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45 Jerry Zaslow W’45 and his brothers Spencer Zaslow W’47 and Arnold Zaslow W’50 were each awarded the 2004 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the category of lifetime achievement for the greater Philadelphia and central-eastern Pennsylvania area. For almost 60 years they have worked together in the family business, ATD-American Co., which was founded by their father in 1931. The brothers are now eligible for the national Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, to be announced in November. They have also been inducted as lifetime members of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame. Based in Wyncote, Pa., the family firm is an international supplier of textiles, furniture, and safety and protective equipment.
47 A. Bruce Mainwaring C’47, retired president of Micro-Coax Inc., was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in April. He is an emeritus trustee of the University and an emeritus member of the overseers of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Spencer Zaslow W’47 see Jerry Zaslow W’45.
49 Dr. A. Noam Chomsky C’49 G’51 Gr’55 Hon’84, the Institute Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in April.
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54 Dr. Harold Graff C’54 M’58 has been elected vice president of medical services for Magellan Health of Pennsylvania.
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James Cacheris W’55 is a U.S. district judge in Alexandria, Va.
In May he was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by George Washington
University; he graduated from its law school in 1960.
57 Hon. Myrna Paul Field CW’57 L’63 GL’72, administrative judge of the family division for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, in August was honored as Judge of the Year by the National Child Support Enforcement Association. This was in recognition of her efforts to improve the Family Court’s child-support work with an amnesty program, a job-placement program, and better case management for child-support workers. She also established a Wednesday night court and satellite offices in the city. The administrative judge since Feb. 2002, she was elected to the Court of Common Pleas Court in 1991. Judge Field and her husband, Harris Baum, live in Philadelphia.
58 Dr. Alvino E. Fantini C’58 is an emeritus professor at World Learning’s School for Inter-national Training in Brattleboro, Vt., where he had been employed for the past 40 years. During his tenure he was involved in both intercultural communication and language education, working in the U.S. and abroad. He did research in both areas and published numerous articles and books. He also served on a national panel to develop the new National Foreign Language Standards for U.S. education. And he is a past-president of the professional society, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research International, and recipient of its highest award. He continues to serve as an international consultant in language education and intercultural communication.
59 Martin Barr W’59 writes that he has been retired from IBM since 1996 and continues to live in Lexington, Ky. He was recently honored with the President’s Award of the Central Kentucky Jewish Federation in recognition of his work over the past years as president and chair of its annual campaign.
Dr. Henry Kressel WG’59 Gr’65, a managing director of the venture-capital management firm Warburg Pincus LLC, in July was elected to the board of the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University. Chair of the Sarnoff Corporation, he is also a member of the board of the Stanford Research Institute. He and his wife, Bertha Horowitz Kressel, have two children, Dr. Aron Kressel of New York and Kim Ephrat of Israel, and seven grandchildren.
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60 Howard P. Cantor W’60, a certified public accountant from Ramsey, N.J., was recently named an honorary member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. In addition to his accounting practice, he is treasurer of the NIA Group, LLC, a large regional insurance agency based in Paramus. Currently president of the Ramsey Council, he is completing his sixth year as a councilman. He and his wife, Pam, have lived there for over 20 years; they have two married children and three grandsons.
Albert M. Tantala C’60 CE’61 was appointed to a second term on the Pennsylvania State Registration Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists. He was also elected to the board of TF Financial Corp., a bank-holding company.
62 Bonnie Stein Squires CW’62 G’65 has been named chair of the 80th anniversary celebration of the Gershman Y in Philadelphia. A board member there, she serves as vice-chair of its Jewish Film Festival.
63 Dr. Bruce R. Kuklick C’63 G’65 Gr’68, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History at the University, was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in April.
64 Dr. James E. Allison C’64 in May received the Distinguished Clinician Award of the American Gastroenterological Association. Retiring in 1998 after 24 years, he had served as a gastroenterologist and the assistant program director for internal medicine at the Kaiser Permanente’s Oakland Medical Center in California. Since then he has served as a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco and as a member of the gastroenterology division at San Francisco General Hospital. He has also been an adjunct investigator at Kaiser’s research division. Last year he received the Premier Physician Award from the Bay Area chapter of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. A national expert on screening for colon cancer, his research has been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Gastro-enterology, and he is a peer reviewer for NEJM, Gastroenterology, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Michael B. Fein C’64, Cherry Hill, N.J., an attorney in the intellectual-property department of the Delaware Valley law firm of Cozen O’Connor, in June was honored for his pro-bono service with the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts. He also recently appeared in Philadelphia magazine as a “Pennsylvania Super Lawyer.”
