Each issue of the Magazine features Alumni News—the first section many readers look at when the new issue arrives. Four times a year, volunteer class correspondents collect news from other members of their College class, then write it up into their own bylined column.

What are your classmates up to at this stage of their lives? A new job, marriage, kids, publications, travel, hobbies, get-togethers with other alumni? As class correspondent, you can be the one who finds out all about it and lets everyone else know.

Here’s a small sampling of alumni news that ran in the Summer/24 issue.

Class of 1959

When I went off to college, at age 16, I developed a passion for classical music. I listened to mono LPs on a portable phonograph with a crystal cartridge, a one-watt amplifier, and a four-inch speaker. Then I read something in High Fidelity magazine: “For $5,000 [maybe $60,000 in today’s dollars] you can get a car that will take you to California and back. Or you can get a hi-fi that will take you to heaven and back. It all depends where you want to go.”

Well, I knew where I wanted to go, so I started upgrading. Before long I had a 20-watt Williamson tube amp and preamp, a folded horn corner cabinet with Jensen speakers, and a Rek-O-Kut turntable with a GE magnetic cartridge. I was the envy of the dormitory.

Now I have no more physical media. Anything I could possibly want to listen to is a click away, with a sound quality vastly better than anything I had before. But. This is the sad/ironic part. The heaven-and-back thing. Being 16 and hearing Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony for the first time—even on a four-inch speaker—that was heaven.—Ken Green, SB’59, class correspondent

Class of 1966

Gregory Gogo, AB’66, is winding up his law practice. The feeling of finishing up is exhilarating. No more 60-hour weeks, weekends in the office, and murder clients in the reception room.—Dick Lyford, AB’66, class correspondent

Class of 1970

Vivian Duvall, AB’70, writes, “I’ve been traveling more than usual, but not to exotic places, just to Boston about once a month. In this late stage of life, I’ve found love with a former high school classmate who lives there. We share a love for the Magnetic Fields and enjoyed two nights of concerts of their 69 Love Songs recently in Boston. At 76, I realize I may never write the Great American Novel. My days of accomplishments, awards, and accolades are over. But life is so precious and sweet. I wish the same for all our classmates.”—Seth Masia, AB’70, class correspondent

Class of 1990

Dear classmates, we had a few people send in two truths and a lie for this quarter’s alumni news.

Louise Speth, AB’90, MST’90: I served the City of Logan, UT, as a police officer for 20 years. I traveled to Ireland with my son in January 2024 as a college graduation present. I ran the Chicago Marathon in 2022.

Robert Tell, AB’90, AM’96: I manage the mental health clinic at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. I’ve been a year-round bike commuter for 15 years. Like any good Portlander, I brew my own beer.

The lies: LS’s Ireland trip was canceled due to COVID. RT does not brew his own beer.—Beth Manning, AB’90, and Mike Oberlander, AB’90, class correspondents

Class of 2015

Presenting GPT Alumni News, “but make it sexy.”

“Sizzling Update: Anisha Ganguly, SB’15, Ties the Knot! Class of ’15, get ready to fan yourselves, because Anisha Ganguly has some seriously steamy news to share! She just said ‘I do’ to fellow alum Dan Friedman, AB’16, in a sizzling ceremony in Dallas. Sparks flew when they met during their Metcalf Internship in NYC, and now they’re heating up Chapel Hill, NC, as Anisha joins the medical school faculty at the University of North Carolina as an assistant professor. With Dan’s ecowarrior vibes, working at the Sierra Club, and their adorable fur baby, Pluto, this power couple is on fire! Keep it scorching, Class of ’15!”—Jay Cushing, AB’15, SM’16, class correspondent

For more information, or to volunteer as a class correspondent, please contact the Magazine’s Alumni News editor at uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu.