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Clarence C. Briscoe C’31 M’35, is a retired associate clinical
professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University who had practiced
and conducted research at Pennsylvania Hospital. He has written The
Roar of a Lion; A Novel, which was published by Dorrance Publishing
Corp. in 2002. He writes, “It should be read by all pre-meds and medical
students.” To quote from the book’s cover: “This fictional account
of the personal and professional life of [an] obstetrician allows
a fascinating look at medical and social changes in the 20th century.”
42 Neysa Cristol Adams CW’42 was recognized as a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania last fall; she qualified for this honor through a long history of community service in United Way, the Federation of Jewish Agencies, the Women’s Advisory Committee for Federal Commissioners, the President’s Commission for Women, the National Conference on Social Welfare, the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation, and Penn’s School of Social Work. A retired teacher and investment adviser, she is married to Hon. Arlin M. Adams L’47 Hon’98; they have three grown daughters, Carol Adams Kirshner, Jane Adams, and Judith Adams Edelson. She plans to continue her volunteer commitment to higher education, health care, and social services.
George L. Merwin Gr’42 writes, “Now that I am in my 92nd year, I have given up most of my retirement activities. Retiring from the International Monetary Fund in 1977, after 31 years with that organization, I became founding president of the IMF Retirees Association until 1997. Last year I gave up the presidency of the Miles Merwin (1623-1697) Association, after 40 years. Elizabeth Quay Merwin, my wife of 62 years, died in January 2001. I now live in a life-care community in Bethesda, Md., and manage a little golf occasionally.”
48 William H. Helfand ChE’48 is now president of the Library Company of Philadelphia, which was founded by Franklin in 1731 and is America’s oldest cultural institution. The Library Company is today an independent, non-profit research library with extensive collections of rare books, manuscripts, prints, and photographs documenting American history from its beginnings to the end of the 19th century.
49 Bob Ives C’49 has written Short Stories, a collection of 19 stories published last year by Infinity Publishing Co.
50 Patricia Scharlin R. Taylor CW’50 and Gary Taylor wrote Smart Alliance: How a Global Corporation and Environmentalists Transformed a Tarnished Brand, to be published this spring by Yale University Press. The press release notes, “It is an inside story of how corporate executives, banana workers, local leaders, and conservation advocates learned to work together and trust one another. Over the objections of skeptical critics, Chiquita Brands International and the Rainforest Alliance established a Better Banana ‘seal of approval’ to certify Chiquita’s environmental efforts and to enhance worker health and safety.”
51 Joyce Sloan Anderson Ed’51 GEd’52 has written Courage In High Heels (Publish America, 2004), the life stories of eight extraordinary women who have overcome formidable obstacles in life. A freelance writer, Joyce is a former professor of sociology and chair of the social-sciences division at Atlantic Community College in New Jersey. Her articles and op-ed pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and other national and regional publications; she can be reached at <JSAwrite@aol.com>.
Harold Cramer L’51 is a retired partner with the law firm of Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis LLP. A former chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, he now serves as president of the Jenkins Law Library, and in November received the association’s Bar Medal for his commitment over many years to the library.
52 George W. Nordham L’52 has written and published a number of booklets, The Ten Commandments; The Sermon on the Mount: A Modern Viewpoint; “Follow Me”: The Apostles of Jesus Christ; and The 23rd Psalm.
53 Dr. Howard D. Greyber Gr’53 wrote in December that he is formally retired, but continues research in theoretical astrophysics. He and his wife plan to move soon to San Jose, Calif., to be near three children and four little grandsons.
Charles Potash C’53, the senior partner of the Blue Bell, Pa., law firm of Wisler, Pearlstine, Talone, Craig, Garrity & Potash, LLP, in January became of counsel to the firm. He joined the firm in 1960 and concentrated his practice as solicitor for school districts and school authorities, and municipalities and municipal authorities; he will continue to represent school districts and school authorities in this new role.
55 Hugh C. Miller Ar’55 received the 2003 William C. Noland Medal from the Virginia Society AIA last November, for his service in the field of historic landscape preservation and his devotion to the society. A retired chief historical architect for the U.S. National Park Service, he was the first director of the Virginia Department of Historical Resources; during his 28-year career with the National Park Service he was responsible for projects such as Independence Hall and the Statue of Liberty restoration. He continues to lecture with the Historic Richmond Foundation and sits on the advisory boards for Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forrest, and the University of Virginia’s Academical Village and Stratford Hall. And he serves on the faculty of Goucher College’s historic-preservation master’s program.
56 Hugh D. Jascourt C’56 has been re-appointed chair of the Greenbelt (Md.) Employee Relations Board, re-elected co-chair of the Association for Conflict Resolution Federal Workplace ADR Committee, appointed to the publications advisory committee of the International Public Management Association, and will be in the 2004 editions of Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Law (in which he has been listed since its first edition).
57 Howard R. Berlin W’57 retired in 2002 as managing director and senior portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman LLC, a New York investment-advisory firm, and now lives with his wife, Joy, at the The Boulders Resort in Carefree, Ariz. He was recently elected to the board of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, which houses traditional and contemporary Native American art, and hosts educational programs highlighting Native American arts, history, and culture. He is also involved with several philanthropic projects, including the Uriah P. Levy Cultural Center and Jewish Chapel at the U.S. Military Academy. And he heads an investment firm, Berlin Associates Inc., specializing in private investments.
