'71

30TH REUNION
OCTOBER 12-14, 2001

Robert Halstead has joined Argus Associates, an Ann Arbor, Mich., company that organizes large Web sites and intranets so that users can find what they need quickly and easily and clients can more easily manage their information. . . . Martha Marsh, chief operating officer at the University of California at Davis Health System and director of hospital and clinics at the University of California at Davis Medical Center, has been named to the board of directors of the Integrated Healthcare Association. . . . Lewis Singer was awarded the Béla Schick Medal by the department of medicine of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine for his contributions to the well being of children.

'72

Gene Cretz e-mails that he is working as a Foreign Service officer for the U.S. Department of State. Writing last July, he was serving at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China. . . . Marie Halka, vice president of the Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Economic Development Corp., received a Tribute to Women in Industry award from the Annapolis and Anne Arundel YWCA. Halka was recognized for managing the redevelopment of a former naval installation in Annapolis. . . . Eric Lestin writes that he has resigned from Trione and Gordon Associates to become managing principal of Wulfe & Co., L.L.C., a Houston-based real estate consulting company. . . . Lewis Porter married Karen Mikhael on August 13, 2000, in New Canaan, Conn. A jazz pianist and author, Porter is a professor of music at the Newark (N.J.) campus of Rutgers University. . . . Carl Schwait writes that he has been appointed adjunct professor of law at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law in Gainesville. He teaches trial practice and is the faculty advisor to the students on the trial team. In addition to his teaching, Schwait reports that he is a senior partner specializing in the defense of tort litigation at Dell Graham, P.A., also in Gainesville. He and his wife, Anna, have two children: Shannon, 22, a dance major at the University of Florida, and Amanda, 15, an international baccalaureate student. . . . Joan Pollack Warren e-mails that she has joined Progress Financial Resources in Philadelphia as an advisor in the areas of investments, retirement, and estate planning.

'73

Alan Cohen, professor of health policy and management and director of the Health Care Management Program at the Boston University School of Business, has been elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance. . . . Michael Durham has been named to the board of advisors of AgentWare, an Atlanta-based Internet software company, and to the board of directors of Scheduling.com, a Web-based patient scheduling service. An honorary member of the Trustees' Council of the College, Durham is a former chief executive officer of Sabre, Inc. . . . Lester Ezrati writes: "Al (vend-a-snack) Cohen?? Where have you gone? E-mail me at lester_ezrati@hp.com."

'74

Peter Robbins e-mails: "After 15 years in Hawaii, finally landed back in the mainland, northern California. Drop me an e-mail at peterr@awwwsome.com!" . . . Barry Yarkoni e-mails that he is chief operating officer of MailersClub.com, an Internet company based in Los Angeles. . . . Felice Yeskel is co-author (with Chuck Collins) of Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity (The New Press). Yeskel is co-founder and co-director of the Boston-based national organization United for a Fair Economy and teaches in the social justice education program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

'75

Doug Hill sends an update: "After 16 years and having my name in print over 1 billion times, I left National Geographic in 1995 to join friends with their venture. PhotoAssist is a photo, text research, and photography business. My wife, Sharon Blinder Hill, and I celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary in May 2000, and our oldest daughter, Sarah, graduated from high school in June. Sarah will be attending the University of Maryland (Rochester wasn't urban enough for her). Our second daughter, Pamela, urged Sharon and me to join her in getting scuba certification this summer, which we did. We followed up with our first dive trip to Key West, Fla.". . . Kay Sherman has joined the St. Louis office of Thompson Coburn, L.L.P., as counsel in the intellectual property and information technology practice area. . . . Lisa Stone e-mails that she is a speech pathologist in elementary education practicing in the Hamden, Conn., area. . . . Gary Tannenbaum and his wife, Kim, write to announce the birth of their second child, Lauren Claire, on April 12, 2000.

