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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 June 2001. I now live in a life-care
community in Bethesda, Md., and manage a little golf occasionally.”
43 Jerome J. Shestack C’43 is a partner in the Philadelphia-based law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen LLP who co-chairs its business-litigation practice group. In March he was appointed chair of the ABA’s Center for Human Rights, which coordinates the association’s many human-rights activities, including sending observers to human-rights trials, and rule-of-law interventions in cases of human-rights abuses. “An initial emphasis of the center will be to focus on the widespread abuse of women’s rights around the world,” he says, “including such matters as trafficking, genital mutilation, and stoning.” A past-president of the ABA, he is a member of the International Commission of Jurists and honorary president of the International League for Human Rights. And he had served as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights during the Carter Administration.
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Dr.
Jerome Zwanger C’44
is a semi-retired radiologist. The former director and co-director
of radiology at North Shore University Hospital in Plainview, N.Y.,
he has served as president of the Nassau County Medical Society, the
New York State Radiological Society, and the Nassau Academy of Medicine.
A former member of the New York State Board for Medicine and the Board
of Professional Medical Conduct, he served on the faculty of the SUNY
College of Medicine at Stony Brook. He and his wife, Bernice, are
patrons of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and members of its visiting
committee for the arms and armor department. With his partner, Dr.
E. J. Pesiri, Dr. Zwanger several years ago made a substantial contribution
to the renovation of Penn’s
Organic Chemistry Laboratory. He served two terms on the board of
overseers of Penn’s
School of Arts and Sciences, and he is a past-president of the Class
of 1944.
47 Slater Newman W’47, Raleigh, N.C., in February received the Frank Porter Graham Award from the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina for his achievement in defending and advancing civil liberties in that state. He helped found the organization in 1965.
51 Millard Mack W’51 see Ceci Mack C’95.
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54
Dr. Eugene N. Myers W’54
is professor and the Eye and Ear Foundation Chair in the Department
of Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh. In September, he
was the invited guest speaker at the 10th Clinical Congress in Beirut
of the Saudi Arabian chapter of the American College of Surgeons,
and he received a presidential citation at the annual meeting of the
American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. In October
he was inducted as an honorary member into the Slovak Society of Otolaryngology-Head
and Neck Surgery. He was recently appointed the medical-affairs adviser
to the International Association of Laryngectomees, which represents
people who have undergone laryngectomy and supports them in the difficult
time after having had a laryngectomy for cancer of the larynx. And
he has been invited to give the keynote address at the association’s
annual meeting in July.
Claude W. Springer D’54 writes, “I closed the book on a productive and satisfying profession 10 years ago. Since then my wife, Marcia, and I keep very busy with bridge, traveling, taking history courses, reading, and temple activities. We have four children and five grand-daughters whom we enjoy. I sing in a choral society, and have been in a poetry workshop for seven years. Our local newspaper has printed 125 of my poems and I have recently entered some competitions from which I hope to hear in the next few months. I have been working out in a gym for 20 years and one of the trainers calls me Animal, which I appreciate after a moderately sedentary life when I was younger. I do all the cooking and admit to be being a good baker. After 40 years of living in a house, we now live in an apartment and love the simplicity of the life: we have moved south of our house, by 0.8 of a mile.”
55 Art Beard C’55 writes that he and Sharon moved to Arizona from New Hampshire in 2002, just in time to miss two severe New England winters. Last year he closed ArtBeard,inc., after four years of successful consulting, and he recently resigned his partnership in Atlantic Marketing Workshops, LLC, to concentrate on retirement activities: family, friends, and trains. He founded a railroading-enthusiasts group, the 60-member Grand Railroaders, and has begun construction of a model railroad in his Arizona basement (aka, garage). He and Sharon are enjoying desert living and some of the more senior-oriented activities of the Penn Alumni Club of Arizona.
57 Dr. Michael Eigen C’57 <mikeigen@aol.com> has just published a new book, The Sensitive Self (Wesleyan University Press), which “explores human sensitivity and the evolutionary challenge we face in order to become more humane.” He is an associate clinical professor of psychology in New York University’s postdoctoral program of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He writes, “In addition to exploring personal roots of rage, this book brings into focus a smoldering response to society’s burgeoning psychopathy, a rape of ethics in which winning is all.” Wesleyan also published his book, Rage (“Off the Shelf,” March/April 2003).
Fred R. MacFadden Jr. G’57 Gr’61 is emeritus professor of English at Coppin State University in Baltimore. He presented a paper on Faulkner at St. Francis College in 2002 and one on Hemingway and D. H. Lawrence at the South Central Conference on Christianity and Literature in March last year. “My abstracts have been approved at Farmingdale University (on Benjamin Franklin), at Bluffton College (on emigre American writing), at Xavier University (on D. H. Lawrence), and, as of notification in January, at Indiana Wesleyan (‘Pearl’s Price: Enigmas of Faith and Fatherhood in Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter and Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.’)”
