Class Notes

River Campus Graduate

1955
Masatoshi Koshiba (PhD), 2002 Nobel laureate, is urging young researchers to “always keep in mind what you want to do in the future.” In an interview with the Tokyo Daily Yomiuri last fall, Koshiba, a physicist, also said he continues to make plans for future research.

1957
Jerome Zukosky (Mas) (see ’52 undergraduate).

1963
Juris Draguns (PhD), professor emeritus of psychology at Pennsylvania State University, writes that he was awarded an honorary doctor of psychology degree by the University of Latvia in Riga, Latvia, in recognition of his contributions to research in psychology, especially in promoting collaborative international research, and of his help in fostering the progress of psychology in Latvia.

1966
Jeffrie Murphy (PhD), a professor at the College of Law at Arizona State University, was elected president of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. He will serve as vice president beginning in July 2004 and as president starting in July 2005.

1967
Solomon Gidada W (Mas) (see ’65 undergraduate).

1968
W. Bromley Clarke (PhD) (see ’51 undergraduate).

1969
S. Michael Plaut (PhD), associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland, has cowritten a book, Sexual Dysfunction, that is intended for primary care health providers. Mike writes that he is secretary of the Northeast Group on Student Affairs and will be in Rochester in April for their meeting.

1971
Stanley McKenzie (PhD), provost and vice president for academic affairs at Rochester Institute of Technology, was profiled in the November 7 issue of the Rochester Business Journal. Before moving into his administrative role, he taught literature at RIT and plans eventually to go back to teaching.

1972
Michael Braun S (MBA) (see ’71 undergraduate). . . . Anthony Raimondo S (MBA), chairman and chief executive officer of Behlen Manufacturing in Columbus, Neb., has been inducted into the Ak-Sar-Ben Court of Honor. Established in 1988 by Omaha’s philanthropic Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben Foundation, the award was presented to Anthony for his contributions to business and industry.

1974
William Bond S (MBA) has been appointed vice president of technology commercialization for Science Applications International. He will be responsible for transferring technologies, usually developed under government programs, to the commercial sector.

1975
José Coronas S (MBA), a partner in the Rochester-based venture capital firm the Trillium Group, has been elected to the board of directors of CPAC, the parent company of Fuller Brands and CPAC Imaging. He also serves on the executive advisory committee of the Simon School’s Executive Development Program. . . . Leonard Jason (PhD), professor of psychology and director of the Center for Community Research at DePaul University, is an editor of Participatory Community Research: Theories and Methods in Action. . . . Elliot Richman (PhD) (see ’70 undergraduate). . . . Joseph Stulberg (PhD) received a lifetime achievement award from the Washington, D.C.–based Center for Dispute Settlement at the organization’s 30th anniversary dinner last September. He was the center’s first director, from 1973 to 1975. Joseph is professor of law and faculty director of the Program on Dispute Resolution at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. His son, Jonathan, is a freshman at Rochester. . . . Robert Whipple S (MBA), a former executive at Eastman Kodak Co. and now CEO of his own company, Leadergrow, is the author of The Trust Factor: Advanced Leadership for Professionals.

1977
Sharon Weissend W (MS) (see ’71 undergraduate).

1980
T. Alan Hurwitz W (EdD) has been named vice president for Rochester Institute of Technology and CEO of its National Technical Institute for the Deaf. He has served as dean of NTID for five years and will continue in this capacity as well as a member of the president’s administrative council.

1981
Shigenori Morimoto S (MBA) has been named director of ITT Industries’ Value-Based Six Sigma, the company’s strategy for continuous improvement. He joined ITT in 1990 after 17 years at Xerox.

1982
Edmond Burke S (MBA) (see ’81 undergraduate).

1983
Judiana Lawrence (PhD) joined the board of directors of the Rochester International Council, a nonprofit organization aiding international students and State Department visitors. She is an English professor at St. John Fisher College.

1985
Mark Quinlan S (MBA) (see ’82 undergraduate).

1988
Sami Abbasi S (MBA) has been named chief operating officer at diagnostic imaging company Radiologix. . . . Russell Hudyma (MS) (see ’87 undergraduate). . . . Gerard Michel S (MBA), ’88M (MS) (see ’85 undergraduate).

