1980
Jim Lodestro has been named executive vice president of worldwide sales operations for Iteration Software. . . . Kathleen Moore writes: “Twenty-two years after graduating, I’m back on campus again—this time as an administrator! I have assumed the position of assistant provost of the University. It has been fun ‘reacquainting’ myself with the campus—many things are the same (even some people are the same!), but there have been many changes made and new buildings built over the past two decades. It’s also fascinating to learn about the College and University from a perspective most students never imagine. Most interesting of all is to look back and see where life and career changes have taken me. If anyone had asked me in 1980 what I wanted to do after graduation, becoming an assistant provost at the University (or anywhere, for that matter) would NOT have even been on my radar screen.”

1981
Doug Abeles won a “Best Comedy Writing” Emmy Award in 2002 for his work as part of the writing staff of Saturday Night Live. . . . Dustin Aldridge e-mails: “After working 15 years in the Rochester area (Delphi’s Technical Center), I was transferred to the Delphi Mexico Technical Center in Juarez, Mexico, in 1998. I am the validation staff engineer for Delphi Energy & Chassis Division. My wife, Kim, and I live in El Paso and have three children: Chelsea, 14, Chloe, 12, and Crispyn, 9. I was recently nominated to serve on the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the International Electro-Technical Commission Technical Committee 56 on Dependability, representing the automotive industry for accelerated testing, environmental testing, reliability testing and analysis defining international standards.” Dustin also serves as vice chairman of the Delphi Test and Validation Council, the director of the Product Reliability Division of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, and as a member of the SAE Reliability Standards Committee. Dustin notes: “I still enjoy the piano and recently performed all movements of Beethoven’s Moonlight and Pathetique sonatas on a Bosendorfer concert grand (largest piano made). That was an experience!” . . . Bill Kauffman’s fifth book, Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette: A Mostly Affectionate Account of a Small Town’s Fight to Survive, his memoir about moving back to his hometown of Batavia, N.Y., was published last March. . . . Kai-Lit Phua has been awarded the Asian Public Intellectual Senior Fellowship from the Nippon Foundation and will be conducting research on health and social welfare services for the elderly in Japan this summer. He is teaching community health in the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. . . . Chris Urbanczyk writes: “I want to say howdy to the Class of ’81. I’m working as a reservoir engineer for Shell International in the Netherlands. I’m living with my two cats, and when I’m not working, I’m off touring and skiing Europe. Sorry I missed the last reunion. I’ll try to be at the next one.”

1982
Eric Hobday wrote in November: “I was unable to attend my 20-year class reunion last fall due to prior commitments, but I did have a 20-year reunion of sorts. On that Sunday, I met Mike McShea ’83 for the first time since I graduated. Mike is a judicial law clerk in Dayton, Ohio, with the United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio. Mike and I spent a day rock climbing. Mike led all the hard routes, just as he did more than 20 years ago when we were both undergrads. I start a new job in January with Raytheon Polar Services Company. I will manage McMurdo Station in Antarctica for the austral winter. About 200 expeditioners will spend the winter. It will be my first time on the ice and a management experience very different from others I have held at Raytheon. Deborah Kliethermes and I have been engaged to be married for the last 10 years. Someday we will actually tie the knot.” . . . Bart Singer writes that he and his wife, Chandi, “recently bought a farm (well, not exactly, but one of our neighbors raises llamas, another used to raise emus, while the more conventional ones have horses, donkeys, geese, and goats). Former members of the Environmental Living Center will not be surprised to learn that our house came equipped with 20 solar panels mounted on the southern roof.” Bart works at NASA’s Langley Research Center, where he leads a group of researchers working to reduce aircraft noise. In 2001, he “got to merge personal interests in alternative energy sources with professional endeavors” when he gave an invited lecture to a group of wind-turbine experts on how some aircraft noise analysis techniques could be applied to wind turbines.

1983
20th Reunion
October 10–12, 2003
www.rochester.edu/alumni/classes/1983
Susan Spraragen writes to announce the birth of her second daughter, Deborah Ruth Johnston, on June 10, 2002. “I am looking forward to our upcoming reunion,” she notes. “I hope to see many Gilbert Hall chums and statistics alumni there.” . . . Tom Toomey is technical sales manager for product life management in IBM’s western region. . . . Stephen Wright (see ’77).

1984
Alice Guarino won the women’s tennis A-1 division of the Singles Flex League in St. Petersburg, Fla. . . . A November story in the Washington Post on Mount Hebron, Md., cross-country standout Elise Lindenmayer noted that her mother, Kathleen Brady Lindenmayer, was Rochester’s “No. 1 runner” on the cross-country team as a college student. . . . Mark Schonfeld and Julia Katz were married September 22, 2002, in New York City. Mark is an associate regional director of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Julia is an ophthalmologist in Manhattan.

1985
Gregory Casale, who was named a vice president of Boston-based DMOD Inc. in April 2002, has been named to the board of directors of Starbak Communications. . . . Eric Gottesman married Jessica Ettinger on November 9, 2002, in New York City. A pulmonologist, Eric is on the staff of the pulmonary critical-care division of the Long Island Jewish Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y. Jessica is a radio news anchor of a midday program on WBBR-AM in Manhattan. . . . Greg Samios ’87 (MS) has been named executive vice president and general manager of the Ashley Group, a home building and design consulting company.

1987
Christopher Boehning ’88 (MS) has been elected a partner in the New York City–based law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifdkind, Wharton & Garrison. . . . Christian Cameron (see ’53). . . . Irene Sinconegui writes that she has started her own company, Legal Recruiters Group Inc., after many years in the legal recruiting profession. “Also, I recently had a chance to catch up with my close friend and former roommate, Bettina Chiaravellotti,” she writes. “After completing law school in California, Bettina and her husband, Dr. Nils Hoernle, moved to Boston and are now the proud parents of two beautiful girls.”

1988
15th Reunion
October 10–12, 2003
www.rochester.edu/alumni/classes/1988
Allison Bauer writes that she and her partner, Marie Longo, are the parents of twins. Joshua Bauer Longo and Rebecca Bauer Longo were born on June 7, 2002, at George Washington University Hospital. . . . Jackie Millard Kramer writes that she is living in Baltimore and working as a senior staff attorney for the Hartford Insurance Co. She also announces the birth of her son, Justin Wayne Kramer, on May 18, 2002. . . . Christine Holsten Schuler writes that she married John Schuler on December 2, 2000, and the couple had their first baby, Elisabeth Grace, on August 19, 2002. “Elisabeth was born at 1:46 p.m. and weighed 4 lbs. 14 ounces. We are looking forward to the Class of ’88’s 15th Reunion in October!”

1989
Marianne Seidman Cohen and her husband, Rich, write to announce the arrival of their second daughter, Elianna Isabel, born on December 23, 2002. She joins her big sister, Shoshanna. Marianne notes that she works at the U.S.S. Constitution Museum in Boston as the director of corporate membership and marketing. . . . Olivier and Jennifer Luce Sartor ’91 sent a photo of their new son. Broderick Reid Sartor was born on September 29, 2002. . . . Mark Zaid, a Washington, D.C., area attorney, is a founding partner in the new law firm of Kreiger and Zaid.