Class Notes: 1984
Laura Mullen ’84 (poet and author of nine books) has recently translated French novelist Stéphanie Chaillou’s first book (quelque chose se passe, or—in English—something happens). Published as poetry, the book is a deeply entangled series of vivid and original image-based texts, a feminist hybrid memoir which alerts us to the instability of identity, involving the reader in the effort to...
Laura Mullen's ninth collection of poetry is available for pre-order now and will be published this fall.
Thirty-eight years, a few marriages and three kids since Cal, Tim Beer-McCormick '84 is practicing law with Haapala, Thompson & Abern in Oakland. For fun these days Tim teaches sailing and performs as a supernumerary with the San Francisco Opera. Photo is of Tim and his youngest in costume for the 2018 production of Tosca.
Patrick Slavin '84 has accepted a senior staff position at Johns Hopkins University as the Communications Lead with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity and the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. He has also been appointed to the Board of Directors at Lusaka (Zambia) International Community School, the largest private international school in Zambia. Note his phone number in Zambia is...
Pamela Arbuckle Alston, MPP ’84, retired as dental director at Alameda Health System and went on to serve as the 97th National Dental Association president in 2021. Her presidential theme was Forging and Fortifying Partnerships for Health Equity. She currently serves as lead oral health specialist at Humanitas, Inc., which has the U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps program’s health support...
The NonFiction Authors Association has conferred its gold award on Wounded Workers: Tales from a Working Man’s Shrink, written by Dr. Bob Larsen, MPH ’84. Honoring his working-class roots, Dr. Bob has published the tales of working Americans who sacrifice more than was expected. For more information, go to the book’s Amazon page or to workingmansshrink.com.