Lois Foster Hirt DH’64 <loismile@aol.com> has published the story of how her mother and stepfather met again and married at the ages of 81 and 83, after a 60-year separation. It is included in Small Miracles for Families—Extraordinary Coincidences That Reaffirm Our Deepest Ties, edited by Yitta Halberstam and Judith Lowenthal.
Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner C’64 M’68 Hon’98 is professor of neurology and biochemistry and the founding director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of California at San Francisco. He was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his pioneering discovery of prions as a new biological principle of infection. In April he received the PNC 2004 Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in science and invention.
Richard Schaye W’64, Lexington, Mass., writes “[I] retired after 31 years in public education, the past 22 as principal of Wayland Middle School. After my wife and I served as Peace Corps volunteers in India from 1966 to 1968, we both became teachers and happily found our work niche in life. We are looking forward to our first grandchild in December. My immediate plans are to volunteer for the Kerry campaign. When the campaign is over, I hope to re-learn how to sleep later than 6:00 a.m., something I last did at Penn. I still remember fondly the teaching of A. Z. Rubinstein G’50 Gr’54, E. Digby Baltzell W’39 Hon’89, and Alexander Riasanovsky, each of whom inspired me to become a teacher despite my inauspicious start at the Wharton School.”
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65 Margaret Conn Himelfarb CW’65 writes that in May she received a master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins University and has headed back to the workforce. Recognized with several awards for her diabetes-research education and advocacy, she successfully spearheaded a national campaign for a Diabetes Awareness postage stamp, which was issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 2001.
Norman MacAfee C’65, New York, has edited with a commentary The Gospel According to RFK: Why It Matters Now, published in June by Westview Press. It is the only collection of speeches from Robert Kennedy’s 1968 Presidential campaign.
Rabbi Anita Steiner CW’65 graduated in June from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pa. Having made aliyah in 1975, she received a B.S.W. with honors from Bar-Ilan University in 1981 and then worked as a social worker in Israel for 20 years, most recently as coordinator of social services for Ethiopian Jews in Ashkelon. And she was an activist there in leftist politics, the feminist movement, and women’s peace groups. With clinical pastoral training for her rabbinical degree she is poised to realize her dream of working again in Israel, but now in hospice chaplaincy and with battered women.
66 Richard Marker C’66 and his wife, Mirele Goldsmith, have merged their consulting practices under the name Marker Goldsmith Advisors (www.markergoldsmith.com). His specialty is strategic philanthropy, and hers is program evaluation. They work with families, foundations, and grantmaking organizations. In addition, Richard has been named senior fellow at NYU’s George Heyman Jr. Center for Philanthropy, where he also teaches.
67 Kenneth J. Artis C’67 <kenartis@yahoo.com> was elevated to a 32nd-degree Mason on April 17.
Jonathan Kane W’67 is a partner in the Philadelphia-based law firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP and chair of its labor and employment group; he is resident in its Berwyn, Pa., office. In June he was elected a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Inc.
Andrea Mitchell CW’67, Washington, is the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for NBC News. In April she received the PNC 2004 Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in mass communications.
Dr. Regna D. Darnell G’67 Gr’69, is professor of anthropology and the founding director of the First Nations studies program at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont. She also serves as director of its Centre for Research and Teaching of Canadian Native Languages. In April she was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Dr. Richard A. Schwartz C’67 has joined the Minneapolis intellectual-property law firm of Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth as a satellite patent attorney working in Virginia.
68 Andrew Jay Schwartzman C’68 L’71 is president and CEO of the Media Access Project a 30-year-old non-profit, public-interest law firm that represents the public’s First Amendment rights before the FCC and the courts. He represents Prometheus Radio Project and other citizens’ groups in their appeal of last year’s FCC decision deregulating broadcast-media ownership rules, and presented arguments that convinced the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia to block the new rules from going into effect pending appeal. He is the first recipient of the Just Media Lifetime Achievement Award, presented in June by MediaRight and American University’s Center for Social Media and the Independent Television Service. The award is to be given to individuals who have made a significant contribution to the reform of media policy.
