Brandeis Magazine

Ira T. Lott is professor emeritus at UC Irvine’s School of Medicine. A pediatric neurologist, he has also served as division chief, department chair and associate dean. His research, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health, focuses on development, aging and Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome. Ira and wife Ruth, who have been married 54 years, have two children and two grandchildren. He is interested in helping to establish a Brandeis presence in Orange County, California. Robert Miller and his wife have lived in the northern Catskills since Robert’s retirement from Thirteen/WNET, New York City’s public television station, where he was director of educational publishing. He enjoys writing short stories and poetry, and has published in Manhattan Linear, Up The River and Trailer Park Quarterly. Frank Susman, P’90, has served as counsel in nine U.S. Supreme Court cases dealing with reproductive rights. He writes, “Having argued the majority of those cases, I find that the recent appointments of justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh to the high court have raised the very real possibility of the reversal of the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. My status of semiretirement is being more and more invaded by requests to speak to audiences around the country on this threat.”