58 William J. Young III C’58 writes that a story of his appeared on ESPNoutdoors.com “about a salmon fly created in Iceland by legendary guide Petur Steingrimsson; it is called the Betsy, named after my daughter, Betsy Young Palmieri C’85. Incidentally, Petur also designed another salmon fly for me several years ago. It is red and blue and is called—surprise!—the Quaker. It also is very effective. I have caught salmon using it in Norway, Iceland, Ireland, Mongolia, Russia, British Columbia, and Quebec.”
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59 Paul G. Dentiste GCP’59 has moved from Birmingham, Ala., to Tulsa, Okla., and is a planning consultant to governments and telecom site-acquisition and -management companies. Having served as executive director of the Birmingham Regional Planning Commission (1980-1995), he has been appointed to the Tulsa Human Rights Commission. Prior to moving to Tulsa, he completed the entire Cricket Communications project in Tulsa as Lucent’s market and site acquisition manager. (Before that he held senior consultancy positions throughout the South and Southeast with Sprint Spectrum PCS, Powertel PCS, PageNet, TowerCom/Preferred Sites, and Crown Castle Communication.) Paul has transferred to the Oklahoma chapter of the American Planning Association and looks forward to serving the people of Oklahoma.
Dr. Morton Hoffman C’59 M’63, Moorestown, N.J., was presented last year with Virtua Health’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He began his career with Virtua Health in 1969, and served as section chief of general medicine and assistant chief of internal medicine. He was one of the first trained nephrologists at Virtua Memorial Hospital Burlington County, and served as its first section chief of nephrology. He was named an honorary member of Virtua Memorial’s medical staff upon his retirement in September 2002.
61 Richard C. Carpenter GCP’61 compiled A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946. Volume 1: the Mid-Atlantic States, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press last year.
62 Stephen R. Harrison W’62 writes, “We divide our time between Manhattan and Beaufort, S.C. We have owned the Rhett House Inn for 17 years: the 1820 four-diamond inn is located between Charleston and Savannah, Ga. We will be happy to welcome students and alumni and will offer a special room rate, (888) 480-9530.”
63 Jay Phelan C’63 writes that he is still on active duty in the U.S. Navy, working as an otolaryngologist and flight surgeon at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute in Pensacola, Fla. Some of his most memorable moments, for better or worse, have come as helicopter-rescue physician at Space Shuttle launches and landings. He was present at the launch of Columbia, and was standing by at the Cape for the landing that never happened: two of his flight-surgeon friends were lost that day.
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Barrett J. Foerster C’64 writes that on Nov. 13 he was appointed a judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Imperial. Previously he was a partner in the law firm of Olins, Foerster & Hayes, where he primarily practiced labor law. For over 20 years he served as a state probate referee. He owns two historically designated homes, one of which was placed on the U.S. Department of Interior’s National Register. His wife is a principal at Twin Peaks Middle School and they have two daughters.
Ray Griffin GAr’64, a senior partner in the Vancouver firm DGBK Architects, writes he is working on “major healthcare and educational projects in British Columbia, Alberta, and in China (www.dgbk.com). The Vancouver projects include the Metropolitan Hotel, the Eyecare Centre at Vancouver Hospital, the Forest Sciences Centre at the University of British Columbia, and Lions Gate Film Studios.”
65 Lawrence J. Fox C’65 L’68, a managing partner with the Philadelphia-based law firm of Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP, in November received the Philadelphia Bar’s Wachovia Fidelity Award for his significant accomplishments in improving the administration of justice.
67 Leslie Freed CW’67 has been living with her husband, Greg McEnary, in Stamford, Conn., for 24 years. She recently retired after a 30-year career as a corporate lawyer and lobbyist, and as a business entrepreneur.
68 James Lloyd FA’68, Wayne, Pa., teaches figurative and abstract sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Last year he had an outdoor-sculpture show, James Lloyd: Reflections of Embedded Images, at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown. He writes, “In addition to [that] show, I gave two public slide lectures about a recent altar sculpture for the hospice chapel at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, [which] illustrated the power of the art of intention in transforming people and society. The lectures were given in May at the Michener Museum and at the Philadelphia Club.”
Arthur Schramm L’68 was recently inducted into the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Hall of Fame in recognition of his notable service as a trustee of the Southern California chapter.
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Karen
L. Goldstein G’69 Gr’77 WG’82 has joined Davidson College in North
Carolina as vice president for business and finance. Previously she
was vice president for finance and administration at the University
of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. At Penn she served in administration
from 1975 till 1992: as an assistant dean in the College of General
Studies and in the old College for Women, and she helped establish
the Penn women’s studies program; she was also a vice-dean in the
College of Arts and Sciences. She met her husband, Ben, when he joined
Penn as an associate dean for computing; they have two grown children,
who live in Philadelphia.
Mary C. Selecky CW’69 is Secretary of Health for the State of Washington; she has lived in the state for 30 years. She was recently elected to a second term as president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. At Penn she was among the first women elected to student government in the late Sixties, and later she was an assistant dean of students.
70 Dan Beigel C’70 <dbeigel@comcast.net> has completed a two-year project for Penn State University’s sesquicentennial: Raise the Song, a coffee-table book released this spring, which has over 100 of his photographs. His award-winning photography has been published in the Gazette, National Geographic magazine and its books, and recently in Time-Life’s The Year in Pictures. Some photos have also been exhibited at Epcot Center’s Journey Into Imagination Pavilion, which features “The World’s Outstanding Photography.” His panoramic images, marketed as The Wide View, are sold in college bookstores and museum gift shops throughout the country. Dan lives in Annapolis, Md., with Tammy, his wife of 25 years, and most of his five children.
