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67 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 G U Y E R Commonwealth of Massachusetts in Boston. Somehow, I always managed to do research and publish, which helped me make a successful transi- tion to academia.After teaching MCH at Harvard School of Public Health for three years, I was recruited by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health to be chair and professor of MCH in 1989.As a kid growing up in Detroit, I could never have expected to become a Johns Hopkins profes- sor, but that’s what I did for over 20 years until retiring in 2010. I held an endowed chair for the last decade, published hundreds of research and policy papers, and was elected to the Institute of Medicine/ National Academy of Science. I’ve re- ceived awards along the way, but am most proud of my teaching awards from the students at both Harvard and Hopkins. In recent years, the University of Rochester has honored me by creating a Bernard Guyer Lectureship in Public Health. PERSONAL LIFE: Basic facts:married to Jane I.Guyer for 48 years; she is now professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and internation- ally known for her research and writing about Africa and economic anthropology; she’s a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the AAAS. We are extremely fortu- nate to have three wonderful grown- up children and their spouses: Sam is 44 and an associate professor of computer sciences at Tufts; Nathan is 41 and an administrator in the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Davis Calif.; and Kate is 38 and an official at Duty First Consulting, a Virginia company providing information technology and management con- sulting services related to disabled veterans. We have five wonderful grandchildren: Hannah 9,William 6, Owen 6, Jonah 6, and Grace 3. We live in Baltimore, but are lucky to have a place in Rehoboth Beach, Del., and would welcome Antioch friends there.We’ve enjoyed recent Antioch reunions and being con- nected to the rebirth of the College. Retirement has not been that easy after a very active and engaged career. I am now an Antioch College Alumni Board member, a founding member of the reconstructionist Jewish syn- agogue (Kol HaLev), and active in a landsmanschaft organization of de- scendants of my parents’ shtetl in Poland-Gombin—as board member and editor of a newsletter. I remain somewhat active in professional MCH circles, sitting on local and state advi- sory committees,chairing committees at the Institute of Medicine,reviewing professional papers and promotions, and giving the occasional invited lec- ture. Last year, I taught a special stud- ies course at Hopkins on translating science to policy programs. I’ve become a keen bread-baker, cook and wood-worker, all creative in their own way. I’m also a bet- ter-than-could-be-expected golfer and actually remember taking a PE course in golf at Antioch. I’m prob- ably one of the few who regrets the demise of the “golf course” at Antioch. I do a fair amount of bicy- cling on the trails around Baltimore. We do international travel just about every year—the U.K. to visit Jane’s family, Europe and Africa for confer- ences, and occasionally to Israel and South America. VICTORIES FOR HUMANITY: “Victories” are in the eye of the beholder, so to speak. I came to Antioch as a naïve kid, totally unaware of its politics. I remember becoming aware of “un- American” hearings and loyalty oath issues in my very first quarter on campus. The list of suspect organ- izations included store-front places in my neighborhood in Detroit (the Bund for example) where old Jewish Holocaust-survivors sat around smok- ing cigarettes and ranting in Yiddish, Polish and Russian about capital- ism and socialism. These places were hardly a threat to the U.S. gov- ernment, yet appeared on lists of subversive organizations. I joined the Antioch Committee Against the House Un-American Activities Committee. I also remember going to Springfield with others to register voters in the fall of 1960. My “victories” were not very dramatic. I am proud of the years I spent working in state government in Massachusetts during the Reagan presidency. We provided excellent government services in an era when Washington was constantly trying to undermine and discredit good government. It wasn’t always easy. I thought of myself as a public ser- vant and later tried to teach this atti-