'76

25TH REUNION
OCTOBER 12-14, 2001

Holly Nacht Bobrow writes: "My husband, Rich, and I finally made the big move out of the Big Apple to Westport, Conn. We have four children, Dylan, 10, Rebecca, 7, and twins, Kelsey and Tucker, 31/2. I am vice president and general counsel of RHB Equities, Inc., a real estate development and construction firm. Would love to hear from old friends. E-mail: sixbwe@snet.net." . . . Edward Reisman writes: "My wife, Ellen, and I are happy to welcome our second son, Michael Sidney Lewis, into the world on June 18, 1998. He joined Sam, now 12, who is thrilled about being a big brother. I have re-relocated to Santa Monica, Calif., where I practice law, study martial arts, and worry about earthquakes." . . . Jill Sarnoff Riola (see '80) . . . Lawrence Steele, senior technologist at Kodak Polychrome Graphics, is the 2000 winner of the Roland Zavada Standards Award (The "Rollie") presented by the Committee for Graphic Arts Technologies Standards. The award was presented to Steele at the annual conference of the Technical Association of the Graphic Arts.

'77

Gary Fischler is a co-author of Vocational Impact of Psychiatric Disorders: A Guide for Rehabilitation Professionals. . . . Andrea Davids Kane e-mails that her 15th novel and first contemporary romantic thriller, Run For Your Life (Pocket Books), made The New York Times bestseller list in November. . . . Larry Reynolds has been named a vice president at Marsh, Inc., a Rochester-based insurance brokerage and risk advisement company.

'78

Amy Wachs Fellner e-mails that she has joined the College of Law at Arizona State University as the W. P. Carey Director of Placement in the school's career planning and placement office. . . . Mark Perlberg has been appointed president of the accounts payable group at the Profit Recovery Group International, Inc., headquartered in Atlanta.

'79

Robert Bly's new book on time management and personal productivity, 101 Ways to Make Every Second Count: Time Management Techniques for More Success with Less Stress, has been released by Career Press. . . . Mark Connolly e-mails that he and his family (wife, Deborah, and children, Peter, 11, and Katie, 9) have returned to the Pennsylvania-Delaware area after relocations to Texas and North Carolina. Mark is technical director for DuPont's Vinyls Enterprise, which includes the automotive and architectural safety glass business. He notes that the family has settled near West Chester University and would welcome e-mail from old Rochester friends at msconnol@ aol.com. . . . "Dreams do come true," e-mails Anthony Gilas. After graduation from Rochester, he earned an M.B.A. at the London Business School in 1981, joined the English toiletries company Gilchrist & Soames, then leveraged a buyout in 1990. In 1999, he sold the company and retired. "I now spend my time flying my private plane, traveling, working out, diving, skiing, and enjoying every day. I'm so busy retired that I don't know how I ever found time to work." . . . Steven Gochman (see '80) . . . . Valerie Leeds writes that she has completed her Ph.D. in American art and architecture at the City University of New York. . . . Gunta Liders has been named director of the University's Office of Research and Project Administration, the office administering grants and contracts for research. . . . Susan Miller writes that she was awarded a master's degree in engineering management from George Washington University in May 2000 and joined Digital Focus, Inc., in Herndon, Va., as a project manager specializing in business-to-business Internet digital business solutions. . . . Doug Sprei e-mails to say that he has completed his first year as director of communications at the Rochester division of Heidelberg, a global supplier of printed technology, based in Germany. "This is a full-circle story," he writes. "In the years after graduation, I apprenticed at and then managed the printing shop of the Rochester Folk Guild, running a wonderful old Heidelberg press." Doug reports that outside of work he is an active musician and runs a digital recording studio at his home, where he produces CDs that he sells on the Internet. He adds: "I suppose that last item would be of interest to fans and groupies of Vitamin Dog, the rock band I fronted with Andrew Artenstein '81 at the University during 1978-79. That band knew about 50 Grateful Dead songs and rocked Wilson Commons until the bricks shook, as I recall."

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