71 Ian M. Comisky W’71 L’74, co-chair of the white-collar, internal, and government investigations group of Blank Rome LLP, in December moderated a program, “Guidelines Under Attack—The Protect Act,” presented by the ABA and the Center for Continuing Legal Education in Philadelphia. He also spoke on “White-Collar Crime Issues: Equitable Distribution and How Lawyers Can Avoid Trouble,” at the Pennsylvania Bar’s family-law section meeting in January.
Dr. Tagi Sagafi-Nejad G’71 Gr’79 writes, “After taking early retirement from Loyola College [in Baltimore], last year I took up a one-year post as the Keating-Crawford Chair in International Business at Seton Hall University. Then in August I took up my current position, the Radcliffe Killam Distinguished Professor of International Business and interim chair of the Department of Management, Marketing, and International Business at Texas A&M International University, with the mission of starting a Ph.D. program in international business. Of further interest may be the fact that Howard V. Perlmutter, emeritus professor of management at Wharton, serves on the global advisory board of our Ph.D. program.”
Dr. J. Bradford Senden C’71 is the managing partner of the Center for Community Opinion, in San Ramon, Calif., which works with school districts, library districts, and cities that seek voter approval for tax increases for building or program improvements. He co-wrote School Finance Elections: A Comprehensive Planning Model for Success, to be published by Scarecrow Press in June (www.scarecrowpress.com).
William A. Squires C’71 recently represented Penn as a delegate at the inauguration of the new president at Asnuntuck Community College. Bill and his wife, Nancy, own Esquire Gas Products Company, wholesalers of dry ice and carbon dioxide, based in Enfield, Conn., which was recently honored by the University of Connecticut School of Business as a finalist for the Connecticut Family Business of the Year.
Robert E. Young GrS’71 lives near the ocean in Virginia Beach. He body-surfs, writes poetry, and is a trustee at the Virginia Beach Friends School, where he helps coach girls’ basketball. And he works “for social change, toward a peaceful planet.”
72 Ira Genberg L’72, a partner in the Atlanta-based law firm of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP, was recently selected by his peers to Georgia’s “Super Lawyers,” as featured in Atlanta magazine, and to Georgia’s “Legal Elite,” Georgia Trend magazine’s listing of the state’s top 100 lawyers. Nationally he was chosen by Chambers USA Ranking Guide as one of “America’s Leading Business Lawyers,” elected to “Outstanding Lawyers of America,” and chosen by in-house counsel at Fortune 1000 companies as one of America’s best 75 lawyers.
Dr. Nick Spitzer C’72, professor of folklore and cultural conservation at the University of New Orleans, has been named the 2004 Mellon Professor of Humanities at Tulane University. Creator and host of American Routes, the weekly program devoted to vernacular music and culture distributed by Public Radio International. He and his wife, Margaret Howze, a jazz producer for National Public Radio, live with their son, Perry Randolph Spitzer (born 2002), in the Crescent City district of New Orleans.
Lee Evan Tabas C’72 ME’72, a director and president emeritus of the Royal Bank of Pennsylvania, has started a new business, Tabasfunding.com, which provides funding for entrepreneurs to expand or acquire businesses. He also teaches MBA students, as the executive-in-residence for 2003-4 at the School of Business Administration of Philadelphia University. His son Samuel Bradford Tabas C’99 is studying philosophy and comparative literature in Paris as a McCracken Doctoral Fellow at NYU. And daughter Elizabeth Rebecca Tabas C’01 is a first-year law student at Fordham University; she is still rowing, now with a club team in the Meadowlands in New Jersey.
73 John J. Conley C’73, associate professor of philosophy at Fordham University, wrote The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France, published recently by Cornell University Press.
Fred Samara C’73 has been head coach of track and field at Princeton University for 26 years; Recently he was named to the Public Schools Athletic League 100th Anniversary Hall of Fame. In both 2001 and 2002 he was named the NCAA Regional Coach of the Year.
William Young C’73 spent a month in Australia last year, including three weeks in the desert, looking for birds. This was his fourth natural-history trip to Australia since 1995; field notes and photos from the trip can be accessed at (www.amosbutleraudubon.org /WCY/default.htm).
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74 Roberta Smith Favis Gr’74, professor of art at Stetson University, wrote Martin Johnson Heade in Florida, which was published in September by the University of Florida Press. It describes the last two decades of the life and artistic career of Heade (1819-1904), when he settled in St. Augustine, Fla.; a member of the Hudson River School, he was the first artist of national repute to make his home in Florida. An active participant in the projects of Henry Flagler to transform St. Augustine into a mecca for Northern tourists, his writings expressed concern that the pristine environment and its inhabitants were already threatened.
Merry Henig Feintuch W’74 and Richard Feintuch W’74 write, “We are happy to report that our son, Jonathan, has been accepted to the Class of 2008 at Wharton. He joins our older son, Jason Feintuch W’05.”
Terry Jacobs GAr’74 and his firm, Jacobs/ Wyper Architects, LLP, designed Penn’s new Hillel buidling, Steinhardt Hall [January-February “Gazetteer”].
75 J. Douglas Bate WG’75, North Andover, Mass., managing partner of The Visterra Group, a Boston-based corporate strategic-planning consultancy, co-wrote The Power of Strategy Innovation: A New Way of Linking Creativity and Strategic Planning to Discover Great Business Opportunities, which was published last October by the American Management Association.
Pam J. Crabtree G’75 Gr’82 and Peter Bogucki C’75 are co-editors-in-chief of Ancient Europe 8000 B.C. - 1000 A.D.: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in December. Pam writes that one son, Michael Campana, is a freshman at Penn.
