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87 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 K U R I L O F F KURILOFF PETER Peter with a rainbow in Argentina— before he put her back in the water. Andes in the background. THEN AND NOW 4 B.A. History 4 Ph.D., Teaching, Learning and Leadership, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania FAMI LY 4 Wife, Peshe Cantor 4 Sons, Aaron and Gabe 4 Daughter, Shoshana 4 Seven grandchildren ADDRESS 4 Philadelphia, PA 19147 CONTACT 215 868-0844 Kuriloff@gse.upenn.edu SOME THOUGHTS ON MY LIFE LOOKING BACK FROM 72 (AND 50 YEARS SINCE GRADUATION) At this stage, I am very grate- ful—indeed, every morning after doing a very short meditation I ex- press gratitude for my life and those in it who have made it so rich and so full for me. I’m very grateful that I stumbled into probably one of the only two careers I could have managed, teach- ing counseling psychology, then leadership at the Graduate School of Education at Penn. I have been married to Peshe Cantor for 46 years. Peshe had a pro- fessor at Harvard, RobertWhite,who said a 50-year marriage is the great- est human achievement (and he in- cluded that of Watson and Crick) and we have indeed achieved much. I see the work of a marriage as pro- viding a secure base from which to grow and to raise kids.We have achieved both of those things and I am very grateful. Peshe has had several careers. She taught what she affectionately calls “creative non-fiction” at Penn and then directed its Writing Across the Curriculum Program for many years. After that, she headed a char- ter school in Philadelphia for a cou- ple of years and then took some time off so we could spend part of one of my sabbaticals in New Zealand. (Great fly-fishing in New Zealand— more on that in a moment.) When we came back Peshe became the Director of Policy and Planning for the dean of the school of education at Temple (That is one of the schools in Philadelphia with a relatively good basketball team). Now she is a prac- tice professor of education atTemple. Aside from hearing endless “Do you believe what this student did?” (or said or didn’t do), she seems very well situated,productive and very en- gaged. For all that, I am grateful. Our kids; Aaron, Gabe and Shoshana, are all established and do- ing well.Aaron is 40 and married to Liz Brown.They live in Park Slope— where else do the kids of old lefties live in New York? He works at the Wall Street Journal (OK, let’s be clear: it is a great newspaper, if you don’t open the editorial pages.) He came to the Journal to cover municipal bonds after covering the NFL at Bloomberg for several years and before that outdoor sports at the Times Picayune in New Orleans. His wife works as a producer for NBC and they have two kids, Scotia (age 7) and Henry Arthur (age 4)— after my dad Our middle son, Gabriel, is 36 and works as a principal in Newark, N.J., running a high school for kids at the end of the pipeline that all too often otherwise leads to jail. His spouse, Val, is a math educator and works at Drexel University do- ing professional education for teach- ers. They have three kids, Ruthie (age six), after Peshe’s mother, Ruth Rabstein Pelletieri, Nate Jared (age four) after my uncle Jerry—who was a judge in L.A. and kept me out of the Vietnam war when my papers got mixed up by going fishing with the head of my draft board (there comes fishing again) and Lucy, (age one), after my mother Lucy. They live in Philadelphia about 12 blocks from us. Shoshana is married to Will Sicks. Shosh is 33 and works at Jefferson Medical School admin- istering their interschool curricu- lum.Will works at Bank of America helping municipalities and univer- sities hedge their debt (yes, there are GOOD kinds of hedges). They have two kids, Lucas (age two) af- ter my mom Lucy, and Greta, after Peshe’s stepmom, Gaetana.They live 11 blocks from us. I am so grateful for this brood, the fact that nine of them live so close and that all 13 live within 100 miles. I am grateful even more for be- ing blessed by such lovely, gentle, kind, decent, generous son- and daughters-in-law. I am grateful that