Alumni Class Notes

1960

Buck Davis ’60 updated us on himself and some of his classmates:

• Don Beck recently had major surgery and is recovering very well. We expect to see him back visiting Florida again soon.

• Elliott Zide and Dick Weden both spend their winters in the same beautiful waterfront complex on the barrier island of Fort Pierce.

• I am in regular contact with Jim Gurry (Gulfstream, Fla.), Jon Alexander (Marblehead, Mass.), and Henry Katz (Sharon, Mass.). All seem to be in good health and doing well.

• Myself? I am alive and well and happy to be living with my wife, Megan, in wonderful, quiet, laid-back Vero Beach, Fla. Several weeks ago Jo-Ann Lovejoy and I were guests of John Lobsitz ’68 at John’s beautiful club, the Vero Beach Country Club, which is one of the oldest and prettiest clubs in all of Florida.

Class of 1958

• We all share extremely fond memories of [faculty members] Rich and Edi Baker, Bob and Peg Shepherd, Don and Martha Morse, Jack and Peg Burckes, Bitsy Grant, Bob Volante, and many more guiding lights who kept us on the straight and narrow.

1963

Les Meyer ’63 tells us, “I’m now fully retired, and my wife and I moved in 2021 from Connecticut to Burlington, Vt. We’re getting to know the community here. We enjoy spending time with our two married daughters and four grandchildren.”

Class of 1963

1964

We received this note from Gershon Eigner ’64: “Feeling moved to write because the latest film I’m in, Lil’ Balzac 2, has become available online. It’s 45 minutes of overthe-top comedy, and it was locally produced in Brattleboro, Vt., and shot there. Lil’ Balzac unwittingly joins my bank robbery gang. There was a long hiatus for me between The Spirit of Youth at LA and getting back onstage in the ’90s after I moved to western Massachusetts from New Jersey where I was employed, and retired, as an INS special agent in the pre-Homeland Security days. I began in community theater, and later joined Actors’ Equity. In the last few years, I’ve had the good fortune to play Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, and I started a cover band, Supervised Clinical Trial, now defunct. Now I’m in another, Shenanigans. During my time at BU the band I sang in, Catharsis, opened for The Lost at the Boston Tea Party and for Cream and the Grateful Dead at the Psychedelic Supermarket. I was surprised to find out that the undistributed record that my first band, The Minutemen — later called The Grenadiers — made can be listened to on YouTube and has interest from collectors.”

1967

Raymond Cioci ’67 is “planning on attending the 60th reunion to say hello to a number of classmates and teachers that made my years at Lawrence so amazing. Life has been wonderful because of a number of people I met and experiences I had there. Still doing things like climbing the Inca Trail four days to Machu Picchu in 2018, rafting down the Colorado for two weeks, kayaking in 2021, and, this July, going on a 10-day safari (pictures only) in Kenya. There are so many interesting things to still do, and one of the best is to periodically go back to LA.”

1968

Steve Bradley ’68 sent this note: “Still living with Lynn in Casselman, Ontario, 30 miles from Ottawa. Still going to CrossFit NCR in Ottawa five or six times a week, and basking in the rarefied atmosphere of a hugely supportive community of about 250 who overwhelmingly are 30-50 years younger than I am. Although I get my tuchus kicked every class, these have been seven glorious years so far of pushing limits — even in the face of only moderate “gains.” And, I’m still deeply involved in Alternatives to Violence Project, where, strictly as a volunteer, I coordinate AVP at two prisons in upstate New York: a medium-security federal institution in Ray Brook, a bit north of Lake Placid, and a maximum-security prison in the New York system, just west of Plattsburgh. I have now conducted about 70 three-day workshops

Class of 1968