Bob Rothenberg W’57 <bobusatoday@comcast.net> has retired as publisher of USA Today magazine, assuming the title of senior editor, and as president of the Society for the Advancement of Education, now serving on its board of trustees. He and his wife, Sheila, have moved to a new home in Arizona, from where they will continue to do travel articles for the magazine and he will continue to do product and DVD columns—in between lolling at poolside and chortling over back-East snow reports on the Weather Channel.
60 Steve J. Pollack W’60 recently retired from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in New York as a first vice president and financial adviser after a 25-year career with the firm. In January he joined the advisory boards of Alan Stone & Company, LLC, and its affiliate WallStreet Research.
Dr. Malcolm Zola GD’60 writes, “In 1997, after 36 years in the private practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery in Glen Cove on Long Island, Marcia, my wife of 41 years and I headed South, where I was appointed founding chair of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the virginal College of Dentistry at Nova Southeastern University. After two years living in Southern comfort, we returned to the Northeast to be closer to our four children, all Penn grads, and five grandchildren (future Penn people). I was unwilling to return to private practice, however. For two years, I taught at the New York University College of Dentistry as clinical professor, and in 2001 was appointed chief of oral and maxillofacial surgery at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx. It is a Trauma-I hospital center, and our service handles over 100 maxillofacial injuries each year. I am thrilled at my professional situation, and strongly feel that I should have begun teaching 30 years ago! We both enjoy good health, though sometimes we creak a little. We play a little golf (poorly), and are trying hard to stay in tune with the younger generation. I am no longer active in the alumni club, but am still a loyal Quaker. Best wishes to all on campus.”
61 H. Robert Fiebach W’61 L’64, Philadelphia, is chair of the appellate practice and co-chair of the commercial-litigation department, at the law firm of Cozen O’Connor; he also heads its directors’ and officers’ liability, professional-liability, and the securities-litigation & civil-RICO departments. In March he spoke at the 2004 Annual Conference on Legal Malpractice & Risk Management.
65 Beverly R. Budin CW’65, a partner in the family wealth-management group at the law firm of Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, in March was elected to the board of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel for a three-year term.
66 Robert W. Knight C’66, an architect in Blue Hill, Maine, and his wife, Lucia, have compiled Lucia’s Little Houses, a portfolio of 20 small-house designs (one- to three-story cabins, farmhouses, shingled cottages, and hillside dwellings) mostly for rural sites on the Maine coast (www.luciaslittlehouses.com). These have been featured in Sarah Susanka’s book Creating the Not So Big House and a number of magazines, including Fine Homebuilding, Down East, and Better Homes & Gardens.
C. Murray Saylor Jr. W’66 WG’67, of the Saylor Law Firm, LLP, in Atlanta, was recently elected a regent of the American College of Attorney-Certified Public Accountants.
67 Frederick B. Gleason III C’67 WG’70 and his daughter, Ann Powell Dewart Gleason, grandson and great-granddaughter respectively of William Dewart, president and publisher of The New York Sun from 1926 to 1944, last year donated to the Museum of the City of New York a bound volume of the first 84 issues (dating back to 1835) of The New York Herald. (In 1920, the Sun Organization bought The New York Herald and its evening counterpart The Telegram; in 1924 the Herald was sold to the owners of the New York Tribune, thus creating the Herald-Tribune.) Not all Herald memorabilia was transferred to the new owners, however; The Sun retained a life-size bronze figure of Minerva, as well as bell ringers Gog and Magog (also called “stuff and guff”), from the clock atop the old Herald building. In 1928 Dewart gave the clock figures to New York University, which lent them perpetually to the City of New York: the city erected the clock tower in Herald Square in 1940. Now, years later, another relic of The New York Herald has found a permanent home.
Eric R. White GEd’67 GrEd’75, executive director of the Division of Undergraduate Studies at the Pennsylvania State University at University Park, has been elected president of the National Academic Advising Association; he will assume this role in October and serve until October next year. As president he is responsible for advocating academic advising to the international higher-education community.
68 Charles Fanning G’68 Gr’72, professor of English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, in February received its top academic honor, the Outstanding Scholar award. Credited with founding the discipline of Irish-American literature studies, he wrote The Irish Voice in America: Irish-American Fiction From the 1760s to the 1980s (1990). He lives in Carbondale with his wife, Frances.
70 Jerry D. Bernstein C’70 G’70 has joined the law firm of Blank Rome LLP as a partner in the white-collar, internal- and government-investigations practice group and resident in its New York office. A former federal prosecutor, he was most recently the firm-wide head of the white-collar and corporate-compliance practice group at Holland & Knight LLP. He currently also serves as village justice for Larchmont, N.Y.
