1930s
Morton N. Katz ’39 (CLAS), ’51 J.D. received the 2010 Hartford County Bar Association Pro Bono Award for his extensive volunteer work, including working with Statewide Legal Services since 1996. The award was presented at the association’s annual Law Day ceremony on April 30, 2010. Morton also served as pro bono counsel with the Connecticut Bar Association’s “Law Works for People” for 10 years and as a special public defender with the Public Defender’s Office since 1997.
1940s
Mary (Wiemann) McShane ’44 (BUS) is retired in Florida, where she is busy as an avid quilter making full-size quilts and baby quilts, knitting baby hats as a church project, delivering Chemo Hats for cancer patients and a new project—making prayer squares for hospice. She also enjoys her six grandchildren and getting together with her high school and college classmates Inez (Abel ) Lattimore ’44 (CLAS) and Patricia (Confrey) Thevenet ’44 (ED).
1950s
Richard Harrington ’53 (CLAS), ’91 6th Year, retired airline and Federal Aviation Administration procedures pilot, lives in Florida and teaches driver’s education, drug and alcohol, anger and road rage classes.
Shirley (Cadwell) Horn ’54 (NUR) is retired. She and her husband, Robert, celebrate their 58-year anniversary this August.
Albert Kaplan ’56 M.S. is enjoying retirement from Albuquerque Public Schools after teaching history and biology for 42 years. He is retired from the U.S. Air Force after 28 years of active and reserve duty with two tours in the Far East. He has been included in Sports Illustrated for coaching high school tennis and winning 16 state championships.
1960s
Holger Lundin ‘60 (CLAS) has been elected to a second term as the chairperson of Wethersfield (Conn.) Computer Learning Center, a group of retired men and women who help seniors to use computers. The Center has taught more than 400 seniors in the greater Wethersfield community the skill of using a computer to enrich their lives since its founding some years ago. He and his wife, Judy, live in Wethersfield.
Mark F. O’Neill ’60 (RHSA) has retired from landscape design, consulting and serving as a U.S. Army Reserves captain.
Brian Flesher ’63 (BUS) is a hairstylist and salon manager after going to beauty school in 1997. He does hair and makeup for plays, earning him a Zoni Award in 2006. He also reviews plays and is expanding his career to become a professional makeup artist.
Glenn S. Allen ’64 M.S.W. is retired and living in Pawling, N.Y.
John A. Cutler ’66 (BUS) is a senior advisor for Chevy Chase Trust in Washington, D.C.
Dick Pirozzolo ’67 (SFA) is founder of Pirozzolo Company Public Relations in Wellesley, Mass. He recently led a seminar in Indonesia on U.S. public relations and crisis management practices for executives from international corporations. He is an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America.
Kathleen A. Butler ’68 (CLAS), ’70 M.A., ’81 Ph.D. is acting dean of the School of Education at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Conn. She is a professor of education and resides in Columbia, Conn.
Scott Cowen ’68 (BUS), president of Tulane University in New Orleans, was named to President Obama’s newly formed White House Council for Community Solutions, which provides advice to the president on the best ways to mobilize citizens, nonprofits, businesses and government to solve specific community needs.
Richard B. True ’68 M.S., ’72 Ph.D., chief scientist at L-3 Communications in San Carlos, Calif., received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Electron Devices Society’s award for excellence in vacuum electronics in May 2010. He is a member of the UConn Academy of Distinguished Engineers.
Robert Stepno ’69 (CLAS), assistant professor in the School of Communication at Radford University in Radford, Va., launched a media history blog and podcast on jheroes.com, focusing on the portrayal of journalists in popular culture.