1989
Gregg Edelmann S (MBA) (see ’91 undergraduate). . . . Edmund Luzine S (MBA), whose assignments over the past several years as a reservist with a civil affairs unit of U.S. Army Special Operations have taken him from Bosnia to ground zero at the World Trade Center site to Iraq, writes, “My two-year, all-expenses-paid tour across central Asia and the Middle East has ended! I returned to the United States on October 4. It took two weeks, along with the Columbus Day holiday, at Fort Bragg, N.C., to fill out lots of paperwork, turn in gear, see old friends in North Carolina, and get my new orders and honorable discharge. I am back home in the Albany area, unpacking my life’s worth of belongings as I move into a new home (my first after many years of New York City apartment living) and sort through eight months’ worth of personal and business mail. Thank you to all of you for your prayers, words of support, and assistance over the past two years. I really appreciate it. Please don’t stop now—just transfer your appreciation and prayers to my buddies still overseas. As for me and my future, I hope to reopen my investment management business in January, and we are working on plans to set up a mutual fund operation. It seems there is a need for a decent and honest mutual fund manager to whom investors can entrust their money. Plus, a number of state pension funds are now looking for new managers. Keep an eye on our Web site, www.adirondackcapital.com, for more news.” . . . Efrain Rivera S (MBA) has been named corporate vice president and assistant treasurer at Bausch & Lomb. . . . Mike Rosato S (MBA) (see ’82 undergraduate). . . . Robert Weissflach (MA) (see ’89 undergraduate).

1990
Bakari Kitwana (MA), W (MAT) (see ’88 undergraduate). . . . Lorna Cialdella Morehead S (MBA) (see ’86 undergraduate). . . . Michael Schutzler S (MBA) has joined Monster Inc. as senior vice president for the consumer products division. . . . Lori Taylor (PhD), an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, has been named Texas’s principal researcher on public school finance. She has moved with her husband and two sons, ages 2 and 4, to College Station, Texas, where she will oversee a team of researchers who will analyze tax and school funding formulas.

1991
Mary Bickel ’69E (MM), W (EdD) e-mails that in 2002 she and her husband, J. Terry Gates, began the Hoenny Center for Research and Development in Teaching, a not-for-profit organization that seeks to develop peer teaching programs in K–12 classrooms. More information can be found at www.hoennycenter.org. . . . Amit Goyal (PhD), a senior staff member in the ceramics division of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named a principal editor of the Journal of Materials Research. He also has been appointed to the international advisory board of editors for the Journal of the Korean Institute of Applied Superconductivity and Cryogenics. Amit lives in Knoxville, Tenn., with his wife, Sujata, and their son. . . . Jeffrey Powers (MS) has been named an associate of Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, a law firm headquartered in Cambridge, Mass.

1992
In April 2003, Shirley Allen W (EdD) received the Rochester Black Deaf Advocates’ first Outstanding Pioneer Award in appreciation of her service and inspiration to the black deaf community in Rochester. She also was honored by the national organization, in August 2003, as one of the 20 most influential black deaf persons in America. Shirley retired in 2001 from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology and now lives in Austin, Texas. . . . Seth Maislin (MS) (see ’90 undergraduate). . . . Mike Regan S (MBA) was elected to the Raleigh, N.C., city council last October.

1993
Stephen Hodownes S (MBA), president and CEO of Concentrix Corp., was profiled in the Rochester Business Journal last October. . . . Christopher Weiler S (MBA) and Lynne Arnold ’99M (MPH) were married on April 26, 2003, in Penfield, N.Y. She is in an accelerated nursing program at the University, and he is an assistant vice president at Oppenheimer Funds.

1994
David Cutitta S (MBA) has joined the Rochester law firm of Nixon Peabody, where he works in the technology and intellectual property group. . . . Kelly Zou (MA) (see ’97 School of Medicine and Dentistry).

1996
Kathleen Mahoney W (PhD), president of the Humanitas Foundation, is the author of Catholic Higher Education in Protestant America: The Jesuits and Harvard in the Age of the University.

1997
Martin Manalansan (PhD), an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora.

1998
Pelin Aylangan S (MBA) (see ’90 undergraduate). . . . Alonzo Borja S (MBA) (see ’91 undergraduate). . . . Christopher Gerace S (MBA) married Jennifer Mortellaro on August 1, 2003. He is a vice president and chief financial officer at Bosch Security Systems in Fairport, N.Y.; she is a kindergarten and first-grade teacher in the Victor (N.Y.) Central School District. . . . Lia Fiato Hallett W (MS) (see ’91 undergraduate).

1999
Christopher Burns S (MBA) (see ’97 undergraduate).

2000
Alison Dickson-Kozloski S (MBA) (see ’94 undergraduate).

2001
Gami Dadusc (PhD) (see ’90 undergraduate). . . . Ranjit Khanolkar S (MBA) (see ’99 undergraduate). . . . Daniel Umiker S (MBA) (see ’94 undergraduate).

2002
Sandra Ambrose S (MBA) (see ’94 undergraduate). . . . Ann Freling S (MBA) (see ’96 Nursing). . . . Kathleen Larkin W (MS) and Daniel Healy were married on July 12, 2003, in Victor, N.Y. They live in Rochester. . . . Warren Zanes (PhD), guitarist for 1980s Boston-based band the Del Fuegos, has been hired as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s vice president of education. He plans to move from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Cleveland Heights, Ohio, with his wife, singer-songwriter Elinor Blake, and their 1-year-old son, Lucian.