Francis P. Devine III C’70 in January joined the Philadelphia-based law firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP as a partner practicing in its litigation and dispute-resolution department. Previously he was a partner in the commercial-litigation department of White & Williams LLP and chaired its general-commercial-litigation practice group. A judge pro-tempore for the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, he was chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association in 1996; he currently co-chairs its committee to promote fairness in the Philadelphia legal system. And he was a founder and former chair of the Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program.
Jeffery B. Fromm EE’70 earlier this year joined Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP in Philadelphia as of counsel. He had retired in 2002 as senior managing counsel, intellectual property, with Hewlett-Packard Company.
71 Dayton Duncan C’71 has recently published his ninth book, Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Reflections on Lewis and Clark (University of Nebraska Press), a collection of essays drawn from his 20 years of studying and retracing the Corps of Discovery for magazine articles, books, and the PBS documentary he wrote and co-produced with Ken Burns. Duncan was recently the master of ceremonies and keynote speaker for the national event commemorating the bicentennial of the expedition and the Louisiana Purchase in St. Louis. He is currently researching and writing his latest collaboration with Burns, a major PBS documentary series on the history of the National Parks.
Paula Solomon Kholos CW’71 writes, “My husband, Jay Kholos, and I are producing an off-Broadway musical, A Stoop on Orchard Street (www.astooponorchardstreet.com). He is also the writer of the lyrics, music, and book. The show tells the story of the Eastern European Jews who settled on the Lower East Side of New York around 1910. We have been running in NY since July, and judging by how well things have been going, it looks like we will be here for a long time. We are also opening up a second company in Ft. Lauderdale in April, with a national tour expected in about a year. Jay’s son, Philip Kholos W’93, is also working on the production team.”
Marcia McDonald FA’71 recently received tenure and promotion from assistant professor to associate professor of theater arts at Illinois Wesleyan University; she joined its faculty in 1998.
72 Georges A. Fauriol G’72 Gr’81 writes, “After 20 years with the Center for Strategic and Inter-national Studies, and for the last 10 years running its Americas program, I transitioned from the world of Washington’s think tanks to the universe of democracy activist. In late 2001 I became vice president for strategic planning at the International Republican Institute, a core institute of the National Endowment for Democracy. IRI works in 57 different countries promoting the practice of democracy and freedom, human rights, and liberty. There is never a dull moment in this kind of work. In fall 2002 I married the love of my life, Roberta, a book editor, who also opened my life to the world of children, grandchildren, and animals, notably cats.”
Dr. Douglas Lyles C’72, Winston-Salem, N.C., has been named professor and chair of biochemistry at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center; with the center since 1978, his research focuses on viral diseases.
Joan N. Stern CW’72, Philadelphia, chair of the public-finance practice of the law firm of Blank Rome LLP, was elected in December to the board of the Franklin Institute. She also serves as vice-chair of the board of the Moore College of Art and Design.
73 Michael Greenwald C’73, West Orange, N.J., a schoolteacher in Metuchen, in January was named vice president of the board of the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey, Inc. He has been involved with the association for a number of years, serving as a support-group leader in Edison, and coordinating sessions at the association’s annual seminar.
Dr. James M. Seltzer C’73 M’77, assistant clinical professor in the Division of Pediatric Immunology and Allergy at the University of California School of Medicine, was recently appointed to the voluntary position of clinical professor of medicine in the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of California’s Irvine College of Medicine. Last year he lectured on “Evaluation of the health effects of molds in water-intrusion personal-injury claims” at the August symposium, “Cutting Edge Issues in Mold Litigation;” on “Evaluating the patient with complaints of mold-related health problems” at the National Institute of Building Sciences in San Diego in October; “New therapeutic agents in the treatment of allergies and asthma” and “Aspects of allergies and asthma in active patients” at the CME, Inc., Internal Medicine Annual Update in San Diego in November. And he spoke at Mealey’s Construction Defect and Mold Litigation Conference in December.
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74 Dr. Leslie Dierauf V’74, a wildlife veterinarian and conservation biologist, in February was selected as director of the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis. Previously she had spent almost a decade with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s endangered-species program for the Southwest. Research at the center addresses wildlife and related human health concerns, including West Nile Virus, Chronic Wasting Disease, and Asian Avian Influenza, as over two thirds of emerging human diseases have animal origins. In 1998 she received the American Veterinary Medical Association’s National Animal Welfare Award.
Peter C. Lampen GAr’74, New Brunswick, N.J., in March was promoted to senior associate at the Princeton firm Ford Farewell Mills and Gatsch, Architects, LLC. He is project manager for the expansion and reconstruction of the landmark Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut, and project manager for the renovation of the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick.