Dr. Joanne Stubbe CW’68, the Novartis Professor of Chemistry and Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in April.
Barbara Weisberg CW’68 writes, “I’m delighted to announce the publication of my book, Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism (Harper SanFrancisco). Part mystery, part ghost story and part cultural history, it’s a non-fiction look at the lives and times of the two charismatic young sisters who founded the Spiritualist movement in America in the 1840s. I received the Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Fellowship for Creative Writers from the American Antiquarian Society to do research for the book, called “a lively tale of a little-known slice of American history” by Publishers Weekly. Before embarking on my search for the Fox sisters’ true story, I was a freelance television producer. I live with my stepchildren and my husband, the writer and television producer David Black, in New York.”
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70 Dr. Theodore Kharpertian C’70 is professor of English at Hudson County Community College in Jersey City, N.J. His new book, a memoir of his father entitled Hagop: An Armenian Genocide Survivor’s Journey to Freedom, has been published by the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (Belmont, Mass.). He also wrote A Hand to Turn the Time: The Menippean Satires of Thomas Pynchon. He lives in Montclair with his wife, Zoe, a professional wallpaper hanger; daughter, Kiara, a sophomore at Mount Holyoke College; and son, Devin (to whom Hagop is dedicated), a sophomore at Montclair High School.
71 Barry M. Abelson L’71, Bryn Mawr, Pa., is chair of the executive committee and of the corporate and securities-practice group of the Philadelphia-based law firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP. In June the Philadelphia chapter of the American Jewish Committee presented him with its 2004 Judge Learned Hand Award, which recognizes the contributions of outstanding members of the Philadelphia legal community who have distinguished themselves through their professional achievements, and their dedicated leadership and commitment to the community. He serves on the boards of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America, the Children’s Crisis Treatment Center, and Operation Warm, which distributed 50,000 coats to needy children in the Philadelphia area last winter. And in July he was elected to the board of the Greater Philadelphia Venture Group; he will co-chair its mid-Atlantic venture conference next year. He also serves on the board of Penn’s Institute for Law and Economics. Barry is married to Robin Abelson and the father of four children.
Prof. Drew Gilpin Faust G’71 Gr’75 is dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies and the Lincoln Professor of History at Harvard University; in April she was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. She was the Annenberg Professor of History and director of the women’s studies program at Penn until 2000.
Jeffrey R. Horowitz C’71 L’74 has been named interim president and chief executive officer of Danielson Holding Corporation, an American Stock Exchange-listed company with subsidiaries offering waste-to-energy services, barging and marine-construction and services, barge and boat manufacturing, warehousing services, and a variety of insurance products.
Ken Roemer Gr’71 wrote in late June, “Two weeks ago I became a grandpa for the second time: Kate Roemer arrived and completes my son Michael’s happy Austin (Tex.) family of Kathy (wife) and Alex (big brother). Michael received a master’s in Asian studies from UT Austin a month ago, and his big sister Vonnie married Jon Murad two months ago. A year ago my wife, Micki, took a job with the U.S. Dept. of Education as a general manager in Federal Student Aid, School Delivery Channel, FSA Application, School Eligibility and Delivery Channel—a nice concise government title that will no doubt change as bureaucracies morph! I’m still teaching at UT Arlington. Since 2002 I’ve published Michibata de Deatta Nippon (A Sidewalker’s Japan) and Utopian Audiences: How Readers Locate Nowhere. I’m completing the Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, and am president of the Society of Utopian Studies. So, I’m enjoying a growing family, I’m president of nowhere, and I’m sleeping with a fed.”
Robert Woodward C’71 (aka Peanutbutter) has teamed up with Steven Weisz C’78 GEd’79 and his dance group, Music & Motion Dance Productions (www.music-and-motion.com). Their new piece, Illuminescence, will be performed at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival on Sept. 7, 8, and 14. From their press release: “Under the artistic direction of Steven Weisz, light becomes the foundational element through which sculpture and movement arise and coalesce. This is the first collaborative effort between this young dance group and veteran Philadelphia sculptor, Peanutbutter/Robert Woodward. This original dance work is a lush fusion of colors, emerging to create an array of visual illusions while set to a mix of world electronica.”
