Brandeis Magazine

Winston Coard writes that he enjoyed a successful book tour in Britain this spring promoting Volume One of his memoirs, “The Grenada Revolution: What Really Happened?” Volume Two, “Forward Ever: The Journey to a New Grenada,” was published in October. Victoria Hilkevitch has fully retired. She reports she plays in the Bloomington (Indiana) Symphony, works with Reimagining Opera for Kids, teaches people how to make shopping bags out of T-shirts to replace single-use bags and is an active member of the Resistance. Kent Lawrence received the Hon. Gerald C. Bender Humanitarian Award at the Decalogue Society of Lawyers annual dinner in June. Kent is a founder of the Resolution Systems Institute, a nonprofit that seeks to enhance court alternative dispute resolution programs. After a 43-year career in social work, Elsa Lichman has become a writer, singer and nature enthusiast in retirement. Michael Moscovich, P’99, went to Khabarovsk and Birobidzhan in August to check out the Far Eastern Siberian Jewish communities that Vancouver, British Columbia, works with through the JDC. Although Jeremy Paretsky retired from teaching at the Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley, California, in 2014, he now has plans to return. “Even at 74, it will be a great pleasure to be back in the classroom,” he writes. His field is the Jewish background to the New Testament. Vineeta (Singh) Rai writes, “During a visit to see my daughter, who is an associate professor of medicine in Miami, I connected on the phone with one of my closest Brandeis friends, Arlene (Boshes) Hirschfelder ’65, after 50 years. Talking with her was so easy. We now plan to meet next summer when I visit the U.S. again.” Allen Zerkin, P’02, had a busy summer. He climbed Southern California’s Tahquitz Peak and San Jacinto Peak, and Arizona’s Kendrick Peak. He traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, to teach at Strathmore University; go on safari at Maasai Mara National Park; visit Ol Pejeta Conservancy to see the only two remaining female northern white rhinos and the surrogate-mother-to-be that may bring the southern white rhino back from extinction; and climb Mount Kenya. On a side trip to Rwanda, he climbed Mount Bisoke.