Carrie Menkel-Meadow L’74, professor of law at Georgetown University, is a former faculty member at the Penn Law School. She writes, “I am the co-editor (with Michael Wheeler, Harvard Business School) of a new book called What’s Fair: Ethics for Negotiators. [It] is the first ever collection of writing on negotiation ethics and is intended for business and law-school students, and [the] general readership of business and legal negotiators, and anyone else who negotiates for that matter.” Two chapters are by Dr. G. Richard Shell and Dr. Alan Strudler of the Wharton School.
75 Michael A. DiGregorio W’75 WG’76 is senior vice president and CFO of Jafra Cosmetics International, Inc. He writes that in May last year the firm completed a successful re-capitalization, raising $250 million; this was used to pay off existing debt of $83 million with the balance distributed to shareholders and stock-option holders. Jafra has annual sales of about $380 million, and in the past three years has been one of the fastest-growing direct-selling companies in the country.
Rev. Bruce Forbes W’75 is now pastor of the South Parish Congregational Church in Augusta, Maine.
Rebecca C. Matthias CW’75, Philadelphia, is founding president of Mothers Work, Inc., that manufactures and sells maternity apparel through over 1,000 stores in North America [see “Alumni Profiles,” November/December 1999]. In March she was honored by the Girl Scouts of Southeastern Pennsylvania with a Take the Lead Award for women who exemplify the highest achievements in their professions or fields of expertise. Last year she was also honored by the U.S. Small Business Administration in Washington.
Emily Chalef Sanders CW’75 <esanders@sandersintl.com> is founding president of Sanders International, Inc., an Atlanta-based financial advisory and investment-management firm. The National Women Business Owners Corporation awarded it its women’s business-enterprise status, which is for woman-owned and woman-controlled businesses that meet the requirements of the NWBOC certification program. She and her husband, Jon Margolis, have three young adult children, Rachel, Shawn, and Ashley.
76 Evan Migdail C’76 G’76 and Rhonda Laskow Migdail C’77 W’77 L’80 are proud to report that their son, Andrew Migdail (18), will join Penn’s Class of 2008 this fall. Evan and Rhonda now live in Chevy Chase, Md., with Andrew and their two other children, Stephanie (14) and Caitlin (five). Evan is a partner at the law firm of Piper Rudnick and Rhonda is an attorney with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; they can be reached at <No1Skins@aol.com>.
77 Dr. David Buchholz C’77 M’79 GM’83 is an associate professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University; he wrote Heal Your Headache: The 1-2-3 Program for Taking Charge of Your Pain (Workman Publishing) and recently appeared on Good Morning America. He was one of the original University Scholars at Penn.
Neal McNamara C’77 is a partner in the Providence, R.I. office of the law firm of Holland & Knight LLP who concentrates his practice on employment law; in February he was named a leading attorney by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers 2004-2005.
Mike Mezias CGS’77 writes that he is currently engaged in real-estate sales and investing in the South Jersey market.
78 Dr. Marc S. Micozzi M’78 G’79 Gr’86 in February was named executive director of integrative medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. In 2002 he established the Policy Institute for Integrative Medicine there to educate policymakers, health professionals, and the public about integrative medicine. He was the founding editor and remains editor-in-chief of the journal Seminars in Integrative Medicine, and he organized and edited the first American textbook on the subject, Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (1996). He is also a reviewer for the AMA’s Complete Medical Encyclopedia, and serves as a manuscript reviewer for The Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and The New England Journal of Medicine.
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79
Ted
M. Greenberg C’79
in January was elected a director of the Philadelphia law firm of
Eizen, Fineburg & McCarthy, P.C., which he joined in 2000. Specializing
in taxation, estate planning, and elder law, he is editor of “Chapter
7, Wills,” in Current Legal Forms with Tax Analysis.
Adam Owett C’79 and his wife, Maria Kazarinov-Owett, had a daughter, Lola, on Feb. 12, 2003.
80 Elizabeth Sheehan Garlatti C’80 in January was appointed a member of the New Brunswick (N.J.) City Council to fill an unexpired term.
Dr. Laurence D. Richards Gr’80 in February was appointed vice-chancellor for academic affairs at Indiana University East in Richmond. Previously he was acting vice-president for academic affairs at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts, where he had also been the founding dean of its School of Management and Aviation Science.
Dr. Eileen Hand Warburton Gr’80, a freelance writer and editor who lives in Newport, R.I., has written John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds (Viking Penguin and Jonathan Cape, 2004), the first biography of the 20th-century British writer. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on Fowles’s work under the direction of Dr. Deirdre Bair CW’57. This work, hailed by Booklist as “textured,” “sharply drawn,” and “definitive,” is based on access to Fowles’s personal papers and private archives, full correspondence, and 30 years of personal interviews.