72 Andreas M. Georghiou W’72 G’76 writes, “I have recently taken on the additional responsibility of president, Worldsat, an SES Global company engaged in the provision of satellite-communication services on a global basis. At the same time, I have maintained my responsibilities as a member of the management committee of the parent company in which I still hold the position of senior vice president, business operations. My wife of 30 years, Diane, and I live in New Hope, Pa. We have two grand children, Alexander and Andreas McKendry. Our children, Angella and Constantine, live nearby while our daughter, Lenia, has just graduated from Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.”
Terri Jacobs Keville CW’72, an attorney who practices in Los Angeles, in March became president of the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys.
Dr. Jeffrey H. Rempell D’72, a dentist who has maintained a practice in Clifton, N.J., for almost 30 years, recently completed a term as president of the New Jersey Dental Association. He serves on the American Dental Association’s council on dental benefits, and on the board of Donated Dental Services of New Jersey. He and his wife, Gail, live in Montville, and they have three children: Michael, who lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Dawn, and son, Zachary; Pamela, who lives in Florida; and Lindsey, who is a student at George Washington University in Washington.
Gilbert S. Rothenberg C’72, an attorney with the tax division of the U.S. Department of Justice, has been appointed chief of the appellate section, which he joined in 1975. He is also an adjunct professor of law at American University’s Washington College of Law. He lives in Fairfax Station, Va., with his wife, Lynn (a pastel artist), and son, Artie, a high-school freshman. When not enmeshed in tax-law controversies, Gilbert can be found on the golf course.
73 Janet Millenson CW’73 has been elected president of the Maryland Ornithological Society, which was founded in 1945 and has nearly 2,000 members in 15 chapters. It compiles the official bird lists for Maryland and the District of Columbia, publishes a variety of books and periodicals, maintains sanctuaries, supports research, and offers programs and field trips for birders across the state.
74 Don Eckhart WG’74 writes, “I retired early this year from the Ohio Legislative Service Commission, a non-partisan agency providing research and analysis for the Ohio General Assembly. I am now a candidate for the Ohio Senate, running as an Independent for the election on Nov. 2. My wife, Sue Ellen, and I have been married for 32 years, and we have two adult sons.”
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75 Amy Levin SAMP’75 writes that Elaine Zislin SAMP’75 of Leawood, Kans., in March was recognized Occupational Therapist of the Year by the Kansas Occupational Therapy Association.
John Livingston C’75 was recently promoted to president of Tishman Construction Corporation’s eastern region, having served as the firm’s chief operating officer. He joined the company in 1994.
Dr. Louis E. Rossman D’75 GD’77, an endodontist in Center City Philadelphia and a clinical professor of endodontics at Penn Dental, was elected treasurer of the American Association of Endodontists in May. Louis and his wife, Val, have two children, Alexis Rossman C’06 (20), and Benjamin (14), and live in Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
76 Aldonna Ambler SW’76, president and CEO of Ambler Growth Strategy Consultants, Inc., in Hammonton, N.J., presented a program, “Blasting Past Plateaus,” at the Women’s Leadership Exchange Southern California Conference in August; she will also be a presenter at the group’s Atlanta conference in September and the New York conference in November.
77 David W. Allen Jr. W’77 and his family were one of three recipients of the Points of Light Foundation’s National Family Volunteer Award; he also received a President’s Volunteer Service Award, silver level. He is president-elect of the Minnesota Physician-Patient Alliance, chair of the governance committee for the Hamm Clinic (a mental health clinic in St. Paul that serves clients regardless of their ability to pay), and chair of the Bloomington (Minn.) Youth Coffeehouse Initiative, and he serves on the boards of Bloomington United for Youth and Advocates for Marketplace Options on Mainstreet. David is CEO of his own health-care consulting firm, PIE, Inc. (www.allenpie.com). His wife, Mary, and his sons Treb (21) and Matt (19) are also active volunteers. Treb begins studies at the University of Oxford in September for his junior year abroad from Williams College, and Matt has matriculated at Grinnell College in Iowa.
Jon Becker C’77 in May completed a 230-mile kayak descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. He lives in Boulder with his wife, Lynn Israel, and two sons, Jorin (13) and Avi (11), and operates SolarGlass Window and Door with his brothers David Becker W’77 and Boone Becker.
Stuart Gold C’77 writes, “I am a partner in Mandelbaum, Salsburg, Gold, Lazris, Discenza & Steinberg, P.C., in West Orange, N.J., where I specialize in commercial litigation and bankruptcy. My wife, Diana d’Ambra, and I have two children: Emma, a high-school junior who is spending the summer at Penn, and Ben, a seventh-grader who became a bar mitzvah on June 19.”
