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163 AN T I OC H CO L L E G E C L A S S O F 19 6 5 5 0 t h A N N I V E R S A R Y B O O K A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z S T R I C H A R T Z ways invites one into that place. Recently I founded an inter- disciplinary Women’s Pain Group at my workplace, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, to bet- ter understand sex differences in pain perception and the underlying mechanisms. I am also working at empow- ering folks to deal with their pain through self-managed care pro- grams incorporating exercise, med- itation, narrative writing, reiki and massage, counseling and support groups. At my local UU church (UUAC Sherborn) I started a senior men’s group and this winter I am a co-leader for a four-part workshop on death and dying. It seems that the broad perspec- tive gained from my Antioch liberal education and the seed of teaching that germinated there, have found fruit in these latest ventures. Linnea Löf (of Denver) and I were married seven years ago, and have been becoming ever happier since then. Between us we have six children and six grandchildren. My oldest kids, Leah (born during my senior year at Antioch), who is a teacher in Menlo Park, Calif., and her sister Ariel, who teaches Spanish and Latin American stud- ies at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn, are the issue of my marriage with Artemis Chakerian (Antioch 1961–64), a friend still and living in Albuquerque. Nina, daughter from a second marriage, lives in Charlotte, N.C., and is in college; her brother, David, lives in Ithaca where his wife, Collenne, is completing a degree in urban planning at Cornell. Linnea and I spend as much time as possible out-of-doors, kay- aking and hiking near Boston. We also enjoy skiing with friends Emmy and Rick Hausman (class of ’67, and my freshman-year roommate) in Vermont, and at the Löf family cabin in Breckenridge, Colo. We also both love horses and have been on several week long trail rides in the Rockies. Another pied-à terre , and center for mountain and desert hikes, is Tucson, in the mo- bile home where my parents lived for 30 years. Occasionally I am inspired to write poetry (thanks to an early, critical exposure with Jud Jerome) and I painted watercolors (plein air, abstract landscapes) in the past; not much lately.These are creative activ- ities that complement my research and teaching and I hope to do more of them, if I ever retire, a verb I’m trying to cope with. “Victory for Humanity” is a phrase that still discomforts me. I’m not sure that I have the hubris to identify any of my activities as such, yet I do find that in each chap- Wedding walk with Linnea. In Wyoming with friend Ronnie Fernandez.