77 Mitchell Gross WG’77 is co-founder, chair, and chief executive officer of Mobius Management Systems, Inc., whose software is being used by 60 percent of the Fortune 100 companies to manage massive data files electronically over the Web, as well as to comply with the new federal Sarbanes-Oxley guidelines. One of his daughters is Diane Gross Hess C’97, a reporter at TheStreet.com; she is married to David Hess W’97, a corporate-finance adviser at Goldman Sachs. Mitch is a passionate collector of classic cars; he owns 17, eight of which are turn-of-the-20th-century steam-powered.
Karen Frank Kelrick W’77 and Howard Kelrick C’77 are proud to announce that their son, Scott, will be a member of the Penn freshman class this fall. KiKi is director of admissions for The University School, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., preparatory school, and Howard is president of Finger Mate, Inc., a fine-jewelry manufacturer. Their daughter, Allison, is a junior at Emory University in Atlanta, where she is pursuing majors in ballet and in journalism.
Gary J. Stilwell W’77 WG’84 has been awarded a two-year grant from Telecom Italia to study at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Milan.
78 David M. Podell C’78 was appointed provost and vice president for academic affairs at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. He has been a member of its faculty since 1988 and dean of humanities and social sciences since 1998.
Karen Ostrow Stempel C’78 writes, “In January, I opened Lexolution LLC, a temporary legal-staffing company in Washington (www.lexolution.net). It also has an office in New York, where it was founded in 2001 by my three partners. We are one of the leading providers of temporary attorneys and paralegals to law firms and in-house law departments in the D.C. and New York metropolitan areas. I try to help alumni candidates, of which I have quite a few, as much as possible. Before starting Lexolution, I was of counsel at Baker & Hostetler LLP in Washington. My husband, Scott Stempel, and I live with our two daughters in Potomac, Md.”
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Gerald
A. McHugh Jr. L’79, an attorney with Litvin, Blumberg, Matusow
& Young in Philadelphia, has been elected a member of the American
Law Institute, the national organization of judges, scholars, and
practitioners dedicated to legal reform.
Robert C. Schneider L’79 WG’79 writes, “An article I co-authored, ‘Tax-Exempt Bonds: The Secret to Low-Cost Financing,’ was published in the December edition of School Business Affairs.”
80 Ingeborg Hegemann Clark GRP’80 writes, “I was interested to read the News article “Wetland Restored: Wildlife Approve” in the Jan-Feb Gazette. I have been working on wetland restoration and creation for several years now in Massachusetts. Wetland restoration/creation activities are a very much debated activity in the U.S., in terms of evaluating their ‘success’ and even in defining what parameters should be measured to determine ‘success.’ In my opinion, wetland restoration/creation, as a planned activity, is a young science—and very interesting! I have thoroughly enjoyed monitoring my ‘new’ wetlands over the past years and watching them evolve. It will be interesting to see how the Arboretum wetland evolves. I look forward to visiting it soon. I am currently vice president of ecological sciences with a Mass. and Conn. environmental-engineering consulting firm, BSC Group, Inc., and I also teach wetland ecology at one of the UMass campuses. My two children are about to head off to college, so my husband and I will be able to do all those fun things we used to do 18 years ago—like travel!”
Leslie Esdaile-Banks W’80 e-mailed in early December, “Yesterday was my birthday, and I got a call from my agent that [my novels] Minion and The Awakening have been optioned by Gotham Beach Entertainment for the movie rights! The Vampire Huntress is going to Hollywood! Then he said, ‘Kiddo, you’re in Russia!’ Both books have been picked up by AST Publishers to be translated into Russian and sold internationally!”
81 Michael E. Dee W’81, Singapore, managing director & CEO of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Asia, was recently appointed a trustee of Singapore Management University. He also serves on the board of the Asian Civilisations Museum and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Gregg Fallick C’81 L’84 see Lisa Sellers Fallick W’84.
Susan Friedman-Becker C’81 GCP’82 has joined a firm of fundraising consultants for Israeli non-profit groups. Still living in Raanana, Israel, with three sons (Yishai, Micha, and Edo) and her husband, Mitchel, “and still a total DeadHead,” she would like to hear from old friends at <susan_b@bezeqint.net>.
James H. Gilmore W’81 writes, “I was recently named a Batten Fellow at the Darden School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. I’ll be in residence at UVa. on and off throughout the 2003-04 academic year, collaborating with faculty on a number of research initiatives. This comes right after having served as the 2002-03 Dean Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Co-chair at the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at Iowa State University. All this flows from the continued interest in my book, The Experience Economy, now published in 10 languages. More on my fellowship at Batten Institute at (www.darden.virginia.edu/batten/fellows).”
David Sable W’81 M’86 is retiring from medical practice in March. For the past four years he has served as director of the in-vitro fertilization program at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J. He lives in New York with his wife, Priya, seven-year-old Nikhil, and four-year-old Tarana.
Sharon Hernes Silverman C’81 wrote Brandywine Valley: The Informed Traveler’s Guide, just released by Stackpole Books. She and her husband, Alan Silverman W’81, live in West Chester, Pa., with their two sons. Friends are welcome to contact her via (www.BrandywineGuide.com).
82 Dr. Lee A. Fleisher C’82 has joined the Penn School of Medicine as professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesia. Previously he was professor of anesthesia, vice-chair for clinical investigation, and clinical director of operating rooms at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with an appointment in health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. His professional interests include studying how to predict and prevent cardiac complications in patients with cardiac disease who are undergoing operations not related to their heart conditions. He first came to Penn when only 16 years old to work summers at the Wistar Institute. He has interviewed for the secondary-schools committees since 1985 wherever he has been around the country.