78 Ellen B. Fishman L’78, New York, has been made a partner in the Manhattan law firm of Martin, Clearwater & Bell LLP. She is head of its appellate litigation department.
Vincent T. Lombardo C’78, an assistant Ohio attorney general living in Cleveland, is the new president-elect of the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association. A life member of the association, he is a 1981 graduate of the Cleveland Marshall College of Law of Cleveland State University.
Steven Weisz C’78 GEd’79 see Robert Woodward C’71.
79 Sonia Delgado C’79 GPU’85, a government lobbyist with the firm Princeton Public Affairs Group, in June was appointed interim chair of the trustees of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She also serves on the board of Presbyterian Homes. She lives in Hopewell with her husband and two children.
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80 Dr. Philip J. Kellman Gr’80 is director of the Human Perception Laboratory and professor of cognitive science and psychology at UCLA. In April he delivered the 2004 Irvin Rock Memorial Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, which “is named for one of the great vision scientists of the 20th century, and spotlights important research in the field of visual perception.”
Kerry Scott Schuman W’80, Jenkintown, Pa., a partner with the law firm of Jaffe, Friedman, Schuman, Nemeroff, Applebaum & McCaffery, P.C., in Elkins Park, was a presenter at the spring seminar on “Title Insurance Claims and the Title Agent,” sponsored by the Chicago Title Insurance Company and Ticor Title Insurance Company.
Bruce Vrana ChE’80 GCh’82 <vrana9@comcast.net> is pleased to report that his son, Robert, starts at Penn as a member of the Class of 2008, in the College. He graduated from Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Del., where his sister, Laura, has completed her freshman year and has Ivy ambitions of her own. Bruce is “still” employed by DuPont as an in-house engineering consultant.
81 Deborah Livornese C’81 <dlivornese@bucbeardsley.com> e-mails, “After 21-plus years of living in Northern California, I returned to the East Coast with my husband, Bill Kuran, an engineer for the federal government, and daughter Olivia (three). We’ve settled in Potomac, Md., and I am working as an attorney with a firm in D.C. specializing in food and drug law.
82 Scott Rothbort W’82, president of LakeView Asset Management, LLC, which specializes in customized, separate-account investment management, and general partner of LakeView Investment Partners, L.P., is a frequent guest on Bloomberg Radio, as well as Bloomberg TV. He has also appeared numerous times on CNBC’s Kudlow & Cramer, speaking on such market issues as McDonald’s and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. His wife, Layni Horowitz Rothbort C’82, is an attorney with an active real-estate practice in northern and central New Jersey. In her spare time she also doubles as a chauffeur to their five children, Cory (16), Danielle (14), Carly (11), Steven (10), and Adam (seven). Scott can be reached at <scott@lakeviewasset.com> and Layni can be reached at <LSRESQ1@yahoo.com>.
83 Bradley S. Daniels C’83 WG’89, Lower Gwynedd, Pa., has joined Rorer Asset Management, a Philadelphia-based investment-management firm, as a senior equity analyst who specializes in mid-cap stocks. Previously he was a research analyst and portfolio manager at Miller, Anderson & Sherred/Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
Gayle P. Levy C’83 W’83 has joined Edwards & Angell, a national law firm, as a partner in its insurance and reinsurance department in New York. Previously she was a partner at the law firm of Dewey Ballantine, LLP, where she practiced in the corporate-insurance and insurance-insolvency area for 15 years.
84 Christine Brentani C’84 wrote Portfolio Management in Practice, which was published earlier this year by Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann.
Bradford Hudson C’84 married Caroline Coco in May. He is a development officer at Boston University and she is a stockbroker at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown. Steven Saltzman W’86 was an usher.
Richard A. Niesenbaum C’84 Gr’92 has been named chair of the biology department at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. An associate professor, he joined its faculty in 1993.
Ira B. Polikoff C’84 W’84 <ira.b.polikoff@aexp.com> e-mails, “I recently relocated to London with my wife, Jacalyn, and our three children, Jack (nine), Benjamin (six), and Samantha (one). I continue to work for American Express, and am now CFO for the global-establishment services division based here in London. Having missed out on the junior-year-abroad opportunity, my family and I are now taking advantage of the location to experience the sites and history of the U.K. and the European continent.”
