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CLASS NOTES 1950s, 1960s & 1970s Furthering Ethics in Medicine
Trustee William A. Nelson ’68, H ’06, has been appointed to the Elizabeth DeCamp McInerny Professorship at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. A health care ethicist, Nelson is a professor of community and family medicine, of medical education and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. “Through this professorship I will seek to expand the scope of ethics scholarship while growing the visibility and permanence of ethics education at Geisel,” Nelson said, according to the school’s website. As an ethicist, Nelson works to increase the understanding of ethics as foundational to the delivery of health care.
Telling the Stories of the Marginalized
Gregory Stanley Black ’73 has been uncovering uncomfortable truths about marginalized groups through photo, film and music for decades. His most recent work, a “docu-story” chronicling the lives of Black people in Oregon, earned him a Black Lives Matter Artist Grant from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, Ore. “I wanted to contrast the ‘heaviness’ of daily racism with the behind-the-scenes humanity that often goes unnoticed in mainstream America,” said Black, who began filming the project in 1992. “It was my focus, as a Black filmmaker, to capture and reveal the unvarnished truth of the daily lives and struggles of Black folks.” He continues to film African Americans born and raised in the 1920s and ’30s in Oregon for the Oregon Black Pioneers historical society. He’s also working on a documentary of Otis Davis, the first Black track athlete from the University of Oregon to compete in the Olympics.
Rev. Dr. John Modschiedler ’59 writes that he has fond memories from his time on campus and is proud to be an Elmhurst alum. His long family history at Elmhurst dates back to the late 1890s, when his grandfather studied to be a pastor at the Elmhurst Proseminary. Modschiedler’s wife, Christa, also graduated from Elmhurst.
US Ambassador Jacques Paul Klein ’61, H ’02, has been awarded the Commemorative Cross of the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic, First Class. Klein was honored for his outstanding leadership in the United Nations’ efforts in Croatia and his direction of the international mineclearing effort to remove more than 500,000 mines planted during the conflict along the zone of separation. Gail Schreiber ’61 has sold her condo and moved into a retirement community in San Diego. She has her own cottage but enjoys dining, exercising and engaging in social activities with the other residents. Liz Dudek ’73, an Elmhurst University trustee and the director of health care affairs in the Tallahassee, Fla., office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, received the 2021 Sid Rosenblatt Excellence in Leadership Award from the Florida Assisted Living Association. The award, the highest level of recogFA L L 2 0 2 1
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