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30TH REUNION
OCTOBER 12-14, 2001

Nancy Heller Cohen '70N writes that her second book in the Bad Hair Day Mystery series, Hair Raiser, was published in December 2000. . . . Gerald Itkin e-mails that he is deputy county attorney in charge of litigation in Portland, Ore. He spends his free time teaching and leading alpine climbs as well as organizing and taking trips around the globe. In the past two years, he has climbed both Fuji and Kilmanjaro. He will soon be leading a trek to Nepal and visits to Africa and Ireland. He can be contacted at gerald.h.itkin@juno.com.

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Stuart Schneider e-mails that he has been appointed the national legal counsel of the Society of American Magicians, an organization with about 4,000 members worldwide. "Houdini was an early president of the society," he notes. Schneider's 14th book, Ronson, The Art Metal Works of Newark, has been published. His next book, tentatively entitled Halloween: Costumes and Other Treats, is forthcoming from Schiffer Publishing. . . . Gary Walter writes that he has been named general manager of the Paramount Hotel in downtown Dallas. The landmark hotel, part of the Magna Hospitality Group, will be restored to its original art deco look and will be rechristened as the Hotel Lawrence, its original 1923 name. The project is scheduled to be completed this October, he notes.

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Michael Durham has been named to the board of advisors of TripAdvisor, an online travel research service, and to the board of directors of EXE Technologies, Inc., a software company that specializes in inventory management. An honorary member of the Trustees' Council of the College, Durham is a former chief executive officer of Sabre, Inc. . . . Joel Holland '77M (MD) has been named director of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic's Beachwood (Ohio) Family Health Center. Holland is also on the faculty at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. . . . Theodore Osborne, Jr. has been named a principal in the Washington, D.C., architecture firm of Einhorn Yaffee Prescott.

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Peter Rue has joined the law firm of Briggs and Morgan in Minneapolis as part of the financial institutions and real estate section. Previously, he was senior corporate counsel for US Bancorp of Minneapolis. . . . William Wong '79 (PhD) has been named vice president for business development at Lynx Therapeutics, Inc., where he leads the biotechnology company's commercialization efforts.

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Jim Kennedy, the former chief spokesman for the Clinton White House legal counsel, has joined New York Senator Hillary Clinton's staff as communications director and senior policy advisor. . . . John Lubowitz writes that he is the executive director of Atria Assisted Living in Albany, N.Y. . . . Mark Moretti, a partner in the Rochester office of Phillips, Lytle, Hitchcock, Blaine & Huber, L.L.P., has been named the representative for the 7th District on the executive committee of the Trial Lawyers Section of the New York State Bar Association. . . . Mary Anne Martley Shew was a nominee for the 2000 Athena Award from the Women's Council of Greater Rochester. She is president and owner of Shew Technology Associates. . . . Fran Weisberg was a nominee for the 2000 Athena Award from the Women's Council of Greater Rochester. Weisberg is president and CEO of Lifespan of Greater Rochester, Inc.

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25th Reunion
October 12-14, 2001

Edward Nathan has been named president of the Children's Institute Foundation, based in Verona, N.J. A past president of the institute's board of directors, Nathan has served on the board since 1991. He is an attorney with the firm of Stern & Greenberg in Roseland, N.J.

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Gary Fischler e-mails that his new book, Vocational Impact of Psychiatric Disorders (co-written with Nan Booth), has been published by Aspen Publisher, Inc. Fischler is the director of the Institute for Forensic Psychology at the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology. . . . Mark Itzkoff e-mails that he has recently been named "of Counsel" to Olsson, Frank and Weeda, P.C., a Washington, D.C., law firm specializing in FDA and USDA related matters. He can be reached at mitzkof@aol.com.

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Sheree Fern Klemow writes that she is director of public information for WVIA public television in Wilkes Barre-Scranton, Pa., and her husband, Ken Klemow, is a biology professor. She sends her greetings to old Tiernan Hall residents and says that her daughter was a freshman last year at Syracuse
University. . . . Christopher Lord '79S (MBA) e-mails an update: "My wife, Maki Koda, and I moved to ChonBuri, Thailand, in December 1999. The move was in conjunction with my appointment as managing director of Thailand operations for Delphi Automotive Systems (thermal division) and her assignment as sales manager for the energy and chassis division of Delphi. We also welcomed our first child. Our son, Kenzo Winslow Lord, was born in Bangkok on September 30, 2000. If there are folks who would like to reach us, we are accessible at cwlord@loxinfo.co.th." . . . "I wish all my classmates and fellow alumni much personal and professional success," opens an e-mail from Scott Rosenberg. "My wife, Marilyn, and I, along with our children, Rochel, Akiva, Bryna, Avraham, Yaakov, and Hillel live in Baltimore. I became Orthodox in the early 80s. I went for a Ph.D. in agricultural economics years after graduating from Rochester, but I left before completing the degree. I made the choice to have our children attend private schools and took a position in 'computers' to pay the bills. I now put together 'strategic' and not-so-strategic partnerships for my employer, who is a global provider of security solutions for networks and the Internet."

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Edward George e-mails that he is vice president and division manager in the global telecommunications group at Science Applications International Corp. in La Jolla, Calif. He can be reached at ebg@aol.com. . . . Steve Katz writes that he has returned to Washington, D.C., where he is the supervising producer of America's Most Wanted. "I spent the past four years in New York, where I was the N.Y. bureau chief for Fox News. My wife, Phyllis Walker, and children, Jeffrey, 14, and Jennifer, 12, remained in the New York City area until school ended in the spring." . . . Wayne Knox '84 (PhD) has been chosen to direct the University's Institute of Optics. He was most recently the director of advanced photonics research at Lucent Technology. He joins his father, Robert Knox '58 (PhD), professor emeritus of physics and senior scientist at the University's Laboratory for Laser Energetics, on the faculty.

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