81 Sherman A. Cohen W’81, a partner in the Atlanta-based law firm of Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, was recently selected by his peers as one of 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, in the area of corporate law. He and his wife, Lisa, live in Atlanta with their children Michael (12) and Meredith (nine).
Kaye G. Husbands Fealing C’81, professor of economics at Williams College, was appointed its William Brough Professor of Economics in February. Her research includes pricing strategies in the auto industry and the competitive advantage of Mexican auto suppliers; a recent work, “Regional Prosperity in a Globalized Economy: Evidence from Mexico,” was published in Urban and Regional Prosperity in a Globalized New Economy.
Rochelle Friedlich C’81 L’84 rang in the new year in an unconventional fashion, by volunteering in a remote village in Tanzania. An attorney in New York, she was part of a team of volunteers who spent three weeks from mid-December to early January working on construction and teaching projects at a secondary school in the village of Pommern, coordinated by Global Volunteers, a nonprofit, nonsectarian international development organization. Encountering subsistence living in a remote village, she observed, “I experienced having a minority status that is immediately visible and the assumptions it generates.” And she noted one interesting instance of cultural shock: “My initial resistance to and later acceptance and appreciation of ‘African time.’”
Frederick A. Kramer GAr’81 is president-elect of ADD Inc., a planning, architecture, and interior- and graphic-design firm based in Cambridge, Mass.; he will become president next January. Since joining the firm in 1981, he has led the design of a range of corporate, residential, and retail projects across the country, including the new national headquarters for CarMax in Virginia, First Data Corporation’s headquarters in Nebraska, and the 3Com Corporation’s campus and Hewlett Packard’s headquarters in Massachusetts.
James H. Lebberes W’81 e-mails, “After 20 years managing our family’s real-estate and nursery businesses, I have joined the New York office of Grubb & Ellis as a real-estate broker specializing in Manhattan office leasing. It’s great to be back in the city again and I look forward to re-establishing ties with old friends in the New York area. I currently live in North Salem, N.Y., with my wife of 17 years, Julie, and can be reached at <Jim.Lebberes@grubb-ellis.com>.”
Barbara Krinsky Quinn C’81 <BQuinn@eastwestmortgage.com> writes, “I am working at East West Mortgage as a senior loan officer and manager. I am living in Marblehead, Mass., and have two sons, 11 and 12. I am still in touch with a few old friends from Penn days. Would love to hear from anyone from the good old days.”
82 Marc Porter C’82 W’82 <MPorter@christies.com> in February was appointed president of Christie’s Americas; he remains international managing director for Christie’s international sales. He serves on the board of the Alliance for the Arts, the New York state arts-advocacy group.
Andrew O. Schiff C’82 has been named partner at the law firm of Klehr, Harrison, Harvey, Branzburg & Ellers; he concentrates his practice in bankruptcy and insolvency. Before joining Klehr Harrison, he was an assistant U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Samantha Holmstock-Schiff ASC’92, and their children Cara (seven) and Jack (three).
83 Dr. Stephanie A. King M’83 GM’88, Flourtown, Pa., has joined the medical staff of Hahnemann University Hospital as an associate at its Center for Gynecologic Oncology. She is an associate professor at the Drexel University College of Medicine, which is affiliated with Hahnemann.
Dr. William W. Newmann C’83 wrote Managing National Security Policy: The President and the Process, released by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Co-director of the undergraduate program of the School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University (where he has been teaching since 1992), his research interests include U.S. foreign policy, national-security and defense-policy decision-making, the U.S. presidency, and Asian government and politics. He and his wife, Dr. Judyth Lynn Twigg, and daughter, Jeri, live in Richmond; his proud parents are Suzanne Waltman Newmann Ed’56 and Dr. Thomas Hausman Newmann C’53 D’55.
Alan Sheptin C’83 see Lisa Clayman Sheptin C’84.
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84
Pamela
Berstler C’84
writes, “My seven-year-old exterior-design business, Flower to
the People, recently completed 50 unique designs for the daytime Discovery
Channel show, Rally Round the House. I also host the show as
the on-camera designer. Watch us every day while we arrive at a deserving
person’s
home to rally their friends and family for a two-day landscape makeover.
The only catch is that the homeowner must stay in the house with the
windows covered during the renovation. It’s
a really fun show, and we’re
proud to be a part of such an amazing effort to bring beauty and nature
into people’s
lives. Being a ‘gardener’
sure beats those trading days on Wall Street! Visit us at (www.flower2people.com)
and share the experience.”
John A. Carlson Jr. GM’84, Bryn Mawr, Pa., has joined the medical staff of Hahnemann University Hospital as director of its Center for Gynecologic Oncology. He is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Drexel University College of Medicine, with which Hahnemann is affiliated.
