*Dan Spiers, XXI, is alive and well and living in Paris! His office at UNESCO overlooks l'Ecole Militaire and the Eiffel Tower. He and his wife Cecily have two children, Gabrielle, about 14, and John, about 10. They live near Versailles. Dan's work involves considerable traveling, but rarely to the U.S. Thanks for this alumnews to Doug Tuggle, '64, XV, who met Dan this summer. He says Dan still looks the same, except for a new beard.
*Allen Weill, XVIII, has been elected to the partnership in KPMG Peat Marwick. He manages the general insurance consulting practice, specializing in financial strategy. He and his wife Marcy have two sons, David and Edward.
*Don Dreisbach, XXIB, writes that he has published his first book, "Symbols and Salvation." It is published by University Press of America.
Since this is all the news I have received, let me take this opportunity to use editorial prerogative and introduce myself with the first bio info I've ever written to the Tech Review since we graduated. You should do the same; otherwise, I'll have to keep filling this column with self- aggrandizement. Could I do it? Do you know the Energizer rabbit?
I graduated in VII and stayed to get an SM with the new graduate Psychology department at MIT. I then enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Physiological Psychology at SUNY Stony Brook. After embarking on an interminably long research project for a dissertation, I woke up one morning and said to myself, "Cohen, you're in the 23rd grade. Don't you think it's time to finish?" Six months later I had my degree. My research was well received and I was invited to Warsaw to present it to an international symposium on frontal lobe function and behavior. Interests shifted however, and after an internship, residence, and four year postdoctoral program, I became a psychoanalyst. By this time I was nine days shy of turning 36 years old and had been in school for all my life but the first five years and the one year after my Ph.D. Today, I'm in private practice. I'm also on the staff of Brookhaven Memorial Hospital and last year, as Behavioral Science Educator in the Family Practice Residency Program, I tried to teach physicians to understand and treat the whole patient, not the angioplasty in 302. This is my 26th year teaching psychology at Nassau Community College where I am a full professor. My son David is now 26 and is a graphic artist at Hyperion Books, a Disney company in Manhattan. I've been divorced since 1979. Nancy, my POSSSLQ (the census bureau's acronym for person of opposite sex sharing same living quarters), and I have been together for two years now. My interests are SCUBA (I'm a Master Diver) and sailing. Two years ago, a sailing friend and I double- handed his 42' cutter-rigged sloop 5000 miles across the Pacific from Panama to Tahiti.
And how did I become our class secretary? I was on a bus after being talked into going to the reunion dinner dance by AEPi brothers *Elliott Bird, XXI-B, *Steve Bernstein, VI-A, and *Marty Eisenberg, VI, and their wives Toby, Stephanie, and Esther. *Phil Marcus, VI, our outgoing secretary who did such a fine job writing this column for the last ten years and whom I had never met, was on the bus with us also. He was so outgoing that the next thing I knew, I was the new class secretary. Six munz ago I couldn't spell secretary and now I are one!
Keep the alumnews coming! Try to get it to
Tech or me by the first of the month. You can reach me by snail mail: Shoel
M. Cohen, Ph.D., Dept. of Psychology, Nassau Community College, Garden
City, NY 11530 or e-mail: Internet 71271.2627@compuserve.com or Compuserve
71271,2627. You can also call me at home at (516) 489-6465. It would be
great to talk to you personally.
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