party was long and loud. Origin stories have festooned the magazine and its website; a coffee table book appeared in May; Joe Hagan’s biography of cofounder Jann Wenner, Sticky Fingers, was published in October; and an HBO documentary is scheduled for November. To keep things interesting, Wenner announced...