Joanne Hirsh G’82 has expanded her professional activities from art adviser and curator to the management and care of art collections. Her firm, Joanne Hirsh Collection Care, provides services for corporations, institutions, and individual art collections in need of a concerned eye <joannehirsh29@aol.com>
Susan Kohn Stern C’82 received her master’s in educational administration from Rider University in Dec. 2002. After teaching fifth grade and gifted-and-talented students in North Brunswick, N.J., she is now director of elementary instruction. She and her husband, Walter, are the proud parents of twins Emily and Frankie (12) and Michael (eight). They live in Plainsboro.
Deborah Wong C’82 has been promoted to professor of music at the University of California, Riverside. Her second book, Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music, will be published this spring by Routledge.
83 Shaun Eli Breidbart W’83 writes that after more than a decade of selling jokes to network late-night television talk shows, he has taken to the stage himself, performing stand-up comedy at showcase clubs in New York, including Gotham Comedy Club and Stand-Up NY. You can read more about him, find examples of his work, see his performance schedule, and contact him at (www.BrainChampagne.com).
Craig James W’83 writes, “I started a sales training business last year called Sales Solutions. Based in New York, we provide services ranging from traditional classroom training for sales teams, to one-on-one coaching for individual salespeople and entrepreneurs, to a Rent-A-Sales-Manager (outsourced sales management) offering for start-ups and other small businesses. Our target market is businesses ranging from $20-200 million, as well as entrepreneurs. I’m still single, but that looks to be coming to an end shortly—will keep everyone posted on that progress.”
Ivan B. Knauer C’83 joined Pepper Hamilton LLP in December as a partner in its Washington office; he specializes in securities litigation, and previously was a partner at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP in Washington.
Helen Lesnick C’83 <hlesnick@AttaGirlProds.com> and her partner, Valerie B. Pichney, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Rachel Sylvie, on Sept. 17. She is the first child for both of them. Their film, A Family Affair, was the official selection of over 60 festivals worldwide and won five best-film awards before its U.S. theatrical release by Small Planet Pictures. Wolfe Video released it in August on DVD and VHS. In between changing diapers, Helen and Valerie are currently in post-production for their second film, Inescapable.
John Terwilliger C’83 W’83 <terwilliger@planet.nl> e-mails that he is rounding off a nine-month sabbatical, during which he accidentally stumbled upon and met his biological parents—both of whom live in the Washington area, where he grew up, yet haven’t been in contact with each other in over 40 years. (He was adopted at birth, and both of his adoptive parents are now deceased.) This makes for an incredible story, with a happy ending (so far), and he is currently working on a book covering this dramatic episode in his life. Since January he has taken on an interim project in Amsterdam for ABN AMRO, to securitize and create a secondary market in European residential mortgages. He has lived in the Netherlands since 1996 with his wife, Elize, their daughter, Cristiana, and son, Jack.
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Christine
Brentani C’84 <chrbre@aol.com>
e-mails, “I am still living in London and working as a freelance financial
consultant. In the last year I married Alex Davidson, continued to
raise our two-year-old son, Benjamin, developed and taught a course
on bonds, had a baby daughter, Isabella, on Oct. 8, and had a book,
Portfolio Management in Practice, published by Butterworth
Heinemann. I will do my best to come to our 20th Reunion.”
Lisa Sellers Fallick W’84 <lsfallick@comcast.net> e-mails, “I’ve started a new business, Max Delivers!, a distributorship of all-natural dog and cat foods that are shipped free anywhere in the continental U.S. My husband, Gregg Fallick C’81 L’84, and I recently adopted two pups, Max and Rio, who join our two kids Shea (eight) and Kayla (five). We asked our vet what food we should feed them, and he said that there was only one dog food he felt comfortable recommending, an all-natural, hormone-free, chemical-free food that was ‘human-grade.’ Our dogs loved it, and we loved the free delivery, so I decided to go into business with Max, the dog! Please visit my Web site (www.MaxDelivers.com), the first that I have ever designed! I’d love to hear from you.”
David Grassetti C’84 returned to the U.S. after doing eight years of venture-capital work in Poland. He now works for Panasonic’s U.S. corporate headquarters in Secaucus, N.J., as a member of their internal-consulting group.
Dr. Adrienne Kirby GNu’84 Gr’96 is chief operating officer of Virtua West Jersey Hospital Voorhees and vice president of the women’s and children’s services at Virtua Health in South Jersey. In December she received a Woman of Distinction Award from the Philadelphia Business Journal and the National Association of Women Business Owners. She had served as an associate clinical director for obstetrical and neonatal nursing at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
Ken Zangwill C’84 <kzangwill@rei.edu> married Daphna Enzer in July “on a Malibu, Calif., beach under the sun and amidst the crash of waves—boogie boarding followed! She is a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, and I work at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (UCLA School of Medicine) as a pediatric infectious-disease specialist.”
85 Jeffrey H. Cohen W’85 became leader of the corporate practice in the Los Angeles office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. He is married to Lisa Block Cohen C’85. They live in Los Angeles with their two boys, Justin (11) and Cameron (five).
Dr. Eric K. Seaman C’85 and his wife, Brett, live in Morris Township, N.J., with their two daughters, Charlotte (21 months) and Evann (eight months), and dog, Woody (three years). Eric is a urologist specializing in male infertility with offices in West Orange and Morristown.
