As usual, classmates are discussed in alphabetical order. Durham doesn't hesitate to tell people that the stories are better than those in Tom Brokaw's book, and free of the pontificating therein. He and his wife live not far from Ludlow at 15 Ashland Ave., Springfield, MA 01119. In October, Herbert C. V. Feinstein served on the international jury of a film festival in Valladolid, Spain. Contrary to an implication in the September 2000 edition of these notes, he has not yet retired from San Francisco State University, and may not do so for a year or two.
Herb lives at Apt.
On November 9, Ted Melnechuk gave an invited lecture on the history of modern neuroscience to an evening seminar at Smith College. His pleasure in being listened to for two hours not only by his host professor but also by 10 bright young female students averaging 19 years of age has since been followed by his pleasure in finally having read every word of Jacques Barzun's latest great book, From Dawn to Decadence . Having heard Professor Barzun speak last spring at an international conference on Hector Berlioz, Ted decided to simulate taking a course with him, like one taken at Columbia in 1947, by reading his new book for an hour every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The book reaches a climax in its coverage of the century just ended, which it makes sense of for the first time in Ted's experience. In November, this book was nominated for a National Book Award for nonfiction.