CLUB OFFICERS 2026 - 2027
PRESIDENT
Roger Landry
Roger is a preventive medicine physician, and President and Chief Content Officer of Bright Side of Longevity, a group of multi-discipline specialists in healthy longevity who partner with communities to enrich their wellness offering, and with individuals to support their healthy longevity strategy. He is the author of the award-winning Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging and hosts a podcast The Bright Side of Longevity.
Roger was a career Air Force flight surgeon, retiring as the Chief Flight Surgeon, AF Surgeon General’s Office after duty on five continents. Trained at Tufts University School of Medicine and Harvard University School of Public Health, Roger specializes in building environments that empower older adults to maximize their unique potential.
VICE PRESIDENT
The Vice President is responsible for events as chair of the events committee.
John W. Collins III
John Collins retired from Harvard after serving twenty-eight years as a faculty member, Director of the Library, and Faculty Director of the Special Studies Master’s Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He lives in Falmouth, Massachusetts, with his wife Linda who is the Director of the Falmouth Public Library. John sits on several Boards including the Falmouth Forum Committee, and, until recently, the Falmouth Education Foundation. He is currently the President of the Harvard Retirees Association.
SECRETARY
Charles Diana
Charlie graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Biochemistry in 1978. He subsequently attended Medical School at Johns Hopkins, where he also did a Radiology residency. He returned to New England in 1986, and has been a Cape Cod resident since 1987. He has worked at Shields Health reading MRI scans since 2006. His wife, Elizabeth, is also a radiologist. They have four children and reside in Sandwich. In addition to being Secretary currently, Charlie was President of the Harvard Club of Cape Cod from June 2020 to June 2023.
TREASURER
Stephen Joyce
Steve is originally from the Boston area but has vacationed in Orleans for 30 years before buying a home there in 2016. Steve and his wife Sally both retired in June, 2022. Their 4 children and 3 grandchildren are frequent visitors. Steve worked for the past 25 years as a consultant helping clients improve their Human Resources organization and technology. Prior to that he worked in Human Resources in a Financial Services organization and for 10 years for the House of Representatives in Boston, MA, after graduation. Besides enjoying Cape Cod, Steve is recreating in the cellar an HO scale model railroad, which was originally built when his kids were young.
VICE PRESIDENT FOR COMMUNICATIONS
Vacant
VICE PRESIDENT FOR MEMBERSHIP
Iris M. Yob
Coming from Australia where she taught in a one-teacher school on the edge of the Outback, high schools, and a college for teacher education, Iris Yob came to Harvard for her doctoral degree in education completed in 1990. Since then, she held positions at SUNY-Geneseo, Indiana University, and Walden University.
Now retired on Cape Cod, she works on projects that had been postponed by years in administration. In 2020 she coedited, with Associate HCCC member Estelle Jorgensen, Humane Music Education for the Common Good; in 2022, For Profit and for Good, and hopefully in the near future, The Sacred Nature of School.
She works in the mornings (writing) and plays in the afternoon (walking, gardening, sightseeing).
VICE PRESIDENT FOR EVENTS
Alice Desouza
Alice was educated at Northeastern University, Williams College School of Banking, and the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program 115. She retired as Executive Vice President of Bank of New Hampshire Corporation starting a second career as Director of Tourism Development for New Hampshire’s Department of Resources and Economic Development. Her volunteer work has included boards of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, New Hampshire Preservation Alliance, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. She retired back to North Falmouth in 2019. She’s a member of The 300 Committee, Heritage Museums and Gardens, and Coonamessett Farm.
VICE PRESIDENT FOR SCHOOLS
Rufus W. Peebles
Rufus Peebles ’61, J.D.’64, applied to Harvard because his high school counselor encouraged him and even pushed him. Thank you, Miss Carter. In the spring of 1961 he began interviewing students applying to the College. That fall he became a freshman proctor and advisor. In July, 1964, he became an Associate Director of the Harvard College Fund and began psychoanalysis in Boston. After two training programs and an Ed.D. from Boston University, he became a licensed psychologist. He served on the staff of McLean Hospital, taught psychology courses at Harvard and Leslie Graduate School, and lead professional training groups.
