Class Correspondent

I am spending my retirement traveling and engaging in various fiber arts, including hand spinning, dyeing, knitting and needlepoint. I recently took a course in designing Fair Isle sweaters at the John C. Campbell Folk School. My most recent travels took me to Costa Rica to see wildlife and to zipline through the forest canopy.

Howard Beckman practiced internal medicine and geriatrics from 1979-2016, first at Wayne State University, then at the University of Rochester. He is now a clinical professor of medicine at Rochester as well as a senior consultant to Common Ground Health, a regional health collaborative, working to improve health-care quality and efficiency. He “is happily married and has 3.8 grandchildren,” he reports. Philip Grossman has retired from practicing gastroenterology after 40 years but remains a voluntary professor of medicine at the University of Miami and a business consultant. He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of a charitable foundation he helped create. Miami remains his home, and he has a new vacation house on a Georgia lake. Pat (Gordon) Lamanna has recorded her third CD, “Something Beautiful,” which consists almost entirely of original songs in the folk genre. Arthur Levy wrote the liner notes for Graham Nash’s “Over The Years” (Rhino/Atlantic), a new two-CD anthology of solo singles, LP cuts and rare unreleased demos. Since the 1970s, Arthur has written liner notes for more than 100 releases by a broad range of folk, rock, blues and jazz artists, including 30 titles by Joan Baez. Best Lawyers named Robert Panoff a 2019 Lawyer of the Year in Miami in the area of “litigation and controversy — tax.” Bob also received this designation in 2014. He writes that he continues to enjoy acceleration and velocity therapy sessions in his high-performance vehicles, and that he lives with his human whisperer spouse Jeanne and their 3-year-old feline son, Alfred. Ira Shapiro has written “Broken: Can the Senate Save Itself and the Country?” The book is a sequel to his 2012 publication, “The Last Great Senate.” Ira works as a consultant on international trade and global government relations, both in his own firm and as a senior adviser to the Albright Stonebridge Group. Linda Leonard Zimmerman and Walter Zimmerman, P’95, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a two-week visit to the shores of Lake Huron near the village of Grand Bend, Ontario. They met in Goldfarb Library in 1966 during their freshman year and were married the summer after their junior year. Daughter Rachel Zimmerman Brachman ’95 is also a Brandeis grad.

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