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Class Notes with Bill Bernhardt (St. Martins, 1986) and Four Thousand Years of Calligraphy, with Leon Long-yien Chang (Chicago University Press, 1990.) In his spare time, Miller is pursuing his interests in Chinese calligraphy, tai chi, and jazz piano, while with his wife, Gail, he visits the couples' seven children and 12 grandchildren. 1959 David Unger was profiled in an article by Southwest Art http://www. southwestart.com/ featured/portfoliotakingshape#uniqueidentifier. His life-size sculpture "The Storyteller" was purchased by the town of Woodward, OK and installed in front of a public library as part of the town's Art in Public Places program. http://www.woodwardnews.net/ news/article_3381a58a-4c34-11e4-96a7-d7ae9a1619d1.html. Unger continues to work on new pieces. http://davidungersculptures.com. Dr. Steven Goldberg published Mathematical Elegance: An Approachable Guide to Understanding Basic Concepts (See p. 37). Chair of the Department of Sociology of City College, City University of New York for 20 years, he has focused his career on logical analyses of social issues, which he elaborates on in his 1991 book When Wish Replaces Thought and his 2003 Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences. Alan Mais has become a member of the Board of Trustees of the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada. 1960 Thomas Lund, a Professor at the S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, published The Creation of the Common Law: The Medieval Year Books Deciphered. (See p. 38). A leading authority on the history of wildlife law along with medieval law, Prof. Lund's book American Wildlife Law was published in 1980. Lund has written about medieval law for many years, and believes it should be taught to understand modern application. Upon his 50th Harvard College reunion he wrote: "I've spent 30 years studying eight thousand pages of medieval English case reports ... I've enjoyed cracking their code for the same reason I love hiking by myself in the mountains. I like the sense of being alone and adrift." 46 Horace Mann Magazine Summer 2016 1961 Save the Date, September 24, 2016, for HM Homecoming and the 55th Reunion of the Class of 1961. Prof. Jeffrey Sanders received a rare and special honor: Adoption into the Crow Tribe at a Powwow in his honor at Montana State University Billings. Prof. Sanders retired in spring 2016 after 20 years in MSUB's Native American Studies program, where he will continue to be a professor emeritus. He was honored, especially, for his efforts over the last 20 years in assisting Native American students to graduate. Over his career Sanders won every faculty excellence award at MSUB and served four years on the Indian Education for All Work Group following appointment by the Commissioner of Higher Education. http://billingsgazette.com/ news/local/msub-professor-to-be-adoptedinto-the-crow-tribe-at/article_10ee95b053cc-592e-bfde-9ce98001d39e. html?utm_medium=social&utm_ source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share. 1963 Jermey Kagan '63 and Dr. Jonathan Kagan '60 International and Emmy-award-winning director/writer/producer of feature films and television Jeremy Kagan has completed production on the film "Shot" starring Noah Wyle, of the TV series E.R. "Shot" is a drama that addresses the consequences of gun violence in America and is based on a story by Kagan. Jeremy's brother Dr. Jonathan Kagan '60 appears in the film. A professor in the graduate film school at the University of Southern California, Jeremy is working on this film with producer Josh Siegel '92 whom Kagan taught in the USC graduate film program in 1998. Kagan's feature credits include the box-office hits "Heroes" (1977), "The Big Fix" (1978) and "The Chosen" (1981), which won the Special Jury Prize at the Paris Film Festival and the Grand Prix des Ameriques and Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Montreal Film Festival. His film "The Journey of Natty Gann" (1985) was the first U.S. film to win a Gold Prize at the Moscow Film Festival. In television, Kagan was nominated for a Golden Globe for the TV movie "Roswell." Other television films include, for Showtime, "The Color of Justice" about racism, "Bobbie's Girl" about a lesbian couple, and Crown Heights" about the 1991 riots in this NYC neighborhood. The film won the Humanitas Award for "affirming the dignity of every person." Kagan also directed the pilot episode of the series "Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman" and has directed episodes of such shows as "Ally McBeal", "Picket Fences," "Taken" and "The West Wing." Kagan produced and directed "Freedom Files" a ten-part series on social justice issues, and has made films for The Doe Fund, the country's most successful program helping the homeless, and for Bioneers, which focuses on sustainability. He also created the Change Making Media Lab (www.cmml-usc.org) which develops and creates Entertainment Education (EE) emphasizing the values of narrative dramas and comedies to successfully motivate behavior change. The short films he has produced and directed concerning the effects of storytelling techniques on health literacy, and other EE films on such topics as ADHD have won several awards. Prof. Kagan is also a prolific author of books on directing and of the 2013 memoir My Death (www.theneardeathandlifeofjeremykagan.com.) He has served as the Artistic Director of Robert Redford's Sundance Institute and is Chairperson of Special Projects for the Directors Guild of America. 1964 Arthur Kaufman shared: "We welcomed our second and third grandchildren, twins Naomi and Ian, in 2014. I enjoyed our 50th reunion immensely and enjoyed seeing the very good turnout." Richard Fischoff is the producer of "Freeheld" which was released in October 2015. Starring Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Steve Carell and Michael Shannon, the film is about police officer Laurel Hester's fight against the Ocean County, NJ Board of Chosen Freeholders to allow her pension benefits to be transferred to her domestic partner after Hester was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Arthur L. Frank M.D., PhD wrote: "After more than 30 years as a department head I stepped down as chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupation Health at the Drexel University School of Public Health where I am still a Professor of Public Health and Professor of Medicine, as well as Chair Emeritus. I http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089385?ref_=nmbio_mbio http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Leon+Long-yien+Chang&search-alias=books&field-author=Leon+Long-yien+Chang&sort=relevancerank http://www.southwestart.com/featured/portfolio-taking-shape#unique-identifier http://www.southwestart.com/featured/portfolio-taking-shape#unique-identifier http://www.billingsgazette.com/news/local/msub-professor-to-be-adopted-into-the-crow-tribe-at/article_10ee95b0-53cc-592e-bfde-9ce98001d39e.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share http://www.cmml-usc.org http://www.billingsgazette.com/news/local/msub-professor-to-be-adopted-into-the-crow-tribe-at/article_10ee95b0-53cc-592e-bfde-9ce98001d39e.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share http://www.woodwardnews.net/news/article_3381a58a-4c34-11e4-96a7-d7ae9a1619d1.html http://www.woodwardnews.net/news/article_3381a58a-4c34-11e4-96a7-d7ae9a1619d1.html http://www.woodwardnews.net/news/article_3381a58a-4c34-11e4-96a7-d7ae9a1619d1.html http://www.davidungersculptures.com http://www.theneardeathandlifeofjeremykagan.com http://www.theneardeathandlifeofjeremykagan.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julianne_Moore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Carell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Carell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shannon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Hester https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_County,_New_Jersey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Chosen_Freeholders http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076138?ref_=nmbio_mbio http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077233?ref_=nmbio_mbio http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082175?ref_=nmbio_mbio http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089385?ref_=nmbio_mbio

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