He really enjoys his role as Vice President for Schools of the Harvard Club of Cape Cod. This allows him to encourage students to apply to Harvard College and to work with volunteers who interview these students. Each of us makes a significant contribution to the admissions process and to these students.
VICE PRESIDENT FOR TECHNOLOGY
Peter R. Bono
A mostly-retired computer scientist, Peter's interests include international travel, classical music, "oldies-but-goodies," stamp collecting, and reading. He is an avid international birder and served for many years as the President of the Cape Cod Bird Club. He and wife, Elaine, have lived full-time in Yarmouth Port since 2005. Peter is a Vietnam-era veteran serving as a US Naval Officer.
Dr. Bono received his A.B. cum laude in Mathematics from Harvard College and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He has co-authored two books: CGM and CGI and PC Graphics Using GKS. He has written, taught short courses, and lectured widely on topics related to standardization and systems integration. Dr. Bono's research interests include collaboration, knowledge acquisition and data mining, and scientific and data visualization, including volume visualization for medical applications. He served as twelve years as an elected member of the Eurographics Executive Committee, representing all members residing in countries outside Europe. Dr. Bono was Associate Editor of the refereed journal, Computers & Graphics, from 1993 to 2007.
ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT FOR TECHNOLOGY
JAMES (J) MEERE
J graduated from Boston College’s School of Education majoring in mathematics in 1971. For three years he taught math while earning a master’s degree from UNH then moved to Europe and continued teaching math in Norway, Paris, and Brussels. When J returned to the US, he taught in Harwich for a year before going to work at Houghton Mifflin in Boston as a mathematics editor. While at Houghton Mifflin, he earned a Certificate in Applied Science for Software Engineering at Harvard’s Extension School. J continued working at Houghton Mifflin but changed from the editorial staff to their software development staff to provide support in the development of grammar and multi-lingual spelling verifiers.
In 1994, J moved to Cairo, Egypt, where he lived for 5½ years working for the Ministry of Health. Shortly after 9/11, J worked at the Pentagon for several years, then moved on to the EPA, and then to the VA. He and his wife, Paula, have been married for 52 years and have two children. Their son, Aaron, lives and works in San Diego, and their daughter, Natasha, lives in Marion and provides IT and marketing support. J has been an avid runner his entire life and is a wannabe drummer. In retirement he enjoys working with computers, attending lectures, studying languages, and traveling.
DIRECTORS -- Class of 2027
Judy Fenwick
Blue Magruder
Elected to the HCCC board in 2024, Blue has been a life-long summer resident, now converting to year-round Cape residence. She commutes between Cambridge and her Barnstable home on land once farmed by her great grandparents.
Blue retired in 2018 from a career in marketing and public relations, promoting public understanding of the field sciences, environmental conservation, and natural history. After almost three decades as head of media relations and volunteer recruitment at Earthwatch Institute, she spent a dozen years as Director of Public Affairs for the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, and its flagship, Harvard Museum of Natural History, where she was instrumental in doubling the museums’ attendance to more than 315,000 visitors/year. A graduate of the college, she is currently a member of the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, has served as an appointed Director of the Harvard Alumni Association, and has recently co-chaired her 55th Reunion. She is a past board member of the Association to Preserve Cape Cod (APCC), the WGBH Community Advisory Board, and the Harvard Travelers Club. She has one son by her late husband John Hurwitch H’63, HBS‘66, as well as four stepchildren and nine stepgrands.
Anne M. Tupper
Anne Tupper majored in Government at Harvard-Radcliffe and left with an AB degree given the choice. Her job adventures included Stillman Infirmary, Mass Mental Health Center, Harvard School of Ed. and Dept. of Economics. After moving to Cape Cod she worked at Mass PIRG, Riverview School, AT&T and Nynex eventually retiring from Verizon. Having begun amateur singing with Radcliffe Choral Society and Harvard-Radcliffe Graduate Chorale she continued at Federated Church of Hyannis, Cape Cod Chorale and Cape Cod Opera. Anne has been singing for many years with Falmouth Interfaith now Falmouth Chorale, Woods Hole Cantata Consort, and in church and reunion choirs. Raised Catholic she is active at John Wesley Church and is thankful to be able to learn, perform, serve on committees, swim, and walk in God’s beautiful creation! She lives with her helpmeet Charles in Falmouth.