Tremain Smith C’85 had works in three group exhibits in the Philadelphia area: Repetition and Transformation, a group show opening in January at the Episcopalian Philadelphia Cathedral (it was curated by Elizabeth Hoak Doering, lecturer in fine arts at Penn); Inner Circles, at the Sharadin Art Gallery at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in February; and Saving Philadelphia: The Art of the Dumpster Divers at the Sedgwick Cultural Center, which runs through March 14.
86 Cynthia Arato C’86 is now with the New York office of the Los Angeles-based entertainment and media law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. She had been a partner in the New York law firm of Parcher, Hayes & Snyder, P.C., which joined Manatt in January.
Dr. Andrew Engelhard C’86, a scientist at the Columbia University Skin Diseases Research Center, received the 2004 Carson Family Charitable Trust Research Scholar Award from the American Skin Association.
Jonathan Guttenberg C’86 writes that Hannah Rose was born to him and Randi Karmen Guttenberg on Aug. 8. “We are still living in Manhattan with Katie Bea, who is now almost three.”
Lawrence Israeloff W’86 has become director of taxation at Feldman, Meinberg & Co. LLP, Certified Public Accountants in Syosset, N.Y.
Daniel P. McCarthy EAS’86, Salt Lake City, has been appointed chair of the intellectual-property and technology department at Parsons, Behle & Latimer, Utah’s largest law firm.
Barbara Yanez C’86 is engaged to be married this summer to Yovanis Vega.
87 Keith E. Gottfried W’87 e-mailed in December, “I just returned from New Delhi where I delivered the keynote address at the Asia Global Tech Summit; it brought together policy-makers and software-industry representatives from the Asia Pacific region to examine issues and challenges facing governments as they work to develop information-based economies. It was a terrific event and was testament to how India has achieved one of the pre-eminent information-based economies.” Keith is senior vice president for corporate affairs at Borland Software Corp. in Cupertino, Calif.
Lisa Greene W’87 and her husband, Jonathan Polish, welcomed their daughter, Noa Ruth, into the world on Dec. 1. Lisa serves as associate rabbi of North Shore Congregation Israel in suburban Chicago.
Ellen Shulman Judson C’87 <purepoetry@comcast.net> proudly announces the opening of her business, Pure Poetry. Working out of her home, she writes “poems and speeches for all occasions: birthdays, anniversaries, bar mitzvahs, and more!” She, her husband, Andy, and their three children—Michael (eight), Eric (six), and Rachel (three)—recently moved to West Windsor, N.J., and love it.
David Na C’87 writes, “My wife, Jennifer, big brother Ethan, and I are overjoyed to announce the birth of our new baby boy, Adam Daniel, on Feb. 25, 2003.”
Dana Dellinger Newswanger W’87 married Brian L. Newswanger, president of Atlantes Architects, on June 14, 2003, at Old Pine Street Church in Philadelphia. “Family and close friends celebrated heartily until the wee hours with dinner and slam-dancing at the Union League. Definitely a successful party! Brian’s son, Garrett (14), was best man, and his daughter, Whitney (16), was maid-of-honor.” Dana and Brian live and work in Center City Philadelphia and can be reached at <dana.dellinger@phil.frb.org>.
Greg Shearson C’87, president of the recently combined Pepsi-Cola, Quaker, and Tropicana Gatorade operations in Canada, has been named president of the Chicago-based juices group of PepsiCo Beverages & Foods.
88
Gerard
Babitts C’88 e-mails, “After spending the last nine years at Sony
Music, I have returned to the thriving independent-label world to
continue corrupting the minds of America’s youth: I am vice president,
A&R,
for Razor & Tie in New York. In other good news, my wife and I
welcomed our second child, Nathaniel Asher, on Aug. 22. Old pals can
get in touch with me at <gerard_babitts@yahoo.com>.”
Russell Langsam C’88 writes, “My wife, Anne Sherman, and I are happy to announce the birth of our son, Benjamin Ari Langsam, on Aug. 4.”
Karen Post C’88 W’88 and her husband, Jonathon Nevett, announce the birth of their daughter, Danielle Sarah Nevett, on Oct. 10. She joins big sister Rachel (five) and big brother Michael (three). Karen can be reached at <postnevett@aol.com>.
Joan Piassick Swartz EAS’88 and Peter Swartz EE’90 W’90 announce the birth of their daughter, Rachel Bernard, on Dec. 8. Joan is a senior SAP consultant with Solutions Consulting, a subsidiary of Perot Systems. Peter is president of his own consulting firm, Intersys Consulting, with projects taking the family around the world, including London, Paris, Belgium, and Tokyo.
CELEBRATE
YOUR REUNION: MAY 14-15, 2004
89
Margaret
Doyle C’89 <MMDoyle67@aol.com>
e-mails, “My husband, Bert Brandenburg, and I celebrated the birth
of our first child, Martin Doyle Brandenburg, on Oct. 26, three weeks
after I defended my dissertation in art history at the Graduate Center,
City University of New York. We live in Silver Spring, Md.”
David P. France C’89 writes, “On Dec. 6, I started as an analyst with the Wall Street Reporter magazine. I will be researching and conducting interviews with CEOs of mostly publicly traded companies for the magazine and for the Web site.”
Elisa Minsk Hartstein C’89 e-mails, “Dr. Morris Hartstein and I are excited to announce the birth of our fourth child, Jonah Yochai, on May 13; he was warmly welcomed by big sisters Eliana (five) and Dalia (four), and big brother, Zack (two). I am now able to test first-hand my line of nursing fashions—again! I and Ed Hyken W’95 teamed up in 2000 to launch a company called Expressiva Nursingwear (www.expressiva.com) that designs, manufactures, and sells a line of fashionable clothing for nursing mothers. No more dowdy nursingwear! I can be reached at <elisa@expressiva.com> and would love to hear from old friends, and pregnant and new moms.”