Dr. Jerome R. Potozkin C’84 and his wife, Dr. Monica Brar, have celebrated the birth of their second son, David; he joins 22-month-old Samuel to form the Potozkin team of “Sam and Dave.”
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85 Jacob C. Cohn C’85, Cherry Hill, N.J., an attorney with the Philadelphia-area law firm of Cozen O’Connor, spoke on “Unraveling the Gordian Knot of Asymptomatic Asbestos Claimants” at Mealey’s Asbestos Bankruptcy Conference in June.
David Fialkoff C’85 has written Stanley Newman Presents Quiz Show, which was published by Random House in July. A bona fide trivia buff, he was a contestant on Jeopardy! and one of the players on the very first episode of the American Who Wants to be a Millionaire? He describes the book as “a collection of one-player trivia games specially designed for quiz-show fans.”
Chris Mario C’85 writes that a group of Penn friends gathered on Memorial Day weekend at his home in Wilmington, N.C., to celebrate the 40th birthday of S. Marc Meachem W’87. They were Lisa Richardson C’88, Dave Smith W’85, Joe Harrison C’85, Marylou Rowe C’85, Linda Richardson C’85, Liz King C’87, and Heidi E. von B¸low C’85 and Fritz von B¸low C’85 G’92. The Penn flag flew in the background.
86 Jonathan C. Beard C’86 writes, “In a gulfside wedding at Ft. Walton Beach, Fla., I married the lovely and talented Jennifer A. Turner, on Oct. 12, 2002. And, we announce the birth of our son, Jadon, in January. He joins my seven-year-old daughter, Kailey, in our happy household. I am still working (eighth year) as president and CEO of Columbus Compact Corporation, a nonprofit community-development corporation.”
Larry D. Gasteiger C’86 writes, “I am pleased to report that I have been named legal adviser to the Hon. Joseph T. Kelliher, a commissioner at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington. I advise him on electric, natural-gas, and hydropower policy issues.”
Coleman O’Donovan C’86 reports the birth of Finn Patrick O’Donovan on March 13; he joins his brother Liam (eight) and two sisters, Maeve (six) and Molly (five).
87 Jeff Hack W’87 now heads corporate strategy at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Previously he was chief financial officer of the Smith Barney brokerage unit of Citicorp, which he joined in 1994.
Dr. Kenneth A. Kaplan C’87 lives in East Brunswick, N.J., with his wife, Dr. Deborah Goldberg Kaplan, a clinical child psychologist and their two children, Samuel Alexander (four), and Hannah Rose (two). He is in private practice in otolaryngology with Advanced Otolaryngology Associates, also in East Brunswick.
Esther Schlessinger-Mita C’87 GEd’88 writes that, “Roy Mita, and my son, RJ, welcomed a new addition, Ilena Hartley, on July 11, 2003. I am also now working part-time with the Council for Relationships (formerly the Penn Council for Relationships), as a psychologist in the Paoli and Lionville, Pa., offices.”
Peter C. Wu EAS’87 has joined the faculty in the surgery department at the University of Washington, and Veterans’ Affairs Puget Sound, after completing surgical-oncology fellowships at the University of Chicago and National Cancer Institute. During that time he received the SSO James Ewing Oncology Fellowship to support his research in novel treatments of advanced GI cancers. He and Lily Lee Wen Su L’93 live in Issaquah, Wash., with their five-year-old daughter, Cameron, two-year-old son, Brandon, and six-year-old Samoyed, Pooh. They can be contacted at <pcwu@u.washington.edu>.
88 Jonathon Ament C’88 has received his doctoral degree from the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. He is currently senior project director in the research department for United Jewish Communities. He and his wife, Amy, live in Riverdale, N.Y., and are the very proud parents of Ezra David and Joshua Ilan, born on March 3, 2003. “Raising brand new Chicago Cub fans in New York has been challenging, but rewarding!”
Dr. Sue Carver C’88 and her husband, Ed Wile, are proud to announce the birth of Lucy Greta Wile on April 6. Sue, Ed, Lucy, and big brother Ethan live in Oceanside, N.Y., and look forward to hearing from old friends at <carverpsyd@aol.com>.