DIRECTORS -- Class of 2028
Judith Pierce Livingstone
Judy graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1961. She taught seventh and eighth grade science in Winchester for five years. At that point, she had two children so took two years off from teaching. She then became the entire science department at Rogers Hall, a girls’ boarding school in Lowell. In 1970 her family moved to New Jersey, she had her third child and took off another seven years from teaching. When she returned to teaching, she was chairperson of the science department and taught all of the biological sciences at a high school in New Jersey.
She and her husband retired to the Cape in 2004 and every day for thirteen years she substituted at Dennis-Yarmouth High School. She left teaching in 2017 to care for her husband who died in 2021. She now spends her time playing tennis, singing in the church choir, and doing other things at the Union Church in Dennis Village.
Karen Tewhey
Karen graduated from Simmons University, has a MA from Lesley College and a Certificate of Advanced Study from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. She enjoyed a career focused on educating at-risk children as the chief educational administrator at Head Start in Boston, Lowell Public Schools Early Childhood Department, New England Home for Little Wanderers, Community Care Services and Justice Resource Center. She served as the first Associate Commissioner of Quality and Workforce Development at the MA Department of Early Education and Care. Since moving to Martha’s Vineyard fulltime, she founded Harbor Homes, a nonprofit providing housing and support services to the homeless population on the Island. She enjoys spending time with her daughter and grand-daughters who live within biking distance and with her son who lives in Virginia.
Robert Dwyer
DIRECTORS -- Class of 2029
Barbara Healey
Fred Nelson
Fred Nelson and his wife Shannon Fullen Nelson moved from Columbus, Ohio to Brewster, Massachusetts in October 2024. They have two children: their daughter is graduating from Santa Clara University and their son attends Boston University.
Fred graduated from Hamilton College and from Harvard Law School (where as a member of the class of 1983 he was fortunate to be on the winning team and best oralist in the Ames Moot Court competition. He also was President of the Harvard Society for Law and Public Policy).
Much of his career has been in government. He was a trial judge and later a court of appeals judge and retired visiting judge in Ohio, sandwiching eight years as Senior Advisor and Director of Major Litigation for state Attorney General Mike DeWine. Previously, Fred had served as Majority Counsel to a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice, as Associate White House Counsel, and as a congressional Chief of Staff.
While volunteering in Kiev and Moscow under the auspices of the ABA’s Central and East European Law Initiative shortly after the breakup of the Soviet Union, he became interested in Russian and Ukrainian art, and he and Shannon have built a modest collection of paintings and drawings. In addition to art, they greatly enjoy taking in the beauties of the Cape.
Pippa Norris
Pippa is the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at HKS, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Government. She has taught at Harvard for more than three decades. An Anglo-American, her research compares democracy, public opinion, elections, political communications, and gender politics worldwide. Google Scholar ranks her 2nd worldwide in political science citations, the SSRN ranks her 2nd in political science, Research.com ranks her 7th worldwide and 5th nationally in political science, and Ioannidis et al (2019) rank her as the most cited political scientist in the world.
Her major honors include the Johan Skytte prize (known informally as the 'Nobel' prize in political science), Karl Deutsch prize, Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate, Sir Isaiah Berlin Lifetime Achievement Award, fellowship of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Warren E. Miller Award, Sakip Sabanci Award, Murray Edelman Lifetime Achievement award, Samuel Eldersfeld Lifetime Career Achievement Award, Charles E. Merriam Award, George Hallet Award, Brown Medal for Democracy, Doris Graber award, and honorary doctorates from Edinburgh, Bergen, Leuphena, and Warwick.
After living in Cambridge and Yarmouthport for many years, she has recently upped sticks and relocated to a new home overlooking Pleasant Bay and the Monomoy River in North Chatham. When not teaching classes during the Fall semester, as well as writing and speaking, she is a keen gardener, and she looks after her menagerie of chickens, bees, a Labradoodle (Sienna), and two cats (JoJo and Kamala). More details about her life and times are available at https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/pippa-norris and www.pippanorris.com