Lisa Clayman Sheptin C’84 and Alan Sheptin C’83 write, “We are still beaming over celebrating our son’s bar mitzvah, Zachary Scott Sheptin, on Feb. 28. His chanting and interpretation of his Torah reading and Haftarah were flawless. We are so proud of him. While Zach has his sights set on being a future Quaker, joining us in our joy were several alumni, including an aunt, Susan Clayman Glantz W’82; cousins, Nancy Zeldis C’78 and Linda Zeldis Silverman W’82; and close friends Sharyn Meisler Hochhauser C’83 and Howard Kaplan-Newman W’82. Zach’s oldest cousin, Andrew Glantz, was recently admitted Early Decision to Penn’s Class of 2008.”
85 Marc J. Comer W’85 WG’89 has joined the newly re-named law firm of Jacobowitz, Grabelle, Defino, Latimer, Fradkin & Comer. He practices estate planning and administration, probate litigation, elder law, and real estate and business transactions; his joining expands the scope of matters handled by the Oakhurst, N.J., firm, known for its expertise in family law. Marc lives in West Deal with his wife, Lori Krivins Comer C’88 L’91, and their children Brad (eight) and Julia (six).
Peter E. Gollub C’85 has become director of law enforcement at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He holds a DVM from Tufts University and a JD from Boston University, and he looks forward to combining his two areas of education in his current position.
Sam Kim C’85 W’85 writes, “I was appointed as the vice president and general manager for Procter & Gamble in Korea. My wife, Jin, and I moved here in July last year with our three kids, Jason, Jennifer, and Brian. After being in Cincinnati, and running one of our global beauty-care groups, I am looking forward to new challenges and fun in working and living in Korea.”
Joanne Randall Raden C’85 e-mails, “After years of kissing frogs, I met Bruce Raden and married him on April 29, 2001, and I gave birth to our first child, Diana Isabel, on Oct. 11, 2003. Since graduation I have worked in advertising and marketing, and I have now started my own crafts business: I specialize in making framed paper quillings (three-dimensional, hand-rolled and -cut paper designs) that are wonderful wedding and baby gifts. Please check out my Web site (JoanneDesigns.com). I would love to hear from old friends at <jrquillings@aol.com>.”
Tremain Smith C’85 exhibited at the Segalas Gallery in Bernardsville, N.J., from late February through late March.
86 Les Edwards EAS’86 GEx’90 <les_edwards@advancedbarrier.com>, his wife Ellie, and their son Kevin (just turned three) are proud to announce the birth of their second child, Sean Patrick, on Dec. 2. They are still living in Southern New Jersey where Ellie, an ER nurse, now chases after the boys full-time and Les is celebrating his 10th year as a co-owner of Advanced Barrier Concepts, Inc. which provides technical consulting services for pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Martha Steinman Herzberg C’86 and Dr. Gilbert Herzberg C’86 joyfully announce the birth of their daughter, Rebecca Paige, on Jan. 31. Martha is a partner at the law firm LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae in New York, and Gil is an assistant professor of pediatrics and pediatric cardiology at New York Medical College in Valhalla.
Charles S. Marion C’86 W’86 L’89 in January joined the Philadelphia-based law firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP as a partner practicing in its litigation and dispute-resolution department. Previously he was a partner in the commercial-litigation department of White & Williams LLP. He serves on the board of the Chestnut Hill Community Association.
Jeff Pierce C’86 see Annette Flippen Pierce C’89.
Jeff Smith W’86 writes, “I’m living in Los Angeles with Pamela Milcos-Smith C’88 and our two children, son, seven, and daughter, five. I’m senior managing director and chief financial officer for UNX, Inc., an institutional brokerage firm that provides electronic-trading solutions to hedge funds and institutional asset managers. I’ve had the pleasure recently of attending the Wharton/SIA Securities Industry Institute held on campus each March. I enjoyed staying on campus and reliving old memories.”
Dr. Mona Sue Weissmark Gr’86 is associate professor of psychology and founder of the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice at Roosevelt University in Chicago. She is known for setting up meetings between children of Holocaust survivors and children of Nazis in the early 1990s, when she was on the faculty at Harvard University. The purpose of bringing two such disparate sides together “is not to forget or forgive the past, but create a new future,” she said. Her book Justice Matters: Legacies of the Holocaust and WWII (Oxford University Press), chronicles the interactions of the two groups. This is a personal matter for her, involving her own coming to terms with her family’s past, as she is a daughter of Holocaust survivors; the book is dedicated to the Seebasz family who saved her father after he had fled a concentration camp. In the late 1990s, then at Roosevelt, Mona organized another provocative and historic meeting—between descendants of slaves and descendants of slave owners.
87 Lisa Katzman C’87 has joined Booz Allen Hamilton’s worldwide technology business sector, providing strategic-communications consulting to civil-government clients in Tyson’s Corner, Va. She is also freelance-writing for local and national newspapers, and enjoying life with her husband, Evan, and children, David (eight) and Caroline (four).
