Class Notes

River Campus Undergraduate: 1970s

1970
Andrew Meyers, vice provost for research at the University of Memphis, has been named executive director of the university’s FedEx Institute of Technology. He will continue in his role as vice provost. . . . Daniel Sharpe is an author of the updated edition of Taxation of Distributions from Qualified Plans 2003/2004. He is an attorney with the law firm Hodgson Russ in Buffalo. . . . David Smith, vice president and general manager of Melles Griot Optics Group in Rochester, was profiled in a January edition of the Rochester Business Journal.

1972
Roseanne Leipzig ’82M (Res) was named a McCann Scholar in 2003. The program, funded by the Joy McCann Foundation, recognizes medical educators for excellence in mentoring. Roseanne is professor and vice chair for education in the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. . . . Eliot Moshman (see ’66).

1973
David K. Barnes, president emeritus of Agenda-International Group, has joined the faculty at Quinnipiac University’s Lender School of Business in Hamden, Conn.

1974
James Green has been promoted to senior vice president of preclinical and clinical development sciences at Biogen Idec. . . . Wayne Yokoyama is a professor of internal medicine and of pathology and immunology at Washington University in St. Louis, where he has earned recognition for his studies of “natural killer” immune cells and how they help defend the body against cancer and viruses.

1975
David Grossman writes that last winter, several members of the Class of ’75 and their spouses—Merrill Feinberg Gutstein, Barry Pollack, Laura Shifrin Tarlowe, Joanne Taylor Lester, Gary Tannenbaum, and Paul Fortgang—were the guests of David and his wife, Margie, for a minireunion at the Grossmans’ home. David writes, “We decided that we look the same as we did in 1975, except for the updated clothes and hairstyles! We’ll all be attending our 30th reunion and look forward to meeting everyone at the Welles-Brown Room in the library.” . . . Stephen Hoffman ’76S (MBA) has been named chief executive officer of Element K in Rochester. Previously, he was president and chief operating officer of Blackboard Inc. . . . Michael Lax has been appointed to the board of directors of Phase III Medical Inc.

1976
Steve Freshman (see ’01).

1977
Nancy Segore-Freshman (see ’01). . . . Jeffrey Tischler ’78S (MBA) is vice president of Asta Funding in Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

1978
Margaret Ashida, director of corporate university relations at IBM, was a guest essayist in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle last November. She called for more women and people of color to join the fields of science and technology. . . . Kerry Barnett was named senior vice president of strategic communications and public affairs of the Regency Group, a four-state affiliation of BlueCross/BlueShield companies. Kerry will be based in the Portland, Ore., office. . . . Richard Goldweit, director of interventional cardiology at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, N.J., was recognized in the “Best Doctors” edition of New York Magazine in 2003. He and his wife, Nina Sheiman Goldweit, have two children, Daniel, 19, and Alana, 16. Nina is a reading specialist at the Dwight-Englewood School. . . . Seth Jacobs has been named to the board of directors of Operation Access, a San Francisco–based nonprofit agency that helps provide free surgery for the uninsured. Seth is senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary for Blue Shield of California. . . . Arthur Matin was named executive vice president of worldwide sales for the Veritas Software Corp.

1979
Robert Bly is the author of Webster’s New World Letter Writing Handbook. . . . Robert Khuzami has been appointed Deutsche Bank’s general counsel for the Americas. . . . Alan Rubenstein (see ’01).