{"id":3885,"date":"2011-01-16T23:48:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T07:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2011\/01\/16\/class-notes-from-reed-magazine-summer-09\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:45","slug":"class-notes-from-reed-magazine-summer-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2011\/01\/class-notes-from-reed-magazine-summer-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Notes from Reed magazine Summer &#8217;09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>Class Notes<\/b> section of the <b>Reed magazine Summer 2009<\/b> reports on some Reed chemists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over the past few years, <b>Leo MacDonald &#8217;97<\/b> has undertaken a variety of life-changing events. In 2006, he married Joan Ramage, a professor of geology and remote sensing at Lehigh University. He started his own business, Independent Products LLC &#8211; a company devoted to invention and development of new technology. (To date, three patents have been filed on new technology developed.) Leo and Joan have a daughter, Iona Hirschland, born in January 2008. They all live on a farm in eastern Pennsylvania, and Leo says he prefers not to be called &#8220;Old Macdonald&#8221; until he is quite a bit older &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>On Inauguration Day, Emily Metcalfe Rugg &#8217;97 and <b>Aaron Rugg &#8217;98<\/b> welcomed a son, Henry James, in Washington D.C. Weighing in at a whopping 11 pounds, 9 ounces, he quicly earned the moniker Hank the Tank. &#8220;He&#8217;s a handsome and cheery little devil.&#8221; In other news, the family is moving to Colorado.<\/li>\n<li>Elliot Levin &#8217;04 and <b>Amanda Cort &#8217;07<\/b> are &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; says Elliot. He is mastering public policy, while Amanda is becoming a master of nursing. The planned a June wedding, &#8220;and planning weddings makes people crazy.&#8221; They planted their entire backyard with flowers, which should provide them with some beautiful comfort.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <b>In Memoriam<\/b> section of the magazine also reported the passing of <b>Alfred Stanley Levinson &#8217;54<\/b>, December 10, 2008, in Portland. Al received his BA from Reed in chemistry, and then entered the master&#8217;s program in chemistry at Wesleyan University. &#8220;I had no intentions of going to grad school up to that point, but [Reed professor] Arthur Scott helped me make up my mind and I went.&#8221; In 1958, he married Amy Perlson Levinson &#8217;54 and went to Indiana University for graduate work. Their two daughters, Rebecca and Ellen E. Levinson &#8217;84, were born during the time that Al completed his doctorate and post-doctorate work in chemistry and Amy had a full-time position in microbiology. In 1963, he joined the faculty of Portland State College. He retired as professor emeritus of organic chemistry in 1994. Survivors include his daughter Ellen; a sone; and his cousin, Toinette H. Menashe MALS &#8217;72.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Class Notes section of the Reed magazine Summer 2009 reports on some Reed chemists: Over the past few years, Leo MacDonald &#8217;97 has undertaken a variety of life-changing events. In 2006, he married Joan Ramage, a professor of geology&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2011\/01\/class-notes-from-reed-magazine-summer-09\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Class Notes from Reed magazine Summer &#8217;09<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4321,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/4321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}