Dean Papademetriou C’87 recently accepted a new position as assistant general counsel for the Boston Housing Authority, which is the largest landlord in Boston with over 14,000 housing units; he works on real-estate development and corporate-governance matters, as well as procurement and construction contracts. He was previously in private practice. As a sideline, he is the publisher of Somerset Hall Press, which specializes in academic and cultural volumes.
88 Wendy Bloom C’88 writes, “My husband, Art Kessler, and I are excited to announce the birth of our first child, Benjamin Pierce Kessler, on Sept. 9. Ben is a healthy, happy baby just learning to crawl.”
Kimberly Marfia Bruhin C’88 and her husband Patrick J. Bruhin are pleased to announce the birth of their beautiful Christmas Angel, Samantha Claire Bruhin, on Dec. 24. She weighed in at 7 lbs. 4.8 oz., was 21 inches long, and arrived at 4:22 p.m. The proud parents are employed at Merck & Co. Inc. Pharmaceutical, where Mom is manager of quality systems oversight in the vaccine-manufacturing division and Dad is manager of project research in the sales division. “We can be reached at <pbruhin@comcast.net> and would love to hear from classmates.”
Charles Harper W’88 and Laurel Knox Harper W’89 write, “We are doing our doctorates in education together at Duquesne University, while we continue to work with at-risk youth in Hershey, Pa. Our children, whom we homeschool, are now seven (Lana) and five (Sydney).”
Randall Headrick Gr’88, assistant professor of physics at the University of Vermont, has been awarded a five-year, $610,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and teach research courses in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Judy Lobel C’88 is now a marketing consultant for Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve in New York. A trend-based marketing consultancy, it helps Fortune 500 clients both defend their existing businesses and compete in new arenas. She was previously a senior marketing manager at American Express.
Ingrid H¸bler Laub C’88 writes to “announce the birth of my son, Jack Henry Laub, on Jan. 14. He’s the first child for my husband, Daniel Laub, and me. Jack has enjoyed visiting with Penn alumni Jill Mindlin Konoff C’88 and Jonathan Konoff C’86, Mike Nitabach C’88, Karen Haskin C’88, Rich Sklar EAS’88 W’88, Larry Golomb EAS’88 W’88, and Steve Kanes C’86. We live in Manhattan and, when I’m not being Jack’s mom, I’m vice president, account director at MK Advertising, an agency specializing in entertainment and media-industry clients. I joined MKA four years ago after spending 10 years marketing CNBC and MSNBC at NBC Cable Networks.”
Jeremy Steindecker C’88 see Beth Mantz C’94.
Monica Ann Toback C’88 married Dr. Brian Scott Krachman on March 8, 2003, in Atlanta. “We were married in a traditional Jewish ceremony and Brian surprised me with a chuppah that he designed and created himself!” The wedding party included Jeffrey Toback W’95 and his then fiancée and now wife, Christine Kowal Toback Nu’98. “We took an extended honeymoon and cruised from Ft. Lauderdale to Los Angeles through the Panama Canal.” Monica and Brian are settling back into life in suburbia where she has a domestic-relations litigation practice and he practices internal medicine. They are in the process of moving into their dream home with their 15-year-old cat, Fletcher, and their one-year-old Smooth Fox Terrier, Francesca (Frankie) Wedgwood.
Neil Weinberger W’88 e-mails, “I married Kathleen Copus last year in New Orleans: an awesome wedding weekend that included a Bourbon Street balcony, an a cappella group, a Dixieland jazz marching band, and lots of amazing Cajun food. Many alumni attended, including Scott Klein C’88 W’88, Greg Klein C’93 W’93, Gary Claar W’88 and Lois Kohn-Claar C’88 GEd’88, Carl Goldsmith W’88, Steve Rubin C’88 W’88, Jon Galst C’88 W’88, Derek Roth W’93, Jennifer S. Boyd C’88, Nancy Cohen C’89, and best man Dr. Mark Weinberger C’85. Kathleen and I are living in Pasadena, Calif., I’m hard at work producing and writing movies, and we’re enjoying life! Look for my first film, Farewell to Harry, playing soon near you. E-mail me at <neilweinberger@earthlink.net>.”
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89
David
Dreier C’89
W’89
and Shari Birnbaum Dreier C’88
joyfully announce the birth of their son, Alexander Michael, on June
25, 2003; he was welcomed by big sisters Missy (seven) and Allie (four).
David <ddreier@whitecase.com>
recently was elected to partnership in the law firm White & Case
LLP in New York, where he practices tax law.
Nicole Galli C’89 L’92 in January was elected partner of the Philadelphia-based law firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP; resident in its Philadelphia office, she focuses her practice on intellectual-property disputes and complex commercial litigation, including antitrust and consumer-fraud class-action matters.
