'70

Priscilla Nelson has been reappointed by President Clinton to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, which evaluates the technical and scientific validity of the U.S. Secretary of Energy's plans for high-level radioactive waste or spent materials. The director for the Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems for the Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation, Nelson has served on the board since 1997.

'71

30TH REUNION
OCTOBER 12-14, 2001

Michael Braun '72S (MBA) has joined the board of directors for Callidus Software, a San Jose, Calif., company specializing in business performance systems. Braun is general manager for the global small-business division of IBM Corp.

'72

Feminist author and activist Carol Adams discussed her book, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, during an April lecture at the University. The book is currently out in a 10th anniversary edition. . . . J. L. (Jack) Davies '73S (MBA) has been named to the board of directors of Proxicom, Inc., an e-business consulting and development company headquartered in Reston, Va. . . . Novelist Jane Shmerler Heller and her high school friend, John Masius, have an interesting way of keeping in touch. According to an article on the two in the The New York Times, Masius, an Emmy award-winning television writer and producer, has used Heller's name and one of her books, Name Dropping, in various episodes of his television show Providence. Heller purportedly has included a reference to Masius in her latest book, Female Intelligence, to be published in the spring of 2001. . . . Susan Bass Levin, mayor of Cherry Hill, N.J., announced that she is running for Congress in New Jersey's 3rd District. . . . Elizabeth Imhof Kennedy Tillar e-mails that she completed her Ph.D. in contemporary systematic theology at Fordham University in February. She begins teaching at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., in the fall.

'74

Sheldon Pollack, associate professor in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware, e-mails that he was a visiting lecturer in the legal studies department of the University of Pennsylvania for the spring 2000 term. He also has been named a guest scholar at The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., for the summer and fall 2000 terms. . . . Debra Jo Rupp, currently starring as the beleaguered mother on the Fox television comedy That '70s Show, recounted how she came to the University in an interview with her hometown newspaper, the (Boxford, Mass.) Village Reporter: "I was accepted early decision into the University. Father worked for a publisher of college textbooks. All I wanted to do was act. So he picked a school without a theater department." As fate would have it, the University started a theater department the fall Debra entered and the rest is history. . . . Barry Yarkoni e-mails that he is now a "dot-com guy," running a startup company called MailersClub.com. "Best wishes and venture capital" can be sent to him via BarryY@MailersClub.com.

'75

Mitch Katzenelson e-mails that he is working for Research Triangle Commerce, Inc. . . . Jim Kennedy has been appointed director of communications on the staff of Vice President Al Gore. . . . Mitch '76S (MBA) and Debbie Levy McKenney e-mail that they live in Pittsburgh with their four teenagers: Molly, Ethan, Alice, and Sarah. Mitch, who is managing partner of Buckler, McKenney, and Nadzadi, P.C., was elected president of the southwestern chapter of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. . . . Frances Pullano, president and principal of Marketing Associates & Ltd. Cos., Inc., was one of only 15 nominees for Rochester's 2000 Athena Award. The honor is given annually by the Greater Rochester Metro Chamber of Commerce Inc.'s Women's Council to a woman who has made a difference in both her business and community, and who has provided leadership for other women. . . . Celia Carter Reaves e-mails that she and her husband, Don Reaves, have two children: Colin, born in 1983, and Brenna, born in 1989. Celia is the chair of the psychology department at Monroe Community College in Rochester.

'76

25TH REUNION
OCTOBER 12-14, 2001

Ilene Busch-Vishniac, dean of engineering at Johns Hopkins University, was one of 110 engineering deans from 43 states attending a two-day colloquium in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education. One of the speakers was former Rochester Dean of Engineering Duncan Moore '74 (PhD), who is currently associate director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. . . . Donald Millinger, a partner in the corporate and securities department at the Philadelphia law firm of Klehr, Harrison, Harvey, Branzburg & Ellers, LLP, was re-elected co-chair of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund's national board of directors. Lambda is the oldest and largest legal organization for lesbians, gay men, and people with HIV/AIDS. . . . Allen Power '80M (MD), '83M (Res) has been appointed assistant medical director at St. John's Home in Rochester, where he will provide medical care as well as help with administrative duties. . . . Hillary Cohen Rutter, director of the Adelphi (N.Y.) Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program in Garden City, N.Y., sent a photo from her talk with First Lady Hillary Clinton this spring at a special meeting organized by the hotline program. The Adelphi hotline is a comprehensive psycho-social breast cancer program serving all of New York State.

'77

Harold Paz '82M (MD), dean of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has had an endowed professorship named for him at the Child Health Institute of New Jersey. The institute was created under Paz's leadership to improve child health and quality of life by fostering scientific research that will produce new discoveries about the causes of many childhood diseases and treatments for these diseases.

'78

Mark Perlberg was appointed to the newly created position of president of the accounts payable group at the Profit Recovery Group International, Inc., based in Atlanta. The company is a worldwide provider of accounts payable and other recovery audit services, with operations in 43 countries.

'79

Stuart Janis reports that he is the co-author of Improving Performance Through Statistical Thinking, recently published by Quality Press. . . . Paul Oestreicher has joined Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Inc., as vice president for public affairs. The New Haven, Conn., company uses information technology to link gene variations to responses to different drugs. . . . Sharon Porcellio has been elected chair of the New York State Bar Association's 1,800-member commercial and federal litigation section. She is a partner at the Buffalo firm of Lippes, Silverstein, Mathias & Wexler, LLP, where she chairs the litigation group. . . . Amanda Uhry sends an update: She is the CEO of Seventh Millennium Public Relations, Ltd., located in New York City and Sydney, Australia. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1980. She writes that she has a daughter, Arabella Eliza Frances Uhry (Mao Yue), who was born in Maoming, China, on November 16, 1995, and adopted by Uhry in April 1996.

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