Marci Cohen W’88 and Jonathan Vinson Gr’95 proudly announce the birth of their first child, Graham Ivan Vinson, on May 18. Marci is a multimedia librarian at Northbrook (Ill.) Public Library, and Jack is a knowledge-management consultant with Knowledge Jolt, Inc. They live in Evanston.
Randi Dorman C’88 and Rob Paulus welcome the arrival of their first child, Skye Victoria Paulus; she was born on June 10 in Tucson, Ariz., and weighed 6 lbs. “We are mesmerized by her every move, and are having a ball with her!”
Brett Dorny EAS’88 W’88 <bndorny@dornylaw.com> e-mails that after many years in large Boston law firms, he recently opened his own law practice in Central Massachusetts. A registered patent attorney, he practices in all aspects of intellectual-property law.
John P. Halfpenny C’88 and Mary Bossart Halfpenny C’89 are thrilled to announce the birth of twin boys, Samuel Ellis and Jude Alexander, on Nov. 4, 2003, in Philadelphia.
Marc Levy W’88 writes that he folded his direct-marketing firm in the aftermath of 9/11, and is now working as an electrician’s helper. He can be reached at <mtlevy@yahoo.com>.
John Timperio C’88 in June joined the law firm of Dechert LLP as a partner in its finance and real-estate group; he is based in the Charlotte office. Previously he was a partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw.
89 Mary Bossart Halfpenny C’89 see John P. Halfpenny C’88.
Ann-Gail Bregianes Hult W’89 and her husband, Fred, are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter, Madelyn Jane Hult, on March 28. “She looks just like her big brother, George (two). Hopefully that will change with time.” Ann-Gail can’t wait to take a “field trip” to Penn to show her children the old alma mater and give them something to strive for.
Howard S. Krooks L’89 e-mails, “I have been elected to serve as chair of the New York State Bar Association’s elder-law section for the 2004-05 term. I have been practicing elder law since 1991 at Littman Krooks LLP in New York and White Plains. I live in Westchester County with my wife, Robin, and three children, Gavin (six), Jocelyn (three), and Noah (one), along with our two Labrador retrievers, Monte and Roxy. Please feel free to catch up at <hkrooks@lkllp.com>.”
Andrew London G’89 Gr’93, Syracuse, N.Y., is an associate professor of sociology in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. In June he was awarded a 2004 Vision Fund grant that supports new academic initiatives and faculty innovation at the small project or course level. The project, requested by the Syracuse University Senate, involved a regional conference and a faculty reading seminar to lay the groundwork for a proposed minor in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies at Syracuse.
Suzy Kahn Weinberg C’89 <suzyweinberg@rcn.com> e-mails, “I live in Chicago, my hometown, with my husband, Jeff, an aspiring real estate mogul, and our three terrific kids, Shulie (six), Molly (four), and Aidan (one). After receiving an M.S. in marketing communications from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, I worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and then became a full-fledged video producer—my true passion—for a small creative local company. I’m now home full time, when not at Costco, Target, or driving carpool. I keep in touch with dear friends from Penn: Nancy Lataif Ruiz C’89, Karyn Fell Taeyaerts C’89, Christopher Cook C’89, Catherine White Murphy C’89 GEd’92, Karen Palmer Brown Nu’89, and Rosanna Bermejo Espaillot C’89. I’m determined to get us all to our 20th Reunion in five years!”
CELEBRATE YOUR REUNION: MAY 13-14, 2005
90 Ira Aaron Apfel C’90 <iapfel@yahoo.com> and Gina Kim are proud to announce the birth of a baby girl, Isabel Marks Apfel; she was born on May 7 in Washington, and weighed 7 lb. 12 oz. Sophie (who will be four on Nov. 16) is very pleased to have a little sister.