Laurie J. Hepler C’89 writes, “I am delighted to report that my husband, Mark Hepler, and I welcomed our daughter, Marina Grace, on March 27, 2003, and that I am now a partner in the appellate group of Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP in San Francisco.”
Dr. James McGann G’89 GCP’90 Gr’91 is a senior fellow and director of the think-tanks and civil-societies program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. In December he led a discussion on “‘Petitioning the Government’ in Evolving Hong Kong” at the National Constitution Center in a video link with Hong Kong. His article, “Responding to 9/11: Are Think Tanks Thinking Outside the Box?” was published by the Foreign Policy Association in New York and is now posted on the front page of their Web site (www.fpa.org).
Ben Powell EAS’89 W’89 e-mails, “I moved to Washington from California in 2002 to accept a position in the White House as special assistant to the President and associate counsel to the President. A friend and classmate, Tom Monheim C’89, recently joined the White House from the Department of Defense and we are enjoying working together. My wife, Natalie Coburn, and I live with our one-year old daughter in Virginia; I can be reached at <benpowell@alumni.upenn.edu>.”
Christina Kearney Saba C’89 married David Saba on April 5, 2003, in Richmond, Va. Celebrating with them were Mike Hyland C’89 and his wife, Carolyn Fogarty Hyland C’90, Jessica Schwartz Hahn C’89, and Beth Kramer C’90.
90 Kevin Carlsten C’90 e-mails, “2003 was an eventful year. After a couple years of barely managing to balance full-time school, work, and some semblance of a life in-between, I graduated from the Columbia executive MBA program on Sept. 14. I got married a week later—in an attempt to pack as many major life events as possible into a one week period. The wedding was wonderful: my wife, Kate Price, and I were happily surrounded by family and friends, including strong representation from the Class of 1990, Kathy Boockvar C’90, Robert Penn W’90 WG’95, Garrett Reisman EAS’90 W’90, and Caleb Pollack EAS’90, as well as B. Franklin Reinauer III W’65. I’ve been working for the last few years at MicroEdge, a company that provides software solutions to charitable organizations, and was recently promoted to director of business development. Now that school is no longer absorbing every minute of my time outside of work, Kate and I are rediscovering New York, my home since graduating from Penn. I can be reached at <emailkevin@email.com>.”
Peter J. Exley GAr’90, a principal of the Chicago architectural firm ArchitectureIsFun, received the 2003 Excellence in Education Award from the AIA Illinois, as his “notable contributions in education have promoted awareness of the built environment and its relationship to the well-being of [humankind].” Together with wife, Sharon Exley, also at ArchitectureIsFun, he specializes in designing learning environments for children, including museums, exhibits, and interactive playgrounds around the country. A recent project, the DuPage Children’s Museum in Naperville, Ill., received the 2003 Distinguished Building Award from AIA Chicago. They transformed a former lumber warehouse, close to the downtown and visible from the commuter-rail line, into a hands-on experience, using icons and symbols for children. The project has resulted in attendance doubling to over 300,000 visitors per year. Peter also teaches at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
Pamela Freilich Hjelle C’90 GEd’91 Gr’01 and Mark Hjelle W’91 GPU’95 welcomed their daughter, Rebecca Hope, on Halloween night, 2003; she joins sisters Jessica (four) and Erica (two). Mark is vice president and general counsel of the Brickman Group in Gaithersburg, Md.
Jay Kim C’90 e-mails, “I have been elected to partnership at the law firm of Steel, Hector & Davis LLP in Miami, where I practice commercial litigation. My wife, Mia, and I live in Fort Lauderdale, and are proud to announce the birth of our second daughter, Rachael, on May 6. Our older daughter Bethany (five) is busy taking care of her baby sister. I would love to hear from my old Penn friends at <jay.kim@steelhector.com> or <jaymia@bellsouth.net>.”
Whitney Morrill C’90 and her husband, Joseph Rinkevich, announce with joy and gratitude the birth of their first child, a daughter, Sasha Grace Morrill Rinkevich, on Nov. 2. Whitney is an architect, artist, and writer (www.morrilldesign.com, password: book). Joe is vice president of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, a company that helps manufacturers design their products for minimal environmental impact (www.mbdc.com). They live in the country outside of Charlottesville, Va.
Dr. Benjamin S. Wilner C’90 in December joined Tenant Risk Assessment, a Chicago-based provider of tenant-risk reports to commercial-property owners, as vice president of research. He continues as adjunct professor of finance at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He is also a research fellow at the Credit Research Foundation in Columbia, Md., and an editor of its journal, Credit and Financial Management Review.
91 Brayton M. Connard C’91 writes that he has recently been named director of human resources for the County of Monroe in Rochester, N.Y. This includes administering civil-service law for 66 jurisdictions in the county. At home he and his wife, Laura Waters Connard C’91, keep busy with their three children, Brayton Jr. (eight), Douglas (five), and Alexander (one).
Chris Gomez C’91 W’91 and Kristina Gomez are pleased to announce the birth of their fourth child, Gabriela Elisabeth Gomez, on Aug. 26. They live in San Diego, where he is director of financial planning and analysis for the imaging and printing group within Hewlett-Packard, and she is enjoying being a full-time mom to Maria (seven), Alexander (six), Christian (two), and now Gabriela.
