I have been based in London ever since 1972 when I went to do a year of graduate school in comparative labour history. I enjoy the city with its arts and cultural diversity, and even the food has now improved. I have three wonderful children who have just grown up, Jonathan (23), Sam and Paul (twins of 19) and a wonderful wife Caroline with whom I have just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. Caroline manages the social policy research programme for a leading charity here (Help the Aged, similar to AARP). We met through our mutual belief that social activism did not have to exclude enjoyment of the good things in life. Jonathan works as an urban planner, devleoping ecotowns, after graduating from Cambridge and Harvard. Paul is just going to Nottingham University to study life sciences and Sam is the deputy manager of a child care centre and studying for his child care qualification. All three live at home, given the high house prices in London! I have been a television journalist for most of my time in the UK, after a period of political activism working on issues of homelessness and third world development. I have covered a wide range of issues, from UK and US elections and summits to greenhouse gases and social policy. For the last ten years I have been the economics correspondent for the BBC News website, bbcnews.com, currently covering the subprime crisis, the credit crunch and and its economic ramifications. I maintained a tie to Livingston for 50 years as my parents still lived at 92 Belmont Drive until my mother passed away in 2006. My sister Sande lives in Washington so I still visit the US frequently both for work and pleasure. (Updated 7/15/08) NEW NEWS: After 20 years as a journalist at the BBC, I am leaving to become the Marjorie Dean Professor of Financial Journalism at London City University, setting up and running a new MA course in financial journalism (the first of its kind in Britain). (Updated 8/16/09) 40th Reunion attendee.

Married to Rob Birkitt 25 years, with two children, Emily and Geoffrey. The kids came to us from Korea and it’s been a very interesting and rewarding experience over the last 20 years. Currently Operations/Sales Manager for a boutique Real Estate Agency in Summit, NJ. Still love music (especially jazz). On the Board of the Suburban Community Music Center. Often found singing backup for rock bands. Passionate walker (with my black lab, Devil Dog). Still in touch with Cathy Richman-Seggel and Dail Weinberger and very excited about seeing old friends again, as Lou’s “grassroots movement” has put me in touch with people I didn’t really know in Livingston.  Let the games begin! (Updated 3/10/07) 40th Reunion attendee.

My bio is currently on sabbatical. It will return sometime soon.

(Updated 11/18/09) 40th Reunion attendee.

After high school, went to Rutgers and the same month I graduated I got married to the girl I met as a college freshman. Got my MS in real estate investments from U. of Wisconsin (Madison). Worked in the financial industry in NYC until 1990, when I couldn't take the rat race anymore and went to Florida to start my own consulting business. Wound up applying for a position with an old JP Morgan client, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, and accepted their offer. Have been with them and living in Abu Dhabi since 1996. My first marriage painfully unravelled over the years, and what I mistook for love in my youth turned to hatred during a divorce proceeding that spanned 1986 - 1991 (no kidding!). The only good things to come out of that sorrowful union were my twin sons (now 30) and daughter (now 24). But along the way I met the woman of my dreams, Carol. It was truly "love at first sight." We married as soon as my divorce was finalized and over the years had two boys (now almost 18 and 15) and a daughter (16). We had a great life going until Carol past away suddenly, with no symptoms or warning whatsoever, on 3/3/05, at 43 years of age. Brain aneurism. I kissed her good-bye that Thursday morning as I left for work, never to see her alive again. Yes, indeed, God works in mysterious ways... I went to our 20th reunion with Carol and swore I would never go back -- mostly because none of my buddies had shown up and everyone (except me, of course) looked frigteningly old! Ha! But nostalgia is settling in and I want to visit and compare life's notes. So, I guess I'll see ya. (updated 4/1/08) 40th Reunion attendee.

I moved to Israel 1971 and lost contact. In 1973 my group of friends founded Kibbutz Ketura in the Arava valley, near the southern tip of the country and in the blink of an eye we have built a successful, thriving community that has little resemblance to the bleak outpost of 34 years ago. My husband (an algal biologist) and I (accounting dept.) are here, also our daughter and her four-yr-old. Son #1, his wife and our second granddaughter live in Tel-Aviv, #2 is in second year of school (plant physiology) and #3 is currently in the States working. Not much chance of us attending the reunion but we will gladly host any classmates who visit this area near Eilat and the Red Seas. This is the kibbutz website, slightly outdated but a decent introduction: www.ketura.org.il. (Updated 12/20/07)