Alex Feldman C’90 wrote in June, “After a great 18 months at CNBC, I have decided to move on. My last day was June 4. I absolutely loved my time at CNBC and being back in Asia. My decision to leave was one of the hardest of my life thus far, and I will be forever grateful. In the short time I was at CNBC, we accomplished quite a lot—subscribers grew by 21 percent and affiliate sales revenue grew by 17 percent, despite SARS last year. While there were lots of significant accomplishments (including launching CNBC’s first streaming and first mobile deals), and we were able to renew all key contracts that expired during my tenure, I was most honored to be a part of the CNBC team that negotiated the deal and then launched the MGM movie channel in Greater China and Southeast Asia. The fact that I was able to work with old friends at MGM Networks made it even more rewarding. I look forward to watching CNBC and MGM continue to grow in the years to come. I certainly will miss Asia, the TV industry, and all my great friends from the last 11 years in the region. Hopefully, my new role will give me a chance to continue to stay in touch and work with many of you. However, at the end of the day, I was offered a fantastic opportunity to grow and learn which I could not turn down. As of June 14, I will be joining the U.S. Department of State in Washington as coordinator for international information programs, which carries the rank of a U.S. assistant secretary of state. My major focus will be to try to positively influence the way the world perceives America—a job that is not getting any easier. I will have the support of almost 300 full-time and 100 contract staff in Washington. I am honored to serve my country in this important role which will surely impact my friends outside the U.S. in the years to come.”
Dr. Reiko Maki Fitzsimonds C’90 Gr’95 was recently promoted to associate professor of physiology in the Yale Medical School where she had been an assistant professor. And Patrick Fitzsimonds C’95 recently left Deutsche Bank in New York and joined UBS Investment Bank as an associate director. They live in Connecticut with their “beautiful daughters, four-year old Sonoe Elizabeth (Sonni) and two-year old Sophia Katherine (Fia).” Reiko and Patrick would love to hear from any old Penn friends at <reiko.fitzsimonds@alumni.upenn.edu> or <patrick.fitzsimonds@alumni.upenn.edu>.
Dr. Paul Pasles C’90 writes, “On June 12, the Mount Laurel (N.J.) Public Library dedicated a garden plaza in honor of Steve Wolownik C’68, [who] founded and directed the Penn Balalaika Orchestra for many years, and was a reference librarian at the Lippincott Library of the Wharton School. The ceremony to dedicate ‘Steve’s Garden’ was set to music, of course. Many of the orchestra alumni and other friends of Steve performed in his honor at the memorial, including Jennifer Geiger C’90, Elliot Borgman C’71, Martha Von Rosenstiel CW’72, Serge Rogosin, Donna Skarbo Sensor C’90, Carmen Valentino, Alan Zemel C’76 G’76 and Marlis Zemel, Edythe Fein, Sue Anderson, and Ricci Dichter. Penn Balalaika alumni who are interested in hearing about future gatherings should contact Rick Heald <ricklist_99@yahoo.com>.”
Erinn Sitner Salaman W’90 and her husband, Mitchell, are thrilled to announce the birth of their second child, Ryan Scott, on Oct. 11, 2003. Big brother A.J. is so excited to finally have a little brother to play with.
Daniel W. Simcox C’90 has joined the Philadelphia law firm of Buchanan Ingersoll PC as a shareholder in its financial-institutions and real-estate section.
Brian Jay Ward C’90 and Travis Neighbor “Libby” Ward C’90 G’90 are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter, Aislin Isabelle Ward. She was born on May 9, Mother’s Day, at 10 lbs. and 1 oz. She received an enthusiastic welcome from elder daughter, Lila, who is now three years old. Brian is an architect at Niles Bolton Associates in Atlanta and Travis is editor of Home, a quarterly design edition of Atlanta magazine.
91 Duchess Harris C’91, chair and associate professor of American studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., has been granted tenure; she has taught there since 1998. Her area of interest is 20th-century African-American political history.
Jill
Nagle CGS’91 <Jill@GetPublished.com>
is delighted to announce the birth of her third book, How to Find
an Agent Who Can Sell Your Book for Top Dollar: Jill’s Guerilla Tips
and Tricks, which is also her first book to come out initially
in electronic format (www.FindTheRightAgent.com).
This newest addition to Jill’s cyber-shelf comes almost exactly a
year after her first child—labors of love, both. “What mother has
time to write
a book during her child’s first year of life? Why, one with a partner
committed to egalitarian child care, of course. We’re all very blessed
around here. Stay tuned.”
Christine Turner White C’91, and her husband, Colin are delighted to announce the birth of their first child, a son, named Duncan John White, born on April 24 and weighing in at 7 lbs. 13 oz. “Mom will be enjoying maternity leave this summer at their home in Wakefield, Mass., and can be reached at <whitect@aol.com>.”
Ellen Zeisler C’91 writes, “After working as public defender in Brooklyn for three years, I married Jonathan Barnard and moved to London. We met at Penn when he was an exchange student from the University of Edinburgh. I am now qualified as a lawyer in England where I practice