Ryan L. Gellman W’89 has been named an associate with the Buffalo, N.Y., law firm of Colucci & Gallaher, P.C. With the firm since 1995, his practice includes toxic torts and asbestos exposure, healthcare, and personal-injury and premises-liability litigation. He and his wife, Wendy, live in Amherst, N.Y., with their daughter.
Jonathan Perkel C’89 reports that in January he was promoted to vice president and associate general counsel of Travelocity, the Web travel service. He went to Travelocity when it acquired his employer Site59 (“the last-minute travel site”) in March 2002. He says, “Since that time, the Site59 management team has risen to the top leadership positions at Travelocity and has been having a blast helping to reinvent the company from within!” He also remains vice president and general counsel of Site59. He can be contacted via his Web site (www.jonathanperkel.com).
Tina Cicetti Perry C’89 and her husband, Brian, welcomed their second child, Ethan James, in January; he joined big sister Morgan Elizabeth, who arrived in May 2000. They live in a quaint New England town outside Boston. Tina is a vice president of consumer-relationship marketing for FleetBoston Financial, and spends most of her time juggling the demands of a working parent and holding it all together for her family. Old friends can reach her at <tinaperry@comcast.net>.
Elliott Peters W’89 writes, “I am living with my wife, Kimberly, and my two sons, Harrison (almost four years) and Gabriel (five months), in Mount Vernon, N.Y. I work in the city at Warner Music Group as vice president, associate counsel. We’d love to hear from friends living in the area.”
Annette Flippen Pierce C’89 and Jeff Pierce C’86 belatedly announce the arrival of their second daughter, Sarah Nicole, on July 24; she joins big sister Rachel, who is now three.
Janet Kobrin Watson C’89 G’89 <janet.watson@uconn.edu> is relieved to announce the publication of her book, Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain (Cambridge University Press).
Daniel E. Will C’89 in January was elected a shareholder of the Manchester, N.H., law firm of Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A.; he concentrates his practice in commercial litigation. He lives in Hopkinton with his wife, Laurel McCarthy Will W’89, and their two daughters.
90 Adam Dunsby W’90 G’92 GrW’95 and his wife, Cathy, joyfully announce “the birth of Claire Thatcher Dunsby on Jan. 22 in Bridgeport, Conn. Big sister Caroline (five) is beyond overjoyed; big brother Jack (two) is feeling outnumbered by his sisters.”
Dr. Stephane Otmezguine EAS’90 writes, “Upon leaving Penn, I attended a master’s program in computer science followed by medical school at the University of Florida. After an internship in internal medicine, I completed a residency in anesthesiology and a fellowship with subspecialty training in trauma and surgical critical care at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital/Ryder Trauma Center. I am currently a partner in an anesthesiology group in Fort Lauderdale, where I practice cardiothoracic anesthesia and surgical/trauma critical care. In August I was appointed vice-chief of anesthesiology at Broward General Medical Center, the primary level-1 trauma center for Northern Broward County.”
Galit Chinitz Rich C’90 see David S. Rich C’91.
Peter Rokkos C’90 W’90 and Diane DeLillo Rokkos became the proud parents of Catherine Alexa Rokkos on Oct. 11. Her big brother George Jared Rokkos, now three, took an immediate liking to baby Catie as his new favorite toy. Peter, Diane, and the children have lived in Holmdel, N.J., since late 2002. Peter is vice president and counsel at Lucent Venture Partners, the venture-capital investment arm of Lucent Technologies.
Alison Berger Saifer W’90 and Mitchell Saifer C’89 are pleased to announce the birth of Logan Joshua on Jan. 8; he joins Samantha (five) and Zachary (three). Alison is president of Actuarial Management Strategies, Inc., an actuarial healthcare-consulting firm <asaifer@actmgmt.com>, and Mitchell is vice president and COO of Building Maintenance Systems <msaifer@bldgmaintsys.com>; they live in New Hope, Pa.
Jane Siegel G’90 GrW’96, Bala Cynwyd, Pa., an assistant professor of criminal justice at Rutgers University at Camden, has begun a pioneering study on how children react to a mother’s incarceration.
Jodi Farkas Slade C’90 and her husband, Howard, are thrilled to announce the birth of their second son, Jordan Matthew, on March 6; he joined older brother Jared, who was born on May 24, 2002. “We would love to hear from Penn friends at <HOJO68@aol.com>.”
Gil Vogel EAS’90 W’90 writes, “My wife, Joanne, and I are thrilled to announce the birth of our daughter, Abigail Ilana, on Feb. 8. Her big brother Jordan (two) adores the new family addition. New adventures are just around the corner, as we will be relocating from St. Louis back to the San Francisco Bay Area in June.”