1971
Attorney William Savino cowrote an article on the Uniform Commercial Code that appeared in the September 2002 issue of the UCC Bulletin. A partner at the law firm of Damon & Morey in Buffalo, he chairs the firm’s business litigation and insolvency department. . . . Barbara Settel has been named the first director of the new Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving in Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. . . . Kenneth Strong writes that he started a new job as the director of homeownership for the City of Baltimore last fall.

1972
Jack Davies ’73S (MBA), a senior advisor to AOL International, has been named to the board of directors of Venture Philanthropy Partners, an organization that serves nonprofit organizations assisting children and families in the Washington, D.C., area by providing financial and management support. . . . Jane Dodds has been named a fellow in the American College of Medical Practice Executives. She has been administrator of the Elmwood Practice Group in Rochester since 1997, and she was serving last fall as president of the Medical Group Management Association’s Primary Care Assembly. MGMA is a national resource for medical practice managers. . . . John Kessel, a professor of English at North Carolina State University, has won several awards for his science fiction. The October–November 2002 issue of the magazine Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction featured his novella Stories for Men. . . . Mara Sapon-Shevin ’77W (PhD), a professor of teaching and leadership programs in the School of Education at Syracuse University, hosted a diversity workshop, “Teaching Against Racism: Pedagogy, Curriculum and Campus Climate,” at the Drumlins Conference Center in Syracuse last winter.

1973
30th Reunion
October 10–12, 2003
www.rochester.edu/alumni/classes/1973
Susan Hockfield has been named provost at Yale University. A neuroanatomist, she joined the medical school faculty in 1985 and had served as dean of Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences since 1998. . . . Ellen Lewis has been named director of community partnerships and advancement for the board of trustees of the Charter School of Science and Technology in the Rochester City School District, one of the first public charter schools in New York State.

1974
Sheldon Pollack, professor of business law at the University of Delaware, has published Refinancing America: The Republican Antitax Agenda. . . . Peter Rue has been elected a shareholder in the Minneapolis– St. Paul law firm of Briggs and Morgan. He is a member of the firm’s financial institutions and real estate section. . . . Robert Zubrin is the founder and president of the Mars Society, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to promote the exploration and settlement of the red planet. He is also president of Pioneer Aeronautics.

1975
David Carlucci has been named president and chief operating officer at IMS Health. . . . Jim Davis has published a two-volume set of technical Japanese textbooks designed to help scientists and engineers read Japanese technical documents. . . . Dean Goodermote, a venture partner of ABS Capital and former chairman and CEO of Clinsoft, taught in the M.B.A. program of Leipzig Graduate School of Management from 2000 to 2002. . . . Robert (Bucky) Levine writes that he has adopted a baby girl, Tiranna, from Vietnam. He is a psychotherapist in Sarasota, Fla. . . . James Loftus has published Crisis in the Sky, a science fiction novel. . . . Dennis Minchella (see ’75 Nursing). . . . Three generations of Yellowjackets met on campus last fall during Meliora Weekend and sent a photo commemorating the occasion. With President Jackson are Bruce Pollock (left), Vivian Levy Pollock ’52, (second from right), and Michael Pollock ’05. . . . Richard Propester, an attorney in Oklahoma City, received the Oklahoma City University Law Review Alumnus Award. A 1978 graduate of Oklahoma City University School of Law, Propester was case comment editor for the journal. . . . Fran Weisberg, the president and CEO of Lifespan in Rochester, was profiled in the November issue of Business Strategies magazine.

1976
Heidi Zimmer-Meyer is president of the Rochester Downtown Development Corp.

1977
David Kopitz (see ’79). . . . Patricia Donoghue is director of public relations and business development for the Greater Rochester Visitors Association. . . . Rob Scharf ’77 (see ’79) . . . . Stephen Wright ’83 is an academic counselor in the honors program at Syracuse University.

1978
25th Reunion
October 10–12, 2003
www.rochester.edu/alumni/classes/1978
Amy Fellner, an attorney and faculty associate at Arizona State University’s School of Justice Studies, received a 2002 Fulbright Scholarship to teach at universities in Riga, Latvia, last fall. In addition to her teaching, Amy serves on the board of directors of Mesa Senior Services Inc. She also is a consultant for a human resources and career counseling firm and is an arbitrator for the New York Stock Exchange. . . . Michael Kelech is a consultant for the data services center at StorageTek in Louisville, Colo.

1979
Marsha Baum has been named associate dean for Library Affairs at the University of New Mexico. . . . Robert Bly writes that his 56th book, Fool-Proof Marketing, has been published by John Wiley & Sons. . . . Vicki Unger Kopitz sends a photo from an impromptu reunion last November in Palm Beach, Fla. Pictured are Rob Scharf ’77 (standing, left), David Kopitz ’77 (standing, second from right), Lisa Gershuny Karp (seated, second from left), and Vicki (seated, second from right).