Stacy Edelstein Hyken C’91 married Ed Hyken WG’95 in September 2002. “Between the two of us, we had more than a dozen fellow alumni at our wedding. We met and live in Atlanta, where I practice commercial litigation and just completed a term as president of the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers. Ed co-owns a company with Elisa Hartstein C’89 that designs clothing for breastfeeding mothers called Expressiva Nursingwear [see her note]. We are hoping to make it to a Reunion soon and would love to hear from our Penn friends at <sle@d-h.com>.”
Patti Pruett C’91 works for Sports Illustrated magazine and SI.com as the New England account manager based in Boston; she has worked there for the last four years. She lives in Charlestown, Mass., and would love to hear from old friends at <patti_pruett@timeinc.com>.
Ashesh Shah EAS’91 W’91 in December was named president of Saband Technologies, a subsidiary (based in Conshohocken, Pa.) of Cadient, Inc., which provides online pharmaceutical marketing; Saband streamlines pharmaceutical branding and optimizes the commercial potential of drug discoveries and launches. Previously he was co-founder of InterMedia Interactive Solutions, which was assumed by Cadient.
Amy Sonstein C’91 <asonstein@hotmail.com>, San Rafael, Calif., recently begun working at Big Rock Ranch, the newest location of the entertainment company Lucasfilm Ltd. The company is hard at work on the next Star Wars movie, as well as several other projects. Since Penn, she has run in 10 marathons (seven of them in Philadelphia) and two ultra-marathons.
92 Leslie Schneider Boen C’92 and Derek Boen V’98 are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, Sean Christopher, on July 8 in Morristown, N.J.
Dr. Chrysten E. Cunningham C’92 writes, “After almost eight years in the U.S. Navy, I joined a private ob-gyn practice in San Diego in November. Never thought I would be ‘hanging out my own shingle,’ but it has been fun and interesting so far.”
Glen Dils C’92 W’92 writes, “I have begun working as a manager with a new strategy and operations consulting firm, Archstone Consulting, in San Francisco. Steven Kirz WG’95 is a principal in the company.”
Staci Uchitel Feit W’92 e-mails, “My husband, Scott, and I are thrilled to announce the birth of our daughter, Jessica Nicole, on Dec. 22. Her big brothers Zachary (six) and Matthew (two) adore their little sister. I am home full-time with the kids and am loving every minute of it! We live in Livingston, N.J., and have lots of playdates with the kids of Penn friends. I’d love to hear from old friends at <ssfeit@yahoo.com>.”
Kathryn Adelstein Moehringer C’92 <kmoehringer@marykay.com> and her husband, Ken, are thrilled to announce the birth of Erin Brooks on Oct. 5. She joins her three-year-old brother, Andrew, at their home in Clifton Park, N.Y. Kathryn is a new independent sales director with Mary Kay Cosmetics and Ken is a supervising budget analyst for the state Department of Environmental Conservation in Albany.
Tom Schmidt C’92 writes that in April 2000 he co-founded the law firm Schmidt & Hoffer LLP. He married Kelly Battle in June 2002, and they live in Houston, his hometown.
Richard Smith C’92 W’92 and Alison Nalibow Smith C’92 are delighted to announce the birth of their second child, Jack Peter, on Dec. 7. Big sister Lindsay is equally thrilled by the new addition to the family.
Bill Sussman W’92 is director of international advertising for Wal-Mart Stores. “My wife Kendall, daughter Nicole (four) and son Marc (two) are really enjoying living in Northwest Arkansas. With golf, tennis, and mountains and lakes all within minutes of the house, we have been pretty busy in our first nine months here. We can be reached at <wgsuss@earthlink.net>.”
Stephen Thomas C’92 e-mails, “I was recently promoted to vice president of pricing and product development at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, an $85-billion bank. From 1999 to 2002 I was the director of pricing in the portfolio-management group at Fannie Mae. For those who remember from my Penn days, I have continued on my promised real-estate and mortgage career. I am also now married and have one daughter, Taylor. We live in downtown Chicago; e-mail to visit at <stbpiece@aol.com>.”
Doug Veith C’92 writes, “I’ve just co-authored a book, Win Her With Dinner: Food, Booze and Tunes for Cooking Up The Perfect Evening, that teaches a guy how to impress a woman by cooking for her. With 24 recipes breaking cooking down to its basics, making it unintimidating and easy for even the most guyish of guys, each is paired with suggestions for music and wine—each of the 48 CDs and 33 wines featured are given a brief, low-brow review. The recipes were created by Alex Hilebronner, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s personal chef. The recipes are easy, the meals are delicious, and the book in general is a fun read: I’d recommend it to everybody, whether you’re single and dating or married and looking to spice up the action on the home front. It’s being published by Rodale and is available early February from all the usual places. Aside from that, my wife, Paula, and I are leaving New York after 11 years, and looking forward to a spring-time move to Los Angeles.”
Joy Kaplan Wildes L’92 writes, “My husband, Morey, and I are happy to provide the news of the birth of our second son, Simon Jeremy, this past April. He is a smiley little boy and looks just like his older brother Alexander. I am now counsel at Davis & Gilbert, a mid-sized law firm in Manhattan, practicing trademark, copyright, Internet, and unfair competition law.”
Virginia Woodruff C’92 married Thomas Vale on Aug. 30 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Attending the wedding were Hilary Locker Fussteig C’92 and Erica Feldman Bases C’92. The reception took place under the watchful eye of the enormous statue of Ben Franklin, the patron saint of the wedding. Ginny and Tom live in Los Angeles, where she is finishing film school and he works as a music supervisor.