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W. Charles Bennett, GB76, penned his first book, Dirt Under the Cap (BookBaby, August 2021). The book recaps some of the major sports stories, including his widely reported investigation that uncovered significant irregularities in the NBA’s salary cap in 1991.

Michael Shindler, LW76, is president and CEO of Four Corners Advisors, Inc., a hospitality acquisition, development, strategic advisory and dispute resolution firm that he founded in 2007. He was elected to by-invitation-only membership in the International Society of Hospitality Consultants, the leading source of global hospitality expertise. 

Terry J. Martin, UC76, SW77, self-published Bedlam in Paris: The Journey Begins (January 2023). On returning to Paris after a long absence, Doctor Malraux, the book’s main character, is swept up in international corporate espionage.

Elma Kanefield, SW76, wrote and self-published Hamlet’s Mirror: Reaching Your Performance Potential Onstage and Off(September 2022), designed to help empower performers and restore their mental health. In the book, Kanefield recounts fictionalized anecdotes of real performers and experiences of hundreds of performing artists to explain why some fail to reach their performance potential and others succeed.

Ellen Barker, LA76, published her first novel, East of Troost (She Writes Press, September 2022). The book tells the story of a fictional narrator who after personal tragedy moves back to her childhood home in the Kansas City, Mo., East of Troost neighborhood. The 50ish woman finds her old neighborhood, which she left to attend WashU in […]

Barry A. Perlmutter, SI76, edited Integration and Optimization of Unit Operations (Elsevier, June 2022), which offers engineers advice on increasing their skill levels in various disciplines so they can develop, commercialize and optimize processes. Perlmutter is president of Perlmutter & Idea Development LLC, in Matthews, N.C.

Allan Trautman, LA76, performs two regular characters in the latest The Barbarian and the Troll series on Nickelodeon (also streaming on Nick.com): General Skelly and the wizard Horus Scrumm. You can also see his work on Disney+, which is streaming the original Dinosaurs series from the 1990s. Trautman is Fran’s puppeteer as well as many […]

Barry M. Wyman, DE76, writes that he “finally hung up his handpiece on July 1, 2020, after 44 years of a mostly enjoyable dental career.” Wyman served 22 years in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy as a general dental officer and practiced with the U.S. Public Health Service in Alaska for 22 years. […]

Susan (Schonfeld) Silver, LA76, GR77, is a psychotherapist in Chicago specializing in couple’s therapy, women in transition, and grief and depression. Silver and her husband love traveling the world and spending time with their three children and two grandchildren. As a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, she is involved in educating people about […]

Neal Robbins, LA76, who majored in Chinese and Asian studies, has published a book, Venice, an Odyssey: Hope, Anger and the Future of Cities (Local Secret Publishing, 2020), which has been called “an evocative, engaging and perceptive portrait of Venice, Italy — the ultimate city, a place with stories on every street and in every […]