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1960s<\/a> | 1970s<\/a> | 1980s<\/a> | 1990s<\/a> | 2000s<\/a> | 2010s<\/a> | 2020s<\/a> | In memoriam<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1957<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lawrence Freed \u201957, P \u201900<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Lawrence Freed<\/mark> traveled across the U.S. four times (and Canada once), and has visited almost all of the country\u2019s national parks, monuments, and historic sites, and witnessed tribal ceremonies \u2014 experiences that inspired his interest in the environment. He has been dedicated to the city of Worcester, where he has volunteered for several environmental organizations and served on government entities focused on conservation. Lawrence also co-founded nonprofits including the Regional Environmental Council and Green Hill Park Coalition, and has testified on Beacon Hill and in front of local environmental boards and commissions. He also received the Region I U.S. EPA Merit Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1963<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Duncan L. Clarke \u201963<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Duncan L. Clarke has published his second novel, Murder on the Appalachian Trail. He has hiked the 2,200-mile trail from Georgia to Maine twice with his German Shepherd and is a 50-year member of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. His debut novel, A Little Rebellion Is a Good Thing (2020), told of a student uprising at a public women\u2019s college in Virginia. Duncan is professor emeritus of international relations and former director of the United States Foreign Policy Program at American University\u2019s School of International Service in Washington, D.C. He has authored numerous articles and five books on U.S. defense and foreign policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross E. Heller \u201963<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Ross E. Heller has married Cheryl A. Adamscheck, a 1968 graduate of the University of Oregon. Ross and Cheryl celebrated a dual wedding: They were married on March 1 at the Calvary Episcopal Chapel in Seaside, Oregon, by the Rev. David Sweeney, and then on May 4 were wed at their home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, by Rabbi Eric Abbott, spiritual leader of the Bethesda Jewish Congregation. A nice crowd of friends and family came to both events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Margot Overington \u201963<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Margot Overington\u2019s<\/mark> dedication to environmental justice began when she attended a 1973 environmental conference and met E.F. Schumacher, the author of Small Is Beautiful; C.J. Swet, who invented solar panels for cooking in rural India; and scientists from Woods Hole, Massachusetts, who were working on both windmills for electricity and fish farming within a small, controlled ecosystem. She shared the urgency of changing from oil and gas to renewable resources with her Quaker Meeting and, with the help of St. Mary\u2019s University, Halifax, they held a weekend conference called \u201cEnergy and Peace.\u201d The long-term results of the conference included the Woods Hole scientists being invited to test the viability of using wind energy on Prince Edward Island. The Province of Nova Scotia began experimenting with tidal energy in the Bay of Fundy, and fellow Clark alum Susan Holtz \u201971 was invited to join discussions on nuclear power in Ottawa. Margot moved to British Columbia and is still active in environmental activism. Her current interest is affordable housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1968<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Ranalli \u201968<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Ranalli<\/mark> is a visual artist with a 45-year body of work engaging with environmental issues. His exhibition \u201cWhale Stranding\u201d traveled to the Ilulissat Art Museum in Greenland after a nine-month stay at the New Bedford Whaling Museum and will travel to additional venues in 2025. His most recent work, \u201cThe Garden Series,\u201d is a dystopic vision of what is going on with our environment and uses figures from art history to represent the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Daniel and his wife, the artist Tabatha Vevers, divide their time between Cape Cod and Tucson, Arizona. Daniel also sits in as an occasional vocalist with the band Sensible Shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donna Hamil Tamlan, M.Ed. \u201968<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Donna Hamil Tamlan<\/mark> is a psychotherapist and visual artist. In the past decade, her art\u2019s focus has been about keeping the Earth livable. Her ongoing participatory art project is \u201cThe Snowball Effect,\u201d where she asks people at public events to commit to one new action to help the environment. \u201cClarkies, of course, participate with great enthusiasm,\u201d Donna wrote. The person writes their \u201ceco-pledge\u201d on a plastic scrap cut from detergent bottles; Donna tacks the pledges onto a giant fish form to create a living piece of art. They have been displayed at several locations. \u201cThousands of eco pledges have been collected over the years, and hopefully as many hearts and minds have been impacted as well to benefit our beautiful planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1970<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Joshua L. Miller \u201970<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Joshua L. Miller has published Psychosocial responses to sociopolitical targeting, oppression and violence: Challenges for helping professionals. Josh is a professor emeritus at Smith College\u2019s School for Social Work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1976<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gary Morse \u201976<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Gary Morse welcomed classmates from the Clark Class of 1976 to celebrate his granddaughter\u2019s Bat Mitzvah on March 22, 2025, in Richmond, Virginia. Standing, left to right: Jeffrey Marin \u201976, Laura Marin \u201976, Carey Friedman \u201976, Howard Nusbaum \u201976, Howie Tuttman, Melissa Tuttman \u201976, Sandra Morse, Gary Morse \u201976. Seated: Mary Ellen Nusbaum, Robert Obeiter \u201976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1980<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mary McMahon-Chappell \u201980<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mary McMahon-Chappell<\/mark> is a retired teacher who is part of an Audubon book club and has been focusing her time this spring and summer on increasing her birding prowess in the brush along the Quinebaug River. She also composed a poem about climate change that was recognized by her local library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1981<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

William Riebsame Travis, Ph.D. \u201981<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

William Riebsame Travis<\/mark> recalls working with Geography Professor Robert Kates on the first NSF-funded research linking climate and society. He writes: \u201cIn that first project, called CLIMPOP for climate and population, grad and undergrad students studied the history of climate impacts in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley, the African Sahel, and the U.S. Great Plains. I got assigned to the Great Plains and the next summer found myself on puddle-jumper commuter flights across the Plains, from Boulder, Colorado, to Miles City, Montana, to Williston and Fargo, North Dakota, collecting data on farm economics through historical droughts (1910s, 1930s, 1950s and 1970s), to test Bob\u2019s hypothesis about adaptation that, over time, lessened climate impacts. We presented our results at the first Climate and History Conference at the University of East Anglia in the UK, my first trip outside the U.S.\u201d William still works on climate and society research at the University of Colorado and maintains a website of Bob\u2019s work on climate, hazards, and sustainability, at www.rwkates.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1995<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Deborah Abbott, MBA \u201995<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\"Clarkies<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gathering in Singapore in April were, left to right: Sandy Halim, MBA \u201996; Unchalee (Kansaksiri) Krongboonying, MBA \u201996; Deborah Abbott, MBA \u201995, David Abbott, Lisa Lovely \u201985, and Edward Pizzuto. Lisa and Deb were heading on a cruise with their husbands, and Unchalee and Sandy came from Thailand and Indonesia to see them off. \u201cThe picture was taken at the Jewel Rain Vortex in Singapore,\u201d Deb wrote. \u201cA pretty impressive place for a Clark reunion!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2005<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nick Malazia \u201905, M.A. \u201906<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Nick Malizia<\/mark> is head of product development and strategy for sustainability at Indigo Agriculture, which builds technology to help farmers produce their crops more sustainably and develops programs for growers to get paid for those benefits. In his role, he focuses on developing the technology to support a portfolio of programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2006<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Joanna Brinton \u201906, MPA \u201907<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Joanna Brinton \u201906, MPA \u201907, Josie Clark \u201905, M.A. \u201906, and Cara Wood \u201905, MSPC \u201906, got together in Maine for a mini Clark reunion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2011<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tyrone Hall, M.A. \u201911<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tyrone Hall<\/mark> is a global communicator and sustainability specialist who has worked with a range of constituencies, from community groups to the United Nations, on climate strategy and outreach. To urge action on climate change, he says, \u201cyou have to talk to people in constructive ways\u201d and frame the topic in terms they identify with. At the U.N., Tyrone was the lead advisor for outreach, climate communications, and political mobilization in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. Tyrone is currently a special advisor in the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs at George Brown College in Toronto, where he is contributing to the planning of a new sustainability initiative. Tyrone received his doctorate in communication and culture (sustainability politics and policy) from York University in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2012<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Joe Krahe \u201912<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Joe Krahe<\/mark> is celebrating 10 years as an economist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In the Office of Land and Emergency Management, he has worked on economic analyses for regulations under several statutes, including Superfund, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Toxic Substances Control Act. \u201cBut the project I am most proud of is the Updated Soil Lead Guidance for CERCLA Sites and RCRA Corrective Action Facilities,\u201d Joe wrote. \u201cThe costs and benefits that I helped to monetize for this project are measured in the billions and it has the chance to impact millions of Americans.