Class Notes: 1976
The Fractal Melody, a new novel by Frances M. Wood, MLS ’76, has been described as “an epic journey into the decade that rocked our world.” Three extraordinary young women come of age in the tumultuous 1970s. They converge in sisterhood and friendship—until the day a tragedy of endless repercussions shakes them to the core, sending each out into a future she would otherwise never have...
Dan Ahern, Class Secretary for 1976, has received several wonderful notes from ’76ers in the past several months. Maybe everyone is thinking about our 50th Reunion!!
Here are a few:
Dave Funkhouser was inducted into the HAWAII ASPHALT HALL OF FAME. Always humble, Dave did not mention this in his popular podcast (Make Mine Peach Pie!), and only when one of his regular...
Larry Lazaro Badajos - dedicated father, brother, uncle, and friend to many - passed away on December 2nd, 2022, at the age of 71 at his home in El Monte, California. Larry Badajos was born in El Centro, California, and proudly resided in El Monte, California. He graduated from Arroyo High School in El Monte, California, before attending community college at Imperial...
John Essick completed a 29-year career at Reed College in Portland, OR, in May 2022 when he retired as the David W. Brauer Professor of Physics. After Cal, John earned his PhD from the University of Oregon. He taught for more than 40 years, including four at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, but could not match his father's feat: John Essick Sr. ('39), was a physics teacher at Los Angeles High...
Judith (Mauleón) Berlowitz, Ph.D. ’76, has her first novel coming out this year: a fictional diary of her relative, Klara Philipsborn, who volunteered from Germany in the Spanish Civil War as a nurse and translator. See more at judithberlowitzauthor.com.
Class Secretary: Dan Ahern, 21 Sea Wolf Passage, Corte Madera 94925
Brent Green, MPH ’76, is a former National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. His most recent publication is “In Pursuit of Empathy: A Contribution to Social Psychiatry,” published in Psychiatric Times in October 2021.
Marc Kristal, who graduated with a bachelor’s in English, has just published his first novel, entitled Permission, from Atmosphere Press, at the tender age of 67....
