Class Notes: 1973
Having observed that much of the news about climate change is couched in technical and scientific terminology that might not spark an interest in the casual reader, this year William McIntyre ’73 wrote and published a full-length “cli-fi” novel, The Girl who Rode the Unihorn, meant to present the “future of the history foretold” in immediate terms as it will effect actual people. In his...
Mary-Margaret Anderson ’73, a retired administrative law judge with the California Office of Administrative Hearings from 1997 until 2017, has been elected chair-elect, or 2025 chair-in-waiting, of the Board of Trustees of The National Judicial College, the nation’s oldest, largest, and most widely attended school for judges. In 2009, she was appointed to the Medical Quality Hearing Panel,...
Author and educator Keith Hatschek’s (’73) most recent book, The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation, was selected for the prestigious ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Book on Popular Music for 2023. Hatschek majored in History and says that the research methods he learned during his undergraduate years were essential in...
Classmates, Michael McIntyre, professor of English and Gaelic languages, has been honored by the 2021 Royal National Mòd in Scotland. The Mòd is a celebration of Scottish Gaelic culture, language, and arts, and includes exhibitions and competitions in such things as Gaelic singing, poetry, storytelling, drama, and Gaelic-culture music. Michael received third-place awards for his written poetry...
Skip Corsini of San Rafael writes: “A modest man with much to be modest about. My four kids and two granddaughters are above average. My best daughter, a public school teacher, is Class of 2010. One son is a USC graduate. Sorry. After more than 40 years in corporate communications and retail, I escaped a year ago, health mostly intact. I have earned no awards or recognition of any kind, hence...