\u201d Joe credits Clark Professor Jacqueline Geoghegan<\/strong> and former Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise Director Jim Gomes with mentoring him on the path to his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jemmie Martinez \u201917, MPA \u201918<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jemmie Martinez has joined Mirick as an associate in the firm\u2019s Labor, Employment & Employee Benefits Group. Her practice includes labor and employment and education law, along with general litigation. She began her career at Mirick as a summer associate in 2023; previously, she was a judicial intern for the Honorable Judge Patti B. Saris and the Honorable Margaret R. Guzman \u201989<\/strong> for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She served as a congressional intern for Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and for the Fair Labor Division at the Massachusetts Attorney General\u2019s Office in Boston. Jemmie is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School, where she served as an editor for the Suffolk Transnational Law Review and sat on its board as competitions editor during her second year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Quiroa \u201917 and Laura Winslow \u201917<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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David Quiroa \u201917 and Laura Winslow \u201917 were married on August 17, 2024. Clarkies celebrating with them were, from left to right: Monica Marrone \u201917, Yousra Benchekroun \u201917, Senegal Carty \u201917, Laura and David, Feston Idrizi \u201916, Rose Watts \u201917, and Degen Larkin \u201917.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Koby Gardner-Levine \u201918, M.S. \u201919<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Koby Gardner-Levine \u201918, M.S. \u201919, was recently named by BusinessWeek as one of its 40 Under Forty for 2025. As the regional manager for the Northampton, Massachusetts, office of U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, he handles everything from overseeing the needs of the 30 municipalities in the western portion of the massive district (most of them in Hampshire and Franklin counties) to assisting individual constituents and overseeing $8.5 million in Community Project Funding across the district in 2024. Koby also serves on the boards of the Hitchcock Center for the Environment in Amherst and the United Way of the Franklin and Hampshire Region, and is a member of the Hampshire Food Policy Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jacob P. Chamberlain, Ph.D. \u201921<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jacob P. Chamberlain, Ph.D. \u201921, has published Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance Against Territory\u2019s Exclusions. The book tells the story of Migrant Justice, a migrant rights organization led by undocumented workers in Vermont. This story, which includes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s use of a covert informant to infiltrate the group and deport key members of their community, provides a detailed analysis of the state of immigration enforcement in the country, alongside an intimate portrait of successful modes of resistance against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In memoriam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Correction:<\/strong> Please note that an earlier version of the list of alumni deaths, Passings (appearing below), mistakenly included the name of Daniel J. Greenwald ’86. Mr. Greenwald is very much alive. We sincerely regret the error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John H. Flavell,
M.A. \u201952, Ph.D. \u201955<\/h3>\n\n\n
Piaget expert<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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John H. Flavell, M.A. \u201952, Ph.D. \u201955, a preeminent figure in modern developmental psychology who founded the field of metacognition, passed away on March 13, 2025, at age 96.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among his many contributions, Flavell\u2019s treatise on the work of Jean Piaget effectively introduced Piaget, and the structuralist approach to children\u2019s thinking, to American psychology. So clear and compelling was Flavell\u2019s presentation that the Piagetian approach quickly became the dominant paradigm in cognitive development, and it remains a powerful force in that field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David G. Hayes \u201957<\/h3>\n\n\n
Economist, civil servant<\/div>\n\n\n\n

David G. Hayes \u201957 passed away on June 8, 2025, in Greensboro, North Carolina. He earned a master\u2019s and Ph.D. in economics from Brown University and was a member of the economics faculty at Penn State before he began his career in government in Washington, D.C., which included roles at the Federal Reserve, the Center for Naval Analyses, and a lengthy tenure at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in the Economic and Policy Analysis division. He lived in Arlington with his beloved wife of 63 years, Gwendolyn \u201cGwyn\u201d Hayes \u201959, until her death in 2022. They married in the summer of 1959, just after Gwyn graduated from Clark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stephen Provencher \u201964<\/h3>\n\n\n
Software specialist, racer<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Stephen Provencher \u201964 passed away on July 10, 2025, in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, after a long battle with cancer. He is survived by his beloved partner and wife of 42 years, Carola Koitz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen was born on November 3, 1942, in Worcester. He received his bachelor\u2019s degree in chemistry from Clark and earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from Yale University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark University was always close to his heart. Stephen felt the University transformed his life, allowing him to be rigorously challenged in the sciences. He and Carola endowed a scholarship fund in his name for students in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides science, Stephen had a passion for car racing and won multiple trophies in the Formula Ford series. Through an automotive internship, he learned how to repair his own racing cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2000, Stephen and Carola moved to Oakville, Ontario, Canada, where they started LCModel, Inc. A popular software program used for interpreting diagnostic medical research data, the technology has been sold worldwide for more than 20 years and is utilized in conjunction with MRI, PET, and other spectroscopy-based medical studies. Stephen retired from the company in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen and Carola were benefactors of the arts in Canada and enjoyed traveling the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Passings<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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